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  Speaker 1: have to and our lead this hours from San Francisco.
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  Speaker 1: That was the scene of a starry night. The NBA's
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  Speaker 1: mid It's not Midsummer Midwinter Classic, the All Star Game
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  Speaker 1: or whatever that was this round robin. It was like
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  Speaker 1: an AAU tournament, but it was All Stars. We do
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  Speaker 1: you watch any of this? Were you captivated by the
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  Speaker 1: All Star Game? They played a mini tournament between four teams.
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  Speaker 1: This is to avoid anyone scoring two hundred points in
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  Speaker 1: the All Star Game. You just cap each team at
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  Speaker 1: forty points, first to forty and that's it. But if
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  Speaker 1: you did not watch, and you probably didn't, perhaps you
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  Speaker 1: missed it. They had comedian Kevin Hart was the MC
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  Speaker 1: of the event. And you know, you need a stand
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  Speaker 1: up comedian to host your All Star Game because you
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  Speaker 1: don't have big enough stars to carry the event. And
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  Speaker 1: we found out a few hours before the game that
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  Speaker 1: the event was not worthy of Lebron James Lebron deciding
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  Speaker 1: to tap out of the All Star Game, ending a
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  Speaker 1: twenty year streak of All Star performances. Koop has a
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  Speaker 1: ride by the Way, Steph Curry, Steph Curry took home
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  Speaker 1: the Kobe Bryant All Star NVP honor who Yes, he
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  Speaker 1: had a way he listen was in the Bay Area.
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  Speaker 1: I gotta give the local guy the All Star Game
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  Speaker 1: MVP a twenty year streak of All Star Games. Stephgre
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  Speaker 1: has had been twenty years, but he's been there a
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  Speaker 1: lot most of the last twenty years. And Steph Curry
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  Speaker 1: was a Team Shack, the ogs of Team Shack. Yeah yeah,
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  Speaker 1: they called me a Team Shack. O G's beat Team Chuck.
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  Speaker 1: That would be Charles Barkley in the final of the
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  Speaker 1: first of forty first of forty point tournament in the
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  Speaker 1: All Star Game. Now for me, and I watched this,
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  Speaker 1: I was not captivated. This is not really for me.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not sure who this was for. I don't really know.
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  Speaker 1: It certainly wasn't for me, But I did enjoy the
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  Speaker 1: back and forth with Draymond Green, who was not playing
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  Speaker 1: in the All Star Game was not selected to the
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  Speaker 1: All Star Team. But Raymond Green was working the studio
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  Speaker 1: set for TNT and he was asked, on a scale
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  Speaker 1: of one to ten, how much he liked the new
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  Speaker 1: format of the All Star Game, and he responded with
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  Speaker 1: a zero as his response. He had thought it was
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  Speaker 1: a zero. That was it now? Charles Barkley, who was coaching,
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  Speaker 1: as we mentioned and also commentating the game that he
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  Speaker 1: did not coach in Charles Barkley responding to Draymond Green,
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  Speaker 1: and he said, the reason the NBA is doing what
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  Speaker 1: they're doing to the All Star Game is because of
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  Speaker 1: Raymond Green's generation of players in the NBA that have
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  Speaker 1: destroyed the All Star Game. So that was Barkley's response,
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  Speaker 1: some saucy commentary, The commentary more worthy of conversation than
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  Speaker 1: the game itself. That is the NBA All Star experience
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  Speaker 1: in a nutshell. So let us discuss the question. We'll
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  Speaker 1: go back and forth here. Draymond Green again. Draymond Green
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  Speaker 1: I was asked on a scale of one to ten
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  Speaker 1: what he thought of the new All Star format while
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  Speaker 1: plausibly being paid to commentate on the All Star Game,
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  Speaker 1: and Draymond said it was a zero, while Charles Barkley,
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  Speaker 1: who was being paid to participate as a sham coach
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  Speaker 1: in said All Star Game, says that the reason they're
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  Speaker 1: doing this is because of Draymond Green's generation. You make
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  Speaker 1: the call, whose side are you on? Whose side are
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  Speaker 1: you on. So I've got bastardized hotel, Pitchman, and Wizard
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  Speaker 1: of Oz, and we will combine all of these things together,
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  Speaker 1: and we are going to make a nice night taking
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  Speaker 1: a nap. That's what we're gonna make, because that's not
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  Speaker 1: much going on. Let's you're like college basketball, not much
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  Speaker 1: going on. I think it's a little hockey. Get a
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  Speaker 1: little hockey, all right. So again, I've got bastardized hotel, Fitchman,
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  Speaker 1: and Wizard of Oz, and we'll combine all these things together.
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  Speaker 3: So na Burn, I said, Nah Burn, My answer is,
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  Speaker 3: am I gonna go a Draymond Green or b Charles Barkley.
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  Speaker 1: My answers actually see all the above. I'm gonna go
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  Speaker 1: see all of the above. I no lies detected. The
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  Speaker 1: All Star Game round robin tournament was capitol l lame,
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  Speaker 1: capital l lame. It just was right. And when your customers,
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  Speaker 1: the most passionate people for your business, your product, have
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  Speaker 1: to google the rules on what the f is going on,
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  Speaker 1: you've done something wrong. And Draymond was complaining about the
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  Speaker 1: fact that the team from the Saturday Rookie or Young
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  Speaker 1: Stars of the Amba, whatever they're calling it, got to
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  Speaker 1: participate because they needed a fourth team. They had to
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  Speaker 1: get a fourth team in there. So like Dalton Connect
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  Speaker 1: of the Lakers who was traded to the Hornets and
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  Speaker 1: then he came back to the Lakers, he's kind of
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  Speaker 1: a nomad's he was on one of the teams of
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  Speaker 1: the Future Stars that was playing in the All Stars
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  Speaker 1: Saturday or also Sunday tournament from Saturday. So I would
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  Speaker 1: have chosen to go with the kiss method, keep it simple, stupid.
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  Speaker 1: The NBA chose to crank it up a couple of
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  Speaker 1: notches and they decided to bastardize the All Star Game.
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  Speaker 1: It's lower in quality now. It's been unwatchable for years,
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  Speaker 1: so it's just a different kind of unwatchable. But Draymond
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  Speaker 1: is correct, Now, how did we end up here? Well,
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  Speaker 1: that's the part where Charles Barkley enters the chat. Charles
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  Speaker 1: Barkley is also spot on. No lies detected from Sir Charles,
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  Speaker 1: because it's Draymond Green's generation of grab Ass and Huggy
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  Speaker 1: Huggy during the All Star Game that created the mess
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  Speaker 1: that we have today.
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  Speaker 2: Now.
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  Speaker 1: To be fair in all sports, the All Star Game sucks.
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  Speaker 1: One thing's changed in my lifetime. Used to be a
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  Speaker 1: highlight of the year to see all the great players
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  Speaker 1: united together, and it was wonderful. Now it blows in
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  Speaker 1: the NBA game in particular, and there's different theories the
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  Speaker 1: AAU tournament. All these guys know each other from the
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  Speaker 1: time they're first tag for greatness, and they all hang
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  Speaker 1: out together at the same tournaments and travel the same circuit,
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  Speaker 1: so they all know each other. So they don't really
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  Speaker 1: have any competition with any of these people because they're
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  Speaker 1: all buddy buddy, and they're all filthy rich in the NBA.
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  Speaker 1: But what has happened to the bug ridden NBA All
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  Speaker 1: Star Game? It has affected all of the All Stars right.
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  Speaker 1: The contamination is widespread contamination. It's highly infectious. And the headliners,
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  Speaker 1: they make so much money in the professional ranks that
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  Speaker 1: they cannot be troubled to provide a proper night of
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  Speaker 1: effort and focus and have that competitive spirit. They just can't.
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  Speaker 1: And this is a result. You play stupid games and
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  Speaker 1: win stupid prizes. So in a perfect world for me,
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  Speaker 1: it will never likely happen this way. But you go
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  Speaker 1: back old school style where I first I love watching
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  Speaker 1: basketball when I was younger, Back in my day, it
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  Speaker 1: was East versus West. It's gonna shock you. What I'm
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  Speaker 1: about to say is a boomer take East versus West
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  Speaker 1: teams wearing their home uniforms, meaning that if you wear
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  Speaker 1: a Celtic uniform, you're wearing your Celtic uniform during the
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  Speaker 1: All Star Game or a Sixers or Bowls or Sons
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  Speaker 1: or whoever you got your home uniform on. And that's it.
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  Speaker 1: And then the Shenanigans and you actually put some effort
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  Speaker 1: into that. And that's too much to ask. It's way
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  Speaker 1: too much asking, all right now, Page two to the
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  Speaker 1: trade that still has legs, The trade that still had elects.
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  Speaker 1: A few weeks after the Dallas Mavericks landed Luka and
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  Speaker 1: traded him, they said, we're gonna trade Luca. We're gonna
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  Speaker 1: land him in La They traded him to the Lakers
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  Speaker 1: on a silver platter. The Commissioner over the weekend addressed
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  Speaker 1: the chatter Adam Silver over the weekend, shooting down the
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  Speaker 1: widespread conspiracy theory that the Mavericks decision to give away
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  Speaker 1: Luca old not signey, but decision to give away Luka
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  Speaker 1: to the Lakers is to move the franchise to Las Vegas. Right,
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  Speaker 1: people that own the Mavericks now are gambling people. They
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  Speaker 1: thought they were going to get a law passed in
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  Speaker 1: Texas to allow sports wagering and casinos, and they wanted
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  Speaker 1: to build an areno at the casino and all that stuff.
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  Speaker 1: But Adam Silver shooting down that conspiracy theory that the
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  Speaker 1: Luca trade was to upset the fan base so much
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  Speaker 1: so they could relocate the franchise to Vegas. Does this
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  Speaker 1: end the storyline? So I'm shaking my head. No, not
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  Speaker 1: by a long shot. And my response is the hotel pitchman.
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  Speaker 1: My response is the hotel pitchman here, Captain Obvious. Remember
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  Speaker 1: those commercials from years ago, Captain Obvious, what did you expect,
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  Speaker 1: Adam SILVERSI can you imagine if the commission had gotten
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  Speaker 1: up there. But by the way, yeah, we absolutely we
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  Speaker 1: hope the franchise will move to Las Vegas. We want
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  Speaker 1: to leave Dallas and we want to go to Vegas
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  Speaker 1: because of the gambling money in Vegas. Of course, he's
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  Speaker 1: not going to say that. You can't admit that. He
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  Speaker 1: would never admit that. But there's something that just doesn't
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  Speaker 1: smell right about the whole situation. No matter what Adam
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  Speaker 1: Silver says, and the fact that Adam Silver gave his
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  Speaker 1: blessing here on the trade, which makes you believe that
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  Speaker 1: Adam Silver, the commissioner of the NBA, either orchestrated that
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  Speaker 1: Luca ends up with the Lakers. The heist is allowed,
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  Speaker 1: or either orchestrated or allowed it to happen. But either way,
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  Speaker 1: he's the commissioner of the NBA, and this is a
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  Speaker 1: conspiracy theory. Unlike the NFL's fixing games for the Chiefs,
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  Speaker 1: this is one I can get behind. Either Adam Silver.
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  Speaker 1: The NBA is like, well, listen, we got to get
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  Speaker 1: a bigger start Lebron's old. We need the Lakers to
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  Speaker 1: have a star at all times. That's the way we've
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  Speaker 1: done business for the past fifty years in the NBA.
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  Speaker 1: So we've got to keep that street going and we've
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  Speaker 1: got to make sure we get a star with the Lakers,
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  Speaker 1: and said, we'll have Luca go there and TV you'll
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  Speaker 1: be happy. Either that or the Mavericks want to relocate
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  Speaker 1: to Las Vegas. But back when the NBA had a
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  Speaker 1: commissioner with hair on his chest, and back when they
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  Speaker 1: had a man that wasn't from somewhere else out in
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  Speaker 1: the cosmos in the Milky Way as commissioner, a real
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  Speaker 1: commissioner in the late David Stern. That was when Commissioner
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  Speaker 1: Stern stepped in and vetoed lopsided trades, at least one
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  Speaker 1: in particular, that Chris Paul trade. He put his foot
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  Speaker 1: down said no, Moss, Chris Paul, you're not getting traded.
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  Speaker 1: That's a giveaway trade. You're not going to the Lakers. Now.
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  Speaker 1: Silver never says he never considered such a move, claim
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  Speaker 1: that they they have the power to do that, even
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  Speaker 1: though it has happened in the past. Now as far
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  Speaker 1: as the idea that the Mavericks would would never be
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  Speaker 1: allowed to relocate to Nevada, of course, the Maps have
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  Speaker 1: admitted they've never They've never, or at least they say
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  Speaker 1: they never shopped Luca around. They only wanted to give
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  Speaker 1: to the Lakers. It's not trade. A trade is when
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  Speaker 1: you see what the item is worth, you put it
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  Speaker 1: up for bid at an auction, even if it's a
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  Speaker 1: silent auction, and see what you can get, and then
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  Speaker 1: you give the item to the highest bidder. That was
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  Speaker 1: not what happened, but the idea that the NBA would
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  Speaker 1: not ever allow a team leaving a bigger market for
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  Speaker 1: a smaller market is fugazi and here's why. It has
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  Speaker 1: happened in other sports multiple times in recent years and
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  Speaker 1: over the last like thirty five years, it's happened many times.
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  Speaker 1: There were teams that left Los Angeles in the NFL
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  Speaker 1: for smaller markets, mainly the Rams who left for Saint
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  Speaker 1: Louis years ago, and then they came back to LA.
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  Speaker 1: The Raiders left LA went to Oakland. They then left Oakland,
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  Speaker 1: a bigger market the San Francisco Bay Area for Las Vegas,
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  Speaker 1: a smaller market. The Athletics and Major League Baseball have
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  Speaker 1: also done that as they went to a smaller TV market.
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  Speaker 1: The San Francisco Bay Area market number six in the
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  Speaker 1: United States and the city of Las Vegas market number
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  Speaker 1: believe it's number forty two now. Dallas is the fifth
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  Speaker 1: biggest media market in the United States. So you'd move
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  Speaker 1: from number five to number forty two, but you'd make
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  Speaker 1: up for that in gambling revenue. And don't be naive
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  Speaker 1: to think that that would not be allowed to happen.
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  Speaker 1: Right now. Final point, as the All Star festivities continue
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  Speaker 1: to fill at Delphia, we go some social media posts
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  Speaker 1: going viral. Several of you sent me this over the
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  Speaker 1: weekend as the All Star Game played out in San Francisco,
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  Speaker 1: a non All Star star, a fledgling podcaster, Paul George,
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  Speaker 1: Bye George, Bye Bye George. Paul George of your Philadelphia
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  Speaker 1: seventy six ers. When viral his wife did posting photos
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  Speaker 1: on the social media of a nice tropical All Star
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  Speaker 1: Break vacation. So Paul George's wife posting photos of the
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  Speaker 1: All Star tropical beachside vacation is blank. So my word
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  Speaker 1: is obtuse. My word is ubtuse. The look it up,
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  Speaker 1: obt usc up toos PG thirteen. I look at this.
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  Speaker 1: I'm so glad he's not a Clipper. Thank God, I
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  Speaker 1: get rid of that guy. But it's like the Wizard
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  Speaker 1: of Oz, like Paul George the Scarecrow. If I only
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  Speaker 1: had a brain, If I only had a brain, that's
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  Speaker 1: the amazing thing. Like I would be so embarrassed if
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  Speaker 1: I was Paul George the guy scored two points in
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  Speaker 1: a game for Philly before the All Star Break against
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  Speaker 1: a dog food team, the Brooklyn Nets, I would be
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  Speaker 1: posting photos of anything. I'd be posting photos of me
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  Speaker 1: taking jump shots in an empty gymnasium. Somewhere in the
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  Speaker 1: Delaware Valley. But no, Paul George is out there with
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  Speaker 1: his beautiful stripper wife there, I believe, on the beach there,
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  Speaker 1: somewhere in a tropical location. You'd think he would be
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  Speaker 1: cognizant of how bad that looks. And even if his
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  Speaker 1: wife's posting photos, maybe not be in the photo. Say
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  Speaker 1: let's do me a solid on that. I don't need
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  Speaker 1: to be in those those photos. But instead instead of
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  Speaker 1: putting up jump shots, he was putting on suntan locean
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  Speaker 1: at the beach, and then did not lock himself in
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  Speaker 1: the gym. Instead of holding a basketball, he was holding
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  Speaker 1: a margarita and it would appear in his hands. And
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  Speaker 1: so there you go.
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  Speaker 1: So our lead this hour, we'll get back to the
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  Speaker 1: bouncy Ball and the faux All Star Game in San Francisco.
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  Speaker 1: But instead now we turn our attention to the rumor Mill,
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  Speaker 1: and if you like rumors, buckle up, buckeroo. Expect the
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  Speaker 1: chatter to drive the storylines on this show and many
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  Speaker 1: other gas bags and blowhards over the next couple of
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  Speaker 1: months before we settle in to NFL Draft Apaloosa, which
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  Speaker 1: coming up. But the big buzz this hour is around
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  Speaker 1: a former Super Bowl MVP that can be yours if
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  Speaker 1: the price is right. So if you haven't heard yet,
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  Speaker 1: name's been out there, but perhaps not. We are told
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  Speaker 1: the Pittsburg standards. The Ginzers are hot and heavy. They're
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  Speaker 1: all horny to get themselves a former Super Bowl MVP.
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  Speaker 1: That would be La ri I am wide receiver Cooper Cup.
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  Speaker 1: Jay Glazer reporting recently that the Pittsburgh football team gung
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  Speaker 1: ho to get their hands on a Cup and have
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  Speaker 1: him come to the confluence. They're in Pittsburgh, So let
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  Speaker 1: us discuss the question. Some recent buzz picking up up
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  Speaker 1: that the Steelers have been interested for many many months
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  Speaker 1: in getting their hands on Cooper Cup in a trade.
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  Speaker 1: Would that be a good fit. So I have Twilight
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  Speaker 1: Zone war slogan and fire drill and we will combine
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  Speaker 1: all of these things together and hold up a protest sign.
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  Speaker 1: Is what we're going to do. So Nu burn I said,
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  Speaker 1: Na Burn, Well, this all depends on what exactly Mike
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  Speaker 1: Tomlin is itching for in Pittsburgh. But keeping it real,
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  Speaker 1: if you have watched watch the NFL in recent years,
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  Speaker 1: that you know what. I know that while Cooper Cup
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  Speaker 1: is a big name, he has not provided a lot
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  Speaker 1: of game in recent years. He is a diminishing asset.
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  Speaker 1: That is why the Rams are looking to get out
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  Speaker 1: of the Cooper Cup business. He's better in theory and
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  Speaker 1: he is in reality. It's been that way for several years.
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  Speaker 1: So if you want a player who is what I
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: call in the twilight zone, then Cooper Cup's your guy. Picture.
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  Speaker 1: If you will a world where you trade for someone
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  Speaker 1: that has name brand value and instead get a guy
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: with generic brand performance, that's Cooper Cup. The arrow is
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: pointing in the wrong direction. Now we have seen players
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: change teams and have a career renaissance, so that's clearly
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: what someone will be banking on if they acquire Cooper Cup.
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: But based on what he has done, if you look
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: at the eyeball test and you look at the Pro
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: Football Reference page, Cooper Cup his yards per season has
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: trended down down, down, down, down, down, down down down
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: four straight seasons, four straight seasons going the wrong direction.
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: His receiving success rate also down down, down, down, down
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: down down four straight years. And his magical season of
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: his superpowers when he was the MVP candidate, Cooper Cup
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: is fifty percent the player that he had been. He
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: averaged that year one hundred and fourteen and a half
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: yards per game. He is down to fifty nine point two.
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  Speaker 1: The biggest problem, which is unsolvable at this point, is
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: that even if Cooper Cup were to go to a
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: place like Pittsburgh, go to the Patriots and would have
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: some success, would have a taste of success. Even if
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: that was the case, he is star crossed, all right.
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: He is star cross because he's heading towards his age
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: thirty two seasons and the bugaboo, the Komodo dragon in
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: the room. He is damaged goods damage with buyer beware,
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: buyer beware. Cooper Cup has missed an entire season eighteen
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: games and a season plus a season plus with various
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: various injuries in recent years. And as he gets older,
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: I think we know how this works, because we're all
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: getting older. No one's getting younger. If you're getting younger,
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: you're a freak. Everyone's getting older. And as you get older,
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: stuff starts going haywire, and the thing majig doesn't work,
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: and the watch McCall it. Something's messed up with the
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: watch McCall it, and that's what happens now. Page two.
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: Staying with the Rams, though the RAMS reports recently saying
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: the Rams are trying to trade Matthew Stafford. A lot
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: of buzz connecting Stafford to the New York Giants in
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: recent days, and the RAMS supposedly upset with Stafford's wife
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: for her public commentary amid the trade rumors. So what
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: do you think the issue here with Matthew Stafford's wife
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: and the Rams is, well, that's actually not that difficult.
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: After a seconds long, second long, mallor investigation, we determined
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: it is a war slogan the RAMS are upset about
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: back to World War Two, the slogan loose lips sink ships.
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: That would be the issue here, or in the case
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: the transfer portal, the RAMS trying to finesse a trade
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: of Stafford working back channels as we speak right now,
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: and these deals are often consummated way in advance, right
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: way before they actually get announced, months before they're officially announced.
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: So they're doing their legwork to figure out where to
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: put Stafford, and his wife is meddling. The meddling wife, Yes,
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: it's like a reality show on her fledgling podcast, because
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: everyone's got a podcast, even I have a podcast. Kelly Stafford,
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: that's the name. Kelly Stafford ripped the Rams personnel decisions,
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: including the looking to trade Cooper Cup and his uncertain
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: future even though Cupp has been a diminishing player for
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: several years. That has robbed the RAM organization the wrong way. Now,
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: I'm still not convinced the Rams are going to actually
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: have the moxie as my dog is named to trade
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: Cooper Cup. I'm still reluctant that this is actually what happened,
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: but I believe it when it does happened. Ultimately, if
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: you take a couple of steps back and look at this,
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: we believe that Matthew Stafford has he just doesn't care.
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: He's like whatever, say whatever you want. I don't care
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: to his wife and that whole thing. And it's kind
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: of like that celebrity chef Emerald where it's like bam, bam,
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: you know, kick it up a notch. Here they're kicking
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: it up a notch and Stafford he's ready to move on,
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: even though he's, oh, I want to stay with the Rams.
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: Does he really want to stay with the Rams? Eh?
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: I don't think so. He's going to New York. Here
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: you make it in New York. And he's thinking about
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: post football career if you have success with the Giants,
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: which nobody really does, but if you were able to
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: figure it out, you could get the New York market.
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: You've already had success in LA So it's the old
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: good cop, bad cop and wife is the bad cop.
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: Stafford's the good cop. And it's either this or he
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: is so whipped Matthew Stafford and his wife just the
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: toxicity level there and meddling with his and he just
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: sits there like a zombie and does nothing. Stafford, while
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: he would be an upgrade for the Giants, as we
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: have pointed out on this show in previous episodes, at
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: this point Matthew Stafford is he went from a Tier
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: two quarterback. He's now a Tier three high tier three
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: quarterback in the NFL. The last six games of his
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: LA Ram regular season career, Stafford was like a house
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: of cards ready to come tumbling down for the Rams.
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: Very inconsistent and as we have seen in all sports,
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: that is the telltale sign of a diminishing career where
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: every once in a while you go out and play great,
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: but more times than not you stink looking like Paul George.
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: We talked about him last yar Paul George and the NBA.
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: Everyone's wing to else score thirty points and then he'll
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: come back and have like eight or twelve or two.
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: That's more of the regular all right, not final point
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: to since cinnaty we go and as we're an NFL
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: general man, an NFL GM says that Joe Burrow, star
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: quarterback Joe Burrow is not telling you to be happy.
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: And if Joe Burrow is not happy, no one's happy.
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: Burro's gonna be unhappy with the Bengals after the offseason.
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: Can you decot what that GM means? So the message
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: is rather simple, prepare for a two words fire drill
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: or go a mass exodus. In fact, the only one
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: left in Cincinnati will be Justin in Cincinnati and possibly
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: just Josh, but he might relocate alls a mass exus. Now,
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: Cincinnati has the following players that can be yours if
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: the price is right, Jamar, Chase t Higgins, defensive star
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: Trey Hendrickson, and tight end Mike is SICKI. All of
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: them either free agents or looking to get paid. And
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: if they don't get paid, they're looking to leave Cincinnati now.
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: Burrow has already offered to redo his contract to play
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: the shell game and move money around in order to
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: allow the Bengals to keep the band together on a
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: non playoff team. But my take on this is level
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: headed approach. Level headed approach here. If you look at
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: this level head, the GM predicted that fifty percent of
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: those guys would be gone at best, and I think
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: that's accurate. I think that's accurate. They're not going to
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: cook the books. They're not into cooking the Bengals front office.
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: They've never operated that way. Why would they all of
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: a sudden start operating that way. It just doesn't make
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: a lot of sense compared to other NFL teams that
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: are willing to go above and beyond, above and beyond
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: what is required. And you can always futs around with
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: the numbers. The salary cap is designed in a way
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: for manipulation if you want to manipulate it. If not,
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: you can use it as the end all, be all
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: excuse and say I can't afford this player, I can't
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: afford that players. Put your hands up in the air
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: and say, oh, it's a salary kin, Oh it's a
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: salary kid. But if you want the player, you can
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: keep the player. So the Bengals have never been that motivated.
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: And we pointed out out it's old family money. It's
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: old family money, it's family business. It's it's essentially a
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: slush fund for the family. And if you put more
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: money into the payroll and you take money out of
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: the vacation fund, that's one less a yacht you can rent,
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: that's one less private plane flight you can take, because
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: that's going to the play the player payroll. But if
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: I'm in charge, based on what I know of the Bengals,
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: then I would do everything I can to keep Jamar
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: Chase because he's a top top ten receiver, top five
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: receiver in the NFL. So you keep him, you figure
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: you can get someone to slide into the t Higgins
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: role because everyone will be focused on Jamar Chase, and
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: then you would keep Trey hendrickson. And as far as
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: Mike is Sicky, you know it's okay. You're gonna lose
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: any sleep if Mike Sicky leaves, probably not. And t Higgins,
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: you hope you can work something out where you do
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: like a sign and trade type deal and you get
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: some something in return for T Higgins. If you can
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: futs around that direction, That's what I would do. And
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: I'm never wrong about these things, ever, never ever wrong.
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: I've been the general manager for thirty two NFL teams
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: for over twenty years, and my record is spotless. My
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: record is perfect. I have not lost my jet. Well,
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: actually did lose my job one time, but overall my record,
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: I have a winning record as an executive for all
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: these teams.
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  Speaker 4: A report over the weekend suggested that Aaron Rodgers pleaded
• 29:40
  Speaker 4: with the Jets to give him another chance, Ben, are
• 29:43
  Speaker 4: you buying that?
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: I don't think anyone has ever pleaded with the Jets
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: to play another season with the Jets, so I don't
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: believe that. Now. I do think that Aaron Rodgers wants
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: to play again, and he doesn't want to leave the
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: NFL world. But why would you beg to play for
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: the Jets. If you want to play for a bad team,
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: you can play for the Titans, or there's plenty of
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: bad teams that need the Raiders that need quarterbacks. So
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: I'm a little skeptical, but I'm sure my man, Aaron Rodgers,
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: Pat hang out with Pat McAfee and straighten the record. Cope,
• 30:10
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• 30:13
  Speaker 1: We are gonna hear whether or not that report is
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: legitimate or not about airin Rogers, so you just relax.
• 30:23
  Speaker 4: Next, the Giants are in need of a franchise quarterback
• 30:26
  Speaker 4: and a NFL insiders suggested this weekend that they would
• 30:29
  Speaker 4: have to give up a significant haul to get the
• 30:31
  Speaker 4: number one overall pick. They'd have to give the number
• 30:33
  Speaker 4: three pick at least one second rounder and possibly more.
• 30:37
  Speaker 4: Ben do you see them? Were the Titans making that deal?
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: Now, there are years to make that trade. This is
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: not one of the years to make that trade. This
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: is not it right. And wasn't it Jimmy Johnson that
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: came up with the formula of the point system for
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: how much each draft pick's worth and how much you
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: have to give up to get that pick. And now,
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: if you're the gizz number three, but they should do
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: is get Matthew Stafford. He's a tier three quarterback, but
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: the Giants have had Tier five quarterbacks for several years.
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: And gets Stafford in there, and he's at least not
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: going to embarrass you unless he completely falls off the map,
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: which many have with the Giants. But keep the number
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: three pick and get Stafford, and I think that would
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: be the way to go next.
• 31:20
  Speaker 4: After the Slam Dunk Contest on Saturday, John Morant tweeted,
• 31:24
  Speaker 4: Mac might make me decide to dunk.
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 31:26
  Speaker 4: Now a lot of people speculated that this means the
• 31:28
  Speaker 4: Morant could join the contest next year. Do you think
• 31:31
  Speaker 4: it happens and if so, would it make a difference.
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: Well, the fact that Mac mac McClung right three years
• 31:38
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• 31:41
  Speaker 1: games and won three dunk contests is fascinating, but not
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• 31:49
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