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  Speaker 1: We'll have more on this later. But this is not
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  Speaker 1: so the lines are not open now, so do not call.
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  Speaker 1: But it is a newby Night our lead this hour
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  Speaker 1: though from Baltimore, where Lamar Jackson. Lamar he talked, Oh
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  Speaker 1: it's so ex He showed up to the offseason workout,
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  Speaker 1: something that doesn't happen all the time for the multi
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  Speaker 1: time Platinum MVP quarterback Lamar Jackson, saying about his contract
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  Speaker 1: that he will continue to keep the contract talks private
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  Speaker 1: while talking about them publicly. He also made it clear
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  Speaker 1: that he still envisions himself with the Poets, of course
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  Speaker 1: lately the Dead Poets the Ravens for the long term.
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  Speaker 1: So we didn't hear about this, perhaps not. Lamar gave
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  Speaker 1: a filibuster. The most shocking revelation is he revealed that
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  Speaker 1: he knows my buddy sports with Coleman as he said
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  Speaker 1: his name, which was rather shocking. Anyway, back to the point,
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  Speaker 1: so Lamar said, quote absolutely, I love the Ravens, he said,
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  Speaker 1: I love this organization, I love this city. As he
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  Speaker 1: repeated off the boilerplate response, this is the team that
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  Speaker 1: drafted me, they got a lot of love for me.
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  Speaker 1: Lamar said, I believe I got a lot of love
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  Speaker 1: for this city and this team as well. Blah blah
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  Speaker 1: blah blah blah. He then went on to say, like
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  Speaker 1: I told you, the reconstruction is done, meaning for the
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  Speaker 1: upcoming NFL season. I'm cool with that, and he then
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  Speaker 1: repeated for a second time. I love Baltimore. Everybody should
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  Speaker 1: know that by now. It's almost like he got in
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  Speaker 1: a bathtub with old Bay seasoning there and there's some
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  Speaker 1: fish and just had a good time. All right, So
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  Speaker 1: that is a good jumping all point. Let us discuss
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  Speaker 1: the question, what do you think the hold up is
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  Speaker 1: in Lamar Jackson getting a reworked deal from the Ravens.
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  Speaker 1: What do you think the whole up is on this?
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  Speaker 1: So I've got extended warranty, vampire and Shakespearean and we
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  Speaker 1: will combine all of these things together and everything will
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  Speaker 1: be peachy keen. All right. So a the hold up,
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  Speaker 1: as I use some psychobabble to analyze and overanalyze through
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  Speaker 1: the powerful microphones of Fox Sports Radio, the hold up
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  Speaker 1: in Lamar Jackson getting a new deal from the Ravens
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  Speaker 1: is simple, all right, very simple. Baltimore is staring at
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  Speaker 1: a franchise quarterback whose game is built on the traits
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  Speaker 1: that historically do not age well. They just don't age well. Right,
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  Speaker 1: We're here for a good time, not a long time,
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  Speaker 1: and wal Lamar is staring at a contract market that
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  Speaker 1: pays for future value. It's all about not what you
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  Speaker 1: have done. Who cares about your MVP tropies? What are
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  Speaker 1: you going to do in the future, So that tension
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  Speaker 1: is really what this is all about. Lamar's twenty nine,
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  Speaker 1: he's not old. He's in the athletic prime of his career.
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  Speaker 1: He is towing the line. As we have seen in
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  Speaker 1: the last generation of quarterbacks generally don't get more durable
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  Speaker 1: once they cross the rubicon at age thirty, and his
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  Speaker 1: game is built on things that generally have evaporated very fast.
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  Speaker 1: Raw arm talent takes a little longer. We've seen this
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  Speaker 1: movie before. I'm old enough to remember. There's this guy
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  Speaker 1: named Cam Newton, the guy that wears the funny hats
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  Speaker 1: and says stupid things on TV. Now, Cam Newton was
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  Speaker 1: known as Superman until he wasn't. And that Cliff It's
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  Speaker 1: like a Looney Tunes cartoon. You don't even see it. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: just down, down, down, And that's happened to just about
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  Speaker 1: every mobile quarterback quicker than the guys that are just
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  Speaker 1: cannon armed quarterbacks and running QB's age like running backs.
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  Speaker 1: Everyone knows it, and very few people want to say it.
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  Speaker 1: I don't even think it's controversial. It's just the reality.
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  Speaker 1: It's the malord math on the situation at twenty twenty five.
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  Speaker 1: If you look at last year, and there are some
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  Speaker 1: that will say, well, that was a blip. Well was
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  Speaker 1: it a blip or was this a preview of coming attractions?
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  Speaker 1: The regression of Lamar Jackson last year, we're talking less
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  Speaker 1: explosion for Baltimore, more hits, played, fewer games, you got
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  Speaker 1: the bad hammy that went whammy, Oh my aching back,
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  Speaker 1: the ankle, my neck, my back, my ankle, my neck,
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  Speaker 1: my back, my pcl. So that's a lot of stuff
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  Speaker 1: that's happened in recent years. And so is it all
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  Speaker 1: just bad luck for Lamar? And it appears this is
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  Speaker 1: the body telling you a message, Lamar. If it was
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  Speaker 1: a car, Lamar would the automobile would have the odometer flashing.
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  Speaker 1: And the Baltimore group, like China, say we're not sure
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  Speaker 1: sure what are we going to do here? Do we
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  Speaker 1: want to buy the extended warranty? Do we want to
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  Speaker 1: go down that road and get the extended warranty? And
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  Speaker 1: what do we always say? Don't let a falling star
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  Speaker 1: fall on you. And right now, the Ravens are the
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  Speaker 1: ones holding the umbrella, and I believe that is why
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  Speaker 1: the pen isn't hitting the paper. Yet it's a total
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  Speaker 1: quagmire because here's the decision. You either pay him if
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  Speaker 1: you're the Ravens, and you risk paying a guy that
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  Speaker 1: is going to completely collapse and come apart at the seams,
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  Speaker 1: or you don't pay Lamar Jackson, and then you risk
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  Speaker 1: online scorn and public backlash and think tanks and people
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  Speaker 1: lobbing Malotov cocktails metaphorically at you. Now, that said, based
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  Speaker 1: on the recent climate in professional sports, these NFL teams
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  Speaker 1: have notoriously no self control. So even though the smart thing,
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  Speaker 1: the pragmatic thing, would be sold off on giving Labar
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  Speaker 1: another contract, we fully expect them to eventually cave, because
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  Speaker 1: that's how almost all of these things operate. Now. Meanwhile,
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  Speaker 1: we go to Denver, where long ago Super Bowl ENV
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  Speaker 1: paid back way back in Super Bowl fifty, Von Miller
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  Speaker 1: is publicly campaigning, if not begging, to go back to
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  Speaker 1: the Denver football team. Von Miller said that he is
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  Speaker 1: for sure going to play for somebody in twenty twenty
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  Speaker 1: six and that he has lobbied privately and now publicly
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  Speaker 1: the Broncos and their coach Sean Payton to sign him.
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  Speaker 1: Miller is thirty seven. He can be yours if you
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  Speaker 1: just offer him a contract. He's an unrestricted free agent.
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  Speaker 1: He played for the team formerly known as the Redskins
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  Speaker 1: last year and had nine sacks, and of course known
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  Speaker 1: as a Bronco, spent over a decade in the Mile
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  Speaker 1: highs City and then was traded to the Lrims just
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  Speaker 1: for the trade deadline way back in twenty twenty one,
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  Speaker 1: and he's bounced around the NFL with Buffalo and Washington
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  Speaker 1: and what now now. Miller did a recent interview where
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  Speaker 1: he was very braggadocious that he can quote roll out
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  Speaker 1: of bed and still rush the quarterback. He also said
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  Speaker 1: he's still a great guy and in the locker room
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  Speaker 1: and brings great energy. Okay, so that is a good
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  Speaker 1: spot to break that down. The question why wouldn't we know?
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  Speaker 1: The argument for von Miller, but why wouldn't Sean Payton
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  Speaker 1: bring von Miller back to the Broncos as a feel
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  Speaker 1: good end of career complete the circle situation. Well, there's
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  Speaker 1: a couple of reasons. The obvious one is feel good
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  Speaker 1: reunions only work in Hollywood movies. In the NFL, they
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  Speaker 1: end up with these awkward newscom earceus and finger pointing,
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  Speaker 1: and just in sports in general. Who we're saying, like,
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  Speaker 1: the people's team signed Chris Paul and he sucked, he
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  Speaker 1: was washed up, he couldn't play anymore, he was a stiff,
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  Speaker 1: so they had to get rid of his ass, and
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  Speaker 1: then a bunch of people condemned them and all that,
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  Speaker 1: Oh could you get rid of this guy? Well, he
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  Speaker 1: can't play anymore, but he's a legend. I know he
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  Speaker 1: can't play. So they got rid of him, and then
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  Speaker 1: they played actually better without him, and they still took
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  Speaker 1: a lot of crap. So that's what happens. But that's
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  Speaker 1: only part of the problem with von Miller. Sean Payton
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  Speaker 1: is not a let me share the spotlight guy. He's
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  Speaker 1: the I'm gonna rent out the spotlight by the minute,
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  Speaker 1: and I am going to charge late fees. That's how
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  Speaker 1: Sean Payton rolls, and you don't bring in a Hall
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  Speaker 1: of Famer right into Sean Payton's little team there unless
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  Speaker 1: you've already you've already decided you're gonna let him rearrange
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  Speaker 1: the furniture. And Peyton he claims how he would rather
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  Speaker 1: have the grinder type player, not the glitter and von
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  Speaker 1: Miller one thing he brings, even at age thirty seven
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  Speaker 1: is the razzle dazzle, and I believe he is sponsored
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  Speaker 1: by Bedazzle, which is shocking unless he's not Von Miller
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  Speaker 1: a one man parade. And right now, Denver, if you
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  Speaker 1: look at it, I was saying about this when I
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  Speaker 1: was coming in the studio. I was like, Denver does
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  Speaker 1: not have a face of the franchise, like a legitimate,
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  Speaker 1: big time everyone knows his name player. They got a
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  Speaker 1: collage of B list guys like Von Miller is not
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  Speaker 1: a B list guy, obviously, even in his age. Bo
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  Speaker 1: Nicks is not. He's in mediocre quarterback. He's not the
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  Speaker 1: face of a franchise. The guy they just picked up
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  Speaker 1: Jalen Waddle. While Electric is a co star, he's not
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  Speaker 1: the guy on the movie poster. And then you've got
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  Speaker 1: the other thing, the vampire drama O rama that Von
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  Speaker 1: Miller is an energy vampire. He doesn't walk into a
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  Speaker 1: locker room, he absorbs the locker room. And the Broncos
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  Speaker 1: marketing arm is going to have to twist Sean Payton's
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  Speaker 1: arm to get this done. All right, last word, we
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  Speaker 1: go to Dallas, well, the greater Dallas area now where
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  Speaker 1: nineties star Michael Irvin. Who's so old?
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  Speaker 3: How old is he?
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  Speaker 1: Thank you for asking? He's so old that he played
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  Speaker 1: on a cowboy team that won the Super Bowl? Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: like can anyone under the age of like forty doesn't
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  Speaker 1: even remember that? So Michael Irvin recently did some interview
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  Speaker 1: on a podcast for friends and family, and he did
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  Speaker 1: not bite his tongue when asked about his former quarterback.
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  Speaker 1: That's my quarterback, Troy Aikman, who is going to be
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  Speaker 1: a for the second year now contributing to the Miami
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  Speaker 1: Dolphins front office in some high falutant consulted advisor role,
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  Speaker 1: and Irvin said the following He said, quote it pains me.
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  Speaker 1: He said that Aikman didn't get an opportunity to do
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  Speaker 1: the same job with Dallas. The playmaker called it quote
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  Speaker 1: criminal not to glean as much as you can from
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  Speaker 1: Troy Aikman. And we know that Troy Aikman himself at
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  Speaker 1: publicly campaigned for a front office job in Dallas and
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  Speaker 1: Jerry Jones snickered. So the question on this one is
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  Speaker 1: it quote criminal close quote that Troy Aikman never got
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  Speaker 1: a shot to run the Dallas Cowboys' front office, all right?
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  Speaker 1: So I don't fall into the sentimental category on things
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  Speaker 1: like this, like Michael Irvin calling it criminal is sweetness.
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  Speaker 1: It's like a kindergartner yelling treason cause there's some juice
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  Speaker 1: that's spilled. Well, it's cranberry juice. What's treason? You can't
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  Speaker 1: spill my cranberry juice? What's wrong with you? I get
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  Speaker 1: the whole locker room brotherhood thing. We don't have that
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  Speaker 1: in talk radio. We don't. We're all at each other's
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  Speaker 1: next all the time. But this is classic drama. You
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  Speaker 1: turn a non story into a Shakespearean drama. Troy Aikman
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  Speaker 1: wanting the job doesn't mean that Troy Aikman deserved the job.
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  Speaker 1: And just because you played quarterback and you're a broadcaster
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  Speaker 1: doesn't mean you are going to be a front office saffant.
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  Speaker 1: I would like to present your honor my evidence. Tom Brady,
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  Speaker 1: who's run the Raiders into the ground, the worst team
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  Speaker 1: in Pro football last year under the tutelage of Tom
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  Speaker 1: Brady horrific executive. Nobody wants to say that because he's
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  Speaker 1: Tom Brady. As a broadcaster, passed over by the number
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  Speaker 1: two guy at Fox. He's not even good as a
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  Speaker 1: broadcaster anyway. Troy Aikman's resume is basically good player, not
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  Speaker 1: great player. Good player unless you consider handing off to
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  Speaker 1: Emmett Smith greatness. Solid broadcaster. I see zero evidence of
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  Speaker 1: him being some kind of whiz kid. It's not like
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  Speaker 1: he's the the lead guy for the Miami Dolphins. The
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  Speaker 1: idea that he's secretly a genius because he says nice
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  Speaker 1: job on TV is wild. He's been on the air
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  Speaker 1: for twenty plus years in broadcasting saying about five phrases.
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  Speaker 1: That's about it, and is that the scouting department Michael
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  Speaker 1: Urban again claiming it's criminal is peak Cowboys, where everything
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  Speaker 1: is either a parade or a crisis, and mostly over
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  Speaker 1: the last thirty years, just a crisis. And Jerry Jones,
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  Speaker 1: We're pretty sure he did not buy the team to
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  Speaker 1: hand the steering wheel to a former employee. That's the
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  Speaker 1: family business. This is his toy, and this is how
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  Speaker 1: he is famous and people know who he is. He's
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  Speaker 1: not just another old rich guy that's you know, living
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  Speaker 1: out in the Hamptons or somewhere in Florida. And Jerry
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  Speaker 1: has one rule, and that one rule is that Jerry
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  Speaker 1: Jones runs the Cowboys period stop. That's it. And I
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  Speaker 1: promise you if he can figure out a way with AI,
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  Speaker 1: Jerry Jones would be the general manager of the Dallas
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  Speaker 1: Cowboys from the other side across the Pearly Gates in
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  Speaker 1: the afterlife. If he could figure it out, he would
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  Speaker 1: still run the Cowboys after he crosses the mortal coil.
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  Speaker 1: No way, no how. So our lead this hour from
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  Speaker 1: the National Football League and we go now to Minnesota,
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  Speaker 1: Minnesota nice and these teams, many of them having their
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  Speaker 1: offseason workouts mandatory spring training for NFL teams. The Vikings
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  Speaker 1: haven't alleged. I said, I'm gonna put air quotes up.
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  Speaker 1: Quarterback competition. You've got the there's really no incumbent. JJ
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  Speaker 1: McCarthy was there the last couple of years. Didn't play
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  Speaker 1: his rookie year. Some would argue he played worse when
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  Speaker 1: he actually got on the field. So he had McCarthy
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  Speaker 1: who's there. And then the little fella, and that's Kyler Murray,
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  Speaker 1: Alligator Arms Murray. And that's the quarterback competition. So we've
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  Speaker 1: we've heard from both of the candidates this week and
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  Speaker 1: the messaging very different messaging on the campaign trail and
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  Speaker 1: really good stuff, really good stuff. So if this did
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  Speaker 1: not cross your radar, perhaps not. We're gonna start with
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  Speaker 1: alligator arms Murray, good old alligator arms Murray. So Kyler
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  Speaker 1: Murray was asked about the back and forth relationship with
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  Speaker 1: JJ McCarthy and what did he say. So Kyler Murray,
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  Speaker 1: describing the situation with McCarthy, said, it's been great. He said,
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  Speaker 1: Obviously he's a younger guy, so anyway I can help him.
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  Speaker 1: I feel like I played seven years going on eight.
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  Speaker 1: I'm considered a veteran, even though I don't see myself
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  Speaker 1: as that, giving him any knowledge that he needs. Close
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  Speaker 1: quote all right, so that's pretty standard. Can we all
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  Speaker 1: agree on that. I don't see any disagree. So it's
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  Speaker 1: pretty standard. That's what you'd expect. That's sports cliche dot com.
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  Speaker 1: It's like, I'm a veteran. Everything's great. Now he's a
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  Speaker 1: younger guy. I'll get many knowledge he needs all that.
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  Speaker 1: So then JJ McCarthy entered the chat, and let's juxtapose
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  Speaker 1: what JJ McCarthy at is that. I don't know do
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  Speaker 1: we have the audio. I don't know if we do not,
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  Speaker 1: But anyway, here's McCarthy. We do have it. Okay, here
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  Speaker 1: is McCarthy and his response when asked about Kyler Murray
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  Speaker 1: take a list.
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  Speaker 3: No, it's just like two guys in a classroom.
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  Speaker 1: You know. He sits on one side.
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  Speaker 6: I sit on the other side, and it's the coach's
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  Speaker 6: responsibility to teach us.
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: And coach us. So is there any awkwardness like between
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: you two? Awkwardness? You know, it's just like the same
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: feeling you know when you're in high school and.
• 19:32
  Speaker 6: There's another person on the other side of the room.
• 19:34
  Speaker 3: That's just kind of how it is.
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: So I wouldn't say there's any awkwardness. Wow, all right,
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: So that's much different. Am I hearing it wrong? It
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: sounds much different on this side. I'm wearing headphones, much different.
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: So it's a he said, he said situation. You've got
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: polar opposite takes here, and that makes for good talk radio.
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: It's a solid jumping off point. So let's discuss the question.
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: You've got Vikings quarterback Kyler Murray giving a sports cliche
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: dot Com saying all the right veteran things. He wants
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: to help JJ McCarthy anyway that he can. And then
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: you've got JJ McCarthy, who described the relationship like high
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: school that he sits on one side of the room.
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: I sit on the other side of the room. And
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: that's it. So whose quote is more believable? Are you
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: gonna go with the little fella alligator arms murray or
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: are you gonna go with the guy that can't play
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: the Michigan Man JJ McCarthy. So my observations, I've got
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: clam Chatta, San Diego, Zoo and Crest toothpaste, and we
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: will combine all of these together and we'll go ABC
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: and one two three. We always start though with number one,
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: number one, number one, number one, number one. H I
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: stop to want to chase away the newbies. So Kyler says,
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: like mentorship. That's the vibe, like he's a mentor. And
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: JJ is like, no, no, no, this is a sign seating.
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: It's high school, and we know which one sounds real.
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: So I use the Malor Scales of Sports Justice, and
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: I do recommend buying these. You can buy them on
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: I think it's on t moo. They're on sale right now,
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: I think so. So the Mallor Scales of Justice, and
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: we believe J. J. McCarthy. Now this is some high
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: school cafeteria level drama. And what McCarthy did was provide
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: a little shot of trusserum. In theory, this is a
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: quarterback competition in Minnesota. In reality, it is a full
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: race alligator arms. Murray has the job. He can play
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: his way out of the job. He can get hurt
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: until then, though, he has the job. So Kyler spit
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: out an assembly line A Smorgan is more of sports cliches,
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: and of course the lap dog lap dog. Sports media
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: swallowed all of that, and it's like communion wafers and
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: Kyler he wants to help JJ McCarthy, just like I
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: would like to help NASA land on Mars before I die.
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: This is not a mentorship. It is a cold war
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: with shoulder pads. Welcome to Kyler's leadership. Vacuum, vroom, vroom.
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: Murray is not a leader now, He's never been a
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: leader of men. He's a solo ce gamer with a
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: tiny helmet, That's what he is, and a very large joystick. Meanwhile,
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: you've got JJ McCarthy, who is unfiltered. If you talked
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: about his maturity, wow, this is immature because he didn't
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: give the cliche quote I love it as a talk
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: show host, and at one point he was considered the
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: golden boy, the perfect quarterbacks in the first round, and
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: because he got heard, he got to have that red
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: shirt season. And so all you idiots tell me, if
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: you don't play as a rookie and you just sit
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: back and watch, you'll be good to go. So the
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: Vikings didn't play him as a rookie. He watched, He
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: learned by osmosis JJ McCarthy. He was given not one
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: but two stud wide receivers, and he went out there
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: and commandeered the vomit comet. He went from the golden
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: boy to the pole boy. Nice sandwich there in New Orleans.
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: And his quotes, you know what they are. They're like
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: Campbell's home style New England clamshowder extra salty, extra chunky,
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: and extra petty. And I love it. I love it.
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: The gloves are off. And it's not even a guarantee
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: that McCarthy's on the Vikings. There's still a shot that
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: he ends up getting traded. And there's gonna be a
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: second wave of transactions before training camp and then during
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: training camp. Now that's it, JJ, I do have some
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: advice here, some friendly advice for JJ McCarthy. He better
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: maintain a fiber rich diet because he is going to
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: get him. Royd's sitting and watching Viking football this year.
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: The way things are looking as of today now page
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: two to the NBA. It has been a constant conversation
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: over the last couple of months, this nonsense involving the
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: floppy mcflop now. Adam Silver was on some YouTuber show
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: on Wednesday night and he was asked about concerns surrounding
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: flopping and the way NBA games are officiated, specifically regarding
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: the Thunder and SGA in the Western Conference Finals. Many
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: believe that Jay Jogis Alexander is chronically exaggerating contact for
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: foul calls because he is. Silver attempted to make a
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: distinction between embellishing contact to draw fowl, a genuine part
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: of basketball, and actually deceiving his officials. Adam Silver said
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: the following He said, quote the players falling down reacting
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: to a call, if they are not fooling the referees,
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: it's okay, the very odd looking commissioner said. Players are
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: taught to sell calls these days. That'sh It's been going
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: on for forty years. The art of embellishing contact at
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: draw fowls according to Tyrese Halliburton, has been taught at
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: the lower levels of basketball, like the AAU level of
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: basketball when players are being developed. Now, Silver said, and
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: this is the part which is we call it the
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: money quote. He says he doesn't see it as a
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: pressing issue, does not see the flopping as a pressing issue,
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: and called the NBA's officiating quote incredible. It's like an
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: old show in the nineteen eighties called that's incredible. Question.
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: Why doesn't why doesn't Adam Silver believe that flopping is
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: a big NBA problem because the NBA. Listen, the NBA
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: has become a wink and a nod type of ly.
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: We've got a flopidemic and the commissioners acting like its
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: allergy season and threading the needle between we're selling contact
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: and deceiving officials with these gymnastics type moves. And the
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: other thing is, and this is the reality that any
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: publicity is good publicity for the most part, unless you're
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: subway back in the day. But many publicity is good
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: publicity for the most part. And this is getting people
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: talking about basketball, and it's a self fulfilling prophecy because
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: every time you get on social media or call talk
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: radio show or gas bags and blowhards like myself rapped
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: about flopping. We're talking about basketball, and that's all really
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: Adam Silver cares about, and Silver openly admits players are
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: taught to manipulate calls, and then he just kind of shrugs,
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: gives the old shoulder show. The officiating incredible, and yeah,
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: they're incredibly inconsistent. And you know, saying players are taught
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: to sell calls is like saying kids are taught to
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: color right. It does not mean you turn the court
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: into circdu solet right. And if you look at Shay
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: Gilgis Alexander, SGA does not just draw fouls. He creates
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: this black hole where any contact within five feet. Remember
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: in Tampa, I remember my buddy Tony Bruno when he
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: was doing the show here at Fox, there was a
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: story in Tampa where they had a six foot rule
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: for the strip clubs in Tampa and everyone mocked it,
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: Like the stripper you had to stay six feet away
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: from the ballet dancers there in Tampa. So it's kind
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: of like SGA. If you defend SGA, it's like a
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: five or six foot rule, and if you get in
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: that zone you get sucked into a whistle, right, and
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: he's the poster child for a league rewarding aguration over execution,
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: parlaying SGA has parlayed that hack, that cheat code into
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: back to back and belly to belly MVP Awards, and
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: Adam Silver is doing cosplay at the San Diego Zoo.
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: There's no NBA team in San Diego, but he's doing
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: that that cosplay as an Ostrich and his head is
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: buried so deep, so deep. He's tasting sandstone and he's
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: ruining the product by rewarding the very deception he refuses
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: to fix. And he's said, not really a big deal,
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: all right now? Final point two, Big tech we go.
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: We go to big tech again. Adam Silver. He announced
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: that the NBA plans to implement an AI automated replay
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: system very similar to the sport of tennis. They call
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: it the Hawk Eye shout out the Iowah hawkas they
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: call it the hawk Guy, where they used cameras fixed
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: around the arena for instant alleged objective calls such as
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: out of bounds and goaltending. So they're going to use
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: the Hawkeye system. The change, they claim will aim to
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: remove challenges for those particular calls, allowing the referees instead
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: to focus on not calling flopping wink wink, nod nod.
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: They're worried about these subjective calls, which is most of basketball.
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: Is it a block or is it a charge?
• 29:28
  Speaker 2: You know?
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: Is it a block? Is it a charge? What is it?
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: You know? That whole thing. And so the question on
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: this one do you believe that AI automated replay will
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: help fix NBA officiating? So I would like to quote
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: my friend Billy from Hollywood, Florida. You gotta be joking
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: Hawkeye in the NBA. Is this is another classico move
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: by Adam Silver. You fix the sympto, you ignore the disease,
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: like Adam Silver keeps trying to put the crest toothpaste
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: back in the tube after he squeezed it out, and
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: he's selling AI as salvation. I go back to my
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: earlier point. A lot of these people in professional sports
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: are not that bright. And you get some of these
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: nerd guys involved, and they get into a room with
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: these people in sports and they can sell them anything.
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: It's that old line you could snell. You could sell
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: snow to an Eskimo right back in the day. And
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: that's the way it is. And the NBA doesn't have
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: a replay problem, they have obviously credibility problem. And if
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: you think the NBA is not going to somehow tweak
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: the AI to get the desired result that it wants.
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: If you don't think that's a possibility, you have not
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: been watching or paying attention to the product over the years.
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: You can automate out of bounds. However, you can't automate
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: a league that is seemingly addicted to the star treatment.
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: So's the Hawk Guy's a little different if it's Jason
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: Tatum as opposed to Joe Blow. It's just a little different.
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: So the NBA is trading here's the other thing. They're
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: trading human error, the human mistake. They're trading that. And
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: they're like, all right, we're gonna upgrade to a different
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: kind of chaos, this tech chaos a system. By the way,
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: and I'm not a tennis person by any means. I
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: have some friends of mine that are tennis people, and
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: I sent a few text off. I was like, Hey,
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: what's this hawkey? You love this hawky? Everyone talks about
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: this Hawk guy. He's like, well, some of the players
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: complain about it. They say it's with a three millimeter
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: margin of error deciding games. However, according to some other research,
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: it's actually much bigger than three millimeters. So what could
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: possibly go wrong? What could possibly go wrong? And hawkey,
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: it's not a silver bullet. It's like a shiny band aid,
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: like a Hello Kitty band aid is what it is.
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: And this is tech bro optimism.
• 32:03
  Speaker 2: What up? Bro?
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: Tech bro optimism meeting NBA reality and reality always wins.
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: So it's not gonna fix officiating, you know'll just give
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: fans a new thing to scream about, to belly ache
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: about and all of that.
• 32:19
  Speaker 2: Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Meller
• 32:22
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• 32:25
  Speaker 1: Here we go, Here we go, the old Oakana Smeller.
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: How about that? To the third degree?
• 32:31
  Speaker 2: This is one big Ben gets grilled.
• 32:35
  Speaker 3: Gooberlu Dolphins running back Devon a. Chan said that he
• 32:39
  Speaker 3: got paid and now. In a recent podcast appearance, he said,
• 32:41
  Speaker 3: I'm not trying to hear. We were building for two years.
• 32:44
  Speaker 3: He went on to say that he expects the team
• 32:46
  Speaker 3: to win the division and win a playoff game. Ben,
• 32:48
  Speaker 3: do you think Miami can be competing for the division
• 32:50
  Speaker 3: within two years.
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: Well, he can expect whatever he wants. They're not trying
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: to win this year, so this is a throwaway year.
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: They're just throwing everything out and all that, and they
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: got a minimly viable team. They're just gonna try to
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: lose enough to get a top draft pick and all
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: that stuff. I don't see it now. The thing about
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: the NFL, though, you can overperform expectations, and they have
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: zero expectations this year, so they forget this year. If
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: they reinvest the money after this, yeah there's a shot
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: they can be competitive. But to go from that to
• 33:22
  Speaker 1: a Super Bowl contender now next.
• 33:24
  Speaker 3: Todd Bowles was asked about losing a franchise legend in
• 33:27
  Speaker 3: Mike Evans, and he said that the Buccaneers have talented
• 33:29
  Speaker 3: receivers and guys need to step up to replace Seven's ben.
• 33:33
  Speaker 3: How much do you think Tampa Bay will miss him
• 33:34
  Speaker 3: on the field this season?
• 33:36
  Speaker 5: Uh?
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: Well, as a program director told me in radio, the
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: ratings come out every quarter or whatever or whatever you've done,
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: it's all in the past. It doesn't really affect what's
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: gonna happen here. So you know, other guys do need
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: to step up, then Tampa's gonna be about where they
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: were last year. They'll be mediocre next.
• 33:51
  Speaker 3: Georgia coach Kirby Smart said recently that the SEC should
• 33:54
  Speaker 3: consider breaking away from the NC Doualea to set its
• 33:56
  Speaker 3: own rules, including a possible SEC only playoff.
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: Is this crazy, Well, it's it's crazy now because the
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: SEC has fallen behind the Big Ten. Like a few
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: years ago you would have said, Okay, it makes sense,
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: but the SEC is not as good as the Big
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: ten right now, so it seems wack of doodle is
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: the word I'll use, Coop, how do we do you pass?
• 34:14
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• 34:14
  Speaker 5: Is a w.
• 34:17
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• 34:45
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• 34:48
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• 34:53
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• 34:56
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• 34:59
  Speaker 3: Cooper, all right, we're gonna start off with a question
• 35:01
  Speaker 3: from milkman Mike.
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: Hi, milkman Mike.
• 35:05
  Speaker 3: He wants to know do you prefer pre made chocolate milk?
• 35:08
  Speaker 3: Nestley Quick was that? Was that what it's called?
• 35:11
  Speaker 2: Yeah?
• 35:12
  Speaker 3: Yeah, or Hershey chocolate syrup.
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: Yeah. So when I was a kid, we went with
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: the nest Lees. Every once in a while we got
• 35:18
  Speaker 1: the Hershees. If my parents made an extra money that week,
• 35:21
  Speaker 1: we'd get the Hirshees. But we were Nestle's and Nestley's
• 35:24
  Speaker 1: Quick powder. And I didn't like drinking milk as a kid,
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: and so my mom convinced me that chocolate milk was amazing.
• 35:33
  Speaker 1: It was okay, you know what it was a rare
• 35:35
  Speaker 1: treat was the strawberry. That was like a special thing
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: they and that was extra chemicals in the strawberry. And
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: we didn't get that very often. Ey once in a
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: while we get the strawberry. I thought, well, that's really good.
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: Mom thinks I must have done something good to get
• 35:46
  Speaker 1: the strawberry.
• 35:47
  Speaker 6: So, yeah, Lorena, I agree, strawberry is that little extra treat.
• 35:51
  Speaker 6: But when it comes to chocolate milk, I prefer dust style,
• 35:56
  Speaker 6: um quad dairy chocolate milk first, and then I prefer
• 35:59
  Speaker 6: nest quick, and then I prefer chocolate syrup.
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: Very bouge, very booge. That's a year.
• 36:06
  Speaker 3: You gotta stir it with a spoon.
• 36:10
  Speaker 1: Cool.
• 36:11
  Speaker 3: Not a fan of chocolate mill can never have been it,
• 36:15
  Speaker 3: says a lot.
• 36:15
  Speaker 1: Okay, all right, what's next?
• 36:18
  Speaker 2: What do we have?
• 36:19
  Speaker 3: What's next? Late night drug tester wants to.
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: Know, high late night drug tester, what have you gotten
• 36:24
  Speaker 1: more of.
• 36:25
  Speaker 3: In your lifetime? Traffic tickets or lottery tickets?
• 36:31
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's got to be traffic tickets, well, traffic slash
• 36:34
  Speaker 1: parking tickets. When I lived in Hollywood, I got a
• 36:38
  Speaker 1: lot of parking tickets because I didn't have parking and
• 36:40
  Speaker 1: I'd park on the street and then I'd got to
• 36:42
  Speaker 1: leave by a certain time, but I didn't leave. So
• 36:44
  Speaker 1: if you combine parking tickets and speeding tickets, last speeding
• 36:48
  Speaker 1: ticket I got that was in Minnesota, so it's been
• 36:49
  Speaker 1: a few years. But yeah, definitely that.
• 36:51
  Speaker 3: I don't know.
• 36:52
  Speaker 1: I gamble, I'll bet on sports. I don't really play
• 36:54
  Speaker 1: the lottery. My dad used to play a lottery all
• 36:56
  Speaker 1: the time, and I guess when I get older, I'll
• 36:58
  Speaker 1: play it. What about you, Lorena, Yeah.
• 37:00
  Speaker 6: That's gotta be tickets over lottery at this point in
• 37:02
  Speaker 6: my life.
• 37:04
  Speaker 1: Yeah, we're not sure. Scratch off over here we used
• 37:06
  Speaker 1: to call he's retired as a caller. What about you, Coop?
• 37:08
  Speaker 3: Well, I'm a degenerate gambler, so I'm gonna have to
• 37:11
  Speaker 3: go with lottery tickets.
• 37:12
  Speaker 1: You played poker thought too.
• 37:14
  Speaker 3: I mean, you know, I've I've purchased plenty of scratchers
• 37:17
  Speaker 3: in my in my day, so I mean more than
• 37:20
  Speaker 3: I've gotten traffic tickets. I mean I've had maybe ten
• 37:24
  Speaker 3: traffic tickets in my life. Definitely, Yeah, purchase more scratchers
• 37:28
  Speaker 3: than that.
• 37:28
  Speaker 1: I got you? All right? What is next year? Where
• 37:30
  Speaker 1: do we got? All right?
• 37:32
  Speaker 3: We have a question from the King Rory. Do you
• 37:34
  Speaker 3: want to say, King Rory, do you need noise to
• 37:36
  Speaker 3: fall asleep or dead silence?
• 37:39
  Speaker 1: Yeah? I need ambient noise. And I've been traveling a
• 37:42
  Speaker 1: lot this year, and it's a real nightmare because I
• 37:45
  Speaker 1: usually have fans going. I got all kinds of crap
• 37:47
  Speaker 1: in the room too. I cannot sleep if it's quiet.
• 37:51
  Speaker 1: There's nothing worse than quietness. So I need fans blowing
• 37:54
  Speaker 1: air around the room, good air conditioner, blackout curtains, there's
• 37:58
  Speaker 1: a lot of I'm a diva. I'm a sleep diva.
• 38:01
  Speaker 1: I need a lot so I cannot sleep. If it's quiet,
• 38:04
  Speaker 1: I will lose my fricking mind. What about you, Lorena.
• 38:07
  Speaker 6: I need it to be dead quiet. I even put
• 38:10
  Speaker 6: in like ear plugs to make sure I block out
• 38:13
  Speaker 6: any ambient noise that might come through, even like movies
• 38:18
  Speaker 6: and television shows bug me these days.
• 38:21
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, okay, Wow.
• 38:23
  Speaker 6: Maybe it's because it's daytime sleep and I'm just like,
• 38:25
  Speaker 6: I need it to be completely quiet. If the gardener's outside,
• 38:30
  Speaker 6: I might lose my mind.
• 38:32
  Speaker 1: Wow, I'm angry there, man. Yeah, what about you? Cool?
• 38:37
  Speaker 3: I'm like you, Bennett. And that's why you You get
• 38:40
  Speaker 3: the ambient noise, Loraina, so that you can't hear things
• 38:43
  Speaker 3: like the gardener and other things. It's just drowned out
• 38:46
  Speaker 3: by your ambient noise. And I'm not sure you wake
• 38:48
  Speaker 3: up in the middle of a movie. No, you know
• 38:51
  Speaker 3: that doesn't count.
• 38:52
  Speaker 1: You know, By the way, the TV, Loraina, there's a
• 38:54
  Speaker 1: there's a thing on the remote control. It's called the
• 38:55
  Speaker 1: sleep button. You can set it for like an hour
• 38:58
  Speaker 1: and then it'll turn off and you'll be asleep before
• 39:00
  Speaker 1: you know. It's all.
• 39:02
  Speaker 3: I'm not sure if you know this, Ben, but I've
• 39:04
  Speaker 3: used this while traveling. It's been a savior. Your iPhone
• 39:07
  Speaker 3: can be like a sound machine. There's yeah, you can
• 39:11
  Speaker 3: choose like waves or rain or you know, all those
• 39:13
  Speaker 3: different things. And yeah, it's a I put that every
• 39:16
  Speaker 3: time I go to a hotel right next to the.
• 39:19
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that would help for sure. All right, what is
• 39:22
  Speaker 1: next to ask? Ben? Your questions are answers for the
• 39:25
  Speaker 1: rest of the hour.
• 39:27
  Speaker 3: We've had this question in the past, but I'm gonna
• 39:29
  Speaker 3: go ahead and ask it again. But they have new
• 39:30
  Speaker 3: listeners all the time. Stevie meet Paul's like to know
• 39:34
  Speaker 3: what was your first legit concert that you attended without
• 39:37
  Speaker 3: your parents?
• 39:39
  Speaker 1: Uh? Well, I was. I was a young guy in
• 39:42
  Speaker 1: radio Wango Tango Kiss FM's Wango Tango and I work security. Yeah,
• 39:48
  Speaker 1: I was there. I protected Hoody and the Blowfish I did.
• 39:53
  Speaker 1: That's true. What about you, Lorena?
• 39:56
  Speaker 6: That's really hard. It would probably be a warped tour
• 40:00
  Speaker 6: concert with a multiple bands.
• 40:03
  Speaker 1: Yeah, in high school or something.
• 40:05
  Speaker 3: Yeah, okay, junior senior system of a down solid All right,
• 40:11
  Speaker 3: what is next?
• 40:12
  Speaker 1: What is next.
• 40:13
  Speaker 3: Doc Dan wants to know grill choice, gas or charcoal.
• 40:18
  Speaker 1: Uh, well, I use the griddle, That's what I use.
• 40:21
  Speaker 1: Uh yeah, I gas gas. I'm I'm that way. What
• 40:24
  Speaker 1: about you, Lorene.
• 40:25
  Speaker 3: I gotta go with the charcoal flavor.
• 40:27
  Speaker 1: Eh, too much work a coop.
• 40:29
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I've never used a charcoal grill before, so I'm
• 40:31
  Speaker 3: gonna go gas. Paine, I wasn't.
• 40:33
  Speaker 1: I was raised with charcoal, but I've moved on. I've
• 40:37
  Speaker 1: advanced