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Hour Three | Weekend Winners & Losers + NFL Playoff Predictions · Off The Bench

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Speaker 1: Live from the Raisin Caine Studio.
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Speaker 2: It's off the bench, all right, welcome back here, Off
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Speaker 2: the Bench, our number three on a Monday Morning, Live
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Speaker 2: we appreciate you. Good morning. Hopefully your week's gonna get
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Speaker 2: started off the right way. It's gonna be a great week. Excited.
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Speaker 2: Taylor's gonna be bringing you the weather every single day
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Speaker 2: this week. Oh dude, got preseason ball coming up. Let's go.
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Speaker 2: So we got more football. They teased this last week
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Speaker 2: with a great game. Haines Kings Carson shout out. I
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Speaker 2: think he's got a little hammy. Now, a little hammy.
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Speaker 2: Now they picked up old Kyle Trask yep, still playing football.
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Speaker 2: It's cal Trask all right, you already. It's that time
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Speaker 2: of the week. Let's get to a little weekend winners
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Speaker 2: and losers. That's how win it has done.
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Speaker 1: That's right.
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Speaker 2: We can't have anyone to freak out out there.
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Speaker 3: Okay, he's got a ky bark apologer, got too far.
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Speaker 2: I'm by winning. I went here and I went there. Now,
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Speaker 2: what are you doing? What it takes to win a championship? Wow? Winning? Well,
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Speaker 2: then I guess there's only one thing left to do.
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Speaker 2: What's that win the whole thing? All right? What a
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Speaker 2: weekend it was? What a weekend? What especially, I can
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Speaker 2: say what a weekend it was with not a whole
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Speaker 2: lot of sports happening, So a lot of weekend winners
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Speaker 2: and losers. For me, Let's start with a winner. Pro
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Speaker 2: Football Hall of Fame. My guy, this guy just came
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Speaker 2: out this spitting heat right now. He turned this into
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Speaker 2: not only a Hall of Fame induction speech, a thank
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Speaker 2: you speech, but an absolute roast. Mister Adam VINETERI.
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Speaker 3: I would repeat those last few statements about coach Bill
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Speaker 3: Belichick as well. Thank you for demanding excellence every single day.
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Speaker 3: Your preparation, discipline, and attention to detail shaped far more
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Speaker 3: than my football career. Unfortunately, Bill couldn't make it here today.
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Speaker 3: There's a lot going on at UNC right now. He
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Speaker 3: may be on a recruiting trip right now, looking for
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Speaker 3: the next Lawrence Taylor. I thought it was because training
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Speaker 3: camp had already started, but in truth, it's because he's
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Speaker 3: dug his girlfriend's cheerleading competition.
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Speaker 2: Yes, absolutely well done, Hots, off out of it. To Terry,
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Speaker 2: you still got your fastball. And it didn't end with
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Speaker 2: Bill Belichick. He roasted h Pat McAfee a little bit
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Speaker 2: and his wife at the same time. He said nobody
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Speaker 2: He said something about Pat was his holder because he
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Speaker 2: was a punter, said nobody is taking more pride and
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Speaker 2: holding my balls. Then, you know. He also made fun
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Speaker 2: of Peidon Man his forehead size. So like a lot
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Speaker 2: of good stuff coming from Madam Vent, Terry absolutely came
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Speaker 2: out a little swag, a little confidence that you got
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Speaker 2: to have as a kicker. One of the best kickers
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Speaker 2: ever do it. So that is my weekend winner. That's good.
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Speaker 2: Now's it going right, judge, friends, not just cheerleading adult
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Speaker 2: cheerleading competition at that Uh, it's the over thirty league.
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Speaker 2: It's see those clips on like social media, the over
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Speaker 2: thirties like football league watching these guys take these hits
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Speaker 2: on the sideline. Yeah, stupid, y'all are really dumb. So
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Speaker 2: she's like in ancient athletes for cheerleading. Yeah pretty much.
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Speaker 2: That's that's awful. Competitive cheerleader. All right, Rich, you got some,
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Speaker 2: I'd say, just you know, every New Orleans Saints fan.
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Speaker 2: The organization they're all. Everybody's a weekend winner. Having another
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Speaker 2: member of the organization end of the Hall of Fame
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Speaker 2: and they get to see, you know, Sean Payton get
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Speaker 2: up there and give a speech as well. That's a
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Speaker 2: big win. A lot of nostalgia for Saints fans, Louisiana
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Speaker 2: football fans in general, just to kind of look back
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Speaker 2: on that era that you know, didn't end to too
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Speaker 2: long ago, but certainly lasted for a long time. And
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Speaker 2: we talked about it at the end of Hour number
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Speaker 2: two and the impact it had after Hurricane Katrina and
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Speaker 2: everything like that. So a lot of nostalgia there. So
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Speaker 2: one hell of a weekend winner to all Saints fans
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Speaker 2: and just Louisiana football fans in general. All right, Tay,
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Speaker 2: she got.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, we're gonna stick with the New Orleans Saints. We're
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Speaker 4: gonna stick with the Hall of Fame. But we're going
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Speaker 4: weekend loser, boy. And this is not Drew Brees. You're
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Speaker 4: not the weekend loser when you get inducted into the
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Speaker 4: Hall of Fame. Be guys, we got another bad statue.
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Speaker 4: We talk about bad statues on this show.
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Speaker 2: Quite a bit.
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Speaker 4: We're gonna add one to the list. Who is this
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Speaker 4: man right here? Because it's not Drew Brees. That's his
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Speaker 4: official Hall of Fame boss right there. I mean that
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Speaker 4: might as well be one of you guys up there, Like,
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Speaker 4: that's not Drew Brees.
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Speaker 2: That got looks that guy that Carson Beck eyes. Look it.
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Speaker 4: I was telling you before the show, I've been to
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Speaker 4: the Hall of Fame museum and they got Troy Paula
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Speaker 4: Mala's locks perfectly intact. And you couldn't make a Drew
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Speaker 4: Brees bust look like.
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Speaker 2: It just blows my mind. Drew Brees is a lot
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Speaker 2: of things, but like Pothead, probably not one of them.
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Speaker 2: Probably not. I can even like tell that those eyes
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Speaker 2: and that statue of bloodshot, Like I don't know how,
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Speaker 2: but for whatever reason, you can yeah that those eyes
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Speaker 2: are bloodshot for sure. And again, statue making has to
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Speaker 2: be one of the the lowest barriers of injury ever
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Speaker 2: to be a professional statue maker. Anybody can do this
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Speaker 2: because they're all bad. They're all bad at their here's
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Speaker 2: your example. Look at Breeze. Look at that.
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Speaker 4: That's not the same person, That is not the same thing.
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Speaker 4: That looks more like Sean Payton than it does. It's
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Speaker 4: crying right there, right, really sad. I mean, my god,
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Speaker 4: I know that's not great for radio, but I mean
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Speaker 4: that is pretty terrible. Yeah, So if you're not watching,
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Speaker 4: I'm just gonna look up the statue. It is brutally bad.
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Speaker 4: Like and we did it, I think a couple of
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Speaker 4: months ago. We I can't remember whose statue was revealed,
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Speaker 4: but we went through like the the most recent terrible
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Speaker 4: athlete statues because there's a lot and and the bad
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Speaker 4: ones are are are hitting over five hundred. Yeah, the
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Speaker 4: Dwayne Wade one, to me is still the worst one
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Speaker 4: the Yeah, for sure, that's it's it's one of the
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Speaker 4: it's one.
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Speaker 2: It's a really bad one. But like the amount of
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Speaker 2: times that statue makers and builders get it right doesn't
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Speaker 2: happen very often, so we kind of celebrate, Oh look, yeah,
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Speaker 2: that's pretty bad. Yeah, that one's a pretty bad And
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Speaker 2: usually the bus for the NFL are really good. The
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Speaker 2: Hall of Fame ones are great, and I will say
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Speaker 2: I saw a picture of all of them from this weekend.
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Speaker 2: None of them were very good, Like Larry Fitzgerald's looked
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Speaker 2: like a mess, Like none of them were Dayne that
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Speaker 2: Dwayne Way would just show it's really bad. I mean,
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Speaker 2: can you not just like cut the heat off and
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Speaker 2: try again. Yeah, Like, it's not because you have to
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Speaker 2: know when you did that and you walk up to
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Speaker 2: see that for the first time, you're gonna laugh, right,
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Speaker 2: And that's probably not what the guy who made it.
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Speaker 2: And again, like we've known who who's making the Hall
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Speaker 2: of Fame for a while, like you in the like
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Speaker 2: Dwayne Wade, they knew that statue was coming for a while.
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Speaker 2: Like once you get the statue commissioned, I feel like
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Speaker 2: these things go like they they finalize them and they're
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Speaker 2: finally made at the last second, like, let's set the
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Speaker 2: timeline to where we could remake it or fix it
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Speaker 2: if it looks bad.
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Speaker 4: Well, like, so here's the Palamala one. They did such
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Speaker 4: a great job with all the detail on his hair.
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Speaker 4: Couldn't get the Drew brees. When fixed, that looks nice.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I got a big weekend loser statue makers everywhere
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Speaker 2: mm hmm, all right, hey, look you got anything for us?
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Speaker 2: I do I have a loser? Come on? Uh? You
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Speaker 2: might have heard of a Matt My loser is bo
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Speaker 2: Hostler Bower.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, he was in contention at the one.
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Speaker 2: Where's the like the old school advisor. Yeah, it's like
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Speaker 2: with the stiff front. Yeah.
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Speaker 5: I followed him in college and with the Texas He
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Speaker 5: his attitude on the golf course when he's not playing
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Speaker 5: well is horrible poor to quite poor. Yeah, and I
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Speaker 5: saw it in college, and I mean he's he is
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Speaker 5: like a country club kid, like complaints like it. Caught
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Speaker 5: him on a couple of hot mics yesterday yelling at
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Speaker 5: his caddy and I get he was. He was trying
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Speaker 5: to make the playoffs, the uh Edex playoffs. I get that,
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Speaker 5: and I hope he's listening. I just the way he
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Speaker 5: was acting horrible.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, lock it up, grow up a little bit. Yeah,
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Speaker 2: he's a the shooter McGavin of the PGA Tour. A
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Speaker 2: lot a lot of a lot of a lot of
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Speaker 2: a lot of great players out there that came from
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Speaker 2: the country club world. This is like more of an
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Speaker 2: overall statement, painting him a picture of like the guy
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Speaker 2: that has the attitude where it's everybody else's fault. Yeah, right,
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Speaker 2: and just overreacts to we've seen it spoiled a little
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Speaker 2: bread o hustler, you're a loser. Well, blame Gabrit People
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Speaker 2: used to call him blame blame Gabart. He's as to
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Speaker 2: every time there was a mistake of somebody's fault. Yeah,
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Speaker 2: I hate to see it. I hate to see it.
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Speaker 2: People take accountability. Don't be like Brendan Soresby Patrick Chess
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Speaker 2: sometimes say it was me that was my fault that
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Speaker 2: it hit that bad shot, not my caddies, not the greenskeeper.
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Speaker 2: All right, speaking of losers, let's go I got a
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Speaker 2: couple of losers, Taylor. Did you have the picture pulled up? Yeah?
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Speaker 2: That I put All right, let's go to a first
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Speaker 2: weekend loser. Tom Brady. Guy wins it. A lot of things,
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Speaker 2: won a lot of Super Bowls, won a lot of championships,
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Speaker 2: wins in life, it was very just super bottle does
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Speaker 2: some good things. Everything he's done to this point in
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Speaker 2: his life out the window discredited because he holds his
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Speaker 2: nose when he jumps into the water. Look at this picture.
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Speaker 2: What a weak beta move. And I if you would
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Speaker 2: have said ten million dollars, Matt, Yes, true or false
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Speaker 2: Tom Brady holds his nose when he jumps into a
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Speaker 2: body of water, I would have said false. For all
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Speaker 2: the money in the world.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, because he exercises a lot, he's still in great
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Speaker 4: ship mine. He probably swims a lot. He knows how
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Speaker 4: to do it, says.
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Speaker 2: He is holding his and it's not like he's diving
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Speaker 2: backwards because he's scuba diving. He's like barely hopping in.
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Speaker 2: He's off. He's penciling into the ocean from a Is
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Speaker 2: that a jet ski or is it a very low boat?
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Speaker 5: So?
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Speaker 2: Is that a jet ski? Looks like it looks So
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Speaker 2: he's about twelve inches off the surface, the same distance
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Speaker 2: from the side of a pool into a pool. He
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Speaker 2: is holding his nose, you know, reportedly not to get
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Speaker 2: water up his nose. So this is a tough day
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Speaker 2: for me. So usual, this is a tough day. And Taylor,
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Speaker 2: you did make mentioned in the group chat like maybe
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Speaker 2: we're all doing it wrong because Tom Brady.
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Speaker 4: Does anybody would get a pass on this? For me,
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Speaker 4: it would be Tom Brady. Ye, I don't know if
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Speaker 4: you can get a pass on the more the more
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Speaker 4: I think about it, the moth.
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Speaker 2: You're also wearing some of earplug. Yeah, no, it looks
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Speaker 2: like something on it around his neck, but it looks
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Speaker 2: like it pops up.
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Speaker 4: They may have been they may have been headphones while
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Speaker 4: he was riding because they're not in this one. You're
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Speaker 4: only in the first picture, so you may have just
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Speaker 4: taken them off.
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Speaker 2: Like just breathe out of your just breathe out of
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Speaker 2: your nose when you go into the water, like you
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Speaker 2: don't hold it. Okay, So usually people that hold their
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Speaker 2: nose are also shirt swimmers, so in good shape, has
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Speaker 2: the avocata toast, does the right things for his body,
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Speaker 2: hadn't had a carb since two thousand and three. Three
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Speaker 2: year old jumps in the pool. Huh, that's your three
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Speaker 2: And this is how Toddler's jumping. They teach them in
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Speaker 2: swimming lessons. Yes, this is how Toddler's so Tom Brady,
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Speaker 2: everything you've done. Take away the rings, take away the
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Speaker 2: MVPs because you hold your nose when you jump into water.
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Speaker 2: That's a great weekend loser. I got. It's a tough look.
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Speaker 2: It's a tough look, all right. I got one more loser.
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Speaker 2: This comes out of Brazil. There was a soccer match.
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Speaker 2: I'm assuming a professional soccer match because there's a lot
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Speaker 2: of people there. Well, I don't know this this fella's name,
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Speaker 2: but he scores a goal and it's rightfully so excited
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Speaker 2: about it. He decides to celebrate. There's a barricade along
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Speaker 2: the edge of the soccer field the pitch is what
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Speaker 2: Jacob likes to call it. Well, he celebrated and he
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Speaker 2: jumps over said barrier and look, oh yeah, okay. So
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Speaker 2: on this particular field, there is a tunnel in the
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Speaker 2: field that is at at field level and it looks
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Speaker 2: like an endless pit. He doesn't see this, and he
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Speaker 2: jumps over the barrier and dives right into this black pit.
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Speaker 2: You had about a four foot area where you couldn't jump,
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Speaker 2: and he found it. So like think of it as
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Speaker 2: a staircase that goes under a stage. Look at the
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Speaker 2: guy stand to the side. He knows it's goo to
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Speaker 2: be bad. He put no. So this guy jumps over
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Speaker 2: in celebration. You've seen this timeless times in soccer. Right,
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Speaker 2: you score a goal, they jump over the barrier. They
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Speaker 2: go try to celebrate with the fans. You could tell
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Speaker 2: in this field, like the fans are really far away
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Speaker 2: from the action and that I'll call it the end
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Speaker 2: zone on the behind the goal. And he jumps over
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Speaker 2: and immediately surprise to him, I'm assuming there's a black
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Speaker 2: hole of death right there. He doesn't die. He ends
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Speaker 2: up climbing out of the This is a staircase here.
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Speaker 2: It is the funniest like thing to see. He just
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Speaker 2: into the abit. It has to be some sort of injury.
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Speaker 2: He had to land on a staircase. I think going down,
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Speaker 2: hit a rib somewhere or something, say something. He got
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Speaker 2: a toe, he got he got toe. So yeah, we
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Speaker 2: can lose with this guy. And to add insults two injury.
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Speaker 2: V R came back and took the goal away. So
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Speaker 2: he scored the goal, celebrated, and he got he got
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Speaker 2: the goal taken away. You got a goal taken away
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Speaker 2: in soccer, you're big soccer guy off sides or like
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Speaker 2: we're all soccer guys. After the World Cup, they we
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Speaker 2: saw numbers of goals taken away after the virtual assistant
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Speaker 2: replay because of off sides that you can't really tell
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Speaker 2: by the naked eye. I had to had to go
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Speaker 2: to camera, but can't tell about the naked should be good, huh,
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Speaker 2: I agree, preach brother. Yeah, that was that's a great video.
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Speaker 2: By the way, that is really good, fantastic. So if
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Speaker 2: you're not watching, go check it out on the social media.
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Speaker 2: Just type in you know Brazil soccer and.
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Speaker 4: There's there's no way, there's more than one. If you're like,
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Speaker 4: is this the video? Yeah, yeah, that's the video. He
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Speaker 4: just disappears. So weekend losing there, all right?
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Speaker 2: Anybody else with some sort of winner or loser from
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Speaker 2: the weekend? Again, not a lot of sports. Maybe next
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Speaker 2: week we got a little preseason action. Maybe next week
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Speaker 2: we'll have a little bit more. That's it. I'm just
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Speaker 2: going through that guy's mind. He was so excited. God,
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Speaker 2: he jumps up and then imagine the mid flight fear. Yeah,
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Speaker 2: and you can't even like call him like a showboat
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Speaker 2: or anything because people do that all the time. Yeah,
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Speaker 2: there's a hole in the field and it fit his
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Speaker 2: body perfectly. All right. That is it for this week's edition,
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Speaker 2: A weekend winners and Loser's a lot of good stuff
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Speaker 2: around the world, around the globe right there. So all right,
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Speaker 2: when we get back, what we're gonna do. We're gonna
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Speaker 2: turn our sights to the NFL again, but we're gonna
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Speaker 2: talk potential NFL playoff teams this year that didn't make
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Speaker 2: it last year. So stay with us right here and
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Speaker 2: that we think is set up to make the NFL
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Speaker 2: Playoff this year that didn't make it last year. I'm
19:16
Speaker 2: gonna start us off. Taylor, You're gonna go second. Everybody
19:21
Speaker 2: kind of be ready with some sort of pick. You
19:23
Speaker 2: don't have to have a great reason why Taylor's gonna
19:26
Speaker 2: know everything about every team, But yeah, Taylor, pull up
19:31
Speaker 2: the can you pull up the bracket last year? Let's
19:33
Speaker 2: go through the teams that made it last year? I
19:35
Speaker 2: don't hope. Yeah. So last year on the AFC side,
19:42
Speaker 2: we had the Houston Texans, Pittsburgh Steelers, the Denver Broncos,
19:45
Speaker 2: Buffalo Bill's, Jacksonville Jaguars, the Chargers, and the Patriots. Over
19:49
Speaker 2: on the NFC, we had the Rams, the Panthers, the Seahawks,
19:54
Speaker 2: the Niners, the Eagles, the Packers, and the Bears. All Right,
19:59
Speaker 2: the the biggest one to me that sticks out like
20:02
Speaker 2: a sore thumb to me is in the NFC North,
20:07
Speaker 2: the Detroit Lions. They are to me, a team that
20:11
Speaker 2: is going to be a Super Bowl contender. Now, we'll
20:13
Speaker 2: see how far anybody can contend past the Rams this year,
20:17
Speaker 2: just because they are absolutely loaded with talent. But in
20:20
Speaker 2: the twenty twenty five season, they came off a fifteen
20:22
Speaker 2: to two season. In twenty twenty four, they're the NFC's
20:25
Speaker 2: number one seed. Seemingly didn't make a whole lot of changes,
20:28
Speaker 2: but certainly playing in a very tough division. Some games
20:31
Speaker 2: didn't go their way, but they slipped to nine and
20:34
Speaker 2: eight and missed the playoff a season ago. So to me,
20:37
Speaker 2: with Jared Goffby in one of the best quarterbacks in
20:40
Speaker 2: the NFL, certainly in that top six to seven range,
20:43
Speaker 2: I don't know where he falls. That's certainly one of
20:46
Speaker 2: the most consistent led or was at the top of
20:49
Speaker 2: most of the relevant passing stats at least a year ago.
20:54
Speaker 2: Certainly filled with talent on the offensive side of the ball.
20:57
Speaker 2: I got Kelvin Shepherd leading the defense over there. I
21:00
Speaker 2: think they are going to be There's still that same
21:04
Speaker 2: team that Dan Campbell team that was fifteen and two
21:07
Speaker 2: two seasons ago. Now they of course they slipped last year,
21:10
Speaker 2: but I think they have them. They are very well
21:12
Speaker 2: set up, a lot of talent. I don't see them
21:15
Speaker 2: having another nine and eight season with the way they
21:17
Speaker 2: are coached and the talent that they have over there.
21:18
Speaker 2: So Detroit Lions, as our first team to make the
21:21
Speaker 2: playoffs this year that didn't make it a year ago,
21:23
Speaker 2: should have.
21:24
Speaker 4: Been everyone's number one pick. I actually have had this
21:27
Speaker 4: conversation with some one on Friday, matt their scheduled, they
21:30
Speaker 4: played a fourth place schedule, like they went nine and eight,
21:33
Speaker 4: But that division is so good they play a fourth
21:35
Speaker 4: place schedule.
21:36
Speaker 2: So not only are they talent, they're gonna play a
21:38
Speaker 2: fourth place schedule.
21:39
Speaker 4: And the expectations for them were too high. A year ago,
21:42
Speaker 4: you replaced both coordinators. Frank Ragnow retired like two weeks
21:47
Speaker 4: before the seasons. He had to hurry and replace your
21:49
Speaker 4: starting center. They got better as the year went along,
21:51
Speaker 4: but you got home against New Orleans and at Buffalo.
21:55
Speaker 4: Those are tough games. Your next three the New York Jets,
21:59
Speaker 4: the Carolina Panthers, Arizona Cardinals. You should win all three
22:01
Speaker 4: of those. Then two division games. Guess what, they're both
22:05
Speaker 4: at home. You get Green Bay and Minnesota both at home.
22:08
Speaker 4: Then you go at Miami. That's a win there. Like
22:11
Speaker 4: every tough stretch they have, they have a break. So
22:14
Speaker 4: like Green Bay, Minnesota is tough, you have a break
22:16
Speaker 4: with Miami, New England, Tampa and Chicago's tough. You have
22:19
Speaker 4: a break with Atlanta, then Tennessee. Like their schedules really
22:23
Speaker 4: really good. I think they're talented. That that would have
22:25
Speaker 4: been my number one pick.
22:26
Speaker 2: As well. There you good. All right, let's get that.
22:29
Speaker 2: Let's get team OTB. Now we make shift team here certainly,
22:34
Speaker 2: but Richard, do you want to go? You got something?
22:38
Speaker 2: You got a team mangles the Bengals quarterback Joe Burrow,
22:42
Speaker 2: Oh boy, and everything you've heard that he's comparing the
22:45
Speaker 2: offseason too similar to twenty nineteen. He said, go back,
22:48
Speaker 2: check the clips and this is what I said before.
22:51
Speaker 2: Then this is how I feel. You got the clips
22:53
Speaker 2: of him running extra gassers after practice, in that extra
22:56
Speaker 2: work in. I think that just mentally, he knows he
23:01
Speaker 2: has to have another he wants another big year, you know,
23:04
Speaker 2: falling off since making it to the Super Bowl. I
23:07
Speaker 2: just think that, you know, he already told us they're
23:09
Speaker 2: going to be really good this year, and I believe, yeah,
23:11
Speaker 2: it would kind of be a disappointment if they weren't
23:13
Speaker 2: after kind of the words he said. Now, you always
23:15
Speaker 2: want your starting quarterback to be ultra confident and have
23:17
Speaker 2: the most confidence going into a season. Certainly, so they're
23:20
Speaker 2: gonna say usually you're gonna say something to kind of
23:22
Speaker 2: boost your team up or whatever. But I don't think
23:25
Speaker 2: you're gonna compare it to that team unless you actually
23:27
Speaker 2: compared to what they say, the greatest college football team ever. Absolutely,
23:31
Speaker 2: so this is gonna be the greatest NFL team ever.
23:33
Speaker 2: So that that's kind of what he means, all right,
23:37
Speaker 2: I like it. So right now we got the Lions
23:39
Speaker 2: and the Bengals. Taylor, you're gonna stay in that, You're
23:41
Speaker 2: gonna go the stay in the AFC, or go to
23:43
Speaker 2: the NFC. I'll go to the NFC. And I was
23:46
Speaker 2: hoping one of those would be available, so I did
23:48
Speaker 2: not have to do this. The jokes are about to come.
23:52
Speaker 2: I'm gonna go to the Dallas Cowboys.
23:55
Speaker 4: Well, and the reason the reason for is I like
24:00
Speaker 4: where they stand in the division. Moving on from AJ Brown,
24:03
Speaker 4: whatever you think of that. Right now you have DeVante Smith,
24:07
Speaker 4: a Dallas goddard that can't stay healthy and a big
24:10
Speaker 4: question mark. Yes, the Eagles drafted Mackay Lemon, he's still
24:13
Speaker 4: a rookie. We haven't seen it from him. They brought
24:15
Speaker 4: in Dantavian Wicks, solid receiver. He's not AJ Brown. That
24:20
Speaker 4: team from what they did at the Super Bowl two
24:22
Speaker 4: years ago to last year, including Saquon took a big
24:24
Speaker 4: step back. What are they gonna look like? I like
24:27
Speaker 4: what Dallas did defensively and if their defense could be competent.
24:31
Speaker 4: We saw how good their offense was a year ago,
24:33
Speaker 4: and Dallas just didn't really lose anything offensively. And because
24:37
Speaker 4: they underperformed a year ago, their schedule is easy. I mean,
24:40
Speaker 4: you start with the Giants at the Giants, but what
24:43
Speaker 4: are they? We'll see Washington, who has a lot to
24:46
Speaker 4: prove this year. Then your home against Baltimore, who I
24:49
Speaker 4: think is more beatable than they have been in years past.
24:53
Speaker 2: Then you go to the Houston Texans, which CJ. Stroud.
24:56
Speaker 2: Are we going to see? Tampa what Tampa Bay? Are
24:58
Speaker 2: we going to see? The chance?
25:00
Speaker 4: Like there's a realistic chance Cowboys start three and two,
25:04
Speaker 4: four and one to start that season before the division
25:08
Speaker 4: even starts. Really, then you have Philly that's your big game.
25:12
Speaker 4: But then you have Arizona, Colts Titans three of the
25:16
Speaker 4: next five. So I mean that's it's a winnable division.
25:19
Speaker 4: It's a makeable schedule. I think they've gotten better defensively
25:23
Speaker 4: to go along with a good offense. Like as much
25:24
Speaker 4: as I hate to do it much and as much
25:28
Speaker 4: as people are going to you know, I am the
25:30
Speaker 4: most pessimistic Cowboys fan there is, but they're set up
25:34
Speaker 4: well for success this year on paper.
25:37
Speaker 2: Okay, there you go, surprised to absolutely nobody. Taylor's choosing
25:43
Speaker 2: the Cowboys. I did not want to, all right. So
25:47
Speaker 2: right now, of our of our six teams that we
25:50
Speaker 2: think are going to make the NFL playoffs in twenty
25:53
Speaker 2: twenty six that did not reach that goal in twenty
25:56
Speaker 2: twenty five, we got the Detroit Lions and the Dallas
26:00
Speaker 2: Boys out of the NFC and the Cincinnati Ingles in
26:03
Speaker 2: the AFC. All right, we are going to get to
26:05
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Speaker 2: and off the bench. We are picking six teams that
28:55
Speaker 2: are gonna make the NFL Playoffs this year that did
28:57
Speaker 2: not make it one year go. The average when this
29:01
Speaker 2: new fourteen team playoff structure is five to seven teams
29:04
Speaker 2: every single year are new into the playoffs. So we
29:07
Speaker 2: are picking right in the middle of that. We're picking sixteen.
29:10
Speaker 2: So currently we have the Lions, the Cowboys, and the Bengals. Luke,
29:17
Speaker 2: you got something for us? Come on, I got a
29:19
Speaker 2: good one.
29:20
Speaker 5: I mean it's kind of chalk, but I'm gonna go Baltimore.
29:22
Speaker 2: Ravens, Baltimore Ravens, Lamar Jackson, fully healthy, Lamar the new coach. Yeah,
29:28
Speaker 2: new coach. Every time he gets a new offensive coordinator.
29:30
Speaker 2: I think he wins the MVP as well. Yeah. So
29:34
Speaker 2: all right, So I don't know much about their strength
29:37
Speaker 2: to schedule. I assume it's a little bit light because
29:40
Speaker 2: of their just because I believe we looked this up
29:44
Speaker 2: like two months ago. I think when it comes to Vegas,
29:47
Speaker 2: I think they were tied for the highest win total
29:50
Speaker 2: over under. Yeah, like being favored per game. I'm assuming
29:52
Speaker 2: the Rams have surpassed that now. But I think it
29:55
Speaker 2: a Vegas headed at twelve and a half wins, So
29:58
Speaker 2: I mean they're they're for five is and they won
30:01
Speaker 2: seven last year, right, Yeah.
30:03
Speaker 4: Their first Their first five and six is not bad.
30:05
Speaker 4: So the Colts, they looked really good before they got
30:09
Speaker 4: banged up a year ago. The Saints should be better,
30:12
Speaker 4: Cowboys should be better. But Tennessee, Eh, I'll take the Ravens.
30:16
Speaker 4: I'll take the Ravens over the Falcons. I'll take the
30:18
Speaker 4: Ravens over the Browns. So I mean at Worshire three
30:22
Speaker 4: and three, there's a chance for five and one. I
30:24
Speaker 4: did the first six games, Yep, Yeah, I like that
30:28
Speaker 4: pick a lot. I know Vegas likes it, so I
30:31
Speaker 4: like it. Lamar, I don't think you're gonna keep him
30:33
Speaker 4: down two years in a row like that.
30:35
Speaker 2: It's it's a rarity. If the Ravens, led by Lamar
30:38
Speaker 2: Jackson are winning seven or eight games, twelve and a
30:42
Speaker 2: half scenes a little steep, but I certainly can see
30:45
Speaker 2: them making the playoffs. So that gives us the Bengals
30:48
Speaker 2: and the Ravens making it out of the AFC North,
30:50
Speaker 2: which would put I got a Rod and the Steelers out,
30:53
Speaker 2: which I don't love. I hope he goes out on
30:56
Speaker 2: a good note this year. I hope the Steelers get
30:58
Speaker 2: back to at least winning a playoff. I hope that
31:01
Speaker 2: for him and his career. But on paper, looking at it,
31:04
Speaker 2: like I can see the argument for the Bengals and
31:06
Speaker 2: the Ravens certainly coming out of that division into the playoffs.
31:10
Speaker 2: All right, I uh so it's back to me, don't
31:15
Speaker 2: love the Cowboys, Taylor. So I love that you are
31:18
Speaker 2: the one that had to say them. I didn't want to.
31:23
Speaker 2: So in this this is gonna this is threatening us,
31:28
Speaker 2: like sound like we're pandering a little bit. I'm going
31:31
Speaker 2: to Saints and I think I'm going to Saints because
31:35
Speaker 2: I think it's gonna be a coin toss. I think
31:36
Speaker 2: it's gonna be a coin toss between who wins this division.
31:39
Speaker 2: I'm not saying because they're going to be one of
31:40
Speaker 2: the best fourteen teams in the NFL, not saying that certainly,
31:44
Speaker 2: but they are the weakest division in all of professional football,
31:48
Speaker 2: NNC South is it is up in the air. Who's
31:50
Speaker 2: gonna win this. I think got some new tools, got
31:54
Speaker 2: some new weapons on the team, A second year head
31:56
Speaker 2: coach or specifically a second year starting quarterback. And I
32:00
Speaker 2: always talk about how the biggest jump that can be
32:02
Speaker 2: made and should be made is between year one and
32:05
Speaker 2: two for a quarterback new weapons Jordan Tyson. We're seeing
32:10
Speaker 2: that now. I know there is a real depth issue
32:12
Speaker 2: and you have to strike a little bit of luck
32:14
Speaker 2: as a Saints with From an injury standpoint, you have
32:16
Speaker 2: to avoid too many injuries. It's football, I got it.
32:19
Speaker 2: There's gonna be some bruises, there's gonna be some spraining ankles.
32:22
Speaker 2: There's gonna be injuries that happen. Next man up mentality
32:25
Speaker 2: has to take place. But at a certain point you
32:28
Speaker 2: do start to run out of that high quality backup.
32:31
Speaker 2: So hopefully they can strike a little bit of luck.
32:34
Speaker 2: I'm gonna guess they do. I'm gonna hope that they do.
32:36
Speaker 2: We're not going to predict here on what August tenth
32:40
Speaker 2: that there are gonna be a lot of injuries. But
32:42
Speaker 2: there's just the Panthers are the Panthers. We know what
32:46
Speaker 2: they're gonna be. We know what Bryce Young is. We
32:48
Speaker 2: don't like there's not like this huge ceiling on him.
32:51
Speaker 2: We know what that team is. Okay, the Falcons, what
32:53
Speaker 2: are they gonna do at quarterback? They got two lefties that, yes,
32:56
Speaker 2: while talented, suffer from injuries. So what are they gonna do?
32:59
Speaker 2: They're very talent that they've paid. They've paid everybody now,
33:02
Speaker 2: They've paid Bejean, They've paid Drake London, They've played Kyle Pitts. Like,
33:05
Speaker 2: what does that depth look like after you've paid for
33:08
Speaker 2: all those positions. But and then the Bucks you go
33:11
Speaker 2: down to Tampa Bay. They probably are the Vegas favorite,
33:13
Speaker 2: I'm assuming, but of course there is a lot of
33:17
Speaker 2: drama happening with them, with Baker being mad at the Bucks,
33:20
Speaker 2: the Bucks being mad at Baker. Now, his whole situation
33:23
Speaker 2: could go one of two ways. He could go be
33:25
Speaker 2: an MVP this year. I could see him just being
33:28
Speaker 2: a little s like, just be like he's that kind
33:30
Speaker 2: of guy. Just to rub it in, he's gonna go
33:33
Speaker 2: have the best year of his career. I could see
33:34
Speaker 2: that happening. And if that happens, then yeah, the Bucks
33:36
Speaker 2: are probably going to be the leader in the clubhouse
33:39
Speaker 2: at the at the end of the season to make
33:40
Speaker 2: the playoffs out of the South. But I think we
33:44
Speaker 2: can comfortably say that there's not gonna be a wild
33:46
Speaker 2: card that comes out of the South. It's gonna be
33:48
Speaker 2: whoever wins the worst division in the NFL. Now, we've
33:52
Speaker 2: seen crazier things happen. We've seen what we thought was
33:55
Speaker 2: going to be the worst division come out and not
33:56
Speaker 2: be the worst division. So we'll see what happens. They
33:58
Speaker 2: would these inner division games and things like that. So
34:02
Speaker 2: Saints certainly can play with They're starting twenty two. They
34:04
Speaker 2: can play with anybody. I can say they can beat everybody.
34:07
Speaker 2: They can play with anybody. It's all about that injury
34:09
Speaker 2: in that depth. Well, we'll let rear an ugly head
34:13
Speaker 2: this year or not. We'll see. I'm gonna pick the Saints.
34:16
Speaker 2: I'm gonna pick the Saints. It's a coin flip to me. Yeah,
34:19
Speaker 2: it's tough injury. I mean they lost a key piece
34:22
Speaker 2: on the offense line earlier this week. They're gonna be
34:25
Speaker 2: raizor thing going in the rest of the season. Yep.
34:27
Speaker 2: We'll see in a couple of weeks too, what kind
34:30
Speaker 2: of moves as Mickey in the front office make with
34:32
Speaker 2: other cuts and round teams and filling in some gaps
34:34
Speaker 2: and some depth pieces. Sometimes you can find some dimes
34:37
Speaker 2: in the rough too. At the end of training camp, I.
34:39
Speaker 4: Think you made the right pick there, because again, if
34:41
Speaker 4: you don't think it's the Panthers.
34:43
Speaker 2: Most of us are down on the Falcons.
34:45
Speaker 4: Like you should be if you think it's a coin
34:46
Speaker 4: flow between the Saints and Bucks. If you're going off
34:49
Speaker 4: of vibes right now, like you mentioned, it ain't good
34:51
Speaker 4: vibes down there in Tampa.
34:53
Speaker 2: Baker didn't have a new deal.
34:54
Speaker 4: He's Matt Vidavea requested a trade and it's not practicing
34:57
Speaker 4: a training camp. That's their best interior eventive Lineman. So no,
35:01
Speaker 4: I'm with you, Like these are kind of looking up
35:04
Speaker 4: in New Orleans at least a little bit more so
35:05
Speaker 4: than Tampa. I think I think that was the correct
35:07
Speaker 4: pick in the division.
35:08
Speaker 2: Boom, I did it. Those are guarantees. It ain't no guests,
35:13
Speaker 2: all right, we got one more spot. Yeah, the playoffs,
35:16
Speaker 2: you go to the AFC. Yeah, I'm gonna go to
35:18
Speaker 2: the AFC, And I gotta be honest. The AFC is tougher.
35:22
Speaker 2: I think it's tougher. Like it's it's tough, more top heavy.
35:27
Speaker 2: It's kind of like the big ten SEC. Yeah.
35:29
Speaker 4: Yeah, NFC, you got about more teams that are really good.
35:32
Speaker 4: Outside of that, anybody can make it EFC. I mean
35:35
Speaker 4: there's just a lot of good teams. Yeah, there's just
35:37
Speaker 4: a lot of good teams. I'll go to Indianapolis Colts
35:40
Speaker 4: the just because of what we saw last year with
35:42
Speaker 4: Daniel Jones and what it looked like without him. So
35:45
Speaker 4: they go eight and nine. A year ago, they were
35:48
Speaker 4: eight and two and lost their final seven games of
35:51
Speaker 4: the season. Dude, they brought in Philip Rivers who hadn't
35:54
Speaker 4: played in two years.
35:55
Speaker 2: That's how bad their quarterback situation was. Eight and two
35:58
Speaker 2: and you don't make the play eight and who you
36:00
Speaker 2: lost seven games in a row?
36:02
Speaker 4: I mean you lost with the Chiefs in overtime, not
36:05
Speaker 4: a playoff team, and everybody.
36:06
Speaker 2: Else was good.
36:07
Speaker 4: I mean Texans, jag Seahawks, Niners, Jacks, Texans like that.
36:11
Speaker 4: That's six games in a row against playoff teams. That's
36:13
Speaker 4: a tough way to end the season. But it's just
36:17
Speaker 4: they weren't close games like you lost to the forty
36:19
Speaker 4: nine ers, forty eight to twenty seven, twenty three to
36:22
Speaker 4: seventeen to the Jaguars, like you weren't putting up points.
36:25
Speaker 4: You paid Jonathan Taylor, so your best players paid. You
36:29
Speaker 4: paid Alec Pierce. You know who your wide receiver one is.
36:31
Speaker 4: If Daniel Jones could come back to form that offense
36:35
Speaker 4: already played together last year and put up a lot
36:38
Speaker 4: of points in doing so. So if they're healthy, their
36:42
Speaker 4: schedules not the worst. Like it starts out bad Baltimore, Case, Houston, Washington,
36:48
Speaker 4: after that four Pittsburgh, What are they going to look like? Tennessee.
36:52
Speaker 4: I still don't think it's gonna be very good. Minnesota,
36:55
Speaker 4: I don't think it's gonna be very good. Jacksonville toss up, Dallas,
36:59
Speaker 4: toss up. Miami's not very good. So like your first
37:02
Speaker 4: four is bad, the next five games are all pretty winnable.
37:05
Speaker 4: You do that, you finish the season Tennessee, Cincinnati, Cleveland,
37:10
Speaker 4: all winnable games for the Colts, and then a game
37:13
Speaker 4: against the Jacksonville which could be for the division. So
37:16
Speaker 4: I mean, there's their schedules, not as bottom heavy as
37:19
Speaker 4: it was a year ago with six straight playoff game teams.
37:23
Speaker 4: But yeah, Daniel Jones is back. Their offense was rolling
37:26
Speaker 4: with him.
37:27
Speaker 2: Is he back the beginning of the season or is
37:29
Speaker 2: he gonna be a couple of weeks into it? I
37:31
Speaker 2: can't remember because the torn chilles, of course, it's always
37:34
Speaker 2: kind of hit or miss on how the body responds
37:36
Speaker 2: to the surgery, to the healing, to the recovery reason.
37:39
Speaker 4: Yeah, there's good reports out of camp. Okay, now, I
37:43
Speaker 4: mean if he misses a game, it's the opener. But
37:47
Speaker 4: and honestly, that's a tough game. Any they may lose
37:50
Speaker 4: that with Daniel Jones anyways.
37:51
Speaker 2: So it is wild to say, like the AFC South
37:55
Speaker 2: kind of been like the NFC South this year for
37:57
Speaker 2: a long time. Like the word division in football, they're sneaky,
38:03
Speaker 2: one of the best. Like like you if you draw
38:05
Speaker 2: the AFC South as the team, you have to have
38:08
Speaker 2: an enter division like the matchups with that is a
38:12
Speaker 2: tough division. What Jacksonville won jackson games a year ago.
38:16
Speaker 4: Jacksonville was a wild card team last year. You hope
38:18
Speaker 4: Tennessee is better with cam Ward. Ye, the Colts were
38:20
Speaker 4: a Daniel Jones injury away and then the Texas Texas.
38:23
Speaker 2: I mean that's defense. If C. J. Stroud just plays
38:26
Speaker 2: like a pedestrian NFL quarterback and not like a high
38:29
Speaker 2: school quarterback like he did last year, like they are dangerous,
38:33
Speaker 2: Like that defense is for real, for real scary. So
38:37
Speaker 2: that's a tough That is a very tough division. And
38:41
Speaker 2: you look to your point with the AFC, like you
38:43
Speaker 2: look around the AFC there is at least two teams
38:45
Speaker 2: in every division that you're like, yeah, I could see
38:47
Speaker 2: that there's a path to the playoffs for them. Go
38:50
Speaker 2: to the East, you got the Bills and the Patriots. Patriots,
38:52
Speaker 2: of course, what the how they did last year in.
38:54
Speaker 4: The I mean you got in the West, there's three
38:57
Speaker 4: there's three Broncos Chargers, and if my Homes gets hot,
39:01
Speaker 4: you know they could still make it.
39:02
Speaker 2: Yep. And then we'll see what the AFC North brings
39:06
Speaker 2: us this year. The North the weakest division in the
39:09
Speaker 2: ANFC this year, right to go into the year, to
39:13
Speaker 2: go into the season.
39:14
Speaker 4: Yes, and a lot of people a couple of years
39:15
Speaker 4: ago thought it was the toughest.
39:17
Speaker 2: And by the end of this season it could again
39:20
Speaker 2: be playing like one of the toughest. If the Bengals
39:24
Speaker 2: can figure out how to play defense and Joe Burrow
39:26
Speaker 2: stays healthy, that we know what that offense is going
39:28
Speaker 2: to be. Lamar gets back into his regular form and
39:33
Speaker 2: hopefully Aaron can have a great last season. That that
39:37
Speaker 2: could end up being a really really good division as well. So,
39:40
Speaker 2: I mean, to your point, the AFC from top to
39:42
Speaker 2: bottom a lot more loaded than the NFC. But the
39:45
Speaker 2: NFC of course top heavy with the Rams, the Seahawks,
39:50
Speaker 2: what I think will be the Lions again that are
39:51
Speaker 2: going to bounce back very strong. So interesting stuff. So
39:56
Speaker 2: we do we do know that probably more than likely,
39:59
Speaker 2: based on the average of every year, there's gonna be
40:02
Speaker 2: five to seven, so about six new teams that are
40:05
Speaker 2: gonna make the NFL playoffs. So really fun to kind
40:07
Speaker 2: of go around the NFL. Now, what we didn't talk
40:09
Speaker 2: about was who was getting dropped from the playoffs. They
40:12
Speaker 2: We'll get into that a little bit tomorrow, but uh yeah,
40:15
Speaker 2: a lot of interesting stuff there out of the NFL.
40:17
Speaker 2: So we'll see how it plays out. But you know,
40:19
Speaker 2: more of the story of Saints make the playoffs. Come
40:21
Speaker 2: on now, all right, get your questions in for ask
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40:29
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Speaker 1: Tigers turn talkers. This is off the bench.
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42:25
Speaker 2: So let's get to you a little. Ask the bench here, Richard,
42:28
Speaker 2: You ready, yes, sir? All right, Hasha, that's a bench
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42:44
Speaker 2: the first five games? Now, I'll give you the first
42:46
Speaker 2: five games, Richie. At the Lions at Baltimore, home against
42:50
Speaker 2: the Raiders, home against the Falcons home against the Vikings.
42:54
Speaker 2: Three and two, three and two. I like that little
42:58
Speaker 2: tiny Kyler not gonna get it done. So they're gonna
43:01
Speaker 2: start off oh and two. Yeah, the Ravens is gonna
43:04
Speaker 2: be tough. Those are two tough road games to start with, Taylor,
43:07
Speaker 2: what do you think.
43:08
Speaker 4: I think that's I think they I think they actually
43:10
Speaker 4: starting two and yeah, three and two.
43:12
Speaker 2: I think I think that's The Crusts are gonna be
43:14
Speaker 2: so interesting to me this year. I think they got
43:17
Speaker 2: weapons to think Kyler is going to be really good
43:19
Speaker 2: this year. I mean, what really good is is that's
43:22
Speaker 2: in the beholder. Yeah, I guess. But like I think
43:25
Speaker 2: you're gonna see better Kyler this year than you ever
43:27
Speaker 2: saw in Arizona. Seem the one nine games a year ago.
43:31
Speaker 2: It's the one nine games with bad quarterback with nine
43:34
Speaker 2: playing quarterback for you. All right, let's see here. Let's
43:39
Speaker 2: see here. Okay. If you had to choose only one
43:44
Speaker 2: destination for every future vacation, where is it? It's tough?
43:51
Speaker 2: You beachky or like a mountain guy. I like both.
43:54
Speaker 2: You know, I grew up on the beach. I'm I'm
43:57
Speaker 2: not a big sand guy going out there and getting sandy,
44:00
Speaker 2: Like my parents live on the beach still, And when
44:02
Speaker 2: I leave something in the boat, I'm like, god, dangn
44:05
Speaker 2: I don't want to walk out there with sand all
44:07
Speaker 2: over me again just to get my wall. But now
44:11
Speaker 2: I been going to a mountain home up in North Carolina,
44:14
Speaker 2: and I did really enjoy it. I think I enjoyed
44:15
Speaker 2: going to the mountains more than the beach. You know, yeah,
44:18
Speaker 2: I would pick. I would pick the mountains for like
44:20
Speaker 2: a I would do like a fly fishing trip in
44:22
Speaker 2: the mountains, like in the heat that we live in
44:25
Speaker 2: the heat, so getting escaping from that, doing a fly
44:27
Speaker 2: visitor like beaches are great, but I would rather just
44:30
Speaker 2: like the scenery. It's an event to do, it's a
44:32
Speaker 2: thing to do that I and I really enjoyed it. Yeah,
44:35
Speaker 2: and I did it. I hadn't done it in a
44:36
Speaker 2: long time. And we did it to cut to do
44:38
Speaker 2: it in May and we had just a fantastic time.
44:40
Speaker 2: Beautiful mountains, beautiful scenery. But I would rather go to
44:42
Speaker 2: the mountains than the beach. That's just me, Taylor, What
44:45
Speaker 2: do you think.
44:45
Speaker 4: Yeah, mountains. I mean Montana, Wyoming, we loved and we
44:49
Speaker 4: went to Yellowstone a couple of summers ago. Said anywhere
44:51
Speaker 4: in that area would be great.
44:53
Speaker 5: Loop, I'm going mountains, North Carolina some wearing Maggie Valley, Wyoming.
44:58
Speaker 2: So my parents have a house in Earns for North Carolina.
45:01
Speaker 2: Oh No, and they got three or four acres up there.
45:03
Speaker 2: They're actually there right now. Awesome. I love that. He
45:05
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45:07
Speaker 2: like seven or eight year out in the field. He's watching.
45:09
Speaker 2: All of a sudden they scattered. He showed a big
45:11
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45:14
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Speaker 2: know it, change one thing about Baton Rouge. What would
45:23
Speaker 2: it be better? Traffic? Traffic, traffic, traffic. I would change
45:27
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45:30
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45:36
Speaker 2: I mean, I would just change the heat, just drop
45:37
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