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Hour 3 - Tank Talk · The Ben Maller Show

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  Speaker 1: Adam Ashland. Welcome back in. I'm Adam Osland in for
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  Speaker 1: Coming up, Maybe we'll do a color driven segment because
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to talk about a what if story with
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  Speaker 1: a certain NBA player who's a Hall of Famer, a
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  Speaker 1: top seventy five player ever, but also is still a
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  Speaker 1: what if story. We'll get to that, and I may
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  Speaker 1: regret getting to this. His name is Hollering, James. Hollering, James,
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  Speaker 1: You're in with Adam Oslin on Fox Sports Radio in
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  Speaker 1: for Big Ben Mallor.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I made this show. You know why.
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  Speaker 3: I was honest with you when you answered the phone?
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  Speaker 3: Who wins in the phone? Chris Holler and James and
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  Speaker 3: I got some pigs for you.
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  Speaker 1: Uh, let's let's hear them.
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  Speaker 4: I guess why not come on Minnesota Lakes at Home
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  Speaker 4: with JJ mcconsey or Max Browser over the green bit
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  Speaker 4: of packers.
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  Speaker 1: Wait a second, you don't know which quarterback is going
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  Speaker 1: to be on her center, and you're still taking the
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  Speaker 1: Vikings regardless.
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  Speaker 3: I'm taking the legacy them from Minnesota born and ray
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  Speaker 3: Jon General Hospital.
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  Speaker 1: Hey, let me ask you something. Coller and James. Where
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  Speaker 1: were you and Blair Walsh missed that twenty six yard
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  Speaker 1: field goal against the Seattle Seahawks in that wild card game?
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  Speaker 5: Do you remember that at my mom's house.
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  Speaker 3: In her apartment did?
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  Speaker 6: We're not my own and I had a son half of.
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  Speaker 3: David the time, but I broke plicea lots money.
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  Speaker 1: So were you paying rent or not? What was the deal?
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  Speaker 3: I was paying rent, but I lost my down payment,
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  Speaker 3: you know, the dowayment, the papers, the battlet.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: So if you really f up the place they take that,
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  Speaker 1: I hope your mother consoled you after Blair Walsh missed
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  Speaker 1: that kick, because that is an old timer that I
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  Speaker 1: think about as a non Vikings fan. That is fan death.
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  Speaker 1: That is the worst thing that could happen to you
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  Speaker 1: as a sports fan.
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  Speaker 3: And one time on time in my life, I lost
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  Speaker 3: forty sixty I still remember this day from a brain injury.
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  Speaker 1: Well, it couldn't have been that bad of an injury
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  Speaker 1: because you remembered you lost all the money.
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  Speaker 3: So I had to You know why I lost that money?
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  Speaker 3: Because I was stupid.
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  Speaker 1: Well, i'll do it. You probably bet on the Vikings again,
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  Speaker 1: didn't you?
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  Speaker 6: No?
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  Speaker 3: I did. No, I gotta jump round and me and
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  Speaker 3: a girl for being stupid.
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  Speaker 1: I like you differentiated between the three thugs and the
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  Speaker 1: Caucasian girl, but either way, you got your ass kicked.
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  Speaker 1: I'm sorry that happened. I'm sorry hollering where the white
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  Speaker 1: women at?
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  Speaker 3: I got big dumb. But I'm still not out because I.
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  Speaker 1: Love all right, holler and James. I appreciate the phone
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  Speaker 1: call down, but not out, like me deciding to take
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  Speaker 1: another phone call. I'm down, but I'm not out. I'm
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  Speaker 1: gonna try it. Poppy calling in from San Diego on
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  Speaker 1: the Ben Mallard Show. I'm at a Mouslin filling in, Poppy,
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  Speaker 1: what's up?
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  Speaker 6: I love it. I'm coming big top pick for you
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  Speaker 6: guys the NFL.
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  Speaker 1: And that both are you taking Minnesota as well over
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  Speaker 1: Green Bay regardless of the quarterback.
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  Speaker 6: No, I'm staying away from that game. You know it's
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  Speaker 6: I think that I'm interesting, but I'll tell you the
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  Speaker 6: game that I'm interested with it. Poppy, you had your
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  Speaker 6: top ten take, and then the cheese Pader and the
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  Speaker 6: thank that one because it's a tank show. For who
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  Speaker 6: who's going to be taking on this one? Rader Raiders,
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  Speaker 6: They're I'll answer you right now for that, Adam. They're tanking,
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  Speaker 6: So I'm ridding the city on the spread. Uh, we
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  Speaker 6: were taking them. I'm literal right now. The current in
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  Speaker 6: the market, Uh, it's my.
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  Speaker 1: Now. Is this like a blood Bay guarantee? Is this
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  Speaker 1: going to pay our mortgage this month? Is this a
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  Speaker 1: stone cold lead pipe lock, like the same lead pipe
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  Speaker 1: that our last caller apparently got beaten with back in
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  Speaker 1: the day and lost four thousand dollars.
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  Speaker 6: That's my number Yeah, that's my number one take, Adam,
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  Speaker 6: and and it's going to help you pay your mortgage.
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  Speaker 6: And the number two the number two games that I'm like,
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  Speaker 6: it's The Stiller, the Showtime game against so crazy. It's
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  Speaker 6: we got mister Aaron Rodgers, Lamar Jackson. Oh the whole
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  Speaker 6: world gotta be taking Lamar W's Ben the Stiller. So
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  Speaker 6: that's pretty I think Aaron Rodgers is going to come
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  Speaker 6: from and he's gonna show everyone he still has it
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  Speaker 6: in hand.
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  Speaker 1: Wait, that same Steelers team that just lost to the
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  Speaker 1: Cleveland Browns. You still got it in him? Are you sure?
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  Speaker 8: Yeah?
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  Speaker 3: It's all part of the planet, was Roger. It's a scriplike, trust.
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  Speaker 6: Me, out of the Stellers will win plus three.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, call me crazy.
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  Speaker 6: I know you're not really liking that one.
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  Speaker 5: And then we're gonna.
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  Speaker 8: See the best for last, right, And I'm really liking
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  Speaker 8: on this team like you said it earlier. Uh yeah,
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  Speaker 8: And then cool, they're gonna be playing on their last
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  Speaker 8: team against the Tectans, right, said a whole well like
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  Speaker 8: detection Philip Prevers last team. Right, so i'd like.
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  Speaker 6: Give me the Frockles plus.
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  Speaker 8: Ten and a half ten and a half Philip Prevers
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  Speaker 8: per well game.
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  Speaker 6: You know Texas are gonna win.
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  Speaker 1: But all right, fair enough, Poppy, Now, I probably will
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  Speaker 1: forget about most of these picks, so I won't hold
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  Speaker 1: it against you if you're wrong here. But if you're right,
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  Speaker 1: make sure to call back in with big big Ben
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  Speaker 1: Mallers back in studio next week, and you let them know.
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  Speaker 1: You let them know you were successful and you paid
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  Speaker 1: your mortgage for somebody else's I appreciate you, big poppy,
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  Speaker 1: thanks for calling it. Steve in Manhattan, Manhattan Beach? Like
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  Speaker 1: what Manhattan, New York? What are we talking about? New
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  Speaker 1: York all the way new York City? All right, Steve,
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  Speaker 1: what's up? You see? You take a couple of calls
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  Speaker 1: and it spreads like wildfire. And we've talked enough about
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  Speaker 1: fire off the air. I'm a little bit scared here, Steve,
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  Speaker 1: what's up?
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  Speaker 5: Hey, what's up? I could be it could be in Manhattan,
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  Speaker 5: Kansas too. The thing is, this is talk sports radio, man.
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  Speaker 5: That's what we're here for to talk about everything.
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  Speaker 1: Sports radio, not sports talk radio. It is talk sports
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  Speaker 1: radio radio, talk sports. Steve, what do you want to say?
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  Speaker 3: Well?
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  Speaker 5: I just want to comment, you know. I just think
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  Speaker 5: the Giants should bench the whole team Sunday and.
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  Speaker 6: Lose.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, the Rainers did it the other day. Nobody
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  Speaker 5: got mad with Crosby.
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  Speaker 3: And who's the guy, Bob Hope And it looks.
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  Speaker 5: Like the Bills are going to sit out? Uh, Josh
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  Speaker 5: Allen and the guy needs a rest anyway, carries the
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  Speaker 5: team every year.
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  Speaker 2: He carries the.
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  Speaker 5: Team on his shoulders into the playoffs and listen the
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  Speaker 5: Giants could if they too. I think the Raidings would
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  Speaker 5: have to win and the Giants would have to lose
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  Speaker 5: for the Giants to get the first pick, and the
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  Speaker 5: Giants could have some fun with that pick. You know
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  Speaker 5: they got there anyway.
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  Speaker 1: Hold on, hold on, because you're in Manhattan. What what's
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  Speaker 1: the polls of the city there? With Jackson dark If
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  Speaker 1: you get a top pick, you're really going to pass
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  Speaker 1: on Fernando Mendoza after how good he looked again today?
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  Speaker 5: The good they feel they got their quarterback. The Giant
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  Speaker 5: fans feel they have their club. Mean, we haven't taken
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  Speaker 5: any science to the Poles or anything on this, but basically,
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  Speaker 5: the Giants fans steal they have their quarterback and Jackson
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  Speaker 5: dart and you know eventually he'll learn to run out
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  Speaker 5: of bounds and not collide with three hundred pounds. I'm
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  Speaker 5: in head on is.
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  Speaker 1: He gonna learn in time? Because I've seen this stuff
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  Speaker 1: before and some guys never get it. And Cam Newton
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  Speaker 1: with the Carolina Panthers, he ever went down and therefore
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  Speaker 1: his career was pretty much over at thirty.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, but he Yeah, but his game was a lot
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  Speaker 5: of running involved there too. Now you had just had
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  Speaker 5: screaming Jimmy on right from from minutes, so.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it might as well have been hollering.
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  Speaker 5: James or screaming Juney whatever his name is there he
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  Speaker 5: knows there once was a quarterback in Minnesota, but my
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  Speaker 5: name of Joe Capp. He played the same way. He
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  Speaker 5: played like he was a fullback runner with the football
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  Speaker 5: and it took a lot of shots. But the thing is,
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  Speaker 5: Jackson Dots to learn to run out of bounds and stuff.
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  Speaker 5: I just won in the first two picks of the Giants.
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  Speaker 5: I don't care if it's two first round picks and
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  Speaker 5: second and the first. I want a monster offensive line
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  Speaker 5: with the two on the monster, I'm got to eat
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  Speaker 5: the stack ball off. That's where I want a new
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  Speaker 5: offensive line detecting Jackson Dot. This way, he won't get
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  Speaker 5: hurt as much.
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  Speaker 1: You know, you're right, there's plenty of fatties in the draft.
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  Speaker 1: They'll be able to call monsters and that will block
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  Speaker 1: for him. I think it'll happen. Thanks for the phone call, Steve.
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  Speaker 1: I appreciate you, and I'm waiting on that scientific poll.
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  Speaker 1: Yes science, let's go to Trent in Wichita. Oh, somebody
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  Speaker 1: cut from the same cloth. As me, I led the
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  Speaker 1: show with this topic. I am a little bit biased, Trent.
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  Speaker 1: Who are you rooting for in that Oregon Texas Tech Game?
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  Speaker 8: Oh?
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  Speaker 2: I really wasn't rooting for anybody. I'm a big twelve guy.
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  Speaker 2: I'm Oklahoma State guy.
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  Speaker 1: But no talk organ did to Oklahoma State this year. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: sorry about that.
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  Speaker 2: It was Yeah. I was calling for Gundy's head for
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  Speaker 2: like two years now.
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  Speaker 1: But that's a lot of head haair. I mean that mullet.
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  Speaker 1: That's tough. I still like him. I still like him
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  Speaker 1: as not just because of the forty year old man speech.
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  Speaker 1: I'm a man, I'm forty. He did good things. He
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  Speaker 1: elevated that program, did he not?
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  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, no, he's a legend and still what it
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  Speaker 2: was just just an il stuff. It didn't adjust and
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  Speaker 2: it was just it's not his gig. Man. He did
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  Speaker 2: Three Doors Down from my mom at the late and
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  Speaker 2: so I'm I'm a fan. I like the guy.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not a fan of the band Three Doors Down.
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  Speaker 2: But okay, go on, you're right, well, listen to this.
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  Speaker 2: This is the shocking team to me, was everybody who's
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  Speaker 2: acting surprised that the Oregon Texas Tech Game was was
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  Speaker 2: such a low scoring battle, and I mean they've only
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  Speaker 2: allowed like two hundred and fifty yards a game each
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  Speaker 2: all year. Oh yeah, and so they were both defensive
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  Speaker 2: teams all year. I mean Oregon had hurt wide receivers
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  Speaker 2: all season and they didn't have the same kind of
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  Speaker 2: offensive numbers in Texas Tech. You see the games that
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  Speaker 2: they had that they really didn't blow people out. A
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  Speaker 2: couple of teams like the Terrible teams, but like YU game,
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  Speaker 2: they dominated the game, but it was like you know,
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  Speaker 2: thirty to thirty to ten or up.
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  Speaker 1: They didn't have a stiff test, so to speak, like
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  Speaker 1: an Oregon Ducks team on their schedule in the Big twelve.
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  Speaker 1: I know you're a Big twelve guy, but what you
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  Speaker 1: admit they weren't tested. They weren't battle tested enough against
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  Speaker 1: an offense.
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  Speaker 2: Like that, right, But they dominated defensively, so you knew
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  Speaker 2: the defense was good. I had questions about their offense
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  Speaker 2: the entire time. Well, you were right, and Oregon defense
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  Speaker 2: was great this year. And that's what I'm saying. The
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  Speaker 2: number was like fifty one and a half for the total.
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  Speaker 2: Hu that was I mean, that's that was give me,
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  Speaker 2: give me line I've ever seen in my life. I
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  Speaker 2: think they were going off like circa twenty ten Oregon
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  Speaker 2: Texas tech teams is what the public was seeing.
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  Speaker 1: Well, how much did you make? Are we paying our mortgage?
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  Speaker 1: Like Big copy in San Diego?
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  Speaker 2: Nothing like that, But it did. I did have a
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  Speaker 2: I did have that under Indiana and Ole Miss plus ten.
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  Speaker 2: I teased up the number on the old Miss game.
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  Speaker 1: I am bleeping brilliant.
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  Speaker 2: And killed it today. Yeah, yeah, it did pretty well.
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  Speaker 1: All right, Well, what's my cut? Since you're calling into
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  Speaker 1: the game or you're calling into Fox Sports Radio. Now
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  Speaker 1: I'm in for Ben Mallar. I mean it's got to
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  Speaker 1: be worth something. Here, throw me a shekel.
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  Speaker 2: I blessed you with with my voice tonight.
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  Speaker 1: You know what, I actually needed that because my voice
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  Speaker 1: is wrecked. I was doing a lot of radio the
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  Speaker 1: last forty eight hours. I've been taking some ib pro friend.
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  Speaker 1: That's maybe the biggest reason why I've gone to some
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  Speaker 1: phone calls here, just so I could rest a little bit.
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  Speaker 1: Any anything else, Trent, you want to see me a
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  Speaker 1: little bit in my vocal cords here?
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  Speaker 2: No, no, man, I just I say, drink drink more water.
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  Speaker 1: You'd be good do like water that is sage advice,
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  Speaker 1: drink more water. I actually have something called let me
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  Speaker 1: make sure I get this right coat throat that I
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  Speaker 1: have been drinking. Yeah, don't say it five times.
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  Speaker 9: Is it like honey, like a nice thick layer that
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  Speaker 9: you put down your throat to make it better?
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  Speaker 7: You sexual?
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  Speaker 1: It's like that, except I don't know if there's any
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  Speaker 1: honey in there. There's definitely some ginger, maybe some cinnamon.
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  Speaker 1: There's some spices, and it works and it helps. I
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  Speaker 1: don't know if you can tell, but I took a
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  Speaker 1: sip before this segment. I feel way better now. I
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  Speaker 1: should get a sponsorship here. I got it from Carlo Jimenez,
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  Speaker 1: who was on the call tonight for the Clippers when
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  Speaker 1: Kawhi Leonard dropped forty five on the Utah Jazz. So
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  Speaker 1: if it works for a guy like that, it probably
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  Speaker 1: can work for me. Too strong enough for a woman,
• 13:15
  Speaker 1: strong enough for a man, good enough for what was
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  Speaker 1: that old deodorant? I'm sorry, secret, I think it was.
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  Speaker 1: My mind is racing right now. The point is throat coat, kids,
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  Speaker 1: not the other one that it sounds like.
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  Speaker 6: Throw it.
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  Speaker 1: That's the coat when you're sick, All right, coming up next,
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  Speaker 1: quick time out I will get back. Excuse me? Was
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  Speaker 1: that something? Was that? Was that a goat? I don't
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  Speaker 1: know why you would play that there. That seem's totally random.
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  Speaker 1: I have no idea. Not random is my list. I
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  Speaker 1: still have nine more matchups to get to and rank
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  Speaker 1: for you guys in Week eighteen, the final week of
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  Speaker 1: the NFL season, and I'll explain more of who's gonna
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  Speaker 1: end up being the number one seed, who's going to
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  Speaker 1: be a wild card, and where that's next. I'm at
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  Speaker 9: Pirate wind is a pirate blustering in from sea with
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  Speaker 9: a rollicking song. He sweeps along, swaggering boisterously. His face
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  Speaker 1: All right, it's all right. It is pretty good. It's
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  Speaker 1: best matchup this weekend, that would be the Rams hosting
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  Speaker 1: the Arizona Cardinals. They're going to be either the fifth
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  Speaker 1: or the sixth seed, not the Cardinals, the Rams. If
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  Speaker 1: Rams win and Seattle beats the Niners, the fifth seed,
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  Speaker 1: the forty nine ers beat Seattle, the Rams are the
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  Speaker 1: sixth seed. So the ambassador Eric Dickerson, what does he
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  Speaker 1: want to happen? He wants Seattle beating the forty nine ers,
• 17:18
  Speaker 1: because give me a little taste of that, dick You
• 17:21
  Speaker 1: do not want to be the sixth seed. How is
• 17:24
  Speaker 1: that legal? I've never heard that sound drop before. Meanwhile,
• 17:29
  Speaker 1: Arizona the Cardinals another loss season. They started off winning
• 17:32
  Speaker 1: their first two games, if you can remember that. Since
• 17:35
  Speaker 1: then they are one in fourteen. They are tanking so hard,
• 17:40
  Speaker 1: Arizona they should not only get next year's first round pick,
• 17:44
  Speaker 1: with the year after that in twenty twenty seven to two.
• 17:47
  Speaker 1: Never forget the comedy of errors they had in that
• 17:50
  Speaker 1: loss to the Titans with the Unholy Roller that was
• 17:54
  Speaker 1: out there. My eighth best matchup that would be Buffalo,
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: where the Bills are hosting another tanking team, the Jets.
• 18:05
  Speaker 1: The Jets, to me are tanking so hard they're like
• 18:10
  Speaker 1: the transformer named blitz Kreeg, not Megatron. Blitzkreig came in
• 18:16
  Speaker 1: later was called a triple changer, meaning this transformer could
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: go from robot mode to a jet or to a tank.
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: You can guess which one the Jets are changing into
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: right now, because there is a serious game of Battle
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: Tank on Nintendo going on between multiple teams who are
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: trying to out tank one another, and the Jets are included.
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: The Jets fraud they might need a quarterback more than
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: anyone after they tried rookie Brady Cook last week against
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: the Patriots. Let me tell you something, he was in
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: fact not a Cook, But expect James Cook to be
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: pretty good for the Bills, who want to end up
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: in the five seed in the AFC because that means
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: you get the winner of the AFC North. That is advantageous.
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: I don't think anyone's that scared of the Steelers or
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: the Ravens, but like the Chargers, the Bills could end
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: up in any of the three wild card spots, fifth, sixth, seventh.
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: It all depends on things shake out. If they win
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: and the Texans lose to Indy, that's how they're the
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: fifth seed. They will win, by the way, because the Jets.
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: They won't have it any other way. So if you're
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: a Bills fan, pay attention to that Texans cult game.
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: Maybe my seventh most interesting matchup this weekend in my
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: matchup rankings, that would have to be the Commanders in
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: Philly taken on the Eagles. There's really nothing to say
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: about the Commander season. It was a year so bad
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: for them it felt like Daniel Snyder was still the
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: owner or something. But the Eagles still have much to
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: play for. If you are an Eagles fan, you are
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: obviously rooting to win on Sunday, but also you're a
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: fan of the Detroit Lions. If the Eagles win and
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: the Bears lose to the Lions, the Eagles are the
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: two seed. That's a big deal. That could get you
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: two home games while you're trying to defend the title.
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: I'm not given up on the Eagles getting it together.
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: By the way, they could make a run. They've won
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: three in a row. Even if Josh Allen had that
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: guy wide open in the back of the end zone
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: and he missed him and they should have won that game.
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: I still feel like the Eagles. They're playing better. There
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: are flashes of what we saw last season, and they're
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: still the champs. You gotta find a way to beat them.
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: And by the way, when it comes to contract incentives,
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: this weekend, Saquon Barkley can help out his bank account.
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: He can snag a quarter of a million dollars by
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: reaching fifteen hundred dollar purpose yards this season, and with
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: one game left, he's currently at oney four hundred and
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: thirteen total yards. He needs eighty seven total yards in
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: Week eighteen to hit that milestone. All you care about
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: his money, I mean, it felt like that would be
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: a given to start off the season. He's expecting to
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: get that just eighty seven yards total. He'll get it
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: von Miller in this game for the Commanders. They maybey
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: realized he was still around, to be honest, that's how
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: irrelevant the Commanders are. All he needs is one sack
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: to get a million dollars. That's his bonus. That would
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: get him to nine total sacks for the season. He's
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: getting that sack. He's extremely motivated to get that sack,
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: more than even Miles Garrett might be to break the
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: sack record. My sixth best game on the slate for
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: Week eighteen. It doesn't have matchup or playoff implications here,
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: and you're probably wondering, why do you have it so high? Then,
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: because I'm invested in the Shadouer Sanders hype train in
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: the storyline, Maybe partly because dumb ass Skip Bayless mister
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: one point four, Skip, I'll wake you up. Skip thinks
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: if he actually gets this one right, he'll become relevant again.
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: He was wrong about t Bow, he was wrong about
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: Johnny Manzell and Cleveland, who he said would be bigger
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: than Lebron James. Now he's on Twitter saying quote. I'm
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: going to say this again. I don't care if you
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: get tired of me saying it. I'm going to say
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: it again and again and again. I'm going to be
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: right about this. Shdoer Sanders is the answer for the
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: Cleveland Browns at quarterback. Unquote. What hot take artists like
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: this like to do is go so hard with their
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: for a player or a team that regardless of what happens,
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: he gets the attention from it. He can be Shadur's
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: little groupy. When you see Chaduur, then you associate him
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: with Skip and therefore his profile is enhanced. Does that
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: mean I'm rooting against Shaduur, No, not really. I do
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: like his swag. I have a soft spot for the
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: factory of sadness in Cleveland. It's a glimpse into my
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: future as a Panthers fan. Probably like Jackson Darthough, Shadour Sanders,
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: he needs to ball out in order to keep his
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: team from drafting a quarterback, and that Bengals defense he's
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: going up against that should allow him to make some
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: throws that are better than that three flies up pick
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: he tossed against Pittsburgh last week. Granted they still won.
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: He needs to throw three touchdowns against this Bengals defense,
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: which actually puts a lot of pressure on you, not
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: because they are good or get to the quarterback so
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: bad that if you don't shred them for at least
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: three touchdowns and three hundred yards, It's like, what happened
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: you had the Bengals? They give up thirty points per game?
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: What's wrong with you? Don't make us question Shador. Don't
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: make Skip look like a bigger dumb ass than Shannon
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: made him look.
• 24:17
  Speaker 3: I'm a dumb ass.
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: All right, we've cracked the top five. My fifth most
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: important game I'm looking to watch this weekend that'll be
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: in Jacksonville, as the Jaguars, believe it or not, actually
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: have a small chance to grab the number one overall
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: seed in the AFC.
• 24:41
  Speaker 7: Million.
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: It's not that bad. It's not gonna happen, but the
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: formula is there. First, of course, Jaguars gotta beat the Titans,
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: and then Denver needs to lose to the Chargers and
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: the Patriots need to lose to the Jets. Okay, it
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: is one in a million. It's not gonna happen, but
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: there's a chance. Some oddsmakers are saying it's an eight
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: percent chance of all these things lining up. Now they
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: should probably be more concerned with just winning the division
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: the Jaguars, which can occur in two ways. Their magic
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: number is one, which is a Jaguar win or a
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: loss by the Texans. Either one of those things occur,
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: and they have the AFC South wrapped up, and the
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: AFC South, by the way, looks surprisingly fierce this season,
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: Like shockingly, I make fun of that division all the time.
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: They're making it more difficult. Remember the Titans and what
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: they did in nineteen ninety nine, by the way, to
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: the Jaguars beating them three times in the same season.
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: They were the only team to beat them that year. Well,
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: they can play spoiler here too. Taken on the Jaguars
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: in twenty twenty six and cam Ward he made some
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: throws last week against the Saints. It's still lost, but
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: he made some throws. His progress. Their team's bad, but
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: they're not trying to lose. They're not trying to tank.
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: They have cam Ward. What's the point of that. The
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: fourth highest game in my Week eighteen matchup rankings is
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: coincidentally in Houston, where the Texans host the Colts, and
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: that old stallion Philip Rivers, who's looking to be a
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: put back out to pasture to breathe some more. He's
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: got ten kids. You include him, You got your eleven.
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: On offense, he's got a team. Honestly though, his comeback
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: story probably my favorite story in the NFL this season.
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: Maybe in sports, the older I get, the more I
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: root for the old guys, and Philip Rivers has more
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: than outperformed expectations. I think even though he came up
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: short and all three games he was competitive. They just
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: lost to three really good teams Seattle, San Francisco, and Jacksonville.
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: There's no shame in his game or that performance. If
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: I'm the Colts, I'm saying, keep your ringer on in
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: case Daniel Jones, who's a free agent, doesn't come back
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: or is it ready off the Achilles injury? It was
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: the Achilles Now it wasn't either. Old man Rivers, you
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: might have to be a river to his people again
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: in Indianapolis, if maybe Riley Leonard isn't cutting it, he
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: knows the offense. He's a strong presence in the locker room.
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: Old gunslingers like him, like, uh, what Brett Farbe was?
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: I love you? Man, those guys are different. They're a
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: dying breed. The game is better with them. It's better
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: with Philip Rivers. I know he's saying, oh, it's probably
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: over and you'd have some more kids or raise the
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: family and coach the football team. But come on, he
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: played well. He made a lot of these quarterbacks look worse.
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: This guy comes out off the street five years after
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: the last game he played. It almost beat some really
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: good teams. I know almost. It wasn't his fault. He
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: doesn't play defense. But this Texans defense, they might remind
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: him why he retired in the first place, because that
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: defense is nasty. And they can still win the division
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: if they beat the Colts and the Jags somehow lose
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: it home to Tennessee. But even if that is very
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: unlikely million the Texans still have the inside track to
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: the five seed. They are tied with eleven to five
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: records with the Bills and with the Chargers, but the
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: Texans own the tiebreaker over both those teams because they
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: beat them in their head to head matchups, which is
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: why currently they're in the five spot. They win, they
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: are no worse than fifth in the AFC. I'll tease
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: out my top three in my NFL matchings rankings.
• 29:21
  Speaker 2: Here.
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: We'll save it till the top of next hour. Coming
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: up next though, You know how much I love the NBA,
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: especially on nights like this where Kawhia is forty five
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: for my Clippers and Ben Mallar's Clippers. But something's going
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: on the commissioner. He's up to no good evening commission
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: The NBA is trying to fix a problem that doesn't
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: even exist. I'll tell you why next. I'm out of
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: oslin in for Ben Mallor. Here on Fox Sports Radio.
• 29:50
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• 29:53
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• 29:56
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• 29:59
  Speaker 1: Adam Ashland, Welcome back in. I'm out a maslin in
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: for Ben Mallor. This is Fox Sports Radio. Eight seven
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: seven ninety nine on Fox. Is the phone number I
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: just wanted to hear, Snoop, Sorry, got distracted. Eight seven
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: and seven ninety nine on Fox. That performance on Christmas
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: Day on Netflix, I think it was on the game
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: my guy Noah Eagle had or his dad Ian. They
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: both were calling games. The production for a Snoop Dog
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: performance on a Christmas Day NFL game had like the
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: same amount of money put into it as your typical
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: Super Bowl halftime show. Don't get cheap on me, doc something. No,
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: it was impressive. They didn't skimp at all. There was
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: money put into that, and they had all these side
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: show people that I didn't know to get all these
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: demographics in and like, oh, do you like country? We
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: have something to offer you here. It's not just Snoop Dog.
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: Do you like Fleetwood Mac? I think with Stevie Nicks
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: out there now, probably not, but they're a big deal
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: right now. Again, that's kind of weird to me too,
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: the older I get. I'm at a Mosland in for
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: Big Ben Mallor, and you might know I also work
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: for the Clippers. You might know I love the NBA
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: And on nights like this where Kawhi Leonard goes for
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: forty five and has twenty points in the fourth quarter,
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: and while he's thirty four years of age, he's had
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: three forty point games in the last ten days. He's
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: on a crazy heater like we've never seen before. I
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: got a talk some NBA with you guys, and I
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: even have a Draymond Green story for next hour we'll
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: get into because I'm getting sick of him. But I'm
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: sick of all the changes they continue to make to
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: try to fix problems, imaginary ones that don't actually exist.
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: Evening Commission, I'm looking at you, Adam Silver. The NBA
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: is once again trying to curb tanking. Too many teams
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: losing now to be fair, the Utah Jazz tonight, I
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: mean they were playing third stringers and G league guys
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: and who am I thinking of? Lloyd Markinen was out,
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: everybody was out, Ace Bailey was out, Keyante George was out.
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: If this was Charles Barkley being asked in that game
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: they play who you play for? They could do that
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: with me, and I can go pretty deep with NBA
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: rosters and even I don't know who some of those
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: guys were tonight for the Utah Jazz, and this whole
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: story of tanking kind of centers around them. The reasoning
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: by the NBA is, well, the Utah Jazz got fined
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: multiple times I think last season for tanking, and they
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: eventually got Ace Bailey out of it. They had guys
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: sitting out games that were not technically hurt or they couldn't,
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: I don't know, verify it with independent doctors. John Collins
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: miss half the season market it, missing a ton of games,
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: and they got fined. Danny Aingel's son is the GM there.
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: He's the president of basketball Operations. They were up to
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: some funny business. They wanted to lose. They wanted to
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: try to get a top pick in the draft. And
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: they're not the only team to do this. But the
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: problem is they already made changes to the draft lottery odds.
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: This probably goes back five years now where they flattened
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: out the odds of the top where there was a
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: time where if you were the worst team in the
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: NBA you had like a twenty five percent chance of
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: having the number one overall pick. The odds the odds
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: were pretty good. Now they've flatten them out a little
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: bit where if you finish top three, you each have
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: a seventeen percent chance. They're trying to take away the
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: incentive of tanking. They don't want teams at the end
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: of the season trying to lose, like it's that episode
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: of South Park with the Little League Baseball going on.
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: But here's the problem. What's happened is some of the
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: worst teams aren't getting top draft picks. For instance, last season,
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: instead of it being the Washington Wizards or the Brooklyn
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: Nets or the Utah Jazz, instead of them owning the
• 34:27
  Speaker 1: top picks, they went to San Antonio, they went to Dallas,
• 34:34
  Speaker 1: and people were thinking there's some conspiracy theory the NBA
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: was helping out Nico Harrison, who's now fired because he
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: got Luka Doncis to a big market with the Lakers,
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: so they gave him the number one pick.
• 34:46
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 34:47
  Speaker 1: I don't think that was the case. You know how
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: I know that he got fired anyways. I don't think
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: he was in on anything with the commissioner with the
• 34:57
  Speaker 1: NBA where he put his reputation on the line like that,
• 35:01
  Speaker 1: because he'll forever be known as one of the biggest
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: dumbasses ever. I'm sorry, but it's true. Nico Harris saying, like,
• 35:07
  Speaker 1: you dumb ass, what he did with Luka Nancic, that
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: should have been a fine. Well, the NBA is finding
• 35:14
  Speaker 1: teams for tanking. That's one of those trades that you
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: can never live down. But because teams that were better
• 35:24
  Speaker 1: and weren't tanking ended up with top picks, and you
• 35:28
  Speaker 1: get Cooper Flagg going to a team in Dallas that actually,
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: if they could ever get healthy, they're decently set up.
• 35:33
  Speaker 1: Kyrie Irving I think might be back in the next
• 35:35
  Speaker 1: month off the ACL. We'll see. It could depend on
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: how they play moving forward and if they're competitive enough.
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: Anthony Davis, Yeah, he's he's hurt a lot. Some probably
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: call him what's that names, But they're good when he's available.
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: Why are they getting the top pick? These other teams
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: that were much worse, that had better odds, didn't get
• 36:04
  Speaker 1: top picks. They didn't get that generational player. They didn't
• 36:08
  Speaker 1: get Dylan Harper like san Antonio did. San Antonio has
• 36:13
  Speaker 1: had top picks the last three years, Wemby, Stefan Castle,
• 36:17
  Speaker 1: Dylan Harper, and now look at him. They beat OKC
• 36:22
  Speaker 1: three times in twelve days. They look like their next
• 36:29
  Speaker 1: or they're now. But all these other teams that were
• 36:34
  Speaker 1: losing intentionally into institutional tanking. Doesn't mean players out there
• 36:39
  Speaker 1: on the court aren't playing hard. You just don't put
• 36:42
  Speaker 1: the best players out there, and that's how you get
• 36:44
  Speaker 1: away with it. But what it does is the undesired
• 36:48
  Speaker 1: effect by the commissioner is it makes these teams go, well,
• 36:52
  Speaker 1: we didn't get a top pick. This time, we'll get
• 36:55
  Speaker 1: back in the draft lottery again and have another year
• 37:00
  Speaker 1: of trusting the process and tanking because we thought we
• 37:04
  Speaker 1: were gonna get a top pick. Oh, we didn't get it,
• 37:06
  Speaker 1: so I guess we'll take again. That's what happens. That's
• 37:11
  Speaker 1: what's happening with Brooklyn, even though they've been winning lately.
• 37:14
  Speaker 1: That's what's happening with the Washington Wizards. Those teams didn't
• 37:20
  Speaker 1: end up getting the picks they thought they were going
• 37:22
  Speaker 1: to get because the NBA already flattened the odds, so
• 37:25
  Speaker 1: they have worse odds of getting them, so it keeps
• 37:27
  Speaker 1: them in take mode and in the same cycle over
• 37:30
  Speaker 1: and over again. That's kind of an issue. But the
• 37:37
  Speaker 1: NBA also trying to fix this. It doesn't make sense.
• 37:41
  Speaker 1: There are some teams that just aren't good decision makers.
• 37:46
  Speaker 1: They aren't trying to tank. They just suck because they suck.
• 37:51
  Speaker 1: You can't confuse every team that sucks with tanking. That's
• 37:56
  Speaker 1: not how it works. Like the Charlotte Hornets, they don't
• 38:00
  Speaker 1: suck because they're trying to get a higher draft pick.
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  Speaker 1: They suck because Michael Jordan was in charge for years.
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  Speaker 1: They didn't draft well enough, and LaMelo ball is a
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  Speaker 1: circus at times, doing Pete Merovich like stuff out there,
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  Speaker 1: and I'm not sure, as people would say, he even
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  Speaker 1: knows what the score is. Is he a winning basketball
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  Speaker 1: player or not. They have young guys who are learning,
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  Speaker 1: like Conkin Nipple, like Brandon Miller. They have to take
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  Speaker 1: their lumps. They're not intentionally tanking. That's not what this is.
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  Speaker 1: You're trying to solve sports basically, is what the NBA
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  Speaker 1: is saying. We can't have any bad teams. No, that's sports.
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  Speaker 1: That's how it works. Teams make bad decisions. They have
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  Speaker 1: to live with it. If you try to fix this
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  Speaker 1: imaginary problem and try to make every team competitive, you're
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  Speaker 1: likely gonna have some effect that you didn't see coming
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  Speaker 1: where you create something far worse. The whole idea of
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  Speaker 1: tanking is an overblown issue, and teams are starting to learn,
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  Speaker 1: like the Wizards and the Brooklyn Nets, who have been
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  Speaker 1: playing their worst guys to get a higher draft pick,
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  Speaker 1: that it doesn't always work out that way since they
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  Speaker 1: flattened out the odds. So eventually they might say, well,
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  Speaker 1: what's the point of tanking? Doesn't guarantee you the top pick. Anyways,
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  Speaker 1: let this process play out. They just changed things five
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  Speaker 1: years ago. Don't try to change anything again. We don't
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  Speaker 1: need to take away teams' abilities to top ten protect
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  Speaker 1: picks and all these things. Because here's the deal. The
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  Speaker 1: Utah Jazz this season, a team that was already fined
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  Speaker 1: for tanking last year. Well, they have a first round
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  Speaker 1: pick that is top eight protected. It has to finish
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  Speaker 1: top eight for them to hold hold on to that pick,
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  Speaker 1: otherwise it goes to the Oklahoma City Thunder. That's a problem.
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  Speaker 1: So they're incentivized to lose to hold on to that pick.
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  Speaker 1: And maybe that's some of what we saw tonight with
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  Speaker 1: why they played so few guys, legitimate NBA players against
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  Speaker 1: the Clippers. The league doesn't like that, especially in early January.
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  Speaker 1: They don't want teams tanking this early. And I'm not
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  Speaker 1: saying that's necessarily what Utah was doing, but they got
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  Speaker 1: busted last season. The NBA wants to stop it from
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  Speaker 1: happening again, but they could create something far worse if
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  Speaker 1: they're not careful. I'm Adam Oslin in for Ben Mallor
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