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  Speaker 2: This is the best of the Ben Maler Show on
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  Speaker 3: Oh what is going on? Happy? This saw is confusing?
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  Speaker 3: Happy evening to you. You know I always.
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  Speaker 4: Get on the West coast, it's still Monday night. On
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  Speaker 4: the East, it's Tuesday morning. I'm sorry I make it
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  Speaker 4: way too complicated. Just this good evening, all right, Hope,
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  Speaker 4: everything's going great for you. We got a lot to
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  Speaker 4: get to. NBA free agency is just off the rails
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  Speaker 4: right now. Craziness going on. We will get to all
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  Speaker 4: the goodies. But here's the deal. We know what butters
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  Speaker 4: the bread. In the sports world. We are collective ball aholics. Okay,
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  Speaker 4: we are ball junkies. And what does ball mean? Ball
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  Speaker 4: of course means football. Okay, let me start with football
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  Speaker 4: over here. Because there was a notable trade involving cornerback
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  Speaker 4: Jalen Ramsey.
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  Speaker 3: So he is on the move. He is going to.
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  Speaker 4: The Pittsburgh Steelers. And unfortunately, my Dolphins are just like
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  Speaker 4: the feeder school. You know in high school, how you
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  Speaker 4: might have like the junior high. It's like the feeder
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  Speaker 4: school to the high school. That type of thing. Feels
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  Speaker 4: like the Dolphins are the feeder school for the Pittsburgh Steelers.
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  Speaker 3: Here.
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  Speaker 4: So there was a tweet from Adam Schefter which just
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  Speaker 4: kind of shows you exactly where the Dolphins rank in
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  Speaker 4: the pecking order.
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  Speaker 3: Here here's what it said.
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  Speaker 4: According to ESPN sources, the Miami Dolphins have agreed to
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  Speaker 4: trade three time All Pro corn back Jalen Ramsey to
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  Speaker 4: the Pittsburgh Steelers. As a part of the trade, Ramsey
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  Speaker 4: will get a one point five million dollar raise this season,
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  Speaker 4: bringing his twenty twenty five compensation up to twenty six
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  Speaker 4: point six million dollars. Steelers get their man and Ramsey
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  Speaker 4: gets another race. No mention of the Dolphins, no mention,
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  Speaker 4: what did they get in this trade?
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  Speaker 3: Schefty? What did my fins get? Dude?
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  Speaker 1: What?
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  Speaker 3: Nothing?
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  Speaker 4: They just got a couple of footballs and called it good.
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  Speaker 4: It turns out the Dolphins sent more players to the Steelers.
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  Speaker 4: So the Steelers they acquired cornerback Jalen Ramsey, tight end
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  Speaker 4: John new Smith. They also get a twenty twenty seven
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  Speaker 4: seventh round pick and exchange the Dolphins they get safety
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  Speaker 4: Minka Fitzpatrick and a twenty twenty seven fifth rounder. That
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  Speaker 4: would be advantage Steelers on that one. Now, Mika Fitzpatrick
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  Speaker 4: is a baller. I love Mika Fitzpatrick. Dolphins originally drafted him.
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  Speaker 4: So he's going back to the gwyn Orange. That's good,
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  Speaker 4: good get. Now, I'm not gonna talk trash about Minka
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  Speaker 4: love Minca, but man, the only Pro bowler the Dolphins
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  Speaker 4: had last season has been traded. That would be John
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  Speaker 4: new Smith. The tight end goes to the Steelers. And
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  Speaker 4: this is a dose of reality for any Dolphins fan
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  Speaker 4: who happens to be listening right now. So last season,
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  Speaker 4: John new Smith, he had a great year for the Finns.
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  Speaker 4: Eighty eight catches for eight hundred and eighty four yards
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  Speaker 4: and eight touchdowns for a tight end, those are big numbers.
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  Speaker 4: He had a great season in Miami. Now, the now
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  Speaker 4: that he's gone, the tight end with the most experience
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  Speaker 4: on the Dolphins roster, that would be Faroh Brown.
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  Speaker 3: So listen to his numbers.
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  Speaker 4: So I just told you John new Smith last season
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  Speaker 4: eighty eight catches, eight eighty four and eight touchdowns. Right,
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  Speaker 4: Farrell Brown, his numbers look like this, seventy two catches
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  Speaker 4: for seven hundred and fifty one yards and three touchdown graps.
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  Speaker 4: Now that would be a pretty good season. This was
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  Speaker 4: a pretty good season for a tight end.
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  Speaker 3: Right there.
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  Speaker 4: Those are Faroh Brown's numbers in eighty seven career games.
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  Speaker 4: His numbers in eighty seven career games are lower across
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  Speaker 4: the board than what John hu Smith did last season.
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  Speaker 4: That's how greatly the Dolphins have regressed at the tight
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  Speaker 4: end position right out. Now, I won't make this all
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  Speaker 4: about the Fins, but while we're talking about I've finished
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  Speaker 4: the point. We'll get to the Steelers, who really matter
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  Speaker 4: in this whole equation here. But Miami's interested in Raiders
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  Speaker 4: tight end Michael Mayer, who is a good player, hasn't
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  Speaker 4: put up huge numbers. Raiders drafted Brock Bauers last season.
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  Speaker 4: He was unbelievable. So Michael Mayer, he's the forgotten tight end.
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  Speaker 4: You know, he'd probably be on the trading block. So
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  Speaker 4: maybe the Dolphins get him. Possibly they're seemingly reaching out
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  Speaker 4: to all NFL teams. You got a tight end, a
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  Speaker 4: tight end that's on the block. Can we trade for
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  Speaker 4: a tight end that has a name that people might recognize?
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  Speaker 3: Can we do that?
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  Speaker 4: So the Steelers right now, they've got a pretty good roster.
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  Speaker 4: You look at what they have top to bottom, it's
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  Speaker 4: pretty good.
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  Speaker 3: Made some notable additions.
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  Speaker 4: Of course, you know the major suspects over here on offense,
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  Speaker 4: Aaron Rodgers, DK Metcalf. They just traded for John new Smith.
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  Speaker 4: When you compare John new Smith with Pat Fryermoth, you
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  Speaker 4: got Mooth. You got John new Smith, pro bowler, Friar Mooth,
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  Speaker 4: who's a baller, and then you drafted Caleb Johnson, he's
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  Speaker 4: the running back and to replace Najee Harris. You got
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  Speaker 4: something working there that's not the worst offense on paper
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  Speaker 4: in the NFL by far. You've got something to work
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  Speaker 4: with there. A lot of it obviously ties to how
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  Speaker 4: healthy is Aaron Rodgers last year, he's battling oldness. I
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  Speaker 4: would say he's battling age injuries.
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  Speaker 3: He had a hammy, had a knee, had an ankle.
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  Speaker 4: All kinds of stuff he was working through and he's
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  Speaker 4: He's not the same athlete that he once was. He's
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  Speaker 4: not moving outside the pocket regularly, which made him special
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  Speaker 4: throwing off platform that's not.
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  Speaker 3: Part of his game anymore.
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  Speaker 4: So his game he's not as good as he once was,
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  Speaker 4: that's obvious.
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  Speaker 3: How good is.
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  Speaker 4: He in the AFC North, in the AFC collectively, time
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  Speaker 4: will tell, but a lot of it traces back to
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  Speaker 4: his health. And you can't expect Rogers to be, you know,
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  Speaker 4: like the epitome of great health now that he's over forty.
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  Speaker 4: Here defensively, you add Jalen Ramsey. He goes along with
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  Speaker 4: Joey Porter junior, pretty good cornerback. And the Steelers picked
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  Speaker 4: up Darius big Play Sleigh. They got their hands on
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  Speaker 4: big Play Sleigh came over from the Eagles, banged up
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  Speaker 4: quite a bit recently, but when healthy, still a good player,
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  Speaker 4: and just like typical Steelers fashion. You know, if you
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  Speaker 4: look at a couple of their defensive draft picks, Derek Harmon,
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  Speaker 4: he was the twenty second overall pick, their first rounder
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  Speaker 4: defensive end, you know, basically a defensive lineman.
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  Speaker 3: In that three to four defense, right.
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  Speaker 4: But the way the Steelers are, there's probably gonna be
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  Speaker 4: the next Cam Hayward for the next decade plus, you know,
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  Speaker 4: it's gonna be stuff on to it.
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  Speaker 3: At worst. For the Steelers, they're gonna just fine. Guys.
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  Speaker 4: You know, when they drafted Jack Sawyer from Ohio State
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  Speaker 4: fourth round pick, don't be surprised if he makes an impact.
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  Speaker 4: So on paper, the Steelers have a pretty decent roster.
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  Speaker 4: I know, they seem to just be completely dismissed. I'm
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  Speaker 4: not making making my case for Steelers. They're legit Super
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  Speaker 4: Bowl contenders. I'm not saying that. I'm just saying there's
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  Speaker 4: a tendency to just shrug your shoulders and say, yeah,
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  Speaker 4: they'll be nine to eight and they'll lose their playoff
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  Speaker 4: game and that's it. And that might be the case,
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  Speaker 4: but let's not confuse that with the ceiling, you know
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  Speaker 4: what I mean, Like that that might be the reality,
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  Speaker 4: that might be realistically how it plays out, but that's
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  Speaker 4: not the ceiling for the roster. You know, the ceiling
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  Speaker 4: for the roster is a decent playoff run. It's a
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  Speaker 4: ten ish win team that wins a game or two
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  Speaker 4: in the playoffs that that's probably the ceiling, which isn't
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  Speaker 4: worlds better than nine to eight first round exit, but
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  Speaker 4: it's it's better, like it's a higher ceiling if things
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  Speaker 4: go as well as they can.
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  Speaker 3: Now.
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  Speaker 4: The thing that I think with Rogers here, and this
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  Speaker 4: is basically what I was talking about a second ago.
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  Speaker 4: Just open up your mind to the possibility, even if
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  Speaker 4: you think it's remote, even if you think it's far fetched,
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  Speaker 4: open up your mind to the possibility that Roger wins
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  Speaker 4: big this season. Can you imagine how annoying he'll be
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  Speaker 4: if that happens. Now, Like I said, I don't think
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  Speaker 4: that's going to happen for the Steelers. I don't think
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  Speaker 4: they're gonna have a great season and make it to
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  Speaker 4: the AFC Title Game or mess around and make it
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  Speaker 4: to a super Bowl. I don't see that happening. But
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  Speaker 4: I would acknowledge that crazier things have happened in NFL history.
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  Speaker 4: It's a pretty good roster.
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  Speaker 3: You know.
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  Speaker 4: So if everything goes as well as it can and
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  Speaker 4: they win big, Rogers will be peak annoying. I went
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  Speaker 4: in the hot tub time machine today and I was like,
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  Speaker 4: what did Rogers say a few years ago? And I
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  Speaker 4: finally found the audio. So this was at the tail
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  Speaker 4: end of the twenty twenty two season. Okay, the Packers
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  Speaker 4: were four and eight and then they rattled off four
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  Speaker 4: straight wins. Okay, and Rogers is basically like.
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  Speaker 3: What now, what do you have to say now, critics?
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  Speaker 3: Now that we're eight and eight?
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  Speaker 4: Here's Rogers Once they got to eight and eight in
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  Speaker 4: the twenty two season.
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  Speaker 5: You know, we've all seen some of the commentary outside
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  Speaker 5: as we went from four in eight to five and
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  Speaker 5: eight to.
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  Speaker 2: Six and eight, and nobody's worried about the Packers.
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  Speaker 6: And blah blah blah blah blah.
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  Speaker 7: Now what are you gonna say?
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  Speaker 4: So my thought is if Rogers is basically saying, hey,
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  Speaker 4: what now, critics, what do you have to say now?
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  Speaker 2: Huh?
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  Speaker 3: When they're eight and eight, what do.
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  Speaker 4: You think he's gonna say? If the Steelers win big
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  Speaker 4: this season? He would be he would be obnoxious if
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  Speaker 4: that happens. By the way, when the Packers got to
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  Speaker 4: eight and eight, the next week they lost to the
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  Speaker 4: Lions in Green Bay. They finished the season eight and nine,
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  Speaker 4: They missed the playoffs, and that was the.
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  Speaker 3: Final game Rogers played for Green Bay.
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  Speaker 4: Just all that, I went from what now, critics to
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  Speaker 4: an avalanche of every worst case scenario just played out
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  Speaker 4: for Green. But I started thinking about that, and you're
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  Speaker 4: welcome to participate and help this list grow. But I
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  Speaker 4: was thinking about which athletes would be all time annoying
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  Speaker 4: if they want a championship or in some cases won
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  Speaker 4: another championship, right, Like.
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  Speaker 5: Who would you be?
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  Speaker 3: Like, oh man.
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  Speaker 4: I can't believe this player just wanted all. This is
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  Speaker 4: gonna be nauseating for months, maybe years now. Who would
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  Speaker 4: be on that list? Number one on the list has
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  Speaker 4: to be by far, It's got to be Lebron. Can
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  Speaker 4: you imagine Lebron winning a fifth championship? Just close your eyes,
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  Speaker 4: imagine the Lakers winning a championship wasn't okase.
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  Speaker 3: The Lakers just steam rolled through the playoffs.
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  Speaker 4: They won another ring Lebron like this was This was
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  Speaker 4: Lebron after the three to one comeback against Golden State.
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  Speaker 4: This was on more than an athlete. This is what
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  Speaker 4: you had to say after that.
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  Speaker 6: I was a super super ecstatic the win went for
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  Speaker 6: Cleveland because of the fifty two year drought, Like I
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  Speaker 6: was ecstatic, Like obviously, I show that the first wave
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  Speaker 6: of emotion was when y'all everyone saw me crying like
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  Speaker 6: that was all for fifty two years? Everything the sports
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  Speaker 6: have gone on in Cleveland. And then after I stopped,
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  Speaker 6: I was like, that one right there made you the
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  Speaker 6: greatest player of all time.
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  Speaker 4: Okay, so that's Lebron after the three to one comeback
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  Speaker 4: against the Warriors. You know, you can't really give yourself
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  Speaker 4: a nickname.
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  Speaker 3: It seldomly works.
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  Speaker 4: You can't give yourself like goat status. You can't like
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  Speaker 4: knight yourself. Have you ever you ever see how someone
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  Speaker 4: gets knighted? You know, they touch each shoulder. Have you
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  Speaker 4: ever seen someone knight themselves? No, it doesn't work. You
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  Speaker 4: can't knight yourself the goat, which is what he tried
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  Speaker 4: to do right there. So the point is if he
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  Speaker 4: won another ring, it would be peak nauseating. Who else
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  Speaker 4: would be on the list athletes that would be all
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  Speaker 4: time annoying if they won a championship, you know who would.
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  Speaker 3: Be on that list?
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  Speaker 4: A few years ago, I don't feel as much now.
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  Speaker 4: But Baker Mayfield in his Cleveland Brown days, he was
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  Speaker 4: on a man. He was just on one raging against
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  Speaker 4: all critics far and wide. You know, anyone who had
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  Speaker 4: anything even slightly critical to say about Baker Mayfield. He
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  Speaker 4: just had a boulder on his shoulder. He didn't have
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  Speaker 4: a chip on his shoulder. So if Baker Mayfield somehow
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  Speaker 4: messed around and won a title in Cleveland when he
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  Speaker 4: was still there at that time.
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  Speaker 3: He would have been peak annoying.
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  Speaker 4: I don't feel that way as much anymore. Right now,
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  Speaker 4: he's still a little feisty with the critics, but it
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  Speaker 4: lands differently. I think he's matured, you know, I don't
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  Speaker 4: think that he takes every little slight. He reminds me
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  Speaker 4: of the guy in the bar. You might have been
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  Speaker 4: this guy when you were younger.
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  Speaker 3: You know, this guy you want to go.
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  Speaker 4: You got a problem with just that guy that's just
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  Speaker 4: ready to fight because someone yawned, and it's like, what
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  Speaker 4: did that yawn?
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  Speaker 6: Me?
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  Speaker 3: What were you ready?
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  Speaker 4: You would go like that was Baker Mayfield earlier in
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  Speaker 4: his career. I don't think he's that same guy anymore.
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  Speaker 4: Who else would be on the list of athletes all
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  Speaker 4: time annoying if they want it all? Aaron Rodgers of
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  Speaker 4: course would be on this list. If he won his
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  Speaker 4: second ring and won it all in Pittsburgh, he would
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  Speaker 4: be peak annoying. And the last one that I have
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  Speaker 4: on my list right now, and this is a growing list.
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  Speaker 4: I would put Angel Reese there. If Angel Reese won
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  Speaker 4: a WNBA title, she would be peak annoying.
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  Speaker 3: There is zero doubt about that. And what I mean
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  Speaker 3: by that is just throwing it in your face, just
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  Speaker 3: like want to ring what now?
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  Speaker 2: What now?
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  Speaker 3: Critics?
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  Speaker 4: There'd be a new TikTok video every hour for the
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  Speaker 4: next year if she wanted all that would be on
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  Speaker 4: my list. Feel free to share yours at the No
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  Speaker 4: show is where you can find me on x if
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  Speaker 4: you have any entries on the list. The growing list
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  Speaker 4: of athletes that would be all time annoying if they
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  Speaker 4: want it all interested to hear about that. Eight seven
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  Speaker 4: her Oreo. She's not our cat, but she's hanging out
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  Speaker 4: here tonight and she's fired up. She's normally she's sleeping
• 17:38
  Speaker 4: about ninety five percent of the time, but she is
• 17:40
  Speaker 4: wide awake and she's in crazy mode right now.
• 17:43
  Speaker 8: Can I ask you a question about this cat?
• 17:45
  Speaker 3: Absolutely? Please do well?
• 17:47
  Speaker 8: Because I used to have a cat and eventually he'd
• 17:52
  Speaker 8: just be gone longer and longer and longer. And one
• 17:55
  Speaker 8: day he came back with a collar on.
• 17:57
  Speaker 3: Okay, and I was.
• 17:59
  Speaker 9: Like, who who thinks you are their cat? How hard
• 18:03
  Speaker 9: have you been double dipping that you'll think something?
• 18:08
  Speaker 5: You could put someone else's collar on your neck?
• 18:11
  Speaker 9: Yeah, you don't even like wearing the collar I put
• 18:13
  Speaker 9: on your neck, mister Jingles.
• 18:15
  Speaker 5: No wonder man, Oh my gosh, do you plan on
• 18:18
  Speaker 5: adopting this cat?
• 18:19
  Speaker 3: If I would love to? I would love to adopt Oreo.
• 18:22
  Speaker 4: And it's funny you said that, Lorena, because my girlfriend
• 18:25
  Speaker 4: made a necklace for Oreo that says Oreo, and she
• 18:31
  Speaker 4: used to when Oreo come visit, she'd put the necklace
• 18:34
  Speaker 4: on Oreo, and then when she would leave, we would
• 18:36
  Speaker 4: take it off.
• 18:36
  Speaker 3: And one time she almost forgot, and I'm like, no,
• 18:40
  Speaker 3: take the necklace off. You're gonna blow this for us.
• 18:44
  Speaker 5: The cat inside and never let it out again. But
• 18:47
  Speaker 5: how do we know?
• 18:48
  Speaker 8: So you know for a fact she has an owner?
• 18:50
  Speaker 9: Yes, you can tell between a stray cat and an
• 18:53
  Speaker 9: owned cat.
• 18:54
  Speaker 5: Yeah, stray cats. They smell weird.
• 18:57
  Speaker 8: They have a weird texture.
• 18:58
  Speaker 5: To their fur.
• 18:59
  Speaker 3: Yeah, right, exactly.
• 19:00
  Speaker 5: They spray everything.
• 19:02
  Speaker 4: Yeah, because she's you never see her when the sun
• 19:06
  Speaker 4: is out, you know, when it's super hot. Oreo's like,
• 19:09
  Speaker 4: screw this, I'm staying inside with the air conditioning. Wherever
• 19:12
  Speaker 4: her real home is, she is not outside ever. And
• 19:16
  Speaker 4: then when it's nighttime.
• 19:18
  Speaker 3: She's just out. She's like a night owl, like a
• 19:21
  Speaker 3: night cat.
• 19:22
  Speaker 4: But she definitely has a home. We just don't know
• 19:24
  Speaker 4: where or what. But like I'm gonna put a note
• 19:26
  Speaker 4: on her. We're gonna like staplean note, like can we
• 19:28
  Speaker 4: have Oreo or whatever her real name is, Can we
• 19:32
  Speaker 4: do that? But yeah, she's hanging out with us right now.
• 19:34
  Speaker 4: She's part of the militia. He's very fired up right now. Okay,
• 19:38
  Speaker 4: so the boys to men thing. Let me finally pay
• 19:41
  Speaker 4: this off. I picture one person out there, like I
• 19:45
  Speaker 4: need to hear where this tease is going.
• 19:48
  Speaker 3: There's like one out there.
• 19:50
  Speaker 4: Everybody else is just like eh, talk more about Oreo
• 19:54
  Speaker 4: or the NFL. But Lebron James, so he extras sized
• 20:00
  Speaker 4: his player option. That's the tune of fifty two point
• 20:04
  Speaker 4: six million dollars. Now, there was an interesting nugget from
• 20:08
  Speaker 4: Brian Winhurst. He was on Get Up and he had
• 20:11
  Speaker 4: this to say about Lebron and opting in to this
• 20:14
  Speaker 4: player option year.
• 20:16
  Speaker 3: Check this out.
• 20:16
  Speaker 10: It's just unusual for Lebron to be in this spot.
• 20:19
  Speaker 10: He has signed nine contracts in his illustrious career. Eight
• 20:22
  Speaker 10: of them have had player options in them. Not once
• 20:27
  Speaker 10: in the eight times has he ever taken that player option.
• 20:29
  Speaker 10: He has always opted to sign a new contract. This
• 20:33
  Speaker 10: is the first time in twenty three years he's ever
• 20:36
  Speaker 10: been on a contract is in its last year.
• 20:39
  Speaker 4: Pretty interesting, right, So it seems to point to the
• 20:44
  Speaker 4: end of the road. That'd be the Boys to Men
• 20:47
  Speaker 4: tie in right there. It seems like this very well
• 20:50
  Speaker 4: could be Lebron's final year in the NBA, because he's
• 20:54
  Speaker 4: normally when he's got that last year, he's got that
• 20:57
  Speaker 4: player option, he signs for more years. We just saw
• 21:01
  Speaker 4: this with the Clippers, right, is same situation with the
• 21:04
  Speaker 4: Beard with James Harden, he had a player option and
• 21:08
  Speaker 4: they said nah, no thanks, and he signed a two
• 21:10
  Speaker 4: year deal. Right, so he got an extra year on
• 21:13
  Speaker 4: his deal. You've seen Lebron do that every single time
• 21:17
  Speaker 4: he's been in this position. He didn't do it this time.
• 21:20
  Speaker 4: So it could very well be his final season. It
• 21:24
  Speaker 4: doesn't mean.
• 21:25
  Speaker 3: It for sure. He could whatever.
• 21:27
  Speaker 4: He could re up with the Lakers after the season,
• 21:29
  Speaker 4: he could look for a new home if he wanted
• 21:31
  Speaker 4: to continue his career elsewhere. Doesn't mean for sure it's
• 21:34
  Speaker 4: the end, but it tends to indicate this very well
• 21:37
  Speaker 4: could be his final season. Now, his agent, Rich Paul
• 21:41
  Speaker 4: He released an interesting statement on Lebron's future. He wrote
• 21:47
  Speaker 4: this quote, row, this is a statement Lebron wants to
• 21:51
  Speaker 4: compete for a championship. He knows the Lakers are building
• 21:54
  Speaker 4: for the future, he understands that, but he values a
• 21:58
  Speaker 4: realistic chance of winning at all.
• 22:01
  Speaker 3: So what does this mean? This is what it boils
• 22:03
  Speaker 3: down to.
• 22:04
  Speaker 4: Lebron understandably is like, Okay, I know we're planning for
• 22:09
  Speaker 4: the future, but the future is now for me. So
• 22:12
  Speaker 4: I want to be on a championship contending team. There's
• 22:15
  Speaker 4: nothing wrong with that. What Lebron has done in the past,
• 22:19
  Speaker 4: He's thrown his weight around a lot more than this.
• 22:22
  Speaker 4: He just doesn't have the leverage the Lakers. They're not
• 22:25
  Speaker 4: in go for it mode. This season, they're in go
• 22:28
  Speaker 4: for twenty twenty seven mode. That's when max salary spots.
• 22:32
  Speaker 4: They've got their iMore on twenty twenty seven than they
• 22:35
  Speaker 4: do this season because they're looking to go younger and
• 22:38
  Speaker 4: in some instances, cheaper. They don't have a ton of flexibility.
• 22:43
  Speaker 4: Lebron's gonna turn forty one in December, so they're not
• 22:47
  Speaker 4: in like Steelers mode, if you will. Steelers are like, yeah,
• 22:50
  Speaker 4: let's go, let's go for it, let's do it. The
• 22:52
  Speaker 4: Lakers are like, yeah, let's try to build a better
• 22:56
  Speaker 4: roster in a smarter fashion. But they're really looking to
• 23:00
  Speaker 4: build around Luca. They're not looking to build around Lebron.
• 23:04
  Speaker 4: And Lebron's smart enough to understand that, but he doesn't
• 23:07
  Speaker 4: want to accept that. He doesn't want to be like, yeah,
• 23:09
  Speaker 4: you know why, that's cool, this might be my last year.
• 23:11
  Speaker 3: In the league.
• 23:12
  Speaker 4: Let's just plan for twenty twenty seven when I'm out
• 23:15
  Speaker 4: of the league entirely, and you can.
• 23:17
  Speaker 3: Have a better future with Luca.
• 23:20
  Speaker 4: He's not feeling that, and I don't think he should,
• 23:23
  Speaker 4: so I get where he's coming from. But he just
• 23:26
  Speaker 4: doesn't have the leverage to really hold the Lakers' feet
• 23:30
  Speaker 4: to the fire and make things happen. It's just not
• 23:34
  Speaker 4: going to go down like that. The Lakers did lose
• 23:37
  Speaker 4: Dorian Finney Smith. He gone, he is out of there.
• 23:41
  Speaker 4: He signed with the Rockets, and in the place of
• 23:46
  Speaker 4: Dorian Phinney Smith, the Lakers signed Jake la Ravia. Jake
• 23:52
  Speaker 4: Laavia that's on a two year, twelve million dollar deal,
• 23:56
  Speaker 4: so not exactly a blockbuster signing the Purple and Gold.
• 24:01
  Speaker 3: I love some of these reports. This is what makes
• 24:04
  Speaker 3: me laugh.
• 24:04
  Speaker 4: And the whole thing here, Well, you'll see these reports
• 24:07
  Speaker 4: where it's like, uh, Lebron will be closely monitoring things
• 24:12
  Speaker 4: and closely monitoring what the Lakers do this offseason. It's like, yeah,
• 24:18
  Speaker 4: he's gonna be closely monitoring the Lakers not doing jack. Okay,
• 24:24
  Speaker 4: the Lakers aren't gonna do anything of great significance this offseason.
• 24:29
  Speaker 4: They just don't have a ton of wiggle room. So
• 24:33
  Speaker 4: this idea that Lebron he's gonna be paying attention. He's
• 24:36
  Speaker 4: gonna be watching Sports Center, he's gonna be reading the
• 24:38
  Speaker 4: La Times. He's gonna stay in close proximity the Genie
• 24:42
  Speaker 4: Buss and the powers that be, and you're gonna be
• 24:45
  Speaker 4: checking He's gonna be monitoring closely, and that's gonna get
• 24:48
  Speaker 4: something done.
• 24:49
  Speaker 3: It's not.
• 24:51
  Speaker 4: The Lakers are not going to be making any big
• 24:54
  Speaker 4: moves this offseason. There's not gonna be a move where
• 24:57
  Speaker 4: you go, WHOA, that's big. I I think the Lakers
• 25:00
  Speaker 4: could win the West. Now, there's not gonna be a
• 25:02
  Speaker 4: move like that spoiler alert. So I just think it's
• 25:05
  Speaker 4: funny that Lebron's gonna be monitoring the situation very closely,
• 25:09
  Speaker 4: day in and day out. It's like, Okay, he's gonna
• 25:12
  Speaker 4: be monitoring a whole lot of nothing happening.
• 25:16
  Speaker 3: But that's that's the word right now.
• 25:18
  Speaker 4: And now, I mean, just look at what's happened with
• 25:21
  Speaker 4: the Lakers desperately need a center, and it looked like
• 25:25
  Speaker 4: it maybe could be Brook Lopez, maybe Brooke going once,
• 25:28
  Speaker 4: going twice. Nope, not Brook Lopez. He signed with the Clippers.
• 25:32
  Speaker 4: Think about that for a second. The Lakers were in
• 25:36
  Speaker 4: play to possibly get Brook Brook Lopez, and Brook's like,
• 25:41
  Speaker 4: now I'll go to the Clippers and back up of
• 25:43
  Speaker 4: Vitza Zubats I'll be a backup. And maybe he thinks
• 25:47
  Speaker 4: the Clippers are have a better roster, they're in a
• 25:49
  Speaker 4: better position to compete for a championship. Whatever his reasons are,
• 25:53
  Speaker 4: he chose the Clippers over the Lakers. So maybe, uh,
• 25:57
  Speaker 4: Clint Capella, maybe Clint is destined for the LA. No,
• 26:01
  Speaker 4: that's not gonna happen either, signing with the Rockets. Rockets
• 26:05
  Speaker 4: are making some good moves. We'll expand it beyond the
• 26:08
  Speaker 4: Lakers here in a little bit with all the other
• 26:10
  Speaker 4: free agency comings and goings, if you will. But no,
• 26:15
  Speaker 4: Clint Capella, he's gonna back up San Goon. I'll tell
• 26:18
  Speaker 4: you what, man, the Rockets are. They're putting together a
• 26:21
  Speaker 4: legitimate roster that can compete in the West and the Lakers.
• 26:27
  Speaker 3: Meanwhile, right now they have Max MAXI Kliba.
• 26:29
  Speaker 4: That's what we're looking at here at uh in the
• 26:32
  Speaker 4: front court, they've got it. They desperately need to upgrade.
• 26:36
  Speaker 3: Now.
• 26:36
  Speaker 4: Maybe it'll be DeAndre Ayton. His contract just got bought
• 26:41
  Speaker 4: out by the Blazers. But man, not the most sterling
• 26:45
  Speaker 4: reputation for all d eighton right here. Some say he's selfish,
• 26:51
  Speaker 4: he's unreliable. The word diva's been thrown around. You don't
• 26:55
  Speaker 4: want to hear this phrase either. Locker room cancer just
• 26:59
  Speaker 4: got bought out by the Blazers. So maybe that's the
• 27:02
  Speaker 4: next center for the Lakers. Don't know if they can
• 27:05
  Speaker 4: do much better than that, So we'll see if that's
• 27:07
  Speaker 4: who they end up with. Very curious about this, but yeah, Lebron,
• 27:12
  Speaker 4: make no but you're gonna see these reports. You're gonna
• 27:14
  Speaker 4: read this or Lebron's closely monitoring the situation. He wants
• 27:18
  Speaker 4: the Lakers to there and win now mode and the
• 27:21
  Speaker 4: Lakers are like, Bro, that's just not where we're at
• 27:24
  Speaker 4: right now. We gotta we gotta make upgrades and be
• 27:28
  Speaker 4: smart about this and build around Luca, not you. So
• 27:32
  Speaker 4: this is a weird, possible final season for Lebron, but
• 27:37
  Speaker 4: that's the way it's shaping up.
• 27:38
  Speaker 3: Make no mistake about it.
• 27:39
  Speaker 5: All right.
• 27:40
  Speaker 4: Let me go out to the phones here, militia is here.
• 27:42
  Speaker 4: Let's work in John to the conversation. He's in La.
• 27:45
  Speaker 3: What's going on, John, you're on Fox Sports Radio, John A.
• 27:50
  Speaker 3: Johnny ran away?
• 27:50
  Speaker 5: Think he ran away into the woods?
• 27:52
  Speaker 3: John?
• 27:53
  Speaker 5: He ran andres here though.
• 27:55
  Speaker 3: I love Andre. Let's go to Andre and U mass
• 27:58
  Speaker 3: what's going on? Drey?
• 28:01
  Speaker 7: What's going on? Brian? Thanks so much for taking the call,
• 28:04
  Speaker 7: you Matt. That's uh on the Western part of the state.
• 28:07
  Speaker 7: I'm on the other side. I'm over here on the Cape. Uh,
• 28:10
  Speaker 7: you know, the sunny peninsula known as tourist town.
• 28:13
  Speaker 4: Uh.
• 28:14
  Speaker 7: But it's all good. Willis is in the building.
• 28:17
  Speaker 5: Is that Willis I just heard right now?
• 28:19
  Speaker 3: Yeah?
• 28:19
  Speaker 7: Well, well Willis is excited. Yes, he really wants to
• 28:22
  Speaker 7: be part.
• 28:23
  Speaker 5: You know, he's could be friends.
• 28:26
  Speaker 3: Yeah, Oreo's looking for a friend here, Andre, I.
• 28:32
  Speaker 7: Think Willis might be able to make the trip. You know,
• 28:34
  Speaker 7: as spirited as he is, I think that, uh, it's
• 28:37
  Speaker 7: a trip out west might be just what he needs.
• 28:39
  Speaker 7: You know, sometimes you will gets a little bit over it.
• 28:42
  Speaker 2: You know.
• 28:42
  Speaker 7: What he's excited about tonight is that you know, in
• 28:46
  Speaker 7: terms of our stars, okay, that would be the most
• 28:49
  Speaker 7: annoying if they were to win a championship. I think
• 28:52
  Speaker 7: Terrell Owens might be at the top.
• 28:53
  Speaker 4: Of the list.
• 28:55
  Speaker 3: You know he's done though, Andre, you know he's gone.
• 29:00
  Speaker 3: He's basically he's gone.
• 29:01
  Speaker 7: But he's always threatening comebacks. You will always see the
• 29:03
  Speaker 7: videos of him doing the you know, forty yard dash,
• 29:07
  Speaker 7: fifty yard dash to show what kind of shape that
• 29:09
  Speaker 7: he's in.
• 29:10
  Speaker 4: Hey, but Andre, I'm I'm always threatening to date Dua
• 29:14
  Speaker 4: Lipa you know, it's neither.
• 29:15
  Speaker 8: A gun very tall woman.
• 29:17
  Speaker 4: She is a very tall woman, Dre. I don't know
• 29:20
  Speaker 4: if you know that, but she is a I didn't
• 29:22
  Speaker 4: lengthy for tonight.
• 29:24
  Speaker 7: I didn't realize that she was tall. But I think
• 29:27
  Speaker 7: that she might date you. Nonetheless, Jack Hartlow, Okay, you
• 29:32
  Speaker 7: know the song you know which has has a ring
• 29:34
  Speaker 7: to it. You know, he's like six four mine is
• 29:37
  Speaker 7: involved in so I didn't you know? So so that's
• 29:40
  Speaker 7: a little bit of competition. Nonetheless, you know that didn't
• 29:42
  Speaker 7: you know what I mean? It's still fair game, you know.
• 29:45
  Speaker 7: So he has to hit song and he is kind
• 29:46
  Speaker 7: of tall, you know it has a way with words.
• 29:48
  Speaker 7: But you said, does he do late night radio like you?
• 29:50
  Speaker 7: So I think you still have a chance with Duleip.
• 29:52
  Speaker 3: You make Acidurell.
• 29:55
  Speaker 7: Tourell is retired. So we got to think of a
• 29:57
  Speaker 7: current player that would when that would be annoying should
• 30:00
  Speaker 7: they win a championship. That's kind of I try to
• 30:03
  Speaker 7: see people that the depositive. I don't know, maybe Mac Jones.
• 30:08
  Speaker 7: Mac Jones, you know, not not the best.
• 30:10
  Speaker 3: No, come on, do you think Mac would be annoying?
• 30:13
  Speaker 3: Max like the nicest dude ever, and he's not even starting.
• 30:16
  Speaker 3: You know, he is nice.
• 30:18
  Speaker 7: Except for when you have a special teams coach and
• 30:20
  Speaker 7: a defensive guy become his offensive coordinator. I think that
• 30:23
  Speaker 7: brought out you know, Mac wasn't too happy, but he
• 30:26
  Speaker 7: shouldn't have been happy.
• 30:27
  Speaker 4: That's the only time we saw the bad side of
• 30:29
  Speaker 4: Mac Jones when they had that ridiculous brain.
• 30:32
  Speaker 5: And he will always remember.
• 30:35
  Speaker 7: Yeah, I can't think of somebody beyond that, you know,
• 30:38
  Speaker 7: I try to keep on the sunny side. Trelon's the
• 30:40
  Speaker 7: only one that came to my mind. Who you know
• 30:42
  Speaker 7: when he he if you gave him, if you won
• 30:45
  Speaker 7: power Ball, it'd be a dollar two two too.
• 30:47
  Speaker 3: I'll tell you what, though, Dre, I'll meet you halfway.
• 30:49
  Speaker 4: Because he played great in Super Bowl thirty nine, in
• 30:53
  Speaker 4: that loss to the Patriots, and he was still throwing
• 30:56
  Speaker 4: it in our face and a loss, what do you
• 30:58
  Speaker 4: have like nine catches for Buck twenty two, which was insane.
• 31:02
  Speaker 4: A lot of people thought he wasn't gonna be healthy
• 31:04
  Speaker 4: enough to even play, and he was great in that game.
• 31:07
  Speaker 4: But I remember him after the game where it was like,
• 31:09
  Speaker 4: you thought I wasn't gonna play. I told Job's gonna play.
• 31:12
  Speaker 4: That was after a loss. So yeah, in his playing days,
• 31:16
  Speaker 4: had he won it all, absolutely he would throw it.
• 31:18
  Speaker 7: And he played injured. He played injured that game, so
• 31:20
  Speaker 7: that was a high point for him. A couple of
• 31:23
  Speaker 7: couple of low line heyres, thanks so much for taking
• 31:25
  Speaker 7: the call. We're gonna work on Willis to see if
• 31:27
  Speaker 7: he might be able to travel west, you know, and
• 31:29
  Speaker 7: be spirited out there on the on the left coast.
• 31:32
  Speaker 4: I appreciate that. Drey, good stuff, buddy, have a good
• 31:36
  Speaker 4: evening there. He is Andre. I'm not gonna say in
• 31:38
  Speaker 4: u mass anymore. I didn't follow that. So he's in
• 31:41
  Speaker 4: a part of Massachusetts that you wouldn't say, is you
• 31:45
  Speaker 4: mass That's interesting.
• 31:48
  Speaker 3: Hmmm. He's like, no, no, no, no, no, you Mass. That's for
• 31:51
  Speaker 3: the other side. I'm on this side. That's that you Mass.
• 31:54
  Speaker 8: I don't even know if I can play on Massachusetts
• 31:56
  Speaker 8: on a map.
• 31:57
  Speaker 3: Really, you don't think you could. I think you could.
• 32:01
  Speaker 3: I'll tell you what though.
• 32:02
  Speaker 4: Everybody struggles on some portion of the map, almost everybody
• 32:06
  Speaker 4: unless you were you know, you just loved homework or
• 32:08
  Speaker 4: something in school. But if you just put a map
• 32:12
  Speaker 4: in front of me, there's gonna be a say it
• 32:13
  Speaker 4: might be the East Coast, like the little tiny states.
• 32:17
  Speaker 8: Like Delaware, Rhode Island, Connecticut, or.
• 32:20
  Speaker 4: Like Middle America, you know, like the very middle and
• 32:24
  Speaker 4: just one on top of the other, all the way down,
• 32:26
  Speaker 4: like there might be one where you're like the Mississippi
• 32:32
  Speaker 4: Georgia thing, you know, Are you sure?
• 32:35
  Speaker 3: Are you sure?
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: You know?
• 32:37
  Speaker 6: So?
• 32:38
  Speaker 4: I might I want to do that here sometime on
• 32:40
  Speaker 4: the show The Fifty State Pop Quiz. We got a
• 32:44
  Speaker 4: lot going on here coming up next, and feel free
• 32:47
  Speaker 4: to check in. Malard Militia love being interactive with you.
• 32:49
  Speaker 4: We'll work in some calls as we go forward here.
• 32:52
  Speaker 4: Coming up next, two teams with high expectations. All of
• 32:58
  Speaker 4: a sudden, which one are you buying stock in more?
• 33:01
  Speaker 3: We'll get to that.
• 33:02
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• 33:04
  Speaker 4: us right here on Fox Sports Radio.