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Hour 3 - Tip of the Spear · The Ben Maller Show

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  Speaker 1: Ah, Yes, what's going on? Hope? Everything is going outstanding
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  Speaker 1: for you? Having some fun tonight with the militia. Just
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  Speaker 1: talk to Holler and James. He has all sorts of
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  Speaker 1: fired up for the Vikings upcoming season. I love that passion.
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  Speaker 1: Love it. Feel free to hit us up eight seven
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  Speaker 1: to seven ninety nine on Fox. It's how you can participate.
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  Speaker 1: Also on X at the No Show. If you want
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  Speaker 1: to tweet in, feel free to do so. So every
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  Speaker 1: single year, I rack my brain trying to figure out
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  Speaker 1: what the biggest curveball will be, What will be the
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  Speaker 1: biggest surprise in the NFL season, What team is going
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  Speaker 1: to shock us the most good or bad. Last season,
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  Speaker 1: biggest curveball easily was the Washington Commanders. They had won
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  Speaker 1: four games the season prior. They won twelve games last
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  Speaker 1: season like they tripled their win total and they made
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  Speaker 1: it all way to the NFC Championship Game. Nobody was
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  Speaker 1: saying after a four win season, Hey, this guy Jayden Daniels,
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  Speaker 1: he might be the real deal. I'm gonna give him
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  Speaker 1: triple the wins and say they're in the NFC Title Game.
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  Speaker 1: That's what I'm Nobody predicted that, and it happened. It happened.
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  Speaker 1: So that's the thought. Whether it's a team that's expected
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  Speaker 1: to to do a lot this year and just completely
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  Speaker 1: falls off, or it's a team like the Washington Commanders
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  Speaker 1: not expect expected to do much and they had a
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  Speaker 1: great season made it deep into the playoffs. So to me,
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  Speaker 1: this is just an exercise. We're kind of just throwing
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  Speaker 1: stuff against the wall. And while I'll start with the
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  Speaker 1: teams with high expectations, these are really good teams from
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  Speaker 1: last season. They project to be really good teams this season.
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  Speaker 1: But if this or that happens, and then maybe they
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  Speaker 1: get off on the wrong foot and they're pressing a
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  Speaker 1: little bit, maybe it unfolds. It don't ravels for them. Right,
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  Speaker 1: So I don't believe put let's put it this way,
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  Speaker 1: I wouldn't race to the betting window to fade all
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  Speaker 1: of these teams. I'm just saying, open your mind to
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  Speaker 1: the possibility. This is a really good exercise. If you're
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  Speaker 1: just handicapping a game you're trying to figure out, just
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  Speaker 1: open your mind up to the underdog's path toward winning
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  Speaker 1: this game or covering the spread. Does it sound halfway realistic?
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  Speaker 1: You know, it's something to consider. Okay, so let's start
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  Speaker 1: with some of the good teams. Let's start with the
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  Speaker 1: defending champs, the Eagles. What would it take for the
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  Speaker 1: Eagles to regress greatly to the point where they're the
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  Speaker 1: biggest surprise of the NFL season. Well, it would take
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  Speaker 1: a couple of things that are realistic. One, it would
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  Speaker 1: take a loss of a lot of talent. The Eagles
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  Speaker 1: lost a lot of talent in the off season. They
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  Speaker 1: had a lot of contributors go elsewhere. Right when you
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  Speaker 1: start looking at you know, the and the roster is
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  Speaker 1: still really, really good. So they reloaded in a few areas.
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  Speaker 1: But when you lose your pass rush, you lose your
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  Speaker 1: defensive line. Williams, Milton Williams is gone, Sweat is gone,
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  Speaker 1: you know, Darius Slay a little bit long in the tooth.
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  Speaker 1: That's not a crippling loss. You lose Makai Beckton, he
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  Speaker 1: was good on that offensive line. Right, So, just collectively,
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  Speaker 1: the amount of losses could add up and it could
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  Speaker 1: make an impact. Okay. Also, Saquon Barkley, the guy had
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  Speaker 1: four hundred and thirty six touches last season. It's a
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  Speaker 1: lot of wear and tear. What if Saquon Barkley is
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  Speaker 1: a much lesser version of himself this season certainly possible.
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  Speaker 1: I mean even if he if he rushes for or
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  Speaker 1: let's say, fourteen hundred yards, that's six hundred yards less
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  Speaker 1: than what he rushed for last season. That's a big difference.
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  Speaker 1: That's a chunk of production right there. In rushing for
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  Speaker 1: fourteen hundred That's still a really good season. So what
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  Speaker 1: if Saquon takes a noticeable step back? Now all of
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  Speaker 1: a sudden, there's a little bit more on Jalen Hurts plate.
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  Speaker 1: You know, you need Hurts to throw for what somewhere
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  Speaker 1: in the neighborhood at thirty touchdowns? Is that gonna happen? No,
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  Speaker 1: it is not right. So that would be the formula
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  Speaker 1: to me the Eagles high expectations defending champs. Maybe the
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  Speaker 1: formula isn't quite the same for success. I could see
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  Speaker 1: at least a path for them to be a big disappointment.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not calling my shot again, but I could see
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  Speaker 1: a path toward that. Let's throw a couple of other
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  Speaker 1: possibilities out there. What about the possibilities of the Lions
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  Speaker 1: being a huge disappointment. Well, it would start with a
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  Speaker 1: couple of things. One, their schedule is freaking brutal. Their
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  Speaker 1: schedule is obnoxiously difficult.
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  Speaker 2: Man.
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  Speaker 1: Have you looked at just their road schedule alone, My gosh,
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  Speaker 1: it'll give you nightmares. Don't look at it for more
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  Speaker 1: than one minute, you know, I'll give you, like, you know,
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  Speaker 1: sweating in the middle of the night nightmares. Here's just
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  Speaker 1: their road schedule. No layup, matchup, no like, Oh they
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  Speaker 1: should get that one. At the Packers at the Ravens
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  Speaker 1: on Monday night, at the Bengals, at the Chiefs on
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  Speaker 1: a Sunday night, at the Commander's, at the Eagles on
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  Speaker 1: a Sunday night, at the Rams, at the Vikings on Saturday.
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  Speaker 1: All right, maybe it's maybe it's sun I don't know
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  Speaker 1: what that is. Maybe it's Christmas Day. I'm not sure
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  Speaker 1: what's going on there. That's a that's a brutal schedule.
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  Speaker 1: It is Christmas Day. They're at the Vikings. Every road
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  Speaker 1: game is a demanding test. And so if the Lions
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  Speaker 1: they have this hard schedule, maybe the injury like isn't
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  Speaker 1: as bad, but it's still pretty difficult to deal with
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  Speaker 1: throughout the season. They won fifteen games last year and
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  Speaker 1: their season win total, interesting enough, is much lower. It's
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  Speaker 1: at ten and a half. It's pretty low for a
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  Speaker 1: fifteen win team from the season prior. And it's actually,
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  Speaker 1: if you're taking the over ten and a half, it's
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  Speaker 1: plus money. It's plus one ten So the Jews the
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  Speaker 1: taxes on the under, it's minus one thirty five to
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  Speaker 1: the under of ten and a half. So that's interesting
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  Speaker 1: right there from a betting perspective, right, Like, sometimes these
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  Speaker 1: betting lines will give you a little bit of a
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  Speaker 1: clue of what's to happen. That doesn't showcase great faith
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  Speaker 1: in the Lions in terms of their season win total number.
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  Speaker 1: And if you're taking over ten and a half you
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  Speaker 1: get plus money. It's like, okay, that that seems a
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  Speaker 1: little bit like a bear trap potentially, you know, Okay,
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  Speaker 1: let's throw a couple other teams out there. What about
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  Speaker 1: the Vikings. I think this is a strong candidate for
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  Speaker 1: a team that could be a huge disappointment this season. Now,
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  Speaker 1: if you look at the Vikings, it begins with JJ
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  Speaker 1: McCarthy the path toward a disappointing season. Right it's a
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  Speaker 1: first year starting quarterback. He hasn't attempted a single regular
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  Speaker 1: season pass in his NFL career. Yet, like, that's that's tough.
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  Speaker 1: They play in a really tough division. You play the
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  Speaker 1: AFC North top to bottom, pretty tough division top to bottom.
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  Speaker 1: Also play the NFC East, that's a that's a decent
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  Speaker 1: division top to bottom as well. I know the Giants
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  Speaker 1: aren't gonna be anything to write home about, but the
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  Speaker 1: Cowboys are talented enough where it's not just gonna be
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  Speaker 1: a layup. And that game's on the road. You just
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  Speaker 1: go to Dallas on a Sunday night and just expect
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  Speaker 1: to waltz through them, win by I don't know, two
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  Speaker 1: or three touchdowns. No, that's gonna be a tough game.
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  Speaker 1: You gotta deal with the Eagles, the Commanders. So it's
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  Speaker 1: a tougher schedule. And remember it's a second place schedule.
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  Speaker 1: It's which can help them this season. But I don't
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  Speaker 1: think they get layups like some second place schedules are
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  Speaker 1: a little bit more favorable. They host the Falcons, they're
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  Speaker 1: at the Chargers on a short week, and they're at
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  Speaker 1: the Seahawks. It's a tough place to play. So I
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  Speaker 1: think it's a tough schedule for the Vikings. And I
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  Speaker 1: also think this I said this last night. I won't
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  Speaker 1: go in depth, but I have to a bit. I'll
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  Speaker 1: stick my at least my right foot in these waters,
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  Speaker 1: you know, and no, not even my lower body, just
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  Speaker 1: right foot in these waters. Not to repeat myself, but
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  Speaker 1: for the Vikings to be potentially the biggest disappointment of
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  Speaker 1: the upcoming NFL season, I just go back to the
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  Speaker 1: expectations for JJ McCarthy. You'll hear all these people say, hey,
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  Speaker 1: we gotta give the guy a little grace. He's a
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  Speaker 1: first year starter. It's almost like with the shoulder shrug, like, hey,
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  Speaker 1: you know, like he's not gonna be a finished product
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  Speaker 1: come week one. Their voice goes up in octavity. We
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  Speaker 1: just gotta be a little patient. It's like, yeah, come
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  Speaker 1: talk to me in week four. If the Vikings get
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  Speaker 1: off to a slow start and McCarthy's not producing much,
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  Speaker 1: maybe he's turning the ball over a little bit, it's sloppy. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: you let me know how much patience exist. Then this
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  Speaker 1: is a team that won fourteen games, that has real
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  Speaker 1: Super Bowl aspirations and they get off to this real
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  Speaker 1: slow start and you think they're gonna be patient. No
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  Speaker 1: chance that will be the case. And that's what I
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  Speaker 1: think is really really difficult for JJ McCarthy. Again, it's
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  Speaker 1: the gift and the curse. The gift is the luxury
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  Speaker 1: of a great supporting cast, got a lot of weapons
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  Speaker 1: around him to throw to. The curse is with those
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  Speaker 1: weapons to throw to bro we're expecting production. We're expecting
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  Speaker 1: wins from the jump, and if we're not getting them,
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  Speaker 1: people are gonna freak out. I don't buy any of
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  Speaker 1: this talk about patience, you know. So it's the epic
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  Speaker 1: line from Ed Norton in American History X Right. It's
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  Speaker 1: a you know, it's a serious movie. It's it's it's
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  Speaker 1: a heavy movie. But there's a great line in it
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  Speaker 1: where it's like there's a lot of hard talk and
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  Speaker 1: not a lot of follow through. That's what it's gonna
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  Speaker 1: be like with the Vikings for any Vikings fan, and
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  Speaker 1: it's like, oh, we gotta be patient over for any
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  Speaker 1: just football fan that's like, yeah, you gotta give him
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  Speaker 1: a little bit of time. It's like, yeah, that's that's
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  Speaker 1: a lot of hard talk and there's not gonna be
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  Speaker 1: a lot of follow through if they get off to
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  Speaker 1: a rough start. I've seen it time and time again.
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  Speaker 1: You have two watching the NFL. It's the best formula
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  Speaker 1: for a huge let down. A team with realistically high
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  Speaker 1: expectations and high goals that gets out of the blocks
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  Speaker 1: a little slowly, they lose a couple of games, and
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  Speaker 1: then what happens. They start pressing, and then it gets
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  Speaker 1: way worse. The Vikings are at least a candidate to
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  Speaker 1: be the biggest curveball team. A lot of people are
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  Speaker 1: high on them. I could see them being a gigantic disappointment.
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  Speaker 1: The same thing is fair the complete other way around.
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  Speaker 1: There are some people that are like, yeah, you know,
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  Speaker 1: they're not saying they're gonna win fifteen games, right, They're
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  Speaker 1: not going crazy with their expectations. And if you look
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  Speaker 1: at the Viking season win total, you have just the
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  Speaker 1: betting market here, they're up to nine and a half.
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  Speaker 1: And again the over is plus money plus one ten.
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  Speaker 1: If you bet one hundred dollars, you would win one
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  Speaker 1: hundred and ten dollars. Typically, Vegas doesn't do you favors
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  Speaker 1: like that, like, hey, you're betting one hundred, here's one
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  Speaker 1: hundred and ten, Like they normally don't do that, Like
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  Speaker 1: you're betting one hundred, here's sixty three dollars and twenty
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  Speaker 1: seven cents. There, you go, enjoy your sixty three bucks
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  Speaker 1: right there, jackass. You'll probably give it back to us tomorrow.
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  Speaker 1: It's the way it typically goes with betting. But you're
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  Speaker 1: getting plus money to the over nine and a half, right,
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  Speaker 1: So not like epic faith in the Vikings from the
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  Speaker 1: betting market. But I will say that I think you'd
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  Speaker 1: make an argument the other way around for the Vikings
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  Speaker 1: to be the biggest surprise curve ball. Let's say JJ McCarthy,
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  Speaker 1: he's really good, the talented kid, top ten pick, he
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  Speaker 1: sat for an entire season. Sometimes that's the formula for
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  Speaker 1: success for a lot of quarterbacks. Let's just say based
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  Speaker 1: on great supporting cast, Kevin O'Connell, really sharp, offensive mind,
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  Speaker 1: he puts his quarterback time and time again in great
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  Speaker 1: positions to succeed. Let's say JJ McCarthy does yet Sam
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  Speaker 1: Darnold revive his career last year? Great success happened for
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  Speaker 1: JJ McCarthy.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Good. So I'll talk out of both sides of my
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  Speaker 1: mouth when it comes to the Vikings. I think that's
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  Speaker 1: probably the only team you could say this for. I
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  Speaker 1: think they're actually a candidate to be the biggest surprise
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  Speaker 1: team in a good way. I think they're a candidate
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  Speaker 1: to be the biggest surprise team in a bad way
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  Speaker 1: and be the biggest disappointment. I think they're live for both.
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  Speaker 1: I'm so interested to see the Vikings this season. But
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  Speaker 1: those are a couple of teams high expectations. What's at
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  Speaker 1: least the path, what's the formula to explain a possible
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  Speaker 1: fallof right? Next hour, we'll get positive here. We'll look
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  Speaker 1: at teams that not high expectations, you know, low season
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  Speaker 1: win totals, but maybe they pull the Washington Commanders. Who
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  Speaker 1: are the teams that are capable of pulling a stunner
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  Speaker 1: where you're like, I cannot believe you fill in the
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  Speaker 1: blank turned out to be the biggest, biggest surprise team
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  Speaker 1: in a good way this season. Who's at least capable
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  Speaker 1: of doing that? We'll do that next hour. Looking forward
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  Speaker 1: to that. I love trying to find the biggest surprise
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  Speaker 1: team in the NFL. All right, coming up next, it's
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  Speaker 1: a bet that our guy Coop should be making, but understandably,
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  Speaker 1: he will absolutely not be making this bet. I'm Brian
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  Speaker 1: Big Ben malor Awesome job by Mary Mack. I love
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  Speaker 1: hanging with you, Mary Mack, because I was just saying
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  Speaker 1: that I I'll flow you back up for a second,
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  Speaker 1: so you're hearing Freedom from Rage in the background right there.
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  Speaker 1: If you're listening to the podcast after the show and
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  Speaker 1: there's no music, they just have to close your eyes
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  Speaker 1: and pretend you know. Tom Morello with the soothing solo right,
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  Speaker 1: there were my favorite Tom Morello solos. But I gave
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  Speaker 1: Mary a heart attack or a bigger headache, one of
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  Speaker 1: the two during the commercial break, because I couldn't remember
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  Speaker 1: what song that solo was in right, and we traced it.
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  Speaker 1: We figured it out. It was Freedom, like this very slow,
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  Speaker 1: like Tom Morello kind of uses his guitar as a turntable,
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  Speaker 1: like he's skipping a record or something like that, so
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  Speaker 1: he's doing all this creative, wild stuff. I love that
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  Speaker 1: solo from Freedom, just this like slow, very melodic moodies.
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  Speaker 1: I love that song.
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  Speaker 6: That's your favorite guitar solo ever?
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  Speaker 1: No, I wouldn't say ever, but it's up, that's on
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  Speaker 1: the short list. I'd say it's on the shortlist. Man,
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  Speaker 1: that's a good question, though, Mary like greatest guitar solo
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  Speaker 1: at least my favorite. Okay, I like this, I like these.
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  Speaker 1: You love these musical categories too. I know you, Mary
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  Speaker 1: Mac you coop think of your I would say a
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  Speaker 1: couple off the top of my head, A new level
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  Speaker 1: from Pantera, Time Back, Darryl rest in Peace, amazing guitar player.
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  Speaker 1: One of my favorite solos he does on that song.
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  Speaker 1: It's amazing, man, what else do I love? I love
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  Speaker 1: Voodoo Child from Jimmy. Jimmy so far ahead of his time,
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  Speaker 1: and uh, that was a great solo on that song.
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  Speaker 1: And what else do I love? Those are a couple
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  Speaker 1: of the top of my head. We did karaoke of
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  Speaker 1: Dittohead a couple of nights ago. But I love the
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  Speaker 1: second solo on Dittohead song from so As I add
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  Speaker 1: to your headache there right there, Mary Mack. But the
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  Speaker 1: second solo, it's got to be Carrie King. He's just
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  Speaker 1: doing a little bit more. He's doing tapping, a little
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  Speaker 1: bit of shredding. Really well done solo on that song.
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  Speaker 1: I like that one a lot. Coop, you got anything
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  Speaker 1: on the short list for your greatest solos at least
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  Speaker 1: that you like the most.
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  Speaker 3: I'd have to put some serious thought into it. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: right off the top of my head. One that came
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  Speaker 3: to mind is like Welcome Home Sanitarium. Okay, I love
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  Speaker 3: that one. Yeah, I'd have to I'd have to put
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  Speaker 3: some put some thought into it.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, like a lot of people love one. There's a
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  Speaker 1: lot of great solo stuff on the song one from
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  Speaker 1: Metallica and he's doing the tapping, the fast tapping at
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  Speaker 1: the beginning of that. There's a lot of solo stuff
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  Speaker 1: throughout this song too, you know, before it gets fast
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  Speaker 1: and all that. Kirk's goot some Kirk Hammett had some
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  Speaker 1: great solos in there, especially in the early days of Metallica,
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  Speaker 1: some really good stuff. And you said something else that
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  Speaker 1: that made me think Koop I had another one, like
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  Speaker 1: right there. You know, I was gonna say Slash from
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  Speaker 1: Guns n' Roses, not metal, but you know, hard rock. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: Slash has some amazing solos, so like to his I
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  Speaker 1: forget the word that they say. It's it's kind of
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  Speaker 1: like the pacing or the cadence if you will. It's
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  Speaker 1: phrasing is what they say in guitar playing, where you
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  Speaker 1: let it breathe a little bit. You don't just throw
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  Speaker 1: a million notes on me, like the whole solo. It's
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  Speaker 1: just too much. You gotta let it breathe a little bit.
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  Speaker 1: Slash was amazing at letting it breathe and you're still getting,
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  Speaker 1: you know, entertainment value out of a solo. It's not
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  Speaker 1: just like he had a great feel for letting it
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  Speaker 1: breathe and really building it. Like November Rain is a
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  Speaker 1: great solo. He's got a lot of great solos. A
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  Speaker 1: Sweet Child of Mine is a great solo. Yeah, there,
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: you got anything on your list there, Mary.
• 19:15
  Speaker 6: It's so fun. I actually just pulled it up. Arabella
• 19:18
  Speaker 6: by Arctic Monkeys is definitely one of my top.
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: There, like Shredding Crazy. He's playing the guitar behind his head,
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: playing it with his teeth, Jimmy style. Sounds like this.
• 19:31
  Speaker 6: Yeah, that's one of my favorites.
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: I'm not impressed at all. I'm kidding. No, it's good.
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: It's you know, it's upbeat melodics. Fine, I dig it.
• 19:41
  Speaker 4: I like that.
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: You love a solo, Mary, That's what I love the most. Yeah,
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: that's good.
• 19:46
  Speaker 6: Definitely. I'm for like guitar solo. It doesn't have to
• 19:49
  Speaker 6: think about it. Bass solos for sure. For sure. Oh
• 19:52
  Speaker 6: Red Hot Chili Peppers and the song is the Adventures
• 19:57
  Speaker 6: of rain Dance McGee.
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: Okay, flea is awesome. The flea gets after it. Absolutely,
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: you would love you. We gotta go old school. I'll
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: give you a recommendation. Mary, if you haven't heard this one,
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: but you gotta hear Cliff Burton's solo bass solo Take one.
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: You gotta hear Anesthesias from the first Metallica record. You
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: gotta hear. If you're a fan of bass solos, I
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: think you would like that one quite a bit. Yeah,
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: I think you would like Anesthesia and then in parentheses
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: pulling teeth because we have to name stuff weird things
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: in metal. I I don't know what two things in metal.
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: A lot of times I don't get the titles. It's like,
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: why do we need to be that fancy whatever? And
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: how obnoxiously bad metal videos have typically been over the years.
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: There are some metal videos that are the worst things
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: I've ever seen in my life. I'm like, who's directing
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: this stuff?
• 20:51
  Speaker 7: Man?
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: When you see a decent metal video, it's sent from
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: the heavens. There are some brutal ones for some great songs.
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: I don't know what they're doing over there, man, but
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: it happens. Okay. Oh, I gotta bet that Coop should
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: be making but he will not be making, and I
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: understand why. So I told Coop off the air, I'm like, bro,
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: we were talking super Bowl odds. I'm not gonna talk
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: about that right here. That was a conversation we had
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: off the air, but it leads into the same team.
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: I was telling him about if you look at the
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: divisional odds in the NFL, it actually the money dropped
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: a little bit. So it was the Chiefs that minus
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: won twenty to win the AFC West. And it didn't
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: drop a lot, but it dropped to minus one eighteen
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: on BETMGM. So if you're betting the Chiefs, if you
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: risk one hundred and eighteen dollars, you would win one
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: hundred dollars. This is a Chiefs team that's won the
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: division nine years in a row. They wanted the first
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: two years without Mahomes, with just Andy Reid there, right,
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: they went in it with Alex and then Mahomes takes
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: over and he's won at seven straight years. They're going
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: for a decade straight winning the AFC West. And there
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: was listen some bad news on on Thursday. So the
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: Chargers left tackle Rashaun Slater. He was carted off the
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: practice field. Turns out he had season ending surgery. He
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: had a ruptured patel attendant. Done for the year, He's
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: gonna undergo surgery. He's placed on ir SIT. The dream
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: is over at least for twenty twenty five. And it's
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: such a bummer for the Chargers for numerous reasons. So
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: he just signed a huge contract extension a week and
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: a half ago. So he signed a four year, one
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: hundred and thirteen million dollar extension, ninety two million dollars guaranteed.
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: That deal made him the highest paid offensive lineman in
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: terms of money per year in NFL history, highest paid guy.
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: And then a week and a half later, boom, knee injury, gone, done,
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: done for the season. Just practice, was blocking a teammate
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: and apparently is his leg buckled a little bit before
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: he made impact. It's just one of those, you know,
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: non impact injuries and he's gone. So what they're gonna
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: have to do. They're probably gonna have to shift Joe
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: Walt from the right side to the left side. He
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: did play left tackle the whole time at Notre Dame.
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: At least he has experience. They're probably gonna have to
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: shift around. They probably have to move Trey Pipkins, who
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: was a guard the last couple of years ago, got
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: to move him back out to right tackle, shift things around.
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: Losing Rashaun Slater is a big, big loss for the
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: Chargers again. They want to pound the rock. We're talking,
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: you know, Jim Harbaugh over here, he loves to run
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: the ball. And when you have you know, Jim Harbaugh
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: and Greg Roman, they're like, oh, you know what game plan,
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: Let's run it. Let's run it. Let's run it some more.
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: All right, we gotta pay all right, we get to
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: run in some more. Like that. They love running the football.
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: I love this quote. This is when they drafted Joe Alt.
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: This is what the twenty four draft so just last year,
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: and instead of drafting Malik Neighbors, who was fantastic for
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: the Giants last season, they didn't draft a wide receiver
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: in the first round. They went for Joe Alt, the
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: tackle out of Notre Dame. And this is what Jim
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: Harbaugh said at the time.
• 24:28
  Speaker 2: I know the question's gonna come up, and you're to say, like,
• 24:30
  Speaker 2: you know, what about a weapon? What about offensive lineman?
• 24:34
  Speaker 2: We look at as weapons that group when we talk
• 24:37
  Speaker 2: about attacking, and we talk about attacking on offense, offensive
• 24:42
  Speaker 2: line is the tip of the spear.
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: What a quote right there?
• 24:45
  Speaker 2: Huh At the end, offensive line is the tip of
• 24:48
  Speaker 2: the spear.
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: Offensive line is the tip of the spear.
• 24:53
  Speaker 4: Let's go.
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: I want to just throw on some shoulder pads right now.
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: I might get knocked around. I don't care. I'm fired up.
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: Jim Harbaugh. I love that quote right there. So yeah,
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: they look at offensive offensive linemen as weapons, one of
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: their best, their best offensive weapon. If that's the way
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: they view it, is down right like they look at
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: that and it begins with the offensive line. Herbert does
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: this thing. Lad McConkey is really good. They have big
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: hopes for Amari and Hampton, really good running back out
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: of North Carolina. But with Rashaun Slater going down, that's
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: a big, big deal. So let's go back to the
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: division odds you've got. The Chargers are at plus three ten,
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: The Broncos are at plus three ten. The Raiders are
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: seventeen to one to win the division. Look, they've made
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: some upgrades. They might be feisty enough to win a
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: couple of division games. They they're not going to really
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: challenge to win the division. So it's really like the
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: Broncos and the Chargers, they're both basically at three to one.
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: Whatever you bet times that by three, that's your payout.
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: The Chiefs are close to even money. The Kansas City
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: Chiefs are at minus one eighteen. That just seems too
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: good to be true. How do you not bet the
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: Chiefs to win the AFC West for a tenth year
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: in a row. How have they fallen off? You've got
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: for Mahomes to throw to. You got Rashi Rice, He's
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: gonna be suspended a few games. We got him, Hollywood Brown,
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: Xavier Worthy, Travis Kelce, top five scoring defense from last season.
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: They're not winning the division? What would it take for
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: that to be the case? I think it would take
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: significant injury woes for the Chiefs not to win the division.
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: And I don't want to make it sound like, you know,
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: all these other teams have no chance. It's the NFL.
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: I don't want to make it sound like that, but man,
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: the Broncos taking that big of a step forward to
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: win the division. I know that we like have PTSD
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: from the Chiefs getting blown out by the Eagles in
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: the Super Bowl. And there are a lot of people
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: are like, yeah, no about the Chiefs. They were a
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: fifteen and two team last season. And you can talk about, hey,
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: a favorable bounce here, a lucky win there. Okay, you
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: take away a couple of wins like they're thirteen and four,
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: there's still a thirteen win team. If you take away
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: a couple of favorable wins. They're still incredibly good at
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: what they do. I love the Chiefs to win their
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: division again. Have I convinced you to put some money
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: on the Chiefs in the AFC West coop? I'm guessing
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: I probably haven't. Hell No, is that more based on
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: principle or logic? Both both? I think it's more based
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: on principle. I get it. You're Broncos guy. You want
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: to run to the betting window and bet the Chiefs.
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: No problem with that, But that's based on principle. That's
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: not based on line. What logical what? What logical argument
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: do you have to back someone other than the Chiefs?
• 28:08
  Speaker 3: Broncos should have beat him twice last year?
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: And how many times did they beat him?
• 28:12
  Speaker 3: Once?
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: Did get him at the end? When? Who was it?
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: Like Jake Locker's brother was playing quarterback at the end
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: of the year. That was the the game they didn't
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: play anybody, right, Yeah, but the game the first game
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: that was hideous. I mean, you're on the road, gotta
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: make a I think they were at home. The close
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: field goal was that at home? That was on the road, right,
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: that was in arrowhead. That was an arrowhead. You got
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: a makeable field goal blocked, right, Yeah, they blocked it. Yep, Yep,
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: it happens, It happens. Hey, we while we're talking about betting,
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: let's get Poppy on here right from San Diego. Poppy's
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: got some bets for us. What's going on, Poppy?
• 28:56
  Speaker 7: Hey, you know, welcome to the family. Yeah, I just
• 29:01
  Speaker 7: I heard you talking about bets, and I have bets
• 29:03
  Speaker 7: for tomorrow. And look, get the vision. Let me go
• 29:06
  Speaker 7: before I get the picked out. AFC West is a
• 29:08
  Speaker 7: tough division, but look, you're saying the Chiefs are gonna
• 29:11
  Speaker 7: win it ten times in a row, like sooner or later,
• 29:15
  Speaker 7: someone's got a bet on. Man, the odds with the
• 29:17
  Speaker 7: Chargers and the Broncos is looking pretty good. You know,
• 29:20
  Speaker 7: John Harvall saying that the ship under load. Hey, next
• 29:24
  Speaker 7: man off for the offensive line. So you've got Justin
• 29:26
  Speaker 7: Herbert and they look pretty good. And the Broncos they
• 29:29
  Speaker 7: looked amazing, Like three of the AFC West made the
• 29:32
  Speaker 7: playoffs and coops teams the Broncos at Bucks, he looked amazing.
• 29:37
  Speaker 7: But this rookie year good Kennedy top five quarterback in
• 29:42
  Speaker 7: my opinion on the rookies, that he should be able
• 29:45
  Speaker 7: to strive and do good. So like someone's telling me money,
• 29:49
  Speaker 7: what am I gonna bet? Look, I think Sean Payne
• 29:52
  Speaker 7: is a great coach with the Broncos, So I think
• 29:54
  Speaker 7: the Broncos are really gonna get trouble for the Chiefs.
• 29:57
  Speaker 7: And I would have been surprised if the Broncos coops
• 29:59
  Speaker 7: team actually win that division.
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: I'd be freaking yeah, I'd be shocked.
• 30:03
  Speaker 3: As your all time best call, Hoppy, it's.
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: The worst, good job, terrible argument from you, Poppy, like
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: you you're giving me, Hey, it could happen. I wouldn't
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: be shocked. That's not good enough.
• 30:14
  Speaker 7: Well it is good enough. Uh you know, Brian know
• 30:17
  Speaker 7: because everyone the whole world when the whole world tell
• 30:20
  Speaker 7: me that, or the casinos just on the numbers, when
• 30:22
  Speaker 7: he talks the analytics and the numbers. That's kind of
• 30:24
  Speaker 7: like a red flag. We're like, oh, it sounds too
• 30:26
  Speaker 7: good to be true. Well guess what, it's gonna be
• 30:28
  Speaker 7: too good to be true. And the Chiefs are not
• 30:29
  Speaker 7: gonna win ten years in the row. You don't make
• 30:32
  Speaker 7: the playoffs, but they're not going to win the division.
• 30:34
  Speaker 7: Anc Wes, So red flag for everyone, do not bet
• 30:37
  Speaker 7: on the Chiefs.
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: Okay, I got I got a proposal. I got a
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: proposal for you, mister bet on the Broncos. All right, here,
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: here's what we do. We'll just use these odds. How
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: about this, Well, we'll make a bet together.
• 30:50
  Speaker 2: Now.
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: Typically I don't do this because I don't think any
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: listener on the face of the earth has ever paid
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: a bet. Sir, scratch off. You're on my list. The
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: list is very extent, so every listener has weaseled out
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: of every payment, always with me. But the proposal would be,
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: I got the Chiefs, whatever dollar amount we bet. Let's
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: say we bet fifty bucks. If I'm right, Chiefs win,
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: you owe me fifty bucks, Poppy. If your Broncos win,
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: or any of the other three teams win, I'll give
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: you three times that amount. That's basically what it would be.
• 31:22
  Speaker 7: Yeah, what do you think any of those three teams?
• 31:24
  Speaker 7: I really like those arts form even as those three teams.
• 31:27
  Speaker 7: That's been amazing. I'm taking that at anytime because you know,
• 31:31
  Speaker 7: Andy Reid is getting really targeting closer retirement, Travis Kelsey
• 31:36
  Speaker 7: having problems with you know, relationship, Katy Perry like this
• 31:40
  Speaker 7: a lot of trouble.
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: So I really like he's having problems with relationships, Poppy.
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: That's what's going on there. What's going on with him?
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: I thought they were looking for a house, him and
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: Katy Perry.
• 31:53
  Speaker 7: Yeah, well yeah, Katy Perry or whatever. You know, he's
• 31:55
  Speaker 7: God whatever, his goop whatever, whatever. But yeah, I'm liking
• 32:02
  Speaker 7: that bet.
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: So man, you're crazy, Poppy. So what are we doing?
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: We're doing fifty bucks, we're doing fifteen hundred bucks. What
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: are we throwing on this here? Because I'm good for whatever.
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: I'm ready for to back the Chiefs here.
• 32:14
  Speaker 7: Well, whatever you want, it's all good. Whatever you want.
• 32:17
  Speaker 7: You know, I'll hate to take your money for Hey,
• 32:20
  Speaker 7: it's gonna come out in my favorite for a reason,
• 32:22
  Speaker 7: and whatever you want to bet, it's all good with me.
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: Okay, we won't go crazy. Let's just put one hundred
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: dollars on it. That was the bet I had with Coop,
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: and he won because his Broncos weaseled their way into
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: the top five scoring defense. I don't know how they
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: did it, but they had a great year, and I
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: paid up. So what do you think even hundred? You
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: owe me a hundred If the Chiefs win, I owe
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: you three hundred. If anybody else wins.
• 32:45
  Speaker 7: Oh wow, I like that, you know, with that number.
• 32:48
  Speaker 7: I like that. I'll take it.
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: We're shaking. We're shaking. We're shaking on this poppy. I'm
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: shaking my hand. We're figured figuratively shaking. It's the best
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: we can do right here.
• 32:58
  Speaker 7: All right, we're shaking on it up.
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: Yeah, your word is your bond, right, you should say
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: I will pay up. Unlike sir scratch Off. You know
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: you don't have to say that. It's implied.
• 33:09
  Speaker 7: Okay, Okay, I'm like Jerry Jones. I look in your
• 33:12
  Speaker 7: eyes and I'm a man of my work.
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: That's right, you know, well done by you.
• 33:17
  Speaker 7: I love I want to give a pick for tomorrow. Look,
• 33:20
  Speaker 7: we got to Cleveland Browns and Bryce Young. I really
• 33:24
  Speaker 7: love shir Door Sanders. He's going to be starting and
• 33:26
  Speaker 7: I think we know everything at the NFL. The NFL
• 33:28
  Speaker 7: is scripted, so we know Door Sanders like the Brown's
• 33:31
  Speaker 7: gonna be looking good. Maybe do a prop bit anytime
• 33:34
  Speaker 7: touchdown one touch on pound for shir Door Sanders. I'm
• 33:37
  Speaker 7: really liking that, and I think you'll go over one
• 33:40
  Speaker 7: hundred and twelve if that's a prop bit, Brian, I
• 33:42
  Speaker 7: don't know what it is, but I like that even
• 33:44
  Speaker 7: the spread, what is it plus six and a half?
• 33:47
  Speaker 7: The underdog went to and yesterday I really looks liking
• 33:50
  Speaker 7: the Dogtown and shir Door Sanders what he's going to
• 33:52
  Speaker 7: do proving against the Carolina Panthers that Carolina with Bryce Young,
• 33:56
  Speaker 7: I have no faith in the Panthers.
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: So wow, Okay, don't be surprised going with Chadur and
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: the Browns. The one thing I heard today and a
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: lot of this stuff in the preseason, it's a guessing game,
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: but I did hear that Chadour is probably gonna be
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: with twos and threes and they're going up against the
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: starting Panthers defense at least early. That is a horrible
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: but it matters a lot, Bobby. It matters a ton
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: if you've got twos and threes around you and you're
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: going up against the starting defense.
• 34:27
  Speaker 7: Yeah, it don't matter. You'll remember about this calling. You'll
• 34:30
  Speaker 7: see he's gonna come against the odd and that's that's
• 34:32
  Speaker 7: lefty for Door Sanders, like the descript is going to
• 34:35
  Speaker 7: be in the savor and should do Sander's going to succeed.
• 34:38
  Speaker 7: They're gonna do good. Dot Town.
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: Okay, we'll see we'll see if that works out. I
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: hope he does well, I really do. I just you know,
• 34:45
  Speaker 1: we'll see. We'll see how it goes. Poppy. But good
• 34:47
  Speaker 1: hearing from you, buddy. Good stuff. You see that I
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: made a hundred bucks on tonight's show. Coop. It's good.
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: It's good. Nice you went in on this. No, okay,
• 34:58
  Speaker 1: any reason why.
• 35:01
  Speaker 2: I just.
• 35:02
  Speaker 3: Don't want it.
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: You're betting on your team, you know, it's yeah, but.
• 35:07
  Speaker 3: I'm also betting on the other teams in the division.
• 35:11
  Speaker 3: I don't know, just just too much.
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: Hey, weird, listen, I get it. You're petrified of Mahomes.
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: It makes all the sense in the world. Why wouldn't
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: you be? He owns the division, like, his record against
• 35:24
  Speaker 1: the division is insanity. Let me try to fight. I'll
• 35:28
  Speaker 1: get it on the other side, because you know me
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: and googling, I can't. I can't do that on the
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: fly very well. Against the AFC West, he has owned
• 35:36
  Speaker 1: that division. So this idea, He's thirty five and five
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: against the AFC West. So I'm supposed to believe that's
• 35:46
  Speaker 1: going to change dramatically this season and a team's going
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: to be a leg up just in the division. Meanwhile,
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: you have eleven other games outside of your divisional games. Okay, yeah,
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: I'm not buying that at all. Give me the Chiefs
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: all day long, that is what I say. But feel
• 36:02
  Speaker 1: free to check in. Militia always love hearing from me.
• 36:04
  Speaker 1: Eight seven seven ninety nine on Fox. That is your number.
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  Speaker 1: Coming up next, there was an interesting comment from a
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  Speaker 1: former player and a well known talking head throughout a
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  Speaker 1: ran across some audio and I thought it was an
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  Speaker 1: interesting comment. The former WNBA player Diana Tarossi. Apparently she's
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  Speaker 1: got a new sort of like documentary. It's a self
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  Speaker 1: titled it's called Tarassi. It's gonna be on Prime Video,
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  Speaker 1: and they're just talking about her career and whatever she
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  Speaker 1: wants to talk about. And there's a clip floating around
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  Speaker 1: where she's talking about being underpaid during her WNBA career.
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  Speaker 1: So listen to what Diana Tarossi says. And then there
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  Speaker 1: was a reaction from Jason Whitlock, well known talking head.
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  Speaker 1: I thought his comment was interesting, but I don't agree
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  Speaker 1: with it, but I see the logic in it. Here's
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  Speaker 1: Diana Tarossi her original comments here.
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  Speaker 2: Check this out.
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  Speaker 8: I'm the best player in the world and I have
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  Speaker 8: to go to a communist country to get paid like
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  Speaker 8: a capitalist.
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  Speaker 1: Playing in Europe during the WNBA's offseason, these women were
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  Speaker 1: going for seven or eight months. They were chasing their value.
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  Speaker 8: One time I came back and I was like, man,
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  Speaker 8: my parers have just gotten older and I've missed a
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  Speaker 8: big part of it. We weren't made that much money,
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  Speaker 8: so generational wealth was coming from going to Russia every year.
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  Speaker 8: Now we have to come back home and get paid
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  Speaker 8: nothing to play in a harder league in worse conditions
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  Speaker 8: against the best competition in the world. The janitor at
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  Speaker 8: Arena made more than me.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, so that was the takeaway at the end, the
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  Speaker 1: EF and janitor in the arena was making more than me.
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  Speaker 1: So Jason Whitlock, he watched the video and he commented
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  Speaker 1: on it on x He just posted, when you're the
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  Speaker 1: best at something that has little real value, clueless, so
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  Speaker 1: clueless and entitled. And so I get where he's coming from.
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  Speaker 1: Where he's basically saying, hey, two plus two equals four.
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  Speaker 1: Your league wasn't generating money. Players are going to be
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  Speaker 1: paid a little amount. That's kind of the way it works,
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  Speaker 1: right and at least logical, The argument makes sense. But
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  Speaker 1: I don't think that Diana Tarassi was saying it doesn't
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  Speaker 1: sound entitled to me. She's like, bro, I had to
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  Speaker 1: go to Russia, you know, to chase my value. I
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  Speaker 1: gotta come back to the United States and be a
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  Speaker 1: professional basketball player. And I'm making peanuts. She's not saying
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  Speaker 1: I should get paid what SGA is making. She's not
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  Speaker 1: saying I should be paid like an NBA superstar. She's
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  Speaker 1: just like, I'm not making anything. I think this is
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  Speaker 1: a classic case of whichever shoes your feet happened to
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  Speaker 1: be in. So Whitlock's feet are in Whitlock's shoes, and
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  Speaker 1: it's easy to say. I mean, give me a break.
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  Speaker 1: Your league isn't making any money. You're not going to
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  Speaker 1: be making any money if you're in Diana Tarassi shoes
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  Speaker 1: and you're like, I'm a pro and this is what
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  Speaker 1: I'm If you're in those shoes, I think you're saying
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  Speaker 1: the same thing. Is absolutely the way it works out.
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  Speaker 1: All right, come it up. Next, we get back to
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  Speaker 1: the biggest curveball of the NFL style of the NFL season.