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10-20-26 Hour 2 - Around the NFL/Nuggets Legend Dan Issel joins the show/Oh, By the Way · Moser, Lombardi and Kane

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  Speaker 1: This is Mosher Lombardi and Kane On Demand. Listen live
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  Speaker 1: every weekday morning from 7 to 10 on Altitude Sports
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  Speaker 1: Radio 92.5 and.
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  Speaker 2: On the Altitude Sports Radio app. All right, Dan Issel's
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  Speaker 2: in 20 minutes. We will talk to Adam Schefter at 9.20
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  Speaker 2: this morning. But first, let's take a look around the
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  Speaker 2: weekend that was in the NFL, starting with the early game.
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  Speaker 2: Texans in Jags in London. Hell of a finish. Travis
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  Speaker 2: Hunter had a great game. He had a touchdown catch.
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  Speaker 2: He had a pick in that game. But the Texans
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  Speaker 2: do get the game winner as the clock expired 34-31
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  Speaker 2: in a great game, a win over the Jags. I
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  Speaker 2: got to tell you, I know that the Texans started
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  Speaker 2: the year 0-4. I am shocked. at how good CJ
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  Speaker 2: Stroud looks. He looks amazing. Some of the throws in
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  Speaker 2: that game were unbelievable.
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  Speaker 3: He's got his mojo back a bit, right? Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: So there's living proof right there. You can lose it
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  Speaker 4: and regain it. Now, what it takes to regain it
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  Speaker 4: remains to be seen.
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  Speaker 2: By the way, Cam Little knocking in another 60-yarder to
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  Speaker 2: tie the game. That guy, remember when Brendan Aubrey, the
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  Speaker 2: kicker in Dallas, was the big name last year about
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  Speaker 2: hitting 60-some yarders? Cam Little is money. I hate to say, like,
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  Speaker 2: I'm excited to watch a kicker, but in his case,
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  Speaker 2: I am. I like it.
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  Speaker 3: Hey, man, can I, as far as the Jags are concerned, bro,
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  Speaker 3: having done it multiple times, there's only so much bangers
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  Speaker 3: and mash you can eat, bro. All right, so you've
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  Speaker 3: got to get out of London. You've got to get home.
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  Speaker 3: There's only so much you can consume, bro.
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  Speaker 2: The Texans are 2-4. The Jags are now 4-2. The
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  Speaker 2: Bears get the return of Caleb Williams. I think he
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  Speaker 2: completed his first 14 passes of the game against Atlanta.
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  Speaker 3: Can I say this? Obviously, when the draft happened, I'm like, okay,
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  Speaker 3: two will be great, two will be this, two will
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  Speaker 3: be that. Caleb Williams looks like the freaking real deal.
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  Speaker 3: He does now. I mean, he looks like an overall
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  Speaker 3: number one because he comes back in. That entire team
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  Speaker 3: responds to him. And, dude, he's stepping up in the
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  Speaker 3: pocket and making killer throws down the middle of the field.
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  Speaker 2: They were up 31-7. Now, the Falcons made this a game.
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  Speaker 2: They had the ball with one possession, down one possession,
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  Speaker 2: and time left to try and tie it. Couldn't quite
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  Speaker 2: get there. But the Bears now 4-2 with a 31-23
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  Speaker 2: win as the Falcons are 2-4.
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  Speaker 3: How does Penix get knocked out the week before? Knocked
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  Speaker 3: out of the game. Not knocked out, literally. And then
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  Speaker 3: he's like, oh yeah, I'm good against the Bears. No
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  Speaker 3: big deal. I don't know. I'm not going to call
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  Speaker 3: him injury prone, but my goodness.
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  Speaker 2: I think that's fair.
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  Speaker 3: He said last week, well, if we had the ball first,
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  Speaker 3: I could have come back. What does that mean? I
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  Speaker 3: don't know. What? What?
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  Speaker 2: Anyway, Ravens and Browns. Ravens without Lamar Jackson go to
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  Speaker 2: Cleveland in, I think, the ugliest game of the week.
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  Speaker 2: One of them, anyway. The Browns do win 13-10. And
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  Speaker 2: the Browns now lead the AFC North with a 4-2 record.
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  Speaker 3: You realize that I'm never laying anything down again, right?
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  Speaker 3: You realize that. The laying of the down has gone bye-bye.
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  Speaker 3: It's gone the way of the dodo. That game broke
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  Speaker 3: my flippin' heart. I mean, if you're Baltimore, even with
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  Speaker 3: Huntley at quarterback, and you go to Cleveland, and you
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  Speaker 3: can't win.
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  Speaker 2: Well, they took a 10-0 lead in the first quarter,
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  Speaker 2: and they never scored again.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, they just gave it away from that point on.
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  Speaker 3: It's ridiculous.
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  Speaker 2: So both the Ravens and the Browns 4-2, but the
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  Speaker 2: Browns number one, the AFC North. The Titans get their
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  Speaker 2: first win of the year over the Indianapolis Colts, 26-20,
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  Speaker 2: because Daniel Jones couldn't figure out... If I just keep
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  Speaker 2: the ball and make Cam Ward throw it, we win.
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  Speaker 2: But I'm just going to keep giving this away. And
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  Speaker 2: that resulted in Chris Ballard, the GM of the Colts
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  Speaker 2: after the game, getting the old Ziggy.
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  Speaker 4: That was impact day in Indy. That's when things went awry.
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  Speaker 4: And I heard the morning sprint talk about the Broncos
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  Speaker 4: going after Jonathan Taylor. And I've heard different people mention that.
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  Speaker 4: Let me tell you something. Just I want everybody to
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  Speaker 4: stop right now. Stop what you're doing. If the Colts
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  Speaker 4: were dumb enough to let him go based on letting
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  Speaker 4: their GM go, then dumb knows no bounds. They're not
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  Speaker 4: trading Jonathan Taylor just because they fired the GM.
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  Speaker 3: That's not happening.
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  Speaker 2: Jonathan Taylor's 27 years old.
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  Speaker 4: They're not trading him simply because, oh, GM's gone. Let's
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  Speaker 4: just fire everybody. That's not how you fix it.
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  Speaker 2: By the way, I just Googled Jonathan Taylor last night
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  Speaker 2: because I wanted to see something. There's a Broncos article
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  Speaker 2: about how they should trade for Jonathan Taylor. There's a
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  Speaker 2: Seahawks article.
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  Speaker 3: It's hilarious.
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  Speaker 2: There's 15 different teams that we should trade for Jonathan Taylor.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, every time a team makes a move, everybody
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  Speaker 4: assumes that that team is dumb enough to just let's
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  Speaker 4: just lose everybody.
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  Speaker 3: I'm sure Shane Steichen said this. Dan, Dan, Dan, the man, Dan,
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  Speaker 3: my man, Dan, you can literally do anything with the football.
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  Speaker 3: You can stuff it where the sun don't shine. Just
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  Speaker 3: don't throw it to the Titans.
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  Speaker 2: Just real quick. The Indianapolis Colts in that game had
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  Speaker 2: 399 yards of offense. The Titans had 186. The Colts
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  Speaker 2: had 24 first downs. The Titans had 11.
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  Speaker 3: That sounds a little familiar, does it not?
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  Speaker 2: It does.
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  Speaker 3: The Titans also outscored them 20-7 in the fourth quarter.
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  Speaker 2: So Titans are now 1-5. The Colts are 2-4. Guys,
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  Speaker 2: I think that Drake May is back. The Patriots beat
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  Speaker 2: the Jets 26-19. Aaron Glenn, I like him. I think
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  Speaker 2: he can be a good head coach. He has done
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  Speaker 2: some dumb things, though. Do you guys see what he
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  Speaker 2: did at halftime? They're coming out of the half. They're
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  Speaker 2: doing the halftime coach interview thing as the game is
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  Speaker 2: getting resumed. Aaron Glenn says, well, you know, we're down 17-3.
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  Speaker 2: We're going to get the ball to start the half.
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  Speaker 2: We've got to score. Here's one problem. They didn't get
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  Speaker 2: the ball at half. The Patriots got the ball at half.
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  Speaker 2: And it's just like, is it a huge deal? Not really,
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  Speaker 2: but it just.
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  Speaker 3: Makes you look stupid.
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  Speaker 2: You can't do that.
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  Speaker 3: They did score 10 points in that third quarter to
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  Speaker 3: get back in it. They did.
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  Speaker 2: They did. Drake May with another three touchdown day. The
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  Speaker 2: Patriots are now four and two after having that awful
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  Speaker 2: 0-2 start. Jets are now two and four. Saints get
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  Speaker 2: a win against the Giants. The Giants win from Jameis
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  Speaker 2: Winston now to J.J. McCarthy.
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  Speaker 5: J.J.
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  Speaker 2: McCarthy threw for 243 yards in the fourth quarter, had
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  Speaker 2: a 17-point fourth quarter, had a chance to tie the game.
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  Speaker 2: but the Saints hang on for a 34-27 win. I
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  Speaker 2: think this means that McCarthy's a starter moving forward.
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  Speaker 3: You got to make him. You got to. I saw
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  Speaker 3: that discussion yesterday. Stephen A. said yes, and Orlovsky's like,
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  Speaker 3: are you crazy? It's a first-place team.
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  Speaker 4: He showed too many glimpses that he can do it.
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  Speaker 4: I would do it right now. And as much as
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  Speaker 4: I love Jameis.
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  Speaker 3: He, again, dude, you don't know which team he's going
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  Speaker 3: to help on a weekly basis. He can help your
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  Speaker 3: team with four touches. He can... helped the other team
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  Speaker 3: with four picks. He threw two, and they yanked him.
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  Speaker 2: Saints are now 2-4. The Giants are 3-2-1. Stupid ties.
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  Speaker 2: Panthers and Eagles. So, the Eagles did not have Jalen
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  Speaker 2: Hurts for that game. They will not have Jalen Hurts
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  Speaker 2: for the rest of the year. They started Tanner McKee.
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  Speaker 2: He was not great. And the Panthers win 25-14. The
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  Speaker 2: question now surrounding Philly, they're not making the playoffs. They
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  Speaker 2: are going to have an awful season. They will be pickings.
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  Speaker 2: With a premium pick, you would think somewhere around the
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  Speaker 2: top 10. Do they keep Sirianni for that afterwards? That's
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  Speaker 2: the question. He was under fire when that team was winning.
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  Speaker 2: They're going to do a lot of losing now this year.
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  Speaker 3: Now what? Well, is it his fault that A.J. Brown
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  Speaker 3: flipped out and wanted to be traded and wanted the
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  Speaker 3: ball all the time? I mean, maybe it is, but
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  Speaker 3: he also brought them a Super Bowl. So it's like
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  Speaker 3: you're willing just to let bygones be bygones and.
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  Speaker 2: Well, didn't Philly fire Doug Peterson like a year and
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  Speaker 2: a half after he won a Super Bowl?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, but Big Dom said they were going to fix it.
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  Speaker 3: That guy.
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  Speaker 2: The Panthers are 3-2. The Eagles are 2-4. It was
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  Speaker 2: a really fun-ish game, but the Steelers and Bucs, Jalen Daniels,
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  Speaker 2: who's getting these starts in place of Baker Mayfield, you
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  Speaker 2: can see that he's got some talent, but he is very,
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  Speaker 2: very raw. He makes some bad mistakes. So they're up
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  Speaker 2: in that game 16-3 heading into the fourth quarter. Turnovers
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  Speaker 2: allow the Steelers to get back in it. They tie
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  Speaker 2: the game, send it to OT. The Steelers end up
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  Speaker 2: winning 26-19 in overtime. So the Steelers are now 4-2.
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  Speaker 2: It is a weird 4-2. It is a very unbelievable
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  Speaker 2: sort of 4-2. But this is what Pittsburgh does, I guess,
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  Speaker 2: without Mike Tomlin. They just sort of hang in there.
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  Speaker 2: and they're like a zombie that you can't kill.
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  Speaker 4: I got a buddy of mine who's a passionate Steelers fan,
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  Speaker 4: and I asked him, is this real?
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  Speaker 3: And he goes, oh, I don't know. He seemed resigned
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  Speaker 3: to it. He said, yeah, I don't know. Hey, that overtime.
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  Speaker 3: So the Steelers get the ball first, and they march
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  Speaker 3: down 12 plays, 70 yards, take 645 off the clock,
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  Speaker 3: and they punch it in, right? Nice touchdown. Did you
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  Speaker 3: see the final drive for the Buccaneers? It was a 10-play,
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  Speaker 3: 15-yard drive.
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  Speaker 2: I know.
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  Speaker 3: Dude.
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  Speaker 2: Pick up the first down. Move 20 yards back.
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  Speaker 3: Do it again.
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  Speaker 2: It's crazy.
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  Speaker 3: It was absolutely insane. And then Daniels takes a sack
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  Speaker 3: to end the game. He took a sack and the
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  Speaker 3: game was over.
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  Speaker 2: I saw that play. It was a free blitzer. I
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  Speaker 2: know it's like get rid of the football.
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  Speaker 3: Unblocked. Unblocked, right.
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  Speaker 2: Four and two are the Steelers. One and five are
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  Speaker 2: the Bucs. So the Cardinals go on the road against
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  Speaker 2: a really good team. Rams team that needs a win
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  Speaker 2: and find a way to beat the Rams scoring only
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  Speaker 2: field goals. Six of them to be exact as they
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  Speaker 2: win 18 to 16. Stafford had the old Bo Nix line.
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  Speaker 2: His average depth of target in that game was 4.9 yards,
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  Speaker 2: which is very un-Rams like. I don't, I mean, it
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  Speaker 2: feels like the Rams are done, but the NFC is
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  Speaker 2: so bad. If they get hot, maybe they can jump
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  Speaker 2: back in here.
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  Speaker 4: I wouldn't be two things. Two things would not surprise me.
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  Speaker 4: They're two and four would not be surprised if they
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  Speaker 4: turn things around, snuck into the playoffs and then nobody
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  Speaker 4: would want to play them.
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  Speaker 3: Right.
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  Speaker 5: Yes.
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  Speaker 3: Or, you know, things just unravel and they can't, they
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  Speaker 3: can't pull it back. They are, they are going to
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  Speaker 3: have to turn it around pretty quick. Um, Well, Devontae
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  Speaker 3: Adams is out for the season, ladies and gentlemen. I know. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: he's out six to ten weeks. His hamstring exploded.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, when you explode your hamstring when it's a
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  Speaker 4: ten-week deal, he's out for the season.
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  Speaker 3: He's done. There's no way he comes back from that.
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  Speaker 3: Their schedule is setting up where they can get to, like,
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  Speaker 3: six and five, seven and five, whatever. They're going to
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  Speaker 3: have to string together some wins, and right now they're
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  Speaker 3: going in the wrong direction at all.
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  Speaker 2: Their next four games are Raiders, Chargers, Commanders, and Cardinals.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know what to expect from the Rams, but
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  Speaker 2: if you could have a chance to get back in things,
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  Speaker 2: it feels like a good month of football to try and.
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  Speaker 3: Get you back in. If you can beat the Raiders,
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  Speaker 3: you should win four in a row. Isn't that amazing, though,
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  Speaker 3: how when things go south, then the injuries start to
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  Speaker 3: pile up as well?
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  Speaker 4: I mean, they can't win, and all of a sudden,
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  Speaker 4: their best red zone threat goes out for the year.
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  Speaker 2: Well, and Aaron Donald's probably like, I didn't reset my
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  Speaker 2: Hall of Fame clock for this, okay? Let's start winning
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  Speaker 2: some games here.
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  Speaker 3: Right.
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  Speaker 2: So both of those teams, 2-4, the Cardinals and the Rams.
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  Speaker 2: The Chargers and Chiefs, the Chiefs win 22-6, but I mean,
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  Speaker 2: the Chargers are early. They're the most incompetent team in football.
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  Speaker 2: I've never seen, like, a team that feels like they
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  Speaker 2: should be so much better than what they are. The
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  Speaker 2: Titans are bad, and that makes sense. The Chargers have
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  Speaker 2: Justin Herbert, and he can't throw anymore.
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  Speaker 3: It's bizarre. Not only can he not throw anymore, he's
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  Speaker 3: got nobody to throw to. And they are so banged
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  Speaker 3: up all over the place, it's unbelievable. I mean, really ridiculous.
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  Speaker 2: Newsflash, Kenneth Walker with another 128 yards on the ground
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  Speaker 2: and two touchdowns. He's been a freak all year.
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  Speaker 4: That run he had up the middle where he escaped
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  Speaker 4: to the end zone. If you go back and look
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  Speaker 4: at it, you look at just the initial carry, and
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  Speaker 4: you're like, well, he's down.
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  Speaker 3: No gain, right? No gain. He's down.
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  Speaker 4: Again, he has the ability to make something out of
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  Speaker 4: nothing like no other running back in the NFL.
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  Speaker 3: He really does.
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  Speaker 2: Chiefs are 5-0. The Chargers are 0-6. They're the only
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  Speaker 2: winless team left, aren't they? The Chargers?
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  Speaker 5: Well, wait.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, the Titans won.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, the Titans won.
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  Speaker 3: How about Miami? Miami. Oh, Miami.
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  Speaker 2: That's right.
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  Speaker 3: They were on a bye. They were on a bye.
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  Speaker 3: They were on a bye. We didn't... By the way,
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  Speaker 3: that's a cheat. You're out of your survivor pool.
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  Speaker 2: You didn't pick a team. Because I think you would
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  Speaker 2: have picked the Colts because you just would have went
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  Speaker 2: to the Titans.
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  Speaker 3: How do you know I would have done that?
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  Speaker 2: Because you're just picking the worst teams.
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  Speaker 3: I would have taken the Commanders. You're out. Um....
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  Speaker 2: Bills and Raiders. Bills hang on. Man, the Raiders, they fight, man.
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  Speaker 2: They really do. And Kirk Cousins plays some pretty good football.
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  Speaker 2: It's 33-30 was the final score. So the Bills do
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  Speaker 2: hang on in Vegas. But Vegas is, man, they're scrappy.
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  Speaker 2: It's a scrappy team.
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  Speaker 3: Be wary.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, that is not an automatic W. I know
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  Speaker 4: a lot of Bronco fans look at it that way.
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  Speaker 4: It's not the case.
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  Speaker 3: It's just not.
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  Speaker 2: So the Bills are 5-1. The Raiders are 3-3 now
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  Speaker 2: on the year. And then Cowboys and Packers in the
• 13:32
  Speaker 2: Sunday night finale. So the Packers have bounced back from
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  Speaker 2: a very rough start to the year. I still have
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  Speaker 2: some questions on what that team is, but I don't
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  Speaker 2: have questions about the Cowboys anymore. They're bad. Cowboys are
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  Speaker 2: just bad. And for them to struggle on offense is
• 13:48
  Speaker 2: a really weird thing. Dak Prescott, CeeDee Lamb, George Pickens,
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  Speaker 2: Jake Ferguson, Javante Williams, that team feels like they should
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  Speaker 2: be putting up more numbers offensively than they are.
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  Speaker 3: Because they should be.
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  Speaker 2: But the Packers are now 4-2 and the Cowboys are 2-4.
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  Speaker 2: it is Dan Issel. Dan, how you doing? Thanks for
• 14:34
  Speaker 2: joining us this morning.
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  Speaker 5: I'm doing terrific. Thanks for having me, guys.
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  Speaker 3: I wish I could get my hands on this book.
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  Speaker 3: I know you sent one to Vic. I am looking
• 14:43
  Speaker 3: forward to reading it, Dan, because back in the day
• 14:45
  Speaker 3: when we worked together, God, did I love to hear
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  Speaker 3: your stories. I mean, from college all the way through
• 14:52
  Speaker 3: the ABA and into the NBA era, What an experience
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  Speaker 3: and what a life, Dan. I think this is going
• 14:59
  Speaker 3: to be fantastic.
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  Speaker 5: Well, thank you. Unfortunately, Moe's, the station only gets one
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  Speaker 5: free book.
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  Speaker 3: I'm going to Amazon today. I'm buying it, I promise.
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  Speaker 4: Dan, as you know, Mark doesn't read, so the book
• 15:15
  Speaker 4: is in the right hands here.
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  Speaker 3: I've got the book.
• 15:17
  Speaker 4: It's called Dan Issel from Kentucky Wildcat to NBA Legend.
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  Speaker 3: This is not your first book, correct, Dan? You've had others.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, we did one. You remember Buddy Martin?
• 15:29
  Speaker 3: Yeah, sure.
• 15:30
  Speaker 5: Writer in Denver, I think with a post. And he
• 15:35
  Speaker 5: wrote a book with me right after I quit playing.
• 15:40
  Speaker 5: It was called Parting Shots. But that only covered up
• 15:44
  Speaker 5: to that time. This book covers from From birth to
• 15:50
  Speaker 5: almost death. So there are a lot more stories, both
• 15:53
  Speaker 5: good and bad, that have happened since I left my
• 15:57
  Speaker 5: playing days.
• 15:58
  Speaker 3: To almost death. Well, just keep writing books until you
• 16:01
  Speaker 3: get there, Dan. Just see how long it takes. Give
• 16:05
  Speaker 3: me some short stories.
• 16:06
  Speaker 2: Maybe some fiction stuff.
• 16:07
  Speaker 3: Exactly, man. I thought it was funny.
• 16:11
  Speaker 4: I thought it was fascinating because the book captures every
• 16:15
  Speaker 4: chapter of your life, but I want to start with this.
• 16:18
  Speaker 4: I want to start when you were a player with
• 16:20
  Speaker 4: the Nuggets, and a lot of people don't respect, in
• 16:22
  Speaker 4: my opinion, the ABA Nuggets and the team that you
• 16:25
  Speaker 4: were on with David Thompson, that group that played the
• 16:29
  Speaker 4: New Jersey Nets and Dr.
• 16:30
  Speaker 3: J in the finals.
• 16:33
  Speaker 4: How good was that Nuggets team, and how close were
• 16:36
  Speaker 4: you to winning it all that year?
• 16:38
  Speaker 5: Well, I think all you have to do is realize, Vic,
• 16:42
  Speaker 5: that the first two years that the Nuggets were in
• 16:45
  Speaker 5: the NBA, we won the Midwest Division. And we didn't
• 16:49
  Speaker 5: have to take a seat to anybody. That championship team
• 16:52
  Speaker 5: I played with in Kentucky, with Hall of Famers Artis
• 16:56
  Speaker 5: Gilmore and Louis Dampier, was as good a team, NBA, ABA,
• 17:01
  Speaker 5: I don't care what. But that team, the last year
• 17:05
  Speaker 5: we were in the ABA, I thought we had a
• 17:08
  Speaker 5: real chance to win it all. We beat the Colonels
• 17:11
  Speaker 5: in the semifinals. And then, unfortunately, Dr. J kind of
• 17:15
  Speaker 5: took over that final series. And that wound up being
• 17:19
  Speaker 5: the last series in the ABA. But it was, I
• 17:24
  Speaker 5: tell people, if David Thompson had not had his problems,
• 17:27
  Speaker 5: we talk about him today in the same way we
• 17:30
  Speaker 5: talk about LeBron and Michael. He was that good.
• 17:37
  Speaker 2: You know, with that, Dan, it's funny that you mention
• 17:40
  Speaker 2: this because, like, the Nuggets right now are in a
• 17:43
  Speaker 2: current spot where they've won a championship. They're trying to
• 17:46
  Speaker 2: get back to it. How difficult is it when you're
• 17:50
  Speaker 2: kind of running your head up against a wall, you're close,
• 17:52
  Speaker 2: but you can't quite get there to keep the faith?
• 17:55
  Speaker 5: Yeah, it's really difficult. That team I alluded to in Kentucky,
• 18:00
  Speaker 5: we were probably the best team in the ABA for
• 18:03
  Speaker 5: four seasons. and only won one championship. It's very, very difficult.
• 18:09
  Speaker 5: You know, once you win a championship, you've got a
• 18:12
  Speaker 5: target on your back, and people are coming after you.
• 18:16
  Speaker 5: They give you their best shot each and every night. So,
• 18:21
  Speaker 5: you know, you have to be even better, if that's possible,
• 18:25
  Speaker 5: when you won the championship if you're going to win
• 18:27
  Speaker 5: another one.
• 18:29
  Speaker 3: Yeah, Dan, in today's NBA, too, with the way the
• 18:32
  Speaker 3: cap works, and it's just such brain damage to me,
• 18:34
  Speaker 3: and first aprons and second aprons and bird rights and
• 18:36
  Speaker 3: i get frustrated on a daily basis about all this
• 18:39
  Speaker 3: stuff but i like i like the fact that they're
• 18:41
  Speaker 3: trying to keep the parody how much more difficult is
• 18:43
  Speaker 3: it then too because we look at the nuggets and
• 18:45
  Speaker 3: one aaron gordon injury and it feels like you've got
• 18:48
  Speaker 3: no shot you know what i mean it just it
• 18:50
  Speaker 3: feels like everything everything has to go exactly right in
• 18:53
  Speaker 3: salary cap eras.
• 18:55
  Speaker 5: Yeah and and you look at the nuggets and you're
• 18:58
  Speaker 5: absolutely right moses it's uh they've got to stay healthy.
• 19:02
  Speaker 5: Aaron didn't play half the games last year. Brown didn't
• 19:06
  Speaker 5: play almost half the games last year. And I'm not
• 19:11
  Speaker 5: exactly enamored with their bench, especially now that Julian's out
• 19:15
  Speaker 5: for a month or two. And so the salary cap,
• 19:19
  Speaker 5: you know, you have to pay your stars. I mean,
• 19:22
  Speaker 5: you can't try to undercut Nicola. You have to pay
• 19:28
  Speaker 5: your stars, but it does limit What you can do
• 19:32
  Speaker 5: in other in other positions. And I don't know. I
• 19:36
  Speaker 5: just there are so many good teams in the West
• 19:39
  Speaker 5: and so many good teams in the West getting better that,
• 19:44
  Speaker 5: you know, you everything has to go perfect for the
• 19:47
  Speaker 5: Nuggets to compete.
• 19:49
  Speaker 3: Dan, Dan Issel. with us.
• 19:50
  Speaker 4: Dan's written a new book. And if you've never read
• 19:54
  Speaker 4: any of Dan's stuff, it's entertaining.
• 19:56
  Speaker 3: He's funny.
• 19:57
  Speaker 4: He's informational. I came up, Dan, with my starting five
• 20:01
  Speaker 4: of Nuggets history. And to be honest, I've got you
• 20:04
  Speaker 4: starting at power forward. I know you played a lot
• 20:06
  Speaker 4: of center back in the day, but Joker's our center.
• 20:09
  Speaker 4: you're going to be the power forward and Alex is
• 20:10
  Speaker 4: going to be the small forward on.
• 20:11
  Speaker 3: My starting five.
• 20:13
  Speaker 4: I need to ask you about Nicola because you've watched
• 20:15
  Speaker 4: him play. You've watched him evolve. And I don't know
• 20:18
  Speaker 4: if you saw his pass in the preseason. Did you
• 20:21
  Speaker 4: see that pass behind the back across court?
• 20:23
  Speaker 5: You, I sure did. Okay.
• 20:26
  Speaker 4: And everybody said, is there another player in NBA history
• 20:28
  Speaker 4: who could have made that pass? And you know, the
• 20:30
  Speaker 4: name that came to my mind is Pete Maravich.
• 20:32
  Speaker 3: Do you think Pete Maravich would make a pass like that?
• 20:35
  Speaker 5: Possibly. Pete, was the best ball handler and passer I
• 20:40
  Speaker 5: ever saw. He scored a lot of points in college
• 20:45
  Speaker 5: because he took a lot of shots. But you could
• 20:47
  Speaker 5: run all five guys at him, and he was so
• 20:50
  Speaker 5: clever with the basketball, he'd still get an open shot.
• 20:53
  Speaker 5: And so I think that's a good comparison, that he's
• 20:58
  Speaker 5: probably the only other one that I could think of
• 21:00
  Speaker 5: that could possibly have made that pass, but I'm not
• 21:03
  Speaker 5: so sure Pete could have.
• 21:05
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 21:06
  Speaker 4: Well, I bring up Joker because the other thing you
• 21:08
  Speaker 4: and Joker have in common is your affinity, your affection
• 21:11
  Speaker 4: for horses.
• 21:12
  Speaker 3: Different kind. You know, you're a thoroughbred guy, and he.
• 21:15
  Speaker 4: Obviously does, I'm not even sure, what do you call
• 21:18
  Speaker 4: the horses that harness racing?
• 21:20
  Speaker 3: Harness racing, yeah.
• 21:21
  Speaker 5: I call it harness racing, but here in America, the
• 21:25
  Speaker 5: majority of harness racings are for pacers, which have a
• 21:28
  Speaker 5: diagonal gate. Over there where Nicola works, it's all trotters.
• 21:35
  Speaker 5: They don't have any pacers in Europe. And so it
• 21:38
  Speaker 5: would be harness horses, trotters.
• 21:41
  Speaker 3: Gotcha.
• 21:41
  Speaker 4: I would love for you and Nicola, you talk about
• 21:44
  Speaker 4: a great interview, guys. What if we took a microphone
• 21:47
  Speaker 4: and had Dan and Nicola just talk.
• 21:49
  Speaker 3: Horses for half an hour? How cool would that be?
• 21:51
  Speaker 3: What would you ask them, Dan? I mean, how would
• 21:53
  Speaker 3: that conversation go?
• 21:55
  Speaker 5: Well, you know, it's ironic. The very first racehorse I owned,
• 21:59
  Speaker 5: was a harness horse. And I was in that business
• 22:02
  Speaker 5: for several years before I switched over to Thoroughbred. So,
• 22:08
  Speaker 5: you know, I probably couldn't stay up with Nicola on
• 22:11
  Speaker 5: all of the technical aspects, but I could carry on
• 22:14
  Speaker 5: a conversation about harness racing.
• 22:16
  Speaker 3: What is the allure? I'm just curious.
• 22:18
  Speaker 4: Why do both of you have that part of you
• 22:21
  Speaker 4: and you both play the same position for the same team?
• 22:23
  Speaker 5: Did you see the video of him winning a race?
• 22:29
  Speaker 3: Oh, yeah.
• 22:30
  Speaker 5: How ecstatic he was. Once you stand in the winner's circle,
• 22:37
  Speaker 5: I don't know if it's because you don't have any
• 22:40
  Speaker 5: control over the outcome. I mean, you can invest your
• 22:43
  Speaker 5: money and buy good horses and all of that. But
• 22:47
  Speaker 5: once the starting gate rolls or the starting gate opens,
• 22:51
  Speaker 5: you don't have any control over it. But standing in the,
• 22:54
  Speaker 5: there's just, I can't explain it. Standing in the winner's
• 22:57
  Speaker 5: circle of a horse race is a thrill that it's
• 23:02
  Speaker 5: hard to duplicate.
• 23:04
  Speaker 3: Dan, it's competitive stuff is what it is. I mean,
• 23:07
  Speaker 3: you've got, you know, you've got several other horses out there,
• 23:09
  Speaker 3: and they're all trying to do the same thing that
• 23:11
  Speaker 3: yours is trying to do. It's still competition. It's still that,
• 23:15
  Speaker 3: you know, it scratches that itch, I suppose.
• 23:18
  Speaker 5: You know, maybe that's it. Maybe it's, you know, you
• 23:22
  Speaker 5: have to be so competitive to be successful on the
• 23:24
  Speaker 5: basketball floor. Maybe that's what gets everybody's hair to stand
• 23:31
  Speaker 5: up on the back of their neck.
• 23:32
  Speaker 3: Well, Dan, it's interesting, too, because Michael Jordan got into
• 23:38
  Speaker 3: auto racing, right? I mean, Walter Payton, when he was
• 23:41
  Speaker 3: done being a running back, he was a race car driver.
• 23:43
  Speaker 3: And so I guess there's other avenues that guys will
• 23:48
  Speaker 3: gravitate toward, but I think horse racing is one of them.
• 23:50
  Speaker 3: Eric Johnson, the former Avalanche defenseman, same kind of story.
• 23:54
  Speaker 3: He's a huge thoroughbred guy.
• 23:56
  Speaker 5: Yeah, you know, I think once your playing days are over,
• 24:00
  Speaker 5: of course, let's hope Nicola's aren't over for a while.
• 24:03
  Speaker 5: But that's probably what you miss the most. I mean,
• 24:08
  Speaker 5: you certainly don't miss going to practice. You don't miss
• 24:12
  Speaker 5: the travel. But the competitive nature of trying to beat
• 24:17
  Speaker 5: somebody at what you do best and what they do best,
• 24:22
  Speaker 5: that's what you miss the most when you retire.
• 24:26
  Speaker 2: If I'm looking for, you know, as you said, hopefully
• 24:30
  Speaker 2: long down the road here when Jokic's career is done,
• 24:33
  Speaker 2: when the Nuggets need another center, you just look for
• 24:36
  Speaker 2: somebody who likes horses? Is that a prerequisite for it?
• 24:39
  Speaker 3: Start there.
• 24:42
  Speaker 2: I think so. Pretty accurate. Seems like it.
• 24:45
  Speaker 5: On the list.
• 24:48
  Speaker 4: Dan, the Nuggets open up. It's a tough road game
• 24:51
  Speaker 4: to open the season at Oklahoma City.
• 24:53
  Speaker 3: What are... What are fair expectations in your mind for
• 24:56
  Speaker 3: this team this year?
• 25:00
  Speaker 5: You know, it's hard to say because you don't know
• 25:05
  Speaker 5: how healthy they're going to be. I look around the league,
• 25:09
  Speaker 5: Oklahoma City. I don't see them taking a step back.
• 25:13
  Speaker 5: San Antonio with their young team will probably be better
• 25:18
  Speaker 5: than last year, which is a scary thought. You don't
• 25:20
  Speaker 5: know how the ball experiment is going to work in Minnesota.
• 25:25
  Speaker 5: If Irving decides to play this year, I think Dallas
• 25:28
  Speaker 5: is going to be improved. You know, I kind of
• 25:32
  Speaker 5: look at where they were last year. If they can
• 25:35
  Speaker 5: come into that third or fourth spot going into the playoffs,
• 25:40
  Speaker 5: then anything goes. Then you can get hot and beat anybody. But,
• 25:46
  Speaker 5: you know, I don't think it's– I don't think it's
• 25:49
  Speaker 5: a realistic expectation to think that the Nuggets are going
• 25:53
  Speaker 5: to be the best team in the West this year.
• 25:56
  Speaker 3: Dan, I just have a question for you, and I
• 25:58
  Speaker 3: want to get my hands on this book. I want
• 25:59
  Speaker 3: to read all about it. I want to hear the
• 26:02
  Speaker 3: stories and read the stories. Could you describe, though, before
• 26:05
  Speaker 3: we let you go, and not too much detail, I'm
• 26:08
  Speaker 3: sure it's much more in the book, but In today's
• 26:11
  Speaker 3: pro sports, I mean, the money is so big and
• 26:14
  Speaker 3: the teams are so stocked with owners who have money
• 26:17
  Speaker 3: and so on. But could you relay the paycheck situation
• 26:20
  Speaker 3: with the Kentucky Colonels and what that was like in
• 26:24
  Speaker 3: the early days of the ABA?
• 26:26
  Speaker 5: Well, you know, I've never worried about what the players
• 26:32
  Speaker 5: get paid. I always thought most. You know, that Bill
• 26:38
  Speaker 5: Russell probably thought what I was getting paid was ridiculous.
• 26:42
  Speaker 5: So it just goes up and up as you go
• 26:45
  Speaker 5: down the line. But, you know, it's so much money.
• 26:50
  Speaker 5: What bothers me the most is not the money. It's
• 26:54
  Speaker 5: this guy's not playing because they have a hangnail. Or guys,
• 27:01
  Speaker 5: you know, taking, what do they call it, load management?
• 27:05
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 27:06
  Speaker 5: To me, that's a load of crap. I mean, if
• 27:10
  Speaker 5: I would have walked into the locker room when I
• 27:12
  Speaker 5: was playing and I told Alex and Kiki, you know, guys,
• 27:16
  Speaker 5: we played last night. We got a game coming up
• 27:19
  Speaker 5: in two days. There's nothing wrong, but I'm going to
• 27:22
  Speaker 5: take a night off. They would have jumped up and
• 27:25
  Speaker 5: pommeled me. And so I don't know. I don't know.
• 27:30
  Speaker 5: That's the part of the game I don't like, especially
• 27:32
  Speaker 5: with the prices. I mean, you know, you pay unbelievable
• 27:36
  Speaker 5: prices to go watch these guys play and you show
• 27:40
  Speaker 5: up one night and the star and the other team
• 27:42
  Speaker 5: isn't playing because of load management. I think that's the
• 27:46
  Speaker 5: biggest problem the league has to deal with.
• 27:48
  Speaker 3: But can you even imagine like today's owners, go back
• 27:52
  Speaker 3: to the Baltimore Claws who you never obviously played for,
• 27:54
  Speaker 3: but you got traded there and then traded to the Nuggets. But,
• 27:57
  Speaker 3: you know, I mean, it's, It was a day-by-day basis
• 28:00
  Speaker 3: whether or not that team even existed. Those were crazy times, Dan. Yeah.
• 28:05
  Speaker 5: And let me tell you, I was, and I prefer
• 28:07
  Speaker 5: to say sold. I wasn't traded.
• 28:09
  Speaker 3: Okay, sold, sold, sold.
• 28:12
  Speaker 5: It was for the money going back to the owner,
• 28:16
  Speaker 5: John Y. Brown of the Kentucky Colonels. But I was in,
• 28:20
  Speaker 5: Sherry and I and our three-year-old daughter shared in. We're
• 28:23
  Speaker 5: in a hotel room in Baltimore with a cat and
• 28:27
  Speaker 5: a parakeet for 10 days as my time with the
• 28:30
  Speaker 5: Baltimore Claws. And I did get a paycheck. And then
• 28:33
  Speaker 5: I was sold to Denver because Baltimore never came up
• 28:38
  Speaker 5: with the money. And so I asked Carl Shearer, the
• 28:42
  Speaker 5: general manager, I said, Carl, what, you know, where do
• 28:45
  Speaker 5: we have, what bank relationship do we have? And so
• 28:48
  Speaker 5: he told me and I went and opened up a
• 28:49
  Speaker 5: checking account with my Baltimore Claws check.
• 29:00
  Speaker 4: That's how it went back in the day. Hey, Dan,
• 29:02
  Speaker 4: wish you the best of luck, man. Let's connect again.
• 29:05
  Speaker 4: I hope the book sells. Your boy Mosier here load
• 29:08
  Speaker 4: manages every other day, so you're talking to the right crowd.
• 29:12
  Speaker 4: But we love you, and we thank you for being
• 29:15
  Speaker 4: a guest on our show.
• 29:16
  Speaker 5: Vic, can I add one thing?
• 29:18
  Speaker 3: Sure.
• 29:18
  Speaker 5: My daughter came up with a great idea. I don't know.
• 29:23
  Speaker 5: I've got signings the next three weeks. I've got signings
• 29:26
  Speaker 5: all over Kentucky, but I don't have any in Denver.
• 29:29
  Speaker 5: So my daughter came up with this great idea. If
• 29:32
  Speaker 5: you would like a book, I mean, if you just
• 29:34
  Speaker 5: want to buy the book, you can go to Amazon
• 29:36
  Speaker 5: or Barnes & Noble, any of those places. But if
• 29:39
  Speaker 5: you would like one autograph with a personal message from me,
• 29:43
  Speaker 5: if you go to danisselbook.com, it's all right there. And
• 29:49
  Speaker 5: you can order a book on that website.
• 29:52
  Speaker 4: Great idea. Daughter's a smart lady. danisselbook.com. We'll connect with
• 29:57
  Speaker 4: you again. I want to do something for our Nuggets
• 29:59
  Speaker 4: pregame show because we got to talk a little bit
• 30:01
  Speaker 4: more about horses.
• 30:02
  Speaker 3: Dan, thanks, buddy. Appreciate you.
• 30:04
  Speaker 5: Thanks, guys. Have a great day.
• 30:06
  Speaker 3: All righty. You bet.
• 30:07
  Speaker 2: Dan Issel, the Hall of Famer, joins us on the
• 30:09
  Speaker 2: Ramos Law Hotline.
• 30:10
  Speaker 4: One quick Dan story, and I've asked him this too
• 30:12
  Speaker 4: many times, so I don't need to ask him again,
• 30:14
  Speaker 4: but my favorite Dan Issel story of all time, when
• 30:18
  Speaker 4: I was a ball boy in the 80s, this was like,
• 30:21
  Speaker 4: this was mythology, right?
• 30:22
  Speaker 3: Did this really happen? I asked him. It did happen.
• 30:24
  Speaker 3: This is truth.
• 30:25
  Speaker 4: So he was a prankster late in his career, and
• 30:27
  Speaker 4: he would do things just to get the team lighthearted.
• 30:31
  Speaker 4: One day, they're at training camp, and everybody's in line,
• 30:35
  Speaker 4: and Dan used to wear fake teeth.
• 30:38
  Speaker 3: You know, he had the fake teeth he pulled out,
• 30:39
  Speaker 3: his front teeth. He played without the teeth, like Eric Johnson.
• 30:42
  Speaker 3: He pulled those teeth out, and he played the game.
• 30:44
  Speaker 4: So they're at practice, and they're in the line to
• 30:48
  Speaker 4: get Gatorade or water.
• 30:49
  Speaker 3: Out of the Gatorade jug. And he's laughing.
• 30:52
  Speaker 4: Everybody's in line pouring water, pouring water, one after another.
• 30:55
  Speaker 4: And he's last in line. And everybody's like, why are
• 30:57
  Speaker 4: you laughing, Doug?
• 30:59
  Speaker 3: He's the last. He gets in there. He squeezes off
• 31:01
  Speaker 3: the top of the jug, reaches in. His teeth are
• 31:04
  Speaker 3: in the water.
• 31:06
  Speaker 2: Oh, my God.
• 31:11
  Speaker 3: That's great. Look. I got one, too. The Nuggets were
• 31:15
  Speaker 3: playing the Clippers one time. And I don't know how
• 31:19
  Speaker 3: it was. He looks over at me like... you can
• 31:21
  Speaker 3: ask me a question. I go, yeah, what are you,
• 31:23
  Speaker 3: what's the story with Keith Kloss? Keith Kloss was a
• 31:26
  Speaker 3: crap player. He looks at me and he goes, Moshe,
• 31:29
  Speaker 3: you asked me about Keith Kloss? That guy sucks. I'm like, well,
• 31:36
  Speaker 3: you looked at me like I need to continue this conversation.
• 31:38
  Speaker 3: I didn't have anything. I mean, he's just, he's, Always
• 31:42
  Speaker 3: treated me remarkably well. Just a great dude. I can't
• 31:46
  Speaker 3: wait to get my hands on this book.
• 31:47
  Speaker 2: I know you know him well. I was looking something up,
• 31:50
  Speaker 2: and this blew me away. And I don't know if
• 31:52
  Speaker 2: you knew this already, so I didn't want to ask it.
• 31:54
  Speaker 2: But he was high school teammates in Illinois with Ken Anderson,
• 32:00
  Speaker 2: the MVP quarterback of the Bengals, and Craig Sager.
• 32:03
  Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah, you're right. I should have asked that. Batavia
• 32:06
  Speaker 3: High School. That's crazy. Yeah, yeah.
• 32:09
  Speaker 2: Those are three legendary players.
• 32:11
  Speaker 3: Or, I guess, people. No doubt about it.
• 32:13
  Speaker 2: Legendary in their realms.
• 32:15
  Speaker 3: Yeah. Right. Yep.
• 32:16
  Speaker 2: An MVP quarterback in the NFL, a Hall of Fame
• 32:18
  Speaker 2: basketball player, and, like, the most famous broadcaster in NBA history.
• 32:24
  Speaker 2: Greg Sager.
• 32:25
  Speaker 3: That's nuts. In fact, he was such a good broadcaster.
• 32:27
  Speaker 3: Listen to this, too. He was broadcasting Nuggets games, right?
• 32:31
  Speaker 3: He's doing the games. Like, Hastings. He was Hastings before Hastings, right?
• 32:35
  Speaker 3: He was doing the games. And Bernie Bickerstaff fired their
• 32:39
  Speaker 3: head coach at the time. Paul Westhead.
• 32:42
  Speaker 4: And they went to Dan and said, hey, do you
• 32:44
  Speaker 4: want to coach? This is the color analyst saying, you
• 32:47
  Speaker 4: want to coach?
• 32:48
  Speaker 3: Yes. And he became the head coach. Yes.
• 32:50
  Speaker 4: So I fully expect next job for Vic Lombardi will
• 32:55
  Speaker 4: be head coach of the Denver Nuggets.
• 32:59
  Speaker 2: Well, let's hope it doesn't come to that. Can we just,
• 33:01
  Speaker 2: can we hope for that?
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  Speaker 3: I agree. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Let's hope for a championship and everybody keeps their jobs.
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  Speaker 2: Let's do that.
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  Speaker 5: It's just basketball.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, by the way, coming away next.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, absolutely nothing to do with all that.
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• 33:39
  Speaker 2: Adam Schefter is going to join us at 930, but
• 33:41
  Speaker 2: this is, oh, by the way, stories around sports in
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  Speaker 3: I want to go first.
• 33:49
  Speaker 2: Go ahead.
• 33:49
  Speaker 3: Dalton Connect.
• 33:50
  Speaker 4: Speaking of the Nuggets, a couple of our texters mentioned it,
• 33:53
  Speaker 4: and I've been talking about it since it came down yesterday.
• 33:56
  Speaker 3: Dalton, the pride of Thornton, Colorado. Colorado kid, played.
• 33:59
  Speaker 4: At UNC, then transferred, of course, to Tennessee to finish
• 34:02
  Speaker 4: his college career. The Lakers drafted him. Then they tried
• 34:05
  Speaker 4: to trade him. That trade was revoked a couple days later,
• 34:09
  Speaker 4: and his career sort of went into spin cycle. He
• 34:12
  Speaker 4: was cut yesterday by the Lakers. He's a 6'6 wing
• 34:15
  Speaker 4: who can shoot it. Never given an opportunity in L.A.
• 34:19
  Speaker 3: He's available. He's out there.
• 34:22
  Speaker 4: Should the Nuggets pursue him? Do the Nuggets need him?
• 34:25
  Speaker 4: Could the Nuggets make room for him? They have one
• 34:28
  Speaker 4: spot on the roster. I don't know the answers to
• 34:30
  Speaker 4: those questions. All I know is if there's room... to
• 34:33
  Speaker 4: allow this guy to resuscitate his career. I'd love to
• 34:36
  Speaker 4: see him do it here in Denver. Yeah, Vic, why
• 34:37
  Speaker 4: do you think that is? Why do you think the
• 34:39
  Speaker 4: Lakers found him to be expendable? They have too many
• 34:42
  Speaker 4: players who do what he does. I mean, he plays
• 34:44
  Speaker 4: on a team with Luka Doncic and Austin Reeves, and,
• 34:47
  Speaker 4: I mean, where's he going to play?
• 34:49
  Speaker 3: Where's he going to play? He's not going to get
• 34:50
  Speaker 3: any points. Could they have moved him for something? I mean,
• 34:53
  Speaker 3: I don't know.
• 34:53
  Speaker 4: And I think when they tried to trade him, it
• 34:55
  Speaker 4: sort of messed him up a little bit. I mean,
• 34:57
  Speaker 4: they basically gave up on him, and then they had
• 34:59
  Speaker 4: to take him back.
• 35:01
  Speaker 2: He played a lot as a rookie and then just
• 35:03
  Speaker 2: kind of stopped playing.
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  Speaker 3: It's weird.
• 35:04
  Speaker 4: I mean, there was one game against the Nuggets, if
• 35:06
  Speaker 4: you recall. I think he had like four threes. He
• 35:08
  Speaker 4: was lighting it up.
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  Speaker 2: Thing is, he's a forward. Just another forward you could
• 35:15
  Speaker 2: throw him.
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  Speaker 3: I know.
• 35:16
  Speaker 2: Look, I would take it, but I really wish he
• 35:19
  Speaker 2: was a guard. That's what I want.
• 35:21
  Speaker 3: Well, there are guards available that were cut yesterday. There
• 35:25
  Speaker 3: are plenty. I mean, if you look at the waiver wire,
• 35:27
  Speaker 3: it's crazy how many named guards. But again.
• 35:30
  Speaker 4: These are all reclamation projects, and I don't know if
• 35:33
  Speaker 4: the Nuggets have time to go through that process.
• 35:37
  Speaker 3: Yep. Right.
• 35:38
  Speaker 2: Oh, by the way, I just did a little digging
• 35:42
  Speaker 2: because the Colts, they fired their GM, Chris Ballard. And
• 35:47
  Speaker 2: in doing so, it has triggered everybody thinking there's a
• 35:49
  Speaker 2: fire sale coming in Indianapolis. Can I just read a
• 35:53
  Speaker 2: few of these for you guys? As the Broncos are
• 35:56
  Speaker 2: rumored by some people or Broncos fans want them to
• 35:58
  Speaker 2: go after Jonathan Taylor. Here's some headlines that I just
• 36:02
  Speaker 2: saw by Googling Jonathan Taylor.
• 36:03
  Speaker 5: You ready?
• 36:05
  Speaker 2: Denver Broncos could win the Super Bowl by making blockbuster trade.
• 36:10
  Speaker 2: Jonathan Taylor, Minnesota Vikings should trade for star Indianapolis Colts
• 36:14
  Speaker 2: running back. Should New York Giants pursue a trade for
• 36:17
  Speaker 2: Colts running back Jonathan Taylor? My thoughts on the possibility
• 36:22
  Speaker 2: of the Seahawks trading for Quentin Nelson and Jonathan Taylor.
• 36:25
  Speaker 2: Should the Cincinnati Bengals acquire Jonathan Taylor? Everybody thinks they
• 36:29
  Speaker 2: should get Jonathan Taylor, okay? If you see a rumor
• 36:33
  Speaker 2: about the Broncos, it's you and 15 other teams are
• 36:36
  Speaker 2: saying the same thing.
• 36:37
  Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, because they fire their GM, you think
• 36:39
  Speaker 3: they're going to be easy pickings or you think that
• 36:41
  Speaker 3: it's just a total housecleaning sale. I don't know what
• 36:43
  Speaker 3: the owner.
• 36:45
  Speaker 2: The Bengals may have a green light to trade for
• 36:47
  Speaker 2: three-time All-Pro Jonathan Taylor.
• 36:49
  Speaker 3: Well, your team can green light it, but it doesn't
• 36:52
  Speaker 3: mean the Colts are going to green light it back
• 36:54
  Speaker 3: the other way, right? Of course. I think it's kind
• 36:57
  Speaker 3: of funny. Oh, by the way, does this name ring
• 36:59
  Speaker 3: a bell to you guys? Tank Dell. Yeah. I remember
• 37:03
  Speaker 3: that guy. He played for the Houston Texans.
• 37:06
  Speaker 2: Did he get shot a couple years ago?
• 37:09
  Speaker 3: No, he did not.
• 37:10
  Speaker 2: Are you sure?
• 37:11
  Speaker 3: Well, I don't think he did, but he did blow
• 37:13
  Speaker 3: out his knee in December of 2024 against Kansas City.
• 37:19
  Speaker 3: He has not played a down of football.
• 37:21
  Speaker 2: Tech Dell did take a gunshot into the leg two
• 37:23
  Speaker 2: years ago.
• 37:23
  Speaker 3: Oh, he did? Okay, so he got shot in the leg,
• 37:25
  Speaker 3: and then he blew out his knee. Probably a coincidence.
• 37:28
  Speaker 3: But he suffered multiple torn ligaments and a dislocated kneecap.
• 37:34
  Speaker 3: He's been out of football, guys, for 22 months. And
• 37:39
  Speaker 3: he's ready to return for the Houston Texans coming off
• 37:41
  Speaker 3: that huge win against the Jaguars in bloody old London, right?
• 37:47
  Speaker 3: So Tank Dell is back. But do you remember Tank
• 37:49
  Speaker 3: Dell sort of burst on the scene? He's great. In
• 37:51
  Speaker 3: his first and second years. I mean, he was only
• 37:53
  Speaker 3: in his second year in week 16 against Kansas City
• 37:56
  Speaker 3: when his knee got exploded. But this guy's going to
• 37:59
  Speaker 3: come back. Maybe modern medicine is just better than I
• 38:02
  Speaker 3: think it is. But, man, when you have a whiteout
• 38:04
  Speaker 3: who blew up everything in his knee and had to
• 38:07
  Speaker 3: have his kneecap put back on, that's a tough deal.
• 38:11
  Speaker 2: Oh, by the way, can you pull up the picture
• 38:12
  Speaker 2: behind me, Nelly? Just so you know, if any of
• 38:15
  Speaker 2: you guys fell for this, you got got.
• 38:19
  Speaker 3: Too much AI. Too much AI on the web.
• 38:23
  Speaker 2: James Harden's beard being gone is fake. It's a fake thing.
• 38:26
  Speaker 2: He still has his beard. He said he will not
• 38:29
  Speaker 2: cut his beard off until his career is done. If
• 38:32
  Speaker 2: you thought he shaved his beard, I hate to tell you,
• 38:35
  Speaker 2: you got got.
• 38:37
  Speaker 4: So was that a scheme perpetrated by him and his
• 38:41
  Speaker 4: marketing people or was it somebody else?
• 38:43
  Speaker 2: I think somebody just tried to get a tweet to
• 38:45
  Speaker 2: go viral.
• 38:46
  Speaker 3: Okay.
• 38:47
  Speaker 4: Oh, by the way, you guys asked yesterday because we
• 38:50
  Speaker 4: saw it during Sunday's NFL games. Did Jim Nance injure
• 38:55
  Speaker 4: his wrist when he tried to punch the ball away
• 38:57
  Speaker 4: from J.J.
• 38:58
  Speaker 3: Watt? I texted Jim yesterday. Yeah.
• 39:01
  Speaker 4: And he said, quote, I have to admit it stung
• 39:04
  Speaker 4: for a while, but it's feeling a lot better today.
• 39:07
  Speaker 3: So, yes, he did get injured doing that.
• 39:11
  Speaker 2: Look, his face afterwards, if you watch the video, his
• 39:15
  Speaker 2: face got a little flush. Like it was like, oh,
• 39:18
  Speaker 2: that I just injured. You know what it is? It's
• 39:21
  Speaker 2: one thing to injure yourself, but to injure yourself doing
• 39:23
  Speaker 2: something stupid is almost embarrassing more than it's painful.
• 39:27
  Speaker 3: Well, doing live television in injury. motion.
• 39:31
  Speaker 4: Have you ever injured yourself or done something that required
• 39:34
  Speaker 4: immediate attention while doing live television?
• 39:39
  Speaker 3: I'm trying. I'm trying to think, Vic. I think the
• 39:44
  Speaker 3: golf at altitude one time, I probably pulled a rib
• 39:46
  Speaker 3: or something on a tee shot and go, ow, something
• 39:49
  Speaker 3: like that.
• 39:49
  Speaker 4: When I was on the news at Channel 4 years ago,
• 39:52
  Speaker 4: you enter the studio. Remember those big, those big metal doors?
• 39:55
  Speaker 4: They're just heavy as hell. So I entered the studio
• 39:58
  Speaker 4: because I was running late to get in for my
• 39:59
  Speaker 4: sports cast, and I slammed it shut, and my finger
• 40:01
  Speaker 4: got caught in the studio, and it tore my finger apart,
• 40:04
  Speaker 4: bleeding everywhere. And I'm doing the entire sports cast with
• 40:08
  Speaker 4: blood just pouring down my hand. It's just dripping on
• 40:12
  Speaker 4: the desk and on the floor. I had to go
• 40:13
  Speaker 4: get like eight stitches afterwards. But I wanted to get
• 40:16
  Speaker 4: the hell off of there. That's as close as I've
• 40:17
  Speaker 4: come to an emergency.
• 40:20
  Speaker 2: You legit walked into our old sales guy's window.
• 40:24
  Speaker 3: Oh, that's true. I did that, too. That was awesome.
• 40:26
  Speaker 3: You left a face printout. But that wasn't on live television.
• 40:28
  Speaker 3: That's true. That wasn't live TV.
• 40:32
  Speaker 2: I'm aware of this person. I was not aware that
• 40:34
  Speaker 2: this is what was going to happen. Vic, for the
• 40:38
  Speaker 2: people who would ask this question.
• 40:40
  Speaker 3: Mm-hmm.
• 40:41
  Speaker 2: Upon getting the news that Charlotte Hornets forward Brandon Miller
• 40:43
  Speaker 2: has agreed to a five-year, $ 209 million extension.
• 40:46
  Speaker 1: Insane.
• 40:47
  Speaker 2: Explain who Brandon Miller is.
• 40:52
  Speaker 3: You know, that Charlotte team, it's funny.
• 40:53
  Speaker 4: They disassembled the team, and yet they were one of
• 40:56
  Speaker 4: the more exciting teams at the end of the season
• 40:58
  Speaker 4: last year, and they started shipping guys off. So they
• 41:02
  Speaker 4: reinvented themselves. for no apparent reason, but they did. He's
• 41:06
  Speaker 4: actually a pretty good player.
• 41:07
  Speaker 2: No, he is a good player. It's just nobody cares
• 41:09
  Speaker 2: about Charlotte to know who's on the roster. Oh, by
• 41:13
  Speaker 2: the way, you guys know how the Rams have a
• 41:15
  Speaker 2: kicker problem? They released Thicker Kicker, and then they brought
• 41:19
  Speaker 2: in the complete opposite. They brought in a child to
• 41:21
  Speaker 2: go kick, and that's Blake Ruppe.
• 41:23
  Speaker 3: He got blowed up.
• 41:24
  Speaker 2: Blake Ruppe is the kind of guy that Nelly would
• 41:26
  Speaker 2: finish in a fight in five seconds.
• 41:27
  Speaker 3: 100%. First play.
• 41:28
  Speaker 5: All right.
• 41:32
  Speaker 2: Big kickoff return. Blake Rupey at 5'2, 110 pounds, needs
• 41:36
  Speaker 2: to make a tackle. Well, guess what? I don't want
• 41:39
  Speaker 2: to laugh at this. He tore his ACL. He's done
• 41:41
  Speaker 2: for the year. It happened that quickly in L.A. That fast.
• 41:47
  Speaker 3: Just crazy.
• 41:47
  Speaker 4: Oh, by the way, I got one for you. The
• 41:50
  Speaker 4: NBA kicks off or tips off tonight. You guys know that, right?
• 41:53
  Speaker 3: Yes. LeBron.
• 41:55
  Speaker 4: And the Nuggets, which sucks because last year the same
• 41:58
  Speaker 4: thing happened. The Nuggets are the last team to play basketball.
• 42:02
  Speaker 3: Yep.
• 42:03
  Speaker 4: Remember, last year, Golden State had already played a game
• 42:05
  Speaker 4: before the Nuggets took on Golden State.
• 42:07
  Speaker 3: And this year, Oklahoma State will play tonight. Oklahoma City.
• 42:12
  Speaker 3: I'm sorry.
• 42:13
  Speaker 4: Oklahoma City. And then the Nuggets will play at OKC
• 42:16
  Speaker 4: on Thursday. So the Nuggets are the last team to play.
• 42:19
  Speaker 3: I hate that.
• 42:20
  Speaker 4: But one thing is for sure. The NBA is now
• 42:24
  Speaker 4: ripe with international players. All 30 teams in the league
• 42:29
  Speaker 4: feature at least one player not from the U.S.
• 42:32
  Speaker 5: Of A.
• 42:33
  Speaker 3: Which country on the planet is most represented outside of
• 42:37
  Speaker 3: the U.S. in the NBA? France.
• 42:39
  Speaker 2: France, yes.
• 42:39
  Speaker 3: 16 players. Who is second with 16? Canada. Yes. Mosher.
• 42:45
  Speaker 3: Good job.
• 42:46
  Speaker 5: All right.
• 42:47
  Speaker 3: Who is third with nine players? I'll say Spain. Oh,
• 42:51
  Speaker 3: my God. You must have this right in front of you.
• 42:54
  Speaker 3: I don't. I'm guessing. Job well done. Thank you. I
• 43:00
  Speaker 3: got one, Brett.
• 43:00
  Speaker 2: All right.
• 43:01
  Speaker 3: Go ahead. We were talking about the Rays and the
• 43:03
  Speaker 3: Brewers and the World Series and Junior Caminero. I mean,
• 43:05
  Speaker 3: everybody knows him, right? Total superstar third baseman. Well, he
• 43:09
  Speaker 3: hits a jack last night to get him in, right?
• 43:11
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 43:14
  Speaker 3: He clocked the longest home run trot since they started
• 43:18
  Speaker 3: keeping the stats back in 2015. And as I saw it,
• 43:22
  Speaker 3: I'm like, Brett Cain is going to love this. I
• 43:25
  Speaker 3: do love it.
• 43:26
  Speaker 2: Take your time. Admire your work.
• 43:27
  Speaker 3: Vic, how long did it take Junior Caminero to get
• 43:29
  Speaker 3: around the bases and finally touch home plate?
• 43:31
  Speaker 2: It felt like five minutes.
• 43:33
  Speaker 3: I'll go 38 seconds. 38.7 seconds. Wow. What a guess.
• 43:40
  Speaker 3: The longest clocked home run trot in modern history. Yes. Okay.
• 43:44
  Speaker 2: One last thing real quick. Sorry. Because I was watching
• 43:47
  Speaker 2: this thing. They were talking about the Rams. So the
• 43:49
  Speaker 2: Rams are like this super team that has not lived
• 43:51
  Speaker 2: up to the super team status, right? So somebody was
• 43:54
  Speaker 2: talking about the 2011 Eagles. Remember them? They dubbed themselves,
• 43:57
  Speaker 2: or Vince Young dubbed them, the Dream Team. They went
• 44:00
  Speaker 2: out in the offseason. They got all these different guys
• 44:02
  Speaker 2: in free agency. Dominic Rodgers, Kermit Marty. They got Nnamdi
• 44:06
  Speaker 2: Asamoah when he was at the top of his game.
• 44:08
  Speaker 2: You know what Nnamdi Asamoah is doing right now?
• 44:12
  Speaker 3: I have no idea.
• 44:13
  Speaker 2: He is like an accomplished actor and producer. He's going
• 44:18
  Speaker 2: to be in a movie with Rachel McAdams. With Jeff Daniels.
• 44:23
  Speaker 3: With Joel Edgerton. Yeah, I heard about this.
• 44:25
  Speaker 2: Do you know who he's married to?
• 44:27
  Speaker 3: No.
• 44:28
  Speaker 2: Kerry Washington.
• 44:30
  Speaker 3: What?
• 44:31
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 44:31
  Speaker 2: That's what he's doing now.
• 44:33
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 44:34
  Speaker 3: It just blew me away.
• 44:35
  Speaker 2: I was like, that guy that was like the best
• 44:36
  Speaker 2: corner in football for a few years, then disappeared. That's
• 44:39
  Speaker 2: what he's been doing. Making movies and marrying Kerry Washington.
• 44:42
  Speaker 2: Good for him. There you go. Oh, by the way.
• 44:46
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• 44:49
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• 44:52
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