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8-28-26 - Sean Peyton stands up for Nix/Hellebuyck wants out of Winnipeg/Peeping on Mendoza · The Appetizer Hour with Brett Kane

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  Speaker 2: There's a very old saying in sports.
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  Speaker 3: There is something that repeatedly you will hear this from coaches,
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  Speaker 3: from players, from executives, from everyone. And I don't know
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  Speaker 3: if this is just a show of I am... In
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  Speaker 3: our positions, we are above you or what it is. Now,
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  Speaker 3: I've said this before with myself. I understand that, yes,
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  Speaker 3: I suppose I am a media member. I don't think
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  Speaker 3: of myself that way.
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  Speaker 2: I just think... Do you.
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  Speaker 3: Consider somebody who's just a podcaster a media member?
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  Speaker 2: I don't know. I... I'm just somebody who talks. That's
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  Speaker 2: all I do.
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  Speaker 3: But it feels like whenever someone in sports is asked
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  Speaker 3: about something that's being talked about amongst media members, their
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  Speaker 3: response to you is typically one that sounds like this.
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  Speaker 2: I don't pay attention to anything that you guys say.
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  Speaker 2: What do you think? I'm reading your newspaper articles?
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  Speaker 4: I'm not.
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  Speaker 3: And it turns out that most of the time they are.
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  Speaker 3: And I don't say that as some sort of the
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  Speaker 3: athletes or coaches or executives in sports are like.
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  Speaker 2: To give us credence or anything.
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  Speaker 3: I just, I know they do because if they're really
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  Speaker 3: pressed on something, they will bring up something you wrote, said, did.
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  Speaker 2: If they want to do a little gotcha.
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  Speaker 3: And we've talked about the idea that it's almost impossible
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  Speaker 3: to stay away from criticisms or things that people say,
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  Speaker 3: because whether you are the one that consumes the content
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  Speaker 3: or not, it's likely going to be a family member,
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  Speaker 3: a friend, somebody. And the next time you see them
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  Speaker 3: and be like, I believe they said this about you.
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  Speaker 3: You're going to find out one way or another. It
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  Speaker 3: just always felt like Sean Payton would be the last
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  Speaker 3: guy to admit that.
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  Speaker 2: Until... I've really never.
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  Speaker 3: Can you give me another example, Nelly, of this? Coach
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  Speaker 3: who goes on social media to comment on things said
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  Speaker 3: in media to defend his guy. And I thought out
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  Speaker 3: of those details, Sean Payton would be the last one.
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  Speaker 3: Like maybe a Mike McDaniel would.
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  Speaker 2: Trying to think.
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  Speaker 3: Of like a younger coach that would do something like that.
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  Speaker 3: But here's what it stemmed from. And I'm glad that
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  Speaker 3: he's talking about this.
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  Speaker 2: Sean Payton is.
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  Speaker 3: Because I've told you guys before, this happened earlier this
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  Speaker 3: week when we were talking about Bo Nix. And... we
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  Speaker 3: get like two texts in the same segment about Bo
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  Speaker 3: Nix is a dump-off merchant. And another text after that saying,
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  Speaker 3: Bo Nix pushes the ball downfield more than anybody else.
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  Speaker 2: In the league.
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  Speaker 3: And I'm like, guys, both of those things are wrong.
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  Speaker 3: There is a medium that Bo Nix finds himself in.
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  Speaker 3: He does throw the ball deep, He also dumps the
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  Speaker 3: ball off a lot. His problem is his intermediate stuff
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  Speaker 3: isn't there all that much.
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  Speaker 2: But anyway, Jeff Schwartz, who is a Fox.
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  Speaker 3: Analyst and also somebody that is an Oregon grad and
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  Speaker 3: a big-time Oregon football fan, was on First Things First.
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  Speaker 3: I think he was filling in for Nick Wright in,
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  Speaker 3: who's the other guy, Broussard, I think, on that show.
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  Speaker 2: He was filling in. They were talking about the Broncos
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  Speaker 2: and Bo Nix. And he had this to say.
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  Speaker 4: And I believe the context was they asked him, this season,
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  Speaker 4: do you think that Bo Nix is either going to
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  Speaker 4: improve or regress?
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  Speaker 2: Yes.
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  Speaker 4: What's more likely to happen?
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  Speaker 2: Right, right.
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  Speaker 5: With those two presented to me, I would say step back.
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  Speaker 5: But I do think he just is what he is
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  Speaker 5: at this point. He looks like the same quarterback he
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  Speaker 5: was in college. I watched every one of his snaps
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  Speaker 5: at Oregon. He looks exactly the same guy in Denver.
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  Speaker 5: He's consistent, right? He's not going to make mistakes, as
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  Speaker 5: Coach said. But he's not going to push the ball
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  Speaker 5: down the field all that often, right? We know his
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  Speaker 5: air yards were short. His sort of advanced stats kind
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  Speaker 5: of put him right in the middle of the NFL.
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  Speaker 5: He gets a bump up because he can run the ball,
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  Speaker 5: which is great in certain situations for them. You know,
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  Speaker 5: Sean Payne needs to get him to throw the ball
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  Speaker 5: in between the hashes. I think he was fifth worst
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  Speaker 5: in the NFL, just complete percentage in the middle of
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  Speaker 5: the hashes. Like, there's things to work on. But that's
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  Speaker 5: sort of the issues that, not issues is the wrong
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  Speaker 5: word to say, it's what he was in college. He
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  Speaker 5: didn't throw the ball a ton between the hashes in college, right?
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  Speaker 5: If it was, it was very far deep down the field.
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  Speaker 5: And so this is what he is. And they built
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  Speaker 5: the offense, I give Sean Payne credit, they built the
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  Speaker 5: offense around what he can do, what he can't do. Like,
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  Speaker 5: they do a really good job of maximizing his talents.
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  Speaker 5: So if I had to pick one or the other,
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  Speaker 5: I would say probably, Back is the wrong way to
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  Speaker 5: put it. I don't think Coach is going to become
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  Speaker 5: a pro-ball or all-pro type player. I think he sort
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  Speaker 5: of is what he is. He's very steady. He's good
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  Speaker 5: at certain things. He's got to get better at certain things.
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  Speaker 5: But he's also just kind of, I think he's set
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  Speaker 5: at what he's going to be in the NFL.
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  Speaker 2: So here's the thing. I don't disagree with everything that
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  Speaker 2: Jeff Schwartz is talking about.
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  Speaker 3: But when you say he doesn't push the ball downfield,
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  Speaker 3: it's just that's not true. It's just not true. And
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  Speaker 3: you can watch all the snaps at Oregon that he has.
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  Speaker 3: And I don't think that Jeff Schwartz is a dummy.
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  Speaker 3: I think he's a relatively sharp guy. I've heard him before.
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  Speaker 3: He fills in on Fox Radio sometimes nationally when our
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  Speaker 3: local shows aren't on and stuff like that. I think
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  Speaker 3: he does a decent enough job. But in this case,
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  Speaker 3: it's just like it's not what happens. Bo Nix does
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  Speaker 3: push the ball downfield.
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  Speaker 2: And he does.
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  Speaker 3: throw a lot of stuff at the line of scrimmage.
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  Speaker 3: He has trouble in between the hashes, you know, in
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  Speaker 3: the intermediary thing. And it's not even, I don't know
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  Speaker 3: if it's trouble as much as he's just not willing
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  Speaker 3: to do it all that much, and maybe that changes
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  Speaker 3: this year. But that was said, which led Sean Payton
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  Speaker 3: to jump on Twitter and say, always easy to tell who.
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  Speaker 2: Works at it and who doesn't. Now, vague.
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  Speaker 3: But I think the assumption's pretty clear. He's talking about
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  Speaker 3: people analyzing.
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  Speaker 2: Football.
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  Speaker 3: Two lattes in the morning, 40 minutes later, I'm regretting it.
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  Speaker 3: Who works at it and who doesn't? My favorite part
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  Speaker 3: of this is that that segment, and I think we
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  Speaker 3: need to start doing this more for media clips, for
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  Speaker 3: us in sports.
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  Speaker 2: We need to be called out a whole bunch more
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  Speaker 2: than we are.
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  Speaker 3: They put a community note beneath the video. Like the
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  Speaker 3: Twitter fact checker people threw up, Bo Nix has thrown
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  Speaker 3: the most deep touchdown passes of 20 plus air yards
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  Speaker 3: since the start of the 2024 season. It's 19, including
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  Speaker 3: the postseason, per official next gen stats.
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  Speaker 2: When you get community noted.
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  Speaker 3: Tell you what, that keeps me up at night, Nelly.
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  Speaker 3: Those little clips you send out after the show of
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  Speaker 3: our show and what happened, those little two and a
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  Speaker 3: half minute clips, it's me talking, my heart starts doing
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  Speaker 3: that at night. I'm like, I don't need the community
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  Speaker 3: notes all over me.
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  Speaker 4: Well, you can sleep easy knowing that you will never
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  Speaker 4: get wrecked harder. Then Vic got wrecked by Minnesota fans
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  Speaker 4: when he said he wanted repercussions for Jaden McDaniels. That's
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  Speaker 4: about the worst I've ever seen it.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, but those are just, hang on a second.
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  Speaker 3: I've been, oh, who was it? The UConn people really
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  Speaker 3: came after me during the tournament when I was talking
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  Speaker 3: trash about Dan Hurley.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, your boy Dan Hurley, that's right.
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  Speaker 2: And that actor, what was his name? Nick something.
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  Speaker 3: The guy who I actually like in some movies. He
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  Speaker 3: started yelling at me. So I've gotten my share of that.
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  Speaker 3: But when you get community noted, there's a shame that
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  Speaker 3: comes with that. It's not just people mad at you
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  Speaker 3: on the internet. You can deal with that. When you
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  Speaker 3: get community noted, it's like the teacher told you to
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  Speaker 3: sit down in the corner for a second.
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  Speaker 2: You had to put on the dunce hat. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: that's the problem. But Sean Payton jumps on. And here's
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  Speaker 2: the thing.
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  Speaker 3: You want to know why Sean Payton felt the need,
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  Speaker 3: the itch, the urge? to throw a comment underneath that.
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  Speaker 3: I think there's a big part of Sean Payton that
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  Speaker 3: really misses the media. I think he loves being able
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  Speaker 3: to mix it up in a way and speak about
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  Speaker 3: football in a manner of analyzing something without having to
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  Speaker 3: be careful of hurting some people's feelings because he's not
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  Speaker 3: a coach in the league.
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  Speaker 2: I think he does miss it.
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  Speaker 3: I guarantee you, Nellie, I mean, I'm sure everybody at
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  Speaker 3: work has done this, but let's say you're like sitting
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  Speaker 3: in your office and you're talking to one of your
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  Speaker 3: coworkers and another coworker comes in. And he starts kind
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  Speaker 3: of BS and with you. And then the second he leaves,
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  Speaker 3: you're like, all right.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: See you, buddy. All right.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I'll catch you later. All right. See ya. I hate
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  Speaker 2: that guy. I can't stand that guy.
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  Speaker 4: Like such a phony.
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  Speaker 2: You have to do the fake thing?
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  Speaker 3: And that's Sean Payton, I think, at press conferences when
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  Speaker 3: he's asked about people and stuff across the league. It's like, well,
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  Speaker 3: you know, he's not going to be fake about it.
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  Speaker 3: He might just be short and not give you an answer.
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  Speaker 3: But the second he walks away, I can't stand him.
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  Speaker 3: I guarantee it. And I think part of him misses
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  Speaker 3: being in the media where he's like, if I wanted
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  Speaker 3: to criticize somebody and say that they're terrible at their job,
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  Speaker 3: I could have just done it when I worked at Fox.
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  Speaker 3: And I bet you he feels more comfortable doing it
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  Speaker 3: on a Fox show because he worked there.
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  Speaker 2: So, 303-504-0925.
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  Speaker 4: You know what tweet definitely would have gotten a community note?
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  Speaker 2: Most strip clubs got the best food. I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: Here's the thing, Nelly.
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  Speaker 3: I haven't frequented enough or tried their hot apps.
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  Speaker 4: Hot apps. Apps.
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  Speaker 2: Appetizers is what I meant.
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  Speaker 4: Hot piece of apps, yes.
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  Speaker 3: Weird thing to say when talking about strip club food,
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  Speaker 3: I'll admit. I'll just go with appetizer is what I
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  Speaker 3: was working with. Maybe Carmelo's spot on. It's one of
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  Speaker 3: those things, like, if you told me you don't understand, Brett,
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  Speaker 3: seaweed is the best tasting food you'll ever buy. And
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  Speaker 3: I would say that's not true. Although, I can't say
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  Speaker 3: for certain because I've never eaten seaweed before.
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  Speaker 4: Really? You've never tried seaweed?
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  Speaker 3: I've never tried that crunchy little whatever that thing is
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  Speaker 3: that people just throw in their mouth.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't like that.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, have you ever... throwing your mouth on some sushi?
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  Speaker 4: Cause it's in there. It's wrapped in.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, but it's just by itself. It feels like a weird,
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  Speaker 3: it's not a snack. How would that fill you up?
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  Speaker 4: It's crunchy. It's salty. It's nice. It's like a little
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  Speaker 4: chip from the sea. It's refreshing.
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  Speaker 1: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: So maybe again, maybe it is the greatest thing ever.
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  Speaker 2: I just don't know.
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  Speaker 3: I can't community note Carmelo without evidence. I would just
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  Speaker 3: think traditionally if I'm getting a filet from, um, Wolfgang
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  Speaker 3: Puck's restaurant, or if I'm getting a filet from Shotgun Willie's,
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  Speaker 3: I would assume Wolfgang Puck.
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  Speaker 2: Has the edge. Look, I'm no odds maker in Vegas,
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  Speaker 2: but I would just assume.
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  Speaker 3: still don't have the details on what this Kiel McCarr
• 13:39
  Speaker 3: contract is. It's going to be big. It's going to
• 13:43
  Speaker 3: be a Big time raise. It's something that is doable
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  Speaker 3: for the Avs. They might be, you know, hamstrung or
• 13:53
  Speaker 3: cap strapped a little bit at the end of this,
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  Speaker 3: but that's the price of doing business with a Hall
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  Speaker 3: of Famer. Whatever he wants, he gets. Now, does that
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  Speaker 3: Does that mean 18 per year? I don't know, but
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  Speaker 3: it's going to be somewhere in that ballpark. There's something
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  Speaker 3: else in hockey that happened yesterday, though, and I saw
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  Speaker 3: some Avs fans.
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  Speaker 2: Commenting on this.
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  Speaker 3: American hero Connor Hellebuck released a statement saying he has made,
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  Speaker 3: seven months ago, a private request.
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  Speaker 2: To the team, Winnipeg, on a trade. He wanted out.
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  Speaker 2: So here's what he said.
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  Speaker 3: Winnipeg has been my home for my entire NHL career,
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  Speaker 3: and I will always be grateful for my time there.
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  Speaker 3: I have never forgotten June 23, 2012, the day Winnipeg
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  Speaker 3: took a chance on a goalie from Odessa, Texas. Gave
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  Speaker 3: everything I had from that moment to prove to the
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  Speaker 3: Jets they made the right decision. Several months ago, I
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  Speaker 3: privately requested a trade. I have tried to handle the
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  Speaker 3: situation quietly and respectfully while giving the organization time to
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  Speaker 3: explore its options. With training camp approaching, I felt it
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  Speaker 3: was important to publicly confirm my request. My position has
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  Speaker 3: not changed, and I believe moving on is the best
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  Speaker 3: path forward for me and my family. Appreciate everything Winnipeg
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  Speaker 3: Jets fans have meant to me throughout my career, and
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  Speaker 3: I hope a resolution can be reached soon.
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  Speaker 2: So that's what he said.
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  Speaker 3: He wants out. It was a private thing, although we
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  Speaker 3: heard whispers about it. He has now confirmed.
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  Speaker 2: Publicly, hey, get me the hell out of here. to which.
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  Speaker 3: The Jets responded with a statement of their own, saying,
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  Speaker 3: Connor has been open with us about his desire for
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  Speaker 3: a change. He has been an important part of the
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  Speaker 3: Winnipeg Jets organization for many years, and we have tremendous
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  Speaker 3: respect for what he has accomplished here. While we will
• 16:04
  Speaker 3: continue to work through the situation in a thoughtful manner,
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  Speaker 3: there is no update at this time.
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  Speaker 2: So, here's my question.
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  Speaker 3: Saw a bunch of Avs fans yesterday after this was
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  Speaker 3: publicly confirmed from Connor Halibut, who said, Avs, go make
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  Speaker 3: it happen. I would love to have Connor, a goalie
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  Speaker 3: of the caliber of Connor Halibut here. Now, There's things
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  Speaker 3: that you need to take into account, and it's where
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  Speaker 3: your bread is buttered, okay? Where are you already spending
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  Speaker 3: a bulk of your money? Hellebuck is at 8.5 per year,
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  Speaker 3: and he will make that through the 2031 season. The
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  Speaker 3: Avalanche have, now with Kel McCarr's contract done, we just
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  Speaker 3: don't know the term yet, He is going to be
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  Speaker 3: signed through 2031 as well. McKinnon is signed through 2031.
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  Speaker 3: Marty Natchez is signed through 2031. Logan O'Connor is signed
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  Speaker 3: through 2031. Devon Taves is signed through 2031. Brett Kulak
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  Speaker 3: is signed through 2031. You have all these different guys
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  Speaker 3: that are there. But at 8.5, along with Cale's contract,
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  Speaker 3: along with, you know, even if you don't make this
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  Speaker 3: bump from McKenzie Blackwood to Hellebuck would be 3.3-ish.
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  Speaker 2: Million dollars more.
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  Speaker 3: It's still going to be, you know, spinning plates on
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  Speaker 3: keeping everything together. You're looking over here, you got to
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  Speaker 3: spin this. Oh, we need another winger. We need a
• 17:59
  Speaker 3: fifth and sixth D-men in a year or two. You
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  Speaker 3: have all these different things. I would love to have
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  Speaker 3: Connor Hellebuck. It would make your team better. It's just
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  Speaker 3: a matter of feasibility. And here's the other question I
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  Speaker 3: want to ask you. I don't think you're losing games
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  Speaker 3: or you're getting bounced from the postseason because your goaltending
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  Speaker 3: isn't playing well. That might have been the case with
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  Speaker 3: Georgiev a.
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  Speaker 2: Few years back. I know the approach for the Avs has.
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  Speaker 3: Kind of been, as long as we get okay, decent goaltending,
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  Speaker 3: we should be good in the postseason. It certainly worked
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  Speaker 3: to the tune of winning a Stanley Cup. No disrespect
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  Speaker 3: to Darcy Kemper.
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  Speaker 2: He was good.
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  Speaker 3: Probably not great, but he's good. And that's what you needed.
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  Speaker 3: You needed a good goalie. And how do I know that?
• 18:57
  Speaker 3: Because that goalie won a Stanley Cup and they went, bye,
• 19:00
  Speaker 3: have fun, elsewhere.
• 19:06
  Speaker 2: Hellebuck would really help.
• 19:10
  Speaker 3: But there are also questions, and I thought this was
• 19:14
  Speaker 3: the most important thing, about Connor Hellebuck when the postseason hits.
• 19:22
  Speaker 2: So he's great. In the Olympics, he was, I mean,
• 19:28
  Speaker 2: it's one of the, probably the best.
• 19:35
  Speaker 3: American hockey performance in a single game that we've seen.
• 19:39
  Speaker 3: You know, we know during the regular season, he's an
• 19:42
  Speaker 3: absolute monster. But it is kind of like postseason rolls around.
• 19:48
  Speaker 3: Here's the last three years. Save percentage in the postseason. 886, 870, 866.
• 20:00
  Speaker 3: If we were concerned about postseason performance, and that's all
• 20:04
  Speaker 3: this is down to, because with the avalanche, it doesn't
• 20:08
  Speaker 3: matter what you do Anywhere before Stanley Cup. Last year
• 20:13
  Speaker 3: kind of proved that. Best team in the league, giant
• 20:16
  Speaker 3: fart in the Western Conference Finals. Didn't matter what happened
• 20:20
  Speaker 3: previously during that year. All you remember is the final
• 20:23
  Speaker 3: four games of the season. And that is a byproduct
• 20:27
  Speaker 3: of being a team that is competing for championships every
• 20:29
  Speaker 3: single year.
• 20:30
  Speaker 2: This is what comes with the territory. And I love
• 20:33
  Speaker 2: the mentality. It should be this way.
• 20:35
  Speaker 3: In an ideal world, every team that you ever root
• 20:38
  Speaker 3: for should feel just like that. If they lose in
• 20:41
  Speaker 3: the postseason, you're like, damn it, we should have won.
• 20:46
  Speaker 4: And I think as a fan base, we're very privileged
• 20:48
  Speaker 4: to be able to have that philosophy.
• 20:51
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• 20:54
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• 20:55
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• 21:04
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• 21:06
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• 21:38
  Speaker 4: You know who I feel like.
• 21:39
  Speaker 2: Again, that keyword is philosophy.
• 21:42
  Speaker 4: I feel like Vic, remember when Vic was doing his
• 21:45
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• 21:48
  Speaker 4: to find the most insane segues possible? Yes. So for
• 21:52
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• 21:54
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• 21:58
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• 22:01
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• 22:03
  Speaker 3: I think the next one, it's going to be hard
• 22:06
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• 22:10
  Speaker 2: The final two, you could have some fun with. Final two,
• 22:14
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• 22:15
  Speaker 3: So, again, pay attention to the 20-minute to 40-minute mark
• 22:18
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• 22:21
  Speaker 3: Texture says, Hellebuck has never had a team like the
• 22:26
  Speaker 3: Avs in front of him.
• 22:27
  Speaker 2: Very true.
• 22:30
  Speaker 3: But here's all I'm getting to. I would love to
• 22:37
  Speaker 3: have Hellebuck.
• 22:38
  Speaker 2: I'd love to.
• 22:40
  Speaker 3: He obviously, I mean, I think most of this is
• 22:43
  Speaker 3: like he wants to go to the States, would be
• 22:45
  Speaker 3: my assumption.
• 22:46
  Speaker 2: He wants to live in America again.
• 22:49
  Speaker 3: As I think most guys, you know, it feels like
• 22:53
  Speaker 3: Canadians who move here don't, maybe they don't have that pull.
• 22:58
  Speaker 2: Certainly Russians. Russians have this say of like, I want
• 23:01
  Speaker 2: to go home.
• 23:03
  Speaker 3: The culture shock between America and Russia is just so gigantic.
• 23:11
  Speaker 3: And that's why you see guys, they'd rather go play
• 23:13
  Speaker 3: in the KHL than play in, you know, for the
• 23:16
  Speaker 3: Eagles or something like that. Like, I would rather be
• 23:20
  Speaker 3: home than play in the minors. If you want to
• 23:22
  Speaker 3: put me in the big league club, then yes, I'll
• 23:24
  Speaker 3: move to America.
• 23:24
  Speaker 2: I'll live there.
• 23:27
  Speaker 3: But there's a gigantic culture difference. And it's not that
• 23:31
  Speaker 3: between America and Canada, but.
• 23:35
  Speaker 2: There's some. There's some of it.
• 23:39
  Speaker 3: And for whatever reason, I think it's harder for guys
• 23:41
  Speaker 3: who are American to live in Canada than it's harder
• 23:43
  Speaker 3: for Canadian people to live in America. Seems to be
• 23:46
  Speaker 3: the case. You know, I think that Austin Matthews is
• 23:51
  Speaker 3: kind of getting that itch, too.
• 23:53
  Speaker 2: Like Hellebuck.
• 23:55
  Speaker 3: But you go back to where Hellebuck was at as
• 23:57
  Speaker 3: a postseason performer.
• 24:00
  Speaker 2: Yes, team in front of him.
• 24:03
  Speaker 3: Might help elevate him to another level.
• 24:06
  Speaker 2: And I think, ideally.
• 24:08
  Speaker 3: You know, if you're thinking logically about this, that would
• 24:10
  Speaker 3: be true. But I've been talking about this with Jamal
• 24:14
  Speaker 3: Murray over the last three years. When everybody was complaining
• 24:18
  Speaker 3: about Jamal maybe not starting the season in shape or
• 24:21
  Speaker 3: maybe being on and off the floor early in the
• 24:23
  Speaker 3: year or not making an all-star team or not making
• 24:26
  Speaker 3: an all-NBA team or being inconsistent, having a 30-point night
• 24:29
  Speaker 3: followed by a 10-point night in January, I didn't care
• 24:34
  Speaker 3: all that much because once May hit, He was lights out.
• 24:41
  Speaker 3: And if Jamal Murray was playing his best basketball when
• 24:44
  Speaker 3: the games actually had real stakes, win or go home
• 24:49
  Speaker 3: stuff on the line, I would have taken that with
• 24:52
  Speaker 3: Jamal scoring 15 points a night in the regular season
• 24:55
  Speaker 3: if he kept doing that thing of shooting 50% from
• 24:59
  Speaker 3: three and putting up 28 a night in the postseason.
• 25:06
  Speaker 3: I would have much preferred that. And what you've got
• 25:08
  Speaker 3: in the last three years is sort of the opposite.
• 25:10
  Speaker 3: He's been really good in the regular season like he
• 25:12
  Speaker 3: was last year. Made the all-star team. Made an all-NBA team.
• 25:16
  Speaker 3: And the postseason rolled around and he just wasn't quite
• 25:18
  Speaker 3: that again. And that would be my concern with Hellebuck.
• 25:23
  Speaker 3: Hellebuck is a really, really, really good goalie. But is
• 25:31
  Speaker 3: he capable of doing that when the postseason hits? You know,
• 25:35
  Speaker 3: you look at the The run in the postseason for Winnipeg,
• 25:41
  Speaker 3: that first year that he got to the Jets, he
• 25:44
  Speaker 3: was really good in the postseason. 922 save percentage, 236
• 25:48
  Speaker 3: goals against. They played in 17 games in that postseason.
• 25:52
  Speaker 3: Then since then, it was 6, 4, 8, 5, 5,
• 25:58
  Speaker 3: and then last year was 13. But even in that 13,
• 26:02
  Speaker 3: save percentage was 866. It was the worst of his career.
• 26:07
  Speaker 3: And that was with two shutouts. So that would be
• 26:12
  Speaker 3: the concern. I mean, good goalie, but can you trust
• 26:19
  Speaker 3: it in the postseason? And again, I think this could
• 26:22
  Speaker 3: all come into more clarity when finding out what Kael
• 26:27
  Speaker 3: McCarr's number is. It's still waiting on that. I think
• 26:34
  Speaker 3: even if it's, you know, if he wants to be
• 26:36
  Speaker 3: the highest paid guy in the league, it's like 19
• 26:37
  Speaker 3: million bucks. If he wants to take a haircut off that,
• 26:41
  Speaker 3: then it could be like 18 or 18 and a
• 26:43
  Speaker 3: half or something. I don't think it's going to make
• 26:46
  Speaker 3: that much of a difference. You know what I mean?
• 26:53
  Speaker 2: We're going to talk about the difference. It's really how
• 26:56
  Speaker 2: long the contract is, is what matters. Because here's the
• 27:00
  Speaker 2: thing for Cale.
• 27:01
  Speaker 3: Cale doesn't need, he's almost in a Jokic category now.
• 27:07
  Speaker 3: Cale could sign a two-year deal just to up that
• 27:09
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• 27:12
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• 27:16
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• 27:18
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• 27:24
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• 27:29
  Speaker 3: hockey again. As Cale, as of right now, if he
• 27:32
  Speaker 3: signs the full-length sort of eight-year deal, Kale's 27 years old.
• 27:39
  Speaker 3: That'll come up when he's 35, 36. I mean, he'll
• 27:45
  Speaker 3: have the rest of his career essentially to get that done.
• 27:50
  Speaker 3: Or what he could do is maybe he signs a
• 27:53
  Speaker 3: four-year deal here. He gets to 31 and then he
• 27:56
  Speaker 3: signs another, I don't know, seven, eight-year deal after that.
• 28:02
  Speaker 3: And if he wanted to, he could do it because
• 28:04
  Speaker 3: the Avs would be like, okay. You aren't walking out
• 28:09
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• 28:24
  Speaker 3: So a bunch more to get to. I want to
• 28:26
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• 28:33
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• 28:34
  Speaker 2: Get to it next.
• 28:34
  Speaker 3: All right, so I did what I've done this entire preseason.
• 28:37
  Speaker 3: I've stuck to it. I watched the Raiders' preseason game
• 28:41
  Speaker 3: because I wanted to see how Fernando Mendoza looked and
• 28:44
  Speaker 3: wasn't great in this preseason finale. He was 7 of 14,
• 28:49
  Speaker 3: 57 yards, an interception. He came off a tipped pass
• 28:53
  Speaker 3: and tipped by his own wide receiver, but it was
• 28:55
  Speaker 3: in a bad spot.
• 28:56
  Speaker 2: It was high.
• 28:58
  Speaker 3: The throw before that, too, he threw it behind this guy,
• 29:01
  Speaker 3: and it was, I think, this same dude.
• 29:03
  Speaker 2: Who was that again? That was Jalen Naylor.
• 29:06
  Speaker 3: So the pass before that, he throws it to Naylor
• 29:08
  Speaker 3: sort of out in the flat, and he has to, like,
• 29:10
  Speaker 3: behind his body, one-hand catch, makes the grab and goes.
• 29:15
  Speaker 3: Next play is that. It's over the middle, in between
• 29:18
  Speaker 3: three or four defenders. It's like the timing of the
• 29:22
  Speaker 3: throw was right. It was just way too high, goes
• 29:25
  Speaker 3: off the fingertips, bounces off, A couple of San Francisco
• 29:29
  Speaker 3: guys and they take it back the other way. But
• 29:32
  Speaker 3: Fernando Mendoza finishes the preseason with 143 yards and two interceptions.
• 29:40
  Speaker 2: No touchdowns.
• 29:43
  Speaker 3: Kubiak, at the end of that, was asked about the
• 29:47
  Speaker 3: quarterback situation and said, I still don't think we need
• 29:50
  Speaker 3: to name anybody. We have a lot to talk about
• 29:54
  Speaker 3: at a lot of positions, so we want to watch
• 29:56
  Speaker 3: the film and talk about everything as a staff. My
• 30:01
  Speaker 3: assumption here, I mean, they brought in Kirk Cousins for
• 30:03
  Speaker 3: a reason. He's going to start the year, I would assume. Now,
• 30:05
  Speaker 3: I've always been somebody. I'm not huge on the idea
• 30:13
  Speaker 3: of you draft somebody number one overall and he sits
• 30:16
  Speaker 3: down behind somebody else. I think if you do that,
• 30:20
  Speaker 3: you do it with intention of this guy's really good.
• 30:26
  Speaker 3: He's got the mental fortitude to work through some mistakes
• 30:29
  Speaker 3: and struggles. And if he doesn't, then he's probably not
• 30:32
  Speaker 3: going to be a good pro anyway. Like, that would
• 30:35
  Speaker 3: always be sort of my look at it. You know,
• 30:38
  Speaker 3: I always think of Peyton Manning where he throws 30
• 30:40
  Speaker 3: picks his rookie year. And could that crumble some wide
• 30:45
  Speaker 3: receiver or some quarterbacks?
• 30:47
  Speaker 2: Yes.
• 30:49
  Speaker 3: But if it does, then you probably didn't have the
• 30:51
  Speaker 3: mental makeup for that position anyway at that high of
• 30:54
  Speaker 3: a level.
• 30:57
  Speaker 2: But they didn't bring in Cousins for nothing.
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: I mean.
• 31:00
  Speaker 3: Kirk Cousins right now in his career has two different jobs.
• 31:04
  Speaker 3: Job number one would be exactly what he's doing right now,
• 31:06
  Speaker 3: which is I will hold down the fort until the
• 31:08
  Speaker 3: rookie's ready to go or the young quarterback's ready to go.
• 31:13
  Speaker 3: The other job he can have is I'm going to
• 31:16
  Speaker 3: be a primary backup to a really good football team
• 31:19
  Speaker 3: in case their quarterback goes down. Like he would be
• 31:22
  Speaker 3: the backup in Denver or Kansas City or.
• 31:27
  Speaker 2: LA or whatever, like that would be his second sort
• 31:31
  Speaker 2: of gig.
• 31:32
  Speaker 3: I'm either a stopgap for a young quarterback or I
• 31:35
  Speaker 3: am a really good backup for a team that could
• 31:37
  Speaker 3: be winning a Super Bowl.
• 31:41
  Speaker 4: And by the way, Brett, side note, I got in
• 31:43
  Speaker 4: the car this morning. I was going to say I
• 31:46
  Speaker 4: hit the gas, but I did. I got the stupid button.
• 31:48
  Speaker 4: I miss being able to turn a physical key and
• 31:50
  Speaker 4: just hear the engine cranking.
• 31:51
  Speaker 2: I like a good key turn in the ignition.
• 31:53
  Speaker 3: I know.
• 31:54
  Speaker 4: I miss that. No disrespect to my lovely Honda Passport,
• 31:56
  Speaker 4: but it's got the button. So I hit the button,
• 31:58
  Speaker 4: turns on Fox Sports Radio on 92.5, and it was
• 32:01
  Speaker 4: playing a commercial with Fernando Mendoza. And in the back
• 32:04
  Speaker 4: of my head, I'm thinking, dude, if he sounds like
• 32:06
  Speaker 4: an idiot, I'm going to pull this commercial. I'm going
• 32:08
  Speaker 4: to show it to Brett.
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: Did he?
• 32:09
  Speaker 4: I'm going to have it ready. Well, you know, he
• 32:11
  Speaker 4: starts talking. He's like, hey, I'm Fernando Mendoza. I'm going, okay,
• 32:15
  Speaker 4: here we go.
• 32:15
  Speaker 2: Oh, it was an endorsement ad.
• 32:17
  Speaker 4: Turns out it was an endorsement encouraging people to go
• 32:20
  Speaker 4: get screened for cancer. So we're not going to make
• 32:23
  Speaker 4: fun of him. Fernando's a good guy, but I did
• 32:25
  Speaker 4: have that thought.
• 32:26
  Speaker 2: Let's not do that.
• 32:26
  Speaker 4: No, but he's already at that point where I turn
• 32:30
  Speaker 4: on the radio on Fox Sports, and he's already big
• 32:32
  Speaker 4: enough to be telling people, hey, go get yourself checked.
• 32:35
  Speaker 4: It's good to do. He's at least already achieved that
• 32:37
  Speaker 4: level of popularity and notoriety.
• 32:39
  Speaker 2: Okay, so.
• 32:41
  Speaker 3: On GetUp, one of their subjects they're talking about today
• 32:43
  Speaker 3: is should Mendoza sit the whole season?
• 32:46
  Speaker 2: And I'm just thinking, why?
• 32:49
  Speaker 3: Why?
• 32:53
  Speaker 2: Like, here's what I don't get. If this was, I
• 32:55
  Speaker 2: think there's special cases.
• 32:57
  Speaker 3: I think like an Anthony Richardson or a Trey Lance
• 33:00
  Speaker 3: who started only like 13 games since high school, maybe
• 33:04
  Speaker 3: they need to sit down and really take in Speed
• 33:08
  Speaker 3: of the game, how to read a defense, how to
• 33:10
  Speaker 3: command a huddle, how to do this and that. Like
• 33:12
  Speaker 3: maybe they need that kind of seasoning. Fernando Mendoza played
• 33:16
  Speaker 3: college football forever. He's not new to the sport. He's
• 33:24
  Speaker 3: not new to the position. And he's done that at
• 33:27
  Speaker 3: a high level in the Big Ten as well. Like
• 33:33
  Speaker 3: he goes to Indiana, he throws for 41 touchdowns and
• 33:35
  Speaker 3: six picks. He does that against elite competition. Now, if
• 33:41
  Speaker 3: you want to do the thing of, hey, let's just
• 33:43
  Speaker 3: not put too much pressure on him early in the season,
• 33:46
  Speaker 3: give Cousins a few starts, then we'll let him take over.
• 33:49
  Speaker 2: Fine, fine.
• 33:52
  Speaker 3: But I think within like a month, month and a half,
• 33:56
  Speaker 3: that guy's got to play. He's got to get a
• 33:59
  Speaker 3: half a season in. And when I start thinking about
• 34:03
  Speaker 3: it that way, I'm like, well, then what's the point
• 34:05
  Speaker 3: in waiting at all?
• 34:08
  Speaker 2: Is the guy really going to be ready in week four?
• 34:10
  Speaker 3: More ready in week four than he is week one? Like,
• 34:13
  Speaker 3: I remember this discussion with Bo Nix two years ago.
• 34:15
  Speaker 3: Everybody's like, man, if you start him at the beginning
• 34:19
  Speaker 3: of the season, it could ruin him.
• 34:21
  Speaker 2: You can't do that.
• 34:22
  Speaker 3: And I was like, guys, if it ruins him, then
• 34:25
  Speaker 3: he doesn't have it upstairs enough to be a good
• 34:27
  Speaker 3: quarterback anyway. You got to be able to brush off
• 34:31
  Speaker 3: the mistakes when you're a young quarterback and know, and
• 34:34
  Speaker 3: what a good coach would do is say, we know
• 34:36
  Speaker 3: you're going to go out there and mess up.
• 34:38
  Speaker 2: It's okay. We'll learn from the mistakes. That's what this
• 34:42
  Speaker 2: season is for. Now, imagine this. Imagine if the Broncos
• 34:46
  Speaker 2: started Jared Stidham at the beginning of the year. Two
• 34:49
  Speaker 2: years ago. Just remember what happened.
• 34:55
  Speaker 3: Bo Nix went out the first few weeks of the
• 34:56
  Speaker 3: season and looked downright terrible.
• 34:59
  Speaker 2: You guys remember that? How awful that was?
• 35:04
  Speaker 3: So in 2025, they started the season, sorry, 24, started
• 35:09
  Speaker 3: the season against Seattle. They lost 26 to 20, but Bo,
• 35:15
  Speaker 3: I mean, he threw, if you.
• 35:16
  Speaker 2: Remember, a million passes in that game.
• 35:18
  Speaker 3: He was 26 to 42. He had two interceptions. He
• 35:23
  Speaker 3: ran in a touchdown but didn't have one through the air.
• 35:26
  Speaker 3: The next week they played Pittsburgh. Same kind of story.
• 35:30
  Speaker 3: No touchdowns for Bo Nix. Two more interceptions. He was
• 35:33
  Speaker 3: 20 of 35. He lost 13 to 6.
• 35:37
  Speaker 2: Next week was a good one. You went out and
• 35:40
  Speaker 2: played Tampa.
• 35:43
  Speaker 3: Bo was 25 of 36 for 216 yards. Still no
• 35:46
  Speaker 3: touchdowns but didn't turn the ball over. Then it was
• 35:50
  Speaker 3: that sloppy monsoon mess. in New York against the Jets
• 35:55
  Speaker 3: and Aaron Rodgers, were somehow in that game where he
• 35:58
  Speaker 3: was throwing footballs left-handed because he couldn't hang on to it.
• 36:02
  Speaker 3: He was 12 of 25 for 60 yards, but had
• 36:04
  Speaker 3: his first touchdown pass of his career.
• 36:06
  Speaker 2: In week four. And then from there, you found a rhythm.
• 36:13
  Speaker 3: You started to win games, and then it pushed you
• 36:15
  Speaker 3: all the way to a playoff spot. But imagine this.
• 36:18
  Speaker 3: Imagine if those awful starts in the first four weeks
• 36:21
  Speaker 3: were all Jarrett Stidham. And then Bo is starting from
• 36:26
  Speaker 3: scratch in week five. You would assume there's going to
• 36:31
  Speaker 3: be a two, three week period, maybe four of struggle
• 36:34
  Speaker 3: bus play until he starts to find his footing. Well,
• 36:37
  Speaker 3: by that time, the season's over. So that's just the
• 36:43
  Speaker 3: way I look at this. It's like, if you draft
• 36:44
  Speaker 3: a guy in the top 10 at that position, it's
• 36:47
  Speaker 3: because your team stinks and you want to play. And
• 36:52
  Speaker 3: I knew this was going to come. Somebody says not
• 36:54
  Speaker 3: a number one pick, but the home set is his
• 36:56
  Speaker 3: rookie year. The chiefs were good and they had a
• 36:59
  Speaker 3: good quarterback already. They, they got him in the same
• 37:04
  Speaker 3: way that the Packers got Aaron Rogers because they were
• 37:07
  Speaker 3: a good team with a good quarterback. They weren't three
• 37:13
  Speaker 3: and 14. Like the chiefs were making post seasons. They
• 37:18
  Speaker 3: did that as a long-term investment. Look, man, that's the
• 37:22
  Speaker 3: difference between, like, I need to buy a house to
• 37:24
  Speaker 3: live in now or I want to make a real
• 37:27
  Speaker 3: estate investment for a couple years down the road and
• 37:30
  Speaker 3: I have expendable income. I'll buy the house in Arizona
• 37:33
  Speaker 3: and Airbnb it. That's what Mahomes and Aaron Rodgers were.
• 37:37
  Speaker 3: They were luxuries. Like, I don't need this now. We
• 37:40
  Speaker 3: can sit on this one. You know where the Raiders
• 37:43
  Speaker 3: are at?
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  Speaker 2: I'm homeless.
• 37:46
  Speaker 3: I need somewhere to live. And that's why you drafted
• 37:50
  Speaker 3: a quarterback number one overall. So again, that's just my
• 37:58
  Speaker 3: philosophy towards this. And there's people way smarter than me,
• 38:00
  Speaker 3: like Jeff Legwald, that don't agree with that approach. But
• 38:03
  Speaker 3: I just, I look at all these number one quarterbacks
• 38:06
  Speaker 3: and it's like, well, do you think playing them too
• 38:09
  Speaker 3: early ruined them? I was like, no, I just think
• 38:11
  Speaker 3: they weren't that good. Plenty of quarterbacks out of the
• 38:15
  Speaker 3: gates struggled as number ones, and they played in week one,
• 38:19
  Speaker 3: and they were fine afterwards. In fact, let's just see
• 38:22
  Speaker 3: a list here. Number one overall picks at quarterback. So
• 38:30
  Speaker 3: I want to go like modern era with this stuff.
• 38:36
  Speaker 3: So Caleb Williams has won. Well, his team's in the
• 38:38
  Speaker 3: postseason already.
• 38:41
  Speaker 2: Bryce Young. I don't even know if Bryce Young is
• 38:43
  Speaker 2: very good. Don't know if he's good. Trevor Lawrence.
• 38:50
  Speaker 3: I mean, you want to talk about a porpoise up
• 38:51
  Speaker 3: and down, up and down. Joe Burrow's another. He made
• 38:54
  Speaker 3: a Super Bowl. Baker Mayfield, not, I mean, was good
• 38:59
  Speaker 3: and then not good and then good again.
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  Speaker 2: That's a weird one.
• 39:02
  Speaker 3: And Kyler Murray's just like not very good.
• 39:04
  Speaker 2: So, I just think you got it or you don't. Um, 303-504-0925. Guys,
• 39:17
  Speaker 2: we've done it. We're back. Nelly? Brady and his bats.
• 39:28
  Speaker 2: Everybody in your car, sing it with us. Bratty. Bratty
• 39:33
  Speaker 2: and his Bats. Get it, Nelly.
• 39:40
  Speaker 1: Get it, Nelly.
• 39:51
  Speaker 3: We do this every week heading into the football week
• 39:54
  Speaker 3: and it is week zero. College football is back. I'm
• 39:59
  Speaker 3: going to focus on one game. It's going to be
• 40:01
  Speaker 3: in Dublin. And I got two picks for you. I'm
• 40:05
  Speaker 3: going to actually buy into this. I might look stupid.
• 40:08
  Speaker 3: I'm going to buy into Bill Belichick. improving that team
• 40:13
  Speaker 3: over last year. They were terrible last year. They have
• 40:16
  Speaker 3: a little bit more to them.
• 40:17
  Speaker 2: Decent defense at UNC.
• 40:21
  Speaker 3: So I'm going to take not only UNC to cover,
• 40:23
  Speaker 3: it's an eight and a half, I'm sorry, seven and
• 40:26
  Speaker 3: a half point spread. I think they cover the touchdown.
• 40:30
  Speaker 3: Also the over under is 49 and a half. No
• 40:33
  Speaker 3: Dublin game over the last three years has gone over
• 40:35
  Speaker 3: 45 points. And I'm going to combine that with good
• 40:39
  Speaker 3: defense from UNC. And I'm going to take the under
• 40:41
  Speaker 3: along with them covering the seven and a half.
• 40:43
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