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9-08-26 Hour 2 - Long weekend of college football/Adam Schefter/Oh, By the Way... · Moser, Lombardi and Kane

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  Speaker 2: All right.
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  Speaker 3: Adam Schefter in 20 minutes. In the meantime, I do
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  Speaker 3: want to go back to something.
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  Speaker 4: I know. What are you doing? Our boy Steve dropped
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  Speaker 4: off for me. One of our loyal listeners, Steve. Just
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  Speaker 4: got you a Lombardi trophy replica? This is a 3D
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  Speaker 4: Lombardi trophy. 3D printer. First of all, I don't understand
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  Speaker 4: these 3D printers. I don't understand how they work. Can
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  Speaker 4: you 3D print a human being? Where does that end?
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  Speaker 4: What if I'm hungry? Can you make me a sandwich?
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  Speaker 4: A 3D sandwich. This is a 3D printed Lombardi trophy.
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  Speaker 4: Do you have one of these?
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  Speaker 2: Nope.
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  Speaker 4: That's what I thought.
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  Speaker 3: I know you guys talked about the CU game on Friday,
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  Speaker 3: but can I ask you a question? Because I was
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  Speaker 3: watching CU, CSU on Saturday, and CSU looked great from
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  Speaker 3: pretty much start to finish. A little bit sluggish, I guess,
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  Speaker 3: at some points early, but really turned it on. What
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  Speaker 3: was the read on CU? Because here's what's funny. There
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  Speaker 3: were parts that were really good and parts that were
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  Speaker 3: really bad. And in each phase they did it, I
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  Speaker 3: thought that Juju was not great in that game. But
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  Speaker 3: then he was great when the drive mattered most.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: And that shows you something. It's sort of like a
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  Speaker 5: Bo Nix trait. The good is in there.
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  Speaker 4: It's in there.
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  Speaker 2: It's in there.
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  Speaker 5: When does it come out? And it came out at
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  Speaker 5: the perfect time.
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  Speaker 4: The defense was great.
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  Speaker 3: Until they had to be in giving up a 40-yard
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  Speaker 3: play on the final drive of the game. It's like
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  Speaker 3: the one real mistake you make is at the worst
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  Speaker 3: possible time.
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  Speaker 4: So that was weird. And I thought special teams were
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  Speaker 4: pretty much atrocious. Atrocious.
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  Speaker 3: Up until they blocked the kick to save the game.
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  Speaker 3: It's just like, how do I evaluate that?
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  Speaker 4: You know what it feels to me like, Brett? And
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  Speaker 4: I said this on Friday. If they could just get
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  Speaker 4: out of their own way sometimes.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Like these bad snaps. They didn't lose a fumble. Well,
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  Speaker 4: it's a wasted play. I mean, you're jumping on the
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  Speaker 4: ground trying to corral the ball because it's off your
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  Speaker 4: hands and all. If you just get out of your
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  Speaker 4: own way. But you know what? They won the penalty battle.
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  Speaker 4: They won the time of possession battle. They won the
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  Speaker 4: first down battle. They won the rushing game battle. They
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  Speaker 4: ran the ball great. They ran the ball great, and
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  Speaker 4: they stopped the run like a mother.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, they really. Against that team, too. That is correct.
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  Speaker 5: That's a good road win to start the season, and
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  Speaker 5: it's one that you should be proud of. And now
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  Speaker 5: the schedule eases up for a couple weeks. Now you
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  Speaker 5: have a chance to really work on things. I mean,
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  Speaker 5: you don't want to take anything. Yeah, Weber State. You
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  Speaker 5: don't want to think in this day and age of
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  Speaker 5: college ball, as we described in the first segment, where
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  Speaker 5: anything can happen because teams turn over so quickly.
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  Speaker 4: Don't take anything for granted. Losing to Weber State or
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  Speaker 4: having a close game would suck.
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  Speaker 5: But.
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  Speaker 3: Well, think about this. Just on the surface, when you
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  Speaker 3: talk about. see you winning that opening game against Georgia tech.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know what Georgia tech is going to be
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  Speaker 3: this year. My assumption is a bowl team. I don't
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  Speaker 3: know where it's at after that, but my assumption is
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  Speaker 3: they go to a bowl game. You didn't have many
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  Speaker 3: wins against bowl teams last year.
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  Speaker 4: You did not. So it's a huge step forward. Well,
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  Speaker 4: I now Brett, you've got, if you want to be
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  Speaker 4: in a bowl game, you got five out of 11,
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  Speaker 4: five out of 11. That's all you got to do
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  Speaker 4: is win five out of 11.
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  Speaker 3: I'll tell you what, uh, Mom and Pop came. We're
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  Speaker 3: visiting this weekend. So I watched Kansas State alum, right?
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  Speaker 3: So I watched the Kansas State game. Collin Klein's first
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  Speaker 3: game as Kansas State's head coach.
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  Speaker 4: How'd he do?
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  Speaker 5: Looked good?
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  Speaker 4: I mean. Who'd they play? No, they played Nichols. Wait, what?
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  Speaker 4: But they put up 71 points. They played what? They
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  Speaker 4: played what? It's called Nichols. Wait, wait. Is it N-I-C-H-O-L-L-S?
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  Speaker 4: It used to be Nichols State. I think it's just
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  Speaker 4: Nichols now. They just shortened it to Nichols? Yeah, I
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  Speaker 4: think so. But. Is that located in Texas? I have
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  Speaker 4: no idea. Now, it's like opponent, yes, take that into account.
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  Speaker 4: Consider what he just said. Oh, man. Oh, man. Roll Nichols.
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  Speaker 4: Who'd you play? Nichols. Yeah, but here's the thing. Here's
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  Speaker 4: the thing.
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  Speaker 3: Colin Klein, who was the OC at Texas A &
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  Speaker 3: M the last couple of years, like really good offensive mind.
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  Speaker 3: I think it was the third most points in school
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  Speaker 3: history or something like that.
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  Speaker 4: By the way, Nichols is in Thibodeau, Louisiana.
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  Speaker 5: Love me some Colin Klein.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, I think, yeah.
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  Speaker 3: It felt like that was going to happen this whole time.
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  Speaker 3: He was the OC there a few years back.
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  Speaker 4: He was running the A & M offense last year, correct?
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  Speaker 4: Last two. Yeah. Last two years. But anyway, there's a
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  Speaker 4: few things surrounding what? Yeah, man. During the Southland Conference, they...
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  Speaker 4: Come on, bro. Ooh. Ooh. Yeah, he's all right. He
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  Speaker 4: has reason.
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  Speaker 3: All I'm saying, Moj, is a guy who has a
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  Speaker 3: really good offensive mind at a premier SEC school goes
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  Speaker 3: to Kansas State that's now in CU's conference, and he's
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  Speaker 3: going to get an offense rolling. He was just right
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  Speaker 3: out of the gates. And Kansas State's quarterback, that Avery Johnson,
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  Speaker 3: I don't know if you guys have watched him before.
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  Speaker 3: He was a really high-end recruit. Didn't see it for
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  Speaker 3: the last couple of years. He's still there.
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  Speaker 4: And I don't know. If he can turn that around.
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  Speaker 4: All right. I'll ask you guys this.
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  Speaker 5: I don't know how much of either of these two
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  Speaker 5: players you watched. I gave you a choice. Jeremiah Smith, Malachi, Tony.
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  Speaker 4: Who are you taking? Dude, Malachi, Tony was, oh my God.
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  Speaker 4: You're starting a team. Here's what's weird. Tony can do
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  Speaker 4: so much. He's the second come of a Tyree kill.
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  Speaker 4: He really is. He's Tyree kill.
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  Speaker 3: I'm just thinking sort of Percy Harvin-ish. Like can do
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  Speaker 3: all that different stuff. Where Jeremiah Smith is just like.
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  Speaker 4: I'm going to go get him. Just a total stud. Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: I will take speed over that any day. Give me
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  Speaker 4: Malachi Toney all day every day. But Smith is a
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  Speaker 4: big guy. He's a 6'3, 2 1⁄4 guy.
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  Speaker 2: I get it.
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  Speaker 4: I get it.
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  Speaker 5: But he's not stretching the field. He's not going to
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  Speaker 5: put the fear of God in every single defense. And
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  Speaker 5: that's what Malachi Toney does. That guy is unreal.
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  Speaker 4: And you're right. Now, it was against Stanford, and Stanford stinks.
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  Speaker 4: Ohio State play. Well, I understand. But that being said, Malachi, Tony, Brett,
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  Speaker 4: that kind of talent transfers all over college football. I'm
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  Speaker 4: not trying to discount that talent. I'm not.
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  Speaker 5: I'm not trying to discount it. But your defense, Malachi,
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  Speaker 5: Tony sets up. Whereas everybody, I mean, it changes the
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  Speaker 5: whole shape of your defense.
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  Speaker 4: The best thing to happen to him is that that
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  Speaker 4: game was a standalone on a Friday night.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: And the entire country was watching what the Miami Hurricanes
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  Speaker 4: are going to do, right? Yeah. All right, Cristobal, what
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  Speaker 4: do you got this year? You know, we know what
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  Speaker 4: happened last year. What do you got this year? Well,
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  Speaker 4: Malachi Toney, I want to say he had a coming
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  Speaker 4: out party, but he was awesome. Flat out awesome. He
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  Speaker 4: could play in the NFL right now. He absolutely could, yes.
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  Speaker 4: I take Jeremiah Smith. You don't like small people. What
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  Speaker 4: do you say, Sean Payton? You know, you have a
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  Speaker 4: real bias against short guys. You do. Tyreek Hill. You're
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  Speaker 4: so rude. Tyreek Hill.
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  Speaker 5: And everybody could say what you want about Kansas City
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  Speaker 5: during their dynasty days. He did more for Patrick Mahomes
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  Speaker 5: than any receiver that's ever come through there. And I
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  Speaker 5: know Travis Kelsey.
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  Speaker 4: Receiver, sure. Receiver.
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  Speaker 2: Yes.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, there's no question. And that's the thing.
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  Speaker 3: Like, when he went to Miami, what Mike McDaniel did,
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  Speaker 3: it's actually, like.
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  Speaker 4: It's genius, but it should have been obvious. Here's what
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  Speaker 4: I'm going to do, Moshe.
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  Speaker 3: I'm going to put the fastest guy on the field
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  Speaker 3: in motion and have him sprinting before we snap the
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  Speaker 3: ball and then dare a corner to catch up with
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  Speaker 3: the speed.
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  Speaker 4: Like, it's like, duh. But nobody was doing that.
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  Speaker 3: Dead sprint, go, run, and then by the time we
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  Speaker 3: snap the football, it's like the CFL.
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  Speaker 4: That running start stuff. No, but Tony's a freak.
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  Speaker 3: He runs the ball. He catches the ball. He also,
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  Speaker 3: he threw the ball like seven times last year for Miami.
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  Speaker 4: He does everything. You know, zero week is fine, but
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  Speaker 4: that first week of college football to get it under
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  Speaker 4: your belt and you flip on the tube and there's
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  Speaker 4: games all over the place.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Everywhere you want to look, Vic, online or on your television,
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  Speaker 4: you got football games and you had them on Thursday, Friday, Saturday,
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  Speaker 4: and Sunday and one last night too. I mean, that's...
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  Speaker 4: That's a good way to kick off the college football
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  Speaker 4: season to me. Really good way.
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  Speaker 3: Let me ask you guys something, by the way. I
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  Speaker 3: don't know how valid these are. Vic, I don't know
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  Speaker 3: if you've talked to people. The rumors about Penners once
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  Speaker 3: the CBA's wrapped up buying the Rockies.
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  Speaker 4: What's going on here?
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  Speaker 5: Listen, we all assumed that when they bought the 40% interest,
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  Speaker 5: do the Penners come across as an ownership group of
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  Speaker 5: people that are just going to dabble in ownership?
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  Speaker 4: Nope. Do they come across like that? Uh-uh. Hey, we
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  Speaker 4: just want to partake. Clearly. We just want to get
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  Speaker 4: a box, come watch some baseball. No, no, no, no, no.
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  Speaker 5: Clearly the initial investment meant that there's something more down
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  Speaker 5: the road.
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  Speaker 4: Now, what down the road means, I do not know.
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  Speaker 4: I don't know how far.
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  Speaker 5: Would it surprise me if they were full owners after
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  Speaker 5: the collective bargaining agreement is made?
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  Speaker 4: Not one bit. Not one iota. No. Yeah. But there's
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  Speaker 4: a deal.
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  Speaker 5: And I've reported this.
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  Speaker 4: I think you guys know this. Stan Kroenke made a
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  Speaker 4: bid at the Rockies at some point.
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  Speaker 5: And I don't know if the timing wasn't right at
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  Speaker 5: the time. Now the timing's right. Everybody has a different
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  Speaker 5: number and a different era. I mean, a work stoppage
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  Speaker 5: is going to hurt a lot of people, right?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: This would be a time. This would be a time.
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  Speaker 4: It would be interesting because you would... have, I mean,
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  Speaker 4: think about this.
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  Speaker 3: Wouldn't it be so rocky is if at the time
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  Speaker 3: that a new ownership group comes along that has just
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  Speaker 3: money to burn, right? There's an agreement that says there's
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  Speaker 3: now a salary cap in the MLB. You can't just
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  Speaker 3: go and spend money crazy anymore. It would be like
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  Speaker 3: the perfect timing, but at the same time, it's, I
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  Speaker 3: don't think there's a single person in much the same way.
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  Speaker 3: Angels fans feel about the Cronkies buying their team. They're
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  Speaker 3: pumped about it. Cause they're like, I saw a stat
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  Speaker 3: the other day that blew me away. See if I
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  Speaker 3: still have it, but it's about Mike Trout. He's, he's
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  Speaker 3: going to go down statistically as, you know, an all timer.
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  Speaker 3: He's got, he's, third in MLB history in war, whatever
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  Speaker 3: stats you want to look up. Do you know how
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  Speaker 3: many postseason at-bats Mike Trout has in his career? Like,
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  Speaker 3: just give me a guess. Mike Trout, who's been in
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  Speaker 3: the league. Postseason at-bats for Mike Trout.
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  Speaker 4: He's been in the league since 2015. Yeah, I will
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  Speaker 4: say Mike Trout in his postseason career. I will say 20.
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  Speaker 4: I was going to say about probably 22 at-bats in
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  Speaker 4: the postseason. 12. 12 postseason at-bats. They came in one year.
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  Speaker 4: One year. Huh? Especially in that sport.
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  Speaker 3: When the best players are being bought by the haves
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  Speaker 3: and leaving the have-nots, that he's been in the same
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  Speaker 3: place since, God, man, he's been there since 2011.
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  Speaker 5: And something just hit me. You guys were just warbling on.
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  Speaker 5: I wasn't paying attention to what you were saying whatsoever.
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  Speaker 5: Something just crystallized in my brain. What this city is
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  Speaker 5: going to look like in 20 to 30 years.
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  Speaker 4: I'll say 25 years. I'll go cut it in between.
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  Speaker 4: You understand what it's going to look like from Coors
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  Speaker 4: Field all the way to I-25.
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  Speaker 5: Santa Fe area with three stadium districts side by side?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah. Boom, boom, boom.
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  Speaker 5: That Wink Coop window all the way down. The city,
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  Speaker 5: the transformation of downtown Denver, the look, it's going to
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  Speaker 5: look like a completely different place, all because of sports teams.
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  Speaker 4: Okay. All because of sports. The odds that you and
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  Speaker 4: I get there, oh, I'll be dead. Yeah, I'll be,
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  Speaker 4: you'll be here.
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  Speaker 5: Like, if we see this to the end, because every
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  Speaker 5: time I talk of, you know, the ball arena redevelopment
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  Speaker 5: I've done many, I've did a documentary on it, right?
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  Speaker 5: And I see what it's going to look like. And
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  Speaker 5: all I could think of is, damn, I wish I
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  Speaker 5: were young. to enjoy it because I'm going to be
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  Speaker 5: in the ground with Mosher holding hands.
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  Speaker 2: Pretty much.
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  Speaker 4: That's what we're going to do. Although I did see
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  Speaker 4: this woman. Could you guys have side-by-side plots? Not like
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  Speaker 4: you and Terry. I want you and Mosher to be side-by-side. 100%.
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  Speaker 4: I wouldn't surprise if he did it. Mosher would. The
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  Speaker 4: way he weasels into your Italy trips. Actually, I'll see.
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  Speaker 4: I'll be going, Mario, haul me over to Villa San Miguel.
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  Speaker 4: Haul me over. Throw me off the peak. No, but
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  Speaker 4: in all honesty, I saw this woman in this article.
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  Speaker 4: Woman says, we're getting to the point where you can't
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  Speaker 4: live forever. But she's like, people are going to get
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  Speaker 4: to 120, 130. And I'm thinking, you know what? I
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  Speaker 4: don't think I want that. Well, let's say 80 is
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  Speaker 4: the new 40. I'm good. Are you sure?
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  Speaker 5: When I can no longer hit a draw, like carve
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  Speaker 5: out a nice draw down the fairway at will, and
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  Speaker 5: I need.
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  Speaker 4: Assistance, I'm out. You can't clear the creek anymore. That's
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  Speaker 4: a problem. And then I'm out.
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  Speaker 3: The NFL season approaching week one coming up this weekend.
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  Speaker 3: Adam Schefter breaks it all down next. All right, let's
• 13:57
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  Speaker 3: as we are, every Tuesday by Adam Schefter of ESPN.
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  Speaker 4: Hello, Adam. How are you doing this morning?
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  Speaker 2: Hello, gentlemen. What's going on?
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  Speaker 4: Give me a second. Yeah. Just give me one second.
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  Speaker 4: Let us know when there's one second left in this segment.
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  Speaker 4: One second left to talk to you.
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  Speaker 2: By the way, let me say a few things, and
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  Speaker 2: you'll find this interesting.
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  Speaker 4: Here we go.
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  Speaker 7: I was in Ann Arbor back in the day when
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  Speaker 7: I was working for the Rocky Mountain News.
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  Speaker 2: I think it was Rocky Mountain, 1984.
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  Speaker 7: The Broncos were playing in Buffalo on Monday night, and
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  Speaker 7: I said to them, do you mind if I stop
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  Speaker 7: in Ann Arbor?
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  Speaker 2: To go to the CU Michigan game, and I can
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  Speaker 2: work for the paper.
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  Speaker 7: And they gave me a hard time that stopping in
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  Speaker 7: Detroit would cost extra money with the connecting flights, but
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  Speaker 7: they signed off on it ultimately. So I was basically
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  Speaker 7: a sideline reporter and happened to be on the field
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  Speaker 7: about 20 yards from where Cordell Stewart launched that pass
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  Speaker 7: to Michael Westbrook that he caught in the end zone.
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  Speaker 7: And if you look at the front page of the
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  Speaker 7: Rocky Mountain News the next day, Michael Westbrook, Cordell Celebrating,
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  Speaker 7: and I'm standing right behind them.
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  Speaker 4: Are you really?
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  Speaker 5: Wow.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 7: So I don't know if you could find it. I
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  Speaker 7: have no idea whether that would be visible, but definitely
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  Speaker 7: right behind them. And I was at the game on
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  Speaker 7: Saturday night, taking my daughter on like an official visit.
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  Speaker 7: She's going to senior of high school, showing her what
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  Speaker 7: it would be like, you know, for Michigan game day experience.
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  Speaker 7: And we were there again, some, 32 years after the
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  Speaker 7: Michael Westbrook-Cordell-Stewart Hail Mary to be in Michigan for another
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  Speaker 7: Hail Mary. So anyway, I don't know how many people
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  Speaker 7: were at both Hail Mary games, but I was.
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  Speaker 4: But having said all that, as a proud Michigan alum.
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  Speaker 2: Having said all that, Vic, let me cut you.
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  Speaker 4: Off.
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  Speaker 7: The game looked over to me. I don't know where
• 15:56
  Speaker 7: they found the second, but they did. I'm glad they did.
• 16:00
  Speaker 7: Very fortunate for Michigan. Very unfortunate for Western Michigan. Western
• 16:04
  Speaker 7: Michigan played well enough to win the game. Should have
• 16:06
  Speaker 7: won the game.
• 16:07
  Speaker 2: Didn't win the game. That's what I'm going to say
• 16:08
  Speaker 2: about it.
• 16:09
  Speaker 4: Okay, let's go to the NFL.
• 16:11
  Speaker 5: Does it remind you, has there ever been an NFL
• 16:13
  Speaker 5: finish that, I.
• 16:15
  Speaker 4: Mean, like if that happened in the league, what would happen?
• 16:18
  Speaker 4: What recourse would there be? The touchception. I mean, during the,
• 16:21
  Speaker 4: when they had replacement officials, right? The touchception. The one
• 16:24
  Speaker 4: in Seattle? Yeah. That one? Yeah. Dude, that was huge. Yeah,
• 16:27
  Speaker 4: but I mean, that was not a time thing.
• 16:29
  Speaker 5: That was more of an interference thing, right?
• 16:32
  Speaker 4: Well, no. Did he catch it? Was it a touchdown
• 16:34
  Speaker 4: catch or was it an incompletion? That kind of thing. Right.
• 16:37
  Speaker 7: Well, and there was two officials with two different calls.
• 16:40
  Speaker 7: And I think it was replacement officials. Yeah. I mean,
• 16:44
  Speaker 7: you know, the amazing part that happens, and it's a
• 16:48
  Speaker 7: reminder here.
• 16:48
  Speaker 2: And I just finished taping my podcast, the Adam Schefter podcast.
• 16:53
  Speaker 7: And I was talking about with my co-host, Ty Schmidt,
• 16:55
  Speaker 7: we're going over all the teams, like information, all 32 teams.
• 16:59
  Speaker 7: And I said to him, like, here we are kind
• 17:04
  Speaker 7: of discussing each team and the games will start Wednesday night,
• 17:07
  Speaker 7: Thursday night, Sunday. And the things you discuss, some of
• 17:11
  Speaker 7: them are going to go right out the window. Like
• 17:14
  Speaker 7: some teams suffer an injury. Some teams are going to
• 17:16
  Speaker 7: suffer a loss. They're going to be events. Like you
• 17:18
  Speaker 7: think you have an idea of how this is going
• 17:20
  Speaker 7: to go.
• 17:21
  Speaker 2: And it very rarely goes that way. And, Along those lines.
• 17:27
  Speaker 7: Like I didn't know there were two different, there's a
• 17:29
  Speaker 7: TV clock and then there's another stadium clock that's not,
• 17:33
  Speaker 7: like what?
• 17:34
  Speaker 2: Like I've been watching football for.
• 17:36
  Speaker 7: My whole life and I've covered it for 30, and
• 17:38
  Speaker 7: I didn't know anything about clock discrepancies. And it's amazing
• 17:42
  Speaker 7: how often there is a scenario that comes up or
• 17:46
  Speaker 7: a rule that you just didn't even know about until
• 17:48
  Speaker 7: you're watching that game that day.
• 17:51
  Speaker 3: Adam Schefter with us, ESPN, as we get ready for
• 17:53
  Speaker 3: the opening weekend of the NFL season. One of the
• 17:56
  Speaker 3: things that just went down, Christian Gonzalez just got paid.
• 17:58
  Speaker 3: He's got $ 33. 75 million a year. And I was just
• 18:01
  Speaker 3: looking this up because Sertan, I think, in most people's eyes,
• 18:05
  Speaker 3: even guys, executives in the NFL, Sertan is the best
• 18:08
  Speaker 3: corner in the league. But because of when he got paid,
• 18:10
  Speaker 3: they even gave him that bonus this offseason. He's still,
• 18:14
  Speaker 3: by my count, Adam, eighth in the league per year.
• 18:18
  Speaker 3: It's pretty crazy to see the numbers that corners are
• 18:22
  Speaker 3: getting now on the market because we've seen receivers, their
• 18:24
  Speaker 3: numbers inflate. Are corners now matching that as far as
• 18:27
  Speaker 3: importance to teams?
• 18:30
  Speaker 7: Well, I think they've been important for a while. And
• 18:32
  Speaker 7: the fact of where their salaries are, we've got pass
• 18:36
  Speaker 7: rushers over $ 40.
• 18:38
  Speaker 2: Million, right? I mean, you just look at the prices.
• 18:43
  Speaker 2: The prices in.
• 18:43
  Speaker 7: All positions have risen, some more dramatically than others. And
• 18:48
  Speaker 7: so you've got a situation here where cornerbacks are being paid.
• 18:53
  Speaker 2: You know, so Dan did his deal when he did
• 18:55
  Speaker 2: his deal. Like that's the thing as a player.
• 18:58
  Speaker 7: I don't think you ever go wrong taking a huge
• 19:00
  Speaker 7: guarantee and a big money. Like there can be players
• 19:02
  Speaker 7: that pass you.
• 19:03
  Speaker 2: You know what? If and when the Broncos make a deep.
• 19:07
  Speaker 7: Playoff run, fortunate enough to win a Superbowl, whatever it
• 19:10
  Speaker 7: may be, Denver will address the contract again. Like if
• 19:14
  Speaker 7: he's worthy, like that's the way it is. But, I
• 19:16
  Speaker 7: know he's the eighth highest, and he's probably the best,
• 19:19
  Speaker 7: but that's how it is right now.
• 19:21
  Speaker 2: It's not a big deal.
• 19:22
  Speaker 4: Hey, before we get down to the Broncos, a guy
• 19:25
  Speaker 4: the Broncos are going to see here in less than
• 19:27
  Speaker 4: a month is Aaron Donald. And apparently things are going
• 19:30
  Speaker 4: really well with the Rams. What has been the scuttlebutt
• 19:33
  Speaker 4: around the league about Donald coming back, how good he
• 19:36
  Speaker 4: can be, and what he does for that Rams team? Well.
• 19:42
  Speaker 2: I think we all know the type of impact.
• 19:43
  Speaker 7: If he's 70% of Aaron Donald, 80% of Aaron Donald,
• 19:46
  Speaker 7: he's still going to be one of the best defensive
• 19:48
  Speaker 7: tackles in the league.
• 19:49
  Speaker 2: I think the scary part is that if you're double teaming.
• 19:52
  Speaker 7: Myles Garrett every play, I don't know that you can
• 19:55
  Speaker 7: double team both those guys every play. So one of them,
• 19:58
  Speaker 7: could one of them, and it's probably going to be
• 20:00
  Speaker 7: Aaron Donald, get single one blocker like that. One blocker
• 20:07
  Speaker 7: can't handle Aaron Donald. Lift him up and Carry him
• 20:10
  Speaker 7: right to the quarterback. So the Rams have some challenges
• 20:14
  Speaker 7: that they possess for every team. And, you know, we
• 20:18
  Speaker 7: haven't seen anything like it. Doesn't mean they're going to
• 20:21
  Speaker 7: win the Super Bowl at all. But they're only going
• 20:24
  Speaker 7: to be going to the season a heavy favorite.
• 20:25
  Speaker 4: That being said, though, did you see that rugby player
• 20:28
  Speaker 4: come over and working with Miles Garrett on how to
• 20:30
  Speaker 4: get harder? That was some of the most shocking video
• 20:34
  Speaker 4: I've seen in a long time. He's like, I don't
• 20:36
  Speaker 4: know who Myles Garrett is. Is he good? They're like, yeah,
• 20:37
  Speaker 4: he's one of the best in the world. He's like, okay,
• 20:39
  Speaker 4: let's do it then. That was incredible, Adam.
• 20:42
  Speaker 7: I didn't see it, but I'm not surprised to hear
• 20:43
  Speaker 7: about it. They're always looking for ways to improve their game,
• 20:46
  Speaker 7: come up with edges, and if Myles Garrett has another edge,
• 20:48
  Speaker 7: that's bad news for the.
• 20:50
  Speaker 2: Rest of the league.
• 20:51
  Speaker 5: I'm talking to a guy who's an NFL insider here
• 20:54
  Speaker 5: in Adam Schefter. Now, Adam, we've had this debate before.
• 20:56
  Speaker 5: I'm a college football fan first. I've always been a
• 20:58
  Speaker 5: college football fan, and I don't know why the pageantry
• 21:00
  Speaker 5: really appeals to me, but The big difference between the
• 21:03
  Speaker 5: NFL and the NCAA is last week, I'm looking at
• 21:06
  Speaker 5: the point spreads of all these week one NCAA.
• 21:09
  Speaker 4: Games, 50 and a half, 45. You know, there were
• 21:12
  Speaker 4: very few single digit.
• 21:14
  Speaker 5: I'm looking at the first week of the NFL, not
• 21:17
  Speaker 5: a single double digit spread.
• 21:20
  Speaker 4: In the league.
• 21:20
  Speaker 5: I mean, parody has been here for a while. But
• 21:23
  Speaker 5: when you look at an NFL week, man, that is
• 21:25
  Speaker 5: that is in a nutshell, which is why we can
• 21:27
  Speaker 5: never predict who's going to do what. I mean, look
• 21:29
  Speaker 5: at the point spreads.
• 21:30
  Speaker 4: They tell us that.
• 21:31
  Speaker 5: Is there a game on this line that you could
• 21:34
  Speaker 5: fundamentally say, there's a no-brainer, this team's going to win?
• 21:39
  Speaker 7: Well, it's, you know, I had somebody on a good
• 21:42
  Speaker 7: team text me yesterday, and they're like, week one scares
• 21:45
  Speaker 7: the crap out of me. And I'm like, oh, your
• 21:47
  Speaker 7: team's a favorite here. Like, you should win this game.
• 21:50
  Speaker 7: And he's like, week one scares the crap out of me,
• 21:52
  Speaker 7: see Michigan. And I just think, look, think about, we've
• 21:58
  Speaker 7: talked about how popular fantasy football is. But I think
• 22:01
  Speaker 7: what's also very popular in the NFL is people in
• 22:04
  Speaker 7: survivor pools.
• 22:05
  Speaker 2: And I've been in survivor pools. I've never won a
• 22:08
  Speaker 2: survivor pool.
• 22:11
  Speaker 7: It is incredibly difficult to be able to pick a
• 22:14
  Speaker 7: single team that is going to win a game on
• 22:17
  Speaker 7: a Sunday. You have no idea in week one who's
• 22:22
  Speaker 7: going to be an absolute surefire. There are zero surefire
• 22:26
  Speaker 7: winners in the NFL today. which is part of the
• 22:29
  Speaker 7: reason the league is as popular as it is.
• 22:31
  Speaker 4: That's so true, though. I'm like, oh, yeah, the Bills
• 22:33
  Speaker 4: are 14.5-point favorites over the Dolphins and Snow and Buffalo. Absolutely.
• 22:39
  Speaker 4: And then some freaking miraculous thing happens, and you're like,
• 22:43
  Speaker 4: my entire season is now gone, my survivor pool, because
• 22:47
  Speaker 4: the stupid Bills bled.
• 22:48
  Speaker 5: Adam, you gave me a great idea, and you guys
• 22:50
  Speaker 5: can run this on ESPN. Just give me a trademark
• 22:54
  Speaker 5: credit or something. A real-life survivor pool where if your
• 22:57
  Speaker 5: team loses, you die.
• 23:02
  Speaker 4: I think it's... That's real stakes, though. I think it's ratings.
• 23:06
  Speaker 4: He's putting stakes on the line. You want to make
• 23:07
  Speaker 4: the games close, that'll make the games close.
• 23:11
  Speaker 2: Whoa. I mean, I think there's already a TV show survivor, right?
• 23:16
  Speaker 4: No, but this is real. This is like Game of
• 23:19
  Speaker 4: Thrones football is what it is, yeah.
• 23:23
  Speaker 7: Yeah, I'll tell you this... I remember last year I
• 23:26
  Speaker 7: lost my survivor pool. I had the Arizona Cardinals against
• 23:29
  Speaker 7: Tennessee Titans and Amari DiMarcato dropped that football. And then
• 23:33
  Speaker 7: they had a couple of to set and they were
• 23:35
  Speaker 7: up like 14 and I'm watching the game with my
• 23:37
  Speaker 7: Sunday countdown crew. And I'm, I'm going, they were up
• 23:40
  Speaker 7: like 14 and a half. If you go back and
• 23:42
  Speaker 7: look at the scores, like, and I'm like, I'm telling you,
• 23:44
  Speaker 7: this is not over this.
• 23:45
  Speaker 2: And like, it's over. I'm like, it's not over. It's not.
• 23:49
  Speaker 7: And sure enough, Tennessee somehow came back and won the game.
• 23:53
  Speaker 7: And that, there's almost nothing given. There are no givens
• 23:59
  Speaker 7: in the NFL.
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: None.
• 24:01
  Speaker 2: They don't exist.
• 24:02
  Speaker 4: Okay?
• 24:02
  Speaker 7: And these survivor pools are the ultimate example. You can
• 24:05
  Speaker 7: try to pick one team a week that you are
• 24:08
  Speaker 7: most confident will win. Good luck with getting past week
• 24:11
  Speaker 7: two or three.
• 24:12
  Speaker 2: Good luck with it. It seems so.
• 24:15
  Speaker 4: It never is.
• 24:16
  Speaker 3: Adam, I know you're a professional and you would never
• 24:18
  Speaker 3: do this, but did you think about, after the Cardinals
• 24:20
  Speaker 3: blew that game for you, putting out a nasty negative
• 24:23
  Speaker 3: tweet about the Arizona Cardinals?
• 24:24
  Speaker 4: Were you like, how dare you?
• 24:27
  Speaker 7: I expended so much energy jumping on the table, pounding
• 24:30
  Speaker 7: my face, and running into walls there. I don't have
• 24:33
  Speaker 7: anything left over for any negative tweets there.
• 24:35
  Speaker 2: But the people in the room were quite amused at
• 24:38
  Speaker 2: my reactions to the whole thing.
• 24:39
  Speaker 4: Quite amused. Adam Schefter with us, ESPN. I do want
• 24:41
  Speaker 4: to ask you something.
• 24:42
  Speaker 3: If I presented this scenario to you, because it feels
• 24:44
  Speaker 3: like there's two teams in the league where they've named
• 24:46
  Speaker 3: a starting quarterback, but it doesn't feel like it's set
• 24:50
  Speaker 3: in stone.
• 24:51
  Speaker 4: Do you think that Tua.
• 24:53
  Speaker 3: starts in Atlanta longer or will Deshaun Watson start in
• 24:57
  Speaker 3: Cleveland longer?
• 24:59
  Speaker 4: Huh?
• 25:01
  Speaker 2: I mean, I, you know, coin flip, coin flip.
• 25:04
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 25:05
  Speaker 7: Um, I, I don't know that two will make it
• 25:08
  Speaker 7: to week two. Michael appendix is healthy. You know, if
• 25:11
  Speaker 7: two plays well in Pittsburgh, he will. Are you confident
• 25:14
  Speaker 7: that two is going to play well in Pittsburgh and
• 25:16
  Speaker 7: the Falcons are winning that game?
• 25:18
  Speaker 2: No, no. So, um, We'll see. And I could see Deshaun.
• 25:24
  Speaker 7: I think they went to Deshaun because it's two road
• 25:26
  Speaker 7: games to start the season at Jacksonville, at Tampa. Let's
• 25:29
  Speaker 7: see how he does in those two games and reassess.
• 25:32
  Speaker 7: So just for the circumstances surrounding it, I think we
• 25:35
  Speaker 7: could see Penix before we see Shador.
• 25:39
  Speaker 2: But in those two things, it's a coin flip.
• 25:42
  Speaker 3: Adam Schefter with us, ESPN, again, leading into this first
• 25:45
  Speaker 3: game of the season. I know you've probably heard this
• 25:47
  Speaker 3: a hundred times, but it's really funny to hear as
• 25:49
  Speaker 3: they're Playing games tomorrow and a Wednesday to open up
• 25:52
  Speaker 3: the year. They've got teams playing in Australia. Kyle Shanahan
• 25:56
  Speaker 3: trying to get his head wrapped around time zones.
• 25:59
  Speaker 8: We did our totally normal routine. I'm not sure because,
• 26:01
  Speaker 8: like I said, we're a little confused. When I look
• 26:04
  Speaker 8: at my clock and it says the time, then I
• 26:06
  Speaker 8: try to see my family's time, and it says the time,
• 26:08
  Speaker 8: but it says yesterday. I don't even get how that's possible.
• 26:11
  Speaker 8: So I feel like I'm in the future. And then
• 26:13
  Speaker 8: also when we play on our Friday, which I think
• 26:15
  Speaker 8: is a Thursday in the U.S., we're such creatures of habit.
• 26:17
  Speaker 8: So I call today Tuesday.
• 26:18
  Speaker 4: No, wait.
• 26:19
  Speaker 8: Sorry, I call today Wednesday, which is the first day
• 26:22
  Speaker 8: we put in a game plan. But I think it's Monday. However, though,
• 26:25
  Speaker 8: it's Sunday in the present. So, like. I'm going to
• 26:28
  Speaker 8: mess that up all week. If you guys ask me,
• 26:30
  Speaker 8: but today is just our first day.
• 26:31
  Speaker 4: That's just a little bit of it.
• 26:32
  Speaker 3: Have you heard for the teams that are in Australia?
• 26:34
  Speaker 4: Have they had trouble adjusting to that part of it?
• 26:37
  Speaker 5: Time zone?
• 26:38
  Speaker 3: Like I heard Raheem Morris had his birthday, September 3rd,
• 26:41
  Speaker 3: but they took off on the second and they landed
• 26:43
  Speaker 3: on the fourth.
• 26:43
  Speaker 4: He missed his birthday.
• 26:45
  Speaker 2: Well, that was his 50th birthday. And that sounds like
• 26:49
  Speaker 2: AI generated. Real, right?
• 26:52
  Speaker 7: Like you, you hear these people that do those AI
• 26:55
  Speaker 7: generated coaches, voices and, And speaking in ways that they
• 26:58
  Speaker 7: would never. That's what that sounds like to me there.
• 27:01
  Speaker 7: Like an AI generated voice. Only it is real and
• 27:03
  Speaker 7: it is true. And that is the way he feels.
• 27:05
  Speaker 7: The Rams haven't even left yet.
• 27:06
  Speaker 2: They leave today. They leave today and don't arrive there
• 27:10
  Speaker 2: till Thursday and play Friday.
• 27:11
  Speaker 7: Like these two teams have taken two entirely different approaches.
• 27:17
  Speaker 7: The Niners got there a week ago. The Rams won't
• 27:20
  Speaker 7: get there till the day before the game. And so
• 27:24
  Speaker 7: we'll see what turns out to be right.
• 27:25
  Speaker 2: I don't know which.
• 27:26
  Speaker 4: One it is. So they're playing at 10.35 a.m. Sydney
• 27:29
  Speaker 4: time or whatever, Australia time.
• 27:33
  Speaker 7: Australia time, Friday, which is 8.30.
• 27:37
  Speaker 2: Thursday night, Eastern 6.30 Mountain time.
• 27:41
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm confused too. They're 16 hours ahead. I can't
• 27:45
  Speaker 4: do it.
• 27:46
  Speaker 3: The thing is, with these wild approaches, it feels to me, Adam,
• 27:49
  Speaker 3: that the team that gets there super early like the
• 27:52
  Speaker 3: Niners did... If the Rams go out and let's just
• 27:55
  Speaker 3: say they get boat raced by the Niners, it feels
• 27:57
  Speaker 3: like that's going to be an easy thing to criticize. Like, well,
• 27:59
  Speaker 3: why wouldn't they leave earlier than that? It's always a
• 28:02
  Speaker 3: weird strategy thing because teams do this with London too, right?
• 28:05
  Speaker 3: There's some teams that get there really early. Some teams
• 28:07
  Speaker 3: that get there really late.
• 28:09
  Speaker 7: The Rams last year went into London the day before
• 28:13
  Speaker 7: the game against the Jaguars and I think won the
• 28:15
  Speaker 7: game by 40. So I think that's part of the
• 28:18
  Speaker 7: reason that they are doing this Australia trip as they are.
• 28:23
  Speaker 2: But I also would say.
• 28:24
  Speaker 7: That this is a different animal. This is a 17
• 28:30
  Speaker 7: hour time difference, right? Like this is kind of a
• 28:33
  Speaker 7: little crazy. So we'll see how they handle it. But yeah,
• 28:38
  Speaker 7: it's going to be really interesting to see how.
• 28:40
  Speaker 2: It all goes.
• 28:40
  Speaker 4: Can I ask you a stupid question?
• 28:42
  Speaker 5: I understand the value, I guess, in playing some of
• 28:46
  Speaker 5: these games abroad. And we've seen them in London and
• 28:50
  Speaker 5: Munich and Australia is a different animal.
• 28:53
  Speaker 4: That thing is way the hell down. Why not just
• 28:56
  Speaker 4: play a preseason game there? Why does it have to
• 28:58
  Speaker 4: be a season opener with a rivalry game, two teams
• 29:01
  Speaker 4: that can't stand each other? It's a big, it's a
• 29:04
  Speaker 4: big game. What are we doing there? Why, why are
• 29:07
  Speaker 4: they doing that?
• 29:09
  Speaker 7: Well, I think that they are determined to grow the
• 29:11
  Speaker 7: game determined and the next frontier is over there, uh, internationally.
• 29:20
  Speaker 7: And so, um, what are they playing at 12 international
• 29:25
  Speaker 7: games this year, whatever it's, it's a huge deal and
• 29:28
  Speaker 7: it's a huge initiative by the league.
• 29:29
  Speaker 2: And, and, and the game couldn't be any more popular
• 29:32
  Speaker 2: in the United States than it is.
• 29:36
  Speaker 7: And so I think they're just basically, um, waiting to
• 29:41
  Speaker 7: do it, you know, there to increase the popularity.
• 29:46
  Speaker 5: Here's my argument, though. And listen, you can do whatever
• 29:48
  Speaker 5: the hell you want. Like, they talk about popularity in
• 29:51
  Speaker 5: different cities and different countries. Last I checked, Munich doesn't
• 29:55
  Speaker 5: have youth football. Do they have youth football leagues? When
• 30:00
  Speaker 5: you say grow the game, grow what game? The game
• 30:02
  Speaker 5: is shrinking.
• 30:03
  Speaker 4: You sell jerseys, man. Hats, jerseys, whatever. That's what it is. Merchandise.
• 30:08
  Speaker 4: Not kids playing ball in Frankfurt. That's what's crazy about
• 30:12
  Speaker 4: the game.
• 30:13
  Speaker 5: I mean, it's actually shrinking in front of us. Fewer
• 30:16
  Speaker 5: kids are playing the game, and yet the focus is
• 30:18
  Speaker 5: to grow the game internationally. Maybe because fewer kids are
• 30:21
  Speaker 5: playing it here in the United States, they're trying to
• 30:23
  Speaker 5: get it in different parts of the world.
• 30:25
  Speaker 4: That would be my only... My only answer to it.
• 30:28
  Speaker 2: Yeah, maybe that has something to do with it. That's possible.
• 30:30
  Speaker 7: That's absolutely possible. We'll see. That's the elite strategy right now.
• 30:37
  Speaker 4: Adam, last thing for you. We've got one second left.
• 30:39
  Speaker 4: This is it.
• 30:39
  Speaker 3: We have one second left, and we have a crack
• 30:41
  Speaker 3: research team called Steve Nelson.
• 30:43
  Speaker 4: Is this what you're talking about here?
• 30:46
  Speaker 2: Wow. Hold on. Let's see.
• 30:47
  Speaker 4: Look at that. Look at that.
• 30:49
  Speaker 2: Hold on. I can't see it. Move it over. Move
• 30:52
  Speaker 2: it over more. Move it over more.
• 30:53
  Speaker 4: He's wearing glasses.
• 30:54
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah. That's me.
• 30:55
  Speaker 7: That's me.
• 30:56
  Speaker 2: Right here. Look at the eyeballs. Look at that.
• 30:59
  Speaker 5: Yeah, right now he's thinking, I can't believe this just happened.
• 31:03
  Speaker 5: He's thinking, I can't believe I came all the way
• 31:06
  Speaker 5: here to watch this.
• 31:06
  Speaker 2: I don't know how he finds it. That's amazing. Yeah,
• 31:08
  Speaker 2: you got to text that to me. But I remember
• 31:10
  Speaker 2: seeing it the next day. I was like, oh, there
• 31:12
  Speaker 2: I am.
• 31:13
  Speaker 4: I do miss the Rocky Mountain news, though, Adam. I
• 31:15
  Speaker 4: got to be honest with you. I miss it. Those
• 31:17
  Speaker 4: were the good old days, man.
• 31:18
  Speaker 3: Adam Schefter. ESPN joins us every single week. Appreciate it, Adam.
• 31:22
  Speaker 3: Have fun the opening week.
• 31:24
  Speaker 4: See you, buddy.
• 31:24
  Speaker 2: Thank you, guys. Have a great day.
• 31:26
  Speaker 3: Adam Schefter, ESPN, joins us every single Tuesday getting you
• 31:29
  Speaker 3: ready for the opening to the NFL season.
• 31:31
  Speaker 4: Oh, by the way, next.
• 31:32
  Speaker 3: Oh, by the way, stories around sports in the world
• 31:34
  Speaker 3: we feel like you should be aware of.
• 31:36
  Speaker 4: I will start. I mentioned it to Adam Schefter, but
• 31:38
  Speaker 4: I can't believe what I saw over the weekend. Miles
• 31:42
  Speaker 4: Garrett hired this rugby player to come in and help
• 31:47
  Speaker 4: him tackle even harder and more ferocious tackling. It's stupid.
• 31:54
  Speaker 4: And this guy is not as big as Miles Garrett,
• 31:57
  Speaker 4: but Garrett's also trucking him. I don't understand the physics here.
• 32:00
  Speaker 4: He's just telling him to use his hips? Like, guys
• 32:03
  Speaker 4: don't know how to do that already? No, Vic, this
• 32:05
  Speaker 4: is like these rugby players, this is high science for
• 32:08
  Speaker 4: them because they take down bigger guys all the time,
• 32:10
  Speaker 4: but it's about how you do it, and you can't
• 32:12
  Speaker 4: take that step because you're going to lose momentum. All
• 32:15
  Speaker 4: these different kind of scientific things about blowing people up,
• 32:18
  Speaker 4: and then Miles Garrett's just blowing this dude up all over.
• 32:22
  Speaker 4: Let me ask you something, though. Let's just take this logically.
• 32:26
  Speaker 2: Sure.
• 32:26
  Speaker 3: This multi-billion, billion, billion, billion, billion dollar sport, where they
• 32:30
  Speaker 3: take science down to a molecular level on, here's the
• 32:35
  Speaker 3: food that we need in the training rooms, because they
• 32:38
  Speaker 3: wear the bras during practice to check heart rates.
• 32:40
  Speaker 4: They do all this.
• 32:42
  Speaker 3: This random rugby guy actually knows how to hit harder
• 32:44
  Speaker 3: than other people. That's what you're telling me? That this
• 32:47
  Speaker 3: coach has found something that Miles Garrett's never been taught before?
• 32:50
  Speaker 7: I don't get it either.
• 32:51
  Speaker 4: Please. I'm just saying that he didn't know who Miles
• 32:54
  Speaker 4: Garrett was and said he asked his mates.
• 32:56
  Speaker 7: No.
• 32:57
  Speaker 4: He's like, well, he's probably the best in the league.
• 32:59
  Speaker 4: He's like, okay, I'll do it. There you go. What's
• 33:02
  Speaker 4: the name of this? Is this for your information? What's
• 33:04
  Speaker 4: the name of this segment again? It's called Oh, By
• 33:06
  Speaker 4: The Way. Oh, By The Way. Talking about youth football.
• 33:09
  Speaker 4: I think I like that better. For you, Vic, it's
• 33:10
  Speaker 4: for your information. FYI.
• 33:15
  Speaker 5: Talking about youth football, how it's shrinking. And I've seen
• 33:17
  Speaker 5: it with my own eyes. Texter writes in, I coach
• 33:20
  Speaker 5: youth football in the Denver metro area. This season was
• 33:24
  Speaker 5: the lowest registration ever.
• 33:27
  Speaker 4: Outside of the COVID year. Ever. And I'm seeing it everywhere. Now.
• 33:32
  Speaker 4: Is that because flag football is taking a lot? Yeah,
• 33:34
  Speaker 4: I was about to say. Tackle football is shrinking before
• 33:37
  Speaker 4: our eyes.
• 33:38
  Speaker 7: It is.
• 33:39
  Speaker 4: Flag football has exploded. Not only for little people, little guys.
• 33:44
  Speaker 4: Ha ha ha.
• 33:47
  Speaker 5: But for ladies, like high school flag football, girls flag
• 33:50
  Speaker 5: football is explosive.
• 33:52
  Speaker 4: I feel like I'm better than Patrick Mahomes. Hang on, though.
• 33:56
  Speaker 3: Here's my question. When it comes to youth football, I mean,
• 34:00
  Speaker 3: I played tackle football when I was eight. Maybe if
• 34:04
  Speaker 3: I was born today and I was eight years old today,
• 34:07
  Speaker 3: maybe I wouldn't be playing tackle. Maybe I'd be playing
• 34:09
  Speaker 3: flag football, but then I'd officially, as I aged, got
• 34:12
  Speaker 3: into tackle football later. Is that what's happening? It's not
• 34:17
  Speaker 3: that kids are not playing at all. They're just waiting
• 34:20
  Speaker 3: longer to do the tackle part.
• 34:21
  Speaker 5: I think they're transitioning into the game later, but what
• 34:24
  Speaker 5: that's going to do, by and large, is fewer kids
• 34:26
  Speaker 5: are going to play. Fewer kids are going to play
• 34:28
  Speaker 5: because they're going to play the flag football.
• 34:30
  Speaker 4: I suck. I'm not playing football. I'm going to another sport.
• 34:32
  Speaker 4: So at the end of the day, fewer people are
• 34:34
  Speaker 4: playing tag football.
• 34:35
  Speaker 3: Some of the big boys in flag football, it's like, well,
• 34:38
  Speaker 3: I can't. I'm not built to run in juke.
• 34:41
  Speaker 4: I'm built to hit.
• 34:41
  Speaker 5: I'm telling you, one of the campaigns, I think a
• 34:43
  Speaker 5: big campaign, a big reason why the NFL is trying
• 34:47
  Speaker 5: to push this internationally is because the numbers are plummeting.
• 34:52
  Speaker 5: Here in the United States, tackle football every year loses people.
• 34:57
  Speaker 3: So if you guys have not been keeping up here,
• 35:00
  Speaker 3: the Rocks went one in two over the weekend against
• 35:04
  Speaker 3: the Cardinals.
• 35:05
  Speaker 4: They're now 55 and 88.
• 35:06
  Speaker 3: They got to go eight and 11 to avoid 100
• 35:09
  Speaker 3: loss season by the end of the year. But did
• 35:10
  Speaker 3: you see what happened? in that Cardinals series that led to,
• 35:14
  Speaker 3: I think it's Oliver Marmol, I think his name is,
• 35:18
  Speaker 3: the manager of the Cardinals.
• 35:19
  Speaker 4: He got ejected. Did you guys see why? No. Had
• 35:23
  Speaker 4: a pitcher making his debut, a rookie.
• 35:25
  Speaker 3: I did see this in the umpire. Do you guys
• 35:27
  Speaker 3: remember Fernando Rodney, by chance?
• 35:29
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 35:30
  Speaker 3: The closer for the Tigers back in the day? Did
• 35:32
  Speaker 3: he wear his hat crooked?
• 35:33
  Speaker 4: All the way off to the side. Well, Sean Chacon
• 35:35
  Speaker 4: used to do that a little bit here.
• 35:38
  Speaker 3: The umpire talked to this rookie and said, you got
• 35:41
  Speaker 3: to put your hat on straight, to which Marmol took
• 35:45
  Speaker 3: exception to it.
• 35:47
  Speaker 4: Here's what he said after. Some words exchanged there.
• 35:50
  Speaker 6: Quite honestly, I thought it was pretty embarrassing on his end.
• 35:52
  Speaker 6: We have a kid making his debut, and in between
• 35:55
  Speaker 6: a net bat, he tells them that he needs to
• 35:56
  Speaker 6: fix his hat, and the kid's not going to wear
• 35:58
  Speaker 6: his hat like that on my field. So, last I checked,
• 36:01
  Speaker 6: this was Coors Field.
• 36:01
  Speaker 2: So.
• 36:03
  Speaker 6: I took issues with it, and then the pitch violation
• 36:05
  Speaker 6: while I'm out there having a discussion, that's also steeped
• 36:07
  Speaker 6: in my opinion. So there's a lot of moving parts
• 36:09
  Speaker 6: to that one. At the end of the day, I
• 36:10
  Speaker 6: thought they handled it poorly, and I'd like an explanation
• 36:13
  Speaker 6: at some point.
• 36:13
  Speaker 4: So here's what happened. The umpire comes out the next day.
• 36:17
  Speaker 3: I think it was the third base umpire the next game.
• 36:20
  Speaker 3: I guess he apologized to that guy as he was
• 36:22
  Speaker 3: running to the bullpen before the game started. But it
• 36:25
  Speaker 3: is incredibly dumb. The wrinkle to the story is there's
• 36:28
  Speaker 3: a rumor that maybe Hunter Goodman was the one who
• 36:31
  Speaker 3: mentioned it to... the umpire to get his hat fixed.
• 36:34
  Speaker 3: And if that's the case, then that's pretty weak on
• 36:36
  Speaker 3: Hunter Goodman's part. Who cares how the guy wears his hat?
• 36:39
  Speaker 4: Who cares?
• 36:39
  Speaker 5: Well, Brett, you know, Doug Eddings, the umpire, was actually
• 36:42
  Speaker 5: wearing a microphone, and this is the exact transcript of
• 36:45
  Speaker 5: what he was saying to that pitcher with the hat
• 36:48
  Speaker 5: on the wrong way.
• 36:48
  Speaker 4: Pants on the ground. Pants on the ground. Looking like
• 36:52
  Speaker 4: a fool with your pants on the ground. With the
• 36:54
  Speaker 4: gold in your mouth. Hat turned sideways. Pan hit the ground.
• 36:58
  Speaker 6: Call yourself a cool cat looking like a fool.
• 37:01
  Speaker 2: Walking downtown with your pants on the ground.
• 37:02
  Speaker 4: It's on the ground. It's so good. It's so good.
• 37:06
  Speaker 4: How dumb is that, though?
• 37:08
  Speaker 2: It's dumb.
• 37:08
  Speaker 4: Hey, oh, by the way, Vic, do you realize that
• 37:11
  Speaker 4: the Philadelphia 76ers and the Philadelphia Flyers have a brand
• 37:15
  Speaker 4: new building coming online? Do they really? Spectrum's gone? Well,
• 37:18
  Speaker 4: the Spectrum has been gone. Has it? But they've been
• 37:20
  Speaker 4: in this Xfinity building for... All I remember is the Spectrum. Okay,
• 37:24
  Speaker 4: the Spectrum's, yeah, gone. But they're putting the new place
• 37:28
  Speaker 4: right at... the spot where the spectrum was in that
• 37:31
  Speaker 4: same complex. But this new building for Philly came on
• 37:35
  Speaker 4: in 1996. I call it new. Then I started to
• 37:39
  Speaker 4: think to myself, what's the shelf life of modern arenas?
• 37:43
  Speaker 4: I'd say about 20 years. By 25 years. 20, 25 years.
• 37:46
  Speaker 4: You know, what's amazing to me, and that's just crazy.
• 37:50
  Speaker 4: I mean, didn't they already rip down Atlanta's new baseball
• 37:52
  Speaker 4: stadium and build another new baseball stadium? Yeah. What's amazing
• 37:55
  Speaker 4: to me, though, is that I think back to McNichols Arena, Vic.
• 37:57
  Speaker 4: That was 25 years old when it got ripped. Mick
• 38:00
  Speaker 4: Nichols was only 25 when they blasted it. Yeah, but
• 38:03
  Speaker 4: it was poorly designed. No, it was. It didn't have.
• 38:06
  Speaker 4: It was outdated the moment the pig dried. Yeah, for sure.
• 38:10
  Speaker 5: Doors were open. I used to let my friends in
• 38:12
  Speaker 5: to watch games.
• 38:13
  Speaker 4: But what's amazing is that, honestly, I'm sure they would
• 38:17
  Speaker 4: redo ball arena if they could, right? But it's held
• 38:22
  Speaker 4: itself really well. They've remade it right now.
• 38:24
  Speaker 5: They're redoing a bunch of stuff inside.
• 38:26
  Speaker 4: They've poured a lot of money into that.
• 38:28
  Speaker 5: Well, they're going to be redoing it because this whole
• 38:30
  Speaker 5: ball redevelopment project, part of the redevelopment is ball arena.
• 38:34
  Speaker 5: They're redeveloping a lot of it. I mean, they're going
• 38:36
  Speaker 5: to leave the core, the bones of it, but they're
• 38:39
  Speaker 5: redoing a lot in and around it.
• 38:41
  Speaker 4: All right.
• 38:42
  Speaker 5: FYI, for your information, I've got to be careful with
• 38:46
  Speaker 5: this story. I always have to tread lightly. I have
• 38:49
  Speaker 5: to really walk. Lightly on this one.
• 38:52
  Speaker 4: Eggshells. You know how I feel about animals. I'm fine.
• 38:56
  Speaker 4: I got two dogs. Not a dog hater. Tolerate my dogs.
• 39:01
  Speaker 4: They're just fine. Did you guys see that Kirk Herbstreet,
• 39:07
  Speaker 4: now when they go game day to these colleges, there's
• 39:09
  Speaker 4: a pop-up tent for his dog called Peter Fan Club.
• 39:14
  Speaker 4: It's a store that's opened up selling Peter Dog fan-themed apparel.
• 39:19
  Speaker 4: Like shirts and, yeah.
• 39:22
  Speaker 5: Guys, every time he's spotted somewhere now in opposing stadiums, walking,
• 39:28
  Speaker 5: Thursday night football when he's working.
• 39:29
  Speaker 4: For Amazon, it's got to stop at some point. I
• 39:33
  Speaker 4: agree with you. It's got to stop. And you're a
• 39:36
  Speaker 4: huge dog. I love dogs. It's got to stop. Why
• 39:40
  Speaker 4: is his dog more important than any other dog? What's
• 39:45
  Speaker 4: going on here?
• 39:45
  Speaker 3: I draw the line at making your dog part of
• 39:48
  Speaker 3: your personality. Dog's always got to be with you. It's
• 39:51
  Speaker 3: always got to be seen everywhere. Again, college game day,
• 39:54
  Speaker 3: they're doing that. I remember last year they were doing
• 39:56
  Speaker 3: that fan kick for a million dollars.
• 39:58
  Speaker 4: Whatever it is, right? Whatever that thing McAfee does. Yes.
• 40:02
  Speaker 4: And there's the dog. Running around. And he's taking a dump.
• 40:05
  Speaker 4: Just running around. Right there in front of everything. I mean,
• 40:08
  Speaker 4: you know how these owners. And they go, oh, it's cute.
• 40:10
  Speaker 3: It's like, just get the dog out.
• 40:11
  Speaker 4: Get him out.
• 40:12
  Speaker 5: So in the NFL, you know how these owners are
• 40:13
  Speaker 5: about the field and the turf, right, Moshe? Can you even,
• 40:16
  Speaker 5: can you touch the turf when you're at an NFL stadium?
• 40:18
  Speaker 4: Absolutely not. Could you walk on it?
• 40:19
  Speaker 5: No.
• 40:20
  Speaker 4: Here's this dog running around.
• 40:22
  Speaker 2: I mean, come on.
• 40:25
  Speaker 4: I agree. Moshe, your opinion, please. Okay. It's a pretty
• 40:28
  Speaker 4: good looking golden. I'll give him that. It's not about
• 40:31
  Speaker 4: the dog's great. It's not about the dog. It's about why.
• 40:35
  Speaker 4: You sound like me and Sister Jean. Well, I think
• 40:38
  Speaker 4: he's got. You're right, but Sister Jean's a human. Doesn't
• 40:42
  Speaker 4: he have like some sort of phobia or something like that?
• 40:45
  Speaker 4: He's got to have his dog with him. Yeah, whatever. Okay. Yeah. Yeah.
• 40:51
  Speaker 3: He's got a phobia of not making money off his
• 40:52
  Speaker 3: dog's pop-up tent.
• 40:54
  Speaker 4: Moj, next time you're on a flight, there's three dogs
• 40:56
  Speaker 4: in the front row.
• 40:56
  Speaker 6: Uh-huh.
• 40:57
  Speaker 4: Everybody's on a phobia.
• 40:58
  Speaker 2: Yep.
• 40:59
  Speaker 4: Phobia is everywhere I got another one I'm not done FYI.
• 41:04
  Speaker 5: I did a 14er with my buddies leave peeping we
• 41:08
  Speaker 5: did a 14er because we exercise on the weekends got
• 41:12
  Speaker 5: to the top you get to the top it's like
• 41:15
  Speaker 5: a spiritual moment you wouldn't know it's spirit you get
• 41:17
  Speaker 5: up there and.
• 41:17
  Speaker 4: Soulfulness I want to see God I get to the
• 41:19
  Speaker 4: top of this mountain And you saw Herb Street's dog.
• 41:31
  Speaker 2: Close, close.
• 41:33
  Speaker 4: I get to the top of this mountain. And there's
• 41:35
  Speaker 4: a dude strumming a guitar. Singing guitar songs. Guitar guy.
• 41:40
  Speaker 4: And he's surrounded by... Wait, wait, wait.
• 41:42
  Speaker 2: Yes, yes, yes.
• 41:43
  Speaker 4: I'll show you.
• 41:44
  Speaker 5: He hauled his gitbox to the very top. He hauled
• 41:46
  Speaker 5: his guitar to the top of the mountain. He's strumming
• 41:49
  Speaker 5: like hippie songs. And like people, his friends are around
• 41:54
  Speaker 5: him just singing along. And I'm like, you know, you
• 41:56
  Speaker 5: get to the top.
• 41:56
  Speaker 4: You just want to breathe the air. I'm here. And
• 41:59
  Speaker 4: I don't want, I didn't come here for the entertainment.
• 42:02
  Speaker 4: And I know Nelly's sitting there going, that's probably something
• 42:05
  Speaker 4: I would do. I didn't come here to have you
• 42:07
  Speaker 4: sing songs to me with your guitar.
• 42:09
  Speaker 3: That actually, you know what, Vic? I think you're absolutely right.
• 42:11
  Speaker 3: When you get at the top of a, when you
• 42:14
  Speaker 3: get at the top of a mountain, you.
• 42:15
  Speaker 4: Just want peace. You want to be, see the nature.
• 42:18
  Speaker 4: You want to, you want the sound of the wind.
• 42:21
  Speaker 1: Yes.
• 42:22
  Speaker 4: And the sound of the trees. Today is going to
• 42:24
  Speaker 4: be the day when they're going to throw it back
• 42:26
  Speaker 4: to you. And my friends were like, Why are you
• 42:28
  Speaker 4: so mad?
• 42:29
  Speaker 5: I go, I didn't come here for, I mean, should
• 42:33
  Speaker 5: I bring a three-piece band?
• 42:35
  Speaker 4: I tell you what. Take your accordion. Next 14, I'm
• 42:38
  Speaker 4: bringing a piano. I'm bringing a piano to the top.
• 42:42
  Speaker 5: I'm going to haul the piano on my back.
• 42:45
  Speaker 4: Beat the wood is on the street, that the fire
• 42:47
  Speaker 4: in your heart is out. He's that guy. He would
• 42:49
  Speaker 4: do this. You know he would. If there's a guy
• 42:52
  Speaker 4: that would be, the guitar guy would be Moshe. Oh,
• 42:54
  Speaker 4: for sure. If Oasis is up there playing at the
• 42:56
  Speaker 4: top of a 14er, I'm going to stop and partake.
• 42:58
  Speaker 4: You know Moshe would be that guy. But if it's,
• 43:02
  Speaker 4: listen to what the flower people say. No, no, no, Moshe,
• 43:04
  Speaker 4: here's what you don't get. Here's what you don't get.
• 43:07
  Speaker 7: What?
• 43:08
  Speaker 4: There's no music you want to hear at the top
• 43:10
  Speaker 4: of the mountain. I didn't come here for... I didn't
• 43:12
  Speaker 4: have requests. I didn't come here for music. Maybe your
• 43:14
  Speaker 4: music is different. I don't want to see you here.
• 43:16
  Speaker 5: I so badly wanted to pull an animal house. So badly.
• 43:22
  Speaker 4: I think you have every right, Vic. You go up there.
• 43:25
  Speaker 4: It's about being one with sort of nature. Yes, yes.
• 43:28
  Speaker 5: I've left all my electronics and everything down there.
• 43:31
  Speaker 4: Except my phone, which I was recording. You're taking pictures.
• 43:36
  Speaker 4: That's fine. I give every right. Oh, by the way,
• 43:40
  Speaker 4: every day at 845. Back after this.