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Speaker 2: Hey, welcome everybody. That's right, thanks Chris, I was perfect.

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Speaker 2: Happy Saturday, or should I say happy show? Hey Otani day, Wow,

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Speaker 2: welcome everybody.

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Speaker 3: We are so excited.

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Speaker 2: I am Monty Bilangos alongside me is our girl Karma

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Speaker 2: b Ali. Carmon is back in for Alex because this

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Speaker 2: time Alex is actually Gallian.

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Speaker 4: She she is actually gallivanting on the day that show

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Speaker 4: Hayo Tani signs in La. We're in La and Alex is.

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Speaker 3: In Mexican, and Alex is in Mexico.

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Speaker 2: She's probably like, never gonna take a vacation again after this,

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Speaker 2: because seriously, what are the chances.

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Speaker 4: Or she takes the vacation every time. We're waiting on

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Speaker 4: her this session.

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Speaker 3: Yes, yes, that's a good one.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, maybe that's what we can do encourage when something's

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Speaker 2: in limbo.

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Speaker 3: Hey, Alex, go on vacation.

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Speaker 2: Because last time when you went on vacation, we got

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Speaker 2: the big news of show Halo Tani. So obviously, you know,

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Speaker 2: Carmon and I last night were disgusting today's show and

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Speaker 2: we have a great show. We've got NFL, we've got NBA,

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Speaker 3: And we also knew.

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Speaker 2: We were like, well, if Otani signs, we're gonna have

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Speaker 2: to talk about Otani.

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Speaker 3: So we obviously knew. We just didn't expect it to

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Speaker 3: happen twenty minutes before.

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Speaker 2: The show, right, Like we're driving here, I text her Otani.

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Speaker 3: We're talking about it.

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Speaker 4: Like on the four or five try like death rely

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Speaker 4: an accident. Sorry, guys, I know all.

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Speaker 2: I think that was everybody literally in La. Well, thank

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Speaker 2: I feel like we need to put insurance on show

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Speaker 2: hey Otani, just like us Dodger fans, you know, like

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Speaker 2: put him in a bubble somewhere.

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Speaker 3: We got to protect show Otani. He's official.

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Speaker 4: Let's talk about the contract, ten years, seven hundred million.

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Speaker 4: But but he's deferring a lot of it in order

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Speaker 4: to help the Dodgers kind of still build a better

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Speaker 4: team around him. So maybe they won't lose in the indivisionals here.

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Speaker 3: So that that would be really lovely.

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Speaker 2: Did we get hit in the postseason, that'd be nice,

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Speaker 2: you know what I'm saying. It's so nice to hear that, because,

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Speaker 2: as I said, you know, the Dodgers need a lot

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Speaker 2: of help. It was show show Hey, Awesome, Great, that

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Speaker 2: was not going to be that. I wasn't going to

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Speaker 2: move the needle enough to win in my opinion, right,

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Speaker 2: we still need to make other moves.

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Speaker 4: Right if he's not you know, he's only what.

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Speaker 3: He's only next year, right, yes, this is.

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Speaker 4: This coming season. So yeah, I mean I think if

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Speaker 4: you got show hey at show Hey, that fills a

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Speaker 4: lot more needs, yes, for the Dodgers, And it will

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Speaker 4: fill the needs for the Dodgers for clearly a while.

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Speaker 2: Oh why all ten years, seven hundred million.

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Speaker 3: Like I didn't even know how to say that.

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Speaker 4: I just I tweeted it. I was like, listen, if

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Speaker 4: I don't have a kid, but if I had a kid,

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Speaker 4: the way that that kid would be holding a baseball

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Speaker 4: bat before he could even swing it, do anything, walk.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you're gonna You're gonna use a baseball bat as

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Speaker 2: a spoon, Yeah, as a four.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, it's gonna be part of it, to play baseball.

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Speaker 4: He's not gonna know any other, any other life, any

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Speaker 4: other even if it's a girl, she's she's gonna, like,

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Speaker 3: So why not.

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Speaker 4: I wo that It's wild.

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Speaker 2: It's just what a crazy really story, right, Like, this

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Speaker 3: Years, right in this offseason.

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Speaker 2: We've been waiting and waiting, and we talked about how

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Speaker 2: he's the one who broke the news.

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Speaker 3: It was Shoheo Tani, nobody else.

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Speaker 2: He went on Instagram and he posted an LA picture

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Speaker 2: and in the post, you know, he thanked Angels fans,

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Speaker 2: He apologized for taking so long. I mean yesterday, I

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Speaker 2: wonder what he was thinking with all of these reports

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Speaker 2: he's in Toronto.

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Speaker 3: No he's not. He's gonna sign right now. No he's not.

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Speaker 3: Nothingness for sure. Yes it is. Let you all day.

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Speaker 2: It was such a fun rollercoasterly.

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Speaker 4: It is really impressive that they were able to keep

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Speaker 4: because I feel like that's what gets in the way

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Speaker 4: of a lot of athletes kind of controlling their own news,

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Speaker 4: is because there's all these backdoor conversations that are going

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Speaker 4: on with agents and management and all of that kind

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Speaker 4: of stuff that like, stuff like that leaks out, and

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Speaker 4: sometimes it's the team, sometimes it's the agent themselves. So

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Speaker 4: to get ahead of it when it's this big of news,

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Speaker 4: I mean, that's a lot of fun. But you you

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Speaker 4: are a tour guide at Dodger Stadium and something happened.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, we kind of knew. Well, honestly, we went through

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Speaker 2: But last week on Wednesday, we were at work and

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Speaker 2: this has never happened.

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Speaker 3: I've been a tour guide for years and years and.

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Speaker 2: Years, and we were told that we had to abruptly

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Speaker 3: And all of us were like, m what's going on?

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Speaker 3: We really were like could it be show?

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Speaker 4: Could it? Could it?

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Speaker 3: Did he be it?

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Speaker 2: And then we started like going down another rabbit, ho Okay,

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Speaker 2: what if it's not show? Hey, what could this be

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Speaker 3: Maybe Krishaw's retiring.

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Speaker 2: Like we just went down so many different thoughts, but

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Speaker 4: That's insane to me, because yeah, they shut it down.

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Speaker 4: They like to put Dodger Stadium on lockdown.

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Speaker 3: Yes, that's exactly what they did.

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Speaker 4: And like to say, if you don't need to come

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Speaker 3: You don't come to work store close.

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Speaker 4: Because like spoiler alert, people don't. Just the people that

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Speaker 4: But to shut down Dodger Stadium, I feel like they

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Speaker 4: that point. Wh why it's even more impressive that he

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Speaker 4: down Dodger Stadium, right if you're not if this isn't

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Speaker 4: just a formality, right, if this isn't just him coming

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Speaker 4: in to sign, like physically sign the document, And then it.

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Speaker 2: Makes me wonder how Dave Roberts confirmed that, Oh yes,

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Speaker 2: we did.

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Speaker 3: Chat this a couple of days ago. We did talk.

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Speaker 3: So it was like, how sure were they? How did right? Like,

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Speaker 3: And this was it?

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Speaker 2: Not like and why the blue Jays because they came

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Speaker 2: the Giants, the Angels, even Ron Washington like was like, no,

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Speaker 2: we're not gonna talk about it. I'm making my mouth shut,

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Speaker 2: like even them, But like all of a sudden.

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Speaker 3: You hear blue Jays.

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Speaker 2: And with yesterday it was literally like so many reports

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Speaker 2: He's going to Toronto, He's going to the Blue.

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Speaker 4: Jays, And here he's just sitting back it is in

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Speaker 3: Like, yeah, like this is funny. It's funny. And then

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Speaker 3: there was a story that he don't want people to

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Speaker 4: Dog because it was his dog.

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Speaker 2: So it's called Dodger, right, We're assuming that dogs or maybe.

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Speaker 4: It's like kofat they're ko fat or like something Aloha

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Speaker 4: or yeah. I mean, I don't think he would name him,

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Speaker 3: Would love it.

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Speaker 2: A lot of Dodger players over the years bring their dogs,

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Speaker 2: Just so you know, who gets to go to the field,

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Speaker 4: No, that's insane that they shut down Dodger Stadium to

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Speaker 4: Buccaneers when they also when they brought in Brosarians the

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Speaker 4: when they brought in Bruce, they brought him into a

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Speaker 4: a parking garage like speaasy like like there's like literally

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Speaker 4: which is what they did. Bring him into the parking garage,

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Speaker 4: They to my knowledge, that's similar to how they did

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Speaker 4: some point before he actually signed. But it was one

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Speaker 4: of those things where like he came at an off hour,

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Speaker 4: like there was no way and like like to shut

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Speaker 2: They just had to have been And especially Dodger Stadium

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Speaker 2: is like you don't I mean the way it was

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Speaker 2: shut down really it really really was. It almost didn't

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Speaker 2: need to because Dodger Stadium is so isolated, like you

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Speaker 2: can't get anywhere near there. You have to you know,

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Speaker 2: make your past security at the edge, and then the

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Speaker 2: already hidden. And yet they were like, we're not taking anything.

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Speaker 3: Ten years, un million, let us. This was nuts.

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Speaker 2: He is changing the game, just as Steph Curry change

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Speaker 2: And we'll see this later in the future with the

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Speaker 3: And why can't I.

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Speaker 4: Get And now the Dodgers get to be part of that.

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Speaker 3: And now the Dodgers get to be part of that legacy.

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Speaker 3: You know, guys, I should have won a Dodger shirt.

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Speaker 2: In case you missed the news, that's right, Oh, Tani

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Speaker 2: Dodgers ten years, seven hundred million. I'm gonna cry saying

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Speaker 3: Thanks for joining us.

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Speaker 2: I am Monti, Melanyason alongside me is Karnavitally who is

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Speaker 4: I sure am on all days.

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Speaker 2: All days are like our third leg.

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Speaker 4: Okay, So honestly, they may think of something that I

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Speaker 2: Yes, thank you fuddy for joining us. We talked about Otani.

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Speaker 2: We are Week fourteen and tomorrow a huge, huge matchup

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Speaker 2: I'm not impressed that they beat the Giants forty nine

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Speaker 4: I think I think you also granted the Giants are

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Speaker 3: Not impressed that you beat the Panthers thirty three to ten.

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Speaker 3: Should I keep going?

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Speaker 4: Well, I think when you talk, but when you talk

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Speaker 4: be fair, he's had last time they met. He played

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Speaker 4: really well against them. Three touchdowns and no interceptions. Yea, yeah,

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Speaker 4: he's had like this is this will be the third

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Speaker 4: if he wins, it's his third victory over Dallas in

446
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Speaker 4: a row. Wow. So like he plays well against the Cowboys.

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Speaker 3: He does, he plays well in important games.

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Speaker 2: Jalen Hurts is a right good player all around, you know,

449
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Speaker 2: never taking that away from him, I I I feel

450
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Speaker 2: that there's just you know what it is is to

451
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Speaker 2: me this season, there is no dominant team, in my opinion.

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Speaker 4: No, we've seen more than usual. We've seen some of

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Speaker 4: these quote unquote unstoppable teams lose some really puzzling games.

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Speaker 2: Right, and if you play that every year, right, you

455
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Speaker 2: usually good for like one sure, right, every year.

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Speaker 3: There's a Oh, I can't believe this happen.

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Speaker 2: Even when the Patriots had Tom Brady, they would have

458
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Speaker 2: those weird games that they would lose.

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Speaker 3: It happens. I think the most complete team is the

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Speaker 3: forty nine ers, and they lost three in a row. Literally,

461
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Speaker 3: like anything.

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Speaker 4: This sarer very hurt, very hurt.

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Speaker 2: So anything can happen at any point. But I don't

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Speaker 2: see any dominant team. And right now, I feel like

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Speaker 2: it's really momentum.

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Speaker 4: Yeah for tomorrow's game, and the Cowboys have all of it.

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Speaker 8: Have all of it?

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Speaker 2: Now?

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Speaker 3: Can the Eagles snap out of it?

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Speaker 2: Because we're talking this is a MA not only just

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Speaker 2: Cowboys and Eagles, but we're talking Jalen Hurts, Dak Prescott,

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Speaker 2: and you are on the Dak Prescott MVP train.

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Speaker 4: Well, yes, and I am, and I think that I'm

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Speaker 4: justified in this because of the fact that he leads

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Speaker 4: he leads a league touchdowns right now on top of that, though,

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Speaker 4: he ranks in the top five of most major quarterback

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Speaker 4: passing categories, so you have to take it in totality.

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Speaker 4: You can't just say, okay, well, he's only first in

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Speaker 4: one thing. MVP doesn't mean first in everything. It means

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Speaker 4: a cumulative of like, all right, are you at or

481
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Speaker 4: near the top of every major passing category? And he is,

482
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Speaker 4: and he's been extremely consistent for the last few weeks,

483
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Speaker 4: so this would be let's let me see I have

484
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Speaker 4: So he passed for three hundred seventy four yards and

485
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Speaker 4: three touchdowns against the Eagles in their last meeting, even

486
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Speaker 4: though the Cowboys ended up losing. But this and what

487
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Speaker 4: is it a one hundred and thirty five point seven

488
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Speaker 4: passer rating versus Philly. Given the way the team around

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Speaker 4: him is playing, I think that the Cowboys have the edge.

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Speaker 2: So with that, I would say CD Lamb is a

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Speaker 2: more valuable player to the Cowboys than Dak Prescott.

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Speaker 4: But he's not getting the ball of Dak isn't playing well,

493
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Speaker 4: and that's.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I guess, I mean but that and that's

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Speaker 2: what's annoying about the MVP, right, It always going to

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Speaker 2: the quarterback, Because you're right, the quarterback is the one

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Speaker 2: who sets everything up. But you know, like to me,

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Speaker 2: Cede Lamb right now is like unstoppable for the Cowboys,

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Speaker 2: And it's just I don't you know, I'm glad I

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Speaker 2: don't have an MVP vote because I would just well,

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Speaker 2: so your name in there, Carmen, I you know what

502
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Speaker 2: I'm saying.

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Speaker 4: Like, I, Well, here's the thing. Dak has had eight

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Speaker 4: games this season so far with an over hundred passing

505
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Speaker 4: passer rating, which is the most in the NFL. He

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Speaker 4: leads with twenty six touchdowns. He ranks second with one

507
00:21:47,920 --> 00:21:50,400
Speaker 4: hundred and eight point three passer rating this year, second

508
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Speaker 4: only to actually Rock Party, which is funny. Yeah, but

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Speaker 4: I just think that you're getting the best football that

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Speaker 4: Dak has ever played in his career right now, which

511
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Speaker 4: is translating because of the fact that their quarterback play

512
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Speaker 4: seems to be down in general for various reasons this year.

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Speaker 4: That kind of pushes him to the top of what

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Speaker 4: we're like a quarterback play right now. And if he's

515
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Speaker 4: playing the best in his career at the right time

516
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Speaker 4: that his team is playing well, you talk about momentum

517
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Speaker 4: that's going to elevate. And if the Cowboys can win

518
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Speaker 4: this stretch to finish out the season. If they beat

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Speaker 4: the Eagles and they win against the Building, win against

520
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Speaker 4: the Dolphins, and they didn't finish it all out, how

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Speaker 4: do you argue against that when his team has had

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Speaker 4: success as well as Dak playing as the best quarterback

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Speaker 4: in the league, unless the MVP doesn't go to a quarterback,

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Speaker 4: and I.

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Speaker 3: One agree with you.

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Speaker 2: I am not saying that he does not deserve the MVP,

527
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Speaker 2: but I need to see what happens these next four weeks.

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Speaker 2: Just because I told you, I'm not impressed by these

529
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Speaker 2: numbers against these other teams. I'm just you know what,

530
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Speaker 2: I'm saying, you should do that, Dak. That is how

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Speaker 2: you should perform. You and the Cowboys should perform like that.

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Speaker 2: I'm not impressed by that.

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Speaker 3: Good for you.

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Speaker 2: Depending on how he does, he has a solid argument

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Speaker 2: to be the MVP.

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Speaker 3: But I need to see tomorrow. I need to see

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Speaker 3: the rest of the cities.

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Speaker 4: It begins tomorrow. So that's why this game is so huge,

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Speaker 4: just because not only does it is it bragging rights

540
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Speaker 4: in the NFC East?

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Speaker 8: Is it?

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Speaker 7: You know?

543
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Speaker 4: It bodes well for a playoff push, and like if

544
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Speaker 4: you can actually challenge the forty nine ers and the

545
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Speaker 4: postseason and all that kind of stuff, But it also

546
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Speaker 4: means a ton for Dallas, for Dak's MVP case.

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Speaker 2: Rather Yeah, and speaking of MVPs and quarterbacks, we're gonna

548
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Speaker 2: get this huge matchup tomorrow. But like this season, the

549
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Speaker 2: quarterback situation, you know, has been atrocious. Like who would

550
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Speaker 2: have thought that, Oh, I'm gonna see Jake Browning take

551
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Speaker 2: on Joe Flacco.

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Speaker 4: What I mean, we just saw it on Thursday night.

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Speaker 4: You saw Bailey's Zappie and mitched Tribas.

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Speaker 3: Which was a fun game that was actually a fun

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Speaker 3: I mean, it.

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Speaker 4: Ended up a fun game, but also in like an

557
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Speaker 4: ironic like, oh my god, this is horrible like way.

558
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Speaker 3: Right, but it was way better than anyone into city.

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Speaker 2: No.

560
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Speaker 4: I think there were more points score than most people thought.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's just what what a crazy season?

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Speaker 4: I mean, I know, I'm going to the game. I'm

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Speaker 4: flying to Vegas tonight. I'm going I'm going to Vegas

564
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Speaker 4: tonight to go see by the bikand Vikings Raiders. I'm

565
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Speaker 4: going to work. I'm going to see Vikings Raiders with

566
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Speaker 4: Huway quarterback. You've got Josh Jobs and Aidan O'Connell, like,

567
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Speaker 4: what's right, that's right? Yeah, So like I get it,

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Speaker 4: and I think I mean a lot of it. We've

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Speaker 4: seen fourteen If Trevor Lawrence doesn't play this week, you

570
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Speaker 4: have fourteen teams that will have had to start a

571
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Speaker 4: different quarterback than they wanted their for their Week one

572
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Speaker 4: starter to be.

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Speaker 3: And that's that's incredible, that's crazy.

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Speaker 4: Not only that, on top of it, these undrafted free

575
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Speaker 4: agents are having a year because you have guys like

576
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Speaker 4: Tyson Bagent who played significant time for the Chicago Bears.

577
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Speaker 4: You have Tommy DeVito who is starting for the Giants

578
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Speaker 4: right now. Those are rookie undrafted free agents, undrafted free

579
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Speaker 4: agents like Jake Browning, Brett Rippian like all these guys

580
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Speaker 4: have now made starts in the NFL. And I think

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Speaker 4: it just speaks to a lot of what Tom Brady

582
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Speaker 4: spoke to a couple of weeks ago, where the caliber

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Speaker 4: of play, especially at quarterback, which has always been a

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Speaker 4: hard thing to find, is it's just it's not available.

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Speaker 4: Not otherwise you wouldn't be starting udfas. And we we

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Speaker 4: ranked I'm gonna shamelessly plug Fox sports dot Com because

587
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Speaker 4: we re ranked quarterbacks just a couple of days ago

588
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Speaker 4: and past like number six. I was like, uh, like

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Speaker 4: you have your Patrick Mahomes, you have whatever.

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Speaker 6: I just.

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Speaker 4: It was hard to do, and you just realize how

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Speaker 4: few great quarterbacks exist in.

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Speaker 2: This league, well, mediocre league or not, we don't have

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Speaker 2: a mediocre update anchor.

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Speaker 3: Let's because I think he is big.

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Speaker 1: News on ahead of the Dodgers.

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Speaker 3: That would that, in case one person hasn't.

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Speaker 10: Heard, ten years, seven hundred million to go up the

599
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Speaker 10: road to la largest contract in sports history. Fox Sports

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Speaker 10: reports that most of his salary will be deferred to

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Speaker 10: give the Dodgers flexibility in building the team around him,

602
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Speaker 10: and his instagram post Otani thinked Angels fans. He apologized

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Speaker 10: for taking so long.

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Speaker 4: What a nice guy.

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Speaker 10: He's like, I'm sorry for taking so long, and he

606
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Speaker 10: said he's going to talk more about the process and

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Speaker 10: his decision at a later press conference. Seeing some early

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Speaker 10: estimates that say the deferred payments could net him more

609
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Speaker 10: than one billion over the course of his lifetime. When

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Speaker 10: all is said and done.

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Speaker 4: I might have a kid. Just set him in baseball.

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Speaker 11: Yeah, it's the best.

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Speaker 10: If you want to make money baseball, I'm not do that.

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Speaker 10: So some other just numbers here. So the highest paid

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Speaker 10: right now our max sures are and Justin Verlander at

616
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Speaker 10: forty three point three million per year. So obviously Otani's

617
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Speaker 10: gonna have deferred, but the average of seventy million, that's

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Speaker 10: an increase of eighty seven percent at the top of

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Speaker 10: the market.

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Speaker 4: Every GM across the league is just hursting the Dodgers out.

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Speaker 5: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 10: At seventy million per year, that's more than eight teams

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Speaker 10: current payroll for next season. And then if you want

625
00:27:23,760 --> 00:27:26,720
Speaker 10: to look at the whole thing, seven hundred million. It's

626
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Speaker 10: easy to pick on the A's and I hate their moving,

627
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Speaker 10: but their payroll over the last ten seasons is six

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Speaker 10: hundred and seventy million. So just my, there's some context's money.

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Speaker 3: It's a monopoly money to get, right.

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Speaker 10: Well, anyone going to Dodgers Stadium over the next ten

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Speaker 10: plus years is they're gonna feel it in their wallet.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yes.

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Speaker 4: I wish my Scullie is here to see that.

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Speaker 3: I know Elvin Scott he's watching smiling.

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Speaker 4: I would love to hear Vin call.

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Speaker 1: I know.

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Speaker 11: Let's go to the NFL.

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Speaker 3: The Seahawks.

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Speaker 10: They have elevated Sean Mannion the quarterback to their active roster.

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Speaker 10: If Gino Smith can't play tomorrow, Manion would back up

641
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Speaker 10: Drew Locke. Packers have ruled out Christian Watson for Monday

642
00:28:12,320 --> 00:28:15,600
Speaker 10: night with a hamstring injury. Browns receiver Amari Cooper has

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Speaker 10: cleared concussion protocol, so he set to play tomorrow against

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Speaker 10: the Jaguars. Cleveland also elevated Joe Flacco from the practice

645
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Speaker 10: squad and waived p J Walker. Rams activated kicker Mason

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Speaker 10: Crosby for their game in Baltimore tomorrow. Steelers linebacker TJ

647
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Speaker 10: Watt is in concussion protocol. The reports say the NFL

648
00:28:34,320 --> 00:28:36,520
Speaker 10: found that the Bengals were in full compliance with the

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Speaker 10: league's injury report policy when Joe Burrow suffered a season

650
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Speaker 10: ending wrist injury back in Week eleven. Eagles head of

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Speaker 10: security Dom Desandro He's been barred from the sidelines for

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Speaker 10: Tomorrow's game against Cowboys in Dallas.

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Speaker 7: Big Dum.

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Speaker 10: On the other side of that scuffle, of course, with

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Speaker 10: forty nine Ers linebacker Dre Greenlaw, he was fined nearly

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Speaker 10: eleven grand for his hit on DeVante Smith that got

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Speaker 10: the whole thing started there. Vikings offensive coordinator Wes Phillips

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Speaker 10: she was arrested last night on a misdemeanor dui charge.

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Speaker 10: He was released hours later and he will travel with

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Speaker 10: the team to Las Vegas today. Minnesota and the NFL

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Speaker 10: will determine any discipline as the legal process plays out.

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Speaker 10: And finally, guys, halftime of the Army Navy game, Army

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Speaker 10: leads seven to three.

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Speaker 11: Back to you, thanks, nag thre you.

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Speaker 2: You're listening to Fox Sports Saturday. I'm Montcy Belanos in

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Speaker 2: with Carmen Vitelli, who's in for Alex because she's out

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Speaker 2: gallivantin And now we got to talk about a big

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Speaker 2: game later today, and we're going to talk about it

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Speaker 2: with my friend.

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Speaker 3: Mark Medina, who is a regular here. You've heard him,

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Speaker 3: We love him.

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Speaker 2: You may have read his stuff on the Sporting Tribune

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Speaker 2: Sports not sports Keto. Maybe you've seen him on CBSLA.

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Speaker 2: He is all over the place. He does not sleep,

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Speaker 2: just like the rest of us.

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Speaker 6: Mark, aren't you there, Monse, I'm here, I'm just keeping

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Speaker 6: up with you. I'm sure I say that is bring

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Speaker 6: your spirit. I got that competing for NBA Cup. No, No,

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Speaker 6: you've got the Clippers coming off some wins here or

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Speaker 6: so Hey, let's see listen.

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Speaker 2: I would love to talk about the Clippers, but I

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Speaker 2: know we cannot right now because we got to talk

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Speaker 2: about this NBA in season tournament. Mark, thank you for

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Speaker 2: being patient with us the championship later today. I have

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Speaker 2: like changed my mind about the n Season Tournament, like

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Speaker 2: twenty seven times. When I first heard about it, I

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Speaker 2: was like, Oh, maybe it's okay, and then it's starting.

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Speaker 3: I was like, this is done. The court suck? Why

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Speaker 3: does the point? Why why are we in group play?

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Speaker 3: This is like soccer?

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Speaker 12: Why?

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Speaker 3: What is the vibe? What is the vibe?

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Speaker 4: Mark?

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Speaker 3: With the players? What are they saying about the n

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Speaker 3: Season Tournament?

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Speaker 6: The vibe is this Monsea. They like the tournament because

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Speaker 6: they know that they can get a bag out of

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Speaker 6: it five hundred thousand if they win.

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Speaker 3: It's not something millions.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, who cares?

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Speaker 6: Yeah, every dollar counts right. Secondly, they think that the

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Speaker 6: competitions some better than they expect. It all starts with

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Speaker 6: the player. So I think when you have guys like

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Speaker 6: Lebron James and Steph Curry and Kevin Durant really speak

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Speaker 6: highway of it, and you know, would they tone that

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Speaker 6: doesn't feel like it's a hostage video or they're doing

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Speaker 6: a PSA that trickles down to the rest of the group.

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Speaker 6: I think that's the main thing, the quality of play competition,

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Speaker 6: and I think that that has been so high as

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Speaker 6: well as the financial incentive for an in the season

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Speaker 6: tournament that's vastly outweighed any rolling of the eye emojis

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Speaker 6: that players pass among themselves. With the court itself so

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Speaker 6: off to a really good debut, and interested to see

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Speaker 6: how they build off the future seasons.

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Speaker 4: It's interesting that you say the players are buying in

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Speaker 4: and yeah, how much it matters that these veterans are

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Speaker 4: are the ones that are excited about it. But I'm

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Speaker 4: just curious, how much do you think that you can

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Speaker 4: actually learn from a team at this point in the season,

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Speaker 4: Because you know, there's a joke that things don't matter

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Speaker 4: until months before the playoffs if then, and I feel

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Speaker 4: like there's a lot of teams, teams that have even

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Speaker 4: bought into that with the load bandagement and the way

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Speaker 4: that they play their starters and their stars early in

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Speaker 4: the season, But do you think that you can actually

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Speaker 4: glean like we got the Lakers and the Pacers in

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Speaker 4: the final, does that mean that we're going to see

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Speaker 4: these guys kind of make a real playoff push or

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Speaker 4: is there is it still too early.

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Speaker 6: For that, Carmen. It's an excellent point, and there's layers

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Speaker 6: to it here. I think for this NBA Cup Championship game,

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Speaker 6: it represents two different entities. With the Indiana Pacers, they're

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Speaker 6: the young, up and coming team that wants to show

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Speaker 6: that they can win on a big stage as a

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Speaker 6: benchmark before gain to the final stage. But that's meaningful

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Speaker 6: as far as hey, this team's for for real. They can,

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Speaker 6: you know, go toe to toe with other Eastern Conference

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Speaker 6: contenders like the Boston Celtics and the Milwaukee Bucks, two

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Speaker 6: teams that they eliminated. And then when you're looking at

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Speaker 6: the Lakers, they keep their eye on the big prize,

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Speaker 6: especially because of their history of winning championships, the fact

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Speaker 6: that they came off the Western Conference finals last season,

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Speaker 6: and because Lebron James has already won four ships that

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Speaker 6: this isn't going to mean lunch in the grand scheme

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Speaker 6: of things. But I think why the Lakers have been

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Speaker 6: a team that's bought in as opposed to like the

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Speaker 6: Denver Nuggets, for example, who won a championship last season.

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Speaker 6: A lot of it's been circumstantial where Lebron's playing at

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Speaker 6: a high level. I think he likes the idea of

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Speaker 6: being a part of something at the beginning. And three,

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Speaker 6: this has coincided with their group finally getting healthy with

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Speaker 6: exception that gave Vincent, and so they find value in

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Speaker 6: really trying to win these games because they're trying to

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Speaker 6: get the rotations down. But you contrast that with the Nuggets.

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Speaker 6: They've had some ups and downs and Jamal Murray having

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Speaker 6: an injury that I think they're thinking, you know what,

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Speaker 6: let's just think big picture and worry more about June.

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Speaker 6: So it doesn't solve every problem, but I think it's

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Speaker 6: at least enough that the games are more competitive. And look,

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Speaker 6: it's gotten on your radar. It's got a Montse's radar

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Speaker 6: that it's worth it to talk about NBA basketball in

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Speaker 6: early December.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: No, people are watching the games and we've had really fun,

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Speaker 2: exciting games. But I'm wondering, Mark, if the Pacers win,

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Speaker 2: is this is it bad for.

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Speaker 3: The n season tournament? If they end up beating the Lakers,

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Speaker 3: is it bad?

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Speaker 6: Well, I think it comes down to this, He's a

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Speaker 6: Vegas analogy. If the Lakers win They're going to cash

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Speaker 6: out with a much higher prize because they're a marquee team,

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Speaker 6: bigger fan base. Lebron James, anything he does gets a

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Speaker 6: lot of attention. The Indiana Pacers if they get it,

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Speaker 6: it's not going to be a bad thing. It's just

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Speaker 6: going to be the supposed prize money for the league

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Speaker 6: and the general public's not going to be as high.

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Speaker 6: So I think with that it's all win win. It's

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Speaker 6: not like the league takes a step back if the

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Speaker 6: Pacers win the championship. But as far as attention and

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Speaker 6: relevance and significance, no doubt because of the Lakers franchise,

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Speaker 6: because Lebron is, you know, still playing MVP level and

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Speaker 6: you know, one of the generational goats right now, it'll

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Speaker 6: be more significant of the Lakers are one to hoist

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Speaker 6: this NBA Cup trophod for sure.

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Speaker 3: I just wonder if they put a banner up. You

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Speaker 3: know who puts a banner the paper? It is the holiday?

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Speaker 3: Why are you so mean?

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Speaker 8: Mark?

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Speaker 3: Thank you so much for joining us. We appreciate it. Everybody.

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Speaker 2: You can follow Mark on Twitter. Mark g underscore Madina.

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Speaker 2: He's our NBA insider. We love him so much, even

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Speaker 2: though he's talking smack, even though it's the holidays.

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Speaker 3: We appreciate you, Mark, let's talk soon.

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Speaker 6: Appreciate you love.

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Speaker 3: Her?

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Speaker 12: Oh Mark, what.

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Speaker 2: Did I do to him?

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Speaker 3: I didn't do anything.

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Speaker 4: Just so easy to pick.

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Speaker 3: Really, are okay? Guys?

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Speaker 11: All right?

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Speaker 3: Car Man, guys, thank you. You're listening to Fox Sports Radio.

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Speaker 3: Coming up next, the dues and don'ts of the week.

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Speaker 2: Excuse us while we just dance a little bit here

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Speaker 2: with this song. I feel like I have a terrible

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Speaker 2: singing voice too, so I always apologize when I am singing.

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Speaker 2: And you, guys, Armie, welcome reagulously to Fox Sports Radio.

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Speaker 2: I am Monci Bolanos here with Carmen Vitelli, who is

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Speaker 2: in for Alex Curry this week because she's off gallivanting.

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Speaker 2: But we want her to gallivan all the time because

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Speaker 2: Otawny signs when she's Galligy happen, sunny, Yes, and a

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Speaker 2: lot of stuff happened this week, some that we like,

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Speaker 2: some that we don't like. So it's time for one

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Speaker 2: of our favorite segments, highlighting the.

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Speaker 1: Dudes, Oh I love that and putting a spotlight on

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Speaker 1: the don't.

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Speaker 11: The subject brings me no joy.

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Speaker 5: Are you on?

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Speaker 12: Crack.

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Speaker 1: It's time for the dudes in sports.

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Speaker 2: So good all right, guys, So I'm gonna start us off.

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Speaker 2: I am all about, you know, making your craft better,

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Speaker 2: getting creative with your craft, whatever your craft may be,

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Speaker 2: whether you're a writer like Carmen, whether you're an actor,

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Speaker 2: whether you're an athlete, whatever, making your craft better. So

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Speaker 2: the Sun's Sun's Phoenix Suns basketball team DJ had a

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Speaker 2: little remix for fans and it's I'm all about it.

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Speaker 5: You know what, in this building, you can't hear anything

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Speaker 5: because it's like a club. It's like a it's like

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Speaker 5: a South Beach club. It's just this thumping techno club music,

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Speaker 5: thumping techno club music, thumping tech, no club music, stump tech,

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Speaker 5: no club.

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Speaker 3: If you're wondering who is that?

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Speaker 2: That is Steve Kerr, the coach of the Warriors, who

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Speaker 2: had complained about.

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Speaker 3: The music in the sound in a game. Sun's DJ.

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Speaker 3: Do you that is so funny?

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Speaker 4: I love it. I actually just saw a meme too

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Speaker 4: that was like house DJs will literally make anything an

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Speaker 4: insert like before the drop, or like house DJs, we'll

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Speaker 4: we'll put anything before a drop. And that was that

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Speaker 4: was such a good example. So funny, so funny shout

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Speaker 4: outs shout outs to to DJJ. Yeah, especially like if

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Speaker 4: the warriors were in the building, right.

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Speaker 3: Like, no, that's what even funnier. Oh, they just didn't

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Speaker 3: they weren't even playing the warrior.

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Speaker 4: I hope they do it. I hope you do it

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Speaker 4: again when likes to when they're the Warriors in the building,

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Speaker 4: because I would be like, I'm a petty queen. I

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Speaker 4: love being petty, and I think that's fantastic.

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Speaker 8: I hear you.

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Speaker 4: My first do has more to do with the song

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Speaker 4: we heard before.

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Speaker 3: Oh okay, okay, okay.

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Speaker 4: Watch Christmas movies every night. Yeah, so enjoying the season.

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Speaker 4: Start listening to Christmas music whenever you want to listen.

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Speaker 4: I'm my sweet home Chicago. Winter is so much more

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Speaker 4: bearable before, like up to the holidays, up like through

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Speaker 4: New Year's because you can get in the spirit and

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Speaker 4: you can take advantage of the season. So take advantage

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Speaker 4: of the season. Don't let anybody yuck here young when

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Speaker 4: it comes to the holidays. I'm I'm fully for however

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Speaker 4: much you want to decorate, however much you want to,

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Speaker 4: you want to however much you want to watch Christmas

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Speaker 4: movies or anything like that. We just watched The Grinch

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Speaker 4: last night.

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Speaker 3: I'm into that because the holidays go by so fast.

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Speaker 3: They go buy so fast link of an.

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Speaker 4: Eye, and so I get so happy when I look

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Speaker 4: at my tree and little.

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Speaker 3: Things right like, yeah, I'm with you, I'm with you.

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Speaker 3: I have a do an adult together. Do congratulate someone?

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Speaker 3: So this happened on Sunday.

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Speaker 2: Lebron James that was at the at the Rams game

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Speaker 2: and congratulated Pucunakua on the most receiving yards by a

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Speaker 2: rookie on Twitter and didn't tag him.

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Speaker 3: I have such a problem with this. So yeah, Lebron,

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Speaker 3: do that, but don't not tag him. What do we

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Speaker 3: do in here?

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Speaker 4: You know how it is that he would love? Like

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Speaker 4: could you imagine getting an notication from Lebron?

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Speaker 9: Yeah?

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Speaker 3: And then he didn't get it. He's somebody had to

884
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Speaker 3: tell him, Hey, Lebron put you in his tweet? How annoying.

885
00:39:32,560 --> 00:39:33,239
Speaker 3: You got a quick one.

886
00:39:33,320 --> 00:39:35,720
Speaker 4: I got a quick one. Don't bring your tripod to target?

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Speaker 4: What listen? I saw a TikTok just this morning and

888
00:39:41,200 --> 00:39:43,919
Speaker 4: it was like breaking down this other TikTok of this guy,

889
00:39:44,040 --> 00:39:46,040
Speaker 4: like his trip to target and like he shows himself

890
00:39:46,080 --> 00:39:48,120
Speaker 4: like backing into the spot and like walking in the store,

891
00:39:48,200 --> 00:39:50,480
Speaker 4: and I'm like, in order to film that, you'd like

892
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Speaker 4: set your tripod up, back out of your car and

893
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Speaker 4: then take it down from the parking lot and then

894
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Speaker 4: you have to set it back up at the entrance

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Speaker 4: to Target, and then you have to walk in and

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Speaker 4: walk out, and like, I'm like, how insane do you look?

897
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Speaker 3: Are you on crack?

898
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Speaker 4: Are you on crack?

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Speaker 3: That's what krmen wants to know. You're listening to Fox

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Speaker 3: Got our day. I am Monty Belayos. We got Carmen

901
00:40:11,000 --> 00:40:13,600
Speaker 3: in for Alex Curry. Uh, stay tune.

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00:40:13,640 --> 00:40:16,640
Speaker 2: We have a whole nother hour. So again, grab a drink,

903
00:40:16,719 --> 00:40:18,200
Speaker 2: a cocktail, a snack.

904
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Speaker 3: And hang out with us. You're listening to Fox Sports Radio.

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Speaker 1: Fox Sports Radio has the best sports talk lineup in

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Speaker 1: the nation. Catch all of our shows at foxsports Radio

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00:40:27,200 --> 00:40:31,279
Speaker 1: dot com and within the iHeartRadio app search FSR to

908
00:40:31,400 --> 00:40:32,040
Speaker 1: listen live.

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00:40:32,480 --> 00:40:37,960
Speaker 2: Hey, Fox Sports Radio, AM Monty Belanos and and for

910
00:40:38,040 --> 00:40:42,919
Speaker 2: Alex Curry, is our girl, Carmen Vitali, Fox Sports NFL writer.

911
00:40:43,120 --> 00:40:46,319
Speaker 2: She's an expert like Alex and I talk about how

912
00:40:47,239 --> 00:40:48,840
Speaker 2: you and I could I said the sallies. You know,

913
00:40:48,920 --> 00:40:50,640
Speaker 2: Carmen and I could be saying the exact same thing,

914
00:40:50,920 --> 00:40:53,000
Speaker 2: but she sounds so much smarter than me when I

915
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Speaker 2: say we're saying the same thing, but we're not.

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Speaker 3: We just love you so much and we're so glad that.

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00:41:01,200 --> 00:41:04,600
Speaker 4: I really appreciate that. That's something that's a writer. It's

918
00:41:04,680 --> 00:41:08,280
Speaker 4: so hard to then verbalize what you're trying to talk about.

919
00:41:08,440 --> 00:41:09,440
Speaker 4: So I really appreciate you.

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00:41:09,560 --> 00:41:11,520
Speaker 3: No, seriously, I really. I'm like, we say the same thing,

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Speaker 3: except I'm saying it to a seven year old. She's

922
00:41:13,560 --> 00:41:15,080
Speaker 3: saying it to the adults.

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Speaker 2: That's the difference. Thank you so much for tuning in

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00:41:17,600 --> 00:41:20,080
Speaker 2: to hour two. Grab a snack, grab a drink, maybe

925
00:41:20,120 --> 00:41:22,320
Speaker 2: a cocktail. Let's hang out. We have a lot to

926
00:41:22,520 --> 00:41:25,440
Speaker 2: talk about. We're still We're still gonna talk about the NFL.

927
00:41:25,520 --> 00:41:28,160
Speaker 2: We're gonna talk about Little Nil. We're gonna have Dave

928
00:41:28,280 --> 00:41:31,600
Speaker 2: Hellman on the show and chat with him, and the

929
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Speaker 2: big story though, We're gonna just touch it one more time.

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Speaker 3: Sho hey o. Tawi is a Dodger, which I think so.

931
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Speaker 4: Many people setting a North American sports record.

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Speaker 3: Yes, seven hundred million, ten years. I'm gonna throw up.

933
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Speaker 3: I just can't.

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Speaker 2: I mean, it's official, even though I think everybody expected

935
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Speaker 2: the like you know, the Dodgers were favored, right, it's

936
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Speaker 2: just crazy that that's actually it's happened.

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Speaker 4: They did what it took, they did, they did what

938
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Speaker 4: it's an absolutely absurd contract. But also so he's an

939
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Speaker 4: absolutely absurd player. I mean, it knew you were like

940
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Speaker 4: it was it was gonna come down to who could

941
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Speaker 4: pay him the most.

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Speaker 3: Money, and the doors were like us, who cares? That's

943
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Speaker 3: exactly what they said. And Carmen and Iron here alone.

944
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Speaker 3: We have Nick cop on the updates.

945
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Speaker 2: We have our producer Brandon Truffa, our technical producer, Chris Perfet.

946
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Speaker 2: We got briand crandall behind the scenes getting sound making

947
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Speaker 2: us sound better. But Brandon, we got a fun little

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Speaker 2: game right now, right unprecedented.

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Speaker 8: Just you talk about paying a lot of money, Well,

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Speaker 8: Dodger fans are gonna have to pay a lot of

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Speaker 8: money beginning opening day. Now, Monty, you work for Dodgers

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Speaker 8: and you do. By the way, thank you again for

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Speaker 8: the tickets this year.

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Speaker 4: You're welcome. I will.

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Speaker 11: I tried for Opening day.

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Speaker 8: Go padres, but but anyway, I want to see if

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Speaker 8: we can play a little guesting game right now. Okay,

958
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Speaker 8: what do you guys think on stub.

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Speaker 11: Hub right now?

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Speaker 3: Stub Hub right now, the cheapest.

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Speaker 11: Ticket to get into Dodger Stadium is on opening day.

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Speaker 3: So get my foot in the door.

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Speaker 11: Get your foot in the door. The cheapest ticket listed

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Speaker 11: on their standing.

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Speaker 4: Room a daughter stadium.

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Speaker 3: Not always, it depends on I imagine for opening day.

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Speaker 3: Don't assume that they're.

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Speaker 4: Going to do that.

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Speaker 3: But who knows if it was already set up. So

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Speaker 3: this is probably season ticket holders right that are reselling

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Speaker 3: at this point. All right, I'll let you go first opening.

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Speaker 4: Six hundred and ten.

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Speaker 11: To get you lower the Oh wow, okay, all right.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I was never gonna go that high. I'm gonna

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Speaker 3: guess three hundred higher than that.

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Speaker 4: Oh five, five hundred lower four that's close, but it's lower.

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Speaker 4: This price is right, rolls like you never get three dollars,

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Speaker 4: that's what I was close to. We're gonna get it's

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Speaker 4: three ninety five.

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Speaker 2: Wow, okay, Section TD that's top deck, section says we've

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Speaker 2: got our daughter satium to guy right here.

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Speaker 4: Yes, for I worked for the Dodgers. I was an

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Speaker 4: intern for them for year. For a season, I went

984
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Speaker 4: to the NLCS during it. It was great, But I'll

985
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Speaker 4: be damned if I knew anywhere where people like, oh,

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Speaker 4: I'm in section whatever, and I'm like, I don't know

987
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Speaker 4: what are cool?

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Speaker 3: I do know, I know all the seed to give

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Speaker 3: me a section.

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Speaker 2: I know that. But when people ask me about parking

991
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Speaker 2: and they're like, where is lot G, I'm like, I

992
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Speaker 2: don't know, but it goes in order ABC, so just

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Speaker 2: make a.

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Speaker 3: Rite and follow the letters that I don't know. Wow,

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Speaker 3: all right, you guys heard it here.

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Speaker 2: If you want to get your foot in the door

997
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Speaker 2: opening day for the Dodgers with Shoho Taani on the

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Speaker 2: roster for a dollar four hundred dollars, that's why.

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Speaker 3: You're abound dollars.

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Speaker 4: I have three dollars.

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Speaker 3: That's about oh yeah, no, no, you're paying another two

1002
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Speaker 3: hundred dollars in say you're going up parking or parking

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Speaker 3: just yeah, no, no, no, no.

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Speaker 2: I mean NFL games are about that, right, Like I

1005
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Speaker 2: feel like so expensive because there's only eighteen.

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Speaker 3: And that's how they get away with it. Yeah, to

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Speaker 3: be honest with you, especially with parking.

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Speaker 2: But since we have Carmen here, guys, Carmen is a

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Speaker 2: writer in case you missed it for Fox NFL, and

1010
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Speaker 2: she is an expert in the NFC North Division.

1011
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Speaker 3: So I feel like there's a lot going on with

1012
00:45:16,880 --> 00:45:17,839
Speaker 3: those teams right now.

1013
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Speaker 2: So I'm gonna just ask you some questions and you're

1014
00:45:20,960 --> 00:45:22,920
Speaker 2: gonna give us our inside.

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Speaker 4: I love it. Okay, I didn't prepare for this. We're

1016
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Speaker 4: testing my knowledge.

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Speaker 2: Yes, I actually didn't tell her what I was gonna ask.

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00:45:29,320 --> 00:45:30,640
Speaker 2: I was just gonna I just I'm gonna ask you

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00:45:30,640 --> 00:45:34,560
Speaker 2: a questions about. Okay, the Detroit Lions top of the division.

1020
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Speaker 2: Let's say it's a two folded question. Obviously, I'm assuming

1021
00:45:39,719 --> 00:45:42,160
Speaker 2: you think they're going to win the division, but do

1022
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Speaker 2: you feel that the Lions will actually make a push

1023
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Speaker 2: in the playoffs.

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Speaker 4: I still stand behind the fact that I think they're

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Speaker 4: going to win a playoff game. Okay, I am less

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Speaker 4: confident now give it like that they're going to make

1027
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Speaker 4: a run for the actual super Bowl because of the

1028
00:45:59,200 --> 00:46:02,600
Speaker 4: fact there are some very obvious holes that have now

1029
00:46:02,760 --> 00:46:05,680
Speaker 4: come to light. This is not something that is new

1030
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Speaker 4: with Jared Goff, but he is a drastically different player,

1031
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Speaker 4: whether or not he has a healthy O line in

1032
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Speaker 4: front of him, and up until this point, the Lions

1033
00:46:14,160 --> 00:46:16,719
Speaker 4: have been now dealing with multiple offensive line injuries, and

1034
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Speaker 4: if you look at Jared Goff's numbers from the first

1035
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Speaker 4: six weeks of the season when he had his full

1036
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Speaker 4: offensive line, he's playing at like an MVP caliber level.

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Speaker 4: After that, Big Ve goes out, hallou halla, pulavati viti.

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00:46:27,000 --> 00:46:31,560
Speaker 4: There we go, pleass yam, yeah, thanks, Big Ve goes down.

1039
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Speaker 4: And then from there Jonah Jackson missed some time. Now

1040
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Speaker 4: his center Frank Frank Ragnow is out. So the Lions

1041
00:46:38,440 --> 00:46:41,000
Speaker 4: are now traveling to Chicago to take on the Bears,

1042
00:46:41,200 --> 00:46:43,160
Speaker 4: and this is at a time when the Bears are

1043
00:46:44,040 --> 00:46:46,880
Speaker 4: looking better defensively. They have Monto Sweat on that defensive line. Now,

1044
00:46:46,920 --> 00:46:49,279
Speaker 4: he's doing a wonderful, wonderful things for that defensive front

1045
00:46:49,320 --> 00:46:52,320
Speaker 4: in general. And you now don't have the most important

1046
00:46:52,360 --> 00:46:55,840
Speaker 4: piece of Jared Goff's offensive line upfront in center Frank Ragna,

1047
00:46:55,880 --> 00:46:57,080
Speaker 4: who I think is one of the best centers in

1048
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Speaker 4: the league behind Jason Kelce so is going to be

1049
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Speaker 4: an issue going forward. On top of the fact their

1050
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Speaker 4: secondary has also suffered injuries, the unit does not look

1051
00:47:08,880 --> 00:47:10,600
Speaker 4: like it was supposed to in the beginning of the season.

1052
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Speaker 4: They got CJ. Gardner Johnson. In the off season, they

1053
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Speaker 4: got Emmanuel Moseley. Well, Amaniel Moseley's out for the year.

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Speaker 8: C J.

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Speaker 4: Gardner Johnson is out until god knows. When he said

1056
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Speaker 4: he's coming back soon, I don't know. I was told

1057
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Speaker 4: not to really like take a lot of stock from that. Yeah,

1058
00:47:22,800 --> 00:47:26,480
Speaker 4: buy some Lions coaches, they're like, he'll say anything. But

1059
00:47:26,719 --> 00:47:30,560
Speaker 4: their past defense as a result, has been not reliable,

1060
00:47:30,920 --> 00:47:34,640
Speaker 4: very unreliable, to the point where their two starting corners

1061
00:47:34,719 --> 00:47:39,040
Speaker 4: and their two starting safeties are at a virtually no rotation.

1062
00:47:39,200 --> 00:47:42,160
Speaker 4: They are playing one hundred percent or close to one

1063
00:47:42,200 --> 00:47:44,799
Speaker 4: hundred percent of the team's defensive snaps, and they are

1064
00:47:45,000 --> 00:47:48,160
Speaker 4: one injury away in the secondary from absolute catastrophe.

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Speaker 2: Okay, so my last question with the Lions, But did

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Speaker 2: you have something else? Okay, my last question with the Lions.

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Speaker 2: All Right, in the NFC, right, Eagles, Cowboys, forty nine ers,

1068
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Speaker 2: top three? Yeah, are the Lions the fourth best team?

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00:48:04,560 --> 00:48:08,200
Speaker 4: Yeah? Yeah, they're in the top five still, just given

1070
00:48:08,280 --> 00:48:11,040
Speaker 4: the fact that when they are firing on all cylinders,

1071
00:48:11,080 --> 00:48:12,759
Speaker 4: in the fact that they can find ways to win

1072
00:48:12,880 --> 00:48:14,920
Speaker 4: games because of that offense, because of who they have

1073
00:48:15,000 --> 00:48:18,319
Speaker 4: as an offensive play caller in Ben Johnson. They are

1074
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Speaker 4: an extremely potent team. It just depends on the health

1075
00:48:24,600 --> 00:48:26,560
Speaker 4: and if they can get that under control. Frank rag

1076
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Speaker 4: Now is not thought to be like season ending. They

1077
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Speaker 4: Ale McNeil, their defensive tackle, who I think is very,

1078
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Speaker 4: very underrated. He is eligible to come off. I are

1079
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Speaker 4: week eighteen now, so they have some trench issues, but

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Speaker 4: that should be remedied before the playoffs start. So I'm

1081
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Speaker 4: if they're healthy. They're absolutely in that top five conversation,

1082
00:48:50,120 --> 00:48:52,000
Speaker 4: and I think they will be healthy, especially if they

1083
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Speaker 4: can maybe get CJ. Gardner Johnson back before the postseason

1084
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Speaker 4: begins as well.

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Speaker 3: All Right, so you just mentioned they're going to face

1086
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Speaker 3: a divisional rival or the Bears. The Bears, the Bears,

1087
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Speaker 3: the Bears.

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Speaker 2: There's been room, there's been rumors, you know that Matt

1089
00:49:06,680 --> 00:49:11,920
Speaker 2: Eberflus has been monitored and possibly on the chopping block rumors.

1090
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Speaker 2: I'm just telling you what I read it. Sure that

1091
00:49:14,840 --> 00:49:18,160
Speaker 2: there you know he's under a microscope. Let's say, what

1092
00:49:18,400 --> 00:49:20,160
Speaker 2: have you heard about that?

1093
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Speaker 4: So, given I'm a lifelong Chicagoan, I've grown up watching

1094
00:49:25,920 --> 00:49:29,560
Speaker 4: this team. I've seen their tendencies. I have I have

1095
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Speaker 4: the the benefit of historical knowledge here in the sense

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Speaker 4: that this is not a trigger happy ownership franchise. Usually

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00:49:36,440 --> 00:49:39,640
Speaker 4: her ownership, like the McCaskey family, is not usually very

1098
00:49:39,640 --> 00:49:43,480
Speaker 4: trigger happy. There's been some exceptions with the Mark Trustman experiment.

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Speaker 4: I think we all agree that that should have ended

1100
00:49:45,239 --> 00:49:49,400
Speaker 4: even sooner. But at the same time, I think that

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00:49:49,480 --> 00:49:53,520
Speaker 4: Mattiberflus has a longer leash given the fact that they

1102
00:49:53,600 --> 00:49:56,120
Speaker 4: were sold a rebuild that was going to take two

1103
00:49:56,200 --> 00:49:59,440
Speaker 4: to three years. So your your this is this will

1104
00:49:59,440 --> 00:50:01,919
Speaker 4: be year two. You're coming up on the third year.

1105
00:50:02,000 --> 00:50:04,799
Speaker 4: I don't think that Maddy Eberflus is really I think

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Speaker 4: he has a longer leash because I think they want

1107
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Speaker 4: to keep him and Ryan Poles intact. Not to mention,

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Speaker 4: you have seen tangible improvement out of Chicago's defense the

1109
00:50:14,360 --> 00:50:17,759
Speaker 4: last few weeks. Since Week ten, I think they're tied

1110
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Speaker 4: for the most takeaways. You've got Montes Sweat, who, even

1111
00:50:20,880 --> 00:50:22,920
Speaker 4: if he's not getting sacks, he has opened up things

1112
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Speaker 4: for that defensive line in Chicago and to the point

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Speaker 4: where other guys are now getting pressure on the quarterback

1114
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Speaker 4: and their sack numbers are growing up. And at Jalen Johnson,

1115
00:50:31,120 --> 00:50:34,480
Speaker 4: their number one corner. He's the highest graded corner in

1116
00:50:34,520 --> 00:50:37,279
Speaker 4: the league right now according to PFF. So you now

1117
00:50:37,520 --> 00:50:41,640
Speaker 4: have the Bears defense kind of firing on all cylinders,

1118
00:50:41,640 --> 00:50:43,640
Speaker 4: and that's Flue's side of the ball. So if you

1119
00:50:43,760 --> 00:50:46,120
Speaker 4: can say, all right, listen, I know we've got a

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Speaker 4: lot of question marks still on offense, but my side

1121
00:50:49,200 --> 00:50:50,719
Speaker 4: of the ball is holding up their end of the

1122
00:50:50,760 --> 00:50:53,719
Speaker 4: bargain now, and we fill a couple more holes on

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00:50:53,800 --> 00:50:56,160
Speaker 4: that side, we should be set. And I think that

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00:50:56,800 --> 00:50:58,759
Speaker 4: they'll continue to allow Maddiere supposed to do that.

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Speaker 3: On the offensive side of the ball. Yeah, Justin Fields, Yeah?

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00:51:04,360 --> 00:51:06,360
Speaker 3: Is he their future quarterback?

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00:51:08,239 --> 00:51:08,520
Speaker 6: Is there?

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Speaker 3: What's going?

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Speaker 8: You know?

1130
00:51:09,719 --> 00:51:11,440
Speaker 3: Like I like Justin Fields?

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00:51:11,480 --> 00:51:12,120
Speaker 6: I like you, I do.

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00:51:12,960 --> 00:51:14,040
Speaker 3: I don't like that.

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00:51:14,160 --> 00:51:16,440
Speaker 2: He one time said, I think it was if not

1134
00:51:16,520 --> 00:51:18,640
Speaker 2: earlier this year last year, where he said I think

1135
00:51:18,680 --> 00:51:20,960
Speaker 2: I'm already a top five rushing quarterback.

1136
00:51:21,320 --> 00:51:23,880
Speaker 3: I hate that, you know, don't what I don't. I

1137
00:51:23,920 --> 00:51:24,640
Speaker 3: wouldn't want to hear that.

1138
00:51:25,880 --> 00:51:28,000
Speaker 4: Before the season he said that. He was like, He's like, yeah,

1139
00:51:28,360 --> 00:51:30,440
Speaker 4: I want to aim towards four thousand yards. I'm like

1140
00:51:30,520 --> 00:51:32,879
Speaker 4: four thousand? Can we work on getting three thousand first?

1141
00:51:32,920 --> 00:51:35,040
Speaker 4: Because this man has not scratched the surface on three

1142
00:51:35,040 --> 00:51:38,440
Speaker 4: thousand and won't granted this year he missed some time

1143
00:51:38,560 --> 00:51:42,560
Speaker 4: due to that thumb injury. But my thing is, and

1144
00:51:42,640 --> 00:51:44,480
Speaker 4: it's been my thing all season, is you need to

1145
00:51:44,520 --> 00:51:46,879
Speaker 4: see consistency out of justin fields. You need to see

1146
00:51:47,440 --> 00:51:49,520
Speaker 4: and I get the scheme has done him no favors

1147
00:51:49,560 --> 00:51:52,680
Speaker 4: because they kind of took what he does well, which

1148
00:51:52,719 --> 00:51:55,640
Speaker 4: is running the football completely out of the scheme in

1149
00:51:55,760 --> 00:51:57,600
Speaker 4: favor of trying to get him to push the ball

1150
00:51:57,640 --> 00:51:59,480
Speaker 4: down the field through the air. I get that you

1151
00:51:59,560 --> 00:52:01,239
Speaker 4: need to see that evaluation to make sure that he

1152
00:52:01,320 --> 00:52:04,040
Speaker 4: is a well rounded quarterback. But you can't take out

1153
00:52:04,080 --> 00:52:07,680
Speaker 4: what he's best at and try and change what he

1154
00:52:07,880 --> 00:52:10,920
Speaker 4: reverts to, because now what he reverts to is that

1155
00:52:11,040 --> 00:52:14,320
Speaker 4: direct odds with the system. And at that point, we

1156
00:52:14,440 --> 00:52:17,399
Speaker 4: saw the disco combobulation earlier in the year, and as

1157
00:52:17,560 --> 00:52:20,920
Speaker 4: Luke GETSI, their offensive coordinator has been able to incorporate

1158
00:52:21,000 --> 00:52:22,840
Speaker 4: more of the RPOs, more of the design runs for

1159
00:52:23,040 --> 00:52:26,240
Speaker 4: justin fields. You see putting throwing more than one running

1160
00:52:26,280 --> 00:52:31,359
Speaker 4: back out there and making defenses contend with three different runners. Hey,

1161
00:52:31,480 --> 00:52:34,960
Speaker 4: lo and behold. That can work. But not only do

1162
00:52:35,040 --> 00:52:36,880
Speaker 4: the Bears have to commit to Justin Fields. And I've

1163
00:52:36,920 --> 00:52:38,400
Speaker 4: been saying this all along. They had to commit to

1164
00:52:38,480 --> 00:52:41,360
Speaker 4: that kind of system. Yeah, and if you bring in

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00:52:41,400 --> 00:52:45,000
Speaker 4: a new offensive coordinator under Mattieberflues, that's Justin Field's third

1166
00:52:45,640 --> 00:52:49,360
Speaker 4: offensive coordinator in his in his tenure with Chicago.

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Speaker 3: How do you get into any rhythms so.

1168
00:52:51,280 --> 00:52:54,799
Speaker 4: Exactly, and you like, then you then you have excuses

1169
00:52:54,880 --> 00:52:58,840
Speaker 4: and you're starting you're starting over with Justin Fields. Get Meanwhile,

1170
00:52:58,960 --> 00:53:00,880
Speaker 4: you now have to make a decision on his future

1171
00:53:00,920 --> 00:53:03,239
Speaker 4: in Chicago because you're out of time. You need to

1172
00:53:03,280 --> 00:53:06,200
Speaker 4: make a decision on his fifth year option. And beyond that,

1173
00:53:07,160 --> 00:53:09,839
Speaker 4: is he worth giving a forty million dollar contract too,

1174
00:53:09,840 --> 00:53:12,240
Speaker 4: because that is the going rate for starting franchise quarterbacks

1175
00:53:12,239 --> 00:53:12,600
Speaker 4: at this point.

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00:53:12,719 --> 00:53:14,800
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's a I'm not comfortable doing that.

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00:53:15,040 --> 00:53:17,440
Speaker 4: So I think you've reset the clock. The Bears having

1178
00:53:18,000 --> 00:53:20,319
Speaker 4: an opportunity here with the with a couple of really

1179
00:53:20,400 --> 00:53:23,920
Speaker 4: high draft picks between Theirs and Carolinas that you're hoping

1180
00:53:23,960 --> 00:53:27,320
Speaker 4: you're not in this situation again right right between Like

1181
00:53:27,400 --> 00:53:30,160
Speaker 4: you're hoping that you're not picking in the top five regardless,

1182
00:53:30,280 --> 00:53:32,480
Speaker 4: So you have to take advantage of that opportunity. There's

1183
00:53:32,480 --> 00:53:34,640
Speaker 4: a couple of great quarterback prospects coming out. We've so,

1184
00:53:34,680 --> 00:53:36,400
Speaker 4: We've talked about this, I've talked about this, so I'm

1185
00:53:36,400 --> 00:53:40,080
Speaker 4: blue in the face. I just think everything points to Justin.

1186
00:53:40,160 --> 00:53:43,160
Speaker 4: They're moving on from Justin Fields, especially if their decision

1187
00:53:43,200 --> 00:53:45,640
Speaker 4: isn't made up by now. Yeah, how is it? How

1188
00:53:45,680 --> 00:53:47,320
Speaker 4: are five games going to change four games going to

1189
00:53:47,440 --> 00:53:47,680
Speaker 4: change it?

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00:53:48,000 --> 00:53:50,360
Speaker 3: Well, huh, you know, I think eight games changed it

1191
00:53:50,400 --> 00:53:50,600
Speaker 3: for the.

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00:53:50,600 --> 00:53:53,880
Speaker 2: Packers because those arounds are out Week seven that they

1193
00:53:53,920 --> 00:53:55,280
Speaker 2: weren't sure, and now.

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Speaker 3: I think they are sure. The Packers and Jordan Love

1195
00:53:59,080 --> 00:54:01,880
Speaker 3: talking about momentum and being in a groove.

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Speaker 2: They look good, they do, Like what changed? Do you

1197
00:54:06,680 --> 00:54:09,240
Speaker 2: think it was just getting a little practice and repetition

1198
00:54:09,440 --> 00:54:10,480
Speaker 2: or do you think it was more than that?

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Speaker 4: Manti the way that I'm about to go off on

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00:54:12,760 --> 00:54:14,400
Speaker 4: people at the end of the season when they're like,

1201
00:54:14,600 --> 00:54:17,320
Speaker 4: they signed Jordan Love to a new, like long term contract,

1202
00:54:17,360 --> 00:54:22,040
Speaker 4: because the amount of bs I took online for saying

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00:54:22,080 --> 00:54:24,080
Speaker 4: that Jordan Love was going to be good. You just

1204
00:54:24,160 --> 00:54:25,319
Speaker 4: needed to give him some time.

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Speaker 3: I remember you saying that.

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00:54:26,680 --> 00:54:28,920
Speaker 4: I have said that all seasons. It's not a sexy

1207
00:54:29,000 --> 00:54:31,120
Speaker 4: thing to say just wait and see. Just wait and see,

1208
00:54:31,200 --> 00:54:31,600
Speaker 4: Just wait.

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00:54:31,480 --> 00:54:32,160
Speaker 3: And see the ticket.

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Speaker 4: Not only is Jordan Love in his first year as

1211
00:54:34,400 --> 00:54:38,399
Speaker 4: a starter, all of his receivers, including the tight ends,

1212
00:54:38,719 --> 00:54:40,720
Speaker 4: are in their first and second year in the league.

1213
00:54:41,320 --> 00:54:43,399
Speaker 4: So not only are they starting over, even the ones

1214
00:54:43,400 --> 00:54:44,800
Speaker 4: that are in their second year, they're starting over with

1215
00:54:44,840 --> 00:54:47,319
Speaker 4: a new quarterback. So you need to give them time

1216
00:54:47,400 --> 00:54:49,400
Speaker 4: to figure out. I asked Jordan Love about this actually

1217
00:54:49,440 --> 00:54:51,560
Speaker 4: when I was there. I was there for their Thanksgiving

1218
00:54:51,600 --> 00:54:53,719
Speaker 4: win over the Lions, and I asked Jordan Love. I

1219
00:54:53,840 --> 00:54:56,800
Speaker 4: was like, you know, you look like tell me about

1220
00:54:56,800 --> 00:54:59,920
Speaker 4: the chemistry that has happened, and why is this one

1221
00:55:00,080 --> 00:55:03,200
Speaker 4: of those things where your receivers are now learning you

1222
00:55:03,760 --> 00:55:05,800
Speaker 4: or are you learning that? Like what's like talk to

1223
00:55:05,840 --> 00:55:09,000
Speaker 4: me about the relationship. And he was like, honestly, the

1224
00:55:09,040 --> 00:55:12,960
Speaker 4: receivers have just more experience between knowing where they're supposed

1225
00:55:13,000 --> 00:55:14,839
Speaker 4: to be, how long that run is supposed to take,

1226
00:55:15,080 --> 00:55:17,880
Speaker 4: how many steps before they break where, how much like

1227
00:55:17,960 --> 00:55:21,520
Speaker 4: what my cadence sounds like, what my tendencies are. He's like,

1228
00:55:21,560 --> 00:55:24,120
Speaker 4: we're just growing together. And that's the thing is they've

1229
00:55:24,160 --> 00:55:26,800
Speaker 4: always been growing in the same direction. Because Matt Lafleur

1230
00:55:26,920 --> 00:55:30,160
Speaker 4: is a play caller is so consistent and he makes

1231
00:55:30,200 --> 00:55:32,760
Speaker 4: things tries to make things easy as on his quarterback,

1232
00:55:32,800 --> 00:55:35,760
Speaker 4: to the point where earlier in the season it looked

1233
00:55:35,920 --> 00:55:38,600
Speaker 4: very dumb down because it was you're just trying to

1234
00:55:38,600 --> 00:55:41,400
Speaker 4: get Jordan Love comfortable. But now, given the fact that

1235
00:55:41,440 --> 00:55:43,840
Speaker 4: they have continuity on the offensive line, these receivers have

1236
00:55:43,960 --> 00:55:47,960
Speaker 4: more experience. Jordan does too. Now you're seeing that Matt

1237
00:55:48,040 --> 00:55:50,400
Speaker 4: Laflour trusts this offense and he's opened up the playbook more.

1238
00:55:51,080 --> 00:55:52,560
Speaker 3: Do the Packers make the playoffs?

1239
00:55:53,320 --> 00:55:55,680
Speaker 4: All that's so hard? I want to say so. I

1240
00:55:55,760 --> 00:55:57,719
Speaker 4: want to say yeah, because that means Jordan Love is

1241
00:55:57,760 --> 00:55:59,719
Speaker 4: doing something in his first year that Aaron Rodgers didn't.

1242
00:55:59,800 --> 00:56:02,920
Speaker 2: Yeah, all right, one more question, Vikings, Is there a

1243
00:56:03,000 --> 00:56:04,680
Speaker 2: quarterback controversy on their hands?

1244
00:56:05,080 --> 00:56:08,960
Speaker 4: No, No, Josh Jobs. Is it is a rental? He's

1245
00:56:09,000 --> 00:56:11,719
Speaker 4: always he's always been a rental. There is a rental there.

1246
00:56:11,840 --> 00:56:14,200
Speaker 4: You've invested in that. You've invested in teaching him this

1247
00:56:14,320 --> 00:56:17,400
Speaker 4: offense now and having your receivers learn him and everything

1248
00:56:17,520 --> 00:56:20,560
Speaker 4: like that. If you make the postseason, great, But like

1249
00:56:20,760 --> 00:56:24,399
Speaker 4: the Vikings aren't going to make an actual push, Yeah,

1250
00:56:24,760 --> 00:56:26,520
Speaker 4: you still are going to have a huge question mark.

1251
00:56:26,560 --> 00:56:28,960
Speaker 4: After the season about who's who's starting for the Minnesota

1252
00:56:29,040 --> 00:56:32,120
Speaker 4: Vikings under center, And it's not gonna be Josh Doobbs,

1253
00:56:32,160 --> 00:56:34,520
Speaker 4: but it's not gonna be Nick Mullins either. It's it's

1254
00:56:34,600 --> 00:56:36,960
Speaker 4: not gonna be it might be general I guess, but

1255
00:56:37,120 --> 00:56:38,680
Speaker 4: like we haven't seen enough out of him yet.

1256
00:56:39,120 --> 00:56:41,439
Speaker 3: So I just so you don't Kirk Cousins out the window.

1257
00:56:41,560 --> 00:56:42,680
Speaker 3: I'm not.

1258
00:56:42,840 --> 00:56:44,839
Speaker 4: No, I'm not, and I'm not rolling that out either.

1259
00:56:44,880 --> 00:56:47,840
Speaker 4: When he comes back after his injury, he's gonna be

1260
00:56:47,880 --> 00:56:49,200
Speaker 4: on the wrong side of thirty five. I get that,

1261
00:56:49,320 --> 00:56:51,959
Speaker 4: but he is going to be cheap. Yeah, So what's

1262
00:56:52,040 --> 00:56:54,040
Speaker 4: the harm and keeping someone like him around, especially if

1263
00:56:54,080 --> 00:56:58,040
Speaker 4: you can create almost like a Alex Smith in Kansas

1264
00:56:58,080 --> 00:56:59,799
Speaker 4: City with Patrick Mahomes coming in so.

1265
00:56:59,840 --> 00:57:02,680
Speaker 3: You and he had his best year so far, I think,

1266
00:57:02,800 --> 00:57:03,000
Speaker 3: I know.

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00:57:03,160 --> 00:57:05,799
Speaker 4: He was caught up literally at the lex yeah yeah, yeah,

1268
00:57:06,239 --> 00:57:08,799
Speaker 4: where the Minnesota Vikings were trending towards being a lot

1269
00:57:08,840 --> 00:57:10,239
Speaker 4: better than we all thought they were going to be

1270
00:57:10,320 --> 00:57:13,239
Speaker 4: and actually making a real push at the NFC North

1271
00:57:13,280 --> 00:57:16,040
Speaker 4: Crown at the playoffs. So that was it was. But

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00:57:16,240 --> 00:57:18,480
Speaker 4: at this point, I mean they were mental.

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00:57:19,040 --> 00:57:20,920
Speaker 3: I told you guys, Carmen's so smart, right.

1274
00:57:20,920 --> 00:57:21,720
Speaker 4: I know I keep rambling.

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00:57:21,720 --> 00:57:22,040
Speaker 11: I'm sorry.

1276
00:57:22,120 --> 00:57:25,439
Speaker 2: No, she's so smart. We just dissected the NFC North.

1277
00:57:25,640 --> 00:57:27,480
Speaker 2: We still have so much to talk about.

1278
00:57:27,560 --> 00:57:30,439
Speaker 3: So don't go anywhere because you're listening to Fox Sports Radio.

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00:57:33,080 --> 00:57:33,720
Speaker 4: Who put this on?

1280
00:57:34,520 --> 00:57:37,440
Speaker 3: Christopher technical producer loves this song.

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00:57:37,560 --> 00:57:38,360
Speaker 6: You know this song.

1282
00:57:38,480 --> 00:57:39,600
Speaker 3: Carmen is singing along.

1283
00:57:39,760 --> 00:57:40,680
Speaker 4: I'm Italian.

1284
00:57:42,520 --> 00:57:43,200
Speaker 11: This is our song.

1285
00:57:43,320 --> 00:57:44,680
Speaker 4: This is our song for the holidays.

1286
00:57:44,760 --> 00:57:47,800
Speaker 3: Sure for the listeners on the podcast that aren't listening

1287
00:57:47,840 --> 00:57:49,200
Speaker 3: to the song, what is the name of the song?

1288
00:57:49,520 --> 00:57:49,960
Speaker 4: Dominated?

1289
00:57:50,080 --> 00:57:52,840
Speaker 3: Donkey dominic, the donkey.

1290
00:57:52,640 --> 00:57:55,000
Speaker 4: The Italian Christmas Christmas.

1291
00:57:54,640 --> 00:58:01,160
Speaker 2: Donkey, Italian Christmas Donkey Dominant, That's what it is.

1292
00:58:02,160 --> 00:58:05,240
Speaker 4: He could traverse the hills of Italy more than a reindeer.

1293
00:58:05,320 --> 00:58:05,920
Speaker 4: Cook got it.

1294
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Speaker 3: Welcome back, everybody. You are listening to Fox Sports Radio.

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Speaker 2: I am Monci Bolanos with Carmen Vitelli, who is in

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00:58:12,840 --> 00:58:16,840
Speaker 2: for Alex Curry because she's off gallivanting somewhere in Mexico,

1297
00:58:17,000 --> 00:58:17,960
Speaker 2: probably having a.

1298
00:58:21,240 --> 00:58:21,560
Speaker 1: Pepper.

1299
00:58:21,960 --> 00:58:24,640
Speaker 3: Yes, her husband is in a band, Pepper, which is awesome.

1300
00:58:24,680 --> 00:58:27,760
Speaker 3: I saw them live. He's super good. He's super good.

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00:58:27,920 --> 00:58:28,800
Speaker 3: So that's what she's doing.

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00:58:28,880 --> 00:58:30,560
Speaker 2: But I think I think at this point she's probably

1303
00:58:30,640 --> 00:58:32,960
Speaker 2: like having a not a mimosa, it's too late, Maybe

1304
00:58:33,000 --> 00:58:35,400
Speaker 2: like a margarita Pacloamy.

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00:58:35,160 --> 00:58:37,040
Speaker 4: Gotta be having a margarita in Cancun.

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00:58:36,760 --> 00:58:38,600
Speaker 3: And CanCon I feel like you want like a like

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00:58:38,760 --> 00:58:41,720
Speaker 3: a I really know I feel.

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00:58:41,520 --> 00:58:43,200
Speaker 4: The last time I was in Mexico, I can't even

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00:58:43,240 --> 00:58:44,160
Speaker 4: count the many the amount of.

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00:58:44,160 --> 00:58:47,160
Speaker 3: Margaret I have many margarita's when I'm not in Mexico.

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Speaker 2: So I'm saying, if I am in Mexico, I'm gonna

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Speaker 2: switch it up being a Colada.

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Speaker 4: Mexico.

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Speaker 3: Of course, Carmon, that's why we're friends. Of course we're

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Speaker 3: on the same page.

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Speaker 3: Because of those wonderful people, don't worry.

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Speaker 2: can follow me at Manzy Bolano's across social media.

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Speaker 4: CARMEI V C A R M I E V. I

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Speaker 4: know it's like Dicky v. That's where I got it from,

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Speaker 4: because Dick vital Carmen VITALI.

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Speaker 6: Yeah.

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Speaker 4: So back when I was starting my Twitter, I was like,

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Speaker 4: my dad called me Carme growing up, so I was like,

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Speaker 4: this fits.

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Speaker 8: Yeah, I like that.

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Speaker 2: So I think today's theme has been money, money, money, money.

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Speaker 2: I wish we had monopoly money and we could just

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Speaker 2: like rain right now. Yeah, we should have brought we weren't.

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Speaker 2: We didn't know show out Honey was gonna sign twenty

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Speaker 2: minutes before the show started, guys, or else.

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Speaker 3: We would have had props. I would have been wearing

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Speaker 3: my Dodger jersey.

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Speaker 4: You know.

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Speaker 3: It's so funny.

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Speaker 2: One of the Dodger leads with me at Dodger Stadium

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Speaker 2: for the tour department. We have a group message where

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Speaker 2: where's four leads, which we like, you know, run the

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Speaker 2: day to day operations when we're in there for not

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Speaker 2: giving tours, and uh, one of them just said, people

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Speaker 2: literally in the store right now, trying to get an

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Speaker 2: a tawny jersey. And I'm telling them he hasn't even

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Speaker 2: signed the paper yet. Like people already wanting to know

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Speaker 2: TWI jersey.

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Speaker 4: Just get the get the custom jersey.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, you may get yourself. But money, money, money money.

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Speaker 3: Let's let's talk a little bit about nil.

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Speaker 2: And this comes on the heels of Marvin Harrison Junior,

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Speaker 2: who is a Heisman finalist Ohio state wide receiver. Apparently

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Speaker 2: he he may not enter the draft.

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Speaker 3: He may go back for his senior year.

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Speaker 2: And there's is it because he wants to finish unfinished

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Speaker 2: business beating the team up north is what he said

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Speaker 2: which didn't happen?

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Speaker 1: Uh?

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Speaker 6: Or where is it?

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Speaker 3: Money?

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Speaker 2: There's a story that he can make more money in

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Speaker 2: NIL than he could possibly make being a top five pick.

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Speaker 3: If he's a top five pick between twenty and twenty

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Speaker 3: five million, you know.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, no, I mean listen, I got thoughts.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I got lots of thoughts too.

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Speaker 4: Here's the thing though, Like he is going to be

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Speaker 4: a top draft pick right, Like he could be the

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Speaker 4: first one to go. He could be the first one

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Speaker 4: to go. Curate. Yeah, he will absolutely be the first

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Speaker 4: prospect to go outside of the quarterbacks, yes, non quarterback prospect,

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Speaker 4: and okay, you can make money at NIL, which is

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Speaker 4: essentially endorsements, right right, Well, now you're gonna make an

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Speaker 4: NFL contract, first round contract, high first round contract. Yeah,

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Speaker 4: you can also sign endorsements, yes from there.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't I don't understand this.

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Speaker 2: And it's like in twenty nineteen, Justin Herbert was projected

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Speaker 2: to be the number one overall pick, he decided to

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Speaker 2: go back to school, and then he fell to number

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Speaker 2: six the following year.

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Speaker 3: Right, so many things can happen. You can get injured,

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Speaker 3: get injured, or you could just have a bad year.

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Speaker 2: You know.

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Speaker 4: Like I think a lot of the NIL stuff comes

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Speaker 4: into play when you're talking about guys that aren't at

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Speaker 4: the top of the draft. Yes, and I think that Listen.

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Speaker 4: You also don't have to rush in making this decision,

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Speaker 4: So he is not incentivized at all right now to

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Speaker 4: say that he's going to Because it used to be

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Speaker 4: before NIL kicked in that you couldn't retain an agent

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Speaker 4: until you declared for the draft, because then you are

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Speaker 4: a professional. Now these guys can have agents because they

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Speaker 4: have to deal with their money and they have to

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Speaker 4: deal with these sponsorships and the nil and all that

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Speaker 4: kind of stuff, So they just don't have to make

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Speaker 4: this decision as hastily as they used to, which I

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Speaker 4: appreciate because it's obviously a huge life changing decision that

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Speaker 4: very young men and women for that matter, who are

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Speaker 4: going in the WNBA are making. So I think this

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Speaker 4: just pertains a lot more to the people that could

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Speaker 4: improve their draft stock if they stayed in school and

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Speaker 4: that way, like they and knowing that they can make

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Speaker 4: some money, maybe they're not as desperate to leave school.

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Speaker 4: I just don't seem Marvin Harrison Junior not getting to

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Speaker 4: the top. Like I know he wants to beat Michigan

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Speaker 4: and I know all that, but like, what are you

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Speaker 4: playing the game for? You're playing to make it to

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Speaker 4: the NFL.

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Speaker 2: Okay, so let me propose this question to you before

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Speaker 2: we go to Nick Cope to see what's trending. Could

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Speaker 2: he just be saying what Caleb Williams was saying, but

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Speaker 2: saying it in a better way like he's over here saying, Oh,

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Speaker 2: I don't know. Could he just be waiting to see

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Speaker 2: where he might be drafted, who where he might be

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Speaker 2: going and he.

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Speaker 4: Doesn't know at this point it's probably gonna be a

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Speaker 4: bad team. You're you're going high in the draft, so you.

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Speaker 3: Don't think he's just taking it.

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Speaker 4: That's not gonna change.

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Speaker 3: That is not gonna change.

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Speaker 4: Like whether he comes out now or he comes out later,

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Speaker 4: the top is provided he is still a top prospect

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Speaker 4: because he doesn't get injured or anything. Going back to

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Speaker 4: Ohio State. If he decided to do that, it's not

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Speaker 4: gonna change. You're gonna go top of the first round

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Speaker 4: to a team that is picking in the top of

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Speaker 4: the first round, which means because they're bad.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, which most likely they are probably bad. But you

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Speaker 3: know who's not bad? Mister Nick Cope over at the.

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Speaker 4: News, what do you got for us? I appreciate that.

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Speaker 11: That's very kind. Giant said, he's going, bro, what's the goal.

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Speaker 11: The goal is to get to that second contract.

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Speaker 4: Why delay that another year? Well, and to get to

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Speaker 4: the second round. Yeah, if you're a guy with his

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Speaker 4: kind of talent, that that's what you got to think about.

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Speaker 5: He's going.

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Speaker 11: He's going pro, all right, guys.

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Speaker 10: News of the Day show, Hey Otani going to the

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Speaker 10: Dodgers set to sign a record ten years, seven hundred

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Speaker 10: million dollars deal. The largest in American sports history. Most

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Speaker 10: of the salary will reportedly be deferred, giving the Dodgers

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Speaker 10: some flexibility as they work to build the team around him.

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Speaker 10: Otani was the one who broke the news himself on

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Speaker 10: his Instagram, thanking Angels fans and apologize for taking so

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Speaker 10: long to reach a decision and said he would talk

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Speaker 10: more about the whole thing at a later press conference.

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Speaker 10: College looking a hybrid in NFL news, Bleacher Report says

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Speaker 10: it looks like Seahawks quarterback Gino Smith will be a

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Speaker 10: game time decision tomorrow against the forty nine Ers. Seattle

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Speaker 10: did elevate Sean Mannion to the active roster to back

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01:05:00,520 --> 01:05:03,600
Speaker 10: up Drew Locke if Smith can't play. Packers have ruled

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Speaker 10: out receiver Christian Watson for Monday night with a hamstring injury.

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Speaker 10: Bill's activated tight end Dawson Knox. Today reports say the

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Speaker 10: NFL found out that the Bengals were in full compliance

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Speaker 10: with the league's injury report policy when Joe Burrow suffered

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Speaker 10: a season ending wrist injury back in Week eleven. Vikings

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Speaker 10: oc Wes Phillips was arrested last night on a misdemeanor

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Speaker 10: dui charge. He was released hours later and will travel

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Speaker 10: with the team to Las Vegas today. Minnesota and the

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Speaker 10: NFL will determine any discipline as the legal process plays out.

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Speaker 10: Brown's receiver Maury Cooper has cleared concussion protocol, Rams activated

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Speaker 10: kicker Mason Crosby for their game in Baltimore tomorrow. Steelers

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Speaker 10: linebacker TJ. Watt is now in concussion protocol. Army leads

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Speaker 10: Navy ten zip at the end of the third quarter.

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Speaker 10: Also have the MLS Cup Final. Columbus leads LAFC two

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Speaker 10: nil in the sixty fourth.

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Speaker 11: Back to you.

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Speaker 3: Thanks, Sorry, I'm sorry, I'm just being planning.

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Speaker 11: What's up next? I think it's some NFL NFL coming

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01:06:02,000 --> 01:06:03,240
Speaker 11: up from NFL.

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Speaker 2: Sorry, Carbon Desert, We apologized.

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Speaker 4: Thank you.

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Speaker 3: Nick. You are listening to Fox Sports Radio. I'm Anti Bolanos.

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Speaker 3: This is Karma itally.

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Speaker 2: We are coming to you live from the Tirec dot

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Speaker 2: Com studios and we have our next guest is ready,

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Speaker 2: David Hellman. He is all over the NFL host of

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Speaker 2: NFL Foxpod. You may have seen him cover the Cowboys,

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01:06:30,040 --> 01:06:33,600
Speaker 2: but basically NFL expert along with Karmen, I'm just full

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Speaker 2: of NFL experts around me.

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Speaker 3: Also that and we're gonna ask him a little ni

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Speaker 3: L David.

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Speaker 12: Are you there, Hey, guys, I'm here. What's up?

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Speaker 2: Hi? Thanks for joining us again because I think we

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Speaker 2: stole you last week as well with Alex, So thank

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Speaker 2: you again for joining us. Dave, what do you make

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Speaker 2: of Marvin Marvis Harrison ju and Marvin Harrison Junior the

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Speaker 2: ni L money? Like, could this be a problem for

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Speaker 2: the future or do you think he's just saying this,

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Speaker 2: Like do you think he's gonna go He's gonna go

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Speaker 2: to the draft.

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Speaker 12: I mean, we always reserve the right to be wrong,

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Speaker 12: but I'll believe it when I see it. And look,

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Speaker 12: I know, I know programs like Ohio State can pay

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Speaker 12: guys a lot of money to stay in school. But

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Speaker 12: I mean, there's there's so much more to it than that.

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Speaker 8: It is.

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Speaker 12: It's the twenty twenty five guaranteed million dollars that you're

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Speaker 12: going to get as a top five draft pick. It's

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Speaker 12: the endorsement deals that will be on another level when

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Speaker 12: you're in the NFL, and then even thinking, you know,

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Speaker 12: spinning it ahead into the future as well, the sooner

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Speaker 12: you join the league, the sooner you can work toward

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Speaker 12: your next contract. You know you can you can renegotiate

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Speaker 12: for a second deal after three years in the league.

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Speaker 12: So the quicker you're in, the quicker you can be

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Speaker 12: talking about making thirty million dollars a year. And on

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Speaker 12: top of that, the younger you join the league, the

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Speaker 12: quicker you're working toward having a pension. There's just so

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Speaker 12: many more benefits to being in the NFL. And like

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Speaker 12: I said, I don't doubt that Ohio State can pay

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Speaker 12: him well for the twenty twenty four seasons, but there's

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Speaker 12: so much more to think about. And I just I

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Speaker 12: have a hard time believing any guy of his caliber

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Speaker 12: is going to hang around school longer than a need school.

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Speaker 2: Actually have a follow up with that. You just said

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Speaker 2: Ohio State can give them a lot of money. I

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Speaker 2: have always thought that the NIL needs to be regulated.

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Speaker 2: Like I don't care if you go to BYU or

1527
01:08:27,160 --> 01:08:30,240
Speaker 2: to Alabama. Every school should be a lot of the

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01:08:30,360 --> 01:08:34,520
Speaker 2: same amount of money to give to give to athletes.

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Speaker 3: What do you think of that?

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01:08:38,000 --> 01:08:39,000
Speaker 12: Why?

1531
01:08:39,240 --> 01:08:41,559
Speaker 4: Why do you say it's like the soft cabin baseball,

1532
01:08:41,680 --> 01:08:43,519
Speaker 4: Like whoever wants to spend money can spend money.

1533
01:08:43,560 --> 01:08:46,680
Speaker 3: But it's unfair right when other big schools.

1534
01:08:46,400 --> 01:08:51,720
Speaker 4: Have the means for it, I mean, like unfair, they

1535
01:08:51,840 --> 01:08:52,320
Speaker 4: said it too.

1536
01:08:54,680 --> 01:08:58,400
Speaker 12: No, I mean, like I know, the NFL has done

1537
01:08:58,439 --> 01:09:02,080
Speaker 12: a good job into tricking people into thinking that, like

1538
01:09:02,200 --> 01:09:04,200
Speaker 12: it's not the owner's fault that they're not good, Like

1539
01:09:04,280 --> 01:09:06,800
Speaker 12: it's everybody else's fault. We can't spend the money. We

1540
01:09:06,920 --> 01:09:09,840
Speaker 12: can't do this, we can't do that. No, I mean,

1541
01:09:10,000 --> 01:09:13,519
Speaker 12: it's a free market economy. If Ohio State values football

1542
01:09:13,600 --> 01:09:15,880
Speaker 12: that much that they can pay Marvin Harrison enough to

1543
01:09:15,880 --> 01:09:17,600
Speaker 12: stay in school, I say, more power to you.

1544
01:09:18,200 --> 01:09:20,400
Speaker 4: But then you're risking the injury too on top of

1545
01:09:20,479 --> 01:09:22,880
Speaker 4: all of that. And yes, you're not like you're taking

1546
01:09:22,960 --> 01:09:25,600
Speaker 4: longer on the timeline. It's just I feel like the

1547
01:09:25,880 --> 01:09:27,880
Speaker 4: pros way out weigh the cons and they just have

1548
01:09:28,640 --> 01:09:31,120
Speaker 4: they're able to be a little bit more patient with

1549
01:09:31,240 --> 01:09:34,000
Speaker 4: this decision. Would you agree, Dave, because of the fact

1550
01:09:34,080 --> 01:09:37,479
Speaker 4: that they don't have to wait to declare, to retain

1551
01:09:37,479 --> 01:09:39,160
Speaker 4: an agent and all that other stuff, Like they can

1552
01:09:39,200 --> 01:09:41,800
Speaker 4: get started on all of that regardless of if they're

1553
01:09:41,800 --> 01:09:42,360
Speaker 4: coming out or not.

1554
01:09:43,160 --> 01:09:45,640
Speaker 12: Oh yeah, let me be clear. I mean it's like

1555
01:09:45,760 --> 01:09:47,720
Speaker 12: I said, it makes way too much sense for a

1556
01:09:47,800 --> 01:09:51,960
Speaker 12: guy like Marvin Harrison to come out early. I don't see.

1557
01:09:52,760 --> 01:09:55,840
Speaker 12: I don't see an upside to Marvin staying in school

1558
01:09:55,960 --> 01:09:58,000
Speaker 12: other than I mean, if he really wants to be

1559
01:09:58,120 --> 01:10:01,280
Speaker 12: like the best receiver in Ohio State his I guess

1560
01:10:01,479 --> 01:10:04,920
Speaker 12: there's that. But when you consider the upside yeah, I

1561
01:10:05,000 --> 01:10:07,200
Speaker 12: mean basically, I mean you said it, not me, but yeah,

1562
01:10:07,280 --> 01:10:09,880
Speaker 12: like the upside out weighs it. But going back to

1563
01:10:10,040 --> 01:10:13,639
Speaker 12: like the nil thing, I don't really care about fairness

1564
01:10:13,720 --> 01:10:16,200
Speaker 12: because a school like Ohio State's going to be willing

1565
01:10:16,240 --> 01:10:19,840
Speaker 12: to spend that money, and maybe not every player is

1566
01:10:20,000 --> 01:10:22,760
Speaker 12: Marvin's caliber, where you know today that you're going to

1567
01:10:22,800 --> 01:10:26,080
Speaker 12: be a top five pick. And if you're a guy

1568
01:10:26,200 --> 01:10:28,719
Speaker 12: with like a Fringe first round grade or a French

1569
01:10:28,800 --> 01:10:32,360
Speaker 12: second round grade and Ohio State's offering you six figures

1570
01:10:32,439 --> 01:10:34,760
Speaker 12: to stay in school, maybe that makes more sense and

1571
01:10:35,360 --> 01:10:37,519
Speaker 12: more power to the schools for being willing to pay

1572
01:10:37,600 --> 01:10:40,640
Speaker 12: that money. But no, for a guy like Marv, I

1573
01:10:41,040 --> 01:10:42,920
Speaker 12: just don't see why it makes sense to hang around.

1574
01:10:43,200 --> 01:10:46,320
Speaker 4: Well, another guy that's coming out that I know is

1575
01:10:46,400 --> 01:10:49,360
Speaker 4: very close to both of our hearts. Actually, I want

1576
01:10:49,400 --> 01:10:50,719
Speaker 4: to talk to you a little b about the Heisman

1577
01:10:50,760 --> 01:10:55,400
Speaker 4: finalists here because your boy Jaiden Daniel, do we think

1578
01:10:55,439 --> 01:10:57,640
Speaker 4: he's getting announced in a couple hours here, what do

1579
01:10:57,720 --> 01:10:58,000
Speaker 4: we think.

1580
01:10:59,120 --> 01:11:01,120
Speaker 12: I'm nervous. I'm really nervous.

1581
01:11:01,280 --> 01:11:01,680
Speaker 5: I know it.

1582
01:11:03,439 --> 01:11:06,000
Speaker 12: I mean, I hope so look, I mean Jadeen Daniels.

1583
01:11:06,280 --> 01:11:09,400
Speaker 12: I'm I'm not I'm not like you'all come to me

1584
01:11:09,479 --> 01:11:12,639
Speaker 12: because I'm like an unbiased observer. But not in this case.

1585
01:11:13,320 --> 01:11:15,240
Speaker 4: Not in this case. We know that LSU.

1586
01:11:15,520 --> 01:11:20,160
Speaker 12: I'm an unhinged LSU homer, and I you know, I'll

1587
01:11:20,200 --> 01:11:23,120
Speaker 12: be drinking my sorrows away if Jaden Daniels doesn't win

1588
01:11:23,200 --> 01:11:26,240
Speaker 12: the Heisman. I think he's he's been the most outstanding

1589
01:11:26,280 --> 01:11:28,880
Speaker 12: player in college football this year. I know the record

1590
01:11:28,960 --> 01:11:32,479
Speaker 12: doesn't reflect it, but that's never stopped half a dozen

1591
01:11:32,560 --> 01:11:35,439
Speaker 12: other guys from winning the Hivesman Trophy. I think he's

1592
01:11:36,439 --> 01:11:40,280
Speaker 12: way more deserving than the other candidates. And and I'll

1593
01:11:40,320 --> 01:11:42,320
Speaker 12: be very sad if he doesn't get announced.

1594
01:11:42,400 --> 01:11:45,000
Speaker 4: I brought this up to you the other day because

1595
01:11:45,160 --> 01:11:47,160
Speaker 4: I was like the silver lining of LSU's defense being

1596
01:11:47,240 --> 01:11:51,760
Speaker 4: absolutely dog. You know what, uh what just terrible is

1597
01:11:51,840 --> 01:11:57,679
Speaker 4: that Jade Daniels had to throw for four hundred yards

1598
01:11:57,720 --> 01:12:00,439
Speaker 4: a game, five hundred yards a game, and it just

1599
01:12:00,840 --> 01:12:04,200
Speaker 4: now is head and shoulders above statistically above any of

1600
01:12:04,280 --> 01:12:05,960
Speaker 4: the other candidates because of the fact he had to

1601
01:12:06,000 --> 01:12:08,719
Speaker 4: make up for his defense not being able to stop

1602
01:12:08,760 --> 01:12:09,599
Speaker 4: a single opponent.

1603
01:12:09,880 --> 01:12:10,120
Speaker 9: Yeah.

1604
01:12:10,400 --> 01:12:13,400
Speaker 12: Yeah, Here's here's the thing, though, is like, and look,

1605
01:12:13,479 --> 01:12:17,479
Speaker 12: we've analytics and forward thinking have made so much progress

1606
01:12:17,560 --> 01:12:21,320
Speaker 12: in football, and we can sit here and say, wins

1607
01:12:21,320 --> 01:12:23,920
Speaker 12: are not a quarterback stat There's so much that goes

1608
01:12:23,960 --> 01:12:26,920
Speaker 12: into winning a football game besides your quarterback. But at

1609
01:12:26,920 --> 01:12:29,400
Speaker 12: the end of the day, it's the same thing Monci.

1610
01:12:29,479 --> 01:12:31,200
Speaker 12: I came on here last week and we talked about

1611
01:12:31,280 --> 01:12:35,120
Speaker 12: dak as an MVP can It's the same thing where

1612
01:12:35,240 --> 01:12:37,960
Speaker 12: at the end of the day, voters are going to say, oh,

1613
01:12:38,360 --> 01:12:41,519
Speaker 12: but did they really win enough games for the quarterback

1614
01:12:41,600 --> 01:12:44,200
Speaker 12: to win an award like this. It's the same conversation

1615
01:12:44,439 --> 01:12:47,919
Speaker 12: with MVP, and it's what makes me nervous with Jayden. Hopefully,

1616
01:12:48,680 --> 01:12:51,479
Speaker 12: hopefully the voters are are smart enough to look past

1617
01:12:51,520 --> 01:12:53,720
Speaker 12: it in this in this situation, what we'll see.

1618
01:12:53,800 --> 01:12:56,320
Speaker 2: I mean, I think everyone's saying Jaden's going to win it.

1619
01:12:56,520 --> 01:12:58,520
Speaker 2: I think that's what Vegas.

1620
01:12:58,280 --> 01:13:00,160
Speaker 4: Has the odds end. Yeah, Vegas always know.

1621
01:13:00,240 --> 01:13:02,560
Speaker 2: Something, So I hope you're drinking out of happiness and

1622
01:13:02,680 --> 01:13:04,559
Speaker 2: not sorrow in a little bit, David.

1623
01:13:05,560 --> 01:13:07,280
Speaker 3: But let's move on to the NFL.

1624
01:13:07,400 --> 01:13:09,640
Speaker 2: There's actually a few big matchups, but the biggest one

1625
01:13:09,680 --> 01:13:12,720
Speaker 2: this week obviously Cowboys and Eagles.

1626
01:13:13,600 --> 01:13:15,840
Speaker 3: What is your gut? Who has the edge?

1627
01:13:17,800 --> 01:13:20,960
Speaker 12: You know, it's funny, I mean, I think this is

1628
01:13:21,040 --> 01:13:23,920
Speaker 12: a coin flip game, and speaking of Vegas, the line

1629
01:13:24,000 --> 01:13:26,439
Speaker 12: reflects that. I mean, the Cowboys are three point favorites

1630
01:13:26,479 --> 01:13:28,880
Speaker 12: at home, so you say, you know, if it's a

1631
01:13:28,960 --> 01:13:31,600
Speaker 12: neutral field, you say, this is a toss up game. Obviously,

1632
01:13:32,040 --> 01:13:34,640
Speaker 12: the Eagles record speaks for itself, but I kind of

1633
01:13:35,560 --> 01:13:38,600
Speaker 12: I kind of wonder if the Eagles are just exhausted,

1634
01:13:38,840 --> 01:13:42,360
Speaker 12: like this looks this looks like it, and not necessarily

1635
01:13:42,479 --> 01:13:44,759
Speaker 12: like beat up in the sense of like their injury

1636
01:13:44,800 --> 01:13:46,960
Speaker 12: issues seem fine. It seems like all of their guys

1637
01:13:47,000 --> 01:13:49,880
Speaker 12: are going to be available for this game. But you know,

1638
01:13:50,000 --> 01:13:52,400
Speaker 12: their their bye week was a month or more ago

1639
01:13:52,520 --> 01:13:55,439
Speaker 12: at this point, and they've just been getting everybody's best shot.

1640
01:13:55,479 --> 01:13:59,360
Speaker 12: They've had to rally at halftime in three or four

1641
01:13:59,479 --> 01:14:03,280
Speaker 12: straight weeks. They've been playing these overtime games, they've had

1642
01:14:03,360 --> 01:14:05,320
Speaker 12: these comebacks, and then they get beat down by the

1643
01:14:05,400 --> 01:14:09,320
Speaker 12: forty nine ers. Meanwhile, the Cowboys finally get their long

1644
01:14:09,400 --> 01:14:12,439
Speaker 12: weekend off. They play Seattle on Thursday. They get three

1645
01:14:12,560 --> 01:14:16,400
Speaker 12: four days to rest and get recuperated. Coming into this game,

1646
01:14:17,160 --> 01:14:20,719
Speaker 12: I just wonder if the Eagles are like mentally tired

1647
01:14:21,400 --> 01:14:24,519
Speaker 12: of taking everybody's best shot and being in all of

1648
01:14:24,600 --> 01:14:27,639
Speaker 12: these big time games. So, I mean, on the field,

1649
01:14:27,680 --> 01:14:30,599
Speaker 12: I think it's even. But the Cowboys have won fourteen

1650
01:14:30,640 --> 01:14:33,080
Speaker 12: straight at home. They've been dominant in a lot of those.

1651
01:14:34,320 --> 01:14:38,640
Speaker 12: You know, they lost by two inches in Philadelphia a

1652
01:14:38,720 --> 01:14:42,320
Speaker 12: month ago, so going into this, I mean, it's not

1653
01:14:42,400 --> 01:14:44,439
Speaker 12: to take credit away from the Eagles, because I would

1654
01:14:44,439 --> 01:14:46,920
Speaker 12: bet it would be a good game, But it's hard

1655
01:14:47,000 --> 01:14:48,760
Speaker 12: not to think about all of that and say, yeah, man,

1656
01:14:48,840 --> 01:14:50,519
Speaker 12: it just feels like the Cowboys are in a better

1657
01:14:50,560 --> 01:14:51,160
Speaker 12: spot right now.

1658
01:14:51,520 --> 01:14:55,000
Speaker 4: All right, give me your fastest elevator pitch for Dak

1659
01:14:55,080 --> 01:14:58,120
Speaker 4: Prescott to win MVP if he wins this game, good one.

1660
01:14:59,479 --> 01:15:02,519
Speaker 12: Dak tsk playing the best quarterback of his NFL career.

1661
01:15:02,640 --> 01:15:06,240
Speaker 12: He's playing right now since they lost to San Francisco

1662
01:15:06,320 --> 01:15:08,879
Speaker 12: in Week five, so what week six to Week thirteen.

1663
01:15:09,200 --> 01:15:11,679
Speaker 12: He's playing the position better than anybody in the NFL.

1664
01:15:11,800 --> 01:15:14,840
Speaker 12: He leads the league in touchdown passes he's thrown I

1665
01:15:14,960 --> 01:15:18,800
Speaker 12: think two picks in the last six weeks. He's top

1666
01:15:18,920 --> 01:15:22,360
Speaker 12: five in every meaningful statistical category, whether you want to

1667
01:15:22,400 --> 01:15:29,200
Speaker 12: go completion percentage, total yards, yards for ten on it, whatever.

1668
01:15:29,360 --> 01:15:31,840
Speaker 12: I mean, like, whatever category you want. He's top five

1669
01:15:31,920 --> 01:15:34,760
Speaker 12: in the NFL. And obviously, if the Cowboys win this game,

1670
01:15:35,120 --> 01:15:37,479
Speaker 12: they'll be tied for the division lead in the NFC East,

1671
01:15:37,640 --> 01:15:40,880
Speaker 12: So I think that says it all. Obviously. The thing

1672
01:15:40,960 --> 01:15:43,559
Speaker 12: about the Cowboys is there will be so much left

1673
01:15:43,680 --> 01:15:46,479
Speaker 12: for them to do. Even if they win this game.

1674
01:15:46,720 --> 01:15:49,840
Speaker 12: They've got Buffalo right after this, They've got Miami after that,

1675
01:15:50,040 --> 01:15:53,320
Speaker 12: They've got Detroit after that. So I can't really afford

1676
01:15:53,400 --> 01:15:55,760
Speaker 12: to let up. Even even if you win this game,

1677
01:15:55,840 --> 01:15:58,920
Speaker 12: it doesn't really clench anything at all, whether you're talking

1678
01:15:58,960 --> 01:16:03,479
Speaker 12: about playoff position, MVP voting, whatever. They got to keep

1679
01:16:03,520 --> 01:16:06,559
Speaker 12: their foot to the to the pedal. But if they

1680
01:16:06,680 --> 01:16:09,080
Speaker 12: managed to win, let's say they'd beat Philly on Sunday,

1681
01:16:09,080 --> 01:16:12,320
Speaker 12: if they managed to win two of the next three, man,

1682
01:16:12,640 --> 01:16:14,519
Speaker 12: I think it's going to be hard to argue against

1683
01:16:15,080 --> 01:16:17,200
Speaker 12: the resume that Dak has when it comes time to

1684
01:16:17,280 --> 01:16:17,800
Speaker 12: vote for MV.

1685
01:16:19,000 --> 01:16:20,960
Speaker 3: Yeah, David elevator.

1686
01:16:21,080 --> 01:16:24,679
Speaker 2: Yeah, we agree that these next four weeks are huge

1687
01:16:24,800 --> 01:16:28,519
Speaker 2: for Dak and the Cowboys. We can't wait to see it. David,

1688
01:16:28,560 --> 01:16:31,720
Speaker 2: thank you so much for joining us. We appreciate it. Again, guys,

1689
01:16:31,720 --> 01:16:35,200
Speaker 2: you guys can follow David on Twitter x at David

1690
01:16:35,320 --> 01:16:38,360
Speaker 2: Hellman Underscore. Thank you, We appreciate you.

1691
01:16:38,800 --> 01:16:39,519
Speaker 3: We'll talk to you soon.

1692
01:16:39,600 --> 01:16:42,040
Speaker 12: Thanks your guys, go Jaden.

1693
01:16:45,439 --> 01:16:50,000
Speaker 3: Guys, you're listening to Fox Sports Radio. My mic was off.

1694
01:16:50,120 --> 01:16:52,839
Speaker 2: We're going to end the show with our NFL picks,

1695
01:16:52,960 --> 01:16:54,360
Speaker 2: so don't go anywhere.

1696
01:16:57,320 --> 01:16:59,040
Speaker 7: Second and goal for the Black Nights from the n

1697
01:16:59,040 --> 01:17:01,519
Speaker 7: eighty four three receivers. Bunch to the left, one to

1698
01:17:01,560 --> 01:17:04,880
Speaker 7: the right, quick throw Tex of Riley Talk go line, touchdown,

1699
01:17:05,080 --> 01:17:07,639
Speaker 7: Armie the clock night strike first.

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1709
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01:17:36,000 --> 01:17:39,360
Speaker 2: You're listening to Fox Sports Radio. I am Moncey Bolgo

1711
01:17:39,560 --> 01:17:42,559
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1712
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Speaker 2: because she's off gallivantin. But thank you so much for

1713
01:17:46,200 --> 01:17:48,679
Speaker 2: tuning in and hanging out with us the last two hours.

1714
01:17:49,000 --> 01:17:51,160
Speaker 2: If you just tuned in and you missed the show,

1715
01:17:51,360 --> 01:17:54,160
Speaker 2: the podcast is gonna be going up very very soon,

1716
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Speaker 2: so check it out.

1717
01:17:55,520 --> 01:17:57,599
Speaker 3: But thank you for hanging out, and thank you Carmen

1718
01:17:58,080 --> 01:17:58,960
Speaker 3: for hanging out with me.

1719
01:17:59,240 --> 01:18:01,400
Speaker 4: Housleeve be here alone, Oh my god.

1720
01:18:01,520 --> 01:18:03,960
Speaker 3: Never. I appreciate it so much. And she has to

1721
01:18:04,040 --> 01:18:05,719
Speaker 3: like fly in like two seconds.

1722
01:18:05,760 --> 01:18:08,200
Speaker 4: Oh I know, I did like hahul ass to lax

1723
01:18:08,320 --> 01:18:08,559
Speaker 4: right now.

1724
01:18:08,880 --> 01:18:10,040
Speaker 3: Yeah, but I don't. I don't feel bad for you

1725
01:18:10,040 --> 01:18:11,360
Speaker 3: because you're going to Vegas.

1726
01:18:11,200 --> 01:18:11,960
Speaker 4: Okay to work.

1727
01:18:12,280 --> 01:18:14,360
Speaker 3: Okay, she's gonna work air quotes.

1728
01:18:14,600 --> 01:18:16,799
Speaker 4: See I have to go watch Vikings Raiders.

1729
01:18:17,280 --> 01:18:22,479
Speaker 3: Well you get the point is you're going to Vegas

1730
01:18:22,520 --> 01:18:26,000
Speaker 3: and that's what's exciting. But speaking of that, let's get

1731
01:18:26,000 --> 01:18:27,240
Speaker 3: our NFL picks for the work.

1732
01:18:27,680 --> 01:18:29,519
Speaker 11: Yes, let's say we got to run through these.

1733
01:18:29,840 --> 01:18:30,760
Speaker 3: We will run through them.

1734
01:18:30,960 --> 01:18:33,320
Speaker 11: We'll get the Eagles at the Cowboys to start, Monty,

1735
01:18:33,320 --> 01:18:33,840
Speaker 11: who you going with?

1736
01:18:34,040 --> 01:18:36,880
Speaker 3: I am going with the Cowboys. I know this is

1737
01:18:37,040 --> 01:18:39,479
Speaker 3: a coin flip like Dave's set. I agree with that.

1738
01:18:39,800 --> 01:18:42,080
Speaker 2: I'm going with the Cowboys because of the momentum. I

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Speaker 2: think they're gonna get it.

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Speaker 4: Cowboys one of their last fourteen at home, like Dave said,

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01:18:46,120 --> 01:18:48,360
Speaker 4: like I said earlier, so they make it fifteen. Yeah,

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01:18:48,520 --> 01:18:50,840
Speaker 4: they make it fifteen. Monty, excusexcuse me.

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Speaker 11: Alex is disagreeing with you guys. She's going with the Eagles.

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01:18:53,520 --> 01:18:56,479
Speaker 4: Let's move on to the Billicks outst and she didn't

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01:18:56,560 --> 01:18:58,679
Speaker 4: trust me with the picks after what happened last time.

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01:19:00,200 --> 01:19:02,840
Speaker 11: Bills at the Chiefs. Alex has the Chiefs in this one. Carmen,

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01:19:02,880 --> 01:19:03,320
Speaker 11: who you got?

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01:19:03,640 --> 01:19:05,519
Speaker 4: I got the Chiefs too. The Bills are a mess.

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01:19:06,280 --> 01:19:08,120
Speaker 4: They are a mess. Everything that came out or my

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01:19:08,160 --> 01:19:10,759
Speaker 4: guy's tied on breaking all of that stuff about McDermott

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01:19:10,760 --> 01:19:12,800
Speaker 4: and how he runs a very weird ship.

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01:19:13,000 --> 01:19:14,800
Speaker 3: You know that was weird. I agree with you on that.

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01:19:15,080 --> 01:19:16,840
Speaker 4: No, no more nine elever listens.

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01:19:17,000 --> 01:19:18,880
Speaker 3: No Isaah Pacheco for the Chiefs.

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01:19:18,920 --> 01:19:21,320
Speaker 2: The Bills need to win if they're still gonna go

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01:19:21,439 --> 01:19:22,599
Speaker 2: into the playoffs.

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01:19:22,640 --> 01:19:23,439
Speaker 3: I'm taking the Bills.

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01:19:24,120 --> 01:19:26,840
Speaker 11: Moving on, Broncos at the Chargers, Manci who you got?

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01:19:27,120 --> 01:19:28,880
Speaker 3: You know, I'm I don't know, I don't know.

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Speaker 2: I'm gonna take the Chargers though, I don't know, but

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Speaker 2: I'm gonna.

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01:19:31,760 --> 01:19:32,519
Speaker 3: Take the Chargers.

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01:19:32,920 --> 01:19:35,040
Speaker 4: I can't believe I'm saying this. I'm going Broncos. You

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01:19:35,160 --> 01:19:37,160
Speaker 4: talking about Moo men him, They've they've They've played a

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01:19:37,200 --> 01:19:39,679
Speaker 4: lot better, and Russell Wilson is now back to looking

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01:19:39,720 --> 01:19:42,240
Speaker 4: like a competent quarterback. So I just I don't know, Man,

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01:19:42,640 --> 01:19:44,800
Speaker 4: Chargers have been so up and down. I can't trust them.

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01:19:44,960 --> 01:19:45,880
Speaker 3: Yeah, no, I hear you.

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01:19:46,240 --> 01:19:46,360
Speaker 6: Well.

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01:19:46,400 --> 01:19:48,479
Speaker 8: Alex is agreeing with Monty. We move on to the

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Speaker 8: final game, the Jaguars at the Browns. Alex has the Browns, Carmen,

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Speaker 8: who you got?

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Speaker 4: I just think this is gonna be such a defensive battle,

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Speaker 4: because especially if Trevor Lawrence is out. Yeah, but if

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01:19:56,680 --> 01:19:58,120
Speaker 4: Trevor Lawrence, I don't know, but this is just like

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01:19:58,240 --> 01:20:01,800
Speaker 4: Jake Browning, like I Jag Jags.

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Speaker 1: Oh you know what?

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01:20:02,240 --> 01:20:04,759
Speaker 4: Shout up by guy Mark Mike Caldwell. He's their defensive coordinator.

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01:20:04,800 --> 01:20:06,320
Speaker 4: I'm gonna I'm gonna go ride with Jaggs.

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Speaker 3: I'm gonna go Browns just like Alex.

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01:20:08,600 --> 01:20:11,280
Speaker 2: Thank you so much for tuning into Fox Sports Radio

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01:20:11,520 --> 01:20:13,000
Speaker 2: with Me, Monsey and Carmen.

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01:20:13,080 --> 01:20:16,000
Speaker 3: Don't go anywhere. There's still more Fox Sports Radio. Bye,

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Speaker 3: god bye everybody,