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Strictly Bias with Will Retherford (Aug. 27, 2025, Podcast 2.10.2) · The Central Indiana Sports Report

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[SPEAKER_00]: You're listening to strictly bias with Will Reatherford.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And here's your host, Will Reatherford, and Co-host, Greg Mingelt.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Welcome.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Central Indiana Sports fans to strictly bias with Will Reatherford.
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[SPEAKER_02]: That would be me.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Your host for the show this evening on the.
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[SPEAKER_01]: That would be take twelve to.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, take twelve.
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[SPEAKER_02]: This good thing we're podcasting and it's not live been a mouthful to get out this evening, but we are happy to be week two of the show with you guys.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I have Greg Manga with me as my co-host this evening.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Greg, I have a lot to talk about this evening, but first what would you like to know?
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[SPEAKER_01]: I want to know, Will, if you've seen that the cults have made a trade this evening.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I have not seen that.
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[SPEAKER_02]: What is that all about?
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[SPEAKER_01]: The cults have traded eight.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It's the round draft pick for Minnesota bike.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Another Minnesota Viking defensive back.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Mackay Blackman added to the defensive backfield room and
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[SPEAKER_01]: already a pretty good looking defensive backfield room.
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[SPEAKER_02]: What's so funny is I have been on Twitter.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, he's six seconds ago, according to my footage.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Mackay Blackman, you know what, I think that's interesting.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I want to know if that has anything to do with
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[SPEAKER_02]: uh... wallie uh... missing the entire year with the acl to her uh... they're just not happy with what they've got so far that's that's quite interesting i i would say if there's anything that needed to trade for would not have been left with that i would say that that's probably their deepest and best positional group right now if we're really going to stop the bottom as far as what they've got but i mean if they find that this is a player that can have the most impact on their team i see no reason why
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[SPEAKER_02]: why you shouldn't go out and get him.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I mean, I'm going to go down the list.
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[SPEAKER_02]: We've got seven corners.
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[SPEAKER_02]: We have eleven DBs.
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[SPEAKER_01]: You've got what I know.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Well, the guy black mineral fast.
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[SPEAKER_01]: He did not play last season.
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[SPEAKER_01]: He was injured.
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[SPEAKER_01]: The year before the rookie in twenty twenty three.
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[SPEAKER_01]: He had thirty four solo tackles.
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[SPEAKER_01]: A fumble recovers.
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[SPEAKER_01]: A fumble recovery and interception.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So pretty productive as a rookie before being injured last year.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, I think that it's an opportunity to get a player that might be a potential starter down the line.
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[SPEAKER_02]: You get him for a six round pick.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Obviously, he was taken in the third round just two years ago and then he's a cheap alternative.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I mean, you've got Ward, Kenny Moore.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Jalen Jones, Xavier Howard, Judeo-Brens.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I mean, you're talking, that's five deep, but, I mean, I know with Lou and Arumo, there's a good chance they run a lot of dime, and they've got sixty B's on the linebackers.
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[SPEAKER_01]: You might play twenty-five, even the backers.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I think that's part of the reason that I really expect the cults are probably only going to carry four linebackers coming into camp out of camp.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I just think that they're going to play a ton of dime, and I think that honestly the way this roster is constructed is probably the best thing for them.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It might be, and that's only because it's the way the roster is constructed.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It might not be a really good way to go.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So Greg, I was curious.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I've seen Tyre's Hall of Burton.
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[SPEAKER_02]: He hosted a camp this past weekend.
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[SPEAKER_02]: He was walking around in a boot and mentioned in a conversation with reporters that there's no timetable for his return at all.
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[SPEAKER_02]: How do you feel?
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[SPEAKER_02]: What's your reaction to that?
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[SPEAKER_02]: Because I get the sense that
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[SPEAKER_02]: Mayor, we talking about this is an eighteenth month recovery and I mean, he's going to come back not the beginning of next season.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Maybe you'd halfway through.
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[SPEAKER_01]: No way.
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[SPEAKER_01]: In fact, there's talked that Jason Tate might even return this year.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So yeah, he will be one hundred percent healthy at the start of next year.
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[SPEAKER_01]: If he's not, then you're talking about just a long term situation that you don't even want.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, I agree with that.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I just, I mean, I would have wanted to talk about it, man.
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[SPEAKER_01]: In all the depot thing, the Paul George broken leg.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, this cannot happen, man.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I just think the language.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I think you feel like the language is a little strange though, because it's basically already came out and essentially said that he's not playing it all next year under no circumstances.
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[SPEAKER_01]: No sort of.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, and I like it.
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[SPEAKER_02]: There's no time table for his return beginning next year at all.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I just think it's a weird way to answer a question.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And it seems as if his recovery is gone well.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I mean, he seems to be right on track.
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[SPEAKER_02]: He's talking about walking in a shoe and being boot gone after I believe next week.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I don't know.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I just peaked my interest a little bit just hearing that.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Well, I'm guessing if they wanted to, they could probably push to have him back by March.
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[SPEAKER_01]: With that injury, I'm guessing, but it just doesn't make any sense with your franchise player to even push it to May and try to get him in the playoffs.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Well, I just I see this as a season where he comes back in May and is he really
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[SPEAKER_02]: a hundred percent.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I mean, what's the, it really, you wouldn't bring it back unless he was.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Well, no, but not, but he's not going to be.
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[SPEAKER_02]: You've here previous athletes say it does take me.
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[SPEAKER_01]: These surgeries, I'm telling you, man, the last few years have changed everything.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I think Jason Tatum is planning on coming back this year.
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[SPEAKER_02]: This injury was five weeks before Halibutans, and he had surgery immediately after.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I mean, realistically, for going on the timeline, it would make sense for Tatum to be back.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Probably if he wanted to be back,
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[SPEAKER_02]: Next year in the playoffs.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I'm not sure.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I don't know if I'd brush it if I was Boston, but that's their own prerogative.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, it is.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm just saying I'm guessing that with modern medicine that it's possible that they could have him back for a championship run next year.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But the smart move is just the same man.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Let's just, let's just, let's just, he's young.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Let's just take our time.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Let's win the next seven championships after next year.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Okay.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I like that thought process.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Speaking of championships in Indiana, we were so high on the fever coming to the season.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Well, we had
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[SPEAKER_01]: We had a fever report.
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[SPEAKER_01]: We released on Monday.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And one of the things I said to John and Michelle was, think back to that day against the sky on opening day, eighty three to fifty eight.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And everything seems so good.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Everything is going to be so smooth all the way to, I'm not going to say a championship, but you know, a championship run run at it.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And it has just been as bad as it could get.
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[SPEAKER_02]: It's been Groundhog Day, essentially, for me.
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[SPEAKER_02]: We're sitting here in every week.
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[SPEAKER_02]: We have another guard that's going to miss the rest of the season.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Huntingham's injury is just the icing on the cake, I think.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Are they going to even make the playoffs?
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[SPEAKER_02]: I mean, I mean, if they make it, they're limping in.
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[SPEAKER_02]: It's a matter if they do.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Really?
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[SPEAKER_02]: I don't think it does.
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[SPEAKER_02]: It's Clark Jister, are we just convinced that she's not coming back?
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[SPEAKER_01]: I am now.
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[SPEAKER_02]: It's a lost cause.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I am now.
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[SPEAKER_01]: What?
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[SPEAKER_01]: If you're not winning a championship, shut it down.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I agree.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I'm not I'm just saying it they've been kind of cryptic with her injury the whole time is very not giving any sort of timeline to the fans in a little understandably but very I also think it is fair and I know that John and Michelle and you talked about it on Monday Kelsey Mitchell and the leave Austin have been incredible in absence of of Clark
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[SPEAKER_02]: One player and I know that John, if he's going to listen, I'm going to get flagged for this.
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[SPEAKER_02]: That I've been a little underwhelmed with this runway of an opportunity has been Lexi Hole.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I think that she's been bad.
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[SPEAKER_01]: She's been bad offensively.
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[SPEAKER_01]: No doubt about that.
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[SPEAKER_02]: But this was her opportunity to step up and I think cement herself is a true like role star slash role player, high role player on this team.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And I just haven't seen it.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I know that she's definitely seen her hit or ceiling.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I think so.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I think that at this point, you know what she is.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, kind of player you want on your team.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I agree.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But not the kind of player that you want being the fourth best player on your team.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Right now currently with the injuries, that's just kind of the situation that they naturally are in.
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[SPEAKER_01]: If you were running the fever right now and you don't know the medical's of all of it, but what would be your advice to Stephanie White?
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[SPEAKER_02]: finish about five hundred and try to limp into the playoffs if you can.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I mean, just to try to keep yourself relevant in the media.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I think if they missed the playoffs, it's good that's going to get really loud.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And I'm not the best.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Get the draft lottery.
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[SPEAKER_02]: You get the draft lottery and maybe that's the best thing.
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[SPEAKER_02]: But you know.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Think about this.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Well, there you go.
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[SPEAKER_02]: They're not, they're not even going to get close.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I said this yesterday, imagine next to going in the next season with an MVP level Kelsey Mitchell and MVP level, a Lea Boston, an MVP level, Caitlin Clark, and yet another big draft pick.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It could be, they could stop to see the rest of this.
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[SPEAKER_01]: If everything went well, they could stop the rest of the league next year.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Well, I think that it's true.
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[SPEAKER_02]: One thing I am gonna say is I don't think that you get this version of Kelsey Mitchell with Clark on the floor.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Probably.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I think that it's definitely she's shown.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I mean, she's a ball heavy guard.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Same way as Clark is.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I mean, Mitchell's just kind of had to adjust to being the second fiddle.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And I think that she's great in that role.
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[SPEAKER_02]: She's excellent, but you've definitely seen her elevate her game in Clark's absence, which is great for the fever.
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[SPEAKER_02]: You can bank on her in the future as far as having an all-star
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[SPEAKER_02]: fringe, all WMBA MVP candidate type player to the Joker of Batman when it comes to Caitlyn Clark, but I think it's fair to say that she's not going to play like this with Clark on the floor two and I think Clark elevates Boston even more than than she's played so far.
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[SPEAKER_02]: The more you talk, I like the sound of potentially just losing out and all of a sudden we're talking about a draft lottery and of the dreams to bring in a big name.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I just I think it's going to be really hard on
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[SPEAKER_02]: the league if that doesn't happen.
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[SPEAKER_02]: The fever still driving revenue and stuff.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And the fever really haven't added.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But if the fever went without Caitlyn Clark, aren't driving anything.
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[SPEAKER_02]: The league's running in circles right now.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I mean, with her absence, I mean, this is essentially a mute point.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And I think what's so funny is Clark's absence, you haven't heard a single thing from Angel Reese.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Nothing.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Not on Twitter, not in socials, Instagram, whatever.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I've been kind of glad that it's been quiet because I think when she talks,
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[SPEAKER_02]: It's really pretty usually unintelligent.
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[SPEAKER_02]: What's coming out of her mouth?
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[SPEAKER_02]: She says some really dumb shit in the media.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And her come up in psychists here because without Clark, she's really not relevant either.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And nobody else is talking about her.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So yeah, we talked yesterday on the fever report.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I said, if Caitlin Clark wanted to, she could just in the WMBA.
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[SPEAKER_01]: She can put in the whole thing.
12:00
[SPEAKER_01]: Well, I mean, she wanted to start a four, four team barn storming league.
12:06
[SPEAKER_01]: It would put that no one would ever pay attention to the WNBA again, they would have big attendance.
12:13
[SPEAKER_01]: The networks would be begging to put the games on the networks and they could just put a team in Iowa City, a team in Indianapolis, a team in Nashville and wherever else and just finish the WNBA and those ungrateful
12:28
[SPEAKER_01]: Give it, pay us what you owe us.
12:30
[SPEAKER_02]: Well, I agree.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I think that there is definitely a conversation that we had.
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[SPEAKER_02]: The WMBA might be taking itself out to the barn to shoot itself anyway.
12:37
[SPEAKER_02]: I listen to John's conspiracy.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I think it's great if you're into conspiracies, but logically, I just think that this is going to end really poorly for the league at different reasons.
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[SPEAKER_02]: The players have no buy-in to what is trying to be accomplished.
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[SPEAKER_01]: They just don't get it all.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I don't I they don't and the unfortunate reality is that the the product is not good enough to justify the lack of understanding that people really just don't care about the WMBA outside of the niche market that it is.
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[SPEAKER_02]: It's not a league that that drives numbers.
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[SPEAKER_02]: It's not a league that people really care about unless Caitlin Clark soon up.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Klan Clark comes the town everybody loves it and I think that she could destroy the WMBA but I think that the WMBA might take care of itself before that's even even done it and this whole unrivaled league with the some of these players have as far as being the president of the player union and also having a stake and on right it's just a massive issue that only the WMBA could circle itself into that's
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[SPEAKER_02]: This is a league that constantly tries to be the worst version possible.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So I feel for the fever, they don't deserve it, but they're going to go into your relevancy as well with the league I fear.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Greg, in the light of some comments made to me and you regarding our lack of positivity and analysis of the cults, which I find to be a little humorous
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[SPEAKER_02]: considering it was a week three preseason game as far as analyzing the game to ask you is there do you have what's what's your positive take on the Apple School's right now.
14:26
[SPEAKER_01]: You want to get me in trouble.
14:29
[SPEAKER_01]: I think in this case in areas three and fourteen and they get a top five pick or five and it's almost as top five it I don't need it to be number one again.
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[SPEAKER_01]: As long as it's top five pick this is a quarterback heavy draft.
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[SPEAKER_01]: What else will?
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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm going to go ten and seven and sign Daniel Jones to a long term contract because he's now the nineteen's best quarterback in the NFL.
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[SPEAKER_01]: That's my biggest fear will is that he's good enough that they sign him long term and thank you's a franchise quarterback.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Because he couldn't be that good.
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[SPEAKER_01]: If everything went well.
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[SPEAKER_02]: He can't be.
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[SPEAKER_02]: He's got the New York Giants franchise record for highest completion percentage in the season.
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[SPEAKER_02]: He absolutely can throw them at the next year.
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[SPEAKER_01]: He's not terrible.
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[SPEAKER_01]: That's not the issue.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And part of the problem too in the spirit of positivity is that the Colts have playmakers that fit
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[SPEAKER_02]: Daniel Jones play style like Michael Pittman and Tyler Warren are built in a lab probably to play with a guy like Daniel Jones as far as possession yards after catch now I do I fear for Alec Pierce I think that his their best bet with this Jones experiments to trade him because he's not going to be
15:44
[SPEAKER_02]: used at all, Jones just doesn't push the ball down the field the way that Richardson does or you can do something different with that appears.
15:52
[SPEAKER_02]: He's great in space, but he's really a vertical receiver.
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[SPEAKER_02]: You don't have a quarterback that's vertically pushing the ball.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Then he's all he's doing is taking the safety with him and you're hoping that something underneath in the ten to twelve yard range is what
16:06
[SPEAKER_02]: Jones hits, but I just, I think that you're going to see pierce who had a really good year last year and kind of came into form with with Richardson and Flacco who both pushed the ball down a lot.
16:17
[SPEAKER_02]: I fear that you're going to push him to your relevancy because you're going to have so much of the targets going to downs, going to Pitman and going to Tyler Warren.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I just don't see a fit for him in this.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I can't believe this.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I've put me in a position will to hope that they lose.
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[SPEAKER_01]: because it could just become a nightmare if they just, because if Daniel Jones is as good as they think he is, they're gonna sign him to a long-term contract and they're gonna go with that.
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[SPEAKER_01]: They're gonna say good enough.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I guess not only.
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[SPEAKER_02]: It's going to depend on what the Ursa girls decide to do.
16:54
[SPEAKER_02]: I think if they, if it's true that Ballard is really on the outs regardless of whatever happens this season, barring is super bowl and that Sikon's probably gone to, then I don't think it matters.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I- I think that's why we're Leonard.
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[SPEAKER_02]: That talking about Riley.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm just saying my fear is Daniel Jones is too good.
17:13
[SPEAKER_01]: That's my fear.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I think that Riley Leonard kind of got me in trouble last week as far as my negative comments surrounding his play with that being said.
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[SPEAKER_01]: You're just at the third round of third.
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[SPEAKER_01]: He's the best of third string quarterback for his career.
17:29
[SPEAKER_01]: You're not wrong.
17:31
[SPEAKER_02]: I thought that it was pretty easy to see.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I'm not going to get fooled by watching him play against.
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[SPEAKER_02]: We're string Bengals.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I do fear that there is there is a lot to like about this cold team outside of quarterback.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I don't fear it.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I mean, I want them to win.
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[SPEAKER_02]: That's not like I'm rooting for their fans.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It's a good number.
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[SPEAKER_02]: At the same time, like this roster is plenty good enough for them to potentially win the AFC South.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I really truly believe that now they're not at the level of contention, but did we really expect them even with Richardson to be there?
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[SPEAKER_01]: Well, yeah, that's the issue.
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[SPEAKER_01]: If Daniel Jones was
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[SPEAKER_01]: If it was a normal year in the F.C.
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[SPEAKER_01]: and a good Daniel Jones could get you to it and a F.C.
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[SPEAKER_01]: championship, maybe.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But there's no way this roster is good enough to be Buffalo.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It's not good enough to be bald or more.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It's not good enough to be Kansas City.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And probably not even good enough to be L.A.
18:28
[SPEAKER_01]: or the Broncos.
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[SPEAKER_02]: No, I agree wholeheartedly.
18:33
[SPEAKER_02]: I've been high on the Broncos since the last year.
18:36
[SPEAKER_02]: Great.
18:38
[SPEAKER_01]: It's a great roster.
18:39
[SPEAKER_01]: I just don't believe in moments.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And I don't know how, I mean, you saw him play last year.
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[SPEAKER_02]: It looked like the real day.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I have Auburn nightmares in my mind.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Maybe, but he really, I think, whatever happened in Eugene, I think, fixed him.
18:55
[SPEAKER_02]: He can push the ball down.
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[SPEAKER_02]: He's got all lost.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I saw it a lot last year that there's a lot of, that he just really make that play in him.
19:04
[SPEAKER_01]: A lot of, I don't know,
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[SPEAKER_01]: It reminds me of some quarterbacks that have failed because they cannot make the right play.
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[SPEAKER_01]: He'll get a chance to prove as wrong because you're he was good last year.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Don't get me wrong, especially for a rookie.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I get I just think there is a limitation to him with his thinking ability.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Sean Payton is going to get him on the right.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Sean, if Sean did that for a long time, if Sean Payton believes in him, I believe in them because I think Sean Payton is that good of a coach.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I think there's a lot of Josh Allen about X. I really do.
19:41
[SPEAKER_02]: I think when you turn on the tape and watch him, I think there's a lot of Josh Allen about X, whether people want to admit it or not.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Josh, Josh Allen is brilliant in the open field.
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[SPEAKER_01]: He thinks he thinks faster than the defense.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I don't see that with Nick's.
19:56
[SPEAKER_01]: Maybe I'm wrong.
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[SPEAKER_02]: How did Josh Allen look as a rookie year?
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, true.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I just, again, I still have, he was really bad for Auburn.
20:05
[SPEAKER_01]: It was really bad.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And they haven't recovered since.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I mean, they were on the house at basically after Cam Newton left.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So it's true.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Like it's the replacement.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Not the immediate replacement, but pretty close.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Well, I have a question for you.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Okay.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Is this season?
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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm starting to get the feeling.
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[SPEAKER_01]: This season, just all about Baltimore Buffalo and waiting for that ASC championship game, which is the going to be the Super Bowl.
20:34
[SPEAKER_01]: I think they're both going fifteen and two, sixteen and one.
20:37
[SPEAKER_02]: I think that this is crazy.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I just have this feeling that whoever
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[SPEAKER_02]: wins the south goes and plays spoiler to somebody I do that the south is one that could definitely just south the south is one three straight round one games so far in the playoffs the last three years going back that far which is about as far as all go as far as relevancy in the the NFL really it's the least even changed so much since then but there's something about the south I think they just
21:10
[SPEAKER_02]: They played, I don't live with opponents over look them and they just come out and chalk the world.
21:15
[SPEAKER_02]: But I really see a situation like that where if somebody's not crossing their teeth and not in their eyes, like Houston or Jacksonville goes and gets somebody and makes it the AFC championship and you never saw it coming.
21:28
[SPEAKER_01]: We've said this in the past, nothing ever goes completely right for everybody.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But if everything went completely right for Jacksonville,
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[SPEAKER_01]: everything went completely right for Houston and if everything went completely right for the cults, they could be in the level under Baltimore and Buffalo.
21:44
[SPEAKER_02]: Everything went right for those three teams, Jacksonville Houston and the cults, all three of those teams could win twelve games.
21:51
[SPEAKER_01]: That's what I'm saying.
21:52
[SPEAKER_01]: For any of those teams, if it went just right for any of those teams, they could be the third best team in the AFC.
21:57
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
21:58
[SPEAKER_02]: Now, I will say that part of the problem is that you're probably going to have to host at some point
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[SPEAKER_02]: a Denver or Kansas City or an LA in the playoffs, just naturally with the fact of you're only going to get one team that gets home field advantage by winning their division.
22:15
[SPEAKER_02]: So you're going to have to play a really tough opponent on the road or at home excuse me.
22:20
[SPEAKER_02]: And I think that could cost problems, but at the end of the day, I do see a situation where the cults
22:27
[SPEAKER_02]: Jacksonville and Houston are all better than we think they are going to be and I think people are relatively high on Houston.
22:34
[SPEAKER_02]: I think Jacksonville's kind of in that same situation with their cults where a lot could go wrong and a lot could go right.
22:41
[SPEAKER_02]: But Jacksonville's good to great Trevor Lawrence play away from being awfully good and Liam Cohen turned Baker Mayfield into a superstar.
22:53
[SPEAKER_02]: So I
22:54
[SPEAKER_01]: And I think if we were to go to the center is different's maker.
22:59
[SPEAKER_02]: I think if we were to go purely on intangibles at the quarterback possesses, I think we would all agree that Lawrence is probably a more talented player than Baker Mayfield is as far as what his ability to do with the football.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I think they could be really good.
23:15
[SPEAKER_02]: I think there's a situation.
23:16
[SPEAKER_02]: I do know one thing if they go one in the division.
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[SPEAKER_02]: If they go one in sixteen, they're one when they'll be at the cold.
23:22
[SPEAKER_02]: It's whenever the colds need to make playoffs.
23:24
[SPEAKER_01]: That's right, Ezra.
23:25
[SPEAKER_02]: So that will be there.
23:26
[SPEAKER_02]: If they're one in sixteen, you know which week it happened.
23:30
[SPEAKER_01]: We know that for sure.
23:31
[SPEAKER_01]: Hey, well, they're ready to get in the playoffs.
23:35
[SPEAKER_02]: I don't know.
23:37
[SPEAKER_01]: They need your dangerous.
23:38
[SPEAKER_02]: It's seen, uh, they're not dangerous, but they're dangerous, man.
23:42
[SPEAKER_01]: That line up, that young line up starting to learn.
23:44
[SPEAKER_01]: It's getting better and better every day.
23:46
[SPEAKER_02]: Too hot and cold.
23:47
[SPEAKER_02]: That doesn't fit for postseason baseball.
23:50
[SPEAKER_01]: I know, but it's getting better and better.
23:51
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm telling you, Marta is a smart hitter now.
23:55
[SPEAKER_01]: Deal of cruises, a smart hitter now.
23:57
[SPEAKER_01]: They weren't early in the year.
23:59
[SPEAKER_01]: I think for encounters had a big impact on them.
24:01
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't think they're getting in the schedules too tough, but if they do,
24:05
[SPEAKER_01]: It would probably lose in the first round, but I can see a path to them being dangerous.
24:12
[SPEAKER_02]: The Arizona Diamondbacks for the last team in two years ago and made the world serious.
24:16
[SPEAKER_02]: So we cannot count it out ever in baseball.
24:20
[SPEAKER_02]: I like their momentum.
24:23
[SPEAKER_02]: I just think the mats will eventually just kind of play well for a two week stretch and just kind of submit themselves.
24:32
[SPEAKER_02]: We're good enough to make the playoffs.
24:34
[SPEAKER_01]: My guess.
24:35
[SPEAKER_01]: There's hope, and going forward into the next couple of seasons, there's a lot of hope.
24:41
[SPEAKER_01]: Cubs rebound as well.
24:44
[SPEAKER_02]: Ah, that that team's not good enough, either.
24:48
[SPEAKER_01]: I like the way they played the last couple of days.
24:49
[SPEAKER_01]: I will never like the cubs.
24:51
[SPEAKER_01]: Don't get me wrong.
24:52
[SPEAKER_01]: There's nothing to like about the cubs.
24:54
[SPEAKER_01]: No.
24:55
[SPEAKER_02]: Well, there's nothing to like about any anl central team that's not your team, but the whity hers odd day.
25:02
[SPEAKER_01]: Back in the days when they put reds and cardinals are different divisions.
25:05
[SPEAKER_01]: I could cheer for the cardinals.
25:07
[SPEAKER_01]: I love the whitey ball teams.
25:09
[SPEAKER_01]: Man, I love those teams.
25:11
[SPEAKER_02]: One thing we can't say is that Milwaukee is a team that is built to win in the postseason.
25:17
[SPEAKER_01]: And the coaches took three out of four of them.
25:20
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
25:20
[SPEAKER_02]: I mean, Milwaukee is basically coasting now.
25:23
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, they don't come to give the counts.
25:25
[SPEAKER_01]: Come on.
25:26
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, no, but I mean, it's not that's not like outrageous that
25:31
[SPEAKER_02]: that that divisions locked up and it's it's one of those situations where I think like we're not going to give the cubs our best there's a chance to be playing in October like we're not we're not going to go in with the same strategy we would have been a postseason series against him that we are today in fact maybe you're given him a couple things to tease him going into the playoffs that I know that sounds outrageous but maybe you're
25:57
[SPEAKER_02]: The pitch strategy is a little different than it's going to be in October and you're just trying to maybe give them some visuals to set things up later.
26:04
[SPEAKER_02]: That sounds crazy in baseball, but it's not outside of the realm of possibility.
26:11
[SPEAKER_01]: A Friday will let's make our official NFL predictions.
26:14
[SPEAKER_01]: We're going to get the predictions from everybody on the Central Indiana Sports staff.
26:19
[SPEAKER_01]: We're going to go over all of those on Friday strictly biased with a little rough foot.
26:24
[SPEAKER_01]: You're going to play referee.
26:26
[SPEAKER_01]: And we're gonna try to get some members of a local media involved as well and pick the division winners, the eventual champion, MVP, things like that.
26:36
[SPEAKER_01]: Basically it's our chance to make fun of people.
26:39
[SPEAKER_02]: Can't wait for what Michelle's gonna say some crazy stuff.
26:43
[SPEAKER_02]: Just outrageous things.
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[SPEAKER_01]: She's not the only one either.
26:47
[SPEAKER_01]: This has been great and we're just gonna keep getting better and better.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Yep, I hope that it and just
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