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College Football Playoff Expansion Talk, Draymond Green Re-Signs with Warriors, and Raiders Plan to Start Cousins at QB · The Daily Play With Joy Taylor

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  Speaker 1: Hey guys, welcome to the Daily Play with Joey Taylor.
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  Speaker 1: Social at the Daily Play Joey Taylor. College football season
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  Speaker 1: seems like it's right around the corner. Well, the playoff
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  Speaker 1: last season was electric. I was at the national championship game.
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  Speaker 1: Was a loss to Indiana in Miami, but still a
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  Speaker 1: thrilling playoff run. Twelve teams from six different conferences entered
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  Speaker 1: and won Big Ten Team one. I was there, like
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  Speaker 1: I said, to watch Miami knockoff Texas A and m
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  Speaker 1: Ohio State and all miss on the way to the
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  Speaker 1: championship game. Fantastic experience, and obviously got to watch my
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  Speaker 1: brother lead that dominant defense of Miami and a very
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  Speaker 1: deserving champion in Indiana.
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  Speaker 2: It was perfect, and now college football powers are going
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  Speaker 2: to change it.
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  Speaker 1: Expansion was probably always inevitable, and it is on the
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  Speaker 1: horizon that's been discussed for some time now, and the
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  Speaker 1: huge conference of the reigning champs is leading the charge.
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  Speaker 1: Big Ten commissioner Tony Petiti doubled down on his conference's
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  Speaker 1: interests and expansion as early as twenty twenty seven. The
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  Speaker 1: faster it goes, he told ESPN, the easier it will be,
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  Speaker 1: there's some things that you have to unwind. There's no
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  Speaker 1: doubt about that. I think we're committed to doing that.
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  Speaker 1: The Big Tens headman seems willing to drop the conference's
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  Speaker 1: championship game to make it happen something at the SEC.
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  Speaker 1: Commissioner Greg Sankie express concerned about dropping the SEC championship
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  Speaker 1: game at his conference media days last week. Maybe more
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  Speaker 1: answers will come at the meeting in August. The SEC
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  Speaker 1: was the first major conference to adopt league championship games
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  Speaker 1: until its first one in nineteen ninety two. I do
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  Speaker 1: not love the idea of losing the conference championship games.
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  Speaker 1: I feel like those are pretty legendary. It's something that
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  Speaker 1: means something to win your conference.
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  Speaker 2: Even if you don't go on to win the national title.
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  Speaker 1: So I don't know how they can wiggle around that,
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  Speaker 1: and I do think that fans would not like that move.
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  Speaker 1: I understand they want there to be more meaningful games
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  Speaker 1: played in college football.
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  Speaker 2: I agree with that notion.
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  Speaker 1: The more playoff games, the more tension, and people will
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  Speaker 1: be playing for something later into the season because you'll
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  Speaker 1: have teams buying for buys, You'll have teams buying for
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  Speaker 1: home field, like, all those things will matter, and they'll
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  Speaker 1: matter later into the season. Twenty four does feel like
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  Speaker 1: a lot, but these changes are inevitable. If it's going
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  Speaker 1: to bring more money, which is the thing that they're
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  Speaker 1: trying to figure out, then they're going to end up
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  Speaker 1: doing it. I'm all for more important college football games
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  Speaker 1: being played. I think that's one of the issues, is
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  Speaker 1: that there are just like these dud games and anything
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  Speaker 1: that can add more urgency so that every single week
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  Speaker 1: really matters and there's more people that can play.
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  Speaker 2: For something later into the season.
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  Speaker 1: I think it's a good thing overall, but they have
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  Speaker 1: a lot of things they have to sort out for
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  Speaker 1: this to be smooth.
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  Speaker 2: So we could find out as the meetings go on.
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  Speaker 1: There is a College Football Meeting in August and there's
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  Speaker 1: another meeting in September, which could give some direction there.
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  Speaker 1: They obviously don't want to be having those conversations as
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  Speaker 1: the season's going on, so they do need.
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  Speaker 2: To figure that out.
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  Speaker 1: But it's interesting and if you're a college football fan,
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  Speaker 1: it's going to change the landscape of college football tremendously
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  Speaker 1: if they do add this expansion which feels inevitable at
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  Speaker 1: this point.
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  Speaker 2: So let's was over to hoops.
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  Speaker 1: The Warriors signed Draymond Green, longtime Warriors living legend, has
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  Speaker 1: been with Golden State for his entire fourteen year career.
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  Speaker 2: He opted out of his deal to give the Warriors
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  Speaker 2: more flexibility two potentially lands Lebron James. As we know
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  Speaker 2: that is unsuccessful.
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  Speaker 1: Lebron James is headed to Philadelphia for the season. So
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  Speaker 1: they signed Draymond to a one year, twenty seven point
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  Speaker 1: seven million dollar deal. He is beloved in the Bay
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  Speaker 1: and you know, nothing can take away his resume there.
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  Speaker 1: He has been in the conversation about, you know, potentially
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  Speaker 1: being traded.
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  Speaker 2: They were looking Intoianis.
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  Speaker 1: Obviously he you know, opted out of his deal so
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  Speaker 1: that they could have flexibility.
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  Speaker 2: I do wonder if this is the last go rounds
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  Speaker 2: for Steph and Dre in Golden State. But we'll see.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, this is this is this is an organization
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  Speaker 2: that owed him.
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  Speaker 1: You know, he he was the one that was flexible
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  Speaker 1: with them so that they'd have the opportunity to bring
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  Speaker 1: Lebron James in. And you know, the Warriors with Steph Curry,
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  Speaker 1: Draymond obviously, Clay is no longer there. You know, these dynasties,
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  Speaker 1: they they fade, people leave, people retire, and and you
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  Speaker 1: know people also play long careers. So I don't know
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  Speaker 1: how much longer Drey is going to play after this.
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  Speaker 1: I really couldn't see him in another jury jersey stuff either,
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  Speaker 1: So I think we may be watching the final run
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  Speaker 1: of the two of them together and those Warriors that
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  Speaker 1: we knew and loved. Finally, the Raiders are not rushing
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  Speaker 1: their number one overall pick into the fire just yet.
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  Speaker 1: Head coach Clint Kubiak confirmed that Kirk Cousins, thirty seven
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  Speaker 1: year old Kirk Cousins, will be starting trading camp ahead
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  Speaker 1: of Heisman winner Fernando Mendoza.
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  Speaker 2: This was kind of expected.
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  Speaker 1: They signed Cousins to a one year deal this offseason
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  Speaker 1: to reunite with Kubiak from their Minnesota days and when
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  Speaker 1: he was the offensive coordinator.
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  Speaker 2: And bring him in made sense.
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  Speaker 1: This is a Raiders organization that has been riddled with
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  Speaker 1: controversy and failure and druggles, and now you've got Tom
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  Speaker 1: Brady in the building, You've got the number one overall
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  Speaker 1: pick in Fernando Mendoza. I generally have a pretty hard
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  Speaker 1: stance on rookie quarterbacks playing as soon.
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  Speaker 2: As they possibly can.
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  Speaker 1: I use the term that no one seems to understand,
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  Speaker 1: which is sharks are born swimming. I just think there's
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  Speaker 1: almost there's only so much clipboard holding that you can do.
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  Speaker 1: There's almost only so much watching and studying you can
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  Speaker 1: do that's actually going to help. Like, at some point
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  Speaker 1: you've got to get out there and get live reps
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  Speaker 1: and run away from the.
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  Speaker 2: Big guys with the beards and.
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  Speaker 1: You know, go make it happen, Like you do have
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  Speaker 1: to get real time experience, and running with the ones
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  Speaker 1: in camp, while helpful, is not.
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  Speaker 2: Real speed.
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  Speaker 1: Is guys trying to make the team, sure, but it's
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  Speaker 1: not the same as playing in a game. So I
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  Speaker 1: like that Kirk Cousins is sort of getting rolled out
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  Speaker 1: there as the soccer lamb, so to speak, for this
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  Speaker 1: Raiders team under this new regime.
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  Speaker 2: But I do wonder how long they're.
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  Speaker 1: Going to keep him out there when you have a
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  Speaker 1: guy like Fernando there and if Kirk struggles at all,
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  Speaker 1: if this is going to you know, start to become
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  Speaker 1: a thing in camp.
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  Speaker 2: Though this was sort of expected that Kirk.
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  Speaker 1: Was going to be the number one and we're going
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  Speaker 1: to roll out Fernando under him. Kubiak said, when we
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  Speaker 1: go out his practice, Kirk is the starting quarterback. He's
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  Speaker 1: the guy, and he deserves it because he's played really
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  Speaker 1: good football. But I want Fernando and Aiden to push him.
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  Speaker 1: There's going to be times for certain guys with the
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  Speaker 1: second team, certain guys with the third team, and second
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  Speaker 1: guy is with the first team. The only reason I
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  Speaker 1: think they should be patient with Mendoza is because it's
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  Speaker 1: the Raiders if this was another team that they brought
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  Speaker 1: in Kirk Cousins. Because it's not like they brought in
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  Speaker 1: Fernando and Kirk has already been there and this is
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  Speaker 1: his team and this is his final run or something
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  Speaker 1: like they brought in Kirk Cousins.
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  Speaker 2: Kirk doesn't have any equity with this team.
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  Speaker 1: Like talking about how much good football Kirk is played
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  Speaker 1: is irrelevant to me. There's no loyalty to Kirk Cousins
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  Speaker 1: in this situation. Fernando mendoz A is fresh off a
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  Speaker 1: national title, on a Heisman Trophy and a number one
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  Speaker 1: overall pick. So while he's adjusting his NFL speed, while
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  Speaker 1: he's learning how to be a pro, while they're figuring
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  Speaker 1: out what kind of organization they're going to be.
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  Speaker 2: I'm okay with this.
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  Speaker 1: If this was another organization where Fernando's coming in, I
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  Speaker 1: would not necessarily agree if they had less turmoil than
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  Speaker 1: the Raiders, that Fernando shouldn't be named the starter.
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  Speaker 2: So we'll see how this works out.
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  Speaker 1: Aidan O'Connell is obviously not like he's in a developmental
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  Speaker 1: backup role. He's not getting starting time over Mendoza or
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  Speaker 1: Kirk Cousins, but obviously you want to have some depth
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  Speaker 1: chart availability. I just I think this is a story
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  Speaker 1: that we're going to be watching throughout the season very
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  Speaker 1: very close, and what Kubiak does with this team and
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  Speaker 1: what they look like with Kirk as the starter with
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  Speaker 1: Fernando waiting in the wings will be very very interesting.
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