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[Assistant] I can't do this anymore with this guy. I could physically hurt him. He could get his own, he'll land on his feet. He's gonna be fine. He's gonna be a free agent for a minute. His podcast is incredible. It's crazy. And so is Skip's by the way.


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[Assistant] So uhm, you may remember if you watch this show regularly, we had Stephen A back in January or February, I can't remember what it was. We had Stephen A on, and I think the last question I asked him was,


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[Assistant] Will we ever see a reunion of any sorts between you and Skip? And he definitively passed on that. He said no, that ship has sailed. We had great years together. We were a wonderful team. We're each doing great things on our own right now.


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[Assistant] But, I don't see it in the cards, and sadly I don't either. As much as I would like to see a reunion between, can you, Matt, that,


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[Assistant] Alana Sharps, uh, Alana, Alana, Alana, I'm not sure. Uhm, she is, was scheduled to be on the show at 12.15. She's put together this really interesting panel on


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[Assistant] How to help NFL teams navigate some pretty choppy waters.


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[Assistant] She's worked with a couple NFL teams already. We just thought she'd be a good resource for the show to sort of pick her brain on a lot of things that are top of mind in the NFL. We're trying to connect with her. If we do we'll bring her on.


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[Assistant] In the meantime, we're gonna jump ahead on our rundown and we're gonna go down to the Guardians losing 7-6 last night. I've said this a couple times this year.


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[Assistant] They're 5 under 500. Uhm, what really, what, what, 25 and 31, I'm sorry, they're, they're, uh, 6 under. Had they won last night, and they should have, then that, those numbers would read 26 and 30, and 2 and a half games out.


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[Assistant] So the big, big difference here is that, or, no, they'd be three and a half games out, right?


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[Assistant] These games are so critical. I've said a couple of times this was the ugliest loss of the year.


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[Assistant] I feel like last night it really was the ugliest loss of the year for a lot of reasons. They have nice momentum.


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[Assistant] They were really putting things together. They're starting to score runs. They've got 28 runs now on this four game road trip. The bats are coming to life. They, they, after, uh, after, uh,


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[Assistant] They were up six to three and I thought this is it. It's going to be a victory.


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[Assistant] They just snatched a feat from the jaws of victory. Stefan came in gave up three runs in the eighth.


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[Assistant] And then Eli Morgan was terrible in the night, loaded the bases, they won it on a sack.


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[Assistant] Look, no one's running away with this division. The twins starting pitching has been very, very good. Very good.


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[Assistant] So, this team's lack of power is inexplicable.


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[Assistant] And what it's gonna lead to is us saying bye bye to Shane Bieber. He won't be here after the trade deadline.


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[Assistant] I've seen already some outlets are reporting that he is going to be traded. I think you have to start making a real hard decision by June 1st, which were passed.


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[Assistant] Can this team as constituted or without one piece that we go get from a trade win the World Series? And the answer to that is now for me a definitive no.


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[Assistant] And once you get to that sitting spot, uh, point.


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[Assistant] You've gotta be responsible and you've gotta trade Shane Bieber while he still has a year and a half left on his deal so he can give a season two chances at a World Series. So I think he's gone. I hate to say it.


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[Assistant] The reason that also making that decision a little easier is the fact that Logan Allen has come up and pitched extremely well. So has Tanner Bibe.


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[Assistant] You've got Gavin Williams in the pipeline. Now, those three are coming. Savalli comes off the DL tonight. He pitches tonight.


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[Assistant] On Sunday, Tristan McKenzie will make his debut, and you hope that he's the Tristan McKenzie pre-shoulder injury, but he's missed two months. So there's probably going to be a little bit of time there. But I think, I'm not giving up on the season, don't take this the wrong way. If I'm calling the shots, I have already made the decision, this team cannot win a World Series.


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[Assistant] Couple of years ago, the Braves were under 500 on August 10th, and they won the World Series.


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[Assistant] That's true, but they had superstars on that team, and they had bats that could, you know, could deliver home runs. This team...


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[Assistant] So it's really, it's really tough. I, I, I think you got to trade Bieber as well. Um, we had, we had our gap.


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[Assistant] So Elena, of all the stuff that, and there's a lot going on and a lot to process there, uh, what do you think is the single biggest issue the NFL needs to get a handle on? Because between the domestic violence and the safety issue, those are two


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[Assistant] Obviously massive issues that the league would love to be able to get in front of and say that they're showing progress in those areas.


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[Assistant] And they're trying to tout progress in those areas all the time, but I don't think it's real. I know G. Bush doesn't think it's real. Which of the problems facing the league in your view is the most pressing?


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[Assistant] Alana, Alana, do you think that the league has made progress in this area?


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[Assistant] One of the things that I've heard, I've had both league officials and former players tell me this, that


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[Assistant] There's a spotlight that that is put on every single.


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[Assistant] The same number of NFL players that are abusing spouses or someone domestically.


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[Assistant] Mirrors that of society, mirrors that of doctors, mirrors that of teachers. It's the same with lawyers. So the point was,


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[Assistant] This is an inherent societal problem that is always going to exist on some level and perhaps the idea that we're gonna scrub it completely out of the NFL is just Pollyanna and it would never happen. What do you say to that?


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[Assistant] The league does some of this, Alana. I'm not sure if you're familiar with how much of it they do. I know they do their rookie symposium where they talk at length to the incoming players about this, but do they have an ongoing program that's mandatory for all of the players to sit through some of this and undergo it?


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[Assistant] The pitfalls that exist while they're playing. But there's a stat that always blows my mind and you might know this better than I. The last time I remember reading about this stat.


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[Assistant] I believe it was somewhere in the lines of 75% of all former NFL players five years out of the game are either broke, addicted, divorced, or incarcerated.


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[Assistant] Uhm, do you know if there's any ongoing training that these guys need to go through to sort of help them navigate the pitfalls of being an active NFL player and also, uh, post-career?


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[Assistant] Hundreds of former NFL players, uh, the overwhelming majority share a very similar message that life on the outside, as a lot of them call it, is very, very difficult for them because really, you mentioned this earlier, for the first time in their lives, they're not


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[Assistant] Part of the protected class. They don't have either high school teachers or principals looking out for them to make sure that their grades are good so that they stay eligible. Same in college. Same at the professional ranks.


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[Assistant] It's like they're let out into the wild almost on their own and now for the first time at 30 whatever, they have to figure out how to make that transition. And as we've seen, the proof is in the pudding.


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[Assistant] Organized plan in place that the league


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[Assistant] Not even, I think they need to be more proactive. They may say to the players, we're here if you need us, but it becomes lip service pretty quickly. They need, I think, to be a little more proactive and try to make that transition a little easier.


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[Assistant] Thank you for joining us. Is there anything that we can, is there a book that folks can read to learn more about this? A website? What should they do if they want more information?


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[Assistant] It's a big issue, uhm, with a lot of guys that really find themselves lost. I think Leroy has touched on this topic a number of times where he said, you know, it took two years for him just to get well, physically. And then you have to start dealing with the mental part. Okay, now,


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[Assistant] I'm on the outside. I don't have any handlers. I don't have anybody setting my agenda for me. I don't have anybody plotting a course for me. And I know to people that maybe aren't in this world, they, they listen to this and they're like, uh, you're a grown man. You're an adult.


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[Assistant] It's tough because they've had everything done for them. And that's not their fault. That's society. That's how, you know, we put our athletes on a pedestal and the better you are.


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[Assistant] The less you know about what life is like in the real world.


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[Assistant] I agree. I couldn't agree more. Uhm, and it's something that we're not, as a show, we're, we're, you know, we're not going to dive into this every day, but certainly it's on our radar. Uh, it's something that, uh, I think made huge news last year.


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[Assistant] You know, how the league addressed the DeMar Hamlin situation. And you know, he's very fortunate that he is going to resume his playing career and he will be back. But, um, I also, and the other thing too, I wanted to bring up a point. It hit me when she was talking.


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[Assistant] The outside world, the general fan, most of them think, why do we need to help these guys? These guys are millionaires.


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[Assistant] The overwhelming majority of these guys, when they walk away from the game, have less than one year's salary in the bank. They don't plan for it.


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[Assistant] They don't, they think the money train is always gonna be backing up to that front door. And by the way, you hear about the contracts that the Patrick Mahomes of the world signed. That's not what these guys make, not even close.


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[Assistant] You know, a lot of them are in, and even, it sounds like I'm crying, you know, for someone that doesn't need tears. Because, you know, the average salary is what? Do we even know? What is league minimum? A couple hundred thousand? I think league minimum is like...


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[Assistant] Okay, so when you start, you hear that number and you're like, oh, that's more money than, you know, they'll need for 10 years. Well,


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[Assistant] You're in a high tax bracket, so you're losing a third of it right off the bat.


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[Assistant] A third of that has gone to taxes, so there's 250 that you won't see. Now you're down to 500. Yup. You gotta pay an agent.


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[Assistant] It just doesn't work that way. Most of them live like they're gonna have that income scream for their entire life. They buy cars they don't need. Mom gets a house. And their family obligations. Most of the players tell me when I ask them what's the biggest issue for you. Everyone asks for money. And they think, well, these guys back home


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[Assistant] See that I signed a three years, four million dollar contract and they're all in line now. And if I don't do for them, then I'm a trader. And I'm turning my back on them.


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[Assistant] Claiming to be their fathers who had not been in their lives since the day they were born. Just showing up. Showing up after they get that bag saying, where's mine?


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[Assistant] That's when you say, I made it here despite you. Yeah, that's crazy. Not because of you. That's crazy. And, and those, I'm sure that those stories are a little more frequent than we would think, so.


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[Assistant] What yoke it you can re- I mean- That was their best chance to win a game.


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[Assistant] Uh, or rather, when they were up 3-0, we thought they were, you know,


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[Assistant] They're the best thing since the 16 Golden State Warriors.


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[Assistant] For Spolstra and for Pat Riley and for this Miami Heat team, I just will say this, it sure doesn't look


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[Assistant] Maybe Miami. I think they could beat Miami. I think they had a better regular season than Miami did. Miami's not that good. I will say this, after I watch Denver this postseason,


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[Assistant] And use them as the yardstick against the calves were long.


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[Assistant] Yeah, Jokic is the kind of player that literally does make everybody around him better because of the attention that he demands.


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[Assistant] There were times this year where teams were like, okay,


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[Assistant] Donovan Mitchell's not going to do that to us. Even though they had individuals step up and pick up the slack.


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[Assistant] It's a different ball game compared to what Denver has going.


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[Assistant] With Jokic and just how, how long, how they, how they pass the ball, how they, God, they're a good pass. They find the best passing team.


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[Assistant] And then when he comes into the, uh, past the timeline, he's gonna chuck him again. Like, teams have tried to do that to him. It's done everything. Whatever, like, it's almost like there's no kryptonite for him. He's too big. Cause whatever you decide to do, and I think the element of that is,


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[Assistant] And it sounds like hyperbole, but it's not, because as I've watched this postseason, I've said to myself out loud, I've never seen a big that passes the ball any better. It's not, I don't, listen. I mean, I know Magic Johnson, but Magic Johnson wasn't a


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[Assistant] And I know the league has moved away from the true center, but if you can find a guy with a skill set like that, that's the cheat code right now to the NBA.


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[Assistant] And Miami wins an NBA championship.


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[Assistant] Essentially because they picked up Kevin Love off the scrap heap. That's going to be another in the long list of Cleveland sports heartbreaks that if someone would have told me, I was thinking this when I was watching last night, if someone would have told me in February that the NBA finals are going to have a team from the East that wasn't the one, it wasn't the two,


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[Assistant] And then it fell apart. It wasn't the one, the two, the three, and they had Kevin Love on their roster.


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[Assistant] I've got a lot of confidence that if there is a fix, they'll find it, but I don't know that there is one.


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[Assistant] Has there ever been a player like Yokich? No.


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[Assistant] Like at that level? Well, that is a big that can shoot.


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[Assistant] That can find the open man. Some of the passes he makes, I'm like that's not getting through. He's the best passer in basketball. It's unbelievable.


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[Assistant] I was in there, was it yesterday? I was in there and...


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[Assistant] You know, I wonder if it's just a New Jersey thing, cause my son, who coaches at Rutgers, it's like every time he comes home,


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[Assistant] or suburbs of the city, and they want to get to the beach, and the beaches of New Jersey are phenomenal.


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[Assistant] And so you'll, eight cars will get through the light, and then the line will move up eight cars. And then you'll sit until the light changes, and it's every exit on the parkway going down the shore, you just sit there and you wait.


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[Assistant] Having lived here for a bunch of my life and in the northeast for 17 years, I can tell you, we do not know what traffic is.


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[Assistant] As you can imagine someone being 18 years old in a setting like this, you know, it's not really, it does a lot with your mind.


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[Assistant] Outdated, overcrowded, and near a state of crisis.


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[Assistant] In fact, I looked at his journal book the other night. He's fully engaged in his journal. He's actually completed the first one.


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[Assistant] I'm just hopeful. Very hopeful for him. I know he's not gonna go back to jail again. I've been adamant that I don't want that to happen anyway.


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[Assistant] I know he doesn't want to either. So that helps. The both of us don't want him to go back. I know he wants to.


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[Assistant] Well, first of all, in my opinion, I think the Spotify thing, I think a lot of people, there are a lot of young people that never heard R. Kelly or they're not familiar with his music. So I think that they may have went just to try to check it out. Also, there were a lot of rumors about, you know, his songs.


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[Assistant] Anyone else? You get a shot. Yes, that is the method for delivering a vaccine. No, like we give you a shot. I understand that, New Jersey, but I'm asking about incentives. What are you going to give people for getting the shot? A shot. Okay.


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[Assistant] The vaccination gets you any drink for free. That's a good start. The D is giving out $50 gift cards to anyone that drives someone to a vaccine site. Is there a limit to the amount of money someone can earn for these trips? Nope. Just 50 bucks every time. Are you not worried that someone might take advantage of that somehow? Yeah, no. They're just gonna spend it on verners anyway.


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[Assistant] Okay, only federal employees can get the hundred. Maybe this program will distract the people of DC for just a bit that they're still not represented. Nope. Worth a shot.


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[Assistant] Whatever man, I tried. You only clipped twice. On her majesty's secret savings. Savings are forever. Live and let prices die. The man with the price gun. The spy who shopped for me. How are we only in the 70s?


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[Assistant] Enough! West Virginia, you're giving out a loan in exchange for a vaccine? Right, one with really low interest that can't be accessed for at least five years. I guess that's...


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[Assistant] So a little bit to everyone. No. To the people living under the poverty line.


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[Assistant] He's hiding in the corner, trust me, the security guard's here. I lift weight so, you know, I try to stay in shape, just in case, you know, a situation come where, you know, I got to, you know what I'm saying?


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[Assistant] I'ma go to a guy that I know and I can trust, you know. But D-Hop, I don't need, he don't need to be wide open. I can just throw it in the area and he goes and gets the thing and makes it happen. He's still one of the most productive wide receivers in NFL. I mean, like I say, no offense to DPJ at all, but I would take D-Hop over DPJ. Even though DPJ, I think his career is trending upwards.


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[Assistant] So because he can jump and high point a ball makes him better?


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[Assistant] But Hopkins has been a force fan his whole career too.


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[Assistant] Like he gets them. I would love to see the targets. Between the two of them? Between those two. Cause I feel like a lot, like Kyler Murray, I'm just gonna chuck it to Hopkins. All the quarterbacks from Texas just throw it to him.


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[Assistant] Yeah, but I'm saying, but I'm saying, like, I feel like if target for target, Mark Cooper is...


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[Assistant] In Arizona he caught 70%. You know why I say what I say though? Why? Because as a corner.


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[Assistant] I would be, I would be more worried about Amar Cooper than, than, than D-Hop. Because D-Hop is not gonna, like he's, he's a physical guy. But he's not fat. But route running, like I'mma be able to match him on his cuts and all of that.


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[Assistant] Mario Cooper, I don't know where Roddy's running cause he's gonna, he comes out the same way every time. So it's literally like that. You have to know what the play is.


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[Assistant] Donovan, listen to me, okay? You trended in the right direction. Now, the only thing about this is that right now people are trying to go off of something that they know. In a season where you gotta have it with the Browns,


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[Assistant] Everybody's worried because you haven't gotten a thousand yards yet and you had a great season last year, but it just, what do you have?


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[Assistant] Yeaah, every, about 90% of players do unbelievable in their contracts here.


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[Assistant] He's the eyeball. He's between a rock and a hard place. Okay, let me ask you this. Yeah.


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[Assistant] Y'all say with Elijah Moore, okay, that's even, even better for him. So you're a defensive coordinator. Who you game, who has to be stopped?


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[Assistant] Between Elijah Moore and DPJ? No, between all, there are three receivers, Amari, DPJ, and Cooper. Okay. Cooper. Yeah. Who's second has gotta be stopped.


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[Assistant] I'm just asking. So DPJ is third on your mind. If you lost the game to DPJ, you can live with that, right? I think so. My point exactly to why he should stay, why he should be, uh, do well this year.


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[Assistant] Uhm, alright, uh, you know, you know, this thing, if I'm DHOP, okay, what do I really want?


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[Assistant] And I wanna go somewhere, I wanna go somewhere with a great quarterback.


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[Assistant] Nah, obviously you got the chemistry with Deshaun, but if I got a chance, I would not go to Buffalo. If I was him, I would go to Kansas City. Why not Buffalo? Because I'm, I'm, cause the Diggs thing concerns me. Like Diggs seems like he cool with it, but it's the same guy that was cussing his coach out against the Browns cause he wasn't getting the ball.


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[Assistant] They, they would have a three wide receivers that would be unbelievable with C.D., Brandon Cooks and him. And they all, they all have different aspects of the game where they won't mess up each other's game. I don't trust, I don't trust Dak Prescott.


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[Assistant] It's gonna be bananas. I couldn't have, man. It's, it's, it's so, because it's a layup, and like, it's, and then,


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[Assistant] Are we playing the Stefanski soundbite before I say it? No, we don't have it. Okay, well, we're not playing. We're going to probably read it. Stefanski said nothing else. That's what I'm saying. When you come out and say, cause the Jets, Robert Sala just came out and said basically the same thing. And I get it because it's one of those situations where


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[Assistant] You have to assess what you have right now in your, in your wide receiver room. You spent a ton of time trying to flip that wide receiver room. And I get it. So you want to go through OTAs and be like, okay, maybe we do need it. Maybe we don't. But like I say, a player like DeAndre Hopkins,


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[Assistant] We need guys that's establishing this league, that's done it year in and year out basis. Somebody that we know for sure can get it done. And that, and right now it's question, like outside of a Mark Cooper, the rest of them is question marks.


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[Assistant] And people that be sitting there talking about they don't want D out. Like you're lying. You're lying to yourself if you say you don't want, you don't want a guy that's been extremely productive on a year and you're out with some guy that you know is


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[Assistant] On, on third down or when we gotta have it has the ability to get it done. Why? Because he's done it. The rest of them, like I say, I haven't seen it yet. We think, we think that they will, but we don't know.


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[Assistant] Listen, listen, you got the master of manipulating the salary cap at Andrew Barry. So if they


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[Assistant] The only thing I see is, and it's sad because like the Browns do this a lot where they, they look to the future way too much than what they're currently on. So, so if they didn't get to me, this is what I think. If they don't get D hop, then what they essentially doing is trying to see


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[Assistant] D.P.J., Elijah Moore, and Tillman in action and get them to experience because


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[Assistant] The thing is they act like, like the players won't get better. Like they wrote receivers rotate. So they'll still get they burn. Yeah. I mean, like Cedric Tillman need to just get the, he need to understand the speed of the game. He needs to understand the experience. It's not a guy that I'm going out there saying like,


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[Assistant] You know, I don't, I don't love the answer. I don't hate the answer. I mean, it's just, it's one of those things that...


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[Assistant] He, it would be easy for him to say that Russ is gone. Like, he thought the Russ was gone, and all the players thought the Russ was gone, because when they saw him in practice after his suspension, they was like, oh, just wait till he gets out there, because he looked good in practice, but.


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[Assistant] But, he gotta have some type of swag and some type of confidence in himself. I would've told him, listen,


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[Assistant] It's bombs over the heck, dad. We throw everything all over the field. The rust, it was never no rust anyway. I got some DW 40 and we ready to roll up. We airing this thing out this season. That's what I would have said. You know, but that's just me. I respect the humble approach.


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[Assistant] And it's up to Stefanski to get him there. I mean, right now, all he going off of his last six games and they weren't great at all.


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[Assistant] But what they need to point out is bro, you have some throws in this game, you made some plays in some of these six games, you have some moments. So it's still there. We just need to get you to be more consistent. And once that happens, once he gets some success, which


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[Assistant] That's why the preseason is going to be big for him. If he gets some success in the preseason, he should be able to hit the ground running. But he is contradicting himself a little bit and it's funny because he's the same guy who put at on TikTok like


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[Assistant] When the Browns in 2023 or something like that, it was like, I can't wait for y'all to see it. And now he had taken the humble approach. So it's kind of funny. It's kind of funny that he doing that.


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[Assistant] Andre Hopkins is better. I think they undervalue in what


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[Assistant] What comes, what also comes with him is that...


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[Assistant] He's teaching and helping your younger guys learn something. Like Tillman is not gonna be a Mario Cooper on Ralph's. That's not who he, that's not who his body is made of.


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[Assistant] But he can be like D or like a D hop. So why not let him learn from because it's not like y'all keeping D hop for multiple years. Just like one or two year deal and then you got to move on to the next guy. So let him at least groom up the next guy who can be like him who he might even see himself in and they might create something he might


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[Assistant] I mean, it's, it could be one of those things that he could just be, he could have an on the field and an off the field personality. Sure. You don't have to marry the two together. You could be cocky on the field, but be the nicest guy off the field. So maybe, maybe that's the...


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[Assistant] Twenty-six, so that's three years from now. Probably, yeaah, probably.


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[Assistant] So we'll see, but, but. He have a season like that. I'm drafting him in fantasy.


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[Assistant] He was trending that way until he got hurt. He was having a great year.


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[Assistant] There's a report coming out that they're practicing the option game right now.


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[Assistant] Man, listen, we lose to Indianapolis. I'm telling you right now. I don't know. I'm gonna go to PFF. What is happening there? And say something to somebody because that's ridiculous.


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[Assistant] He actually is okay after the catch. Yeaah. I mean he had a long run. So that whole reason of getting an Elijah Moore or getting a Marquis Goodwin.


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[Assistant] Is that you send them on a vertical to get them out of there, right?


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[Assistant] So what that does is, if they're in some type of zone, if a linebacker's carrying that, he's on his horse. What does that do? That opens up DPJ on the dig. Now that linebacker won't be in that hook window because he's got to carry that vertical. Or on top of that, the safety came flat footed, so now it's truly a one on one thing. That's what the whole speed of it is about.


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[Assistant] That's why it matters, but as far as the separation thing goes, DBJ, you absolutely.


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[Assistant] To be honest with you, I think that Elijah Moore or Marquis Goodwin's numbers aren't what they are going to be. I think they're going to be better than what they're predicting because Deshaun Watson, to me, loves to, loves a deep ball. He loves to chuck it deep. He did. He did. Hopefully he still does.


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[Assistant] You ain't skunking, not in Seattle, in Seattle. That's ridiculous.


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[Assistant] I just said yesterday on my podcast that defense wins championship and you scolded me.


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[Assistant] Football related, you're a defensive guy.


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[Assistant] Do you like, do you rather, do you rather 6 to 3 than 63 to 50?


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[Assistant] Everybody, is everybody saying that we should 1,000% trade Jared Allen? Everybody's off to Jared Allen.


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[Assistant] Like I say, if that, if that was the case, the Cavs need to take that yesterday. You can't beat that with a bat.


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[Assistant] Christy, go ahead though. Chris, I'll just cut straight to the point. D hop or DPJ.


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[Assistant] Chris, we've seen on the NBA side of things, a lot of these former NBA champion teams have let their coach go. Do you think J.B. Bickerstein is the guy?


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[Assistant] Are you comfortable with him or do you think they should explore looking at another coach?


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[Assistant] I want everybody to know that, although I threw the club, my swing was okay, actually. You know, I had, had some people.


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[Assistant] It happens, man. I dropped my boy Cardell off. He went, Cardell went to the, the place where I did this at today. Oh really? And I told him, yep, if you go, if you go out there hole eight and look in that lake, it's still, it's probably still in there. Try to find my club.


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[Assistant] It wasn't my club, it was somebody else's club.


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[Assistant] Yo, it's a little blurry. My mom just dropped me off. I don't know where I'm at, but I'm here at No Jumper. Born and raised from the Bay. Shout out to the Bay. Shout out to Mt. Dre.


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[Assistant] Ah, shoot, I was skateboarding a lot, just playing music my whole life pretty much. That's it, you know? Chillin'.


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[Assistant] Growing up, a lot of rock, like a lot of like soft rock. Not really a lot of raw.


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[Assistant] Like, yeaah, like Eminem and like Drake, but like, not like rap, but eh, you know, Tupac, not, not. Never was really into rap, you know.


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[Assistant] When I was really young, like, 3, 4, you know? Just like grinding the piano. Synth of the old jit, you know? It's the move, bro. Piano is the move.


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[Assistant] I still play piano, not like that, but I still, you know, trying to get back into it.


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[Assistant] I'm here and like, I'm blocking them. I can't see them. Like, they're a little blurry to me. Like, I really can't see the haters. You know? That's how I got the name.


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[Assistant] I need glasses. I need Cartier glasses, not normal glasses though.


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[Assistant] I need, my glasses have to have buffed down, they need to be buffed down glasses.


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[Assistant] I told my mom, I said, I'm not going to college, I'm not going to high school. Mom, I better blow up.


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[Assistant] And my mom, she went through my, and then my mom went through my Instagram messages. She went through my Instagram messages. Can you believe that? And she found all these DMs I had, and then she grounded me. I got grounded, bro.


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[Assistant] Hey, free blurry until it's backwards, that's the thing. That was the grind. I say it was like a dream, you know? But like, I got kinda caught up in school. So then like,


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[Assistant] Before emotions, it was like I was all unorganized. Like I didn't know what I was doing. You know, I was just chilling, going to school every day. Struggling to be an artist. Watched a lot of No Jumper, you know. Represent.


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[Assistant] Lotta no jumper, I remember that. But nah, like it was just like a thing, you know, I just wanted to always be, like, poppin'.


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[Assistant] And then we took over with the Now I Made It snippet, which you know about that. Million views, boy.


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[Assistant] PE was low-key lit because they didn't really care. I'd say science, like on a real note, science was pretty fun. I was getting decent grades, you know.


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[Assistant] Dude, I don't know. They was just trippin'. But now science was lit. Like, chemistry. Like, I remember. The only response I have right now are emotions.


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[Assistant] Now I made it in Down to Ride, so I have three songs total that are released that are officially through Lil Blur. Probably Down to Ride, just cause it's more like a wavy song. Like I don't really like, like Flutsing is cool and all, but like I like real music, you know? Like I like making like stuff from the heart.


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[Assistant] I'm a real musician. Forget all you people gotta say about me. I'm a real musician. Doing this seems legit, boy.


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[Assistant] Low blurry sound? It's the best- Oh shoot, someone's calling me. I'm sorry. My mom is FaceTiming me. Stupid. Alright. Stupid. Alright, c'mon. Say it again? My bad.


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[Assistant] The little blurry sound, it's the best sound. It's like a wavy little light. You feel me? It's a nice little ring to it. That's it though, you feel me? It's just a smooth little sound.


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[Assistant] A lot of people try to replicate it, and I see that, you know, I see how you try to replicate my sound, but you can't do it better than me. I'm sorry, you gotta stop. Yea, you gotta chill on people trying to replicate. Uhm, I remember I was, I was eating sushi with my dad, my manager, some,


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[Assistant] Who you signed with? And we're like, nobody. You know, and it's just boom, just like that, he flew out the next day, like, he came up, like, showed love, like, I liked his energy, you know, we get into work, we get into business, you know what I'm saying? Shout out to Boozy, Syndicate.


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[Assistant] So first thing my mom told me, I can't. Oh, you know what I bought? Bro, I bought so many Fortnite VBucks, yo. I swear to God, I probably went through like, a few bands on VBucks. I probably go up, I'm like literally going through bands on VBucks. I call my manager every week. He's like, what? I'm like, yo, I need $50, bro.


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[Assistant] He's like, why? I'm like, I need to buy more v-books bro, a new skin just dropped.


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[Assistant] Film me like, I gotta, I gotta, I gotta get what I deserve, you know?


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[Assistant] Like, that's the pass, bro! But yea, that's it. V-Buts. Bowling? Bowling?


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[Assistant] Bullying? No bullying 2019. We're spreading positivity.


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[Assistant] I don't know what you mean, but we're spreading positivity. We don't listen to any of these bullying type of talk, you know? You guys, bro.


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[Assistant] A lot of you guys people watching this may hate, but that's cool. I couldn't care less about your dislike. If my chat's right, you can dislike all you want. That's cool, bro. Just keep hating, bro.


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[Assistant] That's my boy! That's my boy, Loterio. That's my, that's, that's literally my best family. Shouts Loterio. We the, we the anti-bowling duo, you feel me?


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[Assistant] We spreading, we spreading all the love, all 2019. No, I'm homeschooled. I got two tutors though, probably people that don't think I'm educated. You know, two tutors.


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[Assistant] Not every day. Yeah, every day I go to a tutor for three hours and then I have to do my curriculum.


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[Assistant] Harder than school. No cap. Like it's way harder than school. School, you can just do whatever. Like the teachers, honestly, they couldn't care less if you listen in or not, you know. It was the day after I signed to Boozy. That snippet went him and my manager said to my mom,


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[Assistant] There's like a corner throughout my school and like everyone goes there after school.


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[Assistant] I remember I pulled up in an Uber, I said, I'll see y'all later. I'm out.


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[Assistant] I'm out of school. I'm out. I'm about to go get my bands up, you feel me? I said I'm out that.


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[Assistant] Ooh, this one girl I've seen on this one Disney channel, Payton List. Ooh, bruh. I swear, bruh, she's beautiful.


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[Assistant] What's coming up next for me is that I got a song, a crazy song, with my boy DJ Khaled with this crazy video. You guys finna see it sooner or later. Coming soon. To YouTube near you. Shout out the movement.


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[Assistant] Shoutout to Mob. All the bros, you know who you are. You know.


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[Assistant] No need for names, but yeaah. You know who you are.


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[Assistant] An exercise in mutual appreciation, but unfortunately I have to make an appearance as the Chief of Staff.


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[Assistant] Yes, most Americans carry some fear of people who are different than them. The power of that message I think was deeply underestimated.


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[Assistant] This was an incident that was clearly the tale of these far-right white supremacist powers emboldened and out of control.


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[Assistant] Most people who have assumed the office of the president of the state believe that they had a responsibility to bring the country together. That's not the way President Trump came to office.


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[Assistant] He decided that he was going to marry his fortunes to Trump, no matter how


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[Assistant] Unpleasant or painful that might be to him. And that meant that he was going to steer Trump through this trial successfully.


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[Assistant] Rather than just being a sore loser who's complaining that he didn't get, uh, what he thought he deserved, he becomes the, the fomenter of a whole new reality.


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[Assistant] Between President Trump and Vice President Pence that goes on for hours in the White House. And Trump is just haranguing him and berating him. You have to do this after all the things I've done for you. How can you not do this? You were a loser until I came along and saved you.


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[Assistant] Mitch McConnell finally says, that's it, no more, we are done. We never heard Mitch McConnell say anything like that in the last four years. He had finally had enough.


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[Assistant] There's a lashing out when things don't go his way.


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[Assistant] The president evidently, I mean, you know, did not want to discourage that type of activity. As a matter of fact, uh, wanted to encourage it. And as we've seen over the course of his four years of service,


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[Assistant] The strength among those organizations, their place.


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[Assistant] And what is happening around the country has, has uh, continued to increase.


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[Assistant] When the President criticizes you, people back home are upset. They think that he's the supreme it, if you will, in the Republican Party, and therefore if you're


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[Assistant] To be race-baiting, to be demeaning people because of their color or their background, I mean that's, I'm sorry, that's just not the Republican party that I grew up in. But instead, ours became the party of grievances, right?


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[Assistant] And intelligent, hardworking Americans follow him, lock, stock, and barrel, and it demonstrated to me the tremendous fragility of our democracy.


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[Assistant] The Siege on the Capital. Fueled by conspiracy theories.


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[Assistant] began on the fringes of America in the 1990s.


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[Assistant] Secret plots in Crisis After Crisis.


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[Assistant] That day broadcasting from Texas, Jones would seize on the tragedy.


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[Assistant] Jones and other believers became known as the 9-11 Truth or Movement.


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[Assistant] Even for the radio stations that had hosted Jones over the years, he'd gone too far this time.


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[Assistant] But it was 2001, and Alex Jones quickly found a new outlet, a new way to reach a like-minded audience. The Anarchy of the Web.


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[Assistant] The 9-11 truth-removement was alive and well.


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[Assistant] His website, Infowars.com, became a hub for conspiracy theories.


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[Assistant] It was the type of controversial content that generated clicks. The more outrageous, the better. The bigger the lie, the more clicks he got.


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[Assistant] And YouTube's algorithms recommended his videos billions of times.


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[Assistant] In the end, 27 killed, 20 of them elementary school children. Jones seized on the deaths.


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[Assistant] One of Jones's employees, longtime editor Rob Jacobson, brought his concerns directly to Jones.


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[Assistant] Six-year-old Noah Posner was killed by the Sandy Hook shooter, but his family became a victim of Alex Jones.


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[Assistant] Pozner changed addresses many times, tried to hide his identity. Still, they found him.


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[Assistant] People close to Jones were appalled about what he had done. It was the last straw for his wife Kelly.


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[Assistant] And I've been in a bitter, sometimes public feud ever since.


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[Assistant] That would find its moment in 2015.


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[Assistant] That Alex Jones' audience could help Donald Trump.


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[Assistant] As the first Republican primaries approached, Donald Trump was a long shot.


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[Assistant] Stone wanted him to make an important connection.


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[Assistant] Alex Jones arrived at the Republican National Convention.


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[Assistant] In 2016, Jones and Stone were rewriting the playbook of American politics.


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[Assistant] Claiming that references to cheese pizza were code for child pornography.


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[Assistant] On Twitter, they called the blood libel, hashtag pizza gate.


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[Assistant] A child sex ring run out of the basement of a DC pizza parlor.


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[Assistant] His profile raised by Trump and Stone. Jones was known as a super-spreader.


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[Assistant] Welch would later tell a New York Times reporter the intel on this wasn't 100%.


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[Assistant] Alex Jones had become a powerful and dangerous voice. His influence confirmed with the inauguration in 2017.


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[Assistant] It was at this point that Jones shocked Posner's attorney.


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[Assistant] Band by the social media giants for dehumanizing language, glorifying violence, hate speech.


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[Assistant] Revenge from the left for Jones' alliance with Trump.


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[Assistant] All fuel for the fire. Stoked by Trump and Jones.


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[Assistant] They are trying to make you dysfunctional. They are teaching you false thoughts.


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[Assistant] Society is insane to me, so I'm insane to your average dumb bill.


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[Assistant] Biological attack is imminent. Imminent.


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[Assistant] What you see after 9-11 is a country that is really, really hurting. People were grieving where it was a moment where people wouldn't have imagined that you're going to take that moment, uhm, this national moment of mourning and turn it into a conspiracy theory.


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[Assistant] And decides that he's going to make their lives a living hell.


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[Assistant] By selling this conspiracy theory that Newtown is all a fraud. And that these, all of these people are actors.


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[Assistant] And Alex Jones and all sorts of other people, they hand them this excuse that is, well he wasn't born in this country and this is really all a lie and that he is actually not who he says he is.


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[Assistant] Alex Jones appeals to the worst parts of society, and he looks for all the terrible things in society, racism, sexism, misogyny, and he exploits them for his own benefit.


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[Assistant] Alex Jones, like President Trump, they come from this fringe. They come from a place that people maybe poked fun of them. They come from this place where people maybe didn't take them seriously, but they claw their way to the center of American politics.


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[Assistant] I think President Trump is someone who has realized that conspiracy theories work for him. If he's going to be able to keep his base happy, he has to continue to feed them red meat. And that red meat consists, a lot of times, of conspiracy theories.


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[Assistant] We had McDonald's breakfast. Sausage McMuffin with two hash browns. Why don't you get a steak bagel? Earl had the same thing.


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[Assistant] Oh, I'm figuring by like 1245, I'll be ready for the show to wrap. See, that's called low men.


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[Assistant] Yeah, so Steve, you can take 177 here. So at first place, they have the Eagles and the 49ers, the Bengals, the Chiefs, and then the Bills. Steve, we can go next.


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[Assistant] Falcons, Packers, Buccaneers, Colts, Texans, Rams and very last the Cardinals.


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[Assistant] Packages. Paid time off and signing bonus. Apply online at precast.com


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[Assistant] I have your tweet, Mike, if you want to take a look at it and see if we can take tag boards full. This is the XFL kickoff.


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[Assistant] Yeah, before we get to our next topic though, I just want to remind everybody that you can get USFL seats for just $10. They come with free t-shirts, rally towels. Go celebrate pro football. You can check it out at usfl.com. Thanks to the USFL for sponsoring the show. And then Mike, OTAs have officially started. It's almost football season.


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[Assistant] That's actually perfect cause I do have poll results. So we asked is Tyvis, I had a boohoo pal being a little bit of a negative Nancy here. 42% of people say yes, 27 say no, and then 31 told you to put the hat back on. So you knew already.


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[Assistant] Yeah, so before we move on to our next topic, guys, it's noon. So I want to remind you guys that the 12 o'clock lunch hour is brought to you by Colleague Companies.


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[Assistant] Yeah, so I just want to remind everybody that you can see your favorite golf legends play in the Colleague Companies Championship July 12th through July 16th at the famous Firestone Country Club. Fun, family-friendly events all week long featuring a new fan zone, experience, free attendance for kids, and concerts every night. There's something for everyone and you can learn more at ColleagueGolf.com.


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[Assistant] Guys, we're gonna keep the basketball going here with True and False, uh, for probably one of my...


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[Assistant] All right. Tyvis is ready. Steve, let's take the first one.


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[Assistant] Alright, so we got three falses across the board. It is in fact false. He went and played at community college before going to Marquette.


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[Assistant] Yep, you guys ready? Let's do it. Jimmy Butler has made the playoffs in 11 of his 12 career seasons.


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[Assistant] Alright guys, you ready for the third one? Yes. Jimmy Butler was born in Portland, Oregon.


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[Assistant] One second. He's looking at it. Well, he looks at that. We'll take the next one.


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[Assistant] Jimmy Butler is a huge country music fan and starred in a music video for Luke Bryan.


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[Assistant] Three truths. Wow, we got three truths across the board. I thought I was really gonna get you guys with that. It is true. He starred in, uh, what was it? Trucks.


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[Assistant] This is the first one I haven't known. Alright. Mike's got it. It's true. He has a YouTube channel apparently where he vlogs almost every day of his life.


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[Assistant] And you can go check out maybe some of this country music videos. I hope you ask about something else that I know about.


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[Assistant] Jimmy Butler broke Michael Jordan's record for the most points scored in a single half of basketball. Ever?


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[Assistant] I can't believe Jimmy Butler has made the All-Star team in 8 of his 12 seasons.


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[Assistant] Are you guys ready? I know this. Tivus, what you got? False.


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[Assistant] Yeah, yeah it was. Hey real quick though guys, before our next topic, I just want to remind everybody that you can see your favorite golf legends playing the colleague champions.


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[Assistant] Colleague companies champion July 12th through the July 16th at the famous Firestone Country Club. Fun family friendly events.


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[Assistant] All week long, featuring a new fan zone experience, free attendance for kids, and concerts every night.


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[Assistant] There's something for everyone. Learn more at colleagueduhgolf.com. So guys,


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[Assistant] The NBA playoffs are still going on, and we have a little bit to talk about with Ja. So which one do you want to do first?


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[Assistant] Yeah, I'm not sure the video itself is playing, but he posted a picture that says, I love you, ma. I love you, pops. And then it's his daughter and it says the best little girl ever. And then it just said bye in one of his interviews. So I, unfortunately the video is not playing through tag board for you guys right now, but that was what it was.


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[Assistant] So real quick guys, I just want to remind everybody one last time that you can see your favorite golf legends play in the Colleague Companies Championship July 12th through July 16th at the famous Firestone Country Club.


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[Assistant] Fun, family-friendly events all week long featuring a fan zone experience, free attendance for kids, and concerts every night. There's something for everyone and you can learn more at ColleagueGolf.com.


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[Assistant] And I don't really have a interesting thing, but reminder, you can eat Biltbars and you can buy Biltbars using code LOCKDOWN15 at Biltbar.com. I didn't have anywhere to sneak in today. Bad job out of you Anthony. Bad job out of me.


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[Assistant] Alright, so a little setup. Steve, you can take Tagboard Full here after this. We have been getting tweeted every day for about a month by the Showboys Podcast. So shout out to them. Small little Twitter account asking for us to do a Pokemon segment on the show. And unfortunately, G and I are the only two who can do this.


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[Assistant] Alright, well you've won Pokemon Tivus, congratulations. So I wanted to tie it to sports somehow, we're gonna do a quick list of my top 5 starters, and I'm gonna put together a top 5 starting team.


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[Assistant] Go ahead, lay em out! Alright, alright, so starting at my point guard, I'm going small. I got two foot seven Raichu, weighing in at 66 pounds.


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[Assistant] Alright, so my shooting guard, I went with 411, 89 pounds, Gengar. He's a ghost type, so he can bounce around.


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[Assistant] Trump recognized the power of Alex Jones' audience and Alex Jones' base and had mirrored a lot of Alex Jones' policies and rhetoric in achieving and getting to that front-runner status in the first place.


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[Assistant] Yuan Wu.


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[Assistant] Prime Minister, the Western Liang Army is full of war horses. If we want to win, we should use our hook-and-miss guns to deal with their war horses.


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[Assistant] You know I'm back, I'm home. This is my seat. Back in the seat. I actually moved the seat closer, I'm making my way. I know you are.


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[Assistant] Earl is down there with him too. Oh gee, Bush went to McKinley? Yea, he did. Cause that's what we practiced, I didn't know. Yeaah. That's the school right there where we practiced at.


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[Assistant] They keep losing the masculine though, uhm. Well, they're not good now.


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[Assistant] In a weight room, usually you have like a time clock that says like when the season is going to start, but theirs is ticking down. I thought it was, that's what it was, but when I look closer, it's like, oh, to only beat Madison, I'm like, oh, they're rivals. They have papers next to the ticker and they've lost like nine in a row. I'm like, wow, that hurts.


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[Assistant] The fans are just boycotting out, you know, they're up and leaving the movement to Las Vegas. So the fans are upset. I feel so bad for the town of Oakland, you know, such a passionate fan base. And just to see what happened to them for over these past five years. All three of their teams is going to be in the Spanish.


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[Assistant] Yeaah. Essentially. In a place where sports mean a lot to those kids and people growing up, sports keep things kind of together. And are good fans. Yeaah.


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[Assistant] There you go. His presence and what he's done for this game is unmatched because he's way before my time and growing up when you thought of the Cleveland Browns, you thought of Jim Brown. You know, there are certain people in LA. There are certain people in certain organizations that


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[Assistant] When you think of that organization, you think of a specific player. You think of the Boston Celtics. My mind, even though before my time, you think of Larry Berg. You think of Magic Johnson. Now you think of Kobe Bryant. When you think of the Cleveland Browns, because they haven't had much success, you think of Jim Brown. Because he is the last person to help them win the NFL Championship, even though it was before the merger.


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[Assistant] Before the AFL and NFL merger in 1970, 1964, he's brought Cleveland their last championship in this passionate fan base. That's all you hear is Jim Brown and the way people speak about him. That's how, if you haven't met somebody, the way other people talk about them and their experiences and their relationship with them is how you can tell how a person is and.


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[Assistant] I've heard nothing but great things. You know, Barack Obama sent his condolences to the Brown family and things like that. And just many legends of the game have sent their condolences. So that just shows me he was an amazing person. He's paved the way for people like myself to continue to play this great game. And uhm, I just feel for his family and this untimely passing.


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[Assistant] So he had to be playing two, doing two sports at one time.


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[Assistant] I would not want to tackle him and then like you mentioned earlier, he was the ultimate triple threat back to be that size to be that elusive and can run by you is just.


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[Assistant] That's terrifying for a defense. You know, nowadays, you get one of the three.


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[Assistant] You either get a big power back, you know he's gonna be right in front of you, you get a shifty back, you know you're gonna have to break down and watch the hips, or you'll get a speed back that can run by you. But it's those backs that can do all three are the ones that are diamond dust. And so rare. They're so rare and they're special man, and they're super special, and it's hard to find. And for him to be that back,


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[Assistant] In the 1960s and not miss a game in nine years is a testament to the durability and the hard work that he put in in the off season along with everything else he had going on he had to shoulder.


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[Assistant] Because I remember the last show I spoke about the area that I lived in and that park was getting infested. So he actually came to one of our football banquets and brought bikes and things for the kids one year. And just me being a little kid snotty nose, I just didn't understand the importance of I was standing next to a legend at the time.


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[Assistant] But yes, he came to our banquet, he spoke, uh, brought gifts and things like that. And just to see, just, uhm,


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[Assistant] You don't understand how tough that is. Having no momentum. That's why running back start off seven, eight yards in the back. So they can see and have vision. He's right behind the garden. That's incredible. It really is.


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[Assistant] Because they weren't watching that. That's the thing I always like to say, like when people bring up the golden basketball, it always starts with Michael Jordan. Yeaah. And I'll say, in my mind, it's Cole because with my eyes, that's who I see and I feel like I would be lying if I said it's Michael Jordan. I never went back and watched him play. But you preface it properly.


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[Assistant] A team knows you're running because that's all you can do is run the ball and you're still dominant. So that's why to me, if he was playing in today's game, he would be an all-pro. And like we said, he has all three phases. He can run away from you.


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[Assistant] He can run through you and he can make you miss, which would translate in today's game where we're playing in so much more open field space. He will be, he's the blueprint of what you look for in a running back. Back then in the 60s, right now in 2020.


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[Assistant] And this just leads into what I wanna say, you know, uhm, with me doing this show,


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[Assistant] Shout out to Jim Brown, you know, I don't think people understand how hard it is to translate from being an athlete to doing something, something different and being good at it. So for him to open the door and pave the way to showing you're more than just


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[Assistant] And athlete to allow me to sit in this chair today and still take care of my business on the field. You know, he was a trailblazer and I wouldn't be here without him. I also do acting following in his footsteps as well.


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[Assistant] Uhm, he's amazing. I just hope to have half the career that he did. So thank you guys for all the acknowledgments. We've got to get a couple more wins. We've got to keep going. Yeaah. And hopefully I'll be... The offense has got to pick it up. Yeaah, they do. You know, we...


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[Assistant] But we're a team, you know, we just gotta keep keeping them afloat until they get things going. You know, it's our job to not give up any points. So we still gave up a couple, which is way too many. So we'll keep going and I appreciate you guys for having me and allowing me to.


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[Assistant] Oh yeaah, we're one of the team we play this week, the Philadelphia Stars, we already own the tiebreaker over them, cause we beat them already, so if we win, uh, on Saturday, we'll be right back there in the playoffs. Nice. Very good.


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[Assistant] Uh, Leroy, nice to meet you. Boogie Roberts here. I just wanted to know. What's happening, man? Uhm, a lot of athletes, they just retire and, uhm, sell off into the sunset, you know, enjoy retirement. We don't hear from them again. Why did it mean so much, uh, to Mr. Brown to, to become an activist and do so much for the community after his post-playing days? Like, why did that part have such a, uh, a hold in his heart?


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[Assistant] That's also, that's also a testament to how special he was to have that smooth transition to be able to go football to something that takes a very special person to be able to do that.


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[Assistant] I would say uhm, I would like to do take a delayed game. Maybe every home game. Oh wow.


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[Assistant] And just, and then have the PA guy announce like we're taking this for Jim Brown to get the crowd, you know, showing their appreciation.


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[Assistant] But also the other team to honor him can decline that penalty. They don't have to accept the penalty. They can go out with 10 players maybe.


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[Assistant] You have major major impact. It is so tough, especially in this field that takes up a lot of your time. You have to have a special level of dedication and discipline as an athlete.


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[Assistant] To transition to another field where me being in that field now, how hard those actors work and study those lines, it's a whole nother dedication to this one. To be amazing at both of them, like I said, is just a testament to how special.


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[Assistant] He doesn't have the same impact because like we said, when you're playing around a team with other great players, everything is made, made easier for you. That's why I was kind of shocked he was at that spot.


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[Assistant] What's your top five? Just, no, what I had, AP, LT, um, uh, Chris Johnson, Shady McCoy, and Sean Alexander were just five. Yeah, you're a young one.


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[Assistant] I feel bad for Nick Chubb, just cause in today's game, it's a pass, happy league. It's going to be so tough.


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[Assistant] So, so. But that was your team growing up? Yea, that's my team now. I'm an L.A. guy, so. Yea.


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[Assistant] Learning now, understanding the game more now. I'm a huge Dodger fan, love Mookie Betts and Freddie Freeman and things like that, so yeaah.


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[Assistant] Their roleplayers are just shooting, their roleplayers are playing amazing. Bruce Brown's playing out of his mind.


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[Assistant] No, it's definitely the, uh, the players. You know, the coach prepares you throughout the week and you can have the same mindset and mentality of your coach, but at the end of the day, it is the players who are out there, out there playing.


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[Assistant] They gotta go out there and execute the game plan that you've worked.


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[Assistant] Throughout the week because it sucks that sometimes coaches are at blame when they might have a good game plan. You had a great week of preparation. They're going into a feeling confident and the players just go out there starting flat, but it's on the coast that'll come up and say, oh,


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[Assistant] I let the guys down just because he is the head coach. It's definitely on the players, me being a current athlete, it's on the players to go out there and get it done.


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[Assistant] Their role players are playing much better than our role players. But on the topic of adjustments, I will say


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[Assistant] It's a certain guys making threes because we like make adjustments. If we double yoke, it's a double.


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[Assistant] I'm missing, um, Jamal Murray. Somebody's going to be opening. If their players are hitting those threes, you can't cover everybody. You have to know your hat. And yeah, you do have to live and die with it. Great from the three-point line right now. And they're playing with confidence. So he's trying to make adjustments. But and we've been in each of these games. We've been in the games. You were up.


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[Assistant] I think Jimmy Butler, I think Jimmy Butler's ripped their heart up.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I think he's, he's ripped their heart out. So that's why I would go with Los Angeles because we have been competitive in these three games. The last one, I think we were up by one point in the fourth quarter with seven minutes to go. And then we had a stretch when they went on that 13-0 run and we lost it there. But if we can just get some, make some shots, I think we'll, we'll be okay.


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[Assistant] It could be before then, you know you missed a, uh, a duck?


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[Assistant] We were up 8 points at that moment and that could have put us up 10.


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[Assistant] He misses the dunk and I feel like the momentum just went down.


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[Assistant] That's pretty cool. You just stretch afterwards? Okay, yeaah.


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[Assistant] Hey everybody, it's a Friday. Friday. It was supposed to be the original trio today, but Jay's not feeling well, so we wish him the best feeling better. Happy birthday to my amazing son Aaron, he's 10 years old today.


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[Assistant] He'll actually technically turn 7 exactly, uh, turn 10 exactly 7 hours from now. He was born at 6.01 PM on Sunday, May 19th, 2013.


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[Assistant] Uh, and so he sell it, he's in school, he brought, we were, so how about a couple of quickies and we gotta tell you about what's going on with YouTube and which other thing. So on Thursday or Wednesday,


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[Assistant] I go into, you know, crumble cookies? Love crumble cookies. Really good place.


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[Assistant] Uh, their cookies are amazing, but I got one criticism of Crumble Cookies. I went in on Wednesday, because my son today wanted to bring in a little cookie for all of his classmates. What a good kid. Yea, right, so I'm like, okay, great idea. So I go in on Wednesday.


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[Assistant] And I'm like, so I need, for Friday, I need 25 cookies, but I don't remember how many kids in the class. I need 25 little cookies.


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[Assistant] Uh, for, for Friday. And they're like, oh, we can't do that. What? And I was like, what? They're like, well, we need three days. I'm like.


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[Assistant] I, I, so what'd you do? So instead, I was like, maybe we'll get donuts, maybe we'll get, he's like, how about Hershey bars?


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[Assistant] That's a lot of stuff there. Yeaah, but I mean, it's not like it's 50 kids, it's only two, it's Aaron and two friends. Okay.


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[Assistant] Like, yeaah. Alright, so Mike, give us a YouTube update here. We've got a few more shoutouts.


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[Assistant] Alright, very good. Good update there. You see Mike's on the panel. That means Anthony and Earl are behind the glass today. I mean, they're on behind the glass other days too, but Anthony leading the way today and we got to talk about my best bet, right?


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[Assistant] What are you going with today? Alright, there you go. So I've hit my first slump in baseball year. I think I've dropped, dropped four of my last five. Yeah.


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[Assistant] So we gotta get back on track today. So bring up my picks. I got two games.


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[Assistant] Two big favorites today, so I'm laying a run and a half with Arizona. Zach Allen, the most underrated, or not underrated, but under the radar. Good pitcher. Diamondbacks are having a tremendous season. They're probably the biggest surprise in baseball in terms of a positive surprise.


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[Assistant] They, I think, have the third best record in the National League right now, behind only the Dodgers and the Braves.


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[Assistant] And I like them. The Pirates have to, got us a great start, have been collapsing. Also the Astros tonight, why not, it's against the A's. Speaking of the A's, remember before the season I said I thought they'd have a chance to...


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[Assistant] Break the record for the worst winning percentage in the history of baseball. Yes. The modern history of baseball. Which was the 62 Mets, which were an expansion team. They were 40 and 120.


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[Assistant] Uhm, the A's are on pace to win less than 40 games.


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[Assistant] They're already like 20 games out, I think 18 games out of first place. If they were in the American League East, they'd be I think 23 games out already. By the way, the 62 Mets, now remember, in 62, not only were there not three divisions, there were not even two.


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[Assistant] Until it was 69 I believe was the first year they went to West and East. But in 62 it was just the American League and the National League. So obviously the gap between the top and the bottom teams in those days is going to be bigger than it would be now because it's, it was, uh, in 62 it was probably, I'm trying to think how many teams were in the National League then. I want to say 12, whatever it was.


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[Assistant] But you know how many games the Mets finished at a first? You wanna guess?


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[Assistant] So there you go. So those are the games today. I like those two games. Hopefully we'll get back on track tonight. Anthony, we're getting some baseball. Oh, before we get to baseball, talk in a minute, guys. I gotta say, so uhm,


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[Assistant] Uh, just two things. Uh, number one, uh, my, my Bet Rivers podcast this morning, I did talk about


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[Assistant] Obviously the NBA playoff, we'll get to that later in the NBA playoff game because it's a really good, especially fourth quarter later. I even talked about the NHL playoff game, which I watched the first overtime and ended in four over times with 13 seconds left in the fourth overtime. Six longest game in the history of the NHL. Playoff hockey's awesome. It is. It is. And then, uhm, anyway, so check it out. But, uh, but,


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[Assistant] Where was I going with this? Oh, I wanted, I'm sorry, I wanted to hit on one more thing real quick before we get to baseball. Because yesterday, I talked about, like, Juan Thornhill, you know, I don't like him complaining about all this negativity in Cleveland. And...


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[Assistant] So between the reaction to that and the reaction to me saying that most teams that I would take Trevor Lawrence over to Sean Watson or Lamar Jackson.


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[Assistant] If I was starting a team from scratch, so the usual suspects, my man Cam, my man Xavier P.


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[Assistant] Both of them are losing their minds on Twitter over this. Because every 18 seconds, Cam sends a tweet out about how Deshaun Watson has the greatest completion percentage of all time, the greatest distance of all time. There's no context. Half the things he puts on there, I think he's making up. I don't know.


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[Assistant] I believe in Watson. I think he's gonna turn it around.


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[Assistant] That if they had their choice, forget contract, I'll ignore contract, because obviously,


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[Assistant] Trevor Lawrence making way less money than Watson. Forget contract, but everything else counts.


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[Assistant] Trevor Lawrence obviously was better last year.


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[Assistant] He's significantly younger, he has no off-field baggage, and he doesn't have the injury history that Watson has.


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[Assistant] Watson, and they both have one playoff win in their careers, and Lawrence has played less.


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[Assistant] Again, this is coming from a guy who thinks Watson's gonna be really good this year. Really good.


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[Assistant] But, I don't think there's a team in football that would take, uh, Watson over Lawrence if they had their choice. Money aside. Gene, you disagree? Maybe the Browns.


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[Assistant] Then, uh, Trevor Lawrence. That's fair. And that's the- that's really the only argument at this point. I- I wouldn't- Because-


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[Assistant] Lawrence is younger, less injury prone, less injured, and was better than both of those guys last year. But we do have a smaller sample size. That's fair. That's true. And if Trevor Lawrence can't back it up this year, maybe, maybe we have this conversation next year, and I have a different opinion, right? You know, a year ago,


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[Assistant] A year ago, Aaron Rodgers would have still been on the first tier because he had just won an MVP the year before.


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[Assistant] And now we're like, well, he didn't have a good year last year and he's older, so we're, we're


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[Assistant] Yes, in general. I can't say if your pee don't do that stuff, but again, I think Deshaun Watson is going to have a hell of a season. I am very confident he's going to bounce back, but I think, I think Watson and Lawrence are both going to be excellent and one guy's younger and has no baggage and has no injury history.


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[Assistant] The year, the AFC between the year Baker got to the playoffs and now it's a million times better. A million times better. Cause Herbert wasn't even really playing. Herbert was like a rookie. He was a rookie. Burrow was a rookie. Mahomes was just starting to become elite, right?


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[Assistant] I get that. I don't know how good Rogers is going to be still, but the Jets are way better. Yes. If Tua stays healthy, the Dolphins are good. I mean, they made the playoffs last year too. On and on. What if, what if, uh, what's his name? Sean Payton gets Russell Wilson to play like Russell Wilson again. That's a baby also. Jacksonville, way better. Yes.


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[Assistant] They will not win the Super Bowl without that because in other years they could have. They could, if the Sean Watson played at Baker, a little above Baker in 2020 and the Browns were in the NFC, you might be able to get to the Super Bowl that way if the defense is great.


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[Assistant] Yeaah, I just, you know, this, the problem is, so where, what do you think, the Browns have the best roster in the AFC?


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[Assistant] Okay, maybe, they, they, but ultimately the other teams you're competing against


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[Assistant] This idea that I do think that the Browns have a good roster. And I think they could potentially be amongst the three or four best teams in the AFC. But I could definitively say, oh, they're definitely one of the three or four best rosters. I just don't buy that because the other teams in that group have proven it the last few years. The Browns have not.


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[Assistant] Yeah, obviously it looks a lot better now than it did last year, but it's a lot of new faces. Just like you're talking about. It's going to take some time to come together. Right, so to put them in that class with those top teams is...


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[Assistant] Right, I think in that next group they're with Jacksonville, the Chargers, the Jets, the Jets in Miami.


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[Assistant] I agree, but those teams were all better than the Browns last year.


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[Assistant] So those teams are in that next group, all trying to get to the Buffalo Cincinnati Kansas City group. And all of those teams, I think, could potentially get there. And I definitely think the Browns are one of those teams that could potentially get there.


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[Assistant] And maybe have the most upside along with Jacksonville because of their quarterbacks to me. Very interesting. But we gotta see it. But I'm not putting them in that group until they prove it on the field.


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[Assistant] But to, to ultimately, for them to be a legitimate team to win a Super Bowl and win more than one playoff game, uh,


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[Assistant] Watson's going to have to play close to that level of play. He's gotta play at an MVP level.


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[Assistant] Last year lost one of the greatest receivers ever and still won the Super Bowl.


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[Assistant] All right, we were going to talk baseball to start. We are going to get to baseball with Tim Kirchen. Let's first send it to Anthony.


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[Assistant] I will get to Tim Kirch in a minute. Are you guys excited that, uh, DeShott, I know we're gonna talk about this later, but we just had a big conversation, so DeShott Watson working out with his teammates. How excited are we about it? I know Jay's excited.


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[Assistant] There's no proof that he's working harder than he should be or whatever. Like a couple of videos doesn't mean anything. I'm gonna assume that Sean Watson is working as hard as he needs to. Uh, videos don't


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[Assistant] Lack of videos don't disprove it. Videos don't prove it. I'm gonna give him the benefit of the doubt and say he's working his ass off because if he's as, uh, if he's as much a dog as I think he is,


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[Assistant] He's, he's embarrassed by the way he performed last year. Totally agree. And he wants to go shut everybody up that's dissing him. There was some idiot on Twitter yesterday, I don't know who it was, who, when I said that Deshaun Watson stunk last year, this guy went on Twitter and was like,


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[Assistant] Kirkchen of ESPN, the guardians of the three game series with the, with the, uh, Mets this weekend. Our old buddy will face our old buddy, Carlos Carrasco. And there's the great Tim Kirkchen of ESPN. Tim, how are you? Thank you for joining us.


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[Assistant] I'm well, fellas. How you doing? We're doing very well. By the way, Tim, I worked with your son, Jeff, at the radio station here in Cleveland for a number of years. So.


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[Assistant] Well, just don't let him go to New York. Even though I'm a born and raised New Yorker, I don't like any of the New York teams and I want them all to lose. So please keep him out of New York. That's it. Philadelphia's fine.


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[Assistant] Tim, uh, lot to get to with the Guardians. Obviously, they've had a very disappointing start to this season.


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[Assistant] They added Mike Zanino at Catcher. He's been a disaster.


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[Assistant] Let's start there at catcher. Bo Naylor is killing it in AAA right now. He had a cup of coffee last year, didn't do well, but he got barely any at bats. Are you surprised, you know, they called up Tanner Bybee, they called up Logan Allen, they've been more aggressive with bringing up their minor leaguers and not waiting, not being scared to start the clock.


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[Assistant] Are you surprised that they haven't gone with Bo Nailer because their catching production both offensively and defensively has been awful?


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[Assistant] And yet they, they obviously have some obvious needs. We've talked, you know, right field certainly potentially catcher if bow nailer ends up not being a long-term answer. What are you expecting from them in terms of trades? I know some of it has to do with


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[Assistant] Yeah, by the way, I think he'd look really good in, at Wrigley Field. Uh, is that the number? Is it 600 million? Is that what it, I mean, you have to, he's a great pitcher at a great hitter, right? I mean, could it be even over 600 million? I don't know. I mean, there's not, I don't know. Was that the guess?


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[Assistant] That is incredible. Uh, Tim, I, I want to, I want to ask you about Shane Bieber because he is pitching this weekend, obviously, and he's coming off his worst start to give him a ton of hits. His velocity's been down all year. How concerned should Guardians fans be about Shane Bieber right now?


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[Assistant] Tim, another team in this division, you mentioned the White Sox. You know, they made all these trades a few years ago. They got all these young players. Some of them have not panned out. They've had a lot of injuries. It seems like they have weird chemistry, bad defense.


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[Assistant] But they have a lot of chips potentially at the trade deadline. They probably have the most chips. So whether it's Dylan Cease, whether it's Moncada, Tim Anderson, are you expecting them to be big sellers at this deadline?


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[Assistant] I said they were going to break the Mets, you know, right, the 62 Mets were 40 and 120 and they're on pace for about 35, 37 wins now.


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[Assistant] The Rays have lost Springs for the year. They've lost Rasmussen for the year. Glassnow hasn't pitched yet. For, for Toronto, Alec Minow has been pretty awful so far. I, I picked him as my Cy Young. That looks really bad at the moment.


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[Assistant] And yet those teams are winning. It seems like whoever the Rays put into pitch, we talk about the Guardians developing pitching, the Rays are even better. It's like whoever they throw in there pitches well. It's crazy.


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[Assistant] Wild. Again, uh, Sunday Night Baseball, ESPN, the Guardians and Mets this, this Sunday. Baseball tonight before that. Tim, we really appreciate the time. Thank you so much for joining us. Thank you so much. Appreciate it.


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[Assistant] As Jason brought up yesterday, and he's right, so, you know, they did sign Zanino, but they didn't pay him that much money. And sometimes you're wrong. And it's okay. Sometimes you're wrong. Honestly, they're probably going to give him another week or so.


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[Assistant] But by June 1st, if Zanino hasn't turned it around, I'd cut him. Not, not. Just cut him? Yea, cause Cam, I'd rather have Cam Gallagher as a backup catcher.


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[Assistant] You know, so you leave him as your backup. And uhm, I think Zenino's shot. It looks like he's shot. Have you seen him in it? When they signed him, my concern was he had been a good power hitter in the past.


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[Assistant] And he had been a good defensive player in the past, but he had a really serious injury last year. And he's older.


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[Assistant] Red hot for two weeks, but now he looks completely done. How old is he?


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[Assistant] On, on April 10th, he had three hits. Then two, then three days later on the, uh, three games later, he had two hits on April 16th.


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[Assistant] Yeah, since April 16th, he has four hits. Four, and I think three of the four are singles.


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[Assistant] It's kind of crazy at this point. Like, the Guardians have been getting


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[Assistant] Essentially zero from catcher since Roberto Perez and Jan Gomes. And it's been a number of years since those guys now. And those guys gave you some production and those guys gave you a great defense.


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[Assistant] Hedges was useless. Melee is useless. At least Hedges gave you a good pitch call. Now Hedges, by the way, everybody's like he's great defensively. No, he was great at pitch calling. He couldn't throw anybody out either. And he couldn't hit.


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[Assistant] Yeah, but see, here's the thing, guys. I think you, I disagree. I don't think there's enough teams to do it, so we don't have enough of sample size. Here's the thing, they're not doing it though. Right. They're not, it's not, we said last year they hit for average and did all these golems. They're not doing that.


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[Assistant] I'm just gonna say it, I hate to say it, but as usual, I was right. I had my man Jay Crawford, and all the Miles Strawites.


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[Assistant] Nothing, you know, DH is better than last year, but catcher is worse, if you can believe that, uh, but it was crap ball. Centerfield, you're getting the same lousy nothing, and you get nothing out of right field last year, at least Oscar Gonzalez gave you a product.


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[Assistant] Uh, by the way, my man Anthony is gonna struggle with calling.


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[Assistant] At least you didn't pay that much. Not uncommon amongst community college students, but uh, nowadays you got good community colleges here with Lorraine County Community College. Not like the scrubby one I went to. Alright, we appreciate it. Let's talk about a couple of former Vikings.


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[Assistant] Now who are on the Browns? Uh, and the Browns acquired two of them now, but let's start with Alvin Tomlinson, who came first, uh, to, which was really the most important need for the Browns because they had nothing in defense of Dackle. How good do you, how good was he in Minnesota and how good do you expect him to be here?


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[Assistant] Matt, on, on June 2nd, is Dalvin Cook still on the Vikings?


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[Assistant] Speaking of the USFL, real quick before we get to Juan Thornhill, uhm,


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[Assistant] Yesterday I was out at T3, which is a great facility out in Avon.


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[Assistant] Well, yeaah, that's where I take Aaron for, he's been doing hitting and fielding practice for a while, but yesterday I took him for a, with a new coach for pitching for the first time. And the, and the coach Zach did, had a really interesting way of, uh,


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[Assistant] But anyway, it's a great place. And uhm, a lot of, if you're a die-hard Cleveland sports fan, you may remember this name I'm going to mention because I ran into him there yesterday because he works there.


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[Assistant] Well, first of all, Mike DeAndrea is the owner of T3, who was a legend in high school and played in Ohio State, dealt with injuries. Uh, but another guy who works there is a guy named Colin Taylor. So for those who don't know, Colin Taylor played football at Indiana.


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[Assistant] But then he was one of the, I don't know if you remember this, G, he was one of the wide receivers on the Cleveland Gladiators.


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[Assistant] I can't remember how many years it's been. But remember they played for the championship that one year was in Cleveland against the team from, uh, Phoenix.


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[Assistant] And the place was packed. It was at, you know, the Cavs Arena. Yep. Packed! I was at that game. It was awesome.


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[Assistant] But, uh, Colin, I ran into him yesterday. He now works at T3. Great dude. I did some play-by-play for the Gladiators, uh, one season when their reporter was traveling with the minor league hockey team because they had gone to the finals in hockey.


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[Assistant] So I got a chance to do a bunch of games. And Colin is a really awesome dude. And he's, uh, he just told me yesterday he's getting married in a few months. So congratulations to Colin Taylor. And if you, you know, anyway, so, uh, and T3 is a great place. So I just wanted to mention that real quick. Now, Juan Thornhill.