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9-29-26 - Brett being fair about the Broncos?/CFB STOCK UP - STOCK DOWN/Nuggets media day · The Appetizer Hour with Brett Kane

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  Speaker 1: This is the Appetizer Hour with Brett Cain on demand.
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  Speaker 1: Check out Brett weekday mornings at 6 on Altitude Sports
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  Speaker 2: Hey, what's up, everybody? You know, unfortunately, I missed yesterday's show.
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  Speaker 2: I was not even able to tune in, courtesy of
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  Speaker 3: That's WilhiteWins.com.
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  Speaker 2: But even though I missed the show, I'm pretty sure
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  Speaker 2: I could tell you exactly how it went down. So
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to take a guess here. Brett probably started
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  Speaker 2: the show by bellyaching about how the Broncos offense was
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  Speaker 2: absolute ass for about three quarters against the Rams. But
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  Speaker 2: the offense turned it on when they need to and
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  Speaker 2: mounted another thrilling comeback in the face of defeat. Bo
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  Speaker 2: Nix did what Bo Nix does, but ultimately the win
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  Speaker 2: still came down to the Broncos defense bailing them out,
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  Speaker 2: making plays better. in the clutch and let's be real
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  Speaker 2: on that last touchdown drive they got a lot of
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  Speaker 2: favorable calls from the officials maybe a little bit of
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  Speaker 2: home cooking courtesy of good old Roger Goodell and so
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  Speaker 2: Brett was offering up his criticisms of the game and
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  Speaker 2: everybody got mad at him because shut up nerd how
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  Speaker 2: you win doesn't matter the point is they beat the
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  Speaker 2: Super Bowl favorites in primetime another win for the Broncos
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  Speaker 2: Broncos country let's ride shut up Brett all the texters
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  Speaker 2: were mad at him all morning long for actually having
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  Speaker 2: intellectual thoughts and legitimate criticisms about some of the shortcomings
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  Speaker 2: of this team is that about it did I miss
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  Speaker 2: anything Basically, Brett, I don't know what they're paying you
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  Speaker 2: right now, but it's probably too much. Because every Monday morning,
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  Speaker 2: you just get to come in and do the same
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  Speaker 2: exact show that you've been doing for at least a year,
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  Speaker 2: maybe longer.
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  Speaker 3: You would be incorrect, sir. I did not do that yesterday.
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  Speaker 1: I said.
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  Speaker 3: And I mean this. I mean this with all sincerity.
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  Speaker 3: Are you sure? Textures can back me up. I did
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  Speaker 3: not play that game yesterday. You beat a team like
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  Speaker 3: the Rams no matter how you do it. That deserves respect.
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  Speaker 3: And I have now been so beaten into submission on this,
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  Speaker 3: I can't do it anymore. So, Nelly, you are wrong, sir.
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  Speaker 3: I would say very much a fair assumption.
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  Speaker 5: How could you be so sure?
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  Speaker 3: I would have assumed that I would have done the
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  Speaker 3: exact thing that you just talked about. But I did
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  Speaker 3: change my tune, we'll say. Because to me, if you
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  Speaker 3: beat a team like the Rams, it doesn't matter how
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  Speaker 3: you do it. That's a good win. And I am
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  Speaker 3: just now going to assume that this is who the
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  Speaker 3: Broncos are. This whole thing, remember, when I talk about
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  Speaker 3: not getting off to an early start, when I discuss
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  Speaker 3: the idea of I don't think the way that you're
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  Speaker 3: winning is a sustainable thing, that's all under the assumption that, hey, if, if,
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  Speaker 3: You play this way against good teams, it won't work.
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  Speaker 3: And guess what? It does.
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  Speaker 1: Still.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, we had this whole discussion yesterday. Vic was saying, well, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: it works when you're at home, but it doesn't work
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  Speaker 3: on the road. And I'm like, are we sure?
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  Speaker 1: Like, do.
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  Speaker 3: Vic said, you need to get off to a hot
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  Speaker 3: start on the road next week against San Francisco. And
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  Speaker 3: my response was, do you? I don't think you do.
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  Speaker 3: I think you can weasel your way through the first half,
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  Speaker 3: find a couple of plays to be made late in
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  Speaker 3: the game, and then you're in the clear for another W. Like,
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  Speaker 3: think about this. The way that the Broncos win football games,
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  Speaker 3: which is late game, almost execution to perfection. It's what
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  Speaker 3: it is. And I put that side by side with
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  Speaker 3: whatever the hell the Eagles did last night. They're playing
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  Speaker 3: against a Chicago team who lost to the backup to
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  Speaker 3: the backup. Oh, but Case Keenum's a veteran in this league.
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  Speaker 3: He's ancient. Case Keenum's a fossil. He's played for 8
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  Speaker 3: billion teams in this league. You know what good players
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  Speaker 3: don't do?
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  Speaker 5: That.
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  Speaker 3: Case Keenum, hang on. He played for Houston. He played
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  Speaker 3: for the Rams. He played for Minnesota. He played for Denver.
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  Speaker 3: He played for Washington. He played for Cleveland. He played
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  Speaker 3: for Buffalo. He played for Houston. He played for Chicago.
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  Speaker 3: Nine different teams. Nine, that is not what good players
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  Speaker 3: in this league do.
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  Speaker 2: You know, honestly, who I think Case Keenum owes a
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  Speaker 2: steak dinner or something is that rookie corner on the
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  Speaker 2: Saints who forgot how to tackle Stefan Diggs at the
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  Speaker 2: Miracle at Minnesota.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, earned him a lot of money.
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  Speaker 2: Because that play single-handedly is what got him the contract
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  Speaker 2: with the Broncos and probably launched him into the rest
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  Speaker 2: of his career.
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  Speaker 3: Well, he had his best season of his career in
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  Speaker 3: Minnesota that year. I mean, yeah, it all came together
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  Speaker 3: with that play to Diggs in the postseason. But I just,
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  Speaker 3: I don't know. I don't know anything about anything in
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  Speaker 3: the NFL. It's been such a confusing first three weeks.
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  Speaker 3: Here's the one thing, honestly, without question, the one thing
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  Speaker 3: that I truly know in the NFL this year that
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  Speaker 3: is unquestionable to me is the Broncos are the exact
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  Speaker 3: same team.
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  Speaker 4: Truly.
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  Speaker 3: Look around the league and tell me anything that you're
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  Speaker 3: assured of in the NFL through close to a fifth
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  Speaker 3: of the season now that's wrapped up. The only thing
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  Speaker 3: we truly know is that the Broncos are the exact
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  Speaker 3: same thing. from last year. That's it. Yeah, you could say, well,
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  Speaker 3: I know the Bills are good. Okay, fine. There is not,
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  Speaker 3: the Raiders are 3-0. No idea if they're good or not.
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  Speaker 3: No idea. The Vikings are 3-0. No idea if that's
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  Speaker 3: sustainable with their quarterback play. I have no idea. The
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  Speaker 3: Patriots are 1-2, and Drake May looks absolutely terrible. Is
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  Speaker 3: that truly who they are? One team has been the
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  Speaker 3: exact same thing as they were last year, and that's
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  Speaker 3: the Broncos. Lull you to sleep, lull you to sleep,
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  Speaker 3: gigantic comeback. How did they win? That's how it is
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  Speaker 3: every week. And look, maybe... Maybe this is on me
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  Speaker 3: to a certain extent for thinking this was going to
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  Speaker 3: look supremely different. You know, I just had hopes that
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  Speaker 3: when Davis Webb took over, some of the stuff that
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  Speaker 3: we're discussing would have been a little bit different. You know,
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  Speaker 3: that you would get off to a better start to...
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  Speaker 3: the game offensively, that you'd make a commitment and have
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  Speaker 3: more success in the running game. But bottom line is,
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  Speaker 3: if they are the exact same team as they were
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  Speaker 3: last year, well, that team won 14 games. Texture has
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  Speaker 3: a great point. I am positive the Dolphins are trash.
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  Speaker 3: very good point. So there's two things that we know.
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  Speaker 3: We know the Broncos are the same team as last
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  Speaker 3: year and the dolphins aren't good at football. Uh, texture says, Brett,
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  Speaker 3: you better put respect in the case. Kingdom guy. He's
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  Speaker 3: the second player in NFL history to win a game
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  Speaker 3: with seven different franchises. The only other guy to do
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  Speaker 3: that is our personal Lord and savior, Ryan Fitzpatrick. Here's
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  Speaker 3: the thing. Uh, The Eagles are also frustrating. I am
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  Speaker 3: not a Nick Sirianni guy. I have this feeling that
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  Speaker 3: Jalen Hurts is a cog in a well-built machine that sometimes, like,
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  Speaker 3: I don't know how to put it. He feels like
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  Speaker 3: he's an engine in a really nice car, but, like,
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  Speaker 3: You know when you get a muscle car and that
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  Speaker 3: engine has that like that whole sound to it? I
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  Speaker 3: had not to brag. I don't want to brag to people.
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  Speaker 3: But the first car I ever had was a 1997
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  Speaker 3: Plymouth Neon. And that car, I basically had to Flintstone
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  Speaker 3: my way around town. I would push that pedal to
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  Speaker 3: the floor and it would be like when you drive
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  Speaker 3: a golf cart. You're like, why isn't this thing going back?
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  Speaker 3: And I feel like sometimes Jalen hurts is that engine
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  Speaker 3: in a muscle car, but it's just hidden because the
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  Speaker 3: car looks really cool. And like, they've been through a
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  Speaker 3: million different coordinators. Cause they're like, the offense just isn't
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  Speaker 3: consistent enough. But Jalen Hurts, because in our society, if
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  Speaker 3: you win a championship at the quarterback position, then all
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  Speaker 3: of a sudden you need to be treated like a
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  Speaker 3: god and not thought about critically. Like you can't have
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  Speaker 3: an original thought on a quarterback who wins a championship
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  Speaker 3: because if you do, then you're Satan and you have
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  Speaker 3: no idea what football is because if a guy wins
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  Speaker 3: a championship, it's because he's amazing. You ever notice that?
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  Speaker 3: I can't say that I think Sam Darnold is still
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  Speaker 3: just a fine, decent quarterback who's just okay because he
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  Speaker 3: won a title. And now he won a title, so
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  Speaker 3: now he is revered as a god in this league.
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  Speaker 3: Go outside, nerd. You know, Nick Foles.
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  Speaker 3: When he won a title with the Philadelphia Eagles, I
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  Speaker 3: wasn't allowed to think that Nick Foles was just a
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  Speaker 3: cog in a really good machine that the Eagles had
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  Speaker 3: because he had a ring. And Nelly, if you think
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  Speaker 3: any differently about a quarterback who wins a championship, then
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  Speaker 3: you're stupid and should probably be executed. They should take
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  Speaker 3: you to the gulags and you should be sentenced to
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  Speaker 3: 15 years of hard labor because you had an original
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  Speaker 3: thought about a quarterback that had a ring on his finger.
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  Speaker 2: And yet, That rule does not apply to Trent Dilfer.
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  Speaker 2: You're allowed to talk smack about him for some reason. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: he's okay. Or I believe Brad Johnson, you can criticize him.
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  Speaker 3: Trent Dilfer was an absolute bum who deserves no respect
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  Speaker 3: at all. See, but Nelly, but Josh Allen is highly
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  Speaker 3: overrated because what has he ever won? Because those are
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  Speaker 3: fun discussions to have.
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  Speaker 1: See, I have.
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  Speaker 3: Look, to the texture of my case, I don't know
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  Speaker 3: why I got from there to here. Maybe it was
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  Speaker 3: just in my head already. I don't disagree with your
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  Speaker 3: thought at all. Here's the thing, though. It's why I
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  Speaker 3: find that conversation the most frustrating. is that you're watching
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  Speaker 3: last night an Eagles team that is going against a
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  Speaker 3: third-string quarterback in Chicago. And maybe Ben Johnson's the best
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  Speaker 3: play caller of all time. Maybe it's just something that
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  Speaker 3: we need to get through our heads. It doesn't matter
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  Speaker 3: what groceries you give Ben Johnson, he's going to find
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  Speaker 3: a way for his team to score like 30 points.
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  Speaker 3: Maybe he's that good. And he is. I think, for
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  Speaker 3: my money, best play caller in the league, no doubt,
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  Speaker 3: is the dude with the headset in Chicago. But, but,
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  Speaker 3: you look at Philly and you're like, what the hell
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  Speaker 3: is that? And how can I trust that? Think about
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  Speaker 3: the first three games of the year. You ready for this,
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  Speaker 3: Steve Nelson? Who was back from his vacation of, I
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  Speaker 3: don't know what your vacation was. I forget. I'm going
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  Speaker 3: to assume it had something to do with the saxophone.
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  Speaker 3: No sacks.
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  Speaker 2: I went to Vegas, baby.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, okay.
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  Speaker 2: Watched a lot of football at that nice big circus
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  Speaker 2: swim is what I did.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, sick. So as you're watching football, here's a football
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  Speaker 3: question for you. The Philadelphia Eagles are 2-1 this year.
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  Speaker 3: Good record. You know the Eagles, what they've done? They
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  Speaker 3: squeaked out a victory in week one against the Washington
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  Speaker 3: Commanders by two points. Remember, Washington went down with a
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  Speaker 3: minute left in the game, scored a touchdown, had a
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  Speaker 3: two-point conversion at a time, missed the two-point conversion. The
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  Speaker 3: following week, they played against the Tennessee Titans, who are
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  Speaker 3: giving everybody in the league a run for their money
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  Speaker 3: of worst team in the NFL, and it took the
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  Speaker 3: Eagles scoring a touchdown with nine seconds left to win
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  Speaker 3: that game. And then this week, they played against a
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  Speaker 3: Chicago Bears team who was on a third-string quarterback who
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  Speaker 3: just got signed off the street. And they lost by
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  Speaker 3: 20 points. While only scoring seven against a Bears defense
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  Speaker 3: that allowed 39 points or something like that in week
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  Speaker 3: one to the Panthers. I can't trust the Eagles.
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  Speaker 6: Is that a question?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: But again, because Jalen Hurts has won a title before.
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  Speaker 3: And he has a tush push that gets him 20
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  Speaker 3: rushing touchdowns a year. If I have an original thought
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  Speaker 3: about Jalen Hurts, that's not he's a Super Bowl champion
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  Speaker 3: and has to be the best in the world. I
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  Speaker 3: need to die. That is the conversation that happens around football.
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  Speaker 3: So 303-504-0925. Broadcasting for the Backus and Shanker Studios. Serious
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  Speaker 3: lawyers for the seriously injured. So a lot to get
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  Speaker 3: to this morning. We have not only the game from
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  Speaker 3: last night and talking about the Broncos. We have MLB
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  Speaker 3: playoffs that start today. We have media day from the Nuggets.
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  Speaker 3: And there's a few things from that media day that
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  Speaker 3: I think are incredibly interesting as far as perspective on
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  Speaker 3: what the team is. So we'll get. to all of
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  Speaker 3: that as we go along, but college football, Stock Up,
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  Speaker 3: Stock Down is next. All right, we do it every
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  Speaker 3: week following the college football weekend. It is college football,
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  Speaker 3: Stock Up, Stock Down. We always start with the quarterbacks. Nelly,
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  Speaker 3: Stock Up. What you know about Devin Dampier? Utah's quarterback.
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  Speaker 3: He was 18-27 for 206 yards, two touchdowns, had a
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  Speaker 3: rushing touchdown. That was all in a 31-17 win. over
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  Speaker 3: Iowa State. He's had multiple touchdown passes every week. He
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  Speaker 3: can run the football. Again, Utah in their two-quarterback system,
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  Speaker 3: I'm obsessed with that they use both him and Franklin.
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  Speaker 3: Here's the deal. Utah is always a tough team. With
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  Speaker 3: Kyle Whittingham, without Kyle Whittingham, longtime assistant takes over as
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  Speaker 3: head coach. They keep somewhat continuity while losing their head coach.
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  Speaker 3: But they're just a tough, tough football team in every sense.
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  Speaker 3: Physically tough, mentally tough. And they find guys that step
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  Speaker 3: in and play well. Remember. Devin Dampier was New Mexico's
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  Speaker 3: quarterback a couple years ago. He was a 1,000-yard rusher there.
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  Speaker 3: He's got kind of every tool that you want. I'm
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  Speaker 3: not saying that he's the best quarterback in the country,
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  Speaker 3: but both of those quarterbacks have rockets for arms. They're
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  Speaker 3: fun to watch, and they are going to win. Him specifically,
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  Speaker 3: Devin Dampier, is going to win a ton of football
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  Speaker 3: games for Utah. He gets a stock up. Let's go
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  Speaker 3: quarterback stock down. Again. This goes with the theme we
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  Speaker 3: were just talking about, the Eagles. That the Eagles win,
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  Speaker 3: but I don't trust what I watch from the Eagles.
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  Speaker 3: I'll apply that directly to college football. When narratives are
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  Speaker 3: formed before somebody plays a snap, I am highly skeptical.
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  Speaker 3: Texas is the number one team in the country. They
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  Speaker 3: have Found ways to win over the last few weeks.
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  Speaker 3: A big-time comeback a few weeks ago against Ohio State.
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  Speaker 3: They win 20-17 over Tennessee. I'm just telling you what
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  Speaker 3: my eyes tell me. I don't get the Arch Manning stuff.
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  Speaker 3: I don't get it. I know his last name's Manning.
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  Speaker 3: He does not look anywhere near the way that people
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  Speaker 3: talk about him. He was 14 of 19 for 201 yards,
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  Speaker 3: no touchdowns, and a pick against Tennessee. Look, the team
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  Speaker 3: keeps winning. He's doing enough for them to win. But Texas,
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  Speaker 3: let's be honest, guys, that does not look like the
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  Speaker 3: best team in the country. They went out, they beat
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  Speaker 3: Ohio State a few weeks ago. Ohio State is the
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  Speaker 3: betting favorite to win the national title. And that's the
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  Speaker 3: correct way to look at this. And again, it feels
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  Speaker 3: like when you say something like this, it's like, oh,
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  Speaker 3: everybody's tanking for Arch Manning. And I'm like, are they?
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  Speaker 3: Would you be? Watch him play. He's a good quarterback.
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  Speaker 3: But I don't see the special qualities that were bestowed
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  Speaker 3: on him before he played a snap. And that's why
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  Speaker 3: I think it's unfair to for the way that people
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  Speaker 3: talked about him when he entered the league is that
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  Speaker 3: you're putting a standard on him of has to be
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  Speaker 3: the best quarterback in college football because his uncles were
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  Speaker 3: really good. And I just think that's an unfair standard.
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  Speaker 3: And so does he get dinged in my head even
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  Speaker 3: more because of that? Maybe. Maybe he does. Maybe I
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  Speaker 3: have a bias going the other way that the expectations
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  Speaker 3: were so high that when I watch him, I'm like,
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  Speaker 3: that doesn't look like all the special that people talked about. Like,
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  Speaker 3: you want to hear something crazy? John Mateer, who has
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  Speaker 3: been largely a disaster for Oklahoma since going over from Wazoo,
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  Speaker 3: go look at the numbers. John Mateer's had a better
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  Speaker 3: season than Arch Manning has, but Oklahoma's the worst football team,
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  Speaker 3: and John Mateer gets blamed for them losing. If Texas
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  Speaker 3: lost to Tennessee this weekend, if they lost to Ohio
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  Speaker 3: State in week two, he'd be getting the John Mateer treatment.
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  Speaker 3: But as the texture says, if Arch Manning was named
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  Speaker 3: Brett Kane, he would be a fourth round prospect. Like
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  Speaker 3: that's the way I think about it. It's nothing against him.
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  Speaker 3: I think it's unfair what people did to him before
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  Speaker 3: he played a snap. So Arch Manning stocked down. Big
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  Speaker 3: 12 teams stock up.
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  Speaker 4: The Big 12.
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  Speaker 3: I'll tell you this. They lost 12 consecutive games dating
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  Speaker 3: back to last year when they lost to Tulsa in
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  Speaker 3: week one. Since then, Oklahoma State's looked really fun. They
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  Speaker 3: got a 41-24 win over West Virginia. Again, dropping their
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  Speaker 3: opener to Tulsa 24-10, you're like, oh my gosh, what
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  Speaker 3: is going on with the Cowboys? But over the last
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  Speaker 3: three weeks, has anyone been more impressive than Oklahoma State
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  Speaker 3: in the Big 12? Wins over Oregon, wins over West Virginia.
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  Speaker 3: They played Murray State, but they won 59-0. That mess maker,
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  Speaker 3: if he can limit turnovers, that's his big problem. He
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  Speaker 3: turns the ball over too much. He throws too many picks.
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  Speaker 3: If he can limit those, he's a huge playmaker. We
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  Speaker 3: watched it against Oregon. He's flying high, getting helicoptered into
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  Speaker 3: the end zone. He's a transfer from North Texas. But
• 20:51
  Speaker 3: that kid's a baller. And I think it's changed sort
• 20:54
  Speaker 3: of the makeup and the way that we should be
• 20:55
  Speaker 3: thinking about Oklahoma State. So they're going to get the
• 20:58
  Speaker 3: stock up. Big 12 team stock down. It's a big 12! Uh, TCU.
• 21:04
  Speaker 3: So they have a 21, 13 loss to UCF this
• 21:06
  Speaker 3: last weekend. They're two and two on the year. They've
• 21:09
  Speaker 3: won nine games in each of the last two seasons.
• 21:12
  Speaker 3: If you remember Sonny Dykes made the national championship, his
• 21:14
  Speaker 3: first year at TCU. Now they get the, they get
• 21:18
  Speaker 3: the snot beat out of them in the national title,
• 21:19
  Speaker 3: but they made it there. The following year was the
• 21:22
  Speaker 3: opening C, uh, opener to the season where they lost
• 21:26
  Speaker 3: to see you in, in prime and she doors first game. Um,
• 21:31
  Speaker 3: They've won nine games over the last two years, and
• 21:34
  Speaker 3: I have a hard time seeing them get there again.
• 21:37
  Speaker 3: They play BYU this weekend, and it's their last chance
• 21:40
  Speaker 3: to really get on track before they're almost eliminated from
• 21:43
  Speaker 3: Big 12 championship contention already. They just don't look right.
• 21:49
  Speaker 3: And it feels like every year, this Sonny Dykes team
• 21:53
  Speaker 3: is just kind of taking a step down, down, down, down.
• 21:57
  Speaker 3: And when you start at the highest of highs, you
• 22:01
  Speaker 3: bring that expectation meter up. And I think there's a
• 22:04
  Speaker 3: decent chance that Sonny Dykes could be on a warm
• 22:08
  Speaker 3: seat by year's end. So they get the stock down.
• 22:11
  Speaker 3: Let's go national team stock up.
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: Okay.
• 22:15
  Speaker 3: This is one of those rare instances where I'm putting
• 22:18
  Speaker 3: a team that lost in the stock-up category. But I
• 22:22
  Speaker 3: just gotta be honest. They've only played three games this year,
• 22:27
  Speaker 3: so it makes it hard to evaluate when most teams
• 22:29
  Speaker 3: have played at least four. Northwestern's looked impressive. And they
• 22:36
  Speaker 3: lose on Friday night to Indiana. But man, that game
• 22:40
  Speaker 3: was close. And maybe Indiana's not the exact same team
• 22:44
  Speaker 3: as they were last year. You know, national title winner,
• 22:47
  Speaker 3: really no doubt best team in the country. But they're
• 22:51
  Speaker 3: one of the best teams in the country this year.
• 22:53
  Speaker 3: And Northwestern gave them all they could handle. It was
• 22:57
  Speaker 3: a 29-23 loss. They're 2-1 on the year. We all
• 23:01
  Speaker 3: saw them blitz CU a couple weeks ago, and maybe
• 23:03
  Speaker 3: you're like, Maybe that's because Northwestern was just way better
• 23:08
  Speaker 3: than we thought they were. Their quarterback, Aiden Childs, he
• 23:11
  Speaker 3: was a Michigan State transfer. He did not work at
• 23:14
  Speaker 3: Michigan State. Couldn't really do anything. Couldn't run the ball effectively.
• 23:18
  Speaker 3: Was very inconsistent throwing the football. But since coming over
• 23:22
  Speaker 3: to Northwestern, he's already had six touchdowns. He's got no
• 23:25
  Speaker 3: picks on the year. And those six touchdowns, as sad
• 23:29
  Speaker 3: as this is to say, but it's only through three
• 23:31
  Speaker 3: games now, Those are almost halfway to his best season
• 23:36
  Speaker 3: ever in college football. His career high is 13. So
• 23:41
  Speaker 3: I don't know. Maybe this is a flash in the
• 23:43
  Speaker 3: pan for Northwestern. But through the evidence I've been given
• 23:49
  Speaker 3: so far, they look like a good football team and
• 23:51
  Speaker 3: way better than we thought. So they get the stock up.
• 23:54
  Speaker 3: National team stock down. There's a big, big problem going
• 23:57
  Speaker 3: on in South Carolina. They just lost to Bama 49-18.
• 24:02
  Speaker 3: They lost the previous week to Mississippi State. Lenore Sellers
• 24:06
  Speaker 3: is now a third-year starter, and he's got six touchdowns
• 24:09
  Speaker 3: and four picks through this season so far. Shane Beamer's
• 24:13
  Speaker 3: going to get fired. I don't see any way around this.
• 24:16
  Speaker 3: They have games against ranked opponents the next three weeks,
• 24:20
  Speaker 3: and I wouldn't be surprised if they try and make
• 24:22
  Speaker 3: a decision within a month. Now, I don't know their
• 24:24
  Speaker 3: financial situation. I don't know what the contract situation is
• 24:27
  Speaker 3: with Beamer, but he was somebody they were very excited about. Hell,
• 24:30
  Speaker 3: Lenora Sellers was somebody that I was all on before
• 24:33
  Speaker 3: last football season, and it just got to the point
• 24:36
  Speaker 3: where they're in the untrustworthy category. I really wanted that
• 24:44
  Speaker 3: version of South Carolina to be a team that contends.
• 24:48
  Speaker 3: In the SEC, it's just never happened. It's never been real.
• 24:51
  Speaker 3: And I think a big part of it is they
• 24:54
  Speaker 3: just didn't have the horses that they thought they did.
• 24:58
  Speaker 3: And Lenore Sellers in year three has to be better
• 25:01
  Speaker 3: than what he's been so far. So South Carolina, they
• 25:04
  Speaker 3: get the stock down. Heisman stock up. I think I
• 25:10
  Speaker 3: had this guy last week. And when I do this,
• 25:15
  Speaker 3: I don't like to have things back to back. I
• 25:16
  Speaker 3: like to switch it up even if, you know, especially
• 25:19
  Speaker 3: things like Heismans or MVPs, you're going to have the
• 25:21
  Speaker 3: same names kind of every single week. But I couldn't
• 25:24
  Speaker 3: help it. There is no way. that I would change
• 25:29
  Speaker 3: from Jeremiah Smith again. He's the best player in college football.
• 25:33
  Speaker 3: Top to bottom, no question about it. You want to
• 25:37
  Speaker 3: talk about a guy who dominates his position as well
• 25:40
  Speaker 3: as anybody in the country, there is no one that
• 25:44
  Speaker 3: looks like Jeremiah Smith. Just this last week, 12 catches,
• 25:48
  Speaker 3: 217 yards, four touchdowns against Illinois. He's got seven touchdowns
• 25:54
  Speaker 3: in his first four games this year. He has over
• 25:57
  Speaker 3: 600 yards receiving through four games. Again, this guy is
• 26:02
  Speaker 3: going to go unless somebody believes that a quarterback is like,
• 26:08
  Speaker 3: can't miss prospect at number one overall, Miami or whoever.
• 26:13
  Speaker 3: Whoever gets the first pick that doesn't need a quarterback
• 26:17
  Speaker 3: in the draft is going to take this guy and
• 26:21
  Speaker 3: he is going to dominate everyone for 15 years. He
• 26:25
  Speaker 3: is built. Look at him. He's 6'4, 230 pounds. He's
• 26:30
  Speaker 3: faster than the guy that's lining up across from him.
• 26:33
  Speaker 3: He looks like Julio Jones or Calvin Johnson. He's a
• 26:36
  Speaker 3: massive target. He's got suction cups for hands. He's got
• 26:40
  Speaker 3: a wingspan of Wimbinyama. All right, not quite. But you
• 26:44
  Speaker 3: put anything within this kid's vicinity, it gets caught. There
• 26:48
  Speaker 3: is nobody, I think, more fun in college football... outside
• 26:52
  Speaker 3: of the quarterback position to watch than Jeremiah Smith. And
• 26:56
  Speaker 3: he's been on record saying, I want to win the Heisman.
• 26:59
  Speaker 3: It's a goal of mine. Well, guess what? I think
• 27:01
  Speaker 3: he's going to do it. Heisman's stocked down. Just talked
• 27:06
  Speaker 3: about him a little bit. It's John Mateer. So he
• 27:09
  Speaker 3: gets to Oklahoma by way of Wazoo. There's a lot
• 27:12
  Speaker 3: of expectation around John Mateer. And He's going to carry
• 27:15
  Speaker 3: Oklahoma to be a contender in the SEC, and he's
• 27:18
  Speaker 3: going to do this and that. Well, he's got eight
• 27:20
  Speaker 3: interceptions in his last six games going back to last year.
• 27:24
  Speaker 3: He had a ton of hype since transferring over, and
• 27:27
  Speaker 3: it just hasn't been up to the standard. This is
• 27:29
  Speaker 3: one of those examples that, you know, a guy puts
• 27:33
  Speaker 3: up a lot of numbers in another conference. The SEC
• 27:37
  Speaker 3: sees that, takes him, and assumes that's going to happen there,
• 27:40
  Speaker 3: and it just doesn't. Now, this isn't because solely... oh, well,
• 27:45
  Speaker 3: the SEC is just that difficult. Nobody can come in
• 27:48
  Speaker 3: from another conference and do this. I would point straight
• 27:50
  Speaker 3: to Trinidad Chambliss and say that guy, he came from
• 27:53
  Speaker 3: D2 and started dominating the sport. Mateer's just one of
• 27:57
  Speaker 3: those guys. It didn't, pardon the pun, materialize. Thank you.
• 28:04
  Speaker 3: Thank you. And he gets the stock down. Best game
• 28:07
  Speaker 3: of the week. Oh, my God. Iowa-Michigan was incredible. And
• 28:14
  Speaker 3: I am usually anti-Iowa games because I can't stand finals
• 28:20
  Speaker 3: that are 10-6. But you got to give it up
• 28:23
  Speaker 3: for Kirk Ferentz. He's been there for a billion years.
• 28:26
  Speaker 3: And he has the exact same football team every year,
• 28:29
  Speaker 3: which is if you don't come to play and you
• 28:31
  Speaker 3: don't play disciplined, guess what? You get beat. And in
• 28:36
  Speaker 3: the case of Michigan, I love this game. It felt
• 28:39
  Speaker 3: like a game that was played on Sundays. It was
• 28:42
  Speaker 3: tough defense with timely offense, a huge drive at the
• 28:46
  Speaker 3: end of the game, and a wonderful finish. Iowa-Michigan's best
• 28:49
  Speaker 3: game of the week. Upset of the week.
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: Oh, yes!
• 28:54
  Speaker 4: So.
• 28:56
  Speaker 3: Florida was favored to beat Ole Miss, but the way
• 28:59
  Speaker 3: that they beat Ole Miss 51 to 28 was crazy.
• 29:03
  Speaker 3: I would give them a shout, but I think it's
• 29:06
  Speaker 3: Wisconsin beating Penn state on the road. That's huge. Wisconsin
• 29:10
  Speaker 3: got trounced by Notre Dame back in week one. They've
• 29:13
  Speaker 3: battled their way back. They have a chance to do
• 29:15
  Speaker 3: some things here this year. Um, I've kind of written
• 29:18
  Speaker 3: off the Badgers because in this NIL transfer portal era,
• 29:22
  Speaker 3: they just haven't been as dominant as they were maybe
• 29:25
  Speaker 3: 10 years ago. And they had, you know, Melvin Gordon
• 29:28
  Speaker 3: and Monty Ball and what's his name?
• 29:31
  Speaker 5: White.
• 29:32
  Speaker 3: James White, I think. All those different running backs going
• 29:35
  Speaker 3: through there. Russell Wilson, all those different guys. Just haven't
• 29:38
  Speaker 3: felt like the same type of talent.
• 29:40
  Speaker 6: Team.
• 29:42
  Speaker 3: But maybe they're on their way back. So there you go.
• 29:44
  Speaker 3: College football, stock up, stock down. Do it every single
• 29:47
  Speaker 3: week following the college football weekend. Just quickly here, on
• 29:53
  Speaker 3: a couple of different subjects, I do want to get
• 29:55
  Speaker 3: to media day. And What went down with not just
• 29:59
  Speaker 3: the Nuggets, but kind of around the NBA. Because there's
• 30:03
  Speaker 3: about three different topics with the Nuggets that stood out
• 30:06
  Speaker 3: to me yesterday. And there's two big ones around the league.
• 30:09
  Speaker 3: And they involve Philadelphia. And they involve Golden State. So
• 30:14
  Speaker 3: we'll get to those in just a couple of minutes.
• 30:17
  Speaker 3: Reminder to you guys. The Avs are back tomorrow night.
• 30:22
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• 30:23
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• 30:29
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• 30:33
  Speaker 3: from the Avs. I do want to talk a little
• 30:35
  Speaker 3: bit about what expectations should be for them this year.
• 30:38
  Speaker 3: You've looked at their roster. We had the clip from
• 30:41
  Speaker 3: Paul Bissonette last week where he was discussing. He thinks
• 30:44
  Speaker 3: that the Avs are not cup contenders, that they lost
• 30:48
  Speaker 3: too much in the offseason. And I think it's a
• 30:50
  Speaker 3: totally fair thought process to have. Now, I don't think
• 30:57
  Speaker 3: that way. I think the Avs are contenders. I think
• 31:00
  Speaker 3: when you have Cale McCarr and you have Nathan McKinnon
• 31:05
  Speaker 3: and you have a goaltending group that was best in
• 31:06
  Speaker 3: the league last year, you're going to have a prime
• 31:09
  Speaker 3: opportunity to get things done. But the question, it all
• 31:12
  Speaker 3: comes down to really one sort of subject for me.
• 31:15
  Speaker 3: If this changes, then I'm fully on board. So we'll
• 31:19
  Speaker 3: get to that in a couple of minutes as well.
• 31:21
  Speaker 3: Like I said, a lot to discuss this morning on
• 31:24
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• 31:34
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• 31:37
  Speaker 3: going to give CSU just a touch of love, putting
• 31:39
  Speaker 3: up 40 points in the backup quarterback against a team
• 31:42
  Speaker 3: that was 39-9 since the head coach has been hired?
• 31:46
  Speaker 3: I have given CSU a bunch of love. I think
• 31:48
  Speaker 3: that they are in great shape under Jim Mora. If
• 31:51
  Speaker 3: you think I'm going to do that after a week
• 31:53
  Speaker 3: in which they gave up 59 points, not happening. CSU
• 31:58
  Speaker 3: does not get love. You put up over 40 points, great.
• 32:03
  Speaker 3: You gave up 59. There's a flip side to that.
• 32:10
  Speaker 3: It's almost worse that you put up that many points
• 32:12
  Speaker 3: while giving up 59. It made them not matter. Anyway,
• 32:18
  Speaker 3: news from Media Day yesterday. Here's the first thing. Thank God.
• 32:26
  Speaker 5: That our.
• 32:28
  Speaker 3: Basketball Lord and savior said this out loud into a microphone. Hey,
• 32:33
  Speaker 3: are you going to sign your extension? I'm going to
• 32:35
  Speaker 3: sign next year.
• 32:39
  Speaker 6: If they want me.
• 32:40
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think they do. Number one, number two. Um,
• 32:44
  Speaker 3: thank God Nelly. I don't think that nuggets fans could
• 32:49
  Speaker 3: have handled an entire season. If you didn't say that
• 32:52
  Speaker 3: out loud into a microphone of the think pieces of
• 32:56
  Speaker 3: And Jokic should sign with the Lakers my column stuff, right?
• 33:00
  Speaker 3: I don't think you'd have the stomach or the heart
• 33:02
  Speaker 3: for it. So to say that out loud.
• 33:05
  Speaker 6: I'm going to sign next year. If they want me.
• 33:10
  Speaker 3: And I think that he was aware of all this stuff,
• 33:12
  Speaker 3: but he was just like, I'm going to take my time.
• 33:14
  Speaker 3: But it's the same thing that we've been saying forever.
• 33:16
  Speaker 3: This is not some sort of like holding the Nuggets hostage.
• 33:21
  Speaker 3: You better do X, Y, and Z or I'm going
• 33:23
  Speaker 3: to leave. This was Jokic saying, if I wait another year,
• 33:28
  Speaker 3: I get another year added on in an extra $ 80
• 33:31
  Speaker 3: million that I can add to my bank account. When
• 33:35
  Speaker 3: Jokic leaves the Nuggets, he's never coming back to the
• 33:39
  Speaker 3: United States again. He's going to Serbia. He's going to
• 33:43
  Speaker 3: pet a horse and disappear. We know this. He's said
• 33:47
  Speaker 3: it forever. There was no changing his mind. He values
• 33:53
  Speaker 3: guys like Dirk Nowitzki. who've stayed with one team their
• 33:55
  Speaker 3: entire careers. That's what he wants to be. I never
• 34:02
  Speaker 3: had a fear a single time that he was going
• 34:04
  Speaker 3: to leave. The only frustration, the only frustration was that
• 34:11
  Speaker 3: people thought he might. Because then I had to say
• 34:17
  Speaker 3: the things like, Guys, he's not going anywhere. Then why
• 34:21
  Speaker 3: hasn't he signed yet? Because he can make more money
• 34:23
  Speaker 3: if he waits? Oh, yeah, well, why hasn't he said
• 34:24
  Speaker 3: anything about signing? Because I don't think he cares because
• 34:27
  Speaker 3: it's the offseason. It's like, do you guys not know
• 34:29
  Speaker 3: this man yet? He's been around for, you know, 13, 14,
• 34:33
  Speaker 3: 15 years, however long it's been. Been around forever. And
• 34:36
  Speaker 3: he's always been the same guy. And I think a
• 34:39
  Speaker 3: lot of people don't do this, especially when it comes
• 34:42
  Speaker 3: to sports, which is take people at their word. You
• 34:49
  Speaker 3: should have really known when he said in the offseason, hey,
• 34:52
  Speaker 3: I got to be honest with you. This is going
• 34:53
  Speaker 3: to sound really rude. I'm kind of over being bothered
• 34:55
  Speaker 3: when I go out in public. I'm kind of tired
• 34:58
  Speaker 3: of people walking up to me asking for a picture
• 35:00
  Speaker 3: or an autograph or something like that. And my response was, hey, man,
• 35:04
  Speaker 3: you make $ 80 million a year. This comes with the territory.
• 35:07
  Speaker 3: This is part of it. This is part of the game.
• 35:10
  Speaker 3: It's part of the soup you swim in. If somebody
• 35:12
  Speaker 3: sees me at a King Soopers and says, hey, Brett,
• 35:14
  Speaker 3: I listen to the show, I wouldn't be like, bleep off.
• 35:19
  Speaker 3: part of the territory you chose to be in a
• 35:22
  Speaker 3: public thing so when you're in public people are going
• 35:27
  Speaker 3: to treat you with I mean to be honest with
• 35:30
  Speaker 3: reverence that's why people walk up and want to talk
• 35:33
  Speaker 3: to you now I'll say this does that sound like
• 35:41
  Speaker 3: the kind of guy that wants to go to Los
• 35:42
  Speaker 3: Angeles hey I don't like being bothered in public I
• 35:46
  Speaker 3: bet you he'll be a Nick You're right. But that
• 35:51
  Speaker 3: was one thing. Thank God that was out of the way.
• 35:53
  Speaker 3: There's another common theme, and this one makes me uncomfortable.
• 35:56
  Speaker 3: And I've said this in regards to the Avs, Nuggets,
• 36:01
  Speaker 3: and Broncos. They are all in a category, which, gosh,
• 36:05
  Speaker 3: is this a great place to be in a town
• 36:06
  Speaker 3: that has four professional sports teams, that three of the four,
• 36:10
  Speaker 3: you enter a season and you say, anything short of
• 36:12
  Speaker 3: a championship is not going to be good enough. It's
• 36:17
  Speaker 3: a great thing to say. The Broncos, the newest to
• 36:22
  Speaker 3: that party. But I think for the first time, the
• 36:25
  Speaker 3: Nuggets are last in the category of teams that you
• 36:27
  Speaker 3: believe could win a title. If you're ranking them, I
• 36:31
  Speaker 3: think whatever order you want to say between the Avs
• 36:33
  Speaker 3: and Broncos first, I would say probably, man, it's tough.
• 36:40
  Speaker 3: I would say probably Avs number one and then Broncos two,
• 36:43
  Speaker 3: but it's a thin margin. You could convince me to
• 36:45
  Speaker 3: flip them. That's fine. But the Nuggets, I think, are
• 36:49
  Speaker 3: far and away third. I think there's a little bit
• 36:52
  Speaker 3: of a gap between the Broncos and the Avs, and
• 36:54
  Speaker 3: then the Nuggets are down here. And one thing that,
• 37:00
  Speaker 3: this isn't even a criticism. Because what are they supposed
• 37:08
  Speaker 3: to say? But I heard both Adelman and the law
• 37:11
  Speaker 3: firm of Tenzer and Wallace say this. This is Ben
• 37:14
  Speaker 3: Tenzer first. on not making many changes this offseason?
• 37:19
  Speaker 4: I think for us, you know, we looked at everything.
• 37:22
  Speaker 4: There was an element of debating how hard to react
• 37:27
  Speaker 4: and make sure to not overreact to the playoffs. And
• 37:30
  Speaker 4: we had a really good regular season. Everyone was disappointed
• 37:33
  Speaker 4: in the way it ended. And our job is to
• 37:36
  Speaker 4: be aggressive and kind of look at everything. And ultimately,
• 37:39
  Speaker 4: we decided that this was the best way to move forward.
• 37:42
  Speaker 4: And it wasn't more complicated than that.
• 37:45
  Speaker 3: John Wallace continued and said this.
• 37:47
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I think a lot of things were on the table.
• 37:50
  Speaker 5: But obviously, a season that's played by injuries, you can't
• 37:52
  Speaker 5: overlook the fact that that core put together a 54-win season.
• 37:56
  Speaker 5: And I think the guys who had to kind of
• 37:58
  Speaker 5: fill in and kind of give some supplementary boost to
• 38:01
  Speaker 5: us stepped up in a big way. And so we
• 38:03
  Speaker 5: kind of sat down and looked at what guys could do,
• 38:05
  Speaker 5: what the growth and what the, I guess, the projected
• 38:07
  Speaker 5: outcomes could be. And a lot of things just kind
• 38:09
  Speaker 5: of made sense to stay put. Obviously, we had some
• 38:11
  Speaker 5: additions there. with, you know, adding some athletes, adding some
• 38:15
  Speaker 5: guys that are a little bit different with TB and Bryce.
• 38:19
  Speaker 5: You know, you bring in the addition of Cam Whitmore,
• 38:22
  Speaker 5: you know, on a two-way right now. So you add
• 38:24
  Speaker 5: some competition to the gym. You add some stopgaps and
• 38:28
  Speaker 5: some areas where we were kind of lacking last year. But,
• 38:31
  Speaker 5: you know, all in all, I think to keep a
• 38:32
  Speaker 5: core together with adding some new fresh faces and fresh
• 38:36
  Speaker 5: blood was a good decision.
• 38:37
  Speaker 3: Okay, here's my problem. He said this is a 54-win team.
• 38:45
  Speaker 3: Tenzer talked about winning a lot of games last year
• 38:47
  Speaker 3: with the Corps. David Adelman said this.
• 38:50
  Speaker 6: I understand we're going to say things, there's going to
• 38:52
  Speaker 6: be narratives, all that stuff, but the men in that
• 38:55
  Speaker 6: room that are back won 54 and won the most
• 38:57
  Speaker 6: road games in the history of the franchise and had
• 38:59
  Speaker 6: the best offense in the NBA. I know you guys
• 39:01
  Speaker 6: want to ignore that, but that's what they did. And
• 39:04
  Speaker 6: so you have to lean into some of the things
• 39:05
  Speaker 6: that you did well. But you sure as hell have
• 39:07
  Speaker 6: to learn from when you lose. And I wouldn't even
• 39:09
  Speaker 6: say just the Minnesota series. I would say looking back
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  Speaker 6: at all the losses we had last year and trying
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  Speaker 6: to find themes of why, which allows me to try
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  Speaker 6: to change things, not necessarily, you know, this is a
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  Speaker 6: rule and this isn't a rule and all those things,
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  Speaker 6: but how we practice, how we drill, what's important to
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  Speaker 6: us every day.
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  Speaker 3: This is my problem. Yes, the team won 54 games
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  Speaker 3: last year. Did it feel like it? That team was
• 39:44
  Speaker 3: 43 and 28. until they won 12 straight to close
• 39:48
  Speaker 3: out the regular season. A lot of those against teams
• 39:50
  Speaker 3: that had totally given up. The Utah Jazz, who you
• 39:54
  Speaker 3: played twice in that stretch, literally were benching Nurkic for
• 40:01
  Speaker 3: sleep apnea. That is not something I made up. They said,
• 40:06
  Speaker 3: go have surgery to fix your sleep apnea. We'll put
• 40:10
  Speaker 3: you out for the rest of the year. Oklahoma City,
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  Speaker 3: end of the season. Played nobody in that game. Neither
• 40:17
  Speaker 3: did you, by the way. Jonas Valanciunas was your leading scorer.
• 40:21
  Speaker 3: San Antonio didn't play Weminyama the last game. You know
• 40:24
  Speaker 3: who the leading scorer was in the Oklahoma City game?
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  Speaker 3: The day before the final game of the season? It
• 40:31
  Speaker 3: was a dude named Brendan Carlson. Okay, so what if
• 40:39
  Speaker 3: all these teams played their guys down the stretch? And
• 40:41
  Speaker 3: instead of winning 12 games, straight to close out the year,
• 40:44
  Speaker 3: you go 8-4. Well, now it was a 50-win season.
• 40:49
  Speaker 3: Are they still saying this team won 50 games? Like,
• 40:52
  Speaker 3: that's my problem with it, is, okay, you can point
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  Speaker 3: to that because it's a nice round number, but, you know,
• 40:58
  Speaker 3: you ever seen, you ever gone back to, like, football seasons,
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  Speaker 3: and it's like, wow, they beat this team by 14 points,
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  Speaker 3: and you realize that it was.
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  Speaker 3: Blocked field goal return for a touchdown at the end
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  Speaker 3: of a game that made it look like a blowout,
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  Speaker 3: but you just don't remember it that way because you
• 41:17
  Speaker 3: just see the score. That's my issue. And my problem
• 41:25
  Speaker 3: is if the team, they can't say injuries entirely. They
• 41:33
  Speaker 3: can say AG was hurt, but you can't say Peyton
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  Speaker 3: Watson was hurt because Peyton Watson's not here anymore. He's not.
• 41:46
  Speaker 3: And A.G. was injured last year. That was a big problem.
• 41:48
  Speaker 3: I totally agree.
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  Speaker 1: A.G.
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  Speaker 3: 's hurt a lot now. And I hope that doesn't happen.
• 41:56
  Speaker 3: I think the Nuggets are a really good basketball team
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  Speaker 3: when he's on the floor. But you're trusting something that
• 42:07
  Speaker 3: is not giving you reasons to trust it. And I
• 42:15
  Speaker 3: get the position they're in. They are pressed up against
• 42:18
  Speaker 3: a salary cap where they're in an apron where they
• 42:20
  Speaker 3: can't do much. And they aren't going to come out
• 42:23
  Speaker 3: and be like, well, we had no options this year.
• 42:24
  Speaker 3: So this is kind of what we had to do.
• 42:26
  Speaker 3: They're going to put a shiny little bow on this thing.
• 42:30
  Speaker 3: But if you're looking at this, it's like, okay, you
• 42:32
  Speaker 3: can say this team is a 54 win team. But
• 42:35
  Speaker 3: did it feel that way? Number one, number two. Did
• 42:38
  Speaker 3: you improve or fix the problems that were there in
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  Speaker 3: the Minnesota series? And number three, did you get better
• 42:45
  Speaker 3: from last year? And I think all of those are
• 42:47
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