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Duck, Duck, Goose, Girl Scout Cookies and NFL Free Agency with Chris Raybon · The Favorites Sports Betting Podcast

• 0:07
  Speaker 1: Welcome to the Favorites, presented by Draft Kings.
• 0:12
  Speaker 2: The crown is yours.
• 0:14
  Speaker 1: The off season heat has been turned up to one
• 0:17
  Speaker 1: hundred in the NFL. Let's welcome in the crew, the
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  Speaker 1: first Lady of the Pod, Miss Kendri Middleton, the Prime
• 0:23
  Speaker 1: Minister of Primers Evan Abrams, and we have a special
• 0:27
  Speaker 1: guest joining us. I'm your host, Brandon Kravitz. But let's
• 0:30
  Speaker 1: welcome in a giant round of applause for the one
• 0:33
  Speaker 1: the only fellow Action Network fiend, Chris Raybaund joining the
• 0:37
  Speaker 1: show right now. Chris, Welcome to the Tomfoolery Channel.
• 0:43
  Speaker 2: How are you doing.
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  Speaker 3: I'm good. I'm excited.
• 0:46
  Speaker 4: This is my first pod with you, it as my
• 0:47
  Speaker 4: first pod with Kendra, so I mean, I'm ready to go. Evan,
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  Speaker 4: you know, veteran here, but I'm just happy to be
• 0:58
  Speaker 4: on with you, and I think there's a lot.
• 0:59
  Speaker 3: There's a lot to talk about.
• 1:00
  Speaker 4: It's a very been a very interesting free agent period,
• 1:03
  Speaker 4: and I'm still kind of get over the shock of
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  Speaker 4: this Bam out of Bio eighty three point game though
• 1:08
  Speaker 4: that's kind of where my head.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, I'm glad that you brought that up.
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  Speaker 1: I you know, I don't want to overly glaze you here,
• 1:14
  Speaker 1: but you are.
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  Speaker 2: A legend in my eyes.
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  Speaker 1: The content that you put out every football season has
• 1:19
  Speaker 1: been absolute food for me. And the fact that we
• 1:22
  Speaker 1: get to chop it up here as NFL Free agency
• 1:26
  Speaker 1: Wave one, maybe even Wave two, is wrapping up an
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  Speaker 1: absolute treat. So thanks for spending some time with us,
• 1:31
  Speaker 1: first and foremost, but you brought up something that I
• 1:35
  Speaker 1: wanted to spin into an NFL discussion, So this one's
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  Speaker 1: for the panel. Give me the NFL equivalent if you
• 1:41
  Speaker 1: can pluck one out of your memory bank of an
• 1:46
  Speaker 1: occurrence that is similar to what bam At of Bio did.
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  Speaker 1: So let me lay the groundwork for this question so
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  Speaker 1: you understand where I'm going with this. Bam out of
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  Speaker 1: Bio is a good NBA player, that's he's an All Star.
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  Speaker 1: But if I said you didn't watch it, someone in
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  Speaker 1: the NBA the other night scored eighty three points, how
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  Speaker 1: many guesses would you have to roll through before you
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  Speaker 1: got to bam At a Bio as the name. I
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  Speaker 1: think most of us would probably rattle off about twenty
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  Speaker 1: five to thirty names before getting to him.
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  Speaker 2: Is there fifty eight maybe even more?
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  Speaker 1: I'm not even sure he would have been my first
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  Speaker 1: guest on the heat for this, that's correct, ray Von.
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  Speaker 2: We'll start with you.
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  Speaker 1: Is there a random but decent player in the NFL
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  Speaker 1: that you can think of that has put up a
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  Speaker 1: stat line that would be similar to this?
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  Speaker 2: As close as we can get.
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  Speaker 4: For me, it's got to be Nick Foles in the
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  Speaker 4: seven touchdowns like that. That's that's the one that stands
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  Speaker 4: out like it's it's tied for the record. I think
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  Speaker 4: it's I think seven other players got there, so it's
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  Speaker 4: not like it's not as exclusive as you know, eighty
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  Speaker 4: one and one hundred, but it's still Nick Foles and
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  Speaker 4: he I know he won the Super Bowl, but.
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  Speaker 3: It's Nick Foles so.
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  Speaker 4: For me, and that actually makes it a little more
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  Speaker 4: like bam. The fact that he actually did win the
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  Speaker 4: Super Bowl, win a Super Bowl, Uh believe it was
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  Speaker 4: that season or a few seasons later. So yeah, it's
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  Speaker 4: got to be Nick Foles in that seven touchdown game
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  Speaker 4: in U I think it was November of twenty thirteen,
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  Speaker 4: and was.
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  Speaker 2: He on the Eagles at that time? If I remember correctly.
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  Speaker 4: Riley Cooper put up a monster stat line in that game.
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  Speaker 4: If I'm not mistaken, So I mean, you got you
• 3:27
  Speaker 4: probably could use him. The Kevin Ogletree game comes to
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  Speaker 4: mind for that, the Cowboys on Opening Day, but it
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  Speaker 4: wasn't a record, so it's got to be Nick Foles
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  Speaker 4: in the seven touchdown easy.
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  Speaker 2: That's a good one.
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  Speaker 1: It's hard to find a one for one comparison because
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  Speaker 1: NFL player rankings and NBA player rankings are so different.
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  Speaker 1: It's much more direct as far as where you would
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  Speaker 1: put Bam in the hierarchy of the association.
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  Speaker 2: Evan, what about you? Is there one that comes to mind?
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  Speaker 5: I don't know.
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  Speaker 6: I was thinking about like Matt Flynn, but I feel
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  Speaker 6: like bam Odebayo is much better. Is a good call out,
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  Speaker 6: but yeah, I was trying to if I remember correctly. Yeah,
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  Speaker 6: it was like the yards the I mean, he just
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  Speaker 6: played absolutely lights out. But it's somebody who hasn't had
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  Speaker 6: like a lot of playing time compared to Bam, who's
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  Speaker 6: like an everyday starter.
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  Speaker 2: Flynn would be more like Jeremy Lynn.
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  Speaker 7: I think that's fair. That's fair.
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  Speaker 6: Like what about I think a lot of people have
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  Speaker 6: mentioned this, but Matt Schaub had like a really crazy game.
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  Speaker 6: I think he threw for like five hundred and thirty yards,
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  Speaker 6: But even Bam is better than Matt Shaub, So I
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  Speaker 6: feel like even that doesn't do it very well of justice.
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  Speaker 3: Like, oh sorry, I was gonna say what I got.
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  Speaker 4: I got a really, I got one that I want
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  Speaker 4: to see if any of you guys, even if you
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  Speaker 4: could name the team that this guy was on, a
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  Speaker 4: lot of props it was in two thousand and nine,
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  Speaker 4: are running back?
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  Speaker 2: I got it.
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna say, most of all time, of all time, Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: Buzzy Jerome Harrison.
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  Speaker 3: Jerome Harrison.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, two hundred and eighty six yard games still the
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  Speaker 4: third most in NFL history, only ten yards off the
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  Speaker 4: record of Adrian Peterson that was set just a couple
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  Speaker 4: of years before that.
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  Speaker 3: So yeah, that that one kind of stands out too.
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  Speaker 7: That's the d I mean, like Ryan Fitzpatrick when he
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  Speaker 7: he threw like six touchdowns against the opening day for
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  Speaker 7: the Bucks.
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  Speaker 2: I think he did it bad games too.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah, I.
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  Speaker 1: Remember getting a king's ransom for him in Fantasy Kendra,
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  Speaker 1: what about you?
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  Speaker 8: I have to say one.
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  Speaker 5: I don't know if you guys know this, but bam
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  Speaker 5: Adebayo is engaged to Asia Wilson, and if they decide
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  Speaker 5: to have children. The absolute avenger that they are about
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  Speaker 5: to raise insane.
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  Speaker 8: But I went with this one for a very specific reason.
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  Speaker 7: One.
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  Speaker 5: I went with Alvin Kamara's six touchdowns on Christmas in
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  Speaker 5: twenty twenty against the Minnesota Vikings because I feel like
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  Speaker 5: the role that they play for their teams is quite
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  Speaker 5: similar and their careers are a little bit similar.
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  Speaker 8: And two because Kamara.
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  Speaker 5: Did this with one hundred and fifty five yards rushing
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  Speaker 5: that game, so he got all the accolades, but it's
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  Speaker 5: kind of the same way that he did it with
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  Speaker 5: all the free throws.
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  Speaker 8: Like you it's kind of it's kind of cheating.
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  Speaker 5: They just lined you up and said, all right, you're
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  Speaker 5: about to hit this record. Let's go out there, let's
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  Speaker 5: do it. So I think that Alvin Kamara, not only
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  Speaker 5: just his career, but the way that they both got
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  Speaker 5: these games done were very similar to me.
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  Speaker 7: There's some of the players.
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  Speaker 3: You're right, that's a good one too.
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  Speaker 4: That's a good one too, because like Bam is not
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  Speaker 4: usually like a scorer like that, he's a he's.
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  Speaker 8: A quarterback in their team.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, right, exactly.
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  Speaker 4: Kamara is known as like not a touchdown guy, like
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  Speaker 4: that's usually his weakest stat is like touchdowns. He was
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  Speaker 4: like a big yards per carry, big receptions guy early
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  Speaker 4: in his career, but they would take him out a
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  Speaker 4: lot if the goal one. So even him being the
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  Speaker 4: guy to get six touchdowns, Yeah, that's a good one.
• 6:41
  Speaker 1: Last nominee, wasn't there a game where Brandon Marshall had
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  Speaker 1: like twenty catches if I work correctly, Yeah, he's kind
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  Speaker 1: of a Brandon Marshall and bam Adebaya would be very
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  Speaker 1: similar in terms of like.
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  Speaker 8: George Tittle comparison too.
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  Speaker 1: Shout out to our producer, Gifford Gold was his was
• 6:58
  Speaker 1: his nomination for Yeah, Kittle Kittle, I think maybe slightly better,
• 7:03
  Speaker 1: but again tough with the one for one, so we
• 7:05
  Speaker 1: still have a load to get to. NFL Free Agency
• 7:08
  Speaker 1: was electric, and we're gonna give Rave on the floor
• 7:12
  Speaker 1: for a full breakdown and throw a bunch of questions
• 7:15
  Speaker 1: his way.
• 7:16
  Speaker 2: Two things off the beaten path real quick. One.
• 7:19
  Speaker 1: I was just got back home from my son's field day.
• 7:25
  Speaker 1: It was field day at our local elementary school, and
• 7:29
  Speaker 1: so I was stationed at stationed six and I was
• 7:32
  Speaker 1: I was overseeing the potato sack race. But do you
• 7:35
  Speaker 1: guys remember field day from back in the day, because
• 7:39
  Speaker 1: I remember this being the absolute best when I was
• 7:42
  Speaker 1: a kid. But I also remember keeping score, Like I
• 7:46
  Speaker 1: remember there being a winner at the end of field day,
• 7:50
  Speaker 1: and there was none of that going on where I was.
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  Speaker 2: It was just a madhouse.
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  Speaker 1: Which I don't want to sound like a boomer here,
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  Speaker 1: but you know, I think we I think we stopped
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  Speaker 1: keeping scores one point.
• 8:00
  Speaker 2: But Kendra, do you recall field day?
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, I definitely do.
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  Speaker 7: I was.
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  Speaker 5: Do you guys remember the big like rainbow thing that
• 8:07
  Speaker 5: you would put above you and you'd have to like
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  Speaker 5: run from one side to the other.
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  Speaker 8: That scared the ship out of me. Do you guys
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  Speaker 8: know what I'm talking about?
• 8:14
  Speaker 2: Are you talking about like where you would like leave?
• 8:16
  Speaker 8: That thing scared me so bad. I wouldn't do that.
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  Speaker 5: However, I loved dodgeball. We would do dodgeball and that
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  Speaker 5: was my favorite activity. I definitely loved field day.
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  Speaker 1: Chris Rayball, you struck me as you strike me as
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  Speaker 1: a as a kickball guy.
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  Speaker 4: First of all, I've never heard a field day.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know. Wait what I'm guessing.
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  Speaker 4: It's just I'm guessing it's just when kids play a
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  Speaker 4: bunch of games.
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  Speaker 2: You are correct, it is OK. It's like the Olympics
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  Speaker 2: on crack.
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  Speaker 3: School.
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  Speaker 4: I went to school in the hood, in the Bronx.
• 8:50
  Speaker 4: We had we barely had a working basketball Jackson Florida work.
• 8:56
  Speaker 4: Hey man, the Jacksonville drill scene. All my favorite drill
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  Speaker 4: rappers from dead now like from jack It's kind of crazy.
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  Speaker 3: On another note, or people.
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  Speaker 2: Flowed away right now by this, I mean we.
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  Speaker 4: Did have those kinds, Like we had this thing called
• 9:11
  Speaker 4: fun Day, but that was on Halloween. But we kind
• 9:13
  Speaker 4: of did the same thing where we just they just
• 9:15
  Speaker 4: opened a gym and we would play a bunch of.
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  Speaker 3: Games we played like dodgeball and stuff.
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  Speaker 6: Uh.
• 9:19
  Speaker 4: But my favorite game, my favorite thing that we used
• 9:21
  Speaker 4: to play was Duck Duck Goose. But that's so talk
• 9:24
  Speaker 4: about some boomer shit.
• 9:24
  Speaker 8: He's a duck duck goose guy.
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  Speaker 5: You really said na kickball and he said, bitch, duck
• 9:30
  Speaker 5: duck goose.
• 9:31
  Speaker 3: Actually, I mean it's his thing.
• 9:33
  Speaker 1: Heavan you're you're you live in the Northeast as well.
• 9:35
  Speaker 1: Am I just totally off base? Is this just a
• 9:38
  Speaker 1: is this a Florida thing because we can be outside
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  Speaker 1: all year? Yeah?
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  Speaker 6: No, I'm laughing so much because I went to field day.
• 9:43
  Speaker 6: There was tons of field days. I just think Chris
• 9:46
  Speaker 6: Raybon had a very different bring out, upbringing and school experience.
• 9:50
  Speaker 6: Uh and he should be individualized here and I mean
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  Speaker 6: was field day.
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  Speaker 3: Guess my nickname is money Money Goose, white white boy.
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  Speaker 4: I was the only white kid about class for the
• 10:02
  Speaker 4: first nine years of school, like into ice and I'm
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  Speaker 4: only halfway. So that'll give you a how to do
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  Speaker 4: your indication.
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  Speaker 8: The duck up Goose is making sense.
• 10:15
  Speaker 1: Yeah, all wasn't far off with Goose then with my guests.
• 10:22
  Speaker 1: Still a lot to get to on the pod. But
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• 11:01
  Speaker 1: all right, Kendrick, before we get off and running with
• 11:03
  Speaker 1: NFL free agency. Stucky is not here today.
• 11:05
  Speaker 2: He is a buried in.
• 11:07
  Speaker 1: College basketball conference tournament play the NCAA Tournament coming up,
• 11:11
  Speaker 1: so I figured we might lose him for a couple
• 11:13
  Speaker 1: of weeks here around this time of year. That means
• 11:15
  Speaker 1: that the onus is on you to come up with
• 11:17
  Speaker 1: the question of the week.
• 11:19
  Speaker 7: Hey, this is a dumb question.
• 11:22
  Speaker 2: Let me ask you a personal question.
• 11:24
  Speaker 6: Kind of question?
• 11:25
  Speaker 8: Is that is question?
• 11:27
  Speaker 5: So production has informed me that it is Girl Scout Day,
• 11:32
  Speaker 5: National Girl Scout Day. I love a Girl Scout cookie,
• 11:36
  Speaker 5: so I would like to know what your favorite is
• 11:39
  Speaker 5: and if you think that there is one that is overrated,
• 11:41
  Speaker 5: because I believe that there is an obvious correct answer
• 11:44
  Speaker 5: to both of these.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'll take this first.
• 11:48
  Speaker 1: I actually think I'm pretty confident I am the most
• 11:52
  Speaker 1: reach recent purchaser of Girl Scout cookies on the podcast today.
• 11:57
  Speaker 1: I was at a farmer's market two weeks ago and
• 11:59
  Speaker 1: the Girl Scouts approached me. And you know that you
• 12:04
  Speaker 1: can't say no to those cute kids, So I bought
• 12:07
  Speaker 1: a box and thought I would go off the beaten path.
• 12:10
  Speaker 1: I have a feeling Kendri is gonna say that thin
• 12:13
  Speaker 1: mint is overrated. They had thin Mint, I chose to
• 12:16
  Speaker 1: go in a different direction. They had Rocky Road. Bad mistake,
• 12:23
  Speaker 1: and it's just sitting there in the pantry. They're not
• 12:25
  Speaker 1: It's just it's not good enough to justify the calorie count.
• 12:29
  Speaker 1: So they're just rotting in my pantry right now. But
• 12:33
  Speaker 1: I think peanut butter is probably the way to go.
• 12:35
  Speaker 1: That was the That was the error on my part.
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  Speaker 7: I don't need a ton of Girl Scout cookies.
• 12:40
  Speaker 6: So I am confirming what each of these categories are
• 12:44
  Speaker 6: and what they look like.
• 12:46
  Speaker 7: Uh. I believe the caramel delights on the ones I
• 12:50
  Speaker 7: probably would like the most.
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  Speaker 8: You're not a Girl Scout cookie guy.
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  Speaker 6: I'm not a huge one, and I believe I just
• 12:58
  Speaker 6: looked there's like a jelly one. If there's a jelly one,
• 13:00
  Speaker 6: I'm I'm a jelly and chocolate guy, So maybe that
• 13:03
  Speaker 6: would be the one I would go with.
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  Speaker 2: We don't eat we don't eat cookies in the hood.
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  Speaker 4: Next questions, I've never met a Girl Scout in my
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  Speaker 4: life that I knew was a Girl Scout. Never saw Yeah,
• 13:13
  Speaker 4: the only the only kid kids was like kids used
• 13:17
  Speaker 4: to steal those like Snickers, like those Snickers bars from
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  Speaker 4: the bodegas and like or and sell them on the
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  Speaker 4: train or the Welchis root snacks and they would sell
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  Speaker 4: them on a subway train for for a discount.
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  Speaker 3: That's the only time. I don't know.
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  Speaker 4: My friend I did buy some Girl Scout cookies once,
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  Speaker 4: but I never actually received them because I was just
• 13:36
  Speaker 4: doing it too.
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  Speaker 3: I think it was our one of our prior CEOs
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  Speaker 3: p K.
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  Speaker 4: I think his daughter had like a Girl Scout thing
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  Speaker 4: and and I just bought a bunch of bought a
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  Speaker 4: bunch of boxes, but like didn't actually want them delivered.
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  Speaker 3: So yeah, I've never I've never had a Girl Scout cookie.
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  Speaker 8: I think you just made a great point.
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  Speaker 5: I don't think I've ever met someone I know in
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  Speaker 5: real life as an.
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  Speaker 8: Adult that was a Girl Scout. Ever, huh, I'm like company, I.
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  Speaker 5: Like literally feel like oh and the Yeah, I feel
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  Speaker 5: like it's a money laundering scheme. However, the correct answer
• 14:12
  Speaker 5: the best ones are thin mint's, the worst are tag alongs.
• 14:15
  Speaker 5: My follow up question before we get back to hashtag sports.
• 14:19
  Speaker 5: The big argument up here in New England because weed
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  Speaker 5: is legal here, all of the Girl Scout moms will
• 14:25
  Speaker 5: go prop them up outside of the dispensaries.
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  Speaker 7: Smart and the.
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  Speaker 5: Girl Scouts will sell their cookies outside of dispensary. I
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  Speaker 5: personally think that this is fair game and good business.
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  Speaker 5: But it has been a big conversation up here. Do
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  Speaker 5: you guys think that selling Girl Scout cookies outside of
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  Speaker 5: the dispensary to vulnerable people is fair game?
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  Speaker 7: It's like the gym that has the bakery in front.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: My my college gym shared a wall with a pizza hut.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, and that was tough.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: What's the difference between that and Smoothie King posting up
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  Speaker 1: at a gym selling protein smoothies?
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  Speaker 8: Exactly?
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  Speaker 2: That's just good business, the business.
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  Speaker 5: Okay, that was like, wow, I really think that this
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  Speaker 5: might be a money laundering scheme.
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  Speaker 7: Now.
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  Speaker 8: I don't know a single Girl Scout.
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  Speaker 1: I did not think when we went live here that
• 15:09
  Speaker 1: we were going to uncover the the grand schemes.
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  Speaker 2: There was probably a.
• 15:13
  Speaker 4: Saint there probably was Girl Scouts back into boomer days.
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  Speaker 4: But then they were like, you know what, we just
• 15:18
  Speaker 4: we got the cookies. We don't need the girl Scouts.
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  Speaker 4: It was just a brilliant business decision.
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  Speaker 8: By Women's Months.
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  Speaker 5: We're not gonna We're not gonna be mean to the
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  Speaker 5: girl Scouts.
• 15:28
  Speaker 3: I've never met a boy scout either.
• 15:30
  Speaker 2: Boy scouts they definitely don't sell cookies.
• 15:33
  Speaker 8: So many boy scouts. That's the boys that I know
• 15:35
  Speaker 8: that can.
• 15:38
  Speaker 1: NFL Free Agency was electric and eclectic, as are we
• 15:42
  Speaker 1: in the.
• 15:43
  Speaker 4: First So was that first first few minutes of the podcast.
• 15:48
  Speaker 1: Chris Raybond's here to help us break it down, So
• 15:50
  Speaker 1: let's get into it. Let's start with what in the
• 15:52
  Speaker 1: world is going on in Baltimore. I'm curious how they
• 15:57
  Speaker 1: actually feel about this. Eric the cost of the GM
• 16:01
  Speaker 1: pretended like he was just up all night in tears.
• 16:04
  Speaker 1: I'm not sure I believe him. So Max Crosby, if
• 16:06
  Speaker 1: you haven't heard, failed as physical. He was in Baltimore.
• 16:11
  Speaker 1: He was putting up pictures from a hotel at the
• 16:13
  Speaker 1: Inner Harbor and then failed as physical. And now the
• 16:17
  Speaker 1: trade has been rescinded and the Ravens will get their
• 16:20
  Speaker 1: two first round picks back. Raybon, how do you think
• 16:23
  Speaker 1: the Ravens actually feel about this, especially now they wound
• 16:26
  Speaker 1: up with Trey Hendrickson.
• 16:28
  Speaker 4: I think it felt great because number one, apparently they
• 16:34
  Speaker 4: were kind of courting both at the same time, so
• 16:37
  Speaker 4: they kind they kind of knew one where the other
• 16:39
  Speaker 4: day were going to get one of the top two
• 16:41
  Speaker 4: edge rushers on the market. They got the guy from
• 16:45
  Speaker 4: their division rival, and remember Tom was no longer in Pittsburgh.
• 16:49
  Speaker 4: Who knows what they got a quarterback. The Browns are
• 16:52
  Speaker 4: the Browns, so like this has this might shrink back
• 16:55
  Speaker 4: to that like a initial two team race that we
• 16:57
  Speaker 4: always think it's going to be. And then Pittsburgh kind
• 16:59
  Speaker 4: of MUCKs things up, so they not only steal their
• 17:03
  Speaker 4: the Edgdresser from their division rival, but they also don't
• 17:08
  Speaker 4: have to give up two first round picks. And what's
• 17:11
  Speaker 4: one of the things the Ravens do really well draft,
• 17:15
  Speaker 4: So I think I think it's a win for them.
• 17:18
  Speaker 4: I think they had a really good Like they kind
• 17:20
  Speaker 4: of framed it as, oh, we had.
• 17:21
  Speaker 3: Two plan a's. I actually think that's true.
• 17:24
  Speaker 4: And I think a lot of people are gonna be
• 17:25
  Speaker 4: looking at the Ravens like there's still a stench because
• 17:28
  Speaker 4: you know, they lose their coach, they will they you know,
• 17:31
  Speaker 4: the way this last season ended just all the blown opportunities,
• 17:34
  Speaker 4: But this actually might be a good thing for them,
• 17:36
  Speaker 4: like high end needle mover, you know, new regime. They're
• 17:40
  Speaker 4: kind of getting rid of some of these other guys that,
• 17:42
  Speaker 4: like like the Patrick the cards of the team that
• 17:45
  Speaker 4: were like important but probably not worth as much money
• 17:48
  Speaker 4: or snaps as they were getting. So this could be
• 17:52
  Speaker 4: good for the Ravens, really good. So I'm not as
• 17:54
  Speaker 4: down on it as a lot of people. I think
• 17:56
  Speaker 4: that I think that whatever, like, we're always going to
• 18:00
  Speaker 4: get the best of most teams and deals anyway. They're
• 18:02
  Speaker 4: They're just a well run team. So if it has
• 18:05
  Speaker 4: any repercussions as far as teams wanting to do business
• 18:07
  Speaker 4: with them, they're still always like the Jacks and the
• 18:09
  Speaker 4: Titans and teams you can fleece.
• 18:12
  Speaker 8: That's yeah, that was gonna be my follow up.
• 18:13
  Speaker 5: We talked before everyone kind of got on the pod
• 18:16
  Speaker 5: about how do.
• 18:16
  Speaker 8: I think that this is the better move for the Ravens.
• 18:19
  Speaker 5: Yes, I just don't like how they did it, and
• 18:22
  Speaker 5: I think that it's definitely gonna leave a bitter taste
• 18:25
  Speaker 5: in a lot of teams' mouths who want to do
• 18:27
  Speaker 5: business with them in the future. I guess I can
• 18:30
  Speaker 5: open it up to the class. Do we think that
• 18:32
  Speaker 5: this is going to hurt the Ravens in the long
• 18:35
  Speaker 5: term and also especially now that it's become public news
• 18:39
  Speaker 5: that both of them were in the building at the
• 18:41
  Speaker 5: same time.
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: I think they wanted I genuinely think they wanted to
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: sign both of them. Tyler Linderbaum went out the door,
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: and they needed to strengthen a strength. And if they're
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: going to sign one and they have the money to
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: sign the other, it just get both ends of the
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: d line figured out.
• 18:57
  Speaker 2: That would be an elite.
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: Defa front if you had those two coming off of
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: the Kravitz. But I started to buy into that more
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: over the last twenty four hours that they actually wanted
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: to sign both. But you said, are they Are they
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: in worse shape? I think they're in better shape. They
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: get a they get an elite edge rusher, and they
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: keep their picks. They're in a great spot.
• 19:19
  Speaker 8: It was the right move. I'm just saying it looked smelly.
• 19:24
  Speaker 2: Oh definitely.
• 19:24
  Speaker 7: Look, the whole thing is really smelly.
• 19:26
  Speaker 6: If I had to pick between Crosby and Hendrickson, I'd
• 19:29
  Speaker 6: take Crosby, but I would also then take my two
• 19:31
  Speaker 6: first round picks. So I would take the hendricksonside of this.
• 19:34
  Speaker 6: I think pretty much as simple as that, Like player
• 19:37
  Speaker 6: to player, it's a really good comparison. There's age, there's
• 19:41
  Speaker 6: you know, all sorts of different status you.
• 19:42
  Speaker 7: Can look at.
• 19:43
  Speaker 6: But when you add in the fact that they're good
• 19:44
  Speaker 6: at drafting and they get their two first round picks back,
• 19:47
  Speaker 6: I mean, whether they had both guys in the building
• 19:49
  Speaker 6: at the same time or not, they just looked at
• 19:52
  Speaker 6: option A and Option B and said, oh, we can
• 19:54
  Speaker 6: get out of this and do this. And I think
• 19:56
  Speaker 6: they just took the better option because they're a smart
• 19:58
  Speaker 6: team and trades onto a diva.
• 20:00
  Speaker 5: I wouldn't like, are you kidding the way that he
• 20:02
  Speaker 5: I don't know if you guys remember last night outside
• 20:09
  Speaker 5: of the window when he was on the way to Florida,
• 20:11
  Speaker 5: like he was in a Michelle Branch music video.
• 20:14
  Speaker 8: Give me a break.
• 20:15
  Speaker 4: He's gonna get like he's gonna get like nine sacks
• 20:18
  Speaker 4: combined in the two games against the Bengals on Joe Burrow,
• 20:21
  Speaker 4: Like he's gonna single handedly be the reason they missed
• 20:23
  Speaker 4: the playoffs again or something like this. He's gonna be
• 20:26
  Speaker 4: a man possessed and Hendrickson plus two first rounders or
• 20:31
  Speaker 4: Hendrickson plus Crosby. I think you take Henderson was two
• 20:34
  Speaker 4: verse rounds, like I haven't said because because I think
• 20:37
  Speaker 4: Henderson plus Crosby would have been an overkill. It would
• 20:42
  Speaker 4: have been a reaction to the Ravens of the past.
• 20:44
  Speaker 4: But they're trying to move on from that. They're trying
• 20:46
  Speaker 4: to move on from those days. Minter he did like
• 20:51
  Speaker 4: amazing work with the Charge with the Chargers defense that
• 20:55
  Speaker 4: was on paper very average, So he'll be able to
• 20:59
  Speaker 4: scheme up this defense without needing two of the top
• 21:05
  Speaker 4: four edge rushers in the NFL. Essentially, I think I
• 21:08
  Speaker 4: think those first round picks. I think they're better for
• 21:10
  Speaker 4: having the first round picks.
• 21:11
  Speaker 7: The question to me is more about the Raiders.
• 21:13
  Speaker 2: That's exactly what I was gonna say.
• 21:15
  Speaker 3: Of course it's gonna smell it's the Raiders, but.
• 21:19
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's screwed, go ahead, Evan.
• 21:23
  Speaker 7: No.
• 21:23
  Speaker 6: I was more gonna say, like talent wise, like you
• 21:25
  Speaker 6: keep keep keeping Crosby plus doing everything they didn't free agency. Uh,
• 21:29
  Speaker 6: I mean, I guess it depends on what you think
• 21:31
  Speaker 6: about Mendoza, but they've definitely gotten better in a really
• 21:35
  Speaker 6: difficult division.
• 21:36
  Speaker 7: Uh so kind of tough to figure out.
• 21:38
  Speaker 4: I will also say, just you know, kind of looking
• 21:41
  Speaker 4: at the Raiders again, and it kind of plays into
• 21:44
  Speaker 4: what we think about the long term impact for the
• 21:46
  Speaker 4: Ravens and just everything. Some of it's just like to
• 21:49
  Speaker 4: be determined, right because we still don't exactly know how
• 21:53
  Speaker 4: much credence there was to failing his physical right, like,
• 21:58
  Speaker 4: because first of all, what we do know is the
• 22:01
  Speaker 4: Raiders tried to trade him. The Ravens could have had him,
• 22:06
  Speaker 4: so two teams now essentially said no to Max Crosby.
• 22:10
  Speaker 4: So like, once he steps on the field this year,
• 22:15
  Speaker 4: that or if he can step on the field this year,
• 22:18
  Speaker 4: then we'll know more.
• 22:19
  Speaker 3: But until then, and also what.
• 22:21
  Speaker 4: If the Ravens, if the Raiders trade him again or
• 22:24
  Speaker 4: move them again somewhere else, what do they get in return?
• 22:26
  Speaker 5: Now?
• 22:29
  Speaker 3: Yeah?
• 22:29
  Speaker 4: Right, So all those things I think will kind of
• 22:31
  Speaker 4: shape the final kind of result. But I think it's
• 22:36
  Speaker 4: still it's still to be determined on the Raiders side.
• 22:38
  Speaker 4: But I think for the Ravens, I think I think
• 22:40
  Speaker 4: you're fine getting Trey Hendrickson keeping your picks and you
• 22:44
  Speaker 4: have a you have a guy you know running the
• 22:46
  Speaker 4: team that specializes in defense, and I think will get
• 22:49
  Speaker 4: it done without needing to pay that much, especially because
• 22:53
  Speaker 4: you got you know, you got Lamar, Like you're already
• 22:55
  Speaker 4: one of those teams. It's not like you're in your
• 22:57
  Speaker 4: rookie quarterback window. So I think that would be a
• 22:59
  Speaker 4: move for for like a Patriots or somebody like that,
• 23:02
  Speaker 4: if they wanted to do something like that.
• 23:04
  Speaker 3: But you're paying Lamar.
• 23:06
  Speaker 5: So it's funny that you bring that up, because one,
• 23:09
  Speaker 5: what is the new asking price for him?
• 23:11
  Speaker 8: Realistically?
• 23:11
  Speaker 5: But two you have to look at how Tom Brady
• 23:14
  Speaker 5: looks in all of this, because he said that he
• 23:17
  Speaker 5: didn't want to do business for Max Crosby with the Patriots,
• 23:21
  Speaker 5: So who are their realistic options now? Because I also
• 23:24
  Speaker 5: thought the Patriots, but Brady kind of shot himself in
• 23:26
  Speaker 5: the foot saying he didn't want to do business with
• 23:28
  Speaker 5: New England And who could the potential takers be.
• 23:32
  Speaker 7: I don't think there's going.
• 23:33
  Speaker 6: To be many teams that are going to give away
• 23:34
  Speaker 6: two first round picks if that's going to be what
• 23:36
  Speaker 6: And they've already stayed to be wanting there, and they've
• 23:39
  Speaker 6: stated already that that's what they're still looking for. I
• 23:41
  Speaker 6: believe it's it's keeping Crosby or getting that type of stash,
• 23:45
  Speaker 6: And I think at this point they're probably gonna end
• 23:47
  Speaker 6: up keeping Crosby or giving him away for less would
• 23:50
  Speaker 6: be probably how this goes. And I would also assume
• 23:53
  Speaker 6: he's he'll be ready for September. Like I don't necessarily
• 23:58
  Speaker 6: think that's the issue. I think it's like what you
• 24:01
  Speaker 6: see in the medical to going forward, like you know,
• 24:03
  Speaker 6: how how much time do you actually have with this
• 24:05
  Speaker 6: guy based off the medicals? Now it could be bs right,
• 24:08
  Speaker 6: like what the Ravens could be saying could be actually
• 24:10
  Speaker 6: absolute uh crap in this scenario.
• 24:13
  Speaker 7: But either way, it could you know, stop other teams.
• 24:17
  Speaker 4: I mean, it's I think it's I think that possibility
• 24:20
  Speaker 4: is going underlooked, like oh wow, again, like the Raiders
• 24:24
  Speaker 4: traded this guy the Ray like they're bringing in a
• 24:27
  Speaker 4: lot of people. They traded this guy, and then the Ravens,
• 24:31
  Speaker 4: a team that is clearly in a win now like
• 24:34
  Speaker 4: new regime, like could definitely have used him, and the
• 24:38
  Speaker 4: Raves that admitted that they they were signing both said no.
• 24:42
  Speaker 4: So it's like and he's still back on the Raiders.
• 24:46
  Speaker 4: It's not like other teams immediately like there could have
• 24:49
  Speaker 4: been like this is this is what two day old
• 24:51
  Speaker 4: news now, you know, like other teams could have swooped
• 24:54
  Speaker 4: in already. He's still a Raider, So in my opinion,
• 24:59
  Speaker 4: there's there's definitely something up with this. It's kind of
• 25:01
  Speaker 4: kind of reminds me of like that when it's a
• 25:03
  Speaker 4: little different because it happened later in the off season,
• 25:05
  Speaker 4: but that that you're Christian McCaffrey. They were like, oh, yeah,
• 25:07
  Speaker 4: he's going to Germany or something to get some something
• 25:09
  Speaker 4: with his calf, and then it was like he just
• 25:11
  Speaker 4: sent to We missed like the entire season pretty much,
• 25:14
  Speaker 4: and it's just like, something's up with this because I
• 25:17
  Speaker 4: don't I don't think the Ravens would have just hurt
• 25:20
  Speaker 4: like they agreed to the deal. It's not like I
• 25:23
  Speaker 4: don't think it's as simple as okay, they decided Hendrickson
• 25:26
  Speaker 4: was better, because I think Crosby is probably a tiny
• 25:30
  Speaker 4: bit better. So yeah, yeah, I think there could be
• 25:34
  Speaker 4: some smoke here.
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: We had our best and least our favorites in terms
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: of the signings in free agency. We did that episode already,
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: but we want to get your thoughts on that. Your
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: favorite and least favorite signing from the first couple of
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: waves of free agency.
• 25:51
  Speaker 4: Chris rayven favorite easily the Rams acquiring McDuffie and Watson,
• 25:59
  Speaker 4: the two corners from the Chiefs. If you look at
• 26:03
  Speaker 4: the Rams, this is a super Bowl team almost every
• 26:08
  Speaker 4: year under Sean McVay, a super Bowl cottender. Matthew Stafford
• 26:12
  Speaker 4: still at the top of his game. The offense will
• 26:13
  Speaker 4: be fine, the defense great under Shula that you know,
• 26:17
  Speaker 4: the d line, a lot of young guys there. Front
• 26:20
  Speaker 4: seven is solid overall. The issue was at cornerback.
• 26:25
  Speaker 3: Last year.
• 26:25
  Speaker 4: They gave up nineteen touchdowns in the regular season just
• 26:29
  Speaker 4: the Ram corners alone. If you look at the other
• 26:30
  Speaker 4: playoff teams, Philadelphia's corners four, San Francisco nine, Carolina eleven,
• 26:36
  Speaker 4: Seattle twelve, Chicago thirteen, Red Bay seventeen. So the Rams
• 26:41
  Speaker 4: corners gave up almost double as many touchdowns as like
• 26:44
  Speaker 4: most of the playoff other playoff teams, So they severely
• 26:48
  Speaker 4: needed an upgrade at that position.
• 26:51
  Speaker 3: They've got it.
• 26:52
  Speaker 4: Watson hasn't given up a touchdown since twenty twenty three.
• 26:56
  Speaker 4: And you know mcduffiely, we know he's a top end
• 26:59
  Speaker 4: corner and most of these guys can play man coverage too,
• 27:02
  Speaker 4: so I think it gives the Rams a lot more options.
• 27:04
  Speaker 4: They also resigned Curl, you know, wake they have who's
• 27:07
  Speaker 4: just an amazing player as well. So I think when
• 27:11
  Speaker 4: you look at the Seahawks, how did they win?
• 27:13
  Speaker 3: How did they win it?
• 27:13
  Speaker 7: All?
• 27:13
  Speaker 3: Their secondary? It was amazing.
• 27:15
  Speaker 4: Uh, the Eagles a year before that secondary amazing. So
• 27:19
  Speaker 4: the Rams now have a chance to have an amazing
• 27:22
  Speaker 4: secondary and the team around that secondary is top notch,
• 27:27
  Speaker 4: so that that was easily my favorite.
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: Would you bet them plus seven fifty right now to
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: win the Super Bowl?
• 27:34
  Speaker 2: I would.
• 27:34
  Speaker 4: It's it's not a ton of value, but I do
• 27:36
  Speaker 4: like to kind of bet the Rams and the Niners
• 27:40
  Speaker 4: and the and whoever else. I think every in the
• 27:43
  Speaker 4: NFC every year, because it's usually either a McVeigh team
• 27:45
  Speaker 4: or Shanahan team the Eagles, like that's it's kind of
• 27:48
  Speaker 4: who it is. It's been until until the Seahawks kind
• 27:51
  Speaker 4: of stuffed the picture actor. But it could have easily
• 27:52
  Speaker 4: been the Rams last year. Could have easily been the
• 27:56
  Speaker 4: Niners last year if they if they didn't get so hurt.
• 27:58
  Speaker 3: So yeah, I think, you know I would.
• 28:00
  Speaker 4: I would hope to get a bat like I would
• 28:01
  Speaker 4: hope to get getting down to at least tend to one.
• 28:04
  Speaker 4: You know these right now, it's it's it's probably at
• 28:07
  Speaker 4: a peak because coming off to signing, you know there's
• 28:10
  Speaker 4: gonna be some other contenders that are gonna probably max
• 28:12
  Speaker 4: some more moves and things like that. You know, the
• 28:14
  Speaker 4: Rams always kind of moved their draft picks. But but
• 28:16
  Speaker 4: still I wouldn't mind it. I think they're right there
• 28:19
  Speaker 4: like this is this is just a really good move for.
• 28:21
  Speaker 3: Them, and it hurts it hurts the Chiefs.
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: Honestly, was it harder for you to come up with
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: your favorite or your least favorite free agent move?
• 28:30
  Speaker 4: The favorite was easy? So yeah, I would say least
• 28:32
  Speaker 4: favorite because there's multiple it's.
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: Kind So that's usually how it works in free agency.
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: There's so much there's so many dumb moves that go on.
• 28:40
  Speaker 2: I often say that.
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: If people get so caught up in the headlines and
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: you want your team to make moves, usually if your
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: team is not even in the news during the first
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: second wave of free agency, you're winning free agency by
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: just not getting involved in this ship.
• 28:57
  Speaker 2: But what's who's your least favorite?
• 29:01
  Speaker 4: I think I gotta go with if it's just one move,
• 29:06
  Speaker 4: David Montgomery. And I know it's more of like it
• 29:09
  Speaker 4: was a trade, but the David Montgomery to the Texans thing,
• 29:13
  Speaker 4: because it's like number one, clearly an overreaction to the
• 29:17
  Speaker 4: way they exited the playoffs when Woody Marks had like
• 29:21
  Speaker 4: eighteen carries for negative eighteen yards or whatever it was
• 29:24
  Speaker 4: in that game against the Patriots. So they go out
• 29:26
  Speaker 4: and get Montgomery, they trade multiple draft picks for him.
• 29:31
  Speaker 4: He was I was already coming into last season, like
• 29:34
  Speaker 4: I was telling Kerner every flex pot we did, I
• 29:36
  Speaker 4: was like, this, it's not gonna be a good season
• 29:38
  Speaker 4: for him. This is the year you gotta get off
• 29:39
  Speaker 4: the Montgomery train. He clearly regressed last year and this
• 29:44
  Speaker 4: and now the Texans are doing this. And I just
• 29:46
  Speaker 4: don't like many of the Texans moves on offense period.
• 29:49
  Speaker 4: I mean, it's it just doesn't doesn't look like there's
• 29:54
  Speaker 4: any rhyme or reason to it. I don't necessarily think,
• 29:56
  Speaker 4: you know, their offensive line moves are moving the needle either.
• 30:00
  Speaker 4: But speaking of offensive line, if it's more of a
• 30:03
  Speaker 4: collective team that just we favorite the Browns like their
• 30:08
  Speaker 4: their whole offensive line is gone. I don't think they
• 30:10
  Speaker 4: signed anybody that's like a needle mover on the offensive line.
• 30:14
  Speaker 4: They overpaid for pretty much everyone they did sign. They're
• 30:17
  Speaker 4: not drafting first, so their quarterback situation is still up
• 30:20
  Speaker 4: in the air. They didn't get Willis, So yeah, the
• 30:24
  Speaker 4: brown the Browns as a team, Montgomery, the Montgomery trade
• 30:27
  Speaker 4: for the Texans as an individual movie, because I just think,
• 30:31
  Speaker 4: I mean, you could have just signed Kenny's Gang, well
• 30:35
  Speaker 4: Rico Doubt of somebody like that, and you would have
• 30:37
  Speaker 4: had to give up multiple draft picks to get that
• 30:39
  Speaker 4: done and they would have been very affordable. It's like
• 30:41
  Speaker 4: it was kind of like how the Cowboys last year.
• 30:44
  Speaker 4: I know it ended up working out because they got
• 30:47
  Speaker 4: they got Williams, Javonte Williams, but you know, first they
• 30:50
  Speaker 4: gave up doubting and he ended up signing somewhere like
• 30:53
  Speaker 4: in Carolina for really cheap where it was like you
• 30:55
  Speaker 4: could have avoided all that shuffling and they ended up
• 30:58
  Speaker 4: needing a second back at times anyway, and they could
• 31:00
  Speaker 4: have just had doubt in the building again and just didn't.
• 31:02
  Speaker 4: So I just think that I don't think the Texts
• 31:04
  Speaker 4: needed to do this. I think their their issue was
• 31:07
  Speaker 4: offensive line, and it's like they're just kind of running
• 31:09
  Speaker 4: in place there, like they moved on from Howard and
• 31:12
  Speaker 4: but it's it's still just not like Brown is an
• 31:15
  Speaker 4: injury risk, you know, urseries.
• 31:18
  Speaker 3: He was okay. But yeah, I think I think the
• 31:21
  Speaker 3: Texas is still gonna have issues.
• 31:22
  Speaker 5: I was gonna say, you talked about players you loved,
• 31:26
  Speaker 5: didn't love needle movers a least favorite team. Is there
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  Speaker 5: a team that has done a bunch of stuff or
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  Speaker 5: has sat properly and not done anything that you're happy with,
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  Speaker 5: or that has moved the needle for you in a
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  Speaker 5: positive way, maybe getting closer to the window on winning
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  Speaker 5: a division or a super Bowl chase or something like that.
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  Speaker 4: In a positive way, Like a team that's like essentially
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  Speaker 4: been quiet.
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  Speaker 5: You mean, no, I'm asking is there a team that, like,
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  Speaker 5: whether they stayed quiet and that's been good for them,
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  Speaker 5: or they made a bunch of moves and that's been.
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  Speaker 8: Good for them.
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  Speaker 5: Who's like a positive Who do you think is the
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  Speaker 5: most positive outcome?
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  Speaker 4: So I actually think, and this is gonna be a
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  Speaker 4: probably a controversial one, but I think the Titans they
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  Speaker 4: made a lot of moves and the interesting no, here's
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  Speaker 4: the thing, A lot of their moves are panned, right,
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  Speaker 4: It's like, Okay, they're getting all these former giants and
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  Speaker 4: they're doing all this stuff. But remember these highly drafted
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  Speaker 4: quarterbacks over the last few years, they've usually had a
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  Speaker 4: really good year at some point in their first three years,
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  Speaker 4: Like Bryce Young third year Panthers go to the playoffs.
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  Speaker 4: You know, Jayden Daniels year one, Stroud every year, Drake
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  Speaker 4: May big year. So if cam Wore makes a jump.
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  Speaker 4: The Titans had so much money they were gonna have
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  Speaker 4: to spend it regardless. They spent a lot of money
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  Speaker 4: in free agency on defense. Salah Is you know, he's
• 32:49
  Speaker 4: had really good defense wherever he goes, and they got,
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  Speaker 4: you know, some some pieces on offense too, and they
• 32:56
  Speaker 4: still have the draft and they don't need a quarterback.
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  Speaker 4: So you could be looking at the Titans as like, Okay,
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  Speaker 4: they everyone's gonna think they're gonna be terrible. They're easily
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  Speaker 4: gonna everyone's gonna pick them last place, easily.
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  Speaker 8: But I was gonna say the Colts in that division.
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  Speaker 3: Well, yeah, well it depends.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, if Daniel Jones comes back on schedule, it
• 33:15
  Speaker 4: makes it a little more interesting. But yeah, I just
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  Speaker 4: think the Titans have at least the potential and that
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  Speaker 4: could have it could it could go really bad. But
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  Speaker 4: I just I think they have the potential at least.
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  Speaker 4: But I mean, the Rams moves stand out to me
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  Speaker 4: just because that was already a team that was Even
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  Speaker 4: if they don't make these moves, they're a Super Bowl contender.
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  Speaker 4: They addressed their biggest weakness twice over with two high
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  Speaker 4: quality players, like both of those guys were in the
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  Speaker 4: top thirteen among over ninety qualified corners in PFF's grades
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  Speaker 4: last season, and their safeties. They also have three excellent safeties,
• 33:48
  Speaker 4: so like you now have, you could have like a
• 33:51
  Speaker 4: Seahawks level secondary for the Rams. So I think it
• 33:54
  Speaker 4: would be the Rams, but a low key team. Depending
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  Speaker 4: on how their draft goes, the Titans.
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  Speaker 3: Could be interesting.
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  Speaker 1: Mike Evans, that was my favorite move of free agency,
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  Speaker 1: the forty nine ers, landing him with the infrastructure that
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: they already have in place, assuming the power plant doesn't
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: get in the way of his health. Do you think
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: he has enough left to be a factor for the
• 34:17
  Speaker 1: San Francisco forty nine ers.
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  Speaker 3: He has enough left. Absolutely. I don't love the move
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  Speaker 3: because he's old. The Niners already are.
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  Speaker 4: He's old, and he's slow and now he for the
• 34:31
  Speaker 4: first time in his career was hurt, like or not,
• 34:35
  Speaker 4: it's not the first time, but who was hurt to
• 34:36
  Speaker 4: the point where he couldn't get his thousand yards. So
• 34:40
  Speaker 4: it's like the Niners are kind of playing with fire here.
• 34:43
  Speaker 4: Trent Williams Old might be traded Christop McCaffrey. Old not
• 34:49
  Speaker 4: as fast anymore. Who's fast on their receiving corps? Now
• 34:54
  Speaker 4: Kittle's been getting hurt of Like, I just feel like
• 34:58
  Speaker 4: he's good, and I guess if you're not gonna resign
• 35:01
  Speaker 4: Jennings like he's a he's a good replacement for that.
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  Speaker 4: But it just worries me that like this era of
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  Speaker 4: Mike Evans career could end up being like kind of
• 35:09
  Speaker 4: like a lot of twenty twenty five type Mike Evans
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  Speaker 4: seasons where it's like he's it's like he's when he's
• 35:16
  Speaker 4: on the field. Rock Carty's throwing three hundred and eighty
• 35:19
  Speaker 4: yards and four touchdowns, but he only plays seven or
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  Speaker 4: eight games. So that that's my worry with So I
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  Speaker 4: like it from the sense of like they needed receivers,
• 35:30
  Speaker 4: but I don't like that they're still a little old
• 35:33
  Speaker 4: and slow at the scope positions.
• 35:36
  Speaker 1: That is what has happened already. We're gonna keep Raybonn
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: around for tomorrow's episode. We're gonna go through what's gonna
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: happen next, So Chris, don't go anywhere. We're gonna hold
• 35:48
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