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Seahawks vs. Broncos, Are the Cowboys Wasting Dak? + Sixers Chemistry Test + MORE · The Daily Play With Joy Taylor

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  Speaker 1: Hey guys, welcome to the Daily Play with Joy Taylor.
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  Speaker 1: Big Thursday night matchup tonight in Denver. The Seahawks are
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  Speaker 1: hoping to shake off a loss to the Niners to
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  Speaker 1: get a big win and some rest ahead of week seven.
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  Speaker 1: The Broncos also need to keep winning to keep pace
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  Speaker 1: with the Chiefs and the Raiders. Las Vegas Raiders. in
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  Speaker 1: the AFC West. Um, I'm going to keep my eyes
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  Speaker 1: on the quarterbacks in this one. Sean Payton is wanting
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  Speaker 1: Bo Nix to quote, let it rip. Nix hasn't had
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  Speaker 1: a 300 yard passing game this season. I'm not sure
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  Speaker 1: he's going to get it against the Seahawks defense. And
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  Speaker 1: I'm not so sure. I love the idea of another
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  Speaker 1: catch phrase in Denver. Um, it's kind of giving me
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  Speaker 1: a little eerie Russell Wilson before Denver, let him cook.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know. It's I'm not, I'm not interested in that. I,
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  Speaker 1: I understand that he wants him to take a few
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  Speaker 1: more risks, throw it down the field a bit more.
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  Speaker 1: And Sean Payton is a guy that, you know, obviously
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  Speaker 1: I completely respect when it comes to the offensive side
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  Speaker 1: of the ball. I think he's an incredible coach and,
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  Speaker 1: But this defense might not be the one to try
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  Speaker 1: that against. And for Seattle, Sam Darnold threw two costly
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  Speaker 1: interceptions against the Niners on Sunday. The Broncos are middle
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  Speaker 1: of the league in scoring defense, so it should slow
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  Speaker 1: things down for the Seahawks quarterback tonight. This is an
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  Speaker 1: important matchup for both of these teams. We're at the
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  Speaker 1: point in the season where you kind of want to
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  Speaker 1: show what your identity is and really put your foot
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  Speaker 1: on the gas if you're doing things well and both
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  Speaker 1: of these teams are coming into the game with uh
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  Speaker 1: you know not just the need for a win but
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  Speaker 1: to really set the tone for what they're going to
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  Speaker 1: be this year so the in the AFC West you
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  Speaker 1: have the Chiefs at the top um 4-0 Denver Broncos
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  Speaker 1: 3-2 Vegas Raiders 3-2 and obviously the Chargers are out
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  Speaker 1: of it 0-5 and in the NFC West you have
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  Speaker 1: the Niners at the top 5-0 Seattle Seahawks 3-2 the
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  Speaker 1: Rams who were the preseason favorites at two and three
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  Speaker 1: and the Cardinals at one and four. So things are
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  Speaker 1: going to start to shape up very quickly. And this
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  Speaker 1: is a big time Thursday night matchup. Now I made years,
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  Speaker 1: decades of daily sports content and buy or sell is
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  Speaker 1: one of those bits that we do a lot. And
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  Speaker 1: there is a quote that I think I'm buying from
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  Speaker 1: an athletic headline that From Wednesday, he says, are the
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  Speaker 1: Cowboys wasting the prime years of Dak Prescott's career? Dak
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  Speaker 1: Prescott is a player that I have talked about probably
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  Speaker 1: almost as much as, well, I don't want to say
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  Speaker 1: LeBron James because he's been playing for longer, but a lot.
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  Speaker 1: And that topic has come up before. And some friends
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  Speaker 1: like Hall of Famer Shady McCoy don't think Dak Prescott
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  Speaker 1: is very good. A quarterback, Dave Hellman. co-hosts the athletic
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  Speaker 1: football show, sees Dak as one of the best quarterbacks
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  Speaker 1: in the league and has for years. So the question is,
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  Speaker 1: am I buying or selling the idea that the Cowboys
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  Speaker 1: are wasting Dak's prime years? I'm buying because I think
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  Speaker 1: that the goal for any top level quarterback, which I
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  Speaker 1: think Dak has shown the ability to be, is to
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  Speaker 1: compete for and win championships. They haven't been to a
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  Speaker 1: conference championship in 30 years. since my other friend Michael
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  Speaker 1: Urban was in Dallas. The athletic article was written by
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  Speaker 1: John Machada. He's a staff writer covering the Cowboys, and
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  Speaker 1: it lays out some interesting points. During Prescott's first nine
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  Speaker 1: NFL seasons, the Cowboys were 76 and 46 when he started.
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  Speaker 1: That's 10 to 11 wins a season. Now, we talk
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  Speaker 1: a lot of trash about the Cowboys. We give them
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  Speaker 1: a hard time. But that is an impressive number. Under
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  Speaker 1: head coach Brian Schottenheimer since the start of last season,
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  Speaker 1: with Dak playing every game, the Cowboys are 9-12-1. Now,
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  Speaker 1: I had a lot of opinions about the Schottenheimer hire.
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  Speaker 1: I did not think it was the right hire. I
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  Speaker 1: think it was more of the same. It's more of
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  Speaker 1: what Terry always does, which is hire someone who no
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  Speaker 1: one's really looking at or someone who he knows he
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  Speaker 1: can control and have the final say over. Which, look,
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  Speaker 1: we all know that the owners have the final say.
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  Speaker 1: But when it comes to football, it needs to be
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  Speaker 1: the coach's way, period. It needs to be their team.
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  Speaker 1: It needs to be their decisions. It needs to be
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  Speaker 1: their structure and their system and their hires and their players.
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  Speaker 1: And we know that that is just not what goes
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  Speaker 1: on in Dallas. Since he has taken over Schottenheimer, Dallas
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  Speaker 1: has only won back-to-back games once. The defense has been
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  Speaker 1: a continuous problem for Dallas. Earlier in Dak's career, the
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  Speaker 1: defense was great and they were handing it off to
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  Speaker 1: Zeke and they were stingy with Dak's weapons. Now he
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  Speaker 1: has great talent to throw to. The defense is giving
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  Speaker 1: up the second most yards per game in the league
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  Speaker 1: and they don't have an identity offensively or defensively. So yeah,
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  Speaker 1: like could I imagine Dak on a different team having
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  Speaker 1: high level success? Yeah, I do. I think there's things
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  Speaker 1: about Dak that make him the perfect quarterback for the
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  Speaker 1: Dallas Cowboys. I think he's always been a good company man.
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  Speaker 1: And when it comes to quarterbacks, that's honestly what I want.
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  Speaker 1: I don't need you to cause more issues for the
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  Speaker 1: team than a team like the Cowboys would already have.
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  Speaker 1: And it looks like once again, they are not going
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  Speaker 1: to be in contention for a Super Bowl and really
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  Speaker 1: are not a team that anyone is, you know, even
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  Speaker 1: considering to make a run in the postseason, which since
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  Speaker 1: they haven't been to the conference championship game, which you
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  Speaker 1: got to go to before you get to a Super
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  Speaker 1: Bowl in 30 years, this still feels completely out of reach. So, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I think I'm buying that the Cowboys are wasting Dak's
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  Speaker 1: prime years. And I think that nothing is going to
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  Speaker 1: change anytime soon because Jerry runs things the way that
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  Speaker 1: he does. And at some point doing the same thing
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  Speaker 1: over and over again and expecting a different result, that
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  Speaker 1: is the definition of insanity. And that's what the Cowboys
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  Speaker 1: have been. They've been stuck in this cycle of insanity
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  Speaker 1: for the last 30 years. You cannot argue with the
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  Speaker 1: success business-wise that the Dallas Cowboys have, but on the field,
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  Speaker 1: it's not there. And there comes a point where after
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  Speaker 1: 30 years of the moniker of America's team and the
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  Speaker 1: moniker of, you know, them being the standard or, I mean,
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  Speaker 1: you have whole adults who have never seen them even
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  Speaker 1: in a conference championship game. You can only ride on
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  Speaker 1: that for so long and it has been written. So yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, we saw what Sam Darnold was able to
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  Speaker 1: do last year with the Seahawks. He's a guy that
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  Speaker 1: everyone wrote off, including myself. So, and I think Jack
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  Speaker 1: Prescott is a better quarterback than him. So I do
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  Speaker 1: think that Where you are matters. The coaching that you
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  Speaker 1: have matters. He has nothing to do with the other
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  Speaker 1: side of the ball, which has been a disaster. And
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  Speaker 1: I think once again, you're in the same situation. The
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  Speaker 1: whole division looks unimpressive and the Cowboys are right in
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  Speaker 1: that mix. So let's get into some hoops. All eyes
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  Speaker 1: are on the Sixers heading into this season, added Jalen
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  Speaker 1: Brown and LeBron James in the same off season. One
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  Speaker 1: of the, more impressive halls in NBA history for the offseason.
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  Speaker 1: Contavious Caldwell Pope, who won the bubble title with LeBron
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  Speaker 1: and another championship with Denver in 2023, also joined the
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  Speaker 1: Sixers this offseason. And he put an interesting veteran frame
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  Speaker 1: on Philly's success this season. He said, our chemistry is
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  Speaker 1: going to be the biggest part for us, us liking
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  Speaker 1: each other, being able to be around each other and
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  Speaker 1: having fun on and off the court. We have so
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  Speaker 1: much talent from one through 12 or 15 and however
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  Speaker 1: many guys we got and it's talents everywhere. So I
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  Speaker 1: think our biggest thing is just communicating with each other,
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  Speaker 1: learning each other's tendencies and just trying to implement that
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  Speaker 1: on and off the court. I like this quote because
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  Speaker 1: this is also why I am hesitant about jumping out
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  Speaker 1: the window with the Sixers this season. So let's go
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  Speaker 1: back in time to the Miami Heat and the big three,
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  Speaker 1: obviously a completely different era. These players were in a
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  Speaker 1: different state of mind they were in different uh points
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  Speaker 1: in their career but everyone remembers that notorious press conference
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  Speaker 1: not one not two not three and i remember watching
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  Speaker 1: that and thinking how scary it is that they're setting
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  Speaker 1: the bar that high because they've never played on the
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  Speaker 1: court together yeah these are incredible players duane wade chris
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  Speaker 1: bosh lebron james it's the big three It's historic. It's dramatic.
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  Speaker 1: They're in front of the fans. I get it. But
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  Speaker 1: they've never played together. And even though they did go
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  Speaker 1: to the finals that year, the chemistry, as they would
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  Speaker 1: go on to tell us, wasn't the issue in that
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  Speaker 1: they weren't getting along. It was that who was the leader?
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  Speaker 1: Who was going to take the last shot? Whose team
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  Speaker 1: was it? Because you had Dwyane Wade there in Miami
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  Speaker 1: as a champion. But LeBron James is now here. And
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  Speaker 1: it has to be LeBron's team. And Dwayne told LeBron,
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  Speaker 1: it has to be your team. And I do wonder
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  Speaker 1: how things are going to go for the Sixers with
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  Speaker 1: LeBron James there, but a completely different LeBron James than
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  Speaker 1: we were talking about with the big three in Miami.
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  Speaker 1: You have Tyrese Maxey, you have BJ Edgecombe, you have
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  Speaker 1: Jalen Brown, you have LeBron James, and you have Dwell
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  Speaker 1: and Beat. Who is the leader on that team? Who
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  Speaker 1: is setting the tone? Who is implementing the culture? Who
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  Speaker 1: is maintaining the culture? Now, obviously, they all respect LeBron
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  Speaker 1: and should, but LeBron is not the young and his
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  Speaker 1: prime superstar now. So how does the structure of this
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  Speaker 1: team work? Jalen Brown is new. It's really Joel Embiid's team,
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  Speaker 1: but we've seen what Joel has been able to do
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  Speaker 1: since he's been there. So I do think it's going
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  Speaker 1: to be interesting. I think I could expect maybe some
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  Speaker 1: rocky moments, but... You know, in the end, they have
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  Speaker 1: a ton of talent, great veterans. And I always believe
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  Speaker 1: in LeBron James' ability to elevate those around him because
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  Speaker 1: he has shown us that time and time again. But
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  Speaker 1: I do think the chemistry is the key for the
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  Speaker 1: Sixers this season. And I think this is a great
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  Speaker 1: quote by KCP. And it is something to pay attention
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  Speaker 1: to and watch because those things sometimes come together very
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  Speaker 1: quickly and sometimes they take a little bit of work,
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  Speaker 1: but the expectations are that they win a championship this year.
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  Speaker 1: That's the expectations for this year. And anything less than that,
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  Speaker 1: you know, it's not a zero sum game, but in
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  Speaker 1: this situation, it kind of is. So I think it's
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  Speaker 1: very interesting that he said that because that is how
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  Speaker 1: I feel about the Sixers this season. How is it
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  Speaker 1: all going to come together and whose team is it?
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