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2-06-26 Hour 3 - We'd take Jeremiyah Love here/Kevin Demoff live at Radio Row/DRUNK TAKES · Moser, Lombardi and Kane

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  Speaker 1: This is Mosher, Lombardy and Kane on demand. Listen live
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  Speaker 2: It's about light Football Friday, our final one. Big thank
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  Speaker 2: on these football Fridays, the official beer sponsor of the
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  Speaker 2: Denver Broncas. Remember to enjoy responsibly. So, Vick, you were
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  Speaker 2: just saying that d Mac was talking about, Oh, I
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  Speaker 2: wouldn't trade up for Jeremiah Love. You can find one
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  Speaker 2: of those running backs anywhere. Well, I did some research.
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  Speaker 2: Would you like to hear it?
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  Speaker 3: Wait a minute, you actually did research.
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  Speaker 2: I did research in four minutes.
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  Speaker 3: And you asked Google, who's the big Hall of Fame?
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  Speaker 4: Guy?
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  Speaker 2: Did not go to Google? Okay, I went to this
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  Speaker 2: site called s Small Bible. Here's what I found. This
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  Speaker 2: season regular season, eleven different running backs ran for eleven
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  Speaker 2: hundred yards or more.
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  Speaker 5: Eleven for eleven hundred or more. So it takes durability
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  Speaker 5: and obviously productivity.
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  Speaker 2: Tilts the scales a little bit. With the extra game understood. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: but here's the eleven Travis etn Saquon Barkley, Javonte Williams,
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  Speaker 2: Christian McCaffrey, Jamiir Gibbs, Kiren Williams, Davon A. Chang, Jean Robinson,
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  Speaker 2: Jonathan Taylor, Derrick Henry, and James Cook had sixteen hundred
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  Speaker 2: and twenty.
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  Speaker 3: One all first or second round running backs.
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  Speaker 2: When is the last eleven hundred yard rusher the Denver
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  Speaker 2: Broncos have had.
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  Speaker 5: Eleven? I'm trying to take a thousand. Phil Lindsay ran
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  Speaker 5: for a thousand.
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  Speaker 2: He did.
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  Speaker 5: He was undrafted, never eleven hundred, eleven hundreds of big number.
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  Speaker 5: Apparently eleven hundred. Was CJ Anderson an eleven hundred yard guy?
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  Speaker 2: Nope?
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  Speaker 3: He wasn't.
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  Speaker 5: Okay, let's go before CJ. Was No, Sean Moreno an
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  Speaker 5: eleven hundred yard guy. Nope, okay, let's go before that.
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  Speaker 2: Mike Bell Willis McGahee in twenty eleven.
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  Speaker 3: Wow, are you serious?
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  Speaker 2: It's been almost fifteen years since you've had a running
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  Speaker 2: back do that? So, No, d Mac, you don't just
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  Speaker 2: find those. That's not how this works. And I was
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  Speaker 2: thinking about it. You know, we went back. I've done
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  Speaker 2: the research for like tight ends, and how bad.
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  Speaker 5: That's using the word research. I mean you you opened
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  Speaker 5: your computer, do you research?
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  Speaker 2: I went back and looked at tight ends and how
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  Speaker 2: much of a of a just black hole that position
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  Speaker 2: has been as far as production over the last few years.
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  Speaker 2: I didn't do this now. I'm just saying in general,
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  Speaker 2: when's the last great tight end season you've had? You
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  Speaker 2: probably have to go back to like Julius Thomas.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, when's the last time you.
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  Speaker 2: Felt really good about your running back?
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  Speaker 3: Like there's been super confident?
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  Speaker 5: I mean again, there have been times when you feel
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  Speaker 5: good about your running game, not necessarily running back per
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  Speaker 5: se yes running game.
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  Speaker 2: But essentially the last time that you had a running
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  Speaker 2: back go for eleven hundred yards, Tim Tebow was your quarterback.
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  Speaker 2: That's the last time, and probably because you had to
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  Speaker 2: run the football that year. It's it's not something that
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  Speaker 2: grows on trees. And the way that people think about
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  Speaker 2: this now of like, no running back is worth a
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  Speaker 2: first round pick. Jean Robinson is one thousand percent worth it.
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  Speaker 2: So is Jamiir Gibbs because of all the different things
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  Speaker 2: they can do, and if you can find one of those,
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  Speaker 2: then get them.
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  Speaker 5: I think the fear though, Bret just to play Devil's
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  Speaker 5: advocate isn't whether or not they're they're worth first round picks,
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  Speaker 5: it's how much mileage you will get out of them,
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  Speaker 5: to which I say, Okay, if you're worried about that,
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  Speaker 5: get your rookie running back and use them for five years.
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  Speaker 5: Don't extend them. If you're worried about the milets thing,
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  Speaker 5: just get that good five years out of them.
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  Speaker 2: You're in a championship window right now. You should only
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  Speaker 2: be on like a two year plan. Okay, that's it,
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  Speaker 2: because there's no guarantees beyond that. Your picks should be focused.
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  Speaker 2: And this is part of the reason why the jade
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  Speaker 2: baron want to still bothersome to me, he might be
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  Speaker 2: a great player, he did nothing for you this year
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  Speaker 2: when you were three points away from making a super Bowl,
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  Speaker 2: your first round pick did nothing. You think I care
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  Speaker 2: what happens eight years from now with the Denver Broncos.
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  Speaker 2: You're you're competing for super Bowls now. I don't care
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  Speaker 2: about the shelf life of a running back and oh,
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  Speaker 2: a first round draft pick, Well, what happens five years
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  Speaker 2: from now? Who cares? What does that matter to you?
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  Speaker 2: You're trying to win. By the way, the real number
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  Speaker 2: you should be focused on is three which is bo
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  Speaker 2: Nix's rookie contract years left. That's the window you should
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  Speaker 2: be focused on.
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  Speaker 3: You got three years to add a bunch of big free.
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  Speaker 5: Agents before a million a year. Yeah, you gotta make
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  Speaker 5: a run out of this thing. Now, that's a good point.
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  Speaker 5: Windows have shortened dramatically, they have shrunk, and you have
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  Speaker 5: to look at it in terms of quarterback. You know,
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  Speaker 5: in talking to people last night, and it's funny because
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  Speaker 5: you go to these parties, right, and what do you
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  Speaker 5: talk about the parties? And this is why a lot
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  Speaker 5: of times it's boring because all you talk about is
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  Speaker 5: football here at media Row. You go to a party,
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  Speaker 5: you see another guy and you start talking about football again.
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  Speaker 5: It just it never never scapes football. And the topic
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  Speaker 5: came up. That topic came up about what jobs are
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  Speaker 5: clutch jobs to go for?
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  Speaker 3: Why didn't advance Joseph get a job?
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  Speaker 6: Like?
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  Speaker 4: What?
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  Speaker 3: Why did he Why did he not make the cut
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  Speaker 3: this time around?
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  Speaker 5: I think a lot of it, not all of it,
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  Speaker 5: but a lot of it is also based on him
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  Speaker 5: not taking bad jobs. What's a bad job in the
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  Speaker 5: NFL today? A bad job is one where you don't
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  Speaker 5: have a quarterback.
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  Speaker 2: Or the ability to get one.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, if you don't have a quarterback or an organization
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  Speaker 5: that is willing to go get a quarterback, you only
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  Speaker 5: get fired.
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  Speaker 3: Yep. And that's just the way it is.
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  Speaker 5: So look at the jobs that came open, and tell
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  Speaker 5: me how many of those jobs came with that. Like
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  Speaker 5: the Arizona job, good luck, they don't even want their quarterback.
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  Speaker 2: The Raiders' job is only a few think for Nana
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  Speaker 2: Mendoz exactly.
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  Speaker 5: Good see that has That's one of those jobs where
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  Speaker 5: if you think he's the guy, you have.
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  Speaker 3: A choice to make there you can go get one.
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  Speaker 5: But how many of the jobs open are open because
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  Speaker 5: of that problem you don't have a quarterback?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean it's Look, I hate boiling it down
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  Speaker 2: to just that because I think this year, more than
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  Speaker 2: other years, has proven that it's not solely quarterback dependent.
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  Speaker 2: But you still have to have a quarterback that's at
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  Speaker 2: least okay, you have to have that. If you look
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  Speaker 2: at the teams that are left, they have at least
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  Speaker 2: quarterbacks who are good enough. And that includes the Broncos
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  Speaker 2: right now. Depending on what you think about next, he's
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  Speaker 2: good enough for you to be in a position where
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  Speaker 2: you could have gotten too a Super Bowl. How he
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  Speaker 2: stayed healthy. But again, speaking of Super Bowl sixty, we'll
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  Speaker 2: have it right here Altitude Sports Radio this Sunday covered
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  Speaker 2: starting at two o'clock from Westwood One, presented by Williams Jewelers,
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  Speaker 2: Denver's first family of fine jewelers, where Colorado shines. So
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  Speaker 2: a couple other details from yesterday in the trade deadline,
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  Speaker 2: if I can offer this to you, we talked about Giannis,
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  Speaker 2: We talked about what the Nuggets have done. Let just
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  Speaker 2: ask you a general question because I don't know if
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  Speaker 2: I've seen something that has fallen apart this fast through
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  Speaker 2: nothing that has to do with actual basketball. Yeah, the
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  Speaker 2: hell's going on with John Morant and what happens with
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  Speaker 2: him now?
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  Speaker 3: I don't know, because he was at the beginning of
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  Speaker 3: the season.
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  Speaker 5: I think the goal was to move him, and then
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  Speaker 5: all of a sudden, as the trade deadline approached, they
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  Speaker 5: retained him and they moved everybody around him.
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  Speaker 3: It was crazy.
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  Speaker 2: But the reasoning behind him, from what I saw, was
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  Speaker 2: nobody wanted him.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think that's the case.
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  Speaker 2: So what do you do with that?
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  Speaker 3: I don't know. It It's amazing when you think about it.
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  Speaker 5: The year that the Denver Nuggets won their only NBA championship.
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  Speaker 5: Who was the team that pushed them? Who was the
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  Speaker 5: team that was right there till the very end. Yeah,
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  Speaker 5: the Memphis Grizzlies on an.
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  Speaker 2: iMac of John Moran, exactly right.
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  Speaker 5: And one ill fated night when he ventured into Glendale, Colorado,
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  Speaker 5: it changed the course of history.
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  Speaker 2: That is crazy. Shotgun Willies ended the career essentially of
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  Speaker 2: a budding superstar and a team that was on the
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  Speaker 2: rise in the NBA Shotgun Willies.
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  Speaker 7: And now the Grizzlies owner is out here committing international
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  Speaker 7: war crimes. Have you followed this story?
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  Speaker 2: Huh, what's going on?
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  Speaker 7: Pablo Torri found out as he does that something.
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  Speaker 2: Like, oh, that he's selling stuff to Russia.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, that the that the company that the Grizzlies owner
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  Speaker 7: operates is giving technology to Russia for drones and stuff
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  Speaker 7: like that.
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  Speaker 4: Wow.
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  Speaker 7: So it's one of those things where he maybe isn't involved,
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  Speaker 7: but it's his company.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 7: Maybe that explains why Chamranlex guns so much. I mean,
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  Speaker 7: it all comes together.
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  Speaker 5: That entire franchise is in the standstill right now. I
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  Speaker 5: Mean a lot of people don't like playing there for
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  Speaker 5: whatever reason. They're trading guys, disassembling it. How many by
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  Speaker 5: the way, at the deadline, think about all the franchises
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  Speaker 5: that just said we give up. The Clippers said we
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  Speaker 5: give up. They just they traded everybody way, We're done.
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  Speaker 2: My conspiracy antenna is going higher and higher with each
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  Speaker 2: move that they're making. Remember when I told you that
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  Speaker 2: the conspiracy in my brain that I formed is that
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  Speaker 2: Kawhi is going to get suspended after this All Star
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  Speaker 2: Game and they're just jumping ship right now. They trade zoobots,
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  Speaker 2: they trade Harden zubots. I think is a good player.
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  Speaker 3: I think so too.
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  Speaker 5: I agree, I agree, and quietly. The one team and
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  Speaker 5: people are talking about this enough. I think the one
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  Speaker 5: team that has done an outstanding job this season rebounding
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  Speaker 5: and coming out of nowhere to win games considering where
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  Speaker 5: they are and where they they were, the Phoenix Suns
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  Speaker 5: and Jordan Not they're coaching staff for their new coach Jordanah. Yeah, dude,
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  Speaker 5: how is Phoenix? There were what are two games behind
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  Speaker 5: the Nuggets right now?
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  Speaker 2: Two games?
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  Speaker 3: What is going on? Dude?
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  Speaker 5: They took two guys and said cyon r Kevin Durant,
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  Speaker 5: Bradley Beal obviously didn't work out, and here they are.
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  Speaker 5: They're winning basketball games and they're doing it with a
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  Speaker 5: group of players. Nobody expected them to be this good.
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  Speaker 2: You know who's playing really well for them?
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  Speaker 5: Colleen Glesbie, Gillespie's playing, Brooks is playing great.
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  Speaker 3: They all have.
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  Speaker 5: They have a bunch of role players who really dog
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  Speaker 5: it out. Now, you could do that in the regular season.
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  Speaker 5: Do I trust them in the playoffs? No, I'm not
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  Speaker 5: gonna lie idea right, But for them to be where
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  Speaker 5: they are, what a What a great job coaching everything?
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  Speaker 2: Dude. Colleen Gillespie is averaging seven three pointers a game
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  Speaker 2: and he's hitting forty three percent of them.
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  Speaker 3: Mm hmm. It's fun to watch. Crazy. Do you mind
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  Speaker 3: if we break now?
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  Speaker 5: We've got a special guest coming up in the next
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  Speaker 5: segment here from Media Row that we want to get to.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, let's do it. Spud Light Football Friday continues as
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  Speaker 2: Vicks live from Radio Row in San Francisco. Next lam
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  Speaker 2: it right now. Sorry, it's spud Light Football Friday, the
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  Speaker 2: Vick is down at Radio Row in San Francisco with
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  Speaker 2: a special guest Victor.
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  Speaker 5: Yes, sir, we ran into a gentleman here who knows
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  Speaker 5: you very well. On Brett Kane, Kevin Demoff, who runs
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  Speaker 5: everything KSC. It seems the greatest sports empire in the world.
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  Speaker 5: We were just discussing this. Kevin, first of all, welcome, good,
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  Speaker 5: good to be here. Think about this, and I don't
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  Speaker 5: know why I have a Josh McDaniels mask with me.
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  Speaker 6: Josh McDaniels, former coach of the Saint Louis Rams offensive
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  Speaker 6: coordinator twenty twelve.
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  Speaker 5: Well, he was a former coach of a lot of teams. Well,
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  Speaker 5: the off season doesn't exist. Brett Gane. I was talking
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  Speaker 5: to Kevin about this. He's one minute he's with his Rams,
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  Speaker 5: and then the next minute he's watching a Nuggets game,
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  Speaker 5: an Avs game in the summer, it's a Rapids game
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  Speaker 5: and Arsenal game.
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  Speaker 3: Do you have enough season?
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  Speaker 6: There's like a week in the summer here, sportsman, there's
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  Speaker 6: nothing better. Literally the last night, not last night, two
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  Speaker 6: nights ago. I walked down to the bar area at
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  Speaker 6: our hotel to meet.
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  Speaker 4: Someone for a drink.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, Nuggets Nicks is in double overtime, so I'm watching that.
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  Speaker 6: I'm not paying attention to the conversation. Now I'm passed.
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  Speaker 6: So I pull off my phone and I pull up
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  Speaker 6: AVS Sharks on Altitude plus.
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  Speaker 4: The like what's wrong with you? Like are you here
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  Speaker 4: for the Rams? Are you here? I'm like, no, We're
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  Speaker 4: just in the middle of sports equinox.
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  Speaker 5: Well, you brought up the RAMS and clearly you wanted
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  Speaker 5: to be here with them. And it was tough to
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  Speaker 5: watch both the Both teams that I wanted to win
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  Speaker 5: in the in the championship games ended up losing.
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  Speaker 3: Are you over it? How long does it take for
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  Speaker 3: you to get over it?
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  Speaker 1: Not?
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  Speaker 4: Over it?
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  Speaker 6: I think losing We've all in the Super Bowl with
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  Speaker 6: lost a divisional losing the conference championship is the worst.
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  Speaker 4: Why you have to prepare.
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  Speaker 6: As if you're coming here, and then you know, you
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  Speaker 6: try to block it out of your mind, and then
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  Speaker 6: you come here because this is the NFL Convention.
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  Speaker 4: There's a lot of work to be done, and you're.
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  Speaker 6: Just from You walk in the hotel and there's a
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  Speaker 6: huge Seahawks helmet right there and you're like, I I
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  Speaker 6: can't you know, you just can't, And it was, Uh,
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  Speaker 6: it will take a long time to get over one
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  Speaker 6: of the great things about sports.
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  Speaker 4: When you're not.
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  Speaker 6: Good the season ends, you have new hope. One of
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  Speaker 6: the things that sucks Broncos rams you don't start in
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  Speaker 6: the championship game. You start back at OTA's and oh
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  Speaker 6: and oh, and everybody.
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  Speaker 4: Has to stay here.
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  Speaker 6: Everybody, like everybody goes that line. You do not walk
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  Speaker 6: back to where you ended. And we obviously have a
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  Speaker 6: very good team. It was great of Matthew to announce
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  Speaker 6: last night at Honors accepting the MVP that he's going
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  Speaker 6: to come back. Did you guys know that we did
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  Speaker 6: not to spoil the plot somates, I think so, but
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  Speaker 6: you know he didn't. He seemed very committed to coming back.
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  Speaker 2: But for those was jumping around during that announcement last
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  Speaker 2: night and fucked to me he didn't know.
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  Speaker 6: As someone in the media, you know, I would think
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  Speaker 6: you guys would know what's scripted for Honors and not. No,
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  Speaker 6: I don't think he had been explicit. I think we
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  Speaker 6: had a hint you know that he was planning to
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  Speaker 6: come back. We had had those conversations. I'm not sure
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  Speaker 6: he's seen his teammates as much since the end of
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  Speaker 6: the year for them to have, you know, that conversation
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  Speaker 6: so it was great to see Kyra and Pooka and
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  Speaker 6: their reactions jumping around, But you know, it's hard like
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  Speaker 6: losing in that spot and then you come to this place,
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  Speaker 6: which is the greatest spectacle you know, on Earth. But hey,
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  Speaker 6: it is in the past, and we've got to move forward,
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  Speaker 6: and we've got three great teams getting ready to kick off.
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  Speaker 6: We've got Arsenal going. So were you jump right into
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  Speaker 6: NBA trade deadline and drown your sorrows that way?
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  Speaker 5: We were talking about it, Kevin earlier. So jokers at
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  Speaker 5: m v P. Nathan McKinnon's MVP. Now Matthew Stafford's an MVP.
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  Speaker 5: How many damn MVPs do you have in this company?
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  Speaker 5: We need more, you know, Brett, do something, But do something, MVP.
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  Speaker 2: You're the one that's out there in the suit.
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  Speaker 3: IM figure back here.
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  Speaker 6: I figure Moser is somewhere working out this morning, Charna,
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  Speaker 6: he's taking the day off Olympic break.
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  Speaker 4: He's gonna come back. And told man, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Right, yes, servass doing some of the twelve on scirls.
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  Speaker 2: You know, Kevin, with all these teams that you got here,
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  Speaker 2: I know it's when you're watching the Nuggets right now
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  Speaker 2: and you see that they have just been snake bitten
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  Speaker 2: all year with these injuries, and the second you get
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  Speaker 2: guys back, guys leave again. How much of that just
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  Speaker 2: watching teams dealing with injuries is a concern of man.
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  Speaker 2: Even when Pee Watt gets healthy or when Aaron Gordon
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  Speaker 2: gets healthy, it's gonna take a second for that chemistry
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  Speaker 2: to build back up, and it's gonna be so close
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  Speaker 2: to the playoffs.
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  Speaker 6: Well, one of the things when you watch, like the
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  Speaker 6: broadcast on Wednesday night, they're talking when everybody gets back healthy,
• 15:47
  Speaker 6: and you're like, that's not a given. Yeah, I don't
• 15:50
  Speaker 6: mean that in a negative sense, but like we've been
• 15:52
  Speaker 6: so snake biting this year with the hamstrings and with
• 15:54
  Speaker 6: those things that everybody's like, oh, you're gonna have those
• 15:56
  Speaker 6: fifteen to twenty games kind of post All Star break
• 15:59
  Speaker 6: when you get everybody back, if everybody comes back healthy,
• 16:02
  Speaker 6: and look the problem and especially I.
• 16:04
  Speaker 4: Think you see it with the Nuggets.
• 16:05
  Speaker 6: The more guys get hurt, the more you ask people
• 16:08
  Speaker 6: to play and step up that haven't played that much,
• 16:10
  Speaker 6: the more likely they are to get hurt. Compensation, right,
• 16:12
  Speaker 6: Like that is just a view and to me, if
• 16:14
  Speaker 6: you look at Peyton Watson, who has not played forty
• 16:18
  Speaker 6: minutes a night consistently throughout his career. Like that's not
• 16:21
  Speaker 6: to say his body can't handle it, but at some
• 16:23
  Speaker 6: point that takes a toll.
• 16:24
  Speaker 3: He played thirty seven the night before.
• 16:26
  Speaker 5: I went back and looked, and so you're right, this
• 16:29
  Speaker 5: kid hasn't played that many minutes in his life.
• 16:31
  Speaker 6: And so and it's hard, right, Like, and you know,
• 16:34
  Speaker 6: you're talking on the broadcast minutes restrictions, but you get
• 16:37
  Speaker 6: into a double overtime with the Garden, you know, nobody's
• 16:40
  Speaker 6: talking about minutes restrictions. Yeah, And that's the you know,
• 16:43
  Speaker 6: and that's the really hard part about these teams.
• 16:45
  Speaker 4: And you know, you see it.
• 16:47
  Speaker 6: I think the Abs went through the exact same thing
• 16:49
  Speaker 6: when Gabe went down and Tays went down. You know,
• 16:52
  Speaker 6: and even with Kivy ronson, some of those guys bouncing out,
• 16:54
  Speaker 6: other guys have to come in. Do they play as well,
• 16:57
  Speaker 6: they have to play more minutes? Do they get hurt?
• 17:00
  Speaker 6: Those things that compound effect in sports. And that's why
• 17:03
  Speaker 6: when you talk about whether it's the Broncos the Rams
• 17:06
  Speaker 6: getting the championship game, we had a very healthy year
• 17:08
  Speaker 6: Broncos for the most part had a very healthy year
• 17:11
  Speaker 6: until they did it at the very end. That's the
• 17:13
  Speaker 6: part that you can't control.
• 17:14
  Speaker 4: In sports.
• 17:14
  Speaker 6: You can build the best teams, but do I think
• 17:17
  Speaker 6: the Nuggets are as good as anybody If we can
• 17:19
  Speaker 6: get everybody on the floor. Sure, we got to get
• 17:22
  Speaker 6: them to that point.
• 17:23
  Speaker 3: That's why luck is so much. A part of this.
• 17:24
  Speaker 5: Luck is just so I want to know where was
• 17:27
  Speaker 5: your heart because mine was sunk the minute the moment
• 17:30
  Speaker 5: you saw in Nikoliokich go down.
• 17:32
  Speaker 3: On December twenty nine.
• 17:33
  Speaker 6: So probably one of the darkest days since I took
• 17:36
  Speaker 6: this job. We were playing Monday Night football Rams Falcons.
• 17:40
  Speaker 6: Bijon Robinson rips off a ninety three yard touchdown to
• 17:43
  Speaker 6: put us down twenty one to nothing, and two minutes later, Joe,
• 17:47
  Speaker 6: we're watching on Altitude Plus in the box and Joker
• 17:51
  Speaker 6: goes down and You're like, I give up in sports,
• 17:53
  Speaker 6: Like I literally give up on sports now. The only
• 17:57
  Speaker 6: saving grace was right before halftime. By halftime, I'm we
• 18:00
  Speaker 6: had the text. Okay, we don't think you know, like
• 18:04
  Speaker 6: like Stan, Josh me, We're all sitting there, We're texting
• 18:07
  Speaker 6: Steve Short, We're texting Ben and John were like just
• 18:10
  Speaker 6: tell us anything good bad, and but you know the
• 18:13
  Speaker 6: good thing knee injury wise, for the most part, they
• 18:16
  Speaker 6: do the quick test, they're like, we think the ligaments
• 18:18
  Speaker 6: are fine, but we'll know more. But I mean, when
• 18:21
  Speaker 6: Cam Johnson went down, your heart sinks, like even watching
• 18:25
  Speaker 6: Peyton walk off like he it is a struggle.
• 18:27
  Speaker 4: And then I think it was two days later, you know,
• 18:31
  Speaker 4: Gabe goes.
• 18:31
  Speaker 6: Crashing into the net and like, oh my god, I
• 18:35
  Speaker 6: don't want sports anymore, Like I just I don't want
• 18:38
  Speaker 6: to do this, and you know it, you know that's
• 18:41
  Speaker 6: the good and the bad. And then you know, two
• 18:42
  Speaker 6: weeks later, you know you're having the Nuggets win over
• 18:46
  Speaker 6: the Sixers and the Celtics and back to back and
• 18:49
  Speaker 6: the Rams running around.
• 18:50
  Speaker 4: You're like, I love sports. This is the greatest thing.
• 18:52
  Speaker 4: But that's it's fandom, right.
• 18:54
  Speaker 2: I asked this question to Jared Bednar a couple of
• 18:57
  Speaker 2: days ago, because you're you're off now with the for
• 19:00
  Speaker 2: this three week break for the Olympics, And I said,
• 19:02
  Speaker 2: are you more excited or nervous about watching your guys
• 19:05
  Speaker 2: in this thing? He said excited? What about you? Are
• 19:08
  Speaker 2: you gonna be nervous when Landy plays for Sweden and
• 19:10
  Speaker 2: he gets checked on the boards or what.
• 19:12
  Speaker 6: You know, I won't be sad, just you know, since
• 19:14
  Speaker 6: it's not the US. If Sweden goes out in the
• 19:16
  Speaker 6: qualifying round, I'm good, like no no offense, gab or
• 19:21
  Speaker 6: you know. Look, I think you're excited because these guys
• 19:23
  Speaker 6: love it and it's a great dream and it's great
• 19:25
  Speaker 6: for the sport. I think it is really hard to
• 19:28
  Speaker 6: watch guys disappear. I mean we have it with Arsenal
• 19:31
  Speaker 6: all the time. These guys and it's not even Olympics.
• 19:33
  Speaker 6: They go on these friendlies, yeah, and they come back
• 19:36
  Speaker 6: hurt and you're like, this is insane. I was equivalent
• 19:38
  Speaker 6: of like this would be like Nicola being like, you
• 19:40
  Speaker 6: know what, I want to go back and play in
• 19:42
  Speaker 6: a Serbian pro game for two days in January and
• 19:45
  Speaker 6: coming back hurt and you're like, okay, that was great.
• 19:48
  Speaker 6: It is such a weird phenomenon. And then they talk
• 19:51
  Speaker 6: about the rink being two feet shorter and I don't
• 19:54
  Speaker 6: know that any of that matters, but I would be watching,
• 19:57
  Speaker 6: not as a fan, but you know, certainly with the
• 19:59
  Speaker 6: rabbit's foot.
• 20:00
  Speaker 3: What I would hope.
• 20:01
  Speaker 2: So what if Puka tells you that flag football in
• 20:04
  Speaker 2: the Olympics in a couple of years. I want to play.
• 20:06
  Speaker 2: What do you tell him?
• 20:07
  Speaker 4: You know, I think I'd be in favor of it,
• 20:10
  Speaker 4: but I.
• 20:12
  Speaker 3: That's only because they're playing it. So let's be honest.
• 20:14
  Speaker 6: I have told Sean that I think Sean McVay should
• 20:18
  Speaker 6: coach the US five football team and that can be
• 20:20
  Speaker 6: the RAMS representation.
• 20:22
  Speaker 4: You know what Stafford wants to play, that's fine.
• 20:24
  Speaker 6: He'll be forty two by then and it'll be fine.
• 20:27
  Speaker 6: The look I think there's it is one of those places.
• 20:30
  Speaker 6: Not that the NFL needs the game to grow as
• 20:31
  Speaker 6: we sit here in the media center, but if your
• 20:34
  Speaker 6: players want to do it, you want to be supportive.
• 20:36
  Speaker 5: You know you have a stat Brett bring it up
• 20:38
  Speaker 5: again here with Kevin because we talk about coaching trees
• 20:41
  Speaker 5: and like Mike Shanahan, is this vast coaching tree. Sean
• 20:44
  Speaker 5: McVay can be my grandson, and he already has a
• 20:46
  Speaker 5: coaching tree that's as vast as it gets.
• 20:49
  Speaker 3: How many numbers of head coaches has he produced?
• 20:51
  Speaker 4: Seven?
• 20:52
  Speaker 3: Seven? He already Kevin knows the answer. How does this happen?
• 20:56
  Speaker 6: Look, he's he's as good as they got. Best communicator
• 21:00
  Speaker 6: players love him. And I thought what Matthew said last
• 21:02
  Speaker 6: night in his MVP speech, leader of men, you know,
• 21:06
  Speaker 6: only coach he'd ever want to play for. And I
• 21:07
  Speaker 6: think that's what he instills in his players and what
• 21:10
  Speaker 6: they believe. And I think he builds a culture that
• 21:12
  Speaker 6: those coaches underneath him can grow and not only I
• 21:15
  Speaker 6: think the great thing about Shawn not only has he
• 21:17
  Speaker 6: had a tree of seven, almost all of them have
• 21:20
  Speaker 6: been in the playoffs, like Chris is not one of
• 21:22
  Speaker 6: those trees where it's like people are even the Belichick
• 21:25
  Speaker 6: tree and some.
• 21:25
  Speaker 4: Of that where guys in this have success.
• 21:28
  Speaker 6: If you look whether it's Liam Cohen, you know, or
• 21:31
  Speaker 6: Zach Taylor going to Jacksonville Cincinnati, even Brandon Stately when
• 21:35
  Speaker 6: the Chargers, they've all been in the playoffs for the
• 21:37
  Speaker 6: most part of all had success. And it's a great
• 21:40
  Speaker 6: credit to Sean Now, you know, every year he's like,
• 21:42
  Speaker 6: who are we gonna lose? And obviously this year with
• 21:44
  Speaker 6: Michael Flour going the Cardinals, we were lucky. The Nate Shielhouse
• 21:47
  Speaker 6: and Chris Shula didn't get jobs, which is unfortunate for
• 21:49
  Speaker 6: them and part of the process, you know.
• 21:51
  Speaker 4: And I feel the same for a Davis Webb.
• 21:54
  Speaker 6: You should not have to interview, you know, on the
• 21:56
  Speaker 6: Friday night before you're playing the Bills.
• 21:59
  Speaker 4: But we have to fix that as the NFL.
• 22:01
  Speaker 6: But I think it's great and you know, look, one
• 22:04
  Speaker 6: of the things I love about our system. We have
• 22:06
  Speaker 6: so many great young coaches and you look at Sean,
• 22:10
  Speaker 6: you look at what David Adaman Dunn this here, who
• 22:12
  Speaker 6: I think certainly deserves Coach of the Year conversation for
• 22:15
  Speaker 6: keeping the Nuggets afloat. Jared Bednar was a young coach. Yeah,
• 22:19
  Speaker 6: well we hired him and you know he's now, you know,
• 22:21
  Speaker 6: one of the longest tenured in mckel arteta. You know
• 22:23
  Speaker 6: what we've done at the Rapids now with Matt Wells.
• 22:25
  Speaker 6: So I think people will get to meet over the
• 22:27
  Speaker 6: next few year as a young assistant who came from Tottenham.
• 22:29
  Speaker 6: But that's been the DNA at KC for a while
• 22:32
  Speaker 6: and it's really worked. And I think that's a great
• 22:34
  Speaker 6: credit to Stanton Josh and their ability to go find
• 22:36
  Speaker 6: these young coaches that go produce tree. So when there's
• 22:39
  Speaker 6: a David Adaman Tree in five years, we'll be excited.
• 22:42
  Speaker 5: I need to ask you, because the NFL just told
• 22:45
  Speaker 5: us the plans for international play. You guys are playing
• 22:48
  Speaker 5: San Francisco in Australia. It's not a short trip. It
• 22:51
  Speaker 5: is not a short trip.
• 22:52
  Speaker 6: It is fifteen and a half hours to Melbourne from
• 22:55
  Speaker 6: LA But look, I think it's a great chance to
• 22:57
  Speaker 6: grow the game in Australia, the first game, you know,
• 22:59
  Speaker 6: ever there. And we were excited to raise our hand
• 23:01
  Speaker 6: a year ago to the Super Bowl when they said
• 23:03
  Speaker 6: we're going to Australia. We've had rights to market in
• 23:05
  Speaker 6: Australia ever since the NFL started that program, you know,
• 23:07
  Speaker 6: and taking the.
• 23:08
  Speaker 4: Niners it's a big rivalry game.
• 23:09
  Speaker 6: Yeah, and you know, maybe we're a little bit excited.
• 23:13
  Speaker 6: I don't know the George Kittle will be back one
• 23:15
  Speaker 6: hundred percent. You know, there's a little gamesmanship of like, hey,
• 23:18
  Speaker 6: if we can get the Niners week one. We also
• 23:20
  Speaker 6: offered we play the Chiefs this year. It is week
• 23:22
  Speaker 6: one this game, it'll be week one. It's on determined
• 23:24
  Speaker 6: probably when week one, but it'll be week one. But
• 23:26
  Speaker 6: we're like, oh, Patrick Mahomes may not be back week one.
• 23:30
  Speaker 4: We'll take the Chiefs to Australia.
• 23:31
  Speaker 3: Sure.
• 23:32
  Speaker 6: You know, there's a little games and how this goes
• 23:35
  Speaker 6: and you know, but I think we'll be really excited
• 23:38
  Speaker 6: to go grow the game, to see what it's like.
• 23:40
  Speaker 6: Everybody says it's a fantastic trip, but like, this is
• 23:43
  Speaker 6: one of the benefits for me when we went with
• 23:45
  Speaker 6: the Nuggets to Abu Dhabi, which was a fourteen hour flight.
• 23:48
  Speaker 6: Yes it was pre season, but seeing how quickly the
• 23:51
  Speaker 6: players adapted, seeing the great accommodations there and what that
• 23:54
  Speaker 6: was like, that gave me much greater confidence of what
• 23:57
  Speaker 6: it will be like, you know, to fly to Australia.
• 24:00
  Speaker 6: So and plus, like the players get all the live flots. Yeah,
• 24:02
  Speaker 6: we all sit in the back of the plane. Yeah,
• 24:04
  Speaker 6: you know, in coach.
• 24:06
  Speaker 5: So it's fine, you're these guys aren't flying Brett in
• 24:08
  Speaker 5: a four person Cessna.
• 24:10
  Speaker 3: They're good. They're gonna lay down.
• 24:11
  Speaker 2: It's not gonna be my flight to Omaha next week.
• 24:13
  Speaker 2: It's not gonna be like that. By the way, Kevin,
• 24:19
  Speaker 2: can you just get me somehow on that Sean McVay tree, Like,
• 24:22
  Speaker 2: I just want to be somewhere down like an assistant
• 24:24
  Speaker 2: coach if it gets me promoted somehow.
• 24:27
  Speaker 4: You're part of the Vick Lombardi tree.
• 24:29
  Speaker 2: That is true, Yes, that's true.
• 24:31
  Speaker 3: That's a twig.
• 24:33
  Speaker 6: It's more it's more like a bush or ivy. But
• 24:37
  Speaker 6: you know it sprawls outwards, not upwards.
• 24:40
  Speaker 4: But uh.
• 24:42
  Speaker 6: I joked with Sean the other day when when Mike
• 24:44
  Speaker 6: Lafloor got a job, I'm like, you know, maybe I
• 24:45
  Speaker 6: should just can I be a quality control coach?
• 24:48
  Speaker 2: Yeah?
• 24:49
  Speaker 6: Five years from now, I you know, I could be
• 24:51
  Speaker 6: a head coach. I don't care if I get fired
• 24:53
  Speaker 6: a year in. Give me a five year deal. I'm good.
• 24:55
  Speaker 5: Like, how happy are you next week? You'll be at
• 24:59
  Speaker 5: the All Star Game, as will I for the NBA.
• 25:01
  Speaker 5: How happy are you to see Jamal finally emerge? I
• 25:03
  Speaker 5: mean we just talked about it early in the show.
• 25:06
  Speaker 5: We never give Jamal enough credit that he's due, and
• 25:08
  Speaker 5: then finally this year, not only do we give it
• 25:10
  Speaker 5: to him, but the rest of the league.
• 25:11
  Speaker 6: I thought the great part was I don't even think
• 25:13
  Speaker 6: there was any suspense, nah, Like I think everybody just assumed.
• 25:17
  Speaker 4: And I remember when.
• 25:18
  Speaker 6: Inside the NBA posted their rosters and it was like, oh,
• 25:21
  Speaker 6: he's a lock, right, And I think it's such a
• 25:23
  Speaker 6: great credit to him. And you talk about for someone
• 25:27
  Speaker 6: the commitment Jamal put in this summer to come back
• 25:30
  Speaker 6: in shape with his body done for all the injuries
• 25:34
  Speaker 6: that we've had, and given his prior history of injuries,
• 25:37
  Speaker 6: like I give him so much credit for weathering this
• 25:41
  Speaker 6: storm when everybody else got hurt and playing thirty forty
• 25:45
  Speaker 6: minutes a night, carrying this team, and especially when you
• 25:49
  Speaker 6: think back to, you know, the past few years when
• 25:52
  Speaker 6: he come in with that second unit, you know, at
• 25:54
  Speaker 6: the start of a quarter, and we would struggle in
• 25:57
  Speaker 6: the non Nicole minutes. He's been playing non Nicoleon minutes
• 26:00
  Speaker 6: for twenty games.
• 26:01
  Speaker 4: Yeah, and this team.
• 26:02
  Speaker 6: Has been playing well. He has carried that load. And
• 26:06
  Speaker 6: you know what you love about him, and you saw
• 26:08
  Speaker 6: it in New York. When the lights are brightest, he
• 26:11
  Speaker 6: wants the ball, He's taking the shot. And I think
• 26:14
  Speaker 6: that part is what has you so excited because we're
• 26:18
  Speaker 6: used to seeing kind of from here on through the playoffs,
• 26:21
  Speaker 6: Jamal's annual ascension. If he can have that same ascension
• 26:24
  Speaker 6: from where he's at right now, you're talking about a
• 26:27
  Speaker 6: top five to seven player in the NBA.
• 26:28
  Speaker 2: We were just talking about that Kevin that you know,
• 26:30
  Speaker 2: bo Nicks has had inconsistent I think first couple of years,
• 26:35
  Speaker 2: but when it matters the most he plays his best football.
• 26:38
  Speaker 2: You obviously have a quarterback that I mean, he begs
• 26:42
  Speaker 2: for the game to be on the line lights so
• 26:43
  Speaker 2: he can go out and win it for you. Can
• 26:46
  Speaker 2: you tell that trait in a person just by talking
• 26:49
  Speaker 2: to them or is that something like you got to
• 26:51
  Speaker 2: witness it first.
• 26:52
  Speaker 4: I think you have to witness it first.
• 26:54
  Speaker 6: I mean, I you know, you watch it with Jamal
• 26:56
  Speaker 6: Matthew Stafford is one where you know, you kind of
• 26:59
  Speaker 6: watch it from a far in to try and when
• 27:00
  Speaker 6: he got here, you know, and he's been miked up
• 27:03
  Speaker 6: a couple of times, and I think DeVante said, like
• 27:05
  Speaker 6: he walks down on the huddles like we're gonna go
• 27:07
  Speaker 6: steal their soul in this vibe and it's like he
• 27:09
  Speaker 6: can go to a dark place. And I think those
• 27:11
  Speaker 6: players who can get to that play there's no way
• 27:14
  Speaker 6: that you could ever pressure test that in any environment
• 27:17
  Speaker 6: except that moment. Yeah, right, It's just it's not a
• 27:20
  Speaker 6: normal thing for people to talk about or say. It's
• 27:23
  Speaker 6: almost psychotic, right, Like, but you want it in a
• 27:26
  Speaker 6: coach and a player, you know, in everything you do,
• 27:30
  Speaker 6: because that's the competitive greatness that really elevates those players,
• 27:34
  Speaker 6: right And you know Jamal's shot making ability, you know,
• 27:38
  Speaker 6: when the game's on the line here, right, those are
• 27:40
  Speaker 6: the players and then you see it.
• 27:41
  Speaker 4: I think with Nathan too.
• 27:43
  Speaker 6: You know, those players want the ball, want the punk
• 27:46
  Speaker 6: when it's the most important, and that that's a trait
• 27:48
  Speaker 6: you just can't coach.
• 27:50
  Speaker 5: We're at that time of year, the trade deadline just passed,
• 27:53
  Speaker 5: and we get questions all the time, but what the
• 27:54
  Speaker 5: nugget's gonna do? Luxury tax? Apron first, Apron? Can you
• 27:58
  Speaker 5: guys do away with these gamma brings in the NBA?
• 28:01
  Speaker 5: What are we doing? I can't understand it. Ever, you
• 28:04
  Speaker 5: just want it gone because you can't understand it exactly.
• 28:06
  Speaker 5: But I mean, do you understand though?
• 28:08
  Speaker 2: That's fair.
• 28:09
  Speaker 4: I have come to understand it.
• 28:11
  Speaker 6: We have a great group, you know, John ben knee Hall,
• 28:15
  Speaker 6: some of the people who work on a day in
• 28:16
  Speaker 6: and day out, and so you know, through the permutations.
• 28:19
  Speaker 4: But I do think it's been great for the game.
• 28:20
  Speaker 6: What right. I think it has brought chance to every
• 28:24
  Speaker 6: team across the board to be successful. Right we sit here,
• 28:28
  Speaker 6: the Seahawks and the Patriots. Was I think the unlikeliest
• 28:31
  Speaker 6: Super Bowl in the past twenty thirty years.
• 28:34
  Speaker 4: By preseason Hi.
• 28:37
  Speaker 6: But the NFL, the salary cap has brought parody, sure,
• 28:40
  Speaker 6: And I think when you look at the NBA, obviously
• 28:42
  Speaker 6: there have been I think eight different champions last eight years,
• 28:45
  Speaker 6: but the decline of the super team and people more
• 28:49
  Speaker 6: trying to find pieces. I think when you look at
• 28:51
  Speaker 6: that the first apron, the second apron has brought more
• 28:54
  Speaker 6: parody to from the higher revenue teams. Two teams can
• 28:57
  Speaker 6: go compete on a year in a year up, and
• 29:00
  Speaker 6: I think that's a good thing.
• 29:01
  Speaker 4: Wow. Is it harder for fans to understand?
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: Sure?
• 29:03
  Speaker 6: And I think you know, there's still an element of
• 29:05
  Speaker 6: always the luxury tax, which is like, why don't you
• 29:07
  Speaker 6: just pay it?
• 29:08
  Speaker 4: Right where?
• 29:09
  Speaker 6: I think the second apron what's changed there is it's
• 29:11
  Speaker 6: not just about what you pay. You lose all this
• 29:14
  Speaker 6: rockster flexibility. You can't make a trade, you can't sign
• 29:16
  Speaker 6: a player.
• 29:17
  Speaker 4: That's the part.
• 29:18
  Speaker 6: And so even I think for the Nuggets this year,
• 29:20
  Speaker 6: and John and Ben could talk about it way more
• 29:21
  Speaker 6: eloquid than I could, given where our roster was, the
• 29:25
  Speaker 6: balance of next year. If we could get out of
• 29:27
  Speaker 6: the tax this year, there's who knows what will happen
• 29:31
  Speaker 6: next year. But what's really penalizing right now in the
• 29:33
  Speaker 6: NBA is if you're in the repeater tax.
• 29:34
  Speaker 3: That's all. I was going to ask you, what's the
• 29:35
  Speaker 3: difference between the repeater tax, and.
• 29:37
  Speaker 4: It's about two or three x.
• 29:40
  Speaker 6: So you get in the repeater tax, and I'm not
• 29:42
  Speaker 6: gonna get the math right, for every dollar you spend,
• 29:44
  Speaker 6: it's maybe a five dollars tax, okay, whereas maybe not
• 29:46
  Speaker 6: in the repeater tax, it's about a dollar fifty so
• 29:49
  Speaker 6: and so for us, I think, as you look big
• 29:51
  Speaker 6: picture with Nicola Wichamal, if there's a way, and who
• 29:55
  Speaker 6: knows what will happen next year, we really focused on
• 29:57
  Speaker 6: this year. If you could get out of the repeater
• 29:59
  Speaker 6: tax for two years in a row and reset, you
• 30:02
  Speaker 6: could go load up again credibly to go, because now
• 30:07
  Speaker 6: you could spend an extra fifty million dollars and have
• 30:09
  Speaker 6: account sixty instead of that fifty being two hundred and fifty.
• 30:12
  Speaker 4: Right.
• 30:12
  Speaker 6: And I think if you look at like what the
• 30:13
  Speaker 6: Celtics and some of those teams have done, the Celtics
• 30:15
  Speaker 6: went from a five hundred million dollar bill to a
• 30:17
  Speaker 6: two hundred million dollar bill this year, and obviously I've
• 30:19
  Speaker 6: played great doing it. So I think for us, the
• 30:21
  Speaker 6: goal was where we map the team out. If you
• 30:25
  Speaker 6: could get out of the tax this year, then you
• 30:26
  Speaker 6: can make a decision what happens this year, what you're
• 30:29
  Speaker 6: doing next year, because next year our tax.
• 30:31
  Speaker 4: Bill right now is insane, gotcha.
• 30:34
  Speaker 6: And that's not to say we won't pay it, but
• 30:36
  Speaker 6: it made sense to at least have the choice of
• 30:38
  Speaker 6: give yourself a chance that maybe you could get out
• 30:41
  Speaker 6: of the repeater two years and then and then you know,
• 30:44
  Speaker 6: with Nicole's extension kicking in, you know, coming forward those numbers,
• 30:48
  Speaker 6: with Jamal's extension kicking in. Christian Wait, p want all
• 30:52
  Speaker 6: of it. You need as much flexibility as you can get.
• 30:55
  Speaker 5: So Nelly, in case you're wondering, Nelly hasn't been paid
• 30:58
  Speaker 5: for years because of the repeater tax year.
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  Speaker 3: Eventually you'll get paid, Nellie. You're not going to be
• 31:02
  Speaker 3: an intern anymore.
• 31:04
  Speaker 7: Ah, Man, I've just caught up in too many aprons.
• 31:06
  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's what it is. Hey, Hey, buddy, keppreciate you
• 31:09
  Speaker 3: coming by. Do you have anything else with Kevin?
• 31:10
  Speaker 7: Yeah, Kevin, first time, long time. I wanted to ask
• 31:12
  Speaker 7: you a question if I could, did you guys have
• 31:14
  Speaker 7: the foresight to write a clause into Poka Nakua's contract
• 31:17
  Speaker 7: that prevents him from going skydiving with Sidney.
• 31:20
  Speaker 3: Sweeney a NF.
• 31:23
  Speaker 4: So, now here's the great answer. All NFL contracts.
• 31:27
  Speaker 6: Prevent the basic language in the CBA prevents you from skydiving.
• 31:32
  Speaker 6: And I'll go with Puka skydiving with Sydney sweee Right.
• 31:38
  Speaker 4: Look, I'm just gonna be honest.
• 31:39
  Speaker 6: Right from a team president perspective, Sidney Sweeney can become
• 31:43
  Speaker 6: like our star girlfriend.
• 31:45
  Speaker 3: With Puka, You're Taylor Swift.
• 31:47
  Speaker 6: I am all in, and he can jump out of
• 31:50
  Speaker 6: as many planes as he would like to. Because you
• 31:53
  Speaker 6: know what the truth of the matter is, you don't
• 31:55
  Speaker 6: get hurt skydiving, either survive or you don't.
• 31:58
  Speaker 3: Yeah, you'll need the media representative there as well. It's
• 32:03
  Speaker 3: not like.
• 32:03
  Speaker 6: Oh, you tore your a cl skydiving and it's like
• 32:06
  Speaker 6: either like hey, Pooka lived, or like it was a
• 32:09
  Speaker 6: great run and we love you buddy.
• 32:10
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 32:10
  Speaker 6: But with as physical and as tough as Pooka is,
• 32:13
  Speaker 6: I think he'd bounce off the ground and the ground
• 32:16
  Speaker 6: would take the brunt.
• 32:17
  Speaker 4: Of the impact. He'd be fine.
• 32:19
  Speaker 6: So so if Sidney Sweeney, if you're watching on altitude
• 32:22
  Speaker 6: plus go skydiving with Puka. We'd love to have you
• 32:26
  Speaker 6: with the Rams. If not, now I will tell you
• 32:28
  Speaker 6: there was a rumor and you didn't mean to go here.
• 32:30
  Speaker 6: I think it was a rumor a month ago she
• 32:32
  Speaker 6: was dating Christian Brown. I saw that and I'm like,
• 32:35
  Speaker 6: you know what, we.
• 32:36
  Speaker 4: Just need you know, God bless. I'm not sure. Maybe
• 32:39
  Speaker 4: Gavin Brindley single.
• 32:40
  Speaker 6: I don't want to screw up the ass, but like
• 32:42
  Speaker 6: Sidney Sweeney is just gonna rotate throughout KSS teams.
• 32:45
  Speaker 4: It's gonna be great.
• 32:47
  Speaker 3: I love it all right, Well, man, Kevin, thanks for
• 32:50
  Speaker 3: going by.
• 32:51
  Speaker 5: I appreciate its Kevin dem Off, who was obviously got
• 32:54
  Speaker 5: a lot of things to do as as a representative
• 32:57
  Speaker 5: of the Rams here in the National Football League. This
• 32:59
  Speaker 5: is a an NFL retreat more than anything, my friend.
• 33:02
  Speaker 5: That's why we're here.
• 33:03
  Speaker 2: That's right. It's bud Light Football Friday, our last one
• 33:05
  Speaker 2: of the year. Bud Light, the official beer sponsored the
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• 33:21
  Speaker 2: Big Thanks, big, big, shout out to all of our
• 33:25
  Speaker 2: friends over at bud Life being with us all year.
• 33:29
  Speaker 2: Vic is down at Radio Row in San Francisco where
• 33:31
  Speaker 2: he has a gift.
• 33:32
  Speaker 3: Now this is for you.
• 33:35
  Speaker 2: I went to Radio Row and all I got was
• 33:36
  Speaker 2: this lousy shirt. Sure I'll wear it.
• 33:39
  Speaker 3: It's an extra large, so that's yours.
• 33:41
  Speaker 5: I want to We don't have any mediums, so I
• 33:43
  Speaker 5: don't have one.
• 33:44
  Speaker 2: And cis and cigars.
• 33:47
  Speaker 5: Hey, don't don't get too cocky now, and cigars, what
• 33:52
  Speaker 5: have you ever brought me from anywhere?
• 33:54
  Speaker 2: I've brought you happiness and enjoy every day.
• 33:57
  Speaker 3: I want one of those mediums, Jesse.
• 33:58
  Speaker 5: If you see that guy handing them around, find me
• 34:00
  Speaker 5: a sh medium because those are sweet shirts. Those are
• 34:03
  Speaker 5: the ones by that company that makes the soft material,
• 34:07
  Speaker 5: you know that soft material.
• 34:09
  Speaker 3: By the way, I want to thank Kevin Demov for
• 34:11
  Speaker 3: spending the segment with us.
• 34:12
  Speaker 5: He answered a lot of questions, and you forget sometimes
• 34:14
  Speaker 5: that we do happen to work for the largest sports
• 34:17
  Speaker 5: empire in the world.
• 34:19
  Speaker 2: It really is, and the most successful.
• 34:21
  Speaker 5: It's the larger sports empire in the world. So there's
• 34:23
  Speaker 5: so many different topics you can get to. But I
• 34:25
  Speaker 5: always struggle with how to introduce Kevin because I'm not
• 34:28
  Speaker 5: sure what his title is.
• 34:29
  Speaker 2: I don't know. I just say hed honcho.
• 34:33
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean that's really where you go to because
• 34:35
  Speaker 5: he sort of oversees all.
• 34:36
  Speaker 2: Of it, but he's in charge of like he's in
• 34:38
  Speaker 2: charge of everything everywhere all the time.
• 34:40
  Speaker 3: I know, And that's where it gets confusing, you know.
• 34:44
  Speaker 5: And I didn't I didn't know how much I could invent,
• 34:46
  Speaker 5: Like could I talk about Jesse vomiting in San Marin County?
• 34:51
  Speaker 5: But what can I What can I not discuss? What
• 34:54
  Speaker 5: is an HR related matter?
• 34:55
  Speaker 2: You know what's funny is that, you know, talking to
• 34:57
  Speaker 2: Kevin and talking to Bennar every week, you have some
• 35:02
  Speaker 2: really honest people that are not willing to just do
• 35:04
  Speaker 2: the coach speak thing whenever they talk to us. And look, man,
• 35:09
  Speaker 2: that's gotta be I didn't even factor that in. You
• 35:13
  Speaker 2: have to get ready for your team potentially playing in
• 35:17
  Speaker 2: the Super Bowl, and you do all this booking just
• 35:19
  Speaker 2: to cancel all this stuff at the last second. It's
• 35:21
  Speaker 2: got to be brutal to walk around in Jesse Seahawks
• 35:24
  Speaker 2: stuff everywhere, especially division rival Like, yeah, it's gotta be terrible.
• 35:28
  Speaker 3: But you know, the torture never ends.
• 35:29
  Speaker 5: He brings up a good point, so you could win
• 35:31
  Speaker 5: and win again and win again, and then you expect
• 35:34
  Speaker 5: to win and you don't and you're tortured.
• 35:35
  Speaker 3: Right, I mean, this is the life we live. When
• 35:38
  Speaker 3: are you happy?
• 35:39
  Speaker 5: If you live that life, if you allow yourself to
• 35:41
  Speaker 5: go down that road, you'll never be happy.
• 35:44
  Speaker 2: Once you get to a place where you have grand expectations,
• 35:48
  Speaker 2: that's that's a rough life because then it's just you're
• 35:50
  Speaker 2: either gonna do it or you aren't. Like we've lived
• 35:52
  Speaker 2: that with the Abs and Nuggets now for like four
• 35:54
  Speaker 2: straight years yea, where there's no like, hey, they didn't
• 35:58
  Speaker 2: win it all, but they had a good season. That
• 36:00
  Speaker 2: doesn't matter anymore. It's like did you do the ultimate
• 36:03
  Speaker 2: thing or not?
• 36:04
  Speaker 5: Listen, I've been around long enough to know this, and
• 36:07
  Speaker 5: tell me if you agree with me. The best time
• 36:10
  Speaker 5: to be a fan of a team, the less tortured
• 36:13
  Speaker 5: you are, is that road up it rise. Yes, where
• 36:18
  Speaker 5: the expectation isn't necessarily a championship, yet you're hoping to
• 36:22
  Speaker 5: get there. You aspire to get there, but you get
• 36:24
  Speaker 5: to certain ladders on the way there. That's the best
• 36:27
  Speaker 5: time because hope is in the air and you're like,
• 36:30
  Speaker 5: oh my god, we didn't expect to be here, like
• 36:31
  Speaker 5: being a Bronco fan for the last two years.
• 36:33
  Speaker 2: Yes, right exactly, Like oh my god, and the double run.
• 36:38
  Speaker 3: Yes, does it hurt to lose in the AFC to
• 36:40
  Speaker 3: championship game. Of course it does.
• 36:42
  Speaker 5: But you're way ahead of schedule. And that's the best
• 36:46
  Speaker 5: the worst time. I'm telling you, there's two worsts. When
• 36:49
  Speaker 5: you're dead last and you're like, there's no hope.
• 36:51
  Speaker 3: That's awful.
• 36:52
  Speaker 5: But when you're championship material and you're living and dying
• 36:55
  Speaker 5: on every game and you're like, oh god, it's.
• 36:58
  Speaker 3: The end of the world. Just lost three in our
• 37:00
  Speaker 3: Oh it's awful.
• 37:01
  Speaker 2: Eight years from now, when the Rockies go five hundred,
• 37:05
  Speaker 2: it's gonna be a glorious time. Like absolutely, Oh that's.
• 37:10
  Speaker 5: Why I wish you were here, And that's what your brain.
• 37:13
  Speaker 5: You can't harken back to it because you weren't here.
• 37:16
  Speaker 5: But in two thousand and seven, when that team pulled
• 37:18
  Speaker 5: off the most ridiculous run in baseball history, I well.
• 37:22
  Speaker 2: Think I told you. I was watching it from afar.
• 37:24
  Speaker 2: I was a Rockies fan. I was like, this is
• 37:26
  Speaker 2: like the coolest thing.
• 37:26
  Speaker 5: Ever when they pulled that off and you're sitting there
• 37:29
  Speaker 5: and you're going.
• 37:29
  Speaker 3: To work every day and you're saying, this is this real?
• 37:32
  Speaker 3: Are you kidding me?
• 37:33
  Speaker 5: With this team and you're living you're living through that. Yeah,
• 37:36
  Speaker 5: the magic that it brought on the city. You're like, Okay,
• 37:39
  Speaker 5: we saw it happen, it can happen, and now you
• 37:41
  Speaker 5: expect it to happen.
• 37:45
  Speaker 2: I think you're so right. That rise is the most
• 37:49
  Speaker 2: fun because after that, it's just it's torture. It's just
• 37:52
  Speaker 2: are we gonna win it or not? Because if we aren't,
• 37:54
  Speaker 2: then I'm gonna be pissed.
• 37:55
  Speaker 5: When the Abs started their rise, okay, so they experienced
• 37:58
  Speaker 5: that forty eight point season and then they're taking on teams.
• 38:01
  Speaker 3: Remember the Calgary series.
• 38:02
  Speaker 5: Remember when yeah the car they first brought up a
• 38:05
  Speaker 5: car and he made a run and he was a
• 38:07
  Speaker 5: stud in that series that well.
• 38:09
  Speaker 2: That just guts all over the place. Like that time.
• 38:12
  Speaker 5: That was just as fun as the Stanley Cup year.
• 38:15
  Speaker 5: And now you're expecting to win it. You're expecting to
• 38:18
  Speaker 5: be a contender, and I'm telling you these are rough.
• 38:22
  Speaker 5: It's hard to be a fan and be objective at time.
• 38:24
  Speaker 2: Let me sell you this right now, Vic, and I'll
• 38:25
  Speaker 2: do it quickly because we have to get the drunk takes.
• 38:28
  Speaker 2: When the Lions made the NFC Championship game and I
• 38:30
  Speaker 2: never watched them win a playoff game, nobody has in
• 38:32
  Speaker 2: my life, and they lost in epically horrible fashion right
• 38:38
  Speaker 2: before the Super Bowl. Yeah, I was still like, dude,
• 38:41
  Speaker 2: that was a blast, like that was And now the
• 38:44
  Speaker 2: last two years I'm like, this sucks. This is terrible. Yeah.
• 38:48
  Speaker 2: So super Bowl sixty, it's gonna be right here on
• 38:51
  Speaker 2: Altitude Sports Radio on Sunday. Coverage starts at two o'clock.
• 38:54
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  Speaker 2: Colorado Shines. Fick, You've done a great job at Radio Row,
• 39:02
  Speaker 2: but let's get to our favorite part of the week.
• 39:03
  Speaker 8: Please, Ourger Lombardy and Cane person do dud dum drunk takes.
• 39:11
  Speaker 3: For the record. I think this sort of dehumanizes us
• 39:17
  Speaker 3: and it really cracks out our credibility to the show.
• 39:21
  Speaker 2: Trunk takes our favorite part of the week, drunk takes
• 39:25
  Speaker 2: or glipse from throughout the week. We so him down
• 39:27
  Speaker 2: half speed. It makes it sound like we're hammered.
• 39:28
  Speaker 9: Nelly slow style big Air Air Air aurials air air Air,
• 39:38
  Speaker 9: have the air pipey air, fake you you fake you.
• 39:45
  Speaker 3: Rear y air.
• 39:49
  Speaker 8: I mean, for God's sake, how much air you loses?
• 39:54
  Speaker 3: Too much air.
• 39:56
  Speaker 4: In this world?
• 39:57
  Speaker 2: A lot of air. He's not wrong about that. What's next?
• 40:00
  Speaker 3: First of all, tell us what you're representing.
• 40:03
  Speaker 7: I'm representing Bounty here today.
• 40:07
  Speaker 3: Uh see.
• 40:08
  Speaker 5: Yeah, the greatest salesman job ever, my Piers tagline ever ever.
• 40:15
  Speaker 2: So yeah, what's next? Here's how i'd put it. Here's
• 40:20
  Speaker 2: how you know if your players good, if the defense
• 40:24
  Speaker 2: games plans the entire week, Yeah, games plans. I put
• 40:32
  Speaker 2: a little Scott Hastings on there throwing.
• 40:33
  Speaker 3: Some sucker and you're.
• 40:36
  Speaker 2: Golden's next, I'm gonna lay on this thing.
• 40:38
  Speaker 8: I want you to lay on top of me, and
• 40:42
  Speaker 8: then I want both of us to go down.
• 40:45
  Speaker 2: Feel good to.
• 40:46
  Speaker 1: You, you, and be at ninety miles per hour.
• 40:49
  Speaker 2: Baby, let's get it on.
• 40:53
  Speaker 3: It would be so much more entertaining if you had like.
• 40:58
  Speaker 8: Four guys dudes lay out of freaking on a on
• 41:04
  Speaker 8: a freaking card, or I want somebody.
• 41:08
  Speaker 2: Lay on me and we'll make it twice as fun.
• 41:13
  Speaker 2: H you'll two man lose all right? One more on, Ellen,
• 41:16
  Speaker 2: You missus girth, you misses, you miss his strength.
• 41:21
  Speaker 3: You miss that, do you not, Britt?
• 41:25
  Speaker 4: I miss it?
• 41:27
  Speaker 2: Yeah, they miss it. Give me, give me some more
• 41:32
  Speaker 2: girth down.
• 41:33
  Speaker 3: There, and let that guy.
• 41:36
  Speaker 2: Let that guy go to work.
• 41:38
  Speaker 3: Okay, is you talking about ski jumpers?
• 41:40
  Speaker 2: Most was here for three days and that was all motion.
• 41:44
  Speaker 2: It's amazing. Uh, great job down there.
• 41:47
  Speaker 3: Been a fun weekend. Look forward to get back.
• 41:50
  Speaker 2: All right, a lot more here as we go along
• 41:53
  Speaker 2: today Bud Light Football Friday, Stay tuned to all the
• 41:55
  Speaker 2: rest of the show's getting ready for the super Bowl,
• 41:57
  Speaker 2: which will be right here on Altitude Sports Radio ninety five.
• 42:00
  Speaker 2: Have a great weekend. We love you. Talk to you
• 42:01
  Speaker 2: Monday by Give me some more growth down there and
• 42:06
  Speaker 2: let that guy. Let that guy
• 42:09
  Speaker 4: Go to work.