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[Assistant] Yeah, no, Brian Burns was getting after it. He was giving DJ trouble, uhm, some of the other young guys, uh, Jeremy Chen was making plays, uhm, I saw-


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[Assistant] All right. Loser, Matt, rule, winner, DJ. I'll give Daniel Jones a look. Or Brian Davis.


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[Assistant] And look how it ended up for him. Matt rules to be trying to get out of that place and go live in Lane Kevin's life.


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[Assistant] Alright, let me read you this fun fact from our buddy Zack Keefer. I don't know Zack Keefer, but he does a good job.


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[Assistant] He does, he does, uh, he covers the, uh, culturally athletic and this was prior to, uh,


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[Assistant] Prior to Sunday's game, uh, he wrote this in the athletic. Uh, Indianapolis has dropped seven straight road games to the Jaguars before Sunday. Now it's eight, six in Jacksonville, one in London. And it was a home game for Jackson. Consider the Jags have just seven home wins since 2019. Three have come over the Colts.


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[Assistant] They're an NFL worse 33 and 81 since 2015, but eight and eight versus the Colts over that stretch to Jackson have just two wins against the Texans, three over Tennessee and again, eight over the Colts, which is now at nine. So again, it's 2014, right?


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[Assistant] But I mentioned Trevor Lawrence's numbers earlier in comparison to the other quarterbacks in this class. 25 for 30, 235, two touchdowns, nine receptions. Market upgrade over last year, clearly. Doug Peterson.


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[Assistant] Market upgrade over last year, clearly. This team defensively got after. Josh Allen is playing like Josh Allen, the quarterback for the Bills on the defensive side of the ball. He is so good. Uhm, and Matt Ryan 16 to 30, no touchdowns, three picks.


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[Assistant] James Taylor, in terms of running the ball, he was, he wasn't effective. I was trying to think of a Taylor who


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[Assistant] Yeah. There's also the, who's the Taylor. I know Breesh does this guy third rock from the sun. Who's that little Taylor kid with the, he looks like a handsome brother.


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[Assistant] There you go, fair enough. Anyway, my point is that uhm, this is hard to watch. It is extremely hard to watch.


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[Assistant] Michael Pittman and Alec Pierce didn't play in the game.


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[Assistant] Well, in our defense, you are batting well below the Mendoza line when it comes to these bowl predictions, but this is a good one so far. Two weeks in, you crushed it. It is insane.


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[Assistant] Here's the thing, we're gonna complain about huge contracts for players that didn't put up those sorts of numbers to justify it, and then if they prove it, then joke's on us. So good for him, and, you know.


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[Assistant] As people like to say, you don't blame the person cashing the checks, you blame the person writing it.


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[Assistant] No, he got some touches early. He had some catches too. And then Robson had the, uh, he had a long, uh, I think he touched on it wrong. Yeah.


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[Assistant] So the winner for me is, I'll give it to old Trevor Lawrence. I'll give it to Christian Kirk too. Loser is that whole freaking team.


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[Assistant] Yeah, Carson Wentz got the last laugh. Alright, uh, we'll end in 30 seconds. Mike, just to review, my, my, uh, Super Bowl picks? Chiefs, Rams, Broncos, Vikings, Dolphins. Broncos looks terrible. Yeah, it does look terrible. Breach, what are yours?


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[Assistant] What is it? There's two of them actually. Oh, that's right. Thank God they start early. Like none of them starts at 10 30.


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[Assistant] All right. Tennessee ball flows at 7 15 PM Eastern and then my Minnesota, excuse me, faces Philadelphia at 8 30. Evo, what's your jersey you're wearing tomorrow night? Oh, uh, it's going to be Mike Mola like normal. Oh, that's, that's your go-to all the time. That's the go-to.


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[Assistant] I know someone on this podcast that lives in the same town as Mike Lennon. I also know someone on this podcast who's his dad in the Super Bowl.


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[Assistant] Well, I won't be surprised if it happens this week. First he's gonna answer all the Dak Prescott questions and have to answer how many, exactly how many weeks is it gonna be? What's a few? Is it four? Is it three? Is it five?


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[Assistant] Well, the crazy thing here is that if this was week 10, the Cowboys were three and seven and Dax out for five weeks, you just mail in the season and say, that's fine. But it's week one. Is this the point where you call up the San Francisco 49ers and you say, what the hell do you guys want? We'll give you whatever you want for Jimmy Garoppolo because we need to save our season.


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[Assistant] No, week three I'm giving him, you don't want to throw him out against the bangles.


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[Assistant] Kyle Shanahan is going to hold a press conference and be like, yeah, we're not training Jimmy because he's our starter next week.


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[Assistant] Well, and that's the amazing thing is that, you know, the first drive is the one you script. So clearly Mike McCarthy's like, ooh, I know how to beat this defense. And then just.


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[Assistant] Whatever he decided he was going to do on the first drive, threw everything out the window or the Buccaneers adjusted and it was just, I mean, it was embarrassingly bad. That's how bad the Cowboys were. They could not do anything. It really felt like once the Buccaneers went up 12 to three, there was no way Dallas was winning at 12 to three.


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[Assistant] Uh, you get a seven day break from watching Mike McCarthy coach.


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[Assistant] And you really feel bad, like the Cowboys defense busted their butt. I mean, they weren't great. They came up with some key sacks, got an interception. And like you just said, Micah Parsons was lights out, but I mean, fucking ears removing the ball at will until they got in the Cowboys territory and got forced to kick field goals. But it was just an ugly all around game for Dallas.


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[Assistant] By the process of elimination, uh, we only have the Cowboys left.


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[Assistant] There was no point, I thought the Bengals were gonna lose that game until McPherson missed the 29 yarder. Even when they were down, what, 4-17 to 3, just, it was, Burrow's not gonna turn the ball. I don't even wanna talk about the same, I'll let Wilson have the floor and then I'll respond.


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[Assistant] I don't think Taylor got asked about not taking away a game. He got asked why.


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[Assistant] Yes, correct. Because then you would have run off the 15 seconds, 5 yards back, and you needed the 5 yards back apparently because Huber punted a freaking touchback on the play.


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[Assistant] Four years and you thought Burrow showed up and it wasn't going to happen anymore, but even


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[Assistant] You know, Ryan, you mentioned the pick six, and when that happened, it was like, ehm.


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[Assistant] Steeler's offense didn't do anything in the first series. They're not gonna do anything. Joe Burrow fumbles. Steeler's offense doesn't do anything. They get a field goal. It's ten to three. It's like, eh, the Steeler's offense can't do anything. There's no way the Bengals are gonna lose. Then Burrow throws another interception, and at that point, I'm like, okay, three turnovers, uh, before halftime, I'm a little bit concerned, and then, uh,


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[Assistant] He didn't do anything in training camp. He didn't play a single preseason game. We don't know how comfortable he is taking hits right this second. And so maybe just maybe we should be concerned. And that is when my concern started to go up.


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[Assistant] Uh, but then when they made it 1714, I was like, all right, this is in the bag. This is over. This is, I don't know what the final score is going to be, but we're going to laugh about it in the podcast.


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[Assistant] Well yeaah, and that field goal on the fourth and goal from the two was another, uh, Tomlin doesn't have faith in his offense. I mean, yes, he loves his defense, but also that shows zero faith in your quarterback and your offense.


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[Assistant] Well right, that field was on the third possession, so it's not like you would have a great field for what, I mean, he watched a bunch of practices and all at the training camp, so maybe he does have a great field.


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[Assistant] With the Bengals score, the fourth quarter was just totally bonkers and, and like,


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[Assistant] And then, and then the other part of this is that you get to overtime. Now you're in overtime. You already had the extra point blocked because no one blocked me if it's Patrick, which I don't know how that happens on an extra point where, you know, some guys get through freely and maybe, yes.


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[Assistant] It's the, as you said Ryan, the chain jump, because it went, uh, you know, three miles an hour slower and it got back there three one hundredths of a second slower. Make it Fitzpatrick said, I only got a fingertip on it. So if you have car cares to normal snap around there and it literally goes three one hundredths of a second faster.


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[Assistant] Let's get to, yes, he should have. And you know, the thing is.


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[Assistant] There's less, if you challenge to get the touchdown there, cause I know I've seen some people on Twitter say, well, it didn't matter cause they eventually got the touchdown, the game ended up in overtime, but like.


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[Assistant] And then the field goal in overtime that uh, McPherson missed from 29 yards. The Bengals tried that on third down, which.


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[Assistant] It's common in overtime if you think it gives you, uh, you have a safety net in case there's a bad snap, which, uh, ironically enough happened. If it is a bad enough snap, like if the snapper rolls the ball to you, the holder's just supposed to spike it and then now it's four down and now you can try it again. But with the way


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[Assistant] Uh, was that right after they got the ball back? Yea, first play after they got the ball back, I believe.


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[Assistant] No, I still, I was like, okay, Deontay Johnson just bailed out Mitch Trubisky. Those are the throws that Trubisky's giving us. So they were still inside their own 35. And so in my head I was thinking, if he's throwing like that, the Bengals gonna pick one of these off and then McPherson's gonna throw. I literally was still confident it was either gonna be a tie or a Bengals win until I think he hit Friar Muth.


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[Assistant] Uh, for like a 25 or 26 yard pass. And at that point it was like, okay, well this is over.


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[Assistant] You know what's crazy is that at halftime me and Brinton talk about our point spreads, uh, for week two.


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[Assistant] And the look ahead line at that point for Cowboys bangles was Cowboys favored by two. And I was going to pound the bangles and I was like, you know, I'll just wait till our, wait till I get everything together. And then Dak got injured, the line disappeared. And now I just want to cry.


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[Assistant] Let me just say real quick because somebody asked how we feel about Joe Burrow. I am zero percent worried. He literally turned the ball over five times, got sacked seven times, and the Bengals still should have won this game. This, this felt like the Packers-Bengals game from last year where everybody was missing field goals and turning the ball over.


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[Assistant] And that kind of propelled the bangles to, Hey, we can play with these good teams and not the Steelers are a good team necessarily, but Hey, we can move the ball on a good defense. And if Joe bird doesn't turn the ball over, he's not going to be turning it over five times again.


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[Assistant] After the game, Christian Watson said he catches that ball 99 out of 100 times and that he would have said he catches it 100 out of 100 times but he can't because he dropped that one.


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[Assistant] Oh no, that hurts. But Wilson as someone who drafted the Vikings, I noticed that only one person on the podcast actually picked them to win today.


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[Assistant] Because of this, the Vikings are a better team. I, I, I honestly think that Minnesota is a better all around team. That's it. I just think that, I think the Packers


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[Assistant] We don't know how long it's gonna take for them to figure out how to run that offense without the Vontadams. It might be figured out by week two against the Bears. It might take them three or four weeks. And so...


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[Assistant] You're talking about an experienced Vikings team that lost all those games by one score last year.


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[Assistant] Not so great coaching. And then now you have, uh, Kirk Cousins with a coach who actually likes him and an offensive minor coach, which Cousins hasn't had. He just had Zimmer who hated his guts. And I can't imagine how hard it is to play quarterback when your coach doesn't like you.


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[Assistant] Yes, indeed. It is quite a financially pleasant industry, Wilson. He's a maritime lawyer.


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[Assistant] I mean, the crazy thing about this game is that it literally felt like...


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[Assistant] The Giants had a 0% chance winning it at halftime. Titans were up 13-0. New York had done absolutely nothing. I mean their offense was just dead in the first half.


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[Assistant] And then, I don't know what rejuvenated Saquon Barkley, but he just went off in the second half. He had over a hundred yards on just two runs. Uh, Giants got the ball in the second half on their first possession and Saquon had like a 60.


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[Assistant] Yeah, and then he got tackled, I think, at the 13th. Uh, the 4th. Yeah, something like that.


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[Assistant] Uh, and then the game winning touchdown drive, he had a 40 yard run and that really is what set them up. So those two runs.


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[Assistant] Uh, basically won the game for the Giants. He had a 41 and the thing with his long run on the game winning drive is that he actually had the ball knocked out and it was on the ground, but then it rolled out of bounds. So the Giants got to keep the ball.


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[Assistant] And then they drove down and got the touchdown. You know, not only did they do the, the two point conversion, which, you know, big onions for Brian day.


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[Assistant] That was Randy Book. The Titans, literally Ryan Tannehill drove them down, got them in the field range.


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[Assistant] I cannot believe we have more soundbites of Ms. Banglefield.


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[Assistant] A loser, uh, we got a loser, the general manager who decided to trade AJ Brown. That'll work for me. Yep. John Robinson, loser for sure.


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[Assistant] Answer, the answer is not the guy who went 4 for 13 for 41 yards in an interception in the fourth quarter with the game.


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[Assistant] Okay, and if you throw, if you take out, uh, Trey Lance's longest pass, then he threw for 120 yards and completed under 50% of his passes. He wasn't good.


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[Assistant] No, I just need to see what Tray Lance can do in normal conditions, but I am definitely slightly concerned if I'm the 49ers. No, I like how Shania.


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[Assistant] Uh, well, I mean, look at the 49ers schedule though. I mean, they play a winnable game next week with the Seahawks. They play the Broncos and Rams. If you're 1 and 3.


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[Assistant] Are you, uh, on the first car ride to Panic Town?


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[Assistant] Yeah, there are all those reports on how popular Jimmy Garoppolo is in the locker room, and it's- You just love disturbed drive, you just hate the 49ers, I don't know why.


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[Assistant] And also the final score is 28 to 22. Brenton's falling for the teleprompter again. I think Devo is just playing.


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[Assistant] That's well, because if he keeps talking, he knows Brinton will talk to him. And so he just tries to keep it on the down low.


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[Assistant] Well, he threw a horrible interception to end the game.


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[Assistant] We have just over a minute left. It was third down and, uh, 11.


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[Assistant] You have two downs to get 11 yards and you just throw, uh, an absolutely ugly interception. So his decision making, but also he didn't have a ton of help. I mean, Travis TTN drops, uh, fourth down pass.


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[Assistant] On fourth and goal from Washington's three, and that was ugly. So those two, uh, are not on the same page for whatever reason yet.


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[Assistant] I really thought like the commanders kind of dominated this game. I know 28 to 22 is close and that Jackson actually wed late, but like.


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[Assistant] Jacksonville got 10 of their points from two of Carson Wentz's interception. So it's not like their offense was out there running up and down the field on Washington.


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[Assistant] Uhm, I mean, the touchdown drive they had for the Wentz Interception was 11 yards. Their field goal drive after the Wentz Interception was 19 yards. So basically they did nothing with these turnovers except go a short field. So.


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[Assistant] I thought Washington was a much better team in this game, and if Lawrence doesn't throw those two interceptions, they probably win by double digits easy.


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[Assistant] Is this the only game in the NFL where the winner and the loser are both tied for first? I guess the Giants and the Titans.


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[Assistant] Tied for first, uh, pun intended.


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[Assistant] But yeaah, I thought for Wentz looked 80% good. And those two interceptions came like right in a row in consecutive possessions. And that was it. That was his two worst throws. And like Dito said, Trayvon Walker actually made a very athletic, incredible play.


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[Assistant] CBS source tells me that only one person on this podcast picked the commanders to win.


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[Assistant] The crazy thing about the Chargers though, cause, you know, whenever you watch Justin Hervey, you're like, oh my god, he's awesome. But then also, how do they only score 24 points?


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[Assistant] If their offense is so unstoppable and it's been so feast or famine, you look at this game, every time they punted, it was a three and out. So it's like literally they were driving down and scoring or, uh, your possession ends in 12 seconds cause you go three and out and they punted.


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[Assistant] Five times, four times. So they went three now four times, and it's just that's what kept the Raiders in the game and the Derek Carr basically went out. There's like, you know what? You can have the game back and through three pretty ugly interceptions.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I mean, I don't know that that's what it feels like because that was literally the only playing this entire game where I thought he should have gone for it and he didn't.


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[Assistant] The fourth and one, the one Princeton just mentioned. I was surprised he did not go for that.


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[Assistant] And the way their cars and playing you think there's no way to score two touchdowns on us over the final seven minutes of this game.


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[Assistant] Also, it was a fourth and five, too, so it was kind of right on the cusp of, uh, you know, something he would go for.


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[Assistant] I feel like the Chiefs can sometimes make things awkward for you, especially a coach like Cliff Kingsbury, where you see they're so fast paced and they're scoring every time that now you feel like you have to throw the ball and they kind of take you off your game plan. And then before you know it, you're down three touchdowns. It's like, holy crap. Well, we're going to lose.


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[Assistant] Yeah, Justin Reed was awesome, his bucker got hurt, and...


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[Assistant] Uh, they said, hey Justin, we need you to kick an actual extra point. And he went in there and nailed his first one. I think he actually missed his second one, but who cares? A position player went into a game and made an extra point, which as we've seen, if you have a kicker messed up or a snapper messed up or your holder, things go awry quickly.


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[Assistant] Although most of these guys have, uh, shoes that are basically molded to their feet because they are rich and, uh,


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[Assistant] They get nice cleats. This isn't like a high school football where your, your cleat might be a half size too big. It makes it harder to kick.


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[Assistant] Play the Raiders in Week 2 and the Rams in Week 3. Loss. And then they unplug. That's it. Because usually they start hot. Yea, but they don't have Hopkins in Week 7.


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[Assistant] But my bold prediction for the NFC West was the Cardinals finishing last.


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[Assistant] I mean, it is, in a 20 to 7 game, you're talking about the 4th and 7th play that Brenton mentioned, and the Dolphins get a fumble return for a touchdown. So literally, two plays you can point to that ended with touchdowns where...


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[Assistant] Exactly, and I'm sure that's what Belichick is thinking is that we were too kind of free plays.


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[Assistant] Get outta here. I am getting online and betting it now.


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[Assistant] You're the Houston Texans. You were horrible last year and you just tied the Colts. It's a moral victory.


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[Assistant] That's a weird kid. Slices are, you just miss the sweet spot badly. Pushing the slice in the same thing.


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[Assistant] No, push is that way. Slice is like, you can miss right, but then curves. So like it'd be going in and then it kind of- Slice is, if you're, slice is to your right.


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[Assistant] I said he pushed sliced it. So anyway, but the Colts made a bunch of mistakes and you, you know, I think a lot of people assume that Matt Ryan, I feel like I still think Matt Ryan's going to be good with them, but there was no reason to think he's just going to go in there and be a throw for 500 yards in week one indie version activated.


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[Assistant] But, the Colts did make a lot of mistakes. I mean, they had, eh, they drove straight down Indies, or uh, Houston's Throat, got down the two yard line, went for it on fourth and goal, uh, from the two, and took Matt Ryan out of the game.


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[Assistant] Ran a direct snap to my 90 mines, and the play failed miserably.


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[Assistant] So that was a fourth and goal that failed. Then they got, I think, inside Houston's 25, Matt Ryan threw an interception. So those were two scoring opportunities. And obviously you just mentioned, uh, Rodrigo's missed field. So as much as you say, the Texans show the one this game, the Colts.


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[Assistant] Could probably make a pretty strong argument that they should have won this game.


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[Assistant] And you know, Avi Smith said the other part of this was that the Colts played pretty well down the stretch and he didn't think his defense, uh, could hold up much longer. So if you're the Texans, you're happy with this. This is a mortal victory. And if you're the Colts, you're not happy with this.


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[Assistant] Also, Vincent Pornbot because your profile picture is from 12 years ago. I don't even recognize that guy. Who is that guy? No facial hair?


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[Assistant] The only offense they had in the first three quarters was Ryan just mentioned with Taysom Hill where he had a 68 yard run. But James got warmed up at the end.


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[Assistant] And then Jamus' 4th quarter, look, he, I think he threw for like 50 yards in the first 3 quarters. And then his 4th quarter, 16-19 for 213 yards and 2 touchdowns.


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[Assistant] Uh, and you know what else? This is a sad stat for Falcons fans, is that Atlanta blew a 16 point lead, and that's not even on their top 10 list of biggest blown leads in Falcons history.


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[Assistant] Uh, they blew a 25 point lead in the Super Bowl. I'm sure you heard about that one.


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[Assistant] The falcons are... The falcons bury themselves every time they have a leak. He also, he added...


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[Assistant] You know what I will say though, to the Falcon's credit, is that...


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[Assistant] The Saints, who by all accounts have a very talented defense, really loaded, they were completely perplexed by what


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[Assistant] The falcons were doing on offense whether it was running a few read options with mario da what cordial patterson was doing i mean a rush for over two hundred yards. And it was just couldn't figure it out and you know obviously. No one's came back in one but it was just.


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[Assistant] No, I think they're gonna win five games. Is that okay? Maybe four? Five?


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[Assistant] Joe Flacco is now 0-10 in his career when throwing 52 or more passes in a game.


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[Assistant] Yeah, they really struggle on the ground. That's such a big part of their game. I think that's why the offense looked so, I don't want to say rusty, but I mean, that's what it looks like. They only average three yards per carry. And you look at really the first, uh, cause they kicked the field goal early, but that wasn't the goal.


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[Assistant] Well, they got the field goal off a Jets interception. They didn't put a drive together. They only had four plays per. Yep. Seven yards.


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[Assistant] The jets had drives of 75, 62, and 43 after they were trailing 24 to 3. Okay, so that was a lot of garbage time.


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[Assistant] I have packers, don't feel great about that. Chargers, feel great about that. Bengals, feel great about that. You do? Not happy, but I feel great about it. Cowboys.


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[Assistant] Zero percent good. Can I trade them? Can I trade them to you for Jacksonville?


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[Assistant] You can trade them for the lines and that's it. And my fifth team is the undefeated Pittsburgh Steelers.


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[Assistant] I mean, it was, it was, it was nice to see because finally we got a test, right? Like we've been blowing out a lot of teams, getting up on them early and kind of taking advantage of that.


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[Assistant] But, you know, it was kind of nice to see that they could come from behind and win and kind of settle down. Even seeing Jaylen throw that early interception and like, you know, that could rattle a quarterback, especially he's young, it's only his second year really being a true starter, you know, seeing him take over the game and bad, inclement weather.


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[Assistant] Was, was really nice to see and like really good for his development going forward. But Breeze, you talking about, you know, Jaguar shooting themselves in the foot. I mean.


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[Assistant] And shout out to Hasan Reddick, Philly guy, Temple Maid. Shout out to him.


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[Assistant] Uhm, but yeaah, uh yeaah, I thought you were a little trippin' for that one.


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[Assistant] Don't be scared, don't be scared, don't be scared.


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[Assistant] Guys, I have a question for you too. Uh, what about Andrew Luck? Like didn't Andrew Luck kind of put like the coats in a bad position, like him obviously retiring because like if we think about it, like they would still have Andrew Luck right now.


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[Assistant] I was doing great until Breach sent us an article that says tattoo inks used in the US may contain cancer causing chemicals, new study finds.


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[Assistant] That's not a real tattoo. I told you that's a family tattoo. I can't just have a Snoopy on one arm, but a complete nutter moron. So I got one.


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[Assistant] Well, I had the bangles on one side, and the breech family cross on the other.


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[Assistant] Unlike you I just don't make up random excuses to take off and go play golf.


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[Assistant] Well, I explained, like I said, okay, look, I finally came around and did the bet for the Snoopy thing, but I can't just have one Snoopy tattoo on my arm wearing a Bengals jersey. Uh, I like to offset that with something that at least is somewhat related to me thinking about my family. That's why. What are you going to say, Breach?


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[Assistant] Okay, well that's sort of the same side of the coin, right?


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[Assistant] Yeah, I went last Friday at 3 PM. Kevin hooked me up and he was fantastic. Okay.


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[Assistant] It didn't hurt as bad, you get your second tattoo, you'll know that.


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[Assistant] I didn't go to the tattoo shop that you guys called.


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[Assistant] Kevin did a fantastic job, and I actually had made that appointment prior to going to Nashville, so I knew I was going to do it, that's why I told you, and that's why only Dibo believed me.


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[Assistant] Breach is on the same, breach is on the same, uh, illegal substance that some other guest recently must have been on when you spoke with him.


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[Assistant] Yeah, so I'm done getting tattoos, although as Nada has explained to me, once you get one, you typically don't. I don't think you're done. I don't know. I don't have anything else.


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[Assistant] I had already planned it because I had planned to offset the stupid one.


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[Assistant] You guys have four people in your family, right? I wanted something simple. I told my wife, uh, this is what I'm thinking, draw it up. And, um, she came up with it.


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[Assistant] And I was like cool, it didn't take long, it didn't hurt as much, and it was cheaper.


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[Assistant] Win, win, win. So yeaah. And if you Google like, uh, elephant tattoo meaning, it's like family and strength or something like that. So I was like, okay, that's good.


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[Assistant] They're all different according to my wife. Well, yeah, they're all, yeah. Well, they're not all identical is what I'm saying.


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[Assistant] Simple. So it didn't take long. Like I said, it didn't hurt as much.


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[Assistant] I walk around, we have in New York, the small towns are called villages. I walk around in the village with no shirt on. So they, I will probably get asked about it and just jean shorts. Uh, so I had imagined this.


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[Assistant] I would imagine the Snoopy one just cause it looks ridiculous. Like why do you have a Snoopy tattoo on your arm as a man?


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[Assistant] No, this one was only, I mean only, it was $80 compared to the other one which was substantially more than that. So the listeners paid for it. No, of course not. I'll show you the receipts on my Venmo. Uhm, the other lead that was buried


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[Assistant] And Breech, you can confirm this. Brenton got all the credit for my Would You Rather from the Atlanta Falcons social media group.


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[Assistant] I thought it was funny that they actually put the question, cause that's the thing now that the social media teams will ask players questions all across leagues that come off the field and they're silly questions or whatever. Uhm, and again, the, the responses were split.


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[Assistant] By the way, shout out to Greg, who's a 49ers fan, who bid on me last year, bid on me again this year.


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[Assistant] The bids there, I'm at 30 bucks, just one dollar behind Brentson. Again, shout out to Greg for keeping me in this thing. When I saw Coach's picture,


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[Assistant] I will talk to you about anything but fantasy football. That's what I promise you.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I mean, Brinson did a bourbon draft with my accountant. He will literally do anything.


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[Assistant] Jason, oh yes, yeah, Jason, just so you know, last week we were in Nashville and uh, Tuesday was a long night for all of us. Uh, Wednesday at lunch,


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[Assistant] I felt like I couldn't even hold down water. My man's drinking margarita. So Jägerbombs, that's called an appetizer.


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[Assistant] You know, they didn't have Red Bull when we were in college. Like it hadn't been invented yet. Maybe it was beer at the time because it sounds familiar. I'm searching it. And the second question, uhm,


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[Assistant] Alright, so you're talking about the Panthers. We got sidetracked with the Jägerbombs. We'll do Jägerbombs, we have concluded.


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[Assistant] Six and a half. You idiots are almost talking me to the over. I'm still sticking with the under.


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[Assistant] No, I meant the season total win over. Six and a half.


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[Assistant] Their defenses look pretty good. They drafted a couple of young guys. Yep. Oh yeah, my face been good. The cornerbacks they drafted been good. But again, they're playing in that division and.


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[Assistant] You guys are way too liberal with the Hall of Fame, so I don't know about that, but...


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[Assistant] Their offensive line is in deep doo-doo. So they drafted Tyler Smith, he's going to play guard. He played tackle last year in college at Tulsa. Tyron Smith is going to be the left tackle. Now Matt Lowatsco, who they drafted. Uh, I think he's probably a day three guy. I liked him as a day three guy. I don't know. He's next on the depth chart. I don't know if that's who they're going to have.


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[Assistant] Uh, it doesn't matter who you are, if you're looking for offensive linemen at this point in the process, you're in a bad way. And this is terrible news obviously for Tyron Smith, but terrible news for


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[Assistant] Terrible news for Zeke, terrible news for Dak, terrible news for this team's chances, great news for Deebo and his Philadelphia Eagles though.


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[Assistant] By the way, Stephen and our buddy Sportsline sent out the numbers. 10.1 wins with Tyron Smith, 9.7 without, so almost a half a game difference. Chance to win a division went from 48% to 41%. That's a lot.


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[Assistant] 40%, that's a huge, it's almost 10% drop off. Yea, 7.5%. But I mean, that's a huge, for one player?


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[Assistant] Yeah. I mean you lose Dak Prescott. Who else would be, would, would have that sort of thing.


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[Assistant] So I think this uhm, it's dire, as sort of we're alluding to. We'll see how it sorts itself out.


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[Assistant] Maybe the Cowboys should trade Zach Martin to the Steelers for Chase Claypool. That would help.


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[Assistant] The Saints, by the way, I'll just say quickly, Prisco is trying to steal my conversation about the Saints winning the division. I've been saying that for, for months, Pete, so don't even get on that, on that bandwagon. Or if you do, get in the back. So, Jame is all the way. Alright, next game.


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[Assistant] The Chargers winning the division and the Saints winning the division. So, lock it up. Alright.


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[Assistant] He might be trying to figure out ways to, to, to beat Matt, Patricia and Joe Judge if they can't get the play going down path.


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[Assistant] One thing quickly, what do you think Bill Belichick would have done if Tom Brady said he wanted to take 11 days off to go on vacation with his wife in August?


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[Assistant] I tell you this much, that offense looked pretty good and the defense, both sides of the ball looked good last week in the first half against the Steelers. Uhm, I think this team, you know, I feel like you guys hit the Panthers, but this team is going to be better.


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[Assistant] A little risk for my blood, but they're going to be a better football team. So that's good. Um, the Falcons, I have a ton of questions. Marcus Mariota is basically just holding the fort down for Des Ritter who played pretty well last week too. So he's had two relatively good weeks, uh, for a rookie. Uh, but the Falcons feel like a team that's either spinning its wheels or are actually going backwards.


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[Assistant] Thank you. That's why, that's why I said they're only gonna win one game. Had they given me the shout out, I would have had them winning the division.


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[Assistant] Now, are you gonna pay $3,000 to go see this game too?


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[Assistant] I mean, Joe, Joe Burrow's not playing, right? He practiced this week against the Rams and that was a thing. That's the other thing that we don't talk about enough is that they do these joint practices and teams like that better than actual games in terms of getting something constructive out of it.


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[Assistant] The folks in Baltimore seem to think that Lamar Jackson will be under contract when the season starts. I am really not certain of that. So we'll see what happens.


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[Assistant] Oh no, this is just talking to, to the radio guys, our buddies, Bob Haney and Vinny Serato. They, they seem more concerned about the lack of depth of wide receiver. I said, what about Lamar? Eh, he'll be fine. That's okay. We'll see. I don't know if he'll be fine.


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[Assistant] Even more recently, I would imagine that the Ravens watched what Jerry Jones did with Dak Prescott and just waited around to pay him another five extra million dollars a year.


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[Assistant] Alright, well it's just gonna cost you more money down the road, I think is the point that Breach is making.


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[Assistant] By the way, uh, the next game is Eagles at Dolphins. Bet the Eagles because everyone on the Dolphins team had diarrhea on Thursday.


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[Assistant] They had to, they had to cancel practice, I think, because there was a summit book going around. Not everyone had it, but I think.


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[Assistant] Have you seen any training camp at all? And do you know anything at all about football? Miami has an elite secondary, two is three and O gets the Patriots.


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[Assistant] Oh, someone even included the Will Smith yelling at Chris Rock thing to Brinson. Keep to his name, out your mouth.


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[Assistant] Wow, imagine this guy gets paid for his opinions. That one's, that one's evergreen. We get that one every week. Not just you, everybody.


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[Assistant] LOL, there's to a hype from where? That's Princeton's Burner account.


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[Assistant] Eh, Andrew Oates on Twitter says, Will Briston play JV? I think that's probably-


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[Assistant] This was great. Thanks for pointing this out. I didn't even know it was a thing.


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[Assistant] This is my favorite tweet from, uh, Vince from Amy.


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[Assistant] Yeah, that, I think that annoys me more than anything when people tweet at remind me of this and they remind you on the, on what you asked for. I'd never even heard of that.


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[Assistant] I'd seen it previously on some other similar type, anger tweet. So, uh, yeaah, that, that, I put that in there because- That's awesome!


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[Assistant] I'm just saying that to keep the Dolphins fans off my back. Carlos Titans!


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[Assistant] This team is tuned on the preseason. They feel like a 1-1 football team. It's a regular season starts. That's how dysfunctional, ah, dysfunctional is not the right word. They have a new coach, new GM, but how...


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[Assistant] How long the odds feel for this team in terms of having players able to do things you want to do. Roquan Smith is betting on himself, he said, so he'll play even though he doesn't have the New Deal, wasn't able to be traded.


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[Assistant] Uhm, so that helps in some sense, but again, there's so many holes in this team.


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[Assistant] He's not shaking it. There's no ice in there. There's a light over here.


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[Assistant] By the way, Mary Kay Cabot just reported on Thursday afternoon that Shacoby hit his hand on an offensive lineman's helmet. He held it for a moment. So just something to keep in mind. Safanski said, I was seeing red out there for a defender getting that close to his now starting quarterback.


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[Assistant] Yeah, especially usually it sometimes doesn't happen until like hours before.


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[Assistant] What if Tom Brady comes out there in a lounge chair and just puts it in the middle of the field?


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[Assistant] Who was, someone was dunking, oh right, it was Charles Robinson dunking on all the idiots that were putting forth the mass singer rumors. So you had a tough week, Branson, between that and hanging on tour.


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[Assistant] I would imagine Todd Bolz, Todd Bolz would have rather not have to deal with that, if I had to guess. Just, but whatever.


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[Assistant] It's a, it's impossible. It's a, it's a preseason. Just the Ravens is the only sure bet.


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[Assistant] Hmm. Not a great showing for Kiliman, who I like coming out of Texas.


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[Assistant] Yeaah, I mean, Daniel Johnson needs to play. I don't know if I'd put Joe Flacco out there.


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[Assistant] So I'm reading through, uhm, the athletic story about Can Caney Pickett won the job and said there have been no hard and fast declarations of who will start the president's finale.


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[Assistant] Pickett apparently worked with the first team on Wednesday, as we say this on Thursday. When asked if Pickett took more first team reps in practice, Steelers coach Tomlin said, I don't, I didn't chart it in that spirit. I don't have the answer to that, which is a weird answer to the question. Who took the most first team reps in practice? Uh, so.


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[Assistant] I think the momentum is building towards Kenny Pickett, but as Mike Sullivan, the Steelers quarterback's coach said, there's a huge difference between playing in the preseason and playing in a real game in terms of what you are capable of doing. I still contend that I would start Mr. Biskie because the offensive line is worse than the Cowboys and


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[Assistant] Mitch, take that flack and then when he can't walk anymore, whatever you bring in, candy peeking.


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[Assistant] Much like my would, would you rathers, you were stealing my theory. I've been saying that.


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[Assistant] I think Mitchell Trubisky should start the season. Cause if Kenny Pickett comes out and throws five interceptions, then what are you going to do in week two?


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[Assistant] Also worth noting, Mason Rudolph has arguably outplayed or played as well as those other two quarterbacks in the preseason, but no one wants to talk about that.


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[Assistant] Did that get over the six and a half over under that Breach thought that game was going to be?


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[Assistant] I don't want to keep going back to this, but I'm looking at this tweet that you stole, and the Falcons tweeted out, but someone put, one of the commenters put, good luck with the landmines. I mean, look at that, and then you tell me.


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[Assistant] You're going to be obliterated. There's no, I don't want to get on. I mean, this is like a 10 second conversation, but that's a wrap.


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[Assistant] I'm gonna crap talk you. Who knows what I'll be doing.


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[Assistant] The Bengals cut Louisville legend, Jake Browning.


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[Assistant] And for critics across the NFL, but he'd be bad regardless of the picks behind him.


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[Assistant] Like, like Ryan said at the top of the show, like, I don't think it's any guarantee that Riker's on the team by week eight or week 18, but yeah, I like keeping them around for now.


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[Assistant] Opposing receivers or offensive players. Eagles fans will eat that up.


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[Assistant] I'm sure there'll be a couple dumb penalties here and there based on his history. I mean, I've been confused over the past couple days when you see Tark get released, Anthony Harris get released to about a month ago. I thought we're going to be the Eagles starting safeties, but.


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[Assistant] I still think the secondary is pretty strong and Gardner Johnson seems like he just couldn't get a deal done with the Saints as they were talking about an extension. So that equals, Eagles getting him for pretty cheap, like you said.


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[Assistant] Avanti Matic slid around a little bit as a rookie, has some experience playing safety, can slide over there. Marcus Epps, the new, you know, starting strong safety probably in replacement of the two guys that left, but feeling good a week out.


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[Assistant] I mean, we got win totals later in the week for NFC. Cowboys are still 10 and a half. Eagles are at nine and a half, but the way those are juiced, it's, it's trending towards the Eagles.


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[Assistant] He was, was he on your Steelers, Ryan? I don't think he, he-


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[Assistant] I'll bet you by this time next year he's out of the NFL, Brenton. I'll bet you a tattoo. I'll bet a shaved head.


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[Assistant] Chanel is just like a negative whenever he's been on the field.


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[Assistant] Like, I bet you the Jaguars win the Super Bowl this year. You have to shave your head and get a chest tattoo. You won't take that.


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[Assistant] The Vikings, the ability to kind of move on from Davis, but he started 72 games with the Dolphins over the past couple of years.


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[Assistant] Watch the draft-a-thon tomorrow, Brinson will be on there for two hours I think. Oh crap, I gotta do that tomorrow night, don't I?


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[Assistant] Yeah, 100%. And the counterpoint from the league, what they're going to kind of spin on this, is that it's the largest penalty suspension under the personal conduct policy, 11 games, it's, you know, they're going to say it's unprecedented, they're going to say all this stuff.


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[Assistant] Everybody kind of felt like it should have been a full year. I mean, that was what the league, uh, you know, reportedly wanted. That's what they're going, that's what they pushed out for.


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[Assistant] And anything coming off short of that was going to seem a little weak. And especially when you find out, like you said, that first game is going to be at Houston against the Texans. It's a little too on the nose where you say, okay, you know,


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[Assistant] The guy who did the application ruling, right? They beat him to the punch.


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[Assistant] Not only that, not only that, well, it's, you know, the five million dollar fine.


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[Assistant] Yes, it is $690,000 this season. So really, at the end of the day, in terms of money lost for Dejan Watson, it's going to be around, you know, $5.6 million, which is, in terms of a $230 million contract, fully guaranteed, that's pennies on the dollar.


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[Assistant] And correct me if I'm wrong on this, if they decided to go to court after this NFL appeal and all that stuff, wouldn't have Watson been able to play?


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[Assistant] That's kind of out of both sides of their mouth on this one, where, where it's, you know, there's a million PSAs, there's stuff written on the sidelines, there's certain helmets and stuff being worn, you know, all that kind of stuff. And then when you actually, when the bleep hits the fan, it's like, or you present with those situations, it's, you know, okay.


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[Assistant] Well no, the more unfortunate thing too is, you know, you're talking about this season, like week one of 2023, no one's gonna be talking, it's just, alright, here we go.


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[Assistant] Nobody looks good in this scenario. The Browns, it's not like the Browns acquired him before all of this stuff was out there. Everything was laid out. It was all in front of them. They decided, you know what, not only are we going to acquire this guy, we're going to give him an unprecedented


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[Assistant] So I think it's, I think it's more they want it to just be done. I think they want a conclusion. I don't think they want this hanging over their heads. Because think about it, if they go to the mat to


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[Assistant] But then today, it's, okay, you settle for the 11 games, not only that, but you have a nice tip of the cap that he's coming back in, in Houston against his former team for, you know, everybody's looking at that as saying like, oh, okay, that's just a,


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[Assistant] A lot of people that are triggered. And that goes to the, to the notion of a lack of remorse and lack of...


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[Assistant] You know, any sort of empathy about the situation that happened. I mean, he did obviously, you know, speak before the preseason game saying he was sorry, but like,


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[Assistant] A little too little too late and it just seems a little, it just doesn't seem great. I mean, like I was saying earlier, look at what Roger Goodell said just a few weeks ago in Minneapolis during that owners meeting when they were confirming the Broncos ownership. He called Deshaun Watson's actions egregious and he said he was presenting


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[Assistant] Saying that one of your players in this situation is, you know, egregious behavior, he's predatory, and then you go to just 11 games.


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[Assistant] But the other thing too is just this whole process has been so backwards from the, from the, from a protocol standpoint where it's okay, you have an independent party doing the investigation in Sue Robinson and you know, what she says goes basically outside of then, okay, we don't like the six game suspension. So then all of a sudden we're going to,


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[Assistant] Reverse it, and it goes into the power of Roger Goodell, but Roger Goodell doesn't wanna make the decision, so he's going to appoint somebody else, and before that guy can make a decision, they're gonna settle.


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[Assistant] It's like, why are we taking such a curvy road to this decision that should be cut and dry? If the league wants a full season suspension, they have the power to give them a full season suspension. Fight for it!


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[Assistant] I can't like- But what I'm saying is they don't even have to fight for it. They can appeal Sue Robinson's decision, appoint Roger Goodell, can appoint himself and just hand the- He didn't need to designate him down. He did not have to do this.


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[Assistant] I think we're also overlooking just, you know, obviously we're talking about the 11 games and how that's not enough. They did him a favor financially.


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[Assistant] Where there's no issues and you're getting, again, a $5 million fine is a drop in the bucket compared to what he's making the rest of this contract.


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[Assistant] But I don't think it's out of the realm of possibility, too, that this is coming down on the day that week two of the NFL preseason is kicking off and we have games on Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, where by the time we get back here on Monday, start talking about more NFL, it's, that's, there's all the storylines that are there.


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[Assistant] It's like egging them on. It's like, it's like they're the problem for being triggered by, you know what I mean? Like that phrase is just not, it just doesn't work.


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[Assistant] Yeah, it's just, it's just kinda just gross. And again, you know, not to put numbers or anything on it, but it's like...


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[Assistant] Th-there's 24 people accusing you of something. That's great, like it's not- Those are only the ones who came forward!


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[Assistant] Right, exactly. And then who knows about what else happened. It's not, you know, again, not to compare numbers, but it's not like it's, this is a one-off situation where you're like, okay, something, you know, happened. We don't know. There are 24 different people that say you did something.


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[Assistant] The biggest irony in all of this though is that, you know, the Browns are coming off an offseason where they wanted to move off of Baker Mayfield and there were reports from the ownership or whoever that they said they wanted an adult in the room. They wanted to move off of Mayfield because of the immaturity and they want someone who could lead the organization.


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[Assistant] Does this guy in, you know, obviously just the off-field stuff, even put that to the side, how he's handled this situation in terms of publicly talking about it.


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[Assistant] What makes him any different than a guy like, you know, like a great, for instance, like is Deandre Hopkins gonna get this for a PED suspension? Like is he gonna get this ramp up period? I don't, I don't think that's how that works. Of course not.


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[Assistant] By the way, in terms of them, uh, you know, possibly losing games, they, in addition to the games that obviously he was going to get with the six game suspension, the new games that he's going to miss are at Baltimore versus Cincinnati at Miami at Buffalo versus Tampa Bay.


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[Assistant] I have the same record as you will, other than I think they lose that game to Miami. She got two, she got two and ten. Yeah.


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[Assistant] I mean, these are, this is a tough schedule. If this is Chicago-Berset, I mean, again, you know, I don't know if this means Garoppolo's in play now because it's like, you know, double-digit games. I don't know any of that, but if we're talking Berset, yeah, no, I see them not being a particularly good football team offensively.


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[Assistant] It was 19 months between whenever he last played in that preseason game last week.


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[Assistant] Probably your best spot to catapult yourself outside of maybe Seattle, cause that could present itself for multiple years, but that's a great spot to just, you know, say, hey, all right, let me just audition for 11 games.


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[Assistant] Yeah, barely I'm here on my phone sideways. If you'd like to have me do my phone up, you know, vertical for Instagram users, I'll do it right now. In fact, the people at Caesar's I work with.


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[Assistant] Are trying to restore my, my Instagram account. I started it last summer.


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[Assistant] So they're like, no, Instagram matters. We're going to restart your account. What's your password? I was like, I have no idea. None.


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[Assistant] You can tell, you know, based on the person's personality, the consistency of that, but.


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[Assistant] That's my favorite thing about golf is that I put my phone down for five hours.


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[Assistant] And then, but you have to do it under Chrome. Oh, really? I can't.


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[Assistant] So then I had to do that thing where you drag and I was doing control C, but it was really supposed to be command C.


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[Assistant] I'm back. Larry's back. I'm back. Don't think I'm not. Oh, we just found out an anomaly using shipyard on a phone. Um, if somebody calls you, it cuts out.


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[Assistant] That was, that was Doug Filan, my old football coach at UNLV. He was the receivers coach and he was just reaching out apparently.


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[Assistant] And I can still throw, but back in the day, I wish I had that to do over, you know, when people look back, like I wish I'd done this or that. And it wasn't that I wasn't diligent. It wasn't that I didn't try hard. I'm not sure what it was. Maybe the other guys were better. I wish I would have done better, applied myself better, done something different, but I love the days that I got to go to school.


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[Assistant] Like I said, coach just called me, my good friend, Jimmy Sandusky, Randall Cunningham, Sam King, you know, all these people that are still in my life and somewhere the other, uh, Mark Novosel, Euclid, Ohio, free shout out.


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[Assistant] And then I bump into some others. I saw Cam Holloway. These names are lost on some viewers.


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[Assistant] Uh, but, uh, I don't care. Uh, Alan Reynolds will text me occasionally. You know, he's from Buell, Idaho, as you know. Uhm, so I loved that experience at UNLV way back when playing for Tony Knapp. I wish I'd done a little better, but that's funny.


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[Assistant] Well, people always get it wrong because they would think obviously there's no way Randall couldn't have been first, right?


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[Assistant] Sam, you can look it up, Sam King was the starter, I was second, Alan was third, Randall was


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[Assistant] Fairly sophisticated system, not that he couldn't master that, but you know what I'm saying, like, Sam had been there a few years, I'd been there a couple years, and we'd both redshirted one of our years, and...


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[Assistant] You know, that's the way it worked out. But we knew Sam was, I mean, we knew Randall was going to be amazing.


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[Assistant] Right, right. It's amazing. More like a second rocket stage. Yeah, yeah, exactly. But Randall could out throw him. So, I mean, Russell has a nice arm. And I think Russell's going to do really well because I think they're going to let him do like real NFL plays. You know, where you drop back, step up.


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[Assistant] No, and that's not even to knock what they did here. There's a lot of success here, but there was always, it always seemed like it was predicated on


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[Assistant] You know, faking a run and rolling out and he's running for his life half the time, but he has a big arm.


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[Assistant] And you don't have to run them out, you know, let them drop back and throw.


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[Assistant] And so I think he's going to up there in that thin air, you know, like the ball goes another five, seven yards, whatever. He's going to be fine.


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[Assistant] Oh, he's a smart guy. He'll, he'll be studied. He's probably studied already. Like, fully studied, you know what I'm saying? Uhm, and he works. Like, it's funny, the weird...


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[Assistant] He's definitely a different guy than a...


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[Assistant] You know, they all should be different, right? Everybody's unique. He has, he has his way and for whatever reason, some people can't fit it.


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[Assistant] But he's pretty consistent. He lives up to his word. He really did show up at the kids hospital every week. You know?


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[Assistant] He's, he's, he does things in a way I think that...


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[Assistant] Have people believe in he's more robotic than he is, if you know what I'm saying?


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[Assistant] Like his, uhm, adherence to some of the physical things, you know, like the...


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[Assistant] Whatever the chamber he would sleep in to get over his ankle. Like, how the hell did he heal from that already? That thing is, the femur's broken, you know. But, uhm, femur's actually not part of the ankle, just so you know. I actually, I'm not a doctor.


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[Assistant] I broke my left ankle, my right ankle and my left femur.


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[Assistant] No, uh, different sixth grade, ninth grade and last play of a game at Oregon my junior year at UNLV.


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[Assistant] Ann, leads us to a nice story like, so my ankle sucks. It's like ruined. It looks like there's a softball inserted.


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[Assistant] The good news is, I found this device that fixes, uhm,


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[Assistant] Doesn't fix the problem, but it lets you do stuff because it displaces the pressure off the joint.


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[Assistant] It's called runfreely, runfreely.org.org and we're doing some good. We could be doing more. We're trying to.


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[Assistant] Put together kind of a couple bigger events that might, you know, bring in some more money to do more things, but nickel and diming it, we're doing okay.


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[Assistant] Yeah, cause like the schedule that I was last on, you know, like on my last contract, it was damn near, they called it.


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[Assistant] I mean, it was a full-time job with allegedly part-time hours, you know, that I didn't do maybe as many shows as some other people did, but...


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[Assistant] As, you know, you kind of watch it happen, it's like, nah, that's not true. I'm pretty close to the same number as whoever you are. I'm not certainly Monday through Friday.


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[Assistant] Every week, for sure there were other people who put in some more days, but it felt pretty full-time to me. I was doing, I dunno, 12 to 15 shows a month.


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[Assistant] The most you'd do is twenty, right? You'd do Monday, just call it Monday through Friday, five times four is twenty, right? So I was a little under full, but whatever, it felt full to me. But to your question, yeaah, cause you'd do a show, you'd get home at two in the morning, sleep till ten, ten thirty, somehow wake up and start the day, maybe work out.


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[Assistant] And your adrenaline level is up and down. It's as high as it's ever going to be at 135 in the morning. That's pretty crazy, right?


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[Assistant] Because Steph Curry just hit an overtime winner and the shot she just came in and you're, you know, so there was all that and that was fun. But to come down, you're so tired. Plus I'd listen to like.


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[Assistant] Sarah Kenzie or political podcast on the way home and bum myself out like, oh god.


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[Assistant] And I love Sarah, by the way. Uhm, but it's not that, it's not, you know, it's like nightmare fuel. Like really, I'm, this is how I'm going to bed. I'm going to bed with the, uh, America's Falling Apart.


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[Assistant] But then you'd, you know, you'd do that four days in a row or whatever, and then you'd have a day or so off, and then you'd go do it again. So yes, that was very structured. You're supposed to be in at 4.30 for the meeting, although thank God we finally killed those meetings, which were pointless anyway. Uhm, and yeaah.


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[Assistant] You never take my ideas anyway. I can give you ideas at seven and implement them. Like unless we're gonna recreate the wheel, you know, or make an emergency 30 for 30.


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[Assistant] Do we really need to leave our houses at 345 to sit in a stupid conference room? We don't, but we did it.


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[Assistant] Like my ideas weren't ever going to win that, that room. They might win the room with just the producer. Cause he or she would get me.


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[Assistant] You know, it's easier to convey an unconventional idea to one person


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[Assistant] Or her and otherwise take what they gave us, which here are the games. Here's the sound from Tom Brady or Jerry Jones or whatever the hell. And.


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[Assistant] Play with that, right? Like you can give me something straight and I can make it absurd without having to talk about it beforehand. Just in the moment do your thing.


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[Assistant] What I always wanted to do, and it never happened, and I'm happy to...


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[Assistant] Just leave this idea behind. Maybe I'll employ it one day somewhere. You know one way it would cut to the podiums?


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[Assistant] And so my idea was go to the stupid podium, but leave our mics hot.


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[Assistant] And that was too avant-garde for that place, so it never happened.


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[Assistant] Yeah, but that show knew what they were clowning on. This would be right then, right there, so and so says something.


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[Assistant] No, I'm just looking at the idiots at the games. Was that Jacksonville, Pittsburgh? Why are people, what are they fighting over? What's wrong with you guys? And I'll tell you what.


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[Assistant] I went to that as well, that was on Saturday and LeBron came and Jason Tatum, whole bunch of big names, you know, kind of last minute said, we're coming this weekend.


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[Assistant] He trusts that other people are going to secure the place. So because LeBron came, so did about 80 police.


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[Assistant] And probably wise, right? You just never know. The crowds we're building, you gotta keep some order.


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[Assistant] And it turned out, it got crazier than that when the brawn came in the gym, like 200 people ran on the court.


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[Assistant] Let's go to the court to get pictures close to LeBron.


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[Assistant] And I couldn't even see. I was actually going the opposite way. I was trying to walk up, because I had just returned with some waters.


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[Assistant] I was trying to get out of this mess, like what, this doesn't even feel right. Like, this shouldn't be happening A, people should be smart enough to know you don't do that, to start with, you know.


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[Assistant] And I guess they should have had the court ring with security, which they didn't anticipate they needed. The police were outside doing something else.


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[Assistant] All of it was, and so Jamal grabbed the mic for those who could hear him and who were listening and scolded the crowd like, what is wrong with you guys?


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[Assistant] He came to elevate our town and our tournament, and you act like this? Really? Like, he's still mad.


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[Assistant] Right, Jamal's like nicest guy in the world, classiest guy, so good for the town and basketball, and I felt for him, it's his name on the thing, and these idiots acted like they did. They restored, thank God, that speech worked, so did the police officer, said I'm gonna shut the place down if it happens again.


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[Assistant] And things were fine. They, you know, played basketball. It was really fun watching. Very hot though, cause they shut the doors.


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[Assistant] For some reason I thought shutting the doors was better regarding fire code.


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[Assistant] When normally there aren't as many people and they let air flow through, right? You know, everybody's, it was hot and the floor started sweating essentially, right? There was so much.


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[Assistant] You know, humidity in the room and guys were slipping. That's why they ended up stopping the game.


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[Assistant] But even all that said, it was pretty damn cool that they came, showed respect for Jamal's tournament, showed up to play, came up to our town and


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[Assistant] Kind of shows the enthusiasm, you know, for, for having the team here again, which we do, we have the storm, but getting that men's team as well would be nice.


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[Assistant] It's crazy. That's why I'm not drinking Starbucks. I have a- Really? Yeah, well, the guy that ran Starbucks was the principal owner of a bunch of, you know, it's a group of people, Howard Schultz and-


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[Assistant] They sold the team to people who don't live in Seattle.


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[Assistant] That's a recipe for the team leaving, right? Like if, and they didn't give them a new gym, the voters voted it down.


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[Assistant] They cut a deal with the city to buy out their lease a couple years early and they left. And, and as I was watching it from Connecticut at the time.


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[Assistant] Yeah, they're not gonna sell the space needle. That's not happening, you know.


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[Assistant] And I mean, it was almost that dumb, right? And in fact, I did a little bit for the Seattle sports award show, Jeff Ament from Pearl Jam. We pretended.


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[Assistant] But the people from Oklahoma thought that they get the space needle also, and they were trying to like drag it. Like, yeaah. Uhm, I assume we'll get another team. But, you know, another year's gone by.


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[Assistant] I don't want an existing team, because then we're doing that to some other city, what happened to us. I just want...


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[Assistant] There's enough, there are enough good players worldwide.


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[Assistant] There's clearly enough money, that's, you know, when every max guy's, right? Everybody gets a max guy, so.


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[Assistant] That part's nuts. I mean, I got no problem. Everybody should make whatever they can make.


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[Assistant] But because they divide the money, right? Everybody, everybody, each team gets its guy.


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[Assistant] It's funny because it's no really different than if a house sells for such and such price, that's the price because somebody bought it. You know, so if somebody gets paid, whatever they get paid, they're worth it because it worked out that way.


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[Assistant] The prices are ludicrous. Baseball salaries, NBA salaries.


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[Assistant] You could argue football players are quite underpaid given every single play they're putting their lives in danger.


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[Assistant] I kinda, what, why'd they do that? That guy is not even in the clear yet. Any, now because of whatever...


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[Assistant] The market is rather cluttered in the entertainment world, like I don't know how anybody even


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[Assistant] Like a, somebody of high value, like a legit actor with a movie that he or she produced or whatever, right? How do you break through to even let people know? So.


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[Assistant] I'm happy having done it and I think it's a success for having done it for the people that said yes they'd be in it and I thought they all went pretty well.


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[Assistant] Whether people listen or not, I guess we'll find out, but I'm glad I did it and look forward to doing some more.


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[Assistant] Yeah, it's rather fragmented, but I mean, nothing, you know, I don't know how old you are, but I know.


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[Assistant] That in my day, there literally were three channels, right? There was ABC, NBC, CBS.


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[Assistant] Then you had PBS, then you had like a couple local weird channels that came in and out and they showed the R-rated movies uncut.


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[Assistant] Or somewhat cut, you know what I'm saying? As a way of describing what those channels were. And they sometimes would have the Major League Baseball team, the local team, right? Which all games weren't on TV. So way back when, when I was a kid,


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[Assistant] Can you imagine being an executive at one of the big networks and being pissed that you didn't get 33% share? You know, like.


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[Assistant] Choices on TV, but like new medium, you know, like brand new thing that we never thought of is now discovered and kids are being time taken up with Tik Tok or, you know, it's everything's diverse. I think.


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[Assistant] Material has gotten better in some ways, there's so many good shows and so many entertaining things or informative things, but as the provider of it or the maker of it, definitely you know.


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[Assistant] And we've signed up for, you know, 43 different apps.


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[Assistant] I love Kenny Parris. I got, er, I got to work with him, uhm, more than once.


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[Assistant] Uhm, he came, what was he selling? What was the movie? What the hell was he selling? It was something. He came, you know how they bring like the famous people to ESPN? They go on all the shows.


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[Assistant] Danny McBride is the name I was trying to come up with.


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[Assistant] You know, like, hey, just so you know, he's not going to be like in character. He's just, he's just him, you know, that's fine. He can be whatever he wants. Turned out he's quite similar to the East. He was great. He was funny. He's, I mean, obviously he's quick, you know, like he got it immediately. He liked what we wrote for him.


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[Assistant] Basically wrote, read what we wrote, but also made it better. You know, then.


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[Assistant] A few years later, I did a thing with Dale Jr. and


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[Assistant] Danny, they were doing a commercial campaign where, remember Dale was retiring and then the joke was that Danny McBride's coming in as the new driver, but he's terrible, he doesn't know anything about cars, he's an idiot.


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[Assistant] We just did like a little take off on what they were already doing. You know, like we kind of replicated what the theme of the commercial was, but yeah, funny guy.


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[Assistant] He's, and he's funny because you, he's very...


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[Assistant] Talk about like a low key superstar, right? He, you don't hear about him. You don't see, he's not on us weekly. Doesn't he live back in Carolina or something like it? Doesn't he go off somewhere and somewhere other than Hollywood?


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[Assistant] I think it's funny when people, like you see it on Twitter, when they tell you to stop doing politics, man, talk about sports, knock it off. I want you to be what I want you to be, you know.


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[Assistant] Very few would know this. When I went to college, I told you, you know, I played football, so I was in sports, but my...


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[Assistant] Interest was not sports broadcasting, but I wanted to be like Ken Burns or be working on Frontline by now or, you know, making my own documentaries, whatever. So I always had a very serious other, my other side was quite serious, like what I cared about and what I read about and I took a lot of political science and history and.


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[Assistant] What happened was, I kind of had a weird path because I actually had a tryout with Seattle.


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[Assistant] Cause the kid I referenced earlier, Sam King turned Seattle down, who's going to try Canada or something else. My coach said, Hey, if you like Sam.


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[Assistant] When you go up for those tryouts, maybe mine was kind of less planned than some others, but I think a lot of them are pretty similar. It's like, you come in on a Tuesday, you know, free agent,


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[Assistant] And who's there on the building? Oh, Steve large. Hey, Steve larger. Come out. And that's what happened. I was literally throwing to Steve largent for my unbelievable.


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[Assistant] And I threw pretty well. I mean, I was, you know, obviously 22, bigger arm than I would have now. Um, but a couple that weren't as good, you know, he picked them up off his shoes and caught them. So, okay. So I looked way better because I had him, right? And there was another guy out there. I forget who the other guy that was trying out, um,


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[Assistant] So I went upstairs and signed a contract, like 10 minutes later, like, alright.


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[Assistant] Jerry, Jerry Rome said you didn't look terrible. We're going to offer you a rookie contract. Jerry Rome with the quarterback coach and.


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[Assistant] Uhm, they put me on this machine to test the strength and I should have cheated on my good leg and gone hard on my bad leg. And they would have looked kind of equal, but instead there was a big variance. So they kicked me out. I never even got to, I got to work out for two weeks in Kirkland, but when we went over to Cheney.


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[Assistant] Got cut literally the first morning, you know, pretty much in tears, like what the fuck just happened.


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[Assistant] And they gave me $10 meal money at the airport of five, four ones and four quarters.


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[Assistant] In 1982, ten dollars was enough to get through the Spokane airport and it wasn't.


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[Assistant] Insulting as far, but it was kind of funny of five, four ones and four quarters. That's all the guy had.


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[Assistant] Good point. That might, you know, maybe it was thinking for, so I go home, I remember I immediately, like true depression when something drew up here.


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[Assistant] But I found there was an ad, this is how you used to get jobs, even television jobs, an ad in the newspaper.


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[Assistant] For channel 11 KSTW, an hour ahead of the rest. And I can't remember what it was titled, but it was basically what we would call a production assistant, you know, these days.


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[Assistant] So I called up, got the guy on the phone. He kind of knew me, I think, cause he, you know, locally had grown up in that area and all that from football and hired me over the phone.


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[Assistant] I started next Monday, but I wasn't on TV.


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[Assistant] For like three years, four years, like I was just background as a producer. I was a writer for the anchors and most people go to little markets and kind of try to move up. I just went to Seattle market.


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[Assistant] Yeah. And it worked out though, because I didn't, nothing, no offense to the little towns, but.


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[Assistant] I just, you know, I was happy here. I was still trying to play football for a couple of years. I thought I was still going to get a chance somewhere. Canada, something, USFL. None of that ever happened. So I got deeper into TV and started doing news reporting.


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[Assistant] Then they added a weekend show. We always used to say if there's news on the weekends, there's news to us. Um, but it was a Monday through Friday, small station, right? But they added a weekend show and you're doing sports.


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[Assistant] You played football, you're doing sports. And I quickly, I just made up how I was doing it.


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[Assistant] Didn't really have anybody to model after. I was by myself on the weekend. Me and a cameraman. Rod Simons and a couple of cameramen. One news reporter in the field. Like we were small.


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[Assistant] Oh yeaah. I mean that was what was great about it. I mean look what I had to choose from too.


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[Assistant] The Bernie Bickerstaff era sonics, which right? And I loved him. I love Bernie. Um, you know, Dale Ellis, all those guys and, um,


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[Assistant] Griffey wasn't up yet. He was coming. I think he was an A-ball the year before I left there. A or double A. And then...


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[Assistant] Seahawk teams are really good. Chuck Knox coaching years, right? Like.


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[Assistant] There's a lot of fun stuff to cover.


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[Assistant] Nobody tell us how to cover it, just, so I started kind of experimenting.


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[Assistant] Doing it a little different than they did at the other channels. Ended up sending a tape to ESPN off of the Joe Montana, the John Taylor winning touchdown.


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[Assistant] Uh, to beat the Bengals right? That was the one where Joe Montana allegedly said, look, there's John Candy.


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[Assistant] So I remember crum ride got hurt in the first play bad injury. That was bad. Um, but yeah, so I sent that tape and somehow got hired with four years later, actually. So it's a long story. I quit that job. Then I did a series of get by jobs. I made garbage cans.


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[Assistant] Sold prepaid legal insurance, worked for MCI, long distance corporate sales while I was freelancing to get back into TV.


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[Assistant] Well, I stayed in contact with them. They freelance me all the time. They, they have me.


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[Assistant] They'd say, hey, Griff, you hit two homers last night, go interview them for baseball tonight or, you know, whatever. Like, I was on call, right?


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[Assistant] Sometimes they'd let me actually do the whole feature story. They were a little straighter than maybe what I would do later. You know, I was just not trying to get too weird on them out of the gate.


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[Assistant] I think the thing, and I never broke it down until after I left when people have asked questions about, you know what I mean, it's weird because I wouldn't go out of my way to tell, here's what I did, you know, but it comes out in the course of an interview.


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[Assistant] I probably, if I had to break it down, sort of made fun of the fact.


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[Assistant] Make fun of the, and also, there's all the inside jokes of making fun of format, you know, industry terms, you know, whatever, just dumb stuff that would make the room laugh, but hopefully that kind of


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[Assistant] One that always got me was, there were a couple of the CPs, the coordinating producers, who always had a big hang up about top of the hour coming.


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[Assistant] Make sure, you know, cause one of those shows that was going 90 minutes or late baseball run for two and a half, whatever.


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[Assistant] Well, you might have also just been covering it for minutes previous or whatever, but.


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[Assistant] I'll tell you, there is something too, most shows do start at the top or bottom of hour, I get that, but.


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[Assistant] You could just keep, hey guys, thanks for joining us. And then, you know, keep on, keep on going. We did the thing called wider world of sports. This is about 10 years ago where for a couple of years they let me travel the world basically.


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[Assistant] Covering unusual sports. Like it was amazing. It was one of the most fun things I'll ever do, I'm sure.


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[Assistant] They let us make a couple of television specials, like they were all released as 10 minute or 8 minute.


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[Assistant] So then we mash together a couple of hour specials.


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[Assistant] We didn't show everything, but you know, the best of and some outtakes and what not. We were pretty proud of it. We thought it...


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[Assistant] You know, amazing stuff, like my photographer, Aaron Frutman, Mike Andrus, Matt Doyle producing it, like.


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[Assistant] Really worked hard, like we really cared that we wanted this thing to be good. And the places we went, you know, we were spoon-fed pretty cool stuff, right?


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[Assistant] We're all excited, our big show's coming on at 9 o'clock. It's on ESPN2, but it's still an ESPN channel, right?


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[Assistant] That's how I ended up getting my job you were asking earlier. Keith Overman went back to channel 1.


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[Assistant] That was 1994. Uhm, so I'm sitting in Green Bay at the Oneida Casino, but up in my room, because I want to see our show. I was excited I didn't see the finished cut. And, I didn't remember what it was, it was like,


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[Assistant] Now, it was, it was probably some random college something tournament, which


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[Assistant] I'm sure meant the world to those athletes, but so did our show, right?


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[Assistant] So, it ended up coming on there at 9.41. Whatever, whatever space got finished up, whatever thing we were showing. And I was like, really?


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[Assistant] I bet a lot of people, well they should have done a reset is what they should have done. Exactly.


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[Assistant] Right, no, I'm saying I'm older, so like, my parents...


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[Assistant] Beatles are no longer, right? Paul McCartney and you know what I mean? But Stevie's still out there now and then, but not.


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[Assistant] But it's silly to think in whatever we're talking about, film, anything, how could they not know about like one of the great


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[Assistant] Yeah, just like a standout thing, a singular thing, right?


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[Assistant] They get learned up on it. Like, I mean, my daughters have seen Best in Show and Waiting for Guzman and all of them. So I was always a huge fan of his and...


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[Assistant] I say this in the interview, I tell them what happened one day. I can't believe I even did it because it was so wrong, but his name came up as I was being driven to the airport in LA. I've been out there for commercial or something.


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[Assistant] And the guy says, oh, what a coincidence. I just drove Christopher guest yesterday. I said, oh wow. You know, we talked more about him.


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[Assistant] You never should have done that, right? Let me just totally off.


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[Assistant] Yeah, for sure that that ended up being the case. I ended up calling him. He was first shot. How the fuck did this guy get my number?


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[Assistant] Not exactly. I can't remember how I said it.


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[Assistant] So, it was really, I think I just asked, I had an idea for a thing I was trying to pull off, never happened. He was very warm, gave me a couple words of advice. He didn't seem that offended.


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[Assistant] So, I think I got his email out of the deal. I think. That's my memory. Because somehow we were connected on email.


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[Assistant] But, you know, I didn't bother. I'm gonna send him another note at some point about something. But, all these years later...


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[Assistant] As I'm leaving ESPN, he writes an email to me, just the sweetest, very short.


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[Assistant] But just very complimentary and very sincere, right? And I was very touched by it.


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[Assistant] When the podcast thing came up, he was one of my, we made a list of people I thought I had a chance of getting, or a good chance. People, uh.


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[Assistant] Don't know who I am probably. And then in the middle, there's a couple that kind of know me, but who knows? But he said yes right away. He says, of course I will.


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[Assistant] I have no connection to her. There's no reason to do her other than...


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[Assistant] We've only, we've only scratched the surface. We're up to 12 right now. All of the 8 billion. I think we have a lot.


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[Assistant] Yeah, no, it's pretty stupid. The, and, and, and in fact, what's also funny to me is their metrics in this podcast world, their numbers are pretty low for success. If you get a hundred people, we're doing great. I mean, cause like you said, there's every five minutes there's, you know, 20 new shows. So.


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[Assistant] There's a lot of people, and there's a bunch of shows I like. I don't have time for everything. So if I don't have time to consume everything...


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[Assistant] Nobody's bothering you, nothing left to do and you can turn out the lights and just lie back on the couch and listen. Or, my wife likes to do it like when she goes for a long walk.


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[Assistant] Oh, I tell you man, a fishing, which is something Chris Guest and I talked about.


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[Assistant] Fly fisherman, he makes his own, makes his own flies.


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[Assistant] Uh, is it best in show? Yeah, best in show he plays the role of the guy with


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[Assistant] We were doing conventional covering baseball games, football, whatever, but we also did a little more.


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[Assistant] One of them, I went to a fly fishing camp in Maine and the purpose of it was families


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[Assistant] They're broken apart for some reason, you know, estranged father and son or whatever the case, here's a way to re-bond, right? Like a nice noble thing, right?


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[Assistant] Uhm, and then fly fishing was the, the core of it. That's how you were gonna do it together and get taught this new craft and go out there and serenity and all that.


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[Assistant] And there's this idiot from ESPN too, not even ESPN regular, just.


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[Assistant] That, I, now that you've put it that way, it's making me rethink where I was.


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[Assistant] That I trust him well enough to think he wants to win and he'll get by. And I don't want to put down these, he's got like,


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[Assistant] Apparently he's kind of like made little notice. I thought they should have signed Kaepernick for real. Like what's the harm? What's the harm? Maybe he can still definitely hasn't been beat up by the game. Others have been, you know, now missing that much time. I can't, it would be hard because being taken out for that long.


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[Assistant] Rhythm being off of the, but he's been out there working out with.