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  Speaker 2: This is the best of the Ben Maler Show on
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  Speaker 3: Man, I'll tell you what. I'm not gonna lie to you,
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  Speaker 3: not gonna lie to you. Malard Militia Lean Day, Lean
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  Speaker 3: Day of sports on Thursday. But there's always stuff going on,
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  Speaker 3: always stuff to talk about. It is funny because I
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  Speaker 3: was getting some notes prepared and all that good stuff,
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  Speaker 3: and I just had the basketball tournament on. That's what
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  Speaker 3: was going on. All baseball is pretty much done. That's
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  Speaker 3: all that was going on. Man, no WNBA. We had
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  Speaker 3: the basketball tournament and some day baseball games. That's pretty
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  Speaker 3: much it. So yeah, the sports menu left a lot
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  Speaker 3: to be desired. But guess what I did sports radio
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  Speaker 3: during the pandemic when no sports was going on. We
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  Speaker 3: had tons of stuff to talk about. So there are
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  Speaker 3: things on my mind. Your participation more than welcome over here.
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  Speaker 3: One of the news stories to show how slow it was,
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  Speaker 3: our guy Schamps, Schamps still working over there at ESPN,
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  Speaker 3: Sham Sharanya. He said that Lebron and his agent Rich Paul,
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  Speaker 3: they are not waiting for another Domino before making a decision,
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  Speaker 3: which might beg the question in your mind. It certainly
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  Speaker 3: doesn't mind. Well, then what's the hold up? What are
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  Speaker 3: we waiting for over here? And let's just cut to
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  Speaker 3: the chase over here, because I know a lot of
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  Speaker 3: people are tired of waiting. They're tired of waiting. They
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  Speaker 3: just want to know, or they just don't want to
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  Speaker 3: hear about endless speculation where Lebron might go. They're just
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  Speaker 3: over the whole thing. So if you would like to know,
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  Speaker 3: I can tell you. I just cut to the chase
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  Speaker 3: and tell you how everything is going to play out,
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  Speaker 3: not just this season, the next two seasons and beyond
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  Speaker 3: the NBA. If you would like to know, I'll just
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  Speaker 3: lay it right out there for you. And I don't
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  Speaker 3: know if Coop and Lorena if they're rolling on this,
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  Speaker 3: because I want to lay out four predictions in rapid
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  Speaker 3: fire order that are all gonna hit you have to play.
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  Speaker 3: If you could play a four leg parlay, I'm telling you,
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  Speaker 3: the odds are gonna be at least plus one thousand
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  Speaker 3: over here. A true four leag parlay is like ten
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  Speaker 3: to one. Maybe get a little bit better payout, get
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  Speaker 3: a little extra juice going on there. This would be
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  Speaker 3: a much better payout than your standard ten to one
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  Speaker 3: because with that plus odds working here for sure. But
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  Speaker 3: I'll just lay them out. I'm gonna put the no
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  Speaker 3: in no stra damis okay, And I want this recorded
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  Speaker 3: because over the next two plus years, when it pans
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  Speaker 3: out exactly how I'm telling you it's gonna pan out,
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  Speaker 3: you might trace back to this and say, wow, man,
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  Speaker 3: what a prediction. By no, you might say those exact
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  Speaker 3: words right there, word for word. So the first part
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  Speaker 3: of this prediction one where is Lebron going to play?
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  Speaker 3: He's going to play for the Miami Heat. Okay, it's
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  Speaker 3: it shouldn't be. Like, it's just amazing to be the
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  Speaker 3: accidental post on the Heat's YouTube page, and like, if
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  Speaker 3: you missed it, I don't know how you missed it,
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  Speaker 3: but just so we're on the same page. The Miami
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  Speaker 3: Heat posted a link on their YouTube channel to a
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  Speaker 3: scheduled live stream titled Lebron James Introductory Press Conference. The
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  Speaker 3: date was set for Monday, July twenty seventh, and a
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  Speaker 3: team spokesman said that was a mistake and so it
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  Speaker 3: was taken down right away. Does that just seem like
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  Speaker 3: a mistake, like we're just in case? Lebron says, yes,
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  Speaker 3: the Miami Heat, we just had it ready to go
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  Speaker 3: in case we needed it on Monday July twenty seventh.
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  Speaker 4: I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: It seems more than a coincidence to me. But it's
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  Speaker 3: funny just listening to sports radio, watching television Sports TV.
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  Speaker 3: It's like, well, this doesn't mean anything. Necessarily, call me crazy,
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  Speaker 3: but I think there's some smoke there, and I think
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  Speaker 3: there's some fire behind that as well. And it's not
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  Speaker 3: just that clue of the accidental post. It's just clues
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  Speaker 3: lining up over here. We got clues starting to mount up,
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  Speaker 3: and it's like, Okay, this is becoming more than just
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  Speaker 3: a coincidence here. How about pat Riley. Pat Riley when
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  Speaker 3: they were introducing Yanis ad debt to Kumbo, the newest
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  Speaker 3: member of the Miami Heat just traded for him blockbuster trade.
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  Speaker 3: Yannis is coming to Miami. This is what pat Riley
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  Speaker 3: said in the introductory press conference.
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  Speaker 4: Lane, Now there's another one we have to land.
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  Speaker 3: We landed the plane. Now there's another one we have
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  Speaker 3: to land. What's he talking about? Pretty obvious. They just
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  Speaker 3: got you, honest. That's plane number one. Now there's another
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  Speaker 3: plane to land. That would be the Lebron airwaves right there.
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  Speaker 3: So that's another clue. It's on the radar. That's what
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  Speaker 3: they're aiming to do. That's their intention, so forth and
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  Speaker 3: so on. Do you think pat Riley is throwing that
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  Speaker 3: out there if he knows they have no shot, if
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  Speaker 3: he knows they don't have a good shot, No, he
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  Speaker 3: is not. So those are a couple of clues. Now
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  Speaker 3: we get to the basketball stuff. Why Lebron will be
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  Speaker 3: a member of the Miami Heat. So Lebron mentioned this
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  Speaker 3: last year, well after last season ended. So Lakers, they
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  Speaker 3: get punked by Okac, they get swept, and Lebron mentioned
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  Speaker 3: this when the season was done. Now keep this in
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  Speaker 3: mind as it pertains to the here and now when
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  Speaker 3: he's trying to pick his new team. I was putting
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  Speaker 3: into some positions I've never played in my career before,
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  Speaker 3: actually my life I've never been a third option in
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  Speaker 3: my life. Okay. Now, to Lebron's credit, he made it work.
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  Speaker 3: He didn't throw a hissy fit. He's not a me
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  Speaker 3: guy when it comes to basketball. He's a me guy
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  Speaker 3: when it comes to attention. I need this and no
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  Speaker 3: green eminem. So, like, you know, there's a reason why
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  Speaker 3: Jeanie Buss was like this guy is a lot of drama. Man,
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  Speaker 3: Holy hell, right, and as she tried to walk it back.
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  Speaker 3: Lebron is one of the biggest me guys off the court.
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  Speaker 3: He is the opposite of a me guy on the court.
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  Speaker 3: So to his credit on the court last season, he
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  Speaker 3: made it work. He wasn't like Luca is the number
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  Speaker 3: one option. Austin Reeves is the number two option. I'm
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  Speaker 3: let me get this straight. I'm me. Lebron James the
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  Speaker 3: third option. Get the hell out of here. He could
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  Speaker 3: have thrown a hissy fit. He didn't do it, but
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  Speaker 3: he didn't like it. He didn't like being a third option.
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  Speaker 3: That matters when it comes to his decision. Now do
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  Speaker 3: you think he's going to Philly. He's not going to Philly.
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  Speaker 3: Think about this. At times, he would be the fourth option.
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  Speaker 3: Some people might roll their eyes at it. Walk your
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  Speaker 3: way through this. Jalen Brown, formerly the Celtics, who the
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  Speaker 3: Sixers just traded for. He was a legitimate MVP candidate
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  Speaker 3: last season, much younger than Lebron James, He's gonna be
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  Speaker 3: an earlier option than Lebron would be on that team.
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  Speaker 3: A healthy Joel ebeat however, long he is healthy four,
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  Speaker 3: they're gonna play through Joel Embiid much more than they
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  Speaker 3: would with Lebron. James Tyrese Maxi Tyre's has the ball
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  Speaker 3: in his hands quite a bit. Slasher, good shooter, great
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  Speaker 3: offensive threat, a better threat than Lebron. At this stage
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  Speaker 3: of his career, Lebron would be at best a third option. Again,
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  Speaker 3: at times, he would be the fourth option. He's not
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  Speaker 3: signing up for that. He's not going to Philly. If
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  Speaker 3: you look at Miami compared to Cleveland, let's do a
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  Speaker 3: little side by side right here, why he will ultimately
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  Speaker 3: choose the Miami Heat. If you look at Cleveland, James
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  Speaker 3: Harden has to have the ball all the time. He
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  Speaker 3: dominates the basketball. That's not gonna mesh with Lebron. Lebron
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  Speaker 3: wints the ball quite a bit as well, So if
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  Speaker 3: you look at Lebron with Yannis. Yannis dominates the ball
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  Speaker 3: as well. But Yannis, being the great athlete that he is,
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  Speaker 3: his game meshes with Lebron setting the table for him.
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  Speaker 3: I'll put it this way. Yannis could play off ball
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  Speaker 3: way more than Harden could. So that's not a great
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  Speaker 3: fit for Lebron to go back home and go back
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  Speaker 3: to Cleveland. And I gotta give credit Brad Bodkin. He's
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  Speaker 3: covered the NBA for a long long time. I used
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  Speaker 3: to interview him when I did local radio back in Portland.
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  Speaker 3: But he had a line. I have to give him credit.
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  Speaker 3: I can't. I can't rip it off of him. It
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  Speaker 3: was so good, he said, if you look at Lebron.
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  Speaker 3: He compared Lebron going to Cleveland for a third time
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  Speaker 3: to your third trip in the buffet line. That's what
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  Speaker 3: he compared it to. He's like, you know, you go
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  Speaker 3: to the buffet line. First time, Oh, it's great, Second
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  Speaker 3: time pretty good. Third time normally doesn't go well. Normally
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  Speaker 3: it's a wasted trip. You thought that you you had
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  Speaker 3: room in your stomach and now you're just kind of
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  Speaker 3: looking at your food like, oh gosh, I feel gross.
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  Speaker 3: That's what he compared Lebron going to Cleveland too. It
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  Speaker 3: makes sense if you look at Lebron's last act in Cleveland.
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  Speaker 3: He can't outdo it. There's no outdoing that. He came
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  Speaker 3: back from a three to one deficit against a seventy
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  Speaker 3: three win Warriors team and oh, by the way, ended
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  Speaker 3: a fifty two year championship drought for the entire city
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  Speaker 3: of Cleveland. That is a mic drop moment. It doesn't
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  Speaker 3: get any better than that. And he knows that he's
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  Speaker 3: not going to Cleveland. He's not going to the West either.
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  Speaker 3: The Warriors, forget it. Lebron is not gonna team up
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  Speaker 3: with those geezers when he's the oldest geezer. That's not
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  Speaker 3: gonna happen. This is what blows my mind. Just to
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  Speaker 3: put in PERSPECTI of how old the Warriors are. Yiannis
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  Speaker 3: at debt to Koombo seems like he's been in the
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  Speaker 3: NBA forever. He's thirty one years old. You compare that
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  Speaker 3: to Jimmy Butler and Draymond Green. Both of those guys
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  Speaker 3: are thirty six. Yannis is thirty one. Those guys are
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  Speaker 3: five years older than Yannis. Steph's thirty eight. Lebron's forty one.
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  Speaker 3: The chances that all those guys are healthy when it
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  Speaker 3: matters most at the end of the season come playoff
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  Speaker 3: time slim to none. Man, he knows that he's not
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  Speaker 3: going there, not going to Minnesota either. It'd be possible
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  Speaker 3: if he's in the West that if the bracket sorts
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  Speaker 3: out a certain way, that his team would have to
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  Speaker 3: face both the Spurs and Okase. That's what would have
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  Speaker 3: happened this past season for the Timberwolves. If they beat
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  Speaker 3: the Spurs, they would have faced the Thunder. That's not
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  Speaker 3: a great path to a finals appearance, certainly not a
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  Speaker 3: great path toward a title. So I don't think he's
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  Speaker 3: going to the West. He's going to Miami. And plus
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  Speaker 3: Lebron's this golf junkie. Now, you can play golf all
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  Speaker 3: he wants in Miami. You're not doing that in Philly
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  Speaker 3: and Cleveland. Get out. He's not going there. He's going
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  Speaker 3: to Miami. Okay, I just let you know prediction number
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  Speaker 3: one going to Miami. Now it gets uh, we get
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  Speaker 3: to do some I don't know, extra credit territory if
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  Speaker 3: you will. Now he's not coming back just for one season.
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  Speaker 3: This is prediction two. He's coming back to play two
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  Speaker 3: more seasons. He dropped hints at Fanatics fan Fest the
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  Speaker 3: other week where he pushed back on the narrative. Lebron
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  Speaker 3: always pushing back on a narrative. Let's push back on
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  Speaker 3: the narrative. And he's right. He's like, we're always trying
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  Speaker 3: to get these athletes to retire. Why are we pushing
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  Speaker 3: I forget. I think he said Bruce Springsteen. Are we
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  Speaker 3: pushing for Bruce Springsteen to retire? It's like, why are
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  Speaker 3: we doing this with athletes? I think he plays two
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  Speaker 3: more seasons, still playing at a very high level. That
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  Speaker 3: would put him at twenty five total NBA seasons, a
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  Speaker 3: quarter of a century. Nice number to end on. And
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  Speaker 3: I think it goes right into this prediction three. So
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  Speaker 3: not this season. Next season, the twenty twenty seven to
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  Speaker 3: twenty eight season, that will be Lebron's farewell tour. He'll
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  Speaker 3: certainly have that, but that won't be the end of
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  Speaker 3: his career. Oh No, His final act will be the
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  Speaker 3: twenty twenty eight Summer Olympics. He's gonna play basketball for
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  Speaker 3: Team USA yet again in Los Angeles. Huh at prediction four,
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  Speaker 3: I don't think this is a shocker. Lebron's not gonna
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  Speaker 3: win another NBA title, But in true Lebron fashion, he's
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  Speaker 3: don't look here, look over here, don't look at me,
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  Speaker 3: not winning another title. Don't look at me, Team USA.
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  Speaker 3: He's gonna aim to go out on top, winning gold
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  Speaker 3: American flag around his shoulders, leaving on a high note
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  Speaker 3: that that will be the final act for Lebron James.
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  Speaker 3: So there you go.
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  Speaker 3: You know, I do think there is such a thing
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  Speaker 3: as being too honest, and we got a taste of
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  Speaker 3: that on Wednesday, compliments of wide receiver Tyreek Hill. Now,
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  Speaker 3: Tyreek Hill is rehabbing from a devastating left knee injury.
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  Speaker 3: So it's about ten months removed since this injury, which
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  Speaker 3: you know, if you're doing a timeline here, is about
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  Speaker 3: as long as the NBA has been looking into Kawhi
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  Speaker 3: Leonard maybe taking money under the table. We still don't
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  Speaker 3: have an answer on that. But you've got Tyreek Hill,
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  Speaker 3: who he had this devastating left knee injury and we're
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  Speaker 3: ten months removed, and so he went on YouTube and
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  Speaker 3: he gave us a little update. Now we've condensed it
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  Speaker 3: over here because this is about a minute and a half.
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  Speaker 3: You know what need that you just need a good
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  Speaker 3: twenty seconds ober here, let's cut to the chase. This
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  Speaker 3: is what Tyreek Hill says about his left knee as
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  Speaker 3: he's rehabbing, trying to get healthy again, trying to end
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  Speaker 3: up on a new NFL team, because the Dolphins released
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  Speaker 3: him based on this in his contract and also his
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  Speaker 3: health status right having this devastating knee injury. So he's
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  Speaker 3: a free agent right now, and he's just like hey,
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  Speaker 3: by the way. Just the guys know, this is what
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  Speaker 3: I'm dealing with over here. Here's what Tyreek Hill had
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  Speaker 3: to say on his YouTube channel.
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  Speaker 4: And they told me I'll be able to walk, eat
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  Speaker 4: and if you don't know what's gonna have him to
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  Speaker 4: a few I look at me. So it's about ten
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  Speaker 4: months after doing two surgeries. My left leg is the
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  Speaker 4: one that I injured. I have no power in my
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  Speaker 4: left leg at all. So I'm trying to regain all
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  Speaker 4: the power back in my left leg. But it was
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  Speaker 4: one day at a time.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, Now, the first part of it was not the
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  Speaker 3: greatest audio. It kind of sounds muffled, sort of like
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  Speaker 3: underwater or something. But he basically says the doctors were like, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: you might not walk again. He's he threw that out there,
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  Speaker 3: like you might not walk Tyreek, and he's like, now
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  Speaker 3: look at me. And then he also said, this was
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  Speaker 3: the most important part right here.
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  Speaker 4: I have no power in my left leg at all.
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  Speaker 3: There no power in my left leg at all, nothing, Lorena,
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  Speaker 3: I got nothing. I'm working on it. But he was
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  Speaker 3: so good, he was he was awesome. I think there's
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  Speaker 3: such a thing as being too honest. I think what
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  Speaker 3: Tyreek Hill said in this video, it'd be like approaching
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  Speaker 3: a girl and saying, hey, my name is John and
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  Speaker 3: I have a terrible drinking problem. You know, like the
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  Speaker 3: girl's gonna be like nice to meet you, John, bye.
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  Speaker 3: Like dooom, You're just darting off right there. This is
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  Speaker 3: too much information. And so Tyreek, this is good for
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  Speaker 3: a you know, like a YouTube video. And he's trying
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  Speaker 3: to get healthy again, trying to get his body right.
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  Speaker 3: He's working very hard. But all NFL teams here is this.
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  Speaker 4: I have no power in my left leg at all.
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  Speaker 3: That's all they hear. And it's like, all right, just
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  Speaker 3: kind of let us know when you do have power
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  Speaker 3: in that left leg there, Tyreek. That's what NFL teams
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  Speaker 3: are thinking. So it's just interesting. I get it where
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  Speaker 3: school for a YouTube video, but I think it's great
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  Speaker 3: to put it out there in terms of getting on
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  Speaker 3: the next NFL team. But you're seeing more and more
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  Speaker 3: in this. Maybe this is just like a younger generation
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  Speaker 3: type thing. I don't know, and I'm not trying to
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  Speaker 3: sound like the old boomer guy, but Tyreek Hill, he's
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  Speaker 3: thirty two, you know, he's not like young young born
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  Speaker 3: in the two thousands young type thing. But you're seeing
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  Speaker 3: this more and more. I thought this with Bears quarterback
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  Speaker 3: Caleb Williams, remember heading into last season, he just threw
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  Speaker 3: it out there where he was like, yeah, I didn't
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  Speaker 3: even really want to be drafted by the Bears, And
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  Speaker 3: it was just like what my thought was, I don't
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  Speaker 3: know why you would want to put this out there,
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  Speaker 3: because it could make things potentially harder for you if
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  Speaker 3: you just kind of like put yourself back to when
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  Speaker 3: he made those comments. So this is the off season
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  Speaker 3: after his rookie year, Caleb Williams just put it out
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  Speaker 3: there like, yeah, I didn't even want the Bears to
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  Speaker 3: draft me at first. That's what he said at first,
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  Speaker 3: and he kind of warmed up to the idea, but
• 17:55
  Speaker 3: at first he wanted no part of being a Chicago Bear.
• 17:58
  Speaker 3: And my thought was, again, that's great if you're retired
• 18:04
  Speaker 3: and you just throw out a fun fact in a
• 18:05
  Speaker 3: book or something like that. Let's say you had a
• 18:08
  Speaker 3: distinguished career and it's just like a fun footnote. It's
• 18:11
  Speaker 3: like a fun fact, like, yeah, I didn't even want
• 18:13
  Speaker 3: to go to the Bears, and I won two rings
• 18:15
  Speaker 3: and the rest is history, and all is great, and
• 18:17
  Speaker 3: it's just like, ah, it just lands completely differently. But
• 18:21
  Speaker 3: after a rookie season when Caleb Williams struggled, when Jaden
• 18:28
  Speaker 3: Daniels outplayed him, Jaden Daniels was the toast of the NFL.
• 18:31
  Speaker 3: It's the rookie quarterback with the Washington Commanders, made it
• 18:34
  Speaker 3: all the way to the NFC Championship game, had a
• 18:36
  Speaker 3: brilliant rookie season. He was the number two overall pick.
• 18:40
  Speaker 3: He significantly outplayed Caleb Williams, who was the number one
• 18:44
  Speaker 3: overall pick. And so it's like, at that time, you
• 18:47
  Speaker 3: really want to put it out there, Like I didn't
• 18:49
  Speaker 3: even want to get drafted by the Bears at first.
• 18:51
  Speaker 3: I just thought, like that's a little bit too much information. Now,
• 18:55
  Speaker 3: to Caleb Williams's credit, he played really well, took a
• 18:58
  Speaker 3: significant step forward in year two, won a playoff game,
• 19:03
  Speaker 3: nearly beat the Rams in a second playoff game, had
• 19:08
  Speaker 3: handful of interceptions in that game. But all things considered,
• 19:12
  Speaker 3: a very successful season for Caleb Williams. So that that's
• 19:16
  Speaker 3: a footnote right now. But if year two went poorly,
• 19:22
  Speaker 3: that could have been thrown in his face. Some of
• 19:25
  Speaker 3: these fans, they're crazy, man, like you don't even want
• 19:28
  Speaker 3: to be a Bear. And think about Caleb Williams also,
• 19:30
  Speaker 3: where there's just something about the guy where he gets
• 19:35
  Speaker 3: criticized more heavily than other quarterbacks have gotten criticized. You
• 19:40
  Speaker 3: could go back to college and he was just a
• 19:42
  Speaker 3: polarizing guy. There are a lot of people that called
• 19:45
  Speaker 3: him out like, oh, he cried in his mother's arms,
• 19:48
  Speaker 3: which I thought was stupid. In terms of the criticism,
• 19:52
  Speaker 3: it was a close game against Washington that basically wrecked
• 19:55
  Speaker 3: their season. He's emotional after a loss. I have no
• 19:58
  Speaker 3: issue with that whatsoever. That a bit big deal. He
• 20:01
  Speaker 3: was criticized heavily for that. He's criticized for painting his nails.
• 20:05
  Speaker 3: He's just under the microscope. And so if year two
• 20:09
  Speaker 3: didn't go well, you're telling me there aren't a lot
• 20:12
  Speaker 3: of Bears fans are like, he doesn't even want to
• 20:14
  Speaker 3: be a part of this organization. I don't know. It
• 20:17
  Speaker 3: was just it was an interesting thing to throw out
• 20:20
  Speaker 3: there where a lot of these younger athletes that's just
• 20:24
  Speaker 3: how they operate. There's like I just threw it out there, man, Like, yeah,
• 20:27
  Speaker 3: so be it. It's just out there. It's good for
• 20:30
  Speaker 3: the here and now. It's good for whatever, a YouTube video,
• 20:34
  Speaker 3: a social media post, an interview like whatever it is.
• 20:38
  Speaker 3: They just throw it out there and they don't really
• 20:40
  Speaker 3: think about how this could come back to bite me.
• 20:44
  Speaker 3: So I just think it's interesting. But the Tyreek Hill thing,
• 20:49
  Speaker 3: I don't know, man, I think that's a little bit
• 20:50
  Speaker 3: too much honesty right there.
• 20:52
  Speaker 4: I have no power in my left leg at all.
• 20:55
  Speaker 3: Nothing, no power right now, working on it, Loraina. I'll
• 20:59
  Speaker 3: get back to you when I have power. I got
• 21:00
  Speaker 3: nothing for you right now, no power, no push off.
• 21:04
  Speaker 3: And I'm known, Like that's the thing. Tyreek Hill's game.
• 21:07
  Speaker 3: He's known for being fast, he's known for being quick.
• 21:12
  Speaker 3: It's this whole game. Instead of the Cheetah, now he
• 21:15
  Speaker 3: can be the Flamingo. Wow. Really, it's that's that's a
• 21:22
  Speaker 3: that's a belief. The leg bending the wrong way. That's
• 21:24
  Speaker 3: as gruesome by you right there. Actually, but it's true. Yeah,
• 21:28
  Speaker 3: it's I don't know, it's a little bit too honest.
• 21:31
  Speaker 3: And I hope he can rehab and get back because
• 21:35
  Speaker 3: just in terms of an NFL talent, it's crazy some
• 21:38
  Speaker 3: of the seasons that he's had. If you look at
• 21:40
  Speaker 3: this in Miami, he had two seasons with over seventeen
• 21:44
  Speaker 3: hundred yards. That's really good man. And you go back
• 21:49
  Speaker 3: to his days with Mahomes and the Chiefs, and he's
• 21:52
  Speaker 3: had three seasons with double digit touchdown catches. He's got
• 21:56
  Speaker 3: five not see, No, he's got six seasons with at
• 22:01
  Speaker 3: least eleven hundred yards. He's been a really good NFL receiver.
• 22:07
  Speaker 3: And now he's had this gruesome leg injury and he
• 22:09
  Speaker 3: gave us an update and it's like he's done a
• 22:12
  Speaker 3: lot of work. He's you know, he's gotten to a
• 22:15
  Speaker 3: level that some of his doctors never thought he would
• 22:18
  Speaker 3: get to. But he still obviously has a long way
• 22:21
  Speaker 3: to go. So I don't know. I I just I
• 22:24
  Speaker 3: don't know. I'm not trying to nitpick it. I'm just saying,
• 22:27
  Speaker 3: if you're his agent, are you like, hey, Tyreek, caught
• 22:31
  Speaker 3: the YouTube video, great stuff, man, love it more of that?
• 22:35
  Speaker 3: Or are you just like, hey, Tyreek, this doesn't really
• 22:39
  Speaker 3: help us get on the next NFL team. You know,
• 22:42
  Speaker 3: maybe maybe i'd be so honest next time, maybe like, hey,
• 22:46
  Speaker 3: rehab's going great. Look at me, look at me, Look
• 22:49
  Speaker 3: how much progress I'm making. He's jumping out of the pool.
• 22:51
  Speaker 3: It's like, all right, some of the strengths coming back.
• 22:53
  Speaker 3: You don't really want to put it out there on
• 22:55
  Speaker 3: wax that, Oh, by.
• 22:56
  Speaker 4: The way, I have no power in my left leg
• 22:59
  Speaker 4: at all.
• 23:02
  Speaker 3: If you're the agent, you're like a little less of that,
• 23:05
  Speaker 3: a little less honesty there, Tyreek. Let's leave some cards
• 23:08
  Speaker 3: off the table. I think that would help us find
• 23:10
  Speaker 3: our next NFL team, maybe a little bit quicker. But hey,
• 23:14
  Speaker 3: we got injuries going on in the NFL already. Believe
• 23:18
  Speaker 3: it or not. This is not a huge name, but
• 23:21
  Speaker 3: the Carolina Panthers, they're fully open for training camp. We've
• 23:24
  Speaker 3: got the Cardinals and the Panthers. Everybody is there for
• 23:27
  Speaker 3: training camp because those teams play in the Hall of
• 23:30
  Speaker 3: Fame game very soon here August sixth, so we're ramping
• 23:35
  Speaker 3: up toward that. And the Panthers had an injury in camp.
• 23:39
  Speaker 3: You got Nick Scorton going down. I know, not a
• 23:42
  Speaker 3: huge name, but had five sacks as a rookie, and
• 23:46
  Speaker 3: with the Panthers trying to take a step forward, that's
• 23:48
  Speaker 3: a significant loss for them. That's tough when you're not
• 23:51
  Speaker 3: even putting the pads on yet and he tore his
• 23:53
  Speaker 3: ACL so he's done for the year. Just boom, like that,
• 23:57
  Speaker 3: and it really it's a reminder that we'll do all
• 24:00
  Speaker 3: of our NFL predictions over the next handful of weeks
• 24:04
  Speaker 3: as we ramp up toward the season, and you I
• 24:08
  Speaker 3: fall into this trap sometimes too. But all of this stuff,
• 24:11
  Speaker 3: all these rosters, all these games aren't played on paper. Okay,
• 24:15
  Speaker 3: you might hear someone say, you know, I've got it
• 24:19
  Speaker 3: just some I've got the Titans to win the AFC South,
• 24:21
  Speaker 3: and you're like, that's the dumbest thing I've ever heard.
• 24:24
  Speaker 3: You're out of your mind. And it's just like, well,
• 24:27
  Speaker 3: the Jags aren't. It's not set in stone they're going
• 24:30
  Speaker 3: to remain healthy. It's not set in stone that you
• 24:33
  Speaker 3: know the Colts are gonna be blessed with better health.
• 24:36
  Speaker 3: Or it's like when the injury bug starts hitting teams,
• 24:40
  Speaker 3: things change so fast. So I'm not telling you there
• 24:44
  Speaker 3: are no dumb predictions. There are, but some predictions that
• 24:48
  Speaker 3: you think are outlandish, like what are you talking about?
• 24:53
  Speaker 3: The injury bug can make some crazy things happen in
• 24:56
  Speaker 3: the NFL. So just when you think a team like
• 25:00
  Speaker 3: the Rams, I love the Rams roster, I think they're
• 25:03
  Speaker 3: I think they're in great shape to challenge for a
• 25:06
  Speaker 3: super Bowl this season. I would never be as bolish
• 25:11
  Speaker 3: as to say, oh, you know, write it down in
• 25:14
  Speaker 3: you know, if not penn like strong pencil, they're gonna
• 25:18
  Speaker 3: be in the super Bowl. You know, market book it
• 25:20
  Speaker 3: blah blah. It's like Stafford could get have a back
• 25:23
  Speaker 3: injury in week two and everything changes.
• 25:27
  Speaker 4: You know.
• 25:27
  Speaker 3: So it's just life in the NFL. Man, So Nick
• 25:30
  Speaker 3: Gorton goes down. But the biggest picture is keep that
• 25:34
  Speaker 3: in mind when you're doing these NFL predictions or reacting
• 25:37
  Speaker 3: to somebody else's NFL predictions. There's some stuff that you
• 25:40
  Speaker 3: don't see coming whatsoever. And it happens every single year. Man,
• 25:45
  Speaker 3: it's like clockwork. This year will be no different.
• 25:48
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• 25:53
  Speaker 3: All right, so here we go. Here's I'm gonna have
• 25:58
  Speaker 3: to read something that I think is absolutely beyond idiotic,
• 26:03
  Speaker 3: like braindead with this column. One of my friends sent
• 26:08
  Speaker 3: me this column in the morning and he was basically like,
• 26:12
  Speaker 3: I can't believe this is a real thing. I thought
• 26:14
  Speaker 3: this was like the onion. I thought this was sort
• 26:16
  Speaker 3: of a made up shock jock column, you know, like
• 26:20
  Speaker 3: poking fun at other shock jock columns. And he was like,
• 26:24
  Speaker 3: there's a real thing, And so I read this thing.
• 26:27
  Speaker 3: It's on USA Today Sports. There's a column written by
• 26:31
  Speaker 3: Nancy Armor, and she's talking about Caitlyn Clark. So the
• 26:35
  Speaker 3: tweet just simply says Clark has repeatedly berated refs after
• 26:42
  Speaker 3: not getting calls replays show she doesn't deserve. Okay, so
• 26:48
  Speaker 3: we can all grasp that the column this is saying
• 26:51
  Speaker 3: Caitlyn Clark is yelling at officials and she's arguing she
• 26:56
  Speaker 3: should get the call when replay shows she shouldn't get
• 26:59
  Speaker 3: the call. That's what she's talking about. Some would call
• 27:02
  Speaker 3: that working the refs, Nancy Armor. The columnists would call
• 27:06
  Speaker 3: it something much different, much much different. So I got
• 27:12
  Speaker 3: to read a couple of things just so you understand.
• 27:14
  Speaker 3: Hopefully it's painless and we can you get the context
• 27:18
  Speaker 3: and you can get to the point. What at least
• 27:21
  Speaker 3: my takeaway of this. So what Nancy is saying this
• 27:26
  Speaker 3: is all about. What she's pointing out is Caitlin Clark
• 27:30
  Speaker 3: essentially flopping trying to draw a foul. Some would say
• 27:35
  Speaker 3: working the officials, right, Just that was a foul ref
• 27:38
  Speaker 3: where you you know, call it, what is that? And
• 27:40
  Speaker 3: it the replay shows that's really not a foul. Nothing sinister,
• 27:45
  Speaker 3: nothing evil about that whatsoever. It's just basketball. But Nancy
• 27:50
  Speaker 3: twists and contorts this into something that's just like, wow, dude,
• 27:55
  Speaker 3: that is the the most major league reach of reaches
• 28:00
  Speaker 3: I've ever heard before. So she points out a couple
• 28:03
  Speaker 3: of times recently that Caitlyn Clark is, you know, working
• 28:07
  Speaker 3: the officials, yelling at them, saying where's the call? That's
• 28:10
  Speaker 3: a foul? And replay shows it's not really a foul.
• 28:13
  Speaker 3: So what Nancy points out is that she's saying that
• 28:16
  Speaker 3: there's there seems to be a white nationalist faction that
• 28:22
  Speaker 3: rushes to Caitlin Clark's defense and they might shout down
• 28:27
  Speaker 3: opponents who happen to be black women. That's her point.
• 28:32
  Speaker 3: And so I'll just read one paragraph that's just like,
• 28:37
  Speaker 3: whoa what are we doing right here? So she goes
• 28:40
  Speaker 3: on to write, it shouldn't need reminding this country has
• 28:43
  Speaker 3: an awful history of black people being harmed even killed
• 28:48
  Speaker 3: in the name of quote unquote defending white women. The
• 28:52
  Speaker 3: irony of the WNBA's All Star Game is that it's
• 28:54
  Speaker 3: happening this weekend in Chicago, the hometown of Emmett Till,
• 29:00
  Speaker 3: who became an icon of the civil rights movement after
• 29:02
  Speaker 3: his tragic murder. The local art gallery is currently hosting
• 29:06
  Speaker 3: an exhibit imagining his life if he weren't if he
• 29:11
  Speaker 3: hadn't been lynched. While it's incumbent on THEWNBA to do
• 29:16
  Speaker 3: more to protect its players, there also should be an
• 29:19
  Speaker 3: expectation on Clark to recognize the broader implications of her
• 29:24
  Speaker 3: actions being weaponized. Now she ends it saying again, I'm
• 29:29
  Speaker 3: not a Clark hater. She's great for the league and
• 29:31
  Speaker 3: for women's sports. She'll be even better when she cuts
• 29:34
  Speaker 3: out the Oscar auditions. So she's saying she's flopping, she's flailing,
• 29:40
  Speaker 3: she's trying to draw files get the whistle when she
• 29:45
  Speaker 3: didn't actually get fouled at times. That's her whole point.
• 29:48
  Speaker 3: And then she made it into what I just read you,
• 29:50
  Speaker 3: which is like what, So here's what I would say
• 29:54
  Speaker 3: two simple takeaways from this idiotic column. No athlete, No
• 30:01
  Speaker 3: athlete should change their style of play because stupid people
• 30:06
  Speaker 3: might say stupid things. No one should change that. Caitlyn
• 30:10
  Speaker 3: Clark shouldn't take this advice and be like, yeah, you
• 30:12
  Speaker 3: know what, I shouldn't try to draw a foul against
• 30:16
  Speaker 3: I don't know Jackie Young, Chelsea Gray, name any black
• 30:21
  Speaker 3: women's player. I shouldn't try to draw a foul on
• 30:23
  Speaker 3: Asia Wilson because some crazy, unhinged white nationalists might say
• 30:30
  Speaker 3: some crazy stuff. So let me not try. Let me
• 30:32
  Speaker 3: not do that. Let me not try to flop or
• 30:34
  Speaker 3: accentuate contact. Let's not do that. That would be a
• 30:38
  Speaker 3: dumb move. No athlete, whether it's Kitlyn Clark, Angel Reese,
• 30:44
  Speaker 3: Patrick Mahomes, Lebron, anyone we've talked, no athlete should change
• 30:49
  Speaker 3: their style of play because dumb people will point out
• 30:53
  Speaker 3: dumb things. That makes no sense. And the larger point
• 30:56
  Speaker 3: is this, sports aren't real life. You can't try to
• 31:03
  Speaker 3: shoehorn politics or history into sports. It's just sports, that's
• 31:09
  Speaker 3: all it is. You could play that game until you're
• 31:11
  Speaker 3: blue in the face and it would make zero sense.
• 31:16
  Speaker 3: You could say, all right, Nick Bosa of the forty
• 31:18
  Speaker 3: nine ers, white guy, he sacks Dak Prescott, black quarterback,
• 31:24
  Speaker 3: and man nick Bosa, he got really hammered him into
• 31:27
  Speaker 3: the ground, right, And well, I mean we've got a
• 31:30
  Speaker 3: history of racism in this country, so that's kind of
• 31:32
  Speaker 3: messed up. It's like, no, no, it's just football. This
• 31:38
  Speaker 3: has nothing to do with a horrible past of races.
• 31:42
  Speaker 3: There's nothing to do with none of that. I've got
• 31:46
  Speaker 3: a memory of one of my old old coaches. I
• 31:50
  Speaker 3: thought about this after reading this idiotic column, and coach Burkhardt,
• 31:55
  Speaker 3: who was one of my high school football coaches. I'll
• 31:57
  Speaker 3: never forget. He said this one time. He goes football
• 31:59
  Speaker 3: is the greatest game ever. You can do things on
• 32:02
  Speaker 3: the field that you'd get arrested for in real life.
• 32:06
  Speaker 3: And he's so right like that. You can't can't just
• 32:09
  Speaker 3: go up and and tackle your boss, Like hey, Scott Shapiro,
• 32:13
  Speaker 3: how about some more fill in shifts over here? And
• 32:15
  Speaker 3: I just spear them like a goldberg, like that's it's
• 32:18
  Speaker 3: not a thing. You can't do that in real life.
• 32:20
  Speaker 3: You can do it on the football field. Football is
• 32:23
  Speaker 3: not real life. Football is not society. It's a sport,
• 32:29
  Speaker 3: that's all it is. To make it anything more than
• 32:32
  Speaker 3: that is dumb. It's idiotic. I don't know what it is.
• 32:39
  Speaker 3: It's just you know, the real, the real travesty in
• 32:43
  Speaker 3: this whole Caitlin Clark thing. How many times has someone
• 32:49
  Speaker 3: tried to sort of like point a finger at man.
• 32:51
  Speaker 3: There's been a lot of dumb things said, and then
• 32:54
  Speaker 3: they say or write something way dumber. It happens time
• 33:00
  Speaker 3: and time again. And that's what happens also with the media.
• 33:04
  Speaker 3: Media isn't dumb. They know what's gonna get a reaction. Now,
• 33:09
  Speaker 3: they might put something out there that's idiotic. I would
• 33:12
  Speaker 3: argue irresponsible, but they know they're gonna get a reaction.
• 33:16
  Speaker 3: And that's what Nancy Armor, the USA Today's Sports columnists got.
• 33:20
  Speaker 3: This tweet has five point three million views. You think
• 33:28
  Speaker 3: she didn't know that was coming? Of course she did.
• 33:31
  Speaker 3: She just put out something wild, made this major league
• 33:34
  Speaker 3: stretch and all of a sudden Caitlin Clark, who's trying
• 33:37
  Speaker 3: to get the whistle, is all of a sudden putting
• 33:43
  Speaker 3: black women in a horrible spot because she's really just
• 33:47
  Speaker 3: trying to accentuate contact or just outright flop like like
• 33:53
  Speaker 3: if SGA does it, if James Harden does it, if
• 33:56
  Speaker 3: Jalen Brunson does it, no big deal, which it shouldn't be.
• 34:00
  Speaker 3: Caitlin Clark does it. This is you know, this is
• 34:03
  Speaker 3: a girl that's putting black women in a horrible spot.
• 34:07
  Speaker 3: That's just dumb. Listen, it's not Caitlin Clark's fault that
• 34:12
  Speaker 3: stupid people are saying stupid things. It's the fault of
• 34:16
  Speaker 3: the stupid people for saying those stupid things. Don't get
• 34:20
  Speaker 3: that twisted at all, whatsoever. Ah Man, I don't know
• 34:26
  Speaker 3: what it is. Where I'll give rich Orenberger credit. We
• 34:30
  Speaker 3: do a show on Saturdays here on Fox, and he said,
• 34:33
  Speaker 3: Caitlin Clark isn't the problem. Everybody else is the problem.
• 34:38
  Speaker 3: It's like, it's right on the moddy. Caitlin Clark is
• 34:42
  Speaker 3: not fanning the flames, just causing drama, saying crazy outlandish stuff.
• 34:50
  Speaker 3: She's playing basketball. She's playing basketball, and all of a sudden,
• 34:55
  Speaker 3: there's this storm around her. It's political, it's racially fueled.
• 35:02
  Speaker 3: It's all of this stuff, and people make the mistake
• 35:06
  Speaker 3: of blaming Caitlin Clark for that. It's not her fault.
• 35:12
  Speaker 3: It's everybody else's fault for being irresponsible. So to make
• 35:16
  Speaker 3: that her fault is so idiotic, it's so ridiculous. So
• 35:21
  Speaker 3: if you take anything away from this, please don't be
• 35:24
  Speaker 3: one of those people that tries to read between the
• 35:28
  Speaker 3: lines and look for something that really isn't there. And
• 35:33
  Speaker 3: if you're trying to make sports out to be politics, society, history,
• 35:40
  Speaker 3: it's none of those things. It's just sports, that's it.
• 35:47
  Speaker 3: If you're trying to make SGA like flailing and falling
• 35:51
  Speaker 3: onto the floor, anything but just that, you're a moron.
• 35:56
  Speaker 3: I hate to be that blunt, but that's just what
• 35:58
  Speaker 3: it is. You're looking for something that isn't there. And
• 36:02
  Speaker 3: it's the same thing with Caitlin clark Man. It's sad
• 36:04
  Speaker 3: where it's gotten, but that's where we are.