March 15, 2020 • 50 mins
Ariel Epstein and Jared Smith continue to examine the latest NFL news updates including the latest on free agency and Ryan Tannehill. Then, they talk about the latest Coronavirus updates, NCAA tournament brackets and more.
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I'm Ari l Epstein here in mid Doown, Manhattan at
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Studio thirty four. I love the NFL. I love it.
It's just everything that the NFL does. It makes me
so happy because we are without sports right now. We're
completely postponing sports for the foreseeable future. Yet the NFL
has not changed the vote for the c b A,
which got approved today. Legal tampering is allowed technically tomorrow,
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but we're seeing it happen today and then on Wednesday
is free agency for the NFL, and everything is starting
to heat up. NFL saying we don't care that the
rest of the sports world un balls where not where
the NFL. We're taking over the world again. We're seeing
now Dana Rossini and Adam Schefter tweeting that the Titans
and the Ryan Tannehill, their quarterback, are now on the
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verge of a new multi year extension that would prevent
Tennessee from using its franchise tag on the quarterback and
keep him as the team starter moving forward. Per sources,
Jared Tannehell looks like he's about to sign that multi
year deal. We talked about it an hour ago, but
it looks like it's coming to fruition right now with
the Titans. Great. UH and again, the c b A
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is something when you talk about roster limits and roster
expansion and roster construction. You only have one franchise tag now,
so you can't just be giving those out to everybody.
You've got to be very strategic with where you use
your franchise tag. And obviously the Titans have decided that
they don't want to use it on Ryan Tannehill, and
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they have made their decision, at least according to these sources.
UH and I am I. I applaud them for acting
so quickly and eliminating clearing the deck a little bit
for Tom Brady uh and making this decision. I don't
know if it will be easier decision, but it will
be slightly less cluttered. Uh. If one of the teams says, Nope,
we're good Tom, We've got Ryan right here. Yeah. Interesting
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that all of this stuff is coming out now and
it looks as if the NFL officials don't really you know.
There there was a little speculation about a day or
two ago as I was listening to other radio shows
and people were saying, well, it seems a little weird
to be having NFL players signing these contracts for big
money during a time where people are losing jobs, being
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laid off or not working because of the coronavirus. And
we sat on the morning after people shouldn't care. At
least it's news, and it's something about the sports world
going on, and it's a it's something to talk about.
But that's I think from our perspective. What is your
what are your thoughts right now on the way that
coronavirus is breaking out and it's affecting so many people. However,
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the NFL's signing their players to multi year deals for
millions of dollars. I think it's business as usual. The
NFL needs to continue to conduct their business as they
normally would, as normal as they possibly can. Um everything
needs to be can I mean, can you imagine if
factories that are making all these hand sanitizers and wipes decided,
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you know what, We're gonna take a break for a
couple of weeks because we need a chill. Like the
world needs to continue business as usual as much as possible,
as safely as possible. And the NFL signing players is
not putting anyone at risk by putting pen to paper
as long as they've sanitized that pen before they write
with it. Uh So, I'm fine with the NFL conducting
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business as usual as long as it's done in a
safe and respectable manner. So we saw a couple of
years ago in Major League Baseball where Manny Machado and
Bryce Harper set the market for baseball free agency world.
Do you think Tom Brady is that is that piece
this year in the NFL? Is he going to set
the NFL free agency market? Are we, like, are we
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going to have to wait for him to get signed
before anyone else moves along? Yes? And no, I think yes,
because he's the biggest name that will fall. But because
of his age, I don't think he will set the market,
meaning other quarterbacks are not going to be Their contracts
will not be graded based on how much or how
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little they are close to Brady's. I think Patrick Mahomes,
if and when he does resign, will be the first
one to set the market of what a frank new
era of collective there you go. Uh So he will
be the first person to uh really set this new
market because he's gonna be the first real big name
quarterback that will get a big time contract. I would guess,
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uh that would be uh the person to kind of
reset this market. I think tom is Is is an
intriguing name, and it's a name that we will be
very keeping, very close eyes on. But I don't think
he's going to set the market from a financial standpoint,
just because his contract will not be what Mahomes gets,
what Prescott gets because of just the age difference between
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those players. Good point and the clubs informed for the
new CBA for the twenty season, the overall player costs
per club two hundred forty two point nine million. Salary
cap is one point two million. The rest is benefits
and performance based playpool. So the salary cap for nine
point two million, what are your thoughts on the cap.
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I hope it's big enough to sign some of these guys,
because you're talking about a thirty million dollar contract for
Dak Prescott. You know, that's about a third a little
little a little more than a quarter of or excuse
me no, and a little more than an eighth of
that salary. So one player out of fifty three getting
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about one seventh of the money. It sounds a little
disjointed to me, but you know, and there's ways to
offset it. And actually that's part of the c b
A is uh figuring out ways to hide money, I
guess launder salary cap money so it's not as big
of a hit in one specific year and it gets
spread out. And I applaud the NFL for being able
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to do that because it would be a disaster if
you get these contracts that are so big that they,
you know, eat up so much bandwidth of someone's salary
cap that they can't go out and sign another players.
But again, that is the current state of the NFL.
The NFL is in a state now where the quarterbacks
get the big piece of the of of the big
piece of chicken, and everyone else gets gets the scraps.
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And that's just that's just the league that we're in now.
The quarterback position, who's that much weight? So I want
to move on to college basketball. But just to update
everyone who might be tuning back in the c B
A for the NFL was approved, So the new CBA passes.
Ryan Tannehill looks like he's going to be signing a
multi year deal with the Tennessee Titans, and the Baltimore
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Ravens are supposedly signing defensive end clay Is Campbell coming
over from the Jacksonville Jaguars for a fifth round pick
in the year. So those are the things in the
NFL that have been going on today. And players no
longer will also be tested well, they won't be suspended
from the league for testing positive for marijuana. Now I
feel like I have to say coronavirus, but no, marijuana
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is now legal in the NFL. Um So moving into
college basketball and just the selection Sunday is today are
supposed to be today. What are your thoughts on the
show still going on just to show the players and
the teams where they would have ended up in the bracket.
I'm against it. I think that's that's the biggest tease
ever to do that. I think it's okay if you
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sent a bracket to the teams and they saw it,
But I think to go through the whole you know,
pageantry of a show all for nothing, I think is
totally pointless. If you want to release a bracket and
send it out and we all look at it, that's fine, um,
but I think it's a waste of time and a
waste of money, and you're you're asking graphics, producers and
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hosts and you know, stage managers to go in and
do this when they really should be home with their
families making sure their situation is settled. If you want
the n C double A to tweet out of bracket,
that's fine. I can handle that. But to go through
the entire pomp and circumstance of putting together a selection
show today, I think is totally unnecessary and it's totally
contradictory of what we should be focusing on right now,
which is keeping ourselves safe, keeping ourselves isolated, and making
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sure that we can be as you know, insulated from
this as we possibly can, making everyone down to Turner
Studios go in and do this selection show. I think
is a complete and utter waste of time. And I
think it's totally ridiculous if they do it. I don't
think going to but it is ridiculous if they do. Well,
We're already people are working today and we see that
people are on air on multiple television networks. So I
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don't know if I don't know if saying that, you know,
it's hard to say. You obviously want people to stay home,
but there are people working. We're working. People let other
networks are working and putting on shows. Maybe it's the
manpower that it would require, but at least it is
content and it's something that I don't It's a tough
situation to be in, it really is. I don't have
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on a skeleton crew here though, so it's not like
we've got our entire stat I mean, we were down
to one producer today, and I think the goal of
this is to is to is to lessen what we
have to do and not expanding. So you know, you're
you're you're asking if they should put on a show
for an event that's not happening. No, it's unnecessary. I
think it's unnecessary. I just think that these coaches all
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came together and said that they wanted the players to
have some closure. And if it's some ing that the
coaches wanted and the players wanted, I don't see it
being a problem for just showing the teams where they
would have ended up in the bracket. Well, you can
release the bracket, but you don't have to put a
whole show on the air for it. That's that's my point.
That's true. I think that there should be a bracket
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at least to show the players and give them the experience.
But then again, teams probably aren't having their players do
a watch party either. You can't have a watch party
with the team, right, and you can't be showing those off.
So it does defeat the purpose of watching the teams
get all excited for where they ended up in the bracket.
I have no problem though, with them releasing a bracket
to say, hey, this is where you ended up. Give
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Rutgers the closure that they probably that they probably got in.
Let team see, like a seton Hall who it was
gonna be one of its highest seedings in well history.
Let them see that they accomplished that goal. There are
certain teams. You know, for a team like a Duke
and a team like a Michigan State, if they got
a one seat or a two seed, I don't think
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it really matters to them. It's for those smaller schools,
the mid majors that that I would be excited for
them to be able to see their names pop up
on the bracket. But were The thing that makes it
kind of not complete to me, and why I wouldn't
want to see it is is we don't have the
full picture area. We don't know. You know, a lot
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of these teams were playing for bids this week and
they didn't get to play, So you're releasing a bracket
on of the information, So it's not a complete bracket.
So I just I think it'd be a hollow thing
if if if you want to do it, I mean,
I'm not against it, but if you're gonna put all
this manpower together and do a full show, and it's
just not it's a very hollow feeling. I personally, I
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don't want to see it. I'm at But then again
that's me. I'm an out of sight, out of mind person. Uh,
And I know we have to talk about something, so
we're gonna talk about, you know, Lenardi's bracket, which is
not an official bracket, but it still gives us something
to talk about. But it's not a complete bracket because
we don't know if Xavier would have gotten in. They
lost to uh to default the night before that they
cancel the tournament. They were a bubble team like where
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they have gotten in well, and we don't know. We
don't know what the other teams would have done. So
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now al welcome inside at the window. Jared Smith at
the Vandal Sports Book. I'm Ariyo lif Steen here at
Studio thirty four, and it was supposed to be selection
Sunday in college basketball. However, with the post Woman of
Sports and the cancelation of the nt Double A tournament,
along with all spring sports at the college level, we're
not going to see teams go into the March Badness ries. However,
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there is a chance that we could see a potential bracket.
We do have Joe Leonardi's bracket to work off of. Jared,
You've been following Leonardi for the last couple of months
now and the way that the bracket was going to
fall out. What are you seeing in Leonardi's latest bracket? Well,
it was the bracket that he posted a few days
ago when we pretty much I knew that everything was
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gonna get canceled and and Joe just said, all right,
I'm gonna put this out there, and man, oh man.
I would have loved to be in Albany next Thursday
night when Penn State plays either NC State or u
C l A, but unfortunately that's not gonna happen. Um.
A couple of things stick out to me. First of all,
my sleepers would have definitely been Liberty against Auburn. Love
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that matchup. Liberty would have been seven and a half
point dogs against Auburn. I would have been all over
the flames in that one UM. A couple of interesting
one seeds that caught my eye. You had Dayton in
the same bracket UH as Maryland, which would have been
an interesting matchup I think. I think Maryland's bigs would
have given Tapping some problems, so that would have been
the first one seed I would have expected to go down.
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And then you had Michigan State and Baylor in the
same bracket. That would have been an Elite eight matchup UH,
which I thought would have been a fascinating matchup. That
would have been to me, the dream scenario for me
because I've been pouting Michigan State for weeks and I
do believe that Baylor is the weakest of the one
seeds in terms of their offense, and Michigan State would
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have came out of that bracket UH and into the
final four. Virginia as the sixth seed in the region
with Kansas would have been fascinating. I don't know if
the Cavaliers would have gotten that far, but I would
have been interested to see because those are probably the
two best defensive teams in the country, Kansas and Virginia,
and that game might not have gotten to forty, they
would have played. I do think Kansas had a favorable draw. UH.
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They had Duke in San Diego State as the other
two top seeds in that region. UH, and I think
those are the two weaker of the of those seeds. UH.
Kentucky and Gonzaga as as a possible Elite eight matchup
would have been very fascinating to me as well. UH.
And Oregon UH in the same region as Dayton would
have been excuse me, in the same region as Gonzaga
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would have been fascinating as well. To see an Oregon
Gonzaga Sweet sixteen matchup I think would have been very interesting.
But again this is this is just all all UH speculation. UM,
I don't necessarily think any of these teams. If you
were to ask me, and I was a senior, I
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was Lamar Stevens on Penn State. And again, everyone has
different views of this. Everyone has a different, you know,
way that they cope with loss and grieving, and you know,
we're all grieving for sports right now. UM, I would
not have wanted to see the Brackett I I don't
want to know and put myself in the mindset now. Granted,
as a host. As a broadcaster, I'm happy that we
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have things to talk about, So I'm glad that we
can see it, talk about it, digest it, break it down.
But as a player who would have been in the
middle of this, who is going through the loss of
their careers, I wouldn't want to see it. I I
don't want to know. I don't want to put myself
in that headspace. I want to try to move on
with my life and move on to the next challenge whatever.
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Players such as Miles Powell, who has been the CN
Hall star, who has been tweeting out a lot about
it becoming realistic that the season's over. I'm trying to
find his exact tweets, but I know that Powell kept
saying on Twitter, I'll here we go. Um. He said recently,
as most recent sweet forty minutes ago, we would have
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woke up Big East Tournament chips this morning. Then he
said twenty one hours ago. For some reason, I just
keep thinking that something's going to pop up in the
season is going to continue. Seeing all these kids transferring,
all these coaches coming and going, all the goodbye posts
really make me realize it's over. Oh, it's over. Miles
I hate to be the one to break it to you.
I'm sure you're not watching, but if you are, it's over, buddy.
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You will never play another collegiate basketball game in your career.
It's a sad, sad state of affairs. But again, granted,
these players do get an extra year of eligibility. No,
not the not the basketball players only because they already
played out the season. So it's the rest of the
spring sports, correct. The basketball players are done. I don't
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know if you read the interview with Lamar Stevens uh
and and Mike Jensen, who works for the Philadelphia Inquirer,
it was about as about as emotional of an interview
as you'll see a collegiate athlete share with you. Um.
And that's why I think, if I'm Lamar Stevens, I
don't want to see a bracket because everything in the
interview that he said, uh was like a grieving parent
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who lost a son or a daughter. You know, it
takes away all the memories and it takes away all
the all the things that have been good over his
four year career has now been tainted, not tainted, but
you know, scarred in in a sense, well, you got
taken away from you. I think veryan's that you were
hoping to get and that you played your entire career for.
Which for someone who goes to See in Hall like
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a Miles Powell, or someone that goes to a Penn
S Day like Lamar Stevens, these are schools that the
tournament's not I mean, you can't take the tournament for granted,
like a Duke Ken or a Michigan State can. I
mean even those schools you can, yeah, but this this
is one of the best Seeing Hall teams we've seen
in the program history. Sure, oh absolutely. They had a
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legitimate chance to win the national title this year. Maybe
not legitimate, but they had a chance to make Cinderella team. Absolutely.
I don't feel for Powell as much as I feel
for Stevens, who was twelve point shy of setting the
program's all time scoring record and who has never been
in the n c Double A tournament. I feel for
the seniors on the mid major teams much more than
Miles Powell. Myles Powell is gonna be in the NBA
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and make millions of dollars, I feel I don't feel
for him as much. I feel for for the players
that have never experienced it before, and that will never
play professional basketball, and that will never play any basketball
at any level ever again. Other than reck Basketball, the
y the kids on Yale, the kids on Liberty, the
kid you know, those kids are the ones I feel
for the most. Miles Powell is Yeah, obviously they had
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a chance to win a title, But I don't feel
for him as much. He's gonna he's about to be
a multimillionaire in the NBA in a few weeks. Uh,
you know, so, I think the story is a little
different with him. Um. But again, if everyone deals with
loss differently, and so for certain players to to react
in certain ways, they are within their their emotional capacity
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to do so. I feel for the kids much more
that are literally ending their careers today or this week.
I feel for I feel for all of the seniors
across the board, not just athletes, but seniors who are
just normal college students too, because their college, their college
experience was robbed of them for that last semester of school.
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All these experiences that they were supposed to have robbed
from them, and nonetheless, graduations are already being canceled. Michigan
canceled their graduation and their other schools are looking for
later dates to postpone their graduations too, so that the
kids could have the experience to walk. But how can
you make thousands of people come together under one roof
of a gym or one stadium outside and make them
come together so closely to all of this is going
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to be a question. The schools are going to have
to ask themselves, however, to just go to the college
basketball be format and Leonardis bracket Kansas, Gonzaga, Dayton, M
Baylor all one seeds according to Leonardi. Do you agree
with those one seeds? Yeah, I mean that's what we've
been saying now for the last week or so since
San Diego State lost, Uh, you a state in the
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Mountain West Final. Um, and again if you're San Diego State,
like like we have broken this down before, I would
say that they're better off in this bracket than being
the one seed in the East uh and having to
go up against some of the some of the bigger
teams at Madison Square Garden instead of playing in Los Angeles,
which is a hundred miles away from uh, your home gym.
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So I agree with Leonard's brackett, I think, and again, well,
this is all speculation at this point. We don't we
don't know if, if, if his bracket would have been
correct or not. But I I error with him. Uh,
he's been doing this for a long time and I
I think he's he's spot on with it. And again,
it's something for us to talk about. But if I'm
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a player on one of these teams like Lamar Stevens,
or like a player on Yale or Liberty or you
know one of those mid major schools Vermont that you
know is kind of in the middle of this, I
don't want to see the real bracket. I'm doing this
for you, Jared, because I don't think that there was
a basketball season you were more in the zone with
than this basketball season in your entire life. And I'm
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trying to help your I'm trying to help all the
research that you've done. Just come to Fruition here and
pretend like the tournament is still happening. I appreciate that. Um.
It has been a tough tough week for me because
I'm not as strong, I think as a baseball handicapper
as I am a college basketball and college football and
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NFL handicapper, and I had so much on the line
with the takes and the picks and and the predictions
that I had on this season, and it feels very
hollow that I'll never know if I'm right on Michigan
State or Kansas or you know, some of these things.
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I thought we're gonna make a run. Yeah. No, And
as coming from someone who's dealt with it in my
relationship life over the past few months, I'm very used
to it. I've figured out ways to cope with it,
and the ways the cope with it is to just
drown yourself in other things and you know, block out
the anger and the resentment of what's happening. And I
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think that's what we learned about ourselves in these past
four days coming up after the break. But I just
want to ask real quick. Duke a three seed, and
they would be playing in Greensboro, which is funny for
the home court advantage. That's where they were playing the
a SEC tournament. Greensboro is within the hour from Durham,
which is where Duke is. Do you agree that Duke
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was a proper three seed? Yeah, I do. I think.
I mean, when I'm looking at this bracket again, it's
hard for us to really finalize it because again, you
know it's duke a three seed. Did they lose in
the first round of the SEC tournament or did they
go to the final in the a SEC. If they
went to the final, then yeah, of course they are
warranted three seed if they lost in the first round.
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So I'm I don't know who they were going to play,
but whoever it was, then then they probably should have
been knocked down a line. That's why this is hard
to really crystallize, because we just have to close our
eyes and pretend that conference tournaments don't matter and we
just have to go, okay, conference tournaments whatever, let's just
go off the regular season. Well that's hard to do
because Utah State beat San Diego State and they probably
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wouldn't even been in the tournament if they didn't win
that game. They should have been, but they might not
have been. So that's it's very hard to do because
of how incomplete things were. And we stopped the line
right at that Monday Tuesday spot when the big tournaments
were just starting to get going, and even some of
the smaller tournaments, the SWACK and the MEAC and all
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those other tournaments, but those teams weren't winning the tournament.
So you're I'm just giving you Michigan State. Michigan State
won the tournament. Michigan State, it would have been in
the final four in this bride if the if their
first round game was against Bradley, then Iowa, then Baylor. Yeah. No,
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It is day four without sports. Jarrett Smith at the
Vandel Sports Book. I'm Ariel Epstein here at the Studio
thirty four in Midtown Manhattan. Jared, what have you learned
about yourself in these last four days without sports? I've
learned some new yoga poses. Um, I've learned how to
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just totally ignore. I would like the point now that
Alan Hahn is the one that told you to pick
up yoga, and you listened. I Well, to be fair
to Alan, I have done yoga before he did suggest it. Um.
But my gym shut down yesterday. So I wasn't going
to the gym anyways, because that's a really stupid distinct
decision to be in a place where millions of not millions,
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but hundreds of people are sweating and you're sitting on
that same machine that they just went on. Um. I
played a lot of basketball too at my gym, and
and that's not obviously good idea based on what we're
seeing in the world of basketball right now. Um. So
I stopped going to the gym a week ago. Um,
and I've been trying to figure out ways to do
workouts at home. You can go for a run. The
weather is getting better. I'm gonna go for a run
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probably pretty soon. But yoga has been a very easy
workout method. Um. Also, because I'm inside so much now,
I'm very tight. My muscles are tight. Anyways, I'm a
very I used to work out a lot when I
lifted weights during my childhood days for football, uh or
my not my childhoodays, my young adult days. I wasn't
one of those six year olds that was pumping iron
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I was. I started lifting when I was thirteen, and
so my muscles are always very tight. So I I've
been slowly doing yoga, you know, months every month or
so over the last couple of years, but it's intensified
where I've done it out every day all week. Um.
And I've learned some new postes. I've learned ways to
keep myself occupied, some new recipes in the air fryer uh.
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And again I've learned how to hit the yes button
when Netflix pops up after a five episode binge and
it says, are you still watching? Yes? Netflix, I'm still watching.
I have nowhere to go, nothing to do. So those
are the things I've learned about myself. I'm curious your
answer to this. So I learned that it takes coronavirus
for my entire family to come together and um, be
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under the roof and have dinner four straight days in
a row. Um. Usually there's like or out of five
of us, or three out of five of us. My
sister lives in the city. She came home, so there's
all five of us under one roof for the last
four days. We haven't killed each other yet, so it's great.
We're actually all really still getting along. I'm very proud
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of all of us. And it was my parents anniversary
yesterday and my brother's birthday yesterday, so we've had a
lot of fun in the Epstein household. We were we
got some cake. We've been eating a lot. I'm we're
all probably gonna you know, maybe like I have obesity
first before coronavirus um, because that's all we've been doing
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is sitting all eating and watching movies. My mom's the
only one that's worked out in the last four days.
The rest of us sit on the couch and do
absolutely nothing, and it's great. Lots of movies. Movies are good. Um,
if you want, we can handicap uh. You know, shows
and which who's gonna finish which show first? Maybe we
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can both start one show at the same time. Well,
already had you beat on Love with Blind? And Hunters?
I already beat you. Well, Up is Blind? You watched
that months ago. I'm late to the party on Love
is Blind. Well, but it's been around for like Love
is Blind. I'm late to the party Hunters. I'll be
done with Hunters by tomorrow. I'm on episode five. It's great,
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it's incredible. Um, it's a little sick and a little twisted.
I don't know if those viewers are familiar with it,
but it's all about UH kind of flashing back to
Nazi Germany, UH and and Jewish people who have you know,
come survived the Holocaust and now they're hunting the Nazis
that are living in America. And there's a little rag
tage it coming. Well, don't give it, don't don't give
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it away. I'm almost there. I'm exciting. I'm very I
listened the first five minutes. I was hooked. That was
a great opening episode. The rest of the first episode
was kind of but the first five minutes was some
of the best five minutes of any opening episode ever.
And then it it kind of lulled a little bit,
and then in two, three and four it's really picked
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back up. I'm about halfway through episode five. I just
I got so tired last night. Had to stop it
because I knew we had to do a show this
morning or get ready for a show this morning, so
I wanted to give myself the proper channels to wake
up and and and get ready. But I was I
was at at it until about two am last night
watching Hunters. I got through four and a half episode.
So I'm excited about that is that I've realized how
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easy it is for me to sit home and do nothing,
and I think that's very sad. Yeah, I mean, I listen,
I think, but but you're doing the right thing. I mean,
you know, people, you know, we our generation, and you're
included in this. You know, we're we're a social group.
We were social butterflies, the millennials. We've got our texting,
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our instagramming, all the social media. We so it. Yes,
so it feels unnatural for us to literally sit in
a room and do nothing for twelve hours a day.
It feels like we're missing out on the outside world. Now,
the older you get, the less fomo I've gotten when
it comes to going out and doing things. Uh so
that's helped. You're still, you know, a young whipper snapper.
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You want to go out and mingle and and and
all your single and ready to mingle all that fun stuff.
And I get it. But I think the prudent thing
for everyone in our generation and any generation to do
right now is just to give up that desire to
go out and just be home as much as possible
to make a new recipe. I don't think so, but
I agree because I have absolutely no problem sitting home
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making cookies, drinking wine and hanging out with my family.
I have zero problem with it. Uh. We just saw,
by the way, UM Pat Ford, who's a who's a
very uh A for D I don't know how to
say his last name. Ford for the Sports Illustrated college
basketball writer UH confirmed that Dan Gabbott, who's the VP
of the n C Double A men's basketball tournament committee,
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said there will be no bracket release, and I applaud that.
I think that would have been a mistake. I think
we've got plenty of people handicapping brackets and and and things,
and we've got plenty of Lenardi's out there sending out
brackets and fun things to do. I don't think we
need dead in our lives right now. But that's just
my opinion. And we're also seeing some more movement in
the NFL. UM. I do under I was okay either
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way with the n c Double A. UM. Anthony Costanzo,
who's the Colts left tackle, is signing a two year
deal thirty three million dollar contract extension with the Colts.
Apparently Costanzo didn't want to leave Indy and now he
won't have to. Yeah, that's good. Um, I think uh,
I think every every piece of news we're gonna see, well,
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I think Rivers actually is a lock to go to
the Colts. I would be shocked if he did not
go to the Colts at this point. I'm pulling up
the QB next team odds now, Yeah, I mean Brady's
up to two D now, so we've seen a forty
five cent move on him. Uh, in the last forty
eight hours from once I think I saw it as
earlier this week and now up to two. I would
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be shocked if he did not go back to New
England at this point. I would be surprised. I think
that would be an upset if another one of these
teams reached out and grabbed him. Yeah. So yeah, that's crazy.
So we just see the line movement on Brady which
we were just talking about before, how he was at
minus now at minus two hundred. I think that has
a lot to do with the Tennessee Titans news coming
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out about signing Ryan's Hannehill to a multi year deal,
which is what they're working on. Philip Rivers, Like we said,
minus one eighty two the Colts. It's interesting to me
with Rivers that it's Colts. Then no team Slash retired
as his second best odds. He wasn't retiring. I never
thought that Philip Rivers was retiring. Yeah. I didn't think
so either. And another piece of news that's gonna affect
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our industry. And I think this is something that's going
to really affect our industry over the next few days.
The Maryland governor just closed all state race tracks, casinos, uh,
and simulcast facilities, which I'm sitting in one right now.
Um I am. I don't know if I'm surprised, but
I'm a little disgusted with how many people are here
(33:56):
today betting on horses. Um. And again, what we've heard
from Gabe is that you know, he spends more time
here than me. Uh. This is not a place that
really cares all. I mean you could see it right there.
I mean that's I count fifty people about people right
there in the in the sports book. So uh, you know,
I think if you went around the room, there'd be
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way more people that should be here right now. Um.
And I would be shocked if this facility stayed open
uh this week, and it shouldn't. The Metal Lands already
canceled horse races at the track. You are allowed to
be in the building obviously. Yeah. And there's more people
in this room than there should be. It's actually interesting,
remember that you can account social distancing. Was that you
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that said to me that tv G should just go
onto a network and get paid. I thought it was
interesting to see that Fox Sports was the one that
picked them up on FS two. They put tv G
n F S two. Yeah, I mean, you know, other
than UFC right now in Mexican soccer horse right, I
mean there, I'm I'm looking at the feeds right now.
I see Gulf Stream Parks about the start of race,
Tampa Bay Downs about the start of ray Ace. Uh.
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I see a couple of other tracks that I Sarah
Toga is about to start a race Aqueduct, which is
about thirty miles on the other side of Manhattan and Queens.
They just started a race. So you know, this business
as usual for the pony players. But I don't think
it should be. And I think this is a case
in point of what we're dealing with right now. And
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every time I look down at my Twitter, there's another
update of how many numbers of this virus have been confirmed.
Were up to three twenty nine in New York City alone,
And everything that I'm reading says that everyone who lives
in this city should just assume that you've been exposed
to it at this point. And that is why I
think the entire city should and will be shut down
within the next forty eight hours. That's the only thing
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I'm betting on today areal the city is gonna get
shut down in the next forty eight hours. I have
a very strong feeling about that. Everything I'm seeing from
my new sources with the city council, everything I'm seeing
from everywhere every rewere amongst these this city, and things
that are happening around the city in the suburbs. Newark,
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Jersey City, Hoboken, te Neck has now a mandatory shutdown.
We have curfews effect in Jersey City and Hoboken. I
think it's only a matter of time before the mayor
of this city decides enough is an off and he's
being put immense amount of pressure on him by the
city council right now, and I know I don't want
to get into a political you know, uh debate about
where we are in this city. But the city Council
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has a lot of weight on what happens, and they
are putting an immense amount. I saw the Controller come
out this morning and ask the mayor to act, and
I think we're I think we're hours away from uh
New York City being shut down for a period of
week to two weeks. It'll be interesting to see how
things transpire here in Manhattan. And of course there are
things going on around the world and the country as well, um,
(36:53):
but we we can only do the best that we
can do to help keep people informed and to everyone
stay safe and wash your hands and be clean. And
the impact that it's going to have on the sports
world too is what we're really keeping an eye on
here on Sports Grids because the way that all of
these different things pan out, from which sports going to
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be first, to the c v A being approved, to
how players might be affected themselves from coronavirus are all
things that make a big toll in handicapping games. When
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Jared Smith at the Vandal Sports Book. I'm Ariel FDN,
and even though we are going to be here for
another two hours within Game Live coming up from two
to four, we were going to continue talking about different
things that have happened in sports because even though there's
no games to really report on for in game Live,
I feel like we are dealing with so many things
going on as an in game Live, so many storylines
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that are unfolding, and one of those things has been
the c b A, which was approved today by the NFL.
The new cb A, so Jared, It was said by
Evan Lazar, who is the Patriots Beat reporter, who said
the new CPA holding up Bradies negotiations was real the
Patriots no longer need to worry about the thirty percent
rule or the absence avoidable years in a Brady contract,
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which makes it much easier to reach a deal. Now
we wait and see, should see a flurry of moves
across the NFL. What are your thoughts on that? Yeah,
we're gonna I think the next Then again, thank goodness,
because we don't really have much else to talk about
right now. But this is saying, um, yeah, and but
you know, to be fair to the NFL, this would
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have happened anyways this week, so you know, we this
is what we would have seen anyways this week, whether
or not the n c Double A Tournament was happening,
we would have seen a flurry of moves. I think
everything would have been happening as it would now. The
coronavirus is not affecting anything that's happening with the NFL
right now. The draft aside, I think that's gonna be
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the next domino to fall. But turning or not, we
would have seen these things happen. They just would not
have been as much. Tom Brady would have gotten a
fan fair. But if we were talking about conference finals
happening today, we would not have been talking of clay
Is Campbell getting traded to the Ravens. Uh. So, you know,
it's getting bumped up to the top of the news
cycle because there's not much else to talk about. But
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the NFL, as expected, is going to have a flurry
of of of news items calm over the next thirty
six to seventy two hours. When when when the league
window officially opens. It should be interesting to see because yeah,
the window officially opens on Wednesday, but I think we'll
see a lot of things unfolding for the next few days.
We're already seeing them today. Um, who do you think
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it's going to be the first quarterback to go? Do
you think it's Tom Brady or do you think it's
let's say, you know, you're very sold on Philip Rivers
going to the Colts. Great question, that's a great question.
And you know, the the irony of all of this
is Rivers now at minus one eighty, has actually less
odds to go to the Colts than Brady does back
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to the Paths that minus two. And I've been saying
all week that I think Tom going back to New
England is an inevitability at this point. It's just a
matter of and and how much. I would be very
surprised if Rivers did not end up with the Colts,
but the odds say that there still could be some
movement there. Uh. In fact, the second team on that
list is no team, and that Philip will retire, which
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I don't. If you were asked me right now, which quarterback, Yeah,
which quarterback has more left in the tank? I would
say Philip because he's younger, and because he's never won
a Super Bowl and has never really had that postseason success.
So I think his fire should be burning a little
a little hotter because of those things. And I think
Indie actually is the better team if you were to
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ask me, the team more equipped to win a Super
Bowl minus their quarterback. New England has some major holes
right now at receiver, at offensive line. The Colts are
ready to go. Colts have a great offensive line, They've
got weapons stacked up and down the field. They need
to stay healthy to why Hilton needs to stay healthy.
But the Colts I think are in better shape to
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house an aging vetteran quarterback than a Patriots would be.
But just the ticks of everything that's happening in New
England right now leads me to believe that Tom will
go back to New England. But again, if you're gonna
ask me the first quarterback to sign, that's a really
tough question to ask because I think there's a lot
of mitigating factors involved. I I like the NFL draft.
We want great great point uh. And again, the NFL
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draft is something that we're not talking a lot about
right now. We will want to can impact free agency
a lot hundred That is a Now you're going to
have teams waiting for a rookie quarterback who they might
have wanted to draft. You're waiting maybe an extra month
or two to get them, whereas free agency is starting
up now in the next three days, and you could
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be getting a quarterback that way. I think the Patriots
were tops on my list of teams that we're going
to draft a quarterback. I think they still will regardless
of what happens with Tom or if they if they
sign somebody else. I think Miami, Cincinnati and even the
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Chargers are teams that are all in play to draft
a quarterback based on where they're drafting and where they're
where their their pick is, and they could get one
of those guys to a Burrow. You would expect Borrow
to go to the Bengals. You would think to A
would go either Chargers or Dolphins. Um, there are actually
odds right now on the NFL Draft for two at
Taga by Loa and where his draft position would be,
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and it's over under two and a half. What are
the what are the the odds? And it's three hundred
on the over plus two twenty on the under. And
good thing to keep in mind there the over means lower,
so over two and a half means the third pick
would be a winner. So I agree with that. I
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think that's a fair assessment. Um, who who picks second? Uh?
You have? Eh? Why am I blinking? NFL Draft? I'm
blank because I know it's Bengals. And then I think
the Giants are four? Um? Yeah, and then the Lions.
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Why are we the Redskins? Redskins? So Redskins are not
one of those teams that are going to take a
quarterback likely. I think they're not happy, but you know
they're too much into that Haskins experiment too. You're gonna
take Chase Young's second because Ron Rivera is a defensive
minded head coach, or they will trade back, which I
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think is the thing that we're not taking into account,
and it's impossible to handicap that because we don't really
know what negotiations are going on behind the scenes. Um,
I could absolutely see because there's no clear cut number
to pick where Chase Young you would think, but number
you know, in terms of the fluctuation with the quarterbacks,
I could totally see there being a lot of trades
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in the first round. That's the number I'd like to
see over under how many trades in the first round.
I'd like to see that, Yet round very hard to
handy at that. Now. This one's is the only total
I see is um total quarterbacks trafted in round over
under four and a half And it's four and a half, right, Yeah,
And you would think the under is going to be
the pick there because I don't see a famous yeah exactly.
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Jalen Hurts is the wild card there if somebody wants
to take a shot at Hurts to be the fifth,
but it's gonna be burrowed to uh Herbert and Love
or the four and then the fifth is the one
that you don't think is going to be a first rounder.
Hurts would be the one wild card there, but I
liken him to maybe what we saw with Lamar Jackson.
But I think Jackson was a better prospect than Hurts was.
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Again I I I'm fascinated to see. I mean, this
is gonna be a fun week. I'm glad that we
have something happening next week to take our mind off
of all of the other crap going on in the
world right now. And that's the best part about this,
or and the worst part about this is usually when
these things are happening in the world, sports is our outlet,
and that has now been ta get await from us,
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So we have to go back to our roots. Uh
and and there's uh there's the draft, or there's the
board of all the sports that have been I mean,
you know, just basically say it's all. I'm so proud
of us that we actually got the terminologies right because
I always hate and I learned this in local news
when I was covering local sports. There's such a big
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difference between the word canceled and postponed. And we have
nailed it on the board. Great job by the guys
in the pit, because people keep saying things are canceled
or thinks no, no, no, guys. Pro sports is not canceled,
it's postponed. We are going to see an NBA Finals champion.
We are going to see an NHL champion. We are
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going to see a Major League Baseball World Series, and
we will get the NFL regular season. NASCAR will come back.
All these sports are coming back. The only thing not
coming back is college sports. Spring sports in college are canceled.
Everything else is just postponed. Yeah, that is a very
important distinction to make. Uh, I will caution you and
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saying that things could change. We're not going to see
pro sports canceled their season. Um I I agree with
you based on the information we have right now today. UM,
this is a very fluid situation. We've seen things change
so much in the last week. A week ago we
were doing this show and we were talking about, you know,
(47:25):
conference tournaments, and now we're talking about a totally different thing.
So it is so different, Jared. College is so different.
These colleges are not are kicking kids off campus, kids
are going to online classes. It is such a different situation.
When you're dealing with college kids who are not getting paid,
You're dealing now with pro athletes who get paid. It's
like saying that, you know, I mean, granted, there are
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people out there getting laid off of jobs right now,
but for the most part, I mean the the NFL, NBA, Baseball,
these players, these teams aren't going to tell their play years.
They're not getting paid anymore, goodbye. I mean, these pro
athletes apparently are still getting paid. Um, it's the minor
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league baseball players that apparently aren't getting paid, which is
something I think that and I saw a disturbing I
saw a disturbing article today about the e c h L,
which is one of the better minor league hockey leagues,
UH that will not be paying their players after this week.
And you're you're you're right, that is a disturbing thing
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that does need to be rectified. But unfortunately, that is
the world that we live in when it comes to
minor league sports, and and they've always been given the
short end of the stick. I agree with you, I
I I based on the information and the knowledge we
have today, I fully expect professional sports to be back
by this summer. But I I just we don't know
what we're dealing with with this stupid virus. And I
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in the back of my mind, I I always think
of worst case scenarios, because that's what a that's what
a crazy person does in their spare time when they
have lots of it. So I hope that the powers
that be in the governments and the municipalities around this
country take the proper steps to mitigate this disease and
make it so that this summer it's all an afterthought.
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But I'm looking at a room full of horse betters
right now that clearly have no idea what social distancing means.
It's disturbing area. I'm disturbed right now looking at this
room full of people screaming at screens about horse racing.
It's I'm I'm disturbed. I'm I'm disgusted. There's a hundred
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people in this room right now, and then on would
be watching it too, I know. But that's where the
governments need to step in and say shut it down.
You can go two weeks without betting people. I know
we're all degenerates, trust me, I'm as big of a
degenerate as anybody. You can go two weeks without anything
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without food or water, no you neat that, but without gambling.
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I want all of you to get up out of
your chest. Then go to the window. Open it will
stick your head out of here. Our number two of
at the Window Jared Smith at the Vandel Sports Book.
I'm Ari l Epstein here in mid Doown, Manhattan at
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Studio thirty four. I love the NFL. I love it.
It's just everything that the NFL does. It makes me
so happy because we are without sports right now. We're
completely postponing sports for the foreseeable future. Yet the NFL
has not changed the vote for the c b A,
which got approved today. Legal tampering is allowed technically tomorrow,
(01:08):
but we're seeing it happen today and then on Wednesday
is free agency for the NFL, and everything is starting
to heat up. NFL saying we don't care that the
rest of the sports world un balls where not where
the NFL. We're taking over the world again. We're seeing
now Dana Rossini and Adam Schefter tweeting that the Titans
and the Ryan Tannehill, their quarterback, are now on the
(01:30):
verge of a new multi year extension that would prevent
Tennessee from using its franchise tag on the quarterback and
keep him as the team starter moving forward. Per sources,
Jared Tannehell looks like he's about to sign that multi
year deal. We talked about it an hour ago, but
it looks like it's coming to fruition right now with
the Titans. Great. UH and again, the c b A
(01:51):
is something when you talk about roster limits and roster
expansion and roster construction. You only have one franchise tag now,
so you can't just be giving those out to everybody.
You've got to be very strategic with where you use
your franchise tag. And obviously the Titans have decided that
they don't want to use it on Ryan Tannehill, and
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they have made their decision, at least according to these sources.
UH and I am I. I applaud them for acting
so quickly and eliminating clearing the deck a little bit
for Tom Brady uh and making this decision. I don't
know if it will be easier decision, but it will
be slightly less cluttered. Uh. If one of the teams says, Nope,
we're good Tom, We've got Ryan right here. Yeah. Interesting
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that all of this stuff is coming out now and
it looks as if the NFL officials don't really you know.
There there was a little speculation about a day or
two ago as I was listening to other radio shows
and people were saying, well, it seems a little weird
to be having NFL players signing these contracts for big
money during a time where people are losing jobs, being
(02:55):
laid off or not working because of the coronavirus. And
we sat on the morning after people shouldn't care. At
least it's news, and it's something about the sports world
going on, and it's a it's something to talk about.
But that's I think from our perspective. What is your
what are your thoughts right now on the way that
coronavirus is breaking out and it's affecting so many people. However,
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the NFL's signing their players to multi year deals for
millions of dollars. I think it's business as usual. The
NFL needs to continue to conduct their business as they
normally would, as normal as they possibly can. Um everything
needs to be can I mean, can you imagine if
factories that are making all these hand sanitizers and wipes decided,
(03:37):
you know what, We're gonna take a break for a
couple of weeks because we need a chill. Like the
world needs to continue business as usual as much as possible,
as safely as possible. And the NFL signing players is
not putting anyone at risk by putting pen to paper
as long as they've sanitized that pen before they write
with it. Uh So, I'm fine with the NFL conducting
(03:58):
business as usual as long as it's done in a
safe and respectable manner. So we saw a couple of
years ago in Major League Baseball where Manny Machado and
Bryce Harper set the market for baseball free agency world.
Do you think Tom Brady is that is that piece
this year in the NFL? Is he going to set
the NFL free agency market? Are we, like, are we
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going to have to wait for him to get signed
before anyone else moves along? Yes? And no, I think yes,
because he's the biggest name that will fall. But because
of his age, I don't think he will set the market,
meaning other quarterbacks are not going to be Their contracts
will not be graded based on how much or how
(04:42):
little they are close to Brady's. I think Patrick Mahomes,
if and when he does resign, will be the first
one to set the market of what a frank new
era of collective there you go. Uh So he will
be the first person to uh really set this new
market because he's gonna be the first real big name
quarterback that will get a big time contract. I would guess,
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uh that would be uh the person to kind of
reset this market. I think tom is Is is an
intriguing name, and it's a name that we will be
very keeping, very close eyes on. But I don't think
he's going to set the market from a financial standpoint,
just because his contract will not be what Mahomes gets,
what Prescott gets because of just the age difference between
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those players. Good point and the clubs informed for the
new CBA for the twenty season, the overall player costs
per club two hundred forty two point nine million. Salary
cap is one point two million. The rest is benefits
and performance based playpool. So the salary cap for nine
point two million, what are your thoughts on the cap.
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I hope it's big enough to sign some of these guys,
because you're talking about a thirty million dollar contract for
Dak Prescott. You know, that's about a third a little
little a little more than a quarter of or excuse
me no, and a little more than an eighth of
that salary. So one player out of fifty three getting
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about one seventh of the money. It sounds a little
disjointed to me, but you know, and there's ways to
offset it. And actually that's part of the c b
A is uh figuring out ways to hide money, I
guess launder salary cap money so it's not as big
of a hit in one specific year and it gets
spread out. And I applaud the NFL for being able
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to do that because it would be a disaster if
you get these contracts that are so big that they,
you know, eat up so much bandwidth of someone's salary
cap that they can't go out and sign another players.
But again, that is the current state of the NFL.
The NFL is in a state now where the quarterbacks
get the big piece of the of of the big
piece of chicken, and everyone else gets gets the scraps.
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And that's just that's just the league that we're in now.
The quarterback position, who's that much weight? So I want
to move on to college basketball. But just to update
everyone who might be tuning back in the c B
A for the NFL was approved, So the new CBA passes.
Ryan Tannehill looks like he's going to be signing a
multi year deal with the Tennessee Titans, and the Baltimore
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Ravens are supposedly signing defensive end clay Is Campbell coming
over from the Jacksonville Jaguars for a fifth round pick
in the year. So those are the things in the
NFL that have been going on today. And players no
longer will also be tested well, they won't be suspended
from the league for testing positive for marijuana. Now I
feel like I have to say coronavirus, but no, marijuana
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is now legal in the NFL. Um So moving into
college basketball and just the selection Sunday is today are
supposed to be today. What are your thoughts on the
show still going on just to show the players and
the teams where they would have ended up in the bracket.
I'm against it. I think that's that's the biggest tease
ever to do that. I think it's okay if you
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sent a bracket to the teams and they saw it,
But I think to go through the whole you know,
pageantry of a show all for nothing, I think is
totally pointless. If you want to release a bracket and
send it out and we all look at it, that's fine, um,
but I think it's a waste of time and a
waste of money, and you're you're asking graphics, producers and
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hosts and you know, stage managers to go in and
do this when they really should be home with their
families making sure their situation is settled. If you want
the n C double A to tweet out of bracket,
that's fine. I can handle that. But to go through
the entire pomp and circumstance of putting together a selection
show today, I think is totally unnecessary and it's totally
contradictory of what we should be focusing on right now,
which is keeping ourselves safe, keeping ourselves isolated, and making
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sure that we can be as you know, insulated from
this as we possibly can, making everyone down to Turner
Studios go in and do this selection show. I think
is a complete and utter waste of time. And I
think it's totally ridiculous if they do it. I don't
think going to but it is ridiculous if they do. Well,
We're already people are working today and we see that
people are on air on multiple television networks. So I
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don't know if I don't know if saying that, you know,
it's hard to say. You obviously want people to stay home,
but there are people working. We're working. People let other
networks are working and putting on shows. Maybe it's the
manpower that it would require, but at least it is
content and it's something that I don't It's a tough
situation to be in, it really is. I don't have
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on a skeleton crew here though, so it's not like
we've got our entire stat I mean, we were down
to one producer today, and I think the goal of
this is to is to is to lessen what we
have to do and not expanding. So you know, you're
you're you're asking if they should put on a show
for an event that's not happening. No, it's unnecessary. I
think it's unnecessary. I just think that these coaches all
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came together and said that they wanted the players to
have some closure. And if it's some ing that the
coaches wanted and the players wanted, I don't see it
being a problem for just showing the teams where they
would have ended up in the bracket. Well, you can
release the bracket, but you don't have to put a
whole show on the air for it. That's that's my point.
That's true. I think that there should be a bracket
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at least to show the players and give them the experience.
But then again, teams probably aren't having their players do
a watch party either. You can't have a watch party
with the team, right, and you can't be showing those off.
So it does defeat the purpose of watching the teams
get all excited for where they ended up in the bracket.
I have no problem though, with them releasing a bracket
to say, hey, this is where you ended up. Give
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Rutgers the closure that they probably that they probably got in.
Let team see, like a seton Hall who it was
gonna be one of its highest seedings in well history.
Let them see that they accomplished that goal. There are
certain teams. You know, for a team like a Duke
and a team like a Michigan State, if they got
a one seat or a two seed, I don't think
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it really matters to them. It's for those smaller schools,
the mid majors that that I would be excited for
them to be able to see their names pop up
on the bracket. But were The thing that makes it
kind of not complete to me, and why I wouldn't
want to see it is is we don't have the
full picture area. We don't know. You know, a lot
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of these teams were playing for bids this week and
they didn't get to play, So you're releasing a bracket
on of the information, So it's not a complete bracket.
So I just I think it'd be a hollow thing
if if if you want to do it, I mean,
I'm not against it, but if you're gonna put all
this manpower together and do a full show, and it's
just not it's a very hollow feeling. I personally, I
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don't want to see it. I'm at But then again
that's me. I'm an out of sight, out of mind person. Uh,
And I know we have to talk about something, so
we're gonna talk about, you know, Lenardi's bracket, which is
not an official bracket, but it still gives us something
to talk about. But it's not a complete bracket because
we don't know if Xavier would have gotten in. They
lost to uh to default the night before that they
cancel the tournament. They were a bubble team like where
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they have gotten in well, and we don't know. We
don't know what the other teams would have done. So
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now al welcome inside at the window. Jared Smith at
the Vandal Sports Book. I'm Ariyo lif Steen here at
Studio thirty four, and it was supposed to be selection
Sunday in college basketball. However, with the post Woman of
Sports and the cancelation of the nt Double A tournament,
along with all spring sports at the college level, we're
not going to see teams go into the March Badness ries. However,
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there is a chance that we could see a potential bracket.
We do have Joe Leonardi's bracket to work off of. Jared,
You've been following Leonardi for the last couple of months
now and the way that the bracket was going to
fall out. What are you seeing in Leonardi's latest bracket? Well,
it was the bracket that he posted a few days
ago when we pretty much I knew that everything was
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gonna get canceled and and Joe just said, all right,
I'm gonna put this out there, and man, oh man.
I would have loved to be in Albany next Thursday
night when Penn State plays either NC State or u
C l A, but unfortunately that's not gonna happen. Um.
A couple of things stick out to me. First of all,
my sleepers would have definitely been Liberty against Auburn. Love
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that matchup. Liberty would have been seven and a half
point dogs against Auburn. I would have been all over
the flames in that one UM. A couple of interesting
one seeds that caught my eye. You had Dayton in
the same bracket UH as Maryland, which would have been
an interesting matchup I think. I think Maryland's bigs would
have given Tapping some problems, so that would have been
the first one seed I would have expected to go down.
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And then you had Michigan State and Baylor in the
same bracket. That would have been an Elite eight matchup UH,
which I thought would have been a fascinating matchup. That
would have been to me, the dream scenario for me
because I've been pouting Michigan State for weeks and I
do believe that Baylor is the weakest of the one
seeds in terms of their offense, and Michigan State would
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have came out of that bracket UH and into the
final four. Virginia as the sixth seed in the region
with Kansas would have been fascinating. I don't know if
the Cavaliers would have gotten that far, but I would
have been interested to see because those are probably the
two best defensive teams in the country, Kansas and Virginia,
and that game might not have gotten to forty, they
would have played. I do think Kansas had a favorable draw. UH.
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They had Duke in San Diego State as the other
two top seeds in that region. UH, and I think
those are the two weaker of the of those seeds. UH.
Kentucky and Gonzaga as as a possible Elite eight matchup
would have been very fascinating to me as well. UH.
And Oregon UH in the same region as Dayton would
have been excuse me, in the same region as Gonzaga
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would have been fascinating as well. To see an Oregon
Gonzaga Sweet sixteen matchup I think would have been very interesting.
But again this is this is just all all UH speculation. UM,
I don't necessarily think any of these teams. If you
were to ask me, and I was a senior, I
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was Lamar Stevens on Penn State. And again, everyone has
different views of this. Everyone has a different, you know,
way that they cope with loss and grieving, and you know,
we're all grieving for sports right now. UM, I would
not have wanted to see the Brackett I I don't
want to know and put myself in the mindset now. Granted,
as a host. As a broadcaster, I'm happy that we
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have things to talk about, So I'm glad that we
can see it, talk about it, digest it, break it down.
But as a player who would have been in the
middle of this, who is going through the loss of
their careers, I wouldn't want to see it. I I
don't want to know. I don't want to put myself
in that headspace. I want to try to move on
with my life and move on to the next challenge whatever.
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Players such as Miles Powell, who has been the CN
Hall star, who has been tweeting out a lot about
it becoming realistic that the season's over. I'm trying to
find his exact tweets, but I know that Powell kept
saying on Twitter, I'll here we go. Um. He said recently,
as most recent sweet forty minutes ago, we would have
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woke up Big East Tournament chips this morning. Then he
said twenty one hours ago. For some reason, I just
keep thinking that something's going to pop up in the
season is going to continue. Seeing all these kids transferring,
all these coaches coming and going, all the goodbye posts
really make me realize it's over. Oh, it's over. Miles
I hate to be the one to break it to you.
I'm sure you're not watching, but if you are, it's over, buddy.
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You will never play another collegiate basketball game in your career.
It's a sad, sad state of affairs. But again, granted,
these players do get an extra year of eligibility. No,
not the not the basketball players only because they already
played out the season. So it's the rest of the
spring sports, correct. The basketball players are done. I don't
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know if you read the interview with Lamar Stevens uh
and and Mike Jensen, who works for the Philadelphia Inquirer,
it was about as about as emotional of an interview
as you'll see a collegiate athlete share with you. Um.
And that's why I think, if I'm Lamar Stevens, I
don't want to see a bracket because everything in the
interview that he said, uh was like a grieving parent
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who lost a son or a daughter. You know, it
takes away all the memories and it takes away all
the all the things that have been good over his
four year career has now been tainted, not tainted, but
you know, scarred in in a sense, well, you got
taken away from you. I think veryan's that you were
hoping to get and that you played your entire career for.
Which for someone who goes to See in Hall like
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a Miles Powell, or someone that goes to a Penn
S Day like Lamar Stevens, these are schools that the
tournament's not I mean, you can't take the tournament for granted,
like a Duke Ken or a Michigan State can. I
mean even those schools you can, yeah, but this this
is one of the best Seeing Hall teams we've seen
in the program history. Sure, oh absolutely. They had a
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legitimate chance to win the national title this year. Maybe
not legitimate, but they had a chance to make Cinderella team. Absolutely.
I don't feel for Powell as much as I feel
for Stevens, who was twelve point shy of setting the
program's all time scoring record and who has never been
in the n c Double A tournament. I feel for
the seniors on the mid major teams much more than
Miles Powell. Myles Powell is gonna be in the NBA
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and make millions of dollars, I feel I don't feel
for him as much. I feel for for the players
that have never experienced it before, and that will never
play professional basketball, and that will never play any basketball
at any level ever again. Other than reck Basketball, the
y the kids on Yale, the kids on Liberty, the
kid you know, those kids are the ones I feel
for the most. Miles Powell is Yeah, obviously they had
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a chance to win a title, But I don't feel
for him as much. He's gonna he's about to be
a multimillionaire in the NBA in a few weeks. Uh,
you know, so, I think the story is a little
different with him. Um. But again, if everyone deals with
loss differently, and so for certain players to to react
in certain ways, they are within their their emotional capacity
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to do so. I feel for the kids much more
that are literally ending their careers today or this week.
I feel for I feel for all of the seniors
across the board, not just athletes, but seniors who are
just normal college students too, because their college, their college
experience was robbed of them for that last semester of school.
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All these experiences that they were supposed to have robbed
from them, and nonetheless, graduations are already being canceled. Michigan
canceled their graduation and their other schools are looking for
later dates to postpone their graduations too, so that the
kids could have the experience to walk. But how can
you make thousands of people come together under one roof
of a gym or one stadium outside and make them
come together so closely to all of this is going
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to be a question. The schools are going to have
to ask themselves, however, to just go to the college
basketball be format and Leonardis bracket Kansas, Gonzaga, Dayton, M
Baylor all one seeds according to Leonardi. Do you agree
with those one seeds? Yeah, I mean that's what we've
been saying now for the last week or so since
San Diego State lost, Uh, you a state in the
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Mountain West Final. Um, and again if you're San Diego State,
like like we have broken this down before, I would
say that they're better off in this bracket than being
the one seed in the East uh and having to
go up against some of the some of the bigger
teams at Madison Square Garden instead of playing in Los Angeles,
which is a hundred miles away from uh, your home gym.
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So I agree with Leonard's brackett, I think, and again, well,
this is all speculation at this point. We don't we
don't know if, if, if his bracket would have been
correct or not. But I I error with him. Uh,
he's been doing this for a long time and I
I think he's he's spot on with it. And again,
it's something for us to talk about. But if I'm
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a player on one of these teams like Lamar Stevens,
or like a player on Yale or Liberty or you
know one of those mid major schools Vermont that you
know is kind of in the middle of this, I
don't want to see the real bracket. I'm doing this
for you, Jared, because I don't think that there was
a basketball season you were more in the zone with
than this basketball season in your entire life. And I'm
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trying to help your I'm trying to help all the
research that you've done. Just come to Fruition here and
pretend like the tournament is still happening. I appreciate that. Um.
It has been a tough tough week for me because
I'm not as strong, I think as a baseball handicapper
as I am a college basketball and college football and
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NFL handicapper, and I had so much on the line
with the takes and the picks and and the predictions
that I had on this season, and it feels very
hollow that I'll never know if I'm right on Michigan
State or Kansas or you know, some of these things.
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I thought we're gonna make a run. Yeah. No, And
as coming from someone who's dealt with it in my
relationship life over the past few months, I'm very used
to it. I've figured out ways to cope with it,
and the ways the cope with it is to just
drown yourself in other things and you know, block out
the anger and the resentment of what's happening. And I
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think that's what we learned about ourselves in these past
four days coming up after the break. But I just
want to ask real quick. Duke a three seed, and
they would be playing in Greensboro, which is funny for
the home court advantage. That's where they were playing the
a SEC tournament. Greensboro is within the hour from Durham,
which is where Duke is. Do you agree that Duke
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was a proper three seed? Yeah, I do. I think.
I mean, when I'm looking at this bracket again, it's
hard for us to really finalize it because again, you
know it's duke a three seed. Did they lose in
the first round of the SEC tournament or did they
go to the final in the a SEC. If they
went to the final, then yeah, of course they are
warranted three seed if they lost in the first round.
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So I'm I don't know who they were going to play,
but whoever it was, then then they probably should have
been knocked down a line. That's why this is hard
to really crystallize, because we just have to close our
eyes and pretend that conference tournaments don't matter and we
just have to go, okay, conference tournaments whatever, let's just
go off the regular season. Well that's hard to do
because Utah State beat San Diego State and they probably
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wouldn't even been in the tournament if they didn't win
that game. They should have been, but they might not
have been. So that's it's very hard to do because
of how incomplete things were. And we stopped the line
right at that Monday Tuesday spot when the big tournaments
were just starting to get going, and even some of
the smaller tournaments, the SWACK and the MEAC and all
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those other tournaments, but those teams weren't winning the tournament.
So you're I'm just giving you Michigan State. Michigan State
won the tournament. Michigan State, it would have been in
the final four in this bride if the if their
first round game was against Bradley, then Iowa, then Baylor. Yeah. No,
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It is day four without sports. Jarrett Smith at the
Vandel Sports Book. I'm Ariel Epstein here at the Studio
thirty four in Midtown Manhattan. Jared, what have you learned
about yourself in these last four days without sports? I've
learned some new yoga poses. Um, I've learned how to
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just totally ignore. I would like the point now that
Alan Hahn is the one that told you to pick
up yoga, and you listened. I Well, to be fair
to Alan, I have done yoga before he did suggest it. Um.
But my gym shut down yesterday. So I wasn't going
to the gym anyways, because that's a really stupid distinct
decision to be in a place where millions of not millions,
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but hundreds of people are sweating and you're sitting on
that same machine that they just went on. Um. I
played a lot of basketball too at my gym, and
and that's not obviously good idea based on what we're
seeing in the world of basketball right now. Um. So
I stopped going to the gym a week ago. Um,
and I've been trying to figure out ways to do
workouts at home. You can go for a run. The
weather is getting better. I'm gonna go for a run
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probably pretty soon. But yoga has been a very easy
workout method. Um. Also, because I'm inside so much now,
I'm very tight. My muscles are tight. Anyways, I'm a
very I used to work out a lot when I
lifted weights during my childhood days for football, uh or
my not my childhoodays, my young adult days. I wasn't
one of those six year olds that was pumping iron
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I was. I started lifting when I was thirteen, and
so my muscles are always very tight. So I I've
been slowly doing yoga, you know, months every month or
so over the last couple of years, but it's intensified
where I've done it out every day all week. Um.
And I've learned some new postes. I've learned ways to
keep myself occupied, some new recipes in the air fryer uh.
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And again I've learned how to hit the yes button
when Netflix pops up after a five episode binge and
it says, are you still watching? Yes? Netflix, I'm still watching.
I have nowhere to go, nothing to do. So those
are the things I've learned about myself. I'm curious your
answer to this. So I learned that it takes coronavirus
for my entire family to come together and um, be
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under the roof and have dinner four straight days in
a row. Um. Usually there's like or out of five
of us, or three out of five of us. My
sister lives in the city. She came home, so there's
all five of us under one roof for the last
four days. We haven't killed each other yet, so it's great.
We're actually all really still getting along. I'm very proud
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of all of us. And it was my parents anniversary
yesterday and my brother's birthday yesterday, so we've had a
lot of fun in the Epstein household. We were we
got some cake. We've been eating a lot. I'm we're
all probably gonna you know, maybe like I have obesity
first before coronavirus um, because that's all we've been doing
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is sitting all eating and watching movies. My mom's the
only one that's worked out in the last four days.
The rest of us sit on the couch and do
absolutely nothing, and it's great. Lots of movies. Movies are good. Um,
if you want, we can handicap uh. You know, shows
and which who's gonna finish which show first? Maybe we
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can both start one show at the same time. Well,
already had you beat on Love with Blind? And Hunters?
I already beat you. Well, Up is Blind? You watched
that months ago. I'm late to the party on Love
is Blind. Well, but it's been around for like Love
is Blind. I'm late to the party Hunters. I'll be
done with Hunters by tomorrow. I'm on episode five. It's great,
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it's incredible. Um, it's a little sick and a little twisted.
I don't know if those viewers are familiar with it,
but it's all about UH kind of flashing back to
Nazi Germany, UH and and Jewish people who have you know,
come survived the Holocaust and now they're hunting the Nazis
that are living in America. And there's a little rag
tage it coming. Well, don't give it, don't don't give
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it away. I'm almost there. I'm exciting. I'm very I
listened the first five minutes. I was hooked. That was
a great opening episode. The rest of the first episode
was kind of but the first five minutes was some
of the best five minutes of any opening episode ever.
And then it it kind of lulled a little bit,
and then in two, three and four it's really picked
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back up. I'm about halfway through episode five. I just
I got so tired last night. Had to stop it
because I knew we had to do a show this
morning or get ready for a show this morning, so
I wanted to give myself the proper channels to wake
up and and and get ready. But I was I
was at at it until about two am last night
watching Hunters. I got through four and a half episode.
So I'm excited about that is that I've realized how
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easy it is for me to sit home and do nothing,
and I think that's very sad. Yeah, I mean, I listen,
I think, but but you're doing the right thing. I mean,
you know, people, you know, we our generation, and you're
included in this. You know, we're we're a social group.
We were social butterflies, the millennials. We've got our texting,
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our instagramming, all the social media. We so it. Yes,
so it feels unnatural for us to literally sit in
a room and do nothing for twelve hours a day.
It feels like we're missing out on the outside world. Now,
the older you get, the less fomo I've gotten when
it comes to going out and doing things. Uh so
that's helped. You're still, you know, a young whipper snapper.
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You want to go out and mingle and and and
all your single and ready to mingle all that fun stuff.
And I get it. But I think the prudent thing
for everyone in our generation and any generation to do
right now is just to give up that desire to
go out and just be home as much as possible
to make a new recipe. I don't think so, but
I agree because I have absolutely no problem sitting home
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making cookies, drinking wine and hanging out with my family.
I have zero problem with it. Uh. We just saw,
by the way, UM Pat Ford, who's a who's a
very uh A for D I don't know how to
say his last name. Ford for the Sports Illustrated college
basketball writer UH confirmed that Dan Gabbott, who's the VP
of the n C Double A men's basketball tournament committee,
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said there will be no bracket release, and I applaud that.
I think that would have been a mistake. I think
we've got plenty of people handicapping brackets and and and things,
and we've got plenty of Lenardi's out there sending out
brackets and fun things to do. I don't think we
need dead in our lives right now. But that's just
my opinion. And we're also seeing some more movement in
the NFL. UM. I do under I was okay either
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way with the n c Double A. UM. Anthony Costanzo,
who's the Colts left tackle, is signing a two year
deal thirty three million dollar contract extension with the Colts.
Apparently Costanzo didn't want to leave Indy and now he
won't have to. Yeah, that's good. Um, I think uh,
I think every every piece of news we're gonna see, well,
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I think Rivers actually is a lock to go to
the Colts. I would be shocked if he did not
go to the Colts at this point. I'm pulling up
the QB next team odds now, Yeah, I mean Brady's
up to two D now, so we've seen a forty
five cent move on him. Uh, in the last forty
eight hours from once I think I saw it as
earlier this week and now up to two. I would
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be shocked if he did not go back to New
England at this point. I would be surprised. I think
that would be an upset if another one of these
teams reached out and grabbed him. Yeah. So yeah, that's crazy.
So we just see the line movement on Brady which
we were just talking about before, how he was at
minus now at minus two hundred. I think that has
a lot to do with the Tennessee Titans news coming
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out about signing Ryan's Hannehill to a multi year deal,
which is what they're working on. Philip Rivers, Like we said,
minus one eighty two the Colts. It's interesting to me
with Rivers that it's Colts. Then no team Slash retired
as his second best odds. He wasn't retiring. I never
thought that Philip Rivers was retiring. Yeah. I didn't think
so either. And another piece of news that's gonna affect
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our industry. And I think this is something that's going
to really affect our industry over the next few days.
The Maryland governor just closed all state race tracks, casinos, uh,
and simulcast facilities, which I'm sitting in one right now.
Um I am. I don't know if I'm surprised, but
I'm a little disgusted with how many people are here
(33:56):
today betting on horses. Um. And again, what we've heard
from Gabe is that you know, he spends more time
here than me. Uh. This is not a place that
really cares all. I mean you could see it right there.
I mean that's I count fifty people about people right
there in the in the sports book. So uh, you know,
I think if you went around the room, there'd be
(34:16):
way more people that should be here right now. Um.
And I would be shocked if this facility stayed open
uh this week, and it shouldn't. The Metal Lands already
canceled horse races at the track. You are allowed to
be in the building obviously. Yeah. And there's more people
in this room than there should be. It's actually interesting,
remember that you can account social distancing. Was that you
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that said to me that tv G should just go
onto a network and get paid. I thought it was
interesting to see that Fox Sports was the one that
picked them up on FS two. They put tv G
n F S two. Yeah, I mean, you know, other
than UFC right now in Mexican soccer horse right, I
mean there, I'm I'm looking at the feeds right now.
I see Gulf Stream Parks about the start of race,
Tampa Bay Downs about the start of ray Ace. Uh.
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I see a couple of other tracks that I Sarah
Toga is about to start a race Aqueduct, which is
about thirty miles on the other side of Manhattan and Queens.
They just started a race. So you know, this business
as usual for the pony players. But I don't think
it should be. And I think this is a case
in point of what we're dealing with right now. And
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every time I look down at my Twitter, there's another
update of how many numbers of this virus have been confirmed.
Were up to three twenty nine in New York City alone,
And everything that I'm reading says that everyone who lives
in this city should just assume that you've been exposed
to it at this point. And that is why I
think the entire city should and will be shut down
within the next forty eight hours. That's the only thing
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I'm betting on today areal the city is gonna get
shut down in the next forty eight hours. I have
a very strong feeling about that. Everything I'm seeing from
my new sources with the city council, everything I'm seeing
from everywhere every rewere amongst these this city, and things
that are happening around the city in the suburbs. Newark,
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Jersey City, Hoboken, te Neck has now a mandatory shutdown.
We have curfews effect in Jersey City and Hoboken. I
think it's only a matter of time before the mayor
of this city decides enough is an off and he's
being put immense amount of pressure on him by the
city council right now, and I know I don't want
to get into a political you know, uh debate about
where we are in this city. But the city Council
(36:29):
has a lot of weight on what happens, and they
are putting an immense amount. I saw the Controller come
out this morning and ask the mayor to act, and
I think we're I think we're hours away from uh
New York City being shut down for a period of
week to two weeks. It'll be interesting to see how
things transpire here in Manhattan. And of course there are
things going on around the world and the country as well, um,
(36:53):
but we we can only do the best that we
can do to help keep people informed and to everyone
stay safe and wash your hands and be clean. And
the impact that it's going to have on the sports
world too is what we're really keeping an eye on
here on Sports Grids because the way that all of
these different things pan out, from which sports going to
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be first, to the c v A being approved, to
how players might be affected themselves from coronavirus are all
things that make a big toll in handicapping games. When
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Jared Smith at the Vandal Sports Book. I'm Ariel FDN,
and even though we are going to be here for
another two hours within Game Live coming up from two
to four, we were going to continue talking about different
things that have happened in sports because even though there's
no games to really report on for in game Live,
I feel like we are dealing with so many things
going on as an in game Live, so many storylines
(38:44):
that are unfolding, and one of those things has been
the c b A, which was approved today by the NFL.
The new cb A, so Jared, It was said by
Evan Lazar, who is the Patriots Beat reporter, who said
the new CPA holding up Bradies negotiations was real the
Patriots no longer need to worry about the thirty percent
rule or the absence avoidable years in a Brady contract,
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which makes it much easier to reach a deal. Now
we wait and see, should see a flurry of moves
across the NFL. What are your thoughts on that? Yeah,
we're gonna I think the next Then again, thank goodness,
because we don't really have much else to talk about
right now. But this is saying, um, yeah, and but
you know, to be fair to the NFL, this would
(39:26):
have happened anyways this week, so you know, we this
is what we would have seen anyways this week, whether
or not the n c Double A Tournament was happening,
we would have seen a flurry of moves. I think
everything would have been happening as it would now. The
coronavirus is not affecting anything that's happening with the NFL
right now. The draft aside, I think that's gonna be
(39:47):
the next domino to fall. But turning or not, we
would have seen these things happen. They just would not
have been as much. Tom Brady would have gotten a
fan fair. But if we were talking about conference finals
happening today, we would not have been talking of clay
Is Campbell getting traded to the Ravens. Uh. So, you know,
it's getting bumped up to the top of the news
cycle because there's not much else to talk about. But
(40:08):
the NFL, as expected, is going to have a flurry
of of of news items calm over the next thirty
six to seventy two hours. When when when the league
window officially opens. It should be interesting to see because yeah,
the window officially opens on Wednesday, but I think we'll
see a lot of things unfolding for the next few days.
We're already seeing them today. Um, who do you think
(40:31):
it's going to be the first quarterback to go? Do
you think it's Tom Brady or do you think it's
let's say, you know, you're very sold on Philip Rivers
going to the Colts. Great question, that's a great question.
And you know, the the irony of all of this
is Rivers now at minus one eighty, has actually less
odds to go to the Colts than Brady does back
(40:52):
to the Paths that minus two. And I've been saying
all week that I think Tom going back to New
England is an inevitability at this point. It's just a
matter of and and how much. I would be very
surprised if Rivers did not end up with the Colts,
but the odds say that there still could be some
movement there. Uh. In fact, the second team on that
list is no team, and that Philip will retire, which
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I don't. If you were asked me right now, which quarterback, Yeah,
which quarterback has more left in the tank? I would
say Philip because he's younger, and because he's never won
a Super Bowl and has never really had that postseason success.
So I think his fire should be burning a little
a little hotter because of those things. And I think
Indie actually is the better team if you were to
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ask me, the team more equipped to win a Super
Bowl minus their quarterback. New England has some major holes
right now at receiver, at offensive line. The Colts are
ready to go. Colts have a great offensive line, They've
got weapons stacked up and down the field. They need
to stay healthy to why Hilton needs to stay healthy.
But the Colts I think are in better shape to
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house an aging vetteran quarterback than a Patriots would be.
But just the ticks of everything that's happening in New
England right now leads me to believe that Tom will
go back to New England. But again, if you're gonna
ask me the first quarterback to sign, that's a really
tough question to ask because I think there's a lot
of mitigating factors involved. I I like the NFL draft.
We want great great point uh. And again, the NFL
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draft is something that we're not talking a lot about
right now. We will want to can impact free agency
a lot hundred That is a Now you're going to
have teams waiting for a rookie quarterback who they might
have wanted to draft. You're waiting maybe an extra month
or two to get them, whereas free agency is starting
up now in the next three days, and you could
(42:42):
be getting a quarterback that way. I think the Patriots
were tops on my list of teams that we're going
to draft a quarterback. I think they still will regardless
of what happens with Tom or if they if they
sign somebody else. I think Miami, Cincinnati and even the
(43:03):
Chargers are teams that are all in play to draft
a quarterback based on where they're drafting and where they're
where their their pick is, and they could get one
of those guys to a Burrow. You would expect Borrow
to go to the Bengals. You would think to A
would go either Chargers or Dolphins. Um, there are actually
odds right now on the NFL Draft for two at
Taga by Loa and where his draft position would be,
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and it's over under two and a half. What are
the what are the the odds? And it's three hundred
on the over plus two twenty on the under. And
good thing to keep in mind there the over means lower,
so over two and a half means the third pick
would be a winner. So I agree with that. I
(43:47):
think that's a fair assessment. Um, who who picks second? Uh?
You have? Eh? Why am I blinking? NFL Draft? I'm
blank because I know it's Bengals. And then I think
the Giants are four? Um? Yeah, and then the Lions.
(44:09):
Why are we the Redskins? Redskins? So Redskins are not
one of those teams that are going to take a
quarterback likely. I think they're not happy, but you know
they're too much into that Haskins experiment too. You're gonna
take Chase Young's second because Ron Rivera is a defensive
minded head coach, or they will trade back, which I
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think is the thing that we're not taking into account,
and it's impossible to handicap that because we don't really
know what negotiations are going on behind the scenes. Um,
I could absolutely see because there's no clear cut number
to pick where Chase Young you would think, but number
you know, in terms of the fluctuation with the quarterbacks,
I could totally see there being a lot of trades
(44:51):
in the first round. That's the number I'd like to
see over under how many trades in the first round.
I'd like to see that, Yet round very hard to
handy at that. Now. This one's is the only total
I see is um total quarterbacks trafted in round over
under four and a half And it's four and a half, right, Yeah,
And you would think the under is going to be
the pick there because I don't see a famous yeah exactly.
(45:16):
Jalen Hurts is the wild card there if somebody wants
to take a shot at Hurts to be the fifth,
but it's gonna be burrowed to uh Herbert and Love
or the four and then the fifth is the one
that you don't think is going to be a first rounder.
Hurts would be the one wild card there, but I
liken him to maybe what we saw with Lamar Jackson.
But I think Jackson was a better prospect than Hurts was.
(45:40):
Again I I I'm fascinated to see. I mean, this
is gonna be a fun week. I'm glad that we
have something happening next week to take our mind off
of all of the other crap going on in the
world right now. And that's the best part about this,
or and the worst part about this is usually when
these things are happening in the world, sports is our outlet,
and that has now been ta get await from us,
(46:00):
So we have to go back to our roots. Uh
and and there's uh there's the draft, or there's the
board of all the sports that have been I mean,
you know, just basically say it's all. I'm so proud
of us that we actually got the terminologies right because
I always hate and I learned this in local news
when I was covering local sports. There's such a big
(46:20):
difference between the word canceled and postponed. And we have
nailed it on the board. Great job by the guys
in the pit, because people keep saying things are canceled
or thinks no, no, no, guys. Pro sports is not canceled,
it's postponed. We are going to see an NBA Finals champion.
We are going to see an NHL champion. We are
(46:41):
going to see a Major League Baseball World Series, and
we will get the NFL regular season. NASCAR will come back.
All these sports are coming back. The only thing not
coming back is college sports. Spring sports in college are canceled.
Everything else is just postponed. Yeah, that is a very
important distinction to make. Uh, I will caution you and
(47:04):
saying that things could change. We're not going to see
pro sports canceled their season. Um I I agree with
you based on the information we have right now today. UM,
this is a very fluid situation. We've seen things change
so much in the last week. A week ago we
were doing this show and we were talking about, you know,
(47:25):
conference tournaments, and now we're talking about a totally different thing.
So it is so different, Jared. College is so different.
These colleges are not are kicking kids off campus, kids
are going to online classes. It is such a different situation.
When you're dealing with college kids who are not getting paid,
You're dealing now with pro athletes who get paid. It's
like saying that, you know, I mean, granted, there are
(47:47):
people out there getting laid off of jobs right now,
but for the most part, I mean the the NFL, NBA, Baseball,
these players, these teams aren't going to tell their play years.
They're not getting paid anymore, goodbye. I mean, these pro
athletes apparently are still getting paid. Um, it's the minor
(48:07):
league baseball players that apparently aren't getting paid, which is
something I think that and I saw a disturbing I
saw a disturbing article today about the e c h L,
which is one of the better minor league hockey leagues,
UH that will not be paying their players after this week.
And you're you're you're right, that is a disturbing thing
(48:27):
that does need to be rectified. But unfortunately, that is
the world that we live in when it comes to
minor league sports, and and they've always been given the
short end of the stick. I agree with you, I
I I based on the information and the knowledge we
have today, I fully expect professional sports to be back
by this summer. But I I just we don't know
what we're dealing with with this stupid virus. And I
(48:50):
in the back of my mind, I I always think
of worst case scenarios, because that's what a that's what
a crazy person does in their spare time when they
have lots of it. So I hope that the powers
that be in the governments and the municipalities around this
country take the proper steps to mitigate this disease and
make it so that this summer it's all an afterthought.
(49:11):
But I'm looking at a room full of horse betters
right now that clearly have no idea what social distancing means.
It's disturbing area. I'm disturbed right now looking at this
room full of people screaming at screens about horse racing.
It's I'm I'm disturbed. I'm I'm disgusted. There's a hundred
(49:34):
people in this room right now, and then on would
be watching it too, I know. But that's where the
governments need to step in and say shut it down.
You can go two weeks without betting people. I know
we're all degenerates, trust me, I'm as big of a
degenerate as anybody. You can go two weeks without anything
(49:56):
without food or water, no you neat that, but without gambling.
The whole be with your family. We don't need to
be switching over too in game live Coming up at
the two o'clock hour, Jared Smith and I got you
for the next two hours up till four o'clock. Sam
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