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Speaker 2: Welcome back to Fox Sports Saturday. I'm Alex Curry here

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Speaker 2: with Carmen Vitally. Thank you for spending your Saturday afternoon

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Speaker 2: with us. It is a beautiful Saturday afternoon here in

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Speaker 2: Los Angeles. It was almost ninety degrees when I was

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Speaker 2: driving in Karmie. Are you getting the blazing hot Are

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Speaker 2: you getting the East Coast blizzard?

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Speaker 3: Oh no, no, that didn't hit us. It was sixty

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Speaker 3: degrees here yesterday, and.

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Speaker 4: That's a big deal.

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Speaker 5: It was a huge deal. We went out in a sweatshirt,

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Speaker 5: took the dog for a walk.

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Speaker 3: Everybody was out, people were on patios. I kid you not.

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Speaker 2: I went for a walk this morning, our family dog

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Speaker 2: walk on the strand, and the beach was packed at

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Speaker 2: nine am, like everyone out playing volleyball, walking, biking, running.

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Speaker 4: I just I am obsessed with where I live.

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Speaker 2: It's also my hometown, so I'm like, you know, yeah,

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Speaker 2: I'm a hot girly, not a cold time girley.

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Speaker 3: I'm not. I don't like he.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I don't like he, but that's probably a product

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Speaker 5: where I grew up, which is here in Chicago.

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Speaker 3: I like seasons.

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Speaker 2: Seasons we are where we are meant to be and

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Speaker 2: you guys, we have a full slate of spring training

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Speaker 2: games that are happening right now. It's so beautiful. We're

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Speaker 2: a week away from the World Baseball Classic. I don't

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Speaker 2: know if you remember last World Baseball Classic WBC where

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Speaker 2: Otani and Team Japan took gold in that cinema moment

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Speaker 2: where he was facing my Trout in the ninth like

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Speaker 2: Otani closing for the first time ever, and whoever won

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Speaker 2: that moment was going to win gold and it was

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Speaker 2: just I mean, it was cinema. Otani ended up obviously

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Speaker 2: winning that matchup and took Golden was almost like a

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Speaker 2: passing of the torch between Trout to now the new

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Speaker 2: face of the league and show hey Otani.

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Speaker 4: And I just cannot wait for that to start next week.

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Speaker 2: Now, last hour we hit the combine, Karmie just got back, Yester,

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Speaker 2: what yesterday we talked all about kind of just like

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Speaker 2: the purpose of it and the what would you call it,

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Speaker 2: the the not front facing purpose of it.

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Speaker 5: I would say something the underlying like because the real,

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Speaker 5: the real story behind the NFL combine and yeah, what

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Speaker 5: you're really there.

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Speaker 2: For which I love tough last few games for the Lakers.

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Speaker 2: Will this be Lebron's last season? I definitely think in LA,

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Speaker 2: but will it be in the NBA. If you miss

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Speaker 2: All Right, We're going to get back to some football

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Speaker 2: because it's crazy, like even though the season just ended

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Speaker 2: a few weeks ago in San Francisco.

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Speaker 4: Now we're on yeah Sea Hawks.

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Speaker 2: I mean we're already like you got maybe a week

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Speaker 2: two week break and then the Combine happens and now

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Speaker 2: everybody's looking towards the draft and the future of the NFL.

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Speaker 2: So what we're going to talk about is who needs

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Speaker 2: to nail this offseason. We're each going to give a

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Speaker 2: couple different teams, and it can be for different reasons. Right,

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Speaker 2: I have two completely different teams with two completely different reasons.

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Speaker 4: So I'm going to start first with the Vegas Raiders.

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Speaker 2: They thought they had everything figured out last year and

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Speaker 2: ended up being a disaster. They went three to fourteen,

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Speaker 2: fired head coach Pete Carroll after that one season, and

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Speaker 2: now they have the opportunity to really turn things around.

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Speaker 4: They have ten draft picks, including.

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Speaker 2: The number one overall pick, and if everything goes the

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Speaker 2: go number one to the Raiders, which solves their quarterback situation.

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Speaker 2: But they have a lot that they need to improve on.

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Speaker 2: they had one of the worst O lines last year.

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Speaker 2: I think they need a top wide receiver. But they

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Speaker 4: He had a you know, an okay rookie season.

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Speaker 2: There's so much room for improvement when he went nine

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Speaker 2: hundred and seventy five rushing yards. Their tight end duo

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Speaker 2: there are pieces there that if they do the right things,

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Speaker 2: I think they can find success with Fernando Mendoza. I mean,

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Speaker 2: I think a lot's going to depend on how they

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Speaker 4: And I mean, if they take him, they're going to

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Speaker 4: put him out there right away.

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Speaker 3: They get no choice they have.

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Speaker 5: So you take a guy at one overall, that's the

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Speaker 5: most you could possibly invest in someone. So you're gonna

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Speaker 5: He's gonna he's gonna be pegged as the savior of

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Speaker 5: this of this Veiggess franchise right now, Which fair or

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Speaker 5: unfair is the reality of what happens in this league

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Speaker 5: picking the highest, and in that kind of draft process,

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Speaker 5: that's so often what happens. Although we have now a

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Speaker 5: plethora of evidence to say that we give up on

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Speaker 5: think that you know, I know they're gm very well

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Speaker 5: not only to protect Fernanda Mendoza theoretically him being your

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Speaker 2: Which is kind of like the future of the tight ends.

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Speaker 5: Are asking more out of tight ends than we ever have.

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Speaker 5: And I can go at length about tight ends and

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Speaker 5: how undervalued they truly are. But Brock Bauers is a

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Speaker 5: special player. Ashton Genty is a special player. You add

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Speaker 5: which is really important in Koubiak that can tailor an

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Speaker 5: this is a good marriage of all of those things.

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Speaker 5: I should it happen in Vegas. I don't know that

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Speaker 5: they're on the right track and you don't get a

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Speaker 5: little sweet baby Fernando killed no.

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Speaker 2: So and just like just hear me out. I know

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Speaker 2: you've worked with him, and we recently talked to him

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Speaker 2: he could be a great veteran and kind of mentor

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Speaker 2: you're not throwing Fernando right into the fire. What do

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Speaker 3: If the wereads?

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Speaker 5: The thing I know about Kirk Cousins and I don't

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Speaker 5: know his agent very well, Mike McCartney. He gets him

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Speaker 4: Deals, insane.

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Speaker 5: He's the Kirk Cousins is the one that set the

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Speaker 3: So he is going to He absolutely is good enough

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Speaker 5: So do you have the resources if your Vegas to

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Speaker 5: pay him as a high end backup or a bridge that,

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Speaker 5: especially if you again are investing. I know it's not

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Speaker 5: And that is partially why we are where we are

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Speaker 4: You see like that being a good fit for Fernando.

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Speaker 3: I see that for any quarterback entering the league.

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Speaker 5: I would love for them to have a situation like

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Speaker 5: you don't have to play JJ McCarthy right away. He

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Speaker 5: can kind of ease into the league. Now, obviously that

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Speaker 5: didn't work out, and honestly, that's one of the things

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Speaker 5: that's going to prevent these teams. You know, they can

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Speaker 5: for them. They planned it out perfectly, look what happened.

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Speaker 5: So you can't necessarily plan that way, as much as

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Speaker 5: I would love for it to happen. For as much

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Speaker 5: evidence as we have of guys that are allowed to

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Speaker 5: sit for at least a half a season, look at

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Speaker 5: what Drake may even in New England, he got thrown

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Speaker 5: out their midseason. I thought he was going to get

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Speaker 5: Kind of get his bearings. It's so helpful.

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Speaker 3: It's just teams.

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Speaker 5: Can't usually afford that kind of patience, whether it be

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Speaker 5: from ownership pressure, this that the other. So would it work, Yeah,

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Speaker 4: It should be working.

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Speaker 3: That's what that's all. So they need will be rolling

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Speaker 5: If it doesn't work this year, and the Cincinnati Bengals

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Speaker 2: No, I agree. All right, we're gonna take a quick

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Speaker 2: Sports Saturday at Alex Curry here with Carmen Vitale.

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Speaker 4: We're all over the place today, Polk.

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Speaker 2: I guess I just looked at Chris, our technical producer,

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Speaker 4: And he's like, yeah, go, baby, go yeah, thumbs up,

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Speaker 3: To this listen. I'm all about it.

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Speaker 5: Like I, like you said, it's like ninety degrees and

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Speaker 6: Hope you've both seen that old video of the dad

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Speaker 6: I saw a video of that where basically it's now

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Speaker 4: They've been doing a lot of that.

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Speaker 2: I've seen a couple of commercials that are now like revisiting.

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Speaker 2: They're like the one that haunts my dreams, Like I

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Speaker 2: But they just did a commercial with where they are

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Speaker 3: That's really okay. I really don't need too.

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Speaker 4: That commercial literally haunts my dreams.

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Speaker 7: If they deserve sad office jobs after what they probably.

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Speaker 5: But cars for Kids was absolutely on. Yeah, the Chicagoland area,

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Speaker 2: Oh okay, let's get to some spring training baseball here

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Speaker 2: real quick is happening. And since baseball is back, let's

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Speaker 2: I'm driving us a spring training to witness the start

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Speaker 2: of this three peat.

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Speaker 4: Are you laughing?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm laughing.

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Speaker 4: Are you laughing?

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Speaker 2: We're in the midst you guys of a Dodgers' dynasty,

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Speaker 2: And if you're a hater, look in the mirror and

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Speaker 2: because everybody can be doing what they're doing and they're not.

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Speaker 2: This is the first time a team has won back

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Speaker 2: they were not the better team last year, but championship

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Speaker 2: They took advantage of opportunities and they just got better.

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Speaker 4: What did they need a closer?

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Speaker 2: They went out and got the best closer on the market,

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Speaker 2: Edwin Diaz, which I can't wait to hear that song

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Speaker 2: slap in Dodger Stadium. Carme, Oh, they're playing your Cubs

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Speaker 2: right now. No white Sox, are you white?

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Speaker 3: I'm white Sox, I am white socks.

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Speaker 5: I don't hate the Cubs, though, I am the rare

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Speaker 5: Chicago and that is like, hey, listen, if you're gonna

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Speaker 5: bring a championship to my city, I'm not gonna be mad.

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Speaker 2: I mean, I love the Angels and Dodgers. People hate

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Speaker 2: me for that, but like they've both been a huge

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Speaker 2: part of my life. I was born and raised Dodger

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Speaker 2: fan and then the Angels gave me my first job

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Speaker 2: out of college for ten years, so I have love

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Speaker 2: and respect for both of them.

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Speaker 5: I grew up like directly west of the city, so

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Speaker 5: like I grew up around both to what territories are at,

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Speaker 5: Like it's the western suburbs, so it's like directly west,

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Speaker 5: and like so north is Cubs, south side is Socks. Okay,

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Speaker 5: so it's like but I was, I was West. I

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Speaker 5: love that it comes out. It comes out every every

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Speaker 5: now and again, the Chicago comes out. So I grew

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Speaker 5: up directly west. So I'm like, literally, if you took

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Speaker 5: the borderline or like the dividing line in the city

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Speaker 5: or like the quote unquote dividing line in the city

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Speaker 5: and you just went directly west, you'd hit my town. Yeah,

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Speaker 5: So I'm like, all right, I can choose for myself.

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Speaker 5: And growing up, the Cubs were on WGN, so they

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Speaker 5: had kind of a national fan case. There were people,

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Speaker 5: you know, all over the kids that were fans of

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Speaker 5: the Cubs, and I was like, well, only people in

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Speaker 5: Chicago are fans of the Socks. So I decided I

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Speaker 5: was gonna be a Sox fan. And then a few

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Speaker 5: years later was two thousand and five and they won

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Speaker 5: the World Series. So I was like, great, okay, thanks,

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Speaker 5: thanks guys, appreciate it and I'm a Sox fan. And

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Speaker 5: then they actually they did give me an internship as well,

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Speaker 5: so I worked for them for a little bit. Connect

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Speaker 5: But like I was there for the twenty sixteen parade

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Speaker 5: from the Cubs and like, you know, hanging out my

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Speaker 5: friend's second floor window right off Addison and like, you know,

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Speaker 5: seeing the trophy go, Like.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Cubs are crushing the Dodgers right now. It's free training,

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Speaker 2: doesn't matter, but it's st fun it is.

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Speaker 5: And the Cubs are the only viable team right now.

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Speaker 5: Like the Socks have been so bad, yeah, for so

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Speaker 5: long at this point, and they're not willing to spend

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Speaker 5: money and they're not well, Like the Cubs weren't even

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Speaker 5: really willing to spat money either until like this off season,

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Speaker 5: when I think their ownership group realized you could defer money.

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Speaker 4: Yes, that's what I'm saying. What the Dodgers doing are

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Speaker 4: not illegal, everybody.

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Speaker 5: And I've got thoughts. I've got thoughts because it's not illegal,

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Speaker 5: and I've been saying that too. I'm like, hey, listen,

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Speaker 5: if you want to go.

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Speaker 4: And go get it.

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Speaker 5: But the Dodgers are somewhat unique in the sense of

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Speaker 5: who they're owned by. They're owned by a gigantic like

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Speaker 5: ownership investment group which is made up of multiple billionaires.

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Speaker 3: Yes, and that's not the case for a lot of these.

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Speaker 5: Teams, and I'm not here to defend billionaires whatsoever or

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Speaker 5: like multi multi multimillionaires. But they are in a position

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Speaker 5: where they can treat the luxury tax as just that

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Speaker 5: a luxury tax, like they can just throw money. The

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Speaker 5: other teams, especially in the smaller markets, who don't get

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Speaker 5: you know, they just they don't have the revenue streams,

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Speaker 5: and they also don't have an ownership group that is

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Speaker 5: worth billions and billions of dollars. They can't necessarily do that.

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Speaker 5: And what's interesting to me though, is how much this

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Speaker 5: has pitted the owners against each other. And this is

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Speaker 5: the owners against the dog, so much so that everyone

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Speaker 5: is now expecting a lockout in twenty twenty seven.

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Speaker 2: Essentially the way the doctors the Dodgers, they're going to

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Speaker 2: take the fall well, even though they're they're helping players

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Speaker 2: because they're paying players more. The Dodgers are a player

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Speaker 2: friendly team.

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Speaker 5: Which I am all for it, and like the players

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Speaker 5: are obviously going to be very upset about because they

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Speaker 5: don't want they don't want to cap because they don't

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Speaker 5: want there to be a limit on how much they

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Speaker 5: can get paid. But it's really funny that the Dodgers'

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Speaker 5: ownership group not only is operating in a way that

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Speaker 5: like money doesn't matter, but they're not abiding by like

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Speaker 5: the unspoken rules of sports ownership, which I think is

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Speaker 5: a good thing at the end of the day, because again,

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Speaker 5: I want players to get paid.

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Speaker 3: I want then they have resources.

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Speaker 5: I want fans to have the best possible product on

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Speaker 5: the field.

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Speaker 3: As they possibly can.

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Speaker 5: But the reality of the situation, like it's like that

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Speaker 5: in a vacuum. Is all great, but the reality of

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Speaker 5: the situation is that the rest of the owners are

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Speaker 5: really fed up because they don't want to spend that

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Speaker 5: kind of money and they're going to make.

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Speaker 3: Us all suffer for it in the form of a lockout.

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Speaker 8: Ye.

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Speaker 3: So that's that's the That's yeah, that's the brutal reality

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Speaker 3: of all of this.

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Speaker 5: Like, yes, could everybody, like the Dodgers are just like

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Speaker 5: completely bucking every sort of rule trend whatever.

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Speaker 3: They're shaking it up, But like, is this gonna stick

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Speaker 3: or are.

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Speaker 5: They going to be kind of like, you know, we're

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Speaker 5: at the collective, we're gonna be heading for a lockout

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Speaker 5: and how long is that going to go on?

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Speaker 3: How is that going to be resolved? I don't know.

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Speaker 3: I mean they haven't had to forfeit a season since

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Speaker 3: what ninety four ninety five?

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Speaker 5: Yeah, it's because the twenty one, the twenty twenty one,

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Speaker 5: twenty twenty two, like they delayed like it was like

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Speaker 5: in March is when.

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Speaker 2: The season Actually, yeah, it wasn't. It wasn't a long delay,

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Speaker 2: but there was a delay, all right.

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Speaker 3: That Yeah, the CBA is, Yeah, it's coming.

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Speaker 2: It's a coming after this season. All right, let's check

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Speaker 2: in with Martin Wise and see what's trending.

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Speaker 1: Five seconds left in the.

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Speaker 9: Third quarter, Miami Heat with an eighty five to eighty

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Speaker 9: three lead over the Rocket Span Meta Bio with a

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Speaker 9: twenty two point ten rebound double double, Kevin Durant with

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Speaker 9: twenty four points.

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Speaker 10: And eight assists.

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Speaker 9: Earlier today, we saw Charlotte b Portland one O nine

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Speaker 9: and ninety three, Brandon Miller twenty six and eight as

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Speaker 9: the Hornets won their eighth straight and men's college basketball.

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Speaker 9: Right now, the fourth ranked team in the nation trailing

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Speaker 9: sixteenth ranked Texas Tech fifty five to forty the Iways

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Speaker 9: stay Cyclones with about fourteen minutes left in the second half.

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Speaker 9: With about twelve that is left in the second half,

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Speaker 9: second ranked Arizona has a ninety I'm sorry, forty nine

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Speaker 9: to fifty.

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Speaker 1: All right, let's do that again, forty nine.

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Speaker 9: To forty five. This is lexia with these number too

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Speaker 9: many numbers. Man, it kicks my ass. But Kansas right

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Speaker 9: now is on a ten to two run. They've cut

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Speaker 9: the lead down to four for Arizona with about thirteen

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Speaker 9: minutes left in the second half. Earlier, we saw number

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Speaker 9: one ranked the junior number one rate Duke beat eleventh

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Speaker 9: Think Virginia seventy seven to fifty one. Cameron Booser had

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Speaker 9: eighteen points and nine rebounds, Duke clinching a part of

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Speaker 9: the a SEC title. With the win, Houston snapped a

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Speaker 9: three game losing streak.

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Speaker 3: Is the fifth rank.

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Speaker 9: Cooker's beat Colorado by forty one oh two to sixty two,

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Speaker 9: six to length. You kind of came back from a

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Speaker 9: eight point second a half deficit to beat Seaton Hall

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Speaker 9: seventy one to sixty seven. Both Louisville and Vanderbilt got upset,

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Speaker 9: Louisville by Clemson eighty to seventy five and Vanderbilt by

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Speaker 9: Kentucky ninety one two seventy seven.

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Speaker 10: Ladies, back to you.

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Speaker 4: Thank you Martin.

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Speaker 2: You're listening to Fox Sports Saturday and Alex Courry here

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Speaker 2: with Carmen Fatalion. It is time for our next guest,

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Speaker 2: the host of The Athletic Football Show, a bestie of

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Speaker 2: our show, Dave Hellman, Thanks for joining us.

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Speaker 11: Happy to be here.

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Speaker 3: Guys.

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Speaker 11: What's going on?

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Speaker 2: So you just spent a week at the Combine, Carmee

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Speaker 2: and I spent the top of our show just kind

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Speaker 2: of talking about like what happens behind the scenes at

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Speaker 2: the combine. What is your favorite part of the week

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Speaker 2: and did you get any inside scoop that you can share?

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Speaker 11: Oh man, my favorite.

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Speaker 8: My favorite part of the week is probably just catching

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Speaker 8: up with people.

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Speaker 11: That it's like a reunion.

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Speaker 8: You know, there's a whole past of people that maybe

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Speaker 8: if you DM them on Twitter or you text them

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Speaker 8: throughout the year, but you don't really get a lot

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Speaker 8: of FaceTime with these people that are all over the country.

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Speaker 8: Some of that is media members, some of its coaches, execs, whoever,

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Speaker 8: and like once a year, it's just like, all right,

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Speaker 8: I'll see you at the j W Mary at.

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Speaker 11: This time next year.

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Speaker 8: As far as scoops, you know, I think it's funny

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Speaker 8: how anticlimaxic it really is, right because all of this

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Speaker 8: stuff happens this whole week, happens ten twelve days before

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Speaker 8: free agency opened, So it's a lot of it's a

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Speaker 8: lot of like, well.

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Speaker 11: This could happen more so than this is. The two

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Speaker 11: things that I really came away with a big impression

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Speaker 11: of were.

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Speaker 8: Number one, due to the coaching change in Arizona and

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Speaker 8: the fact that Mike Withflura, member of the Sean McVay

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Speaker 8: coaching tree, was coming in. I wasn't completely convinced when

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Speaker 8: I got to Indy that Kyler Murray's time in Phoenix

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Speaker 8: was really done. I'm very convinced that that is case

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Speaker 8: after being an ND for a week. And then the

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Speaker 8: other one is, you know, you look at the financials

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Speaker 8: of the possibility of trading aj Brown, it doesn't really

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Speaker 8: make a lot of sense for the Philadelphia Eagles.

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Speaker 11: To do it anytime soon.

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Speaker 8: And so I went into the week not really believing

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Speaker 8: that that was on the table, and again, these are

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Speaker 8: all things that could happen, not necessarily things.

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Speaker 11: That will happen.

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Speaker 8: But after three or four days and a handful of dinners,

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Speaker 8: I came out of it thinking like, Okay, no, that

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Speaker 8: could really happen. Then go figure it. The Eagles that

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Speaker 8: would do something like that, they're usually willing to zig

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Speaker 8: where everybody thinks they're going to zag.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, it's such a it's a long week, it's a

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Speaker 5: fun week.

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Speaker 3: But one of the big things I think this.

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Speaker 5: Year for you, Dave, is you do a show with

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Speaker 5: Dan Brugler once a week for the Athletic and you

648
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Speaker 5: have been on top of kind of these draft process prospects,

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Speaker 5: following them throughout the college season. So now like you're

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Speaker 5: not starting. I think so many of us, myself included,

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Speaker 5: this is the time where I'm like diving into Danes

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Speaker 5: the Beast and trying to figure out like make head

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Speaker 5: or tails of these prospects and who you know, who's

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Speaker 5: going to go where.

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Speaker 3: And this that the other.

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Speaker 5: You've been on top of this all season long, and

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Speaker 5: was there anything that you know, kind of reaffirmed maybe

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Speaker 5: was something you thought about a player or maybe completely

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Speaker 5: well like, was, did the combine change your opinion on anything?

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Speaker 5: Just as someone who has been tracking and charting this

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Speaker 5: kind of stuff all season long.

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Speaker 11: I'll tell you what karm it is. It is a

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Speaker 11: big leg up to get to.

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Speaker 8: Indy and already be familiar with like the eighty most

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Speaker 8: important players. Yeah, dude, it's a really nice starting point.

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Speaker 11: I try, and you know, my.

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Speaker 8: Goal is not to let the con combine completely change

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Speaker 8: my opinion of a player. I mean, I do think

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Speaker 8: some of the testing is very important. I think it

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Speaker 8: would be wrong to wave it off completely. As the

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Speaker 8: underwear Olympics, I knows what it looks like.

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Speaker 2: Right now, we're watching it and I'm like, oh my god,

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Speaker 2: exactly what it is that?

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Speaker 8: I mean a degree, that's fair, but like you're learning

675
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Speaker 8: some very valuable things about guys, like their stop start acceleration,

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Speaker 8: their body control, the way they can bend the.

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Speaker 11: Corner, their arm length, Like, there are very valuable measurements there.

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Speaker 8: I still wouldn't let it completely change my opinion of

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Speaker 8: this of a prospect, but there are a few things

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Speaker 8: that jump out to me. I mean, I'm sitting at

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Speaker 8: home watching right now too. I'm very encouraged that Drew Aller,

682
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Speaker 8: the Penn State quarterback, is taking part in his workout

683
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Speaker 8: today and look.

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Speaker 11: Pretty good doing it.

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Speaker 8: I mean that's not to say that it's going to

686
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Speaker 8: jump his draft stock crazily, but you talk about a

687
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Speaker 8: very highly toouted guy who season was cut short by injury.

688
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Speaker 8: Even before he got hurt, he was playing very poorly,

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Speaker 8: and so for him to be healthy again, I mean,

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Speaker 8: he's got all the measurables. So for him to be

691
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Speaker 8: healthy again and have a chance to get drafted fairly

692
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Speaker 8: highly because of it, I think that's cool. I love

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Speaker 8: the safety in linebacker class this year. I think if

694
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Speaker 8: you need a safety in the NFL in twenty twenty six,

695
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Speaker 8: there's like nine guys were being excited about.

696
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Speaker 11: The receivers always always put on a show. There were there.

697
00:31:06,120 --> 00:31:09,640
Speaker 8: Were like eight receivers running blazing forty times today.

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Speaker 11: So I think you can you can always count on

699
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Speaker 11: being able.

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Speaker 8: To draft a good receiver in the modern NFL, even

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Speaker 8: if there's not like a superstar prospect. This year, I

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Speaker 8: think there's going to be like six to eight guys

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Speaker 8: that really make a difference quickly. And if I didn't

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Speaker 8: say linebacker already, I know, I mean I heard y'all talking.

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Speaker 11: About Tonny Styles earlier in the show.

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Speaker 8: I mean, if there was like a Capitol W winner

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Speaker 8: from the combine this year, Tonny Styles came into the

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Speaker 8: draft process, like when the season ended, he was already

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Speaker 8: seen as a top twenty guy. Uh And now I

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Speaker 8: think with with the Combine behind him, and like the

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Speaker 8: totality of what he is on the table, really the

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Speaker 8: only place I'm willing to draw the line is number

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Speaker 8: one overall. Like Foray, yeah, he's banana, but doesn't gonna

714
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Speaker 8: go one overall. Yeah, And Sunny Styles is an off

715
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Speaker 8: ball linebacker, so I do think that.

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Speaker 11: Puts a little bit of a cap on him. But

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Speaker 11: when you look at the lack of blue chip talent.

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Speaker 8: In this year's draft, and you know, there's not a

719
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Speaker 8: there's not a Miles Garrett, there's not a Maleak Neighbors,

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Speaker 8: you know there's not there aren't like difference makers at

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Speaker 8: the premium positions.

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Speaker 11: And if there.

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Speaker 8: Was a year where a freaky off ball linebacker was

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Speaker 8: going to go two overall, I think Sell you used

725
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Speaker 8: to pull it off.

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Speaker 11: At the very least. I think he cemented himself as

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Speaker 11: a top ten pick this week.

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Speaker 2: Wild Okay, I got to ask you a question about

729
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Speaker 2: your Cowboys before we let you go. They officially placed

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Speaker 2: their franchise tag on wide receiver George Pickens, locking them

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Speaker 2: in for another season. Do you still expect Dallas to

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Speaker 2: get a long term deal done with him before the

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Speaker 2: July fifteenth deadline?

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Speaker 8: You know, I used to you used to be able

735
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Speaker 8: to just say, oh, you can set your watch to it.

736
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Speaker 8: The Cowboys are going to hamm and haw and make

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Speaker 8: a bunch of noise and then they'll sign the guy.

738
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Speaker 8: But we're six months removed from them not doing that

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Speaker 8: and then dripping off Mike Parson's in the middle of

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Speaker 8: his prime for a couple of first round picks. So

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Speaker 8: at this point, I don't think you can say anything definitively.

742
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Speaker 8: If they're not convinced that that Dickens has put together

743
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Speaker 8: that type of resume, I think they might let him.

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Speaker 11: Play out the tag. I also, I don't.

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Speaker 8: Think George Pickens has or will have as robust a

746
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Speaker 8: market as Micah Parsons did, when you consider that it's

747
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Speaker 8: really just one year of productions. He comes with some

748
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Speaker 8: headache concerns, whether it's consistency, whether it's work ethic, whether

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Speaker 8: it's behavior, however you want to phrase it. Yeah, so

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Speaker 8: I don't think George Pickens would have as easy a

751
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Speaker 8: time forcing his way out of Dallas as Micah Parsons did.

752
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Speaker 8: So if the Cowboys want to force him to play

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Speaker 8: on the tag, I think they can. I think that

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Speaker 8: would be a mistake, just because it's more expensive and

755
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Speaker 8: it prevents you from building the best team possible. But

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Speaker 8: at this point in my career, I know the Cowboys

757
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Speaker 8: don't give a damn what I think, and so nothing

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Speaker 8: should surprise us.

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Speaker 3: Dave.

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Speaker 4: We appreciate you always coming on.

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Speaker 11: And anytime y'all have a good one.

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Speaker 1: Thanks to you too.

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Speaker 2: We're gonna take one more break and when we come

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Speaker 2: back our field good stories of the week.

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Speaker 2: All right, carme, It is time for our feel good

786
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Speaker 2: stories of the week, and mine is the rise of

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Speaker 2: women's sports. The Olympics, eight of the twelve gold medals

788
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Speaker 2: were won by women. That's two thirds. You guys have

789
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Speaker 2: our gold medals. Twenty one of our thirty three total

790
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Speaker 2: team USA medals were won by women. That is sixty

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Speaker 2: four percent. And this is the sixth consecutive Olympics where

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Speaker 2: women have won more medals than the men. And that

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Speaker 2: is not a laughing matter, if you know, you know.

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Speaker 2: And after that gold medal win, the Women's Professional Hockey

795
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Speaker 2: League just played to the largest women's hockey crowd ever

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Speaker 2: in the US over seventeen thousand fans in attendance. In

797
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Speaker 2: Seattle ticket searches, we're up fifty percent. Ticket purchases, We're

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Speaker 2: up forty two percent. And in the words of our

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Speaker 2: captain America, Hillary Knight, on our team USA Women's hockey

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Speaker 2: gold medal team, women aren't less than our achievements, and

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Speaker 2: our achievements should not be over chattled by anything other

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Speaker 2: than how great that they are. I am just so

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Speaker 2: proud of this women's hockey team and all really the

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Speaker 2: women medalist, gold medalist, the camaraderie that we saw among

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Speaker 2: these female athletes. We saw multiple podiums where all the

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Speaker 2: women winners were celebrating each other. They were taking photos

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Speaker 2: with each other, they were excited for each other.

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Speaker 4: Even if they didn't win gold. It was the most

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Speaker 4: beautiful thing.

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Speaker 2: And I think Olympic gold medalist Alyssa lu said it

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Speaker 2: best where she said singers perform all the time, but

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Speaker 2: they don't get scored. You know, that's how I view

813
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Speaker 2: this competition. I can't bring myself to see other skaters

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Speaker 2: as competition.

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Speaker 4: We're all just independent.

816
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Speaker 2: Artists and they celebrate each other's wins, and that's so cool.

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Speaker 3: That's so cool that was my field gets storry too.

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Speaker 4: Oh my god, let's keep it going.

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Speaker 3: No, it is.

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Speaker 5: I there was so much from the Winter Olympics in particular. Yes,

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Speaker 5: like Eileen Gu from China, who is American bowl like,

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Speaker 5: she's she also American. She competes for Chinese for the

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Speaker 5: Chinese team and she took silver and had a reporter

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Speaker 5: ask her like, is this a gold lost or is

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Speaker 5: this a silver gain? And she's like, I resent that.

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Speaker 5: It's a hard thing to win a medal in the Olympics,

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Speaker 5: and I have a target on my back because I've

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Speaker 5: been one of the best women's free skiers for years

829
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Speaker 5: at this point, and it doesn't get any easier for me,

830
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Speaker 5: but the expectations just get higher.

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Speaker 3: And of course I'm going to celebrate getting a silver medal,

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Speaker 3: I think.

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Speaker 5: And there were so many just fun stories. It's also

834
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Speaker 5: cool because the Winter Olympics, and I think any Olympics

835
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Speaker 5: in particular, but the Winter Olympics where you have sports

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Speaker 5: like curling or you do have hockey where people do

837
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Speaker 5: play later into life, but then you also have figure

838
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Speaker 5: skaters that are fifteen, sixteen, seventeen years old. You have

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Speaker 5: like just all types of age ranges, which means all

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Speaker 5: types of life stages. So you see, you know, Alissa

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Speaker 5: lou who retired from sport at the age of sixteen,

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Speaker 5: comes back a year after coming back win a world championship.

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Speaker 5: A year after that, wins a gold medal. It's all

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Speaker 5: but and then you you have someone in that stage

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Speaker 5: of life that is that aware of their surroundings. And

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Speaker 5: then you also have people like Kennel coinn Showfield Schoolfield,

847
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Speaker 5: who's on the US women's hockey team that one gold

848
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Speaker 5: that said before that Canada match, ye, she was like,

849
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Speaker 5: I had this vision of holding my son in my

850
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Speaker 5: arms as I got my gold medal and the national

851
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Speaker 5: anthem is playing, and it happened. And it's so cool

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00:38:30,719 --> 00:38:34,920
Speaker 5: to see women of all ages in all life stages

853
00:38:35,920 --> 00:38:38,960
Speaker 5: just set an example for everyone. I mean, you don't

854
00:38:39,000 --> 00:38:40,920
Speaker 5: have to be a world class athlete to take something

855
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Speaker 5: from all of these stories and from this entire experience.

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Speaker 3: I love I love the Winter Olympics.

857
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Speaker 5: I was actually thinking about how I might like the

858
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Speaker 5: Winter Olympics more than the Summer Olympics.

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Speaker 3: I don't know.

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Speaker 4: I mean that's fair.

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Speaker 5: The sports are like more dangerous and like they're like,

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Speaker 5: I don't know, I like a little like I like

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Speaker 5: a little danger.

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Speaker 2: I think our generation, like ice skating is always going

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00:39:01,920 --> 00:39:06,040
Speaker 2: to be so iconic like that is that's what defines

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Speaker 2: the Olympics for me, Like when I was a kid,

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Speaker 2: When I think of Olympics, I'm like, oh, ice skating

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00:39:09,960 --> 00:39:12,799
Speaker 2: just always and what we saw the women do and

869
00:39:12,840 --> 00:39:18,080
Speaker 2: the freedom and the joy was just like unmatched this

870
00:39:18,160 --> 00:39:20,319
Speaker 2: year and then again the support of one of.

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Speaker 5: Us and we saw that in the Summer the last

872
00:39:22,160 --> 00:39:27,120
Speaker 5: Summer Olympics, the Jordan Chiles and the Samoe Miles podium,

873
00:39:27,440 --> 00:39:29,799
Speaker 5: and I think it's going to carry over into these

874
00:39:29,800 --> 00:39:32,200
Speaker 5: next Olympics too, which I'm so excited about because we

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00:39:32,239 --> 00:39:35,840
Speaker 5: are getting flag football, women's flag football.

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00:39:35,880 --> 00:39:38,200
Speaker 2: The Jalen Hurts like lighting the torch and throwing it

877
00:39:38,239 --> 00:39:40,880
Speaker 2: on the top of the coliseum keeps playing on commercial

878
00:39:40,880 --> 00:39:42,959
Speaker 2: here and it gets me so pumped every time.

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00:39:43,120 --> 00:39:45,200
Speaker 3: I'm just excited for women's flag football, which is a

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Speaker 3: real sport.

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Speaker 5: It is, it's an NCAA sanctioned sport as it is now.

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Speaker 5: It's it's it's really cool and this is how it happens.

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Speaker 7: I love it.

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Speaker 2: CARMI great show, and thank you all of you guys

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Speaker 2: for spending your Saturday afternoon with us.

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Speaker 4: We'll see you same time next week, same place. Bye.

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

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Speaker 12: He's Buck Rising. I'm Jason Fitz. I mean, we are

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Speaker 12: fellas hanging out with the on Fox Sports Radio. Love

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Speaker 12: Anthony Gargano, he's on one of the greats.

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Speaker 1: He's Buck Rising. I'm Jason Fitz.

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Speaker 12: We're hanging out with the bucket fits on Fox Sports

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Speaker 12: Radio doing the damn thing. Anthony Richardson is all of

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Speaker 12: a sudden out here in trade rumor, well not trade rumors.

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Speaker 12: He's been given the opportunity to shop himself bucking wherever

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Speaker 12: he might end up.

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Speaker 1: And I've been trying to I've thought a lot about

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Speaker 1: this because here's the thing.

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Speaker 12: If you believe that Anthony Richardson, let's go back to

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Speaker 12: what some of the smart people were telling you, the

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Speaker 12: Orlowski's of the world were telling you. He has treats

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Speaker 12: you cannot coach. So what you got to do is

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Speaker 12: figure out who can coach the rest of it. And

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Speaker 12: I've thought a lot about Okay, if he's gonna get

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Speaker 12: one shot to rebuild his entire career, where should it be.

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Speaker 1: And I've come up with an answer. Are you ready

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Speaker 1: for this?

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Speaker 10: I sure, I am. I guess I don't know at

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Speaker 10: this point.

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Speaker 12: Yeah, well, yeah, we're pot committed at this point. Uh,

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Speaker 12: the Los Angeles Rams, hear me out. The Rams don't

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Speaker 12: need him this year. Okay, So he goes to McVeigh.

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Speaker 12: And when he goes to McVeigh, and he's not necessarily

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Speaker 12: the type of quarterback McVay does anything with, I get it.

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Speaker 12: But when he goes to McVeigh, all he does is

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Speaker 12: sits for a year. Like you could make him the

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Speaker 12: third string quarterback for all I care.

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Speaker 1: You put him out.

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Speaker 12: There and you just let him learn how to run

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Speaker 12: an offense. If the answer is he doesn't do he

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Speaker 12: does the uncoachable things incredibly well, but he needs to

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Speaker 12: learn how to do the coachable things. Put him with

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Speaker 12: one of the two or three best offensive mines in

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Speaker 12: the NFL and give him the best chance to see

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Speaker 12: what he can actually do in a place where he's

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Speaker 12: not going to be expected to see the field at all.

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Speaker 12: And if you're the Rams, you get Stafford. And if

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Speaker 12: Stafford continues to play for the next couple of years,

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Speaker 12: you don't even need Anthony Richardson, but you get him

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Speaker 12: in the building, you can feel it out. You can

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Speaker 12: decide over time can he execute the things that you

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Speaker 12: need him to execute. And in the meantime, for basically

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Speaker 12: no cost, you get a great athlete that can help

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Speaker 12: you in goal line situations if you need you need.

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Speaker 12: You get somebody that can come out and do some

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Speaker 12: interesting things in some weird packages which McVeigh can play with,

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Speaker 12: and he gets the opportunity to figure out if he

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Speaker 12: can actually be a starting quarterback in the NFL.

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Speaker 10: Okay, I will hear you on that.

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Speaker 13: The unknown variable that we have to have the answer

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Speaker 13: to is how would he respond again referring to talking

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Speaker 13: about Anthony Richardson, referring to what you said about I

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Speaker 13: don't need draft gurus to tell me about college football players.

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Speaker 13: I'll just go and listen to or talk to the

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Speaker 13: college beat writers. So famously, Anthony Richardson had the moment

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Speaker 13: where he checked out of a game because he was

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Speaker 13: tired against the Houston Texans on a third down situation,

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Speaker 13: which is of course something that you absolutely cannot do

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Speaker 13: under any circumstances unless you are you know there is

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Speaker 13: risk of light, loss of life or limb in that situation. Right,

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Speaker 13: football people will not respond to basically anything else he

952
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Speaker 13: also has. And you can say that this is you know,

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Speaker 13: this is connected. You can say that this is a

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Speaker 13: straw man argument. But he also has that rap video

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Speaker 13: out there right where even if the rap is harmless

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Speaker 13: or the having outside interests other than football is completely harmless,

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Speaker 13: and frankly, some might argue healthy. Right, there are people

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Speaker 13: in Indianapolis who would question his commitment to actually being

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Speaker 13: a quarterback first and foremost before trying to go after

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Speaker 13: all the other stuff that comes with being an NFL quarterback.

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Speaker 13: Right He's still very young. For example, Will Levis is

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Speaker 13: in a similar situation here in Nashville where he is

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Speaker 13: on a team that is actively trying to replace him,

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Speaker 13: has already got the replacement in hand, and now hopeful

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Speaker 13: that they can have a situation where if they plays

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Speaker 13: well enough during training camp in the preseason that they

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Speaker 13: can get some recoup some level of draft capital for him.

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Speaker 13: But Will Levis is going to be twenty seven, I

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Speaker 13: think Anthony Richardson is going to be twenty three or

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Speaker 13: twenty four. How much do you value the fact that

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Speaker 13: you still may have some mouldable moments with Anthony Richardson

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Speaker 13: where will Levis is largely a finished product at this

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Speaker 13: point in his NFL career, even though he's just entering

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Speaker 13: his fourth year in the NFL.

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Speaker 3: I think that you.

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Speaker 13: Have to know what you're bringing into your building if

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Speaker 13: you are going to make him.

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Speaker 10: Your third string quarterback.

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Speaker 13: Because I'm assuming, FITZI that he is not asking for

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Speaker 13: permission to seek a trade for a third string quarterback opportunity.

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Speaker 13: I assume that he wants to compete for a starting job.

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Speaker 13: And if that's the case, I like that attitude. I

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Speaker 13: want him to have that attitude. But you're talking about

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Speaker 13: a very very specific situation in which I don't think

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Speaker 13: most players at his age in particular would respond well

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Speaker 13: to being relegated to You're.

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Speaker 12: Probably right, and I think if we're being honest for

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Speaker 12: a second, I'm just I'm going to stack a bunch

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Speaker 12: of bricks of logic. Okay, So this is where I

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Speaker 12: take the brick of Okay, he was hurt early on,

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Speaker 12: but to the point that we've made a couple of times,

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Speaker 12: sometimes young quarterbacks need the chance to watch and learn,

993
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Speaker 12: and I often over too much. I quote Patrick Mahomes

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Speaker 12: and the way that he credits Alex Smith for teaching

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Speaker 12: him how to be a pro. Patrick Mahomes not only

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Speaker 12: references Alex Smith teaching him the little things, but he's

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Speaker 12: referenced in interviews that Alex talked about in interviews that

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Speaker 12: Alex Smith specifically told him, you know, hey, here's how

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Speaker 12: you break down your film different days. Here's the way

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Speaker 12: you eat different days. Here's what you have to do

1001
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Speaker 12: training different days. Like Alex Smith really molded him, right,

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Speaker 12: So I look at the fact that early on in

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Speaker 12: Anthony Richardson's career he could have had the opportunity to

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Speaker 12: learn from Gardner Minshew.

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Speaker 1: He didn't.

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Speaker 12: He could have had the opportunity to learn from Joe Flacco.

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Speaker 12: And you know, Joe Flacco certainly has made it clear

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Speaker 12: he's not the type to sit there and think he

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Speaker 12: needs to hold anyone's hand. But also he said it's

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Speaker 12: up to you to observe it, up to you to

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Speaker 12: you know, ask questions. We didn't see any vast improvements.

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Speaker 12: So to your point, if I'm just stacking the logic bricks,

1013
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Speaker 12: it's certainly there have been opportunities for Anthony Richardson to

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Speaker 12: learn in the NFL from what we regard as successful

1015
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Speaker 12: veteran quarterbacks that we regard as good teammates overall, and

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Speaker 12: it doesn't feel like that is cut through.

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Speaker 1: So you're right if.

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Speaker 12: I'm stacking those logic bricks without knowing Anthony Richardson, it

1019
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Speaker 12: is pretty easy to look at the body of work

1020
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Speaker 12: and say, hey, I'm not sure he's the most let's say,

1021
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Speaker 12: coachable guy.

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Speaker 1: I don't know.

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Speaker 12: And you're also right that maybe he doesn't want to

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Speaker 12: put himself in a situation where he's not getting on

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Speaker 12: the field because he believes what he needs is to

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Speaker 12: get on the field to work some of this out.

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Speaker 12: I also think that sometimes it just takes eye opening

1028
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Speaker 12: humility to decide what you need to work on, right,

1029
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Speaker 12: And so inevitably, I think he's going to get cut.

1030
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Speaker 12: I don't think he's going to get traded. I think

1031
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Speaker 12: he's going to get cut. And when he gets cut.

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Speaker 13: It's just crazy. I mean, just just like you. I'm

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Speaker 13: sorry to interrupt you, but just think about what you've

1034
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Speaker 13: just said. The fourth overall pick in the NFL draft

1035
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Speaker 13: three years ago is on the verge of getting cut,

1036
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Speaker 13: and that general manager still has his job through how

1037
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Speaker 13: many moments like this, like trading for Matt Ryan and

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Speaker 13: the Philip Rivers thing was probably the most successful thing they've.

1039
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Speaker 10: Done in the post Luck era.

1040
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Speaker 13: But like washed Nick Foles, Carson Wentz, all these different

1041
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Speaker 13: just malpractice moments the most important position.

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Speaker 3: I don't know.

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Speaker 13: Maybe there's something to be said about being patient and

1044
00:47:17,480 --> 00:47:22,440
Speaker 13: letting somebody in that role work through the different versions

1045
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Speaker 13: of this. But at a certain point, they haven't won

1046
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Speaker 13: a division, isn't it since twenty fourteen. It's something outrageous,

1047
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Speaker 13: And that is not like, it's not like it's been

1048
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Speaker 13: the toughest division in the world these last couple of years.

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Speaker 12: They're in Chris Ballard's tenure. He's the only GM in

1050
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Speaker 12: his division to not win the division. Yet he still

1051
00:47:40,440 --> 00:47:43,759
Speaker 12: has his job. Everybody else ha's fired people, Ballard still

1052
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Speaker 12: has his job. I don't understand it, and look, sometimes

1053
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Speaker 12: just swing a miss. The hysterical thing to me is

1054
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Speaker 12: that Kyle Shanahan in Lynch are two of the people

1055
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Speaker 12: that have absolutely swung amiss at the highest possible level.

1056
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Speaker 12: Like Trey Lance being drafted was a massive They up

1057
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Speaker 12: to get Trey Lance and they blew it. They had

1058
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Speaker 12: the safety net though, of oh my god, they got it.

1059
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Speaker 12: Lucky with Brock Perdy at the end of the draft, right, like,

1060
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Speaker 12: oh my god, they got it right. So it's sort

1061
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Speaker 12: of paid no attention to the man he had the curtain.

1062
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Speaker 12: So if you're the Colts, you know your hope is

1063
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Speaker 12: that Daniel Jones, who I do believe, by the way,

1064
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Speaker 12: like Daniel Jones makes too much sense to me to

1065
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Speaker 12: not be very easy. I think what they're gonna do

1066
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Speaker 12: with Daniel Jones, who's not gonna play much this season

1067
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Speaker 12: because of the achilles if he plays it.

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Speaker 1: All, I believe.

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Speaker 12: Instead of Daniel Jones played well enough to put himself

1070
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Speaker 12: in good starting money for a new deal for a

1071
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Speaker 12: couple of years, I think what instead he's gonna get

1072
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Speaker 12: is low starting money for a three year deal. This

1073
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Speaker 12: only makes a ton of sense to me because now

1074
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Speaker 12: you're basically paying Daniel Jones to sit around and rehab

1075
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Speaker 12: and do nothing, but you're pro rating that into the

1076
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Speaker 12: life of the contract. So instead of getting a two

1077
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Speaker 12: year deal that pays him let's say thirty five million

1078
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Speaker 12: dollars a year two years seventy, he's gonna get a

1079
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Speaker 12: three year deal for seventy five, so that he's really

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Speaker 12: getting paid to sit on his butt for one year

1081
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Speaker 12: and the next couple of years, he'll have the chance

1082
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Speaker 12: to be the starting quarterback for the Colts. I think

1083
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Speaker 12: that's what they're gonna do. So that only means it's

1084
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Speaker 12: even less important to have Anthony Richardson on the roster,

1085
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Speaker 12: Like what do you do and you're keeping him there

1086
00:49:06,200 --> 00:49:08,399
Speaker 12: to turn around and make things complicated if he turns

1087
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Speaker 12: around and plays his ass off.

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Speaker 13: Yeah, and how often you see teams I mean, I

1089
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Speaker 13: guess Zach Wilson is a version of this right, where

1090
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Speaker 13: you invest high draft capital into a player who ends

1091
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Speaker 13: up sticking around as the backup like over basically the

1092
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Speaker 13: rest of his contract situation.

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Speaker 10: There.

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Speaker 13: It happened to Marcus Mariota for different reasons here in

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Speaker 13: Tennessee with Ryan Tannehill. I'm sure there's other examples of

1096
00:49:30,239 --> 00:49:31,760
Speaker 13: that these last couple of years.

1097
00:49:31,800 --> 00:49:36,200
Speaker 10: But if he is, if he's such a problem.

1098
00:49:36,280 --> 00:49:38,440
Speaker 13: I don't want to say such a problem, because again

1099
00:49:38,560 --> 00:49:42,480
Speaker 13: I don't know how problematic it would be, but you

1100
00:49:42,600 --> 00:49:44,759
Speaker 13: have to take that into consideration if you're a if

1101
00:49:44,760 --> 00:49:46,960
Speaker 13: you're a team that would just pick him up, right,

1102
00:49:47,080 --> 00:49:50,000
Speaker 13: because what if you put him in that situation and

1103
00:49:50,040 --> 00:49:53,399
Speaker 13: he doesn't respond well and you've you've I guess those

1104
00:49:53,400 --> 00:49:54,759
Speaker 13: are the risks that you've run in a lot of

1105
00:49:54,800 --> 00:49:58,440
Speaker 13: these circumstances. Sometimes they work, sometimes they don't. It's just

1106
00:49:58,480 --> 00:50:02,200
Speaker 13: a matter of Okay, how how much are you willing?

1107
00:50:02,239 --> 00:50:02,480
Speaker 3: Do you?

1108
00:50:03,000 --> 00:50:07,719
Speaker 13: Is this a career risking decision to acquire Anthony Richardson

1109
00:50:07,760 --> 00:50:11,280
Speaker 13: in any way, shape or form for another general manager,

1110
00:50:11,719 --> 00:50:14,520
Speaker 13: Like if you trade a seventh round pick, if you

1111
00:50:14,600 --> 00:50:17,279
Speaker 13: do a Molik will of steel, where it's either you're

1112
00:50:17,320 --> 00:50:19,759
Speaker 13: gonna cut him or you're gonna find somebody to just

1113
00:50:19,840 --> 00:50:22,399
Speaker 13: take him at the very you know, last minute before

1114
00:50:22,440 --> 00:50:26,520
Speaker 13: these transactions can be submitted. Does a seventh round pick

1115
00:50:26,520 --> 00:50:29,960
Speaker 13: for Anthony Richardson if it doesn't work out, does that

1116
00:50:30,000 --> 00:50:32,760
Speaker 13: cost you your job? Probably depends on the general manager

1117
00:50:32,800 --> 00:50:33,600
Speaker 13: that you're talking about.

1118
00:50:34,600 --> 00:50:35,640
Speaker 1: It's it's crazy.

1119
00:50:36,200 --> 00:50:39,160
Speaker 12: It's crazy to me because I covered that draft that

1120
00:50:39,320 --> 00:50:43,080
Speaker 12: year and the consensus from everybody was like, man, the

1121
00:50:43,200 --> 00:50:46,400
Speaker 12: tools are great. And my consensus whole time, and this

1122
00:50:46,440 --> 00:50:47,880
Speaker 12: is the hill I always die, and you know me

1123
00:50:47,920 --> 00:50:50,040
Speaker 12: well enough, at this tonight, I dine this while all

1124
00:50:50,080 --> 00:50:53,760
Speaker 12: the time I want proof concept, I want more tape.

1125
00:50:54,120 --> 00:50:57,360
Speaker 12: And the thing for Anthony Richardson is we just don't

1126
00:50:57,400 --> 00:50:59,120
Speaker 12: have a lot of tape. The thing that scares me

1127
00:50:59,120 --> 00:51:02,040
Speaker 12: the most about Tyson is we don't have a ton

1128
00:51:02,080 --> 00:51:04,880
Speaker 12: of tape in his entire career of him throwing a football.

1129
00:51:04,960 --> 00:51:06,880
Speaker 1: I like more proof of concept.

1130
00:51:06,960 --> 00:51:09,360
Speaker 12: It is super easy to fall in love with the

1131
00:51:09,360 --> 00:51:11,480
Speaker 12: girl of your dreams after three dates, but it is

1132
00:51:11,600 --> 00:51:14,319
Speaker 12: super stupid to marry her. Like, the more time you

1133
00:51:14,360 --> 00:51:16,719
Speaker 12: can spend with her, the more chances you have to

1134
00:51:16,719 --> 00:51:18,360
Speaker 12: see the good and the bad, the more proof of

1135
00:51:18,360 --> 00:51:21,600
Speaker 12: concept we have. Anthony Richardson. Richardson didn't have enough proof

1136
00:51:21,600 --> 00:51:23,920
Speaker 12: of concept coming into the league. I'm not sure he

1137
00:51:24,000 --> 00:51:27,080
Speaker 12: has enough proof of concept now even I'm not sure

1138
00:51:27,080 --> 00:51:29,319
Speaker 12: he's ever gonna be healthy enough to give everybody enough

1139
00:51:29,320 --> 00:51:32,240
Speaker 12: a proof concept of concept. And if that's the case,

1140
00:51:32,760 --> 00:51:34,440
Speaker 12: I just don't know what his future looks like in

1141
00:51:34,480 --> 00:51:36,560
Speaker 12: the NFL. Well, plenty more to break down from what

1142
00:51:36,560 --> 00:51:39,560
Speaker 12: we saw in Indie. But most importantly, NFL.

1143
00:51:39,200 --> 00:51:40,839
Speaker 1: Owners tried to push him.

1144
00:51:41,000 --> 00:51:43,279
Speaker 12: They tried to get him to go away, but you

1145
00:51:43,400 --> 00:51:46,440
Speaker 12: can't stop report cards from coming out, and they were

1146
00:51:46,560 --> 00:51:49,360
Speaker 12: damning for some owners. We'll talk about it next. Bucket

1147
00:51:49,360 --> 00:51:54,360
Speaker 12: Fits on Fox Sports Radio. He's Buck Rising. I'm Jason Fitz.

1148
00:51:54,360 --> 00:51:56,719
Speaker 12: Bucket Fits on Fox Sports Radio. I'm not gonna lie. Buck,

1149
00:51:56,760 --> 00:51:59,000
Speaker 12: you'd have been so proud of me. You'll understand why

1150
00:51:59,000 --> 00:52:01,480
Speaker 12: this is significant. I got the popcorn and the candy

1151
00:52:01,480 --> 00:52:03,080
Speaker 12: when I went to see Scream seven. I did the

1152
00:52:03,080 --> 00:52:05,440
Speaker 12: whole thing I never do. I got the popcorn, I.

1153
00:52:05,400 --> 00:52:07,760
Speaker 1: Got the candy. I got the signal like the.

1154
00:52:07,640 --> 00:52:11,200
Speaker 12: Collectible popcorn bought and bucket and the collectible cup from

1155
00:52:11,200 --> 00:52:14,000
Speaker 12: AMC for Scream seven. I did not use those. So

1156
00:52:14,040 --> 00:52:16,279
Speaker 12: then they gave me the opice so efficient that the

1157
00:52:16,280 --> 00:52:18,920
Speaker 12: girl sold sold sold it to me for like, let's

1158
00:52:18,920 --> 00:52:20,520
Speaker 12: just not not even get it twisted. It was an

1159
00:52:20,560 --> 00:52:22,440
Speaker 12: arm and a leg for the collector'sie and stuff right

1160
00:52:22,600 --> 00:52:24,239
Speaker 12: sold it to me. Then then she put it in

1161
00:52:24,239 --> 00:52:26,239
Speaker 12: a bag and I was like, what do we like,

1162
00:52:26,640 --> 00:52:28,040
Speaker 12: what are we doing here? And she's like, oh, well,

1163
00:52:28,040 --> 00:52:30,080
Speaker 12: here's a separate popcorn and drink so that you don't

1164
00:52:30,120 --> 00:52:31,160
Speaker 12: have to get these things dirty.

1165
00:52:31,160 --> 00:52:32,440
Speaker 1: So I got to take it out to my car.

1166
00:52:32,560 --> 00:52:34,680
Speaker 12: Oh man, let me tell you something like it's been

1167
00:52:34,719 --> 00:52:36,239
Speaker 12: a long time since I ate movie. I go to

1168
00:52:36,320 --> 00:52:38,719
Speaker 12: the movies three four times a week every week. I

1169
00:52:38,920 --> 00:52:41,239
Speaker 12: never get the popcorn in the candy. Movies are better

1170
00:52:41,280 --> 00:52:43,680
Speaker 12: with popcorn and candy. And I gorged on it. Scream seven,

1171
00:52:43,680 --> 00:52:45,040
Speaker 12: by the way, I love it, don't. I don't give

1172
00:52:45,040 --> 00:52:47,400
Speaker 12: a damn what anybody says, because I keep seeing everybody

1173
00:52:47,480 --> 00:52:50,200
Speaker 12: say they hated it. I Screams my favorite movie of

1174
00:52:50,200 --> 00:52:52,120
Speaker 12: all time, Screams my favorite franchise.

1175
00:52:52,400 --> 00:52:54,840
Speaker 1: And I thought it was no spoilers. I thought it

1176
00:52:54,880 --> 00:52:55,640
Speaker 1: was really well done.

1177
00:52:55,680 --> 00:52:56,120
Speaker 3: Like was it?

1178
00:52:56,160 --> 00:52:56,720
Speaker 1: Was it perfect?

1179
00:52:56,719 --> 00:52:56,799
Speaker 6: No?

1180
00:52:56,920 --> 00:52:59,799
Speaker 12: But it's anytime you have the number seven after your movie,

1181
00:52:59,840 --> 00:53:02,120
Speaker 12: I don't know what people expect, Like, did you expect

1182
00:53:02,320 --> 00:53:05,080
Speaker 12: one of the great cinematic masterpieces of all time from

1183
00:53:05,120 --> 00:53:08,640
Speaker 12: Scream seven? If you did, that's probably on you. I

1184
00:53:08,680 --> 00:53:10,879
Speaker 12: think if they played true to the original and they're

1185
00:53:11,000 --> 00:53:12,560
Speaker 12: entertaining and they're well.

1186
00:53:12,400 --> 00:53:15,360
Speaker 1: Written, which I thought this was. I thought it was enjoyable.

1187
00:53:15,719 --> 00:53:16,920
Speaker 1: Am we have talking to you into going?

1188
00:53:17,560 --> 00:53:17,799
Speaker 3: No?

1189
00:53:18,040 --> 00:53:21,040
Speaker 13: Because if you just listen to any of that rejoined

1190
00:53:21,120 --> 00:53:23,400
Speaker 13: that just played and still makes me laugh because of

1191
00:53:23,440 --> 00:53:26,239
Speaker 13: the way that Mary delights in the idea of me

1192
00:53:26,320 --> 00:53:28,880
Speaker 13: gold going to Golden Corral in ways that I would

1193
00:53:29,200 --> 00:53:35,000
Speaker 13: never ever ever cat I'll deal with you later. You

1194
00:53:35,040 --> 00:53:38,080
Speaker 13: are not getting me into movie theater under any circumstances. Now,

1195
00:53:38,160 --> 00:53:41,800
Speaker 13: maybe this would be a fun show exercise like maybe

1196
00:53:41,880 --> 00:53:43,960
Speaker 13: at some point in our lives we are going to

1197
00:53:43,960 --> 00:53:45,880
Speaker 13: be in the same city doing the show together, and

1198
00:53:45,920 --> 00:53:49,120
Speaker 13: we can pretend we can potentially make my first trip

1199
00:53:49,200 --> 00:53:52,440
Speaker 13: to the movie theater. When did The Revenant come out?

1200
00:53:53,760 --> 00:53:56,040
Speaker 1: I don't know, my god, you haven't been to see

1201
00:53:56,040 --> 00:53:57,160
Speaker 1: a movie since The Revenant.

1202
00:53:57,320 --> 00:54:00,240
Speaker 3: I was like, twenty thixteen.

1203
00:54:00,280 --> 00:54:02,759
Speaker 12: I'm looking at here, twenty fifteen. You haven't been to

1204
00:54:02,760 --> 00:54:03,960
Speaker 12: the movie theater in ten years.

1205
00:54:04,080 --> 00:54:05,880
Speaker 10: When was the first Jurassic World?

1206
00:54:07,120 --> 00:54:12,200
Speaker 7: Oh my god, dude, I'm just I'm just saying twenty fifteen.

1207
00:54:12,280 --> 00:54:13,000
Speaker 1: Also twenty five.

1208
00:54:13,040 --> 00:54:15,319
Speaker 13: Okay, okay, so this is this is the last time

1209
00:54:15,360 --> 00:54:17,919
Speaker 13: when I was regularly going to movies. Okay, it's been

1210
00:54:18,040 --> 00:54:19,719
Speaker 13: it's been a decade. I don't think you're getting me

1211
00:54:19,760 --> 00:54:20,279
Speaker 13: back in the movie.

1212
00:54:20,400 --> 00:54:21,279
Speaker 1: That's why you act like that.

1213
00:54:21,360 --> 00:54:23,760
Speaker 14: You need to go movie theater, go watch a movie.

1214
00:54:23,960 --> 00:54:25,560
Speaker 10: No, I want to be outside. I want to be

1215
00:54:25,640 --> 00:54:26,840
Speaker 10: in the streets. Mary, I don't.

1216
00:54:27,160 --> 00:54:31,000
Speaker 1: Problem you need to go watch a movie both.

1217
00:54:31,120 --> 00:54:32,399
Speaker 3: She said, you need to calm down.

1218
00:54:33,000 --> 00:54:35,759
Speaker 14: You're gonna sit in a movie two little, two three hour,

1219
00:54:35,880 --> 00:54:38,640
Speaker 14: let the lights go down, Just sit there and watch it.

1220
00:54:38,360 --> 00:54:40,160
Speaker 13: I'm not gonna or I go to bed or I

1221
00:54:40,200 --> 00:54:42,319
Speaker 13: fall asleep, I can't stay away man.

1222
00:54:42,280 --> 00:54:43,560
Speaker 1: Syndrome, and you bro lock in.

1223
00:54:45,160 --> 00:54:46,840
Speaker 12: Mary's right, though, Like I will say, part of the

1224
00:54:46,880 --> 00:54:49,520
Speaker 12: reason at all all weirdness is that part of the

1225
00:54:49,560 --> 00:54:52,160
Speaker 12: reason I love going to the movies is that with

1226
00:54:52,239 --> 00:54:54,680
Speaker 12: what most of us do in this business that we're

1227
00:54:54,800 --> 00:54:56,759
Speaker 12: very lucky to get to do, there's a lot of

1228
00:54:56,760 --> 00:54:59,240
Speaker 12: communication and you're sort of always on right. You're always

1229
00:54:59,239 --> 00:55:01,799
Speaker 12: texting about the show, You're always working on something. There's

1230
00:55:01,800 --> 00:55:05,080
Speaker 12: always something coming down the pipeline, and I'm very work focused.

1231
00:55:05,160 --> 00:55:06,680
Speaker 12: So for me, the reason I enjoy going to the

1232
00:55:06,760 --> 00:55:08,560
Speaker 12: movies rather than sitting at home is If I sit

1233
00:55:08,600 --> 00:55:11,759
Speaker 12: at home, I will inevitably turn an NBA game on

1234
00:55:11,800 --> 00:55:14,160
Speaker 12: a second screen and then start texting somebody about something.

1235
00:55:14,719 --> 00:55:16,759
Speaker 12: If I go to the theater, my phone is in

1236
00:55:16,800 --> 00:55:19,400
Speaker 12: my pocket and like it's that. It's that two hours

1237
00:55:19,440 --> 00:55:22,440
Speaker 12: where nobody bothers me. I don't bother anybody. I'm not

1238
00:55:22,520 --> 00:55:25,760
Speaker 12: thinking about anything. I'm just in that movie for two hours.

1239
00:55:25,800 --> 00:55:28,719
Speaker 12: So you know, certainly that's that's part of why I enjoy.

1240
00:55:28,840 --> 00:55:31,040
Speaker 12: And I'll be honest, I went to Scream seven on

1241
00:55:31,160 --> 00:55:33,359
Speaker 12: opening night. Buck, if you're ever gonna go to a

1242
00:55:33,440 --> 00:55:37,040
Speaker 12: movie like it was opening night. Every single seat was packed.

1243
00:55:37,280 --> 00:55:42,000
Speaker 12: People were yelling at the screen like it was there's yeah,

1244
00:55:42,040 --> 00:55:45,120
Speaker 12: that is true. It's it's like it's it's being at

1245
00:55:45,160 --> 00:55:49,640
Speaker 12: this just fan event all but I know Buck hates Joy,

1246
00:55:49,880 --> 00:55:56,640
Speaker 12: but my god, like in a basketball game last week,

1247
00:55:56,640 --> 00:55:58,120
Speaker 12: you went to the Indiana basketball game.

1248
00:55:57,960 --> 00:56:01,160
Speaker 13: There, Yeah, but those are my people. Okay, so now

1249
00:56:01,840 --> 00:56:04,799
Speaker 13: you know what that's not even, that's not even I saw.

1250
00:56:04,920 --> 00:56:06,240
Speaker 7: Do you guys remember the movie The Visit?

1251
00:56:08,760 --> 00:56:08,960
Speaker 3: Yes?

1252
00:56:09,280 --> 00:56:11,439
Speaker 7: Yeah, I hope I said his name right there. Yeah,

1253
00:56:11,520 --> 00:56:13,719
Speaker 7: Like I saw that on opening night. And when you

1254
00:56:13,760 --> 00:56:15,799
Speaker 7: see a movie like that, there's a huge plot twist

1255
00:56:15,840 --> 00:56:17,480
Speaker 7: in it, like all of his movies and stuff. So

1256
00:56:17,520 --> 00:56:19,840
Speaker 7: it's like when you all experience it at once, I

1257
00:56:19,880 --> 00:56:20,319
Speaker 7: know what you mean.

1258
00:56:20,400 --> 00:56:22,359
Speaker 3: Fitz's no, and that's cool.

1259
00:56:22,440 --> 00:56:24,840
Speaker 13: Like I haven't had I mean, my god, when is

1260
00:56:24,880 --> 00:56:27,000
Speaker 13: the last time I went to like a movie premiere

1261
00:56:27,040 --> 00:56:29,279
Speaker 13: that way? It had to be in high school or

1262
00:56:29,320 --> 00:56:32,560
Speaker 13: something like that, when like Harry Potter's Coming Out or whatever.

1263
00:56:32,800 --> 00:56:37,600
Speaker 13: I I don't jesus remember the last time I've had

1264
00:56:37,680 --> 00:56:41,359
Speaker 13: one of those movie specific movie experiences. They're just they

1265
00:56:41,440 --> 00:56:44,520
Speaker 13: they've made it too convenient for me not to go FITZI,

1266
00:56:45,080 --> 00:56:47,160
Speaker 13: it's not it's not for me, it's not gonna it's

1267
00:56:47,160 --> 00:56:48,240
Speaker 13: just not gonna be for everybody.

1268
00:56:48,680 --> 00:56:50,680
Speaker 12: And you're not wrong, by the way. We'll get to

1269
00:56:50,680 --> 00:56:53,479
Speaker 12: report cards in a second. But you're not wrong buck

1270
00:56:53,600 --> 00:56:56,080
Speaker 12: in the sense. I will say this because I do

1271
00:56:56,200 --> 00:56:59,839
Speaker 12: go the AMC Pass. No freebees here, AMC. You could

1272
00:56:59,840 --> 00:57:02,000
Speaker 12: help me out, My my god. But the AMC Pass

1273
00:57:02,239 --> 00:57:04,200
Speaker 12: lets you see up to four movies a week in

1274
00:57:04,280 --> 00:57:06,080
Speaker 12: any movies. Like I can go to any of the

1275
00:57:06,120 --> 00:57:10,600
Speaker 12: AMC theaters, I can see any of the different varieties. I'max,

1276
00:57:10,600 --> 00:57:12,239
Speaker 12: all that stuff, it's all it's all included in this

1277
00:57:12,280 --> 00:57:13,680
Speaker 12: past for like twenty five bucks a month.

1278
00:57:13,800 --> 00:57:14,600
Speaker 1: That's why I join it.

1279
00:57:14,960 --> 00:57:18,400
Speaker 12: But to your point, there's been a couple of times

1280
00:57:18,400 --> 00:57:20,800
Speaker 12: that I've gone to see a movie I'm really excited about,

1281
00:57:20,800 --> 00:57:22,960
Speaker 12: like a random horror movie. That's usually what I see,

1282
00:57:23,280 --> 00:57:26,480
Speaker 12: and then like three days later, I'll be online, I

1283
00:57:26,920 --> 00:57:29,120
Speaker 12: turn my TV on and it's like now available. I'm like,

1284
00:57:30,160 --> 00:57:32,560
Speaker 12: this is like such an old man sentiment. But when

1285
00:57:32,600 --> 00:57:35,600
Speaker 12: I was a kid, the movie would be in theaters

1286
00:57:35,640 --> 00:57:37,480
Speaker 12: for a long time, and when it left theaters it

1287
00:57:37,520 --> 00:57:39,360
Speaker 12: would take at least a year to get to the

1288
00:57:39,440 --> 00:57:41,760
Speaker 12: video stores. So if you didn't like when I was

1289
00:57:41,800 --> 00:57:44,040
Speaker 12: really little, I wanted to see LaBamba in the theaters,

1290
00:57:44,040 --> 00:57:45,480
Speaker 12: I didn't get to see it in the theaters. I

1291
00:57:45,480 --> 00:57:47,080
Speaker 12: had to wait a year for that thing to come

1292
00:57:47,080 --> 00:57:49,560
Speaker 12: out to Blockbuster to then go try and rent it.

1293
00:57:49,800 --> 00:57:52,560
Speaker 12: So like there was a sense before of you had

1294
00:57:52,560 --> 00:57:55,160
Speaker 12: to go see the movie because otherwise you were waiting

1295
00:57:55,280 --> 00:57:58,440
Speaker 12: anywhere from twelve to eighteen months to actually see what

1296
00:57:58,480 --> 00:58:00,520
Speaker 12: you wanted to see. Not to mention you were seeing

1297
00:58:00,520 --> 00:58:02,880
Speaker 12: it on a dinky nineteen inch like TV screen if

1298
00:58:02,920 --> 00:58:05,240
Speaker 12: you were lucky that you couldn't hear and didn't have sound.

1299
00:58:05,320 --> 00:58:07,919
Speaker 12: Now we all have, you know, huge TV. I keep

1300
00:58:07,920 --> 00:58:10,440
Speaker 12: looking at these one hundred inch TVs at Costco and

1301
00:58:10,480 --> 00:58:13,880
Speaker 12: I'm like, good God, Like you've got people with hundreds

1302
00:58:13,880 --> 00:58:16,560
Speaker 12: of inches of TV in front of them and speakers everywhere,

1303
00:58:16,560 --> 00:58:18,479
Speaker 12: and like, a, you're right, you can do the whole

1304
00:58:18,520 --> 00:58:21,880
Speaker 12: thing at home. And the fact that it's almost immediately available,

1305
00:58:22,120 --> 00:58:25,560
Speaker 12: you know, on some streaming service almost right away, does

1306
00:58:25,640 --> 00:58:27,720
Speaker 12: make the process of going to the movies a little

1307
00:58:27,760 --> 00:58:28,440
Speaker 12: bit antiquated.

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00:58:28,600 --> 00:58:29,520
Speaker 1: I'll acknowledge that.

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00:58:29,720 --> 00:58:32,880
Speaker 13: Okay, fine, I will I will do this one time

1310
00:58:33,080 --> 00:58:35,160
Speaker 13: with you Okay, the next time you and I are

1311
00:58:35,160 --> 00:58:37,760
Speaker 13: in the same city, I will go to a movie

1312
00:58:37,800 --> 00:58:38,080
Speaker 13: with you.

1313
00:58:38,320 --> 00:58:40,440
Speaker 1: Oh my god, I will make my own report card.

1314
00:58:40,480 --> 00:58:42,720
Speaker 13: We're getting ready to talk about NFL report cards after

1315
00:58:42,760 --> 00:58:45,400
Speaker 13: Martin updates us here in just a little bit, I

1316
00:58:45,440 --> 00:58:49,480
Speaker 13: will give you my movie theater experience in person report

1317
00:58:49,520 --> 00:58:53,720
Speaker 13: card on the show whichever show follows our movie theater experience.

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00:58:54,040 --> 00:58:56,560
Speaker 12: You are one of the few cities in the country

1319
00:58:56,600 --> 00:59:00,640
Speaker 12: in Nashville that has a regal four D X cinema

1320
00:59:00,800 --> 00:59:01,720
Speaker 12: in Opry Mills.

1321
00:59:01,880 --> 00:59:02,640
Speaker 1: What does that mean.

1322
00:59:03,320 --> 00:59:06,440
Speaker 12: That means all of the seats are like roller coaster seats.

1323
00:59:06,480 --> 00:59:08,919
Speaker 12: They are on small like they're on like a little

1324
00:59:09,000 --> 00:59:12,240
Speaker 12: lever basically, and when the movie starts, your seat elevates

1325
00:59:12,320 --> 00:59:14,640
Speaker 12: off the ground and then you are literally like they

1326
00:59:14,680 --> 00:59:16,920
Speaker 12: force your perspective with the chair, so like if you're

1327
00:59:16,960 --> 00:59:19,400
Speaker 12: in a car seat. Your seat's actually jarring around, like

1328
00:59:19,440 --> 00:59:22,400
Speaker 12: you'll throw your popcorn everywhere. Smoke flies in your face,

1329
00:59:22,720 --> 00:59:25,040
Speaker 12: like you feel effects all over the chair, like things

1330
00:59:25,160 --> 00:59:26,840
Speaker 12: vibrate like it's smoke.

1331
00:59:26,640 --> 00:59:29,200
Speaker 1: Flies through the theater. It is like a roller coaster mine.

1332
00:59:30,200 --> 00:59:33,840
Speaker 12: It's insane forty x is It's like a roller coaster ride.

1333
00:59:33,920 --> 00:59:37,600
Speaker 12: Meets a movie theater and it rocks your whole world.

1334
00:59:38,120 --> 00:59:39,480
Speaker 12: I don't even know if the movies are good. When

1335
00:59:39,480 --> 00:59:41,600
Speaker 12: you see him that way, the experience is so damn amazing.

1336
00:59:41,920 --> 00:59:43,479
Speaker 12: It just don't You don't get to eat.

1337
00:59:43,360 --> 00:59:49,320
Speaker 1: A lot of popcorn that way, buck, I mean, you're

1338
00:59:49,360 --> 00:59:53,080
Speaker 1: in la if you're not lock down, we do. I

1339
00:59:53,120 --> 00:59:55,120
Speaker 1: think I saw Avatar.

1340
00:59:54,680 --> 00:59:55,680
Speaker 3: And forty X.

1341
00:59:55,720 --> 00:59:57,600
Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure that's.

1342
00:59:57,560 --> 01:00:00,840
Speaker 14: The not the new one, but the second one, I guess.

1343
01:00:00,920 --> 01:00:02,480
Speaker 14: But that one was fun. I was zooited.

1344
01:00:03,960 --> 01:00:05,640
Speaker 3: Uh yeah, I'm sure.

1345
01:00:05,680 --> 01:00:07,760
Speaker 13: Well that that will that will be the only way

1346
01:00:07,760 --> 01:00:09,760
Speaker 13: that you will get me to go into this movie

1347
01:00:09,800 --> 01:00:15,280
Speaker 13: theater properly applied. But uh, Pooka tweets us on Twitter.

1348
01:00:16,160 --> 01:00:18,000
Speaker 13: Tweets us on Twitter A bit reductive.

1349
01:00:17,560 --> 01:00:18,840
Speaker 1: As opposed to Nikua.

1350
01:00:21,000 --> 01:00:24,200
Speaker 3: No, not that way. This is p O O K

1351
01:00:24,800 --> 01:00:26,880
Speaker 3: h A uh.

1352
01:00:26,680 --> 01:00:29,200
Speaker 13: Saying that I should go see a quality movie at

1353
01:00:29,200 --> 01:00:32,240
Speaker 13: the Bellcourt Theater here in Nashville. I guess she's listening

1354
01:00:32,280 --> 01:00:35,640
Speaker 13: in Nashville. They even have wine, could send a list

1355
01:00:35,720 --> 01:00:39,600
Speaker 13: of recommended movies. Adds more to life than hanging out

1356
01:00:39,600 --> 01:00:41,640
Speaker 13: at ten Roof. All right, I don't go to Tenroof anymore?

1357
01:00:41,640 --> 01:00:41,880
Speaker 10: All Right?

1358
01:00:41,880 --> 01:00:45,760
Speaker 3: I've grated you anymore. You actually that's not where tenroof

1359
01:00:45,800 --> 01:00:48,520
Speaker 3: on Thursday. But in India, INDI, that doesn't count.

1360
01:00:48,800 --> 01:00:49,560
Speaker 10: That doesn't count.

1361
01:00:50,120 --> 01:00:52,760
Speaker 12: Yeah, the tin roof in India does not count, not even.

1362
01:00:53,440 --> 01:00:55,760
Speaker 12: It is not like that. It is not well. The

1363
01:00:55,800 --> 01:00:58,360
Speaker 12: franchise attempt to tin roof is not worth it. San

1364
01:00:58,360 --> 01:01:01,560
Speaker 12: Diego one also sucked. No offense to ten roof, but

1365
01:01:01,640 --> 01:01:03,320
Speaker 12: a little offense a ten roof, Martin, get us caught

1366
01:01:03,360 --> 01:01:05,400
Speaker 12: up on the scoreboard, save us from ourselves, and then

1367
01:01:05,400 --> 01:01:06,600
Speaker 12: we'll give ourselves a report card.

1368
01:01:06,600 --> 01:01:07,520
Speaker 1: Wea days t.

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Speaker 9: I like that self grade. That's what I Woody Johnson

1370
01:01:11,520 --> 01:01:17,320
Speaker 9: was looking for last year. No aaaa not j Ets guys.

1371
01:01:17,320 --> 01:01:19,920
Speaker 9: That's how it's supposed to go now, all right, MBA

1372
01:01:20,080 --> 01:01:22,120
Speaker 9: action that he beat the Rockets one fifteen to one

1373
01:01:22,160 --> 01:01:24,680
Speaker 9: oh five. Bam Ate Bio double double, twenty four and

1374
01:01:24,760 --> 01:01:28,760
Speaker 9: eleven rebounds. Kevin Durant with thirty two points, six rebounds

1375
01:01:28,800 --> 01:01:32,000
Speaker 9: and eight assists. Charlotte BA Portland one oh nine to

1376
01:01:32,160 --> 01:01:35,959
Speaker 9: ninety three. Brandon Miller had twenty six and eight as

1377
01:01:36,040 --> 01:01:38,720
Speaker 9: Hornets won their eighth trade game. Right now, with about

1378
01:01:38,720 --> 01:01:41,400
Speaker 9: four thirty left in the first quarter, the Wizards have

1379
01:01:41,560 --> 01:01:45,160
Speaker 9: a twenty three to eighteen point lead, eighteen lead on

1380
01:01:45,200 --> 01:01:47,840
Speaker 9: the Raptor with again in five minutes left in the

1381
01:01:47,840 --> 01:01:51,000
Speaker 9: first quarter or so there. In men's college basketball, two

1382
01:01:51,040 --> 01:01:54,880
Speaker 9: games active in the top twenty five nineteenth ranth BYU's

1383
01:01:54,920 --> 01:01:57,160
Speaker 9: been trailing this whole game. West Virginia has been up

1384
01:01:57,200 --> 01:02:00,000
Speaker 9: seventy to sixty three now with just under four minute

1385
01:02:00,200 --> 01:02:03,080
Speaker 9: left in the second half. We catch that game on

1386
01:02:03,240 --> 01:02:06,480
Speaker 9: Fox fifteen minutes or so left in the second half.

1387
01:02:06,480 --> 01:02:10,160
Speaker 9: For Tennessee in Alabama, the twenty second ranked Volunteers leading

1388
01:02:10,200 --> 01:02:11,920
Speaker 9: the seventeenth rank Crimson tied.

1389
01:02:11,880 --> 01:02:13,040
Speaker 10: Fifty to forty two.

1390
01:02:13,440 --> 01:02:16,040
Speaker 9: Earlier, we saw Duke beat Virginia, the number one team

1391
01:02:16,080 --> 01:02:19,000
Speaker 9: in the nation, with a seventy seven to fifty one

1392
01:02:19,160 --> 01:02:22,479
Speaker 9: win over the eleventh Cavaliers cam Buser with eighteen points

1393
01:02:22,520 --> 01:02:25,920
Speaker 9: and nine rebounds, Duke clinching a part of the ACC title.

1394
01:02:26,160 --> 01:02:29,000
Speaker 9: Second ranked Arizona beat fourteen three in Kansas, eighty four

1395
01:02:29,040 --> 01:02:32,080
Speaker 9: to sixty one. Fifth ranked Houston snapped a three game

1396
01:02:32,080 --> 01:02:35,120
Speaker 9: losing street with a forty point beat down of Colorado

1397
01:02:35,200 --> 01:02:38,160
Speaker 9: one o two to sixty two. Yukons came back in

1398
01:02:38,200 --> 01:02:41,640
Speaker 9: the second half from down eight in the second half

1399
01:02:41,760 --> 01:02:43,240
Speaker 9: seventy one to sixty seven.

1400
01:02:43,320 --> 01:02:44,200
Speaker 10: They beat Seaton Hall.

1401
01:02:44,280 --> 01:02:48,200
Speaker 9: On Senior Night, Clemson beat Louisville eighty to seventy five.

1402
01:02:48,240 --> 01:02:51,480
Speaker 9: In Kentucky beat Vanderbilt ninety one to seventy seven. In

1403
01:02:51,560 --> 01:02:55,640
Speaker 9: the NHL, the ranked Rangers beat the Penguins three to

1404
01:02:55,680 --> 01:02:58,800
Speaker 9: two in a shootout, Flyers beat the Bruins three to one,

1405
01:02:59,480 --> 01:03:02,560
Speaker 9: and Sharks five to four over the Oilers, and a

1406
01:03:02,680 --> 01:03:04,080
Speaker 9: ton of games live right now.

1407
01:03:04,160 --> 01:03:06,720
Speaker 10: The Devil's about to wrap up the Blues.

1408
01:03:06,400 --> 01:03:09,600
Speaker 9: Two to one third period ending there six point thirty

1409
01:03:09,680 --> 01:03:11,720
Speaker 9: left in the second period. All tied up between the

1410
01:03:11,720 --> 01:03:15,400
Speaker 9: Islanders and Blue Jackets to a piece. Chicago Blackhawks won

1411
01:03:16,000 --> 01:03:18,360
Speaker 9: to nothing over the Avalanche with six minutes or so

1412
01:03:18,480 --> 01:03:21,000
Speaker 9: in the second period. Ten minutes in the first period,

1413
01:03:21,080 --> 01:03:25,040
Speaker 9: Senators and Leafs tied one apiece. Canadians over Capitals won

1414
01:03:25,160 --> 01:03:28,800
Speaker 9: nothing there, Sabers three nothing early over the Lightning with

1415
01:03:28,840 --> 01:03:30,919
Speaker 9: ten minutes left in the first period, and with six

1416
01:03:30,920 --> 01:03:33,959
Speaker 9: minutes left in the first period of Hurricanes and Red

1417
01:03:33,960 --> 01:03:36,960
Speaker 9: Wings scoreless, Flames and Kings scoreless as well.

1418
01:03:37,120 --> 01:03:37,920
Speaker 10: Fell us back to you.

1419
01:03:39,840 --> 01:03:42,280
Speaker 12: He's buck rising on Jason fitz bucking fits on Fox

1420
01:03:42,280 --> 01:03:44,720
Speaker 12: Sports Radio and report cards got out.

1421
01:03:45,160 --> 01:03:46,520
Speaker 1: And that's the easiest thing.

1422
01:03:46,360 --> 01:03:50,160
Speaker 12: Here buck to say is that the NFL made it clear.

1423
01:03:50,200 --> 01:03:53,200
Speaker 12: They went to arbitration and arbiter ruled that the NFLPA

1424
01:03:53,360 --> 01:03:55,880
Speaker 12: was not allowed to release the report cards to the

1425
01:03:55,920 --> 01:03:58,760
Speaker 12: media because it was disparaging to the name and recognition

1426
01:03:59,240 --> 01:04:01,640
Speaker 12: of the league. Right, So the arbitration came out and

1427
01:04:01,640 --> 01:04:03,880
Speaker 12: said you can't do it. It took like six seconds

1428
01:04:03,960 --> 01:04:06,360
Speaker 12: in Indy, as we all knew, just not for some

1429
01:04:06,480 --> 01:04:08,120
Speaker 12: of the general results to come out.

1430
01:04:08,160 --> 01:04:10,760
Speaker 1: Like when I say it got out, everything got out.

1431
01:04:10,800 --> 01:04:13,040
Speaker 12: Every grade, not in the fancy report way that we're

1432
01:04:13,080 --> 01:04:15,400
Speaker 12: used to seeing, but every grade for every team was

1433
01:04:15,440 --> 01:04:18,120
Speaker 12: immediately run with. I don't know what owners expected, but

1434
01:04:18,240 --> 01:04:21,160
Speaker 12: certainly if the players weren't already motivated to get them out,

1435
01:04:21,240 --> 01:04:23,160
Speaker 12: they were even more motivated to make sure they got

1436
01:04:23,200 --> 01:04:24,920
Speaker 12: them out, knowing they were told they couldn't.

1437
01:04:26,320 --> 01:04:29,040
Speaker 13: And that's the thing that I'm happy to see because

1438
01:04:29,040 --> 01:04:32,000
Speaker 13: I think there and I, you know, misunderstood it when

1439
01:04:32,040 --> 01:04:36,440
Speaker 13: the initial win for the NFL came out in the

1440
01:04:36,480 --> 01:04:39,680
Speaker 13: memo that they sent to all thirty two clubs about

1441
01:04:40,280 --> 01:04:43,800
Speaker 13: keeping the NFLPA from putting this out publicly, right, they

1442
01:04:43,800 --> 01:04:47,640
Speaker 13: would do graphics specific to each team, became a social

1443
01:04:47,680 --> 01:04:51,520
Speaker 13: media thing, something that's promoted, something that shared around it

1444
01:04:51,600 --> 01:04:55,320
Speaker 13: becomes and it was you know, it was legislated against

1445
01:04:55,760 --> 01:04:58,200
Speaker 13: by people like Woody Johnson, who had gotten an F

1446
01:04:58,280 --> 01:05:01,200
Speaker 13: the Jets owner among us. And we'll talk about some

1447
01:05:01,240 --> 01:05:03,920
Speaker 13: of the teams that failed out in spectacular fashion. Some

1448
01:05:04,240 --> 01:05:06,800
Speaker 13: you would imagine would be the case. Some you'd probably

1449
01:05:06,840 --> 01:05:09,760
Speaker 13: be a little bit surprised by. Woody Johnson got an

1450
01:05:09,800 --> 01:05:12,280
Speaker 13: F in this thing, called it what quote, totally bogus

1451
01:05:12,360 --> 01:05:14,040
Speaker 13: and then he gets a beat this year. So is

1452
01:05:14,040 --> 01:05:17,760
Speaker 13: it now even still totally bogus that Woody Johnson?

1453
01:05:17,800 --> 01:05:18,400
Speaker 10: Are you going to.

1454
01:05:18,440 --> 01:05:21,360
Speaker 13: Question the results now the results are more favorable for

1455
01:05:21,520 --> 01:05:24,880
Speaker 13: you or did it actually enact make you think about

1456
01:05:24,920 --> 01:05:26,960
Speaker 13: the way that you do your job as an NFL

1457
01:05:27,040 --> 01:05:30,360
Speaker 13: owner and cause any level of change in the way

1458
01:05:30,360 --> 01:05:32,280
Speaker 13: that you do business, the way that you handle players,

1459
01:05:32,280 --> 01:05:34,800
Speaker 13: the way that you interact with families, whatever it was

1460
01:05:34,880 --> 01:05:37,880
Speaker 13: that caused Woody Johnson beyond the obvious that the public

1461
01:05:37,960 --> 01:05:41,120
Speaker 13: sees to be considered one of the worst, if not

1462
01:05:41,240 --> 01:05:45,200
Speaker 13: the worst NFL owner in a post Dan Snyder era.

1463
01:05:45,320 --> 01:05:47,880
Speaker 10: And that's obviously different for legal reasons.

1464
01:05:48,800 --> 01:05:51,640
Speaker 13: I love the fact that they as soon as these

1465
01:05:51,680 --> 01:05:54,760
Speaker 13: things basically came out from the NFLPA to the players,

1466
01:05:55,120 --> 01:05:59,120
Speaker 13: that somebody, in fact, I'm sure several people leaked all

1467
01:05:59,160 --> 01:06:00,560
Speaker 13: of the results to all all of the media to

1468
01:06:00,600 --> 01:06:02,640
Speaker 13: put them out anywhere, be like, here, here's what it

1469
01:06:02,640 --> 01:06:03,040
Speaker 13: looks like.

1470
01:06:03,120 --> 01:06:05,280
Speaker 10: Here's what it's going to continue to look like. This

1471
01:06:05,320 --> 01:06:05,960
Speaker 10: is our tool.

1472
01:06:06,080 --> 01:06:08,560
Speaker 13: This is a tool that we have to continue to

1473
01:06:08,680 --> 01:06:11,400
Speaker 13: enact change in our workplace. A tool that they should have,

1474
01:06:11,520 --> 01:06:13,080
Speaker 13: by the way, and if they want to make it public,

1475
01:06:13,360 --> 01:06:14,040
Speaker 13: that's their right.

1476
01:06:15,840 --> 01:06:19,600
Speaker 12: It's wild to me because being successful on the field

1477
01:06:19,600 --> 01:06:21,360
Speaker 12: doesn't make you a successful team in the eyes of

1478
01:06:21,400 --> 01:06:24,520
Speaker 12: the players. Miami Dolphins were number one overall in their

1479
01:06:24,560 --> 01:06:28,439
Speaker 12: rank on this The Kansas City Chiefs were twenty seven. Now,

1480
01:06:28,480 --> 01:06:32,880
Speaker 12: as we've talked about repeatedly, the Pittsburgh Steelers were thirty second.

1481
01:06:33,000 --> 01:06:33,720
Speaker 1: Think about that.

1482
01:06:33,600 --> 01:06:35,480
Speaker 12: Through New England Patriots coming off of the year they

1483
01:06:35,560 --> 01:06:38,600
Speaker 12: just had, we're twenty sixth. They were twenty six And

1484
01:06:38,680 --> 01:06:42,040
Speaker 12: some of the things that we see repeatedly that you

1485
01:06:42,160 --> 01:06:44,800
Speaker 12: just got to feel like are controllable variables. Look at

1486
01:06:44,800 --> 01:06:47,640
Speaker 12: the Patriots at home game field. They get a d

1487
01:06:48,080 --> 01:06:51,680
Speaker 12: food and dining area, they get a deep a de plus. Right,

1488
01:06:52,120 --> 01:06:54,800
Speaker 12: the team travel they get an F Like. These are

1489
01:06:54,840 --> 01:06:58,400
Speaker 12: all variables that are so easy for teams to control,

1490
01:06:58,520 --> 01:07:00,920
Speaker 12: and they just don't seem to give a damn about it.

1491
01:07:01,000 --> 01:07:03,960
Speaker 12: Like the Pittsburgh Steelers' locker room, everybody keeps talking about it,

1492
01:07:04,000 --> 01:07:06,720
Speaker 12: got an F minus. We find out that there's only

1493
01:07:06,760 --> 01:07:08,919
Speaker 12: what five stalls or whatever it is in the entire

1494
01:07:09,080 --> 01:07:11,680
Speaker 12: men's bathroom area for the locker room for a roster

1495
01:07:11,800 --> 01:07:14,520
Speaker 12: of an active roster of fifty three. You know, team

1496
01:07:14,560 --> 01:07:17,800
Speaker 12: ownership of the Steelers gets a D minus. And it's

1497
01:07:17,800 --> 01:07:20,800
Speaker 12: funny to me because I think team ownership matters, Like

1498
01:07:20,880 --> 01:07:22,919
Speaker 12: that's the players telling you how they believe the whole

1499
01:07:23,000 --> 01:07:25,560
Speaker 12: organization is run. Like it is telling to me that

1500
01:07:25,640 --> 01:07:28,720
Speaker 12: you get a D minus from an organization like the Steelers,

1501
01:07:28,720 --> 01:07:31,080
Speaker 12: because that is opening the eyes of how players are

1502
01:07:31,080 --> 01:07:33,800
Speaker 12: talking to each other about certain franchises and the way

1503
01:07:33,800 --> 01:07:34,280
Speaker 12: they're run.

1504
01:07:35,880 --> 01:07:39,480
Speaker 13: And that's one of the reasons why this is so important,

1505
01:07:39,520 --> 01:07:42,440
Speaker 13: because we won't have all the full details about what

1506
01:07:42,560 --> 01:07:45,320
Speaker 13: makes Steelers ownership. But d is it a D minus?

1507
01:07:45,400 --> 01:07:48,240
Speaker 13: You said to the Steelers. And that's surprising, right because

1508
01:07:48,280 --> 01:07:53,680
Speaker 13: people associate the Rooney family across generations decades at this

1509
01:07:53,840 --> 01:07:58,640
Speaker 13: point of being stable, well run, well thought out, good

1510
01:07:58,680 --> 01:08:01,920
Speaker 13: decision makers that they that they you know, we have

1511
01:08:02,040 --> 01:08:04,800
Speaker 13: no reason to think that they treat people unfairly if

1512
01:08:05,240 --> 01:08:07,800
Speaker 13: they in fact do, because we don't see those interactions

1513
01:08:08,520 --> 01:08:11,120
Speaker 13: on any granular level the way that the players do.

1514
01:08:11,360 --> 01:08:17,759
Speaker 13: I I wonder what this, if this actually can do things.

1515
01:08:18,200 --> 01:08:21,200
Speaker 13: It's the only really, it's the only real way that

1516
01:08:21,240 --> 01:08:25,720
Speaker 13: we have to have any kind of accountability for ownership

1517
01:08:25,720 --> 01:08:28,080
Speaker 13: in the NFL, isn't it. I mean, what what other

1518
01:08:28,240 --> 01:08:32,240
Speaker 13: than the congressional subpoenas and things like that when owners

1519
01:08:32,240 --> 01:08:35,240
Speaker 13: get involved in other things or use their interests in

1520
01:08:35,280 --> 01:08:37,920
Speaker 13: football to get involved in other things a la Dan Sneyder.

1521
01:08:37,920 --> 01:08:40,360
Speaker 10: We just brought them up where there is some level

1522
01:08:40,400 --> 01:08:41,599
Speaker 10: of and even then it's.

1523
01:08:41,479 --> 01:08:43,479
Speaker 13: Like, Okay, you have to sell this thing and make

1524
01:08:43,520 --> 01:08:45,320
Speaker 13: billions of dollars on it, and you can go live

1525
01:08:45,320 --> 01:08:46,840
Speaker 13: on your yacht in the South of France and just

1526
01:08:46,840 --> 01:08:47,599
Speaker 13: get the hell out of here.

1527
01:08:47,640 --> 01:08:48,839
Speaker 10: We're just tired of you.

1528
01:08:48,840 --> 01:08:51,000
Speaker 13: You're not going to actually be held accountable, but you're

1529
01:08:51,040 --> 01:08:53,080
Speaker 13: not going to be able to have this plaything that

1530
01:08:53,120 --> 01:08:55,479
Speaker 13: you've been holding on to and basically set you know,

1531
01:08:55,840 --> 01:08:59,240
Speaker 13: threatening to air everybody out if they end up forcing

1532
01:08:59,280 --> 01:09:01,400
Speaker 13: you out the way that Daniel Snyder was reported to

1533
01:09:01,400 --> 01:09:03,800
Speaker 13: have done. Other than that, I mean, what is your

1534
01:09:03,840 --> 01:09:07,559
Speaker 13: accountability for NFL ownership. They don't even have to take

1535
01:09:07,600 --> 01:09:09,840
Speaker 13: questions of press conferences on behalf of fans if they

1536
01:09:09,880 --> 01:09:11,719
Speaker 13: don't want to. They don't have to hold press conferences.

1537
01:09:11,800 --> 01:09:14,120
Speaker 13: They can do as they please. Some do, some don't.

1538
01:09:14,120 --> 01:09:16,400
Speaker 13: Some make it worse, some make it, you know, rarely better,

1539
01:09:17,120 --> 01:09:20,880
Speaker 13: it seems. But I think that this is a very

1540
01:09:20,920 --> 01:09:24,120
Speaker 13: important part of trying to because you're always going to

1541
01:09:24,200 --> 01:09:26,120
Speaker 13: have like the like the I saw, MetLife got an

1542
01:09:26,200 --> 01:09:29,720
Speaker 13: F minus for playing surface. Again, we understand that is

1543
01:09:31,560 --> 01:09:34,240
Speaker 13: a popular narrative around this. I don't know if the

1544
01:09:34,280 --> 01:09:37,360
Speaker 13: science actually backs it up. The rate of injury, specifically

1545
01:09:37,400 --> 01:09:40,200
Speaker 13: soft tissue that take place on the Giants and the

1546
01:09:40,280 --> 01:09:41,759
Speaker 13: Jets field because of the playing surface.

1547
01:09:41,800 --> 01:09:41,960
Speaker 10: Right.

1548
01:09:41,960 --> 01:09:44,639
Speaker 13: Titans, for what it's worth here in Nashville also got

1549
01:09:44,680 --> 01:09:47,160
Speaker 13: an F minus. And I saw something the other day

1550
01:09:47,160 --> 01:09:49,800
Speaker 13: on social media about, well, the Titans are going to

1551
01:09:49,800 --> 01:09:51,800
Speaker 13: get a new stadium, so soon that will change. There's

1552
01:09:51,800 --> 01:09:54,479
Speaker 13: nothing the organization can do about that until they get

1553
01:09:54,520 --> 01:09:56,559
Speaker 13: into the new stadium except the new stadium is also

1554
01:09:56,600 --> 01:10:00,840
Speaker 13: going to have the same coconut shavings organic field turf

1555
01:10:00,920 --> 01:10:04,000
Speaker 13: surface because it's more cost effective and you can continue

1556
01:10:04,040 --> 01:10:06,559
Speaker 13: to have the level the rate of events that they

1557
01:10:06,560 --> 01:10:09,360
Speaker 13: have in there rather than dealing with natural grass. Like

1558
01:10:09,360 --> 01:10:11,879
Speaker 13: that's not actually going to change just because the facilities

1559
01:10:11,880 --> 01:10:14,800
Speaker 13: are in theory getting better. And there's also one on

1560
01:10:15,040 --> 01:10:18,320
Speaker 13: about locker room, which I'm not sure if that's practice facility,

1561
01:10:18,880 --> 01:10:24,200
Speaker 13: the stadium locker room or both locker rooms combined access

1562
01:10:24,640 --> 01:10:27,519
Speaker 13: and their relative level of facilities, if those are two things,

1563
01:10:27,520 --> 01:10:30,240
Speaker 13: because I do think that's a different conversation about your

1564
01:10:30,280 --> 01:10:33,240
Speaker 13: practice facility when you spend where you spend way more

1565
01:10:33,320 --> 01:10:36,280
Speaker 13: your time than eight or nine home games depending on

1566
01:10:36,320 --> 01:10:38,760
Speaker 13: the year, in your stadium's respective locker room.

1567
01:10:39,320 --> 01:10:41,400
Speaker 12: Does it give you any clue into that If I

1568
01:10:41,439 --> 01:10:43,479
Speaker 12: tell you that the Titans, the team you covered, were

1569
01:10:43,479 --> 01:10:44,160
Speaker 12: given a D.

1570
01:10:44,200 --> 01:10:46,840
Speaker 1: Plus for their locker room, dog plus a.

1571
01:10:46,720 --> 01:10:48,880
Speaker 12: B minus for their training room, a B plus for

1572
01:10:48,920 --> 01:10:51,720
Speaker 12: their training staff, a B for their weight room, but

1573
01:10:51,800 --> 01:10:54,040
Speaker 12: a D plus for their.

1574
01:10:53,920 --> 01:10:55,519
Speaker 10: Locker room only.

1575
01:10:56,640 --> 01:10:58,479
Speaker 13: They tried something this year, And I don't know how

1576
01:10:58,479 --> 01:11:00,400
Speaker 13: common this is or how many other coaches do this,

1577
01:11:00,800 --> 01:11:03,880
Speaker 13: or whether it's common practice or not. They tried under

1578
01:11:03,920 --> 01:11:06,519
Speaker 13: Callahan to like break it up by positions. It had

1579
01:11:06,560 --> 01:11:09,360
Speaker 13: been like, you know, the offensive line sits here together,

1580
01:11:09,400 --> 01:11:12,320
Speaker 13: in the quarterbacks have their lockers here together, and the

1581
01:11:12,360 --> 01:11:14,960
Speaker 13: defensive linemen sit here, right. They tried to mix and

1582
01:11:15,000 --> 01:11:18,719
Speaker 13: match all the different positions in a way that became

1583
01:11:18,760 --> 01:11:21,240
Speaker 13: a little convoluted. I don't know if that contributed, because

1584
01:11:21,240 --> 01:11:23,920
Speaker 13: their facilities I think are fine. They just got a

1585
01:11:23,920 --> 01:11:25,880
Speaker 13: bit of a facelift over there as recently as I

1586
01:11:25,920 --> 01:11:29,440
Speaker 13: want to say, twenty eighteen to the locker room, specifically

1587
01:11:29,439 --> 01:11:33,000
Speaker 13: when Mike Vrabel got hired. So again, I'm not in

1588
01:11:33,040 --> 01:11:35,600
Speaker 13: their showers, or their their bathroom facilities or all the

1589
01:11:35,640 --> 01:11:38,479
Speaker 13: other things that they would use that I obviously wouldn't

1590
01:11:38,520 --> 01:11:40,439
Speaker 13: have any need for or be privy to.

1591
01:11:41,160 --> 01:11:42,080
Speaker 3: But no, I don't.

1592
01:11:42,880 --> 01:11:45,320
Speaker 13: It doesn't make a difference either way. I think both

1593
01:11:45,320 --> 01:11:46,960
Speaker 13: are just kind of you know, they're fine. I've seen

1594
01:11:47,000 --> 01:11:48,360
Speaker 13: a lot of locker rooms around the league. They don't

1595
01:11:48,360 --> 01:11:49,360
Speaker 13: seem that much different to me.

1596
01:11:50,800 --> 01:11:51,400
Speaker 1: It's stunning.

1597
01:11:51,439 --> 01:11:53,160
Speaker 12: I will bring it back to the Raiders for this

1598
01:11:53,200 --> 01:11:57,120
Speaker 12: one portion. For anyone didn't see the Raiders scores the games.

1599
01:11:57,439 --> 01:12:00,559
Speaker 12: They're great fans have freaked out because team owned Mark

1600
01:12:00,640 --> 01:12:03,559
Speaker 12: Davis was given an A. The funny thing is as

1601
01:12:03,600 --> 01:12:06,040
Speaker 12: bad as this team is, they got a's in every

1602
01:12:06,080 --> 01:12:10,640
Speaker 12: category except for positioning coaches C plus Offensive coordinator F

1603
01:12:10,840 --> 01:12:14,960
Speaker 12: Chip Kelly, defensive coordinator C, Special Teams coordinator C minus

1604
01:12:15,320 --> 01:12:18,960
Speaker 12: head coach Pete Carroll C plus. The players are telling

1605
01:12:18,960 --> 01:12:20,840
Speaker 12: you what they think the problem was there. It's kind

1606
01:12:20,840 --> 01:12:22,720
Speaker 12: of an interesting that's part of what you get to

1607
01:12:22,760 --> 01:12:25,439
Speaker 12: see go out. ESPN has it out there on their website.

1608
01:12:25,439 --> 01:12:26,880
Speaker 12: They break it down my team. You can check all

1609
01:12:26,920 --> 01:12:27,320
Speaker 12: of them out.

1610
01:12:27,520 --> 01:12:29,680
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1630
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Speaker 12: wood Rather gosh, that wasn't that was good?

1631
01:13:27,800 --> 01:13:30,000
Speaker 1: Erry? I feel like we nail that. Ian all right?

1632
01:13:30,000 --> 01:13:30,920
Speaker 7: I thought that was pretty good.

1633
01:13:30,920 --> 01:13:31,240
Speaker 1: Bucks.

1634
01:13:31,320 --> 01:13:33,479
Speaker 7: Audio is like peaking right now, So we might have

1635
01:13:33,560 --> 01:13:35,439
Speaker 7: just hurt a lot of people's ears, in which case

1636
01:13:35,479 --> 01:13:38,680
Speaker 7: I apologize, But uh, you know, let's go ahead and

1637
01:13:38,720 --> 01:13:39,280
Speaker 7: spin the wheel.

1638
01:13:40,680 --> 01:13:43,840
Speaker 10: It seemed like a veiled shot, it wi.

1639
01:13:46,520 --> 01:13:46,840
Speaker 8: All right?

1640
01:13:46,880 --> 01:13:49,840
Speaker 7: Would you rather have a crow that hates you and

1641
01:13:49,880 --> 01:13:52,800
Speaker 7: attacks you every time you go outside or have to

1642
01:13:52,840 --> 01:13:54,760
Speaker 7: fist fight a kangaroo once a month?

1643
01:13:55,000 --> 01:13:56,720
Speaker 10: Oh I don't want to fist fight a kangaroo.

1644
01:13:56,720 --> 01:13:57,479
Speaker 3: No no, no, no, no.

1645
01:13:57,680 --> 01:14:00,439
Speaker 10: I've seen too many videos. Those things are absolutely yoked.

1646
01:14:00,880 --> 01:14:02,320
Speaker 3: Like did you guys have them off?

1647
01:14:02,840 --> 01:14:03,080
Speaker 1: You?

1648
01:14:03,080 --> 01:14:03,360
Speaker 3: You?

1649
01:14:03,360 --> 01:14:05,840
Speaker 13: You probably don't have many birds right now, fIF because

1650
01:14:05,840 --> 01:14:08,479
Speaker 13: you're under seventeen foot of snow in Connecticut at any

1651
01:14:08,520 --> 01:14:11,760
Speaker 13: given point. We have mockingbirds in Tennessee. I don't know

1652
01:14:11,760 --> 01:14:14,160
Speaker 13: if these things exist in Los Angeles, but they will

1653
01:14:14,160 --> 01:14:16,519
Speaker 13: dive bomb you like they will, especially if you have

1654
01:14:16,560 --> 01:14:18,559
Speaker 13: a dog. It seems if you're walking your dog. They

1655
01:14:18,560 --> 01:14:21,160
Speaker 13: seem to hate dogs. They will like follow you and

1656
01:14:21,280 --> 01:14:23,720
Speaker 13: like chase you down and like continue to pepper you

1657
01:14:23,760 --> 01:14:26,320
Speaker 13: that way. Crows are a lot bigger, so not ideal.

1658
01:14:26,560 --> 01:14:28,960
Speaker 13: Don't want to mess with a crow, but I feel

1659
01:14:29,000 --> 01:14:31,240
Speaker 13: like I would. I would rather deal with the crow

1660
01:14:31,320 --> 01:14:33,080
Speaker 13: once a day. That a damn kangaroo.

1661
01:14:33,880 --> 01:14:37,120
Speaker 12: One of the weirdest stories experiences in my life. When

1662
01:14:37,120 --> 01:14:38,960
Speaker 12: we played in Australia, it was like we went to

1663
01:14:39,000 --> 01:14:42,200
Speaker 12: one of those areas like where they're protected, you know,

1664
01:14:42,280 --> 01:14:43,680
Speaker 12: so we got to hang out, like I got to

1665
01:14:43,760 --> 01:14:46,320
Speaker 12: hold of Koala and then I got to sit there

1666
01:14:46,479 --> 01:14:47,640
Speaker 12: and hang out with kangaroo.

1667
01:14:47,960 --> 01:14:48,920
Speaker 1: I had no idea, Like.

1668
01:14:48,880 --> 01:14:50,679
Speaker 12: You think they're jacked, and then you see him in person,

1669
01:14:51,120 --> 01:14:53,320
Speaker 12: like you see the rippled abs and you were like,

1670
01:14:53,400 --> 01:14:56,040
Speaker 12: oh my god, I cannot believe just the pure force

1671
01:14:56,120 --> 01:14:58,519
Speaker 12: of this kangaroo, which scared me to death. And then

1672
01:14:58,600 --> 01:15:00,800
Speaker 12: like the next day, we were eating somewhere in a

1673
01:15:00,800 --> 01:15:02,479
Speaker 12: different part of Australia and I was like, oh, what's

1674
01:15:02,520 --> 01:15:04,320
Speaker 12: the thing I should eat here? And they were like, kangaroo.

1675
01:15:04,360 --> 01:15:06,280
Speaker 1: I was like, I'd feel weird. I played with one yesterday,

1676
01:15:06,320 --> 01:15:08,280
Speaker 1: now I'm eating one today. It turns out they have

1677
01:15:08,360 --> 01:15:10,599
Speaker 1: to they need you to eat it for population control.

1678
01:15:10,960 --> 01:15:13,759
Speaker 12: But also kangaroo scarries out. I'm out on kangaroos completely.

1679
01:15:13,800 --> 01:15:16,040
Speaker 12: I'd rather have all the crows attack me than have

1680
01:15:16,080 --> 01:15:18,160
Speaker 12: to deal with one kangaroo that would just mock me

1681
01:15:18,200 --> 01:15:20,280
Speaker 12: while it held me there and taunted me like a

1682
01:15:20,280 --> 01:15:21,840
Speaker 12: big brother, kicking my ass.

1683
01:15:21,840 --> 01:15:29,200
Speaker 7: So I'm out on the kangaroo, all right, let's spin it.

1684
01:15:29,360 --> 01:15:31,519
Speaker 7: I feel like kangaroo with trash talk about too, okay,

1685
01:15:31,600 --> 01:15:33,160
Speaker 7: kind of a similar vein here where you have to

1686
01:15:33,240 --> 01:15:36,439
Speaker 7: kind of battle animals. So would you rather get chased

1687
01:15:36,479 --> 01:15:38,840
Speaker 7: by a giant octopus every time you get into a

1688
01:15:38,840 --> 01:15:42,800
Speaker 7: body of water? I think that includes pools, or constantly

1689
01:15:42,880 --> 01:15:46,080
Speaker 7: have to worry about a porcupine that tries to get

1690
01:15:46,080 --> 01:15:48,639
Speaker 7: you to sit on it. So I guess it's jumping

1691
01:15:48,680 --> 01:15:50,280
Speaker 7: onto your seat every time you're about to sit down.

1692
01:15:50,800 --> 01:15:52,559
Speaker 12: I don't know how to swim, so I can avoid

1693
01:15:52,560 --> 01:15:53,839
Speaker 12: the octopus completely.

1694
01:15:53,840 --> 01:15:56,519
Speaker 1: I need to stay away from water. She now, yeah, no,

1695
01:15:56,560 --> 01:15:57,200
Speaker 1: one hundred percent.

1696
01:15:57,200 --> 01:15:58,559
Speaker 12: I don't know how to swim, so like I'm out

1697
01:15:58,600 --> 01:16:01,120
Speaker 12: on the like when I get well, I stay in

1698
01:16:00,680 --> 01:16:02,840
Speaker 12: the shallow end completely.

1699
01:16:02,920 --> 01:16:04,639
Speaker 1: So uh yeah, I'm out.

1700
01:16:04,720 --> 01:16:09,160
Speaker 12: I'm out completely on anything with the Like I'm not scared.

1701
01:16:08,880 --> 01:16:09,519
Speaker 1: Of the octopus.

1702
01:16:09,520 --> 01:16:11,439
Speaker 12: So I would say I would rather have the octopus

1703
01:16:11,520 --> 01:16:13,120
Speaker 12: be the issue because I'm just not going to get

1704
01:16:13,120 --> 01:16:15,040
Speaker 12: in the water the porcupine. Like every time I go

1705
01:16:15,080 --> 01:16:16,719
Speaker 12: to sit down, I got to worry about a porcupine

1706
01:16:16,720 --> 01:16:19,679
Speaker 12: being in there. That feels really annoying. So I would

1707
01:16:19,760 --> 01:16:21,439
Speaker 12: rather have to deal with the octopus because I just

1708
01:16:21,479 --> 01:16:22,639
Speaker 12: never have to deal with the octopus.

1709
01:16:22,680 --> 01:16:25,640
Speaker 13: Bus See, we are aligned because I also am not

1710
01:16:26,680 --> 01:16:29,320
Speaker 13: I don't swim, but I mean I'll get in the water,

1711
01:16:29,680 --> 01:16:31,519
Speaker 13: but I don't like to swim. I mean I'm not

1712
01:16:31,560 --> 01:16:35,120
Speaker 13: gonna lie. I'm not backstroking or whatever. Like I like to,

1713
01:16:35,240 --> 01:16:36,960
Speaker 13: you know, I like to sit in the pool. I

1714
01:16:37,040 --> 01:16:38,719
Speaker 13: like to you know, put one of those deck chairs

1715
01:16:39,000 --> 01:16:40,880
Speaker 13: in the in the water at the beach and just

1716
01:16:40,960 --> 01:16:41,559
Speaker 13: kind of chill.

1717
01:16:42,400 --> 01:16:43,479
Speaker 10: If that's going to be the case.

1718
01:16:43,560 --> 01:16:45,879
Speaker 13: I don't want to have to worry about something grabbing

1719
01:16:45,920 --> 01:16:48,479
Speaker 13: me by my legs anytime I get anywhere close to

1720
01:16:48,560 --> 01:16:50,479
Speaker 13: the water and dragging me in, you know, like some

1721
01:16:50,640 --> 01:16:51,400
Speaker 13: kind of horror movie.

1722
01:16:51,439 --> 01:16:52,760
Speaker 10: No, I'll deal with the porca.

1723
01:16:52,960 --> 01:16:54,280
Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean, I didn't say it's like trying to

1724
01:16:54,360 --> 01:16:56,840
Speaker 7: kill you or attack you. It's just chasing you. Yeah,

1725
01:16:56,840 --> 01:16:59,280
Speaker 7: But I mean like a porcupine would be like imagine

1726
01:16:59,280 --> 01:17:00,680
Speaker 7: you just had a terrible day at work and you

1727
01:17:00,680 --> 01:17:02,120
Speaker 7: have to get into your car and you just sit

1728
01:17:02,160 --> 01:17:03,040
Speaker 7: on a porcupine.

1729
01:17:03,160 --> 01:17:06,680
Speaker 3: Oh in the car too, that's a disaster.

1730
01:17:07,240 --> 01:17:08,120
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm not on.

1731
01:17:08,040 --> 01:17:10,880
Speaker 3: That all right, com.

1732
01:17:17,280 --> 01:17:19,760
Speaker 7: Okay, would you rather only be able to drink hot

1733
01:17:19,800 --> 01:17:22,280
Speaker 7: liquids and that includes water it has to be hot water,

1734
01:17:22,720 --> 01:17:23,520
Speaker 7: or only.

1735
01:17:23,280 --> 01:17:25,040
Speaker 1: Be able to eat cold foods?

1736
01:17:25,760 --> 01:17:25,920
Speaker 8: Oh?

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01:17:25,960 --> 01:17:26,960
Speaker 3: I love foods.

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Speaker 1: I love cold foods.

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Speaker 12: I love cold foods, and I hate hot drinks. I

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01:17:30,720 --> 01:17:33,280
Speaker 12: even like in the middle of winter, I drink iced coffee.

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01:17:33,280 --> 01:17:35,800
Speaker 12: I don't drink anything hot so like and I want

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01:17:35,840 --> 01:17:38,040
Speaker 12: my like. I don't like hot cookies, Like when if

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01:17:38,040 --> 01:17:39,479
Speaker 12: the cookies come out of the oven, I put them

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Speaker 12: in the fridge until they're cold, and then I eat

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01:17:40,920 --> 01:17:41,479
Speaker 12: a cold.

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01:17:42,080 --> 01:17:44,599
Speaker 1: Yeah. I mean, if I have to go room temp,

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Speaker 1: I'll go room temp. But I prefer cold. Like you

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Speaker 1: give me.

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Speaker 12: You give me a good piece of cake that's straight

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Speaker 12: out of the ice box.

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Speaker 1: And it is like chili and like the I mean,

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01:17:53,080 --> 01:17:53,839
Speaker 1: it is cold.

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Speaker 7: But this applies to like everything.

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01:17:55,600 --> 01:17:58,680
Speaker 1: So your burgers are cold, that's just.

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Speaker 3: Don't eat them.

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Speaker 13: I mean, actually, you know, there's a lot of there's

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Speaker 13: a lot of foods that I feel like, can you know,

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01:18:04,000 --> 01:18:06,320
Speaker 13: maybe it's an acquired taste, more of an acquired taste.

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01:18:06,520 --> 01:18:08,599
Speaker 7: Sandwiches would be. You'd be a big sandwich guy if

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01:18:08,600 --> 01:18:09,599
Speaker 7: you can only eat cold food.

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01:18:09,640 --> 01:18:12,120
Speaker 1: Cold pizza. I love cold pizza. I'm in on cold pizza.

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Speaker 12: Sometimes I just leave the mac and cheese out for

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Speaker 12: a day and then just like if it's left on

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Speaker 12: the counter, I.

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Speaker 3: Just eat it.

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Speaker 1: So like you know, things to be well, I mean

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Speaker 1: on the counter, yeah, I mean, I mean, look, you

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01:18:22,920 --> 01:18:23,479
Speaker 1: grow it poor.

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Speaker 12: You don't actually put butter or milk in your mac

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01:18:25,320 --> 01:18:28,439
Speaker 12: and cheese. It's just water and cheat and cheese the powder.

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01:18:28,800 --> 01:18:31,680
Speaker 12: So like if not like anything's like anything separating there,

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01:18:31,680 --> 01:18:34,320
Speaker 12: I don't worry about that. Come on, you want to

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01:18:34,560 --> 01:18:44,560
Speaker 12: you want to cramble more in Force to Do It.

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Speaker 3: Part.

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Speaker 7: There's a quick one. So would you rather never be

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01:18:44,640 --> 01:18:46,720
Speaker 7: able to taste food again or never be able to

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01:18:46,720 --> 01:18:48,680
Speaker 7: hear music again? It's a good one for you.

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01:18:48,720 --> 01:18:49,000
Speaker 1: Fits.

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Speaker 13: Oh, never be able to hear music again. I think

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01:18:53,800 --> 01:18:56,920
Speaker 13: I feel like food. You know, I love I love food.

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01:18:57,000 --> 01:18:59,080
Speaker 13: I'm my inter fact kid is showing I love food.

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01:18:59,680 --> 01:19:02,599
Speaker 12: Yeah, I love food, and most y'all are tone deaf.

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01:19:02,600 --> 01:19:04,599
Speaker 12: I don't want to hear most of y'alls anymore, like.

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Speaker 3: I just tried.

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01:19:05,479 --> 01:19:06,800
Speaker 1: I don't want to have to sit there and listen.

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01:19:06,960 --> 01:19:08,160
Speaker 1: Like especially Buck knows this.

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01:19:08,200 --> 01:19:10,280
Speaker 12: In Nashville, you can't even go into a dairy queen

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01:19:10,280 --> 01:19:12,599
Speaker 12: in the middle of Hendersonville without somebody playing with their

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01:19:12,680 --> 01:19:13,800
Speaker 12: song while you're Taco Bell.

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01:19:14,520 --> 01:19:16,120
Speaker 3: We have the stage in Taco Bell.

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Speaker 1: Nonh my god.

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01:19:16,720 --> 01:19:19,479
Speaker 12: It's like I just want to bean Burta with no onions,

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01:19:19,520 --> 01:19:20,519
Speaker 12: the cheesecua sadia.

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01:19:22,240 --> 01:19:25,080
Speaker 1: I don't need your bad songs. I just want the food.

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01:19:25,120 --> 01:19:26,760
Speaker 12: We are elitists, But come back and hang out with

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Speaker 12: us next Saturday for more Stick with Fox all night.

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Speaker 1: Thanks for listening to Fox Sports Radio.