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Speaker 3: Rob G.

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Speaker 4: We're gonna start with the Lakers, and there are some

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Speaker 4: reporting about Lebron not happy panties in a bunch, you know,

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Speaker 4: with the way things are going on down at Crypto

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Speaker 4: dot com arena, ROBG, can you for listen?

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Speaker 5: Yeah, this seems to be boiling over in a big

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Speaker 5: way here in Lila Land. We remember about a week

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Speaker 5: ago we had Brian Windhorse say on ESPN Radio that,

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Speaker 5: you know, the idea of Lebron not retiring with the

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Speaker 5: Lakers is now more on the table than ever. He

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Speaker 5: didn't say out right it was gonna happen, but he said,

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Speaker 5: you know, just don't slam.

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Speaker 3: The door on anymore.

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Speaker 5: A couple of days ago, Yo Van Buha, friend of

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Speaker 5: the show Lake, longtime Lakers insider, said that the relationship

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Speaker 5: between the two sides is kind of salty at the moment,

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Speaker 5: a little frosty. Two sides have not exactly seemed batiko

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Speaker 5: at the moment.

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Speaker 3: Well.

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Speaker 5: Today ESPN dot Com, Ramona Shelburn and Brian Winhurst again

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Speaker 5: put out a lengthy piece discussing what's going on with Lebron,

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Speaker 5: James and the Lakers brass and in summary, what they

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Speaker 5: have determined is that Lebron is not happy that the

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Speaker 5: team has really pivoted in a strong way towards Luka

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Speaker 5: Doncic and his timeline and put Lebron's timeline on the

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Speaker 5: back burner. In fact, according to Shelburn and Windhorst, one

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Speaker 5: of the things that Lebron is really upset about is

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Speaker 5: that the Lakers did not offer him a contract extension

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Speaker 5: prior to him opting into that fifty two million dollars

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Speaker 5: for next season.

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Speaker 4: So it wasn't right. He didn't have a choice to say,

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Speaker 4: now I'm not gonna do that. Let me decide what

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Speaker 4: I'm gonna do. No, they said no, no, No, you're good.

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Speaker 4: You gotta think are you coming in okay?

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Speaker 5: In fact, according to Shauburn and Winhorse, here's how they

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Speaker 5: frame it in the story. If Lebron wanted the kind

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Speaker 5: of Hollywood ending that only the Lakers can give legends

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Speaker 5: of the game. The release date has been set Spring

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Speaker 5: twenty twenty six.

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Speaker 4: And Kelvin, I'm just gonna say this, the Lakers are

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Speaker 4: spot on.

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Speaker 3: They are spot on. This is not.

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Speaker 4: You can't live in the past when it comes to sports.

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Speaker 4: You know, you fall in love with people. Or the

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Speaker 4: Lakers did it with Kobe mistake, you could say whatever

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Speaker 4: you the last six five six years with a mistake,

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Speaker 4: too much money, nobody wanted to play with you remember

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Speaker 4: what it was. They couldn't make the playoff. It was

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Speaker 4: not good because they wanted to take care of Kobe

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Speaker 4: and be loyal and all that kind of stuff, and

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Speaker 4: you gotta be careful with that. In this case, the

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Speaker 4: Lakers have done everything. Lebron's going to be forty one. Like, seriously,

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Speaker 4: you got a twenty five year old star that you

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Speaker 4: traded for, right, and that's who you have to center

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Speaker 3: The team was just sold. If you're the Dodgers, you're

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Speaker 3: living in the past.

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Speaker 4: I mean the Lakers, you're half right, right, half right,

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Speaker 4: because the Dodgers are moved across the street. You know what,

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Speaker 4: I'm saying, so, I don't see this as being disrespectful

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Speaker 4: or not. You know, when he was there, they paid him,

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Speaker 4: they gave him the extension before you know, they've done

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Speaker 4: everything he wanted, more plays, and when they got him

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Speaker 4: a D, traded all the young players right to go

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Speaker 4: get a D for him. That worked out. They want

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Speaker 4: a championship, they get Luca for him. Okay, wow, you

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Speaker 4: know what I mean. But you can't string this along

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Speaker 4: an extension. No, it could be forty one. This is

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Speaker 4: the right move by the Lakers.

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Speaker 1: This is gonna be the first time Lebron is gonna

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Speaker 1: have to deal with something different. And that is the

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Speaker 1: first time not being courted, the forced time I'm not

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Speaker 1: being wanted, the first time that he is in a

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Speaker 1: position where he's second fiddle. And since he's probably what

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Speaker 3: Now.

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Speaker 1: His disposition, especially early on, was to be more of

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Speaker 1: So but he always knew subconsciously it all revolved around him.

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Speaker 1: And this is the first time Robin happens. You know,

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Speaker 1: and people do that in life things when it ain't

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Speaker 1: all about you if you're if you're an only child

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Speaker 1: and all of a sudden you got a sibling. What

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Speaker 1: you mean, I don't get this? And what do you

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Speaker 1: mean they gotta share? I gotta do this, And I

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Speaker 1: think that's what he's going through. You mentioned a couple

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Speaker 1: of good things. New ownership. I'm gonna start there. New ownership,

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Speaker 1: mind you, Rob, Not a new ownership that's new to this.

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Speaker 1: New ownership that knows what they're doing. New ownership that

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Speaker 1: has continually had the Dodgers being successful, whether they're competing

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Speaker 1: for obviously winning their division and competing for World series,

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Speaker 3: So the ownership is a little bit different.

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Speaker 1: This ain't just the bus family, who I've said a

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Speaker 1: million times who to fault has been overly loyal to

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Speaker 1: people who are in business with them back in the

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Speaker 3: I'm because mom and pop shop. They have that thing.

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Speaker 1: If you've been with us, you know you've been through

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Speaker 1: the ups and downs with us, We become loyalty.

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Speaker 3: We ride with you.

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Speaker 1: This ain't that this new ownership, while respecting Lebron, while

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Speaker 1: appreciating Lebron, are trying to also move forward. And the

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Speaker 1: day that the inc side dried up on that trade

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Speaker 1: for Luca Doncentz, the Lebron era was over. Now you

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Speaker 1: can be a part of the Luca era. You can

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Speaker 1: be participatory. We would love to have you on this ride.

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Speaker 1: But this is now the Luca Era without a doubt,

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Speaker 1: And I would challenge Lebron. That makes to see if

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Speaker 1: this cannot go out bad. You don't have to go

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Speaker 1: out bad because they didn't offew extension. You don't have

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Speaker 1: to go out bad because the team is now about Luca.

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Speaker 1: You don't have him not calling up and not texting

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Speaker 1: DeAndre aid dere eight.

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Speaker 3: And I mean that is a I'm gonna say, you

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Speaker 3: got to throw him a party, y'all. Welcome to Wow,

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Speaker 3: Welcome to the team.

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Speaker 1: Bro.

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Speaker 3: That's it.

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Speaker 1: So this is gonna be something Lebron is gonna have

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Speaker 1: to deal with for the first time where yo, you

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Speaker 1: are not your second fiddle, and it's it's uncommon territory

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Speaker 1: for him. But again, when you look at the fact

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Speaker 1: that he's not a lifer, fairly or unfairly wrong or

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Speaker 1: right them giving Kobe that deal, we know what Kobe

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Speaker 1: meant to the city, We know what he meant to

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Speaker 1: this franchise. So right, I'm saying you shouldn't from a

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Speaker 4: Standpoint, I understand that, but if you look at the results,

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Speaker 4: they weren't good.

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Speaker 1: Right, And that's what I'm saying. From a practical business standpoint,

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Speaker 1: you would say it's trying to move on. But the

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Speaker 1: Lakers ownership said we're gonna do right by him. He'd

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Speaker 1: been here for us and that was their prerogative. This

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Speaker 1: isn't that where Lebron hasn't been a lifer. So you

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Speaker 1: mentioned with clutch sports. They brought in a gang of

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Speaker 1: clutch sports guys over the years, they brought in ad

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Speaker 1: they into his credit. Hey, he and a d brought

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Speaker 1: them a championship, So it's been a mutual thing. He

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Speaker 1: brought them some relevancy and some you know, they were

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Speaker 1: competitive making. They brought him everything he wanted, the guys

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Speaker 3: Even brought his son in.

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Speaker 1: So at a certain point, you can add, the Lakers

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Speaker 1: can actually look at Lebron and ask, what more do

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Speaker 1: you want from me?

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Speaker 3: Because they have given him every week, got your song?

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Speaker 5: Square?

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Speaker 2: Do you want from me?

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Speaker 3: That's what they can ask him.

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Speaker 1: So to me, this is gonna be interesting when Lebron

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Speaker 1: handles for the first time not being the princess at

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Speaker 1: to be interesting to see how he chooses to handle

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Speaker 1: this as he winds it down. Because you look what

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Speaker 1: you you said the same thing. Look I wrote it down.

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Speaker 1: He's about to be forty one, and if I extend

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Speaker 1: you another two year, what are you forty three?

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Speaker 3: You know what I mean? Like, how when does it stop?

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Speaker 3: And Father Time is undefeated.

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Speaker 1: You held him off the longest we've ever seen at

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Speaker 1: this level, and Tom Brady held him off or give

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Speaker 1: you guys credit for that, but he's still undefeated.

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Speaker 4: I'm waiving the white flag on Cooper Flag. After that

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Speaker 4: debacle last night, talk about the worst debut for this guy?

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Speaker 4: Was hyped up five for twenty one and you were

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Speaker 4: trying to bump the Bronni. Oh we wanted you were

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Speaker 4: Bronnie your second year one for six three He only

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Speaker 4: had eight points.

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Speaker 3: You want to talk about a terrible debut?

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Speaker 4: Am I saying he can't play and he's gonna be

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Speaker 4: a bus no. But you couldn't have a worst debut.

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Speaker 4: And he had that nice dunk early on in the game.

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Speaker 4: I watched the game this morning on NBA TV.

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Speaker 3: It was awful. People paid top dollar to watch that.

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Speaker 3: Was he nervous? What with the and you know what.

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Speaker 4: The worst part about it is Rob g Kelvin, he

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Speaker 4: ain't even playing against.

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Speaker 3: God's gonna be in the league.

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Speaker 4: These are guys who just got the jersey as a

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Speaker 4: silveneir and they got a large diar coca and a

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Speaker 4: hot dog for participating.

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Speaker 3: They're not gonna be in the league.

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Speaker 4: Seventy five percent of those guys, eighty percent of those guys.

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Speaker 3: And he couldn't get his shot off. He couldn't.

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Speaker 4: They made him uncomfortable, and then they're gonna harp on

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Speaker 4: to play at the end of the game.

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Speaker 3: That's what tells you about Cooper Flag.

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Speaker 4: You know, the defensive play, and then he gave the

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Speaker 4: assist for the game winning basket, five for twenty one.

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Speaker 4: I needed something better than that. I didn't need forty points.

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Speaker 4: I needed a better debut than that from this guy

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Speaker 4: that they wanted to put in the same sentence as

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Speaker 4: Larry Bird. He wasn't even Christian Ladner last night. Let

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Speaker 3: Oh my god, Cooper Flag's gonna be something with the death.

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Speaker 4: Lebron did one for six from the three point line

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Speaker 3: Now. Let me tell you what it is.

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Speaker 1: I put no stock if you'd had twenty two points

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Speaker 4: You're full of it. You like the NBA. You know why,

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Speaker 3: Guess what?

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Speaker 3: You know why.

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Speaker 4: Sometime I'm gonna go to somebody who's independent, who's not

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Speaker 3: I know you used to work there, but because.

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Speaker 1: Simmons is the new Lebron if you went off the

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Speaker 3: Now, there are some takeaways for Cooper. Flag number one.

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Speaker 1: Cooper, that handle ain't what you think that hand he

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Speaker 3: It was the day, but it wasn't a debut.

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Speaker 1: But I do only thing I said, I love his

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Speaker 3: It was it was. It was a wet blanket. It was.

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Speaker 4: It was a wet blanket. There was nothing there, nothing

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Speaker 4: to see. You would have been about to seeing Mike

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Speaker 1: On because I have had to see his cheeks and

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Speaker 1: I ain't sign up for that. Mike Tyson used to

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Speaker 3: You gotta you gotta admit that was what? What was that? Five?

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Speaker 4: Five for twenty one? Not let me tell you what

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Speaker 4: And one of the baskets is a dunk. So four

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Speaker 3: Let me tell you what that man did.

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Speaker 1: I'm letting it fly like they did. And then well

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Speaker 1: what along came? Poly Let it rain, Let it raight.

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Speaker 1: I mean he didn't give a dang. He emptied the clip.

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Speaker 1: The Clips dropped the new album today. He was actingly

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Speaker 1: he was the third member of the Clips. He emptied

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Speaker 1: He tried to dunk.

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Speaker 3: I'm just saying, I get it. Draw the script.

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Speaker 1: If I'm the NBA, Yeah, my number one pick, he's

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Speaker 3: Us hit a game winning three. You know you want

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Speaker 4: They they'll down plays off night, but if he had

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Speaker 4: would not downplay it and go, oh, it's only a

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Speaker 3: Oh they're good against good team exactly.

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Speaker 4: And then they were like, oh and Rady got that

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Speaker 3: That they and then they were good Team seven eighteen

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Speaker 1: Okay, as a member and the founding member of the

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Speaker 3: Brocause you need to know. Well, you act like you

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Speaker 3: don't know. You know, marketing. I get it's going bad,

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Speaker 4: I just I just like once again, I was down

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Speaker 3: I told you it was gonna be a terrible and

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Speaker 3: I told you a lot of time. You know what

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Speaker 1: He didn't tell us it was died before that after

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Speaker 4: Please can we have known that? Rob g I was

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Speaker 4: I am about what? Because he because he actually bet

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Speaker 4: God kept saying, oh t is gonna knock him out.

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Speaker 3: I'm telling you.

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Speaker 4: I did you watch his workout? You remember that on

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Speaker 4: the on social media? He looks great. He did look

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Speaker 3: I'm just saying that was a debacle. It was alterat.

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Speaker 3: It was terrible.

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Speaker 4: If you have spent money to go see that kid

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Speaker 3: Find another five for twenty one day.

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Speaker 1: Would you admit that? I would say, look at some

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Speaker 1: rob what'd you think?

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Speaker 5: I took it hard? You guys know this. I was

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Speaker 1: Same. I'm not gonna lie anticipated Yes, it's so bad.

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Speaker 1: I've been doing this show almost a year. That man

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Speaker 5: I felt like he was nineteen sixty two all over again.

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Speaker 3: That man called me. He told me me and you

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Speaker 1: It's so real. Rob G thought he was gonna take

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Speaker 1: back our vote. That's how far back he was about

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Speaker 3: We were gonna get on there. We were gonna get over.

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Speaker 1: Next time we going to all to the We're gonna

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Speaker 3: I got the plane. Robb G was wilding yesterday.

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Speaker 5: I was gonna turn in my card to the cookouts.

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Speaker 5: I'm going to barbecues only from now on. Wow, that's

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Speaker 5: how I was feeling. It was gonna say, Robgie, where

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Speaker 5: you at? He said, sprouts?

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Speaker 1: I said, why getting Raisins for the potato SIDEBG wallind

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Speaker 1: I was ready.

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Speaker 5: I was ready for the Cooper flag. Kaitlin Clark's dominating

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Speaker 1: Man, call your wife man, because see, I see the

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Speaker 3: Patrick Mahomes has the new haircut.

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Speaker 7: Patrick Mahomes doing a media tour. Yep, couple new hair

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Speaker 7: who this Yeah, all we gotta do is say that

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Speaker 7: Nick Wrong is a co host on the show.

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Speaker 3: He'll come on.

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Speaker 5: I mean Nick Right, he might, but yes, he's been

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Speaker 5: doing the media rounds, most recently earlier this week, he

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Speaker 5: popped on with CNBC to discuss a myriad of topics.

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Speaker 5: One of the things that came up was the idea

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Speaker 5: of the long rumored eighteen game season that could be

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Speaker 5: on the horizon in the NFL. One asked about it,

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Speaker 5: Mahomes said, quote, if there were a way to get

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Speaker 5: to eighteen games, and I'm not a big fan of it,

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Speaker 5: but if there were a way, I think you got

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Speaker 5: to add some bye weeks in there to give more

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Speaker 5: time for guys' bodies.

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Speaker 3: Your thoughts, Well, this is what I think.

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Speaker 1: First of all, ain't no what if if you got

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Speaker 1: the NFLPA, who's trying to act like, oh, we got

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Speaker 1: so many other things we got going on. First of all,

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Speaker 1: NFLPA that hardly ever does right by the players, So

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Speaker 1: let's just start. That was me trying to give them

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Speaker 1: one They never do right by the players, which means

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Speaker 1: players have mostly said they don't want to do this.

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Speaker 1: It's gonna happen, especially when it comes to big money,

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Speaker 1: which is what these owners want.

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Speaker 3: So we're gonna get to eighteen games.

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Speaker 1: And if you get to eighteen games, Robs, both of you,

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Speaker 1: Rob Park and Rob g well you know what eighteen

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Speaker 1: turns into twenty. And here's my thought and concern. One

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Speaker 1: of the things that's made the NFL great is a scarcity.

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Speaker 1: Was sixteen weeks for so long?

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Speaker 3: Was twelve?

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Speaker 1: It used to be twelve, twelve exactly was twelve. Then

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Speaker 1: of course they go to sixteen, fourteen, sixteen, so many years,

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Speaker 1: and then now we're at seventeen. But that's what makes

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Speaker 1: it great. Every game matters. You don't get a lot

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Speaker 1: of from a fans standpoint, you're locked in. I only

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Speaker 1: get these X amount of games. From a player standpoint,

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Speaker 1: every game matters, I'm locked in.

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Speaker 3: I'm in.

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Speaker 1: What I'm concerned is does eighteen stay at eighteen for two, three, four,

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Speaker 1: five years then jump to twenty and at what point,

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Speaker 1: for the first time will the NFL be taking a

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Speaker 1: hit in something we've never really had to consider, and.

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Speaker 3: That is low management.

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Speaker 1: Because I started to think, specifically with a guy like

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Speaker 1: Patrick Mahomes who's really known nothing but success throughout his career,

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Speaker 1: rob what if we get to a point because there's

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Speaker 1: eighteen games, there's twenty games where teams ultimately like a

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Speaker 1: maybe the Buffalo Bills, maybe Lamar Jackson Ravens, maybe Patrick

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Speaker 1: Mahoons and the Chiefs, they're competing for playoffs and championships.

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Speaker 1: So now I'm gonna start to consider, Man, we are

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Speaker 1: sitting here at ten and three going into our second

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Speaker 1: bye week. I might sit Patrick Mahomes the week prior

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Speaker 1: to the buye, then have to buy and then sit

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Speaker 1: him another week, So that's three weeks that he's healthy,

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Speaker 1: he's fresh, because what is it Ultimately the Chiefs will

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Speaker 1: be playing for playoff deep playoff runs in Super Bowls,

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Speaker 1: and this is the first time I'm thinking hold on

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Speaker 1: the NFL.

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Speaker 3: I know all money is good money and blah blah

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Speaker 3: blah blah blah.

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Speaker 1: But that's what's made you great is we don't get

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Speaker 1: to see you all the time and don't come to

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Speaker 1: me players or league. If you're talking about we care

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Speaker 1: about player safety, stop it because adding.

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Speaker 3: All these games only makes it long and elongate.

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Speaker 1: It's the season and more opportunities for a guy gets

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Speaker 1: to get hurt, and I think is the first time

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Speaker 1: you might have to start considering will NFL players start

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Speaker 1: to load and load management.

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Speaker 3: I'm not talking about last game of the season. I

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Speaker 3: sit down, we already got the division seld up.

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Speaker 1: I'm talking about week eight, week twelve, because I'm starting

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Speaker 1: to think long term. I got to think for eighteen games,

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Speaker 1: we're up twenty games, and I think that is something

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Speaker 1: that for the first time we might have to consider

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Speaker 1: because they're clearly not thinking about players safety. That ain't

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Speaker 1: even an issue that no one cares about that players

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Speaker 1: or the owners at this point.

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Speaker 4: Here's my issue is that players, especially Patrick Mahome, shouldn't

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Speaker 4: be speaking on this. This should come from leadership from

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Speaker 4: the Players Association, one voice, one voice, not putting this

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Speaker 4: out about he I'm not a fan of it, but

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Speaker 4: let me tell you how it work. Let me, you

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Speaker 4: gotta have this, you gotta do this that that that

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Speaker 4: gives a credence.

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Speaker 3: You can't tell me that owners and people are going on.

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Speaker 3: Did you hear Patrick?

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Speaker 4: Oh? Okay, so he's not gonna come out if you

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Speaker 4: have the best of the best coming out against it,

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Speaker 4: saying no, but a singular voice the union and we've

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Speaker 4: talked about this.

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Speaker 3: You beat me where I was about to bring up again. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: it's very simple.

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Speaker 4: No, like one voice from the union and and the

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Speaker 4: way that they change all of this and stop. I

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Speaker 4: do not understand. I wish I would have two minutes

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Speaker 4: to go in and talk to the Advisory Board of

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Speaker 4: the Players Association. I would say, you guys want to

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Speaker 4: do right by the players. Forget about that stupid deal

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Speaker 4: you guys signed so you can smoke weed and practice less.

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Speaker 3: That's what they' that's what they hang the right smoke

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Speaker 3: weed and practice less. I said. I would go into

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Speaker 3: the owners.

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Speaker 4: Here's the CBA, the Major League Baseball players have with

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Speaker 4: the baseball owners. We want exactly what they have, exactly

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Speaker 4: what they have here it is, and if you don't

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Speaker 4: do it come September, we will not be playing football.

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Speaker 3: Okay. Or you do it before the super Bowl when.

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Speaker 4: Everything's in place, we don't get a new deal or

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Speaker 4: situation set up, we will not play the super Bowl.

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Speaker 4: How did the baseball players get leverage? They stop the world? Citty,

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Speaker 4: they stop the world. But Rob, you and I have

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Speaker 4: talked about this. Everything you said makes sense. You and

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Speaker 4: I both agree.

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Speaker 1: We say this at least once every month because something

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Speaker 1: comes up where we have to have this conversation. The

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Speaker 1: issue is that sounds good, but that four string defensive

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Speaker 1: back who's only making it.

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Speaker 4: Can't be about it can't be about him. It's got

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Speaker 4: to be singular about everybody. And this is what you got.

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Speaker 4: You can't do that is what I'm saying. We have

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Speaker 4: to vote.

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Speaker 1: And when we all start to vote, no, no, no,

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Speaker 1: your check hitting different, no, Josh Allen.

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Speaker 3: But here's but here's the difference. I hear you.

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Speaker 4: The reason the players have solidarity in Major League Baseball

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Speaker 4: is because the young player you're talking about, you're not

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Speaker 4: worried about paying your bills. The union has a ward chess, Calvin,

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Speaker 4: how much money do you need for your bills?

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Speaker 3: Hold on? How much do you need? Here?

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Speaker 4: It is when you get when we finished with this lockout, strike, whatever,

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Speaker 4: and they give us our money back, you take that money,

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Speaker 4: you put it back in the war chest. The reason

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Speaker 4: that the players Union gets beat like a drammer, they

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Speaker 4: don't they know that they don't have a war chest.

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Speaker 4: They know that people can't miss two paychecks or one paycheck.

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Speaker 3: You have no leverage. But you have no leverage if

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Speaker 3: you have no war chess your honor. I object. Here's

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Speaker 3: why it sounds.

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Speaker 1: First of all, again I agree, But here's the thing. A.

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Speaker 1: I have way more players in MLB, way more. No, No,

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Speaker 1: it's not that much. It's eleven hundred compared to eight hundred.

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Speaker 1: I have more players about league. I also don't have

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Speaker 1: guaranteed contracts. No, but so, but.

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Speaker 3: I'm hearing you, that's what I'm competing for.

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Speaker 1: What I'm saying is, guys only hear my contract ain't guaranteed.

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Speaker 1: So the stuff that you would have you might have

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Speaker 1: to sacrifice for them.

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Speaker 3: It sounds like Alex I needed Charlie Brown. Woh w.

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Speaker 1: That's what it sounds like. You and I agree. We've

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Speaker 1: been agreeing since since we started. But the fact is

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Speaker 1: they're like, yeah, no doubt, I hear you, I hear you.

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Speaker 1: This is because they can't commit. It's a commitment and

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Speaker 1: the sacrifice to do it.

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Speaker 3: You cannot.

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Speaker 4: You cannot, Okay, whenever you have membership, union membership and

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Speaker 4: you're voting.

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Speaker 7: To get that's.

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Speaker 3: What they hear of, to get paid or not get paid.

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Speaker 4: The vote can never be that, okay because people always

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Speaker 4: go to vote to get paid. So do you you

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Speaker 4: it can't be about that. No, the money's not an issue.

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Speaker 4: Guess what, we got you covered for next season.

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Speaker 1: So then you're gonna be relying on the starts to

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Speaker 1: jump started. No, no, you're gonna say, hey, we're gonna

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Speaker 1: we're gonna jump everybody.

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Speaker 4: Everybody has to put money in, but they get the

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Speaker 4: money back and that's the only way you have any

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Speaker 4: kind of leverage. But but it's it's a shame because

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Speaker 4: it's not just Major League Baseball. Everybody else, even the

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Speaker 4: NHL is a better deal. They have better health care, retirement,

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Speaker 4: everybody's better. Now, that's that's the thing that we're talking about.

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Speaker 4: It's not like baseball superior and and nobody else has anything. No,

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Speaker 4: all the NBA contracts, NHL contracts guaranteed. They have been

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Speaker 4: bamboozled and allowed to believe that they shouldn't have guaranteed contracts,

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Speaker 4: which they should. Should they be shorter, yes, Should you

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Speaker 4: be able to play for two years or to sign

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Speaker 4: a three year deal.

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Speaker 3: If you're good, you get more money. If not, they

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Speaker 3: let you go. That's just like any.

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Speaker 1: Other stem because it's a physical demanding sport and the

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Speaker 1: eyes don't last as long, and we know that, and

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Speaker 1: it absolutely should be that case. They should get guaranteed

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Speaker 1: because you know what the NFL likes to do rob

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Speaker 1: new deal. This just came in seven years, two hundred

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Speaker 1: and eighty million, but.

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Speaker 3: Only about eighty of a guaranteed, and they love.

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Speaker 1: To toudde all the money we're throwing around these guys.

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Speaker 1: I wouldn't even want to let you put that out

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Speaker 1: there to make it look like you're throwing money around. No,

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Speaker 1: put out the number what it is, the real seven

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Speaker 1: years abuck twenty, that's what it's not a seven years

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Speaker 1: to ten