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  Speaker 2: This is the best of the Ben Maler Show on
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  Speaker 3: Oh what is going on?
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  Speaker 4: Greetings, top of the evening to you forever you're listening,
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  Speaker 4: top of the early morning hours, to you, depending on
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  Speaker 4: where you're at, Appreciate your checking out the show. You know,
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  Speaker 4: something dawned on me today and tonight I'm getting all
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  Speaker 4: these stories ready.
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  Speaker 3: For the show.
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  Speaker 4: And let me just tell you, ball is on the brain,
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  Speaker 4: all right, Lots of football to discuss tonight. That's not
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  Speaker 4: the only thing. Some hoops see their way into the show.
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  Speaker 4: A little baseball, but heavy on the ball. Lots of football.
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  Speaker 4: And I'm compiling all these stories and I'm looking at him.
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  Speaker 4: I'm like, I've never really thought about it like this,
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  Speaker 4: because I don't know if you're like me. Where I
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  Speaker 4: anticipate the season coming up and then after a while,
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  Speaker 4: I just I'm like, I know it's getting closer, but
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  Speaker 4: based on the stories that we hear, the stories don't
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  Speaker 4: get me more excited for the upcoming season, you know
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  Speaker 4: what I mean? For instance, well, I'll probably hit on
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  Speaker 4: tonight some of these holdouts, some of the second round
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  Speaker 4: draft picks that are looking for guaranteed money, the idiotic
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  Speaker 4: Bengals what they're doing with their first round pick Shamar Stewart.
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  Speaker 4: These stories don't get me more excited for the season.
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  Speaker 4: What do I care whether second rounders get fully guaranteed
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  Speaker 4: deals or you know, eighty.
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  Speaker 3: Seven percent gear, I don't care.
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  Speaker 4: That has nothing to do with my excitement level for
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  Speaker 4: the upcoming season, right, And so I thought of that,
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  Speaker 4: and I'm like, that's probably why most seasons, even though
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  Speaker 4: it seems like I anticipate all right, it's only like
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  Speaker 4: five months away, it's only four months away, get about it,
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  Speaker 4: and then boom, it's there. And I'm like, why was
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  Speaker 4: I anticipating it four months out? But then like two
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  Speaker 4: months out, I just kind of I stopped doing the countdown.
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  Speaker 4: You know, I think it has a lot to do
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  Speaker 4: with the nature of the stories that you hear about
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  Speaker 4: and so I'm gonna try to keep that in mind tonight.
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  Speaker 4: I think that some of these stories are interesting even
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  Speaker 4: though they don't necessarily get me excited for the upcoming season.
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  Speaker 4: So I think if you have an interesting story that
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  Speaker 4: also gets you more excited for the upcoming season, that's
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  Speaker 4: a double win right there. That is a double win win, win,
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  Speaker 4: as we say in the business here. But I also
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  Speaker 4: think that some of these stories that don't get you
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  Speaker 4: excited for the upcoming season do have a place. And
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  Speaker 4: that's not to be a complete hypocrite, but I'm going
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  Speaker 4: to start with one of those things, just because there
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  Speaker 4: are two parts of this story and they both are insane.
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  Speaker 4: It's almost like you can't make this stuff up? Are
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  Speaker 4: you kidding me with this? So the news tonight is
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  Speaker 4: that Lloyd Howell.
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  Speaker 3: You're looking at me.
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  Speaker 4: Even if a diehard fan, you're like, Lloyd Howell? Should
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  Speaker 4: I Did he play for the the I don't know
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  Speaker 4: the Jags? Was he a backup defensive tackle five years ago?
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  Speaker 4: Who is Lloyd Howell?
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  Speaker 1: So?
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  Speaker 4: Lloyd Howell used to be the executive director of the
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  Speaker 4: NFL Players Association As of late Thursday night, no Moss,
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  Speaker 4: no more Lloyd Howell. He resigned late Thursday night, and
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  Speaker 4: he cited distractions that his life leadership has caused in
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  Speaker 4: recent weeks. Kind of distractions are we talking about here?
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  Speaker 4: So this guy, Lloyd Howell, he faced a lot of scrutiny.
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  Speaker 4: There was an ESPN report that came out and it
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  Speaker 4: said that Lloyd Howell has maintained a part time consulting
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  Speaker 4: job with the Carlyle Group. Who the heck is the
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  Speaker 4: Carlyle Group. It doesn't matter. All that you need to
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  Speaker 4: know is the Carlyle Group is now seeking minority ownership
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  Speaker 4: in NFL franchises. So the guy who was the executive
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  Speaker 4: director of the NFL Players Association was also a consultant
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  Speaker 4: for this group that's seeking minority ownership. There are two
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  Speaker 4: very different worlds when it comes to professional football NFL.
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  Speaker 4: Here it's player side, ownership side. You can't be the
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  Speaker 4: executive director of the Players Association while you are a
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  Speaker 4: paid consultant for a group that's trying to become a
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  Speaker 4: minority owner in the NFL. You can't have both. It's
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  Speaker 4: got to be one lane or the other. Was the
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  Speaker 4: old LeVar ball. Well, he said, stay in your lane.
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  Speaker 4: I guess that's the thing. He's got to stay in
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  Speaker 4: his lane, whether it's player's lane or ownership lane.
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  Speaker 3: You gotta choose. Can't be both.
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  Speaker 4: You're all over the media, you're in access, You're going
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  Speaker 4: from lane to lane over here Lloyd Howell. So he
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  Speaker 4: resigned from the Players Association as the executive director. That's
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  Speaker 4: the first part of it where it's crazy that he
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  Speaker 4: was trying to do both. And then all these Players
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  Speaker 4: Association people they had his back. They're like, Oh, all
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  Speaker 4: these accusations, this is ridiculous, and then all of a
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  Speaker 4: sudden he resigns and they're like, maybe there was something
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  Speaker 4: to that.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know.
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  Speaker 4: There's this other part here, though, it's not just involving
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  Speaker 4: Lloyd Howell. There's another story from last month that makes
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  Speaker 4: the NFLPA, right, the NFL Players Association look freaking terrible.
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  Speaker 4: I can't believe this is even true. So the NFLPA
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  Speaker 4: and the NFL the league, right, they had a confidential
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  Speaker 4: confidentiality agreement to keep quiet when an arbitrator ruled about
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  Speaker 4: possible collusion by owners over quarterback salaries. Okay, that sounds
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  Speaker 4: like you ever see like I've got Oreo the neighborhood
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  Speaker 4: cat here she's taking a nap. She's very comfortable on
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  Speaker 4: the couch right over there. She's very fired up for
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  Speaker 4: the show tonight hanging out here. You ever see a
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  Speaker 4: cat that gets like hairball stuck in their you know,
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  Speaker 4: maybe they licked their paws a little bit and then
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  Speaker 4: it's just something didn't work right and they just kind
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  Speaker 4: of they just do like that's what that last sentence
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  Speaker 4: sounded like, where it just sounds like leh bl bl bl.
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  Speaker 3: So let's break it down. This is now. It's a
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  Speaker 3: little wordy.
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  Speaker 4: I tried to condense it everything to the most important
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  Speaker 4: parts so it doesn't just sound like yakitty yackity yackity yack. Again,
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  Speaker 4: the payoff is unbelievable, So just bear with me for
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  Speaker 4: a second over here. So this goes back to March
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  Speaker 4: of twenty twenty two. That's when quarterback Deshaun Watson signed
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  Speaker 4: that mammoth fully guaranteed two hundred and thirty million dollar contract.
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  Speaker 4: Right the NFL owners were pissed, just incredibly ticked off
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  Speaker 4: about this, and so they had the owners meeting in
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  Speaker 4: Florida in that same March of twenty twenty two, and
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  Speaker 4: so the league, the NFL was urging ownership to restrict
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  Speaker 4: guaranteed contracts. The NFL gave a presentation during the owner's meetings,
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  Speaker 4: and they even included some speaker notes. Now, it basically
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  Speaker 4: is like, yo, you can't be given out these guaranteed
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  Speaker 4: deals left and right. This is gonna set a precedent,
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  Speaker 4: and then once the toothpaste is out of the tube,
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  Speaker 4: you can't put it back. All of a sudden, the
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  Speaker 4: next player in line, they're gonna win a fully guaranteed deal,
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  Speaker 4: and then the next player who's got leverage is going
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  Speaker 4: to demand a fully guaranteed contract. And so we gotta
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  Speaker 4: slow this train down or you guys are going to
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  Speaker 4: be in a rough spot NFL ownership. That's basically what
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  Speaker 4: the NFL was saying. I think the paraphrasing works way
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  Speaker 4: better than reading the exact things, because it's you can
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  Speaker 4: imagine it's a four score and seven years ago and
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  Speaker 4: you're like, oh my gosh, this is just so boring.
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  Speaker 4: So you go back to they had this presentation, and
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  Speaker 4: so an arbitrator made a ruling back in January of
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  Speaker 4: this year. Okay, now what I told you the Deshaun
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  Speaker 4: Watson thing twenty twenty two owners meetings in March of
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  Speaker 4: twenty twenty two. Finally, this January and twenty five, an
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  Speaker 4: arbitrator determined that this March twenty twenty two presentation was
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  Speaker 4: evidence of the NFL's collusive behavior. Okay, that's the way
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  Speaker 4: he said it, evidence of the NFL's collusive behavior, but
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  Speaker 4: he did not find the NFL guilty of collusion. This
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  Speaker 4: is the first part that blows my mind. Collusive behavior.
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  Speaker 4: Not quite collusion for sure, though. That's like saying I
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  Speaker 4: engaged in cheating behavior, but I'm not a cheater or
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  Speaker 4: better yet, it's an arbitrator oversaw a case.
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  Speaker 3: All right. There's this married man.
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  Speaker 4: He's fooling around with the secretary, and this arbitrator is like,
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  Speaker 4: all right, even though she was nude and on this
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  Speaker 4: married man's lap and making sort of I don't know,
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  Speaker 4: I don't want to be too raunchy over here, but
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  Speaker 4: let's just say, like, you know, certain rowing like motions.
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  Speaker 4: You're right, I can't say for sure this guy is
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  Speaker 4: a cheater. I mean, that's a little bit of a
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  Speaker 4: leap right there.
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  Speaker 3: Now.
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  Speaker 4: This was cheating behavior for sure, but cheating or a cheater. Ah, Oh,
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  Speaker 4: that's a bit of a leap. That's basically what the
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  Speaker 4: arbitrator ruled with the NFL.
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  Speaker 3: It's unbelievable. How can you not say it's.
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  Speaker 4: Anything other than collusion. You guys are actively talking about
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  Speaker 4: restricting guaranteed money.
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  Speaker 3: That's collusion.
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  Speaker 4: But somehow this arbitrator didn't go that far. Now we
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  Speaker 4: get a little bit more evidence of collusion or at
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  Speaker 4: least collusive behavior, as the arbitrator ruled. Okay, so this
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  Speaker 4: goes back to twenty twenty two July. All right, so
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  Speaker 4: we fast forward from March of twenty two. We're in
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  Speaker 4: July of twenty two. That's when Kyler Murray, Cardinals quarterback,
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  Speaker 4: he signed his contract extension five years, two hundred and
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  Speaker 4: thirty million dollars. Only one hundred and three million was
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  Speaker 4: guaranteed at signing. Now, I say only because it's relative.
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  Speaker 4: You know, if I signed my next contract for one
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  Speaker 4: hundred and three million dollars, I'm not putting on clothes
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  Speaker 4: for the rest of my life.
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  Speaker 3: You know what I'm saying. But it's all relative.
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  Speaker 4: Deshaun Watson got two hundred and thirty million guaranteed. Kyler
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  Speaker 4: Murray got one hundred and three million dollars guaranteed. Now,
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  Speaker 4: there was a text exchange between Chargers owner Dean Spanos
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  Speaker 4: and Cardinals owner Michael Bidwell. Okay, so Bidwell, Cardinals team
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  Speaker 4: owner Kyler Murray just signed this contract, right, so, Dean
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  Speaker 4: Spanos of the Chargers, he texts Bidwell and says congratulations
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  Speaker 4: on signing Murray. Bidwell responds, thanks Dino, that's my favorite
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  Speaker 4: part of the Thanks Dino. These QB deals are expensive,
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  Speaker 4: but we limited the fully guaranteed money and have some
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  Speaker 4: pretty good language. Thankfully we have a quarterback worth paying.
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  Speaker 4: And then Dean Spanos says, your deal helps us for
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  Speaker 4: our quarterback next year. Kind of sounds a little bit
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  Speaker 4: like collusion, a little bit right, or exactly like collusion.
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  Speaker 4: That's when Michael Bidwell he responded via text. I think
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  Speaker 4: many teams will be happy with it once they have
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  Speaker 4: a chance to review. Cleveland really screwed things up, but
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  Speaker 4: I was resolved to keep the guarantees relatively low. Very interesting,
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  Speaker 4: right again, this arbitrator, You've found a lot of collusive behavior,
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  Speaker 4: but not quite collusion. That's unbelievable. Now, this, this to me,
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  Speaker 4: is the ultimate curve ball in all this stuff where
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  Speaker 4: the NFLPA just looks like a total joke. You would
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  Speaker 4: think the NFLPA would be screaming with a megaphone here. Now,
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  Speaker 4: all this stuff was not released, right, nothing was released.
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  Speaker 4: It was Pablo Torre, remember of ESPN and does his podcast.
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  Speaker 4: He found this arbitrator's sixty one page document detail ailing
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  Speaker 4: the ruling of this and so Pablo Torre, he's the
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  Speaker 4: one who publicized all of these findings. The arbitrator ruled
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  Speaker 4: in January of this year. Pablo Torre released this last month. Okay,
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  Speaker 4: now you would be thinking the NFLPA would be screaming.
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  Speaker 4: Do you see what the NFL is doing here? They're
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  Speaker 4: trying to restrict guaranteed money from our.
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  Speaker 3: Players, so forth and so on. Nope, turns out the.
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  Speaker 4: NFLPA actually struck a deal with the NFL. They struck
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  Speaker 4: a confidentiality agreement to hide the details of the arbitrator's
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  Speaker 4: decision from the players that the NFLPA represents. Make sense
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  Speaker 4: of that. What did the NFL promise the NFLPA here?
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  Speaker 4: I don't know what. They're like, hey, man, if you
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  Speaker 4: do us this solid, we'll give you whatever whatever whatever.
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  Speaker 4: I don't know what, But somehow the NFLPA was like, yeah,
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  Speaker 4: we agree to a confidentiality agreement. We won't say anything
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  Speaker 4: NFL about you guys working with ownership to try to
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  Speaker 4: limit the guaranteed money that our players that we represent
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  Speaker 4: are making. That is unbelievable. If I'm an NFL player
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  Speaker 4: right now, I'm looking at the Players Association like, do.
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  Speaker 3: You freaking guys know anything? Do you know what you're
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  Speaker 3: doing at? What are you? What's happening over here?
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  Speaker 2: Now?
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  Speaker 4: The last little part of this is just for scorekeeping.
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  Speaker 4: I guess the guy Lloyd Howell that we talked about
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  Speaker 4: who just stepped down as the executive director of the
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  Speaker 4: Players Association, he took over in twenty twenty three. Okay,
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  Speaker 4: so that's important. Demorris Smith, Remember old Demorris Smith. He
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  Speaker 4: was the executive director until twenty twenty three, Right, It
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  Speaker 4: was Damoris Smith from nine to twenty twenty three, and
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  Speaker 4: then Lloyd Howell took over from there in twenty three.
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  Speaker 4: That's important because again this all traced back to Deshaun
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  Speaker 4: Watson in March of twenty twenty two, So that was
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  Speaker 4: Demorris Smith overseeing that whole thing, and then it was
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  Speaker 4: Lloyd Howell later on.
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  Speaker 3: But just so we're clear on that this.
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  Speaker 4: Wasn't Lloyd Howell screwing everything up with the twenty twenty
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  Speaker 4: two collusive behavior not quite collusion, but collusive behavior. It
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  Speaker 4: wasn't under his watch. What Lloyd Howell is really screwing
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  Speaker 4: up is he's trying to do two things at once,
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  Speaker 4: trying to represent the players and he's consulting a group
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  Speaker 4: that's vying for NFL ownership. That is, that is the
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  Speaker 4: NFLPA is a total joke right now.
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  Speaker 3: You can't make this stuff up.
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  Speaker 4: If a buddy told me this, I'd be like, you're
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  Speaker 4: getting something wrong.
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  Speaker 3: This can't be true. It's true.
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  Speaker 4: This is exactly what went down. Unbelievable, but that's where
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  Speaker 4: we are right now, and the NFLPA is looking for
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  Speaker 4: a new executive director.
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  Speaker 4: Easy question here, why do smart leagues do dumb things?
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  Speaker 4: So what got me thinking about this is Caitlin Clark
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  Speaker 4: being hurt. So you probably heard, like the top of
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  Speaker 4: the hour updates, Caitlin Clark has another groin injury. She's
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  Speaker 4: not gonna be competing in the WNBA All Star Game.
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  Speaker 4: She's not gonna be in the three point Contest, but
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  Speaker 4: she will be present. She will be there, she just
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  Speaker 4: won't be competing. And so it makes me think of
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  Speaker 4: what we just saw in the MLB All Star Game,
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  Speaker 4: and it also made me think of the NFL. So
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  Speaker 4: if you take it, peace pot piece, like Denzel said
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  Speaker 4: in Man on Fire Love, that is one of my
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  Speaker 4: favorite part part peace pot Piece, I want you. This
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  Speaker 4: is what Denzel was saying. But if you go piece
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  Speaker 4: by piece on this one, if you look at the
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  Speaker 4: MLB All Star Game, So Jacob Mizowski, he's this young
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  Speaker 4: pitcher only five starts. He was fantastic in the five
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  Speaker 4: starts collectively. But only five starts and he was named
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  Speaker 4: an All Star Game replacement. Like no problem, ish, right,
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  Speaker 4: If you're just named a replacement, I'm a problem with that.
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  Speaker 4: But the path that MLB took to get there, so
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  Speaker 4: they named a bunch of replacement all Stars. You should
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  Speaker 4: get replacement status, you shouldn't get All Star status. Those
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  Speaker 4: are two completely different things in my mind. If you've
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  Speaker 4: got the All Star team, boom, here it is, and
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  Speaker 4: then you have a picturer or two that's like, hey,
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  Speaker 4: I'd love to be there, but i just pitched on Sunday,
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  Speaker 4: so I'm not going to be available on Tuesday for
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  Speaker 4: the game. And the MLB's like, okay, cool, we got
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  Speaker 4: to name the next guy. And MLB looked to the Phillies.
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  Speaker 4: There were a couple of players that pitchers that had
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  Speaker 4: better resumes than Misowski did. You had Christopher Sanchez, better
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  Speaker 4: resume inarguable, Ranger Suarez better resume inarguable. But those pictures
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  Speaker 4: weren't available either on Tuesday. So MLB approached them and
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  Speaker 4: they were like, hey, Christopher Sanchez, see that you've you
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  Speaker 4: pitched a ton of innings. Your er is really good.
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  Speaker 4: You're next in line. Can you pitch on Tuesday, and
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  Speaker 4: Sanchez is like, actually, no, I can't. I'm gonna be
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  Speaker 4: able to and they're like, all right, well screw it.
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  Speaker 3: Then you're not an All Star.
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  Speaker 4: And then they went to Ranger Suarez and they're like, hey, Ranger,
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  Speaker 4: you've been pretty good. You got the resume here, certainly
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  Speaker 4: all star caliber. Can you pitch on Tuesday? And Rangers like, no,
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  Speaker 4: I just pitched right before the All Star break. I
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  Speaker 4: can't pitch on Tuesday. And they're like, well, I guess
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  Speaker 4: you're not an All Star either. Then they ended up
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  Speaker 4: with Jacob Mazerowski. Ridiculous process. What I think should have
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  Speaker 4: happened is you have your All Star team and if
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  Speaker 4: anybody needs to be replaced because they can't make it,
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  Speaker 4: they're injured, they can't make the All Star Game. They're
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  Speaker 4: a pitcher, and they just threw on Saturday or Sunday.
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  Speaker 4: And they're like, I'm not turning around on Tuesday and
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  Speaker 4: facing some of the best hitters in the game throwing
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  Speaker 4: gas when that's.
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  Speaker 3: Not my routine.
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  Speaker 4: I don't want to take even a small chance that
• 20:06
  Speaker 4: I could tweak something that I could get banged up. Hey,
• 20:11
  Speaker 4: if you say I can't make it, that all you do,
• 20:14
  Speaker 4: you're on the team. Then you name a replacement and
• 20:18
  Speaker 4: they're known as just that they are a replacement. That's it, right,
• 20:24
  Speaker 4: they're crowd fillers. It was like at the Grammys or whatever.
• 20:27
  Speaker 4: You go and you sit in the seat, but you're
• 20:29
  Speaker 4: not an All Star. You don't get All Star classification.
• 20:33
  Speaker 4: If you look at Jacob Mitzerowski, he's like Baseball Reference page.
• 20:37
  Speaker 4: I love anything that ends in reference, like Pro Football Reference,
• 20:40
  Speaker 4: Basketball Reference, Baseball Reference.
• 20:43
  Speaker 3: Go to it all the time.
• 20:44
  Speaker 4: If you go to Baseball Reference and look up Jacob Mizerowski,
• 20:48
  Speaker 4: it says one time All Star. It should not say
• 20:51
  Speaker 4: that he's a replacement All Star. So Caitlin Clark, she
• 20:57
  Speaker 4: can't compete in the WNBA All Star Game. Whoever replaces
• 21:01
  Speaker 4: her should be an alternate, should be just that a replacement.
• 21:07
  Speaker 3: They should not get All Star status. They're just filling in.
• 21:12
  Speaker 4: Am I crazy? Why the leagues make this way more
• 21:14
  Speaker 4: difficult than they need to. The NFL did this last year.
• 21:19
  Speaker 4: So Drake may had a pretty good year with the Patriots, right,
• 21:24
  Speaker 4: he was a Pro Bowl fill in. If you look
• 21:28
  Speaker 4: at his Pro Football Reference page, one time Pro Bowler,
• 21:32
  Speaker 4: it's like what he.
• 21:34
  Speaker 3: Was a fill in.
• 21:35
  Speaker 4: He's just a replacement guy. He wasn't one of the
• 21:38
  Speaker 4: guys that initially made it. What are we doing here?
• 21:43
  Speaker 4: Like again, if you're looking at this and like Brian,
• 21:45
  Speaker 4: what's the big deal?
• 21:46
  Speaker 3: Man? This is not a big deal. It's for the fans.
• 21:48
  Speaker 3: Who cares.
• 21:49
  Speaker 4: Some people might have that attitude. And the thing I
• 21:53
  Speaker 4: would throw out there is it's something that Kyle.
• 21:55
  Speaker 3: Schwarber talked about.
• 21:57
  Speaker 4: He's with the Phillies there, and he talked about his
• 21:59
  Speaker 4: teammates not being named to the All Star team. And
• 22:04
  Speaker 4: it's like when we do the reunion thing, when it's
• 22:07
  Speaker 4: ten years from now or whatever, that's part of your resume.
• 22:11
  Speaker 4: They read it off. They're like five time All Stars,
• 22:14
  Speaker 4: so and so that's part of the deal. So it matters.
• 22:20
  Speaker 4: And so for the Phillies pitchers who were next in line,
• 22:24
  Speaker 4: for them not to get the nod just because they
• 22:26
  Speaker 4: were unavailable to pitch on Tuesday is weird. But I
• 22:30
  Speaker 4: also add that if they're just replacing someone, if they're
• 22:34
  Speaker 4: just filling in, you shouldn't get All Star status anyway.
• 22:39
  Speaker 4: It should be here's the team, Here's who the fans
• 22:42
  Speaker 4: voted for, Here's who the players voted for. Here's the team.
• 22:46
  Speaker 4: We have X amount of players here it is and
• 22:49
  Speaker 4: whoever can't make it?
• 22:51
  Speaker 3: Okay?
• 22:51
  Speaker 4: Cool? We got to replace them with these other dudes.
• 22:53
  Speaker 4: They shouldn't get All Star status. How do you sneak in?
• 22:57
  Speaker 3: That's the ultimate back door cover right there.
• 23:00
  Speaker 4: You know, it's the late bucket from half court to
• 23:03
  Speaker 4: cover the spread. It's more than that. You're not an
• 23:08
  Speaker 4: All Star. But just because someone is hurt or pitches
• 23:12
  Speaker 4: on Saturday or Sunday before the All Star Game, now
• 23:16
  Speaker 4: you're an All Star.
• 23:17
  Speaker 3: That's the dumbest thing.
• 23:18
  Speaker 4: Ever, Why did they make this more complicated than it
• 23:22
  Speaker 4: needs to be. If you're a replacement, then that's all
• 23:26
  Speaker 4: the status you get. You're a replacement All Star doesn't
• 23:29
  Speaker 4: mean you're an All Star. And here's some audio here
• 23:33
  Speaker 4: to back this up. Because the late great Kobe Bryant,
• 23:37
  Speaker 4: when he was in his final season in the NBA
• 23:40
  Speaker 4: and he had the retirement tour. When he's on the road,
• 23:44
  Speaker 4: they do these grand you know, entrances for him. They
• 23:48
  Speaker 4: announce him and you know, five time champion, they rattle
• 23:52
  Speaker 4: off his accomplishments. This was one of them on the
• 23:56
  Speaker 4: road in Detroit and they rattle off how many All
• 23:59
  Speaker 4: Star Games, appearances, he had, how many times he was
• 24:01
  Speaker 4: an All Star?
• 24:02
  Speaker 3: Checked this out hat sixty six?
• 24:04
  Speaker 2: Do you want of the twelve pounds in high school?
• 24:08
  Speaker 3: I think his final plants.
• 24:09
  Speaker 2: How did the poet of mom.
• 24:11
  Speaker 4: In Hill and it's twenty hit a season seventeen hit
• 24:16
  Speaker 4: the All Star? Seventeen time All Star right there, and
• 24:20
  Speaker 4: they rattled off pretty much everything else Gobe did in
• 24:24
  Speaker 4: his career is way too long, so I just condensed it.
• 24:27
  Speaker 4: Here's a portion of when he was in Charlotte again,
• 24:30
  Speaker 4: his final season, grand entrance. They're announcing him. They announced
• 24:33
  Speaker 4: how many times he was an All Star.
• 24:36
  Speaker 2: Time and being all shar not time and.
• 24:38
  Speaker 3: Be a champion.
• 24:40
  Speaker 4: It was side by side with how many times do
• 24:42
  Speaker 4: you want to ring? Like this matters. It's part of
• 24:45
  Speaker 4: your resume. So if you're an All Star, great, If
• 24:50
  Speaker 4: you need to be replaced, you're just a replacement dude.
• 24:54
  Speaker 3: You shouldn't get All Star status for that. Why is
• 24:58
  Speaker 3: this so? Why is it so difficult? Difficult at all?
• 25:00
  Speaker 4: It's very easy, system, very and yet these leagues just complicated.
• 25:08
  Speaker 4: I don't know why this whole Miserrowski thing. I didn't
• 25:13
  Speaker 4: think of it at the time. I thought it was
• 25:14
  Speaker 4: ridiculous at the time that Christopher Sanchez and Ranger Suarez
• 25:18
  Speaker 4: got bypassed because they were unavailable, and then they went
• 25:21
  Speaker 4: to Miserowski.
• 25:22
  Speaker 3: I thought that was ridiculous.
• 25:24
  Speaker 4: So the more I think about it, none of those
• 25:26
  Speaker 4: freaking guys should have had All Star status. If they're
• 25:29
  Speaker 4: just replacements, you're just the alternate man. You're you're the
• 25:33
  Speaker 4: crowd filler. You're sitting in the seat that needs to
• 25:36
  Speaker 4: be filled. That that doesn't mean that those are your tickets.
• 25:39
  Speaker 4: That doesn't mean that those are your seats. You're just
• 25:41
  Speaker 4: filling in.
• 25:42
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• 25:44
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• 25:47
  Speaker 4: I saw this tweet from Adam Schefter. It just simply
• 25:51
  Speaker 4: says Colts quarterback Anthony Richardson is believed to have recovered
• 25:56
  Speaker 4: from his recent right shoulder setback as the TA prepares
• 26:00
  Speaker 4: to report for training camp next week. Okay, if Anthony
• 26:08
  Speaker 4: Richardson does anything in the NFL, not just this year,
• 26:13
  Speaker 4: but ever, I'll be impressed.
• 26:15
  Speaker 3: I'll be impressed.
• 26:16
  Speaker 4: I don't want to write the guy off completely, and
• 26:19
  Speaker 4: I'm not. I'm just telling you, I'll be impressed because
• 26:24
  Speaker 4: so far the start has been god awful. It has
• 26:28
  Speaker 4: been freaking terrible when and we're only two years in,
• 26:31
  Speaker 4: so there might be some people that say, hey, Brian,
• 26:33
  Speaker 4: you know he's a top five pick.
• 26:34
  Speaker 3: For a reason.
• 26:36
  Speaker 4: He does have some ability you never know if it's realized. Well,
• 26:39
  Speaker 4: all of that is true. I can't dispute that, But
• 26:43
  Speaker 4: what I would push back on is just how much
• 26:47
  Speaker 4: ground he has to cover to be a legitimate starting
• 26:52
  Speaker 4: quarterback in the NFL. His completion percentage last year was
• 26:58
  Speaker 4: forty seven point seven percent. Okay, he's sub not fifty percent,
• 27:04
  Speaker 4: he's sub forty eight percent. Okay, he's put up in
• 27:07
  Speaker 4: two years numbers that in some instances are worse than
• 27:13
  Speaker 4: Tim Tebow's quarterback numbers in the NFL. Coincidentally, both Florida
• 27:18
  Speaker 4: quarterbacks right there with a rich and Tebow. That's not
• 27:22
  Speaker 4: the company you want to be in. If you're Anthony Richardson,
• 27:24
  Speaker 4: you did not want to be shoulder to shoulder with
• 27:27
  Speaker 4: Tim Tebow in the stats department. But that's where he is,
• 27:31
  Speaker 4: and this is where I would start looking sideways at
• 27:34
  Speaker 4: the Colts. This is not just an Anthony Richardson thing.
• 27:37
  Speaker 4: This is a Colts thing. The Colts mismanaged this dude
• 27:42
  Speaker 4: so badly. I would compare it to that. I'm all
• 27:46
  Speaker 4: about comparisons tonight. The Colts, they're like the guy who
• 27:51
  Speaker 4: bought this high end sports car. This guy went to
• 27:55
  Speaker 4: the dealership. He is like, I saved my money. I
• 27:58
  Speaker 4: want a Lamborghini, give me it right now, here's all
• 28:01
  Speaker 4: the money. And then he got it. It's back at home.
• 28:06
  Speaker 4: And instead of waiting a little bit, this guy couldn't
• 28:10
  Speaker 4: help himself. It's raining sideways outside, the wind is going crazy,
• 28:15
  Speaker 4: it's even hailing a little bit. And this guy who
• 28:18
  Speaker 4: just bought a Lamborghini is like, I didn't buy it
• 28:20
  Speaker 4: just to keep it in the garage. We're going out,
• 28:23
  Speaker 4: We're going for a drive. Right, It's not the time
• 28:25
  Speaker 4: to do it. Just wait, be patient. And the Colts
• 28:31
  Speaker 4: in their situation, they were not patient with Anthony Richardson
• 28:34
  Speaker 4: at all. Anthony Richardson in college, he threw less than
• 28:40
  Speaker 4: four hundred passing attempts. He had less than four hundred
• 28:45
  Speaker 4: passing attempts in college. You compare that to some of
• 28:49
  Speaker 4: these guys what they did in college. Some of them
• 28:52
  Speaker 4: are throwing for over a thousand, over fifteen hundred, sometimes
• 28:56
  Speaker 4: over two thousand passing attempts in college. Anthony Richardson had
• 29:01
  Speaker 4: less than four hundred. He had no experience, and the
• 29:07
  Speaker 4: Colts are like, throw him in, maybe he's ready for
• 29:11
  Speaker 4: life in the NFL, And shockingly, he was not at all.
• 29:17
  Speaker 4: They threw him in the deep end and he didn't
• 29:19
  Speaker 4: know how to swim. I don't know why the Colts.
• 29:22
  Speaker 3: Would do that. You know something that blows my mind.
• 29:25
  Speaker 4: Think about this, Patrick Mahomes, and I could look at
• 29:28
  Speaker 4: it real fast here, how many will do a guessing game?
• 29:32
  Speaker 4: How many passing attempts? I don't know off the top
• 29:34
  Speaker 4: of my head. How many passing attempts do you think
• 29:37
  Speaker 4: Patrick Mahomes had in college?
• 29:40
  Speaker 3: He's a Texas tech.
• 29:41
  Speaker 4: How many? Okay, got the answer right here? Yeah, this
• 29:46
  Speaker 4: is really toply fast. I'm getting a little bit better
• 29:47
  Speaker 4: at this googling thing. So, Patrick Mahomes, he threw one thousand,
• 29:53
  Speaker 4: three hundred and forty nine passes in college thirteen forty nine.
• 30:01
  Speaker 4: That's almost a thousand more passes than Anthony Richardson threw
• 30:07
  Speaker 4: in college.
• 30:07
  Speaker 3: Okay, and what happened with those two quarterbacks?
• 30:10
  Speaker 4: Patrick Mahomes sat the entire rookie season, his entire rookie
• 30:17
  Speaker 4: year in the NFL except for the final game of
• 30:20
  Speaker 4: the regular season. He started that game. That's it against
• 30:23
  Speaker 4: Coops Broncos. I'll never forget that.
• 30:26
  Speaker 3: And that's it.
• 30:27
  Speaker 4: He started one game as a rookie. Even with almost
• 30:30
  Speaker 4: over a thousand more attempts in college than Anthony Richardson.
• 30:34
  Speaker 4: Anthony Richardson started right away, like Week five or something.
• 30:40
  Speaker 4: He's starting games in the NFL with no experience, a
• 30:44
  Speaker 4: lack of passing attempts. That was so dumb for the
• 30:48
  Speaker 4: Colts to rush that guy. He needed to sit, he
• 30:53
  Speaker 4: needed to develop, He did not need to be thrown
• 30:56
  Speaker 4: into the deep end. That was such a bad approach
• 30:59
  Speaker 4: by the Colts. And now you've seen what's happened the
• 31:03
  Speaker 4: first two years. He's been banged up like crazy. That's
• 31:06
  Speaker 4: not the Colts' fault, but he is a disaster as
• 31:09
  Speaker 4: a quarterback. And he's got a bright quarterback mind in
• 31:13
  Speaker 4: Shane Stikens. Shane Stiken was a former quarterback at a
• 31:16
  Speaker 4: lower level, but he knows what he's doing. It's a
• 31:19
  Speaker 4: good play caller, bright offensive mind, knows the quarterback position,
• 31:25
  Speaker 4: and Steiken's been able to do nothing so far because
• 31:29
  Speaker 4: they threw him in too early.
• 31:31
  Speaker 3: And he just wasn't ready to swim.
• 31:34
  Speaker 4: And I feel bad for Anthony Richardson to a degree
• 31:37
  Speaker 4: because I think he would have had a better shot
• 31:40
  Speaker 4: to at least be in a better position to be
• 31:42
  Speaker 4: further developed, to not be a train wreck at this
• 31:45
  Speaker 4: point of his NFL career.
• 31:46
  Speaker 3: I think the Colts have a lot to do with that.
• 31:50
  Speaker 4: I don't think A. Rich has crushed it by any means,
• 31:54
  Speaker 4: but I think the Colts have been bad for him, bad, bad, bad,
• 31:58
  Speaker 4: terrible approach