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Speaker 1: This is Straight Fire with Jason McIntyre. What is up, everybody,

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Speaker 1: It's me Jason McIntyre, Straight Fire, Monday, April TWI hope

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Speaker 1: everybody had a phenomenal weekend. It's draft week, people, so

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Speaker 1: you needed to pace yourself over the weekend. I had

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Speaker 1: a phenomenal weekend myself. Um, you know, went out for

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Speaker 1: me on, I G you know all this, and uh,

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Speaker 1: And so I sit down Sunday night to start to

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Speaker 1: get some ideas about what we're gonna do on Monday's podcast.

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Speaker 1: You know, it's draft week. I'm looking to the NBA

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Speaker 1: stuff and I start texting with Rob G and I

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Speaker 1: stumble upon what I think is just a massive story.

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Speaker 1: I think this has to be the story of the day. No, Like, listen,

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Speaker 1: and the Nets beat the Suns, and again everybody's like, oh,

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Speaker 1: per team in the NBA season. Okay. I see this

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Speaker 1: tweet last night from Ian Rappaport NFL Network. He's been

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Speaker 1: here on the pod, buddy of mine. He doesn't toss

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Speaker 1: stuff out there. To toss stuff out there, Ian Rappaport,

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Speaker 1: a stunner, basically says it is not gonna be justin

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Speaker 1: It's down to Don Dune done, Oscar's drum roll, Trey Lance,

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Speaker 1: and Mac Jones. Here's the exact quote. This is a

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Speaker 1: stunner to me. I'm absolutely floored by this. As the

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Speaker 1: forty Niners closed in on their decision of which quarterback

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Speaker 1: to take it three, sources stays they're down to two

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Speaker 1: prospects and the belief is those two are Mac Jones

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Speaker 1: have shifted to those two. I'm floored. I'm gobsmacked by this.

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Speaker 1: Now we have discussed at length on this podcast about

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Speaker 1: why I believe it should be justin fields. Anybody who's

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Speaker 1: should be justin fields. A lot of people say they

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Speaker 1: would take justin Fields over Zack Wilson. And as a

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Speaker 1: quick reminder, this thing we call the NFL Draft is

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Speaker 1: not an exact science. It is extremely challenging. And as

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Speaker 1: a reminder, I will say of the four team quarterbacks

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Speaker 1: drafting in the top ten at quarterback history. Listen, it's

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Speaker 1: not that this is how it's always going to be,

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Speaker 1: but right now teams are doing a very poor job. Listen,

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Speaker 1: the game changing rapidly, and in Saunters Kyle Shanahan, I

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Speaker 1: Obviously he has a quarterback he wants and here, I

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Speaker 1: don't know what nineties six hours before the draft, we

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Speaker 1: dad was Mike Shanahan, a big big deal in NFL

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Speaker 1: coaching circles. And Kyle Shanahan at a very young age

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Speaker 1: eleven times they called the past play. According to ESPNS

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Speaker 1: Going back to the Falcons, the one you brought up

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Speaker 1: So listen, I'm not bashing Kyle Shanahan. Things happen. You know,

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Speaker 1: if you've played any sports, you've collapsed on the back

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Speaker 1: happened several times aufters Shanahan. But we're not gonna kill

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Speaker 1: Hi for it. The guy is very good at his job.

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Speaker 1: They run an incredible offense basically everywhere he's been. But

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Speaker 1: no doubt, six four to five, rocked up. I mean,

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Speaker 1: Bill Parcels hated quarterbacks who did not have a lot

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Speaker 1: of starts. Well, Mac Jones Trey Lance seventeen career starts,

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Speaker 1: and you know, I start reading about Trey Lance late

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Speaker 1: I do wonder Rob, and I haven't fully thought this

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Speaker 1: Jimmy Garoppol is a really good quarterback. Bill Belichick saw

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Speaker 1: But bottom line is, like Jimmy G. Super popular player.

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Speaker 1: Excuse me, he can't stay healthy. Jimmy G. Continuously getting injured,

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Speaker 1: And the plan is if Trey Lance is a guy,

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Speaker 1: in college. Why wouldn't Justin Fields be the same kind

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Speaker 1: of guy. Maybe he's not as good as we think,

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Speaker 1: but if that is your rationale, why would you not

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Speaker 1: then apply the Carson Wentz flame out mount down, whatever

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Speaker 1: you want to call it in Philly to Trey Lance?

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Speaker 1: Why does he get the benefit of the doubt that

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Speaker 1: Justin Fields is not getting? Understand? I mean, your your

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Speaker 1: spot on, I agree, But Rob, here's my other thing

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Speaker 1: with that. It's like, how many factors go into Carson

431
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Speaker 1: Wentz melting down? I mean, remember he had Frank Reich

432
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Speaker 1: his first two years, Frank Creig leaves and I forget

433
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Speaker 1: what the exact numbers are, but he's like eleven and

434
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Speaker 1: twenty or some bad, bad, bad, bad bad win loss

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Speaker 1: record without Frank Reik. So now Carson Wentz is gonna

436
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Speaker 1: Resurrector's career where with Frank Craik in Indy. So that's

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Speaker 1: why some people are optimistic about that. But at the

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Speaker 1: same time, it's like, I mean, Haskins has like no chance.

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Speaker 1: I don't think in the NFL. He's on Pittsburgh's team

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Speaker 1: right now, that doesn't mean he's gonna I don't think

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Speaker 1: he's a lock to make the roster. I mean he's

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Speaker 1: probably gonna be inactive if he does, because that's not

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Speaker 1: a guy you can really count on. I think they

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Speaker 1: were trying to throw him a bone and Salvage's career,

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Speaker 1: but he was He was only a one year starter

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Speaker 1: at the House State Field, two year starter and and

447
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Speaker 1: played in the SEC. Didn't start because the starter was healthy,

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Speaker 1: but justin Fields played in the SEC um. I guess

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Speaker 1: we should probably turn our attention to mac Jones. I

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Speaker 1: just have a hard problem talking about him, dating back

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Speaker 1: to our convo last week with the former Jet scout

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Speaker 1: who was like, yeah, I prefer Mac Jones to Trevor Lawrence.

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Speaker 1: And I will say, Rob, I don't know if you

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Speaker 1: saw the social media activity, but the people the masses

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Speaker 1: were very, very very unhappy with Daniel Kett and his

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Speaker 1: comment's about Mac Jones over Trevor Lawrence. And I can't.

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Speaker 1: I can't. I'm sorry, I can't take mac Jones very seriously,

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Speaker 1: I just can't. One year starter on a stacked team

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Speaker 1: against a vastly, vastly depressed SEC. It was not very

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Speaker 1: good last year outside Obama l s U was awful.

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00:25:22,240 --> 00:25:26,200
Speaker 1: It was basically Alabama and everyone else And Mac Jones

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Speaker 1: puts up monster stats. Um, this is a guy who

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Speaker 1: could not win a starting job against Uh, Jalen Hurts,

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Speaker 1: He couldn't win a starting job against Twah And oh,

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Speaker 1: by the way, how is twa looked in the NFL?

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Speaker 1: And oh, by the way, Jalen Hurts is getting a

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Speaker 1: one year look see from the Eagles. Um, Like, if

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Speaker 1: you're applying that rationale of Haskins two fields, doesn't the

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Speaker 1: same kind of apply to Alabama quarterbacks? Rob I think

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Speaker 1: Charles Robinson mentioned it, like, this is the Sarkaesian offense.

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Speaker 1: Did you see twas uh the look on his eyes

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Speaker 1: when he stepped to the line of scrimmage, He looked

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Speaker 1: like a deer in headlights? Did he not? Oh? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: and this might be my favorite state. I know. I

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Speaker 1: got a lot of stats that will just blow your mind.

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Speaker 1: This is my favorite one that came out comparing the

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Speaker 1: fields Mac Jones situation, r p o s and screens,

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Speaker 1: which in college are all the rage. You can't really

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Speaker 1: get away with too much in the NFL because the

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Speaker 1: guys are too fast. You know, you might get an

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Speaker 1: r p O here and there, but not definitely not

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Speaker 1: to the levels you see in college. Twenty two point

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Speaker 1: five percent of mac jones total passing yards came from

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Speaker 1: RPOs and screens, justin fields. Who plays at Ohio State,

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Speaker 1: which everybody says runs a gimmick offense? Eight point five?

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Speaker 1: So tell me again, who's really making plays as a quarterback?

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Speaker 1: If you're gonna look at that's that alone? M hmm. Interesting.

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Speaker 1: I mean, I just don't understand the mac Jones hype. Rob.

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Speaker 1: We're talking about a guy who essentially went from he's

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Speaker 1: not a first rounder too, Okay, maybe he's a first

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Speaker 1: rounder too, Yeah, San France three, Kyle Shanahan, let's get him,

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Speaker 1: and I love the stuff about people are saying in

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Speaker 1: these meeting rooms. He was on a white board and

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Speaker 1: he could remember plays that that he had drawn up

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Speaker 1: like weeks before. Uh, and they were just blown away

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Speaker 1: by his memory. Like what's memory gonna get you at

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Speaker 1: the line of scrimmage when defensive are breathing down your

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Speaker 1: neck and Von Miller and Bradley Chubb are closing in

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Speaker 1: on you. What he doesn't have the athletic ability to

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Speaker 1: get away, Like, I don't know, I don't want to.

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Speaker 1: I sound I feel bad rob at my bashing these guys. No,

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Speaker 1: and and let's be honest, Mac Jones has what two

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Speaker 1: d u I s? And he threw to four first

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Speaker 1: round ride receivers and and and hand the ball off

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Speaker 1: to a first round running back who was protected by

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Speaker 1: I think at least one first round offensive lineman. So no,

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Speaker 1: I don't think you are being too harsh on Mac Jones.

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

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Speaker 1: ask your your raiders. Could could could be in the

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Speaker 1: mix for a quarterback. I don't think Fields falls that far. Um,

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Speaker 1: I don't think Mac Jones falls that far. But if

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Speaker 1: we go one to three and Trey Lances third. I

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Speaker 1: don't know what where where Mac Jones in, uh, just

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Speaker 1: the fields going? Are your Raiders in the mix? Well,

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Speaker 1: let me just say Ian Rappable, who got this whole

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Speaker 1: conversation started with his tweet last night, did also tweet

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Speaker 1: late on Friday that the Raiders, despite picking number seventeen,

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Speaker 1: are doing their homework on these quarterbacks just in case

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Speaker 1: one of them starts to slide, they can move up

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Speaker 1: and get him. And I actually tweeted out as soon

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Speaker 1: as I saw that mac jones trede last report that

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Speaker 1: he put out last night, I said, Hey, at this rate,

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Speaker 1: justin fields is gonna fall to the Raiders to be

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Speaker 1: set for life. It's gonna be great. Let me ask

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Speaker 1: you quickly on the Raiders. So they didn't they lose

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Speaker 1: like three or starting offensive lineman? Correct? Okay, and they're

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Speaker 1: gonna draft a quarter and they're gonna have taken quarterback. Hey, man,

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Speaker 1: if you know anything about the NFL, was you know

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Speaker 1: a lot the best way to build a Super Bowl

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Speaker 1: contender is with a quarterback on his rickey deal. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: now that's a fair point. I mean, so what do

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Speaker 1: you do with Derek Carr? You can't. I mean, isn't

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Speaker 1: the capit for him significant? I would assume no. I

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Speaker 1: think it's like two million. It's really low. He's basically

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Speaker 1: on a year to year basis right now, is guaranteed

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Speaker 1: forgive my memory laps um. Is Marcus Mariotta still there? Yes,

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Speaker 1: he took a massive pay cut to remain as the backup.

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Speaker 1: So if they drafted a quarterback, they would dump one

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Speaker 1: of those guys. Presumably. I would assume that they could

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Speaker 1: trade Derek Carr. I don't know where you could get

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Speaker 1: him too. I guess what, maybe Chicago, Washington, something like that,

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Speaker 1: you know. But the thing is, whoever takes him, it's

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Speaker 1: gonna have to take the full salary cap hit because

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Speaker 1: there is no more guaranteed money. It's just that's the amount.

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Speaker 1: Because you never want to cut a guy, especially a

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Speaker 1: quarterback like Derek Carr, who say, what you want is

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Speaker 1: at least the top half of the NFL quarterback Um,

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Speaker 1: you know that feels like, uh, you know, a summer breakdown.

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Speaker 1: I don't know that that's a lock. Top half of

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Speaker 1: the league, top sixteen. Yeah, all right, Trevor Lawrence or

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Speaker 1: Derek Carr. Oh, Trevor Lawrence Zach Will No, I can't

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Speaker 1: Derek Carr there yet? Can we do a few minutes

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Speaker 1: real quick? Rob on the return of Kadi Um. I

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Speaker 1: just I watched a little bit of it. Then I

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Speaker 1: watched the highlights and I was like, why was I

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Speaker 1: writing these? I was I writing the Nets off again?

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Speaker 1: I mean, Kevin Durant against a good Son's team. Now

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Speaker 1: I know they were down Jake Crowder and Dario Serich

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Speaker 1: and now enter laughter for me mentioning two role players. Um,

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Speaker 1: but the Suns were passive at best defensively. The Brooklyn

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Speaker 1: Nets shot from the field from three eighty five from

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Speaker 1: the line and oh yeah, k d came off the

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Speaker 1: bench thirty three points on twenty one shots in twenty

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Speaker 1: eight minutes. I mean, listen, it's one thing going. I

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Speaker 1: know mcl bridges is a really good defender. This is

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Speaker 1: a bit of a step up in class to Kevin Durant,

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Speaker 1: who's like a top fifteen player in the history of

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Speaker 1: the sport. And Cameron Johnson no chance. So you know,

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Speaker 1: the Son's on the wing. And we talked about this,

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Speaker 1: they're gonna have problems with Lebron. They would have some

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Speaker 1: problems with the Clippers with Paul George and Kauai. But Rob,

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Speaker 1: I mean Kyrie deferring a little. He had thirty four

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Speaker 1: and twelve. They still don't have James Harden and they

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Speaker 1: beat I don't know what the second best team in

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Speaker 1: the West right now. I guess we're not going to

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Speaker 1: count the Lakers, uh right now. But they made it

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Speaker 1: look pretty easy. And like I know, we kind of

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Speaker 1: pooh poo the Blake Griffin signing as what's the big deal?

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Speaker 1: M who cares? He's old? He hadn't dunked in forever. Um,

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Speaker 1: you know, just I'll just put it out there, Blake

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Speaker 1: Griffin not it hasn't been terrible since joining the Nets. Um.

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Speaker 1: You know. I know he's not shooting well from downtown

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Speaker 1: this month, But I mean, all they're gonna need from

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Speaker 1: is one game, right, one playoff game where he goes

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Speaker 1: for fourteen and seven and a couple of big spots

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00:32:21,600 --> 00:32:24,239
Speaker 1: in the fourth quarter if k D or Harden has

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Speaker 1: foul trouble or whatever, and Blake Griffin, that's all they need.

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Speaker 1: I don't know. You never want to overreact to a

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Speaker 1: game on a Sunday in the at the end of

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Speaker 1: April in the NBA regular season, but I think clearly

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Speaker 1: the Nets they're back to being for me the team

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Speaker 1: to be just watching them with k D for a

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Speaker 1: little bit. In the East, I'll just say that in

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Speaker 1: the East they by the way, regained first place from

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Speaker 1: the Sixers over the weekend. Sixers, by the way, without

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Speaker 1: Ben Simmons cratering absolute free fall, they've lost four straight.

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Speaker 1: And before Rob, before I let you get up the

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Speaker 1: Brooklyn Nets, I just need to point out Fantasy NBA

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Speaker 1: is a total bunch of garbage and I'm so me

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Speaker 1: and my son are so irate. Okay, just a brief

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Speaker 1: thirty seconds. So you have to set your line up

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Speaker 1: for the week, and you have said it's Sunday before

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Speaker 1: the Monday games start Sunday. There was not a hint

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Speaker 1: that Ben Simmons or Demontis Sabonis were injured, not a

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Speaker 1: hint of it. Neither of them played all week. Now

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Speaker 1: Sabonis some back thing. Were they just tanking? Is they're

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Speaker 1: not gonna want to play off game? I don't know.

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Speaker 1: The Ben Simmons thing is extremely frustrating. He played last

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Speaker 1: week and was great, He was great, and now he

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Speaker 1: just misses the whole week. So the other f factor

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Speaker 1: Kevin Porter Jr. Who nobody cares about, was actually putting

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Speaker 1: up some buckets in Houston. I mean, he had some

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Speaker 1: big games, so we started. It turns out he was

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Speaker 1: one of the guys who went to the booby Trap

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Speaker 1: strip club in Miami. His teammate got his teeth kicked

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Speaker 1: in with a beer bottle. Apparently the story is Sterling

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Speaker 1: Brown leaving the booby Trap. That is really the name

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Speaker 1: of the strip club at I don't know, Rob, you

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Speaker 1: can correct me if I'm wrong seven am. And he

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Speaker 1: went to the wrong like suv or Limo or whatever

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Speaker 1: the bus was that they had rented, because you know,

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Speaker 1: that's how these bowlers do. There was like a lot

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Speaker 1: of the black limos, and he went to the wrong

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Speaker 1: one and the guys just came out and just started

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Speaker 1: beating the crap out of him, and I guess they

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Speaker 1: took a bottle to his head and he was severely hospitalized.

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Speaker 1: And then Kevin Porter walks out of the strip club

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Speaker 1: and he's like, oh, my dude is down. I gotta

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Speaker 1: go to offend him. So Kevin Porter all my son's

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Speaker 1: fantasy team all week health and safety protocols because of

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Speaker 1: a strip club incident. So we had three guys who

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Speaker 1: didn't play a freaking game all week and then we

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Speaker 1: end up losing to the fifth seed and we will

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Speaker 1: not be in the money. And um my son's taking

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Speaker 1: it well. As I said, he had a good weekend

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Speaker 1: playing sports, so it's going okay. But anyways, rob back

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Speaker 1: to the Brooklyn Nets unless you want to go deep

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Speaker 1: into the strip up story. The booby Trap a great name,

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Speaker 1: by the way. No, I'm actually more interested in in

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Speaker 1: your son, who I think is what like twelve, Oh

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Speaker 1: my gosh, he's being disappointed not in the money of

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Speaker 1: a fantasy basketball league. I'm pretty sure that they don't

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Speaker 1: think about it like that at that. Yeah, I don't know,

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Speaker 1: it's fifty bucks the third place team. That was more like,

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Speaker 1: you're upset that that he's not in the money and

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Speaker 1: was not not that big. I while you speak on

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Speaker 1: the net real quick, I'm gonna look up the Booby

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Speaker 1: Trap see if they have an Instagram page. Um just

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Speaker 1: give a shout out to the listeners and case well,

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Speaker 1: let me just say again, I did pick the Nets

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Speaker 1: even before the Harden trade to make the finals, so

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Speaker 1: I've always thought they were the favorite regardless. But um,

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Speaker 1: as far as what you said about them being the

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Speaker 1: easy favorites in the Eastern Conference after what you saw

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Speaker 1: on Sunday with Kevin Urratt returning, I would disagree a

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Speaker 1: little bit, only because I don't think they would be

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Speaker 1: prohibitive favorites without a healthy James Harden. I think James

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Speaker 1: Harden is the engine in that team. I think he's

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Speaker 1: the one who makes them go. Um. I would still

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Speaker 1: pick them even if if Harden was limited to come

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Speaker 1: out of the East, but I would not feel as

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Speaker 1: confident because I think what we've seen with Kyrie and

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Speaker 1: Kevin Durant that yeah, they're great individual talents. They can score,

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Speaker 1: they can fill it up, but for that team to

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Speaker 1: get to its maximum potential, it requires a triggerman to

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Speaker 1: run point, and James Harden is ideal in that situation.

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Speaker 1: Uh well, I mean you can't officially make them the

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Speaker 1: favorites until Harden's back, but based on the little I

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Speaker 1: saw Sunday, it's like jeez. I mean, by the way,

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Speaker 1: Sixers fans don't come at me on the Graham or

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Speaker 1: social media saying they were without Danny Green, Seth Curry,

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Speaker 1: Mr Game. You you mentioned Jake Crowder, Yeah, you know

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Speaker 1: Jake Crowder on the wing kind of a big deal. Um,

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Speaker 1: I don't care what you say. The Sons have nobody

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Speaker 1: to guard Kevin Durant and Ben Simmons could probably guard Durant,

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Speaker 1: but then I don't know who's gonna check Harden and

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Speaker 1: Kyrie because those guys are getting to the bucket easily.

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Speaker 1: And don't give me Matisse bible. I'm sorry, Well, gee,

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Speaker 1: what about Joel embiid? I also like talking to myself

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Speaker 1: as I worked through these arguments. Fine, Joe and Bead

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Speaker 1: can have his thirty six points and fifteen rebounds, they're

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Speaker 1: not gonna win. I still think the real threat is Boston.

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Speaker 1: Um that their health is everything, and it's looking increasingly

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Speaker 1: like Boston is going to maybe be in the mix

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Speaker 1: for the four five seat. By the way, at some

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Speaker 1: point we're gonna have to talk about the Knicks, right,

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Speaker 1: I mean, rob they have won nine straight now it

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Speaker 1: is a little fugazi. The point differential is uh plus

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Speaker 1: two point two, which is lower than the Hawks, and um,

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Speaker 1: you know they're winning with defense and Julius Randall playing

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Speaker 1: like forty minutes a night. At some point we'll talk

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Speaker 1: to the talk about the Knicks. Maybe we'll get a

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Speaker 1: next guest on this week, so we'll do a little

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Speaker 1: more draft this week. UM, I can go ahead and

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Speaker 1: um close out the podcast with this The booby Trap

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Speaker 1: probably not worth the follow on the Graham, but it

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Speaker 1: is worth taking a peek. I'll just put that out there.

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Speaker 1: Um all right, rob Any final thoughts k D your weekend,

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Speaker 1: the Draft, the booby Trap. You are a married man.

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Speaker 1: You should not be on Instagram looking up the booby Trap.

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Speaker 1: It's just it's just a loox. Yeah, it sound like

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Speaker 1: I followed the account anyways. Al Right, guys, we'll talk

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Speaker 1: to you tomorro