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Hour 4 - Slow Starts · The Ben Maller Show

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Speaker 1: Oh, what is going on? I hope you're enjoying your
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Speaker 1: Whether you're taking a nap like the neighborhood cat Oreo
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Speaker 1: on the couch just in front of me, you know,
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Speaker 1: whatever's going on in your life. However, everything's going well.
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Speaker 1: So I think this is a much needed change for
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Speaker 1: the Cincinnati Bengals. They are going to play their starters,
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Speaker 1: maybe several reps Thursday night, you know, so a little
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Speaker 1: bit later today we get some NFL action. You'll see
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Speaker 1: Joe Burrow out there. The head coach, Zach Taylor. He
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Speaker 1: talked about several series potentially for some of the starters.
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Speaker 1: So I don't know how much time they're gonna get,
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Speaker 1: but Joe Burrow is expected to play, some of the
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Speaker 1: ones are expected to play. And I think this makes
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Speaker 1: a lot of sense because what's the what's the bugaboo
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Speaker 1: with the Bengals, it's how slowly they start. They're notoriously
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Speaker 1: slow starters. They lost to the Patriots in Week one
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Speaker 1: last season. It was a big upset. It was Drod
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Speaker 1: Mayo's first game as a head coach, Like Bengals are
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Speaker 1: huge home favorites and they lose, and the Patriots won
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Speaker 1: three more games the entire season, you know, and Drod
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Speaker 1: Mayo got fired. That team that fired their first year
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Speaker 1: head coach beat the Bengals in Week one. And Joe
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Speaker 1: Burrow in his career in weeks one and two, his
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Speaker 1: record is one and nine. That's what he is weeks
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Speaker 1: one and two in his NFL career. That is stunning.
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Speaker 1: That is alarmingly low for a guy that's had as
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Speaker 1: much success as Joe Burrow has had in the NFL.
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Speaker 1: And the numbers, like you see some of these graphics
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Speaker 1: that they put up there, and it's just like, holy cow,
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Speaker 1: is passer ratings way lower. We're talking like twenty three
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Speaker 1: points lower in weeks one and two compared to weeks
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Speaker 1: that are not one and two, right like weeks three
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Speaker 1: through eighteen. His passer rating is one oh four point five.
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Speaker 1: His passer rating weeks one in two eighty one point nine.
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Speaker 1: And then touchdowns, interceptions, completion percentage, all that stuff. Yardsberg
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Speaker 1: game like, there's something too Joe Burrow and the Bengals
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Speaker 1: starters not playing in the preseason. So what's the definition
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Speaker 1: of insanity like doing the same thing over and over
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Speaker 1: and expecting a different result. If the Bengals are just like, yeah,
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Speaker 1: let's just keep not playing our starters in the preseason,
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Speaker 1: and well, I mean, hopefully we'll just magically get off
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Speaker 1: to a better start even though we suck year in
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Speaker 1: and year out in the first two weeks of the season.
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Speaker 1: It's like, you could either do that or I don't know,
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Speaker 1: maybe play your starters a little bit more in the preseason.
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Speaker 1: Maybe you're able to hit the ground running when the
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Speaker 1: regular season rolls around. I do think there's something to it.
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Speaker 1: I just don't I don't buy that there's zero value
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Speaker 1: whatsoever with playing your starters in the preseason. I think
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Speaker 1: it's swung too far in that direction. I mentioned this
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Speaker 1: last night. The Chiefs. They play their starters like Mahomes
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Speaker 1: he plays in the preseason. If there was no value whatsoever,
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Speaker 1: why on earth would Andy Reid have his starters on
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Speaker 1: the field. He has him on the field because there
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Speaker 1: is some value. I don't want to oversell it and
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Speaker 1: make it sound like, hey, if you don't play your
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Speaker 1: starters in the preseason, your season is doomed, your destined
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Speaker 1: to get off to a slow start. I'm not saying that,
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Speaker 1: but for a team like the Bengals, who have notoriously
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Speaker 1: started slowly for years now, it's like, why don't you
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Speaker 1: try it? Why don't you try a different approach? Play
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Speaker 1: the ones more often in the preseason, and maybe they
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Speaker 1: can have a positive effect with not starting as slowly
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Speaker 1: when the regular season rolls around. I think that makes
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Speaker 1: a ton of sense. So Joe Burrow and the other starters,
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Speaker 1: maybe several series on Thursday night, the preseason opener at
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Speaker 1: the Eagles. Get the Bengals and Eagles on Thursday nights,
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Speaker 1: so hey, man, sign me up. If the starters are playing.
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Speaker 1: I love getting a little taste of the starters a
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Speaker 1: series or two. Just see them again, you know, see
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Speaker 1: what they're looking like. Does anybody flash? They're not game planning,
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Speaker 1: so I'm not gonna read too deeply into it, but
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Speaker 1: every now and then a starter will flash and it's like, oh, okay,
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Speaker 1: all right, that's something to take away. The golden rule
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Speaker 1: of preseason, like who's on the field, Like how many
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Speaker 1: starters are there? Let's not overreact if it's the starting
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Speaker 1: offense against the backup defense. That's a it's an easy
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Speaker 1: overreaction right there, right, But I also think that some
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Speaker 1: things translate to the regular season, even if you are
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Speaker 1: facing backups every now and then. There's a certain scenario.
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Speaker 1: I'll give you one. So Amari and Hampton's a rookie
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Speaker 1: running back for the Chargers. He played in the Hall
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Speaker 1: of Fame game, just got a couple of rushes and
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Speaker 1: it was against mostly the Lions backup defense. So you
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Speaker 1: might think, oh, who cares he's facing backups. I don't
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Speaker 1: think everything is that clear cut. My brief spiel on
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Speaker 1: the preseason, Okay, it depends. It's case by case. If
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Speaker 1: there's a number one wide receiver and he blows by
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Speaker 1: like a number two, number three cornerback, and the quarterback's like,
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Speaker 1: all right, my guy's opened by five steps. Like that's
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Speaker 1: not going to translate to the regular season. That's not
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Speaker 1: the NFL. We all know that, and that does happen
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Speaker 1: in the preseason. And when people fall for that, I'm like,
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Speaker 1: oh my gosh, what are you doing. But Amari and Hampton,
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Speaker 1: he had one carry in particular against the Lions, and
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Speaker 1: you just tell the guy's got burst, he's got feel,
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Speaker 1: he's got some juice. It was just like this inside
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Speaker 1: running play. They just kind of bounced it outside and
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Speaker 1: he found the opening, found the daylight, and got everything
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Speaker 1: he could get. It was a good rush and some
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Speaker 1: of it's, you know, connected to his time at North
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Speaker 1: Carolina and he had juice. Man Omarion Hampton is legit.
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Speaker 1: I think he's a really good running back. But stuff
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Speaker 1: like that, even against mostly backups, there are times where
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Speaker 1: you're like, Okay, yeah, that's gonna translate, that's gonna work.
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Speaker 1: So yeah, I do enjoy watching the preseason, but man,
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Speaker 1: when it gets to like backups against backups, or the
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Speaker 1: backups of the backups versus the backups of the backups,
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Speaker 1: that it's like, okay, all right, it's a little rough.
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Speaker 1: But when you get the starters in there, yes me up.
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Speaker 1: Man might see a little bit of Bengal starters, including
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Speaker 1: Joe Burrow on Thursday night. I'll be checking that out.
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Speaker 2: Now.
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Speaker 1: Something else. I mentioned this a little bit ago. We'll
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Speaker 1: finally pay it off. But the way that you might
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Speaker 1: watch sports going forward, So there's a big change where
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Speaker 1: I'm sure you heard about the deal between ESPN and
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Speaker 1: NFL Network where ESPN they take over NFL Network basically,
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Speaker 1: and some of the properties, like they have distribution rights
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Speaker 1: to red Zone, to NFL Fantasy and NFL Network they
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Speaker 1: own ten percent. They have a ten percent ownership stake
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Speaker 1: in ESPN. Now, I'll cut right to the chase. I'll
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Speaker 1: be honest with you. I'm not smart enough to understand
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Speaker 1: all this stuff and what it's meaning and where it's
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Speaker 1: headed and what it means for you and me. I mean,
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Speaker 1: I know some, but I can't foresee exactly how this
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Speaker 1: is going to play out. But one thing that I
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Speaker 1: do know that I do find interesting is Roger Gondell.
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Speaker 1: He was on ESPN on Wednesday and he was talking
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Speaker 1: about red zone and what that might mean for other sports.
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Speaker 1: This I find to be pretty interesting.
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Speaker 3: Here's goodell, ESPN purchase the red zone name and they
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Speaker 3: will be able to utilize that for other sports college
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Speaker 3: football and other things. And I think that could be
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Speaker 3: an exciting thing for our fans also to see a
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Speaker 3: red zone maybe in college football or other sports.
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Speaker 1: That's something that they.
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Speaker 3: Now own and have the ability to do that. But
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Speaker 3: as far as red zone, NFL red Zone, there won't
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Speaker 3: be any changes for our fans.
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Speaker 1: Okay, all right, so how about that. No change for
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Speaker 1: NFL red zone, But what do you think about the
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Speaker 1: possibility of a college football like red zone? Maybe you
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Speaker 1: expand this. You do this in the NBA, you do
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Speaker 1: this at times in MLB. What if you had, especially
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Speaker 1: for opening day, how do you not have at least
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Speaker 1: a special red zone presentation. It's just one of the channels.
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Speaker 1: If that's your thing, check it out. If you just
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Speaker 1: want to see a standalone game, that's fine, they're gonna
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Speaker 1: be offered as well. But if you want to, you know,
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Speaker 1: check out some MLB opening day red zone, that should
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Speaker 1: be available. They should absolutely make that available. You get
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Speaker 1: a little whip around coverage. It's like, all right, we're
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Speaker 1: checking out the reds game right now. All right, let's
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Speaker 1: move it on to the Angels. They got a couple
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Speaker 1: of runners in scoring position. Let's see what they're doing.
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Speaker 1: I'd be all about that. Maybe it's not on a
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Speaker 1: daily basis. It's maybe it's once, you know, for opening Day,
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Speaker 1: and you get a couple other times during the season.
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Speaker 4: I don't know.
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Speaker 1: If it's popular enough, they'll have that thing on all
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Speaker 1: the freaking they'll have it on a nightly basis if
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Speaker 1: it's popular enough, but why not give it a shot?
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Speaker 1: They do something kind of similar in the NBA, or
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Speaker 1: it's at least on the NBA APP. I forget. I
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Speaker 1: think they call like game time something like that. But
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Speaker 1: Jared Greenberg, he hosts it, he works, I believe for TNT.
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Speaker 1: He does a lot of sideline interviews, does a really
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Speaker 1: good job with that. He's kind of like the Scott
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Speaker 1: Hansen for game Time, and he's at the central headquarters
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Speaker 1: and he's like, all right, we got a close game
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Speaker 1: out here in Milwaukee. Let's go over to the Bucks game.
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Speaker 1: And they just whip around. It's fine, it's good. I
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Speaker 1: don't know why that isn't offered more. If red zone
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Speaker 1: is so incredibly popular, like dip it, college football would
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Speaker 1: be great, Like if they had, you could have red
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Speaker 1: zone for so many different games. You could have whatever,
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Speaker 1: like a package of games. Think that there are what
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Speaker 1: we'll say, eight ish early kick games in the NFL.
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Speaker 1: You could have different you know, so many games in
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Speaker 1: college you're going on at the same time. You could
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Speaker 1: have Okay, this is our group of eight, this is
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Speaker 1: you know, these eight teams. Are these eight games or
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Speaker 1: in you know Group A, these other eight games are
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Speaker 1: in Group B. These other eight games, they're in Group
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Speaker 1: C for red zone, Like and it's like, okay, let's
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Speaker 1: check that out. Let me let me get a little
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Speaker 1: taste of whatever. We're checking out Boston College and then
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Speaker 1: UCF or if you get a little bit of whip
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Speaker 1: around coverage like that red zone coverage, I would absolutely
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Speaker 1: have that on one of my screens. So yeah, I
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Speaker 1: think that's pretty cool. I think that if you dip
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Speaker 1: into it beyond the NFL, I would be interested in
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Speaker 1: checking that out. So I think they could be successful
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Speaker 1: with that. There's certainly a market for it. It's like,
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Speaker 1: if NFL red zone is that popular, how could college
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Speaker 1: football red zone just be a complete swing in a
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Speaker 1: miss total dud. I just doubt it would be. There
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Speaker 1: are enough football siccos out there where they'd at least
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Speaker 1: put it on one of their screens. I'll be honest
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Speaker 1: with you, Like I like having all the games available,
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Speaker 1: Like I tried to, I got my computer going, I
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Speaker 1: got other screens going on at the same time. I
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Speaker 1: want to see the full game. But I'm not as
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Speaker 1: big of a red zone guy because I want to
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Speaker 1: be able to Okay, I want to be able to choose. Okay,
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Speaker 1: the Steelers game is getting good. I want to screen
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Speaker 1: on the Steelers game. You know, my Dolphins are actually
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Speaker 1: making a little bit of noise. Wow, who would have thunk, right,
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Speaker 1: I want the Dolphins game right there. I want access
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Speaker 1: to all that stuff. So I'm not a huge red
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Speaker 1: zone guy, which sounds like a total contradiction, but I
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Speaker 1: know there's a big market out there for it. Some
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Speaker 1: people swear by it, they love it, And you know,
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Speaker 1: I'm a bigger NFL guy than college football. Although I
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Speaker 1: love my college football, I don't feel the need to
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Speaker 1: have every college football game on. I don't need that.
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Speaker 1: I would like, you know, a handful that I'm interested
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Speaker 1: in available, and then I might put red zone on
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Speaker 1: the screen and they do the whip around coverage for me.
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Speaker 1: I would certainly be up for that. So we'll see
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Speaker 1: where it goes. Man, But now that ESPN has that,
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Speaker 1: they should look to tap into it and expand it,
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Speaker 1: and most most likely they will. But that's one of
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Speaker 1: the areas that it could be heading next. You're gonna
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Speaker 1: see red zone coverage for more sports, Baseball, basketball, maybe
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Speaker 1: college football. And I don't think you're gonna go, you
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Speaker 1: know over. I don't think it's just like, yeah, they
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Speaker 1: don't like MLB red zone. Now they they hate NBA
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Speaker 1: red zone. Hey, they really hate college football red zone.
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Speaker 1: I just don't think it's gonna be a swing and
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Speaker 1: a miss all across the board. I don't see that happening,
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Speaker 1: out for you. Coming up next. I will make this painless,
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Speaker 1: that is just absolutely focused on the wrong thing. There's
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Speaker 1: a SoundBite I heard on Wednesday. I want to share
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Speaker 1: mallor I'm gonna go to the militia first because one
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Speaker 1: of these stories. I think it's interesting, but it's also
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Speaker 1: wearing me out at the same time. I don't want
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Speaker 1: to make a quick point based on something I heard today.
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Speaker 1: But let me go to Jerome first. Jerome is in Charleston,
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Speaker 1: lovely area. I want to hear from Jerome first. What's
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Speaker 1: going on, Bud? You're on Fox Sports Radio.
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Speaker 6: Hey, I just want to know something. I can't wait
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Speaker 6: through the red zone. Do that. Whip around to Northwestern
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Speaker 6: football and their brand new eight hundred million dollars stadium
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Speaker 6: that opens next year. Where was the last time Northwestern
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Speaker 6: was Delvin football? Okay, so one can you tell me
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Speaker 6: that they can build an eight hundred million dollars stadium
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Speaker 6: when they got like about five hundred million for one
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Speaker 6: guy because he's like several billions into the billions something Northwestern.
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Speaker 6: You got all these Northwestern people. All fucks, what the
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Speaker 6: AFEs Northwestern know about football?
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Speaker 1: Okay, maybe they're hell, maybe they're on the big Thanks Jerome.
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Speaker 1: After the stadium gets killed, you know, look out for
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Speaker 1: Northwestern wildcat football.
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Speaker 6: Man, you must be acid, be there for north Western football.
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Speaker 6: Are they doing the damn conference? I mean, nobody talked
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Speaker 6: about them. You got more blond than you got the
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Speaker 6: other guy from old Fox. They talk about everything except
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Speaker 6: to one damn school and then been all for forever.
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Speaker 6: You know. So now I guess the guys get some
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Speaker 6: headlines with a eight hundred million dollars stadium and it
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Speaker 6: costs like sixty grand a year to go to school. Man,
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Speaker 6: it must be nice. It must be nice.
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Speaker 1: Okay, Yeah, well, hey man, we'll see, we'll see if
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Speaker 1: it does anything for him. And I like your idea
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Speaker 1: of red zone coverage of college football. You know we'll
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Speaker 1: have that, I think in the not too distant future.
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Speaker 1: So hey man, we'll see how that works out. Uh.
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Speaker 1: I didn't think we'd be talking northwayn football, But I
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Speaker 1: mean I appreciate you your contribution over here, Jerome. Always
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Speaker 1: buying should be. Okay, I will make this quick and painless,
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Speaker 1: but I heard some sound and I just wanted to
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Speaker 1: throw it your way and just give you a quick
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Speaker 1: two cents on it. So I get the feeling that
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Speaker 1: this Micah Parson's contract hold out and the whole storyline
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Speaker 1: with Jerry Jones, it's starting to wear you thin. It's
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Speaker 1: wearing me thin where I just don't understand the approach whatsoever.
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Speaker 1: But this was the comment that Jerry Jones made on Wednesday,
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Speaker 1: comparing the contract negotiation to a handshake deal he made
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Speaker 1: way back when to purchase the Dallas Cowboys franchise. Here
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Speaker 1: you go, here's Jerry.
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Speaker 7: I bought the Dallas Cowboys with a handshake. Took about
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Speaker 7: thirty seconds, and I gave the number, shook hands. The
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Speaker 7: details we worked out later. As a matter of fact,
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Speaker 7: one of the details involved a lot of money and
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Speaker 7: we had to flip a coin over that. But the
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Speaker 7: fundamental I'm buying and you're going to sell it to
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Speaker 7: me for that range, that's done, and those are done
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Speaker 7: with eye contact or handshake. There is no question that
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Speaker 7: in the case of a player or contract, you have
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Speaker 7: to have it in writing. All parties do we have
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Speaker 7: a contract in writing, Yet we're still talking about renegotiating it.
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Speaker 7: So so much for that.
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Speaker 1: Okay, So a couple of quick and painless takeaways from this.
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Speaker 1: What I take away is I've heard a lot of
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Speaker 1: people say over the years that men, if you have
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Speaker 1: bad management, if you have bad ownership, you're kind of screwed.
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Speaker 1: And I'd hear that and I'd be like, yeah, it
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Speaker 1: makes some sense, and until you really experience that. If
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Speaker 1: you've had a job and you've had just bad management,
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Speaker 1: and those are the people in charge and there isn't
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Speaker 1: anybody else to tell them, no, that's a freaking awful idea. Man,
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Speaker 1: It's true, you are screwed. And that's where I see
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Speaker 1: the Dallas Cowboys like Jerry Jones, it's obvious he's focused
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Speaker 1: on the wrong thing. He's focused on winning the pr battle.
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Speaker 1: That's what he's focused on. I mean, think about some
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Speaker 1: of his recent comments. Think about what you just heard
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Speaker 1: right there. If you break it down, a lot of
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Speaker 1: it is I'm not the bad guy. That's really what
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Speaker 1: it is. He's trying to win some br battle where
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Speaker 1: it's like, yeah, when I bought the Cowboys, it was
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Speaker 1: a handshake deal. That's how we did it, and he's
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Speaker 1: insinuating that they basically had a handshake deal. At least
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Speaker 1: he thinks that with Michaeh Parsons, and so he's like,
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Speaker 1: I'm not the bad guy, Mike, I thought we had
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Speaker 1: a deal over here. He's thrown it out there, but
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Speaker 1: get hinted that maybe he's made an offer around two
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Speaker 1: hundred million dollars, which I don't believe. But again it's like,
20:08
Speaker 1: I'm not the bad guy. I've made a significant offer.
20:11
Speaker 1: I thought we had a deal done, and yet here
20:14
Speaker 1: we are still renegotiating, Like I'm not the bad guy.
20:18
Speaker 1: Micah is the one holding this whole thing up. I
20:21
Speaker 1: think it's a terrible approach. I think he's focused on
20:23
Speaker 1: the wrong thing. Meanwhile, Jerry Jones won't meet with Michah
20:29
Speaker 1: Parsons agent that would kind of help things get done, right,
20:33
Speaker 1: So Jerry is totally at fault, and instead of accepting
20:37
Speaker 1: that responsibility, he's playing this game of don't look at me,
20:41
Speaker 1: I'm not the bad guy. I'm not the one holding
20:43
Speaker 1: this thing up. It's like, dude, that's not gonna work.
20:47
Speaker 1: It's not gonna help get this done. All it's gonna
20:49
Speaker 1: do is royally tick off Michah Parsons, which is why
20:53
Speaker 1: he asked for a trade, and partly a negotiating tactic. Right,
20:58
Speaker 1: But a lot of what this traces back to, you're
21:01
Speaker 1: trying to win some pr battle instead of being a
21:04
Speaker 1: responsible adult and saying, okay, regardless of how I purchased
21:10
Speaker 1: the Dallas Cowboys way back when, not every deal is
21:13
Speaker 1: gonna work the same way. And just because you think
21:16
Speaker 1: you have a deal hammered out with Micah Parsons without
21:18
Speaker 1: involving his agent, guess what, probably not gonna be hammered out.
21:24
Speaker 1: So it's just annoying. It's just such a waste of
21:26
Speaker 1: time to play this unnecessary game of I'm not the
21:31
Speaker 1: bad guy. How is that gonna help the negotiation process.
21:36
Speaker 1: I'm not the bad guy, Micah Parsons is. That's really
21:40
Speaker 1: when you read between the lines what Jerry Jones is
21:43
Speaker 1: angling for, it doesn't make any sense whatsoever. And meanwhile
21:47
Speaker 1: the price tag just goes higher and higher and higher.
21:50
Speaker 1: They might have been able to I found this interesting.
21:52
Speaker 1: The average salaries per year. So after the twenty three season,
21:59
Speaker 1: Nick Bosa had a thirty four million dollar average, okay,
22:04
Speaker 1: and around that time that's when the Cowboys could have
22:07
Speaker 1: hammered out a deal with Michael Parsons. They didn't, which
22:10
Speaker 1: is why they are where they are. Since then, we've
22:13
Speaker 1: seen Jamar Chase get forty million dollars per year, Miles
22:17
Speaker 1: Garrett get forty million dollars per year, and there have
22:20
Speaker 1: been a couple more contracts that are higher than Nick Bosas,
22:23
Speaker 1: justin Jefferson, Max Crosby. Those guys make thirty five million
22:27
Speaker 1: dollars per year, so signing Parsons that could be in
22:30
Speaker 1: the forty one million dollars per year range when they
22:34
Speaker 1: could have been around thirty five ish. So this could
22:38
Speaker 1: cost him about six million dollars per season. Because they've
22:41
Speaker 1: dragged this thing out and instead of finally hammering it out.
22:45
Speaker 1: Jerry Jones is playing this game of I'm not the
22:48
Speaker 1: bad guy. It's kind of like that guy over there,
22:51
Speaker 1: the guy that wears number eleven. I've made the two
22:55
Speaker 1: hundred million dollar ish offer. I thought we had a
22:59
Speaker 1: deal out. We still don't. We're still renegotiating. Why is
23:04
Speaker 1: that huh the number eleven right over there him, Bro,
23:10
Speaker 1: stop pointing the finger at your star player and just
23:12
Speaker 1: work with the star players agent and hammer this out
23:16
Speaker 1: so it's finally freaking done. My gosh, it's not that difficult.
23:20
Speaker 1: He's making something that is not difficult the most difficult
23:24
Speaker 1: thing ever, and it's annoying. That's where why we are
23:27
Speaker 1: where we are. I'm Brian no In for Big Ben
23:30
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23:48
Speaker 1: you too. I'm gonna throw a lot of stuff before
23:50
Speaker 1: we get out of here. I'm gonna try to shoehorn
23:52
Speaker 1: as much stuff as possible. Thank you, Loray I appreciate that.
23:57
Speaker 1: You know, sometimes bite size is the better way to go.
24:00
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, instead of like a long drawn out thought,
24:02
Speaker 1: just get to it and move it on. Yeah. Okay,
24:06
Speaker 1: So a couple of coaches got me thinking their approach
24:11
Speaker 1: and do you think this is the right approach or
24:14
Speaker 1: the wrong approach? So, Coop, you're a Denver Broncos are
24:18
Speaker 1: involved in this one is Sean Payton. Now, Sean Payton
24:22
Speaker 1: has mentioned the Super Bowl. Right, He's thrown it out
24:27
Speaker 1: there like, hey, you know, Broncos super Bowl kind of
24:32
Speaker 1: thinking it's a possibility over here. He's thrown it out there,
24:37
Speaker 1: and I don't hate the approach. I don't hate it,
24:41
Speaker 1: but it's an interesting like tactic to use. He says,
24:45
Speaker 1: the Broncos can win the Super Bowl. And it's like, wow,
24:48
Speaker 1: you've had the Chiefs that have won the division nine
24:52
Speaker 1: years in a row. Mahomes has won it seven years
24:54
Speaker 1: in a row, but Andy Reid has been there and
24:56
Speaker 1: they've won it nine years in a row. They've won
24:58
Speaker 1: it two years in a row before Mahomes even got there.
25:02
Speaker 1: So it's been a long reign for the Chiefs. So
25:06
Speaker 1: there's there are two schools of thought here. You could say, man,
25:08
Speaker 1: you should be focused on the Chiefs first before you're
25:12
Speaker 1: talking about a super Bowl. Or you could say, hey, man,
25:15
Speaker 1: why not think bigger? What's the harm in thinking big
25:18
Speaker 1: having a huge goal, the biggest goal you could have
25:21
Speaker 1: in the NFL. I don't think it's necessarily wrong. And
25:25
Speaker 1: by the same token, you've got another coach, Dabo Sweeney
25:29
Speaker 1: at Clemson. He threw it out there where he's like,
25:32
Speaker 1: I think we could be the first sixteen and oh
25:35
Speaker 1: team in college football history, and it's like, WHOA, Okay, Dabo, Like, Wow,
25:41
Speaker 1: we haven't seen Clemson get far in the playoff for
25:44
Speaker 1: a while now, and now we're talking sixteen and oh.
25:48
Speaker 1: I know they've got talent, they've got a favorable schedule
25:51
Speaker 1: at YadA YadA, But man, sixteen and oh and being
25:54
Speaker 1: the only team that's ever done that, that's a pretty
25:57
Speaker 1: bold claim. So I just I find that to be interesting. Now,
26:01
Speaker 1: on one side, I always think of this Brian Billicks
26:04
Speaker 1: sound bite. So, Brian Billick used to be the head
26:06
Speaker 1: coach the Baltimore Ravens. He was the head coach when
26:09
Speaker 1: the two thousand Ravens won the Super Bowl. One of
26:12
Speaker 1: the most dominant defenses of all time. They smacked around
26:15
Speaker 1: the Giants thirty four to six to win it. You
26:18
Speaker 1: know that whole thing. But there's I think epic sound
26:22
Speaker 1: of Brian Billick talking about having big goals, like he
26:28
Speaker 1: put it out there, Hey guys, it's time to win
26:29
Speaker 1: a super Bowl before they even played a playoff game
26:32
Speaker 1: in that two thousand season. But this was part of
26:35
Speaker 1: what Brian Billick said way back then. Check it out, folks.
26:38
Speaker 7: When you go into the Lions, Dan, you don't tippy
26:40
Speaker 7: toe in, you carry a spear.
26:42
Speaker 6: You go in screaming like a banshee, and you kick it.
26:45
Speaker 7: You kick whatever door's in and say, where's the sun
26:47
Speaker 7: of a If you go in any other way, you're
26:49
Speaker 7: gonna lose.
26:50
Speaker 1: Okay, all right, So the brash approach like let's go
26:54
Speaker 1: it's time to win a super Bowl, it's time to
26:56
Speaker 1: go sixteen, and oh let's do it over here, all right.
27:00
Speaker 1: I don't have a problem with that. Now. There is
27:03
Speaker 1: another side to it, though, And every now and then
27:07
Speaker 1: you get the Rex Ryan guarantees when he was with
27:10
Speaker 1: the Jets, and it just turns into a circus. It
27:13
Speaker 1: turns into a side show and you're like, yeah, you guys,
27:17
Speaker 1: aren't quite good enough for that, and I don't know
27:20
Speaker 1: if that approach really gonna work. So it's a tough one, right,
27:26
Speaker 1: it's a tough one because fundamentally, I don't have a
27:28
Speaker 1: problem with big goals. There was a famous saying with
27:33
Speaker 1: Lou Holtz from a long time ago, and I can't
27:35
Speaker 1: remember it exactly, but he's basically saying, whatever your goal is,
27:41
Speaker 1: you're probably gonna reach a little bit less than that goal,
27:45
Speaker 1: so why not have the biggest goal possible? And he
27:47
Speaker 1: broke it there. It was like, if you reach for,
27:51
Speaker 1: you know, to be above average, you're probably gonna be average.
27:54
Speaker 1: If you reach for greatness, you're probably gonna be above average.
27:57
Speaker 1: If you reach for excellence, maybe you'll achieve greatness. Right,
28:00
Speaker 1: you get the point. So you want to have you
28:02
Speaker 1: strive for these huge goals because you might achieve something
28:06
Speaker 1: a little bit lower than that huge goal. So that
28:09
Speaker 1: would apply to the Broncos Clemson football. Okay, no problem,
28:13
Speaker 1: But I also think that you at least have to
28:16
Speaker 1: have a fighting chance to achieve something great. And does
28:22
Speaker 1: Clemson have a fighting chance for sixteen to zero? I mean,
28:25
Speaker 1: it's an outside chance, but it's at least a fighting chance.
28:28
Speaker 1: So I don't think that's ridiculous. Do the Broncos have
28:31
Speaker 1: a fighting chance to win the Super Bowl?
28:34
Speaker 7: Coop?
28:34
Speaker 1: What are their Super Bowl odds?
28:35
Speaker 2: Again?
28:36
Speaker 1: You just told me what are they to win it?
28:38
Speaker 6: All?
28:38
Speaker 4: Plus three thousand?
28:40
Speaker 1: Okay, so thirty to one for the Broncos to win
28:43
Speaker 1: a Super Bowl? Long odds, but fighting chance. They got
28:48
Speaker 1: a real defense with that, you know, local star Zach
28:53
Speaker 1: Allen they have. They have a really good defense. I
28:57
Speaker 1: didn't think they were going to be as good as
28:59
Speaker 1: they were, top five scoring defense. I'm like, wow, okay,
29:02
Speaker 1: all right, we're cooking with grease over here. Denver bow
29:04
Speaker 1: Knicks takes a step forward. You know, they had enough
29:08
Speaker 1: offense to win double digit games at bow Knicks. And
29:13
Speaker 1: was that bo cooking it up? Cooking up some huge
29:16
Speaker 1: stats over there? That's right, they have a running game.
29:21
Speaker 1: You gotta get R. J. Harvey, the rookie, getting getting
29:24
Speaker 1: him going over there, like, I mean, crazier things have happened.
29:30
Speaker 1: I'm not betting on the Broncos to win a Super Bowl,
29:33
Speaker 1: and I don't think this is something that's going to linger.
29:36
Speaker 1: Let's just say the Broncos get off to a rough
29:39
Speaker 1: start or you know, they've got an okay record, They're
29:43
Speaker 1: not special. I don't think this is going to be
29:46
Speaker 1: something that's thrown in the face of Sean Payton over
29:49
Speaker 1: and over again, Like, dude, you're you're six and five,
29:52
Speaker 1: you were talking super Bowl at the beginning of the year.
29:55
Speaker 1: What's up with this?
29:56
Speaker 3: You know.
29:57
Speaker 1: I just don't think it's one of those things. This
29:59
Speaker 1: is going to be thrown at him time and time
30:01
Speaker 1: and time again. So what I do.
30:04
Speaker 8: I do think that I think that quote was taken
30:06
Speaker 8: a little bit out of context. I mean, he did
30:09
Speaker 8: say that they're capable of winning the super Bowl, mm hmm,
30:12
Speaker 8: But I think before that he did say that the
30:14
Speaker 8: short term goal was winning the division.
30:17
Speaker 1: Fair enough, Okay, so he says they're capable of winning
30:20
Speaker 1: the super Bowl. But you know as well as I do, Coop,
30:23
Speaker 1: if you throw it out there, that's what people are
30:26
Speaker 1: going to be fixated on. And he's been long enough
30:29
Speaker 1: to know that.
30:29
Speaker 4: Yeah right, Yeah, those are the headlines.
30:31
Speaker 8: But I do think it also kind of like it,
30:35
Speaker 8: you know, gets the like the I think it's good
30:37
Speaker 8: for the team to hear that, you know, coach coach
30:40
Speaker 8: believes in us.
30:41
Speaker 1: You know, Yeah, I think there's I think there's some
30:44
Speaker 1: positive stuff that goes along with it. It's like Sean
30:47
Speaker 1: Payton says the Broncos are capable of winning the Super Bowl,
30:50
Speaker 1: and his quote is, this is my seventh team that
30:53
Speaker 1: I think has that like that potential to win it all.
30:57
Speaker 1: That's an interesting statement.
30:58
Speaker 4: All I love that.
31:00
Speaker 1: Think about all the years that he's been a head
31:02
Speaker 1: coach and he's like, yeah, it's the seventh time I've
31:05
Speaker 1: believed we could win it all. How many of those
31:07
Speaker 1: Saints teams are like, what's up of that? What he
31:10
Speaker 1: didn't believe in us in that one season.
31:11
Speaker 2: To win it all?
31:13
Speaker 4: I bet it's probably not.
31:15
Speaker 8: I mean, like, you know, it'd be very time consuming,
31:17
Speaker 8: but it's probably not too difficult to go back and
31:20
Speaker 8: look at each of those and pick out the seven
31:24
Speaker 8: you know what I mean, Well, some.
31:25
Speaker 1: Of them would be very obvious, you know, like, yeah,
31:28
Speaker 1: the time they got ripped off against the Rams, not
31:31
Speaker 1: the Rams fault, but obvious pass interference penalty that wasn't called. Yes,
31:36
Speaker 1: they could have ran out the clock, chip shot field goal.
31:38
Speaker 1: They're going to the Super Bowl as the worst non
31:41
Speaker 1: call in NFL history easily. It was blatant pass interference,
31:45
Speaker 1: so I know he believed they could have won it all.
31:48
Speaker 1: And yeah, some of those Saints teams were really special,
31:52
Speaker 1: but yeah, yeah, the non obvious ones.
31:54
Speaker 4: I don't know.
31:55
Speaker 1: There might be a season and there, like coach, really
31:58
Speaker 1: you thought you were You guys were like seven to
32:03
Speaker 1: ten that year. Whoa, yeah, that sort of thing. But okay,
32:07
Speaker 1: we'll see how it goes. But yeah, big goals not
32:12
Speaker 1: automatically bad. I just think you gotta have a fighting
32:14
Speaker 1: chance to achieve that goal because otherwise, like with Rex
32:19
Speaker 1: Ryan and throwing out the guaranteed Super Bowl win, they
32:23
Speaker 1: made it to the AFC Championship Game twice. That's pretty
32:27
Speaker 1: good for those Jets teams at the time. Mark Sanchez
32:30
Speaker 1: is their quarterback. They have great talent up and down
32:33
Speaker 1: the roster. Good, not great. And if Rex isn't talking
32:37
Speaker 1: about guaranteeing Super Bowls, I think you'd look at those
32:41
Speaker 1: championship game appearances a lot more favorably, like that was
32:45
Speaker 1: pretty good. So I think it's a downside. That's only
32:48
Speaker 1: one of the only downsides is when you really really
32:52
Speaker 1: dream big and talk tough, like Dad was talking sixteen
32:55
Speaker 1: to zero. If they lose three games, three, four games,
32:59
Speaker 1: this year, he's gonna be a tot punchline. That's the
33:01
Speaker 1: chance you take, man, it's big chance. We'll see how
33:06
Speaker 1: it unfolds. I'm not automatically against it. I just think
33:09
Speaker 1: you got to have a fighting chance and you got
33:11
Speaker 1: to be comfortable with the consequences if you're nowhere near
33:15
Speaker 1: sixteen to zero or the Super Bowl, right, got to
33:18
Speaker 1: be willing to live with that.
33:20
Speaker 4: All right?
33:20
Speaker 1: Coming up next, we get to history that's going to
33:25
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33:28
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33:31
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Speaker 9: Oh? Nothing much? Brian Well Sydney Crossby thirty eight today
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Speaker 9: and seven years ago today, one of my favorite all
34:25
Speaker 9: time hockey players, Stan Mkita died. That was four days
34:31
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34:55
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35:48
Speaker 9: one or two. And I know Billy Pearce was a
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Speaker 9: detroiter like my mother was eighty eight. Well, anyway, sixty
35:56
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36:01
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36:08
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Speaker 1: Good stuff from cowboy. How about that? Shout out to
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Speaker 1: the former barber and shout out to the new sun
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Speaker 1: barber take over the business. Yeah, Vinnie, the new guy,
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Speaker 6: Love that.
36:25
Speaker 1: I love Stan Makita. You might have thought about this too, Coop,
36:29
Speaker 1: but I can't help but think of Wayne's world right
36:32
Speaker 1: where they go into Stan Mikita's diner. That's where all
36:35
Speaker 1: the diner scenes take place. And Ed O'Neill, you know,
36:39
Speaker 1: the old guy married with children, the actor there now
36:42
Speaker 1: with what's the newer show Modern Family, Modern Fan?
36:46
Speaker 4: There you go.
36:47
Speaker 1: Yeah, he plays Stan Makita, Right, doesn't he play Stan
36:50
Speaker 1: Mikita in that one? Or he's just hanging out at
36:52
Speaker 1: Stan Makita's I'm not sure.
36:53
Speaker 4: I have a confession to make.
36:55
Speaker 1: What do you have?
36:56
Speaker 8: I only watched Wayne's World for the first time like
36:59
Speaker 8: a month ago.
37:01
Speaker 1: Wow, dude, really hadn't seen it before then? Yeah, what'd
37:05
Speaker 1: you think?
37:06
Speaker 4: I liked it?
37:07
Speaker 8: I was also like, I was watching it in the
37:09
Speaker 8: room in Las Vegas, and I was I was kind
37:12
Speaker 8: of like, you know, a little bit drunk, like getting
37:16
Speaker 8: kind of sleepy but still awake. So I just like
37:18
Speaker 8: it was one of the movies that was available, you know,
37:21
Speaker 8: for free on there. So I watched it while the
37:24
Speaker 8: wife was already sleep and I.
37:26
Speaker 1: Was just checking okay, just checking it out.
37:27
Speaker 4: All right, very nice.
37:28
Speaker 1: Well, at least you got it done. I don't care
37:30
Speaker 1: that it took you that long, as long as you
37:32
Speaker 1: have to watch the Laddin, you know, get out of
37:35
Speaker 1: the poor graces of you guys. But at least he
37:38
Speaker 1: got there, you know, he finally got there with Wayne's World. Hey,
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Speaker 1: There's gonna be history made this weekend. So Jen Powell,
37:59
Speaker 1: she's said to become the first woman to umpire in
38:03
Speaker 1: Major League Baseball. She's gonna work games this weekend Miami
38:07
Speaker 1: Marlins at the Atlanta Braves. Yeah, so she's gonna it's
38:11
Speaker 1: gonna be a Saturday double header at Atlanta at Truest Park,
38:17
Speaker 1: and she'll be on the basis. She'll work the basis
38:19
Speaker 1: for that double header, and then she'll be high. She'll
38:21
Speaker 1: be behind the plate on Sunday, calling balls and strikes.
38:26
Speaker 1: Jen Powell. And it's pretty wild where if you think
38:30
Speaker 1: about the gender barrier. So the gender barrier for game officials, right,
38:37
Speaker 1: that was broken in the NBA twenty eight years ago,
38:43
Speaker 1: and in the NFL it was broken ten years ago
38:46
Speaker 1: when they hired their first full time female official. And
38:50
Speaker 1: MLB has finally joined the party. We'll get a female
38:53
Speaker 1: that's working behind the plate on Sunday. She'll be a
38:57
Speaker 1: you know, working the bases the Saturday double header. So
39:01
Speaker 1: finally we're gonna have the first woman umpire in Major
39:04
Speaker 1: League Baseball. NHL still has not had any woman as
39:08
Speaker 1: an on ice official that that box has not been
39:11
Speaker 1: checked yet. But MLB they're checking the box. We got
39:15
Speaker 1: a female back there, and they're.
39:16
Speaker 4: A female ice hockey coach, though.
39:21
Speaker 1: I don't know, maybe a coach, I believe.
39:23
Speaker 4: I'm not sure they have their first female coach right now.
39:26
Speaker 1: Yeah, it might have an assistant coach there. But if
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Speaker 1: we don't have any on ice officials there, Lorena, we
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Speaker 1: gotta get that.
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Speaker 4: You know. They got to break up fights a lot.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, occasionally you do, that's true.
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Speaker 4: Can break a fight.
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Speaker 1: You've broken up many fights over the years. You know,
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Speaker 1: why not do it on the ice?
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Speaker 6: You know?
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Speaker 1: So, hey, it can happen, absolutely can be there. But
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Speaker 1: check out Jen Powell. You know what's crazy is think
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Speaker 1: about the pressure on her on Sunday behind the plate
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Speaker 1: because you know, as well as I do, fair or not.
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Speaker 1: If she's got a couple of outside strikes that are
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Speaker 1: really should be called balls, right, that's that's bad. It
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Speaker 1: doesn't just represent her. It's a whole gender, you know
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Speaker 1: what I mean. Like, so that's a ton of pressure
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Speaker 1: when you're the first breaking a barrier like that, so
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Speaker 1: I hope she does great, and I hope, uh, you know,
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Speaker 1: she doesn't get a whole bunch of bs along the way,
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Speaker 1: because that's just unnecessary and unneeded. But very cool. She's
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Speaker 1: breaking a barrier right there. Very nice, Lorena. You could
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Speaker 1: be the first on ice official in the NHL.
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Speaker 4: That's an idea.
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Speaker 9: I like it now.
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Speaker 4: Not bad