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Negativity & Nailing The NFL Draft · The Favorites Sports Betting Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to the Favorites, presented by Drafts Kings. The crown
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  Speaker 1: is yours. We are an Action Network podcast. I'm Brandon Kravitz,
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  Speaker 1: your host, back at it with the first lady of
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  Speaker 1: the pod, Miss Kendri Middleton. I'm sure that stats hound
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  Speaker 1: Evan Abrams will be making an appearance.
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  Speaker 2: Swooping in as well.
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  Speaker 1: Spring has sprung, Baseball season is being played, abs is awesome,
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  Speaker 1: tournaments about to wrap up. Kendra, how's the men's and
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  Speaker 1: women's bracket looking to this point?
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  Speaker 3: My brackets are both shit.
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  Speaker 4: They are like in the seventieth percentile, and I'm never
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  Speaker 4: betting on basketball again. I've the college basketball This season
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  Speaker 4: has wiped the floor with me and I'm ready for
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  Speaker 4: it to be over. I'm actually not having fun at
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  Speaker 4: all anymore. It has taken all of the joy out
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  Speaker 4: of this for me. I know that people are probably
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  Speaker 4: so tired of me about the tournament, but I just
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  Speaker 4: for once am nothing fun. Uh.
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  Speaker 1: Well, you know you stay pretty composed during the NFL season,
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  Speaker 1: but that at least in the one the year that
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  Speaker 1: we've worked together has gone well for you. This is
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  Speaker 1: you looking somewhat composed, but honest with yourself. That this
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  Speaker 1: just might not be your bag, although next year, I
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  Speaker 1: guarantee you will gas yourself up because the open of
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  Speaker 1: the NCAA Tournament is as exciting as it gets. I
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  Speaker 1: djen out, everybody does, and then you know, depending on
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  Speaker 1: how it goes, it is, how you maneuver through the
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  Speaker 1: Sweet sixteen and the Elite eight, I think you'll be
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  Speaker 1: back next year.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know.
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  Speaker 4: I think that I just need to leave it on
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  Speaker 4: the pedestal that it is and enjoy it for what
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  Speaker 4: it is instead of gambling on it. I think I
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  Speaker 4: just need to be a consumer, and that's my way
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  Speaker 4: to enjoy it and have fun, because then I don't care.
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  Speaker 4: Like when you have money wrapped up in things, it
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  Speaker 4: makes it so much more miserable when it doesn't go
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  Speaker 4: your way. And I just think the college basketball is
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  Speaker 4: not for me as far as it's gambling.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I don't want to take this and then turn
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  Speaker 1: it into a humble brag. But I do have Illinois
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  Speaker 1: a twenty two to one on them to win the
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  Speaker 1: national championship on the men's side, So even though a
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  Speaker 1: lot of people are looking at Arizona, Michigan is the
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  Speaker 1: de facto championship game. We are hoping for a free
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  Speaker 1: pizza dinner for the Favorites crew if Illinois can get
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  Speaker 1: themselves into the championship game and win pizza for everybody.
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  Speaker 4: Okay, can I are you pro or anti pineapple on pizza?
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  Speaker 1: I'm not anti pineapple on pizza, but I wouldn't ever
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  Speaker 1: order it on purpose. Like if I was at an
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  Speaker 1: event and they said, hey, we have pineapple pizza, throw
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  Speaker 1: it on the plate.
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  Speaker 2: No issue.
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  Speaker 1: But I'm never going to step up to the counter
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  Speaker 1: and ask for the pineapple to be on my pizza.
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  Speaker 4: Okay, fair, I like it with halapinos, halapenos and just pineapples, fine,
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  Speaker 4: but if you throw some like bacon or ham on there,
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  Speaker 4: I'm purposefully ordering that, even though my first choice will
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  Speaker 4: forever and always be Buffalo Chicken.
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  Speaker 1: Evan swoop in. Where do you land on the pineapple
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  Speaker 1: on the pizza?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, you did it exactly right. You should never order it,
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  Speaker 5: but if it's there, it's fine.
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  Speaker 6: And jalapenos and ham or bacon, the mixture between the
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  Speaker 6: three is what makes it special.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's that's a pretty elite combo. All right.
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  Speaker 1: We got some news to get to and today our
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  Speaker 1: special feature on today's episode, Kendrick and I have come
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  Speaker 1: up with our five teams that have to absolutely nail
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  Speaker 1: the draft in a month, so we each have our
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  Speaker 1: own five. I don't even think there's overlap on our lists.
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  Speaker 3: Is I think that yours is.
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  Speaker 4: We went in completely different directions and I can't wait
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  Speaker 4: for Evan to roast us both. But I am so
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  Speaker 4: confused by your definition of needing to nail a draft.
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  Speaker 2: And uh, and.
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  Speaker 1: I feel like I'm getting mid NFL season vine that
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  Speaker 1: my choices make no sense to the gallery.
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  Speaker 3: Did you put the falcons on you.
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  Speaker 2: With it?
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  Speaker 1: But part of the reason why I like them to
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  Speaker 1: potentially make a super Bowl run is because the roster
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  Speaker 1: is already stacked. It don't mean he god, they just
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  Speaker 1: need the other lefty to play quarterback. Not to uh
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  Speaker 1: before we get to our main dish, though, what's on
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  Speaker 1: your mind?
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  Speaker 4: But okay, So, I I feel like I'm so negative lately.
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  Speaker 4: I need to get my spark back or something. I
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  Speaker 4: don't know what's going on. I'm very just want.
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  Speaker 2: To be Portugal. If that doesn't do, but I don't
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  Speaker 2: know what will.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know.
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  Speaker 4: I think I need to block politics from my Twitter
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  Speaker 4: timeline Anyways, live action movies big thing right now, Moana
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  Speaker 4: live Action coming out, We're getting another Incredibles, We're getting like.
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  Speaker 3: Toy Story eleven.
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  Speaker 4: Are you in or out on these franchises? Going so
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  Speaker 4: far into these movies that there's like not even just
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  Speaker 4: a trilogy anymore, it's beyond that.
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  Speaker 3: What are your thoughts on live action?
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  Speaker 4: And if you were a cartoon character from a movie,
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  Speaker 4: who would you be?
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  Speaker 2: Oh man, this is loaded.
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  Speaker 1: I think this is a layered conversation because it is
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  Speaker 1: very movie franchise specific. I'll start with the positive. First
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  Speaker 1: Toy Story hasn't missed yet. They really haven't totally missed.
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  Speaker 1: There are some that are better than others. And I
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  Speaker 1: can speak to this with credibility, not only as a
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  Speaker 1: kid who was ten when the first one came out,
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  Speaker 1: but I have a six year old also, So I've
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  Speaker 1: now rewatched all of these movies. They have four Toy Stories.
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  Speaker 1: They're all bangers. The third one is kind of iffy,
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  Speaker 1: but they're all at least decent movies. Some of them
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  Speaker 1: are great. So them coming out with a fifth Toy
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  Speaker 1: Story I guarant and it's probably I think it's supposed
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  Speaker 1: to be the last one.
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  Speaker 4: It's like the they've been saying that for like thirty years.
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  Speaker 1: They're gonna say goodbye to the toys again or something.
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  Speaker 1: It's gonna be good. I guarantee it is going to
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  Speaker 1: be inside out. Makes you cry in the theater if
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  Speaker 1: you're a softy like me. Okay, so that's one the
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  Speaker 1: live action stuff needs to end. Nobody asked for this.
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  Speaker 1: It's never good, never, never as charming as the original.
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  Speaker 2: And then I mean.
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  Speaker 1: The the sequels, in the three peats that we're getting
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  Speaker 1: from all these different franchises.
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  Speaker 2: It is just this obsession.
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  Speaker 1: With cashing in on the IP for all of these brands,
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  Speaker 1: because we have zapped all genuine, authentic creativity out of
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  Speaker 1: the movie making process, and I find that pretty depressing.
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  Speaker 1: And then my answer would be shaggy because the idea
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  Speaker 1: of being a pothead with a talking dog does sound
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  Speaker 1: like a lot of fun.
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  Speaker 4: Okay, yeah, I wouldn't have that's a good clock. Do
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  Speaker 4: we think the miss is incredible? We'll still have the
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  Speaker 4: ass in this movie, even though she's probably gonna be
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  Speaker 4: like pushing fifty.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, you know, fifty is like the new forty,
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  Speaker 1: So I think she'll be fine. She's clearly been hitting
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  Speaker 1: the gym.
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  Speaker 4: I agree with your live action take. I think we
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  Speaker 4: need newer movies. After three, you gotta cut it off,
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  Speaker 4: like we don't need.
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  Speaker 3: A toy story.
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  Speaker 2: Five.
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  Speaker 3: However, I would be mort from Madagascar?
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  Speaker 2: Which one is that?
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  Speaker 3: More is like do you know King Julian?
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  Speaker 2: No?
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  Speaker 3: Okay, never mind?
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  Speaker 2: Is either like the muskrat? Yeah? Yeah, okay. I could
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  Speaker 2: totally see that.
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  Speaker 1: Is there like a reason behind it? Because I was
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  Speaker 1: I was smoking with a talking dog. That was my
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  Speaker 1: general I think.
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  Speaker 4: That you have to have seen Madagascar in the last
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  Speaker 4: five years to get it. But I think it makes
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  Speaker 4: a lot of sense for me if you have seen that,
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  Speaker 4: that are probably the cricket from mulan.
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  Speaker 6: Tho.
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  Speaker 1: Those would be mean you get the side character market
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  Speaker 1: cornered right now, let's get to our main dish. Rarely
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  Speaker 1: do we get the winner of the Super Bowl on
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  Speaker 1: hard knocks. In fact, it hasn't happened since two thousand
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  Speaker 1: and one, when the Baltimore Ravens were documented and HBO
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  Speaker 1: costs like fifty dollars per month back then. I think
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  Speaker 1: so some things have gotten better in the streaming world,
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  Speaker 1: but the Seahawks are going to be featured on NFL
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  Speaker 1: Hard Knocks. Is there any interest for you in seeing that?
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  Speaker 1: Usually we got these terrible teams like the Jets of
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  Speaker 1: the Cowboys, and I watch it anyway. I'll watch at
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  Speaker 1: least the first few episodes. It kind of ramps me
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  Speaker 1: up to the preseason and all of that. But this
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  Speaker 1: is fascinating that we're going to see a team fresh
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  Speaker 1: off of a Super Bowl being featured like this.
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  Speaker 4: I didn't watch last season, but I've seen every all
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  Speaker 4: the other seasons. I think that they've just kind of
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  Speaker 4: lost their charm, which is why they're going in this direction.
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  Speaker 3: I think.
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  Speaker 4: I think it's fine. I don't really have any feelings
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  Speaker 4: about it, not just because I'm local. But the Patriots
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  Speaker 4: being next year I think is really interesting because they
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  Speaker 4: better get the Christian Gonzales and Drake may stuff figured
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  Speaker 4: out before Hard Knocks, because if they don't, I think
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  Speaker 4: that that's gonna be the real moneymaker for consumers, because
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  Speaker 4: that's going to be insane to watch both of those
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  Speaker 4: things potentially go on at the same time if they
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  Speaker 4: don't get that figured out, because for both of them,
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  Speaker 4: the longer they wait, the more of a bag they're
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  Speaker 4: gonna make. So I just think it's gonna make the
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  Speaker 4: Patriots look real bad and humiliate them in a way
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  Speaker 4: that is new to them.
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  Speaker 1: Rarely do we see the team that's on Hard Knocks
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  Speaker 1: be all that successful, and that's partially because of what
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  Speaker 1: I said earlier. Usually they're throwing bad teams on there
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  Speaker 1: that turn out to not be that good. That the
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  Speaker 1: Lions year was a lot of fun because that previewed
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  Speaker 1: a season that was it petered out at the end,
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  Speaker 1: but it was still pretty exciting. Does this concern you
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  Speaker 1: at all for either I think the Patriots are mid
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  Speaker 1: season by the way.
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  Speaker 2: I think they are there this year. Yeah they do.
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  Speaker 1: They do the preseason one and then they do the
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  Speaker 1: mid season. Yeah, nobody watches. I don't know anybody that
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  Speaker 1: watches the mid season Hard Knocks, Like you're in the
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  Speaker 1: middle of the football season.
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  Speaker 2: Who has time for that? I have time in August.
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  Speaker 2: I don't have time in October.
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  Speaker 3: No, I don't have time, which is probably lucky for
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  Speaker 3: the Patriots.
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  Speaker 2: So it might work out for them in that regard.
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  Speaker 1: But does this ding your confidence at all in Seattle
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  Speaker 1: that they're gonna be hawk eyed like this pun intended?
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  Speaker 4: I just think I don't really have a ton of
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  Speaker 4: expectations on Seattle this year, like, good for you, you
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  Speaker 4: won the Super Bowl.
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  Speaker 3: You didn't have to play, you know.
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  Speaker 4: Joe Burrow, Josh Allen, Lamar Jackson, any other insert Patrick
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  Speaker 4: Mahomes AFC quarterback here. But the NFC has just really
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  Speaker 4: become quite the gauntlet the last couple of seasons, So
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  Speaker 4: I don't really have any expectations for them. So I
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  Speaker 4: don't think it's as hurtful as it would have been
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  Speaker 4: in years past when they had good teams. I don't know,
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  Speaker 4: do you have expectations for Seattle, because I just don't.
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  Speaker 1: I think we're selling Seattle too quickly after a Super
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  Speaker 1: Bowl run.
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  Speaker 2: This run, I think Sam.
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  Speaker 4: Darnold's gonna have the same type of season, and they
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  Speaker 4: got rid of Kenneth Walker.
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  Speaker 1: I just think we're too quick to sell. I'm not
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  Speaker 1: saying that I'm going to predict them to win the
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  Speaker 1: Super Bowl.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not there. So if that's the because we do
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  Speaker 2: that a lot.
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  Speaker 1: We're in a team like the Chiefs of the Eagles
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  Speaker 1: recently have won a Super Bowl, and we go who's
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  Speaker 1: gonna win next year, Well, it's got to be them, And.
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  Speaker 2: I don't hear anybody really doing that with Seattle.
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  Speaker 1: That's where I pause is when I see the conversation
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  Speaker 1: tilting so heavily towards one, I go, what am I
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  Speaker 1: missing here? Because they're not that different going into this
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  Speaker 1: year as they were from last year, and last year
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  Speaker 1: they were a rightful champion at the end of the season.
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  Speaker 1: This was not a fluky run. They were dominant and
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  Speaker 1: they lost Kenneth Walker, you know. So I think the
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  Speaker 1: rams on paper should be better, but I'm not going
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  Speaker 1: to write them off. So I do have expectation deep
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  Speaker 1: run for Seattle. That's what I'd be willing to plant
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  Speaker 1: my flag on that right now.
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  Speaker 4: I said this on a show on my station last week,
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  Speaker 4: and I'm going to say it here because when it happens,
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  Speaker 4: I want a paper trail. Matt Stafford is going to
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  Speaker 4: retire either after this season or next season, and Joe
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  Speaker 4: Burrow is going to take his place.
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  Speaker 2: Oh that would be nice, Joe.
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  Speaker 4: Bro That is there is nothing else that I could
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  Speaker 4: see happening than Joe Burrow going to LA and being
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  Speaker 4: Matt Stafford's replacement.
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  Speaker 2: He's got Hollywood written all over him.
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  Speaker 1: Him and Sean McVay would be a match made in
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  Speaker 1: Heaven Ukinnakua could stay quiet.
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  Speaker 2: That would be a combo. I'm in on that.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, that's my hot take.
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  Speaker 2: Let's throw that in the archive.
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  Speaker 1: One other note here, NFL owners are quote alarmed by
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  Speaker 1: the state of negotiations with the NFL Referee Association. Apparently
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  Speaker 1: the collective bargaining agreement for the refs is set to
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  Speaker 1: expire at the end of May, and negotiations are clearly
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  Speaker 1: not going well. My question to you, so, obviously the
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  Speaker 1: refs want more perks. They want more money. That's the
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  Speaker 1: only reason and why negotiations ever stall. It's always financial.
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  Speaker 1: How much do you think NFL officials make. Don't look
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  Speaker 1: it up.
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  Speaker 4: I did not look this up when I saw it
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  Speaker 4: in our notes, but I feel like I have had
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  Speaker 4: this conversation before, and I am probably way off, but
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  Speaker 4: I feel like it was like two hundred, two hundred
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  Speaker 4: and fifty K.
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  Speaker 2: That's about right. That's the bottom end.
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  Speaker 1: The top end, they're north of three hundred thousand dollars,
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  Speaker 1: and then the referees that make it that are good
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  Speaker 1: enough to be selected to be part of the conference championships,
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  Speaker 1: and then the Super Bowl makes significant bonuses.
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  Speaker 2: So you're looking at.
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  Speaker 1: Probably the ceiling right now, being around four hundred thousand dollars.
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  Speaker 3: For like eight months of work.
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  Speaker 1: But you are one of the most I'm actually I'm
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  Speaker 1: gonna go to bat for the refs here. I think
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  Speaker 1: the refs deserve to get paid more. You're one of
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  Speaker 1: the most scud individual country.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, rightfully so, because most of them suck at their job. Like,
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  Speaker 4: I get that it could always be worse with refereeing,
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  Speaker 4: and bringing in new refs doesn't automatically a mean that
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  Speaker 4: it's going to be better. But I think that some
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  Speaker 4: of these people are just too damn old to watch
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  Speaker 4: how fast the game has gotten and they really screwed
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  Speaker 4: up with these like robot like measurements or whatever. I
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  Speaker 4: don't want the referees to put the ball down and
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  Speaker 4: then have the robot measure where the ball is at.
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  Speaker 4: I want the robot to tell you where the ball
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  Speaker 4: should be and then you measure that. I think that
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  Speaker 4: they could make this a lot simpler, Like I don't thanks.
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  Speaker 1: For the show of it, and this is part of
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  Speaker 1: the reason why they deserve to get paid. They are
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  Speaker 1: part of the show. The refs are stars on the field.
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  Speaker 1: They should be paid as such.
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  Speaker 4: Well, they're getting paid for blowing games, so I don't
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  Speaker 4: like they're making more money on the side. Like, either
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  Speaker 4: be good at your job. Like when you're good at
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  Speaker 4: your job, you go to your boss and you're like, hey,
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  Speaker 4: I'm kicking ass.
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  Speaker 3: I want to raise.
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  Speaker 4: But when you suck at your job, you don't go
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  Speaker 4: to your boss and be.
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  Speaker 3: Like, hey, I want to raise you.
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  Speaker 4: Guys are sucking at your job, and either you just
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  Speaker 4: suck or you're blowing games to get money from gambling.
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  Speaker 3: Which one is it? You got to pick aside?
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  Speaker 4: Do you want to get paid because you're good at
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  Speaker 4: your job, or do you want to get paid by
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  Speaker 4: these you know, gambling whoever the fucker players or whatever.
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  Speaker 2: You're right, you have been negative.
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  Speaker 3: I know what is wrong with me. I think it's
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  Speaker 3: because I'm not smoking weed right now.
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  Speaker 1: So I looked back the fail Mary, which was the
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  Speaker 1: last time we had replacement officials, or you had one
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  Speaker 1: official standing next to the other. One called it in complete,
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  Speaker 1: the other called the touchdown in the Packers the Yawks game.
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  Speaker 1: That was in twenty twelve. Evan, I'm gonna need you
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  Speaker 1: to just write this as a note for the primer.
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  Speaker 1: If we end up with replacement officials, Is it more
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  Speaker 1: profitable to just blindly bet the dogs, because you would
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  Speaker 1: think if we're not buttoned up as far as the
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  Speaker 1: officials go, more variants means you want to be on
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  Speaker 1: the team that's catching points, anything to that.
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  Speaker 6: That's definitely an easier request than when I got in
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  Speaker 6: our discord yesterday, which is to start looking up D
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  Speaker 6: three refs and plumbers who might be starting to reft
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  Speaker 6: these games.
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  Speaker 5: So I appreciate that person who bing me, but yeah,
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  Speaker 5: I will take a look at this.
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  Speaker 6: Obviously this has a larger impact overall, but we will see.
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  Speaker 5: How this goes. We're still need deep in March madness.
• 16:42
  Speaker 6: But I would honestly assume that there would be like
• 16:45
  Speaker 6: more parody, a little bit wider of a gap on
• 16:48
  Speaker 6: some certain things.
• 16:50
  Speaker 1: I would agree with that. Yeah, you don't need to
• 16:51
  Speaker 1: do that now. It is March thirty. First, we're not
• 16:53
  Speaker 1: going to bet an NFL game until September, and hopefully.
• 16:57
  Speaker 3: I need to go back to smoking weed.
• 17:01
  Speaker 1: I mean, we're just I'm just trying to support the
• 17:04
  Speaker 1: common man here, and your you're big capitalist America angry,
• 17:10
  Speaker 1: you know, big wig over there putting your thumb down.
• 17:14
  Speaker 2: So yeah, I don't know.
• 17:15
  Speaker 4: Would you rather have refs who like call the game properly?
• 17:20
  Speaker 1: I think officials are good. I think the officials are fine.
• 17:24
  Speaker 3: The officiating this year was good.
• 17:26
  Speaker 1: I don't know how to judge it, like I'm not
• 17:28
  Speaker 1: I'm not an officiating expert, but yeah, I mean I
• 17:30
  Speaker 1: think they do a pretty good job.
• 17:32
  Speaker 2: It's a hard job to do. Everything's so judgment based.
• 17:35
  Speaker 3: Cravats is paying referees.
• 17:38
  Speaker 1: You know, I had I had a winning year, so
• 17:40
  Speaker 1: I mean maybe that's the reason why I'm happy about it.
• 17:43
  Speaker 2: Before we get to our NFL Draft notes, time for.
• 17:46
  Speaker 3: Wait wait, wait, wait, wait wait, I have.
• 17:48
  Speaker 4: One more comment on all of this that I put
• 17:50
  Speaker 4: into our notes. Did you see the coaches photo from yesterday?
• 17:54
  Speaker 2: Oh, from the owners meetings? I did not.
• 17:58
  Speaker 4: Liam Cohen and Robert Sala could not be further apart
• 18:03
  Speaker 4: in this photo. And I think that it is the
• 18:06
  Speaker 4: funniest thing to come out of these meetings so far,
• 18:08
  Speaker 4: Like they literally one of them wasn't on the end
• 18:10
  Speaker 4: of one of them was in the middle. They were
• 18:11
  Speaker 4: on opposite ends of each other. Like I the trauma
• 18:17
  Speaker 4: and the tea that is about to be the AFC South.
• 18:19
  Speaker 4: You need to look at this picture because it's so
• 18:22
  Speaker 4: funny to me that they are literally on opposite ends
• 18:25
  Speaker 4: from each other.
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: I am, Yeah, You've got Liam Cohen is on the
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: absolute far left of the photo, and then you got
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: Andy Reid, Kyle Shanahan, there's Sala. Yeah, there's a there's
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: like a whole conference in between these two coaches if
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: you look at this photo.
• 18:44
  Speaker 2: But he's not as far away as he could be.
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: Nick Sirianni and Liam Cohen are kind of the bookends
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: to the to the coaching paradigm in the photo.
• 18:52
  Speaker 2: You'll take a look at it so good.
• 18:54
  Speaker 4: Sorry I could be the most cut you off, but
• 18:56
  Speaker 4: I needed you.
• 18:57
  Speaker 3: To see that.
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: I think that's another one we table for later in
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: the offseason. The most drama filled division in the NFL.
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: Write that down. AFC South early lead in that. So
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: we have NFL Draft notes to get to. Kendrick and
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: I have both put together our list of our top
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: five teams that need to nail the draft. But right
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: now it's time for our King of the Court picks
• 19:21
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• 19:23
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• 19:28
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• 19:31
  Speaker 1: a king, Kendra, We'll start with you.
• 19:36
  Speaker 3: I'm gonna go with Donovan Mitchell.
• 19:39
  Speaker 4: I know that that's a little bit of a hot take,
• 19:41
  Speaker 4: but I heard that you guys had already put your
• 19:43
  Speaker 4: picks out and who I wanted was already taken. So
• 19:46
  Speaker 4: I'm gonna go Donovan Mitchell just because in a game
• 19:48
  Speaker 4: against Lakers, I think that your best player has to
• 19:50
  Speaker 4: do all three of the things that you need to
• 19:52
  Speaker 4: win a game.
• 19:53
  Speaker 3: So I'm gonna go Donovan Mitchell.
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: He's been outstanding lately, and the Lakers defense at some
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: point he has been playing better.
• 20:00
  Speaker 2: They are going to fall apart. Could be tonight.
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: Luka Doncic would be another good one. If you're just
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: looking for the chalkiest play of the night. Over at DraftKings,
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• 20:14
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• 20:17
  Speaker 1: Portland Trailblazers going up against the tough defense in the
• 20:20
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• 20:21
  Speaker 2: There's two ways that you can look at the King
• 20:22
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• 20:23
  Speaker 1: You can either go with the obvious play against a
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: bad or suspect defense. Or you can go with a
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: player that kind of needs to put the whole team
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: on his back and they funnel everything through him against
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: a good defense. I'm gonna go that route with Avdia.
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: He's a guy that scores, rebounds and assists. Those are
• 20:43
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• 20:46
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• 20:50
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• 21:24
  Speaker 1: to get in on the action now. NFL Draft starts
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: on April twenty third in Pittsburgh, PA Vegas. As the
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: top pick, They'll be taking Fernando Mendoza unless Dani Rolovski
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: takes over their draft room. The Dolphins, the Browns, the Cowboys, Chiefs,
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: and Jets are the only teams with multiple first round picks.
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: It's a deep draft, not very top heavy. This is
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: not going to go down as one of the world's
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: best drafts. This is a roster building draft, Kendra. So
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: if you need edge rushers, if you need defensive linemen,
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: if you need linebackers, offensive lineman, this is a very
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: meat and potatoes draft that we're looking at in April.
• 22:06
  Speaker 3: I need to know.
• 22:06
  Speaker 4: I need to know your thought process here because we
• 22:09
  Speaker 4: were on opposite ends of the spectrum. I went with
• 22:12
  Speaker 4: needing to nail the draft means you need production right
• 22:16
  Speaker 4: now to put you over the hump, which means I
• 22:18
  Speaker 4: went with teams who are likely kind of riding that
• 22:22
  Speaker 4: edge of boom or bust with Super Bowl at the top.
• 22:25
  Speaker 3: End of mine. And now I'm looking at yours, and
• 22:29
  Speaker 3: I just don't I don't.
• 22:31
  Speaker 4: Think that you need to nail a draft when everything
• 22:35
  Speaker 4: just got blown up, Like I think that you get
• 22:37
  Speaker 4: a little bit of leniency.
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: So there were a couple of ways that there was
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: not one clean criteria. There are different teams on my
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: list that meet different standards of what I'm looking for,
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: But the general idea is you have what you're talking about,
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: you're gonna have teams that you think a draft can
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: push them over the top. I think that that is
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: one of the aspect that you can look for in
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: needing to nail a draft. Another is you have a
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: lot of picks, So this is your chance to rebuild
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: your team with the bevy of picks that you have.
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: You'll never guess who made my list that fits that criteria.
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: And then you have teams that are getting old and
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: decrepit and they have to get better fast, fresher, faster, younger.
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: And there are a couple of teams that meet that criteria.
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: And there's another that spent way too much money in
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: free agency last year that needs to get back to
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: the industry standard, which is building your team through the
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: NFL draft. So those were my that's my spider web
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: of thoughts.
• 23:40
  Speaker 4: Well, Evan just dropped in the chat that he disagrees
• 23:43
  Speaker 4: with both of us.
• 23:43
  Speaker 3: So, Evan, what do you think that this means, what
• 23:45
  Speaker 3: does this mean to you?
• 23:47
  Speaker 6: I kind of thought that Kravitz it means a little
• 23:49
  Speaker 6: It was a little bit closer than I thought it was.
• 23:51
  Speaker 6: But I think it's more about draft capital, Like how
• 23:53
  Speaker 6: much of you invested in the draft kind of dictates
• 23:57
  Speaker 6: how important the draft is to you.
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: But because you also look at it the other way,
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: where you because you have some teams that are not
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: working with a lot of picks, like Seattle has like
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: four picks in this draft.
• 24:09
  Speaker 2: Sure so, and those teams aren't on my list.
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: But I'm just sort of thinking all of this through
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: before we hand out our teams that if you have
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: fewer picks, it's even more important for you to nail
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: the draft because you're taking less bites at the apple.
• 24:23
  Speaker 6: Yeah, I think it probably depends on how you acquired
• 24:25
  Speaker 6: the picks for that situation. Would be a different way
• 24:28
  Speaker 6: of looking at it if you look at the lists
• 24:30
  Speaker 6: that people have, like in terms of your draft capital
• 24:33
  Speaker 6: or cumulative draft capital by team, like the Broncos, the Falcons,
• 24:38
  Speaker 6: the Packers, the Colts, and the Seahawks are your bottom
• 24:42
  Speaker 6: five teams, So those would be the people with like
• 24:45
  Speaker 6: the fewest draft capital of that group. I feel like
• 24:49
  Speaker 6: the Colts might be the lowest in terms of like
• 24:53
  Speaker 6: power rating, So you could say this draft is very
• 24:56
  Speaker 6: important to the Colts, who are the weakest of the
• 24:59
  Speaker 6: teams at the and also don't have a lot of
• 25:02
  Speaker 6: draft capital.
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: All right, let's go one team at a time. Here
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: we are gonna go. Should we go back and forth?
• 25:09
  Speaker 2: Five and five?
• 25:10
  Speaker 3: Yeah?
• 25:10
  Speaker 2: Well, okay, let's do that.
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: Well, who's your number five team on your list and
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: we'll count down to our team that needs to nail
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: the draft the most.
• 25:17
  Speaker 4: My number five is gonna be the Giants just because
• 25:20
  Speaker 4: of one not a rookie head coach. You got to
• 25:23
  Speaker 4: go out there and do the thing that you're there
• 25:25
  Speaker 4: to do. Make this team better too. I think you
• 25:27
  Speaker 4: have to nail this draft because you need to get
• 25:29
  Speaker 4: better right now. Jackson Dart and Camscatibo are going to
• 25:32
  Speaker 4: have the shortest most electric careers of all time. You
• 25:34
  Speaker 4: need to be better, and you need to be better
• 25:36
  Speaker 4: right now. And it's a division that I think is
• 25:39
  Speaker 4: kind of falling apart in a weird way. I expect
• 25:42
  Speaker 4: them to go back to the NFC East of Old,
• 25:45
  Speaker 4: where a different team is kind of winning that division
• 25:47
  Speaker 4: every single season. So I think it's important for the
• 25:51
  Speaker 4: Giants to nail this draft, get better right now, and
• 25:54
  Speaker 4: improve on defense and the offensive line. Their defensive line
• 25:58
  Speaker 4: was incredible, but their secondary. I think that they could
• 26:00
  Speaker 4: add to get Jackson Dart some protection, and I think
• 26:03
  Speaker 4: this team might be rolling.
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I can retweet that I'm not going to have
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: to jump around too much. This is the only overlap
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: that we have. The Giants are number four on my list.
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: They're on the cusp of being good. So I think
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: that that is where you and I are in lockstep
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: with how we're thinking about this process. For them, having
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: all of those young, exciting players on offense, They've got
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: flashy guys on the edge of the defense, and what
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: do we talk about moments ago. This is a meat
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: and potatoes draft for a team that is going through
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: an organizational shift that needs to get better in the
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: interior of both lines. This is a perfect draft for
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: them specifically, and this is one where they if they
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: really hit.
• 26:46
  Speaker 2: I think it's rare that you.
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: Take a team draft well and then all of a sudden,
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: it makes you a contender that's asking a lot of
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: rookie players. I think they are a team that could
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: actually fit that mold, so I'm with you. I have
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: the Giants at four, so well, I will skip them
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: when we get back to it. My number five team
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: is the Miami Dolphins.
• 27:06
  Speaker 2: I would honestly have them higher on this list, but I.
• 27:08
  Speaker 3: Say, last of twenty six minutes, I saved.
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: Myself the ridicule. I mean, come on, we're doing who
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: needs to nail the draft most? And I wasn't gonna
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: put the Dolphins on this list. I'm not sure that
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: there's anyone that is higher than them, but I'm just
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: trying to stay composed here. Next year's draft is probably
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: the more important one for them. This just needs to
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: be boring vanilla interior on both sides. They have a
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: ton of picks, and that's the reason why they made
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: the list. Seven of the top one hundred picks are
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: gonna go to the Miami Dolphins, so they ought to
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: get better in key areas and they need everything except
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: for running back.
• 27:44
  Speaker 2: I will not make you comments on this. We can
• 27:46
  Speaker 2: move on to the next one. All right.
• 27:48
  Speaker 4: I'm gonna go number four, the New England Patriots.
• 27:52
  Speaker 3: You just made it to the super Bowl. You shouldn't have.
• 27:55
  Speaker 4: You have a lot of holes you need some linebackers,
• 27:57
  Speaker 4: you need some edge rushers, you need a receiver very
• 28:00
  Speaker 4: much in the camp that I think the AJ.
• 28:01
  Speaker 3: Brown thing probably will wind up happening. But your division,
• 28:05
  Speaker 3: I think is getting better.
• 28:06
  Speaker 4: I think the Jets are gonna make a little bit
• 28:07
  Speaker 4: of a climb, not the Dolphins. The Bills are going
• 28:09
  Speaker 4: to be right there, especially if they can get Josh
• 28:11
  Speaker 4: Allen another weapon, They're always going to be right there.
• 28:14
  Speaker 4: It's just too tough of a division to cheap out
• 28:16
  Speaker 4: do what you usually do and sit back and rely
• 28:19
  Speaker 4: on coaching in a quarterback. You need to make this
• 28:21
  Speaker 4: team better otherwise fans are gonna go nuts. But I
• 28:23
  Speaker 4: just don't think that this team is as talented or
• 28:26
  Speaker 4: I don't want to say worthy of what they did
• 28:28
  Speaker 4: last season. They over accomplished with an easy schedule and
• 28:31
  Speaker 4: got lucky that the quarterback took a big jump. But
• 28:34
  Speaker 4: to keep the league and fans satisfied, you need to
• 28:38
  Speaker 4: hit this draft and you need to sign AJ Brown
• 28:41
  Speaker 4: or everything is just a wash and a bust.
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: Yeah, but I mean the AJ Brown thing, you're factoring
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: that into needing the draft, so he's not really a
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: draft the ball.
• 28:50
  Speaker 4: No, I mean, I do think that there could be
• 28:52
  Speaker 4: like a package or something come through with the draft,
• 28:54
  Speaker 4: just because there's gonna be teams that want him. And
• 28:58
  Speaker 4: so if you wait until that June firm deadline, I
• 29:01
  Speaker 4: think that you might be kind of cutting it a
• 29:03
  Speaker 4: little close, and teams might be calling and offering things
• 29:05
  Speaker 4: that you might not be willing to give up. Because
• 29:08
  Speaker 4: I think for the Patriots, at least from what I'm
• 29:10
  Speaker 4: hearing in the discourse around here, is that it is
• 29:13
  Speaker 4: this year's if they are going to do anything, it's
• 29:15
  Speaker 4: this year's draft picks, not next year's. So that's the
• 29:19
  Speaker 4: reason that I think that they're pushing for the June
• 29:20
  Speaker 4: before the June first thing. But I just I don't know,
• 29:23
  Speaker 4: it's a cluster fuck. You need a receiver either way
• 29:26
  Speaker 4: in the draft, and.
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: There's a couple of good ones. There's no Aj Brown
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: in there. But they have eleven draft picks this.
• 29:32
  Speaker 3: Now lot, which is why I think it has to
• 29:34
  Speaker 3: be this year.
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: They can definitely make some moves with the picks that
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: they have, and well, you may laugh at the six
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: and the sevens out there, but I know, I'm sorry
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: that did that, but you put enough of those together
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: and teams are going to gobble that up like candy.
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: So yeah, I think you may be onto something with
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: the New England Patriots. My number four was the Giants,
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: so I will skip that because I already told you
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: about that. Number three on my list is the Pittsburgh Steelers.
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: No team needs a newer refresh on their identity than
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: the Pittsburgh Steelers.
• 30:14
  Speaker 2: What are they?
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: I mean you really think about this, What is the
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: identity of the Steelers other than being the Pittsburgh Steelers.
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: We think defense, we think running the football? Historically with them,
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: are they good at either of those things? What's the
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: planet quarterback old Man Rogers? Going into last year, they
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: the second oldest roster in the league. I don't know
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: where they rank right now, but they need to get younger,
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: They need to get faster, they need to get significantly
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: more exciting. They need ozembic facelift, the whole nine, just
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: the new look for the Pittsburgh Steelers.
• 30:45
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 30:45
  Speaker 4: I just don't know if you can fix all that
• 30:47
  Speaker 4: in one draft, but I do agree that they need
• 30:49
  Speaker 4: a hit they I just don't think that they have
• 30:51
  Speaker 4: made the right moves the last couple of seasons to
• 30:53
  Speaker 4: set themselves up for success.
• 30:55
  Speaker 3: Outside of the draft.
• 30:57
  Speaker 4: My next choice is going to be the Chicago They
• 31:00
  Speaker 4: play in a division where teams can score points, and
• 31:03
  Speaker 4: they've proven that they can score points.
• 31:05
  Speaker 3: But they need to.
• 31:06
  Speaker 4: Improve on every level of the defense in the draft,
• 31:09
  Speaker 4: and they all need to hit for them to be
• 31:10
  Speaker 4: able to continue to be competitive and get the most
• 31:13
  Speaker 4: out of a.
• 31:13
  Speaker 3: Rookie contract with Caleb Williams.
• 31:15
  Speaker 4: So I think that they have so much to replace
• 31:17
  Speaker 4: on the defense, and if they can limit teams to
• 31:19
  Speaker 4: twenty points a game and not thirty four, I think
• 31:22
  Speaker 4: that they are a team to be reckoned with in
• 31:24
  Speaker 4: that division.
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: They are one of those teams where you look at
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: their draft and say, if the first five picks are
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: all defense, that's absolutely fine.
• 31:33
  Speaker 2: Agree they need everything.
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: They have two second round picks, they have their first,
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: they're picking twenty fifth overall, they've got a third, they've
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: got a fourth, so they can they can load up
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: in the draft.
• 31:44
  Speaker 2: I like that Bears.
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: Look, my number two team on my list is the
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: Washington Commanders.
• 31:51
  Speaker 2: They went heavy in free agency last year. It didn't work.
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: They went from a twelve win team with no expectations,
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: which sounds a lot like the Patriots. By the way,
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: So if you're trying to predict who's gonna fall down
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: after what they put together last year, I will add
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: to the resident Patriot hater here on the podcast and
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: say it's obviously New England. They fit the bill of
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: where the Commanders were a year ago, twelve wins, no expectations.
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  Speaker 1: In twenty twenty four, they push all the way to
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  Speaker 1: the conference championship game. Then they go all in in
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  Speaker 1: free agency, thinking we have struck gold with Jaden Daniels.
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  Speaker 1: They have a five win team with Super Bowl expectations,
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  Speaker 1: and I think the lesson learned here is that it's
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  Speaker 1: one that a lot of teams with cap space eventually learned.
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  Speaker 1: The Texans have been through this the Eagles in the past,
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  Speaker 1: remember when they put together a super team.
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  Speaker 2: They learn this. You have to build through the.
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  Speaker 1: Draft and then add a little spice in free agency.
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  Speaker 1: It's not the other way around. They picked seventh overall
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  Speaker 1: and then they don't pick again until the third round,
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  Speaker 1: so they have to nail their picks early because they
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  Speaker 1: don't have a lot of them, and they went way
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  Speaker 1: too in free agency last year.
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  Speaker 2: So I'm going Commanders at number two.
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  Speaker 4: Uh, next up for me is gonna be the Cincinnati Bengals.
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  Speaker 4: They need to nail this draft or Joe Burrow is
• 33:10
  Speaker 4: going to retire.
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  Speaker 3: He's gonna pull in Andrew Luck and he's going to
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  Speaker 3: get the fuck out of here.
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  Speaker 4: They need offensive line so that they don't kill him again.
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  Speaker 3: They need.
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  Speaker 4: They need to replace Trey Hendrickson now, like they need
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  Speaker 4: so many things to make Joe Burrow happy and make
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  Speaker 4: this team competitive once again in an easy division.
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  Speaker 3: You can absolutely make.
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  Speaker 4: Some moves to put this team over the top if
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  Speaker 4: you hit in this draft and be comfy again. But
• 33:37
  Speaker 4: I think that if they don't hit, like we are
• 33:38
  Speaker 4: very much going to see an Andrew Luck situation and
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  Speaker 4: just see Joe Burrow be so pissed off and walk
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  Speaker 4: away from this game.
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  Speaker 3: If they don't do anything to make him happy.
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  Speaker 1: They pick tenth overall in the first round. I've seen
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  Speaker 1: Delaane out of LSU the dB mock to them.
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  Speaker 4: But a lot of people are talking about Kristin Miller,
• 33:55
  Speaker 4: the kid from Georgia.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I've seen there's a couple of Georgia kids in there.
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  Speaker 1: And then Rubin Bain. If they wanted to attack defense
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  Speaker 1: since they lost Hendrickson, not a bad look either.
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  Speaker 2: For them.
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  Speaker 1: My number one on the list, the Kansas City Chiefs.
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  Speaker 2: I think their dynasty depends on it.
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  Speaker 1: This is the most important draft they have had since
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: they drafted Patrick Mahomes.
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  Speaker 2: It all hangs on this. This is the pivot point.
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  Speaker 1: If they load up with top tier talent and have
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: one of those drafts where three of their top four
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  Speaker 1: picks turn into Pro Bowlers, we could be looking at
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  Speaker 1: another five year run with Mahomes schooling other teams in
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  Speaker 1: the playoffs.
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  Speaker 2: If not, we could be down a road of further decay.
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: It's a diminishing roster that is also getting very old,
• 34:42
  Speaker 1: like Pittsburgh, with teams around you in your division and
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: in your conference that are steadily improving. They've set such
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: a high bar for themselves Kendrid that this draft has
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  Speaker 1: to either meet or exceed what they have done in
• 34:57
  Speaker 1: the past, because they've gone a couple of years now
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  Speaker 1: where they haven't nailed it. And they need those car
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: Loftus picks, those McDuffie picks, they need those. They've been
• 35:07
  Speaker 1: trying to get a receiver, zaf You're worthy. They tried
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: a running back Clyde Edward Hilaire. These things are not
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: working out.
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  Speaker 2: Rashi Rice.
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  Speaker 1: They finally got one right and the guy is running
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  Speaker 1: people over in traffic.
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  Speaker 2: So gotta get this one. If you're the Kansas City Chiefs.
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  Speaker 3: I think it's my number one. I'm gonna go the Bills.
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  Speaker 4: Their windows closing and it's closing fast. They need impact
• 35:29
  Speaker 4: players on the edge, they need a linebacker, and outside
• 35:33
  Speaker 4: of those two picks, I think they could use the
• 35:34
  Speaker 4: rest to throw darts at a dartboard at wide receiver
• 35:37
  Speaker 4: and just pray that it works out at that point
• 35:39
  Speaker 4: because this window, this might be the last year of
• 35:43
  Speaker 4: this window. Like to be honest, Drake May is just
• 35:45
  Speaker 4: going to get better. The AFC is going to get
• 35:47
  Speaker 4: tougher with all of the quarterbacks are in the AFC,
• 35:50
  Speaker 4: and this division of yours isn't going to suck forever.
• 35:53
  Speaker 3: It can't suck forever.
• 35:54
  Speaker 4: We watch this time and time again where these divisions
• 35:56
  Speaker 4: flip and turn around, and like I said, I expect
• 35:58
  Speaker 4: the Jets to get better. Drake May is not going anywhere,
• 36:02
  Speaker 4: like I said, so they need to hit on this drop.
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  Speaker 4: They need to make a super Bowl run, not just
• 36:08
  Speaker 4: an early exit, second round exit.
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  Speaker 3: Whatever. You need to be in the super Bowl or
• 36:12
  Speaker 3: it's over. It's done, it's closed.
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  Speaker 4: You cannot keep playing this game again where you have
• 36:17
  Speaker 4: the best quarterback in football and nothing to show for it.
• 36:20
  Speaker 4: They need to hit on absolutely everything this year or
• 36:22
  Speaker 4: that window is not just closed, its slampshot.
• 36:24
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I would agree with that.
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  Speaker 1: The you don't want to waste the Josh Allen years
• 36:29
  Speaker 1: with the guy that plays the physical style that he does.
• 36:32
  Speaker 1: There's no guarantee that this is going to last forever.
• 36:34
  Speaker 1: Wide receiver has been in need. They tried to attack
• 36:37
  Speaker 1: it with Keon Coleman. It felt like they forced it,
• 36:40
  Speaker 1: and that's the issue that you get into and you
• 36:42
  Speaker 1: need a position that bad as you end up taking
• 36:44
  Speaker 1: a player. I don't think Keon Coleman ever should have
• 36:46
  Speaker 1: been a first round pick. I think they forced it.
• 36:49
  Speaker 1: And that's the problem is that you get so desperate
• 36:51
  Speaker 1: you take a player higher than he should go. You
• 36:54
  Speaker 1: over invest in that player, and then when it doesn't
• 36:56
  Speaker 1: work out, it sets you back another couple of years.
• 36:59
  Speaker 1: Buffalo is the two twenty sixth pick in the draft.
• 37:01
  Speaker 1: They don't have a second round pick, and they'd pick
• 37:03
  Speaker 1: again in the third round twenty seventh pick of the
• 37:07
  Speaker 1: third round, so they need to nail it. They really
• 37:09
  Speaker 1: need to nail that first round pick, otherwise roster wise,
• 37:12
  Speaker 1: they are setting themselves back big time. So a recap
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  Speaker 1: on our top five, Kendra's top five teams that have
• 37:19
  Speaker 1: to nail the draft this year Giants at five, Patriots
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  Speaker 1: at four, Bears at three, Bengals.
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  Speaker 2: At two, and the Bills at one.
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  Speaker 1: My top five, I have the Dolphins cash youer tickets
• 37:31
  Speaker 1: at five, the Giants at four, Steelers at three, Commanders
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  Speaker 1: at two, and the Chiefs as one.
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  Speaker 2: Evan, what are your thoughts, Evan?
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean I had the Bills, Commanders, Chiefs, and
• 37:47
  Speaker 6: Steelers as like the definite four. Bills have no second
• 37:51
  Speaker 6: round pick, Washington has no second round pick. Casey is
• 37:54
  Speaker 6: the fifth most draft capital. Pittsburgh has the eighth most,
• 37:57
  Speaker 6: but they have three thirds. I think all four of
• 38:01
  Speaker 6: those teams probably should be contending and either are very
• 38:06
  Speaker 6: high on that list and are fading kind of like
• 38:08
  Speaker 6: Kansas City and Pittsburgh, or like have a window right
• 38:12
  Speaker 6: now with Buffalo and Washington and don't have a top
• 38:15
  Speaker 6: pick where they both don't have seconds. The other two
• 38:18
  Speaker 6: I think that you guys mentioned, which are interesting is Cincinnati,
• 38:21
  Speaker 6: but to be fair, they have a ton of picks.
• 38:23
  Speaker 6: They're just really trying to keep burrow, like you said,
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  Speaker 6: in Atlanta. Atlanta has the second lowest draft capital, only
• 38:30
  Speaker 6: five picks, and I feel like they kind of have
• 38:32
  Speaker 6: like an opportunity here, especially with no first and in
• 38:35
  Speaker 6: that division, there's there's a chance they can do something.
• 38:38
  Speaker 6: But that's kind of the way I looked at it.
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  Speaker 5: And if I have to pick between your two lists, i'd.
• 38:42
  Speaker 6: Probably say Kravitz's lists. If I remembered the ten correctly.
• 38:50
  Speaker 6: Did you have Pittsburgh, Hendrew?
• 38:51
  Speaker 3: Now I did not.
• 38:53
  Speaker 6: Yeah, So I think Pittsburgh to me's got to be
• 38:55
  Speaker 6: in there, just because they have to keep up with
• 38:58
  Speaker 6: the Joneses in that division and kind of keep doing
• 39:00
  Speaker 6: what they're doing and get more talented.
• 39:02
  Speaker 5: And they have a lot of picks in this draft.
• 39:04
  Speaker 4: So well, Gifford just dropped in the chat that he's
• 39:07
  Speaker 4: on my side, so oh, there you.
• 39:09
  Speaker 1: Go, and that I that we completely swung and missed
• 39:14
  Speaker 1: on the Dallas Cowboys. That was definitely a consideration for me.
• 39:17
  Speaker 1: If there was a sixth option, they would have easily
• 39:20
  Speaker 1: been sixth.
• 39:21
  Speaker 3: You would have been Arizona.
• 39:23
  Speaker 5: What about green Bay? No First?
• 39:27
  Speaker 4: That's why I couldn't put them on here. How do
• 39:29
  Speaker 4: you nail a draft if you don't have a first
• 39:31
  Speaker 4: round pick. That's why I didn't have Jacksonville on here either,
• 39:33
  Speaker 4: Like you can't. You can't nail a draft if you
• 39:35
  Speaker 4: don't have a first round pick.
• 39:37
  Speaker 1: I think you have to have a first to be
• 39:38
  Speaker 1: on the list like this, And and Dallas has two
• 39:40
  Speaker 1: of them, by the way, they picked twelfth and twentieth
• 39:42
  Speaker 1: in the first round. So that is definitely Yeah. David
• 39:48
  Speaker 1: in the chat says, who doesn't need to nail the draft?
• 39:51
  Speaker 1: Denver the Rams?
• 39:55
  Speaker 3: Yeah, Denver in the Rams.
• 39:57
  Speaker 1: I think four picks, they're fine. They could whiff on everyone.
• 40:00
  Speaker 1: They're loaded. And I would push back on Atlanta, My
• 40:03
  Speaker 1: Atlanta Falcons. I think when you look at what makes
• 40:06
  Speaker 1: them good, it's a bunch of young players that are
• 40:09
  Speaker 1: still cost controlled.
• 40:10
  Speaker 2: The Falcons.
• 40:11
  Speaker 5: Do the Falcons play them Dolphins this year?
• 40:15
  Speaker 3: Can we make a team trip if they do?
• 40:18
  Speaker 2: I don't know what the schedules look like yet.
• 40:21
  Speaker 3: Hold on, well, we know who's playing. We know who's
• 40:24
  Speaker 3: playing who?
• 40:26
  Speaker 4: Right, Oh my gosh, can we please have a field
• 40:29
  Speaker 4: trip if that happens? I'm so serious. Okay, so they're
• 40:34
  Speaker 4: home games.
• 40:38
  Speaker 1: They just played the Miami.
• 40:44
  Speaker 2: All right, Well that would have.
• 40:45
  Speaker 3: Been such a fun field trip, you guys.
• 40:47
  Speaker 1: I was gonna get the jersey where you know you
• 40:49
  Speaker 1: sew the two together. Hey, listen, if Illinois wins the championship,
• 40:56
  Speaker 1: but we're gonna we're gonna all gonna fly together to Atlanta.
• 40:59
  Speaker 2: We'll watch it Foulkes game together.
• 41:01
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• 41:07
  Speaker 1: David Payne. To you Kendra for putting together a dynamic list.
• 41:11
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