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Hour 2 - It's the Law! · The Ben Maller Show

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Speaker 1: We'll see coming up next on this show lot Murray
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Speaker 1: of the Athletic will be here talking about my guy
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Speaker 1: Kawhi Leonard dropping another forty five spots tonight against the
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Speaker 1: Utah Jazz. Okay, I know it's just Utah, but they
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Speaker 1: needed it. It was a close game late in the
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Speaker 1: fourth quarter and he had twenty of his forty five
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Speaker 1: points there. Murray just leaving into a dome. Plus, we'll
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Speaker 1: talk Lakers Yannis, who's being traded. But first I want
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Speaker 1: to try something out. I think this is the third
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Speaker 1: time I've done it, and I develop this doing these
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Speaker 1: solo shows, and I call it Adam's NFL ranking matchups
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Speaker 1: something like that. I don't know. I want to go
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Speaker 1: back in time here, long before we had the benefit
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Speaker 1: of the NFL Red Zone or NFL Sunday ticket, Back
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Speaker 1: before we could watch any game we wanted, Back when
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Speaker 1: we had to be patient. Life wasn't your personal Coca
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Speaker 1: Cola three sixty freestyle machine where you could have every
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Speaker 1: option at your fingertips. Back when you were forced to
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Speaker 1: watch whatever regional NFL game happened to be on your
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Speaker 1: local Fox or CBS station. You were at the mercy
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Speaker 1: of your program director like you are now. And whatever
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Speaker 1: local team was nearby that didn't have blackout issues because
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Speaker 1: their games actually sold out, you probably were watching their games.
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Speaker 1: These were primitive times. Dinosaurs roam the earth. I think
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Speaker 1: Loraina called, did you say that Ben ben Maller is
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Speaker 1: a dinosaur of sports radio? What type of dinosaurs? A raptor?
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Speaker 1: It's got to be a t rex. It's got to
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Speaker 1: be a t I think of like try Seratops or something.
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Speaker 1: He's a gentle giant. But back in the day, like
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Speaker 1: you couldn't choose any game you wanted to watch in
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Speaker 1: the NFL world, the world was not your oyster. There
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Speaker 1: was no octo box, where on red Zone you got
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Speaker 1: eight games going at once. That's a new sea change
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Speaker 1: in technology. So you didn't have the ability to have
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Speaker 1: it your way, like as burger king or whatever, and
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Speaker 1: it made things very difficult. You had to choose between
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Speaker 1: games you wanted to watch, and then sometimes they didn't
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Speaker 1: give you a choice. But if you had a choice,
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Speaker 1: how would you do it? How would you rank the
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Speaker 1: slate of matchups? From least interesting contest to you know,
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Speaker 1: I'd miss my firstborn son's you know birth like to
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Speaker 1: watch this football game? That type of thing. You can
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Speaker 1: base it on whatever criteria you want. Base it off.
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Speaker 1: The teams you love or you hate, the time of
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Speaker 1: day when the game is being played, who you think sucks,
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Speaker 1: who you think is great? Who's good? You just don't
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Speaker 1: enjoy watching them? Who's bad? But you actually think it's
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Speaker 1: fun to watch them? Let's power rank the matchups for
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Speaker 1: Week eighteen of the twenty twenty five NFL season. Do
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Speaker 1: we have Ben Maller to an autumn wind as a pirate?
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Speaker 2: Is that real autumn wind is a pirate blustering in
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Speaker 2: from sea with a rollicking song. He sweeps along, swaggering boisterously.
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Speaker 2: His face is weather beaten. He wears a hooded sash
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Speaker 2: with a silver a hat about his head and a
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Speaker 2: bristling black mustache.
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Speaker 1: That's pretty good. Le we keep going, Yeah, go ahead,
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Speaker 1: he grow Actually I don't want what we're going I
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Speaker 1: just want the music in the background. No, that is
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Speaker 1: pretty good. Was he a broadcaster or something or is
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Speaker 1: this his show? Let's rank them? Week eighteen Power Rankings.
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Speaker 1: So it's the final week of the season. We got
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Speaker 1: thirty two teams in the league, sixteen games. I'm gonna
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Speaker 1: start with my sixteenth least interesting matchup for me, This
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Speaker 1: game that I least care about this weekend. And you
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Speaker 1: might be so shocked by this, but I'm ranking this
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Speaker 1: the sixteenth best matchup or worst. It's my list. I
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Speaker 1: can do whatever I want. It's actually Carolina in Tampa
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Speaker 1: Bay taking on the Buccaneers. Winner wins the NFC South.
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Speaker 1: Kinda more on that coming up. There'll be the fourth spot,
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Speaker 1: the fourth seed in the NFC. The loser is out
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Speaker 1: kind of even though both teams are really losers because
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Speaker 1: like for them to have a chance to win this division.
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Speaker 1: It is one of the worst divisions in sports. I
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Speaker 1: dread this game though, and it's on Saturday, so we're
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Speaker 1: gonna get it out of the way quickly one thirty
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Speaker 1: pm Pacific kickoff. I think I'm a Panthers fan, that's
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Speaker 1: the problem here. And I know Payinne and I know
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Speaker 1: horrible soul crushing losses, and I expect my Carolina Panthers
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Speaker 1: to let me down one more time. Do y'all remember
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Speaker 1: the Cleveland Browns fan named Scott Ensminger who requested his
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Speaker 1: pallbearers to wear Brown's uniforms and gear when they lowered
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Speaker 1: him into his graves so the Browns could technically let
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Speaker 1: him down one last time. Wow, that was a big deal.
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Speaker 1: That was in twenty thirteen now, But my Panthers, that's
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Speaker 1: my life. I've been living in hell the past ten years,
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Speaker 1: especially ever since Cam Newton ran away from jumping on
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Speaker 1: his own fumble in the Super Bowl, which was kind
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Speaker 1: of the beginning of the downward spiral into the depths
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Speaker 1: of the fiery abyss that Panthers fans call home at
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Speaker 1: Bank of America Stadium, this nightmare. We've adjusted to the
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Speaker 1: heat of our hellish fate over the years, kind of
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Speaker 1: like how you adjust to moving to a warmer climate.
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Speaker 1: But I don't know if I can bear to watch
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Speaker 1: them loose to the Buccaneers, who have been going the
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Speaker 1: wrong way for months. They've lost seven of eight, yet
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Speaker 1: somehow they get a victory over the Panthers, and the
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Speaker 1: Saints beat the Falcons, and Tampa Bay is in like,
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Speaker 1: do you know how pathetic this is? The Panthers are
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Speaker 1: considered to be having their greatest stretch of football since
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Speaker 1: twenty seventeen, and yet a team that has completely fallen
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Speaker 1: apart in the Bucks like they're walking the plank themselves
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Speaker 1: the ready to jump. They still can win the NFC South.
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Speaker 1: The Panthers' best season in almost a decade is a
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Speaker 1: down year, a disappointing one for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers,
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Speaker 1: but that's the state of the Division two. I'm not
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Speaker 1: gonna let the Panthers affect my mental state, though I
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Speaker 1: refuse to let myself be hurt again, So I'm just
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Speaker 1: assuming they're gonna lose, and therefore this, to me, is
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Speaker 1: the least interesting game on the docket in Week eighteen,
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Speaker 1: and the NFC South can only be decided on Saturday
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Speaker 1: if Carolina beat Tampa Bay. I think Aaron and the
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Speaker 1: other guy earlier were talking about this. Jason Martin on
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Speaker 1: who has to win and who can still win the
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Speaker 1: division in the NFC South. So it's like this, If
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Speaker 1: Carolina beat Tampa Bay, they're in. But because Atlanta took
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Speaker 1: down the Rams, that means the Panthers Buccaneers matchup isn't
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Speaker 1: quite winner take all. If Carolina wins, yes, they would
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Speaker 1: secure the division title. But if the Buccaneers win, they
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Speaker 1: still need the Falcons to lose or tie the Saints
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Speaker 1: on Sunday because if it's a three way tie between
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Speaker 1: three eight to nine sorry teams, Carolina has the tie breaker.
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Speaker 1: So if you're a Buccaneers fan, like not only do
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Speaker 1: you need to win, you need to be rooting for
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Speaker 1: the Falcons to lose the Saints or tie them. All right,
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Speaker 1: I'll move on to my next matchup number fifteen in
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Speaker 1: my matchup rankings the weekend. We might as well blow
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Speaker 1: out the NFC South teams right now like a cannon
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Speaker 1: ball coming out of the Buccaneers pirate ship at Raymond
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Speaker 1: James Stadium at Buccaneer Cove. Let's get all four out
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Speaker 1: of the way. You just heard me rip the teams
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Speaker 1: at the top of the NFC South. So what do
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Speaker 1: you expect me to do? With the teams at the
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Speaker 1: bottom New Orleans Atlanta, they're closing out the season in
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Speaker 1: a matchup. This isn't some happy surprise like at the
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Speaker 1: bottom of your fry bag. Now this bag has a
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Speaker 1: hole in it as big as the hole on both
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Speaker 1: these teams. Rosters and the fries have all fallen out,
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Speaker 1: and you're left with a fried brain having watched these
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Speaker 1: two teams play football all year. Sorry, Brewbery, I know
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Speaker 1: you're a Saints fan. You remember the old this is
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Speaker 1: your Brain on drugs ad campaign where the guy cracks
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Speaker 1: the egg that represents your brain and fries it, which
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Speaker 1: is how I actually like my eggs sung your side up.
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Speaker 1: But the Saints and Falcons fans, they haven't seen the
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Speaker 1: sun or the bright side of things all year and
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Speaker 1: probably feel like well done. Their brain has been scrambled
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Speaker 1: by watching these under five hundred football teams. Even with
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Speaker 1: the Falcons beating the Rams on Monday night, I know,
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Speaker 1: whoo did he do? The Saints have actually won four
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Speaker 1: straight and they still only have six wins. Tyler Shuck
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Speaker 1: Shook whatever it's false Hope. I mean, he had a
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Speaker 1: nice season all things considered, but he's a twenty six
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Speaker 1: year old rookie. He can run a car, but the Saints,
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Speaker 1: I don't know if they should be giving him the
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Speaker 1: keys to the franchise. He's still got nine touchdowns to
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Speaker 1: five interceptions. He's been serviceable. It could be a mistake
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Speaker 1: once defenses actually get tape on him, and you know
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Speaker 1: they're game planning for him next year. I have no
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Speaker 1: interest in watching him battle it out with the Falcons,
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Speaker 1: who are so convinced many people were they'd be good
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Speaker 1: this year. They were so convinced they traded their first
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Speaker 1: round pick to the Rams for edge rusher James Pearce,
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Speaker 1: who's actually been pretty good lately. But I'm not convinced.
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Speaker 1: Michael Pennix is the QB move forward who's been doing
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Speaker 1: some moving himself on a TikTok dance recently, even though
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Speaker 1: he just had a reconstructed ACL. I guess the Falcons quarterbacks,
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Speaker 1: you know, they've done worse things than they're off time
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Speaker 1: in the past, and thankfully he doesn't need his legs
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Speaker 1: as much as Michael Vick did. But I don't think
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Speaker 1: if either the Saints or the Falcons, well, they can't
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Speaker 1: give me a reason to watch this game. And that's
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Speaker 1: why I got number fifteen, number fourteen in my matchup
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Speaker 1: rankings for week eighteen that would go to the Cowboys
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Speaker 1: in New York Giants. And speaking of torn acls, I mean,
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Speaker 1: did the Cowboys get out while the getting was good
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Speaker 1: with Michaeh. Parsons and not giving him one hundred and
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Speaker 1: eighty eight million dollars. Probably, I don't know if he'll
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Speaker 1: ever be the same, considering his entire game is built
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Speaker 1: upon his speed, his explosiveness, his athleticism. But he is
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Speaker 1: twenty six. He'll probably at least be eighty five percent
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Speaker 1: of you know what he was given my amateur medical
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Speaker 1: background in kinesiology. The Cowboys, though, ended up having a
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Speaker 1: gap year during a prime year for Dak Prescott? Was
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Speaker 1: that Jerry? Was he trying to speak to me from
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Speaker 1: the grave? Oh, it's actually a genie speaking to you
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Speaker 1: from her grave. Is she one of the callers here? Yes?
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Speaker 1: All right, we'll get to your phone. Calls coming up.
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Speaker 1: Don't worry, I ain't gonna be too harsh. Lines are
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Speaker 1: lighting up.
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Speaker 2: I guess it's a good subject.
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Speaker 1: I hope you guys treat me nice too. And for
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Speaker 1: Ben Mallarch, tonight, what do you want the Cowboys, though,
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Speaker 1: like you waste a year like this from Dak with
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Speaker 1: him leading the league in passing yards as they passed
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Speaker 1: on being a competent enough defense in time to match
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Speaker 1: their offense. Meanwhile, the Giants, they wasted part of their
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Speaker 1: season still trying to see if they could be competitive
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Speaker 1: enough under Russell Wilson. That was a great call. Would
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Speaker 1: they pay him ten million dollars? They eventually figured it out.
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Speaker 1: Turned to Jackson Dart when you could throw a Dart
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Speaker 1: at a board and have as good of a guest
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Speaker 1: in which direction they're going to go in the draft,
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Speaker 1: even with his promising rookie year. If it's me and
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Speaker 1: I have a chance to draft Fernando Mendoza, I'm taking
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Speaker 1: him anyways, because Jackson Dart, like this guy thinks he's
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Speaker 1: a crash test dummy out there with some of the
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Speaker 1: stuff that he does. It's not very very wise to
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Speaker 1: take on NFL linebackers. Do not attempt to grow a brain.
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Speaker 1: You're probably at some point I gonna need another quarterback
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Speaker 1: because Jackson Dart is that reckless. And I know he
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Speaker 1: rushed for two touchdowns last week against the Raiders.
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Speaker 3: Great.
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Speaker 1: They literally are trying to lose. They're trying to get
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Speaker 1: Fernando Mendoza and probably will Dante Moore, maybe Ty Simpson,
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Speaker 1: who knows more, might not even come out yet. I'm
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Speaker 1: not sure what the draw is in this particular game
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Speaker 1: between the Cowboys and Giants outside of Jackson Dart, I
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Speaker 1: guess trying to ball out to prove that he's the
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Speaker 1: future and they can use picks to build around him.
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Speaker 1: Reports say they're open to taking a quarterback, so this
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Speaker 1: performance could lose loom large in which way they go.
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Speaker 1: Dart better shows something against them Boys, because I think
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Speaker 1: the Cowboys defense is given up just under thirty points
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Speaker 1: per game. It's bad. All right, we'll put this on pause.
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Speaker 1: We'll come back. I got La Murray from the Athletic
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Speaker 1: and joining me after he was covering the Clippers tonight
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Speaker 1: and Kawhi Leonard dropped forty five. But we can talk
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Speaker 1: all things NBA and we'll get back to the NFL
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Speaker 1: later in this hour. The top of next hour, back
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Speaker 1: to my rack matchup rankings. I should say, I'm Adam
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Speaker 1: NFL Week eighteen matchup rankings, but join the show right now.
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Speaker 1: Is a good friend, but an even better reporter does
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Speaker 1: it for the NBA? Does it here in Southern California
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Speaker 1: where I'm at covering both teams in LA, it's law
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Speaker 1: Murray of the Athletic at Law Murray v. Nu Is
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Speaker 1: where you find him. Yeah, and we even have the
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Speaker 1: judge dread drop for you tonight, law La, thanks for
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Speaker 1: doing this here on Fox Sports Radio.
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Speaker 4: Thank you. Man.
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Speaker 3: That does is crazy.
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Speaker 1: We're like that here, Lorena is at least let's talk
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Speaker 1: about what happened tonight kind of crazy the last two
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Speaker 1: weeks from Kawhi Leonard where everybody's wondering where's this resurgence
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Speaker 1: coming from? Where he's had three forty point games over
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Speaker 1: the last ten days, including forty five tonight, ad into
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Speaker 1: a dome as they pulled away late to put the
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Speaker 1: Utah Jazz away. What are you seeing from co Why?
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Speaker 1: What has changed? What should people know about this Clippers
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Speaker 1: team nationally?
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Speaker 3: I'm saying it's a frame level magnet ball Like he's
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Speaker 3: give him four quarters, and he is finding a way
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Speaker 3: to make shots at a level that he works on,
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Speaker 3: and that work is never a question with me. The
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Speaker 3: question is how much do you get it? Both in
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Speaker 3: general as far as him actually being able to play
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Speaker 3: games and play his minutes, and then the quality of
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Speaker 3: it right, Like he is shooting more and that is scary.
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Speaker 3: He's That was my favorite part of what he said
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Speaker 3: over the weekend, Like he's never had to do this before.
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Speaker 3: He's never been on teams that required him to play
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Speaker 3: like this for his team to succeed. You know, like
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Speaker 3: all those San Antonio's first teams. We why didn't come
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Speaker 3: into the NBA being asked to be a bucket And
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Speaker 3: even when he got to the point where he was
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Speaker 3: an All Star, this was a finals MVP before he
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Speaker 3: was an All Star, right, And like those teams had
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Speaker 3: future Hall of famers on it that were still capable
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Speaker 3: in very different ways of charying offense. He came into
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Speaker 3: the league with Ten Duncans, Tony Parker, monug Nobody, those
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Speaker 3: three dudes very different. Even LaMarcus Audridge was on the
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Speaker 3: San Antonio Spurs before any of those dudes let the team, right,
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Speaker 3: Kawhi took the mantles playing the right way. We hear
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Speaker 3: that term a lot, and it's not that he's not
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Speaker 3: playing the right way now, but he's playing in a
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Speaker 3: way that if you want wins, this is how you
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Speaker 3: get them. And I think it's a huge credit to him.
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Speaker 3: It's a huge credit to that team that they still
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Speaker 3: care enough to try and make something of what was
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Speaker 3: an awful start to their season. And now they've gone
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Speaker 3: from an F team to a C minus team, and
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Speaker 3: that should scare people because the rust of the Western Conference,
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Speaker 3: there no one's you know, in terms of like the
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Speaker 3: top six or the top ten. The Clippers are going
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Speaker 3: to be relevant. And as long as they avoid any
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Speaker 3: more rakes to.
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Speaker 1: Step on, yeah, injury rakes as well, we know how
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Speaker 1: it goes with the Clippers. Unfortunately, what about the other
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Speaker 1: team in Los Angeles where the Lakers I believe, have
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Speaker 1: lost four of their last five and look like one
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Speaker 1: of the worst defenses in the league over the last month. Now,
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Speaker 1: while the Brooklyn Nets have been one of the best,
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Speaker 1: the Lakers have dropped to bottom three or somewhere in
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Speaker 1: that range. And a lot of people, of course, it's
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Speaker 1: low level, it's surface level. They say, well, Lebron's back,
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Speaker 1: They're not winning anymore. What's the big picture of you
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Speaker 1: on this Lakers team and Lebron and if he and
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Speaker 1: Luka doncis because you've been tracking his net rating going
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Speaker 1: back to last season and just how things have changed
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Speaker 1: since he's gotten older with Lebron, But can he work
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Speaker 1: with Luca and can he still be a winning, impactful
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Speaker 1: player on this Lakers team.
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Speaker 3: That's the thing. It's like, you know, you got people
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Speaker 3: who were super happy to vote for Lebron James as
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Speaker 3: an MVP candidate, We're an All NBA candidate because they
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Speaker 3: see what he's doing, they see what he's doing at
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Speaker 3: the age that he's doing it, and they see the
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Speaker 3: team that he plays for, and they want to be
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Speaker 3: attached to that. And you know that's goal. Like Lebron
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Speaker 3: is still a good basketball player. He's still a great
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Speaker 3: basketball player. He's still able to make shots, to make
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Speaker 3: passes and don't want Luke Bournette like Lebron can do
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Speaker 3: those things. Is it leading to advantages in games? That's
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Speaker 3: the biggest thing that I looked at last year. I
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Speaker 3: couldn't say that two years ago, when Darvin Ham was
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Speaker 3: coaching the team, Lebron being on the floor still led
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Speaker 3: the Lakers to wins as far as you know, outscoring
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Speaker 3: opponents while he's on the floor, Like that's an objective measure.
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Speaker 3: You know, I broke it down every way that I
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Speaker 3: could before Luca. After Luca got there in the playoffs, like,
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Speaker 3: the Lakers were not a winning team with Lebron on
20:02
Speaker 3: the floor, but they were when Lebron was off the floor.
20:05
Speaker 3: And so like they were not good this time last year,
20:08
Speaker 3: they were outscored by seventy seven points even though they
20:11
Speaker 3: had a record that was four games over five hundred
20:14
Speaker 3: at this point last year, them starting fifteen and five
20:17
Speaker 3: was huge, but it also established where the Lakers were
20:20
Speaker 3: best as a team, and that was with Luca and
20:23
Speaker 3: Austin playing off of each other. Those two dudes complement
20:26
Speaker 3: each other in a way that we are not seeing
20:29
Speaker 3: the same synergy when it's just Luca and Lebron, and
20:34
Speaker 3: they have to figure that out. Because the Lakers are
20:37
Speaker 3: at their work this season as far as lineups with
20:40
Speaker 3: Luca Dongics on the floor with one other guy. They're
20:43
Speaker 3: at the worst when it's Nika and Lebron. They're at
20:47
Speaker 3: their best when it's Nika and Austin. We saw a
20:50
Speaker 3: version of the Lakers that was really good, and you
20:52
Speaker 3: can talk about their schedule, you can talk about whatever.
20:55
Speaker 3: I've seen. The Lakers lose some bad teams and lose
20:59
Speaker 3: some good teams. Okay, so it's Lebron. We have to
21:03
Speaker 3: be able to say two things at once. Lebron is
21:06
Speaker 3: still a good basketball player. Okay, Well, Lebron is not
21:09
Speaker 3: a player that the Lakers at this time are playing
21:13
Speaker 3: their best basketball with while he's on the floor. And
21:16
Speaker 3: if that doesn't change, then the Lakers are going to
21:18
Speaker 3: continue to slip in the sandwich.
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Speaker 1: NBA reporter extraordinaire La Murray from The Athletic is joining
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Speaker 1: us here. I'm at a Moslin in for big Ben
21:27
Speaker 1: Maller on Fox Sports Radio atl Murray the U was
21:30
Speaker 1: where you finds him on x SO law. Why do
21:33
Speaker 1: I feel like we could be days away from jannis
21:36
Speaker 1: Adena Koumpo trade. It just feels inevitable. He keeps being
21:40
Speaker 1: asked about it. He likes to deflect, He likes to
21:43
Speaker 1: say I'm here, but that doesn't mean he's going to
21:45
Speaker 1: be here within the next couple of months. And they
21:48
Speaker 1: just lost to the Washington Wizards. How do you see
21:51
Speaker 1: this playing out with Milwaukee right now?
21:53
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean it's not the first time that they
21:55
Speaker 3: lost to the Wizards either, you know, And it's I
21:59
Speaker 3: don't want to disrespect the Wizards, because the thing about
22:02
Speaker 3: the Wizards bad team with a bad record, but they
22:06
Speaker 3: have throws on that team, and they have they have
22:10
Speaker 3: guys who if you're not prepared to play as well
22:14
Speaker 3: as you need to play as if it's any average team,
22:20
Speaker 3: then they will beat you and it will feel embarrassing.
22:23
Speaker 3: And Doc Rivers pointed that out when they lost on
22:26
Speaker 3: New Year's Eve. Doc said they did not deserve to
22:29
Speaker 3: win the game. I have another team that I cover
22:31
Speaker 3: in LA where I've heard a very similar way of
22:36
Speaker 3: saying things like that, And so I don't look at
22:40
Speaker 3: Giannis being a guy who gets traded in the matter
22:43
Speaker 3: of days like this is something where you know, January
22:49
Speaker 3: is going to change lives in the NBA. So how
22:52
Speaker 3: well the Bucks play is going to have a big
22:55
Speaker 3: impact on the viability of Yannis staying there. But also
22:59
Speaker 3: it's not up to Nis all the time. It's not
23:02
Speaker 3: even up to the Bucks. Like the Bucks can say
23:05
Speaker 3: they're open to something, but if the appropriate deal isn't there,
23:10
Speaker 3: Then that's it. You have a bunch of these editors
23:13
Speaker 3: and visual you know, companies who covered a sport of basketball,
23:18
Speaker 3: and they're giving you a taf dozen trades they like
23:23
Speaker 3: to see. They'd like to see him because they want
23:25
Speaker 3: to be GM's. Like the reality is John Horse has
23:29
Speaker 3: his job and his job isn't too trade Giannis. His
23:32
Speaker 3: job is to find way to have the Bucks be good.
23:35
Speaker 3: And we'll see how January goes in that endeavor.
23:39
Speaker 1: Well, one of the teams that people have talked about
23:41
Speaker 1: trying to make a move for Yiannis would be in
23:43
Speaker 1: Atlanta and they got a guy in Trey Young, who
23:45
Speaker 1: I don't think would be included in that trade package.
23:47
Speaker 1: I'm not sure what Milwaukee would want that for, but
23:50
Speaker 1: it seems like trays days are numbers in the atl
23:54
Speaker 1: Do you see it like that? Obviously there's a contract
23:57
Speaker 1: decision coming up.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, I'll tell you what, And Adam, I
24:01
Speaker 3: really appreciate you let me do this while I take
24:04
Speaker 3: my bus ride home from Englwood. Like, I feel like
24:10
Speaker 3: when it comes to someone like Trey, he did had
24:12
Speaker 3: some situation because Trey hard have played well. He hasn't
24:17
Speaker 3: played well, he hasn't been available. This team has arguably
24:20
Speaker 3: been better with talented even though this team is not
24:22
Speaker 3: good enough to just say, hey, we don't play trade
24:27
Speaker 3: man good. And I think that's a scary thing. For
24:30
Speaker 3: the amount of hose. It's definitely unsettling for Trade Young.
24:34
Speaker 3: I think the best thing about Ray Young is the
24:35
Speaker 3: fact that he had the fire ups so he doesn't
24:38
Speaker 3: get traded or if he gets traded to some place
24:41
Speaker 3: he doesn't like. He controlled at least a year of
24:44
Speaker 3: his teacher in terms of that. But I think the
24:47
Speaker 3: most simple thing with Trey is more teams would want
24:51
Speaker 3: him if he was still playing at the level that
24:54
Speaker 3: he should be in terms of the days of his
24:56
Speaker 3: career that he did, and that's just not happening. He's
25:00
Speaker 3: he's always been a die who's is shooting is more
25:04
Speaker 3: dangerous because of his range, not necessarily because of his efficiency.
25:08
Speaker 3: He's small, so you're never going to be good defensively
25:10
Speaker 3: within on the floor, and now that loader that such
25:14
Speaker 3: a weapon for him. He's not beating guys, he's not
25:17
Speaker 3: scoring like you shut and all these things make it
25:21
Speaker 3: to where he's a lot closer to the average point
25:23
Speaker 3: guard if he ran up all the starting point guards
25:26
Speaker 3: at him, there's very our closed shuit average is very
25:29
Speaker 3: young instead of a guy who you know gets into
25:33
Speaker 3: the All Star Game after someone gets hurt.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, he's not high on my list anymore. A lot
25:38
Speaker 1: of the advanced numbers say he's getting worse with his
25:41
Speaker 1: efficiency too, right, and and.
25:45
Speaker 3: That's and that's the thing. It's like very young. The
25:48
Speaker 3: Valiants three has always been like a guy who can
25:51
Speaker 3: create offense for himself, for his teammates, and as the
25:57
Speaker 3: shooting of efficiency has been fined from everywhere and the
26:02
Speaker 3: turnover zone necessarily getting better, and now he's a guy
26:06
Speaker 3: there's Atlanta have so many other guys who can play
26:09
Speaker 3: with ball in their teams, and three often at least
26:12
Speaker 3: stray kind of in a weird spot and Flint Snyders
26:16
Speaker 3: talk there's other guys. They don't necessarily need him to go.
26:22
Speaker 3: But if he's want to go forward, you got from
26:25
Speaker 3: the balls he's not versatile fires and teams have to
26:29
Speaker 3: acknowledge that. It may be so excited for a very
26:32
Speaker 3: young stream, but why are you giving up to get
26:36
Speaker 3: Tree young on your team and then say that your
26:38
Speaker 3: team is better? That is very difficult questioning configure right now.
26:43
Speaker 1: The show's better when Lamery is on at La Murray
26:46
Speaker 1: the n you covers the NBA for the athletic does
26:49
Speaker 1: it here in Southern California? Closely attached to the Clippers
26:54
Speaker 1: and the Lakers. Thanks for joining me, Thanks for joining
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Speaker 1: me on Fox Sports Radio tonight, my friend, Thank you.
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Speaker 3: I appreciated.
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Speaker 1: Coming up next, we will get back to my NFL
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Speaker 1: matchup rankings. But eighty seven seven ninety nine on Fox.
27:10
Speaker 1: I know people are calling in. I know it's a
27:13
Speaker 1: color driven show here on the Ben Mallor Show. Come,
27:17
Speaker 1: let's try Gunner calling in from Minnesota. Gunner, what's up?
27:22
Speaker 1: Is this Gunner from X Welcome?
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Speaker 4: Yes it is man. How's it going?
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Speaker 1: You know it's all right outside of the Carolina Panthers
27:32
Speaker 1: probably losing on Saturday and ruining my weekend in life?
27:36
Speaker 3: Oh come on, Benjie, remember you know the conspiracencory right
27:41
Speaker 3: all three Ohio State wedns. Year before Jah, we played
27:45
Speaker 3: Jaguars and Go Super fifteen. Oh have to win? We
27:49
Speaker 3: played Jaguars Go super Bolt.
27:51
Speaker 1: What's happening this year? Oh?
27:53
Speaker 3: I say won? Last year we played the Jazz in
27:55
Speaker 3: Super Bowl facts.
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Speaker 1: Do you think Brian has a chance of leading a
28:02
Speaker 1: team to the Super Bowl in a quarterback driven league?
28:05
Speaker 1: I can't get with that. I'm sorry, Gunner.
28:09
Speaker 3: I have the think here we if we have the
28:13
Speaker 3: high game or no by three points, have the ball
28:16
Speaker 3: driving on the field last couple of minutes, we can
28:19
Speaker 3: be anybody.
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Speaker 2: I see it.
28:21
Speaker 3: How let's a goal We're gonna go to the NFC
28:25
Speaker 3: so and both in the NC win this division, and
28:30
Speaker 3: where's in the ANC? It has no chance to insist
28:32
Speaker 3: because they haven't played this. Nobody's division play this at
28:37
Speaker 3: this point.
28:38
Speaker 1: Look, look, you gotta walk before you run. Let's just
28:41
Speaker 1: see if they can beat Tampa Bay this weekend and
28:44
Speaker 1: get into the playoffs, and then we can talk about
28:47
Speaker 1: matchups and if the Carolina Panthers really have a chance,
28:50
Speaker 1: even though they probably play in the worst division in sports.
28:53
Speaker 1: But I love you, Gunner, and I'm glad you're keeping
28:55
Speaker 1: the hope alive, because I did say I was going
28:58
Speaker 1: to be more positive in twenty twenty six, and look
29:00
Speaker 1: the bright side of things. So I'm on my way.
29:03
Speaker 1: As long as you keep tweeting at me, I might
29:05
Speaker 1: become a full blooded Carolina Panther. Fan again soon, hope
29:11
Speaker 1: face all that stuff. It's I'm really close to jumping
29:14
Speaker 1: in with you. Kind of appreciate you. Uh you know
29:18
Speaker 1: what before we break?
29:19
Speaker 2: Is it?
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Speaker 1: Dwayne Wade. Dwayne Wade calling from Hawaii, Little Dwayne, Dwayne
29:26
Speaker 1: Rock Johnson, Little tunci O, Little Dwayne. What's up?
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Speaker 3: Hey? I a man, Little Dwayne. What's up over there?
29:36
Speaker 3: I'm calling from Hawaii. I just wishing everybody happy New Year.
29:39
Speaker 1: Is everybody involved in shoe yo? Happy New Year?
29:44
Speaker 3: Yeah?
29:46
Speaker 1: And a shout out to.
29:47
Speaker 3: My boy door goes. You know what I'm saying. And
29:53
Speaker 3: I was all over a little miss, so old miss.
29:55
Speaker 3: You know what I'm saying. Oh miss, from the get go.
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Speaker 1: Right, you made a little bit of scratching you bet
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Speaker 1: on ole miss.
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Speaker 3: I want to admit it. Yeah, you know.
30:06
Speaker 1: It's practically legal everywhere. Now, don't worry about it, even
30:09
Speaker 1: in Hawaii.
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Speaker 3: My pocket something in my pockets, you know what I mean?
30:14
Speaker 1: They had more dog in them than Georgia. I guess.
30:17
Speaker 1: In the end, it was interesting to see it. That
30:19
Speaker 1: was a big time. You gotta be happy about that.
30:22
Speaker 1: Some people were saying with the kicker, it's not all miss,
30:25
Speaker 1: It's all make now because he hit that forty seven yard.
30:29
Speaker 3: Yeah you know that, you know that, you know what
30:31
Speaker 3: I'm saying.
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Speaker 1: And what else?
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Speaker 3: Yeah?
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Speaker 1: Well, Dwayne, how many my ties? How many my ties?
30:40
Speaker 1: In Hawaii? Oh?
30:42
Speaker 3: I about four goal? You know it's over here?
30:52
Speaker 1: Oh I bet? I bet. You guys were last to
30:55
Speaker 1: celebrate the New Year with being three hours behind us,
30:58
Speaker 1: so you gotta still be celebrating out there. Appreciate you,
31:03
Speaker 1: Lil Wayne litl Dwayne. Be good, Okay, be careful. I'm
31:09
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Speaker 1: Hi, Adam Ashley, Welcome back in. I'm at am moslin
31:37
Speaker 1: in for Big Ben Mahlor here on Fox Sports Radio.
31:40
Speaker 1: Happy Holidays, Happy New Year. Coming up, more of the same.
31:47
Speaker 1: It's the NFL as king for a reason, So yeah,
31:50
Speaker 1: we're gonna talk a lot of NFL here, and I
31:54
Speaker 1: package it like this that's not sexual I have an
31:57
Speaker 1: NFL matchup rankings list. Yeah, it's crazy to do lists
32:04
Speaker 1: on the Ben Maler Show. It's not a list. It's
32:07
Speaker 1: not like, is Michael Jordan the goat or is Lebron
32:10
Speaker 1: the goat. It's not like that. It's just I ranked
32:13
Speaker 1: the matchups for Week eighteen, which is kind of a
32:17
Speaker 1: big deal because it's the last week at the NFL
32:20
Speaker 1: season and there's all this stuff on the line. So
32:22
Speaker 1: I'll get to my thirteenth ranked, best rank matchup or
32:27
Speaker 1: worst for me, it's the Patriots hosting the Dolphins. I
32:31
Speaker 1: know we have some playoff implications here, and we'll outline
32:35
Speaker 1: those as we go along and what it all means.
32:38
Speaker 1: And I will wait for my autumn as a pirate
32:40
Speaker 1: or wind of a pirate music here, Larreeda. But I
32:43
Speaker 1: already know the Pats they're winning this game because they
32:47
Speaker 1: already have the AFC East locked up and they can
32:50
Speaker 1: still get the number one seed if the Chargers win
32:55
Speaker 1: in Denver. It could happen. The Dolphins, though, might be
32:59
Speaker 1: in the worst spot a dolphin's been since echoed. The
33:03
Speaker 1: Dolphin lost his pod back in that video game for
33:06
Speaker 1: the Sega Genesis, so sad his whole family just went
33:10
Speaker 1: up in like a tornado or something. Now, I don't
33:13
Speaker 1: know what the Dolphins are doing. Is Tua gone? Can
33:16
Speaker 1: they trade them? Do they have to release him with
33:19
Speaker 1: that contract? Is Mike McDaniel coming back? Quinn Ewers the
33:23
Speaker 1: guy who just beat Tampa Bay somehow? And yet the
33:26
Speaker 1: Panthers still haven't won the division yet. The Dolphins, they
33:30
Speaker 1: will not pick high enough to get a top quarterback.
33:34
Speaker 1: So what do they do? Like they're gonna end up
33:36
Speaker 1: seven through ten in the draft after the Pats beat
33:39
Speaker 1: them down, unless the Pats call off the Dogs because
33:44
Speaker 1: they see Denver's crushing the La Chargers and they already
33:48
Speaker 1: would have the number one seed locked up in the AFC.
33:51
Speaker 1: Like whoever the Dolphins GM should be? You know, whoever
33:55
Speaker 1: that guy was that put together this hellish roster was
33:58
Speaker 1: zero direction who probably should be fired by now. Okay,
34:05
Speaker 1: I guess he was back in October. Chris Greer was
34:08
Speaker 1: that guy's name. They fired him, they did it, But
34:12
Speaker 1: good luck to whoever takes over in the interim, because
34:16
Speaker 1: that seat it's probably hot already, it's at least lukewarm,
34:20
Speaker 1: and the cupboard is bear like more bear than Marino's
34:24
Speaker 1: Super Bowl Trophy case. He wore number thirteen. Maybe that's
34:27
Speaker 1: why I had the Dolphins Patriots game as my thirteenth
34:30
Speaker 1: best matchup this weekend.
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Speaker 2: Oh.
34:32
Speaker 1: Also of note, in this game, this may matter to
34:35
Speaker 1: some of you who hate athletes and how much money
34:39
Speaker 1: they make. Here's a guy who has some money on
34:42
Speaker 1: the line, playing with my money. It's like playing with
34:45
Speaker 1: my emotion. No, not big worm, not big perm Stefan Diggs.
34:49
Speaker 1: He needs thirty yards in this game to earn a
34:53
Speaker 1: five hundred thousand dollars bonus, because it would get him
34:56
Speaker 1: to one thousand yards on the season.
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Speaker 5: I'm just gonna go find the cash machine.
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Speaker 1: He already got half a mill for his bonus for
35:04
Speaker 1: just having eighty catches. That hit last week. Number twelve
35:08
Speaker 1: in my most intriguing game this weekend. In the NFL,
35:13
Speaker 1: it actually goes with the Denver Broncos, who are hosting
35:15
Speaker 1: the Chargers. As mentioned, Denver wins. They're the number one
35:19
Speaker 1: seed regardless of what the Patriots do. The Chargers, though,
35:24
Speaker 1: they can still be all kinds of wild card seeds,
35:28
Speaker 1: like they can be fifth, they could be sixth, they
35:30
Speaker 1: could be seventh. Like my relationship status it's complicated. Here's
35:34
Speaker 1: how it works. The Bolts would get the number five
35:37
Speaker 1: seed with a win and a Texans loss to the
35:41
Speaker 1: Colts in Week eighteen, regardless of the Bill's outcome against
35:44
Speaker 1: the Jets. As for the number six seed, the Chargers,
35:48
Speaker 1: they could get that. At least they could be the
35:51
Speaker 1: number six seed. They would be guaranteed that if they
35:54
Speaker 1: win in Denver. However, if the Chargers lose to the
35:58
Speaker 1: Broncos and the Bills win again the Jets, then the
36:01
Speaker 1: Bolts would be the seventh seed, which would have them
36:04
Speaker 1: going to New England. Because if Denver wins, they're number one.
36:08
Speaker 1: New England is number two. Here's a reason to watch
36:12
Speaker 1: the game, though. Keenan Allen is six receptions away from
36:17
Speaker 1: getting a contract bonus of seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
36:22
Speaker 4: Sheep that change of filthy animal.
36:25
Speaker 1: That's kind of a big deal. I like Keenan Allen.
36:28
Speaker 1: I don't know how he's stilled this good with all
36:29
Speaker 1: the torn acls he's had over the years. My eleventh
36:34
Speaker 1: best matchup in Week eighteen, that would go to the
36:36
Speaker 1: Bears hosting the Lions. You might be wondering why I
36:40
Speaker 1: have it here since there's not a lot to be determined.
36:42
Speaker 1: The Lions are out of the playoffs, They're right back
36:45
Speaker 1: where they normally are. The Bears they've already won the
36:48
Speaker 1: NFC North and will either be the number two or
36:51
Speaker 1: the number three seed in the NFC based off this.
36:54
Speaker 1: If they beat the Lions the two seed they lose,
36:58
Speaker 1: and Philly wins against the Commanders the three seed, they
37:01
Speaker 1: both lose. Bears are the two seed because they have
37:04
Speaker 1: the same record as the Eagles and they beat them
37:06
Speaker 1: head to head. Here's why I have this ranked as
37:09
Speaker 1: high as eleventh. I want to see if Dan Campbell
37:13
Speaker 1: is still about that biting kneecaps life, because that's all
37:17
Speaker 1: the Lions have left. Pride, that's just pride effing with you.
37:22
Speaker 1: They are back where he started with the team, when
37:25
Speaker 1: they were losing, when they were out of the playoffs,
37:28
Speaker 1: and Dan Campbell came in and he tried to build
37:31
Speaker 1: a physical brand of football and a different culture in Detroit.
37:35
Speaker 1: And they're still built upon that no matter the stakes, right,
37:40
Speaker 1: even if they can't win and make the playoffs this season. Now,
37:44
Speaker 1: remember they lost their OC, their defensive coordinator, and now
37:48
Speaker 1: they're missing the playoffs. Maybe they're missing their identity. I
37:52
Speaker 1: don't know. Are they still built to kick you in
37:55
Speaker 1: the teeth, to punch you in the back, and then
37:58
Speaker 1: you're gonna smile at them? Supposedly, you remember that Dan
38:01
Speaker 1: Campbell press conference. I don't know if anyone is smiling
38:05
Speaker 1: right now in Detroit. But they do have the pistons
38:09
Speaker 1: and they're pretty good, although my Clippers just beat them.
38:12
Speaker 1: My tenth best matchup of the weekend, that would go
38:16
Speaker 1: to Kansas City in Las Vegas, where two once proud
38:21
Speaker 1: franchise is won very recently, one fifty years ago. Like
38:24
Speaker 1: they're fighting for the AFC West pride. Kevin always says
38:28
Speaker 1: the Chiefs are the team he hates the most. I
38:32
Speaker 1: don't know if that's how they feel about the Raiders.
38:35
Speaker 1: I don't think so, because the Chiefs have beaten them
38:38
Speaker 1: the last twenty one of twenty five meetings, and you
38:41
Speaker 1: would think the Raiders would take this opportunity to kick
38:44
Speaker 1: them while the Chiefs are down. But the Raiders, they
38:47
Speaker 1: would be kicking their own ass in the grander scheme
38:50
Speaker 1: of things, because they want that number one pick. They
38:53
Speaker 1: need that in the draft, and to just see how
38:55
Speaker 1: many guys they rested against the Giants, including their best
39:00
Speaker 1: player in Rock Bowers. But like the dead giveaway they
39:03
Speaker 1: were tanking in that game was because they actually played
39:07
Speaker 1: Geno Smith. Yeah, we wrote you off, Geno, and you
39:10
Speaker 1: wrote back. All right, it just got intercepted or lost
39:13
Speaker 1: in the mail. Ha haa. Everyone makes that job now.
39:16
Speaker 1: Actually I got the message back from Gino. It said
39:19
Speaker 1: two words, the same two words most Raiders say after
39:22
Speaker 1: their first year with the organization. Kill me. Raiders fans, though,
39:28
Speaker 1: probably would respond with say less they hate Geno Smith.
39:32
Speaker 1: But I don't think it's Geno Smith's fault. The offensive
39:35
Speaker 1: line is awful. No one would perform behind that offensive line.
39:40
Speaker 1: That's not just Swiss cheese, like it's Swiss cheese if
39:43
Speaker 1: you put it through a paper shredder. So why do
39:46
Speaker 1: I have this Chiefs Raiders matchup ahead of six other
39:49
Speaker 1: games on my Best Matchups this weekend? Because I'm I'm
39:53
Speaker 1: curious to see how far the Raiders will take this
39:56
Speaker 1: tank job. Like if Ashon Gente was going in for
40:00
Speaker 1: a game winning touchdown, is Mark Davis just gonna run
40:03
Speaker 1: him over with an actual tank to make sure they
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Speaker 1: secure that number one pick? They seem very committed, not
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Speaker 1: committed to excellence, committed to tanking. That's where the Raiders
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Speaker 1: are at. And I know I'm kicking them while they
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Speaker 1: are down because it's fun and everybody does it.
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Speaker 4: The Raiders suck, The coaches suck, the players suck.
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Speaker 1: Everybody in that build they suck.
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Speaker 4: And I'm pissed.
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Speaker 1: Off even former players like Bill Romanowski there. But come on,
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Speaker 1: like this level of an aptitude that we have been
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Speaker 1: seeing now since rich Gannon was in that neck brace,
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Speaker 1: It's unheard of. They can't help themselves. They move to Vegas,
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Speaker 1: they make more money. Al Davis is no longer there,
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Speaker 1: rest in peace. They're still bad. More NFL matchup rankings
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