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9-30-26 - Avalanche are back TONIGHT!/NFL Stock Up - Stock Down/MLB playoffs are electric · The Appetizer Hour with Brett Kane

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  Speaker 1: This is the Appetizer Hour with Brett Cain on demand.
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  Speaker 2: Avs get their season started today. Tonight. With huge expectations,
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  Speaker 2: we will talk to the head coach of that team,
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  Speaker 2: Jared Bednar, at 8 o'clock this morning. Some details that
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  Speaker 2: emerged yesterday that I think are, I think it was
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  Speaker 2: very predictable is the way I'd put it. And we'll
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  Speaker 2: get to that in a moment. But with the Avs
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  Speaker 2: taking on the Kings tonight, cannot wait as it feels
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  Speaker 2: like to me, this is a sort of final push
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  Speaker 2: To keep things together as currently put together. When you
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  Speaker 2: talk about makeup of the team, where dudes are at,
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  Speaker 2: who's going to be the coach, all these different things,
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  Speaker 2: that's the pressure that's on top of a year like this.
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  Speaker 2: And when you are in this position, there is pressure
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  Speaker 2: every year. There is no, well, we had a good
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  Speaker 2: regular season, and it's one of the things that really
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  Speaker 2: struck me. In listening to the Avs talk and listening
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  Speaker 2: to the Nuggets from a couple days ago, you know,
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  Speaker 2: Nuggets have their media day, and a lot of the
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  Speaker 2: theme that you heard, in fact, when I heard this.
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  Speaker 3: I understand we're going to say things, there's going to
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  Speaker 3: be narratives, all that stuff, but The men in that
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  Speaker 3: room that are back won 54 and won the most
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  Speaker 3: road games in the history of the franchise and had
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  Speaker 3: the best offense in the NBA. I know you guys
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  Speaker 3: want to ignore that, but that's what they did. And
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  Speaker 3: so you have to lean into some of the things
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  Speaker 3: that you did well.
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  Speaker 2: Two different sort of ways of doing this. And Nelly,
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  Speaker 2: it did feel like to me when the Nuggets were speaking,
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  Speaker 2: whether it was players, coaches, the front office guys, whoever,
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  Speaker 2: they had this... oh, how do I want to put it?
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  Speaker 2: They had this sense about them that said, why don't
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  Speaker 2: you guys give us respect? Did you see what we
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  Speaker 2: did last year? We won 54 games. And that's a
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  Speaker 2: striking contrast between what I heard from the Avs when
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  Speaker 2: they had their media day, when they've had people speak
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  Speaker 2: before the season starts. They've told you, it doesn't matter
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  Speaker 2: that we were president's trophy winners. We choked, essentially. And
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  Speaker 2: it's two different approaches that I think with the Nuggets,
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  Speaker 2: maybe you're trying to create this us-against-the-world thing. Everybody thinks
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  Speaker 2: that you guys are trash except for the people in
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  Speaker 2: this room. And maybe that works. But I will say
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  Speaker 2: from just a consumer perspective, I appreciate more what the
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  Speaker 2: Avs have been doing.
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  Speaker 4: Well, and I will say, too... Part of the reason
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  Speaker 4: the Nuggets are acting that way, because it wasn't just
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  Speaker 4: David Adelman, it was also the brain trust of Tenzer
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  Speaker 4: and Wallace who were talking like that, it's because this
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  Speaker 4: entire offseason, Nuggets fans were waiting on pins and needles
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  Speaker 4: for them to make a flashy change, right? What did
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  Speaker 4: you say pretty much the day after the Nuggets got eliminated?
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  Speaker 4: this offseason is going to kill Nuggets fans. And you
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  Speaker 4: know what they did? They pretty much sat on their hands.
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  Speaker 4: And so I think the reason that the Braintrust felt
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  Speaker 4: the need to say that is they're like, I know
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  Speaker 4: you guys wanted us to go out and sign LeBron James,
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  Speaker 4: but this roster won 54 games.
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  Speaker 2: Like, we didn't need to blow it up.
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  Speaker 4: We just needed to tinker, and we tinkered to the
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  Speaker 4: tune of a DeMar Rosen and a Marvin Bagley. So
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  Speaker 4: I think that's why they felt the need to say that.
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  Speaker 2: That's fair. The tone of the offseason for them was set, though,
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  Speaker 2: with the owner saying everything's on the table. And in
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  Speaker 2: that everything's on the table, one of those options is
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  Speaker 2: keeping everything as much the same as you could. Now, again,
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  Speaker 2: I'm not going to blame them because they can't come
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  Speaker 2: out and say, what do you guys want from us?
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  Speaker 2: We are so financially strapped that there's nothing that we
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  Speaker 2: could do. But I think being defiant and saying, why
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  Speaker 2: don't you recognize the good things that we did when
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  Speaker 2: you're in this stage, which is you have some of
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  Speaker 2: the best players in the history of the sport. And
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  Speaker 2: that is what both of those teams have. Nikola Jokic
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  Speaker 2: is one of the best players that has ever touched
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  Speaker 2: a basketball in the history of this planet. Nathan McKinnon
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  Speaker 2: and Kel McCarr are two of the most talented players
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  Speaker 2: to ever have a hockey stick in their hands. When
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  Speaker 2: you have that, the expectation is always going to be
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  Speaker 2: winning a championship or it's a failure. And the Avs
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  Speaker 2: went out and they made no apologies. You know, I've
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  Speaker 2: heard a little bit after the season was done, after
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  Speaker 2: the loss to Vegas, about the amount of guys that
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  Speaker 2: were dealing with injuries for the Avs and how severe
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  Speaker 2: some of those injuries were. that I think would provide
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  Speaker 2: a lot more context to how some guys played in
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  Speaker 2: the postseason. The Avs didn't mention it at all. Not once.
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  Speaker 2: You didn't hear a peep. They didn't even do the
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  Speaker 2: token thing that most teams do, which is season's over.
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  Speaker 2: Here's the laundry list of guys that are getting surgeries
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  Speaker 2: right now. They didn't even do that because I don't
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  Speaker 2: even think they want that to, they don't even want
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  Speaker 2: to pretend like that was an excuse last year, which
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  Speaker 2: tells me this team is as hungry as ever. And again,
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  Speaker 2: when you go into a season like this and you
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  Speaker 2: have championship DNA, there are people that have hoisted cups
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  Speaker 2: on this team. You know the expectation, but they can
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  Speaker 2: all kind of feel it. That cup win is getting
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  Speaker 2: further and further and further in the past. The chance
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  Speaker 2: to win with this core group, with this set of guys,
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  Speaker 2: Feels like it's getting towards its end. You have guys
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  Speaker 2: that are now in their 30s. They're one of the
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  Speaker 2: oldest teams in the league. You know, Nathan McKinnon still
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  Speaker 2: got a bunch of great years left. But it's funny,
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  Speaker 2: you know, we kind of look this up. Bodies change.
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  Speaker 2: Some guys are playing longer than in the past. But
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  Speaker 2: if you just look at straight statistically for a lot
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  Speaker 2: of guys, once they get around their lower to mid-30s,
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  Speaker 2: the game starts to slowly take a dip and another
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  Speaker 2: dip and another dip. Joe Sackick had 118 points when
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  Speaker 2: he was 31 years old. That number went to 79
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  Speaker 2: the following year, to 58 the year after that, to 87, 87.
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  Speaker 2: He had a 100-point season when he was 37 years old.
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  Speaker 2: But you see, it's harder to be as consistent as
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  Speaker 2: you were beforehand. These same sort of numbers apply to
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  Speaker 2: a whole bunch of great guys in hockey. The recognition
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  Speaker 2: of we've kept this together and the similarity between what's
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  Speaker 2: happened with the Avs before when this went on. You
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  Speaker 2: win in 97. You win in 2001. It's a five-year separation.
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  Speaker 2: We're at five years going into this season. It just
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  Speaker 2: feels like it's sort of, it's the last sort of
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  Speaker 2: vestige into this with this group. And they need to
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  Speaker 2: capitalize on it. And I think they all recognize it.
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  Speaker 2: Nobody cares what kind of regular season you have. Winning
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  Speaker 2: the President's Trophy, all that meant to me was cool.
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  Speaker 2: You got the number one seed. You got home ice.
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  Speaker 2: That's great. But when you get swept in the playoffs,
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  Speaker 2: nobody cares about what happened before that. That's the last
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  Speaker 2: thing that sticks out. Now, we've already heard changes that
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  Speaker 2: are taking place in some key categories. They're already switching
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  Speaker 2: up the power play. You've seen it in practice, which is,
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  Speaker 2: I mean, if you're, and we'll talk to Bednar about
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  Speaker 2: this today, it sounds like they're thinking about changing up
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  Speaker 2: McKinnon's spot. On the power play, instead of sitting at
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  Speaker 2: that dot and trying to hit one-timers, which he's very,
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  Speaker 2: very good at, looks like he's going to be in
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  Speaker 2: another place. And the fact that you got the kid
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  Speaker 2: out of Michigan, TJ Hughes, that has at least been
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  Speaker 2: practicing on the first power play unit. These are some
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  Speaker 2: pretty big changes. It's something that for now a couple
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  Speaker 2: of years that has been a stagnant part of your team,
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  Speaker 2: maybe the only thing last year, That you could point
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  Speaker 2: to that you would say was not up to standard.
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  Speaker 2: But I've always thought if the group from last year
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  Speaker 2: could have put a a, a top 10 power play together,
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  Speaker 2: like they're usually at, it would have looked borderline unbeatable.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, you go out there, if you're able to throw,
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  Speaker 2: you know, a lower to mid twenties percentage on power play,
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  Speaker 2: which would put you right in that top 10 category.
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  Speaker 2: You're adding another goal, maybe two per game. That's going
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  Speaker 2: to be really difficult to beat. And if they get
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  Speaker 2: that fixed, I think, you know, sky's the limit for them.
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  Speaker 2: There are the same factors that everybody has to worry about.
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  Speaker 2: You're talking about, hey, you got to stay healthy. You
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  Speaker 2: got to do this and that. You got to get
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  Speaker 2: good goaltending. But you had all of that last year.
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  Speaker 2: Even the health part. You were hurting the playoffs. And,
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  Speaker 2: you know, the reason I don't bring that up is
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  Speaker 2: because everybody's hurting the playoffs. It's kind of the same
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  Speaker 2: thing to me when, when you're talking about the nuggets
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  Speaker 2: and it's like, Hey man, if we just had a
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  Speaker 2: healthy AG and I'm like, did you see the injuries,
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  Speaker 2: the team that you were playing in the playoffs had
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  Speaker 2: like three of their top guys were out and they
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  Speaker 2: still won. You can't use injuries as an excuse. Now,
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  Speaker 2: if you have, If it's the Broncos and your quarterback
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  Speaker 2: goes out, okay, there's a discussion we can have. Or, hey,
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  Speaker 2: we didn't have McKinnon or McCarr. Okay, fine. But this,
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  Speaker 2: to me, feels like a blueprint year. This is one,
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  Speaker 2: you either get the job done or the team's going
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  Speaker 2: to look a lot different the following year. And that
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  Speaker 2: doesn't mean, like, making some insane trade. It doesn't mean
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  Speaker 2: McKinnon or McCarr's gone, but it does mean that I
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  Speaker 2: think maybe some of the ancillary pieces, you're going to
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  Speaker 2: make moves. They've already done it a little bit. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: you don't have Val Nachushkin on the roster anymore. Maybe
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  Speaker 2: you look to get a little bit younger if things
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  Speaker 2: don't go well this year. And certainly there's the question of,
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  Speaker 2: you got a head coach on the last year of
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  Speaker 2: his contract. So all of that, I think, is up
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  Speaker 2: in the air, and we will talk to that man,
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  Speaker 2: Jared Bednar, at 8 o'clock this morning. Now, having said
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  Speaker 2: all that, I think it's a blueprint year. I have
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  Speaker 2: a lot of faith in the Avs. I do. And
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  Speaker 2: it feels to me, and this is why I bring
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  Speaker 2: up the Nuggets and their media day yesterday, I think
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  Speaker 2: both teams have the same thought of what happened last
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  Speaker 2: year and why the season ended the way it did.
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  Speaker 2: I think one team is accurate in the assessment. I
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  Speaker 2: think both of them feel like their losses were flukes.
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  Speaker 2: And I think the Avs are right to feel that way.
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  Speaker 2: And I don't think the Nuggets are. There is, and
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  Speaker 2: I still, I mean, we are so far removed from
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  Speaker 2: this now. I still go back to that, to a
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  Speaker 2: sweep against Vegas. And there is nothing that logically makes
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  Speaker 2: sense about that. Best team in the league the entire year.
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  Speaker 2: Start to finish. We're top three in every major statistical
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  Speaker 2: category outside of power play. Or maybe not top three.
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  Speaker 2: For the most part, top three. At minimum, top ten.
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  Speaker 2: But you talk about goals scored, goals against, save percentage.
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  Speaker 2: Penalty kill. All the different details outside of power play
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  Speaker 2: that you would point to and be like, you have
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  Speaker 2: to be good in these categories to be a good team.
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  Speaker 2: They were tops in the league in like all of them.
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  Speaker 2: And have the season end like that, that quickly, I
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  Speaker 2: think is flukish. But it's a huge year.
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  Speaker 1: So 303-504-0925.
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  Speaker 2: We'll talk to Jared Bednar at 8 o'clock this morning.
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  Speaker 2: As we broadcast from the back of Sanchanker Studios, their
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  Speaker 2: passion is justice. So a whole lot to break down
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  Speaker 2: with the half season starting tonight. Got a lot more
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  Speaker 2: NFL to talk about. MLB postseason started yesterday. So we'll
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  Speaker 2: get to all that as we go along today. NFL
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  Speaker 2: stock up, stock down next. All right, before we get
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  Speaker 2: to NFL stock up, stock down, just want to read
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  Speaker 2: a text real quick. Last time I checked Joker and
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  Speaker 2: Nate have the same amount of rings. The abs and
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  Speaker 2: nuggets have also made it as far as each other
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  Speaker 2: in the playoffs since their championships. Not true. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: it's not to get nitpicky here or well, actually you,
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  Speaker 2: I mean, making it to the conference finals, it's farther
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  Speaker 2: than what the nuggets have done. It meant the second
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  Speaker 2: round multiple times, but not the conference finals again. Um,
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  Speaker 2: But both teams, for the most part, yes, have been
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  Speaker 2: in the same place. The difference is I just think
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  Speaker 2: the Avs are better suited right now to make another
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  Speaker 2: championship run than the Nuggets. The Nuggets can. They can
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  Speaker 2: do it. But I think they need a whole lot
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  Speaker 2: more things to go their way. So, with that, hit
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  Speaker 2: that music, Nelly. NFL Stock Up, Stock Down. We do
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  Speaker 2: it every week following the NFL weekend. We always start
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  Speaker 2: with the quarterback stock up. Brock Purdy, the man that
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  Speaker 2: you will face this weekend, 15 to 27, 297 yards,
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  Speaker 2: four touchdowns in a grindy sort of win against the Cardinals.
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  Speaker 2: They had to put up points, and they did. But
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  Speaker 2: Brock Purdy has a quarterback rating of 133 this year.
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  Speaker 2: He's completing 72% of his passes. He has nine touchdowns
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  Speaker 2: and one pick on the season. And I am very
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  Speaker 2: curious to see how that's going to hold up against
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  Speaker 2: the Broncos defense in which he will take this weekend.
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  Speaker 2: Broncos defense, yes, Stafford put up a whole bunch of yards,
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  Speaker 2: but the Broncos stiffened up in the red zone and
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  Speaker 2: forced them to kick field goals. They have held people
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  Speaker 2: like Patrick Mahomes and Trevor Lawrence through the air to
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  Speaker 2: virtually nothing the first couple weeks of the season. Had
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  Speaker 2: a couple of breakdowns in the pass game last week,
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  Speaker 2: but Brock Purdy is somebody that Look, for me, I've
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  Speaker 2: been someone that it's been hard for me to decide
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  Speaker 2: and judge what kind of quarterback Brock Purdy is. He's good.
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  Speaker 2: He is good. I've had trouble deciphering how good is he.
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  Speaker 2: Bottom line for him, when he plays, the 49ers win games,
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  Speaker 2: and they do it really consistently. And he is always
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  Speaker 2: going to be somebody, you know, he's sort of the
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  Speaker 2: prime example of a guy who is not going to
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  Speaker 2: take you out of a game. He will make plays
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  Speaker 2: within the game to get you a win. I don't
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  Speaker 2: know where you put him, though. Is he a top
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  Speaker 2: 10 quarterback? Maybe he's around 10, somewhere in that ballpark.
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  Speaker 2: He's a really, really good QB, but he's having the
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  Speaker 2: best start to a season in his career, and he
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  Speaker 2: looks every bit like a potential MVP candidate at the
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  Speaker 2: end of the season, so he gets to stock up.
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  Speaker 2: Let's go quarterback stock down. Speaking of MVPs, the man
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  Speaker 2: who finished second last year, Drake May, he was 14-25
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  Speaker 2: for 199 yards, no touchdowns in two picks this week
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  Speaker 2: as they got demolished by Jacksonville. He has one touchdown
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  Speaker 2: to six interceptions on the season. Now, if you go
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  Speaker 2: back to Drake May from last year, the reasons why
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  Speaker 2: people believed in Drake May were simple. Numbers-wise, I just
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  Speaker 2: said that Brock Purdy's completing 72% of his passes through
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  Speaker 2: three games. That's through three games. Drake May did that
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  Speaker 2: for the season. He finished with 31 touchdowns and eight picks.
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  Speaker 2: He finished with 4,400 passing yards. He's on pace this
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  Speaker 2: year to throw 30 interceptions. He's had two games this
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  Speaker 2: year in which he's been held under 200 pass yards.
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  Speaker 2: The ball got knocked out of Drake May's hand. That
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  Speaker 2: only happened twice all of last year. And I think
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  Speaker 2: a huge part of it is he has been under pressure.
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  Speaker 2: They haven't been able to protect him. You know, he
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  Speaker 2: was sacked 47 times last year. That's not all that different.
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  Speaker 2: The biggest difference is I think they have a trash
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  Speaker 2: running game. I've never been impressed by Ramondre Stevenson. It's
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  Speaker 2: like that guy gets 16 carries for 52 yards with
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  Speaker 2: two touchdowns every week. And it's like, well, he gets
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  Speaker 2: in the end zone. I go, yeah, but can he
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  Speaker 2: run the ball effectively? Because I've never been able to
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  Speaker 2: see it. He's the kind of guy that averages like 3.9
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  Speaker 2: yards per carry every single year. You combine with that
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  Speaker 2: their prized offseason acquisition, A.J. Brown, has also been out.
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  Speaker 2: I just don't think he has any weapons. Plus, he
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  Speaker 2: doesn't have an offensive line that he trusts. Plus, he's
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  Speaker 2: playing with no confidence right now. And all of that
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  Speaker 2: is mixing into this giant ball of suck. So Drake
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  Speaker 2: May gets the quarterback stock down. Let's go non-quarterback stock up.
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  Speaker 2: You guys been watching this Bijan Robinson cat? God, is
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  Speaker 2: he good. And it doesn't matter if it's on the ground,
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  Speaker 2: through the air. This last week in a win over
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  Speaker 2: the Packers as they crushed the Packers in Lambeau, had
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  Speaker 2: the crowd booing the home team. Bijan Robinson had 29
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  Speaker 2: carries for 194 yards, two touchdowns. He has 349 rushing
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  Speaker 2: yards on the season. His problem is that he plays
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  Speaker 2: for a team that nobody cares about and doesn't find interesting.
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  Speaker 2: And as somebody who has spent their life watching a
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  Speaker 2: team that nobody cares about, that nobody finds interesting, and
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  Speaker 2: had a running back in Barry Sanders that was really fun,
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  Speaker 2: it sucks because you feel like you're never going to get,
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  Speaker 2: he's never going to get the credit he deserves for this.
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  Speaker 2: The funny thing about the Falcons are... The Falcons with
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  Speaker 2: a 1-2 record are tied for the lead in that division.
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  Speaker 2: A sub-500 record won that division last year. It might
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  Speaker 2: win it again this year, but it's not going to
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  Speaker 2: give you credibility. B. John Robinson has credibility. He's one
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  Speaker 2: of the only guys in that roster that does. Him, Drake, London,
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  Speaker 2: maybe a few others. But he is an absolute joy
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  Speaker 2: to watch. And maybe with Michael Penix back under center,
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  Speaker 2: crossing fingers and toes that he can stay healthy... B.
• 20:59
  Speaker 2: John Robinson becomes somebody that is thrust to the forefront
• 21:04
  Speaker 2: of this league and respected for the talent that he
• 21:06
  Speaker 2: truly has. But right now, you watch that guy touch
• 21:12
  Speaker 2: a football, make two guys miss, break two tackles, and
• 21:16
  Speaker 2: scream into the secondary. He's just a joy to watch,
• 21:20
  Speaker 2: which takes his non-quarterback stock down. It's the team that
• 21:25
  Speaker 2: they played, and it's the Packers' run game I don't care.
• 21:30
  Speaker 2: You pick the running back. Let me give you the
• 21:34
  Speaker 2: stats through three games of what the Packers have done
• 21:37
  Speaker 2: on the ground. Remember, Josh Jacobs on that commissioner's exempt
• 21:42
  Speaker 2: list as he's got a court case coming up. So
• 21:44
  Speaker 2: they're trying to piecemeal this thing together with Caleb Johnson
• 21:47
  Speaker 2: and with Marshawn Lloyd. Here's what they've done through three games.
• 21:52
  Speaker 2: They've ran the ball 46 times. That's it. An average
• 21:56
  Speaker 2: of 15 carries a game. including only eight in the
• 22:02
  Speaker 2: game Thursday night against the Falcons. They're averaging on that
• 22:07
  Speaker 2: 46 rushes, three yards per carry. They've had 146 rushing
• 22:14
  Speaker 2: yards through three games. Reminder, Bijon had 194 Thursday alone.
• 22:21
  Speaker 2: They didn't even try and run the ball last week.
• 22:24
  Speaker 2: It was so bad. Again, only eight times. It doesn't
• 22:27
  Speaker 2: sound like they're getting help anytime soon with the Josh
• 22:30
  Speaker 2: Jacobs situation. Their longest run of the year is 14 yards.
• 22:35
  Speaker 2: Through three games, they've only ran for eight first downs.
• 22:39
  Speaker 2: And their leading rusher is Marshawn Lloyd. who has 28
• 22:42
  Speaker 2: carries for 63 yards. It is as bad as any
• 22:45
  Speaker 2: running game I've seen in years in the NFL. And
• 22:49
  Speaker 2: it's for a storied franchise that needs to be able
• 22:53
  Speaker 2: to take pressure off of Jordan Love, especially late in games.
• 22:57
  Speaker 2: If you've noticed what's happened, especially in week one against
• 23:01
  Speaker 2: the Vikings, they had a big lead against the Vikings.
• 23:04
  Speaker 2: Backup quarterback Carson Wentz is in. They couldn't hold a
• 23:09
  Speaker 2: lead because they can't run the football. And if they
• 23:12
  Speaker 2: don't figure out how to do that better, then they're
• 23:16
  Speaker 2: in some big trouble. But that is the non-quarterback stock down.
• 23:20
  Speaker 2: Let's go NFL team stock up. I'm not saying I
• 23:24
  Speaker 2: believe that this is going to continue. But I have
• 23:28
  Speaker 2: to acknowledge, especially after last week, that Vegas is 3-0.
• 23:34
  Speaker 2: They won 35-27 over the Saints. I have been high
• 23:38
  Speaker 2: on the Saints since the offseason. I think that they are...
• 23:41
  Speaker 2: For a crap division, I think the most talented of
• 23:44
  Speaker 2: the crap division, I think that Tyler Shuck's a good quarterback.
• 23:48
  Speaker 2: Bottom line is, he got out-dueled by Kirk Cousins. They've
• 23:53
  Speaker 2: beaten the Dolphins and the Chargers outside of that. The
• 23:56
  Speaker 2: Dolphins are a mess that we know. The Chargers seem
• 23:59
  Speaker 2: to be a mess. No win that they've had is
• 24:03
  Speaker 2: truly impressive impressive, but they are getting things done. Here's
• 24:08
  Speaker 2: their problem. The Raiders' schedule over the next month is Chiefs,
• 24:13
  Speaker 2: at Patriots, Bills, and Rams. It feels like they're going
• 24:17
  Speaker 2: to crash down back to earth, at least lose three
• 24:20
  Speaker 2: of the next four. But if Kirk Cousins, who's thrown
• 24:25
  Speaker 2: for nine touchdowns already this year, can keep that sort
• 24:30
  Speaker 2: of thing going, they got a shot. The big thing
• 24:32
  Speaker 2: is they got to get Ashton Gentry going. Still haven't
• 24:35
  Speaker 2: really been able to make that work yet, at least consistently.
• 24:39
  Speaker 2: And if they get him going on the ground combined
• 24:41
  Speaker 2: with how Cousins is playing right now at quarterback, maybe
• 24:44
  Speaker 2: they can upset a couple more teams. But for the moment,
• 24:47
  Speaker 2: I'll give them the stock up. Let's go NFL team
• 24:48
  Speaker 2: stock down. Just talked about them. It's Green Bay. They're
• 24:53
  Speaker 2: a mess. Lost to the Falcons last week. They lost
• 24:56
  Speaker 2: to the Vikings in week one. They should have lost
• 24:58
  Speaker 2: in week two to the Jets, but they snuck out
• 25:00
  Speaker 2: a win in overtime. If they lose to the Bucs
• 25:02
  Speaker 2: this weekend, who don't have Baker Mayfield in the lineup,
• 25:06
  Speaker 2: that has Jalen Daniels, the undrafted free agent rookie, starting
• 25:09
  Speaker 2: a quarterback out of Kansas, they just need to fold
• 25:12
  Speaker 2: up shop and start over. There's a lot about that
• 25:15
  Speaker 2: team that feels like it's teetering on the edge of disaster.
• 25:23
  Speaker 2: Matt LaFleur... He's always been somebody that Packers fans have
• 25:28
  Speaker 2: defended to the hilt, saying this guy doesn't get the
• 25:30
  Speaker 2: love that he deserves. And look, Matt LaFleur's won a
• 25:32
  Speaker 2: lot of football games. But there's always been some sort
• 25:36
  Speaker 2: of problem that keeps them from getting over the hump.
• 25:40
  Speaker 2: And if they don't figure things out in a hurry,
• 25:43
  Speaker 2: I think Matt LaFleur's seat turns into a Bunsen burner.
• 25:47
  Speaker 2: I think it gets hot as hell. Because that team
• 25:50
  Speaker 2: is too talented to... in too many areas to look
• 25:54
  Speaker 2: this inept. You can have struggles on offense. Hell, the
• 25:58
  Speaker 2: Chargers are having some. But the bottom line is, you
• 26:02
  Speaker 2: can't be this bad in every category. When he was
• 26:08
  Speaker 2: asked last week after the game... about his offense, he goes,
• 26:11
  Speaker 2: right now, I don't know what we do well offensively.
• 26:14
  Speaker 2: And he's right. But that's, I always, I always start
• 26:19
  Speaker 2: to cock an eyebrow at a coach who says, I
• 26:23
  Speaker 2: don't know why things are going poorly. It's the same
• 26:26
  Speaker 2: thing when Dion said that after the loss this weekend,
• 26:30
  Speaker 2: he goes, it feels like we're better than teams on paper,
• 26:32
  Speaker 2: but we just aren't winning and we need to figure
• 26:34
  Speaker 2: out why. It's like, well, that's the job of the coach.
• 26:37
  Speaker 2: If you feel like you're better than the stuff that
• 26:39
  Speaker 2: you're putting on the field, and that's happening consistently, then
• 26:43
  Speaker 2: there's a certain guy in charge that should have at
• 26:46
  Speaker 2: least some theories as to why it's going that way.
• 26:49
  Speaker 2: But the Packers look like an absolute mess, and God
• 26:53
  Speaker 2: help them if they lose to Tampa this weekend. MVP
• 26:56
  Speaker 2: stock up. So I do this in both NFL and
• 27:00
  Speaker 2: college football. Stock up, stock down. When I do MVPs
• 27:04
  Speaker 2: or Heismans, I know that these are largely quarterback categories,
• 27:07
  Speaker 2: but I use this to show some love to some
• 27:09
  Speaker 2: guys who should get it. And I'm going to shout
• 27:13
  Speaker 2: out Jameer Gibbs, and here's why. Jameer Gibbs this last
• 27:15
  Speaker 2: weekend had 20 carries for 99 yards, two touchdowns. He
• 27:18
  Speaker 2: had a receiving touchdown. But over the course of this season,
• 27:21
  Speaker 2: 307 yards on the ground with four touchdowns. He's also
• 27:25
  Speaker 2: caught 18 passes for 156 yards and two touchdowns through
• 27:28
  Speaker 2: the air. He's on pace for 350 carries this season,
• 27:32
  Speaker 2: which is unheard of. along with 100 catch season as
• 27:36
  Speaker 2: a running back and 30 total touchdowns. The 30 total
• 27:40
  Speaker 2: touchdown mark is insane. It's one of those stats that
• 27:43
  Speaker 2: it's like you have to go back to Sean Alexander's
• 27:46
  Speaker 2: and very few people in between for people who reach
• 27:50
  Speaker 2: that number, but that's what he's on pace for right now.
• 27:55
  Speaker 2: If the Lions have.
• 28:00
  Speaker 2: If the Lions... who have a very easy schedule because
• 28:04
  Speaker 2: they finished last in the NFC North last year, can
• 28:07
  Speaker 2: get any sort of defense and win 10 or 11
• 28:10
  Speaker 2: games this year. They'll probably be a playoff team. And
• 28:14
  Speaker 2: if Gibbs continues these type of numbers, he won't win
• 28:17
  Speaker 2: the MVP, but he'll get a few votes. So he
• 28:20
  Speaker 2: gets stock up. Let's go MVP stock down. So I
• 28:24
  Speaker 2: think this team's going to be in it at the
• 28:26
  Speaker 2: end of the year. He's the quarterback of it. And
• 28:28
  Speaker 2: I think he's a good player, but It's a numbers game.
• 28:31
  Speaker 2: And Jalen Hurts just hasn't had very good numbers through
• 28:33
  Speaker 2: the first three weeks. This last weekend, he was 16-25
• 28:37
  Speaker 2: for 153 yards, no touchdowns, one pick, and a 20-point
• 28:41
  Speaker 2: loss to a Case Keenum-led Chicago Bears team. He has
• 28:45
  Speaker 2: five touchdowns and three picks on the year. But he
• 28:49
  Speaker 2: said one touchdown and three picks in his last two weeks.
• 28:52
  Speaker 2: This Eagles team could easily be 0-3. They found ways
• 28:58
  Speaker 2: to win... But they've eked out victories against Washington in
• 29:02
  Speaker 2: Week 1, who is a two-point conversion away from sending
• 29:05
  Speaker 2: that game into overtime. They needed a touchdown with nine
• 29:08
  Speaker 2: seconds left against the Tennessee Titans to beat them in
• 29:11
  Speaker 2: Week 2, and the Titans are as bad as anybody
• 29:13
  Speaker 2: in football. The next two weeks are against a hungry
• 29:19
  Speaker 2: Rams team who's 1-2 and a Jags team that is
• 29:23
  Speaker 2: demolishing everybody not named the Denver Broncos. This could get
• 29:27
  Speaker 2: wonky in a hurry in Philly. They're already out with
• 29:31
  Speaker 2: their pitchforks and their torches standing outside of Jalen Hurts
• 29:35
  Speaker 2: and Nick Sirianni's house every time that team loses a game.
• 29:38
  Speaker 2: They have a chance. to lose maybe their next two
• 29:41
  Speaker 2: if they continue to play the way they've been playing.
• 29:44
  Speaker 2: So Jalen Hurts gets the MVP stock down. Let's go
• 29:46
  Speaker 2: to the best game of the week.
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: Oh, yes!
• 29:49
  Speaker 2: As stupid as the finish was, Ravens and Cowboys was
• 29:51
  Speaker 2: a great game. It would have been even better had
• 29:54
  Speaker 2: Brian Schottenheimer played Madden once in his life and knows
• 29:58
  Speaker 2: how clock management works. The ending of that game made
• 30:03
  Speaker 2: me sick. And look, I'm no fan of the Cowboys.
• 30:06
  Speaker 2: I love it when they lose. But it feels like
• 30:09
  Speaker 2: you just robbed what could have been a really cool finish.
• 30:12
  Speaker 2: But it was still the best game of the week.
• 30:13
  Speaker 2: The worst game of the week. No! God, please, no!
• 30:18
  Speaker 2: So these are reserved for two things. Worst game of
• 30:20
  Speaker 2: the week, you're in one of two categories. It's either
• 30:23
  Speaker 2: a huge blowout in which it wasn't interesting from start
• 30:26
  Speaker 2: to finish, and that could have been the Jags and
• 30:27
  Speaker 2: the Patriots, or it's a game in which no points
• 30:32
  Speaker 2: are scored. I hate those. So congratulations, Giants and Titans,
• 30:36
  Speaker 2: which that game finished 12-7. You get that category. You
• 30:41
  Speaker 2: get it. And that is NFL Stock Up, Stock Down.
• 30:44
  Speaker 2: We do it every single week following the NFL weekend.
• 30:48
  Speaker 2: It's a very nice high school football matchup tomorrow between, oh,
• 30:51
  Speaker 2: I get it, very nice, No. 6 Grandview and No.
• 30:55
  Speaker 2: 9 Eaglecrest. Nice. Did you write this one, Nelly?
• 31:00
  Speaker 4: Nice.
• 31:01
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• 31:15
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• 31:18
  Speaker 2: look on what the Avs season is going to be.
• 31:23
  Speaker 2: I spent a lot of time thinking about this. You know,
• 31:27
  Speaker 2: here's what this season feels to me. This is the
• 31:30
  Speaker 2: read I get on it. It feels like this season
• 31:33
  Speaker 2: is going to be all or nothing with the Avs. Like,
• 31:37
  Speaker 2: I think they're either going to win the Stanley Cup
• 31:41
  Speaker 2: or they're going to lose in the first round. Because
• 31:44
  Speaker 2: it just doesn't feel like with what happened last year,
• 31:48
  Speaker 2: they will allow a loss to occur, you know, in
• 31:57
  Speaker 2: the second round or the Western Conference Finals with how
• 32:00
  Speaker 2: last year ended. It's either going to be we are
• 32:03
  Speaker 2: not good enough and you know it before the postseason
• 32:06
  Speaker 2: even starts or they're going to win the whole damn thing.
• 32:09
  Speaker 2: And there is something about a team that is talented
• 32:14
  Speaker 2: that also reeks of desperation. There's a hunger. And I
• 32:23
  Speaker 2: think in almost every case, when you look at what
• 32:28
  Speaker 2: teams that have those combos, when they put that together,
• 32:31
  Speaker 2: it can be something really special. Now, you need all
• 32:35
  Speaker 2: this stuff to go your way. You need the luck.
• 32:36
  Speaker 2: You need the injuries to be on the low side.
• 32:41
  Speaker 2: You need all that different stuff. I just think that
• 32:46
  Speaker 2: this team has a different sort of mentality. And it's
• 32:51
  Speaker 2: something that Raj pointed out yesterday on the morning sprint.
• 32:55
  Speaker 2: Gabe Lannis-Gogg told the media this morning. You can't come
• 32:59
  Speaker 2: in here thinking you won the president's trophy and that
• 33:03
  Speaker 2: it means anything because it doesn't mean anything. Everybody has
• 33:06
  Speaker 2: to prove themselves. You have the leadership. You have everything
• 33:10
  Speaker 2: in charge. The interesting thing about yesterday was they announced,
• 33:14
  Speaker 2: and it's funny. I don't know if you can pull
• 33:15
  Speaker 2: this up, Nellie. I don't think they want to say
• 33:20
  Speaker 2: this out loud, but if you've been reading the tea leaves,
• 33:23
  Speaker 2: I think it's been pretty obvious. If you can go back,
• 33:26
  Speaker 2: we talked to Joe Sackick after Hale McCarr signed his extension.
• 33:33
  Speaker 2: And I asked him about Andrew Cagliano, who had the
• 33:37
  Speaker 2: very Dwight Schrute-ish assistant to the regional manager job title,
• 33:42
  Speaker 2: and said, you know, you aren't going out and doing
• 33:45
  Speaker 2: this big search for a GM. You're going to take
• 33:50
  Speaker 2: over for the foreseeable future. Is this sort of grooming...
• 33:54
  Speaker 2: Andrew Cogliano to eventually take this over. And I can't
• 33:59
  Speaker 2: remember his exact response. It was, well, you know, Andrew's
• 34:02
  Speaker 2: just a, he's a good part of this organization. He's
• 34:04
  Speaker 2: been great for us. Blah, blah, blah. I gave one
• 34:05
  Speaker 2: of those answers. Didn't say yes, but didn't really say
• 34:08
  Speaker 2: no either. And yesterday it was announced that he has
• 34:11
  Speaker 2: been promoted to assistant GM. And this looks like the
• 34:15
  Speaker 2: easiest he's eventually going to take over thing I've ever seen. Um,
• 34:22
  Speaker 2: You get to this assistant GM job. I don't think
• 34:24
  Speaker 2: that happens necessarily like next year or something like that.
• 34:27
  Speaker 2: Maybe it's a couple years down the line. You know,
• 34:30
  Speaker 2: I mentioned this before. It feels to me that Joe Sackick,
• 34:32
  Speaker 2: who's been in charge of this for years, putting this
• 34:35
  Speaker 2: core together, getting this team together, he sees this as,
• 34:41
  Speaker 2: you know, kind of what I've been talking about, which
• 34:44
  Speaker 2: is the last really big year before, if things go wrong,
• 34:49
  Speaker 2: you got to make some pretty seismic changes. No, a
• 34:53
  Speaker 2: blueprint season. And I think that he has no issue
• 34:56
  Speaker 2: with seeing this through with him being in charge. Like,
• 34:59
  Speaker 2: I put this together. I want to see up close
• 35:02
  Speaker 2: and personal if this is going to work or not
• 35:04
  Speaker 2: for myself. And I want to be the one that
• 35:06
  Speaker 2: has to make the changes if we do indeed have
• 35:08
  Speaker 2: to make changes. That's how it feels. And so Cagliano
• 35:14
  Speaker 2: is getting a... You know, he's sliding closer and closer
• 35:18
  Speaker 2: to the end of that table to the king's chair.
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: And....
• 35:23
  Speaker 2: He's now your Tyrion, to make a Game of Thrones reference.
• 35:28
  Speaker 2: He's the hand of the king. You're right there. But
• 35:33
  Speaker 2: this has been, I think everybody, everybody kind of saw
• 35:39
  Speaker 2: this coming here for a while. So, no surprise that
• 35:44
  Speaker 2: he's promoted to the assistant GM job, and I think
• 35:47
  Speaker 2: I would love if somebody who knew these players sort
• 35:51
  Speaker 2: of in and out, played with them just a few
• 35:53
  Speaker 2: years ago, was in charge and knew exactly what they
• 35:55
  Speaker 2: liked and what they didn't like. So, Cagliano is now
• 35:59
  Speaker 2: the assistant GM. Now, yesterday, MLB playoffs started, and I
• 36:06
  Speaker 2: am a huge MLB playoffs guy. I think you'd be hard-pressed.
• 36:11
  Speaker 2: I mean, hockey is certainly one of them, their playoffs,
• 36:15
  Speaker 2: but when you get into a tight game and it's late,
• 36:19
  Speaker 2: There's something about the MLB and every single pitch being
• 36:23
  Speaker 2: one that could throw things off the rails. You had
• 36:25
  Speaker 2: a couple of blowouts yesterday. The Yankees torched the Red
• 36:28
  Speaker 2: Sox nine to nothing. Padres eight to nothing over the Cubs,
• 36:32
  Speaker 2: but that Phillies and Braves game, Austin Riley, when he
• 36:36
  Speaker 2: steps up to the plate and it looks like the
• 36:39
  Speaker 2: Phillies have the game in hand. Now they were, they
• 36:42
  Speaker 2: were struggling towards the end of the year. They were
• 36:44
  Speaker 2: borderline out of the playoff race. Um, lost a whole bunch,
• 36:49
  Speaker 2: but they have a three to two lead and feels
• 36:59
  Speaker 2: like they got things in hand. It's the bottom of
• 37:02
  Speaker 2: the eighth. They get two outs to start the inning.
• 37:07
  Speaker 2: There's a little chopper infield single to short that, I mean,
• 37:12
  Speaker 2: it looked like an error to me, but they rolled
• 37:14
  Speaker 2: it a base hit. Okay, fine. Then you have a hit-by-pitch.
• 37:17
  Speaker 2: Now there's two guys on with two outs. And Austin
• 37:21
  Speaker 2: Riley sends one just over the wall in right field
• 37:23
  Speaker 2: to make it a 5-3 game, and the Braves win
• 37:25
  Speaker 2: it by closing out the top of the ninth. And
• 37:29
  Speaker 2: that place in Atlanta exploded. It was a hell of
• 37:33
  Speaker 2: a baseball game, but that's what I'm talking about. It's
• 37:36
  Speaker 2: every single pitch, and you can feel that momentum shift
• 37:39
  Speaker 2: in the middle of an inning. I just love playoff baseball.
• 37:42
  Speaker 2: And I think a team that we all root for
• 37:44
  Speaker 2: is going to be the White Sox. The White Sox
• 37:46
  Speaker 2: are the Rockies. They're a team that won 100 games
• 37:50
  Speaker 2: consecutively for three straight years, and now they find themselves
• 37:53
  Speaker 2: in the postseason. So they play against the Astros. They
• 37:59
  Speaker 2: win 6-3, and I want to highlight Murakami, who's got,
• 38:04
  Speaker 2: first of all, a really cool swing, but he drops bombs.
• 38:08
  Speaker 2: I didn't play this a few days ago, and I
• 38:10
  Speaker 2: meant to, so I apologize. You've probably heard it by now,
• 38:14
  Speaker 2: but I would listen to this a million more times.
• 38:16
  Speaker 2: When they clinched their postseason berth, and they're doing the
• 38:21
  Speaker 2: champagne shower in the locker room and all that stuff,
• 38:25
  Speaker 2: He's being interviewed by somebody with a translator. Now, this
• 38:28
  Speaker 2: is with the translator removed from the questioning, but here
• 38:31
  Speaker 2: was his answers. Now, that's a shout out. I can't
• 38:34
  Speaker 2: remember the pitcher. He was with the Blue Jays, but
• 38:38
  Speaker 2: he did this a few years back. I am Japanese
• 38:57
  Speaker 2: is the greatest answer to a question I've ever heard. Again,
• 39:02
  Speaker 2: could listen to that a thousand times on repeat.
• 39:05
  Speaker 1: Okay?
• 39:09
  Speaker 2: But I am pulling for the White Sox big time
• 39:12
  Speaker 2: because in, in, in some ways it feels like you're
• 39:19
  Speaker 2: rooting for the American League Rockies. Remember, This White Sox
• 39:24
  Speaker 2: team was a joke. They were made fun of almost
• 39:26
  Speaker 2: on a nightly basis over the last few years. Three
• 39:32
  Speaker 2: consecutive 100 loss seasons. This is what I've been trying
• 39:34
  Speaker 2: to tell people. The Rockies are really bad right now.
• 39:37
  Speaker 2: They've lost four consecutive years, 100 plus losses. It doesn't
• 39:44
  Speaker 2: need to take a five-year swing to get your baseball
• 39:48
  Speaker 2: team right again. It can happen pretty quick. And that's
• 39:56
  Speaker 2: the hope. If you put the right pieces together and
• 39:58
  Speaker 2: then you make a few adjustments, a hundred loss season
• 40:02
  Speaker 2: can turn into what the White Sox just did, which
• 40:04
  Speaker 2: is an 84 win season and playoff berth. That and that.
• 40:16
  Speaker 2: Who are the Japanese players on the rocks right now? Shugano.
• 40:19
  Speaker 2: I don't know if he's going to be back next year.
• 40:23
  Speaker 2: Who would be able to yell I am Japanese if
• 40:25
  Speaker 2: they make the postseason next year? I think that's it. Wait,
• 40:30
  Speaker 2: Pauly D.
• 40:31
  Speaker 4: Buckets, if you're listening, go get some Japanese guys and
• 40:34
  Speaker 4: then make the playoffs.
• 40:36
  Speaker 2: Pauly D.
• 40:36
  Speaker 4: Podesta, let's get some dudes.
• 40:37
  Speaker 2: I think that they're going to have a central focus
• 40:42
  Speaker 2: on going out and just rearranging their pitching staff because
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  Speaker 2: they have to.
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  Speaker 4: And Brett, positive spin on the Rockies being booty cheeks.
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  Speaker 4: How fun is it? to watch the MLB playoffs and
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  Speaker 4: hang on every pitch when you have no skin in
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  Speaker 4: the game whatsoever.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, God.
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  Speaker 4: It is a blast just watching as a neutral third party.
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  Speaker 2: It's great, but I would love even more if the
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  Speaker 2: Rockies were in. I want to feel that fear. I
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  Speaker 2: want that adrenaline rush.
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  Speaker 4: You want the pain of that wild card game against
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  Speaker 4: the Cubs that went like 13 innings before playoff hero
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  Speaker 4: Tony Walters walked it off? Mustache legend.
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  Speaker 2: The Avalanche return to the ice tonight for game one.
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