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Speaker 2: Smith's New York Knicks are absolutely for real. Last year,

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Speaker 2: at this time, no one thought Denver would do what

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Speaker 2: I can't wait for tonight's midnight hour. It's gonna be

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Speaker 2: one of our best ones ever. If you saw the

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Speaker 2: Lions game last Sunday, we've got a lot to chop up.

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Speaker 2: I'm gonna set that up. Dan Campbell, a guy I

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Speaker 2: respect tremendously, was truly humbled and anybody can be humbled.

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Speaker 2: This is a humbling game. The winningest coach of all time, Donjula,

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Speaker 2: was humbled. He was even humbled. One summer a northern

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Speaker 2: main vacationally with his family, wife and four kids, he said,

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Speaker 2: why don't we take in a matinee movie. They walk

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Speaker 2: turn around, stand up and start clapping and cheering. Donjula's

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Speaker 2: No matter where you go in this great nation of ours,

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Speaker 2: there's at least ten people in attendance. Anybody can be humbled,

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Speaker 2: even the Great Dome. All right, you better recognize I'm

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Speaker 2: not playing here, peeps. You better watch out for the Knicks.

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Speaker 2: Why all of a sudden, Am I taking this tat

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Speaker 2: because Thursday Night's game against the Indiana Pacers. Heading into

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Speaker 2: thought it might be a rough night for the New

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Speaker 2: York Knicks, didn't I didn't bet the game. You have

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Speaker 2: four key players out, Julius Randall, og Onobi, Quintin Grimes,

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Speaker 2: So even Stevie Wonder could look at this and say,

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Speaker 2: the short handed Nicks where they were short handed, they

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Speaker 2: would very much have their work cutout for him against

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Speaker 2: an above average Pacers team. But see either remaining healthy

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Speaker 2: Knicks led by, and you better recognize he's no longer

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Speaker 2: a burgeoning star. He's a star. He rhymes with Jalen Brunson.

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Speaker 2: They all banded together to come away with a victory

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Speaker 2: one O nine, one O five on nothing. Brunson dropped

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Speaker 2: forty points fifteen or thirty from the floor, his fifth,

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Speaker 2: was showered with chance of MVP from Madison Square Garden

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Speaker 2: during his postgame interview and Brunson's a humble guy. That

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Speaker 2: been paying attention, Jalen Brunson's been outstanding ever since arriving

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Speaker 2: in New York. He got a four year, one hundred

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Speaker 2: and four million dollars contract before last season, and it

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Speaker 2: was a moved. What did people do? They mocked it,

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Speaker 2: they laughed at it. Basically, he'd been a bench player

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Speaker 2: during his time with the Dallas Mavericks, but he caught

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Speaker 2: and he's become this centerpiece of an X offense alongside

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Speaker 2: he was averaging that last year. He's up around twenty

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Speaker 2: Thursday night also showed something I bet you haven't been recognizing.

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Speaker 2: And this guy makes my all name team presst and

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Speaker 2: Jewell we'll just call him precious because he's precious. And

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Speaker 2: both players. You know, life's about making the most of

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Speaker 2: your opportunities. They showed out against Indiana. Hartenstein had nineteen

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Speaker 2: Will Ferrell and old school that along with Josh Hartz

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Speaker 2: not for nothing. Precious, I love the name Precious also

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Speaker 2: had two block shots in four steals, Hartenstein six assists.

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Speaker 2: See that's part of basketball too. The whole becomes better

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Speaker 2: Had a tough matchup all night against Pascal Siakam. They

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Speaker 2: really didn't know how much he was gonna be able

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Speaker 2: A terrific job. It's all about making the most of

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Speaker 2: glowing philosophically about Isaiah Hartenstein, saying, quote, he's guineas rhythm back.

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Speaker 2: Made a number of hustle plays. You notice how we're

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Speaker 2: talking hustle plays, rebounds, block shots, assists. That's a team.

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Speaker 2: The Knicks looked really good missing four starters, and Thibodeau admitted,

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Speaker 2: we're asking these guys to do a lot. Josh plays

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Speaker 2: He's just a basketball player. That's what makes him great

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Speaker 2: for us. Unquote. The Knicks also got important contributions from

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Speaker 2: a guy who's not exactly a household name their backup

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Speaker 2: point guard Miles McBride played twenty nine minutes, just the

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Speaker 2: third time this entire season he's seen more than twenty

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Speaker 2: minutes of action sixteen points on six to thirteen shooting. Now,

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Speaker 2: I realize the injuries are a bit of a hit

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Speaker 2: the blow they have taken on the personality of their

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Speaker 2: that great Celtics team about a decade ago that won

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Speaker 2: e n NBA Championship. You've been served, You've been warned.

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Speaker 2: Jason Smith's Nicks are for real. Laugh, clown laugh, make

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Speaker 2: all the fun you want. You really think Milwaukee's where

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Speaker 2: they need to be. Doc Rivers right on, Q starts

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Speaker 2: that team's tough, I don't. I could go on and

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Speaker 2: If not the Knicks? Who why not? Am I predicting that?

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Speaker 2: Not just yet, but I will say this. If you

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Speaker 2: sample Thursday night's game against the Indiana Pacers, I promise

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Speaker 2: you they should have won you over based on their depth,

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Speaker 2: their toughness, their teamwork, and the way they beat a

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Speaker 2: Those are three guys, three guys that combined for forty seven.

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Speaker 2: Those three alone had more rebounds than the entire Indiana

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Speaker 2: Pacer squad, and it resulted in a victory. Looking forward

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Speaker 2: to the Saturday night game between the Knicks and the Lakers,

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Speaker 2: the Knicks opened up as a six and a half

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Speaker 2: up and rise to the occasion, at least so far.

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Speaker 2: And that's you know. As Arnie Spanier says, the show

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Speaker 2: Coming up? Is there actually a college basketball season?

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Speaker 2: talk a little college troops. Are four tremendous matchups on Saturday. Wow,

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Speaker 2: Fox Sports Radio college basketball guru. Say hello to Aaron Torris. Aaron,

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Speaker 6: Berndy Frado Man, I'm doing great? How are you, budd?

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Speaker 2: I'm excited? Were These are very exciting times And since

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Speaker 2: there was no football this weekend, I think for a

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Speaker 2: before we get into the four key matchups that want

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Speaker 6: I don't think there's very much separating pretty much anybody,

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Speaker 2: Talk with Aaron Torris, our college basketball guru, I do

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Speaker 2: Talk go there on tourists. Aaron, I think your theory

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Speaker 2: Aaron hank Tight, We're gonna come right back to you.

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Speaker 2: I want to dive in to these four what I

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Speaker 8: Friday night Hardwood Action saw the Nuggets get another monster

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Speaker 8: game from the Joker, as Nicola Yoka to triple double

426
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Speaker 8: that featured a twenty plus rebound performance twenty seven points,

427
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Speaker 8: twenty two rebounds to be exact and at twelve assistans.

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Speaker 8: Denver beats the Portland Trailblazers one twenty to oneh eight.

429
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Speaker 8: Pelicans escape against the Spurs, being propelled by Zion Williamson's

430
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Speaker 8: thirty three points and eight rebounds. New Orleans winning at

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Speaker 8: one fourteen to one thirteen, Thunder over the Hornets one

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Speaker 8: twenty six to one oh six behind thirty one points,

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Speaker 8: ninety sisters five steals from Shay Gildas. Alexander Magic upset

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Speaker 8: the Timberwolves one to wait one oh six, Warriors over

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Speaker 8: the GRIBs one twenty one, one on one, Rockets blast

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Speaker 8: the Raptors one thirty five at two one oh six,

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Speaker 8: Kings outpaced Indiana won thirty three one twenty two, Hawks

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Speaker 8: over the Suns one twenty nine, one twenty and the

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Speaker 8: heat scorched. The Wizards won ten at two one oh two.

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Speaker 8: Jimmy Butler twenty four points and nine rebounds for Miami

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Speaker 8: and the Glippers with he won thirty six one twenty

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Speaker 8: five win against the Detroit Pistons as Kawhi Leonard has

443
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Speaker 8: thirty three points. Detroit now just six and forty two

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Speaker 8: on the season. In the college ranks. Only a couple

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Speaker 8: of ranked teams in action on this Friday night. Number

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Speaker 8: twenty one Dayton over Saint Bonaventure seventy six to seventy one.

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Speaker 8: Number thirteen Creighton upset by Butler ninety nine to ninety eight.

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Speaker 8: Beck to you, Bernie, all.

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Speaker 2: Right, thanks chef, good stuff. All right, Aaron, let's dive

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Speaker 2: right in. Uh the four games Saturday featuring top ten

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Speaker 2: matchups often you are looking. Let's start with the Kentucky

452
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Speaker 2: Tennessee matchup. Kentucky hosts number five Tennessee. This is a

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Speaker 2: game I feel that that Kentucky's going to be very

454
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Speaker 2: fired up for on their home floor. I think you're

455
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Speaker 2: going to get max effort. But Tennessee is not going

456
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Speaker 2: to be a slotch. Your thoughts on that game, Yeah.

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Speaker 6: Two quick thoughts. You know one, I just mentioned it

458
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Speaker 6: before we got to wire for the update. You know,

459
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Speaker 6: Tennessee Dogs that's a great story. But I also think

460
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Speaker 6: it is worth noting that they really do struggle to

461
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Speaker 6: put the ball in the basket without him. You know,

462
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Speaker 6: he's averaging twenty a game. Nobody else on Tennessee is

463
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Speaker 6: averaging more than eleven. Now, part of that is they

464
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Speaker 6: do play a lot of guys, but part of it

465
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Speaker 6: is they don't have very much offensive firepower. So I

466
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Speaker 6: think there's that factor. The other thing, I'll say burned,

467
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Speaker 6: this gets ount crazy. I think it's a sort of

468
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Speaker 6: a must win game for Kentucky. And I'll tell you why.

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Speaker 6: They've lost two of their last three, three of their

470
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Speaker 6: last five. And as I said, this year in college hoops,

471
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Speaker 6: everybody is losing the league game, but losing the way

472
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Speaker 6: they did to Florida at home on Wednesday. They're up

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Speaker 6: three late, or you know, they're up three late, they

474
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Speaker 6: decide not to file. Florida hit the three, it goes

475
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Speaker 6: to overtime, whatever, whatever. There's starting to be some real

476
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Speaker 6: noise out of Kentucky again. You know, John CALIFERI listen.

477
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Speaker 6: I don't know if you can fire him, but his

478
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Speaker 6: life I don't think is in a perfect place as

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Speaker 6: far as fans support. Right now, and so I just

480
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Speaker 6: bring it up because that loss on Wednesday felt kind

481
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Speaker 6: of like could be the slippery slope towards another disappointing season.

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Speaker 6: If you remember last year they ended up as a

483
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Speaker 6: sixth seed, they don't make it out of the first

484
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Speaker 6: weekend of the tournament, you lose to Tennessee, You're you're

485
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Speaker 6: you're already sitting there with four with four, you know,

486
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Speaker 6: four league losses, six losses overall, and bluntly, you're probably

487
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Speaker 6: looking at a five, six, seven seed and again an

488
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Speaker 6: uphill battle once you get to the tournament. So I

489
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Speaker 6: think you're gonna get Kentucky's best effort to key there.

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Speaker 6: One more thing is DJ Wagner, the Dewan Wagner, former

491
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Speaker 6: lottery picks. He missed the Florida game with a nagging

492
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Speaker 6: ankle injury. All reports are that he's going to play tomorrow.

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Speaker 6: I think he's kind of an important piece for them.

494
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Speaker 6: Didn't play Wednesday. That's something to keep an eye on,

495
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Speaker 6: especially by the way, I know a lot of your

496
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Speaker 6: audience likes to throw a little bit of money down.

497
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Speaker 6: I would check that injury report before I throw down

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Speaker 6: any money.

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Speaker 2: Bring up some really good points about Kentucky. They ranked

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Speaker 2: seventy fifth, and the adjust the defensive efficiency, that's why

501
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Speaker 2: you lose to a team like you and C Welmington.

502
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Speaker 2: That wasn't good spot on about Dalton Neck. He was

503
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Speaker 2: hitting threes right and left, but they still lost to

504
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Speaker 2: Carolina the other night. Check that South Carolina. So, but

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Speaker 2: Tennessee is a good defensive team. Good good points all

506
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Speaker 2: duly noted. Number two Perdue visits Wisconsin, fresh after coughing

507
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Speaker 2: up a nineteen point lead against Nebraska. Your thoughts on that.

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Speaker 6: Game, Yeah, I mean, I think the thing there is

509
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Speaker 6: you know, burn one ously Wisconsin is coming off the loss.

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Speaker 6: But I think to the thing that I think is

511
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Speaker 6: in your thing is the Purdue foul discrepancy on Wednesday

512
00:27:05,280 --> 00:27:08,159
Speaker 6: night was so blatant for people who didn't see it.

513
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Speaker 6: Purdue had a forty six to eight free throw advantage.

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Speaker 6: That is plus thirty You've been covered college, but you

515
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Speaker 6: give a cover best. Have you ever seen a plus

516
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Speaker 6: thirty eight foul discrepancy in a basketball game?

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Speaker 2: That's been talked about all week? And how does that happen? Well?

518
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Speaker 2: Northwestern coach I his exit off the floor was epic

519
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Speaker 2: the way anyway.

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Speaker 6: What I would say is. I'll say this is. I

521
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Speaker 6: think that is going to be a factor on Sunday

522
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Speaker 6: when these two teams played, because it became a national

523
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Speaker 6: talking point. The Big Ten and the Big Ten league

524
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Speaker 6: offices under fire. I'll say this, Bernie, Listen. I don't

525
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Speaker 6: want to sit here and make myself sound more important

526
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Speaker 6: than I am. But I brought up this exact topic

527
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Speaker 6: earlier in the season. They played Alabama out they were

528
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Speaker 6: plus fourteen at the fall line. Alabama had three four

529
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Speaker 6: to five guys follow out. My understand there were some

530
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Speaker 6: public complaints from some people after that game and the

531
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Speaker 6: next time the next game out they played Arizona, the

532
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Speaker 6: fall discrepancy is basically even. So this is a topic

533
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Speaker 6: that in college basketball circles has been going around, and

534
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Speaker 6: I believe it's go. I don't know how it can't

535
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Speaker 6: be on the referees nine when they play Wisconsin a

536
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Speaker 6: few days from now. So to me, if fall discrepancy

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Speaker 6: is even, I think it's obviously advantage with contin at home.

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Speaker 6: So I would lean Wisconsin in that game because I

539
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Speaker 6: do think fair or not, that is going to be

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Speaker 6: a factor in that game.

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Speaker 2: Fair enough, fair point, and I think this game will

542
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Speaker 2: decide the big ten. We shall see Sunday tips off

543
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Speaker 2: one pm Eastern Duke in North Carolina. Duke rank seventh

544
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Speaker 2: at North Carolina number three. Interestingly enough, Hubert Davis, he's

545
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Speaker 2: been at Chapel Hell two years. His first year, they

546
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Speaker 2: almost won a national championship. Last year, not even a

547
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Speaker 2: bid to the tournament, the Blue Devils, but they got

548
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Speaker 2: concerns of their own. Jeremy Roach has knee injuries, et cetera,

549
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Speaker 2: et cetera. North Carolina.

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Speaker 6: Well, I think the big story year is because Carolina

551
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Speaker 6: lost to Georgia Tech on on Tuesday. Yeah, I mean

552
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Speaker 6: this is now for first place. At least, you know,

553
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Speaker 6: they would be tied in the lost column. Carolina would

554
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Speaker 6: have a one game lead in the win column. But

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Speaker 6: you know, sometimes these two teams are They're obviously they're

556
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Speaker 6: two huge brands, but they're not always the two best

557
00:29:23,240 --> 00:29:26,600
Speaker 6: teams in the league. This year they are, and obviously, look,

558
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Speaker 6: I think Carolina would take a pretty convincing lead in

559
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Speaker 6: the standings if they were to win this one. But

560
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Speaker 6: if they lose it, you know, Duke's basically right there.

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Speaker 3: You know.

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Speaker 6: The thing I'll say about Duke, they've really quietly won

563
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Speaker 6: eleven of twelve. As you said, you know, Jeremy Roach

564
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Speaker 6: was out. The only loss that they had during that stretch,

565
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Speaker 6: which was to fit at home. Some of the other guards,

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Speaker 6: Tyree Procter started playing really well. He was a projected

567
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Speaker 6: lottery pick coming into the year. I actually I saw

568
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Speaker 6: the spread at least open. I don't know if the

569
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Speaker 6: number has changed all, but I saw they it opened

570
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Speaker 6: with dou good four and a half. I kind of

571
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Speaker 6: like Duke. I think I do like Duke.

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Speaker 2: I'm with you, Aaron. I think Duke wins tomorrow. I

573
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Speaker 2: think they've got more talent. Carolina has been the better team.

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Speaker 2: I got a funny feeling this is a good spot

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Speaker 2: play for Duke. Your thoughts, I know, I kind of.

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Speaker 6: Agree with you because I think, you know, Carolina story

577
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Speaker 6: has been kind of cool because they were so bad

578
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Speaker 6: last year. Bluntly that I think they've caught a lot

579
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Speaker 6: of people by surprise. And frankly, part of the Carolina

580
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Speaker 6: story is they're the only team that's been winning on

581
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Speaker 6: the road in League. Flab and everybody else has taken

582
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Speaker 6: lost left and right, and up until Wednesday night, they

583
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Speaker 6: were taking They were winning everywhere they went. As a

584
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Speaker 6: matter of fact, they were the last Power Conference team

585
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Speaker 6: to take a loss in league play up a few

586
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Speaker 6: nights ago, and so I just bring it up because

587
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Speaker 6: I think everyone's been so immersed in the Carolina story

588
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Speaker 6: that people have quietly not been paying as much attention

589
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Speaker 6: to Duke. They struggled it out a conference play. I'm

590
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Speaker 6: with you. I actually think Duke pulls off surprise on

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Speaker 6: Saturday in Chapel Hill.

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Speaker 2: That loss against Georgia Tech by North Carolina to day

593
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Speaker 2: was a tremendously bad loss. I think that will cost

594
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Speaker 2: North Carolina a number one seed. Believe you'll see finally,

595
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Speaker 2: I've seen it for my own personal preference, the best

596
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Speaker 2: for last. I've been waiting for Houston to win a

597
00:31:11,880 --> 00:31:15,680
Speaker 2: national championship for three years. They visited Kansas as a

598
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Speaker 2: short favorite, and of course Kansas lost to Iowa State

599
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Speaker 2: last week. They haven't been great in Big Twelve play

600
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Speaker 2: this year. Your thoughts. I got a feeling Kansas is

601
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Speaker 2: going to be a real tough out Saturday at home.

602
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Speaker 2: But it's not going to be easy.

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Speaker 9: Your thoughts, burn I was thinking about this.

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Speaker 6: This would be a fun fact for you to look

605
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Speaker 6: up because you have great knowledge on stuff like this.

606
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Speaker 6: The last time that Kansas and Kentucky were both ranked

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Speaker 6: in the top ten and we're both home underdogs. I

608
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Speaker 6: can't imagine that. Yeah before, Yeah, but it is at

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Speaker 6: least as we talked tonight at you know, eleven forty Pacific,

610
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Speaker 6: you know two forty AM Eastern, they're both underdogs. That

611
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Speaker 6: might change by timpaul. I'll just say this as somebody

612
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Speaker 6: who experienced fog Allen Field House for the first time

613
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Speaker 6: earlier this year when they played Yukon. I don't know

614
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Speaker 6: how anyone lives in that wins. I don't know how

615
00:32:05,240 --> 00:32:08,280
Speaker 6: anyone other than Kansas wins in that building. It is loud,

616
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Speaker 6: it is hot, the fans are right on top of it,

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Speaker 6: and you know, the thing is like Cameron seats like

618
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Speaker 6: eight nine thousand, bog Allen seats like sixteen thousand, and

619
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Speaker 6: it's the same like right on top of you environment.

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Speaker 6: And so I'm with you, is I think what you

621
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Speaker 6: said is accurate. I think Houston has as good of

622
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Speaker 6: a chance as anybody to cut down the nets. But

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Speaker 6: that's the team. Listen. One in two and two road

624
00:32:30,040 --> 00:32:34,360
Speaker 6: games this year, one was an overtime win on Monday

625
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Speaker 6: against Texas. I would lean Kansas at home, just because

626
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Speaker 6: I just think it is so hard to win in

627
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Speaker 6: that building. Worth not anybody like Kansas is arguably their

628
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Speaker 6: best player.

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Speaker 2: Kevin mcculluch I was about to ask Tuesday's game, Kevin

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Speaker 2: mccullar's got that bruise knees. Are you gonna play Saturday? Aaron?

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Speaker 2: Do you know?

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Speaker 6: Yeah? I think the projections are that he will. I

633
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Speaker 6: have not heard anything like you know, super you know,

634
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Speaker 6: insidery on it. My hunch is that I think they

635
00:32:59,640 --> 00:33:03,000
Speaker 6: knew at home they could probably get away without playing

636
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Speaker 6: him against Oklahoma State, which is the worst team in

637
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Speaker 6: that league. But yeah, I would expect him to play again.

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Speaker 6: No super inside information. I'm not breaking any news here.

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Speaker 6: It's just kind of sort of informed speculation, if you will.

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Speaker 2: Aaron, great stuff. We are starting to see bracketology. I'm

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Speaker 2: paying particular attention. They think there might even be five

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Speaker 2: Mount West teams in. But we'll see gets starting right around.

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Speaker 6: Gee, that's all I care about. That's all I care about.

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Speaker 6: What you say is gold, That's all I care about it.

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Speaker 2: Listen, Aaron, have a great show Saturday night, you and

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Speaker 2: Jason Martin. It's a it's a It's what I call

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Speaker 2: a thinking man show. You guys dive into a lot

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Speaker 2: of thought provoking topics. Eight to eleven Pacific, eleven to

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Speaker 2: two Eastern. Get your popcorn ready, Jason Smith or Jason

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Speaker 2: Martin and of course Aaron Taurus. Aaron great stuff, and

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Speaker 2: I do want to get you back right before selection Sunday.

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Speaker 2: Enjoy your the rest of your evening.

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Speaker 6: You know, I'm happy to join you. Burne, we'll talk

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Speaker 6: to it.

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Speaker 2: Okay, all right, thank you, buddy. It's Aaron Torris, our

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Speaker 2: college Fox Sports Radio college basketball guru. All right, coming

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Speaker 2: up top of the hour, We're gonna have probably my favorite.

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Speaker 2: I've been anticipating this by far in terms of our

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Speaker 2: midnight hour. Your calls eight seven, seven, nine to nine

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Speaker 2: on Fox eight seven, seven, nine, nine sixty six, three

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Speaker 2: sixty nine. The callers have been outstanding. We are going

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Speaker 2: to dive into the Dan Campbell situation with Detroit and

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Speaker 2: the part B of the question will be your thoughts

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Speaker 2: on analytics. Your thoughts on are they to you an

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Speaker 2: inflexible anchor, a guideline? Do you like him? Do you

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Speaker 2: hate him? And by the way, no one should associate

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Speaker 2: Dan Campbell with analytics he is not an analytics guy.

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Speaker 2: If people think that you haven't done your homework. However,

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Speaker 2: Dan Campbell is a risk taker and those risks have

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Speaker 2: gotten the Lions to twenty two and seven in their

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Speaker 2: last twenty nine games. And when the Lions named Dan

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Speaker 2: Campbell their head coach in twenty twenty one, talked about

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Speaker 2: busting kneecamps, play an ultra aggressive and competing with great

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Speaker 2: passion and all those things. And he took Detroit from

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Speaker 2: a downtrodden franchise to literally minutes away from being in

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Speaker 2: their first Super Bowl ever. So we have to ask ourselves.

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Speaker 2: You live by the sword and die by the sword.

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Speaker 2: I get it, but look at the risk reward. Also,

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Speaker 2: things are situational. You could make a call, but if

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Speaker 2: you're right, you're a hero. If you're wrong, you're the

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Speaker 2: village idiot, just asked Pete Carroll. And you could talk

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Speaker 2: about the drop passes, the fumbles, the self inflicted Lions wounds,

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Speaker 2: but Campbell's decisions and then the subsequent execution are going

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Speaker 2: to be the things that will be talked about coming up.

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Speaker 2: I'm going to share with you which I thought was

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Speaker 2: the more egregious of the two decisions. But get your

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Speaker 2: fingers limber midnight the Midnight Hour. We want to hear

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Speaker 2: from you eight seven, seven, nine nine, six sixty three

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Speaker 2: sixty nine, the Dan Campbell decision and your thoughts in

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Speaker 2: general on the risk reward of analytics. By the way,

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Speaker 2: in Las Vegas, ten minutes top of the hour, the

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Speaker 2: midnight hour, Your calls eight seven seven ninety nine on

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Speaker 2: Fox eight seven seven nine nine six sixty three six ' nine.

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Speaker 2: With seven minutes to go in the third quarter, the

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Speaker 2: Detroit Lions led the San Francisco forty nine ers twenty

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Speaker 2: four to ten, and it was fourth and three. They

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Speaker 2: had a chance to kick a field goal which would

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Speaker 2: have put the Niner lines up by three scores. Now

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Speaker 2: at that point, if you look at this thing objectively,

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Speaker 2: for the remainder of the game, the maximum amount of

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Speaker 2: possessions the Niners could have had were four. They would

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Speaker 2: have not only had assuming the Lions make that field goal,

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Speaker 2: which is more than a fifty percent probability, the Niners

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Speaker 2: would have had to not only score on three possessions,

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Speaker 2: they would have had to do it fast. They wouldn't

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Speaker 2: be able to afford seven minute drives, and then they

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Speaker 2: would have also had to stop the Lions. So the

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Speaker 2: long and the short of it is, the bottom line

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Speaker 2: is you have to question Dan Campbell's decision. Everybody will

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Speaker 2: remember the last one when the Lions trailed twenty seven

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Speaker 2: to twenty four and had a chance to tie it

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Speaker 2: up with the field goal, a forty seven yard field goal,

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Speaker 2: And I get it. I've heard all the numbers. You know,

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Speaker 2: Michael Badgley was only fifty percent between forty five and

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Speaker 2: forty nine yards. I've heard it all. But the truth

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Speaker 2: of the matter is, Dan Campbell, when you unilaterally go

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Speaker 2: forward on every fourth down, when you pass up an

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Speaker 2: opportunity for a potential three points is what he did

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Speaker 2: in the first half, which put the Lions out of

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Speaker 2: three scores. You can't automatically believe the next results is

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Speaker 2: going to turn in your favor just because the last

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Speaker 2: one didn't. That's erroneous thinking. Every fourth down is different,

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Speaker 2: every game is different, which requires different solutions predicated on

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Speaker 2: the current situation. Which is why I mentioned that this

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Speaker 2: whole thing has a context, it has a subtext, and

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Speaker 2: certainly it's situational. Again, if it's a random Sunday game

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Speaker 2: against the Carolina Panthers or the Seattle Seahawks in October,

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Speaker 2: maybe you do it. But on the road at the

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Speaker 2: forty nine ers, when the Lions have never been to

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Speaker 2: the Super Bowl, you left a lot of people in

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Speaker 2: the lurch and again, Dan Campbell made no apologies. He

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Speaker 2: can't have it both ways. He's the same guy who

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Speaker 2: got the Lions out of the ditch and they've won

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Speaker 2: twenty two of their last twenty nine games. You make

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Speaker 2: a decision in a competitive environment, sometimes you stand alone.

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Speaker 2: We all know that success has a thousand fathers, but

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Speaker 2: failure is an orphan. But what happened in the past

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Speaker 2: doesn't matter. Dan Campbell may have failed to take into

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Speaker 2: consideration the dynamic and the city of Detroit and the

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Speaker 2: history of the Lions and all things that go along

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Speaker 2: with that, And so we leave ourselves asking. Obviously, hindsight's

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Speaker 2: twenty twenty. This is where you get to be Monday

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Speaker 2: morning quarterback. It's the way it works. So I want

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Speaker 2: to hear from you, folks eight seven, seven, nine, nine,

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Speaker 2: six sixty three six nine, eight, seven, seven, nine and

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Speaker 2: nine on Fox. Do you support Dan Campbell's decision? Do

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Speaker 2: you live and die by the sword that's what got

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Speaker 2: on there in the first place, or or did he

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Speaker 2: blow it by going to the well one too many

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Speaker 2: times and not taking the situation into consideration. I'm Bernie Fraddle.

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Speaker 2: it last week. Dan Campbell took a field goal before

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Speaker 2: the half Lions took a a three score lead. Why

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Speaker 2: did he make different decisions in the second half? And

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Speaker 2: I want to get the people's stops say as usual,

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Speaker 2: everybody has stepped up big. The phone line is their packed? Why?

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Speaker 2: Because it's time. It's the midnight hour.

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Speaker 1: It's right now, the midnight hour.

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Speaker 2: Well, you know, we can talk about the drop pass

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Speaker 2: by Josh Reynolds, we can talk about Jami against Want,

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Speaker 2: we can talk about a lot. But you know why

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Speaker 2: this subject tonight is going to be so well, it's not.

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Speaker 2: I don't think it'll be polarizing. I think, well, it

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Speaker 2: might be polarizing, but without further ado, let's go out

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Speaker 2: to the phone lines. Let's open it up with Dave

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Speaker 2: from Phoenix. David, I know you've got Michigan roots, so

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Speaker 2: I'm sure you have some thoughts about the Lions and

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Speaker 2: their plight last Sunday. Do I ever?

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Speaker 10: Bernie? The Lions last championship was in nineteen fifty seven

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Speaker 10: and the next year, nineteen fifty eight. I was born

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Speaker 10: in Detroit, so I felt this one's pretty hard. Now

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Speaker 10: there's something to be he said for being aggressive, but

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Speaker 10: Dan Campbell is too aggressive. And by way of example,

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Speaker 10: you remember the game in Dallas. They're down by seven,

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Speaker 10: they score a touchdown.

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Speaker 6: Okay, they go for two.

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Speaker 10: You can argue either way, going for two or kicking

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Speaker 10: the point.

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Speaker 6: But when they had a penalty, it.

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Speaker 10: Took him back to the seven yard line and he

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Speaker 10: still went for two.

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Speaker 6: I thought that was ridiculous.

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Speaker 10: Now we can come ahead to the game last week,

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Speaker 10: and as you said, midway through the third quarter, they're

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Speaker 10: up fourteen, they have a chance to get back to

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Speaker 10: a three score lead, and they decide to go for

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Speaker 10: the first down, even though there's no guarantee not only

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Speaker 10: that you're going to make the first down, but if

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Speaker 10: you do make the first down, you still may not

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Speaker 10: get a touchdown. You may have to settlefield field low anyway.

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Speaker 10: So I would have preferred going up by seventeen. But

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Speaker 10: even there I can argue for it. I can understand

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Speaker 10: his decision. But when you get to midway through the

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Speaker 10: fourth quarter, now you're down by three, you have a

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Speaker 10: chance to tie the game.

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Speaker 6: Come on, God, You've got to kick the field goal.

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Speaker 6: You've got to tie the game.

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Speaker 2: So bottom line, Dave, do you believe that Dan Campbell

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Speaker 2: essentially cost the Lions the chance to go to the

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Speaker 2: Super Bowl? You putting it on him?

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Speaker 6: Well? I really do.

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Speaker 10: And then you remember, right at the end of the game,

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Speaker 10: they have third and goal from the one yard line,

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Speaker 10: and amazingly enough, they call a running play, they don't

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Speaker 10: get in and they have to use a timeout, which

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Speaker 10: was absolutely crucial. That was a killer timeout.

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Speaker 2: Yep, good stuff, Dave. I appreciate it, and you bring

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Speaker 2: up a lot of good points. I'm kind of glad

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Speaker 2: you brought up the Dallas game. My Moles told me

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Speaker 2: that why the reason Dan Campbell did that in Dallas?

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Speaker 2: Going for two three straight times. He told his team.

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Speaker 2: He says, I don't want to go to overtime and

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Speaker 2: on the road, hostile environment. We're going to win this

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Speaker 2: thing and get the hell out of here. And I

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Speaker 2: think he meant it so. And then, of course, you

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Speaker 2: know multiple time going for the you know, the fourth

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Speaker 2: down instead of taking the chance on the field goal.

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Speaker 2: I'm in agreement. It's hard to argue with you with

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Speaker 2: your logic there, Dave. So that's where're at. I was

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Speaker 2: also told I've made some calls, and I think Dan

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Speaker 2: Campbell believed we cannot stop this forty nine ers offense

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Speaker 2: in the second half, so we've got to get points.

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Speaker 2: But the problem is there's a risk reward and this

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Speaker 2: is about going to the super Bowl, and my gut

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Speaker 2: tells me bad. You might have made that field goal

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Speaker 2: at least tied it up, and you take your chances.

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Speaker 2: But that's why I want to hear from the people.

854
00:44:32,840 --> 00:44:35,520
Speaker 2: You've heard enough from me. Let's go back out to Michigan. Actually,

855
00:44:35,560 --> 00:44:38,800
Speaker 2: Greg Nelson from the up in Michigan and you Progreg

856
00:44:38,840 --> 00:44:40,920
Speaker 2: your thoughts on the lines debacle Sunday night.

857
00:44:41,480 --> 00:44:44,799
Speaker 9: Well, first of all, you do what got you there?

858
00:44:45,160 --> 00:44:47,759
Speaker 9: All right, Dan Campbell went for it all year long.

859
00:44:47,880 --> 00:44:52,279
Speaker 9: You don't change because that's the championship game. If you're

860
00:44:52,320 --> 00:44:54,279
Speaker 9: a long ball team in baseball, do you all of

861
00:44:54,320 --> 00:44:58,600
Speaker 9: a sudden go small ball or vice versa. No, you

862
00:44:58,680 --> 00:45:00,839
Speaker 9: do what got you there. If they would have made

863
00:45:00,880 --> 00:45:04,560
Speaker 9: some key blocks on those goal life scenarios, Hey Jamison

864
00:45:04,600 --> 00:45:06,359
Speaker 9: missed the block right at the goal line, the kids

865
00:45:06,400 --> 00:45:09,239
Speaker 9: block would have got a touchdown. Reynolds haven't missed the

866
00:45:09,280 --> 00:45:10,919
Speaker 9: eighth grave play across the middle, right.

867
00:45:11,239 --> 00:45:13,680
Speaker 2: Right, Yeah, that's all fair. Hey, Greg, hang on the

868
00:45:13,719 --> 00:45:16,080
Speaker 2: line because I mean, I like this call. I'll tell

869
00:45:16,080 --> 00:45:19,000
Speaker 2: you why. The most boring conversations in life is when

870
00:45:19,040 --> 00:45:21,840
Speaker 2: everybody agrees. So a question I have for you is,

871
00:45:22,000 --> 00:45:26,040
Speaker 2: right before the fourth and three that Dan Campbell went

872
00:45:26,120 --> 00:45:29,040
Speaker 2: for in the third quarter, and right before the fourth

873
00:45:29,080 --> 00:45:31,279
Speaker 2: down in the fourth quarter, it would have tied the game.

874
00:45:31,520 --> 00:45:33,440
Speaker 2: Were you saying, yeah, I'm glad he's going for What

875
00:45:33,719 --> 00:45:35,160
Speaker 2: was coming out of your mouth at that point?

876
00:45:35,680 --> 00:45:38,719
Speaker 9: I have no qualms while going for it because one

877
00:45:39,640 --> 00:45:42,600
Speaker 9: the kicker they had was released earlier in the year,

878
00:45:42,600 --> 00:45:45,320
Speaker 9: if you got it back because of the released another kicker.

879
00:45:45,360 --> 00:45:45,799
Speaker 2: So that was the.

880
00:45:45,840 --> 00:45:49,600
Speaker 9: Problem for them long term, was their kicking game two.

881
00:45:49,960 --> 00:45:53,120
Speaker 9: In the second half, the forty nine ers were starting

882
00:45:53,200 --> 00:45:54,920
Speaker 9: to get together on moving to football.

883
00:45:54,960 --> 00:45:56,040
Speaker 2: Cannot stop them.

884
00:45:56,160 --> 00:45:57,520
Speaker 6: So three points is not good.

885
00:45:57,600 --> 00:45:58,719
Speaker 2: Can get it done. You've got to try to.

886
00:45:58,719 --> 00:45:59,920
Speaker 9: Get the sixth touchdown.

887
00:46:00,040 --> 00:46:01,520
Speaker 2: It's much more valuable there.

888
00:46:02,160 --> 00:46:04,279
Speaker 9: And they made those during the here, they didn't make

889
00:46:04,320 --> 00:46:04,839
Speaker 9: them during the hear.

890
00:46:04,800 --> 00:46:07,760
Speaker 2: They would have got where they were fair. That's fair, Greg.

891
00:46:07,800 --> 00:46:11,560
Speaker 2: I appreciate the call, and I appreciate the alternative viewpoint.

892
00:46:11,640 --> 00:46:14,839
Speaker 2: I respect that. No wish to watch you here. Dave

893
00:46:15,120 --> 00:46:17,719
Speaker 2: stated his point and Greg stated their point. That's what

894
00:46:17,760 --> 00:46:21,640
Speaker 2: the Midnight Hour is all about, to have intelligent discussion

895
00:46:21,760 --> 00:46:25,560
Speaker 2: because neither thing either call or said is wrong. And

896
00:46:25,600 --> 00:46:27,239
Speaker 2: you could make a case with the lines had been

897
00:46:27,239 --> 00:46:29,919
Speaker 2: twenty two and seven with that's the aggressive nature. No,

898
00:46:30,960 --> 00:46:34,439
Speaker 2: I just am concerned slightly that sometimes these things are

899
00:46:34,800 --> 00:46:37,840
Speaker 2: are situational. But be that as it may, sometimes you

900
00:46:37,840 --> 00:46:40,560
Speaker 2: can't have it both ways. A Berto from San Diego,

901
00:46:40,640 --> 00:46:45,360
Speaker 2: you're up next. Your thoughts will be any.

902
00:46:45,200 --> 00:46:51,399
Speaker 3: Two excellent to Bernie. Listen, Bernie, I'm going to give

903
00:46:51,440 --> 00:46:55,279
Speaker 3: you an analogy, but first let me shut it up.

904
00:46:55,520 --> 00:46:57,879
Speaker 3: I was watching the game with my son. We watched

905
00:46:57,920 --> 00:47:02,960
Speaker 3: both games and like I told you last week, or

906
00:47:03,000 --> 00:47:05,480
Speaker 3: maybe I told my son, I wanted the Lions to win.

907
00:47:06,520 --> 00:47:11,799
Speaker 3: What Don Campbell did all year long was amazing. And

908
00:47:11,840 --> 00:47:16,920
Speaker 3: here's the analogy. He reminded metactfully to my Dodgers. I

909
00:47:17,080 --> 00:47:19,240
Speaker 3: like the Dodgers. I followed them since I was born.

910
00:47:20,520 --> 00:47:25,279
Speaker 3: In the regular season, they play with analytics. When they

911
00:47:25,320 --> 00:47:27,680
Speaker 3: start the game, there's a right handed tiahure, so they

912
00:47:27,680 --> 00:47:30,120
Speaker 3: put the leftist. And then when the game is in

913
00:47:30,160 --> 00:47:32,879
Speaker 3: the middle that they start bringing the relievers. They're start

914
00:47:32,920 --> 00:47:36,400
Speaker 3: going to the rights. That's analytics for you. And they

915
00:47:36,440 --> 00:47:38,640
Speaker 3: play like that, and they can win a hundred games

916
00:47:38,640 --> 00:47:41,400
Speaker 3: in the regular season make it to the playoffs. The

917
00:47:41,480 --> 00:47:44,680
Speaker 3: thing is this, once you get to the playoffs, you

918
00:47:44,800 --> 00:47:48,360
Speaker 3: gotta throw the book of analytics away and you gotta

919
00:47:48,360 --> 00:47:51,920
Speaker 3: go with the field. As soon as Dan Campbell kept

920
00:47:52,000 --> 00:47:56,279
Speaker 3: his offense in the third quarter to go for the

921
00:47:56,320 --> 00:47:59,399
Speaker 3: fourth down, I told my son he should not do that.

922
00:48:00,000 --> 00:48:02,719
Speaker 3: This is not the regular season. It's Karta go for

923
00:48:02,760 --> 00:48:07,080
Speaker 3: the points because he's gonna even up everything and go

924
00:48:07,200 --> 00:48:11,719
Speaker 3: back by seventeen and the pressure goes to the Niners

925
00:48:12,400 --> 00:48:15,840
Speaker 3: instead of that. It was a great call. The play

926
00:48:16,480 --> 00:48:22,480
Speaker 3: too bad Reynolds dropped the ball, yep, but the momentum switch,

927
00:48:23,160 --> 00:48:27,680
Speaker 3: and you can see it in the Lions' faces. They're like, oh,

928
00:48:28,040 --> 00:48:31,520
Speaker 3: what happened here? And the next day the Niners drove

929
00:48:32,239 --> 00:48:35,879
Speaker 3: Karta touchdown and the following drive by the Lions, the

930
00:48:35,880 --> 00:48:38,799
Speaker 3: pressure was there and they fumbled the ball. That was

931
00:48:38,800 --> 00:48:42,680
Speaker 3: the end of it. And I like analytics in the

932
00:48:42,719 --> 00:48:45,600
Speaker 3: regular season keeping there once you're going to in the

933
00:48:45,600 --> 00:48:48,200
Speaker 3: post season, throw the book away.

934
00:48:48,120 --> 00:48:50,120
Speaker 2: Go all right, they bear to good, good stuff, my man.

935
00:48:50,160 --> 00:48:51,880
Speaker 2: I want to make sure excellent call. I want to

936
00:48:51,880 --> 00:48:54,239
Speaker 2: make sure I get to everybody I would I do.

937
00:48:54,360 --> 00:48:58,120
Speaker 2: Want to just respectfully set the record straight. Dan Cambell

938
00:48:58,160 --> 00:48:59,960
Speaker 2: is not an analytics guy. I know a lot of

939
00:49:00,160 --> 00:49:03,640
Speaker 2: folks have attributed this decision to analytics. It's just how

940
00:49:03,760 --> 00:49:06,719
Speaker 2: Dan Campbell rolls. He is nothing to analytics, never actually

941
00:49:06,760 --> 00:49:08,960
Speaker 2: comes out of his mouth. I understand why people might

942
00:49:09,000 --> 00:49:12,600
Speaker 2: have that impression. But Alberto also kind of brings up

943
00:49:12,600 --> 00:49:16,080
Speaker 2: an interesting point, because are we upset at the decision

944
00:49:16,360 --> 00:49:20,239
Speaker 2: or the execution if the pass isn't dropped, if the

945
00:49:20,280 --> 00:49:23,560
Speaker 2: subsequent fumbles, et cetera. So it all melts together, which

946
00:49:23,600 --> 00:49:27,880
Speaker 2: makes this such a complicated conversation. Back out to the phones,

947
00:49:27,960 --> 00:49:33,200
Speaker 2: Tony from Michigan. Your thoughts on our beloved liance. Hey, Ernie,

948
00:49:33,200 --> 00:49:35,480
Speaker 2: how you doing good? Okay?

949
00:49:35,560 --> 00:49:42,920
Speaker 11: So, I don't believe that Dan Campbell lost the game,

950
00:49:43,520 --> 00:49:48,200
Speaker 11: but I do believe, as Alberto said earlier, if he

951
00:49:48,320 --> 00:49:52,160
Speaker 11: had that the old Kenny Rogers tune, how does it go?

952
00:49:52,239 --> 00:49:54,000
Speaker 11: You got to know when to hold? If he would

953
00:49:54,040 --> 00:49:57,799
Speaker 11: have read the room and if he would have felt

954
00:49:58,080 --> 00:50:01,759
Speaker 11: that this intuitive feeling of when when to do this,

955
00:50:02,320 --> 00:50:06,080
Speaker 11: I completely believe that that's where greatness comes into coaching.

956
00:50:06,360 --> 00:50:11,520
Speaker 11: He would have won the game. And I just think

957
00:50:11,719 --> 00:50:14,640
Speaker 11: that I hope I'm wrong, but he got that Lion's

958
00:50:14,719 --> 00:50:17,879
Speaker 11: team got the first doubting of the curse. It is real,

959
00:50:19,640 --> 00:50:22,680
Speaker 11: whether it's the Bobby Lane curse or or the Kent.

960
00:50:22,840 --> 00:50:24,239
Speaker 11: You know they the sports bought it.

961
00:50:24,200 --> 00:50:26,480
Speaker 6: The day Kenny all about it.

962
00:50:27,320 --> 00:50:30,960
Speaker 11: Yeah, So so whatever it was, when it when it?

963
00:50:31,160 --> 00:50:33,440
Speaker 11: When it fell up that I've got the players that

964
00:50:33,600 --> 00:50:35,960
Speaker 11: hit his helmet, and then the Niners thought it ran

965
00:50:36,040 --> 00:50:38,840
Speaker 11: it in. You saw it right there that that stuff

966
00:50:38,880 --> 00:50:41,279
Speaker 11: doesn't happen. And Campbell got up there, and I love

967
00:50:41,280 --> 00:50:44,800
Speaker 11: how he owned it. It's emotional, uh, and he knew

968
00:50:45,880 --> 00:50:48,600
Speaker 11: He may be defined if six or seven years ago

969
00:50:48,600 --> 00:50:52,040
Speaker 11: by Bernie and the Lions maybe get to the second

970
00:50:52,120 --> 00:50:54,200
Speaker 11: round or lose, kind of pull the cowboys what the

971
00:50:54,239 --> 00:50:57,680
Speaker 11: cowboys have been doing. Dan Campbell will be known for

972
00:50:57,800 --> 00:51:01,719
Speaker 11: what happened Sunday in the long line of Lions. Yeah,

973
00:51:01,800 --> 00:51:03,080
Speaker 11: badness and mediocrity.

974
00:51:03,560 --> 00:51:07,920
Speaker 2: You know you're speaking for Mistery, good stuff, Tony excellent call. Solomon,

975
00:51:07,960 --> 00:51:11,319
Speaker 2: hang tight, Poppy and san Diego hang tight. You're up

976
00:51:11,360 --> 00:51:13,879
Speaker 2: next eight seven, seven, nine, nine, six six three sixty nine.

977
00:51:13,880 --> 00:51:18,439
Speaker 2: We're gonna get to everybody and again Dan Campbell. People

978
00:51:18,520 --> 00:51:21,000
Speaker 2: can defend his call by saying he's been aggressive all season,

979
00:51:21,280 --> 00:51:23,920
Speaker 2: stuck to what worked for the team. But think about

980
00:51:23,920 --> 00:51:27,680
Speaker 2: this as well. That doesn't necessarily explain why Campbell went

981
00:51:27,800 --> 00:51:31,600
Speaker 2: conservative before halftime. It took the points to give the

982
00:51:31,640 --> 00:51:34,759
Speaker 2: Lions a seventeen point lead, so why was going up

983
00:51:34,800 --> 00:51:38,440
Speaker 2: seventeen before the half? Good enough Campbell for Campbell, but

984
00:51:38,520 --> 00:51:41,440
Speaker 2: not good enough in the third quarter. Want more of

985
00:51:41,440 --> 00:51:44,040
Speaker 2: your calls eight seven to seven ninety nine on Fox,

986
00:51:44,040 --> 00:51:47,120
Speaker 2: Solomon and Poppy Hank tight, You're up next. I'm Bernie Frattle.

987
00:51:47,200 --> 00:51:48,879
Speaker 2: We are coming to your life from Las Vegas. Fox

988
00:51:48,840 --> 00:51:51,600
Speaker 2: Sports Radio, tarret dot Com Studios. Keep it locked. You're

989
00:51:51,600 --> 00:51:53,720
Speaker 2: listening to the Bernie Frattle Show on Fox Sports Radio.

990
00:51:53,840 --> 00:51:56,280
Speaker 2: All right, back on the Bernie Frattle Show, Fox Sports Radio.

991
00:51:56,280 --> 00:51:58,200
Speaker 2: Come to your life from the Tarack dot Com studios

992
00:51:58,200 --> 00:52:01,640
Speaker 2: here in Las Vegas in the Super Bowl fifty eight.

993
00:52:02,480 --> 00:52:04,560
Speaker 2: Back out to the phone lines in the plight of

994
00:52:04,600 --> 00:52:07,879
Speaker 2: the Detroit Lions. Solomon from Los Angeles, You're up next.

995
00:52:07,880 --> 00:52:08,879
Speaker 2: What are your thoughts?

996
00:52:09,360 --> 00:52:12,120
Speaker 6: Hey, Bernie, Thank you so much for take I call.

997
00:52:12,280 --> 00:52:14,359
Speaker 12: I got so many things to see about this. I'm

998
00:52:14,360 --> 00:52:16,799
Speaker 12: going to try to narrow it down to three things.

999
00:52:17,160 --> 00:52:19,120
Speaker 12: Albe as to think flicked as I can.

1000
00:52:19,640 --> 00:52:21,799
Speaker 6: Number one, I'm an old dude. I'm seventy four.

1001
00:52:22,520 --> 00:52:26,200
Speaker 13: Quote George Allen, a RAMS coach from the sixties.

1002
00:52:27,520 --> 00:52:30,960
Speaker 12: Games are won and lost by special teams. You lost

1003
00:52:30,960 --> 00:52:32,000
Speaker 12: by three points.

1004
00:52:32,520 --> 00:52:33,600
Speaker 14: You left six on.

1005
00:52:33,520 --> 00:52:35,040
Speaker 12: The field and two field goals.

1006
00:52:35,360 --> 00:52:36,239
Speaker 6: You take those back.

1007
00:52:36,760 --> 00:52:37,759
Speaker 12: You just won that game.

1008
00:52:37,880 --> 00:52:40,160
Speaker 6: In regulation number two.

1009
00:52:42,680 --> 00:52:45,400
Speaker 12: He violated what a coach is supposed to do.

1010
00:52:45,480 --> 00:52:47,080
Speaker 13: The main thing what a coach is supposed to do

1011
00:52:47,520 --> 00:52:51,920
Speaker 13: put your players in a position to win. First one,

1012
00:52:52,120 --> 00:52:53,839
Speaker 13: you didn't give your team a chance to get some

1013
00:52:53,880 --> 00:52:57,520
Speaker 13: more points. And the second one, which was completely egregious.

1014
00:52:57,880 --> 00:52:59,440
Speaker 13: You didn't need to let them get a chance to

1015
00:52:59,520 --> 00:53:02,080
Speaker 13: catch up and tie the game. You put them at

1016
00:53:02,120 --> 00:53:05,759
Speaker 13: a disadvantage to win, but you did not do your

1017
00:53:05,880 --> 00:53:06,759
Speaker 13: job and put them in.

1018
00:53:06,680 --> 00:53:10,839
Speaker 12: A position to win. And finally about Dan Campbell, there's

1019
00:53:10,840 --> 00:53:13,400
Speaker 12: a little rough. I know the dealer, I mean I

1020
00:53:13,480 --> 00:53:17,399
Speaker 12: know his feelings. Hey, no goods, no glory, no Dan,

1021
00:53:18,000 --> 00:53:19,720
Speaker 12: no brains, no glory.

1022
00:53:20,120 --> 00:53:23,279
Speaker 14: You have to think, thank you. You have to see

1023
00:53:23,280 --> 00:53:26,920
Speaker 14: a thinking coach. You just can't be an emotional coach

1024
00:53:27,040 --> 00:53:30,040
Speaker 14: and that type of game in that situation, and he

1025
00:53:30,160 --> 00:53:30,480
Speaker 14: let his.

1026
00:53:30,480 --> 00:53:31,759
Speaker 12: Emotions get the best of them.

1027
00:53:31,880 --> 00:53:35,000
Speaker 2: Stand alone, Solomon, because there's a lot to unpacked there.

1028
00:53:35,520 --> 00:53:37,120
Speaker 2: And one of the questions have been on the phone

1029
00:53:37,120 --> 00:53:40,359
Speaker 2: with my guys Detroit all week and is it you know,

1030
00:53:40,520 --> 00:53:44,560
Speaker 2: is it risk or is it ego? By the way,

1031
00:53:45,160 --> 00:53:48,000
Speaker 2: great pull on George Allen, the legend never had a

1032
00:53:48,000 --> 00:53:50,319
Speaker 2: losing season once, even his final year at Long Beach

1033
00:53:50,320 --> 00:53:53,520
Speaker 2: State before he passed away and they canceled the program.

1034
00:53:53,800 --> 00:53:56,879
Speaker 2: George Allen was winner. Excellent call, Solomon appreciated man. Thanks,

1035
00:53:58,080 --> 00:54:01,120
Speaker 2: don't be a stranger, Poppy, and diego you're up next.

1036
00:54:01,160 --> 00:54:02,280
Speaker 2: What have we got tonight? Poppy?

1037
00:54:02,960 --> 00:54:04,480
Speaker 6: Hey, Bernie, you're good.

1038
00:54:04,520 --> 00:54:06,400
Speaker 2: How are you doing good, buddy?

1039
00:54:06,520 --> 00:54:06,680
Speaker 3: Yo?

1040
00:54:06,800 --> 00:54:09,320
Speaker 15: Well, you know Dan Campbell if you guys saw the game,

1041
00:54:09,680 --> 00:54:13,080
Speaker 15: So he's been playing very aggressive. Remember and the when

1042
00:54:13,120 --> 00:54:15,279
Speaker 15: the Ham's gonna end and he went for the field goal.

1043
00:54:15,600 --> 00:54:17,680
Speaker 15: Then it was I believe fourth and something, and then

1044
00:54:17,719 --> 00:54:19,200
Speaker 15: he decided to go for the pickle. He should have

1045
00:54:19,239 --> 00:54:21,440
Speaker 15: just gone for the touchdown because the lines were giving

1046
00:54:21,440 --> 00:54:23,360
Speaker 15: all their wills and then they would.

1047
00:54:23,200 --> 00:54:23,799
Speaker 6: Have been up.

1048
00:54:24,200 --> 00:54:27,400
Speaker 15: I believe I set up twenty four, they would have

1049
00:54:27,440 --> 00:54:29,040
Speaker 15: done touchdown. They would have been twenty eight.

1050
00:54:29,120 --> 00:54:29,319
Speaker 3: Right.

1051
00:54:30,160 --> 00:54:33,960
Speaker 2: Remember remember remember Poppy, they were on the three year line.

1052
00:54:34,000 --> 00:54:36,200
Speaker 2: It was fourth down and the Niners were about to

1053
00:54:36,239 --> 00:54:38,040
Speaker 2: get the ball to start the second half. That put

1054
00:54:38,120 --> 00:54:41,720
Speaker 2: him up our three scores. Yeah, so I go ahead.

1055
00:54:42,320 --> 00:54:42,759
Speaker 6: Yeah yeah.

1056
00:54:42,760 --> 00:54:44,800
Speaker 15: But what I'm saying here the conspiracy there is is

1057
00:54:44,880 --> 00:54:46,520
Speaker 15: my mind. In my mind, he should have gone for

1058
00:54:46,560 --> 00:54:49,239
Speaker 15: the touchown. You're playing all aggressive. I was upset. I

1059
00:54:49,320 --> 00:54:50,839
Speaker 15: was like, wait, why are you going for the field

1060
00:54:50,840 --> 00:54:51,239
Speaker 15: goal right now?

1061
00:54:51,239 --> 00:54:52,520
Speaker 6: If you're going to aggressive all year?

1062
00:54:52,640 --> 00:54:52,799
Speaker 16: Luck?

1063
00:54:53,120 --> 00:54:55,719
Speaker 15: Why I know it's no analytics or nothing. I think

1064
00:54:55,719 --> 00:54:57,879
Speaker 15: he should have just gone for the touchdown. Even though

1065
00:54:57,920 --> 00:54:59,680
Speaker 15: the players on the Sunland they were happy. They were

1066
00:54:59,719 --> 00:55:03,040
Speaker 15: saying bye bye, bye bye to the soul.

1067
00:55:03,080 --> 00:55:04,200
Speaker 2: That turned out to be a mistake.

1068
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Speaker 6: It c J.

1069
00:55:06,160 --> 00:55:07,640
Speaker 2: Gardner Johnson wave into the crowd.

1070
00:55:07,680 --> 00:55:10,279
Speaker 15: I saw that, yeah, right, and it haunt them And

1071
00:55:10,800 --> 00:55:12,800
Speaker 15: I think you should would have gone for a pasand

1072
00:55:12,840 --> 00:55:13,960
Speaker 15: I think the Lions would have won.

1073
00:55:14,000 --> 00:55:15,400
Speaker 6: Bernie, what do you think on that?

1074
00:55:15,400 --> 00:55:16,000
Speaker 3: That's my take.

1075
00:55:16,120 --> 00:55:20,279
Speaker 2: Appreciate your call, as always, Poppy, every Friday night. We're

1076
00:55:20,280 --> 00:55:23,440
Speaker 2: never going to know. It's a hypothetical, and the world's

1077
00:55:23,440 --> 00:55:26,879
Speaker 2: a vexing enough places without hypotheticals. I can tell you

1078
00:55:27,120 --> 00:55:30,440
Speaker 2: that it will go down as a terrible coaching decision.

1079
00:55:31,560 --> 00:55:33,600
Speaker 2: It's so hard to get to this point. The Lions

1080
00:55:33,600 --> 00:55:35,680
Speaker 2: had the twenty four to seven lead in the first half,

1081
00:55:36,000 --> 00:55:38,480
Speaker 2: and they took advantage of Niners missfield goals and even

1082
00:55:38,520 --> 00:55:41,880
Speaker 2: got an interception, and even before halftime, Detroit had the

1083
00:55:41,920 --> 00:55:44,120
Speaker 2: balt the nine ers three yard line, which you just

1084
00:55:44,120 --> 00:55:47,200
Speaker 2: pointed out. Poppy Campbell decided to kick a field goal

1085
00:55:47,239 --> 00:55:49,600
Speaker 2: that increased the lead to seventeen points rather than go

1086
00:55:49,640 --> 00:55:52,120
Speaker 2: for a touchdown on fourth and goal. That appeared to

1087
00:55:52,120 --> 00:55:54,760
Speaker 2: be a wise decision, but then Campbell made a different

1088
00:55:54,760 --> 00:55:57,719
Speaker 2: decision in the third quarter. San Franz had kicked a

1089
00:55:57,760 --> 00:56:00,520
Speaker 2: field goal and their opening possession of the second half,

1090
00:56:00,719 --> 00:56:02,920
Speaker 2: which is a win for the Lions defense that made

1091
00:56:02,920 --> 00:56:05,440
Speaker 2: it twenty four to ten. Lions get the ball back,

1092
00:56:05,560 --> 00:56:08,400
Speaker 2: drive down to the Niners territory. Now we're all away

1093
00:56:08,440 --> 00:56:11,160
Speaker 2: midway through the third quarter, fourth and two on the

1094
00:56:11,160 --> 00:56:14,080
Speaker 2: San fran twenty eight. But rather than attempt a forty

1095
00:56:14,080 --> 00:56:18,400
Speaker 2: five yardfield goal to get to lead back to seventeen points,

1096
00:56:18,760 --> 00:56:22,799
Speaker 2: well you saw what happened. Campbell opted to go for it.

1097
00:56:23,239 --> 00:56:25,600
Speaker 2: Golf got pressured through the pass that Josh Reynolds. He

1098
00:56:25,680 --> 00:56:27,800
Speaker 2: dropped the pass that would have been a first down,

1099
00:56:28,200 --> 00:56:30,440
Speaker 2: that gave the ball to the forty nine ers. They

1100
00:56:30,480 --> 00:56:33,080
Speaker 2: get right down to the five yard line, Blah blah

1101
00:56:33,080 --> 00:56:36,200
Speaker 2: blah Liner score. And then right after they get the

1102
00:56:36,200 --> 00:56:38,080
Speaker 2: ball back to the Lions fumbled by Jamier Games and

1103
00:56:38,120 --> 00:56:40,480
Speaker 2: you could feel it slipping away. Go back out to

1104
00:56:40,520 --> 00:56:44,440
Speaker 2: the phone, Lions, Jerome from Charleston, South Carolina, what say

1105
00:56:44,480 --> 00:56:48,000
Speaker 2: you tonight on this Lions discussion, Bernie, have some.

1106
00:56:48,320 --> 00:56:51,000
Speaker 17: I have some pertinent information I need to share with

1107
00:56:51,080 --> 00:56:53,880
Speaker 17: you right away. I found out I was doing some

1108
00:56:53,920 --> 00:56:56,920
Speaker 17: research or to share a Super Bowl in the officials

1109
00:56:56,960 --> 00:56:59,680
Speaker 17: that are gonna be officiating the game. And I found

1110
00:56:59,680 --> 00:57:03,080
Speaker 17: out one of the officials that's assigned to the Gifts

1111
00:57:03,360 --> 00:57:06,080
Speaker 17: used to play for the forty nine ers. You played

1112
00:57:06,080 --> 00:57:07,840
Speaker 17: in the NFL for several years.

1113
00:57:08,160 --> 00:57:09,040
Speaker 13: Do you know about that?

1114
00:57:09,239 --> 00:57:11,560
Speaker 2: Yes? I did. I got my buddy, Joe Gibbs, the

1115
00:57:11,680 --> 00:57:14,839
Speaker 2: NFL stats guy, rough stands. Yeah, Well, you know, we'll see,

1116
00:57:14,960 --> 00:57:17,920
Speaker 2: we'll see how that that pans out. Go ahead.

1117
00:57:19,000 --> 00:57:22,760
Speaker 18: Oh and also I think moms needs to read racer's

1118
00:57:22,880 --> 00:57:25,880
Speaker 18: level of play. So all right, appreciate it pretty well.

1119
00:57:26,560 --> 00:57:29,360
Speaker 18: All right, buddy, appreciate your call. We'll dive into the

1120
00:57:29,360 --> 00:57:30,400
Speaker 18: Super Bowl a lot next week.

1121
00:57:30,400 --> 00:57:34,120
Speaker 2: We're going to also get into this Taylor Swift and

1122
00:57:34,720 --> 00:57:37,280
Speaker 2: Travis Kelsey situation. I don't know why the hell people

1123
00:57:37,320 --> 00:57:40,880
Speaker 2: are swepping arms. I do have good news later the show.

1124
00:57:40,920 --> 00:57:43,440
Speaker 2: Turns out Taylor's flight schedule is going to allow her

1125
00:57:43,480 --> 00:57:46,600
Speaker 2: to land in Las Vegas about dinner time on Saturday night,

1126
00:57:46,640 --> 00:57:48,000
Speaker 2: so she's going to be at the game. That might

1127
00:57:48,000 --> 00:57:50,480
Speaker 2: piss some of you off and make some of you happy.

1128
00:57:51,000 --> 00:57:53,160
Speaker 2: The chef, Kevin Wyrett, you've been listening, I'm sure to

1129
00:57:53,200 --> 00:57:55,000
Speaker 2: these calls. What are your thoughts on what happened to

1130
00:57:55,040 --> 00:57:55,800
Speaker 2: the Lion Sunday.

1131
00:57:56,280 --> 00:58:01,040
Speaker 8: Yeah, I think Dan Campbell was largely responsible. I'm getting

1132
00:58:01,120 --> 00:58:03,360
Speaker 8: kind of Nick Sirianni vibes in the sense that he

1133
00:58:03,680 --> 00:58:06,240
Speaker 8: wears his emotions on his sleeve a little too much,

1134
00:58:06,280 --> 00:58:09,080
Speaker 8: which when you're winning works out well, but when you're

1135
00:58:09,120 --> 00:58:10,640
Speaker 8: losing can kind of drag you down.

1136
00:58:10,680 --> 00:58:11,480
Speaker 2: And I kind of was.

1137
00:58:11,520 --> 00:58:14,400
Speaker 8: Kind of put off guard afterwards when he said, oh,

1138
00:58:14,440 --> 00:58:16,760
Speaker 8: this is probably our best chance to win it, Like, yeah,

1139
00:58:16,760 --> 00:58:19,680
Speaker 8: that's a great thing to tell your team after a loss.

1140
00:58:21,120 --> 00:58:23,600
Speaker 8: I mean, I know the Lions, They've got a good

1141
00:58:23,640 --> 00:58:27,320
Speaker 8: team going forward, So I don't know why he had

1142
00:58:27,320 --> 00:58:29,600
Speaker 8: that attitude afterwards, but I don't know also know why

1143
00:58:29,640 --> 00:58:32,560
Speaker 8: that he decided not to go aggressive in that game

1144
00:58:32,600 --> 00:58:36,000
Speaker 8: when normally he's done so well at it, especially in

1145
00:58:36,040 --> 00:58:38,080
Speaker 8: the playoffs, and that's not a time to be timid.

1146
00:58:38,560 --> 00:58:40,760
Speaker 8: The playoffs, you got to play to win as opposed

1147
00:58:40,800 --> 00:58:43,920
Speaker 8: to playing not to lose, which is more suited for

1148
00:58:44,000 --> 00:58:47,480
Speaker 8: the regular season. So yeah, I do think Dan Campbell

1149
00:58:48,920 --> 00:58:51,920
Speaker 8: was largely responsible for that loss, and I think he

1150
00:58:51,960 --> 00:58:54,280
Speaker 8: does need to temper his emotions just a little bit

1151
00:58:54,320 --> 00:58:56,040
Speaker 8: to kind of keep that team maybe a little more

1152
00:58:56,160 --> 00:58:59,000
Speaker 8: level going forward. But I do think they have good

1153
00:58:59,000 --> 00:59:02,600
Speaker 8: potential down the line. In the future seasons, we'll see

1154
00:59:02,640 --> 00:59:03,040
Speaker 8: what happened.

1155
00:59:03,040 --> 00:59:04,800
Speaker 2: I have a first play schedule next year. You have

1156
00:59:04,880 --> 00:59:07,200
Speaker 2: to see it. It's going to be fairly brutal. So

1157
00:59:07,360 --> 00:59:10,560
Speaker 2: hard to get to the NFC Championship game. The stars

1158
00:59:10,600 --> 00:59:13,360
Speaker 2: really lined up. The Lions had not one but two

1159
00:59:13,440 --> 00:59:18,160
Speaker 2: home games, But we shall see. Shay, what are your

1160
00:59:18,200 --> 00:59:20,840
Speaker 2: thoughts on the Lion situation Sunday night and when it

1161
00:59:20,880 --> 00:59:23,520
Speaker 2: was happening, do you remember how you might have reacted?

1162
00:59:24,760 --> 00:59:28,080
Speaker 19: Yeah, I mean, to be honest, when it was happening,

1163
00:59:28,120 --> 00:59:30,360
Speaker 19: I didn't think he was mismanaging it at all. Like

1164
00:59:30,480 --> 00:59:32,720
Speaker 19: I think he was kind of assuming that they would

1165
00:59:32,720 --> 00:59:34,880
Speaker 19: get the touchdown. I mean, the forty nine ers have

1166
00:59:34,920 --> 00:59:37,840
Speaker 19: had one of the highest octane offenses that we've seen

1167
00:59:37,920 --> 00:59:40,000
Speaker 19: in the NFL, not even just this here, but in

1168
00:59:40,040 --> 00:59:43,120
Speaker 19: the NFL. So it's like, I think he was just

1169
00:59:43,160 --> 00:59:44,880
Speaker 19: playing the way he's always played. I mean, if he

1170
00:59:44,960 --> 00:59:47,680
Speaker 19: didn't threaten the fourth round plays at any time, or

1171
00:59:47,720 --> 00:59:50,840
Speaker 19: like try the flea flick er plays like over and

1172
00:59:50,880 --> 00:59:53,600
Speaker 19: over again, like it would have just been a lot

1173
00:59:53,600 --> 00:59:56,080
Speaker 19: easier to anticipate and defend, and I think they wouldn't

1174
00:59:56,080 --> 00:59:58,680
Speaker 19: even gotten that many touchdowns or they would have even

1175
00:59:58,720 --> 01:00:00,880
Speaker 19: been in that situation to begin with. So I mean,

1176
01:00:01,160 --> 01:00:03,280
Speaker 19: I think his style of play is the only reason

1177
01:00:03,320 --> 01:00:05,000
Speaker 19: that got there. And I mean, remember this is a

1178
01:00:05,040 --> 01:00:07,680
Speaker 19: team that's not far from own sixteen seasons, so.

1179
01:00:08,560 --> 01:00:12,160
Speaker 2: Well, you're not wrong. I mean they look just a

1180
01:00:12,160 --> 01:00:15,600
Speaker 2: week before against Tampa Bay, everybody forgot about the risks

1181
01:00:15,600 --> 01:00:19,040
Speaker 2: he took that day and they panned out, And look,

1182
01:00:20,040 --> 01:00:24,080
Speaker 2: I realize that this is who Dan Campbell is. He

1183
01:00:24,160 --> 01:00:28,400
Speaker 2: is emotional, He's going to err on the side of incaution,

1184
01:00:28,560 --> 01:00:33,320
Speaker 2: He's not going to be cautious, and a lot you know,

1185
01:00:33,400 --> 01:00:37,560
Speaker 2: at some point this whole conversation falls on, is that

1186
01:00:37,640 --> 01:00:39,640
Speaker 2: the decision you don't like or was it the execution

1187
01:00:40,000 --> 01:00:43,800
Speaker 2: because had pass has not been dropped and fumbles not happened,

1188
01:00:44,040 --> 01:00:46,000
Speaker 2: it all kind of to meld together and it was

1189
01:00:46,160 --> 01:00:49,280
Speaker 2: unreal and it turned into just it turned into the

1190
01:00:49,360 --> 01:00:52,000
Speaker 2: kind of experience that only Lions fans who suffered with

1191
01:00:52,040 --> 01:00:54,640
Speaker 2: this team, many folks all the way back fifty years,

1192
01:00:55,520 --> 01:00:58,360
Speaker 2: can relate to more so than any other city. Literally

1193
01:00:58,400 --> 01:01:03,200
Speaker 2: at least Buffalo has been to four Super Bowls. Mark Ramsey,

1194
01:01:03,240 --> 01:01:05,280
Speaker 2: did you have thoughts on this, like.

1195
01:01:05,200 --> 01:01:09,880
Speaker 20: You were saying. Playing armchair quarterback, I thought the basic

1196
01:01:09,960 --> 01:01:14,000
Speaker 20: idea is to score as many times as you can

1197
01:01:14,160 --> 01:01:17,120
Speaker 20: to get to a super Bowl, or for any game.

1198
01:01:17,840 --> 01:01:22,360
Speaker 20: And if the various series in the game, if the

1199
01:01:22,400 --> 01:01:25,680
Speaker 20: coach didn't, you know, do his best to you know,

1200
01:01:26,720 --> 01:01:29,760
Speaker 20: if you could try to score a touchdown, do a touchdown.

1201
01:01:29,800 --> 01:01:32,720
Speaker 20: But if it's only a field goal, just put points

1202
01:01:32,800 --> 01:01:35,440
Speaker 20: on the board because if anything, you just want to

1203
01:01:35,480 --> 01:01:37,360
Speaker 20: build the number because you don't know what the other

1204
01:01:37,400 --> 01:01:40,480
Speaker 20: team is capable of at any given time. So just

1205
01:01:40,640 --> 01:01:43,360
Speaker 20: put points on the board and just make sure you

1206
01:01:43,400 --> 01:01:45,360
Speaker 20: have more than they have at the end of the game.

1207
01:01:45,520 --> 01:01:48,720
Speaker 2: Just do your best to score fair enough. And I

1208
01:01:48,760 --> 01:01:52,520
Speaker 2: think just in generalities, the attempted field goal would have

1209
01:01:52,520 --> 01:01:57,240
Speaker 2: been a higher percentage than going forward. So again, hindsight's

1210
01:01:57,240 --> 01:01:59,280
Speaker 2: always twenty twenty. We'll keep the phone lines open for

1211
01:01:59,320 --> 01:02:01,200
Speaker 2: the remainder of the men night Our eight seven seven

1212
01:02:01,760 --> 01:02:03,840
Speaker 2: ninety nine one Fox. But I want to switch gears

1213
01:02:04,480 --> 01:02:09,200
Speaker 2: as well. It's time to give Brock Purdy his flowers. Okay,

1214
01:02:09,680 --> 01:02:12,840
Speaker 2: I don't know why people haven't before. He's been typecast.

1215
01:02:13,240 --> 01:02:15,480
Speaker 2: You can typecast him all you want, but when it

1216
01:02:15,560 --> 01:02:18,920
Speaker 2: mattered most in the situation demanded greatness. Has he done it.

1217
01:02:19,040 --> 01:02:22,240
Speaker 2: He's done it twice when it mattered most in the playoffs.

1218
01:02:22,320 --> 01:02:24,800
Speaker 2: We'll talk about it coming up, but first let's go

1219
01:02:24,840 --> 01:02:26,600
Speaker 2: back to our guy, to the chef, Kevin Wyatt with the.

1220
01:02:26,600 --> 01:02:29,720
Speaker 8: Latest Yeah, big knight in the NBA and a big

1221
01:02:29,840 --> 01:02:33,280
Speaker 8: night for Nikola Jokic's twenty seven points, twenty two rebounds,

1222
01:02:33,320 --> 01:02:36,200
Speaker 8: twelve assists yet another triple double as the Nuggets beat

1223
01:02:36,200 --> 01:02:39,800
Speaker 8: the Trailblazers one twenty one oh way Denver now twenty

1224
01:02:39,840 --> 01:02:44,480
Speaker 8: and four on their home Corp Pelicans over the Spurs

1225
01:02:44,480 --> 01:02:48,280
Speaker 8: one fourteen, one thirteen. Zion Williamson had thirty three points

1226
01:02:48,320 --> 01:02:50,800
Speaker 8: as he helps propel New Orleans two the win with

1227
01:02:50,880 --> 01:02:53,720
Speaker 8: Victor Wim and Yama gave a good performance himself. The

1228
01:02:53,800 --> 01:02:58,240
Speaker 8: rookie was sixteen points, fourteen rebounds and seven assists under

1229
01:02:58,360 --> 01:03:01,720
Speaker 8: top the Hornets one twenty six one oh six Magic

1230
01:03:01,800 --> 01:03:04,720
Speaker 8: upset the Timberwolves one oha two one oh six, the

1231
01:03:04,760 --> 01:03:08,440
Speaker 8: Warriors one twenty one, one oh one winners against the

1232
01:03:08,520 --> 01:03:11,959
Speaker 8: Memphis Grizzlies, the Rockets blast the Raptors won thirty five two,

1233
01:03:12,160 --> 01:03:15,600
Speaker 8: one oh five one oh six. Excuse me, Kings and

1234
01:03:15,680 --> 01:03:18,040
Speaker 8: Pacers at Sacramento, where they won thirty three one to

1235
01:03:18,080 --> 01:03:21,040
Speaker 8: twenty two win as Devonte Sebonis had twenty six points,

1236
01:03:21,080 --> 01:03:24,800
Speaker 8: eleven rebounds and at seven assists. Hawks upset the Suns

1237
01:03:24,800 --> 01:03:27,240
Speaker 8: one twenty nine one to twenty in spite of thirty

1238
01:03:27,240 --> 01:03:30,640
Speaker 8: five points, eight rebounds eight assists from Kevin Durant heat over.

1239
01:03:30,640 --> 01:03:33,080
Speaker 8: The Wizards won ten one oh two, Clippers pound the

1240
01:03:33,120 --> 01:03:37,680
Speaker 8: Pistons won thirty six two one twenty five. Kawhi had

1241
01:03:37,720 --> 01:03:42,440
Speaker 8: thirty three points for Los Angeles. Coll It hoops only

1242
01:03:42,440 --> 01:03:45,080
Speaker 8: a couple of ranked teams in action. Number twenty one

1243
01:03:45,160 --> 01:03:48,080
Speaker 8: Dayton gets by Saint Bonaventure seventy six to seventy one,

1244
01:03:48,440 --> 01:03:52,680
Speaker 8: but number thirteen Creighton upset Butler takes him down in

1245
01:03:52,760 --> 01:03:57,439
Speaker 8: Omaha ninety nine to two ninety eight. Back to you, Bernie, all.

1246
01:03:57,400 --> 01:04:01,520
Speaker 2: Right, thanks Kevin. So the brock Per discussion is the

1247
01:04:01,560 --> 01:04:04,560
Speaker 2: next hot topic, and it has been most of the year.

1248
01:04:06,320 --> 01:04:09,840
Speaker 2: He's been typecast as the quote prototypical game manager. And

1249
01:04:09,880 --> 01:04:12,360
Speaker 2: you heard me say this months ago, and I repeated

1250
01:04:12,400 --> 01:04:14,960
Speaker 2: it over and over and over again. You know who

1251
01:04:15,080 --> 01:04:17,800
Speaker 2: was a good game manager, Joe Montana. You know who else?

1252
01:04:18,000 --> 01:04:22,000
Speaker 2: Guy named Tom Brady. Every NFL quarterback who has had

1253
01:04:22,040 --> 01:04:27,080
Speaker 2: success is a game manager, But the label is basically

1254
01:04:27,080 --> 01:04:31,040
Speaker 2: a pejorative when you're discussing quarterback discourse in the National

1255
01:04:31,040 --> 01:04:33,439
Speaker 2: Football League. But you have to manage the offense within

1256
01:04:33,480 --> 01:04:38,440
Speaker 2: the framework of a meticulous offense that's constructed by very

1257
01:04:38,480 --> 01:04:43,360
Speaker 2: bright people in the National Football League. And Brock Purdy,

1258
01:04:43,560 --> 01:04:46,080
Speaker 2: because of his recognition, because of his ability to process

1259
01:04:46,120 --> 01:04:50,480
Speaker 2: so quickly, does it as well as anybody I've seen. Now,

1260
01:04:50,480 --> 01:04:52,440
Speaker 2: I get it. He can't throw a football through a

1261
01:04:52,480 --> 01:04:55,439
Speaker 2: brick wall, nor does he need to. And he may

1262
01:04:55,440 --> 01:04:58,120
Speaker 2: not win the Olympics in the one hundred meters, but

1263
01:04:58,240 --> 01:05:00,480
Speaker 2: seems like all the quarterbacks who can when the Olympics

1264
01:05:00,520 --> 01:05:02,120
Speaker 2: one hundred hundred meters never seem to get in the

1265
01:05:02,160 --> 01:05:05,760
Speaker 2: Super Bowl, do they. So if you're telling me that's important,

1266
01:05:06,400 --> 01:05:09,280
Speaker 2: I will tell you that what's more important is when

1267
01:05:09,280 --> 01:05:13,160
Speaker 2: you are involved in a situation and you make plays, repeatedly,

1268
01:05:13,200 --> 01:05:15,680
Speaker 2: make plays at the critical part of the game to

1269
01:05:15,760 --> 01:05:19,240
Speaker 2: help your team win games. I don't care if you

1270
01:05:19,280 --> 01:05:23,000
Speaker 2: call me a game manager, a system quarterback, or a

1271
01:05:23,040 --> 01:05:26,880
Speaker 2: ham and cheese sandwich. The Niners are in the Super Bowl,

1272
01:05:27,240 --> 01:05:29,240
Speaker 2: and many of the other star quarterbacks are not. And

1273
01:05:29,240 --> 01:05:31,760
Speaker 2: if you don't want to give brock Purty his due,

1274
01:05:32,240 --> 01:05:35,840
Speaker 2: that's on you. This came to a head Monday. I

1275
01:05:35,960 --> 01:05:39,480
Speaker 2: was like banging my head against the wall. You know,

1276
01:05:39,600 --> 01:05:43,960
Speaker 2: the man crush that Shannon Sharp has on Rock Purdy

1277
01:05:44,120 --> 01:05:48,200
Speaker 2: is getting bothersome hashtag sarcasm. He can't wait to throw

1278
01:05:48,280 --> 01:05:50,480
Speaker 2: him under the bus. I don't know what the hell's

1279
01:05:50,520 --> 01:05:54,320
Speaker 2: going on there. There's some agenda that's very uncomfortable to me.

1280
01:05:55,000 --> 01:05:57,640
Speaker 2: Dani Rolowski former Lions quarterback, and I cover that to

1281
01:05:57,720 --> 01:06:01,440
Speaker 2: sixteen team. Dan Orolowski was started some games a year.

1282
01:06:01,480 --> 01:06:02,840
Speaker 2: He ran out of the end zone. You know all that.

1283
01:06:02,880 --> 01:06:04,440
Speaker 2: But Dan played in the NFL. There was the thing

1284
01:06:04,520 --> 01:06:07,640
Speaker 2: or two about the position trying to explain to Shannon Sharp,

1285
01:06:07,640 --> 01:06:09,600
Speaker 2: and all Shannon Sharp was saying was, well, what are

1286
01:06:09,600 --> 01:06:11,960
Speaker 2: you going to say if he has a bad game

1287
01:06:11,960 --> 01:06:15,920
Speaker 2: in the Super Bowl? See what are you gonna say? Then? Okay, Shannon,

1288
01:06:16,160 --> 01:06:19,680
Speaker 2: the world is a vexing enough place without engaging in

1289
01:06:20,200 --> 01:06:24,440
Speaker 2: mindless hypotheticals. Why create problems that don't exist yet and

1290
01:06:24,520 --> 01:06:27,640
Speaker 2: try to solve them? Why? Well, because you don't like

1291
01:06:27,680 --> 01:06:30,520
Speaker 2: Brock Purdy, don't act like you do. I don't know

1292
01:06:30,560 --> 01:06:33,000
Speaker 2: what the guy has to do. You can call him

1293
01:06:33,040 --> 01:06:36,240
Speaker 2: a game manager, you can call him Billy Bardy. But

1294
01:06:36,400 --> 01:06:40,160
Speaker 2: Sunday the forty nine ers needed something more. The season

1295
01:06:40,200 --> 01:06:43,200
Speaker 2: was on the line. The bottom line is their hopes

1296
01:06:43,240 --> 01:06:45,880
Speaker 2: to get into the Super Bowl were slipping away. The

1297
01:06:46,000 --> 01:06:50,160
Speaker 2: Niners needed brock Purdy to become what they needed him

1298
01:06:50,200 --> 01:06:53,760
Speaker 2: to be, and that's a playmaker, a difference maker. What

1299
01:06:53,840 --> 01:06:57,840
Speaker 2: did rock Purdy do in the second half thirteen sixteen

1300
01:06:57,880 --> 01:06:59,920
Speaker 2: for one hundred and seventy four yards at a touchdown,

1301
01:07:00,320 --> 01:07:03,400
Speaker 2: no interceptions. Hope, By the way, he ran for forty

1302
01:07:03,480 --> 01:07:06,840
Speaker 2: nine yards in the second half. That's the best evidence

1303
01:07:07,080 --> 01:07:10,800
Speaker 2: he's not merely you know a guy who sits in

1304
01:07:10,800 --> 01:07:12,160
Speaker 2: the back of the bus while the rest of the

1305
01:07:12,160 --> 01:07:14,840
Speaker 2: team plays football. He was driving the bus. Rushed for

1306
01:07:14,920 --> 01:07:17,000
Speaker 2: fifty two yards that day, Hope. By the way, not

1307
01:07:17,080 --> 01:07:21,080
Speaker 2: for nothing. Lamar Jackson rushed for fifty four yards. Talk

1308
01:07:21,120 --> 01:07:25,480
Speaker 2: amongst yourselves, think whatever you want. Ask what happened in

1309
01:07:25,560 --> 01:07:29,720
Speaker 2: that locker room after the game. Ask Kyle Shanahan to

1310
01:07:29,840 --> 01:07:34,080
Speaker 2: a man, they almost said. The plays brock Purty made

1311
01:07:34,240 --> 01:07:36,000
Speaker 2: not just with his arm, but with his feet is

1312
01:07:36,040 --> 01:07:39,720
Speaker 2: scrambling and his legs were the difference between winning and

1313
01:07:39,720 --> 01:07:43,200
Speaker 2: losing facts, getting out of the pocket, moving the chains

1314
01:07:43,240 --> 01:07:48,520
Speaker 2: on first downs actually fairly explosive plays. He was running

1315
01:07:48,560 --> 01:07:50,880
Speaker 2: away from Brian Branch. How does that happen if he

1316
01:07:50,920 --> 01:07:54,480
Speaker 2: set a stew bum? He competed his ass off Sunday.

1317
01:07:54,960 --> 01:07:57,240
Speaker 2: That game was not easy for the forty nine Ers.

1318
01:07:58,080 --> 01:08:02,680
Speaker 2: Brock Purty kept grind. He was unbelievable in the second half.

1319
01:08:03,000 --> 01:08:06,240
Speaker 2: In the divisional round, Purdy had some struggles, but he

1320
01:08:06,320 --> 01:08:09,120
Speaker 2: came up clutch late on the final drive when it

1321
01:08:09,200 --> 01:08:12,880
Speaker 2: managed most, moving the Niners down the field for the

1322
01:08:12,880 --> 01:08:18,000
Speaker 2: game winning score. Then he won uped himself last Sunday

1323
01:08:18,040 --> 01:08:21,360
Speaker 2: in the NFC Championship game when the Niners were seventeen

1324
01:08:21,400 --> 01:08:26,839
Speaker 2: points down five consecutive drives turning on twenty seven points

1325
01:08:27,040 --> 01:08:29,800
Speaker 2: that completely turned the tables and flip the script on

1326
01:08:29,840 --> 01:08:33,479
Speaker 2: the Lions. Brock Purdy is a leader. You can think

1327
01:08:33,520 --> 01:08:35,799
Speaker 2: whatever you want. You can root for him to fail.

1328
01:08:36,200 --> 01:08:40,120
Speaker 2: I get that athletically, if you really want to do this, fine,

1329
01:08:40,560 --> 01:08:43,000
Speaker 2: He's not on the level of mar Jackson, who is

1330
01:08:43,080 --> 01:08:46,040
Speaker 2: the MVP, or even at Josh Allen, or even at

1331
01:08:46,080 --> 01:08:51,679
Speaker 2: Joe Burrow or Justin Herbert. Fine, But to treat Brock

1332
01:08:51,760 --> 01:08:55,599
Speaker 2: Purdy as if he's some third rate stubum, fourth class citizen.

1333
01:08:56,080 --> 01:08:59,880
Speaker 2: Don't tell that to the forty nine ers. Christian McCaffrey said,

1334
01:09:00,080 --> 01:09:02,200
Speaker 2: I don't have enough good things to say about Brock

1335
01:09:02,240 --> 01:09:05,479
Speaker 2: perty All he has done since he has been in

1336
01:09:05,520 --> 01:09:08,080
Speaker 2: San Francisco is play at an elite level. And if

1337
01:09:08,120 --> 01:09:12,240
Speaker 2: you understand what the position of quarterback requires in the

1338
01:09:12,320 --> 01:09:15,960
Speaker 2: National Football League, then using the word elite as an

1339
01:09:16,000 --> 01:09:21,160
Speaker 2: adjective is appropriate. Everything starts with your quarterback. You play

1340
01:09:21,200 --> 01:09:25,479
Speaker 2: the position with your eyes, You receive the ball, you

1341
01:09:25,520 --> 01:09:28,840
Speaker 2: make mental snapshots, comparing your pre snap reed to your

1342
01:09:28,880 --> 01:09:31,400
Speaker 2: post snap reed, and then you have to execute in

1343
01:09:31,479 --> 01:09:33,920
Speaker 2: less than two seconds and get the damn ball out

1344
01:09:33,920 --> 01:09:41,880
Speaker 2: of your hands. Listen, it's all about processing coverages, reading recognitions,

1345
01:09:42,640 --> 01:09:45,600
Speaker 2: and again, you have less than two seconds to execute.

1346
01:09:45,760 --> 01:09:48,720
Speaker 2: I don't care how fast you run, high you jump,

1347
01:09:48,840 --> 01:09:50,880
Speaker 2: or if you can throw a ball further than Uncle Rico.

1348
01:09:51,640 --> 01:09:53,880
Speaker 2: You can't hold the damn ball. You've got to get

1349
01:09:53,880 --> 01:09:57,280
Speaker 2: it out of your hand. To do that, that requires recognition.

1350
01:09:58,280 --> 01:10:01,439
Speaker 2: Not only that, he has proven he's a great leader,

1351
01:10:02,160 --> 01:10:04,280
Speaker 2: and he took a lot of heat for no reason,

1352
01:10:04,720 --> 01:10:06,800
Speaker 2: and I get it. You're out there saying, well, he

1353
01:10:06,800 --> 01:10:09,679
Speaker 2: doesn't have a big arm. Well, everybody has a base

1354
01:10:09,800 --> 01:10:12,040
Speaker 2: level of talent to be in the National Football League.

1355
01:10:12,640 --> 01:10:14,360
Speaker 2: You can't throw a ball through a brick wall. He

1356
01:10:14,400 --> 01:10:16,680
Speaker 2: can't throw it ninety six yards like Jeff George did

1357
01:10:16,680 --> 01:10:19,840
Speaker 2: in the combine back forty years ago. How'd that work out?

1358
01:10:20,520 --> 01:10:23,160
Speaker 2: He doesn't have the blazing athleticism. It might not be

1359
01:10:23,160 --> 01:10:25,080
Speaker 2: a highlight reel, although if you looked at some of

1360
01:10:25,080 --> 01:10:29,879
Speaker 2: those runs last Saturday, tell me those weren't explosive plays.

1361
01:10:31,000 --> 01:10:35,280
Speaker 2: Sometimes he's not always accurate. I get it. He's had

1362
01:10:35,520 --> 01:10:40,320
Speaker 2: interceptions dropped to convince you, well, maybe he's clean, living

1363
01:10:40,360 --> 01:10:43,280
Speaker 2: devotion to the game. But at the same time, he's

1364
01:10:43,320 --> 01:10:47,360
Speaker 2: also put up some astounding statistics. He's had some moments

1365
01:10:47,360 --> 01:10:50,200
Speaker 2: that have actually had some people suggesting he might be

1366
01:10:50,240 --> 01:10:52,360
Speaker 2: the MVP of the league. I don't know that I

1367
01:10:52,360 --> 01:10:54,400
Speaker 2: would rise to that level, but I think he's a

1368
01:10:54,479 --> 01:10:57,760
Speaker 2: championship caliber quarterback and all that was evident in the

1369
01:10:57,800 --> 01:11:01,360
Speaker 2: first half on Sunday. He was a version of really

1370
01:11:02,000 --> 01:11:04,840
Speaker 2: people scoffed at him. He completed just forty seven percent

1371
01:11:04,840 --> 01:11:06,920
Speaker 2: of his passes the first two quarters, including a pick.

1372
01:11:07,240 --> 01:11:09,519
Speaker 2: That's set up a Troy to touchdown and missed some throws.

1373
01:11:09,720 --> 01:11:11,600
Speaker 2: So where am I going with it? It's not what

1374
01:11:11,720 --> 01:11:16,480
Speaker 2: happens to you, it's how you react. Then Brock Purty emerged.

1375
01:11:17,360 --> 01:11:20,120
Speaker 2: He's kind of this baby face kid. He's got this

1376
01:11:20,200 --> 01:11:23,519
Speaker 2: wholesome smile. He's, you know, the boy next door. For

1377
01:11:23,600 --> 01:11:26,920
Speaker 2: lack of a you know, that's a lousy you know. Look,

1378
01:11:26,960 --> 01:11:31,200
Speaker 2: the bottom line is this ask the forty nine ers

1379
01:11:31,200 --> 01:11:34,880
Speaker 2: players asked to Sean Gibson, he said, I never lost

1380
01:11:34,880 --> 01:11:36,439
Speaker 2: faith in this guy. I've been saying it all year.

1381
01:11:36,880 --> 01:11:38,720
Speaker 2: You get a guy like that at a controller game

1382
01:11:38,760 --> 01:11:40,240
Speaker 2: and knows where to go with the ball and gets

1383
01:11:40,280 --> 01:11:42,760
Speaker 2: it there. I'm happy he's on my team. I never

1384
01:11:42,840 --> 01:11:46,320
Speaker 2: worry because when Brock Purty really needs to put up points,

1385
01:11:46,960 --> 01:11:49,160
Speaker 2: that's when he's at his best. You're not even giving

1386
01:11:49,240 --> 01:11:52,800
Speaker 2: him credit for what he did. Sunday, Shannon Sharp, what

1387
01:11:53,160 --> 01:11:55,200
Speaker 2: if few to have lost, you'd have been dancing, but

1388
01:11:55,240 --> 01:11:57,920
Speaker 2: you'd have loved every minute of it. Wouldn't you be

1389
01:11:58,000 --> 01:12:00,960
Speaker 2: a little bit more objective? With all due respect, Shannon Sharp,

1390
01:12:01,439 --> 01:12:03,840
Speaker 2: He's been around the block. He's a smart guy, but

1391
01:12:03,880 --> 01:12:05,799
Speaker 2: for some reason, he's got it in for Brock Purdy

1392
01:12:06,520 --> 01:12:08,280
Speaker 2: long in the short of it is maybe it's because

1393
01:12:08,640 --> 01:12:12,120
Speaker 2: mister irrelevant, you know, is not allowed to be successful,

1394
01:12:12,560 --> 01:12:15,080
Speaker 2: but maybe that has created a chip. He's a little

1395
01:12:15,160 --> 01:12:18,800
Speaker 2: toughness more than people realize. He made a lot of

1396
01:12:19,040 --> 01:12:22,519
Speaker 2: really good throws Sunday to Juwan Jennings third and four,

1397
01:12:22,720 --> 01:12:26,080
Speaker 2: the Niners down seventeen, kept a dry alive. He scrambled,

1398
01:12:26,120 --> 01:12:28,320
Speaker 2: stopped short of the line of scrimmage, threw a pass

1399
01:12:28,360 --> 01:12:30,360
Speaker 2: across his bier to the middle. It was a bit

1400
01:12:30,360 --> 01:12:33,200
Speaker 2: of an alley up. However, he knew Jennings was six

1401
01:12:33,240 --> 01:12:35,519
Speaker 2: foot four and had a six foot five wings band

1402
01:12:35,720 --> 01:12:39,120
Speaker 2: and caught the ball. He said, adjusted his route. Here's

1403
01:12:39,160 --> 01:12:42,320
Speaker 2: the key, Brock Purdy is not afraid of pressure. He

1404
01:12:42,400 --> 01:12:45,320
Speaker 2: might look rattled sometimes, but not enough to shake him

1405
01:12:45,360 --> 01:12:47,160
Speaker 2: up into a shell. He's got a will to win.

1406
01:12:47,720 --> 01:12:50,280
Speaker 2: And that took over Sunday. The play of the game

1407
01:12:50,560 --> 01:12:52,479
Speaker 2: that you've seen on highlight reels over and over and

1408
01:12:52,479 --> 01:12:56,240
Speaker 2: over again. That deep chuck to Brandon Nayuk with him being,

1409
01:12:56,840 --> 01:13:00,800
Speaker 2: you know, scrambling around, and they sighted adjusting his routes

1410
01:13:00,800 --> 01:13:03,439
Speaker 2: and the Niners are down two touchdowns and the defense

1411
01:13:03,479 --> 01:13:06,120
Speaker 2: had just come up with a massive turnover. Perty wasn't

1412
01:13:06,120 --> 01:13:07,680
Speaker 2: looking to play it safe. He was trying to make

1413
01:13:07,720 --> 01:13:09,960
Speaker 2: a play. He knew the Niners needed it, and he

1414
01:13:10,040 --> 01:13:12,880
Speaker 2: came up with it. Scrambled to his left, scrambled who

1415
01:13:12,920 --> 01:13:16,880
Speaker 2: was right. Somehow looked downfield, saw Brandon Ayuk, who sid

1416
01:13:16,920 --> 01:13:18,960
Speaker 2: adjusted his route and put the ball in the money,

1417
01:13:19,479 --> 01:13:22,240
Speaker 2: and he says, I'm not gonna just be stupid and

1418
01:13:22,240 --> 01:13:24,840
Speaker 2: throw the ball up. Brandon Ayuk is one on one,

1419
01:13:24,920 --> 01:13:27,120
Speaker 2: I'm gonna take the opportunity, and that kind of game,

1420
01:13:27,400 --> 01:13:31,320
Speaker 2: it's a kind of play the team needed. But Brock

1421
01:13:31,400 --> 01:13:35,960
Speaker 2: Purdy is savvy enough to know that by reading that

1422
01:13:36,000 --> 01:13:39,559
Speaker 2: situation and executing properly, he gave his guy a shot

1423
01:13:39,640 --> 01:13:41,680
Speaker 2: to make a play. He knew the Lions had a

1424
01:13:41,720 --> 01:13:44,400
Speaker 2: single safety who was hovering over the middle of the field,

1425
01:13:45,320 --> 01:13:47,559
Speaker 2: and when Samuel cut on a crossing route, the safety

1426
01:13:47,560 --> 01:13:49,280
Speaker 2: went with him. That left Ayuk one on one of

1427
01:13:49,280 --> 01:13:53,400
Speaker 2: the cornerback Kendell Vildor. He said, hey, we all saw

1428
01:13:53,439 --> 01:13:56,640
Speaker 2: it live when he said it was happening. Look, the

1429
01:13:56,760 --> 01:13:59,839
Speaker 2: Niners moved off of Jimmy Garoppolo because the Liners couldn't

1430
01:13:59,840 --> 01:14:02,360
Speaker 2: win in a Super Bowl without a quarterback willing to

1431
01:14:02,439 --> 01:14:04,800
Speaker 2: hit the deep ball. And I thought Jimmy Garoppolo was

1432
01:14:04,840 --> 01:14:09,320
Speaker 2: pretty good. Brock Purty's better. For all of Garoppolo's success,

1433
01:14:10,120 --> 01:14:12,360
Speaker 2: Scott's tell us he had a real hesitancy to throw

1434
01:14:12,400 --> 01:14:16,000
Speaker 2: the ball downfield, and that kind of pulled a ceiling

1435
01:14:16,080 --> 01:14:18,960
Speaker 2: on the Niners offense. Then they drafted Trey Lance. You

1436
01:14:18,960 --> 01:14:24,840
Speaker 2: remember him well, you know Rock Purty checked that Groppolo

1437
01:14:24,880 --> 01:14:26,920
Speaker 2: was also supposed to be a game manager. Great, Trey

1438
01:14:26,960 --> 01:14:29,200
Speaker 2: Lance was supposed to be a game breaker. And if

1439
01:14:29,200 --> 01:14:33,200
Speaker 2: this is so easy, where you know brock Purty just

1440
01:14:33,280 --> 01:14:34,880
Speaker 2: laces up his shoes and goes on the field, why

1441
01:14:34,880 --> 01:14:37,080
Speaker 2: couldn't Trey Lance do it? Well, they ended up with

1442
01:14:37,200 --> 01:14:40,640
Speaker 2: Rock Purty, who turns out can scramble, can push the

1443
01:14:40,680 --> 01:14:44,479
Speaker 2: ball downfield. The truth of the matter is the forty

1444
01:14:44,520 --> 01:14:46,640
Speaker 2: nine Ers lost in the Super Bowl four years ago

1445
01:14:46,680 --> 01:14:49,160
Speaker 2: because they couldn't score in the fourth quarter. That's when

1446
01:14:49,160 --> 01:14:52,320
Speaker 2: Patrick Mahomes he was turning himself into the legend, but

1447
01:14:52,360 --> 01:14:55,200
Speaker 2: the forty nine Ers offense stifled. Now, Purdy may not

1448
01:14:55,360 --> 01:14:58,479
Speaker 2: out Dual Holmes, but it's not off the table. I'm

1449
01:14:58,520 --> 01:15:02,240
Speaker 2: really looking forward to watching what's happening. Call it Rock Purty,

1450
01:15:02,280 --> 01:15:04,120
Speaker 2: what you want but the truth of the matter is

1451
01:15:04,720 --> 01:15:08,799
Speaker 2: call him a winner. Coming up, we flip quickly back

1452
01:15:09,160 --> 01:15:12,320
Speaker 2: to the NBA. Why well, I gave the Knicks their

1453
01:15:12,400 --> 01:15:17,720
Speaker 2: flowers early in the show, but the Miami Heat they're struggling,

1454
01:15:17,800 --> 01:15:19,040
Speaker 2: and that's one of the reasons I believe in the

1455
01:15:19,120 --> 01:15:21,720
Speaker 2: Nicks so strongly. And we do have a couple more

1456
01:15:21,760 --> 01:15:23,840
Speaker 2: callers we're going to get to coming up. Steve from

1457
01:15:23,920 --> 01:15:27,200
Speaker 2: Kansas City. Hang tight, I'm Bernie Frattle. We're come to

1458
01:15:27,240 --> 01:15:29,280
Speaker 2: your live from the Fox Sports Radio studios here in

1459
01:15:29,320 --> 01:15:32,320
Speaker 2: Las Vegas. Tirack dot Com. Keep it locked it listening

1460
01:15:32,320 --> 01:15:35,240
Speaker 2: to the Bernie Frattle Show, Fox Sports Radio. All right,

1461
01:15:35,280 --> 01:15:37,559
Speaker 2: back on the Bernie Fraddle Show, Fox Sports Radio, Come

1462
01:15:37,600 --> 01:15:39,519
Speaker 2: to your life from the Tarrat dot com studios here

1463
01:15:39,520 --> 01:15:42,599
Speaker 2: in Las Vegas. To keep to two am Pacific, five

1464
01:15:42,680 --> 01:15:47,080
Speaker 2: a m Eastern. Final thoughts on the lines and how

1465
01:15:47,160 --> 01:15:50,000
Speaker 2: it ended for them Sunday night. Back out to the phone,

1466
01:15:50,080 --> 01:15:53,120
Speaker 2: Steve from Kansas City. You want to talk about Rock.

1467
01:15:53,000 --> 01:16:00,000
Speaker 16: Purty Your thoughts, Hey, Bernie xoy monologue on the Rock Perty.

1468
01:16:00,160 --> 01:16:02,120
Speaker 16: I think that's one of the best ones I've heard

1469
01:16:02,200 --> 01:16:07,559
Speaker 16: on any form of media than I called you last

1470
01:16:07,600 --> 01:16:11,639
Speaker 16: week and correctly predicted that he's Tagnola would shut down

1471
01:16:11,720 --> 01:16:15,839
Speaker 16: Lamar Jackson, and we've got plenty of time to prepare

1472
01:16:15,960 --> 01:16:17,800
Speaker 16: for this game. I think it's going to be a

1473
01:16:17,880 --> 01:16:21,880
Speaker 16: great chess match from giving Andy Reid two weeks. And

1474
01:16:22,080 --> 01:16:25,240
Speaker 16: I think the crucial thing is that Willie Gay came

1475
01:16:25,280 --> 01:16:30,640
Speaker 16: back this week to practice. And I wouldn't I know

1476
01:16:30,760 --> 01:16:33,400
Speaker 16: how this is going to go, that that rock party

1477
01:16:33,439 --> 01:16:36,320
Speaker 16: may have some difficulty and then everyone's going to crush him.

1478
01:16:36,320 --> 01:16:40,400
Speaker 16: But you were correct and saying that you know this

1479
01:16:40,479 --> 01:16:43,760
Speaker 16: is this is going to be the greatness of Magnola

1480
01:16:43,880 --> 01:16:46,799
Speaker 16: becoming the greatest coordinator of all time in this game

1481
01:16:48,080 --> 01:16:50,720
Speaker 16: that most most likely he's going to be able to

1482
01:16:50,720 --> 01:16:54,559
Speaker 16: give him fits. But Andy, Andy's going to have two

1483
01:16:54,560 --> 01:17:00,240
Speaker 16: weeks to prepare and it could be a surprising each

1484
01:17:01,000 --> 01:17:04,160
Speaker 16: maybe two touchdown victory. I would I would take Travis

1485
01:17:04,240 --> 01:17:09,360
Speaker 16: Kelcey at anytime touchdowns for sure, bet at plus one

1486
01:17:09,439 --> 01:17:15,599
Speaker 16: oh five. But I just don't understand why it seems

1487
01:17:15,640 --> 01:17:19,679
Speaker 16: like there's there's a lot of people over value talent

1488
01:17:20,280 --> 01:17:26,200
Speaker 16: based from San Francisco's standpoint, rather than experience. That's that's

1489
01:17:26,240 --> 01:17:27,040
Speaker 16: what kind.

1490
01:17:26,800 --> 01:17:27,400
Speaker 6: Of gets me.

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01:17:27,640 --> 01:17:31,200
Speaker 16: We've got We've got another week of Brenna. But I

1492
01:17:31,280 --> 01:17:36,000
Speaker 16: just don't understand why that why mahomes and they don't

1493
01:17:36,000 --> 01:17:41,719
Speaker 16: get the respect, uh that that San Francisco always seems

1494
01:17:41,760 --> 01:17:44,559
Speaker 16: to get. It's kind of the fuddling to me, you

1495
01:17:44,600 --> 01:17:49,599
Speaker 16: know that that this this always happens, that they they

1496
01:17:49,720 --> 01:17:52,360
Speaker 16: look at the roster and say, well, San Francisco is

1497
01:17:52,439 --> 01:17:57,400
Speaker 16: obviously more talented. Well, you know, experience in guile sometimes

1498
01:17:57,479 --> 01:18:00,000
Speaker 16: will well trump trump talent in space?

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01:18:00,640 --> 01:18:01,479
Speaker 6: What do you think about that?

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01:18:01,720 --> 01:18:04,400
Speaker 2: So are you referring to the betting line? Is that

1501
01:18:04,479 --> 01:18:06,880
Speaker 2: it's Steve because the Niners are a two point favorite.

1502
01:18:07,120 --> 01:18:11,360
Speaker 2: That's that's merely based on power ratings. And you know,

1503
01:18:11,479 --> 01:18:14,200
Speaker 2: Las Vegas is not in the prediction business or the

1504
01:18:14,240 --> 01:18:18,240
Speaker 2: fortune telling business. They're just trying to create equal action.

1505
01:18:18,800 --> 01:18:23,479
Speaker 2: But look, I'm with you. The Chiefs to me, are

1506
01:18:23,520 --> 01:18:26,600
Speaker 2: going to be very tough, dangerous out because they do

1507
01:18:26,680 --> 01:18:28,160
Speaker 2: have a hell of a lot of experience. This is

1508
01:18:28,160 --> 01:18:31,280
Speaker 2: where they live. Is Steve still there? All right? Well

1509
01:18:31,280 --> 01:18:33,320
Speaker 2: that's that's a good call and we're going to dive

1510
01:18:33,360 --> 01:18:36,960
Speaker 2: into this next Saturday a little bit more on Super

1511
01:18:37,000 --> 01:18:43,160
Speaker 2: Bowl Eve. Look, a football game is a chess match.

1512
01:18:43,280 --> 01:18:46,920
Speaker 2: It's with high speed collisions and all of a sudden

1513
01:18:46,960 --> 01:18:50,240
Speaker 2: this I think this Chiefs team honestly looks like a

1514
01:18:50,240 --> 01:18:52,160
Speaker 2: team of destiny. I haven't placed a bet on the

1515
01:18:52,200 --> 01:18:55,599
Speaker 2: game yet, but what was the narrative a month ago. Well,

1516
01:18:55,640 --> 01:18:57,880
Speaker 2: Patrick Mahomes will have to play his first road game,

1517
01:18:58,439 --> 01:19:02,160
Speaker 2: and they didn't look particularly impressive against Miami in those

1518
01:19:02,160 --> 01:19:04,920
Speaker 2: freezing temperatures. Then they went into Buffalo and the Chiefs

1519
01:19:04,920 --> 01:19:07,000
Speaker 2: do with the Chiefs do. And then they go into

1520
01:19:07,000 --> 01:19:11,879
Speaker 2: Baltimore and Steve is right. They bottled up Lamar Jackson

1521
01:19:12,040 --> 01:19:14,200
Speaker 2: and put you know, the decided to put the game

1522
01:19:14,240 --> 01:19:16,920
Speaker 2: on his shoulders. And people can say, well, the raven

1523
01:19:16,920 --> 01:19:18,519
Speaker 2: should have run the ball more, but they didn't really

1524
01:19:18,600 --> 01:19:20,280
Speaker 2: run the ball that effectively. The long and the short

1525
01:19:20,280 --> 01:19:21,719
Speaker 2: of it as is, the Chiefs did what they needed

1526
01:19:21,720 --> 01:19:24,920
Speaker 2: to do. You've got this combination between Andy Reid and

1527
01:19:25,040 --> 01:19:27,839
Speaker 2: Patrick Mahomes and they're like the old New York Yankees

1528
01:19:27,840 --> 01:19:31,120
Speaker 2: when Casey Stekel once said people can't beat the Yankees

1529
01:19:31,560 --> 01:19:34,080
Speaker 2: because when they get stuck staring at the pinstripes. I

1530
01:19:34,080 --> 01:19:36,680
Speaker 2: think teams stare at this Chief's red helmet. I know

1531
01:19:36,720 --> 01:19:39,200
Speaker 2: the Buffalo Bills do, and it's a problem. It's gonna

1532
01:19:39,200 --> 01:19:41,479
Speaker 2: be a great game. But I gotta tell you right now,

1533
01:19:41,479 --> 01:19:44,320
Speaker 2: I've gone to my head. I feel like Kansas City

1534
01:19:44,400 --> 01:19:46,559
Speaker 2: probably gets it done. We'll break it down more heavily

1535
01:19:46,640 --> 01:19:50,200
Speaker 2: later and then next week coming up. Bill Belichick no job,

1536
01:19:50,240 --> 01:19:52,400
Speaker 2: but Mike McDonald got one. We chop it up, keep

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Speaker 2: it locked. The Bernie Frattle Show, Well that's right, you

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1545
01:20:21,320 --> 01:20:24,439
Speaker 2: Belichick will not be coaching for the first time in

1546
01:20:24,479 --> 01:20:30,719
Speaker 2: forty nine years in twenty twenty four, but Mike McDonald

1547
01:20:30,880 --> 01:20:33,920
Speaker 2: will be. Not Michael McDonald from the Doobie Brothers, Mike

1548
01:20:34,040 --> 01:20:39,639
Speaker 2: McDonald's former defensive coordinator at Michigan and with the Baltimore Ravens,

1549
01:20:39,640 --> 01:20:43,559
Speaker 2: and he takes over for another legend, Pete Carroll. Pete

1550
01:20:43,560 --> 01:20:46,799
Speaker 2: Carroll and Bill Belichick it looks like we'll be sitting

1551
01:20:46,800 --> 01:20:51,439
Speaker 2: this one out in twenty twenty four. Now Saturday night,

1552
01:20:51,479 --> 01:20:54,040
Speaker 2: we're going to get into some possibilities. I can actually

1553
01:20:54,040 --> 01:20:57,080
Speaker 2: see Bill Belichick joining in twenty twenty five. And these

1554
01:20:57,080 --> 01:20:58,960
Speaker 2: are legit. There could be as many as AID openings

1555
01:20:59,000 --> 01:21:03,040
Speaker 2: again next year. But a lot of folks were scratching

1556
01:21:03,080 --> 01:21:06,720
Speaker 2: their head about the Mike McDonald hiring this late in

1557
01:21:06,760 --> 01:21:10,080
Speaker 2: the game. But the Seattle Seahawks have made their decision

1558
01:21:10,720 --> 01:21:13,160
Speaker 2: and they're not just hiring a coach. They're hiring a

1559
01:21:13,200 --> 01:21:18,440
Speaker 2: coach to replace Pete Carroll Baltimore Ravens defensive coordinator Mike McDonald.

1560
01:21:18,960 --> 01:21:22,439
Speaker 2: He will be the new Seahawks coach, and by the way,

1561
01:21:22,840 --> 01:21:25,920
Speaker 2: apparently he'd been the top target all along for Seattle

1562
01:21:26,400 --> 01:21:28,320
Speaker 2: and they were willing to wait for him even if

1563
01:21:28,360 --> 01:21:31,760
Speaker 2: the Ravens had made this Super Bowl. So this is

1564
01:21:31,800 --> 01:21:35,320
Speaker 2: a guy who's been around basically on Baltimore's staff for

1565
01:21:35,439 --> 01:21:39,040
Speaker 2: nine years, aside from one year at Michigan. But he's

1566
01:21:39,120 --> 01:21:43,200
Speaker 2: received lots of laudatory compliments for his work with the

1567
01:21:43,280 --> 01:21:46,200
Speaker 2: Ravens defense. By the way, Mike McDonald's was also highly

1568
01:21:46,240 --> 01:21:49,160
Speaker 2: regarded for the work he did with Michigan in twenty

1569
01:21:49,200 --> 01:21:51,559
Speaker 2: twenty one, helping him win their first Big Ten title

1570
01:21:52,000 --> 01:21:56,439
Speaker 2: in seventeen years. And I also I'm hearing that the

1571
01:21:56,560 --> 01:22:02,000
Speaker 2: Washington Commanders had interest in Mike McDonald, but the Seahawks

1572
01:22:02,000 --> 01:22:04,240
Speaker 2: had the upper hand. Apparently they were the front runner

1573
01:22:04,640 --> 01:22:08,280
Speaker 2: all along. He's thirty six years old, so Mike McDonald

1574
01:22:08,360 --> 01:22:14,000
Speaker 2: is the league's youngest head coach. Belichick seventy two, Pete

1575
01:22:14,000 --> 01:22:17,840
Speaker 2: Carroll seventy one, Mike McDonald thirty six. It also leaves

1576
01:22:18,400 --> 01:22:21,960
Speaker 2: the Commanders, well, they got their man two, Dan Quinn,

1577
01:22:21,960 --> 01:22:24,320
Speaker 2: and I know people scratch their heads, but he looks

1578
01:22:24,320 --> 01:22:26,800
Speaker 2: forty four and forty three got the team to a

1579
01:22:26,840 --> 01:22:29,559
Speaker 2: Super Bowl. I know people were up at arms about

1580
01:22:29,840 --> 01:22:32,439
Speaker 2: the defensive performance Dallas had at the end of the season,

1581
01:22:32,960 --> 01:22:36,200
Speaker 2: but owners don't think that way. Okay, to one day,

1582
01:22:36,240 --> 01:22:39,519
Speaker 2: there's not a season make Dan camp or Dan Quinn

1583
01:22:39,920 --> 01:22:45,240
Speaker 2: was largely credited for Dallas's extremely potent defense the last

1584
01:22:45,240 --> 01:22:47,679
Speaker 2: two years. I know they didn't do well in the playoffs,

1585
01:22:47,720 --> 01:22:49,479
Speaker 2: but that wasn't on Dan Campbell. That was on a

1586
01:22:49,520 --> 01:22:54,800
Speaker 2: guy named Dak Prescott. In my humble opinion, again, if

1587
01:22:54,800 --> 01:22:57,160
Speaker 2: you want to overreact to one game and It's like

1588
01:22:57,200 --> 01:22:59,439
Speaker 2: the joke about George Clooney walking around them all one

1589
01:22:59,479 --> 01:23:01,960
Speaker 2: day with his fly down one day, but it doesn't

1590
01:23:02,000 --> 01:23:06,240
Speaker 2: disavow the accomplishments of his career. But I digressed. Now,

1591
01:23:06,960 --> 01:23:10,360
Speaker 2: I would be willing to bet a few shekels that

1592
01:23:11,560 --> 01:23:14,160
Speaker 2: very few people outside of Baltimore and unless you were

1593
01:23:14,160 --> 01:23:17,320
Speaker 2: a college football nerd, you did not know who Mike

1594
01:23:17,400 --> 01:23:21,400
Speaker 2: McDonald was. All of a sudden, now he is taking

1595
01:23:21,400 --> 01:23:24,360
Speaker 2: over for a legend in Seattle, and people are wondering why.

1596
01:23:25,760 --> 01:23:29,200
Speaker 2: But people who really know the way to score is

1597
01:23:30,240 --> 01:23:33,720
Speaker 2: freely say this hire is a home run. Look at

1598
01:23:33,720 --> 01:23:37,840
Speaker 2: the resume for Mike McDonald. Okay, Now, on twenty ten,

1599
01:23:39,720 --> 01:23:42,719
Speaker 2: Pete Carroll took the Seahawks job after nearly a decade

1600
01:23:42,760 --> 01:23:45,200
Speaker 2: at US Seed. You know what happened at the end there,

1601
01:23:45,920 --> 01:23:48,040
Speaker 2: Mike McDonald. I guess what I'm going to share with

1602
01:23:48,080 --> 01:23:52,080
Speaker 2: you is that, look, talented people get opportunities. And there's

1603
01:23:52,080 --> 01:23:55,880
Speaker 2: a reason Mike McDonald's had such a incredibly rapid ascent.

1604
01:23:55,920 --> 01:24:00,479
Speaker 2: And here's frankly how rapid it's been. Ten When Kara

1605
01:24:00,680 --> 01:24:04,479
Speaker 2: was taking over for the Seahawks, Mike McDonald was in

1606
01:24:04,520 --> 01:24:07,160
Speaker 2: his first year as a grad assistant at Georgia. He'd

1607
01:24:07,200 --> 01:24:09,320
Speaker 2: been a high school football coach for two years while

1608
01:24:09,360 --> 01:24:12,000
Speaker 2: he was actually in college. He was only twenty two.

1609
01:24:12,080 --> 01:24:15,400
Speaker 2: Then from there the rise was very quick. He had

1610
01:24:15,439 --> 01:24:18,479
Speaker 2: a stint as a quality control assistant for three seasons,

1611
01:24:18,960 --> 01:24:20,679
Speaker 2: and then he jumped to the Ravens as a coaching

1612
01:24:20,720 --> 01:24:23,800
Speaker 2: intern in twenty fourteen. By twenty twenty, he was the

1613
01:24:23,840 --> 01:24:28,040
Speaker 2: linebackers coach. Then came the Jim Harball musical Chairs, the

1614
01:24:28,240 --> 01:24:33,840
Speaker 2: Jim Harbaugh John Harball musical Chairs. McDonald left John Harbaugh's

1615
01:24:33,880 --> 01:24:39,200
Speaker 2: staff after seven seasons as Baltimore to become Jim's defensive

1616
01:24:39,200 --> 01:24:43,960
Speaker 2: coordinator at Michigan. Instant overnight success taken over for Don Brown.

1617
01:24:45,000 --> 01:24:49,120
Speaker 2: That team got to the playoffs. They were statistically very good. Yes,

1618
01:24:49,160 --> 01:24:51,960
Speaker 2: they got smashed by Georgia, but they beat Ohio State

1619
01:24:52,000 --> 01:24:54,920
Speaker 2: and won the first Big Ten title in seventeen years

1620
01:24:55,240 --> 01:24:57,680
Speaker 2: mich Mike McDonald had a lot to do with that.

1621
01:24:58,720 --> 01:25:01,920
Speaker 2: Then Mike McDonald le left Jim Harball after one year

1622
01:25:02,680 --> 01:25:07,559
Speaker 2: to become John Harball's defensive coordator at Baltimore. Follow that, now,

1623
01:25:07,680 --> 01:25:12,000
Speaker 2: just after two years as an NFL coordinator, Mike McDonald

1624
01:25:12,040 --> 01:25:17,160
Speaker 2: is now the league's youngest NFL coach, one year younger

1625
01:25:17,200 --> 01:25:20,840
Speaker 2: than thirty seven year old Girod Mayo in New England. Now,

1626
01:25:21,360 --> 01:25:25,559
Speaker 2: talk to anybody in Baltimore, talk to the organization, talk

1627
01:25:25,640 --> 01:25:28,559
Speaker 2: to the media, talk to the fans. They're going to

1628
01:25:28,640 --> 01:25:32,599
Speaker 2: tell you that Mike McDonald is legit. Baltimore has had

1629
01:25:33,000 --> 01:25:37,439
Speaker 2: top five defenses per DVOA in both of McDonald's years,

1630
01:25:37,479 --> 01:25:43,640
Speaker 2: including this year, Baltimore finished first. And if you just

1631
01:25:43,840 --> 01:25:46,480
Speaker 2: google a little bit, you can see how Mike McDonald

1632
01:25:46,479 --> 01:25:50,240
Speaker 2: has succeeded so quickly at every stop he's been at

1633
01:25:50,880 --> 01:25:53,559
Speaker 2: and how he almost left coaching at one point too,

1634
01:25:53,600 --> 01:25:56,800
Speaker 2: because being an NFL coach is a different struggle, But

1635
01:25:57,479 --> 01:26:01,559
Speaker 2: Mike McDonald is not a guy you bet against. Another thing.

1636
01:26:01,800 --> 01:26:06,080
Speaker 2: By the way, you might find curious both Mike McDonald

1637
01:26:06,080 --> 01:26:08,880
Speaker 2: and Jared Mayo, they're not alone in their quick climbs

1638
01:26:08,920 --> 01:26:11,120
Speaker 2: to get to the top jobs in the NFL. And yes,

1639
01:26:11,120 --> 01:26:14,040
Speaker 2: there's only thirty two of them. Just look at Dave Canalis.

1640
01:26:14,880 --> 01:26:17,759
Speaker 2: He is now the new man with the Carolina Panthers.

1641
01:26:18,280 --> 01:26:20,519
Speaker 2: He was only one year as an offensive coordinator for

1642
01:26:20,600 --> 01:26:22,720
Speaker 2: Tampa Bay, but he obviously did a very good job

1643
01:26:22,720 --> 01:26:27,080
Speaker 2: at Baker Mayfield and that offense. So when you look

1644
01:26:27,120 --> 01:26:33,800
Speaker 2: at the coaching carousel as it were, even in the

1645
01:26:33,840 --> 01:26:37,839
Speaker 2: college ranks, Calin de Boor he takes over the premier

1646
01:26:37,920 --> 01:26:41,000
Speaker 2: program in the country, I believe, Alabama, just four years

1647
01:26:41,000 --> 01:26:45,559
Speaker 2: after being an offensive coordinator at Indiana. So look, we're

1648
01:26:45,600 --> 01:26:50,480
Speaker 2: in a changing world and the young hip new offensive

1649
01:26:51,040 --> 01:26:56,000
Speaker 2: mind genius now defensive mind genius Mike McDonald. These guys

1650
01:26:56,000 --> 01:26:59,080
Speaker 2: are finding their way into these top jobs for a reason.

1651
01:27:00,280 --> 01:27:03,799
Speaker 2: And here's kind of an interesting factoid for you. Pete

1652
01:27:03,800 --> 01:27:07,960
Speaker 2: Carroll and Bill Belichick, as I just mentioned him, Intego respectively,

1653
01:27:08,360 --> 01:27:10,640
Speaker 2: seventy two years old and seventy one years old. Their

1654
01:27:10,760 --> 01:27:16,240
Speaker 2: replacements McDonald Mayo, they're a combined seventy three years old.

1655
01:27:17,880 --> 01:27:22,639
Speaker 2: There you have it. Now, Why wasn't Bill Belichick hired?

1656
01:27:24,120 --> 01:27:28,920
Speaker 2: It seemed inevitable that, according to certain reports, that the

1657
01:27:28,960 --> 01:27:35,400
Speaker 2: Atlanta Falcons were maybe close that deal. Their owner, Arthur Blank,

1658
01:27:35,479 --> 01:27:39,000
Speaker 2: has gone big name hunting for coaches for a while.

1659
01:27:41,000 --> 01:27:44,840
Speaker 2: He made a shot at Joe Gibbs many years ago.

1660
01:27:44,880 --> 01:27:47,280
Speaker 2: The legendary Joe Gibbs didn't get him, and there were

1661
01:27:47,320 --> 01:27:49,080
Speaker 2: a couple of other ones. He ends up with Rahem Morris,

1662
01:27:49,080 --> 01:27:50,519
Speaker 2: So I think it is a very good hire. And

1663
01:27:50,600 --> 01:27:53,760
Speaker 2: we come to find out that people, I guess we

1664
01:27:53,800 --> 01:27:56,320
Speaker 2: didn't listen closely. That Belichick and the Falcons was never

1665
01:27:56,400 --> 01:27:59,040
Speaker 2: really a sure thing. Both sides were kind of gathering

1666
01:27:59,080 --> 01:28:02,560
Speaker 2: information about each other. They wanted to see where, you know,

1667
01:28:02,960 --> 01:28:05,360
Speaker 2: the fit would be on both sides. It was really

1668
01:28:05,439 --> 01:28:09,560
Speaker 2: basically just a fact finding mission because every organization is

1669
01:28:09,600 --> 01:28:12,680
Speaker 2: a power structure, right, but Bill Belichick has his own

1670
01:28:12,720 --> 01:28:16,200
Speaker 2: power structure, and would it be a fit, would it

1671
01:28:16,280 --> 01:28:20,120
Speaker 2: be the right fit? And Arthur Blank wanted to make

1672
01:28:20,160 --> 01:28:23,760
Speaker 2: sure he kept his leadership structure and tack. And one

1673
01:28:23,840 --> 01:28:25,920
Speaker 2: thing we found out later that I didn't know really

1674
01:28:26,080 --> 01:28:28,200
Speaker 2: is that Bill Belichick has really kind of an icy

1675
01:28:28,280 --> 01:28:32,280
Speaker 2: cold relationship with Falcons president Rich McKay. And apparently that

1676
01:28:32,360 --> 01:28:34,639
Speaker 2: might have been the primary reason why the parties decided

1677
01:28:35,080 --> 01:28:38,479
Speaker 2: they should not work together and they moved on. So

1678
01:28:39,720 --> 01:28:45,400
Speaker 2: the bottom line is that, you know, Bill Belichick had

1679
01:28:45,560 --> 01:28:48,640
Speaker 2: very narrow fits with many of these teams, and the

1680
01:28:48,760 --> 01:28:52,080
Speaker 2: Falcons were very sold on Raheem Morrise according to a

1681
01:28:52,880 --> 01:28:54,760
Speaker 2: lot of you know, league sources. Now, if you're just

1682
01:28:54,880 --> 01:28:57,920
Speaker 2: looking at blind resumes, Bill Belichick's resume is gonna trump

1683
01:28:57,960 --> 01:29:01,439
Speaker 2: any coaches, but in a higher process and sometimes even

1684
01:29:01,520 --> 01:29:06,719
Speaker 2: historically the Falcons, at least Arthur Blank felt that past

1685
01:29:06,800 --> 01:29:09,880
Speaker 2: accomplishments weren't as important as to what someone could bring

1686
01:29:09,920 --> 01:29:12,800
Speaker 2: them in a future. Remember Raheem Morris was there three

1687
01:29:12,880 --> 01:29:15,320
Speaker 2: years ago as the interim coach, did a pretty good job.

1688
01:29:15,880 --> 01:29:18,160
Speaker 2: I think the Falcons started out like Owen seven that year,

1689
01:29:18,760 --> 01:29:22,040
Speaker 2: got Oen six or something, and they were like four

1690
01:29:22,120 --> 01:29:24,320
Speaker 2: and seven under Raheem Morris, and they played very well,

1691
01:29:24,600 --> 01:29:29,560
Speaker 2: all right. And the truth of the matter is the

1692
01:29:29,640 --> 01:29:32,880
Speaker 2: Seahawks and the Washington commanders were never going to really

1693
01:29:33,040 --> 01:29:36,439
Speaker 2: consider Bill Belichick. That was a total long shot, right,

1694
01:29:37,320 --> 01:29:39,680
Speaker 2: And people have quietly wondered, why would you let Bill

1695
01:29:39,760 --> 01:29:43,120
Speaker 2: Belichick leave? Why would you let Tom Brady leave? And

1696
01:29:43,160 --> 01:29:45,439
Speaker 2: Bill in free agency? If you're Bill Belichick, why would

1697
01:29:45,439 --> 01:29:47,800
Speaker 2: you fight for him? And they don't understand that the

1698
01:29:47,880 --> 01:29:50,080
Speaker 2: fact that there really was not a great succession plan.

1699
01:29:50,720 --> 01:29:53,040
Speaker 2: Cam Newton really didn't work out draft. You know, Mac

1700
01:29:53,120 --> 01:29:57,040
Speaker 2: Jones hasn't really been developed in any measurable degree. Mack

1701
01:29:57,120 --> 01:29:59,400
Speaker 2: Jones has had three offensive coordinators. None of these things

1702
01:29:59,520 --> 01:30:04,000
Speaker 2: bode well for Bill Belichick. But Saturday night, I'm going

1703
01:30:04,080 --> 01:30:08,280
Speaker 2: to give you potential multiple destinations that Bill Belichick could

1704
01:30:08,360 --> 01:30:11,240
Speaker 2: end up next year. And I'm serious. When you hear

1705
01:30:11,360 --> 01:30:15,240
Speaker 2: me out, you might say, well, that's possible, so don't

1706
01:30:15,320 --> 01:30:18,479
Speaker 2: rule it out. Remember he's fourteen wins behind Don Shula.

1707
01:30:18,880 --> 01:30:21,479
Speaker 2: I would not close the chapter on Bill Belichick just yet.

1708
01:30:22,040 --> 01:30:25,800
Speaker 2: He didn't forget to coach. And I think you depending

1709
01:30:25,880 --> 01:30:28,720
Speaker 2: on what happens in places like New York next year,

1710
01:30:28,840 --> 01:30:33,679
Speaker 2: or Dallas or Philadelphia, even Kansas City. What if Andy

1711
01:30:33,760 --> 01:30:36,439
Speaker 2: Reid retires he's sixty five? What if they win the

1712
01:30:36,520 --> 01:30:39,439
Speaker 2: Super Bowl. I'm going to get to all that Saturday night,

1713
01:30:39,520 --> 01:30:43,240
Speaker 2: because we're not done with his Belichick discussion. By the way,

1714
01:30:43,280 --> 01:30:45,599
Speaker 2: football fans, be sure to tune into Fox Sports Radio

1715
01:30:45,680 --> 01:30:48,840
Speaker 2: every Saturday morning beginning nine a m. Eastern six am

1716
01:30:48,920 --> 01:30:51,679
Speaker 2: Pacific for Countdown to kick Off presented by BETMGM, Brian

1717
01:30:51,760 --> 01:30:54,560
Speaker 2: no rich Orenberger, betting analyst Jared Smith will have you

1718
01:30:54,640 --> 01:30:57,800
Speaker 2: covered three hours before college kickoff. Every Saturday morning. Listen

1719
01:30:57,880 --> 01:31:00,200
Speaker 2: to Countdown to Kickoff presented by BETMGM right here on

1720
01:31:00,240 --> 01:31:03,160
Speaker 2: Fox Sports Radio in the iHeartRadio app coming up, I

1721
01:31:03,200 --> 01:31:04,719
Speaker 2: will get to it. I want to get to Miami's

1722
01:31:04,760 --> 01:31:08,320
Speaker 2: mid season struggles, the heat were a solid team last year,

1723
01:31:08,960 --> 01:31:10,840
Speaker 2: went far in the playoffs, but you heard me give

1724
01:31:10,880 --> 01:31:13,519
Speaker 2: the next their flowers. One of the reasons I believe

1725
01:31:14,120 --> 01:31:16,400
Speaker 2: they have a real shot this year, in addition to

1726
01:31:16,439 --> 01:31:18,680
Speaker 2: their great team and their depth and their defense and

1727
01:31:18,760 --> 01:31:21,479
Speaker 2: the rebounding and all those good things, is that maybe

1728
01:31:21,520 --> 01:31:25,600
Speaker 2: the rest of the Eastern Division is scuffling, including the

1729
01:31:25,680 --> 01:31:29,240
Speaker 2: Miami Heat. We'll talk about that coming up. I'm Bernie Fraddle.

1730
01:31:29,240 --> 01:31:30,680
Speaker 2: We're coming to your life from the Las Vegas Fox

1731
01:31:30,720 --> 01:31:33,960
Speaker 2: Sports Radio tirack dot com studios. Don't go away, you're

1732
01:31:34,000 --> 01:31:36,120
Speaker 2: listening to the Bernie Fraddle Show on Fox Sports Radio.

1733
01:31:36,800 --> 01:31:39,320
Speaker 2: All right, back on the Bernie Faddle Show, Fox Sports Radio.

1734
01:31:40,200 --> 01:31:42,519
Speaker 2: Come to you live from me tyrack dot com studios

1735
01:31:42,560 --> 01:31:46,519
Speaker 2: here in Las Vegas. Take up to two am Pacific,

1736
01:31:47,320 --> 01:31:50,439
Speaker 2: five am Eastern. Why I read a tweet from a gentleman,

1737
01:31:50,520 --> 01:31:53,679
Speaker 2: Michael Garcia. First, I appreciate Michael listening to the show.

1738
01:31:54,960 --> 01:31:57,120
Speaker 2: He said, funny how you took shots at Shannon Sharp

1739
01:31:57,160 --> 01:31:59,919
Speaker 2: about Brock Purdy, yet you didn't call out his worst detractor,

1740
01:32:00,760 --> 01:32:03,599
Speaker 2: your co worker, Nick Wright. Is that because Sharp left

1741
01:32:03,640 --> 01:32:06,920
Speaker 2: your network for a bigger stage? Kind of petty of you. Well,

1742
01:32:07,320 --> 01:32:10,280
Speaker 2: first of all. I don't listen to Nick Wright, and

1743
01:32:10,360 --> 01:32:12,719
Speaker 2: he's not my co worker. I work for Fox Sports Radio.

1744
01:32:12,760 --> 01:32:15,479
Speaker 2: He's with FS one. But I happen to see an

1745
01:32:15,520 --> 01:32:24,880
Speaker 2: exchange between Nick, Shannon Sharp, and dan Orlowsky and everything

1746
01:32:25,200 --> 01:32:27,439
Speaker 2: Sharp was talking about, we're hypotheticals. What are you gonna

1747
01:32:27,439 --> 01:32:29,840
Speaker 2: do if he sucks in the super Bowl? Well, I

1748
01:32:29,920 --> 01:32:32,080
Speaker 2: said it a minute ago. The world's a vexing enough

1749
01:32:32,120 --> 01:32:35,920
Speaker 2: place without hypotheticals. Let's deal with reality. If he stinks

1750
01:32:35,960 --> 01:32:37,479
Speaker 2: it up in the super Bowl, I'll report on that.

1751
01:32:37,920 --> 01:32:39,960
Speaker 2: But he doesn't want to give Rock Party for credit

1752
01:32:40,120 --> 01:32:43,719
Speaker 2: for anything he's done. It's half ass. But I appreciate

1753
01:32:43,800 --> 01:32:47,080
Speaker 2: you you tweeting in Mike because Michael, because as I've

1754
01:32:47,080 --> 01:32:50,480
Speaker 2: always said, the most boring conversations are the ones where

1755
01:32:50,520 --> 01:32:54,000
Speaker 2: people don't agree. And I don't know if Shannon Sharp

1756
01:32:54,120 --> 01:32:57,120
Speaker 2: left for a bigger opportunity. He's successful, He's always going

1757
01:32:57,160 --> 01:33:00,920
Speaker 2: to be successful wherever he goes. And my thoughts are

1758
01:33:00,960 --> 01:33:03,200
Speaker 2: my thoughts, and I my own man when it comes

1759
01:33:03,240 --> 01:33:05,639
Speaker 2: to these things. I'm not part of the group think

1760
01:33:06,080 --> 01:33:08,800
Speaker 2: echo chamber. But thanks for enlightening me, because I was

1761
01:33:09,080 --> 01:33:13,840
Speaker 2: unaware that Nick Wright has devoted time to pissing on

1762
01:33:13,920 --> 01:33:15,920
Speaker 2: brock Perty's parade. I guess he can join the club.

1763
01:33:15,960 --> 01:33:19,760
Speaker 2: I honestly didn't know. But again, you're welcome to call

1764
01:33:19,840 --> 01:33:22,080
Speaker 2: on next Friday as well. Bed Night Hour. All Right,

1765
01:33:22,160 --> 01:33:27,120
Speaker 2: the Miami Heat are having some mid season struggles. But

1766
01:33:27,240 --> 01:33:31,160
Speaker 2: first let's give them proper credit. They've been. The Heat

1767
01:33:31,200 --> 01:33:33,440
Speaker 2: have been the most one of the most successful franchises

1768
01:33:34,280 --> 01:33:38,160
Speaker 2: in recent NBA memory, and you know, a couple decades now, right,

1769
01:33:38,240 --> 01:33:41,439
Speaker 2: They've advanced at least as far as the conference finals

1770
01:33:41,479 --> 01:33:45,760
Speaker 2: three the last four seasons, two NBA Finals appearances. Eric

1771
01:33:45,800 --> 01:33:51,600
Speaker 2: Spolster has done an outstanding job, but is there is

1772
01:33:51,640 --> 01:33:55,720
Speaker 2: there success getting near the end now? The Heat the

1773
01:33:55,800 --> 01:33:58,080
Speaker 2: other night entered a game against Sacramento in a seven

1774
01:33:58,120 --> 01:34:01,759
Speaker 2: game losing streak, But that doesn't even start to measure

1775
01:34:02,240 --> 01:34:04,240
Speaker 2: how terrible the Heat have been in the whole second

1776
01:34:04,280 --> 01:34:07,200
Speaker 2: half of January. They got blown out by their Raptors

1777
01:34:07,280 --> 01:34:09,320
Speaker 2: by twenty five, they got blown out by the Celtics

1778
01:34:09,360 --> 01:34:11,759
Speaker 2: by thirty three, and then the final game of the streak,

1779
01:34:11,800 --> 01:34:14,960
Speaker 2: Miami lost to the Phoenix Suns one eighteen one oh five,

1780
01:34:15,080 --> 01:34:17,400
Speaker 2: but they entered the fourth quarter trailing by twenty six,

1781
01:34:18,560 --> 01:34:21,160
Speaker 2: and the game the final score was somewhat respectable, but

1782
01:34:21,200 --> 01:34:24,759
Speaker 2: that's only because it was garbage time. Here's the kicker.

1783
01:34:25,320 --> 01:34:28,479
Speaker 2: This has to be very bothersome if you're a Miami

1784
01:34:28,560 --> 01:34:32,160
Speaker 2: Heat fan. Their average margin of victory during the streak.

1785
01:34:33,880 --> 01:34:38,320
Speaker 2: Check that not victory. Their average margin of defeat is

1786
01:34:38,920 --> 01:34:43,640
Speaker 2: almost seventeen points. Now, the Heat had a pretty good

1787
01:34:43,680 --> 01:34:46,920
Speaker 2: game the other night against a better than average Sacramento

1788
01:34:47,000 --> 01:34:50,559
Speaker 2: Kings team. They won one fifteen, one oh six. Jimmy

1789
01:34:50,600 --> 01:34:53,400
Speaker 2: Butler stepped up, had a nice night thirty one points,

1790
01:34:54,200 --> 01:34:58,599
Speaker 2: seven rebounds, six assists, and Josh Richardson had twenty four

1791
01:34:58,640 --> 01:35:02,760
Speaker 2: points coming off the bench. Terry still struggling to find

1792
01:35:02,800 --> 01:35:05,720
Speaker 2: his scoring touch he just was traded to Miami, you

1793
01:35:05,800 --> 01:35:08,920
Speaker 2: know for this season. Only had three points in one

1794
01:35:08,960 --> 01:35:12,880
Speaker 2: of eight. But he did drop some dimes right, had

1795
01:35:12,880 --> 01:35:16,640
Speaker 2: a few assists. Now, so the Heat finally snapped a

1796
01:35:16,760 --> 01:35:23,760
Speaker 2: seven game losing streak, and I'm sure there's their relieve there.

1797
01:35:24,400 --> 01:35:28,120
Speaker 2: That was their longest losing streak in seventeen years. But

1798
01:35:28,320 --> 01:35:32,920
Speaker 2: losing so many games in a row showed that this Miami,

1799
01:35:33,040 --> 01:35:36,439
Speaker 2: this version of the Miami Heat team, that's a long

1800
01:35:36,479 --> 01:35:39,479
Speaker 2: way to go. If they have designs I'll make it

1801
01:35:39,520 --> 01:35:43,000
Speaker 2: another deep playoff run. There are some other, bothersome numbers.

1802
01:35:43,040 --> 01:35:46,000
Speaker 2: These numbers don't lie. Miami ranks twenty first in the

1803
01:35:46,040 --> 01:35:49,880
Speaker 2: league in offensive efficiency and only thirteenth in defensive efficiency.

1804
01:35:49,960 --> 01:35:52,080
Speaker 2: While still you can say that's in the top half

1805
01:35:52,080 --> 01:35:55,800
Speaker 2: of the league, but that's their lowest metric defensively in

1806
01:35:55,920 --> 01:36:00,800
Speaker 2: ten years. The Heat have always been a very, a

1807
01:36:01,080 --> 01:36:05,559
Speaker 2: very what I would call, you know, discipline team. It's

1808
01:36:06,040 --> 01:36:11,280
Speaker 2: pat Riley's image. They box out, they rebound, they play defense,

1809
01:36:12,080 --> 01:36:14,840
Speaker 2: they communicate, they switch. That's why they're in every game.

1810
01:36:15,080 --> 01:36:18,920
Speaker 2: This year is different. Now. They traded Kyle Lowry, thirty

1811
01:36:18,960 --> 01:36:21,880
Speaker 2: seven year old Kyle Lowry to the Charlotte Hornets to

1812
01:36:21,920 --> 01:36:26,360
Speaker 2: get Terry Rogier, who's only twenty nine. That was basically

1813
01:36:26,479 --> 01:36:28,320
Speaker 2: the first move the Heat made. And then you know,

1814
01:36:29,160 --> 01:36:32,479
Speaker 2: their goal was to get younger and more athletic, and

1815
01:36:32,760 --> 01:36:36,160
Speaker 2: they believe it's a it's a move that'll payoff in

1816
01:36:36,200 --> 01:36:40,479
Speaker 2: the long run. But you know, frankly, Rogier has struggled

1817
01:36:40,520 --> 01:36:44,120
Speaker 2: in his first five games with the Heat, averaging what

1818
01:36:44,880 --> 01:36:47,519
Speaker 2: ten points a game. He's only shooting about thirty four percent.

1819
01:36:48,240 --> 01:36:49,960
Speaker 2: So Rosie is going to have to play like he

1820
01:36:50,000 --> 01:36:52,000
Speaker 2: did in Charlotte, where he was averaging twenty four points

1821
01:36:52,040 --> 01:36:55,080
Speaker 2: a game and shooting about forty six percent. So look,

1822
01:36:55,520 --> 01:36:57,920
Speaker 2: we are coming here, we have Mark Medina on Saturday nights,

1823
01:36:57,960 --> 01:37:00,040
Speaker 2: and we are coming up on the trade deadline, and

1824
01:37:00,080 --> 01:37:03,839
Speaker 2: I think there's quite a few NBA teams that are concerned.

1825
01:37:04,920 --> 01:37:07,320
Speaker 2: And the truth of the matter is there's still a

1826
01:37:07,400 --> 01:37:09,840
Speaker 2: ways to go. All right, you still got thirty games

1827
01:37:09,880 --> 01:37:11,960
Speaker 2: to go in the season. But when you look at

1828
01:37:12,000 --> 01:37:13,439
Speaker 2: the numbers and what the heat had been used to

1829
01:37:13,560 --> 01:37:20,679
Speaker 2: by their standards' is fothersome they're struggling by the way.

1830
01:37:20,840 --> 01:37:23,960
Speaker 2: Along those lines. We will talk about this against Saturday Night.

1831
01:37:24,040 --> 01:37:27,360
Speaker 2: The NBA have beene a massive commitment to Adam Silver,

1832
01:37:27,439 --> 01:37:30,360
Speaker 2: who's now been the commissioner for ten years, and he

1833
01:37:30,560 --> 01:37:34,560
Speaker 2: got himself a bag. He's finalizing a contract extension that

1834
01:37:34,640 --> 01:37:37,680
Speaker 2: will not only keep Adam Silver's commissioner through the end

1835
01:37:37,680 --> 01:37:40,840
Speaker 2: of the decade, but for a lot of money. Now

1836
01:37:40,880 --> 01:37:45,840
Speaker 2: we don't know the exact terms of the deal, but look,

1837
01:37:48,000 --> 01:37:52,600
Speaker 2: Silver replaced David Stern back in twenty fourteen, and he

1838
01:37:52,760 --> 01:37:56,719
Speaker 2: had been David Stern's deputy commissioner for eight seasons prior

1839
01:37:56,760 --> 01:37:59,280
Speaker 2: to that, and the truth of the matter is he's

1840
01:37:59,320 --> 01:38:03,120
Speaker 2: built quite a resume. He genuinely has built quite a resume.

1841
01:38:04,760 --> 01:38:08,880
Speaker 2: He's masterminded a lot of advancements or changes or you know,

1842
01:38:08,960 --> 01:38:10,320
Speaker 2: whatever you want to call him in the in the

1843
01:38:10,479 --> 01:38:15,320
Speaker 2: NBA since he took over. He greenlit the n C

1844
01:38:15,920 --> 01:38:17,880
Speaker 2: the n Season Tournament, which a lot of people kind

1845
01:38:17,920 --> 01:38:23,520
Speaker 2: of scoffed at, mocked at, and and and really anticipated

1846
01:38:23,560 --> 01:38:26,920
Speaker 2: that it was going to be a wait and see

1847
01:38:27,040 --> 01:38:30,000
Speaker 2: at best. My goodness, it was a huge success. I

1848
01:38:30,080 --> 01:38:34,120
Speaker 2: don't think anybody can deny that the n Season Tournament was.

1849
01:38:34,200 --> 01:38:37,320
Speaker 2: It was a significant success. It showed up in the

1850
01:38:37,360 --> 01:38:39,960
Speaker 2: TV ratings, It showed up in attendance. The players talked

1851
01:38:39,960 --> 01:38:41,920
Speaker 2: about it, the coach has talked about it, how the

1852
01:38:42,040 --> 01:38:45,840
Speaker 2: level of intensity was very much like the playoffs the

1853
01:38:45,960 --> 01:38:48,920
Speaker 2: Lakers when they win the NBA Cup. They had the

1854
01:38:49,000 --> 01:38:51,600
Speaker 2: finals and the semi finals here in Las Vegas, and

1855
01:38:51,680 --> 01:38:57,200
Speaker 2: by every metric, very measurable metrics, the increase in attendance

1856
01:38:57,880 --> 01:39:01,040
Speaker 2: from the like period between November twenties to twenty two

1857
01:39:01,080 --> 01:39:04,920
Speaker 2: November twenty three dramatically up. Everything was up, including attendance.

1858
01:39:06,080 --> 01:39:09,479
Speaker 2: So Silver masterminded that he'd been copying soccer and he

1859
01:39:09,600 --> 01:39:13,080
Speaker 2: wanted to do it, and he pulled it off. Remember

1860
01:39:13,120 --> 01:39:15,320
Speaker 2: a few years ago when they suggested to play Eyden

1861
01:39:15,400 --> 01:39:18,800
Speaker 2: tournament and Lebron says, whoever, whoever came up with that

1862
01:39:18,920 --> 01:39:22,160
Speaker 2: idea should be fired. Well, Lebron's pretty damn lucky that

1863
01:39:22,240 --> 01:39:24,760
Speaker 2: they came up with that idea, because, let's face it,

1864
01:39:25,160 --> 01:39:26,960
Speaker 2: the Lakers might not have made the playoffs a couple

1865
01:39:26,960 --> 01:39:29,000
Speaker 2: of those years if there hadn't been the play in tournament.

1866
01:39:29,760 --> 01:39:31,599
Speaker 2: And the truth of the matter is, now that we're

1867
01:39:31,720 --> 01:39:36,360
Speaker 2: used to it, I think the response has been mostly

1868
01:39:36,479 --> 01:39:41,960
Speaker 2: positive from the fan base. Adam Silver. So, in addition

1869
01:39:42,000 --> 01:39:45,479
Speaker 2: to the Incecon Tournament and the playing tournament, Adam Silver

1870
01:39:45,720 --> 01:39:48,920
Speaker 2: also was behind the NBA Draft lottery reform, and what

1871
01:39:49,080 --> 01:39:53,160
Speaker 2: that did was disincentivized teams from blaytant tanking so they

1872
01:39:53,200 --> 01:39:56,479
Speaker 2: could get a better lottery seating. That also has worked,

1873
01:39:56,760 --> 01:40:00,760
Speaker 2: creating some very competitive games in April. Teams who've been

1874
01:40:00,760 --> 01:40:05,760
Speaker 2: out of the playoffs for weeks, well, look, Adam, you know,

1875
01:40:06,479 --> 01:40:10,320
Speaker 2: Adam Silver was a shot guy. He came out of Duke.

1876
01:40:11,320 --> 01:40:15,200
Speaker 2: He has been a basketball sort of a savant. He's

1877
01:40:15,320 --> 01:40:18,640
Speaker 2: navigated the NBA through a lot of murky waters, he

1878
01:40:18,880 --> 01:40:24,400
Speaker 2: took great decisiveness with the Donald Sterling scandal with the Clippers.

1879
01:40:24,400 --> 01:40:28,320
Speaker 2: About ten years ago during COVID, they managed to cobble

1880
01:40:28,400 --> 01:40:30,600
Speaker 2: together a playoffs in the bubble, which I called the

1881
01:40:32,320 --> 01:40:34,920
Speaker 2: you can check in but you can never leave Hotel

1882
01:40:35,000 --> 01:40:38,160
Speaker 2: California Playoffs. But it worked. Don't tell me didn't work.

1883
01:40:38,200 --> 01:40:40,000
Speaker 2: We all watched. They did the best of what they

1884
01:40:40,080 --> 01:40:43,200
Speaker 2: could at time, and that was Adam Silver. Now, Silver

1885
01:40:43,280 --> 01:40:45,880
Speaker 2: had an extension in twenty eighteen for five years. I

1886
01:40:45,920 --> 01:40:48,160
Speaker 2: think this one's going to be for like seven years.

1887
01:40:48,240 --> 01:40:51,719
Speaker 2: So up next, I mean, I think you'll see Adam

1888
01:40:51,960 --> 01:40:55,680
Speaker 2: Silver spearhead the new media deal in the negotiation on

1889
01:40:55,800 --> 01:40:58,720
Speaker 2: TV and I the suspicion that is going to be

1890
01:40:58,760 --> 01:41:02,000
Speaker 2: a doozy, And right after that is done, I think

1891
01:41:02,000 --> 01:41:06,080
Speaker 2: you're gonna see Adam Silver go headlong into league expansion.

1892
01:41:06,200 --> 01:41:09,439
Speaker 2: I expect Las Vegas and Seattle to get NBA teams

1893
01:41:09,880 --> 01:41:12,840
Speaker 2: toward the end of the decade. So tip of the

1894
01:41:12,880 --> 01:41:17,479
Speaker 2: cap to Adam Silver. Coming up, we have Chris Purfett's

1895
01:41:17,479 --> 01:41:19,160
Speaker 2: World of Soccer. But first let's go back to our

1896
01:41:19,240 --> 01:41:21,360
Speaker 2: guy or the chef, Kevin Wyrett with the latest.

1897
01:41:21,479 --> 01:41:24,960
Speaker 8: Yeah NBA on Friday Night as the Oklahoma City thunder

1898
01:41:25,040 --> 01:41:27,879
Speaker 8: A vaulted themselves to the top of the Western Conference,

1899
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Speaker 8: are tied with the Timberwolves and a half game ahead

1900
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Speaker 8: of the Denver Nuggets. And that's after the Oklahoma City

1901
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Speaker 8: thunder got the win against the Hornets one twenty six

1902
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Speaker 8: to one oh six. Shake gilges Alexander thirty one points

1903
01:41:40,240 --> 01:41:43,479
Speaker 8: to nine assists and five steals the Timberwolves loss, which

1904
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Speaker 8: opened the door for Oklahoma City to take the top spot.

1905
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Speaker 8: The Magic with the upset win one away two one

1906
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Speaker 8: oh six. Denver getting a huge performance, I mean, don't

1907
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Speaker 8: they always from Nikola Jokic twenty seven points, twenty two rebounds,

1908
01:41:57,720 --> 01:42:01,080
Speaker 8: twelve assists, a triple double. Denver be eating the Trailblazers

1909
01:42:01,120 --> 01:42:03,960
Speaker 8: one twenty to one oh wait. Pelicans Edge of Spurs

1910
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Speaker 8: won fourteen one thirteen. Zion Williamson had thirty three points,

1911
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Speaker 8: Victor Wibin Yama sixteen points, fourteen rebounds and seven assists.

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Speaker 8: Warriors over the Grizzlies one twenty one, one oh one,

1913
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Speaker 8: Rockets beat the Raptors won thirty five one oh six.

1914
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Speaker 8: Kings top the Pacers won thirty three one twenty two.

1915
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Speaker 8: Hawks over the Suns one twenty nine one twenty the

1916
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Speaker 8: Heat beat the Wizards one ten two one o two

1917
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Speaker 8: and the Clippers over the Pistons won thirty six two

1918
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Speaker 8: one at twenty six college oops. Just a couple of

1919
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Speaker 8: ranked teams in action. First in the Atlantic ten number

1920
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Speaker 8: twenty one Dayton a seventy six seventy one win against

1921
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Speaker 8: Saint Bonaventure. But in the Big East we saw number

1922
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Speaker 8: thirteen Creighton up ended on their home court by Butler

1923
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Speaker 8: ninety nine two ninety eight.

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Speaker 2: Back to you, Bernie, all right, chef, good stuff. We'll

1925
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Speaker 2: see you Saturday night. Of course you'll be performing again

1926
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Speaker 2: right one thirty am Pacific. Absolutely good job, chef. Good

1927
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Speaker 2: to have you in the night.

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Speaker 16: All right.

1929
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Speaker 2: Soccer is five months away from being back on the

1930
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Speaker 2: world stage with the Olympics in Paris just around the corner.

1931
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Speaker 2: But if you follow this show, in this feature for

1932
01:43:10,479 --> 01:43:13,280
Speaker 2: the last eighteen months, you know that whether it's on

1933
01:43:13,400 --> 01:43:15,559
Speaker 2: the fueler, off the field, in season or off season,

1934
01:43:16,160 --> 01:43:18,760
Speaker 2: there's always news in the world of soccer. That's why

1935
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Speaker 2: we're bringing Chris Purfetts World.

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Speaker 21: Of Soccer, the greatest goals, the thrilling finishes, the international drama.

1937
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Speaker 19: Him.

1938
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Speaker 22: It's all here in this report from the world of soccer.

1939
01:43:42,479 --> 01:43:44,759
Speaker 22: So much going on to the world of soccer, Bernie.

1940
01:43:44,840 --> 01:43:48,240
Speaker 22: We're near the semi finals for the Asia Cup, Africa

1941
01:43:48,280 --> 01:43:52,599
Speaker 22: Cup of Nations still ongoing as well. Giovanni Reina moving

1942
01:43:53,080 --> 01:43:58,320
Speaker 22: from Germany from Borussia Dortmund to Nottingham Forest in the

1943
01:43:58,400 --> 01:44:01,080
Speaker 22: Premier League, booking for some more playing time here. But

1944
01:44:01,160 --> 01:44:06,480
Speaker 22: today's theme really comes down to a question of managers

1945
01:44:06,760 --> 01:44:11,280
Speaker 22: and burnout and how long and how much pressure really

1946
01:44:11,439 --> 01:44:14,320
Speaker 22: adds up at the top of the table here at

1947
01:44:14,360 --> 01:44:17,640
Speaker 22: the top of the mountain, top where things get so

1948
01:44:17,800 --> 01:44:22,320
Speaker 22: stressful that two giants at two of the biggest clubs

1949
01:44:22,400 --> 01:44:25,600
Speaker 22: in the world are simply walking away. This week we

1950
01:44:25,760 --> 01:44:29,520
Speaker 22: are talking about Zabie Hernandez, the manager of from Barcelona,

1951
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Speaker 22: and Liverpool's longtime manager Jurgen Klop, both of who have

1952
01:44:36,000 --> 01:44:39,479
Speaker 22: stated that this will be their final season with their

1953
01:44:39,560 --> 01:44:44,280
Speaker 22: respective clubs. They will be leaving Barcelona and Liverpool respectively

1954
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Speaker 22: here during the summer.

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Speaker 16: Now.

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Speaker 22: There are commonalities between the two and there are differences

1957
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Speaker 22: between the two, and we will talk about both. Let's

1958
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Speaker 22: start with Jurgen Klop, who has been managing Liverpool for

1959
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Speaker 22: almost nine years now and the success at Liverpool cannot

1960
01:45:00,120 --> 01:45:02,599
Speaker 22: be under state. He has brought them a Premier League

1961
01:45:02,680 --> 01:45:06,120
Speaker 22: title and a YUEFA Champions League title respectively. He's been

1962
01:45:06,560 --> 01:45:10,800
Speaker 22: runner up twice for the UCL, FIFA World Club Cup,

1963
01:45:11,000 --> 01:45:14,519
Speaker 22: a YUEFA Super Cup, an FA Cup and a League Cup.

1964
01:45:14,720 --> 01:45:17,880
Speaker 22: It is a remarkable amount of success, especially in an

1965
01:45:17,920 --> 01:45:22,200
Speaker 22: age that has been dominated by Manchester City and Chelsea

1966
01:45:22,360 --> 01:45:25,440
Speaker 22: Here at the top, he has managed to bring Liverpool

1967
01:45:26,040 --> 01:45:29,920
Speaker 22: no small amount of dominance, of vigor and right now here.

1968
01:45:30,040 --> 01:45:33,880
Speaker 22: Even entering into this weekend, Liverpool is on top of

1969
01:45:33,960 --> 01:45:37,680
Speaker 22: the Premier League table and will remain there coming in

1970
01:45:37,960 --> 01:45:42,919
Speaker 22: on Friday, five points clear of Manchester City and Arsenal.

1971
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Speaker 22: Jurgen however, this past week announced that he would be

1972
01:45:46,520 --> 01:45:49,920
Speaker 22: stepping away from Liverpool at the end of this season.

1973
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Speaker 22: There will be no Alex Ferguson style U turn. He

1974
01:45:53,680 --> 01:45:56,120
Speaker 22: will not come back to the club. He is going

1975
01:45:56,240 --> 01:45:58,880
Speaker 22: to buy his own words, take at least a year

1976
01:45:59,120 --> 01:46:02,519
Speaker 22: away from man If he has no country in mind,

1977
01:46:02,600 --> 01:46:05,080
Speaker 22: he has no club in mind of where he will

1978
01:46:05,160 --> 01:46:07,880
Speaker 22: go next, and if he comes back to England he

1979
01:46:07,920 --> 01:46:11,400
Speaker 22: says it will only be with Liverpool. So he is

1980
01:46:11,520 --> 01:46:13,880
Speaker 22: leaving at least on good terms. In fact some of

1981
01:46:13,920 --> 01:46:18,000
Speaker 22: his players have known about his place here. His situation

1982
01:46:18,200 --> 01:46:20,960
Speaker 22: since about November was just kind of hard for him

1983
01:46:21,000 --> 01:46:24,599
Speaker 22: to put it into words. A German national Jurgen Klop

1984
01:46:24,680 --> 01:46:28,840
Speaker 22: has basically cemented himself as the one responsible for the

1985
01:46:29,000 --> 01:46:34,800
Speaker 22: modern day incarnation of Liverpool, managing great players like Mohammed Sala,

1986
01:46:34,920 --> 01:46:37,000
Speaker 22: who is still in my mind one of the greatest

1987
01:46:37,040 --> 01:46:41,439
Speaker 22: players playing in England right now. But we've also mentioned

1988
01:46:41,520 --> 01:46:44,679
Speaker 22: Jurgen Klop's name many times here in the world of soccer,

1989
01:46:45,080 --> 01:46:49,600
Speaker 22: usually in complaints to how crowded the soccer calendar is

1990
01:46:49,760 --> 01:46:53,800
Speaker 22: right now. He's without Mohammed Sala and Endo, his Japanese

1991
01:46:53,880 --> 01:46:56,759
Speaker 22: midfielder as they go to the Africa Cup of Nations

1992
01:46:56,960 --> 01:47:00,639
Speaker 22: and the Asia Cup. It's been a tail that there

1993
01:47:00,760 --> 01:47:04,080
Speaker 22: has just been a lot going on in for a

1994
01:47:04,240 --> 01:47:07,600
Speaker 22: UEFA club these days, and Liverpool is no exception, and

1995
01:47:07,680 --> 01:47:11,439
Speaker 22: it has fueled a massive amount of burnout for Jurgen,

1996
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Speaker 22: who wants to take a year away and just reevaluate things.

1997
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Speaker 2: And it is tough.

1998
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Speaker 22: It is tough with everything that is going on, and

1999
01:47:20,200 --> 01:47:23,720
Speaker 22: he's kind of seen himself drained, especially coming off of

2000
01:47:23,880 --> 01:47:27,880
Speaker 22: last year where Liverpool failed to qualify for the Champions League. Now,

2001
01:47:27,960 --> 01:47:31,240
Speaker 22: in the case of Zavi Hernandez, there's a lot kind

2002
01:47:31,280 --> 01:47:35,640
Speaker 22: of a different pressure going on here, especially at Barcelona.

2003
01:47:36,320 --> 01:47:40,400
Speaker 22: Zavi Hernandez himself has is decided to step away from

2004
01:47:40,439 --> 01:47:43,360
Speaker 22: the club. It came after last Saturday, a five to

2005
01:47:43,439 --> 01:47:46,760
Speaker 22: three defeat to Villa Real when he made the announcement,

2006
01:47:47,640 --> 01:47:52,800
Speaker 22: and under a little bit more of understandable circumstances, Barcelona

2007
01:47:52,840 --> 01:47:56,120
Speaker 22: has really struggled to come back into their dominance age

2008
01:47:57,320 --> 01:48:01,400
Speaker 22: underneath Zabi Hernandez, especially who's only been the manager since

2009
01:48:01,479 --> 01:48:04,840
Speaker 22: twenty twenty one. They've come out of some very dire,

2010
01:48:05,160 --> 01:48:08,519
Speaker 22: very dark times that saw them lose Lionel Messi due

2011
01:48:08,520 --> 01:48:11,880
Speaker 22: to a lot of financial implications of some of the

2012
01:48:13,000 --> 01:48:18,280
Speaker 22: economic material situation they were put into. Zavi Hernandez, however,

2013
01:48:18,479 --> 01:48:22,599
Speaker 22: has kind of felt like he's underperformed a little bit

2014
01:48:22,720 --> 01:48:28,360
Speaker 22: at Barcelona, and to be fair, Barcelona's standards are extremely high.

2015
01:48:28,760 --> 01:48:31,240
Speaker 22: You are in a league where the only person that

2016
01:48:31,479 --> 01:48:35,360
Speaker 22: you are on your level is probably Athletico and most

2017
01:48:35,479 --> 01:48:39,920
Speaker 22: definitely Real Madrid, and with the rivalry with Real Madrid,

2018
01:48:40,280 --> 01:48:43,200
Speaker 22: coming in second place is simply like if the Ohio

2019
01:48:43,320 --> 01:48:45,800
Speaker 22: State decides to come in second place to Michigan. It's

2020
01:48:46,000 --> 01:48:48,840
Speaker 22: not acceptable to the fans who have a lot more

2021
01:48:48,960 --> 01:48:52,840
Speaker 22: control there. It's not acceptable to the standards to which

2022
01:48:52,880 --> 01:48:57,160
Speaker 22: Barcelona has enjoyed for the twenty first century. And this

2023
01:48:57,320 --> 01:49:01,040
Speaker 22: is the key difference between Zavi and It is that

2024
01:49:01,560 --> 01:49:08,599
Speaker 22: Zavi Hernandez's announcement was greeted with acceptance by the Barcelona faithful.

2025
01:49:08,680 --> 01:49:13,600
Speaker 22: It was greeted with this idea of impatience, of just

2026
01:49:13,720 --> 01:49:17,120
Speaker 22: a need to turn the page. And Zavi Hernandez himself

2027
01:49:17,160 --> 01:49:20,360
Speaker 22: has said that he does not enjoy Monday to Friday

2028
01:49:20,479 --> 01:49:24,920
Speaker 22: here with the club at Barcelona. It's a situation where

2029
01:49:24,960 --> 01:49:28,440
Speaker 22: the pressure got to Zavi Hernandez. It is a situation

2030
01:49:28,760 --> 01:49:33,280
Speaker 22: that I think the expectations outstripped what Barcelona is even

2031
01:49:33,360 --> 01:49:37,040
Speaker 22: capable of, and that the club is still expecting matters

2032
01:49:37,080 --> 01:49:40,840
Speaker 22: of the past. But there is a commonality between Barcelona

2033
01:49:41,280 --> 01:49:45,760
Speaker 22: and Liverpool in their both their managers deciding to leave

2034
01:49:45,880 --> 01:49:48,280
Speaker 22: their contract money on the table and walk away at

2035
01:49:48,320 --> 01:49:50,920
Speaker 22: the end of the year. Is that the being at

2036
01:49:50,960 --> 01:49:53,640
Speaker 22: the top now for one of the top clubs in

2037
01:49:53,920 --> 01:49:58,960
Speaker 22: soccer across the world is an incredibly stressful job, especially

2038
01:49:59,120 --> 01:50:02,559
Speaker 22: now callum for soccer are getting more and more crowded,

2039
01:50:02,600 --> 01:50:05,560
Speaker 22: there are fewer and fewer time off, you're even to

2040
01:50:05,640 --> 01:50:10,400
Speaker 22: step away and reevaluate things you WAYFA continues to add tournaments.

2041
01:50:10,640 --> 01:50:16,120
Speaker 22: FIFA continues to add tournaments. International competitions no longer have

2042
01:50:16,400 --> 01:50:19,200
Speaker 22: breaks for some of these things, like the Africa Cup

2043
01:50:19,240 --> 01:50:22,839
Speaker 22: of Nations. Right now, money is getting bigger and bigger,

2044
01:50:22,920 --> 01:50:25,720
Speaker 22: and with it comes bigger and bigger demands for your

2045
01:50:25,840 --> 01:50:29,400
Speaker 22: club to perform, to perform and to win. It is

2046
01:50:29,880 --> 01:50:34,240
Speaker 22: a massive amount to juggle everything being a manager now

2047
01:50:34,680 --> 01:50:38,520
Speaker 22: in the modern European soccer landscape, and I think sometimes

2048
01:50:38,600 --> 01:50:40,720
Speaker 22: we kind of say, yeah, that's kind of the job,

2049
01:50:40,800 --> 01:50:43,000
Speaker 22: and it is. But at the same time, I think

2050
01:50:43,040 --> 01:50:46,760
Speaker 22: it is also humanly relatable. No matter what you do,

2051
01:50:47,439 --> 01:50:51,559
Speaker 22: burnout is there to catch you. You can be emotionally drained,

2052
01:50:51,600 --> 01:50:54,120
Speaker 22: you can be mentally drained no matter what you do,

2053
01:50:54,560 --> 01:50:58,280
Speaker 22: and sometimes in our culture, which is so focused on grind,

2054
01:50:58,760 --> 01:51:01,040
Speaker 22: so focused on going to world every day at the

2055
01:51:01,120 --> 01:51:03,680
Speaker 22: expense of everything else, there comes a point where you

2056
01:51:04,000 --> 01:51:06,880
Speaker 22: just can't deal with it at after a certain point,

2057
01:51:07,160 --> 01:51:10,400
Speaker 22: be it the criticism that Zavi Hernandez took or simply

2058
01:51:10,560 --> 01:51:14,639
Speaker 22: the flame out of Jurgen Klop, it is a human toll.

2059
01:51:14,800 --> 01:51:17,360
Speaker 22: It is an emotional toll, and it's one I think

2060
01:51:17,400 --> 01:51:19,840
Speaker 22: we should all be well aware of. And it doesn't

2061
01:51:19,920 --> 01:51:22,400
Speaker 22: matter if you are someone who's working a nine to

2062
01:51:22,560 --> 01:51:24,920
Speaker 22: five or a manager at the top of the world.

2063
01:51:25,360 --> 01:51:26,400
Speaker 1: These guys run.

2064
01:51:26,439 --> 01:51:31,360
Speaker 22: Incredibly stressful careers and they have decided, for one reason

2065
01:51:31,360 --> 01:51:33,920
Speaker 22: another to walk away. And you wonder who else out

2066
01:51:33,960 --> 01:51:37,440
Speaker 22: there might be trying to find some relief for themselves.

2067
01:51:38,040 --> 01:51:39,920
Speaker 22: That's it for the World of Soccer this week, Bernie.

2068
01:51:40,040 --> 01:51:43,439
Speaker 22: We'll see you soon there having Chris, World of Soccer

2069
01:51:43,600 --> 01:51:48,120
Speaker 22: rolls along. We started this prior to the Men's World

2070
01:51:48,160 --> 01:51:51,519
Speaker 22: Cup the fall of twenty twenty two, which led into

2071
01:51:51,560 --> 01:51:53,960
Speaker 22: the Women's World Cup last summer, and lo and behold,

2072
01:51:54,000 --> 01:51:58,000
Speaker 22: here we are five months away from France, Paris and

2073
01:51:58,160 --> 01:52:02,559
Speaker 22: the Olympics. Soccer will be back on the world stage.

2074
01:52:02,600 --> 01:52:05,719
Speaker 2: But of course, as we've said, it doesn't matter whether

2075
01:52:05,800 --> 01:52:09,280
Speaker 2: it's in season or off season, whether it's on the

2076
01:52:09,360 --> 01:52:11,640
Speaker 2: field or off the field, there is always plenty to

2077
01:52:11,720 --> 01:52:16,360
Speaker 2: talk about in the world of soccer. Coming up, we

2078
01:52:16,520 --> 01:52:20,320
Speaker 2: wrap up the show, and good news, we've got Taylor

2079
01:52:20,400 --> 01:52:24,000
Speaker 2: Swift's itinerary. She's gonna be able to make it back

2080
01:52:24,240 --> 01:52:27,240
Speaker 2: in time for the Super Bowl here in Las Vegas.

2081
01:52:27,320 --> 01:52:31,400
Speaker 2: We'll explain how coming up. I'm Bernie Fraddlewick coming to

2082
01:52:31,479 --> 01:52:34,439
Speaker 2: live from Las Vegas, Fox Sports Radio, Tirack dot Com Studios.

2083
01:52:34,560 --> 01:52:36,840
Speaker 2: Keep it locked Radio, you listen to the Bernie fraddle Show.

2084
01:52:37,080 --> 01:52:41,120
Speaker 2: Fox Sports Radio. All right, we're wrapping it up on

2085
01:52:41,240 --> 01:52:43,160
Speaker 2: the Bernie Frattle Show. We can coming to you live

2086
01:52:44,000 --> 01:52:47,360
Speaker 2: from the Tirak dot Com studios here in Las Vegas,

2087
01:52:49,160 --> 01:52:53,080
Speaker 2: the home of Super Bowl fifty eight. Looking forward to

2088
01:52:53,200 --> 01:52:56,439
Speaker 2: Radio Row will be down there poking around. Fox Sports

2089
01:52:56,439 --> 01:52:58,760
Speaker 2: will have a nice set Fox Sports Radio. Before go

2090
01:52:58,800 --> 01:53:01,600
Speaker 2: any further tonight, though, I want to thank my broadcast

2091
01:53:01,680 --> 01:53:04,599
Speaker 2: team back in Los Angeles. They've been with me since

2092
01:53:04,600 --> 01:53:10,519
Speaker 2: eleven pm Pacific time on Saturday night. Mark Ramsey, our

2093
01:53:10,640 --> 01:53:15,439
Speaker 2: technical producer, Shaye Mogngard, our executive producer, and of course

2094
01:53:15,720 --> 01:53:19,240
Speaker 2: Kevin Wyre at the chef on all the updates. Appreciate

2095
01:53:19,280 --> 01:53:19,920
Speaker 2: all the teamwork.

2096
01:53:20,000 --> 01:53:20,240
Speaker 16: Guys.

2097
01:53:20,360 --> 01:53:24,200
Speaker 2: Cannot do the show without you, as we all as

2098
01:53:24,280 --> 01:53:27,599
Speaker 2: we all know that back on these airwaves. By the way,

2099
01:53:27,680 --> 01:53:35,120
Speaker 2: eleven pm Pacific again Saturday night. Oh Bob, what twenty

2100
01:53:35,320 --> 01:53:37,240
Speaker 2: two hours from now? Something like that? Twenty one hours

2101
01:53:37,280 --> 01:53:40,599
Speaker 2: from now? We'll be right back here. Interesting show Saturday

2102
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Speaker 2: night is the World converges on Sinn City. We'll have

2103
01:53:43,520 --> 01:53:46,400
Speaker 2: Alan Snell from Las Vegas Sports Business Journal to join us.

2104
01:53:46,800 --> 01:53:48,519
Speaker 2: Take you behind the curtain all the things you want

2105
01:53:48,560 --> 01:53:50,559
Speaker 2: to know about the Super Bowl in Vegas and Vegas

2106
01:53:51,080 --> 01:53:53,320
Speaker 2: business wise, and we'll have an update on the olkham

2107
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Speaker 2: As coming to Vegas. Then we'll play a game here

2108
01:53:56,720 --> 01:54:01,919
Speaker 2: until twenty twenty eight. But a major step was announced

2109
01:54:01,960 --> 01:54:04,080
Speaker 2: because it's gonna be built. The stadium is supposed to

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Speaker 2: be built on the site of the historic Tropicana Hotel

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Speaker 2: on the corner of Las Vegas Boulevard and Tropicana, I

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Speaker 2: mean the come ontin. It's where Sinatra used to stay

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Speaker 2: and perform and Muhammad Ali used to work out there.

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Speaker 2: They're gonna raise it apparently April second, April second, or

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Speaker 2: they're closing in April second. So from there you will

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Speaker 2: see groundbreaking later in the year, maybe the first to

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Speaker 2: twenty five, and if things go according to Hoyles, the

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Speaker 2: A's will be here in twenty twenty. But a lot

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Speaker 2: to know about that as well as Las Vegas. Imagine

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Speaker 2: Las Vegas hosting a Super Bowl. I remember being on

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Speaker 2: the air in Detroit when it was a CBS ninety

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Speaker 2: seven to one in Detroit. You remember the famous campaign

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Speaker 2: what happens here Stays in Vegas that was supposed to

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Speaker 2: debut on ABC Super Bowl thirty eight or thirty seven

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Speaker 2: in two thousand and three, but the NFL rejected it.

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Speaker 2: They rejected it. NBC wouldn't even advertise their own show

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Speaker 2: Las Vegas on the NFL telecast. Look how far that

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Speaker 2: the NFL has come. I remember in Detroit they want

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Speaker 2: the last Vegas Visitors Convention. Bureau wanted to buy advertising

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Speaker 2: the Super Bowl thirty super Bowl thirty seven, and the

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Speaker 2: NFL said no. And we try to get a gentleman

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Speaker 2: Brian McCarthy on our show. He wouldn't come out. I

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Speaker 2: understand it's all water under the bridge. Now it's been

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Speaker 2: twenty one years now Vegas is hosting a Super Bowl.

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Speaker 2: Tony Rooma couldn't even have a Fantasy football convention here

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Speaker 2: a few years ago. Now Vegas is hosting a Super Bowl,

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Speaker 2: which raises the most important question, will Taylor Swift be there?

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Speaker 2: You know, she's become a staple of the Kansas City

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Speaker 2: Chiefs games. This season, She's got her boo Travis Kelsey

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Speaker 2: as Kelsey heads towards the season's biggest game, and he

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Speaker 2: has his best games when she's there. Some people were

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Speaker 2: wondering will Taylor Swift be in attendance because she's playing

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Speaker 2: a concert the night before halfway across the world in Tokyo.

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Speaker 2: She resumed her heiress to her Wednesday at the Tokyo Dome.

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Speaker 2: She's going to play a four nights d in Japan,

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Speaker 2: and justice he scheduled shows on this leg. Well, she's

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Speaker 2: got a few days of downtime before her next set

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Speaker 2: the following weekend in Melbourne, Australia. She gets around right.

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Speaker 2: But here's the good news, Swifty fans. And you know,

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Speaker 2: if you've got some bad blood about her, well you

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Speaker 2: better shake it off. See what I did there? See

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Speaker 2: what I did? So Swift were to hop on a

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Speaker 2: plane immediately during her final show in Japan, she would

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Speaker 2: arrive around dinner time this coming Saturday night, February tenth,

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Speaker 2: in Las Vegas. The math see Las Vegas is seventeen

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Speaker 2: hours behind Tokyo. The flight takes about twelve hours, so

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Speaker 2: at least plenty of time for Taylor Swift to get

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Speaker 2: to Las Vegas for the three thirty kickoff. That's three

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Speaker 2: thirty Pacific time kickoff next Sunday, February eleventh, which would

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Speaker 2: be the next day, and still time to get back

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Speaker 2: to Australia for her first show by the next Friday.

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Speaker 2: Now the flight is less of an issue because of

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Speaker 2: the time, so changes across the international date line. Right

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Speaker 2: the super Bowl, Actually she stayed in Tokyo. Look, the

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Speaker 2: super Bowl actually starts about eight thirty am on Monday

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Speaker 2: morning in Tokyo. So the backpedals seventeen hours and quickly

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Speaker 2: advanced nineteen hours the same week. Well that's quite the feat.

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Speaker 2: Plus she played multiple concerts on both ends. But it

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Speaker 2: turns out Travis Kelsey is not the only one in shape.

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Speaker 2: Apparently Taylor Swift is really in good physical condition. Her concerts,

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Speaker 2: I've not been to one, don't plan on going to one,

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Speaker 2: with all due respect, but I understand they span more

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Speaker 2: than three hours. There aren't any breaks or intermissions. And

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Speaker 2: she prepares for her tour by doing the entire set

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Speaker 2: list on a treadmill daily And when she does her

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Speaker 2: upbeat songs, she jogs or speed walks, and then she

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Speaker 2: slows it back down for the slower ones. For her

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Speaker 2: entire show. She warms up on a treadmill so she's

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Speaker 2: in shape to handle this. This is going to be

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Speaker 2: the I guarantee you this is going to be the

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Speaker 2: most watched super Bowl of all time. And the handle

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Speaker 2: on the Super Bowl will be the highest of all time,

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Speaker 2: the betting handle the exceeding I believe, the previous record

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Speaker 2: of one hundred and fifty eight million a couple of

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Speaker 2: years ago. And by the way, you brock perty fans,

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Speaker 2: the forty nine ers are a perfect six and z one.

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Speaker 2: Brock Purty starts this year versus the NFC playoff field.

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Speaker 2: He beat the Cowboys, Bucks, Eagles, Rams, and Packers and

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Speaker 2: then topped it off by beating the Lions last Sunday.

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Speaker 2: That meant a clean sweep and an exclamation point because

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Speaker 2: Purdy became the first quarterback for any team since some

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Speaker 2: guy named Joe Montana back in nineteen eighty four to

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Speaker 2: sweep every playoff team in his conference between the regular

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Speaker 2: season and the postseason. Yeah, two batties only a game manager.

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Speaker 2: All right, you heard me earlier. There'll be more where

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Speaker 2: that came from. It's gonna do it for the Bernie

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Speaker 2: Frattle show. Back on these airwaves eleven pm Saturday night. Meantime,

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Speaker 2: keep it locked up next to Fellas Fox Sports Radio