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Speaker 2: Well, Alan, before we get to the proposed tax district

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Speaker 5: By moving to the Trafficana site. The ACE claim that

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Speaker 5: I think it's I really think it's stretching it. And

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Speaker 2: Tight stretch, right as well as the projection that it

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Speaker 5: You can literally just throw out of bed at MGM

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Speaker 2: So as we look ahead, we now know that in

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Speaker 2: And this needs to be done because they're getting ready

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Speaker 5: I think anytime you have a stadium subsidy bill, you're

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Speaker 2: Wrapping it up with Alan Snow LV sports Biz longtime

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Speaker 2: real quickly, Alan layout through chronology over the next twenty

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Speaker 5: Well, there it's a potential bill that will be unveiled

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Speaker 5: But that's a very big deal. I mean, that is uh,

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Speaker 6: I mean, they're.

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Speaker 5: I've been talking with a couple of them. They are very,

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Speaker 2: Alan, good stuff. We're going to get you on again

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Speaker 5: Thanks a lot, absolutely, But the funny thing is with

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Speaker 5: pleasure to talk to you, Bernie, and I'm happy to

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Speaker 2: Thanks. It's Alan Snell LV Sports Biz. The Oakland A's

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Speaker 2: to Vegas is a fluid situation. It's being reported multiple

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Speaker 2: I say it's fifty to fifty. But if the Oakland

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Speaker 2: A's come here, I promise you I'll be in the

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Speaker 2: let's go to Kevin. Why aren't thou not on the

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Speaker 3: Yeah, not as often as I had been in the past,

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Speaker 2: You play online positions like Burt exactly.

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Speaker 3: They have me everywhere here, but it keeps me on

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Speaker 3: and eighteen yet the six to twenty eight winning percentage

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Speaker 3: in his four seasons coaching in Phoenix, and he took

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Speaker 3: him to the NBA Finals in twenty twenty one, in

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Speaker 3: which they lost to the Milwaukee Bucks and he figures

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Speaker 3: to be a prominent coaching candidate this offseason. No NBA

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Speaker 3: games today, Boston hosting a Game seven tomorrow against the

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Speaker 3: seventy six ers as that they end the second round.

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Speaker 3: Game seven the Western Conference Finals between the Lakers and

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Speaker 3: Nuggets begins on Tuesday. Stanley Cup playoffs Seattle, forcing a

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Speaker 3: game seven in that series as they beat the Stars

441
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Speaker 3: six to three. Game seven will be Monday in Dallas.

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Speaker 3: Major League Baseball Dodgers make it four in a row.

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Speaker 3: They beat the Padres four to two as Jad Martinez

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Speaker 3: with a home for Los Angeles Cleveland with six runs

445
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Speaker 3: in the bottom of the eighth inning as they come

446
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Speaker 3: from behind to beat the Angels eight to six. Yankees

447
00:25:08,840 --> 00:25:11,360
Speaker 3: edge out Tampa Bay nine to eight despite trailing six

448
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Speaker 3: nothing in the fifth inning as Aaron Judge had two

449
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Speaker 3: home runs for New York. Saint Louis rallied for three

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Speaker 3: runs of the ninth inning to win four to three

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Speaker 3: at Boston, beating closer Kenley Janssen, he gave up three

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Speaker 3: runs of the ninth inning the game before as well.

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Speaker 3: The Mets at Nationals game suspended by rain until tomorrow.

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Speaker 3: With Washington leading one nothing in the third inning. The

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Speaker 3: Nats finally made an announcement after nearly a four hour

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Speaker 3: weather delay. Back to you burning all.

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Speaker 2: Right, thanks a lot, Kevin. So we talked about Game

458
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Speaker 2: seven and thirteen hours and you know we'll be watching

459
00:25:44,680 --> 00:25:47,399
Speaker 2: Boston and Philly. For some reason, the series lacks a

460
00:25:47,440 --> 00:25:50,400
Speaker 2: little bit of an astro mean because how disappointing these

461
00:25:50,400 --> 00:25:54,080
Speaker 2: teams are being done at various junctures the series we're

462
00:25:54,080 --> 00:25:57,040
Speaker 2: all looking forward to. I have to believe from a

463
00:25:57,040 --> 00:26:02,679
Speaker 2: local and national standpoint, are the Lake Denver And I've said,

464
00:26:02,760 --> 00:26:04,600
Speaker 2: you know, six eight weeks ago, I believe Denver would

465
00:26:04,600 --> 00:26:08,000
Speaker 2: be the team that would be in the NBA Finals.

466
00:26:08,040 --> 00:26:11,640
Speaker 2: They've got the most complete team. They're balanced offensive, lead defensively.

467
00:26:11,640 --> 00:26:14,040
Speaker 2: They average one hundred and twenty five points per one

468
00:26:14,119 --> 00:26:16,320
Speaker 2: hundred possessions. Compare that to the Lakers, who are one

469
00:26:16,359 --> 00:26:19,720
Speaker 2: to eleven, and I just don't see a path where

470
00:26:19,720 --> 00:26:22,320
Speaker 2: the Lakers beat them, but we shall see. But irrespective

471
00:26:22,359 --> 00:26:26,119
Speaker 2: of that, whatever happens, I have a tremendous tip of

472
00:26:26,160 --> 00:26:27,959
Speaker 2: the cap to the Lakers for what they've done this year.

473
00:26:28,000 --> 00:26:30,679
Speaker 2: They started out two and ten, they couldn't get out

474
00:26:30,720 --> 00:26:35,000
Speaker 2: of their own way, and from the trade deadline deals

475
00:26:35,000 --> 00:26:37,399
Speaker 2: to the way they've come together where the hole are

476
00:26:37,440 --> 00:26:40,440
Speaker 2: better than some of the total parts. I have marveled

477
00:26:40,480 --> 00:26:42,879
Speaker 2: at the way they finished sixteen and seven down the stretch.

478
00:26:43,359 --> 00:26:49,160
Speaker 2: Their identity is defense, but it's also a unique sort

479
00:26:49,200 --> 00:26:52,440
Speaker 2: of a blend with respect to the fact that on

480
00:26:52,520 --> 00:26:57,880
Speaker 2: any given night, one of multiple players will exude greatness

481
00:26:57,920 --> 00:27:01,040
Speaker 2: in a way that becomes the difference between winning and losing.

482
00:27:01,840 --> 00:27:04,560
Speaker 2: And you've heard me say it a thousand times. I

483
00:27:04,720 --> 00:27:07,320
Speaker 2: marveled most, and you heard me pick on Derek Carr,

484
00:27:08,080 --> 00:27:10,520
Speaker 2: I picked on Stafford Detroit. What I'm not going to

485
00:27:10,560 --> 00:27:13,120
Speaker 2: go down the litany, but when it mattered most, when

486
00:27:13,119 --> 00:27:15,000
Speaker 2: the heat is hot, it's hard to breathe. And in

487
00:27:15,000 --> 00:27:17,520
Speaker 2: a high leverage moment, can you be great when the

488
00:27:17,560 --> 00:27:20,920
Speaker 2: situation demands great? And it's And that's exactly what D'Angelo

489
00:27:21,040 --> 00:27:25,080
Speaker 2: Russell did, and Dennis Shrewder has done, and Austin Reeves

490
00:27:25,119 --> 00:27:27,920
Speaker 2: has repeatedly done. And Lonnie Walker the fourth in game

491
00:27:27,960 --> 00:27:30,640
Speaker 2: four or fourth quarter, by the way, when Shruder got

492
00:27:30,720 --> 00:27:33,919
Speaker 2: kicked out last night, who comes in thirteen points eight

493
00:27:33,960 --> 00:27:38,440
Speaker 2: and the third quarter? Lonnie Walker the fourth. Now we're

494
00:27:38,440 --> 00:27:40,800
Speaker 2: going to find out whether or not the Lakers Bubble

495
00:27:40,840 --> 00:27:44,840
Speaker 2: championship is validated because they're going to have to travel

496
00:27:45,240 --> 00:27:48,600
Speaker 2: and they didn't get four months off, and so I

497
00:27:48,640 --> 00:27:51,159
Speaker 2: don't think that championship deserves an asterisk because they were

498
00:27:51,200 --> 00:27:53,680
Speaker 2: in the same boat as everybody else. But I will

499
00:27:53,720 --> 00:27:57,520
Speaker 2: say this that all time off is not created equal.

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00:27:58,080 --> 00:28:01,600
Speaker 2: The raider of the Lakers in twenty twenty benefited far

501
00:28:01,640 --> 00:28:03,280
Speaker 2: more from the four months rest and not having to

502
00:28:03,320 --> 00:28:05,240
Speaker 2: travel than most of their patriots. But be that as

503
00:28:05,240 --> 00:28:08,840
Speaker 2: it may, they win the championship. Now, after the Lakers

504
00:28:09,240 --> 00:28:12,760
Speaker 2: take dispatch the Warriors on six, the Western Conference Finals

505
00:28:12,800 --> 00:28:15,720
Speaker 2: are set. They're gonna take on the Nuggets, who are

506
00:28:15,720 --> 00:28:18,920
Speaker 2: top seeded, and the Lakers, after starting out two to ten,

507
00:28:19,840 --> 00:28:22,800
Speaker 2: just need to win four games to get to the

508
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Speaker 2: NBA Finals. The thought of that back in November would

509
00:28:28,400 --> 00:28:33,040
Speaker 2: have had me institutionalized their seventh seed entering the playoffs.

510
00:28:33,040 --> 00:28:35,560
Speaker 2: The Lakers are going to be underdogs, probably in every game,

511
00:28:36,240 --> 00:28:39,200
Speaker 2: but Lebron's been to the finals ten times, so you

512
00:28:39,280 --> 00:28:43,800
Speaker 2: cannot count the Lakers out. And these teams did meet

513
00:28:43,920 --> 00:28:46,280
Speaker 2: in the Western Conference Finals or in the twenty twenty Bubbles.

514
00:28:46,320 --> 00:28:49,280
Speaker 2: As a matter of fact, here's a little factoid for you

515
00:28:49,760 --> 00:28:53,080
Speaker 2: that you can impress your friends at when you're closing

516
00:28:53,120 --> 00:28:57,880
Speaker 2: down John Bajuice. If the Celtics win Sunday, the same

517
00:28:57,960 --> 00:29:01,479
Speaker 2: four teams that comprise the final four in the Bubble

518
00:29:01,880 --> 00:29:06,320
Speaker 2: back in twenty twenty, there'll be a Dejevol over again. Yogi.

519
00:29:06,720 --> 00:29:10,280
Speaker 2: You have Boston, Miami, Lakers, Denver and if you recall,

520
00:29:11,040 --> 00:29:14,240
Speaker 2: in the Lakers Denver matchup in twenty twenty, the Lakers

521
00:29:14,680 --> 00:29:16,760
Speaker 2: took them down in five games en route to win

522
00:29:16,760 --> 00:29:21,360
Speaker 2: in the title right now, Interestingly enough, Contavious Caldwell Pope,

523
00:29:21,800 --> 00:29:23,920
Speaker 2: who was on that Lakers team who now starts for

524
00:29:23,920 --> 00:29:29,920
Speaker 2: the Nuggets, had said, you know that he believes and

525
00:29:29,960 --> 00:29:33,400
Speaker 2: now this is going into the cookie jar. In Game two,

526
00:29:34,120 --> 00:29:37,080
Speaker 2: Anthony Davis hit a game winning three pointer in Game two,

527
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Speaker 2: and Pope believes that if Davis had missed that three

528
00:29:41,720 --> 00:29:44,640
Speaker 2: pointer that the Lakers would have lost the series and

529
00:29:44,720 --> 00:29:48,680
Speaker 2: Denver would have got him. Now, aside from that, both

530
00:29:48,720 --> 00:29:51,960
Speaker 2: teams have turned over their rosters considerably, but he still

531
00:29:52,000 --> 00:29:56,440
Speaker 2: got some of the main pieces right. Interestingly enough, Lebron

532
00:29:56,520 --> 00:30:01,160
Speaker 2: James Anthony Davis are the only remaining Lakers. The Denver

533
00:30:01,240 --> 00:30:05,120
Speaker 2: Nuggets still have Yokick Jamal Murray, Michael Porter Junior. That's

534
00:30:05,160 --> 00:30:07,560
Speaker 2: a pretty good core. Now you fast forward to this season.

535
00:30:08,080 --> 00:30:10,400
Speaker 2: These two teams, they did play each other four times,

536
00:30:10,400 --> 00:30:12,840
Speaker 2: and they split two and two, and actually the home

537
00:30:12,880 --> 00:30:16,800
Speaker 2: team won every game. I think that lacks relevance at

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00:30:16,800 --> 00:30:19,680
Speaker 2: this point, given the fact that none of these games

539
00:30:19,680 --> 00:30:23,280
Speaker 2: were played after the Lakers reshaped their roster postraight deadline.

540
00:30:23,720 --> 00:30:26,440
Speaker 2: So the fourth game could be totally thrown out because

541
00:30:26,440 --> 00:30:29,480
Speaker 2: Anthony Davis and Lebron James were both missing and the

542
00:30:29,520 --> 00:30:32,800
Speaker 2: Nuggets blew them out. So, as is the case in

543
00:30:32,880 --> 00:30:36,440
Speaker 2: most series, it comes down to matchups. Let's look at

544
00:30:36,440 --> 00:30:40,360
Speaker 2: the key matchups. The key matchup is Nicole Jokick and

545
00:30:40,400 --> 00:30:43,760
Speaker 2: Anthony Davis. Jokick has put together one of the best

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Speaker 2: ever runs through the first two rounds of this year's

547
00:30:46,520 --> 00:30:49,400
Speaker 2: playoffs that I can remember. You want to give the

548
00:30:49,440 --> 00:30:53,719
Speaker 2: MVP knock itself out. You think MVP, you think MB

549
00:30:53,840 --> 00:30:57,080
Speaker 2: would rather win a championship than an MVP. But you

550
00:30:57,120 --> 00:30:59,400
Speaker 2: and Kendrick Perkins, you can all get together, throw yourself

551
00:30:59,400 --> 00:31:01,520
Speaker 2: a party. But you're not the best player in the

552
00:31:01,560 --> 00:31:03,920
Speaker 2: league right now. Joki Kiss, He's at a totally different

553
00:31:04,000 --> 00:31:06,680
Speaker 2: level than Joe Joel Embidie is right. Now, it's taken

554
00:31:06,680 --> 00:31:10,320
Speaker 2: away nothing from Mbiid. Yokick is just better. You're in

555
00:31:10,320 --> 00:31:12,800
Speaker 2: denial if you don't think so, Yoki. It's the only

556
00:31:12,800 --> 00:31:15,200
Speaker 2: player in NBA history to average thirty one points, thirteen

557
00:31:15,240 --> 00:31:19,280
Speaker 2: rebounds in ten assists in the postseason. Now, Davis has

558
00:31:19,320 --> 00:31:22,200
Speaker 2: been up and down offensively, but his defense been pretty

559
00:31:22,200 --> 00:31:24,480
Speaker 2: consistently among the best of any player in the playoffs.

560
00:31:24,520 --> 00:31:28,520
Speaker 2: But during the regular season, frankly, if you watch the games,

561
00:31:28,600 --> 00:31:33,360
Speaker 2: neither player really stopped the other. But when Davis scards,

562
00:31:34,320 --> 00:31:37,880
Speaker 2: Yokik choose sixty five percent from the field, and Yokick

563
00:31:38,040 --> 00:31:40,640
Speaker 2: is tremendous in the post against Anthony Davis. He's got

564
00:31:40,680 --> 00:31:44,000
Speaker 2: a strength advantage. He's been able to back Anthony Davis

565
00:31:44,040 --> 00:31:48,840
Speaker 2: down for easy laps, and Joki has this array of

566
00:31:48,920 --> 00:31:52,360
Speaker 2: shot fakes that really gave Anthony Davis a lot of trouble.

567
00:31:53,120 --> 00:31:57,000
Speaker 2: But let's be fair and be honest here. Anthony Davis

568
00:31:57,040 --> 00:32:02,000
Speaker 2: shot sixty two when Jokic was guarding him, and Davis

569
00:32:02,040 --> 00:32:04,080
Speaker 2: really hasn't been able to power his way into the

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00:32:04,120 --> 00:32:06,600
Speaker 2: post like Yoki does, but he does have a little

571
00:32:06,600 --> 00:32:08,640
Speaker 2: bit of a speed advantage to get around Yokick. He's

572
00:32:08,680 --> 00:32:12,280
Speaker 2: also had a lot of success driving at nicolea Jokick

573
00:32:12,360 --> 00:32:14,600
Speaker 2: and finishing over him. He can get that soft floater

574
00:32:15,320 --> 00:32:18,920
Speaker 2: to score the ball. Now during the regular season, then

575
00:32:18,920 --> 00:32:21,920
Speaker 2: I'll get him able to use Joki's passing to pull

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00:32:22,000 --> 00:32:24,120
Speaker 2: Davis away from the basket to get easy laps. And

577
00:32:24,400 --> 00:32:26,800
Speaker 2: you got a situation where when you get those Joker

578
00:32:26,920 --> 00:32:29,240
Speaker 2: candoffs at the elbow, they open up driving lanes for

579
00:32:29,280 --> 00:32:34,320
Speaker 2: the guards, So that causes sometimes Anthony Davis to sag off.

580
00:32:34,880 --> 00:32:40,280
Speaker 2: That makes Jokic and his passing so dangerous. I think,

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00:32:41,560 --> 00:32:43,000
Speaker 2: now they're gonna have to play every other night, and

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00:32:43,040 --> 00:32:45,960
Speaker 2: you're gonna be an altitude. I give Anthony Davis top

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00:32:46,000 --> 00:32:48,600
Speaker 2: credit for his effort. He's been a transcendent player in

584
00:32:48,600 --> 00:32:51,640
Speaker 2: the series, and I think the Lakers go as Davis goes,

585
00:32:51,680 --> 00:32:54,560
Speaker 2: and everybody's been contributing Lebron right on down the line.

586
00:32:55,200 --> 00:32:57,560
Speaker 2: But I think the cumulative effect of having to guard

587
00:32:57,840 --> 00:33:00,480
Speaker 2: Jokic is gonna wear Anthony Davis out through the course

588
00:33:00,520 --> 00:33:04,240
Speaker 2: of the series. We shall see it starts Tuesday. Each

589
00:33:04,280 --> 00:33:07,440
Speaker 2: team has an X factor. For the Lakers, it's D'Angelo Russell.

590
00:33:08,040 --> 00:33:11,040
Speaker 2: He averaged thirty one points in aight assists. I'm talking

591
00:33:11,040 --> 00:33:15,160
Speaker 2: about Devin Booker. He averaged thirty one points in aid assists,

592
00:33:15,280 --> 00:33:18,840
Speaker 2: and he showed here's a way to beat the Nuggets defense,

593
00:33:19,280 --> 00:33:22,840
Speaker 2: because the Nuggets actually are susceptible to guards who can

594
00:33:22,880 --> 00:33:26,560
Speaker 2: over manipulate their aggressive defense, and you can trick them

595
00:33:26,560 --> 00:33:28,760
Speaker 2: with passing reeds and then you've got to knock down

596
00:33:28,760 --> 00:33:32,600
Speaker 2: your open shots. Now I'm not seeing D'Angelo Russell is

597
00:33:32,600 --> 00:33:35,240
Speaker 2: as good as as a Devin Booker, but he did

598
00:33:35,240 --> 00:33:38,440
Speaker 2: shoot forty percent during the regular season from behind the ark,

599
00:33:38,520 --> 00:33:41,160
Speaker 2: so he's capable of making those passing reads if the

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00:33:41,200 --> 00:33:44,560
Speaker 2: Nuggets blitz him. And he's played well in the regular

601
00:33:44,560 --> 00:33:46,680
Speaker 2: season and he's played well in the postseason. Now the

602
00:33:46,840 --> 00:33:50,840
Speaker 2: X factor for the Nuggets. Michael Porter Jr. Now Porter

603
00:33:50,960 --> 00:33:53,600
Speaker 2: Junior is not exactly the best defender. He's never been

604
00:33:53,640 --> 00:33:57,560
Speaker 2: known as a great defender in his career. However, against

605
00:33:57,560 --> 00:34:00,960
Speaker 2: the Suns, he was a very good defender. And he's

606
00:34:01,280 --> 00:34:03,160
Speaker 2: on the floor. You know, back in the day, the

607
00:34:03,200 --> 00:34:06,200
Speaker 2: Pistons had a guy of Vinnie Johnson. They called him

608
00:34:06,200 --> 00:34:07,960
Speaker 2: the microwave because he'd get on the floor and he'd

609
00:34:07,960 --> 00:34:12,439
Speaker 2: start scoring instant offense. Right Michael Porter Junior is kind

610
00:34:12,440 --> 00:34:15,239
Speaker 2: of like this generation's microwave. And if the Lakers can't

611
00:34:15,280 --> 00:34:18,240
Speaker 2: guard Yokik one on one, and Porter's gonna be ginning

612
00:34:18,239 --> 00:34:20,839
Speaker 2: a ton of open threes off those doubles. And if

613
00:34:22,120 --> 00:34:25,640
Speaker 2: he if he continues to hit forty one percent, he

614
00:34:25,640 --> 00:34:27,320
Speaker 2: could get five, six to seven threes in any of

615
00:34:27,360 --> 00:34:29,880
Speaker 2: those games. That right there could be the difference. So

616
00:34:29,960 --> 00:34:32,759
Speaker 2: those are two I think biggest X factors. Who's gonna

617
00:34:32,800 --> 00:34:34,680
Speaker 2: win this thing. Well, in order for the Lakers to win,

618
00:34:35,160 --> 00:34:39,959
Speaker 2: they're gonna be Lebron and Davis. In Anthony Davis, let's

619
00:34:39,960 --> 00:34:42,640
Speaker 2: say the three best players and when the when the

620
00:34:42,680 --> 00:34:45,960
Speaker 2: history books are written are Davis, Lebron, and Jokic. It's

621
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Speaker 2: gonna have to be that way. Lebron and Anthony Davis

622
00:34:49,200 --> 00:34:51,760
Speaker 2: are gonna have to be two of the top three players. Okay,

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00:34:51,960 --> 00:34:55,239
Speaker 2: they're capable, but they haven't done it consistently this year.

624
00:34:55,239 --> 00:34:57,720
Speaker 2: They've been up and down. They've had many games. Anthony Davis,

625
00:34:57,960 --> 00:35:00,880
Speaker 2: he's had many games where he's frankly just superior on offense.

626
00:35:01,600 --> 00:35:05,760
Speaker 2: Lebron he's playing his tailoff the heart of a champion.

627
00:35:06,160 --> 00:35:08,640
Speaker 2: He doesn't look right physically to me, I'm not sure

628
00:35:08,640 --> 00:35:11,200
Speaker 2: if he's got a foot injury. I'm not sure if

629
00:35:11,640 --> 00:35:14,440
Speaker 2: he's just tired. I hate to use the world old.

630
00:35:14,760 --> 00:35:18,799
Speaker 2: That's a BS word. It's a relative term. But he

631
00:35:18,840 --> 00:35:21,840
Speaker 2: does look slow on defense, and he's been shooting poorly

632
00:35:21,880 --> 00:35:25,719
Speaker 2: in stretches on offense, not consistent. Meanwhile, the Nuggets, they

633
00:35:25,840 --> 00:35:28,040
Speaker 2: got to continue to defend at a high level. They can.

634
00:35:28,239 --> 00:35:31,680
Speaker 2: They have a scheme where Jokic puts the pressure on

635
00:35:31,760 --> 00:35:35,280
Speaker 2: ball screens, and when he does that, your offense better

636
00:35:35,440 --> 00:35:38,520
Speaker 2: really execute in order to work. And they've been able

637
00:35:38,520 --> 00:35:40,839
Speaker 2: to master rotations behind Yokick, and they're going to need

638
00:35:40,880 --> 00:35:43,439
Speaker 2: to do that against the team. This Lakers team has

639
00:35:43,480 --> 00:35:47,160
Speaker 2: some decent firepower turns out, and ultimately, I just do

640
00:35:47,200 --> 00:35:48,719
Speaker 2: not think the Lakers are going to be able to

641
00:35:48,719 --> 00:35:51,360
Speaker 2: slow down the Nuggets offense enough to win. All Right.

642
00:35:51,440 --> 00:35:54,840
Speaker 2: They were able to contain the Warriors motion offense because

643
00:35:55,239 --> 00:35:57,319
Speaker 2: Davis was a helper and a good helper, and the

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Speaker 2: Klay Thompson just can't shoot anymore, at least for now,

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Speaker 2: and they rely too much on Steph and that's just

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Speaker 2: the way it is. You're not gonna be able to

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Speaker 2: do that against youkick he's gonna put a ton of

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Speaker 2: strain on everybody else in the roster, and Denver's got

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Speaker 2: a very good supporting cast. Gon to my head, I

650
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Speaker 2: like the Nuggets and six, but as I said at

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Speaker 2: the top, it really doesn't matter what happens. I give

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Speaker 2: the Lakers their flowers because it has been one hell

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Speaker 2: of a phenomenal season for them. Speaking of playoffs, the

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Speaker 2: College football has announced their twelve team playoff and we

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Speaker 2: have to wait one more year for it. But where

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Speaker 2: do you hear this schedule? It is a doozy. I'm

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Speaker 2: Bernie Fraddlewick coming to your line from the Las Vegas

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Speaker 2: Fox Sports Radio tire Racket dot Com studios. Keep it

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Speaker 2: locked right here. You listening to the Bernie Frale Show

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Speaker 2: on Fox Sports Radio.

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Speaker 2: Back on the Bernie Frattle Show. Coming to you live

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Speaker 2: from the Fox Sports Radio tire As studios here in

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Speaker 2: Las Vegas. Just getting started to take you up to

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Speaker 2: three am Pacific, six am Eastern Top of the hour

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Speaker 2: Mark Medina Medina Magic covering it all for the NBA

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Speaker 2: and when you know it, more headlines today even though

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Speaker 2: there were no games played. We'll get to all of that,

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Speaker 2: including a game seventh Sunday and Lakers Denver and so

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Speaker 2: on and so forth. The twelve team college football Playoff

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Speaker 2: schedule is here. It's going to be real, and they're

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Speaker 2: going to be spectacular. Here's what's so interesting about it.

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Speaker 2: And by the way, you got to wait a year.

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Speaker 2: This year we have one more season of the phony

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Speaker 2: Baloney Made for TV Invitational tournament. But heading into the

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Speaker 2: twenty twenty four season, when that playoffs starts, that twelve

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Speaker 2: team Playoff starts, and for the record, it'll start on

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Speaker 2: December twentieth. There will actually be multiple opening round games

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Speaker 2: on various college campuses, and then you get to the

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Speaker 2: quarterfinals around New Year's Day. But here's where it gets interesting.

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Speaker 2: There's going to be a five day stretch and because

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Speaker 2: of this schedule, just because of the way it shook

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Speaker 2: out and the dates on the calendar, between Thursday, January ninth,

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Speaker 2: this is twenty twenty five, and Monday, January thirteenth, you're

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Speaker 2: gonna have one college semi final game on Thursday, January ninth,

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Speaker 2: You'll have the other college semi final game Friday, January tenth,

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Speaker 2: and then a cornucopia two NFL playoff games on Saturday,

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Speaker 2: three NFL playoff games on Sunday, one NFL playoff game

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Speaker 2: on Monday. That's five consecutive days and nights of do

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Speaker 2: or die football playoff action, featuring eight games in the NFL,

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Speaker 2: and in college football. That's not just football. That's high stakes,

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Speaker 2: high intensity playoff football. Winner go home. And then it

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Speaker 2: repeats again in twenty twenty six, and it's you know,

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Speaker 2: it's a five day football smor that'll have a two

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Speaker 2: year window, and it's a little temporary because when you

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Speaker 2: get to the third year, they're going to readjust the

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Speaker 2: schedule and start the college season sooner. But this is

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Speaker 2: gonna be incredible. And by the way, games, like I said,

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Speaker 2: the first round games, they'll be played on campus sites. Friday,

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Speaker 2: December twentieth, will be one game Saturday December twenty first,

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Speaker 2: there'll be a triple header. Now that will also clash

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Speaker 2: with NFL regular season games that are being played on

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Speaker 2: that Saturday. And yeah, it might impact the college ratings,

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Speaker 2: but the NFL might suffer a little too either. Way

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Speaker 2: for fans, it becomes a slice of football heaven. And

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Speaker 2: this playoff tournament is going to last about a month, so,

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Speaker 2: as luck would have it, when you get to the

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Speaker 2: actual championship game in January twenty twenty five, it's going

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Speaker 2: to be played on January twentieth, Martin Luther King Day,

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Speaker 2: so it'll be a full month, one month. And this

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Speaker 2: is gonna be due to pre existing scheduling challenges as

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Speaker 2: a result of how the NFL and the weekend games

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Speaker 2: and how the college dates fared out. But tell me

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Speaker 2: you're not already looking forward to this. I know, I

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Speaker 2: got my spot marked out on the couch. It'll be

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Speaker 2: a genuine playoff football coma extravaganza. Speaking of playoffs, we

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Speaker 2: have a game seven Boston Philly in about twelve and

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Speaker 2: a half hours. We've got Lakers Denver coming up. We've

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Speaker 2: got coaching changes, We've got NFL stories that are a

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Speaker 2: corn copy of stories. That's why coming up top of

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Speaker 2: the r Mark Medina Medina Magic. So keep it locked.

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Speaker 2: We've got a game seven in twelve hours. You've got

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Speaker 2: Lakers Denver. Let's say you're a coach who was one

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Speaker 2: ninety four and one point fifteen Coach of the Year

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Speaker 2: last year, NBA Finals year before. Well, how do you

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Speaker 2: explain it? All I can say is it's that time

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Speaker 2: every Saturday night, Mark Medina, Medina Magic midnight. You know

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Speaker 2: what me love you can lay without him and Mark

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Speaker 2: just like every other week. It's uncanny how the news

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Speaker 2: cycle never stops. How are you tonight, Bernie?

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Speaker 6: I'm always could talk to you. I mean that this

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Speaker 6: is why we program every Saturday at midnight, because we

743
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Speaker 6: know there's always gonna be new things. I'm packing the.

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Speaker 2: NBA so he can't bury the lead. Let's start with

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Speaker 2: many Williams. I just gave the record and you could

746
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Speaker 2: you know this could be as simplistic as Matt Hbs

747
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Speaker 2: saying Hey, I'm doing everything. I'm starting over your thoughts.

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Speaker 2: What really prompted this desease?

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Speaker 6: Yeah, well, I think that's the bigger thing. That's a

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Speaker 6: new owner of matt Eshbia. He wants to put his

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Speaker 6: fingerprints on the team. But you also look at the

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Speaker 6: way that the Phoenix Suns lost in their elimination game

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Speaker 6: against the Denver Nuggets. It was eerily similar to the

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Speaker 6: way they lost their elimination game to the Dallas Mavericks

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Speaker 6: and how that happened. They just got blown out. They

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Speaker 6: didn't compete whatsoever. They weren't ready to play from the jump.

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Speaker 6: And I think that there was some foreshadowing about Monty

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Speaker 6: Williams being let go when he was the first tomit

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Speaker 6: after the game that he followed himself for not getting

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Speaker 6: the guys ready to play. Even with all those things considered,

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Speaker 6: I think that this falls in the category that you know,

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Speaker 6: the NBA coaches always the first casualty to be let go.

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Speaker 6: The reality is, while I do think that the Suns

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Speaker 6: had to make the deal to get Kevin Durant, they

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Speaker 6: came at the expense of really not having any bench whatsoever.

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Speaker 6: And when you couple that with Chris Paul's injury, it

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Speaker 6: just seemed inevitable that they would lose the Denver Nuggets,

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Speaker 6: which has shown that they are the best team so

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Speaker 6: far in the NBA.

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Speaker 2: This is and Deandreight didn't play either, So two starters down,

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Speaker 2: no bench. As you said, Mark, I really appreciate your candor.

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Speaker 2: And since only about fifteen million of Chris Paul's salary

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Speaker 2: is guaranteed for next season, do you think they should

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Speaker 2: simply move on from him for a younger point guard.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, that's a good question. I think that there's gonna

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Speaker 6: be a lot of complicated variables with this, because if

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Speaker 6: they could just pull out a young point guard out

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Speaker 6: of a tree, they would do it. Sometimes that's complicated.

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Speaker 6: And as far as Chris Paul's market value, you know,

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Speaker 6: there's teams that are going to have trepidation because of

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Speaker 6: his injury history. There could be some teams that have

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Speaker 6: interests like the Oklahoma City Thunder did a few years

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Speaker 6: ago with the Houston Rockets deal, where they thought, hey,

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Speaker 6: we're in a rebuilding mode, let's just have a veteran

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Speaker 6: point guard that can, you know, be very good with

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Speaker 6: mentoring the young guys. So the devil is going to

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Speaker 6: be in the details here. But I know talking to

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Speaker 6: Chris Paul before the playoffs started, he was at adamant

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Speaker 6: to me that he did not view this season's final year.

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Speaker 6: He knew he still had tears left tho his contract.

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Speaker 6: He didn't want to see himself as playing this retirement tour.

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Speaker 6: But he also conceded, you know what, him reaching the

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Speaker 6: stream is really going to hinge on how healthy he

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Speaker 6: can be, and so far in the last few years

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Speaker 6: he just hasn't been able to do that part of

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Speaker 6: the job here. He's always been having all these crazy

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Speaker 6: injuries at the worst time of the year in the playoffs.

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Speaker 2: So I can't do this segment each week without firing

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Speaker 2: off a tidbit from hearing from one of my moles.

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Speaker 2: Is there any truth to the possibility that Phoenix could

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Speaker 2: try to hook up with Fred van Vliet next year.

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Speaker 6: I think they could very well try. I mean, he

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Speaker 6: is a very serviceable point guard with the Toronto Raptors,

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Speaker 6: and I think that they're reaching kind of this turning

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Speaker 6: point where clearly they weren't bad enough to be a

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Speaker 6: lottery team, but they weren't really good enough to really

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Speaker 6: make any sort of headway. They made the Playans tornament

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Speaker 6: and that was that. So you know, keep your eye

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Speaker 6: on Fred van Vliet at a possible scenario, But it

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Speaker 6: takes two to tango. And you know, unless the sun's

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Speaker 6: really or unless the Raptors really want to start right over,

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Speaker 6: maybe they do have this thought that they want to

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Speaker 6: get back into the playoff mix. But when you add

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Speaker 6: the fact that they already let go Nick Nurse, maybe

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Speaker 6: this is a starting from scratch field. So I think

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Speaker 6: your moles are onto something.

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Speaker 2: Finally, before we vacate the Suns. DeAndre Eighton, obviously the

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Speaker 2: number one pick overall five years ago, just got the

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Speaker 2: four year, one hundred and thirty three million dollars off

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Speaker 2: her sheet with the Pacers last season. The Suns ends

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Speaker 2: up matching it. But I feel like he's played his

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Speaker 2: last game in Phoenix.

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Speaker 6: Your thoughts, Yeah, very well, could happen. But you know what, Bernie,

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Speaker 6: I thought he played his last game with Phoenix last season,

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Speaker 6: and I didn't think that there's no way that they

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Speaker 6: would resign him. It was just very confounded. It seemed

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Speaker 6: like the Suns want he got rid of them, and

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Speaker 6: then we're afraid to break up because they let him

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Speaker 6: go and be a restricted free agent, let him get

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Speaker 6: an offer sheet, and then they wound up signing for

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Speaker 6: the Max. I didn't understand that at all. I thought

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Speaker 6: you'd either do a sign in trade or let him walk.

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Speaker 6: And I'm really sour on him because two years ago

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Speaker 6: I thought that he finally turned a corner of being

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Speaker 6: an elite young talent. He you know, had got a

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Speaker 6: lot of praise from Monnie Williams and Chris Paul with

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Speaker 6: how his attitude change and how he was being very

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Speaker 6: coachable and he was unlocking a lot of skills as

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Speaker 6: a defender and as a pick and roll screener. And

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Speaker 6: then all of a sudden, he took a lot of

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Speaker 6: steps back with not responding well to that tough love

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Speaker 6: and not responding well to adversity. And I feel like

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Speaker 6: at some point you've got to believe people with what

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Speaker 6: they do rather than what they say. And so I

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Speaker 6: think at that given that, I think the Sons are

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Speaker 6: better off trying to cut their losses and see what

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Speaker 6: they can get in return.

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Speaker 2: Talking to Mark Medina Medina Magic our Fox Sports Radio

849
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Speaker 2: NBA guru, Yeah again, new ownership, that's the key here.

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Speaker 2: So nothing would would surprise me. Let's look ahead to

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Speaker 2: Sunday's Game seven between Boston and Philadelphia. But I'm going

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Speaker 2: to take a slightly different angle now in light of

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Speaker 2: what the you know, coaching carousel has been as it were,

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Speaker 2: the last couple of years. If Philadelphia loses, and that

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Speaker 2: would be Doc rivers tense Game seven loss in the

856
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Speaker 2: playoffs in his career, could you see the Sixers moving

857
00:47:09,760 --> 00:47:11,400
Speaker 2: on from Doc Rivers?

858
00:47:11,880 --> 00:47:15,279
Speaker 6: I guess you'd never say never in today's NBA. I mean, look,

859
00:47:15,520 --> 00:47:18,200
Speaker 6: there's been a lot of head coaching firings, and when

860
00:47:18,200 --> 00:47:20,680
Speaker 6: you look at only three years ago, as far as

861
00:47:20,719 --> 00:47:25,400
Speaker 6: potential teams in the Final four, only Eric Spolser is

862
00:47:25,440 --> 00:47:29,160
Speaker 6: the remaining head coach there. But I think with Doc Rivers,

863
00:47:29,239 --> 00:47:31,920
Speaker 6: while he's certainly not immune from criticism, I would argue

864
00:47:31,920 --> 00:47:34,960
Speaker 6: that the Sixers really overachieved against the Celtics. I did

865
00:47:34,960 --> 00:47:37,760
Speaker 6: not think that they would get them to a Game seven.

866
00:47:37,800 --> 00:47:41,080
Speaker 6: And while the Celtics certainly had themselves to blame, both

867
00:47:41,080 --> 00:47:46,279
Speaker 6: with their inconsistent effort and the questionable decision making, you know,

868
00:47:46,280 --> 00:47:49,360
Speaker 6: with Joe Mazzula just not putting Robert Williams a third

869
00:47:49,800 --> 00:47:52,640
Speaker 6: and Al Horford together until very late in the series.

870
00:47:53,600 --> 00:47:56,800
Speaker 6: I don't sense that Doc Rivers has anything to worry about.

871
00:47:56,800 --> 00:48:00,400
Speaker 6: But again, the NBA moves to a fast paced and

872
00:48:00,480 --> 00:48:02,640
Speaker 6: things are always subject to change. But I know, just

873
00:48:03,239 --> 00:48:06,399
Speaker 6: as of now, Darryl Morris seems pretty high on him,

874
00:48:06,400 --> 00:48:08,239
Speaker 6: and he was committed to him last year, and I

875
00:48:08,280 --> 00:48:11,279
Speaker 6: haven't heard any signal that suggests otherwise this.

876
00:48:11,200 --> 00:48:14,400
Speaker 2: Season, and we've not seen what happened to coach Bud

877
00:48:15,000 --> 00:48:18,920
Speaker 2: and then you know Monty Williams today and Nick Nurse

878
00:48:19,000 --> 00:48:22,440
Speaker 2: before that, and Quinn Snyder and right on down the line.

879
00:48:22,560 --> 00:48:24,440
Speaker 2: I probably would have even asked a question, but be

880
00:48:24,480 --> 00:48:25,880
Speaker 2: that as me. All right, let's look ahead to do

881
00:48:26,400 --> 00:48:30,040
Speaker 2: Lakers Denver. I want to give the Lakers their flowers

882
00:48:30,040 --> 00:48:32,920
Speaker 2: irrespective of what happens in the series. I think it's

883
00:48:32,960 --> 00:48:36,399
Speaker 2: been an incredible year for the Lakers. But you know, Mark,

884
00:48:36,480 --> 00:48:39,080
Speaker 2: I trust my eyes. They tell me a lot. Lebron

885
00:48:39,120 --> 00:48:41,280
Speaker 2: doesn't look right physically to me. Is it his foot?

886
00:48:41,360 --> 00:48:42,400
Speaker 2: Is he tired? What is it?

887
00:48:43,440 --> 00:48:45,799
Speaker 6: I think it's all the above. It's father time. He

888
00:48:45,880 --> 00:48:48,400
Speaker 6: keeps knocking on the door and Lebron tries to ignore it.

889
00:48:48,520 --> 00:48:52,200
Speaker 6: Sometimes he gets in through the door, sometimes he pushes

890
00:48:52,239 --> 00:48:55,320
Speaker 6: him out. I think what's fascinating. Is no doubt Lebron

891
00:48:55,400 --> 00:48:57,480
Speaker 6: James is not the same player as he once was

892
00:48:57,520 --> 00:49:00,319
Speaker 6: in his prime, but he's still finding a way to

893
00:49:00,400 --> 00:49:03,840
Speaker 6: have an imprint on the game and having a positive effect.

894
00:49:04,440 --> 00:49:07,959
Speaker 6: And I think that, you know, you do wonder will

895
00:49:08,000 --> 00:49:11,560
Speaker 6: the attrition inevitably catch up? They really dodged the bullet

896
00:49:11,560 --> 00:49:14,840
Speaker 6: by closing this series against Golden State out in six games.

897
00:49:15,160 --> 00:49:17,920
Speaker 6: Not only did that prevent any scenario of faith in

898
00:49:17,960 --> 00:49:19,880
Speaker 6: the Warriors in the game seven the Bay Area, but

899
00:49:19,960 --> 00:49:22,680
Speaker 6: say they even survived that series, they would have to

900
00:49:22,719 --> 00:49:24,960
Speaker 6: then go to Denver two days later in a high

901
00:49:25,000 --> 00:49:27,960
Speaker 6: altitude city and play the best team in the Western Conference.

902
00:49:28,000 --> 00:49:30,759
Speaker 6: It don't just seem like this isn't sustainable, but the

903
00:49:30,760 --> 00:49:33,680
Speaker 6: fact that they bought themselves some rest days could really

904
00:49:33,719 --> 00:49:37,120
Speaker 6: help them hit the reset button. But to your larger point,

905
00:49:37,480 --> 00:49:40,719
Speaker 6: they're then playing every other day, so I could really

906
00:49:40,760 --> 00:49:43,840
Speaker 6: see this go either scenario where they're able to patch

907
00:49:43,880 --> 00:49:47,080
Speaker 6: things together Lebron and Ad they're gutting it out. They

908
00:49:47,160 --> 00:49:51,040
Speaker 6: rely on some combination of their role players to make

909
00:49:51,080 --> 00:49:54,840
Speaker 6: things easier. But with that really quick turnaround time, do

910
00:49:54,920 --> 00:49:57,839
Speaker 6: not be surprised if things fall off the rails and

911
00:49:57,880 --> 00:50:00,399
Speaker 6: fall off the rails quickly. But you know that's why

912
00:50:00,400 --> 00:50:03,040
Speaker 6: they play the games. It's just so unpredictable and we

913
00:50:03,160 --> 00:50:05,839
Speaker 6: know what the scenarios could be, but it's really hard

914
00:50:05,880 --> 00:50:08,680
Speaker 6: to put down money if you're a gamble and predicting

915
00:50:08,760 --> 00:50:10,040
Speaker 6: exactly what will happen.

916
00:50:10,640 --> 00:50:12,840
Speaker 2: Well, for me, the key matchup is Nikole Yoka and

917
00:50:12,880 --> 00:50:15,480
Speaker 2: Anthony Davis, and I think Yoka has been more consistent,

918
00:50:15,480 --> 00:50:17,719
Speaker 2: but as the series goes on, I just get the

919
00:50:17,760 --> 00:50:19,359
Speaker 2: feeling Yokik whears them out.

920
00:50:19,400 --> 00:50:21,800
Speaker 6: What are your thoughts, Yeah, that very well could happen.

921
00:50:21,800 --> 00:50:24,200
Speaker 6: I mean, look, Nikola Jokic has been a walking triple

922
00:50:24,239 --> 00:50:26,279
Speaker 6: double throughout this playoffs. And when you look at the

923
00:50:26,280 --> 00:50:28,880
Speaker 6: success that the Lakers had in the bubble against the

924
00:50:28,960 --> 00:50:32,040
Speaker 6: Nuggets three years ago, look, frankly, it's a different identity.

925
00:50:32,120 --> 00:50:35,400
Speaker 6: They had rim protectors, which White Howard and Javelle McGee

926
00:50:35,520 --> 00:50:38,520
Speaker 6: as well as Davis, to give different looks at Nikole

927
00:50:38,560 --> 00:50:41,480
Speaker 6: Yo could try to wear them out. They had more

928
00:50:42,480 --> 00:50:45,000
Speaker 6: comfort to be able to have some of their guys

929
00:50:45,200 --> 00:50:47,560
Speaker 6: commit fouls on him and be physical because they had

930
00:50:47,560 --> 00:50:50,600
Speaker 6: other reinforcements here. It's really only a d at the

931
00:50:50,640 --> 00:50:54,160
Speaker 6: center spot. Well, I think that The Lakers have dramatically

932
00:50:54,239 --> 00:50:57,359
Speaker 6: improved their roster with the Russell Westbrook trade, and they

933
00:50:57,400 --> 00:50:59,600
Speaker 6: have a lot of depth and strength the numbers, even

934
00:50:59,600 --> 00:51:03,759
Speaker 6: though they don't have a consistent third guy. It's going

935
00:51:03,840 --> 00:51:05,960
Speaker 6: to be tough fledding because they just don't have the

936
00:51:06,000 --> 00:51:10,279
Speaker 6: interior presence. I think Jared Vanderbilt is very serviceable. He's

937
00:51:10,280 --> 00:51:12,640
Speaker 6: been a great rebounder, but they don't have that true

938
00:51:13,600 --> 00:51:17,240
Speaker 6: traditional big that can wear Nicole Yoka Chow. So, yeah,

939
00:51:17,280 --> 00:51:19,280
Speaker 6: it's gonna be a tough one. If I had to predict,

940
00:51:19,800 --> 00:51:22,879
Speaker 6: I would take the Nuggets in six or seven. But look,

941
00:51:23,400 --> 00:51:26,759
Speaker 6: it is so evenly matched, and you never want to

942
00:51:26,760 --> 00:51:29,880
Speaker 6: technically want to be want to bet against Lebron James

943
00:51:30,000 --> 00:51:32,400
Speaker 6: if I think the danger is we don't quite know

944
00:51:33,080 --> 00:51:35,080
Speaker 6: what version of Lebron will get in the series.

945
00:51:35,200 --> 00:51:38,000
Speaker 2: Well, I'm glad you mentioned the Westbrook trade because that

946
00:51:38,239 --> 00:51:41,880
Speaker 2: enabled the Lakers to acquire D'Angelo Russell. So I want

947
00:51:41,920 --> 00:51:45,799
Speaker 2: to share an observation I've made. Devin Booker may or

948
00:51:45,840 --> 00:51:48,759
Speaker 2: may not have given the Lakers a blueprint how to

949
00:51:48,760 --> 00:51:53,360
Speaker 2: beat the Nuggets, because the Nuggets are slightly susceptible to

950
00:51:53,440 --> 00:51:56,920
Speaker 2: guards who can sort of manipulate their aggressive defense with

951
00:51:57,280 --> 00:51:59,920
Speaker 2: good passing reads and then knocking down the open shots.

952
00:52:00,080 --> 00:52:03,560
Speaker 2: You got him, Russell. D' angelo Russell has shown he

953
00:52:03,640 --> 00:52:06,160
Speaker 2: can do that. I'm not saying he's good as good

954
00:52:06,280 --> 00:52:08,759
Speaker 2: as Devin Booker, but he did choose forty percent from

955
00:52:08,800 --> 00:52:11,319
Speaker 2: behind the arc during the regular season and he does

956
00:52:11,440 --> 00:52:16,360
Speaker 2: make good passing reads. D'Angelo Russell as an X factor

957
00:52:16,400 --> 00:52:18,880
Speaker 2: should he step up, Do you think that could be

958
00:52:18,880 --> 00:52:20,160
Speaker 2: a difference in the series.

959
00:52:19,880 --> 00:52:21,799
Speaker 6: For the Lakers, Oh, without a doubt. I mean, when

960
00:52:21,840 --> 00:52:24,879
Speaker 6: he makes shots, it's provided momentum swings for the team.

961
00:52:24,920 --> 00:52:27,680
Speaker 6: And while I think from a salary standpoint, the fact

962
00:52:27,719 --> 00:52:29,960
Speaker 6: that he's been a former all start, it is disappointing

963
00:52:30,280 --> 00:52:33,120
Speaker 6: that he's not technically that third guy on the team,

964
00:52:33,120 --> 00:52:36,839
Speaker 6: But I think his playmaking presence alone has made things

965
00:52:36,880 --> 00:52:40,200
Speaker 6: a lot easier for Anthony Davis and Lebron James with

966
00:52:40,320 --> 00:52:45,000
Speaker 6: having better space and better offensive decision making around him,

967
00:52:45,040 --> 00:52:47,360
Speaker 6: as opposed to what Russell Westbrook did where it was

968
00:52:47,480 --> 00:52:49,920
Speaker 6: very turbulent. And I think that you hit on a

969
00:52:49,920 --> 00:52:51,920
Speaker 6: good note about the Nuggets. No one's ever going to

970
00:52:52,000 --> 00:52:55,040
Speaker 6: go be able to go size for size with Nicole Joka,

971
00:52:55,200 --> 00:52:57,719
Speaker 6: so in eighties case, it's just about being physical and

972
00:52:57,760 --> 00:53:01,279
Speaker 6: trying to neutrals that matchup and with the Lakers, it's

973
00:53:01,320 --> 00:53:03,480
Speaker 6: going to be very perimeter oriented. But I think to

974
00:53:03,520 --> 00:53:06,960
Speaker 6: the Nuggets credit, they do have some reinforcements. They made

975
00:53:07,000 --> 00:53:10,560
Speaker 6: a deliberate attempt to upgrade their roster last summer, getting

976
00:53:10,600 --> 00:53:13,719
Speaker 6: a good wing defender like Contavious Colwell Pope, whom the

977
00:53:13,760 --> 00:53:15,920
Speaker 6: Lakers know well. He made a lot of good threes,

978
00:53:15,960 --> 00:53:18,399
Speaker 6: He defended a lot of wings during that title year

979
00:53:18,400 --> 00:53:21,080
Speaker 6: in twenty twenty. They also have someone like Bruce Brown

980
00:53:21,120 --> 00:53:24,600
Speaker 6: who is another good wing defender. So the Nuggets definitely

981
00:53:24,640 --> 00:53:28,000
Speaker 6: have answers on how to slow down the Lakers perimeter

982
00:53:28,120 --> 00:53:31,200
Speaker 6: oriented offense. But I think to the Lakers credit, they

983
00:53:31,239 --> 00:53:33,719
Speaker 6: do have a lot of depth in the backcourt and

984
00:53:33,760 --> 00:53:36,800
Speaker 6: the wings that you know that will be their calling

985
00:53:36,840 --> 00:53:38,719
Speaker 6: card to kind of make up the difference that they

986
00:53:38,760 --> 00:53:40,839
Speaker 6: can't go sives for size against the coach.

987
00:53:41,120 --> 00:53:44,280
Speaker 2: Conversely, Mark, I think the Nuggets X factor is Michael

988
00:53:44,320 --> 00:53:47,520
Speaker 2: Porter Junior, And I'll sell you why. I do believe

989
00:53:47,520 --> 00:53:51,239
Speaker 2: as the series progresses, Jokik is going to command some

990
00:53:51,360 --> 00:53:53,960
Speaker 2: double teams. That means Porter's going to get a lot

991
00:53:53,960 --> 00:53:57,160
Speaker 2: of open look threes off those doubles forty one percent

992
00:53:57,200 --> 00:53:59,600
Speaker 2: of those in the regular season. He could be an

993
00:53:59,760 --> 00:54:02,480
Speaker 2: X and it can be real trouble for the Lakers. Again,

994
00:54:02,719 --> 00:54:06,040
Speaker 2: just an observation, your thoughts.

995
00:54:05,000 --> 00:54:07,480
Speaker 6: Yeah, I think your observations on point he's been the

996
00:54:07,520 --> 00:54:10,440
Speaker 6: third lead scorer with Denver. He's been a lot healthier,

997
00:54:10,480 --> 00:54:14,080
Speaker 6: he's been more consistent than earlier in his career, where

998
00:54:14,160 --> 00:54:17,879
Speaker 6: you know, I think the the inexperience and the stubbornness

999
00:54:17,880 --> 00:54:20,600
Speaker 6: got in his own way, and he's been very prolific

1000
00:54:20,640 --> 00:54:23,640
Speaker 6: from three point range. What's interesting, as much as I

1001
00:54:23,719 --> 00:54:27,319
Speaker 6: talked about the Lakers having a perimeter oriented offense, don't

1002
00:54:27,320 --> 00:54:28,480
Speaker 6: discount Jamal Murray.

1003
00:54:28,520 --> 00:54:30,719
Speaker 2: He's been a very, oh absolutely.

1004
00:54:30,360 --> 00:54:33,880
Speaker 6: Tendable point guard, playing solid as a score and as

1005
00:54:33,920 --> 00:54:36,439
Speaker 6: a playmaker. And he's been healthy. I mean, I think

1006
00:54:36,440 --> 00:54:39,320
Speaker 6: that he has shown what he did in the bubble

1007
00:54:39,360 --> 00:54:43,200
Speaker 6: where he had this breakout performance, He's for the most part,

1008
00:54:43,280 --> 00:54:46,719
Speaker 6: done the similar things in the playoffs so far. He's

1009
00:54:46,760 --> 00:54:49,400
Speaker 6: a different kind of point guard than D'Angel Russell, but

1010
00:54:49,440 --> 00:54:52,560
Speaker 6: I think that he knows how to make the right play.

1011
00:54:52,600 --> 00:54:55,680
Speaker 6: He never forces the issue, he never feels like it's

1012
00:54:55,719 --> 00:54:59,560
Speaker 6: feasts or famine. Maybe he doesn't have these breakout performances

1013
00:54:59,560 --> 00:55:01,600
Speaker 6: all the time, but I think the bare minimum is

1014
00:55:01,719 --> 00:55:04,440
Speaker 6: that he's always at least solid, and that's, you know what,

1015
00:55:04,600 --> 00:55:08,320
Speaker 6: usually fine enough because Nikola Jokicic is usually posting triple

1016
00:55:08,320 --> 00:55:09,520
Speaker 6: doubles every single game.

1017
00:55:10,280 --> 00:55:12,719
Speaker 2: So I'll out myself ultimately, I just don't think the

1018
00:55:12,800 --> 00:55:14,320
Speaker 2: Lakers are going to be able to slow down the

1019
00:55:14,400 --> 00:55:17,960
Speaker 2: Nuggets offense. Nuggets average one hundred and twenty five points

1020
00:55:18,000 --> 00:55:21,200
Speaker 2: per one hundred possessions, and I know they had some

1021
00:55:21,239 --> 00:55:24,200
Speaker 2: success against the Warriors and their motion offense because Davis

1022
00:55:24,239 --> 00:55:26,160
Speaker 2: was a great helper. I don't think they can slow

1023
00:55:26,200 --> 00:55:30,879
Speaker 2: down Denver. I like Denver in six, maybe seven, maybe five,

1024
00:55:30,880 --> 00:55:32,560
Speaker 2: I don't know. But let's slip to the East quickly

1025
00:55:32,600 --> 00:55:36,200
Speaker 2: before we wrap it up. Irrespective of who emerges in

1026
00:55:36,320 --> 00:55:40,640
Speaker 2: Boston tomorrow, Miami is lying in wait and they look

1027
00:55:40,719 --> 00:55:44,800
Speaker 2: like they're ready. Your thoughts on the Eastern Conference Finals.

1028
00:55:44,520 --> 00:55:46,720
Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean, I think you could flip a coin

1029
00:55:47,040 --> 00:55:50,080
Speaker 6: regardless of whether it's Philadelphia or the Celtics that meet

1030
00:55:50,239 --> 00:55:52,640
Speaker 6: the Miami Heat, But I would still give the edge

1031
00:55:52,680 --> 00:55:55,000
Speaker 6: to Miami. They're going to be fully arrested and Jimmy

1032
00:55:55,000 --> 00:55:58,320
Speaker 6: Butler has just unlocked himself. This is what the Jimmy

1033
00:55:58,320 --> 00:56:01,520
Speaker 6: Butler are going to get now that he's finally healthy.

1034
00:56:01,560 --> 00:56:04,479
Speaker 6: And that's really why Miami was a number eight seed

1035
00:56:04,520 --> 00:56:06,680
Speaker 6: in the first place. So when you're looking at the Heat,

1036
00:56:06,840 --> 00:56:09,120
Speaker 6: you're looking at the Lakers, you think, man, they had

1037
00:56:09,120 --> 00:56:12,839
Speaker 6: these low seeds and how did they overcome all this adversity. Well,

1038
00:56:12,880 --> 00:56:15,080
Speaker 6: I think you have to take in two factors here.

1039
00:56:15,440 --> 00:56:18,800
Speaker 6: Both teams had a lot of injuries, predominantly earlier in

1040
00:56:18,840 --> 00:56:21,279
Speaker 6: the season. In the Lakers case, they made a lot

1041
00:56:21,320 --> 00:56:24,600
Speaker 6: of moves where they are dramatically a different team post

1042
00:56:24,640 --> 00:56:27,440
Speaker 6: trade deadline. So you almost have to evaluate on how

1043
00:56:27,480 --> 00:56:29,399
Speaker 6: they have been since then, and how they have been

1044
00:56:29,520 --> 00:56:31,920
Speaker 6: is they've been the third best team in the Western

1045
00:56:31,920 --> 00:56:34,200
Speaker 6: Conference and one of the most elite defensive teams. But

1046
00:56:34,320 --> 00:56:37,440
Speaker 6: to your original question about Miami, I think that they

1047
00:56:37,480 --> 00:56:40,080
Speaker 6: just have a great combination of They have Jimmy Butler

1048
00:56:40,160 --> 00:56:43,680
Speaker 6: superstar talent, but they are very well conditioned. They have

1049
00:56:43,760 --> 00:56:46,200
Speaker 6: a lot of good veteran players a Bam out of Bayo,

1050
00:56:46,520 --> 00:56:48,279
Speaker 6: a Kyle Lowry, and they have a lot of good

1051
00:56:48,320 --> 00:56:51,040
Speaker 6: young players like a Duncan Robinson and a Tyler Hero

1052
00:56:51,160 --> 00:56:54,160
Speaker 6: and a very elite coach and Eric Spoltzer. So I

1053
00:56:54,200 --> 00:56:56,040
Speaker 6: think that they're going to get back to the NBA

1054
00:56:56,120 --> 00:56:59,359
Speaker 6: Finals just as they were in twenty twenty. So it's

1055
00:56:59,400 --> 00:57:01,040
Speaker 6: interesting how full circle player.

1056
00:57:01,520 --> 00:57:03,759
Speaker 2: I agree with all that. I think their composition is

1057
00:57:03,800 --> 00:57:06,799
Speaker 2: built for the postseason. I know whether networks would love

1058
00:57:07,000 --> 00:57:09,799
Speaker 2: a Boston Lakers final, they would droop over that. I

1059
00:57:09,840 --> 00:57:12,480
Speaker 2: think a Denver Miami final would be very intriguing market.

1060
00:57:12,520 --> 00:57:15,240
Speaker 2: I already can't wait to have you on next Saturday

1061
00:57:15,280 --> 00:57:18,640
Speaker 2: night as both Eastern Conference series will be underway and

1062
00:57:18,680 --> 00:57:22,720
Speaker 2: start to form their own personality. Great stuff. As always, Mark, thank.

1063
00:57:22,520 --> 00:57:24,400
Speaker 6: You, I appreciate you. I can't wait either.

1064
00:57:25,000 --> 00:57:29,200
Speaker 2: All right. That is Mark Modena, our Fox Sports Radio

1065
00:57:29,480 --> 00:57:32,440
Speaker 2: NBA guru. You hear him every Saturday night on the

1066
00:57:32,480 --> 00:57:36,280
Speaker 2: Bernie Fratters Show at midnight. Covers the headlines, plays all

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Speaker 2: the hits, and gives breakdown an analysis of the individual matchups.

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Speaker 2: One of our favorite segments of the week coming up.

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Speaker 2: The Detroit Lions get to kick it off against the

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00:57:48,240 --> 00:57:52,880
Speaker 2: Kansas City Chiefs September seventh. There's been some mild consternation

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Speaker 2: as to why the Lions were selected. Well, I'm going

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00:57:56,280 --> 00:58:00,680
Speaker 2: to defend my hometown lovable Lions. Why I think this

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00:58:00,920 --> 00:58:03,760
Speaker 2: was a good choice. And let's not forget the last

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00:58:03,760 --> 00:58:07,200
Speaker 2: time Jared Goff and Patrick Mahomes hooked up in a

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Speaker 2: primetime game. If you have forgotten, I will refresh your

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Speaker 2: dot Com. I'm Bernie Fraddlewick Comedy Live from the Las

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Speaker 2: Vegas Fox Sports Radio Tirack dot com studios. Keep it

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Speaker 2: locked right here. You're listening to the Bernie Fraddle Show

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00:58:35,920 --> 00:58:42,000
Speaker 2: on Fox Sports Radio. Here back on the Bernie Fraddle Show,

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00:58:42,560 --> 00:58:45,760
Speaker 2: come to you live from Las Vegas, Fox Sports Radio

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00:58:45,880 --> 00:58:49,400
Speaker 2: tirac dot Com studios. Take you up to three am Pacific,

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00:58:49,440 --> 00:58:52,280
Speaker 2: six am Eastern. A ton of stuff to get to

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00:58:53,240 --> 00:58:56,720
Speaker 2: and we're I think one hundred and sixteen days away

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Speaker 2: from the NFL official season kickoff on Thursday, September seventh,

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Speaker 2: featuring the defending world champion Kansas City Chiefs at home

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00:59:07,040 --> 00:59:11,160
Speaker 2: playing seven points against the visiting Detroit Lions, and people say,

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Speaker 2: what Detroit Lions. Well, I'm gonna defend the Detroit Lions.

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00:59:14,720 --> 00:59:17,439
Speaker 2: And by the way, lest you forget, the last time

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00:59:17,480 --> 00:59:22,000
Speaker 2: that Jared Goff and Patrick Mahomes got on the field

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00:59:22,040 --> 00:59:25,960
Speaker 2: together November nineteenth, twenty eighteen, fifty four to fifty one

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00:59:26,040 --> 00:59:29,400
Speaker 2: final combined for nine hundred yards eleven touchdowns. Now, in

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Speaker 2: the history of the National Football League, remember two hundred

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00:59:32,640 --> 00:59:36,880
Speaker 2: and twenty one occasions where a team has scored north

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Speaker 2: of fifty points. Only once did a team score north

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00:59:41,560 --> 00:59:44,280
Speaker 2: of fifty points and lose. That was on that night

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00:59:44,360 --> 00:59:47,840
Speaker 2: Patrick Mahomes and the Kansas City Chiefs put up fifty

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00:59:47,840 --> 00:59:49,960
Speaker 2: one points loft to Jared Goff and the Rams at

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Speaker 2: the time, fifty four fifty one. Let's cut to the chase.

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Speaker 2: It really didn't matter who the NFL matched up with

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Speaker 2: the Chiefs that night, did it? Patrick Mahomes is must

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Speaker 2: watch TV. You could put them on the field with

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Speaker 2: the Hoboken Zephyrs and people are gonna watch. However, and

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01:00:11,320 --> 01:00:14,040
Speaker 2: talking to my NFL moles, I was told that quote.

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01:00:14,080 --> 01:00:17,200
Speaker 2: Even though they considered multiple teams, the NFL believed that

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01:00:17,280 --> 01:00:20,760
Speaker 2: the Lions had in fact quote played their way into

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01:00:20,800 --> 01:00:24,200
Speaker 2: a national window, and I agree with that. They've become

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01:00:24,320 --> 01:00:29,160
Speaker 2: darlings ever since. You know, Dan Dan Campbell, their head coach,

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01:00:29,280 --> 01:00:32,960
Speaker 2: goofy opening press conference. And by the way, that's all natural.

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Speaker 2: When I covered the Lions between ninety eight and o eight,

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01:00:34,760 --> 01:00:36,480
Speaker 2: he was a tight end on the team in seven.

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Speaker 2: He's always been that way. He's a great guy and

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01:00:39,560 --> 01:00:42,640
Speaker 2: you know, biting ankles and all that. But most people

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01:00:42,680 --> 01:00:45,800
Speaker 2: remember the Lions playing their tailoff, trying to win up,

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01:00:45,880 --> 01:00:48,160
Speaker 2: you know, get into the playoffs, beating Green Bay, knocking

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Speaker 2: Rogers out of the playoffs, and Seattle started to win.

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Speaker 2: Otherwise the Lions, you know, wouldn't have had a chance

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Speaker 2: to be in the playoffs. And even though Sale had

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01:00:56,360 --> 01:00:59,720
Speaker 2: already won, the Lions gave max efforts. So not the

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Speaker 2: Lions have sort of this national window with expectations in

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Speaker 2: a top ten offense. And tell me, aren't you curious

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Speaker 2: to see how the Lions do as they have genuine

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Speaker 2: expectations this year. Most people feel they are certainly a

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Speaker 2: wild card team. Maybe this is a great litmus test.

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Speaker 2: This isn't a beyond great litmus test for the Lions

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Speaker 2: to get on the field with the NFL champs who

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Speaker 2: are fourteen and four, by the way, and kick off

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01:01:25,960 --> 01:01:29,240
Speaker 2: classic games since two thousand and four teams who won

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01:01:29,280 --> 01:01:30,960
Speaker 2: the Super Bowl fourteen and four straight up, and oh,

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01:01:31,000 --> 01:01:33,720
Speaker 2: by the way, Patrick Mahomes and his five home openers

1134
01:01:33,720 --> 01:01:36,680
Speaker 2: in his career five and zero, four and one against

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01:01:36,680 --> 01:01:41,280
Speaker 2: the spread, thirteen point margin of victory on average, and

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01:01:41,400 --> 01:01:44,480
Speaker 2: in those five home opener games, Mahomes and the Chiefs

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01:01:44,480 --> 01:01:48,040
Speaker 2: have averaged thirty eight points per game. I believe very

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Speaker 2: well that this Lions Chiefs game will be very entertaining

1139
01:01:51,880 --> 01:01:54,920
Speaker 2: on September seventh. I think the Lions are deserving of this.

1140
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Speaker 2: Give them a chance. It's a litmus test. Aren't you

1141
01:01:57,240 --> 01:02:00,920
Speaker 2: curious to see how they'll do as they into the

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01:02:01,000 --> 01:02:04,800
Speaker 2: twenty twenty three football campaign with more expectations than frankly

1143
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Speaker 2: the Lions we've had in probably a decade. Coming up,

1144
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Speaker 2: we continue with schedule release NFL twenty twenty three observations.

1145
01:02:14,880 --> 01:02:18,720
Speaker 2: I'm literally gonna have a tidbit on every single team,

1146
01:02:19,160 --> 01:02:22,880
Speaker 2: and we'll do it in lightning round fashion. But first

1147
01:02:23,400 --> 01:02:26,520
Speaker 2: we go back to our guy, Kevin. Why aren't though

1148
01:02:26,880 --> 01:02:29,080
Speaker 2: not on the Bernie Frattle Show more often?

1149
01:02:29,400 --> 01:02:33,520
Speaker 3: I like that one the big news on Saturday the

1150
01:02:33,560 --> 01:02:36,520
Speaker 3: Phoenix Suns firing head coach Manni Williams. That's in spite

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01:02:36,560 --> 01:02:37,800
Speaker 3: of the fact that he had a six to twenty

1152
01:02:37,840 --> 01:02:41,520
Speaker 3: eight winning percentage in the regular season across four years

1153
01:02:41,560 --> 01:02:43,800
Speaker 3: in Phoenix. He was the NBA's Coach of the Year

1154
01:02:43,840 --> 01:02:46,680
Speaker 3: one year ago after his team went sixty four and eighteen,

1155
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Speaker 3: and he took the Suns to the NBA Finals in

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Speaker 3: twenty twenty one when they lost to the Milwaukee Bucks.

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Speaker 3: So he figures to be a prominent coaching candidate in

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Speaker 3: this upcoming off season. No games in the Association today,

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01:03:00,680 --> 01:03:03,960
Speaker 3: the Celtics hosting a Game seven on Sunday against the

1160
01:03:04,000 --> 01:03:06,960
Speaker 3: seventy six ers that'll conclude the second round of the playoffs.

1161
01:03:07,000 --> 01:03:11,480
Speaker 3: The Western Conference Finals between the Lakers and Nuggets begins

1162
01:03:11,840 --> 01:03:16,120
Speaker 3: on Tuesday. In the NHL Stanley Cup Playoffs, Western Conference

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Speaker 3: semi finals will go to a game seven, as the

1164
01:03:19,120 --> 01:03:22,919
Speaker 3: Kraken beat the Stars six to three. Game seven will

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Speaker 3: take place Monday evening in Dallas. Major League Baseball, the

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Speaker 3: Dodgers with a four to two victory over the Padres.

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Speaker 6: JD.

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Speaker 3: Martinez going yard for Los Angeles. The Indians or excuse

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Speaker 3: me the Guardians with six runs in the bottom of

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Speaker 3: the eighth inning to defeat the Angels eight to six.

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Speaker 3: Yankees rally to beat Tampa Bay nine to eight despite

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Speaker 3: trailing six to nothing in the fifth inning. Aaron Judge

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Speaker 3: with two home runs for New York. The Cardinals get

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Speaker 3: three runs in the ninth as they beat the Red

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01:03:54,280 --> 01:03:57,400
Speaker 3: Sox four to three. They beat closer Kenley Jansen, who

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Speaker 3: also gave up three runs in the ninth inning. On

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Speaker 3: Friday evening and the Mets Nationals game suspended by rain

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Speaker 3: until Sunday. With Washington leading one nothing in the third inning, day,

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Speaker 3: NAT's finally made the announcement after nearly a four hour

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Speaker 3: weather delay. Dock of you, Berney, Kevin.

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Speaker 2: Why aren't tho with the nice Vincecully inflection there he did?

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Speaker 3: You know what I mean, There's probably the biggest honor

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Speaker 3: he could ever give me.

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Speaker 2: So let's see what's happening in the American League. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: brought to you by Farmer John Eastern most in quality,

1186
01:04:27,640 --> 01:04:31,800
Speaker 2: westernmost in flavor, dress fresh locally. Let's see what's happening

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Speaker 2: in the American League. All right, good job, Kevin. NFL

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Speaker 2: schedule release twenty twenty three. You know, Dann Well, we

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Speaker 2: got to break it down. Spend a fair amount of

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Speaker 2: time last night making observations, and we're gonna do it again.

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Speaker 2: It's the law, okay, and we abide by the law

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01:04:47,440 --> 01:04:49,640
Speaker 2: here in the Bernie Fraderick Show. Let's start with the Bears.

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Speaker 2: Here we go on rapid fire fashion Week one. The

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01:04:53,400 --> 01:04:55,800
Speaker 2: Bears open their season at home against Green Bay. What's

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01:04:55,840 --> 01:05:01,960
Speaker 2: the significance justin fields versus Jordan Love? Stop the presses.

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01:05:02,000 --> 01:05:05,840
Speaker 2: Here we go, alert the media. Finally we've got it

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01:05:06,400 --> 01:05:09,880
Speaker 2: all right. Bengals Week seventeen. Boy, what is it with this?

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Speaker 2: Every year Cincinnati has to go to face the Chiefs

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Speaker 2: in Arrowhead Stadium. Third consecutive year the Bengals will visit Arrowhead.

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01:05:20,400 --> 01:05:23,920
Speaker 2: Some call it Burrowhead Stadium. That got debunked last game,

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01:05:24,120 --> 01:05:28,320
Speaker 2: but that includes the postseason. But that's not till Week seventeen,

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01:05:28,480 --> 01:05:30,760
Speaker 2: second to the last week of the year. That should

1203
01:05:30,800 --> 01:05:33,320
Speaker 2: be a hell of a game, might have playoff implications.

1204
01:05:33,360 --> 01:05:36,120
Speaker 2: How about the Buffalo Bills. They open up They're the

1205
01:05:36,200 --> 01:05:40,360
Speaker 2: first team to get the face off against Aaron Rodgers

1206
01:05:40,440 --> 01:05:43,640
Speaker 2: and New York Jets at MetLife Stadium. Buffalo opens up

1207
01:05:43,640 --> 01:05:45,720
Speaker 2: as a one point favorite. I expect Buffalo to win

1208
01:05:45,800 --> 01:05:48,160
Speaker 2: that game. Green Bay's not gonna or check dud look

1209
01:05:48,160 --> 01:05:49,800
Speaker 2: at me. I call him a Green Bay. I digress

1210
01:05:50,920 --> 01:05:54,400
Speaker 2: the Jets and Aaron Rodgers and Garrett Wilson and Alan

1211
01:05:54,480 --> 01:05:58,040
Speaker 2: Lazard and Randall Cobb and company and Don Maynard and

1212
01:05:58,080 --> 01:06:01,160
Speaker 2: George Sower and Pete Lammon. They're not going to be

1213
01:06:01,240 --> 01:06:04,600
Speaker 2: in sync yet. Okay. By the way, Buffalo also gets

1214
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Speaker 2: to go to London. They play the Jaguars, who I

1215
01:06:06,960 --> 01:06:09,360
Speaker 2: think will be a great story. That's October eighth at

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01:06:09,480 --> 01:06:13,520
Speaker 2: Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, the beautiful modern stadium that's the one

1217
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Speaker 2: in London that was built with the NFL in mind.

1218
01:06:16,200 --> 01:06:19,760
Speaker 2: Tampa Bay Bucks, well, they visit their old NFC rival,

1219
01:06:19,840 --> 01:06:23,520
Speaker 2: the Packers Week fifteen, the Denver Broncos Jordan Love. They

1220
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Speaker 2: also get to visit the Packers at the Mile High Club,

1221
01:06:27,160 --> 01:06:33,160
Speaker 2: the Mile High City Broncos. Packers should be fun to watch. Chargers,

1222
01:06:33,440 --> 01:06:36,360
Speaker 2: they visit Green Bay and then a conference tilt. That's

1223
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Speaker 2: a highlight I think of the season. Now the Chiefs

1224
01:06:39,800 --> 01:06:44,640
Speaker 2: have several well they should. They should because why they're

1225
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Speaker 2: the Chiefs and they're defending champions. And Andrew Reid likes

1226
01:06:48,760 --> 01:06:50,560
Speaker 2: to eat Protz. He doesn't have to wait to go

1227
01:06:50,600 --> 01:06:53,320
Speaker 2: to Germany. They have abroad. Packer Mahomes worth the price

1228
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Speaker 2: of admission. Thursday, September seventh. You open up against the

1229
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Speaker 2: Lines at home. That's to kick off Thursday. Can't wait.

1230
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Speaker 2: That is so exciting. It's I think maybe it's equal to,

1231
01:07:04,320 --> 01:07:06,720
Speaker 2: or now greater than Opening Day and Major League Baseball.

1232
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Speaker 2: The anticipation just donereal. Week nine the Chiefs they host

1233
01:07:10,280 --> 01:07:14,880
Speaker 2: the Dolphins in Germany November fifth, first time Tyreek Hill

1234
01:07:14,960 --> 01:07:18,040
Speaker 2: will face his own team. There have been questions why

1235
01:07:18,080 --> 01:07:19,760
Speaker 2: the hell would they put that game in Germany and

1236
01:07:19,880 --> 01:07:23,120
Speaker 2: not an Arrowhead because Tyreek Hill has been on record

1237
01:07:23,200 --> 01:07:25,680
Speaker 2: is saying he's gonna let his old team have it.

1238
01:07:25,760 --> 01:07:28,760
Speaker 2: We'll see. Week thirteen, Chiefs travel to Green Bay Sunday

1239
01:07:28,800 --> 01:07:32,560
Speaker 2: night football matchup against the Packers. Week sixteen, Patrick Mahomes

1240
01:07:32,640 --> 01:07:35,560
Speaker 2: and company that welcome the Raiders. Come on, Raiders, Chiefs.

1241
01:07:35,960 --> 01:07:37,800
Speaker 2: That goes back to when Moby Dick was a mental

1242
01:07:38,120 --> 01:07:41,360
Speaker 2: This is just a great all time NFL AFC matchup,

1243
01:07:41,400 --> 01:07:44,080
Speaker 2: whatever you want to call it. Christmas Day, that game

1244
01:07:44,080 --> 01:07:47,880
Speaker 2: will be played. Patrick Mahomes, welcome the Raiders now hell.

1245
01:07:47,960 --> 01:07:49,640
Speaker 2: The Raiders might be four to nine by the end,

1246
01:07:49,680 --> 01:07:51,200
Speaker 2: but it's not gonna matter. It'll be a hell of

1247
01:07:51,240 --> 01:07:54,720
Speaker 2: a game. Week seventeen, the Chiefs host the Bengals New

1248
01:07:54,800 --> 01:07:57,160
Speaker 2: Year's Eve. I just mentioned that. I didn't mention it

1249
01:07:57,280 --> 01:08:00,080
Speaker 2: was New Year's Eve again. First regular season til in

1250
01:08:00,120 --> 01:08:02,920
Speaker 2: Kansas City between Mahomes and Borough, but third straight year

1251
01:08:03,000 --> 01:08:05,840
Speaker 2: that Burrough will make the trek to Arrowhead Stadium. We

1252
01:08:05,920 --> 01:08:07,960
Speaker 2: get that on New Year's Eve to start to New

1253
01:08:08,040 --> 01:08:10,800
Speaker 2: Year's Eve. How about the Colts well Week ten, Anthony

1254
01:08:10,880 --> 01:08:14,040
Speaker 2: Richardson Indianapolis, they head to Germany and November. As the

1255
01:08:14,120 --> 01:08:17,200
Speaker 2: road team, they'll take on the Patriots. What's his significance?

1256
01:08:17,560 --> 01:08:21,599
Speaker 2: Bill Belichick versus rooky quarterbacks. Patriots are a five point favorite.

1257
01:08:22,200 --> 01:08:26,439
Speaker 2: Ricky quarterbacks have a hard time against Bill Belichick six

1258
01:08:26,560 --> 01:08:29,759
Speaker 2: and twenty four straight up, thirteen and seventeen against the spread,

1259
01:08:30,160 --> 01:08:33,360
Speaker 2: only complete fifty three percent of their passes cumulatively twenty

1260
01:08:33,400 --> 01:08:37,160
Speaker 2: five touchdowns forty four interceptions. I don't expect Anthony Richardson

1261
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Speaker 2: they have a good day that day, but we shall see.

1262
01:08:39,240 --> 01:08:41,280
Speaker 2: That's why you gotta play the game. How about the

1263
01:08:41,360 --> 01:08:44,479
Speaker 2: Dallas Cowboys Week five, They'll have an NFC divisional rematch.

1264
01:08:44,800 --> 01:08:47,920
Speaker 2: They'll be taking on the forty nine ers at Levi Stadium. Again.

1265
01:08:48,040 --> 01:08:52,559
Speaker 2: This is a Sunday night football matchup. Now week nine,

1266
01:08:53,200 --> 01:08:56,240
Speaker 2: I just mentioned this game, Miami gets to avoid having

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01:08:56,320 --> 01:08:59,280
Speaker 2: to go to Arrowhead Stadium Instead, they will play the

1268
01:08:59,360 --> 01:09:01,720
Speaker 2: Chiefs in Germany. Will see if Tyreek Hill makes good

1269
01:09:01,840 --> 01:09:05,959
Speaker 2: on his promise. But Week twelve, three weeks later, Dolphins

1270
01:09:06,000 --> 01:09:08,320
Speaker 2: once again on the road in a nationally televised game.

1271
01:09:08,760 --> 01:09:11,160
Speaker 2: What's the significance two things? We get to play the

1272
01:09:11,280 --> 01:09:14,960
Speaker 2: Jets and Aaron Rodgers divisional game be the first ever

1273
01:09:15,200 --> 01:09:19,000
Speaker 2: NFL game played on Black Friday. How about that? You

1274
01:09:19,120 --> 01:09:22,559
Speaker 2: got a triple header on Thanksgiving and you got Black Friday.

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Speaker 2: You know, I wonder at some point where we have

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01:09:25,240 --> 01:09:27,920
Speaker 2: NFL game seven days a week, not every week. But

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Speaker 2: during COVID, we had a Tuesday night game. We've had

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Speaker 2: Monday night football for fifty years, Thursday night. Now we're

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Speaker 2: gonna have a Friday night game that just leaves Wednesday.

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Speaker 2: And maybe we did have one. Maybe someone can remind

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Speaker 2: you if we had a Wednesday game during COVID. I

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Speaker 2: think we might have. I think we might have what

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01:09:41,840 --> 01:09:45,720
Speaker 2: we're gonna watch. Come on, man, you know we're watching Eagles.

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01:09:46,120 --> 01:09:49,920
Speaker 2: The Eagles have landed. Week thirteen, they'll host the forty

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Speaker 2: nine Ers to kick off their December slate. This should

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01:09:54,160 --> 01:09:56,839
Speaker 2: be a hell of a game. Playoff implications. Week sixteen,

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01:09:57,520 --> 01:10:01,320
Speaker 2: the Eagles will plan on Christmas Day against the New

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01:10:01,400 --> 01:10:04,760
Speaker 2: York Giants, a matchup of two playoff teams a year ago.

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01:10:04,960 --> 01:10:08,680
Speaker 2: Remember the Eagles blasted New York and the playoffs in

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01:10:08,680 --> 01:10:11,360
Speaker 2: the Divisional round last year thirty eight to seven. We'll

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01:10:11,400 --> 01:10:14,559
Speaker 2: see if the Giants pay them back. The Atlanta Falcons,

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01:10:14,600 --> 01:10:17,040
Speaker 2: there are high hopes in Atlanta. I will see. They're

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01:10:17,680 --> 01:10:20,680
Speaker 2: hitching their wagon to Desmond Redder. A couple of key

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01:10:20,720 --> 01:10:23,280
Speaker 2: games and oh week note they host Green Bay again

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01:10:23,360 --> 01:10:28,599
Speaker 2: Jordan Love after you know, opening up in Chicago, heads

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01:10:28,640 --> 01:10:33,719
Speaker 2: to Atlanta Jordan Love Desmond Radder. Week four the Falcons

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01:10:33,880 --> 01:10:37,640
Speaker 2: also get to make an international trip to London. They

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01:10:37,720 --> 01:10:40,400
Speaker 2: played the Jacksonville Jaguars and remember, we're gonna probably get

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Speaker 2: to this later. Jacksonville the first team in history to

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Speaker 2: play two games in London in the same year back

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01:10:46,800 --> 01:10:51,160
Speaker 2: to back weeks. Week fourteen, the Giants will host the

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01:10:51,200 --> 01:10:53,719
Speaker 2: Packers on Monday night, Football. Their second game of December,

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01:10:54,200 --> 01:10:56,280
Speaker 2: Week sixty in the New York Giants. They visit the

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01:10:56,360 --> 01:10:59,200
Speaker 2: Eagles again, as I just mentioned on Christmas Day, could

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01:10:59,280 --> 01:11:03,240
Speaker 2: be clash. I think Dallas is gonna regress. There's no

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01:11:03,360 --> 01:11:05,240
Speaker 2: doubt the Eagles are going to be tremendous again this year.

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01:11:05,240 --> 01:11:08,920
Speaker 2: I think Dallas regresses. And everybody wants to throw shade

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01:11:08,960 --> 01:11:10,599
Speaker 2: on the New York Giants. I'm not one of them.

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01:11:11,479 --> 01:11:12,200
Speaker 2: I'm not one of them.

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01:11:12,439 --> 01:11:12,559
Speaker 1: Now.

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01:11:12,600 --> 01:11:14,360
Speaker 2: They have to play seven road games in their first

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01:11:14,360 --> 01:11:17,400
Speaker 2: eleven and they have a bunch of road games in December.

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01:11:17,439 --> 01:11:20,000
Speaker 2: But the bottom line is this. I think the Giants

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01:11:20,040 --> 01:11:22,040
Speaker 2: what they did last year with Brian Dable was legit,

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01:11:22,200 --> 01:11:24,800
Speaker 2: and they continue to progress and get better. They did

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01:11:24,880 --> 01:11:26,519
Speaker 2: what a lot of teams never do, and that's go

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01:11:26,640 --> 01:11:29,080
Speaker 2: on the road with a quarterback who's still on to

1318
01:11:29,360 --> 01:11:31,439
Speaker 2: I mean, look, Daniel Jones, love them or hate him,

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01:11:31,439 --> 01:11:34,479
Speaker 2: he won a road game within his fourth year as

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Speaker 2: an NFL starting quarterback. Derek Carr didn't do that. Matt

1321
01:11:37,520 --> 01:11:39,040
Speaker 2: Stafford sure as hell didn't do that. A lot of

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01:11:39,120 --> 01:11:42,000
Speaker 2: quarterbacks didn't do that, but Daniel Jones did. But y'all

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01:11:42,000 --> 01:11:43,439
Speaker 2: want to hate on them, let's see what they do

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Speaker 2: next year. Coming up, we get the Jags, Jets, Lions, Packers, Patriots, Traders,

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01:11:49,280 --> 01:11:54,720
Speaker 2: much much more lightning round, staccato pace. Quick takeaways from

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Speaker 2: every team on the NFL schedule release twenty twenty three.

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Speaker 2: Life here, This is Bernie Fraddle. You're listening to the

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01:12:02,280 --> 01:12:06,519
Speaker 2: Bernie Fraddle Show on Fox Sports Radio. Don't go anywhere,

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01:12:11,880 --> 01:12:14,280
Speaker 2: all right back on the Bernie Fraddle Show, Fox Sports Radio.

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Speaker 2: Coming you live from the tyreck dot Com studios here

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Speaker 2: in Las Vegas. We continue on rapid fires to catto fashion.

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Speaker 2: One quick takeaway from each team following the schedule release

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01:12:26,800 --> 01:12:29,599
Speaker 2: from Thursday night. At the Jaguars, you already know they'll

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01:12:29,640 --> 01:12:32,720
Speaker 2: not only play one, but two games in London. Week four,

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01:12:32,760 --> 01:12:35,680
Speaker 2: they'll host the Falcons that will kick off the international

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01:12:35,800 --> 01:12:38,240
Speaker 2: slate this year. There are a total of five international games,

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01:12:38,640 --> 01:12:41,840
Speaker 2: three in London, two in Germany. They'll host Atlanta, have

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01:12:41,960 --> 01:12:45,760
Speaker 2: Trevor Lawrence against Desmond Ritter. Then the following week they

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01:12:45,800 --> 01:12:48,800
Speaker 2: stay in town. Hope they like fish and chips. Jacksonville

1340
01:12:48,840 --> 01:12:51,960
Speaker 2: will play a second consecutive international game, this time against

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01:12:51,960 --> 01:12:56,600
Speaker 2: the Buffalo Bills over at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium. And this

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01:12:56,760 --> 01:12:59,040
Speaker 2: is actually counting as a road date for Jacksonville. Now

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01:12:59,240 --> 01:13:03,559
Speaker 2: it's interesting, is well, not only play two London games,

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01:13:03,600 --> 01:13:09,639
Speaker 2: one in each stadium. Tottenham Hotspur is an incredibly modern

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01:13:09,720 --> 01:13:12,599
Speaker 2: facility and it was actually built with the NFL in mind,

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01:13:13,040 --> 01:13:18,000
Speaker 2: not just European football football soccer, but American football as well.

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01:13:18,000 --> 01:13:21,320
Speaker 2: The New York Jets the Jets again, they'll have one

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01:13:21,360 --> 01:13:24,680
Speaker 2: of their primetime games, first time ever. The NFL will

1349
01:13:24,720 --> 01:13:27,400
Speaker 2: have a game on Black Friday. They'll welcome the Dolphins

1350
01:13:27,439 --> 01:13:30,040
Speaker 2: to East Rutherford. By then, it's Week twelve divisional game.

1351
01:13:30,320 --> 01:13:32,760
Speaker 2: Should be a beauty and we shall see if the

1352
01:13:32,880 --> 01:13:37,240
Speaker 2: Aaron Rodgers experiment is working all right. The Detroit Lions

1353
01:13:37,280 --> 01:13:40,559
Speaker 2: finally getting some flowers. Week one. They open up the season.

1354
01:13:40,640 --> 01:13:43,839
Speaker 2: Thursday night, September seventh, they take on the Chiefs at Aarrawhead.

1355
01:13:43,880 --> 01:13:47,120
Speaker 2: That's one primetime game. Then the Lions find themselves in

1356
01:13:47,120 --> 01:13:50,160
Speaker 2: another road primetime game, this time against the Green Bay

1357
01:13:50,240 --> 01:13:54,439
Speaker 2: Packers just three weeks later. And then, of course, and

1358
01:13:54,600 --> 01:13:57,040
Speaker 2: I love these, I will always love these. I cover

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01:13:57,160 --> 01:14:00,679
Speaker 2: ten of them in person Thanksgiving Day games. The Lions

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01:14:00,680 --> 01:14:04,479
Speaker 2: will host the Packers Week twelve, Thanksgiving Day in Detroit,

1361
01:14:04,560 --> 01:14:08,000
Speaker 2: a phenomenal Detroit tradition that was started back in nineteen

1362
01:14:08,680 --> 01:14:11,160
Speaker 2: thirty four, and you can't tell me you don't love

1363
01:14:11,240 --> 01:14:13,599
Speaker 2: it as well. The triple header, the Lions kick it off,

1364
01:14:14,200 --> 01:14:18,120
Speaker 2: the Packers, well, we've talked enough about them. Patriots. Week ten,

1365
01:14:18,920 --> 01:14:21,360
Speaker 2: they go to Germany, they host the Colts. I've already

1366
01:14:21,400 --> 01:14:23,519
Speaker 2: mentioned this game. They're a five point favorite. They have

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01:14:23,640 --> 01:14:26,280
Speaker 2: to give up a home date and as one of

1368
01:14:26,360 --> 01:14:28,160
Speaker 2: some of the AFC teams have nine of them. But

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01:14:28,840 --> 01:14:31,160
Speaker 2: Anthony Richardson will get his chance to get a bill,

1370
01:14:31,600 --> 01:14:35,200
Speaker 2: get his chance against the Bill Belichick defense. And as

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01:14:35,240 --> 01:14:38,799
Speaker 2: you've already heard me say, rookie quarterbacks against Bill Belichick

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01:14:38,840 --> 01:14:41,840
Speaker 2: six and twenty four straight up, thirteen and seventeen against

1373
01:14:41,840 --> 01:14:46,480
Speaker 2: the spread, accumulative twenty four touchdown passes against forty five interceptions,

1374
01:14:46,920 --> 01:14:50,559
Speaker 2: fifty three percent, a completion rate that might not bode

1375
01:14:50,600 --> 01:14:53,360
Speaker 2: well for Anthony Richardson, who I'm a big fan of.

1376
01:14:54,000 --> 01:14:55,960
Speaker 2: But you don't know what you're gonna get do act

1377
01:14:56,000 --> 01:14:58,120
Speaker 2: like you do. He started thirteen games this year, completed

1378
01:14:58,120 --> 01:15:01,120
Speaker 2: fifty three percent of his passes, was particularly accurate, but

1379
01:15:01,160 --> 01:15:04,840
Speaker 2: he's an incredibly explosive athlete with a big dynamic personality,

1380
01:15:04,920 --> 01:15:07,040
Speaker 2: great work ethic, and he's got a hell of a

1381
01:15:07,120 --> 01:15:08,840
Speaker 2: chance to make his mark in this league. But he's

1382
01:15:08,840 --> 01:15:12,000
Speaker 2: still got to do it all right, the Raiders the

1383
01:15:12,400 --> 01:15:16,479
Speaker 2: Packers come to Las Vegas here week five for a

1384
01:15:16,560 --> 01:15:18,640
Speaker 2: Monday Night tilt that o'll be a beauty Monday Night

1385
01:15:18,680 --> 01:15:23,720
Speaker 2: football here in Vegas. And then, in a perhaps an

1386
01:15:23,760 --> 01:15:27,479
Speaker 2: homage to you know the famous now this was actually

1387
01:15:28,200 --> 01:15:31,439
Speaker 2: Chiefs Dolphins on Christmas Day nineteen seventy win the longest

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01:15:31,479 --> 01:15:34,760
Speaker 2: game in NFL history, The Las Vegas Raiders will visit

1389
01:15:34,880 --> 01:15:37,000
Speaker 2: the Chiefs and you know how you saw that game

1390
01:15:37,040 --> 01:15:39,400
Speaker 2: went last year of Monday Night football, the controversy with

1391
01:15:40,160 --> 01:15:44,960
Speaker 2: roughing the passer. Week sixteen, this is Christmas Day. Week sixteen,

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Speaker 2: Vegas visits the Chiefs on Christmas Day. How about the Rams.

1393
01:15:49,840 --> 01:15:52,200
Speaker 2: They get Matt Stafford back. I'm not so sure how

1394
01:15:52,200 --> 01:15:54,360
Speaker 2: the Rams are going to be this year. They'll head

1395
01:15:54,360 --> 01:15:57,439
Speaker 2: to Wisconsin. Week nine. Should be an interesting matchup the

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01:15:57,520 --> 01:16:00,800
Speaker 2: Baltimore Ravens. Haven't talked about them. They get to go

1397
01:16:00,880 --> 01:16:03,720
Speaker 2: across the pond as well. Week six. They will be

1398
01:16:03,760 --> 01:16:07,000
Speaker 2: the road team when they take on the Tennessee Titans.

1399
01:16:07,080 --> 01:16:11,439
Speaker 2: Baltimore has really backfilled in nicely gotten Lamar Jackson some weapons.

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Speaker 2: So after that trade demand on March seventh, seems like

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01:16:15,520 --> 01:16:18,519
Speaker 2: Baltimore has getting it together nicely again. They've got a

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01:16:18,600 --> 01:16:22,320
Speaker 2: culture and a support system there. They seem to me

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01:16:22,520 --> 01:16:25,439
Speaker 2: like they're poised to have a very good season and

1404
01:16:25,520 --> 01:16:28,280
Speaker 2: what'll be a very tough division of course, with Cincinnati,

1405
01:16:28,360 --> 01:16:33,919
Speaker 2: Pittsburgh and Cleveland. Speaking of Pittsburgh, they'll host the Packers

1406
01:16:34,520 --> 01:16:37,680
Speaker 2: and what's the significance Week ten or two of the

1407
01:16:37,880 --> 01:16:42,479
Speaker 2: NFL's oldest franchises. And by the way, I already mentioned

1408
01:16:42,600 --> 01:16:45,800
Speaker 2: Jordan Love and the greamy Packers a couple of times.

1409
01:16:46,640 --> 01:16:48,920
Speaker 2: They open up with two road games. So who do

1410
01:16:49,000 --> 01:16:52,840
Speaker 2: the Packers make their home debut with Jordan Love. Well,

1411
01:16:52,880 --> 01:16:57,760
Speaker 2: that's against the New Orleans Saints and Derek Carr Week three.

1412
01:16:58,240 --> 01:17:00,800
Speaker 2: That Saints will be on hand for the Packers' home

1413
01:17:00,840 --> 01:17:02,960
Speaker 2: opener in lambeau Field, and we still see how the

1414
01:17:03,479 --> 01:17:06,920
Speaker 2: Jordan Love as well as the Derek Carr experiment is working.

1415
01:17:07,600 --> 01:17:11,040
Speaker 2: Tennessee Tennessee Titans. They lose one of their nine home

1416
01:17:11,120 --> 01:17:13,439
Speaker 2: dates this year. They play the Ravens in England, which

1417
01:17:13,439 --> 01:17:18,160
Speaker 2: I just mentioned. Week eight. Minnesota visit the Packers, and

1418
01:17:18,320 --> 01:17:21,280
Speaker 2: again these are I think the NFC North is going

1419
01:17:21,400 --> 01:17:25,720
Speaker 2: to be a very hotly contested division this year, so

1420
01:17:27,840 --> 01:17:30,400
Speaker 2: every divisional game in that conference is going to be

1421
01:17:30,479 --> 01:17:34,599
Speaker 2: something to watch. Finally, the Vikings actually do have one

1422
01:17:34,880 --> 01:17:38,040
Speaker 2: late season primetime affair US Bank Stadium. They get to

1423
01:17:38,040 --> 01:17:41,920
Speaker 2: play the Packers again on Sunday Night Football. Again a

1424
01:17:42,000 --> 01:17:44,880
Speaker 2: couple of highlights. Weeks four and five, jack Us play

1425
01:17:44,880 --> 01:17:48,280
Speaker 2: in England consecutive weeks. First they host the Falcons and

1426
01:17:48,360 --> 01:17:51,639
Speaker 2: then they visit the Bills, and then the Ravens and Titans.

1427
01:17:51,680 --> 01:17:54,880
Speaker 2: They meet at Tottenham Hobster and Stadium. Tennessee will be

1428
01:17:54,960 --> 01:17:58,360
Speaker 2: the home team. Week nine, Dolphins and Chiefs they score

1429
01:17:58,400 --> 01:18:01,479
Speaker 2: off in Germany November fifth. This will be the first

1430
01:18:01,520 --> 01:18:03,000
Speaker 2: time either of those teams that have played a game

1431
01:18:03,000 --> 01:18:06,599
Speaker 2: in Germany. Remember last year he was wildly successful. Tom

1432
01:18:06,680 --> 01:18:08,560
Speaker 2: Brady and Tampa Bay played a game in Munich, and

1433
01:18:08,600 --> 01:18:10,360
Speaker 2: I think there's gonna be more and more or Frankfort,

1434
01:18:10,360 --> 01:18:12,519
Speaker 2: excuse me, There'll be more and more games over there.

1435
01:18:12,600 --> 01:18:16,320
Speaker 2: Looked fantastic. Week ten Colts Patriots second game in Frankfurt,

1436
01:18:16,720 --> 01:18:18,400
Speaker 2: and then we're going to be the designated home team

1437
01:18:18,400 --> 01:18:22,519
Speaker 2: I've already talked about that game three times. Again, mark

1438
01:18:22,560 --> 01:18:26,000
Speaker 2: your calendars. We're gonna have a Black Friday game, the

1439
01:18:26,120 --> 01:18:29,080
Speaker 2: Dolphins and the Jets, Tua and Aaron Rodgers and I

1440
01:18:29,160 --> 01:18:32,360
Speaker 2: hope they're both healthy. MetLife Stadium. So you're gonna have

1441
01:18:32,400 --> 01:18:35,560
Speaker 2: the triple header on Thanksgiving Day. Then you'll have the

1442
01:18:35,640 --> 01:18:39,519
Speaker 2: Black Friday Game. The NFL will not have started their

1443
01:18:39,760 --> 01:18:43,200
Speaker 2: NFL you know, their Saturday games yet, but that typically

1444
01:18:43,400 --> 01:18:45,760
Speaker 2: is the Ohio State Michigan game. And then you have

1445
01:18:45,840 --> 01:18:48,720
Speaker 2: a full NFL slate on Sunday, Christmas Day. There'll be

1446
01:18:48,760 --> 01:18:52,519
Speaker 2: a ton of games. Perhaps the most anticipated game will

1447
01:18:52,560 --> 01:18:55,920
Speaker 2: be Eagles and Giants on Christmas Day at four point

1448
01:18:55,920 --> 01:18:59,520
Speaker 2: thirty Pacific. By the way, not for nothing, eight divisional

1449
01:18:59,640 --> 01:19:04,759
Speaker 2: games this year on opening day. Divisional dogs are seventy

1450
01:19:04,800 --> 01:19:08,360
Speaker 2: two percent against the spread on opening Day since twenty fourteen,

1451
01:19:08,479 --> 01:19:11,280
Speaker 2: So something you want to make note of. Coming up.

1452
01:19:11,320 --> 01:19:15,479
Speaker 2: The XFL actually had their championship game today. I don't

1453
01:19:15,520 --> 01:19:17,519
Speaker 2: really care about that, but they did something this year

1454
01:19:17,560 --> 01:19:19,840
Speaker 2: the NFL may want to copy. I'll explain coming up.

1455
01:19:20,160 --> 01:19:22,240
Speaker 2: Keep it locked. This is the Bernie Fraddle Show, Fox

1456
01:19:22,320 --> 01:19:26,000
Speaker 2: Sports Radio. I'll try you heard the man The Bernie

1457
01:19:26,000 --> 01:19:29,040
Speaker 2: fraddle Show keeps rolling right along. I'm Bernie Fraddlewick coming

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Speaker 2: The XFL had their championship game today and you may

1464
01:19:51,320 --> 01:19:53,280
Speaker 2: or may not know that. Well, now you know it,

1465
01:19:54,040 --> 01:19:57,679
Speaker 2: you may may not care. Steve Hartman had an interesting

1466
01:19:57,800 --> 01:20:01,160
Speaker 2: talking point today about the awareness of the XFL. Put

1467
01:20:01,160 --> 01:20:05,600
Speaker 2: it out there, and I thought it was worthy of

1468
01:20:06,520 --> 01:20:09,920
Speaker 2: people's attention because it's a thing and there have been

1469
01:20:10,040 --> 01:20:14,519
Speaker 2: significant resources put into it. And is it resonating with anybody? Well,

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Speaker 2: one of the things that resonated with me, not so

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01:20:16,240 --> 01:20:20,000
Speaker 2: much the games themselves or the championship. And I hope

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01:20:20,000 --> 01:20:21,800
Speaker 2: the league makes it. I never want any of these

1473
01:20:21,880 --> 01:20:25,760
Speaker 2: leagues to fail, but they have done something this past

1474
01:20:25,880 --> 01:20:29,600
Speaker 2: season that I really believe the NFL should take note of.

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01:20:30,640 --> 01:20:33,800
Speaker 2: And one of the things they have done, we all

1476
01:20:33,920 --> 01:20:38,559
Speaker 2: know that the NFL replay concept so that they get

1477
01:20:38,640 --> 01:20:43,600
Speaker 2: the calls right is a noble intention, but the execution

1478
01:20:43,960 --> 01:20:46,360
Speaker 2: isn't always as pristine as we'd like it to be.

1479
01:20:47,520 --> 01:20:49,400
Speaker 2: So what the XFL has done is take it a

1480
01:20:49,479 --> 01:20:52,599
Speaker 2: step further. They've actually given viewers and inside the booth

1481
01:20:53,200 --> 01:20:58,200
Speaker 2: look at replay reviews and challenge calls as the process

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Speaker 2: is played out with respect to whether or not the

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01:21:03,240 --> 01:21:06,160
Speaker 2: call is going to be upheld or overturned. Now this

1484
01:21:06,360 --> 01:21:09,040
Speaker 2: isn't just the play by play announcer or the color

1485
01:21:09,160 --> 01:21:13,759
Speaker 2: commentator reviewing slow motionaryplays and then showing you the various

1486
01:21:13,760 --> 01:21:17,040
Speaker 2: angles and then the broadcast rules analysis, and they try

1487
01:21:17,120 --> 01:21:21,639
Speaker 2: to cover up all this dead time and bloviate. It's

1488
01:21:21,760 --> 01:21:25,760
Speaker 2: no the XFL telecasts that have been shown so far,

1489
01:21:26,439 --> 01:21:29,880
Speaker 2: they're actually showing the guy who makes the final ruling

1490
01:21:30,439 --> 01:21:33,000
Speaker 2: on whether or not the call should stand. And this

1491
01:21:33,160 --> 01:21:35,759
Speaker 2: guy is a familiar face, and he's a familiar voice.

1492
01:21:36,320 --> 01:21:38,760
Speaker 2: I'm sure you've heard of him. His name is Dean Blandino.

1493
01:21:38,840 --> 01:21:42,559
Speaker 2: He's the XFL's vice president of Officiating and Rules Innovation.

1494
01:21:43,240 --> 01:21:47,400
Speaker 2: Now what they are doing here is so much more transparent.

1495
01:21:47,479 --> 01:21:52,439
Speaker 2: It's public. It's a front facing role. And Blandino had

1496
01:21:52,479 --> 01:21:54,880
Speaker 2: a similar position with the NFL as the vice president

1497
01:21:54,880 --> 01:21:57,840
Speaker 2: of officiating, and he's accustomed to being on camera as

1498
01:21:57,840 --> 01:22:00,880
Speaker 2: a rules analyst for a college foot ball in the NFL,

1499
01:22:00,880 --> 01:22:04,000
Speaker 2: et cetera. But on XFL telecasts he has the final

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01:22:04,120 --> 01:22:07,680
Speaker 2: say on any disputed call, and TV viewers get to

1501
01:22:07,760 --> 01:22:12,040
Speaker 2: see him render the decisive judgment. Now, what the hell

1502
01:22:12,080 --> 01:22:16,799
Speaker 2: does all that mean? You see, the XFL replay review

1503
01:22:16,920 --> 01:22:18,960
Speaker 2: is a process we don't get to see on NFL

1504
01:22:19,040 --> 01:22:23,000
Speaker 2: broadcasts replay any I'm talking about the NFL. Now, in

1505
01:22:23,040 --> 01:22:27,679
Speaker 2: the NFL, replay officials are never shown on TV, nor

1506
01:22:27,960 --> 01:22:31,040
Speaker 2: are you going to ever be privy to their communications

1507
01:22:31,640 --> 01:22:35,479
Speaker 2: with the game and their on field officiating crew as

1508
01:22:35,560 --> 01:22:37,599
Speaker 2: well as the league office in New York. Viewers can't

1509
01:22:37,640 --> 01:22:41,479
Speaker 2: see the camera angles that the replay officials are looking at.

1510
01:22:42,640 --> 01:22:46,240
Speaker 2: The presumption that people seem to have during the NFL

1511
01:22:46,360 --> 01:22:50,280
Speaker 2: game is that you're seeing the same images that the

1512
01:22:50,400 --> 01:22:53,920
Speaker 2: officials and the replay crew and the on field crew

1513
01:22:53,960 --> 01:22:58,560
Speaker 2: are watching on television. They're getting other angles and the

1514
01:22:58,680 --> 01:23:02,080
Speaker 2: viewer likely is not. You may or may not have

1515
01:23:02,280 --> 01:23:06,280
Speaker 2: known that. Now from a TV standpoint, just from a

1516
01:23:06,360 --> 01:23:10,000
Speaker 2: TV entertainment standpoint, you cannot tell me this is not

1517
01:23:10,160 --> 01:23:15,720
Speaker 2: innovative as it pertains to the XFL, because the broadcasters,

1518
01:23:16,280 --> 01:23:20,000
Speaker 2: they're on the hook to provide information and entertainment, and

1519
01:23:20,120 --> 01:23:24,439
Speaker 2: they're doing things that really the NFL and college football

1520
01:23:24,520 --> 01:23:29,680
Speaker 2: telecasts don't include. And since football obviously the level of

1521
01:23:30,040 --> 01:23:32,720
Speaker 2: football and the caliber of play and the level of

1522
01:23:32,800 --> 01:23:36,640
Speaker 2: performance in the XFL doesn't really hold a candle to

1523
01:23:36,680 --> 01:23:38,960
Speaker 2: what you see on Saturdays and Sundays in the NFL.

1524
01:23:39,600 --> 01:23:42,000
Speaker 2: The XFL said we're gonna give the audience something they

1525
01:23:42,040 --> 01:23:46,400
Speaker 2: don't get elsewhere, So there should be no surprise that

1526
01:23:46,760 --> 01:23:53,000
Speaker 2: fans and critics they have absolutely liked the transparency of

1527
01:23:53,000 --> 01:23:56,519
Speaker 2: the XFL in their playoff review process because they're getting

1528
01:23:56,600 --> 01:23:59,680
Speaker 2: a glimpse at something that's completely hidden from view when

1529
01:23:59,720 --> 01:24:04,599
Speaker 2: it comes NFL games, the replay reviews. Basically, they've arguably

1530
01:24:06,240 --> 01:24:09,800
Speaker 2: try that again in English. Arguably well. They provided the

1531
01:24:09,960 --> 01:24:15,640
Speaker 2: XFL with very good publicity during this past season, and

1532
01:24:15,960 --> 01:24:20,280
Speaker 2: Dean Blandino has i believe, implied that he hopes the

1533
01:24:20,439 --> 01:24:23,960
Speaker 2: NFL sees that the response to what the XFL is

1534
01:24:24,080 --> 01:24:28,120
Speaker 2: doing and takes the opportunity to show fans why particular

1535
01:24:28,200 --> 01:24:31,280
Speaker 2: calls were made and what actually went into the decision

1536
01:24:31,320 --> 01:24:35,880
Speaker 2: making process. Blandino has been on multiple radio shows across

1537
01:24:35,920 --> 01:24:38,479
Speaker 2: the country this year, and he's basically admitted quote. He

1538
01:24:38,520 --> 01:24:42,920
Speaker 2: says he loves transparency and he's qualified to say that

1539
01:24:43,000 --> 01:24:46,360
Speaker 2: as a matter of fact. Here's exactly here's a direct

1540
01:24:46,479 --> 01:24:50,160
Speaker 2: quote from Dean Blandino. Quote. Because I spent a long

1541
01:24:50,280 --> 01:24:53,200
Speaker 2: time in the NFL, and if people don't agree with

1542
01:24:53,320 --> 01:24:57,040
Speaker 2: the call, well, it's very difficult to convince them why

1543
01:24:57,160 --> 01:25:00,519
Speaker 2: after the fact and when they can see it actually happening.

1544
01:25:02,040 --> 01:25:04,439
Speaker 2: They may not always agree, but now they have a

1545
01:25:04,520 --> 01:25:07,400
Speaker 2: better understanding, and I think it gives them a better

1546
01:25:07,479 --> 01:25:13,320
Speaker 2: overall feeling about officiating. End quote. Ultimately, Dean Blandino feels

1547
01:25:13,400 --> 01:25:17,240
Speaker 2: that showing more of the replay review on NFL telecasts

1548
01:25:17,680 --> 01:25:21,519
Speaker 2: would increase credibility with fans, but more importantly, it also

1549
01:25:21,720 --> 01:25:26,360
Speaker 2: does create a more intriguing, perhaps entertaining and maybe even

1550
01:25:26,400 --> 01:25:29,840
Speaker 2: a better TV product. For one thing, there's air time

1551
01:25:29,920 --> 01:25:33,280
Speaker 2: to fill. Don't you hate it when when you know

1552
01:25:33,840 --> 01:25:39,000
Speaker 2: it takes so damn long for again? You want the playwright.

1553
01:25:39,760 --> 01:25:42,040
Speaker 2: You don't want your team to lose on a blown call.

1554
01:25:42,520 --> 01:25:44,320
Speaker 2: You don't want to lose a bet on a blown call.

1555
01:25:45,120 --> 01:25:48,720
Speaker 2: You want it to be right but the execution of

1556
01:25:49,000 --> 01:25:53,320
Speaker 2: this process is maddening. It's elongated and slow and bloated,

1557
01:25:53,360 --> 01:25:55,439
Speaker 2: and it happens multiple times a game. So guess what,

1558
01:25:56,160 --> 01:25:58,920
Speaker 2: there's air time to fill. And if you're just listening

1559
01:25:59,000 --> 01:26:03,400
Speaker 2: to the regular broad cast crew speculate as they watch

1560
01:26:03,479 --> 01:26:06,760
Speaker 2: the same replays as the audience has and I'm talking

1561
01:26:06,880 --> 01:26:08,880
Speaker 2: back about the NFL. Now, well, that doesn't really prove

1562
01:26:08,880 --> 01:26:10,880
Speaker 2: out a whole hell of a lot of insight. They're

1563
01:26:10,960 --> 01:26:14,960
Speaker 2: just killing airtime watching the replay official over the same

1564
01:26:15,000 --> 01:26:19,920
Speaker 2: footage and having an opportunity to eavesdrop as it were,

1565
01:26:20,080 --> 01:26:23,799
Speaker 2: and listen to that replay official communicate with the referees

1566
01:26:23,920 --> 01:26:28,479
Speaker 2: and the league office. That adds real substance to the process.

1567
01:26:29,400 --> 01:26:34,320
Speaker 2: This is not speculation. This is the actual ruling being made.

1568
01:26:35,040 --> 01:26:37,920
Speaker 2: You are you are getting to see how the sausage

1569
01:26:38,040 --> 01:26:40,120
Speaker 2: is made. And this is one time where you really

1570
01:26:40,200 --> 01:26:42,840
Speaker 2: might want to because how many times have you seen

1571
01:26:42,840 --> 01:26:45,960
Speaker 2: a call overturned or upheld and you're just asked, you're

1572
01:26:46,000 --> 01:26:48,760
Speaker 2: scratching yourself or you're scratching your old boy. That didn't

1573
01:26:48,760 --> 01:26:51,920
Speaker 2: sound good. You're scratching your head saying, hey, how the

1574
01:26:52,000 --> 01:26:54,040
Speaker 2: hell did they arrive at that conclusion, what the hell

1575
01:26:54,080 --> 01:26:57,320
Speaker 2: are these knuckleheads looking at the other thing you would do?

1576
01:26:58,040 --> 01:27:01,280
Speaker 2: Think about it an NFL game. Let's say it's a

1577
01:27:01,360 --> 01:27:03,880
Speaker 2: sunny night game and it's a hotly contested game and

1578
01:27:03,960 --> 01:27:06,880
Speaker 2: it's you know, it's the Chiefs and the Bengals, and

1579
01:27:06,920 --> 01:27:10,679
Speaker 2: all of a sudden there's a controversial call and it's challenged,

1580
01:27:10,800 --> 01:27:12,559
Speaker 2: and now, all of a sudden, you show the replay

1581
01:27:12,640 --> 01:27:16,240
Speaker 2: review process, and you've got real drama. You've got real drama.

1582
01:27:16,280 --> 01:27:18,519
Speaker 2: You've got a football game, you've got an NFL talentcast,

1583
01:27:18,560 --> 01:27:21,360
Speaker 2: you've got drama. And it could be one aspect of

1584
01:27:21,439 --> 01:27:24,840
Speaker 2: the game that will really stir a fans emotions and

1585
01:27:25,640 --> 01:27:28,880
Speaker 2: it can clearly add to the product. I truly believe that.

1586
01:27:29,320 --> 01:27:33,720
Speaker 2: Now if the replay official suddenly changes their mind, as

1587
01:27:34,240 --> 01:27:36,880
Speaker 2: has happened in the past. It actually happened in an

1588
01:27:36,920 --> 01:27:40,840
Speaker 2: AAF game years ago that leagues defunct, but again they

1589
01:27:40,920 --> 01:27:44,920
Speaker 2: employed the same type of thing. You provide additional sports content.

1590
01:27:45,680 --> 01:27:48,960
Speaker 2: It's not just the game, it's not just the action,

1591
01:27:49,600 --> 01:27:51,880
Speaker 2: it's not just the play itself. But you've got now

1592
01:27:52,280 --> 01:27:58,479
Speaker 2: legitimate content because you see a call, whether you agree

1593
01:27:58,520 --> 01:28:00,040
Speaker 2: with it or not, there's always going to be so

1594
01:28:00,120 --> 01:28:02,880
Speaker 2: I was gonna typically be cut down the middle. But

1595
01:28:03,040 --> 01:28:05,160
Speaker 2: now you get to listen to the replay official, you

1596
01:28:05,280 --> 01:28:08,040
Speaker 2: get to listen to the on field officials, you get

1597
01:28:08,080 --> 01:28:10,519
Speaker 2: to listen to you know, the league office in New York,

1598
01:28:10,560 --> 01:28:13,240
Speaker 2: go back and forth. Now, the XFL did some other

1599
01:28:13,320 --> 01:28:18,000
Speaker 2: things this year, right, and I think one of the

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01:28:18,640 --> 01:28:22,120
Speaker 2: great purposes that it does serve it is in fact

1601
01:28:22,200 --> 01:28:26,200
Speaker 2: the testing ground for the National Football League. For instance,

1602
01:28:27,120 --> 01:28:31,960
Speaker 2: they now have these tiered extra point attempts, and if

1603
01:28:32,439 --> 01:28:36,200
Speaker 2: you don't want to do onside kicks anymore, in lieu

1604
01:28:36,479 --> 01:28:38,360
Speaker 2: of an onside kick, you could say, all right, we'll

1605
01:28:38,400 --> 01:28:40,679
Speaker 2: take the ball on our own twenty five yard line

1606
01:28:41,240 --> 01:28:43,280
Speaker 2: and we have a fourth and fifteen. We have one

1607
01:28:43,360 --> 01:28:46,080
Speaker 2: play to go fifteen yards or more or we lose,

1608
01:28:46,160 --> 01:28:48,160
Speaker 2: you know, you turn them all over. Now, I think

1609
01:28:48,240 --> 01:28:50,400
Speaker 2: the Competition Committee voted on that this year, and they

1610
01:28:50,479 --> 01:28:53,240
Speaker 2: voted down for the NFL. So that's a little gimmicky

1611
01:28:53,280 --> 01:28:57,599
Speaker 2: to me. But showing replay reviews is not gimmicky because

1612
01:28:57,640 --> 01:29:01,559
Speaker 2: there is a collaborative process. We just don't necessarily trust

1613
01:29:01,640 --> 01:29:04,519
Speaker 2: or believe or understand the collaborative process because we don't

1614
01:29:04,520 --> 01:29:06,080
Speaker 2: see the film they're looking at. We don't see the

1615
01:29:06,120 --> 01:29:08,040
Speaker 2: replay they're looking at. We don't hear the conversations.

1616
01:29:09,000 --> 01:29:09,280
Speaker 7: And so.

1617
01:29:10,800 --> 01:29:14,920
Speaker 2: Would the NFL adopt this? I don't know. But if

1618
01:29:14,960 --> 01:29:18,519
Speaker 2: the NFL did adopt this, would it yield positive results? Yeah?

1619
01:29:18,640 --> 01:29:21,479
Speaker 2: I think it would. How would it not? Fans have

1620
01:29:21,560 --> 01:29:25,280
Speaker 2: already decided they love it. The sports media, including me,

1621
01:29:25,400 --> 01:29:28,040
Speaker 2: I'm very intrigued by it, and it does seem, on

1622
01:29:28,120 --> 01:29:30,160
Speaker 2: the face of it, like a no brainer for the

1623
01:29:30,280 --> 01:29:33,200
Speaker 2: NFL to carry this over their own broadcasts. Show the

1624
01:29:33,280 --> 01:29:37,320
Speaker 2: replay review on TV, show the one the rest looking at, addition,

1625
01:29:37,400 --> 01:29:41,760
Speaker 2: the one the audience is looking at. And what's the downside?

1626
01:29:43,479 --> 01:29:46,479
Speaker 2: What exactly is the downside? Unless there's something odd to

1627
01:29:46,600 --> 01:29:50,000
Speaker 2: hide or they just simply don't want to, you know.

1628
01:29:50,680 --> 01:29:52,880
Speaker 2: I mean, you may go to your finest five star

1629
01:29:52,960 --> 01:29:54,800
Speaker 2: restaurant and say, hey man, this is so good. Can

1630
01:29:54,840 --> 01:29:56,680
Speaker 2: I go back and to the kitchen? No, you don't

1631
01:29:56,720 --> 01:29:58,559
Speaker 2: get to come back to the Kitchen's none of your business.

1632
01:29:58,720 --> 01:30:00,439
Speaker 2: Why not? This meal was so good? I just want

1633
01:30:00,439 --> 01:30:01,840
Speaker 2: to see how you did it. No, it's not the

1634
01:30:01,880 --> 01:30:04,960
Speaker 2: way it works. I don't know. But there's if you're

1635
01:30:05,040 --> 01:30:10,680
Speaker 2: hiding something, you're protecting somebody people always want transparency on

1636
01:30:10,880 --> 01:30:15,160
Speaker 2: replay reviews. Always here's a chance for the NFL to

1637
01:30:15,760 --> 01:30:20,400
Speaker 2: do something very clever, except they can't take credit for

1638
01:30:20,479 --> 01:30:23,320
Speaker 2: their cleverness because the XFL has already done that, and

1639
01:30:23,400 --> 01:30:28,960
Speaker 2: I'm quite sure the NFL and its hostodgy persona believes

1640
01:30:29,000 --> 01:30:31,000
Speaker 2: it's in a nethlek. They would copy anything else and

1641
01:30:31,080 --> 01:30:34,200
Speaker 2: the other league is done. But you just wait. It's inevitable,

1642
01:30:34,880 --> 01:30:37,320
Speaker 2: you know, whether a guy's out of bounds and calls

1643
01:30:37,360 --> 01:30:38,680
Speaker 2: for a flag as you saw at the end of

1644
01:30:38,680 --> 01:30:42,479
Speaker 2: the Kansas City Cincinnati game, or Derek Carr being tackled

1645
01:30:42,520 --> 01:30:44,880
Speaker 2: by a guy who clearly did everything you could to

1646
01:30:44,920 --> 01:30:48,080
Speaker 2: avoid his weight falling on him. And when you like

1647
01:30:48,160 --> 01:30:50,080
Speaker 2: to be a fly on the wall and hear that

1648
01:30:50,200 --> 01:30:53,280
Speaker 2: conversation and why some of these calls are upheld and

1649
01:30:53,360 --> 01:30:56,240
Speaker 2: why they're not, it would only add to the entertainment

1650
01:30:56,320 --> 01:31:00,680
Speaker 2: quotient of the game. I believe you know. Tweet at

1651
01:31:00,720 --> 01:31:03,880
Speaker 2: me Bernie Frattle, Fox Sports Radio, give me your thoughts

1652
01:31:04,800 --> 01:31:06,280
Speaker 2: if you think this is a good idea or not.

1653
01:31:07,000 --> 01:31:09,600
Speaker 2: Because the NFL for a long time go fat on

1654
01:31:09,680 --> 01:31:12,759
Speaker 2: how to do instant replay in how to do replay

1655
01:31:12,800 --> 01:31:14,840
Speaker 2: review in the first place, and essentially they ended up

1656
01:31:14,880 --> 01:31:18,640
Speaker 2: primarily copying what the original USFL did clear back in

1657
01:31:18,720 --> 01:31:22,000
Speaker 2: nineteen eighty three, where coaches challenges and throwing the flag,

1658
01:31:22,080 --> 01:31:23,840
Speaker 2: and it took decades for them to do it, but

1659
01:31:23,920 --> 01:31:28,240
Speaker 2: they finally did it. And as I said, the operative

1660
01:31:28,240 --> 01:31:31,160
Speaker 2: word here that I've repeated multiple times, this is, in fact,

1661
01:31:31,200 --> 01:31:33,920
Speaker 2: in the entertainment medium, you can't tell me while you're

1662
01:31:34,280 --> 01:31:36,640
Speaker 2: waiting and waiting and waiting for the call to be

1663
01:31:36,720 --> 01:31:41,120
Speaker 2: rendered or overturned, or a decision to be adjudicated while

1664
01:31:41,120 --> 01:31:46,919
Speaker 2: you're waiting. Perhaps a more transparent narrative visually and optically,

1665
01:31:47,400 --> 01:31:49,960
Speaker 2: as far as it's the Department of redundancy department and

1666
01:31:50,120 --> 01:31:52,719
Speaker 2: listening to the conversation between the booth and the fielding

1667
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Speaker 2: draft was not considered a great draft by the scouts,

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Speaker 2: certainly in terms of the quarterback class. Is looking ahead

1674
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Speaker 2: the draft twenty twenty four to two soon. No, it's

1675
01:32:28,080 --> 01:32:32,760
Speaker 2: not because, according to NFL scouts on that I've heard from,

1676
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Speaker 2: next year's top five players in the NFL Draft would

1677
01:32:37,800 --> 01:32:40,400
Speaker 2: have been the top five players in this year's draft.

1678
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Speaker 2: That enough gives us curious to take a look. I'm

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Speaker 2: Bernie Frattle or Comedy Live from the Fox Sports Radio

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Speaker 2: Tireck dot Com studios. Don't go away, you're listening to

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Speaker 2: draft in April, followed up by the schedule release, and

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Speaker 2: one of the things blowing in the wind is that

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Speaker 2: next year's draft. There's actually far more anticipation for next

1690
01:33:28,040 --> 01:33:32,080
Speaker 2: year's draft from a star projected star standpoint, certainly from

1691
01:33:32,080 --> 01:33:35,920
Speaker 2: the quarterback position, if nothing else, more so than this

1692
01:33:36,080 --> 01:33:39,080
Speaker 2: year's draft. As a matter of fact, I've actually heard

1693
01:33:39,479 --> 01:33:43,840
Speaker 2: some pro scouts say that, yes, there were thirty two

1694
01:33:44,040 --> 01:33:46,160
Speaker 2: selections in the first round. But believe it or not,

1695
01:33:47,439 --> 01:33:54,040
Speaker 2: by standard, you know, protocol and historic scouting, there were

1696
01:33:54,080 --> 01:33:56,680
Speaker 2: really only about fifteen first round players this year. But

1697
01:33:56,920 --> 01:34:00,960
Speaker 2: let's see what happens. But next year, and as college

1698
01:34:01,000 --> 01:34:03,200
Speaker 2: believe it or not, college football is only ninety days away,

1699
01:34:03,360 --> 01:34:06,759
Speaker 2: and the future always has a way of arriving ahead

1700
01:34:06,800 --> 01:34:09,320
Speaker 2: of schedule. So one of the things we want to

1701
01:34:09,360 --> 01:34:12,920
Speaker 2: watch and keep an eye on are key names, marquee names,

1702
01:34:12,960 --> 01:34:15,880
Speaker 2: and key programs. And there are about a half dozen

1703
01:34:15,920 --> 01:34:19,280
Speaker 2: players that will be household names by the time the

1704
01:34:19,360 --> 01:34:21,920
Speaker 2: fall rolls around. Some already are that you've heard of.

1705
01:34:22,479 --> 01:34:27,000
Speaker 2: And as I said a minute ago, according to certainly

1706
01:34:27,360 --> 01:34:33,439
Speaker 2: some NFL sources scouting type personnel, that next year's top

1707
01:34:33,520 --> 01:34:35,400
Speaker 2: five players in the NFL Draft would have been the

1708
01:34:35,439 --> 01:34:37,880
Speaker 2: top five this year. That being the case, to take

1709
01:34:37,880 --> 01:34:39,640
Speaker 2: a look at who some of these players are, and

1710
01:34:39,720 --> 01:34:43,600
Speaker 2: I guarantee some you've already heard of. Caleb Williams, the

1711
01:34:43,760 --> 01:34:49,280
Speaker 2: sc quarterback. Now this is pretty high praise, but you

1712
01:34:49,360 --> 01:34:53,519
Speaker 2: are hearing, you are actually hearing comparisons to Heisman winner

1713
01:34:53,560 --> 01:34:57,240
Speaker 2: Patrick Mahomes. Now, I got hurt, but in one year

1714
01:34:57,400 --> 01:35:00,000
Speaker 2: without a very good defense, Lincoln Riley and Caleb Boyt

1715
01:35:00,000 --> 01:35:03,960
Speaker 2: Wiams completely turned USC around. And if you watch Caleb Williams,

1716
01:35:04,360 --> 01:35:07,800
Speaker 2: he is that guy that if you are a defensive coordinator,

1717
01:35:07,880 --> 01:35:11,040
Speaker 2: you're going to have to prepare to game plans, the

1718
01:35:11,160 --> 01:35:13,960
Speaker 2: one game plan for the scheme they run, and then

1719
01:35:14,040 --> 01:35:17,080
Speaker 2: the second game plan for when he goes off schedule

1720
01:35:17,479 --> 01:35:20,760
Speaker 2: and improvises and the play breaks down and all of

1721
01:35:20,840 --> 01:35:24,200
Speaker 2: a sudden, Now you've got to also make provisions for

1722
01:35:24,680 --> 01:35:27,800
Speaker 2: what Caleb Williams does when he starts to freelance, because

1723
01:35:27,800 --> 01:35:29,559
Speaker 2: he can do both. He can operate from the pocket,

1724
01:35:29,920 --> 01:35:33,320
Speaker 2: he keeps plays alive with his feet, and he's dynamic

1725
01:35:33,439 --> 01:35:36,559
Speaker 2: both ways, and he has tremendous instincts, great arm talent.

1726
01:35:36,640 --> 01:35:39,040
Speaker 2: Who does that sound like, well, you know, we knew

1727
01:35:39,120 --> 01:35:41,320
Speaker 2: Patrick Mahomes coming out of Texas Tech at all kinds

1728
01:35:41,360 --> 01:35:44,439
Speaker 2: of talent. Nobody knew he'd beat this good. So just

1729
01:35:44,760 --> 01:35:47,760
Speaker 2: having that in the conversation kind of spices things up

1730
01:35:48,240 --> 01:35:51,200
Speaker 2: for twenty twenty four. So will Caleb Williams be the

1731
01:35:51,280 --> 01:35:53,920
Speaker 2: number one pick overall in twenty twenty four? I guess

1732
01:35:54,000 --> 01:35:56,679
Speaker 2: we'll find out, but he certainly is on the short

1733
01:35:56,760 --> 01:35:59,200
Speaker 2: list as bum Phillips once said, I don't know who's

1734
01:35:59,200 --> 01:36:00,800
Speaker 2: at the top of the class, but it don't take

1735
01:36:00,840 --> 01:36:03,880
Speaker 2: long to call Roll. All right, Let's now talk about

1736
01:36:04,240 --> 01:36:09,280
Speaker 2: another dynamic quarterback from North Carolina, Drake May, who you

1737
01:36:09,520 --> 01:36:13,520
Speaker 2: also have heard a lot about. He is the prototypical

1738
01:36:14,200 --> 01:36:19,000
Speaker 2: quarterback in terms of size six four to twenty, great

1739
01:36:19,120 --> 01:36:24,599
Speaker 2: arm strength, way above average athleticism. Who's been compared to, Well,

1740
01:36:24,640 --> 01:36:28,559
Speaker 2: he's been compared to Justin Herbert and Andrew Luck. That's

1741
01:36:28,600 --> 01:36:32,439
Speaker 2: what they do, they compare people to people. He had

1742
01:36:32,520 --> 01:36:35,080
Speaker 2: some great games last year. You he can make every

1743
01:36:35,120 --> 01:36:39,080
Speaker 2: throw on the field. Again, something to watch. Let's vacate

1744
01:36:39,120 --> 01:36:42,040
Speaker 2: away from the quarterback position. Ohio State has been a

1745
01:36:42,240 --> 01:36:45,680
Speaker 2: frankly a wide receiver factory in recent years, and this

1746
01:36:45,840 --> 01:36:49,280
Speaker 2: next year is no different. Wide receiver Marvin Harrison Junior.

1747
01:36:49,720 --> 01:36:52,400
Speaker 2: When Smith and Jigbow was basically non existent for the

1748
01:36:53,000 --> 01:36:55,559
Speaker 2: twenty twenty two to check that, yeah, the twenty twenty

1749
01:36:55,600 --> 01:36:58,400
Speaker 2: two season, well, who stepped up in a big way.

1750
01:36:58,520 --> 01:37:00,479
Speaker 2: Marvin Harrison Junior. And yes, of course, if that name

1751
01:37:00,560 --> 01:37:03,320
Speaker 2: sounds premiere, he is the son of a Hall of

1752
01:37:03,360 --> 01:37:06,360
Speaker 2: Fame wide receiver Marvin Harrison, who spent his career with

1753
01:37:06,439 --> 01:37:10,160
Speaker 2: the Colts, and they're talking about him being a better

1754
01:37:10,240 --> 01:37:14,960
Speaker 2: receiver prospect from a receiver standpoint that even Drake May

1755
01:37:15,080 --> 01:37:19,280
Speaker 2: and Caleb Williams are as quarterbacks. Now that is very

1756
01:37:19,360 --> 01:37:22,679
Speaker 2: high praise. That means he basically steps on the field

1757
01:37:23,360 --> 01:37:28,160
Speaker 2: and week one he's productive. And look, he was the

1758
01:37:28,240 --> 01:37:30,760
Speaker 2: best player on the field against Georgia and the Peach Bowl.

1759
01:37:31,320 --> 01:37:34,400
Speaker 2: That was a team loaded with high draft picks. You

1760
01:37:34,600 --> 01:37:37,920
Speaker 2: saw what Marvin Harrison could do. No reason that shouldn't

1761
01:37:37,920 --> 01:37:40,519
Speaker 2: translate to the NFL. I'd be shocked if he's not

1762
01:37:40,640 --> 01:37:44,559
Speaker 2: a very high first rounder in twenty twenty four. Now,

1763
01:37:44,680 --> 01:37:46,960
Speaker 2: you know they play the big ugly play football too.

1764
01:37:47,160 --> 01:37:50,200
Speaker 2: As Keith Jackson used to say, Penn State has a

1765
01:37:50,320 --> 01:37:54,280
Speaker 2: tackle by the name of Uluvashanu. Now Penn State's PAW

1766
01:37:54,360 --> 01:37:56,640
Speaker 2: rated six or seventh in the country this year, and

1767
01:37:56,720 --> 01:37:59,280
Speaker 2: their biggest game will be when they host Michigan. I'm

1768
01:37:59,320 --> 01:38:02,519
Speaker 2: not sure PennState it's got the quarterbacks situation straight and away,

1769
01:38:03,040 --> 01:38:05,680
Speaker 2: but this guy's Aligneman. He could have gone to the

1770
01:38:05,800 --> 01:38:08,000
Speaker 2: NFL Draft last year, he decided to return to Penn

1771
01:38:08,000 --> 01:38:10,559
Speaker 2: State for his senior year. That was surprised a lot

1772
01:38:10,560 --> 01:38:13,840
Speaker 2: of scouts because the truth of the matter is we're

1773
01:38:13,960 --> 01:38:16,800
Speaker 2: told that Ola for Shano, had he stayed or had

1774
01:38:16,800 --> 01:38:18,280
Speaker 2: gone into the draft this year, would have been a

1775
01:38:18,320 --> 01:38:20,680
Speaker 2: top ten pick. So he's back at Penn State. No

1776
01:38:20,760 --> 01:38:22,599
Speaker 2: reason to believe he should be a top ten pick

1777
01:38:23,200 --> 01:38:28,000
Speaker 2: in twenty twenty four. Alabama, when you know it, another

1778
01:38:28,080 --> 01:38:32,080
Speaker 2: outside linebacker, Dallas Turner. This is his fourth year in

1779
01:38:32,120 --> 01:38:35,200
Speaker 2: the program. He's been an impact player since he got

1780
01:38:35,240 --> 01:38:37,680
Speaker 2: there at Alabama. Again, you don't you haven't heard about him.

1781
01:38:37,680 --> 01:38:40,080
Speaker 2: You're going to hear about him, just like you, you know,

1782
01:38:40,880 --> 01:38:42,920
Speaker 2: two years ago, you probably hadn't heard of Jalen Carter

1783
01:38:43,360 --> 01:38:45,960
Speaker 2: or Will Anderson. But these guys start to emerge and

1784
01:38:46,080 --> 01:38:48,800
Speaker 2: to become game changers and game breakers every week. And

1785
01:38:48,880 --> 01:38:51,799
Speaker 2: so it's against not just quarterbacks, it's not just skilled players,

1786
01:38:51,880 --> 01:38:54,599
Speaker 2: not just wide receivers. Ola for Shano at Penn State,

1787
01:38:54,600 --> 01:38:58,439
Speaker 2: you're gonna hear about them offensive or check that outside

1788
01:38:58,479 --> 01:39:03,360
Speaker 2: linebacker Alabama, Dallas turn He recorded what twenty tackles for

1789
01:39:03,479 --> 01:39:07,680
Speaker 2: loss last year, thirteen sacks. Again, you're back to the

1790
01:39:07,760 --> 01:39:12,479
Speaker 2: prototypical frame. The prototypical projectable size and speed six four

1791
01:39:12,600 --> 01:39:17,560
Speaker 2: two forty has tremendous explosion. They are saying that Alabama's

1792
01:39:18,120 --> 01:39:20,560
Speaker 2: Dallas Turner. Again, he's an outside linebackers who plays a

1793
01:39:20,640 --> 01:39:24,240
Speaker 2: different position than Will Anderson played. But Scotch was saying

1794
01:39:24,280 --> 01:39:29,320
Speaker 2: that he's the type of explosive athlete that uh or

1795
01:39:29,360 --> 01:39:33,320
Speaker 2: he has the type of explosion that some teams filt

1796
01:39:33,479 --> 01:39:38,200
Speaker 2: Will Anderson Junior somewhat lacked. That's pretty high praise. And

1797
01:39:38,240 --> 01:39:40,080
Speaker 2: you know, and you wonder why they do the vertical leap,

1798
01:39:40,160 --> 01:39:41,680
Speaker 2: and you wonder why they do the broad jump and

1799
01:39:41,720 --> 01:39:44,479
Speaker 2: all these things. That tells you how explosive an athlete is.

1800
01:39:45,479 --> 01:39:47,439
Speaker 2: And and you know, when you're dealing with a guy

1801
01:39:47,520 --> 01:39:49,720
Speaker 2: sixty four to two forty and he's a linebacker and

1802
01:39:49,840 --> 01:39:52,720
Speaker 2: he tackles for loss, tackles you in the backfield from

1803
01:39:52,720 --> 01:39:55,880
Speaker 2: his linebacker position, still comes up with thirteen sacks, you

1804
01:39:56,040 --> 01:39:58,800
Speaker 2: have to be explosive. Finally, you already know this guy.

1805
01:39:58,960 --> 01:40:02,000
Speaker 2: He is a household name. Georgia tight end brock Bowers

1806
01:40:02,800 --> 01:40:05,120
Speaker 2: the numbers. And by the way, there's all of a sudden,

1807
01:40:05,120 --> 01:40:07,800
Speaker 2: this influx of all these great tight ends coming into

1808
01:40:07,800 --> 01:40:10,799
Speaker 2: the league. The Lions got themselves won, right, Matt Laporte

1809
01:40:10,800 --> 01:40:15,519
Speaker 2: out of Iowa. But the tight end is a position

1810
01:40:15,680 --> 01:40:19,400
Speaker 2: that's kind of getting this renewed renaissance in the National

1811
01:40:19,479 --> 01:40:22,760
Speaker 2: Football League because of how you can move the chains

1812
01:40:22,800 --> 01:40:26,000
Speaker 2: and tight ends are far more athletic now, and they

1813
01:40:26,080 --> 01:40:29,040
Speaker 2: block and they run routes and they're just're actually glorified

1814
01:40:29,120 --> 01:40:32,759
Speaker 2: wide receivers with bigger bodies. Georgia tight end brock Bowers

1815
01:40:33,560 --> 01:40:35,559
Speaker 2: could start from probably a lot of NFL teams right now.

1816
01:40:35,640 --> 01:40:37,519
Speaker 2: There are two seasons at Georgia, and this is back

1817
01:40:37,560 --> 01:40:41,600
Speaker 2: to back national champion teams. He's caught one hundred and

1818
01:40:41,640 --> 01:40:44,800
Speaker 2: twenty balls for almost nineteen hundred yards twenty touchdowns. He

1819
01:40:44,880 --> 01:40:49,920
Speaker 2: also has four rushing touchdowns and his carry average when

1820
01:40:49,960 --> 01:40:52,719
Speaker 2: he does run the ball twelve and a half yards

1821
01:40:52,760 --> 01:40:57,720
Speaker 2: per carry. That's extreme athleticism. So is it too soon?

1822
01:40:58,920 --> 01:41:01,400
Speaker 2: I don't think anything's too sooner the National Football League.

1823
01:41:01,920 --> 01:41:05,200
Speaker 2: As you can see the coverage, there's an insatiable demand.

1824
01:41:05,280 --> 01:41:07,320
Speaker 2: Twenty four to three sixty five won't be long now.

1825
01:41:07,439 --> 01:41:11,599
Speaker 2: OTAs mini camps were sixty days from teams breaking camp

1826
01:41:11,680 --> 01:41:15,040
Speaker 2: in July, coming off the schedule release, coming off the draft.

1827
01:41:15,640 --> 01:41:17,360
Speaker 2: It's always fun to look ahead, keep an eye on

1828
01:41:17,400 --> 01:41:20,320
Speaker 2: those guys. Some of them are alority household names. The

1829
01:41:20,439 --> 01:41:25,360
Speaker 2: rest are going to be sooner rather than later. Coming up,

1830
01:41:26,439 --> 01:41:30,360
Speaker 2: have a little fun. The biggest story in the history

1831
01:41:30,439 --> 01:41:35,640
Speaker 2: of world sports media. The walleye Fishing tournament cheaters have

1832
01:41:36,000 --> 01:41:41,760
Speaker 2: met with their match. They pled guilty. What happened, We'll

1833
01:41:41,800 --> 01:41:43,519
Speaker 2: share it with you. Remember we did this story a

1834
01:41:43,600 --> 01:41:46,560
Speaker 2: while back. Well, I'll tell you what. We'll reset the

1835
01:41:46,600 --> 01:41:50,280
Speaker 2: whole thing from the top, and after many months of

1836
01:41:50,479 --> 01:41:55,760
Speaker 2: teeth gnashing and adjudication, these Walleye Fishing tournament cheaters have

1837
01:41:56,160 --> 01:41:59,160
Speaker 2: been sentenced. But first to go back to our GUYE.

1838
01:41:59,240 --> 01:42:01,040
Speaker 2: Kevin Wirt with the latest.

1839
01:42:01,160 --> 01:42:04,000
Speaker 3: Yeah, big news out of the NBA On Saturday, the

1840
01:42:04,200 --> 01:42:07,479
Speaker 3: Suns firing head coach Monty Williams after they lost to

1841
01:42:07,520 --> 01:42:10,880
Speaker 3: the Denver Nuggets in the Western Conference semifinals. He had

1842
01:42:10,920 --> 01:42:13,320
Speaker 3: a six to twenty eight winning percentage in the regular

1843
01:42:13,400 --> 01:42:16,479
Speaker 3: season across four seasons in Phoenix. He was Coach of

1844
01:42:16,520 --> 01:42:18,599
Speaker 3: the Year a season to go after they win sixty

1845
01:42:18,600 --> 01:42:20,960
Speaker 3: four and eighteen, and he took them to the NBA

1846
01:42:21,120 --> 01:42:24,479
Speaker 3: Finals in twenty twenty one, where they lost to the

1847
01:42:24,560 --> 01:42:28,240
Speaker 3: Milwaukee Bucksy figures to be a prominent coaching candidate this

1848
01:42:28,560 --> 01:42:33,559
Speaker 3: upcoming off season. No games in the association on Saturday.

1849
01:42:33,680 --> 01:42:37,400
Speaker 3: Game seven on Sunday between the Celtics and seventy six

1850
01:42:37,479 --> 01:42:40,160
Speaker 3: Ers that'll conclude this second round of the playoffs. The

1851
01:42:40,240 --> 01:42:43,759
Speaker 3: Western Conference Finals between the Lakers and Nuggets will begin

1852
01:42:44,360 --> 01:42:48,439
Speaker 3: on Tuesday. NHL Stanley Cup Playoffs. The Seattle Kraken with

1853
01:42:48,560 --> 01:42:50,639
Speaker 3: a big win against the Dallas Stars six to three

1854
01:42:51,000 --> 01:42:54,000
Speaker 3: that'll force a Game seven that'll take place Monday evening

1855
01:42:54,560 --> 01:42:58,120
Speaker 3: in Dallas. Major League Baseball, the Dodgers with a four

1856
01:42:58,120 --> 01:43:01,040
Speaker 3: to two win against the Padres jd Ourtinaz going yard

1857
01:43:01,120 --> 01:43:06,200
Speaker 3: for Los Angeles in Cleveland, it's the Guardians getting six

1858
01:43:06,360 --> 01:43:08,519
Speaker 3: runs in the eighth inning to beat the Angels eight

1859
01:43:08,560 --> 01:43:11,280
Speaker 3: to six. The Yankees get by Tampa Bay nine to

1860
01:43:11,360 --> 01:43:14,040
Speaker 3: eight despite trailing six nothing in the fifth inning, but

1861
01:43:14,120 --> 01:43:16,720
Speaker 3: Aaron Judge with two home runs for New York in

1862
01:43:16,920 --> 01:43:19,600
Speaker 3: the win. Cardinals three runs in the ninth inning to

1863
01:43:19,680 --> 01:43:21,519
Speaker 3: beat the Red Sox four to one as they beat

1864
01:43:21,560 --> 01:43:24,400
Speaker 3: closer Kenley Jansen, who also gave up three runs in

1865
01:43:24,479 --> 01:43:27,320
Speaker 3: the ninth inning. On Friday night, and the Mets Nationals

1866
01:43:27,400 --> 01:43:31,639
Speaker 3: game suspended by rain until Sunday with Washington leading won

1867
01:43:31,720 --> 01:43:34,760
Speaker 3: nothing in the third inning and the Nationals finally made

1868
01:43:34,760 --> 01:43:38,040
Speaker 3: an announcement regarding the status of that game after nearly

1869
01:43:38,120 --> 01:43:40,800
Speaker 3: a four hour delay back of u Verney.

1870
01:43:41,720 --> 01:43:45,559
Speaker 2: All right, Kevin, sounds good there, buddy. So months ago

1871
01:43:45,680 --> 01:43:50,880
Speaker 2: we reported a situation involving two gentlemen in Ohio, or

1872
01:43:50,920 --> 01:43:53,519
Speaker 2: actually one was from Pennsylvania. Their names are Jacob Runyan

1873
01:43:54,160 --> 01:43:59,880
Speaker 2: and Chase Kaminski, and they just take you back to March.

1874
01:44:00,080 --> 01:44:03,840
Speaker 2: They pleaded guilty to fellony charges of cheating and misdemeanor

1875
01:44:03,960 --> 01:44:08,200
Speaker 2: count of what's known as illegal animal ownership after they

1876
01:44:08,240 --> 01:44:11,200
Speaker 2: were found to have used weights to make their catches

1877
01:44:11,200 --> 01:44:15,280
Speaker 2: appear heavier at the leak Arie Walleye Tournament last September.

1878
01:44:15,479 --> 01:44:16,840
Speaker 2: So what do I mean by that? Do you catch

1879
01:44:16,920 --> 01:44:20,960
Speaker 2: fish and based on the fish you catch, they weigh them,

1880
01:44:21,160 --> 01:44:25,000
Speaker 2: and whoever comes up with the biggest catch, well not

1881
01:44:25,120 --> 01:44:28,280
Speaker 2: the biggest, but you know, the cumulative amount of fish

1882
01:44:28,320 --> 01:44:31,160
Speaker 2: you catch that weighs the most, you win the tournament.

1883
01:44:31,720 --> 01:44:34,519
Speaker 2: Well apparently these guys have been getting away with this

1884
01:44:34,640 --> 01:44:39,559
Speaker 2: for a while. As the investigation unfolded and it came

1885
01:44:39,640 --> 01:44:43,120
Speaker 2: to a head when this big tournament I think had

1886
01:44:43,160 --> 01:44:47,720
Speaker 2: a payout of like thirty thousand dollars and you know,

1887
01:44:48,520 --> 01:44:51,080
Speaker 2: certain fishes that were supposed to weigh like four pounds.

1888
01:44:51,120 --> 01:44:53,519
Speaker 2: Maybe if you put a small weight in there and

1889
01:44:53,640 --> 01:44:55,600
Speaker 2: makes it makes it four and a half or a

1890
01:44:55,640 --> 01:44:57,880
Speaker 2: little more, maybe you don't get caught. They seem to

1891
01:44:58,200 --> 01:45:00,240
Speaker 2: get away with it for a while, and all of

1892
01:45:00,280 --> 01:45:02,280
Speaker 2: a sudden they got greedy and put weights that were

1893
01:45:02,320 --> 01:45:04,320
Speaker 2: like seven pounds. Okay, that all of a sudden, Now

1894
01:45:05,240 --> 01:45:07,080
Speaker 2: the people in the know, the people that do this

1895
01:45:07,240 --> 01:45:11,680
Speaker 2: kind of stuff, they basically realized something is very wrong here.

1896
01:45:11,800 --> 01:45:15,200
Speaker 2: They got caught and this is serious business back there. Okay.

1897
01:45:15,800 --> 01:45:18,080
Speaker 2: Runion called it the most signorant decision he's ever made

1898
01:45:18,080 --> 01:45:21,000
Speaker 2: in his life. He apologized the court, he apologized to everybody,

1899
01:45:21,840 --> 01:45:24,439
Speaker 2: and he ordered both of the men to pay or

1900
01:45:24,479 --> 01:45:27,320
Speaker 2: The judge, Stephen gall was his name in Kyle Hoaka County,

1901
01:45:27,479 --> 01:45:30,200
Speaker 2: ordered both men to pay a twenty five hundred dollars fine.

1902
01:45:31,400 --> 01:45:35,160
Speaker 2: And it's basically kind of been a long time in coming,

1903
01:45:35,240 --> 01:45:38,040
Speaker 2: and they had their fishing license to spend for a

1904
01:45:38,160 --> 01:45:41,320
Speaker 2: maximum of three years. They had to forfeit the boat

1905
01:45:41,400 --> 01:45:43,000
Speaker 2: they used in the tournament, which is valued like one

1906
01:45:43,080 --> 01:45:46,479
Speaker 2: hundred and fifty thousand dollars. But here's the biggest thing.

1907
01:45:47,280 --> 01:45:51,400
Speaker 2: These contests are sacred back there, and so these guys

1908
01:45:51,439 --> 01:45:55,160
Speaker 2: are going to be suffering endless public humiliation. It will

1909
01:45:55,240 --> 01:45:58,280
Speaker 2: never go away. I don't care whether they go on

1910
01:45:58,360 --> 01:46:01,200
Speaker 2: a date, they find the job, someone googles them. This

1911
01:46:01,400 --> 01:46:03,320
Speaker 2: is going to follow them the rest of their life.

1912
01:46:03,400 --> 01:46:07,320
Speaker 2: Two knuckleheads who wanted to win a fishing tournament so bad,

1913
01:46:07,840 --> 01:46:09,880
Speaker 2: and they'd already gotten away with it for a long time,

1914
01:46:10,520 --> 01:46:13,840
Speaker 2: took it just a little too far. And now Jacob

1915
01:46:13,960 --> 01:46:17,759
Speaker 2: Runyon and Chase Kaminski, after entering in there Kiltree, please,

1916
01:46:18,240 --> 01:46:21,720
Speaker 2: are going to be spending ten days in jail, yes,

1917
01:46:22,400 --> 01:46:27,960
Speaker 2: over eight fishing tournament. All right, Patrick, let's start with you.

1918
01:46:29,000 --> 01:46:30,240
Speaker 2: You might have been on the show with me when

1919
01:46:30,240 --> 01:46:33,600
Speaker 2: I first reported this story. What comes to mind? You know,

1920
01:46:34,040 --> 01:46:37,000
Speaker 2: what makes you? What's what's the one thing you want

1921
01:46:37,040 --> 01:46:38,400
Speaker 2: to say when you hear about this?

1922
01:46:39,200 --> 01:46:42,640
Speaker 7: Well, Bernie, I believe I was when it's when I

1923
01:46:42,720 --> 01:46:45,200
Speaker 7: was just starting out on your show when you brought

1924
01:46:45,240 --> 01:46:48,519
Speaker 7: this up, about this little story. But what's the first

1925
01:46:48,600 --> 01:46:51,479
Speaker 7: thing I think of? Well, a number of things kind

1926
01:46:51,520 --> 01:46:53,360
Speaker 7: of pop up in my head. One, I'm sure they're

1927
01:46:53,400 --> 01:46:56,599
Speaker 7: going to be floundering around for you know, Mary jobs,

1928
01:46:58,960 --> 01:47:03,000
Speaker 7: and certainly everybody's gonna be looking at them all weird

1929
01:47:03,160 --> 01:47:05,760
Speaker 7: and funny like and maybe feel like they're up to

1930
01:47:05,840 --> 01:47:06,920
Speaker 7: something fishy too.

1931
01:47:06,960 --> 01:47:07,640
Speaker 3: While we're at here.

1932
01:47:07,920 --> 01:47:11,280
Speaker 2: You go, That's what I'm trying to tell Jason and

1933
01:47:12,320 --> 01:47:16,120
Speaker 2: Arnie earlier, that now at least the whole ordeal is official.

1934
01:47:16,720 --> 01:47:20,799
Speaker 3: As I see what you did there.

1935
01:47:20,680 --> 01:47:22,760
Speaker 2: Bernie, continue on, we're having fun with this.

1936
01:47:22,840 --> 01:47:25,479
Speaker 7: Go ahead, yeah, yeah, And let's see. So there's fishing,

1937
01:47:25,560 --> 01:47:28,639
Speaker 7: there's flounders. Well, I know, I'll tell you one thing, Bernie,

1938
01:47:28,920 --> 01:47:33,439
Speaker 7: they're definitely gonna be a little crabby about the situation

1939
01:47:33,600 --> 01:47:36,400
Speaker 7: that they bring it up. And uh, you know, if

1940
01:47:36,439 --> 01:47:38,559
Speaker 7: they you know, they get a little loud and rowdy

1941
01:47:38,600 --> 01:47:41,960
Speaker 7: about it, sooner later they might be swimming with the sharks,

1942
01:47:41,960 --> 01:47:42,479
Speaker 7: you know what I mean?

1943
01:47:42,800 --> 01:47:47,479
Speaker 2: There you go, why not? Why folks don't forget to

1944
01:47:47,560 --> 01:47:50,160
Speaker 2: try to sell my bono spaghetti. But in all seriousness,

1945
01:47:50,439 --> 01:47:53,040
Speaker 2: it shows you the links that people will go sometimes

1946
01:47:53,600 --> 01:47:57,599
Speaker 2: to make decisions where the long term ramifications really don't

1947
01:47:57,680 --> 01:48:00,760
Speaker 2: warrant the short term glory whatever, And it turns out

1948
01:48:01,040 --> 01:48:03,519
Speaker 2: they've been getting away with it. So look, what's the

1949
01:48:03,560 --> 01:48:06,320
Speaker 2: old joke some people say, if you ain't cheating, you

1950
01:48:06,360 --> 01:48:08,960
Speaker 2: ain't trying well, these guys were cheating, but they got caught.

1951
01:48:08,960 --> 01:48:10,280
Speaker 2: And I will tell you, by the way, I'm this

1952
01:48:10,560 --> 01:48:14,439
Speaker 2: part serious. Guess what the tournament director his name is

1953
01:48:14,600 --> 01:48:19,280
Speaker 2: Jason Fisher, true story, can't make it up. He's a

1954
01:48:19,320 --> 01:48:22,800
Speaker 2: full time policeman in Ohio and he took this very

1955
01:48:23,240 --> 01:48:27,080
Speaker 2: very seriously. And some of these community events back there.

1956
01:48:27,720 --> 01:48:29,560
Speaker 2: Maybe you can't relate to him, but I promise you

1957
01:48:30,400 --> 01:48:34,400
Speaker 2: people don't take this stuff lightly. Kevin, what's your thoughts?

1958
01:48:35,160 --> 01:48:37,160
Speaker 3: Well, if you can get arrested and go to jail

1959
01:48:37,240 --> 01:48:39,439
Speaker 3: for cheating, that means the Houston Asher's better be looking

1960
01:48:39,479 --> 01:48:43,120
Speaker 3: over their shoulders as far as I'm concerned. But I mean,

1961
01:48:43,200 --> 01:48:46,519
Speaker 3: I think it went a little too far in punishing

1962
01:48:46,600 --> 01:48:49,080
Speaker 3: them for it, you know, banning them from the competition

1963
01:48:49,240 --> 01:48:52,679
Speaker 3: to spending their license. The public humiliation I think was plenty.

1964
01:48:52,800 --> 01:48:55,240
Speaker 3: Actually throwing them in jail I thought was a bit extreme,

1965
01:48:56,000 --> 01:48:58,479
Speaker 3: as it seems like the public is taking care of

1966
01:48:58,560 --> 01:48:59,200
Speaker 3: them for us.

1967
01:49:00,120 --> 01:49:04,880
Speaker 2: But well, remember they essentially pill Ford thirty thousand dollars.

1968
01:49:05,439 --> 01:49:07,679
Speaker 3: Yeah, okay, yeah, so I guess that's a form of fraud.

1969
01:49:07,960 --> 01:49:08,880
Speaker 3: Is that what they're arguing.

1970
01:49:10,640 --> 01:49:13,800
Speaker 2: I didn't read the legal complaint per se, but they

1971
01:49:13,880 --> 01:49:17,120
Speaker 2: obtained the prize money. You know, they were ill gotten

1972
01:49:17,200 --> 01:49:19,600
Speaker 2: gains as it were. So I don't know what the

1973
01:49:19,640 --> 01:49:22,439
Speaker 2: statute is with respect to the amount of money and

1974
01:49:22,840 --> 01:49:25,599
Speaker 2: how they obtained it, but think about it. You enter

1975
01:49:25,640 --> 01:49:29,080
Speaker 2: those contests, people take it seriously. It's obviously a regional thing,

1976
01:49:29,560 --> 01:49:31,439
Speaker 2: and some of those people maybe really need that money.

1977
01:49:31,560 --> 01:49:33,960
Speaker 2: And so when you find out you lost out on it,

1978
01:49:34,160 --> 01:49:37,479
Speaker 2: and you lost down on it for a reason having

1979
01:49:37,560 --> 01:49:40,040
Speaker 2: to do with you know, you know, below the belt

1980
01:49:40,439 --> 01:49:42,720
Speaker 2: behavior as it were, then that's going to leave some

1981
01:49:42,760 --> 01:49:44,519
Speaker 2: people pissed off. There's just no two ways about it.

1982
01:49:44,560 --> 01:49:45,439
Speaker 2: But anyway, continue on.

1983
01:49:46,040 --> 01:49:48,280
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean that's really what I think though. I mean,

1984
01:49:48,360 --> 01:49:50,280
Speaker 3: you do make a good point there about you know,

1985
01:49:50,360 --> 01:49:52,559
Speaker 3: without the amount of money involved, it really does raise

1986
01:49:52,600 --> 01:49:55,280
Speaker 3: the stakes, both in a legal sense and just in

1987
01:49:55,360 --> 01:49:58,920
Speaker 3: a moral sense in competing there. So yeah, I do

1988
01:49:59,479 --> 01:50:01,519
Speaker 3: like though that they are getting roasted over the coals

1989
01:50:01,600 --> 01:50:03,439
Speaker 3: for it, and that everyone's making fun of them. They

1990
01:50:03,479 --> 01:50:06,599
Speaker 3: do deserve that and at least provide a little entertainment

1991
01:50:06,680 --> 01:50:08,600
Speaker 3: for the rest of us who are not involved in

1992
01:50:08,680 --> 01:50:09,439
Speaker 3: the world of fishing.

1993
01:50:10,760 --> 01:50:14,080
Speaker 2: It is actually sort of an entertainment. There is a

1994
01:50:14,160 --> 01:50:17,479
Speaker 2: funny entertainment aspect about this, which is why we talked

1995
01:50:17,479 --> 01:50:19,200
Speaker 2: about it prior and why I think it's, you know,

1996
01:50:19,360 --> 01:50:23,040
Speaker 2: kind of a one of those situations where you end

1997
01:50:23,120 --> 01:50:25,720
Speaker 2: up laughing about it. But to those folks locally there

1998
01:50:26,160 --> 01:50:29,920
Speaker 2: in Ohio, this actually was was not really a laughing

1999
01:50:30,040 --> 01:50:34,680
Speaker 2: man matter. So onward and upward, and I guess those

2000
01:50:34,720 --> 01:50:36,880
Speaker 2: two guys, you know, I don't know how the fishing

2001
01:50:36,960 --> 01:50:39,760
Speaker 2: is in jail, but I'm guessing it's not too good.

2002
01:50:40,520 --> 01:50:45,360
Speaker 2: Another serious situation, former Bills punter Matt Riza when he

2003
01:50:45,640 --> 01:50:48,760
Speaker 2: was charged ten months ago. Well, it's taken a turn

2004
01:50:48,920 --> 01:50:51,400
Speaker 2: for the better for him. I will share with you

2005
01:50:52,040 --> 01:50:55,160
Speaker 2: what the prosecutor has now said. And the question is,

2006
01:50:55,640 --> 01:50:58,800
Speaker 2: as someone once said during Watergate, where do I go

2007
01:50:58,880 --> 01:51:02,479
Speaker 2: to get my reputation back? I'll explain. I'm Bernie Frattle.

2008
01:51:02,479 --> 01:51:04,000
Speaker 2: Were coming to your line from the Las Vegas Fox

2009
01:51:04,000 --> 01:51:07,040
Speaker 2: Sports Radio Tirack dot Com studios. Keep it locked listening

2010
01:51:07,080 --> 01:51:17,840
Speaker 2: to the Bernie Fraddle Show on Fox Sports Radio. Remember

2011
01:51:17,880 --> 01:51:20,920
Speaker 2: back on the Bernie Fraddle Show coming alive from the

2012
01:51:21,120 --> 01:51:24,639
Speaker 2: Fox Sports Radio track dot Com studios here in Las Vegas.

2013
01:51:25,120 --> 01:51:27,920
Speaker 2: Remember coming up top of the hour, what kind of

2014
01:51:28,000 --> 01:51:30,680
Speaker 2: brand new fool of you, followed by what my name

2015
01:51:30,760 --> 01:51:37,360
Speaker 2: the dance sensation sweeping the nation. Ten months ago, a

2016
01:51:37,479 --> 01:51:39,639
Speaker 2: gentleman by the name of Matteiza, who was the best

2017
01:51:39,680 --> 01:51:42,719
Speaker 2: punner in the country in the twenty twenty one college

2018
01:51:42,720 --> 01:51:45,160
Speaker 2: football season from San Diego State, signed a four million

2019
01:51:45,200 --> 01:51:48,080
Speaker 2: dollar contract with the Buffalo Bills. Ten months ago, he

2020
01:51:48,160 --> 01:51:51,280
Speaker 2: was accused of participating in a twenty twenty one gang

2021
01:51:51,360 --> 01:51:55,920
Speaker 2: rate NOE. New details have emerged about why he was

2022
01:51:56,040 --> 01:51:59,080
Speaker 2: not convicted and he charges because of lawsuit which was

2023
01:51:59,160 --> 01:52:01,599
Speaker 2: filed in Sandy Ego Superior Court in August to twenty

2024
01:52:01,680 --> 01:52:05,639
Speaker 2: twenty two, accused Eriza of having sex with a seventeen

2025
01:52:05,680 --> 01:52:09,559
Speaker 2: year old girl, intoxicated girl outside of a home, then

2026
01:52:09,560 --> 01:52:11,680
Speaker 2: bringing your inside. YadA YadA ya. You get the whole

2027
01:52:11,800 --> 01:52:17,479
Speaker 2: drift here now. In December, prosecutors determined they would not

2028
01:52:17,600 --> 01:52:20,800
Speaker 2: press any criminal charges, and they did a very thorough

2029
01:52:20,840 --> 01:52:24,679
Speaker 2: investigation that spanned one hundred and twenty four days four

2030
01:52:24,760 --> 01:52:28,720
Speaker 2: solid bunts. Now, at the time of the arrest, little

2031
01:52:28,760 --> 01:52:33,920
Speaker 2: information was made regarding the circumstances. Even though the authorities

2032
01:52:34,120 --> 01:52:37,960
Speaker 2: had gathered what thirty five witness statements, ten search warrants,

2033
01:52:38,520 --> 01:52:43,440
Speaker 2: they found terrabytes, you know, cell phone records, videos, transcripts,

2034
01:52:44,080 --> 01:52:47,519
Speaker 2: all sorts of things. And the transcript revealed that the

2035
01:52:47,600 --> 01:52:51,840
Speaker 2: district attorney's offense had used video footage to determine that

2036
01:52:51,920 --> 01:52:55,599
Speaker 2: Ariza apparently wasn't even at the scene of the attack

2037
01:52:56,120 --> 01:52:59,680
Speaker 2: when the alleged gang rape happened, based on quote, the

2038
01:53:00,000 --> 01:53:04,920
Speaker 2: physical characteristics of the men shown in the video. Now,

2039
01:53:05,000 --> 01:53:08,240
Speaker 2: the lawsuit that accused Eriza of the assault also claimed

2040
01:53:09,000 --> 01:53:11,240
Speaker 2: that he knew or should have known, that the victim

2041
01:53:11,320 --> 01:53:14,080
Speaker 2: was a minor and that she appeared heavily intoxicated and

2042
01:53:14,320 --> 01:53:19,200
Speaker 2: got blah blah blah. But again according to the report

2043
01:53:20,080 --> 01:53:24,560
Speaker 2: that you know, the district attorney is elected not to

2044
01:53:24,720 --> 01:53:32,120
Speaker 2: press in any charges. And what's interesting here is there's

2045
01:53:32,200 --> 01:53:36,600
Speaker 2: also a civil suit. And in the civil suit, the

2046
01:53:36,720 --> 01:53:40,880
Speaker 2: attorney for the victim allegedly approached Eriza and he was

2047
01:53:41,000 --> 01:53:46,000
Speaker 2: given the option to settle the case for fifty thousand dollars.

2048
01:53:46,640 --> 01:53:49,599
Speaker 2: But Ariza, who I guess you could call a former

2049
01:53:49,720 --> 01:53:52,280
Speaker 2: NFL player. He did sign a four million dollar contract

2050
01:53:52,320 --> 01:53:54,720
Speaker 2: with the Buffalo Bills. It was rescinded. I don't know

2051
01:53:54,720 --> 01:53:56,200
Speaker 2: if he ever got his money. I don't know that

2052
01:53:56,280 --> 01:54:00,840
Speaker 2: part of the story, but he was cut immediately and

2053
01:54:01,080 --> 01:54:07,519
Speaker 2: the Bills he chewed statements and he refused to, you know,

2054
01:54:07,760 --> 01:54:10,000
Speaker 2: settle that case because he said it would be admitting guilt.

2055
01:54:10,200 --> 01:54:11,639
Speaker 2: This is a civil case. And no, by the way,

2056
01:54:12,000 --> 01:54:20,000
Speaker 2: the district attorney's also dismisscharges and and so essentially I

2057
01:54:20,120 --> 01:54:23,360
Speaker 2: think Ariza has dealt with this and should be a

2058
01:54:23,400 --> 01:54:25,880
Speaker 2: free man. Right. He was let go from the Bills

2059
01:54:26,000 --> 01:54:28,479
Speaker 2: just days after the lawsuit was filed. He's yet to

2060
01:54:28,520 --> 01:54:33,080
Speaker 2: sign a deal with another NFL team, but his agent

2061
01:54:33,120 --> 01:54:35,960
Speaker 2: has recently said that the Fields teams are being discriminated

2062
01:54:36,080 --> 01:54:39,320
Speaker 2: and discriminatory and perhaps even ignorant toward him because he

2063
01:54:39,400 --> 01:54:42,640
Speaker 2: was clear that he was proved he had done nothing wrong.

2064
01:54:45,360 --> 01:54:47,000
Speaker 2: Kevin Wirre, are you familiar with his story?

2065
01:54:49,760 --> 01:54:51,920
Speaker 3: Yeah, I actually read a bit about it when the

2066
01:54:52,000 --> 01:54:56,160
Speaker 3: Yahoo report came out a few days ago. And my

2067
01:54:56,240 --> 01:55:00,920
Speaker 3: biggest question is, with such a clear cut fact of

2068
01:55:01,120 --> 01:55:04,040
Speaker 3: him not being at the scene of the alleged crime,

2069
01:55:05,240 --> 01:55:08,160
Speaker 3: why that didn't come out a lot sooner than a

2070
01:55:08,200 --> 01:55:12,560
Speaker 3: few days ago, with his career and his livelihood potentially

2071
01:55:12,640 --> 01:55:14,360
Speaker 3: hanging in the balance, Because that's I mean, that just

2072
01:55:14,400 --> 01:55:17,240
Speaker 3: seems pretty clear to me that if they have evidence

2073
01:55:17,360 --> 01:55:20,080
Speaker 3: he wasn't there, then that's something to say as to

2074
01:55:20,240 --> 01:55:22,400
Speaker 3: why he wasn't ultimately prosecuted.

2075
01:55:22,840 --> 01:55:24,920
Speaker 2: Well, I think I can speak to that because during

2076
01:55:25,000 --> 01:55:27,800
Speaker 2: the investigation, they don't want to release any information until

2077
01:55:27,840 --> 01:55:31,360
Speaker 2: the investigation is complete. It had to be thorough, and

2078
01:55:31,440 --> 01:55:34,520
Speaker 2: we're talking about four months. We're talking about thirty five

2079
01:55:35,000 --> 01:55:38,000
Speaker 2: witness testimonies, metadata, all sorts of things.

2080
01:55:38,120 --> 01:55:38,240
Speaker 5: Right.

2081
01:55:38,440 --> 01:55:42,480
Speaker 2: So, but here's the question, here's where the conversation begins.

2082
01:55:42,560 --> 01:55:46,960
Speaker 2: For me, doesn't matter Rise it deserve a chance to

2083
01:55:47,080 --> 01:55:50,800
Speaker 2: resume his career since he went through due process and

2084
01:55:51,120 --> 01:55:55,440
Speaker 2: evidence apparently has shown that there was no culpability on

2085
01:55:55,560 --> 01:55:55,880
Speaker 2: his part.

2086
01:55:56,000 --> 01:55:57,640
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, given the evidence that's out there, I

2087
01:55:57,640 --> 01:56:00,520
Speaker 3: would say so. I mean, there's no reason not at

2088
01:56:00,560 --> 01:56:03,879
Speaker 3: this point. Again, the evidence showing that he had absolutely

2089
01:56:03,920 --> 01:56:06,280
Speaker 3: nothing to do with what allegedly occurred. So I don't

2090
01:56:06,320 --> 01:56:08,440
Speaker 3: see why you couldn't keep him out at this point.

2091
01:56:09,520 --> 01:56:12,600
Speaker 2: So that and that begs the question, do you expect

2092
01:56:13,080 --> 01:56:15,400
Speaker 2: that matter Rise. It will be on an NFL roster,

2093
01:56:15,600 --> 01:56:17,680
Speaker 2: maybe as soon as this season. What are your thoughts.

2094
01:56:18,360 --> 01:56:21,000
Speaker 3: I think there's a chance him being a punter I

2095
01:56:21,080 --> 01:56:23,200
Speaker 3: think makes it maybe less likely than say he.

2096
01:56:23,240 --> 01:56:25,040
Speaker 2: Were he was the best punter in the country though,

2097
01:56:25,040 --> 01:56:25,400
Speaker 2: I mean he was.

2098
01:56:26,160 --> 01:56:27,160
Speaker 3: Yeah, they called him punt God.

2099
01:56:27,240 --> 01:56:29,160
Speaker 2: Aren't you a San Diego State guy?

2100
01:56:30,000 --> 01:56:32,040
Speaker 3: I mean I follow them, I'm not a San Diego.

2101
01:56:31,800 --> 01:56:33,720
Speaker 2: State Okay, for some I might be mixed up, but

2102
01:56:33,720 --> 01:56:34,480
Speaker 2: go ahead and continue on.

2103
01:56:34,680 --> 01:56:36,520
Speaker 3: But yeah, he was one of the best putters in

2104
01:56:36,560 --> 01:56:39,560
Speaker 3: the country. But I think just the reality of the

2105
01:56:39,640 --> 01:56:42,560
Speaker 3: way things are in the NFL is the more talented

2106
01:56:42,640 --> 01:56:45,480
Speaker 3: you are and at the more important position you are,

2107
01:56:45,640 --> 01:56:48,320
Speaker 3: the more they're willing to tolerate, the more they're willing

2108
01:56:48,440 --> 01:56:51,160
Speaker 3: to allow, the more of a pr hit they're willing

2109
01:56:51,200 --> 01:56:54,400
Speaker 3: to take. Now, with Matta Rasa specifically, with the evidence

2110
01:56:54,440 --> 01:56:56,040
Speaker 3: that's come out there, I don't think it would be

2111
01:56:56,120 --> 01:56:59,040
Speaker 3: really much of a pr at all for him to

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Speaker 3: be added on to a team. But if you were

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Speaker 3: again a top level quarterback, I think he might have

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Speaker 3: already been signed, honestly, and he might not have been

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Speaker 3: He might have maybe been suspended or put on leave,

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Speaker 3: but I don't think he would have been cut either

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Speaker 3: had he been again a top level quarterback.

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Speaker 2: Well, you know, you raise an interesting point there that's

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Speaker 2: hard to dispute because the fact of the matter is

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Speaker 2: you know, based on the position you played, that may

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01:57:23,280 --> 01:57:28,480
Speaker 2: have mitigated his chances to be on someone's roster. But

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Speaker 2: I think we're talking The dynamic here to me is that, okay,

2123
01:57:34,360 --> 01:57:38,000
Speaker 2: the old innocent versus proven guilty, the optics may not

2124
01:57:38,160 --> 01:57:43,280
Speaker 2: be good. And obviously this negative connotation that he's associated

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01:57:43,320 --> 01:57:47,560
Speaker 2: with when it turns out that there wasn't merit and

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01:57:47,680 --> 01:57:50,280
Speaker 2: it took ten months to get there, we're talking about

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01:57:50,320 --> 01:57:53,520
Speaker 2: someone's career hanging in the balance. So I'm hopeful that

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01:57:53,680 --> 01:57:57,879
Speaker 2: cooler heads can prevail. Perhaps teams can do their own research,

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01:57:58,000 --> 01:58:03,440
Speaker 2: Perhaps teams can do their own investstigation to further indemnify

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01:58:03,560 --> 01:58:07,720
Speaker 2: themselves and perhaps exonerate matter rise even further. But it's

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01:58:07,800 --> 01:58:10,760
Speaker 2: worth a conversation. Because they saw fit to draft this guy,

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Speaker 2: they saw fit to bring him in, give him a

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01:58:12,200 --> 01:58:15,320
Speaker 2: four million dollar contract, and do through what appeared to

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01:58:15,360 --> 01:58:18,000
Speaker 2: be allegations it didn't have merit. It may be costing

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01:58:18,040 --> 01:58:20,840
Speaker 2: him his career, and something about that to me seems

2136
01:58:20,880 --> 01:58:26,280
Speaker 2: fundamentally bad. Coming up brand new name or what my name?

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01:58:26,360 --> 01:58:28,000
Speaker 2: And brand new fool keep it locked.

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Speaker 3: From the tire rat dot com students, So fun Sports Radio.

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Speaker 2: Well, that's right, you heard the man The Bernie Fratterle

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Speaker 2: Show keeps for rolling right along. We are broadcasting live

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2146
01:59:02,920 --> 01:59:06,800
Speaker 2: Mother's Day and I hope you all take care of

2147
01:59:06,840 --> 01:59:10,600
Speaker 2: your mothers. Hopefully your mothers are still with us. Mine

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01:59:10,720 --> 01:59:14,760
Speaker 2: passed on February eighth, and so I guess I'll never

2149
01:59:14,800 --> 01:59:19,000
Speaker 2: look at Mother's Day the same. But the show must

2150
01:59:19,080 --> 01:59:22,320
Speaker 2: go on. And you know it's at this time every

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01:59:22,400 --> 01:59:27,640
Speaker 2: week that we bring you these odd ball accounts. Around

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01:59:27,680 --> 01:59:30,640
Speaker 2: the country. Every day, across this great land of ours

2153
01:59:30,680 --> 01:59:34,400
Speaker 2: and even around the world, people engage in odd behaviors.

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01:59:34,920 --> 01:59:39,400
Speaker 2: Sometimes it's fairly innocuous. Sometimes it's criminals, sometimes it's something

2155
01:59:39,480 --> 01:59:43,240
Speaker 2: in between. It's always something crazy stupid leaves you scratching

2156
01:59:43,280 --> 01:59:46,760
Speaker 2: your head and asking yourself, what kind of brand new

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01:59:46,800 --> 01:59:47,240
Speaker 2: fool are you?

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01:59:53,400 --> 01:59:53,440
Speaker 5: So?

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01:59:53,960 --> 01:59:55,880
Speaker 3: What kind of brand new fool are you?

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01:59:57,120 --> 01:59:57,320
Speaker 5: Well?

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01:59:57,680 --> 02:00:03,400
Speaker 2: This one actually involves a on Mother's Day last year,

2162
02:00:03,720 --> 02:00:08,640
Speaker 2: on Mother's Day, and we take you to Wayne County, Kentucky,

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02:00:08,840 --> 02:00:11,880
Speaker 2: not Wayne County, Michigan, and I want to introduce you

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02:00:12,000 --> 02:00:14,480
Speaker 2: to a gentleman by the name of Jacob Small.

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Speaker 5: Now.

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Speaker 2: On Mother's Day a year ago, Jacob Small was arrested

2167
02:00:19,080 --> 02:00:23,480
Speaker 2: in charge with shooting somebody, according to the Sheriff's office.

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Speaker 2: According to the Wayne County Sheriff's Office, what happened was

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02:00:26,680 --> 02:00:30,000
Speaker 2: on Mother's Day, a deputy responded to a call about

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Speaker 2: a person with a gunshot wound and they were en

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02:00:32,920 --> 02:00:36,400
Speaker 2: route to the hospital. About the same time, the Sheriff's

2172
02:00:36,440 --> 02:00:39,960
Speaker 2: office reported that another call came in that the alleged

2173
02:00:40,280 --> 02:00:43,839
Speaker 2: perpetrator was at a nearby home waiting for law enforcement.

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02:00:43,960 --> 02:00:47,440
Speaker 2: So two calls came in at once. Now the sheriff

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02:00:47,520 --> 02:00:50,400
Speaker 2: reports the incident happened had a home on a Sunday

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02:00:50,440 --> 02:00:54,160
Speaker 2: afternoon on Mother's Day while people were opening gifts, but

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Speaker 2: an argument broke out over an Xbox controller that this

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02:01:00,760 --> 02:01:05,200
Speaker 2: gentleman had given to his mother as a Mother's Day gift. Well,

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02:01:05,200 --> 02:01:08,839
Speaker 2: according to the Sheriff's offices, the mother and another female

2180
02:01:08,840 --> 02:01:11,680
Speaker 2: were leaving the home this twenty two year old man,

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Speaker 2: Jacob Small, on Mother's day over an argument on an

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Speaker 2: xbox that he gave his mother as a gift. Yes,

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02:01:19,720 --> 02:01:23,360
Speaker 2: you're not gonna believe it. He fired a twenty two

2184
02:01:23,480 --> 02:01:29,880
Speaker 2: caliber rifle, shooting his mother, and the rifle used in

2185
02:01:29,960 --> 02:01:35,240
Speaker 2: the incident was transferred as evidence. Fortunately, the mother survived.

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02:01:35,320 --> 02:01:38,640
Speaker 2: She was in a Kentucky hospital for further treatment. At

2187
02:01:38,680 --> 02:01:41,480
Speaker 2: this time. I don't know what her condition is, but

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02:01:41,680 --> 02:01:45,920
Speaker 2: Small was arrested in charge with murdered domestic violence first degree,

2189
02:01:46,360 --> 02:01:49,880
Speaker 2: in criminal mischief second degree and booked in Wayne County

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Speaker 2: Detention Center. This may be the all timer Mother's Day,

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Speaker 2: Jacob Small, What kind of brand new fool are you?

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Speaker 7: Kevin?

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02:01:59,440 --> 02:01:59,800
Speaker 2: You're next?

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Speaker 3: Okay, we're gonna stay home here in California now. A

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Speaker 3: YouTuber named Trevor Jacob apparently was flying a plane that

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02:02:10,000 --> 02:02:12,880
Speaker 3: had lost power and crashed into the mountains. Well, it

2197
02:02:13,040 --> 02:02:16,360
Speaker 3: turns out well, it was clear, at least in the video,

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02:02:16,440 --> 02:02:18,640
Speaker 3: that he had cameras placed a little too perfectly to

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Speaker 3: capture everything, from his propeller failing, to the plane going

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02:02:24,000 --> 02:02:27,480
Speaker 3: down to his hike after he parachuted. Everything was caught

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Speaker 3: on video, and it turned out, according to his plea agreement,

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Speaker 3: he faked the whole thing. He crashed his plane on

2203
02:02:35,920 --> 02:02:40,560
Speaker 3: purpose just to gather YouTube views, and on top of that,

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02:02:41,200 --> 02:02:45,240
Speaker 3: he obstructed the FAA investigation. He and a buddy took

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02:02:45,280 --> 02:02:48,560
Speaker 3: a helicopter back to the site where they lifted the

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02:02:48,600 --> 02:02:52,680
Speaker 3: wreckage back to a hangar to cover up the evidence.

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02:02:52,920 --> 02:02:56,600
Speaker 3: And well, the federal government got wind of that have

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02:02:56,800 --> 02:03:00,720
Speaker 3: charged him. He has pled guilty to obstructing a federal investigation,

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Speaker 3: and what would have been just regular sanctions for crashing

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Speaker 3: his plane has now escalated into a possibility that he

2211
02:03:07,840 --> 02:03:12,160
Speaker 3: could face twenty years in prison. So, Trevor Jacob, what

2212
02:03:12,280 --> 02:03:13,040
Speaker 3: kind of new fool are you?

2213
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Speaker 2: Intentionally crashed a plane to get YouTube views? Yes, all right,

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Speaker 2: I'm speechless that we're on fire tonight. All right, Patrick,

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02:03:27,760 --> 02:03:28,360
Speaker 2: here up, buddy.

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Speaker 7: All right, Well, Bernie Kevin, certainly that last one was

2217
02:03:33,480 --> 02:03:37,839
Speaker 7: absolutely like just crazy. We're not gonna go as crazy

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Speaker 7: as well, you know, flying you know, intentionally flying a plane.

2219
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Speaker 7: But we're gonna go to a place called Enid, Oaklahoma,

2220
02:03:46,080 --> 02:03:51,480
Speaker 7: where two police officers were caught alarming hearing a noise

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02:03:51,560 --> 02:03:53,880
Speaker 7: when they were going through you know, the planes and

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02:03:54,000 --> 02:03:57,760
Speaker 7: farms of Oklahoma. In fact, they had their windows rolled down,

2223
02:03:57,880 --> 02:04:01,200
Speaker 7: driving on a little patrol thought they heard a loud

2224
02:04:01,360 --> 02:04:04,600
Speaker 7: screaming like help screaming. They got out of the car,

2225
02:04:05,120 --> 02:04:08,160
Speaker 7: investigated around, thought they were hearing stuff, and then they

2226
02:04:08,200 --> 02:04:11,280
Speaker 7: hear it again. One the one of the officers responded

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02:04:11,280 --> 02:04:13,640
Speaker 7: with that's a person. So they went over to a

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02:04:14,080 --> 02:04:17,560
Speaker 7: barn where the noise was coming from, and apparently as

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02:04:17,600 --> 02:04:20,600
Speaker 7: they got closer and closer, it became even more distressing.

2230
02:04:21,120 --> 02:04:24,480
Speaker 7: So said police officers got a little more uh, you

2231
02:04:24,560 --> 02:04:27,360
Speaker 7: know a little more alarmed and were you know, a

2232
02:04:27,400 --> 02:04:28,400
Speaker 7: little more frantic about it.

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Speaker 3: They went into the farm and what did they find, Bernie.

2234
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Speaker 3: It was a goat.

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Speaker 7: It was literally a goat that just wanted to get

2236
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Speaker 7: outside from the barn. Was just you know, stuck like

2237
02:04:40,360 --> 02:04:42,760
Speaker 7: in his little pen, screaming just to go outside.

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Speaker 6: So with that, the.

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02:04:46,200 --> 02:04:48,760
Speaker 7: So the police officers, who are you know, about to

2240
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Speaker 7: call in like, you know, more and more back of

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Speaker 7: an assistance.

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Speaker 3: Go it's it's a goat. They thought it was a person.

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02:04:55,080 --> 02:04:58,760
Speaker 7: The goat screaming literally sounded like a human person saying help,

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02:04:59,400 --> 02:05:01,720
Speaker 7: And well, you know, they let the they let the

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02:05:01,760 --> 02:05:03,840
Speaker 7: goat out. The farmer was very happy that, you know,

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02:05:03,960 --> 02:05:07,200
Speaker 7: he got an assistance there and all in all, after

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02:05:07,280 --> 02:05:10,720
Speaker 7: they went back to the department. You they really, they

2248
02:05:10,760 --> 02:05:12,640
Speaker 7: were quoted saying, you really can't say it was that

2249
02:05:12,920 --> 02:05:15,080
Speaker 7: bad of a call, son't you?

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Speaker 2: You're on fire tonight. You got to catch up. When

2251
02:05:18,760 --> 02:05:20,920
Speaker 2: you're talking about to go, you're not talking about Tom Brady.

2252
02:05:21,040 --> 02:05:21,840
Speaker 2: It's like a real goat.

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02:05:21,960 --> 02:05:23,760
Speaker 3: No, it's a real goat. No, no, no, it was

2254
02:05:23,880 --> 02:05:27,520
Speaker 3: not Tom Brady the goat in in the in the farm.

2255
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Speaker 2: No it was not.

2256
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Speaker 3: It was an actual goat.

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Speaker 2: Oh my goodness. All right, another rousing edition of What

2258
02:05:36,320 --> 02:05:38,680
Speaker 2: kind of brand new fool Are You? Is in the books,

2259
02:05:38,960 --> 02:05:42,800
Speaker 2: which leads us to our second favorite bit, which we

2260
02:05:43,080 --> 02:05:49,440
Speaker 2: lovingly refer to as what my Name? All Right, guys,

2261
02:05:49,520 --> 02:05:52,200
Speaker 2: got some good ones tonight. We're gonna span multiple sports

2262
02:05:52,240 --> 02:05:55,280
Speaker 2: and even the world of entertainment, but we start with

2263
02:05:55,360 --> 02:05:59,240
Speaker 2: the NBA. I'm a long time successful NBA coach, but

2264
02:05:59,360 --> 02:06:04,400
Speaker 2: I've actually lost nine game seven playoff games in my career.

2265
02:06:05,280 --> 02:06:07,040
Speaker 2: Kevin wired what my Name?

2266
02:06:07,320 --> 02:06:08,360
Speaker 3: Doc Rivers?

2267
02:06:08,800 --> 02:06:11,680
Speaker 2: Nicely done. I talked about that earlier in the show.

2268
02:06:11,880 --> 02:06:17,160
Speaker 2: Clearly you were paying attention, all right, this one's a beauty.

2269
02:06:18,720 --> 02:06:22,000
Speaker 2: This week in nineteen seventy seven, as owner of a

2270
02:06:22,080 --> 02:06:25,040
Speaker 2: Major League baseball team. I was so pissed off after

2271
02:06:25,120 --> 02:06:27,480
Speaker 2: we lost sixteen games in a row. I put on

2272
02:06:27,560 --> 02:06:29,920
Speaker 2: a uniform and went down and managed the team from

2273
02:06:29,960 --> 02:06:35,800
Speaker 2: the dugout myself. Patrick Sweeket, What my name? What is?

2274
02:06:36,320 --> 02:06:39,560
Speaker 3: Or who is George Steinbrunner Yankees six?

2275
02:06:39,800 --> 02:06:42,400
Speaker 2: That's a good guess. It's not him, not him? And

2276
02:06:42,480 --> 02:06:47,400
Speaker 2: again I love the Jeopardy homage. Somewhere Alex Rebecca smiling

2277
02:06:47,400 --> 02:06:50,800
Speaker 2: all right this week in nineteen seventy seven, as the

2278
02:06:50,840 --> 02:06:53,160
Speaker 2: owner of a major league baseball team, I was so

2279
02:06:53,320 --> 02:06:55,680
Speaker 2: pissed off we lost sixteen games in a row. I

2280
02:06:55,800 --> 02:06:58,040
Speaker 2: put on a uniform, went down and managed the team

2281
02:06:58,080 --> 02:07:01,400
Speaker 2: from the dugout myself. Kevin Wyrett, what my name?

2282
02:07:01,480 --> 02:07:03,920
Speaker 3: This is literally one of my favorite stories in history

2283
02:07:04,000 --> 02:07:05,720
Speaker 3: major League Baseball. Ted Turner.

2284
02:07:06,080 --> 02:07:08,840
Speaker 2: It is Ted Turner and you can see pictures. I

2285
02:07:08,960 --> 02:07:11,680
Speaker 2: think he was veried Jane Fond at the time. I'll

2286
02:07:11,720 --> 02:07:14,440
Speaker 2: never forget that. I for some reason, it just sticks out.

2287
02:07:14,480 --> 02:07:18,200
Speaker 2: And of course Commissioner Buiekwan puts the kaybash on that

2288
02:07:18,560 --> 02:07:20,280
Speaker 2: it was a one game affair. And by the way,

2289
02:07:20,360 --> 02:07:23,840
Speaker 2: for the record, under Ted Turner, the Braves lost that

2290
02:07:24,000 --> 02:07:29,480
Speaker 2: day as well. All right, I'm a legendary home run

2291
02:07:29,560 --> 02:07:32,080
Speaker 2: hitter in the history of Major League Baseball. And then

2292
02:07:32,160 --> 02:07:35,240
Speaker 2: this week in nineteen sixty seven, I hit the only

2293
02:07:35,440 --> 02:07:39,839
Speaker 2: inside the park home run of my entire career. Patrick SWEEKA,

2294
02:07:39,920 --> 02:07:40,520
Speaker 2: What my name?

2295
02:07:41,280 --> 02:07:43,840
Speaker 3: What is Joe DiMaggio?

2296
02:07:45,120 --> 02:07:49,560
Speaker 2: Not Joe Demangio. And again, great name and great jeopardy stuff.

2297
02:07:49,600 --> 02:07:51,920
Speaker 2: But remember Joe wouldn't have been played in nineteen sixty seven.

2298
02:07:51,960 --> 02:07:54,960
Speaker 2: But that's all good, Patrick, not trying to be critical here.

2299
02:07:55,040 --> 02:07:58,400
Speaker 2: All right, I'm a legendary Major League baseball home run

2300
02:07:58,480 --> 02:08:00,800
Speaker 2: hitter this week in nineteen sixty seven, and I hit

2301
02:08:00,880 --> 02:08:06,960
Speaker 2: my only career inside the park home run. Kevin Wyrett?

2302
02:08:07,000 --> 02:08:07,560
Speaker 2: What my name?

2303
02:08:07,680 --> 02:08:11,280
Speaker 3: Just a wild guess? Harmon Kilobrew, Well, that's a damn

2304
02:08:11,320 --> 02:08:11,680
Speaker 3: good guess.

2305
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Speaker 2: He was playing it too. It's actually a guy you

2306
02:08:13,760 --> 02:08:17,200
Speaker 2: may have heard of. His name is Hank Aaron. Hank

2307
02:08:17,240 --> 02:08:20,000
Speaker 2: Aaron hit one inside the park home run in his career.

2308
02:08:20,000 --> 02:08:23,880
Speaker 2: All right, we move on. Just two days ago, my

2309
02:08:24,440 --> 02:08:29,320
Speaker 2: NBA rookie card sold for the princely sum of six

2310
02:08:29,480 --> 02:08:33,960
Speaker 2: hundred and sixty thousand dollars. Patrick sweek At, What my name?

2311
02:08:34,800 --> 02:08:37,600
Speaker 3: Who is Paolo bonchero?

2312
02:08:43,000 --> 02:08:43,200
Speaker 1: Oh?

2313
02:08:43,360 --> 02:08:47,760
Speaker 2: My God, give me a camel don filter. It's not

2314
02:08:47,920 --> 02:08:51,760
Speaker 2: Piloba Carrol all right. Just two days ago, my NBA

2315
02:08:51,920 --> 02:08:56,360
Speaker 2: rookie card sold for the princely sum of six hundred

2316
02:08:56,400 --> 02:08:59,960
Speaker 2: and sixty thousand dollars. Kevin Wyre, what my name?

2317
02:09:00,520 --> 02:09:03,080
Speaker 3: Michael Jordan's Nope, not Michael Jordan.

2318
02:09:03,200 --> 02:09:05,160
Speaker 2: Not a bad guess. It did make pretty big news though.

2319
02:09:05,240 --> 02:09:08,080
Speaker 2: I actually was Bill Russell, the Great Bill Russell. Nine

2320
02:09:08,200 --> 02:09:14,800
Speaker 2: championships with the Boston Celtics. Okay, I hold the record

2321
02:09:15,240 --> 02:09:20,280
Speaker 2: in the PGA for winning eleven golf tournaments in a row.

2322
02:09:21,240 --> 02:09:23,680
Speaker 2: I believe that'll be a record that'll be never broken

2323
02:09:24,280 --> 02:09:27,400
Speaker 2: in the PGA. Patrick sweek Att what my name?

2324
02:09:28,720 --> 02:09:29,320
Speaker 7: Who is.

2325
02:09:31,160 --> 02:09:32,520
Speaker 3: Toyger Woods?

2326
02:09:33,920 --> 02:09:37,240
Speaker 2: Not tiger Woods, not Old tiger Woods. All right, this

2327
02:09:37,440 --> 02:09:39,960
Speaker 2: is a record I believe will never be broken in

2328
02:09:40,080 --> 02:09:43,400
Speaker 2: professional golf. In the PGA, I went, I actually won

2329
02:09:43,600 --> 02:09:45,600
Speaker 2: eleven golf tournaments.

2330
02:09:45,200 --> 02:09:45,680
Speaker 3: In a row.

2331
02:09:47,640 --> 02:09:48,640
Speaker 2: Kevin Wyre, what my name?

2332
02:09:48,880 --> 02:09:51,000
Speaker 3: Jack Nicholas not Jack Nichels.

2333
02:09:51,080 --> 02:09:53,960
Speaker 2: Actually Byron Nelson got a tournament named after And I

2334
02:09:54,000 --> 02:09:57,080
Speaker 2: will tell you one of the reasons that I don't

2335
02:09:57,120 --> 02:09:59,320
Speaker 2: think this record will ever be broken is quite simple.

2336
02:09:59,800 --> 02:10:02,560
Speaker 2: Need enters eleven tournaments in a row anymore. I mean

2337
02:10:02,600 --> 02:10:05,400
Speaker 2: he won eleven tournaments in a row, not entered eleven

2338
02:10:05,440 --> 02:10:07,240
Speaker 2: in a row in one row. He went eleven in

2339
02:10:07,320 --> 02:10:09,920
Speaker 2: a row week to week to week Byron Nelson. Amazing.

2340
02:10:11,320 --> 02:10:13,160
Speaker 2: As we continue, All right, let's dive into the world

2341
02:10:13,240 --> 02:10:18,520
Speaker 2: of entertainment. This week in nineteen seventy two, I changed

2342
02:10:18,560 --> 02:10:22,120
Speaker 2: my name from Reginald Dwight to my current name, Patrick

2343
02:10:22,160 --> 02:10:23,120
Speaker 2: sweek At. What my name?

2344
02:10:24,240 --> 02:10:26,160
Speaker 3: Who is Tom Cruise?

2345
02:10:26,960 --> 02:10:30,360
Speaker 2: Not Tom Cruise? His real name is actually Tom maypother

2346
02:10:30,600 --> 02:10:36,560
Speaker 2: for you trivia bus. Yeah, this week in nineteen seventy two,

2347
02:10:37,240 --> 02:10:40,360
Speaker 2: I changed my birth name, Reginald Dwight to my current name,

2348
02:10:41,160 --> 02:10:42,480
Speaker 2: Kevin Wyatt. What my name?

2349
02:10:45,480 --> 02:10:47,040
Speaker 3: Pass on this one. I couldn't even give you a

2350
02:10:47,080 --> 02:10:48,720
Speaker 3: celebrity name from seventeen.

2351
02:10:50,160 --> 02:10:53,800
Speaker 2: I bet you guys have heard of this individual. His

2352
02:10:53,960 --> 02:10:59,120
Speaker 2: name is Elton John no Way here and if you

2353
02:10:59,160 --> 02:11:00,840
Speaker 2: saw them with your rocket Man, they talked about that.

2354
02:11:00,880 --> 02:11:02,640
Speaker 2: But he's talked about that many times and that kind

2355
02:11:02,680 --> 02:11:06,800
Speaker 2: of helped him vacate from what was a very sad childhood.

2356
02:11:06,800 --> 02:11:12,440
Speaker 2: All right, let's go back to the NFL. Won't be long,

2357
02:11:13,320 --> 02:11:16,880
Speaker 2: NFL season will be here again. I am the most

2358
02:11:17,080 --> 02:11:20,960
Speaker 2: profitable quarterback to bet on against the spread NFL Week

2359
02:11:21,040 --> 02:11:25,400
Speaker 2: one in the last six seasons. I'm six and zero

2360
02:11:25,560 --> 02:11:28,160
Speaker 2: against the spread, Patrick sweeker with my name?

2361
02:11:29,120 --> 02:11:31,440
Speaker 3: Who is Derek Carr?

2362
02:11:32,160 --> 02:11:36,760
Speaker 2: Oh, God, no, not Derek Carr. I'm the most profitable

2363
02:11:36,840 --> 02:11:39,640
Speaker 2: quarterback against the spread in NFL Week one in the

2364
02:11:39,720 --> 02:11:42,440
Speaker 2: last six seasons, and I'm six and zero against the spread.

2365
02:11:43,320 --> 02:11:44,480
Speaker 2: Kevin Wire what my name?

2366
02:11:46,360 --> 02:11:51,560
Speaker 3: I would have to say, Patrick Mahomes not a bad guess.

2367
02:11:51,600 --> 02:11:55,560
Speaker 2: He's actually he's only he's only had five He's five

2368
02:11:55,640 --> 02:11:57,320
Speaker 2: and oh straight up, four and won against the spread.

2369
02:11:57,800 --> 02:11:59,960
Speaker 2: Interesting that you say that, though, because this gentleman will

2370
02:12:00,160 --> 02:12:03,200
Speaker 2: be teeing it up against Patrick Holmes September seventh. I'm

2371
02:12:03,200 --> 02:12:05,800
Speaker 2: talking about Jared Goff. Jared Goff is six and oh

2372
02:12:05,880 --> 02:12:10,720
Speaker 2: against the spread his last six opening days, six and

2373
02:12:10,760 --> 02:12:13,560
Speaker 2: oh against the spread. That's the Department of Redundancy de farm.

2374
02:12:13,600 --> 02:12:14,720
Speaker 2: By the way, if you're scoring a home and I

2375
02:12:14,760 --> 02:12:17,879
Speaker 2: hope you are, the Lions are a seven point underdog

2376
02:12:17,960 --> 02:12:21,000
Speaker 2: against the Chiefs on opening night, and as I said

2377
02:12:21,040 --> 02:12:24,640
Speaker 2: earlier in the show and on the Friday show, Mahomes

2378
02:12:24,760 --> 02:12:26,800
Speaker 2: in home openers five and oh straight up, four and

2379
02:12:26,920 --> 02:12:30,120
Speaker 2: one against the spread average margin and to victory thirteen points.

2380
02:12:30,200 --> 02:12:33,160
Speaker 2: His team's averaged thirty eight points per game in openers.

2381
02:12:33,560 --> 02:12:37,440
Speaker 2: I'm the only coach in basketball history to win a

2382
02:12:37,520 --> 02:12:40,520
Speaker 2: championship on the college level and on the NBA level.

2383
02:12:40,560 --> 02:12:45,720
Speaker 2: Patrick Sweek At what my name? Who? Who is.

2384
02:12:48,440 --> 02:12:49,160
Speaker 3: Byron Scott?

2385
02:12:50,000 --> 02:12:54,280
Speaker 2: Byron Scott? I don't believe. So, No, I don't believe

2386
02:12:54,280 --> 02:12:57,200
Speaker 2: with Byron Scott. No, not the name we're looking for.

2387
02:12:57,480 --> 02:13:01,120
Speaker 2: I'm the only coach in the NBA or college basketball

2388
02:13:01,200 --> 02:13:04,560
Speaker 2: history to win a championship on the pro and collegiate level.

2389
02:13:05,680 --> 02:13:06,960
Speaker 2: Kevin Wired, what my name?

2390
02:13:07,120 --> 02:13:09,680
Speaker 3: I know this because this was the most infuriating NBA

2391
02:13:09,760 --> 02:13:11,920
Speaker 3: Finals I'd ever watched in my life. Larry Brown.

2392
02:13:12,320 --> 02:13:17,200
Speaker 2: Larry Brown, that's right, you're talking about the four Pistons.

2393
02:13:17,920 --> 02:13:22,600
Speaker 2: I covered that series and in two thousand and four,

2394
02:13:22,920 --> 02:13:26,400
Speaker 2: somehow the Lakers lost to the Pistons in a five

2395
02:13:26,560 --> 02:13:29,960
Speaker 2: game gentlemen sweep. And those were like really ugly games,

2396
02:13:30,000 --> 02:13:31,800
Speaker 2: like sixty eight to sixty four. I mean they were.

2397
02:13:31,920 --> 02:13:34,320
Speaker 2: There was a different NBA then. But Larry Brown also

2398
02:13:34,400 --> 02:13:39,280
Speaker 2: won a college championship Metdrimatics in nineteen eighty eight at

2399
02:13:39,840 --> 02:13:48,320
Speaker 2: at Kansas. All right, here's an interesting questions that covers

2400
02:13:48,360 --> 02:13:52,560
Speaker 2: a couple sports. In the nineteen eighty three Major League

2401
02:13:52,600 --> 02:13:54,640
Speaker 2: baseball drafts, we got the Major League Baseball draft just

2402
02:13:54,680 --> 02:13:56,440
Speaker 2: coming up here in about three week, three four weeks.

2403
02:13:56,800 --> 02:14:00,440
Speaker 2: The nineteen eighty three Major League Baseball Draft, I was

2404
02:14:00,600 --> 02:14:05,839
Speaker 2: picked six selections ahead of the great Tony Gwynn, Patrick

2405
02:14:05,840 --> 02:14:06,840
Speaker 2: sweek At What my name?

2406
02:14:07,880 --> 02:14:09,720
Speaker 3: Who is Mark McGuire?

2407
02:14:10,880 --> 02:14:13,760
Speaker 2: Not Mark McGuire, Mark ware Kdawall four years later, but

2408
02:14:13,840 --> 02:14:16,520
Speaker 2: that's a good guests. Nineteen eighty three Major League Baseball Draft,

2409
02:14:16,800 --> 02:14:20,600
Speaker 2: I was actually picked six selections ahead of Tony gwyn

2410
02:14:21,360 --> 02:14:22,600
Speaker 2: Kevin Wyret What my name?

2411
02:14:22,680 --> 02:14:24,840
Speaker 3: I'll guess the other basket brother, jose Canseeco.

2412
02:14:25,960 --> 02:14:28,760
Speaker 2: Not bad guess, but not him. It's actually John Elway,

2413
02:14:29,520 --> 02:14:32,440
Speaker 2: John Elway. John Elway went and a great baseball player

2414
02:14:32,440 --> 02:14:36,000
Speaker 2: at Stanford. George Steinbanner loved him, and he played one

2415
02:14:36,080 --> 02:14:39,960
Speaker 2: year at oneonta short season named ball in New York

2416
02:14:40,840 --> 02:14:43,480
Speaker 2: in the New York Penn League, and John Elway was

2417
02:14:43,520 --> 02:14:45,880
Speaker 2: projected he would have probably been gotten to the big leagues.

2418
02:14:46,320 --> 02:14:51,640
Speaker 2: Big power hitting right fielder Cannon arm batted a left

2419
02:14:51,720 --> 02:14:56,720
Speaker 2: handed all right. It's ancient history now, because there have

2420
02:14:56,800 --> 02:15:00,680
Speaker 2: been multiple violations this year in Major League Baseball, but

2421
02:15:02,200 --> 02:15:05,200
Speaker 2: I will go down in history as the first ever

2422
02:15:05,680 --> 02:15:09,600
Speaker 2: Major League baseball pitcher to commit the first pitchclock violation.

2423
02:15:10,600 --> 02:15:12,560
Speaker 2: Obviously it happened earlier this year, and it happened on

2424
02:15:12,680 --> 02:15:14,400
Speaker 2: opening Day. Patrick Sweaker, what my name?

2425
02:15:15,240 --> 02:15:16,680
Speaker 3: Who is Trevor Bauer?

2426
02:15:18,080 --> 02:15:19,960
Speaker 2: I didn't know Trevor Bauer was pitching in the beg

2427
02:15:20,040 --> 02:15:24,440
Speaker 2: Legs this year, But outstanding effort and again top props

2428
02:15:24,760 --> 02:15:28,640
Speaker 2: with the homage to Alex Trebek and Jeopardy. All right.

2429
02:15:28,720 --> 02:15:30,520
Speaker 2: I will go down in history when their history books

2430
02:15:30,520 --> 02:15:33,520
Speaker 2: are written. First ever Major League Baseball pitcher to commit

2431
02:15:33,600 --> 02:15:36,680
Speaker 2: the first ever pitchclock violation? Did it an opening day

2432
02:15:36,760 --> 02:15:39,680
Speaker 2: this year? Kevin Wired? What my name? What to say?

2433
02:15:39,800 --> 02:15:43,640
Speaker 3: He's on the padre so Joe Musgrove, Good.

2434
02:15:43,560 --> 02:15:49,839
Speaker 2: Guess, not Joe Musgrove, Actually Marcus Stroman, Marcus Stroman, gentlemen,

2435
02:15:50,440 --> 02:15:54,560
Speaker 2: nicely done tonight. That will bring to conclusion another rousing

2436
02:15:54,720 --> 02:15:56,680
Speaker 2: edition of what kind of brand new fool are you?

2437
02:15:57,360 --> 02:16:01,480
Speaker 2: And of course what my Name? Coming up? You may

2438
02:16:01,600 --> 02:16:04,560
Speaker 2: be disappointed if you're a Boston Bruins fan. You may

2439
02:16:04,600 --> 02:16:07,960
Speaker 2: be disappointed if you're a Colorado Avalanche fan. Someone's gonna

2440
02:16:07,960 --> 02:16:13,160
Speaker 2: be disappointed tomorrow win the Sixers and Celtics lockhorns. But

2441
02:16:13,320 --> 02:16:16,640
Speaker 2: let's keep it real here, because it ain't so easy

2442
02:16:16,960 --> 02:16:20,520
Speaker 2: to win a championship, even if and especially if you

2443
02:16:20,680 --> 02:16:23,240
Speaker 2: were a number one seed. We'll give you the history

2444
02:16:23,600 --> 02:16:26,200
Speaker 2: you'll want to hear it. I'm Bernie frattlewar coming to

2445
02:16:26,240 --> 02:16:28,640
Speaker 2: your life from the Las Vegas Fox Sports Radio Tirack

2446
02:16:28,680 --> 02:16:31,920
Speaker 2: dot com studios. Keep it locked listening to the Bernie

2447
02:16:31,920 --> 02:16:38,920
Speaker 2: Frattle Show on Fox Sports Radio. All right, back on

2448
02:16:38,959 --> 02:16:40,640
Speaker 2: the Bernie Frattle Show, come to you live from the

2449
02:16:40,680 --> 02:16:43,680
Speaker 2: Fox Sports Radio tyrock dot com studio is here in

2450
02:16:44,240 --> 02:16:48,760
Speaker 2: Las Vegas, Nevada. You may recall a few weeks ago,

2451
02:16:48,840 --> 02:16:50,960
Speaker 2: not a few weeks ago, ten days ago or so,

2452
02:16:51,120 --> 02:16:55,280
Speaker 2: the Milwaukee Bucks and that postgame press conference in which

2453
02:16:55,760 --> 02:16:58,000
Speaker 2: Giannis was asked if the season was a failure and

2454
02:16:58,080 --> 02:17:03,000
Speaker 2: he turned the tables on the reporter. Well, listen, the

2455
02:17:03,120 --> 02:17:06,160
Speaker 2: expectations in Milwaukee were to win a championship. They weren't

2456
02:17:06,240 --> 02:17:07,959
Speaker 2: just the number one seed. They had the league's best

2457
02:17:08,000 --> 02:17:11,600
Speaker 2: regular season record, same with the Boston Bruins. But take heart,

2458
02:17:12,280 --> 02:17:15,480
Speaker 2: you're not alone. It's very difficult to win a championship.

2459
02:17:16,440 --> 02:17:20,039
Speaker 2: Even more so apparently when you off been the number

2460
02:17:20,080 --> 02:17:23,520
Speaker 2: one seed throughout the entire season. As a matter of fact,

2461
02:17:23,800 --> 02:17:26,119
Speaker 2: when you look at the North American Sports League's NFL,

2462
02:17:26,320 --> 02:17:30,040
Speaker 2: Major League Baseball, NBA, NHL nineteen thirty four to fifty

2463
02:17:30,080 --> 02:17:32,080
Speaker 2: five out of last one hundred and sixty number one

2464
02:17:32,160 --> 02:17:35,800
Speaker 2: seeds in the last twenty years, that's less than a third.

2465
02:17:36,560 --> 02:17:39,200
Speaker 2: Even got to the Finals, got to the Super Bowl,

2466
02:17:39,320 --> 02:17:41,560
Speaker 2: got to the World Series, got to the Stanley Cup.

2467
02:17:42,240 --> 02:17:46,760
Speaker 2: And so when you observe what happens when the postseason

2468
02:17:46,840 --> 02:17:50,360
Speaker 2: starts and juxtaposed that against the regular season, there's often

2469
02:17:50,440 --> 02:17:52,879
Speaker 2: no correlation. You're seeing it in the NHL right now,

2470
02:17:52,920 --> 02:17:55,280
Speaker 2: you're even seeing it in the NBA. You've got a

2471
02:17:55,560 --> 02:17:57,959
Speaker 2: seventh seed in Miami and a seventh seed in the Lakers.

2472
02:17:58,680 --> 02:18:00,680
Speaker 2: Checked that, but it's Miami eight seed. The long and

2473
02:18:00,720 --> 02:18:03,120
Speaker 2: the short of it is, we're seeing it play out

2474
02:18:03,240 --> 02:18:07,000
Speaker 2: in front of us. You all remember that Back in

2475
02:18:07,080 --> 02:18:09,840
Speaker 2: two thousand and seven, Tom Brady and the New England Patriots,

2476
02:18:10,120 --> 02:18:12,560
Speaker 2: they went sixteen and oh in the regular season, won

2477
02:18:12,600 --> 02:18:14,600
Speaker 2: their first two playoff games. They were eighteen and oh.

2478
02:18:15,280 --> 02:18:17,920
Speaker 2: They were gonna surpass I guess the seventeen oho oh

2479
02:18:18,040 --> 02:18:20,920
Speaker 2: Miami Dolphins from nineteen seventy two, and guess what they

2480
02:18:21,000 --> 02:18:23,480
Speaker 2: lost to Eli Manning and Tom Coughlin. The New York

2481
02:18:23,520 --> 02:18:26,760
Speaker 2: Giants and company, the NFL's winning his team in history,

2482
02:18:27,080 --> 02:18:29,240
Speaker 2: knowing to everyone won more than eighteen games in the season.

2483
02:18:29,480 --> 02:18:32,320
Speaker 2: The New England Patriots finished eighteen and one. They lose

2484
02:18:32,400 --> 02:18:34,320
Speaker 2: in the Super Bowl. They gotta go way all the

2485
02:18:34,360 --> 02:18:37,000
Speaker 2: way back to nineteen oh six. The Chicago Cubs were

2486
02:18:37,120 --> 02:18:39,800
Speaker 2: one hundred and sixteen and thirty six. They lost in

2487
02:18:39,840 --> 02:18:43,080
Speaker 2: the World Series. And remember that Seattle Mariners team twenty

2488
02:18:43,200 --> 02:18:45,400
Speaker 2: years ago won about one hundred and eighteen games in

2489
02:18:45,400 --> 02:18:48,240
Speaker 2: the regular season and they didn't win in the World

2490
02:18:48,320 --> 02:18:52,040
Speaker 2: Series either. How about the NBA, Well, the twenty sixteen

2491
02:18:52,200 --> 02:18:55,800
Speaker 2: Warriors were seventy three and nine. They went all out

2492
02:18:56,000 --> 02:18:58,840
Speaker 2: to beat Jordan's team of seventy two and ten, and

2493
02:18:58,959 --> 02:19:01,879
Speaker 2: they won more regular season games and anybody in history.

2494
02:19:01,879 --> 02:19:04,200
Speaker 2: They were defending NBA champs, but yet they lose to

2495
02:19:04,240 --> 02:19:08,280
Speaker 2: the Cleveland Cavaliers in the NBA Finals. Meanwhile, this year

2496
02:19:08,400 --> 02:19:11,280
Speaker 2: is Boston Bruins, who I just talked about. They won

2497
02:19:11,400 --> 02:19:13,840
Speaker 2: sixty five games in the regular season and lost twelve.

2498
02:19:13,879 --> 02:19:17,400
Speaker 2: They lost twelve games in five months, and they lost

2499
02:19:17,440 --> 02:19:19,880
Speaker 2: four games in ten days, losing to the Florida Panthers,

2500
02:19:20,160 --> 02:19:23,840
Speaker 2: who coincidentally were the President's Cup winner from last year

2501
02:19:23,879 --> 02:19:26,560
Speaker 2: and now they're making a charge this year. Winning a

2502
02:19:26,640 --> 02:19:29,760
Speaker 2: title is hard. If you're a number one seed, the

2503
02:19:29,879 --> 02:19:33,520
Speaker 2: odds are actually against you. Take heart, you have company.

2504
02:19:33,680 --> 02:19:36,080
Speaker 2: Someone's going to be disappointed tomorrow. Someone's going to be

2505
02:19:36,160 --> 02:19:38,840
Speaker 2: disappointed next week. Someone's going to be disappointed on Super

2506
02:19:38,840 --> 02:19:41,720
Speaker 2: Bowl Sunday. It ain't easy to win a title. There

2507
02:19:41,760 --> 02:19:44,720
Speaker 2: are no guarantees, even if you were number one during

2508
02:19:45,120 --> 02:19:49,560
Speaker 2: the regular season. Cut up Chris Purfetts World of Soccer.

2509
02:19:49,680 --> 02:19:52,680
Speaker 2: But first they go back to our guy, Kevin. Why

2510
02:19:53,000 --> 02:19:57,080
Speaker 2: art foul? On the Bernie Frattle Show more often Yeah.

2511
02:19:57,240 --> 02:20:01,240
Speaker 3: Big news in the NBA on Saturday, the Suns firing

2512
02:20:01,400 --> 02:20:05,160
Speaker 3: Mani Williams after Phoenix lost to the Nuggets in the

2513
02:20:05,320 --> 02:20:08,440
Speaker 3: Western Conference semifinals. He had an impressive six to twenty

2514
02:20:08,480 --> 02:20:13,360
Speaker 3: eight winning percentage across four regular season games, but did

2515
02:20:13,400 --> 02:20:14,960
Speaker 3: not get the job done. He only went to the final.

2516
02:20:15,120 --> 02:20:16,800
Speaker 3: He did go to the finals one time, but lost

2517
02:20:16,840 --> 02:20:18,760
Speaker 3: to the Bucks. But with all the expectations they had,

2518
02:20:18,879 --> 02:20:22,680
Speaker 3: especially with the Kevin Durant getting added late this season,

2519
02:20:22,959 --> 02:20:25,400
Speaker 3: they really expected him to go a lot further, although

2520
02:20:25,400 --> 02:20:26,960
Speaker 3: he did have a lot of success and is going

2521
02:20:27,000 --> 02:20:32,040
Speaker 3: to be a very prominent coaching candidate this coming offseason.

2522
02:20:33,840 --> 02:20:37,440
Speaker 3: No NBA games on Saturday. Sunday will have a big

2523
02:20:37,600 --> 02:20:42,800
Speaker 3: game seven Celtics seventy six ers for a berth in

2524
02:20:42,879 --> 02:20:46,680
Speaker 3: the Eastern Conference Finals. The Western Conference Finals will begin

2525
02:20:46,879 --> 02:20:51,560
Speaker 3: on Tuesday evening between the Lakers and the Nuggets. NHL

2526
02:20:51,680 --> 02:20:55,240
Speaker 3: Stanley Cup Playoffs. The Kraken with a big win against

2527
02:20:55,240 --> 02:20:58,039
Speaker 3: the Dallas Stars six to three that forces a game

2528
02:20:58,160 --> 02:21:02,560
Speaker 3: seven Monday evening in at Dallas. The Dodgers beat the

2529
02:21:02,600 --> 02:21:05,600
Speaker 3: Padres four to two. JD. Martinez with a home run

2530
02:21:06,040 --> 02:21:10,480
Speaker 3: for Los Angeles the Angels blowing elead as Cleveland gets

2531
02:21:10,640 --> 02:21:12,200
Speaker 3: six runs in the bottom of the eighth inning to

2532
02:21:12,240 --> 02:21:15,680
Speaker 3: beat Los Angeles eight to six. The Yankees, behind two

2533
02:21:15,800 --> 02:21:18,480
Speaker 3: home runs from Aaron Judge, beat the Rays nine to eight.

2534
02:21:18,760 --> 02:21:21,199
Speaker 3: That's despite trailing six to nothing in the fifth inning.

2535
02:21:21,720 --> 02:21:24,120
Speaker 3: The Cardinals get three runs in the ninth they come

2536
02:21:24,160 --> 02:21:26,000
Speaker 3: from behind to beat the Red Sox four to three.

2537
02:21:26,120 --> 02:21:29,800
Speaker 3: Cleinley Jansen also gave up three runs in the ninth

2538
02:21:29,840 --> 02:21:33,720
Speaker 3: inning on Friday and the Mets Nationals game suspended by

2539
02:21:33,840 --> 02:21:37,080
Speaker 3: rain until Wednesday. With Washington leading one nothing in the

2540
02:21:37,160 --> 02:21:40,039
Speaker 3: third inning, that game was delayed for four hours before

2541
02:21:40,040 --> 02:21:43,480
Speaker 3: they even made an announcement about the game being suspended

2542
02:21:43,600 --> 02:21:47,720
Speaker 3: and then being resumed on Sunday. Back to you, Bernie, Okay.

2543
02:21:47,520 --> 02:21:51,960
Speaker 2: Good job to night, Kevin. So there is never any

2544
02:21:52,000 --> 02:21:56,400
Speaker 2: shortage of news in the world of soccer. We began

2545
02:21:56,560 --> 02:21:59,800
Speaker 2: doing this six months before the World Cup in twenty

2546
02:21:59,800 --> 02:22:02,440
Speaker 2: two two. Now the Women's World Cup is upon us.

2547
02:22:02,800 --> 02:22:06,920
Speaker 2: It's literally weeks away. Whether it's the Premier League, Linel

2548
02:22:07,040 --> 02:22:10,720
Speaker 2: Messi here in the United States, you name it, Wrexham,

2549
02:22:10,959 --> 02:22:14,160
Speaker 2: Ryan Reynolds, there's always things happening, and that's why we

2550
02:22:14,280 --> 02:22:17,000
Speaker 2: bring you at this time every week. Chris Burfetts World

2551
02:22:17,040 --> 02:22:17,440
Speaker 2: of Soccer.

2552
02:22:19,680 --> 02:22:35,720
Speaker 1: The greatest goals, the thrilling finishes, the international drama. It's

2553
02:22:35,800 --> 02:22:38,960
Speaker 1: all here in this report from the World of Soccer.

2554
02:22:39,840 --> 02:22:43,640
Speaker 1: Relegation is the bitter pill that keeps soccer working. Without it,

2555
02:22:43,720 --> 02:22:47,000
Speaker 1: teams would become complacent. Without it, nobody would fight for

2556
02:22:47,040 --> 02:22:48,800
Speaker 1: their lives at the end of the season. And without it,

2557
02:22:49,280 --> 02:22:52,039
Speaker 1: ten to twelve teams in the Premier League would simply

2558
02:22:52,160 --> 02:22:55,000
Speaker 1: not be interesting. As we near the finish of the

2559
02:22:55,120 --> 02:22:58,040
Speaker 1: run in with just two to three games left for

2560
02:22:58,120 --> 02:23:02,560
Speaker 1: most clubs, relegation is looming large. At least one club

2561
02:23:02,800 --> 02:23:06,640
Speaker 1: has been relegated and that is Southampton. Their run of

2562
02:23:06,720 --> 02:23:09,920
Speaker 1: eleven years in the Premier League comes to a close

2563
02:23:10,360 --> 02:23:13,800
Speaker 1: following a two NIEL loss to Southampton. They're hoping to

2564
02:23:13,879 --> 02:23:16,840
Speaker 1: keep a lot of their stars, especially ward pros, but

2565
02:23:17,480 --> 02:23:20,879
Speaker 1: as always relegated clubs tend to get sold off for parts.

2566
02:23:21,320 --> 02:23:24,200
Speaker 1: Money stops flowing in as they lose that there is

2567
02:23:24,400 --> 02:23:28,600
Speaker 1: changes in the Premier League coming in regards to parachute

2568
02:23:28,640 --> 02:23:32,880
Speaker 1: payments that may help them survive in the English Football

2569
02:23:32,920 --> 02:23:37,320
Speaker 1: League Championship, the second division of English soccer, and just

2570
02:23:37,440 --> 02:23:39,800
Speaker 1: hoping that they can get back up at some day.

2571
02:23:40,120 --> 02:23:43,240
Speaker 1: But that means two more slots are currently still open

2572
02:23:43,440 --> 02:23:44,279
Speaker 1: for clubs.

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02:23:44,000 --> 02:23:46,960
Speaker 8: To get relegated and there are four clubs all in

2574
02:23:47,440 --> 02:23:51,240
Speaker 8: play to get relegated. That would be Nottingham Forest, a

2575
02:23:51,320 --> 02:23:54,039
Speaker 8: club who was just promoted this year. We talked about

2576
02:23:54,080 --> 02:23:58,640
Speaker 8: them on a pass World of Soccer. The Nottingham Forest

2577
02:23:58,680 --> 02:24:01,640
Speaker 8: are really the team of the eighties who had some

2578
02:24:02,000 --> 02:24:06,320
Speaker 8: rather startling success and enjoyed a bout of popularity and

2579
02:24:06,400 --> 02:24:08,080
Speaker 8: then has just kind of fallen on hard times. In

2580
02:24:08,120 --> 02:24:10,360
Speaker 8: their return to the Premier League was seen as a

2581
02:24:10,440 --> 02:24:14,280
Speaker 8: cause for much celebration. Leeds United likewise, returned in twenty

2582
02:24:14,360 --> 02:24:16,720
Speaker 8: twenty after sixteen years away from the Premier League, one

2583
02:24:16,720 --> 02:24:20,240
Speaker 8: of the founding members of the Premier League, a team

2584
02:24:20,320 --> 02:24:22,800
Speaker 8: who has a lot of rich history, especially if you're

2585
02:24:22,800 --> 02:24:24,920
Speaker 8: going back to the seventies, to the and the sixties,

2586
02:24:25,000 --> 02:24:29,000
Speaker 8: the days of Don Revy who made leads a team

2587
02:24:29,080 --> 02:24:31,320
Speaker 8: depending on who you ask, a dirty or a very

2588
02:24:31,400 --> 02:24:34,400
Speaker 8: gritty team who just were always in a tough fight

2589
02:24:34,640 --> 02:24:39,520
Speaker 8: every time. Or Leicester, the club who just not long ago,

2590
02:24:39,800 --> 02:24:42,840
Speaker 8: in the last ten years won a Premier League title,

2591
02:24:43,200 --> 02:24:46,959
Speaker 8: who has fallen so far from its grace from being

2592
02:24:47,000 --> 02:24:49,240
Speaker 8: one of those top clubs out there that they now

2593
02:24:49,360 --> 02:24:52,840
Speaker 8: sit in the close to the close to next in

2594
02:24:52,920 --> 02:24:57,320
Speaker 8: the relegation zone. And finally Everton, a poor old Everton

2595
02:24:57,360 --> 02:25:01,600
Speaker 8: who just avoided relegation last year. The Merseyside derby rivals

2596
02:25:02,120 --> 02:25:05,640
Speaker 8: of legendary Liverpool. Their rivalry has gone on for nearly

2597
02:25:05,879 --> 02:25:09,879
Speaker 8: for over one hundred years. And yet this club who

2598
02:25:10,040 --> 02:25:14,400
Speaker 8: was once featured legendary American goalkeeper Tim Howard in net

2599
02:25:15,000 --> 02:25:18,879
Speaker 8: has just been struggling and struggling to stay afloat. They're

2600
02:25:18,879 --> 02:25:21,720
Speaker 8: all within a few points of each other. And here's

2601
02:25:21,760 --> 02:25:24,280
Speaker 8: what's going to happen. Leeds needs to at least take

2602
02:25:24,520 --> 02:25:27,200
Speaker 8: a point and then hope for a dent in Everton's

2603
02:25:27,240 --> 02:25:31,840
Speaker 8: current goal difference if Everton ends up losing all three

2604
02:25:31,879 --> 02:25:34,640
Speaker 8: of their final matches. So here's what has to happen

2605
02:25:34,720 --> 02:25:37,520
Speaker 8: for these clubs to stay afloat. For Forrest, with two

2606
02:25:37,560 --> 02:25:43,040
Speaker 8: matches remaining, they have Crystal Palace and however, up next Arsenal. Yes, Arsenal,

2607
02:25:43,120 --> 02:25:46,960
Speaker 8: who is really gunning hard to try to take back

2608
02:25:47,080 --> 02:25:50,080
Speaker 8: the lead in the Premier League season which they lost

2609
02:25:50,120 --> 02:25:54,080
Speaker 8: to Manchester City. Everton, with three matches remaining, have a

2610
02:25:54,360 --> 02:25:57,920
Speaker 8: slate that happens to include here on Sunday. We just

2611
02:25:58,040 --> 02:26:02,560
Speaker 8: mentioned them Manchester City, current Premier League winner. They'll also

2612
02:26:02,640 --> 02:26:06,080
Speaker 8: have to close out the season playing Wolverhampton and Bournemouth.

2613
02:26:06,680 --> 02:26:08,120
Speaker 3: Those are the two at the top. Those are the

2614
02:26:08,160 --> 02:26:09,520
Speaker 3: two right above the zone.

2615
02:26:09,640 --> 02:26:12,200
Speaker 8: As for Lester and Leeds, who currently sit in those

2616
02:26:12,320 --> 02:26:15,320
Speaker 8: relegation slots, they need some help to make up some

2617
02:26:15,440 --> 02:26:17,720
Speaker 8: ground and they need to not stumble at all. They

2618
02:26:17,840 --> 02:26:21,000
Speaker 8: need to take at least a point hope for Everton

2619
02:26:21,040 --> 02:26:23,400
Speaker 8: to lose their final matches and also get a dent

2620
02:26:23,480 --> 02:26:27,440
Speaker 8: in their goal difference as well. But Leeds also has

2621
02:26:27,520 --> 02:26:29,760
Speaker 8: to then close out and take as I said, a

2622
02:26:29,840 --> 02:26:32,720
Speaker 8: point from either west Ham or Tottenham to have any

2623
02:26:32,760 --> 02:26:34,879
Speaker 8: hope of survival. Obviously, they'd like to get as many

2624
02:26:34,879 --> 02:26:38,440
Speaker 8: points as they would to finish above Forrest, Leeds has

2625
02:26:38,520 --> 02:26:41,200
Speaker 8: to win at least one of those games. As for

2626
02:26:41,400 --> 02:26:44,080
Speaker 8: Lester being where they are, they have to find at

2627
02:26:44,120 --> 02:26:47,680
Speaker 8: an absolute minimum two points from their final games against Liverpool,

2628
02:26:48,080 --> 02:26:51,800
Speaker 8: Newcastle and west Ham to have any hopes of staying up.

2629
02:26:52,200 --> 02:26:55,040
Speaker 8: Here's the good news for these clubs that schedule I

2630
02:26:55,200 --> 02:26:58,000
Speaker 8: mentioned for Everton, Wolves and Bournemouth are teams in the

2631
02:26:58,080 --> 02:27:02,640
Speaker 8: bottom eight. For leads raw against Newcastle on Saturday, which

2632
02:27:02,640 --> 02:27:05,240
Speaker 8: I saw a fan getting invading the pitch and confronting

2633
02:27:05,280 --> 02:27:09,600
Speaker 8: the Newcastle manager. They seem to have a easy bout

2634
02:27:09,720 --> 02:27:13,119
Speaker 8: as West Ham is in the bottom of the table

2635
02:27:13,520 --> 02:27:16,000
Speaker 8: and Tottenham right now is currently looking to replace some

2636
02:27:16,120 --> 02:27:19,600
Speaker 8: of their key personnel in their club as that club

2637
02:27:19,760 --> 02:27:24,199
Speaker 8: refigures itself after a disappointing season. For Tottenham, as Tottenham

2638
02:27:24,240 --> 02:27:28,840
Speaker 8: as always gets very high expectations for Lester. We've mentioned

2639
02:27:28,879 --> 02:27:31,200
Speaker 8: that Brendan Rodgers who was replaced by Dean Smith, not

2640
02:27:31,280 --> 02:27:33,360
Speaker 8: the Dean Smith from college basketball. Don't worry about that.

2641
02:27:33,879 --> 02:27:37,200
Speaker 8: But they have an array of attacking talent and they

2642
02:27:37,280 --> 02:27:39,640
Speaker 8: just need to unlock it here in their final matches.

2643
02:27:40,080 --> 02:27:42,160
Speaker 8: If I was going to predict today going into the

2644
02:27:42,240 --> 02:27:46,720
Speaker 8: Sunday slate, I would say I see Nottingham Forest staying up.

2645
02:27:46,800 --> 02:27:50,200
Speaker 8: I believe they have the points to stay up. I

2646
02:27:50,320 --> 02:27:52,960
Speaker 8: believe Everton, with the state their club is in, is

2647
02:27:53,160 --> 02:27:57,440
Speaker 8: probably heading down. I think Leeds will jump them and

2648
02:27:57,640 --> 02:28:00,959
Speaker 8: Lester as much as I believe in Lester's roster. Sometimes

2649
02:28:01,040 --> 02:28:04,520
Speaker 8: they haven't had a clean sheet in nineteen matches and

2650
02:28:04,600 --> 02:28:09,959
Speaker 8: they're ending their season playing Liverpool, Newcastle United and west Ham.

2651
02:28:10,120 --> 02:28:13,560
Speaker 8: West Ham's easy, but if they can at least hold

2652
02:28:13,600 --> 02:28:16,840
Speaker 8: off and keep clean sheets here, going against two of

2653
02:28:16,920 --> 02:28:19,959
Speaker 8: the top clubs in the Premier League, I believe they

2654
02:28:20,000 --> 02:28:22,120
Speaker 8: will be heading down. And I would not like to

2655
02:28:22,160 --> 02:28:25,879
Speaker 8: see that because Lester has made very good new history

2656
02:28:25,920 --> 02:28:27,520
Speaker 8: for the club. It would be a shame to see

2657
02:28:27,560 --> 02:28:30,000
Speaker 8: them gone already, especially for a club who has a

2658
02:28:30,080 --> 02:28:32,480
Speaker 8: Premier League title. But we'll keep an eye all on

2659
02:28:32,640 --> 02:28:36,760
Speaker 8: that and the rest of the European races as the

2660
02:28:36,840 --> 02:28:39,720
Speaker 8: run ins continue, and we'll see you next time on

2661
02:28:39,800 --> 02:28:40,520
Speaker 8: the World of Soccer.

2662
02:28:41,320 --> 02:28:43,840
Speaker 2: All right, there you have a chock full of news again.

2663
02:28:44,120 --> 02:28:47,440
Speaker 2: Women's World Cup just sixty days away, Chris, we'll have

2664
02:28:47,560 --> 02:28:51,320
Speaker 2: plenty of reportage on that as well. Coming up ten

2665
02:28:51,400 --> 02:28:56,320
Speaker 2: hours to two sweetest words in sports game seven, we'll

2666
02:28:56,320 --> 02:28:58,360
Speaker 2: break it down. I'm Bernie Prattle. We're coming to your

2667
02:28:58,360 --> 02:29:00,560
Speaker 2: line from the Las Vegas Fox Sports Radio tyreck dot

2668
02:29:00,600 --> 02:29:03,480
Speaker 2: Com studios. Don't go away, you're listening to the Bernie

2669
02:29:03,480 --> 02:29:12,840
Speaker 2: Frattle Show on Fox Sports Radio. All right, we're wrapping

2670
02:29:12,920 --> 02:29:15,760
Speaker 2: it up on the Bernie Frattle Show, come to you

2671
02:29:15,879 --> 02:29:19,440
Speaker 2: live from the tyract dot Com studios here of Fox

2672
02:29:19,480 --> 02:29:23,959
Speaker 2: Sports Radio in Las Vegas, Nevada. Before I go any further,

2673
02:29:24,000 --> 02:29:25,960
Speaker 2: I want to thank my broadcast team. They've been with

2674
02:29:26,040 --> 02:29:30,280
Speaker 2: me since eleven pm Pacific time on Saturday night. That

2675
02:29:30,320 --> 02:29:34,080
Speaker 2: would be Mark Ramsey, our technical producer, Kevin Wyert on

2676
02:29:34,280 --> 02:29:37,720
Speaker 2: the updates and of course Patrick's week a great job. Guys,

2677
02:29:37,800 --> 02:29:43,080
Speaker 2: really appreciate the teamwork and the camaraderie. And as soon

2678
02:29:43,120 --> 02:29:44,560
Speaker 2: as I get home and look that word up in

2679
02:29:44,640 --> 02:29:47,840
Speaker 2: all seriousness. You keep us blued together, turning all the Donalds,

2680
02:29:47,920 --> 02:29:50,480
Speaker 2: keeping us out on the air, and of course contribute

2681
02:29:50,560 --> 02:29:55,000
Speaker 2: as well throughout the show. All right, we are about

2682
02:29:55,040 --> 02:30:00,240
Speaker 2: ten hours away from Game seven Boston sixers. Boston is

2683
02:30:00,280 --> 02:30:02,920
Speaker 2: tied three to three. And you may or may not

2684
02:30:03,160 --> 02:30:06,440
Speaker 2: know this, but in the history of the National Basketball Association,

2685
02:30:07,200 --> 02:30:09,879
Speaker 2: there have been one hundred and forty six game sevens

2686
02:30:10,240 --> 02:30:15,320
Speaker 2: Now only thirty five times has the road team prevailed.

2687
02:30:16,720 --> 02:30:21,280
Speaker 2: But this series is weird because the road team. Of

2688
02:30:21,400 --> 02:30:25,600
Speaker 2: the six games played, the road team's already won four times.

2689
02:30:26,920 --> 02:30:30,720
Speaker 2: So you're saying there's a chance, Lloyd Christmas get it.

2690
02:30:31,640 --> 02:30:36,680
Speaker 2: That said, as you well know, game seven intensity, Game

2691
02:30:36,760 --> 02:30:42,440
Speaker 2: seven pressure makes any Game seven contest a completely different animal.

2692
02:30:42,959 --> 02:30:46,760
Speaker 2: One revealing aspect of this game Sunday is the total.

2693
02:30:47,040 --> 02:30:50,920
Speaker 2: That tells you a lot. It's just above two hundred. Now.

2694
02:30:50,959 --> 02:30:53,720
Speaker 2: The first two games of this series the total the

2695
02:30:53,800 --> 02:30:56,880
Speaker 2: over under was two fifteen to two sixteen. Even in

2696
02:30:57,000 --> 02:31:01,960
Speaker 2: Game six the number was around two. So what that

2697
02:31:02,200 --> 02:31:04,480
Speaker 2: is telling you this is going to be a grinded

2698
02:31:04,520 --> 02:31:07,920
Speaker 2: out affair. Every single possession is going to be magnified,

2699
02:31:08,360 --> 02:31:11,400
Speaker 2: every single possession is going to be hotly contested. The

2700
02:31:11,440 --> 02:31:13,360
Speaker 2: spread has been all over the place in the series

2701
02:31:14,000 --> 02:31:17,120
Speaker 2: because over the last four games, the seventy six ers

2702
02:31:17,200 --> 02:31:19,080
Speaker 2: have not been favored in any of them, but the

2703
02:31:19,200 --> 02:31:22,760
Speaker 2: Celtics are favored by six and a half Sunday.

2704
02:31:23,920 --> 02:31:24,080
Speaker 5: Now.

2705
02:31:25,240 --> 02:31:28,920
Speaker 2: Another thing that makes the series a little odd and

2706
02:31:29,040 --> 02:31:34,200
Speaker 2: a little confusing is that which Jason Tatum are you

2707
02:31:34,320 --> 02:31:39,840
Speaker 2: going to get? Jason Tatum has missed nineteen consecutive shots

2708
02:31:39,920 --> 02:31:44,280
Speaker 2: over the span of three first quarters. I don't think

2709
02:31:44,320 --> 02:31:47,280
Speaker 2: if you're Boston you want to start slow. You don't

2710
02:31:47,280 --> 02:31:48,640
Speaker 2: want to keep Philly hanging around.

2711
02:31:48,959 --> 02:31:49,080
Speaker 6: Now.

2712
02:31:49,200 --> 02:31:51,879
Speaker 2: Doc Rivers has really cornered the market on blowing three

2713
02:31:51,920 --> 02:31:55,840
Speaker 2: to one leads and cornered the market on losing game sevens.

2714
02:31:56,360 --> 02:32:02,359
Speaker 2: In his career, Doc Rivers has lost nine game sevens.

2715
02:32:02,800 --> 02:32:06,080
Speaker 2: Will Sunday be the tenth? I don't know. I don't know.

2716
02:32:07,040 --> 02:32:10,240
Speaker 2: But somehow, even though Boston has not brought their best

2717
02:32:10,879 --> 02:32:14,520
Speaker 2: night in, night out, and Joe Missoula while taking over

2718
02:32:14,640 --> 02:32:18,880
Speaker 2: the team in somewhat challenging circumstances with the Emiadoka situation

2719
02:32:18,959 --> 02:32:24,320
Speaker 2: at the beginning of the year, you know, he's shown

2720
02:32:24,440 --> 02:32:28,000
Speaker 2: some wars here in the postseason with adjustments to be honest,

2721
02:32:29,360 --> 02:32:32,320
Speaker 2: and it should Boston prevail and Missoula get on the

2722
02:32:32,959 --> 02:32:35,800
Speaker 2: court with Eric Spolster. I think Spot will coach circles

2723
02:32:35,800 --> 02:32:38,000
Speaker 2: around him. But let's deal with the here and now.

2724
02:32:38,720 --> 02:32:42,400
Speaker 2: The Celtics have managed to limp into Game seven, and

2725
02:32:42,520 --> 02:32:44,840
Speaker 2: to a degree it's a tribute to how good they

2726
02:32:44,879 --> 02:32:46,840
Speaker 2: are and how deep they are and how balanced they are.

2727
02:32:47,400 --> 02:32:49,880
Speaker 2: They've been able to wear their the you know, the

2728
02:32:50,080 --> 02:32:52,720
Speaker 2: the ups and downs and what has been the really

2729
02:32:53,400 --> 02:32:55,920
Speaker 2: you know, some ice cold streaks from Jason Tatum was

2730
02:32:55,959 --> 02:32:56,959
Speaker 2: clearly their best player.

2731
02:32:58,120 --> 02:32:58,320
Speaker 6: Now.

2732
02:32:58,800 --> 02:33:01,840
Speaker 2: The hope for Celtics, I think Sunday is that that

2733
02:33:02,080 --> 02:33:05,360
Speaker 2: trend of slow starts will not continue and Tatum gets

2734
02:33:05,400 --> 02:33:07,240
Speaker 2: off the bus and starts slighting it up. There's no

2735
02:33:07,360 --> 02:33:12,520
Speaker 2: guarantee that's gonna happen. You just don't know. Now. The

2736
02:33:12,600 --> 02:33:16,080
Speaker 2: other X factor in the game is Joel Embiid. Now,

2737
02:33:16,200 --> 02:33:20,400
Speaker 2: Joel Embiid was named n NBA MVP, and I'm sure

2738
02:33:20,480 --> 02:33:25,160
Speaker 2: somewhere Kendrick Perkins is smiling. Now, Joel Embiid mean be

2739
02:33:25,320 --> 02:33:27,400
Speaker 2: the MVP, sirs hell. Not the best player in the

2740
02:33:27,440 --> 02:33:30,039
Speaker 2: game right now. That's Nicole Jokic, and I will take

2741
02:33:30,120 --> 02:33:32,640
Speaker 2: that with me and I don't want to debate it.

2742
02:33:32,680 --> 02:33:36,039
Speaker 2: I already did earlier in the show. But Embiid has

2743
02:33:36,160 --> 02:33:39,840
Speaker 2: been a force on both ends of the floor. He's

2744
02:33:39,879 --> 02:33:42,480
Speaker 2: had a good series. The question isn't whether Joel Embiid

2745
02:33:42,520 --> 02:33:45,199
Speaker 2: can ball out or not. The question is how dominant

2746
02:33:45,280 --> 02:33:48,720
Speaker 2: can he be? And you know you heard me talk

2747
02:33:48,760 --> 02:33:50,960
Speaker 2: about the top of the show when I gave my

2748
02:33:51,080 --> 02:33:54,080
Speaker 2: flowers to the Lakers because they have a cast of

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02:33:54,800 --> 02:33:57,840
Speaker 2: characters and island to misfit toys. I don't care whether

2750
02:33:57,840 --> 02:34:03,960
Speaker 2: it's Austin Reeves or Lonnie Walker the Fourth or you

2751
02:34:04,080 --> 02:34:11,600
Speaker 2: know what, Dennis shrewder g'angelo Russell. The issue is when

2752
02:34:11,680 --> 02:34:15,880
Speaker 2: the situation demanded greatness, they were great and they have

2753
02:34:16,040 --> 02:34:17,520
Speaker 2: been and that's why they are where they are now.

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02:34:17,879 --> 02:34:21,160
Speaker 2: Can Julian b do that? He sure seems hell bent

2755
02:34:21,280 --> 02:34:23,560
Speaker 2: on winning the MVP. What if he was that hell

2756
02:34:23,640 --> 02:34:26,400
Speaker 2: bent on winning a championship? I mean this trust the

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Speaker 2: process mantra with Philadelphia has been going on since sized

2758
02:34:29,840 --> 02:34:32,960
Speaker 2: now as president. So as we look ahead till later

2759
02:34:33,240 --> 02:34:37,400
Speaker 2: today against the spread and now I held my nose.

2760
02:34:37,440 --> 02:34:39,120
Speaker 2: I talked about this earlier and talked about it with

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02:34:39,200 --> 02:34:44,160
Speaker 2: Arnie and Jason last night. I grabbed the six ers

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02:34:44,240 --> 02:34:45,880
Speaker 2: and the six and a half points. I think it's

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02:34:45,920 --> 02:34:49,400
Speaker 2: too many. I feel like, no matter who wins, this

2764
02:34:49,560 --> 02:34:51,000
Speaker 2: is like a one o four, one oh one game,

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02:34:51,040 --> 02:34:52,360
Speaker 2: it is going to be a grinding out by the

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Speaker 2: way for scoring at home. And hope you are the

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02:34:54,600 --> 02:34:57,840
Speaker 2: seventy six ers. They're six and one against the spread

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02:34:57,879 --> 02:35:01,280
Speaker 2: and their past seven games on the road, while they're

2769
02:35:01,400 --> 02:35:04,199
Speaker 2: also seven and three against the number in the past

2770
02:35:04,480 --> 02:35:08,440
Speaker 2: ten games coming off his straight up loss, So this figures,

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Speaker 2: I think to be a tight game. The Celtics. Meanwhile,

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Speaker 2: minus six and a half Sunday, they're only one in

2773
02:35:15,640 --> 02:35:17,920
Speaker 2: four against the spread in their last five games coming

2774
02:35:18,040 --> 02:35:23,040
Speaker 2: off a straight up win. And so I think you've

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02:35:23,120 --> 02:35:28,480
Speaker 2: got two teams since Philly could not close them out

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02:35:28,480 --> 02:35:31,800
Speaker 2: at home, and we all know why they find themselves

2777
02:35:31,840 --> 02:35:33,560
Speaker 2: in a situation they really don't want to be in.

2778
02:35:34,840 --> 02:35:37,040
Speaker 2: And Boston I don't think really had designs on having

2779
02:35:37,080 --> 02:35:40,040
Speaker 2: this go to seven either, but this is where they are.

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Speaker 2: A couple things to note. I just talked about Joe Mizoula,

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02:35:44,879 --> 02:35:48,360
Speaker 2: the Celtics head coach. In Game six, he actually changed

2782
02:35:48,400 --> 02:35:52,680
Speaker 2: his strategy. He started Robert Williams over Derek White Williams

2783
02:35:52,760 --> 02:35:56,040
Speaker 2: ended up playing almost thirty minutes and finished with a

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02:35:56,080 --> 02:36:00,360
Speaker 2: plus minus of plus eighteen. And what happened was his

2785
02:36:00,879 --> 02:36:04,800
Speaker 2: defensive presence alongside Al Horford in the paint well that

2786
02:36:05,000 --> 02:36:08,360
Speaker 2: forced Jolnbid to either play through contact or pass the ball,

2787
02:36:08,520 --> 02:36:11,440
Speaker 2: and it worked. But meanwhile, the seventy six Ers were

2788
02:36:11,520 --> 02:36:14,800
Speaker 2: able to make some adjustments and somehow managed to overcome

2789
02:36:14,879 --> 02:36:18,400
Speaker 2: a sixteen point deficit, but they fell apart in the

2790
02:36:18,440 --> 02:36:23,640
Speaker 2: final few minutes. This is, unfortunately an all too familiar

2791
02:36:23,680 --> 02:36:27,280
Speaker 2: feeling for head coach Doc Rivers. As I said earlier,

2792
02:36:27,520 --> 02:36:31,800
Speaker 2: he's lost nine game seven playoff games in his career,

2793
02:36:32,360 --> 02:36:35,240
Speaker 2: been involved in sixteen of them. He's seven and nine.

2794
02:36:36,360 --> 02:36:40,280
Speaker 2: The reality of it is Boston's already lost twice at home.

2795
02:36:41,080 --> 02:36:45,760
Speaker 2: It feels like they're too talented to actually lose at

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02:36:45,840 --> 02:36:49,520
Speaker 2: home three different games against his Philadelphia team in the

2797
02:36:49,520 --> 02:36:53,039
Speaker 2: same series. You've got to believe the TD Garden crowd

2798
02:36:53,160 --> 02:36:54,600
Speaker 2: is going to make an impact. And by the way,

2799
02:36:54,640 --> 02:36:57,520
Speaker 2: the Celtics did hold the Sixers to thirty six percent

2800
02:36:57,560 --> 02:37:00,920
Speaker 2: shooting in Game six. And if Boston defense, which can

2801
02:37:01,040 --> 02:37:05,080
Speaker 2: be stellar when it's on, is stellar, Boston should prevail

2802
02:37:05,800 --> 02:37:08,320
Speaker 2: on Sunday later today. But I still think it's gonna

2803
02:37:08,320 --> 02:37:10,280
Speaker 2: be closed. I had to hold my nose. Yeah, grab

2804
02:37:10,360 --> 02:37:12,640
Speaker 2: the six and a half. Not saying you should, I'm

2805
02:37:12,680 --> 02:37:14,520
Speaker 2: just saying I did. It's gonna do it for the

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Speaker 2: Bernie Fraddle Show back on these airways next Friday night

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Speaker 2: at eleven PM. In the meantime, keep it locked up

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Speaker 2: next They're great. Andy Furman on Fox Sports Radio,