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Hour 4 - Not the North · The Ben Maller Show

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  Speaker 1: In the air everywhere our four I'm at a maslin
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  Speaker 1: coming up, I'm gonna inviscerate Draymond Green here in a
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  Speaker 1: little bit, not even because of what he said about
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  Speaker 1: how you know we're the only ones that have to
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  Speaker 1: work on Christmas? It's like, are you?
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  Speaker 2: Are you a real person? Are you? Are you a
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  Speaker 2: real human being?
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  Speaker 1: Think about that comment. Do you think hospitals close? Do
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  Speaker 1: you think you know firemen, policemen aren't working. Do you
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  Speaker 1: think there are convenience stores still opening on open on Christmas?
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  Speaker 1: Do you think broadcasters take Christmas off? You think we
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  Speaker 1: didn't have stuff going here at Fox Sports Radio? My god,
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  Speaker 1: what a fool.
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  Speaker 2: But I'm not here to talk about him.
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  Speaker 1: I don't want to talk about him yet. I do
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  Speaker 1: want to talk to Marcel calling from Brooklyn because I
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  Speaker 1: just want to say where Brooklyn?
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  Speaker 2: Where Brooklyn? At Marcel? What's up?
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  Speaker 1: You're on with Adam Osland on Big Ben Mahler on
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  Speaker 1: Fox Sports Radio. Marcel, Marcel, Marcel, justin, justin, Marcel, Hey, good.
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  Speaker 3: Morning, Adam, Happy new Year as always.
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  Speaker 2: Happy here see.
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  Speaker 3: You Lorena and Koch de Loup as well.
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  Speaker 4: I'm Marcel.
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  Speaker 3: Good morning, Happy new year both. Oh what a great
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  Speaker 3: tradition that is? Oh do I mention it? How what's
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  Speaker 3: the picks for the first picks of twenty twenty six? Well,
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  Speaker 3: you know what, Let's do it, shall we? Because of
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  Speaker 3: the dudes. It is a new day and it is
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  Speaker 3: a new years around. So instead of Adams Malan militia,
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  Speaker 3: how about to say this, let's get into it with
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  Speaker 3: some Friday food picks as well. And as a matter
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  Speaker 3: of fact, the lines are waiting, if not the three
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  Speaker 3: of them, or shall I say, the girl and the
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  Speaker 3: guys will play along with me. Let's get into it.
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  Speaker 1: Happen Marcel's running things now, it's Marcelles world.
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  Speaker 2: We're just living in it. No, I like this. This
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  Speaker 2: is good. We're guessing what you hate?
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  Speaker 3: Oh yeah, this is what a break foot picks tradition
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  Speaker 3: looks like all right.
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  Speaker 2: All right, uh calling from Brooklyn. I mean I hear
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  Speaker 2: the piece is pretty good.
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  Speaker 1: There couldn't you as one of those big slices I've
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  Speaker 1: seen the Ninja Turtles movie. The New York sizes are
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  Speaker 1: built different.
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  Speaker 3: Oh you know what, my friend, the pizza it is
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  Speaker 3: just like Big Ben does. And I give you the
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  Speaker 3: guarantee of the mixed match.
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  Speaker 5: It is, I guarantee it.
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  Speaker 4: I'm gonna go in honor of big Ben Maller. You
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  Speaker 4: had chicken strips.
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  Speaker 3: Well that's not a mixed match. It is my friend Loreena,
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  Speaker 3: but not.
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  Speaker 1: A mixed match.
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  Speaker 3: No, all right, Ruthie Lope, go right ahead, buddy. This
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  Speaker 3: is a chance to say pizza double alert.
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  Speaker 2: If you get this correct, Marcel match.
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  Speaker 3: Alert double will come your way or trouble.
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  Speaker 6: You won't believe this, but I'm gonna go with pizza.
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  Speaker 2: Oh that means that means mixed match? You okay? What
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  Speaker 2: happens that? I'm so confused, just like mine.
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  Speaker 3: As well, big shot. It is from last year.
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  Speaker 2: You and I want Adam. Oh we won nothing. What
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  Speaker 2: do we get the mix match?
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  Speaker 1: We won? The mix it is and the prize is
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  Speaker 1: what I need some ride?
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  Speaker 2: What else do you need.
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  Speaker 1: You know what I did lose that in twenty twenty five.
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  Speaker 2: Now I'm back in. I got my pride back.
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  Speaker 3: Oh yes, it is my friend. Yes, it is my friend.
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  Speaker 3: And for a special bonus wherever one big fan says,
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  Speaker 3: let's get into it and in the air everywhere, I
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  Speaker 3: guarantee it just like you and everyone else does. So
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  Speaker 3: congratulations to Adam and Coopie Loop as well as mine.
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  Speaker 3: They have a great weekend enjoying the rest of the
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  Speaker 3: big hour of the show. I hope Ben Maller is
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  Speaker 3: back on Monday, so.
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  Speaker 1: I'll see you then, all right, Marcel myself esteem'd.
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  Speaker 3: Absolutely sir? Uh well, yes, sound drops, Yes, okay.
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  Speaker 2: He has like a sound board.
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  Speaker 6: He's a he's a four time caller of the year.
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  Speaker 3: Oh my god, let's get into it.
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  Speaker 2: I mean we could have just played this.
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  Speaker 1: Why do we even take the call let's play? Is
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  Speaker 1: that his only games?
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  Speaker 3: No?
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  Speaker 7: We do?
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  Speaker 6: We do TV picks on on Wednesdays. I believe what
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  Speaker 6: he watched on TV recently the night before? Yes, correct, does.
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  Speaker 1: Marcel have an inflated ego of like everybody's concerned with
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  Speaker 1: what Marcel's up to?
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  Speaker 3: Don't worry it's just top.
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  Speaker 1: How come we couldn't have had like an overtime game
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  Speaker 1: there where we guess the toppings of the pizza and
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  Speaker 1: therefore one of us.
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  Speaker 2: Was the true winner.
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  Speaker 6: I just it's knowing Marcel just just cheese, just cheese.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, you know what?
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  Speaker 1: That is an underrated pizza because we get topping so often.
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  Speaker 1: It's like when you just get a cheese pizza. Now
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  Speaker 1: it's almost something different.
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  Speaker 2: I like that.
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  Speaker 6: I like, hey, I don't I don't hate on just
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  Speaker 6: the cheese pizza pizza.
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  Speaker 1: I still need some ranch with that just cheese pizza.
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  Speaker 1: But that just me because I'm like Ali guy Brooklyn.
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  Speaker 1: People will probably be upset with that, all right.
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  Speaker 2: I got like ranch. Just so you guys know. Ben
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  Speaker 2: does not like ranch with anything or with just pizza.
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  Speaker 6: No, he calls it the devil's blood.
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  Speaker 2: But he also has blood.
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  Speaker 6: He also has the palette of a five year old,
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  Speaker 6: so he eats his steaks well done.
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  Speaker 1: Has he ever had Brian Semen on the show before?
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  Speaker 1: And that's that's not a Mala militia nickname. That's a
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  Speaker 1: real name. Brian Seemen, the voice of the Clippers on
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  Speaker 1: FanDuel TV, also probably cuts up his hot dogs and
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  Speaker 1: puts him in ketchup and stuff like that.
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  Speaker 2: Also has the palette of a child.
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  Speaker 1: Ye, definitely been acquired. Taste apparently isn't for everyone. There
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  Speaker 1: are some people that just never grow up. They'd rather
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  Speaker 1: have the gerber apples or something like that for dessert too. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: all right, I need to pay something off finally here
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  Speaker 1: and I need to hear from Ben Mallory do this right.
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  Speaker 5: The Autumn Wind is a pirate blustering in from sea
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  Speaker 5: with a rollicking song. He sweeps along, swaggering boisterously. His
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  Speaker 5: face is weather beaten. He wears a hooded sash with
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  Speaker 5: a silver hat about his head and a bristling black mustache.
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  Speaker 2: That's pretty good.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and no one else is good ranch as you tried,
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  Speaker 1: big man. My third best game of the weekend for
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  Speaker 1: me personally is the Packers at home against the Vikings
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  Speaker 1: in week eighteen. Why because it's a game no one
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  Speaker 1: else cares about. So I will exercise my new Year's
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  Speaker 1: resolution and be nicer and show some compassion and give
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  Speaker 1: this game some love. As Jordan Love probably shouldn't play,
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  Speaker 1: I don't think he is, because the Packers are locked
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  Speaker 1: into that seventh seed in the NFC. They're taking on
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  Speaker 1: whoever is the number two seed. Between the Bears and
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  Speaker 1: the Eagles. This could be one of the most forgettable
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  Speaker 1: contests ever between two rivals, and the Packers and the Vikings.
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  Speaker 1: But we don't know who's going to be at quarterback.
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  Speaker 1: Is it gonna be JJ McCarthy. He could play if
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  Speaker 1: Kevin O'Connell lets him play with that fractured hand, like
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  Speaker 1: it's a hand issue. I don't think it's that serious. But
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  Speaker 1: they need data on JJ McCarthy. They need more reps
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  Speaker 1: with him. They need to see why they let Sam
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  Speaker 1: Darnold walk and go to Seattle. I know partially it
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  Speaker 1: was because of the money, and they drafted JJ to
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  Speaker 1: be that future stud that has not happen yet. It's
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  Speaker 1: not looking good for him right now. JJ looks like
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  Speaker 1: he might have benefited from that whole sign stealing scandal
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  Speaker 1: at Michigan. Like there have been some bad signs with
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  Speaker 1: his NFL plays so far, like holding onto the ball
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  Speaker 1: for way too long, almost like he no longer knows
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  Speaker 1: what the defense is going to do pre snap like
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  Speaker 1: he did at Michigan. The Vikings they may be a big,
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  Speaker 1: fat phony at least when it comes to JJ McCarthy
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  Speaker 1: and drafting that guy.
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  Speaker 2: Like a bill of goods. I don't know. I hope
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  Speaker 2: he plays.
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  Speaker 1: That would be the most intriguing part of the game.
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  Speaker 2: Now.
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  Speaker 1: The second best game of the weekend is of course,
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  Speaker 1: in Pittsburgh, home of the late great Mac Miller, who
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  Speaker 1: had a mixtape called Best Day Ever. And it will
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  Speaker 1: be for whoever wins between the Steelers and the Ravens
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  Speaker 1: Best Day Ever.
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  Speaker 2: But you gotta win.
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  Speaker 1: This is good, This is a rivalry, this is legit.
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  Speaker 1: These two teams hate each other. But the reason it's
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  Speaker 1: not my number one game to watch this weekend is
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  Speaker 1: because neither of these teams can get to the super Bowl.
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  Speaker 1: Whoever wins is either losing to the wild card team
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  Speaker 1: or you know.
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  Speaker 2: The divisional round, second round.
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  Speaker 5: I guarantee it.
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  Speaker 2: They're not getting far.
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  Speaker 1: Is Lamar even playing, Okay, he's practicing, he's playing.
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  Speaker 2: Is Aaron Rodgers even good anymore?
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  Speaker 1: It wasn't very good against Cleveland the Steelers. They could
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  Speaker 1: have won that game and wrapped up the division already.
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  Speaker 1: The Ravens just had an all time rushing game by
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  Speaker 1: the way from Derrick Henry and some could say that
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  Speaker 1: they've had a disastrous season and a win might save
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  Speaker 1: John Harbaugh's job. Tomlin, though he could be out too
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  Speaker 1: one of these guys. Maybe both they get fired.
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  Speaker 2: I could see it happening.
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  Speaker 1: This game really isn't about this season so much, because
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  Speaker 1: I don't think either as a contender. It's about who's
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  Speaker 1: more likely to have an era come to an end,
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  Speaker 1: Tomlin with the Steelers or Harbaugh with the Ravens. But
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  Speaker 1: that's interesting enough. Finally, you already know what it is.
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  Speaker 1: The top game in my matchup power rankings goes to
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  Speaker 1: the forty nine Ers and the Seahawks.
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  Speaker 8: One Shall stand One show.
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  Speaker 2: Fall that takes place on Saturday night.
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  Speaker 1: Winner doesn't just get the NFC West, but the number
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  Speaker 1: one seed in the NFC and number one all important
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  Speaker 1: vibes like she knew what was coming. It's the second
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  Speaker 1: game of this sort of magnitude in the year two.
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  Speaker 1: Was Sam Donald switching to a new team. He just
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  Speaker 1: did this last year with the Vikings. He had to
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  Speaker 1: play a Lions team under similar circumstances. Winner got the
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  Speaker 1: division and the number one seed, and spoiler alert, he
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  Speaker 1: did not play well in that game and the Vikings
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  Speaker 1: did not win that game. He did, though Sam Donald
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  Speaker 1: got a huge victory over the Rams.
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  Speaker 7: Or he was.
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  Speaker 2: It's not perfect, but he's got enough help.
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  Speaker 1: They helped put him in a position to win and
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  Speaker 1: have conference supremacy. Now you trust Rock Purty more in
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  Speaker 1: these spots than Sam Darnold. He's led the Niners to
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  Speaker 1: a super Bowl. He's playing great. He was a player
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  Speaker 1: two away from beating Mahomes in that Super Bowl that
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  Speaker 1: went to overtime. I can't believe the forty nine ers
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  Speaker 1: are in this position, by the way, with all the
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  Speaker 1: injuries they have had this season, to have the number
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  Speaker 1: one seed in the NFC, that did not seem possible.
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  Speaker 1: There's no way it's happening. And here's part of the
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  Speaker 1: reason why loser doesn't drop to the number two seed.
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  Speaker 1: By the way, that's not how this works with the
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  Speaker 1: divisions in the NFL. You dropped to number five. If
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  Speaker 1: the Seahawks lose, you for sure are dropping a five.
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  Speaker 1: But if the Niners lose and the Rams win, they
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  Speaker 1: could drop to the sixth seed. You do not want
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  Speaker 1: to be in the sixth spot because that means you're
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  Speaker 1: going on the road to Chicago or the Eagles.
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  Speaker 2: That's tough.
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  Speaker 1: You're in the five spot. You gotta take on Carolina
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  Speaker 1: or Tampa. That's much more favorable. And people are confused
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  Speaker 1: about this and how the tie breakers work. And I
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  Speaker 1: was too, because you look at the standings and it
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  Speaker 1: says like head to head, your division record, your conference record.
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  Speaker 1: What it doesn't tell you is record against common opponents.
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  Speaker 1: And that's how a lot of this stuff gets sorted out.
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  Speaker 1: And that's what's happening with the Rams and the forty
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  Speaker 1: nine ers. The forty nine Ers ended up beating the Jaguars,
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  Speaker 1: who the Rams lost to, the Texans, who the Rams
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  Speaker 1: lost to. I think that's what it comes down to.
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  Speaker 1: And by the way, Sam Darnold has enough pressure on
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  Speaker 1: him in this game, not just to become the number
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  Speaker 1: one overall seed, but there's two million dollars on the line.
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  Speaker 1: I want to hot it and fifteen thousands slightly more.
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  Speaker 1: Darnold is within striking distance of a two million dollar
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  Speaker 1: incentive laden contract bonus if he hits these milestones twenty
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  Speaker 1: eight touchdowns, four thousand passing yards, completes sixty seven and
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  Speaker 1: a half percent of his passes, a passer.
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  Speaker 2: Rating of one hundred.
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  Speaker 1: He needs three touchdown passes, one hundred and fifty passing yards,
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  Speaker 1: a point three completion percentage increase, and a point eight
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  Speaker 1: passer rating increase to hit all those bonuses, it could happen.
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  Speaker 1: It really is gonna go find a cash machine two million.
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  Speaker 1: That's higher than anybody else's bonus and incentives. So yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it's probably not gonna go. Well, there's way too much
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  Speaker 1: pressure on him. The forty nine ers handle this stuff better,
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  Speaker 1: at least rock Perty does. The other guy in the division, though,
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  Speaker 1: who I do want to talk about here is Matthew Stafford.
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  Speaker 1: As I've gotten through my matchup rankings, but Stafford now
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  Speaker 1: has dropped down to being uh number two in MVP
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  Speaker 1: odds when he was number one and minus two twenty
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  Speaker 1: is the betting favorite going into that game against the Falcons,
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  Speaker 1: and then things went horribly wrong. Drake May has overtaken
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  Speaker 1: him as the MVP front runner. At least according to
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  Speaker 1: the betting odds. He's now at minus three thirty. Stafford
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  Speaker 1: h he's at plus two point fifty. That's a huge
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  Speaker 1: difference in one week. Things turned around like that. I
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  Speaker 1: just was I don't think so. I don't think Stafford
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  Speaker 1: was throwing those picks on purpose against Atlanta. But everybody
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  Speaker 1: was watching that game, and yes, it hurt his chances,
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  Speaker 1: interestingly enough, and it's third by a mile. Trevor Lawrence
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  Speaker 1: has the third best odds to win the MVP. Why
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  Speaker 1: because they could still end up the number one overall seed.
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  Speaker 1: The Jaguars they need a lot of help. They need
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  Speaker 1: to win. They need Denver and the Patriots to lose.
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  Speaker 1: It's not gonna happen million. But he's plus twenty thousand.
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  Speaker 1: That might be worth putting twenty bucks on just in case.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know a lot of this season, though, the
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  Speaker 1: Rams felt like the best team in the league. They
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  Speaker 1: were everyone's pick to win it, and then they lost
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  Speaker 1: to Carolina my Panthers. Now they lose to the Seahawks
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  Speaker 1: and the Falcons the last few weeks. They're gonna be
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  Speaker 1: the fifth of the sixth seed in the NFC. So
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  Speaker 1: everybody's jumping off of Matthew Stafford. Oh, he can't be
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  Speaker 1: the MVP. Now, it's ludicrous. I'm not saying Drake may
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  Speaker 1: isn't worthy. He is, but you're penalizing Matthew Stafford because
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  Speaker 1: he plays in a much better division where you could
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  Speaker 1: have three teams win twelve plus games and all make
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  Speaker 1: the playoffs. That's how good the NFC West is. Despite
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  Speaker 1: what the Arizona Cardinals are up to the Patriots and
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  Speaker 1: Drake May, they have beaten one team with a winning record,
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  Speaker 1: the Bills. They've also lost to the Bills. They've had
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  Speaker 1: the easiest schedule in the league. That should matter when
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  Speaker 1: you look at the stats and put things into context
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  Speaker 1: between him and Matthew Stafford, and I just don't like
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  Speaker 1: this recency bias. Drake May had the big game against
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  Speaker 1: the Ravens. Matthew Stafford had the bad game at the
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  Speaker 1: end of the season against the Falcons. So what about
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  Speaker 1: earlier in the season, and those games should matter just
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  Speaker 1: as much. It shouldn't just be about what have you
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  Speaker 1: done for me lately? The Rams schedule is infinitely tougher
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  Speaker 1: than the Patriots. I'm sorry you put Drake Man in
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  Speaker 1: the NFC West. I don't know if they're making the playoffs.
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  Speaker 1: Even the Bills, who are good, they're getting in in
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  Speaker 1: the AFC East, they have a ton of loss Take
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  Speaker 1: out the recency bias. Insert who plays in the much
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  Speaker 1: tougher division. Think about it this way, what if the
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  Speaker 1: Rams had these losses late in the year earlier, but
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  Speaker 1: the big wins later. Matthew Stafford definitely would be ahead
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  Speaker 1: of Drake May.
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  Speaker 2: You have to think of it.
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  Speaker 1: It's a cumulative thing. It's seventeen games. It can't just
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  Speaker 1: be about what happens at the very end of the season.
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  Speaker 1: I would still vote for Matthew Stafford as the MVP.
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  Speaker 2: It's close.
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  Speaker 1: Drake May is deserving, but it's the totality of the season.
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  Speaker 1: This is like Notre Dame's losses. You don't get to
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  Speaker 1: escape those losses, those two losses, just because they happened
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  Speaker 1: early in the year. I look at games earlier in
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  Speaker 1: the season he's in this being just as important as
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: games later in the season. Now we have some games
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  Speaker 1: with stakes, like the number one seed on the line
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  Speaker 1: between the forty nine ers and the.
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  Speaker 2: Seahawks, But the MVP.
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  Speaker 1: This shouldn't be about who has more momentum going into
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  Speaker 1: the playoffs. In my mind, it's cumulative. Matthew Stafford, I'd
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  Speaker 1: still give him the edge. Even though the Falcons do suck.
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  Speaker 1: They're in the NFC South. I know that division well
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  Speaker 1: and I was surprised he played that poorly.
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  Speaker 2: It's still a chance to win late.
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: I'm at a Moslin in for Big Ben Mallard here
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  Speaker 2: Hey, this is Jason McIntyre.
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  Speaker 1: God, I miss mac Miller. This pulls up my heartstrings
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  Speaker 1: a little bit.
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  Speaker 2: I can't finish the show.
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  Speaker 4: Do you need a tissue?
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  Speaker 1: How dare you Lorena minimize his death like this? Even
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: though it's been like ten years. He was just entering
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  Speaker 1: his prime. I'm out of Moslin trying to enter mine.
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  Speaker 1: In for Ben Maller here on Fox Sports Radio, like
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  Speaker 1: Swimming so good, he was becoming more mature as an artist.
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  Speaker 1: But I do love the Kids mixtape. That's what got
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  Speaker 1: me into him in the first place. And then I
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  Speaker 1: learned about Easy Mac and all this other stuff. The
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  Speaker 1: mixtape game is crazy.
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  Speaker 4: This reminds me of driving through the mountains in Oregon.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, fair enough, good stuff. Man, Hey there's Bigfoot.
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  Speaker 1: Let's go to Mike the Leprechaun. Mike, I'm out a Moslin's.
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  Speaker 1: You're on Fox Sports Radio. What's up, Mike?
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  Speaker 3: Good morning?
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  Speaker 7: What's your name? Adam?
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  Speaker 2: Who cares? It's Adam Auslin?
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  Speaker 3: Adam?
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  Speaker 4: So you haven't been listening to the show, of course,
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  Speaker 4: not just playing with your chicken?
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  Speaker 2: Was that like a clock? Knows?
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  Speaker 6: What is that?
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  Speaker 2: A whoope? Cushion?
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  Speaker 1: What is that.
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  Speaker 7: The chicken?
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  Speaker 2: Okay, it sounds.
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  Speaker 1: Like the horn on an old What are those bikes
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  Speaker 1: called swiss? A swim a swim bicycle?
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  Speaker 7: Twin? Now twins at c h W I N N.
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  Speaker 7: I used to have a twin and I'm gonna call
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  Speaker 7: him a twin.
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  Speaker 3: A twin.
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  Speaker 7: Hey, are you in Los Angeles? Adam? Are you in
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  Speaker 7: Los Angeles?
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  Speaker 2: I am?
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  Speaker 7: I'm oh, how's the rain?
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  Speaker 1: Well, actually it stops justin town for the Rose Bowl?
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: Worked out nicely for Indiana.
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  Speaker 7: I was watching. They had a great win. I loved
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  Speaker 7: was a great day and they were mopping up the
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  Speaker 7: rain with the with the fungers.
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  Speaker 3: Did you see that?
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  Speaker 1: I did a great job because Kurt Signetti he deserves it.
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  Speaker 1: All people waiting on hid and foot for him.
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  Speaker 7: He's the first Cuban American to ever win the Heisman,
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  Speaker 7: and he deserved it. And he had a single mother,
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  Speaker 7: I believe. I'm not sure about that, but he's a
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  Speaker 7: role model first, and I'm sad that Notre Dame didn't
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  Speaker 7: make the cutoff.
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  Speaker 1: Oh you're talking about Fernando Mendoza. I was talking about
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  Speaker 1: his head coach and Kurt Signetti, who is a monster.
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  Speaker 2: But you're right.
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: Fernando Mendoza more of a boy scout and seems like
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  Speaker 1: a pr not nightmare or dream with the way he
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  Speaker 1: answers the questions.
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  Speaker 2: But I love him, I love Indiana.
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  Speaker 1: But my ducks are gonna have to take him out
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  Speaker 1: next week.
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  Speaker 7: Oh my duck has to go anyway. So Marcel is
• 23:14
  Speaker 7: a terrible caller, just so you know that. For the
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  Speaker 7: record only the foot picks. How would you write?
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: How would you rate your calls?
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  Speaker 7: I'm the worst collar of the year by far. In fact,
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  Speaker 7: somebody nominated me for the worst caller of all times.
• 23:30
  Speaker 7: But I was the rookie caller of the year last year.
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  Speaker 1: Oh so this is the second more slump for you
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  Speaker 1: last year.
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  Speaker 7: It's better to get the worst collar than the best caller.
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  Speaker 7: And I have to disagree with you even though you
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  Speaker 7: use the fancy word. You use the word dot ca,
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  Speaker 7: which is fancy, that's French. It's how you finished the
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  Speaker 7: season that matters.
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  Speaker 2: Okay.
• 23:52
  Speaker 7: People who pick up the people who pick up the
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  Speaker 7: trophy are not the ones who lost the fourth two
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  Speaker 7: games of the season, like the Patriots. But maybe what
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  Speaker 7: they do at the end.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, but it's a.
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  Speaker 1: Hold on, hold on, Mike. It's a regular season award.
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: Like nothing is determined with the Rams, and if they
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  Speaker 1: could win the Super Bowl, that should be held against uh,
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  Speaker 1: Matthew Stafford rabbit all day rabbit.
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  Speaker 7: All right, So Drake May is the obvious number one
• 24:20
  Speaker 7: m VP. Number two, Stafford is good and number three it's.
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  Speaker 2: A surprise, Yeah, Trevor Lawrence.
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  Speaker 7: Number three it's blind Scott.
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  Speaker 2: I'm sorry, blind Scott.
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  Speaker 7: Blind Scott.
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  Speaker 2: Blind Scott called in last night.
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  Speaker 7: Who cares anyway? So did you watch the ball drop
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  Speaker 7: in New York?
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: I watched Ryan Seacrest balls drop in New.
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  Speaker 4: Can I ask you a question, would you like Mike
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  Speaker 4: the Leprechaun teach your children?
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  Speaker 2: No, he's a teacher. Oh I'm sorry.
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  Speaker 1: Uh no, obviously he knew, but ossier was as frenchier
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  Speaker 1: lord children public.
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  Speaker 7: Let me do you know any French?
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  Speaker 2: Do you have ten your mind?
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  Speaker 1: Because I heard teachers really pack it in once they
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  Speaker 1: get that tenure.
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  Speaker 7: Okay, oh yeah, on top top of the morning. I
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  Speaker 7: forgot to say top of the marnsweet anyway, the Waterford
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  Speaker 7: by the way, the ball that they drop is about
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  Speaker 7: five thousand pounds and it has twelve thousand pieces of
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  Speaker 7: water for crystal shipped directly from Waterford City in our
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  Speaker 7: all right, the fact you're.
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  Speaker 1: Mike the leprechan So I'm gonna take you at your
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  Speaker 1: you have okay, okay.
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  Speaker 2: Mike, can we palm?
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  Speaker 5: All right?
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  Speaker 2: I tried?
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  Speaker 1: I was patient, like teachers have to be with their students.
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  Speaker 1: He's really Are we sure?
• 25:49
  Speaker 2: Is that verified? Is it a real thing? Okay, now
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  Speaker 2: I have.
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  Speaker 1: To get back to my NBA story because I've been
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: hating and I've been simmering about this player for a while.
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: But Draymond Green, you may have noticed, had quite the
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  Speaker 1: blow up last week, an emotional outburst. It happened courtside.
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  Speaker 1: It was between him and Steve Kerr, whose hair got
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: a little bit whiter. And I understand he's the modern
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  Speaker 1: Dennis Rodman. Draymond wants to be Bill Lambier. He's more
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  Speaker 1: skilled than both. You could say I need a beer
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  Speaker 1: every time I see his antics though out there on
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  Speaker 1: the court, like when he's kicking someone in the nuts,
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  Speaker 1: stomping on their chests, arguing with his own teammates, getting
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: after it with Kevin Durant, and now he's doing this
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  Speaker 1: with his head coach and Steve Kerr. He is one
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  Speaker 1: of those guys that comes across as so extremely unlikable.
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  Speaker 1: When you're going against him, I guess you hate him
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  Speaker 1: even more.
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  Speaker 2: But some of those guys where when he's on your team,
• 26:54
  Speaker 2: you love him. Do they do? Golden State fans still
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  Speaker 2: like Draymond Green.
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  Speaker 1: Is is it really like that still or is it
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  Speaker 1: just they know they can't trade him, they have to
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  Speaker 1: deal with him. They accept him because of that. He's
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: getting a triple single. As Charles Barkley would say, he's
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: averaging eight, six and five. The Warriors are around five hundred.
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  Speaker 1: I know with Draymond it's more than just the numbers.
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  Speaker 1: You look at the plus minus. He still is an impactful,
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  Speaker 1: overall positive player. He's also thirty five. They were seven
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  Speaker 1: points better per one hundred possessions last season with him
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  Speaker 1: on the floor. That's significant. This year they're one point
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  Speaker 1: better with Draymond on the floor. He's not exactly pulling
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  Speaker 1: his weight like he used to. So how much is
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: you gonna put up with? I know they apologized. Steve
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  Speaker 1: Kerr felt.
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  Speaker 2: Like he was in the wrong. Draymond thought he was
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  Speaker 2: in the wrong.
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  Speaker 1: But this petulant behavior, it's a pattern. This isn't a
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  Speaker 1: one time thing, and he gets by because he's one
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  Speaker 1: of the toughest competitors out there. Like, that's what this is.
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  Speaker 1: You want to go to war with somebody like Draymond Green.
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  Speaker 1: He has a big part of why they won four championship.
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  Speaker 1: There's poor championships in Golden State. There's no doubt. There's
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: also injury luck, a fluky cap spike that got them
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  Speaker 1: Kevin Durant. There's a lot that goes into it, a
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  Speaker 1: lot of good fortune when it comes to winning. He's
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: making twenty five million this year. Draymond I just it's
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  Speaker 1: crazy to me the least that he gets because he
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  Speaker 1: is a legacy player with Golden State. But they're losing
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  Speaker 1: and things get worse with Draymond in situations like this.
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  Speaker 1: They want him to finish his career with Golden State.
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  Speaker 1: Steve Kerr said, quote, I want him to finish his
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  Speaker 1: career with the Golden State Warriors.
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  Speaker 2: Unquote.
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  Speaker 1: That probably means things were teetering the other way in
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  Speaker 1: the cooler heads prevailed, But having to say that means
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: it's bad enough that people were actually wondering if that's
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  Speaker 1: going to happen now, Like it's in doubt to some
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  Speaker 1: degree that he'll finish his career as a member of
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  Speaker 1: the Golden State Warriors. Steve Kerr felt like he needed
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  Speaker 1: to make it clear that's the position they're at now
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  Speaker 1: with him, but that's just for now. Things are still
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: bubbling beneath the surface. They got real issues. They have
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: the toughest schedule remaining in the NBA, and they're struggling already.
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  Speaker 1: I just don't know if this fading dynasty is Steve
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: Kerr put it is long for having a guy that
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: is an irritant to this degree, not just with the
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  Speaker 1: opponents anymore, his own teammates, his head coach. Like I know,
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: Steph Curry got hurt in that second round series against Minnesota.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe they win if he doesn't, but they're not a
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  Speaker 1: contender anymore. They're not close. If everything breaks their way
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: in Golden State, they could win a round. I think
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: that's about as far as their ceiling goes. This fading dynasty.
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: I don't know if they want to put up with this.
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: Nothing ends unless it ends badly, otherwise it wouldn't.
• 30:24
  Speaker 2: Whatever that's saying is, I think I bushered it?
• 30:27
  Speaker 5: Do you speak it?
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: I just know this Golden State Warriors run this era.
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: It's getting close to being over Steph Curry. Is he
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: okay with just being competitive in a first round maybe
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: a second round? The thing is he kind of runs
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: things there understandably. It's Steph Curry. I think he's the
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: top five player. Ever, as long as he likes Draymond,
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: as long as he likes Steve Kerr, nobody's going anywhere.
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: And I'm not even saying Draymond is a bad player
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  Speaker 1: or a bad guy, but he's also the type of
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  Speaker 1: guy that's not gonna go well, it's not gonna be
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  Speaker 1: pretty with how this thing ends. If the dynasty is fading,
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: if it's dying out, he's not gonna let it go
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  Speaker 1: without a fight.
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  Speaker 2: He's going out swinging.
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: Ask Steven Adams, asked demonts a bonus, Yusuf Nurkic, Rudy Gobert.
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: They can't beat the other teams anymore, and that's when
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: typically there's more infighting. Draymond's already fought a teammate in
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: Jordan Poole. That was just months after they had won
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: the championship. That was back in twenty twenty two, So
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: things could get that toxic that quickly after winning. How's
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: it gonna look when they really start losing and going
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: into a tailspin?
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  Speaker 2: Yo, I don't think.
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: They're that far away from that. And to me, the
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: way they've handled Raymond Green, I think it emboldens him.
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  Speaker 1: I think it leads to more of this type of behavior.
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  Speaker 1: They won't suspend him, Like, why would his actions ever
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: change if they don't correct it or discipline him. Golden
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: State is part of the problem now, Draymond he is
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: a Hall of Famer, he's great, and those guys get favoritism,
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: preferential treatment. That is nothing new. If you're talented enough,
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: you can get away with more. But the threshold he
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: gets seems unusually high for how far he can take
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  Speaker 1: things with his team, with his organization on the court,
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: with officials. I can't believe how many things he can
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: get away with, barkinghet officials.
• 32:49
  Speaker 2: He doesn't get a technical.
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: It has to get so bad for him to get
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: a technical where somebody else would have got one under
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: much lesser behavior. People have called him a manchild. It's bad.
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: It's gonna get worse. And by the way, that game
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: where he just left and went to the locker room
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: as he and Kerr were arguing it was a close
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: game against Orlando, and then they ended up blowing them
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: out Without Draymond Green, he just gets away with stuff
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: though no one else would. No one puts baby in
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: the corner, no one puts day day in the corner,
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: whatever you want to say. Eventually the act will get
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: tired when his name no longer matches the game and
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: his talent is not worth the headache.
• 33:40
  Speaker 2: We'll see.
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: I'm just monitoring this. I got cousins up in NorCal,
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: still big Golden State Warriors fans, and even they say sometimes, yeah,
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: he's a clown. And that was before he made that
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: comment about nobody has to work on Christmas except us.
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: Nobody works on Christmas. Why should we have to play games? Okay,
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: I'm paraphrasing, but it was bad, and so is the
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: situation with Golden State. I'm at am oslin in for
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: Ben Maller here on Fox Sports Radio. We will close
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: things out next. There's another guy who just left his
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: team and went to the locker room who's much more
• 34:14
  Speaker 1: talented and much younger than Draymond Green, and I think
• 34:19
  Speaker 1: might be on the outs with his team at least
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: in the next two years. And this is just the
• 34:24
  Speaker 1: start of what's soon to come with the Minnesota Timberwolves.
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  Speaker 2: all right.
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  Speaker 1: It's like the model below the Stinger, but it's above
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  Speaker 1: it's black and I ordered it from Florida. It was
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  Speaker 1: a special model. How was that racist?
• 35:56
  Speaker 2: If anything? If it was white, maybe you could say that.
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: If it's Gray. Am I not on either side? How
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: does this work?
• 36:04
  Speaker 2: My god, My closest friends are African Americans. Okay, I'll
• 36:08
  Speaker 2: have you know.
• 36:11
  Speaker 1: Anyways, enough car talk one am I Adam Carolla. Here,
• 36:15
  Speaker 1: I gotta talk about another player who left the bench
• 36:17
  Speaker 1: recently who's much better than Draymond Green. Anthony Edwards, who
• 36:23
  Speaker 1: Anti Claus whatever you want to call him in those
• 36:26
  Speaker 1: Mountain Dew commercials. I They would end up losing to
• 36:30
  Speaker 1: the Atlanta Hawks on Wednesday, one twenty six to one
• 36:33
  Speaker 1: oh two Minnesota. And uh, while guys were getting benched
• 36:38
  Speaker 1: because the game was over and starters were out, well,
• 36:42
  Speaker 1: there were seven minutes and fifty two seconds remaining, and
• 36:46
  Speaker 1: it appeared that Edwards disagreed with Chris Finch, his head coach,
• 36:51
  Speaker 1: about pulling the starters when the Hawks were up one
• 36:54
  Speaker 1: oh nine to eighty. And uh, he just said peace out,
• 36:58
  Speaker 1: like he just walked into the locker room. I guess
• 37:03
  Speaker 1: if he's gonna take us out, I might as well
• 37:06
  Speaker 1: hit the showers. Edwards had thirty points in the ballgame.
• 37:10
  Speaker 1: He is a top tier talent, one of the best
• 37:12
  Speaker 1: players in the NBA, the best American born player right now.
• 37:17
  Speaker 1: He's next. He could be the face of the league.
• 37:19
  Speaker 1: He could He's still very young. Here's the problem, and
• 37:24
  Speaker 1: here's what I'd be concerned about. And if Scott Shapiro's
• 37:28
  Speaker 1: listening to this, I apologize because I know it's his team,
• 37:32
  Speaker 1: But I don't know if aunt is long for being
• 37:35
  Speaker 1: a Minnesota Timberwolf. I would be concerned about the makeup
• 37:40
  Speaker 1: of this roster, about the construction of the team in
• 37:44
  Speaker 1: where they're going now. I don't want to be an alarmist.
• 37:47
  Speaker 1: There's sixth right now in the Western Conference. They're twenty
• 37:50
  Speaker 1: one and thirteen, six and four in their last ten games.
• 37:54
  Speaker 1: They're only three and a half games out of being
• 37:57
  Speaker 1: the two seed held by San Antonio Dire.
• 38:01
  Speaker 2: It's not a crazy situation.
• 38:04
  Speaker 1: But the problem in Minnesota is with the Anthony Edwards
• 38:08
  Speaker 1: getting frustrated multiple times as he was ejected in overtime
• 38:13
  Speaker 1: against Denver on Christmas. If you remember, that was a
• 38:16
  Speaker 1: hell of a game. I don't know if they're going
• 38:20
  Speaker 1: to get to the Western Conference finals again. In fact,
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  Speaker 1: I wouldn't guarantee it, but I'm pretty confident that's not
• 38:28
  Speaker 1: happening this season.
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  Speaker 5: I guarantee it.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not taking it that far. I'm just confident it's
• 38:34
  Speaker 1: not happening. They have put themselves in a position, the
• 38:39
  Speaker 1: Minnesota Timberwolves, where they could be a victim of their
• 38:41
  Speaker 1: own success, where anything less than a conference finals appearance
• 38:45
  Speaker 1: because they've done it the last two years, looks bad.
• 38:50
  Speaker 1: They're supposed to break through now and get to the
• 38:53
  Speaker 1: NBA Finals. But what if it goes the other way
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  Speaker 1: and they lose in the first round and it looks
• 38:59
  Speaker 1: like they're regressing and going backwards and not getting better,
• 39:03
  Speaker 1: even though Ant looks better than ever. If the team
• 39:06
  Speaker 1: isn't if they're not constructed well enough to compete at
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  Speaker 1: the highest level. And I know he's under contract for
• 39:13
  Speaker 1: a few more seasons, but that could get dicey in
• 39:16
  Speaker 1: a small market like Minnesota, and the buzzards could be circling,
• 39:20
  Speaker 1: the vultures could be out. Teams could be asking about
• 39:23
  Speaker 1: Ant making some godfather offers, and if he isn't that
• 39:28
  Speaker 1: gung ho about being a Minnesota Timberwolf long term, that
• 39:33
  Speaker 1: could get nasty in a hurry. I just know, well,
• 39:37
  Speaker 1: they're good, they're not a contender. Still, they don't have
• 39:41
  Speaker 1: enough scoring around him. He is asked to do far
• 39:45
  Speaker 1: too much. The usage rating is far too high, and
• 39:49
  Speaker 1: I don't know how they fix it because I'm not
• 39:51
  Speaker 1: a big Julius Randall fan. And that shake up with
• 39:54
  Speaker 1: Karl Anthony Towns. Look, they went back to the Western
• 39:57
  Speaker 1: Conference finals. Things broke their way. You could say they
• 40:00
  Speaker 1: won the trade. You could say it's short sighted. I
• 40:04
  Speaker 1: just don't love Julius Randall as his number two.
• 40:08
  Speaker 2: Who does number two work for?
• 40:09
  Speaker 1: Why am I thinking of Austin Powers right now?
• 40:11
  Speaker 2: It must be getting late.
• 40:12
  Speaker 1: I'm just saying Anthony Edwards might have a wandering eye
• 40:18
  Speaker 1: in looking for greener pastures at some point. If you're
• 40:22
  Speaker 1: a Minnesota Timberwolf fan, beware, trust me, I'm.
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  Speaker 2: Out of Oslin.
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  Speaker 1: This has been The Ben Maller Show is a pleasure
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  Speaker 1: filling in. Thanks to Lorena, Thank you, Justin. This is
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