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Set 1: Nebraska Wins and Free Agency Winners (w/Fred Hoiberg and Bill Barnwell) · Stugotz and Company

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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that.
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  Speaker 2: Chuck Norris was chasing the Tyrannosaurus Rex.
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  Speaker 4: It was bo.
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  Speaker 3: Wow that Prime Time. Maybe I had a crush on
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  Speaker 3: Betty Rubble.
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  Speaker 2: I honestly, until after the segment ended and we went
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  Speaker 2: to a commercial break, had no idea that Jonathan Coachman
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  Speaker 2: was black.
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  Speaker 3: He caught them the game last night, although they won
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  Speaker 3: the game. You're listening just to Godson Company.
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  Speaker 2: He is one of the great football minds in our industry.
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  Speaker 2: I miss him dearly. He is laughing at me already.
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  Speaker 2: I was trying to prop him up. Bill barnwall Is
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  Speaker 2: with us, Why are you laughing? You are one of
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  Speaker 2: the great football minds we have in this industry.
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  Speaker 4: The mind, the mind element up. But if you say
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  Speaker 4: a writer, at least there's content that's being put out, Yes,
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  Speaker 4: but the mind element feels like it stretches beyond to
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  Speaker 4: it like a different plane of ability there.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know that I could really take credit for
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  Speaker 3: too far? Is that what you're saying?
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  Speaker 4: A tiny bit too?
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  Speaker 2: Bill Barnwells with him, you can check him out all
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  Speaker 2: over ESPN and of course ESPN dot com bill. Of
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  Speaker 2: all the NFL teams this offseason, in your opinion, who
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  Speaker 2: had the best offseason so far?
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  Speaker 3: Who?
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  Speaker 4: That's a good question, thank you, best overall off season? Yes,
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  Speaker 4: it's easier to think of the teams who did not
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  Speaker 4: have the best overall off season. The Ravens did not
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  Speaker 4: have the best overall off season? Would it be crazy
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  Speaker 4: to say the Colts? And I know that, Like I'm
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  Speaker 4: a little nervous about that Daniel Jones contract. I don't
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  Speaker 4: think I would want to take fifty million dollars out
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  Speaker 4: of my bank account and handed Daniel Jones and say, hey,
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  Speaker 4: play quarterback and stay healthy for seventeen games. But I
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  Speaker 4: do feel like of the things they needed to add,
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  Speaker 4: they needed to resign Alec Pearce, who's a super underrated player.
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  Speaker 4: They needed to get Daniel Jones back under contract. This
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  Speaker 4: organization had been through just a mess of quarterbacks over
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  Speaker 4: the last almost decade now since Andrew Luck retired. Getting
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  Speaker 4: Daniel Jones back on it to your deal, I think
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  Speaker 4: it's generally a positive when you look at the numbers
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  Speaker 4: for that contract. So Cults are the first team that
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  Speaker 4: comes to mind, although I think there are not many
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  Speaker 4: people who agree with me. Bill.
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  Speaker 5: I'm checking out your article on ESPN dot com today
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  Speaker 5: the twenty big remaining issues for the twenty contenders, and
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  Speaker 5: it's just chock full of good information. But my question
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  Speaker 5: for you is do you really have twenty contenders next year?
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  Speaker 2: That's a great question, because if you have twenty contenders, Bill,
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  Speaker 2: you know what you don't have.
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  Speaker 4: You don't have one. I mean, okay, here's the problem.
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  Speaker 4: If I start picking contenders, Yes, people are going to
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  Speaker 4: be mad. If I make an arbitrary list of who
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  Speaker 4: I think is going to contend, people are going to
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  Speaker 4: get upset. So I try to pick the most bland
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  Speaker 4: description of what a contender is. These are twenty four
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  Speaker 4: and twenty five playoff teams, so if you made the
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  Speaker 4: playoffs in the last two years, to me, you are
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  Speaker 4: a contender.
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  Speaker 5: You might as well just said everybody but the Jets
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  Speaker 5: and Dolphins.
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  Speaker 3: It's easy to figure out who's not a contender.
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  Speaker 2: You're right, Oh, that is so good. I want the
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  Speaker 2: list of twenty contenders. You can get them for me.
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  Speaker 3: I got it right here.
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  Speaker 2: I'll do you really, okay, So give me his top
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  Speaker 2: contender who's his top contender.
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  Speaker 3: He doesn't have him listed like that.
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  Speaker 5: I just I just see the list of the teams
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  Speaker 5: we can jump to.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, all right, so we'll we'll get we'll get back
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  Speaker 3: to in alphabetical order. Go ahead, all right, So give
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  Speaker 3: them to me. I want him, go right now, give
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  Speaker 3: him to me, all right.
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  Speaker 6: Baltimore, Yes, Buffalo, Yes, Carolina? What that warms my heart
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  Speaker 6: to see Carolina the division last year almost they were.
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  Speaker 6: They had a lead on the Rams in the final
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  Speaker 6: three minutes of a playoff game last year.
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  Speaker 2: You're right, stop yelling at Super Bowl. Yes, I mean, listen,
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  Speaker 2: you're one of the great football minds. Don't yell and
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  Speaker 2: stop yelling at me.
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  Speaker 3: All right, keep going from Carolina, please, Okay. After that,
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  Speaker 3: we have Chicago, Yeah, we have Denver.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, we have Detroit, Yes, Green Bay, r Houston.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, Jacksonville Okay, Kansas City, Yes.
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  Speaker 5: Both LA teams.
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  Speaker 4: Jesus did pretty good so far.
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  Speaker 3: Minnesota.
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  Speaker 2: He's doing a good job of reading. I just don't
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  Speaker 2: agree with most of them. I'm sorry, I understand, but
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  Speaker 2: this is one of the great football minds that we have.
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  Speaker 2: I have a hard time seeing the Vikings win a
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  Speaker 2: Super Bowl. What's gonna happen here?
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  Speaker 3: Bill?
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  Speaker 4: With JJ McCarthy, he's gonna be gone. I mean, there's
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  Speaker 4: no reason for Kyler Murray to sign in Minnesota unless
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  Speaker 4: he's extremely confident he's gonna be the starter. And there's
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  Speaker 4: no reason for Carson Wentz, who sat out most of
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  Speaker 4: the offseason last year, to sign in Minnesota to be
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  Speaker 4: the number three quarterback. J McCarthy is a sunk cost
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  Speaker 4: at this point for the Minnesota Vikings. The GM who
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  Speaker 4: drafted him is no longer in the building. They saw
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  Speaker 4: him last year, they had to watch even practice. They
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  Speaker 4: know he got hurt multiple times. There's no reason for
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  Speaker 4: them to continue with the JJ McCarthy scherade. He's going
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  Speaker 4: to be somewhere else. I would imagine in Los Angeles
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  Speaker 4: with Jim Harbaugh. But just feel like he has to
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  Speaker 4: find a new spot to mary developed behind a starter.
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  Speaker 7: Bill, I'm seeing everybody zig and I'm trying to zag.
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  Speaker 7: When the Max Crosby trade breaks down? Am I crazy?
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  Speaker 7: With the additions that the Raiders made and adding Fernando Mendoza.
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  Speaker 7: I can kind of talk myself into the Raiders sneaking
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  Speaker 7: their way into the playoffs this year.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, jeez, I could sneak by.
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  Speaker 4: I can top myself into them being better than people think,
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  Speaker 4: because when you improve dramatically, the two things that almost
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  Speaker 4: always come along with that are upgrade a quarterback, upgrade
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  Speaker 4: a head coach. You can make a case the Raiders
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  Speaker 4: have done both this year if they draft Mendoza and
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  Speaker 4: they hired Clint Kubiak as head coach. The problem is,
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  Speaker 4: if you'd ask me last year, are the Raiders going
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  Speaker 4: to be better? I would say yes, because they upgraded
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  Speaker 4: the head coach and they upgraded a quarterback. And I
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  Speaker 4: went ozer for two in those upgrades at head coaching
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  Speaker 4: quarterback last year. So I've just been burned. I do
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  Speaker 4: feel like there are a better team that people give
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  Speaker 4: them credit for, but the schedule is difficult. Mendoza is
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  Speaker 4: not gonna have a ton of help up front. I
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  Speaker 4: think they're a year away from being a year away.
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  Speaker 5: It's amazing that we're saying they upgraded a head coach
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  Speaker 5: from an unknown commodity, from a guy who's probably headed
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  Speaker 5: to the Hall of Fame as a head coach.
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  Speaker 3: But yes, Bill, who are the best remaining free agents?
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  Speaker 3: In your opinion?
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  Speaker 4: Is it crazy to say that Kirk Cousins might be
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  Speaker 4: one of the best remaining free agents. He's not a
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  Speaker 4: terrible quarterback, and I mean, how many teams last year
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  Speaker 4: had to turn to let's say, a Jared Didham in
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  Speaker 4: the AFC Championship game woul That game had gone differently
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  Speaker 4: if the Vikings had had, say le Broncos, had had
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  Speaker 4: Kirk Cousins at quarterback. Potentially, I think some of the
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  Speaker 4: edge rushers think Shian Clowney, Joey Bosa still available. You know,
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  Speaker 4: just those guys who are gonna be They're gonna play
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  Speaker 4: fifty five sixty percent of the stops, They're gonna get
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  Speaker 4: seven or eight sacks, They're gonna take one absolutely insane
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  Speaker 4: penalty in a playoff game, but they're gonna be overall
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  Speaker 4: pretty solid pass rushers. I think that's gonna be an addition.
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  Speaker 4: Taylor Decker, left tackle formerly of the Lions, who's a
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  Speaker 4: free agent. Uh, just there's so many teams who again
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  Speaker 4: need tackle help at some point during the season. Have
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  Speaker 4: to imagine he's gonna get an opportunity. And then I
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  Speaker 4: throw Deebo Samuel out there. We no, he set the
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  Speaker 4: guy from five years ago, but incredible yack production. Year
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  Speaker 4: after year. He's the Yak God. I just think all
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  Speaker 4: these teams who want to throw short passes, want up
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  Speaker 4: throw screens, want to play quick game, Deebo Samuel is
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  Speaker 4: a really valuable player in those offenses. So some veterans,
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  Speaker 4: which you typically linger in the market, but I do
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  Speaker 4: see some guys who could make a difference in twenty
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  Speaker 4: twenty six.
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  Speaker 7: Bill, were you surprised with the return that the Dolphins
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  Speaker 7: were able to get for Jalen Waddle because it feels
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  Speaker 7: like the Dolphins are more likely to draft a number
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  Speaker 7: one receiver than Jalen Waddle is to ever be comme
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  Speaker 7: a number one wide receiver.
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  Speaker 4: Oh strong, Well, he was for one year in Miami,
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  Speaker 4: but that's one year out of like six or five.
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  Speaker 4: At this point of his career, he's a good player.
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  Speaker 4: And maybe it was a case of the Dolphins saying, hey,
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  Speaker 4: we're not going to trade not only our best player left,
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  Speaker 4: but probably the most popular player we have left on
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  Speaker 4: this roster after all the other guys we cut, we're
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  Speaker 4: traded away in the prior twelve months unless we get
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  Speaker 4: a first round pick and more. I wonder if it
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  Speaker 4: was just like a the Broncos felt like we have
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  Speaker 4: to get this guy, and the Dolphins were not willing
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  Speaker 4: to do anything less than what they got because if
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  Speaker 4: they traded him for like a second round pick, it's almost,
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  Speaker 4: you know, like that's the only guy left who people
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  Speaker 4: have on their jerseys outside of Divide eight chan, you know,
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  Speaker 4: in the stance. So I did think it was probably
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  Speaker 4: a little more than I would have expected from the Broncos.
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  Speaker 4: But it's a thirtieth pick in each round. They got
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  Speaker 4: to swap a fourth round, which helps a little bit.
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  Speaker 4: I feel like it was pretty fair in the big picture.
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  Speaker 2: Which move did you like better? Tuwa to the Falcons
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  Speaker 2: or Kyler Murray to the Vikings.
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  Speaker 4: I would say Kyler to the Vikings because there are
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  Speaker 4: a lot of crossing routes in that offense, a lot
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  Speaker 4: of ISO stuff that Jefferson. I feel like that really
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  Speaker 4: fits into what Kyler Murray does well. I just wonder
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  Speaker 4: because the Vikings at Kevin O'Connell, who by the way,
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  Speaker 4: is an extremely tall person, their offense is under center,
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  Speaker 4: heavy play action. Kyler Murray wants to play at a shotgun,
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  Speaker 4: wants to play at a pistol, needs to have some
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  Speaker 4: space to see the entire field, so I want to
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  Speaker 4: see what that offense looks like and how it's constructed.
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  Speaker 4: Kind Of the same problem with to it in Cleveland,
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  Speaker 4: where two wants to be in the shotgun and Kevin
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  Speaker 4: Stefanski wants to be under center. But I do think
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  Speaker 4: that Kyler Murray is a better player. I think he
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  Speaker 4: has more upside. I think he has a higher ceiling,
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  Speaker 4: and I think he's going to offer something in the
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  Speaker 4: run game that the other Vikings quarterbacks they've had over
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  Speaker 4: the years past.
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  Speaker 8: If not.
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  Speaker 3: What'd you make of Gino going back to the Jets.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I love a reunion. Maybe I don't love this reunion,
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  Speaker 4: but I love a reunion and Gino Smith has something
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  Speaker 4: in the bag here. I just think the Jets don't
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  Speaker 4: have the infrastructure to get what Gino Smith needs to
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  Speaker 4: have happened. He needs better pass protection than what they have.
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  Speaker 4: They lost both their starting guards and free agency. They
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  Speaker 4: have one great receiver in Garrett Wilson I think is
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  Speaker 4: legitimately a great receiver. They don't really have much else
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  Speaker 4: to work with in the passing game. Bristol coming back
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  Speaker 4: on the franchise tag or sorry, on the one year
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  Speaker 4: deal does help, but it just feels like Gino has
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  Speaker 4: to be in a perfect situation at this point to
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  Speaker 4: be a league average or better quarterback. And we saw
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  Speaker 4: with the Raiders last year when that offensive line was
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  Speaker 4: a mess. Once brock Bauers got hurt, Geno couldn't compensate.
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  Speaker 4: I kind of feel like that's gonna happen with the
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  Speaker 4: Jets this year.
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  Speaker 2: It's fairly amazing that he left that team, and when
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  Speaker 2: he left, they had no infrastructure, and all these years
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  Speaker 2: he's coming back and they still don't have that infrastructure.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, the other worst organization in football, right, Yeah, And.
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  Speaker 4: Well, the good news is over the course of the
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  Speaker 4: insuing decade they also did not at any point have
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  Speaker 4: the infrastructure ever a quarterback pick succeeds. They didn't get
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  Speaker 4: it for like five years and then lose it. They
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  Speaker 4: got breath for the entire decade.
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  Speaker 7: Bill the two surprise teams last year, I think people
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  Speaker 7: would agree on the Bears and the Patriots. Which team
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  Speaker 7: do you think is more likely to take a step
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  Speaker 7: back this year?
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  Speaker 3: Wow?
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  Speaker 4: I want to say both, but that's not a fair answer,
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  Speaker 4: So I'm gonna give you one. I am going to
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  Speaker 4: say Patriots because of the schedule difference this was not
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  Speaker 4: just an easy schedule, although everyone knows it was an
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  Speaker 4: easy schedule. By Pro Football Reference, this was the tenth
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  Speaker 4: easiest schedule in the history of the National Football League,
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  Speaker 4: which is a really high bar. Think about how many
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  Speaker 4: years of football there have been, and this was a
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  Speaker 4: historically easy schedule. Drake Bay played really well. They had
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  Speaker 4: some incredible catch rates, which I don't think are going
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  Speaker 4: to sustain. I think Drake Bay's efficiency is gonna drop
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  Speaker 4: a bit. They're gonna play tougher teams. They're not gonna
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  Speaker 4: be able to play from ahead quite as often. Their
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  Speaker 4: run defense was a problem. They didn't play many teams
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  Speaker 4: who got ahead and ran on them. But that's gonna
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  Speaker 4: happen more often. Twenty twenty six and they were a
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  Speaker 4: relatively healthy team, and I don't think that's going to
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  Speaker 4: keep up. So they're gonna be good. I think they're
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  Speaker 4: still going to be in the playoff mix. But I
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  Speaker 4: would say up to the patriots of the team, I
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  Speaker 4: have a little more concerns about heading into next season.
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  Speaker 3: Tell you see what he did there.
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  Speaker 2: This is why he's one of the great football minds
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  Speaker 2: in America that we have in our industry.
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  Speaker 3: Because the Patriots.
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  Speaker 2: The only way they could take a step forward is
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  Speaker 2: by getting back to the Super Bowl and winning it.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, yes, yes, you didn't even know you did. That's
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  Speaker 3: what did you get?
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  Speaker 8: Right?
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  Speaker 4: The extra mind power? You know what they say, like
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  Speaker 4: you only use ten percent of your brain. If I'm
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  Speaker 4: one of the great football minds, I gotta be using
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  Speaker 4: at least twelve percent. Eighty thirteen percent.
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  Speaker 3: I use five. Malik Willis.
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  Speaker 2: Are you as high on Malik Willis as everyone else
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  Speaker 2: seems to be?
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  Speaker 4: No, because he's throwing two guys like me at receiver
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  Speaker 4: at this point in the offense. Though, I thought he
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  Speaker 4: was really good in Green Bay, much better than I expected,
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  Speaker 4: not just as a runner but as a pure dropback passer.
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  Speaker 4: Heavy play action rate helped him a little bit. Got
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  Speaker 4: to play from I had. I don't think I love
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  Speaker 4: the idea of him playing from two touchdowns behind, which
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  Speaker 4: I think is gonna happen quite a bit this year.
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  Speaker 4: But he just needs guys. They just don't have playmakers
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  Speaker 4: for him at receiver in that offense, so you assume
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  Speaker 4: they're gonna draft somebody. I think they need two three
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  Speaker 4: receivers out of this draft to give him leek willis
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  Speaker 4: a shot of competing in twenty twenty.
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  Speaker 3: Six, totally unnecessary shot at two two at Well?
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  Speaker 4: I mean, what are you are? Do you represent mister Atwell?
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  Speaker 4: Are you his agent? I mean that is that unreasonable
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  Speaker 4: to say? This man got ten million dollars and he
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  Speaker 4: wasn't even playing for the Rams by the end of
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  Speaker 4: the regular season.
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  Speaker 7: Bill, Now I'm imagining you running routes and your your
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  Speaker 7: football receiver name is Bill Barne at Well.
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  Speaker 3: So am I what a great target? He would be?
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  Speaker 4: Two runs like a four to four forty. I run
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  Speaker 4: like a fourteen to four to forty. So just add
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  Speaker 4: a little bit more and I'll catch up with two
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  Speaker 4: two Eventually.
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  Speaker 2: Taylor wasn't terribly confident, n he wasn't jervy if it
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  Speaker 2: landed well, I don't think it did.
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  Speaker 3: Bill.
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  Speaker 2: We appreciate you. You're a great writer, a great football mind,
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  Speaker 2: and a great person. Check him out on ESPN dot
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  Speaker 3: In New York, I'm just waiting for the mayor. I mean, wow,
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  Speaker 3: I think he's ready to go right now. Hoyburg's ready
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  Speaker 3: to go right now. The mayor, all right, let's bring
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  Speaker 3: him off.
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  Speaker 1: He's probably heard the intro.
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  Speaker 3: It had to get in.
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  Speaker 4: On this.
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  Speaker 2: Drop the music I was Sam. We will pick it
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  Speaker 2: up after Fred Hoiberg. What a treat does Marcus Smart
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  Speaker 2: win a national championship?
• 16:39
  Speaker 3: I mean to get to Fred.
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  Speaker 2: The mayor, Fred Hoiberg, the head coach of Nebraska, joining
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  Speaker 2: us right now, right after a first round victory?
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  Speaker 3: Here, coach, thank you for joining us. How are you good?
• 16:52
  Speaker 8: Good? How you guys doing doing great.
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  Speaker 3: Congratulations to you, coach, big win for you.
• 16:57
  Speaker 8: Yeah, thank you. I'm really happy for our guys, proud
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  Speaker 8: of them. You know, I'm not sure how much you
• 17:03
  Speaker 8: guys saw this, but it was the best neutral site
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  Speaker 8: atmosphere I have ever been in. Our fan just absolutely
• 17:09
  Speaker 8: took over, and you know, when I went out for
• 17:11
  Speaker 8: the anthem, I really got emotional just seeing all the
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  Speaker 8: red in the crowd, and you know, they really helped us,
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  Speaker 8: really will us to that win, and we went on
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  Speaker 8: a run. You know, just the roof blew off the place,
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  Speaker 8: so it was it was incredible. Great to share that
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  Speaker 8: with the fans and you know, hopefully continue on this journey.
• 17:28
  Speaker 10: Yeah, coach, I caught the beginning of the game right
• 17:30
  Speaker 10: before you started going on your run, and it felt
• 17:32
  Speaker 10: like there was a little bit of extra tension in
• 17:34
  Speaker 10: the air. Obviously the first tournament win for you guys
• 17:37
  Speaker 10: at stake. Did it feel bigger going in even before
• 17:41
  Speaker 10: you saw you know, the fans and everybody at that
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  Speaker 10: site ready for you.
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  Speaker 8: That's a great question. You know, I get the question
• 17:46
  Speaker 8: a lot. Do I bring it up? I don't have to.
• 17:49
  Speaker 8: There's been enough attention on it, and you know, it's
• 17:51
  Speaker 8: out there. Our guys read all about it, so they
• 17:53
  Speaker 8: know they know what's at stake. And you know, I
• 17:55
  Speaker 8: told them, I said, guys, listen, at the end of
• 17:57
  Speaker 8: the day, pressures of privilege. Is there pressure on us? Yeah,
• 18:00
  Speaker 8: but there's also pressure on Troy. And you know, for
• 18:02
  Speaker 8: us to go out there, it was all about we
• 18:05
  Speaker 8: had a disappointing game in Chicago against Purdue. Now, a
• 18:09
  Speaker 8: lot of that had to do with Purdue. They're absolutely
• 18:11
  Speaker 8: rolling right now and they cut down the net in Chicago.
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  Speaker 8: But you know, it gave us a chance to reset
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  Speaker 8: and get back to work and get back to who
• 18:18
  Speaker 8: we are and you know, the core values, and we
• 18:21
  Speaker 8: talked a lot about that going into this game. And
• 18:23
  Speaker 8: you know the importance of in these early ones. You know,
• 18:26
  Speaker 8: game started before noon here local time, is you know,
• 18:31
  Speaker 8: the team that gets off to the fast start generally
• 18:32
  Speaker 8: wins these games. But if it didn't happen, we had
• 18:35
  Speaker 8: to stay more emotionally stable than we did the last
• 18:39
  Speaker 8: time that we played, which was against Purdue. So you know,
• 18:42
  Speaker 8: I'm just I'm really thankful for the guys how they
• 18:44
  Speaker 8: prepared for this one. You know, Troy hit a couple
• 18:48
  Speaker 8: of tough threes, early in this one to build a
• 18:50
  Speaker 8: little bit of a lead, but we never panicked and
• 18:52
  Speaker 8: we got that thing going. Price Stanford it five threes
• 18:55
  Speaker 8: in the first half, and you know, they just kept
• 18:57
  Speaker 8: the heat and kept the pressure and kept their footing
• 18:59
  Speaker 8: the gas. So you know, just it's good to get
• 19:01
  Speaker 8: to this one behind us, and you know, now it's
• 19:04
  Speaker 8: about are you satisfied? And you know, one thing, I'm
• 19:07
  Speaker 8: confident our guys all year long, they have really been
• 19:10
  Speaker 8: good and resilient as far as putting big emotional either
• 19:13
  Speaker 8: wins or losses behind us. Got a film session tonight.
• 19:17
  Speaker 8: We talk a lot about next assignment. Our next assignment
• 19:19
  Speaker 8: is the film session. We got to be locked in coach.
• 19:22
  Speaker 10: If anybody had seen Pryce Sandford shoot for the first
• 19:25
  Speaker 10: time today, they thought to themselves, Wow, this might be
• 19:27
  Speaker 10: the best shooter in this tournament. Talk about just his
• 19:30
  Speaker 10: his shooting ability and just what he can do for
• 19:33
  Speaker 10: you guys with that you know, quick release, Well.
• 19:35
  Speaker 8: It's really cool. His brother Peyton is on a two
• 19:39
  Speaker 8: way with the Thunder and he was he was in
• 19:42
  Speaker 8: the gym. He scored his first NBA points last night
• 19:44
  Speaker 8: on the road and they sent him back and he
• 19:46
  Speaker 8: was able to be there to watch Price, you know,
• 19:48
  Speaker 8: go off the way he did today. And I'll say
• 19:51
  Speaker 8: this about our guys, they do an unbelievable job finding him.
• 19:53
  Speaker 8: I thought we did a great job on the glass,
• 19:56
  Speaker 8: and we didn't force it inside against length. We kicked
• 19:59
  Speaker 8: it out and really created some open looks. And then
• 20:03
  Speaker 8: are in transition. I thought we did a good job
• 20:05
  Speaker 8: finding him in transition as well. And that's what this
• 20:08
  Speaker 8: team has been all about. They've been very unselfish. We
• 20:11
  Speaker 8: had twenty assists and only six turnovers in this game
• 20:14
  Speaker 8: today and that was a huge factor in the win.
• 20:16
  Speaker 3: Coach.
• 20:17
  Speaker 2: College sports is so interesting right now, and I am
• 20:20
  Speaker 2: wondering because I think a lot of people looked up
• 20:22
  Speaker 2: and were surprised to see how good Nebraska was at basketball.
• 20:25
  Speaker 2: But Indiana dominates football, So why not Nebraska in basketball?
• 20:29
  Speaker 2: How did you build this thing so quickly?
• 20:32
  Speaker 8: Well, I'm not sure it was quick. You know, ear
• 20:36
  Speaker 8: seven now, and you know, we here's what we took
• 20:39
  Speaker 8: over the largest rebuild in the history of the Power five,
• 20:41
  Speaker 8: and we knew we were going to take some lumps.
• 20:43
  Speaker 8: And then year two was COVID. So those first two
• 20:45
  Speaker 8: years were you know, we're really tough. I think we
• 20:48
  Speaker 8: won seven games in each of those two years and
• 20:49
  Speaker 8: then it's steadily gone uphill from there. And we got
• 20:52
  Speaker 8: the right guys in this program. We got some local kids,
• 20:55
  Speaker 8: you know, I give Sam Grizel who is from Lincoln.
• 20:57
  Speaker 8: He transferred in for his senior years. Really when we
• 21:00
  Speaker 8: started slipping everything and you know, the culture got to
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  Speaker 8: where it needed to be. You know, we got the
• 21:05
  Speaker 8: right guys to hold accountable the standards that we were
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  Speaker 8: trying to live up to. And you know, we've had
• 21:10
  Speaker 8: a lot of guys that have just really bought into that.
• 21:12
  Speaker 8: So it's just you know, this team in particular, it's
• 21:14
  Speaker 8: been such a fun team to be around because there's
• 21:17
  Speaker 8: no agendas with this group. There's no h you know,
• 21:20
  Speaker 8: there's no distractions. They come on time, they take care
• 21:24
  Speaker 8: of their academics, you know, off off coards. There's been
• 21:27
  Speaker 8: no incidents. So it's just been you know, when you
• 21:29
  Speaker 8: when you have a group like that, it makes our
• 21:31
  Speaker 8: job as coaches a hell of a lot easier.
• 21:33
  Speaker 10: Fred March is all about, you know, the close games
• 21:36
  Speaker 10: like even the first game that tipped off today ended
• 21:38
  Speaker 10: up being a two point game there, but where they
• 21:40
  Speaker 10: blow out like you guys experienced today, how much confidence
• 21:43
  Speaker 10: does that really give you going forward? You can move
• 21:45
  Speaker 10: past the first win and say to your team, look
• 21:48
  Speaker 10: how well we can perform when we're on our game.
• 21:51
  Speaker 8: Yeah, and we'll and listen, we'll play a completely different
• 21:53
  Speaker 8: team next game, with different schemes offensively and defensively. And
• 21:57
  Speaker 8: that's what I'm talking about getting over you know this
• 22:00
  Speaker 8: one quickly. But our guys have done it all years,
• 22:03
  Speaker 8: so there's no reason to believe that that won't continue.
• 22:07
  Speaker 8: And you know, we need a film session, we'll talk
• 22:09
  Speaker 8: about the game plan, we'll put it in tomorrow, we'll
• 22:11
  Speaker 8: get a new practice here in Oklahoma City, and it's
• 22:14
  Speaker 8: all about going out and executing. But I thought our
• 22:16
  Speaker 8: guys really played with discipline today and you can see
• 22:19
  Speaker 8: that with the turnover margin. I thought nineteen to three
• 22:22
  Speaker 8: on second chance points, seventeen to five in points off turnovers,
• 22:26
  Speaker 8: and then twenty six to ten points in the paint.
• 22:28
  Speaker 8: And you know, that's what it's all about. We help
• 22:29
  Speaker 8: them to twenty six percent shooting in the second half
• 22:32
  Speaker 8: or twenty four actually, and if you do that consistently,
• 22:35
  Speaker 8: that's what that's the formula for advancing.
• 22:37
  Speaker 3: In March, coach.
• 22:39
  Speaker 2: I coached my daughters. I coached her high school travel
• 22:42
  Speaker 2: across team. She's now playing at Northwestern. It's the Indiana
• 22:46
  Speaker 2: of women's college lacrosse. But I am wondering, here are
• 22:50
  Speaker 2: their challenges with coaching your own kid.
• 22:54
  Speaker 8: You know what, he's made it easy. And he came here.
• 22:57
  Speaker 8: He was in a high school the COVID year, so
• 23:01
  Speaker 8: he really wasn't evaluated and it was a tough year
• 23:03
  Speaker 8: for all those kids that were seniors during COVID because
• 23:06
  Speaker 8: you know, they just couldn't get evaluated properly. And he
• 23:09
  Speaker 8: went on a couple visit for elite camps the previous
• 23:12
  Speaker 8: year and did really well, and I think was on
• 23:14
  Speaker 8: the verge of getting a couple offers. But then they
• 23:16
  Speaker 8: had players and took advantage of the COVID year. So
• 23:18
  Speaker 8: he just said, you know, let me come and walk
• 23:20
  Speaker 8: on and see where it goes. And if he developed,
• 23:23
  Speaker 8: maybe he would go to a lower level. But you know,
• 23:25
  Speaker 8: he took advantage of when we had two season an
• 23:28
  Speaker 8: injuries Juan Gary Emmanuel Vandemouth both went down in the
• 23:32
  Speaker 8: middle of the year, and then that's what gave him
• 23:34
  Speaker 8: the chance. And he worked so hard every day, got
• 23:37
  Speaker 8: in the gym, and that's what, you know, allowed him
• 23:40
  Speaker 8: to play well and then really earn a spot in
• 23:42
  Speaker 8: rotation from that point on. But he's been a part
• 23:44
  Speaker 8: of the turnaround. He saw this thing when it was
• 23:47
  Speaker 8: at its lowest, and you know, I'm really proud of
• 23:48
  Speaker 8: how he's helped us this get this thing flipped.
• 23:53
  Speaker 2: Coach, you are my final four pick. I selected you
• 23:55
  Speaker 2: out of the South bracket. I wrote it down in
• 23:57
  Speaker 2: pen I can't erase it. So if you go to
• 23:59
  Speaker 2: the Final four, I will see you in Indianapolis. Yes,
• 24:05
  Speaker 2: all right, thank you, congratulations to you. I know it's
• 24:08
  Speaker 2: a busy time. We appreciate a business trip. Tell them
• 24:11
  Speaker 2: not to sit around and watch basketball. Get in the
• 24:13
  Speaker 2: film room. Let's go, right, coach, we're going to the
• 24:15
  Speaker 2: final four, me and you.
• 24:17
  Speaker 8: You got it. Guys, thanks so much, thank you.
• 24:19
  Speaker 3: We want nothing to do with that.