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  Speaker 1: Don't Ben the lead, my man? All right, we won't,
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  Speaker 1: so I lead this hour from the Greater New York
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  Speaker 1: Metropolitan Area. We had a trade. While we were away
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  Speaker 1: from the watchtower of the overnight, guarding the graveyard and
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  Speaker 1: protecting it and all that, we had a transaction. How
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  Speaker 1: about that we learned The Giants are saying bye bye
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  Speaker 1: here by this are saying bye bye to disgruntle defensive
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  Speaker 1: tackle dex Lawrence. Yes, Dexter Lawrence is on the move.
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  Speaker 1: As he says bye bye, he's going off to the
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  Speaker 1: beals and a deal that will include going back to
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  Speaker 1: the New York tri state area. The number ten overall pick.
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  Speaker 1: The number ten overall pick. So that is the transaction.
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  Speaker 1: The Giants now head into this Thursday's draft, they will
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  Speaker 1: have two picks in the top ten, which is not
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  Speaker 1: something you generally want to brag about because that means
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  Speaker 1: you've done something terribly wrong. And the Giants have been
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  Speaker 1: an embarrassment of a franchise for many, many years. They
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  Speaker 1: don't get the level of vitriol the Jets get because
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  Speaker 1: they're the Giants. And so the Jets take the cake
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  Speaker 1: on that. But while the Pro Bowl, I don't think
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  Speaker 1: the Pro Bowl's that big deal. Many of you do.
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  Speaker 1: The Pro Bowl. Defensive tackle Dexter Lawrence will be heading
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  Speaker 1: to maybe he'll be at the meet and gree. You
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  Speaker 1: think he'll show up at the meet and greet. You
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  Speaker 1: think there's I mean, going to be in the greater
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  Speaker 1: Cincinnati area on Saturday. And he's now a member of
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  Speaker 1: the Bengals. So if Dexter, you know what, I'm going
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  Speaker 1: to invite him. Dexter, if you want to come out
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  Speaker 1: and hang out with the Mala militia, you are more
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  Speaker 1: than welcome to hang out with us. Now. The Cincinnati
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  Speaker 1: part of the trade was immediately panned by the critics. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: I can't believe the Bengals do it here, Ripping apart
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  Speaker 1: the Bengals for acquiring a player who is granted, established,
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  Speaker 1: but not like that, not the next level, super duperstar,
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  Speaker 1: that kind of guy, and giving up a top ten pick.
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  Speaker 1: The argument against this trade for the Bengals is it's
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  Speaker 1: just supposedly a deep defensive draft. The Bengals could have
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  Speaker 1: likely should have made a move to acquire a defensive
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  Speaker 1: player a similar skill set to Dexter Lawrence at the
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  Speaker 1: number ten pick. They would not have had to pay
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  Speaker 1: him as much money and that would have been that.
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  Speaker 1: And instead, at the time the trade was made, Lawrence
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  Speaker 1: only had a couple of years and then he could
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  Speaker 1: leave and go somewhere else. So the Bengals getting killed
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  Speaker 1: for that. It's good jumping off point. Let us discuss
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  Speaker 1: the question for the esteem panel. How do you score?
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  Speaker 1: How do you score the Bengals trade for defensive tackle
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  Speaker 1: Dexter Lawrence from the Giants over the weekend. So I've
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  Speaker 1: got worm, I've got nineteen eighties game show and fruit Basket,
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  Speaker 1: and we will combine all of these things together and
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  Speaker 1: we are going to go ABC one, two three, And
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  Speaker 1: that's that's how We're going to ABC one two three,
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  Speaker 1: just like that. But we always start out with number one.
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  Speaker 1: That's right, number ones. Let's not overthink this, shall we. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: we will not the Bengals. I like what the Bengals did.
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  Speaker 1: They made an adult decision. Good job by them. So
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  Speaker 1: on the Malor report card, the Bengals get the rare
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  Speaker 1: and appropriate and appropriate a minus on the Malor report card.
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  Speaker 1: The Giants get a C. That's it. That's all now,
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  Speaker 1: the outrage crowd, it's not an equal trade. It's an
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  Speaker 1: advantage for the Giants. The outrage crowd all up in
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  Speaker 1: arms about this. It's not right. Blah blah blah blah
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  Speaker 1: blah blah blah blah blah, shut up, all right, and
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  Speaker 1: they're upset because of sowary cap ramifications for the Bengals
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  Speaker 1: and all that. These are the people that think that
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  Speaker 1: the salary cap is there's a direct line, direct line
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  Speaker 1: between the salary cap and hanging up championships. There is not.
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  Speaker 1: There is not a direct line. In fact, you want
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  Speaker 1: to be the team that doesn't have much cap space.
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  Speaker 1: You want to be the team that spends a lot
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  Speaker 1: of money. You do not want to be a team
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  Speaker 1: because that means you have good players. You don't want
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  Speaker 1: to be the team that doesn't spend a lot of money.
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  Speaker 1: That's a bad job by you anyway. So generally cap
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  Speaker 1: space does not win. Players actually win. So players cost
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  Speaker 1: money and all that. Now, Dexter Lawrence is a upper
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  Speaker 1: echelon defensive tackle. Is he the greatest defensive tackle? No,
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  Speaker 1: he's also not some thirty six or thirty seven year
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  Speaker 1: old relic who's put together by duct tape. That's not
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  Speaker 1: who he is either. So the Bengals decided, we're gonna
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  Speaker 1: skip the mystery box. And everyone loves the mystery box.
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  Speaker 1: They got all horny for it. The giants are said, oh,
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  Speaker 1: we got the mystery box. What's in the box? It's
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  Speaker 1: a mystery. You don't know. Draft picks are lottery tickets
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  Speaker 1: and sometimes you hit. Most of the time you don't.
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  Speaker 1: And if Cincinnati drafted a guy at number ten, if
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  Speaker 1: they kept the pick and then he turned into Dexter Lawrence,
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  Speaker 1: they would throw a parade. They'd be like, oh, man,
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  Speaker 1: we got a good defensive tackle, solid pick, a guy
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  Speaker 1: that we can depend on. And instead they fast forward
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  Speaker 1: ahead in the broadcast and they got a guy they
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  Speaker 1: know can play. And so this is this is about urgency,
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  Speaker 1: and it absolutely is about urgency, and here's why. And
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  Speaker 1: it's not a story that's talked about all that much. However,
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  Speaker 1: Joe Burrow is starting to act like a worm. And
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  Speaker 1: you know what a worm does, it's squirms. He's squirming
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  Speaker 1: like a worm. Joe Burrow, He's becoming Hollywood now, He's
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  Speaker 1: dating starlets and influencers. That's not who Joe Burrow was
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  Speaker 1: back in the day. And so there are there are
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  Speaker 1: indications that Burrow another crap bag season in Cincinnati, and
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  Speaker 1: Joe Burrow's gonna be like, I want out of here.
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  Speaker 1: Matthew Staff has got one year left, he's gonna retire,
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  Speaker 1: and Burl's gonna be I go play for the Rams.
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  Speaker 1: I go out and play for the Rams. That'll be that.
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  Speaker 1: And So if you're the Cincinnati Bengals and Burrows starting
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  Speaker 1: to squirm like a worm, and you're trying to avoid
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  Speaker 1: becoming the next team who superstar quarterback forces this way
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  Speaker 1: out of town, then you make the trade. But who
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  Speaker 1: can you got treble bignial tent pick? Wipe your ass
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  Speaker 1: with a tent pick. You got a guy that can play, now,
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  Speaker 1: is he the greatest to it? Not the greatest, But
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  Speaker 1: you acquired a guy and and by the way, it's
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  Speaker 1: not just two years. Initially people were ripping the Bengals said, wow,
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  Speaker 1: it's two years and then he's gonna leave Dexter Lawrence. No,
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  Speaker 1: from what we understand, he's agreed to take twenty eight
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  Speaker 1: million dollars. Hopefully that's in double writing where it's confirmed
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  Speaker 1: by multiple lawyers and all that stuff and it's ironclad.
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  Speaker 1: But twenty eight million dollars a new money on an
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  Speaker 1: extension for Dexter Lawrence, so it's not just a couple
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  Speaker 1: year rental and all that form what we understand, and
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  Speaker 1: Lawrence will be taking the oversized check and he's going
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  Speaker 1: to stay around a little bit longer in Cincinnati. And
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  Speaker 1: this move screams of one thing that the Bengals are
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  Speaker 1: desperate to try to salvage the relationship with Joe Burrow.
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  Speaker 1: That's what this is about. And they're trying to realize
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  Speaker 1: they don't have to be the greatest defensive team. They
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  Speaker 1: just can't be a bottom five defensive team. They got
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  Speaker 1: to be somewhere in the middle. Somewhere in the middle
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  Speaker 1: you win playoff games. Somewhere in the middle, you don't
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  Speaker 1: have to worry about sweating it out every year. Now,
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  Speaker 1: Joe Burrow's got to stay healthy or at least somewhat healthy.
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  Speaker 1: That would help. He's had major injuries last couple years.
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  Speaker 1: All right, now, Page two, The Giants side of the transaction.
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  Speaker 1: The Giants on the mall OFD report card, they only
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  Speaker 1: get a C. And here's why. They had someone who
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  Speaker 1: they knew was pretty good, pretty good, and they decide
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  Speaker 1: they couldn't work it out. They want to pay him,
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  Speaker 1: and so they're like, oh, we're getting ready. That's it.
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  Speaker 1: And the Giants are like, we're competing. It's a new era. Now,
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  Speaker 1: this is not the same old Giants and all that,
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  Speaker 1: and things are gonna look different with their new coach
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  Speaker 1: John Harbaugh. However, this looks and feels like a nineteen
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  Speaker 1: eighties game show episode of Let's make a deal. And
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  Speaker 1: they traded the car for whatever's behind door number two.
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  Speaker 1: You don't know what's behind door number two. Let's find
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  Speaker 1: out what's behind door number two, possibly door number three.
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  Speaker 1: You want door number three, all right, we'll throw that in.
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  Speaker 1: So you give up the player and in this case,
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  Speaker 1: the car, and then you get behind door number two
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  Speaker 1: and door number three and congratulations, you just got a
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  Speaker 1: go and you got a chair that you can take
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  Speaker 1: to the beach. So congratulations on that. This is the
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  Speaker 1: annual ritual, getting into the meat and potatoes of it,
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  Speaker 1: the annual ritual where you make draft night promises. You
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  Speaker 1: show some sizzle reels from YouTube, and it's a lot
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  Speaker 1: of empty calories. A lot of everyone looks great until
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  Speaker 1: they actually get to the NFL, and most of them
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  Speaker 1: don't look all that great. And the giant fans have
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  Speaker 1: seen this movie. It usually ends up with the shoulder
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  Speaker 1: shrug and why do we draft that guy? He's a
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  Speaker 1: staff And they keep flipping somewhat proven players and they're like,
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  Speaker 1: all right, we'll give up this player who is close
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  Speaker 1: to a blue chip asset and we'll just see what
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  Speaker 1: we can get for it. In the mystery blocks with
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  Speaker 1: the P word on it potential, which, of course, as
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  Speaker 1: you know, means you haven't done anything yet. And so
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  Speaker 1: it's it's startup behavior in many ways, is what this is.
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  Speaker 1: It's startup behavior. You're dumping your only profitable division for
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  Speaker 1: what for venture capital dreams. That's the move here, and
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  Speaker 1: you're praying that the pitch deck hits and okay, why not?
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  Speaker 1: So the Bengals they took as close to certainly. Nothing's guarantee,
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  Speaker 1: but they took as close to certainty as you can get.
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  Speaker 1: They threw a little money in there, and the Giants
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  Speaker 1: are chasing hypotheticals. They're like, well, John Harbaugh, who's really
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  Speaker 1: the GM and all that. He's like, we didn't draft
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  Speaker 1: this guy. He's not my guy. He didn't want to
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  Speaker 1: be here, so we'll get rid of him. I understand
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  Speaker 1: the argument to that, but the draft pick hit rate
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  Speaker 1: is the issue that I have. This isn't strategy per se.
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  Speaker 1: It's the latest chapter in the long running novel the
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  Speaker 1: Giants have tossed out there, the cult of potential. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: you lose on potential, you win on actual good football players. Now,
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  Speaker 1: speaking of that, and this is not about good football players,
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  Speaker 1: but we go to the Valley of the Sun, where
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  Speaker 1: they still have an NFL team. A lot of people
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  Speaker 1: that live there don't know that because the team's been
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  Speaker 1: so bad for so long. However, to the Valley of
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  Speaker 1: the Sudden we go, where the Cardinals. Interesting story. Over
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  Speaker 1: the weekend, we learned that quarterback Jacoby Brisset, yes, that guy,
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  Speaker 1: Jacoby Brisset, will not be attending Phase number one of
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  Speaker 1: the Cardinals' off season program and is asking for an extension,
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  Speaker 1: and he would like to be paid as a starting
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  Speaker 1: quarterback in the Grand Canyon State. So Brisset set to
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  Speaker 1: make nine million in twenty twenty six. He's upset that
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  Speaker 1: less than two million of that nine million is guaranteed.
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  Speaker 1: He wants more money. The whispers say that the Arizona Cardinals,
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  Speaker 1: who haven't made a good decision in at least thirty years,
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  Speaker 1: The Cardinals are considering throwing more money his way. So
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  Speaker 1: question Jacoby Brissett, who goes into the offseason as the
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  Speaker 1: QB number one for the Cardinals, Jacoby Brissett demanding starter
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  Speaker 1: money in Arizona? How wrong does this feel to you?
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  Speaker 1: So if you look at the spectrum of wrong and
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  Speaker 1: you look at what's right and what's wrong and all
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  Speaker 1: that stuff, it feels like the NFL in this case,
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  Speaker 1: the Cardinals just opened up a GoFundMe for mediocrity that hey,
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  Speaker 1: this guy's pretty mediocre. Let's do a little GoFundMe situation here.
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  Speaker 1: It's like tipping thirty percent, going to a restaurant having
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  Speaker 1: really bad service and tipping thirty percent, Well, why would
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  Speaker 1: you do that? You're encouraging more bad service. You should
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  Speaker 1: reward someone who does good service. You should not reward
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  Speaker 1: bad service. Bad job by you. But this is a
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  Speaker 1: quarterback twelve games as the starter went one and eleven.
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  Speaker 1: Now I didn't play in the NFL. I just hosted
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  Speaker 1: the overnight show here. Generally speaking, if you go one
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  Speaker 1: and eleven, you've done something wrong. Oh you're being too mean, Benny.
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  Speaker 1: Why can't you be Benny? The guy went one in
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  Speaker 1: eleven last year? And it's like, if you have a
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  Speaker 1: bad team and you need someone to go in there
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  Speaker 1: and fill the spot at quarterback, who you gonna call?
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  Speaker 1: Jacoby Burssett. You know there's certain quarterbacks. If you want
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  Speaker 1: to win, you gotta bring this quarterback in because you're
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  Speaker 1: trying to win. If you want to suck and you
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  Speaker 1: really want to get down into the weeds of Suckville,
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  Speaker 1: you are, You've got to call Jacoby Brissett. Gotta do it,
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  Speaker 1: gotta make it happen. He's your guy, and the Cardinals
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  Speaker 1: are not trying to win. Should the Cardinals also throw
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  Speaker 1: a fruit basket in the deal and a handwritten apology
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  Speaker 1: for thinking a guy that went one on eleven deserves
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  Speaker 1: a new contract. Come on, this is the dictionary definition
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  Speaker 1: of hutzpah. That's what that is. Brissett did not earn
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  Speaker 1: the race. In fact, the fact that he's still on
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  Speaker 1: the team is an active charity. He earned a demotion.
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  Speaker 1: He should be playing for the Winnipeg Blue Bombers or
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  Speaker 1: the Ottawa Roughriders so Paul and Ottawa can go out
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  Speaker 1: and watch. That's it, all right, and newslash he's not good.
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  Speaker 1: He's not good, And what are you negotiating? What's the
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  Speaker 1: argument to give him more money? N I stuly on.
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  Speaker 1: The NFL makes a lot of money. I get that,
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  Speaker 1: I understand. It just seems like if you're rewarding people
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  Speaker 1: that don't earn the money, what's the point of that
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  Speaker 1: makes no sense. The Cardos should not be negotiating with
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  Speaker 1: Jacoby Brissett for an extension. They should not. They should
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  Speaker 1: be trying to find someone to replace him. I think
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  Speaker 1: they added Gardner Minshew. I believe so. If that's true,
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  Speaker 1: then there's your guy. He'll be starting by week five.
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  Speaker 1: He's also a guy you call when you're trying to
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  Speaker 1: lose a lot of games, and he looks somewhat decent
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  Speaker 1: at times, and then that's enough and what a dream
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  Speaker 1: team they put together in Arizona. You've got Mike LeFleur.
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  Speaker 1: Why do you get the job? Well, his brother's a coach.
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  Speaker 1: That's enough for him to be qualified. Nepotism in the NFL.
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  Speaker 1: Not that Mike Leffleur learned. I think he was fired
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  Speaker 1: by the Jets. He followed Sean McVeagh around. That's enough
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  Speaker 1: to get ahead coaching job. Okay, sure, why not? And
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  Speaker 1: then you've got Jacoby bri That is the saddest buddy
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  Speaker 1: comedy in the NFL. Can you think of a more
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  Speaker 1: depressing buddy comedy than make LeFleur whose only qualification says
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  Speaker 1: his brother was a head coach or is a head coach?
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  Speaker 1: And Jacoby Brissett, this is your QB one quarterback commination.
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  Speaker 1: Then there are three letters for the Cardinals season d
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  Speaker 1: A if you know what I mean DA.
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  Speaker 1: From tv land, we go to tv lan. Why do
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  Speaker 1: we go to tv land? What's going on there? Well,
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  Speaker 1: the Game of Musical Chairs has continued. It was leaked
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  Speaker 1: this week the rumor from months ago has become reality
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  Speaker 1: that it is apparently true that Mike Tomlin had a
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  Speaker 1: sweet heart deal lined sweet heart deal lined up. The
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  Speaker 1: reason that he hired an agent that deals in media
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  Speaker 1: is because he has now a media job. Say what
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  Speaker 1: Tomlin has landed a plumb gig. If you have not
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  Speaker 1: heard yet, perhaps not, we have learned that Mike Tomlin
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  Speaker 1: is taking his talents to NB see he'll be the
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  Speaker 1: top studio analyst on the Sunday night pregame show Football
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  Speaker 1: Night in America. Tomlin, who's now fifty four years young,
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  Speaker 1: has been eyed by a bunch of big wigs and
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  Speaker 1: TV for a long time that two people they wanted
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  Speaker 1: were Sean McVay and Mike Tomlin. They couldn't get either
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  Speaker 1: one of them. Well, now Tomlin, he quit as coach
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  Speaker 1: of the Steelers, and so he now takes a TV
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  Speaker 1: gig and won a Super Bowl with Bill Cowers players
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  Speaker 1: early on in Pittsburgh and then kept making the playoffs
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  Speaker 1: and it's kind of fading away early on. Tomlin though
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  Speaker 1: tremendously gifted with the verbiage, very good with the verbiage
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  Speaker 1: for Mike Tomlin, He's got the gift of gab for shirts.
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  Speaker 1: He's ready to go. So that's a good jumping out point.
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  Speaker 1: Let us discuss another jockocracy hire here in television. So
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  Speaker 1: the question how do you see how do you see
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  Speaker 1: Mike Tomlin working out as an NFL commentator on NBC. Alright,
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  Speaker 1: So on this one, I've got booby trap, burger king,
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  Speaker 1: and forklift, and we will combine all of these things
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  Speaker 1: together and we are going to take the Express elevator
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  Speaker 1: to the Moon to the Moon, to the Moon, to
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  Speaker 1: the Moon, to the Moon to the moon. All right, So,
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  Speaker 1: first of all, on the surface, I am don't tell
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  Speaker 1: anyone I am pulling for Mike Tomlin. I'm Benny Brightside
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  Speaker 1: on Mike Tomlin. You're so negative, you know, like anything,
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  Speaker 1: I am a fan of tomin. Mike Tomlin for most
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  Speaker 1: of my time, not all of it, not all of it.
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  Speaker 1: Most of my time here at Fox Sports Radio has
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  Speaker 1: given me content on a weekly basis for roughly twenty
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  Speaker 1: to twenty five weeks a year. His weekly presser in
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  Speaker 1: Pittsburgh the stuff of legends, and there were always the
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  Speaker 1: witty comments. Week in spring the NFL Draft, there would
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  Speaker 1: be something silly that tom there would say. So I
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  Speaker 1: am pulling for him for real. I would like to
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  Speaker 1: see Mike Tomlin succeed. And Mike Tomlin has the debonair,
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  Speaker 1: He's got the charisma, the likability that he in the multiverse,
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  Speaker 1: there is a dimension where Mike Tomlin ends up reaching
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  Speaker 1: the express elevator all the way up to John Madden level. Now,
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  Speaker 1: you might not know who John Madden is other than
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  Speaker 1: a guy from a video game if you're a younger person,
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  Speaker 1: but John Madden was the gold standard for television commentary
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  Speaker 1: for the NFL. When I was growing up, it was
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  Speaker 1: John Madden and really nobody else, nobody else, it was
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  Speaker 1: just John Madden. So I'm truly of the mindset that
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  Speaker 1: Tomlin can get to that point. However, I'm concerned. And
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  Speaker 1: the reason I'm concerned, despite pulling for Mike Tomlin is
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  Speaker 1: the NBC debut. There's a major hurdle, and it's every
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  Speaker 1: coach and player that goes into broadcasting has this issue.
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  Speaker 1: They're not trained broadcasters. They're amateurs. They didn't study to
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  Speaker 1: become a broadcaster. They just be given a microphone. They
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  Speaker 1: were allowed to leap prag other people that are trained
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  Speaker 1: broadcasters called the jockocracy. Howard Cosell, this famous sportscaster, came
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  Speaker 1: up with it many many years ago, forty years ago,
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  Speaker 1: the jockocracy. And he's right, And the problem is you
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  Speaker 1: fall into this booby trap like a guy like Tomlin.
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  Speaker 1: It's called coach speak. It's NonStop. And while Tomlin became
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  Speaker 1: a legend because of what's called the Tomlinisms, the standard
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  Speaker 1: is the standard lines life like that. A cushy studio
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  Speaker 1: job at NBC is the ultimate test for the anti
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  Speaker 1: comfort philosophy. It is my belief that to truly succeed
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  Speaker 1: as a former athlete or a player, you have to
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  Speaker 1: be willing to work blue, as we like to say right,
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  Speaker 1: to not take the high road, to take the low road.
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  Speaker 1: And one of the things that Charles Barkley has done,
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  Speaker 1: now Barkley is the standard for X jocks that become brouctis.
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  Speaker 1: Barkley is equal parts clown and critic, and people forget
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  Speaker 1: the critical part. That's the most important part, the clown stuff.
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  Speaker 1: Anybody can be a clown that Charles Barkley absolutely unloads
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  Speaker 1: on the biggest stars in the NBA. How many NFL
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  Speaker 1: commentators do that? The answer is not many. Troy Aikman
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  Speaker 1: occasionally will throw a haymaker out and people will go, oh,
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  Speaker 1: look a fall. I can't believe Aikman said that. Oh
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  Speaker 1: why did he say that? So this is the legitimate
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  Speaker 1: if this is legitimate. All right, let me phrase it
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  Speaker 1: this way. This is a legitimate career pursuit for Mike Tomlin.
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  Speaker 1: Great is this? I just I'm worried this is going
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  Speaker 1: to be just a paid sabbatical following the treasure map
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  Speaker 1: left behind, a treasure map from his buddy Sean Payton,
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  Speaker 1: And inevitably Tomlin will be coaching the Cowboys or the
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  Speaker 1: Jets or the Buccaneers and a year from now and
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  Speaker 1: that'll be that. Now, if Tomlin wants to avoid being
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  Speaker 1: mid like Sean Payton was when he was on Fox,
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  Speaker 1: as Peyton was just kind of hiding out until he
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  Speaker 1: got another job with the Broncos, you cannot be the diplomat.
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  Speaker 1: You cannot be diplomatic. You cannot be the ambassador. Cannot
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  Speaker 1: do it. You can't be great on TV as a
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  Speaker 1: commentator if you refuse to point out suck. You have
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  Speaker 1: to be able to say that sucked, that player was garbage.
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  Speaker 1: You have to say it. You have to otherwise you're
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  Speaker 1: just a pr hack in a nice suit with some
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  Speaker 1: makeup on. Don't be that guy. Now. The good news
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  Speaker 1: for Tomlin, even if Tomlin is merely just doing this
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  Speaker 1: to get another coaching job, and I think that's the
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  Speaker 1: most likely outcome. He's not going to put blood, sweat
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  Speaker 1: and tears into this because he would rather end up
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  Speaker 1: back on the sidelines. I get that even ten percent
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  Speaker 1: of Mike Tomlin on NBC will be a major upgrade
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  Speaker 1: from Tony Dungee, whose nickname became Melatonin. Melatonin Dungee, you
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  Speaker 1: don't need to take your melatonin today? Why not Tony
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  Speaker 1: Dungee's on TV? My god, what a snooze. Now that said,
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  Speaker 1: NBC did not hire Mike Tomlin because he's They don't
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  Speaker 1: want Switzerland as an NFL analyst. They would like somebody
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  Speaker 1: who's not neutral polite, because neutral and polite makes you forgettable.
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  Speaker 1: Don't be forgettable. If Tomlin hides behind cliches from sportscliche
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  Speaker 1: dot com and refuses to call out the bad schemes
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  Speaker 1: and the players who are not putting an effort out
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  Speaker 1: there the way they should, then this will not be
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  Speaker 1: must see TV. It will not. It'll be a two
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  Speaker 1: hour monotone documentary. And that's that. And to succeed, to
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  Speaker 1: reach the upper level and to advance further down the board,
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  Speaker 1: you must be unfiltered. You have to shoot from the
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  Speaker 1: hip and you shoot from the hip, and then you
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  Speaker 1: get a coaching job and people say, well, wait a minute,
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  Speaker 1: you rip this guy and you rip that guy, and
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  Speaker 1: so just be prepared to say when you eventually get
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  Speaker 1: a coaching job again. If you're Mike Tomin, well that
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  Speaker 1: was just what I was supposed to do, and I
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  Speaker 1: was just being tongue in cheek or whatever you have
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  Speaker 1: to say.
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  Speaker 1: Let's do it here we go. Let's welcome in and
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  Speaker 1: our contestants for a Maler's amount of Money. We say
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  Speaker 1: hello to Eenie Meenie miney Mo. Uncle Mo. Hello, Uncle
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  Speaker 1: Mo in Jersey.
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  Speaker 4: Good morning, Ben, always good.
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna pick you, all right, Uncle Mo. Not wasting
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  Speaker 1: any time. Lorena picked? We have one or two Lorena
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  Speaker 1: one or two number one? All right, you have picked
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  Speaker 1: Dan in Connecticut? Hello, Dan, Welcome, Hey, how's the going Dan? Dan? Dan?
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  Speaker 1: You are going to play my man? What are you
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  Speaker 1: up to here? You want to partner up with Coop? Yes?
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  Speaker 1: Or Lorena.
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  Speaker 3: I think I'm gonna take Coop?
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  Speaker 1: All right.
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  Speaker 4: I really thought he was gonna pick me today.
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  Speaker 1: This could have been the week, Lorena. It's a good choice,
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  Speaker 1: all right, very good. Dan, hold on a sec. We
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  Speaker 1: got Uncle Mo and al right, here we go Coop
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  Speaker 1: or the categories. Let's get the party started, all right.
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  Speaker 4: This is Malard's Mountain of Money Iggy Pop edition. He
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  Speaker 4: turns seventy nine years old today. The categories are nineteen
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  Speaker 4: sixty nine, down on the street, gimme Danger, and she
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  Speaker 4: took my money, Uncle Mo?
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  Speaker 1: Which category would you like?
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  Speaker 4: She took my money? Sounds interesting.
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  Speaker 3: I'll take that.
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  Speaker 1: One, okay? And Dan, how about you.
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  Speaker 3: The third one?
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  Speaker 1: Gimme danger? All right? Yes, all right? We got forty
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  Speaker 1: five seconds on the clock. And are we ready to
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  Speaker 1: go on this? All right? Here we go? Are you ready?
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  Speaker 1: Uncle Moe?
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  Speaker 4: I think so?
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  Speaker 1: All right, we're on away. Golfer who's really bad at driving? Yes,
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  Speaker 1: Michael Jordan's sidekick on the Bulls in the nineties. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: the greatest professional wrestler of all time. He passed away
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  Speaker 1: in Florida recently. Yes, Miami Heat Star was joined by
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  Speaker 1: He was joined by Chris Bosh and yes, Uh tenor
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  Speaker 1: a tennis player from Las Vegas with long hair, uh
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  Speaker 1: star in the eighties. All right, golfer nick No, a
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  Speaker 1: golfer nicknamed the Shark, I believe was his nickname. Uh
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  Speaker 1: from our past? All right, basketball player for the Knicks.
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  Speaker 1: Uh Knickerbockers. He had quite the flat one hundred puns.
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  Speaker 1: Terrible clu terrible, terrible clue. Yes, a tennis player from
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  Speaker 1: Las Vegas.
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  Speaker 4: How he had long hair and then he famously lost
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  Speaker 4: his hair. He's bald he was when he was.
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  Speaker 1: He had long hair. He had long hair when he
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  Speaker 1: was drag and Greg Norman is the shark?
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  Speaker 4: Yes, before your time, milcle most Australian said he's Australian.
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  Speaker 4: He's the most famous Australian golfer.
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  Speaker 1: There was nickname the shark. Looks like the shark anyway,
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  Speaker 1: And Emon Shop, I don't know how you would have
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  Speaker 1: gotten that one. I would have got all right, wasting time.
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  Speaker 4: Let's go all right, all right, all right, all right, Dan,
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  Speaker 4: you and I are by the way, that was athletes
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  Speaker 4: who had to pay a huge divorce settlements.
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  Speaker 1: Dan.
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  Speaker 4: Our category is give me danger. These athletes all famously
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  Speaker 4: played through an injury are you ready, Dan, All right,
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  Speaker 4: let's go. Uh star for the Lakers. He tore his achilles,
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  Speaker 4: then shot a couple free throws. Yes, this guy had
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  Speaker 4: a bloody sock in the World Series. Yes, this guy
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  Speaker 4: played for the Eagles. He broke his leg but still
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  Speaker 4: made it into the Super Bowl. Donovan McNabb blew it. Yes,
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  Speaker 4: this guy was a point guard for the Celtics when
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  Speaker 4: when he won their championships in eight he later played
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  Speaker 4: for the Lakers. Uh, yes, good job. This guy played
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  Speaker 4: for the Knicks. He limped out there and made a
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  Speaker 4: couple of shots, then sat the rest of the game.
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  Speaker 4: But a lot of people give him credit for playing injured.
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  Speaker 1: That all right.
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  Speaker 4: This guy played for the Rams. He was on a
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  Speaker 4: broken leg. He played the Super Bowl and broken leg
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  Speaker 4: backham no no.
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  Speaker 1: Way back in the day.
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  Speaker 4: Also one hundred, Willis Reid and Jack Youngblood were those
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  Speaker 4: last two.
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  Speaker 2: Wouldn't have got young that category.
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  Speaker 1: I would have had that one where we got down
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  Speaker 1: on the street in nineteen sixteen sixteen? All right, what
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  Speaker 1: do you want to go down on the street? Down
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  Speaker 1: on the street? All right? These athletes grew up near
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  Speaker 1: the team they play for or played for. Are you ready, Uncle? Oh,
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  Speaker 1: all right, he's the star of the Clippers right now.
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  Speaker 1: Former Toronto raptor. Yes. Charlie Hustle for the Cincinnata Both. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: scored one hundred points in an NBA game. Yes, all
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  Speaker 1: time stolen based king for the A's and Yankees. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: mister Miami heat forward. He's longest tenured member that he
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  Speaker 1: just retired to couple. Yes, played with Edmonton. He helped
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  Speaker 1: the Rangers win the Stanley Cup. Not Wayne. Yes, a
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  Speaker 1: shortstop for the San Francisco Giants when they were winning
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  Speaker 1: the World Series. Four. Yeah, Dad, I'll come close back
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  Speaker 1: by go go go Wait five seconds?
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  Speaker 4: All right, all right, Dan, Dan, all right, just give up, coop.
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  Speaker 4: Just nineteen sixty nine is our category. All of these
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  Speaker 4: athletes were born in nineteen sixty nine.
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  Speaker 1: Are you ready? Three?
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  Speaker 2: But let's go.
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  Speaker 4: Uh well, you know they were born your way. Think
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  Speaker 4: all right, all right, let's begin. Quarterback for the Green
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  Speaker 4: Bay Packers. He's in the Hall of Fame.
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  Speaker 1: Were number four. Yes, this guy is the owner.
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  Speaker 4: He's the CEO of the UFCU.
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  Speaker 2: Dana White.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, this guy's nickname is the kid. He played for
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  Speaker 4: the Mariners. His dad was also a player. Yes, this
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  Speaker 4: guy played for the Chargers and the Patriots. He killed himself.
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  Speaker 1: He had ct oh Jenny Tale.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, this guy's nickname was Grandmama. He played in the NBA.
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  Speaker 4: Uh okay, this guy was one of the best boxers
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  Speaker 4: of all time. He played Mike Tyson in twenty twenty
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  Speaker 4: during the Lockdown, or went against Mike Tyson. Uh he
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  Speaker 4: had no no, he had like multiple different championships, different
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  Speaker 4: weight classes. Anyway, up hooy Jones juniors who.
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  Speaker 1: We were looking for? There mos Larry Johnson who looks
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  Speaker 1: really old. I saw him at the next game. He
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  Speaker 1: looks looks like a grandma. I guess he is old
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  Speaker 1: that for I mean, yeah, Dan, thank you were playing
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  Speaker 1: you went against a ringer.
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  Speaker 4: Uh.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, by the way, oncle Mo, reach out to me.
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna be in your area, so let me reach
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  Speaker 1: out to me right well, definitely. By the way, my
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  Speaker 1: pick for first, oh, we don't even get you got
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  Speaker 1: caught up by your pick. Oh go Mo,