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Speaker 1: All right, everybody, welcome into hour two of the show.

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Speaker 1: got legendary moment coming up and merely moments. It'll be

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Speaker 1: I ain't had an opportunity to weigh in on that,

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Speaker 1: Cause well, they support us, and they support us very well.

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Speaker 1: But without further ado, let's jump into this week's legendary moment.

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Speaker 1: I'm so I had such a great time listening to

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Speaker 1: Merrill Hodge. I'll give you some stories on Meryll Hodge.

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Speaker 1: On the other side, let's listen to this week's legendary.

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Speaker 2: Moment, Present conversations with a legend, and now this is

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Speaker 2: your legendary moment.

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Speaker 1: What's your take on the latest state of the team.

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Speaker 1: I know Roethlisberger came out not too long ago and said,

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Speaker 1: it's the culture isn't the same anymore. It doesn't seem

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Speaker 1: the same in the locker room, doesn't seem the same.

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Speaker 1: And maybe that could be the reason why the team

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Speaker 1: a part of that that Steeler culture and creating and

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Speaker 1: continuing to push and build that stealer culture. What's your

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Speaker 1: what's your take on the current state of the Steelers?

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Speaker 4: Listen, Ben Roethlisberger was probably the epitome of like a

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Speaker 1: All right, And I didn't know that that's that's the

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Speaker 4: I mean, I don't know if you remember the footage

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Speaker 1: That was Ben. That was Ben.

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Speaker 4: You know, like he was trying that he tried to

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Speaker 1: Run and that turned into that that's interesting perspective because

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Speaker 1: it was almost like who's right and who's wrong with

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Speaker 1: the AB And Roethlisberger did like, is it is it

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Speaker 1: AB not being a good teammate? And that became like

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Speaker 4: I know the scenario intimately that and you know this

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Speaker 4: and you're demanding structure, and you're demanding ownership and accountability,

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Speaker 4: and that is being fought back on, You're always going

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Speaker 1: And this is this is what everybody's doing.

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Speaker 4: Okay, this is not time to sit there video yourself

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Speaker 1: You just can't have one of the That was Merle

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Speaker 1: an amazing conversation with him, obviously me being a big

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Speaker 1: look up conversations with a legend all Right, I mentioned

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Speaker 1: telling you a story about Merrill Hodge. It's pretty cool.

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Speaker 1: I grew up in Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh Steeler fan, and when

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Speaker 1: He came out with a Leopard Prince speedo and I

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Speaker 1: All right, welcome back in. We're up on game. We're

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Speaker 7: For me, this is just Brinnie James checking out his

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Speaker 1: So we'll see how that all plays out. I personally

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Speaker 1: the pros right now if he's going to get a

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Speaker 1: fair opportunity to get on a team, no matter if

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Speaker 1: it's non drafted or undrafted, or if it is drafted,

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Speaker 1: rather than come back to college and give anybody any

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Speaker 1: more material where they could try to pick them apart

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Speaker 1: gonna develop, and I'm a prove to y'all that I

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Speaker 1: can go in this draft. And then I entered the

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Speaker 1: draft after a year, more year more development. I think

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Speaker 1: the better one probably is to enter the draft just

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Speaker 1: see where you're at. I mean, nil era transfer, portal

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Speaker 1: Era transfer into the NBA. That's my take on it,

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Speaker 1: and I wish Brownie James the best of luck, to

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Speaker 1: be honest, which I hope it works out for him.

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Speaker 1: We're gonna take I LO, We're gonna get We're gonna

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Speaker 1: get a update from Ilo, and then we're gonna talk

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Speaker 1: some are yeah, some stuff on Diggs. We're gonna do that. Ilo,

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Speaker 1: just what you got, my guy.

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Speaker 8: Big news today in Major League Baseball LeVar As the

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Speaker 8: Cleveland Guardians announced that their ace pitcher Shane Bieber needs

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Speaker 8: season ending Tommy John surgery Guardian, said that Bieber experienced

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Speaker 8: a recurrence of right elbow paine after his first two

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Speaker 8: starts of the season, and that imaging and evaluation then

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Speaker 8: revealed a re injury to his ulner collateral ligament. The

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Speaker 8: thing is, Bieber won both of those starts. He struck

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Speaker 8: out twenty in twelve innings without allowing a run while

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Speaker 8: basically pitching with an ulner collateral ligament that needed to

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Speaker 8: be replaced.

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Speaker 5: There is one Major League Baseball.

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Speaker 8: Game going on right now. The Oakland, Las Vegas, Sacramento,

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Speaker 8: United States, Planet Earth Alpha Century Milky Way A's have

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Speaker 8: a two zing lead at Detroit. They're going to the

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Speaker 8: bottom of the second inning on a two run home

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Speaker 8: run by Brent Rooker. His second straight game with a

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Speaker 8: home run. Basketball Hall of Fame class of twenty twenty

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Speaker 8: four was announced today. It includes Vince Carter, Chauncey Phillips,

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Speaker 8: Michael Cooper, Doug Collins, Walter Davis, and Bo Ryan. The

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Speaker 8: men's Final four tips off at six ' oh nine

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Speaker 8: Eastern with Purdue taking on NC State, then at eight

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Speaker 8: forty nine Eastern. It'll be followed by Yukon against Alabama.

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Speaker 8: Coming up on Sunday the women's National Championship game between

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Speaker 8: Iowa and South Carolina.

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Speaker 5: And that's what's trending.

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Speaker 1: LeVar.

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Speaker 8: Oh, hold on, LeVar, we also just starting to trend.

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Speaker 8: Merrill Hodge Leopard print speedo.

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Speaker 1: Thanks to SA. Have a great day. I love you too.

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Speaker 2: Man.

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Speaker 1: Uh, that's really good. This is up one game. I'm

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Speaker 1: Levi Ron, this is Fox Sports Radio. So let's let's

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Speaker 1: transition into this Stephan Diggs conversation. I wanted the weigh

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Speaker 1: in on this conversation because I felt as though I

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Speaker 1: had said it before, and so I want to double

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Speaker 1: down on it since I have some time to double

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Speaker 1: down on it today. Is that the mindset of Stefan Diggs,

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Speaker 1: the the way he feels about his work, Steph has

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Speaker 1: always been that underdog type. He's going to train like

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Speaker 1: an underdog. He's going to train like he's got everything

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Speaker 1: to prove, everything to gain by what it is that

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Speaker 1: he does. And I feel like something took place in

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Speaker 1: Buffalo that totally turned him off and upset him clearly.

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Speaker 1: I mean, there were there's there's, you know, evidence of that,

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Speaker 1: and I just wonder, it's like, Okay, is this between

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Speaker 1: Josh Allen and Stephan Diggs? And I got to thinking

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Speaker 1: about it. It's like, because if this is between Josh

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Speaker 1: Allen and Stephan Diggs, and this is a problem, especially

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Speaker 1: if they can't find a way to sift through it

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Speaker 1: and get on common ground. We just talked about that

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Speaker 1: Meryl Hodgen is his shorts with Ben Roethlisberger and and

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Speaker 1: Antonio Brown. It can tear a locker room apart when

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Speaker 1: you're number one receiver and probably top influencers in the

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Speaker 1: locker room along with your coat, your player at quarterback

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Speaker 1: or at odds. I get the feeling that it finally

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Speaker 1: starts the surface and solidify itself that there's a problem

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Speaker 1: with Josh Allen if I'm Stephan Diggs, and it was

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Speaker 1: a problem that was not going to go away. And

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Speaker 1: if I am Buffalo and I'm trying to fight time,

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Speaker 1: because that's what's happening. They're losing time. They are in

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Speaker 1: a fight, in a battle against time to if they

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Speaker 1: have a super Bowl caliber run team, I would say

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Speaker 1: today they are not a super Bowl caliber team. By

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Speaker 1: losing Stephan Diggs, They're not. But what you can potentially

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Speaker 1: do is free Josh Allen from the bondage, the shackles

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Speaker 1: of a strong presence and influence of Stefan Diggs in

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Speaker 1: that locker room and possibly bring in guys that are

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Speaker 1: going to fall in line and do things that are

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Speaker 1: positive towards what their purpose is and what their goals are.

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Speaker 1: You know, they brought in Samuel, they brought in Handler,

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Speaker 1: They've brought in guys. Are any of these guys one receivers.

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Speaker 1: Are any of them replacing the production of Stefan Diggs.

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Speaker 1: We don't know. But what we do know is is

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Speaker 1: that now you have a leader without any type of

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Speaker 1: take drawbacks, any type of blowback, any type of resistance

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Speaker 1: in Josh Allen in that locker room. And I think

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Speaker 1: that that was the biggest to me just looking at

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Speaker 1: all of this and having some time to sit on

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Speaker 1: it and really marinate on it. This is not about

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Speaker 1: production on the field. This is about what we talked

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Speaker 1: about before, the culture in the locker room. If something

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Speaker 1: doesn't go right, if something doesn't feel right, If Stefan

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Speaker 1: Diggs the way he's wired, it's feeling as though the

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Speaker 1: play calling isn't right, the way Josh Allen handles things

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Speaker 1: isn't correctly. One of the biggest criticisms that has fallen

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Speaker 1: on Josh Allen at times is that he does too

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Speaker 1: much at times on his own to try to win. Well,

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Speaker 1: if you're trying to do so much on your own

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Speaker 1: and too much on your own maybe at times to

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Speaker 1: try to win, then those other guys out there that

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Speaker 1: are trying to win as well, that have that mentality

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Speaker 1: of I'm gonna do it all. I'm gonna put it

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Speaker 1: all on the line in the off season, I'm gonna

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Speaker 1: put it on the line in preseason and training camp

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Speaker 1: and in practice is leading up to the game, my preparation,

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Speaker 1: my film study out reports, what coverages look like, what

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Speaker 1: is going on out here. If I'm gonna put all

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Speaker 1: of that time and that energy into what it is

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Speaker 1: that I'm doing y'all need to lean on me, and

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Speaker 1: I don't think they leaned on Stephan Diggs. I don't

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Speaker 1: think they leaned on him. I don't think he appreciated it,

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Speaker 1: and I think that it became now a debate on

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Speaker 1: what the appreciation factor is versus what the need factor is.

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Speaker 1: And I think now the need factor of Stephan Diggs

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Speaker 1: was not as great, and so we're gonna unload this.

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Speaker 1: We're gonna take this big ass cap hit to unloading

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Speaker 1: just to see if we can get further ahead with

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Speaker 1: Josh Allen as our quarterback, with this team as their

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Speaker 1: window seems to be closing more and more each year

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Speaker 1: on trying to get back to a Super Bowl and

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Speaker 1: possibly win a Super Bowl. I don't know. We'll see

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Speaker 1: what happens, but that's just my opinion on it. I

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Speaker 1: wanted to weigh in on it, and now I got

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Speaker 1: my opportunity to do so. So on the other side

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Speaker 1: of the break, we're gonna have some reactions on the

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Speaker 1: mock draft, the latest from CBS. But until then, sit tight.

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Speaker 1: You're listening to Fox Sports Radio. This is up on game.

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Speaker 1: I'm LeVar Arrington will be right back. Oo we ooh

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Speaker 1: lot ooh we all right, y'all. Last segment for y'all

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Speaker 1: get Jonas knocks. Good luck with that. Welcome back to

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Speaker 1: end at n tyrack dot Com Studio Supoint Game. I'm

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Speaker 1: Levi Arrington, TJ and Plex are off this week. I'm joking.

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Speaker 1: I love Jonas Knox to death. That's my guy. Make

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Speaker 1: sure you tune in for the JKS show immediately following ours.

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Speaker 1: You'll also be able to check out our podcast as

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Speaker 1: well and listen to anything that you may have missed

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Speaker 1: during the course of this show. Before we get up

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Speaker 1: out of here, I wanted to get some reactions on

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Speaker 1: the latest mock draft to take place. I'll give my

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Speaker 1: opinion last I'm going to I'm going to defer into

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Speaker 1: the second half, but I want to hear what you guys. Did.

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Speaker 1: You guys have a hot take on the new the

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Speaker 1: latest one from Tom for Nelly from CBS on his

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Speaker 1: mock draft, any any takes on this guy's takers.

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Speaker 5: I have a few reactions. Let's just start with one

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Speaker 5: real quick disclaimer. I I know for Nelly somewhat well.

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Speaker 5: I'm just gonna say, man like, I don't appreciate your

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Speaker 5: mock drafts being used to wish cast your Chicago Bears

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Speaker 5: fandom and having Malik Neighbors show up at nine, Like, come.

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Speaker 1: On, that's a hot take.

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Speaker 5: No, I don't think that should be a hot take,

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Speaker 5: like as someone who's worked in fan media like I,

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Speaker 5: I mean, I don't do it here and I certainly

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Speaker 5: wouldn't do it at CBS, Like I mean, just come on, all.

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Speaker 1: Right, that's your first hot that's your take.

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Speaker 3: That's that's your take on it was he was all

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Speaker 3: about in the break Oh, I just well he's he

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Speaker 3: said some other stuff before about you know, either teams

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Speaker 3: and champion the Bears when the Bears then do stupid things.

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Speaker 5: I'm just saying, like there's there's something else too, Like

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Speaker 5: I'm scratching my head a little bit at Joe Alt

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Speaker 5: for the New England Patriots when everyone seems to have them.

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Speaker 5: I could honestly see that. I don't think there is

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Speaker 5: much of a lot to take quarterback as we think,

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Speaker 5: but it's kind of hard for me to also envision

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Speaker 5: them doing anything but quarterback at this point.

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Speaker 1: I agree with that. I certainly agree with that. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: my other takes what we got.

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Speaker 9: My biggest takeaway from the mock draft, so far is

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Speaker 9: that we the draft starts it too. We all know

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Speaker 9: Caleb Williams is going first overall. There's not even not

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Speaker 9: even a point in that anymore. I don't I don't

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Speaker 9: think that the Jade and Daniel stuff to Washington is real.

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Speaker 9: I was talking with TJ last week. It just feels

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Speaker 9: like teams are overthinking it at this point in the season.

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Speaker 9: And that's kind of the same thing with the uh

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Speaker 9: the recent chatter about Molik Neighbors overtaking Marvin Harrison Junior

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Speaker 9: or not that Neighbors isn't good or anything. But I

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Speaker 9: think it's just, you know, Marvin Harrison Junior has been

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Speaker 9: putting stuff on tape for what two years now three years?

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Speaker 1: Now.

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Speaker 9: We know what he is. He's great. He just don't

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Speaker 9: overthink it. Just take the guy. So yeah, I think

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Speaker 9: Drake may Goo's second overall, and then I think the

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Speaker 9: draft kind of starts at three.

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Speaker 5: I have I have two more amazing I have two

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Speaker 5: more things. Number One, I think we're gonna learn that

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Speaker 5: in this draft teams are gonna be a lot more

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Speaker 5: intractable than we think. It's been really sexy to pick

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Speaker 5: the Vikings trading up or Las Vegas trading up to

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Speaker 5: try to get into the top ten for for some target.

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Speaker 5: This year, I just kind of see the talent being

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Speaker 5: so top heavy in some cases. I just don't I

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Speaker 5: I'm not discounting a draft, but I don't think it's

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Speaker 5: as we're not gonna get teams as aggressive, just because

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Speaker 5: I feel like teams are gonna be a little more

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Speaker 5: desperate at the top this year. The other thing that

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Speaker 5: I'm really not understanding at all is the fascination with

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Speaker 5: putting JJ McCarthy in Minnesota. To me, I don't have

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Speaker 5: a first round grade on him at all. I'm sorry,

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Speaker 5: he doesn't have the body of work for me to

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Speaker 5: justify a first round pick on him. I'm sure some

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Speaker 5: team will talk themselves into it, and I'm sure a

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Speaker 5: lot of the media, especially those who graduated from the

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Speaker 5: University of Michigan or grew up his fans in the

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Speaker 5: University of Michigan, will love it and gush all over it.

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Speaker 5: But JJ McCarthy's shown me nothing to prove that he

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Speaker 5: can be a Day one starter in this league. And

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Speaker 5: if you're going in the top fifteen of this class,

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Speaker 5: you have to be a day one starter. JJ McCarthy

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Speaker 5: is not a Day one starter in the NFL. I

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Speaker 5: don't even know if he might be a start. He's

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Speaker 5: barely thrown anything, Like, I can't go off of just

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Speaker 5: one or two good passes a game at Michigan, and

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Speaker 5: the rest he's doing is just elite handoffs to his

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Speaker 5: running back.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 9: And my last thing, based off this mock draft, if

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Speaker 9: Malik Neighbors is somehow there at pick nine for the Bears,

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Speaker 9: Ryan Poles might be the luckiest person alive at that point,

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Speaker 9: because that is just wildly fortunate for him. If that actually.

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Speaker 1: Happened, well, I mean, why wouldn't he be there? I mean,

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Speaker 1: if you really think about it, would he not be there?

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Speaker 5: I think he's gonna go at least six.

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Speaker 1: I mean I think he was going to see it

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Speaker 1: takes them.

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Speaker 9: I think either the Chargers of the Giants take him.

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Speaker 5: Okay, I'm sorry, real quick. I scrolled down here and

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Speaker 5: I see him taking Tyler Nubbin at twenty nine for

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Speaker 5: the Detroit Lions. I know the Lions don't really care

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Speaker 5: about positional value, the one thing they've done need, but

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Speaker 5: the one thing this is just like again, man, I

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Speaker 5: know you're a Bears fan over there. The one thing

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Speaker 5: the Lions don't need is a safety, Like, come on,

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Speaker 5: I just.

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Speaker 1: But is he the best available at that time.

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Speaker 5: This is coming from a man who said that the

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Speaker 5: Lions were dumb for going with Jared Goff and that's

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Speaker 5: why they'll always be the Lions, while the Bears do

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Speaker 5: smart things like draft justin fields.

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Speaker 1: Which, by the way, he has Quinon Mitchell going to

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Speaker 1: the Giants. I mean, did that not jump out at

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Speaker 1: you guys? No? I think it seems to me that

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Speaker 1: seems like, while I like the player, I feel like

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Speaker 1: that's that's an underwhelming pick for the Giants.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm not sure about the Giants have to look

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Speaker 5: more into their backfield situation. I do you think Quenyan

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Speaker 5: Mitchell has legitimately moved himself up into that top cornerback category?

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Speaker 5: You know, small, small school and when you do ball

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Speaker 5: out at something like the combine like that does get

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Speaker 5: people going back looking at your tape and being like, oh,

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Speaker 5: all right, yeah, this is the best cornerback and cornerbacks

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Speaker 5: in the last few drafts of tremendously shot up in

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Speaker 5: value because they're just harder and harder to find.

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Speaker 1: I hate to do this. I hate to do this

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Speaker 1: to everyone out there. I heard overthinking, I heard you

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Speaker 1: say you talk to TJ and all this. I don't

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Speaker 1: want to I don't want to hurt my boys. A

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Speaker 1: head coach, and I you know, I don't want to

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Speaker 1: say all this whole craziness. But Washington, if they don't

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Speaker 1: take Jaydon Daniels, did the biggest favor for whoever it

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Speaker 1: is that's in play to take Jaydeon Daniels. In fact,

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Speaker 1: I feel like Jaydon Daniels should be the first quarterback

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Speaker 1: taking off of the board if I'm being honest about this,

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Speaker 1: So to me, whichever team takes him, which, by the way,

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Speaker 1: there was another guy by the name of oh yeah,

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Speaker 1: Patrick Mahomes. He wasn't the first guy taken either. How

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Speaker 1: many people are regretting that one right there? Jaydon Daniels

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Speaker 1: to the Raiders in this Mark Draft, Come on, Raiders.

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Speaker 1: That might be a fan take, It might really be

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Speaker 1: a fan take, but you know what, I thought it

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Speaker 1: was pretty hot take. Jaydon Daniels is going to be

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Speaker 1: a beast and he's going to be in Las Vegas

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