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Estimated 210 Million Viewers · Sports Exchange

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Good night, evenigure. Everybody out, Welcome to another addiction, other Sports
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Exchange. My name is Scott Rogan off the MotorCity Man Mole. I had
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a great show in the MotorCity Man Mole Show with Dave Bradley. My god,
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this guy was unbelievable. We talked about Manchester United, we talked about
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soccer American football, and Dave was a great guest. So if you haven't
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had a chance to look it over, look into the Motor City Mad Miles
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Show and I guarantee you you will not be disappointed. Well, let's talk
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about the Sports Exchange tonight. Jb Ellis covered the game last night out in
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Chicago and he covered the Saint John's the Paul game. He'll get it.
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It's the recap. In a moment, we're going to talk about some NFL
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and we're gonna talk about Russell Wilson and the Florida Panthers made a big trade
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today. So with that said, let me welcome the crew. My longtime
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Sports Change partner, Georgia Acorn, Hey, good to be with you guys
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tonight, looking forward to the show. And Jacob Christner, I guess we're
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gonna see you a lot the next couple of days. Believe me well,
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and I enjoyed this, and this is the first of a double header of
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the two straight I always enjoy it. Well, we're glad to have you.
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And last, but not least, mister Ellis he got to sit in
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the press spot press chair like George and I. Welcome to the real media,
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mister Ellis. When you cover a game, what's going on? Not
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the first game, but but you look like you we're going on. I'm
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exhausted. It's been a long day, long long day. But until you
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get sixty one in their long days, then we'll see what happens. I
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should point out everybody, for those of you that are watching that, yours
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truly will be covering the twelve hours of Seabring next weekend over at that famous
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track. I'm looking forward to going to it a couple of days. I'll
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have a little procedure on Thursday, bouncing back Friday and Saturday, and what
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do you know, who knows who's gonna happen after that, So I'll be
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you know, twelve hours versus twenty four is different, but anytime you get
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to go to Seabring, it is always a treat. So I'll have some
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programming next week pertaining the previewing that. Right. So that said, the
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first segment belongs to JB Ellis, who covered the Saint John's into Paul game.
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All right, JB, why don't you give us a recap of what
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took place over at the wind Trust Arena. I believe it's called correct Yeah,
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wind Trust Arena. So Saint John's on the bubble, have a three
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game road trip. They won all three games, huge game against the Paul
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last night to Paul is winless in the conference. They were I want to
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say I would eighteen at that point. They have one more game to go
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to Paul and sort of Saint John's big game coming up against Georgetown on Saturday.
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For Saint Johns, that'll get them to nineteen wins before the Big East
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Tournament, which they're gonna probably have to win at least one game to make
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the NCAA tournament. Uh. You know, game started out. It was
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tight for the first twelve minutes. Uh, Saint Johns was up I think
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twenty eight to twenty two or twelve minutes with eight minutes to go in the
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first half. Then the wheels fell off for de Paul. You see that
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they were undersized, under manned. You know, they just didn't have They
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don't have the talent unfortunately, to compete with the schools of the Big East.
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At the moment they have an interim coach. Obviously, the programs in
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a little bit of turmoil. They fought hard, but by halftime it was
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a twenty six point lead. The second half was more of the same.
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Saint John's went up by forty four at one point before Rick Patito emptied his
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bench and until Paul came back a little bit to cut it down to I
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believe twenty seven was the final uh one to oh four to uh I believe
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seventy seven. I don't know the notes in front of me, but you
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know it was a dominant wind for SA John's. You know, Chris Ledloman,
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Yeah, he and Pringle had dominant games. Soriato played okay, he
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didn't have to do too much. He's probably their best player and he didn't
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do much throughout the game, but he really didn't need to. You know,
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Paul just unfortunately not able to compete with the talent they have on that
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roster. All right, as I understand, I believe that paul is Owen
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nineteen in the conference. They lost thirty one straight in conference play. Tough
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way to go for them. To me, it's a school that we all
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know, Ray Meyer, Joey Meyer. But they they're in the New Arena,
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which I know win Trust is obviously a lot smaller, more cozier place.
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But you know, you look at the fact that Saint John's had something
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to play for. Also, they're on the bubble. You're the only reason
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I even bother to watch that game, just to you know, Alice,
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Okay, Otherwise I wasn't going to watch it. I had a very demanding
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procedure earlier that day. But because you were there, I watched that.
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So when you talk about you being tired, oh my goodness. But now
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seriously kidding aside, you know the policy proud program. Whoever gets that job
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will be going into the Chicago areas just of how they recruit the area and
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what philosophy that they have to try to bring it back to it is John.
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I mean, they're on the bubble right now. And Rick Patino a
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few weeks we will call out his team in public, and now they seem
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to be responding to what Rick Patino was doing one more question that I want
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to ask you, Joe about the game before we get onto the other topics.
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Also, Blake, Josh, we will be talking Panthers talk at the
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end of the show, so I hope you can stay with us there as
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well. Comments on that. You know, Rick Patino to me, obviously
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loves the metropolitan New York area. He's there with Saint John's. What was
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he like at his press conference? You know, he's certain You never lack
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a great quote from Rick Patino, for sure, but you had an opportunity,
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Joe to get a question in and what was your question? And what
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was he like overall with the media. So I asked him about the team,
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you know, coming into their own and their three game winning streak on
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the road. You know, what it was like, what was making the
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team click. He was really humble. He was happy with the way they
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were playing offensively, defensively, he thinks they could do things better. They're
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not guarding the three point line very well at all. Before I got a
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chance to ask my question, he was very gracious with the Paul. You
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know, he's he made it clear that they're going through rough times. He
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did not want to embarrass them. That wasn't the goal, you know,
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kind of insinuating they took their foot off the gas the last ten minutes when
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they were up by forty four, which I completely understand. I mean to
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me, to win by forty four twenty seven twenty it really doesn't make much
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of a difference in a game like that, and if that makes the difference
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of making the tournament or not, it's a horrible system. You know.
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It should have been to punish the team that loses the wins of wins a
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win, you know, especially when it was a dominant win, you know,
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throughout the whole game. Well, in the case of Saint John's,
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there's no way they couldn't score one hundred. I was watching the game.
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They were too close to it. Anyways. They just didn't have to go
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any higher than they did, like you say, because they took their foot
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off the gas. So we all know that Rick Patino's probably been on both
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sides of it anyhow, So you know, when you're a coach, and
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you're a veteran coach and you've been on both ends, you can appreciate it.
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So, you know, it does demonstrate a lot of class, and
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let's not forget the fact that Rick Patino did win a national championship at the
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University of Kentucky University of I don't want to get into Louisville stuff because it's
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irrelevant for this conversation, but you know, Rick Pottino's team will the fate
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will be decided in the Big East Tournament, which, by the way,
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you'll be providing US coverage next week. What we're going to be doing,
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folks in that scenario is we'll have our four people here in the studio and
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Joe will go ahead and contact us remotely to give us an update, like
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a little segment from the Big East Tournament next week, and we'll get into
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more details there. So good work last night, Joe. How do you
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feel finally to be able to sit in my chair to know that you know,
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Unlike what you've done in the Super Bowl, where it's a casual interview
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here, now you find yourself under a lot more pressure, knowing that everything
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is moving much quicker, a much faster pace than what you're doing compared to
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what you're you know, you were you were. I feel like yesterday you
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were a pish out of water yesterday for the first time and you'll only get
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better with more game. But how did you feel? Yeah, it was
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really comfortable. I mean, you know, just observing everything around me.
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It's it's basketball. You know, I know enough about basketball to understand the
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game. I know the Saint John's team pretty well. To Paul, I
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don't know as well as I should. But you know, they didn't have
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much to talk about it, fortunately, so hopefully they can read about well.
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But you know, I think it's a great experience to be there,
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and you know, obviously it'll be more and more as time goes on.
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Well, I mean we're talking not only about the team show. We're talking
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about journalists experience. Okay. Now you're the guy who's the eyes over at
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the arena show, okay, where it's up to you to make sure that
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you send the right message and paint the right picture, okay, to let
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people know. And now you're the one doing something that you haven't done a
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lot with. You know you're gonna do a lot more. I'll make darns
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certain of that. Anyways, as we find different assignments along the way,
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how did it feel for you where I'm the one who's going to make the
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decisions what I'm putting on. Now, I'll have a lot of time to
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do it. Let me tell you, Joe, here's what's gonna happen when
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the time comes that you cover a spring training game. I'll tell you what.
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Okay, you'll be the most humbled individual on the planet, because when
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planning and beating don't work out, then you're gonna be scramming for ceed D
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and E. But let's keep the focus on what you had done yesterday,
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knowing that now you are the point man, Okay, about what you had
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to do at a much quicker pace, you know, I mean it's natural.
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I'm used to adversity and thinking on my feet. That's, you know,
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just the new challenge of a new day. Okay, fair enough,
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Let's go to the chat room. Panthers are wild here in this chat room,
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and we'll go. We'll start with Blake. Okay, let's go panthers.
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Blake stick around and Josh stick around. We'll be talking about Tara Senko
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to the last topic of the night. And yes, Parasinko is the name
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of the game. And hello guys, Hello, Rolf Williams. Good stuff.
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All right, all right, we'll go on to a couple of NFL
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topics. Custom survey from Nielsen and the NFL reveals the Super Bowl fifty eight
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reach an estimated two hundred and ten million viewers. Had that story in the
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two to twenty four version of The Tribune. All right, we'll start where
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we left off and that show, ellis, what are your thoughts about those
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numbers? Listen, you know the numbers are crazy. I don't. It's
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just one of those things where they just keep going up, and you know,
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it's wild to take George, Well, yeah, I mean, you
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know, this is America's past time. Let's face it, this is one
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of the best days of the year for a sports fan, especially those that
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are our football fans. And it's not surprising to me because you had a
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great storyline going there with San Francisco and Kansas City and both the teams that
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a lot of the experts picked would be in the championship game turned out that
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way. Obviously, the Lions lost out, and you know, other good
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teams weren't there, Baltimore included, they had good Sea. Now, it
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doesn't surprise me in the least because the Super Bowl is such a ratings hog
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and the sky's the limit. I think that I think that things will just
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continue to grow. I mean, the league is very popular all over and
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you had two, like I said, two good teams playing Scott Jacob.
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Oh. Yeah. One of the things I always looked at something like this
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was you're gonna have You're gonna have those kind of games. Some of them
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are really bad. I still remember the Rams and the Patriots, which I
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thought would be an absolute zoom was thirteen to three. So they just get
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those boring games and you get these ones, which was good from the shot
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it was gonna be. It was great for the two weeks and you just
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had a really nice game. And I'll tell you, both guys played well.
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You had brought perty absolutely sticking with the greatest quarterback in the league.
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Say with him. For a young guy like that, that's wonderful. It
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wasn't a bad game. Nothing really happened, and everybody had to enjoy it.
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It was like and it went all the way to the end and the
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least. That's the most you can think of it. You know. The
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only thing I'll add to this whole thing and number one, two hundred and
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ten million viewers, and you also add a lot of people watching those expensive
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ads, and you know who got back with those ads. You got two
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hundred and ten million people watching and that. I'm not getting into what the
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ads costs are, but I would say the advertiser has definitely got their money's
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Yes, we do broadcast live on Facebook, lenkedin Twitter and YouTube of over
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more information afterwards. More NFL Conversation. The NFL announces that twenty twenty fourth
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salary cap at two hundred and fifty five point four four million dollars per club.
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All right, you know what, George, doesn't matter how much money
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that the clubs are going to get. Yeah, it does matter. I
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mean, you've got capologists on every team of multiple guys that and ladies that
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know the salary cap and how to maneuver it, and dead money versus real
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money and all that fun stuff that goes with it. So I'll tell you
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what you know. I think I think that was met with really good enthusiasm
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when the cap was expanded. I think that they realized that costs are going
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up all around and players are demanding more agents are demanding more money. But
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it takes a lot of money to run a franchise. I think the league
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is, you know, is realizing that, you know, that that cap
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had to be higher. Now that being said, you don't just throw money
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away. The good general managers, the good front offices, those are the
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ones that can manipulate and use those those guidelines to the best of their ability.
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I mean, you know, it's a typical situation where you just can't
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go out and pay your quarterback this and expect to still have enough money left.
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I mean, but every position, every position on the team is important,
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but the skill positions like quarterback and I know Melt talks about it a
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lot. Running back some people don't believe in that, but wide receivers and
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of course on the d line. But all that being said, yeah,
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I wasn't surprised that they raised at Scott. I really wasn't. And I
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think it'll be good for football, for the teams that are trying to mount
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these challenges to win a title. All right, let me add something for
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our turnover to Joe number one. Everything that I talk about promo wise to
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be seen at the bottom of our ticker as well, so you'll find out
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that a lot of things we have because you know, we have a strong
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television YouTube audience as well. And it also talks about Sideline Sports's website as
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well. So if you're you know you want to see it visually, we
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run it concurrently throughout the entire broadcast. I try to get to at least
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once or twice an hour for the most part, so you'll see it,
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you'll hear it. You want to make sure everybody knows how to find us
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in the different ways. Pointing that out early Joe Ellis, Okay, does
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a salary cap mean anything? So the NFL is obviously a business in decline,
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But at eight point one six billion dollars league wide thirty two team salary
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cap, obviously this is a business that's hurting that they could spend eight point
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one six billion dollars on players alone, forget about the rest of the staff.
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You know, I would hate to own an NFL franchise because you know,
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we were spending eight billion just on players. How much must they make
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and we had two hundred and ten billion watch the Super Bowl? They're eight
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hundred eight billion on play salary. Yeah, I think it's just a bad
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business model. Let's tear down the whole league. But I did I did
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hear from the Giants general manager at the combine. He actually was surprised that
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it went up as much as it did. He in his estimation had a
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I think at two thirty five, and it went to two fifty five.
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So if they were very happy with that, because it'll be more money to
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spend, I'm trying to determine right now, Joe, if you're giving me
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the straightforward polker face about being sarcastic at two fifty five point four because I've
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only gotten to know you pretty well. You know, listen, you know,
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Okay, thank you. I'm just kidding. Okay, So I'm trying
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to make it now. It's all fun in the family, man. Lately,
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family members can afford to satirize each other because we've all been a part
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of these bron jokes. But yeah, all right, Well with that said,
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Jacob, go ahead. Well, you know the thing is, like
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we said, two hundred and fifty five million. You want to know what
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these are for, don't you. They're able to aim me to try to
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save the really stupid teams like will say Denver you know, who's basically right
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now has to pay eighty five million in dead cap, which have all thirty
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two teams other than the team Okay, I'll just say this, other than
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the teams that already had their quarterbacks. There's some of these teams right now
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that I can name one right now that you need to jump in. They'll
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have more one million. So that I'm just saying. But the main thing
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about it is they're trying to say. I believe they're trying to save some
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of these teams. New Orleans is another team that has some dead cap problems.
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There are some other teams that have dead cap problems. I think they're
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there to save them more than anything else. And then plus the fact a
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lot of these stars won't just go to LA or New York. A lot
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of them will go to any part of the country, just depending on which.
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Yeah, that's a good point too, because one about the National Football
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League compared to a lot of other sports, as you'll find a lot of
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your marquee players like to go to the Chicago's and New York's and the LA's
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because they think they're going to be a bigger market. Deals and we're even
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in the NBA. A guy that got us and at Compo, for example,
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in State Milwaukee make big bucks there. Yes, is there a pun
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intended with the bucks? Yeah, probably Bucks whatever, But the whole point
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is should keep the stars in the smaller market, so to speak, and
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they don't have to go to the obvious markets. With that said, who
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did I leave off the deer? And who's last on this one? You
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got us? Huh? You got us? Oh? I did good stuff?
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All right? Well me? And then how much money you spend,
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it's how well you spend it wisely? Okay, when we learned anything from
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Major League Baseball, it's not the big spenders that go out there and win
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the World Championships. Okay, it's how well you spend it Wisely, til
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fifty five is a nice number, but the reality is you got to make
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sure that that number covers additional players beyond what you have, you know,
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if you're gonna have injuries and whatnot later on. And of course you also
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have to factor in your rookie wage scale as well. So what that said,
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We're gonna be announcing a new segment in a little while, actually right
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now, our final topics of the night. Since we are a South Florida
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based production company, there will be a South Florida topic from one of the
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four major sports every single week beginning to night. What does that mean for
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the Panther fans sitting in the chat room? There's only two more topics before
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we talk about the Florida Panthers or stay with us, all right? But
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with that said, where will Russell Wilson land Denver? Like Jacob alluded to,
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there's an eighty five million dollars dead cap hit, all right, Jab,
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you practically let the cat out of the bag. So where do you
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think Wilson's gonna land. Let's just be realistic. Let's just probably say,
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if there's no Kirk, Cousin's probably a Minnesota or the Raiders or something.
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I just won't even in Chicago. One million dollars, hello, people,
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one million plus you draft a Lord draft quarterback, which is less guaranteed money,
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so you can go get some real weapons. But the realistic Parsons the
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Bears aren't smart. Let's say the Raiders of the Vikings. I want to
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bring out Troy Garry's comments here. It's like we're gonna have another not only
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we gonna have another writer, but you know what, Troy, just what
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the responsibility of writing It might end up bringing you on the air sometime.
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Would you be interested coming on Troy to talk about the ens basketball tournament?
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You have an open invitation. All you gotta do is reach out to me
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and we'll schedule you. So they are covering the Big Ten Conference women Prince
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basketball tournament. I'll write a few articles for the software inter you. Not
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only will you do that, you'll be writing for the Sideline Sports as well,
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since the two of us work all together. So Troy looking forward to
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having you on, I've seen a lot of great things about you. We'll
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be glad to get you more active with the program. So all right,
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So with that said, Joe, where do you think Russell's gonna land?
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You know, it's just said what Denver did. And you know, Russ
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is going to get paid no matter where he goes. He's going to take
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the league minimum to play, and he's still going to get paid from Denver.
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You know, the Giants really don't have a quarterback, so you know,
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that's where I would love to see him go. In Chicago, they
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could have justin fields, so they don't need him, and they have the
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double one pick so they don't need him. The Giants we have, we
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have a guy by the name of Daniel Jones, the guy who's you know,
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trips over his own feet, can't throw the ball to the correct color
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jersey. You know, he's not very talented. We spent a lot of
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money on him, Russell Wilson for almost nothing, and we can see what
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a good quarterback can do. And not that he's a great quarterback, because
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he's really not at this point of his career, but compared to Daniel Jones,
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he's a Hall of Famer, you know, But then again, you
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know, most people are Hall of Famers compets Daniel Jones. Mark Sedge has
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conna be a Hall of Famer compet to Daniel Jones. But now that I
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lobby for the Giants to go out and make this move, I don't think
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he ends up there because the Giants still two things in a way where they
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think outside the box. Everything is very clean. We're gonna stay with Daiel
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Jones till he can't play anymore. Then we're gonna get somebody else who's not
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very good too. But I could see him, you know, Chicago I
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think would probably not do it as well. Minnesota I think would be a
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great fit of cousins walks, but I don't see him walking there. Maybe
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the Raiders of New Orleans would be my two choices, all right, George,
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what about you? Well? I think the Raiders obviously, and the
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Vikings you guys have talked about. You know, Pittsburgh's in a situation now
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with Kenny Pickett. I mean, he's still young and developing, but there
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are a lot of critics out there, you know, on his back in
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Pittsburgh, New England. Don't forget New England. Of course they've had a
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tough time since Brady left. And who's the other one I was thinking about?
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The Atlanta Falcons two is another one that might be interested, although I
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think they would probably more sol target, you know, somebody like Kirk Cousins
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if indeed Minnesota tries to move him, and then we don't know about Justin
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Fields as as he might come into the marketplace too if Chicago decides to trade
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him. So there's those are my top team, Scott, the Raiders,
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and of course the Vikings, and then Atlanta Pittsburgh sort of on the outside.
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I'll go back to the chat room, Candy. I'll start off with
24:33
Ralph Williams. Okay, Denver gets tagging on their face. Yeah, they
24:40
probably do, but Sean Payton and Russell Wilson won't be exchanging Christmas cards anytime
24:45
soon. Troy Gary Raiders are my prediction for russ Interesting. I could see
24:51
that one the Giants should not be given that big contract by Ralph Williams.
24:53
And finally mister Pittsburgh himself, Ralph Williams, Pittsburgh not interested. Wilson.
24:59
I'll tell you what I throw in at you, guys that you probably don't
25:02
think about it. If the Tampa Bay Buccaneers do not resign Baker Mayfield,
25:07
you've got a minimum contract walking in there. He'll be surprised if Russell Williams,
25:11
Russell, I'm sorry, Russell Wilson, Okay, could end up in
25:15
Tampa. That's my wild card. Think about it, Camp, Baker Mayfield
25:21
will not give them a hometown discount? Why not? What's they don't have
25:25
any comfortable in Kyle trash right, the guy that they thought would be the
25:29
heir apparent. So I think Russell Wilson could be a Tampa Bay Buck.
25:33
Some of the other picks that you guys have made make a lot of sense,
25:36
But I'm trying to be different, all right, Jacob, Obviously you'll
25:40
certainly know how to You know sign language, so now I'll let you go
25:41
ahead and transfer that sign language. Jab. I will give you Justin Fields
25:48
if you like him so darn much. Because and I don't want Caleb Williams.
25:52
I sure as hell they want him, So it's like you can have
25:56
Justin his time is hit in Chicago. Guys like I want the one million,
26:00
I want the less guaranteed money on the draft, and I want the
26:03
weapons. So it's like you, I'll give you Justin Fields for the Giants,
26:10
please. They can have Russ and then they can get Barkley the money
26:14
and then go aside whoever else they need to get. But that's why they
26:18
don't. They don't figure that out, you know. But it is what
26:21
it is, you know. That's why I'm not a GM eight point one
26:25
six billion dollars in wasted money. That's way. That's ridiculous, you know.
26:33
But good for the NFL players. I give them a lot of credit
26:37
that they take a physical beating. I know they work hard. Most of
26:41
them. I would say ninety nine percent of them are you know, hard
26:45
workers that deserve every penny they get. They have a limited career compared to
26:49
other sports, so good for them, get every penny they can get because
26:52
I'm sure if they're getting eight hundred, I mean eight point one six billion,
26:57
imagine what the owners are getting. Well. The other thing else about
27:02
Justin Fields is I think the logical place to put him with being Atlanta.
27:07
I think that that's where he should go. I really do, Cousins.
27:11
I think George's right could conceivably stay in Minnesota, although unless it Cousins is
27:15
using Atlanta to try to get Minnesota to raid to increase the ante a little
27:21
bit. But I don't know. I like Russell Wilson in Tampa, and
27:25
I could see justin Field's definitely being down in Atlanta. I mean, you
27:30
know, either place you go, you know, again, it depends on
27:34
where the bargains are. I mean, Baker Mainfield earned the right to get
27:37
a raise, is what he did. He took a proved deal a year
27:41
ago following Tom Brady and got him in the playoffs now again by the same
27:48
token neck and backfire because the Buccaneers believed in him, and you don't know
27:52
whether he's gonna fall into another situation where the system isn't as good they want
27:56
in Tampa, Baker, you may want to stay there. It's getting the
28:00
money right as well. So you know. So Ralph Williams said needs Ralph
28:06
Raheem Morris needs a qv desnit red or not not again. Yeah, well
28:10
that's what I've alluded to, Ralph. Okay, they know they need a
28:12
quarterback there. If they had a quarterback, Raredee Morris would not be that
28:17
head coach there. Okay, Ralph go there, you go? All right,
28:21
Well, our final topic of the night for you Panther fans that have
28:25
been patiently waiting. Now we will talk about it. Does the Florida Panthers
28:30
acquisition of Vladimir Tarasenko from the Ottawa Senators for two draft picks make them favorites
28:36
to win the Stanley Cup. Bear in mind, the Vegas Golden Knights are
28:40
starting to make some moves. They're the defending champion as well. But the
28:44
Panthers entered to Wednesday's play with the league's best record at forty three sixteen and
28:51
four. I'll say this from past experience. I'll turn it over the crew.
28:56
Teams that generally lose in the Stanley Cup Finals that first time and are
29:02
good enough to get back to conceivably win. I remember years ago in the
29:06
Detroit Pistons. This time I'll make the reference. Okay, George different Sport
29:10
lost to the Lakers in the NBA Finals in seven. They came back and
29:15
won the following year. Because they're hungrier. They are hungrier, and I
29:18
think that the Florida Panthers and the Eye of the Tiger, this is a
29:22
move that's impactful. I believe that they can win it all. So with
29:27
that said, I'll turn over to jb Ellis, what do you think.
29:30
Listen, when you're in first place and you're cruising throughout the season, but
29:37
you want to win, you do exactly what you do at the trade deadline.
29:41
You get a better flyer, you give up some future capital because you
29:45
want to win now. I mean, do they have a chance. They're
29:48
hungry, They're gonna be But the NHL playoffs is one of the greatest playoffs
29:53
because it comes down to hot goaltending. Whatever goaltender gets hot for that month
29:59
and a half two month stretch, you know that's the team that's gonna end
30:03
up pointing. But the Panthers have just to get a shot as anybody else.
30:07
This was a great move. I give them a lot of credit for
30:11
trying to do something to make this team even better when they didn't have to.
30:15
The team's good enough already, but they said, you know what,
30:17
let's let's make it even better. So you know, I applaud them to
30:21
that. I've never met Bill Zeno, I've only heard a lot of things
30:23
from my colleagues there. One of the most savvy general managers out there.
30:27
I do believe with Joshua Bursting that another move is likely on the way.
30:32
But the one thing that can't be lost sight about with the Panthers is now
30:36
they put together five good years in a row and they haven't had that type
30:40
of sustained success throughout their history, so you know, you finally have a
30:44
general manager in place. I think they would have done well with Joel quinnvill
30:48
had there have not been that controversy there. They picked it up with Andrew
30:51
Brunette and then they made the decision to go to Paul Maurice and we realized
30:56
and when I realized that they made it in by the skin of their teeth
30:57
last year on the final game of the Air and they took it all the
31:00
way to the finals. So another move could be I mean, let's face
31:04
it, you have Friday's trade deadline looming and the Panthers made one big splash.
31:10
But again, you still have to keep up with the Edmonton Oilers and
31:12
the Vegas Golden Knights because they believe they can win it as well and don't
31:15
come out the Vancouver Connective been playing exceptionally well all year, or the New
31:21
York Rangers as well. But I like where the Panthers are headed. And
31:25
you know what you've got him. If you really feel you can go for
31:27
it, you do. Sergei Bobrovski obviously has done a marvelous job as well.
31:33
But that said, George Khorn, what do you think you think the
31:37
Panthers have done enough to go all the way with the Tarasenko move. Yeah,
31:41
they got him from the Senator Scott and all they had to give up
31:45
was a conditional twenty twenty four to fourth round pick. But if they get
31:48
to the championship and sip from the Cup, it'll be a third round pick.
31:53
If the Panthers win it all. I like the move. It makes
31:56
a lot of sense. He's a legitimate tops winger. He's got tons of
32:00
playoff experience. Let me throw these numbers out at you guys. So this
32:06
year he's got seventeen goals and forty one points so far, but listen of
32:08
the playoff experience. This man has forty four goals and sixty four points in
32:15
ninety seven postseason games, and of course he helped the Blues win the Stanley
32:22
Cup back in twenty nineteen. So yeah, I like the move. I
32:25
mean, he's a pending on restricted free agent, but these kind of moves
32:30
are made and obviously I've seen them over the years, my hometown Red Wings
32:36
have made these kind of moves. But I agree with you Scott, that
32:39
is a lot to be said for that fact that you mentioned about how close
32:43
they got last year and how they sensed it, they tasted it, they
32:47
watched that another team on the ice hoist that trophy and the Stanley Cup Las
32:53
Vegas, and now, yes they're a hungry team. I agree the Florida
32:58
Panthers are serious as well as well that they should be. And before I
33:01
turn over to Jacob, at one point that came in my mind. Do
33:05
you think that Toronto Raptors are upset that they traded for Kawhi Leonard for one
33:10
year and all they did was win an NBA championships. The answer is no,
33:15
they got an NBA championship. It worked out, Kawhi went to the
33:19
Clippers and the Raptors have a championship banner in Toronto. All right, with
33:22
that, set back to the chat room, Joshua Bernstein, Okay, you
33:27
got a couple of points on stronger team than this year than last. Of
33:30
course that all you had news. Look at the regular season record they are
33:31
by that and then the other one that Joshua talked about. I thought the
33:36
Panthers would be out of Florida before we talk about them contending for a cup.
33:38
Well, josh as I mentioned in the first yeow, there's perception,
33:43
there's reality, and they're very much alive. And the other thing that Panthers
33:46
fans should realize is they have a new practice facility over at the War Memorial
33:51
Auditorium site. Upgrade for where they're at. Although when I was around,
33:54
the team were off in the ice nd N. Coral Springs is a lot
33:59
easier for me to get to, but they wanted to make sure that their
34:00
fans in central Fort Laudervale had more access to what they were doing. All
34:06
right. With that said, Jacob Krisher's been patiently waiting for a crack at
34:08
the catch. What do you got? You're talking to the ultimate Blues fan.
34:14
So Tara Senko very much. And the finally the cup when we finally
34:20
got it taken out Boston at seven. Let me say this, I know
34:23
Tara Sinkle was like in the playoffs, this was an amazing move, an
34:28
amazing move for Florida to do this because you had a ring, you had
34:31
the cup, you had some experience there, especially all those points, all
34:37
those games, you're adding something like that. If there's some rookies on that
34:40
team, they can talk. There's at the end that's the best team in
34:44
the league. And even crazier. What makes some dangers like a say like
34:49
for instance, Boston second around that division with the points wise and they've got
34:53
like what twenty overtime losses, fifteen overtime loss some ridiculous number like Florida's number
35:00
one. Florida's at four. They finished their games up. They're dangerous,
35:05
They're everything like that. And here's the deal with Tarasenko. If you can't
35:09
give, if you can't clinch him after the season is over, Detroit go
35:13
getting because Detroit's getting better. He win's got that Tarasenko would be amazing to
35:21
make them in the number one. That's an interesting point. I want to
35:25
be surprised. I don't know what the Red Wings are gonna do with the
35:29
trade deadline. I know Seve Iserman has been tight fictit only touched to the
35:34
media when he sees fit. I believe they play at Colorado the night and
35:37
then they play in Vegas on this trip, right, George, and then
35:40
they're gonna Europe right now, right, Scott, They've got quite a few
35:44
games ahead of them. He's been very tighte Li. You you bring up
35:47
a good point, but don't forget that them contending this year I don't think
35:53
was fully expected. But the fact matter is now that you are there and
35:58
you're you're in one of the wild card spot, it'll be interesting to stay
36:01
well Detroit and Tampa Bay and see what kind of last minute deals that might
36:06
make the strengthen them. Well, the Red Wings scheduled this week, as
36:09
I understand that you've got Colorado, Arizona, Vegas, and then you fly
36:15
over to Buffalo before you return there. Yeah, the first three end.
36:19
But boy, you talk about the west coast of Buffalo, well, I
36:22
don't know do they have their own team playing, because that they do,
36:25
and the cushions the blow a little bit, but we won't even get into
36:28
a whole lot of details there. The Red Wings get into the wildcard spot,
36:32
at least they can end the playoff drought, then you can proceed from
36:36
there. I actually the one thing I'll say about the Wings that doesn't get
36:38
I know, Dylan Larkins out for about two weeks to the lower body injury.
36:43
But the play of Alex Lions, the former Panthers goaltender, has really
36:46
kept the Wings in this thing because he talks about Billy Husso and James Rymer
36:52
and Alex Lions to me is a silent MVP, you know. And he
36:57
played with the Panthers and he played an important role of what they had done
37:00
a year ago. All right With that said, Okay that this concludes this
37:04
edition of the Sports and Change. We're not gonna do a whole lot of
37:06
parting shots unless somebody here wants to get something out their desk. I know,
37:09
we want to make sure that we can start planning some shows ahead of
37:13
time. Joe, any final thought about though? What's occurred with you with
37:16
the league? The one thing that Joe Ellis will be doing is if he's
37:20
not on our show on a given night, he will be doing some remote
37:23
broadcasts and checking in from time to time. I think it's a good experience
37:28
for Joe to be able to talk at the arenas when he gets there.
37:30
But Joe, what have you seen? Any final thoughts before you wrap them
37:35
up tonight? Now? I'm looking forward to the Big East Tournament next week.
37:37
I think that should be a great experience, you know, and we'll
37:43
see what happens from there, you know, try and get Jacob in the
37:45
field a little bit as well. Okay, Well, we'll look forward to
37:47
your updates next week. And by the way, I believe we're going to
37:51
have Travis Holmes take your place. Travis Holmes is one of my versatile guys,
37:54
will be taking place of Joe's not in the studio, but he's a
37:59
very able piece of our operation. George, some final thoughts here really quickly.
38:04
Yeah, I'm glad that you're able to go, Joe. You know,
38:07
it's a sad situation with the Paul and that really is a very sad
38:13
situation. And we've we've got it here locally too with with one of our
38:16
college teams who had a disastrous here of the U of D Titans. So
38:22
I'm glad you had a chance and that you did a great job, Joe,
38:24
and looking forward to more of your reports here on our programs. All
38:30
right, Jacob, what about you? Oh think you about the Paul as
38:34
I remember when it was Joey Meyer and they had some good year they had
38:37
some good years with that. I remember those years. It's been it's been
38:40
miserable since he's been gone. That's been twenty years, so I mean it's
38:45
just one of those things. And now they're really inn It's like personally to
38:49
me, I've always talked about wanting to coach one day. That would be
38:52
I would always talking about the worst of the worst. I'd be the type
38:53
I want just the builds up and back. But the biggest thing about De
39:00
Paul by themselves is we're good. I've been. We're gonna have a topic
39:05
tomorrow night. We're gonna be seeing this about Dartmouth. Yeah, I'm gonna
39:08
send the topics. We're gonna have it about Dartmouth and they're to unionize and
39:13
everything. We're gonna start seeing little things like this. I'm gonna say something
39:15
with to Paul tomorrow night and that'll be a good I like that. And
39:19
we're gonna have a lot and well way I have a moment to talk about
39:22
it. There will be some new wrinkles to pundits fundent where we're gonna try
39:25
to bring on a guest a month there to talk about other topics. We
39:29
have a lot of great things here in the pipeline as well. I am
39:31
looking forward to returning to severing the twelve hour race. I really had a
39:37
great time with the roll X twenty four and anytime. The one thing people
39:40
don't really understand is endurance racing isn't about just the drivers in it, but
39:45
the manufacturers as well. And you know, that's the one thing that I
39:49
really amazes me. I talk about being around the four major sports and all
39:53
that, but motorsports has always been a passion and there's so many different wrinkles
39:58
and I'm looking forward to all the different storylines I'll be coming up with for
40:02
the next seven days as I lead in the seabring. There might be some
40:07
changes in programming guests that appear on our shows and that every one of you
40:10
guys are going to have access to depending on the time situation. So with
40:14
that said, Joe Ellis, why don't you let everybody know how they can
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let me point out, all right, go ahead, We'll turn over to
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Jacob and I'll wrap it up with our clolting thoughts. Go ahead, Jacob,
41:15
Well, this is where we're going. One of the things I'm gonna
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be advertising right now is I'm bringing back pun of views. First first show
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you have a book to promote as well, and Jacob one other thing I
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should say, thank you and Joe for doing a very nice job promoting our
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46:30
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46:32
goodnight everybody. See next Wednesday Sports with j Bunnet Punnet Tomorrow Night with
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