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NFL QB Injury Replacements: Wentz Starts for Vikings, Lock for Seahawks; LIV Golf Calling it Quits · The Daily Play With Joy Taylor

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  Speaker 1: Hey guys, welcome to the Daily Play with Joy Taylor.
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  Speaker 2: So quarterback is arguably the most important position in all
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  Speaker 2: of sports and two of the best teams in the
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  Speaker 2: NFL are having to make a change at that position this.
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  Speaker 1: Week due to injury.
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  Speaker 2: The Vikings are tied to the league's best record at 6-1,
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  Speaker 2: and they will have to face one of the other
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  Speaker 2: two 6-1 teams, the Buffalo Bills, this week without starting
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  Speaker 2: quarterback Kyler Murray, who is going to miss time due
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  Speaker 2: to a hamstring injury.
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  Speaker 1: So Carson Wentz, who's.
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  Speaker 2: 2-0 this season, will start against the Bills on Monday night.
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  Speaker 2: The loss to Detroit last week is compounded by Kyler
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  Speaker 2: missing time from an injury he sustained in the fourth
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  Speaker 2: quarter of that game. But the coach dismissed the idea
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  Speaker 2: of putting his quarterback on IR. Kevin O'Connell said, I
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  Speaker 2: don't believe it to be much more than a week
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  Speaker 2: to week kind of thing right now. But for him,
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  Speaker 2: his movement skills and the way he plays the game,
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  Speaker 2: we do feel like putting him at a risk of
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  Speaker 2: possibly turning this into a more.
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  Speaker 1: Significant injury than it is by trying to have him
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  Speaker 1: work through it here early on.
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  Speaker 2: Look, Kyler isn't Josh Allen, but he does make a difference.
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  Speaker 1: For this team.
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  Speaker 2: And he needs his legs to do that. And I
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  Speaker 2: am going to trust that coach is right. You don't
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  Speaker 2: want to push this soft tissue injury and make it worse,
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  Speaker 2: make it something that is lasting. Right now, if they're
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  Speaker 2: saying it's week to week, give him the rest. They've
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  Speaker 2: done a good job up until this point of finding
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  Speaker 2: ways to win. And Kevin O'Connell has made it clear
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  Speaker 2: that Kyler will remain the starter when he gets back.
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  Speaker 1: But saying that, I guess, is kind of worth noting.
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  Speaker 2: It would probably take a couple of great weeks out
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  Speaker 2: of Wentz to make that change. So the Vikings at
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  Speaker 2: six and one have Buffalo on Monday night football.
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  Speaker 1: Then they are in Mexico City against San Francisco.
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  Speaker 2: So they do have two really tough games coming up
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  Speaker 2: and would really.
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  Speaker 1: Like to have their starting quarterback out there.
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  Speaker 2: If they're saying it's week to week, maybe they get
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  Speaker 2: him back, get Kyler back next week for the.
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  Speaker 1: Mexico City game.
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  Speaker 2: In more injury news, Sam Darnold is out for Seattle's
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  Speaker 2: matchup with the Cardinals with a quad strain. The Seahawks
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  Speaker 2: made it through a tough stretch of games to start
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  Speaker 2: the season at 4-4.
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  Speaker 1: A little bit of a Super Bowl hangover, so to speak.
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  Speaker 2: Drew Locke is a good enough backup to get this
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  Speaker 2: win over Gardner Minshew and the Cardinals, but the Cardinals
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  Speaker 2: have shown that they aren't to be taken lightly.
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  Speaker 1: And the Seahawks' bigger goal of.
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  Speaker 2: Repeating as a Super Bowl champ in mind, of course,
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  Speaker 2: you are going to rest Darnold Locke through for 235
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  Speaker 2: yards and three touchdowns in a week to start.
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  Speaker 1: So.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe this time for Darnold will allow him to rehab
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  Speaker 2: and refresh for a playoff push. The Seahawks are currently
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  Speaker 2: the first team out of the playoffs in the NFC,
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  Speaker 2: but they do hold the tiebreaker over the four and
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  Speaker 2: four division rival Rams. They have Arizona at Vegas and
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  Speaker 2: then a buy. So potentially if they get this one
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  Speaker 2: against Arizona, they keep Drew Locke out there. If Sam
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  Speaker 2: Darnold is not available still, and then they can push
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  Speaker 2: through the buy, give Sam Darnold a little extra time
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  Speaker 2: to recover and for the end stretch of the season.
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  Speaker 2: So I also want to give a quick shout out
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  Speaker 2: to the Bengals and Falcons who will get the Sunday
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  Speaker 2: started early from Madrid, Spain. This is the second year
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  Speaker 2: that the NFL has played in Madrid and the players,
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  Speaker 2: really the families of the players get to go on
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  Speaker 2: this trip. So they're playing where Real Madrid plays, iconic
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  Speaker 2: space for soccer.
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  Speaker 1: I happen to love Madrid. It's my favorite city in Spain. Beautiful,
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  Speaker 1: beautiful city. I love going to Spain. I do think.
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  Speaker 2: The international games are very interesting. I've talked a lot
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  Speaker 2: about them. It seems like some of the players like
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  Speaker 2: to go to some of these places. So this one
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  Speaker 2: isn't actually quite as far and should be a good
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  Speaker 2: look for the NFL. Finally, Live Golf is officially sunsetting
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  Speaker 2: after the troubled golf league's funding for a 2.0 relaunch
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  Speaker 2: fell through. So they are going to file a Chapter
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  Speaker 2: 11 bankruptcy on Monday. The debtors were ultimately unable to
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  Speaker 2: bring the key parties to a fully consensual arrangement that
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  Speaker 2: would have supported a financially viable Live 2.0. That was
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  Speaker 2: according to their attorney. So the last phase of value
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  Speaker 2: maximizing leaves a tiny window for someone to swoop in
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  Speaker 2: at the last moment and get a whole golf league
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  Speaker 2: for pennies on the dollar.
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  Speaker 1: But It looks like it's basically over.
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  Speaker 2: Liv tried to push the PGA Tour off the pedestal
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  Speaker 2: at the top of golf using money and intimidation, and
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  Speaker 2: it apparently.
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  Speaker 1: Did not work.
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  Speaker 2: You know, when this first came to be, it was
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  Speaker 2: a very controversial proposition because the funding was coming out
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  Speaker 2: of Saudi Arabia and everyone had a big opinion about
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  Speaker 2: where the money.
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  Speaker 1: Was coming from.
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  Speaker 2: They went big with the checks that they were signing,
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  Speaker 2: the golf stars that they were bringing in, and a
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  Speaker 2: lot of guys.
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  Speaker 1: Were joining the live tour.
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  Speaker 2: And it gave golfers and golf fans sort of a
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  Speaker 2: non-traditional space to play from the tour.
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  Speaker 1: It was less stuffy.
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  Speaker 2: It had the ability to have different branding. The experiences
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  Speaker 2: at the tournaments were very different than the tour tournaments.
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  Speaker 1: Felt a little looser. I was.
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  Speaker 2: Initially supportive of live golf. I thought that a lot
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  Speaker 2: of people were grandstanding about, you know, the Saudi Arabia money.
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  Speaker 1: Like we live in America. What are you talking about
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  Speaker 1: human rights? Like, give me a break.
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  Speaker 2: It was very, very soapboxy to me. And it just
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  Speaker 2: kind of felt like people just didn't like The idea
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  Speaker 2: of things changing more and where the money was coming
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  Speaker 2: from was kind of like an easy way to say that.
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  Speaker 1: They didn't support it.
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  Speaker 2: It failing, however, doesn't necessarily surprise me. It's really hard
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  Speaker 2: to sustain a league, so to speak. It requires basically
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  Speaker 2: infinite support. monies and they kind of met a critical
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  Speaker 2: mass of players who had pledged to compete in the
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  Speaker 2: league next season, about 30 players.
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  Speaker 1: And 10 others were considering it.
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  Speaker 2: But the negotiations were dragging on and yeah, I mean,
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  Speaker 2: it just, they needed.
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  Speaker 1: To find a replacement funder.
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  Speaker 2: After Saudi Arabia's public investment fund was being replaced. So look,
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  Speaker 2: it could still get picked up if, you know, billionaires
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  Speaker 2: are putting their money into sports.
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  Speaker 1: So there is a chance.
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  Speaker 2: And if you want to have a product that you
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  Speaker 2: can put on live television and sell against, then this
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  Speaker 2: is a good product to do that with. But it
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  Speaker 2: obviously is a very expensive product to sustain. So, you know,
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  Speaker 2: I wasn't against it initially. I mean, I vividly remember
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  Speaker 2: people having a lot to say about live golf. And
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  Speaker 2: I'm sure they're very happy that it's failing, but you know, listen,
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  Speaker 2: they were, they were signing massive checks that the tour
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  Speaker 2: was not signing. They were giving fans and golfers different opportunities,
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  Speaker 2: more opportunities for media. I'm for more opportunities and the
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  Speaker 2: Saudi Arabia thing again, like just miss me with it.
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  Speaker 1: That's like the human rights thing. Like we have human
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  Speaker 1: rights issues here. Give me a break. I don't, I
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  Speaker 1: really don't want to hear it.
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  Speaker 2: So yeah, we will see what happens with live golf,
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  Speaker 2: but it is a very interesting development for that league.
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