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10-15-26 - Avs lose to Stars in Shootout/Brock Huard on Bo Nix's struggles/Sean + Bo live & die together? · The Appetizer Hour with Brett Kane

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  Speaker 1: This is the Appetizer Hour with Brett Cain on demand.
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  Speaker 1: Check out Brett weekday mornings at 6 on Altitude Sports
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  Speaker 1: Radio 92.5 and on the Altitude Sports Radio app.
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  Speaker 2: Avs dropped one in a shootout yesterday on the second
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  Speaker 2: leg of a back-to-back against the Dallas Stars. We're getting robbed. Look,
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  Speaker 2: these games for early games in the regular season are
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  Speaker 2: pretty intense between them and the Dallas Stars. You can
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  Speaker 2: tell the animosity, the rivalry that's there. You kind of
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  Speaker 2: love feeling that in the month.
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  Speaker 3: Of October, like midway through October.
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  Speaker 2: But, I mean, the Avs, I don't know how many
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  Speaker 2: different goals getting called back, hitting ones off the bench.
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  Speaker 2: Post and crossbar. It's one of those games like, all right,
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  Speaker 2: it's early in the year.
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  Speaker 3: You get a point out of it.
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  Speaker 2: You take three or four against Dallas in two days.
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  Speaker 3: You live with all this.
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  Speaker 2: It's just a bummer because it felt like you earned
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  Speaker 2: better than what the result was. Scott Wedgwood goes out there.
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  Speaker 2: He makes 20 saves on 22 shots. Plays pretty well.
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  Speaker 2: The goals that were brought back, I mean, First one
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  Speaker 2: is stupid offside stuff.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, fine.
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  Speaker 2: To rule that Landis got kicked the puck. When he's
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  Speaker 2: standing there. But this is what I don't understand about
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  Speaker 2: some of these rules. And I say this all the
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  Speaker 2: time in sports. We have a whole bunch of penalties
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  Speaker 2: and rules. That we try and interpret, but nobody wants
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  Speaker 2: to interpret intent. And I get that sometimes you don't
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  Speaker 2: intend to do something and you still end up.
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  Speaker 2: You still end up making a mistake. But you're standing there.
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  Speaker 2: For them to rule that Landeskog had laser-guided cleats, or skates...
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  Speaker 2: And could pinpoint exactly where the puck was going to
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  Speaker 2: be in the air and give it a rip.
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  Speaker 3: Like, I just, I don't get it. And a lot
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  Speaker 3: of that, I'm sure.
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  Speaker 2: When you're in a tough game and you have two
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  Speaker 2: goals that are disallowed, I'm sure it takes a toll
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  Speaker 2: on Like, just mentally, your psyche of, we should have
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  Speaker 2: more than this. We should be comfortably in the lead.
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  Speaker 2: And when those things get called back, I think it's
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  Speaker 2: just extra emotion that you get drained of because you
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  Speaker 2: feel like you aren't being rewarded for playing well. Now,
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  Speaker 2: I'm looking at the replay again. I really don't... They
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  Speaker 2: can call it... They called it a kicking motion... It
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  Speaker 2: looks like he was going to skate, and when he
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  Speaker 2: was skating, he saw the puck, and the puck was
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  Speaker 2: on his boot. So that's annoying. But I think big picture,
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  Speaker 2: the Avalanche played pretty well.
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  Speaker 4: And Brett, I thought the most frustrating part about that
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  Speaker 4: whole review process was, well, two things. First of all,
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  Speaker 4: it was ruled a goal in the moment. It was
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  Speaker 4: called a goal. So in order to overturn it, you
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  Speaker 4: need indisputable evidence that that he made a, quote, distinct
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  Speaker 4: kicking motion, right? It's like taking a touchdown off the
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  Speaker 4: board in the NFL. Was there 110% a distinct kicking
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  Speaker 4: motion enough to overturn a goal?
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  Speaker 2: That's the thing. That's what bugged me. You can't convince me.
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  Speaker 2: What they're basically telling you is he intended to kick
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  Speaker 2: the puck into the net. And I'm like, there is
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  Speaker 2: no way you can say that with any amount of certainty.
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  Speaker 4: And to that point, when the ref came out and
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  Speaker 4: got on the mic and gave his call, he said
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  Speaker 4: that Landeskog looked at the puck.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 4: And that was part of it. He's like, oh, yeah,
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  Speaker 4: he looked at the puck, so it was a kick.
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  Speaker 2: It's no goal.
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  Speaker 4: Is he supposed to be skating with his eyes closed?
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  Speaker 4: What the hell are we talking about? So, Landy, don't
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  Speaker 4: stop in front of the net with your feet out
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  Speaker 4: in front of you and don't look at pucks if
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  Speaker 4: you want goals to count. Now at least we know
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  Speaker 4: the rules.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, so you aren't allowed to look at where the
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  Speaker 2: puck is. If you really want to get technical about it,
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  Speaker 2: a stride when skating looks like a kicking motion because
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  Speaker 2: you are kind of kicking yourself forward. I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: There are blatant kicks, okay? There are ones where it's
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  Speaker 2: like right in front of the net and somebody literally
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  Speaker 2: just takes their skate and soccer-style inside of the foot
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  Speaker 2: boots it. But whatever. Bottom line is.
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  Speaker 2: I think the ass played a tough game. The stars
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  Speaker 2: are obviously a tough team. They're, they're still having trouble scoring.
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  Speaker 2: They finish, you know, regulation and overtime with just two goals.
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  Speaker 2: They went in the shootout. Shootout losses are whatever to me. It's, it's,
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  Speaker 2: I would never work on it.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know why you would.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, outside of a little bit of practice that
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  Speaker 2: you probably spend, it's, it's really just kind of luck.
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  Speaker 2: You go up, can you make a shot or not? And,
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  Speaker 2: they got the better of it in the shootout. I just,
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  Speaker 2: I think through two games to take three or four
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  Speaker 2: points early in the season against an opponent that is very,
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  Speaker 2: very likely going to be there late in the year.
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  Speaker 2: It's that's, that's a good two days. Now the abs
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  Speaker 2: get a chance to sort of kick back for a minute. Um,
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  Speaker 2: Take today easy and then get back after it tomorrow
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  Speaker 2: against Pittsburgh. You know, you look at the division standings
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  Speaker 2: right now. Utah is on top. They have 10 points,
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  Speaker 2: but then you, Winnipeg, Minnesota, all tied with nine. It's
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  Speaker 2: going to be one of those, one of those grinds again.
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  Speaker 2: Like you just play in a tough division with really
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  Speaker 2: good teams and picking up three or four points against
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  Speaker 2: division teams in two days. That matters. It matters. You know,
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  Speaker 2: is there, There are things you would point at from
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  Speaker 2: yesterday's game and say, I want to do this better.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, yeah, probably.
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  Speaker 2: You know, four power play opportunities, not come away with
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  Speaker 2: a goal that hurts. But I think all of this
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  Speaker 2: would be for not if you didn't hit multiple posts
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  Speaker 2: in multiple crossbars and have multiple goals taken off the board.
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  Speaker 2: That very easily could have been a game in which
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  Speaker 2: you scored six or seven.
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  Speaker 3: And instead....
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  Speaker 2: You're left with two and still able to get a
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  Speaker 2: point out of it. That's the nice thing. All the
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  Speaker 2: things that went against you yesterday, still able to grab
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  Speaker 2: a point out of that and take three or four.
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  Speaker 2: It's big time. So the Avs have tonight off before
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  Speaker 2: they go again tomorrow against Pittsburgh. This is a Nuggets
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  Speaker 2: ticket Thursday. So every hour on the 20s, listen for
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  Speaker 2: those keywords. In the meantime, big game tonight. This is
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  Speaker 2: a chance to get yourself in a comfortable spot of
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  Speaker 2: 3-3 or to be extra comfortable at 4-2. With the
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  Speaker 2: toughest part of your schedule behind you. Once you get
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  Speaker 2: past this game, tough game, defending champ, short week, all
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  Speaker 2: of that.
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  Speaker 3: But once you get past this.
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  Speaker 2: you now have a little bit more, it doesn't feel
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  Speaker 2: like you're being squeezed by a boa constrictor every time
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  Speaker 2: you go out and play. Schedule's going to ease up
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  Speaker 2: a little bit. It's not going to be easy, but
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  Speaker 2: it's not going to be the top five or six
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  Speaker 2: teams in the league. You know, from here on out,
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  Speaker 2: you got Carolina, another game against the Chiefs, but then
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  Speaker 2: a game like the Panthers game is a perfect example.
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  Speaker 2: Is that an easy game? No, but it's not at
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  Speaker 2: San Francisco. Then it's the Raiders and Steelers and Dolphins
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  Speaker 2: and Jets, and you have a chance to make a
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  Speaker 2: run and rattle off a lot of wins. In many ways,
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  Speaker 2: this feels like a bunch of other years that the
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  Speaker 2: Broncos have had, especially the last couple. Maybe you get
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  Speaker 2: off to a slow 2-2 start, 1-2 start, whatever, and
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  Speaker 2: you have that stretch in the middle of the season
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  Speaker 2: in which you rattle off 5 or 6. That happened
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  Speaker 2: even under Russell Wilson. The same thing happened. They went out, remember,
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  Speaker 2: started the year terribly, got torched by Miami to the
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  Speaker 2: tune of 70 points, and then got yourself right back
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  Speaker 2: in the playoff picture. Won like five in a row,
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  Speaker 2: got back to 500, and then had a chance to
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  Speaker 2: make a wild card spot late in the year. It
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  Speaker 2: feels like you're due for it. If you do that
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  Speaker 2: along with going 4-2 in this stretch early in the season, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: That'd be pretty damn good. It's funny, we were talking
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  Speaker 2: to Ian Furness yesterday. He's a Seattle radio host. He's
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  Speaker 2: describing the Seahawks. And he said, well, Sam Darnold is
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  Speaker 2: not playing well. And he's turning the ball over a lot.
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  Speaker 2: And our running game can't get anything going. And they
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  Speaker 2: have only one wide receiver that he really wants to
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  Speaker 2: throw to. And the defense gives up yards but doesn't
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  Speaker 2: give up a ton of points. And that keeps us
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  Speaker 2: in games. And we don't know if the future of
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  Speaker 2: the Seahawks is with Sam Darnold at quarterback. And I'm like, man,
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  Speaker 2: sub out Sam Darnold and everybody else's Seahawk name with
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  Speaker 2: Broncos names, and it's the exact same discussion here. And
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  Speaker 2: this is what I was trying to tell you guys
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  Speaker 2: earlier in the week when Vic yelled at me about EPA.
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  Speaker 2: When you look at the Seattle Seahawks offense, statistically, unexpected
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  Speaker 2: points added per play, which it's a very nerdy stat.
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  Speaker 3: Go outside, nerd.
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  Speaker 2: I understand.
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  Speaker 3: I ain't got time to be distracted by your worthless chime.
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  Speaker 5: It's gone.
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  Speaker 2: It is one that paints a pretty good picture holistically
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  Speaker 2: of where teams are at. Think about this in the
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  Speaker 2: stat for Jokic, which is, oh, what's the one that
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  Speaker 2: he kills people in every year?
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  Speaker 3: The big nerdy statistic.
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  Speaker 2: Bibap? No, help me out, Texters. You know what I'm
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  Speaker 2: talking about. It's like the holistic player stat, and I've
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  Speaker 2: just been out of basketball for too long.
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  Speaker 3: I can't remember what it was. It's their version of war.
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  Speaker 2: Shoot, Texter, help me. I'll get back to it. But
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  Speaker 2: this number... is something that gives you a holistic picture
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  Speaker 2: of how good or bad or middle of the road
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  Speaker 2: your offense or defense is. And according to that number,
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  Speaker 2: the Seattle Seahawks offense, statistically this year, is worse than
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  Speaker 2: the Broncos. And go back and look. Has Sam Darnold
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  Speaker 2: put up more yards than Bo Nix?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: PER, thank you, player efficiency rating.
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  Speaker 2: That's the one that Jokic dominates in. All I could
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  Speaker 2: think of was VORP, but I'm like, that's not the one. PER.
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  Speaker 3: So this is the NFL's version of it.
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  Speaker 2: And Seattle's offense is statistically worse because they can't do
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  Speaker 2: much of anything.
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  Speaker 3: Now, the Broncos are the same way, but.
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  Speaker 2: You might actually be facing a team that has a
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  Speaker 2: worse rushing game than you do at the moment. I
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  Speaker 2: think all of that is going to change for Seattle
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  Speaker 2: once they get Charbonnet back, which might be next week,
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  Speaker 2: but it's certainly not tonight. All of that might change
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  Speaker 2: when they get Jadarian Price back, who's currently on IR.
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  Speaker 2: They have one player that makes an impact. They have
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  Speaker 2: one player that scares the holy hell out of you,
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  Speaker 2: and that is JSN. And JSN is somebody that, go
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  Speaker 2: look at him statistically. Like, it's crazy. He gets 100
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  Speaker 2: yards every single game. I mean, we're, what, five games
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  Speaker 2: into the season. He's got 37 catches on 49 targets.
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  Speaker 2: You throw him the football, he gets caught. And in
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  Speaker 2: these five games, he's got 583 receiving yards. That's first
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  Speaker 2: in the league. He's got seven touchdowns. That's first in
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  Speaker 2: the league. He averages 16 yards per catch.
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  Speaker 3: Like he's a freak.
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  Speaker 2: And he's going up against a Broncos secondary that's beat up,
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  Speaker 2: and that's a matchup I want to get to in
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  Speaker 3: That fear is JSN.
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  Speaker 1: JSN?
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to give you an answer that's going to
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  Speaker 2: make you roll your eyes.
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  Speaker 3: It's going to be tough.
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  Speaker 2: Jackson Smith, Nagujuba.
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  Speaker 3: Hufanga and Sertan are not going to play.
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  Speaker 2: They aren't.
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  Speaker 3: They just aren't.
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  Speaker 2: You can tell.
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  Speaker 3: They haven't practiced all week.
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  Speaker 2: The news came out yesterday that Hufanga is going to
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  Speaker 2: miss two to three weeks. Okay. He's not playing tonight.
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  Speaker 2: Sertan is not playing tonight. Moss is a maybe. He's
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  Speaker 2: been limited in practice. You stop JSN by doing something offensively.
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  Speaker 2: Sustaining drives, getting first downs, punching the ball in the
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  Speaker 2: end zone, putting pressure on Seattle. JSN is going to
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  Speaker 2: get numbers. This is what great wide receivers do. When
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  Speaker 2: you're one of the greatest wide receivers in the league,
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  Speaker 2: it does not matter if your quarterback's playing well or not.
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  Speaker 2: It does not matter who your quarterback is. It doesn't
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  Speaker 2: matter who the opponent is. It doesn't matter what the
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  Speaker 2: conditions are. It doesn't matter anything. They just get numbers.
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  Speaker 2: That's what they do. The best thing you can do
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  Speaker 2: is put together an offensive performance that puts them in
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  Speaker 2: a hole, makes them predictable, all of that. And The
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  Speaker 2: clips from yesterday, Brock Huard was on the morning sprint.
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  Speaker 2: And Brock Huard was talking about Bo Nix and said,
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  Speaker 2: the things that Bo Nix is talking about is exactly
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  Speaker 2: what ruined my career. And I'll let him explain.
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  Speaker 6: This morning on the show, we spent a segment playing
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  Speaker 6: the 60 seconds of Bo Nix yesterday. versus about 25
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  Speaker 6: seconds of Sam Darnold. And they were both reacting to
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  Speaker 6: the same thing.
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  Speaker 5: Turnovers, right?
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  Speaker 6: Getting the ball out of your hand. What are you seeing?
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  Speaker 6: And for Bo, it was fascinating. I think it was
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  Speaker 6: such a window in to what ended my NFL career.
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  Speaker 6: I could not turn the voices off. I mean, I just,
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  Speaker 6: I couldn't do it. When I got to the NFL,
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  Speaker 6: it was Mike Holmgren's voice, right? It was just Tom
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  Speaker 6: Moore's voice, very different voices, but their voices. And I
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  Speaker 6: couldn't like shut them out. Like I got to do this.
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  Speaker 6: I got to do this.
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  Speaker 2: If you've watched this show for any decent amount of time,
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  Speaker 2: you've heard me say this dating back to last year.
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  Speaker 2: When Bo Nix is at his best. is when the
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  Speaker 2: chaos is at its highest. And the reason why is
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  Speaker 2: because he's not trying to be perfect. Because he's not
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  Speaker 2: trying to make the right read or the right guy
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  Speaker 2: or make sure he doesn't get sacked or make sure
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  Speaker 2: he doesn't throw a pick. In some ways, he is
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  Speaker 2: unshackled by how free he is. The freedom to make
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  Speaker 2: a mistake. And that's why I've been saying... Somebody's got
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  Speaker 2: to go out and tell him, It's okay if you
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  Speaker 2: mess up. Quarterbacks throw picks. Matthew Stafford is the career
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  Speaker 2: record holder in pick sixes. Nobody in NFL history has
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  Speaker 2: thrown more than Matthew Stafford. Matthew Stafford was an MVP
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  Speaker 2: last year. It's okay. You don't want to make mistakes.
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  Speaker 2: You don't want to turn the ball over. But I mean,
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  Speaker 2: I'm so sincere about this. There's part of me, I
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  Speaker 2: want Bo Nix to throw a pick tonight.
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  Speaker 3: I want him to.
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  Speaker 2: I want him to throw a pick on a 40-yard
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  Speaker 2: bomb that just misses a wide receiver.
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  Speaker 3: Like, I want to see that happen.
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  Speaker 2: Because I want that to happen, and then I want
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  Speaker 2: the defense to get a stop, and then I want
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  Speaker 2: him to see, see, you're fine. Or even if not,
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  Speaker 2: If they go back and they score off of it, okay, fine.
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  Speaker 2: You just got to go score. It's not a big deal.
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  Speaker 2: Turnovers are a big deal. But for him, he has
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  Speaker 2: to think they're not. And that doesn't mean you go
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  Speaker 2: full Jameis Winston about it. But you show him tape. Like,
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  Speaker 2: I would just put two highlights together. I would do
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  Speaker 2: it in the first quarter of football games. I would
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  Speaker 2: just do a grab bag of highlights over the last
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  Speaker 2: year and a half. And then I'd do a grab
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  Speaker 2: bag of highlights from Fourth quarters when they're down. And
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  Speaker 2: just show them the difference in it. And just say,
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  Speaker 2: which one of these quarterbacks looks more comfortable? You got
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  Speaker 2: to be able to, as Brock Heward said, turn the
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  Speaker 2: voices off. And texture says, why doesn't our self-proclaimed genius
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  Speaker 2: coach start out? No huddle. I don't think no huddle helps.
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  Speaker 2: Like not even you're talking about getting him in tempo
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  Speaker 2: and stuff like that.
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  Speaker 3: That's not his issue.
• 19:58
  Speaker 2: His issue is after the ball is snapped, it's too
• 20:02
  Speaker 2: many things going on in his head. It's too much.
• 20:07
  Speaker 2: And when he just has to go out and make
• 20:10
  Speaker 2: something happen late in the game, when they're down, That's
• 20:13
  Speaker 2: when he starts to force things. And I just, I
• 20:18
  Speaker 2: think that for him, a lot of guys do that
• 20:24
  Speaker 2: across the NFL, but it's like stat padding, empty calorie stuff.
• 20:28
  Speaker 2: His isn't, his is like winning football games that way.
• 20:34
  Speaker 4: Brett, maybe this parallel is stupid. And if it is,
• 20:37
  Speaker 4: you could tell me on the shop Mazda text line. 303-504-0925.
• 20:41
  Speaker 4: Shop Mazda. One price, one person, one hour. But when
• 20:44
  Speaker 4: I was at CU, I took an acting for non-majors class.
• 20:48
  Speaker 4: and our professor told us that when you're acting, one
• 20:51
  Speaker 4: of the hardest things to do, believe it or not,
• 20:54
  Speaker 4: is to act as yourself.
• 20:56
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 20:57
  Speaker 4: Like, suppose we were playing a skit, like we're doing
• 20:59
  Speaker 4: an SNL version of The Morning Show, and your job
• 21:01
  Speaker 4: was just to play yourself.
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 21:04
  Speaker 4: That's hard, because you don't think about who you are
• 21:06
  Speaker 4: when you're being yourself. You just be yourself. And then
• 21:09
  Speaker 4: if I tell you to act like yourself, now you're
• 21:10
  Speaker 4: thinking about How loud do I speak?
• 21:13
  Speaker 3: How do I stand?
• 21:13
  Speaker 2: How do I carry myself? How do I walk?
• 21:15
  Speaker 4: How do I sit? How do I stand?
• 21:16
  Speaker 3: What's my gait?
• 21:17
  Speaker 2: What's my, all of it.
• 21:18
  Speaker 4: And the way to act like yourself is to stop acting.
• 21:21
  Speaker 4: So that's what Bo Nix needs to do, is just
• 21:23
  Speaker 4: stop acting like yourself and be yourself, but the more
• 21:26
  Speaker 4: you think about it, the harder it is to forget
• 21:29
  Speaker 4: about thinking about it.
• 21:30
  Speaker 2: Look, I don't mind that at all. You know what
• 21:34
  Speaker 2: really freaked me out? I heard once that John Travolta
• 21:36
  Speaker 2: said he has a different walk for every character he's
• 21:40
  Speaker 2: ever played. Like, what do you mean you have a
• 21:42
  Speaker 2: different walk? But yeah, his character in Grease was different
• 21:48
  Speaker 2: than his character in Pulp Fiction, who walked different than
• 21:51
  Speaker 2: the character.
• 21:52
  Speaker 3: That he had in, you name the other Travolta movies.
• 21:58
  Speaker 2: Freaked me out. But to a certain extent, like Bo Nix,
• 22:02
  Speaker 2: it's not, I don't know how else to put it.
• 22:07
  Speaker 2: He tries to be so perfect early in games and
• 22:11
  Speaker 2: make the exact right play that it almost paralyzes him
• 22:19
  Speaker 2: from making the proper play. By the time I....
• 22:26
  Speaker 3: I know we do this way too often. But if
• 22:33
  Speaker 3: you've played golf.
• 22:35
  Speaker 2: Sometimes you just stand over the ball way too long
• 22:38
  Speaker 2: because you're thinking about too much stuff. And that's what
• 22:41
  Speaker 2: I think he's doing in the pocket, and that's why
• 22:43
  Speaker 2: he misses guys downfield. By the time he finally decides
• 22:45
  Speaker 2: or realizes, I'm going to let this ball go, the
• 22:48
  Speaker 2: open wide receiver is now not open anymore, and now
• 22:51
  Speaker 2: I've got to take the thumb off.
• 22:52
  Speaker 3: Like Brock, you were, he goes on to say this.
• 22:53
  Speaker 6: And you listen to Bo yesterday. It was like the
• 22:56
  Speaker 6: most amazing window into, well, I got to do this,
• 22:59
  Speaker 6: but if I do this and then while the defense
• 23:02
  Speaker 6: takes the ball away and then maybe I check it
• 23:04
  Speaker 6: down and then I got to play the play. And
• 23:06
  Speaker 6: then I got, and if I throw an interception, who cares?
• 23:08
  Speaker 6: Like it was just voices in my head. And Sam
• 23:12
  Speaker 6: Donald in contrast was like, got to get back to basics,
• 23:16
  Speaker 6: beaten eyes, get back to what I know. simplify the game,
• 23:20
  Speaker 6: do the things that I know that we've done all
• 23:22
  Speaker 6: spring and summer and we'll get back to it. And coach,
• 23:26
  Speaker 6: it was such a window in to yeah. Year three
• 23:29
  Speaker 6: versus year number nine in their careers.
• 23:31
  Speaker 2: It is like, I think it's spot on. You heard
• 23:36
  Speaker 2: it when Bo Nix was talking yesterday. It was, it
• 23:39
  Speaker 2: was so much, you know, we said it was more,
• 23:45
  Speaker 2: he was standing in front of a mic speaking to people, but,
• 23:49
  Speaker 2: Those words were exiting his mouth and going directly back
• 23:53
  Speaker 2: into his brain. Like that was, you're talking yourself into something. Again,
• 24:00
  Speaker 2: listen to him yesterday.
• 24:01
  Speaker 5: That's honestly, really, and truly the biggest battle right now
• 24:04
  Speaker 5: is like.
• 24:05
  Speaker 2: And I mentioned this yesterday, but it makes sense still.
• 24:09
  Speaker 2: The fact that he used the word battle, I think
• 24:12
  Speaker 2: is really interesting. Like, he's saying the battle right now
• 24:17
  Speaker 2: is between knowing we want to hit some big plays,
• 24:20
  Speaker 2: but I don't want to make a mistake.
• 24:21
  Speaker 3: The battle.
• 24:22
  Speaker 5: That's honestly, really, and truly the biggest battle right now
• 24:25
  Speaker 5: is like, want to be aggressive, want to be aggressive,
• 24:27
  Speaker 5: want to be aggressive, and then you see stats, and
• 24:29
  Speaker 5: you're like, well, this team is causing the most turnovers
• 24:31
  Speaker 5: in the league. And then you're like, okay, well, I
• 24:33
  Speaker 5: can't put my team in a situation where I'm turning
• 24:35
  Speaker 5: the football over and putting our defense in a bad spot,
• 24:37
  Speaker 5: giving them a short field. And at the end of
• 24:40
  Speaker 5: the day, it's like.
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: Who cares?
• 24:43
  Speaker 5: Why would I go out there worried about throwing an interception?
• 24:45
  Speaker 5: Why would I go out there trying to throw every
• 24:48
  Speaker 5: football 50 yards down the field?
• 24:50
  Speaker 2: Just play the play.
• 24:53
  Speaker 3: I think it's clear as day. He is truly overdoing it.
• 25:04
  Speaker 2: I know there's a million things as a quarterback that
• 25:06
  Speaker 2: you need to have in your head when you walk
• 25:08
  Speaker 2: up to that line of scrimmage. But I've explained this
• 25:12
  Speaker 2: like baseball. Baseball is a thinking man's game. There's a
• 25:16
  Speaker 2: million things that go on in your head before the
• 25:18
  Speaker 2: ball is pitched, whether you're on defense, whether you're in
• 25:20
  Speaker 2: the batter's box, on the mound, whatever. If you're in
• 25:25
  Speaker 2: the batter's box, you can be thinking to yourself, is
• 25:27
  Speaker 2: this a fastball, a breaking ball? Is he going to
• 25:29
  Speaker 2: throw it inside, outside? If I get an outside pitch,
• 25:31
  Speaker 2: can I hit it to the right side to advance
• 25:34
  Speaker 2: the runner over to third? Can I get a ball
• 25:36
  Speaker 2: in the air to hit a sack fly? Can I
• 25:39
  Speaker 2: lay down a bunt? That guy at the third base,
• 25:40
  Speaker 2: he's playing pretty far back. He's all the way on
• 25:42
  Speaker 2: the outfield grass. If I drop a bunt on the
• 25:43
  Speaker 2: third baseline, this will be a base hit. All that
• 25:45
  Speaker 2: stuff can go through your head in the milliseconds it
• 25:49
  Speaker 2: takes between you getting in the batter's pocket and the
• 25:52
  Speaker 2: pitch being thrown. But then guess what? Once that ball's
• 25:55
  Speaker 2: in the air, there's no more thinking.
• 25:58
  Speaker 3: There's no more. It's just going out and doing it.
• 26:03
  Speaker 3: Because if you're thinking when the ball is mid-flight in the.
• 26:06
  Speaker 2: 6 seconds it takes to get from that pitcher's hand
• 26:10
  Speaker 2: to the catcher's glove, you have no chance.
• 26:15
  Speaker 3: And I think it's the same thing with Bo Nix.
• 26:17
  Speaker 2: He can have all of that stuff in his head,
• 26:20
  Speaker 2: but once he snaps the football and gets into his
• 26:23
  Speaker 2: drop back, it has to be pure reaction.
• 26:26
  Speaker 4: Well, and another factor in this whole thing might be
• 26:29
  Speaker 4: year one and year two of Bo Nix. He didn't
• 26:32
  Speaker 4: have expectations. I mean, if I had a dollar, if
• 26:35
  Speaker 4: I had a dollar for every time we said the
• 26:37
  Speaker 4: phrase house money in the past two years, I could
• 26:41
  Speaker 4: go bankrupt Blackhawk with how much house money I'd have. Because, right,
• 26:45
  Speaker 4: first year, rookie year, there's no expectations. If you win
• 26:48
  Speaker 4: more than like four games, you're fine. Next year, like, okay,
• 26:51
  Speaker 4: you made the playoffs.
• 26:52
  Speaker 3: A little bit of expectations, nothing crazy.
• 26:55
  Speaker 4: Yeah, it's like you made the playoffs, but hey, let's
• 26:57
  Speaker 4: get back there. Let's see if we can improve, right?
• 26:59
  Speaker 4: And so you build every year. Well, now the expectation
• 27:03
  Speaker 4: is you made the AFC championship last year by hook
• 27:05
  Speaker 4: or by crook. You got to get back there. And oh,
• 27:07
  Speaker 4: by the way, everybody spent six months saying if Bo
• 27:11
  Speaker 4: Nix was quarterback in that game, we would have been
• 27:13
  Speaker 4: playing for a Super Bowl.
• 27:14
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 27:15
  Speaker 4: You think Bo didn't hear that? You don't think he
• 27:17
  Speaker 4: spent a whole offseason hearing everybody say, boy. If Bo
• 27:19
  Speaker 4: Nix had two healthy ankles, we would have been going
• 27:21
  Speaker 4: to the Super Bowl. I guarantee you he heard that,
• 27:24
  Speaker 4: so now he's thinking, I have to get back to
• 27:26
  Speaker 4: that spot and prove to everybody I could have gotten
• 27:28
  Speaker 4: us to the Super Bowl.
• 27:29
  Speaker 2: Well, and it's part of the reason why, you know,
• 27:31
  Speaker 2: I still think it's curious as to why Sean Payton
• 27:35
  Speaker 2: took play calling duties back.
• 27:37
  Speaker 3: When he did.
• 27:38
  Speaker 2: Because it did feel like you've created now a panic
• 27:41
  Speaker 2: within the offense. Now there's a real sense of urgency.
• 27:48
  Speaker 2: You could have explained away the first four weeks. Hey,
• 27:50
  Speaker 2: new play caller. Taking us a while to maybe get
• 27:54
  Speaker 2: in some rhythm. We'll find it later. The second you
• 27:57
  Speaker 2: take play calling duties back, you've now admitted there's a
• 28:01
  Speaker 2: gigantic problem.
• 28:02
  Speaker 3: And so then you try and figure out, well, what's
• 28:04
  Speaker 3: the problem? It's quarterback play.
• 28:09
  Speaker 2: And now it's for somebody who's already in his head.
• 28:11
  Speaker 2: You've put the extra burden of head coach publicly admitting
• 28:17
  Speaker 2: that there is an issue that is large enough that
• 28:20
  Speaker 2: we need to make a pretty seismic change within the offense.
• 28:26
  Speaker 3: And for what benefit? I think we all kind of agree.
• 28:32
  Speaker 3: It's like.
• 28:35
  Speaker 2: The play calling wasn't the main issue with things.
• 28:39
  Speaker 3: It wasn't.
• 28:42
  Speaker 2: But now you've just put that spotlight directly on Bo
• 28:46
  Speaker 2: Nix because if this continues to not go well, nobody's
• 28:51
  Speaker 2: going to be looking at Sean Payton saying he needs
• 28:52
  Speaker 2: to lose his job.
• 28:53
  Speaker 3: It's going to be one guy.
• 28:54
  Speaker 2: And that's Bo. But it is, I think tonight is
• 29:02
  Speaker 2: going to be, it's big for two reasons. One is this.
• 29:13
  Speaker 2: It's huge for just a record standpoint. If you can
• 29:15
  Speaker 2: get If you could get to 4-2 through these first
• 29:18
  Speaker 2: six games, that is a legitimate, hell yeah, I can't
• 29:25
  Speaker 2: believe we did that sort of thing.
• 29:27
  Speaker 3: But secondly, after this, the.
• 29:32
  Speaker 2: Denver Broncos are going to go out and they're going
• 29:34
  Speaker 2: to play against football teams that are middle of the
• 29:37
  Speaker 2: road or worse, with the exception of KC in a
• 29:39
  Speaker 2: couple weeks. But Arizona, Carolina are two miserable defenses. Raiders
• 29:48
  Speaker 2: give up a bunch of points. The Steelers give up
• 29:50
  Speaker 2: a bunch of points. The Dolphins give up a bunch
• 29:52
  Speaker 2: of points. Like, that is, you know, we talked about
• 29:55
  Speaker 2: the first six weeks. This is one, two, three, four, five,
• 29:59
  Speaker 2: six weeks. The next six games after this one are
• 30:04
  Speaker 2: against defenses that are bad for the most part. You know,
• 30:09
  Speaker 2: Chiefs in exception, whatever. You can have great games for
• 30:18
  Speaker 2: Bo Nix. Like, he can very easily in the next
• 30:21
  Speaker 2: six weeks look like somebody who's found it again. He
• 30:26
  Speaker 2: can do that. But I don't know if you're going
• 30:29
  Speaker 2: to be able to trust it. Doing that against a
• 30:32
  Speaker 2: team like Seattle tonight could go a long way.
• 30:35
  Speaker 4: Can I actually ask you a follow-up question to something
• 30:36
  Speaker 4: you just said? And if we want to get into
• 30:38
  Speaker 4: it on the other side, we can. But if you remember,
• 30:40
  Speaker 4: let's go back in our time machine to when Bo
• 30:42
  Speaker 4: Nix was first drafted. He was Sean Payton's golden boy, right?
• 30:46
  Speaker 4: Sean Payton spotted him, handpicked him, he wanted him. He said,
• 30:50
  Speaker 4: bleep all the second and third round draft grades. I
• 30:52
  Speaker 4: want him in the first round. I'm even going to
• 30:54
  Speaker 4: play mind games with the Minnesota Vikings to make them
• 30:56
  Speaker 4: think I want J.J. McCarthy so they'll steal him so
• 30:59
  Speaker 4: Bo falls to me, right? And so we were all saying,
• 31:02
  Speaker 4: Sean Payton will live and die with Bo Nix's success.
• 31:07
  Speaker 4: That if Bo succeeds, Sean sticks around. If Bo fails,
• 31:11
  Speaker 4: Sean goes. Now, that narrative has completely changed. I hear
• 31:14
  Speaker 4: everybody on this station saying, well, you know, if Bo
• 31:17
  Speaker 4: has a bad year, maybe we move on from him.
• 31:19
  Speaker 4: Sean Payton stays around.
• 31:21
  Speaker 2: What changed?
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: Um....
• 31:26
  Speaker 2: The... The reason you say that, you know what, I'll
• 31:29
  Speaker 2: explain on the other side. It's a good question. I
• 31:32
  Speaker 2: have the answer for it. We'll get to it in
• 31:33
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• 32:09
  Speaker 2: text is a great question. Am I the only one
• 32:13
  Speaker 2: that thinks that Kale should have named his boys Brett
• 32:15
  Speaker 2: and Kane? Maybe Jamal Kale would have approved. I think
• 32:18
  Speaker 2: that's only fair. I think that Kale McCarr now has
• 32:21
  Speaker 2: to name his kids Brett and Kane.
• 32:23
  Speaker 3: There's two of them. What's fair is fair, Cale. You
• 32:30
  Speaker 3: get my kid's name.
• 32:31
  Speaker 2: I get yours.
• 32:34
  Speaker 3: Here's the other text.
• 32:37
  Speaker 2: I disagree. Sean had to take over play calling to
• 32:40
  Speaker 2: help determine if it was play calling or something else.
• 32:43
  Speaker 3: We figured it out, and that's a good thing. Now
• 32:45
  Speaker 3: they can address it. I don't think so. I feel.
• 32:53
  Speaker 2: That Sean Payton did not want to give over play
• 32:55
  Speaker 2: calling duties to start with. they had a bad start
• 32:57
  Speaker 2: on offense and he just saw it as an opportunity
• 32:59
  Speaker 2: to take it back. John didn't get into this to
• 33:06
  Speaker 2: not call plays. He loves calling plays. He associates that
• 33:10
  Speaker 2: with as much as he does head coaching. To the
• 33:17
  Speaker 2: question that Nellie asked about what changed in the Sean
• 33:22
  Speaker 2: Payton is married to the success or failure of Bo Nix.
• 33:25
  Speaker 2: And now it feels like if Bo Nix does fail,
• 33:27
  Speaker 2: Sean Payton survives. I'll tell you what happened. Because it's
• 33:33
  Speaker 2: a really, really rare thing in football. You want a
• 33:37
  Speaker 2: ton of football games without good quarterback play. That's what changed.
• 33:45
  Speaker 2: And in order to do that, you got to be
• 33:48
  Speaker 2: a hell of a coach. And that's just the truth.
• 33:52
  Speaker 2: You can say, well, it's the stellar defense that did it. Okay.
• 33:56
  Speaker 3: Well, Sean is.
• 34:00
  Speaker 2: Working in tandem. Nothing happens on this football roster without
• 34:03
  Speaker 2: the approval of Sean Payton. Sean Payton decided instead of
• 34:09
  Speaker 2: going out and going crazy and free agency on offensive
• 34:11
  Speaker 2: players that he was going to build an offensive line
• 34:14
  Speaker 2: and he was going to go get Zach Allen and
• 34:17
  Speaker 2: they're going to draft Nick Benito and they were going
• 34:20
  Speaker 2: to take You know, Riley Moss, and they were going
• 34:23
  Speaker 2: to go out and build up their secondary with Hufanga
• 34:27
  Speaker 2: and Brandon Jones. Like, he made those decisions. He is responsible.
• 34:38
  Speaker 2: I mean, without Sean Payton, this team, there's no way
• 34:41
  Speaker 2: that team wins 14 games last year. No way. I
• 34:44
  Speaker 2: think I could give you every other coach in the league.
• 34:49
  Speaker 2: I don't think they get to 14 wins. So what
• 34:54
  Speaker 2: changed you won football games with bad quarterback play, which
• 34:59
  Speaker 2: is really, really hard to do. Think about the teams
• 35:02
  Speaker 2: with great quarterbacks that can't win. Now, I guess there's
• 35:07
  Speaker 2: questions on, on what is Justin Herbert now, but Justin
• 35:10
  Speaker 2: Herbert before this season was seen as a really good quarterback.
• 35:16
  Speaker 2: They lose. Um, Think about Jordan Love and Green Bay.
• 35:21
  Speaker 2: Jordan Love is seen by a lot of people as
• 35:22
  Speaker 2: a really good quarterback. Green Bay has not made an
• 35:26
  Speaker 2: NFC championship game with him. You did it with Bo Nix,
• 35:30
  Speaker 2: somebody you might move on from at the end of
• 35:32
  Speaker 2: the year. That's what good coaching does. So bottom line is,
• 35:40
  Speaker 2: when you have a team that is successful with bad
• 35:44
  Speaker 2: quarterback play, that means the coach is probably doing something
• 35:47
  Speaker 2: pretty good. And then you think to yourself, hey, if
• 35:51
  Speaker 2: I give that coach another bite at the apple at
• 35:54
  Speaker 2: trying to take a quarterback or we get one in
• 35:56
  Speaker 2: free agency or whatever, maybe all this stuff can change.
• 36:04
  Speaker 2: So we'll talk more about this. Chad Brown at 8 o'clock.
• 36:06
  Speaker 2: Jeff Legwald is going to be at 9 as we
• 36:09
  Speaker 2: head into Thursday night football. Seahawks and Broncos, both of
• 36:14
  Speaker 2: them wearing the thrones. The throwbacks, by the way, tonight,
• 36:18
  Speaker 2: it's going to be a great uniform game. Uniform game
• 36:22
  Speaker 2: is going to be awesome. Now, as we sort of
• 36:28
  Speaker 2: move ahead, talk a little bit about the Avs game.
• 36:30
  Speaker 2: They drop on 3-2. I think that the Avs, in
• 36:34
  Speaker 2: the way that that game went about, hitting posts, hitting crossbars,
• 36:42
  Speaker 2: two goals taken off the board, you deserved better. than
• 36:45
  Speaker 2: what the final result was still came away with a point,
• 36:48
  Speaker 2: which is nice. Taking three out of four against Dallas
• 36:53
  Speaker 2: in two days, I think is, is more than admirable.
• 36:57
  Speaker 2: Dallas is a tough team. And, and what's very clear,
• 37:04
  Speaker 2: those teams hate each other. So I want to talk
• 37:07
  Speaker 2: more about that at seven o'clock with motion. Vic we'll
• 37:11
  Speaker 2: say we're, we've gotten what we wanted here. We have
• 37:19
  Speaker 2: a series in the NLCS that has Milwaukee leading it
• 37:22
  Speaker 2: 3-0 on the brink of sweeping the Dodgers. After all
• 37:27
  Speaker 2: the money that was spent by LA going out trading
• 37:30
  Speaker 2: for Scooball, having this gigantic pitching rotation that's every single
• 37:35
  Speaker 2: starter's great, a lineup of an all-star team, all these
• 37:39
  Speaker 2: different things, the pesky Milwaukee Brewers have found a way
• 37:47
  Speaker 2: to go up three games to nothing on them in
• 37:49
  Speaker 2: the NLCS. And the Dodgers look kind of broken. They
• 37:54
  Speaker 2: can't get anything going. They can't hit right now. Starting
• 37:58
  Speaker 2: pitching has been okay, but Blake Snell gave up three
• 38:01
  Speaker 2: bombs last night. The Brewers have been this level of
• 38:07
  Speaker 2: a baseball team from the start of the season. Like
• 38:11
  Speaker 2: they've been straight up awesome. from the beginning of the
• 38:15
  Speaker 2: year to the end. They had one stretch at the
• 38:16
  Speaker 2: beginning of the season where it was like they were
• 38:18
  Speaker 2: hovering around 500 baseball, and then they just kind of
• 38:21
  Speaker 2: took off. And especially in the second half, towards the
• 38:27
  Speaker 2: end of the year, they just started running through teams
• 38:32
  Speaker 2: and took that momentum into the postseason in which they
• 38:37
  Speaker 2: beat San Diego in 3-4. Now they're up 3-3. nothing
• 38:42
  Speaker 2: against the Dodgers. They're just a really good roster. But
• 38:50
  Speaker 2: the question I have is, whoever comes out of the AL,
• 38:55
  Speaker 2: whether it's the Guardians or the Rays, does baseball still
• 39:01
  Speaker 2: need a big-name team for you to root against? To
• 39:07
  Speaker 2: keep your attention. And I know there's some people out
• 39:09
  Speaker 2: there like, I don't like baseball anyway. Well, then ignore
• 39:12
  Speaker 2: my question. It does feel like Brewers and Guardians would
• 39:18
  Speaker 2: be something that.
• 39:20
  Speaker 3: People just aren't that interested in.
• 39:23
  Speaker 2: Now, I would be. I love baseball. And those two teams. Look.
• 39:30
  Speaker 2: the Rays are overall better than what the Guardians are,
• 39:34
  Speaker 2: but the Guardians got hot at the right time. But
• 39:39
  Speaker 2: you can watch a series with the Dodgers to root
• 39:42
  Speaker 2: against the Dodgers. I don't know if it's Brewers and
• 39:46
  Speaker 2: Guardians or Brewers and Rays where you don't really have
• 39:50
  Speaker 2: What do we call these teams that they are completely inoffensive?
• 39:56
  Speaker 2: You don't like them. You don't hate them. They're just
• 40:00
  Speaker 2: right down the middle.
• 40:02
  Speaker 4: I hate to say it, but, Brett, I actually am
• 40:03
  Speaker 4: discovering that, that my hate-watching enjoyment for baseball way supersedes
• 40:10
  Speaker 4: my enjoyment watching, especially when I was watching that Yankees
• 40:13
  Speaker 4: Red Sox series and I was going, dude, No matter
• 40:15
  Speaker 4: what happens, one of these teams is going to get bounced.
• 40:18
  Speaker 4: Hell yeah, let's go. And then now I tune in
• 40:21
  Speaker 4: not to see if the Dodgers do well, but to
• 40:24
  Speaker 4: watch them lose. And so when all the villains get eliminated,
• 40:27
  Speaker 4: if there's no Thanos left when we get to the
• 40:31
  Speaker 4: World Series, like, I don't know.
• 40:34
  Speaker 2: Like, you're in the reasonable payroll territory. So just so
• 40:42
  Speaker 2: you guys know, Out of the teams that are left,
• 40:47
  Speaker 2: trying to figure out where these teams are at in payroll,
• 40:50
  Speaker 2: the Guardians are 29th in the MLB. The only team
• 40:54
  Speaker 2: that spent less money on their roster was the Miami Marlins.
• 40:58
  Speaker 2: They had $ 87 million of a projected salary this year.
• 41:02
  Speaker 2: $ 87 million was their payroll. That's it. Juan Soto makes
• 41:08
  Speaker 2: like $ 75. So just think about that for a second.
• 41:11
  Speaker 2: The Tampa Bay Rays are 28th. They spent $ 90 million.
• 41:17
  Speaker 2: The Chicago White Sox that were in the ALDS, they
• 41:20
  Speaker 2: were 27th. I mean, the 27th, 28th, and 29th teams
• 41:24
  Speaker 2: in the MLB, or I'm sorry, in the AL, were
• 41:28
  Speaker 2: the last three teams standing.
• 41:30
  Speaker 3: The three least paid. That's pretty crazy.
• 41:33
  Speaker 2: You know, Milwaukee comes in at $ 142 million. They're 19th
• 41:38
  Speaker 2: in the MLB in payroll. Like, you just got rosters
• 41:43
  Speaker 2: that are below mid-market status. And I do think that's
• 41:48
  Speaker 2: interesting to see who's left. Just for reference, by the way,
• 41:53
  Speaker 2: the LA Dodgers, $ 412 million. So they've spent 330 more
• 41:57
  Speaker 2: than Cleveland, 320 more than Tampa, and 270 more than Milwaukee.
• 42:01
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