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Hour 1 – Fins Up vs. Black & Yellow Trade Grade · The Ben Maller Show

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  Speaker 3: Oh what is going on? Happy? This saw is confusing.
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  Speaker 3: Happy evening to you. You know I always get on
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  Speaker 3: Just this good evening, all right, Hope, everything's going great
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  Speaker 3: for you. We got a lot to get to. NBA
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  Speaker 3: free agency is just off the rails right now, craziness
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  Speaker 3: going on. We will get to all the good. But
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  Speaker 3: here's the deal. We know what butters the bread. In
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  Speaker 3: the sports world. We are collective ball aholics. Okay, we
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  Speaker 3: are ball junkies. And what does ball mean? Ball of
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  Speaker 3: course means football. Okay, let me start with football over here.
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  Speaker 3: Because there was a notable trade involving cornerback Jalen Ramsey
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  Speaker 3: so he is on the move. He is going to
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  Speaker 3: the Pittsburgh Steelers. And unfortunately, my Dolphins are just like
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  Speaker 3: the feeder school, you know in high school, how you
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  Speaker 3: might have like the junior high. He's like the feeder
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  Speaker 3: school to the high school. That type of thing. Feels
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  Speaker 3: like the Dolphins are the feeder school for the Pittsburgh Steelers. Here.
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  Speaker 3: So there was a tweet from Adam Schefter which just
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  Speaker 3: kind of shows you exactly where the Dolphins ranking the
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  Speaker 3: pecking order.
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  Speaker 4: Here.
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  Speaker 3: Here's what it said. According to ESPN sources, the Miami
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  Speaker 3: Dolphins have agreed to trade three time All Pro cornerback
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  Speaker 3: Jalen Ramsey to the Pittsburgh Steelers. As a part of
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  Speaker 3: the trade, Ramsey will get a one point five million
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  Speaker 3: dollar raise this season, bringing his twenty twenty five compensation
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  Speaker 3: up to twenty six point six million dollars. Steelers get
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  Speaker 3: their man and Ramsey gets another raise. No mention of
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  Speaker 3: the Dolphins, no mention, what did they get in this trade? Schefty?
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  Speaker 3: What did my fins get? Dude?
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  Speaker 2: What?
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  Speaker 3: Nothing? They just got a couple of footballs and called
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  Speaker 3: it good. It turns out the Dolphins sent more players
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  Speaker 3: to the Steelers. So the Steelers. They acquired cornerback Jalen
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  Speaker 3: Ramsey tight end John new Smith. They also get a
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  Speaker 3: twenty twenty seven seventh round pick and exchange the Dolphins
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  Speaker 3: they get safety Minka Fitzpatrick and a twenty twenty seven
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  Speaker 3: fifth rounder. That would be advantage Steelers on that one. Now,
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  Speaker 3: Minka Fitzpatrick is a baller. I love Minka Fitzpatrick. Dolphins
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  Speaker 3: originally drafted him. So he's going back to the Aquaan Orange.
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  Speaker 3: That's good. Good get Now. I'm not gonna talk trash
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  Speaker 3: about Minca. Love Minca, but man, the only Pro bowler
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  Speaker 3: the Dolphins had last season has been traded. That would
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  Speaker 3: be John new Smith, the tight end ghost of the Steelers.
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  Speaker 3: And this is a dose of reality for any Dolphins
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  Speaker 3: fan who happens to be listening right now. So last season,
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  Speaker 3: John news Smith, he had a great year for the Finns.
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  Speaker 3: Eighty eight catches for eight hundred and eighty four yards
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  Speaker 3: and eight touchdowns for a tight end, those are big numbers.
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  Speaker 3: He had a great season in Miami. Now, now that
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  Speaker 3: he's gone, the tight end with the most experience on
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  Speaker 3: the Dolphins roster that would be Faraoh Brown. So listen
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  Speaker 3: to his numbers. So I just told you John new
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  Speaker 3: Smith last season eighty eight catches, eight eighty four and
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  Speaker 3: eight touchdowns. Right faroh Brown, his numbers look like this,
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  Speaker 3: seventy two catches for seven hundred and fifty one yards
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  Speaker 3: and touchdown craps. Now, that would be a pretty good season.
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  Speaker 3: This was a pretty good season for a tight end
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  Speaker 3: right there. Those are faroll Brown's numbers in eighty seven
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  Speaker 3: career games. His numbers in eighty seven career games are
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  Speaker 3: lower across the board than what John hu Smith did
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  Speaker 3: last season. That's how greatly the Dolphins have regressed at
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  Speaker 3: the tight end position right out. Now, I won't make
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  Speaker 3: this all about the Fins, but while we're talking about
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  Speaker 3: I've finished the point. We'll get to the Steelers, who
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  Speaker 3: really matter in this whole equation here. But Miami's interested
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  Speaker 3: in Raiders tight end Michael Mayer, who is a good player,
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  Speaker 3: hasn't put up huge numbers. Raiders drafted Brock Bauers last season.
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  Speaker 3: He was unbelievable. So Michael Mayer, he's the forgotten tight end.
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  Speaker 3: You know, he'd probably be on the trading block. So
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  Speaker 3: maybe the Dolphins get him. Possibly, they're seemingly reaching out
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  Speaker 3: to all NFL teams. You got a tight end, You
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  Speaker 3: got a tight end that's on the block. Can we
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  Speaker 3: trade for a tight end that has a name that
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  Speaker 3: people might recognize? Can we do that? So the Steelers
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  Speaker 3: right now, they've got a pretty good roster. You look
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  Speaker 3: at what they have top to bottom, it's pretty good.
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  Speaker 3: Made some notable additions. Of course, you know the major
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  Speaker 3: suspects over here on offense, Aaron Rodgers, DK metcalf. They
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  Speaker 3: just traded for John new Smith. When you compare John
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  Speaker 3: new Smith with Pat Fryermuth, you got mooth. You got
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  Speaker 3: John new Smith, pro bowler, friar Mouth who's a baller,
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  Speaker 3: and then you drafted Caleb Johnson, he's the running back
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  Speaker 3: and replace Najee Harris. You got something working there that's
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  Speaker 3: not the worst offense on paper in the NFL by far.
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  Speaker 3: You've got something to work with there. A lot of
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  Speaker 3: it obviously ties to how healthy is Aaron Rodgers last year,
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  Speaker 3: he's battling oldness. I would say he's battling age injuries.
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  Speaker 3: He had a hammy, had a knee, had an ankle,
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  Speaker 3: all kinds of stuff he was working through and he's
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  Speaker 3: he's not the same athlete that he once was. He's
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  Speaker 3: not moving outside the pocket regularly, which made him special
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  Speaker 3: throwing off platform that's not part of his game anymore.
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  Speaker 3: So his game he's not as good as he once was,
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  Speaker 3: that's obvious. How good is he in the AFC North,
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  Speaker 3: in the AFC collectively, time will tell, but a lot
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  Speaker 3: of it traces back to his health, and you can't
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  Speaker 3: expect Rogers to be, you know, like the epitome of
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  Speaker 3: great health now that he's over forty. Here defensively, you
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  Speaker 3: add Jalen Ramsey. He goes along with Joey Porter junior,
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  Speaker 3: pretty good cornerback. And the Steelers picked up Darius big
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  Speaker 3: Play Sleigh. They got their hands on big Play Sleigh
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  Speaker 3: came over from the Eagles, banged up quite a bit recently,
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  Speaker 3: but went healthy. Still a good player, and just like
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  Speaker 3: typical Steelers fashion. You know, if you look at a
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  Speaker 3: couple of their defensive draft picks, Derek Harmon, he was
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  Speaker 3: the twenty second overall pick, their first rounder defensive end,
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  Speaker 3: you know, basically a defensive lineman in that three to
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  Speaker 3: four defense, right But the way the Steelers are, it's
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  Speaker 3: probably gonna be the next Cam Hayward for the next
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  Speaker 3: decade plus. You know, it's gonna be steff on to it.
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  Speaker 3: At worst. For the Steelers, they're gonna just fine, guys.
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  Speaker 3: You know, when they drafted Jack Sawyer from Ohio State,
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  Speaker 3: fourth round pick, don't be surprised if he makes an impact.
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  Speaker 3: So on paper, the Steelers have a pretty decent roster.
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  Speaker 3: I know they seem to just be completely dismissed. I'm
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  Speaker 3: not making making my case for a Steelers. They're legit
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  Speaker 3: Super Bowl contenders. I'm not saying that. I'm just saying
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  Speaker 3: there's a tendency to just shrug your shoulders and say, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: they'll be nine to eight and they'll lose their playoff
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  Speaker 3: game and that's it. And that might be the case,
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  Speaker 3: but let's not confuse that with the ceiling, you know
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  Speaker 3: what I mean, Like that that might be the reality,
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  Speaker 3: that might be realistically how it plays out, but that's
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  Speaker 3: not the ceiling for the roster. You know, the ceiling
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  Speaker 3: for the roster is a decent playoff run. It's a
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  Speaker 3: ten ish win team that wins a game or two
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  Speaker 3: in the playoffs. That's probably the ceiling, which isn't worlds
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  Speaker 3: better than nine to eight first round exit, but it's
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  Speaker 3: it's better, like it's a higher ceiling if things go
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  Speaker 3: as well as they can. Now, the thing that I
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  Speaker 3: think with Rogers here, and this is basically what I
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  Speaker 3: was talking about a second ago. Just open up your
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  Speaker 3: mind to the possibility, even if you think it's remote,
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  Speaker 3: even if you think it's far fetched, open up your
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  Speaker 3: mind to the possibility that Rogers wins big this season.
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  Speaker 3: Can you imagine how annoying he'll be if that happens. Now,
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  Speaker 3: Like I said, I don't think that's going to happen
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  Speaker 3: for the Steelers. I don't think they're gonna have a
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  Speaker 3: great season and make it to the AFC Title Game
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  Speaker 3: or mess around and make it to a Super Bowl.
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  Speaker 3: I don't see that happening. But I would acknowledge that
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  Speaker 3: crazier things have happened in NFL history. It's a pretty
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  Speaker 3: good roster, you know. So if everything goes as well
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  Speaker 3: as it can and they win big, Rogers will be
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  Speaker 3: peak annoying. I went in the hot tub time machine
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  Speaker 3: today and I was like, what did Rogers say a
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  Speaker 3: few years ago? And I finally found the audio. So
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  Speaker 3: this was at the tail end of the twenty twenty
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  Speaker 3: two season. Okay, the Packers were four and eight, and
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  Speaker 3: then they rattled off four straight wins, okay, and Rogers
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  Speaker 3: is basically like, what now, what do you have to
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  Speaker 3: say now, critics? Now that we're eight and eight? Here's
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  Speaker 3: Rogers Once they got to eight eight in the twenty
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  Speaker 3: two season.
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  Speaker 5: You know, we've all seen some of the commentary outside
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  Speaker 5: as we went from four in eight to five and
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  Speaker 5: eight to six and eight, and nobody's worried about the
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  Speaker 5: Packers and blah blah blah blah blah. Now what are
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  Speaker 5: you gonna say?
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  Speaker 3: So my thought is if Rogers is basically saying, hey,
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  Speaker 3: what now, critics, what do you have to say now? Huh?
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  Speaker 3: When they're eight and eight, what do you think he's
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  Speaker 3: gonna say? If the Steelers win big this season? He
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  Speaker 3: would be he would be obnoxious if that happens. By
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  Speaker 3: the way, when the Packers got to eight and eight,
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  Speaker 3: the next week they lost to the Lions in green Bay.
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  Speaker 3: They finished the season eight and nine. They missed the playoffs,
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  Speaker 3: and that was the final game Rogers played for green Bay.
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  Speaker 3: Just all that they went from what now, critics to
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  Speaker 3: an avalanche of every worst case scenario just played out
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  Speaker 3: for green Bay. But I started thinking about that, and
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  Speaker 3: you're welcome to participate and help this list grow. But
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  Speaker 3: I was thinking about which athletes would be all time
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  Speaker 3: annoying if they want a championship or in some cases
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  Speaker 3: won another championship, right, Like, who would you be? Like,
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  Speaker 3: oh man, I can't believe this player just wanted all.
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  Speaker 3: This is gonna be nauseating for months, maybe years now.
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  Speaker 3: Who would be on that list? Number one on the
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  Speaker 3: list has to be by far, It's got to be Lebron.
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  Speaker 3: Can you imagine Lebron winning a fifth championship? Just close
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  Speaker 3: your eyes, imagine the Lakers winning a championship. Wasn't okac.
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  Speaker 3: The Lakers just steam rolled through the playoffs. They won
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  Speaker 3: another ring Lebron like this was This was Lebron after
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  Speaker 3: the three to one comeback against Golden State. This was
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  Speaker 3: on more than an athlete. This is what he had
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  Speaker 3: to say after that.
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  Speaker 6: I was a super super ecstatic the win went for
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  Speaker 6: Cleveland because of the fifty two year drought, Like I
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  Speaker 6: was ecstatic, Like obviously I showed that. The first wave
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  Speaker 6: of emotion was when y'all everyone saw me crying like
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  Speaker 6: that was all for fifty two years, everything the sports
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  Speaker 6: are gone on to Cleveland, and then after I stopped,
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  Speaker 6: I was like that one right there made you the
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  Speaker 6: greatest player of all time.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, So as Lebron after the three to one comeback
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  Speaker 3: against the Warriors, you know, you can't really give yourself
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  Speaker 3: a nickname that it seldomly works. You can't give yourself
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  Speaker 3: like goat status. You can't like knight yourself. Have you
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  Speaker 3: ever you ever see how someone gets knighted? You know,
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  Speaker 3: they touch each shoulder. Have you ever seen someone knight themselves? No,
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  Speaker 3: it doesn't work. You can't knight yourself the goat, which
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  Speaker 3: is what he tried to do right there. So the
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  Speaker 3: point is if he won another ring, it would be
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  Speaker 3: peak nauseating. Who else would be on the list athletes
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  Speaker 3: that would be all annoying if they won a championship?
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  Speaker 3: You know who would be on that list a few
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  Speaker 3: years ago, I don't feel as much now. But Baker
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  Speaker 3: Mayfield in his Cleveland Brown days, he was on a man.
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  Speaker 3: He was just on one, raging against all critics far
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  Speaker 3: and wide. You know, anyone who had anything even slightly
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  Speaker 3: critical to say about Baker Mayfield, he just had a
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  Speaker 3: boulder on his shoulder. He didn't have a chip on
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  Speaker 3: his shoulder. So if Baker Mayfield somehow messed around and
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  Speaker 3: won a title in Cleveland when he was still there
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  Speaker 3: at that time, he would have been peak annoying. I
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  Speaker 3: don't feel that way as much anymore. Right now, he's
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  Speaker 3: still a little feisty with the critics, but it lands differently.
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  Speaker 3: I think he's matured, you know, I don't think that
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  Speaker 3: he takes every little slight. He reminds me of the
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  Speaker 3: guy in the bar. You might have been this guy
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  Speaker 3: when you were younger, you know, I was this guy
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  Speaker 3: you want to go he got a problem with it.
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  Speaker 3: It's just that guy that's just ready to fight because
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  Speaker 3: someone yawned, and it's like, what did that yawn?
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  Speaker 7: Me?
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  Speaker 3: What were you ready? You would go like that was
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  Speaker 3: Baker Mayfield earlier in his career. I don't think he's
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  Speaker 3: that same guy anymore. Who else would be on the
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  Speaker 3: list of athletes all time annoying if they want it all?
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  Speaker 3: Aaron Rodgers of course would be on this list. If
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  Speaker 3: he won his second ring and won it all in Pittsburgh,
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  Speaker 3: he would be peak annoying. And the last one that
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  Speaker 3: I have on my list right now, and this is
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  Speaker 3: a growing list, I would put Angel Reese there. If
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  Speaker 3: Angel Reese won a WNBA title, she would be peak annoying.
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  Speaker 3: There is zero doubt about that. And what I mean
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  Speaker 3: by that is just throwing it in your face, just
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  Speaker 3: like want to ring what now critics. There'd be a
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  Speaker 3: new TikTok video every hour for the next year. If
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  Speaker 3: she wanted all that would be on my list. Feel
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  Speaker 3: free to share yours at the No show is where
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  Speaker 3: you can find me on x if you have any
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  Speaker 3: entrees on the list the growing list of athletes that
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  Speaker 3: would be all time annoying if they want it all
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  Speaker 3: interested to hear about that. Eight seven seven ninety nine
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  Speaker 3: it's like, Brian, I've been on hold for an hour
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  Speaker 3: evening slash this morning. Wherever it is, where you are, Okay,
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  Speaker 3: Yeah to go to all Right, we're gonna get to
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  Speaker 3: that here in a little bit. But I'll tell you
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  Speaker 3: what the mal or militia is down to party tonight. Apparently,
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  Speaker 3: you know, last time I filled in, it was what
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  Speaker 3: a couple of weeks ago, roughly, Yeah, the militia was like,
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  Speaker 3: Ben's out f this, We're out of here, Brian, no thanks,
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  Speaker 3: I'm out, don't want any piece of this. But the
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  Speaker 3: militia is like, yeah, let's hang out, let's hang out.
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  Speaker 3: We're we're having some fun on a Monday evening, late
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  Speaker 9: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: So I said, if the militia's here, we'll roll out
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  Speaker 3: him up, knock him down. We got Ron in Rochester
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  Speaker 3: up first, what's going on? Ron, You're on Fox Sports Radio.
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  Speaker 4: New York. Hey, I gotta be honest. I thought i'd
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  Speaker 4: sell you what Ben Mallick, but I called that's all right.
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  Speaker 4: But so I am Ron from Rochester's man he did
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  Speaker 4: sports radio. I'm a Steelers fan and my parents my
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  Speaker 4: mother was born in Pittsburgh. They both went to high
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  Speaker 4: school in Erie, Pennsylvania. My cousin is Fred Belitanikoff also
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  Speaker 4: grew up in Eary, Pennsylvania. And so at first on
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  Speaker 4: the trade they were they were not saying it was
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  Speaker 4: good trade, Guardiano, everybody on the when they first came out,
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  Speaker 4: they would not say, and it.
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  Speaker 3: Was a good trade I mean for the Steelers.
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  Speaker 4: No, they Guardiana was saying Fitzpans is the best player
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  Speaker 4: in that whole peal.
• 18:21
  Speaker 3: And I don't know, Uh, it might be, it might
• 18:24
  Speaker 3: be right about that because Minka it's a baller. But
• 18:28
  Speaker 3: I mean collectively you get Jalen, Ramsey and John that's
• 18:32
  Speaker 3: pretty good.
• 18:32
  Speaker 4: Webeck position is more important anyway. Yeah, do you want
• 18:36
  Speaker 4: to hear my Franco Harristory. So I lived in New
• 18:39
  Speaker 4: York City after graduating with Syracuse, and I was working well,
• 18:43
  Speaker 4: I was working for an advertising agency. That's how I
• 18:45
  Speaker 4: stayed sports radio. But I was in the Sheridan Hotel
• 18:48
  Speaker 4: and I could spot a star a mile away, and
• 18:51
  Speaker 4: I think Franco harris by himself walking towards me. I'm like, hey, man,
• 18:54
  Speaker 4: you were on my wall growing up. He's like, why
• 18:56
  Speaker 4: did you take me down? I'm like, I went to
• 18:58
  Speaker 4: college my mother did. And he was the coolest guy ever.
• 19:01
  Speaker 3: That's cool, man. I like the balls. That was good.
• 19:05
  Speaker 4: Yeah. Do you want to hear how I saved sports radio?
• 19:08
  Speaker 4: So I graduated in Syracuse. I wasn't even an advertising guy.
• 19:12
  Speaker 4: I was an economics major. But my family was in
• 19:14
  Speaker 4: the business. So I was a media planner and I
• 19:16
  Speaker 4: was working on the McDonald's New York account and it
• 19:19
  Speaker 4: was all women, all women in me. And we had
• 19:22
  Speaker 4: bought McDonald's for WFN in nineteen eighty eight or whatever,
• 19:27
  Speaker 4: and we were about to dump it, and I was
• 19:29
  Speaker 4: the only one that stood up for it. And I
• 19:30
  Speaker 4: can't wait to run in the Mad Dog and tell
• 19:32
  Speaker 4: them his whole career to me because I said, let's
• 19:35
  Speaker 4: do it. It's because sports radio. It's gonna be huge.
• 19:37
  Speaker 4: That's buy it. And you know the rest is history.
• 19:40
  Speaker 4: I saved sports radio.
• 19:42
  Speaker 3: What do you think Ben Mahler would be doing right
• 19:45
  Speaker 3: now had you not saved sports radio?
• 19:47
  Speaker 4: You know what I talked about that the last time.
• 19:49
  Speaker 4: That's how I've been to hopefully remember.
• 19:52
  Speaker 2: No.
• 19:53
  Speaker 3: Well, I don't know what just said to Ben. You know,
• 19:55
  Speaker 3: I'm just curious what his occupation would be if there
• 19:57
  Speaker 3: were no hell.
• 19:58
  Speaker 4: Oh he'd be he'd be a bike salesman.
• 20:02
  Speaker 3: Bike No.
• 20:03
  Speaker 10: I think he'd be making pizzas.
• 20:05
  Speaker 4: Yeah, oh yeah, but he'd be like a fed bike
• 20:08
  Speaker 4: That's the crazy part about it. He's working at a
• 20:10
  Speaker 4: bike shop, but he'd be set. It's like, how are
• 20:11
  Speaker 4: you going to buy a bike from this guy?
• 20:14
  Speaker 6: All right?
• 20:15
  Speaker 3: Good stuff? Rod Alaya man, fun stuff, appreciate you check
• 20:18
  Speaker 3: it in, so you go. Would you say Loraina a
• 20:21
  Speaker 3: pizza pizza guy?
• 20:23
  Speaker 2: Yeah?
• 20:23
  Speaker 8: I think he would be a pizza guy. He loves
• 20:25
  Speaker 8: to make pizzas at home.
• 20:28
  Speaker 3: He likes to make likes bake baker. Okay, could he
• 20:32
  Speaker 3: he could deliver his product on bike? You know we
• 20:34
  Speaker 3: can mesh the two right there with Ron his suggestion.
• 20:38
  Speaker 3: We got trucker nav he's in Tennessee. What's going on?
• 20:42
  Speaker 3: Truck or navy?
• 20:44
  Speaker 8: Uh?
• 20:45
  Speaker 4: I got two takes.
• 20:46
  Speaker 11: One is about the Steelers.
• 20:48
  Speaker 7: I think.
• 20:51
  Speaker 11: Miami got the better deal of it, and another cornerback
• 20:55
  Speaker 11: is a more important position. But uh Fitzpatrick, as far
• 20:59
  Speaker 11: as I know, he's younger than uh Ramsey and Uh,
• 21:05
  Speaker 11: I think they got the better deal. And I think
• 21:07
  Speaker 11: the other part of that is they you know, one
• 21:10
  Speaker 11: of the free up some money so they can bring
• 21:13
  Speaker 11: back TJ. Watt, you know, and sign him.
• 21:17
  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I hear you. It's look, man, I think
• 21:20
  Speaker 3: that I'll put it this way. I think what I'm
• 21:22
  Speaker 3: doing because I'm a Dolphins fan, trucker nav and what
• 21:26
  Speaker 3: I'm doing is I'm lumping in this trade with all
• 21:30
  Speaker 3: of the other Dolphin departures, you know what I mean.
• 21:32
  Speaker 3: And so that's kind of clouding how I think about this,
• 21:36
  Speaker 3: Like Mika Fitzpatrick is the best player out of those three.
• 21:40
  Speaker 3: But if you're look, but if you're looking collectively, I mean, honestly,
• 21:44
  Speaker 3: which would you rather have? If you're the Steelers, would
• 21:47
  Speaker 3: you rather have Minka Fitzpatrick or would you rather trade
• 21:51
  Speaker 3: Minca and get a corner in Jalen Ramsey and then
• 21:54
  Speaker 3: get a tight end in John new Smith? You needed
• 21:56
  Speaker 3: another weapon on offense for Aaron Rogers. You know, you
• 22:01
  Speaker 3: you got rid of George Pickens, So I think the
• 22:03
  Speaker 3: trade is better collectively for the Steelers. And that's no
• 22:07
  Speaker 3: slight toward Minka. I think they're coming out.
• 22:09
  Speaker 11: Ahead right right, Yeah, but he you know, none of
• 22:14
  Speaker 11: this is going to matter if if you can't protect Rogers, right,
• 22:18
  Speaker 11: I mean, we already saw what happened in New York
• 22:20
  Speaker 11: and last year. He looked like players that have had
• 22:23
  Speaker 11: that similar injury, whether it's Derek Carr or Dak Prescott,
• 22:31
  Speaker 11: you know.
• 22:31
  Speaker 4: They always have that. You know that the cold feet
• 22:34
  Speaker 4: in the pocket if you will.
• 22:35
  Speaker 11: You know, they're worried about getting hit, especially in the
• 22:38
  Speaker 11: you know, the lower extremities, and so if you can't
• 22:41
  Speaker 11: protect the quarterback, it's a no win situation.
• 22:46
  Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, they yeah, they have to and he's got
• 22:49
  Speaker 3: to stay healthy. So those are big, two big ifs.
• 22:52
  Speaker 3: But appreciate you checking in man. Yeah. Wow, look at this.
• 22:56
  Speaker 3: I mean, I'll translate a couple of the calls. They're
• 22:59
  Speaker 3: basically saying, Finn's up, Let's get it right. That's what
• 23:04
  Speaker 3: I'm taking away from some of this. Mika Fitzpatrick is
• 23:08
  Speaker 3: a fantastic player, but I think that the Steelers are
• 23:12
  Speaker 3: better after this trade than they were before the trade.
• 23:17
  Speaker 3: I think it helps him out because you get a
• 23:20
  Speaker 3: defensive piece and Jalen Ramsey's no like scrub Jayleen Ramsey's
• 23:25
  Speaker 3: still playing at a high level. And then you get
• 23:27
  Speaker 3: a big time offensive weapon. And when you don't have
• 23:30
  Speaker 3: George Pickens, you've got DK and Mouth and that's it
• 23:34
  Speaker 3: basically in terms of weapons to throw to. So you
• 23:37
  Speaker 3: add to that. I like the deal for the Steelers.
• 23:41
  Speaker 3: I think they're better now than they were before it.
• 23:44
  Speaker 3: That's just me, though. We got Emmett, my guy, Emmett
• 23:47
  Speaker 3: in Washington checking in. What's going on?
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: Emmett?
• 23:50
  Speaker 9: Brian, No, how are we doing tonight?
• 23:52
  Speaker 3: Good buddy, how are you?
• 23:53
  Speaker 9: I'm doing good. Just I want to give you a
• 23:55
  Speaker 9: couple of athletes here that would be super annoying to
• 23:59
  Speaker 9: see them win a ch I all right, the first one.
• 24:01
  Speaker 9: I might have missed it because I called in and
• 24:03
  Speaker 9: turned my radio off, so I don't know if you
• 24:06
  Speaker 9: mentioned this, but Deshaun Watson, I'd hate for that guy
• 24:09
  Speaker 9: to win a chip. And then the bias in me
• 24:12
  Speaker 9: like just just me being a hater and sorry Lorena,
• 24:15
  Speaker 9: but Dak Prescott, I hate to see that.
• 24:18
  Speaker 8: You know, if he'd win, then I'd be like, oh
• 24:20
  Speaker 8: my god, I can't believe you'd say that, But he hasn't,
• 24:23
  Speaker 8: So go ahead.
• 24:24
  Speaker 9: Yeah. You know, I was hoping that you'd have hope
• 24:26
  Speaker 9: as a Cowboys fan, but I mean, at least you're
• 24:27
  Speaker 9: real about.
• 24:28
  Speaker 3: It has sailed.
• 24:31
  Speaker 4: Yeah, So I want.
• 24:32
  Speaker 9: To talk about this trade though, Brian, and we're going
• 24:34
  Speaker 9: to go three for three with the first three callers
• 24:36
  Speaker 9: of the show.
• 24:37
  Speaker 5: Wow in here.
• 24:38
  Speaker 4: I think that the.
• 24:40
  Speaker 9: Dolphins you picked up a great safety and VJ. Husky,
• 24:44
  Speaker 9: who's also a Dolphins fan, tweeted this earlier. He was
• 24:46
  Speaker 9: also really excited about the trade, saying that, you know,
• 24:48
  Speaker 9: you fix a safety position that you guys really needed
• 24:51
  Speaker 9: help with. And the Steelers, when you think about how
• 24:54
  Speaker 9: they did this and maybe why they did this, A
• 24:57
  Speaker 9: couple theories come to my mind, and the main one
• 24:59
  Speaker 9: and it still doesn't makes sense because I still question it.
• 25:01
  Speaker 9: I kind of understand going out and getting John new Smith.
• 25:05
  Speaker 9: I think that a second tight end. I mean, we
• 25:08
  Speaker 9: talked about this when you're on my show, Brian, how
• 25:09
  Speaker 9: I didn't really think it what makes sense. I'd rather
• 25:11
  Speaker 9: go and get a lineman or a receiver. But I
• 25:14
  Speaker 9: think that the one reason, in my opinion, that the
• 25:17
  Speaker 9: Pittsburgh Steelers are doing all this is they're going to
• 25:20
  Speaker 9: have to pay Minka Fitzpatrick another long term deal, and
• 25:23
  Speaker 9: that could be next year if he balls out, or
• 25:25
  Speaker 9: that could be two years from now before it's contract expires,
• 25:28
  Speaker 9: and they're already on the verge of paying TJ.
• 25:30
  Speaker 4: Watt.
• 25:30
  Speaker 9: They said that they want him to retire as a Steeler,
• 25:33
  Speaker 9: so they want don't want to commit that much money
• 25:35
  Speaker 9: to where Jalen Ramsey. You can play him for this
• 25:37
  Speaker 9: year and then maybe flip that contract and even if
• 25:40
  Speaker 9: you have to eat it for the other season, it's
• 25:42
  Speaker 9: two years and you don't have to resign him. He's
• 25:43
  Speaker 9: going to be thirty two years old. I don't think
• 25:45
  Speaker 9: that he can get a MAX contract at that point
• 25:47
  Speaker 9: in time, and Minka, he deserves another one. He's only
• 25:50
  Speaker 9: making fifteen million this year and seventeen million the year
• 25:53
  Speaker 9: after that, which is crazy. Yeah, he's probably going to
• 25:55
  Speaker 9: double if he balls out.
• 25:57
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it is so perfect. It gets me thinking about
• 26:00
  Speaker 3: just the Steelers and thanks for checking in man, good
• 26:03
  Speaker 3: to hear from you, Emmett and Olympia. But it gets
• 26:06
  Speaker 3: me thinking the Steelers and Jeff Schwartz, you know, we
• 26:09
  Speaker 3: do a show on Saturdays on Fox Sports Radio Saturday
• 26:12
  Speaker 3: Mornings Countdown, and Jeff made this point where, now this
• 26:18
  Speaker 3: was before the trade that we're talking about now, but
• 26:20
  Speaker 3: it was when they got Aaron Rodgers, and he's like,
• 26:23
  Speaker 3: it doesn't really help them a lot. It really just
• 26:27
  Speaker 3: pushes them toward the outskirts of the middle, you know,
• 26:30
  Speaker 3: like that's one of the worst places you can be,
• 26:33
  Speaker 3: is in the middle. The Steelers probably aren't gonna be
• 26:36
  Speaker 3: good enough to you know, make it to Championship Sunday,
• 26:40
  Speaker 3: be one of the final four teams challenged to get
• 26:43
  Speaker 3: to the Super Bowl. They're probably gonna be that good,
• 26:45
  Speaker 3: and they're not gonna be bad enough to be picking
• 26:47
  Speaker 3: at the top of the draft. So they get Rogers
• 26:50
  Speaker 3: most likely for a year as a band aid quarterback,
• 26:54
  Speaker 3: and really it's gonna get them a lower draft pick
• 26:57
  Speaker 3: and probably in the nine and eight, ten and seven range. Right.
• 27:02
  Speaker 3: So it's weird where the Steelers, on one hand, I
• 27:07
  Speaker 3: commend them for doing as much as they can for
• 27:09
  Speaker 3: the twenty five season to win. Half of me does
• 27:13
  Speaker 3: commend them for that, but the other part of me
• 27:16
  Speaker 3: is like this doesn't help you get better for the
• 27:19
  Speaker 3: future at the quarterback position, which they have to do.
• 27:24
  Speaker 3: Look at that division, just that division alone, when you
• 27:27
  Speaker 3: look at the Ravens having Lamar, the Bengals having Burrow,
• 27:31
  Speaker 3: and then you expand it to the AFC with Josh
• 27:34
  Speaker 3: Allen and then Mahomes and then there's Herbert and then
• 27:37
  Speaker 3: there's this guy, and then it's like, you gotta have
• 27:40
  Speaker 3: a QB in your division and that conference, and they're
• 27:44
  Speaker 3: just gonna have a lower pick, most likely without the
• 27:49
  Speaker 3: fruits of hey, we made it to Championship Sunday, we
• 27:53
  Speaker 3: got to Super Bowl Sunday. We want it all. Like
• 27:55
  Speaker 3: without that, it's like, okay, you went from picking I
• 28:00
  Speaker 3: don't know, fifteenth overall to like twenty third overall. It's
• 28:04
  Speaker 3: like it doesn't and this is a quarterback rich draft.
• 28:09
  Speaker 3: So it's just really not in the Steelers' DNA to
• 28:12
  Speaker 3: be like, you know what, let's kind of punt on
• 28:15
  Speaker 3: the twenty five season. Let's just roll out there, Mason
• 28:19
  Speaker 3: Rudolph and take our lumps and we're gonna go like
• 28:23
  Speaker 3: six and eleven something like that, and we'll have a
• 28:26
  Speaker 3: better pick and hopefully get our quarterback in the future
• 28:30
  Speaker 3: and then we'll be set for the next decade. That's
• 28:32
  Speaker 3: really not in their DNA. I can't totally fault them
• 28:35
  Speaker 3: for that. I like that. They're like it's like a
• 28:39
  Speaker 3: reflection of the city. You know. They're like, let's roll
• 28:41
  Speaker 3: up our sleeves and just make do, and let's let's
• 28:44
  Speaker 3: get after the twenty five season, make these trades and
• 28:46
  Speaker 3: sign Aaron Rodgers and have of me likes that, But
• 28:51
  Speaker 3: the other half there's a downside where you're just gonna
• 28:54
  Speaker 3: be picking lower in the first round without picking thirty second,
• 28:58
  Speaker 3: you know what I mean as Super Bowl champions. So
• 29:01
  Speaker 3: they're in a weird spot where they're they're in the middle.
• 29:04
  Speaker 3: They're like in the upper middle class. Now I think,
• 29:08
  Speaker 3: you know, there's somewhere in the middle middle class to
• 29:10
  Speaker 3: the upper middle class depending on how the season plays out.
• 29:15
  Speaker 3: But it doesn't help them for twenty six and beyond,
• 29:18
  Speaker 3: you know, So there's that side of it. It's just
• 29:20
  Speaker 3: something to consider. They We've got E Dog in New
• 29:24
  Speaker 3: York up next. What's going on? E Dog?
• 29:26
  Speaker 7: How you doing good?
• 29:28
  Speaker 3: Buddy?
• 29:28
  Speaker 7: That's good. I want to make a comment. My dad
• 29:32
  Speaker 7: came to visit me recently. Okay, uh, huh. And we
• 29:36
  Speaker 7: went to the bank and he said to the tell
• 29:38
  Speaker 7: I want to give a gift to my son. And
• 29:40
  Speaker 7: there was a woman to the left, a lady. Well,
• 29:42
  Speaker 7: I'm looking wady too left that I was looking at
• 29:44
  Speaker 7: her and guess what my dad did?
• 29:46
  Speaker 3: What do you do?
• 29:48
  Speaker 7: He shared to me. And he said, and he shook
• 29:50
  Speaker 7: his head.
• 29:50
  Speaker 3: No, so what what what happened here? E?
• 29:54
  Speaker 9: Dog?
• 29:55
  Speaker 3: I'm not following the story.
• 29:57
  Speaker 7: Well, my dad's in charge of my money, so you know,
• 30:00
  Speaker 7: you know, want me looking at the girl when he's
• 30:02
  Speaker 7: giving me money?
• 30:03
  Speaker 9: Uh?
• 30:04
  Speaker 7: Anyway, I'm just good. I have a resentment against the
• 30:08
  Speaker 7: man dog though. He said to me one time he
• 30:11
  Speaker 7: doesn't like Ali. He doesn't want to hear what I
• 30:14
  Speaker 7: have to say.
• 30:15
  Speaker 3: Why say that, dog? Why would he say that?
• 30:18
  Speaker 7: That sounds unkind, very inconstitutional? And and I guess what
• 30:23
  Speaker 7: my friend Joe Dogg. Did you ever hear about him?
• 30:26
  Speaker 3: No, I have a friend.
• 30:27
  Speaker 7: They know Joe dogs He was Me and him used
• 30:30
  Speaker 7: to go three way calling to the three way calling
• 30:34
  Speaker 7: to the to the Ben Miller show. And he's called
• 30:39
  Speaker 7: this week because his wife is going on vacation. Now
• 30:44
  Speaker 7: real quick, listen to this, all right, I have a
• 30:48
  Speaker 7: Dolphins jersey. Now I want you to do you threat
• 30:52
  Speaker 7: the guests? What what team I have on the What
• 30:56
  Speaker 7: player I have on my team with his name?
• 30:58
  Speaker 3: Think a guess of Brian Cox jersey dog?
• 31:02
  Speaker 7: Definitely No, Definitely.
• 31:06
  Speaker 8: A Dolphin player. Yes, well I only know one Dolphin
• 31:11
  Speaker 8: ahead Tyreek Hill.
• 31:14
  Speaker 3: Nope, okay, it better not be him.
• 31:16
  Speaker 10: Of course it is. He's one of my baby daddy.
• 31:19
  Speaker 7: I'm fifty three years old, so it's a it's a
• 31:22
  Speaker 7: jersey from the past. Definitely.
• 31:26
  Speaker 4: No.
• 31:29
  Speaker 3: I'm gonna say, you, dog, I get an extra guest.
• 31:31
  Speaker 3: You your hardcore? You got a John Offer Doll jersey?
• 31:35
  Speaker 3: Is that what you have?
• 31:36
  Speaker 9: Y dog?
• 31:37
  Speaker 7: No, let me give you your hands. It starts with
• 31:42
  Speaker 7: an A eight.
• 31:44
  Speaker 3: Starts with an A.
• 31:46
  Speaker 7: No, it starts with an eight an eight?
• 31:48
  Speaker 3: Oh okay, wow, I don't know. You got a Mark
• 31:52
  Speaker 3: Clayton jersey.
• 31:54
  Speaker 2: You got it?
• 31:55
  Speaker 10: There we go? Okay, turn gonna say.
• 32:00
  Speaker 3: That, My god, very nice.
• 32:03
  Speaker 7: So I gotta I got a bed jersey. Now take
• 32:05
  Speaker 7: a pick. Is it Peyton McMahon or.
• 32:08
  Speaker 3: Perry It's Steve McMichael, It's Mongo that's what you have.
• 32:13
  Speaker 3: Definitely no, No, Now you gotta go. Refrigerator I feel like, uh.
• 32:21
  Speaker 8: Ayton, yeah, yeah, you go, thank you.
• 32:28
  Speaker 3: All right? He dog good stuff, Buddy, good stuff. We
• 32:31
  Speaker 3: appreciate the guessing game from e dog right there. You know,
• 32:34
  Speaker 3: here's one thing. Shout out to my guy Duke. He's
• 32:37
  Speaker 3: in upstate New York over there in Albany, New York.
• 32:40
  Speaker 3: He owns Duke's barbershop. But he told me this one time.
• 32:43
  Speaker 3: It got me thinking because of dog mentioning refrigerator Perry.
• 32:47
  Speaker 3: I thought he was crazy at the time, but over
• 32:49
  Speaker 3: the years, I'm like, you know what, that crazy Duke.
• 32:51
  Speaker 3: He's kind of onto something. He said, depending on your
• 32:56
  Speaker 3: body type as a fan, if you're gonna wear a jersey,
• 33:01
  Speaker 3: it has to be an athlete that has a comparable
• 33:04
  Speaker 3: body type to your own. Where he's like, he's like,
• 33:07
  Speaker 3: look like for me, I'm five eleven, one sixty five.
• 33:12
  Speaker 3: So according to Duke, he's like, you can't rock a
• 33:15
  Speaker 3: refrigerator Parry jersey. It just doesn't look right. It doesn't
• 33:19
  Speaker 3: look right at all for you to wear that guy's jersey.
• 33:22
  Speaker 3: And I'm like, what are you talking about, Duke, And
• 33:25
  Speaker 3: right after he said that, I was on my way.
• 33:27
  Speaker 3: I went to a random Cleveland Browns game and some
• 33:31
  Speaker 3: fan was wearing some jersey and he must have been
• 33:34
  Speaker 3: much smaller than the jersey. He was aware of the
• 33:37
  Speaker 3: guy that the jersey he was wearing. And I'm like, man,
• 33:39
  Speaker 3: Duke's kind of right. It does look weird. Do you
• 33:42
  Speaker 3: guys subscribe to this? You think Duke's out of his mind?
• 33:46
  Speaker 10: I think that's wild. I think it's kind of true, though. No,
• 33:50
  Speaker 10: women could never wear jerseys.
• 33:52
  Speaker 3: Well that's true, yeah, because.
• 33:53
  Speaker 8: I'm obviously not the size of any of these players.
• 33:56
  Speaker 8: So with that common sense, that doesn't make any sense
• 33:59
  Speaker 8: of it.
• 34:00
  Speaker 10: I'm trying to think of the jerseys I have.
• 34:01
  Speaker 8: I have a Reggie Bush jersey, so I mean, and
• 34:05
  Speaker 8: I'm kind of short.
• 34:06
  Speaker 3: Yeah, Like, you're not gonna be the same size, right, but.
• 34:10
  Speaker 8: You're never going to be maybe a couple more fat
• 34:12
  Speaker 8: sou sandwiches.
• 34:13
  Speaker 3: I don't think you need to be the same size,
• 34:15
  Speaker 3: you know, just like whatever the exchange rate is, you
• 34:19
  Speaker 3: know what I mean. Like, if you're okay, you're a girl,
• 34:22
  Speaker 3: you're a smaller girl and you're wearing like a Cooper
• 34:26
  Speaker 3: Cup jersey or something, you know what I mean, like
• 34:28
  Speaker 3: or an NFL quarterback, I don't think it's gonna look
• 34:31
  Speaker 3: weird at all.
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  Speaker 10: Justin Herbert, like Manzi has a Justin Herbert jersey.
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  Speaker 8: It's yeah, that's like the same idea if I buy
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  Speaker 8: a Travis Kelcey thing, I have to grow a beard
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  Speaker 8: on my face.
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  Speaker 3: Like that sounds ridiculous, right, Yeah, Well that's just his theory.
• 34:46
  Speaker 3: I mean, you don't have to subscribe to it, you know.
• 34:48
  Speaker 3: But I thought it was out of his mind at first,
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  Speaker 3: and after a little while, I'm like, eh, makes a
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  Speaker 3: little bit more sense than I originally thought. I'll put
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  Speaker 3: it that way, all right. We'll get to boys to
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  Speaker 3: This current NFL quarterback is part of a w NBA
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  Speaker 3: I game? Right away? Man, all these features, you're really
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  Speaker 3: in honor of Big Ben Mallor, you know he does
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  Speaker 3: who am I Game? I right across this nugget and
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  Speaker 3: thought of militia over here. You know, so we're looking
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  Speaker 3: for a quarterback that is part of a w NBA
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  Speaker 3: ownership group. Now this is for an expansion team. We're
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  Speaker 3: looking for an expansion franchise over here, and this quarterback
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  Speaker 3: is part of the investment group. He's part of ownership
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  Speaker 3: over here. So we got a couple of guesses over here.
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  Speaker 3: Let's see Andy, he guesses Joshua Dobbs. I like that.
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  Speaker 3: I got to interview josh Dobbs way back when this
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  Speaker 3: is right when he got before he got drafted. Incredibly
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  Speaker 3: nice guy.
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  Speaker 8: Are you flexing on us right now?
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  Speaker 3: I don't mean to be. Do you think I am?
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  Speaker 2: Though?
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  Speaker 10: Lorena softbrag right there? Humble bragg.
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  Speaker 3: Well, I just made think of it. He was super nice,
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  Speaker 3: very nice guy, Freddy says to Shaun Watson. Okay, let's see,
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  Speaker 3: let's scroll down. Let's see any more guesses around here.
• 37:54
  Speaker 3: I gotta circle back to these tweets. We got some
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  Speaker 3: One guy just wrote, Brian, you are Fidel Castro. Who
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  Speaker 3: that's it? Okay. Big Lou checks in and says Lorena's
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  Speaker 10: I love me a good Tammy. In Montana.
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  Speaker 3: That's right.
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  Speaker 10: I heard I owned lots of cows up in Montana.
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  Speaker 10: Lots and lots and lots of cows.
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  Speaker 3: Mallard prop checks in and says E Fogg for the
• 38:25
  Speaker 3: who am I game? It would actually be the quarterback
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  Speaker 3: who is part of a w NBA ownership group for
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  Speaker 3: an expansion franchise. That would be Lions quarterback Jared Goff.
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  Speaker 3: Who how about that?
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  Speaker 6: Yeah?
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  Speaker 3: So, if you didn't see the news today, WNBA will
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  Speaker 3: be expanding to eighteen teams over the next five years.
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  Speaker 3: So Cleveland is going to have an expansion team in
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  Speaker 3: twenty twenty eight. Oh yeah, then Detroit will be in
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  Speaker 3: twenty nine. That's the franchise that Jared Goff is a
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  Speaker 3: and he's part of the ownership group. And then in
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  Speaker 3: twenty thirty they'll have one in Philadelphia. I'll just tell
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  Speaker 3: you this. We're gonna have two more expansion teams in
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  Speaker 3: the WNBA next year in twenty six they'll be in
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  Speaker 3: Toronto and Portland. So we're gonna have five more teams
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  Speaker 3: over the next five years.
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  Speaker 10: Do we have enough fans of WNBA for that?
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  Speaker 3: I don't know if we have enough players, you know,
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  Speaker 3: any players? First and then the fans Lorena, you know where. Look,
• 39:30
  Speaker 3: I watched the WNBA a lot. That's it's probably gonna
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  Speaker 3: be a drop right there, and it'll be used against me,
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  Speaker 3: you know, from time to time. But I do. I
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  Speaker 3: love basketball. I bet on the WNBA and surprisingly maybe
• 39:44
  Speaker 3: to some I'll watch it when I'm not even betting
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  Speaker 3: on it, I'll just watch and I'll tell you there
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  Speaker 3: are a lot of games where it is a rough watch.
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  Speaker 3: Okay rough There are missed layups all the time, there
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  Speaker 3: are turnovers galore. I just five more teams. There are
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  Speaker 3: a lot of games it's a rough watch. Right now,
• 40:04
  Speaker 3: you get five more teams. I don't know. I don't
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  Speaker 3: know if the talent is gonna be there league wide
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  Speaker 3: for it to be a great product. But hey, the
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  Speaker 3: w's come a long way. The interest is up, the
• 40:17
  Speaker 3: ratings are up, the TV money is in, so some
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  Speaker 3: of the money is up. Hopefully it'll be profitable sometime soon.
• 40:23
  Speaker 3: That's not a shot, that's a real statement. So the
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  Speaker 3: arrows pointed up. They're trying to take advantage of it
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  Speaker 3: all right, coming up next, Although we've come