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  Speaker 1: Back to it we go, and we begin this hour
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  Speaker 1: with that Dallas Cowboys win in doubt. Throw the Cowboys
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  Speaker 1: out because the Cowboys are good for business in these parts,
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  Speaker 1: and so that is what we're going to do. And
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  Speaker 1: there's one storyline that is bigger than all the other
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  Speaker 1: storylines with the Dallas Cowboys and involves a certain disgruntled
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  Speaker 1: wide receiver. So if you haven't been following this story,
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  Speaker 1: the Cowboys recently while we were away placed the non
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  Speaker 1: exclusive franchise tag on the back of George Pickens by George,
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  Speaker 1: which means that if you would like to get your
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  Speaker 1: hands on George Pickens, you can do that. You can
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  Speaker 1: negotiate a contract with Pickens. However, you got to read
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  Speaker 1: the fine print However, the Cowboys would have a chance
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  Speaker 1: to match any offer sheet that George Pickens agrees to,
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  Speaker 1: all right, so if not, if not, then the team
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  Speaker 1: that signs him would have to give the Cowboys not one,
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  Speaker 1: but two first round draft picks as compensation. So that's
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  Speaker 1: the deal on that. Now, if you've not been following
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  Speaker 1: the nitty gritty on this, and perhaps not, the state
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  Speaker 1: funded NFL media saying that they do not expect they
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  Speaker 1: do not expect George Pickens to sign the franchise tag
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  Speaker 1: anytime soon, that he's going to drag this thing out.
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  Speaker 1: As is normal protocol, you sign at the very last
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  Speaker 1: minute if you're going to sign that at all, and
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  Speaker 1: that's how this goes. You crank up the drama. O rama.
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  Speaker 1: Now we hear the Pickens camp, the Pickens camp. We're
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  Speaker 1: going to try to find a team, play the match game.
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  Speaker 1: Try to find a team that is a match for
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  Speaker 1: George Pickens on a long term contract, and then it
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  Speaker 1: will be up to the Cowboys whether or not they
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  Speaker 1: want Pickens to actually leave or not, and how desperate
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  Speaker 1: they are to keep George Pickens. So that is a
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  Speaker 1: good jumping off point. Let us discuss the question is
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  Speaker 1: How could George Pickens crowbar his way out of Jerry's World?
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  Speaker 1: How does he get out of Dallas? How does he
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  Speaker 1: get out of the cowboy locker room? So my observations,
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  Speaker 1: I got fruit of the loom, whole foods, and hunger games,
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  Speaker 1: and we will combine all of these things together and
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  Speaker 1: we're going to eat our own dog food, is what
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  Speaker 1: we're going to do. You know, that's an old, old
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  Speaker 1: business saying you got to eat your own dog food.
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  Speaker 1: You got to consume your own product and all that,
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  Speaker 1: and a lot of people don't do that anymore. We
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  Speaker 1: do consume our own dog food, though, we do. We
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  Speaker 1: do on the show. So number one, all right, So
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  Speaker 1: don't let the franchise tag hornswaggle. You do not allow
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  Speaker 1: the franchise tag to commit scullduggery because it's not handcuffs.
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  Speaker 1: It's this idea. Oh it's a handcuff situation. It's not handcuffs.
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  Speaker 1: It is like a suggestion box that is decorated and
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  Speaker 1: wrapped in barbed wire. That's what it is. So the
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  Speaker 1: playbook for the Great Escape, they get very traumatic. The
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  Speaker 1: Great Escape from Jerry's World. You start by poking the bear.
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  Speaker 1: You must poke the bear. You know it. You raise
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  Speaker 1: a hullabaloo. You got to raise a hullabaloo. You become
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  Speaker 1: the mosquito that is buzzing around Jerry Jones while he's
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  Speaker 1: sitting on those tremendously expensive Egyptian sheets that he sleeps
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  Speaker 1: on there at three in the morning, and you just
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  Speaker 1: bother him. And we've seen this before. It's a common movie.
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  Speaker 1: It's a common movie. Here, Michah Parsons, he did something similar.
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  Speaker 1: He stopped his feet, he had a conniption fit. He'd
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  Speaker 1: settled down just a little bit, banged the drama and
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  Speaker 1: all that, and suddenly Jerry flinched and traded his ass
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  Speaker 1: to Siberia to go play for the Green Bay Packers,
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  Speaker 1: the Holy Land of the Cheese Curd. And that was that.
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  Speaker 1: But Jerry for a long time, Oh now, we're gonna
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  Speaker 1: keep Michaeh Parsons, We're not gonna trade him. And then
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  Speaker 1: he did, so we know that for Jerry, chaos is
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  Speaker 1: really good. It's really really good. And they have enough
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  Speaker 1: if they were to get rid of George Pickens, they
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  Speaker 1: already have in Ceedee Lamb a top level wide receiver,
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  Speaker 1: so they can get somebody else in there. To play
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  Speaker 1: wide receiver. But Pickins has to be willing to play
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  Speaker 1: the game. You gotta play the game if you really
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  Speaker 1: want to get it. I would love the franchise tag.
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  Speaker 1: If the company I work for wants to give me,
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  Speaker 1: you know, one year of cowhard money, I'd be very
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  Speaker 1: happy at that. I would not complain. I wouldn't demand
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  Speaker 1: the trade. I would take that and have a cheshire
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  Speaker 1: cat smile to these guys, these NFL players, they bitch
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  Speaker 1: so much about to sell the franchise tag. It's such
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  Speaker 1: a such a hardship for these guys. It's so sad,
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  Speaker 1: it really is. It's like working in a sweatshop having
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  Speaker 1: to make the average of the last five years of
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  Speaker 1: players at your position or whatever it is, and in
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  Speaker 1: the of the formula is it's really difficult. I don't
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  Speaker 1: know how these guys sleep at night being franchise tag.
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  Speaker 1: My god. So anyway, George Pickens here he's got. As
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  Speaker 1: you said, play the game, send out some cryptic Instagram stories,
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  Speaker 1: you know, and send out some stuff of you wearing
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  Speaker 1: different uniforms. That's always good this time of the year. Right,
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  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, here's here's George Pickens wearing Oh look at
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  Speaker 1: it is that a is that a Raiders j oh
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  Speaker 1: he's wearing a Raiders orse. He wants to play for
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  Speaker 1: the thirds the social media posts that have the Freemi
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  Speaker 1: vibes to them, you know what I'm talking about. Yeah, So,
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  Speaker 1: and then you can go just full if you really
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  Speaker 1: want to upset Jerry Jones, you go full what I
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  Speaker 1: call food of the loom. You know those T shirts.
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  Speaker 1: I don't think they're like this anymore, but they used
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  Speaker 1: to make those T shirts that had the label, They
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  Speaker 1: had the tag on the back and it would poke
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  Speaker 1: and kind of tickle you while you wore the shirt.
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  Speaker 1: It was very annoying. So you gotta do that. You
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  Speaker 1: gotta be annoying. You got to poke and annoy Jerry
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  Speaker 1: Jones and make it uncomfortable, make it loud and messy,
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  Speaker 1: and Jerry will enjoy that for a while and then
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  Speaker 1: at some point he will no longer enjoy it. And
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  Speaker 1: that's the point of demarcation. That is the point of
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  Speaker 1: demarcation there. And as far as the window shopping, you're
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  Speaker 1: free to roam around the NFL try to work out
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  Speaker 1: a deal. You got to go to Buffalo first. Now,
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  Speaker 1: nobody really wants to live in Buffalo if they have
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  Speaker 1: a choice. But that's the team. You go in there
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  Speaker 1: as the number one option at wide receiver. They don't
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  Speaker 1: have a number they don't have a number two receiver
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  Speaker 1: in Buffalo. You go in there, get paid a ton
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  Speaker 1: of money. You got a top level quarterback. You're good
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  Speaker 1: to go. You're good to go. Patriots, they aid the
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  Speaker 1: Super Bowl. They don't have an assassin at wide receiver.
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  Speaker 1: Go to New England. Now I mentioned the Raiders. They're
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  Speaker 1: starving for anything irrelevant. If the Raiders were a show
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  Speaker 1: on Vegas on the strip, they'd be canceled because they're terrible.
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  Speaker 1: Then you got teams like the Titans who suck that
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  Speaker 1: need help, the Ravens who have a star quarterback that
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  Speaker 1: need a big time wide receiver. So George Pickens is
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  Speaker 1: the shiny toy that price. Who cares about draft picks?
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  Speaker 1: I would trade all of my draft picks. I don't
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  Speaker 1: give an f about draft picks. Now, Meanwhile, to Indianapolis
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  Speaker 1: we go. The scouting combine is oh vat e R.
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  Speaker 1: It's all over the How are we gonna go on
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  Speaker 1: with our lives? All those nugs, all the nuggets, all week,
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  Speaker 1: every day. Fifteen thousand stories popping out of the scouting
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  Speaker 1: Combine with its corporate sponsor there in Indianapolis, all those
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  Speaker 1: NFL people running up expense accounts at the two or
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  Speaker 1: three high and restaurants in downtown Indianapolis. So the combine
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  Speaker 1: is over, another year is in the books. Another one
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  Speaker 1: bites the dust, Another one bites the dust. So I
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  Speaker 1: don't know how much you consumed of the combine. Very little,
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  Speaker 1: very little I had. I will admit I had it
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  Speaker 1: on in the background. I think it was Thursday. I
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  Speaker 1: think it was Thursday. I had it on the background.
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  Speaker 1: I did not really pay attention to it, so that
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  Speaker 1: that's it. And I did monitor some of the names
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  Speaker 1: that are being hyped up, for example, if you did
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  Speaker 1: not partake in the NFL Scouting Combine consuming it. From
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  Speaker 1: what I understand, I could be completely wrong about this,
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  Speaker 1: but from what I understand, the two studs that got
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  Speaker 1: the most buzz are Notre Dame running back, Jeremiah Love.
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  Speaker 1: That's the name of a star, JEREMYA.
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  Speaker 2: Love.
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  Speaker 1: That's a star's name. You better not suck. And your
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  Speaker 1: named Jeremiah Love. That's a big time name. The Golden Domer.
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  Speaker 1: And then you've got Cincinnati wide receiver Jeff Caldwell, who
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  Speaker 1: Jeff Caldwell, who had scouts drooling at the combine. You
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  Speaker 1: might want to see a doctor, all right, So let's
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  Speaker 1: discuss this the question what are your takeaways from the
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  Speaker 1: nuggets that came out of the scouting combine? What are
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  Speaker 1: the big takeaways on this? So the annual Underwear Olympics,
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  Speaker 1: the closing ceremonies, which includes something with rich Eisen who
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  Speaker 1: used to work here back in the day. But the
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  Speaker 1: whole thing has been commandeered, and in the last fifteen years.
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  Speaker 1: This is not new, this is not a fresh take,
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  Speaker 1: but the last fifteen years, this thing has been commandeered.
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  Speaker 1: It's a marketing junket. It's a marketing juncket. They roll
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  Speaker 1: out the runway, you got the red carpet. They shine
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  Speaker 1: the spotlight on the players that are entering the NFL
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  Speaker 1: and they parade them out. It's like fashion re in Paris.
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  Speaker 1: It's fashion week, and you know they're wearing not shoulder pads,
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  Speaker 1: They're wearing spandex. But that's it. That's what they did.
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  Speaker 1: They got bright colored cleats on, they shoes, the whole
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  Speaker 1: thing and they run around and they shake it took us.
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  Speaker 1: That's how they do it right there boom on fashion Week,
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  Speaker 1: NFL's Fashion Week, the NFL executives poking proud. They bring
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  Speaker 1: in their trainers and their doctors and they get all
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  Speaker 1: the measurements and then the wingspans, and it's kind of
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  Speaker 1: like going to Whole Foods and buying a cantilope. They're
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  Speaker 1: measuring it like it's a cantilope at Whole Foods, except
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  Speaker 1: their human beings. And so Jeremiah Love and this guy
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  Speaker 1: Jeff Calwell, who I've never heard of. They won the
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  Speaker 1: weekend allegedly from what I read. Maybe I read it wrong,
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  Speaker 1: but they won the weekend. They look like Marvel superheroes.
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  Speaker 1: I'm sure they do Mazeletov. They look great. And it's
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  Speaker 1: the NFL going full Hollywood. Hooray for Hollywood, Hooray for Hollywood.
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  Speaker 1: It's Warner Brothers with the forty yard dash, is what
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  Speaker 1: it is. And the draft is at this point, and
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  Speaker 1: it's been this way as long as the draftsman. And
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  Speaker 1: they try to add some sexy women and they add
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  Speaker 1: some fireworks and everyone's got a sob story and the draft,
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  Speaker 1: you know, they all came from bad parts of town.
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  Speaker 1: They all had no money. If anybody is drafted who
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  Speaker 1: has a lot of money, they're shamed. What's wrong with you? Anyway?
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  Speaker 1: The point of all this is the NFL draft is
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  Speaker 1: when you break it down to its essence and you
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  Speaker 1: go back to bedrock. It's old dudes reading names off
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  Speaker 1: a card. That's what the NFL draft is. There's nothing
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  Speaker 1: exciting about it. Nothing. Let's just have somebody walk up
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  Speaker 1: to a podium and read names. That's it. That's all.
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  Speaker 1: Now they can add fog machines. They've tried that, hype videos,
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  Speaker 1: you know, the whole thing. And this is important. You
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  Speaker 1: gotta start pumping up. This is the biggest event of
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  Speaker 1: the offseason. You got to pump up these players. Send
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  Speaker 1: out the press, release the hype videos, the dramatic piano
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  Speaker 1: music in the background. You gotta have that. He's built like,
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  Speaker 1: hey man, you know that old thing. You know, it's
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  Speaker 1: it's the It might as well be produced by the
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  Speaker 1: people of Tutsi role who make that fluffy stuff cott
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  Speaker 1: in candy with the throw some lollypops in there, some
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  Speaker 1: Tutsi pops. You're good to go. Here's the reality check.
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  Speaker 1: Though nobody knows anything nobody knows anything. When it comes
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  Speaker 1: to the NFL draft, it is a spin of the
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  Speaker 1: roulette wheel. You draft because somebody looks like the Incredible Hulk.
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  Speaker 1: They've got the measurables that you like, and that don't
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  Speaker 1: guarantee anything. You're not gonna be a superstar because you
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  Speaker 1: have the measurables. And as the old line goes from
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  Speaker 1: back in the day, you can have the body of Tarzan.
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  Speaker 1: But if you don't play like Tarzan, if you play
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  Speaker 1: like yeah, it's not well, it's not well there you
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  Speaker 1: go play like Jane. So you don't know. What you
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  Speaker 1: don't know is the point of all this. And you
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  Speaker 1: don't know what you got until you open the box.
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  Speaker 1: What's in the box, you don't know. Sometimes it's a
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  Speaker 1: franchise level player and sometimes it's a honeysuckle turkey. We
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  Speaker 1: cuts both ways, all right, now, final point. As the
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  Speaker 1: event of twenty twenty six came to an end, I
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  Speaker 1: did notice the chatter that there are many NFL staffers
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  Speaker 1: who think they're on thin ice. Now why is that?
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  Speaker 1: Well a popular topic by popular people. The scouting combine,
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  Speaker 1: artificial intelligence, Oh no, yes, and that it is spreading
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  Speaker 1: like a fungus, not the fungus hut, but it's spreading
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  Speaker 1: like a fungus there. And the question whether or not
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  Speaker 1: AI not Alan Irison, but AI will knock jobs for scouts.
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  Speaker 1: There'll be fewer scouts and there'll be less coaching job.
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  Speaker 1: And that's that because of AI and the many of
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  Speaker 1: the jobs that are currently done, the low level jobs
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  Speaker 1: in the NFL are jobs that could easily be replaced
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  Speaker 1: with AI and would be more accurate. And so this
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  Speaker 1: is the concern that you have with people who work
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  Speaker 1: in the NFL who are trying to make their way
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  Speaker 1: up the ladder, that the ladder will be chopped down
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  Speaker 1: and they're going to fall down. So let us discuss this.
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  Speaker 1: The question on this one, how do you see this
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  Speaker 1: AI takeover of the NFL working out? All right? So
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  Speaker 1: my first thought is I absolutely love this story. Now, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: you hate in my job. Eventually we'll go there'll be
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  Speaker 1: AI here. I'll lose my job the AI. I'm convinced
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  Speaker 1: of that at some point. I believe that to be true.
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  Speaker 1: That said this, having covered the NFL for years back
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  Speaker 1: when they had those fat guys that used to play
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  Speaker 1: that smoked cigars and wore Hawaiian shirts, and they were
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  Speaker 1: the scouts with the radar guns and all that and
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  Speaker 1: the stop watches. Like that crowd, they got replaced. Almost
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  Speaker 1: all of those guys got replaced by the Ivy League crowd.
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  Speaker 1: The analytical crowd came in. They flooded the league with spreadsheets,
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  Speaker 1: and now they're the ones that are now in danger
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  Speaker 1: of getting eaten by their own creation. How great is that?
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  Speaker 1: The irony is just outstanding. So the same analytical crew
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  Speaker 1: that took the NFL by storm, those nerds that flooded
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  Speaker 1: the NFL with all this stuff, they built this monster
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  Speaker 1: in the lab where you put in all the numbers
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  Speaker 1: and all that stuff, and now they're in danger of
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  Speaker 1: being escorted out of the building with one cardboard box
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  Speaker 1: with all their stuff in it. I've made that walk,
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  Speaker 1: by the way. It's not a fun walk. It's not
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  Speaker 1: a fun walk. I've made that walk before. But they
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  Speaker 1: sold everyone on process over people. This was the argumenta
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  Speaker 1: process was more important than people. We don't care about
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  Speaker 1: the human beings about the process. Okay, great, wonderful. Well
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  Speaker 1: oh yeah yeah, Now the process is starting to replace
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  Speaker 1: the people. It's the corporate hunger games, the corporate hunger
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  Speaker 1: Games of the NFL, and maybe the odds be ever
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  Speaker 1: in your favor, Chad from Cornell or Mike from Harvard
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  Speaker 1: or Steve from Yale or whoever. Good luck on that right.
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  Speaker 1: And eventually it doesn't happen right away. I know in
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  Speaker 1: radio it happens right away. But in other businesses, the
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  Speaker 1: NFL's got a lot of money, so they can afford
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  Speaker 1: to have no show jobs, which these jobs pretty much
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  Speaker 1: are no show jobs and all that stuff. Heckt The
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  Speaker 1: Vikings GM who just got let go, was supposedly drafting
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  Speaker 1: players based on Pro Football Focus or whatever it was,
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  Speaker 1: and that was who he was drafting based on what
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  Speaker 1: they recommended, rather than actually doing any scouting, which is
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  Speaker 1: essentially what this would be. AI says to draft this guy. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: it says, we'll draft that guy because that's what AI said.
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  Speaker 1: And then if anybody questions it, you say, well, the
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  Speaker 1: AI said the drafted, So just blame AI. Okay, change
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  Speaker 1: aies they okay, we'll change Aiyes, they just do it.
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  Speaker 1: They whatever they're told. So. But the cost cutting does
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  Speaker 1: eventually happen. It happens in every business, and it's it's
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  Speaker 1: like they payroll slash and burn would be what this is.
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  Speaker 1: And there's so many more coaches now than there used
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  Speaker 1: to be in all of these sports, so many more
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  Speaker 1: now you can trim the fat away and I do
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  Speaker 1: a little slash and burn situation, get rid of some
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  Speaker 1: of these guys. And that's corporate America. One O, one man.
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  Speaker 1: That's I've worked at big corporations for my entire adull
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  Speaker 1: life and that's how they operate. But if the robot
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  Speaker 1: can right the Scouty report, then why have the scout right?
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  Speaker 1: If the robot If AI can do what the nerds
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  Speaker 1: can do, but they can do it quicker and they
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  Speaker 1: can do it better, then what's the point. So my
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  Speaker 1: point is my thing is this, Like AI is a
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  Speaker 1: fine tool. I don't I'm not against it. The problem
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  Speaker 1: is when you start running these things like it's a
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  Speaker 1: Madden franchise, you're just setting it up in franchise mode
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  Speaker 1: and that's that and all. And the problem is that,
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  Speaker 1: and then it's like they try to make this like
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  Speaker 1: a science fair, which is also not great. It's like
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  Speaker 1: a science fair. It should be a bar fight, not
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  Speaker 1: a science fair. As far as I can, the NFL
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  Speaker 1: is concerned there, and AI can measure the wingspan. They
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: can do that. They can say, well, how many jumping
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: jacks can this guy do? Okay, he can do that many.
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: That sounds good. Can this guy do the old flip?
• 18:33
  Speaker 1: I don't know if he can do the flip? Let's
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: find out, well, lask AI and all that, but he
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: cannot measure. This is the thing AI cannot measure and
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: will never be able to measure, is whether or not
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: player X has any guts or he has that. And
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: you can't measure who's going to panic in front of
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: seventy five thousand people on a Sunday night in the
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: fourth quarter because they have tight Tukas syndrome. There's no
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: AI program that will tell you that it's going to happen, right,
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: but it does happen, and oftentimes you find that information
• 19:07
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• 19:13
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• 19:17
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• 19:20
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• 20:02
  Speaker 1: So our lead this hour from Canna City, the home
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: of the Ben Mallard Chicken Fingers in Kansas City, right
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: there the landing. We had a great Mallard meet and
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: greet couple of years back there. It was awesome, had
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: a couple of Mallard meet and greets in Kansas City
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: over the years. Well, Travis Kelcey, Yeah, did he retire? No,
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: he did not retire. He did not. Supposedly, The latest
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: is Travis Kelcey and the chiefs are in deep conversation
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: about the plans for the twenty twenty six season. Have
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: you been following this now because you have a life,
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: you're not following this? Let me fill you in, So
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: have you missed it now? Kansas City expects Travis Kelcey
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: to play, supposedly, although they haven't gotten the official word.
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: Oh the drama, so they haven't gotten the official word.
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: They want a decision by the end of the week.
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: By the end of the week, and they wanted to
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: says okay, so good okay. Now that would give them
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: if Kelsey decides to say X nay on the football
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: a that would give them time to go out and
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: turn over some rocks and try to find another tight
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: end and look at the draft, the twenty six NFL
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: Draft if they need to find a Success's kind of
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: obvious there. But wait, there's more as every great infomercial,
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: the late night staple, the classic. But wait, there's more
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: from Ron Poppel, who was supposed to appear on my
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: podcast and he decided not to do it and then died.
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: How dare him anyway? State funded NFL Media. State funded
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: NFL Media tells us that the Chiefs General Manager, Brett Veach,
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: Brett Veach the GM there now he wants to make
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: sure that Travis Kelcey is all in if he does
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: end up playing in twenty twenty six That is a
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: good jumping off point. Let us discuss the question the Chiefs,
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: according to this report, saying they want full commitment from
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: Travis Kelcey for the twenty twenty six NFL season. How
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: are you interpreting this? So I've got subpoena, jello salad,
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: and dodgeball, and we will combine all of these things
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: together and we are going to have a delicious grilled
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: cheese sandwich. Is what we're gonna have, with the cheese
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: on the outside and the inside of the grilled cheese. Now,
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: a looking at the situation in Kansas City, the Chief's
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: Kingdom as they call it, from thirty thousand feet looking
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: down here and then getting a little closer, and a
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: little closer and a little closer. I see a house divided.
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: Oh the drama I do. I see a house divided.
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: To me, this one doesn't pass the smell test. Now
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: to the average consumer, or you'll say, wow, what are
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: you talking about, Mallard? You have big donkey. You don't
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: know what you're talking about. There is just nothing. I
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: think there's something there because I have a better schnaz
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: than you do. I can smell. I can smell better
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: than you so this smells like the scent of passive
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: aggressive behavior. See power play, power play, if you will
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: at one arrowhead drive there before they move to Kansas.
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: Now the chief she am here, Brett Veach, the man
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: of the hour. He's out there playing mister nice guy.
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: It's good cop, bad cop. He's being the nice guy,
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: you know, good cop and all that. However, if you
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: listen between the words, if you read between the lines,
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: shall we what do you say here when the jam
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: the general manager of an NFL team comes out and
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: announces says, listen, I need this player to be a
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: thousand percent all in. I need this player to be there.
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: That is not a compliment. That is not a compliment.
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: That is like issuing a subpoena, is what it is.
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: It's like, hey, think about seriously, when you peel back
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: the onion, what do you get? Right? You don't have
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: to ask the guy who's already in the gym at
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: six in the morning if he's committed to the team.
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: So by doing this, the obvious conclusion you connect the
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: dots on this one. And the obvious connection is that, listen,
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: you asked this guy who's spent the last couple of
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: years jet setting where it was the era's tour, traveling
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: around the globe, game show, cheesy game shows, bad acting
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: with Adam Sandler, all that stuff, right, And he spent
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: more time, got more miles, more air miles than he
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: did yards his numbers, so a lead balloon. It was
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: not good. It was not good. So you know, you
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: look at the tight end five travel. Kelsey was not
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: good enough. He was multitasking and the brand and all
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: that stuff. And so the chiefs, if you want to
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: get next level dramatic, they're in the swifty standoff, if
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: you will, because that big celebrity wedding coming up in
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: the spring here and we're home, I mean not that
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: far away, right, we're closing in on that, and so
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: they need the tailor effect. The business side, they need that, right.
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: The balance sheet says, let's go for it, let's do it.
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: The football side, Yeah, the football side, see's a thirty
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: six year old or something like that, asset that's running
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: on fumes. Whatever Kelsey is, he's getting up there, and
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: the GM's essentially saying the way I use the Mallard
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: Dakota ring, the general manager Breadviach there is essentially saying, hey, Travis. Yeah,
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: it's me. I am the GM and the Chiefs. Okay, hey,
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: what's going on the rock Star Live or the first
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: Hubby of the rock Star Life? That can wait? Right,
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: So either you put the glitter away, put the glitter away, uh,
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: hit the weights and all that stuff, or go be
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: the first hubby full time. You know, it's it's an
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: awkward pickle, is what it is. There's never really a
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: good pickle, So it's an awkward pickle. But Kansas City,
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: you know, they want the after glove. The Chiefs, they
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: want to continue this as long as they can of
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: the Taylor's swift effect. However, they need an upgrade on
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: the field. That's the problem. That's the conundrum. That's the
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: conundrum right there, it's time to decide to a Hall
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: of Fame career. Blah blah blah blah blah blah blah.
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: Hadn't been a Hall of Fame level player the last
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: couple of years, though, Kelsey, and so what are you
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: gonna do? What are you gonna do? Meanwhile, speaking what
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: are you gonna do?
• 26:51
  Speaker 2: Now?
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: When I saw this, I thought, well, this must be satire,
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: this story out of Minnesota. But there's a lot of
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: stories out of Minnesota that make me roll my eyes,
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: but this one in particular. So the Vikings are window
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: shopping for a savvy veteran starting quarterback, at least a
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: former starting quarterback, so they know they need some insurance.
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: They need a little bit of insurance there for McCarthy.
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: Actually need a lot of insurance for JJ McCarthy, not
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: a little bit. A lot of insurance for JJ McCarthy.
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: And the story that was very arrogant. It was like, Wow,
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: they think that they've got such great coaches and they've
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: got justin Jefferson that they can pretty much bring in
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: any shmo and whatever dingle Berry they pick will put
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: up big numbers and lead them to victory because they've
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: got talent, they've got coaching and all that stuff. And
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: the name that popped up here, the name that popped up,
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: I saw that you see this? No Geno Smith? Geno Smith?
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: Is that not comedy? Gold? My god? So good? Yeah,
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: the Raiders car So the quarterback Gino Smith, who was
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: not very good in Seattle and approved, he wasn't very
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: good with the Raiders, and he is a person of
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: interest for the Purple people eaters. All right, question, So
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: the Vikings, if you believe the chatter, are interested in
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: Raiders quarterback Geno Smith, who will likely be released, better
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: known as fired from his job there in Vegas. So
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: how does that taste? How does that the fact that
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: the Vikings are being connected? Get your skull out right
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: now to Geno Smith. So you're telling me that's the
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: grand plan? Come on, like, that's the big Nordic reboot
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: in Minnesota. This is what you're gonna do, and you
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: JJ McCarthy, but well, we're gonna bring in Geno Smith? Really?
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: Is that right? You know what that tastes like? That
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: tastes like liverwurst and in jello salad, is what it
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: tastes like. Right, It's stomach turning. It's absolute stomach turning.
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: It's puke in your mouth. And I got nothing. I'm
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: not a Viking guy or anything like that. I'm not
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: a Viking fan, and I have friends in Minnesota and
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: all that, but my god, like, this is so over
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: the top. You want to believe that this was one
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: of those stories that was put out there by the
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: agent hoping that it leads to something, Right, that the
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: agent leaked it, and that says, hey, float the Minnesota
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: connected to Gino Smith. Maybe someone will bite there in
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: Minnesota and say that's a good idea. Now the alternative
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: is also ridonculous. Kyler Murray. Yep, fun sized quarterback Kyler Murray.
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: He comes with a booster seat. If you get him
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: in a trade, the Cardinals will throw that in the
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: booster seat. So there is that. So can you imagine
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: choosing if those are your options? You've got Kyler Murray
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: and Geno Smith. So what I'd rather have the mutant
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: fungus which is over here? Or do I want the
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: bubonic plague bacteria which is over here? Which one would
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: I like? That is such a horrific combo dish if
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: those are your options you're considering. If you're the Vikings,
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: my unsolicited advice would be to go out and get
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: Kirk Cousins and bring him back. Not that he's any good,
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: but I'd rather have him than Geno Smith or Kyler Murray.
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: At least he likes football, unlike Kyler Murray and Geno
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: Smith's just bad. At least occasionally, Kirk Cousins is halfway decent.
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: Geno Smith. You think about his signature Marmo with the Raiders,
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: it was giving the bird to Raider fans. That was it.
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: And then in Seattle, his signature moment was after the
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: first game he played against the Broncos when he gave
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: this big speech about how nobody believed in me and
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: all that, and then the rest of his time in
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: Seattle proved that those people were right by being a
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: middling quarterback. So good anyway. So that's where we are.
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: That's where we are Gino Smith. When the pocket collapses,
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: he is gift wrappeding turnovers. It's like he's Santa Claus there.
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: You get a turnover, you get a turnover, you get
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: a turnover. Good luck on that. And the decision making,
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: which melts faster than the ice over there on Lake
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: Minnetonka in April. So, and he's been bad, Genos with
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: the last year was like the new level of bad.
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: It was the new level of bad. Fewer yards, more interceptions.
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: Team was terrible. He was horrific. And so they say, well,
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: he's a bridge quarterback. I love when people say Gino
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: Smith is a bridge quarterback. It's a drawbridge to nowhere
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: with a hole in it. And that's the kind of
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: drawbridge quarterback he is. Meanwhile, to Motown. We go, we
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: get a trade. We got to trade. Hours after we
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: did a Mallard monologue. He was part of a Mallard
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: monologue about David Montgomery. He's a running back, David Montgomery.
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: He's been traded bye bye to Detroit. Say didn't want
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: to be traded. Lions trading running back David Montgomery to
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: the Houston Texans for offensive lineman Juice Scrugs. Any relation
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: to Neui Scrugs, I don't know. Juice Scrugs and a
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: couple of draft picks. Nothing really worth our time of
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: fourth round pick. If you're into fourth round draft picks,
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: I recommend a nice therapist is what I recommend. Also
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: a seventh round draft pick. Well, that's even better, and
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: that's not till twenty twenty seven. So Montgomery on the move. Question,
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: who got the better of this David Montgomery trade between
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: the Lions and the Texans. So, after eight minutes long
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: deliberation of the available information, I've seen some people saying, Wow,
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: the Lions got the better of the trade. I'm like, really,
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: I didn't see it that way. It's cute, like the
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: whole trade. It's not a big trade or anything like that.
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: Let me talk about it for a couple minutes, because
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: we talked about David Montgomery in a previous episode of
• 33:22
  Speaker 1: the show. This comes after he had said that the
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: report was he wanted out of Detroit, and he said, nah,
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: he refuted that report, and then hours later he's traded.
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: And so the winner's corner. To me, the arrow is
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: pointing towards Houston. It's a slight lean. It's not like
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: this is going to change all that much, but the
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: slight lean there. David Montgomery is not some spare part
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: that Houston found in the trunk next to the spare tire.
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: It's not that. The moment, and this is what really
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: leaned it the direction of the Texans for me, the
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: moment I saw the messaging from the Lions front office,
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: the whispers of salary cap relief and we save some
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: money getting rid of David Montgomery. That is called playing
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: dodgeball with the truth. And anytime I hear a team
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: say we got rid of this player because of the
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: salary cap, I know bull crap. I know it's bull crap.
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: It's the magic phrase that you can use to justify
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: anyone leaving your team, anything that maybe will be deemed unpopular,
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: that that might be unpopular. You know, it's the perfect boogeyman.
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: You go, yeah, but soar Cap, you have it, you
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: have it, you have it, they have it, Rabbit, you
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: have it, Salary Cap, Saburcap, and then dumb people they
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: just believe it. They accept it, they move on and
• 34:47
  Speaker 1: they say that's that. And listen, do I think Detroit
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: believes that Montgomery's cooked? Absolutely? They don't want to say that.
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: So when they say they said, ah, salary Cap, believe no.
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: If they thought he was still good, he'd be on
• 34:58
  Speaker 1: the team. Think he's done. Do you trust the Detroit Lions?
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: Do they know what they're doing? Do they know? I
• 35:07
  Speaker 1: would think he can still be at least a short
• 35:09
  Speaker 1: yardagh goal line guy and get touchdowns that way and
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: be a wrecking ball type running back David Montgomery. I
• 35:16
  Speaker 1: think he's twenty nine next season. So the Lions again,
• 35:19
  Speaker 1: the cap excuse. This is just my default programming. When
• 35:24
  Speaker 1: you hear the cap excuse, dead white dead, you're whit
• 35:28
  Speaker 1: that they are reshaping the narrative. They're they're manipulating the
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: narrative to fit it because they're a little scared. I say, well,
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: We'll just say the salvarycap, Salvy Cap, Salvycap, Salvy Cap,
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: Sava cap, salbarcap.
• 35:43
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• 35:46
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• 35:49
  Speaker 1: Are these the guys we're going to have played the game?
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: I don't know, I don't know what we'll see. I
• 35:52
  Speaker 1: guess they want to play, so we'll have him play.
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: All right, let's introduce them real quick here, and let's
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: see who do we have. You've got D Block in Miami. Hello,
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: D Block in Miami. Welcome sir, Good morning, sir.
• 36:09
  Speaker 3: Happy Tuesday, Happy.
• 36:10
  Speaker 1: Too, Happy Tuesday. This is a very important game to me.
• 36:14
  Speaker 1: You're not gonna you're not gonna futch around with this, right,
• 36:16
  Speaker 1: You're gonna try. You know your sports, You're ready to go. Yes,
• 36:20
  Speaker 1: I'm one hundred.
• 36:21
  Speaker 2: Let's go on.
• 36:22
  Speaker 1: And what is your level of confidence that you're going
• 36:25
  Speaker 1: to win the game.
• 36:27
  Speaker 4: Let's do this?
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: Okay? All right? Who would you like to partner up
• 36:30
  Speaker 1: with their D block? You got me Ben or the
• 36:32
  Speaker 1: Kooper Loop? All right, it's a good choice by you.
• 36:36
  Speaker 1: And we have a Jed who actually was online to
• 36:40
  Speaker 1: play Mallards Mount of money. Hello, Jed, welcome back.
• 36:44
  Speaker 2: I mean ice is a metaphor for Mitchell Chris that
• 36:46
  Speaker 2: feat of me, am I not supposed to go to
• 36:48
  Speaker 2: the agency.
• 36:49
  Speaker 1: Or what all right? Come downsor Cooper?
• 36:52
  Speaker 3: Obit?
• 36:53
  Speaker 1: Are you whoever wasn't midches?
• 36:54
  Speaker 2: I'm sorry? I like you?
• 36:55
  Speaker 1: Other guys hockey? Okay? What are the category? Okay? Okay?
• 37:04
  Speaker 4: This is Malard's mountain of money, the method Man edition
• 37:08
  Speaker 4: method Man, not not meth Man, Jed method Man. He
• 37:13
  Speaker 4: turned fifty five years old on Monday. Oh yes, double Nicchols.
• 37:18
  Speaker 1: That's right.
• 37:18
  Speaker 4: The categories are protect your neck cream or c R
• 37:24
  Speaker 4: E A M. I believe that's cash rules everything around me.
• 37:30
  Speaker 1: I love that song. Judgment Day and still on it?
• 37:35
  Speaker 1: And de block on the air. Hold on a second,
• 37:39
  Speaker 1: you punch this guy and d block? Hello, d Block?
• 37:41
  Speaker 1: Which category would you like? D block? All right? And Jed?
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  Speaker 1: How about you?
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  Speaker 2: Ay?
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  Speaker 1: I is near's Judgment Day? All right? All right? Gentlemen,
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  Speaker 1: you say, do not hang up or you will be
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  Speaker 1: you will lose. Do not curse or you will lose.
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  Speaker 1: So those are the rules. Very simple rule. Not that deep.
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  Speaker 1: It's not that deep. Okay. We are maulments away, minutes
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  Speaker 1: away from having this amazing competition. You got Jedhuo fled
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  Speaker 1: from the Redneck Riviera and then d Blocks in Mimy.
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  Speaker 1: It's an all Florida matchup, a Floridian matchup here, so
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  Speaker 1: we will guarantee someone from Florida is going to win
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  Speaker 1: this game. Someone from Florida's gonna win the game. You've
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  Speaker 1: got Jed who fled with Coop. The team is gonna win.
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  Speaker 1: D Block in Miami and myself and we will get
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  Speaker 2: Now, Malor's Mountain of money. Do you have what it
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  Speaker 2: takes to get to the top. Probably not.
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  Speaker 1: Let's get right back to the game. The matchup is set.
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  Speaker 1: D Block is in Miami, Miami, Miami, and he's teamed
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  Speaker 1: up with with me and he's gonna play. He's talking
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  Speaker 1: to someone else right now, but he's on the air,
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  Speaker 1: and we have Jed who fled? Hello, Jed, Okay, I'll
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  Speaker 1: put you on hold.
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  Speaker 4: Man.
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  Speaker 1: That's a good point. Chobytreat okay, all right, let's do it.
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  Speaker 1: Here we go. It's the Method Man edition and d
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  Speaker 1: Block you picked cream? Yes, all right, very good. These
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  Speaker 1: athletes all held out for more money. We put forty
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  Speaker 1: five seconds on the clock. Are you ready, d Block? Yes, sir,
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  Speaker 1: all right, let's do it. Here we go. Quarterback He
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  Speaker 1: just came out of retirement to play for the Colts
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  Speaker 1: this year at the end of the year. Yes, all
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  Speaker 1: time NFL leading rusher for the Dallas Cowboys. Yes, Pittsburgh
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  Speaker 1: Steeler running back. He missed an entire year to go
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  Speaker 1: hang out in your town of Miami and right, Jet
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  Speaker 1: skis Yes, the greatest left handed pitcher for the Dodgers.
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  Speaker 1: Played with the Brooklyn Dodgers, also the La Dodgers. Jewish guy, Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: good job, but you Chiefs linebacker. Currently he's with the Chiefs.
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  Speaker 1: Defensive star held out for a big contract a couple
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  Speaker 1: of years ago. Generic name five guy. He coached the
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  Speaker 1: Washington Wizards for a while.
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  Speaker 4: Coach he got Yeah, too late, too late, too late.
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  Speaker 4: Chris Jones was the chances Yeah yeah, alright, alright, uh jee,
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  Speaker 4: I'm there all right, clip with jed U. We have
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  Speaker 4: judgment days that correct, Yes, it is alright, alright. These
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  Speaker 4: athletes will be Hall of Fame eligible next year. So
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  Speaker 4: twenty twenty seven, they will be Hall of Fame eligible.
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  Speaker 4: H forty five seconds on the clock. Let's begin.
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  Speaker 3: Uh.
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  Speaker 4: Super Bowl winning quarterback for the Pittsburgh Steelers. Yes, this
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  Speaker 4: guy was the power forward for the Clippers during the
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  Speaker 4: Lob City days. Yes, this guy was the catcher for
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  Speaker 4: the Giants like forever.
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  Speaker 1: Yes.
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  Speaker 4: Uh, this guy was a cornerback for the Seattle Seahawks
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  Speaker 4: during the Legion of boom Era.
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  Speaker 1: Uh. Richer yep, arm yep. Uh.
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  Speaker 4: This guy beat cancer. He was a pitcher for the
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  Speaker 4: Red Sox and the Cubs. One World Series with both
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  Speaker 4: of them. Chris, No, all right, we'll skip that one.
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  Speaker 4: This guy had the same all right. He was with
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  Speaker 4: the seventy six ers. Originally he won finals MVP with
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  Speaker 4: the Warriors. O.
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  Speaker 1: Man, how many was that? Lorena not good? Won? No,
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  Speaker 1: it was one very sort of sheet. Look at that.
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  Speaker 1: Oh my god, Ena, Oh my god, we're tired. All right, there,
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  Speaker 1: we'll go, all right. I was trying to come up
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  Speaker 1: with ways he kind of came up with answer to this. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: you're you're a woman. Okay, calm down, let's see d block.
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  Speaker 1: We have protect your neck and still on it, protected neck,
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  Speaker 1: all right, protect your neck very good? Are these fleets
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  Speaker 1: all had major neck injuries? Major neck injuries? Are you ready? Yes?
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  Speaker 1: All right? For forty five seconds of the clock where
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  Speaker 1: we did first and last name, and we are on
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  Speaker 1: our way and go here we go, all right. Colts
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  Speaker 1: quarterback who played for the Broncos at the end of
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  Speaker 1: his career, won a Super Bowl. Come on, uh, the
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  Speaker 1: playmaker for the Cowboys. Yes, Cecil's son baseball player, played
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  Speaker 1: for the Brewers and the Tigers. Did a lot of homeboutfield. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: former Pittsburgh senior defensive back. He's a loudmouth on ESPN.
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  Speaker 1: Now he's a talking head. He does a podcast. He
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  Speaker 1: thinks he has answered all wise problems. No, not Shannon,
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  Speaker 1: but the other brother who played for the Packers. Yes, good,
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  Speaker 1: you a third base third baseman.
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  Speaker 4: Alright, alright, alright, Jed here, all right, Jed, we have
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  Speaker 4: still on it.
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  Speaker 1: Uh.
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  Speaker 4: These athletes are some of the oldest. These are some
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  Speaker 4: of the oldest all stars of all time. All right,
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  Speaker 4: forty five seconds on the clock. Let's begin. He's the
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  Speaker 4: king on the Lakers right now, Yes, the all time
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  Speaker 4: hit king. Yes, this guy was the Sandman closer for
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  Speaker 4: the Yankees. This guy was a quarterback for the Baltimore Ravens.
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  Speaker 4: He won a Super Bowl with them. He's still playing
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  Speaker 4: in the NFL.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, yeah, all right.
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  Speaker 4: Guess guys a left fielder for the Red Sox. He
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  Speaker 4: played twenty three seasons back in the day the three
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  Speaker 4: thou and hits. All right, this guy was a point guard.
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  Speaker 4: This guy was a point guard for the Celtics in
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  Speaker 4: the fifties.
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  Speaker 1: Jed choked. Jed who fled choked?
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  Speaker 4: I'm absolutely means that.
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  Speaker 1: Joe Flacco, Joe de Block, you won, d Block. You
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  Speaker 1: gotta go the deckad, you gotta go the deck it,
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  Speaker 1: you gotta go the decade. Good jump by you, d
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  Speaker 1: Block shot you took down Jed who fled?
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  Speaker 2: Jed?
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  Speaker 1: How embarrassed?
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  Speaker 3: What do you?
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  Speaker 1: What do you? What is that?
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  Speaker 4: Don't know?
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  Speaker 1: What are you yelling about? What do you?
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  Speaker 2: I said you go back and check it.
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  Speaker 1: I definitely said, Joe, No, you did not say you
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  Speaker 1: did not say you said John, you said name. I
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  Speaker 1: think he said name Jim. Even if you even if
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  Speaker 1: you did, there wasn't enough points, even if you did
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  Speaker 1: see that. All right, shut up about g Block anyone
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  Speaker 1: you want to thank d Block for the win. Unbelievable
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  Speaker 1: when Gobar is the whole city in Chicago, all right,
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  Speaker 1: all of Chicago. Look at that. He's in Miami, his
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  Speaker 1: heart's back in Chicago. There