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Niners Stay Perfect Amid Evans Injury, Hurts Out with Blood Clots, Angel Reese Monster Performance Ties WNBA Finals · The Daily Play With Joy Taylor

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  Speaker 1: the Niners won again, beating the Commanders 23-17. In a
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  Speaker 1: very exciting Monday night football game, or at least an
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  Speaker 1: exciting second half of football, the first half, not so much,
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  Speaker 1: at least for Commanders fans. It was a dominant performance
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  Speaker 1: by Kyle Shanahan's group in the first half, and Washington
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  Speaker 1: nearly came back and stole it. The turning point seems
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  Speaker 1: to be Mike Evans leaving with a lower leg injury
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  Speaker 1: in the second quarter. The Niners were able to score
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  Speaker 1: on the drive, but Evans helped them get into the
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  Speaker 1: red zone before leaving with injury.
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  Speaker 2: But in the second half, they couldn't get anything done offensively.
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  Speaker 1: As a result, the defense started to tire out in
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  Speaker 1: the third quarter, and they were barely able to hang
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  Speaker 1: on in the fourth. Jaden Daniels and the Commanders had
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  Speaker 1: some situational awareness issues again at the end of this one,
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  Speaker 1: with Jaden committing an intentional grounding that led to a
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  Speaker 1: 10-second runoff, and that cost them valuable field position and
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  Speaker 1: time with the game on the line. So for the
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  Speaker 1: second Commanders game in a row, their hopes ended with
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  Speaker 1: a sack. So it's crazy to say that one player
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  Speaker 1: that isn't a quarterback would be enough to determine the
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  Speaker 1: fate of a team, but it looks.
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  Speaker 2: That way with Evans.
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  Speaker 1: I've been saying all year, and I've been incredibly wrong,
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  Speaker 1: that the Niners, well, I was saying this offseason and
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  Speaker 1: through the beginning of this year, that the Niners were
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  Speaker 1: not going to make the playoffs.
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  Speaker 2: That they were going to struggle a lot this year.
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  Speaker 1: And I turned out to be really wrong about that.
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  Speaker 1: But what I'm never wrong about, unfortunately, with the Niners
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  Speaker 1: is their injuries. And now with Mike Evans, obviously, we
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  Speaker 1: do not know the severity of the injury anymore. it
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  Speaker 1: feels like it could be one injury too much. And
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  Speaker 1: that's unfortunate because the way that they have been playing
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  Speaker 1: and the way that they have been adjusting and the
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  Speaker 1: way that they have been next man up all year
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  Speaker 1: in a way that they haven't been usually with injuries
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  Speaker 1: has been really, really impressive. They're the only 6-0 team
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  Speaker 1: in the league. They are playing fantastic football. Brock Purdy
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  Speaker 1: looks great. Kyle Shanahan looks like the wizard that he
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  Speaker 1: always is. And Mike Evans has been a massive part
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  Speaker 1: of that. Second half, kind of showed how important he is.
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  Speaker 1: Hopefully it's not a big deal. The Niners really have
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  Speaker 1: an energy about them this year that looks like they could.
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  Speaker 2: Potentially overcome everything. But at some point, injuries.
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  Speaker 1: Catch up to you when you're losing guys left and
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  Speaker 1: right and constantly having to overcome that situation. So again,
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  Speaker 1: hopefully it's not a big deal with Mike Evans. Their
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  Speaker 1: next three are Atlanta, then they have a bye, much needed,
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  Speaker 1: and then Vegas. So if they can hang on, through
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  Speaker 1: Atlanta to Dubai and get somewhat healthy for Vegas for
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  Speaker 1: the rest of the season.
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  Speaker 2: That's ideal. I think they are able to beat Atlanta
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  Speaker 2: without Mike Evans.
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  Speaker 1: And again, hopefully we, hopefully it is not a season
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  Speaker 1: ending type of situation for him. And they're able to
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  Speaker 1: give him some rest and look, they have quite a
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  Speaker 1: bit of space in the division and around the league
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  Speaker 1: with the way.
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  Speaker 2: That they've started.
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  Speaker 1: So maybe that will end up working in their favor.
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  Speaker 1: As far as the commanders go, um, It's really frustrating.
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  Speaker 1: I really like Dan Quinn. I do.
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  Speaker 2: I think he's a good coach. I think there's been
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  Speaker 2: a lot of.
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  Speaker 1: Unfortunate situations this year that look like it is on coaching.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, Jaden throwing that intentional grounding, that's on Jaden.
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  Speaker 1: Last week, I think, was on the coaching. This week,
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  Speaker 1: I think it's on Jaden. I don't think that there
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  Speaker 1: will be major changes if they're able to get things
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  Speaker 1: back on track.
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  Speaker 2: I don't think they should fire Dan Quinn.
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  Speaker 1: But look, people get really, really impatient, especially when you
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  Speaker 1: have young talent. And all eyes are on this situation
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  Speaker 1: with the Commanders. They're 1-4-1. Their next three are, they
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  Speaker 1: have a bye. And then they have Philly on Sunday
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  Speaker 1: night football and then the Rams.
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  Speaker 2: So I do think that things will get very serious
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  Speaker 2: over this next week.
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  Speaker 1: Hopefully they can get back on track with Philly, who
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  Speaker 1: are obviously, we're just about to talk about them in
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  Speaker 1: a second, but they're in a bad way and they
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  Speaker 1: can get this season back on track. I do not
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  Speaker 1: think that they should fire him though. Staying in the NFL,
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  Speaker 1: the Jalen Hurts situation is really, really frustrating. He's going
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  Speaker 1: to miss the rest of the season after doctors discovered
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  Speaker 1: multiple blood clots in his lungs. His agent, Nicole Lynn,
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  Speaker 1: released a lengthy statement on his behalf. It's available online.
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  Speaker 2: It's really long. What she said is prognosis is very good.
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  Speaker 1: We expect a full recovery and anticipate they'll have the
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  Speaker 1: opportunity to resume contact. Football activities went off the blood thinners.
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  Speaker 1: In the meantime, he'll remain active around the team and
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  Speaker 1: continue to condition. More importantly, we anticipate that he will
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  Speaker 1: have no long-term effects. The timeline of the situation, though,
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  Speaker 1: is under a lot of scrutiny, and it's going to
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  Speaker 1: bring some questions to how the situation was handled today.
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  Speaker 1: to the surface with Philadelphia, because it's a big deal, obviously,
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  Speaker 1: that a player of any status would be in this situation.
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  Speaker 1: When you have a franchise quarterback, a Super Bowl winning quarterback,
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  Speaker 1: someone who is at the center of all the controversy
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  Speaker 1: in Philadelphia, because he is the face of the Philadelphia Eagles,
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  Speaker 1: to be in this situation is unacceptable.
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  Speaker 2: I think, you know, I am not a doctor. None
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  Speaker 2: of us are doctors that are not doctors. Like you
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  Speaker 2: either are a doctor or you're not.
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  Speaker 1: And even more specifically, you are either Jalen Hurts' doctor
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  Speaker 1: or you're not. So we can speculate all we want.
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  Speaker 1: We don't know what happened here, but it sure does
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  Speaker 1: look like this is a crazy situation. He took a
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  Speaker 1: cleat to his calf on October 4th against the Rams.
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  Speaker 1: He informed the Eagles medical staff of the injury after
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  Speaker 1: practice on October 8th and was back at practice the
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  Speaker 1: next day before the team left for London. After an
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  Speaker 1: ultrasound in London, on the.
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  Speaker 2: 10th, it revealed a superficial blood clot.
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  Speaker 1: The Eagles said last week that their medical staff and
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  Speaker 1: London-based doctors reviewed the ultrasound results and concluded that activity
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  Speaker 1: and mobility were important and that he could play safely.
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  Speaker 1: After flying back over the ocean to Philadelphia, Hertzman underwent
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  Speaker 1: a follow-up ultrasound and it revealed movement in the blood clot,
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  Speaker 1: prompting the Eagles to rule him out.
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  Speaker 2: For the game against the Panthers.
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  Speaker 1: So he has deep vein thrombosis and a bilateral pulmonary emboli,
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  Speaker 1: meaning a blood clot that traveled from his legs to
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  Speaker 1: his lungs.
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  Speaker 2: That is bad.
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  Speaker 1: The good news is the clot is considered to be provoked,
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  Speaker 1: meaning it's a favorable prognosis with treatment and care and
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  Speaker 1: because he was cleated in his calf. That is according
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  Speaker 1: to Ian Rappaport. My... brother had sort of a similar
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  Speaker 1: situation when he was in Washington. It wasn't exactly this,
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  Speaker 1: but it was in his calf and it was essentially,
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  Speaker 1: I forget the exact word for it, but it was
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  Speaker 1: like essentially a, like a blood sack on his leg.
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  Speaker 1: And it was very, very dangerous. It was essentially the
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  Speaker 1: same thing.
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  Speaker 2: They had it.
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  Speaker 1: He had to pay very close attention to it. It
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  Speaker 1: was very, very dangerous situation. You have to handle these things, obviously,
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  Speaker 1: with a lot of care. We've seen athletes have to
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  Speaker 1: retire from sports for this. It seems like this is
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  Speaker 1: not the situation, but him missing the rest of the
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  Speaker 1: season for this is an insane.
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  Speaker 2: Thing. Like, it's crazy.
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  Speaker 1: Obviously, thank God that he's okay and that he's getting
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  Speaker 1: the best care possible. But yeah, Sirianni is getting dragged
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  Speaker 1: for this and he has said, that he is not
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  Speaker 1: speaking for what the medical staff has done. He's the
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  Speaker 1: coach and he doesn't, you know, he goes off of
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  Speaker 1: what they tell him.
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  Speaker 2: And I believe him. He's a coach.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, obviously, if they say that he's safe and
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  Speaker 1: you have multiple doctors from multiple countries saying that he's safe,
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  Speaker 1: at some point you're going to trust them. It just
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  Speaker 1: seems like that's.
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  Speaker 2: A big deal, having a blood clot. And perhaps he
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  Speaker 2: shouldn't travel. perhaps he shouldn't be playing.
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  Speaker 1: Being mobile and playing a contact sport, flying across an
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  Speaker 1: ocean are all very different things.
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  Speaker 2: So we're all still learning. I don't want to get
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  Speaker 2: ahead of myself here. I am not a medical professional.
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  Speaker 2: I know Eagles fans are frustrated.
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  Speaker 1: I'm sure Jalen is frustrated and I'm sure Sirianni is frustrated.
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  Speaker 1: But the only people that can answer these questions are doctors.
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  Speaker 1: And I just feel for him. It's horrible to obviously
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  Speaker 1: miss this time. And, you know, the priority obviously is
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  Speaker 1: keeping him safe and making sure that his health is
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  Speaker 1: at the utmost importance because that's a scary, scary thing
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  Speaker 1: to go through. And, you know, I can't imagine how
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  Speaker 1: his family feels. I know how I felt when I was,
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  Speaker 1: you know, terrified. It's something that you feel completely out
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  Speaker 1: of control, that is out of your control for something
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  Speaker 1: like this. This isn't a knee injury. This isn't, you know,
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  Speaker 1: none of those things are small, but this is something
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  Speaker 1: that You know, you're on blood thinners. It's moving through
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  Speaker 1: your body like this is nothing to play with. So
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  Speaker 1: I'm glad he is being taken care of. And I'm
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  Speaker 1: glad that, you know, he's going to get the proper care.
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  Speaker 1: It's just a really unfortunate situation. And if there was
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  Speaker 1: anything that would fall on the doctors in this in
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  Speaker 1: this moment that was bad advice, it's going to.
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  Speaker 2: Be a huge, huge problem.
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  Speaker 1: The WNBA Finals tipped off on Saturday with a win
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  Speaker 1: by the Valkyries in San Francisco, and Game 2 was
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  Speaker 1: on Monday night, and the Dream battled back, holding Golden
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  Speaker 1: State to just nine points in the third quarter with
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  Speaker 1: a crucial 79-65 win, and even the series won one.
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  Speaker 1: Angel Reese led all scorers with an amazing Game 2
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  Speaker 1: 30-burger and led all rebounders with 16, so 30-16, and
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  Speaker 1: sold out crowd at Chase Center once again, which included
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  Speaker 1: Steph Curry and Lotto. who is in California touring with
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  Speaker 1: Doja Cat. Remember, they had to move their performance for
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  Speaker 1: this game. Dominant performance by Angel Reese, who is having
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  Speaker 1: just an incredible year with the Dream. Defensive player of
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  Speaker 1: the year. Showed up when her team needed her most.
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  Speaker 1: And one thing about Angel that she is continuing to
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  Speaker 1: show in her career through college and now through the pros,
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  Speaker 1: is she shows up when the lights are brightest. And
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  Speaker 1: whatever your criticisms of Angel Reese are, you can't argue
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  Speaker 1: with those results.
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  Speaker 2: Now, the series is young.
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  Speaker 1: But she has been tremendous this postseason and was tremendous
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  Speaker 1: on Monday night. And that's just her bag. Like, she's
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  Speaker 1: had some moments where she struggled throughout the season. I
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  Speaker 1: feel like she's gotten so much better as the year
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  Speaker 1: has progressed. She's obviously worked on her game. I think
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  Speaker 1: that shows with her defensive player of the year award,
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  Speaker 1: but also the way that she is showing up offensively
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  Speaker 1: for the team now as well, playing off of Jordan
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  Speaker 1: Canada and the rest of her teammates. It's been really,
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  Speaker 1: really fun to watch. Game three is Wednesday night in
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  Speaker 1: State Farm Arena in Atlanta. And game four is on Saturday.
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  Speaker 1: So I'm sure that Atlanta is going to show up
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  Speaker 1: and show out. This has been a really fun series.
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  Speaker 1: Golden State obviously struggled in game two. towards the end
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  Speaker 1: of the game, but I am really excited to see
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  Speaker 1: how they bounce back in game three. They're a very,
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  Speaker 1: very tough team with a great leadership and Gabby Williams
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  Speaker 1: is doing an incredible job for them. So I look
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  Speaker 1: forward to game three, looking forward to seeing how Atlanta
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  Speaker 1: shows up and it's been a great WNBA finals so far.
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