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  Speaker 3: So let's get after it.
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  Speaker 4: Let's start off with some bad news. So Anthony Richardson,
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  Speaker 4: Colts quarterback, he dislocated his right pinky finger in preseason
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  Speaker 4: action against the Ravens on Thursday night. So this is
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  Speaker 4: the Colts second possession. Richardson drops back, he gets sacked
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  Speaker 4: and he gets driven into the ground unblocked linebacker David Ojabo.
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  Speaker 4: He got to him and this is how it sounded
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  Speaker 4: on the Colts radio No network.
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  Speaker 3: Here you go.
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  Speaker 1: Anthony Richardson goes out of the gunballman here Hash backs
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  Speaker 1: to throw and he is deck from the left and
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  Speaker 1: he has sacked and buried.
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  Speaker 3: He took a big time hit, but more importantly hangs.
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  Speaker 1: On to the football and the Ravens with a sack
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  Speaker 1: off the left edge and.
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  Speaker 5: He's going off the field, Matt he got hit unobated.
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  Speaker 6: There was no one blocking the The protection was totally
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  Speaker 6: not there.
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  Speaker 3: Uh, the protection was not there. He's right about that.
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  Speaker 4: But what also wasn't there was the awareness, zero awareness
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  Speaker 4: from Anthony Richardson. Didn't feel the heat, didn't even know
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  Speaker 4: there was heat. You got to do a better job
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  Speaker 4: recognizing the pressure. That's not just on your protection, that's
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  Speaker 4: also on the quarterback. And it's the same old song
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  Speaker 4: and dance with Anthony Richardson. He was the fourth overall
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  Speaker 4: pick just two years ago and it's been a disaster.
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  Speaker 4: And this is the thing. If we zoom out for
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  Speaker 4: a second, you ever have a friend who's just in
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  Speaker 4: a bad relationship. We've all had that right where it's
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  Speaker 4: just your buddy is just arguing with his girl constantly,
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  Speaker 4: and you either think or say, like, man, they're just
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  Speaker 4: not good together, like they need to be away from
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  Speaker 4: each other. That's how I feel about Anthony Richardson and
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  Speaker 4: the Colts. Not that they're arguing all the time, but
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  Speaker 4: they're just bad for each other. If you look at
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  Speaker 4: the Colts, how are the Colts bad for Anthony Richardson. Well,
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  Speaker 4: they rushed him on the field as a Week one
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  Speaker 4: starter his rookie season. He was nowhere near ready to
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  Speaker 4: start in the NFL. This guy had fewer than four
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  Speaker 4: hundred passing attempts in college at Florida. Under four hundred attempts.
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  Speaker 4: That's a guy who needs seasoning. That's a guy who
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  Speaker 4: needs to be brought along slowly, Get a ton of reps,
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  Speaker 4: digest the playbook folly. He needs the red shirt his
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  Speaker 4: first year in the NFL. His rookie year should have
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  Speaker 4: been a red shirt year. He would have been way
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  Speaker 4: better off not seeing the field. But the Colts not
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  Speaker 4: only got him on the field, they rushed him out
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  Speaker 4: there in Week one. What blows my mind is if
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  Speaker 4: you compare Anthony Richardson to a couple of quarterbacks. One,
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  Speaker 4: let's start with who I think is the best quarterback
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  Speaker 4: in the game right now, it's still Patrick Mahomes. If
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  Speaker 4: you look at Mahomes in college, Mahomes through thirteen hundred
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  Speaker 4: and forty nine passes in college, Anthony Richardson through three
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  Speaker 4: ninety three. Mahomes attempted almost a thousand more passes in
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  Speaker 4: college than Anthony Richardson does it's a lot of reps,
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  Speaker 4: that's a lot of learning on the job, that's a
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  Speaker 4: lot of seasoning. You just didn't have that with Anthony Richardson.
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  Speaker 4: And then if you take the comparison further, what happened
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  Speaker 4: with both of those quarterbacks their rookie year.
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  Speaker 3: Mahomes sat almost the entire year.
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  Speaker 4: He had one start at the very end of the
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  Speaker 4: regular season against Coops Bronca. That was it one start.
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  Speaker 4: So Mahomes started one game as a rookie. Anthony Richardson
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  Speaker 4: started week one as a rookie with a portion of
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  Speaker 4: the experience that Mahomes had in college made no sense.
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  Speaker 4: The Colts had no patience whatsoever. Put them in a
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  Speaker 4: terrible spot. The colts that you ever have, like you
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  Speaker 4: ever have a dog and you put a treat like
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  Speaker 4: at the end of his nose, and the dogs sitting
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  Speaker 4: there for a few seconds just kind of like looking
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  Speaker 4: at it, crosssied like, oh man, I can only do
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  Speaker 4: this for a few seconds. You realize that, right, And
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  Speaker 4: those evil owners are like wait, wait, wait, fight, oh
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  Speaker 4: not yet, not wait, and the dog's.
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  Speaker 3: Like, oh man, I can't take it anywhere. That's the Colts.
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  Speaker 4: The Colts are the dog with a treat at the
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  Speaker 4: end of its nose and they're like, hey.
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  Speaker 7: I get that.
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  Speaker 4: We just got to start Anthony Richardson that and they
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  Speaker 4: threw him out there and it was a disaster. Now,
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  Speaker 4: where Anthony Richardson is bad for the Colts, you can't
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  Speaker 4: put this just on the Colts. Anthony Richrichardson has been
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  Speaker 4: freaking brutal and even though he got thrown out there
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  Speaker 4: before I think he was ready and the Colts did
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  Speaker 4: a disservice to him, He's done a disservice to the
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  Speaker 4: Colts as well. He's been atrocious. And not only are
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  Speaker 4: his numbers, I mean like a carbon copy of Tim
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  Speaker 4: Tebow's quarterback numbers in the NFL. By the way, that
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  Speaker 4: is someone you do not want to have carbon copy
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  Speaker 4: numbers with. That would be Tim Tebow. You want numbers
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  Speaker 4: that are way better than that.
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  Speaker 3: I'm telling you.
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  Speaker 4: It's the Spider Man meme where the two guys are
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  Speaker 4: pointing at each other.
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  Speaker 3: That's the stat.
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  Speaker 4: Lines in the NFL of Anthony Richardson and Tim Tebow.
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  Speaker 4: They are so similar it's staggering, and so like, Anthony
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  Speaker 4: Richardson has been that bad as a quarterback and not
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  Speaker 4: only has it been unproductive, he's been banged up all
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  Speaker 4: the time. He's bess seventeen games in his first two seasons.
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  Speaker 4: Think about that, they play seventeen games a season. That's
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  Speaker 4: thirty four games in two years. He's missed seventeen of them.
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  Speaker 4: He's missed half the games due to injury. So he's
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  Speaker 4: banged up, he's unproductive, and he tapped out. He tapped
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  Speaker 4: out last season because he was tired. What have you
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  Speaker 4: heard that in the NFL A quarterback was tired and
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  Speaker 4: was like, yeah, I need out of the game. Everyone's like,
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  Speaker 4: what what do you mean you?
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  Speaker 3: Uh? Okay? He tapped out of the game because he
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  Speaker 3: was tired.
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  Speaker 4: So he's done a disservice to the Colts as well.
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  Speaker 4: He's been bad, he's been banged up, he's tapped out,
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  Speaker 4: and the Colts threw him out there way before he
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  Speaker 4: was ready. They are just horrible for each other, and
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  Speaker 4: unfortunately he got banged up, dislocated right pinky finger. Obviously
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  Speaker 4: he is throwing hand and he's gonna be out for
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  Speaker 4: a little bit of time. He wanted to get back
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  Speaker 4: out there. He tried to regrip the football on the sidelines,
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  Speaker 4: wasn't working. They showed it on the on the replay,
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  Speaker 4: it's like, you know, his hand is facing north and
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  Speaker 4: his pinky is going a sharp east.
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  Speaker 3: You know that's never a good sign, not good at all.
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  Speaker 4: But it's another, you know, huge speed bump, another huge
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  Speaker 4: hurdle in the on the path of Anthony Richardson being
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  Speaker 4: a serviceable NFL quarterback. Like even before what happened on
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  Speaker 4: Thursday with the injury, he there were reports out of
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  Speaker 4: Colts camp. You know, James Boyd covers the Colts for
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  Speaker 4: the Athletic and he's like, hey, this guy, Daniel Jones,
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  Speaker 4: he's got a good shot to start Week one. He's
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  Speaker 4: been the more consistent quarterback thus far. Again, you don't
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  Speaker 4: want to be neck and neck with Daniel Jones, who's
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  Speaker 4: been a complete disappointment in his NFL career, who has
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  Speaker 4: much more experience than Anthony Richardson. But you want to
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  Speaker 4: be further along than that guy. You want to flash
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  Speaker 4: more in training camp. The Colts put it this way,
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  Speaker 4: they want their number four overall pick to flash more
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  Speaker 4: than Daniel Jones, who's been a total disappointment and who
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  Speaker 4: they signed on the cheap in.
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  Speaker 3: A one year deal.
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  Speaker 4: They want Anthony Richardson to be the guy. They've done
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  Speaker 4: everything they can for him to be the guy, and
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  Speaker 4: it's it's just not working out. Man, it's not happening.
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  Speaker 4: The stats I mentioned between Anthony Richardson and Tebow, I'm
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  Speaker 4: not going to bombard you with stats galore, but it's crazy.
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  Speaker 4: So Anthony Richardson his record eight and seven in the NFL.
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  Speaker 4: Tebow was eight and six in the NFL. Anthony Richardson,
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  Speaker 4: Anthony Richardson has completed three more passes. Tibo had thirteen
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  Speaker 4: more attempts. That's about as close as you can get
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  Speaker 4: completion percentage very similar. Tebow threw for thirty one more yards.
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  Speaker 4: Think about over the course of like fifteen versus fourteen
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  Speaker 4: starts plus thirty one for Tebou. Tibou had six more
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  Speaker 4: touchdown passes four fewer interceptions. So advantage Tebou there, Tim Tebow.
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  Speaker 4: Remember Teba as a quarterback? Yeah, that guy plus seven
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  Speaker 4: point five in passer rating. Teebo's passer rating career wise
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  Speaker 4: in the NFL seven point five points better than Richardson,
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  Speaker 4: and Tebow ran the ball more. He rushed for over
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  Speaker 4: three hundred and fifty more yards than Anthony Richardson and
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  Speaker 4: about the same number of starts. So it's like Tim
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  Speaker 4: Tebow has outplayed Anthony Richardson in the NFL.
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  Speaker 3: That's astoundingly bad.
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  Speaker 4: I wish I had better news for you Colts fans,
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  Speaker 4: but that's where you are. Man, Like, one preseason game
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  Speaker 4: in and this is the reality is Richardson is hurt
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  Speaker 4: again and now we're looking at Danny Dimes as the
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  Speaker 4: more probable Week one starter. How are you supposed to
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  Speaker 4: be fired up for that? Now, one other thing I
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  Speaker 4: will mention here, and this doesn't just apply to the Colts,
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  Speaker 4: but this applies to a lot of NFL teams in
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  Speaker 4: the preseason. Something else that the Colts did. They were
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  Speaker 4: playing with fire in this game. So they put Anthony
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  Speaker 4: Richardson out there, they gave him the start. They didn't
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  Speaker 4: start the offensive line Anthony Richardson before this injury.
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  Speaker 3: He at least had a shot to be the Week
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  Speaker 3: one starter.
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  Speaker 4: And the Colts are like, yeah, let's rest the veteran
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  Speaker 4: offensive lineman. You didn't have the left tackle in there,
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  Speaker 4: Bernard Ryman. You didn't have the right tackle in there,
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  Speaker 4: Braden Smith, you didn't have the left guarden there.
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  Speaker 3: Quintin Nelson. You're playing with fire.
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  Speaker 4: If you're gonna put a quarterback behind center who might
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  Speaker 4: be your Week one starter and you don't have starting
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  Speaker 4: offensive linemen out there, that is absolutely playing with fire.
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  Speaker 3: And hey man, it cost the Colts.
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  Speaker 4: And I wouldn't just say the injury occurred because you
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  Speaker 4: had the backup right tackle in there.
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  Speaker 3: If anything, the running back was supposed to pick the
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  Speaker 3: guy up.
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  Speaker 4: You like, the tight end just ran a pattern, and
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  Speaker 4: you had the Ravens linebacker just scraped on that side
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  Speaker 4: of the ball and no one blocked him at all.
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  Speaker 4: So it is a complete mix up by the protection.
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  Speaker 4: But also Anthony Richardson, you gotta be more aware. You've
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  Speaker 4: got to recognize what's going on. I understand there are
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  Speaker 4: gonna be some breakdowns and protection and those sorts of
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  Speaker 4: things will happen, But Anthony Richardson hasn't earned the benefit
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  Speaker 4: of the doubt. You know, if Mahomes just doesn't see
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  Speaker 4: a blitz coming, it's like, okay, that doesn't happen all
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  Speaker 4: the time. But when you've seen a steady diet of
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  Speaker 4: Anthony Richardson holding onto the ball too long, you know,
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  Speaker 4: miscues galore, not recognizing the pressure or the blitz. He
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  Speaker 4: hasn't earned the benefit of the doubt. Got to be
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  Speaker 4: way more aware than he is. But it's just a
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  Speaker 4: matter of time. The Colts are going to move on
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  Speaker 4: from him. It's a complete waste. They spent a top
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  Speaker 4: ten pick, top five pick on Richardson and they were morons. Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: I can't put this only on Anthony Richardson. To trot
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  Speaker 4: him out there in week one is just like you
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  Speaker 4: guys got to have a better long term approach than that.
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  Speaker 4: I just think they set them up for failure. Now,
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  Speaker 4: there are some quarterbacks that honestly are set up for failure.
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  Speaker 4: They're thrown out there before they're ready. And some quarterbacks
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  Speaker 4: are good enough to overcome that, and Anthony Richardson just isn't.
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  Speaker 4: He hasn't had enough experience, didn't get enough reps in college,
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  Speaker 4: so he couldn't be thrown out there before he was ready.
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  Speaker 4: The Colts did it, and now they're in this spot. Man,
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  Speaker 4: they don't have a quarterback for the now or the future.
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  Speaker 4: That's where they're at.
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  Speaker 4: We got another sex toy on the court of a
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  Speaker 4: WNBA game. Now, this is the fourth sex toy that
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  Speaker 4: has reached the court of a WNBA game. Now, there
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  Speaker 4: are a couple of layers here. I didn't realize what
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  Speaker 4: was going on. I'm like, wait a minute. So over
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  Speaker 4: the last week and a half, there have been four
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  Speaker 4: sex toys that have been thrown onto a WNBA court
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  Speaker 4: during the game. Okay, what I didn't realize was all
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  Speaker 4: of the sex toys that were thrown at WNBA games
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  Speaker 4: that didn't reach the court.
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  Speaker 3: Because I'm looking at this.
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  Speaker 4: And I'm like, okay, I'm looking at all this information,
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  Speaker 4: it's just all kinds of stuff. I'm not going to
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  Speaker 4: bombard you with all of these things, but a couple
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  Speaker 4: of them are kind of interesting, as best I can tell.
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  Speaker 4: And I tried to research this as best I can.
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  Speaker 4: It's it's tough. It's like you ever see a beautiful
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  Speaker 4: mind where Russell Crow is kind of losing his mind
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  Speaker 4: and he's like.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, this connects to that and this means this, and.
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  Speaker 4: That's how I was trying to figure out the timeline
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  Speaker 4: of the sex.
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  Speaker 3: Toys being thrown on WNBA courts.
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  Speaker 4: This is the best I can tell, So I believe
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  Speaker 4: this started back on July twenty ninth, so a little
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  Speaker 4: more than a week ago. It was Tuesday to twenty ninth.
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  Speaker 4: It was the Valkyries and the Dream. There was a
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  Speaker 4: man that was arrested, Delbert Carver, twenty three years old,
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  Speaker 4: threw a sex toy on the court. Now he was
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  Speaker 4: arrested and charged with get this listen, all these charges
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  Speaker 4: disorderly conduct, public indecency, slash, indecent exposure, and criminal trespass.
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  Speaker 4: Sounds like a lot of stuff, Like I'm no lawyer,
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  Speaker 4: I don't know if you know. He's found guilty all
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  Speaker 4: across the board what that means. But that's a lot
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  Speaker 4: of stuff to be charged with.
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  Speaker 3: I know that much. And so I'm piecing this together. Okay.
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  Speaker 4: It happened a couple of nights later, Friday, August first,
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  Speaker 4: Valkyri's Chicago Sky Game.
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  Speaker 1: All right.
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  Speaker 4: Then I'm like, wait a minute, something's weird with August fifth.
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  Speaker 4: So this is Tuesday, August fifth, one week after the
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  Speaker 4: first sex toy was thrown on the court.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, and so I'm.
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  Speaker 4: Reading this story about an eighteen year old who was arrested.
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  Speaker 4: He tried to throw a dildo on the court. Didn't
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  Speaker 4: make it, you know, it didn't reach the court. It
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  Speaker 4: hit like an uncle and the niece, like a nine
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  Speaker 4: year old niece or something like it. These two people,
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  Speaker 4: it didn't make it onto the court. This guy was tackled,
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  Speaker 4: you know, he was arrested, the whole thing. And he
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  Speaker 4: said the eighteen year old, this guy named Cadenpez, he
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  Speaker 4: told officers. He was like, it's just a stupid prank
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  Speaker 4: that I was that was trending on social media. He
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  Speaker 4: apologized that I'm sorry, I was just following this stupid prank.
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  Speaker 4: That's what it is, Like, go back to when you
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  Speaker 4: were eighteen. Now, I wasn't like, dildo thrown on the
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  Speaker 4: court stupid during a game when I was eighteen, that's
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  Speaker 4: pretty freaking stupid.
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  Speaker 3: And if there was something.
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  Speaker 4: That, oh, it's just the new thing to do, I
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  Speaker 4: probably would have been like, oh, cool, Yeah, it's There's
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  Speaker 4: plenty of things I've done at eighteen years old that
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  Speaker 4: were completely.
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  Speaker 3: Dumb, and looking back, like, what the hell was I thinking?
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  Speaker 3: That's what's happening here?
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  Speaker 4: But that happened at a Connecticut Son Phoenix Mercury game,
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  Speaker 4: all right, And I'm like, wait a minute, didn't that
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  Speaker 4: same night there was a sex toy that hit Sophie
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  Speaker 4: Cunningham of the Indiana Fever, And I'm like, wait a minute.
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  Speaker 4: On that same night, August fifth, there was another sex
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  Speaker 4: toy thrown at the Wings Liberty game, and that sex
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  Speaker 4: toy didn't reach the court. So on the same night
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  Speaker 4: there were three different games. I didn't realize any of this.
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  Speaker 4: I'm piecing it together, like, wait, okay, we got the
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  Speaker 4: section of this is the fourth sex toy that has
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  Speaker 4: reached the court, But there's another like sub section of
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  Speaker 4: sex toys that are thrown at games that haven't reached
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  Speaker 4: the court, but they were thrown nevertheless, Like I'm like,
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  Speaker 4: oh my gosh, I didn't realize all all this stuff
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  Speaker 4: is happening. But that's where we are. I don't know
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  Speaker 4: what the official count is. There are at least four
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  Speaker 4: sex toys that have made it onto the court, which
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  Speaker 4: is stupid and dangerous. It hit Sophie Cunningham. It could
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  Speaker 4: have been way worse that the trend like the fun
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  Speaker 4: is over. At least that's how I see it. Maybe
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  Speaker 4: you look at the first one like oh wow that
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  Speaker 4: or it hits Sophie Cunningham and you're like, wow, that's
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  Speaker 4: kind of a coincidence. She put it out there on
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  Speaker 4: X like stop doing this, and then she's the one
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  Speaker 4: who gets hit by it. And to me, the fun
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  Speaker 4: is over, if there ever was any fun, The fun
• 18:12
  Speaker 4: is officially over.
• 18:13
  Speaker 3: This is dumb. It's played out.
• 18:16
  Speaker 4: It's not even like oh wow, Like the whole shock
• 18:20
  Speaker 4: value of it is worn off, like the betting aspect
• 18:23
  Speaker 4: of you could bet.
• 18:24
  Speaker 3: On the color of the next one to reach the court.
• 18:27
  Speaker 2: I don't know.
• 18:28
  Speaker 4: To me, the whole thing is just like what are
• 18:30
  Speaker 4: we doing at this point? Like this thing is done?
• 18:33
  Speaker 4: Like this is the equivalent of well, I didn't even know.
• 18:36
  Speaker 4: I don't want to make it the exact same thing.
• 18:39
  Speaker 4: But you know when something gets played out where it
• 18:42
  Speaker 4: was cool for a month for someone to say, oh,
• 18:46
  Speaker 4: he's all that and a bag of chips, and then
• 18:49
  Speaker 4: someone said it like months later that it was completely outdated.
• 18:53
  Speaker 3: No, we're not doing that anymore.
• 18:54
  Speaker 8: Man.
• 18:54
  Speaker 4: That's it's like someone shows up to the party now
• 18:57
  Speaker 4: and dabs and you're like, wow, dude, that's that way,
• 19:01
  Speaker 4: or no, man, that's not the thing.
• 19:04
  Speaker 3: That's where I'm at with this whole thing.
• 19:06
  Speaker 4: It's wow, it's time to turn the page on this one.
• 19:10
  Speaker 3: But does that not blow your mind? I didn't know that.
• 19:13
  Speaker 4: I didn't know on Tuesday, just a couple of nights ago,
• 19:16
  Speaker 4: three different games sex toys are just being thrown around
• 19:21
  Speaker 4: from the crowd trying to make it.
• 19:23
  Speaker 3: Onto the court. They might just hit someone upside the
• 19:26
  Speaker 3: head and not make it to the court.
• 19:28
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• 19:30
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• 19:33
  Speaker 4: Well, I gotta bet that Coop should be making, but
• 19:36
  Speaker 4: he will not be making.
• 19:38
  Speaker 3: And I understand why.
• 19:40
  Speaker 4: So I told Coop off the air I'm like, bro,
• 19:44
  Speaker 4: we were talking Super Bowl odds. I'm not going to
• 19:46
  Speaker 4: talk about that right here. That was a conversation we
• 19:48
  Speaker 4: had off the air, but it leads into the same
• 19:50
  Speaker 4: team I was telling him about if you look at
• 19:54
  Speaker 4: the divisional odds in the NFL, it actually the money
• 20:01
  Speaker 4: dropped a little bit. So it was the Chiefs that
• 20:03
  Speaker 4: minus won twenty to win the AFC West, and it
• 20:07
  Speaker 4: didn't drop a lot, but it dropped to minus one
• 20:09
  Speaker 4: eighteen on BETMGM. So if you're betting the Chiefs, if
• 20:13
  Speaker 4: you risk one hundred and eighteen dollars, you would win
• 20:16
  Speaker 4: one hundred dollars. This is a Chiefs team that's won
• 20:20
  Speaker 4: the division nine years in a row. They won it
• 20:24
  Speaker 4: the first two years without Mahomes, with just Andy Reid
• 20:27
  Speaker 4: there right, they were winning it with Alex Smith, and
• 20:30
  Speaker 4: then Mahomes takes over and he's won at seven straight years.
• 20:34
  Speaker 4: They're going for a decade straight winning the AFC West.
• 20:38
  Speaker 4: And there was listen some bad news on on Thursday.
• 20:43
  Speaker 4: So the Chargers left tackle Rashaan Slater. He was carted
• 20:48
  Speaker 4: off the practice field. Turns out he had season ending surgery.
• 20:53
  Speaker 4: He had a ruptured PTEL. Attendant done for the year.
• 20:57
  Speaker 4: He's gonna undergo surgery. He's placed on ir sit. The
• 21:01
  Speaker 4: dream is over at least for twenty twenty five. And
• 21:05
  Speaker 4: it's such a bummer for the Chargers for numerous reasons.
• 21:08
  Speaker 4: So he just signed a huge contract extension a week
• 21:12
  Speaker 4: and a half ago. So he signed a four year,
• 21:14
  Speaker 4: one hundred and thirteen million dollar extension, ninety two million
• 21:18
  Speaker 4: dollars guaranteed. That deal made him the highest paid offensive
• 21:23
  Speaker 4: lineman in terms of money per year in NFL history,
• 21:27
  Speaker 4: highest paid guy. And then a week and a half later,
• 21:30
  Speaker 4: boom knee injury, gone, done, done for the season. Just
• 21:35
  Speaker 4: practice was blocking a teammate and apparently is his leg
• 21:39
  Speaker 4: buckled a little bit before he made impact. It's just
• 21:42
  Speaker 4: one of those, you know, non impact injuries and he's gone.
• 21:46
  Speaker 4: So what they're gonna have to do. They're probably gonna
• 21:48
  Speaker 4: have to shift Joe Alt from the right side to
• 21:51
  Speaker 4: the left side. He did play left tackle the whole
• 21:54
  Speaker 4: time at Notre Dame. At least he has experience. They're
• 21:56
  Speaker 4: probably gonna have to shift around. They probably have to
• 21:58
  Speaker 4: move Trey Pipkins, who was a guard the last couple
• 22:01
  Speaker 4: of years ago, got to move him back out to
• 22:03
  Speaker 4: right tackles, shift things around. Losing Rashaun Slater is a big,
• 22:08
  Speaker 4: big loss for the Chargers.
• 22:09
  Speaker 3: Again.
• 22:10
  Speaker 4: They want to pound the rock. We're talking you know
• 22:14
  Speaker 4: Jim Harbaugh over here. He loves to run the ball.
• 22:19
  Speaker 4: And when you have you know, Jim Harbaugh and Greg Roman,
• 22:24
  Speaker 4: they're like, oh, you know what game plan, Let's run it.
• 22:27
  Speaker 4: Let's run it. Let's run it some more. All right,
• 22:29
  Speaker 4: we gotta pass it, all right, we get to run
• 22:31
  Speaker 4: it some more. Like that. They love running the football.
• 22:34
  Speaker 4: I love this quote. This is when they drafted Joe Alt.
• 22:38
  Speaker 4: This is what the twenty four draft, so just last year,
• 22:44
  Speaker 4: and instead of drafting Malik Neighbors, who was fantastic for
• 22:48
  Speaker 4: the Giants last season, they didn't draft a wide receiver
• 22:50
  Speaker 4: in the first round. They went for Joe Alt, the
• 22:55
  Speaker 4: tackle out of Notre Dame. And this is what Jim
• 22:57
  Speaker 4: Harbaugh said at the time.
• 22:58
  Speaker 5: I know the question's gonna come up and you're to say, like,
• 23:00
  Speaker 5: you know, what about what about a weapon? What about
• 23:02
  Speaker 5: a uh offensive lineman? We look at his weapons. That
• 23:06
  Speaker 5: group when we talk about attacking, and we talk about
• 23:10
  Speaker 5: attacking on offense, offensive line is the tip of the spear.
• 23:14
  Speaker 3: What a quote right there. Huh.
• 23:16
  Speaker 5: At the end, offensive line is the tip of the spear.
• 23:19
  Speaker 3: Offensive line is the tip of the spear.
• 23:23
  Speaker 2: Let's go.
• 23:24
  Speaker 4: I want to just throw on some shoulder pads right now.
• 23:26
  Speaker 4: I might get knocked around.
• 23:27
  Speaker 3: I don't care. I'm fired up. Jim Harbaugh, I love
• 23:29
  Speaker 3: that quote right there.
• 23:31
  Speaker 4: So yeah, they look at offensive offensive lineman and as weapons,
• 23:34
  Speaker 4: one of their best their best offensive weapon. If that's
• 23:38
  Speaker 4: the way they view it is down right like they
• 23:43
  Speaker 4: look at that and it begins with the offensive line.
• 23:46
  Speaker 4: Herbert does this thing. Lad McConkey is really good. They
• 23:50
  Speaker 4: have big hopes for Amar and Hampton, really good running
• 23:53
  Speaker 4: back out of North Carolina. But with Rashaun Slater going down,
• 23:57
  Speaker 4: that's a big, big deal. So let's go back to
• 23:59
  Speaker 4: the division odds.
• 24:02
  Speaker 7: You've got.
• 24:03
  Speaker 4: The Chargers are at plus three ten, the Broncos are
• 24:07
  Speaker 4: at plus three ten. The Raiders are seventeen to one
• 24:12
  Speaker 4: to win the division.
• 24:14
  Speaker 3: Look, they've made some upgrades.
• 24:15
  Speaker 4: They might be feisty enough to win a couple of
• 24:18
  Speaker 4: division games, they're they're not gonna really challenge to win
• 24:20
  Speaker 4: the division. So it's really like the Broncos and the Chargers,
• 24:25
  Speaker 4: they're both basically at three to one. Whatever you bet
• 24:28
  Speaker 4: times that by three, that's your payout.
• 24:31
  Speaker 3: The Chiefs are close to even money.
• 24:34
  Speaker 4: The Kansas City Chiefs are at minus one eighteen.
• 24:39
  Speaker 3: That just seems too good to be true.
• 24:42
  Speaker 4: How do you not bet the Chiefs to win the
• 24:45
  Speaker 4: AFC West for a tenth year in a row. How
• 24:48
  Speaker 4: have they fallen off? You've got ver Mahomes to throw to.
• 24:53
  Speaker 4: You got Rashi Rice, He's gonna be suspended a few games.
• 24:55
  Speaker 4: You got him, Hollywood Brown, Xavier Worthy, Travis Kelce, top
• 25:00
  Speaker 4: five scoring defense from last season.
• 25:03
  Speaker 3: They're not winning the division?
• 25:05
  Speaker 4: What would it take for that to be the case?
• 25:07
  Speaker 4: I think it would take significant injury woes for the
• 25:12
  Speaker 4: Chiefs not to win the division. And I don't want
• 25:15
  Speaker 4: to make it sound like, you know, all these other
• 25:18
  Speaker 4: teams have no chance.
• 25:19
  Speaker 3: It's the NFL.
• 25:20
  Speaker 4: I don't want to make it sound like that, but man,
• 25:23
  Speaker 4: the Broncos taking that big of a step forward to
• 25:26
  Speaker 4: win the division. I know that, we like have PTSD
• 25:31
  Speaker 4: from the Chiefs getting blown out by the Eagles in
• 25:34
  Speaker 4: the Super Bowl.
• 25:35
  Speaker 3: And there are a lot of people are like, yeah, no,
• 25:37
  Speaker 3: no about the Chiefs.
• 25:38
  Speaker 4: They were a fifteen and two team last season, and
• 25:41
  Speaker 4: you can talk about, Hey, a favorable bounce here, a
• 25:44
  Speaker 4: lucky win there. Okay, you take away a couple of
• 25:48
  Speaker 4: wins like they're thirteen and four, there's still a thirteen
• 25:54
  Speaker 4: win team. If you take away a couple of favorable wins,
• 25:59
  Speaker 4: there's still a edibly good at what they do. I
• 26:02
  Speaker 4: love the Chiefs to win their division again. Have I
• 26:06
  Speaker 4: convinced you to put some money on the Chiefs in
• 26:08
  Speaker 4: the AFC West coop?
• 26:09
  Speaker 3: I'm guessing I probably haven't. Hell No, is that more
• 26:14
  Speaker 3: based on principle or logic?
• 26:18
  Speaker 7: Both both?
• 26:21
  Speaker 3: I think it's more based on principle. I get it.
• 26:23
  Speaker 4: You're Broncos guy. You want to run to the betting
• 26:25
  Speaker 4: window and bet the Chiefs. No problem with that, But
• 26:28
  Speaker 4: that's based on principle. That's not based on logic. What
• 26:31
  Speaker 4: logical What logical argument do you have to back someone
• 26:37
  Speaker 4: other than the Chiefs.
• 26:38
  Speaker 7: Broncos should have beat them twice last year and.
• 26:40
  Speaker 3: How many times did they beat them?
• 26:42
  Speaker 7: Once?
• 26:44
  Speaker 3: Did get him at the end?
• 26:45
  Speaker 2: When?
• 26:45
  Speaker 3: Who was it?
• 26:46
  Speaker 4: Like Jake Locker's brother was playing quarterback at the end
• 26:50
  Speaker 4: of the year. That was the the game they didn't
• 26:53
  Speaker 4: play anybody? Right?
• 26:54
  Speaker 7: Yeah, but the game, the first game that was hideous.
• 26:59
  Speaker 4: I mean, you're on the road, gotta make a I
• 27:03
  Speaker 4: think they're at home. The close field goal was that
• 27:05
  Speaker 4: at home? That was on the road, right, that was
• 27:06
  Speaker 4: in Arrowhead. That was in Arrowhead.
• 27:08
  Speaker 3: You got a makeable field goal blocked, right, they blocked it. Yep, yep,
• 27:15
  Speaker 3: it happens. It happens. Hey.
• 27:18
  Speaker 4: Well, while we're talking about betting, let's get Poppy on
• 27:21
  Speaker 4: here right from San Diego.
• 27:23
  Speaker 3: Poppy's got some bets for us. What's going on, Poppy?
• 27:26
  Speaker 8: Hey, you know, welcome to the family. Yeah, I just
• 27:31
  Speaker 8: I heard you talking about bets, and I have bets
• 27:33
  Speaker 8: for tomorrow. And look, get the vision. Let me go
• 27:36
  Speaker 8: before I get the picked out. AFC West is a
• 27:38
  Speaker 8: tough division, but look you're saying the Chiefs are gonna
• 27:41
  Speaker 8: win it ten times in a row. Like sooner or later,
• 27:45
  Speaker 8: someone's got a betle Man. The odds with the Chargers
• 27:48
  Speaker 8: and the Broncles is looking pretty good. You know, John
• 27:51
  Speaker 8: Harveall saying the ship under load, Hey, next man off
• 27:54
  Speaker 8: for the offensive line. So you got justin Herbert and
• 27:57
  Speaker 8: they looked pretty good. And the Broncles, they looked amazing,
• 28:00
  Speaker 8: Like three of the AFC West made the playoffs and
• 28:03
  Speaker 8: coops teams the Broncos at Boecks, he looked amazing. But
• 28:08
  Speaker 8: this rookie year good Kennedy top five quarterback in my
• 28:12
  Speaker 8: opinion on the rookies, that he should be able to
• 28:15
  Speaker 8: strive and do good. So, like someone's telling me money,
• 28:19
  Speaker 8: what am I gonna bet? Look, I think Sean Payne
• 28:22
  Speaker 8: is a great coach with the Broncos, So I think
• 28:24
  Speaker 8: the Broncos are really going to give trouble for the Chiefs.
• 28:27
  Speaker 8: And I would have been surprised if the Broncos coops
• 28:29
  Speaker 8: team actually wins that division.
• 28:31
  Speaker 3: I'd be freaking Yeah, I'd be shocked.
• 28:33
  Speaker 7: As your all time best call, Poppy.
• 28:35
  Speaker 4: It's a word good job, terrible argument from you, Poppy,
• 28:38
  Speaker 4: like you you're giving me, Hey, it could happen.
• 28:40
  Speaker 3: I wouldn't be shocked. That's not good enough.
• 28:44
  Speaker 8: Well it is good enough. Uh you know, Brian know
• 28:47
  Speaker 8: because like everyone the whole world, when the whole world
• 28:50
  Speaker 8: tell me that, or the casinos just on the numbers,
• 28:52
  Speaker 8: when he talks the analytics and the numbers, that's kind
• 28:54
  Speaker 8: of like a red flag. We're like, oh, it sounds
• 28:56
  Speaker 8: too good to be true. Well, guess what it's gonna
• 28:58
  Speaker 8: be too good to be true, and the Chiefs are
• 28:59
  Speaker 8: not going to I went ten years in the row.
• 29:01
  Speaker 8: You don't make the playoffs, but they're not gonna win
• 29:03
  Speaker 8: the division AFC WES so red flag for everyone. Do
• 29:07
  Speaker 8: not bet on the Chiefs.
• 29:08
  Speaker 4: Okay, So I got I got a proposal. I got
• 29:11
  Speaker 4: a proposal for you, mister, bet on the Broncos. All right, here,
• 29:14
  Speaker 4: here's what we do. We'll just use these odds. How
• 29:17
  Speaker 4: about this. We'll make a bet together.
• 29:20
  Speaker 5: Now.
• 29:20
  Speaker 4: Typically I don't do this because I don't think any
• 29:24
  Speaker 4: listener on the face of the earth has ever paid
• 29:26
  Speaker 4: a bet. Sir, scratch off. You're on my list. The
• 29:29
  Speaker 4: list is very extensive. Every listener has weaseled out of
• 29:33
  Speaker 4: every payment.
• 29:34
  Speaker 7: Always with me.
• 29:35
  Speaker 4: But the proposal would be, I got the Chiefs. Whatever
• 29:39
  Speaker 4: dollar amount we bet. Let's say we bet fifty bucks.
• 29:42
  Speaker 4: If I'm right, Chiefs win, you owe me fifty bucks, Poppy.
• 29:45
  Speaker 4: If your Broncos win, or any of the other three
• 29:48
  Speaker 4: teams win, I'll give you three times that amount.
• 29:50
  Speaker 3: That's basically what it would be. Yeah, what do you.
• 29:53
  Speaker 8: Think any of those three teams? I really like those
• 29:55
  Speaker 8: of form, even as those three teams. That's been amazing.
• 29:58
  Speaker 8: I'm taking that anytime, because you know, Andy Reid is
• 30:02
  Speaker 8: getting really targeting closer retirement, Travis Kelsey having problems with,
• 30:07
  Speaker 8: you know, relationship, Katy Perry.
• 30:09
  Speaker 4: Like this season a lot of trouble, So I really
• 30:11
  Speaker 4: like he's having problems with relationships, Poppy.
• 30:15
  Speaker 3: That's what's going on there. What's going on with him?
• 30:18
  Speaker 3: I thought they were looking for a house.
• 30:20
  Speaker 8: Him and Katy Perry. Yeah, well yeah, Katy Perry or whatever.
• 30:25
  Speaker 8: You know, he's going whatever his whatever's throwing whatever. But yeah,
• 30:31
  Speaker 8: I'm liking that bet though.
• 30:33
  Speaker 3: Man, you're crazy, Poppy. So what are we doing?
• 30:35
  Speaker 4: We're we doing fifty bucks? Were doing fifteen hundred bucks?
• 30:38
  Speaker 4: What are we throwing on this here? Because I'm good
• 30:40
  Speaker 4: for whatever. I'm ready for to back the chiefs here.
• 30:43
  Speaker 8: That wasn't well, whatever you want, it's all good. Whatever
• 30:46
  Speaker 8: you want. You know, by no, I'll hate to take
• 30:49
  Speaker 8: your money, but hey, it's going to come out in
• 30:51
  Speaker 8: my favorite for a reason, and whatever you want to bet,
• 30:53
  Speaker 8: it's all good with me.
• 30:54
  Speaker 4: Okay, we won't go crazy. Let's just put one hundred
• 30:57
  Speaker 4: dollars on it. That was the bet I had with
• 30:59
  Speaker 4: Koop and he won because his Broncos weaseled their way
• 31:02
  Speaker 4: into the top five scoring defense. I don't know how
• 31:05
  Speaker 4: they did it, but they had a great year, and
• 31:07
  Speaker 4: I paid up. So what do you think even hundred?
• 31:10
  Speaker 4: You owe me one hundred If the Chiefs win, I
• 31:12
  Speaker 4: owe you three hundred if anybody else wins.
• 31:15
  Speaker 8: Oh wow, I like that, you know with remember, I
• 31:19
  Speaker 8: like that. I'll take it.
• 31:20
  Speaker 4: We're shaking, we're shaking. We're shaking on this poppy. I'm
• 31:23
  Speaker 4: shaking my hand. We're figured figuratively shaking. It's the best
• 31:26
  Speaker 4: we can do right here, all right, yep, Yeah, your
• 31:31
  Speaker 4: word is your bond, right you You should say I
• 31:34
  Speaker 4: will pay up. Unlike sir scratch Off. You know you
• 31:37
  Speaker 4: don't have to say that. It's implied.
• 31:39
  Speaker 8: Okay, Okay, I'm like Jerry Jones. I'm looking in your
• 31:42
  Speaker 8: eyes and I'm a man of my word.
• 31:44
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