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[Assistant] You are rolling the dice, not just for this draft, but for multiple drafts to come. You might be best served to just sit at 11 to see what falls there. Maybe you like Michael Pennings Jr. and that's what you want to do. And you have other assets to continue to build that roster. I think Minnesota is from a quarterback's perspective with all these quarterbacks coming into the league.


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[Assistant] Probably the best landing spot out of the bunch. You talk about great left, great tackles. You have Justin Jefferson. You have great secondary receiving options in TJ Hawkinson and Jordan Addison, a quarterback minded head coach and Kevin O'Connell. It's a good landing spot. It's just a question of, are they willing to pay that premium to get up to these within this top five?


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[Assistant] Well, this is the question, right? Are they going up to select just any quarterback that falls to them? Right. Or are they in love with Drake May or Jaden Daniels and they think that they're gonna be there at three. That's why I think it's interesting for them possibly to go to three with New England. If New England isn't in love with any of these quarterbacks and Minnesota is


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[Assistant] Start for a quarterback has Josh McCown who was coaching Drake May in high school. And they're like, this is our dude.


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[Assistant] We want him. All right. Maybe you pay that capital and you're talking about price. I do think it's a little bit different when we talk about quarterbacks, when it's, you know, you're trading up to select the wide receiver. I think the price is a little bit different. Those trade charts are a little tricky because


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[Assistant] It doesn't take into context what position you're going after. And if it's quarterback and these teams know that it's a quarterback, they're going to squeeze you a little bit more.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I agree with that. And I think again, take the at bat, but if you're not sold, okay, then get the haul. You know, it's kind of what's going to be interesting about this new regime with this new decision makers with Elliott Wolf. It's all right. You know, you're technically not the GM yet. That's something that we haven't really talked about here with the Patriots. Like they haven't hired the GM.


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[Assistant] You know, is he gonna make the safe move and just take, you know, take a quarterback or if he thinks, say, let's get out of here, let's take the risk of it being, you know, blowing up and we miss out on CJ Stroud, but we have all these assets. It's, it's a really fascinating decision at three.


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[Assistant] Right, and it's important to know that you can get out of Daniel Jones after 2024 relatively easy. I think it's like a 20 million dollar, you know, you can get off the, off the salary cap. It's something along those lines, very manageable. So you could have a situation where


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[Assistant] I just don't know when you actually accept that move from the New York Giants because you want to wait to get the best possible package. And we just talked about how potentially you could get three first round picks from Minnesota.


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[Assistant] How much do you value those picks as opposed to, you know, I don't know what it would take, you know, maybe you throw in another second round pick for 2025, you know, with New York. Do you value getting Marvin Harrison Jr. or Malik neighbors, specifically those guys and then picking up an asset later on? That's the balancing act they'll have to do.


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[Assistant] I think that the Bengals should trade into the top 10 to get into this mix at wide receiver. And whether you do that via the 18th overall pick and then some other things, I think that that's the best way to go down. If you don't feel like you're going to keep T Higgins, you have them on the franchise tag.


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[Assistant] If you feel like you're not going to be able to have a long-term decision on him or sign him to a long-term deal, we just saw DeVon DeSmith sign a massive deal with the Eagles. All those numbers are only going to go up.


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[Assistant] If you feel like you're not going to be able to do it, maybe you use him as part of a trade package to get up into the Malik neighbors, Roma Dunze, Marvin Harrison Jr. Might be a little bit steep, but if you get into that conversation.


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[Assistant] You have a wide receiver that can help replace him. He's on a rookie deal and it just feels like that makes a little bit more sense financially and it helps them not only in 2024.


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[Assistant] So, to me, you can kind of get your books right by getting a young wide receiver that's still talented to pair with Jamar Chase and not have this kind of awkward one year thing with T. Higgins.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I mean, it's something that we talked about last week when, when the, when the Diggs trade went down. It just feels like Buffalo didn't put themselves in a position to, to land on their feet. And now they might be forced to overpay to rectify that position.


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[Assistant] You know, you, you let Gabe Davis go in free agency and you knew the writing was on the wall with Stefan Diggs. What, you know, I don't know if you knew it was gonna come to a, come to a head this off season, but clearly over the last few years, it felt like there was going to be some sort of a departure. It seemed like that relationship.


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[Assistant] Was fractured to a degree and now you're sitting there with really nobody at the position you need to get into this, this high into the draft.


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[Assistant] And, you know, yeah, we're talking about, you really don't want to package a bunch of these future first, especially to like a bitter, bitter in-state rival. But man, if you're Buffalo, you have Josh Allen, you have to contend, you have to be in this position. So yeah, if that means going up for Roma doonsay or whoever's still there at number 10, I think you have to do it.


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[Assistant] That's right. I have the Seahawks trading up to number 10 with the New York Jets to draft Michael Pennix Jr. Obviously there's a relationship there with the Seahawks hiring Ryan Grubb as their OC, former offensive coordinator.


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[Assistant] So to me, I think Seattle is one of these sleeping teams to go after a quarterback. Yes, they have Gino Smith, but it's kind of like what we've been talking about with Daniel Jones in New York, where you can pretty much get out of it after next season. So it's, it's not like they have an immediate need, but you can bring in a quarterback to play either behind Gino Smith or compete with them in training camp.


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[Assistant] Long term financially doesn't really burn you too much. Specifically why I put them at 10 is because currently right now, and we expect this to change obviously when we're talking about Minnesota, but 11, 12 and 13 are all teams that are probably looking to draft a quarterback. So if you can leapfrog all of them.


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[Assistant] I don't think so, but again, don't underestimate QB needy teams. So if all of a sudden, you know, JJ McCarthy's gone by pick four and Minnesota is sitting there and they couldn't trade up, they might have to make that move at 11.


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[Assistant] I don't think it should. Like, do we really think Sam Howell is the, you know, the heir apparent to Geno Smith? Like, I wouldn't do that.


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[Assistant] And Ryan Grubb, I think that that's a nice landing spot for him on top of the wide receiver.


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[Assistant] Do you think, like, we keep going back to Minnesota, but again, they have the Arsenal is 11 probably where you would go?


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[Assistant] Well, I think Brian Thomas Jr. would probably be, you know, if Cincinnati stays at 18 breach, I feel like that's in play.


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[Assistant] I also think Baltimore is a team to look at at 30 that possibly trades up. I mean, their offensive line is absolutely like ruined. So if all of a sudden there's a run on tackles, I can maybe see them trying to get into that mix with whatever, Tyler Guyton or any one of those tackles.


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[Assistant] I would not want them to do that because again, it's such a crap shoot with the draft. It's tough. I want them to stay at three and make the pick and just take the at bat.


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[Assistant] If you're telling me that they're taking the at bat and also mortgaging the future, like, no, I can't have all of that. You know, to me, that's just a little too risky for me, even though I think Caleb Williams is going to be a good quarterback and all of that.


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[Assistant] Boy, that just feels like a big roll of the dice to give up assets for a guy historically where these quarterback prospects are such hit and miss.


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[Assistant] This is probably like less than 1%, but still I would absolutely love it.


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[Assistant] If we have a quarterback sleeper team that is the New York Jets that trades up into the top five to bring in JJ McCarthy to be behind.


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[Assistant] To help the 2024 and to maximize the Aaron Rodgers era, but the dude's old and he's coming off in Achilles. You are sitting at number 10. You have all your future first, you know, future picks.


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[Assistant] But it worked out for the Packers. So, you know, that, the New York Jets have been such a quarterback star team for basically my entire life.


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[Assistant] The fact that you have Aaron Rodgers now, it actually almost affords you to draft and develop somebody. You don't have to throw them to the fire like you had to with Zach Wilson a few years ago.


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[Assistant] That's exactly what I was going to say. It almost feels like they're a year too early to make any sort of move like this. You kind of have to just take your lumps, maybe take best player available. Hopefully if you love Michael Panics or Bo Nicks, they could be there for you, but ultimately I don't know if you're in a position to


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[Assistant] Boy, I just don't think that that first round pick next year won't.


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[Assistant] That'll be pretty high. Like I would kind of want that. Maybe, maybe you would get your quarterback then and you bring in a wide receiver at that spot or something along those lines. I just don't know if you know whether or not they do it or not. I just don't know if it'd be the best move for them.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I think this is a good trade down team. You could talk about Minnesota. You could even breach like this could be the T Higgins team too. Like you could trade T Higgins to New York, give them that wide receiver. And you know, you're still sitting there with number 18. If you're New York, along with other assets, whatever you need to do to get that deal done.


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[Assistant] Like that, that's, that's a little spicy there too. So I think that makes a lot of sense. I think Miami's a definite trade down candidate. You gotta remember, they don't have a third round pick. They forfeited it.


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[Assistant] In that tampering, uh, situation with Brady and Sean Payton. So I think that they only have 21. And then if I'm just quickly looking, I think they have 55 and that's, that's it with between day one and day two. If you trade down, you get a bunch of assets over the next couple of days of the draft. I think that would make a lot of sense.


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[Assistant] Hello and welcome into this edition of the Golf Channel Podcast with Rex and Lab. We are coming to you live from our house.


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[Assistant] In Augusta, Georgia, Rex, you are drinking.


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[Assistant] Out of your... What is that? What do you have there?


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[Assistant] Yep, you certainly have to hydrate after what was a 15 hour day at Augusta National on Thursday. Gotta be honest, folks.


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[Assistant] What a freaking leaderboard that we have after the first round. John Rahm, Victor Hovland, and Brooks Kepka.


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[Assistant] All tied for the lead after 7 under 65s. Cam Young, Jason Day. I was about to say, don't stop there. Couple of shots back. Xander Schauffele, Adam Scott.


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[Assistant] Scotty Sheffield, the defending champion, all in the house with 68. The weather was absolutely ideal, which of course will not be the case.


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[Assistant] Rexx for the rest of the week. Thunderstorms in the forecast for Friday. Not sure on the arrival time. Saturday looks like we're supposed to get anywhere from an inch to an inch and a half of rain and then Sunday scattered thunderstorms as well. Well, let's focus on the opening round. What a leaderboard. What a trio of co-leaders. What's your biggest takeaway?


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[Assistant] No one, like, they weren't gonna have, there wasn't gonna be any fisticuffs.


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[Assistant] At the tournament practice area, like no one was going to get into a fight. Where the drama and the conflict is going to unfold.


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[Assistant] Is on the leaderboard on the weekend. That's when you're going to have these underlying subplots of the PJ Tour versus LiveGolf. We certainly have that.


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[Assistant] Right, like right now, like John Rahm, uh, PJ Tour Loyalist, Brooks Kepka, although he has, I wouldn't say he's been the fiercest offender.


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[Assistant] Of Liv Golpe's, uh, you know, Mr. Chill, uh, tends to go with the flow. He has, of course, defected to, uh, the Rival Tour, and we're certainly gonna get into Brooks Koepka here in this podcast. To me, this was like the most ideal conditions possible, and there's, uh, there's, uh,


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[Assistant] Clear evidence that if you did not perform today, you basically have zero chance to win the Masters. 19 of the past 20 winners, Rex.


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[Assistant] Uh, of the Masters, we're inside the top 15.


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[Assistant] After the opening round. And so, that is good news for the likes of John Rhombrooks, Kepka, Victor Havid, of course, for the co-leaders, Cam Young, Sandra Shafle, Jason Day, uh, Adam Scott.


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[Assistant] Scotty Scheffler, Jordan Spieth, Kalamora Kawa, not so good news.


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[Assistant] That's the good news for your boy Roy McRoy, uh, who mustered.


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[Assistant] An even par 72 on day one, of course, Tagwitz who shot 74.


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[Assistant] Major championship round that he played the final round at the old course, the 150th open. It's just the home of golf.


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[Assistant] Four consecutive masters, now it's five, which is not a broken part of the opening round.


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[Assistant] He doesn't have a rel- he doesn't have a relationship with CBS or ESPN.


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[Assistant] If he's, if he's going to do a walk and talk, it has to be in the open round. Do you think that this was among the messages that Dr. Bob Rotella?


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[Assistant] Let's, let's be loose, let's be free, uh, let's, let's give back to the game. Let's, let's give these guys a solid, are you, are you, are you not suggesting that that was part of the, uh, message, message of the good doctor?


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[Assistant] I mean, to be fair, he did make par the 9th hole. I don't think it served necessarily as a huge distraction. I think the, I think the bigger issue is that he just,


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[Assistant] He just wasn't particularly tidy. He had a couple of misses left, which if you, if you, if you follow Roy McRoy, like the left miss is, is very much not good. He may double on seven after driving it way left and he actually needed to, you know,


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[Assistant] Make a couple putts down the stretch just to finish at even par. Historically speaking, he has virtually no chance to win this Masters, which is certainly a disappointing fact, right? Like he came in here,


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[Assistant] A good form, a lot of confidence, uhm, you know, deep run in the match play.


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[Assistant] He won the press conference as we put it in the previous podcast.


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[Assistant] On Tuesday saying all the right notes. So that was, I think that was certainly the biggest disappointment.


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[Assistant] Of the day when it comes to Tiger Rex, it wasn't, it wasn't all that surprising. We had a punch on golf channel.com that ran Wednesday night into Thursday in which we were asked Tiger Woods, make her miss the cut. I believe all three of us, yourself, myself and Brettly Romine.


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[Assistant] I think we all picked Tiger Woods to make the cut. What was your level of surprise?


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[Assistant] Of Tiger's opening 74 in which he, in which he basically just didn't do anything well.


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[Assistant] I think, I think you're referring to the shot that Tiger had for his approach into number nine, where, I mean, it was, it was a crazy squat. Like it looked, it looked like he was a catcher, like lining, lining up for the high, the high fastball on the corner. Like it was, it was very awkward. He ended up flaring it, uh, out to the right.


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[Assistant] Uhm, it was just, he didn't hit his irons particularly close and obviously Tiger was the hallmark of his career. The reason why he has five green jackets, uh, is he is arguably the best iron player.


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[Assistant] Of all time and he just wasn't sharp. I don't know how much you can attribute that to the pain that's coursing through his body. I don't know how much you can attribute to that, the lack of preparation. I mean he had just 18 holes.


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[Assistant] A practice at Augusta National did not feel well enough over the previous two months to make a scouting trip to Augusta National. I think he's a little bit more broken. I think he's ailing more.


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[Assistant] And he is letting on, he says he's in constant pain and obviously you can see the grimaces on his face that that is the case. Uhm, but I think the lack of prep time, the lack of on-site practice, uh, suggests that he's feeling actually even worse than he says he is.


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[Assistant] You need to justify it afterward, like, oh I hit good, hit good putts, good, good reads, good strokes, just a little bit poor speed control.


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[Assistant] Uh, on the first Korean, that's not the first, he won't be the first player to say that there was a difference in speed from the practice putt in green when you get on the golf course. That has to be so unnerving. The very first putt of a tournament is like a 30 footer up the hill and you have absolutely no idea how fast it is actually going to be. I don't think, so we obviously don't have strokes game numbers, uh, for the Masters tournament. There cannot be a player who struck the ball better.


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[Assistant] In the opening round, hit every single fairway and hit all but one green, just an absolute ball striking clinic from the big fella. I was most encouraged Rex by his driver. We talked about on the podcast actually a couple of times over the past couple of months. He's been the game's preeminent driver of the golf ball over the past couple of years. And yet, uh, something was missing. We, we,


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[Assistant] Potentially, I theorized that he was trying to work the ball from right to left as opposed to going away from his traditional shot shape from left to right. I did theorize that. Turns out, no, it was just a faulty, uh, piece of equipment. And he has changed the driver head. He is much more comfortable. And I think that that was evident on day one at Augusta National where he just did, uh, he trusted his trusty cut and absolutely pounded it all over the lot. He certainly looks like the man to beat.


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[Assistant] After day one, who do you believe in more wrecks after the first round? Victor Havan after his 65 or Brooks Koepka last week's live winner after his 65.


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[Assistant] No, no, he's four-putted, number one. We can, we can get back to that.


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[Assistant] I'm live from, I'm live from Steve, Steve Sansko. So what's like your biggest storyline that you're looking forward to watching today? I go...


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[Assistant] Brooks Kepka, like, I just kinda spit it out, like, he's not the biggest one, like, everyone's paying attention to Scotty, everyone's paying attention to Roy, everyone's paying attention to Tiger, but yea, little old me was watching Brooks Kepka, because I think there was a general curiosity of how much does Liv


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[Assistant] Success matter. He won last week at Orange County National on a golf course that bears little resemblance to what you find here at Augusta National. He had basically done nothing.


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[Assistant] for the first three months of the season, but that's kind of been his MO, has it not?


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[Assistant] Over the past five or six years, he, he's uncanny. He's a unicorn.


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[Assistant] And then he flips a switch between regular season tournaments and major championships. He can be listless for months on end and then he gets a major and he looks like absolute terminator. And so he was certainly the focus of my column on golfchannel.com. You guys can check that out. Uh, it's posted right now, leading the homepage. Uh, basically like,


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[Assistant] He's finally feeling healthy. There was I think some missing context and everyone looks back at the Netflix series and how vulnerable and exposed he was and it kind of highlighted why he made the move to live golf because he kind of felt like his


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[Assistant] The doctor told me he would not be able to fully function again, be, be close to 100% healthy until the end of 2022. And as we saw at the end of 2022 in November, he won in Saudi Arabia. And now when you see in early 2023, still a couple of months removed from a major championship.


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[Assistant] He's kind of going through the motions, not all that committed. And then when you, it's, it's like a, it's like an internal timer went off when it comes to Brooks Koepka. Like, oh.


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[Assistant] Masters is coming up. I better click in. I better start focusing. He wins last week on live. And then he shoots a 65 on Thursday at Augusta National and very much looks like King Kupka again. It's amazing.


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[Assistant] Is that, is that just not the media world we live in in 2023 where people get up in arms about what happened to be either, uh, careless accusations or something that is not, uh, as it appears?


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[Assistant] According to Augusta National, quote, all involved were adamant that no advice was given


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[Assistant] Or requested. I've seen the video clip. I'm sure everyone who's listening to this podcast has seen the video clip. We do not know if a spotter was in the vicinity. It certainly seems like that.


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[Assistant] What's your biggest storyline as we wrap up this podcast? These are supposed to be mini podcasts, supposed to keep them between 15-20 minutes. We're now at the 20 minute mark. Real quickly, what are we looking forward to?


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[Assistant] On Friday besides potentially eating a whole lot of sandwiches during a weather delay.


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[Assistant] He's playing in the morning. That could be a significant advantage getting in.


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[Assistant] Uh, however many holes he can, presumably in calmer conditions before the storm blows through. Potentially guys have to play through that in the afternoon.


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[Assistant] Maybe there's a stoppage of play, whatever the case may be. Brooks Kepke can very well get in a second round and then sits around and watches the carnage.


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[Assistant] That exactly that. I'm watching exactly that.


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[Assistant] In, in the morning, can Jon Rahm continue the fine play? Victor Hovland is going to have to chip to win this Masters.


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[Assistant] He did. And the greens are softer than anticipated, I think.


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[Assistant] Actually, the storms that are projected to roll through, even if they have some error, like it's going to be softer, it's going to be a little bit easier for chipping and pitching around the green. I think that works significantly in his favor. Keep in mind, right, the last major championship that was played, Victor Hovland.


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[Assistant] I was the 54-hole co-leader at St. Andrews with Roy McRoy. I had a forgettable Sunday. He said his game is markedly different, markedly better.


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[Assistant] Then he was, uh, at that time when he had a chance to win a major championship. So I'll be curious to see if he learned any lessons from that final round, whether they're applied to second round and beyond at Augusta national. All right. Thank you guys listening.


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[Assistant] I'm live from on Friday morning. Make sure to read all of our stuff including Bretly Real Minds.


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[Assistant] Golfchannel.com. We'll talk to you on Friday night. At some point, we'll put a bow on the second round of the Masters. Weather permitting, of course.


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[Assistant] You know what's funny, Solly? I actually take my ring off when I'm working. I mean, I work from home, so it's not a huge deal, but when we're at, when we're traveling, it is a little bit different.


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[Assistant] And as we mentioned yesterday, Brinson lost $74,000 during North Carolina's first official day of gambling, right?


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[Assistant] I would put it at an eight. I feel like I kind of kick things off with the Russell Wilson signing on Sunday night. That's where I'm going to start what we've seen so far rather than noon on Monday.


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[Assistant] So you have Russell Wilson, when the Steelers, you have Kirk cousins going to the Falcon. So literally switching teams with which, which I think, even though we kind of saw it coming, it was still somewhat surprising to see that get done.


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[Assistant] Both lower round picks day two and day three. Uh, and then just the way the running back market, we've had all these big name switch teams, which we will talk about here in a second.


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[Assistant] Uh, so I do think, you know, obviously you don't have a Tom Brady type free agency name out there like we did in 2020, but I think overall we've just seen so many names that the, the common, if you're just a casual NFL fan, you know, a lot of these names that have been signing deals over the past 24 hours. Uh, yes, I think I would say eight. You don't think it's an eight?


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[Assistant] And in my head, I'm thinking just stay away from Baltimore and here he is signing with the Ravens. And it is really.


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[Assistant] What he brings the offense is just something the Ravens haven't had. You have this.


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[Assistant] You know, the thunder and lightning combo is what everybody wants. Derrick Henry is the thunder, Lamar Jackson is the lightning.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I'm probably chasing down the cat and hoping, uh, I catch it, but who knows if I will. And it, uh, Jonah Schaefer, cause we've been talking about the read options. He had Derek Henry's read option stats from 2022. 11 carries, 155 yards, two touchdowns.


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[Assistant] Uh, not as many opportunities last year, but 11 carries for 155 yards is a crazy number, especially when you consider that teams weren't really worried about.


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[Assistant] And the thing is the Ravens don't even have to run the read option to be successful. You just give Derek Henry the ball up the middle and the defense has to respect that. So this totally, the Ravens have been a top rushing team, as you guys mentioned since Lamar has been there, but this totally changes what they could do on offense and it adds another layer to their already impressive running game.


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[Assistant] Probably played into their thinking when they were looking at the offers that were out there on the table.


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[Assistant] Was, Hey look, if you're Patrick clean, I get to play with TJ watt. That's, that's who the offenses are going to be worrying about. This is a 10 win Steelers team. I'm going to make this already good defense better. And if you're Gino stone, you're, you're thinking the same thing. I'm going to a team that has been to the AFC title game in two of the past three years. So of course I want to play with them and I get to beat up on the Ravens twice a year.


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[Assistant] So yeaah, I think the Queen and Stone moves are interesting though just from a revenge perspective and I do wonder how much that played a factor in their decision.


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[Assistant] My day one winners, uh, cause I have multiple, actually it's a group of people, it is running backs.


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[Assistant] They had a dead market last year, absolutely nothing.


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[Assistant] Uh, and now here they are just getting deals left and right. We obviously just talked about Derek Henry. We mentioned Aaron Jones. Uh, you have, we mentioned Saquon Barkley, but then we saw Josh Jacobs get a nice, even though, even if he only lasted Green Bay for one year, I think he's going to get $14 million. That's a heck of a contract.


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[Assistant] Uh, Tony Pollard, Austin Eckler, just all these guys waited that one year thinking, my God, is there going to be a deal? Are people actually going to pay us this year? Cause no one paid us last year. And here we are where we had a bunch of these guys switch teams and get paid. So good for you running backs.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I mean, Kirk Cousins has to be thrilled knowing he upgraded the offensive line, which is probably the thing he loves most considering he's coming off.


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[Assistant] Uh, Kaylee's injury, we talked a lot about the weapons. We're going to talk about another weapon that he added a little bit later, so I won't mention that receiver's name. But yeah, I think if you're Kirk Cousins, if you're the Atlanta Falcons, you have to be thrown. I mean, this is a team that just really since


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[Assistant] The past two years that are trying to figure out who their starting quarterback is. They just haven't been relevant. You have three straight seven and 10 seasons. Uh, they haven't had a winning season since 2017. And so


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[Assistant] Yeah, and I like that the Packers are being aggressive because when you stare at their division right now, you have to be. It is the Vikings have no idea what they're doing at quarterback right this second. We don't know. They're probably going to try and draft someone, but I don't know that Sam Darnold is, uh, your best bet for a starter in 2024. The Bears, I mean, maybe everyone loves


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[Assistant] I don't think anyone's going to be picking the Bears to win the division. So right now it feels like a two horse race and the Packers just keep getting stronger. And I think a lot of people based on what the Packers have done over the past, uh, 24 hours will pick Green Bay to win the division this year. So I agree, Brent. So I like what they've done so far.


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[Assistant] Yeah, and I was just going to say that every team that might have needed a quarterback, almost every single one of them has filled their spot. I mean, the commander's brought in Marcus Moriotta, the Patriots brought in Jacoby Brissette, the Falcons obviously, Kirk Cousins, the Vikings just signed Sam Darnold, the Raiders just signed Gardner Mintchew, the Giants just signed Drew Locke, the Steelers just got Russell Wilson. I mean, we're talking about,


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[Assistant] Every landing spot is taken out. I think maybe you could, uh, say the Broncos, but I don't think that Justin field skillset fits with what Sean Payton wants to do on offense. So I'm not sure.


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[Assistant] That is a good fit. And then the Seahawks maybe could go after a quarterback, but I can't see them trading and giving up, uh, draft capital to get Justin Fields.


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[Assistant] Uh, especially when you have, you still have guys out there. You still have Jimmy Garoppolo soon. You still have Ryan Tannehill. So.


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[Assistant] I don't know who is going to get Justin Fields and even if you want him, who's going to give up a lot of compensation? I can't see him going for more than like a third or fourth round pick now.


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[Assistant] Well, with the Super Bowl in New Orleans, it'd be a perfect fit. It'd be a great reading between Jamar chase, Joe burrow and Justin Jefferson in the big easy. Uh, but it's not just quarterbacks, the Vikings. We talked about this yesterday. Jonathan Green has been their biggest signing so far and he was someone, as we mentioned,


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[Assistant] You want to see four years worth of production versus one. And he's really had, I guess, one and a half good years. Uh, and then the other part of that is you have the Texans who are coached by a defensive coach, a former defensive coordinator and they do not just let.


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[Assistant] Great pass rushers walk out the door, so when they let them leave... Especially with tons of money.


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[Assistant] Exactly, so that kind of caught my eye a little bit, especially because I do think, even though he did look good last season, I think he's a slight downgrade from Dino Hunter. So yea, definitely, uh, I'm on the same page with you there, Brentz, with the Vikings.


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[Assistant] I can't believe I'm gonna say this, but absolutely the Cowboys are my loser. It mostly becomes Jerry Jones hyped this team up so much this off season at the senior bowl. He said he was going to go all in on 2024. Well, here is what all in means in Dallas. Here is the Cowboys have made more news for a Dak Prescott extortion plot.


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[Assistant] Since the tampering period started, they re-signed their long snapper. That is it. That is the only signing they have. They're one of five teams so far through 4.30 PM.


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[Assistant] Uh, that has not signed an outside free agent. So it just, I don't know what the Cowboys are doing. I know they don't have a lot of money. I do get that. Uh, but eventually you got to make a move. I know they were in the market for Zach Moss and guess what?


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[Assistant] Four million dollars per year for Zach Moss. That was too rich for their blood. They backed out. Let him go to Cincinnati. Uh, so, the Cowboys. Breachbot has no longer Breachbot.


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[Assistant] Yeah, here's what I think about this one is that if you're the bangles, this is great because you were going to cut them and get nothing and now you trade him.


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[Assistant] And you get the seventh round pick. We don't know what the conditions are. Maybe this can move up to a sixth or fifth round pick if, if, and we don't know if Mixon has a huge year in Houston.


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[Assistant] Uh, so if you're the Bengals, you save this money no matter what. I think it was $6.1 million and now you get a draft pick and then you just flip that $6 million to sign Zach Moss basically who got the two year $8 million contract and for the Texans,


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[Assistant] They let Devon Singletary walk in free agent. See, they weren't thrilled with what he was doing. I think that Mixon can be a good fit in this offense, but the thing is,


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[Assistant] It's not like you just signed him to a long-term deal. You gave up a seventh round pick to have Mixon for one year. If he crushes it in the offense, you send him to a long-term deal. If he does not crush it, he doesn't play well in the offense. He's not a good fit. Then you say, all right, bye bye, man. Go find a new team next year.


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[Assistant] And the one thing about Aaron Jones that plays into your guys's revenge thing is you look at, uh, what he was offered. Uh, the Packers were going to keep him. He's willing to take a pay cut.


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[Assistant] And Matt Schneidemann from the Athletic has the exact number. So he had an 11 million dollar base salary. And this is the difference between Jones and Barkley is that obviously Barkley was hitting free agency. So it's a giant sort of like, all right, we're going to let you walk.


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[Assistant] Packers had to say, you know what, we're cutting you. We know what you've done for us, but we don't want you anymore. And so, $11 million base salary. The Packers wanted to cut that down to $4 million.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I mean, you look at, people are gonna look at Darnell Moody's numbers and say, hey, look, they weren't very big, but he was stuck in Chicago who runs the ball every other play. The Bears finished top two in rushing in the NFL each of the past two seasons.


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[Assistant] But despite that, Mooney still put up over 400 yards in each of those season, but this is a guy who does have a 1,000 yard receiving season under his belt that happened in Chicago with Justin Fields and Andy Dalton throwing him the ball.


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[Assistant] You know, if you, if there's Andy Dalton Sander coming from my mouth, you know, it's a big deal here. So it is impressive what he's done and the fact that, you know, Drake London doesn't have to be the key receiver here that now you have a strong number two. Uh, man, this Falcons offense is loaded right now.


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[Assistant] Yeah, and this feels like one of those low-risk, high-reward signings. They didn't give them a lot. They're only paying them nine million dollars. You needed to add a little depth because you let, uh, Andrew Van Ginkle walk and...


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[Assistant] He's only a couple years removed from a 10 sack season. He hasn't been as effective the past two years. He's getting up there in age, but again, you're signing him thinking, Hey, look, if he can get us eight or nine sacks, then this is a home run signing. Uh, and he could do that in this defense.


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[Assistant] And, uh, Harry just put up that tweet from Josina Anderson where, uh, Jameis, she talked to Jameis. Jameis basically said, hey, I want to be a starter, but I'm willing to be a backup to help people, to help Deshaun Watson. Uh, and he also said, I desire to win some Super Bowls in this roster that Cleveland got. Looks like they can do it.


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[Assistant] And that is going to be a problem for Cleveland is that you have a quarterback controversy before the first month of the season's over. And I don't think that the Browns coaching staff, the Browns want to deal with that. So what do you do? You bring in.


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[Assistant] Well, it's funny because the teams can't tweet about the deals and they'll write like report Mike Kosicki's signing with the Bengals. And like you just said, that was the Bengals confirming it without directly confirming it. I really liked this signing because


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[Assistant] You look at what this offense has been lacking with Joe Burrow and it really feels like it has been a tight end.


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[Assistant] You've had four different tight ends. Leave them in receiving yards.


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[Assistant] And none of those tight ends has ever hit the 500 mark since Burrow's been there. Wild.


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[Assistant] Yeaah, exactly. Gussicki's done that three times in six years. So he feels like a different type of tight end that the Bengals haven't really gone after.


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[Assistant] Uh, and man, I think he can be a big part of this offense and you can really wind them up anywhere. So you don't so much worry about replacing what Tyler Boyd was doing because he's going to be leaving a free agency. Uh, but now you have this proven third pass catcher and it just takes a little bit pressure off when you're looking for that third receiver now.


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[Assistant] Let's just make life easier for Cable Williams. Bring in Deandre Swift. Get a second tight end in there. That's it. You're gonna run the ball.


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[Assistant] This is my favorite segment of the podcast every week, even though it's the first time we've ever done it.


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[Assistant] We're gonna start with Will Lutz, who I should have brought up on the podcast yesterday. I can't believe it because this, I didn't, because this was the, this has been the wildest sequence, uh, of free agency so far, even though it only involved a kicker. So here's what happened with Will Lutz at 2 18 PM Eastern time on Monday.


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[Assistant] Except they're not all happy because Will Watts is not Jacksonville's kicker now.


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[Assistant] Less than three hours later, it turned out that Will Lutz decided he did not want to play for Jacksonville and that he wanted to stay in Denver. So now Will Lutz is back in Denver on a three year deal. Again, this is a tampering period, so no contracts are signed. If you don't want to play for a team you agree to deal with that, you just tell them bye.


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[Assistant] Next up we have Greg Zerline, re-signs with the Jets, two years, 8.4 million dollars. This was easy to see coming. The only reason this is interesting is because Aaron Rodgers literally went on a podcast last week and was like, all right, we need to re-sign Greg Zerline.


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[Assistant] Thomas Morsette. So we know who runs this franchise because less than five days later, Zerline is resigned. The Buccaneers did the same thing. They resigned Chase McLaughlin.


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[Assistant] Remember, after they drafted Roberto Aguayo, they had


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[Assistant] They have now signed Brandon McManus. They're gonna let Joey Sly walk away in free agency, which is a very interesting choice. They have about the same career field goal percentage, but I think this one came down.


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[Assistant] to what these guys do on extra points. Sly missed three last year, hit just 91%. Brandon McManus was perfect on extra points. He struggled from beyond 52 yards but was pretty good.


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[Assistant] From inside that, uh, big one here, guys. Okay, you ready for this?


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[Assistant] Tommy Townsend, all-pro punter for the Kansas City Chiefs, is leaving Kansas City. He sucks because the Texans just got an all-pro punter. No, Matt Ariza is the only player left on, the only punter left on the Chiefs roster. He has not punted.


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[Assistant] Ever in an NFL game because remember he had the legal situation he was dealing with. He punted him one preseason game after being drafted by the Bills in 2022. So he has literally been out of football for two years and the Chiefs are putting all their eggs in that basket right now. Maybe they bring someone in for training camp, maybe they don't, but right now the punt God is the only punter.


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[Assistant] on the chief's roster. Uh, the Vikings had Greg Joseph last year. Right now they decided to go the XFL rat with John Parker Romo. He has never kicked the field goal in the NFL game. So it'll be interesting to see if they stick with him or if that's one of those leverage plays where they say, all right, Greg Joseph, you can come back, but you got to come back at our price.


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[Assistant] Uh, and then of course, Keyshawn Nixon, not a kicker, but returning as the returner.


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[Assistant] For the Packers, that guy is a home run threat. Three years, 18 million. So I think that's another good signing for Green Bay who has been on fire.


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[Assistant] Above that intro. Hello and welcome in to this special edition of the Golf Channel Podcast with Rex and Lavin. Folks, order, as I predicted, has been restored.


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[Assistant] To this player's championship, Scottie Scheffler. Just one bogey.


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[Assistant] What was a third round 65 to take a two-shot lead at TPC Sawgrass over Min Woo Lee, four-shot lead over Cam Davis, folks like Tommy Fleetwood, Aaron Rye, Chad Ramey, Christian Bezadenhout, all in the mix, but they're gonna need a very low round on Sunday to chase down the world number two, looking to get back to world number one.


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[Assistant] Scottie Sheffield, this would be his sixth title in the past 13 months and all of them.


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[Assistant] All of them have either been a major or a tournament that has now been stowed with this designated status on the PGA Tour. This guy has definitely supplanted Brooks Kepka as the game's preeminent big game hunter. There's no doubt about it.


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[Assistant] I think the only thing that if you're a pursuer of Sky Shuffler heading into the final round on Sunday, I think you first look at the forecast.


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[Assistant] Uh, I don't have burko on this, but I believe winds are supposed to forecast between 15 and 25 miles an hour.


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[Assistant] On Sunday afternoon, that could get a little bit dicey on the golf course, Rex, as you and I know, like there is trouble lurking everywhere. There is a two shot penalty on almost every single hole. So I think that would certainly give some of the pursuers some hope. Maybe you get in around and post early and wait for some calamity, which we all know can happen.


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[Assistant] Around this golf course. And secondly, Scottie Shetler's record with a 54 hole lead is not great. I'm not sure anyone's record.


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[Assistant] Uh, folks are going to remember last August, six shot lead, uh, squandered that one away to Roy McRoy. Do you have some thoughts? You have some thoughts, Rex, about the chasing pack and how this isn't necessarily Roy McRoy breathing out his neck.


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[Assistant] Midruli, a top 50 player in the world, trying to lock up his master's invite. If not, win 4.5 million dollars and a 5 year tour exemption.


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[Assistant] And only one of those shots, Rex, on the fifth hole, uh, when he...


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[Assistant] Hit his tee shot, kicked in the water, led to a drop shot. He actually did well, uh, to make bogey on that hole. Otherwise, it was a near flawless round, uh, from a ball striking perspective. He is absolutely lapping the field and strokes gained tee to green this week. He's the rare, he might be the rare players champion who actually wins the golf tournament while losing strokes to the field.


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[Assistant] Do you think that's, like, concerning that he went to the reins? Like, my mind immediately went back, Rex, to the Masters, right? Like, Scottie Scheffler had a big lead after 54 holes, and there they were under the lights at the tournament practice area at Augusta National. I remember Paul McGinley on live from saying, like, he didn't like the fact that they were working through things. To me,


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[Assistant] It's, it's almost like Sky Sheffa goes to the range to debrief, to decompress, to kind of flush the system. He's, his swing is clearly grooved. Now, he may have a minor issue that they needed to work out when he left misses. It's what Randy told us. Brilliant.


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[Assistant] But it's almost like a light gym session at the end of the day, like he goes cycling for 30 minutes to just kind of cleanse the system and end the day on a good note. To me, it didn't.


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[Assistant] It all signal any sort of worry or potential trepidation for the final round. Do you kind of have the same vibe?


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[Assistant] How about the Chasing Pack Rats? He had Min Wulu, 24 year old, uh, his lone win on the DP World Tour came...


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[Assistant] Uh, just a couple years ago at the Sky Show, but wanted to play off against Maffet's Patrick, and I believe Thomas Detry, uh, very good player, uh, top 50 player in the world, as I mentioned, trying to lock up a master's berth, uh, with a high finish here, so he clearly has some other things on his mind. I guess we're looking ahead to the final round.


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[Assistant] I don't love the fact that his iron play has not been strong.


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[Assistant] Skill set you need to have on this golf course. And as we've seen over the past 50 some odd years, you could do it myriad of different ways, right? Like you can.


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[Assistant] Hitting every fairway like Fred Funk, you can do it missing every fairway like Cam Smith, uh, but to me, if you're going to excel in one area, it's iron play.


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[Assistant] And through three rounds at least, Min Woo Lee, uh, has not performed well.


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[Assistant] With his irons, and to me that scares me, because when the winds pick up in the final round as they are forecast to do, as I mentioned, you better be hitting that thing on the absolute screws. And the fact that Min Woo Lee right now is not, uh, gives me a little bit of pause, even though he did shoot 66.


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[Assistant] Uh, on Saturday, to get Squirrely in the mix here. Two shots back.


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[Assistant] We have, we have to bring him in. We have to bring him in the next time we are doing this at the Pastures.


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[Assistant] Uh, you did get that one wrong. However, on the podcast on Thursday, I predicted that Scottie should have to win this golf tournament on Thursday, and it certainly appears that's going to be the case. I'm with you. Like, I don't see a whole lot of, uh, of folks that are going to be scaring


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[Assistant] He's really actually rebounded quite nicely. Went out in 39 to begin this golf tournament to sit at nine under par right now through what was pretty difficult conditions for the first 36 holes. Certainly impressive.


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[Assistant] On Saturday with Tom Hogue breaking the course record on the stadium course of 10 under 62, which I'm not sure anyone.


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[Assistant] Uh, was paying attention to it. He, he, he's, he's gone from 78, 68, 62. Uh, he's all the way up to T8, but he virtually has virtually no, uh, chance to win this golf tournament. I know you did some legwork, uh, for a hit that did not appear.


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[Assistant] On live from police, uh, enlighten the listeners and the viewers.


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[Assistant] You know, who's absolutely loving this Tom Hoagy Charge here at the Player's Championship. Uh, anyone from North Dakota? No, Chatter. Who? Oh, really? Oh, you're right.


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[Assistant] There's always tournaments within the tournaments, right? Like there's little storylines. And I think we can both admit this has not been the most exhilarating players championship we have ever had. It's been bereft.


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[Assistant] Of stars, uh, despite you saying that we're going to have another clash of the titans here in what is the fifth designated event of the year.


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[Assistant] Like talking to Ricky Fowler today, like he's trying to move up. He's somewhere like 70th in the world. He's trying to make sure he's going to be exempt for the match play in a couple of weeks time and then hoping to parlay a good week there to try and get into the Masters. And so if Scottie Schaeffer runs away with this again.


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[Assistant] I'm not totally convinced that this is going to be a blowout victory just because of the nature of this golf course. We remember, of course, Scott Shethler saying that he was weeping in the fetal position ahead of the final round of the Masters. Not sure if he was able to handle all that was going to come.


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[Assistant] Uh, down that day at Augusta National. I guess there's still a little bit of uncertainty.


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[Assistant] Uh, whether he can close this one out. However, is there anything else?


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[Assistant] Along that leaderboard, any sort of springboard effect that you're looking for, whether it's Spieth, Ricky, Cantlay, what have you, uh, that's, that, that you kind of have interest in on Sunday.


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[Assistant] It certainly seems like the tour has hooked, uh, has hooked that guy up. I'm not sure, just that the Player's Championship potentially something more in the future. They're a little coy on the details.


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[Assistant] Nope, you did get, okay, you got fooled from the internet. I got fooled by the internet. We're gonna stop you there. This is like, this is like when those fake Adam Schefter reports come out of like trades. Thank you. Thank you. That's being a good partner. I gotta, I gotta hand it to you. So I don't even.


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[Assistant] It is a beautiful thing. Jordan Spieth playing well is always a beautiful thing. I'm certainly buying his stock for the Masters, Rex. I know he has not played his best golf, uh, over the past.


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[Assistant] Well, he hasn't won since Hilton had, um, so it has been a little bit of a dry spell here, but like you get Jordan Spieth, his imagination, uh, his ball striking, uh, is certainly trending in the right direction. I actually like the changes that he's made with his putting. He kind of talked about it today after his round. He has a little bit more.


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[Assistant] Nope, nope, we're gonna keep this real short. Uh, I think the fact of the matter is, I think Jordan Spieth is definitely one of the top five favorites for Augusta. Real quick, Rex, a big name player who bowed out on Saturday, technically, was Roy McRoy.


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[Assistant] I'm not talking, I'm not talking big picture, I'm talking with the Masters would now one tournament start for him away. Less than one.


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[Assistant] Weird, I thought, like, for that narrative to pop up here, like, he does not have a particularly great record at TPC Sawgrass. Yes, he did win in 2019, but he also has six miscuts now and 13 career starts, like,


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[Assistant] Had he made that 10 footer on the 72nd hole at Bay Hill, you could have been looking at a player who on March 11th is sitting here with two wins.


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[Assistant] On the year, right? Like Dubai, a Rolex Series event on the DP world tour and then Bay Hill, a designated event on the PJ tour. I think the narrative is totally different. We're not talking about board meetings and conference calls, uh, and kind of all of the other responsibilities and burdens that he's taken upon himself over the past six to eight months. It felt like a, a little bit like an excuse. Um,


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[Assistant] He said it was kind of fair that that narrative and that storyline.


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[Assistant] Was out there, uh, you, you may be less than one for your concern factor. I mean, if Rory McAvoy wants to win one major championship this year, it is definitely the Masters. And I think it's indisputable that he is not playing his best golf now less than a month before the year's first major. He has a lot of betting in to do, as he likes to say. Indisputable? It is indisputable he is not playing his best golf right now.


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[Assistant] I don't disagree with that, but he is doing nothing better right now than he was last August. Nothing. He's not driving it as well, he's not hitting it as close, and he's not fighting and chipping as well.


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[Assistant] Napa. Napa. Rex, who's the winner on Sunday, the player's championship and by how many?


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[Assistant] Well, we have very much enjoyed this, Rex. We will do our usual hour-long nonsense on Sunday night of the players. I think you're spending the night. An hour? In Jack's Beach. Yeah, we have to. It's what the people want. It's what the people are asking for.


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[Assistant] But we have enjoyed these mini pods each and every night here at the Players Championship. We appreciate you guys watching along.


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[Assistant] Listening along, it has certainly been a blast. Thank you guys for listening to this edition.


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[Assistant] The Golf Channel Podcast with Braxton Lab. Make sure you go to golfchannel.com.


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[Assistant] For all of our news and updates and maybe, maybe you'll be blessed with a story from TV's Rex Hoggard on Sunday night. But probably not.


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[Assistant] No, you had it right the first time. That's good. If we do Marriott-Rollet, it'd be absolutely perfect. It's a fair-filled in, good guess, it's spacious, it's close to the golf course, big fan. $250 a night.


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[Assistant] Uh, no, no, no, it was- Comes with Starbucks coffee in the lobby. It, uh, it came under the $200 mark, but I sent you a snappy chat earlier today, and I'm very curious, um,


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[Assistant] I didn't write anything today, so that wasn't an issue either, so go on. The correct answer. The correct answer is what, Rex?


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[Assistant] Uh, the correct answer is I was sitting at a charging station, and it was only for 20 or 25 minutes, so I'm going to downplay this.


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[Assistant] Uh, a Tesla, a car. So here's the deal, I fly in, when I come to this event, and I've done this event in the last couple of years, instead of taking a connecting flight from wherever that might be, Salt Lake City, Atlanta, whatever the case may be, I fly directly.


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[Assistant] Not right now. Uh, so I fly direct to LA from Orlando. It's a direct flight. It's an easy flight. Get off. And it's a two hour drive over here. Very, very simple. I've done it in the last couple of years. No fuss, no muss.


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[Assistant] Yeaah, no big deal. As far as a mellow flex goes. What a flex.


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[Assistant] This is the normal Hertz at LA Airport, LAX, which you've gone to a number of times. So finally, and I had a little bit of time on Monday, I wasn't under any time constraints.


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[Assistant] So I was like, you know what, I'm gonna try it. Everyone's curious about Tesla, I don't know about you, I was curious. First and foremost, it took me 20 minutes to even figure out how to make the car move.


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[Assistant] So I finally got it started. It's a very tricky process, but there is information out there if you go looking. So now I get it started. Now I'm on the highway, and it's about a two hour drive. It's about, I dunno.


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[Assistant] I mean, I think they're very expensive cars, or at least they used to be before Elon Musk stopped being an executive and started being a Twitter troll, but I think what happens is you have a lot of these that flooded the market and now people are selling them back and so you have Hertz turning them into rental cars. Which is great! Good for the environment, fantastic.


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[Assistant] And like I'm trying to figure out, well, what does that mean? So I call my son again and have him Google like, what, what do I do here? And finally, cause I did figure out how to make the Bluetooth.


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[Assistant] So finally I have a friend that lives in Southern California who owns one so he, I called him and he taught me through the process and it actually works out well. Just kinda punch in your destination on the computer screen and it tells you if you have enough charge to get there you're fine. If not, it gives you options along the way to stop and recharge. Did not need to stop to recharge. How long's it charge? How long's it charge?


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[Assistant] I did not know. So I get done at the golf course today. As you pointed out, it was, it was an early show for us. One o'clock. So I'm done by one 32 o'clock.


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[Assistant] And so I had some work I could just do on my computer, so now I gotta drive around, Laquinta and Palm Springs trying to find a charging station. Apparently that's not the easiest thing. So then I plug in the charger, don't even know if it's working, gotta ask the guy next to me if I'm doing this right, like, this, this is me being...


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[Assistant] It's not like the car talks to you and he's like, okay, I'll be charged in 20 minutes. Like you had to kind of, I had to kind of guess and sure enough it charged and it took about 20 or 25 minutes. So I'm fine. It takes 20 minutes to charge. Yes.


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[Assistant] Yes, I don't, I don't understand why people, if you have it. Why would you ever have this? Well, if you have it and all you do is kind of commute to the office or whatever the case may be and it's a short commute and you can plug it in in your garage, totally fine with it. Like, oh, that's cool. I get it. I understand. Like it works well. If you have to do any kind of driving whatsoever. What if you're stuck in traffic?


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[Assistant] You're talking about 20 minutes? Well, and it charges you when you're at the station, and apparently you have an account that's registered to your car, so apparently Hurst is gonna get charged for this one. So, for my, my battery would not- Someone's getting fully charged.


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[Assistant] It turns out that we're going to get to golf here in a second. My battery won't charge past 80%, which is another issue that's going to make me nervous as the week goes on. Like, well, what's wrong with my battery here? And it only cost me $12 though to charge it to 80%. So you see the cost savings there, right?


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[Assistant] 80% is 222 miles, I can tell you that. So it's $15 gives you 222 miles. That's very efficient compared to what we're paying for gas right now. This is the dumbest car I've ever heard. So you can't drive more than 220 miles without a charge.


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[Assistant] Alright, it's at Ryan Labner GC. Everyone drop right into his mentions with that screaming hot take that Tesla is the dumbest car ever. This sounds like an incredibly dumb car.


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[Assistant] It, uh, it was not, it was again 20-25 minutes out of my life. It's fine. I could do work in the car. I was snapchatting.


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[Assistant] I still can't, somehow I turned, there's a heater on the steering wheel and I somehow turned it on, I can't figure out how to turn it off. I don't know how to make the, like it's very cold out here by the way and so I couldn't figure out how to turn the defroster on this morning because there's too much.


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[Assistant] It's 222 miles for 15 miles. Like that's cost effective. Like you can say what you want about the car and I was aggravated. I'm not going to lie about that, but for $15 you get 222 miles. You do the math.


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[Assistant] Uh, the better number is 10 out of the top 20. Actually I used 10 out of the top 20.


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[Assistant] I did this twice today, one for golf today and one for golf central, so I can do it in a 90 second window right here.


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[Assistant] And so what you're telling these players that, alright, we're making you sort of focus on these 20 events going forward, the designated events. And then you can play whatever you want beyond that.


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[Assistant] For players, it just makes sense. They probably didn't want to play Sony because either if you weren't Maui, you're not going to fly all the way out to Honolulu to do that. Toy Pines is sort of an acquired taste. You're playing two golf courses. It starts on Wednesday.


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[Assistant] Pretty good. I don't know how good it's going to be when it's all sorted out. I think Torrey Pines is actually going to take a hit on this. Or Pebble Beach, which we all know can get weird weather. I think this is a direct beneficiary of the idea that look, that designated schedule, what we're talking about this year and we're in transition, we don't know exactly what it's going to look like.


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[Assistant] American Express is a beneficiary of that because you have players that probably wouldn't have been here.


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[Assistant] If they weren't in the situation well, we had to play Maori. We have to play Phoenix. We've got to play the next week in Los Angeles. And then we start turning to the Florida swing, which again, then you have.


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[Assistant] I don't think there's a month in between designated events the rest of the year, which means this is sort of a unique opportunity that


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[Assistant] I mean, you couldn't have foreseen this coming, and I don't even think, I talked to the tournament director today, he was confident he would get a good feel, but he didn't expect this.


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[Assistant] And I think there's something to be said for the idea that this is golf in a dome. Since this tournament started in 1960, it was a good place.


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[Assistant] I got derecho storm a few years ago and now I have atmospheric river and uh, it's going to be a little different this week. It's actually going to, it doesn't get out of the six, uh, above like 61 62. Uh, there's no rain, but I think wind will be a factor at least on.


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[Assistant] So all the players who were looking to, you know, make equipment swaps, this is the week to do it.


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[Assistant] How's that new mic stand treating you? You look like you're comfortable.


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[Assistant] Just buy him a mic stand for god's sake. Uh, I did get a mic stand, I'm on the road, that's why I don't have it with me. But that one, that one looks very good. It took you a minute to put that in, didn't it?


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[Assistant] Yeah, this is absolutely nothing new. We had a conversation earlier today with Tripp Eisenhower, who's one of the analysts for us at Golf Channel, where when he was still playing on the tour,


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[Assistant] He, I actually interviewed him for a story that I was working for and this was back in, when I was still working for a magazine.


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[Assistant] About the idea that there were two separate tours, and I actually broke it down. So the tour that Tiger was playing?


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[Assistant] He was playing for, and I don't remember what the exact numbers were, but let's say 50 million dollars in purses. The tour that Tripp was playing for that year, which was also the PGA Tour, but vastly different tournaments, added up to like 15 million.


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[Assistant] Like it was, it was a massive difference just based on money alone. Like take everything else out of it, take out the prestige and playing majors and WGCs and everything else. It was just a vastly different tour. They've just put a name to this is all they've done. And yes, I think what we saw in Maui is probably a really good indication.


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[Assistant] And we're getting into this as the year goes by and players start to speak their minds a little bit because there already are grumblings. Certainly James Hahn has been the first to sort of talk about the idea that you're creating a secondary tour, if not a secondary class of tour players.


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[Assistant] And there is also the worry of how do you play your way in to that designated status? It's, it's sort of, it's very gray.


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[Assistant] How exactly do you become one of those players? Because I don't think anyone outside of Panabijer headquarters understands exactly how the PIP works. So, there's some things that need to get sorted out, but in the long term, I think this is going to be good for the PGA Tour.


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[Assistant] No, I think it is. I was actually talking with a tournament director, uh, of an event later in the summer that is not a designated event. And he was telling me that his sponsor is interested in becoming a designated event, or at the very least- Are they all?


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[Assistant] So it's a huge investment for a company to make. Whatever the company is, I don't care if it's AT&T or American Express or Waste Management or whatever the case may be. This is a massive investment of where you're already out.


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[Assistant] So you need to not just prioritize golf, but you need to prioritize it to the fact that, okay, we need to double our investment to get arguably, understandably, a better field.


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[Assistant] So the idea, at least talking with this tournament director, and I've gotten this from other people as well, there are going to be more designated events. Whatever that number ends up adding up to be. Whether if that, the minimum is going to be 20, 24, whatever the case may be, you can't add too many more than that, because those players just aren't going to play more.


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[Assistant] Uh, I think it's going to be more of a rotation. So for example, talking with people this week and a few weeks ago when I was in Los Angeles for an event, I think what we're going to end up with in this timeframe, for example, is that waste management and next week the farmer's insurance at Torrey Pines will probably just rotate. It'll be in every other year, which probably makes the tournament happy.


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[Assistant] I don't think anybody knows exactly what it's gonna look like now, and you're right, the top 70 players, probably more than that, aren't going to have any interest in it whatsoever. So what it's going to become is a glorified coin fairy tour, or maybe an extended Q score, however you want.


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[Assistant] To look at it, and, and I do think that they work some of those DP World Tour events. I think the Scottish Open is, is an obvious one. I think both you and I both thought that that would been.


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[Assistant] Some of the events in Abu Dhabi or Dubai, I mean, all of these would fit nicely into, let's face it, into what they want to turn into a world schedule.


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[Assistant] Did not talk to John Rom. Didn't even see him at the golf course today. He's scheduled to hold a press conference tomorrow at PGA West, so of course we'll talk to him there. And I wanted to float this by you. We all know John.


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[Assistant] He's got a sense of humor. He does have a personality. I do like spending time around John, but like if you touch the wrong button, he doesn't, he doesn't play along. So I was thinking about starting the press conference tomorrow with the idea that John, congratulations, last week without playing you moved up from number five in the world to number four in the world. Good for you. Thoughts, please. And he doesn't, he does not.


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[Assistant] But he can move to two or three, correct? I haven't done the math. But he can still move up. But you know who can move to world number one this week? Scotty Scheffler.


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[Assistant] At the risk of you dragging what is a pretty good podcast into the mud here, give me the cliff notes version of how that is possible.


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[Assistant] That one's pretty good. Yeaah, cause he, he voiced his, uh, John Rahm voiced his frustration. And Maui, and, and I kind of wrote about it the next week, pointing out that I, I agree with him where he's coming from. When you look at what he has done, let's just go back three months now.


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[Assistant] And I, I could argue that Tony Finau has had a similar run, but if you just look at the quality of fields, I mean, he won the DP World Tour Championship, which is an elite field. Like, look, it's, it didn't qualify as that in the world ranking and the new math. He won in Maui.


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[Assistant] Again, very much an elite field. However, because it's a short field, it probably got hurt on rankings points. And when he won in Maui, he moved from number 5 in the world to number 5 in the world. And it was a level of frustration that I can understand.


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[Assistant] Uh, I talked to him today, and he's very confident. Uh, he, again, he voiced a level of frustration in my mind that I, I was kind of surprised that he talked about having the, I think the word he wore was powder puff his way around the plantation course because of his ailing back. Something that you're very familiar with.


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[Assistant] Yes, powder puffing my way around golf courses and then of course he had to withdraw from there. But I spoke with him today and he feels like everything's...


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[Assistant] He was being facetious, yes. Yes, I mean, and I think that's what he kind of wanted to get through today. Were people taking that seriously?


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[Assistant] I mean, I wouldn't think so, but who knows in this day and age of, you know, everyone's going to take a morsel of what you said and turn it into whatever their agenda is, so I can certainly see where his aggravation is coming from.


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[Assistant] It's not structural, so I didn't follow up on the muscular, so I mean it just stands to reason that it's muscular. I watched him play a couple of holes today, he's swinging the ball well, he feels confident, he knows this golf course.


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[Assistant] Well enough, so I think I wouldn't expect him to come out here and win simply because there's going to be some rust after having not played for as long as he have. But I would be surprised if he doesn't make the cut and play decent because I just feel like


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[Assistant] That's where his game is. I mean, when you go back and you look at what he said when he withdrew from Maui,


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[Assistant] He said, you know, if you put my life on the line to finish, of course I could finish. But everyone around him was telling him to stop playing. Which is probably the best advice he probably could have gotten.


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[Assistant] If he thought, one, he was going to hurt himself anymore or two, his body wasn't a hundred percent and he wasn't able to perform. That much is clear. Like I don't think there was any part of his answers to me today that ran on golf central later, uh, this evening.


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[Assistant] That, that suggests that, you know, maybe he's only 80%, or 70%, or whatever the case may be. I feel like, in his mind, his game is where it needs to be. And probably internally, those around him, his camp, so to speak.


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[Assistant] They just probably needed to see an MRI and just make sure that okay, he can't hurt this. Whatever this is, he can't aggravate it or cause any more damage going forward. And it's just something we have to find a way to manage. So at this point, it's about finding a way to manage it more so than it is some sort of rehab or recovery.


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[Assistant] We had talked about this, so the two main things that LibGov needs to fix, let's say, going forward was a domestic TV deal. You're right. Like, whatever it is they were doing on YouTube just wasn't working. It simply isn't going to resonate with the audience that they need to have to make this financially viable.


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[Assistant] I don't know that the CW, which had been sort of rumored in that mill for a long time, it was Fox, it was CW, there was a couple other, uh, suitors, but I don't know if CW was the landing spot that they wanted, but it's probably the landing spot that they needed at this point in time, because they needed to find some sort of solution to at least half that problem, because the world ranking problem's not going away anytime soon. There's no reason


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[Assistant] That boost that gets them across sort of that financial finish line that makes them financially viable. Because we can all agree that whatever's happening now is not financially viable based on just what we know publicly. We know how much most of those players got paid.


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[Assistant] And for you to find a way to monetize that is going to be different, but this is a step.


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[Assistant] Probably the best example I would give is MLS, signing the deal I believe was with Apple.


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[Assistant] Where all of the MLS games are now going to stream on the Apple platform. That's clearly not a traditional platform that a sports league would look at. However, I think you're going to start seeing more and more, even the NFL is sort of floating with the idea we're going to have a game on Amazon, right? Next, uh, next November. On the Friday after Thanksgiving. So I think you're going to see more and more of that.


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[Assistant] And my guess is, if I had to guess, that this is, whatever the deal is between Liv and CW is a very short term deal. They didn't sign a 10 year agreement to this. They just want to find a way to get on the board and then find a way to move forward.


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[Assistant] Talked with people, how about that for journalistic integrity? Uh, no, I believe seven is the number that most people are sort of dealing with right now, that they're going to add seven. Now keep in mind, it's not only going to be 48, but you're also going to have, each team is going to be required to have a reserve, so then you can add, what, 12 more after that?


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[Assistant] And so there is going to be some sort of filter system, so if this guy's not playing, he's going to be relegated, and the next guy's going to have to step up. Mito would be the one. There's one or two other names that I've heard, but as we've talked about this, like I'm so reluctant to give any credence to the rumors that you hear, because...


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[Assistant] There's been way more rumors than not. Probably the bigger deal tomorrow, if we want to get into the legal weeds a little bit, there will be sort of a deadline tomorrow in the lawsuit in San Jose between LiveGolf and the PGA tour. And this involves the public investment fund of Saudi Arabia, which of course,


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[Assistant] I actually found out today, this is news, I didn't realize this, the number that had been thrown out was


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[Assistant] The PIF owns 86% was the number I think most of us were going on of live golf. According to the most recent filings, that is 94%.


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[Assistant] Uh, which is, which is interesting only because... So it literally is the Sony Tour. Well, the deadline, I, uhm, wow, that would...


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[Assistant] Talk about me losing my journalistic integrity. Take it easy there.


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[Assistant] It's a starting out tour. And that's what the deadline is going to deal with. So the PIF, the public investment fund that's behind LiveGoth as well as its governor have been subpoenaed by the PGA tour.


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[Assistant] Because the argument is, they run the day-day-day operations, therefore they're behind the lawsuit, and what went into wooing these players away, and, and...


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[Assistant] The tour is arguing, forcing them to break their contracts with the PGA tour. And so they're being pulled in the lawsuit and they're fighting this.


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[Assistant] Obviously, apparently there was some sort of shareholder agreement that just came to light that I think kind of comes to a head tomorrow. So what you're going to end up with is instead of it being Liv versus the PGA Tour, it's going to be the PIF versus the PGA Tour, which is an entirely different scenario.


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[Assistant] Uh, no, there's no denying that. And look, I don't think anyone's going to sit here and say that it wasn't behind it. But today's filing, well, what's going to happen tomorrow, went all the way back into the weeds to the earliest...


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[Assistant] The PGL and how the Saudis were interested in that. And then once that sort of unraveled, they sort of created their own plan. I think we've talked about it before. Project Wedge is what it was called in the earliest vestiges. And just, it's interesting because the governor of the PIF, which the PIF is almost, it's three quarters of a trillion dollar fund.


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[Assistant] It's the second largest sovereign wealth fund in the world. They have sizable investments in pretty much any...


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[Assistant] Large company you can think of from Uber to FedEx. I mean, you can keep going down the road, but like what you're seeing in the court filing is that the governor of the PIF was involved with not just the day to day operations.


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[Assistant] But the individual negotiations between LivGolf and players, as far as what they wanted to get paid, what Liv wanted to pay them, that's fascinating to me. I can barely balance my own checkbook and do my day job. How does he do that?


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[Assistant] I'm not a lawyer. I don't want to play one on the podcast. No, it's interesting. And uh, because there was a hearing last week, everyone felt like something big was going to happen. And look, I don't, this is one step in a very long process, but it is, it is an interesting step.


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[Assistant] I stopped by the Beer Hunter tonight for a quick burger and a beer before I had to run back for the podcast with some of the folks from the crew. That's always good. The Beer Hunter, you guys should check it out. And, uh, haven't been to the Nest in a long time. That's a dangerous place. I don't think you roll up to the Nest in a Tesla. I don't think you roll up to the Nest in a Tesla. That's a bad look.


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[Assistant] Yes, it's a very frightening place. Haven't been back in a long time, probably won't go back anytime soon.


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[Assistant] Maybe if you quit putting additions onto your house, it wouldn't be an issue.


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[Assistant] The video semi looks good. We're going to have to, uh, post a video when it's done so everyone sees and enjoys. Partakes.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I'm with you, Brady. I actually put them a little higher. I put them in. I've lost you for a second, but when you look at, you know,


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[Assistant] Pass number one picks. I put them in that rare air with like Andrew Luck.


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[Assistant] Just because of what you talked about, right? When you talk about going to USC, uh, a program that is known for its tradition and it kind of had fallen off by the wayside and what he was able to do to elevate that program. Same thing, Andrew Luck in Stanford for the longest time, you know.


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[Assistant] You know, it was going back and forth between whether this was a basketball school. This was, you know, a school that people go to for the educational purposes. And in regards to them actually competing when Andrew Luck got there, he changed the mindset.


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[Assistant] of that team, it became a gritty team, right? And they took on that mantra with their head coach, Jim Harbaugh at the helm. So, uh, when you talk about Caleb Williams and we know the film wasn't as good this year as it was last year when he won the Heisman.


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[Assistant] That yes, people get enamored with the off platform throws and you know, the 60 yard runs.


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[Assistant] But the thing that I really love, Brady, and that I saw that you could really lean on in regards to what you'll see him at the next level is you saw him at times throwing rhythm in at times, right? So it's not like it isn't on tape. You see it on tape so he can live within the offense and going into a situation


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[Assistant] Will and Brady with the Chicago Bears. I can't say that I remember in recent history, a number one pick, more specifically a quarterback going into a similar situation.


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[Assistant] Like he will be going into Chicago. They've tried to do everything.


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[Assistant] Last year, they could potentially get another pass catcher in this year's draft.


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[Assistant] An offensive tackle at the number 10 spot last year. Their defense, they traded, you know, got Montez Sweat. There's, they're a top five defense now. So now Caleb Williams doesn't feel like he has to go out there and put up 50 points, right?


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[Assistant] Like the team is going to be able to uplift him. He's not going to have to uplift the team. So, uh, to me that's, I would put him in that rare where we put Andrew Luck at in regards to like former number one picks.


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[Assistant] I like where you're going there Brady, but to your point, like you said, we don't see him getting past pick number two. And I liken it to Cliff Kingsbury and his offense, right? When you look at the history of who Cliff has had, Caleb Williams, Kyla Murray, I think Jayden Daniels fits in that mold in regards to being a playmaker, not only throwing the ball, but running the ball too.


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[Assistant] Cliff Kingsbury and just knowing his history with athletic quarterbacks, I think to me the best fit is the Washington Commanders and the good thing is, uh, Brady, people were talking about he has two, you know,


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[Assistant] I honestly think they are going to trade up, uh, it just depends on how much the patrons quote unquote love or.


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[Assistant] The Cobra reset has proven that he could be a start, a spot starter in this league. So I can see the pages potentially trading out and to your point, right? Talk about Drake may a former.


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[Assistant] Coach was Josh McCown. Also there's rumors supposedly that the Vikings have an affinity for Drake may.


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[Assistant] And they signed Sam Donald as all season where Drake may wouldn't have to necessarily start this season. I think he actually needs a year to sit and learn behind a veteran before coming in. We saw.


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[Assistant] All the talent, uh, in the arm placement and what he has, but we also saw the inconsistencies this year when he lost a guy like Josh Downs last year. So I think the Minnesota Vikings make a lot of sense. I think they could potentially even trade up to go get Drake May.


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[Assistant] I went with the actual Giants, right? And it was kind of what you were talking about with Jaden Daniels in regards to Brian Dable being the head coach. I kind of liken that to J.J. McCarthy too because


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[Assistant] Yes, Jaden Daniels is the clear cut best athlete of the group, but JJ McCarthy has some wills as well. And we saw what Brian Dayball did with Daniel Jones, who has a similar game to JJ McCarthy in regards to being able to get outside and throw on the move, but also


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[Assistant] The RPO game, even though he didn't run it a lot at Michigan, I think that's something that can.


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[Assistant] Can translate to the next level when you see JJ McCarthy make those tight window throws over the middle. He's one of the best quarterbacks at throwing those tight window, tight window throws. And I think, you know, with Brian Dable and the Giants, even though they have so many other needs, if they feel like they can upgrade at the quarterback position and get a Ricky deal out of it.


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[Assistant] I think it makes a lot of sense for the Giants to maybe even stay Pat and be able to get JJ McCarthy and not have to move up, uh, one or two spots at the number six spot and take JJ McCarthy.


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[Assistant] It depends on what, I think, I think I picked six is the question mark. If, if McCarthy or may fall past six, I mean, teams would probably call up, but I could see maybe a slide to like 10, 11, 12, 13, 14.


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[Assistant] Yeah, for sure. I've been beating this drum for a while. Brady knows this. I mean, we did one block where I had a little fun and gave the Dallas Cowboys Michael Pinnix Jr. because of the contract situation. That was the first one. Yeah. Yeah. But, uh, when I, my, my perfect draft for the Raiders, I had them taking Pinnix at 13 overall.


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[Assistant] Brady, I've been saying this for the longest. He's the best deep ball thrower in college football last year. To me, probably processes the best out of all these quarterbacks.


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[Assistant] As well. And then when you look at the rate is what they have on offense with the, you know, the Vonte Adams and also.


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[Assistant] We're like Russell Wilson, you know, in a, in Matt Flynn situation where Pinnix outdoors mints you and ends up being the starter on the opening week. So I think Michael Pinnix Jr., a lot of people may say this is too high for him, but I always said Brady, if the medical cleared, he's a top 15 pick for me. So pick 13 is right in that mode. I think it makes a lot of sense for the Raiders.


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[Assistant] Talk about it being a deep receiver class. Cause I mean, there's been past years where they said it was a deep receiver class, but I think one thing we've noticed the last few years, like usually there's a difference between the top guys, like the tier one guys. And then there's a fall off between tier two and tier three or tier 1.5.


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[Assistant] So I mean, going back to like the 21 class, right? When you look at our even 22 class, you see Garrett Wilson, Drake London, and all the guys that were behind them.


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[Assistant] Kind of falling off the second round pick. So when you think you can get a guy in the second round, there's a chance to get one of these top three guys. I think some teams may be aggressive to try to trade up and get them because there's a clear cut difference between a guy that can come and help you from day one and taking a guy that's really good in the second round and he may pan out or may not pan out.


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[Assistant] Yeah, to that point, I know people have kind of marked maybe the Vikings moving up to four, but if you're the Cardinals, it's like, do you chance moving to 11 and not getting one of the top three receivers? Like to your point? Well, I wouldn't do that. Like, no, like Kyla Murray needs a true number one receiver. So yes, you would love to get some more draft capital because you have many needs on your team.


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[Assistant] But if you have a foundational piece that could potentially turn into a generational talent, like you're not moving off of that. Like that, you'd be absurd to move off of that.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I went, I went with the Chargers. They need playmakers on the outside. They lost their number one and two receiver. This all season one release, Mike Williams and then Kenan Allen got traded. So Quint, Quinton Johnson and Josh Palmer kind of like they're only two receivers right now. I think, uh, Malik Navey, which you talk about being explosive. Brady, you talked about it. Nobody has a better start and stop.


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[Assistant] In this draft class to Malik neighbors. So yes, we know Jim Hall Ball wants to be gritty on the O line and run the football, but you still have a quarterback whose right arm has been blessed by the guards, uh, the gods. Get him a playmaker on the outside.


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[Assistant] What? No, you're disrespectful. DJ Moore's a one. He proved he was a one last year.


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[Assistant] It's still DJ Moore right now. Until Rome approves that he could be the number one.