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Knicks Continue to Dominate, Anthony Edwards Returns for T-Wolves to Spoil Spurs at Home · The Daily Play With Joy Taylor

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  Speaker 1: Hey, everyone, Welcome to The Daily Play with Joy Taylor.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks so much for joining us. Make sure you hit
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  Speaker 1: Joy Taylor. The NBA Playoffs are in full swing and
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  Speaker 1: we are now in the second round and the Knicks
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  Speaker 1: blew the doors off the Sixers in Game one. Both
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  Speaker 1: teams had closed out their first round series with three
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  Speaker 1: straight wins. But the Knicks are supposed to be here
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  Speaker 1: and they show that on run Day, Brunson led all
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  Speaker 1: scorers with thirty five points, while no Sixers players were
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  Speaker 1: able to score twenty or more. Nick Nurse said quote,
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  Speaker 1: I thought it was physical. I didn't think we handled
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  Speaker 1: it great. We're going to have to handle it better.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I would say so. One.
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  Speaker 1: Thirty seven to ninety eight is not how you want
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  Speaker 1: to open a series, and it's looking like this might
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  Speaker 1: be a six game series at best. I don't want
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  Speaker 1: to overreact to Game one. I do think the Knicks
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  Speaker 1: are better than the Sixers, and they were at home.
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  Speaker 2: I think the Knicks will take this.
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  Speaker 1: Back to Philly, up to oh and then we will
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  Speaker 1: see what the Sixers are really made of.
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  Speaker 2: I do want to see what the Sixers look like.
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  Speaker 2: On their home court. Listen, I don't think they're going
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  Speaker 2: to get one against the Knicks.
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  Speaker 1: Thirty nine points is the second largest playoff win in
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  Speaker 1: franchise history.
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  Speaker 2: The only larger one was that absolute.
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  Speaker 1: Demolition of the Hawks in that fifty one point win
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  Speaker 1: in Game six. They are the first team in NBA
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  Speaker 1: history to win three straight playoff games by twenty five points. So,
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  Speaker 1: needless to say, they're playing very dominant basketball right now. Again,
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  Speaker 1: I think this will go six, but I don't think
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  Speaker 1: that the Sixers are going to steal one on the road,
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  Speaker 1: certainly not playing the way that they played on Monday night.
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  Speaker 1: They're going to have to bring something a little bit
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  Speaker 1: different for the Knicks. And Listen, I was a doubter
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  Speaker 1: in the first series, and why shouldn't I be. They
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  Speaker 1: didn't have a great series. They closed out strong, but
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  Speaker 1: it was probably longer than everyone expected it to be,
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  Speaker 1: and the way that they took care of the Hawks
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  Speaker 1: in the end, we can all see that they stumbled
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  Speaker 1: a bit and maybe they're just getting into their flow now.
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  Speaker 2: I don't want to overreact to one game, but.
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  Speaker 1: They are beating their opponents dominantly. They have scored one
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  Speaker 1: hundred and twenty five plus points in three straight games.
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  Speaker 1: They are tied for the second longest streak in NBA
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  Speaker 1: playoff history. The nineteen eighty seven Lakers had a four
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  Speaker 1: game streak. So they are putting up a lot of points.
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  Speaker 1: They are winning in dominant fashion are the Knicks, and
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  Speaker 1: I don't know if the Sixers have enough to match
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  Speaker 1: that offensively, So we will see how this goes in
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  Speaker 1: Game two, which will be on Wednesday night at seven
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  Speaker 1: pm Eastern. So the real game was the opening of
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  Speaker 1: the Wolves and Spurs series, which looks like this is
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  Speaker 1: going to be a spectacular series overall. I think we've
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  Speaker 1: gotten a really great NBA postseason so far, some really
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  Speaker 1: great matchups, some really big blowouts, some longer series than
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  Speaker 1: we expected.
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  Speaker 2: This matchup is something serious.
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  Speaker 1: There's a lot of different story lines going on here.
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  Speaker 1: But opening game, Victor woman Yama set the record for
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  Speaker 1: blocks in a playoff game, but somehow the Wolves stole
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  Speaker 1: the win. Wemby finished with twelve blocks and Spurs still lost.
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  Speaker 1: Anthony Edwards raised the level in his early return from
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  Speaker 1: the knee injury. Just nine days before Monday Night's game,
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  Speaker 1: he had eighteen points off the bench as one of
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  Speaker 1: the six Wolves in double figures. Mike Conley called Edwards
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  Speaker 1: my hero for the quick comeback, and on the defensive end,
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  Speaker 1: Rudy Gobert and company kept Alydd on his former understudy,
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  Speaker 1: limiting Wemba to just eleven points. So the Wolves had
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  Speaker 1: this one locked up before a late Spurs comeback. So
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  Speaker 1: the Spurs decided not to call a timeout, which I
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  Speaker 1: don't understand. You have the timeout, call a play. This
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  Speaker 1: has been a physical game, back and forth. Both teams
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  Speaker 1: have had ants for each other. Why are you going
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  Speaker 1: to just run it out when you have a timeout,
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  Speaker 1: drop a play. The postseason is for coaching. The postseason
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  Speaker 1: is for strategy. The postseason is for adjustments and matchups.
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  Speaker 1: Call a timeout, but head coach Miss Johnson said it
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  Speaker 1: felt like they weren't organized and there wasn't enough time
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  Speaker 1: for us to push the ball and get a look.
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  Speaker 1: Julian had a fly by. I got a three pointer
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  Speaker 1: and rhythm the shot.
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  Speaker 2: It was great. I hope he shoots it every time.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe you drop a play and you end up getting
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  Speaker 1: that shot every time, but it does feel better for
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  Speaker 1: you in that moment to.
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  Speaker 2: Take a pause, take a beat.
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  Speaker 1: Remove the frantic energy of getting the rebounds and just
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  Speaker 1: going down the court. So I don't really love that
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  Speaker 1: he didn't call the time out if you had it.
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  Speaker 1: And I really feel like we saw a little bit
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  Speaker 1: of the Spurs and experience, and that seems to be
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  Speaker 1: what played out in this game. Rudy Gobert, you can
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  Speaker 1: feel all you want about him, but he's an incredible
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  Speaker 1: defensive player.
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  Speaker 2: He has incredibly experienced. The team, the Wolves.
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  Speaker 1: They are seasons in the playoffs and they're facing a
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  Speaker 1: Spurs team who are looking like the future of the
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  Speaker 1: NBA but are still catching up in the experience department.
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  Speaker 1: Together as a unit, so we are really excited about
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  Speaker 1: this matchup.
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  Speaker 2: We're excited to watch.
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  Speaker 1: This for the next you know, decade Anthony Edwards and Wemby.
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  Speaker 1: But yeah, experience matters in the postseason matchups matter. Like
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  Speaker 1: I said, coaching adjustments matter.
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  Speaker 2: This is when.
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  Speaker 1: Everything shrinks, everything comes becomes precise. Experience kicks in. You
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  Speaker 1: want players that know what to do in certain moments,
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  Speaker 1: and you want coaches that know what to do in
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  Speaker 1: certain moments. So I still think this is going to
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  Speaker 1: be a long series, and I do think that this
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  Speaker 1: is going to be one of the more exciting series
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  Speaker 1: that we've watched in a long time. We're all looking
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  Speaker 1: forward to seeing what the Spurs can do. And overall
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  Speaker 1: this was this was a great game. I mean, this
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  Speaker 1: was a blow for blow, heavyweight matchup. Everyone had an
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  Speaker 1: answer for everything until the last minute.
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  Speaker 2: Of the and that is in.
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  Speaker 1: The last play of the game, and that's really what
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  Speaker 1: it comes down to. So the Wolves being able to
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  Speaker 1: steal one on the road with Anthony Edwards coming off
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  Speaker 1: the bench is incredible and Rudy Gobert was great and
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  Speaker 1: that's going to be a matchup that is going to
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  Speaker 1: play out throughout this series. If everyone can stay healthy,
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  Speaker 1: this is going to be an incredible, incredible series. Game
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  Speaker 1: two is Wednesday nights at San Antonio.
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  Speaker 2: So I also wanted to get a little NFL in here.
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  Speaker 1: There's been some speculations circling around c J Stroud this
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  Speaker 1: offseason the Texans may want to move on from their
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  Speaker 1: star quarterback. This week, Texan CEO Kyle McNair attempted to
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  Speaker 1: clear the air, saying of the contract talks, those communications
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  Speaker 1: are behind the scenes, but were fully committed to CJ.
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  Speaker 2: They have Stroud locked up.
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  Speaker 1: Through next year's season on a club option.
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  Speaker 2: But my opinion on the c J.
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  Speaker 1: Stroud situation, and really any young quarterback contract, is that
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  Speaker 1: you always want to get it done early.
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  Speaker 2: If you know that this is your guy, don't dilly dally.
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  Speaker 2: This is not a dailly dally situation. He is your
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  Speaker 2: franchise quarterback.
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  Speaker 1: People are absolutely starved for franchise quarterbacks. There's still conversations
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  Speaker 1: about Aaron Rodgers getting a job. That's ridiculous. He's holding
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  Speaker 1: the Steelers hostage. People will do a lot of things
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  Speaker 1: to get a franchise quarterback. And you have one, and
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  Speaker 1: c J. Stroud is great. He's twenty one and eighteen
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  Speaker 1: in his career. He has a three and three playoff record.
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  Speaker 1: He's been winning a playoff game every year since he's
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  Speaker 1: been a pro.
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  Speaker 2: That is important.
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  Speaker 1: He has struggled mightily with having and he hasn't struggled.
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  Speaker 1: They have struggled with health issues having healthy wide receivers.
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  Speaker 2: Injuries have been a huge problem for them.
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  Speaker 1: They obviously have an incredible defense and if they can
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  Speaker 1: put it all together, they are a team that absolutely
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  Speaker 1: could win a championship. If that's the case, and that's
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  Speaker 1: what you're saying about your quarterback, sign him and sign
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  Speaker 1: him early. Always get it done early, because the price
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  Speaker 1: will always go up. The next person that gets the
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  Speaker 1: deal is going to drive the price up. You don't
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  Speaker 1: want to go into seasons with the potential conversation about
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  Speaker 1: anything to do with your quarterbacks contract. This is not
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  Speaker 1: a situation that you need to question if he is
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  Speaker 1: the future, he absolutely is. On the open market, he
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  Speaker 1: would be off gone instantaneously. There are so many teams
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  Speaker 1: that would call and back up the brinks truck to
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  Speaker 1: get him. He's an incredible player. He is a franchise player,
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  Speaker 1: and pay him early and get it done. Always lock
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  Speaker 1: them up early. If you know he's your guy, do
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  Speaker 1: it early. Because quarterback contracts only become more expensive. You're
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  Speaker 1: only going to put yourself behind Yes, it will cost
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  Speaker 1: a lot now, in two years, it's going to be
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  Speaker 1: a bargain. That's how it works every single time. So
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  Speaker 1: there's nothing at dilly dally about. I've said dilly dali
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  Speaker 1: a lot, but that's just the truth. Lock them up,
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  Speaker 1: get it done, and do not drag this conversation on.
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  Speaker 1: It makes no sense to do that whatsoever. Thanks for
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