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Big Bent talks about the Lakers losing to the Timberwolves in Game 4 and how LeBron & Luka choked in the 4th quarter, the fallout of Shedeur Sanders' epic draft slide, Maller to the Third Degree, Insta-Advice Line, and more!

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expresspros dot com. Hopietti. Okay, we get at least you're here,
you survived, You're live. That's a that's half the battle.
So our lead this hour is from pro bouncy Ball,
the story that everyone's yapping about here. The Lakers given
the player, they didn't have to give up anything real
value to get Luca, and they are one loss away

(01:58):
now from lights out. Party's over. That's it, You're done.
And that is where we begin our sojourn around pro
bouncy Ball. We start out in Minneapolis, where the Timberwolves
looking to go up three games to one against the Lakers,
who are trying to even up the books there. And
I don't know if you were watching this, maybe half
stuff going on. You actually want to go out and

(02:19):
see the outside and hang out with people and not
sitting on your ass and watch basketball on television all weekend.
I don't know what you got going on, but perhaps
you missed it. We were watching so Jaden Daniels coming
up big a three point play with under a minute
to go. In fact, under forty seconds, thirty nine and
a half seconds on the clock, and that right there

(02:41):
for the lead for the Timberwolves. And then the inbounds
back Lebron that season veteran, that's a rookie mistake by
Lebron James. Turn the ball over and sure enough that
was it. See you later there as Minnesota rallies back
and they get to win one, sixteen to one, thirteen

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to the final over the helpless Lakers, and now the
Timberwolves are up three games to one. Anthony Edwards the
ant man. He had that big D energy, not the
little D. He had the big D energy right there,
forty three points. He also drew a controversial foul from
Lebron James during a drive to the basket. There are

(03:25):
about ten seconds to go in the game. More on
that later. He converted both foul shots and so the
Lakers had one last opportunity. Austin Reeves took a final shot,
and that was the guy, not Luca, not Lebron. They
couldn't draw up a play to get those guys a shot.
So Austin Reeves took the final shot. Clankety klank. It

(03:48):
rimmed out and that's it. The Lakers now facing their
last supper in the NBA playoffs, the better story is
in the losing locker room, and so that is where
we will begin. And the question for the Esteem panel,
which you are a part of, how do you explain
the play down the stretch by Lebron and Luca for

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the Lakers. The whole argument was, if you have Lebron
and Luca on the court together, You're not going to
lose a close game. You're not going to be the
lesser team with those two geniuses on the court, the
maestros of the basketball world. And yet the Lakers have
lost close games multiple times here already in this playoff series.

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So my thoughts on this, I've got Squish Mellows mental manager,
and Demi Lovado and we will combine all of these
things together and we're going to make a delicious, juicy
Lucy is what we're gonna make. Just chef's kiss, all right?
So number what I said, number, So, how do you

(04:54):
explain the play of Lebron and Luca in clutch time
for the Lakers? Well, you explained, I got if it's
a rhetorical question or not. But the Lakers move a
ten point lead in the fourth quarter on the Mallor
report card. On the Mallor report Card, they did not
get an A, A B, A C, A D, an
E or an F. They got an I, an I

(05:16):
rating on the malle report card for ick factor. The
ick factor was there for these two down the stretch,
and I loved every second of it. Man was that
fun to watch? God? Was that great? I enjoyed. Man.
I wanted to watch it again and again and again
and again. Lebron and Luca they played the entire second half,
They played, obviously the entire fourth quarter, play every minute
of the second half. And yet in the fourth quarter,

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each of them did the thing you can't do with
the time. You can't do it down the stretch run
of this game, they combined in the fourth quarter took
eight shots, made one of them. That's a twelve point
five shooting percentage from the floor. Lebron was the shampoo guy,
head and shoulders, head and shoulders above everyone else. At

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his worst, when the game meant the most down the stretch,
there sucking at a time you cannot suck. Lebron made
as many field goals, as many field goals as you
had and I had in the fourth quarter of that game,
that would be buckus none zero, And like a good
starting pitcher, Lebron pitched a shutout in the fourth quarter,

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man only a couple of shots, but no points. No points.
In the fourth quarter, he took a moneyball shot while
standing roughly five feet from Duluth. He was pretty far
out there near the logo at mid court, which is
not ideal. If you don't make it, it's not ideal. It's

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an error. And it was an error. And then of
course compounded the mistake with the foul on Anthony Edwards
there on the turn up. So the most experienced player
in the NBA and he coughs up a fur ball
with that turnover. Now the bigger issue here, though, is

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if you look at key pressure situations for the Lakers
in this series against Minnesota, what has been the common
denominator in these games? The games have been close for
the most part. Hey, there was an early on blow up,
But if you look at the fourth quarter game on

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the line, Lebron and Luca have been squish mellows down
the stretch, the raggedy Ann raggedy Ann version if you
will here, Now, what is my supporting evidence. Let's go
to the stats. Now, the eyeball test says these guys
have been bad, But what is the supporting evidence to
back up the eyeball test. So here's the supporting evidence.
Let's go to the numbers. Luca in the fourth quarter

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in this series against the Timberwolves has taken seventeen shots.
He's missed twelve of them. He's shooting twenty nine point
four percent from the floor in the fourth quarter of
playoff games. And while he's been on the court, the
Lakers have been outscored in the fourth quarter by thirty
one points by the Timberwolves. Luca Man somewhere, Nico Harrison

(08:06):
has a cheshire cat smile from earedear Toja. Told Ja
he's a fattie. He's not in shape, all right. How
about Lebron, Oh, God, greatest of all time, Lebron sick
of fans will tell you that Lebron is so much
better than Michael Jordan, a gift from the gods. Well,
in the fourth quarter here, Lebron James, who's a freak

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of nature, has taken twenty shots in the fourth quarter
in the series, and he's missed thirteen of the twenty,
shooting thirty five percent, which compared to Luca's pretty good. However,
while he's been on the court in this series, the
Lakers have been outscored by thirty four points plus minus
in the fourth quarter, So combined Luca and Lebron while
they've been on the court, a minus sixty five on

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the plus minus while they've been out there all right,
now take that, Yeah, there you go. Put that in
your pipe and smoking all right now, page two. The
big storyline against after is people were up in arms.
How could the Lakers play all of their guys this
entire second half? JJ Reddick getting put on blast the

(09:10):
coach podcaster of the Lakers. Now, where do you stand?
Where do you stand on Jj Redick getting absolutely killed
for playing the same five guys the entire twenty four
minutes of the second half. So my position on this
is pretty simple. We know how this works. Reddick was

(09:32):
hired as a the asole to Lebron. James Reddick is
doing what Lebron tells him to do. It's not that
difficult to figure out. Lebron has always had sock puppets
as coaches other than Eric Spoulster, and that didn't go
so well in Miami. There was a loggerhead situation, actually

(09:52):
more with pat Riley. But if you look at it here,
Reddick has no business being a coach, and I think
most of us know going in that he's a a
bit of a fraud as a head coach, and he's
been exposed here unorthodox. But he's just doing In this case,
it's you're just following the wisdom of Lebron. You're you're
a middle manager, that's what you are, and you're taking

(10:16):
your cues from Lebron. He's your podcast BFF, right, whatever
Lebron wants, Lebron ye blah blah, blah blah blah. That said,
on this one, I'm actually okay with it. Like I'm
not gonna kill Reddick for playing the guys the entire
second half. I'm not. Uh. And and here's the thing

(10:36):
is that mantra in sports you dance with the one
who brought you. And this was for essentially elimination. The
way the Lakers played it, They're not gonna come back.
They have no chance. Like you don't play your starters
the entire second half. If you think you can lose
that game and still come back and win, that is
an admission from the Lakers. We're cooked, like we had

(10:57):
to win this game. We will play our guys because
we we lose this game, we're not winning the series,
and so by losing that game, it's over. But you
went down with the players that were your you thought
your five top players out And as far as the
oh my god, some of the things that have been
said by blowhards in the media and fanboys, it is

(11:21):
it just it's wild. They think this is like some
kind of Iron Man competition and these guys were in
a decathlon, playing all twenty four minutes in an NBA
playoff game, and I'm like, really, first of all, these
are supposed to be world class athletes. Okay, that's the
first part. Secondly, have you ever been to an NBA game?
You know me, timeouts they're on an NBA game, There's

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there's built in TV timeouts, there's actual timeouts for strategy
for each team. There's downtime when teams are shooting fashas,
there's a lot of downtime. Like the idea that you
are playing this grueling, unbelievable test of the athletic the
human body, and it's just nonsense. It's just now I know,

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it's not the norm to play every single minute. But again,
JJ Reddick and Lebron would not have done this if
they thought they had a chance to come back and
win the series without winning that game. You don't do that. Now.
The other part of it, which is really amusing to me,
is they're not the only ones that played down the starts,

(12:25):
like in the fourth quarter. Anthony Edwards, Julius Randall and
Jade mcdani's played all twelve minutes in the fourth quarter.
But really what this accomplished is it's a not so
subtle way of calling out Rob Polinka, who just got
an extension because Nico Harrison handed him Luka Donzik and
and so it's a flawed group, that's what JJ Reddick

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and his boss Lebron are saying. It's a flawed group
and they don't trust the piecemeal roster that they only
trusted five players on the roster in the second half
of what was essentially an elimination game. And so that's it.
But imagine, if you will, being handed for a broken
down unibrow, and that's about it, being handed Luca, and

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yet you get this thing on a silver platter and
you're still about to be eliminated in the first round
of plus. That's fascinating to me. It's not good enough.
Like what do you need? What do you need the
Greek freak? Does he have to come in there next?
Like who else you need? How many other players do
you have to get on your hands? It's just it's absurd.
But here we are all right now turning the page.

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So let's go to the Eastern Conference early game on Sunday,
early game in Motown, and you had Carl Anthony Towns
kitty kat who remember he did nothing in the second half.
I think it was Game two, just completely missed. Carl
Anthony Towns made the go ahead three pointer in this game.

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Another controversial finish here. There was less than a minute
ago forty six point six seconds on the game. He
finished with twenty seven points and Jalen Brunson getting it
done thirty two points, eleven assists. The Knickerbockers get past
the Pistons by the skin on their chinny chin chin
ninety four to ninety three, so they take a three

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games to one lead on the brink of advancing to
the second round of the playoffs. The controversy here, if
you saw it, you know what I'm about to bring
up Tim Hardaway Junior. Tim Hardaway Junior a rebound pass
out Kyd Cunningham missed the shot. They got the ball
out to Tim Hardaway Junior for a three point shot
just before the buzzer, and he was slammed. There was

(14:41):
contact with Josh Hart of New York and it wasn't
called a foul. They did not call it a foul
at the end of the game. There were no whistles there.
And sure enough, it turns out after the fact in
a pool report somebody named David Guthrie. We're not sure
who that it is. We were told he's the crew

(15:02):
chief for that particular game. So David Guthrie said afterwards,
bad job by us. We should have called the foul.
We screwed up. We fed up. Yes, postgame review they
said we observed that heart made body contact. That's just
the New York guard Josh Hart made body contact that

(15:24):
is more than marginal on Tim Hardaway Junior, and a
foul should have been called. Had the foul been called,
the Pistons would have gone to the foul line for
not one, not two, but three foul shots down by
one and would have had the lead and likely won
the game. So what does this referee admission of bad

(15:47):
job by us. We blew the foul call due for JD.
Bickerstaff and the Pistons. Okay, so this is like, hey,
I know you were gonna win the lottery, but you know,
I we just we didn't actually process your your request
for those numbers. The machine broke and it's it just

(16:08):
is bupkus. Right, it's bupcus, is what it's the NBA
playing the Demi Lovado song. Sorry, not sorry, the v
We're sorry, but we're really not that sorry. Yeah, we're
not that sorry. Detroit can read the sign on the
cash register if they want. All sales are final. All
sales are final and no refunds, no exchanges. That's it.

(16:34):
And you can sulk all you want, it's not changing
and the call stands. You're screwed. So that's essentially what
all that means. Like like you come on and say,
it's like, okay, it's like this whole two minute report
thing that they've had for a number of years now
in the NBA. It's just pouring salt on the wound,
is what it is. It's just pouring salt on the wound.

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That's all it is.

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Our long national nightmare came to an end over the weekend.
The player Nobody wanted was finally picked. Wel come in
the beginning of another hour of the Ben Malor Show.
We are in the air everywhere as we talk continuously,
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so our lead this hour. By the way, before we
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should be. So our lead this hour is from the
NFL Draft, and last I checked, there are no more picks.
It went on and on and on. Might got that
thing would not end, and we really only cared about
the first round of the draft. But it kept going.
It started with cam Ward, who has no juice. There's

(18:39):
no buzz about cam Ward, who was the number one
Morell pick in the draft. So cam Ward went to
the Tennessee Times at number one. We saw that back
on Thursday at Lambeau and it went all the way
down to the Patriots taking someone named Kobe Minor, defensive
back from Memphis, mister irrelevant. He was the final pick,

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two hundred and fifty seventh. Overall, two hundred and fifty
seven players were selected, and that's it. Now. The most
talked about player was not anyone drafted in the first round.
It wasn't anyone drafted in the second round, or the
third round or even the fourth round. I assume you
know the most talked about player. You consume some of this,

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but maybe you're a little slow. You don't know. So
the Cleveland rounds finally selected Shadur Sanders in the fifth round,
the fifth round of four rounds, later than every mock
draft had said he was going to be picked. Following
the plunge in his draft status, Shader Sanders took an

(19:49):
actual plunge. He reacted by dancing around and running and
jumping into a swimming pool at what appeared to be
a resort style home seemingly paid for by his daddy,
Dion Sanders. All right, so the one hundred and forty
fourth player picked one hundred and forty You got to
keep the ore going, man, You got to keep the

(20:10):
ore even when you picked number one forty four. And
there are reports saying he had a massive party with
all these influencers and rappers. People you really don't want
to hang out with the influencers, and they all got
together and they had a grand time at a grand time. Now,
many conspiracy theorists have decided, they've determined that even this
pick at number one forty four was not kosher. There

(20:33):
was some funny business going on that the owner stepped
in for Cleveland and directed the Browns to make a
trade to get the pick that turned out to be
Shader Sanders. In the fifth round the sun of Primetime,
So let us discuss I love a good conspiracy theory,
so let's talk about it. Thumbs up or thumbs down,

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thumbs up, thumbs down on the Browns owner Jimmy haslam
medling with Shader Sanders and making sure that the Browns
pictured Sanders in the fifth round. So I've got circle,
k Oscar de la Joya, and bonfire, and we will
combine all of these things together and we are going

(21:15):
to make an over rated chant. Over rated right, so
a to answer the question thumbs up thumbs down on
the owner of the Browns directing the team to take
the player thumbs up. I'm going thumbs up on this.
And while we have no direct evidence, we have a

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lot of circumstantial elevenents, and you can be convicted on
circumstantial evidence. You can't. There's plenty of clues, plenty of them,
and my supporting evidence on my claim. I call it circle.
K kinesis, if you will K for kinesis body language,
the study of body movements in the art of the

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non verbal communication. Gestures, facial expressions, posture, eye contact, all
that stuff nonverbal clues. And in a clip that has
gone viral. You have the general manager on the right
of the screen, Andrew Barry, and then on the other
side you've got Kevin Stefanski on the left side of

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the screen, and neither one of them hid the fact
that it looked like they were suffering from nausea as
the pick was being made Jadur Sanders the announcement on
television candid camera. We had a candid camera moment there,
and it caught both these knuckleheads sitting there looking like
they were about to have an aneurysm, like, oh man,

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we're screwed, we are so cooked. This is not good now.
In particular, Andrew Berry, the GM of the Cleveland Browns,
he looked, as the late great Brian Wheeler would say, distressed,
distraught and devastated by the pick of Shadura Sanders there
and Cleveland had passed over Shadur Sanders not once, not twice,

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not three times, not four times, not five, how about
six times? They picked six other Jabe Brownies in the
draft before they ended up picking Shadu Sanders, So they
six picks didn't want the guy. But wait, there's more,
But wait, there's more. The Browns owner has a history.

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If you look at what this guy, this guy has done.
It's not out of bounds to think that this is
exactly what happened. You look at the body language of
Andrew Berry, and I get it. If you spend a
billion dollars, these are just toys for rich people, These
sports teams, and so you spend a billion dollars and
you want to treat it like a rotisserie football team,

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go ahead. The Browns are the first team in the
Common Draft era to take two quarterbacks and two running
backs in the first five rounds. It had never happened
in the Common Draft era. Did this come from the
Hobo Express? Remember Jimmy Haslam, the owner of the Browns,
famously said a homeless man convinced him to take Johnny

(24:10):
Manzelle years ago and said that that was the deciding fact.
So who knows, Maybe somebody down on skid Row is
advising the Browns to take Shadur Sanders And there you go,
all right, now, page two, Will Shader Sanders get a
legitimate chance to start in Cleveland? He's a fifth round

(24:32):
draft pick and he was the second quarterback selected. So
he said, a fifth round pick, Probably not. I'm gonna
answer it by saying it's complicated. We are talking about
the Superstore of Sadness. We changed the name over the weekend,
rare and appropriate. I jumped on these social media I
don't normally do that. Some time. I jumped on there

(24:53):
for some instant hot takes after the Shaddur Sanders pick
was made. And it's no longer the Factory of Sadness.
It's the Superstore of SATs and is there in Cleveland
the nuclear fallout zone. The Browns quarterback room you talk
about suffering from overcrowding. Man, they are packed in there
like sardines. At this point, there's already chatter that Joe

(25:13):
Flacco elite quarterbacks going to retire. But you got Joe Flacco,
the creepy quarterback, Deshaun Watson. He's heard Dylan Gabriel from Oregon,
who famously said he hated playing in cold weather. Well,
I'm sure it doesn't get cold in Cleveland in November
and December, not in January. Not that they make the playoffs.
So you've got Dylan Gabriel and he was the guy

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picked ahead of Sherdharah Sanders. That's a lot. You've got
Kenny Pickett also in there, So you got a whole lot. Now,
despite all that I mentioned, it's complicated. If my hypothesis
is correct that this was the meddling owner of the
Cleveland Browns, that the man who made his money on
truck stops, the Flying Jay truck stop mogul. If the

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owner here was really behind this, then I have to say,
Shouldar Sanders will absolutely get a chance to start by
mid season in Cleveland because he becomes the Oscar de
la Joya of the Browns. He is the golden boy
of the Cleveland Browns, right handpicked by the owner, and
everyone's talking about the Browns and maybe owners love that, right,

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and we go to those cocktail parties with other rich people,
Jimmy Haslam and every Oh, well you drafted Chaudur. Is
you gonna play? Of of course he'll play. Don't worry
about that. Don't worry about that. If that's correct, then
he's got the inside track. Should he's got the inside
track to start. Now, last word, so what is the
main fallout from Shouldeur sanders catastrophic fall in the NFL draft?

(26:43):
Don't of catastrophic is the right way to describe it.
We don't have any real empathy for Shudur Sanders. It
made for good television over the weekend, and he came
for money. He's living a charm life and he'll continue
to live a charm life. He doesn't really change his
situation all. It's embarrassing. If the NFL was trying to
teach him a lesson, it appears they did not teach

(27:05):
him a lesson because of the way that he reacted.
He did not seem to be all that bothered by anything.
And that's it. Everything happens for a reason. You probably
heard that, maybe your parents or some relative told you
that when you're growing up, everything happens for a reason.
But sometimes the reason. Sometimes the reason is you're stupid
and you make bad decisions. That's why it happens, right,
and Shader Sanders putting the pieces together, the clues that

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are out there his epic collapse. While it is not
only because of him, he enhanced the negativity, if you will,
with his smarmy arrogance and it made things worse. He
treated the whole draft process or process like a nuisance.

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And all those arenysome reports. Remember the people, Oh, I
can't believe these anonymous reports. This is a celebration how
dare you put it? Turns out they're all right, all
those anonymous that Shoudur Sanders was king of the douches right.
He was at the very top of the a hole card.
And he treated the gms and the coaches that he
did talk to like they were below him, like they

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were peasants. And the result of that is the NFL
community said, Okay, you're not good enough to do that,
and we are not going to bother to take you
early on right, and that you are the He treated
the people that make these decisions like the dregs of society,

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the lowest to the low and he skipped the combine workout.
He was arrogant. If you get how could you disagree
with these reports based on he was drafting the fifth round.
So the NFL coaches and gms and they made an
example out of him, and Shouldhur Sanders is the new
cautionary tale. Now in my life, there have been several
players that fell down. When I was a kid, there

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was a guy named Dan Marino who apparently loved cocaine
and other party stuff in the eighties and when everyone
was doing coke and drafted much later than he should
have been By the Miami Dolphins, and people said at
the time is because of this, and that was before
the draft was a big deal, and they said he
fell down Aaron Rodgers. There have been other examples, but
now the gold standard is Shoulder sand That this is it.

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Like any other player that falls down, perceived value in
the draft will be compared. Well, it could be worse.
You could be shoot Are sand you could be Shoder Sanders.
And the issue again is he was not good enough
in college to overcome the smugness. If the same body

(29:38):
of work had been there and he had a ability
level like any of the greats in the draft, go
down the list of the players perceived to be can't
miss in NFL history. If he had that, he still
would have been drafted in the top five. But when
you combine the fact that he's an a hole, he's arrogant,

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and he's all really not all that good in terms
of his skill set as it relates to the NFL,
then you've got just what happened. You've got the perfect
storm here. And the scouts noted that he does not
have an elite arm in terms of NFL. By NFL standards,
he's not elite he's inconsistent with his accuracy on those

(30:21):
shorter throws, which is pretty much most of the throws
in the NFL, those little short throws. So you've got that,
and it was also red meat. The other thing was
really annoying was we were told over and over by
the race baters and the media that this is a
race issue, over and over again. And I get it.
They're engagement farming, and people get worked into a ladder
over that stuff. Was pretty ridiculous. Anybody with common sense

(30:45):
knows that was not the issue involved in this. But
the bottom line here to put a price tag on
how much being an a hole cost to der Sanders.
Over forty million dollars, okay, over forty million dollars. How
much this Jabroni lost if you believe the mock drafts.
All right, he had an unpermitted bonfire Shaudur Sanders involving

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wealth that could have conceivably been his based on the
mock drafts. He turned gold into ashes over the weekend
and then jumped in a pool to celebrate. And when
it was all done, Because again he comes from a
rich family, Dion made a lot of money in the NFL.
He's living in a resort style home in Texas and
all that Shauldur Sanders slide cost him roughly forty one

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million in contract money had he been selected where he
was originally supposed to be selected. So that is a
very expensive lesson which was not learned, which was not
learned by Shouldarth Sanders. And now the beat will go on,
This will continue on and on and on. If you'd
like to comment about any of that, you can join
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ninety nine on Fox eight seven seven nine nine six
six three six', nine he was not the only one
that was drafted lower or not drafted at. All Quinn,
yours The texas quarterback looked like he had had his
dog stolen when he was selected BY i believe The Miami.

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Dolphins there was not very happy with. That he thought
he would be drafted much higher and could have stayed in.
College that's the other thing too about, This Like Shuder,
sanders if he had stayed At, colorado would have in,
college would have made more money than he's going to
make on his rookie. Contract so it's it's break it

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down that.

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Speaker 3 (32:45):
Pacific here we're, going we're about that to the third.
Degree this is one Big ben gets, quailed all, Right.

Speaker 4 (32:55):
Coopolo so The eagles lost a couple key pieces of
their secondary and the off season when the trade AT.
Cj Gardner johnson and they Cut Darius. Slay, however they
were reportedly in talks to trade For Jalen. Ramsey, ben
how important do you think it is for The eagles
to pull this trade.

Speaker 1 (33:09):
Off, well it's a good, name it's a good, name
but it's a player who's he is teetering on the
brink in his. Career you look at his performance with The.
Dolphins was he was hurt quite a bit recently in
terms of dinged up and. Whatnot and you, know you
don't have to make that move that The steelers or The.
Eagles rather The eagles you talk about the swagger and

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all that. Stuff they're still gonna have it whether they
Get Jalen ramsey or. Not and the fact that he's
unhappy In. Miami the, guy he's a he's a soldier
of fortune. Cood he bounces, Around he's never happy more
than a couple of years anywhere he. Goes he was
happy with The, rams then they started, losing unhappy same In.
Miami So i'm gonna say he's not crucial to the

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to The eagles. Next so The.

Speaker 4 (33:52):
Oklahoma City thunder completed a dominant sweep of The Memphis
grizzlies over the. Weekend do you think they now have
to be taken seriously as title?

Speaker 1 (33:59):
Content, no they beat a number eight. Seed Jahn morant was,
hurt and so. No if now they beat The clippers
in the second, round then we're onto something because that's
a legitimate, team The clippers and a couple Of hall
Of famers And James harden And Kawhi. Leonard so then
we can revisit. This but you don't get extra. Credit
they were supposed to Beat memphis.

Speaker 4 (34:21):
Next after The heat got blown out by The cavs
In game three and are set to be swept On.
Monday many fans took dexts to call Pat riley overrated
in the front office and that it's time for.

Speaker 1 (34:30):
The heat to move on From riley Ben are they? Right,
well Pat riley for me is a, legend AND i
know a lot of young people he's, old he's a,
boomer he's washed up and all. THAT i the heat
will get another they'll Get yannis this, up so he'll be.
Fine how do we do, It? Coop he, passes, yes
oh not because of Pat. Riley this is the. Weather
like the weather there In miami and as.

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there were many people that gave, advice Like, gunner SAID
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if you watched any of THE nfl, draft our guy
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needed a safe. Space Mel, kiper who was cheerleading all
weekend For Shirder sanders and was bemused at the end
of the draft a very. Upset so advice to a
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Draft he was not picked until the fifth round and

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only because The browns owner stepped in and medled with
the front, office And kuiper had a meltdown on. Television
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