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ONELEGUPALEX MEDIA GETS TERMINELLO’s TAKE ON NFL DRAFT AND KNICKS PLAYOFF STRUGGLES 4-25-26 · OneLegUpAlex Sports

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  Speaker 1: All right, well it's Saturday and we are finally getting
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  Speaker 1: to Terminello's take. It's been a busy week, Louis, as
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  Speaker 1: you know, been covering a lot of different shifts in
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  Speaker 1: the radio, but here we are talking sports to end
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  Speaker 1: the week, and uh, you know, the week's ending. But boy,
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  Speaker 1: I feel like everything's just heating up. We have the
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  Speaker 1: draft recaps that our people are doing. We've got to
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  Speaker 1: me the most fun series of the Flyers Penguins right now.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, they could really take out the Pens uh
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  Speaker 1: in four, which is just who thought that would happen?
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  Speaker 1: And uh, hey, the Anks are you're Theanks are doing okay,
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  Speaker 1: and the Mets got off the snight a little bit.
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  Speaker 1: But where do you want to start? So we talked
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  Speaker 1: draft night to start, Louis, Hey.
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  Speaker 2: Alex, thanks for having me, and yeah, let's let's let's
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  Speaker 2: start off with the uh with the draft. I'll give
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  Speaker 2: you my first of all, you know, the draft is
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  Speaker 2: overhyped in my opinion, Yes, we're excited. We watched it.
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  Speaker 2: I watched it on Thursday night, especially because the two
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  Speaker 2: local teams had multiple picks in the first round and
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  Speaker 2: the Jets ended up getting a third pick. With a
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  Speaker 2: trade during the draft on Thursday night. So yes, it's exciting,
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  Speaker 2: it gives you hope, but really, I mean, we can
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  Speaker 2: go down through history, recent history and see players that
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  Speaker 2: not only the teams that we follow closely picked, but
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  Speaker 2: in the league and that didn't work out. I taught
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  Speaker 2: looking at from a Jet point of view, we'll look
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  Speaker 2: at them first, since they had the first pick after
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  Speaker 2: the Raiders picked Fernando Mendoza, who was the best player
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  Speaker 2: in the draft regardless of position in my opinion, because
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  Speaker 2: with no quarterback, if you don't have a quarterback, you
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  Speaker 2: have nothing. I don't care what the rest of the
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  Speaker 2: team looks like. I guess the Jets decided on David
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  Speaker 2: Bailey because he was more pro ready than the other players,
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  Speaker 2: including RVL Reese. I guess it was either gonna be him,
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  Speaker 2: Bailly or Reese. Most people, a lot of people in
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  Speaker 2: the league thought they were gonna pick Reese. A lot
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  Speaker 2: of people said they would pick Bailey, but they needed
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  Speaker 2: somebody who can rush the passer Alex when you don't
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  Speaker 2: get an interception in the seventeen game NFL regular season,
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  Speaker 2: which is mind boggling to me, and if you watch
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  Speaker 2: those games like for some reason, I watched all seventeen
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  Speaker 2: of this miserable season. They didn't even come close to
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  Speaker 2: an interception. So they need somebody to create turnovers, somebody
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  Speaker 2: to have the quarterback throw the ball a second earlier
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  Speaker 2: so they can so they can get in the game
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  Speaker 2: or force to fumble.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and the game that they did have a turnover,
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  Speaker 1: they end up blowing against the Browns anyway, So it
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  Speaker 1: was just a really bad That was the game. Glenn's
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  Speaker 1: running down the sideline. It was kind of a funny
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  Speaker 1: again that was against the Bucks or against the Bucks
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  Speaker 1: and Bus. Yeah, it was. It was a bad season
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  Speaker 1: in a bad game there.
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  Speaker 2: But yeah, so but they he I mean, I like
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  Speaker 2: them getting Kenyan Sadique. Yes, and they always I always
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  Speaker 2: hate that term. This guy's a freak athlete. The guy's
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  Speaker 2: an athlete. He played for a team that was in
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  Speaker 2: the wide open offense Oregon. Uh. He played in the
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  Speaker 2: playoff just like David Bailey did. Just like their third
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  Speaker 2: number one pick, Omar Cooper Junior, who I saw play
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  Speaker 2: many times last year because Indiana was so good, and
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  Speaker 2: he made that that great catch at the end at
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  Speaker 2: the back of the end zone against Penn State. That
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  Speaker 2: that was his signature moment. And then they trade up
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  Speaker 2: for D'Angelo Ponds last night. I thought that was a
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  Speaker 2: I thought that was a good move. I got give
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  Speaker 2: him an a. I guy, give the Jets an a.
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  Speaker 2: Uh and now, and even looking at the team across
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  Speaker 2: the MetLife Stadium locker room, I gotta give them an
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  Speaker 2: a because he can't go wrong with with Reees. Potentially, again,
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  Speaker 2: we have to see all these guys on the field
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  Speaker 2: during the season and if they fit in do they
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  Speaker 2: do they fit the schemes that these teams coaches want
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  Speaker 2: to play, so we don't know until they get on
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  Speaker 2: the field.
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  Speaker 1: I am surprised, but look, they also got rid of
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  Speaker 1: Dexter Lawrence, and I think that was an impetus to
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  Speaker 1: get Rvel Reese. I mean also, guys were there were
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  Speaker 1: some surprising picks before five and then they go with Rvel.
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  Speaker 1: Everybody wanted Caleb Downs. But in this draft, I kind
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  Speaker 1: of trust what Joe Shane's doing here. I really, I
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  Speaker 1: really do.
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  Speaker 2: Again again, Alex Joe Shane is Yeah, Joe Shane is
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  Speaker 2: definitely putting his two cents in, But this team is
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  Speaker 2: being run in all way, shape or form by by
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  Speaker 2: John Harball. If John Harbaugh wants uh light blue toilet
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  Speaker 2: paper in the men's room, He's going to get it. Uh.
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  Speaker 2: That's how much he's running. He's running the franchise. And again,
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  Speaker 2: Joe Shane is, I'm sure giving him his recommendation. I'm
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  Speaker 2: sure Joe Shane is being asked by John Hawbor for
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  Speaker 2: what what he thinks. And I think Hawbor's treated Joe
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  Speaker 2: Shane would respect in a tough situation. But when you're
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  Speaker 2: paying Harbor one hundred million dollars over five years, he
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  Speaker 2: is the New York Giants.
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  Speaker 1: Football Giants, and look, well the tenth pick. You know.
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  Speaker 1: I was at the draft party on Thursday night and
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  Speaker 1: everybody was kind of leaving disappointed that they didn't get
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  Speaker 1: a name. But I keep reminding people, I'm sure you
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  Speaker 1: saw my YouTube short on this I did. He was Miami's.
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  Speaker 1: He was on Miami's old line, and that old line
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  Speaker 1: got Carson Beck, who got drafted last night. But he
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  Speaker 1: got They got Carson Beck all the way to the
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  Speaker 1: National title game. That's got to tell me something about
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  Speaker 1: this kid, uh and the way he's able to protect
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  Speaker 1: his quarterback, and you need that for Jackson dart So.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely, but I am surprised that they passed over chances
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  Speaker 2: to get Caleb Downs twice and Sunny Styles. So that
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  Speaker 2: did the alex I have Tomant, that's it surprise me.
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  Speaker 2: There were a lot of good players in that top fifteen,
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  Speaker 2: and you know, you can't with one pick. You can
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  Speaker 2: only pick one player. You can't do multiple players. But
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  Speaker 2: I was surprised because you just heard so much about
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  Speaker 2: Harbor and the safety man like Kyle Hamilton. We had
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  Speaker 2: to hear that ad nauseum Caleb Downs Kyle Hamilton comparisons.
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  Speaker 2: But I think that I mean, I think they did
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  Speaker 2: well in the second round when they got a potential
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  Speaker 2: first round pick in the in the in the cornerback
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  Speaker 2: from Tennessee Colton Holt Hood from Tennessee six four to twenty.
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  Speaker 2: They can't. I mean, let's face it, that defensive backfield
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  Speaker 2: was pathetic last year and then they needed to boost
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  Speaker 2: a boost that up. Again, we won't know until we
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  Speaker 2: see these guys on the field come next September. But
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  Speaker 2: I don't think anybody what the draft does as far
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  Speaker 2: as selecting players. I don't think there was any reaches
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  Speaker 2: for the Giants or Jets on during the first three rounds.
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  Speaker 2: I mean I don't, I mean I can't. I can't say,
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  Speaker 2: oh my god, what are they doing, you know, taking.
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  Speaker 1: The Jets any rating actually so well obviously, and of course,
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  Speaker 1: you know, for me, there's always that pressure to find
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  Speaker 1: the next Joe Namath with the Jets. I mean, there's
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  Speaker 1: always like who are they gonna draft? And I admittedly
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  Speaker 1: ty Simpson did do a little you know, he didn't
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  Speaker 1: meet up with the Jets. They had a nice little
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  Speaker 1: what do they call it a workout whatever you call
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  Speaker 1: it with the Jets.
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  Speaker 2: A workout, and you know, an interview.
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  Speaker 1: But I'm a little surprised that the Rams did pick
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  Speaker 1: him because it almost signals that maybe the the Stafford
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  Speaker 1: era is coming to an end soon. Is that what
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  Speaker 1: this pick means, Louis?
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  Speaker 2: It could be he got You got to look at
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  Speaker 2: it this way. The Rams are playing for this, you know,
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  Speaker 2: obviously they're going for the to win the title again
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  Speaker 2: next year. Ironically, the Super Bowl is in so Far
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  Speaker 2: Stadium last year, where the Rams won their last Super
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  Speaker 2: Bowl four years ago. Uh, he's thirty eight years old.
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  Speaker 2: He's you know, he has a wife and he has
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  Speaker 2: uh at least three kids, and you know, he's not
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  Speaker 2: maybe like Aaron Rodgers, who's we don't know if even
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  Speaker 2: though there's a Aaron Rodgers said he got married last year,
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  Speaker 2: we don't know if that's true or true or not.
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  Speaker 2: We've never seen her and he has no he has
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  Speaker 2: no kids, and I think this could.
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  Speaker 1: Be night Drew Aller, I mean that was an interesting
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  Speaker 1: pick for Pittsburgh.
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  Speaker 2: Right, Yeah, I'm surprised Drew Aller uh got picked before
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  Speaker 2: a couple of other guys. But uh, you know, he
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  Speaker 2: has the measurables. He's big, he's strong.
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  Speaker 1: Clearly, remember the end of the Franklin era, there was
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  Speaker 1: his injury. I mean, that was really what I do.
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  Speaker 1: There were a few other things that season, but the
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  Speaker 1: Aller injury was sort of like the final straw. Then
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  Speaker 1: they let Franklin go a week later. It was kind
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  Speaker 1: of amazing how that all unfolded.
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  Speaker 2: But you know, that was not a That was not
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  Speaker 2: a good scene for Penn State team that had so
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  Speaker 2: much talent on their roster. But uh, I was hoping
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  Speaker 2: that the Jets would pick Carson Beck. I do have
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  Speaker 2: an affection for Carson Beck. I think he has he
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  Speaker 2: has a chance.
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  Speaker 1: We'll see, he's got to be one of the oldest
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  Speaker 1: drafted at twenty three. That's pretty amazing. It was a
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  Speaker 1: very old uh.
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  Speaker 2: I think in the CNI l ear we're going to
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  Speaker 2: see some older guys than we then we sore in past.
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  Speaker 1: To I love what he did with Georgia. You know,
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  Speaker 1: he was just he was a He was quite a
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  Speaker 1: player to watch, and even this year, he was quite
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  Speaker 1: a player to watch.
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  Speaker 2: One thing I like about the Jets picks, they all
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  Speaker 2: played in big, big money games. Last year, they all
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  Speaker 2: played on playoff team, so they they know what the
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  Speaker 2: pressure is a little bit to play in those type
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  Speaker 2: of games. Not that the pressure in the NFL and
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  Speaker 2: college football is the same, but they know they played
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  Speaker 2: in big time games. So you know, again, we won't
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  Speaker 2: know until they until they get on the field. I
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  Speaker 2: mean today the Jets have three picks in the fourth
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  Speaker 2: round and two picks in the seventh round, and like
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  Speaker 2: the Giants, I think, you know, they traded three picks
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  Speaker 2: to get up to drift the kid from Notre Dame
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  Speaker 2: the receiver. And you know it's funny.
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  Speaker 1: I should have got a picture. I'm myself a Notre
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  Speaker 1: Dame gear because we did end up getting a Notre
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  Speaker 1: Dame pick, notre Dame player. After all, I was at
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  Speaker 1: the draft party saying should I wear this? And I
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  Speaker 1: was sure enough they picked I thought maybe Jeremiah, but
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  Speaker 1: you know.
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  Speaker 2: I did too, Alex, and I actually thought there was
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  Speaker 2: an outside chance that the Jets will playing possum and
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  Speaker 2: that they might have picked Jeremiah of number two. I'm
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  Speaker 2: surprised that Tennessee picked Tate, the wide receiver from Ohio
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  Speaker 2: State at four and not RBL Reese or Sunny Styles.
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  Speaker 2: That did surprise me. And then Reese falls into the
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  Speaker 2: Giants slap apparently depending on who you believe and who
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  Speaker 2: you read, that the Giants had Reese as their number
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  Speaker 2: one overall pick, regardless of position of any of these
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  Speaker 2: draftable players. So again, you know, it makes for good
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  Speaker 2: talk like we're doing now. But until you get these
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  Speaker 2: guys on the playing field, until you see if they
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  Speaker 2: could fit the scheme and that Jets are going to
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  Speaker 2: play three four next year, then we'll see if it happens. Hopefully,
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  Speaker 2: as a Jet fan, David Bailey is the NFL defensive
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  Speaker 2: rookie of the year, you know exactly, We'll see.
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  Speaker 1: We'll have to see. By the way, I want to
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  Speaker 1: do a plug for Fanatics because as you know, I'm
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  Speaker 1: an affiliate sponsor with them and their affiliates on for me,
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  Speaker 1: and I just released a link of the draft tat
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  Speaker 1: that these guys wore after being drafted, so you can
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  Speaker 1: own your own. In the many collection that I'm sure
• 12:06
  Speaker 1: you have others have of giants or jet skier, there's
• 12:09
  Speaker 1: always that headwear you can add from the draft. I
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  Speaker 1: think it's kind of cool, and so I put it
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  Speaker 1: on the link and you'll see that in the description below.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm always grateful to be a partner with Fanatics
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  Speaker 1: to provide these different things. It is cool from the
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  Speaker 1: draft stage to your own head where collection, you know
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  Speaker 1: at collection it is.
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  Speaker 2: And the way the NFL did it. You know the
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  Speaker 2: players who were there in Pittsburgh. You know, they get
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  Speaker 2: they get their name cold, they walk down the hallway,
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  Speaker 2: they stop at that mirror, get their hat on that
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  Speaker 2: little desk or kiosk, whatever you want to call it,
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  Speaker 2: and then walk out to the commissioner. It is. It
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  Speaker 2: is pretty It is pretty cool the way the NFL.
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  Speaker 1: And also look say what you want about Goodell, but
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  Speaker 1: and I do miss the Saturday tradition of Draft Day
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  Speaker 1: that was always fun, you know. And in late April
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  Speaker 1: on a Saturday, you're watching the draft with friends or ever,
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  Speaker 1: and I'd be Yanky stadium watching it. I think I
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  Speaker 1: was there when they traded Manning, actually to trade him
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  Speaker 1: for Manning actually that day. But anyway, he's now condended
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  Speaker 1: to two hours and fifty three minutes, so that's pretty impressive.
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  Speaker 2: I have to say. Yeah, no, I mean it was
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  Speaker 2: too long at fifteen minutes between picks. Then they caught
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  Speaker 2: it to ten. Now they cut it to eight. It did,
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  Speaker 2: it did was brisk the other night. I did like it.
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  Speaker 1: And these picks are coming in faster too, like there
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  Speaker 1: are even before the clock's up, so there's no doubt. Interesting.
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  Speaker 1: All right, Well, I just watched a little sports center
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  Speaker 1: as we're talking here, and the I mean to me,
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  Speaker 1: there are a couple of series that I'm looking at,
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  Speaker 1: the wild Stars, the Ducks because of Crider versus McDavid,
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  Speaker 1: and the Oilers. But I just saw Canadians winning a
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  Speaker 1: home playoff game. Look, that's indean, Montreal's hungry. They haven't
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  Speaker 1: had a home playoff game in a while. It's just
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  Speaker 1: you could see how.
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  Speaker 2: Hard I mean, they made the playoffs last year and
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  Speaker 2: so and they did. Look, they lost Washington first round,
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  Speaker 2: so they had the home playoff game. But the atmosphere
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  Speaker 2: in Montreal, like you or going to a lutu, I assume, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: is like is like none other. When it comes to
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  Speaker 2: a big event, a big playoff game. You're you know,
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  Speaker 2: you're one hot.
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  Speaker 1: We talk about you know, and I only know Ni
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  Speaker 1: Suzuki just because I've seen him play forever. Right, But
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  Speaker 1: they sort of have a core up there too that
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  Speaker 1: that may be running out of time also, right, so
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  Speaker 1: they want to see this team win now.
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  Speaker 2: Well maybe the fans do, but the team is young,
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  Speaker 2: the team is going to be good for a long time.
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  Speaker 2: And the kid has scored the game winning goal last night,
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  Speaker 2: Lane Hudson, who I actually saw play live a couple
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  Speaker 2: of years ago with Celebrini and that amazing Boston University
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  Speaker 2: team that somehow did not win the national championship, which
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  Speaker 2: goes to show you anything can happen in one game.
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  Speaker 2: As we said over and over, he scored the winning goal.
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  Speaker 2: The guy is a superstar. He will be on you know,
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  Speaker 2: he could have been on the US Olympic team this year.
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  Speaker 2: He definitely will be on the world Cup team in
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  Speaker 2: February of twenty eight and their fourth line has been
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  Speaker 2: tremendous for them and Cole Caufield hasn't scored a goal
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  Speaker 2: in three in the first three games. It's the best
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  Speaker 2: series so far. The Allison Minnesota is up there too.
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  Speaker 2: It's been physical, it's been bloody. This I think is
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  Speaker 2: getting This series between Tampa Bay and Montreal can go
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  Speaker 2: seven and you know, we.
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  Speaker 1: Gas the coaching too, Cooper is great and they still
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  Speaker 1: have the vets on that.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely they know how to win and they have Azeleski
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  Speaker 2: and Montreal has done a good job of like even
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  Speaker 2: on that winning goal last night, of creating enough traffic
• 15:50
  Speaker 2: in front that lane. Hudson's ninety mile per hour blast
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  Speaker 2: caught the upper corner of the net to Vasileski is right.
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  Speaker 2: So it was a great game last night. It was.
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  Speaker 2: It really was a physical It was a physical great game. Uh.
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  Speaker 2: Saint Louis has done a great job as coach against
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  Speaker 2: his former team that that he became famous.
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  Speaker 1: Remember Martin San Luis was like a hero down in
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  Speaker 1: Tampa for all those years.
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  Speaker 2: But absolutely so. But I wanted to LSM. Minnesota has
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  Speaker 2: been another great series that probably will go seven.
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  Speaker 1: Well, then last night I'm watching the because they showed
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  Speaker 1: some fight clips from the Ducks game, and I look
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  Speaker 1: at the score and I said seven to four. I mean, uh,
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  Speaker 1: you know, Edmonton has made it to Sandy Cup last
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  Speaker 1: couple last few years. They just don't look like the
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  Speaker 1: same team that made it through the Western Conference, right, So,
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  Speaker 1: or maybe the Ducks are just that good? What do
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  Speaker 1: you think?
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  Speaker 2: Well, the Dutch obviously, you know they have Alex Klogne,
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  Speaker 2: they have Trouba, they have Chris Crider as experienced guys,
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  Speaker 2: but they the core of the team is so young.
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  Speaker 2: And I watched a good portion of the game last night.
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  Speaker 2: Edmonton has obviously a lot of top end offensive talent,
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  Speaker 2: but playing high scoring games like they've had in the series.
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  Speaker 2: Believe it or not, I believe I could be wrong
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  Speaker 2: plays into the hands of Anaheim. They if Edmonton plays
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  Speaker 2: more three to two games, more tight checking games, which
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  Speaker 2: I know kno Block likes to do, and that's what
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  Speaker 2: he did when he got there two years ago, which
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  Speaker 2: got them in the Stanley Cup final. Remember, you know,
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  Speaker 2: we look at some of the things that are going
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  Speaker 2: on in baseball with the teams with their terrible records,
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  Speaker 2: remember Edmonton was like two eleven and one, three and thirteen,
• 17:49
  Speaker 2: and you know, he said, oh, they're done for the year,
• 17:51
  Speaker 2: but he got them to change the way they play.
• 17:55
  Speaker 2: If they keep playing these high scoring games, I think
• 17:59
  Speaker 2: it plays into into Anaheim's hands. I really do. I
• 18:04
  Speaker 2: think I think Edmonton's gonna win a series. But yeah,
• 18:09
  Speaker 2: they're on, they're shaky, and uh, I'm gonna tell you
• 18:14
  Speaker 2: right now, Uh, they lose this series, they maybe lose
• 18:18
  Speaker 2: the next series as as well as no Block has
• 18:22
  Speaker 2: done for them and his in his two and a
• 18:24
  Speaker 2: half years as coach. Now Block will not be there
• 18:28
  Speaker 2: because McDavid's criticized him a little bit. Was talking about
• 18:32
  Speaker 2: how great it was to play for John Cooper at
• 18:34
  Speaker 2: the at the Olympics. There's something there, Alex.
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: Uh, now Block might be gone, and you know, McDavid speaks.
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: I'm sure the oilers listened so well.
• 18:44
  Speaker 2: They listen because remember, yeah, he did sign extension, but
• 18:47
  Speaker 2: it's only for two years and uh, you know, then
• 18:52
  Speaker 2: he'll be a free agent in his early thirties. And
• 18:55
  Speaker 2: come on, I don't want they don't want to lose him.
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: Mcdamid. Matthew's come across the boarder. I'd love to them
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: in the States. That would be uh, really, well.
• 19:02
  Speaker 2: I think you're gonna I think you have a better
• 19:04
  Speaker 2: chance of seeing Austin Austin Matthews across the border next year.
• 19:10
  Speaker 2: I think that. I think that's a real good chance
• 19:13
  Speaker 2: of happening.
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: That could happen. So we'll have to see and then,
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: you know, the Carolina series I haven't only paid mention
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: attention to because they always seem to win these series.
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: I mean, I'm not worried about them.
• 19:23
  Speaker 2: However, well, if they're first, they they frustrated Ottawa, who's
• 19:27
  Speaker 2: had chances to win the you know, the to win
• 19:29
  Speaker 2: these games, but they stifle you, they control the puck.
• 19:33
  Speaker 2: They're not gonna win. They're not winning like at Anaheim's
• 19:36
  Speaker 2: beating Edmonton seven to four, six to five. They're not
• 19:40
  Speaker 2: that's not the that's not the style of game they play.
• 19:44
  Speaker 2: And uh, obviously they're up three, three games to none
• 19:48
  Speaker 2: on Odawa. Ottawa was frustrated. I saw the postgame interviews
• 19:52
  Speaker 2: the other night. They were all frustrated. Maybe Ottawa will
• 19:56
  Speaker 2: win tonight, but I would say that's about it. You know, Carolina,
• 20:01
  Speaker 2: they just always played the same way.
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: And let's go up. So the other night I called
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: you because, say, Lou, they're playing in Canadian national anthem,
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: up in Canadian national anthem, up in Buffalo. What's that about?
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: Is in Buffalo United States team? And tell us why.
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: Maybe people listening or watching Buffalo Sabers playoff hockey or
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: hockey at all for the first time seeing that maybe
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: surprise and tell us why that is.
• 20:26
  Speaker 2: Well, back in nineteen seventy, Buffalo came into the league
• 20:32
  Speaker 2: along with Vancouver. They were the thirteenth and fourteenth teams
• 20:36
  Speaker 2: to come into the league after what they call the
• 20:38
  Speaker 2: Great Expansion of sixty seven when the league expanded from
• 20:41
  Speaker 2: six to twelve teams. Buffalo, being on the Canadian border,
• 20:47
  Speaker 2: and obviously hockey is the national sport of Canada, has
• 20:52
  Speaker 2: many many of their fans that come across the border
• 20:56
  Speaker 2: who attend Buffalo Saber games, And they started playing the
• 21:02
  Speaker 2: Canadian national anthem because they had so many customers who
• 21:07
  Speaker 2: are Saber fans who come from from southern Ontario. And
• 21:13
  Speaker 2: that's the reason they played the Canadian national anthem before
• 21:17
  Speaker 2: a Sabers home game, even if the opponent is not
• 21:21
  Speaker 2: a Canadian city. So like the other night, when they
• 21:24
  Speaker 2: were playing the Bruins in the playoff game. So that's
• 21:26
  Speaker 2: been going on for the last fifty three years.
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: Well there you go. See, you learn something every day.
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: And one other thing I will say is that night
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: I chose hot playoff hockey because I guess I missed
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: the intensity. I think I told you, and maybe I
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: said on air here in twenty twenty four when I
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: was recovering from my Gollstone issue. They thought I was
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: having something wrong because I was screaming at the TV
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: for when Krochek scored that goal against the Hurricanes. I'll
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: ever forget that. But I missed that intensity around here.
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: So maybe that's why I'm more drawn to that than
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: a Yankee. And look, I'm an avid baseball guy, but
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: I tuned into playoff hockey over Yankees Red Sox. What's
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: wrong with me? Louis?
• 22:07
  Speaker 2: Well, again, we know, let's say baseball is a marathon.
• 22:10
  Speaker 2: So they're still five and a half months to go,
• 22:13
  Speaker 2: and there is nothing like playoff hockey. And it's a
• 22:17
  Speaker 2: great it's a great tool.
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: It's the only team in New York State in this thing,
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: so you got to root for them a little bit,
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: you know.
• 22:26
  Speaker 2: Well, I didn't think. I'm rooting for them too. I
• 22:28
  Speaker 2: didn't think they were going to win. It's only two
• 22:31
  Speaker 2: to one. They did a great job the other night,
• 22:34
  Speaker 2: playing their first row game in fifteen years in the playoffs. Uh,
• 22:38
  Speaker 2: in a very tough building, and uh, you know they
• 22:41
  Speaker 2: won three to one, and that that's another series that
• 22:44
  Speaker 2: might go seven. I would love to see Buffalo advance.
• 22:48
  Speaker 2: I think so.
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: And especially for Taatee Thompson, who got the gold with
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: the Team USA. You want to see him do what?
• 22:53
  Speaker 2: Look?
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: What?
• 22:54
  Speaker 2: What?
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: What this US hockey team did? Is it highlighted guys
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: You may not know where they're at, right, so, Alex,
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: they were expected for Arenas. Oh, this guy's here, this
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: guy's here. I just it's it's a pretty cool thing,
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: all right. I don't really want to talk baseball because
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: that's not really on my mind. I mean, it's a
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: long season, but what's on my mind is definitely Game four.
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: So I go from the draft party to the nixt
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: watch party and in a manner of I get sixty
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: seconds the Mets blue and lead the Knicks Tay lose
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: the lead, and it's like it was a crazy night Thursday.
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: But to walk from the draft party hustin yards over
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: to the watch party of the garden. This is New
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: York City we're talking about, Louis. Okay, this is what
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: happens in New York. You go from one sports thing
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: to the next.
• 23:40
  Speaker 2: Well that's why. Hey, sometimes I say New York has
• 23:43
  Speaker 2: too many sports teams, but because you know, we have
• 23:49
  Speaker 2: too by the way I work.
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: There were a lot of guys in big blue shirts
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: over watching the Knicks. I mean, this is how passionate
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: we are about the city. But in those few seconds
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: that the game was all that, the game was winding down,
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: and I kind of didn't want to watch the final
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: play because I had a feeling the Hawks are.
• 24:04
  Speaker 2: Gonna win it.
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: First of all, you can't go down ten plus and
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: expect to win that game in the fourth quarter. And again,
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: love Brunson, but he's making that arid shot again and
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: I don't understand why. And you talk about there's something there.
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: He was chirping with Mike Brown a little bit, his
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: own coach, and it's like, all right, something's not right
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: with this locker room. If the captain is, you know,
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: going back and forth with his head coach, something's not
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: right there. Louis and if they lose the series or
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: don't go anything, even if they win their championship, I
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: don't know. I don't think Mike Brown's the answer, though,
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: That's what I'm trying to say.
• 24:42
  Speaker 2: Well, again, this is how I look at it. The
• 24:51
  Speaker 2: Knicks did not have a good regular season. I mean, yeah,
• 24:54
  Speaker 2: I know they won fifty two to fifty three games,
• 24:55
  Speaker 2: whether it was. But again, as I said to you,
• 24:58
  Speaker 2: you can't look at what happened in the NBA regular
• 25:04
  Speaker 2: season the last couple of years because the NBA is
• 25:06
  Speaker 2: such a different league than it used to be, with
• 25:12
  Speaker 2: guys not playing, sitting out guys. And I really believe
• 25:17
  Speaker 2: that lais a fair ad to during the regular season
• 25:20
  Speaker 2: affects affects you when you come to playing these playoffs,
• 25:26
  Speaker 2: and it seems like that has caught the Knicks. I
• 25:29
  Speaker 2: still think they're gonna win the series. I do, but
• 25:35
  Speaker 2: a couple of things Atlanta has. Atlanta has rebuilt their
• 25:40
  Speaker 2: team through young, athletic, highly skilled players. Yes, Atlanta does
• 25:51
  Speaker 2: not have the experience. You know, we saw that the
• 25:54
  Speaker 2: other night when they were blowing it. They blew the
• 25:55
  Speaker 2: eighteen point lead, but they did come back because the
• 25:58
  Speaker 2: one guy would experience Colum, who did not have a
• 26:01
  Speaker 2: great game the other night, was still able to hit
• 26:03
  Speaker 2: that last shot. The Knicks aren't very athletic, Alex, they
• 26:09
  Speaker 2: really aren't. And everybody wants to put the blame on
• 26:12
  Speaker 2: Carl Anthony Towns. Well you can if you want, if
• 26:15
  Speaker 2: that's what you want to do. But here's a guy
• 26:17
  Speaker 2: who's consistently you know what, two years in a row.
• 26:21
  Speaker 2: He's thirteen moll NBA.
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: And some you know, Obi was really a difference maker
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: of the last two playoff playoffs for the Knicks, and
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: he's just not He's not been the Obie I'm used
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: to seeing, you know. I don't know what happened there,
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: but it's just he's he's he's not shining like he
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: did the last Or am I seeing it wrong?
• 26:41
  Speaker 2: No, I don't think you are. I really, I really,
• 26:45
  Speaker 2: I really don't think. I really don't think you are Alex.
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: Again like he was, he was a silent killer, right,
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: so he'd be heart Brunson and Towns.
• 26:57
  Speaker 2: But then I remember he was on a toront Raptors
• 27:00
  Speaker 2: team that went to the finals.
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: And one, and look, I thought that trade worked out
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: in the long run for our It did.
• 27:07
  Speaker 2: It would absolutely it did, no doubt about it. But
• 27:11
  Speaker 2: the Knicks won that trade. The Knicks won the Karl
• 27:14
  Speaker 2: Anthony Towns trade.
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: Oh bye, you know, by by measure. But there's no
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: reason this team should have blown a twelve point lead
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: and should be down with this game really being well,
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: if they don't win it, I think they come home
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: and win. But you have to win in Atlanta. You
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: have to win at least one of these. You just
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: you just cannot go to Atlanta and lose to it.
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: Just it wouldn't be good, all right, And then you
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: said something interesting if I'm going to share with us
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: on air today, but you think they might clean house though,
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: if things go really south here.
• 27:45
  Speaker 2: If if by some chance they lose this series. Yeah,
• 27:48
  Speaker 2: I think so. I mean they might panic, And by panic,
• 27:53
  Speaker 2: I mean they might get Giannis. And Yannis is better
• 27:57
  Speaker 2: than anybody that Knicks have now, but jannest is thirty one,
• 28:01
  Speaker 2: he's had these leg injuries. It could be another. You know,
• 28:09
  Speaker 2: the Nicks picked up me, even even when they picked
• 28:11
  Speaker 2: up Carmelo anything. I know they won the division one year,
• 28:14
  Speaker 2: but I don't know if that's going to get that
• 28:17
  Speaker 2: it got's going to get them there, Alex, I don't
• 28:19
  Speaker 2: if they if they get you honest, if they break
• 28:21
  Speaker 2: up the team, look nobody, and you can pull out
• 28:25
  Speaker 2: you can pull out the tape from when in the
• 28:29
  Speaker 2: Brooklyn Nets my former employer made the trade, the five
• 28:34
  Speaker 2: for one trade, the five picks for mckel Bridges. I said,
• 28:37
  Speaker 2: how could you trade your best player to your number
• 28:41
  Speaker 2: one rival, not only on the court, but for marketing purposes,
• 28:45
  Speaker 2: for business purposes. It looks like it looks like a
• 28:50
  Speaker 2: Sean Mark's is going to have the last laugh on
• 28:53
  Speaker 2: me and on everybody else because he Bridges has not
• 29:00
  Speaker 2: been that fit that piece that they were going to
• 29:03
  Speaker 2: fit in right that he has not been. He hasn't
• 29:06
  Speaker 2: been that guy. I mean he didn't score the other night.
• 29:13
  Speaker 2: I mean his efficiency is and he was an efficient
• 29:17
  Speaker 2: player again. And you know that there was a little
• 29:22
  Speaker 2: tampering there by, you know, the villaneuver mafia on the
• 29:26
  Speaker 2: Knicks to get him there, and he could be gone.
• 29:32
  Speaker 2: I mean, like I said, and if the Nets over
• 29:37
  Speaker 2: who still have four draft picks left, then you can't.
• 29:40
  Speaker 2: They don't have one this year from the Knicks because
• 29:42
  Speaker 2: the old Ted Steppien rule Ted Steppian in the early
• 29:46
  Speaker 2: and mid seventies owner to Cleveland Cavaliers, would trade his
• 29:49
  Speaker 2: number one pick every year, and the Cavaliers still going nowhere.
• 29:53
  Speaker 2: So the league made a rule, it's called a Ted
• 29:56
  Speaker 2: Stepien rule, that you can't trade your number one pick
• 29:59
  Speaker 2: to you in a row. So this year the Knicks
• 30:02
  Speaker 2: do have their own pick, but next year the Nets
• 30:04
  Speaker 2: have it. Then two years later the Nets halfened in
• 30:07
  Speaker 2: twenty seven, uh, in twenty nine, in thirty one, thirty three.
• 30:14
  Speaker 2: So if the Knick, if the Net, if the Knicks
• 30:17
  Speaker 2: go deep south and their record is so bad one
• 30:20
  Speaker 2: of these years and uh, you know, the eleven year old,
• 30:24
  Speaker 2: the kid who's eleven year old now is gonna be
• 30:27
  Speaker 2: drafted number one in seven years, five or seven years
• 30:31
  Speaker 2: by the Nets. And that's a super player. The media
• 30:34
  Speaker 2: will never let the Knicks forget that. So they took
• 30:37
  Speaker 2: a big chance. And again, is it is it gonna
• 30:41
  Speaker 2: blow up in their face? Not yet. I can't say
• 30:44
  Speaker 2: it's gonna blow up's.
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: Been having a really good series. I mean, he's making
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: those shots and I just I love watching him pull
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: up for the three, and it just it's pretty amazing
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: to watch his performance this year. He's really stepped up,
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: but we'll have to see. Now another city I'm thinking
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: of because we didn't talk about it in the hockey sect,
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: but down the Turnpike, Philly, you have the Sixers last night,
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: and look, I'm proud of Jason Tatum. I know he's
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: on the other team. I shouldn't say that, but that
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: kid's made it a recovery in less than a year,
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: in less than a year, and wins the game last
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: night like this. It's quite a story if you think
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: about it. And then you've got tonight the Flyers. I mean,
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: I like what the Philly sports is jumping. I also
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: have loved the city, so I have a fondness for
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: the city as well. But it is kind of cool.
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: I think that Flyers love a better chances this postseason
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: than the Sixers, but we'll see.
• 31:35
  Speaker 2: I like the city too. It's a big it's a
• 31:37
  Speaker 2: big sports town. I know the fans are lunatics and
• 31:42
  Speaker 2: not in the p I say that in a negative way,
• 31:44
  Speaker 2: not a positive way. But their fans are passionate. It's
• 31:47
  Speaker 2: a passionate sports town. I thought after I was in
• 31:54
  Speaker 2: May twelfth when Tatum ripped his achilles in that seriously
• 31:57
  Speaker 2: incidents I thought that this year the Celtics might be
• 32:00
  Speaker 2: in the plan. If you told me that the Knicks
• 32:03
  Speaker 2: were going to be behind the Celtics in the regular season,
• 32:06
  Speaker 2: I would have taken I would have taken that bet
• 32:09
  Speaker 2: and say, there's no way that's happening. But they did.
• 32:12
  Speaker 2: And uh, yes, they've played great. But the one thing
• 32:15
  Speaker 2: that could still bite the Celtics and the butt and
• 32:19
  Speaker 2: he saw it. Uh when they lost Game two to
• 32:22
  Speaker 2: the Sixers again, the same thing. What happened when they
• 32:25
  Speaker 2: blew those two twenty point leads in Game one and
• 32:29
  Speaker 2: Game two against the Knicks last year. They they shouldn't.
• 32:33
  Speaker 2: They should have won both those games. They still came
• 32:35
  Speaker 2: down early in the shot clock, taking one three point
• 32:40
  Speaker 2: attempt after another. That's what happens to them the other
• 32:42
  Speaker 2: night against Philly in Game two. So that's where I
• 32:45
  Speaker 2: don't trust the Celtics style of play. But everything else
• 32:49
  Speaker 2: I agree with you. Tatum is remarkable coming back from
• 32:52
  Speaker 2: his injury this year, and uh.
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: And look Brown done a great job too. I mean
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: that they have a nice support system for that Celtics team.
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: There's no doubt about it.
• 33:05
  Speaker 2: So yeah, no, I mean Brown has had an MVP
• 33:09
  Speaker 2: type year for the Celtics, there's no doubt about it,
• 33:12
  Speaker 2: so they'll win the series. The Sixers have some nice
• 33:17
  Speaker 2: young players. I don't know why Joel Beid's not playing.
• 33:21
  Speaker 2: I mean, he had his appendix two weeks ago. I mean,
• 33:23
  Speaker 2: we've seen baseball players come back six seven days after
• 33:26
  Speaker 2: having appendicitis, a removal, come back, and too many sports
• 33:34
  Speaker 2: to follow, but I really I guess the Lakers on.
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: The West was the only one. I'm interested to see
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: how donc if he comes back, how he responds on that.
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: I mean, there's just so much going on. But I
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: want to ask you this for an NBA executive for
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: twenty eight years perspective, wasn't the playoffs so much more
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: compact when you were in the league Blue? I feel
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: like it's so spread out now it's ridiculous.
• 33:54
  Speaker 2: Well, the first round was always spread out, even when
• 33:57
  Speaker 2: I was even when the next we're going to the finals,
• 34:00
  Speaker 2: uh and and the conference semifinals. You know, those years,
• 34:05
  Speaker 2: the first round was spread out. It gets more compact
• 34:08
  Speaker 2: after round one because there's less teams and uh now,
• 34:13
  Speaker 2: especially with these additional networks that the games are on,
• 34:18
  Speaker 2: they're going to they're going to spread them out. I
• 34:20
  Speaker 2: mean all week the games have been on a Prime
• 34:23
  Speaker 2: video with the exception of Sunday and Monday when they
• 34:26
  Speaker 2: were on NBC. And I think today there's a double
• 34:29
  Speaker 2: header on NBC in the afternoon, and I think Prime
• 34:32
  Speaker 2: video takes over at at night. It's too I mean, obviously,
• 34:38
  Speaker 2: I know it's all about the money. You know, I
• 34:40
  Speaker 2: was when I was with the Nets, it was all
• 34:43
  Speaker 2: about producing revenue. That was my job. But you know
• 34:48
  Speaker 2: it was we only had NBC and d n T
• 34:53
  Speaker 2: and then at the end, ABC had uh TNT. So
• 34:57
  Speaker 2: now you have you know, you have Prime Video.
• 35:00
  Speaker 3: Oh you have ABC, Slash, ESPN, you have NBC and
• 35:05
  Speaker 3: Peacock and you know, it's it's hard to keep up
• 35:09
  Speaker 3: with Alex even for the most diehard fan.
• 35:12
  Speaker 1: That's why I'm like, let me pick the series and
• 35:14
  Speaker 1: then I'll talk a little about the rest. So I'll
• 35:16
  Speaker 1: let me pick a couple serious to follow, and then
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: he'll be filling the rest. Because Olahmacy looks like they
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: could be a repeat though, I mean, that's the other
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: storyline going.
• 35:23
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I would say so unless they have major injuries.
• 35:26
  Speaker 2: I can't see them losing four out of seven. But uh,
• 35:32
  Speaker 2: the Lakers have done a great job, and I know
• 35:34
  Speaker 2: a lot of there's been a lot of Laker criticism
• 35:36
  Speaker 2: even in this regular season, which, as we said, we
• 35:41
  Speaker 2: don't know what the gates from the regular season. But
• 35:46
  Speaker 2: you gotta give it to Lebron. You know, on on
• 35:49
  Speaker 2: the court, Lebron is spectacle. I don't believe. I don't
• 35:54
  Speaker 2: agree with some of his off the court statements, but
• 35:57
  Speaker 2: that's neither.
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: Last night, he's complaining against eating a foul call after
• 36:02
  Speaker 1: that miss three or whatever.
• 36:03
  Speaker 2: I saw that on look. But the guy, Alex, the
• 36:07
  Speaker 2: guy is just not good. The guy is spectacular. I mean,
• 36:13
  Speaker 2: they're down Doncic, they're down Austin Reeves, and they're up
• 36:17
  Speaker 2: three three nothing. Yes, I know, Durant missed two of
• 36:19
  Speaker 2: the three games, so that leveled out the playing field
• 36:22
  Speaker 2: a little bit. But when they were down three, you know,
• 36:25
  Speaker 2: with two minutes to go or minute twenty to go,
• 36:27
  Speaker 2: he hit that three from uh in front of the
• 36:31
  Speaker 2: bench with two rockets flying in his face. I mean,
• 36:35
  Speaker 2: Jordan's the best player of all time, still is, but
• 36:42
  Speaker 2: if you can arguably say he's as good as anybody
• 36:45
  Speaker 2: after Jordan, I mean, really, I mean, the guys, the
• 36:49
  Speaker 2: guy's will to win. His competitive spirit is one of
• 36:55
  Speaker 2: the It's up there with any athlete in any sport,
• 37:00
  Speaker 2: you know. And I and believe me, I am never
• 37:02
  Speaker 2: reading for the Los Angeles Lakers. I'm just as I
• 37:05
  Speaker 2: always tell you on this podcast, You'll always get a realist,
• 37:07
  Speaker 2: a realistic, fair and balanced analysis, whether I root for
• 37:14
  Speaker 2: a team or not. So well, he's remarkable. He's been remarkable,
• 37:20
  Speaker 2: And credit to Reddick, to JJ Reddick, who's been criticized,
• 37:23
  Speaker 2: gotta give him a little credit. He's in a tough situation.
• 37:26
  Speaker 2: It's tough to coach the Lakers.
• 37:28
  Speaker 1: Absolutely, and you know they're about as tough of media
• 37:30
  Speaker 1: town as this one is.
• 37:31
  Speaker 2: Absolutely all right.
• 37:33
  Speaker 1: Uh, but the Flyers Penguins haven't gotten to that one.
• 37:36
  Speaker 1: And that's the one I'm really intrigued in because Flyers
• 37:39
  Speaker 1: could really wipe out the Penguins tonight. First of all,
• 37:44
  Speaker 1: five hundred and twenty five dollars just to get into
• 37:46
  Speaker 1: the building is just flyer hockey's back. And I don't
• 37:50
  Speaker 1: if you know this, but when I was a kid,
• 37:51
  Speaker 1: I used to wear a lot more Flyers gire than
• 37:53
  Speaker 1: I admit, and I just liked the callers back in
• 37:55
  Speaker 1: the day. But they also had some good in second grade.
• 37:58
  Speaker 1: I was obsessed with Eric glendaw And and Leclaire and
• 38:03
  Speaker 1: Keith Primo. I mean, all these guys all good players, buddy,
• 38:07
  Speaker 1: all these guys I watched growing up. I mean I
• 38:10
  Speaker 1: was a flyer guy a little bit, but I wouldn't
• 38:12
  Speaker 1: tell anybody in New York that. And now back now
• 38:16
  Speaker 1: they're back to being good again. And it's been a
• 38:19
  Speaker 1: little while. Last time I remember them was just being
• 38:22
  Speaker 1: really good was when they faced the black Hawks in
• 38:23
  Speaker 1: twenty ten. But here they are, here, they are here.
• 38:28
  Speaker 2: Here are two teams. Pittsburgh hadn't made the playoffs. They
• 38:31
  Speaker 2: had gone three straight years without being in the playoffs,
• 38:34
  Speaker 2: and Philadelphia had gone five straight years without being in
• 38:37
  Speaker 2: the playoffs. Pittsburgh had has had a had a terrific
• 38:41
  Speaker 2: regular season from day one, and we've talked about it.
• 38:44
  Speaker 2: They were supposed to go in the tank. They were
• 38:46
  Speaker 2: going to get rid of Crosby, they were gonna get
• 38:48
  Speaker 2: rid of malk and they were gonna get rid of
• 38:49
  Speaker 2: the tang you know, all these guys at the trade
• 38:54
  Speaker 2: deadline and before the trade deadline, Well they kept them
• 38:56
  Speaker 2: all and they were consistent all year. They were good
• 38:59
  Speaker 2: all season. They had no they had no dead periods
• 39:04
  Speaker 2: during the season, and they made the playoffs. They beat
• 39:07
  Speaker 2: the Islands out, you know, the Islanders, and then were tied, uh,
• 39:10
  Speaker 2: you know for the second and third spot where you know,
• 39:12
  Speaker 2: with a couple of weeks to go, and they actually
• 39:15
  Speaker 2: came in and they really started the Islanders on that
• 39:18
  Speaker 2: the last week and a half when they were down
• 39:21
  Speaker 2: three to one, they scored a short handed goal and
• 39:23
  Speaker 2: they end up scoring seven straight goals and basically destroyed
• 39:26
  Speaker 2: the Islander psyche. But they they've been good now. The
• 39:29
  Speaker 2: Flyers have a lot of good young talent, a lot
• 39:32
  Speaker 2: but they were down nine points with five weeks to go,
• 39:35
  Speaker 2: and nobody figured that they could make up those nine points.
• 39:39
  Speaker 2: They did, and then Porta Montone loses the National semi
• 39:46
  Speaker 2: final playing for Michigan loses the Frozen Four. The National semifinal.
• 39:51
  Speaker 2: Flyers signed him right away. They put they put the
• 39:54
  Speaker 2: kid on the power play. The kid's been remarkable. He's
• 39:57
  Speaker 2: nineteen years old. Porter Montone is been remarkable for them.
• 40:00
  Speaker 2: He's been one of their difference makers. And they're gonna
• 40:06
  Speaker 2: win the series. I thought they were gonna win the
• 40:07
  Speaker 2: series going in because the way they were playing and
• 40:12
  Speaker 2: just how they're they're they're tough, they're fast, they're big.
• 40:20
  Speaker 2: I mean, they're gonna win. Obviously they're not. They're not
• 40:23
  Speaker 2: losing four in a row. Maybe Pittsburgh will win tonight,
• 40:25
  Speaker 2: but then the Flyers aren't losing four in a row.
• 40:28
  Speaker 1: And then because I don't know if the road stops
• 40:31
  Speaker 1: here for them or not, I mean.
• 40:33
  Speaker 2: I don't know if it does either, Alex, they they
• 40:35
  Speaker 2: can go to the conference finals.
• 40:37
  Speaker 1: Yeah, the Hurricanes are always formidable, and as I said
• 40:40
  Speaker 1: the other day that I said on the air, I
• 40:41
  Speaker 1: think it's at off air. It'd be like an Eastern
• 40:43
  Speaker 1: Corridor sweep for the Hurricanes. They could beat the Flyers. Also,
• 40:48
  Speaker 1: they've done the Devils the Rangers.
• 40:51
  Speaker 2: Like they have.
• 40:53
  Speaker 1: And I think the Bruins at one point I thought
• 40:55
  Speaker 1: they beat them at one of those series too, but
• 40:57
  Speaker 1: they did.
• 40:57
  Speaker 2: I think it was they beat It was a seven game.
• 40:59
  Speaker 2: I think it was a Gamer a couple of years back.
• 41:02
  Speaker 2: But the Flyers have done a great job. They really have.
• 41:05
  Speaker 2: And you know, we talk about these coaches in the NHL,
• 41:08
  Speaker 2: how they how they just more more in the NHL
• 41:11
  Speaker 2: than any league, how they recycle these coaches. Tacket gets
• 41:14
  Speaker 2: fired in Pittsburgh, I gets it, gets gets fired in Vancouver.
• 41:18
  Speaker 2: Uh he was, he was there when Uh you know
• 41:21
  Speaker 2: the J. T. Miller Elias Peterson, we hate each other,
• 41:25
  Speaker 2: destroyed the locker room. He gets he goes to he
• 41:28
  Speaker 2: goes to Philly. Now, Uh, he's at Philly and he's
• 41:32
  Speaker 2: done a good job with these young guys. And uh,
• 41:37
  Speaker 2: the n the NHL coaching carousel is like none other.
• 41:43
  Speaker 2: Only the English Premier League fires their coaches and recycles
• 41:47
  Speaker 2: their coaches more than than the NHL. But I like
• 41:52
  Speaker 2: the Flyer and believe me, I am no Flyers fan.
• 41:55
  Speaker 2: They're probably one of my least favorite NHL teams. But
• 41:57
  Speaker 2: again fair and balanced on this podcast. As you know
• 42:01
  Speaker 2: they they have done a hell of a job. Is great.
• 42:05
  Speaker 2: Owen Tipping has been a great captain.
• 42:08
  Speaker 1: Uh.
• 42:10
  Speaker 2: I like the fly as I do. I think I
• 42:11
  Speaker 2: think they're gonna give after the series, They're going to
• 42:15
  Speaker 2: give Carolina a big tussle. I really do.
• 42:19
  Speaker 1: Maybe seven, we'll see, all right. One last thing, Louis,
• 42:21
  Speaker 1: we got to give our credit to friend David German,
• 42:24
  Speaker 1: who wanted us to keep come the convo going on
• 42:27
  Speaker 1: the Rangers and Knicks being less than uh, less than iconic. Look,
• 42:33
  Speaker 1: I didn't know the numbers that he was telling us,
• 42:35
  Speaker 1: but uh maybe we maybe one utter a couple. Look,
• 42:39
  Speaker 1: two championships for both of them, well three of them,
• 42:41
  Speaker 1: I guess combined, but two of them since the seventies.
• 42:45
  Speaker 2: It's just well when out, when out, going deeply into them.
• 42:50
  Speaker 2: Everything that Dave sent us in that in that correspondence,
• 42:56
  Speaker 2: in that email, he was I mean, he was totally accurate.
• 42:59
  Speaker 2: And the funny thing, you know, before we had a
• 43:01
  Speaker 2: little technical difficulties and got cut off. You know, we
• 43:06
  Speaker 2: talked about the Rangers one championship in eighty six years. Well,
• 43:11
  Speaker 2: the New York Knickson is the Uh they came into
• 43:13
  Speaker 2: existence in nineteen forty six and uh you know that's
• 43:18
  Speaker 2: even before I was born. Uh, they've only won if
• 43:23
  Speaker 2: they don't do it this year. And I'm not very
• 43:26
  Speaker 2: I'm not gonna bury them. Yet. They lived on two
• 43:30
  Speaker 2: championships in eighty one years. And remember, Alex, when I
• 43:34
  Speaker 2: started watching the NBA, there was only nine teams. There
• 43:38
  Speaker 2: was only nine teams, So it's not like thirty thirty
• 43:41
  Speaker 2: two in some of these leagues.
• 43:44
  Speaker 1: He makes a really good point in East ruler for
• 43:47
  Speaker 1: New Jersey. The Devil's had home ice advantage one hundred.
• 43:50
  Speaker 1: That arena was rocking every game. I remember they did
• 43:54
  Speaker 1: the post the little Stanley Cup parades around the arena itself.
• 43:58
  Speaker 1: I mean, look New Jersey East Rutherbird. That was a
• 44:02
  Speaker 1: great spot for hockey two back in the day.
• 44:04
  Speaker 2: But it was a great building for hockey.
• 44:06
  Speaker 1: But I gotta say this one line, this is the
• 44:08
  Speaker 1: best light he said, he wrote. It has been fifty
• 44:10
  Speaker 1: three years. The next last one in NBA Championship, and
• 44:13
  Speaker 1: with the exception of the two seasons Michael Jordan played baseball,
• 44:17
  Speaker 1: they have never been a series with a title.
• 44:20
  Speaker 2: I guess. Well, even that one year that Jordan played
• 44:24
  Speaker 2: baseball and they beat the Bulls on a controversial game
• 44:28
  Speaker 2: five foul ball that was called against the Bulls, and
• 44:31
  Speaker 2: Youbert Davis had three foul shots. They couldn't beat the
• 44:36
  Speaker 2: Bulls on the road. They won, They beat them four
• 44:40
  Speaker 2: games to three, and they won all four games at
• 44:43
  Speaker 2: the Garden. And that was without Jordan. And uh, like
• 44:48
  Speaker 2: I said, everything they put in that that email, he
• 44:51
  Speaker 2: was one accurate.
• 44:56
  Speaker 1: Sorry Will Lou on that note, I don't even want
• 44:58
  Speaker 1: to talk baseball just because I'm not in the moon today.
• 45:00
  Speaker 2: I really gotta no, no, we got we got all
• 45:03
  Speaker 2: summer to talk about.
• 45:04
  Speaker 1: Our focus should be on what's happening tonight, because if
• 45:06
  Speaker 1: the Knicks lose, and I'll be at the Garden at
• 45:08
  Speaker 1: the watch party. If the Knicks lose, we know the
• 45:13
  Speaker 1: airwaves are gonna be fired up to call for Brown's
• 45:15
  Speaker 1: firing even before the series is over.
• 45:18
  Speaker 2: So yeah, let's look at it this way and I
• 45:21
  Speaker 2: will let you go. If they're losing it down three
• 45:24
  Speaker 2: to one, the pressure switches a little bit. Yes, there's
• 45:29
  Speaker 2: pressure on the Knicks. They can't lose four games to one.
• 45:32
  Speaker 2: But the pressure switches a little bit because now Atlanta,
• 45:35
  Speaker 2: a young Atlanta team is going to say, oh my god,
• 45:37
  Speaker 2: we really have a chance to win this series. So
• 45:40
  Speaker 2: they go to the Garden Game five. The Knicks will
• 45:44
  Speaker 2: be favorite to win Game five. They probably would win
• 45:47
  Speaker 2: Game five. Then they gotta go to Atlanta. And even
• 45:51
  Speaker 2: though Knicks are down in the series, the pressure is
• 45:53
  Speaker 2: gonna be on Atlanta. If we don't win tonight in Atlanta,
• 45:56
  Speaker 2: we're gonna have to play Game seven at the Garden. Yes,
• 45:59
  Speaker 2: we know about the Knicks, and winning at won't big
• 46:01
  Speaker 2: games at home, we can go. There's a litany of them,
• 46:04
  Speaker 2: but they still I still would rather have the home
• 46:07
  Speaker 2: court advantage in Game seven, and a young Atlanta team
• 46:11
  Speaker 2: might fall apart. So even if the Knicks lose tonight,
• 46:14
  Speaker 2: I'm not saying that they're done for sure, but uh,
• 46:19
  Speaker 2: it would be better they win tonight if oh go
• 46:22
  Speaker 2: down three to one, of course.
• 46:24
  Speaker 1: All right, Louis, Well on that note, we'll see what happens.
• 46:26
  Speaker 1: Big days sports ahead, and then next week's the Kentucky Derby.
• 46:30
  Speaker 1: How do we get here to May already? I don't
• 46:32
  Speaker 1: really know how.
• 46:33
  Speaker 2: Yeah, No, it's time. Please slow down a little bit
• 46:38
  Speaker 2: and enjoy.
• 46:38
  Speaker 1: You don't have to get the Mets added because everybody's
• 46:41
  Speaker 1: postponed up here until tomorrow, so you could rest. So
• 46:44
  Speaker 1: all eyes on the Knicks for sure.
• 46:47
  Speaker 2: All right, Alex, thank you so much. I appreciate it
• 46:50
  Speaker 2: as always, love being on Torminello's take with the great
• 46:53
  Speaker 2: Alex Garrett.
• 46:54
  Speaker 1: Think you were joining us at one Look up, Alex Media.
• 46:56
  Speaker 2: Talk to you soon, Louis, Thank you, buddy,