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Speaker 1: The Around the League podcast refuses to discuss the British bull.

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Speaker 1: Welcome back to another addition of the Round the League Podcast.

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Speaker 1: My name is Dan Hansas and I'm joined by room

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Speaker 1: filled with heroes Chris Westling, Mark Sessler, and Greg Rose

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Speaker 1: a doll what boys? Hey Dan, Happy Monday, if there

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Speaker 1: is such a thing. It's been a busy Monday. Mark

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Speaker 1: pulled the h I'll take off the day where the

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Speaker 1: franchise tags had to be officially handed out and don't

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Speaker 1: make the schedule. So he comes in, he waltson, you

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Speaker 1: know you looked relaxed. Ran a five k today? Did

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Speaker 1: you a race out of nowhere with no training, no

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Speaker 1: on a treadmill against no personal five k? That's not

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Speaker 1: a five k, that'd be a distance wise it was

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Speaker 1: that connotates a race. But still I see one. I

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Speaker 1: see where you're coming from. And I remarked right before

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Speaker 1: we began today that you look different. There's something going on.

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Speaker 1: You have the LoVa man that is getting healthy. Well,

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Speaker 1: Dan and I go to the same gym. I haven't

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Speaker 1: seen you there, but I assume that's because you were here. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: well I was in at five am at the gym.

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Speaker 1: I did two or three hours and then I came

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Speaker 1: to it here I can get I smell your cent

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Speaker 1: when I'm there, I can tell that Dan has been there.

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Speaker 1: I don't even know what that means, been I know alright, So, yes,

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Speaker 1: today is a big day. Um. This was the deadline

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Speaker 1: Monday for franchise tags to be handed out, and they

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Speaker 1: were handed out, but not not a lot of them.

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Speaker 1: So we're gonna get into that. We're gonna start there. Actually,

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Speaker 1: we're also gonna do some other news around the league,

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Speaker 1: and then we're gonna get back into the laboratory and

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Speaker 1: go over the top ten wide receivers, free agency primer,

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Speaker 1: get the scientists going at each other hopefully. Um, but

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Speaker 1: why don't we start with the news with the franchise

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Speaker 1: tag on our website NFL dot com backslash at l

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Speaker 1: we have our franchise tag tracker and I'm holding in

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Speaker 1: my hand right now. I printed it up and the

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Speaker 1: tags are applied, gentlemen. Jimmy Graham Official Official, Greg Hardy

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Speaker 1: the Panthers, Brian A. Rackbo of the Redskins, as we

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Speaker 1: were two transition tags. Alex mac Center Cleveland Browns. Mark Sessler,

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Speaker 1: you were probably the gym working out what about our site?

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Speaker 1: I go there because I get instant news and I

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Speaker 1: get the analysis from our site. Okay, and backpedally and

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Speaker 1: then see on my phone. Should we be worried? Greg?

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Speaker 1: You created that monster and it it's efficient. This would

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Speaker 1: be good. We were talking about leverage before the podcast.

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Speaker 1: This would be good for leverage to get and we

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Speaker 1: want to go down this road. Actually I have no leverage,

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Speaker 1: but I do only the Steelers use their transition tag

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Speaker 1: on outside linebacker Jason World. So, gentlemen, I throw to you,

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Speaker 1: who wants to get going? What do you take out

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Speaker 1: of the these moves? I think the big move is

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Speaker 1: Nick Folk, uh staying with the Jets gott I thought

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Speaker 1: move to make sure, hey we got this guy. Folk

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Speaker 1: may not realize that the window is just about shut

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Speaker 1: now and Tom Brady walking with a limp at this stage.

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Speaker 1: Keep making your jets is often a prudent I'm not

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Speaker 1: criticizing it totally makes sense. It's fine, who cares. Let's

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Speaker 1: talk Jason worlds. This was a surprise. Should we Should

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Speaker 1: we explain the transition tag, because the transition tag is

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Speaker 1: quite a bit different than There are some people in

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Speaker 1: this room that don't even know what the transaction transition

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Speaker 1: the gold standard behind the glass. Do you know what

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Speaker 1: the transition tag is, Zach, I don't know what The

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Speaker 1: transition tag is. Essentially a cheaper version of the franchise tag.

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Speaker 1: It's less than the franchise tag number and it gives

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Speaker 1: he now can sign a one year, ten million dollar

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Speaker 1: tender would have been about a million a half more

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Speaker 1: if it was the franchise number. But he can go

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Speaker 1: And it's a deterrent, I think to other teams negotiating

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Speaker 1: The agent basically said, there's no way where you let

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Speaker 1: they could have just placed the franchise tag on him, though, well,

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Speaker 1: a thought that they would actually let a Raqbo potentially

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Speaker 1: I never thought that the listeners should know. I put

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Speaker 1: this term national reporters. You know who you're thinking of.

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Speaker 1: I think, well, that's a great transition mark, showing that

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Speaker 1: explain some of your Reggie McKenzie. He's been given a man,

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Speaker 1: he's been given a mandate by his owner. Start winning,

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Speaker 1: the eleventh of March. But also, left tackle one of

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Speaker 1: it tension over the last years. And I was like, wow,

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Speaker 1: there's chaos and tension there. Well, I read that, and

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Speaker 1: I think that's very interesting. But the difference for me

431
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Speaker 1: a little bit is that Parcels won two Super Bowls

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Speaker 1: with his first organization before he started his vagabond act.

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Speaker 1: Very true. Other Niners, other Niners, News did it and

434
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Speaker 1: at Stanford too. This is the NFL, we're not talking.

435
00:24:02,600 --> 00:24:05,640
Speaker 1: There was talk that Harbor had kind of worn out

436
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Speaker 1: his welcome and stay done right, but you gotta win

437
00:24:08,480 --> 00:24:11,840
Speaker 1: a champion. He was, you know, rubbing people the wrong

438
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Speaker 1: way there and was it such a dominant personality and

439
00:24:14,520 --> 00:24:16,359
Speaker 1: they knew David shot and they were kind of like, Okay,

440
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Speaker 1: we'll see you later and kwon. Balden is signing a

441
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Speaker 1: new deal with the San Francisco forty ninder Sea's not

442
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Speaker 1: going anywhere. Uh Ian Rap report reported Monday that the

443
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Speaker 1: deal is worth twelve million over two years. Makes a

444
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Speaker 1: lot of sense, right. Balden was a really good fit

445
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Speaker 1: for them, actually a great fit. I guess he wasn't

446
00:24:35,720 --> 00:24:38,080
Speaker 1: the face of the franchise player annoyed with the coach.

447
00:24:40,200 --> 00:24:42,960
Speaker 1: Could have guessed that he settled in as a six

448
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Speaker 1: million dollar year receiver. That's what he had the last

449
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Speaker 1: couple of years too. That's that's pretty good. They're slow though,

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Speaker 1: I mean Michael Crabtree slow and Kwan Bolden slow. That's

451
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Speaker 1: too slow wide receivers, though, Would you regard Crabtree as

452
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Speaker 1: slow before the Achilles? Really? I mean below average for

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Speaker 1: an NFL receiver, for an NFL starting receiver, and just

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Speaker 1: in terms of speed, He's not a speed guy, but

455
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Speaker 1: he's very good after the catch. I think Patrick made

456
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Speaker 1: a good point in his post where he said that

457
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Speaker 1: the last two teams Bolden played for the Cardinals and

458
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Speaker 1: the Ravens have sorely missed him. Thank you for bringing

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Speaker 1: up patra next time he's on the show. I have

460
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Speaker 1: a bone to pick with Kevin regarding his Pro Bowl coverage.

461
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Speaker 1: He's been holding on to this for a while. Something No.

462
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Speaker 1: I just learned about it, and we can't say what

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Speaker 1: it is. He he made a friend, yeah, I know,

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Speaker 1: but we gotta get to the we gotta question. Let's say,

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Speaker 1: why did he keep it tucked away the way he did.

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Speaker 1: Balden is one of my favorite players of the last

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Speaker 1: ten or twelve years. People thought he was breaking down

468
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Speaker 1: at the end of his run in Arizona. I mean,

469
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Speaker 1: hasn't His stay in power has been awesome. That there's

470
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Speaker 1: really been no fall off. People thought maybe he got

471
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Speaker 1: overpaid by Baltimore and then got overpaid by San Francisco.

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Speaker 1: Now here he is on another contract. He's a tricky

473
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Speaker 1: player to Judd, people love him as they should. He's

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Speaker 1: he's a leader on whatever team he goes to. Everybody

475
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Speaker 1: always says he's the toughest guy on the team, probably

476
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Speaker 1: the toughest physically toughest wide receiver in the league. People

477
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Speaker 1: want to like annoint him as an All Pro type

478
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Speaker 1: after he has a two yard game, and then he'll

479
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Speaker 1: disappear for five or six weeks. Slow guys age, well,

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Speaker 1: you know, if if you're slow to begin with, it

481
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Speaker 1: doesn't really matter if you get slower. I mean, he

482
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Speaker 1: had eleven hundred and seventy nine yards last year. I

483
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Speaker 1: don't think people realize what a monster year though. NFL

484
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Speaker 1: media insider Ian Rappaport reported Monday that Colin Kaepernick wants

485
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Speaker 1: more than eighteen million annually from the forty Niners and

486
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Speaker 1: his upcoming contract. He's looking for more than the eighteen

487
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Speaker 1: point two million annually that Jay Cutler received early this

488
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Speaker 1: year from the Bears, which seems kind of fair, but

489
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Speaker 1: still that's a lot of money to a guy that's

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Speaker 1: still pretty early to tell if he's really the guy.

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Speaker 1: I'd pay it in a second, right. I think we

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Speaker 1: made the same point when Flacco got paid. It sounds

493
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Speaker 1: like a lot of money to an average fan, casual fan,

494
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Speaker 1: but that's what you pay franchise quarterbacks. What what's your option? Okay, Kaepernick,

495
00:27:09,320 --> 00:27:12,200
Speaker 1: you walk, We'll go try to find a quarterback again.

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Speaker 1: There's one more big games Kaepernick or j Cutler kick.

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Speaker 1: You could almost imagine Kaepernick bringing that him up himself,

498
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Speaker 1: being like that guy with that cops getting more than me,

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Speaker 1: Give me a break. That's why, that's why owners across

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Speaker 1: the league, in general, managers across the league should have

501
00:27:30,160 --> 00:27:32,000
Speaker 1: been angry with the Bears when they gave Jake Cutler

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Speaker 1: that contract, because that guy is what best quarterback. Love

503
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Speaker 1: to gribe about this stuff. People got mad at Romo's contract.

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Speaker 1: It's a no brainer. If you have a quarterback, you

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Speaker 1: pay them. I think they're worth forty or forty five million,

506
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Speaker 1: even in a slightly above average quarterback. So the salary cap, right,

507
00:27:50,520 --> 00:27:53,639
Speaker 1: it keeps it keeps their number down relatively, But aren't

508
00:27:53,680 --> 00:27:57,040
Speaker 1: they worth more than two Whoever gets paid nine million

509
00:27:57,119 --> 00:27:59,720
Speaker 1: dollars in free agency this year, Eugene Monroe and Gyrus Bird.

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Speaker 1: You really think those two guys combined are worth a

511
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Speaker 1: starting quarterback? I don't think so. Kaepernick. I think the

512
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Speaker 1: question is, if you wanted an alternative, you would just

513
00:28:10,720 --> 00:28:13,520
Speaker 1: keep drafting guys. That's the only other option. Keep drafting

514
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Speaker 1: second third rounders and hope that you find another one,

515
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Speaker 1: and maybe you just franchise Tag Kaepernick a year from now.

516
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Speaker 1: But why are the truly elite guys Because a guy

517
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Speaker 1: like Aaron Rodgers, who I believe is making what million something?

518
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Speaker 1: Why is he? Why is that so close to a

519
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Speaker 1: guy that I think it's I think it's a ca.

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Speaker 1: I just feel like, why, why is the truly elite

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Speaker 1: guy and the goodish guy so close together? Why isn't

522
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Speaker 1: it more balanced than Why? Is that just the way

523
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Speaker 1: the salary caps set up? You want to talk about

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Speaker 1: a true apocalypse? Roger go ahead, Well, let's say this

525
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Speaker 1: hardball thing falls out next season and the team doesn't

526
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Speaker 1: get its ducks in a row and keep Kaepernick around,

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Speaker 1: which I don't think would ever happen. They're going to

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Speaker 1: sign him, but you lose hardball and Kaepernick in one

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Speaker 1: offseason and hey, welcome to our new stadium where nothing

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Speaker 1: of value is I know, I know we're wildly late, Dan,

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Speaker 1: but this is a good time for it. Is any

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Speaker 1: do you guys, even taking the contract out of it,

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Speaker 1: are you confident Kaepernick is gonna be a top ten

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Speaker 1: quarterback in three or four years, that he's that that

535
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Speaker 1: guy after last year? What is your thought? I have

536
00:29:24,160 --> 00:29:26,880
Speaker 1: some doubts on him. I'm not on the Jaworski train

537
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Speaker 1: where he's going to be the best quarterback in history.

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Speaker 1: But I think the people who doubt him as a

539
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Speaker 1: franchise quarterback are silly people who call him a run

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Speaker 1: first quarterback. He's not that. I I don't think he's

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Speaker 1: Andrew Luck. I think he's better than I'd be more,

542
00:29:41,440 --> 00:29:43,400
Speaker 1: much more comfortable with him than Jay Cutler. I wonder

543
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Speaker 1: what they serve in the beverage car of the Jaworski train.

544
00:29:46,600 --> 00:29:50,360
Speaker 1: That's a good question. A variety of drinks. Do you

545
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Speaker 1: see him? Do you see Kaepernick? I don't know, if

546
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Speaker 1: anything I would have if I'm their GM, I would

547
00:29:54,360 --> 00:29:57,280
Speaker 1: have no problem aligning him as a top ten type

548
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Speaker 1: quarterback in terms of pay and going forward with that risk.

549
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Speaker 1: And he's he has to chant in this game. That's

550
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Speaker 1: not what I'm asking though. Do Yeah, I think I

551
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Speaker 1: think he projects out that way. I mean as as

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Speaker 1: a guy, as a completely raw guy who hadn't even

553
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Speaker 1: started he came in. I thought he did an outrageous

554
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Speaker 1: job winning that Atlanta playoff game, taking him to the

555
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Speaker 1: super Bowl. He's been transcendent in some postseason moments. Let's

556
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Speaker 1: but let's also be fair. If we're going to say that,

557
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Speaker 1: we also have to remember that three turnovers in the

558
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Speaker 1: fourth quarter of the NFC Title Game and one of

559
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Speaker 1: the best touchdown passes I've ever seen. Let's say, Dan,

560
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Speaker 1: he goes to the he's on the Jets, would you

561
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Speaker 1: have a problem paying the eighteen million years. I'm taking

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Speaker 1: the money out of it. I agree, you just pay

563
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Speaker 1: him the money. Seem like that's fine, And I agree

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00:30:40,840 --> 00:30:43,040
Speaker 1: with Dan it there should be more of a middle class.

565
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Speaker 1: It's really that Aaron, Rodgers and Brady and Manning are underpaid.

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Speaker 1: But but none of us can confidently stand on the

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Speaker 1: table and say Kaepernick is definitely that top ten guy,

568
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Speaker 1: which is I think that's interesting. I don't know if

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Speaker 1: I'm totally convinced. What does that mean that we can't

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Speaker 1: say that I'm worth the money. Yeah, I'm taking that

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Speaker 1: out of it. I'm just saying he's not really at

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Speaker 1: that point where we're that confident he's an elite type

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Speaker 1: of quarterback that I just used the word I hate that,

574
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Speaker 1: but uh, that we're not totally convinced he's that guy.

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Speaker 1: A year ago, I would have been more kind. If

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Speaker 1: you want me to name the quarterbacks I'd rather have

577
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Speaker 1: than him, I'll be happy to but it might take

578
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Speaker 1: a while and it might be for another podcast, but

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Speaker 1: I'd be happy to say which quarterbacks are better? All right, July,

580
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Speaker 1: Well we're here, are you want to do? Man named

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Speaker 1: Brady who might be by the time out of the league,

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Speaker 1: by the time we were done with this thing, Breeze Rogers, Well,

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Speaker 1: Rogers will be number one. But anyway, Big Ben, Rivers,

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Speaker 1: Russell Wilson, Andrew Luck, Matt Ryan. That might be about

585
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Speaker 1: it all. At their ages today, you'd want them today

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Speaker 1: for the rest of their careers. Cam and Kaepernick in

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00:31:55,160 --> 00:31:57,880
Speaker 1: the same category. I'd probably take Cam over Kaepernick. But

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00:31:57,920 --> 00:32:00,800
Speaker 1: there Kaepernick tenth best quarter they're about ten. Yeah, he's

589
00:32:00,800 --> 00:32:04,080
Speaker 1: about the ten eleven range. Fair Uh. NFL media is

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00:32:04,160 --> 00:32:08,720
Speaker 1: Judy Batista had an interesting feature today where she reported

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Speaker 1: that the NFL Competition Committee, which is has been in

592
00:32:12,200 --> 00:32:15,880
Speaker 1: Florida talking about potential proposals to send to the owners

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Speaker 1: this year. UM are discussing the possibility of pushing the

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Speaker 1: point after point after touchdown the extra point to the

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Speaker 1: twenty five yard line, which would make it a forty

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00:32:26,680 --> 00:32:30,280
Speaker 1: two yard attempt. Right now, it's ball set at the two,

597
00:32:30,920 --> 00:32:34,800
Speaker 1: making it a nineteen or twenty yard attempt. That's pretty crazy,

598
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Speaker 1: isn't it. It's a long extra point. I get spicy like,

599
00:32:37,840 --> 00:32:40,640
Speaker 1: and I'd like to make the game more interesting. Isn't

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00:32:40,680 --> 00:32:44,480
Speaker 1: it a little kind of taste too much? Too much? What?

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Speaker 1: What is our What is our attraction to the current

602
00:32:48,520 --> 00:32:51,400
Speaker 1: extra point? No, the current extra point We've outgrown it.

603
00:32:51,520 --> 00:32:54,440
Speaker 1: I think that the kickers are so um advanced now,

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00:32:54,560 --> 00:32:57,000
Speaker 1: and the conditions and the fields and the and the

605
00:32:57,440 --> 00:33:01,000
Speaker 1: everything about the NFL has progressed past extra points. But

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Speaker 1: forty two yard field goal to me, and forty yard

607
00:33:05,240 --> 00:33:08,000
Speaker 1: field goals last year were converted. I believe it was

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00:33:09,640 --> 00:33:14,200
Speaker 1: pent of the time that I mean crazy. Yeah, I

609
00:33:14,320 --> 00:33:18,400
Speaker 1: like that's why you locked down, because it's so hard

610
00:33:18,440 --> 00:33:20,880
Speaker 1: to find a kick in five years, and now Alex

611
00:33:21,000 --> 00:33:23,200
Speaker 1: Barron commits a false start penalty and you're back to

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Speaker 1: a forty seven yard extr point. Downstairs, Dan, that's a

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00:33:27,080 --> 00:33:29,920
Speaker 1: great call, though one false started. It's a forty seven

614
00:33:30,000 --> 00:33:32,800
Speaker 1: year old yard kick personal foul. All of a sudden,

615
00:33:32,800 --> 00:33:38,520
Speaker 1: it's a bomb outside. But I didn't ever knew that

616
00:33:38,640 --> 00:33:41,000
Speaker 1: Dan was such a traditionalist. If Dan was back in

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00:33:41,080 --> 00:33:43,680
Speaker 1: the nineties twenties, you'll be like, this forward passed, this

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Speaker 1: is a terrible the watermelon ball, lady folk voting no.

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Speaker 1: But I know, listen, it's just to me. Alright, think

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Speaker 1: about it this way. The example I said earlier, alright,

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Speaker 1: Mark you, I love you. The Browns an example. Late

622
00:34:01,920 --> 00:34:04,600
Speaker 1: in the game, they needed to keep their playoff hopes alive.

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Speaker 1: They march ninety eight yards down the field, an amazing

624
00:34:07,720 --> 00:34:10,480
Speaker 1: gutsy drive. They convert four or fourth downs to get

625
00:34:10,520 --> 00:34:12,640
Speaker 1: in the end zone. They tie the Steelers up if

626
00:34:12,680 --> 00:34:15,520
Speaker 1: they hit the extra point, and you push the extra

627
00:34:15,640 --> 00:34:18,640
Speaker 1: point from and by the way, it's in Cleveland where

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00:34:18,680 --> 00:34:22,360
Speaker 1: it's negative eight degrees. You push the extra point, so

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Speaker 1: you lose it over my chair because I'm hanging on

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Speaker 1: the chair. Because this extra point means everything for the

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Speaker 1: extra point game before that, you'd be like too much.

632
00:34:37,800 --> 00:34:40,279
Speaker 1: So what Dan wants is an extra point that's automatic,

633
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Speaker 1: that there's no drama to it. I say, this is

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Speaker 1: I'm fine totally getting rid of the extra point, which

635
00:34:46,880 --> 00:34:49,040
Speaker 1: was the whole idea of this is the future was

636
00:34:50,440 --> 00:34:57,120
Speaker 1: seven or six points. But if the choices keep the

637
00:34:57,200 --> 00:34:59,359
Speaker 1: system as it is now, which is pointless, or add

638
00:34:59,400 --> 00:35:02,359
Speaker 1: this forty yardy I like it, but it's a field

639
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Speaker 1: goal and they're proposing potentially forty two? What is wrong

640
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Speaker 1: with the thirty five? Why do we need and then

641
00:35:10,200 --> 00:35:14,000
Speaker 1: meet in the middle of Yeah, I mean stands like

642
00:35:14,239 --> 00:35:18,319
Speaker 1: this is too much excitement, too much tension. You don't

643
00:35:18,440 --> 00:35:20,560
Speaker 1: love the game the way I love the game, apparently.

644
00:35:20,960 --> 00:35:24,319
Speaker 1: I love the purity of the great game that Vince

645
00:35:24,400 --> 00:35:28,799
Speaker 1: Lombardi loved, and I'm on the side of Lombardi. There

646
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Speaker 1: you go. I love that the NFL stands alone among

647
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Speaker 1: sports and that if they can find a way to

648
00:35:35,080 --> 00:35:38,919
Speaker 1: make it more exciting, they do. And you know what else,

649
00:35:39,080 --> 00:35:40,600
Speaker 1: I don't know. The game made a lot of changes

650
00:35:40,640 --> 00:35:42,960
Speaker 1: to the XFL. Should we just start doing stuff like that,

651
00:35:43,120 --> 00:35:45,000
Speaker 1: like place the ball at the fifty and then two

652
00:35:45,080 --> 00:35:47,279
Speaker 1: idiots run at each other and get the ball. We

653
00:35:47,440 --> 00:35:50,360
Speaker 1: gonna do that. Corolla has the idea to do a

654
00:35:50,480 --> 00:35:53,640
Speaker 1: trident where you try to hit hit something in the

655
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Speaker 1: middle of the coal post and that's like three or

656
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Speaker 1: that's like another point. That's exciting that I like, you

657
00:36:00,840 --> 00:36:02,920
Speaker 1: know what I mean? And you have another pole in

658
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Speaker 1: the middle. If you go for the middle one, you

659
00:36:04,960 --> 00:36:07,560
Speaker 1: hit it right on, you get another extra point on top.

660
00:36:07,600 --> 00:36:09,080
Speaker 1: There should be two poles in the middle with a

661
00:36:09,160 --> 00:36:12,319
Speaker 1: really skinny zone there, right, That would be fun too. Well,

662
00:36:12,840 --> 00:36:14,480
Speaker 1: it's like you guys could turn it into rock and

663
00:36:14,560 --> 00:36:21,000
Speaker 1: Jock football. Go ahead. I like Never, which I like

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Speaker 1: in all the years of knowing him, Never wouldn't detected existence.

665
00:36:24,880 --> 00:36:26,920
Speaker 1: That team just franchised the kickers. So it's really like,

666
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Speaker 1: did you used to prefer it when people used hey

667
00:36:29,560 --> 00:36:35,360
Speaker 1: as thigh pads? Yes? I did? All right? Before we

668
00:36:35,440 --> 00:36:38,960
Speaker 1: go today, we figured it's always fun. Slipped back into

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Speaker 1: the lab because Gold said, and you know, people love

670
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Speaker 1: the lab. People love the scientists getting at each other,

671
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Speaker 1: and let's go downstairs and get heading into the lab.

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Speaker 1: There we are, mark you behind. We're now in the

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Speaker 1: lab downstairs. Hear that we're gonna talk a little bit

674
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Speaker 1: about the top ten wide receivers. The free agency primer

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Speaker 1: that's upset on our website. This was written by Chris

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Speaker 1: Westling the post we have up today. But this is

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Speaker 1: a list that was compiled by Gregg and west Again,

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Speaker 1: right right, Mark, do you want to go over that

679
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Speaker 1: list or read out the top ten? All right, let's

680
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Speaker 1: do it real quick in in a in a class

681
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Speaker 1: of their own. According to Chris Wesley, those are his

682
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Speaker 1: words exactly. Yes, that's the subheading class of their own.

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Speaker 1: Eric Decker and Hakim Knicks moving down to the solid

684
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Speaker 1: starter category. We've got at the top golden tape, followed

685
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Speaker 1: by James Jones, Julian Edelman, and Emmanuel Sanders. Can we

686
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Speaker 1: can we put the let's stay down there? We're still

687
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Speaker 1: down here in the bubble in the bubbles down there

688
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Speaker 1: in the final heat starters with questions according to the

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Speaker 1: professor Westling or I guess scientists Westling on a professing

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Speaker 1: doctor Sydney Rice, if you can still function physically? Followed

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Speaker 1: by Andre Roberts. Sydney Rice is on this list? This

692
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Speaker 1: is grim, this is ugly. It goes to Kenny Britt

693
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Speaker 1: and then Ted Kin questions is Ryan Westling's britt obsession

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Speaker 1: has officially gone off the tracks that he somehow made

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Speaker 1: a starters with questions. That's a lot of questions. What

696
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Speaker 1: are the questions? Am I am? I crazy? Like? That's that?

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Speaker 1: That makes no sense? That's a good point I did.

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Speaker 1: I did that heading put Kenny ahead of Jacoby Ford.

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Speaker 1: I mean, who would you want in there without Kenny Brice? Well,

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Speaker 1: I don't like the heading starters with questions. Well, you're

701
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Speaker 1: the boss co changer, all right? The scientists, there's no

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Speaker 1: here is there? Is there any way? We look back

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Speaker 1: on this group and we say, I can't believe we

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Speaker 1: ever thought Eric Decker was better than hokeim Nick's sure,

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Speaker 1: there's a chance we do that. If if a team

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Speaker 1: knicks ever gets his legs back, then we would say that.

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Speaker 1: And if Decker lands as we as you said before,

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Speaker 1: with the wrong type of team that overpays for him,

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Speaker 1: he will vanish. Well, let's let's throw it to YouTube.

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Speaker 1: Dan and Mark, I know you don't have your lab

711
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Speaker 1: You do wear lab coats, act well, well, we wear

712
00:39:17,880 --> 00:39:22,280
Speaker 1: hard hats always in safety goggles. You root for NFL

713
00:39:22,480 --> 00:39:26,040
Speaker 1: franchises that play football that have a need at wide receiver.

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Speaker 1: Would you rather have your team signed Decker or Nick? Uh?

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Speaker 1: Well as the money, it's comparable. Comparable, Well, let's say

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Speaker 1: Nick is a little less because he should be. Like,

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Speaker 1: if it's comparable, I'm going with Decker just because I thought.

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Speaker 1: I don't know. I didn't get a good vibe from

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Speaker 1: Nicks in those last two years of the Giants, even

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Speaker 1: beyond the injuries. I don't really like how he kind

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Speaker 1: of handled carried himself in the media and kind of

722
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Speaker 1: just got a little bit of bad vibe. So I like,

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Speaker 1: I'd give Decker shot. I want to see Dan's big

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Speaker 1: board for free agency. All the measurables like hands, strength,

725
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Speaker 1: vibe doesn't get a check in the vibe catt vibe

726
00:40:04,160 --> 00:40:07,319
Speaker 1: is incredibly important in life, then all factors of life.

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Speaker 1: I have a tough time with Decker in Cleveland, if

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Speaker 1: that's what you're asking me. If they were to take

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Speaker 1: Sammy Watkins number four, have a quarterback, have Gordon and

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Speaker 1: Decker and it all worked out, which is far fetched,

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Speaker 1: I like Decker. Otherwise I go Knicks. You like him

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Speaker 1: only if he's a number three wide receivers. That's the

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Speaker 1: last time a King Nicks made a play, because I

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Speaker 1: can tell you when Eric Decker was making plays. I

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Speaker 1: just think that Decker is the guy that we're going

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Speaker 1: to look back on. I hope I'm wrong for his

737
00:40:34,760 --> 00:40:38,160
Speaker 1: sake and the sake of his press family. Decker gets

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Speaker 1: no respect in this podcast studio. But I will tell

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Speaker 1: you that you also said yourself, West, where do they?

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Speaker 1: Where are the Giants? If a Keem Knicks isn't on

741
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Speaker 1: that super Bowl team, that second super Bowl team, you

742
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Speaker 1: know where they are, where they've been the last two years.

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Speaker 1: Maybe maybe we're Maybe I'm becoming one of those general

744
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Speaker 1: managers that evaluates these free agents based on what they

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Speaker 1: did in college. Maybe came Nick's that guy from a

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Speaker 1: couple of years ago that I thought was gonna be

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Speaker 1: a top five wide receiver. And if we had been

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Speaker 1: placing bets after two thousand eleven, who is more important

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Speaker 1: who's gonna get signed first, Nicks or Cruise, you would

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Speaker 1: have definitely thought it would be Hakim Nicks. Nicks at

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00:41:18,320 --> 00:41:20,520
Speaker 1: full health, it's one of the top five or six

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Speaker 1: wide receivers in the NFL's who want. But he's not

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00:41:25,120 --> 00:41:28,239
Speaker 1: that guy anymore. And even when he was at full health,

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00:41:28,280 --> 00:41:29,839
Speaker 1: it was only for a few games at a time.

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00:41:30,200 --> 00:41:35,040
Speaker 1: He's had hip, ankle, knee, five, every part of your

756
00:41:35,080 --> 00:41:37,800
Speaker 1: leg you could possibly go wrong. Nick's had multiple instance.

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00:41:38,239 --> 00:41:39,920
Speaker 1: It's just that he's been banged up. You think he's

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00:41:39,920 --> 00:41:42,919
Speaker 1: breaking down at age six or whatever. I'm saying. Even

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Speaker 1: if he gets healthy and ever shows playmaking ability again,

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00:41:46,400 --> 00:41:49,000
Speaker 1: he'll probably get injured shortly thereafter. I guess we're on

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Speaker 1: coming from his I don't view either as a guy

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Speaker 1: I want to go tout around. Is my big wide

763
00:41:54,480 --> 00:41:57,400
Speaker 1: receiver signing and then hey, we're gonna center our passing

764
00:41:57,440 --> 00:41:59,080
Speaker 1: game around this guy? Neither one of them. Let me

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00:41:59,120 --> 00:42:02,200
Speaker 1: ask one more question off this top ten list in

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Speaker 1: the much maligned subhead stars with questions, uh Sydney, Rice,

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00:42:07,200 --> 00:42:12,640
Speaker 1: Andre Roberts, Kenny Britt Tedgin. Choose one of that list

768
00:42:13,760 --> 00:42:17,520
Speaker 1: that will actually become a big time playmaker this year

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00:42:18,080 --> 00:42:21,480
Speaker 1: who was most likely to surprise? I would I if

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Speaker 1: I had to give, I would give none them a

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00:42:23,160 --> 00:42:25,320
Speaker 1: long term deal. But I would like to add Roberts

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Speaker 1: to the to a team and see what he can do.

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00:42:27,160 --> 00:42:29,960
Speaker 1: I I the rest of them all feel if they're

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Speaker 1: not locker room cancer type material, they are just too

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Speaker 1: far gone. The only one that's like that is Britt Right.

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Speaker 1: I mean there's not written. I cannot fathom how I

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Speaker 1: would be hired by a team to add Britt to

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Speaker 1: my roster. I would Sidney Rice is probably in Switzerland

779
00:42:44,080 --> 00:42:45,960
Speaker 1: right now having his knees replaces. I'm not saying locker

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00:42:46,040 --> 00:42:47,759
Speaker 1: room cancer for all them, but like with Rice, there's

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00:42:47,920 --> 00:42:50,759
Speaker 1: major health issues. It's a giant question mark. We talked

782
00:42:50,800 --> 00:42:53,600
Speaker 1: about Team Nicks making sense for the Panthers. What about

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00:42:54,080 --> 00:42:57,280
Speaker 1: Sydney Rice from North Carolina went to school at South Carolina.

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Speaker 1: If he can play for more than fours and that's

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00:43:00,320 --> 00:43:02,160
Speaker 1: the issue. I take a shot with Rice as a

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Speaker 1: two or three, and the price is gonna be right.

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Speaker 1: He might be a lot less expensive than guys like

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Speaker 1: take What do you think do you think Sydney Right

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Speaker 1: is gonna get paid a lot? I don't know. I

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00:43:12,920 --> 00:43:15,480
Speaker 1: don't don't no. I think he's gonna get a one

791
00:43:15,600 --> 00:43:18,520
Speaker 1: year deal and it'll probably for one to two millions.

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Speaker 1: I don't think any of these guys are gonna get

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Speaker 1: paid a lot. Might Jones, Edelman and Sanders They're not

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00:43:24,440 --> 00:43:26,600
Speaker 1: going to get that much money. They're nice role players.

795
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Speaker 1: One might pay for Sanders all over the map on

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Speaker 1: him in the NFL, and I agree with Margo on

797
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Speaker 1: Andre Roberts. If someone would have told you last year

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00:43:34,920 --> 00:43:36,640
Speaker 1: at this time that Edelman was a better player than

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Speaker 1: Andre Roberts, you would have asked what they were smoking.

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Speaker 1: You would have gotten answers to this one of the

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00:43:43,160 --> 00:43:47,640
Speaker 1: Maybe that's the sound in the background right now. This

802
00:43:47,840 --> 00:43:49,839
Speaker 1: is what people do in the NFL. It's what did

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00:43:49,880 --> 00:43:53,200
Speaker 1: you do last year. Everyone assumes that two thousand thirteen

804
00:43:53,239 --> 00:43:55,480
Speaker 1: stats will carry over, and they don't. That's not how

805
00:43:55,520 --> 00:43:57,960
Speaker 1: the NFL works. Well, maybe then James Jones could be

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00:43:58,080 --> 00:44:01,680
Speaker 1: a touchdown. James Jones for as bad a year as

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Speaker 1: he had, I think he had a career hiding yards.

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00:44:04,280 --> 00:44:06,919
Speaker 1: James Jones was okay, he's product. He doesn't have great hands.

809
00:44:07,040 --> 00:44:09,160
Speaker 1: He stopped separating halfway through the year, and it's not

810
00:44:09,280 --> 00:44:11,480
Speaker 1: really his fault. He had a torn PCL around the

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Speaker 1: league's Dan Hansis will be speaking with James Jones at

812
00:44:14,160 --> 00:44:16,960
Speaker 1: NFL Network studios on Tuesday, and I'll report back to

813
00:44:17,000 --> 00:44:18,560
Speaker 1: you guys what I get out of him. I like

814
00:44:18,719 --> 00:44:20,680
Speaker 1: James Jones and I think he'll make for a great signing.

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Speaker 1: You can tell him. I said that I will let

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00:44:23,320 --> 00:44:27,200
Speaker 1: him know. He was wearing some fancy orange pants. I

817
00:44:27,320 --> 00:44:29,480
Speaker 1: thought they were like gold. It was like these packers

818
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Speaker 1: don't give up on look like he was selling sherbet.

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Speaker 1: I'm color by. Oh that's right, let's not anymore. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: all right, let's go upstairs. We're gonna leave the labs.

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Speaker 1: Who's who's in charge of up keep down there? Well,

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Speaker 1: that's a mystery. I think these guys, I don't think

823
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Speaker 1: when you have been asking where lylesmen, we put him

824
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Speaker 1: in the lab. We let people know where what Lyle

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Speaker 1: is all about. He is an ogre that's been hanging

826
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Speaker 1: out in the lab too long. Some strange things growing

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Speaker 1: off of his head. It's just we have to keep

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Speaker 1: him out of it. That's why he's always missed everything

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Speaker 1: up um, all right, before we go west, real quick

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Speaker 1: update on the map. Were meant to order it last night,

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Speaker 1: I promise you. But the map for for our listeners, Well,

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Speaker 1: we have all these listeners from different points of the globe,

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Speaker 1: a lot from United Kingdom, Australia, We've had some Finland, German, African,

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Speaker 1: we have people from all over. So I'm going to

835
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Speaker 1: buy a map. We're gonna put it in the podcast

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00:45:34,880 --> 00:45:37,799
Speaker 1: studio place pins in all of the places where people

837
00:45:37,840 --> 00:45:39,840
Speaker 1: have told us they're from. You said this was a

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Speaker 1: off season project. We are now we're in the off season.

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Speaker 1: I'm just at a certain point and results are you know.

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Speaker 1: I was told that this was a post combine project.

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Speaker 1: We are now post combine. I will, I promise you,

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Speaker 1: I will head it clear. This is post combine. If

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00:45:58,760 --> 00:46:02,839
Speaker 1: Wesleyan is gonna be late delivering something, I I'd rather

844
00:46:02,960 --> 00:46:06,839
Speaker 1: be this than the free Agent primer. I will order

845
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Speaker 1: it tonight and uh, you know, I'm an Amazon Prime member.

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Speaker 1: I'll have it delivered as soon as possible as you

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Speaker 1: may or man No does not shop your refuses to

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Speaker 1: everything done online. He's a man of the future, you know,

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Speaker 1: because there's people out there they're the worst. I like

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Speaker 1: that you wear this Amberson Prime membership like you're like

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Speaker 1: a select member of an elite club. It's like Wilford Brimley.

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Speaker 1: Do you get paid for each reference? I could. I

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Speaker 1: could see if the podcast ever truly took off and

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Speaker 1: became famous and then it eventually disappeared through the sands

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Speaker 1: of time, and West would be able to milk his

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Speaker 1: celebrity to do like you know every one. So I'll

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Speaker 1: see like Wilford Brimley like selling gold coins, I can

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Speaker 1: see West doing some type of commercial hawking coins. Is

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Speaker 1: the former as a man who would be happy to

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Speaker 1: do a commercial. Yes, I don't think. I don't think

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Speaker 1: I'm a commercial guy. You'd be a change person at

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Speaker 1: that point, though, that's true a young Wilford business. I

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Speaker 1: don't know. That's a compliment. Wow. On that note. On

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Speaker 1: that note, we will be back on Wednesday, as we

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Speaker 1: always are, will continue to talk about free agency, which

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Speaker 1: is getting closer and closer every day, UM and any

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Speaker 1: other news and you know, whatever else is happening until them.

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Speaker 1: This is Dan Hansons signing off with the mailman, the

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Speaker 1: sizzler to the boss, the gold standards behind the glass

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Speaker 1: and uh. While Dan turned down in the dungeon lab

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Speaker 1: until Wednesday. My job is to find I get things done.

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Speaker 1: What is that