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NFL Trade Deadline: Cousins Back to Vikings, Chiefs/Niners Add WRs, and Celtics–Sixers Beef · The Daily Play With Joy Taylor

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  Speaker 1: Hey guys, welcome to the Daily Play with Joy Taylor.
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  Speaker 2: So we knew the trade deadline was going to be
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  Speaker 2: interesting and it had some intriguing moves that could impact
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  Speaker 2: the stretch run in the playoffs. There were two very
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  Speaker 2: notable quarterback moves. Kirk Cousins going back to Minnesota and
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  Speaker 2: Jacoby Brissett going back to the AFC North in a
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  Speaker 2: trade deadline. to the browns both of these veterans leave
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  Speaker 2: their former teams in the hands of a rookie fernando
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  Speaker 2: mendoza and carson beck based off the national championship we
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  Speaker 2: all know how that went watch that first hands and
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  Speaker 2: now they will both get their nfl starts on sunday
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  Speaker 2: mendoza the first overall pick gets to face the seattle
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  Speaker 2: defense and third round carson beck hits the.
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  Speaker 1: Rams So good luck to the young.
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  Speaker 2: Bloods in their first NFL start. They got to slow
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  Speaker 2: roll into their NFL rookie seasons and now they get
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  Speaker 2: thrown into the fire and that's how it goes. Listen,
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  Speaker 2: I feel like no matter who you were going up
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  Speaker 2: against defensively as a rookie, it's going to be a
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  Speaker 2: tough go. Obviously wouldn't have loved Seattle and the Rams
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  Speaker 2: as their start, but that's how it goes. Always a
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  Speaker 2: class act. Kirk Cousins posted a goodbye on the Raiders
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  Speaker 2: for the Raiders on his Instagram story saying, thank you
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  Speaker 2: Raiders nation for Go get him, Fernando Mendoza. Very excited
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  Speaker 2: to see the premiere of Fernando Mendoza, someone who I
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  Speaker 2: think actually has the potential to be a franchise quarterback.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not going to judge him harshly on how the
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  Speaker 1: rest of this season goes.
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  Speaker 2: And the Kirk Cousins deal is very, very interesting. So
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  Speaker 2: Kirk is obviously limited at this point in his career.
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  Speaker 2: But Kevin O'Connell seems to have this... This... Secret sauce
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  Speaker 2: going on there with the Vikings. Now, every year I
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  Speaker 2: fall for it. And this year, particularly, I fell for it.
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  Speaker 1: Because, I mean, they look good.
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  Speaker 2: They're 7-2, Kyler Murray and Carson Wentz. So do I
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  Speaker 2: think that they can be competitive with Kirk Cousins?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely.
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  Speaker 2: He's reuniting with Justin Jefferson and Kevin O'Connell. And I
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  Speaker 2: think that, you know, they both showed up in the
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  Speaker 2: final two years of his six years with the Vikings.
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  Speaker 2: Jefferson has best season in 2022 with cousins, 128 catches,
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  Speaker 2: 1800 yards. Obviously cousins is now 38 and you know,
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  Speaker 2: everyone's in a bit of a different situation, but the
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  Speaker 2: Vikings defense is still very good. And I think that
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  Speaker 2: what could potentially happen with them, the way that they
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  Speaker 2: have been playing and the way that Kevin O'Connell has
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  Speaker 2: been programming this offense is alongside their defense is really,
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  Speaker 2: really interesting. And I think that's why they made this trade. Obviously,
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  Speaker 2: it seems like Kyler Murray is not going to be
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  Speaker 2: available as they had hoped. And, you know, a third
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  Speaker 2: round pick is a high price. But if you are
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  Speaker 2: going to go all in, which I feel like teams
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  Speaker 2: should do when they have things rolling, go.
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  Speaker 1: Ahead and do that.
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  Speaker 2: You've got Brian Flores over there running a really solid defense.
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  Speaker 1: Push all the chips in. Go for it and try
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  Speaker 1: and make a run. Why not?
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  Speaker 2: You never know how long these windows are open for.
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  Speaker 2: They obviously have information on Kyler Murray, but you don't
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  Speaker 2: know if Kyler Murray is going to be able to
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  Speaker 2: get it done.
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  Speaker 1: Why not bring Kirk Cousins in.
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  Speaker 2: Who is a savvy veteran and someone who can win games?
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  Speaker 1: So I love it for them.
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  Speaker 2: On the Raiders side of the deal, I'm very excited
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  Speaker 2: to see Fernando Mendoza. It seems like This Raiders franchise
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  Speaker 2: is already a different franchise.
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  Speaker 1: And while they haven't.
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  Speaker 2: Put everything together as of yet, they have given him
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  Speaker 2: the opportunity to sit behind someone who is a real professional,
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  Speaker 2: who knows the position, who isn't egotistical in Kirk Cousins.
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  Speaker 2: And now he's going to get his opportunity to start,
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  Speaker 2: which was always going to happen likely at some point
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  Speaker 2: this year, probably more towards the end of the year
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  Speaker 2: when they.
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  Speaker 1: Were out of the playoffs. But oh, well, this is
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  Speaker 1: what you've got now.
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  Speaker 2: So I'm excited to see what Fernando Mendoza looks like.
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  Speaker 2: He has a lot of skeptics, but I'm excited for him.
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  Speaker 2: I think that the Raiders have done a really good
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  Speaker 2: job this year of setting things up for him. While
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  Speaker 2: I normally am a sharks are born swimming kind of girl,
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  Speaker 2: meaning I think there's only so much you can learn
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  Speaker 2: from holding a clipboard and watching someone else do something.
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  Speaker 2: I think this has been a nice situation for him
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  Speaker 2: to come into with a Raiders organization that has traditionally really.
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  Speaker 1: Struggled with quarterbacks.
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  Speaker 2: Additionally, the Niners and the Chiefs traded for Colts receivers
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  Speaker 2: to help deal with the injuries of that position.
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  Speaker 1: The injuries this year have been exhausting. And I know
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  Speaker 1: there's injuries every.
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  Speaker 2: Year, but it just really feels like People are unavailable
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  Speaker 2: this year. So Keenan Allen is heading to San Francisco
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  Speaker 2: for a sixth round pick. And Josh Jones is going
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  Speaker 2: to Kansas City. The Chiefs sent a fourth and a
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  Speaker 2: fifth and got back a seventh in that deal.
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  Speaker 1: The Jags also were very aggressive at the deadline.
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  Speaker 2: They traded major capital to acquire Jesse Bates from the Falcons,
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  Speaker 2: defensive tackle Jordan Davis from the Eagles, and defensive tackle
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  Speaker 2: Davon Godchow. So... I think contenders should be making acquisitions
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  Speaker 2: at this time of the year.
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  Speaker 1: Push your chips in, go for it.
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  Speaker 2: I know that draft picks are extremely valuable, especially high picks,
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  Speaker 2: but they could also be busts. And if you have
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  Speaker 2: things rolling, if you have an opportunity to make a
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  Speaker 2: trade with a team that's struggling, if the team that
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  Speaker 2: really needs those draft picks, go for.
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  Speaker 1: It and make a run. I point to the Rams
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  Speaker 1: all the time.
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  Speaker 2: The Rams are a team that is not afraid to
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  Speaker 2: push the chips in, leverage a bit of their future
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  Speaker 2: for an opportunity to win. Now it is very, very
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  Speaker 2: difficult and the window is small. And as I just said,
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  Speaker 2: the injuries are crazy and you cannot predict them. So
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  Speaker 2: if you're, if you have some things going, go for it.
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  Speaker 2: I love what the bears did bringing in Jeffrey Simmons
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  Speaker 2: to already help the D line. That's already paid off.
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  Speaker 2: I love what Jacksonville is doing. bringing in all these
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  Speaker 2: defensive players. The Niners, obviously, have been dealing with injuries
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  Speaker 2: as they are every single year. And, you know, they
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  Speaker 2: just need bodies at this point. And, you know, the Chiefs, obviously,
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  Speaker 2: they've had some issues as wide receivers as well, and
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  Speaker 2: they're always a contender. So I think all of these
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  Speaker 2: moves make a lot of sense to me, and I
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  Speaker 2: like seeing teams be aggressive. Finally, let's pay off on
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  Speaker 2: that NBA beef we talked about yesterday.
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  Speaker 1: So the Sixers hosted the Celtics. This was.
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  Speaker 2: A much anticipated matchup, Jalen Brown, however, paid off on
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  Speaker 2: our skepticism about whether there was a beef or not.
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  Speaker 2: He appeared to ignore a greeting from former teammate Jason Tatum.
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  Speaker 2: As a petty person myself, I think everyone else read
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  Speaker 2: this the same way.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, he.
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  Speaker 2: Essentially did not respond to Jason Tatum saying hello to
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  Speaker 2: him at all.
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  Speaker 1: Boston beat Philly convincingly, 123-101.
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  Speaker 2: Brown dapped up his former Celtics teammate, but Tatum was
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  Speaker 2: not around after the game.
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  Speaker 1: And, you know, leading.
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  Speaker 2: Into the game, Tatum had been downplaying any beef, saying
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  Speaker 2: there was like a little something there. Seeing that at
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  Speaker 2: the beginning of the game definitely convinces me that there
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  Speaker 2: is more to the story.
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  Speaker 1: Like I said, we'll probably get it in a documentary
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  Speaker 1: in a few years. But I like it. I like
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  Speaker 1: holding on to a little animosity.
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  Speaker 2: I like not always playing nice.
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  Speaker 1: If you have some feelings, okay, you have feelings. Players
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  Speaker 1: have feelings. Players don't like getting traded. Players don't like
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  Speaker 1: feeling like they're not appreciated. Players don't like feeling.
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  Speaker 2: Like another player that they feel they're as good as
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  Speaker 2: or have had more accolades than is being protected or
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  Speaker 2: celebrated or valued more within the organization.
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  Speaker 1: We have seen this time and time again. They're human beings.
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  Speaker 1: This is a natural feeling to have.
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  Speaker 2: And yeah, sometimes it resonates with a little pettiness and
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  Speaker 2: 20 years from now, they'll squash it and be friends
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  Speaker 2: or whatever. But I do not think that everyone always
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  Speaker 2: has to be friends. We have kind of created this
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  Speaker 2: environment with the media and with fans where everyone is
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  Speaker 2: afraid to step on any toes. Everyone's on eggshells all
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  Speaker 2: the time. No one wants to be trending. No one
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  Speaker 2: wants to be, you know, the theme or the story
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  Speaker 2: of the day.
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  Speaker 1: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: Well, sometimes you got to be the story and that's okay.
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  Speaker 2: And sometimes the drama is interesting in it. And it
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  Speaker 2: lends to a real human discussion about whether or not
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  Speaker 2: he should feel some type of way about not being there. Look,
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  Speaker 2: and the game is the game. Like The Celtics won convincingly.
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  Speaker 2: Brown had 13 points. Paul George led all scorers with
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  Speaker 2: 36 points. The Knights had 21. I think that this
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  Speaker 2: is a very long season. They will see each other again.
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  Speaker 2: And this will be a point of contention every time
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  Speaker 2: they match up and all throughout the season and into
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  Speaker 2: the playoffs.
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  Speaker 1: And I think that's a good thing.
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  Speaker 2: I think we need a little animosity. We need a
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  Speaker 2: little rivalry. We need a little edge when it comes
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  Speaker 2: to these matchups. And I think for me, it just
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  Speaker 2: makes me feel like people care. Like they care about
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  Speaker 2: winning and losing. And no, no one needs to fight.
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  Speaker 2: No one needs to punch each other in the face.
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  Speaker 2: No one needs to call each other's names, be disrespectful.
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  Speaker 2: But it's okay to feel a type of way. I
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  Speaker 2: like seeing this. I like, you know, a bit of emotion,
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  Speaker 2: a bit of humanity in these situations.
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  Speaker 1: And he was not with it.
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  Speaker 2: And I'm okay with it. You don't always have to
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  Speaker 2: play nice. That being said, the Celtics won very convincingly.
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