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Speaker 3: Fig Welcome back, my.

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Speaker 4: Brother, because always a pleasure. Brother. How are thanks always

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Speaker 4: always always good?

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Speaker 3: Just getting ready for some draft?

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah right, you got the NBA playoffs baseball. I'm

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Speaker 2: sure I was curious about you got about how you're

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Speaker 2: feeling because out there you got two teams, and you know,

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Speaker 2: Lakers and Clippers are both interesting because the West is

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Speaker 2: pretty wide open. You know, O Case, he's terrific. But

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Speaker 2: a team like the Clippers I think could be dangerous

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Speaker 2: now that they're healthy. I was curious what you think

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Speaker 2: because I look at the Clippers and I go, you

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Speaker 2: know what, that's a team that actually can make a run.

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Speaker 4: Definitely, and they fly under the radar because obviously the

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Speaker 4: Lakers make the big splash with Luca and incorporating him,

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Speaker 4: and people forget, Yeah, Kawhi Leonard when he's healthy is

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Speaker 4: probably a top five player in the NBA. He just

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Speaker 4: doesn't get talked about much because quite honestly, he's not

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Speaker 4: on the court that often. But he's been back, he's

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Speaker 4: been healthy these last thirty or so games. He's been

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Speaker 4: playing amazingly and they've won what six seven games in

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Speaker 4: a row at this point in time, and just the

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Speaker 4: way that they're built, They're built like your modern NBA team.

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Speaker 4: You have your superstar on Kawhi Leonard. James Harten has

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Speaker 4: had a resurgence this year. I just had a triple

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Speaker 4: double the other night. Norm Palell has been a great

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Speaker 4: third option, and Zubots has been is one of the

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Speaker 4: better big men in the entire league that doesn't get

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Speaker 4: talked about. So they have depth, They have depth on

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Speaker 4: the wing, They have guys who can create for themselves

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Speaker 4: and other people. They just don't get talked about a lot.

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Speaker 4: They fly under the radar because after the last couple

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Speaker 4: of years when it was Kawhi and Paul George and

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Speaker 4: they were thought to be a perennial Western Conference contender

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Speaker 4: every single year, and that obviously didn't flush its way

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Speaker 4: out because both of those guys dealt with so many

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Speaker 4: different injuries. I think they just kind of fell by

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Speaker 4: the wayside and people just stopped paying attention to them.

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Speaker 4: But all of a sudden you mentioned the bunched up

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Speaker 4: Western Conference. At this point, I like the Clippers' chances

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Speaker 4: as good as anybody's out West. I like Oklahoma City too,

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Speaker 4: but as great of a regular season as they had,

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Speaker 4: I can see a scenario where the Clippers beat Oklahoma City,

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Speaker 4: or the Lakers beat Oklahoma City, the Golden State Warriors

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Speaker 4: potentially beating them in a matchup as well. This is

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Speaker 4: as wide open of a conference I can remember in

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Speaker 4: the Western Conference of the NBA for a long, long

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Speaker 4: streat of time.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, man, I was thinking that too, because it's funny

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Speaker 2: the East has I think no trauma, right, I mean,

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Speaker 2: you get two teams, and probably it's going to be Boston.

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Speaker 4: I think Cleveland could give him a run, but I mean,

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Speaker 4: if you, if you tell me make a prediction right now,

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Speaker 4: I'm taking Boston. But it certainly wouldn't surprise me if

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Speaker 4: Cleveland made a run with them.

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Speaker 2: For sure, yeah, and I and I think it's and

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Speaker 2: that's it. I don't think there's anybody else that could

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Speaker 2: beat Boston other than the Cavs.

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Speaker 4: No, not, not in the least bit.

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Speaker 3: Not the Knicks.

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Speaker 4: No, the Knicks can't be anybody over five hundred. That's

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Speaker 4: been their issue all year long. So, right, when you

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Speaker 4: get into the postseason and you play nothing but good teams,

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Speaker 4: that's not shaping up well for you.

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Speaker 2: Now I'm looking at it and I'm going and that's

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Speaker 2: it's gonna be weird because we just come off a

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Speaker 2: tournament that I thought was great and I thought it

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Speaker 3: I love this tournament.

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Speaker 2: I enjoyed it, probably more than I had in the

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Speaker 2: past ten years. This tournament. Yeah, I thought it was

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Speaker 2: interesting basketball. At times, it was really good basketball. You know,

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Speaker 2: we saw our fair share of some rock fight moments, right, Yeah,

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Speaker 2: But it was a great tournament and it was good.

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Speaker 2: And it's satiated in a year that I missed basketball

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Speaker 2: because I just didn't think the NBA was good, was quality.

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Speaker 4: Yeah. Well, there was a lot of great play in

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Speaker 4: the I guess the issue that a lot of people

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Speaker 4: had is that there weren't a lot of upsets, There

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Speaker 4: wasn't a lot of drama.

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Speaker 3: There weren't a.

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Speaker 4: Wholehole lot of buzzer beaters. But for me, I enjoyed

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Speaker 4: the fact that we had four number one seeds make

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Speaker 4: best all season long actually got a chance to score

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Speaker 4: off against each other on the biggest stage. That's what

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Speaker 4: you want. You don't want to see, and I don't

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Speaker 4: want to disrespect anybody, but no one wants to see

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Speaker 4: George Mason play Murray State in the Final four or

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Speaker 4: the Elite eight. So upsets are great until they're not.

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Speaker 4: And the fact that we didn't get really many of

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Speaker 4: substance or any of substance maybe took a little bit

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Speaker 4: away from this year's tournament, Anthony, But to your point,

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Speaker 4: it just meant that the better teams made it deeper

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Speaker 4: into the tournament and faced each other, and we just

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Speaker 4: saw more quality back basketball. I mean, the final four,

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Speaker 4: both games were close, and generally speaking that's not the case.

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Speaker 4: It really hasn't been the case in recent memory. But

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Speaker 4: it was close because you had all four quality teams,

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Speaker 4: the best teams in the country, squaring off against each

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Speaker 4: other on the biggest stage. So I agree with you.

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Speaker 4: This is probably one of my favorite tournaments in recent

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Speaker 4: memory because we had the best of the best make

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Speaker 4: it to the very end and play at a high level. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I have to say I didn't miss the Cinderella thing.

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Speaker 2: I didn't know over the years, I thought it was deluded.

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Speaker 2: I thought there was so much parody, that Cinderella wasn't

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Speaker 4: Yeah it was. She wasn't special, man.

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Speaker 2: Cinderella is only special if she comes around every few years, right,

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Speaker 2: every once in a while, makes a run to the

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Speaker 2: you know, sweet sixteen elite a you know once the

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Speaker 2: I thought, not special. Yeah, and that's why I like

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Speaker 2: the four to one seeds and I'd be fine with

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Speaker 3: Just give me good basketball, you know.

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Speaker 4: I think this is gonna be more of the norm

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Speaker 4: as we get into this nil situation. If if we

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Speaker 4: want to get into the Nico iam Aliava thing, we

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Speaker 4: can at some point today. But from a basketball standpoint,

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Speaker 4: and even in football, what's happening now is these mid majors.

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Speaker 4: You know, if you're a good player for Liberty or something.

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Speaker 4: Let's just say, and you had a good showing in

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Speaker 4: the tournament or your conference tournament. Well, what's to stop

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Speaker 4: BYU who has a lot of influx of money nowadays,

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Speaker 4: or Old miss or Michigan State for saying like, hey,

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Speaker 4: why don't you transfer out and come join us. So,

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Speaker 4: these mid majors that would make these deep runs usually

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Speaker 4: are senior leaden teams from you know, non Power five

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Speaker 4: a super freshman. You're just not gonna see that a lot.

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Speaker 4: What you're gonna end up seeing is great players are

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Speaker 4: really good players from mid major programs are now gonna

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Speaker 4: group of five. So I think what we're gonna see

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Speaker 4: in the NCAA tournament moving forward, at least until more

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Speaker 4: of this nil situation transfer portal situation gets flushed out,

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Speaker 4: I think you're gonna see more and more of the

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Speaker 4: blue buds and the higher seeds making deeper runs in

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Speaker 4: the tournaments and less and less upsets.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I totally see that the landscape is about to

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Speaker 2: change further because there's gonna be some rulings. Here's the

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Speaker 2: one thing, and I guess we'll get it to the

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Speaker 2: n ECO thing shortly. But here's the one thing. I

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Speaker 2: don't know how they're gonna get a handle on this cap.

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Speaker 2: They were talking about a twenty million dollar cap. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: that's it's impossible. You got these quarterbacks, they're gonna eat

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Speaker 2: up so much of this stuff. It's impossible to have

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Speaker 2: a cap where you're gonna run. You think SEC is

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Speaker 2: basketball and football now, of course not well.

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Speaker 4: And the way there's gonna be ways to circumvent this

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Speaker 4: that there always is. So you're gonna have the twenty

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Speaker 4: the next few months. It seems like, yeah, on top

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Speaker 4: of nil deals. So you're gonna have these nil collectives

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Speaker 4: talking to the universities and say, all right, we'll get

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Speaker 4: reach get a couple of million from this pot. Get

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Speaker 4: a couple of hundred thousand from this pot. Let's throw

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Speaker 4: it at this guy, see what he can get. And

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Speaker 4: so it's gonna be very interesting the inner workings of

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Speaker 4: actual money that the schools get themselves, and how they

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Speaker 4: melt those two things together to try to put together

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Speaker 4: their roster, really buy their rosters. This is all free

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Speaker 4: agency at this point in time. That's all it is.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, And it's gonna be interesting because you go, all right, well,

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Speaker 2: the best kids, right, the most pot, they're going to

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Speaker 2: get paid because they're going to Their brand is going

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Speaker 2: to going to command that, right. But there's gonna be lawsuits.

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Speaker 2: Well it's not fair. Well what about this athlete. It's

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Speaker 2: just so muddy. I don't know how. I don't know

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Speaker 2: how they come to some sort of some sort of

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Speaker 2: conclusion with this thing. I don't know there's going to

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Speaker 4: The only thing that I can think of, and I

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Speaker 4: still think we're all ways away from this and all

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Speaker 4: of this is going to be caught up in court

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Speaker 4: battles for the next few years. I do wonder if

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Speaker 4: at some point in time, College football, and maybe to

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Speaker 4: a certain degree, college basketball will be tougher because the

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Speaker 4: tournament is run by the n c double A and

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Speaker 4: they're trying to hold on for dear life for whatever

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Speaker 4: power they still do have. But whether these guys are

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Speaker 4: allowed to unionize and whether they become basically professionals at

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Speaker 4: that point time and they actually negotiate contracts and get

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Speaker 4: a piece of TV revenues, because then now all of

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Speaker 4: a sudden, if you have a collectively bargained situation, now

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Speaker 4: you can talk about a salary cap and how much

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Speaker 4: money can be given to a certain players or it's

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Speaker 4: a certain to entire roster as you have it.

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Speaker 3: I don't want anything to do with that.

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Speaker 4: Oh, I know they don't. But this thing gets caught

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Speaker 4: up in the courts more and more and the more

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Speaker 4: and more money that these universities end up making, uh,

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Speaker 4: and at the expense of the kids overall. I think

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Speaker 4: as it ever has been. It's alwaying its power day

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Speaker 2: Why, it's just what's crazy? It's absolutely crazy?

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Speaker 2: So we got lots to do because we're gonna get

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Speaker 4: Ahead of Shudor Sanders. Wow.

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Speaker 2: My brother Yea, I talking a lot of people. I

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Speaker 4: Now is that just because of his because shdra Sanders,

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Speaker 3: I was funny.

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Speaker 2: somebody talks about a player, the more they like.

435
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Speaker 4: Them, right, Like, yeah, if you don't hear.

436
00:22:34,600 --> 00:22:40,000
Speaker 2: Any buzz about a guy, right, that's when you go,

437
00:22:40,119 --> 00:22:42,560
Speaker 2: all right, well there's there's definitely some some heat there

438
00:22:43,240 --> 00:22:49,560
Speaker 2: the shador thing. Evaluators have looked at him, and it's

439
00:22:49,920 --> 00:22:52,520
Speaker 2: less to do with I know, people talk about interviews

440
00:22:52,560 --> 00:22:56,040
Speaker 2: and that he's a cocky kid or confident kid. However

441
00:22:56,200 --> 00:22:59,560
Speaker 2: you want to look at it, none of that. It's

442
00:22:59,720 --> 00:23:04,360
Speaker 2: more about he does it. You said, wow, yeah, right,

443
00:23:04,880 --> 00:23:07,280
Speaker 2: there's nothing that he does that wowser.

444
00:23:07,440 --> 00:23:10,000
Speaker 4: Right, which means here's what he does.

445
00:23:10,320 --> 00:23:13,679
Speaker 2: And talking to this person and I look, I've baldy

446
00:23:13,680 --> 00:23:17,880
Speaker 2: and I've done all the film for probably the top

447
00:23:17,920 --> 00:23:20,880
Speaker 2: two hundred players, so we've looked at all the film

448
00:23:20,920 --> 00:23:22,680
Speaker 2: and I you know, I mean you could see it.

449
00:23:22,800 --> 00:23:25,840
Speaker 2: I mean he throws a really nice deep ball like

450
00:23:26,440 --> 00:23:28,360
Speaker 2: he could he could drop it in a bucket down

451
00:23:28,359 --> 00:23:31,840
Speaker 2: the field. But his arms not great, Like it's not

452
00:23:31,960 --> 00:23:35,600
Speaker 2: a it's not a plus arm that you go, oh

453
00:23:35,640 --> 00:23:36,159
Speaker 2: my god.

454
00:23:37,000 --> 00:23:39,240
Speaker 3: He's not mobile. He's more of a pocket guy.

455
00:23:40,240 --> 00:23:43,320
Speaker 2: So like, you know, what is he And he comes

456
00:23:43,320 --> 00:23:48,920
Speaker 2: from an offense that was not a real pro offense.

457
00:23:48,920 --> 00:23:50,879
Speaker 3: Right where he made a lot of NFL throws.

458
00:23:51,440 --> 00:23:53,879
Speaker 4: Yeah, Now that doesn't mean he can't be successful at

459
00:23:53,920 --> 00:23:55,520
Speaker 4: the next level. That doesn't mean he can't be a

460
00:23:55,520 --> 00:23:57,680
Speaker 4: really good player. I guess that the question is, does

461
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Speaker 4: that mean he should be taken in the top five

462
00:23:59,400 --> 00:24:01,080
Speaker 4: or top ten of the draft? Is what we're as

463
00:24:01,119 --> 00:24:04,159
Speaker 4: what we're saying, because I mean, the league is littered it.

464
00:24:04,280 --> 00:24:06,520
Speaker 4: History is littered with guys who have been successful without

465
00:24:06,560 --> 00:24:09,520
Speaker 4: super strong arms, without being fleet of foot. So he

466
00:24:09,560 --> 00:24:11,359
Speaker 4: can be a good player. He can beat Tua now.

467
00:24:11,400 --> 00:24:12,879
Speaker 4: Tua was taken in the top five I think it

468
00:24:12,920 --> 00:24:16,080
Speaker 4: was sixth or seventh overall, but he landed with the

469
00:24:16,119 --> 00:24:17,880
Speaker 4: right offense, with the right players around him, and he's

470
00:24:17,880 --> 00:24:21,359
Speaker 4: turned himself into an above average NFL quarterback. And maybe

471
00:24:21,400 --> 00:24:23,480
Speaker 4: Chedor can do that if he's in the right situation.

472
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Speaker 4: When you're talking about drafting a guy in the top three,

473
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Speaker 4: top five, top six, generally speaking, especially at the quarterback position,

474
00:24:30,760 --> 00:24:33,800
Speaker 4: you're talking about a generational talent. Somebody that can come in,

475
00:24:34,600 --> 00:24:37,399
Speaker 4: can be scheme diverse, can do whatever, make all the

476
00:24:37,440 --> 00:24:41,040
Speaker 4: deep throws, can really carry a team. And I don't

477
00:24:41,119 --> 00:24:43,280
Speaker 4: believe that Shrdor Sanders, as talented as he is. I

478
00:24:43,320 --> 00:24:45,080
Speaker 4: don't think Jackson Dart, at least right now, is that

479
00:24:45,200 --> 00:24:48,359
Speaker 4: kind of player either. They just happen to get artificially

480
00:24:48,400 --> 00:24:49,800
Speaker 4: bumped up because their quarterbacks.

481
00:24:50,040 --> 00:24:52,960
Speaker 3: Yeah even can right now.

482
00:24:53,160 --> 00:24:56,239
Speaker 2: I think people to cam Ward to go, yeah, like

483
00:24:56,359 --> 00:24:59,760
Speaker 2: he's a legit prospect and he's the best prospect of

484
00:25:00,080 --> 00:25:05,720
Speaker 2: this group, but he's pumped up because of this group.

485
00:25:05,720 --> 00:25:11,399
Speaker 4: Right thousand percent. And I don't know philosophically, there's some people, Anthony,

486
00:25:11,440 --> 00:25:14,240
Speaker 4: who look at and say, take a quarterback until you

487
00:25:14,280 --> 00:25:16,159
Speaker 4: find one, until you find the right one. You know,

488
00:25:16,320 --> 00:25:18,640
Speaker 4: just draft a guy. It doesn't matter if you overdraft him.

489
00:25:18,680 --> 00:25:21,480
Speaker 4: If it's a team need and you think he can

490
00:25:21,520 --> 00:25:23,120
Speaker 4: be good, do you want to work with him? Then

491
00:25:23,160 --> 00:25:26,000
Speaker 4: find And there's others who say, like, well, just stay

492
00:25:26,000 --> 00:25:28,119
Speaker 4: true to the board. If there's not a quarterback who

493
00:25:28,200 --> 00:25:30,160
Speaker 4: knocks your socks off and you have the first, second,

494
00:25:30,160 --> 00:25:32,359
Speaker 4: third pick in the draft, you don't just take a

495
00:25:32,400 --> 00:25:34,520
Speaker 4: guy for the sake of taking them because you feel

496
00:25:34,560 --> 00:25:36,920
Speaker 4: you need to fill that position, because you can miss

497
00:25:36,920 --> 00:25:39,040
Speaker 4: out on a generational talent. I mean, I look at

498
00:25:39,080 --> 00:25:40,639
Speaker 4: the forty nine ers from a few years ago and

499
00:25:40,680 --> 00:25:42,680
Speaker 4: it was different. I know they traded up for Trey Lance,

500
00:25:42,720 --> 00:25:44,879
Speaker 4: who's now one is what third fourtheen whatever it is

501
00:25:45,400 --> 00:25:47,679
Speaker 4: after signing with the Charges this week. But I mean

502
00:25:47,680 --> 00:25:51,639
Speaker 4: the players that they passed up. He is ridiculous in

503
00:25:51,680 --> 00:25:55,520
Speaker 4: that draft. Jalen Waddle, Pene Sewell Pats or Tan Jamar Chase,

504
00:25:55,600 --> 00:25:57,800
Speaker 4: all these guys they could have had, but they traded

505
00:25:57,880 --> 00:26:00,000
Speaker 4: up for Trey Lance, who didn't play for a year,

506
00:26:00,480 --> 00:26:03,679
Speaker 4: had sat out the COVID season, didn't play against great competition,

507
00:26:04,080 --> 00:26:06,080
Speaker 4: but they fell in love with the metrics and all that,

508
00:26:06,520 --> 00:26:07,960
Speaker 4: and all of a sudden, the guys on the verge

509
00:26:08,000 --> 00:26:10,000
Speaker 4: of not being in the league because you felt the

510
00:26:10,040 --> 00:26:12,399
Speaker 4: quarterback position was important enough to take to reach on

511
00:26:12,440 --> 00:26:15,280
Speaker 4: a guy. I don't know what camp you fall on, Anthony,

512
00:26:15,280 --> 00:26:18,399
Speaker 4: but for me, unless I'm sure about somebody, I'm not

513
00:26:18,440 --> 00:26:19,960
Speaker 4: gonna be I'm not gonna take him that high in

514
00:26:20,000 --> 00:26:22,639
Speaker 4: the draft. I'm not the top five. There's too much,

515
00:26:22,680 --> 00:26:24,560
Speaker 4: there's too rich with talent for me to take a

516
00:26:24,600 --> 00:26:26,800
Speaker 4: flyer on someone who I'm not one hundred percent sure

517
00:26:26,800 --> 00:26:27,840
Speaker 4: about or at least eighty.

518
00:26:29,119 --> 00:26:32,359
Speaker 2: Right, And that's the point. Are you going to pass

519
00:26:32,480 --> 00:26:38,000
Speaker 2: up Abdual Carter, Travis Hunter? Right, Mason Graham right? Are

520
00:26:38,000 --> 00:26:40,720
Speaker 2: you gonna you're going to pass that up?

521
00:26:41,000 --> 00:26:41,240
Speaker 4: Yeah?

522
00:26:41,280 --> 00:26:46,280
Speaker 2: Those kids you know Travis Hunter is legit abdual Carter,

523
00:26:47,640 --> 00:26:50,719
Speaker 2: and you know, the Eagles just showed you how you win. Correct,

524
00:26:51,680 --> 00:26:55,080
Speaker 2: Eagles show you how to win because you went into trenches.

525
00:26:56,080 --> 00:26:58,399
Speaker 2: Speaking of which, I gotta go off topic for a

526
00:26:58,440 --> 00:27:03,280
Speaker 2: second because I had uh I was. I had dinner

527
00:27:03,280 --> 00:27:08,000
Speaker 2: with some of the Eagles people this week and they

528
00:27:08,000 --> 00:27:10,440
Speaker 2: were talking about we're just talking about the run and everything,

529
00:27:10,920 --> 00:27:15,240
Speaker 2: and I thought one of the really interesting byproducts that

530
00:27:15,280 --> 00:27:21,480
Speaker 2: they were talking about is they were so physical, they

531
00:27:21,480 --> 00:27:26,960
Speaker 2: were so they were so nasty too, Like you know,

532
00:27:27,119 --> 00:27:31,080
Speaker 2: just to to put it like that, that teams tapped out,

533
00:27:31,119 --> 00:27:34,640
Speaker 2: They felt like teams were going to tap out at

534
00:27:34,640 --> 00:27:39,080
Speaker 2: some point during the game. Wow, that they really believe

535
00:27:39,119 --> 00:27:42,280
Speaker 2: that in the third fourth quarter at some point they

536
00:27:42,359 --> 00:27:45,360
Speaker 2: felt like other teams would tap out, which is is

537
00:27:45,440 --> 00:27:47,639
Speaker 2: when you go back and look at it, and having

538
00:27:47,680 --> 00:27:51,960
Speaker 2: covered that season pretty closely, that's the truth. Like those

539
00:27:52,080 --> 00:27:55,200
Speaker 2: long runs by Saquon a lot of times he was

540
00:27:55,280 --> 00:27:59,440
Speaker 2: just untouched, right and teams just had nothing. They were

541
00:27:59,480 --> 00:28:02,040
Speaker 2: they had nothing and left. And they said that they

542
00:28:02,160 --> 00:28:09,000
Speaker 2: knew they had identified Joe Tooney as the weak link,

543
00:28:09,520 --> 00:28:11,679
Speaker 2: like he had played really well when they kicked him

544
00:28:11,680 --> 00:28:14,719
Speaker 2: out to tackle right right. He really saved the Chiefs

545
00:28:14,720 --> 00:28:17,119
Speaker 2: bake in a lot of ways, but they felt like

546
00:28:17,400 --> 00:28:20,840
Speaker 2: he would not hold up and that that line could

547
00:28:20,840 --> 00:28:22,080
Speaker 2: not hold up against them.

548
00:28:22,320 --> 00:28:24,880
Speaker 4: Yeah, well they wear you out because I mean they're rotating,

549
00:28:24,920 --> 00:28:27,280
Speaker 4: you know, five six guys in every other play that

550
00:28:27,359 --> 00:28:30,399
Speaker 4: you don't get a break, which is it boggles my

551
00:28:30,480 --> 00:28:34,200
Speaker 4: mind how other teams don't borrow or steal the Horry

552
00:28:34,280 --> 00:28:36,639
Speaker 4: Roseman method of how to build a team. You build

553
00:28:36,640 --> 00:28:38,720
Speaker 4: in the trenches. And people have been saying this for years.

554
00:28:39,160 --> 00:28:42,480
Speaker 4: Your offensive front, your defensive front, that's where you make

555
00:28:42,560 --> 00:28:44,880
Speaker 4: your hay Like if so, if you if you're a

556
00:28:44,880 --> 00:28:46,200
Speaker 4: team at the top of the draft and you have

557
00:28:46,320 --> 00:28:48,640
Speaker 4: let's say a stud defensive end and a stud defensive tackle,

558
00:28:48,880 --> 00:28:51,160
Speaker 4: take another one. You know, if you're the Raiders and

559
00:28:51,200 --> 00:28:53,480
Speaker 4: you have Max Crosby and you saw Christian Wilkinson who

560
00:28:53,480 --> 00:28:56,880
Speaker 4: got injured early last season, draft Mason Graham, do the

561
00:28:56,880 --> 00:28:59,440
Speaker 4: old Al Davis built strength on strength because I mean,

562
00:28:59,440 --> 00:29:00,840
Speaker 4: if you have a if it's a line that can

563
00:29:00,840 --> 00:29:03,160
Speaker 4: have deck and dominate a game. Who gives a rip

564
00:29:03,200 --> 00:29:05,400
Speaker 4: what your linebackers can do or your corners can do

565
00:29:05,760 --> 00:29:07,480
Speaker 4: when they only have to defend for a half a

566
00:29:07,520 --> 00:29:09,240
Speaker 4: second because the quarterback is running for his life and

567
00:29:09,240 --> 00:29:11,240
Speaker 4: the running back has no holes to run through. It

568
00:29:11,280 --> 00:29:14,840
Speaker 4: makes all the sense in the world. Oh yeah, oh yeah.

569
00:29:14,920 --> 00:29:21,440
Speaker 2: And it was interesting the level they also bought into it, right,

570
00:29:21,520 --> 00:29:23,479
Speaker 2: like you got to buy into it. The one thing

571
00:29:23,520 --> 00:29:26,880
Speaker 2: the Eagles have is really good coaching, like assistant coaches,

572
00:29:27,720 --> 00:29:30,840
Speaker 2: like you've heard of Jeff Stoutlin yep, who's their O

573
00:29:30,960 --> 00:29:33,440
Speaker 2: line coach. He's probably the best O line coach in football.

574
00:29:34,080 --> 00:29:38,760
Speaker 2: But they have, you know a number of these really good,

575
00:29:39,280 --> 00:29:42,760
Speaker 2: really good assistant coaches, veteran guys, you know, guys that

576
00:29:42,840 --> 00:29:46,680
Speaker 2: have been around that Alabama and Georgia and not just

577
00:29:46,720 --> 00:29:47,320
Speaker 2: the NFL.

578
00:29:48,240 --> 00:29:51,400
Speaker 3: And one of the things that they.

579
00:29:50,800 --> 00:29:53,840
Speaker 2: Said was that to a man like the NFL, week

580
00:29:53,960 --> 00:29:57,360
Speaker 2: usually goes like this, like on Monday, you come in

581
00:29:57,440 --> 00:30:01,720
Speaker 2: for treatment and once in a while, you know, depending

582
00:30:01,720 --> 00:30:04,880
Speaker 2: on the team, you'll watch you'll watch film and.

583
00:30:04,840 --> 00:30:06,240
Speaker 3: Then get treating me and go home.

584
00:30:06,640 --> 00:30:06,800
Speaker 4: Right.

585
00:30:06,880 --> 00:30:10,480
Speaker 2: Well, they made it a workday and they would move

586
00:30:10,520 --> 00:30:13,200
Speaker 2: their off day on Tuesday. They had everybody catch their

587
00:30:13,200 --> 00:30:15,560
Speaker 2: off day on Tuesday. But instead of doing the Monday

588
00:30:15,600 --> 00:30:19,160
Speaker 2: Tuesday thing, they just did the Tuesday thing. And they

589
00:30:19,160 --> 00:30:23,080
Speaker 2: were putting on pads midweek, so when they were coming

590
00:30:23,120 --> 00:30:26,320
Speaker 2: back on Wednesday, they were putting on pads. In fact,

591
00:30:26,400 --> 00:30:29,680
Speaker 2: even during the playoff run, they were putting on pads.

592
00:30:30,440 --> 00:30:32,720
Speaker 3: And I think they bought into that.

593
00:30:34,120 --> 00:30:35,800
Speaker 4: Yeah, well it's part of it became part of their

594
00:30:35,840 --> 00:30:38,320
Speaker 4: identity thing. Yeah, it's part of their identity, you know,

595
00:30:38,400 --> 00:30:40,920
Speaker 4: of being a being a physical football team, which you

596
00:30:40,920 --> 00:30:43,560
Speaker 4: don't see nowadays. Everybody goes away from you know, padded

597
00:30:43,640 --> 00:30:46,160
Speaker 4: practices and taking time off and getting guys rest, which

598
00:30:46,200 --> 00:30:48,600
Speaker 4: is fine, and it can work. That's fine. I mean, look,

599
00:30:49,040 --> 00:30:50,520
Speaker 4: Bill Walt did that way back in the day with

600
00:30:50,520 --> 00:30:51,880
Speaker 4: the forty nine ers. He wants to make sure his

601
00:30:51,920 --> 00:30:53,560
Speaker 4: guys were fresh. Hedn't want to beat his beat, have

602
00:30:53,680 --> 00:30:55,600
Speaker 4: his team beat each other up during the week. So

603
00:30:55,640 --> 00:30:57,920
Speaker 4: it worked for them. The Eagles have found a system

604
00:30:57,960 --> 00:31:00,400
Speaker 4: that works for them, might not work for every And

605
00:31:00,440 --> 00:31:01,840
Speaker 4: I think you brought up a good point too that

606
00:31:01,880 --> 00:31:04,560
Speaker 4: gets overlooked because it's kind of sight unseen for a

607
00:31:04,560 --> 00:31:06,360
Speaker 4: lot of people who just kind of chime in on

608
00:31:06,400 --> 00:31:10,280
Speaker 4: Sunday and watch games. The importance of your assistant coaches,

609
00:31:10,880 --> 00:31:14,560
Speaker 4: usually when dynasties start to crumble, is because your assistant

610
00:31:14,600 --> 00:31:18,000
Speaker 4: coaching pool starts to get diluted, and your your coaches

611
00:31:18,000 --> 00:31:21,320
Speaker 4: get poached and you don't replace those coaches with coaches

612
00:31:21,320 --> 00:31:23,640
Speaker 4: who are as good as them. You know, being able

613
00:31:23,680 --> 00:31:26,120
Speaker 4: to surround yourself with the right assistance is so key

614
00:31:26,160 --> 00:31:28,920
Speaker 4: to success in the NFL, and I think it's something

615
00:31:28,920 --> 00:31:31,479
Speaker 4: that goes off and overlooked because a lot of fans

616
00:31:31,480 --> 00:31:33,800
Speaker 4: and players, a lot of fans just don't see who

617
00:31:33,840 --> 00:31:36,520
Speaker 4: the old line coach is, or who the quarterbacks coach is,

618
00:31:36,760 --> 00:31:39,000
Speaker 4: or who the linebackers coach is. All those guys make

619
00:31:39,080 --> 00:31:43,320
Speaker 4: such a huge difference in the development of the players

620
00:31:43,400 --> 00:31:46,200
Speaker 4: within the systems that they're playing in. And the best

621
00:31:46,280 --> 00:31:48,440
Speaker 4: organizations are the ones who are able to lose those

622
00:31:48,480 --> 00:31:51,680
Speaker 4: coaches like a Jonathan Gannon and then bring somebody else

623
00:31:51,680 --> 00:31:53,800
Speaker 4: in to replace him and not fall off.

624
00:31:54,880 --> 00:31:57,680
Speaker 2: Yeah, now they have a we'll see, because right they

625
00:31:57,760 --> 00:32:02,080
Speaker 2: lost their another see yeah, Kellen Moore, that's right, and

626
00:32:02,240 --> 00:32:05,800
Speaker 2: Kellen who had come in and remember two years ago

627
00:32:06,800 --> 00:32:07,520
Speaker 2: they fell off.

628
00:32:07,560 --> 00:32:08,880
Speaker 3: They were ten and one and.

629
00:32:09,040 --> 00:32:13,920
Speaker 2: Slid and had had a catastrophic end of the season, right,

630
00:32:14,000 --> 00:32:16,320
Speaker 2: so much so that that Nick Serryani was about to

631
00:32:16,320 --> 00:32:19,400
Speaker 2: be fired. That's right, that's right, Right, and you know,

632
00:32:19,480 --> 00:32:25,280
Speaker 2: I do think he was parlously close to being fired

633
00:32:25,720 --> 00:32:28,480
Speaker 2: this year after they were two and two and had

634
00:32:28,520 --> 00:32:34,520
Speaker 2: the bye week, Like all that smoke around Nick getting

635
00:32:34,560 --> 00:32:39,200
Speaker 2: fired was real wow, like that was being talked about.

636
00:32:39,560 --> 00:32:41,560
Speaker 4: And now all of a sudden, he wons a super Bowl.

637
00:32:41,640 --> 00:32:43,520
Speaker 4: He's been the Super Bowl. He's going to get a

638
00:32:43,520 --> 00:32:46,320
Speaker 4: giant extension. He's probably gonna be lauded as one of

639
00:32:46,320 --> 00:32:47,560
Speaker 4: the best coaches in the NFL.

640
00:32:48,120 --> 00:32:49,040
Speaker 3: Yeah, in a while.

641
00:32:49,320 --> 00:32:51,440
Speaker 4: It's so fickle. It's just so crazy how that works.

642
00:32:51,880 --> 00:32:56,720
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, but you look at last year. They lost

643
00:32:56,760 --> 00:33:00,520
Speaker 2: their OC Shane Stiken when he be came to coach

644
00:33:00,520 --> 00:33:04,680
Speaker 2: to the Colts, and uh they lost both their coordinators

645
00:33:04,720 --> 00:33:07,480
Speaker 2: right because you mentioned Gammon and it hurt them last

646
00:33:07,760 --> 00:33:11,560
Speaker 2: two years ago. So this year, you know, so Kellen

647
00:33:11,600 --> 00:33:14,600
Speaker 2: Moore came in and he did a great job. Now

648
00:33:14,640 --> 00:33:18,280
Speaker 2: he leaves to go to the coach the Saints. He

649
00:33:18,360 --> 00:33:22,600
Speaker 2: also takes nuss Meyer, who I love is the fact

650
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Speaker 2: he's the father of Smeer cor And uh so nus

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Speaker 2: is going to be his OC with the Saints. Kevin

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Speaker 2: Petullo is going to be the new OC for the Eagles. Now,

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Speaker 2: again that's a new play caller j Jalen hurts another OC.

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Speaker 2: So that's you know, I mean that's going to be

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Speaker 2: their challenge, which is it? But you know it's to me,

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Speaker 2: it's fascinating about, you know, buildings. So we talk about

657
00:33:53,480 --> 00:33:55,760
Speaker 2: the draft and we talk about quarterbacks. To bring it

658
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Speaker 2: back to full circle, you know, you pass up Abdul Carter.

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Speaker 2: There's a price there. Yeah, absolutely, And look.

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Speaker 4: Maybe you hit a home run and cam Ward turns

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Speaker 4: out to be Jaden Daniels or something. I don't know

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Speaker 4: if that's going to do. That's gonna happen, but it's

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Speaker 4: a giant risk to take with someone who is not

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Speaker 4: lauded as a generational prospect. You know, you can draft

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Speaker 4: the Trevor Lawrence and he can have his inconsistencies and

666
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Speaker 4: injury issues and you can live with that because people

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Speaker 4: said if Trevor Lawrence had come out the year before,

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Speaker 4: he would have been the first overall pick. He was

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Speaker 4: seen as a generational talent. That was consensus. Everybody saw that.

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Speaker 4: Andrew Luck, whatever name you want to throw out there.

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Speaker 4: But when it's this, when you're saying cam Ward, if

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Speaker 4: you're looking at the total board and cam Ward is

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Speaker 4: the eighth best player regardless of position, and you're taking

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Speaker 4: them first. Overall, I really just questioned the decision making

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Speaker 4: and taking him just because you need a quarterback. If

676
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Speaker 4: you're a team as bad as Tennessee, you need a lot. Yes,

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Speaker 4: the quarterback is the most important position, but if you

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Speaker 4: miss on that position. By the way, when you swung

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Speaker 4: and missed on what three of your last four first

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Speaker 4: round picks, I think it's been already. You can't afford

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Speaker 4: to take a risk that high and have it not

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Speaker 4: pay off for you. So I would go with the

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Speaker 4: safer ride out or just take the better player, the

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Speaker 4: better prospect.

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Speaker 2: The other aspect of to what your point is is like,

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Speaker 2: if your line's not intact.

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Speaker 4: But differences to make right, Yeah, like you're gonna kill

688
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Speaker 4: your quarterback and he's gonna get bad habits right and

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Speaker 4: you're gonna derail him.

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Speaker 2: You're you're better off building something a foundation before you

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Speaker 2: add the quarterback.

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Speaker 4: I agree. I know it's hard to find a young, generational,

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Speaker 4: great quarterback, but you can make yourself good because if

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Speaker 4: you make yourself a competitive team, you know, if and

695
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Speaker 4: when a quarterback comes available via the trade market or

696
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Speaker 4: what have you, then you can put yourself in a

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Speaker 4: position to move up and make those sort of moves

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Speaker 4: or like look at Hurts. Yeah, second round.

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Speaker 2: Pick right, like you know, and people think he was

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Speaker 2: overdrafted in the second round.

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Speaker 4: I remember that. You're right.

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Speaker 2: So you know, if you build the foundation you can,

703
00:35:52,960 --> 00:35:55,040
Speaker 2: you can. You know that's gonna help you and that

704
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Speaker 2: helps develop him. Having a line like that helps develop

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Speaker 2: him as aquarterback.

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Speaker 3: No doubt. All right, we had to take quick too.

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Speaker 2: Will come right back, Fellas Hanging on a Fox Sports

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Speaker 2: Saturday Fellas with Figgie. I'm cuz live from the Tirak

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Speaker 2: dot com studios. Don't forget the YouTube channel, Fox Sports

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Speaker 2: YouTube channel. Check it out, all kinds of videos, behind

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Speaker 2: five you check out the Fox Sports Radio YouTube page.

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Speaker 2: Always good stuff happening right there. Fig Masters. Uh curious

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Speaker 2: the amateur who whizzes in raised Creek.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, which is.

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Speaker 2: By the way, you know, a hero to all the

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Speaker 2: common men. And and I'm sure right.

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Speaker 4: They probably think it's kind of a need to the

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Speaker 4: nuts to all the pretentious people, you know, right, certain.

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Speaker 3: Degree, all the hackers, the weekend hackers.

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Speaker 4: All they go, yeah, bro, yeah, are.

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Speaker 3: You surprised that nothing happened.

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Speaker 4: I was, especially for a institution that takes itself as

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Speaker 4: seriously as the Masters does. And this wasn't like, you know,

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Speaker 4: Bryson didn't do this. There was an amateur kid who

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Speaker 4: just came up. And by the way, I understand why

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Speaker 4: he did what he did. It's like, look, man, I

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Speaker 4: don't want to leave the green, I gotta go. And

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Speaker 4: you know, he probably didn't really understand the impact of

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Speaker 4: it at the time, although the.

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Speaker 2: Fighting is I don't think he think he. I think

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Speaker 2: he thought he was much more shrouded.

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Speaker 4: Correct, yes, had more of a cover. But let me

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Speaker 4: break a secret to you there. Man, you're playing in

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Speaker 4: the Masters. There are cameras everywhere, like literally everywhere. You're

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Speaker 4: not gonna hide. I do thought find it funny that

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Speaker 4: when he did his post his interview after the round

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Speaker 4: and they asked him if he do it again, he says, yeah,

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Speaker 4: if I was in that situation, I'd do it all

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Speaker 4: over again. So clearly no remorse he had. When you

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Speaker 4: had time to digest the entire moment about what happened,

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Speaker 4: he was like, no, I had to go, and I

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Speaker 4: had to go, so I did my business there's a

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Speaker 4: part of me, Anthony that respects that.

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Speaker 6: To be honest, I know, dude, you gotta go. You

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Speaker 6: gotta go, man, what are you gonna do? I mean,

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Speaker 6: it's what it is, man. It was great. What's your

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Speaker 6: opening thoughts? This is uh movie Day?

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Speaker 2: Saturday at the Masters, Justin Rose in the lead at

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Speaker 2: eight on their d Chambeau looks great.

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Speaker 4: He was amazing, right, Rory was tremendous.

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Speaker 2: Right, he had that bad luck on Thursday where he

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Speaker 2: finishes with the two doubles and comes back yesterday on fire.

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Speaker 4: Yeah. Well, the funny takeaway from Friday was Scheffler, you know,

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Speaker 4: on eighteen, just sitting in the shrubbery like how the

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Speaker 4: hell did I get here? But I think it's really

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Speaker 4: cool that Justin, Justin Rowse has gotten off to a

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Speaker 4: great start, even and even with him being having a lead,

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Speaker 4: he still I think has like a third or a

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Speaker 4: fourth best odds to you to come out on top

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Speaker 4: and the end actually win the tournament. I'd be excited

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Speaker 4: to see Bryson Deshambau knowing that we don't have Tiger

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Speaker 4: in the mix. You're really the only guys you can

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Speaker 4: ride home at this point are Bryson, r Rory are Scotty,

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Speaker 4: who's obviously the best in the world. So to see

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Speaker 4: some of the heavy hitters towards the top of the

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Speaker 4: leaderboard right now, and really a tight leader board at

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Speaker 4: this point, I think is really cool and encouraging for

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Speaker 4: a sport. To be honest with you.

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Speaker 2: It is, and I think it's gonna I think it's

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Speaker 2: going to really make for a fund a really fun Sunday,

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Speaker 2: I hope.

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Speaker 5: So.

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Speaker 4: I think that's what we're all hoping for, because I

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Speaker 4: think the average person really only tunes in on Sunday.

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Speaker 4: And you know, if you have some of the heavy

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Speaker 4: hitters who you've heard of the top, toward the top

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Speaker 4: of the leaderboard, competing for a chance to win the

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Speaker 4: Green Jacket, I think that's all you can ask for.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, could you imagine if it's you're sitting there on

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Speaker 2: Sunday and you got those all those heavyweights coming.

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Speaker 4: At it, you'd be amazing.

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Speaker 2: We're the fellas, all right, big al we're coming up

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Speaker 2: next to the draft.

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Speaker 2: All right, So let's do this, my brother, we got

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Speaker 2: because we're all over the place.

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Speaker 3: First hour.

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Speaker 2: I feel like I got a million things to talk

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Speaker 2: to you about, so we're kind of just kind of

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Speaker 2: rushing everything in.

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Speaker 3: Let's go since this is the last week in the NBA.

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Speaker 2: NBA this hour, then NFL Draft next hour before we

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Speaker 2: do the culmination.

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Speaker 4: Perfect, all right, Yeah, because.

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Speaker 3: I need to order.

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Speaker 2: I'm in order because I tend to what I tend

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Speaker 2: to have many many jumbled thoughts, Like I have like

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Speaker 2: eight projects going on right now, So that's kind of

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Speaker 2: what I do.

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Speaker 4: Right Any that you care to talk about at the

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Speaker 4: moment goes at all close to the vessels right now? Yeah,

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Speaker 4: that's all right.

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Speaker 2: I don't know what I mean. Once close I be.

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Speaker 2: I've been hearing that for a while, so I jinx

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Speaker 2: it all the time.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, we don't want to do that.

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Speaker 2: All right, I like, and this one's pretty pretty good.

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Speaker 2: So whatever I'm going to jinx it, I'll just keep quiet.

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Speaker 2: It's my wife says the middle of time. You know,

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Speaker 2: you tell too many people and it doesn't happen.

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Speaker 4: You put it out into the universe and the negative

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Speaker 4: spirits grab onto it and then all of a sudden, right.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, he's like, stop shut up, you know, and before

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Speaker 2: you start the next project, let one kit. All right,

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Speaker 2: So let's let's get into this, into the NBA, because

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Speaker 2: this season ends tomorrow and I want to know in

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Speaker 2: your mind. Let's talk about because when you filled in

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Speaker 2: the first time for Fitsie, we got into it a

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Speaker 2: little bit with the NBA and kind of where it is.

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Speaker 2: I struggle with it because I thought that this was

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Speaker 3: Too many guys not playing.

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Speaker 2: I mean, I get the three thing right, and it

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Speaker 2: may not be as esthetically pleasing, but you know, I

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Speaker 2: get the correct the math of it all, like why

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Speaker 2: it was like that and why you would deploy that.

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Speaker 2: But where do you think the league is right now?

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Speaker 2: Just like and it took from a totality standpoint, I.

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Speaker 4: Actually think it's pretty healthy. I don't know the exact

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Speaker 4: numbers off the top of my head, and I think

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Speaker 4: I may have brought this up to you when I

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Speaker 4: filled in for FITZI a few weeks ago. You haven't

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Speaker 4: really seen a lot of guys very often this year

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Speaker 4: missing games for low management purposes is mostly because they've

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Speaker 4: been legitimately injured, or maybe it's four games and five nights.

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Speaker 4: I know the Lakers rested a few guys one time,

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Speaker 4: because the NBA doesn't even allow that anymore. It was

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Speaker 4: just a unique situation because they had rescheduled games because

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Speaker 4: of the fires in LA. But considering the amount of

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Speaker 4: star power, if I just look at the Western Conference

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Speaker 4: by itself, we talked about how the East is going

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Speaker 4: to be a runaway between Cleveland and Boston. But you

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Speaker 4: look at someone the caliber of Shay and how great

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Speaker 4: he is. You look at Luka Dancik turning around the

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Speaker 4: Lakers that he has. Lebron is still playing as good

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Speaker 4: as ever or as well as ever at age forty.

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Speaker 4: Jokic averaged a triple double this season, third player ever

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Speaker 4: to do that. Kawhi is back healthy, Steph Curry's reinvigorated

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Speaker 4: with Jimmy Butler as his teammate Anthony Edwards. Even though

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Speaker 4: the Minnesota maybe is having not as great of a

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Speaker 4: year as they thought they would, still going to be

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Speaker 4: get forty eight forty nine wins. They still have one

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Speaker 4: of the young faces of the league, Anthony Edwards. If

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Speaker 4: you know Memphis with you know John Moran, if he

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Speaker 4: can stop with his ridiculous you know celebrations, is a

866
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Speaker 4: phenomenal player who knows what they can do. So I

867
00:44:13,280 --> 00:44:15,239
Speaker 4: look at the individual talent and the teams that are

868
00:44:15,320 --> 00:44:18,040
Speaker 4: going to be competing in the postseason. You have a

869
00:44:18,080 --> 00:44:20,640
Speaker 4: lot of really intriguing matchups, regardless of how it ends

870
00:44:20,719 --> 00:44:23,880
Speaker 4: up coming together with a lot of great star power,

871
00:44:24,160 --> 00:44:27,320
Speaker 4: and thankfully all of these guys of meeting of note

872
00:44:27,360 --> 00:44:30,520
Speaker 4: are all going to be healthy going into the postseason,

873
00:44:30,600 --> 00:44:35,240
Speaker 4: which is a rarity. So I think, you know, aside

874
00:44:35,239 --> 00:44:38,400
Speaker 4: from the three pointers in what's syesthetically pleasing and the

875
00:44:38,400 --> 00:44:41,600
Speaker 4: stigma of load management, I really think for the first

876
00:44:41,600 --> 00:44:45,319
Speaker 4: time in a long time, the NBA overall is at

877
00:44:45,360 --> 00:44:48,480
Speaker 4: a pretty healthy spot with its star power and with

878
00:44:48,560 --> 00:44:51,120
Speaker 4: these playoff, potential playoff matchups that we have coming up.

879
00:44:52,040 --> 00:44:56,239
Speaker 2: Yo, It's fascinating, right, It's all about the vantage point,

880
00:44:57,719 --> 00:45:04,200
Speaker 2: Like where you sit. You see that right where I sit.

881
00:45:05,640 --> 00:45:09,799
Speaker 2: And maybe it's because I'm on the East coast. I sit,

882
00:45:09,920 --> 00:45:14,600
Speaker 2: I see the opposite. I see an Eastern Conference with

883
00:45:14,960 --> 00:45:18,560
Speaker 2: no stars. I see one team. I don't think Cleveland

884
00:45:18,560 --> 00:45:21,000
Speaker 2: could beat Boston. I think I have a chance. But

885
00:45:21,560 --> 00:45:25,640
Speaker 2: that's it as far as load management is. I haven't

886
00:45:25,680 --> 00:45:29,680
Speaker 2: seen my starting five since October.

887
00:45:30,880 --> 00:45:31,320
Speaker 4: Yeah.

888
00:45:31,760 --> 00:45:34,919
Speaker 2: I look around, and you know, teams like Utah and

889
00:45:35,440 --> 00:45:38,640
Speaker 2: I feel like everybody's tanking. I mean Walker, they sat

890
00:45:38,680 --> 00:45:41,520
Speaker 2: Walker Kessler healthy for how many games in a row,

891
00:45:42,760 --> 00:45:44,360
Speaker 2: Like he's Elija one.

892
00:45:44,800 --> 00:45:48,680
Speaker 3: I mean, give me a break. I just see just

893
00:45:48,880 --> 00:45:50,760
Speaker 3: trash like.

894
00:45:50,920 --> 00:45:57,760
Speaker 2: Brooklyn, the Sixers, Toronto, Miami. I look at all these teams.

895
00:45:57,800 --> 00:46:05,240
Speaker 2: I just it's just ross. Yeah, nothing interesting, right, nothing interesting,

896
00:46:05,920 --> 00:46:06,720
Speaker 2: not in the East.

897
00:46:07,000 --> 00:46:09,680
Speaker 4: Well, and to your and to your point, because that's

898
00:46:09,760 --> 00:46:13,080
Speaker 4: your you know, your your world, and especially the seventy

899
00:46:13,120 --> 00:46:15,799
Speaker 4: six Ers, who have had one of the most disastrous

900
00:46:15,840 --> 00:46:19,720
Speaker 4: seasons based on expectation coming into the year in recent memory.

901
00:46:20,800 --> 00:46:22,600
Speaker 4: You see a team that had all the expectation in

902
00:46:22,640 --> 00:46:24,359
Speaker 4: the world and guys are getting hurt, and guys are

903
00:46:24,400 --> 00:46:27,640
Speaker 4: sitting out because of thumb injuries and all sorts of stuff.

904
00:46:28,440 --> 00:46:31,640
Speaker 4: If you look at the worst of the league, I

905
00:46:31,640 --> 00:46:33,600
Speaker 4: can see how you can have that perspective for sure.

906
00:46:34,120 --> 00:46:35,879
Speaker 4: So if I flip it and look at the best

907
00:46:35,960 --> 00:46:38,359
Speaker 4: of the league and like, it's amazing. So I guess

908
00:46:38,360 --> 00:46:39,920
Speaker 4: to your point, it makes sense that you would say

909
00:46:39,960 --> 00:46:42,279
Speaker 4: it's a matter of perspective and it's never good. And

910
00:46:42,320 --> 00:46:44,440
Speaker 4: I can't remember the last time, Anthony. Maybe you you

911
00:46:44,480 --> 00:46:46,520
Speaker 4: can because you've covered the sport for such a long

912
00:46:46,560 --> 00:46:49,319
Speaker 4: period of time. It's usually one or the other. The

913
00:46:49,360 --> 00:46:52,320
Speaker 4: Eastern Conference or the Western Conference is really competitive and

914
00:46:52,400 --> 00:46:55,239
Speaker 4: could be a dogfight one through five, one through I mean,

915
00:46:55,280 --> 00:46:57,319
Speaker 4: for the for the for the Western Conference. This year,

916
00:46:57,320 --> 00:47:00,680
Speaker 4: I can legitimately say one through seven, one through six

917
00:47:00,719 --> 00:47:02,839
Speaker 4: at the very least has a shot of making out

918
00:47:02,840 --> 00:47:06,680
Speaker 4: of the Western Conference. It's rare that both conferences are

919
00:47:06,920 --> 00:47:09,839
Speaker 4: extremely competitive and you truly have no idea he's coming

920
00:47:09,920 --> 00:47:12,080
Speaker 4: out of either. That almost never happens.

921
00:47:11,719 --> 00:47:12,279
Speaker 3: And it's like that.

922
00:47:12,360 --> 00:47:15,520
Speaker 2: I think that's like that in every sport, like AFC, NFC.

923
00:47:16,080 --> 00:47:19,240
Speaker 4: Yeah, the nl AL situation usually goes in cycles.

924
00:47:19,680 --> 00:47:21,839
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, it's even less.

925
00:47:22,480 --> 00:47:25,280
Speaker 2: And you know that's why I made sure to preface

926
00:47:25,760 --> 00:47:29,440
Speaker 2: my statements by vantage point, right, you know, and I

927
00:47:29,480 --> 00:47:33,760
Speaker 2: will say this, like I'm captivated by some of the West.

928
00:47:34,360 --> 00:47:40,040
Speaker 2: I mean, you're right, you know, the Joker is is

929
00:47:40,080 --> 00:47:42,319
Speaker 2: going to finish with a triple double average like that,

930
00:47:42,320 --> 00:47:46,319
Speaker 2: that's unbelievable, right, third player in the history of the

931
00:47:46,360 --> 00:47:49,520
Speaker 2: game to do that. I love ant Man a right,

932
00:47:49,560 --> 00:47:55,000
Speaker 2: So I love I love watching him. Luca and Lebron

933
00:47:55,160 --> 00:47:59,560
Speaker 2: is compelling. The Clippers are very good, Like they're just

934
00:47:59,560 --> 00:48:05,320
Speaker 2: a good bad Steph is still electric alright, Like Steph

935
00:48:05,600 --> 00:48:13,520
Speaker 2: still goes off. They're they're still good. Golden State they're interesting,

936
00:48:13,800 --> 00:48:16,040
Speaker 2: okayc is fun is.

937
00:48:16,080 --> 00:48:18,240
Speaker 3: All get out. I mean they're really really good.

938
00:48:19,360 --> 00:48:23,080
Speaker 2: So, like I I see what you see in the

939
00:48:23,120 --> 00:48:26,840
Speaker 2: Western Conference. Now do I think it's great ball? Like,

940
00:48:26,960 --> 00:48:31,200
Speaker 2: I don't think Minnesota is a great team. I love Edwards,

941
00:48:31,280 --> 00:48:34,319
Speaker 2: but I don't think that's a great team. I don't

942
00:48:34,360 --> 00:48:36,719
Speaker 2: think Denver is a great team. I don't think the

943
00:48:36,800 --> 00:48:39,799
Speaker 2: Lakers or the Clippers are great teams. Right, I think

944
00:48:39,840 --> 00:48:41,600
Speaker 2: they're good, and I think Clippers are good. I think

945
00:48:41,600 --> 00:48:44,839
Speaker 2: Clippers have a real good chance just to start that off.

946
00:48:44,920 --> 00:48:50,560
Speaker 2: Golden State, same thing I think they're I think it's missing,

947
00:48:52,719 --> 00:48:56,720
Speaker 2: it's missing a great it's it's still missing something.

948
00:48:57,160 --> 00:48:59,239
Speaker 4: Yeah, well see that's and see that's where I see

949
00:48:59,239 --> 00:49:01,640
Speaker 4: the beauty of it. It's almost like an NFL model

950
00:49:01,640 --> 00:49:03,960
Speaker 4: where the NFL always wants parody. You don't know who's

951
00:49:04,000 --> 00:49:07,440
Speaker 4: gonna win, and so the fact that most of these

952
00:49:07,480 --> 00:49:10,880
Speaker 4: teams in the Western Conference from two through seven are good,

953
00:49:11,160 --> 00:49:13,759
Speaker 4: but none of them are great. I find that to

954
00:49:13,840 --> 00:49:17,399
Speaker 4: be interesting, compelling, and fairly entertaining. I would much rather

955
00:49:17,480 --> 00:49:19,640
Speaker 4: have a bunch of teams jumbled up together and I

956
00:49:19,640 --> 00:49:22,480
Speaker 4: don't know what's gonna happen than a FATA complete that

957
00:49:22,520 --> 00:49:25,480
Speaker 4: Cleveland's gonna play Boston in the Eastern Conference finals. That's

958
00:49:25,520 --> 00:49:28,239
Speaker 4: a I understand having two Juggernauts going at it, the

959
00:49:28,239 --> 00:49:30,720
Speaker 4: two best teams in the conference, and to a certain degree,

960
00:49:30,719 --> 00:49:34,400
Speaker 4: that's what you generally hope for. But I also enjoy

961
00:49:34,600 --> 00:49:38,520
Speaker 4: just the not knowing going into a playoff series and saying, like, yeah,

962
00:49:38,520 --> 00:49:41,040
Speaker 4: this three six matchup, if it ends up being the Lakers, well.

963
00:49:40,920 --> 00:49:44,279
Speaker 3: You're spot on, I feel you. Yeah, you're spot on.

964
00:49:44,400 --> 00:49:48,000
Speaker 2: And I guess I'm looking at it too critically.

965
00:49:49,000 --> 00:49:49,440
Speaker 4: It's okay.

966
00:49:49,520 --> 00:49:52,480
Speaker 2: I mean, like I watch, like I still watch the

967
00:49:52,520 --> 00:49:56,000
Speaker 2: league like people people here in like in my in

968
00:49:56,120 --> 00:49:56,800
Speaker 2: my city.

969
00:49:57,000 --> 00:49:58,240
Speaker 4: Oh they've checked out, I'm sure.

970
00:49:59,520 --> 00:49:59,840
Speaker 3: Yeah.

971
00:50:00,400 --> 00:50:05,160
Speaker 2: They hate the game, they hate the sport, like they

972
00:50:05,200 --> 00:50:08,920
Speaker 2: can't find anything. Like they've got some NBA fans that

973
00:50:08,960 --> 00:50:13,080
Speaker 2: are just hardcore like us, but they're buying large.

974
00:50:13,640 --> 00:50:16,000
Speaker 4: You know, most people care about their own team.

975
00:50:16,080 --> 00:50:19,319
Speaker 2: Yeah, and they're also tired of the stars, right, Like

976
00:50:19,360 --> 00:50:23,400
Speaker 2: one of the issues is it's great that you know,

977
00:50:24,680 --> 00:50:28,720
Speaker 2: like Kilkes Alexander's is ridiculous, right, it's you know, Sga

978
00:50:28,840 --> 00:50:34,439
Speaker 2: is ridiculous player, but he doesn't have even a man

979
00:50:34,480 --> 00:50:36,960
Speaker 2: to some extent, Like they're not Lebron's staph, Like they

980
00:50:37,000 --> 00:50:41,480
Speaker 2: still look at it like Lebron's staph are still running

981
00:50:41,520 --> 00:50:41,960
Speaker 2: the league.

982
00:50:42,040 --> 00:50:43,520
Speaker 4: The faces of the league for sure. Yeah.

983
00:50:43,560 --> 00:50:50,719
Speaker 2: Yeah, and you're still kind of waiting for the next generation, right,

984
00:50:50,800 --> 00:50:55,400
Speaker 2: even though those guys are here.

985
00:50:53,800 --> 00:50:55,799
Speaker 3: Do they have the bigness?

986
00:50:56,080 --> 00:50:58,359
Speaker 2: Like I was talking to a buddy of mine who's

987
00:50:58,400 --> 00:51:01,040
Speaker 2: not a hater or anything, but he's like, dude, he goes,

988
00:51:01,520 --> 00:51:04,880
Speaker 2: I don't I don't feel the bigness of the league.

989
00:51:05,760 --> 00:51:09,040
Speaker 2: He goes, it felt big when it was Kobe on

990
00:51:09,120 --> 00:51:13,680
Speaker 2: a Sunday in March. He's like, forget, I'm not talking

991
00:51:13,680 --> 00:51:19,040
Speaker 2: about the playoffs. I'm talking about a Kobe Lakers in

992
00:51:19,239 --> 00:51:23,359
Speaker 2: March that felt big to me, right, and he goes,

993
00:51:23,520 --> 00:51:27,600
Speaker 2: I don't feel the bigness. Hey, you know it is

994
00:51:27,640 --> 00:51:31,440
Speaker 2: interesting because you know all those Sunday afternoons that happened

995
00:51:31,480 --> 00:51:37,200
Speaker 2: post Super Bowl, they're not those nationally doubleheaders.

996
00:51:37,640 --> 00:51:38,840
Speaker 3: You don't see that anymore.

997
00:51:39,320 --> 00:51:42,280
Speaker 4: Yeah, the juice is definitely not there anymore for whatever reason.

998
00:51:42,320 --> 00:51:44,959
Speaker 4: And look, someone who should be the face of the league,

999
00:51:44,960 --> 00:51:47,040
Speaker 4: but I think he has it working against him is

1000
00:51:47,040 --> 00:51:51,279
Speaker 4: that he's not American. Is Jokic? I mean, yeah, multiple MVPs,

1001
00:51:51,360 --> 00:51:55,160
Speaker 4: average triple double. But because he's humble and not charismatic,

1002
00:51:55,200 --> 00:51:57,480
Speaker 4: it doesn't necessarily he's not above the rim. He's not

1003
00:51:57,520 --> 00:52:00,480
Speaker 4: the most he's exciting to watch in is in his

1004
00:52:00,560 --> 00:52:03,440
Speaker 4: own unique way, but not in a classic way that

1005
00:52:03,480 --> 00:52:06,719
Speaker 4: we're used to consuming basketball, where it's it's Kobe, it's

1006
00:52:06,800 --> 00:52:09,600
Speaker 4: Jordan above the rim, it's Lebron James bowling over people.

1007
00:52:10,120 --> 00:52:12,839
Speaker 4: So it's just a different style of player and that's

1008
00:52:12,880 --> 00:52:15,520
Speaker 4: really hard to embrace when he's not an American born

1009
00:52:15,560 --> 00:52:19,200
Speaker 4: player and lacks that sort of natural charisma. So I

1010
00:52:19,200 --> 00:52:21,120
Speaker 4: can see that part of it too, And why the

1011
00:52:21,280 --> 00:52:23,919
Speaker 4: regular season games that mark the quote unquote marking games

1012
00:52:23,920 --> 00:52:26,520
Speaker 4: aren't as big anymore. That's a good question because a

1013
00:52:26,520 --> 00:52:29,200
Speaker 4: lot of these games, Like I mentioned, these players are playing.

1014
00:52:29,280 --> 00:52:31,399
Speaker 4: Guys are not missing a lot of games this year.

1015
00:52:31,520 --> 00:52:34,560
Speaker 4: In particular, the Stars for the most part, especially in

1016
00:52:34,640 --> 00:52:38,799
Speaker 4: nationally televised games, have been playing. I did see that

1017
00:52:38,880 --> 00:52:42,279
Speaker 4: the Luca return game to Dallas was the highest rated

1018
00:52:42,280 --> 00:52:45,520
Speaker 4: regular season game this season so far for the league.

1019
00:52:45,920 --> 00:52:47,680
Speaker 4: And that's for you know, a MAVs team that for

1020
00:52:47,719 --> 00:52:50,359
Speaker 4: all intentsive purposes is not going anywhere, and you know

1021
00:52:50,440 --> 00:52:52,520
Speaker 4: a Laker team that you know, the skies and women

1022
00:52:52,560 --> 00:52:55,120
Speaker 4: at this point in time, and Luca bald out. So

1023
00:52:55,160 --> 00:52:58,279
Speaker 4: there is a there is a clamoring out there, there's

1024
00:52:58,280 --> 00:53:01,440
Speaker 4: a there's fanship for the league as a whole. When

1025
00:53:01,480 --> 00:53:04,400
Speaker 4: you just watch a Western tea, just a middling Western

1026
00:53:04,400 --> 00:53:06,759
Speaker 4: Conference matchup between the Lakers who are pretty much locked

1027
00:53:06,760 --> 00:53:08,560
Speaker 4: in and the Maverick Mavericks who are fighting for a

1028
00:53:08,600 --> 00:53:12,040
Speaker 4: play in spot to get that many eyeballs. So it's

1029
00:53:12,080 --> 00:53:17,400
Speaker 4: there somewhat correct, Yeah, you know how you grasp that

1030
00:53:17,520 --> 00:53:20,319
Speaker 4: every single week. And the interesting thing is so in

1031
00:53:20,400 --> 00:53:24,240
Speaker 4: when the new NBA contract, the TV contract starts next season.

1032
00:53:25,040 --> 00:53:29,440
Speaker 4: Once football season ends, NBC and Peacock are gonna basically

1033
00:53:29,560 --> 00:53:32,000
Speaker 4: ride the momentum off of Sunday Night football and start

1034
00:53:32,000 --> 00:53:33,960
Speaker 4: putting NBA games in that slot.

1035
00:53:34,160 --> 00:53:37,479
Speaker 2: And I wonder how that's gonna end up going, which

1036
00:53:37,520 --> 00:53:41,400
Speaker 2: I think is smart. I agree, right, because one of

1037
00:53:41,440 --> 00:53:49,160
Speaker 2: the things that you don't have is the like the slot,

1038
00:53:49,719 --> 00:53:53,120
Speaker 2: the marquee slot. Yeah, like that's what makes football, right,

1039
00:53:53,160 --> 00:53:56,400
Speaker 2: what makes football Besides, I mean, everybody loves the sport

1040
00:53:56,480 --> 00:54:00,520
Speaker 2: and it's it's it's made for that. But the slot

1041
00:54:00,520 --> 00:54:05,600
Speaker 2: also helps, right, you know, Thursday nights in your brain

1042
00:54:06,440 --> 00:54:09,240
Speaker 2: like they cook over another night of the week.

1043
00:54:09,680 --> 00:54:12,200
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's what's hurting the NBA too. Thursday night was

1044
00:54:12,200 --> 00:54:17,000
Speaker 4: TNT's NBA showcase. But then here comes the NFL, you know,

1045
00:54:17,600 --> 00:54:19,640
Speaker 4: and just you know, bowling them over and rightfully, so

1046
00:54:19,840 --> 00:54:20,520
Speaker 4: that's business.

1047
00:54:20,840 --> 00:54:21,120
Speaker 3: I do.

1048
00:54:21,360 --> 00:54:22,640
Speaker 4: I do the same thing if I were.

1049
00:54:22,800 --> 00:54:25,319
Speaker 2: You're right, You're right, because Thursday night T and T

1050
00:54:25,440 --> 00:54:27,359
Speaker 2: doubleheader was a thing.

1051
00:54:27,600 --> 00:54:27,880
Speaker 4: Yep.

1052
00:54:29,360 --> 00:54:31,680
Speaker 2: You know It's funny. When I was a little kid,

1053
00:54:32,600 --> 00:54:35,880
Speaker 2: Monday night Baseball was a big deal, was it? Okay,

1054
00:54:37,000 --> 00:54:39,200
Speaker 2: it was like a big deal, like Monday night Baseball,

1055
00:54:39,200 --> 00:54:42,000
Speaker 2: And I know that Sunday Night Baseball at ESPN, but

1056
00:54:42,120 --> 00:54:45,040
Speaker 2: it was like Monday Night, and I think it was

1057
00:54:45,160 --> 00:54:49,560
Speaker 2: ABC trying to do the same thing off of capitalize

1058
00:54:49,600 --> 00:54:51,600
Speaker 2: off of Monday Night. Football was trying to make Monday

1059
00:54:51,680 --> 00:54:55,239
Speaker 2: Night of Sports night like it was Monday Night Baseball.

1060
00:54:56,239 --> 00:54:59,360
Speaker 2: Friday night fights, I remember Friday Night fights.

1061
00:54:59,440 --> 00:54:59,879
Speaker 3: That's right.

1062
00:55:01,760 --> 00:55:05,120
Speaker 2: I think it's important for a sport to have its

1063
00:55:05,480 --> 00:55:09,000
Speaker 2: day like you're obviously you're gonna be playing all the days,

1064
00:55:09,000 --> 00:55:12,000
Speaker 2: but to have a big day of the week that

1065
00:55:12,080 --> 00:55:18,320
Speaker 2: you celebrate. Now, obviously the NFL has Thursday, Sunday and Monday.

1066
00:55:18,480 --> 00:55:22,040
Speaker 4: And Saturdays in December. They'll take as many days as

1067
00:55:22,040 --> 00:55:23,680
Speaker 4: they can take. There's only so many days in the week,

1068
00:55:23,680 --> 00:55:26,680
Speaker 4: An't that's the issue? Right? They'll take every day, really

1069
00:55:26,680 --> 00:55:29,080
Speaker 4: will well, the Anthony Gargano original plan, they will take

1070
00:55:29,120 --> 00:55:33,560
Speaker 4: every day of the week. So yes, yes, I still

1071
00:55:33,520 --> 00:55:36,040
Speaker 4: wouldn't go for that, right, we have to create an

1072
00:55:36,040 --> 00:55:38,440
Speaker 4: eighth day for these other sports to get in somewhere.

1073
00:55:40,160 --> 00:55:42,880
Speaker 3: But you know, it's funny. I don't know.

1074
00:55:44,440 --> 00:55:47,440
Speaker 2: When I look at the health of the league, I

1075
00:55:47,480 --> 00:55:51,520
Speaker 2: don't know, going into that big contract, is there enough,

1076
00:55:51,760 --> 00:55:55,080
Speaker 2: Is there enough intrigue, drama, star power?

1077
00:55:57,160 --> 00:55:59,400
Speaker 4: Well, I mean that that ends up getting built organically

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Speaker 4: to a certain point. If Shaye continues on the upward trajectory,

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00:56:02,800 --> 00:56:05,840
Speaker 4: which it looks like he will. You know, he's a

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00:56:05,920 --> 00:56:07,480
Speaker 4: kind of a face of the league type. He has

1081
00:56:07,480 --> 00:56:09,400
Speaker 4: a little bit of charisma to him. You know, Anthony

1082
00:56:09,480 --> 00:56:11,239
Speaker 4: Edwards is only gonna end up getting better. And look,

1083
00:56:11,320 --> 00:56:15,480
Speaker 4: maybe Shay and Ant end up outgrowing the teams they

1084
00:56:15,480 --> 00:56:17,520
Speaker 4: play for, which is one thing that I hate about

1085
00:56:17,560 --> 00:56:20,280
Speaker 4: the sport too, because you know, you have the salary

1086
00:56:20,320 --> 00:56:22,200
Speaker 4: cap and you can pay your own guys more money,

1087
00:56:22,280 --> 00:56:24,719
Speaker 4: and a lot of times that just doesn't matter. Even

1088
00:56:24,760 --> 00:56:27,480
Speaker 4: with as global as the as the sport is, it's

1089
00:56:27,520 --> 00:56:30,879
Speaker 4: no longer regional, it's no longer even nationals international. There's

1090
00:56:30,880 --> 00:56:33,279
Speaker 4: still something to be said for a player playing for

1091
00:56:33,520 --> 00:56:35,920
Speaker 4: the Lakers or a player wanting to play for the

1092
00:56:36,000 --> 00:56:41,120
Speaker 4: Knicks or a major market franchise, and you just wonder

1093
00:56:41,160 --> 00:56:43,880
Speaker 4: if it behooves the league as a whole. I know

1094
00:56:43,960 --> 00:56:45,759
Speaker 4: it does whether or not it's going to end up

1095
00:56:46,160 --> 00:56:48,800
Speaker 4: having one of these star players having to move somewhere

1096
00:56:48,800 --> 00:56:51,440
Speaker 4: else for their from the for them really to ascend,

1097
00:56:53,239 --> 00:56:55,680
Speaker 4: I know, and I think that helps. It helps the

1098
00:56:55,760 --> 00:56:58,360
Speaker 4: league that Lebron James chose the Lakers in twenty eighteen

1099
00:56:58,400 --> 00:56:59,719
Speaker 4: and that Luca got traded, you.

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00:56:59,680 --> 00:57:04,160
Speaker 2: Know, definitely. Do you think the league is too has

1101
00:57:04,320 --> 00:57:07,840
Speaker 2: over expanded? There's too many teams?

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00:57:08,520 --> 00:57:10,640
Speaker 4: I don't. I mean, when is the last time they expanded?

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00:57:10,760 --> 00:57:12,399
Speaker 4: I mean, I guess is when they what they added

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00:57:12,440 --> 00:57:14,200
Speaker 4: the Pelicans. I'm trying to remember.

1105
00:57:14,320 --> 00:57:18,280
Speaker 2: I mean it's I've been number of thirty teams? Is

1106
00:57:18,280 --> 00:57:22,360
Speaker 2: that too many? Because they're expanded again, They're probably going

1107
00:57:22,440 --> 00:57:23,240
Speaker 2: to expand again.

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00:57:23,400 --> 00:57:25,920
Speaker 4: They will, you know, it's going to be Vegas and

1109
00:57:26,000 --> 00:57:32,720
Speaker 4: somebody else, Vegas and Tennessee, Vegas and whoever. But the

1110
00:57:32,800 --> 00:57:35,840
Speaker 4: last thing the league needs, I think is expansion. If anything,

1111
00:57:35,880 --> 00:57:38,080
Speaker 4: contraction I think would actually help. I mean, look at

1112
00:57:38,080 --> 00:57:40,160
Speaker 4: the bad teams we have now, Look how bad Charlotte

1113
00:57:40,200 --> 00:57:41,520
Speaker 4: and Washington and Mike.

1114
00:57:43,200 --> 00:57:45,440
Speaker 2: And that's why I asked you. Do you think they

1115
00:57:45,480 --> 00:57:47,880
Speaker 2: have too many bad teams or too many? They have

1116
00:57:47,920 --> 00:57:51,280
Speaker 2: too many teams because of the sheer number of slop.

1117
00:57:52,120 --> 00:57:56,600
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah they do. But the problem is, I don't

1118
00:57:56,640 --> 00:57:59,240
Speaker 4: know how you combat that. You know, you're not going

1119
00:57:59,320 --> 00:58:02,240
Speaker 4: to combine franchies, You're not going to the schedule is

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00:58:02,280 --> 00:58:04,440
Speaker 4: going to be reduced, which means there's less gate revenue

1121
00:58:04,480 --> 00:58:07,240
Speaker 4: and fewer TV, less TV revenue and all that. So

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00:58:07,400 --> 00:58:12,000
Speaker 4: practically speaking, nothing's going to happen. But just theoretically speaking

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00:58:12,040 --> 00:58:16,800
Speaker 4: to your point, absolutely, the product is for sure diluted, absolutely.

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Speaker 2: Which I think again that the aesthetics get hurt by

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00:58:23,240 --> 00:58:26,640
Speaker 2: that big time. Yeah, And I will say that the

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00:58:26,680 --> 00:58:30,520
Speaker 2: problem how do you get excited with like it's the

1127
00:58:30,560 --> 00:58:35,680
Speaker 2: Wizards or the Sixers, right, or the or Charlotte, Like

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00:58:36,040 --> 00:58:39,320
Speaker 2: do you have these teams that will just never win?

1129
00:58:40,600 --> 00:58:42,880
Speaker 2: I was saying in this case, same conversation with baseball,

1130
00:58:43,560 --> 00:58:46,480
Speaker 2: like the Pirates are just never going to win.

1131
00:58:46,760 --> 00:58:49,560
Speaker 4: You know, they don't even try. That's the issue. The

1132
00:58:49,600 --> 00:58:51,240
Speaker 4: issue a lot of people have too is like Pittsburgh,

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00:58:51,320 --> 00:58:54,480
Speaker 4: I think I heard a stat this offseason they've signed

1134
00:58:54,560 --> 00:58:56,360
Speaker 4: They have not signed a free agent to a multi

1135
00:58:56,480 --> 00:58:59,760
Speaker 4: year contract in like seven years now. Is that for

1136
00:58:59,760 --> 00:59:01,560
Speaker 4: a free agents wanting to go there? It's like, I

1137
00:59:01,560 --> 00:59:03,960
Speaker 4: don't know, if Pittsburgh opened up the pocketbook and offered

1138
00:59:03,960 --> 00:59:06,240
Speaker 4: somebody a three year deal, I'm pretty sure somebody at

1139
00:59:06,240 --> 00:59:09,520
Speaker 4: some point would take it. But there it seems as

1140
00:59:09,600 --> 00:59:14,120
Speaker 4: if they're content with making their money, seeing, hoping, praying

1141
00:59:14,200 --> 00:59:16,120
Speaker 4: every you know, five to eight years, they can build

1142
00:59:16,200 --> 00:59:18,480
Speaker 4: up a decent enough young roster with the farm system

1143
00:59:18,760 --> 00:59:21,400
Speaker 4: compete intil those guys end up leaving and getting big

1144
00:59:21,400 --> 00:59:25,400
Speaker 4: contracts well without creating the actual infrastructure to be able

1145
00:59:25,400 --> 00:59:27,640
Speaker 4: to compete on a year and year out basis. So

1146
00:59:28,040 --> 00:59:29,960
Speaker 4: I think a lot of times people start blaming, like, oh,

1147
00:59:29,960 --> 00:59:31,640
Speaker 4: it's small markets, we can't keep up. It's like, I

1148
00:59:31,640 --> 00:59:34,560
Speaker 4: don't know, Tampa Bay's a small market. They keep up, right,

1149
00:59:34,640 --> 00:59:38,080
Speaker 4: So I think the fault really lies in with the

1150
00:59:38,120 --> 00:59:41,560
Speaker 4: ownership more than it does with the economics of the game,

1151
00:59:41,640 --> 00:59:44,520
Speaker 4: and you know, the haves and the have nots. I

1152
00:59:44,560 --> 00:59:46,280
Speaker 4: think that's where the issue lies. So I think if

1153
00:59:46,320 --> 00:59:48,520
Speaker 4: you're a fan of a team like the Pirates or

1154
00:59:48,560 --> 00:59:51,600
Speaker 4: the Reds who never win, or the Charlotte Hornets, and

1155
00:59:51,640 --> 00:59:53,880
Speaker 4: granted the basketball is a little more difficult, you know,

1156
00:59:54,760 --> 00:59:57,320
Speaker 4: depends on where you draft, who lands there, who stays there.

1157
00:59:57,320 --> 00:59:59,360
Speaker 4: Getting free agents with the salary cap it's a hard

1158
00:59:59,360 --> 01:00:02,560
Speaker 4: cap is really difficult. But in like Bajor League Baseball,

1159
01:00:02,560 --> 01:00:06,800
Speaker 4: there's almost no excuse, right right, because the o't think

1160
01:00:06,880 --> 01:00:10,880
Speaker 4: too is your mining talent? Correct? So that's the other

1161
01:00:10,920 --> 01:00:12,480
Speaker 4: is all the time, right.

1162
01:00:12,400 --> 01:00:14,240
Speaker 2: Right, It's not like the NBA where you got a

1163
01:00:14,280 --> 01:00:16,200
Speaker 2: tank to get a shot at one player.

1164
01:00:16,200 --> 01:00:17,920
Speaker 4: Right, and that might not work out. You can try

1165
01:00:17,960 --> 01:00:19,680
Speaker 4: to thank for five straight years and never get the

1166
01:00:19,680 --> 01:00:21,000
Speaker 4: first overall pick, you.

1167
01:00:20,960 --> 01:00:24,240
Speaker 2: Know, yeah, or you tank for you know, ten years

1168
01:00:24,600 --> 01:00:26,480
Speaker 2: and you just completely screw it up.

1169
01:00:27,280 --> 01:00:29,280
Speaker 4: Yeah, you know you don't know anything about that though.

1170
01:00:32,360 --> 01:00:32,960
Speaker 4: I hate them.

1171
01:00:33,320 --> 01:00:36,320
Speaker 2: I gotta tell you, I gotta love hate relationship with

1172
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Speaker 2: my squad.

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01:00:37,440 --> 01:00:38,720
Speaker 4: At least in be it's going to be back to

1174
01:00:38,720 --> 01:00:39,560
Speaker 4: start next year. Right.

1175
01:00:39,800 --> 01:00:44,680
Speaker 2: Oh God, if they're ever going to trade them, now's

1176
01:00:44,720 --> 01:00:45,240
Speaker 2: the time to.

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Speaker 3: Do it now.

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01:00:46,000 --> 01:00:48,360
Speaker 4: I mean, you are selling as low as you possibly

1179
01:00:48,360 --> 01:00:49,560
Speaker 4: can if you trade them right now.

1180
01:00:50,000 --> 01:00:56,000
Speaker 2: Yeah, here's the issue. It's it's you're correct, but they

1181
01:00:56,160 --> 01:00:57,200
Speaker 2: need to change.

1182
01:00:57,480 --> 01:00:58,439
Speaker 4: I would agree with that.

1183
01:00:58,800 --> 01:01:01,480
Speaker 2: Like, that's the problem. Yeah, it doesn't make any sense

1184
01:01:01,480 --> 01:01:05,240
Speaker 2: to trade a beat now he's worthless. But what you

1185
01:01:05,400 --> 01:01:08,800
Speaker 2: do is you signal a change in the in the franchise.

1186
01:01:09,040 --> 01:01:10,080
Speaker 4: Yeah, we're starting over.

1187
01:01:10,960 --> 01:01:12,040
Speaker 3: Is it smart now?

1188
01:01:12,160 --> 01:01:14,480
Speaker 2: Because it's it's smarter just to ride it out with

1189
01:01:14,600 --> 01:01:18,000
Speaker 2: Joe And it's not even his fault, right, Like, no.

1190
01:01:18,280 --> 01:01:19,880
Speaker 4: You can't control his you know, if he gets exact

1191
01:01:19,960 --> 01:01:21,040
Speaker 4: or if his body's built that way.

1192
01:01:21,080 --> 01:01:24,120
Speaker 2: That's what the problem is is that you're so deep

1193
01:01:24,160 --> 01:01:29,480
Speaker 2: into it the fan has just no faith. Yeah that

1194
01:01:30,200 --> 01:01:33,560
Speaker 2: it almost the divorce needs to happen for both parties.

1195
01:01:33,880 --> 01:01:36,440
Speaker 4: Well, yeah, because now you've put yourself and you've tripled

1196
01:01:36,480 --> 01:01:38,920
Speaker 4: down on it with the contract you gave to Paul George,

1197
01:01:39,240 --> 01:01:41,880
Speaker 4: like embat First of all, I don't know if you

1198
01:01:41,880 --> 01:01:44,000
Speaker 4: can give him away right now, considering the contract that

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Speaker 4: he has for the next five years. And then no

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01:01:46,360 --> 01:01:48,640
Speaker 4: one's gonna takehim on Paul George's contract based on how

1201
01:01:48,680 --> 01:01:51,400
Speaker 4: he played this year when he actually did play that's right,

1202
01:01:51,600 --> 01:01:53,560
Speaker 4: you know. So the only person of value that you

1203
01:01:53,600 --> 01:01:56,040
Speaker 4: could trade away is Maxie And why would you do that.

1204
01:01:56,040 --> 01:01:58,040
Speaker 4: That's the only good player. That's the only player anybody

1205
01:01:58,040 --> 01:01:59,439
Speaker 4: would actually show up to see right now.

1206
01:01:59,480 --> 01:02:01,640
Speaker 2: And the problem that you have, no you have no assets,

1207
01:02:01,680 --> 01:02:04,560
Speaker 2: like you you can't build around and on the size

1208
01:02:04,640 --> 01:02:08,240
Speaker 2: to guard right and you and you have McCain and

1209
01:02:08,720 --> 01:02:11,600
Speaker 2: Quinon Grimes, She's played really well, but they're all they're

1210
01:02:11,640 --> 01:02:15,320
Speaker 2: all guards, right, like you got no wings to build around.

1211
01:02:15,520 --> 01:02:18,640
Speaker 4: Yeah, the hard part is you don't see a real

1212
01:02:18,760 --> 01:02:22,600
Speaker 4: way out when you have two guys who are ultra

1213
01:02:22,680 --> 01:02:26,400
Speaker 4: injury prone and Joel and Bill probably he's never going

1214
01:02:26,480 --> 01:02:27,880
Speaker 4: to be the same with the kind of injuries that

1215
01:02:27,920 --> 01:02:30,640
Speaker 4: he's been having. And you're talking about I'm looking at

1216
01:02:30,680 --> 01:02:33,840
Speaker 4: next year fifty five million, then fifty seven, then sixty

1217
01:02:33,840 --> 01:02:36,080
Speaker 4: two and then sixty seven on a player option, which

1218
01:02:36,080 --> 01:02:39,640
Speaker 4: he's not given up and I wouldn't either. Yeah, I mean,

1219
01:02:39,640 --> 01:02:42,040
Speaker 4: you're in the ABYSS until twenty twenty eight, right now.

1220
01:02:42,320 --> 01:02:45,200
Speaker 2: Yeah, all right, let's take a look at we've looked

1221
01:02:45,200 --> 01:02:48,080
Speaker 2: at big picture with the league coming up, Let's look

1222
01:02:48,120 --> 01:02:50,840
Speaker 2: at who's got a real chance, right like, let's size

1223
01:02:50,880 --> 01:02:54,000
Speaker 2: them up, and and really it's we're gonna just go

1224
01:02:54,240 --> 01:02:57,640
Speaker 2: heavy into the West because we already know that.

1225
01:02:57,240 --> 01:02:58,560
Speaker 4: There's only two teams in the East.

1226
01:02:58,840 --> 01:03:01,240
Speaker 2: All right, but well let's look at them and take

1227
01:03:01,280 --> 01:03:04,000
Speaker 2: a look because actually, I do think Nix Pistons would

1228
01:03:04,000 --> 01:03:05,640
Speaker 2: be an interesting matchup.

1229
01:03:05,680 --> 01:03:07,320
Speaker 3: I like the Pistons because they try.

1230
01:03:07,680 --> 01:03:10,400
Speaker 4: Yeah right, they're young, and they're exciting. I think Kate

1231
01:03:10,480 --> 01:03:12,120
Speaker 4: is a guy who could potentially be a face of

1232
01:03:12,160 --> 01:03:14,840
Speaker 4: the league guy if he continues to ascend. YEP with

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Speaker 3: All right, brother, let's let's go into it.

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01:04:35,600 --> 01:04:39,360
Speaker 2: So if OKC, we would agree, Okay, she's the favorite,

1252
01:04:39,720 --> 01:04:43,440
Speaker 2: not a not a dramatic favorite, but a favorite.

1253
01:04:43,520 --> 01:04:43,800
Speaker 4: Yeah.

1254
01:04:43,920 --> 01:04:45,480
Speaker 3: They're just so deep man.

1255
01:04:45,600 --> 01:04:47,400
Speaker 4: Right, Well, I would say they're the favorite in the West.

1256
01:04:47,480 --> 01:04:49,080
Speaker 4: I think in a seven game series, I will take

1257
01:04:49,080 --> 01:04:50,680
Speaker 4: the Celtics over them. In the finals if they were

1258
01:04:50,680 --> 01:04:52,760
Speaker 4: to meet up, but in the Western Conference for sure.

1259
01:04:53,600 --> 01:04:57,480
Speaker 2: So you got them, and I think with you got

1260
01:04:57,560 --> 01:05:03,120
Speaker 2: SGA and then you got incredible depth, right you know,

1261
01:05:03,240 --> 01:05:04,680
Speaker 2: and you got guys that could shoot.

1262
01:05:04,720 --> 01:05:07,920
Speaker 3: They fit well, right, like.

1263
01:05:07,920 --> 01:05:14,080
Speaker 2: They's they do so many different things that I love

1264
01:05:14,160 --> 01:05:15,000
Speaker 2: the way they're built.

1265
01:05:15,280 --> 01:05:17,240
Speaker 3: And it's amazing because they still have.

1266
01:05:17,200 --> 01:05:20,840
Speaker 2: A plethora of picks laughing right, it's a joke, Like

1267
01:05:20,920 --> 01:05:24,040
Speaker 2: it really is, like they cracked the code or how

1268
01:05:24,040 --> 01:05:24,840
Speaker 2: to build a team.

1269
01:05:25,280 --> 01:05:27,280
Speaker 4: Yeah, like that's the model, like I talked about, if

1270
01:05:27,280 --> 01:05:29,000
Speaker 4: you're going to find a model in the NBA of

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01:05:29,000 --> 01:05:31,920
Speaker 4: how to build a championship roster or a team that

1272
01:05:31,960 --> 01:05:34,840
Speaker 4: can compete for a championship, do it the way Sam

1273
01:05:34,880 --> 01:05:38,040
Speaker 4: Presty did it, by the way he organically built the

1274
01:05:38,280 --> 01:05:42,080
Speaker 4: Thunder with Russell Westbrook, James Harden, Kevin Durant and here

1275
01:05:42,120 --> 01:05:44,800
Speaker 4: we are, what ten years later, and he's rebuilt it

1276
01:05:44,840 --> 01:05:47,439
Speaker 4: all of from the ground up with a completely new

1277
01:05:48,200 --> 01:05:51,240
Speaker 4: supporting cast. And it's through getting Shave via trade for

1278
01:05:51,280 --> 01:05:54,080
Speaker 4: Paul George. And granted they got Chitt Holmgren at the

1279
01:05:54,080 --> 01:05:56,120
Speaker 4: top of the draft because they were bad that particular year.

1280
01:05:56,160 --> 01:05:58,320
Speaker 4: But you hit on your pick you find guys like

1281
01:05:58,400 --> 01:06:01,160
Speaker 4: Jalen Williams and Aaron Wiggins. You get Hartenstein. Lou Dort

1282
01:06:01,160 --> 01:06:03,280
Speaker 4: was a guy they found in the second round. That's

1283
01:06:03,320 --> 01:06:05,520
Speaker 4: how you build a winner. So don't tell me that

1284
01:06:05,560 --> 01:06:07,480
Speaker 4: if you're a small market franchise you can't find a

1285
01:06:07,520 --> 01:06:09,240
Speaker 4: way to win, that there's no formula, there's no way,

1286
01:06:09,400 --> 01:06:12,520
Speaker 4: no way out for you. Because they've done it twice

1287
01:06:12,800 --> 01:06:15,880
Speaker 4: and they'll past two decades, the Oklahoma City Thunder I

1288
01:06:15,880 --> 01:06:19,520
Speaker 4: have built championship rosters two times in the last twenty years.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and the same thing. Right.

1290
01:06:23,280 --> 01:06:28,040
Speaker 2: The first time it was ridiculous, like you had three

1291
01:06:28,120 --> 01:06:32,080
Speaker 2: the greatest players. You assembled three the greatest players at

1292
01:06:32,480 --> 01:06:33,400
Speaker 2: at one time.

1293
01:06:33,520 --> 01:06:36,040
Speaker 4: Right, and the only reason you didn't keep them together

1294
01:06:36,120 --> 01:06:38,920
Speaker 4: is because ownership didn't want to pay all of them. Right,

1295
01:06:39,120 --> 01:06:41,760
Speaker 4: So they said, you can keep Sergeabaka or you can

1296
01:06:41,800 --> 01:06:43,800
Speaker 4: keep James Harden, but you can't keep both, and so

1297
01:06:43,920 --> 01:06:46,240
Speaker 4: they chose to keep Surge instead of instead of Harden.

1298
01:06:47,080 --> 01:06:50,120
Speaker 2: So all right, So if you have on one side,

1299
01:06:50,240 --> 01:06:55,439
Speaker 2: you got OKC. Let's look at the contenders, right, Chase.

1300
01:06:55,480 --> 01:06:59,400
Speaker 2: They're interesting, right, there's a lot of equal contenders. I mean,

1301
01:06:59,480 --> 01:07:02,320
Speaker 2: I don't know if if I go Golden State or

1302
01:07:02,360 --> 01:07:08,360
Speaker 2: the Clippers to me as the.

1303
01:07:06,920 --> 01:07:08,640
Speaker 3: Team best chance to take him out.

1304
01:07:08,800 --> 01:07:11,600
Speaker 4: I think from a matchup standpoint, I think the Clippers

1305
01:07:11,640 --> 01:07:14,200
Speaker 4: probably have a better chance. They have the wing defenders,

1306
01:07:14,240 --> 01:07:16,360
Speaker 4: they have a size advantage with or I don't know

1307
01:07:16,360 --> 01:07:18,000
Speaker 4: if it's an advantage, but that the very Leaves can

1308
01:07:18,040 --> 01:07:21,240
Speaker 4: match up with Chet Holmgren with Zubots, who I think

1309
01:07:21,280 --> 01:07:23,000
Speaker 4: at this point in time, I think Chet is going

1310
01:07:23,040 --> 01:07:24,560
Speaker 4: to be end up being a better player. But right

1311
01:07:24,600 --> 01:07:28,400
Speaker 4: now Zubots is the better player. He is and he's tough.

1312
01:07:28,640 --> 01:07:33,000
Speaker 2: He really is, like, he's physical, he'll rebound, He's a

1313
01:07:33,120 --> 01:07:33,680
Speaker 2: tough play.

1314
01:07:33,680 --> 01:07:35,040
Speaker 3: He is a tough matchup for him.

1315
01:07:35,160 --> 01:07:37,640
Speaker 4: Yeah, So I think from just a pure matchup standpoint,

1316
01:07:37,680 --> 01:07:40,400
Speaker 4: I think that if the Clippers were to play Oklahoma City, yeah,

1317
01:07:40,680 --> 01:07:42,480
Speaker 4: I think I think Golden State can beat them too,

1318
01:07:42,560 --> 01:07:44,520
Speaker 4: for many of the same reasons. But if it's between

1319
01:07:44,520 --> 01:07:46,520
Speaker 4: the two of them, who is a tougher matchup for

1320
01:07:46,520 --> 01:07:48,800
Speaker 4: Oklahoma City? I think the Clippers are at the moment.

1321
01:07:48,760 --> 01:07:50,560
Speaker 3: See I get and so three.

1322
01:07:50,720 --> 01:07:54,640
Speaker 2: I think it's those two teams that pose the biggest threat.

1323
01:07:55,360 --> 01:08:00,120
Speaker 2: Because here's the thing about Golden State, it is they

1324
01:08:00,120 --> 01:08:04,480
Speaker 2: have they got so much fire. They still have firepower, right,

1325
01:08:05,160 --> 01:08:08,120
Speaker 2: and they and they're still veterans, like they know how

1326
01:08:08,120 --> 01:08:12,600
Speaker 2: to win and they have like the Lakers, I you know,

1327
01:08:12,680 --> 01:08:16,720
Speaker 2: obviously Lebron and Luca, but after that, I still go,

1328
01:08:17,880 --> 01:08:18,599
Speaker 2: is that enough?

1329
01:08:20,120 --> 01:08:21,880
Speaker 4: I think it can be. I think people are still

1330
01:08:21,920 --> 01:08:25,200
Speaker 4: sleeping on Austin reeves for whatever reason, which I found

1331
01:08:25,240 --> 01:08:26,680
Speaker 4: it funny. I don't know if he saw what he

1332
01:08:26,720 --> 01:08:29,120
Speaker 4: said the other night. He says, like, it's weird for

1333
01:08:29,160 --> 01:08:30,840
Speaker 4: me to say, but when I see a white guy

1334
01:08:30,880 --> 01:08:32,559
Speaker 4: playing really well in the NBA, it's hard for me

1335
01:08:32,600 --> 01:08:35,120
Speaker 4: to even believe that he's that good. And this is

1336
01:08:35,160 --> 01:08:37,760
Speaker 4: a white guy talking. So I don't know if he

1337
01:08:37,760 --> 01:08:39,880
Speaker 4: gets slept on for that reason or not. But I mean,

1338
01:08:39,920 --> 01:08:41,920
Speaker 4: he's been a twenty plus pointy game scorer for the

1339
01:08:41,960 --> 01:08:44,479
Speaker 4: last two months. He's established himself as one of the

1340
01:08:44,520 --> 01:08:45,160
Speaker 4: best third.

1341
01:08:44,960 --> 01:08:49,000
Speaker 3: Options in the entire week. Yes, you're right, you're spot.

1342
01:08:48,760 --> 01:08:52,559
Speaker 4: On, and the pieces around them, the key pieces. Dorian

1343
01:08:52,640 --> 01:08:55,439
Speaker 4: Finney Smith is a three and D guy. You know,

1344
01:08:55,520 --> 01:08:57,880
Speaker 4: Ruy Hatchamura more of a three than the D guy,

1345
01:08:57,880 --> 01:09:00,960
Speaker 4: but he's certainly not a Siev defensively gave Vincent's turn

1346
01:09:01,000 --> 01:09:02,960
Speaker 4: the corner off the bench for them, so they have

1347
01:09:03,000 --> 01:09:07,040
Speaker 4: their requisite pieces if guys are making their open shots

1348
01:09:07,080 --> 01:09:09,960
Speaker 4: around the big three to make a deep run for sure.

1349
01:09:10,000 --> 01:09:13,000
Speaker 4: And just Luca, because he's such a great individual talent,

1350
01:09:13,120 --> 01:09:16,040
Speaker 4: just raises the ceiling of any team that he goes to. Well,

1351
01:09:16,040 --> 01:09:17,960
Speaker 4: now you drop him in on a team with Lebron James,

1352
01:09:17,960 --> 01:09:20,040
Speaker 4: and now Lebron can save himself for the fourth quarter

1353
01:09:20,080 --> 01:09:22,320
Speaker 4: before he has to go off. I think that's why

1354
01:09:22,360 --> 01:09:24,760
Speaker 4: some people people, so many people are so optimistic about

1355
01:09:24,800 --> 01:09:26,479
Speaker 4: the Lakers or what the damage they can do.

1356
01:09:27,400 --> 01:09:30,479
Speaker 2: The only thing is I, as I look at him,

1357
01:09:30,920 --> 01:09:34,640
Speaker 2: I just don't think like I just like I like

1358
01:09:34,640 --> 01:09:37,040
Speaker 2: the Clippers better, I like Golden State better.

1359
01:09:37,760 --> 01:09:38,920
Speaker 3: I like Denver better.

1360
01:09:39,120 --> 01:09:44,680
Speaker 4: Even though Denver, Denver can't stop anybody haven't been able

1361
01:09:44,680 --> 01:09:46,360
Speaker 4: to stop stop uh.

1362
01:09:46,960 --> 01:09:49,200
Speaker 3: And I preface by saying, I know they had their issues.

1363
01:09:49,400 --> 01:09:52,639
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think if the Lakers, if they're a bad matchup,

1364
01:09:53,080 --> 01:09:55,080
Speaker 4: well I think I think that. I think the Lakers

1365
01:09:55,120 --> 01:09:57,240
Speaker 4: are a bad matchup for Denver right now because Denver

1366
01:09:57,360 --> 01:10:01,240
Speaker 4: is nobody that can stick with Lukadanca, not a single soul,

1367
01:10:01,640 --> 01:10:03,080
Speaker 4: And it was easier for them to slow down the

1368
01:10:03,160 --> 01:10:06,960
Speaker 4: Lakers with Anthony Davis when he was there. But if

1369
01:10:07,000 --> 01:10:11,000
Speaker 4: the Lakers played the Denver Nuggets in the series. No,

1370
01:10:11,240 --> 01:10:13,360
Speaker 4: but the way that they've been defending in the scheme

1371
01:10:13,400 --> 01:10:15,160
Speaker 4: that JJ Redick has rolled out the last couple of

1372
01:10:15,200 --> 01:10:18,559
Speaker 4: times they've played Jokic. The last time specifically they played Yokic,

1373
01:10:18,600 --> 01:10:20,840
Speaker 4: he had the worst game of the season. Now I

1374
01:10:20,960 --> 01:10:23,839
Speaker 4: realized that's one of eighty two. But the defensive strategy

1375
01:10:23,840 --> 01:10:26,320
Speaker 4: they deployed frustrated the hell out of him and he

1376
01:10:26,360 --> 01:10:29,000
Speaker 4: could do nothing about it. On too. If you can

1377
01:10:29,080 --> 01:10:31,040
Speaker 4: just frustrate him and take him out just a little bit,

1378
01:10:31,120 --> 01:10:32,960
Speaker 4: and Luca's gonna light them up on the other end,

1379
01:10:33,520 --> 01:10:35,200
Speaker 4: Like it might be come off as a hot take.

1380
01:10:35,200 --> 01:10:37,000
Speaker 4: I don't know, Anthony, but looking at the matchup, if

1381
01:10:37,240 --> 01:10:40,040
Speaker 4: LA played Denver in a seven game series, I could

1382
01:10:40,040 --> 01:10:44,720
Speaker 4: see the Lakers playing that series in five games. Five games. Wow,

1383
01:10:44,840 --> 01:10:47,920
Speaker 4: Denver is not the same team. Denver will be favored,

1384
01:10:48,080 --> 01:10:51,720
Speaker 4: you know that. Uh okay, all right, they might be.

1385
01:10:52,200 --> 01:10:55,160
Speaker 4: I will love those odds. I will take my ticket

1386
01:10:55,200 --> 01:10:59,000
Speaker 4: to Vegas tonight because Gambley's not legal in California. I

1387
01:10:59,000 --> 01:11:01,800
Speaker 4: will take that a trillion times over. This is not

1388
01:11:01,840 --> 01:11:08,080
Speaker 4: the same difference. So you know, I'll defer to you. Yeah,

1389
01:11:08,560 --> 01:11:10,639
Speaker 4: especial if they're gonna keep runing Ussell Westbrook out there,

1390
01:11:10,720 --> 01:11:15,080
Speaker 4: who's just especially lately has been killing them. Yeah.

1391
01:11:15,200 --> 01:11:18,000
Speaker 3: What what what's been their what's been their issue?

1392
01:11:18,040 --> 01:11:20,639
Speaker 2: I know it was finally talking about buddy of mine

1393
01:11:20,760 --> 01:11:24,559
Speaker 2: when they fired Malone, that they said that the vibes

1394
01:11:24,640 --> 01:11:27,280
Speaker 2: were lost, that they lost their mojo.

1395
01:11:28,600 --> 01:11:30,920
Speaker 4: Well, I know the Athletic did a giant ride up

1396
01:11:30,960 --> 01:11:33,400
Speaker 4: on this, and I think ESPND the exact same. And

1397
01:11:33,439 --> 01:11:36,800
Speaker 4: it sounds like Calvin Booth and Mike Malone were kind

1398
01:11:36,840 --> 01:11:39,040
Speaker 4: of at each other's throats over the last three years

1399
01:11:39,160 --> 01:11:42,519
Speaker 4: or so. They won the championship, but that was still

1400
01:11:42,520 --> 01:11:44,680
Speaker 4: amidst a lot of turmoil going on between the two

1401
01:11:44,720 --> 01:11:46,840
Speaker 4: of them. I guess the players in the locker room

1402
01:11:46,840 --> 01:11:48,960
Speaker 4: had sort of revolted to a certain degree against Mike

1403
01:11:49,000 --> 01:11:52,280
Speaker 4: Malone because he's showed favoritism towards Yo Kitchen Murray, although

1404
01:11:53,000 --> 01:11:55,639
Speaker 4: that typically happens with star players at times, so maybe

1405
01:11:55,680 --> 01:11:57,880
Speaker 4: there's more to it than that. It sounded to me,

1406
01:11:58,680 --> 01:12:02,040
Speaker 4: honestly that Josh Cronky, the owner, was just tired of

1407
01:12:02,040 --> 01:12:05,679
Speaker 4: the bickering and infighting between Mike Malone, and Calvin Booth.

1408
01:12:06,120 --> 01:12:08,120
Speaker 4: It seemed as if Mike Malone had lost the locker

1409
01:12:08,200 --> 01:12:11,760
Speaker 4: room and they decided to follow the Memphis Grizzly philosophy

1410
01:12:11,760 --> 01:12:13,160
Speaker 4: of look, if it ain't work, and why are we

1411
01:12:13,160 --> 01:12:15,759
Speaker 4: going to wait until the offseason, just do it now,

1412
01:12:16,200 --> 01:12:18,040
Speaker 4: and let's give David Adelman a shot and see what

1413
01:12:18,080 --> 01:12:19,840
Speaker 4: he can do. If he's a guy that we tout

1414
01:12:19,880 --> 01:12:21,799
Speaker 4: and think he could be a potential head coach candidate,

1415
01:12:22,320 --> 01:12:24,639
Speaker 4: let him try now and see what happens. I think

1416
01:12:24,640 --> 01:12:26,680
Speaker 4: it was really just arresting their franchise back and say,

1417
01:12:26,680 --> 01:12:29,320
Speaker 4: you guys are arguing at bickering like children. We're trying

1418
01:12:29,360 --> 01:12:31,400
Speaker 4: to run a professional sports franchise that's trying to compete

1419
01:12:31,439 --> 01:12:35,200
Speaker 4: for championships. We're done with both of you. That's kind

1420
01:12:35,200 --> 01:12:36,040
Speaker 4: of the way that I read it.

1421
01:12:37,160 --> 01:12:38,000
Speaker 3: Yeah, that farty.

1422
01:12:38,920 --> 01:12:41,799
Speaker 4: It's odd that you because Mike Malone by all accounts,

1423
01:12:41,800 --> 01:12:43,439
Speaker 4: and he's a pretty high strung guy. I don't know

1424
01:12:43,520 --> 01:12:47,759
Speaker 4: him personally or anything, but it works to a certain degree.

1425
01:12:47,800 --> 01:12:49,720
Speaker 4: They just won a championship a couple of years like that.

1426
01:12:50,120 --> 01:12:52,400
Speaker 4: But it's also a personality and you know this anthony.

1427
01:12:53,040 --> 01:12:56,040
Speaker 4: It can wear on guys if you're a certain personality type,

1428
01:12:56,080 --> 01:12:59,599
Speaker 4: and the team isn't built a certain way mentally, and

1429
01:12:59,640 --> 01:13:02,320
Speaker 4: if things do start slipping a little bit, you know,

1430
01:13:02,400 --> 01:13:04,519
Speaker 4: it doesn't take much for guys to tune a guy out.

1431
01:13:06,160 --> 01:13:10,920
Speaker 2: Now, I mean, you know, it's TIBs. We've seen a

1432
01:13:10,960 --> 01:13:15,160
Speaker 2: million times. Guys just they unless you have the team

1433
01:13:15,240 --> 01:13:20,200
Speaker 2: that responds to you, they they'll just you're done right.

1434
01:13:21,040 --> 01:13:23,240
Speaker 4: And I think that was the issue, and so Calvin Booth,

1435
01:13:23,240 --> 01:13:24,240
Speaker 4: I think was in the last year.

1436
01:13:24,800 --> 01:13:30,200
Speaker 2: You see hockey every yeah, every three years, the coaching

1437
01:13:30,240 --> 01:13:34,800
Speaker 2: turnover in the NHL. Oh my god, it's unbelievable. All right,

1438
01:13:34,840 --> 01:13:37,360
Speaker 2: let's say quick too. We'll come right back. Fellas hanging

1439
01:13:37,439 --> 01:13:42,960
Speaker 2: out right here. Fox Sports Radio. Fellas, don't forget for

1440
01:13:43,000 --> 01:13:46,559
Speaker 2: the best pregame show. Every weekend, be sure to tune

1441
01:13:46,600 --> 01:13:51,599
Speaker 2: into Fox Sports Radios Countdown, presented by Ben MGM every

1442
01:13:51,760 --> 01:13:54,599
Speaker 2: Saturday and Sunday morning from non and the noon eastern

1443
01:13:55,280 --> 01:13:59,000
Speaker 2: six to nine Pacific will count you down to the

1444
01:13:59,080 --> 01:14:03,760
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1445
01:14:03,800 --> 01:14:06,719
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1446
01:14:06,800 --> 01:14:10,160
Speaker 2: Radio and the iHeartRadio app. Today, count Down again, the

1447
01:14:10,280 --> 01:14:14,960
Speaker 2: NBA off today will close out its regular season tomorrow,

1448
01:14:15,479 --> 01:14:18,480
Speaker 2: so the countdown will be to Moving Day, the Masters

1449
01:14:18,479 --> 01:14:24,320
Speaker 2: today baseball and hockey hockey regular season and Thursday.

1450
01:14:24,520 --> 01:14:28,240
Speaker 4: FIGI that's right, gearing up for a big one. And

1451
01:14:28,320 --> 01:14:33,080
Speaker 4: so it's funny around all the hoopla surrounding Govechkin, you know,

1452
01:14:33,160 --> 01:14:36,680
Speaker 4: breaking the goals record and all that. You forget like,

1453
01:14:36,840 --> 01:14:39,519
Speaker 4: oh yeah, his team's actually really good. They probably win

1454
01:14:39,560 --> 01:14:41,600
Speaker 4: the Stanley Cup. It's just so funny. How that's the

1455
01:14:41,640 --> 01:14:44,400
Speaker 4: how that just is lost in everything. It is to me,

1456
01:14:44,520 --> 01:14:45,640
Speaker 4: that's kind of all it seems to be.

1457
01:14:46,120 --> 01:14:49,080
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, and they got good. I mean it's funny

1458
01:14:49,120 --> 01:14:54,040
Speaker 2: because they got good overnight out of nowhere. I mean

1459
01:14:54,040 --> 01:14:56,240
Speaker 2: they were no good. They made they made a bunch

1460
01:14:56,240 --> 01:15:00,760
Speaker 2: of trades. And that kid Produce, he came up, he

1461
01:15:00,840 --> 01:15:03,200
Speaker 2: came on strong, like he each had a great year.

1462
01:15:04,040 --> 01:15:07,040
Speaker 3: You know, they they rebuilt that thing.

1463
01:15:07,120 --> 01:15:07,360
Speaker 4: Well.

1464
01:15:07,600 --> 01:15:10,639
Speaker 2: You know we were talking earlier about like having days

1465
01:15:10,680 --> 01:15:15,360
Speaker 2: with the National Broadcast tn T. The Sunday after in

1466
01:15:15,439 --> 01:15:17,600
Speaker 2: hockey is really good.

1467
01:15:18,880 --> 01:15:20,920
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, and I'll be honest with you, I

1468
01:15:20,960 --> 01:15:24,200
Speaker 4: didn't even know that CNC had a Sunday afternoon hockey showcase.

1469
01:15:24,560 --> 01:15:27,200
Speaker 4: Like that's how even like, so how well are they

1470
01:15:27,200 --> 01:15:29,439
Speaker 4: marketing that to even me or the masses like for

1471
01:15:29,560 --> 01:15:31,280
Speaker 4: people like to not even I know tnc had an

1472
01:15:31,360 --> 01:15:34,240
Speaker 4: NHL package. I had no idea that their marketing their

1473
01:15:34,280 --> 01:15:37,240
Speaker 4: market game was. It was a Sunday afternoon. I totally

1474
01:15:37,280 --> 01:15:39,960
Speaker 4: missed it. No have you seen it all?

1475
01:15:40,920 --> 01:15:41,080
Speaker 2: No?

1476
01:15:41,320 --> 01:15:42,680
Speaker 4: I really haven't.

1477
01:15:43,000 --> 01:15:46,599
Speaker 3: Oh wow, It's just shame because they have a great like.

1478
01:15:46,800 --> 01:15:51,759
Speaker 2: Listen, the goat of all studio shows is TNT inside

1479
01:15:51,760 --> 01:15:56,480
Speaker 2: the NBA. Right then you add you add them tournament

1480
01:15:56,520 --> 01:15:59,680
Speaker 2: to the mix and like, to me, my favorite is

1481
01:15:59,720 --> 01:16:04,800
Speaker 2: when the ad Jay Wright with Kenny and Charles, right, Jamie.

1482
01:16:05,000 --> 01:16:09,920
Speaker 2: It was great because Jay's awesome and he's he's dry,

1483
01:16:10,280 --> 01:16:12,960
Speaker 2: and he gives you the coaches and he works so

1484
01:16:13,080 --> 01:16:14,799
Speaker 2: good with Barkley and Kenny.

1485
01:16:15,240 --> 01:16:18,080
Speaker 3: Yeah, and I'm a Clark fan too.

1486
01:16:18,240 --> 01:16:20,920
Speaker 4: Yeah all benfan of yeah Clark for a long time.

1487
01:16:21,040 --> 01:16:25,439
Speaker 2: He's great. So that's a great show. I'll tell you.

1488
01:16:25,479 --> 01:16:28,400
Speaker 2: The NHL T and T show is awesome.

1489
01:16:30,200 --> 01:16:32,720
Speaker 4: It doesn't surprise me because everything they do is top notch.

1490
01:16:32,800 --> 01:16:34,599
Speaker 4: I mean, they're they're major League Baseball coverage.

1491
01:16:34,600 --> 01:16:36,960
Speaker 2: I think we get to the I love their that's

1492
01:16:37,000 --> 01:16:42,439
Speaker 2: another great show. Ye with with a Rod Jeter and Poppy.

1493
01:16:44,560 --> 01:16:47,679
Speaker 4: I mean it's it's all you know, produced with the same,

1494
01:16:48,160 --> 01:16:52,360
Speaker 4: you know, the same outlook. That's funny. They incorporate tweets

1495
01:16:52,400 --> 01:16:54,840
Speaker 4: and memes and all sorts of they make it an

1496
01:16:55,000 --> 01:16:57,920
Speaker 4: entertaining products. So it does not surprise me that the

1497
01:16:58,040 --> 01:17:01,280
Speaker 4: NHL package is spectacular. But because everything they do over

1498
01:17:01,280 --> 01:17:03,040
Speaker 4: there is top notch, it really is.

1499
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Speaker 2: Yeah, and the NHL is just like the same vein

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01:17:07,040 --> 01:17:11,439
Speaker 2: yea as baseball and basketball. That's awesome, Like it's pull

1501
01:17:11,520 --> 01:17:17,160
Speaker 2: businette is tremendous, Like they had that formula down right.

1502
01:17:17,760 --> 01:17:20,000
Speaker 4: And the funny thing is everyone tries to replicate it

1503
01:17:20,040 --> 01:17:22,879
Speaker 4: and nobody can. You really can't.

1504
01:17:23,120 --> 01:17:27,679
Speaker 2: You know what's nuts is that I enjoy the NBA.

1505
01:17:29,400 --> 01:17:31,880
Speaker 2: I enjoy the the I just don't tell you like

1506
01:17:31,920 --> 01:17:37,120
Speaker 2: the NHL. I love MLB, right. The only sport that

1507
01:17:37,200 --> 01:17:40,360
Speaker 2: I don't really care for a bunch is the NFL.

1508
01:17:40,560 --> 01:17:43,639
Speaker 4: The NFL studio shows. That's how funny how that works? Right?

1509
01:17:43,960 --> 01:17:46,120
Speaker 2: I mean the best sport, the sport that I can't

1510
01:17:46,160 --> 01:17:49,759
Speaker 2: get enough of, right, yep, the sport that I watch

1511
01:17:50,439 --> 01:17:57,000
Speaker 2: every second, but the studio show, Like I don't know,

1512
01:17:57,120 --> 01:18:00,840
Speaker 2: I just I think it's there's two many of them.

1513
01:18:00,880 --> 01:18:04,760
Speaker 4: Well, there's too many of them, and we're there's such

1514
01:18:04,800 --> 01:18:07,640
Speaker 4: a deluge of information about these games leading up to

1515
01:18:07,720 --> 01:18:09,840
Speaker 4: Sunday that by the time you get to Sunday, I

1516
01:18:09,880 --> 01:18:12,120
Speaker 4: just want to watch the game. Maybe that's kind of

1517
01:18:12,120 --> 01:18:15,160
Speaker 4: how I feel about it at this point. And I

1518
01:18:15,160 --> 01:18:18,559
Speaker 4: think there's the pregame shows, especially on the networks. Fox

1519
01:18:18,600 --> 01:18:22,639
Speaker 4: and CBS have just lost some umph and I can't

1520
01:18:22,640 --> 01:18:25,519
Speaker 4: tell you why, but it's just not the same for

1521
01:18:25,600 --> 01:18:28,320
Speaker 4: whatever reason, Fox used to be top and Fox is

1522
01:18:28,360 --> 01:18:31,519
Speaker 4: still good, it's still solid, but it's not the same.

1523
01:18:31,520 --> 01:18:32,920
Speaker 4: I don't know if it's the cast as older and

1524
01:18:32,960 --> 01:18:34,840
Speaker 4: they're trying to roll in some new guys both and

1525
01:18:34,880 --> 01:18:37,960
Speaker 4: both networks are I just don't it sounds bad to

1526
01:18:38,000 --> 01:18:40,600
Speaker 4: say I don't care as much anymore. Just call me

1527
01:18:40,600 --> 01:18:43,679
Speaker 4: at ten o'clock Pacific time when the first game kicks off.

1528
01:18:43,960 --> 01:18:44,800
Speaker 4: Then I'll check. Yeah.

1529
01:18:45,360 --> 01:18:48,519
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, it's funny, you shaid. I'm kind of in

1530
01:18:48,520 --> 01:18:52,760
Speaker 2: the same way. Yeah, And I don't know why. But

1531
01:18:53,280 --> 01:18:58,640
Speaker 2: I don't know why. I think it's just too busy.

1532
01:18:58,800 --> 01:19:00,960
Speaker 4: Yeah. Well, it's also in a twenty four to seven

1533
01:19:01,000 --> 01:19:03,439
Speaker 4: news cycle. You get alerts on your phone about injury

1534
01:19:03,520 --> 01:19:05,599
Speaker 4: updates and all this, like they gone over the days

1535
01:19:05,600 --> 01:19:07,840
Speaker 4: of Jimmy the Greek and watching Brent Musburger for all

1536
01:19:07,840 --> 01:19:09,840
Speaker 4: your updates and let's span around the league and what's

1537
01:19:09,840 --> 01:19:12,120
Speaker 4: happening today. Because you can just pick up your phone.

1538
01:19:12,160 --> 01:19:14,280
Speaker 4: You can set your phone to get alerts about players,

1539
01:19:14,240 --> 01:19:15,679
Speaker 4: the tea, the same thing with every op sport.

1540
01:19:15,680 --> 01:19:16,719
Speaker 3: Why do those shows work?

1541
01:19:17,439 --> 01:19:21,000
Speaker 4: I don't know. That's a good question. I'm not really

1542
01:19:21,040 --> 01:19:21,919
Speaker 4: one hundred percent.

1543
01:19:21,720 --> 01:19:23,600
Speaker 3: Sure, but I'm right there, like they all try to do.

1544
01:19:23,680 --> 01:19:27,360
Speaker 2: The the comedy piece of it doesn't work, and I.

1545
01:19:27,800 --> 01:19:30,439
Speaker 3: Think it's almost forced in the NFL ones.

1546
01:19:30,680 --> 01:19:32,599
Speaker 4: It is, it absolutely is, But you have a.

1547
01:19:32,560 --> 01:19:34,599
Speaker 3: Comedian, the comedy stinks.

1548
01:19:34,880 --> 01:19:37,439
Speaker 4: Yeah, all right, I like Kimmel back in the day,

1549
01:19:37,439 --> 01:19:38,919
Speaker 4: but it's passe at this point.

1550
01:19:39,160 --> 01:19:43,400
Speaker 2: Yeah, I just you know, it's it's interesting. We'll talk

1551
01:19:43,400 --> 01:19:46,639
Speaker 2: about it. Fellas hanging out Fox Sports Radio.

1552
01:19:48,200 --> 01:19:50,639
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1553
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1554
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Speaker 2: All right, just joined this a lot of but all

1563
01:20:31,240 --> 01:20:33,360
Speaker 2: over the place because it's got that busy time.

1564
01:20:33,439 --> 01:20:36,840
Speaker 4: Right April is the Spring Equinox.

1565
01:20:36,880 --> 01:20:39,960
Speaker 2: We have the fall Equinox and the Spring Equinox with

1566
01:20:40,520 --> 01:20:44,600
Speaker 2: the confluence of all the sports. We have NBA playoffs

1567
01:20:44,800 --> 01:20:46,920
Speaker 2: about to get you know, we wind down the regular

1568
01:20:47,000 --> 01:20:51,919
Speaker 2: season that begins this week. NHL is around the corner,

1569
01:20:52,680 --> 01:20:56,639
Speaker 2: Masters going on, and of course the draft. So let's

1570
01:20:56,680 --> 01:20:59,559
Speaker 2: bring it back to the draft, my brother. Oh yeah,

1571
01:20:59,640 --> 01:21:04,360
Speaker 2: and let's dive into it. So the one interesting trade

1572
01:21:04,439 --> 01:21:10,799
Speaker 2: yesterday or actually signing was Joe Flacco going back to Cleveland. Yeah,

1573
01:21:10,880 --> 01:21:15,320
Speaker 2: because with Flacco going to Cleveland, I think that's their

1574
01:21:15,400 --> 01:21:18,680
Speaker 2: protection of you know what, we don't need to go

1575
01:21:18,720 --> 01:21:19,880
Speaker 2: after Shador here.

1576
01:21:21,479 --> 01:21:24,040
Speaker 4: Yeah. I mean, it's still a short term stop gap,

1577
01:21:24,080 --> 01:21:26,040
Speaker 4: so you're gonna need a quarterback of the future at

1578
01:21:26,040 --> 01:21:28,160
Speaker 4: some point. But to your point, they don't necessarily have

1579
01:21:28,240 --> 01:21:30,960
Speaker 4: to reach for someone right this second. If they don't

1580
01:21:31,000 --> 01:21:33,519
Speaker 4: trust it, which goes back to the conversation we had

1581
01:21:33,560 --> 01:21:36,120
Speaker 4: earlier in the show. If you're not fully confident that

1582
01:21:36,240 --> 01:21:39,160
Speaker 4: one of these guys can be your franchise guy, then

1583
01:21:39,200 --> 01:21:40,880
Speaker 4: go out and get a stop gap and try to

1584
01:21:40,920 --> 01:21:43,840
Speaker 4: figure it out, find a project guy in the second

1585
01:21:43,960 --> 01:21:46,040
Speaker 4: or third round potentially, or circle back and do it

1586
01:21:46,080 --> 01:21:48,280
Speaker 4: again next year. But you can really end up setting

1587
01:21:48,280 --> 01:21:49,960
Speaker 4: yourself back. And look, they know this as well as

1588
01:21:49,960 --> 01:21:53,320
Speaker 4: anybody with Baker Mayfield, you know, and Baker's turned into

1589
01:21:53,320 --> 01:21:55,639
Speaker 4: a solid player, but it took him two years, three

1590
01:21:55,720 --> 01:21:58,400
Speaker 4: years removed from being a Brown for that to actually happen.

1591
01:21:59,200 --> 01:22:01,760
Speaker 4: And they can't afford to do that again. So I

1592
01:22:01,760 --> 01:22:04,080
Speaker 4: think it's a smart move to bring Flacco when you

1593
01:22:04,160 --> 01:22:05,880
Speaker 4: kind of know what you're getting at that point in time.

1594
01:22:06,120 --> 01:22:08,160
Speaker 4: Obviously not what he used to be, but still a

1595
01:22:08,200 --> 01:22:09,000
Speaker 4: capable player.

1596
01:22:10,280 --> 01:22:14,839
Speaker 2: Yeah, and I think that's get the trade for Kenny Pickett.

1597
01:22:14,880 --> 01:22:16,120
Speaker 2: I don't like Kenny Pickett, but.

1598
01:22:16,400 --> 01:22:21,120
Speaker 4: No, it's someone who's still young, who changes scenery. Maybe

1599
01:22:21,120 --> 01:22:22,720
Speaker 4: it helps him out. I don't know. It was a

1600
01:22:23,080 --> 01:22:25,600
Speaker 4: it was a low risk move for someone who is talented,

1601
01:22:25,680 --> 01:22:27,800
Speaker 4: so you kind of bring him in and see see

1602
01:22:27,800 --> 01:22:30,400
Speaker 4: what happens. I don't necessarily have a big issue with it.

1603
01:22:30,600 --> 01:22:33,200
Speaker 4: I don't have the highest expectations for him, to be honest.

1604
01:22:33,320 --> 01:22:36,080
Speaker 2: But you you know why they you know, Pickett and

1605
01:22:36,160 --> 01:22:41,280
Speaker 2: Flacco is the Giant. It's what the Giants did with

1606
01:22:41,760 --> 01:22:44,040
Speaker 2: Russ and Winston.

1607
01:22:45,320 --> 01:22:48,280
Speaker 3: Right like that. I mean, that's basically what they got, right.

1608
01:22:49,160 --> 01:22:49,360
Speaker 3: You know.

1609
01:22:49,520 --> 01:22:52,920
Speaker 2: That allows you to not have to force one of

1610
01:22:52,960 --> 01:22:54,479
Speaker 2: the quarterbacks, right.

1611
01:22:54,320 --> 01:22:57,320
Speaker 4: Which is smart. That's how that's what everybody should operate

1612
01:22:57,400 --> 01:22:59,600
Speaker 4: instead of just taking a quarterback because you declare that

1613
01:22:59,640 --> 01:23:00,200
Speaker 4: you need one.

1614
01:23:01,320 --> 01:23:05,479
Speaker 2: So all right, let's think about it. One we knows

1615
01:23:05,560 --> 01:23:13,519
Speaker 2: cam Ward, yep. Two is Cleveland aforementioned? Is it Abdul

1616
01:23:13,600 --> 01:23:15,240
Speaker 2: Carter or is it Travis Hunter?

1617
01:23:16,040 --> 01:23:18,720
Speaker 4: Well, based on the conversations we've had, and you know

1618
01:23:18,760 --> 01:23:21,639
Speaker 4: how we like to build teams from the front back,

1619
01:23:21,800 --> 01:23:23,960
Speaker 4: so Abdua Carter is the easy one for me, even

1620
01:23:23,960 --> 01:23:28,040
Speaker 4: though I think that Travis Hunter is a spectacular player.

1621
01:23:28,160 --> 01:23:29,720
Speaker 4: Is probably gonna be a corner and it could be

1622
01:23:29,760 --> 01:23:32,479
Speaker 4: a really good one with some gadget plays on offense

1623
01:23:32,560 --> 01:23:36,560
Speaker 4: for him. But when you can wreck Rekavic up front defensively,

1624
01:23:37,439 --> 01:23:39,280
Speaker 4: and especially if you can add him into the mix

1625
01:23:39,280 --> 01:23:41,360
Speaker 4: with Miles Garrett, who just signed to a giant extension.

1626
01:23:41,360 --> 01:23:43,240
Speaker 4: Why wouldn't you do that? That makes all the sense

1627
01:23:43,280 --> 01:23:43,879
Speaker 4: in the world.

1628
01:23:43,640 --> 01:23:47,720
Speaker 2: To me, dude, I mean imagine, right, you said it,

1629
01:23:48,040 --> 01:23:53,439
Speaker 2: Carter and Miles Garrett, Oh my god, I mean that

1630
01:23:53,479 --> 01:24:00,439
Speaker 2: would be insane. That's why I think again to think

1631
01:24:00,479 --> 01:24:04,840
Speaker 2: about who you are. You're the Browns, right. All the

1632
01:24:04,920 --> 01:24:07,640
Speaker 2: quarterback stuff, forget it, Like, I know you're gonna need

1633
01:24:07,680 --> 01:24:11,120
Speaker 2: to get one at some point, but build the truly

1634
01:24:11,320 --> 01:24:15,559
Speaker 2: build a defense at a running game, right, and you

1635
01:24:15,560 --> 01:24:16,000
Speaker 2: could win.

1636
01:24:16,160 --> 01:24:18,040
Speaker 3: I mean, Eagle showed you that, right.

1637
01:24:18,520 --> 01:24:22,000
Speaker 4: And guys, the Browns overall don't have a terrible roster.

1638
01:24:22,520 --> 01:24:24,760
Speaker 4: You know, they have some holes to plug here and there,

1639
01:24:24,800 --> 01:24:27,160
Speaker 4: but they're they're good enough for a roster as a

1640
01:24:27,200 --> 01:24:30,120
Speaker 4: hole to compete in that division, uh for or at

1641
01:24:30,120 --> 01:24:31,760
Speaker 4: the very least to be a wild card. If you

1642
01:24:31,840 --> 01:24:34,120
Speaker 4: just plug a couple of holes here and there, so

1643
01:24:34,280 --> 01:24:36,879
Speaker 4: you get yourself stronger on the defensive front. To your point,

1644
01:24:37,120 --> 01:24:39,400
Speaker 4: get yourself a running game for a Joe Flacco or

1645
01:24:39,479 --> 01:24:41,400
Speaker 4: can you Pickett? You could be good enough to compete

1646
01:24:41,439 --> 01:24:42,679
Speaker 4: for a playoff spot for sure.

1647
01:24:42,760 --> 01:24:46,880
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, So all right, So now you're three, you're

1648
01:24:46,960 --> 01:24:50,720
Speaker 2: the Giants, and if you're the Giants, I think now

1649
01:24:50,720 --> 01:24:51,880
Speaker 2: you've got to go Travishner.

1650
01:24:52,800 --> 01:24:56,000
Speaker 4: Yeah, you go Travis Travils Sandras is the best player

1651
01:24:56,040 --> 01:24:57,840
Speaker 4: left on the board. If you wanted to go for Need,

1652
01:24:57,880 --> 01:25:00,479
Speaker 4: I wouldn't be mad at you if you went Campbell

1653
01:25:00,479 --> 01:25:02,479
Speaker 4: from LSU to help the offensive line a little bit,

1654
01:25:02,720 --> 01:25:05,160
Speaker 4: because that's something that they've explicitly said they need to

1655
01:25:05,200 --> 01:25:08,240
Speaker 4: shore up the last couple of seasons off seasons, and

1656
01:25:08,360 --> 01:25:11,080
Speaker 4: Joe Shane has not done that. So I wouldn't be

1657
01:25:11,120 --> 01:25:13,200
Speaker 4: mad at Will Campbell, but I would stay true to

1658
01:25:13,240 --> 01:25:14,680
Speaker 4: the board to your point, and I would end up

1659
01:25:14,680 --> 01:25:15,960
Speaker 4: taking Travis Hunter two.

1660
01:25:17,240 --> 01:25:22,479
Speaker 2: And only because he's so He's Travis Hunters is just

1661
01:25:22,600 --> 01:25:23,639
Speaker 2: such an elite talent.

1662
01:25:23,800 --> 01:25:26,600
Speaker 4: He's dominant. He can be Charles Woodson, Chant Bailey, he.

1663
01:25:26,600 --> 01:25:30,720
Speaker 2: Can exactly like, you can't pass that up, right, As

1664
01:25:30,760 --> 01:25:33,960
Speaker 2: much as I love Campbell and I think he's legit

1665
01:25:34,200 --> 01:25:38,920
Speaker 2: and they need help on that line. You know, when

1666
01:25:38,960 --> 01:25:43,240
Speaker 2: you get complete impact players, you got to take.

1667
01:25:43,080 --> 01:25:46,639
Speaker 4: Them, Yeah, especially when they fall into your lap, right,

1668
01:25:46,680 --> 01:25:48,720
Speaker 4: which in a normal year or another year, he would

1669
01:25:48,760 --> 01:25:51,960
Speaker 4: be the top prospect overall, regardless of position. So you

1670
01:25:52,040 --> 01:25:53,880
Speaker 4: get that kind of value with the third overall pick.

1671
01:25:53,960 --> 01:25:56,240
Speaker 4: I agree with you, I would end up taking him.

1672
01:25:56,479 --> 01:26:01,800
Speaker 2: So now, if you're the Patriots, I think you got

1673
01:26:01,840 --> 01:26:04,439
Speaker 2: to go Mason Graham.

1674
01:26:04,640 --> 01:26:07,840
Speaker 4: Yeah, I would agree, and it kind of fits. He's

1675
01:26:07,920 --> 01:26:10,360
Speaker 4: kind of a Mike Rabowl type of player, too, tough

1676
01:26:10,439 --> 01:26:13,479
Speaker 4: up front, you know, will be a safe pick to

1677
01:26:13,520 --> 01:26:17,240
Speaker 4: a certain degree, to because even if he quote unquote

1678
01:26:17,240 --> 01:26:19,320
Speaker 4: bus he's at least, at worse is going to be

1679
01:26:19,320 --> 01:26:22,599
Speaker 4: a rotational defensive tackle, but at best, which we're all

1680
01:26:22,680 --> 01:26:25,599
Speaker 4: expecting the best, that he will be a very, very

1681
01:26:25,920 --> 01:26:30,120
Speaker 4: highly productive, if not dominant inside presence. So I would agree.

1682
01:26:30,280 --> 01:26:33,880
Speaker 4: I would still consider Will Campbell here too, because they

1683
01:26:33,880 --> 01:26:36,120
Speaker 4: need help on the offensive line, and you invested so

1684
01:26:36,200 --> 01:26:38,920
Speaker 4: much in getting Drake May you should invest in trying

1685
01:26:38,920 --> 01:26:41,960
Speaker 4: to keep him protect it. So you know, I'm in

1686
01:26:42,000 --> 01:26:44,240
Speaker 4: one of these situations where today I might say Mason Graham,

1687
01:26:44,240 --> 01:26:45,920
Speaker 4: but tomorrow I might say Will Campbell if I'm to

1688
01:26:45,960 --> 01:26:48,320
Speaker 4: be fully honest with you, But right now, gun to

1689
01:26:48,360 --> 01:26:49,799
Speaker 4: my head, I would say Mason Graham.

1690
01:26:50,240 --> 01:26:52,880
Speaker 3: Right now, if you're Jacksonville, You've got to go Will camp.

1691
01:26:52,720 --> 01:26:57,160
Speaker 4: For sure, definitely, because clearly Trevor Lawrence can't stay upright,

1692
01:26:57,800 --> 01:26:59,880
Speaker 4: So yeah, and you've invested.

1693
01:26:59,479 --> 01:27:03,479
Speaker 2: So much and for all you gotta the only way

1694
01:27:03,560 --> 01:27:08,120
Speaker 2: to see about Lawrence is if you protect them, right,

1695
01:27:09,600 --> 01:27:10,960
Speaker 2: and they haven't done that.

1696
01:27:11,040 --> 01:27:13,479
Speaker 4: No, And I mean and to be fair to that process,

1697
01:27:13,520 --> 01:27:15,120
Speaker 4: I mean, there have been times where Trevor Lawrence has

1698
01:27:15,160 --> 01:27:18,080
Speaker 4: been decently protected and he makes some really bad throws,

1699
01:27:18,120 --> 01:27:20,640
Speaker 4: but you know, have happy feet in the pocket? Is

1700
01:27:20,640 --> 01:27:21,000
Speaker 4: he right?

1701
01:27:21,040 --> 01:27:23,840
Speaker 3: Like God, you gotta have to have a line he.

1702
01:27:23,920 --> 01:27:29,160
Speaker 4: Trusts, right, right, So so I'm with you on that.

1703
01:27:29,240 --> 01:27:31,040
Speaker 4: I that that makes the most sense for me there.

1704
01:27:31,080 --> 01:27:32,600
Speaker 4: You gotta go to the offensive line to try to

1705
01:27:32,640 --> 01:27:35,559
Speaker 4: protect whatever you have left with uh, with Trevor Lawrence.

1706
01:27:35,600 --> 01:27:36,400
Speaker 4: So that makes sense to me.

1707
01:27:37,720 --> 01:27:38,120
Speaker 3: All right.

1708
01:27:39,040 --> 01:27:47,760
Speaker 2: Then you're on the clock, right figgis Raiders And I

1709
01:27:47,800 --> 01:27:49,400
Speaker 2: want to talk to you about the Raids a little bit

1710
01:27:49,680 --> 01:27:53,320
Speaker 2: because you know, TV's calling the shots here.

1711
01:27:54,400 --> 01:27:56,720
Speaker 4: Right, even though they try to make it as if

1712
01:27:56,720 --> 01:28:00,439
Speaker 4: he's not. But he has heavy influence very Yeah TV.

1713
01:28:00,880 --> 01:28:05,200
Speaker 2: I know TV's called the shots now. Yeah, and listen,

1714
01:28:05,280 --> 01:28:06,000
Speaker 2: I don't blame him.

1715
01:28:07,360 --> 01:28:11,479
Speaker 4: Yeah, why not? Well, look, things have it hasn't been

1716
01:28:11,479 --> 01:28:13,760
Speaker 4: working the last twenty years for the Raiders the way

1717
01:28:13,760 --> 01:28:14,880
Speaker 4: they've been doing it. So why not.

1718
01:28:15,160 --> 01:28:16,840
Speaker 2: That's the way that I look at it. No, and

1719
01:28:17,840 --> 01:28:23,360
Speaker 2: here's the thing about Brady. I trust Brady like I

1720
01:28:23,400 --> 01:28:26,040
Speaker 2: think Brady can be a great NFL executive.

1721
01:28:27,920 --> 01:28:30,360
Speaker 4: I think he can. He doesn't have any experience in

1722
01:28:30,400 --> 01:28:33,679
Speaker 4: personnel or anything. But I trust the fact that he's

1723
01:28:33,840 --> 01:28:36,920
Speaker 4: extremely hard worker, He's very well prepared. He takes everything

1724
01:28:37,040 --> 01:28:39,200
Speaker 4: seriously that he does. He's not going to do anything

1725
01:28:39,240 --> 01:28:42,599
Speaker 4: half assed. So based on all of that, I choose

1726
01:28:42,640 --> 01:28:45,479
Speaker 4: to believe that he's going to put his everything into

1727
01:28:45,520 --> 01:28:48,200
Speaker 4: trying to be the best executive that he can. So

1728
01:28:48,720 --> 01:28:51,200
Speaker 4: I have confidence in him for that reason, absent of

1729
01:28:51,200 --> 01:28:54,479
Speaker 4: the fact that he has no experience doing it, and

1730
01:28:54,760 --> 01:28:56,479
Speaker 4: Carol does. He has Pizza lean on.

1731
01:28:56,600 --> 01:29:01,519
Speaker 3: So he does, right. I just think he knows he's

1732
01:29:01,560 --> 01:29:02,120
Speaker 3: shellthing too.

1733
01:29:02,160 --> 01:29:08,120
Speaker 2: But by doing by doing the broadcast too, he sees players.

1734
01:29:08,680 --> 01:29:11,160
Speaker 3: I just think he knows that. I think he knows players.

1735
01:29:11,920 --> 01:29:16,280
Speaker 2: I think he's got the gift of understanding who's good.

1736
01:29:17,360 --> 01:29:20,439
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think I'm hopeful that that's the case. I

1737
01:29:20,479 --> 01:29:22,439
Speaker 4: guess we'll have to wait. The time will tell whether

1738
01:29:22,560 --> 01:29:24,200
Speaker 4: or not that's the case or not. Whether as far

1739
01:29:24,240 --> 01:29:27,280
Speaker 4: as valuating talent and you know, and even as being

1740
01:29:27,439 --> 01:29:29,880
Speaker 4: the elite analyst for Fox is very restricted because of

1741
01:29:29,920 --> 01:29:32,200
Speaker 4: his ownership responsibilities with the Raiders. There are meetings he

1742
01:29:32,240 --> 01:29:34,439
Speaker 4: can't go to, practices he can't go to. So even

1743
01:29:34,960 --> 01:29:37,920
Speaker 4: with all of that, he's having a really limited intel

1744
01:29:37,960 --> 01:29:40,200
Speaker 4: on the teams he's covering on a weekend, week out basis.

1745
01:29:40,560 --> 01:29:46,720
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm wondering though. It was funny because he's so

1746
01:29:46,800 --> 01:29:49,599
Speaker 2: good at it. You know, he got great Like here's

1747
01:29:49,600 --> 01:29:52,040
Speaker 2: the thing about Brady. Whatever he does, he's great at it.

1748
01:29:52,120 --> 01:29:55,559
Speaker 4: Yeah, he improved week after week this past season. He

1749
01:29:55,680 --> 01:29:59,120
Speaker 4: really did. He still wasn't perfect as an analyst, if I'm

1750
01:29:59,040 --> 01:30:01,120
Speaker 4: gonna be honest, but I mean from Week one to

1751
01:30:01,200 --> 01:30:03,760
Speaker 4: the Super Bowl, I thought he improved dramatically.

1752
01:30:04,400 --> 01:30:05,160
Speaker 3: Dude, was funny.

1753
01:30:06,760 --> 01:30:10,120
Speaker 2: I have to say this too, because you know it's great, right, So,

1754
01:30:11,479 --> 01:30:18,519
Speaker 2: but he's he's such a gentleman. There was so you know,

1755
01:30:18,600 --> 01:30:22,360
Speaker 2: here he was in Philadelphia a lot because of the Eels, right,

1756
01:30:22,360 --> 01:30:26,480
Speaker 2: because they were doing there was Kevin Burkhart. Yeah, and

1757
01:30:26,160 --> 01:30:30,479
Speaker 2: he and Tom were in Town a lot, and they

1758
01:30:30,479 --> 01:30:32,599
Speaker 2: were always eat at my friend's restaurant.

1759
01:30:33,280 --> 01:30:33,599
Speaker 4: Way.

1760
01:30:34,160 --> 01:30:38,160
Speaker 2: Yeah, mister Tony, remember I tell you about mister Town. Yeah, yeah,

1761
01:30:38,200 --> 01:30:42,799
Speaker 2: Well they go see mister Tony at Aroma in South Philly,

1762
01:30:43,400 --> 01:30:52,920
Speaker 2: and there were times where kids around the block and

1763
01:30:53,040 --> 01:30:57,519
Speaker 2: Tom sat talked to every kid. I mean, I mean

1764
01:30:57,560 --> 01:31:04,120
Speaker 2: literally took time from his meal, went signed stuff for kids,

1765
01:31:04,280 --> 01:31:09,920
Speaker 2: like talk to kids, so pictures he was. I mean,

1766
01:31:10,320 --> 01:31:14,720
Speaker 2: this is the goat, right like this dude, I mean,

1767
01:31:14,720 --> 01:31:17,400
Speaker 2: I have to be I gotta be completely honest. It

1768
01:31:17,560 --> 01:31:19,720
Speaker 2: floored me how gracious he was.

1769
01:31:20,720 --> 01:31:25,120
Speaker 4: Yeah, someone of that ilk with that status, right.

1770
01:31:24,000 --> 01:31:27,080
Speaker 2: So I expected him to be polite, right yeah, sure,

1771
01:31:27,479 --> 01:31:29,400
Speaker 2: but he was downright warm.

1772
01:31:29,920 --> 01:31:30,320
Speaker 4: He was.

1773
01:31:30,880 --> 01:31:32,959
Speaker 3: He was he was a gentleman.

1774
01:31:33,200 --> 01:31:35,680
Speaker 4: He was warm, he was.

1775
01:31:36,360 --> 01:31:41,519
Speaker 2: I mean, I have I was so impressed by by

1776
01:31:41,560 --> 01:31:44,200
Speaker 2: how he was with everybody, with people. For a guy

1777
01:31:44,240 --> 01:31:47,880
Speaker 2: that gets caught at all the time, the dude was

1778
01:31:48,200 --> 01:31:49,800
Speaker 2: just just an ace.

1779
01:31:50,400 --> 01:31:53,320
Speaker 4: Wow. You know it's funny they say, like, you know,

1780
01:31:53,560 --> 01:31:55,439
Speaker 4: you give somebody, you know a lot of money and

1781
01:31:55,479 --> 01:31:58,400
Speaker 4: their true character comes out. And you know, Tom was

1782
01:31:58,400 --> 01:32:01,000
Speaker 4: a sixth round pick and you know, ibviously wasn't drafted high,

1783
01:32:01,000 --> 01:32:03,120
Speaker 4: didn't have high expectations, and had to work his tail

1784
01:32:03,160 --> 01:32:06,519
Speaker 4: off to get to every everything that he earned. He's

1785
01:32:06,520 --> 01:32:09,280
Speaker 4: still maintained that humility the entire time all the way

1786
01:32:09,280 --> 01:32:11,599
Speaker 4: through all the way that tells you the true character

1787
01:32:11,640 --> 01:32:13,400
Speaker 4: of somebody.

1788
01:32:12,479 --> 01:32:14,320
Speaker 3: The tremendous.

1789
01:32:15,240 --> 01:32:19,240
Speaker 2: There was a there was a certain player current player,

1790
01:32:19,520 --> 01:32:21,800
Speaker 2: I can't even say it, who was in the who's

1791
01:32:21,800 --> 01:32:25,599
Speaker 2: in the league, who loves Brady right and a very

1792
01:32:25,680 --> 01:32:29,560
Speaker 2: good player loves Brady. In fact, he was taken to

1793
01:32:29,640 --> 01:32:33,679
Speaker 2: the restaurant to meet Brady and then they huddled and all.

1794
01:32:34,479 --> 01:32:36,320
Speaker 3: And then the next week he.

1795
01:32:36,240 --> 01:32:42,320
Speaker 2: Got a sign Brady Jersey to mel Oh wow, yeah, yeah,

1796
01:32:42,920 --> 01:32:47,280
Speaker 2: really cool, really cool, Like you know, but like it

1797
01:32:47,439 --> 01:32:51,320
Speaker 2: just struck me seeing all this stuff over the last

1798
01:32:51,520 --> 01:32:55,920
Speaker 2: over that month was I felt just really cool. I

1799
01:32:56,600 --> 01:32:59,599
Speaker 2: appreciate that. I love hearing that stuff about guys.

1800
01:33:00,160 --> 01:33:01,880
Speaker 4: Well, especially when you see it and it's not you know,

1801
01:33:02,000 --> 01:33:05,559
Speaker 4: there's it's not a photo op. It's not all over

1802
01:33:05,560 --> 01:33:05,920
Speaker 4: the place.

1803
01:33:05,960 --> 01:33:07,240
Speaker 3: You know, Yeah, no, it's legit.

1804
01:33:09,320 --> 01:33:09,519
Speaker 4: You know.

1805
01:33:09,960 --> 01:33:15,160
Speaker 2: You know, it's like the greatest athlete that has time

1806
01:33:15,200 --> 01:33:20,360
Speaker 2: for everybody that truly is America's guest in every which

1807
01:33:20,360 --> 01:33:22,599
Speaker 2: way is Barkley.

1808
01:33:23,160 --> 01:33:25,560
Speaker 4: Absolutely Charles.

1809
01:33:26,560 --> 01:33:28,400
Speaker 3: I've seen it action a million times.

1810
01:33:28,920 --> 01:33:33,479
Speaker 2: He buys the bar around like nobody's a bigger support

1811
01:33:33,520 --> 01:33:35,919
Speaker 2: than Barkley. He loves it right, like he loves people.

1812
01:33:36,520 --> 01:33:38,800
Speaker 2: He's the coolest dude you'll ever want to like. He's

1813
01:33:38,840 --> 01:33:40,920
Speaker 2: a guy that you generally want to meet, you want

1814
01:33:40,960 --> 01:33:41,400
Speaker 2: to have a.

1815
01:33:41,360 --> 01:33:43,800
Speaker 4: Beer with, right, and he'll pay for the beers, you know.

1816
01:33:43,960 --> 01:33:48,840
Speaker 2: Yes, Yes, Brady's the same way, Brady Brady. I gotta

1817
01:33:48,880 --> 01:33:51,080
Speaker 2: tell you, I got Charles vibes off them.

1818
01:33:51,200 --> 01:33:53,879
Speaker 4: Wow, that's high praise, that's.

1819
01:33:54,680 --> 01:33:56,760
Speaker 3: I know anyway. I have to share that with you.

1820
01:33:56,800 --> 01:33:59,800
Speaker 4: No, that's awesome. I love that story and be to

1821
01:33:59,800 --> 01:34:02,240
Speaker 4: me even more confidence than Tom Brady running the ship.

1822
01:34:02,400 --> 01:34:05,120
Speaker 2: So yeah, dude, I gotta tell you, I think I

1823
01:34:05,160 --> 01:34:10,400
Speaker 2: think the Raiders are going to be fixed. I don't

1824
01:34:10,400 --> 01:34:12,519
Speaker 2: know how long it's going to take them, but I

1825
01:34:12,640 --> 01:34:15,120
Speaker 2: think the Raiders are going to I think they're going

1826
01:34:15,120 --> 01:34:16,120
Speaker 2: to go in the right direction.

1827
01:34:16,400 --> 01:34:19,160
Speaker 4: Yeah, they're They're in tough sledding with that division, uh

1828
01:34:19,400 --> 01:34:23,439
Speaker 4: for sure, star power, especially at the coaching ranks. But yeah,

1829
01:34:23,520 --> 01:34:24,920
Speaker 4: the arrow's pointing up for sure.

1830
01:34:26,560 --> 01:34:27,960
Speaker 3: All right, So who are you taking?

1831
01:34:28,479 --> 01:34:31,120
Speaker 4: So this is tough because I do love Ashton Gentzy,

1832
01:34:31,640 --> 01:34:34,519
Speaker 4: but it's also a very deep running back class in general.

1833
01:34:34,600 --> 01:34:39,679
Speaker 4: So the question is Ashton Gentcy a generational, franchise changing

1834
01:34:39,720 --> 01:34:43,320
Speaker 4: type of running back or is it the gap between

1835
01:34:43,400 --> 01:34:46,840
Speaker 4: him and Amari and Hampton or Trayveon Henderson or a

1836
01:34:46,840 --> 01:34:50,720
Speaker 4: couple of others not as wide as you think. I

1837
01:34:50,880 --> 01:34:53,719
Speaker 4: tend to think that you generally can find running backs.

1838
01:34:53,800 --> 01:34:56,240
Speaker 4: I don't know if Ashton Genzy is necessarily I've heard

1839
01:34:56,280 --> 01:34:59,960
Speaker 4: Emtt Smith comparisons. That's obviously pretty lofty. If he may

1840
01:35:00,000 --> 01:35:02,400
Speaker 4: makes that sort of Saquon Barkley impact or not, I

1841
01:35:02,400 --> 01:35:04,680
Speaker 4: don't know if he does, but I do know they

1842
01:35:04,680 --> 01:35:07,640
Speaker 4: have other needs, like the offensive line, their defensive backfield.

1843
01:35:08,120 --> 01:35:11,240
Speaker 4: Like I would probably right now go with someone like

1844
01:35:11,240 --> 01:35:15,320
Speaker 4: a Will Johnson, who's obviously not Travis Hunter, but he's

1845
01:35:15,320 --> 01:35:18,160
Speaker 4: a top notch Day one starting cornerback that has potential

1846
01:35:18,200 --> 01:35:20,200
Speaker 4: to be an all pro. I think I would go

1847
01:35:20,240 --> 01:35:22,360
Speaker 4: with him and then try to see what I can

1848
01:35:22,360 --> 01:35:24,200
Speaker 4: circle back with a thirty seventh pick in the second

1849
01:35:24,240 --> 01:35:25,800
Speaker 4: round and see if there's a running back there to

1850
01:35:25,840 --> 01:35:30,320
Speaker 4: my liking, yeah, I hear you, I love gent Bed Yeah.

1851
01:35:30,479 --> 01:35:32,559
Speaker 4: I look. I'll put it this way, if they took

1852
01:35:32,600 --> 01:35:34,640
Speaker 4: gen C, I would not be mad at all, not

1853
01:35:34,640 --> 01:35:35,360
Speaker 4: in the least.

1854
01:35:35,120 --> 01:35:39,439
Speaker 2: Bit shield The shame is is if if this was

1855
01:35:39,479 --> 01:35:44,200
Speaker 2: a year later in their build jet he's a no brainer.

1856
01:35:44,200 --> 01:35:47,720
Speaker 4: He'd be the easy pick, right, Yeah, but.

1857
01:35:47,680 --> 01:35:49,280
Speaker 3: I understand where you're coming from. Yeah.

1858
01:35:49,320 --> 01:35:51,160
Speaker 4: Now, look, there's also the element of, like, if you

1859
01:35:51,200 --> 01:35:53,519
Speaker 4: do think he's that much, that impactful of a player.

1860
01:35:54,000 --> 01:35:56,599
Speaker 4: He brought in Geno Smith, who's an average to above

1861
01:35:56,640 --> 01:35:58,840
Speaker 4: average starting quarterback who has been good when he's had

1862
01:35:58,880 --> 01:36:00,840
Speaker 4: a running game. Last year he didn't, and I think

1863
01:36:00,840 --> 01:36:04,920
Speaker 4: that's why his turnovers went up. You have good weapons

1864
01:36:04,960 --> 01:36:08,080
Speaker 4: offensively with brock Bowers, and Myers has shown himself to

1865
01:36:08,080 --> 01:36:10,280
Speaker 4: be a decent number two receiver because even though he's

1866
01:36:10,320 --> 01:36:12,479
Speaker 4: a tight end, brock Bowers is their number one receiver.

1867
01:36:12,600 --> 01:36:15,479
Speaker 4: There's no mistake about it. Yeah, you add in a dominant,

1868
01:36:15,520 --> 01:36:18,639
Speaker 4: potentially dominant running back like gent I mean, Sky's the limit.

1869
01:36:19,800 --> 01:36:22,720
Speaker 4: The question is can you find somebody else similar to him?

1870
01:36:23,240 --> 01:36:25,040
Speaker 4: Or look, if somebody wants to trade up, if there's

1871
01:36:25,080 --> 01:36:26,960
Speaker 4: gonna be some sort of battle for him, Like you know,

1872
01:36:27,200 --> 01:36:29,519
Speaker 4: the Cowboys might want him, you know, a couple of

1873
01:36:29,560 --> 01:36:32,439
Speaker 4: other teams behind might want him. Maybe you leverage that

1874
01:36:32,479 --> 01:36:34,080
Speaker 4: pick and move down a few spots and you could

1875
01:36:34,080 --> 01:36:36,280
Speaker 4: probably still get Will Johnson and the team somewhere.

1876
01:36:36,479 --> 01:36:39,479
Speaker 2: You know, looking about him, you're you're at a great point.

1877
01:36:39,560 --> 01:36:44,639
Speaker 2: And here's the thing about the Cowboys. To me, Gent

1878
01:36:45,400 --> 01:36:47,360
Speaker 2: is the only one that could save their off season.

1879
01:36:47,800 --> 01:36:49,519
Speaker 4: I would agree with that because their off season has

1880
01:36:49,520 --> 01:36:53,720
Speaker 4: been a disaster to this point. Well, if you add Gent.

1881
01:36:55,439 --> 01:37:02,360
Speaker 2: There you go, all right, well Gent cd triangle with

1882
01:37:02,479 --> 01:37:06,120
Speaker 2: a healthy Dack, then all of a sudden, like I

1883
01:37:06,479 --> 01:37:07,960
Speaker 2: could get excited.

1884
01:37:07,880 --> 01:37:11,640
Speaker 4: Right, I'm with you on that, although questions on that

1885
01:37:11,680 --> 01:37:13,320
Speaker 4: offensive line too, you know.

1886
01:37:13,439 --> 01:37:17,680
Speaker 2: Yes, yes, but it's still good. I don't think it's

1887
01:37:17,680 --> 01:37:18,559
Speaker 2: a bad line.

1888
01:37:19,120 --> 01:37:22,240
Speaker 4: No, I mean, losing Zach Martin's not gonna help obviously.

1889
01:37:22,400 --> 01:37:24,400
Speaker 3: Yeah, but I mean he was, he was starting to

1890
01:37:24,439 --> 01:37:25,240
Speaker 3: decline a little bit.

1891
01:37:25,120 --> 01:37:26,920
Speaker 4: He was, but he was still you know, I would

1892
01:37:26,960 --> 01:37:28,799
Speaker 4: still say he was an above average player.

1893
01:37:28,960 --> 01:37:29,160
Speaker 7: Yeah.

1894
01:37:29,439 --> 01:37:34,000
Speaker 2: Yeah, I again, if I could get if I got

1895
01:37:34,000 --> 01:37:37,559
Speaker 2: Action Dent, if I got Ashton Gent and I'm in Dallas,

1896
01:37:37,920 --> 01:37:42,559
Speaker 2: I'm starting to go like that at least would revive me.

1897
01:37:42,520 --> 01:37:46,000
Speaker 3: Because because other than that, I mean, do you like

1898
01:37:46,000 --> 01:37:46,679
Speaker 3: where they're headed?

1899
01:37:46,960 --> 01:37:50,479
Speaker 4: No? How could you? What of note have they done?

1900
01:37:50,880 --> 01:37:51,440
Speaker 3: Exactly?

1901
01:37:51,840 --> 01:37:55,720
Speaker 4: But Joe Milton, you got yourself a backup quarterback spectacular.

1902
01:37:55,840 --> 01:37:57,760
Speaker 4: I mean, by the way we talked about their running

1903
01:37:57,760 --> 01:38:00,400
Speaker 4: back itches going into last offseason. I remember you Fits

1904
01:38:00,439 --> 01:38:02,400
Speaker 4: had this conversation. Fitz and I were bullets on the

1905
01:38:02,439 --> 01:38:04,280
Speaker 4: Cowboys and said they didn't need a running game, they'd

1906
01:38:04,280 --> 01:38:07,280
Speaker 4: be fine. And obviously they fell off of a cliff.

1907
01:38:07,720 --> 01:38:08,360
Speaker 4: It was terrible.

1908
01:38:08,400 --> 01:38:12,479
Speaker 2: Yeah, that one. I saw that one. I didn't get it.

1909
01:38:12,600 --> 01:38:16,240
Speaker 2: I didn't understand it. All this talk their their win

1910
01:38:16,360 --> 01:38:17,840
Speaker 2: totals were kind of a half.

1911
01:38:18,160 --> 01:38:20,000
Speaker 4: Yeah, and and Fitz and I both took the over

1912
01:38:20,080 --> 01:38:20,360
Speaker 4: on that.

1913
01:38:20,600 --> 01:38:22,599
Speaker 3: And I was like, I don't say it. I don't

1914
01:38:22,640 --> 01:38:23,080
Speaker 3: say it.

1915
01:38:23,320 --> 01:38:27,679
Speaker 2: I don't like them, and they're just you know, but again,

1916
01:38:27,760 --> 01:38:31,120
Speaker 2: but you you give me genty on there kind of rejuice.

1917
01:38:31,439 --> 01:38:33,840
Speaker 3: I also think they need to be rejuvenated.

1918
01:38:34,200 --> 01:38:35,960
Speaker 4: Yeah, they coach.

1919
01:38:36,080 --> 01:38:37,080
Speaker 3: I mean, you know, we'll see.

1920
01:38:37,320 --> 01:38:39,240
Speaker 4: You know, Brian Schottenheimer doesn't do a whole lot for me,

1921
01:38:39,280 --> 01:38:41,680
Speaker 4: to be honest with you, Yeah, this is like, this

1922
01:38:41,720 --> 01:38:43,880
Speaker 4: is an old Jerry Jones callback to like, you know,

1923
01:38:43,920 --> 01:38:46,720
Speaker 4: I'm a higher up for lack of a better word,

1924
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Speaker 4: And this is no disrespect to Schottenheimer, but a puppet.

1925
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Speaker 4: And I only say that because how many head coaching

1926
01:38:53,000 --> 01:38:56,920
Speaker 4: interviews did Brian Schttenheimer get over the last couple of years. Yeah,

1927
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Speaker 4: I'm pretty confident in saying zero he was nobody's right

1928
01:39:00,479 --> 01:39:02,599
Speaker 4: to be a head coach, and I was the head

1929
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Speaker 4: coach of one of the most market biggest franchises on

1930
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Speaker 4: the planet.

1931
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Speaker 2: Well you know what it is too, It's like these dudes,

1932
01:39:08,800 --> 01:39:12,400
Speaker 2: they just want to reinvent the wheel, you know, they

1933
01:39:12,520 --> 01:39:16,000
Speaker 2: want to be the smartest guy in the room. The

1934
01:39:16,040 --> 01:39:18,760
Speaker 2: puppet thing is real too, but you know, oh, I

1935
01:39:18,800 --> 01:39:21,800
Speaker 2: got you. I'm the one. Like instead of going after Like,

1936
01:39:21,840 --> 01:39:26,759
Speaker 2: if you're the Cowboys and you're looking around, why wouldn't

1937
01:39:26,800 --> 01:39:29,680
Speaker 2: you poach Kansas City? Go all right, well hates spags, right,

1938
01:39:30,040 --> 01:39:30,559
Speaker 2: come here.

1939
01:39:31,680 --> 01:39:33,720
Speaker 4: Why didn't you call Belichick before he took the North

1940
01:39:33,760 --> 01:39:34,479
Speaker 4: Carolina job?

1941
01:39:34,840 --> 01:39:35,320
Speaker 3: Exactly?

1942
01:39:35,320 --> 01:39:36,519
Speaker 4: Why not call Pete Carroll?

1943
01:39:37,360 --> 01:39:41,360
Speaker 2: Yes, you know, like instead of trying to reinvent and

1944
01:39:41,439 --> 01:39:44,840
Speaker 2: try to be the smartest person in the room and go,

1945
01:39:45,080 --> 01:39:48,160
Speaker 2: you know, I'm a genius. I found so and so,

1946
01:39:48,680 --> 01:39:50,240
Speaker 2: go get the best guy for the job.

1947
01:39:51,320 --> 01:39:54,000
Speaker 4: And by the way, it's never worked. The runs of

1948
01:39:54,080 --> 01:39:55,840
Speaker 4: the short runs of success if you want to call

1949
01:39:55,880 --> 01:39:57,679
Speaker 4: it that for the Cowboys over the last twenty years,

1950
01:39:57,840 --> 01:40:01,040
Speaker 4: uh huh has been with Bill Parcells and Mike McCarthy,

1951
01:40:01,080 --> 01:40:04,400
Speaker 4: two established head coaches yep. Yeah. So what does that

1952
01:40:04,479 --> 01:40:05,120
Speaker 4: tell you, Jared?

1953
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Speaker 2: Yeah, all, I gotta take quick t you will continue

1954
01:40:09,200 --> 01:40:13,440
Speaker 2: a little first round look at the draft.

1955
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Speaker 3: Got here?

1956
01:40:14,040 --> 01:40:17,519
Speaker 2: What's funny? All the stuff going on? You got the

1957
01:40:17,600 --> 01:40:22,320
Speaker 2: Masters in the NBA playoffs around the corner. Nothing gets

1958
01:40:22,360 --> 01:40:24,759
Speaker 2: you more excited football.

1959
01:40:24,160 --> 01:40:26,760
Speaker 4: That's right, exactly. Still football still finds.

1960
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Speaker 3: Oh my god.

1961
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Speaker 4: We go to the draft always and all is.

1962
01:40:30,880 --> 01:40:32,639
Speaker 3: An excuse to talk about each team.

1963
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Speaker 4: Uh huh, we love it, love it.

1964
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1965
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1966
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1967
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1968
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1969
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Speaker 2: Fellas k Figgin for FITZI Cauz Fellas each week right

1970
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Speaker 2: here from the Tyraq dot com studios, Brebre producing Mighty Mark,

1971
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1972
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1973
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1974
01:41:28,040 --> 01:41:31,360
Speaker 2: be sure to tune in to Draft Night on Thursday,

1975
01:41:31,439 --> 01:41:35,080
Speaker 2: April twenty fourth, eight o'clock Eastern throughout the first round

1976
01:41:35,120 --> 01:41:40,320
Speaker 2: of the NFL Draft Insiders. That's right, Jay Glazier, former

1977
01:41:40,400 --> 01:41:44,160
Speaker 2: GM for the Jets, Joe Douglas, college football Hall of

1978
01:41:44,200 --> 01:41:48,320
Speaker 2: Famer LaVar Arrington. Fox Sports Radio lead college football reporter

1979
01:41:48,479 --> 01:41:53,599
Speaker 2: Jenny Taft will have pick by pickpredictions reactions to all

1980
01:41:53,760 --> 01:41:57,639
Speaker 2: of the first round live right here on Fox Sports Radio,

1981
01:41:58,160 --> 01:42:04,160
Speaker 2: brought to us by Ship Station. Ah, my brother, uh,

1982
01:42:04,600 --> 01:42:10,799
Speaker 2: let's keep going around the horn in this first round, Jets,

1983
01:42:11,600 --> 01:42:13,440
Speaker 2: we skipped over to Jets to Dallas.

1984
01:42:13,880 --> 01:42:17,120
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, so I talked about the Dallas Cowboys potentially

1985
01:42:17,160 --> 01:42:19,920
Speaker 4: moving up to Jets and nab Ashton Jentz at six

1986
01:42:19,960 --> 01:42:21,760
Speaker 4: with the Raiders. So that's how the Cowboys came up.

1987
01:42:22,000 --> 01:42:26,600
Speaker 2: Yeah, if you're in a Jet, it's interesting because you

1988
01:42:26,680 --> 01:42:29,280
Speaker 2: gotta you gotta do you need line help, I really do,

1989
01:42:30,880 --> 01:42:33,560
Speaker 2: Membo like you gotta go after somebody.

1990
01:42:34,720 --> 01:42:37,479
Speaker 3: You just you got to you got to fix that.

1991
01:42:38,280 --> 01:42:41,240
Speaker 4: Yeah, But you know how the Jets operate, and it

1992
01:42:41,240 --> 01:42:43,000
Speaker 4: would not surprise me. And I don't know if I'd

1993
01:42:43,040 --> 01:42:45,600
Speaker 4: be mad at them if they took Jalen Walker, but

1994
01:42:46,200 --> 01:42:48,320
Speaker 4: and I would understand it. But if you're drafting for

1995
01:42:48,400 --> 01:42:50,720
Speaker 4: need and someone who is not a crazy reach, at

1996
01:42:50,720 --> 01:42:53,479
Speaker 4: that point, I think Membo does make the most sense. Yeah,

1997
01:42:54,400 --> 01:42:55,679
Speaker 4: but Jalen Walker's enticing.

1998
01:42:56,720 --> 01:43:01,080
Speaker 2: And then then if you're Carolina, you gotta go. I

1999
01:43:01,120 --> 01:43:02,160
Speaker 2: think you gotta go Walker.

2000
01:43:02,320 --> 01:43:04,479
Speaker 4: Yeah, you got it. If you're Carolina, whoever it is,

2001
01:43:04,520 --> 01:43:07,439
Speaker 4: you're going best player available, regardless of position. So at

2002
01:43:07,479 --> 01:43:09,240
Speaker 4: that point in time, it will be Walker. If we're

2003
01:43:09,240 --> 01:43:12,479
Speaker 4: assuming Membos going to the Jets, so.

2004
01:43:13,320 --> 01:43:16,480
Speaker 3: This would be interesting if you're of the Saints.

2005
01:43:16,920 --> 01:43:20,560
Speaker 4: Yeah, this guy interesting over after yesterday's news.

2006
01:43:20,880 --> 01:43:23,479
Speaker 3: Right, let's discuss it. Where do you think it?

2007
01:43:25,560 --> 01:43:28,320
Speaker 4: Well, I know, obviously they're gonna need a quarterback anyway.

2008
01:43:28,360 --> 01:43:31,000
Speaker 4: Derek Carr was not going to be the long term answer.

2009
01:43:31,360 --> 01:43:33,280
Speaker 4: So they knew that now whether or not they assumed

2010
01:43:33,280 --> 01:43:34,880
Speaker 4: they were going to take a quarterback in the first

2011
01:43:34,920 --> 01:43:37,080
Speaker 4: round in the top ten. And I don't know if

2012
01:43:37,120 --> 01:43:41,719
Speaker 4: this changes their metric on that or not now based

2013
01:43:41,760 --> 01:43:43,840
Speaker 4: on the draft we're doing now, you know, Jackson Dart

2014
01:43:43,880 --> 01:43:47,400
Speaker 4: and Sajor Sanders are both still available. But that's rich

2015
01:43:47,439 --> 01:43:49,040
Speaker 4: for me for both of them, and I don't know

2016
01:43:49,080 --> 01:43:51,120
Speaker 4: about you, and I know they need one. And it's

2017
01:43:51,200 --> 01:43:53,080
Speaker 4: great to have a project quarterback if you can't, if

2018
01:43:53,080 --> 01:43:55,519
Speaker 4: you know, a quarterback of the future, if you can

2019
01:43:55,600 --> 01:43:57,880
Speaker 4: get one. I just don't know if I would take

2020
01:43:57,920 --> 01:44:00,160
Speaker 4: either of those guys at number nine if I were them.

2021
01:44:00,560 --> 01:44:02,240
Speaker 4: So if I were the Saints, I would also go,

2022
01:44:02,360 --> 01:44:04,880
Speaker 4: you know, best player available at that point, you know,

2023
01:44:05,240 --> 01:44:09,120
Speaker 4: so maybe you know, maybe that's Michael Williams from Georgia,

2024
01:44:09,280 --> 01:44:10,000
Speaker 4: someone like that.

2025
01:44:11,520 --> 01:44:14,360
Speaker 2: See, I think you're right, and I think you should

2026
01:44:14,400 --> 01:44:16,920
Speaker 2: do that. You don't think they will now, I think

2027
01:44:16,920 --> 01:44:21,320
Speaker 2: they're gonna go Jackson Dart. Yeah, this is where I

2028
01:44:21,360 --> 01:44:27,679
Speaker 2: think the Saints go Dart over Shadore.

2029
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Speaker 4: It makes sense to a degree. I would say SHERDERA.

2030
01:44:34,120 --> 01:44:37,680
Speaker 4: Sanders would thrive in a place where he can, you know,

2031
01:44:37,840 --> 01:44:40,080
Speaker 4: if it can be a rhythm and timing offense where

2032
01:44:40,080 --> 01:44:42,000
Speaker 4: he doesn't necessarily have to work and let when he

2033
01:44:42,080 --> 01:44:44,400
Speaker 4: was being mocked to places like Pittsburgh, I don't see

2034
01:44:44,400 --> 01:44:46,559
Speaker 4: the fit there. I just don't think he has the

2035
01:44:46,600 --> 01:44:50,799
Speaker 4: physical tools to play, you know, with Pittsburgh in Cleveland,

2036
01:44:50,920 --> 01:44:53,240
Speaker 4: in Cincinnati in December, I don't know if he has

2037
01:44:53,240 --> 01:44:56,160
Speaker 4: the strength to do that in a climate controlled, you know,

2038
01:44:56,320 --> 01:44:58,960
Speaker 4: dome environment where he's playing for the Saints. You play

2039
01:44:58,960 --> 01:45:01,479
Speaker 4: Atlanta a couple of times a year. I think that's

2040
01:45:01,560 --> 01:45:04,000
Speaker 4: kind of a really good fit now saying that Jackson

2041
01:45:04,080 --> 01:45:05,960
Speaker 4: Dart has some mobility to him. He can do a

2042
01:45:05,960 --> 01:45:08,400
Speaker 4: lot of the same things that Shador can do, but

2043
01:45:08,479 --> 01:45:10,519
Speaker 4: he's actually a better athlete as far as you know,

2044
01:45:10,560 --> 01:45:12,559
Speaker 4: being able to run around and make plays with his legs.

2045
01:45:13,160 --> 01:45:15,960
Speaker 4: So of those two, I feel like I would still

2046
01:45:16,000 --> 01:45:19,479
Speaker 4: go with Shador over Dart. But that being said, I

2047
01:45:19,479 --> 01:45:21,519
Speaker 4: wouldn't take either of them at number nine if I'm

2048
01:45:21,560 --> 01:45:23,360
Speaker 4: the Saints, if anything, I would look to trade back

2049
01:45:23,400 --> 01:45:24,760
Speaker 4: if possible and see if I can get one of

2050
01:45:24,760 --> 01:45:25,759
Speaker 4: those guys in the twenties.

2051
01:45:26,880 --> 01:45:27,120
Speaker 3: Yeah.

2052
01:45:27,240 --> 01:45:31,040
Speaker 2: I And here's the thing I would agree with you, Like,

2053
01:45:31,200 --> 01:45:37,520
Speaker 2: if I had that selection, I moved back, there's nobody

2054
01:45:37,560 --> 01:45:42,439
Speaker 2: at nine. Put the quarterbacks aside, there's nobody at nine

2055
01:45:42,479 --> 01:45:44,880
Speaker 2: that that I'm like screaming for.

2056
01:45:45,520 --> 01:45:45,720
Speaker 4: Right.

2057
01:45:46,520 --> 01:45:49,439
Speaker 2: This is the problem with the draft is that there's

2058
01:45:49,439 --> 01:45:54,200
Speaker 2: a lot of there's quality players, and it's deep, Like

2059
01:45:54,280 --> 01:45:56,840
Speaker 2: now through the rest of the first round, there's a

2060
01:45:56,840 --> 01:46:00,000
Speaker 2: lot of talent, right, but it's not number nine, ten.

2061
01:46:00,720 --> 01:46:03,840
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean there's a number of directions that I mean,

2062
01:46:03,840 --> 01:46:05,960
Speaker 4: and look, sometimes you just can't trade out of it.

2063
01:46:06,000 --> 01:46:07,679
Speaker 4: So if you're forced to have to make a pick,

2064
01:46:08,560 --> 01:46:11,479
Speaker 4: I mean, there are guys like I think the tied

2065
01:46:11,560 --> 01:46:14,479
Speaker 4: end from Penn State might be I mean, just from

2066
01:46:14,560 --> 01:46:17,840
Speaker 4: pure talent and value standpoint, would be a good pick there.

2067
01:46:19,600 --> 01:46:22,600
Speaker 2: Well, I love Warren. I think Warren is going to

2068
01:46:22,600 --> 01:46:26,160
Speaker 2: be a stunt. But if you're again, you're you're the Saints.

2069
01:46:28,080 --> 01:46:32,400
Speaker 2: I mean Warren, I like it. But he's not Bowers.

2070
01:46:33,520 --> 01:46:33,600
Speaker 8: No.

2071
01:46:34,080 --> 01:46:36,360
Speaker 4: I mean he's a different type of player than Bowers,

2072
01:46:36,360 --> 01:46:37,439
Speaker 4: but I think he can have a good end. But

2073
01:46:37,560 --> 01:46:39,599
Speaker 4: especially considering that you can move him around. I mean,

2074
01:46:40,360 --> 01:46:45,280
Speaker 4: he's basically a younger version of and who's the former

2075
01:46:45,320 --> 01:46:47,479
Speaker 4: BYU quarterback who's a gadget guy for them? Whose name

2076
01:46:47,479 --> 01:46:50,120
Speaker 4: slips my mind at the moment, Bri you know who.

2077
01:46:50,160 --> 01:46:53,479
Speaker 4: This is what I'm talking about, Taysom Hill, thank you,

2078
01:46:54,040 --> 01:46:56,280
Speaker 4: who you can play in multiple positions, do a bunch

2079
01:46:56,280 --> 01:46:58,679
Speaker 4: of different things for you while also being a really

2080
01:46:58,760 --> 01:47:03,080
Speaker 4: quality tight end. I can't take him there, okay, fair enough.

2081
01:47:03,560 --> 01:47:05,080
Speaker 4: I mean there are some boards that have him as

2082
01:47:05,120 --> 01:47:07,600
Speaker 4: like the fourth or fifth best prospect overall in the

2083
01:47:08,400 --> 01:47:09,200
Speaker 4: I listen.

2084
01:47:09,600 --> 01:47:12,160
Speaker 2: I love the He's a great kid. I love the kid.

2085
01:47:12,360 --> 01:47:15,240
Speaker 2: He's he's Penn State, He's in my backyard. I love

2086
01:47:15,280 --> 01:47:15,759
Speaker 2: the kid.

2087
01:47:16,040 --> 01:47:18,040
Speaker 3: But I can't take him here.

2088
01:47:18,439 --> 01:47:20,960
Speaker 4: So if you have to take somebody.

2089
01:47:20,800 --> 01:47:24,080
Speaker 3: Number, they have too many. They have just.

2090
01:47:25,560 --> 01:47:27,439
Speaker 2: They have to get things figured out. They have a

2091
01:47:27,439 --> 01:47:28,519
Speaker 2: lot of holes that team.

2092
01:47:28,560 --> 01:47:32,439
Speaker 4: Man. Yeah, yeah, Well maybe at that point you go

2093
01:47:32,560 --> 01:47:35,320
Speaker 4: defensive line. Maybe you go with Piers from Tennessee or

2094
01:47:35,320 --> 01:47:37,600
Speaker 4: someone like that. But I mean, I mean there's a

2095
01:47:37,680 --> 01:47:40,040
Speaker 4: there's a possibility that if you want to move off

2096
01:47:40,040 --> 01:47:43,120
Speaker 4: of nine and you can't, you gotta take somebody so

2097
01:47:43,160 --> 01:47:46,599
Speaker 4: that somebody is either a reach for a quarterback or blank.

2098
01:47:47,120 --> 01:47:50,719
Speaker 4: So I guess Anthony Gargano, you're Mickey Loomis who was blank?

2099
01:47:51,320 --> 01:47:58,640
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I can't trade I can't trade back. I mean,

2100
01:47:58,680 --> 01:48:00,960
Speaker 2: I got checkta go defense. I mean, because I'm not

2101
01:48:01,479 --> 01:48:05,880
Speaker 2: I don't want to take they will if that happens.

2102
01:48:05,920 --> 01:48:06,679
Speaker 2: You're taking Dark.

2103
01:48:07,360 --> 01:48:09,479
Speaker 4: You think they're gonna take Dark if they're they're at nine?

2104
01:48:09,600 --> 01:48:10,120
Speaker 3: Okay, yep.

2105
01:48:10,479 --> 01:48:13,240
Speaker 4: So our resident Saints fan Brie, are you cool Jackson

2106
01:48:13,320 --> 01:48:14,200
Speaker 4: Dark at number nine?

2107
01:48:14,360 --> 01:48:18,280
Speaker 9: I mean I'm unfortunately I'm drinking like the Sanders School laid,

2108
01:48:18,439 --> 01:48:21,479
Speaker 9: like I would love Shador at nine, And I mean

2109
01:48:21,520 --> 01:48:23,760
Speaker 9: like I think you can get like Kyle McCord or

2110
01:48:23,760 --> 01:48:25,400
Speaker 9: like Dylan Gabriel in the second round.

2111
01:48:25,520 --> 01:48:28,000
Speaker 10: I mean, if you know, also just for fun.

2112
01:48:27,840 --> 01:48:29,400
Speaker 4: Well you don't. Anthony loves Kyle McCord.

2113
01:48:29,520 --> 01:48:32,479
Speaker 9: I know, if you did go defense at nine and

2114
01:48:32,520 --> 01:48:34,360
Speaker 9: then if we're still going to get a quarterback in

2115
01:48:34,400 --> 01:48:36,120
Speaker 9: the second round, then like Kyle McCord.

2116
01:48:36,240 --> 01:48:38,120
Speaker 10: But in my world, in pre world, I would love

2117
01:48:38,120 --> 01:48:38,919
Speaker 10: Shadoor Sanders.

2118
01:48:39,000 --> 01:48:40,400
Speaker 4: See. I would go the opposite Brie.

2119
01:48:40,600 --> 01:48:40,960
Speaker 3: I would do.

2120
01:48:41,000 --> 01:48:42,920
Speaker 4: I would do what you mentioned first. I would take

2121
01:48:42,920 --> 01:48:45,120
Speaker 4: another player at nine and circle back in the second

2122
01:48:45,200 --> 01:48:47,719
Speaker 4: round and see if there's a quarterback who I value

2123
01:48:47,760 --> 01:48:49,400
Speaker 4: there with that pick can go that route.

2124
01:48:49,439 --> 01:48:51,280
Speaker 10: But do you think Kyle McCord or like Dylan gabriel

2125
01:48:51,280 --> 01:48:52,240
Speaker 10: would still be available?

2126
01:48:52,320 --> 01:48:54,640
Speaker 4: Oh for sure those guys are probably. Dylan Gabriel is

2127
01:48:54,680 --> 01:48:56,519
Speaker 4: probably gonna be available in the third or fourth round.

2128
01:48:57,520 --> 01:49:01,280
Speaker 4: He just doesn't have the physical measurables McCord you could

2129
01:49:01,280 --> 01:49:03,360
Speaker 4: probably get in the second. He might last into the third.

2130
01:49:03,400 --> 01:49:03,760
Speaker 7: I don't know.

2131
01:49:03,760 --> 01:49:05,960
Speaker 4: Well, what are you hearing? You done tate breakdowns with

2132
01:49:06,000 --> 01:49:07,800
Speaker 4: Baldy and talk to people there, Anthony, what are you

2133
01:49:07,840 --> 01:49:10,680
Speaker 4: hearing just from outsiders? I know how you feel about him,

2134
01:49:10,720 --> 01:49:13,479
Speaker 4: how you Baldy feels about him about like where his

2135
01:49:13,600 --> 01:49:15,160
Speaker 4: value is in the draft and where he might fall.

2136
01:49:15,240 --> 01:49:19,120
Speaker 2: So it is interesting he's one of those kids. Did

2137
01:49:19,160 --> 01:49:21,880
Speaker 2: you know you remember earlier in the show, I was

2138
01:49:21,920 --> 01:49:26,439
Speaker 2: talking about when kids when teams don't talk about you.

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Speaker 3: Yes, correct, that was your response to McCord.

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01:49:32,560 --> 01:49:35,479
Speaker 2: Interesting, there are teams that really like him and they

2141
01:49:35,840 --> 01:49:38,320
Speaker 2: don't want to talk about him.

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01:49:38,479 --> 01:49:38,640
Speaker 7: You know.

2143
01:49:38,680 --> 01:49:41,000
Speaker 4: It's always funny just the way that this works. When

2144
01:49:41,000 --> 01:49:43,559
Speaker 4: you start hearing guys moving up and down draft boards

2145
01:49:43,600 --> 01:49:45,280
Speaker 4: and all that, and I forget exactly who I heard

2146
01:49:45,320 --> 01:49:48,639
Speaker 4: say this, but it's like, no one moves up or down,

2147
01:49:48,880 --> 01:49:51,400
Speaker 4: like the board is what the board is, like.

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01:49:51,760 --> 01:49:53,960
Speaker 3: All of a sudden the board was set ago.

2149
01:49:54,080 --> 01:49:56,040
Speaker 4: Yeah, so three days before the draft, so and so

2150
01:49:56,200 --> 01:49:57,920
Speaker 4: was rising or so and so was falling. It's like,

2151
01:49:57,960 --> 01:50:00,880
Speaker 4: based on what unless some news comes out, unless it's

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01:50:00,880 --> 01:50:04,160
Speaker 4: like Laramie Tunsel's smoking or whatever video comes out something

2153
01:50:04,200 --> 01:50:06,439
Speaker 4: like that happens, no one's moving up or down. They

2154
01:50:06,520 --> 01:50:09,080
Speaker 4: kind of are where they are. And what happens is

2155
01:50:09,080 --> 01:50:12,040
Speaker 4: people poison the well and call these these insiders and

2156
01:50:12,080 --> 01:50:14,519
Speaker 4: tell them we're thinking this, we're thinking that to try

2157
01:50:14,520 --> 01:50:16,720
Speaker 4: to throw other people off the trail. That's all this is.

2158
01:50:17,240 --> 01:50:20,040
Speaker 4: But no one's actually moving up or down. That's that's

2159
01:50:20,080 --> 01:50:21,519
Speaker 4: a whole misnomer.

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01:50:21,439 --> 01:50:26,280
Speaker 2: Right, right, But they were talking about teams that don't

2161
01:50:26,360 --> 01:50:30,920
Speaker 2: like that with McCord, that they don't even want to

2162
01:50:31,000 --> 01:50:34,439
Speaker 2: talk to you about him because they like him. And

2163
01:50:34,920 --> 01:50:41,840
Speaker 2: he's perfect for teams because he's potentially third round pick.

2164
01:50:42,680 --> 01:50:44,799
Speaker 4: That's kind of where I were thought they go higher.

2165
01:50:45,080 --> 01:50:48,599
Speaker 2: Yeah, right, like he could go second round, but if

2166
01:50:48,640 --> 01:50:51,280
Speaker 2: you keep him quiet enough, he could last on the

2167
01:50:51,280 --> 01:50:56,240
Speaker 2: third round. But they like him. Listen if you if

2168
01:50:56,280 --> 01:50:59,960
Speaker 2: you watch his tape all but one game last year,

2169
01:51:01,360 --> 01:51:04,680
Speaker 2: all but one game, he's impressive.

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01:51:05,600 --> 01:51:08,400
Speaker 3: Yeah, and not in the Ohio State stuff.

2171
01:51:09,840 --> 01:51:12,360
Speaker 4: Yeah, he was a scapegoat for that. The Ohigo State

2172
01:51:12,400 --> 01:51:14,439
Speaker 4: still wins last year. If he's the quarterback, I firmly

2173
01:51:14,439 --> 01:51:18,839
Speaker 4: believe that at least Will Howard easily. Yeah, no disrespect

2174
01:51:18,840 --> 01:51:20,960
Speaker 4: to Will Howard, but he's better than Will Howard. He is.

2175
01:51:21,640 --> 01:51:24,280
Speaker 2: I mean go back and look at it. I mean

2176
01:51:25,080 --> 01:51:29,120
Speaker 2: Michigan was tough, dude. Yeah, like they weren't beating Michigan.

2177
01:51:29,120 --> 01:51:30,680
Speaker 2: I don't care who was the quarterback.

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01:51:32,640 --> 01:51:36,479
Speaker 4: Yeah. One thing I look at too, just going back

2179
01:51:36,520 --> 01:51:39,519
Speaker 4: to going back to the Saints and what they may

2180
01:51:39,600 --> 01:51:41,439
Speaker 4: or made as far as a quarterback or not, and

2181
01:51:41,479 --> 01:51:43,240
Speaker 4: who they take in the first round, someone they can

2182
01:51:43,280 --> 01:51:45,760
Speaker 4: look at, and considering who their head coaches and the

2183
01:51:45,760 --> 01:51:49,120
Speaker 4: excess success he had with the Eagles this past year.

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01:51:50,200 --> 01:51:51,960
Speaker 4: I would take a look at Jalen Milroe as a

2185
01:51:51,960 --> 01:51:58,759
Speaker 4: project that same mold as Jalen. Did you know whoever

2186
01:51:58,800 --> 01:52:00,360
Speaker 4: your starters got. Obviously he's not gonna come in and

2187
01:52:00,360 --> 01:52:02,160
Speaker 4: start from day one. He's a little too raw for that.

2188
01:52:02,240 --> 01:52:05,200
Speaker 4: But he's a lot raw anybody who talks about just

2189
01:52:05,240 --> 01:52:08,560
Speaker 4: the kid the person. He's a great kid, super intelligent,

2190
01:52:08,840 --> 01:52:12,400
Speaker 4: super hard worker. You know, he's someone that you love

2191
01:52:12,439 --> 01:52:13,880
Speaker 4: to have in the building, that you can just get

2192
01:52:13,920 --> 01:52:16,120
Speaker 4: your hands on and work with because he has all

2193
01:52:16,160 --> 01:52:17,040
Speaker 4: the physical measureable.

2194
01:52:17,280 --> 01:52:20,160
Speaker 3: Every last week, God, he would have stayed. Yeah, I know,

2195
01:52:20,760 --> 01:52:22,200
Speaker 3: I know he should have went in the portal.

2196
01:52:23,080 --> 01:52:24,720
Speaker 2: I know that they didn't want to al bad. It

2197
01:52:24,760 --> 01:52:27,120
Speaker 2: was over, but he should have went in the portal.

2198
01:52:27,400 --> 01:52:28,960
Speaker 2: Now one more year would have done him.

2199
01:52:28,960 --> 01:52:29,320
Speaker 4: Wonders.

2200
01:52:29,479 --> 01:52:32,840
Speaker 2: I agree, because you have the problem is remember he's

2201
01:52:32,960 --> 01:52:36,839
Speaker 2: not he's not tall, right, so you got that issue.

2202
01:52:37,000 --> 01:52:41,559
Speaker 4: No, but he's stocky, He's he's sturdy, he's built similar

2203
01:52:41,560 --> 01:52:43,760
Speaker 4: to Jalen. To somebody yeah, I was about to say

2204
01:52:43,760 --> 01:52:44,679
Speaker 4: that a lot like Urts.

2205
01:52:44,840 --> 01:52:47,760
Speaker 2: Yeah, and he's got a great arm, like really he's

2206
01:52:47,800 --> 01:52:51,559
Speaker 2: got a he's got a strong arm.

2207
01:52:51,920 --> 01:52:52,439
Speaker 3: I mean, I.

2208
01:52:53,920 --> 01:52:53,960
Speaker 7: Was.

2209
01:52:54,439 --> 01:52:56,800
Speaker 2: It's a shame because you look at you look at

2210
01:52:56,920 --> 01:53:00,680
Speaker 2: certain games you go, oh my god. Yeah, and then

2211
01:53:00,720 --> 01:53:02,519
Speaker 2: you look at I don't know, the Bull.

2212
01:53:02,560 --> 01:53:06,040
Speaker 4: Michigan that US game.

2213
01:53:05,800 --> 01:53:07,959
Speaker 3: From two he was horrible.

2214
01:53:08,479 --> 01:53:12,320
Speaker 2: Yeah, It's like, uh, if you look at Kyle look

2215
01:53:12,320 --> 01:53:15,640
Speaker 2: at the courts tape, you go, oh my god, like

2216
01:53:15,640 --> 01:53:16,439
Speaker 2: it makes every throw.

2217
01:53:16,880 --> 01:53:18,880
Speaker 3: Then you throw the pit game on you go.

2218
01:53:19,200 --> 01:53:22,040
Speaker 4: What the hell happened? Yeah?

2219
01:53:20,720 --> 01:53:22,960
Speaker 3: Yeah, five picks.

2220
01:53:22,680 --> 01:53:24,800
Speaker 4: Wherever it was? I mean, I mean, I mean guys

2221
01:53:24,800 --> 01:53:27,880
Speaker 4: can have bad games too, exactly what happens the guys,

2222
01:53:27,880 --> 01:53:28,479
Speaker 4: they're all human.

2223
01:53:29,040 --> 01:53:33,600
Speaker 2: Yep, yeah, all right, will come right back, continue to

2224
01:53:33,680 --> 01:53:38,400
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2225
01:53:38,520 --> 01:53:43,160
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2226
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Speaker 4: Fag because.

2227
01:53:47,880 --> 01:53:52,120
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Speaker 2: always pop up at the top of your screen. So,

2238
01:54:28,560 --> 01:54:33,720
Speaker 2: uh fag I love the draft is the best we're

2239
01:54:33,760 --> 01:54:36,960
Speaker 2: going through. We'll continue to go through it all. What

2240
01:54:37,440 --> 01:54:39,919
Speaker 2: makes it so captivating.

2241
01:54:41,120 --> 01:54:45,400
Speaker 4: Because it gives people hope and the it's the belief

2242
01:54:45,480 --> 01:54:48,600
Speaker 4: and the unknown that we found our guy, you know.

2243
01:54:48,880 --> 01:54:51,480
Speaker 4: And you especially if it's someone who you've heard about,

2244
01:54:52,160 --> 01:54:53,440
Speaker 4: you know. So if you're at the top of the

2245
01:54:53,560 --> 01:54:55,640
Speaker 4: draft and you hear people keep saying the name Ashton

2246
01:54:55,680 --> 01:54:58,040
Speaker 4: GenZ ash and GenZ Ashton Gentz, and you don't follow

2247
01:54:58,120 --> 01:55:01,160
Speaker 4: college football, which that's there's a healthy amount of people

2248
01:55:01,200 --> 01:55:03,440
Speaker 4: who are NFL fans who don't followage college football on

2249
01:55:03,440 --> 01:55:06,320
Speaker 4: a weekend to week out basis, And all of a sudden,

2250
01:55:06,320 --> 01:55:07,840
Speaker 4: you find out that your team got them, and they're

2251
01:55:07,880 --> 01:55:10,400
Speaker 4: getting these comparisons and as they compare them to EMMITTT

2252
01:55:10,440 --> 01:55:12,400
Speaker 4: Smith or Saquon Barkle, who's like, all right, we got

2253
01:55:12,440 --> 01:55:16,360
Speaker 4: our guy. This is amazing. Let's go, and so everybody's optimistic.

2254
01:55:16,640 --> 01:55:19,520
Speaker 4: You know, this is the season where you know, it

2255
01:55:19,600 --> 01:55:22,400
Speaker 4: happens in every sport spring training. Everybody thinks they're gonna

2256
01:55:22,400 --> 01:55:24,000
Speaker 4: have a great season and turn things around and it's

2257
01:55:24,000 --> 01:55:26,440
Speaker 4: gonna be a season of optimism. And then you're the

2258
01:55:26,480 --> 01:55:29,040
Speaker 4: White Sox in year three and eleven. Sorry, Mark, uh,

2259
01:55:29,200 --> 01:55:31,280
Speaker 4: you know that's just how that's how it works. So

2260
01:55:31,440 --> 01:55:33,160
Speaker 4: I think you're just in the optimism season. This is

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01:55:33,160 --> 01:55:34,720
Speaker 4: how the off season works in most sports.

2262
01:55:35,200 --> 01:55:37,920
Speaker 2: Yeah, the NFL what it is though, if it's even

2263
01:55:38,400 --> 01:55:42,240
Speaker 2: you're right, obviously right, but the draft as an even

2264
01:55:42,320 --> 01:55:43,000
Speaker 2: bigger hold.

2265
01:55:43,440 --> 01:55:46,080
Speaker 3: I know these kids, like there's a dude I work

2266
01:55:46,160 --> 01:55:49,960
Speaker 3: with who is a huge draft.

2267
01:55:49,720 --> 01:55:54,520
Speaker 2: Nick right, doesn't watch college football during the year, Like,

2268
01:55:54,760 --> 01:55:57,240
Speaker 2: how are you missed your draft and you don't like

2269
01:55:57,360 --> 01:55:58,080
Speaker 2: college football?

2270
01:55:58,280 --> 01:55:59,920
Speaker 4: Yeah that's odd to me. Well see because at then

2271
01:56:00,080 --> 01:56:02,480
Speaker 4: at that point, you're lily literally at the mercy of

2272
01:56:02,560 --> 01:56:04,760
Speaker 4: what the talking heads tell you about a particular player

2273
01:56:04,840 --> 01:56:05,920
Speaker 4: and can't form any apage.

2274
01:56:06,160 --> 01:56:08,840
Speaker 2: I go, I watch all the footage. You know she

2275
01:56:08,960 --> 01:56:10,640
Speaker 2: will take for as well. I mean I guess you'd

2276
01:56:10,680 --> 01:56:12,240
Speaker 2: go YouTube, can watch whatever you want.

2277
01:56:12,480 --> 01:56:13,360
Speaker 4: Yeah, but.

2278
01:56:15,000 --> 01:56:16,800
Speaker 2: You know it's not the coaches tape that you know,

2279
01:56:16,920 --> 01:56:19,600
Speaker 2: we'll get it at NFL films right still, like you

2280
01:56:19,680 --> 01:56:21,040
Speaker 2: can watch you know whatever.

2281
01:56:21,520 --> 01:56:21,680
Speaker 7: You know.

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01:56:22,680 --> 01:56:24,960
Speaker 2: I just don't get it though, Like you're either a

2283
01:56:25,040 --> 01:56:28,640
Speaker 2: college football fit and are like that should be one

2284
01:56:28,680 --> 01:56:29,800
Speaker 2: in one and one.

2285
01:56:30,760 --> 01:56:34,160
Speaker 4: You would think, but you know that's not always the case,

2286
01:56:34,240 --> 01:56:36,400
Speaker 4: and you just you formulate your opinion based off of

2287
01:56:36,440 --> 01:56:38,200
Speaker 4: the opinions of others and what they tell you and

2288
01:56:38,280 --> 01:56:40,480
Speaker 4: whether this guy was ranked and whether or not so

2289
01:56:40,680 --> 01:56:43,400
Speaker 4: and so was a reach at this certain pick, which

2290
01:56:43,480 --> 01:56:46,000
Speaker 4: no one really knows for five years after, you know.

2291
01:56:46,560 --> 01:56:48,440
Speaker 4: That's why, that's why I'm not a big proponent. And

2292
01:56:48,520 --> 01:56:50,760
Speaker 4: one of the things I hate about this season is

2293
01:56:50,920 --> 01:56:54,200
Speaker 4: draft grades. Who owes the biggest this team got an

2294
01:56:54,200 --> 01:56:58,080
Speaker 4: a triple plus, you know, and it's like, well, mostly

2295
01:56:58,200 --> 01:56:59,520
Speaker 4: go back in time and look at the teams that

2296
01:56:59,560 --> 01:57:01,480
Speaker 4: actually had a triple plus and grades in the in

2297
01:57:01,560 --> 01:57:03,840
Speaker 4: the in the draft, and how well all those picks

2298
01:57:03,880 --> 01:57:06,400
Speaker 4: actually worked out. Most of the time, it's you know,

2299
01:57:06,520 --> 01:57:08,200
Speaker 4: you draft guys low on the and you hit on

2300
01:57:08,280 --> 01:57:10,440
Speaker 4: a few, you miss on a few, and you're batting

2301
01:57:10,560 --> 01:57:12,760
Speaker 4: you know, three hundred or something, and you hope you

2302
01:57:12,880 --> 01:57:14,400
Speaker 4: hit on somebody who is an impact player.

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01:57:15,160 --> 01:57:19,200
Speaker 2: No, it's it's actually stupid, Like when you think about it,

2304
01:57:19,520 --> 01:57:21,640
Speaker 2: I mean, yeah, he's kind of stupid.

2305
01:57:21,680 --> 01:57:23,040
Speaker 4: I don't want to make fun of what we do,

2306
01:57:23,280 --> 01:57:26,280
Speaker 4: but that is because no one knows.

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01:57:27,000 --> 01:57:29,880
Speaker 3: No, let me listen, it's legit that you go like

2308
01:57:29,960 --> 01:57:33,080
Speaker 3: you like a player, right, but so much of it

2309
01:57:33,280 --> 01:57:37,400
Speaker 3: is what you had where he goes.

2310
01:57:38,000 --> 01:57:40,760
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's based on circumstance. Who the who the head

2311
01:57:40,840 --> 01:57:43,600
Speaker 4: coach is, and the coordinator, the system that you're running,

2312
01:57:43,680 --> 01:57:46,200
Speaker 4: the players if you're a quarterback, the players in front

2313
01:57:46,240 --> 01:57:48,080
Speaker 4: of you or running back of the players in front

2314
01:57:48,080 --> 01:57:51,400
Speaker 4: of you on the offensive line, all all that stuff matters.

2315
01:57:51,600 --> 01:57:51,760
Speaker 3: You know.

2316
01:57:52,680 --> 01:57:56,320
Speaker 4: If if Tua goes to you know, Cleveland, is Tua

2317
01:57:56,400 --> 01:57:58,640
Speaker 4: what he is now in Miami exactly?

2318
01:57:58,960 --> 01:58:04,000
Speaker 2: You know, then you have the factor that nobody knows about,

2319
01:58:05,280 --> 01:58:10,080
Speaker 2: which is all the behind the scene stuff with kids

2320
01:58:10,120 --> 01:58:12,560
Speaker 2: are dealing with why what's.

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01:58:12,400 --> 01:58:13,440
Speaker 3: The true makeup?

2322
01:58:14,040 --> 01:58:18,360
Speaker 2: Like even these teams that are interviewing kids to combine,

2323
01:58:18,640 --> 01:58:21,160
Speaker 2: you can't get a true depiction of a kid for

2324
01:58:21,320 --> 01:58:24,280
Speaker 2: a you know, twenty minutes sit down, even an hour.

2325
01:58:24,680 --> 01:58:26,320
Speaker 4: Even beyond that, I mean, you can do all the

2326
01:58:26,360 --> 01:58:28,240
Speaker 4: intel in the world and do deep dives and talk

2327
01:58:28,320 --> 01:58:30,440
Speaker 4: to middle school teachers and all that, and some guys

2328
01:58:30,520 --> 01:58:32,680
Speaker 4: still make boneheaded decisions and are out of the league

2329
01:58:32,720 --> 01:58:35,680
Speaker 4: in four years. Yeah, even with all that groundwork that

2330
01:58:35,800 --> 01:58:37,880
Speaker 4: you lay, it's science.

2331
01:58:38,080 --> 01:58:40,320
Speaker 2: You know, we've already seen. Look at the first round

2332
01:58:40,360 --> 01:58:45,600
Speaker 2: you mentioned Pierce earlier. Yeah, right, you got Nolan, Walter, Nolan,

2333
01:58:46,640 --> 01:58:49,400
Speaker 2: you got you know, you had to kick Green. There's

2334
01:58:49,640 --> 01:58:51,760
Speaker 2: you know, everybody's got some skeletons.

2335
01:58:52,160 --> 01:58:55,120
Speaker 4: Yeah, no one's ever perfect. You know, you just want

2336
01:58:55,160 --> 01:58:57,000
Speaker 4: to try to find a guy that fits what you

2337
01:58:57,120 --> 01:58:59,080
Speaker 4: do and hope that he's a personality fit and keeps

2338
01:58:59,120 --> 01:59:01,000
Speaker 4: himself clean off the feet. Then again, they can check

2339
01:59:01,040 --> 01:59:03,520
Speaker 4: all those boxes heading in and they they could put

2340
01:59:03,520 --> 01:59:05,840
Speaker 4: themselves in the wrong situation once they get there, and

2341
01:59:05,920 --> 01:59:06,840
Speaker 4: it can all go to hell.

2342
01:59:07,000 --> 01:59:07,160
Speaker 7: You know.

2343
01:59:07,520 --> 01:59:08,520
Speaker 4: Yeah, you just don't know.

2344
01:59:09,560 --> 01:59:12,680
Speaker 2: No, it's it's it's wild, all right, uh big At

2345
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Speaker 2: last hour, the brain will join us. We'll take a

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01:59:15,440 --> 01:59:18,960
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Speaker 2: in case you're just joining us.

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Speaker 3: We've been all over the.

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Speaker 2: Place draft and to the NBA regular season is tomorrow,

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Speaker 2: so we put together, we put the bed this season.

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Speaker 2: And it's really a tale advantage point from FIGI. Where

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Speaker 2: two teams in Los Angeles are really good, right, both

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Speaker 2: have a chance, both have revived been revived, the Clippers

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Speaker 2: by Kawhi coming back from injury, the Lakers with the

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Speaker 2: Luca trade. And then you look at those two teams

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Speaker 2: that are in the mix. All right, okay, see, certainly

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Speaker 2: the best team. But after that, you got that second

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Speaker 2: tier team that includes both I think the Clippers, the Lakers,

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Speaker 2: Golden State.

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02:01:15,160 --> 02:01:16,680
Speaker 4: Denver, if you want to put them in there.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, right, like you know, but it's a tail

2378
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Speaker 2: advantage point because if you're you know, west of the Mississippi,

2379
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Speaker 2: east of the Mississippi, you're going to this league blows.

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Speaker 2: I'm sick of Boston and Cleveland can't beat them, and

2381
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Speaker 2: that's it.

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Speaker 4: Cleveland has zero shot against the Celtics in the seven

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Speaker 4: game series. You know, it's part of my Celtic Yeah,

2384
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Speaker 4: hete yeah, I get it, you know what I mean.

2385
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Speaker 4: I'm just thinking this, you know that should be boring.

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02:01:50,080 --> 02:01:53,080
Speaker 4: I've seen it too many times. I've just seen it. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: As much as I'll be watching and rooting for Cleveland,

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02:01:57,280 --> 02:02:00,520
Speaker 2: I just don't. They're just vam pires.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, they're great.

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Speaker 3: Like you know, my date is is born out of jealousy.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, hey, Geltics. You know, the Celtics are the envy

2392
02:02:11,480 --> 02:02:12,920
Speaker 4: of every team in the in the league. They are

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02:02:12,960 --> 02:02:18,160
Speaker 4: the prototypical twenty twenty five NBA roster. Yeah, switch everything five,

2394
02:02:18,320 --> 02:02:20,880
Speaker 4: you know, phenomenal defenders at any given time. Everybody can

2395
02:02:20,920 --> 02:02:23,320
Speaker 4: shoot from the outside, that's what everybody wants.

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Speaker 2: I mean, I do hate all the threes. Yeah, like,

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Speaker 2: I like, I do believe that they should look at

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Speaker 2: making some real changes.

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Speaker 4: The three point line back.

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Speaker 3: Yep, I get ready to corner three and move it back.

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02:02:39,160 --> 02:02:41,400
Speaker 4: Also, just kill the corner three completely, okay yep.

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Speaker 2: Well, first of all, it does nothing for the game

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02:02:44,640 --> 02:02:47,480
Speaker 2: aesthetically having a guy sit out there.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, especially nowadays because there are certain there

2405
02:02:52,560 --> 02:02:54,760
Speaker 4: are certain guys who literally do nothing but spot up

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Speaker 4: in the corner. I think Bruce Bowen of the Spurs

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02:02:56,600 --> 02:02:58,840
Speaker 4: was the first person to really start that trend. He

2408
02:02:59,040 --> 02:03:01,320
Speaker 4: was the first prototypical three and D guy defended the

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Speaker 4: best perimeter defender and literally just parked in the corner

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Speaker 4: and just feasted on open corner threes.

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Speaker 2: I think there needs to be more mid range back.

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Speaker 2: I think there needs to be a little bit. I

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02:03:15,120 --> 02:03:20,640
Speaker 2: think just from an aesthetic standpoint. Look, the shift was it.

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Speaker 4: It really gets the rules, not at all against the rules,

2415
02:03:25,560 --> 02:03:26,720
Speaker 4: yeah right.

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Speaker 3: But the issue is it made for bad baseball, boring baseball.

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Speaker 4: Yeah. I will say with the shift, it actually affected

2418
02:03:39,520 --> 02:03:42,960
Speaker 4: the numbers that the players were putting up. Averages were

2419
02:03:43,040 --> 02:03:48,160
Speaker 4: dropping precipitous yeah, so for the three point shot, it's

2420
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Speaker 4: not necessarily esthetically might not be esthetically pleasing, but it's

2421
02:03:51,080 --> 02:03:52,920
Speaker 4: not as if guys are chucking up threes and nobody

2422
02:03:52,960 --> 02:03:55,120
Speaker 4: can make them. I mean, there may be made as

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Speaker 4: at a higher clip as they ever have been, you know.

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Speaker 4: So it's the volume.

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Speaker 2: The volume went up dramatically, right right, which is the

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02:04:04,160 --> 02:04:08,720
Speaker 2: same which to me makes for boring basketball, like when

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Speaker 2: it first came into vogue. If you think about it,

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Speaker 2: the math is off for the degree of difficulty.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, well, the math actually, I mean the math actually

2430
02:04:20,240 --> 02:04:22,760
Speaker 4: matches itself up. It's like, if you shoot thirty five

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02:04:22,800 --> 02:04:25,600
Speaker 4: percent from three, it's the equivalent of shooting fifty percent

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02:04:25,680 --> 02:04:30,440
Speaker 4: from two. So you put up more attempts. Yes, you

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Speaker 4: make a lower percentage, but you're getting an additional point

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02:04:32,720 --> 02:04:35,920
Speaker 4: every time you make one. So the math.

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Speaker 2: So when I say the math is off, I mean

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02:04:38,480 --> 02:04:44,720
Speaker 2: the math to make it a legitimate game where you're

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02:04:44,880 --> 02:04:46,440
Speaker 2: not too heavy on the three.

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Speaker 3: The math is off.

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02:04:49,480 --> 02:04:52,160
Speaker 4: Yeah, when it comes to the degree of difficulty to

2440
02:04:52,280 --> 02:04:56,600
Speaker 4: de emphasize it, right, yeah, which is why in baseball

2441
02:04:56,680 --> 02:04:59,800
Speaker 4: the changes they've made, they haven't de emphasized the home run.

2442
02:04:59,840 --> 02:05:01,640
Speaker 4: But what they've done is they've put more of a

2443
02:05:02,400 --> 02:05:05,640
Speaker 4: spotlight on being able to get on base and steal bases.

2444
02:05:05,680 --> 02:05:07,800
Speaker 4: Now that's not part. That's part of the.

2445
02:05:07,800 --> 02:05:11,480
Speaker 3: Game that brought it up. When guys swipe bags.

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02:05:11,680 --> 02:05:14,480
Speaker 4: It's I will say, there's a there's a bit of

2447
02:05:14,520 --> 02:05:17,560
Speaker 4: an overcorrection. I can't have guys steal in seventy five bases.

2448
02:05:18,600 --> 02:05:21,320
Speaker 4: You know, that gets to a level of absurdity, to

2449
02:05:21,480 --> 02:05:22,920
Speaker 4: to a certain degree, and I don't know if they

2450
02:05:23,000 --> 02:05:24,480
Speaker 4: maybe they'll go back and look at it again. I

2451
02:05:24,520 --> 02:05:30,600
Speaker 4: don't know. You fix outs, Yeah, it's just so easy

2452
02:05:30,720 --> 02:05:33,120
Speaker 4: now because you're telling pictures they can't throw over or

2453
02:05:33,160 --> 02:05:34,880
Speaker 4: they have there's limits on how often they can throw

2454
02:05:34,960 --> 02:05:38,520
Speaker 4: over it. It seems like it makes it a lot

2455
02:05:38,600 --> 02:05:40,600
Speaker 4: easier for guys to steal bases, more so than it

2456
02:05:40,680 --> 02:05:43,480
Speaker 4: really needs to be. So that part, I'm not the biggest.

2457
02:05:43,560 --> 02:05:45,680
Speaker 4: The shift banning of the shift short to a degree

2458
02:05:45,680 --> 02:05:48,040
Speaker 4: I'm fine with, and I know they want to speak

2459
02:05:48,080 --> 02:05:50,560
Speaker 4: the game up to a certain degree, but you know,

2460
02:05:50,680 --> 02:05:52,680
Speaker 4: being able to look runners back and step off and

2461
02:05:52,720 --> 02:05:55,720
Speaker 4: throw over a couple of times, you know, that's part

2462
02:05:55,760 --> 02:05:57,440
Speaker 4: of the strategy of baseball that I wish they would

2463
02:05:57,440 --> 02:06:00,680
Speaker 4: have kept personally. I don't need guys swiping eighty five bags.

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02:06:02,720 --> 02:06:04,760
Speaker 2: All right, let me uh, let me play a little

2465
02:06:04,800 --> 02:06:09,240
Speaker 2: game with you, speaking of baseball. Yep, I'm going to

2466
02:06:09,320 --> 02:06:11,320
Speaker 2: give you the early part of the standings. And you

2467
02:06:11,400 --> 02:06:13,480
Speaker 2: know we always say about the early part of any

2468
02:06:13,600 --> 02:06:15,800
Speaker 2: season is that it can lie.

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Speaker 4: Absolutely.

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02:06:17,920 --> 02:06:20,560
Speaker 2: So I'm gonna I'm gonna give you a team and

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02:06:20,680 --> 02:06:24,080
Speaker 2: their record, and you tell me whether it's the truth

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02:06:24,840 --> 02:06:25,440
Speaker 2: or a lie.

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02:06:26,160 --> 02:06:32,480
Speaker 3: Okay, the Yankees seven and six, that's a lie.

2474
02:06:34,280 --> 02:06:36,360
Speaker 4: They're better than that, although I don't think they're dominant.

2475
02:06:36,360 --> 02:06:39,760
Speaker 4: They've got major pitching issues, but they're not five hundred.

2476
02:06:39,800 --> 02:06:44,480
Speaker 4: They'll be a playoff team. The Orioles at five and eight,

2477
02:06:45,360 --> 02:06:48,760
Speaker 4: definitely a lie. They're much better than that, are they?

2478
02:06:49,640 --> 02:06:50,040
Speaker 4: I think so?

2479
02:06:51,480 --> 02:06:55,560
Speaker 2: I thought so too, but somebody else told me, somebody

2480
02:06:56,160 --> 02:06:59,120
Speaker 2: in the game was like, you're overrating them a lot.

2481
02:06:59,360 --> 02:07:00,360
Speaker 3: They look at their pitching.

2482
02:07:01,080 --> 02:07:04,920
Speaker 4: Yeah, look they've lost some pitching for sure, but I

2483
02:07:05,000 --> 02:07:06,360
Speaker 4: mean their lineup.

2484
02:07:06,080 --> 02:07:10,680
Speaker 3: Is still there, and their lineup is still great.

2485
02:07:10,760 --> 02:07:13,760
Speaker 4: Right, so I think they can hit themselves now, if

2486
02:07:13,760 --> 02:07:15,600
Speaker 4: you want to argue that. Last year people thought like, hey,

2487
02:07:15,680 --> 02:07:17,240
Speaker 4: this is this is their year to make a run

2488
02:07:17,320 --> 02:07:19,720
Speaker 4: to the World Series. I don't think they they're good

2489
02:07:19,760 --> 02:07:21,160
Speaker 4: enough to make a run to the World Series, but

2490
02:07:21,160 --> 02:07:23,240
Speaker 4: they're good enough to compete in the Ale East and

2491
02:07:23,320 --> 02:07:25,680
Speaker 4: make it and make it into the playoffs. Yeah, and

2492
02:07:25,760 --> 02:07:27,440
Speaker 4: you're better and they're better. They're not. They're five and

2493
02:07:27,520 --> 02:07:29,160
Speaker 4: eight right now, so obviously you'd be one of the

2494
02:07:29,160 --> 02:07:30,920
Speaker 4: worst teams in the league if you played at that clip,

2495
02:07:31,200 --> 02:07:34,120
Speaker 4: which they're not. So they're better than their record, though

2496
02:07:34,160 --> 02:07:36,960
Speaker 4: I do not believe that they're a championship contender. I

2497
02:07:36,960 --> 02:07:40,120
Speaker 4: think they're just a playoff contender, all right.

2498
02:07:40,360 --> 02:07:44,760
Speaker 3: The Tigers at eight and five, the Guardians at seven

2499
02:07:44,840 --> 02:07:45,240
Speaker 3: and six.

2500
02:07:46,400 --> 02:07:48,640
Speaker 4: Yeah, the Tigers and Guardians are I think, I think

2501
02:07:48,680 --> 02:07:50,960
Speaker 4: are the class of the Central. Those are the two

2502
02:07:51,000 --> 02:07:52,560
Speaker 4: teams that are going to battle it out at the

2503
02:07:52,640 --> 02:07:56,400
Speaker 4: Kansas City I think is improving. Uh. But Detroit at

2504
02:07:56,400 --> 02:07:59,280
Speaker 4: eight and five, Yeah, they're gonna be uh, you know,

2505
02:08:00,320 --> 02:08:02,800
Speaker 4: fifteen to twenty games over five hundred competing with CLEVELANDO,

2506
02:08:02,800 --> 02:08:04,160
Speaker 4: I think is going to be right around that same

2507
02:08:04,320 --> 02:08:08,320
Speaker 4: situation and competing for the Central versus n a wildcard spot.

2508
02:08:08,480 --> 02:08:10,840
Speaker 4: So that's where I see those two teams finishing.

2509
02:08:11,520 --> 02:08:11,840
Speaker 3: All right.

2510
02:08:13,000 --> 02:08:18,560
Speaker 4: The Rangers at nine and five I don't know what

2511
02:08:18,640 --> 02:08:21,120
Speaker 4: the final record is gonna end up looking like for them,

2512
02:08:21,920 --> 02:08:24,200
Speaker 4: but I do think that they're gonna end up being

2513
02:08:24,320 --> 02:08:27,160
Speaker 4: one of the being the team in the American League West.

2514
02:08:27,160 --> 02:08:28,920
Speaker 4: I think Houston's taken a step back this year.

2515
02:08:31,200 --> 02:08:33,440
Speaker 3: Cam Smith had it last night, by the way, right.

2516
02:08:33,480 --> 02:08:43,440
Speaker 4: Right, So the Angels your Angels eight five? What fools?

2517
02:08:43,480 --> 02:08:47,640
Speaker 4: Gold don't believe it for half a second. Absolutely, And

2518
02:08:48,080 --> 02:08:50,240
Speaker 4: it's encouraging that Mike Trout has gotten off to the

2519
02:08:50,280 --> 02:08:52,320
Speaker 4: hot start that he's gotten off too, is you know,

2520
02:08:52,880 --> 02:08:55,320
Speaker 4: hitting home runs fifty thousand miles away like he used to,

2521
02:08:55,400 --> 02:08:58,240
Speaker 4: which is great to see. But they don't have enough

2522
02:08:58,320 --> 02:09:00,320
Speaker 4: in the pitching staff, and I don't know if they

2523
02:09:00,320 --> 02:09:01,960
Speaker 4: have that. They definitely don't have the depth in their

2524
02:09:02,120 --> 02:09:05,040
Speaker 4: offensive lineup for the entire season to maintain that. So

2525
02:09:05,240 --> 02:09:07,040
Speaker 4: absolutely not not a playoff team.

2526
02:09:08,400 --> 02:09:10,360
Speaker 3: All right, Let's go to.

2527
02:09:13,560 --> 02:09:18,800
Speaker 2: The Dodgers at eleven and four. I think people are going,

2528
02:09:20,120 --> 02:09:22,200
Speaker 2: how in the world did they lose four games?

2529
02:09:23,760 --> 02:09:28,600
Speaker 4: You tell me, mister Philly they took three, by the.

2530
02:09:28,600 --> 02:09:32,480
Speaker 2: Way through something here with Otani. What do you mean,

2531
02:09:32,640 --> 02:09:34,040
Speaker 2: not play well against Phillies?

2532
02:09:34,520 --> 02:09:36,920
Speaker 4: Yeah, the Dodgers in general, and I didn't know. Listen

2533
02:09:36,960 --> 02:09:39,360
Speaker 4: to our David vassa our insider who covers the Dodgers

2534
02:09:39,400 --> 02:09:41,520
Speaker 4: for a local affiliate A five seventy l A Sports.

2535
02:09:41,520 --> 02:09:43,440
Speaker 4: The Phillies have had the Dodgers' number the last couple

2536
02:09:43,520 --> 02:09:46,040
Speaker 4: of seasons. Oh yeah, just in their heads to have matchups.

2537
02:09:46,520 --> 02:09:47,880
Speaker 4: And there are many people who felt like, if the

2538
02:09:47,920 --> 02:09:50,800
Speaker 4: Dodgers played the Phillies in the postseason last year, you know,

2539
02:09:50,920 --> 02:09:53,520
Speaker 4: the Phillies would have would have probably taken that series.

2540
02:09:54,320 --> 02:09:57,360
Speaker 3: Yep. So that's the notion here.

2541
02:09:57,840 --> 02:10:01,320
Speaker 4: Yeah, so it's like, give us the Dodge, which is

2542
02:10:01,400 --> 02:10:03,520
Speaker 4: crazy to say. You know what, First of all, when

2543
02:10:03,560 --> 02:10:05,360
Speaker 4: I put it beyond Bryce Harper to say that, because

2544
02:10:05,400 --> 02:10:07,360
Speaker 4: that's just the kind of dog and competitor that he is,

2545
02:10:07,440 --> 02:10:10,080
Speaker 4: which I love about him, he'd say that explicitly, I

2546
02:10:10,160 --> 02:10:13,000
Speaker 4: want to face the best. Oh yeah, So the Dodgers

2547
02:10:13,040 --> 02:10:15,720
Speaker 4: at eleven to four, they'll they'll definitely maintain that. They'll

2548
02:10:15,760 --> 02:10:17,760
Speaker 4: they'll they'll be knocking on the door of one hundred,

2549
02:10:17,760 --> 02:10:19,680
Speaker 4: between one hundred and one hundred and ten wins this year.

2550
02:10:20,280 --> 02:10:23,480
Speaker 2: Barrow buddy, David Cige, I tell you about right who

2551
02:10:23,800 --> 02:10:26,040
Speaker 2: used to play you know, he played fifteen seasons in

2552
02:10:26,080 --> 02:10:29,400
Speaker 2: the Biggs, right, So we were bsking. You know, this

2553
02:10:29,680 --> 02:10:33,320
Speaker 2: was before the season. He said the Dodgers would win

2554
02:10:33,400 --> 02:10:39,200
Speaker 2: one hundred and thirty games. Oh my god, I go,

2555
02:10:39,360 --> 02:10:40,280
Speaker 2: do you're off pace?

2556
02:10:40,800 --> 02:10:45,600
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's rich will consider, I mean, And if you

2557
02:10:46,000 --> 02:10:47,960
Speaker 4: take it from a fifty thousand foot view, it's like,

2558
02:10:48,040 --> 02:10:49,560
Speaker 4: oh my god. They have all this talent and look

2559
02:10:49,600 --> 02:10:51,200
Speaker 4: at their bullpen and look at their you know, all

2560
02:10:51,240 --> 02:10:53,640
Speaker 4: the it's like, all right, well, you know, Freddy's still

2561
02:10:53,680 --> 02:10:55,080
Speaker 4: coming off of a bit of an injury. You had

2562
02:10:55,080 --> 02:10:56,920
Speaker 4: to play this first game in two weeks last night

2563
02:10:57,040 --> 02:11:00,280
Speaker 4: or ten days last night. Their pitching staff all of

2564
02:11:00,480 --> 02:11:02,320
Speaker 4: like literally all their guys are coming off of some

2565
02:11:02,400 --> 02:11:05,360
Speaker 4: sort of injury. And really that's been the biggest issue

2566
02:11:05,400 --> 02:11:07,800
Speaker 4: for them. The four losses that they've had have been

2567
02:11:07,920 --> 02:11:12,840
Speaker 4: either poor defense or poor pitching. And you have two

2568
02:11:12,880 --> 02:11:15,600
Speaker 4: guys in your rotation that can only pitch once every

2569
02:11:15,720 --> 02:11:18,640
Speaker 4: six days because they're coming over from Japan. That's Yamamoto

2570
02:11:18,680 --> 02:11:22,800
Speaker 4: and Sasaki. Health issues abound with a bunch of other guys.

2571
02:11:22,840 --> 02:11:25,960
Speaker 4: You just put your big free agent signing, Blake Snell,

2572
02:11:26,040 --> 02:11:28,840
Speaker 4: on the injury list. So it's not of if the

2573
02:11:28,880 --> 02:11:30,720
Speaker 4: Dodgers are going to roll over everybody and win one

2574
02:11:31,160 --> 02:11:36,400
Speaker 4: hundred and thirty games is ridiculous. I appreciate that the confidence,

2575
02:11:36,840 --> 02:11:40,200
Speaker 4: but it's really hard to ask a team who just

2576
02:11:40,280 --> 02:11:42,040
Speaker 4: won the World Series to come back and break and

2577
02:11:42,120 --> 02:11:44,320
Speaker 4: break the record for most wins in the history of

2578
02:11:44,360 --> 02:11:46,320
Speaker 4: the sport in the regular season. I think that's a

2579
02:11:46,360 --> 02:11:46,840
Speaker 4: tall ask.

2580
02:11:48,360 --> 02:11:51,480
Speaker 2: All right, let's stay in the West, all right, yes,

2581
02:11:52,160 --> 02:11:54,960
Speaker 2: because I'm sure you and I have to agree on

2582
02:11:55,040 --> 02:11:55,360
Speaker 2: this one.

2583
02:11:55,440 --> 02:11:57,240
Speaker 3: The Pods eleven and three.

2584
02:11:59,200 --> 02:12:01,320
Speaker 4: I think the Poders not going anywhere. I know they

2585
02:12:01,400 --> 02:12:03,240
Speaker 4: lost some people in the off season. They tried to

2586
02:12:03,280 --> 02:12:05,920
Speaker 4: trade Dylan Cees they weren't able to, but that's still

2587
02:12:05,960 --> 02:12:09,560
Speaker 4: a talented roster and especially talented line up. Yes, so

2588
02:12:09,880 --> 02:12:11,760
Speaker 4: why people were kind of writing them off? And I

2589
02:12:11,840 --> 02:12:13,680
Speaker 4: know they have an ownership issue and they didn't spend

2590
02:12:13,720 --> 02:12:16,320
Speaker 4: a lot of money this offseason, but I mean, you

2591
02:12:16,400 --> 02:12:18,920
Speaker 4: got a rise. It was a batting champion, Machado All Star,

2592
02:12:19,560 --> 02:12:22,240
Speaker 4: Fernando Tatis Junior All Star, crowning Worth Rookie of the

2593
02:12:22,400 --> 02:12:24,480
Speaker 4: or excuse me, a Merrow Rookie of the Year, Croninworth

2594
02:12:24,480 --> 02:12:27,040
Speaker 4: All Star. Like they even if they're pitching is but

2595
02:12:27,160 --> 02:12:30,760
Speaker 4: sub par offensively that'll be good enough to get them.

2596
02:12:30,880 --> 02:12:32,760
Speaker 4: You know, ninety plus wins right there.

2597
02:12:33,240 --> 02:12:37,240
Speaker 2: I great, dude, I'm with you. I think they're legit. Yeah,

2598
02:12:37,360 --> 02:12:41,400
Speaker 2: they're not going anywhere. Here's the team that I'm shocked at.

2599
02:12:41,960 --> 02:12:47,320
Speaker 2: I don't think you're the only one three Giants right now.

2600
02:12:47,480 --> 02:12:50,480
Speaker 4: I will say this. A few years ago, the Giants

2601
02:12:50,560 --> 02:12:52,320
Speaker 4: got off to a really good start and people wrote

2602
02:12:52,360 --> 02:12:54,480
Speaker 4: them off and said, oh, they'll fade, they'll fait, they'll fade,

2603
02:12:54,480 --> 02:12:55,880
Speaker 4: and they I think they won like one hundred and

2604
02:12:56,000 --> 02:12:59,000
Speaker 4: five games and won the division, and won the division

2605
02:12:59,040 --> 02:13:00,720
Speaker 4: by one game over the Dots, and they played each

2606
02:13:00,760 --> 02:13:04,160
Speaker 4: other in the wildcart round. There's no I guess it

2607
02:13:04,200 --> 02:13:06,920
Speaker 4: can happen again. I don't necessarily see it happening. I

2608
02:13:06,960 --> 02:13:08,880
Speaker 4: do think they'll fall back down to earth at some point,

2609
02:13:08,960 --> 02:13:12,320
Speaker 4: but I mean they've they've they've been playing well and

2610
02:13:12,480 --> 02:13:14,760
Speaker 4: you know, to be hitting the ball well and pitching

2611
02:13:14,840 --> 02:13:17,640
Speaker 4: extremely well too. So I don't think they're going to

2612
02:13:17,680 --> 02:13:19,960
Speaker 4: be able to maintain it. But stranger things have happened.

2613
02:13:21,440 --> 02:13:23,840
Speaker 4: I just don't trust that pitching staff. I don't lie.

2614
02:13:25,440 --> 02:13:26,760
Speaker 3: Cubs nine and seven.

2615
02:13:29,240 --> 02:13:32,400
Speaker 4: I only trust it because I don't like the division

2616
02:13:32,440 --> 02:13:36,120
Speaker 4: as a whole. Somebody has to win the NL Central,

2617
02:13:36,840 --> 02:13:39,120
Speaker 4: so I kind of look at it at why not

2618
02:13:39,240 --> 02:13:43,680
Speaker 4: the Cubs, why not Milwaukee? But nobody screw You know,

2619
02:13:43,800 --> 02:13:45,880
Speaker 4: if Cincinnati were to make some sort of run, that

2620
02:13:45,920 --> 02:13:49,080
Speaker 4: wouldn't surprise me either. I think that. I think that

2621
02:13:49,160 --> 02:13:52,480
Speaker 4: division is a bit of a jumble mess outside of Pittsburgh.

2622
02:13:52,520 --> 02:13:53,600
Speaker 4: Who's the bottom feeder.

2623
02:13:53,880 --> 02:13:57,760
Speaker 3: Yeah, I thought it'd be better. Yeah, they will be sorry.

2624
02:13:58,120 --> 02:14:01,240
Speaker 3: I do believe in their line. I love Elie.

2625
02:14:01,560 --> 02:14:05,600
Speaker 4: Yeah, Ellie's amazing, and uh, you know, Hunter Green's coming

2626
02:14:05,640 --> 02:14:08,400
Speaker 4: into his own not walking as many guys and a

2627
02:14:08,480 --> 02:14:11,560
Speaker 4: striking out guys at a crazy clip. So it would

2628
02:14:11,600 --> 02:14:13,680
Speaker 4: not surprise me at all of Cincinnati. You know, it

2629
02:14:13,760 --> 02:14:14,720
Speaker 4: made a run at this.

2630
02:14:14,800 --> 02:14:22,400
Speaker 2: Thing, all right, the mL East Phillies eight and five,

2631
02:14:23,800 --> 02:14:24,960
Speaker 2: Mets nine and four.

2632
02:14:27,520 --> 02:14:30,160
Speaker 4: I trust the Phillies more than I trust the Mets.

2633
02:14:31,840 --> 02:14:33,320
Speaker 4: But I do think that's going to be a dog

2634
02:14:33,360 --> 02:14:35,640
Speaker 4: fight at the top of that division. Two and uh,

2635
02:14:36,160 --> 02:14:37,520
Speaker 4: lest we forget, and I know you were going to

2636
02:14:37,560 --> 02:14:40,760
Speaker 4: bring them up. The biggest outlier probably in the entire

2637
02:14:40,840 --> 02:14:44,360
Speaker 4: sport so far, the three in San Atlanta Braves.

2638
02:14:44,840 --> 02:14:45,280
Speaker 7: That was it?

2639
02:14:45,640 --> 02:14:46,320
Speaker 4: Was that real?

2640
02:14:47,000 --> 02:14:48,360
Speaker 3: Or is that a lie?

2641
02:14:49,280 --> 02:14:52,600
Speaker 4: I refuse to believe that that's real. They're too good,

2642
02:14:53,160 --> 02:14:55,160
Speaker 4: even without a cleaning in the lineup right now, they're

2643
02:14:55,200 --> 02:14:58,560
Speaker 4: too They're too good to be this bad. And I

2644
02:14:58,680 --> 02:15:01,400
Speaker 4: saw stat it was like no team has ever started

2645
02:15:01,520 --> 02:15:04,280
Speaker 4: Owen six and made the postseason. It's one hundred and

2646
02:15:04,360 --> 02:15:06,960
Speaker 4: sixty two games. Like you can overcome an OWEN six

2647
02:15:06,960 --> 02:15:08,880
Speaker 4: star to make the playoffs. I refuse to believe. On

2648
02:15:08,960 --> 02:15:13,520
Speaker 4: April twelfth, the Atlanta Braves will not be a playoff team. Now.

2649
02:15:13,600 --> 02:15:16,640
Speaker 4: Whether they win the Eastern Division, we'll see, But the

2650
02:15:16,720 --> 02:15:21,440
Speaker 4: Atlanta Braves, I'll do a Charles Barkley guarantee that they'll

2651
02:15:21,440 --> 02:15:23,360
Speaker 4: make the playoffs. They'll find their way into the postseason.

2652
02:15:23,400 --> 02:15:27,560
Speaker 4: They're too good not to. Isn't it wild? It really is.

2653
02:15:28,840 --> 02:15:31,640
Speaker 4: It's it's unreal that they can be this bad offensively

2654
02:15:31,680 --> 02:15:34,520
Speaker 4: considering the kind of talent that they have, and that

2655
02:15:35,080 --> 02:15:40,520
Speaker 4: they just can't score runs. I mean, they won a

2656
02:15:40,560 --> 02:15:41,560
Speaker 4: World Series without Akouon.

2657
02:15:42,280 --> 02:15:43,240
Speaker 3: They can't you know, make it.

2658
02:15:43,240 --> 02:15:45,600
Speaker 2: Through the you know, and they're gonna get Strider back

2659
02:15:45,680 --> 02:15:50,800
Speaker 2: to I mean, you know, it's pretty wild, right it is.

2660
02:15:52,000 --> 02:15:54,040
Speaker 4: But it's also it goes back to what we said

2661
02:15:54,080 --> 02:15:57,400
Speaker 4: before we started this. This exercise. You know, you can't

2662
02:15:57,440 --> 02:15:59,600
Speaker 4: get too excited about what happens the first part of

2663
02:15:59,600 --> 02:16:02,440
Speaker 4: the season. There's so much time left. You know, you

2664
02:16:02,520 --> 02:16:06,240
Speaker 4: don't want to dig yourself a hole. But it doesn't

2665
02:16:06,280 --> 02:16:08,040
Speaker 4: mean that you can get off to a terrible start

2666
02:16:08,080 --> 02:16:09,520
Speaker 4: at three and ten. But it doesn't mean that the

2667
02:16:09,600 --> 02:16:11,160
Speaker 4: season is over and it's time to pack it in,

2668
02:16:13,520 --> 02:16:14,560
Speaker 4: you know. You know, it's funny.

2669
02:16:16,040 --> 02:16:19,880
Speaker 2: We're in April and I would just a little exercise,

2670
02:16:21,160 --> 02:16:25,960
Speaker 2: and I'm thinking of myself truthfully, the next meaningful game

2671
02:16:26,120 --> 02:16:27,080
Speaker 2: in my town.

2672
02:16:29,080 --> 02:16:30,080
Speaker 4: Will be the Eagles.

2673
02:16:31,320 --> 02:16:31,520
Speaker 7: Wow.

2674
02:16:31,760 --> 02:16:34,400
Speaker 4: So is there just not a level of excitement for

2675
02:16:34,640 --> 02:16:36,080
Speaker 4: the Phillies or is it just too early?

2676
02:16:37,800 --> 02:16:41,920
Speaker 3: No, there was the Dodger Series people were into and

2677
02:16:42,040 --> 02:16:43,040
Speaker 3: youre's excitement for him?

2678
02:16:43,080 --> 02:16:45,480
Speaker 4: Yeah, because there they're a legit contender for sure. The

2679
02:16:45,560 --> 02:16:47,039
Speaker 4: teams in the l If you.

2680
02:16:47,080 --> 02:16:51,560
Speaker 2: Look at like baseballs, you just look at the next

2681
02:16:51,879 --> 02:16:56,960
Speaker 2: truly meaningful game because in baseball won't happen till October,

2682
02:16:57,040 --> 02:17:00,440
Speaker 2: like I think the Phillies will won the division. Yeah, uh,

2683
02:17:00,600 --> 02:17:03,600
Speaker 2: and then the most meaningful game won't happen to the playoffs, right,

2684
02:17:05,080 --> 02:17:10,920
Speaker 2: And so there's no sixers or no flyers playoffs and

2685
02:17:11,160 --> 02:17:14,360
Speaker 2: all people can talk about right now is the Super Bowl.

2686
02:17:16,200 --> 02:17:21,960
Speaker 4: Yeah, until until Week one when the defense starts. That's

2687
02:17:23,200 --> 02:17:24,680
Speaker 4: Are you still riding high off of the Super Bowl

2688
02:17:24,760 --> 02:17:26,280
Speaker 4: or if people already moved on and now they're looking

2689
02:17:26,280 --> 02:17:27,240
Speaker 4: forward to this next season.

2690
02:17:28,160 --> 02:17:29,600
Speaker 3: No, people love the Super Bowl.

2691
02:17:29,720 --> 02:17:30,120
Speaker 4: That's great.

2692
02:17:30,240 --> 02:17:34,240
Speaker 2: I love it during during the moment there there they are.

2693
02:17:35,959 --> 02:17:41,080
Speaker 2: I just want games. I don't want football. So we're

2694
02:17:41,160 --> 02:17:51,000
Speaker 2: doing some spring workouts, so I'm enjoying that. Yeah, along

2695
02:17:51,080 --> 02:17:55,800
Speaker 2: with baseball because we've had we've already had two tournaments. Okay,

2696
02:17:56,320 --> 02:18:01,440
Speaker 2: we're gonna get rained out today. Creates pretty nanty out

2697
02:18:01,480 --> 02:18:05,320
Speaker 2: this weekend. Yeah, yeah, all right, let's say quick to

2698
02:18:05,360 --> 02:18:07,520
Speaker 2: you know, the brain is going to join us. We'll

2699
02:18:07,560 --> 02:18:10,680
Speaker 2: take a look at sports from a betting standpoint, and

2700
02:18:10,800 --> 02:18:14,320
Speaker 2: then get back to some draft stuff where the fellas kfie,

2701
02:18:15,560 --> 02:18:16,240
Speaker 2: how's the baby.

2702
02:18:16,920 --> 02:18:18,720
Speaker 4: It's amazing. He'll be walking any day now.

2703
02:18:18,760 --> 02:18:22,920
Speaker 2: Aunt oh man, slow on us. Oh God, let's send

2704
02:18:22,959 --> 02:18:25,640
Speaker 2: me some pictures, would you? Oh yeah, for sure, absolutely, yeah.

2705
02:18:26,200 --> 02:18:29,680
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2706
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2714
02:19:08,840 --> 02:19:12,359
Speaker 2: April twenty fourth, eight pm Eastern throughout.

2715
02:19:12,000 --> 02:19:14,800
Speaker 3: The first round of the draft.

2716
02:19:15,480 --> 02:19:19,760
Speaker 2: Inside of Jay Glazier, former Jets GM, Joe Douglas, College

2717
02:19:19,800 --> 02:19:24,119
Speaker 2: Football Hall of Famer LeVar Arrington, and Fox Sports Lead

2718
02:19:24,360 --> 02:19:28,960
Speaker 2: college football reporter Jenny Taft will have pick by pick, predictions,

2719
02:19:29,640 --> 02:19:31,720
Speaker 2: reactions analysis.

2720
02:19:31,520 --> 02:19:33,640
Speaker 3: To every first round pick.

2721
02:19:33,760 --> 02:19:37,240
Speaker 2: That's Thursday, April twenty fourth, eight o'clock Eastern, throughout the

2722
02:19:37,320 --> 02:19:40,840
Speaker 2: first round of the NFL Draft, live right here on

2723
02:19:41,000 --> 02:19:46,680
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2724
02:19:46,800 --> 02:19:49,560
Speaker 2: right now joining us to take a look at sports

2725
02:19:49,600 --> 02:19:50,840
Speaker 2: from betting standpoint.

2726
02:19:51,840 --> 02:19:57,160
Speaker 3: Let's go to our man, the brain. Good morning, Brain,

2727
02:19:57,959 --> 02:19:58,720
Speaker 3: Good morning buddy.

2728
02:19:58,760 --> 02:19:59,120
Speaker 7: How are you.

2729
02:20:01,160 --> 02:20:01,400
Speaker 4: Good.

2730
02:20:01,480 --> 02:20:06,760
Speaker 2: We're getting shocked with rain, you know, but it's actually

2731
02:20:06,800 --> 02:20:11,520
Speaker 2: an Augusta, it's not so let's take a look at

2732
02:20:11,600 --> 02:20:13,440
Speaker 2: augusta moving day.

2733
02:20:13,640 --> 02:20:16,760
Speaker 3: Brain. How are you looking at this tournament?

2734
02:20:16,920 --> 02:20:17,200
Speaker 4: Shape?

2735
02:20:17,200 --> 02:20:19,320
Speaker 3: It up to be nice with the big boys up top.

2736
02:20:20,720 --> 02:20:24,720
Speaker 7: Yeah, looks and look, it's probably always my favorite tournament.

2737
02:20:24,920 --> 02:20:28,080
Speaker 7: I do love the Masters. Look at so many potential

2738
02:20:28,160 --> 02:20:31,240
Speaker 7: great storylines, right, you know, Rory find to get that

2739
02:20:31,400 --> 02:20:35,920
Speaker 7: elusive tournament win for him that he's been so close

2740
02:20:36,000 --> 02:20:38,920
Speaker 7: to many times. Has me able to do it? Threenty

2741
02:20:39,000 --> 02:20:42,720
Speaker 7: round one he was just playing so great and he

2742
02:20:42,800 --> 02:20:45,440
Speaker 7: gets the two double bogies in a row yesterday, just

2743
02:20:45,480 --> 02:20:48,600
Speaker 7: a beautiful round. He's only two shots back. Justin Rose,

2744
02:20:49,240 --> 02:20:53,320
Speaker 7: steely grady veteran. Probably don't think he's gonna hang on,

2745
02:20:53,600 --> 02:20:55,920
Speaker 7: you know. Look, you get him around eight point odds

2746
02:20:55,959 --> 02:20:59,000
Speaker 7: to one tournament if you think he can no inders

2747
02:20:59,080 --> 02:21:01,480
Speaker 7: in that for me, I think for an older player

2748
02:21:01,520 --> 02:21:04,400
Speaker 7: to hold on for two rounds, just don't see that

2749
02:21:04,640 --> 02:21:10,840
Speaker 7: the cards. Look, the question is at Rory's time, it's

2750
02:21:10,840 --> 02:21:12,720
Speaker 7: a good chance to anyone. But again that's the leader work.

2751
02:21:12,920 --> 02:21:15,039
Speaker 7: A lot of people can win, right, I mean day

2752
02:21:15,080 --> 02:21:18,560
Speaker 7: Shambo certainly has a good chance. Corey Connor's good ball

2753
02:21:18,640 --> 02:21:21,320
Speaker 7: striker as a shot, and then of course Scotti Scheffler

2754
02:21:21,800 --> 02:21:23,800
Speaker 7: is right there as well too. You can never count

2755
02:21:23,879 --> 02:21:26,600
Speaker 7: him out. He's only three shots back. I'm just looking

2756
02:21:26,640 --> 02:21:28,600
Speaker 7: forward to watching. In terms of picking winner, these things

2757
02:21:28,600 --> 02:21:31,200
Speaker 7: are so hard, and I always say Anthony, picking a

2758
02:21:31,240 --> 02:21:35,000
Speaker 7: winner in the tournaments is hard. I did Rory to

2759
02:21:35,040 --> 02:21:36,120
Speaker 7: come in the top ten, so I don't have to

2760
02:21:36,160 --> 02:21:39,440
Speaker 7: deal with any you know, I thought he was gonna

2761
02:21:39,440 --> 02:21:42,240
Speaker 7: have a good tournament top ten, I'm gonna be I'll

2762
02:21:42,280 --> 02:21:45,440
Speaker 7: be safe, hopefully. But if he has to pick a winner,

2763
02:21:45,440 --> 02:21:47,080
Speaker 7: but I just had to pick someone, I would pick Rory.

2764
02:21:48,320 --> 02:21:50,360
Speaker 7: I think he's playing really well in control of this game,

2765
02:21:50,440 --> 02:21:53,720
Speaker 7: and he seems it seems that maybe like this is

2766
02:21:53,840 --> 02:21:56,520
Speaker 7: just his time, so to speak, just to put the

2767
02:21:56,640 --> 02:21:59,320
Speaker 7: demons to bed, so to speak. But that being said,

2768
02:21:59,480 --> 02:22:02,120
Speaker 7: DoD during any particular golfer where it's so hard to

2769
02:22:02,120 --> 02:22:03,280
Speaker 7: win this tournament, is.

2770
02:22:03,280 --> 02:22:05,920
Speaker 4: There anybody on the outside brad of the top you know,

2771
02:22:06,040 --> 02:22:07,840
Speaker 4: three four that you think maybe able to make a

2772
02:22:07,920 --> 02:22:10,120
Speaker 4: surge and make it interesting, whether it's a Jason Day

2773
02:22:10,200 --> 02:22:12,400
Speaker 4: or a Matsuyama or Morikawa who are kind of like

2774
02:22:12,520 --> 02:22:14,040
Speaker 4: five six strokes back at this point.

2775
02:22:14,840 --> 02:22:17,960
Speaker 7: Yeah, Listen, the great thing about August is again with

2776
02:22:18,120 --> 02:22:20,800
Speaker 7: you know thirteen and fifteen, this those are potential always

2777
02:22:21,440 --> 02:22:25,520
Speaker 7: eagle holes, right, always potential egle holes and maybe you know,

2778
02:22:25,800 --> 02:22:29,640
Speaker 7: just maybe you get you know, lucky and they can

2779
02:22:30,040 --> 02:22:33,880
Speaker 7: somehow do something like that. I mean, look, I certainly

2780
02:22:33,920 --> 02:22:35,920
Speaker 7: know a problem taking a shot with someone like that,

2781
02:22:36,240 --> 02:22:38,120
Speaker 7: but Charl Hatton, you can get around point to one.

2782
02:22:38,200 --> 02:22:40,120
Speaker 7: I mean he's only three shots back. And this is

2783
02:22:40,640 --> 02:22:43,400
Speaker 7: a guy that is, in my opinion, a world class

2784
02:22:43,480 --> 02:22:48,240
Speaker 7: golfer that certainly has its chance and again only three

2785
02:22:48,320 --> 02:22:53,440
Speaker 7: shots back. Nothing crazy. Victor Hoblin's a guy always. Victor

2786
02:22:53,480 --> 02:22:55,640
Speaker 7: Hobbin's always been a guy. What I like about Victor

2787
02:22:55,680 --> 02:22:58,720
Speaker 7: Hoblin guys, He's a guy to me that can always

2788
02:22:58,720 --> 02:23:01,800
Speaker 7: shoot crazy low. He's closer to thirty to one area.

2789
02:23:01,840 --> 02:23:04,040
Speaker 7: You know, he's four shots back, But that's the kind

2790
02:23:04,080 --> 02:23:06,120
Speaker 7: of guy to me. He's think to say, justin Thomas,

2791
02:23:06,160 --> 02:23:07,440
Speaker 7: that kind of way where he could pull out like

2792
02:23:07,480 --> 02:23:11,800
Speaker 7: a sixty three sixty two, maybe more easier than some

2793
02:23:11,840 --> 02:23:14,840
Speaker 7: of the other golfers can. And maybe he has some

2794
02:23:15,000 --> 02:23:16,800
Speaker 7: more variants to him, which in the end, if you're

2795
02:23:16,800 --> 02:23:19,240
Speaker 7: looking for a long shot, you're looking for variants. That's

2796
02:23:19,280 --> 02:23:21,040
Speaker 7: the guy I think always has a really low round

2797
02:23:21,080 --> 02:23:21,320
Speaker 7: in him.

2798
02:23:22,959 --> 02:23:23,920
Speaker 3: Wow, that's interesting.

2799
02:23:25,840 --> 02:23:29,039
Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean he's a player. Look when you're looking

2800
02:23:29,120 --> 02:23:31,640
Speaker 7: first you're not looking for someone consistent. But if you're

2801
02:23:31,640 --> 02:23:33,120
Speaker 7: looking for a third to one shot, you're looking for

2802
02:23:33,160 --> 02:23:37,640
Speaker 7: a guy that maybe you know, not just goes seventy

2803
02:23:37,720 --> 02:23:39,400
Speaker 7: one to seventy sixty. Now you're looking for a guy

2804
02:23:39,440 --> 02:23:42,400
Speaker 7: that he can get a sixty three sixty four. And

2805
02:23:42,480 --> 02:23:44,440
Speaker 7: to me, he's one of those kind of players that

2806
02:23:44,560 --> 02:23:46,520
Speaker 7: has the ability to have one of those you know,

2807
02:23:46,680 --> 02:23:49,280
Speaker 7: eight under kind of rounds than he does. He could

2808
02:23:49,440 --> 02:23:51,840
Speaker 7: easily be winning the tournament after this round, let alone

2809
02:23:51,879 --> 02:23:53,320
Speaker 7: having to win it after two. Right, he could get

2810
02:23:53,360 --> 02:23:54,200
Speaker 7: there just in one round.

2811
02:23:54,840 --> 02:23:57,360
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, is your eddie?

2812
02:23:57,760 --> 02:23:59,680
Speaker 2: Do you look at you know, would you look at

2813
02:23:59,720 --> 02:24:02,720
Speaker 2: the the tour like to try to do top five,

2814
02:24:02,840 --> 02:24:04,080
Speaker 2: top ten, top twenties.

2815
02:24:05,600 --> 02:24:07,920
Speaker 7: I mean yeah, I mean listen, yeah, I mean I

2816
02:24:08,000 --> 02:24:12,840
Speaker 7: always prefer Now it's funny for me again, I used

2817
02:24:12,879 --> 02:24:16,320
Speaker 7: to golf was the one so it was quote unquote

2818
02:24:16,360 --> 02:24:17,880
Speaker 7: hole in my game. And what I mean by that

2819
02:24:18,080 --> 02:24:20,680
Speaker 7: is I loved betting golf so much. It was the

2820
02:24:20,840 --> 02:24:23,240
Speaker 7: one thing I allowed myself to do that wasn't ev

2821
02:24:23,440 --> 02:24:26,440
Speaker 7: plus expected value. It's the only leak I had. And

2822
02:24:26,440 --> 02:24:28,840
Speaker 7: because I would always try to chase that, these Dac

2823
02:24:28,920 --> 02:24:32,360
Speaker 7: Nadal winning the picking the winner the holding golf tournaments, guys,

2824
02:24:32,480 --> 02:24:35,040
Speaker 7: And what I mean by hold is when you bet

2825
02:24:35,080 --> 02:24:37,400
Speaker 7: a football game, right, you're laying minus one ten on

2826
02:24:37,440 --> 02:24:41,160
Speaker 7: both sides. Beholds a little over. You know you've fifty

2827
02:24:41,200 --> 02:24:42,920
Speaker 7: two point three percent to break even the hold. It's

2828
02:24:42,920 --> 02:24:46,760
Speaker 7: a little over four percent or whatnot. It's nothing. It's

2829
02:24:46,840 --> 02:24:50,840
Speaker 7: not a crazy hardhold to beat the holding golf. The

2830
02:24:50,959 --> 02:24:54,520
Speaker 7: holding golf is usually around forty percent, which means for

2831
02:24:54,640 --> 02:24:57,520
Speaker 7: everything about this, for every dollar the sportsbooks take in,

2832
02:24:57,879 --> 02:24:59,840
Speaker 7: they're paying back sixty cents. I need to really think

2833
02:24:59,840 --> 02:25:02,680
Speaker 7: of about that. When you really think about that, no

2834
02:25:02,800 --> 02:25:05,160
Speaker 7: one can beat that in the universe. It's impossible. I'm

2835
02:25:05,160 --> 02:25:07,920
Speaker 7: talking about picking the winners. Okay, so I realized, what

2836
02:25:08,040 --> 02:25:11,080
Speaker 7: am I trying to do? Chasing? No, it's fun, I

2837
02:25:11,200 --> 02:25:14,120
Speaker 7: get it. It's fun. Right, So because it's fun, well,

2838
02:25:14,320 --> 02:25:17,720
Speaker 7: if I'm doing professionally, it became an expensive hobby. I

2839
02:25:17,800 --> 02:25:21,959
Speaker 7: stopped doing. But picking top ten's top five head ted

2840
02:25:22,080 --> 02:25:26,920
Speaker 7: matchups that the hold is very very reasonable, Okay, much

2841
02:25:27,000 --> 02:25:29,640
Speaker 7: more reasonable at least then, because a lot of times

2842
02:25:29,680 --> 02:25:32,280
Speaker 7: it's a yes no market. There's no yes no market

2843
02:25:32,360 --> 02:25:34,800
Speaker 7: in the winners. It's just a yes they're holding so

2844
02:25:34,959 --> 02:25:37,760
Speaker 7: much of a hold again, they're doing it. Guys, every

2845
02:25:37,760 --> 02:25:40,640
Speaker 7: one listening. Just have fun. Sure you want about ten

2846
02:25:40,680 --> 02:25:43,520
Speaker 7: bucks twenty nothing that's going to kill you, no problem

2847
02:25:43,520 --> 02:25:45,720
Speaker 7: with it. But if you're betting real big money on that,

2848
02:25:46,040 --> 02:25:47,640
Speaker 7: I don't care who you are, you're not going to win.

2849
02:25:48,240 --> 02:25:49,760
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's interesting.

2850
02:25:50,080 --> 02:25:52,680
Speaker 7: Just keeping it real, just keeping no No, I got you,

2851
02:25:53,160 --> 02:25:53,600
Speaker 7: all right.

2852
02:25:54,000 --> 02:25:57,760
Speaker 3: Fig, let's turn our attention here. All right, you're ready?

2853
02:25:58,080 --> 02:25:59,280
Speaker 3: I got fron of me.

2854
02:25:59,400 --> 02:26:05,360
Speaker 4: The wins totals lovely. You know, I wanted to pivot here.

2855
02:26:05,440 --> 02:26:10,560
Speaker 4: This is excellent, great minds, Anthony, Oh good, good room.

2856
02:26:13,000 --> 02:26:14,760
Speaker 4: Why was a joke?

2857
02:26:15,080 --> 02:26:21,160
Speaker 7: Great minds? I love I'm joking with him. He knows that.

2858
02:26:22,720 --> 02:26:27,160
Speaker 3: All right, you ready? Fig? Had you start off?

2859
02:26:28,240 --> 02:26:30,879
Speaker 4: Well, I was gonna take it because it's really sort

2860
02:26:30,920 --> 02:26:33,920
Speaker 4: of it's encapsulated around the NFL Draft to a certain degree.

2861
02:26:33,959 --> 02:26:35,920
Speaker 4: And so I look at a team like say Pittsburgh

2862
02:26:36,520 --> 02:26:38,520
Speaker 4: right now, I'm looking at their win total being eight

2863
02:26:38,560 --> 02:26:40,760
Speaker 4: and a half going into the season. They don't have

2864
02:26:40,840 --> 02:26:44,160
Speaker 4: a quarterback. So is their quarterback going to be Aaron Rodgers?

2865
02:26:44,800 --> 02:26:46,680
Speaker 4: Is it going to be someone they trade for? Maybe

2866
02:26:46,680 --> 02:26:48,600
Speaker 4: they could potentially trade for Kirk Cousins, or is it

2867
02:26:48,640 --> 02:26:51,160
Speaker 4: gonna be somebody that they draft at eight and a

2868
02:26:51,200 --> 02:26:54,480
Speaker 4: half over under at this point in time, not knowing

2869
02:26:54,560 --> 02:26:57,039
Speaker 4: what the quarterback position is going to be for the Steelers,

2870
02:26:57,800 --> 02:26:59,520
Speaker 4: what would you do in that situation? How do you

2871
02:26:59,560 --> 02:27:01,240
Speaker 4: feel those odds are for them at this point?

2872
02:27:01,840 --> 02:27:04,760
Speaker 7: Yeah, great questions. It's funny like for me and it's

2873
02:27:04,920 --> 02:27:08,240
Speaker 7: it's I think the market believes they're going to get

2874
02:27:08,280 --> 02:27:11,440
Speaker 7: Aaron Rodgers. Okay, I believe that's being pricing because if

2875
02:27:11,440 --> 02:27:13,760
Speaker 7: they don't get a quarterback that eight and a half,

2876
02:27:14,200 --> 02:27:15,880
Speaker 7: If they get Aaron Rodgers, it's not going to go

2877
02:27:15,920 --> 02:27:17,160
Speaker 7: to nine and a half. It's going to stay at

2878
02:27:17,160 --> 02:27:19,040
Speaker 7: eight and a half. It's gonna it's not going to

2879
02:27:19,120 --> 02:27:23,160
Speaker 7: move up now if they have to stick with Meason

2880
02:27:23,240 --> 02:27:26,520
Speaker 7: Rudolph or whatever they're going to have in there or whatnot,

2881
02:27:27,080 --> 02:27:29,920
Speaker 7: it's clearly going to go down at least a game. Okay.

2882
02:27:30,560 --> 02:27:34,480
Speaker 7: So to me again, I'm not playing it because even

2883
02:27:34,480 --> 02:27:37,240
Speaker 7: if they get Rogers, I know Tomlin wins nine games

2884
02:27:37,280 --> 02:27:40,400
Speaker 7: every single year. I get it, death taxis Tomlin wins

2885
02:27:40,440 --> 02:27:43,600
Speaker 7: his nine games, But it's a pass for me. Again,

2886
02:27:43,640 --> 02:27:46,840
Speaker 7: I bet like six or seven seventh season win totals,

2887
02:27:46,920 --> 02:27:49,080
Speaker 7: that's not one of the seven I bet. For me,

2888
02:27:49,160 --> 02:27:52,440
Speaker 7: it's just a layoff because the uncertainty quarterback to me again,

2889
02:27:52,480 --> 02:27:54,920
Speaker 7: I'd rather not bet on something I don't have enough

2890
02:27:54,959 --> 02:27:56,840
Speaker 7: certainty on, and even if they were to get Rogers

2891
02:27:57,360 --> 02:27:59,240
Speaker 7: still wouldn't even like it, guys, To be honest with you,

2892
02:27:59,280 --> 02:28:00,600
Speaker 7: either way, I think it's the right number.

2893
02:28:00,920 --> 02:28:02,800
Speaker 3: How many How many overs did you bet?

2894
02:28:05,640 --> 02:28:09,200
Speaker 7: One to two hundreds? One, two and two, three and two,

2895
02:28:09,400 --> 02:28:12,280
Speaker 7: four and two, five and two, five and three six three?

2896
02:28:13,360 --> 02:28:13,600
Speaker 4: I did?

2897
02:28:13,640 --> 02:28:16,200
Speaker 7: Actually I bet ten things so far, ten that one

2898
02:28:16,280 --> 02:28:18,320
Speaker 7: I thought six overs, four unders.

2899
02:28:18,879 --> 02:28:19,720
Speaker 4: Six overs.

2900
02:28:19,840 --> 02:28:23,480
Speaker 3: I'll tell you one of your overs is the Chargers.

2901
02:28:24,760 --> 02:28:27,240
Speaker 7: Did not bet the Chargers over, did not bet they're

2902
02:28:27,320 --> 02:28:28,880
Speaker 7: under either. I bet them to win the division, though,

2903
02:28:29,840 --> 02:28:32,640
Speaker 7: and they I'm long the Chargers nine and a half.

2904
02:28:32,920 --> 02:28:36,800
Speaker 7: You can get juice to the over. Also, Guys, what

2905
02:28:36,840 --> 02:28:38,520
Speaker 7: I'm doing these sometimes I'm ticking off. I think it

2906
02:28:38,520 --> 02:28:41,200
Speaker 7: is a bad number, is me as much as anything else.

2907
02:28:41,560 --> 02:28:45,280
Speaker 7: The Chargers I lean over, I lean over. Look. They

2908
02:28:45,360 --> 02:28:48,720
Speaker 7: have the recipe right, good quarterback, good coach. And that's

2909
02:28:48,920 --> 02:28:52,440
Speaker 7: a recipe that usually no guarantee, guys, but usually is

2910
02:28:52,480 --> 02:28:55,000
Speaker 7: a recipe that leads to success. I do think the

2911
02:28:55,120 --> 02:28:57,240
Speaker 7: Chargers get the ten wins. Didn't bet it because I

2912
02:28:57,240 --> 02:28:59,520
Speaker 7: don't want to bet over nine and a half. That's

2913
02:28:59,600 --> 02:29:01,680
Speaker 7: just a little too rich for me. Usually eight and

2914
02:29:01,720 --> 02:29:04,920
Speaker 7: half the highest on over one of that usually, although

2915
02:29:05,280 --> 02:29:08,920
Speaker 7: some exceptions. I did take over Detroit last year, but

2916
02:29:09,360 --> 02:29:11,440
Speaker 7: it's usually a big number like that. I'm looking to

2917
02:29:11,480 --> 02:29:14,080
Speaker 7: go to the unders. But I do think the Chargers

2918
02:29:14,120 --> 02:29:15,480
Speaker 7: do get home. But it's not what I bet.

2919
02:29:15,800 --> 02:29:19,840
Speaker 4: What about San Francisco lost some guys traded de ball away.

2920
02:29:19,920 --> 02:29:21,880
Speaker 4: They're kind of aging out a little bit. Still have

2921
02:29:22,000 --> 02:29:24,040
Speaker 4: to extend brock party. I'm looking at ten and a

2922
02:29:24,080 --> 02:29:26,480
Speaker 4: half for San Francisco. What do you think about that number?

2923
02:29:26,520 --> 02:29:28,120
Speaker 4: Did you bet that number over under?

2924
02:29:28,920 --> 02:29:30,800
Speaker 7: I did bet that. I bet the under. Now here's

2925
02:29:30,840 --> 02:29:33,120
Speaker 7: the thing, guys, if you look at their schedule, if

2926
02:29:33,120 --> 02:29:35,520
Speaker 7: you want to pull up their schedule, you're literally going

2927
02:29:35,600 --> 02:29:38,560
Speaker 7: to think that Kyle Shanahan made up the schedule. Okay,

2928
02:29:38,760 --> 02:29:40,600
Speaker 7: You're only going to say to yourself this, this can't be.

2929
02:29:40,920 --> 02:29:44,160
Speaker 7: This is the easiest schedule created on God's green Earth?

2930
02:29:44,280 --> 02:29:49,520
Speaker 7: Was this schedule? I still took the under? Why because

2931
02:29:49,640 --> 02:29:54,560
Speaker 7: despite having an incredibly easy schedule it's kind of why

2932
02:29:54,560 --> 02:29:57,200
Speaker 7: I took the Falcons under ten and a half last year.

2933
02:29:57,640 --> 02:29:59,320
Speaker 7: I didn't think the team was that great, and I

2934
02:29:59,440 --> 02:30:01,560
Speaker 7: thought that from the schedule. I don't think the forty

2935
02:30:01,640 --> 02:30:05,320
Speaker 7: nine ers teams that great. I like the quarterback outside

2936
02:30:05,360 --> 02:30:07,800
Speaker 7: of the quarterback who I like. I don't trust Pcastro

2937
02:30:07,840 --> 02:30:09,840
Speaker 7: his helf going forward in his career. I hope he

2938
02:30:09,879 --> 02:30:11,400
Speaker 7: doesn't go to Joe Ow and beat her out. I

2939
02:30:11,520 --> 02:30:13,520
Speaker 7: really hope so. But I wouldn't be shocked if he

2940
02:30:13,640 --> 02:30:18,119
Speaker 7: did to me. I just think that team is very

2941
02:30:18,240 --> 02:30:20,600
Speaker 7: overrated in what people they saw the Super Bowl team

2942
02:30:20,600 --> 02:30:22,960
Speaker 7: from two years ago. I think that's still lingering in

2943
02:30:23,000 --> 02:30:25,440
Speaker 7: people's minds. I think this is a below average team.

2944
02:30:25,640 --> 02:30:27,040
Speaker 7: So if they're a below average team, I don't think

2945
02:30:27,040 --> 02:30:29,080
Speaker 7: they're going eleven and six despite an easy schedule.

2946
02:30:30,720 --> 02:30:34,400
Speaker 3: All right, give me, give me the ones that you played.

2947
02:30:34,160 --> 02:30:37,800
Speaker 7: Then get malty, buddy. Here's here we go. I'll try

2948
02:30:37,800 --> 02:30:39,640
Speaker 7: to you know unders. I got to did four unders.

2949
02:30:39,680 --> 02:30:42,160
Speaker 7: I did them under ten and a half. The other

2950
02:30:42,280 --> 02:30:45,240
Speaker 7: unders I did were if he don't don't hang up

2951
02:30:45,280 --> 02:30:47,080
Speaker 7: with me. I took the Eagles under eleven and a half.

2952
02:30:49,120 --> 02:30:49,840
Speaker 3: Yeah, I get it.

2953
02:30:50,080 --> 02:30:52,680
Speaker 2: I mean it's it's hard, and they they're replacing a

2954
02:30:52,720 --> 02:30:53,920
Speaker 2: lot of guts vicious.

2955
02:30:54,120 --> 02:30:55,080
Speaker 7: Did you see their schedule?

2956
02:30:55,360 --> 02:30:55,560
Speaker 3: Yes?

2957
02:30:55,720 --> 02:30:59,760
Speaker 7: I did, Yeah, vicious, absolutely vicious. It's hard to go

2958
02:31:00,400 --> 02:31:03,120
Speaker 7: five and they lost a lot of things in free agency.

2959
02:31:04,240 --> 02:31:06,520
Speaker 7: As it's hard. It's not easy to win twelve games NFL.

2960
02:31:07,080 --> 02:31:09,320
Speaker 7: It flips up and down every year. I thought the

2961
02:31:09,360 --> 02:31:12,080
Speaker 7: number should be in ten and a half. I took

2962
02:31:12,240 --> 02:31:15,000
Speaker 7: Seattle Seahawks under eight and a half. I think it's

2963
02:31:15,040 --> 02:31:18,560
Speaker 7: team downgraded. I think it's team downgraded. I do. I

2964
02:31:18,600 --> 02:31:20,360
Speaker 7: don't think they're gonna be as good this year as

2965
02:31:20,400 --> 02:31:23,560
Speaker 7: they were last year. Their total last year open seven

2966
02:31:23,560 --> 02:31:25,920
Speaker 7: a half. I think they won. I think they won nine.

2967
02:31:26,200 --> 02:31:28,480
Speaker 7: Maybe we maybe Eve won ten with Gino, But I

2968
02:31:28,520 --> 02:31:30,320
Speaker 7: don't think they're gonna have a winning record this year.

2969
02:31:30,480 --> 02:31:33,560
Speaker 7: I do not like what they've done. I don't like

2970
02:31:33,640 --> 02:31:36,120
Speaker 7: losing Metcalf or Cup. I think that's a severe downgrade.

2971
02:31:36,560 --> 02:31:38,600
Speaker 7: And I think Gino Smith or Sam Donold's going to

2972
02:31:38,600 --> 02:31:41,360
Speaker 7: be a downgrade as well. The other unders I had,

2973
02:31:41,400 --> 02:31:44,560
Speaker 7: I had one other under, oh, Buffalo Bills twelve and

2974
02:31:44,560 --> 02:31:46,920
Speaker 7: a half. Now, I did this because most of the

2975
02:31:47,000 --> 02:31:49,920
Speaker 7: market had eleven and a half. I found in one

2976
02:31:49,920 --> 02:31:51,640
Speaker 7: place at twelve and a half, and I thought that

2977
02:31:51,800 --> 02:31:53,440
Speaker 7: was just too high. I think the numbers should be

2978
02:31:53,480 --> 02:31:55,360
Speaker 7: eleven and a half. You can get twelve and a half.

2979
02:31:55,400 --> 02:31:58,720
Speaker 7: I think it does narrow to play. In terms of overs.

2980
02:31:59,720 --> 02:32:02,240
Speaker 7: My favorite bet on the card, the juice has moved

2981
02:32:02,280 --> 02:32:04,280
Speaker 7: a lot, but it was my favorite bet. I took

2982
02:32:04,320 --> 02:32:07,600
Speaker 7: the Vikings over eight and a half wins getting juiced

2983
02:32:07,600 --> 02:32:10,520
Speaker 7: Ayre now laying pretty significant juice and over. The Vikings

2984
02:32:10,560 --> 02:32:13,200
Speaker 7: are probably my favorite team this year in terms of

2985
02:32:13,320 --> 02:32:16,200
Speaker 7: what the market thinks of them versus my expectations. I

2986
02:32:16,280 --> 02:32:19,240
Speaker 7: think without the quarterback, they're arguably the most talented team

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02:32:19,240 --> 02:32:21,520
Speaker 7: in the NFL. Yeah, I don't. I honestly believe that.

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02:32:21,680 --> 02:32:24,240
Speaker 7: I think there may be the forgetting quarterback, which.

2989
02:32:24,120 --> 02:32:26,959
Speaker 4: Is a huge if I get it last year too.

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02:32:27,959 --> 02:32:32,960
Speaker 7: Yeah, they won fourteen games. They want fourteen, that's my point. Yeah,

2991
02:32:33,200 --> 02:32:35,640
Speaker 7: and they have a coach. It seems like, Anthony, it

2992
02:32:35,720 --> 02:32:37,600
Speaker 7: seems like you could stick me and you out there

2993
02:32:38,000 --> 02:32:41,440
Speaker 7: when I'm watching Joshua Dobbs and who's the guy the

2994
02:32:41,560 --> 02:32:44,280
Speaker 7: guy who Nick Mollens throw for five hundred yards a

2995
02:32:44,320 --> 02:32:47,000
Speaker 7: game with this coach? And then and sam Donold who

2996
02:32:47,080 --> 02:32:51,320
Speaker 7: was stung for everyone be a borderline MVP candidate. I'm

2997
02:32:51,360 --> 02:32:53,080
Speaker 7: just gonna take my chance to say, win nine games

2998
02:32:53,120 --> 02:32:56,240
Speaker 7: in a very, very tough division still even at current numbers.

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02:32:56,440 --> 02:32:59,200
Speaker 7: Broncos over eight and a half again, numbers should have

3000
02:32:59,240 --> 02:33:01,320
Speaker 7: been nine and a half, and since moved to nine

3001
02:33:01,320 --> 02:33:03,000
Speaker 7: and a half. I knew that number would moved to

3002
02:33:03,040 --> 02:33:04,680
Speaker 7: nine and a half, so I betted over eight and

3003
02:33:04,720 --> 02:33:09,840
Speaker 7: a half again. Great coach, good Yeah, quarterbacks, Hey, we're.

3004
02:33:09,800 --> 02:33:12,000
Speaker 3: Up against it. You want to give us real quick

3005
02:33:12,040 --> 02:33:13,600
Speaker 3: and then what kind of plays you got today?

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02:33:14,200 --> 02:33:14,400
Speaker 4: Yeah?

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02:33:14,400 --> 02:33:17,680
Speaker 7: I apologize, Yeah, I talked quickly, Okay, real quick, guys.

3008
02:33:17,920 --> 02:33:22,360
Speaker 7: Baseball Philly Sanchez over five and a half strikeouts plus

3009
02:33:22,440 --> 02:33:25,280
Speaker 7: one twenty seven and three is last ten, averaging seven

3010
02:33:25,360 --> 02:33:29,400
Speaker 7: dig uptick in velocity. Francis of Toronto over three and

3011
02:33:29,400 --> 02:33:31,080
Speaker 7: a half days laying a dollar sixty ten and one

3012
02:33:31,160 --> 02:33:34,360
Speaker 7: is last six, averaging six a game. Miles Michelos over

3013
02:33:35,360 --> 02:33:37,640
Speaker 7: five and a half hits. He's forty four and forty

3014
02:33:37,720 --> 02:33:40,600
Speaker 7: one got over the last two years. Martin Press my

3015
02:33:40,640 --> 02:33:42,160
Speaker 7: favorite bet of the day over four and a half

3016
02:33:42,240 --> 02:33:45,560
Speaker 7: hits eighteen to eight last year, sixteen to four of

3017
02:33:45,560 --> 02:33:48,080
Speaker 7: the year before, so he's thirty two and ten in

3018
02:33:48,120 --> 02:33:50,240
Speaker 7: the last two years, over four and a half. It's

3019
02:33:50,240 --> 02:33:51,840
Speaker 7: against the Red Sox Jay two of the games. Who

3020
02:33:51,920 --> 02:33:55,160
Speaker 7: cares like the Royals plus the dollars twenty today over

3021
02:33:55,240 --> 02:33:57,680
Speaker 7: Cleveland fifty to fifty game and I like the Red

3022
02:33:57,720 --> 02:33:59,680
Speaker 7: Sox laying less than a dollar fifty over the White Sox.

3023
02:34:00,000 --> 02:34:02,040
Speaker 7: Fox worst team League, take my chances.

3024
02:34:02,840 --> 02:34:05,440
Speaker 2: There you go, my brother. Listen, have a great day.

3025
02:34:05,520 --> 02:34:09,240
Speaker 2: Good luck to you. Buddy, enjoyed that weekend, Thanks Bret.

3026
02:34:09,440 --> 02:34:09,520
Speaker 8: Oh.

3027
02:34:09,560 --> 02:34:11,440
Speaker 7: By the way, Fits, I have the Raiders over six

3028
02:34:11,480 --> 02:34:13,240
Speaker 7: and a half as well. Let's go that is well,

3029
02:34:13,520 --> 02:34:14,519
Speaker 7: there you go, buddy.

3030
02:34:16,240 --> 02:34:16,960
Speaker 4: The Raiders over.

3031
02:34:17,120 --> 02:34:17,840
Speaker 3: Figgy loves that.

3032
02:34:18,000 --> 02:34:18,480
Speaker 4: I'll take it.

3033
02:34:18,560 --> 02:34:19,400
Speaker 3: Figgy loves that.

3034
02:34:21,520 --> 02:34:23,960
Speaker 2: You too, Buddy. Take care of brother. All right, we'll

3035
02:34:24,000 --> 02:34:27,320
Speaker 2: come back and wrap it up. Kevin Figures, Anthony Gargano

3036
02:34:27,959 --> 02:34:33,120
Speaker 2: Fellas on Fox. Ah, the Fellas ending it. That's it,

3037
02:34:34,160 --> 02:34:36,960
Speaker 2: my man, Mighty Mark. That's his song at the end

3038
02:34:37,000 --> 02:34:40,760
Speaker 2: of every show. Don't forget for the best pregame show

3039
02:34:40,840 --> 02:34:43,960
Speaker 2: every weekend, be shoot. Be sure to tune into Fox

3040
02:34:44,000 --> 02:34:48,480
Speaker 2: Sports Radios Countdown presented by Ben MGM every Saturday and

3041
02:34:48,640 --> 02:34:53,439
Speaker 2: Sunday nine am the noon Eastern six to nine Pacific,

3042
02:34:53,600 --> 02:34:56,240
Speaker 2: we will count you down to all the biggest games.

3043
02:34:56,680 --> 02:34:59,959
Speaker 2: Tune into Countdown presented by Ben and GM every Saturday

3044
02:35:00,160 --> 02:35:02,680
Speaker 2: Sunday morning right here on Fox Sports Radio the Heart

3045
02:35:02,800 --> 02:35:03,320
Speaker 2: Radio app.

3046
02:35:04,000 --> 02:35:04,760
Speaker 3: Will you watch you?

3047
02:35:04,920 --> 02:35:05,200
Speaker 4: Dude?

3048
02:35:05,440 --> 02:35:07,160
Speaker 3: What's what's your what do you do?

3049
02:35:07,360 --> 02:35:07,400
Speaker 5: Like?

3050
02:35:07,480 --> 02:35:12,279
Speaker 2: They got the dear little boys. God bless him. He's adorable.

3051
02:35:12,600 --> 02:35:15,160
Speaker 3: Thank you. Bro put a disposition too. He looks like

3052
02:35:15,240 --> 02:35:15,720
Speaker 3: you can see it.

3053
02:35:16,080 --> 02:35:18,960
Speaker 4: Oh, he's amazing. He's the happiest baby you'll ever meet.

3054
02:35:19,440 --> 02:35:21,520
Speaker 4: Almost never when he when he cries, you know there's

3055
02:35:21,560 --> 02:35:26,200
Speaker 4: something really wrong because, uh, he just has the greatest,

3056
02:35:26,360 --> 02:35:30,560
Speaker 4: sweetest demeanor, makes friends with everybody, flirts with every woman

3057
02:35:30,640 --> 02:35:35,160
Speaker 4: that he sees. So he's uh, he's he's amazing to

3058
02:35:35,200 --> 02:35:36,360
Speaker 4: be around. He really is.

3059
02:35:36,920 --> 02:35:41,400
Speaker 2: That's cool, man. Yeah, God, that's awesome. So so what

3060
02:35:41,480 --> 02:35:42,760
Speaker 2: do you got on the tap for the weekend?

3061
02:35:43,920 --> 02:35:45,720
Speaker 4: Oh? Well, run some marriages. We just got back in town.

3062
02:35:45,760 --> 02:35:47,120
Speaker 4: As a matter of fact. As a matter of fact,

3063
02:35:47,120 --> 02:35:49,240
Speaker 4: my family and I, he and my wife and I

3064
02:35:49,360 --> 02:35:52,840
Speaker 4: were in Chicago Mark's Neck of the Woods earlier this

3065
02:35:52,959 --> 02:35:55,360
Speaker 4: week for my wife's a teacher. She was on spring break,

3066
02:35:55,440 --> 02:35:58,400
Speaker 4: so we got to take in Shy Town in the frigid,

3067
02:35:58,440 --> 02:36:01,080
Speaker 4: cold temperatures of thirty eight grease, which for me, being

3068
02:36:01,120 --> 02:36:03,080
Speaker 4: a West Coast softy, might as well be you know,

3069
02:36:03,160 --> 02:36:07,080
Speaker 4: the frozen tundra, you know. So, but that was a

3070
02:36:07,160 --> 02:36:10,520
Speaker 4: fun experience with snow thirty eight for you, Anthony. I'm

3071
02:36:10,520 --> 02:36:12,560
Speaker 4: sure you're wearing you know, shorts outside.

3072
02:36:12,240 --> 02:36:12,320
Speaker 5: So.

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02:36:14,000 --> 02:36:17,360
Speaker 4: You know, I hate thirty eight degrees, but I feel you. Yeah.

3074
02:36:17,640 --> 02:36:20,320
Speaker 4: And we went to the Cubs Padres game on Saturday,

3075
02:36:20,520 --> 02:36:23,000
Speaker 4: and we lasted maybe about four four in the third

3076
02:36:23,040 --> 02:36:24,480
Speaker 4: innings when you say, let's get the hell up out

3077
02:36:24,480 --> 02:36:26,360
Speaker 4: of here, I'm freezing my tail off. I can't feel

3078
02:36:26,680 --> 02:36:31,160
Speaker 4: like to market to baseball and freezing cold weather. I guess, yeah.

3079
02:36:31,160 --> 02:36:33,080
Speaker 4: And you know it rigally is like you know, it's

3080
02:36:33,120 --> 02:36:34,600
Speaker 4: right off of the lakes, so you know, you have

3081
02:36:34,720 --> 02:36:37,440
Speaker 4: the wind blowing in. I used to cover the Cubs, yeah,

3082
02:36:37,520 --> 02:36:39,960
Speaker 4: so you know. Yeah, so but it was fun. It

3083
02:36:40,040 --> 02:36:41,960
Speaker 4: was a fun atmosphere overall. We all had a good time.

3084
02:36:42,080 --> 02:36:44,160
Speaker 4: So so this weekend we're just gonna chill for the

3085
02:36:44,240 --> 02:36:46,760
Speaker 4: most part, just chill back, recover, run a couple of errands,

3086
02:36:47,840 --> 02:36:49,480
Speaker 4: you know, go to the store, that sort of thing.

3087
02:36:51,080 --> 02:36:52,920
Speaker 4: That's pretty much it. And taking taking some of the

3088
02:36:52,959 --> 02:36:54,320
Speaker 4: masters when I get it, when I get a free

3089
02:36:54,320 --> 02:36:55,280
Speaker 4: minute here for sure.

3090
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Speaker 2: Nice yeah, nice watch any shows. There is a great

3091
02:36:59,440 --> 02:37:03,040
Speaker 2: show this I have to tell you. We watched it

3092
02:37:03,280 --> 02:37:05,680
Speaker 2: last night that Seth Rogan the studio.

3093
02:37:06,160 --> 02:37:07,000
Speaker 3: No I know of it.

3094
02:37:07,080 --> 02:37:08,040
Speaker 4: I've seen a previews.

3095
02:37:09,000 --> 02:37:11,280
Speaker 3: It's great. It's it's really good.

3096
02:37:11,879 --> 02:37:14,400
Speaker 4: Yeah, we jumped on late. I know it's a couple

3097
02:37:14,440 --> 02:37:17,000
Speaker 4: of years late now, but we started watching Severance.

3098
02:37:17,320 --> 02:37:20,480
Speaker 2: And really good because the new season. Yeah yeah, so

3099
02:37:20,760 --> 02:37:24,039
Speaker 2: I've not seen that. We're We're not We're the two

3100
02:37:24,120 --> 02:37:25,440
Speaker 2: on the two were watching?

3101
02:37:25,720 --> 02:37:25,880
Speaker 7: Is that?

3102
02:37:26,280 --> 02:37:30,240
Speaker 3: And I love Mobland with Tom Hardy.

3103
02:37:30,800 --> 02:37:32,080
Speaker 4: Oh, I don't know if I'm aware of that one.

3104
02:37:32,240 --> 02:37:37,040
Speaker 2: That's when Paramount plus it's a it's a British gangster series. Okay,

3105
02:37:38,040 --> 02:37:44,080
Speaker 2: Tom Hardy perfectly, he's the best, Like she's incredible and

3106
02:37:44,480 --> 02:37:49,000
Speaker 2: uh this this is uh, this series is is awesome.

3107
02:37:49,240 --> 02:37:50,840
Speaker 3: It's really good. It's called Mobland.

3108
02:37:51,080 --> 02:37:53,360
Speaker 4: Mobland, all right, Well to check that one out. Severn

3109
02:37:53,480 --> 02:37:56,080
Speaker 4: is good. It started starts out really slow, but it

3110
02:37:56,480 --> 02:37:59,080
Speaker 4: really does suck yeat. People love it. Yeah, it's really good.

3111
02:37:59,840 --> 02:38:02,040
Speaker 3: He they just love it.

3112
02:38:02,480 --> 02:38:04,880
Speaker 4: I wasn't sure what to expect initially, but uh, you know,

3113
02:38:04,920 --> 02:38:06,600
Speaker 4: it got such rave reviews, and I think it came

3114
02:38:06,600 --> 02:38:08,200
Speaker 4: out like three years ago, so it's you know, you

3115
02:38:08,280 --> 02:38:11,440
Speaker 4: mentioned there's a new season coming, but like I said,

3116
02:38:11,440 --> 02:38:12,800
Speaker 4: it's a bit of a slow start, but if you

3117
02:38:12,800 --> 02:38:15,160
Speaker 4: can stick with the first episode or two, it'll really second.

3118
02:38:15,360 --> 02:38:18,600
Speaker 4: So seventh is one I would definitely definitely recommend. Yeah,

3119
02:38:19,160 --> 02:38:20,560
Speaker 4: that's Apple plus Apple TV.

3120
02:38:21,080 --> 02:38:23,960
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, yeah, Oh, Apples get some good stuff. They

3121
02:38:24,040 --> 02:38:25,080
Speaker 3: do well.

3122
02:38:25,440 --> 02:38:29,760
Speaker 2: It's going to be uh, it's listened that NBA ends tomorrow,

3123
02:38:30,680 --> 02:38:32,360
Speaker 2: so we'll have the playoffs.

3124
02:38:32,720 --> 02:38:34,280
Speaker 4: Yeah, we'll have to play in this week.

3125
02:38:34,480 --> 02:38:38,000
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, play in and then the playoffs start, and

3126
02:38:38,040 --> 02:38:42,360
Speaker 2: then the NHL same thing. The playoffs start next week,

3127
02:38:43,480 --> 02:38:45,480
Speaker 2: and then it's the old draft all the time.

3128
02:38:45,640 --> 02:38:48,840
Speaker 4: That's right where draft is creeping up on us. I know,

3129
02:38:50,120 --> 02:38:52,080
Speaker 4: I know. It's the best time of year except for

3130
02:38:52,120 --> 02:38:53,480
Speaker 4: when football is actually being played.

3131
02:38:53,480 --> 02:38:58,800
Speaker 2: You know, exactly exactly. I'll be watching spring game Man

3132
02:39:00,120 --> 02:39:01,600
Speaker 2: State spring games is gonna be right.

3133
02:39:01,959 --> 02:39:03,920
Speaker 4: We are in the season of spring games, which, by

3134
02:39:03,959 --> 02:39:07,400
Speaker 4: the way, the transfer portal is also open. Yes, had

3135
02:39:07,480 --> 02:39:10,200
Speaker 4: fun with that. College sports, college football.

3136
02:39:10,360 --> 02:39:14,320
Speaker 2: I'm probably the best. Thanks for haggling with us today. Everybody,

3137
02:39:14,400 --> 02:39:16,840
Speaker 2: have a great day. We love you, See you next week.