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Speaker 1: Here we go our number two on a Wednesday, one

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Speaker 1: hour from now, one hour from now, first fifteen minutes

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Speaker 1: of the final hour. I am going to do my

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Speaker 1: first round mock draft. If I was a general manager

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Speaker 1: of each team, what would I do? We did it

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Speaker 1: last year, we had a couple of hits. This obviously

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Speaker 1: Fernando Mendoza going to the Raiders number one, so we're

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Speaker 1: one for one. But what would I do? Based on

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Speaker 1: need ownership? There has been a big trade this morning

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Speaker 1: in the NFL. The Los Angele Angelis Rams had two

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Speaker 1: first round picks. I believe if it was a great

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Speaker 1: put them on the shelf for two years behind Matt Stafford.

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Speaker 1: It's not so. What the Rams are telling you is

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Speaker 1: we are going for it and we're going to re

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Speaker 1: sign Matt Stafford and we're giving up a first, a fifth,

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Speaker 1: a sixth, and a third next year. So that tells

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Speaker 1: me they're going to sign Matt Stafford to a two

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Speaker 1: year deal. Trent McDuffie, who is a pro bowler excellent,

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Speaker 1: could be even better with the Rams because they have

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Speaker 1: a more consistent pass rush. And the Rams have drafted

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Speaker 1: defense so well, but they've never held corner in terribly

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Speaker 1: high regard. They really build their front so and there's

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Speaker 1: a couple of nice first round corners, one out of LSU,

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Speaker 1: to take a risk on that. They're going to keep

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Speaker 1: their first pick in the first round, they're given up

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Speaker 1: the second, and the Chiefs are basically saying Patrick Mahomes

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Speaker 1: is probably their best player. But Brett Veatz, the Chiefs

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Speaker 1: GM is telling you, listen, we're getting old. And then

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Speaker 1: our young guys aren't great, they're good. So now they've

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Speaker 1: got two firsts. I think they're going to go get

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Speaker 1: So I think what Kansas City's doing is smart. We've

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Speaker 1: said this. You start paying Lamar Jackson, Josh Allen, Patrick

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Speaker 1: go of great players. So the Rams, who I think

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Speaker 1: I wouldn't say a rebuild with Andy Reid Mahomes, but

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Speaker 1: right now in their division, I don't think they have

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Speaker 1: the roster of the Chargers. Well, we're getting ready for March.

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Speaker 1: Saint John's has split with Yukon. They came back from

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Speaker 1: twelve down to beat Georgetown last night. They're twenty four

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Speaker 1: and six and they're legendary coach thirty eight years coaching basketball.

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Speaker 1: Rick Mattino is now joining US live and uh, last time.

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Speaker 1: This is very fun because you know we were talking

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Speaker 1: And I don't know about these teams. I like the

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Speaker 1: certain sanctity of like the I'm for inclusion, but I

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Speaker 3: Well, I guess it would come down to what's the

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Speaker 3: reason for expansion. Is it to make sure a if

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Speaker 1: the swag, the nutrition, they get paid now. And the

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Speaker 1: These are NBA level intensity. And I'll tell you last

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Speaker 1: Are you noticing in the last two or three years

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Speaker 1: teams of which you're part of them are noticeably deeper

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Speaker 3: the Ponatanaikos in the EuroLeague, and if you're a basketball

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Speaker 3: you'd rather go to college. It pays almost twice more

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Speaker 3: lot more money. So college basketball has elevated to a

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Speaker 3: three basketball teams that I look at that can win

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Speaker 4: Because of their incredible talent.

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Speaker 3: I've never seen college basketball in the last two years

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Speaker 3: it would have to go back to the Kareem days,

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Speaker 1: You know, I remember though Bill Walton was arguably the

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Speaker 1: you know European players, the Tony Kukoch era. Everybody always

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Speaker 1: And I think some of it was fair more finesse

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Speaker 3: Well, European basketball players because they passed, they cut, They

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Speaker 3: the other night. It's the first time I said I

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Speaker 3: can't watch this anymore. It was a West Coast team

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Speaker 3: more of this. There was no ball movement, no player

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Speaker 4: The ability to shoot the three.

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Speaker 3: For for the foreign players on my team, I have

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Speaker 3: how to play. Now most of them defensively can't guard me,

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Speaker 3: but on the offense they're great.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, well they have to play against older men. I

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Speaker 1: mean to be honest with you. So it's now now

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Speaker 1: Steve Kerr has lamented the AAU and you know we've

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Speaker 1: had some, you know, domestic players John Morant Zion who

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Speaker 1: is there? You know? When Kerr bangs on AAU basketball,

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Speaker 1: I mean, just look at your roster. It's full of

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Speaker 3: Well, the easiest thing to do is blame the AAU system,

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Speaker 3: and I'm not one of those people that do that.

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Speaker 4: Blame parents than I would AAU.

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Speaker 3: I think parents today are way too involved in their

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Speaker 3: let the kids develop and develop a love for the game.

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Speaker 3: Twenty years ago, I never dealt with parents.

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Speaker 4: I'm very lucky.

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Speaker 3: I've got parents that are disciplinarians. They get after their kids.

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Speaker 3: But the ones that aren't hurt much more than aau.

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Speaker 3: They want to Okay, let's let's go to a different

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Speaker 3: school next year, because you can make three hundred thousand more.

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Speaker 4: Now, let's grind it out where you're at and.

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Speaker 3: Play for tom Izzo and play for this person, and

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Speaker 1: You know, Rick, it's pretty amazing. You've got players from

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Speaker 1: John's play defense is all about communication and effort and

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Speaker 1: fascinating to me. How do you with some sometimes language barriers.

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Speaker 1: And you know, you got older players, younger players. This

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Speaker 1: and make it work?

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Speaker 3: One week link kills your defense. I have a young

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Speaker 3: by colem Lefty, and I said, lefty held they look

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Speaker 3: do me a favor. Communicate defensively. That's the keto on defense.

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Speaker 3: Tell them to down it, tell them to switch it.

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Speaker 3: Tell them bring them my way so we can switch it.

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Speaker 3: I said, just talk and communicate defensively. I don't care

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Speaker 3: and talk defensively. And that's the biggest problem I have

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Speaker 3: with the European basketball players. They don't verbally communicate as much.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, so we're a couple of weeks away from March Madness.

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Speaker 1: The old cliche is it's guard play, and you know

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Speaker 1: it's years ago. I went back and I looked at

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Speaker 1: the numbers. You don't necessarily have to be playing great

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Speaker 1: going into the Tournament's a little bit of a myth.

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Speaker 1: We've seen teams that cool off. I remember that Florida

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Speaker 1: Gator Billy Donovan team, the one back to backs. They

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Speaker 1: lost the game late. If I recall, they flew through

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Speaker 1: the tournament fuzzy memory. But if I recall that's what happened.

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Speaker 1: You tell me last night, you almost lose. You come

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Speaker 1: back to Georgetown. Should I look if a guy is

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Speaker 1: filling out a bracket, does it to you? Guard plays essential?

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Speaker 1: What is something in the tournament that guys like me

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Speaker 1: Were you betting the ponies in Greece by.

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Speaker 4: The way, No, No, this was in Miami.

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Speaker 1: Beautiful part of Florida. By the way. Rick has always

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Speaker 1: an absolute pleasure, great stuff. Good luck to Saint John's

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Speaker 4: Good speaking with you all right.

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Speaker 1: Always entertaining. I mean, he's just got great energy. It's like,

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Speaker 1: Got to hit your free throws, cross the t's, dot

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Speaker 7: Yeah, I'm going to fade his gambling ponies picks and

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Speaker 7: He still got it now. Saint John's not a bad

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Speaker 1: No, it's not bad at all. They split with Yukon. Indeed,

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Speaker 1: All right, top of next hour. I'm all fired up.

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna give you first fifteen teams in the NFL

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Speaker 1: I pick based on need function dysfunction? Uh, we've had

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Speaker 7: The Herdline news Listen. This month is just gonna be

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Speaker 7: so good, Colin. This NFL stuff is coming fast and furious.

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Speaker 7: How about this one. It sounds like Dallas Goddard's time

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Speaker 1: Obviously they're both really good.

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Speaker 7: They're not like eleading that McBride upper crust, but they're

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Speaker 7: So I think this would be a good trade. Now,

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Speaker 7: you can't lose Goddard and not replace him. Kal Katara,

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Speaker 7: Philadelphia is very interesting, Colin. It almost feels like it's

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Speaker 4: Now.

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Speaker 7: You know, we're manufacturing this aj brown stuff every day,

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Speaker 7: there's nothing there. Something's going on. I don't know what

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Speaker 1: Well, I mean, Howie Roseman in terms of in league

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Speaker 7: And let me remind everybody, there was zero, zero chatter

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Speaker 7: All right, Let's move on to the next one colin.

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Speaker 7: That's the Indianapolis Colts, who we usually don't talk about

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Speaker 1: That mid thirties number for Daniel Jones is a very

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Speaker 7: And I'm sure Jones is ticked off because he wanted

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Speaker 1: I think he's been more than fairly compensated for his production.

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Speaker 1: up a little, I probably wouldn't move him. Yeah, but

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Speaker 1: you know again San Francisco, John Lynch is hit and

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Speaker 1: miss on the draft, and so you know, I mean,

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Speaker 1: I think mac Jones starts in this league if he

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Speaker 1: has the right support system and Indies o line and

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Speaker 1: run game are excellent, So Indy to me works. Shaneestike in,

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Speaker 1: good old line, strong run game, that's where mac Jones

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Speaker 1: can flourish.

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Speaker 7: And what are your outdoor games in India? If you're

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Speaker 7: playing in Indie, you got to go to Tennessee. That's

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Speaker 7: not that weather. There's not that bad, no, right, I think,

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Speaker 7: I honestly Thinkler Murray could cook there big time indoors

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Speaker 7: Shane steik In as an offensive coach, like you said,

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Speaker 7: you got the running back, the big play guy. I

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Speaker 7: think the Colts they could turn it around next year.

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Speaker 1: Let's fin it.

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Speaker 7: Finish up, Colum with the NBA and your boy Kevin

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Speaker 7: Durant schirping as per usual, he loves to talk Colin

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Speaker 7: about twenty games left before the playoffs, and Kevin Durant

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Speaker 7: is now out there saying that the league has great parody,

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Speaker 7: that like basically anybody can win the title this year.

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Speaker 7: And I'm curious because earlier in the show you said.

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Speaker 1: Like four teams can win the title.

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Speaker 7: Kevin Durant's out here saying, you know, essentially it's an

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Speaker 7: open chase fall like.

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Speaker 1: For instance, the Knicks defensively can't win the title. The

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Speaker 1: Pistons offensively half court offense can't win the title. Plus

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Speaker 1: they're way too young. Oklahoma City and San Antonio can

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Speaker 1: both win it, no question for and I would say

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Speaker 1: if Denver got healthy, they so to me, the three

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Speaker 1: teams that can win it San Antonio, ok See and

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Speaker 1: Denver Minnesota put four Minnesota, I don't think now if

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Speaker 1: Tatum comes back to the Celtics, then they're the fifth

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Speaker 1: team that can win.

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Speaker 7: So you would put the Celtics over Nicks and Pistons absolutely,

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Speaker 7: And in the Vegas lines that the Calves, it might

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Speaker 7: be not s. They were favored in Vegas to come

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Speaker 7: out of the East with the Harden Mitchell combo. So

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Speaker 7: if you want to include those three in the East

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Speaker 7: plus Boston, you're not looking at eight teams. And then

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Speaker 7: let's just toss the Lakers in there too.

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Speaker 1: Pistons are not a title team. They're way too young,

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Speaker 1: and they have to score in the paint, which is

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Speaker 1: much harder to do against good bigs defensively, and the

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Speaker 1: New York Knicks, although playing well, there's again when you

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Speaker 1: play a five six or a seven game series, and

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Speaker 1: I can hunt your weakness. That's why the Lakers are

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Speaker 1: a pretty good regular season team and the Knicks are

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Speaker 1: a very good regular seas and team. Jalen Brunson and

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Speaker 1: kat when I can attack him night after night. And

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Speaker 1: by the way, that's where Jalen Brunson gets worn down

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Speaker 1: in a series, because you attack him night after night

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Speaker 1: after night, and by game four in the series, Brunson's

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Speaker 1: offense can start to struggle. So there. I think the

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Speaker 1: Knicks and the Lakers are built for now. I don't

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Speaker 1: think they're built for May.

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Speaker 7: Just to put on your calendar, Lakers at Denver Thursday night.

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Speaker 7: If the Lakers win, I'm already lobbying influential staff members

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Speaker 7: to do the show in a Magic Johnson jersey, you know,

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Speaker 7: trying to show off the guns or Austin Reeves jersey. Whatever,

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Speaker 7: you guys prefer, Lakers Night.

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Speaker 1: That's a huge one.

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Speaker 7: The Lakers would overtake Denver in the West for the

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Speaker 7: four set.

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Speaker 1: Let's see what transpires. First, is Jokic playing.

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Speaker 7: Yokich is scheduled to play. Everybody's playing except Arren Gordon,

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Speaker 7: who's like the most important guy on Denver.

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Speaker 1: Well defensively he is. Yes, yeah, he's huge. Yeah. J

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Speaker 1: Mack with the news, Well that's the news and thanks

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Speaker 1: for stopping by.

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Speaker 2: He heard line news.

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Speaker 1: Eric Scouble, the back to back cy young winner, joined

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Speaker 1: us in the first hour. He was great. World Baseball

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Speaker 1: Classic starts tomorrow. Off the Olympic gold for men and

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Speaker 1: women in hockey. Now it's World Baseball Classic Team USA.

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Speaker 1: Bryce Harper, Aaron Judge, Goooble, all their Rick Patino top

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Speaker 1: of the hour. And you know we've been on this

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Speaker 1: thing that and Rick Patino talked about it. You've got

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Speaker 1: these Euros. You got kids from all these continents. Now

512
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Speaker 1: they can make more money due to NIL playing in

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Speaker 1: the States in college basketball than they can unless they're

514
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Speaker 1: like the number one pick in Europe. All you have

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Speaker 1: to do is turn the TV on. I did last

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Speaker 1: Friday for Michigan and Illinois. It's like, wow, that was

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Speaker 1: they Those teams are good and so and for the record,

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Speaker 1: one of the young stars, aj debonsa at b YU.

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Speaker 1: Listen to this quote, I might not leave BYU for

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Speaker 1: the twenty twenty six draft. Here he is.

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Speaker 5: Listen to him, Well, I might not leave.

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Speaker 6: What do you mean?

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Speaker 4: They all had not leave college.

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Speaker 2: Why not?

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Speaker 5: No, I just gotta this out of the season.

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Speaker 6: See, you haven't made.

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Speaker 4: Up your mind that you're going to go into the

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Speaker 4: draft after now come.

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Speaker 5: My mom wants me to graduate. Really, Yes, I might

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Speaker 5: not leave, but I might leave it. Really, I don't know.

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Speaker 5: You know, the fans might might get into my head

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Speaker 5: talk about you know, one more year, maybe three more years.

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Speaker 5: I don't know, but i'ma have touch my mom.

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Speaker 1: For the record, overwhelmingly college athletes like playing college sports.

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Speaker 1: They get well fed, well supported, well marketed, well paid,

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Speaker 1: well coached. Here's what you never hear, man, I may

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Speaker 1: not leave the G League. I'm not gonna leave overtime elite.

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna stay here, Yeah, and not go to the NBA.

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Speaker 1: You never hear that. But Cooper Flag last year is like,

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Speaker 1: I'll be honest with you, I'd love to come back

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Speaker 1: to Duke and this kid could be the number one pick,

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Speaker 1: probably number two. He's like, I talk to my mom,

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Speaker 1: but I'd have no problem coming back. That's because college

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Speaker 1: football is a great experience for football players. In college

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Speaker 1: basketball is a great experience for eighteen to twenty one

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Speaker 1: twenty two year old athletes. So the NBA's demonized it,

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Speaker 1: which makes no sense. But you know the biggest companies

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Speaker 1: in America love internships. It's a sneak peak on talent

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Speaker 1: you can assess and develop. And that's what college basketball

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Speaker 1: is for the NBA. It's a pathway to professionalism and

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Speaker 1: you get great coaching and intense environments and Rick Patino's

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Speaker 1: and Tom Izzo and now I think A j is

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Speaker 1: gonna come out. He's too good to stay in college.

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Speaker 1: I mean, you know he's one of these. He and

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Speaker 1: Darren Peterson. You watch about three possessions and it's like, okay,

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Speaker 1: all right, here's Jeff Goodman. Last week on BYU Star.

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Speaker 9: Got some Paul George in his game. The big thing,

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Speaker 9: like you said, is the consistency with his shot.

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Speaker 4: But man, he can go get one whenever he wants.

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Speaker 1: I mean he can.

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Speaker 9: He can absolutely just put the ball in his hands

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Speaker 9: and he can he can get to the basket whenever

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Speaker 9: he wants. And what has really impressed me, and again

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Speaker 9: seeing his kids since fifteen years old back in AU ball,

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Speaker 9: his maturity.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. So again he put it out there. I'll talk

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Speaker 1: to my mom, but I'd come back to BYU. Nobody

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Speaker 1: ever says that in the G League, I'm gonna come

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Speaker 1: back to the G League. I've had offers. I'm staying here.

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Speaker 1: College basketball is a great free marketing platform with better coaching,

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Speaker 1: better environments, better training staffs, more well capitalized. I mean

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Speaker 1: free marketing. Zion got it, Duke or Cooper Flag got

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Speaker 1: it Duke? Pretty obvious it's good for the game.

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Speaker 2: Be sure to catch live editions of The Herd weekdays

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Speaker 2: in noon Eastern non am Pacific on Fox Sports Radio

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Speaker 2: FS one and the iHeartRadio app.

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Speaker 7: For a weekend where IndyCar and NASCAR go back to

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Speaker 7: back on one track. IndyCar on Saturday, NASCAR on Sunday

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Speaker 7: from Phoenix Raceway. It's the Desert Double on Fox and

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Speaker 7: FS one.

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Speaker 1: So baseball and football hockey have salary caps right to

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Speaker 1: make everybody a little more even. Yet the NBA doesn't have,

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Speaker 1: in my opinion, the same sort of parody that Major

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Speaker 1: League Baseball has. Major League Baseball has no salary cap.

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Speaker 1: And yet the small market Brewers can go six and

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Speaker 1: oner in the regulars season against the Dodgers. The Reds

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Speaker 1: can make the playoffs, The Guardians made the playoffs. The

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Speaker 1: Mariners were outstanding team in Canada doing well, and yet

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Speaker 1: this morning, the bottom ten NBA teams are on a

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Speaker 1: collective forty game losing streak. Forty game losing streak. So basketball, hey,

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Speaker 1: we're not gonna allow tanking. We're gonna have a salary cap.

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Speaker 1: We're gonna have this new punitive CBA. So you can't

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Speaker 1: form super teams. It's not working. The bottom of your

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Speaker 1: league is unwatchable. The bottom ten teams in the NBA

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Speaker 1: are on a forty game losing streak. I mean, the

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Speaker 1: bottom team in baseball, whatever that team is. The A's

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Speaker 1: are obviously moving, so you can kind of take them

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Speaker 1: out for a year. But you know, you start looking

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Speaker 1: around these middle, medium sized markets and smaller markets. They're

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Speaker 1: making the playoffs. I mean, Pittsburgh's got the second best

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Speaker 1: pitcher in baseball, Skiings, little old Pittsburgh. So it's just,

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Speaker 1: you know, there's all this worry about Major League Baseball,

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Speaker 1: and the Dodgers are pulling away. And as I said,

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Speaker 1: had they lost them game seven to the Blue Jays,

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Speaker 1: had they lost it, there wouldn't be this outcry. Because

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Speaker 1: they signed Kyle Tucker, who the Cubs could not get

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Speaker 1: rid of fast enough and is probably the Dodger's seventh

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Speaker 1: best player, maybe eighth. So a lot of it's just

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Speaker 1: fear mongering. But the NBA is just terrified of tanking

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Speaker 1: and the lottery and the ping pong balls. The bottom

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Speaker 1: of their league is unwatchable. It's awful. Meanwhile, Rick Bettino

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Speaker 1: came on and listen, I am pro NIL and pro

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Speaker 1: transfer portal. But that doesn't mean it's it's without flaws.

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Speaker 1: I mean, I love the NFL, there are things about

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Speaker 1: it I don't like. I don't think you know, I

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Speaker 1: think the bowls unwatchable. I think the preseasons mostly garbage.

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Speaker 1: I'd have more inner squad games. I don't think they

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Speaker 1: should expand the schedule, and I wish they could get

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Speaker 1: the catch rule right more often. I'm still confused by

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Speaker 1: But college basketball in the NIL. The truth is, Rick

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Speaker 1: Bettina was on thirty minutes ago. It has completely fortified

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Speaker 1: college basketball because they're pulling the best Euros over now.

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Speaker 3: Unless you are the first and second best player on

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Speaker 3: the EuroLeague team, the rest of their ROSTA, you could

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Speaker 3: go to college and get paid a lot more money.

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Speaker 3: So college basketball has elevated to a level of great play.

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Speaker 3: It's a lot of fun I've never seen college basketball

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Speaker 3: in the last two years this strong. I've been coaching

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Speaker 3: fifty some odd years, but it would have to go

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Speaker 3: back to the Kareem days, the Walton days, where everybody

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Speaker 3: stayed in school.

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Speaker 1: And another interesting guest today was Tariq Scooble, who's a

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Speaker 1: back to back Cy Young winner with Detroit. So Detroit's

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Speaker 1: made the playoffs as a wildcard team, so again another

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Speaker 1: not giant market. There's all this fear in the NBA

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Speaker 1: about about teams tanking and the bottom of the league,

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Speaker 1: but the bottom of the league is unwatchable yet the Mariners,

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Speaker 1: the Brewers, the Reds, the Tigers, you know, playoff teams Milwaukee.

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Speaker 1: But it's been interesting. As you hear oh labor shortage later,

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Speaker 1: labor stoppage is happening in baseball. Yet every time you

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Speaker 1: ask a non Dodger about if they're hurting baseball, Bryce

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Speaker 1: Harper says of the Phillies, I love what they're doing.

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Speaker 1: Manny Machado was briefly a Dodger, now a Podre. Podrey's

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Speaker 1: number one rival is the Dodgers, he says, I think

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Speaker 1: it's great for baseball, And Tariq Scooble of the wild

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Speaker 1: card Tigers comes on and he thinks the current state

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Speaker 1: of baseball is the best he's ever seen.

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Speaker 6: Our game is an really good spot. It's healthy. I

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Speaker 6: think the World Series, this last World Series was as

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Speaker 6: good of a World Series as any series of the playoffs.

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Speaker 6: In general, the fans are showing us that it's great.

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Speaker 6: Ratings are up, attendance is up, everything's there. So I'm

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Speaker 6: not quite sure the frustration is warranted from certain fans.

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Speaker 6: The way the game is right now, it's beautiful. It's

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Speaker 6: beautiful in every aspect, you know, starting pitching, both en work, defense, lineups,

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Speaker 6: all that type of stuff.

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Speaker 1: And the other thing to you know, the other thing

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Speaker 1: to remember. As whereas the NBA is very concerned about

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Speaker 1: dynasties and Major League Baseball, you hear many decry the

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Speaker 1: dominance of the Dodgers, Yet the most popular sport in

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Speaker 1: America is football. And the Patriots had two ten year

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Speaker 1: dynasties and the Chiefs had a six year dynasty and

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Speaker 1: it didn't hurt the ratings at all. People want great.

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Speaker 1: You go to a restaurant, your wife, husband, you're ordering

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Speaker 1: the best bottle of wine, and you're looking for your

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Speaker 1: favorite thing on the menu. You don't have to love

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Speaker 1: everything on the menu. You don't have to love two

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Speaker 1: bottles of wine other than the one you ordered. People

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Speaker 1: want to see stars. Dodgers lead baseball and road attendance. Yankees,

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Speaker 1: Cubs are up there. People want quality. What kills leagues

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Speaker 1: is the NBA's bottom ten teams or the Marlins or

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Speaker 1: the White Sox. That's what hurts baseball. Never hurts to

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Speaker 1: have a dynasty, never hurts to have dominant teams at

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Speaker 1: the top. So I don't know the solution for the NBA.

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Speaker 1: They've got several regular season problems. But when you hear

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Speaker 1: these baseball players, they all say the exact same thing,

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Speaker 1: and the Dodgers are often arrival. It's great for the sport. Now,

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Speaker 1: I know what you're thinking. Well, of course, stars want

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Speaker 1: to get paid. It's a competitive market. Cubs were good

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Speaker 1: last year. They added elements and players. They'll be better

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Speaker 1: this year. Astros will be better, Yankee be better, Mets

682
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Speaker 1: have to be better, Podrays could be better. Dodgers will

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Speaker 1: they be as good? I'm not sure. Blue Jays, I'm

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Speaker 1: not sure. So coming up next hour at the top

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Speaker 1: my mock draft, we have had one NFL trade of note.

686
00:36:15,400 --> 00:36:18,680
Speaker 1: Free agency is a week away, but everybody's already getting

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Speaker 1: their you know, their players in order. The Rams went out.

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Speaker 1: They have drafted so well defensively that they're an excellent

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Speaker 1: top five defense and yet don't really pay anybody now

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Speaker 1: they will. They gave up a first, a fifth to

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Speaker 1: six and a third next year to get Trent McDuffie,

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Speaker 1: an excellent corner, and I think, as j Max said

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Speaker 1: this earlier, what it signals is the Chiefs are in

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Speaker 1: a very competitive rebuild. It it's not a classic rebuild

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Speaker 1: it but I think it's reasonable to say the Chiefs

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Speaker 1: do not feel despite Andy Reid, Patrick Mahomes and Chris

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Speaker 1: Jones and Travis Kelsey, the Chiefs do not feel like

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Speaker 1: a super Bowl team with Andy Reid and Maho Holmes.

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Speaker 1: And I think giving up Trent McDuffie on any Sunday

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Speaker 1: the best player the Chiefs have. They've done this before.

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Speaker 1: They don't value corners like at a lot of other teams.

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Speaker 1: The Rams, by the way, got rid of Jaalen Ramsey.

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Speaker 1: Rams generally don't draft corners in the first couple of rounds.

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Speaker 1: They don't, so this is a little course correction by

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Speaker 1: the Rams who look at themselves and say, guys, special teams,

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Speaker 1: we need a better punt returner. We've got we've got

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Speaker 1: the punter, we don't have a punt returner, and we've

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Speaker 1: also got to upgrade at corner. And the Rams did it.

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Speaker 1: So it tells you that the Rams still have a first,

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Speaker 1: a second, a third, and I think a fifth and

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Speaker 1: a couple of sevenths. They're going to get a tackle,

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Speaker 1: they're going to get a receiver, they're going to get

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Speaker 1: a safety and maybe another corner. But it tells you

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Speaker 1: the Rams are going for it. And it also it

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Speaker 1: kind of tells me that the Chiefs realize they may

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Speaker 1: not be in a Super Bowl bubble. They're not going

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Speaker 1: to announce it or proclaim it or market it. I mean,

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Speaker 1: Patrick mahone tweet when it came down. He knew he

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Speaker 1: was losing arguably his best teammate. His tweet one word damn.

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Speaker 1: So and you totally understand why the Rams did this.

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Speaker 1: Go look at what JSN did to the Rams. I

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Speaker 1: think the last time he played, Jasn had over one

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Speaker 1: hundred and fifty yards. They just couldn't they couldn't do anything.

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Speaker 1: So it is I think you know, the Chicago Bears

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Speaker 1: are a great example. This league moves quickly. Yesterday the

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Speaker 1: Bears all pro center Drew Dolman retires at twenty seven.

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Speaker 1: It's like, what what? So that's why I think the

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Speaker 1: Bears should go out and give up their first round

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Speaker 1: pick for Max Crosby, who was a game altering, game

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Speaker 1: deciding edge rusher with Montese sweat on the interior. And

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Speaker 1: there you go. You're a super Bowl team, at least

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Speaker 1: in a small group of Super Bowl Bubble teams. So

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Speaker 1: before the trade for Trent McDuffie, the Rams were tied

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Speaker 1: with Seattle for best odds to win a Super Bowl.

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Speaker 1: As of this minute, the LA Rams are now by

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Speaker 1: themselves as the Super Bowl favorite. So Trent McDuffie solving

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Speaker 1: their number one issue. And they don't have a lot

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Speaker 1: in Los Angeles. They've got one corner is a major problem,

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Speaker 1: and they've got to clean up their special teams. But

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Speaker 1: the Rams now are favored to win the Super Bowl,

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Speaker 1: which jamac you mentioned about thirty minutes ago, Like they

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Speaker 1: have to be. Seattle's the only roster that doesn't have

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Speaker 1: a whole Philadelphia. There's an argument the.

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Speaker 7: Sanda lost a lot Colin, the OC's gone, Kenneth Walker

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Speaker 7: is going to be gone.

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Speaker 1: Those are two big losses. I don't know how they're

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Speaker 1: going to react.

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Speaker 7: Rams lost like nothing, did they I mean, I know Lafleur,

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Speaker 7: who you used to work there is now in Arizona.

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Speaker 7: But like they got Cliff Kingsbury ad it like. I

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Speaker 7: think the Rams are head and shoulders above anyone else

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Speaker 7: in the NFC.

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Speaker 1: I don't are the Bears two or Seattle too? I

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Speaker 1: would say Rams, Seattle, Chicago.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, those are a pretty clear top three. Maybe Packers

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Speaker 7: cracked that. I know you're down on the Eagles. I'm

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Speaker 7: just looking at the chief secondary. Okay, Colin, this is

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Speaker 7: not a good secondary. They were thirteenth in pressure rate.

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Speaker 7: Kansas City is not a good football team right now.

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Speaker 4: Period. That's a fact.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's fair. I don't think that's a sizzling take.

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Speaker 1: I think they're getting old in key spots and too

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Speaker 1: young in other spots