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  Speaker 1: Israel Gutierrez is in again after another long weekend.
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  Speaker 3: I'm liking this long weekend thing. This every Friday is
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  Speaker 3: working out for you, huh? A one-day work week.
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  Speaker 1: I love it. We'll talk to Chris Sims coming up
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  Speaker 1: in hour number two. Excited for that. Izzy, what was
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  Speaker 1: your feelings last night? We were talking earlier about Browns
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  Speaker 1: and Steelers. The Browns win that game 27-24.
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  Speaker 3: They're 3-1.
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  Speaker 1: The team that Miles Garrett left is 3-1. And the
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  Speaker 1: team that he joined to win a Super Bowl is 1-2.
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  Speaker 1: That's the NFL. But we were saying if there's a
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  Speaker 1: quarterback that's going to force us to root for Aaron Rodgers, right,
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  Speaker 1: that quarterback is going to be Deshaun Watson every single time.
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  Speaker 1: And so it's an impressive start for the Browns, 3-1. Nobody,
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  Speaker 1: and I mean nobody, expected them to get off to
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  Speaker 1: a 3-1 start. But what were your feelings?
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  Speaker 3: What are your feelings on our.
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  Speaker 1: Comments that that is the only matchup in which we
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  Speaker 1: will root for Aaron Rodgers because he is unlikable?
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  Speaker 4: I would have thrown in Tua, but those are my
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  Speaker 4: own personal feelings there. It's funny that you say that
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  Speaker 4: because I had the exact opposite thought.
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  Speaker 3: Really?
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  Speaker 4: I said to myself, wow, I'm cheering for the Browns. Now,
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  Speaker 4: they had the most sort of ridiculous start with just
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  Speaker 4: so many dumb penalties yesterday where I was like, How
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  Speaker 4: could you like this team? Like, they're just so frustrating.
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  Speaker 4: We already know that nobody really likes, nobody should like
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  Speaker 4: Deshaun Watson, really. But man, Aaron Rodgers is so unlikable. Like,
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  Speaker 4: on the field, to my eyes, watching him play, I
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  Speaker 4: can't imagine any one of his teammates, any one of
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  Speaker 4: his coaches that say, hey. That's a good dude right there.
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  Speaker 4: And gives him a big old hug. I mean, you
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  Speaker 4: saw the exchange with Mike McCarthy. And, you know, forever,
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  Speaker 4: for the rest of time, he's going to be talking
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  Speaker 4: with his hand over his mouth. Because he doesn't want
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  Speaker 4: to get caught calling Aaron Rodgers what he called him yesterday.
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  Speaker 4: But Aaron deserves that. Like, there have been so many
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  Speaker 4: situations in so many games where, yeah, a coach gets
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  Speaker 4: a play call in late, right? But for him to
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  Speaker 4: just be so demonstrative... to look like such a jerk,
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  Speaker 4: to basically put his coaches out there for everybody to say, hey,
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  Speaker 4: his coaches must not be doing something right.
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  Speaker 3: Look at Aaron.
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  Speaker 4: Look how upset he is.
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  Speaker 3: It's just BS to me.
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  Speaker 4: It just makes him seem like he's been in this
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  Speaker 4: league for so long and he knows exactly what he's doing. Like,
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  Speaker 4: stop doing that. Stop undermining your coaches. And I found
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  Speaker 4: myself cheering hard for the Cleveland Browns yesterday.
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  Speaker 3: Not for Deshaun Watson.
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  Speaker 5: Right.
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  Speaker 4: For the Cleveland Browns. Like, I feel like The Browns
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  Speaker 4: fans have done their job in sort of helping Deshaun Watson,
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  Speaker 4: helping put him in his place for some, you know,
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  Speaker 4: one way or another.
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  Speaker 3: They've been hard enough on Deshaun Watson. Not hard enough.
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  Speaker 4: They've been hard on him, deservedly so.
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  Speaker 3: Yes.
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  Speaker 4: And so now I feel like I am free to
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  Speaker 4: allow my emotions to carry their own weight and just
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  Speaker 4: hate on Aaron Rodgers. And it's not just what he does,
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  Speaker 4: what he did yesterday, what he does on the field.
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  Speaker 4: It's even like the nonsense that he talks off the field.
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  Speaker 4: It's the nonsense that he talks on the McAfee show. Like,
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  Speaker 4: have you ever met a guy who says stuff about
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  Speaker 4: his exes publicly the way he has done recently where
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  Speaker 4: it's just like, hang on a second. Why are you
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  Speaker 4: talking smack about your ex-girlfriends? Have you ever seen another
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  Speaker 4: quarterback say something? I want to look good because I
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  Speaker 4: want my wife to bleep me. It's like, who are
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  Speaker 4: you trying to be? Are you trying to join a fraternity?
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  Speaker 4: Are you 18 years old?
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  Speaker 3: Who is this guy?
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  Speaker 4: And so there's just no element about Aaron Rodgers that
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  Speaker 4: I like. He wants to be this guy who's contrary
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  Speaker 4: to everything. He wants to be this guy who feels
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  Speaker 4: like he knows more than everybody else. And currently, he's
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  Speaker 4: a nothing. He's on a bad team playing quarterback.
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  Speaker 3: Right.
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  Speaker 4: And it's just like, I don't think he deserves this
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  Speaker 4: license to be this jerk for this entire time. And so, yeah,
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  Speaker 4: I'm going to cheer against Aaron Rodgers for the rest
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  Speaker 4: of this season.
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  Speaker 3: Hard.
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  Speaker 2: Wow.
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  Speaker 6: Izzy, I want to be very clear because I am
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  Speaker 6: in your camp when it comes to Aaron Rodgers, where
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  Speaker 6: Aaron Rodgers says, once I retire from football, you'll never
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  Speaker 6: hear from me again.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, stop it.
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  Speaker 6: I'm holding him to that promise because.
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  Speaker 3: I'm telling you he's going to break that promise.
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  Speaker 7: Yes.
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  Speaker 3: Okay.
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  Speaker 6: But in defense of Aaron Rogers last night in the
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  Speaker 6: first half where he has that blow up with Mike McCarthy,
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  Speaker 6: this is now a trend for this Steelers team where
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  Speaker 6: they're having some kind of communication issues and getting him
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  Speaker 6: plays where last week against the Bengals, they had to
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  Speaker 6: burn all three of their timeouts early in the first
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  Speaker 6: half because something is going on with getting the plays
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  Speaker 6: relayed into him. So then I think when it carries
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  Speaker 6: over into Thursday Night Football, Aaron Rodgers looks at it like, hey, guys,
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  Speaker 6: we knew this was a problem going into this game,
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  Speaker 6: and now the frustration is boiling over into our next
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  Speaker 6: game where we still haven't had the issues addressed. And also...
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  Speaker 6: Mike McCarthy, he just doesn't look like an innocent guy
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  Speaker 6: out there when he's coaching where he almost has like
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  Speaker 6: this confused look on his face when Aaron Rodgers is
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  Speaker 6: barking at him.
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  Speaker 4: But for Aaron, it's all for just public display. Like,
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  Speaker 4: you're a veteran. You're a grown-up. You're supposed to be
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  Speaker 4: a team guy. Like, save that for the sideline. Save
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  Speaker 4: it for the locker room. But when you're out here
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  Speaker 4: on the field doing all this nonsense, like, you could
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  Speaker 4: sort of keep it right here and just be like, hey,
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  Speaker 4: call the play. You know, give him some sort of symbol.
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  Speaker 4: or signal that says, hey, hurry up, but not look
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  Speaker 4: like such an a-hole doing it.
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  Speaker 1: Just to play the other side of this, I mean,
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  Speaker 1: he did need a play called in. I mean, they're
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  Speaker 1: trying to score, and he's the quarterback, and he wanted
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  Speaker 1: a play.
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  Speaker 4: Right, but this is coming off the heels of him saying,
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  Speaker 4: it all starts with me, and then blaming his coaching staff.
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  Speaker 4: So in that moment, he was just like, let me
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  Speaker 4: make sure everybody knows that my coaching staff is doing
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  Speaker 4: me no favors right now.
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  Speaker 8: Okay.
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  Speaker 6: Is this just an Aaron Rodgers issue or did you
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  Speaker 6: also have issues with TJ Watt in the game where
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  Speaker 6: TJ Watt is getting frustrated with members of the secondary
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  Speaker 6: and then TJ Watt takes the headset to talk to
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  Speaker 6: the defensive coordinator to try to get their situation situated
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  Speaker 6: because Again, it felt like just a complete mess on
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  Speaker 6: that Steelers sideline where everybody's just yelling at everybody. When
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  Speaker 6: the Browns, I think they went into that game thinking
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  Speaker 6: they were going to walk over the Browns. And the
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  Speaker 6: second the Browns started fighting back, the Steelers really didn't
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  Speaker 6: have any answers.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, Izzy, if you're playing for that team and
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  Speaker 1: the communication is not right and you have a history
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  Speaker 1: of poor communication. And McCarthy does. And that Steelers staff
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  Speaker 1: does because it goes back to last week. You have
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  Speaker 1: to be frustrated if you're not getting the plays called
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  Speaker 1: into you. Like you have to work that out before
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  Speaker 1: the next game. And clearly they did not. And the
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  Speaker 1: players were frustrated by it.
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  Speaker 4: No, to answer your question, Taylor, it's just an Aaron
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  Speaker 4: Rodgers thing for me.
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  Speaker 3: And that's fine, by the way. I will say this, too.
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  Speaker 3: We all know who T.J. Watt's brother is. Yes, of course.
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  Speaker 4: And what is his, according to you, what is his
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  Speaker 4: big reputation? He's a what guy? He's a me, me,
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  Speaker 4: me guy. He's a look at me guy. So TJ
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  Speaker 4: might have gotten a little bit of that from his brother.
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  Speaker 3: It might run in the veins. He learned from Big Bro. Yes.
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  Speaker 3: Can you root for the Browns without rooting for Deshaun Watson?
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  Speaker 3: Great question, man.
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  Speaker 4: Great question.
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  Speaker 3: It's so hard.
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  Speaker 4: If he is playing sort of mediocre football. Yes.
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  Speaker 3: Which he is.
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  Speaker 4: Then yes.
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  Speaker 3: Right.
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  Speaker 4: Because it's not just him carrying them. It's not like
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  Speaker 4: you're saying, phew, Watson got us out of that mess.
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  Speaker 4: He's just, you know, calling the plays and hitting pretty
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  Speaker 4: much wide open guys for the most part. But yeah,
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  Speaker 4: I think the way they're playing now. when it's not
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  Speaker 4: all him doing, you know, carrying them.
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  Speaker 1: I think it's, you can, you can cheer for them,
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  Speaker 1: but you find yourself getting behind the Browns because that
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  Speaker 1: fan base has been through it.
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  Speaker 2: Right.
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  Speaker 1: And so they have four weeks of feel good here
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  Speaker 1: where they're three in one. They weren't expecting to be
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  Speaker 1: three in one. They don't know what to do. They're conflicted.
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  Speaker 1: They have, they have told us how they feel about
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  Speaker 1: Deshaun Watson, but, They care about the Browns more. They
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  Speaker 1: care about themselves more. They feel good more, and they
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  Speaker 1: feel pretty good right now, and they should. I was
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  Speaker 1: pretty shocked.
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  Speaker 4: I'm not normally shocked when announcers drop stats on a broadcast,
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  Speaker 4: mostly because you usually hear these things going into a
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  Speaker 4: game anyway. But I don't know if I just hadn't
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  Speaker 4: been listening to Browns conversations, and you can't blame me
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  Speaker 4: if I haven't. But the idea that they haven't won
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  Speaker 4: a division title... since the days of Bernie Kosar was
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  Speaker 4: absolutely a jaw-dropping situation for me. I was just like,
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  Speaker 4: that can't be. Divisions are a nothing story. You can
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  Speaker 4: accidentally win a division. Didn't the Dolphins accidentally win the
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  Speaker 4: AFC East one year with Chad Pennington? Did they win
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  Speaker 4: it that year?
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  Speaker 3: They did.
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  Speaker 1: Chad Pennington was the runner-up for MVP. Brady went down
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  Speaker 1: with an Achilles.
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  Speaker 7: I believe.
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  Speaker 4: It's a nothing season because they didn't win a playoff game,
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  Speaker 4: but yet they did that. And yet the Browns are
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  Speaker 4: still longtime sufferers. That one was wild.
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  Speaker 3: The Browns are 3-1 for the first time since 2021.
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  Speaker 1: And if you're talking winning a division and the last
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  Speaker 1: time was Bernie Kosar, that has to be like in
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  Speaker 1: the 80s, right?
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  Speaker 3: 1989.
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  Speaker 6: When they claimed the AFC Central title. And the Dolphins, Izzy,
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  Speaker 6: you mentioned it.
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  Speaker 3: It was 2008.
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  Speaker 6: Tony Sperano.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: When's the last time the Jets won their division? Like,
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  Speaker 1: is that the longest streak in the NFL right there?
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  Speaker 7: 2002.
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  Speaker 6: All right. Also, Chad Pennington. Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: That guy's a master of winning divisions.
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  Speaker 3: That Dolphin team was funny. Yes, they won the division.
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  Speaker 1: Pennington was great that season. It took Brady going down, though,
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  Speaker 1: for them to win that division. And the Patriots were
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  Speaker 1: still 11 and five with Matt Castle.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it was barely, barely won that division.
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  Speaker 4: Speaking of unlikable, Taylor, I wanted to ask you this
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  Speaker 4: because I don't know if we're going to have much
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  Speaker 4: time to get to it. And frankly, it's a day old.
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  Speaker 4: But how much fun? Was it beating those particular Red
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  Speaker 4: Sox and your boy like Roman Anthony? Nobody likes him
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  Speaker 4: because he didn't play Wilson Contreras like walking around the
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  Speaker 4: bases when he was down. And hopefully I didn't get
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  Speaker 4: fooled by the.
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  Speaker 3: Internet on this.
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  Speaker 4: Were they wearing T-shirts that said there's nothing like October?
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  Speaker 4: And they got knocked out September 30th.
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  Speaker 3: They were outscored 18-2, I believe.
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  Speaker 4: They were eliminated before October, and they were wearing T-shirts saying,
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  Speaker 4: there's nothing like October.
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  Speaker 1: I hope that was real. There's nothing like an October
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  Speaker 1: when you're off for the entire month.
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  Speaker 6: So the no time like October, Izzy, everybody is wearing
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  Speaker 6: those this postseason. So the Red Sox just got a
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  Speaker 6: little unlucky when their season ended.
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  Speaker 3: I'm assuming.
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  Speaker 6: The Cubs were also wearing them.
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  Speaker 4: OK, but have some awareness.
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  Speaker 2: All right.
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  Speaker 4: If you are potentially going out in two out of
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  Speaker 4: three game series, a three game series and go out
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  Speaker 4: potentially in two games, don't wear those.
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  Speaker 3: If it's still September, if they don't wear those, you're
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  Speaker 3: not making it. Exactly.
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  Speaker 4: Don't wear those until October. Just say, you know what, guys,
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  Speaker 4: we're going to have to go with another slogan because
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  Speaker 4: this one doesn't work for us yet.
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  Speaker 3: Let's go with the October shirts when we make it
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  Speaker 3: to October.
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  Speaker 2: Right.
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  Speaker 4: So, yes, I will give that's MLB's fault for doing
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  Speaker 4: that because there were going to be teams that were
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  Speaker 4: out before October.
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  Speaker 3: Right. But it's such a great look for the Red Sox.
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  Speaker 1: We do have some great Red Sox sound for you
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  Speaker 1: that we'll play coming up in the next segment to
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  Speaker 1: answer some of your questions that you had for Taylor.
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  Speaker 3: What do you have, Taylor?
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  Speaker 6: Oh, Izzy, I've been floating high ever since the Yankees
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  Speaker 6: knocked out the Red Sox. Just the fashion that they
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  Speaker 6: were able to eliminate them. Like going into the series,
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  Speaker 6: Mikey called it a lose-lose for the Yankees because he
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  Speaker 6: thought the Yankees were so overwhelmingly better than the Red
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  Speaker 6: Sox that if they beat them, it would just be
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  Speaker 6: like ho-hum, like you're supposed.
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  Speaker 3: To beat them.
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  Speaker 7: Mm-hmm.
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  Speaker 6: No, there's always something a little extra about beating the
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  Speaker 6: Boston Red Sox. And there used to be a time
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  Speaker 6: where it felt like the Red Sox had the Yankees
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  Speaker 6: number in the postseason. And the moment it changed was 2004,
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  Speaker 6: where the Red Sox kind of flipped the script on
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  Speaker 6: the Yankees. The past two seasons, the fact that the
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  Speaker 6: Yankees have been the ones that sent the Red Sox
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  Speaker 6: packing in the wildcard series, it's poetic for me.
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  Speaker 3: Izzy, you'll laugh at this. Taylor's trying to get a
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  Speaker 3: ticket for the game. It's in Tampa.
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  Speaker 1: It's about a three and a half, four hour drive.
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  Speaker 1: How much are the tickets going for? Because I think
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  Speaker 1: Taylor was telling me earlier, correct me if I'm wrong, Taylor.
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  Speaker 1: The tickets are more expensive at the Trop than they
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  Speaker 1: are at Yankee Stadium.
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  Speaker 5: What?
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  Speaker 4: Izzy.
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  Speaker 8: No.
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  Speaker 6: There are so many Yankee fans in Tampa and South
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  Speaker 6: Florida that the tickets are more expensive in Tropicana. It's
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  Speaker 6: like a $ 100 difference right now where I think Game 3,
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  Speaker 6: the get-in price at Yankee Stadium is like $ 100, and
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  Speaker 6: the get-in price at Tropicana is about $ 200. Stu, the
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  Speaker 6: Rays manager, Kevin Cash, he was talking about Game 1
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  Speaker 6: against the Yankees, and he said— It's a great name.
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  Speaker 3: By the way. Kevin Cash. Oh, it's awesome. For these
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  Speaker 3: expensive tickets.
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  Speaker 7: Yes.
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  Speaker 6: So game one against the Yankees will be the first
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  Speaker 6: sellout at Tropicana Field since he became the manager in 2015.
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  Speaker 3: What?
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  Speaker 6: And he said, I'm really excited to see our fans
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  Speaker 6: fill this place up.
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  Speaker 3: For the first time. I hate to break it up.
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  Speaker 6: It's not his fans.
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  Speaker 7: Right.
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  Speaker 3: It's Yankee fans.
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  Speaker 4: That fits into my personal war with Tampa. The Tampa
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  Speaker 4: doesn't know they're warring with me. But that's absolutely amazing.
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  Speaker 4: I used to think that it was just South Florida
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  Speaker 4: that had all the New York fans. But yeah, Tampa,
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  Speaker 4: now that you think about it, has so many of them.
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  Speaker 3: Didn't Tampa win a World Series since 2015? No. They
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  Speaker 3: made it to a World Series?
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  Speaker 6: They've made it to a World Series. I don't remember
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  Speaker 6: the time frame. I believe the Phillies beat them.
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  Speaker 1: Kevin Cash has won multiple divisions there. He's never seen
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  Speaker 1: the drop-packed. I mean, that's odd to me.
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  Speaker 3: It's not a great park. I told Taylor not to go.
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  Speaker 6: So you are right, Stu. They made the World Series
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  Speaker 6: in 2020. They lost to the Dodgers, the COVID World Series, too.
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  Speaker 6: And then they lost in 2008 to the Phillies.
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  Speaker 1: So through all that, he's yet to see a packed
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  Speaker 1: house at the Trump, right?
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  Speaker 6: Well, 2020 was the COVID one, so I'm sure there
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  Speaker 6: weren't any fields.
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  Speaker 3: They weren't allowed to go, right? That's unfortunate. It was
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  Speaker 3: as packed as it could be, literally.
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  Speaker 4: Taylor, when you get there, tell me if you think
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  Speaker 4: everything in that park just looks extra orange.
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  Speaker 6: Have you been to that park?
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  Speaker 4: I mean, it was still a park when I covered, right?
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  Speaker 4: They were playing there in 2000 when I covered the Marlins.
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  Speaker 4: And so, yeah, I remember it very well. And everything
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  Speaker 4: just looks like an odd, it looks like you're wearing
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  Speaker 4: orange sunglasses as you're watching.
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  Speaker 6: So I texted a friend asking, because he lives in Tampa,
• 14:35
  Speaker 6: and he was asking if I've ever been to the Tropa.
• 14:36
  Speaker 6: And I said, no. And he goes, it's an absolute dump.
• 14:39
  Speaker 6: It's like they're playing baseball inside a Chuck E.
• 14:41
  Speaker 9: Cheese.
• 14:43
  Speaker 3: Enjoy yourself. 877-99 on Fox.
• 14:46
  Speaker 1: That is 877-99 on Fox.
• 14:48
  Speaker 4: Small side note, that World Series, the COVID one, was
• 14:51
  Speaker 4: played in Texas.
• 14:52
  Speaker 3: In Arlington. Arlington, Texas, yes.
• 14:54
  Speaker 2: Be sure to catch live editions of Stu Gatz and
• 14:57
  Speaker 2: Company live weekdays at 3 p.m. Eastern, 12 p.m. Pacific
• 15:02
  Speaker 2: on Fox Sports Radio and the iHeartRadio app.
• 15:06
  Speaker 6: There's no time like October. The NLDS is here streaming
• 15:10
  Speaker 6: live on Fox 1. Both NLDS series can be seen
• 15:13
  Speaker 6: on Fox 1. It's the Braves at the Dodgers beginning
• 15:16
  Speaker 6: Saturday at 4 p.m. Eastern and the Padres at the
• 15:18
  Speaker 6: Brewers beginning Saturday at 8.30 p.m. Eastern. Every hit could
• 15:22
  Speaker 6: be the one that changes everything. Stream the MLB postseason
• 15:26
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• 15:27
  Speaker 1: We'll get to Dan Beyer out in Sherman Oaks for
• 15:29
  Speaker 1: a sports update in just a second here. We have
• 15:31
  Speaker 1: a few calls. Israel Gutierrez in studio with us today.
• 15:34
  Speaker 1: Let's go to Greg, who's in Ohio. Greg, go ahead.
• 15:37
  Speaker 1: You're on Fox Sports Radio.
• 15:39
  Speaker 9: Hey, Stu.
• 15:40
  Speaker 7: Nice talking to you.
• 15:42
  Speaker 9: I'm from Ohio. Born, but I'm a Cowboy fan. And
• 15:48
  Speaker 9: the problem with McCarthy is he did this down there
• 15:51
  Speaker 9: the four years that he coached down there. So this
• 15:53
  Speaker 9: is nothing new. So I'm not an Aaron Rodgers fan,
• 15:57
  Speaker 9: but This is his clock management and getting plays, and
• 16:02
  Speaker 9: that happens, like, all the time, every game, every Cowboy game.
• 16:05
  Speaker 9: I'm a huge Cowboy fan.
• 16:07
  Speaker 1: No, I understand that, but this is not the first
• 16:09
  Speaker 1: time Aaron Rodgers has played for Mike McCarthy.
• 16:11
  Speaker 3: He kind of knows the deal, and he agreed to
• 16:13
  Speaker 3: sign up and play for McCarthy, right?
• 16:15
  Speaker 9: I know. I have more problems with the Pittsburgh management
• 16:18
  Speaker 9: thinking this is going to work than what happened there,
• 16:23
  Speaker 9: but I appreciate him giving us Joey Porter and George Pickens.
• 16:27
  Speaker 9: That's pretty nice of them.
• 16:30
  Speaker 3: Thank you for the call, Greg. Have a good weekend.
• 16:32
  Speaker 3: He's always there for us, is he? It's Al in Albuquerque.
• 16:36
  Speaker 3: Go ahead, Al. You're on Fox Sports Radio.
• 16:39
  Speaker 5: Hey, guys.
• 16:40
  Speaker 6: It's 22nd time.
• 16:40
  Speaker 7: Long time.
• 16:41
  Speaker 8: I've got a solution for you on the Deshaun Watson
• 16:44
  Speaker 8: problem you're having. And it was actually brought up by
• 16:48
  Speaker 8: Mount Rushmore guest, Bomani Jones. Instead of saying the name
• 16:52
  Speaker 8: Deshaun Watson, just call him Nasty D. Like put it
• 16:55
  Speaker 8: on the update, the graphic, like put it in quotes.
• 16:59
  Speaker 8: That way it's like always there. It's always in front
• 17:01
  Speaker 8: of everybody. So if you ever feel comfortable rooting for
• 17:04
  Speaker 8: this loser, then there you go.
• 17:06
  Speaker 3: All right. Nasty D.
• 17:07
  Speaker 6: Yes.
• 17:08
  Speaker 4: I think making even funnier sort of the hatred of
• 17:10
  Speaker 4: either McCarthy or Aaron Rodgers. is how lovable Mike Tomlin is.
• 17:14
  Speaker 3: Did you see all his Minecraft stuff lately? Oh, my goodness.
• 17:18
  Speaker 3: I love that, man.
• 17:19
  Speaker 6: Izzy, his numbers tanked the second he discovered Minecraft.
• 17:22
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I've seen that. And that's fine.
• 17:24
  Speaker 1: I do find myself loving Tomlin in a way I've
• 17:27
  Speaker 1: never loved him before. But regardless of who's the coach
• 17:29
  Speaker 1: of that team, they're 2-2 after 4.
• 17:33
  Speaker 6: Izzy, Bomani's point that Al was referencing is, Calling Deshaun
• 17:38
  Speaker 6: Watson D-Nasty, just flipping those two words, the placement of
• 17:42
  Speaker 6: D-Nasty and Nasty D, makes a huge difference.
• 17:47
  Speaker 3: You want to try it out? There's levels to that.
• 17:49
  Speaker 3: Nasty D. Thank you, Dan. I dare Ben Johnson to
• 17:54
  Speaker 3: bench Case Keenum. You can't do it.
• 17:57
  Speaker 4: See, this is why you don't make bets in the
• 18:00
  Speaker 4: NFL until as close to game time as possible. I
• 18:02
  Speaker 4: like the commanders in London and just hearing this Terry
• 18:05
  Speaker 4: McLaurin news.
• 18:06
  Speaker 7: Oh, no.
• 18:07
  Speaker 5: Yes.
• 18:07
  Speaker 3: Wait it out.
• 18:09
  Speaker 1: You were talking about the Red Sox fan reaction and
• 18:13
  Speaker 1: if Taylor's been pounding Red Sox fans.
• 18:15
  Speaker 3: Are you interested in some sound here, Izzy.
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: Of Red Sox radio hosts responding to Boston losing?
• 18:22
  Speaker 3: Getting swept by the New York Yankees. Is it W-E-E-I?
• 18:25
  Speaker 3: I think that's one of the sounds we have. Taylor
• 18:26
  Speaker 3: will set it.
• 18:27
  Speaker 7: Up for us.
• 18:27
  Speaker 3: Taylor, what do you have?
• 18:28
  Speaker 6: Yeah, so Izzy, yesterday, instead of listening to my normal W-F-A-N,
• 18:32
  Speaker 6: where I listen to the entire lineup once we're finished
• 18:36
  Speaker 6: for the show.
• 18:37
  Speaker 7: Mm-hmm.
• 18:38
  Speaker 6: All I was listening to was Boston sports content. I
• 18:40
  Speaker 6: couldn't get enough of it. Probably listened to 12 hours.
• 18:44
  Speaker 3: Of WEI yesterday. That's too much.
• 18:47
  Speaker 6: No, Izzy, not enough.
• 18:48
  Speaker 3: Not enough. Not enough. After a Boston loss, get out
• 18:51
  Speaker 3: of here.
• 18:51
  Speaker 6: So, Izzy, the highlight, this is the Rich and Ken
• 18:54
  Speaker 6: show with Ted Johnson. This is a caller calling in
• 18:59
  Speaker 6: and just absolutely losing his mind on the team.
• 19:02
  Speaker 3: Let's go to John on line one. John, what's going on, buddy?
• 19:06
  Speaker 5: You want to know why Eric Miller was put in
• 19:07
  Speaker 5: those games in both spots in the same game? I'll
• 19:10
  Speaker 5: tell you why, Ted. Very simple.
• 19:13
  Speaker 2: Spite.
• 19:13
  Speaker 7: It's not scripted.
• 19:15
  Speaker 9: It's spite.
• 19:16
  Speaker 5: They traded Mayer for Miller, and they wanted to prove
• 19:19
  Speaker 5: to everybody that.
• 19:21
  Speaker 3: We are right.
• 19:23
  Speaker 2: And they weren't.
• 19:23
  Speaker 5: Both times, it bit them right in the ass. And
• 19:26
  Speaker 5: as far as I'm concerned, you can trade his pal
• 19:29
  Speaker 5: Anthony out there for the best right-handed bat you can get,
• 19:32
  Speaker 5: and they can slay all the California girls, because I
• 19:35
  Speaker 5: am done with Roman Anthony. Sell now, sell low, sell
• 19:39
  Speaker 5: whatever you can, because to me, he is unfortunately a
• 19:42
  Speaker 5: today's athlete, which means he doesn't care. And quite frankly,
• 19:46
  Speaker 5: he has no reason to care, because he's got $ 150
• 19:48
  Speaker 5: million in the bank that makes him not have to
• 19:52
  Speaker 5: care as much. What does he have to strive for?
• 19:55
  Speaker 5: He doesn't have the pride, at least I don't see it,
• 19:57
  Speaker 5: because he's a 20-year-old, 22-year-old kid that's gotten everything. And
• 20:01
  Speaker 5: for Wilson Contreras, let me tell you one thing, my friend.
• 20:05
  Speaker 7: If I'm Kim Schlintler next year.
• 20:07
  Speaker 5: And you're coming up to the plate, I'm going to
• 20:09
  Speaker 5: put 102 somewhere between your ribcage and your neck. He
• 20:14
  Speaker 5: looked like Reggie effing Jackson running around in a 77
• 20:18
  Speaker 5: World Series after the third home run. It was their
• 20:21
  Speaker 5: first run in three postseason games. Run around the bases,
• 20:26
  Speaker 5: you asshat, and get your glove. Because the way you
• 20:29
  Speaker 5: played that third strike, you looked like a Little League player.
• 20:33
  Speaker 5: You sucked the whole series.
• 20:35
  Speaker 3: That's it. What a call.
• 20:40
  Speaker 4: I didn't know you could say some of those words
• 20:42
  Speaker 4: on the radio.
• 20:43
  Speaker 3: Well, it's Boston. Well, we just played it.
• 20:46
  Speaker 6: That has to be cathartic for that Red Sox caller
• 20:51
  Speaker 6: to just let everything off his chest.
• 20:53
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I have a couple of issues with it, though. A,
• 20:55
  Speaker 4: the today's athlete thing. Since the beginning of time, since
• 20:59
  Speaker 4: players were making money, there have been guys who have
• 21:01
  Speaker 4: checked out once they've made some money. It's like, oh,
• 21:03
  Speaker 4: I've reached my destination. I don't care anymore. I'm not
• 21:05
  Speaker 4: saying that that's true about Roman Anthony. I'm just saying
• 21:07
  Speaker 4: that's not a today's athlete thing.
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: Here's my problem with his comments about Roman Anthony. I
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: know Roman Anthony.
• 21:13
  Speaker 3: Oh, really? I mean, he grew up down here.
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: And my daughter is very good friends with him and
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: has been good friends with him for a long time.
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: I promise you this, Boston.
• 21:21
  Speaker 3: He cares. He's trying. He was upset that he couldn't
• 21:24
  Speaker 3: play because he was injured.
• 21:25
  Speaker 4: Here's my other issue. Wilson Contreras. what does running around
• 21:31
  Speaker 4: the bases quickly do for your team?
• 21:34
  Speaker 3: Exactly.
• 21:35
  Speaker 4: In fact, if it was their first run in what
• 21:37
  Speaker 4: three post-season games, you got to milk it.
• 21:40
  Speaker 3: You got to stay up there.
• 21:41
  Speaker 4: Hey, look at me. I got us the one run
• 21:44
  Speaker 4: that we haven't had in three post-season games.
• 21:46
  Speaker 6: I think it's less doing it quickly and more not
• 21:50
  Speaker 6: doing it as slow as he did it.
• 21:53
  Speaker 4: That's a baseball thing to me. It's just like, listen,
• 21:55
  Speaker 4: if I don't have to run, I'm not going to run.
• 21:57
  Speaker 4: Same thing with Caleb Williams. If I can take a
• 21:59
  Speaker 4: cart to the locker room, I'm going to take a cart.
• 22:01
  Speaker 6: When Contreras was rounding the bases, even Max Fried was
• 22:04
  Speaker 6: looking at him like, what are you doing? Get back
• 22:06
  Speaker 6: in the dugout. We're smoking you this series.
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: We've been giving Taylor here a lot of credit because
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: the Cam Schlittler take that he gave before the season started,
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: where he would not trade him for Paul Skeens, it
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: turns out that Taylor was right. The only person who
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: agreed was CeCe Sabathia, and I think Jeff Passan But
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: Passon did it once he was named the All-Star Game starter.
• 22:29
  Speaker 3: So he was a little bit too late.
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: But we have been showering him with praise because he
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: did get something.
• 22:34
  Speaker 3: Right on the Yankees.
• 22:35
  Speaker 4: I'm only saying this because he happened to be on
• 22:37
  Speaker 4: the screen a second ago. Didn't Josh Hart say Schlittler
• 22:40
  Speaker 4: is like a god? Josh Hart's like a crazy Yankees fan,
• 22:42
  Speaker 4: isn't he, Taylor?
• 22:44
  Speaker 6: Yeah, there's some conflicting reports when it comes to Josh
• 22:47
  Speaker 6: Hart's Yankee fandom. Because there's a lot of things he
• 22:51
  Speaker 6: doesn't seem like he knows. He seems like a Johnny-come-lately
• 22:54
  Speaker 6: when it comes to it.
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: So we've been giving Taylor a lot of credit. He
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: got it right on Cam Schlittler. I laughed him off
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: the radio.
• 23:01
  Speaker 4: Hang on a second, though. One of the things I've
• 23:04
  Speaker 4: been doing during my long weekends here, which are lovely,
• 23:07
  Speaker 4: sitting by the pool and listening to you guys. And
• 23:10
  Speaker 4: do I remember a take Taylor had about these Yankees
• 23:13
  Speaker 4: that might have been the exact opposite?
• 23:17
  Speaker 3: Taylor, baseball is still going on.
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: You would never know it, but it's still going on
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: because football has taken over. College football has taken over.
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: What is going on with Aaron Judge? What's happening with
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: your New York Yankees? I haven't checked in lately.
• 23:30
  Speaker 6: You're saying baseball is still going on. For me, this
• 23:33
  Speaker 6: might be the final nail in the coffin.
• 23:34
  Speaker 3: Really?
• 23:35
  Speaker 6: Aaron Judge is likely out for the AL Wild Card
• 23:38
  Speaker 6: Series versus Boston, according to Brian Hawk. And, Stu, if
• 23:41
  Speaker 6: you're wondering what that music is, it's the music, the violins,
• 23:45
  Speaker 6: because the Titanic is going down.
• 23:47
  Speaker 3: The band is going to.
• 23:48
  Speaker 6: Play us on our way out.
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: You're saying you're incapable of winning a playoff series without
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: Aaron Judge?
• 23:53
  Speaker 3: That's ridiculous. It's baseball.
• 23:55
  Speaker 6: It is over.
• 23:56
  Speaker 3: You hear that, Mikey? It's the fat lady.
• 23:58
  Speaker 6: She's singing.
• 23:59
  Speaker 3: I'm glad you were listening, because I wasn't.
• 24:04
  Speaker 4: I would rather be Josh Hart.
• 24:06
  Speaker 3: Johnny come lately.
• 24:07
  Speaker 4: Then the guy who gives up on my team immediately
• 24:10
  Speaker 4: and then comes back afterwards and says, I love these guys.
• 24:13
  Speaker 3: Listen, listen, what you said, close your eyes.
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: And when you did, you couldn't see Carl Anthony towns
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: lifting the Larry O'Brien trophy.
• 24:20
  Speaker 3: And you just said.
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: On national radio, the Yankees couldn't advance without Aaron judge.
• 24:26
  Speaker 6: What you guys don't understand is when you watch 162
• 24:28
  Speaker 6: games a of a team in the MLB season, you're
• 24:33
  Speaker 6: not mentally stable. You can't hold me accountable for everything
• 24:36
  Speaker 6: I say during a season. Because yes, if I'm watching
• 24:40
  Speaker 6: 162 games, eventually I'm going to see my team lose
• 24:43
  Speaker 6: three games. And as a Yankee fan, yes, the sky
• 24:46
  Speaker 6: feels like it's falling there. did i think the yankees
• 24:49
  Speaker 6: could win without aaron judge no you know why because
• 24:51
  Speaker 6: when aaron judge was out they had the worst offense
• 24:54
  Speaker 6: in almost all of baseball and then all of a
• 24:56
  Speaker 6: sudden aaron judge misses two games in the wild card
• 24:59
  Speaker 6: series and they're the it's their best two game offensive
• 25:02
  Speaker 6: stretch in baseball like nothing about that made sense.
• 25:05
  Speaker 4: I mean you got the rice man like is that
• 25:06
  Speaker 4: what they call him the rice man yeah that was
• 25:10
  Speaker 4: a bit of a shocker When I heard him speak
• 25:13
  Speaker 4: in Spanish or Spanglish, if you will, in that one interview, it.
• 25:16
  Speaker 3: Was pretty good. It's flawless in Spanish, too. Crazy.
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: How do you feel Bordot Ricardo provided that sound for us?
• 25:23
  Speaker 3: And I'm thankful that he did.
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: We had no idea that Ricardo, once the Marlins are eliminated,
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: he becomes a Yankee fit. And so we have a
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: new name for him, and it's Ricky Mantle.
• 25:37
  Speaker 3: That's a great nickname. It really is. I would love
• 25:41
  Speaker 3: that nickname, even if it makes me a Johnny-come-lately.
• 25:43
  Speaker 4: I don't care.
• 25:44
  Speaker 3: Let's stay in Boston, where life is miserable right now.
• 25:47
  Speaker 3: It usually is. Drake May.
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: Izzy, to me, it looks like Drake May has forgotten
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: how to play the position of quarterback and the game
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: of football.
• 25:56
  Speaker 3: Like, that's how bad it was last week. It's odd, right?
• 25:58
  Speaker 3: Guys in the Super Bowl nine months ago.
• 26:00
  Speaker 4: Speaking of old takes, mine is a little older than Taylor's,
• 26:04
  Speaker 4: which was just last week.
• 26:05
  Speaker 3: Or this week. Last week. Last week.
• 26:07
  Speaker 4: But, yeah, I don't know if you guys remember... But
• 26:10
  Speaker 4: I said that Drake May would follow in the footsteps
• 26:14
  Speaker 4: of Dan Marino, not in a Hall of Fame career necessarily,
• 26:18
  Speaker 4: but he would make a.
• 26:21
  Speaker 4: Super bowl early in his career and then never make
• 26:25
  Speaker 4: another one right and so far that looks like a
• 26:27
  Speaker 4: great take for me because even if the patriots make
• 26:30
  Speaker 4: a super bowl it might not be with this guy
• 26:32
  Speaker 4: at the quarterback spot if he keeps playing like this.
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: Uh taylor drake may would sign up for dan marino's
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: career right now yes right anyone would of course.
• 26:40
  Speaker 6: Uh yeah i mean since the start of the 2025
• 26:43
  Speaker 6: playoffs drake may has statistically probably been the worst quarterback
• 26:47
  Speaker 6: in all football where He's played seven games. He has
• 26:49
  Speaker 6: eight interceptions and eight fumbles over that stretch. Stu, the
• 26:52
  Speaker 6: report today is that Drake May has been in the
• 26:54
  Speaker 6: training room getting treatment on his right shoulder. There's something
• 26:58
  Speaker 6: off with Drake May where, yes, it feels like he
• 27:01
  Speaker 6: has the yips, but it does also feel like maybe
• 27:04
  Speaker 6: he's not fully healthy and his shoulder never recovered from
• 27:06
  Speaker 6: last year because it seems like there was a turning
• 27:09
  Speaker 6: point in last season. And I know people are going
• 27:11
  Speaker 6: to do the thing. He just faced better competition in
• 27:13
  Speaker 6: the playoffs. And while I think that's true to some extent,
• 27:16
  Speaker 6: It doesn't it does not make sense that you were
• 27:19
  Speaker 6: the runner up in the MVP conversation. Your team made
• 27:22
  Speaker 6: it all the way to the Super Bowl. And now
• 27:24
  Speaker 6: it looks like you can't even play the quarterback position.
• 27:26
  Speaker 4: I mean, it does make sense. Chris Sims, you know,
• 27:29
  Speaker 4: people saying that his throwing motion looks different. I mean,
• 27:32
  Speaker 4: if that's the case, then, yeah, it would be an
• 27:35
  Speaker 4: injury thing. And obviously I'm being a little harsh on
• 27:37
  Speaker 4: the guy. I don't think he fell off. you know,
• 27:38
  Speaker 4: the face of the earth with his ability to play football.
• 27:41
  Speaker 4: So if it is an injury situation that he's trying
• 27:43
  Speaker 4: to play through, OK, like, let's be honest with ourselves.
• 27:46
  Speaker 4: How about you don't play through it and trust your
• 27:48
  Speaker 4: backup for a little bit and.
• 27:49
  Speaker 3: Try to get better?
• 27:50
  Speaker 4: But it also just feels like you're still making those
• 27:54
  Speaker 4: decisions as if he can make that throw. So either
• 27:57
  Speaker 4: he's trying to fool himself into believing he can make
• 27:59
  Speaker 4: those throws. or the injury really isn't the reason why
• 28:02
  Speaker 4: he's struggling.
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: Do you think there's a real rift there with Rabel
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: and Drake May? Because Rabel could chalk it up to, hey,
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: not my guy. I didn't select him. He was here
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: when I got here.
• 28:11
  Speaker 4: Didn't he say something to the effect that I wanted
• 28:13
  Speaker 4: to coach here because of Drake May, though?
• 28:15
  Speaker 3: I thought he did, yeah.
• 28:15
  Speaker 4: So, I mean, I think he's, you know, fully behind him.
• 28:18
  Speaker 4: I think he's supporting him regardless. And, again, I mean, like,
• 28:21
  Speaker 4: he had a great season last year. Runner-up MVP, made
• 28:24
  Speaker 4: the Super Bowl.
• 28:25
  Speaker 3: You don't, like.
• 28:26
  Speaker 4: there aren't very many guys where you look at the
• 28:28
  Speaker 4: example of them having this great of a fall-off, right?
• 28:31
  Speaker 4: And so, you know, obviously, A.J. Brown's hurt. He's not,
• 28:34
  Speaker 4: you know, available to him. And I don't even think
• 28:36
  Speaker 4: if he is available to him, he's still an elite
• 28:38
  Speaker 4: wide receiver in the league. So it's almost like you
• 28:41
  Speaker 4: have to give him, assuming these types of struggles keep
• 28:44
  Speaker 4: going the rest of the season, you have to be
• 28:46
  Speaker 4: able to give him the full season to say, hey,
• 28:49
  Speaker 4: I can figure it out after this season because regardless
• 28:52
  Speaker 4: of what my schedule was last year, I still played
• 28:54
  Speaker 4: pretty damn well.
• 28:55
  Speaker 3: Yes.
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: By the way, Izzy has a big prediction for the
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: NBA season.
• 29:00
  Speaker 3: I don't want it now. Okay. I am teasing that
• 29:02
  Speaker 3: for a future segment.
• 29:03
  Speaker 4: I just want it out so badly.
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: I just want everyone to know that Izzy has a bold,
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: big NBA prediction for the upcoming season. Let's take a
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: call real quick. 877-99 on Fox. That is 877-99 on Fox.
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: Let's go to Jim, who's in Montana today.
• 29:24
  Speaker 3: Jim, go ahead. You are on Fox Sports Radio.
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  Speaker 7: Hi, guys. I understand Drake Mays played poorly. We get it.
• 29:34
  Speaker 7: But have you seen Kyler Murray play? Come on. The
• 29:37
  Speaker 7: guy's got a quarterback rating of 17. and he sucks right.
• 29:42
  Speaker 3: Okay i know but yeah but they're three you know yes.
• 29:45
  Speaker 7: Yeah yeah but it's not him it's the defense the
• 29:49
  Speaker 7: guy cannot play he can't play all right thank you okay.
• 29:53
  Speaker 4: That's that's pretty much my point when it comes to
• 29:55
  Speaker 4: drake like i'm not i I'm not saying they're going
• 29:57
  Speaker 4: to give up on him. He's going to fall off
• 29:58
  Speaker 4: the face of the earth and no longer be a
• 30:00
  Speaker 4: capable quarterback. You have to find the reasons why he's
• 30:03
  Speaker 4: not playing the way he's playing. I think with a
• 30:05
  Speaker 4: guy like Kyler Murray, it was always, hey, if his
• 30:08
  Speaker 4: athletic ability can get him past his, you know, lack
• 30:12
  Speaker 4: of height. And if his decision making is amongst the
• 30:17
  Speaker 4: better quarterbacks of the NFL, then you've got yourself a
• 30:20
  Speaker 4: great quarterback. It was going to be a gamble. Not
• 30:22
  Speaker 4: every mobile quarterback is going to be a great quarterback
• 30:25
  Speaker 4: just because they're athletic. And then you throw in him
• 30:27
  Speaker 4: losing some of that just from injuries or whatever. And, yeah,
• 30:30
  Speaker 4: he doesn't look very good.
• 30:32
  Speaker 3: Do you want to revise that take, Drake May never
• 30:34
  Speaker 3: making it back to the Super Bowl?
• 30:35
  Speaker 9: No.
• 30:36
  Speaker 3: Because he could as a backup on a really good team. Nah,
• 30:38
  Speaker 3: that doesn't count. What do you mean it doesn't count?
• 30:42
  Speaker 3: It does count.
• 30:43
  Speaker 6: I'm with Izzy. That does not count.
• 30:45
  Speaker 3: All right, put it on the poll.
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: If you make the Super Bowl as a backup quarterback
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: or blackout quarterback.
• 30:51
  Speaker 3: As Taylor likes to say, have you made a Super Bowl?
• 30:54
  Speaker 4: Now, if you pull a Nick Foles and take over
• 30:57
  Speaker 4: and start and end up winning it, Then all the
• 30:59
  Speaker 4: credit goes to that guy. But if he's just riding
• 31:01
  Speaker 4: the bench holding a clipboard the whole time.
• 31:03
  Speaker 3: So Haas-Dettler won a Super Bowl.
• 31:05
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 31:05
  Speaker 3: Okay.
• 31:06
  Speaker 6: Black backup quarterback.
• 31:08
  Speaker 4: Black backup quarterback.
• 31:09
  Speaker 6: Like Sam Darnold made the Super Bowl with the 49ers.
• 31:12
  Speaker 6: Nobody gives Sam Darnold credit for making the Super Bowl
• 31:15
  Speaker 6: the 49ers.
• 31:15
  Speaker 5: No.
• 31:17
  Speaker 3: Yeah, but now you do, right? After he made it
• 31:19
  Speaker 3: with Seattle, he was a starter. He's one of the
• 31:21
  Speaker 3: main reasons. Now you can look back.
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: After he's done with his career, you can look back
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: and say, Darnold made it to two Super.
• 31:26
  Speaker 3: Bowls, right? No. If he doesn't make another?
• 31:28
  Speaker 4: What do you do? You make practice that much better
• 31:30
  Speaker 4: as the backup quarterback? What, you're pushing the starter? Like,
• 31:33
  Speaker 4: you're really going to have to reach to get the
• 31:35
  Speaker 4: backup quarterback.
• 31:36
  Speaker 6: If you didn't play in the game, you didn't really make.
• 31:38
  Speaker 3: The Super Bowl. Put that on the poll.
• 31:41
  Speaker 2: Be sure to catch live editions of Stu Gotts and Company.
• 31:45
  Speaker 2: Live weekdays at 3 p.m. Eastern, 12 p.m. Pacific.
• 31:50
  Speaker 3: Chris Sims going to join us in hour number two.
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: Izzy is very excited here because the Gators have a
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: good football team. The Gators play Missouri this weekend after
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: their win at home against Mississippi. Man, did I fall
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: for that? Everyone tried to tell us, Taylor, don't take Mississippi.
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: Don't take Mississippi. You and I, I believe we took Mississippi, right?
• 32:09
  Speaker 3: I did. Did you?
• 32:10
  Speaker 5: No.
• 32:10
  Speaker 6: Once I saw Q1, Lacey was out for Ole Miss.
• 32:12
  Speaker 6: I said, yeah, I'm staying away. It was a game
• 32:14
  Speaker 6: where you either have to bet Florida or you just
• 32:17
  Speaker 6: have to not bet at all. Betting Ole Miss, crazy.
• 32:20
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 32:20
  Speaker 3: Well, I did. And I'm crazy. But Izzy's excited here
• 32:25
  Speaker 3: because he has a coach.
• 32:27
  Speaker 6: Yeah, man.
• 32:28
  Speaker 4: It's John Summerall. Seems to like do and say all
• 32:31
  Speaker 4: the right things. Like one of the things that I
• 32:33
  Speaker 4: just couldn't stand about every coach after urban Meyer, even
• 32:36
  Speaker 4: urban Meyer used to take me off with this and
• 32:37
  Speaker 4: his offensive coordinators with some of the play calling. It
• 32:39
  Speaker 4: just seemed like it was just, they're, they're trying to
• 32:41
  Speaker 4: trick themselves. They're just trying to do too much. And,
• 32:45
  Speaker 4: you know, he seems to recognize that when you've got
• 32:47
  Speaker 4: a guy named Jaden ball, who, you know, is Heisman candidate.
• 32:50
  Speaker 4: And clearly, I mean, to me, it looks like the
• 32:53
  Speaker 4: best running back in the country, but I haven't seen
• 32:54
  Speaker 4: them all. Um, and you just, you ride that horse
• 32:57
  Speaker 4: as long, as much as you can, and then just
• 33:00
  Speaker 4: make life that much easier for your quarterback. Um, What
• 33:03
  Speaker 4: did he say last week when they went into that
• 33:05
  Speaker 4: game and why they were the favorite? And he just
• 33:07
  Speaker 4: gave the perfect answer. He's like, yeah, there's a lot
• 33:09
  Speaker 4: of good drugs out there.
• 33:10
  Speaker 3: Yes.
• 33:10
  Speaker 4: Which I love that answer. He plays the humble. Even
• 33:13
  Speaker 4: though he came in sort of came in hot a
• 33:15
  Speaker 4: little bit, but still somehow can remain confident while being
• 33:20
  Speaker 4: humble at the same time.
• 33:21
  Speaker 3: Still hot.
• 33:24
  Speaker 4: I do want to add this. I'm not going to
• 33:26
  Speaker 4: I'm just going to throw this out there. I'm not
• 33:27
  Speaker 4: going to bring the mood down. But I have a
• 33:30
  Speaker 4: friend from college, his name is Daryl Pressgraves, who's not
• 33:33
  Speaker 4: doing very well right now. He's in hospice care.
• 33:36
  Speaker 3: Love you, Daryl.
• 33:37
  Speaker 4: But, you know, a lot of our former friends, former
• 33:42
  Speaker 4: Alligator writers have been sort of in a group chat now.
• 33:46
  Speaker 4: He's just not doing very well at all. And I
• 33:49
  Speaker 4: don't know who reached out to John Sumrall, but John
• 33:53
  Speaker 4: Sumrall put together a video, a quick video, you know,
• 33:57
  Speaker 4: for Darryl, which I thought was, you know, lovely.
• 33:59
  Speaker 3: It was great.
• 34:00
  Speaker 4: And so it just made me respect the guy even more.
• 34:02
  Speaker 4: And because of Darryl, who's a huge Gator fan, I'm
• 34:05
  Speaker 4: going to be, you know, riding this Gator train as
• 34:08
  Speaker 4: long as it'll go. I'll be cheering hard for them,
• 34:10
  Speaker 4: the hardest as I have since before Urban Meyer because
• 34:14
  Speaker 4: I wasn't a big Urban Meyer fan. And so, yeah,
• 34:16
  Speaker 4: I just absolutely love this team. And a couple of notes,
• 34:20
  Speaker 4: that Ole Miss game when you're talking about not betting–
• 34:24
  Speaker 4: Ole Miss, that 24 point win was the largest margin
• 34:29
  Speaker 4: over any top 10 team this season. And so it
• 34:32
  Speaker 4: is the best win you could argue anybody has on
• 34:34
  Speaker 4: their schedule this season. And that 13 spot leap in
• 34:39
  Speaker 4: the standings that they moved up in the AP poll,
• 34:41
  Speaker 4: the third biggest leap in college football history. So it's
• 34:45
  Speaker 4: obvious that people are figuring out really quickly because I
• 34:48
  Speaker 4: wasn't sure how good those first two wins looked. You know,
• 34:50
  Speaker 4: they looked pretty good. They were scoring a lot, but
• 34:52
  Speaker 4: it was against you know, a couple of bad teams.
• 34:54
  Speaker 3: But you're sure now.
• 34:55
  Speaker 4: I'm 100% sure. And this Aaron Filo quarterback seems like
• 34:59
  Speaker 4: he can handle it.
• 35:00
  Speaker 6: Yeah, Izzy, it's going to be interesting to see how
• 35:02
  Speaker 6: Florida handles the success this week because now it feels
• 35:06
  Speaker 6: like they're in the trap game spot against Missouri. Best
• 35:09
  Speaker 6: running back in the country, I think it's Jaden Baugh.
• 35:11
  Speaker 6: Kiwan Lacy is in that conversation when he's healthy at
• 35:14
  Speaker 6: Ole Miss. My biggest question for this Florida team revolves
• 35:17
  Speaker 6: around the quarterback that you just mentioned, Aaron Filo. I'm
• 35:21
  Speaker 6: curious to see what this Florida team looks like. If
• 35:24
  Speaker 6: you need Aaron Philo to play catch up instead of Jaden,
• 35:27
  Speaker 6: Bob being the one who establishes the way that Florida
• 35:31
  Speaker 6: wants to play, which I think when, when they're doing that,
• 35:33
  Speaker 6: they're as good as any team in the country. The
• 35:36
  Speaker 6: one point that I would have on Philo though, their
• 35:39
  Speaker 6: wide receiver combo of Vernell Brown, the third and Dallas Wilson,
• 35:43
  Speaker 6: those two could go toe to toe with any duo
• 35:45
  Speaker 6: wide receiver duo in the country and the sec.
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: Izzy, I understand what you're saying. He plays to his strengths,
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: regardless of what those strengths are. But Taylor is right.
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: They're going to need Philo to bail him out of
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: some game here.
• 35:56
  Speaker 4: But the other thing that I like about them, this
• 35:58
  Speaker 4: is what I was talking about when I'm saying not
• 36:00
  Speaker 4: overthinking this. Yeah, they also seem to run good plays.
• 36:03
  Speaker 4: They also Philo seems to be able to run an
• 36:05
  Speaker 4: offense that is calling smart plays. It's not like he
• 36:08
  Speaker 4: is putting it in between two defenders, you know, when
• 36:11
  Speaker 4: when they're having big plays. He seems to be hitting
• 36:13
  Speaker 4: open guys, and if guys are open, it's usually because,
• 36:15
  Speaker 4: you know, it could be a slip-up in the defense,
• 36:16
  Speaker 4: but it's usually because of pretty good offensive play calling.
• 36:20
  Speaker 4: I will say this about him. I was scrolling through
• 36:23
  Speaker 4: his Instagram, and he doesn't have too many posts over
• 36:26
  Speaker 4: his history, at least on this.
• 36:27
  Speaker 3: Is this Philo's or Summerall's? Philo's, excuse me. Philo's Instagram.
• 36:30
  Speaker 4: I have not checked if Summerall has an Instagram. And
• 36:33
  Speaker 4: so when he transferred to Florida, he gave the classic,
• 36:37
  Speaker 4: I'm home.
• 36:38
  Speaker 3: And it's speaking to the Gators fans. Yes.
• 36:40
  Speaker 4: You scroll down a little bit and you look for
• 36:42
  Speaker 4: his commitment to his original school, which is Georgia Tech.
• 36:45
  Speaker 3: And he said Georgia Tech. I'm home. And I was like,
• 36:48
  Speaker 3: all right, how many homes do you get buddy?
• 36:53
  Speaker 6: I think the biggest thing that Florida did when, when
• 36:56
  Speaker 6: they got Aaron Philo, they got his offensive coordinator from
• 36:59
  Speaker 6: Georgia tech, Buster Faulkner. And if you listen to college
• 37:02
  Speaker 6: football with T with a bear and Stu gots and
• 37:05
  Speaker 6: T Bob appearances, there is not a podcast in America
• 37:09
  Speaker 6: that talks more about Buster Faulkner than then then the
• 37:13
  Speaker 6: combination of bear and t-bop.
• 37:15
  Speaker 1: Yeah buster faulkner i mean they mentioned his name non-stop
• 37:19
  Speaker 1: and every time they ask me to remember his name
• 37:21
  Speaker 1: i can't remember yeah.
• 37:22
  Speaker 4: I mean and uh who was their quarterback another great
• 37:25
  Speaker 4: name last year who haynes king haynes king yeah i
• 37:28
  Speaker 4: mean maybe he looked great because of the offensive play
• 37:31
  Speaker 4: calling right because it's not like he was a you
• 37:33
  Speaker 4: know a high round pick it's not like you're seeing
• 37:35
  Speaker 4: him you know banging down the doors of any starting
• 37:38
  Speaker 4: spot in the NFL.
• 37:39
  Speaker 1: With all the great things we just said about their team,
• 37:41
  Speaker 1: about their coach, you're not going to be surprised if
• 37:43
  Speaker 1: they lose this weekend, right?
• 37:44
  Speaker 3: Because that's college football.
• 37:45
  Speaker 4: I mean, it's on the road, but, you know, the
• 37:47
  Speaker 4: Auburn win was, I think it was their first road
• 37:49
  Speaker 4: win since 24. It was their first win at Auburn,
• 37:52
  Speaker 4: I want to say. Man, it's either since 2009 or 1999.
• 37:56
  Speaker 4: It's been a long time since they won it all.
• 37:58
  Speaker 3: So you're saying this season might be different.
• 38:00
  Speaker 4: Yeah, and I don't really, I haven't seen much of Missouri,
• 38:03
  Speaker 4: but I'm not convinced that they're that good.
• 38:05
  Speaker 6: I think if you gave Georgia Tech the option right now,
• 38:08
  Speaker 6: fire Brent Key and keep Buster Faulkner this offseason, they
• 38:11
  Speaker 6: would do that if you give them that do-over.
• 38:15
  Speaker 3: You don't say.
• 38:18
  Speaker 1: Chris Simms going to join us in about 15, 20 minutes.
• 38:20
  Speaker 1: Looking forward to that. The return of Chris Simms. Izzy
• 38:24
  Speaker 1: has a big prediction for the NBA season. We'll get
• 38:26
  Speaker 1: to that in just a second. You heard Dan Beyer
• 38:29
  Speaker 1: during the update say that Tony Romo is out. Are
• 38:31
  Speaker 1: you surprised by that, Iz?
• 38:32
  Speaker 3: I was pretty shocked by it.
• 38:35
  Speaker 4: Obviously, there's probably more details to come. It could be
• 38:38
  Speaker 4: where Tony Romo, or it could be absolutely mutual where
• 38:41
  Speaker 4: Tony Romo is like, hey, I need to deal with
• 38:43
  Speaker 4: some stuff. Let me out, even though that's a lot
• 38:44
  Speaker 4: of money for such a situation. But I was shocked
• 38:48
  Speaker 4: because it seems to be a pretty high standard to
• 38:51
  Speaker 4: hold for an announcer. when players, coaches, what have you,
• 38:56
  Speaker 4: Tiger Woods, we, a DUI, we let that stuff go eventually.
• 39:02
  Speaker 4: We all say, hey, we all get on our soapbox
• 39:04
  Speaker 4: and say, hey, don't drink and drive. That's not good.
• 39:06
  Speaker 4: Don't ever do that again. And then we just welcome
• 39:08
  Speaker 4: them back. And so that's why this one is weird.
• 39:11
  Speaker 4: And you combine that with, I don't know if you
• 39:13
  Speaker 4: saw this, but the Portland Trailblazers recently hired a new
• 39:19
  Speaker 4: play-by-play guy for TV. His name was Braden Bell. And
• 39:22
  Speaker 4: hours later, They fired him. They terminated his contract because
• 39:26
  Speaker 4: they went back or somebody, a reporter, found old racist
• 39:31
  Speaker 4: and misogynistic tweets from him, social media posts, from when
• 39:35
  Speaker 4: he was like maybe 15, 16 years old. And it
• 39:38
  Speaker 4: was just immediate, hey, sorry, we didn't vet well enough
• 39:40
  Speaker 4: when we hired you. Now you're out.
• 39:42
  Speaker 3: Do that on the front end, maybe, perhaps. Right.
• 39:44
  Speaker 4: But the point being is like we also have these
• 39:47
  Speaker 4: athletes and coaches and announcers or whatever who have done
• 39:50
  Speaker 4: that in the past, and we have let that go.
• 39:54
  Speaker 4: And so it seems like a really high standard to
• 39:56
  Speaker 4: have for these announcers who are just giving us the play-by-play.
• 40:00
  Speaker 3: Deshaun Watson played football last night. Exactly. Exactly.
• 40:04
  Speaker 1: I would say the players still have, while they're playing,
• 40:06
  Speaker 1: still have value. It doesn't matter who's as good as
• 40:09
  Speaker 1: Tony Romo was at doing that, and people enjoyed him,
• 40:13
  Speaker 1: and they liked him and Nance together. It really doesn't matter.
• 40:16
  Speaker 1: I'm never tuning in for the person calling the game.
• 40:19
  Speaker 1: I'm tuning in for the people playing the game.
• 40:21
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 40:21
  Speaker 4: But if you're going to announce your morals and just
• 40:24
  Speaker 4: say these are our values as an organization, then do
• 40:27
  Speaker 4: it up and down the organization, not just for the
• 40:30
  Speaker 4: announcers calling it. Again, I'm not saying if it was me,
• 40:32
  Speaker 4: I would fire the guy immediately, too. I'd be like, hey,
• 40:35
  Speaker 4: our bad. We didn't look into these things, and we
• 40:38
  Speaker 4: made a mistake here. But it just seems like they're
• 40:40
  Speaker 4: just trying to get applause for this.
• 40:43
  Speaker 3: Mm-hmm.
• 40:43
  Speaker 6: And Izzy, you mentioned how old he was when he
• 40:45
  Speaker 6: was tweeting. So this says he was 13, in between
• 40:49
  Speaker 6: 13 and 15 when he was tweeting some of these things.
• 40:53
  Speaker 6: It does seem a bit harsh firing him because of
• 40:55
  Speaker 6: this mistake he made when he was a teenager. Because
• 41:00
  Speaker 6: when you hire him, I think he should have been
• 41:02
  Speaker 6: at least afforded the opportunity to take accountability for what
• 41:06
  Speaker 6: he did, make it clear that it doesn't reflect who
• 41:09
  Speaker 6: he is today as an adult. and then have the
• 41:11
  Speaker 6: opportunity to kind of learn and grow from it instead
• 41:14
  Speaker 6: of just cutting off all ties and saying this guy
• 41:16
  Speaker 6: should never be a broadcaster again.
• 41:18
  Speaker 1: Just to play the other side, if you're the announcer,
• 41:20
  Speaker 1: do you announce that on the front end to the Blazers?
• 41:22
  Speaker 3: Like, hey, you're going to find this if you really
• 41:24
  Speaker 3: dig on me.
• 41:26
  Speaker 4: Well, I don't know if he went back and deleted
• 41:28
  Speaker 4: those and then, you know, the Internet's forever. So somehow
• 41:31
  Speaker 4: somebody found those. But it seems like it was just
• 41:34
  Speaker 4: a mistake where he forgot to delete those things because
• 41:36
  Speaker 4: they happened when he was 13 years old. But I'm
• 41:39
  Speaker 4: here to tell everybody who's about to get a big,
• 41:41
  Speaker 4: important job. Go check your old social media post and
• 41:44
  Speaker 4: erase anything that might be questionable.
• 41:47
  Speaker 6: Stu, on the topic of broadcasting.
• 41:49
  Speaker 3: Well, hold on, Taylor.
• 41:50
  Speaker 1: Just check my social media post, okay, when you get
• 41:52
  Speaker 1: a chance. Anyway, what were you saying?
• 41:54
  Speaker 6: On the topic of broadcasting.
• 41:56
  Speaker 2: Yes.
• 41:57
  Speaker 6: Is it not crazy that with Kirk Herbstreit's contract with Prime,
• 42:01
  Speaker 6: there's an out clause if Sean McVay wants the job?
• 42:04
  Speaker 3: Yes, I was telling you about that yesterday.
• 42:06
  Speaker 1: Herbstreit agreed to a deal, re-up with Thursday Night Football
• 42:10
  Speaker 1: with Al Michaels.
• 42:11
  Speaker 3: Who's getting slightly better. I think he's listening to.
• 42:13
  Speaker 1: All the criticism, and he's actually trying the last couple
• 42:17
  Speaker 1: of weeks. But there is an out, not for Kirk Herbstreet.
• 42:20
  Speaker 1: He was forced to take the out. There's an out
• 42:23
  Speaker 1: for Amazon in the event that Sean McVay wants that jump.
• 42:25
  Speaker 3: Really? Yes.
• 42:27
  Speaker 4: I'm not a big Herbstreet fan, so I hope McVay
• 42:29
  Speaker 4: decides to go into television, frankly.
• 42:31
  Speaker 3: Did I just say that out loud?
• 42:33
  Speaker 6: But could McVay be that good that you need this
• 42:35
  Speaker 6: out clause?
• 42:37
  Speaker 4: I think what you want is a guy who's– I
• 42:39
  Speaker 4: think there should be sort of a rotating situation for
• 42:42
  Speaker 4: these analysts where for the first three or four years
• 42:45
  Speaker 4: when you're just out of the league, that's when you're
• 42:48
  Speaker 4: at your best. When you've been there for too long,
• 42:50
  Speaker 4: then you kind of get stale, except for Tony Romo
• 42:52
  Speaker 4: because he's just so excited.
• 42:56
  Speaker 1: Izzy has a big, bold prediction for the upcoming NBA season.
• 43:00
  Speaker 3: Chris Simms is going to join us. in about 10 minutes.
• 43:03
  Speaker 1: So before we get to Sims and we'll wrap up
• 43:05
  Speaker 1: the week by updating the polls, Izzy's excited for the
• 43:08
  Speaker 1: NBA season.
• 43:09
  Speaker 3: He has predictions for the NBA season. I haven't thought about.
• 43:12
  Speaker 1: The NBA season since the Knicks won the Larry O'Brien trophy.
• 43:16
  Speaker 1: But Izzy's here, and it's time to talk some NBA.
• 43:18
  Speaker 4: I am super excited about the season, and it's not
• 43:20
  Speaker 4: just because the Miami Heat are relevant again and going
• 43:23
  Speaker 4: to be good. It's just there's a lot of good
• 43:24
  Speaker 4: things going on. The East seems to be loaded, which
• 43:27
  Speaker 4: doesn't really happen that often. But my big prediction, and
• 43:30
  Speaker 4: I believe I'm going to steal a phrase from a
• 43:32
  Speaker 4: noted Celtics fan here. Hey, Boston Celtics. Welcome to the play-in.
• 43:38
  Speaker 3: Get out of here.
• 43:39
  Speaker 4: I'm telling you, I don't understand the prediction of 50-plus wins.
• 43:43
  Speaker 3: For this team.
• 43:44
  Speaker 4: I saw that most sportsbooks have them at right around 50,
• 43:46
  Speaker 4: 50-and-a-half wins.
• 43:48
  Speaker 3: How do you predict that?
• 43:51
  Speaker 4: Taylor, do you think Jason Tatum, as the one-man band,
• 43:56
  Speaker 4: is good enough for 50 wins in a deep east
• 43:59
  Speaker 4: when he's coming off? Now, I know he played 17
• 44:01
  Speaker 4: games last season, played the six out of the seven
• 44:03
  Speaker 4: games in the postseason. But we don't know if he's
• 44:06
  Speaker 4: going to be be able to play that well for
• 44:09
  Speaker 4: that long. Paul George has not been a second option
• 44:13
  Speaker 4: in three years. And last two years, he barely played.
• 44:17
  Speaker 4: And he's one of those. And he's missed 25 games
• 44:20
  Speaker 4: last season from a PED suspension that he said was
• 44:23
  Speaker 4: due to mental health concerns. You think under pressure as
• 44:27
  Speaker 4: a replacement for a Finals MVP in his prime in
• 44:30
  Speaker 4: Jalen Brown that Paul George is all of a sudden
• 44:33
  Speaker 4: going to go back to, you know, top five, top
• 44:35
  Speaker 4: ten MVP type of player? He's not. Go back and
• 44:39
  Speaker 4: look at Derek White's numbers, shooting numbers last year.
• 44:42
  Speaker 3: They were bad.
• 44:43
  Speaker 4: He's played in a lot of games over the last
• 44:45
  Speaker 4: few years, and his shooting just wasn't great last season.
• 44:48
  Speaker 4: And in the postseason, it got even worse. and you're basically,
• 44:51
  Speaker 4: you look, now their center spot's going to be solid, right?
• 44:54
  Speaker 4: But you look at everybody else that they're going to
• 44:55
  Speaker 4: rely on, one or two of these guys, either Hugo Gonzalez,
• 44:59
  Speaker 4: Baylor Shireman, or who's the third guy? Either Baylor Shireman,
• 45:05
  Speaker 4: Hugo Gonzalez, or Sam Hauser are going to have to
• 45:08
  Speaker 4: have huge leaps in their production for them to come
• 45:11
  Speaker 4: anywhere near the type of team they've been the last
• 45:14
  Speaker 4: few years.
• 45:15
  Speaker 3: Did you say a Hugo leap? A Hugo leap.
• 45:18
  Speaker 1: Wait, so you're saying that the Celtics They will make
• 45:21
  Speaker 1: the playoffs, but they'll make it as a play-in team.
• 45:24
  Speaker 4: I'm not even saying they'll make the playoffs. I'm saying
• 45:26
  Speaker 4: welcome to the play-in, where one or two losses could
• 45:29
  Speaker 4: mean you're not in the playoffs. I mean, Taylor has
• 45:32
  Speaker 4: a confused look on his face, but there are 11, 10,
• 45:35
  Speaker 4: maybe 11 teams in the Eastern Conference that you could
• 45:37
  Speaker 4: argue are playoff teams.
• 45:39
  Speaker 3: I'm not confused by it. We'll get to Taylor in
• 45:41
  Speaker 3: just a second. You're right.
• 45:42
  Speaker 1: The Heat are better. The Pacers get Halliburton back. The
• 45:46
  Speaker 1: Pistons are still a pretty good team. The Raptors got
• 45:48
  Speaker 1: a lot better.
• 45:49
  Speaker 4: The Cavs got better with Peyton Watson. The Knicks, the
• 45:52
  Speaker 4: Raptors with Kawhi Leonard. The Magic are still good. The
• 45:54
  Speaker 4: Hawks still have a solid lineup. And the Wizards might
• 45:57
  Speaker 4: be a very good team if they stay healthy, which
• 45:59
  Speaker 4: is scary to ask.
• 46:00
  Speaker 3: It's a hot take. I like it, Taylor. Boston flirting
• 46:03
  Speaker 3: with not making the playoffs. How about that?
• 46:05
  Speaker 6: Izzy, does Missoula deserve the benefit of the doubt, though?
• 46:07
  Speaker 6: Because nobody really everybody kind of expected the Celtics team
• 46:10
  Speaker 6: to be a lottery team last year. And they were
• 46:12
  Speaker 6: the two seed in a pretty good East, finishing 56
• 46:15
  Speaker 6: and 26.
• 46:16
  Speaker 4: But Missoula ball is basically take as many threes as
• 46:18
  Speaker 4: you can. And we're going to win somehow because we
• 46:20
  Speaker 4: got three point shooters. And what I'm saying is they
• 46:23
  Speaker 4: don't have enough of those high-quality players, just a bunch
• 46:27
  Speaker 4: of shooters. Jason Tatum can't create that much. Derek White
• 46:30
  Speaker 4: can't create that much for those guys.
• 46:31
  Speaker 1: All right, so we got your hot NBA take, and
• 46:33
  Speaker 1: now Taylor has one before we get to Chris.
• 46:35
  Speaker 6: I've got a bigger NBA take, Izzy.
• 46:36
  Speaker 3: Yeah, what's that?
• 46:37
  Speaker 6: Knicks go back-to-back.
• 46:38
  Speaker 3: No, get out of here.
• 46:42
  Speaker 6: There's no time like October. The NLDS is here streaming
• 46:45
  Speaker 6: live on Fox 1. It's the Braves against the Dodgers
• 46:47
  Speaker 6: and the Padres taking on the top-seeded Brewers. Win and
• 46:50
  Speaker 6: you're one step closer to the World Series. Lose and
• 46:53
  Speaker 6: your season's over. This is postseason baseball at its best,
• 46:56
  Speaker 6: the kind of October magic that doesn't wait for the recap.
• 46:59
  Speaker 6: Here's the good news. You can catch every pitch, every swing,
• 47:02
  Speaker 6: every walk-off live streaming on Fox 1. Catch the Braves
• 47:05
  Speaker 6: versus the Dodgers and the Padres versus the Brewers. Live
• 47:08
  Speaker 6: on Fox 1. There's no time like October, and there's
• 47:11
  Speaker 6: no better place to stream the magic than Fox 1.
• 47:14
  Speaker 6: Big one for the Padres.
• 47:16
  Speaker 3: Stu? Yeah.
• 47:17
  Speaker 6: This feels like a now or never year for the Padres.
• 47:19
  Speaker 6: They're the hottest team in baseball.
• 47:20
  Speaker 5: Right.
• 47:21
  Speaker 6: Exactly at the right time. They're peaking 20-4 over their
• 47:24
  Speaker 6: last 24 games.
• 47:25
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 47:25
  Speaker 6: They got the Cubs up out of there.
• 47:27
  Speaker 3: Yeah. More importantly.
• 47:28
  Speaker 6: I think they're built for October.
• 47:30
  Speaker 1: Why are you giving me a hot take about the
• 47:32
  Speaker 1: San Diego Padres, a team we've never discussed ever, just
• 47:35
  Speaker 1: because you mentioned them in a read?
• 47:37
  Speaker 6: I love this Padres team. They have the bullpen to
• 47:40
  Speaker 6: shorten games. They have the star power in Fernando Tatis Jr.
• 47:43
  Speaker 6: and Manny Machado.
• 47:45
  Speaker 3: Yes, but who asked you?
• 47:47
  Speaker 4: I'm confused.
• 47:50
  Speaker 6: Plus 150 over the Brewers. We know the Brewers are pretenders.
• 47:53
  Speaker 1: Yes, but I didn't... Again, I'm confused. You read a commercial.
• 47:57
  Speaker 1: It mentioned the Padres. It also mentioned three other teams.
• 48:00
  Speaker 1: Why a hot take on the Padres?
• 48:02
  Speaker 6: So I started reading that and the wheels got spinning
• 48:05
  Speaker 6: in my head like a hamster running on a wheel.
• 48:09
  Speaker 1: It's always great to have Israel Gutierrez in studio with us.
• 48:13
  Speaker 1: Our thanks to Chris Sims for joining us in that
• 48:16
  Speaker 1: last segment. An odd Padres take from Taylor. Let's wrap
• 48:22
  Speaker 1: up the week. by updating the polls at Stugatz790 on X.
• 48:27
  Speaker 3: Give me the music, and Taylor, let's update the polls.
• 48:31
  Speaker 1: I really love doing it like this because Izzy is
• 48:34
  Speaker 1: only in on Fridays, so he has no idea what
• 48:37
  Speaker 1: we've discussed Monday through Thursday. So all of these will
• 48:40
  Speaker 1: be a surprise to Israel Gutierrez because he unfollowed me
• 48:43
  Speaker 1: on Twitter.
• 48:45
  Speaker 3: I'm not on Twitter. He's not on Twitter. I went
• 48:49
  Speaker 3: for a joke.
• 48:50
  Speaker 4: I've been out for a few years now.
• 48:54
  Speaker 6: Izzy, there's one guarantee that we talk about every week.
• 48:57
  Speaker 6: Are the Raiders for real?
• 48:58
  Speaker 3: Oh, yes. For years. I hope not.
• 49:02
  Speaker 4: I got a big parlay for this weekend, and the
• 49:04
  Speaker 4: Saints is the winner of that game.
• 49:05
  Speaker 6: 65% of the audience said, no, Raiders, not for real.
• 49:09
  Speaker 3: All right, time out. What's the parlay? Raiders play the Chiefs.
• 49:11
  Speaker 3: What were you saying?
• 49:12
  Speaker 4: No, don't the Raiders play the Saints this week?
• 49:14
  Speaker 3: No, I think the Raiders play the Chiefs this week.
• 49:15
  Speaker 6: Raiders play the Chiefs.
• 49:16
  Speaker 3: We'll find out if they're for real. Yes. My bad.
• 49:20
  Speaker 3: My bad. They just beat the Saints. I know, but Taylor,
• 49:24
  Speaker 3: he might want to check his parlay. Is he recapping
• 49:26
  Speaker 3: last week? I was confused with last week. My bad.
• 49:29
  Speaker 1: That's what happens when you keep taking these long weekends.
• 49:33
  Speaker 6: Does Cam Ward live on the corner of third and long?
• 49:37
  Speaker 3: Yes, he does. He's always there.
• 49:39
  Speaker 6: That means with his thumb out 96 of the audience
• 49:43
  Speaker 6: said yes that's exactly where cam ward lives all right
• 49:47
  Speaker 6: are the vikings the worst three and oh team in
• 49:49
  Speaker 6: nfl history.
• 49:50
  Speaker 10: Wow hmm they're three and oh and they don't have
• 49:54
  Speaker 10: a quarterback they are their quarterback away yes and still
• 49:57
  Speaker 10: three and oh not a defensive way not a defensive
• 50:00
  Speaker 10: coordinator away.
• 50:01
  Speaker 1: They are going to kill the dolphins the quarterback whisperer
• 50:04
  Speaker 1: who makes all quarterbacks great is still a quarterback away
• 50:07
  Speaker 1: it's amazing.
• 50:07
  Speaker 6: 52% of the audience said yes, the Vikings are the
• 50:11
  Speaker 6: worst 3-0 team. A lot of people in Minnesota were
• 50:13
  Speaker 6: very upset about.
• 50:14
  Speaker 3: That, by the way. So they're worse than the Raiders.
• 50:18
  Speaker 6: Yeah, that's what a lot of Minnesota people were saying.
• 50:20
  Speaker 6: They're not even the worst 3-0 team in the league.
• 50:21
  Speaker 3: Why do fans get mad at that stuff? They're still 3-0.
• 50:24
  Speaker 3: It doesn't matter what we say. I mean, they're a
• 50:27
  Speaker 3: bad 3-0. Big one for Stu here. Yeah, for me? Wow.
• 50:31
  Speaker 6: Will Dylan Rayola be the Jets' starting quarterback next season?
• 50:35
  Speaker 6: Saw some flashes.
• 50:37
  Speaker 1: We did see some flashes.
• 50:39
  Speaker 3: He looked a lot better. He's taking his craft seriously.
• 50:41
  Speaker 4: I will say the Jets, the far more serious team
• 50:44
  Speaker 4: in New York because the Giants are just a joke
• 50:47
  Speaker 4: between Scataboo and Jameis Winston. Get them out of here.
• 50:50
  Speaker 3: Two and one.
• 50:50
  Speaker 8: Joke.
• 50:50
  Speaker 6: 71% of the audience said yes, Dylan Rayola, pencil him in.
• 50:57
  Speaker 6: Jets starting quarterback.
• 50:58
  Speaker 3: The J in Jets stands for joke.
• 51:01
  Speaker 2: Yes.
• 51:02
  Speaker 3: But it's Giants. But it's Giants.
• 51:04
  Speaker 1: I was trying to make a joke where I said
• 51:05
  Speaker 1: the J in Jets stands for the Giants are a joke,
• 51:08
  Speaker 1: but you can't do that.
• 51:08
  Speaker 3: I think it's a J in Giants is a joke.
• 51:11
  Speaker 3: Thank you.
• 51:12
  Speaker 6: Should the Giants say they found something in J.J. McCarthy's
• 51:16
  Speaker 6: medical and trade for Case Keenum instead?
• 51:20
  Speaker 1: Me spelling the Giants with a J was the joke.
• 51:23
  Speaker 1: I apologize, Israel. It's going to sit with me the
• 51:25
  Speaker 1: entire weekend. What was that poll question?
• 51:27
  Speaker 3: I missed it. I'm sorry.
• 51:28
  Speaker 6: Should the Giants say they found something in J.J. McCarthy's
• 51:31
  Speaker 6: medical and trade for Case Keenum instead?
• 51:36
  Speaker 3: I think J.J. McCarthy is going to start there eventually.
• 51:39
  Speaker 3: I do. For the Giants with a J.
• 51:42
  Speaker 6: Anyway, go ahead. 91% of the audience said yes. Get
• 51:47
  Speaker 6: Case Keenum to New York.
• 51:49
  Speaker 3: I'm sorry.
• 51:49
  Speaker 4: Can you put this on the poll for next week?
• 51:51
  Speaker 4: Did Josh Pate realize he's going to be on TV
• 51:54
  Speaker 4: and immediately start doing steroids? This guy has the largest
• 51:58
  Speaker 4: arms I've ever seen on television, and he's never, I
• 52:01
  Speaker 4: don't think he's ever played.
• 52:03
  Speaker 1: I'm not certain if he's played. I do have a
• 52:05
  Speaker 1: theory if he hasn't played. Since he's becoming ESPN's college
• 52:09
  Speaker 1: football guy and he does a college football podcast, I
• 52:12
  Speaker 1: think he feels the need to be jacked.
• 52:15
  Speaker 3: Up because he's talking football.
• 52:16
  Speaker 4: He looks inflated. Like, it's crazy.
• 52:18
  Speaker 3: I'm sorry to disrupt.
• 52:20
  Speaker 11: No, it's a good disruption. I'm glad you went there.
• 52:24
  Speaker 11: I've been thinking about it for weeks. Izzy, this is
• 52:27
  Speaker 11: a big one. We might need you to settle it
• 52:29
  Speaker 11: before I read the results.
• 52:30
  Speaker 2: Okay.
• 52:31
  Speaker 6: The Bears win the Super Bowl this year. There's one
• 52:34
  Speaker 6: table left at Chicago's hottest restaurant. Who gets it? Michael
• 52:38
  Speaker 6: Jordan or the duo of Caleb Williams and Ben Johnson?
• 52:41
  Speaker 1: I can't believe they wanted to have this discussion. They
• 52:43
  Speaker 1: were being serious, both him and Mikey A. And I
• 52:46
  Speaker 1: was like, it's Jordan.
• 52:46
  Speaker 6: Chicago is a football town, though, is he?
• 52:48
  Speaker 3: No, it's Jordan's town. Oh, man.
• 52:50
  Speaker 4: Do you want to give the results first or do
• 52:52
  Speaker 4: you want me to give my answer first?
• 52:53
  Speaker 3: I want you to give your answer first.
• 52:54
  Speaker 4: I think we're all prisoners of the moment. I say
• 52:56
  Speaker 4: it's going to be Caleb Williams and his coach.
• 52:59
  Speaker 5: Wow.
• 53:00
  Speaker 6: No feel of the audience. Michael Jordan, 61%.
• 53:02
  Speaker 8: 61%.
• 53:02
  Speaker 4: I thought it was 50-50, and you were looking for
• 53:05
  Speaker 4: me to break the surprise.
• 53:06
  Speaker 3: It's that low. Jesus.
• 53:08
  Speaker 6: Big one here for Izzy, because I know he's a
• 53:10
  Speaker 6: Florida Panthers guy. Johnny come lately with his Panthers recent dynasty.
• 53:15
  Speaker 6: Did you know hockey was back today?
• 53:17
  Speaker 3: That was on Tuesday.
• 53:18
  Speaker 1: Taylor had a small surprise fact of the day for us,
• 53:22
  Speaker 1: and that surprise fact was that hockey was back.
• 53:25
  Speaker 3: I was shocked.
• 53:25
  Speaker 4: It's crazy how quickly they go from preseason to regular season.
• 53:28
  Speaker 4: It was like preseason game Saturday, boom. Regular season Tuesday
• 53:31
  Speaker 4: at 5 o'clock.
• 53:32
  Speaker 3: For some reason.
• 53:32
  Speaker 1: What a way to open the season, though, for the Panthers, huh, Forsling?
• 53:36
  Speaker 1: 4.7 seconds to go, huh?
• 53:36
  Speaker 3: They lost Barkov for a while. I know. Sorry.
• 53:39
  Speaker 6: Has it never happened before?
• 53:41
  Speaker 3: What happened? 50-50. Get out of here.
• 53:43
  Speaker 5: 50-50.
• 53:43
  Speaker 8: Wow.
• 53:49
  Speaker 6: Is mahogany a great word?
• 53:50
  Speaker 3: Yes.
• 53:51
  Speaker 4: Can I get some context on that, please?
• 53:53
  Speaker 3: Well, you're going to laugh. Kenneth Gainwell was on the
• 53:56
  Speaker 3: show with us. Okay. Great name. I thought he was
• 53:59
  Speaker 3: in a study that was filled with mahogany. It was
• 54:02
  Speaker 3: a green screen.
• 54:03
  Speaker 6: He just kept complimenting his background and saying how expensive
• 54:07
  Speaker 6: Kenneth Gainwell's house looked like. And Kenneth Gainwell didn't have
• 54:10
  Speaker 6: the heart to tell him, nor me or Mikey have
• 54:12
  Speaker 6: the heart to tell him it was a green screen background.
• 54:14
  Speaker 3: But they were all looking at each other like, this
• 54:16
  Speaker 3: guy is old, man. That's a great word. Mahogany. I
• 54:21
  Speaker 3: said that. Thank you.
• 54:22
  Speaker 6: 88% of the audience agreed and said mahogany is a
• 54:25
  Speaker 6: great word.
• 54:26
  Speaker 3: Thank you. It was a poll question.
• 54:28
  Speaker 6: Big one for me here. Is game two a must
• 54:32
  Speaker 6: win for the Yankees? So they were up 1-0.
• 54:34
  Speaker 5: Yes.
• 54:35
  Speaker 6: And they won game two.
• 54:36
  Speaker 3: Best of three.
• 54:37
  Speaker 1: If they lost that game, they still would have had
• 54:38
  Speaker 1: a game three at home with Garrett Cole on the hill.
• 54:41
  Speaker 4: It feels like every Yankees game is a must win
• 54:44
  Speaker 4: with Taylor.
• 54:44
  Speaker 6: For me.
• 54:45
  Speaker 5: Yeah. Yeah.
• 54:45
  Speaker 3: Well, it is.
• 54:46
  Speaker 6: My mental health depends on it.
• 54:47
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 54:47
  Speaker 6: For the most part. But 67% of the audience agreed.
• 54:51
  Speaker 3: Wow.
• 54:52
  Speaker 6: Game two was a must win for the Yankees.
• 54:53
  Speaker 3: Idiots. Crazy Yankee fans. Not as dumb as the Red Sox, though.
• 54:56
  Speaker 1: Adnan couldn't join us that day until I gave him
• 54:58
  Speaker 1: Taylor's take. And then Adnan couldn't get to a phone
• 55:00
  Speaker 1: quick enough.
• 55:02
  Speaker 6: So Izzy, you mentioned idiot Yankee fans. This poll question is,
• 55:06
  Speaker 6: is the only kind of Yankee fan an arrogant Yankee fan?
• 55:12
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 55:12
  Speaker 3: I mean, it's gotta be right.
• 55:13
  Speaker 4: They're always good.
• 55:15
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 55:15
  Speaker 3: And they're always upset because they're not good enough.
• 55:18
  Speaker 5: Right.
• 55:20
  Speaker 6: Eight, 89% of the audience said yes.
• 55:22
  Speaker 3: All right. One more poll for us.
• 55:25
  Speaker 2: Yep.
• 55:26
  Speaker 6: J-Lo's kid that goes to the University of Iowa. Is
• 55:29
  Speaker 6: he lost?
• 55:36
  Speaker 3: Oh, my goodness. He must be terrible at offense, but
• 55:38
  Speaker 3: great at defense. He's just a student. Wow.
• 55:43
  Speaker 6: He willingly chose that school.
• 55:45
  Speaker 4: We want to go as far away from fame as
• 55:47
  Speaker 4: he possibly could.
• 55:48
  Speaker 3: Well, he got there.
• 55:49
  Speaker 6: 87% of the audience said yes. J-Lo's kid that goes
• 55:54
  Speaker 6: to the University of Iowa is lost. Stu, those are
• 55:57
  Speaker 6: the polls.
• 55:57
  Speaker 3: All right. Thank you, Taylor. Izzy, great to see you.
• 55:59
  Speaker 3: Everyone have a great weekend.