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The Best of the Week of Stugotz and Company LIVE! · Stugotz and Company

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  Speaker 1: Thanks for listening to the best of Steve Gotson Company
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  Speaker 1: A lot to get to today is real goody Eras
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  Speaker 1: is off. He will hopefully be back with us tomorrow.
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  Speaker 1: Trey Wingo going to join us at about fifteen minutes.
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  Speaker 1: We have the week Ken observations as well a hour
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  Speaker 1: number two, and Jason Hare, the director of a new
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  Speaker 1: Novak Djokovic documentary which is coming out in a week
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  Speaker 1: or so. He'll join us an hour number two as well.
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  Speaker 1: Let's start here though, with Mikey A and Taylor. First off,
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  Speaker 1: congratulations to Mikey A and his son's little league team.
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  Speaker 1: They were Mikey, what they win? You're more excited than
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  Speaker 1: he is. I know you're committed to this in a
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  Speaker 1: way that he's not. So what did they win?
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  Speaker 3: They won the New England Regional. They went as high
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  Speaker 3: as they could go for their age group in Little
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  Speaker 3: League and they won it all all right, so undefeated
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  Speaker 3: through the regionals.
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  Speaker 1: Well, congratulations to you, not to your son, just to you.
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  Speaker 1: Your son doesn't care to me.
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  Speaker 3: I listen, he didn't have to pay for the hotel
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  Speaker 3: room for nine days. He didn't lose his voice screaming
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  Speaker 3: for him. Yes, all he did was hit and play defense.
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  Speaker 4: What do you do?
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  Speaker 5: I paid and I screamed, that's right, and I danced.
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  Speaker 1: I am very excited because we'll get to Taylor's winners
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  Speaker 1: and losers from preseason week one.
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  Speaker 4: I have done these during the regular season. I have
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  Speaker 4: never done.
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  Speaker 1: An addition of winners and losers for a preseason week one.
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  Speaker 4: This is very exciting Taylor.
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  Speaker 1: But let's start with Jackson Dart, because I believe Taylor
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  Speaker 1: has some issues with the narrative surroundings Jackson Dart.
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  Speaker 4: He took a monster hit.
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  Speaker 1: Man like Jackson Dart doesn't need the offensive line's help
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  Speaker 1: getting concussed, and the offensive line in a preseason game
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  Speaker 1: just left him wide open to get nailed by a
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  Speaker 1: linebacker and he had to go to the blue tent.
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  Speaker 4: Why because that's where he lives.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, the running back missed the block, clear miss there.
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  Speaker 6: My problem with this there feels like it's a disingenuous narrative.
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  Speaker 6: Around Dart because yes, he goes to the blue Tent
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  Speaker 6: a lot, but he doesn't really have the concussion issues
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  Speaker 6: where people are tweeting about it. This tweet comes from
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  Speaker 6: rang Sharp. Jackson Dart has made five trips to the
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  Speaker 6: blue medical tent in a ten game span last year,
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  Speaker 6: one game into twenty twenty six. One trip to the
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  Speaker 6: blue medical tent simply not sustainable on the surface. Yes,
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  Speaker 6: Jackson Dart is making trips to the Blue medical Tent
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  Speaker 6: a lot, but he's only he's been cleared five out
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  Speaker 6: of those six times where he goes to the blue tent. Right,
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  Speaker 6: and the narrative around Jackson Dart feels like Jackson Dart
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  Speaker 6: has to change the way he has to play. Jackson
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  Speaker 6: Dart is this fragile quarterback in New York. Do I
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  Speaker 6: think he has to adjust the way he plays a bit? Yes,
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  Speaker 6: because some of the times when he runs it is
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  Speaker 6: a bit reckless where he's just throwing his body to
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  Speaker 6: the wind. But he's not Tua. And while I get
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  Speaker 6: player safety is the ultimate goal, I'm kind of with
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  Speaker 6: Jackson Dart where the sound of Jackson Dart being like,
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  Speaker 6: I'm just as puzzled as anybody else why I keep
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  Speaker 6: going to the medical tent where we're at the stage
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  Speaker 6: where if you make contact with Jackson Dart, it's an
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  Speaker 6: automatic visit to the blue Tent.
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  Speaker 4: I think he enjoys going there. I do like retreat.
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  Speaker 1: It's like a little home on the sideline for him.
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  Speaker 1: He just hangs out in there. I mean, he's got
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  Speaker 1: pictures of.
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  Speaker 7: His family on the walls.
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  Speaker 6: He hasn't like on Survivor, like a trick to the sanctuary.
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  Speaker 4: He has a picture of the darts. Mikey, how do
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  Speaker 4: you feel about this?
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  Speaker 1: By the way, what Taylor is saying is he has
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  Speaker 1: a high percentage when he goes into the blue tent.
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  Speaker 1: He is coming out of the blue tent just about
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  Speaker 1: every time and going right back on that football field.
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  Speaker 5: He's batting eight hundred in no concussion.
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  Speaker 3: I get that, But at the same time, you just
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  Speaker 3: can't take those hits so often.
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  Speaker 5: You're saying, he's not like Tua ware every time.
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  Speaker 3: But Tua wasn't like Tua until he was like, at
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  Speaker 3: some point, you're gonna get one of those hits that's
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  Speaker 3: going to open the floodgates to all of the other
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  Speaker 3: concussions that can come.
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  Speaker 1: But I think what Taylor is saying, and I kind
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  Speaker 1: of agree with him on this, and Jackson is saying
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  Speaker 1: it as well. I was surprised by the mobility of
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  Speaker 1: Jackson Dark coming from Mississippi into the NFL. I was
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  Speaker 1: not aware he could run and was as athletic as
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  Speaker 1: he has shown here through one year in the NFL.
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  Speaker 1: And I think what Taylor is trying to say is,
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  Speaker 1: don't take that part of the game out of Jackson,
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  Speaker 1: don't make him think too much.
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  Speaker 4: Let him just be.
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  Speaker 1: Who he is and play quarterback because he appears to
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  Speaker 1: be very good at it.
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  Speaker 6: I mean, we're in a situation right now where every
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  Speaker 6: spotter is on high alert every time Jackson Dart gets
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  Speaker 6: hit where it's an automatic scent to the tent. And yes,
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  Speaker 6: you're the NFL is trying to tech Jackson Dart. I
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  Speaker 6: understand that, but taking him out of the game for
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  Speaker 6: every time he gets touched where he's not getting hit
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  Speaker 6: in the pocket more than the average quarterback, but he
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  Speaker 6: is getting sent to the blue medical tent more. And
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  Speaker 6: it's not like every time he's going he's getting he's
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  Speaker 6: getting ruled out of the game with a concussion. He's
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  Speaker 6: just coming back five plays later.
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  Speaker 1: The NFL is not concerned about Just so we're clear,
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  Speaker 1: not concerned about Jackson Dart. They're protecting themselves. They lost
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  Speaker 1: a lawsuit, they lost the concussion lawsuit. It was hundreds
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  Speaker 1: of millions of dollars paying all kinds of former players.
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  Speaker 1: And of course they're gonna be cautious when it comes
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  Speaker 1: to concussions and head injuries in the NFL. Literally, they're
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  Speaker 1: losing money if it happens. I mean, guys are suing them.
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  Speaker 6: Yes, My larger point is that I have a problem
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  Speaker 6: with everybody saying that Jackson Dart has a concussion issue.
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  Speaker 6: Just to be clear, if we want the right narrative out,
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  Speaker 6: he has a blue tent issue.
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  Speaker 5: He doesn't have a concussion issue yet.
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  Speaker 3: But what he does have is he gets hit harder,
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  Speaker 3: it seems than anyone.
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  Speaker 4: Now.
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  Speaker 3: He hasn't gotten the concussions, but there are a lot
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  Speaker 3: of quarterbacks who have running as part of their game
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  Speaker 3: that don't get hit the way he is getting hit. Like,
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  Speaker 3: he has to learn how to get himself down in
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  Speaker 3: a better way than he has been because right now
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  Speaker 3: it is tee off on him and he's luckily not
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  Speaker 3: getting the concussions. At the rate that the NFL seems
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  Speaker 3: to think he might be getting them, but he is
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  Speaker 3: still getting hit harder than say a Patrick Mahomes or
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  Speaker 3: a Josh Allen or Lamar Jackson, all these guys who
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  Speaker 3: run but don't get hit that way.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, but Mikey, don't you think there's something to it
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  Speaker 6: where if Jackson Dart and Josh Allen both get hit
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  Speaker 6: the same way, the people who are up there, who
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  Speaker 6: are in charge of it, have more of a chance
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  Speaker 6: of sending Jackson Dart to the blue tent because it
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  Speaker 6: is Jackson Dart and we just, for some reason, just
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  Speaker 6: keep sending him to the blue tent labor andover.
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  Speaker 4: He has a history, Josh Allen does it.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I'm certain they're cautious with two as well,
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  Speaker 1: don't you think, I mean, Jackson Dart does.
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  Speaker 4: It's a short history.
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  Speaker 1: And I granted he's walked into that blue tent six
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  Speaker 1: times and five times he has come out and gone
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  Speaker 1: back on the football field. But he does have issues
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  Speaker 1: with head injuries. That's why they're being cautious, right.
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  Speaker 6: I think he has the same amount of concussions as
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  Speaker 6: somebody like Josh Allen.
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  Speaker 7: Well, it's a.
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  Speaker 5: Lot Allen's been playing for.
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  Speaker 7: It's a lot shorter of a sample sizer.
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  Speaker 1: Josh Allen goes into that blue tent. It's a cup
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  Speaker 1: of coffee. I mean, I'm telling you it's a shot
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  Speaker 1: of espresso. That guy is not in there for more
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  Speaker 1: than thirty seconds. He walks in, gives someone a wink,
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  Speaker 1: and he walked right back.
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  Speaker 6: As he's not even giving somebody a wink. There's nobody
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  Speaker 6: in that blue tent when Josh Allen, it's just him. Yeah,
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  Speaker 6: it's the Homer sens.
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  Speaker 7: In going in and out.
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  Speaker 6: Like Josh Allen just goes in, he signs his name in,
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  Speaker 6: and then he signs right back out.
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  Speaker 5: He walks in and says, what the hell are the
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  Speaker 5: darts doing hanging there?
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  Speaker 4: And then he leaves.
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  Speaker 1: Is there a mailbox here? And what are we doing
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  Speaker 1: with the blue tent being the darts house? Do we
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  Speaker 1: have a mailbox that to say that the arts on
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  Speaker 1: it is the mail? But I guess everyone knows we're
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  Speaker 1: just send Jackson dart nail. So let's get to winners
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  Speaker 1: and losers from a preseason week number one.
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  Speaker 4: Wow exciting, oh wow football winners and losers.
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  Speaker 7: So I have three winners and three losers.
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  Speaker 1: No one really won and no one really lost the
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  Speaker 1: lead to you, I'm sorry.
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  Speaker 6: I'll start with a winner. Wow, Fernando Mendoza.
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  Speaker 4: Big time. He's good.
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  Speaker 6: You could just look at Fernando Mendoza and right away, Stu,
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  Speaker 6: he passes the eye test.
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  Speaker 7: You look at him and you say that guy belongs.
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  Speaker 1: Yep, no doubt, Yes he belongs. Kirk Cousins is going
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  Speaker 1: to be the weak one started though he played well,
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  Speaker 1: Kirk Cousins. But I am with you on Mendoza. He
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  Speaker 1: looked the part that's important.
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  Speaker 6: My biggest loser yep. Cam Ward really yeah. So I
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  Speaker 6: was hoping to see a step with cam Ward. And
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  Speaker 6: that's what you really want to see in a second
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  Speaker 6: year quarterback. You want to see that step that they take.
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  Speaker 4: It's a leap year. Yeah.
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  Speaker 7: Is it a leap year or a step year?
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  Speaker 4: He has to make a big lead. I don't know.
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  Speaker 4: Put it on the poll. Is it a step year
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  Speaker 4: or elite year for cam Ward?
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  Speaker 7: And then when you're.
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  Speaker 6: Watching cam Ward against the forty nine ers, the forty
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  Speaker 6: nine ers rested as starters in the game, and Ward
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  Speaker 6: was still five of twelve passing fifty seven yards fifty
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  Speaker 6: six points six passer rating, and you guys are gonna
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  Speaker 6: like this Titans play.
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  Speaker 7: The Jets Week one. Yeah, I've now got that as
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  Speaker 7: a Jets win.
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  Speaker 4: I don't like that. Why would I like that? Why
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  Speaker 4: would I like?
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  Speaker 7: This Jets team is sneaky. You saw Garrett Wilson.
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  Speaker 6: Garrett Wilson. Garrett Wilson's not going to be in my winners.
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  Speaker 6: But Garrett Wilson is a winner.
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  Speaker 4: Well, you can't be a winner and be on the Jets.
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  Speaker 4: Put it on the poll. Can you be a winner
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  Speaker 4: and be on the New York Jets.
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  Speaker 7: You can't do it, Garrett Wilson. There, I believe Garrett
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  Speaker 7: Wilson could be a top five.
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  Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers his entire career, winner, winner, clutch winner, winner,
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  Speaker 1: get to the Jets bears the Achilles loser. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: that's what happens when you go to the Jets. There
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  Speaker 1: are no winners, just losers.
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  Speaker 4: Can't do it.
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  Speaker 7: You guys are so down on this Jets team. Why
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  Speaker 7: I like this Jets.
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  Speaker 4: Team forty years?
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, but you know yesterday Yesterday's team is not today's team, right,
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  Speaker 6: The team is different. The twenty sixteen Jets have no
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  Speaker 6: impact on the twenty twenty six Jets. It's a new
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  Speaker 6: year for Aaron Glenn, who's probably gonna be the first
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  Speaker 6: coach fired.
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  Speaker 4: You're right there.
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  Speaker 1: Every year it's different, the team is different, the results
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  Speaker 1: are exactly the same.
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  Speaker 4: Any other winners for the weekend?
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  Speaker 7: My next winner?
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  Speaker 6: The more connection looks good, It looks really hate Savior. Yes,
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  Speaker 6: I was thinking, is there a chance Dj Moore could
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  Speaker 6: be the best receiver that Josh Allen has played with?
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  Speaker 6: I know Stefan Diggs was great there and he said
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  Speaker 6: a lot of franchise marks in Buffalo, but on paper,
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  Speaker 6: talent wise, DJ Moore and Stefan Diggs go toe to
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  Speaker 6: toe with each other.
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  Speaker 1: Right, this is how it works, he is right now,
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  Speaker 1: until they don't make it to the AFC Championship game
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  Speaker 1: with the Super Bowl, and then it's DJ Moore's fault
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  Speaker 1: and not Josh Allens.
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  Speaker 4: Is that fair, Mikey.
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  Speaker 1: That's usually the way it works with Josh ally bringing
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  Speaker 1: another receiver, someone better than Dj Moore.
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  Speaker 7: Come on down, Michael Pittman, your next stop, all.
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  Speaker 4: Right, give us another loser here before Drey Wing go.
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  Speaker 7: Michael Lafleur, the.
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  Speaker 6: Cardinals head coach, giving Jeremiah Love double digit carries in
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  Speaker 6: a preseason game should be considered malpractice?
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  Speaker 4: From coach put it on the poll.
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  Speaker 1: Uh, giving Jeremiah Love double digit carries in a preseason game?
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  Speaker 1: Should he be sued from malpractice? You agree, Mikey, Yes,
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  Speaker 1: I agree with you.
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  Speaker 3: I just wonder where Lafleur got his doctorate that he's getting, uh, malpractice,
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  Speaker 3: getting malpractice.
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  Speaker 6: Because you're looking at Jeremiah Love. Now he has a
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  Speaker 6: high ankle spray and the Cardinals are left hoping he
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  Speaker 6: can return in four weeks for a week one game
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  Speaker 6: at the Chargers.
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  Speaker 7: It's not looking that good to me.
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  Speaker 4: That show us at the new toy. That's all it is.
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  Speaker 1: It's like trying to just of it. No one thinks
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  Speaker 1: you should take a running back in the first round.
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  Speaker 1: They took one very high, and that's just kind of
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  Speaker 1: justifying a pick.
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  Speaker 4: That no one else thinks you should have made.
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  Speaker 3: That's all the best thing that could happen to the
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  Speaker 3: Cardinals is he goes out for the year and then
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  Speaker 3: they get two rookies next year, a quarterback and a
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  Speaker 3: running back, and they're like, hey, little slipper, we got now.
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  Speaker 5: Carries.
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  Speaker 4: Yea, if you have three running backs Mikey, what does
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  Speaker 4: that mean? I mean, you know, I may I.
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  Speaker 7: Have one more loser.
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  Speaker 6: The Bengals offensive line. Joe Burrow got folded like a
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  Speaker 6: cheap lawn chair the second play of the game. Joe
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  Speaker 6: Burrow's been sacked forty or more times three times in
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  Speaker 6: his NFL career. The Bengals traded for Dexter Lawrence that
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  Speaker 6: number ten pick. They could have gotten somebody like Francis
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  Speaker 6: maw We Noah that the Giants wound up drafting. Wit said,
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  Speaker 6: pick your most valuable asset if you're the Cincinnati Bengals,
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  Speaker 6: is Joe Burrow start acting like it?
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  Speaker 4: But he wanted a line name. Burrow wanted one.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, but if you're this Bengals team, you have to
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  Speaker 6: kind of go in with the mindset we're gonna have
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  Speaker 6: to score sixty points a game to win. You have
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  Speaker 6: Joe Burrow, you have t Higgins, you have Jamar Chase.
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  Speaker 6: Give Joe Burrow time in the pocket so he could
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  Speaker 6: assess what he has to do to carry your defense.
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  Speaker 5: Right.
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  Speaker 4: I think the Bengals are going to be fine. They're
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  Speaker 4: my Super Bowl pick out of the AFC. How about
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  Speaker 4: that terrible pick? I pick them every.
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  Speaker 7: Year I'm out the Chargers.
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  Speaker 1: How about that, Mikey, do you have a winner or
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  Speaker 1: a loser from the weekend? I know this wasn't your topic,
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  Speaker 1: but do you have one anyway?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah?
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  Speaker 3: All the other New England states when they played Connecticut
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  Speaker 3: in the Little League regional tournament.
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  Speaker 1: I have a big winner, less Snead Sean McVay. They
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  Speaker 1: took ty Simpson. No one thought they should have tooken
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  Speaker 1: Ty Simpson. Now they have their quarterback when Matthew Stafford
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  Speaker 1: gets hurt, and they have their quarterback for the.
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  Speaker 4: Next fifteen years.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, seriously, he's the MVP of the preseason through
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  Speaker 1: Week one.
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  Speaker 4: How about that?
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  Speaker 6: It's crazy. It's crazy to see when a team runs
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  Speaker 6: itself like a.
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  Speaker 4: Organization, well with forward thinking.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, just like it's just like a system, like we
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  Speaker 6: just draft the next guy. We churn out great players,
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  Speaker 6: we trade out picks, and we replace them.
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  Speaker 1: Which is exactly why me and Mikey are frustrated with
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  Speaker 1: the Jets. Who's starting at quarterback for the Jets this year? Gino,
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  Speaker 1: a guy that was terrible for them.
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  Speaker 4: Twelve years ago. Okay, club Nick, that's my guy.
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  Speaker 4: Taylor, are you excited here for the NFL season?
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  Speaker 1: It feels like you are knee deep in Yankee Baseball
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  Speaker 1: right now, not really paying attention to what's coming right
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  Speaker 1: around the corner, and that's the NFL.
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  Speaker 4: How about that?
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  Speaker 6: So I'm a multi TV guy. I have a great
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  Speaker 6: ability to multitask when it comes to sports. I'm going
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  Speaker 6: to be locked in the second the NFL starts. Now,
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  Speaker 6: I'm not as high on preseason, even though I do
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  Speaker 6: do my winners and losers, as people know. But once
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  Speaker 6: the NFL starts, They've got.
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  Speaker 1: Mem I asked mikeyy, he is so focused on the NFL.
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  Speaker 1: He is so focused. He's a knee deep in fantasy magazines.
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  Speaker 1: He's getting ready in college I college football. Right before
• 15:18
  Speaker 1: the show started, I said, Hey, you interested in the
• 15:20
  Speaker 1: Kawhi Leonards story. He looked at me and said, no,
• 15:24
  Speaker 1: he has no interest in it. I will say this,
• 15:27
  Speaker 1: the idea that the NBA investigated that okay, we'll get
• 15:32
  Speaker 1: to an NFL game here in just a second. But
• 15:34
  Speaker 1: the idea that the NBA investigated whether or not Bomber
• 15:38
  Speaker 1: directly knew about how they were paying Kawhi Leonard and
• 15:42
  Speaker 1: the deal that was cut with Kawhi Leonard, the idea
• 15:45
  Speaker 1: that the NBA did an investigation, and their investigation came back.
• 15:49
  Speaker 1: Their investigators came back and said, no, Bomber had no idea.
• 15:53
  Speaker 4: Get the hell out of here. Okay. They didn't want
• 15:56
  Speaker 4: to find that out. They didn't want to tell us.
• 15:58
  Speaker 1: There is no way that entire thing goes down without
• 16:02
  Speaker 1: Steve Bomber knowing it's going down.
• 16:04
  Speaker 4: Is that fair?
• 16:04
  Speaker 6: It's kind of like a situation in college sports where
• 16:08
  Speaker 6: a team investigates itself and then reports its finding to
• 16:11
  Speaker 6: the NCAA. Like North Carolina investigates itself. North Carolina doesn't
• 16:16
  Speaker 6: find any anything wrong with North Carolina did.
• 16:19
  Speaker 1: Yes, we've investigated the situation and we have found nothing here.
• 16:23
  Speaker 7: We put our best team on it.
• 16:25
  Speaker 5: Yeah, mister Bomber, did you know no? Are you sure?
• 16:29
  Speaker 4: Yes?
• 16:30
  Speaker 2: All right?
• 16:30
  Speaker 5: I got nothing else.
• 16:31
  Speaker 4: I'll give you a third chance, one more chance.
• 16:35
  Speaker 1: I mean, imagine someone underneath Bomber pulling the trigger on
• 16:39
  Speaker 1: that without Bomber knowing of it. That's ridiculous. They get fired.
• 16:43
  Speaker 6: Yeah, I've seen some people trying to do a victory
• 16:45
  Speaker 6: lap on Pablo Torre today saying that Pablo must have
• 16:49
  Speaker 6: gotten the story wrong.
• 16:50
  Speaker 4: He did it.
• 16:51
  Speaker 6: He did not get the story wrong. Ty Lawson was
• 16:54
  Speaker 6: one of them. Like Ty Lawson was like Chapablo get
• 16:56
  Speaker 6: fined or or fired for his.
• 17:00
  Speaker 4: Pablo.
• 17:00
  Speaker 6: This is probably the best case scenario for Pablo because
• 17:03
  Speaker 6: you know Stu. Yeah, he's always got more in this Iceberg.
• 17:06
  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, oh there's more. There are files that have
• 17:09
  Speaker 1: not been revealed yet. I promise you.
• 17:11
  Speaker 6: Like when the NBA came out yesterday and was like
• 17:14
  Speaker 6: we investigated it, the NBA did nothing wrong in this situation.
• 17:18
  Speaker 6: Somewhere Pablo had his feet kicked up and he was
• 17:20
  Speaker 6: just rubbing his hands again, saying, this is exactly what
• 17:23
  Speaker 6: I need say.
• 17:24
  Speaker 1: No, No, he's got him right where he wants him.
• 17:28
  Speaker 1: They felt for it. It's unbelievable.
• 17:31
  Speaker 4: But can you imagine stretch this thing out, Mikey.
• 17:35
  Speaker 1: Can you imagine someone underneath Bomber pulling the trigger on
• 17:38
  Speaker 1: that without his knowledge.
• 17:39
  Speaker 4: It seems ridiculous.
• 17:41
  Speaker 3: There's no chance that's and he's not just like one
• 17:45
  Speaker 3: of those really really really rich guys. He's one of
• 17:47
  Speaker 3: those crazy, really really really rich guys who has to
• 17:50
  Speaker 3: have his hands and everything. He absolutely knows everything that's
• 17:53
  Speaker 3: going on under him.
• 17:55
  Speaker 5: Absolutely.
• 17:56
  Speaker 6: Now it's perfect that this was actually the lead into
• 17:59
  Speaker 6: this NFL game that I have because people are looking
• 18:01
  Speaker 6: at this Kawhi situation and saying, is it something or
• 18:05
  Speaker 6: is it nothing?
• 18:06
  Speaker 4: Right?
• 18:06
  Speaker 6: And just so happens, my NFL game today is called
• 18:11
  Speaker 6: something or nothing.
• 18:17
  Speaker 4: I'll tell this man, he's not locked in on football.
• 18:21
  Speaker 6: So I will give you, guys some headlines, and you
• 18:24
  Speaker 6: have to tell me whether it's something or nothing?
• 18:26
  Speaker 4: Really, okay, got it? Mikey? Clear on the game here
• 18:29
  Speaker 4: or very clear? It's something or nothing?
• 18:33
  Speaker 5: It's something, all right?
• 18:34
  Speaker 6: First headline, Brice Hall out two to three weeks for
• 18:37
  Speaker 6: the New York Jets, but he is expected to play
• 18:41
  Speaker 6: in the opener. Guys, something or nothing, I'm.
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: Gonna say it's a nothing burger, Mikey. I mean, he's
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: out for a couple of preseason games. I'll be fine
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: for Week one. I don't like that. You know a
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: lot of people are high in the Jets this year.
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: I hate that. I wish people would say bad things
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: about the Jets. There's no way this team's.
• 18:59
  Speaker 4: Gonna be that good. But that's that's that's nothing for me.
• 19:03
  Speaker 5: It's a whole lot of nothing.
• 19:04
  Speaker 3: I mean, take take the first few weeks off, you
• 19:06
  Speaker 3: know what, Take the season off, Preese, get yourself right
• 19:09
  Speaker 3: the season, go into the weight room, train, stretch out,
• 19:12
  Speaker 3: whatever you gotta do, get ready for next year.
• 19:15
  Speaker 5: That's where we're gonna need you.
• 19:16
  Speaker 6: This is nothing, Yeah, you got Hey, it bothers me
• 19:19
  Speaker 6: that you guys come in with the Jets every day
• 19:21
  Speaker 6: with the glass half empty.
• 19:23
  Speaker 7: Look, the reason why this is is a nothing.
• 19:26
  Speaker 4: It's completely empty.
• 19:28
  Speaker 6: The reason why this is a nothing in the something
• 19:31
  Speaker 6: or nothing is because the initial reports where Breece Hall
• 19:35
  Speaker 6: went down with a non contact injury, and when you
• 19:37
  Speaker 6: hear non contact injury, yeah, you almost assume it's in
• 19:40
  Speaker 6: Achilles now or an acas all. The fact that he's
• 19:43
  Speaker 6: only gonna be out two to three weeks, yep, means
• 19:46
  Speaker 6: that the Jets avoided something a major catastrophe. But it
• 19:49
  Speaker 6: sounds like Mikey is basically rooting for a major catastrophe
• 19:52
  Speaker 6: at this point.
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: We want that Achilles to tell or he does you
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: want them he wants them to sit out for the season.
• 19:57
  Speaker 5: I want him to sit out the season without the injury.
• 20:00
  Speaker 5: Oh said, I don't want him to get hurt.
• 20:02
  Speaker 3: I'm just saying, you know, for a listen, this might
• 20:04
  Speaker 3: be a hamstring string. Let's not push it, take your time,
• 20:08
  Speaker 3: don't worry about it.
• 20:10
  Speaker 5: Don't worry.
• 20:10
  Speaker 4: I'd begive with that. Next story.
• 20:12
  Speaker 6: So we're going to go across the team actually in
• 20:15
  Speaker 6: the same stadium. So the Giants signed Naji Harris today
• 20:19
  Speaker 6: to help their running back room. But that's not actually
• 20:21
  Speaker 6: what the headline is. I'm watching the Giants preseason game
• 20:24
  Speaker 6: and I'm like, oh, yeah, Odell Beckham Junior is on
• 20:27
  Speaker 6: the Giants. Is Odell Beckham Junior on the Giants something
• 20:31
  Speaker 6: or nothing?
• 20:32
  Speaker 7: Because it seems like he's on the bubble of making
• 20:34
  Speaker 7: the roster.
• 20:36
  Speaker 4: I can't believe he's a bubble guy.
• 20:37
  Speaker 6: Now.
• 20:39
  Speaker 3: I think this is nothing because I think they just
• 20:42
  Speaker 3: kind of gave him a Hey, we'll give you a shot.
• 20:44
  Speaker 3: But I don't think he's really gonna contribute to this
• 20:47
  Speaker 3: team at all.
• 20:48
  Speaker 5: And I think they'll have to get rid of him.
• 20:50
  Speaker 3: They'll have to cut him because every time he isn't
• 20:53
  Speaker 3: on the field.
• 20:54
  Speaker 5: If he's on the team.
• 20:55
  Speaker 3: It's going to be more of a story than if
• 20:57
  Speaker 3: he does anything.
• 20:59
  Speaker 4: Do we know of neighbors is going to be healthy
• 21:00
  Speaker 4: for the season opener? Do we know that.
• 21:02
  Speaker 6: Seems like it seems like it's on the fence. He's
• 21:04
  Speaker 6: gonna trending that way.
• 21:06
  Speaker 4: I'm gonna say nothing. As well.
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: The fact that Odell Beckham Junior is a bubble guy
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: now means the story means nothing to me.
• 21:12
  Speaker 4: I mean, I can't believe we arrived there that quickly.
• 21:14
  Speaker 4: With him by the ways, it's amazing.
• 21:16
  Speaker 6: I'm gonna say it's something only because when you're looking
• 21:18
  Speaker 6: at this Giants wide receiver room, it leaves a lot
• 21:22
  Speaker 6: to be desired. Outside of elite neighbors. They have Malchi Fields,
• 21:25
  Speaker 6: the rookie from Notre Dame where it's it has to
• 21:31
  Speaker 6: be something because I want it to be something. I
• 21:33
  Speaker 6: still think of Odell Beckham Junior as being this wide
• 21:36
  Speaker 6: receiver one. I think of that one moment hall of
• 21:38
  Speaker 6: fame for him with that catch. Yes, and when he
• 21:41
  Speaker 6: goes to the Giants, you want the reunion.
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: Yeah, when he made that catch, I swore to myself
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: He's going to be the best wide receiver we've ever seen.
• 21:48
  Speaker 4: That's why I'm so surprised he's a bubble guy. I mean,
• 21:50
  Speaker 4: it's crazy. What a fall from grace the Hall of Fame.
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: One moment you're right by the way he's up on
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: Jackson dark like no one knows if he's good enough.
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: I'm tired of everyone hyping up the Giants because of
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: John Arbo. I have no idea if Jackson to heart
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: is good at quarterback. I've seen him play a handful
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: of games in the NFL, and everyone's making him out
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: to be some sort of superstar.
• 22:11
  Speaker 4: He's not.
• 22:12
  Speaker 6: Just to be clear, I feel like you've been the
• 22:14
  Speaker 6: one driving up the hype on the Giants.
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm sorry, I'm yelling at myself.
• 22:22
  Speaker 5: Can't you actually bet them to win the Super Bowl?
• 22:25
  Speaker 4: There might pick out of the NFC next one. Do
• 22:28
  Speaker 4: Taylor something or nothing? Here?
• 22:30
  Speaker 6: So Odell Beckham Junior is looking to turn back the
• 22:32
  Speaker 6: clock with the Giants reunion. Another receiver looking to turn
• 22:36
  Speaker 6: back the clock, Keenan Allen, Oh Wow, has signed with
• 22:39
  Speaker 6: the Indianapolis colt Really does Keenan Allen have something left
• 22:44
  Speaker 6: in the tank? This signing something or nothing?
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: So you're asking does he have something left in the
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: tank or nothing left in the tank.
• 22:50
  Speaker 6: The headline is Keenan Allen to the Colts. Is it
• 22:53
  Speaker 6: something or nothing? And if you think it's something, that
• 22:55
  Speaker 6: would mean you think he had something left in the tank.
• 22:57
  Speaker 6: If you think it's nothing, he's running on.
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: E I think Keenan Allen has something left in the tank.
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: I think this story is something. I think the Colts
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: are a pretty good football team and Keenan Allen makes
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: them a better football team.
• 23:07
  Speaker 4: What were his stats last year?
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: I have no idea where Keenan Allen played and if
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: he had a good season last year, but it seems
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: like he always has a pretty good season.
• 23:14
  Speaker 7: So he was back with the Chargers.
• 23:16
  Speaker 6: He's still had eighty one catches for seven hundred and
• 23:18
  Speaker 6: seventy seven yards, four touchdowns.
• 23:20
  Speaker 7: Dam Keenan Allen is getting up.
• 23:22
  Speaker 4: There in age.
• 23:22
  Speaker 6: He's thirty four, but he still feels like a very
• 23:27
  Speaker 6: productive wide receiver. And with the Colts you lose Michael Pittman.
• 23:31
  Speaker 6: Michael Pittman goes to Pittsburgh. There are there should be
• 23:34
  Speaker 6: enough pieces where he can kind of just slot into
• 23:37
  Speaker 6: that wide receiver one. But then you also have Alec Pierce,
• 23:40
  Speaker 6: you have Josh Downs, you have a great running game
• 23:42
  Speaker 6: in Jonathan Taylor.
• 23:44
  Speaker 4: I mean Josh Davis.
• 23:47
  Speaker 3: This is a little bit of a something because I
• 23:49
  Speaker 3: think that he's going to be the safety blanket.
• 23:52
  Speaker 5: I think you've got Alec Pierce who's going to go
• 23:53
  Speaker 5: over the top. I think he got Josh Downs, who's
• 23:55
  Speaker 5: a guy who can go over the top.
• 23:57
  Speaker 3: I think Keenan Allen's going to be a little bit
• 23:58
  Speaker 3: of a safety safety valve for Daniel Jones.
• 24:02
  Speaker 7: What were you just doing there to Josh Downs? Stu Gotts.
• 24:05
  Speaker 6: Josh Downs is a serviceable wide receiver.
• 24:08
  Speaker 4: Three. I'm not saying that he's not.
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: It's just a hod name to bring up when you
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: say you lost Pittman, but you have Josh Downs.
• 24:13
  Speaker 4: I mean he's Josh Downs.
• 24:18
  Speaker 5: He's Alec Pearce.
• 24:19
  Speaker 4: I mean it's a bad wide receiver room, but it
• 24:23
  Speaker 4: just got better. This is something. Keenan Allen's a good
• 24:25
  Speaker 4: sign for them.
• 24:26
  Speaker 6: Yeah, but it feels like Josh Downs could be the
• 24:28
  Speaker 6: receiver that works inside the numbers. Alec Pierce is that
• 24:31
  Speaker 6: deep threat, and then Keenan Allen's kind of the Swiss
• 24:34
  Speaker 6: Army Knife does a little bit of everything.
• 24:35
  Speaker 4: You know what I was wrong. No one is more
• 24:37
  Speaker 4: locked into this NFL season than you wore I told you.
• 24:41
  Speaker 7: And I could give you ten minutes on the Yankees.
• 24:43
  Speaker 4: I mean, he's a Colts expert. Suddenly I'm the Swiss
• 24:45
  Speaker 4: Army Knife. Do you have another one?
• 24:49
  Speaker 7: Yep?
• 24:49
  Speaker 6: One more headline? Jacoby Lane from the Baltimore Ravens their rookie.
• 24:55
  Speaker 6: He had three catches for thirty eight yards and a
• 24:58
  Speaker 6: touchdown in his pre season debut.
• 25:02
  Speaker 7: Something or nothing?
• 25:04
  Speaker 5: Nothing, It's the end of sentence.
• 25:07
  Speaker 4: Nothing, no need to expand nothing. Why'd you go with
• 25:11
  Speaker 4: that one? Can? I ask? I mean, listen, it's your game.
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: I appreciate that we're talking football, but why did you
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: choose that story for something or nothing?
• 25:19
  Speaker 6: I mean because Jacoby Lane was the thirteenth receiver picked
• 25:23
  Speaker 6: in the twenty twenty sixth draft. He went third round,
• 25:26
  Speaker 6: eightieth overall. Lamar Jackson needs bodies at wide receiver. It
• 25:30
  Speaker 6: feels like they never have a guy. They're trying to
• 25:32
  Speaker 6: convince everybody's eight Flowers is a guy for the raven am.
• 25:36
  Speaker 6: They paid him like he's the guy, but he really
• 25:38
  Speaker 6: doesn't match that production for being a true number one
• 25:41
  Speaker 6: receiver on the outside. For this Ravens team to reach
• 25:45
  Speaker 6: their potential this year, for Lamar Jackson to get over
• 25:48
  Speaker 6: the hump and make a super Bowl and hopefully win
• 25:50
  Speaker 6: a super Bowl. It feels like they need somebody else
• 25:54
  Speaker 6: to step up at the wide receiver position, and it
• 25:56
  Speaker 6: might be somebody like Jacoby Lane.
• 25:58
  Speaker 5: That's why he asked because of a preseason game. He's
• 26:01
  Speaker 5: not Najie Harris signing.
• 26:03
  Speaker 4: Not that.
• 26:04
  Speaker 5: That's not what we're going to talk about. He goes
• 26:06
  Speaker 5: talk about you. What's his name?
• 26:07
  Speaker 7: Jacoby Lane, Coobe Lane.
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: It's an unfair amount of pressure to put on poor
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: Jacoby Lane, that he is the key to the Ravens
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: getting to where they want to go.
• 26:15
  Speaker 6: Well, if you want to talk about unfair comparisons, Raven's
• 26:19
  Speaker 6: offensive coordinator Declan Doyle compared him to former Saints great
• 26:23
  Speaker 6: Michael Thomas.
• 26:24
  Speaker 7: How about that?
• 26:25
  Speaker 4: How about that Mikey. He's more locked in than we are.
• 26:32
  Speaker 4: It's unbelievable.
• 26:33
  Speaker 3: I'm I need to go start reading more because this
• 26:37
  Speaker 3: is this is like my thing.
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: I mean, we had no idea when we started the
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: show today who the thirteenth wide receiver was selected in
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: last year, Trima Taylor knows why.
• 26:47
  Speaker 4: Locked in at FL.
• 26:50
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• 26:54
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• 27:03
  Speaker 1: Mikey, I feel like we have to start shifting our
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: conversations away from the Yankees, away from the North Carolina
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: Tar Heels, and towards the NFL and football.
• 27:12
  Speaker 5: Ye don't tease.
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: Well, I'm not teasing. I'm going to get to it
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: because I think I feel like we need to get
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: our brains. It's like we're in you know, training camp
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: mode right now. We need to, you know, kind of
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: work out our brains. It's oh, I'm going to start
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: slow here, Okay, try to get into football shape, all right.
• 27:35
  Speaker 5: On average, football takeshit.
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: On average every year, six teams that made the playoffs
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: the year before will not make the playoffs the next season.
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: So that means, in all likelihood we will have six
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: teams who made the playoffs a season ago not make
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: the playoffs this year, which means, on average, there are
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: roughly six new teams in the playoffs every year. And
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: you wonder why the NFL is so popular and so great.
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: Literally every team but the Jets has a chance. And
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: so I am wondering here, both from the audience and
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: from you, guys. I don't want to do all six teams,
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: but just some teams who made the playoffs a year
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: ago who you don't think are gonna make the playoffs
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: this season, and some teams who didn't make the playoffs
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: a year ago that you think will make the playoffs
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: this year. And the Kansas City Chiefs is an obvious one.
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: So I think that's where most people would start.
• 28:33
  Speaker 6: Right For me, the easiest one, I would go with
• 28:37
  Speaker 6: a team that made the playoffs last year that won't
• 28:39
  Speaker 6: make it this year. For me, it's the Pittsburgh Steelers,
• 28:43
  Speaker 6: where you're banking on another year of Aaron Rodgers getting older,
• 28:47
  Speaker 6: Mike McCarthy new head coach there, and then really it
• 28:50
  Speaker 6: comes down to the division where you'd expect the Ravens
• 28:54
  Speaker 6: to be better in Jesse Mentor's first year, and then
• 28:58
  Speaker 6: the Bengals. It's hard to see the Bengals going six
• 29:01
  Speaker 6: and eleven again if Joe Burrow could stay healthy in Cincinnati.
• 29:06
  Speaker 4: What do you think of Mikey, I'm.
• 29:08
  Speaker 3: Gonna go with the Jacksonville Jaguars. I just don't think
• 29:11
  Speaker 3: that division is.
• 29:15
  Speaker 7: Good.
• 29:15
  Speaker 3: I think that they're gonna get one team in and
• 29:18
  Speaker 3: my guess is gonna be the Houston Texans because they
• 29:20
  Speaker 3: do have that championship level defense, right and I think
• 29:23
  Speaker 3: Trevor Lawrence comes back to earth.
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: This is our training camp. I want to remind you, guys,
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: you chose too easy ones. Okay, in order for this
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: to work, you have to have a hot take. And
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: so I'm gonna say the Seattle Seahawks, the reigning Super
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: Bowl champions.
• 29:37
  Speaker 4: Why they're in a very tough division.
• 29:40
  Speaker 5: We picked the three and four seeds.
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: I picked the champs. I mean, how about that to
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: not make the playoffs this year? Why is that a
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: bad pick? It's a hot take. It's a good.
• 29:50
  Speaker 6: Take because there's almost no scenario where the Seahawks go
• 29:54
  Speaker 6: from a team that was fourteen and three last year
• 29:56
  Speaker 6: to a team that falls out of playoff contention, unless
• 30:01
  Speaker 6: unless you're just banking on an injury to Sam Darnold
• 30:04
  Speaker 6: at the quarterback position and they're having to rely on
• 30:06
  Speaker 6: Jalen Milroe playing quarterback.
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: I'm not saying they won't be in playoff contention. I'm
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: just saying they're in a tough division. If you're gonna
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: do this, it has to be a hot take. Of course,
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: the Steelers, right, I mean, they got in what at
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: nine and eight last year, and the Ravens are in
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: that division they didn't get in.
• 30:22
  Speaker 7: So last year the Steeler they did.
• 30:23
  Speaker 4: They did get it.
• 30:24
  Speaker 6: Last year the Steelers were ten and seven. I think
• 30:27
  Speaker 6: if you're going for the easiest answer for this, for
• 30:29
  Speaker 6: a team that missed the playoffs that's gonna make the
• 30:32
  Speaker 6: playoffs this year, the easiest answer would just to be
• 30:35
  Speaker 6: go to the NFC North where the Lions finished nine
• 30:37
  Speaker 6: and eight dead last there and say the Lions are
• 30:39
  Speaker 6: gonna make it because somebody has to win that division,
• 30:42
  Speaker 6: and all four teams in that division are pretty strong.
• 30:45
  Speaker 4: All right, let me give you the NFC team to
• 30:46
  Speaker 4: the playoffs. Go ahead, Mikey.
• 30:47
  Speaker 3: I'm sorry I was gonna say not only that, but
• 30:50
  Speaker 3: I'm gonna tell you the team they're going to knock out,
• 30:52
  Speaker 3: and that's the two seed. Last year in the NFC,
• 30:55
  Speaker 3: I don't think the Bears make the playoffs.
• 30:56
  Speaker 5: I think too much broke right for them last year.
• 30:59
  Speaker 5: Now they won US so many games late.
• 31:01
  Speaker 3: I think Caleb Williams is fools gold, even though Steve
• 31:05
  Speaker 3: Gott stinks he's the best.
• 31:07
  Speaker 5: And I don't think they make the playoffs, all right.
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: Keep in mind, on average, six teams who made the
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: playoffs last year will not make the playoffs the following season.
• 31:14
  Speaker 4: So I'll give you the playoff teams from last year.
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: Let's go through them and tell me if you think
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: they're gonna make it back to the playoffs this year. Patriots, No,
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: thank you. That's how you play the game. Mike Y,
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: hey screaming, I'm so excited. Football's here. Taylor, Patriots playoffs,
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: all right, Bills playoffs, playoffs, all right? Playoffs Steelers. Taylor said, no,
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: Ravens could make the playoffs. I say, the Ravens don't
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: make the playoffs, the Steelers don't make the playoffs. The
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: Bengals do make the playoffs and win the Super Bowl.
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: How about that. That's how we play the game.
• 31:49
  Speaker 5: It's trading camp. That's a trading camp.
• 31:52
  Speaker 4: Take yep.
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: Jaguars playoffs, Texans playoffs, yes, Broncos, Yes, Chargers my super
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: Bowl pick.
• 32:02
  Speaker 5: Yes.
• 32:02
  Speaker 4: On average, six teams aren't gonna make it back Eagles.
• 32:07
  Speaker 4: This is one.
• 32:08
  Speaker 6: This is one where you could talk me into the
• 32:11
  Speaker 6: Eagles not making the playoffs, because yeah, unfortunately, I'm buying
• 32:16
  Speaker 6: into the Cowboys hype this year, they get Von Miller.
• 32:19
  Speaker 6: I like their defense being able to be a lot
• 32:21
  Speaker 6: better this year, and I think that's kind of been
• 32:24
  Speaker 6: what's hampering them their their bad defense. I think Caleb
• 32:26
  Speaker 6: Downs fixes a lot of issues on their defense.
• 32:30
  Speaker 3: He's gonna have to that was that was a really
• 32:34
  Speaker 3: really bad defense last year.
• 32:36
  Speaker 5: Dak Prescott can't stay healthy.
• 32:38
  Speaker 3: Jerry Jones won't put in uh you know curtains at
• 32:41
  Speaker 3: at the stadium that even CD Lamb is saying, please,
• 32:46
  Speaker 3: I'm not buying into.
• 32:47
  Speaker 5: I'm not buying into the Cowboys hype.
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: Nope, I'm not either. The Eagles make the playoffs. I
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: have Jalen Hurts winning the m v P this year.
• 32:53
  Speaker 4: I mean, I really just giving out.
• 32:58
  Speaker 5: Over over Caleb.
• 33:00
  Speaker 3: Do you think it's going to be the best quarterback
• 33:02
  Speaker 3: in the NFL of all time at.
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: Some point eventually? Yes, but not this season. Okay, not
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: yet a little too soon or a year away from
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: Caleb Williams being the greatest quarterback that anyone has ever seen. Eagles,
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: So let's go to the Bears. Mikey says, no Packers playoffs,
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: all right? Vikings and Lions in that division? I mean
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: Lions a team that didn't make the playoffs a year ago,
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: that I could see making the playoffs this year.
• 33:28
  Speaker 6: I think when you're looking for a regression in the
• 33:29
  Speaker 6: NFC North, it's coming via the Minnesota Vikings.
• 33:33
  Speaker 1: All Right, okay, Carolina, I can't believe they made the playoffs.
• 33:38
  Speaker 7: I mean somebody had to.
• 33:40
  Speaker 3: So I mean, can't we just say NFC South and
• 33:44
  Speaker 3: just say one of them makes it?
• 33:45
  Speaker 5: Like do we have to? Because there's no difference between
• 33:48
  Speaker 5: any of them.
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: So that would be the obvious division that in the
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: AFC Central would be the obvious divisions where you say, hey,
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: whoever won those divisions a year ago not gonna win
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: it this year. They're not going to make the playoffs.
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: And you would find your teams that didn't make the
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: playoffs who aren't gonna make the playoffs in those divisions.
• 34:03
  Speaker 4: Yes, so I get.
• 34:04
  Speaker 6: Baker Mayfield's whole thing is about having a chip on
• 34:07
  Speaker 6: his shoulder and being the guy that proves everybody wrong.
• 34:09
  Speaker 6: But yesterday he was talking to the media and he said,
• 34:12
  Speaker 6: everybody's picking against us, probably to have a losing record,
• 34:16
  Speaker 6: So we'll see when I prove them wrong. I would
• 34:19
  Speaker 6: just like to inform Baker Mayfield currently they are the
• 34:22
  Speaker 6: favorites in the NFC South.
• 34:24
  Speaker 1: Is he crazy? You're You're not the New Orleans Saints
• 34:27
  Speaker 1: right now?
• 34:28
  Speaker 4: Man? But who is doubting Baker Mayfield? Is he hearing voices?
• 34:31
  Speaker 4: Does he just?
• 34:32
  Speaker 6: No?
• 34:32
  Speaker 4: One is saying that.
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: Who is hyping up the Buccaneers or who is crushing
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: the Buccaneers? Where Baker somehow is gonna find the chip?
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: He makes it up. He puts fake chips on his shoulder.
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: Put it on the Paul Taylor. Does Baker Mayfield put
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: fake chips on his shoulder?
• 34:50
  Speaker 4: Yes, Mikey.
• 34:52
  Speaker 3: I was just wondering if you knew there was no
• 34:53
  Speaker 3: such thing as AFC Central for about twenty five.
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: Years AFC North. What a time though, when the AFC
• 35:02
  Speaker 1: Central was a thing. I remember same teams, I think,
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: no similar put it on the pall. Do you remember
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: the AFC Central. So I have the Seahawks not making
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: it because it has to be bold, it has to.
• 35:19
  Speaker 4: It has to be a hot take.
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: I think Seattle because I still don't believe in Sam Darnold,
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: although I shouldn't be doing that, but they give away
• 35:28
  Speaker 1: Walker to the Kansas City Chiefs. I just think in
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: that division that is a I know they won the
• 35:33
  Speaker 1: Super Bowl, Guys, I understand that, okay, but it's would
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: they be the first Super Bowl winning team to not
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: make the playoffs the next season?
• 35:42
  Speaker 4: I don't think so.
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: No.
• 35:43
  Speaker 5: The Patriots.
• 35:43
  Speaker 3: The Patriots missed it winning the Super Bowl after Tom
• 35:47
  Speaker 3: Brady got hurt and it was a Matt Castle year.
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: All right, So allow me to be the first in
• 35:52
  Speaker 1: sports media, as everyone is working at the kinks here
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: and given hot takes for the NFL, allow me to
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: be the first. And if anyone else says it, they
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: from me.
• 36:00
  Speaker 4: All Right.
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: The Seattle Seahawks, the Super Bowl champion Seattle Seahawks, will
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: not make it to the postseason this year. I said it,
• 36:09
  Speaker 1: and I said it first.
• 36:10
  Speaker 7: So the last Super Bowl winning team to miss the
• 36:12
  Speaker 7: playoffs the following season was the twenty twenty two Los
• 36:15
  Speaker 7: Angeles Rams, where they finished twenty twenty two, five and twelve.
• 36:21
  Speaker 4: So it's possible, yes, but it's possible. That's all I'm saying.
• 36:27
  Speaker 7: Same Division two.
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: Yes, it is a think about it Thursday here, Odd
• 36:30
  Speaker 1: Stuc Gottson Company will get to that just a second.
• 36:33
  Speaker 1: But Taylor, what is going on with LaMelo Ball? What
• 36:36
  Speaker 1: is happening there? I mean, I don't know why we're
• 36:38
  Speaker 1: talking Charlotte Hornet's wait, he's not a hornet anymore, Timberwooll,
• 36:41
  Speaker 1: he's a tea wolf. Now, I don't know why we're
• 36:44
  Speaker 1: talking NBA or t Wolves basketball.
• 36:48
  Speaker 4: In August on a day where is he is out anyway? Good?
• 36:51
  Speaker 6: So LaMelo Ball's a league pass guy where anytime he
• 36:54
  Speaker 6: does something, I want to be notified what he does
• 36:56
  Speaker 6: because I think LaMelo Ball his brain needs to be
• 36:59
  Speaker 6: st going forward. So LaMelo Ball gets a player exclusive shoe.
• 37:04
  Speaker 6: It comes out and interviewer ask him three people of
• 37:09
  Speaker 6: all time if they could wear your shoe, who would
• 37:12
  Speaker 6: you pick? And when you're thinking about it, it's like
• 37:14
  Speaker 6: it's a basketball shoe. So maybe like Michael Jordan, Lebron James,
• 37:18
  Speaker 6: some of those some of those cliche answers, right.
• 37:21
  Speaker 1: Right, some all time great basketball players. I would love
• 37:23
  Speaker 1: for that guy to wear my shoes. That would be
• 37:26
  Speaker 1: so cool, right.
• 37:27
  Speaker 6: That's what you think a normal answer would be. But
• 37:29
  Speaker 6: as we've learned, there's nothing normal about LaMelo Ball. And
• 37:32
  Speaker 6: this was LaMelo Ball's answer.
• 37:34
  Speaker 5: If you had to pick.
• 37:35
  Speaker 7: Three people to wear your shoes, would they be.
• 37:38
  Speaker 5: Jesus Martin Luther King novel X.
• 37:42
  Speaker 1: I mean that's a good three. I gotta be honest
• 37:44
  Speaker 1: with you. That is a solid market Luther King. I mean, yes, MLK.
• 37:49
  Speaker 6: What do you mean you got MLK marching going. I
• 37:52
  Speaker 6: have a dream that one day I will be wearing
• 37:54
  Speaker 6: LaMelo ball.
• 37:57
  Speaker 5: No, but you're right what he sounded like I have.
• 38:00
  Speaker 1: But you're asking LaMelo Ball if he could choose any
• 38:03
  Speaker 1: three people from history to wear his shoes, it's his decision,
• 38:09
  Speaker 1: and he is choosing Martin Luther King.
• 38:11
  Speaker 4: It would be cool.
• 38:12
  Speaker 1: In fact, I'm not certain I wouldn't choose those three.
• 38:16
  Speaker 3: He's got Martin Luther King marching just because I'm in man,
• 38:19
  Speaker 3: my feet are comfortable, I'm good.
• 38:21
  Speaker 5: I could do this all day.
• 38:23
  Speaker 6: And Jesus walked on water because he didn't want his
• 38:25
  Speaker 6: LaMelo balls to get wet.
• 38:29
  Speaker 1: By the way, put it on the Paul Taylor, do
• 38:31
  Speaker 1: we need to check LaMelo Ball's brain moving forward?
• 38:36
  Speaker 4: Because I think you're right about that.
• 38:38
  Speaker 1: Now I'm trying to think of the three people I
• 38:40
  Speaker 1: would want to wear my shoes.
• 38:43
  Speaker 4: How about that?
• 38:44
  Speaker 1: It's gotta be Jordan Well, I'm thinking Russo mad Dog.
• 38:48
  Speaker 1: I'm thinking Francesa as well. I'm not saying definitively those
• 38:52
  Speaker 1: are the guys. I'm just I'm thinking about it. Jesus
• 38:55
  Speaker 1: is a good one.
• 38:56
  Speaker 7: I mean the big man, Kac.
• 39:01
  Speaker 4: What are you calling Doctor King sneakers? Like, what do
• 39:04
  Speaker 4: we call dream big?
• 39:10
  Speaker 7: What the dreamers? Ricardo just offered up.
• 39:12
  Speaker 4: Okay, who was the third one? Malcolm X?
• 39:14
  Speaker 7: Malcolm X Malcolm X.
• 39:16
  Speaker 4: Wow, Mikey.
• 39:19
  Speaker 1: If three people could wear your sneakers that you're currently wearing,
• 39:23
  Speaker 1: which three people would you want to.
• 39:24
  Speaker 4: Wear your sneakers?
• 39:27
  Speaker 1: It's such a ridiculous question. It should be the thing
• 39:30
  Speaker 1: about it Thursday.
• 39:31
  Speaker 4: I mean, this.
• 39:33
  Speaker 3: Should be the think about it Thursday, because I really
• 39:35
  Speaker 3: do have to think about it. Yeah, I mean, Jesus
• 39:38
  Speaker 3: is a great one. I'm gonna go Sinatra and I'm gonna.
• 39:42
  Speaker 4: Go you just open a whole new portal. Now I'm
• 39:44
  Speaker 4: thinking Bob Weird, Jerry Garcia wearing my shoes on stage?
• 39:49
  Speaker 1: I mean, wow, is there a jet No Taylor for you?
• 39:57
  Speaker 1: It's got to be jaylen Brunson, right, Yeah, he's.
• 40:00
  Speaker 7: Front and Jeter all in that same mold.
• 40:03
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 40:04
  Speaker 3: Yeah, Jeter, Jesus Christ, Jeter, and Frank Sinatra.
• 40:09
  Speaker 4: Those are my three.
• 40:10
  Speaker 1: So I applaud LaMelo Ball for giving that answer, because
• 40:13
  Speaker 1: I know that you want him to give the answer
• 40:16
  Speaker 1: that you want.
• 40:16
  Speaker 4: He did it.
• 40:17
  Speaker 1: You want Jordan, you want Kobe, and he went in
• 40:20
  Speaker 1: a different direction. And it's not like you went in
• 40:22
  Speaker 1: a bad direction. I'm wondering why you're objecting so much
• 40:25
  Speaker 1: to Jesus Martin, Luther King and Malcolm X.
• 40:28
  Speaker 6: I'm not necessarily objecting, but you're you're saying, LaMelo Ball
• 40:32
  Speaker 6: goes in a different direction. That's the only direction. LaMelo
• 40:34
  Speaker 6: Ball goes in another direction.
• 40:37
  Speaker 4: Put it on the poll. Is the only direction LaMelo
• 40:42
  Speaker 4: Ball goes in?
• 40:43
  Speaker 1: Is the other direction? Is that the only direction? He
• 40:45
  Speaker 1: goes in the other direction. It's a tough one. It's
• 40:48
  Speaker 1: tough to word it out anyway. Let's get to what
• 40:50
  Speaker 1: think about it Thursday, Iowa, Sam, give me the image.
• 40:55
  Speaker 2: You know that segment talk about it Tuesday on Hawkman
• 40:58
  Speaker 2: Crowder in Sclero This is like that.
• 41:01
  Speaker 4: But bigger, bigger and better, better.
• 41:04
  Speaker 2: Better, and forty eight hours later, this is think about
• 41:09
  Speaker 2: it Thursday.
• 41:11
  Speaker 1: Let me rephrase that bol question before we get to
• 41:14
  Speaker 1: think about it Thursday. Okay, is the wrong direction the
• 41:20
  Speaker 1: only direction Lamela Ball goes it?
• 41:26
  Speaker 4: Put it on, all right, what are we thinking about it?
• 41:30
  Speaker 7: Think about it Thursday? This week?
• 41:31
  Speaker 6: Which player in the NFL is entering this season with
• 41:36
  Speaker 6: the biggest chip on their shoulders?
• 41:38
  Speaker 1: Obviously really always the same guy. I'm Brady's not playing anymore.
• 41:46
  Speaker 1: I wasn't thinking about Brady. I'm gonna say Baker Mayfield. Now,
• 41:52
  Speaker 1: whether it's real or not, it doesn't really matter. I mean,
• 41:55
  Speaker 1: he's upset because the Buccaneers merely offered him one hundred
• 41:58
  Speaker 1: million dollars over two years, and he's gonna use that as
• 42:01
  Speaker 1: fuel for the season. But he will manufacture a chip
• 42:04
  Speaker 1: unlike anyone I've ever seen in the history of sports.
• 42:06
  Speaker 6: I mean, so, my two nominees for players that are
• 42:09
  Speaker 6: entering the season with the biggest chip on their shoulder
• 42:11
  Speaker 6: Patrick Mahomes coming back from an injury. It feels like
• 42:14
  Speaker 6: people are writing off this Chiefs team already, and Patrick
• 42:17
  Speaker 6: Mahomes is probably thinking it's a good one. I still
• 42:20
  Speaker 6: have a lot left in the tank for this Chiefs
• 42:22
  Speaker 6: team to be in our super Bowl window. The other
• 42:25
  Speaker 6: one kind of going off the board here a bit
• 42:28
  Speaker 6: because he won a Super Bowl last season. I think
• 42:31
  Speaker 6: Sam Darnold still kind of has a chip on his
• 42:33
  Speaker 6: shoulder because.
• 42:34
  Speaker 1: Believe yeah, I mean I said it yesterday one of
• 42:36
  Speaker 1: the worst takes in the history of sports radio that Seattle,
• 42:39
  Speaker 1: who won the Super Bowl last year, would not make
• 42:41
  Speaker 1: the playoffs this year.
• 42:42
  Speaker 6: They are the defending champions, and it seems like when
• 42:46
  Speaker 6: you're talking about the Seattle Seahawks, it's like, yeah, their
• 42:49
  Speaker 6: team is really good.
• 42:51
  Speaker 1: But did you see what the Rams did this off?
• 42:54
  Speaker 6: Here come the forty nine ers. If the forty nine
• 42:56
  Speaker 6: ers could stay healthy.
• 42:58
  Speaker 1: With all due respect to the Seahawks, and I know
• 43:00
  Speaker 1: they're looking for it still after winning a Super Bowl championship,
• 43:04
  Speaker 1: but the Rams did go out and get Miles Garrett
• 43:06
  Speaker 1: and they're about to sign Aaron Donald. I mean they
• 43:09
  Speaker 1: also got Trent McDuffie, and no one talks about him
• 43:12
  Speaker 1: because they got Garrett and Donald's subserve what they did.
• 43:18
  Speaker 4: You got one, Mike, I got two.
• 43:20
  Speaker 5: I got too. We'll start with c J. Stroud.
• 43:23
  Speaker 6: C J.
• 43:23
  Speaker 5: Stroud has been told for years that he's on.
• 43:26
  Speaker 3: A championship defense and the only reason they're not winning
• 43:30
  Speaker 3: is him.
• 43:32
  Speaker 4: I like that one. Yeah, it's a good one. Also, pressure,
• 43:35
  Speaker 4: and here he's got pressure on his shoulder as well.
• 43:37
  Speaker 5: Yes, And here's my other one.
• 43:40
  Speaker 3: Imagine giving your heart and soul to an organization for
• 43:44
  Speaker 3: them to trade you for the trade to be like, mah,
• 43:46
  Speaker 3: never mind, you're going back where you were. Max Crosby,
• 43:50
  Speaker 3: big chip on his shoulder this year.
• 43:52
  Speaker 4: I like that. That's a good one. That is a
• 43:54
  Speaker 4: good one.
• 43:54
  Speaker 5: Wow.
• 43:55
  Speaker 6: I didn't even consider Max Crosby. I just thought of
• 43:57
  Speaker 6: another one too. And it's two players. It's a dual chip,
• 44:01
  Speaker 6: and it's it's a deciding Yeah, it's deciding who's gonna
• 44:04
  Speaker 6: have the bigger chip because they're both trying to prove.
• 44:06
  Speaker 7: The other one right.
• 44:07
  Speaker 4: A couple of chips cutting it up.
• 44:08
  Speaker 6: So this is a situation of a breakup, and once
• 44:11
  Speaker 6: you have a breakup, both people are kind of competing
• 44:14
  Speaker 6: to see who can win the breakup. Jalen Hurts with
• 44:18
  Speaker 6: the Eagles, A J. Brown with the Patriots. I think
• 44:21
  Speaker 6: both of those players are going into the season on
• 44:24
  Speaker 6: their shoulder to say, chips, where are the ones that
• 44:27
  Speaker 6: were making it work.
• 44:28
  Speaker 4: For monster chips? I'm both their shoulders. It's exceptional. Baker Mayfield,
• 44:36
  Speaker 4: you know it's it's it's it's really good.
• 44:41
  Speaker 3: Baker Mayfield to put a chip on his shoulder because
• 44:43
  Speaker 3: you didn't say he had the biggest chip on his shoulder.
• 44:45
  Speaker 1: Yeah, can you go with a coach, Yeah you can,
• 44:49
  Speaker 1: of course, Ken, of course. I think Dan Campbell enters
• 44:52
  Speaker 1: this season with a chip on his shoulder.
• 44:54
  Speaker 7: Great one.
• 44:55
  Speaker 1: You know, everyone's starting to question whether or not he's
• 44:57
  Speaker 1: a good coach. He was the bell of the ball
• 44:59
  Speaker 1: a couple of years ago. Everyone wanted him to be
• 45:01
  Speaker 1: their head coach, and now everyone's starting to question whether
• 45:04
  Speaker 1: it's just a meathead playing the role of head coach.
• 45:07
  Speaker 1: And I think Dan Campbell for those I think he's
• 45:09
  Speaker 1: a very good coach and a great guy. And I
• 45:11
  Speaker 1: think he enters this season with something to prove. And
• 45:13
  Speaker 1: when you have something to prove, that means you have
• 45:14
  Speaker 1: a chip on your shoulder.
• 45:15
  Speaker 5: How about that