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Terminello's Take Previews the NFL Season - Lindor for MVP? - Remembering The Munich Massacre With Alex Garrett and Lou Terminello 9-5-24 · OneLegUpAlex Sports

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Speaker 1: Here's your host, Ales Garrett. Well, you know you hear
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Speaker 1: that sounds you know what that means. It's NFL season.
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Speaker 2: I mean, I thought we were just talking about baseball
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Speaker 2: Memorial Day. Now we're in the fall. Terminielo State, lou Terminela.
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Speaker 2: How fast did this year go? That we are on
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Speaker 2: NFL Kickoff watch about an hour and a half away.
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Speaker 2: Well where did time go?
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Speaker 1: Louis Alex Garrett? Time flies? There is no true cliche
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Speaker 1: then time flies. And good to be back with you
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Speaker 1: for the start of another NFL season. Tonight between the
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Speaker 1: Ravens and the Kansas City Chiefs should be could be
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Speaker 1: a preview of the AFC Championship game.
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Speaker 2: Of course, last year was interesting, as I'm not mistaken,
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Speaker 2: the Lions actually ran out of Arrowhead with that win.
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Speaker 2: And now look the Ravens. They're going with Lamar Jackson.
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Speaker 2: It's going to be a fun matchup. It's of course
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Speaker 2: going to be that MVP candidate thing already between Lamar
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Speaker 2: and Mahomes. But you gotta think, once again, they're heavily
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Speaker 2: favored to you know what, three Peter four pete, what
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Speaker 2: are we talking about? If they wanted to row, I'm
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Speaker 2: losing County.
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Speaker 1: Well, I think that you know the storylines in the
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Speaker 1: NFL this year. Obviously number one is going to be
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Speaker 1: the can a Chiefs win three Super Bowls in a row?
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Speaker 1: And I think they can. I know this is something
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Speaker 1: that a lot of pro people probably didn't see, but
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Speaker 1: a bunch of NFL players, I don't know. I don't
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Speaker 1: know if it was the entire league, but it was
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Speaker 1: a survey of NFL players counting down the top one
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Speaker 1: hundred players in the league. And they had I Reek
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Speaker 1: Kill as number one, and they had Lamar Jackson as
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Speaker 1: number two. And they had Patrick Mahomes, who I would
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Speaker 1: have picked number one without even blinking an eye, at
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Speaker 1: number four. So I could tell you one thing. The
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Speaker 1: Chiefs aren't going to be complacent. And Patrick Mahomes is
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Speaker 1: not going to be complacent. Don't think he doesn't know that.
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Speaker 1: And not only tonight won't he be fired up, but
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Speaker 1: he'll be fired up for the whole season. I mean,
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Speaker 1: the Chiefs are still in my estimation there, they're the
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Speaker 1: favorite team. I think they have a great, great, great
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Speaker 1: chance to get to the Super Bowl for the third
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Speaker 1: straight year and win it. Now, of course, anything can
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Speaker 1: happen in the NFL more than in the other league.
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Speaker 1: A bounce of a crazy bounce of football and injury.
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Speaker 1: And if Mahomes gets injured, the Chiefs are done. So
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Speaker 1: so we'll see. But Baltimore is very good. They're always
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Speaker 1: very good. They lost three guys on their offensive line.
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Speaker 1: That should be uh, that should be something that we
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Speaker 1: look at. But tonight's an interesting game and uh, I'm
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Speaker 1: looking forward to it. All right.
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Speaker 2: Well, you know that AFC West is is a little
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Speaker 2: more reformed because they have Jim Harbor out there with
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Speaker 2: the Chargers. You've got a a Raiders team. I think
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Speaker 2: that actually locked in with Antonio Pears to be their
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Speaker 2: head coach. I mean, you've got a lot of changes
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Speaker 2: out there in the AFC West. I think it does
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Speaker 2: make it more competitive. I think I know Zach Wilson
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Speaker 2: struggles here, but the Broncos also trying to level up.
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Speaker 1: I don't know whether eland Zach Wilson is. You know,
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Speaker 1: is the third string quarterback? Bow Knicks had a great preseason.
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Speaker 1: They drafted the number one overall. He's going to be starting.
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Speaker 1: And I think that's the second storyline in the NFL
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Speaker 1: coming up. There's gonna be three starting quarterbacks who are
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Speaker 1: drafted in the first round. That's going to start in
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Speaker 1: Week one, bow Knicks with with Caleb Williams, which with Chicago,
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Speaker 1: who I think is going to be very interesting to watch,
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Speaker 1: and Jaden Daniels with the Commanders. The last time this
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Speaker 1: many quarterbacks started in Week one, that were five rookie
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Speaker 1: quarterbacks in twenty twelve, Ryan Tannehill with Tennessee, Andrew Luck
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Speaker 1: of Indianapolis, Russell Wilson with Seattle and he was drafted
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Speaker 1: in the third round and he's still he still started
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Speaker 1: Week one. And if you remember, Seattle had signed Matt Flynn,
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Speaker 1: who was Roger's backup in Green Bay, to a long
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Speaker 1: term contract at Big Numbers. Then Robert Griffin third also
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Speaker 1: started in twenty twelve and he won the Rookie of
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Speaker 1: the Year. He actually beat out Andrew Luck and the
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Speaker 1: little known Brandon Wheaton who started for the Cleveland Browns
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Speaker 1: who will play at Oklahoma State and was like twenty
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Speaker 1: six twenty seven years old when he when he graduated.
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Speaker 1: So it's gonna be interesting. We'll get these rookie quarterbacks.
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Speaker 1: So that's something that we may not remember, but five
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Speaker 1: rookie quarterbacks start in twenty twelve and three are gonna
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Speaker 1: start on Sunday, so that's something to keep it.
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Speaker 2: Actually, Caleb, I mean, he looks good in practice and
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Speaker 2: in these preseason games. And the Bears, yeah, I think
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Speaker 2: because of the fact that, you know, the Vikings QB
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Speaker 2: situation with the JJ McCarthy injury, it's a little shaky
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Speaker 2: right now. And of course you know they're like Kirk
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Speaker 2: Cousins go and all that. But the Bears look like
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Speaker 2: a favorite, and I feel like it's been ages since
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Speaker 2: I ever said that.
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Speaker 1: I think that might be a little strong in my opinion.
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Speaker 1: I think they're gonna be very good. I think it's
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Speaker 1: gonna be very watchable. Can they contend for a playoff spot? Yeah?
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Speaker 1: Maybe I would say they might, you know so, But
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Speaker 1: I think Minnesota. They're well coached and Sam Donald isn't great,
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Speaker 1: He isn't bad middle of the road, but the Minnesota coach,
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Speaker 1: Kevin O'Connell's a pretty good quarterback coach. So we'll see
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Speaker 1: what happens.
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Speaker 2: Uh.
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Speaker 1: I think that. I don't think the Viking is going
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Speaker 1: to be terrible, so we'll see. You know. They open
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Speaker 1: up here in New Jersey against the Giants on Sunday,
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Speaker 1: a game that is very winnable for the Giants if
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Speaker 1: they're looking to get off to a fair start. But
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Speaker 1: it's a very very interesting NFL season and Alex, the
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Speaker 1: new kickoff rules are going to be are going to
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Speaker 1: be something that probably a lot of people don't realize
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Speaker 1: until they watch the NFL game this weekend. I don't
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Speaker 1: know how many people watch preseason games because nothing is
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Speaker 1: worse than the NFL preseason. But these new kickoff rules,
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Speaker 1: they're trying to increase the number of kickoff returns. Last
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Speaker 1: year was an all time low at just under twenty
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Speaker 1: two percent. In the Super Bowl, there was thirteen kickoffs,
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Speaker 1: all touchbacks. So what they're gonna do is the ball
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Speaker 1: is going to be kicked off like it did last
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Speaker 1: year from the thirty five yard line, and they'll be
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Speaker 1: ten players from the kicking team that's going to be
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Speaker 1: lined up at the forty yard line, not there forty,
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Speaker 1: Alex on the opposition's forty. And the receiving team is
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Speaker 1: going to be have nine players on the thirty yard line,
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Speaker 1: so they're only gonna be five yards apart, and then
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Speaker 1: they'll have the two the two receivers back and if
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Speaker 1: if you kick it through the end zone. It's brought
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Speaker 1: back to the thirty yard line, not to twenty five
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Speaker 1: as in the pass.
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Speaker 2: If you don't, well, that's a big one because I
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Speaker 2: always thought these guys were getting away with murder just
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Speaker 2: kicking it in the end zone, no great percussion. So
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Speaker 2: now you're forcing these guys to kick it before the
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Speaker 2: you know, the end zone. That's that's kind of a
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Speaker 2: big deal.
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Speaker 1: Though it is a big deal. There's there is something
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Speaker 1: they call the landing zone. It's from the goal line
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Speaker 1: to the twenty yard line. If if when a kicker
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Speaker 1: kicks off, if he's short of the landing zone, and say,
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Speaker 1: if it bounces short of the landing zone, not even
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Speaker 1: out of bounds, uh if even if it's in play
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Speaker 1: the receiving the receiving team gets the ball uh at
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Speaker 1: at the at the forty yard line. So uh you
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Speaker 1: know it's it's gonna be crazy. So it has to hit.
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Speaker 1: You gotta hit the twenty and if it you know,
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Speaker 1: if it if it goes through the end zone, like
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Speaker 1: I said, back to the thirty, but you can't down it.
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Speaker 1: You have to down it. You can't just let the
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Speaker 1: ball roll through around the end zone like last year,
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Speaker 1: if at the end zone, they automatic blue were dead
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Speaker 1: because they were trying to trying to save guys from
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Speaker 1: being injured. So it has to be returned if you
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Speaker 1: don't pick it up and it's in the end zone,
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Speaker 1: if the receiving team doesn't pick it up, but the
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Speaker 1: kicking team picks it up, that's a touchdown.
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Speaker 2: So well, we're gonna see, as they say, see how
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Speaker 2: it all shakes out on the field, because what you're
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Speaker 2: talking about, I think we have to see it to
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Speaker 2: know exactly what we're saying. But I think you've done
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Speaker 2: a damn good job. And i'd love to see Tom
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Speaker 2: Brady in his first booth appearance trying to analyze that slowly.
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Speaker 2: Have about that for you?
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Speaker 1: Well again, yeah, well Brady, Brady's going to be able
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Speaker 1: to understand the rule. But again, you could either you're
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Speaker 1: either going to get that to twenty, the thirty or
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Speaker 1: the forty yard line, depending on on what happens.
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Speaker 2: But if this was more about entertainment, not the safety side,
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Speaker 2: right or was it a mix of it.
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Speaker 1: Was more about entertainment, that's really what it was.
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Speaker 2: Because I mean, look, we've seen time and time again
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Speaker 2: in the last few years. No return the kicker freely
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Speaker 2: just kicking the end zone, and quite frankly, if you're
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Speaker 2: hitting it through the uprights, you know they should really
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Speaker 2: be flagged for that. I'm sorry, I'm glad there's some repercussion.
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Speaker 1: Yeah. Well, again they're looking to put the kick off
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Speaker 1: back into the game, and again just recapping touchbacks in
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Speaker 1: the end zone will start five yards further upfield. If
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Speaker 1: the ball lands within the landing zone and becomes a touchback,
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Speaker 1: it's the twenty if the if it's if it fails
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Speaker 1: to be sure, if it fails to get to the
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Speaker 1: twenty yard line, which my god, a kick will have
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Speaker 1: to just totally is kicking, it's the forty yard line.
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Speaker 1: And so it's.
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Speaker 2: Uh, I can't see a windy Danny or the Buffalo,
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Speaker 2: Green Bay or Chicago and that happening.
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Speaker 1: Well, I'm glad you bring up a windy day in
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Speaker 1: Buffalo or Green Bay or Chicago. Because the NFL is
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Speaker 1: gonna have a twelfth player. No, not a twelfth player
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Speaker 1: like the Canadian football. He has for every play. But
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Speaker 1: if you have to hold it for the kicker to
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Speaker 1: kick off, like we've seen in the past, he will
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Speaker 1: hold it. And when a kicker kicks it, he will
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Speaker 1: tear to the sidelines. He can't be involved in the play.
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Speaker 1: He can't be one of the guys making the tackle.
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Speaker 1: So the twelfth man on a windy day is that
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Speaker 1: just to hold the ball so the kicker can kick
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Speaker 1: it off.
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Speaker 2: Well, you're saying they used to hold the ball and
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Speaker 2: make the play as well or be involved in the player.
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Speaker 1: Oh no, no, it was only eleven players.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, So really instead of deducing an extra
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Speaker 2: guy to hold it, they're adding this. I get what
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Speaker 2: you're saying.
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Speaker 1: Now there's going to be a twelfth player to hold it,
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Speaker 1: hold it for the kicker like we've seen on windy days.
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Speaker 2: Oh my god, loud, that's the perfect opportunity for a
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Speaker 2: fan to do that, just you know, bring him from
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Speaker 2: the crowd to do that.
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Speaker 1: Literally on the field and do that. Now, there's a
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Speaker 1: big change with on side kicks in my opinion, you
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Speaker 1: can only on side kick if you're trailing, and it
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Speaker 1: could only be done in the fourth quarter, and you
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Speaker 1: have to alert the officials so they know so they
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Speaker 1: know that that's coming, and you can and it's only
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Speaker 1: in the fourth quarter. So we let's go back to
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Speaker 1: Super Bowl forty four halftime Indianapolis ten in New Orleans six.
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Speaker 1: Thomas Moore Stead, who is now the Jets punter and
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Speaker 1: has had a great NFL kicking career, kicked off to
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Speaker 1: start the second half for New Orleans. They on side
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Speaker 1: kicked it. They recovered the on side kick.
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Speaker 2: They caught the most famous on side kick in history
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Speaker 2: in the NFL.
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Speaker 1: Well, if this rule stays, and remember these rule changes
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Speaker 1: are only for one year, so if they don't like
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Speaker 1: what they see, they can change these rules again. But yeah,
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Speaker 1: that's probably the most famous on sidekick, especially.
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Speaker 2: If Chean Payne had a lot of guts to do
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Speaker 2: that and it turned out, yes, he'd be a turning
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Speaker 2: point for the whole game. I think Breeze got back
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Speaker 2: on track after that. It was very very well.
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Speaker 1: Just think if the Cult recovered and they would have
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Speaker 1: to bail in midfield. You're giving Peyton Manning in a
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Speaker 1: high powered cold offense half a field. They were already
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Speaker 1: up ten to six. They go ahead seventeen o six.
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Speaker 1: Maybe that's the game. Well, tell us about the other changes.
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Speaker 1: I mean, I know we're dealing with offensive defensive pass
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Speaker 1: interference flags. That was a couple of years ago.
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Speaker 2: But I understand that a lot more plays can be
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Speaker 2: reviewed as well this year. Is that correct?
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Speaker 1: Well? As far as as reviews, there's going to be
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Speaker 1: an additional an additional review for each team. So if
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Speaker 1: if you've missed on your review, say tonight, Baltimore challenges
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Speaker 1: right away in the first quarter and it's not overturned,
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Speaker 1: but they review. Baltimore wants a review in the second
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Speaker 1: quarter for a play, they get a third, So you
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Speaker 1: can go one for two and you can get a third,
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Speaker 1: which in the past you only got two. So that's
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Speaker 1: that's a big change, that third And I like it
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Speaker 1: that that third review for each team that's possible. Of course,
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Speaker 1: in the last two minutes in overtime it will be
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Speaker 1: a booth review. So uh, that's that's a big change.
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Speaker 2: Did I miss something? I felt like a couple of
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Speaker 2: years in a road here we've been complaining about whether
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Speaker 2: past interference should be reviewed and then I don't unnecessary
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Speaker 2: roughness was also involved with this, right, isn't that reviewable now?
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Speaker 1: Well? The passing eperance was for one year, but as
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Speaker 1: far as passion, as far as roughing the passer, I
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Speaker 1: think they talked about it, but I'm not sure it.
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Speaker 1: I don't think it.
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Speaker 2: Passed because I know that was one of the big
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Speaker 2: things everybody was talking about the end of last year.
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Speaker 2: You know, these things have to change because you know
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Speaker 2: a guy could be literally laying on the ground from
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Speaker 2: one low push and that was roughing the passer.
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Speaker 1: Anyway, what the thing with roughing the passer? It's not
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Speaker 1: going to be the classic roughing the passer. I think
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Speaker 1: it's more about when a player, when a quarterback is
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Speaker 1: hit going to the sideline. And I'm sure on the
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Speaker 1: game tonight they'll talk about they'll talk about that, but
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Speaker 1: I don't think it's the classic roughing the pass or
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Speaker 1: the of the player in the pocket and getting getting
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Speaker 1: uh uh hit late. So that's it. And then and
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Speaker 1: they're also going to penalize now what they call the
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Speaker 1: uh uh the hip tackle. The hip hip tackle when
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Speaker 1: the defense defensive player pulls an offensive player down, either
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Speaker 1: running back or receiver or a quarterback where the offensive
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Speaker 1: players legs get pinned under the defensive player and a
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Speaker 1: defensive player falls on top of them like from behind
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Speaker 1: or on the side. That will now be a penalty.
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Speaker 1: So that I mean, with all.
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Speaker 2: These changes, who's going to benefit which team do you
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Speaker 2: think could really benefit from all this or is it
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Speaker 2: a level playing field When it comes.
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Speaker 1: To that, No, I think it's a level playing field.
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Speaker 1: I mean I I I really don't see any team
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Speaker 1: gaining an advantage, uh with these new rules, Lou.
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Speaker 2: I gotta say that there's a lot of about tonight
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Speaker 2: about the same game tomorrow between Green Bay and Philadelphia.
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Speaker 2: But you know, I kind of like it that the
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Speaker 2: Giants are more localized, like they're having a big fan
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Speaker 2: fest tomorrow. But if you're outside the country, you would
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Speaker 2: have no idea. Because the Giants, in their one hundred
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Speaker 2: season of football are flying under the radar, and God
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Speaker 2: bless them, I think that works for Actually, I'd be like,
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Speaker 2: they're very under the radar so far.
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Speaker 1: I agree with that. I would agree with the under
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Speaker 1: the radar. Now they are going to Berlin to play
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Speaker 1: the Carolina Panthers.
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Speaker 2: True, but the media hype is not on them, which
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Speaker 2: I think it benefits them a little bit.
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Speaker 1: Oh well, well question, And I mean I think the
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Speaker 1: Giants will be okay. They have a very workable schedule.
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Speaker 1: It's not horrible, I'm not I don't think they could
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Speaker 1: squeeze into that last playoff spot. But who knows. But
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Speaker 1: I don't think that. I don't think they're going to
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Speaker 1: be in the uh race for number one in next
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Speaker 1: year's NFL draft either. I think it will be between
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Speaker 1: seven and if everything goes right for them, nine wins.
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Speaker 1: If everything goes wrong for them, you know, five wins.
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Speaker 1: But they added John run In, they added great Van
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Speaker 1: van Routin to their offensive line.
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Speaker 2: And then there's unretiring from Elite Neighbors. A lot of
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Speaker 2: people are the thing ruffled by it. I mean, Ray Flaherty,
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Speaker 2: See you're in the history, you would know more about him.
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Speaker 1: Though they have the Flarerty family. John Mowray has the
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Speaker 1: Flarity family. They were good with it. I don't think
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Speaker 1: it's that big a deal, especially since the if the
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Speaker 1: if the Flaherty family put the kabash on it. They
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Speaker 1: were picked in another number. Elite Neighbors is going to
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Speaker 1: be a star, I think so. Yeah.
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Speaker 2: He did say he's healthy. I think he had some injury,
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Speaker 2: a little injury thing in the off season, right, But he's.
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Speaker 1: He's They were just they were just being precautious with
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Speaker 1: him in the preseason. In the preseason, he should be
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Speaker 1: he should be good. He gives Daniel Jones a target
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Speaker 1: uh to uh to find again, this is it for
19:10
Speaker 1: Daniel Jones. I mean, we'll see what happens, because the
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Speaker 1: Giants can get out of the contract. I believe at
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Speaker 1: the end of next year they can get out of
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Speaker 1: the contract. I'm almost sure if it would out. I mean,
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Speaker 1: there'll be some camp repercussions, but they could move on
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Speaker 1: from him.
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Speaker 2: But again, what you see in the in the offseason,
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Speaker 2: in the preseason games steer you away from what you
19:33
Speaker 2: were thinking toward the end of last year, which is
19:36
Speaker 2: Dabele needs to do something this year or it's it
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Speaker 2: for him, or do you feel like that's still the
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Speaker 2: case here?
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Speaker 1: No, I think I think that a lot of coaches
19:43
Speaker 1: are on the Both New York coaches solid more so
19:48
Speaker 1: than Dable are Definitely Sala's on the hot seat. Dable's
19:54
Speaker 1: on a potentially warm seat. Let's put it that way,
19:58
Speaker 1: because remember Bill bellcheckers out there, and I know we
20:02
Speaker 1: talked about this on the podcast earlier. He is very
20:09
Speaker 1: close to the marriage. He was a defensive coordinator on
20:12
Speaker 1: those two Super Bowl winning teams. He's got I have
20:17
Speaker 1: a feeling, even though he's gonna be pushing seventy four,
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Speaker 1: he's gonna want to coach again. I think it could
20:22
Speaker 1: be with the Giants. I think it could be with
20:24
Speaker 1: Dallas because and I think Dallas is gonna take a
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Speaker 1: step back. They won twelve games the last each of
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Speaker 1: the last three years, which is fantastic, but they crap
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Speaker 1: down the playoffs. I don't think they're winning twelve games
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Speaker 1: this year. They have a week running game. I just
20:42
Speaker 1: don't like the vibe. And they're gonna put the game
20:44
Speaker 1: on put the blame on Dak, But that's such nonsense.
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Speaker 1: Dak Prescott's a very good quarterback. The Dallas issues are are.
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Speaker 2: So different than just about and except the McCarthy systems
20:57
Speaker 2: not working for that, that's the whole Yeah.
21:00
Speaker 1: But again, any team would like to win twelve regular
21:04
Speaker 1: season games like McCarthey has done in multiple years. But
21:09
Speaker 1: if they if they don't go far into the playoffs
21:14
Speaker 1: this year, uh, you know, Belichick might be might be
21:21
Speaker 1: a candidate for a coaching job in Dallas. And don't
21:25
Speaker 1: say that he won't go to Dallas because Darry Jones
21:29
Speaker 1: sticks his finger in the pie. McCarthy went. Now, McCarthy's
21:33
Speaker 1: not on the level of Belichick. Parcels went. After he
21:36
Speaker 1: left the Jets and got healthy, he went and he
21:40
Speaker 1: was there four years. So it's it's it's gonna be
21:44
Speaker 1: interesting to see. McCarthy's definitely on the hot seat. Sala
21:48
Speaker 1: is definitely on the hot seat.
21:50
Speaker 2: Down the pike is also on the hot seat.
21:52
Speaker 1: Absolutely, Nick Sirianni's on a hot seat. I would say
21:56
Speaker 1: the two hottest seats are Sirianni and Sala.
21:59
Speaker 2: All Right, so I gotta ask you this because while
22:01
Speaker 2: we're on it, obviously the Jets actually open up against
22:04
Speaker 2: the team I was about to talk about. But with
22:07
Speaker 2: Brandon Nyuk, I felt like I was seeing Judge in
22:11
Speaker 2: tactics where he used the Steelers to get the Niners
22:15
Speaker 2: in line. Would you agree with that? It felt like
22:18
Speaker 2: I was watching the Judge free agency, the way he
22:21
Speaker 2: was fiddling around a little bit with both the Yankees
22:24
Speaker 2: and the Giants. Was doing the same with both of
22:26
Speaker 2: these Niners and Steelers teams.
22:28
Speaker 1: Well, k was smart. He didn't want to go through
22:31
Speaker 1: the grind of training camp. I know they talked about
22:35
Speaker 1: a trade with a Steelers. They talked about a trade
22:38
Speaker 1: with the Patriots. Brandon Nyuk did not want to go
22:41
Speaker 1: to either one of those teams that's for sure, the
22:44
Speaker 1: best offensive system, the best offensive coach in the league,
22:48
Speaker 1: Kyle Shanahan. Uh, Brandon Nyuk knows what's going on and
22:54
Speaker 1: he knows the best way for him to pile up
22:58
Speaker 1: those stats on a step act forty nine Ers team
23:02
Speaker 1: is to rejoin the forty nine ers, which he did
23:04
Speaker 1: and he got an alyx. He got the same money
23:06
Speaker 1: that they offered him six weeks earlier. So he again,
23:11
Speaker 1: a lot of these guys don't want to come to
23:12
Speaker 1: Camp UH and the forty nine ers are better with
23:15
Speaker 1: Brandon and Yuk in the UH, in the Burgundy and
23:19
Speaker 1: Gold than if he was playing for the Steals or
23:22
Speaker 1: the Patriots run in the NFC.
23:25
Speaker 2: They had quite a run last year and that you know,
23:29
Speaker 2: rematch against the Chiefs. What what differences should they make
23:34
Speaker 2: to actually win the big game this year if they're
23:36
Speaker 2: going to.
23:37
Speaker 1: They just I mean obviously they.
23:39
Speaker 2: Just they ran to the Chiefs. That was the other answer, right,
23:42
Speaker 2: I mean again.
23:44
Speaker 1: They lost two close games to the Chiefs. They lost
23:48
Speaker 1: an overtime to the Chiefs. It's a play or two there.
23:51
Speaker 1: There's not much you can do in a situation like that.
23:56
Speaker 1: When they lost the Chiefs a couple of years ago
23:59
Speaker 1: on thir and fifteen up ten, Richard Sherman, who tells
24:03
Speaker 1: everybody the greatest quarter cornerbacker to ever play in the NFL,
24:09
Speaker 1: gave up a catch on third and fifteen Chiefs score,
24:12
Speaker 1: and then Jimmy Garoppolo missus missus a touchdown pass. But
24:16
Speaker 1: it was it was not an easy touchdown pass. So
24:19
Speaker 1: I mean, if one of those things go their way,
24:21
Speaker 1: so it's it's different. I mean, these games are so close,
24:25
Speaker 1: and that's gonna be the toughest thing for the Chiefs
24:27
Speaker 1: as they tried a three pet things have gone their way.
24:31
Speaker 1: Stefan Diggs not catching that ball.
24:36
Speaker 2: I don't remind me of Allen throwing three times or
24:40
Speaker 2: actually four, I think in that final drive. I still
24:43
Speaker 2: understand the play call on that. But I know you
24:45
Speaker 2: like Allen and you're defending him on that. But he
24:48
Speaker 2: threw three times and the one to Diggs was at
24:51
Speaker 2: his feet.
24:52
Speaker 1: It's just well, dig Dick should have caught that ball.
24:57
Speaker 1: Dick should have caught that ball, and they missed. They
24:59
Speaker 1: missed a show field goal. And remember the players coming
25:03
Speaker 1: from the sideline, so it's not like where do they
25:05
Speaker 1: miss it?
25:05
Speaker 2: I think they missed it wide right.
25:06
Speaker 1: Again they did. They missed it wide right, and it
25:08
Speaker 1: was a short field goal, not like not like the
25:10
Speaker 1: one in nineteen ninety which was a long field goal.
25:12
Speaker 2: But actually, no mention this. The Bill's mafia. The whole
25:16
Speaker 2: fan base donated to the kicker because they felt bad.
25:19
Speaker 2: Do you remember that story? I do, so that was
25:23
Speaker 2: you know, they're not a holes up there. They have
25:27
Speaker 2: a heart output it that way.
25:29
Speaker 1: Well, they're tough fans. They're tough fans, but then they
25:32
Speaker 1: want to win. They've gone through a lot of heartache
25:35
Speaker 1: over the last thirty years.
25:36
Speaker 2: When and they're another team that thinks, well, I've got
25:38
Speaker 2: this prime quarterback, and we're going to see this again
25:40
Speaker 2: this year. Prime quarterbacks falling short. I think, you know,
25:45
Speaker 2: for Herbert, for Alan, for those that are just missing
25:49
Speaker 2: the mark.
25:50
Speaker 1: Well, only one could win, that's the thing, only one
25:54
Speaker 1: could win each year.
25:56
Speaker 2: But you started to see these prime quarterbacks really maybe
25:58
Speaker 2: feel the pressure a little more.
26:00
Speaker 1: Right, sure, of course, I mean Lamar Jackson has had
26:06
Speaker 1: terrible postseasons, terrible, and that there's gonna be a lot
26:10
Speaker 1: of pressure on them.
26:12
Speaker 2: Joe Burrow, I mean a lot of these other guys too. Now,
26:15
Speaker 2: let me ask you what came.
26:16
Speaker 1: With the ninety seconds of winning the Super Bowl?
26:18
Speaker 2: Yeah, yep, let me ask you about the Let me
26:22
Speaker 2: ask you about the AFC North, because I was a
26:25
Speaker 2: little shocked this week that they were sticking with Russell Wilson,
26:28
Speaker 2: who did not have a good year at all last
26:31
Speaker 2: year with Denver, but they're giving him a shout over Fields.
26:34
Speaker 2: What do you think they saw in Russell? Is it
26:37
Speaker 2: the veteran leadership that Field doesn't have yet? I mean,
26:40
Speaker 2: what why him to be the number one for these guys.
26:44
Speaker 1: The Pittsburgh steel is a probably as good an organization
26:47
Speaker 1: along with the both or more Ravens in the NFL.
26:51
Speaker 1: Mike Tomlins as good a coach as there is in
26:54
Speaker 1: the league. He knows his team. I don't know if
27:01
Speaker 1: Russell Wilson is going to be the quarterback the entire season,
27:03
Speaker 1: but he probably did the right thing by starting off
27:06
Speaker 1: with him, because, like what you said, veteran, veteran leadership,
27:10
Speaker 1: but it looks like physically Russell Wilson can't do it anymore.
27:13
Speaker 1: I'm sure I have a feeling Fields will be in
27:16
Speaker 1: there by midseason. I don't know when their buy is
27:20
Speaker 1: sometimes if they're buys in the middle of the season,
27:22
Speaker 1: sometimes a change is made there. The only thing is
27:25
Speaker 1: you can never underestimate the Steelers when you think they're done,
27:28
Speaker 1: they're not. No matter who the quarterback is, whether it's
27:32
Speaker 1: U Picket or what Mason Rudolph, they find a way
27:36
Speaker 1: to win games. They lose, they lose key players in
27:40
Speaker 1: key positions, and uh, they never they never crater. So
27:48
Speaker 1: I have a feeling Russell Wilson's there just for just
27:52
Speaker 1: for a short time. I don't think he's.
27:53
Speaker 2: Well, they're already saying, you know, uh, Fields is ready
27:57
Speaker 2: in case his calf for Wilson is not.
28:00
Speaker 1: Oh that's right, Yeah, that was an that was on
28:01
Speaker 1: the injury report today.
28:03
Speaker 2: Is not heal. So that's breaking new. As we're talking, Hey,
28:05
Speaker 2: you know another guy in that The other guy in
28:08
Speaker 2: this formula is Mike Tomlin. And I know I voiced
28:10
Speaker 2: my frustration to you. How do they keep him a coach? Sometimes?
28:14
Speaker 1: But he's a great coach, Alex, He's a great coach.
28:18
Speaker 1: He makes chicken sala out chicken feathers, he really does.
28:23
Speaker 2: And so he's not on the hot seat. You don't think, no,
28:26
Speaker 2: he is not.
28:26
Speaker 1: If he's on the hot seat. He'll be on a
28:29
Speaker 1: hot seat for fifteen minutes, and then some other NFL
28:31
Speaker 1: team will.
28:31
Speaker 2: High So where where is it? Just because the AFC
28:35
Speaker 2: North has become more competitive, is that why they have been.
28:39
Speaker 1: It's the best division in the NFL by far?
28:41
Speaker 2: I think they all had a winning record for the
28:43
Speaker 2: first time since nineteen thirty five.
28:45
Speaker 1: That's you are correct.
28:47
Speaker 2: Yeah, I know I might talk politics and all the
28:49
Speaker 2: other stuff, but I know my sports a little bit.
28:51
Speaker 2: He or Louis that's what you know.
28:52
Speaker 1: Your sports a lot. Alex Starrett, you know your sports.
28:56
Speaker 2: Well, and the and the other the other uh division,
29:01
Speaker 2: I feel like we haven't covered yet. We've covered the
29:03
Speaker 2: AFC East a little bit. We've covered the NFC East
29:06
Speaker 2: and the NFC North, NFC West.
29:10
Speaker 1: You know, Rams, the forty nine ers should win a division.
29:17
Speaker 1: I think the Rams are going to make the playoffs.
29:20
Speaker 1: The deeper team, the deeper, more quality teams are in
29:25
Speaker 1: the a FC this year. But San Francisco, Philadelphia, Detroit,
29:31
Speaker 1: the Rams should make the playoffs.
29:34
Speaker 2: And then you got hold on, let me reask that
29:35
Speaker 2: because I want to I want to phrase it a
29:37
Speaker 2: little differently. All right, So we've covered all that, But
29:40
Speaker 2: you know the other big game coming up, it's Sunday
29:43
Speaker 2: night golf versus Stafford in Detroit. Oh my goodness. They
29:49
Speaker 2: you know, for the primetime games. I think they scheduled
29:52
Speaker 2: well this this first week.
29:54
Speaker 1: They sure did. I can't I can't quibble with any
29:58
Speaker 1: of the games that putting on in prime time, and
30:02
Speaker 1: the NFL knows how to do it. I mean, it's
30:08
Speaker 1: gonna be interesting to see what the number is not
30:13
Speaker 1: on how many people be Washington night, and what.
30:17
Speaker 2: Are you looking for for Aaron Rodgers in his prime
30:19
Speaker 2: time restart. I mean, obviously the four snaps, the dramatic
30:23
Speaker 2: win on nine to eleven, and now they're on the
30:28
Speaker 2: coast to start out in San Francisco. But I feel
30:32
Speaker 2: like there's a lot riding on the first four snaps
30:34
Speaker 2: because of what happened. I don't know, I feel like
30:36
Speaker 2: there are gonna.
30:37
Speaker 1: Be microscope next week. Well every disappy takes will be
30:41
Speaker 1: under a microscope because with no quarterback, and this is
30:45
Speaker 1: not only with Aaron Rodgers, but with any team. You know,
30:50
Speaker 1: this is a quarterback league, and you don't have a quarterback,
30:55
Speaker 1: you're done. The Jets are loaded. The Jets roster is low.
31:01
Speaker 1: If the sports guards finally smile on the New York Jets,
31:05
Speaker 1: they can be playing well into the playoff season. Next
31:11
Speaker 1: year they can be and hopefully they will be playing
31:14
Speaker 1: what is it February ninth, February seventh this year at a
31:17
Speaker 1: Super Bowl down in New Orleans. The Jets are that good.
31:21
Speaker 1: But the pressure is on Sala, the pressures, the pressures
31:25
Speaker 1: on Nathaniel Hackett, less pressure because he has a real quarterback.
31:30
Speaker 1: I mean, the Jets won seven games each of the
31:33
Speaker 1: last few years with no quarterback, no quarterback.
31:37
Speaker 2: Garrett look like they have to get creative. And I
31:40
Speaker 2: gotta say getting creative is not the only coach that
31:45
Speaker 2: needs to be doing that. Apparently now the Yanks want
31:47
Speaker 2: to get creative with Holmes. I want to switch gears
31:49
Speaker 2: while I have you here for a minute. Creativity runs
31:52
Speaker 2: throughout our whole New York sports I feel like we've
31:54
Speaker 2: heard this over and over, Louis, what creativity could the
31:59
Speaker 2: Yankees do that you know and about head coach could
32:03
Speaker 2: maybe do as well as manager. I mean trying to
32:06
Speaker 2: get creative. I've heard that term a lot this week already.
32:10
Speaker 1: Well, I mean, if we want to jump to baseball,
32:14
Speaker 1: talk about baseball right now? Do you realize the Yankees
32:17
Speaker 1: are forty and forty two in the last eighty two games.
32:21
Speaker 2: And do you realize Judges hitting percentage is being on
32:24
Speaker 2: Paul Patrol has deeply dropped. So it's like a Paul
32:27
Speaker 2: Patrol curse on on Aaron Judge.
32:30
Speaker 1: I don't know.
32:31
Speaker 2: And the fact they aren't being winning team losing teams
32:34
Speaker 2: is worrisome. But three straight series losses, this is where
32:40
Speaker 2: the pendulum starts turning, because now Baltimore looks like they're
32:43
Speaker 2: not going to slow down. Am I right?
32:44
Speaker 1: Well, again, you can look at it either way. The
32:49
Speaker 1: Yankees are lucky that the Orioles got have five starting
32:52
Speaker 1: pitchers injured and have lost games. Or it could be
32:55
Speaker 1: the other way. The Orioles are lucky that the Yankees
32:59
Speaker 1: have suddenly start losing to teams that they're better than.
33:03
Speaker 1: And so I don't know where this is going to
33:05
Speaker 1: end up. But like we said in the past, you
33:07
Speaker 1: still want to finish first. You don't want to play
33:10
Speaker 1: in that two out of three crap shoot in the
33:12
Speaker 1: first round. I mean, I think I still think the
33:16
Speaker 1: Yankees might might get there. I think they'll get at
33:20
Speaker 1: finished First.
33:20
Speaker 2: All three teams are still the strongest despite the weaknesses.
33:23
Speaker 2: They're still the strongest of the Orioles and Guardians and
33:27
Speaker 2: the ass are a little far away from that top three.
33:29
Speaker 2: So I would say they're the strongest of all of
33:32
Speaker 2: them right now, even despite their flaws.
33:35
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean I would agree with that. Uh. Stroman
33:39
Speaker 1: is Stroman, as you know, he's just he got it.
33:43
Speaker 1: He got tattooed last night. The Yankees pitching is like
33:48
Speaker 1: everybody else's. You know, maybe you don't need pitching. The best,
33:53
Speaker 1: the best starting pitching staff in the American League are
33:57
Speaker 1: the Seattle Mariners, and they're not going to make the playoffs.
34:00
Speaker 1: They can't score. I mean, the Yankees are still one
34:03
Speaker 1: of the highest scoring teams in the league. So are
34:05
Speaker 1: the Orioles. Maybe that maybe they ride they ride the bats.
34:09
Speaker 1: This year. It's a very weird year. As we've been
34:12
Speaker 1: saying all year round, teams streak, they slump, they streak,
34:17
Speaker 1: they slump, and maybe that's been to carry it right
34:20
Speaker 1: through the end of October. So I don't know. But
34:24
Speaker 1: the one thing I like the Yankees' attention to detail,
34:28
Speaker 1: and we've talked about this off there isn't great and
34:33
Speaker 1: last night, I guess and I answered the game, but
34:36
Speaker 1: I guess Alex Radugo didn't hustle. And they questioned Aaron
34:42
Speaker 1: Boone in the postgame press conference, and Boone defended his player,
34:47
Speaker 1: like I guess he should, especially now in these crunch
34:51
Speaker 1: times of the last month of the season.
34:53
Speaker 2: But then the whole question was, then why did you
34:54
Speaker 2: bench Claver when he wasn't hustling? So that was all right,
34:58
Speaker 2: but he.
34:58
Speaker 1: Benched Laver the multiple offenses of non hustle.
35:03
Speaker 2: That's true, that's true.
35:05
Speaker 1: But again that's been a Yankee thing a lot over
35:09
Speaker 1: the last couple of years. So I don't know, Alex,
35:13
Speaker 1: I don't know if that's something that when you get
35:17
Speaker 1: to these clutch games. Yeah, when you're not buttoned up
35:21
Speaker 1: during the regular season, can you become buttoned up.
35:24
Speaker 2: During It's very valid point. By the way. The other
35:28
Speaker 2: difference between both teams here with the Mets and Yankees,
35:31
Speaker 2: I mean is I think the Mets bring out the
35:34
Speaker 2: same lineup almost every night. He's not changing much, but
35:38
Speaker 2: Boom comes in and it's like, you know, he's franking
35:41
Speaker 2: signing the lineup every night. Just leave it, beat, Let
35:45
Speaker 2: it be one thing and see if.
35:47
Speaker 1: It gels Alex. It's not only Boon, it's what he
35:50
Speaker 1: gets from the analytic team. You know, how he sets
35:55
Speaker 1: his lineup, and believe me that that goes throughout major
35:59
Speaker 1: League Baseball. He is not This is not like the
36:02
Speaker 1: old days. This is not like Casey Stingle riding out
36:05
Speaker 1: the lineup card, or Gil Hodges riding out the lineup card,
36:08
Speaker 1: or Earl Weaver riding out the lineup card on his own.
36:12
Speaker 1: Believe me, it's it's a conglomeration of guys feeding stats,
36:18
Speaker 1: putting guys in certain spots.
36:21
Speaker 2: It's it's uh, it's Billy bean On being you know,
36:25
Speaker 2: Billy Ball on steroids kind of right.
36:28
Speaker 1: Well, and as there Billy Ball worked. I mean they
36:32
Speaker 1: never won a championship, but they were always good with
36:35
Speaker 1: a with a small payroll. But you're right, it's on steroids,
36:39
Speaker 1: So I mean, it's not only on on Aaron Boone. Again,
36:43
Speaker 1: this is the seventh year. I don't think he's going anywhere.
36:49
Speaker 2: But you know, I've been listening. I did listen to
36:51
Speaker 2: a lot of talk radio, and they're all saying, there's
36:54
Speaker 2: no way he can go back to Holmes. There is
36:56
Speaker 2: a way he might just they might just keep doing it.
36:59
Speaker 2: They might just keep trotting out different lineups because they
37:02
Speaker 2: think it's gonna work. And yet it makes them look
37:05
Speaker 2: a little tone deaf. And you know, I love the Yanks,
37:07
Speaker 2: I have connects with the Angies organization, but it does
37:10
Speaker 2: make them look a bit tone deaf when they're not
37:12
Speaker 2: listening to the fans.
37:14
Speaker 1: Well, you listen to the fans, you become a fan.
37:17
Speaker 1: So they're not going to listen to the fans, that's
37:20
Speaker 1: for sure.
37:22
Speaker 2: Here's the hot button issue for baseball this week, especially
37:27
Speaker 2: Ken Lindor top Otani in MVP. Does the milestones really
37:35
Speaker 2: trump what Lindor is doing on a Mets team, which
37:38
Speaker 2: they need him at the top of the lineup, Not
37:41
Speaker 2: to say they don't need Otani at the top of
37:44
Speaker 2: that Dodger lineup, and what he's doing is not incredible.
37:47
Speaker 2: It is, But when I think of MVP, I think
37:49
Speaker 2: of a guy who's being able to be out there
37:52
Speaker 2: first team every night and do everything that needs to
37:55
Speaker 2: be done. And Lindor's doing that a little more than
37:58
Speaker 2: Otani because you point out an off air look at
38:00
Speaker 2: the defensive side of things too for Lindor that he's
38:03
Speaker 2: doing for this.
38:04
Speaker 1: Team alex Hey. Otani is a great offensive player. That's
38:09
Speaker 1: what he is. He's a great offensive player. He hasn't
38:12
Speaker 1: played one out in the field. Otani's gonna win because
38:18
Speaker 1: Otani is His brand is so well known, and these
38:25
Speaker 1: riders are gonna are gonna vote for him. But there
38:29
Speaker 1: is nobody who has turned the Met season around more
38:33
Speaker 1: than when they put Lindor in the lead or spot.
38:37
Speaker 1: The Mets have played twenty or twenty two games over
38:39
Speaker 1: five hundred since June second, the best record in Major
38:43
Speaker 1: League Baseball since June second. And they may not make
38:47
Speaker 1: the playoffs, and I still think they're gonna fall short,
38:49
Speaker 1: even though on only half the game out. But in
38:53
Speaker 1: Lindora's case, not only what he's done offensively, not only
38:58
Speaker 1: he is he a brilliant fielding shortstop. He's out there
39:01
Speaker 1: for one hundred and forty five one hundred and fifty
39:03
Speaker 1: pitches per game. He has to concentrate on every pitch.
39:08
Speaker 1: He has to make sure that every pitch, one pitch
39:14
Speaker 1: could change a game if he's in the wrong position defensively.
39:19
Speaker 1: I don't know how the guy didn't win the Golden
39:22
Speaker 1: Glove for shortstop last year. They gave it to Swanson.
39:25
Speaker 1: I don't know how they didn't give it to Lindor,
39:28
Speaker 1: who was brilliant last year. And the thing about Lindore,
39:31
Speaker 1: even if he goes and went to batting slump, it
39:33
Speaker 1: doesn't affect his fielding. He's a great base runner. And
39:37
Speaker 1: you know, I was one of the biggest Lindoor bashers, especially.
39:41
Speaker 2: When they signed him without even sign hitting a pitch
39:44
Speaker 2: for the Mets. That was really questionable. But he's earning
39:48
Speaker 2: the money now, that's for sure.
39:49
Speaker 1: And he is the Mets best player by far. He's won.
39:53
Speaker 1: To me, he's the most valuable player in the National League.
39:57
Speaker 1: But he's not going to win it.
39:58
Speaker 2: And you know who's thankful for Peter Alonzo is thinking,
40:01
Speaker 2: well that Lindor's producing as it's taking a lot of
40:03
Speaker 2: heat off him, and Alonzo's not had the best walk year.
40:08
Speaker 2: I have to say that.
40:10
Speaker 1: Alex, if you watch Alonso and again he's he's got
40:14
Speaker 1: thirty one home runs. But you could see it. We've
40:18
Speaker 1: said this in the past. You could read the guy's
40:20
Speaker 1: body language.
40:22
Speaker 2: The guy.
40:24
Speaker 1: The guy wears his heart on his sleeve. He's feeling
40:27
Speaker 1: the pressure, not feeling the pressure of a playoff phrase,
40:31
Speaker 1: he's feeling the pressure of his performance because he's going
40:34
Speaker 1: to be a Scott Borrows free agent and it's gonna
40:39
Speaker 1: be a very interesting free agency for Peter Alonzo. I
40:44
Speaker 1: have no idea if he's going to be back with
40:46
Speaker 1: the Mets or not. I really don't. I really don't.
40:51
Speaker 1: But yes, Alex, he feels the self induced pressure. You
40:56
Speaker 1: could see it. I mean, you don't even have to
40:59
Speaker 1: be an ex spur that body language. You can see it.
41:02
Speaker 1: And like I said, he still has seventy one home
41:04
Speaker 1: runs and eighty RBI's.
41:08
Speaker 2: Yeah, no, it's it's it's a mixed bag. And you
41:14
Speaker 2: know the other guy who was at Fanatics by the way,
41:17
Speaker 2: Jeff McNeil, another name him and Nemo Nemo. You want
41:20
Speaker 2: them to produce more as I stay up in themselves
41:24
Speaker 2: this year a little bit.
41:25
Speaker 1: Well since the All Star break, Nemo, who was on
41:30
Speaker 1: his way looked like to be a one hundred RBI guy,
41:33
Speaker 1: hasn't hit a lick, and I don't think he puts
41:37
Speaker 1: a lot of pressure on himself. But as I said
41:43
Speaker 1: to you earlier in the year, now McNeil had a
41:45
Speaker 1: good three or four weeks. Jeff McNeil is almost done.
41:50
Speaker 1: He I don't know if he's if the Mets are
41:52
Speaker 1: going to package him in the trade, you know, as
41:54
Speaker 1: an extra. I think he has three days left on
41:56
Speaker 1: his contract. He's not done like Lemeo's Lameyo was done.
42:01
Speaker 1: He's finished, he's done. But McNeil is close to done.
42:11
Speaker 1: I can't see. Maybe the Nets will keep him because
42:14
Speaker 1: he's still on the contract. He has a twelve million
42:17
Speaker 1: dollars a year contract. It's sure, it's not crazy as
42:21
Speaker 1: you know some of these others. And you know, maybe
42:23
Speaker 1: he'll become the Mets util he died because he can
42:25
Speaker 1: play second, third, and can play right or left. Who knows,
42:31
Speaker 1: but he's not the same guy, and you know, so
42:37
Speaker 1: we'll see what happens.
42:38
Speaker 2: But by the way, the Mets pitching has really turned around.
42:41
Speaker 2: I remember we were in the second game of the
42:43
Speaker 2: season against the Brewers and Sevy looked awful. But now
42:49
Speaker 2: he looks like one of the best pitchers in the majors.
42:51
Speaker 2: In fact, he is. Since June, he's had the best era.
42:54
Speaker 2: I mean, you talk about the turnaround, you talk about
42:56
Speaker 2: the patients, I'm sure they've had it with them.
42:58
Speaker 1: Well, let me say one thing I said earlier in
43:04
Speaker 1: the year and I said it on one of the
43:06
Speaker 1: early podcasts. I thought that was a bad signing. I
43:09
Speaker 1: thought he was I thought he was done. He hasn't
43:14
Speaker 1: pitched as well as Sean Mania, but he's been good.
43:19
Speaker 1: He's been good. Gonna be interesting to see. I mean
43:21
Speaker 1: they signed him for one year, thirteen million. He's going
43:24
Speaker 1: to get more money from the Mets or somebody else
43:26
Speaker 1: because pitching is at such a premium because not only
43:30
Speaker 1: can't you find them, guys get are getting hurt left
43:34
Speaker 1: and right. I mean we talked about the Orioles, look
43:36
Speaker 1: at the look at Spencer Strider, with with the with
43:39
Speaker 1: the Braves, Kyle Wright. I mean, we can go right
43:43
Speaker 1: down the line. We go on every team, so we're
43:46
Speaker 1: not gonna waste time doing that. Sean Mania are one
43:49
Speaker 1: year and you can.
43:50
Speaker 2: Hear Louz talk about that on another Terminals take, which
43:53
Speaker 2: we did a while back. On these injuries that are
43:56
Speaker 2: just plaguing and whatnot, boons, we gotta fairly talk about
44:01
Speaker 2: Carlos Mendoza. The guy has managed the best he can.
44:06
Speaker 2: I think he's on the hell of a job to
44:08
Speaker 2: get them where they are right now. You look at
44:10
Speaker 2: all the adversity they faced early on the media, oh
44:14
Speaker 2: win five, Oh my goodness, and yet here they are
44:17
Speaker 2: half the game, mind the break, I mean one an adversity,
44:22
Speaker 2: a leader through adversity. Carlos Mendoz has become here.
44:27
Speaker 1: Well, he's very calm. You're right. His overreaction and we're
44:33
Speaker 1: going to see so much overreaction on Monday and Tuesday
44:36
Speaker 1: after this NFL weekend, overreaction positively and negatively. But Mendoz
44:43
Speaker 1: has done a great job. He handles the press well.
44:48
Speaker 1: I watch him a lot of his press conferences and
44:51
Speaker 1: he gives deep thought provoking answers to everything that what
44:57
Speaker 1: he does, he can back it up. Sometimes it works,
45:00
Speaker 1: times it doesn't. I mean, really, there's only one or two.
45:06
Speaker 1: I I'm just show and I'm watching the name. Can
45:07
Speaker 1: I question what he does, especially when he you know,
45:10
Speaker 1: he's handled a bullpen that has been completely turned over
45:14
Speaker 1: from the beginning of season, and he's done a great
45:17
Speaker 1: job with that. Uh really, I really have no qualms
45:21
Speaker 1: with him so far, and I think he'll get better,
45:25
Speaker 1: you know, as as he gains experience. I really can
45:28
Speaker 1: tell maybe one or two games where I could say
45:30
Speaker 1: why did he do that? But over course of a
45:35
Speaker 1: six month one hundred and sixty two game season. You know,
45:38
Speaker 1: that's uh, that's not much. So he's done. He's done
45:41
Speaker 1: a good job, and he's kept the Mets. He's kept
45:43
Speaker 1: the Mets calm. And I got a and I've been
45:46
Speaker 1: critical of of David Stearns. We got the Mets a
45:52
Speaker 1: competitive even if they don't make the playoffs, which I
45:54
Speaker 1: hope they do. But they got seven games left with Philly,
45:57
Speaker 1: and that's been and Philly Atlanta.
45:59
Speaker 2: They also have Atlanta on the second.
46:00
Speaker 1: They have three with Atlanta and they have three the
46:03
Speaker 1: last three with Milwaukee. So it's gonna be very, very tough.
46:08
Speaker 2: By the way, and this comes. We're doing this on
46:10
Speaker 2: the Mets off day, and you know it's funny. The
46:13
Speaker 2: Yanks need the off day. The Mets you don't want
46:16
Speaker 2: the off day. With the seven game win streak. You
46:19
Speaker 2: gotta stay motivated tomorrow and through the you know, through
46:22
Speaker 2: the weekend.
46:22
Speaker 1: Here you are right, because I think what would put
46:29
Speaker 1: Neimo and h J D. Martinez has hit, but not
46:37
Speaker 1: like he's hit before the All Star Break. For those
46:39
Speaker 1: two months when the Mets got really hot, that four
46:45
Speaker 1: day All Star break slowed the Mets down. I believe
46:49
Speaker 1: so you're right, you don't you don't want a day off,
46:51
Speaker 1: but again, the bullpen can use a day off, and
46:54
Speaker 1: they have a They have a Cincinnati team coming in
46:57
Speaker 1: that can hit. They have a Cincinnati teama, a lot
47:00
Speaker 1: of young players, Cincinnati team that has underachieved. Those are
47:03
Speaker 1: scary teams. I think David Bell might lose his job
47:07
Speaker 1: at the end of the at the end of the
47:08
Speaker 1: year as manager because the Reds have a lot of talent.
47:13
Speaker 1: So they're coming in this weekend. The Mets have to
47:15
Speaker 1: go in with the mindset to win two out of three,
47:17
Speaker 1: and then they go up to Toronto, which has been
47:20
Speaker 1: I think the biggest disappointment in the major leagues this year.
47:24
Speaker 1: They got win to out of three up there Toronto.
47:28
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's that's the story. I mean, they have the talent,
47:31
Speaker 2: they just haven't had.
47:34
Speaker 1: All against it's really I mean, they've been out of
47:38
Speaker 1: it since day won. Lou.
47:42
Speaker 2: While we're on this, let me ask you the most
47:43
Speaker 2: controversial question I think, facing the twenty twenty four Chicago
47:48
Speaker 2: White Sox and the nineteen sixty two New York Mets,
47:53
Speaker 2: do you want the White Sox to surpassed them? The
47:56
Speaker 2: New York Mets nineteen sixty two record, or do you
47:59
Speaker 2: still want that nine two team to be the worst ever?
48:02
Speaker 2: Because then you can say, well, look what we rebounded
48:05
Speaker 2: from the nineteen sixty nine. You know, there's a lot of.
48:07
Speaker 1: Viewpoints on this. Well I'm going to say this. And
48:10
Speaker 1: I was listening to Howie Rose as I was driving
48:12
Speaker 1: around the other day during the Mets game, and.
48:15
Speaker 2: I wonder where I got the idea from to ask him, and.
48:19
Speaker 1: He said, as a lifelong Mets fan, he wants the
48:23
Speaker 1: Mets to have that record because they were an expansion
48:26
Speaker 1: team and seven years later they were able to become
48:28
Speaker 1: the first expansion team ever to win the World Series,
48:31
Speaker 1: and how they build up their farm system so quickly. Okay,
48:34
Speaker 1: now I want to see the White Socks who was
48:36
Speaker 1: on to twenty one games? I do, And I feel
48:39
Speaker 1: bad for the White Sox. I mean, the team is
48:42
Speaker 1: absolutely pathetic because Mets were an expansion team. And Alex,
48:48
Speaker 1: if you look back, if you ever on a Google
48:50
Speaker 1: like how the Mets pick players from the expansion pool,
48:56
Speaker 1: I think it was a pool of fifteen players. Nowadays,
49:00
Speaker 1: when the expansion teams came in like Arizona and Tampa Bay,
49:05
Speaker 1: they picked not they picked from both leagues. There was
49:09
Speaker 1: free agency. Arizona was Arizona won one hundred and one
49:14
Speaker 1: games their second year. They in their fourth year play
49:18
Speaker 1: in the World Series because they were able to sign
49:21
Speaker 1: us free agents for Randy Johnson and.
49:23
Speaker 3: Shilling, and they got Met Gonzales. You know, so the
49:28
Speaker 3: Mets couldn't that. The Mets had no farm system when
49:32
Speaker 3: they started in sixty two. It was a true expansion team.
49:35
Speaker 3: And Alex, this is before your time.
49:38
Speaker 1: Those expansion teams were truly expansion teams. You know, they
49:42
Speaker 1: were going to be bad for five six years. So
49:45
Speaker 1: I just can't believe in twenty fourteen, the Chicago White
49:48
Speaker 1: Sox a couple of years ago, we're in the playoffs.
49:52
Speaker 1: Are this pathetic? Fo Yeah, No, it's it's I was shocked.
49:58
Speaker 1: I mean, it's shocking to me that that is bad
50:02
Speaker 1: and they are as bad as their record as far
50:05
Speaker 1: as their record show.
50:05
Speaker 2: Oh my god, that the game of the night against
50:08
Speaker 2: the Oreos or they're bumping into each other and everybody
50:11
Speaker 2: and Kevin Brown and the Oriols network saying the White
50:14
Speaker 2: Sox have gotten full White Sox.
50:15
Speaker 1: I mean, I mean that was a little that was
50:17
Speaker 1: a little tough.
50:18
Speaker 2: But I heard him say that that's that's pretty awful.
50:22
Speaker 2: And you just wonder when you start the season and
50:28
Speaker 2: you don't see this coming, how you rise above it.
50:32
Speaker 2: The White Sox happened. They even fired their manager in
50:34
Speaker 2: late August. Okay, and they still in early August. They
50:38
Speaker 2: still didn't bounce back from that. So that's I mean,
50:40
Speaker 2: they just it really could be an ownership level thing.
50:43
Speaker 2: I mean, a lot of people in Ie sort to
50:45
Speaker 2: sell the team already. I don't know if that's the answer, but.
50:48
Speaker 1: Well, I mean, he wants to buy a new he
50:50
Speaker 1: wants to build a new stadium, and this is not
50:52
Speaker 1: going to happen, because uh it'll I'm not I'm not
50:56
Speaker 1: saying it's not gonna happen, but the way the White
50:57
Speaker 1: Socks are playing that certainly doesn't you know, say hey,
51:02
Speaker 1: let's build that stadium Tomorrow. They'll probably get the stadium built.
51:05
Speaker 1: I could tell you. I could say one thing. When
51:07
Speaker 1: I watch them play, they play hard. They play they
51:11
Speaker 1: do play hard and size more coaches and manages the
51:18
Speaker 1: game like they're in the playoffs, you know, like they
51:21
Speaker 1: were in a playoffs situation.
51:22
Speaker 2: He was a great player with the then he was
51:25
Speaker 2: without doing a great player. No, I'm just thinking about
51:28
Speaker 2: this because you're a sales guy, right, you were a
51:30
Speaker 2: former seven Wars with nine seventy where we first met.
51:35
Speaker 2: How do the sales teams of these teams that are
51:38
Speaker 2: really you know, they don't even look competitive heading in
51:41
Speaker 2: the next year tell an advertiser, Hey, stay with us,
51:44
Speaker 2: We're gonna get better. It's almost an impossible job, isn't it.
51:48
Speaker 1: It is an impossible job, and this is what you
51:50
Speaker 1: gotta do. I was with the Nets during five of
51:54
Speaker 1: their worst years. After my first five years with the Nets,
51:57
Speaker 1: you were pretty good when the forty nine games forty
51:59
Speaker 1: eight game games will beat the Sixers when they were
52:02
Speaker 1: the world champions in the playoffs. And then after the
52:06
Speaker 1: Michael Ray Richardson situation where he was expelled for life,
52:11
Speaker 1: that was step step one into the team falling apart.
52:15
Speaker 1: And we were terrible for the next five five years
52:17
Speaker 1: between seventeen and twenty six twenty seven wins. So what
52:22
Speaker 1: I did was we started selling the opposition. It's what
52:25
Speaker 1: I did, and I sold myself and I would say, hey,
52:28
Speaker 1: I can't promise you what's going to happen on the
52:30
Speaker 1: court is going to be good. But anything that any
52:33
Speaker 1: deal that we make as a corporate sponsor, I'll make
52:36
Speaker 1: sure that everything that you get in your deal is
52:40
Speaker 1: fulfilled and you sell yourself. And then you know, then
52:47
Speaker 1: we got better. We got better in the nineties with
52:49
Speaker 1: Kenny Derreck and Derek can Anders and Derek Holeman and
52:52
Speaker 1: draws and patrich and the draw. Then we had the
52:55
Speaker 1: draws and death, which set back the team five years.
52:59
Speaker 1: And then then we made the trade for kid drafted Kenyan,
53:03
Speaker 1: Martin Richard Jefferson, Keith van Horn, and you know, we
53:06
Speaker 1: went to the We won four divisions in six years,
53:10
Speaker 1: we won nine playoff series. And yes, it's easy to
53:13
Speaker 1: sell when the product helps you out, but that's how
53:16
Speaker 1: you gotta do it.
53:16
Speaker 2: And I mean this team had seventeen fans and attendance
53:21
Speaker 2: about a week seventy.
53:23
Speaker 1: Well, there was one game, first game of a double
53:25
Speaker 1: headed way. They said there was under there was under
53:27
Speaker 1: fifty fans in the stadium, like in the third inning.
53:30
Speaker 2: And so that looks really bad to an advertiser. So
53:35
Speaker 2: let's just say I send this over to the Chicago
53:36
Speaker 2: sales team. What's your message for the White Sox sales guys, Right,
53:40
Speaker 2: now yeah.
53:41
Speaker 1: Well, I mean they just got to put blinders on.
53:45
Speaker 1: And that's what I did. I mean, you can't. You know,
53:47
Speaker 1: the team is bad, and you just got to you
53:51
Speaker 1: gotta keep you gotta keep talking to your sponsor. Don't
53:54
Speaker 1: run away from your.
53:55
Speaker 2: Wells and say this also deals with legacy spongors. I'm
53:58
Speaker 2: sure the White Socks have a crued so many legacy
54:00
Speaker 2: sponsors that wouldn't just disappear on them, would they know?
54:04
Speaker 1: They'll they'll, they'll stick with them. Some will lead because
54:07
Speaker 1: of budget reason stuff like that. But it hurts business.
54:11
Speaker 1: And then, let's face it, I was a better salesperson
54:15
Speaker 1: when the team was good. But the most important thing
54:21
Speaker 1: is the product on the court, on the ice, on
54:23
Speaker 1: the field, on the baseball diamond. That's the most important thing.
54:29
Speaker 1: And anybody else, anybody else who tells you, oh, well,
54:33
Speaker 1: our operating cost we lost five million dollars, well, okay,
54:39
Speaker 1: then cut the budget. You know what you're gonna do.
54:42
Speaker 1: You're gonna lose money because to make money, you gotta
54:47
Speaker 1: spend money. And all these pro sports teams are now
54:52
Speaker 1: worth so much money. I mean, it's astronomical.
54:59
Speaker 2: And it is. I wish they just name it back
55:02
Speaker 2: to Kamiski statement. It's a lot more easier to pronounce.
55:06
Speaker 2: But that's another story for another day. Lou, I know
55:09
Speaker 2: you wanted to talk about before we go this date
55:11
Speaker 2: in history. You want to take us back in time
55:13
Speaker 2: a little bit.
55:15
Speaker 1: Well, today was one of the darkest days since I've
55:22
Speaker 1: been watching sports in nineteen seventy two, on this day,
55:27
Speaker 1: it was the day when Black September the terrorists, the
55:31
Speaker 1: Arab terrorist group, rushed Olympic village and killed immediately to
55:42
Speaker 1: Israeli olympians abducted the other nine, which led to it
55:49
Speaker 1: almost a twenty four out. It was probably about eighteen
55:51
Speaker 1: hour standoff with Black September, and eventually at the airport
56:02
Speaker 1: in Munich they were the police charged and tried to
56:10
Speaker 1: stop the hostage takeover in a plane and because they
56:17
Speaker 1: wanted the plane and they wanted two hundred and thirty
56:19
Speaker 1: four terrorists that were being held, and make a long
56:27
Speaker 1: story short, they were they lost them all. The other
56:31
Speaker 1: nine eleven Israeli athletes were killed, one West German policeman
56:38
Speaker 1: was killed. I think four terrorists were killed, four or
56:41
Speaker 1: five terrorists were killed, and I just remember Jim McKay
56:45
Speaker 1: watching me watching at night till two three in the morning,
56:47
Speaker 1: giving us the horrible news that they were all gone.
56:50
Speaker 1: As she said, they were all gone. And eventually Israeli
56:56
Speaker 1: military got revenge, got the h got all the two
57:02
Speaker 1: hundred and thirty four terrorists were eventually wiped out because
57:09
Speaker 1: the three the three Black September that the West German
57:14
Speaker 1: police caught and put in jail. Two months later, they
57:19
Speaker 1: were let go for those two hundred and thirty four terrorists.
57:26
Speaker 1: But the Israeli army, and I don't remember the details
57:32
Speaker 1: that well, but they got them all. They got them all,
57:36
Speaker 1: Alex for that horrible thing that they did that day.
57:42
Speaker 1: And a lot of people said the Olympics should have
57:44
Speaker 1: been should have been canceled, the Summer Olympics. They were,
57:46
Speaker 1: they were for a couple of days. But Avery Brunded,
57:49
Speaker 1: she was no fan of Israel, kept the got the
57:54
Speaker 1: games going and they finished. That was ironically the Olympics
57:58
Speaker 1: where Mark Spitz, a Jewish American, one of all those
58:02
Speaker 1: gold medals in swimming. I believe it was seven.
58:05
Speaker 2: Yes, that was that was That was honest day in Brundridge.
58:10
Speaker 2: Was IOC president the time?
58:11
Speaker 1: I right on that, Yes he was, And he was
58:13
Speaker 1: for many many years, for many many years, not a
58:16
Speaker 1: good guy.
58:18
Speaker 2: Well, we all know the IOC screws up in a
58:20
Speaker 2: lot of ways and can show that hostility toward even
58:25
Speaker 2: Jewish the Jewish athletes as well. And I think that's
58:29
Speaker 2: still rest well since that.
58:31
Speaker 1: Day Alex Instill's Olympics. All right, every Israeli Olympic team
58:39
Speaker 1: does not stay in the Olympic village and it's Israeli
58:43
Speaker 1: security that watches them and protects them, not Olympic security.
58:50
Speaker 2: And imagine this year in Paris, the on alert because
58:53
Speaker 2: of what happened on October seventh. I mean, it transcends
58:57
Speaker 2: the field. It's just, you know, it's it's something that
59:03
Speaker 2: should have become commonplace. But after October seventh, you have
59:06
Speaker 2: to guard against that from becoming car commonplace even more
59:10
Speaker 2: output it that way.
59:12
Speaker 1: One last update on unless you have some and there
59:15
Speaker 1: is some good news.
59:16
Speaker 2: I ambled at the Paralympics and my buddy Steve Sirio
59:20
Speaker 2: and Team USA wheelchair basketball is on the gold medal
59:24
Speaker 2: game on Saturday against Great Britain. How about that.
59:32
Speaker 1: That's great. I was watching a little bit of the
59:33
Speaker 1: basketball game yesterday. Is not amazing.
59:36
Speaker 2: The way they they're they're able to navigate and everything
59:39
Speaker 2: like that in their wheelchairs. It's even at the cuny
59:43
Speaker 2: adaptive level. It's amazing to watch them navigate the court
59:47
Speaker 2: like that.
59:48
Speaker 1: Well, I was watching, I was watching. I was watching
59:52
Speaker 1: some of these guys when I got fouled and they
59:54
Speaker 1: go to the free throw line. They're sitting in their
59:56
Speaker 1: chair and they're shooting. They're shooting those free throws like
1:00:00
Speaker 1: the Stefan Curry, nothing but caught. Amazing to me. And
1:00:05
Speaker 1: then I was watching the swimming. I don't, Alex, I
1:00:10
Speaker 1: don't know how they do it. I mean, you know,
1:00:14
Speaker 1: finishing in the top in the top three, and some
1:00:19
Speaker 1: of these kids, some of these people have their legs
1:00:22
Speaker 1: cut off from just below the knee and you need
1:00:26
Speaker 1: your legs to swim. Obviously, the strength of these people
1:00:31
Speaker 1: physically and mentally is beyond comprehension.
1:00:36
Speaker 2: You know, a great an athlete just said not too
1:00:41
Speaker 2: long ago, and I want to get to quote properly,
1:00:44
Speaker 2: we're not disabled athletes for athletes period.
1:00:47
Speaker 1: They are very accurate. They are athletes. And when I
1:00:53
Speaker 1: was with the NETS, we had a wheelchair basketball league.
1:00:56
Speaker 1: It was the North American Wheelchair Basketball Association.
1:00:59
Speaker 2: And still around. They actually helped put together Team USA
1:01:03
Speaker 2: for the I.
1:01:04
Speaker 1: Say I didn't know that because that used to be
1:01:06
Speaker 1: my account NWBA.
1:01:08
Speaker 2: Yes, they're still around.
1:01:10
Speaker 1: And they were amazing. I mean, I'm going back, I'm
1:01:14
Speaker 1: going back thirty years, twenty five, thirty thirty years and
1:01:20
Speaker 1: they always going a good show at them at the Meadowlands,
1:01:23
Speaker 1: that's for sure. A one last update Yukon and the
1:01:30
Speaker 1: Big Twelve. They've taken a pause. The Big Twelve is
1:01:34
Speaker 1: taking a pause, they announced today.
1:01:36
Speaker 2: I guess it's because they heard us okay, they didn't
1:01:38
Speaker 2: want them coun out of the bags.
1:01:40
Speaker 1: They had a pause. I guess they haven't gotten a
1:01:43
Speaker 1: twelve votes because Commissioner yourn Mark has said that we're
1:01:46
Speaker 1: putting on on on pause. But from what I hear
1:01:50
Speaker 1: that Connecticut was all in, and I guess they still
1:01:53
Speaker 1: can't get the twelve presidents to get that super majority
1:01:59
Speaker 1: to get at them, and so I'm sure that that
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Speaker 1: they'll still be in play. I'm sure. I know. I
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Speaker 1: know brettyall Mark. I worked with him for a long time.
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Speaker 1: He doesn't give up easy. So we'll see what happens there.
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Speaker 1: But I also heard something and not I don't know
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Speaker 1: how how strong rumorous is. If the ACC figures out
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Speaker 1: what their situation is, that they might that they might
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Speaker 1: go after Yukon. But I don't know. But I also
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Speaker 1: heard another reason why the Yukon thing got saddled in mud.
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Speaker 1: Fox Sports did not want Yukon to leave the Big East.
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Speaker 1: Even though Fox Sports has the rights to the Big East,
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Speaker 1: they also have the rights to the Big Twelve. But they said,
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Speaker 1: this is just me. The way I figure it out,
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Speaker 1: Yukon is more important being in the Big East than
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Speaker 1: being in the Big Twelve because the Big Twelve you
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Speaker 1: have bell Or Basketball, you have Kansas bas You're gonna
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Speaker 1: have Arizona basketball BYU basketball. So we'll see what happens
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Speaker 1: there as as that moves forward.
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Speaker 2: And by the way, that that quote, and that's great
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Speaker 2: for that quote was from Beatrice Hats team usays Beatrice Hats,
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Speaker 2: who actually is an amputeue competing in track and field.
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Speaker 2: So there you go, and and know it makes sense
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Speaker 2: to keep you con in the Big East. I just
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Speaker 2: went Syracuse will come back because that rivalry was fun
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Speaker 2: in the Big East. But that's another conversation for another day.
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Speaker 2: Lou As you know, it's been a big media day,
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Speaker 2: so I gotta rest up an hour before. Now. I
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Speaker 2: can't believe we're there. We're there, We're write a kickoff.
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Speaker 1: It's right in front of it, is there? Yeah, it's
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Speaker 1: an hour away, so I'm looking forward to it.
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Speaker 2: All right, I'm gonna launch this in a moment. This
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Speaker 2: could be You're the pregame show for everybody listening to.
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Speaker 2: How about that?
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Speaker 1: It's good to be.
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Speaker 2: I'll Alex Garett with Lou Terminello Terminello's Teake once again,
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Speaker 2: September fifth, twenty twenty four. Thanks for joining, Lou.
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Speaker 1: Thank you Alex, as always