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Free Agency Moves, March Madness Bubble Talk & WBC Drama · Height Differential

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  Are you really ready? Yeah, let's go all.
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  It is the high differential that's the 66 nil.
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  So you're doing a little spells, little little spelling with the
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  kiddos before you jumped on, huh?
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  Yeah, it's important, man. Glad to see that, you know,
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  spelling tests are still a thing in in elementary schools these
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  days. You.
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  Think this is going to go away? These kids got to learn how to
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  spell. Everything's digital now.
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  You know, like get on the computer and you just do spell
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  check. I mean, you misspell a word in
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  an e-mail. Guess what?
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  It highlights it for you and you just right click it and it fixes
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  it, you know? That that's been a thing for a
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  long time, Neil. I know, but.
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  Word processors, they've, they've been around for a while
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  now. All this other stuff that we
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  have now that you don't have to do anything that's.
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  That's really, you can just ask your phone how you spell a word
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  and it just tells you no. Spelling tests are important for
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  for kids. And yeah, with the wife's out of
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  town this week, she's in actually in a different country.
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  So we're stuck here solo dad in this week and making sure the
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  kids are are learning things. What?
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  Was the What was the toughest word tonight?
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  Probably separate. OK, that isn't.
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  That is a tough word. Is it the ER a lot of?
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  ES a lot of, ES a lot of AS you got AR or.
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  Is it an AR? It is an AR all.
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  Right, well, glad you're helping the kiddos get an education
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  tonight. Like I said, we do have plenty
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  to talk about. NFL free agency in full swing.
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  The Bengals active on Monday hadn't really done much since
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  Max Crosby's going to the Ravens.
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  Then he's not and then they get Trey.
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  So we we got, we can definitely get into that.
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  And and then college basketball conference tournaments, a lot of
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  the women's terms for last week, we were both there in Atlanta,
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  kind of go over the the men's tournaments this week, look at
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  some of the bubble teams who we think is going to get in, who we
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  think's not. And then Mark DeRosa, the
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  manager of the USA Baseball made a little blunder yesterday.
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  Doesn't look like it's going to matter, but we we can discuss a
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  little bit how not really a mistake I don't think you can
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  make as a manager of the USA in the World Baseball Classic And
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  then the players this week. So plenty going on.
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  Let's start off with the NFL. OK.
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  With I guess the whole story starts with over the weekend,
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  news breaks that the Raiders have sent Max Crosby to the
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  Ravens for first round draft picks this year and next year.
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  Jamar Chasenetz on Twitter can't believe this is happening.
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  We're not very happy about it. You look at what the AFC North
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  looks like against Joe Burrow, you got TJ Watt, you got you got
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  you got TJ Watt, you got Max Crosby and you got Miles Garrett
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  all coming at him. Yep, and then that might be
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  enough right there if he was thinking about retiring.
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  If I saw those three guys coming at me, I'd probably want to
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  retire too. And then news breaks last night.
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  Well, First off, Trey's market hasn't been exactly what I think
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  he thought it was going to be. Oh, he his walk is exactly what
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  we thought it was going to be, not what he thought it was going
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  to be. He thought he's going to get
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  close to $40 million. Well, trey's not smart.
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  That market had dipped and I think with that market dipping,
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  the Ravens were getting a little interested.
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  Got cold feet with with Crosby. Use the physical as a reason to
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  get out of that trade, which is pissed off most of the NFL.
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  They get out of that trade and then this morning we wake up to
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  news that they have 8 Trey to a four year 112 and the saga
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  around Trey Hendrickson for the Cincinnati Bengals fans
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  continues. I mean, the saga of Trey
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  Hendrickson is it's over for for Bengals fans.
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  I mean he's, I mean it's. Not over.
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  You can see him twice a year now.
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  No, but I mean the saga as far as you know, are we going to re
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  sign him? Are we going to tag him?
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  What we're going to give him an extension?
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  What are we going to pay? Like the drama around the in the
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  internally for the Bengals is over.
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  But yes you do have to face them twice a year and that doesn't
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  make a lot of Bengals fans happy.
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  I mean to me, I think I'm actually more it's, it sucks to
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  say this as a Bengals fan. I'm glad the Ravens ended up
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  with Trey Hendrickson instead of Max Crosby.
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  I would rather them have Trey Hendrickson than Max Crosby.
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  I think that's that's obvious. They also didn't give up to
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  first round picks. That's fine.
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  That's fine. Look, this whole thing is just
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  and look, Trey as good as he was for the Bengals, he's the best
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  free agent signing they've ever had in the history of their
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  franchise. And that will hopefully change
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  here in a couple years. But as of right now, that's the
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  case. But his legacy in Cincinnati is
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  completely ruined because of the way that he's handled himself.
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  I mean. He's been here for what, 3-4
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  years, Five years? Five years.
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  Five years. His legacy is completely ruined
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  and you you cement that into a division rival.
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  His legacy, What kind of legacy did he even have?
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  I mean, was he a great player for us?
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  For he didn't even play last year, so let's just say he
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  played for four years. Was he a great player for us?
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  Yes, he was for the majority of that time, but his jersey was
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  never getting retired. He's not going on the Ring of
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  Honor. So like you left the mark, sure,
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  but it was it was not in the in the history of the franchise.
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  You're just a footnote. You're a footnote it.
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  Didn't have to be that way. So they signed him to a 40 or
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  $60 million deal in 21. Yeah, 2.
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  Years into that deal, he he does this, he extends it for one more
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  year through 25. Yeah, it's $21 million.
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  So basically he was getting 15 a year and increased it to 21 and
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  that gets him through 25. Going after the 23 season, all
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  of a sudden he wants to he might retire after he had 17 1/2 sacks
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  and you sign the contract and then again and then he's plays
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  and then again the next year. You hold out when you're still
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  under. Could you sign up?
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  Nobody forced him to sign that contract, no.
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  Of course not. And and then the Bengals offer
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  him a three-year, $95 million deal with only 330 of it
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  guaranteed the first year, pretty much.
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  But the Bengals don't get out of contracts for the most part,
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  unless you're terrible. That's one thing they do.
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  If they sign you a contract, for the most part, they follow it
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  through. You decide you don't want that
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  thirty, you don't want that three-year deal for 95,000,000
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  because it's not enough, because he didn't get 40, because he.
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  Probably thought he didn't get 40.
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  Yeah, so. They do what they don't have to
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  do. They give you an additional $14
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  million just to get you on the field for last year.
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  You play seven games, get hurt, have like stole.
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  Money. He stole the money from us last
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  year. We give him an extra 14,000,000
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  that we didn't even have to do because like you said, he's
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  under contract. So you're either going to play
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  or you're not going to get paid. But what you know, you had a
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  great season the year before. We're going to give you
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  basically a bonus. We're going to give you a bonus
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  and then you just stole the money because you didn't play.
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  Every time he did play, he came out about every other play.
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  Well, but this is this is like the whole national media and
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  look, I get on the Bengals front office a lot.
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  I'm going to get them on on them in this show.
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  But in this case, they offered him three years, 95, He's 30.
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  He's 32 years old. Like, I don't think I would go
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  four years. Do we know what the guarantees
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  from the the Ravens are? It's 60.
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  It's 60. It's double what the Bengals
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  was, but. How many lives?
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  So 60 million guaranteed. Yeah, and the Bengals was 30, so
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  I get it. That's a big difference.
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  Yeah, that is a big difference. I mean. 30 million sold.
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  Yeah, it's a lot it. Is it's a big difference, Yeah.
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  But the Bengals, I think, were comfortable to go too.
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  They were negotiation. They extended it to three.
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  Trey said no, and that's it. And once that was done, they
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  could they could have played hardball and and tagged him and
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  not let him do any of this stuff and try to trade him, which we
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  all talked about. They don't have the ability to
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  pull that off. No, they don't.
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  They don't. So I was kind of glad.
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  I wish they would have done it, but they don't.
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  This front office does not have that ability.
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  So I think that was the right decision.
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  But like, I'm just tired of this the the narrative being that the
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  Bengals are cheap in this scenario, because in this
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  scenario they're not. They thought he was too old to
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  give him that big of a deal. They gave him guaranteed.
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  They they gave him a contract they thought was fair.
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  He argued with them every year, even though he's under contract
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  for multiple years and signed that contract himself.
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  Like if anybody's at fault, it's his agent and him and he's
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  finally free. He gets four years with with the
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  Ravens and now we get to see him twice a year.
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  But I just, I don't want to hear that crap that the Bengals are
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  cheap on this one. No, the Bengals did the right
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  move. They offered what what I think
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  was fair and I agree with only all from the one year guarantee
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  because he is 32 years old now. You know what, to me, I think
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  the Ravens probably overspent a little bit here.
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  I don't I can't anticipate. Maybe he'll prove me wrong.
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  But four years down the road at the age of 3536 years old, I
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  don't see Trey Henderson putting up the numbers that that he's
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  putting up right now. So go ahead, waste your money,
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  you get your long term deal. Good for Trey, he gets paid.
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  And like I said, I'm glad that the the Ravens ended up with him
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  instead of Max Crosby because I think Max Crosby's better.
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  I know they they kept their first round picks, which is why
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  they backed out of the deal. I mean, it was a complete sham
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  what they did. The I'm not buying this failed
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  physical crap of Max Crosby. They had buyer's remorse.
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  They realized, oh wait, we probably shouldn't have done
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  this. Let's just go get Trey
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  Hendrickson and say that Max Crosby failed physical because
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  he was hurt last year. No, it's complete trash.
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  They cheated the system. They didn't really cheat the
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  system, but they they did Max Crosby.
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  They took. Advantage of it.
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  Yeah, exactly. So, you know, they got a worst
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  player. I hope Trey, you know, is a bum.
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  He's a bum. I hope he stays a bum.
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  Does it to produce the the way that the Ravens hopes helped
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  hope that he would and that he sucks and we'll just go down and
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  torch him twice a year. I'm not worried about Trey
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  Anderson. I was worried about my worried
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  about Max Crosby. I'm not worried about Trey
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  Henderson. I'm not even sure it was cold
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  feet with with Max Crosby. I think it was, you see that you
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  can maybe get Trey and not have to give up to first round picks
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  and and you've got this physical waiting there that if a reason
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  to get out of it if you want to get out of it.
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  I don't even think it was cold feet.
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  I think it was a different opportunity that presented
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  themselves when his contract was a lot lower than they thought it
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  was originally going to be. Well, it's 1000%, you're
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  absolutely right. Once the numbers start coming
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  down, they started looking at the writing on the wall and be
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  like, look, we don't have to give up and we're not a team
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  that likes to give up first round picks.
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  We give up two of them. Why don't we get those back and
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  we'll just go sidetrack and. Then they trotted their GM out
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  there today and he put on this pony show of oh, well, we were
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  going to actually, we really wanted Max Crosby.
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  We were going to put Max Crosby with Trey Hendrickson.
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  Like, no, you weren't. Nope.
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  That it's complete trash, complete lies, trash to cover
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  his ass. What she has to do, because I
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  mean, they, they, they did them wrong, but it's whatever.
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  Dude, it's like, are you going to do a trade with the Raven?
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  I'm. Not surprised.
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  I'm not surprised. It's the Ravens.
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  It's their franchise. They're a bunch of bombs, a
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  bunch of losers in Baltimore, whatever.
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  And then Max Crosby has to go back to the Raiders facility
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  today. He had already updated his his
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  Twitter account with the with the Ravens jersey, and now he's
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  got to go back if. The Raiders want to take a
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  couple second round picks. I'll kick the tires on some Max
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  Crosby to Cincinnati. Well, I'd give them one first
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  round pick. I'll.
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  Give them a first round pick as well I'd.
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  Give them a first round pick. Hell, you can have all of our
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  first round picks. Apparently every first round
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  pick the Bengals actually drafted, they all suck.
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  So they can take all of our first round picks because we
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  don't do a damn thing with them. I mean there's a couple guys in
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  that offense that were first round picks that are pretty damn
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  that. Was that was a while ago, but
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  there's more misses than hits and we can go through the misses
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  because there's a lot more misses than there have been
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  hits. Look, and you you've mentioned
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  Trey Henderson sucks. He doesn't suck.
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  He's just not as good as Max Crosby.
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  No, he sucks. He sucks.
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  His production is going to go down.
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  He was on the field for seven games last year.
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  I mean, we're now two years removed from his great year.
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  He's getting older. I don't think he's as good as
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  the people think he is it. Wasn't his great year.
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  It was 2 great years in a row with 17 1/2 sacks.
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  Well. That was two years, three years
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  ago. Now he's two and three years
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  older. He's in his 30s.
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  He's. Never been somebody that's great
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  against the run and but when it's third and long and due to
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  sack, there's he's as good as anybody in the league and I if
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  he's healthy, yeah. He was.
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  He was two or three years ago. He was two years ago.
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  Three years ago. Look, I hope you're right.
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  There's no proof he's the same guy.
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  There's no proof. He's 17 1/2 sacks.
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  I don't know about that, but will he get double digit?
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  Yeah, I think that could very easily happen.
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  But less than a sack a game, big deal, big deal.
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  The Max Crosby drama may not be over because Pac-Man Jones is
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  on. He's on his camera on video
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  saying, uh oh, this happening, He's coming to Cincinnati.
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  Well, I love me some Pac-Man Jones.
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  I don't know if Pac-Man Jones is the Bengals insider that we
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  think he is. Wait, if there's anybody, I
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  trust him. He.
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  Loves a Pac-Man. Adam Pac-Man Jones.
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  I do love Pac-Man Jones, but I don't know if I trust what the
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  Pac-Man is is doing. But I mean, if the Bengals pull
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  it off somehow, someway, I don't care if you have a failed
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  physical or not, I'm good. Come on, come on with it.
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  What would what would you give up for?
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  Would you do the two first like the Ravens were going to do, or
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  do you think that's too much? No, I do the two first.
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  I would absolutely do the two first.
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  I think this year's is a no brainer.
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  I mean, just think about what the bag We drafted Shamar
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  Stewart with the first round pick.
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  We drafted Billy Price with the first round pick.
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  We drafted William Jackson. You're.
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  Saying that Joe Burrow drafted too long ago.
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  And then you break out. Oh.
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  My God, Joe Burrow was a can't miss.
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  That was a can't miss. You didn't have to do your
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  homework. You talked about how that was a
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  long time ago. Your.
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  Homework. You talked.
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  About how that was a long time ago and then you go back to 2017
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  and Billy Price I. Mean.
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  I'm just saying, Liam Jackson, you guys with dinar, we go all
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  the way back. We can go as far as you want.
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  We can go with this currency, Miles Murphy.
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  There you go. Sucks.
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  I mean, he, he's going. Through Dax Hill, not that good.
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  So we like Joe Burrow was a can't miss like #1 pick.
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  It's about, I'm not going to give the Bengals credit for
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  drafting Joe Burrow. Everybody would have drafted Joe
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  Burrow and the same with Jamar. I mean, and with Jamar Chase, it
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  was either that or pen a Sul and they were both.
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  You can't miss on them. Everybody else they've actually
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  had to do some homework on and think about it on their first
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  round pick. They've missed.
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  They've miss evaluated almost all of them.
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  So yeah, the Ravens can take. It's ahead of both of them the.
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  Raiders can take all of my first round picks because we sure
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  ain't going to do a damn thing with them.
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  So they can take and give me Max Crosby because you're not going
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  to find anybody. The the Bengals will not draft
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  anybody in the next 3-4 years with those first round picks.
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  That's going to amount to what Max Crosby can be. 100% would do
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  it. I I think your logic with with
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  going back to the 20 fifteens and then just saying everybody
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  says it's. More of a Duke.
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  Tobin sucks because he's a terrible evaluator of talent is
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  what I'm trying to get at. So I don't trust him to do
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  anything with our first round picks now.
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  It's just a history of what the Bengals do.
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  Well. Drake Kirkpatrick I'm pretty
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  sure was a first round pick and he's the most datestangle with.
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  The 20 tens goodness, it's. Just a pattern of what the
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  Bengals do. So yes, give me Max Crosby and
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  they can take my next nine first round picks.
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  Well, you are. You were not doing like, that's
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  what the you want to go back in history.
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  That's what the Saints did to get Ricky Williams back in the
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  early 2000s. Mike Dickens.
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  That's when Mike Dickens was running things.
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  But. No, I think there's no doubt
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  that and look the the compensation might not be as
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  high now that this is already gone through once.
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  Maybe you can get him for a first round and a second round
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  thing. It's.
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  Just awkward. I think that it's over and for
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  him in LA are in in Vegas, right Like they don't they want to
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  trade. That's what they're.
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  Saying right now, but they're they're taking calls.
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  I mean, the Bengals put out a feeler before he was going to
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  Baltimore, so put out a bigger feeler.
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  Come on, Duke, let's feel it out.
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  Feel, feel. Well, Duke, Tobin, he's all in
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  on winning this year and talked about how they really got to fix
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  this defense, which is obvious. You've had the worst defense in
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  the NFL for the past two years and we talked about how you at
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  least got to get a stud or a top level starter on each level of
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  the defense and they started off on Monday where they were
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  actually pretty active. They got 22 good pieces.
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  Good pieces. Good pieces.
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  Yeah. Former.
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  Former University of Cincinnati stand out, basically coming home
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  to play for the Chiefs, The best tackling safety in the NFL.
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  Yep. So you go from who was the worst
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  tackling safety in the NFL to to the best.
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  And then they get Boye Maffei from the Super Bowl champions to
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  to be an edge rusher. So everybody's excited on Monday
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  night. This is a great start, but we
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  still need more pieces. You still need a slot corner,
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  you still need a defensive back, you still need a definitely need
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  a linebacker. And and then yesterday, 1 by 1,
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  you just keep seeing all these linebackers falling off the
• 18:10
  board and the Bengals aren't making a move of.
• 18:12
  Course they're not. Did that surprise you?
• 18:17
  No. No, it does not surprise you.
• 18:20
  You know, it doesn't surprise you.
• 18:21
  Really want to fix this defense do.
• 18:23
  They want to fix it or do they just not want to spend money?
• 18:26
  Well, here's here's what they do like the contracts for mafia is
• 18:32
  it's 3 or 60 million, so 20 a year.
• 18:35
  But they just they take more of a cat pit than they have to
• 18:40
  because they want to because they don't want to have to spend
• 18:43
  that money. And that's why all this talk
• 18:46
  about restructuring Burroughs contract is just completely
• 18:50
  bogus because they have no intent to do that.
• 18:52
  None because they don't want to have the cap room to where they
• 18:57
  actually have to spend the money.
• 19:00
  And we talked about this with teens contract last year too.
• 19:04
  Like you could structure these differently to where you have
• 19:06
  more money available to bring in more players.
• 19:11
  So now it's been 2 days since Monday and those are still the
• 19:17
  only two moves that they have made.
• 19:22
  In comparison, the Commanders, who had one of the defenses, one
• 19:26
  of the worst defenses in the NFL, have already signed OA
• 19:31
  chasing Chanel, Cross said. They've made six moves on
• 19:37
  defense and Leo Chanel was a guy that a lot of people have talked
• 19:42
  about for the Bengals to be their linebacker, the somebody
• 19:46
  that Barrett Carter and Demetrius Knight.
• 19:48
  Demetrius Knight. Yeah, yeah.
• 19:51
  Like, do you need somebody to lead these guys lead Chanel
• 19:55
  sites for three years, $24 million?
• 19:57
  It's not like he's going out and breaking the bank.
• 20:00
  Like, bring in a linebacker that these guys can learn from.
• 20:03
  They're going to play, We know that.
• 20:05
  But do they need to be playing as many snaps as they played
• 20:07
  last year? No.
• 20:10
  How do you know that? So how do you know that the
• 20:12
  Bengals didn't try and that these guys just don't want to
• 20:15
  come to Cincinnati like we talked about?
• 20:18
  Like we talked about what players 4. $1,000,000 for three
• 20:21
  years. You can't get that done.
• 20:23
  I don't know, maybe just we talked about what players think
• 20:26
  of Cincinnati, about the treatment of families and about
• 20:29
  the food and about all the rest of that other stuff that's just
• 20:31
  not about football and how terrible life is in a Cincinnati
• 20:34
  Bengal in a Cincinnati Bengals uniform.
• 20:38
  Maybe he he he'd take a little bit less money to go somewhere
• 20:41
  that he'd rather be than Cincinnati, OH with this poverty
• 20:45
  franchise that is not doing anything for anybody.
• 20:50
  If it wasn't for Joe Burrow, T Higgins and Jamar Chase, I would
• 20:54
  agree with you. I think that's your selling
• 20:56
  point. Not as a defence player.
• 21:00
  I mean they give you a chase to win.
• 21:02
  You want to win, I understand, but you're not playing on the
• 21:06
  side of the ball with those guys.
• 21:08
  No, but if you want to win, you're you know, you're going to
• 21:10
  have a good offense that's going to move the football and is I.
• 21:13
  Hear you, but I don't know, I just think there might be more
• 21:16
  to it than just let's go get this guy.
• 21:19
  Maybe we tried to get these guys and they're like, hell no, I'm
• 21:21
  not playing for Mike Brown and Duke Tobin and the Cincinnati
• 21:24
  Bengals. And then you maybe.
• 21:26
  Where the travel sucks with food sucks and my family has to
• 21:30
  probably sit in a 300 level because they don't care about
• 21:32
  them. Like no, like the Bengals need
• 21:35
  to fix themselves if they want to get some of these guys.
• 21:38
  What do you? What is Joe Burrow?
• 21:40
  Jamar Chase? T Higgins?
• 21:42
  What are they thinking of right now?
• 21:43
  Well. You heard of what Jamar Chase
• 21:44
  said? I mean, he's probably thinking
• 21:46
  the same thing that you heard on his live stream or whatever.
• 21:48
  He said. He's probably like, oh, like
• 21:53
  we're not doing anything. They're not doing anything.
• 21:55
  I mean, I'd put the, I'd put the ownership's feet to the fire if
• 21:59
  I was those three guys. I mean, I don't know how much
• 22:01
  leverage you have because you're under contract, but I feel like
• 22:04
  Mike Brown needs to listen to you.
• 22:06
  They suck me in every year. I think they're going to make
• 22:09
  like in 20 and 21. They made a bunch of moves.
• 22:12
  They signed a bunch of guys, but they, you know, the difference
• 22:15
  was they had a rookie quarterback contract and they
• 22:19
  didn't have like, no. Don't give me that.
• 22:21
  No, we have we have space they. Have plenty of money to spend,
• 22:24
  but they did. No, they have the room but they
• 22:27
  they are spending that which they weren't previously.
• 22:31
  So regardless of the cat, they are spending that much money and
• 22:37
  that makes them more hesitant to spend more even though they have
• 22:40
  the room in the cap to do it. If you want to win, you spend it
• 22:43
  if you don't. Well, it's, I think it's very
• 22:45
  obvious that they're not going to do whatever it takes to win.
• 22:49
  It sucks. It sucks.
• 22:52
  I just, they're talking about Devin Lloyd on Monday and I'm
• 22:55
  like, oh crap, maybe they really are going in.
• 22:58
  They're saying the Bengals are one of the three finalists.
• 23:00
  They weren't. They weren't even in on him.
• 23:03
  They weren't even in on him. There's no. 1.
• 23:06
  I don't know. And look, I I hear, I think the
• 23:10
  big reason is, is they think Barry Carter and Demetrius
• 23:13
  Snyder are their starters next year.
• 23:15
  There's just no way. There's no way.
• 23:17
  If you think that, then that's why they if they honestly think
• 23:21
  that, then they they have no business in being in football at
• 23:24
  all. That's just ridiculous.
• 23:29
  I. Think that's what they're
• 23:30
  thinking and look, they're going to sign.
• 23:33
  They're going to sign. This isn't going to be all the
• 23:36
  the only moves that they make. They're going to make more
• 23:38
  moves, but they're going to be. If Zach Taylor wants to keep his
• 23:41
  job, he needs to get in there and he needs to start demanding
• 23:45
  some things. Same with Al Golden.
• 23:49
  Well, you don't think Al Golden wants better linebackers?
• 23:52
  Needs to start. He needs to start knocking on
• 23:53
  some doors, banging, making some noise in the front office.
• 23:56
  Then, because he's going to be looking for a job, So and so is
• 23:59
  Zach Taylor. I know Zach Taylor's not a
• 24:01
  defensive guy, but that defence is going to be the reason that
• 24:04
  you don't have a job. Look, if if it's like it is next
• 24:08
  year, like it was this year, there's no way you can run all
• 24:12
  this back and. So that last year?
• 24:16
  Well, last year they ran the defence back completely as it
• 24:20
  was with the addition of one guy they brought in TJ Slayton, that
• 24:23
  was it. And a bunch of guys they drafted
• 24:26
  and threw them out there and expected it to be different
• 24:30
  because you have a defensive coordinator and I don't know,
• 24:35
  it's just like why? Why do we ever think that it's
• 24:40
  going to be different at some point?
• 24:42
  I think it. Was going to be different.
• 24:43
  You thought it was going to be different.
• 24:44
  You had the trust they were going to do something.
• 24:46
  I did it. I would have fired them all
• 24:48
  immediately. Well, it's too late for that.
• 24:50
  No, I'm telling you, I know. I Greg, I know it's too late
• 24:53
  now, but you have like, oh, Duke Tobin knows.
• 24:56
  She's got to make moves. Duke's.
• 24:57
  I'm like Duke Tobin doesn't know shit.
• 24:58
  Like he's done, Done. He's an idiot.
• 25:02
  He doesn't know what he's doing. We've gone through this.
• 25:06
  He's done. Yeah, I don't it's I don't just
• 25:14
  it's very disappointing. I.
• 25:15
  Just don't know why you act surprised over here.
• 25:18
  I'm not. Because I want to believe it.
• 25:22
  They've given you no reason to believe in your 41 years of
• 25:24
  existence. Well, and now Trey's going to
• 25:28
  and now Joe's, it's just, well, if they lose next year, Joe's
• 25:32
  really going to start trying to get out of it.
• 25:34
  Yeah, and they were going back to the 1990s.
• 25:37
  Bengals all over. Yep. 100% because you didn't
• 25:41
  take advantage of this window and you ran out a terrible
• 25:43
  defense that did nothing to fix it.
• 25:47
  Made two moves but like I said, you go from from Trey, you let
• 25:53
  Osai walk and you Trey's gone and you bring in mafia that's
• 26:00
  mafia is probably better than Osai, but obviously you're
• 26:02
  losing Trey and then yeah, you improved with with Cook from
• 26:06
  stone I mean. You're not losing Trey from last
• 26:08
  year's like you keep, you're losing Trey.
• 26:10
  We lost Trey last year. Trey wasn't in Brown last year.
• 26:13
  He was nothing. But as long as you know mafia is
• 26:17
  better than oh sigh I. Mean that infers your Yeah,
• 26:23
  that's the small upgrade. But yeah, conference tournaments
• 26:28
  in action. That was the most depressing
• 26:32
  segue I've ever heard. Yes, I'm kind of depressed.
• 26:35
  Bless, man. Oh, that was a terrible That was
• 26:39
  a depressing segue. I was just.
• 26:41
  I just wanted them to make you need to.
• 26:43
  Take like a 5 minute break, you just go have a cry in the
• 26:45
  bathroom, come back out. You got this.
• 26:47
  You sure you're right? What are your thoughts on this
• 26:50
  court the Big 12's playing on in Kansas City?
• 26:54
  I like the concept that they can do cool things with it, but can
• 26:57
  we not have it dark grey? Like, I don't understand.
• 27:01
  Like you've got all this technology.
• 27:02
  Yeah. It looks awful because of like I
• 27:05
  love that they like light up the three-point line when there's a
• 27:07
  three made and like all the cool stuff that happens during
• 27:09
  timeouts and intros and all that other stuff.
• 27:12
  But just change the color of the court.
• 27:14
  Make it like a light color, like a like a like a wood, like a
• 27:17
  brown, like a tan. Make it a tan color court where
• 27:21
  it looks like a normal court. We don't need dark grey.
• 27:24
  Just looks gross. It's so like you have, it's LED,
• 27:29
  you can do anything you want, you can do anything you want.
• 27:33
  And they're like, let's just go back to black and white TV.
• 27:38
  And let's put a bunch of 12 Roman numerals on all over it.
• 27:42
  Like if we don't like it, as if we don't know that that's a Big
• 27:44
  12 conference. We know it's the Big 12
• 27:46
  tournament. We don't need your logo 50,000
• 27:49
  times plastered from inline to inline like.
• 27:53
  Do they think like the players uniforms, like stand out on TV
• 27:57
  is because like with that technology I feel like you would
• 28:03
  utilize it more. And I get it, they do stuff when
• 28:07
  there's dead balls and like the courts changing around and
• 28:09
  stuff, but with the technology, that's the most boring court
• 28:14
  I've ever seen. No, I agree.
• 28:17
  What they should do is make it like a tank, like a normal
• 28:19
  looking court and then whoever's playing just put their colors
• 28:22
  like in the lane. So you got Kansas playing, let's
• 28:26
  say like Kansas playing Arizona. Like one lane is like red and
• 28:32
  Navy blue and the other ones red and royal blue or something.
• 28:37
  You know, put the like the team colors in the lanes.
• 28:39
  I I just kind of cool. I don't know if that's what I
• 28:41
  would do, but I enjoy trying to be different and utilizing the
• 28:45
  technology. What are the like?
• 28:47
  Like they're at practice. I think they change it to
• 28:49
  whatever your team is. So when you go for a shoot
• 28:51
  around the court, looks like your court back home.
• 28:55
  That's cool, that's cool. And then you play a game and
• 28:58
  it's like grey, grey. Dark grey like what?
• 29:03
  I guess what what what is it? What's the the the surface made
• 29:08
  out of? Like what is it?
• 29:09
  What's the material? I mean it's the LED board, but I
• 29:13
  don't know what the actual material is to make them be able
• 29:15
  to walk on it I want. Like if you're a player for to
• 29:18
  wear for 32 games of the season, you're playing on hardwood well.
• 29:22
  It's got a grip, it's got a grip to it.
• 29:23
  They talked about it, but I don't know what it's made out
• 29:25
  of. So like if you if you if you
• 29:28
  squeak your feet on it, just like you do a wood court it, it
• 29:31
  does, it makes the same noise. So it's very so they've got that
• 29:34
  technology down. OK.
• 29:35
  They're not going to go sliding around like it's ice skating
• 29:38
  rink. OK, I don't know.
• 29:40
  No, no, they can definitely do something better than dark grey
• 29:43
  and Big 12 logos plastered 1000. And then last week we talked
• 29:49
  about the crazy ass Sunbelt and then Georgia Southern goes and
• 29:54
  wins five games in a row to get from A10 seat to the
• 29:58
  championship. Loses Detroit.
• 30:00
  But they almost did what we said couldn't be done.
• 30:04
  They almost, almost in. Yeah.
• 30:06
  I mean, they what what we said for sure wasn't going to be done
• 30:09
  with seven in seven days. They tried to do 6 and 6, which
• 30:12
  is really damn hard too. But no, that was cool.
• 30:17
  Good for them. Nice one run.
• 30:19
  They can get it done, but think you think they ran out of gas a
• 30:22
  little bit. You know who else didn't get it
• 30:24
  done? Who was that?
• 30:26
  Morehead State Eagles from Cyber No.
• 30:28
  They did not. They actually.
• 30:31
  Got. Ran out of the gym pretty good.
• 30:33
  Blastard. Tennessee State making threes
• 30:36
  all over the place and really we just was.
• 30:39
  I was excited to watch that game Saturday night in Atlanta.
• 30:42
  And it was. Where we go the three dollar $3
• 30:45
  cafe. None of those games were good.
• 30:47
  We're excited about all those games.
• 30:49
  North Carolina, Duke, Auburn, AL.
• 30:52
  Yeah. Morehead to Tennessee State and
• 30:55
  they're all just crap games. Yeah, you and our buddy Michael
• 31:00
  Root Rooter had a little side side bet going on there of whose
• 31:06
  margin of loss was going to be greater Auburn head state and.
• 31:11
  It ended up being Morehead. That's how bad it was whose
• 31:14
  larger margin of loss was going to be great you.
• 31:17
  Got to find some way to to make it interesting.
• 31:19
  Yeah, that's true. Congrats to Nolan Smith on his
• 31:22
  first year at Tennessee State. Got hired late and it seemed to
• 31:25
  the tournament for the first time in 30 something years.
• 31:29
  So what this time time of year is all about?
• 31:32
  We've already got 10 or 11 tickets punched to the to the
• 31:37
  men's dance, and now we got the the Power Four and the Big East
• 31:43
  tournaments going on. You want it?
• 31:47
  We're just talking about the Big 12 tournament.
• 31:48
  Who, who do you think when who do you think comes out on top?
• 31:51
  I. Mean it's going to be good.
• 31:54
  I mean, it's, it's the best. Tournament of Yeah.
• 31:56
  I mean, they're just stacked at the top.
• 31:58
  Yeah, yeah, I was, I was. Yeah, Let's say it's even better
• 32:02
  than the Yeah, the Big 10 and the SEC.
• 32:03
  So yeah, it's the best tournament.
• 32:05
  There's no doubt. It's tough one.
• 32:07
  I think I would probably go Arizona as my top choice, but I
• 32:11
  could also see Houston between Houston and Arizona I'm.
• 32:14
  Going Houston. Going to Houston.
• 32:18
  And then SECII don't see anybody beat in Florida the way they're
• 32:24
  playing right now at Big 10. Michigan's to lose as Michigan
• 32:32
  lose. I just, I don't know who's going
• 32:34
  to beat Michigan. I mean, Michigan's beating all
• 32:36
  the other top teams in the Big 10 already on the road this
• 32:39
  year. It's.
• 32:40
  I, I think I would go Michigan and then I would go Duke.
• 32:44
  My only one favorite I'm not going is is Houston.
• 32:48
  But if if one of the if Duke or Michigan, which one is more
• 32:54
  likely not to win? Michigan.
• 32:57
  Just because the competition is tougher, yeah.
• 33:00
  Yeah, I mean, I I don't know who's going to beat Michigan.
• 33:04
  I mean, they're rolling for Purdue's not going to do it.
• 33:08
  Michigan State's not going to have maybe Illinois.
• 33:10
  See maybe Illinois trying, maybe pulling an upset, maybe in the
• 33:13
  title game or in in the semi finals.
• 33:16
  I don't know how they match up in the haven't seen the bracket.
• 33:18
  But I mean, Illinois is probably the only the only chance or
• 33:23
  unless I mean, Wisconsin gets hot.
• 33:25
  Wisconsin's had a lot. Of good.
• 33:26
  Wisconsin could get hot. They've already beat Michigan
• 33:28
  once this year at Michigan, so maybe if they match up somewhere
• 33:31
  along the line, maybe Wisconsin can get hot again and and and
• 33:34
  pull the upset, but I don't know.
• 33:36
  It's going to take a lot. If you if you throw Florida in
• 33:39
  the mix, do is it still Michigan for you most likely to get beat?
• 33:45
  Yeah, I think it is for me. Yeah, I'm.
• 33:51
  Just jumping like I don't know who is going to beat Duke in the
• 33:56
  ACC. No, there's nobody.
• 33:58
  And even with them not playing all their guys.
• 34:00
  I mean, I don't know who's going to be Duke in the country.
• 34:02
  And there's a well, I I. Would take I would take
• 34:05
  Michigan. You're taking the field, so
• 34:07
  you're taking the dude I would take.
• 34:09
  Michigan or Florida, you're. Taking the field over Duke,
• 34:11
  winning the national title to. Win the title.
• 34:13
  I think I would. Yeah, Yeah.
• 34:14
  Is it if you're if you're saying Duke versus the field?
• 34:16
  Yeah, I'm definitely. I'm taking, I think I'm taking
• 34:18
  Duke, but. Give me, I mean that that gives
• 34:21
  me four teams that I think can win at all.
• 34:24
  And you've got one because I think Arizona can win it all.
• 34:27
  I think Houston can win it all, too.
• 34:29
  Lot of Duke still in it. Yeah, it's one game.
• 34:33
  Like that's what that's what makes this tournament great.
• 34:36
  I I think last year's Duke team is better than this team and
• 34:40
  they didn't win. It oh, I don't know about that.
• 34:41
  That's yeah, maybe. Yeah, the Rook 2, the top 2
• 34:46
  rookie. OK.
• 34:46
  But Cardinal Canopo was not what he was.
• 34:49
  A Duke was not what he's putting up in the NBA.
• 34:51
  What are? You talking like they don't.
• 34:53
  They don't have that shooter this year.
• 34:55
  Like Isaiah Evans is the shooter, but he ain't Conka
• 34:57
  Nipple. I don't.
• 34:57
  Think anybody expected Conka Nipple to be this good in the
• 35:00
  NBA? This like from I mean he was he
• 35:02
  good at Duke? Yes, but he's been spectacular
• 35:04
  in the NBAI. Stand by the fact that I think
• 35:08
  last year's team is better than this year's team.
• 35:12
  You got back like they had player of the year last year,
• 35:15
  they had player of the year this year.
• 35:16
  Well, the I mean, does that mean that Duke did the competition
• 35:20
  around Duke or the other competition in the country was
• 35:23
  better last year than it is this year?
• 35:25
  Because Duke last year, if you're saying their team was
• 35:27
  better, was not the favorite to win the title.
• 35:30
  This year's team who's apparently not as good is the
• 35:32
  favorite to win the title. So our teams around the country
• 35:35
  is not as good as they were last year.
• 35:36
  I. Think the ACC was so down last
• 35:40
  year that I don't, I think people questioned how good they
• 35:42
  were OK. And I, I think that played a
• 35:44
  role in it because the ACC was God awful last year and the AC
• 35:50
  CS better this year. It's still not unbelievable, but
• 35:52
  it's a lot better than it was last year.
• 35:55
  No, I just look, the bottom line is if you're giving me the field
• 35:59
  versus one team, when I think there's five teams that can win
• 36:02
  it all, then I'm going to take the field.
• 36:04
  And I got the defending champion that and I got Michigan, who I
• 36:07
  think is right there with, with Duke.
• 36:12
  And then I would the next level I would have Arizona and
• 36:14
  Houston, but I think all five of them can win it.
• 36:19
  I think all five of them can get to the Final four.
• 36:20
  I don't think all five of them can win it.
• 36:21
  There's one team can't. Win any of those 5.
• 36:24
  All of them except dude. That's why it's insane.
• 36:31
  It's insane. You're.
• 36:32
  Insane looking. At bubble teams, dude.
• 36:34
  And I know all this talk about expansion.
• 36:38
  Yeah. That that should just go in the
• 36:40
  toilet. Because dude, I looked at this
• 36:43
  yesterday and today. It's bad.
• 36:45
  And I'm looking at these numbers and like before tonight's loss
• 36:53
  to Northwestern, where they lost by what, 17 Indiana?
• 36:57
  I had Indiana as my last team getting in.
• 37:01
  Well, they're out now. That changes they.
• 37:04
  Are out now. And now like so and that Auburn
• 37:07
  is like the the first team out, but like some of these teams
• 37:13
  that are getting in are just like, can we please not expand
• 37:20
  it and. Just like we'll just like we're
• 37:25
  like, let's look at the bubble right now.
• 37:26
  Like this is based on what Joe Leonardi has.
• 37:29
  I mean, everybody takes Joe Leonardi at his word because
• 37:31
  it's he's the bracketology God. I mean Texas, for instance, like
• 37:35
  let's just go like the from the last four buys and last four in
• 37:38
  Texas loses tonight to a bad Ole Miss team.
• 37:41
  An Ole Miss team has a losing it's.
• 37:42
  Worked, gets handled pretty good.
• 37:44
  Pretty. Good.
• 37:45
  Yeah, SMU loses to a pretty good Louisville team, but they lose.
• 37:49
  They're in last. Night I had Texas in pretty
• 37:53
  easily they had 6 quad one wins. They're 33 in Kenpalm.
• 38:00
  I mean, I don't know, like that's going to drop them
• 38:02
  obviously because it's a bad loss, but you.
• 38:05
  Got like it seemed like NC State.
• 38:06
  Who beats a bad Pittsburgh team today?
• 38:08
  Barely. They struggled for most.
• 38:10
  I mean, they won. They pulled away.
• 38:12
  His last four in. Do what does he?
• 38:15
  Have them his last four in They're in the.
• 38:16
  Last four buys. Last four buys.
• 38:17
  So I'm just starting with like, let's start with the last four
• 38:19
  buys. NC State, they beat Pitt today,
• 38:21
  which Pitt is nothing, but they've struggled coming into
• 38:24
  the tournament. They've lost like, what, five of
• 38:25
  six or something like that. Texas loses the Ole Miss, Santa
• 38:29
  Clara gets to the WAC or the West, the West Coast Conference.
• 38:36
  Yeah. No, they got in the.
• 38:39
  Final, they beat a good Saint Mary's team, so I think that
• 38:41
  probably puts them in. You have Missouri sitting there
• 38:44
  and the last four buys who will play Kentucky tomorrow?
• 38:48
  They got a a first round buy in their conference tournament.
• 38:51
  So Missouri with a big game against Kentucky tomorrow.
• 38:53
  I think if they win, they're in Central Florida.
• 38:57
  Missouri is 6060. In the net and 50 in Kim pom,
• 39:02
  yeah. That's bad, but.
• 39:03
  They have 5 quad one wins and I think that's what separates
• 39:06
  them. Yeah, I mean, yes, if they win
• 39:09
  tomorrow, even if they lose them, they're probably still I.
• 39:11
  Think they're probably in even though they're 60th in the net,
• 39:14
  but that's another reason why we don't need to expand.
• 39:16
  Central Florida basically had a play in game with Cincinnati
• 39:20
  tonight because the loser of that was probably going to be
• 39:22
  out. Cincinnati blows in what, a nine
• 39:24
  point lead with about 2 1/2 minutes to go?
• 39:27
  Loses it in overtime. So Cincinnati, who was in the
• 39:29
  next 4 out their season is most likely done.
• 39:32
  Central Florida stays alive for now, gets a win yesterday over
• 39:39
  Syracuse, who's terrible, and then they come out and lose to
• 39:42
  Louisville. They've lost five of six, so
• 39:44
  they'll probably. Still get in, yeah.
• 39:47
  Because everybody else is losing around him.
• 39:49
  Indiana. Indiana loses to one of the
• 39:51
  worst Big 10 teams in Northwestern for two.
• 39:54
  This is the second time they've lost to him this year.
• 39:56
  So I think that Indiana was the last team in the field according
• 39:58
  to Leonardi. They're definitely probably out.
• 40:00
  Now you have Auburn, who's a source of controversy from what
• 40:05
  Bruce Pearl is. And his whole thing about Miami
• 40:08
  of Ohio, which we can get into if you want to, well.
• 40:10
  I've got some stuff on them, yeah.
• 40:12
  Well, Auburn is the first four team, the first team out.
• 40:15
  They get a a victory today in their conference tournament,
• 40:17
  which probably puts them on the right side.
• 40:19
  Because that slot that probably swaps them with Indiana and
• 40:22
  because I had them 46 and 47 probably.
• 40:24
  But like, yeah, and then the the next two teams after that,
• 40:28
  Stanford and Virginia Tech. Virginia Tech loses in the day
• 40:31
  of shame, the Wake Forest, so they're definitely out.
• 40:35
  And you have Stanford, who lost yesterday in the day of shame as
• 40:40
  well. They lost to what they lose to
• 40:42
  yesterday. They lose the pit.
• 40:44
  Yeah, they lost the pit. Which?
• 40:46
  Yeah. That's a bad lot.
• 40:47
  So all these teams that are just right there trying to get in the
• 40:50
  Cincinnati's, the Stanford's, the Virginia Tech's, the
• 40:53
  Indiana's, all losing, losing, losing like.
• 40:58
  So, so bad. Yeah.
• 41:00
  And like I, I was adamant that Auburn cannot get in right
• 41:07
  they're. Going to get in.
• 41:08
  They won today, Their win today 11.
• 41:10
  In league play, their net is 40, their Ken Palm is 39.
• 41:14
  They have 4, not great, but they're 4 and 12 in quad one,
• 41:17
  which is not great, but at least they have four wins in quad one.
• 41:22
  I now think unless some things happen, like here's the thing,
• 41:26
  if Utah State, who I have is in, if they don't win the Mountain
• 41:32
  West, then that's going to take away a bit from somebody, which
• 41:35
  would be Auburn, who was the last one on my line.
• 41:38
  So they need no upsets from these leagues that are one bid
• 41:44
  with the team that's going to get in.
• 41:47
  So they need that to happen. But these bubble teams are just
• 41:51
  I just. Don't see any movement on the
• 41:52
  bubble except for like you said, flip flip flop Indiana and
• 41:55
  Auburn. Everybody's losing.
• 41:57
  So even though you're in the last four in and you loot like
• 41:59
  your SMU and you lose, everybody behind you is also losing.
• 42:03
  Like it's it's awful. Like can we shorten the
• 42:07
  tournament? Forget expanding it was shorten
• 42:09
  it. I don't, I think, I think the
• 42:13
  way it works right now is fine. We don't need to shorten it.
• 42:16
  But so you you talked about Miami, Ohio, they're not even
• 42:19
  favored to win the tournament. They shouldn't be.
• 42:22
  Akron is the favorite. Akron is actually higher than
• 42:25
  than in the net. As they should be.
• 42:28
  Akron is is 52. Miami, OH is 53, but you go to
• 42:34
  Kin Palm, Akron is 61. Do you know what Miami, Ohio is
• 42:40
  in the Kin Palm? What's?
• 42:41
  Here. 9191 their schedule overall schedule ranks 272 in
• 42:48
  the country according to Kin Palm and their non con schedule
• 42:52
  is in the three 60s. I mean, we, we sat there,
• 42:58
  watched this game on Friday night at the hotel in Duluth,
• 43:01
  GA, with a few Miami fans and they're not good.
• 43:09
  Once again, they they needed a basically almost a miracle
• 43:13
  comeback to, to, to force overtime against the Ohio team
• 43:18
  who's now has a losing record. So once again, they squeak out
• 43:20
  another 2-3 point win, this one in overtime for the eighth time
• 43:25
  this year against the team with a losing record.
• 43:27
  They're not good. They're not good.
• 43:30
  Like, and I agree these numbers are not advantageous, but it's
• 43:34
  not like look who I'd rather see them than any of these teams
• 43:40
  that are terrible at the end of the bubble because they have
• 43:44
  said so many opportunities and are doing nothing.
• 43:48
  Like they haven't lost the game. There's no and look, you're on.
• 43:52
  Nobody is on your side with this.
• 43:55
  They are getting in the tournament.
• 43:57
  You are on my side. You just don't want to admit
• 43:58
  that you're on my side, but you're on my side.
• 44:00
  There were teams that warranted getting in at the end of the
• 44:03
  bubble and that was instead of Miami, Ohio.
• 44:07
  Then I would be like, yes, Miami Ohio's numbers are not good.
• 44:11
  I get it. They don't have any quality
• 44:12
  wins. Reward them.
• 44:13
  You can't. Reward Why the Ohio's undefeated
• 44:17
  They don't. Reward them for playing nobody.
• 44:20
  You don't reward them for having the 365th best non conference
• 44:24
  schedule. We went over this.
• 44:25
  When you go to their page, their schedule page on ESPN, there are
• 44:29
  three or four teams that don't even have a logo.
• 44:31
  They don't even have a logo because nobody knows who they
• 44:33
  are. They're the only team in the Mac
• 44:35
  that did not play a Power Four team this year.
• 44:37
  We went through this. Every other single team in that
• 44:39
  conference played a Power Four team.
• 44:41
  And I don't want to hear about this article that came out that
• 44:43
  the AD said he tried to schedule the big boys.
• 44:46
  I don't care. You find a way to schedule
• 44:47
  somebody because everybody else in your conference did. 12 other
• 44:50
  teams in your conference found a way to schedule at least one big
• 44:53
  boy team and you couldn't. No, not buying it.
• 44:56
  You didn't. You don't get rewarded for
• 44:58
  playing terrible teams. I know you're undefeated, but
• 45:01
  you should be undefeated if you're any worse, If you're just
• 45:04
  an average team, you should be undefeated with that schedule.
• 45:07
  An average team, I guarantee you, Auburn would be, Indiana
• 45:10
  would be, SMU would be undefeated with that schedule.
• 45:13
  They all would be undefeated with that schedule.
• 45:16
  They would all be undefeated. All of them, all three of them.
• 45:19
  You're going to put them all in. You're going to put all those
• 45:21
  bubble tea, all the bubble teams that you say suck.
• 45:23
  If you give a Miami of Ohio schedule, they would be
• 45:26
  undefeated. So let's put them all in.
• 45:28
  Put them all in. I 1,000,000% disagree with the
• 45:33
  fact that Auburn and Indiana would be undefeated with their
• 45:35
  schedule. Who?
• 45:36
  They losing to go through their schedule and tell me who they're
• 45:39
  going to lose to. They're going to lose to Akron.
• 45:41
  No, they wouldn't. Well.
• 45:43
  They just lost Indiana's got to be by 17 to Northwestern and
• 45:46
  they they ain't close to where Akron is in the net.
• 45:50
  They ain't losing to Akron. Northwestern is 70.
• 45:52
  Akron is 53 are 51, so. For argument's sake, let's say
• 45:58
  Indiana loses to Akron and they're 31 and one.
• 46:00
  You'd said if Miami, Ohio had one loss, you'd still put them
• 46:03
  in. You're going to put Indiana in
• 46:04
  at 31 and one with that schedule?
• 46:07
  Yeah, I mean because. No teams, everybody.
• 46:10
  All those teams who suck would. Be at least either undefeated or
• 46:14
  maybe have one loss and by your criteria that's good enough to
• 46:17
  get in the tournament. So put them all in.
• 46:20
  It's it's so like, no, wait, you just watched Indiana lose by 17
• 46:27
  did and then you're if they came down to it where they're the
• 46:29
  last team them are Miami you're picking Indiana I.
• 46:32
  Think Indiana beats Miami? But I'm asking you who you're
• 46:36
  picking if those, if it's if you got 46 spots, yeah.
• 46:41
  Because I think Indiana's a better team.
• 46:42
  You put the best teams in the tournament, right?
• 46:44
  That was your argument for the College Football Playoff.
• 46:46
  We want to see the best teams. We want to see the best teams.
• 46:48
  Indiana's a better team than Ohio Miami of Ohio.
• 46:52
  And I'm saying 46 because I'm including some of the
• 46:54
  conference. Indiana's not hitting buzzer
• 46:56
  beaters against the 10 win Western Michigan team or Central
• 46:58
  Michigan team. They're not going to overtime
• 47:00
  against Ohio University. They're not struggling against
• 47:03
  Buffalo. They're not doing that.
• 47:07
  Neither is Auburn, neither is SMU is Virginia Tech.
• 47:10
  None of those teams are doing that.
• 47:11
  Miami's doing that. But because they they squeak out
• 47:14
  these wins against terrible teams that are 10 win teams,
• 47:16
  they win by two all they're undefeated.
• 47:18
  Let's put them in terrible, terrible, terrible thing, No.
• 47:23
  On my spreadsheet, the only teams that you got to Scroll
• 47:26
  down and find that you're putting in the tournament per
• 47:30
  net are Miami, Ohio, and I've got Missouri.
• 47:33
  And the reason I have Missouri is because they have 5.
• 47:37
  They're five and six in Quad 1 and that separates them a little
• 47:42
  bit. I really hope they lose EU mass.
• 47:47
  I know you do, and you've been pulling against them every game.
• 47:51
  They play Trinity, Illinois. Trinity, Illinois.
• 47:55
  You ever heard of them? No, that's one of their 39 D one
• 47:59
  wins. I'm aware that they have three
• 48:00
  games. Mercyhurst on the schedule that
• 48:02
  they won by 5. Mercyhurst win by 5.
• 48:05
  Congratulations. IU East.
• 48:06
  Where's IU East? Nobody knows.
• 48:10
  They don't have a logo. Don't even have a logo.
• 48:12
  How about Milligan? They gave up 81 points to
• 48:15
  Milligan. Haven't.
• 48:16
  We already done this, yes. We did this, but we did not do
• 48:19
  this for the for the listeners and I want them to understand
• 48:21
  how bad they. Wasn't for the show.
• 48:23
  That wasn't for the show. Milligan No, this was just an
• 48:26
  argument at the hotel on Friday. Milligan Nobody's ever heard of
• 48:29
  them. Like, come on, they don't even
• 48:31
  have logos. Can't even find a logo of these
• 48:32
  people, don't even know where they are.
• 48:34
  IU East Not even a thing. I'm just.
• 48:38
  Made-up colleges. It's like, like there's.
• 48:40
  Just there's they mean they're undefeated.
• 48:42
  They're undefeated. They.
• 48:43
  Played the South Harmon Institute of Technology.
• 48:46
  All these teams at the end of the bubble are all losing over
• 48:49
  and over again. None of them want to get in and
• 48:51
  one other team is not losing at all.
• 48:54
  And they shouldn't lose. Ballard High School could be
• 48:59
  undefeated with that schedule. I think you you're wrong.
• 49:03
  Like they're going to get in. I'm going to hate it if the
• 49:08
  committee makes a mistake and puts them in.
• 49:10
  They need to at least put them in Dayton and prove that they
• 49:12
  can be a a power five game of the entire season.
• 49:17
  Put them in Dayton and make them prove that they can beat a power
• 49:20
  power. I guess it's power 4A Power Four
• 49:22
  team. Make them prove that they
• 49:23
  belong. They'll just put them straight
• 49:25
  in. Make them prove that they belong
• 49:28
  against these Auburns. That's only that's only way to
• 49:31
  do it. Settle this argument by putting
• 49:33
  Auburn in Miami in the first four and let's settle it.
• 49:36
  What did? I have on mass.
• 49:37
  I had on mass at 11. What's?
• 49:38
  That play in 12, drop them down one once they lose the UMass.
• 49:44
  Once they lose the UMass tomorrow night and the committee
• 49:47
  makes the mistake of putting them in, put them, put them in
• 49:50
  Dayton, let them play Auburn and let's settle this thing.
• 49:53
  Don't they? They have some 12 play insurance
• 49:54
  and some 11 play insurance, I think because some of the
• 49:57
  twelves are automatics. Yeah, I don't know.
• 50:02
  But this show has turned into a Miami, Ohio debate show.
• 50:05
  And there's a part of me like I want them to finish undefeated,
• 50:09
  but they're also, if they lose, I kind of just want to see them
• 50:13
  get in. Just to see your reaction as
• 50:17
  them as an at large. Because then it would prove that
• 50:20
  you've been on the wrong end of this argument, though, no?
• 50:22
  This is just going to set. It's going to set a stupid
• 50:24
  precedent that now all of these mid major teams are not going to
• 50:28
  schedule Power four teams because they're be like, well,
• 50:30
  look what Miami, Ohio did. Let's go schedule Trinity
• 50:33
  Illinois in Milligan, in Mercyhurst in IU East and let's
• 50:36
  just load up on a bunch of wins and then we get in the
• 50:38
  tournament. We don't even have to win our
• 50:39
  conference. So that's the Navy who was a one
• 50:43
  seed. Undefeated so that you have to
• 50:45
  go undefeated. What's what's harder, going
• 50:47
  undefeated in the regular season or winning three games?
• 50:49
  Probably going winning the going undefeated in the regular
• 50:52
  season, I would guess, but it depends on who you're playing.
• 50:54
  That's how you're playing. I mean, so go tell the go.
• 50:57
  So all these one season like Navy and the UNC Wilmington's,
• 51:01
  there were one seeds going into their conference tournaments and
• 51:04
  they get upset. Guess what they're going to do?
• 51:06
  They're going to go load up on Mercyhurst in Eastern Illinois
• 51:09
  State and South Harmon Institute of Technology and they're going
• 51:12
  to start. It's going to become a thing.
• 51:14
  Yeah, it's going to become a thing.
• 51:15
  They're like, this is our ticket to get into the company.
• 51:17
  South Harmon Institute of Technology.
• 51:19
  Are you still going it? Might be.
• 51:24
  But look, this is going to set a precedent.
• 51:25
  Other teams are going to see this blueprint of how we get
• 51:28
  into the tournament without having to actually win our
• 51:30
  conference tournament. And that's what they're going to
• 51:32
  do. They're not going to challenge
• 51:34
  themselves. They're going to load up.
• 51:35
  They're going to be 3030 and 2:31 and 1:00 and then they're
• 51:40
  just going to get in there, just going to get rewarded for crap.
• 51:43
  It So on that note, right now, will there be an undefeated team
• 51:52
  next year? This is the season going.
• 51:55
  Into the conference tournament. Yes, what do you?
• 51:58
  Want. What do you want to bet on that
• 51:59
  I? Don't know, not allowed to
• 52:01
  gamble on sports so nothing a hand.
• 52:03
  You can. We can bet on dinner.
• 52:07
  So I don't think that's allowed, but I'll get not.
• 52:09
  Allowed we can get. Like McDonald's or something?
• 52:13
  I don't think this is an official like bet.
• 52:17
  There's not going to be an undefeated team next year.
• 52:19
  This we've talked about how rare this has happened three times
• 52:24
  since 1985, this late in the year.
• 52:26
  Because teams don't have the 300.
• 52:28
  Now they got the blueprint, now they have the blueprint that you
• 52:31
  just said. So now it's going to happen all
• 52:33
  the time. It's easy to do.
• 52:35
  Now I think they're it's easy. To do now, so now it's going to
• 52:39
  happen every year. Next year, it's going to happen.
• 52:41
  McDonald's on you next year if there's not an undefeated.
• 52:45
  If there is an undefeated team going into conference, play
• 52:48
  conference tournament. Yeah, I'll get you a little
• 52:50
  Mcdouble. Yeah, look.
• 52:53
  Value meal is fine. Well, valuable $5 value meal
• 52:56
  with the chicken Nuggets. It's just some some hot mustard
• 52:59
  sauce. And and no, this is not
• 53:01
  sponsored by McDonald's. We don't have enough followers
• 53:04
  to have a sponsor yet. All.
• 53:05
  Right, Dairy Queen it is Blizzard and double No no
• 53:10
  Blizzards and double cheeseburgers on me if there's
• 53:12
  not an undefeated team next year.
• 53:14
  No, before we switch gears, I think we do need to talk briefly
• 53:21
  about Louisville's running the ACC women's tournament last
• 53:24
  week. Yeah, just look like it was in
• 53:30
  the bag. Yeah.
• 53:33
  And make a few mistakes. K struggle to get some rebounds
• 53:39
  and really a championship that was there to be had
• 53:43
  unfortunately slips through your hands.
• 53:45
  No, they played well. They played really well in the
• 53:47
  three games that they played down there in, in Duluth, GA You
• 53:50
  know, Syracuse, they took care of Syracuse by what was it, 26
• 53:54
  or so in game one. And then Game 2, they beat a
• 53:58
  really tough North Carolina team who was 16th in the country, won
• 54:01
  that game by 5. And you know, you go up against
• 54:04
  the Duke team that you've already lost two once by one
• 54:07
  point at home. That you spotted him a 16 one
• 54:09
  start that. You did spot him an early start,
• 54:11
  you know, a Duke team that was hot, that had won a bunch of
• 54:15
  games in a row there in Midway and late in the season and then.
• 54:20
  No, they've lost a couple at the end of the.
• 54:22
  Year I know yeah, but before I mean they had won like fourteen
• 54:24
  in a row leading up to that like to the toward the end.
• 54:26
  So I mean they played well. Kenley Randolph played
• 54:31
  absolutely fantastic all three all three games was a a first
• 54:34
  team all tournament team. Amari Berry was was fantastic as
• 54:41
  well on offense, shot the ball really well.
• 54:45
  You know, all, all, all in on and you know, like Laura Ziegler
• 54:48
  played well, Taj played well in spurts.
• 54:50
  And then you know, like Reyna, Reyna played well game one and
• 54:54
  two and struggle a little bit in game 3.
• 54:56
  So I mean they all had their moments.
• 54:59
  Unfortunately in the in the last game, there just wasn't quite
• 55:03
  enough moments. But but like you said, they had
• 55:06
  to have, they had the ball up for under a minute, just had a
• 55:10
  caulk, few costly turnovers. And then when I mean rebounding
• 55:13
  is so important and when you can't get a rebound and you give
• 55:16
  up a 5 point, basically a 5 point possession when you're at
• 55:18
  4:00, that's the 10. The 10 second call just changed
• 55:23
  the momentum of the game and gave no like it opened the door,
• 55:26
  it opened the door for other things to happen and
• 55:28
  unfortunately they did. Yeah, it it it did open the door
• 55:32
  for other things to happen. And everything that Duke needed
• 55:35
  to happen, it happened. I mean, they needed everything
• 55:38
  there. Was a list of 10 things that
• 55:39
  that happened when they were up for with less than a minute to
• 55:42
  go, and every single one of them happened and.
• 55:44
  Even when Louisville got down, they came back and took the lead
• 55:46
  and they had, you know, up up one with 14 seconds left.
• 55:51
  You have A1 and A2 shot. You're in the penalty.
• 55:53
  You got two shots and your your most reliable free throw
• 55:56
  shooter. And Amari Berry, who shoots mid
• 55:58
  80s, you know, unfortunately she just made one out of two and you
• 56:01
  know, she makes both of those. You're still looking pretty
• 56:03
  good, so well. They then they maybe come down
• 56:05
  and hit a three. Yeah, you know.
• 56:09
  Proud you talk about you talk about Mac dude, I I didn't know
• 56:12
  if I'd ever see that McKinley Randolph.
• 56:14
  She was unbelievable and almost had a triple double was just
• 56:17
  battling down low the entire game completely undersized.
• 56:21
  And you got to give credit to E too.
• 56:23
  Like E was playing on one leg and and really battled.
• 56:27
  I, I don't know, but a coach of walls press conference after the
• 56:32
  game where he's kind of getting on national media for being
• 56:35
  lazy. I look UCLA is going to be a one
• 56:38
  seat in the tournament 2 years in a row and has one of the best
• 56:40
  players in the country and nobody talks about them.
• 56:43
  So I I agree 100% with what he's saying.
• 56:46
  Like nobody talks about UCLA and Lauren Betts.
• 56:48
  Why? Why?
• 56:49
  It's all focused, it's on, it's just the usual suspects, the
• 56:52
  Yukons and the South Carolina. I mean, it's like it like you
• 56:55
  like made to point out, like they have their minds made-up
• 56:58
  going into the season and that's just the narrative that they
• 57:01
  take and the media takes. And there's other, like you
• 57:04
  said, there's other great stories happening all around in
• 57:06
  women's college basketball that you just don't hear.
• 57:08
  And I say you, you got to have a star to to get the story
• 57:11
  sometimes. But Lauren Betts is a star.
• 57:13
  Yeah. Cheers.
• 57:15
  So, like USC came out of nowhere.
• 57:17
  Yeah. Last year with Juju, but they
• 57:18
  were all over your TV. So I don't know.
• 57:21
  I don't know how it works, but some of these stories are
• 57:25
  getting picked up and they're not.
• 57:26
  But the fact that UCLA is going to be A1C two years in a row and
• 57:28
  nobody talks about them is like, that's what I was I'm thinking
• 57:33
  about when he's going in his and by the the the post game was
• 57:37
  absolutely electric, Absolutely electric.
• 57:43
  Bam out of bio. Did you think that he would be
• 57:45
  the one to break Kobe's record? Not known in a million years.
• 57:49
  No. Wait, what?
• 57:51
  Do you shoot 40 something free throws?
• 57:54
  43 that's 36 to 43 from the line.
• 57:57
  That's an. Absurd amount. 20 of 43 from the
• 58:00
  field, 7 of 22 from the Bam Adebayo shot 22 threes and 4343
• 58:09
  free throws. It's.
• 58:09
  Like they have this game playing where we're just going to give
• 58:12
  the ball to Bam every single possession and he's going to
• 58:14
  shoot all of our. Half and then that becomes that
• 58:17
  yeah, he broke, he broke Lebron's record for most points
• 58:20
  in the first half. So then the second-half becomes
• 58:22
  this. But Kobe, when he did it, yeah,
• 58:29
  he was 18 to 20 from the line. So he had 23 less free throws.
• 58:33
  He was 28 or 46. So we had three more field goal
• 58:36
  attempts. He.
• 58:37
  Was over 50% shooting like Bam was 40 something percent like he
• 58:42
  just took a gazillion shots, took a gazillion free throws
• 58:45
  like isn't it impressive to score 83 points Yes.
• 58:48
  I'm just not impressed with the way how he went about doing it.
• 58:52
  He didn't shoot it. He wasn't like lights out
• 58:54
  shooting. He shot a gazillion free throws.
• 58:57
  Like, I mean, it's almost like it's almost natural that he's
• 59:00
  going to get to 80 points. It's a.
• 59:01
  Record. Record for free throws made and
• 59:03
  free throws attempted, Yeah. Like it's almost naturally going
• 59:05
  to happen. Shot 22 threes.
• 59:07
  The most he had shot prior to that game was 13.
• 59:10
  He did that once. He shoots a lot, way more threes
• 59:15
  than I thought he did. Like he'd shot a lot of threes
• 59:17
  this year because I first saw that box score.
• 59:18
  I'm like Bam shooting 22 threes in a game.
• 59:22
  I think he's he shot double digit threes a couple times this
• 59:25
  year. I don't know that's.
• 59:28
  Not I'm not as impressed with this as I was with Kobe.
• 59:31
  I've. Told you this is the least I've
• 59:33
  watched the NBA maybe in my life and we should.
• 59:39
  I think when Kobe did this, you're running to the TV to see
• 59:43
  it watching the highlights, right?
• 59:46
  I feel like the opposite's happening here because.
• 59:48
  We're not running to the TV to watch him shoot 45 free throws.
• 59:51
  Like, and it almost is kind of like the NBA is kind of
• 59:56
  fraudulent. It makes you not want to watch
• 59:57
  it even more. This was this was kind of a
• 1:00:01
  fraudulent, 80I mean a fraudulent. 83 He was playing a
• 1:00:05
  bad team too, so but he. Shot he shot over 50% from the
• 1:00:10
  feel like he was actually playing like band didn't shoot
• 1:00:13
  it well he didn't even shoot it that well he just took a
• 1:00:16
  gazillion shots and it's just natural that he's going to get
• 1:00:20
  to that amount of points just by the amount of shots he's taking
• 1:00:22
  I don't know I it's 83 is great impressive, but it's not
• 1:00:27
  something I'm going to remember and talk about for the rest of
• 1:00:29
  my life I'm. Going to give you another reason
• 1:00:32
  why like Kobe before he had 81 he was putting up 5060.
• 1:00:39
  Not all the time, but when he did it, it wasn't that big of a
• 1:00:42
  shot also. True.
• 1:00:44
  Do you know what Bam's previous career high was before putting
• 1:00:47
  up 83 last night? 3441 OK.
• 1:00:52
  So he doubled it, doubled it. I don't know, like, yeah, give
• 1:00:59
  him credit, but. I don't really care.
• 1:01:03
  I I really don't either and I don't know, like I don't know
• 1:01:09
  why. I'm just not into the NBA at
• 1:01:11
  all. Right question.
• 1:01:12
  I don't know. I'm not either.
• 1:01:13
  I mean I, I mean, I would be if the Pacers were good.
• 1:01:16
  Probably the same for you. Both were good.
• 1:01:18
  Right. And they suck.
• 1:01:19
  They both suck and the Bulls traded away the whole team and
• 1:01:24
  and I have not watched a game since then because why would I?
• 1:01:28
  But I. Mean then you got the Pistons
• 1:01:31
  are the best team in the league and I'm not tuning in to watch
• 1:01:33
  the Pistons play the Hornets on a Tuesday night.
• 1:01:36
  No. Play Yeah.
• 1:01:39
  No, I'll, I'll watch the playoffs in the games and then
• 1:01:42
  yeah, I don't know if I'm interested in the series.
• 1:01:45
  I might watch the whole thing, yeah.
• 1:01:46
  No, I'm with you. It's.
• 1:01:48
  Kind of where I am right now, yeah.
• 1:01:51
  World Baseball Classic is going on, too.
• 1:01:56
  USA wins their first three games and then they get Italy.
• 1:02:01
  Last night, Mark Gross is on MLBTV saying how they were
• 1:02:05
  already clinched in interview to MLB has since pulled it.
• 1:02:10
  They they don't. You can't watch that interview
• 1:02:12
  anymore because he said he misspoke.
• 1:02:15
  Yeah, but. Clearly they didn't know the
• 1:02:18
  rules because you don't say that, hey, we've we've already
• 1:02:22
  clinched and then sit through your your big bats and then get
• 1:02:27
  beat. He's heading to spoke.
• 1:02:30
  But going into the night, they needed Italy to win, which they
• 1:02:34
  are were up earlier and are going to win because they've
• 1:02:36
  already scored more than six runs and they needed Mexico to
• 1:02:39
  win or score more than 5. Yeah, Mexico to win and score
• 1:02:42
  more than yeah, four or five. They're going to get in They're.
• 1:02:45
  Now guaranteed to get in, but they'll get a two seed and then
• 1:02:49
  how? Inexcusable.
• 1:02:51
  Is it for your manager to not know the tie?
• 1:02:54
  Break No, you need to know the tie breaking rules.
• 1:02:56
  It's it's it's not a good look, but this thing happens once
• 1:02:59
  every four years. It's not like it's a common
• 1:03:01
  thing. It's the.
• 1:03:01
  One thing you're they like, you're a manager somewhere else.
• 1:03:04
  You're a TV studio guy. That's true.
• 1:03:06
  Right. Go make sure you know the
• 1:03:08
  tiebreaker rules you need. To know the rules and.
• 1:03:10
  You're on TV every single day. This is not something that
• 1:03:13
  you're not accustomed to doing, no.
• 1:03:15
  You need to know the rules and. Then you say you misspoke and
• 1:03:18
  look, he's a Braves guy, but just admit that you screwed up
• 1:03:22
  because you didn't misspoke. That's not something you can
• 1:03:25
  misspoke. Misspeak.
• 1:03:27
  No, I'm saying misspoke because he said he misspoke.
• 1:03:31
  But that's not something you can like, you knew what you were
• 1:03:34
  saying, you got it wrong, and then you got beat by Italy and
• 1:03:40
  then you had to wait and see what was going to happen.
• 1:03:41
  And luckily they're still going to be alive.
• 1:03:43
  But it's pretty damn inexcusable.
• 1:03:48
  No, I agree with you. I mean, you imagine if this
• 1:03:51
  team, if this team did advance. Look, let's say that Mexico
• 1:03:56
  won't beat Italy tonight, 3 to 1, and the Americans don't
• 1:04:00
  advance because of this. Yeah, then you won your first
• 1:04:04
  three games. After you've won them, won them
• 1:04:06
  pretty handily. Yeah, after you won your first
• 1:04:09
  three games and maybe some like the tiebreaker rules in this
• 1:04:13
  World Baseball Classic maybe need to be changed.
• 1:04:16
  Like I think a head to head should matter and then I don't,
• 1:04:21
  I don't know when. It's head to head and you've
• 1:04:23
  three teams are tied and you've all beaten each other.
• 1:04:26
  I mean they used to do run differential and so Canada
• 1:04:29
  started bunting up to like 8 against.
• 1:04:33
  Forgot who they're playing like Panama or something they and
• 1:04:36
  like they're up 8 in late innings and they're bunting for
• 1:04:38
  base hits because they need to score more runs and then it hits
• 1:04:40
  A brawl ensued after that. I don't know if you remember
• 1:04:43
  that, but that pop and the. House runs allowed, right?
• 1:04:46
  Do what? Least runs allowed.
• 1:04:48
  Yes, yes, I believe that's what it is now, yes, instead of run
• 1:04:52
  differential is a yes, least runs allowed.
• 1:04:55
  So they changed it after the brawl happened between Canada
• 1:04:57
  and I don't know if it was like Puerto Rico or somebody, I
• 1:05:01
  forgot who it was, but. How much are you into this
• 1:05:04
  thing? I love it.
• 1:05:07
  I mean, I'm watching the US names.
• 1:05:09
  Quarterfinals will start here in the next day or so.
• 1:05:12
  No, I'm I'm all in on it. Does it?
• 1:05:15
  Is it the same level? Olympic hockey a little below
• 1:05:17
  that. It's not as important, I think,
• 1:05:20
  as the Olympics, but yeah, I mean, it's close.
• 1:05:24
  It's close. I, I will say like the, the team
• 1:05:27
  is pretty cool. Like all the guys that are,
• 1:05:30
  they're all a little older. Basically All Star team.
• 1:05:32
  They're all All Star teams. They may actually care.
• 1:05:35
  It's not like an All Star game where you don't care like these
• 1:05:37
  these guys are. They're trying their ass off
• 1:05:39
  like they want to win this thing.
• 1:05:41
  I'm not going to lie, after they wrote 30, I kind of assumed they
• 1:05:43
  were through. So I didn't even watch last
• 1:05:45
  night. And then like they're three and
• 1:05:48
  oh, like, how are they not going to get in?
• 1:05:50
  And then I see that I see they're getting beat at the end
• 1:05:52
  and I turn it on and, and then all this kind of breaks this
• 1:05:56
  morning, but. No, it's cool.
• 1:05:57
  Like like it's a team, like it's team full of All Stars on almost
• 1:06:00
  every level. Like if you watch the crowds
• 1:06:02
  that are in, you know, like in the Dominican and in Japan, like
• 1:06:05
  they're all going nuts. There's a lot of countries that
• 1:06:10
  love baseball and their fans are just crazy about it.
• 1:06:13
  And just to see, just to see that like on this stage is is
• 1:06:16
  pretty cool. And they have two walk offs on
• 1:06:19
  Saturday night when they're never been a walk off before.
• 1:06:21
  Yeah, was was cool too. And then we saw the one in in
• 1:06:24
  Puerto Rico live while we were at the at the bar in Atlanta.
• 1:06:28
  Was just an awesome scene. Everybody's going nuts.
• 1:06:30
  So yeah, I get it, I get it and it'll be fun once the
• 1:06:33
  quarterfinals hit and it's when I go home.
• 1:06:35
  At this point you ain't got to worry about tie Breakers
• 1:06:37
  anymore. I.
• 1:06:38
  Hope you get to play port. Give me Puerto Rico and and
• 1:06:41
  somewhere in this tournament so I can send Yadi and Molina home.
• 1:06:43
  And so this weekend, in addition to having all these conference
• 1:06:47
  tournaments, all this hoops, yeah, we also get the fifth
• 1:06:51
  major, the players. So we we talk all the time about
• 1:06:57
  what's what is some of the better weekends in sports.
• 1:07:01
  I'll this is this is one of the the best ones of the year.
• 1:07:06
  Conference tournament, championship weekend players.
• 1:07:09
  Yeah. World Baseball Classic going on.
• 1:07:13
  I would agree. I would agree.
• 1:07:14
  Who you got? Who you got?
• 1:07:17
  Who do I think's going to win? I I think Scotty's streak will
• 1:07:21
  come to an end and he'll get his third mate that is good players.
• 1:07:24
  I was going to say that I agree. That was my pick.
• 1:07:28
  I mean, I would, I bet it no, because his number's so low.
• 1:07:31
  But dude, I, I need Rick to make a, a move.
• 1:07:38
  Top 9 gets him into the Masters. He finished ninth last week at
• 1:07:44
  Arnold Palmer and he's getting, he's getting close, playing,
• 1:07:47
  playing well. He's going, did you say top 9 or
• 1:07:51
  top 10? Top nine, top ten, I think top
• 1:07:56
  ten solo will get him in. Todd for 10th will be right
• 1:07:58
  there. He's won there before.
• 1:08:02
  He's playing, He's playing good golf.
• 1:08:05
  Lot of pressure. Lot of pressure on Rick this
• 1:08:06
  weekend. That would be does it?
• 1:08:09
  I like Rick. And then so they're talking
• 1:08:12
  about PG, the The Players Championship potentially going
• 1:08:17
  to match play instead of this 7050 thirty where it cuts off
• 1:08:22
  and then Fleetwood wins last year when they didn't start with
• 1:08:25
  any advantage. Now they're talking about maybe
• 1:08:28
  actually going to match play. Would would you like that?
• 1:08:31
  Yeah, I mean, I I would keep the format for the the first couple
• 1:08:34
  rounds where, you know, you weed out the players.
• 1:08:37
  But when you get to that, the the torch champion final round,
• 1:08:39
  the final round when it's 3030 people or you can make it 32
• 1:08:43
  just to make it even like so you got 16 on each side of the
• 1:08:48
  bracket. Well, I wouldn't do.
• 1:08:50
  I would give some of the higher seed guys buys, yeah.
• 1:08:55
  Yeah, no, I I would agree with that.
• 1:08:57
  I love like, yeah, I think that's that is an awesome way to
• 1:09:00
  do, to do a Tour, Tour Championship.
• 1:09:03
  Like people be tuned, tuned in on a Sunday, watching Scotty and
• 1:09:06
  Rory battle it out one-on-one for $20 million or whatever the
• 1:09:10
  prize is in the Tour Championship.
• 1:09:12
  That would be phenomenal. And look and look with top 30,
• 1:09:16
  you know, you got all good guys because they're concerned with
• 1:09:19
  match play is you're going to get 2 no names in the final that
• 1:09:22
  nobody knows. Like that's not going to happen
• 1:09:24
  here. And look.
• 1:09:26
  And if you give like I would give like your top 4 or
• 1:09:29
  whatever, maybe a double buy and try to figure that out to where
• 1:09:33
  they're advancing to automatically be, you know, at
• 1:09:35
  least in the quarter or the route, like I would say probably
• 1:09:39
  to the quarters. But I love this idea and look,
• 1:09:44
  the the having the jump start two years ago I thought was too
• 1:09:47
  much. It was kind of stupid.
• 1:09:48
  And then last year without having nothing at all where
• 1:09:50
  you're just straight up playing and 30th place has the same
• 1:09:53
  advantage as the first place guy made no sense.
• 1:09:56
  So we we talked about this idea in the past.
• 1:09:59
  I. Think we have talked about this
• 1:10:00
  match play, yeah. So I I think it would be huge if
• 1:10:05
  they did it. I think it could be great for TV
• 1:10:07
  and everybody's filling out their brackets like they are
• 1:10:10
  March Madness. Dude, yeah, like.
• 1:10:12
  How fun would that be that? Is cool.
• 1:10:14
  I like the idea, yeah. Before we jump off, you want to
• 1:10:18
  do this? What would Joe do?
• 1:10:20
  Yeah, really like theme song for it though.
• 1:10:23
  Yeah, well, I, I don't, I don't have that yet.
• 1:10:25
  Well, I got to write something. So Joe, a lot of times, Joe
• 1:10:30
  Ziegler, a lot of times it when we're out, he'll come up with
• 1:10:34
  these crazy scenarios and you got to pick one or the other.
• 1:10:41
  The one that he sent us tonight, you have to give up one of these
• 1:10:45
  forever. Would it be your car or your
• 1:10:52
  phone Forever to? This.
• 1:10:54
  To me this is an easy choice. Why is it easy do?
• 1:10:57
  You think it's an easy choice? I have an obvious answer and I
• 1:11:01
  don't know if you do or not, do you?
• 1:11:02
  Do you think you have an obvious answer?
• 1:11:04
  I think the answer is pretty obvious.
• 1:11:07
  Yes, you're. Giving up your phone, right?
• 1:11:09
  No. Oh man, no.
• 1:11:11
  You give up the phone. You have to give up the phone,
• 1:11:14
  and here's why. OK.
• 1:11:16
  I'm kind of happy you said this because I wasn't expecting that.
• 1:11:18
  What? Do you use your phone for?
• 1:11:21
  Everything. Talk to people, look up like
• 1:11:24
  you, You're on your phone, browsing the Internet and all
• 1:11:26
  that. Well.
• 1:11:26
  You just you're going to use your computer for everything.
• 1:11:28
  Yes, absolutely. You can FaceTime on your
• 1:11:31
  computer. You can get on the Internet all
• 1:11:33
  all the information you need. You can get on the computer for
• 1:11:36
  you can also watch the news on TV.
• 1:11:38
  Whatever you want to do there, you know, pick up the ladder,
• 1:11:41
  the weather, the sports, a lot is on your TV.
• 1:11:43
  It's on your computer. You can text on your computer.
• 1:11:47
  You can call on your computer. Why are you giving up your car,
• 1:11:50
  your car? I'm not going to be straight at
• 1:11:52
  some. I'm not going to rely on
• 1:11:53
  somebody else for me to get to point A, to point BI want to go
• 1:11:57
  somewhere when I want to go. That's why I need my car.
• 1:12:00
  I'm not taking a transfer, a scheduled bus.
• 1:12:03
  I'm not calling up Nick Evans like, hey buddy, can you give me
• 1:12:05
  a ride to work? No, can't do it.
• 1:12:07
  Car is way way more important than a phone.
• 1:12:12
  I see what you're saying. And yeah, I did think about the
• 1:12:14
  fact that you could just use your computer for everything.
• 1:12:16
  I mean, when you're going for runs, you're not going to put
• 1:12:19
  your laptop in your pipe pocket and listen to listen to tunes.
• 1:12:23
  No, you put your CD player iPod. Oh, you coming back to go to?
• 1:12:27
  The iPod? Yeah, the iPods.
• 1:12:28
  Remember the iPods? Here's my thing with the.
• 1:12:30
  Car. Here's my thing with the car
• 1:12:32
  Like there's Uber. Like I can call Uber whenever I
• 1:12:37
  need a ride, hey. You're going to place $30 every
• 1:12:39
  time you want to go somewhere. Well I don't have a car payment
• 1:12:41
  or insurance so and also I go to the bar.
• 1:12:47
  I can drink as much as I want and not worry about it because I
• 1:12:50
  don't even have a car to ever worry about driving.
• 1:12:54
  So you got Uber even from what you're going to rely on somebody
• 1:12:57
  else to get you from point A to point BI?
• 1:12:59
  Got my. Phone.
• 1:13:00
  You don't need to do things on your time.
• 1:13:04
  If you're prepared you can schedule Ubers now.
• 1:13:10
  If you got a work commute then it's going to get a little, then
• 1:13:13
  that could get expensive. So hold on.
• 1:13:16
  So let's say let's say Nick Evans is out the bar.
• 1:13:19
  You out the bar, you find this fine, nice, attractive female at
• 1:13:24
  the bar. You, you hit it off, you know,
• 1:13:27
  and you're like, hey, let's, let's go on a date.
• 1:13:30
  She's like, OK, let's go out to dinner.
• 1:13:33
  All right? She said to you what time you
• 1:13:35
  going to pick me up? That's the easy answer, Yeah.
• 1:13:40
  How hot is she? I.
• 1:13:42
  Mean let's put her in an 8. I don't know.
• 1:13:47
  Do we we rolling up like Lloyd Christmas in that limo in the
• 1:13:50
  front of the in the front of the yard.
• 1:13:53
  It's easy. No bro, I just upgraded.
• 1:13:56
  I just upgraded. She's going.
• 1:13:57
  To think you're cheesy, can't be doing that.
• 1:13:59
  Why? No, that's the way I that's the
• 1:14:01
  way I travel everywhere, baby. OK, so then let's say.
• 1:14:04
  So then let's say the first date goes well, you taking the limo
• 1:14:07
  and all that. Let's go on the second date.
• 1:14:09
  You're going to keep rolling up in limos every time.
• 1:14:12
  Every time you're rolling limos. Yes.
• 1:14:17
  Don't know about that. I don't know about that you're.
• 1:14:21
  You're you're driving along, you fall off the side of the road,
• 1:14:26
  spit around 3 times. What?
• 1:14:30
  You don't have your phone. You don't, you don't have your
• 1:14:32
  laptop. How are you going to call
• 1:14:33
  somebody and let them know where the hell you are?
• 1:14:36
  Well. If I fell off the road and spun
• 1:14:37
  over three times, I don't. Know be in.
• 1:14:39
  The condition to call. You're still alive.
• 1:14:42
  Can't. You just hit the OnStar button,
• 1:14:44
  you're stranded. You hit the OnStar button on
• 1:14:46
  your. I'd get a car with OnStar.
• 1:14:50
  What? If the car so severely damaged,
• 1:14:51
  OnStar doesn't work. I would hope there would be
• 1:14:54
  other passer buyers that would see me roll off this Cliff and
• 1:14:58
  would, you know, maybe call on my behalf.
• 1:15:00
  It's not as clear cut it is. So clear cut.
• 1:15:02
  It is so clear cut. I I'm stunned that you went the
• 1:15:05
  other are you? Listening to tunes in your car.
• 1:15:07
  Huh. How?
• 1:15:08
  You listening to tunes in your car, you going to go back and.
• 1:15:10
  Get the CD player radio. Yeah, CDs, radio like.
• 1:15:14
  Can't listen to whatever you want?
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  Yes. You came, you don't remember.
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  Do you not remember iPod iPods? Will you bring the iPod back?
• 1:15:21
  Yeah, you just plug it into your.
• 1:15:23
  You still have. An iPod and you still get them.
• 1:15:25
  Yeah, I'm sure you can. Hold on.
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  I can tell you right now. Let's look.
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  I'll bet you can order an iPod. Hey, you just download the music
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  you want from your computer. You plug in your iPod.
• 1:15:36
  You can take your iPod on a run. Yeah, at Walmart you can get one
• 1:15:39
  for $18.57. Really 3.
• 1:15:43
  Player Yeah, you. Spend like 300 bucks.
• 1:15:46
  Yeah you can still get iPods 71 dollars new and sealed on eBay.
• 1:15:52
  See I thought about this too. Can can you have like a mini
• 1:15:55
  iPad? Are you allowed to have that or
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  does that count as a phone I? Don't even know what a mini iPad
• 1:15:59
  is. Like it's just smaller iPad.
• 1:16:02
  Is that phone? I think it's, yeah, it's pretty
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  much the same technology. So I would say no, you can't
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  have an iPad either. OK.
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  Don't you? I mean.
• 1:16:12
  You got to be able to have a computer but.
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  I just, I would rather take the car.
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  I can get where I want to go. Like if I'm just at my house and
• 1:16:19
  I'm like, I'm kind of hungry. I want to go get my double
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  cheeseburger in a Blizzard from Dairy Queen.
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  I don't want to have to wait 45 minutes for an Uber to take me.
• 1:16:28
  Well, you wouldn't do that. You would have the Uber bring
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  the food to you. You wouldn't.
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  You wouldn't. You wouldn't get in the Uber,
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  say take me to McDonald's and then take me back.
• 1:16:37
  I don't know if I'm Uber, I don't know if I'm going to Uber
• 1:16:39
  eats a Blizzard though, and it's all melted by the time it gets
• 1:16:41
  to well if you. Don't have a car?
• 1:16:43
  You don't have a choice. Like the only time I use what
• 1:16:45
  I'm. Saying I have a choice by
• 1:16:46
  keeping my car. I'm the only.
• 1:16:48
  Time I really ever use any kind of food service like that is
• 1:16:51
  when I'm on the road travelling. I don't have a car all.
• 1:16:54
  Right, Do me a favour, I will stress this out.
• 1:16:57
  I want this summer at some point, like one week this summer
• 1:17:01
  I want you to not use your car for a week.
• 1:17:03
  Well then you don't use your phone for a week.
• 1:17:07
  The hell. Like how am I the only one
• 1:17:08
  suffering? We'll do it the same week.
• 1:17:11
  We'll do it the same week. We should probably put that to
• 1:17:15
  the test. What we need to put this to the
• 1:17:19
  listeners, see what they say. That's why that's why I think
• 1:17:21
  this is a good segment, OK? And also I wanted to pick
• 1:17:25
  different than you. So yeah.
• 1:17:29
  So I'm, I'm, I'm keeping, I'm keeping the phone.
• 1:17:32
  What else you got? Nada Selection Sunday coming up?
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  And but we're not going to be able to do the show on Sunday
• 1:17:42
  because. We're working.
• 1:17:45
  So we'll have to do it on Monday.
• 1:17:49
  Will Indiana get in? Will Auburn get in?
• 1:17:54
  Yes. Will Miami Hollow get in, I
• 1:17:58
  mean. Will they get in?
• 1:17:59
  Yes. Should they get in?
• 1:18:00
  No. Committee's too scared.
• 1:18:02
  The committee's too scared to leave them out.
• 1:18:04
  Oh. You're saying you do think they
• 1:18:05
  will get in even if they lose? Yeah, because it could.
• 1:18:08
  The committee's good is too scared to leave them out.
• 1:18:10
  They don't. They don't have the the cojones
• 1:18:13
  to leave them out. Well, it's because they're
• 1:18:17
  undefeated and one of three teams that would be 30, you
• 1:18:20
  know, so. A nine year old YMCA basketball
• 1:18:24
  team would be 30, you know, on a schedule.
• 1:18:25
  I can't wait till every single year where teams are going
• 1:18:29
  undefeated because their schedules are so trash.
• 1:18:32
  Just don't say I didn't tell you so.
• 1:18:35
  Will the Bengals make any more moves this week?
• 1:18:37
  Yes. Any noteworthy moves?
• 1:18:39
  No. I agree with that.
• 1:18:44
  Well go I guess. The kids are asleep now, so you
• 1:18:47
  can't teach them any more words. The the test is until Friday.
• 1:18:51
  They have another day to prepare.
• 1:18:54
  Well, I think that's about all I got.
• 1:18:58
  All right. So reminder, subscribe to the
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• 1:19:10
  for the 66 nil. I am the 410, Nick.
• 1:19:15
  We'll talk to you next week after the selection show.
• 1:19:21
  Give it to. Me, can I have a landline phone?
• 1:19:27
  Does that count? Was it like phones in general or
• 1:19:29
  just cell phone? I don't think.
• 1:19:30
  You can have a landline. What about a?
• 1:19:31
  Pager it's. A phone.
• 1:19:32
  What about a pager? It's a well, I don't know how
• 1:19:36
  what how a pager would do you any good.
• 1:19:38
  You can't call anybody once they page you.
• 1:19:41
  No, but like you could page me like score, I think you.
• 1:19:44
  Have a pager you. Page me like a score update or
• 1:19:47
  like. You.
• 1:19:50
  Could have pager 911 if there's like an alert.
• 1:19:52
  Sort of phone.