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Speaker 1: day in basketball. We have coaches getting fired or let go.

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Speaker 1: We have coach is saying we should team up with

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Speaker 1: our arch enemies to ensure victory for the tournament. And

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Speaker 1: and then we have this pesky little football story with

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Speaker 1: the guy that's set to potentially be the highest paid

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Speaker 1: wide receiver in the history of the game. So in

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Speaker 1: the words of Crash Davis Mike Harmon, We're dealing with

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Speaker 1: a lot of stuff tonight.

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Speaker 3: Sho Otani on the mound and dominating though the Dodgers

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Speaker 3: are losing. Uh and you also, I thought the football

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Speaker 3: story you were gonna lead with was the nineteenth NFL

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Speaker 3: season for Joe Flacco, who remains elite?

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Speaker 1: It is? It is nice and and and how many

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Speaker 1: how many games will we start with Joe Burrows six

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Speaker 3: I mean I didn't start the season after that flag

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Speaker 3: football game?

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Speaker 1: Is the over under really six? And head? No, there's

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Speaker 1: no way? Oh okay yet, Yeah, you went right, you

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Speaker 1: go right to the gambling. I know. I just didn't

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Speaker 1: know if that was something you officially looked up, because

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Speaker 1: I'm not saying I would doubt that if you said, hey,

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Speaker 1: what's the over under for Joe Burrow games started this year?

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Speaker 1: I could see Flacco like, okay, six and a half,

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Speaker 1: Bengals losing at the end. Yeah, I could see the over.

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Speaker 3: For I mean, he got over last year right six

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Speaker 1: Right. Well, that that's that's if the over was really high.

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Speaker 1: I mean, I think like every year, no matter what,

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Speaker 3: Break glass in case of emergency, and he may just

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Speaker 1: Whoever's whoever's got the longest record or the longest streak

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Speaker 1: of consecutive games started. Joe Flacco signs there, you know

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Speaker 1: it's over. It's just gonna end. It's it doesn't matter,

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Speaker 1: it's just somehow it's gonna end. And Joe Flacco's going

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Speaker 3: Really is impressive. I mean, at some point, do you

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Speaker 1: You put it next to all the other quarterbacks that

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Speaker 3: There's just a mini over their shoulder, Like you.

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Speaker 1: Think at this point, Flacco when they interview him at

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Speaker 1: the you know, every year and they go, hey, Joe,

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Speaker 1: you know you signed it back up here at Cincinnati.

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Speaker 1: Did you did you have any offers to be a starter,

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Speaker 1: Flacco just goes, Guys, you know I'm gonna start half

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Speaker 1: the season, right, I mean, come on, you know you

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Speaker 1: a pantheon of weird ass stories involving rams wide out

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Speaker 1: Puka Nakua. Now, I blame you for this, Mike Carmen.

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Speaker 1: So I blame you. I think it's your fault.

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Speaker 3: You blame me for what he may or may not

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Speaker 3: have said. Now, lawsuits threatened all over the place, including

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Speaker 3: a biting incident. Right, yeah, there's a lot going on here.

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Speaker 3: Potential anti semitic statement. I'm not going to read it

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Speaker 1: So the deal is a woman seeking a restraining order

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Speaker 1: against Poka Nakua after he allegedly had a anti Semitic

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Speaker 3: Idea there were anti Semitic vampires out there.

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Speaker 1: I did not know that. Apparently that this will be

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Speaker 1: This is what's gonna be out there. These are the vampires.

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Speaker 1: oh that's that's it. I don't know that. I don't

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Speaker 1: know that. That's yeah. No, no, no, I don't know. Man.

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Speaker 1: say that. No, I wouldn't back and I wouldn't be behind it. Now,

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Speaker 1: another vampire. If you can give me something else different

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Speaker 1: with vampires, that's that's cool. Okay. I'm with you on that.

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Speaker 3: But in Prejudice zombies was pretty good. And remember, zombies

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Speaker 3: Brad Pitt had guys flying around faster than I don't know,

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, he's are crazy zombies. Now, this is not

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Speaker 1: a zombie story as far as we know. As far yes,

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Speaker 1: claiming that she terrorized that he terrorized her on New

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Speaker 1: the press several weeks later. Now, what happened was obviously

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Speaker 1: the two things we talked about, an anti semitic remark

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Speaker 1: from Puukinakua that he said, and that he bit her

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Speaker 1: during a night out. Now, and this has shows you

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Speaker 1: what we're gonna talk about, is that Nakua's attorney told

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Speaker 1: TMZ that he never made the anti Semitic remark, though

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Speaker 1: we did bite her when they were all kind of

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Speaker 1: We're admitting to the biting. Now, horse playing could be

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Speaker 3: I don't get that word in the stories very so

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Speaker 1: Not a lot of horseplay. But hey listen, there's no

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Speaker 1: antipatic remark. But he did bite her, Okay, so we

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Speaker 1: admit to the biting. So there was some kind of

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Speaker 3: Well, I mean you'll look at the radius. I mean,

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Speaker 3: there's there's a photo that has the bite radius and

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Speaker 3: pretty good. I think, you know, after my years of

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Speaker 3: watching CSI and everything else, you could probably create an

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Speaker 3: just you know, admit to that if the horse play

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Speaker 3: involved some fighting. Yeah, that words. I never thought i'd

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Speaker 1: I didn't have this on my on my on my

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Speaker 1: Bengo cardukkua today. But it usually takes in the in

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Speaker 1: the TV shows, it usually takes at least twenty four

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Speaker 1: not until they get really deep into the investigation you

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Speaker 1: find out that the bite marks match, or something else happens,

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Speaker 1: It's usually near the end, right, so you don't get

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Speaker 1: that till near the end. But this story with Pooka Akua,

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Speaker 1: now this is the latest in an off season in

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Speaker 1: which I'll tell you want to know the big thing

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Speaker 1: to say about this. Sometimes there's hot takes about things,

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Speaker 1: and sometimes there's just time to do the Aaron Rodgers say,

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Speaker 1: let's just relax and let's think of this with calm,

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Speaker 1: cool reasoning. Because if I'm the ramp, what what needs

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Speaker 1: to happen right now? If I am the rams, I

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Speaker 1: doing an absolute deepest dive possible into who he is,

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Speaker 1: what he has going on, and what we don't know

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Speaker 1: about his life. Right you had the video where he

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Speaker 1: made the really bad movements that was very also very

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Speaker 1: anti semitic that he says, Oh, I didn't know what

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Speaker 1: I was doing. I was let into it by the podcaster.

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Speaker 1: That was a really bad look for Pokin the coua.

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Speaker 1: That was really, really terrible. A few months ago, he

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Speaker 1: had the questionable tweet about Sam Darnold, but that's just

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Speaker 1: about his opinion of how he was playing in the

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Speaker 1: Super Bowl. He says it was misconstrued. Now you have

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Speaker 1: This is on the heels of what he said, Oh,

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Speaker 1: I didn't know what I was doing when I was

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Speaker 1: making that hand gesture in the podcast. This is where

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Speaker 1: the Rams have to do it. They have to spend

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Speaker 1: this time because now he is on the cusp of

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Speaker 1: being the highest paid wide receiver in the NFL. He

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Speaker 1: is at the center of everything the Rams do. Right.

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Speaker 1: They found him a couple of years ago, and it's

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Speaker 1: incredible how great of a player he has become in

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Speaker 1: such a short period of time. But now it's like,

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Speaker 1: you have no idea who this guy is. What is

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Speaker 1: there that he's already done? Do we have to worry

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Speaker 1: we're still gonna have the financial backing we need. So

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Speaker 1: I knew this was going to happ happened for Hubert Davis.

433
00:21:01,119 --> 00:21:02,320
Speaker 1: We told you it was gonna be a week ago.

434
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean you just go back and look at

435
00:21:04,600 --> 00:21:09,000
Speaker 3: the history, and we chronicled big, big collapses. Right, this

436
00:21:09,160 --> 00:21:11,960
Speaker 3: was a pattern. This was not a one off, and

437
00:21:12,000 --> 00:21:17,560
Speaker 3: not having Caleb Wilson obviously huge, but the reaction to

438
00:21:17,600 --> 00:21:22,359
Speaker 3: this one is a fantastic a to b a lot

439
00:21:22,359 --> 00:21:25,320
Speaker 3: of wins one, twenty five and fifty four, I mean

440
00:21:25,680 --> 00:21:28,840
Speaker 3: one at a very high clip, but when it mattered,

441
00:21:29,040 --> 00:21:32,480
Speaker 3: they came up small and in this latest iteration, a

442
00:21:32,600 --> 00:21:37,520
Speaker 3: nineteen point lead that evaporates. It just won't stand because

443
00:21:38,080 --> 00:21:42,040
Speaker 3: now you're trying to retain your players, which means you've

444
00:21:42,040 --> 00:21:46,000
Speaker 3: got to get people, dig a little deeper in your pocket,

445
00:21:46,520 --> 00:21:49,480
Speaker 3: give until it hurts. There's a whole Jethro Toll song

446
00:21:49,560 --> 00:21:52,959
Speaker 3: of all things talking about all of that, of you know,

447
00:21:53,040 --> 00:21:57,320
Speaker 3: trying to get over and for North Carolina, you remember

448
00:21:57,400 --> 00:21:59,800
Speaker 3: those folks are getting tapped on the football side now too,

449
00:22:00,440 --> 00:22:02,680
Speaker 3: Like once upon a time it was only the basketball program.

450
00:22:02,720 --> 00:22:04,840
Speaker 3: Now you got Bill Belichick and everybody else going, hey,

451
00:22:04,840 --> 00:22:07,720
Speaker 3: we need your money too, So which side are you

452
00:22:07,800 --> 00:22:10,440
Speaker 3: going to? And if if you're running into two brick

453
00:22:10,520 --> 00:22:14,240
Speaker 3: walls every time there's a meaningful game on the basketball

454
00:22:14,280 --> 00:22:15,919
Speaker 3: So I'd guess what. All right, let's see if we

455
00:22:15,920 --> 00:22:19,440
Speaker 3: can't build up the football program, and I'll commit this year.

456
00:22:19,560 --> 00:22:23,200
Speaker 3: My money goes that way. And so for Hubert Davis,

457
00:22:23,280 --> 00:22:25,320
Speaker 3: a lot of great wins, a lot of great moments,

458
00:22:26,040 --> 00:22:29,879
Speaker 3: but certainly not the signature moments is in moments in March,

459
00:22:30,280 --> 00:22:32,480
Speaker 3: and so you move on from there. I do have

460
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Speaker 3: a question, though, Can Jerry McNamara pull a Bill Belichick

461
00:22:37,960 --> 00:22:43,040
Speaker 3: and leave a napkin with a note.

462
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Speaker 1: Sign as HC of SU and he just waves and

463
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Speaker 1: he just puts on the North Carolina Yay, I'm joining

464
00:22:50,720 --> 00:22:53,800
Speaker 1: Bill Belichick. Well that's the other part of this now

465
00:22:53,880 --> 00:22:57,199
Speaker 1: is that, Okay, who are you gonna get right? Like

466
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Speaker 1: this is not a great year now it's North Carolina.

467
00:23:00,119 --> 00:23:02,520
Speaker 1: Want to think that there are people that would say, hey,

468
00:23:02,520 --> 00:23:03,960
Speaker 1: I want to throw my hat in the ring. I'd

469
00:23:04,000 --> 00:23:05,960
Speaker 1: love to be there because of the story program. But

470
00:23:06,359 --> 00:23:08,240
Speaker 1: this is not the year to need somebody. This is

471
00:23:08,240 --> 00:23:10,080
Speaker 1: not the year, or hey there's some up and coming guys,

472
00:23:10,200 --> 00:23:12,359
Speaker 1: or you know, North Carolina likes to go within the

473
00:23:12,400 --> 00:23:14,760
Speaker 1: program for their head coach. They might go outside the

474
00:23:14,800 --> 00:23:17,600
Speaker 1: program here because I don't know who's out there you're

475
00:23:17,640 --> 00:23:20,120
Speaker 1: gonna get. Now. Could Josh Shirt say oh yeah, hey,

476
00:23:20,119 --> 00:23:23,280
Speaker 1: now I'd like to leave Saint Louis now I can go. Yeah,

477
00:23:23,320 --> 00:23:25,640
Speaker 1: But it's not like you have a lot of great

478
00:23:25,720 --> 00:23:27,280
Speaker 1: choices out there where it's like, yeah, well, this is

479
00:23:27,320 --> 00:23:29,840
Speaker 1: the year to do it, because we know this is

480
00:23:29,920 --> 00:23:32,719
Speaker 1: the difficult part now. Yeah, the easy part was saying, okay,

481
00:23:32,960 --> 00:23:35,320
Speaker 1: we heard from everybody, all the nil money people, and

482
00:23:35,359 --> 00:23:38,960
Speaker 1: they said, yeah, we want somebody else now, okay, so

483
00:23:39,040 --> 00:23:42,280
Speaker 1: what do you get Like this is now the difficult

484
00:23:42,320 --> 00:23:45,000
Speaker 1: part for North Carolina because I don't know, I don't know.

485
00:23:45,040 --> 00:23:46,840
Speaker 1: It might not be just as entertained to have Belichick

486
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Speaker 1: coach college basketball both let him pull the double.

487
00:23:49,640 --> 00:23:52,200
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean some theories. You know, you're looking at

488
00:23:52,200 --> 00:23:55,280
Speaker 3: Billy Donovan. It's been a rough season for the Bulls,

489
00:23:55,280 --> 00:23:58,399
Speaker 3: a lot of change and some personal stuff and everything else.

490
00:23:58,440 --> 00:24:02,879
Speaker 3: But whether that i'd seen the question mark next to

491
00:24:02,920 --> 00:24:06,360
Speaker 3: Brad Stevens name of whether he'd want to get back

492
00:24:06,359 --> 00:24:09,240
Speaker 3: on a sideline. It would be interesting to see Todd

493
00:24:09,280 --> 00:24:12,000
Speaker 3: Golden show up. He and Bill Belichick could be one

494
00:24:12,040 --> 00:24:15,440
Speaker 3: of the greatest tag teams ever in terms of intimidation

495
00:24:15,640 --> 00:24:18,520
Speaker 3: and up and down the sideline, So that could be fun.

496
00:24:19,240 --> 00:24:22,199
Speaker 3: But other than that, yeah, you're starting to look at all, right,

497
00:24:22,200 --> 00:24:25,760
Speaker 3: who's an assistant or where's there the young and up

498
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Speaker 3: and coming guy. Maybe once upon a time a member

499
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Speaker 3: of your program that you want to promote. But it's

500
00:24:31,760 --> 00:24:36,040
Speaker 3: certainly not a vast reservoir of coaches out there.

501
00:24:37,119 --> 00:24:39,920
Speaker 1: So while North Carolina is looking for a new head

502
00:24:39,960 --> 00:24:45,320
Speaker 1: basketball coach, Danny Hurley decided to really make some crazy

503
00:24:45,359 --> 00:24:48,720
Speaker 1: ass news today. Right, So the Yukon head coach, coming

504
00:24:48,760 --> 00:24:52,280
Speaker 1: off the win over UCLA big game against Michigan State,

505
00:24:52,640 --> 00:24:54,960
Speaker 1: they take on the winner of Saint John's and Duke

506
00:24:55,000 --> 00:24:59,480
Speaker 1: in the Sweet sixteen, and Danny Hurley said today that

507
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Speaker 1: he wants the fan bases of both Yukon and Saint

508
00:25:03,920 --> 00:25:07,639
Speaker 1: John's to rally together for one night and root for

509
00:25:07,720 --> 00:25:11,719
Speaker 1: each other, so they could potentially have the crowd behind

510
00:25:11,760 --> 00:25:13,920
Speaker 1: them and would help both the teams win, so they

511
00:25:13,920 --> 00:25:17,280
Speaker 1: can have a rematch on Sunday between the big EA

512
00:25:17,320 --> 00:25:19,800
Speaker 1: schools with the birth and the final four on the line.

513
00:25:19,960 --> 00:25:23,800
Speaker 1: So Danny Hurley wants longtime rivals Yukon and Saint John

514
00:25:23,840 --> 00:25:27,880
Speaker 1: Hey for one night. Let's unite, Let's back each other up.

515
00:25:28,080 --> 00:25:30,680
Speaker 1: Let's fill that arena up right, because we know filling

516
00:25:30,720 --> 00:25:33,200
Speaker 1: the arenas it gets difficult when you have a couple

517
00:25:33,280 --> 00:25:35,880
Speaker 1: of games going on and you have play fans coming

518
00:25:35,880 --> 00:25:38,359
Speaker 1: in and fans going out. Let's have all the Yukon

519
00:25:38,480 --> 00:25:40,520
Speaker 1: fans there for the Saint John's game and all the

520
00:25:40,520 --> 00:25:42,959
Speaker 1: Saint John's fan there for our game. Let's go so

521
00:25:43,000 --> 00:25:46,160
Speaker 1: we could potentially pull the big wins and play on Sunday.

522
00:25:46,520 --> 00:25:47,960
Speaker 1: You know what I would say to Danny Hurley, Mike

523
00:25:48,000 --> 00:25:50,879
Speaker 1: Carmen m hm. I would say, go kick Rocks and

524
00:25:50,960 --> 00:25:51,400
Speaker 1: beat it.

525
00:25:51,960 --> 00:25:54,480
Speaker 3: Beat it sound more and more like me.

526
00:25:55,040 --> 00:25:58,720
Speaker 1: I would say, take a walk, okay, because I'm not

527
00:25:58,840 --> 00:26:01,600
Speaker 1: teaming up with fans of team that I hate just

528
00:26:01,640 --> 00:26:04,400
Speaker 1: to play them again. Why would I do that? Why

529
00:26:04,400 --> 00:26:06,840
Speaker 1: would I I'm not gonna sit here and say, hey boy,

530
00:26:06,920 --> 00:26:09,720
Speaker 1: I'd like Syracuse to win and then I'll stay and

531
00:26:09,840 --> 00:26:12,240
Speaker 1: root for Georgetown so Syracuse can play Georgetown with a

532
00:26:12,280 --> 00:26:14,240
Speaker 1: birth of the fun. Now I don't want Georgetown to

533
00:26:14,280 --> 00:26:16,720
Speaker 1: win anything. All of a sudden, he's saying, Oh, let's

534
00:26:16,760 --> 00:26:19,760
Speaker 1: have the Big East rivals team up. No, you beat it,

535
00:26:19,800 --> 00:26:22,840
Speaker 1: first of all from the fan perspective. Secondly, you know

536
00:26:22,920 --> 00:26:24,520
Speaker 1: why he's saying it. And this is where I'm hoping

537
00:26:24,600 --> 00:26:27,600
Speaker 1: Rick Patino comes in and talks about motivation. He's saying

538
00:26:27,640 --> 00:26:30,679
Speaker 1: it because he knows we have a better chance at

539
00:26:30,680 --> 00:26:32,760
Speaker 1: beating Saint John's and we have a beating Duke. And

540
00:26:32,800 --> 00:26:35,880
Speaker 1: he's telling everybody that I want to play Saint John's

541
00:26:35,920 --> 00:26:39,359
Speaker 1: on Sunday. Oh, you want to play us? Hiding under

542
00:26:39,400 --> 00:26:41,440
Speaker 1: the Oh, look at this the Big East. I love

543
00:26:41,480 --> 00:26:43,320
Speaker 1: the Biggast. You really think he gives a crap about

544
00:26:43,359 --> 00:26:45,959
Speaker 1: the Big East? You really think he cares about Yukon

545
00:26:46,040 --> 00:26:48,240
Speaker 1: and Saint John's played the Big East. What a great

546
00:26:48,320 --> 00:26:50,639
Speaker 1: day for the Big East. No, he knows I have

547
00:26:50,720 --> 00:26:52,840
Speaker 1: a better chance of beating Saint John's because I know

548
00:26:52,920 --> 00:26:54,800
Speaker 1: the team. Even though they beat us twice, I know

549
00:26:54,880 --> 00:26:57,119
Speaker 1: the team, I know what they do. We match up

550
00:26:57,160 --> 00:26:59,639
Speaker 1: better against them. Duke is a terrific team, one of

551
00:26:59,640 --> 00:27:01,679
Speaker 1: the top two or three teams in the country. We

552
00:27:01,760 --> 00:27:04,120
Speaker 1: have a much better chance of beating Saint John's. That's

553
00:27:04,160 --> 00:27:06,199
Speaker 1: the real reason why I say beat it. And I

554
00:27:06,240 --> 00:27:08,520
Speaker 1: hope that this is what Patino says in the locker

555
00:27:08,600 --> 00:27:10,480
Speaker 1: room going. You know he wants a playoffs. Who thinks

556
00:27:10,480 --> 00:27:12,400
Speaker 1: he can beat us? Right now, you gotta worry about

557
00:27:12,480 --> 00:27:14,879
Speaker 1: Duke first, and Danny Hurley's getting way ahead of himself

558
00:27:14,920 --> 00:27:17,800
Speaker 1: with this whole crap here. But after that's over, I'm Patino.

559
00:27:18,040 --> 00:27:19,800
Speaker 1: I put a pin in that Nigel. You know, he

560
00:27:19,800 --> 00:27:21,920
Speaker 1: wants to play us because he thinks we're easier, because

561
00:27:21,960 --> 00:27:23,800
Speaker 1: he thinks he can beat us. That's the only reason

562
00:27:23,880 --> 00:27:27,040
Speaker 1: Danny Hurley is saying that. Danny Hurley is not Big East.

563
00:27:27,080 --> 00:27:29,160
Speaker 1: Till I die, He's not gonna take off his shirt.

564
00:27:29,200 --> 00:27:30,840
Speaker 1: So you look at this big East tattoo on me

565
00:27:30,920 --> 00:27:32,919
Speaker 1: right here. I got an old big East tattoo. I

566
00:27:32,960 --> 00:27:35,520
Speaker 1: got pictures of our tourist, Carnaciavus, I got pictures of

567
00:27:35,560 --> 00:27:39,000
Speaker 1: Alan Iverson. I'm going, I got pictures of Ronnie Sykelee.

568
00:27:39,080 --> 00:27:40,720
Speaker 1: Look at this. Look at these tattoos I got. No,

569
00:27:41,040 --> 00:27:43,080
Speaker 1: he thinks they can beat Saint John's. They have a

570
00:27:43,080 --> 00:27:45,399
Speaker 1: better chance of doing it. That's why he's trying to

571
00:27:45,440 --> 00:27:47,760
Speaker 1: throw this out there. Maybe the crowd will give us

572
00:27:47,760 --> 00:27:49,920
Speaker 1: a boost and give them a boost because on Sunday,

573
00:27:50,240 --> 00:27:52,280
Speaker 1: I know we can win that game. Yeah, Danny Hurley,

574
00:27:52,280 --> 00:27:53,760
Speaker 1: you beat it with that crap.

575
00:27:53,560 --> 00:27:57,280
Speaker 3: Big East till we die, Big East and dancing around

576
00:27:57,320 --> 00:28:02,120
Speaker 3: like you're a soccer hooligan. No, it's it's fun, one

577
00:28:02,119 --> 00:28:05,119
Speaker 3: of those fun pieces of all right. The we have

578
00:28:05,160 --> 00:28:09,440
Speaker 3: a common enemy here in Duke and we'll team up

579
00:28:09,520 --> 00:28:13,159
Speaker 3: with our fans, will be really loud against them, and

580
00:28:13,200 --> 00:28:15,280
Speaker 3: then we'll go back and we'll fight. Right, It's like

581
00:28:15,359 --> 00:28:18,600
Speaker 3: being in a triple threat match in the Wwe we

582
00:28:18,680 --> 00:28:20,480
Speaker 3: both hate that guy a little bit more than we

583
00:28:20,560 --> 00:28:23,639
Speaker 3: hate each other, and but we really eliminate him. Then

584
00:28:23,680 --> 00:28:28,440
Speaker 3: we get back onto the mad ourselves for the heavyweight title. Yeah,

585
00:28:28,480 --> 00:28:32,360
Speaker 3: it doesn't work, it's bad logic, but I could see

586
00:28:32,359 --> 00:28:34,840
Speaker 3: where he's going. He could take it to the global interest, right,

587
00:28:34,960 --> 00:28:38,200
Speaker 3: you know, you you have some some nations you'll like

588
00:28:38,240 --> 00:28:41,040
Speaker 3: a little bit less than others, and so you team

589
00:28:41,160 --> 00:28:43,400
Speaker 3: up in a very un I mean you watch it

590
00:28:43,400 --> 00:28:47,640
Speaker 3: in superhero movies all the time, Smith, Right, the unconventional

591
00:28:48,200 --> 00:28:54,240
Speaker 3: and unh unholy alliances. That's what Danny Hurley's proposing here, yeah,

592
00:28:54,400 --> 00:28:55,440
Speaker 3: under the guys, though.

593
00:28:55,440 --> 00:28:57,640
Speaker 1: I'm not I'm not doing it. I'm not doing it

594
00:28:57,640 --> 00:28:59,760
Speaker 1: with a rival now if you want to do it.

595
00:29:00,560 --> 00:29:04,520
Speaker 1: Major League Baseball does the the All Star voting, where

596
00:29:04,560 --> 00:29:07,400
Speaker 1: like the Dodgers team up with the Mariners. Hey, we're

597
00:29:07,440 --> 00:29:09,840
Speaker 1: gonna try to get our guy in. You vote for

598
00:29:09,880 --> 00:29:12,000
Speaker 1: our guy, we vote for your guy. Like that's okay.

599
00:29:12,040 --> 00:29:14,000
Speaker 1: That's something I get because they're not rivals, right like

600
00:29:14,040 --> 00:29:16,680
Speaker 1: the Dodgers and the and the Mariners aren't rivals and

601
00:29:16,680 --> 00:29:19,480
Speaker 1: all this. Yeah, I understand that. But two teams that

602
00:29:19,680 --> 00:29:21,760
Speaker 1: growing up hating each other. I'm not gonna suddenly start

603
00:29:21,800 --> 00:29:23,640
Speaker 1: rooting for you. Come put you. No, I want you

604
00:29:23,800 --> 00:29:25,840
Speaker 1: con to lose. I want them to get smoked by

605
00:29:25,840 --> 00:29:28,600
Speaker 1: Michigan State. I want Tom Isoun to stand up and say, oh,

606
00:29:28,640 --> 00:29:30,600
Speaker 1: because we beat the guy that won the national title

607
00:29:30,640 --> 00:29:32,520
Speaker 1: twice in the last four years, I'm gonna cut down

608
00:29:32,520 --> 00:29:34,880
Speaker 1: nets tonight, even though I have another game coming up. No,

609
00:29:34,960 --> 00:29:37,040
Speaker 1: I'm rooting for Michigan State, thank you, And I think

610
00:29:37,080 --> 00:29:39,160
Speaker 1: you Kon would rather say I'd much rather you know,

611
00:29:39,200 --> 00:29:40,880
Speaker 1: I don't want to root for Saint John's even though

612
00:29:40,880 --> 00:29:43,360
Speaker 1: they much rather play them. But you can't just do

613
00:29:43,440 --> 00:29:45,920
Speaker 1: that for your all time, right, can't do that. That's ridiculous.

614
00:29:46,000 --> 00:29:48,040
Speaker 1: But I see through Danny Hurley, I see through exactly

615
00:29:48,040 --> 00:29:49,880
Speaker 1: what he wants to do. That's all white. That's what

616
00:29:49,880 --> 00:29:50,160
Speaker 1: he wants.

617
00:29:50,200 --> 00:29:53,400
Speaker 3: Yeah, as positive though.

618
00:29:55,920 --> 00:29:58,040
Speaker 1: That is that is that's that is about his positives.

619
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Speaker 3: Dance yea. Let's all cheer together so we can have

620
00:30:01,240 --> 00:30:04,040
Speaker 3: this big battle. Listen, if only you have the balls

621
00:30:04,040 --> 00:30:05,240
Speaker 3: to say it to his face.

622
00:30:05,920 --> 00:30:07,600
Speaker 1: We'll get him on the line. Frostburg, do your job,

623
00:30:07,760 --> 00:30:10,320
Speaker 1: he say to his face. No, get him, get him

624
00:30:10,320 --> 00:30:13,160
Speaker 1: in studio. We got video components here.

625
00:30:13,960 --> 00:30:15,440
Speaker 3: He's not coming in the studio for you.

626
00:30:16,880 --> 00:30:18,160
Speaker 1: Hey, we should have had him in when he was

627
00:30:18,160 --> 00:30:19,560
Speaker 1: coming around to be the head coach of the Lake.

628
00:30:19,640 --> 00:30:23,560
Speaker 3: Probably would until you said that stuff. Oh I'm not

629
00:30:23,600 --> 00:30:26,720
Speaker 3: doing that, until you called him a fraud. He was

630
00:30:27,080 --> 00:30:29,320
Speaker 3: just just around the corner ready to come in.

631
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Speaker 1: someone who's been called the Danny Hurley of Fox Sports Radio.

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Speaker 1: His yelling you was also really positive. It's Steve the Seger.

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Speaker 5: Wow, uh yeah, make me a better man, Steve go

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Speaker 5: not even clothes?

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Speaker 5: Do we have a lot of NBA tonight and a

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Speaker 5: night with only four games. The one in New York

646
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Speaker 5: went to the Knicks. They won seven in a row,

647
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Speaker 5: beat New Orleans one twenty one, one sixteen, Jalen Brunson

648
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Speaker 5: thirty two points. Charlotte won one thirty four to ninety

649
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Speaker 5: against Sacramento, and the Hornets from three point range were

650
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Speaker 5: twenty six for fifty five. It's in the final seconds

651
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Speaker 5: at Cleveland, the Cabs holding off Orlando one thirty three

652
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Speaker 5: to one twenty eight, So this would be for the

653
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Speaker 5: Magic a sixth straight loss, and the late game will

654
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Speaker 5: start after eleven Eastern time. Denver at Phoenix. The Grizzly

655
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Speaker 5: say John Morant will miss the remainder of the season.

656
00:31:47,760 --> 00:31:50,840
Speaker 5: After an injection into his injured left elbow. He'd been

657
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Speaker 5: out for almost two months, was out again last night.

658
00:31:54,040 --> 00:31:57,000
Speaker 5: Toronto's Brandon Ingram with a sore heel, missed last night.

659
00:31:57,040 --> 00:32:00,360
Speaker 5: He is questionable for Wednesday. Jalen Johnson of the Hawk's

660
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Speaker 5: questionable for Wednesday. Miss last night, last couple games in

661
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Speaker 5: fact with shoulder inflammation.

662
00:32:05,320 --> 00:32:06,240
Speaker 3: Trey Young, now with.

663
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Speaker 5: Washington, will miss a fifth straight game on Wednesday with

664
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Speaker 5: a bruce quad. Anthony Edwards of Minnesota is still limited

665
00:32:12,240 --> 00:32:15,880
Speaker 5: to individual work. He's out with knee inflammation. Moses Moody

666
00:32:15,880 --> 00:32:18,200
Speaker 5: of the Warriors is out for the year after last

667
00:32:18,280 --> 00:32:21,600
Speaker 5: night's torn pateeller tendon. Steph Curry of Golden State with

668
00:32:21,640 --> 00:32:24,040
Speaker 5: the bad knee, will miss another game Wednesday. He's being

669
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Speaker 5: re evaluated this week in hopes to scrimmage soon. Philadelphia's

670
00:32:28,000 --> 00:32:31,240
Speaker 5: Paul George returns on Wednesday after a twenty five game

671
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Speaker 5: suspension for Peds. The NBA's regular season ends April twelfth.

672
00:32:36,040 --> 00:32:39,480
Speaker 5: All teams will play that day. North Carolina basketball coach

673
00:32:39,520 --> 00:32:43,040
Speaker 5: Hubert Davis will not return after five years. Syracuse officially

674
00:32:43,120 --> 00:32:47,240
Speaker 5: hired coach Jerry McNamara. The NCAA men's Sweet sixteen starts

675
00:32:47,280 --> 00:32:51,200
Speaker 5: Thursday night. The nt quarter finals started tonight. Tulsid home,

676
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Speaker 5: a one seed, blew a sixteen point a half time lead,

677
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Speaker 5: but still defeated wich Dawa State eighty three seventy nine

678
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Speaker 5: and with under eleven minutes to go. One seed New

679
00:32:59,760 --> 00:33:02,800
Speaker 5: Mexi leads at home against Saint Joe's sixty three to

680
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Speaker 5: fifty one Women's Sweet sixteen in the NCAA starts Friday daytime.

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Speaker 5: Among the fifteen NHL games tonight, Tampa Bay at home

682
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Speaker 5: has beaten Minnesota sixty three, and Colorado was a six

683
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Speaker 5: to two winner at Pittsburgh. New Orleans is signing quarterback

684
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Speaker 5: Zach Wilson. The Bengals re signed veteran QB Joe Flacco,

685
00:33:22,280 --> 00:33:25,880
Speaker 5: the Falcon signed running back Brian Robinson, and Bucks linebacker

686
00:33:25,960 --> 00:33:29,480
Speaker 5: Levante David retired after fourteen seasons. By the Way Front

687
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Speaker 5: Office Sports says, ex Steelers coach Mike Tomlin has hired

688
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Speaker 5: an agent to represent him for television roles. The agent,

689
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Speaker 5: Sandy Montagg, used to represent the late John Madden. And

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Speaker 5: this note from the Dodgers' final exhibition going on at

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Speaker 5: Dodger Stadium. All the starters have long been pulled regular season.

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Speaker 3: Almost upon us.

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Speaker 5: But Shoheo Tani was LA's starting pitcher tonight through four

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Speaker 5: plus innings eleven strikeouts against the Angels, who did score

695
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Speaker 5: three runs in the fifth, three to nothing. The final,

696
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Speaker 5: it's gone final Halos.

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Speaker 3: Back to you.

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Speaker 1: Thank you, Steve Oh, Jason Smith, Mike Harmon live from

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Speaker 1: the Fox Sports Radio Studios. Coming up next, we got

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Speaker 1: the Play of the Day coming your way. And since

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Speaker 1: we're on the eve of the beginning of the Major

702
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Speaker 1: League Baseball season, how about two huge bold predictions for

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Speaker 1: the one hundred and sixty two games plus ahead of us.

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Speaker 1: We got that for you next right here, Jason.

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Speaker 2: Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith

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Speaker 2: Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven

707
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Speaker 2: pm Pacific.

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Speaker 1: Fox Sports Radio. The Jason Smith Show with my best

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Speaker 1: friend Mike Harmon, live from the Fox Sports Radio Studios.

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Speaker 1: Where it is opening day even Major League Baseball, Dodgers

711
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Speaker 1: Giants tomorrow. So we have some big bold predictions for

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Speaker 1: you coming up in a couple of minutes. But firsts

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Speaker 1: you have to Play of the Day. No, sorry, Yankees Giants,

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Speaker 1: Sorry Yankees Giants. I'm ahead of myself because the play

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Speaker 1: of the day is the Dodgers. For over forty years,

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Speaker 1: buying should be. Well, when you're the greatest baseball player

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Speaker 1: that I've ever seen, you get to be the play

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Speaker 1: of the day.

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Speaker 3: Pitch number eight from shoe Hey to Joe Adell.

724
00:35:29,400 --> 00:35:33,799
Speaker 2: Oh Tani turns it up to eleven eleven strikeouts in

725
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Speaker 2: the first four innings.

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Speaker 1: Sports in LA on the call, Yeah, oh Tani. Uh

727
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Speaker 1: so we get ready tomorrow. And I have two Big

728
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Speaker 1: Bowl predictions for you, Mike Carmon, Okay, hit me first one.

729
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Speaker 1: I will give you this on The first one is

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Speaker 1: show Heyo Tani, Show hey Otani. This year will win

731
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Speaker 1: the National League Sai Young Award, not the MVP, not

732
00:36:03,920 --> 00:36:06,520
Speaker 1: the World Series, not the World Series MVP. He will

733
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Speaker 1: win the nl CY Young. All the talk I've heard

734
00:36:11,320 --> 00:36:14,400
Speaker 1: in camp Dodgers, this is what he has focused on.

735
00:36:14,480 --> 00:36:17,160
Speaker 1: He is focused on his pitching. He does not want

736
00:36:17,200 --> 00:36:19,560
Speaker 1: to continue to be a Hey, he's the best slugger

737
00:36:19,560 --> 00:36:22,520
Speaker 1: we've ever seen. Yeah, enough with that on board. He

738
00:36:22,560 --> 00:36:25,040
Speaker 1: has really invested so much in his pitching. It's been

739
00:36:25,080 --> 00:36:26,920
Speaker 1: a couple of years now though. You don't have to

740
00:36:26,960 --> 00:36:28,919
Speaker 1: worry about wear and tear on him now. The only

741
00:36:28,960 --> 00:36:30,640
Speaker 1: hope is you hold your finger, you cross your fingers

742
00:36:30,680 --> 00:36:33,399
Speaker 1: if you're gonna stay healthy. But this is something that

743
00:36:33,520 --> 00:36:35,680
Speaker 1: motivates him. He wanted to be a fifty to fifty guy.

744
00:36:35,719 --> 00:36:37,959
Speaker 1: He wanted to steal fifty bases. Guess what he sole

745
00:36:38,000 --> 00:36:41,200
Speaker 1: fifty bases next year? Didn't steal fifty bases? Right, He's

746
00:36:41,239 --> 00:36:43,799
Speaker 1: someone that what am I going to do this year?

747
00:36:43,840 --> 00:36:46,040
Speaker 1: He is talented enough to do whatever he wants to

748
00:36:46,040 --> 00:36:49,399
Speaker 1: win Major League Baseball. You know it's there already as

749
00:36:49,440 --> 00:36:52,239
Speaker 1: a pitcher. He wins the Cy Young this year, and

750
00:36:52,280 --> 00:36:55,120
Speaker 1: the difference between him and a guy like Paul Schemes, hey,

751
00:36:55,760 --> 00:36:58,120
Speaker 1: he'll have more wins because he's playing on a better team.

752
00:36:58,520 --> 00:37:00,880
Speaker 1: Will the voters will want to give stuff like this

753
00:37:00,920 --> 00:37:02,919
Speaker 1: to show Heyo Tani because you want to see great

754
00:37:02,920 --> 00:37:05,879
Speaker 1: players do well, and he's gonna have the numbers. Give

755
00:37:05,920 --> 00:37:08,600
Speaker 1: me show Heo Tani will win the NL say Young this.

756
00:37:08,640 --> 00:37:13,560
Speaker 3: Year schemes two plus two, ten plus two twenty depending

757
00:37:13,600 --> 00:37:17,960
Speaker 3: on where you're shopping, followed by Ya Momoto Sanchez sail

758
00:37:18,320 --> 00:37:21,320
Speaker 3: all the way down to thirty to one your price

759
00:37:21,360 --> 00:37:24,760
Speaker 3: shot on show Hao Tani, he's minus one forty five

760
00:37:25,160 --> 00:37:27,040
Speaker 3: as your national league MVP.

761
00:37:28,280 --> 00:37:30,680
Speaker 1: I mean it could could be MVP and Cy Young

762
00:37:30,960 --> 00:37:33,680
Speaker 1: could be a year where maybe he only hits forty

763
00:37:33,719 --> 00:37:36,040
Speaker 1: five home runs, you know, and and and you know,

764
00:37:36,080 --> 00:37:39,359
Speaker 1: maybe Boba Schet hits fifty five. Maybe he only knocks in,

765
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Speaker 1: you know, maybe he only has a year where he

766
00:37:42,840 --> 00:37:46,279
Speaker 1: hit maybe only has that kind he already finished. But

767
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Speaker 1: give me the Cy Young for show Halo.

768
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Speaker 3: I just want to I want to know how why

769
00:37:50,400 --> 00:37:53,560
Speaker 3: his odds are so much longer than Blake Snell, who

770
00:37:53,600 --> 00:37:55,480
Speaker 3: we have no idea what he's actually gonna pitch.

771
00:37:55,760 --> 00:37:57,040
Speaker 1: Yeah, I know, well the whole thing.

772
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Speaker 3: He might not pitch till June.

773
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Speaker 1: He hasn't pitched a ton, and you know, but this

774
00:38:01,000 --> 00:38:02,520
Speaker 1: is when he comes back. You see here in a

775
00:38:02,520 --> 00:38:05,479
Speaker 1: big tune up eleven strikeouts. I mean, this is when

776
00:38:05,520 --> 00:38:08,400
Speaker 1: he puts his mind to something, he does it. And

777
00:38:08,600 --> 00:38:11,200
Speaker 1: you can tell already hearing every saying he's putting his

778
00:38:11,280 --> 00:38:14,439
Speaker 1: mind towards his pitching more than any other year. Okay, man,

779
00:38:14,680 --> 00:38:17,080
Speaker 1: he's healthy. He's your CLL Young Award winner in the

780
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Speaker 1: National League.

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00:38:17,719 --> 00:38:21,200
Speaker 3: How about al MVP plus twenty two hundred pee Alonzo?

782
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Speaker 1: Who if that happens. If that happens, I'm keying your car. No,

783
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Speaker 1: I'm just taking the doors off your car.

784
00:38:27,520 --> 00:38:29,600
Speaker 3: I mean he the tag team and he and Gunny

785
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Speaker 3: Gunner Henderson. I mean you're talking about too heavyweights. You're

786
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Speaker 3: right there, like when it happens, because it's going to

787
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Speaker 3: you have the tape Oka.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, no, forget it, man, if that happened.

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Speaker 3: I like those odds though, plus twenty two hundred, I

790
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Speaker 3: mean that's yeah, that's what twelfth.

791
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Speaker 1: That's pretty good. That's pretty good. Americanly, I'll give you

792
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Speaker 1: this Bowl prediction the American League. Now, it would certainly

793
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Speaker 1: help if the Orioles get to the playoffs and Alonso

794
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Speaker 1: has a big year, But representing the American League in

795
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Speaker 1: the World Series will be the New York will be

796
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Speaker 1: the Toronto, but will be the Boston Red Sox. Oh okay,

797
00:39:06,600 --> 00:39:10,760
Speaker 1: they have put together the best rotation in the American League,

798
00:39:10,960 --> 00:39:14,440
Speaker 1: right Crochet. I mean, this is what they were looking

799
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Speaker 1: for right now, man, this is how they're gonna hit

800
00:39:17,280 --> 00:39:19,560
Speaker 1: that next level. Now. They had a great lineup the

801
00:39:19,640 --> 00:39:22,480
Speaker 1: last couple of years, not quite as great on paper.

802
00:39:22,520 --> 00:39:24,960
Speaker 1: They lost a couple of guys, right, you lost Bregman.

803
00:39:25,360 --> 00:39:29,279
Speaker 1: But it doesn't matter. Roman Anthony is on the Juan

804
00:39:29,440 --> 00:39:32,839
Speaker 1: Soto path of here's the next great player showing up

805
00:39:32,880 --> 00:39:35,000
Speaker 1: in his early twenties. You saw the big role he

806
00:39:35,080 --> 00:39:37,839
Speaker 1: played for the United States the World Baseball Classic. They

807
00:39:37,880 --> 00:39:40,400
Speaker 1: will have more than enough hitting. This is the best

808
00:39:40,440 --> 00:39:43,280
Speaker 1: all around team in the American League. Boston Red Sox

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00:39:43,320 --> 00:39:44,600
Speaker 1: to the World Series this year.

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Speaker 3: Sixteen to one, your guy Anthony. Fourteen to one for

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Speaker 3: al MVP puts him fifth on the list. I'm looking

812
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Speaker 3: at the Detroit Tigers because I think it's gonna be chaos.

813
00:39:53,160 --> 00:39:56,440
Speaker 3: They got a good lineup and Professor Professor McGonagall will

814
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Speaker 3: be at shortstop.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I want to make sure he could turn himself

816
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Speaker 1: into a cat, and that's you need a short You're

817
00:40:01,040 --> 00:40:02,919
Speaker 1: gonna have those cat like reflexes a short stime.

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Speaker 3: Well, think about it. They turned into a black cat

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Speaker 3: and scare the hell out of people at the plate.

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Speaker 3: Carpenter Green to go on the mountain. The other part

821
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Speaker 3: is that you look at Valdez uh teamed with schoobl

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Speaker 3: and it creates chaos come mid season because if they're contending,

823
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Speaker 3: means they're not gonna spin Schooble off. Then they'll eventually

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Speaker 3: have to pay them.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean Tigers. Eventually you think they're gonna hit

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Speaker 1: a little bit more. Yeah, you think they're gonna a

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Speaker 1: little bit more. But every year has been Hey, we

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Speaker 1: hit just enough, like just just enough.

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Speaker 3: You got a couple of power guys, but we don't

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Speaker 3: string up big, big innings exactly.

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Speaker 1: I mean if I had, if I had more confidence

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Speaker 1: in their lineup, i'd feel a lot. Look, I still

833
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Speaker 1: there's still the class of the central and the one

834
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Speaker 1: two punch. They they they'll be a playoff team. But man,

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Speaker 1: I mean you've seen a couple of years now their

836
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Speaker 1: lineup just hasn't been enough and they really need a lot,

837
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Speaker 1: Like they need to make that bigle doesn't mean they can't,

838
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Speaker 1: but they need to make that leap if they're gonna

839
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Speaker 1: do it.

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Speaker 3: Twenty two to one on your board.

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Speaker 1: So there you go. Some bold predictions for the MLB

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Speaker 1: season that kicks off tomorrow. Coming up next we got

843
00:41:05,960 --> 00:41:09,880
Speaker 1: more big quarterback news coming your way. Quarterback speaking and

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Speaker 1: not speaking. That's next, Jason and Mike Fox, just stop

845
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Speaker 1: with that. Uh. First, you had Mike McCarthy appearing at

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Speaker 1: a big fan fest in Green Bay or at a

847
00:41:23,000 --> 00:41:25,600
Speaker 1: big memorial rather with a bunch of fans there.

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Speaker 3: Uh.

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Speaker 1: Kevin Harland always the I gotta say, always the uh

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00:41:32,400 --> 00:41:35,120
Speaker 1: the reporter, you know, even uh, you know, even in

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Speaker 1: a situation where he's where he's you know, talking about

852
00:41:38,120 --> 00:41:40,400
Speaker 1: the life of his dad and and everything else. Just

853
00:41:40,400 --> 00:41:45,760
Speaker 1: a really really something to see him go into reporter mode. Uh.

854
00:41:45,800 --> 00:41:47,880
Speaker 1: While they were going on and celebrating the life of

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00:41:47,920 --> 00:41:52,600
Speaker 1: Bob Harlan, uh asked Mike McCarthy about the Aaron Rodgers situation.

856
00:41:52,760 --> 00:41:55,120
Speaker 1: He says, well, you know, I'd love to have breaking

857
00:41:55,160 --> 00:41:57,600
Speaker 1: news for you, but Aaron's in a good place and

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Speaker 1: and you know they haven't heard anything yet. But went

859
00:41:59,800 --> 00:42:01,680
Speaker 1: on say a second time, he's in a good place

860
00:42:01,760 --> 00:42:04,600
Speaker 1: right now. So all of a sudden, I give I

861
00:42:04,840 --> 00:42:06,440
Speaker 1: give Kevin Harlan all the props in the world to

862
00:42:06,560 --> 00:42:10,360
Speaker 1: be able to ask asking that question, what's gonna happen

863
00:42:10,400 --> 00:42:15,200
Speaker 1: now with McCarthy and Aaron Rodgers and the Steelers. McCarthy

864
00:42:15,200 --> 00:42:18,640
Speaker 1: said it would be a great story if Rogers would

865
00:42:18,680 --> 00:42:21,600
Speaker 1: return to the Steelers. First of all, I want to

866
00:42:21,640 --> 00:42:26,480
Speaker 1: say again, relax, relax, Aaron Rodgers is coming on R

867
00:42:26,640 --> 00:42:31,799
Speaker 1: E L A Number one. He'd have retired already if

868
00:42:31,800 --> 00:42:34,640
Speaker 1: he really wanted to. He's got the he's got the

869
00:42:34,680 --> 00:42:36,880
Speaker 1: hammer in his hands. He can he can make the

870
00:42:36,920 --> 00:42:39,600
Speaker 1: decision if I'm retiring. He's not gonna sit around and

871
00:42:40,040 --> 00:42:42,360
Speaker 1: wait for the phone to ring and hope somebody's gonna

872
00:42:42,360 --> 00:42:44,640
Speaker 1: call him. No, he could make that decision to return

873
00:42:44,680 --> 00:42:46,719
Speaker 1: to start for the Steelers, or he could make that

874
00:42:46,800 --> 00:42:49,920
Speaker 1: decision to retire. He'd have done that already if he

875
00:42:49,960 --> 00:42:53,359
Speaker 1: wanted to. He's being Aaron. He likes the leverage, right,

876
00:42:53,360 --> 00:42:55,600
Speaker 1: He likes the leverage being able to control stuff, likes

877
00:42:55,600 --> 00:42:59,080
Speaker 1: the attention. He also likes the me time, in which, Yeah,

878
00:42:59,160 --> 00:43:01,239
Speaker 1: if I commit to coming back, then all of a sudden,

879
00:43:01,239 --> 00:43:03,799
Speaker 1: I gotta start coming to these peskyotas and different things.

880
00:43:03,800 --> 00:43:04,640
Speaker 1: And I don't want to do that.

881
00:43:04,680 --> 00:43:04,879
Speaker 3: Man.

882
00:43:04,920 --> 00:43:07,319
Speaker 1: I like being away from football and hanging out and

883
00:43:07,360 --> 00:43:10,120
Speaker 1: going to Hawaii and darkness retreat. So the only reason

884
00:43:10,120 --> 00:43:13,160
Speaker 1: you're not heard anything for Rogers yet is yeah, he's

885
00:43:13,200 --> 00:43:16,400
Speaker 1: got the leverage and the me time he'll be back,

886
00:43:16,640 --> 00:43:18,760
Speaker 1: it will be you know, just wait for the decision

887
00:43:18,800 --> 00:43:21,160
Speaker 1: on it. But I guarantee that he has left bread

888
00:43:21,200 --> 00:43:23,520
Speaker 1: crumbs all ready that he is returning. Because there's no

889
00:43:23,560 --> 00:43:26,480
Speaker 1: way the Steelers go through free agency like they did

890
00:43:26,880 --> 00:43:28,799
Speaker 1: and and sit here in a in a year in

891
00:43:28,800 --> 00:43:31,439
Speaker 1: which there's nobody out there in the draft that they're

892
00:43:31,440 --> 00:43:33,480
Speaker 1: gonna be able to draft, come in and start right away,

893
00:43:33,719 --> 00:43:36,799
Speaker 1: they would have addressed the quarterback position. There's no way

894
00:43:36,880 --> 00:43:40,120
Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers is not coming back. He will be playing football.

895
00:43:40,160 --> 00:43:42,040
Speaker 1: He'll be starting for the Steelers this year and Mike

896
00:43:42,120 --> 00:43:45,640
Speaker 1: McCarthy for at least one more year. Don't worry, it's happening.

897
00:43:45,760 --> 00:43:50,239
Speaker 3: You added Ric O'Donnell, You added Michael Pittman junior, and

898
00:43:50,560 --> 00:43:53,719
Speaker 3: your your defense comes back should be a more consistent

899
00:43:53,840 --> 00:43:58,160
Speaker 3: unit with Watt and company up front. Every everything points

900
00:43:58,200 --> 00:44:01,480
Speaker 3: to a you have a mom before. Anybody's gotta make

901
00:44:01,480 --> 00:44:04,759
Speaker 3: a decision, right as long as he tells him on

902
00:44:04,880 --> 00:44:06,680
Speaker 3: the eve of the draft, hey we need to draft

903
00:44:06,680 --> 00:44:10,560
Speaker 3: a guy. Are you showing up? Okay? Asked? Answered? Done?

904
00:44:10,680 --> 00:44:14,600
Speaker 3: Otherwise it's Mason Rudolph and some folks you know, the whispers,

905
00:44:14,760 --> 00:44:18,759
Speaker 3: your guy Will Howard might get his shot. But yeah,

906
00:44:18,800 --> 00:44:22,279
Speaker 3: I would be absolutely shocked if suddenly Aaron Rodgers were

907
00:44:22,360 --> 00:44:26,520
Speaker 3: not showing up at OTAs and starting to roll towards

908
00:44:26,520 --> 00:44:29,719
Speaker 3: a twenty twenty six season. It just seems that he

909
00:44:29,760 --> 00:44:32,719
Speaker 3: would have taken his victory lap by this point and

910
00:44:32,760 --> 00:44:34,080
Speaker 3: not dragged it out.

911
00:44:34,440 --> 00:44:36,000
Speaker 1: And you know, and the other thing is this for

912
00:44:36,040 --> 00:44:38,919
Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers because and think about this, this is how

913
00:44:38,920 --> 00:44:42,919
Speaker 1: calculated he is. He is also making sure that there

914
00:44:43,000 --> 00:44:46,560
Speaker 1: is no pathway for anything other than I'm the starting

915
00:44:46,640 --> 00:44:49,960
Speaker 1: quarterback and nobody is threatening me. Right, He's not gonna

916
00:44:49,960 --> 00:44:53,000
Speaker 1: go out like Russell Wilson where I'm here, Jackson Dart

917
00:44:53,040 --> 00:44:55,680
Speaker 1: gets drafted and all of a sudden, what's gonna happen

918
00:44:55,719 --> 00:44:58,560
Speaker 1: to me? Right? The only scenario for Rodgers is I'm

919
00:44:58,560 --> 00:45:00,520
Speaker 1: the starting quarterback and if you I have a guy

920
00:45:00,920 --> 00:45:04,520
Speaker 1: that you're drafting later on, you know, third or fourth round,

921
00:45:04,520 --> 00:45:06,279
Speaker 1: that you think might be able to take over for

922
00:45:06,400 --> 00:45:08,080
Speaker 1: me in a year. Yet, No, I'm okay with that.

923
00:45:08,080 --> 00:45:10,399
Speaker 1: That I understand, but I'm not coming in here. I'm

924
00:45:10,440 --> 00:45:14,000
Speaker 1: not going out like like like we watched with Russell Wilson,

925
00:45:14,000 --> 00:45:15,960
Speaker 1: where I sign I'm here, and all of a sudden

926
00:45:16,040 --> 00:45:18,359
Speaker 1: things changed during the draft, and now maybe I'm not

927
00:45:18,400 --> 00:45:21,080
Speaker 1: the starting quarterback and he loses his job and Russell

928
00:45:21,080 --> 00:45:23,759
Speaker 1: Wilson finishes this season and maybe his career with a

929
00:45:23,760 --> 00:45:26,360
Speaker 1: big park on watching Jackson Dart be the quarterback of

930
00:45:26,400 --> 00:45:29,520
Speaker 1: the future. So I don't expect anything until even after

931
00:45:29,560 --> 00:45:33,560
Speaker 1: the draft from Aaron Rodgers officially, because he'll probably talk

932
00:45:33,560 --> 00:45:35,360
Speaker 1: to McCarthy and saying, look, I'm coming back, but I

933
00:45:35,400 --> 00:45:38,040
Speaker 1: want my time away from the team. McCarthy's saying, that's fine.

934
00:45:38,040 --> 00:45:40,520
Speaker 1: You know, the offense, everything is cool. I have no

935
00:45:40,560 --> 00:45:42,920
Speaker 1: problem with that. All right, that's great. Then after the

936
00:45:43,000 --> 00:45:45,160
Speaker 1: draft is when he will decide to come in because

937
00:45:45,160 --> 00:45:47,759
Speaker 1: he wants to hold out, you know, hope. What if

938
00:45:47,960 --> 00:45:49,799
Speaker 1: he says, yes, I'm coming back, and then then the

939
00:45:49,880 --> 00:45:52,520
Speaker 1: draft suddenly, oh, the Steelers decided to take Ty Simpson.

940
00:45:52,800 --> 00:45:55,680
Speaker 1: Whoa whoa, whoa, whoa whoa. We didn't know he was

941
00:45:55,719 --> 00:45:58,839
Speaker 1: gonna be there. We didn't know he's a great quarterback. Whoa,

942
00:45:58,880 --> 00:46:00,719
Speaker 1: whoa whoa. Now all of a sudden are different for

943
00:46:00,760 --> 00:46:03,359
Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers. And now wait a minute, now people are

944
00:46:03,360 --> 00:46:05,279
Speaker 1: gonna want to see Ty Simpson play right away. And

945
00:46:05,280 --> 00:46:08,200
Speaker 1: now I'm in a Russell Wilson situation. So he's going

946
00:46:08,239 --> 00:46:10,920
Speaker 1: to wait until after the draft, and so we can

947
00:46:10,920 --> 00:46:13,040
Speaker 1: control the narrative where I come back as a starter

948
00:46:13,160 --> 00:46:15,319
Speaker 1: and that's it, and that's how it's gonna go. So

949
00:46:15,640 --> 00:46:19,520
Speaker 1: he's being calculated, he's being Aaron. He's enjoying me time.

950
00:46:19,560 --> 00:46:22,120
Speaker 1: He's doing all of this. He's done this before. We've

951
00:46:22,120 --> 00:46:24,560
Speaker 1: watched him do it. This is what's happening. But at

952
00:46:24,560 --> 00:46:27,400
Speaker 1: the end, after the draft is over, get that official announcement,

953
00:46:27,640 --> 00:46:30,000
Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers will be back playing football for the Steelers

954
00:46:30,000 --> 00:46:32,040
Speaker 1: this year. Be a big love fest with him and

955
00:46:32,120 --> 00:46:34,319
Speaker 1: McCarthy and oh, there was never any doubt that I

956
00:46:34,400 --> 00:46:37,239
Speaker 1: was coming back. I'm excited all the normal stuff. So

957
00:46:37,280 --> 00:46:39,760
Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers gonna have the off season that he always

958
00:46:39,800 --> 00:46:42,040
Speaker 1: wants to have. I'm away from the team. I can

959
00:46:42,080 --> 00:46:44,319
Speaker 1: hang out and go to darkness retreats. I can make

960
00:46:44,360 --> 00:46:47,160
Speaker 1: sure nobody's threatening my job, and I can get time

961
00:46:47,200 --> 00:46:48,759
Speaker 1: to do whatever the hell I want to because you know,

962
00:46:48,800 --> 00:46:50,799
Speaker 1: I'm Aaron Rodgers, and that's how I roll. Now.

963
00:46:51,560 --> 00:46:56,120
Speaker 3: I took some black and I always defended the Packers

964
00:46:56,160 --> 00:46:58,400
Speaker 3: when they took Jordan Love right, Eventually you got to

965
00:46:58,440 --> 00:47:00,960
Speaker 3: start planning for the future. And if a guy's gonna

966
00:47:00,960 --> 00:47:04,879
Speaker 3: threaten to retire multiple years and he's had a couple

967
00:47:04,920 --> 00:47:07,960
Speaker 3: of big injuries and you went down that road with

968
00:47:08,040 --> 00:47:11,680
Speaker 3: the guy's predecessor, eventually you need to get that replacement

969
00:47:11,680 --> 00:47:13,919
Speaker 3: in house. Now, how good Jordan Love is, We're still

970
00:47:13,960 --> 00:47:16,520
Speaker 3: waiting to find out. There have been some big stretches.

971
00:47:16,600 --> 00:47:20,440
Speaker 3: There have been some injury times missed, and some erratic

972
00:47:20,480 --> 00:47:23,720
Speaker 3: play at times. And then his backup went and signed

973
00:47:23,760 --> 00:47:27,440
Speaker 3: off a very short sample size, a nice lucrative contract

974
00:47:27,440 --> 00:47:30,520
Speaker 3: for sixty seven million dollars down in Miami. But all

975
00:47:30,560 --> 00:47:32,440
Speaker 3: of that's it for Aaron Rodgers that you know, the

976
00:47:32,440 --> 00:47:35,080
Speaker 3: writing's on the wall. You're not the three to five

977
00:47:35,160 --> 00:47:39,279
Speaker 3: year answer. So deciding, Hey, I gotta see what you

978
00:47:39,320 --> 00:47:41,279
Speaker 3: do in the draft as to whether you're bringing a

979
00:47:41,360 --> 00:47:45,960
Speaker 3: quarterback in. I'm sorry. If I'm Mike McCarthy and I'm

980
00:47:46,160 --> 00:47:48,480
Speaker 3: you know, Omar Cohn and all those guys up front,

981
00:47:49,400 --> 00:47:51,920
Speaker 3: there's no chance in hell I'm letting him dictate that.

982
00:47:52,600 --> 00:47:54,880
Speaker 3: Like we got, we gotta still be looking towards twenty

983
00:47:54,880 --> 00:47:58,000
Speaker 3: seven and beyond, even though we need the best team possible. Hey,

984
00:47:58,040 --> 00:48:00,360
Speaker 3: you know what, we really like Simpson in this spot,

985
00:48:00,400 --> 00:48:03,080
Speaker 3: but because Aaron might get sad and not want to

986
00:48:03,080 --> 00:48:05,759
Speaker 3: show up, we're not gonna draft him. I don't know

987
00:48:06,000 --> 00:48:08,240
Speaker 3: at forty one, I don't think you have that same juice.

988
00:48:08,360 --> 00:48:11,279
Speaker 1: No, but there's a difference between Hey, we're drafting a

989
00:48:11,280 --> 00:48:14,000
Speaker 1: guy in the third round that we think is gonna

990
00:48:14,040 --> 00:48:17,279
Speaker 1: sit sit behind you, that that's not gonna be a

991
00:48:17,320 --> 00:48:19,560
Speaker 1: player that the fans are going to demand to see

992
00:48:19,600 --> 00:48:22,319
Speaker 1: on the field. There's a difference between drafting that guy

993
00:48:22,560 --> 00:48:24,560
Speaker 1: and then saying, hey, we didn't think Ty Simpson was

994
00:48:24,600 --> 00:48:26,160
Speaker 1: gonna be here and we were picking we're taking him

995
00:48:26,160 --> 00:48:28,239
Speaker 1: in the first round. Right. There's a difference because that's

996
00:48:28,280 --> 00:48:30,279
Speaker 1: all a sudden that's a first round pick. That's a

997
00:48:30,320 --> 00:48:33,080
Speaker 1: guy you gotta see play, and the clock is ticking

998
00:48:33,120 --> 00:48:36,719
Speaker 1: for Aaron Rodgers right, that the first round quarterbacks always play, right.

999
00:48:36,960 --> 00:48:39,200
Speaker 1: I want to make sure that that doesn't happen.

1000
00:48:39,280 --> 00:48:41,759
Speaker 3: I want to see people finally book that trend. They

1001
00:48:41,800 --> 00:48:44,000
Speaker 3: don't have to play. They're not ready.

1002
00:48:44,000 --> 00:48:46,520
Speaker 1: They're not ready, But it doesn't matter if you've got

1003
00:48:46,520 --> 00:48:47,479
Speaker 1: a team that can win.

1004
00:48:47,920 --> 00:48:50,640
Speaker 3: You know, with the forty one year old, these average

1005
00:48:50,760 --> 00:48:54,439
Speaker 3: yard intended yards per pass play is five point eight,

1006
00:48:55,000 --> 00:48:56,000
Speaker 3: dann it you do it?

1007
00:48:58,360 --> 00:49:01,400
Speaker 1: But that but if that, look at what happened to

1008
00:49:01,480 --> 00:49:03,560
Speaker 1: Russell Wilson last year. I'm a giant. Then they got

1009
00:49:03,680 --> 00:49:07,000
Speaker 1: Jackson Dart and it's oh man, that sucks, like good, Look,

1010
00:49:07,040 --> 00:49:09,640
Speaker 1: that's just how I go. First round quarterbacks always play,

1011
00:49:09,960 --> 00:49:11,920
Speaker 1: they always play. You don't draft a guy in the

1012
00:49:11,920 --> 00:49:13,440
Speaker 1: first round and don't get anything from him that that

1013
00:49:13,800 --> 00:49:16,760
Speaker 1: just happens. If that happens, and there is a chance,

1014
00:49:16,800 --> 00:49:19,520
Speaker 1: because until the draft is finished, there's always a chance.

1015
00:49:19,960 --> 00:49:21,360
Speaker 1: You don't know what. All of a sudden, the Steelers

1016
00:49:21,360 --> 00:49:22,879
Speaker 1: are gonna go, Hey, we didn't think we could get

1017
00:49:22,880 --> 00:49:24,640
Speaker 1: this guy. We didn't think people would lay off a

1018
00:49:24,719 --> 00:49:27,759
Speaker 1: Ty Simpson here or you know whoever else they have

1019
00:49:28,040 --> 00:49:30,600
Speaker 1: when they come around to pick. We gotta get this guy. Man,

1020
00:49:30,640 --> 00:49:32,719
Speaker 1: We really think he's a part of our future. Boy

1021
00:49:32,800 --> 00:49:34,960
Speaker 1: that becomes a sticky wicket with Aaron Rodgers this year.

1022
00:49:34,960 --> 00:49:36,680
Speaker 1: But hey, it doesn't matter if Aaron Rodgers is great,

1023
00:49:36,719 --> 00:49:39,040
Speaker 1: you talk yourself into stuff. If Rogers is great, he's

1024
00:49:39,040 --> 00:49:41,319
Speaker 1: the starter, and it's fine. If not, we have our guy,

1025
00:49:41,360 --> 00:49:43,719
Speaker 1: it's fine. Oh it's great. Everything works. Meanwhile, when you

1026
00:49:43,760 --> 00:49:46,080
Speaker 1: actually do it. You realize it's a mess, right, And

1027
00:49:46,520 --> 00:49:48,640
Speaker 1: Rogers goes, I'm not gonna go out that way. I'm

1028
00:49:48,680 --> 00:49:50,920
Speaker 1: not gonna go out Russell Wilson, I'm a giant. Oh

1029
00:49:50,960 --> 00:49:54,719
Speaker 1: but now they have Jackson Dart. Yeah. Now that's really difficult, man,

1030
00:49:54,719 --> 00:49:57,000
Speaker 1: because you can you can sit there and convince yourself

1031
00:49:57,040 --> 00:49:58,799
Speaker 1: till you're blue in the face. Oh, I can keep

1032
00:49:58,840 --> 00:50:01,680
Speaker 1: this job all season. Notw happening, man, not happening the

1033
00:50:01,719 --> 00:50:05,080
Speaker 1: first bad game or two you have. Yeah, guess what

1034
00:50:05,239 --> 00:50:07,080
Speaker 1: it's gonna be. The first round pick that's gonna play.

1035
00:50:07,200 --> 00:50:09,600
Speaker 1: So look, so Roger, he's doing all of this, and

1036
00:50:09,640 --> 00:50:11,640
Speaker 1: I get it, right, I get that Rogers is doing

1037
00:50:11,719 --> 00:50:14,439
Speaker 1: this because he all that he can control right now

1038
00:50:14,520 --> 00:50:18,000
Speaker 1: is how he finishes. And it's so rare that quarterbacks

1039
00:50:18,040 --> 00:50:20,480
Speaker 1: get to do that. He's making sure that. And he's

1040
00:50:20,520 --> 00:50:22,680
Speaker 1: also learning from the lessons of other guys that are

1041
00:50:22,719 --> 00:50:25,960
Speaker 1: just kind of doing whatever, right, like a Kirk Cousins

1042
00:50:26,160 --> 00:50:28,440
Speaker 1: doing whatever. Yeah. I don't know, man, I you know,

1043
00:50:28,480 --> 00:50:30,640
Speaker 1: I signed there and then they screwed me with Michael Pennix,

1044
00:50:30,640 --> 00:50:33,120
Speaker 1: And you know, maybe I could have gone someplace a

1045
00:50:33,239 --> 00:50:36,760
Speaker 1: year before, but I wouldn't take less money. I wouldn't

1046
00:50:36,800 --> 00:50:38,680
Speaker 1: do the money thing, and now I'm screwed, and now

1047
00:50:38,680 --> 00:50:41,080
Speaker 1: who knows what my path forward is gonna be in

1048
00:50:41,480 --> 00:50:44,280
Speaker 1: the NFL for the rest of my career. Right, Rogers

1049
00:50:44,320 --> 00:50:47,080
Speaker 1: is seeing all of these mistakes that the older quarterbacks

1050
00:50:47,080 --> 00:50:49,279
Speaker 1: have made, and he's saying, Okay, not gonna do that,

1051
00:50:49,520 --> 00:50:51,879
Speaker 1: not gonna do that, not gonna do that. I'm gonna

1052
00:50:51,920 --> 00:50:54,400
Speaker 1: be the only option to quarterback until I decide I

1053
00:50:54,440 --> 00:50:56,200
Speaker 1: am not the quarterback anymore. That's how it's gonna be.

1054
00:50:56,280 --> 00:50:57,960
Speaker 3: Well, I mean, to be fair. I mean, when when

1055
00:50:57,960 --> 00:51:01,520
Speaker 3: we look at our guy, Kirk Cousins, at no point

1056
00:51:01,520 --> 00:51:05,279
Speaker 3: can he ever look and go, boy, that was no

1057
00:51:05,560 --> 00:51:08,279
Speaker 3: you decided about your bank account, like we learned long ago,

1058
00:51:08,400 --> 00:51:12,400
Speaker 3: that was first and foremost what mattered to Kirk Cousins.

1059
00:51:13,000 --> 00:51:15,680
Speaker 3: The winning seems to be second. And I think we

1060
00:51:15,719 --> 00:51:18,399
Speaker 3: all agree to that. The only other time because even

1061
00:51:18,719 --> 00:51:23,120
Speaker 3: your Jets, you coulda gone to the Jets and then wait,

1062
00:51:23,120 --> 00:51:26,360
Speaker 3: they're gonna give me what and it's all guaranteed. Thanks Jets.

1063
00:51:26,800 --> 00:51:30,839
Speaker 3: I mean, come on, and I like Kirk Cousins. He's

1064
00:51:30,880 --> 00:51:32,960
Speaker 3: been fun to watch. He's had a hell of a career,

1065
00:51:33,080 --> 00:51:39,200
Speaker 3: but he's the greatest businessman we've seen quarterbacking great at times.

1066
00:51:39,480 --> 00:51:41,080
Speaker 3: Businessman on parallel

1067
00:51:42,760 --> 00:51:45,320
Speaker 1: Exit out about a Fresco exit swallen down the Jason

1068
00:51:45,360 --> 00:51:47,680
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