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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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slash teachers and Nick. As we were watching Jerry Jones presser,
I used to think that the movie Draft Day was
the most unrealistic thing on the screen about football until
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I saw Jerry Jones press conference and he's disconnect with
I don't know reality, dude.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
That's putting it mildly because and this is me paraphrasing,
to sit and watch Jerry gave his press conference and
make it appear as though this kind.
Speaker 3 (01:04):
Of this trade.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
This conversation back and forth with Brian gutencluz up in
Green Bay. Has someone been taking place for a while,
and Kenny Clark is sort of the missing peace to
the puzzle. Like most teams would say, we're one player away,
which is a bunch of bs. But Jerry is trying
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to force feed the Cowboys fans this whole concept that
Kenny Clark and their inability to stop the run is
the reason why they have been to devoid of making
it to the playoffs and making a deep run. I'm sorry, then,
I was born at night. I wasn't born last night,
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And I'm like, there's no way he truly believes this,
but absolutely he does. Jerry believes every single word is
coming out of his mouth, which is ridiculous.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
The idea that did They just now realize.
Speaker 1 (02:01):
That the run defense wasn't good because they had three
free agencies and three drafts in a row to do anything.
And the only person they added that I remember is
Mazzie Smith.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
Well, I guess the gene is that Jerry Jones.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
He is.
Speaker 3 (02:18):
I think he's just most football savvy than we are.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
It's it's like watching a certain politician who never admits
they're wrong about anything and just gets up there and
has these long winded, rambling, nonsensical press conferences and just
claims he's winning everything. You know, Jerry's following the playbook.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
See, Jerry needs to wear a top hat at every press.
Speaker 3 (02:43):
Conference, maybe a redhead. Well, he needs to.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
Wear a top hat, right, because he's p T barnam Man.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
Well, yes, it's just the Dallas Cowboys to become a circus.
Bring them brothers, Barnum and Bailey's circus. That's what they
are for me. When I heard the trade this morning,
I was like, oh, man, I can't wait. There are
two games that are on the calendar that I can't
wait for. That Week four matchup Sunday Night Football, Dallas
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versus Green May Packers.
Speaker 3 (03:14):
Also the Broncos game, right.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
And the reason I can't wait for the Broncos game
because all offseason we've been talking about pass rushers, who's
getting paid and who's not. Nick Benito signing a new deal.
I did his money going up? Should he looks to
sit out, sit hold in? And how much will this
cost the Broncos to sign him? We're gonna get a
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chance to see both he and Michael Parson in the
same game.
Speaker 3 (03:42):
Yeah, and see in that duel, which.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
Offensive tackle right on the opposite side that they're facing
can hold up and slow the other guy down.
Speaker 3 (03:52):
Yeah, it's gonna be fascinting.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
Obviously, the Cowboys play the Packers in I think Week
four with four, so that's gonna be September twenty eight.
Something else to add to the whole the whole scheme
of things there. My thing is green Bay already had
a pretty good front seven. Yeah, they already had a
pretty good front or front seven before they got Parsons.
Now that front seven looks really good. Their their secondary's
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got some some issues. But you know, green Bay, they're
pushing all in. I mean, trading two first rounders. The
Kenny Clark thinks whatever. I mean, he's a really good
nose tackle. Don't gonna be wrong, but it's a nose tackle.
That's a position. It's a little bit valued in the NFL.
Speaker 3 (04:33):
Not Aaron Donald or what was that right, He's more.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
Of a run plugging, traditional old school nose. But he's
a good nose. Don't get me wrong. But to first
rounders suggests you're pushing all in. You think you're in
your window, you think you're going to win. Now that
you don't need those first rounders to reload because you're.
Speaker 3 (04:52):
About to win it all. That's what the Packers are
saying with this.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
Well, I don't know about winning at all, but that's
what you're in it for. Yeah, every team is in
it to win it all, and we know that become
the first five or six games, teams started to realize ah,
that was just a pipe dream. But the Packers, I
still believe they're in that window. We've seen them play
in competitive games with Jorge Love, I know, a guy
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that you're not too fond of, but last year this
team was really competitive. They underwent a lot of injuries.
So if you were to add a guy like Michael
Parson to your pass rush and you mentioned yes Zaiyah
Alexander's now with the Baltimore Ravens, their secondary is somewhat
of a question. But the big neutralizer or something that
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helps when your secondary isn't that great, it's being able
to get after opposing quarterbacks. And I know, and I
told my son to today Jeff Hafley, who I worked
under in San Francisco. I know he was smiling ear
to ear about this edition because he's done a great
job as a defensive coordinator scheming for the Green Bay Packers.
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Now you get a guy like that where you know
they're gonna have to slide protection to Michael Parson. They're
gonna have to commit a running back or a tight
end that they have to chip him. That's one less
guy out in the passing formation, right, one less guy
out there in progressions. So this this is gonna bowl
well for the Green Bay Packers now, I also said
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on on social media today on x I put out
this this meme of the quarterbacks and offensive lineman, and
the NFC is all celebrating now they know that Michael
Parsons no longer.
Speaker 3 (06:34):
Russyn tweeted him, do help moving. I got yea.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
Broye, you don't have they quarterback over.
Speaker 3 (06:41):
The in the NFC.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
He's absolutely loving that. But that's it's what I mean.
It's just it's interesting to me. I think the biggest
beneficiary here is Rashaun Gary, who's the pass rusher on
the other side for Green Bay. He was a seven
and a half sack guy last year, made the Pro Bowl.
Speaker 3 (06:56):
It's is gonna be interesting because.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
You know Michael Parsons, he's gotta stay hell, he had
he missed four games last year, you missed the two
first rounders. Now, if you're green Bay, it's just I mean,
clearly green Bay won this trade.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
Right to me, they did, But Jerry is trying to
say that he did because he's looking at this trade
as a similar to the trade with herschel Walker, where
they traded Minnesota got a boatload of picks, they revamped
that team, and they went on a Super Bowl run.
See that's what he's telling himself. He's justifying this move.
But let's take a look at this. We know that
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a lot of teams value first round picks, but we
also have seen over the years a lot of first
round picks being bus So Gudenkuz is thinking, Okay, well,
we can go and draft some guys, but there's no
guarantee that those guys are gonna give us the same
level of production, because you already have a guy and
Michael Parson in the first three years he's been in
the league double digit sacks.
Speaker 3 (07:52):
That's a given. There's no guarantee that you go out
and draft.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
Some running back, some defensive tackle, some safety, some corner
that's gonna give you that a production right off the bat.
Speaker 1 (08:01):
Yeah, It's just just fascinating. I did not believe Jerry
would deal him.
Speaker 3 (08:06):
I didn't. I gotta take the l there.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
Did not think they'd move, And I thought there was
gonna be like last year with Ceede Lamb.
Speaker 3 (08:11):
Where you run last moment, you run up, Yeah, what
you right?
Speaker 1 (08:13):
You do this, and then you wind up shooting yourself
in the foot and paying more money. And I just
clearly underestimated Jerry Jones' ability to cheer Bob himself.
Speaker 3 (08:27):
He said, I'm just saying with a two piece of
a biscuit.
Speaker 1 (08:30):
I mean, people get that eight mile reference, but I yeah,
I mean, I just didn't think, you know, on a
defense that's frankly bereft of talent outside of Michael Parsons.
They've got a few guys, but that defense is taking
a nose dive since dan Quinn left, and they just
don't they don't.
Speaker 3 (08:49):
They don't get after it the same.
Speaker 1 (08:51):
Parsons really was the engine last year that that kind
of made the thing go.
Speaker 3 (08:54):
And they weren't that good last year.
Speaker 1 (08:55):
Last year they were like the thirty first ranked defense
in the league.
Speaker 3 (08:58):
They went for me to get Parsons.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
Yeah, they went from being a top five defense when
Dan Wimer was running the show all three years to
being the thirty first defense in the league. Right after
he leaves, Matt Abraflu's got his hands full. Now he's
got his work cut out for him. And I think
Matt Evens was a decent defensive coordator. He sucked as
a head coach, but I think he's a decent defensive coordinator.
He's been He's been pretty good at his job as
a DC wherever else he's gone. I mean, and to
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be honest with the Chicago's defense wasn't a problem in Chicago.
Speaker 3 (09:24):
Think about this.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
If you are Brian Steinheimer, this is your first year
as a head coach.
Speaker 3 (09:30):
Is he gonna get David cullyed?
Speaker 2 (09:33):
Wow? That's five for real?
Speaker 1 (09:36):
Because with Parsons, you're like, Okay, Dallas might have something
in a tough division.
Speaker 3 (09:40):
Without Parsons, you're looking at that team like, man, I really.
Speaker 1 (09:42):
Hope that offense is hitting on all cylinders or that
team is trash.
Speaker 3 (09:46):
Listen.
Speaker 2 (09:46):
I know you like to lay down a lot of wagers,
and you know I'm not that type of guy.
Speaker 3 (09:54):
But after this move, I'm like, you know.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
What, putting something on the Washington commanders to win that division.
I might have to look at it, not saying that
I would do it, but I'm just looking at it.
Speaker 3 (10:07):
I'm just eyeing it because the idea.
Speaker 2 (10:10):
Is that you're supposed to keep the guys that you
developed inside your building to make them to make your
team better. Because I'm thinking, like Gary Jones is supposed
to be one of the better businessmen in the NFL
as far as being an owner and in professional sports.
And then you go ahead and make this move when
you should have made this deal with Parsons one two
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years ago.
Speaker 3 (10:33):
That doesn't make sense.
Speaker 1 (10:34):
Why when you've done this before the draft, now you're
going to get two Packers picks instead of a whole
open market. And oh, by the way, you kept him
in conference, yes, in Green May And oh by the way,
those Packers picks are not going to be great picks. Nope,
you're gonna be back of the first round picks because.
Speaker 3 (10:50):
The Packers are going to be a better team. This shit. Yeah,
But but Jerry is saying, though I understand that what
it's about volume. We got volume in return, and we're.
Speaker 2 (11:00):
Gonna we're gonna be able to flip that volume into
quality guys. And if I'm a free agent, a guy
on expiring deal in Dallas. I'm looking to get as
far away from Dallas as possible because if this is
how you do guys who will actually perform, well, you
draft Micah right as the first rounder to come in
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and do these exact things, and he goes ahead and.
Speaker 3 (11:25):
Gets some done and you don't pay him.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
It just reminds me of when you look at the
situation with Nick Benito. Nick Benito right now is saying
thank you Dallas Cowboys, thank you Brian Gutencus, because now
you've given me something to aim for.
Speaker 3 (11:42):
Right. Look at Michaeh's deal. I think Michael deal is
what I think.
Speaker 2 (11:46):
It's one hundred and twenty guaranteed over four years. Right.
So if you if you're Nick Benito, you're like, okay,
well I got a choice if we start talking now
or I wait for a second.
Speaker 3 (11:57):
Let go up.
Speaker 1 (11:58):
This was Nick Benito's plan the whole time his representation,
Wait until Trey Hendrixon and Michael Parsons get their deals done.
Now Hendrickson willound up blowing that a little bit because
he just took the guaranteed money this.
Speaker 3 (12:08):
Year, which you move the average in the top five.
It's not even that's tight.
Speaker 1 (12:11):
I top six money, but Michael Parsons blows it out
of the water. We were expecting forty three to forty
five per he gets forty seven at drags. That average up,
and that means you pay more for Nick Banillo. And now
Nick Bannil is not getting forty million a year, okay,
Like I had people tweeting me about that early. He's
not getting forty million a year. But thirty five is
within striking distance. And I would suggest, based on the
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way the broadcost do business, you're probably looking at somewhere
between twenty eight and thirty three per year for Nick Benito.
Speaker 2 (12:38):
There's a possibility that you get Nick Benito close to
that number by putting in some incentives.
Speaker 3 (12:45):
Yeah right, you just put buzz incentives in.
Speaker 2 (12:47):
If you've received incentives, then now you get the forty mark.
But now no players want guaranteed money, money that I
could bank on. Soon as I put my John Hancock
on a piece of paper, money's at.
Speaker 3 (12:57):
A bank, cut the check.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
Yeah, I just this this deal does help Nick Benito's leverage. Uh,
you know, with all that, and I think Benito, for
his part, just got to go out and make plays
this year. Continue to make plays, and he'll wind up
with a pay day whether it's here or not. And
I think it will be. I do believe they'll. You know,
they put an offer in front of him before. It
was just a lot lower than what it needed to be.
Speaker 3 (13:19):
They opened all right. So I hear that a.
Speaker 2 (13:23):
Lot when it comes to players contract and fans get
upset because it's like, well, and the team would say.
Speaker 3 (13:28):
Well, we offered him a contract, he didn't take it,
so the I did.
Speaker 2 (13:33):
Yes, in fact, yes you did offer a guy a contract,
but you didn't offer him the contract because if you did,
he would have signed it.
Speaker 3 (13:43):
But this is the.
Speaker 2 (13:44):
Language that is projected out and pushed out to the
fan base. So now the fan base turns on the
player and not on the team. Right. So it's like, well,
you want me to be out here playing both injured
and hurt.
Speaker 3 (13:58):
You want me to play at a p level, but
see the fans.
Speaker 1 (14:01):
But the fans do never see that because the way
players brush off injuries publicly even when they're gutting them
out privately. They like players need to be more vocal
about the injuries that they have or find a way
to be more vocal about it because fans.
Speaker 3 (14:14):
Don't see they don't know that.
Speaker 1 (14:15):
Like last year when Masson and certain came back and
Moss was giving up a few plays and he was playing,
he was hurt. Dude was gutting it out and he
was hurt, and the fan base is to all, Moss
is washed now, But in a few games now he's washed.
Speaker 3 (14:26):
Bro, He's hurt.
Speaker 2 (14:28):
See those same individual fans and members of the media
who said that about Riley Moss, you know what, I know,
Riley couldn't do it. So I went after those same people, like,
what the hell are you watching?
Speaker 3 (14:38):
Right?
Speaker 2 (14:39):
Do you know what it's like to be in that
situation to come back from the injury that he had
and go out there and try to play and then
think about the games that you miss and you're not
in peak condition, and now you're trying to go out
there and compete against you know.
Speaker 3 (14:52):
T Higgins, Right.
Speaker 2 (14:54):
And then even with that being said, Rolly Moss was
still in great position.
Speaker 3 (14:58):
He was trying to take plays.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
But Joe Burrow ball placement was as grant. You know,
Pumps's fist in the air was just impeccable.
Speaker 3 (15:06):
It's you know, it's and I would go a step
further with that.
Speaker 1 (15:09):
I would say that anytime you see a notable athlete
who's previously done it before and they're slumping, they're playing
through an undisclosed injury almost without fail, you know, like
there's all in any sport. I would tell you that
if there's if there's an athlete who played at a
very high level and all of a sudden is they're
playing at that level, they are playing with an undisclosed injury. Well,
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but as play unting through one, that's that's tougher than
they they let you know.
Speaker 2 (15:34):
Well, yeah, but but for the way the way the
fans now view it, especially with so much money in
sportsbook and fantasy sports, they expect for you to play
through that.
Speaker 3 (15:45):
Listen. I remember playing here.
Speaker 2 (15:47):
We're playing against the Miami Dolphins, and our office wasn't
doing that well and the fans were just kind of
just going ham And then there was a CBS moment
where you know, Jake told the fans we're number one.
Speaker 3 (16:00):
That happened to be captured.
Speaker 2 (16:02):
But then there was a fan behind our defensive bench
who was trying to get the tention of Al Wilson
and he was telling him with some expletives, you know,
turn around because I pay your check. Which when he
said that, Al wasn't the only one that turned around.
It was like fifteen of us at the same time
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trying to figure out who the hell this fan was
because Al was was like, well, the last time I checked,
your name isn't mister Bowling, and your name isn't on
the check. And fans feel as though they own you,
their fan base.
Speaker 3 (16:38):
They paid for the tickets, they own you, which is silly.
Speaker 1 (16:41):
You don't in the same sense that you don't own
a Target employee because you shop there, right when.
Speaker 2 (16:46):
People think that you walk here and your job is
to serve me.
Speaker 3 (16:51):
That's what how some people think.
Speaker 1 (16:53):
Well, yeah, I guess some people do think that way,
But I mean buying a ticket to a.
Speaker 3 (16:57):
Game entitles you to watch the game. That's what that
entitles you to see.
Speaker 2 (17:02):
Once again, we see we're getting into a whole different thing.
Like the one thing about football is the fans are
at a little distance from us and basketball, right they're
right there. And fans feels as though if I'm paying
big money to sit on the floor, I can say
whatever I want to say to you.
Speaker 3 (17:20):
You're right to say yeah, I mean you can. That
doesn't mean that you're going to be You don't mean
you're ever gonna be sitting there again. So so what
a player, would he be wrong.
Speaker 2 (17:29):
If fan said little something to him that was a
little derogatory out of pocket?
Speaker 1 (17:35):
Yeah, I mean, if I'm a player, I wouldn't because
that's what they're trying to bait you to do.
Speaker 3 (17:40):
It's just like the people on.
Speaker 1 (17:41):
The internet to do the rage baiting and the trolling
all that, they're just trying to bait you into doing that, right.
Speaker 3 (17:46):
They want they want.
Speaker 1 (17:47):
The reaction, right although these days on Twitter, like that's
the stuff that gets run.
Speaker 3 (17:51):
So that's why I keep tweaking these dudes like.
Speaker 1 (17:54):
The freest it's the freest money I I'll ever have. Yes,
I mean, so rage baiting them back or whatever, But
it's yeah, I don't.
Speaker 3 (18:04):
I mean, you can't.
Speaker 1 (18:07):
You can't get to the point where somebody feels like
there's danger or harm going to come to them.
Speaker 3 (18:13):
But otherwise, yeah, you.
Speaker 1 (18:14):
Say what you want, I guess, but the arena has
the right to tell you can't sit.
Speaker 3 (18:19):
There again anymore exactly.
Speaker 2 (18:20):
But this is where some people cross the line when
it comes to being a fanatic and fandom because you
go back to wagers, how much money has been wager
on these sporting events, and you know it's come to
pass that we have some guys who have tried to
play the books in the line just a little with
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some guys, some sports betters, but also at the same time,
because you bet a healthy amount and the team you
bet on, I'm on and you're losing. Don't come after me.
But that's how some fans have become. It's not I
didn't tell you to put fifty grand on the game right.
Speaker 3 (18:58):
To cover the over.
Speaker 1 (18:59):
Well, that's that's your own thing. If you put money
out there like that, that's on you.
Speaker 3 (19:04):
That's not on a player. That's not anything.
Speaker 1 (19:05):
If you put money, that's money, you are okay losing.
Speaker 3 (19:08):
But but now they turn on the player because they say, well, right,
you got that extra yard.
Speaker 1 (19:14):
No, your fall for putting that money out there in
the first place, that's on you.
Speaker 3 (19:17):
I did what I need to do.
Speaker 1 (19:18):
Rocos Country night back after this gambling problem, caller techs
one eight hundred gambler.
Speaker 3 (19:27):
She k Wait comes from the hotline though, and bringing
on a girl, Nikki Edwards talk a little SEU Buffs
taking on the.
Speaker 1 (19:33):
Bad guys Georgia Tech. Nick is shooting me sideye right now?
Is the Georgia Tech a love Nicky?
Speaker 3 (19:39):
How you doing good?
Speaker 4 (19:41):
Are you guys doing doing pretty well?
Speaker 1 (19:43):
The Buffs to nobody surprise announced the quarterback.
Speaker 3 (19:46):
Do we think Juju is gonna get some run though?
This year?
Speaker 5 (19:51):
I think it's really dependent on where Colorado stands in
the game, at least preliminary Maybe if Colorado is in
a good place in the Georgia Tech game, maybe two
score lead, end of third quarter, maybe some fourth quarter
action there.
Speaker 4 (20:05):
But I just.
Speaker 5 (20:06):
Anticipate that they're going to keep running Kyden Salter and
if they feel comfortable enough within the game, we can
see some Juju being incorporated.
Speaker 3 (20:15):
Nicky. What does this mean for CU to be hosting
this game?
Speaker 2 (20:19):
And we go back to that ill fated nineteen ninety
year and to know that Prime coach Prime decided that
he wants to honor that year. Bill McCartney with the
kids wearing those uniforms going out tomorrow against Georgia Tech,
what do you think that's going to mean for the
crowd and for a lot of those students.
Speaker 5 (20:42):
I mean, it's really a full circle moment, right. Bill
McCartney really garnered the tradition and value and success of
what Colorado football was in the nineties, and now getting
this Georgia Tech game, coach Prime is building his own
foundation and his own success at Colorado, and I really
just think it's deserved for Bill McCartney to.
Speaker 4 (21:02):
Be honored in that way.
Speaker 5 (21:03):
I'm glad they're wearing their traditional uniforms and I feel
like fans are really embracing honoring the late and great
Bill McCartney because he deserves to be honored on the
Colorado football field. I'm excited that they get to play
Georgia Tech like they did in the nineties, and yeah,
it's really a full circle moment. I'm excited to see
what the Bus can do tomorrow.
Speaker 3 (21:22):
I'm talking with Nicky Edwards.
Speaker 1 (21:23):
Nicky, you know, the sports books are not really respecting
the cu Bus this year, maybe expecting a bit of
a crash back to Earth as it were low totals there,
low on the win totals there. But is this a
team that it could outpace that? I mean, is this
a team that can go and surprise everybody and take
that next step forward even after losing Travis and Schadour.
Speaker 5 (21:46):
I mean that's a big storyline, right, What can this
team identify as without those two really really talented players.
And I think this season is all about development. They
lost a lot of veterans.
Speaker 4 (21:58):
Like outside of Travis, they.
Speaker 5 (22:01):
Lost a lot of safeties up front, on the defensive line,
these two really powerful linebackers, and just of course Sure
a guy who operated the entire offense this season. We
really want to see what these guys who have been
waiting for the spotlight are ready to do.
Speaker 4 (22:16):
Like an Quin.
Speaker 5 (22:16):
Barnes upfront, I mean, there's new pieces at linebacker. This
is just an incorporation of guys that have been waiting
for their chance, like Arden Walker. He's the defensive end
and he's really stepped into this leadership role. And upfront,
they did lose a lot of firepower like Judose Wonkwo,
Shane Kochs and of course Levin's Bentley and the Kayho Green,
those two linebackers I mentioned. So I'm interested to see
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what they look like up front and can this defense
really maintain the same level of intensity they led the
Big twelve in sacks last year?
Speaker 4 (22:48):
Can they uphold up front?
Speaker 5 (22:50):
I think Georgia Tech is going to be a really
good opponent to see.
Speaker 4 (22:52):
Where they're at in that stage.
Speaker 5 (22:54):
Of course, week one, it's like, I mean, I could
see Colorado going eight and four, but it's really going
to be definitive on how Pat Shermer really calls plays
and really steps into this offense.
Speaker 4 (23:06):
Who, of course should or ran the show last year
with four.
Speaker 5 (23:09):
Really talented wide receivers. Now it's a young wide receiver group,
a new quarterback dual threat, which you know is helpful.
But now it's going to be a collaboration between Pat
Shermer and Kane Salter and maybe some Jillian Lewis even
and there's just going to be a lot of nuance
to this team.
Speaker 4 (23:26):
As we know. Ideally I'd say eight and four, but
it is, you know, you never know. In the Big twelve.
Speaker 5 (23:32):
It's really a surprising and dynamic conference.
Speaker 3 (23:36):
Nikki.
Speaker 2 (23:36):
It is interesting because you know, having the Broncos and
the Buffs.
Speaker 3 (23:40):
For me, I seem like every single year for the past.
Speaker 2 (23:43):
Two years has been the same conversation with both teams.
Speaker 3 (23:46):
Inability to run the ball. And we know the.
Speaker 2 (23:48):
Buffs made a lot of changes with the transfer portal,
bringing in some guys and seeding being the I guess
the eldest statesman. On that offensive line, they got some
big bodies. Will this be able to run the ball effectively?
Tomorrow night against Georgia Tech?
Speaker 3 (24:04):
Do you think?
Speaker 5 (24:06):
I think where Georgia Tech lies?
Speaker 4 (24:09):
Last year?
Speaker 5 (24:09):
I mean, they did bring in a new defensive coordinator.
Speaker 4 (24:13):
He was the former.
Speaker 5 (24:14):
Safety coast at the University of Texas, and of course
Texas was the third ranked total defense across college football,
so he played a part in that.
Speaker 4 (24:22):
So this defense is going to look a little new,
and he's kind of We're just kind of.
Speaker 5 (24:27):
Wondering what that may may look like on the field.
Of course, you talk about the offensive line and bringing
Marshall falk in. Those are all pieces in the progress
that they're making.
Speaker 4 (24:39):
What does the product look like on the field, we
don't quite know.
Speaker 5 (24:41):
Yet, But I do know that their offensive line averages
six to five and three hundred and thirty pounds. This
is the biggest offensive line that Colorado that has had
in the coach prime era. So will that size equate
and effectively running the ball?
Speaker 4 (24:57):
Who knows? But I think this I think this will
be good matchup.
Speaker 5 (25:00):
For Colorado because previously at least last year, Georgia Tech
kind of you know, they did all.
Speaker 4 (25:06):
Right running the ball. They were the.
Speaker 5 (25:09):
Thirtieth ranked rushing defense, averaging one hundred and twenty two
point three yards per game on the ground, So there's
a little bit of leeway there. And I think last
year too, they against UNC NC State and Vanderbilt, Georgia
Tech allowed a little bit of leeway with the mulbile quarterbacks.
They at least averaged eighty yards per game and.
Speaker 4 (25:27):
A few touchdowns there. So we'll see what Kane.
Speaker 5 (25:30):
Salter can do as well in the run game. And
I think that's what we're all waiting for. Can this
offense be balanced, and they've been emphasizing it over and
over and over.
Speaker 4 (25:39):
We have to run the ball. So we'll see how
it comes to fruition with.
Speaker 5 (25:42):
This really a large offensive line and a couple of
new guys with the Kalan Taylor from Acarnate Word and
Michael Willachu stepping into a sophomore season and Simeon Price
from Misissippi stand Coast to Carolina. So there's some new
guys that are able to run the ball and we'll
see how it comes to fruition on a field.
Speaker 1 (26:00):
Tell with Nicky Embers, NICKI, who's the player we're going
to be talking about at the end of the season
that we're not talking about right now. Who's that player
that's going to become the star for CU this year
or at least become a fan favorite that we may
not have we not know about at this.
Speaker 4 (26:13):
Point, at least we've been meeting with him a lot
in like the local Boulder media.
Speaker 5 (26:19):
But Dreylon Miller, I cannot speak more highly of him
and what he did last year with the Buffs, like
he was one of the Buffs, like secret weapons in
the slot. He's like Deebo Samuel type of guy where
he's able to work in the backfield.
Speaker 4 (26:33):
He's able to get out in the open, work.
Speaker 5 (26:35):
In space, but also run over guys and.
Speaker 4 (26:37):
Get into the end zone.
Speaker 5 (26:39):
Him and Shador worked so well together. And Dreylon Miller
is just truly such a good playmaker and that was
just his freshman year last year. He's stepping into his
sophomore season and on the field and off the field too.
He truly is like an all around amazing player, performer,
and just he's really grateful for his opportunity to Colorado
and he's making them most of it, So Draymond Miller
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on offense, and I think on defense to a lot
of guys that are stepping up. Preston Hodge, I think
he's not getting enough spotlight. He was so important to
Colorado's defense last year playing at the nickel position, and
he was a guy who really led the defense. He
was a good communicator in the secondary, and he's really
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what gets the gears turning for defensive coordinator Robert Livingston.
He's such a reliable, veteran.
Speaker 4 (27:30):
Presence, and he got an extra year of.
Speaker 5 (27:32):
Eligibility with the JUCO ruling.
Speaker 4 (27:34):
And I think he's really going to be making the
most of it this season.
Speaker 1 (27:38):
Nicki Edwards, the Buffbeat reporter for Yahoo's Sports. We appreciate
it is always look forward to checking in with you
throughout the season.
Speaker 4 (27:45):
Yes, thank you for having me on.
Speaker 3 (27:47):
Take care. That's Nicky Edwards from Yahoo's Sports, first joining us.
In the last day.
Speaker 1 (27:56):
We're talking little buffs. Didn't really talked much about a
Marian Miller. I called him wider receivers B two K
because I think a Marion's going to headline and if.
Speaker 2 (28:03):
You get that reference, you know what, here's something interesting
about CEU. This is like Nikki said, it is a
new era for coach Prime and Cu. I mean no Shador,
no Travis Hunter, and you're wondering where's the offense gonna
come from. And it was great that he made the
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announcement a couple of days ago that Cayden Salter is
going to be the starter. You want to make sure
you go into that Week one game. There's no discussions,
there's if Ann's butts about it.
Speaker 3 (28:34):
That doesn't mean that.
Speaker 2 (28:36):
Cayden Salter will remain the starter, but I think this
is the best thing for the team and the best
thing for Juju. And it's funny you mentioned Amaron Miller
when Travis was here.
Speaker 3 (28:46):
Amaron was one of.
Speaker 2 (28:47):
Those guys who had a couple of big games for
CEU and then he got injured and somehow he folwed
his disappear, filed himself in the doghouse, right, But he's
going to be counted on this year with the Draylon Miller,
another guy who she brought up.
Speaker 3 (29:02):
And it's funny because I don't know if these.
Speaker 2 (29:04):
Guys, these wide receivers are related, but you have.
Speaker 3 (29:09):
Miller, A Marii and Drayland are not related.
Speaker 2 (29:10):
Okay, so you know that Draylon, you have a Marion Miller,
and then you have two other add ons. So guys
who they picked up in transfer a portal Joseph Williams
and a Keen Williams.
Speaker 3 (29:21):
Right, I don't know. I'm sure no.
Speaker 2 (29:24):
Relations, but I found that very unique about the wide
receiver roster.
Speaker 3 (29:28):
And these guys are big, Yeah, these are big.
Speaker 2 (29:31):
The Mary's you know Thomas type wide receivers that see
you now have.
Speaker 1 (29:35):
Yeah, Joseph and Hakim are not related either.
Speaker 6 (29:38):
So that would a big dope if they were somehow,
And we have like a four string quarterback Dominique ponder
in any relation to Christian who knows could be Let's
find out somebody get on that.
Speaker 3 (29:48):
You might have to ponder that question.
Speaker 1 (29:51):
You know, he got upset, he's in the combine or whatever.
And they're like, your last name means ponder. That means
to be unsure of things. And this was the Vikings
that were interviewing that needs to be on sure of things.
How does that relate to you as a person. He's like, well,
I guess it's a good thing. My mother's maiden name
was Championship, and that was what one of the Vikings
over you know that he could he turned it on.
Speaker 3 (30:10):
Wait a minute, see now that's thinking of your feet. Now.
Speaker 2 (30:13):
I don't know if I would have been that witty
to come up with that, or maybe he was thinking
of it anyway. I don't know, but that that's that's
kind of big.
Speaker 1 (30:23):
That's who thinks you would get asked that and then
you know you're a combine interview or whatever, and then
to whip that one back around on him, that's uh, yeah,
I got that story.
Speaker 3 (30:31):
That was one of the stories.
Speaker 5 (30:32):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (30:32):
Somebody that was in the Vikings with the Vikings organization
at the time told me that.
Speaker 3 (30:36):
That story and I was like, oh man, that's that's good.
Speaker 1 (30:38):
That's a good one. I didn't really care for Christian
Pond as a quarterback, but you know that's a that's
a pretty good that's a good comes. It's pretty good
turned around you. You see the Mursidy stuff today, Yeah, man,
we care about that?
Speaker 3 (30:48):
Do we need to know that?
Speaker 4 (30:50):
Well?
Speaker 2 (30:51):
I mean in the realm of sports, yeah, you talk
about it. Here's the owner who passed and everyone was
wondering what were the reasons?
Speaker 3 (30:58):
And then you go back a couple of years ago. Remember,
he was.
Speaker 2 (31:01):
Busted with I think OxyContin and he had like fifty
thousand dollars in cash and he was incoherent, and then
they suspended him from a team that he owns, and
I'm like, well, did that really change his behavior?
Speaker 3 (31:16):
But I tell you what I mean, he became.
Speaker 2 (31:19):
Really outspoken about certain league issues, like the whole Danie
Snyder thing, or they wanted him to keep it under reps.
He just hey, he just came out and said, yeah,
he needs to go. And that's not what the league wanted.
But it's news because it's an owner and you're thinking
about here's a situation that took place with him right
before his passing.
Speaker 3 (31:39):
Right, So it brings a.
Speaker 2 (31:40):
Lot of things in question because when we think about players,
we think about, you know, how the league candles the
aspect of drugs narcotics with players, but we never think
about it. I was addressed with owners because we never
see this type of behavior.
Speaker 1 (31:55):
Yeah, and for those who don't know, there were two
things that came out today, is that the certificate came
out for the sixty five year old Versay, who listed
his cause of death as cardiac arrest due to acute pneumonia,
chronic atrial fibrillation, and cardiac arrhythmia on May twenty first.
But included in this Washington Post report was the Arthsay
had relapsed. He'd been a known addict and he had relapsed,
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and that he had been getting prescribed ketamine from his
addiction counsel or doctor. That's for horses, right, yes, and
so that's you know, that's one of those addictions, spareless
specialist Harry Howeutanian, and he was getting drugs from him, apparently,
the reports states, and Haartannium prescribed over two hundred opioid
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pills before he overdosed on two separate occasions back in
December of twenty twenty three, once in his home another
rental home in Miami, and before the incident in Florida,
he had allegedly fired a nurse because she attempted to
conceal his pills from him.
Speaker 3 (32:54):
She was worried that he was ingesting them at a
rapid rate. According to the police report, police.
Speaker 1 (33:00):
Expected in January twenty twenty four, he stuffered another overdose,
but Colts and Ersay publicly denied that was the case.
A Colts exect called nine one one that night. They
didn't mention pills or drugs, just that his heart may
be failing. So it's just kind of kind of interesting
how it seems that there was sort of a cover
up with that, and I do we can get into
that a little bit later. I don't know how much
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of that is relevant or Germaine to the public and
how much of it isn't, but certainly an interesting discussion.
Speaker 3 (33:25):
We come back, Parker Gabriel, I believe it's going to
join us.
Speaker 1 (33:29):
Am I correct on that grant at seven thirty thirty five.
I'm sorry I was off by a segment Carke gave
with Joe's Bomb of the Art.
Speaker 3 (33:35):
We'll be back after this
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I used to think that the movie Draft Day was
the most unrealistic thing on the screen about football until
(00:43):
I saw Jerry Jones press conference and he's disconnect with
I don't know reality, dude.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
That's putting it mildly because and this is me paraphrasing,
to sit and watch Jerry gave his press conference and
make it appear as though this kind.
Speaker 3 (01:04):
Of this trade.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
This conversation back and forth with Brian gutencluz up in
Green Bay. Has someone been taking place for a while,
and Kenny Clark is sort of the missing peace to
the puzzle. Like most teams would say, we're one player away,
which is a bunch of bs. But Jerry is trying
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to force feed the Cowboys fans this whole concept that
Kenny Clark and their inability to stop the run is
the reason why they have been to devoid of making
it to the playoffs and making a deep run. I'm sorry, then,
I was born at night. I wasn't born last night,
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And I'm like, there's no way he truly believes this,
but absolutely he does. Jerry believes every single word is
coming out of his mouth, which is ridiculous.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
The idea that did They just now realize.
Speaker 1 (02:01):
That the run defense wasn't good because they had three
free agencies and three drafts in a row to do anything.
And the only person they added that I remember is
Mazzie Smith.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
Well, I guess the gene is that Jerry Jones.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
He is.
Speaker 3 (02:18):
I think he's just most football savvy than we are.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
It's it's like watching a certain politician who never admits
they're wrong about anything and just gets up there and
has these long winded, rambling, nonsensical press conferences and just
claims he's winning everything. You know, Jerry's following the playbook.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
See, Jerry needs to wear a top hat at every press.
Speaker 3 (02:43):
Conference, maybe a redhead. Well, he needs to.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
Wear a top hat, right, because he's p T barnam Man.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
Well, yes, it's just the Dallas Cowboys to become a circus.
Bring them brothers, Barnum and Bailey's circus. That's what they
are for me. When I heard the trade this morning,
I was like, oh, man, I can't wait. There are
two games that are on the calendar that I can't
wait for. That Week four matchup Sunday Night Football, Dallas
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versus Green May Packers.
Speaker 3 (03:14):
Also the Broncos game, right.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
And the reason I can't wait for the Broncos game
because all offseason we've been talking about pass rushers, who's
getting paid and who's not. Nick Benito signing a new deal.
I did his money going up? Should he looks to
sit out, sit hold in? And how much will this
cost the Broncos to sign him? We're gonna get a
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chance to see both he and Michael Parson in the
same game.
Speaker 3 (03:42):
Yeah, and see in that duel, which.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
Offensive tackle right on the opposite side that they're facing
can hold up and slow the other guy down.
Speaker 3 (03:52):
Yeah, it's gonna be fascinting.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
Obviously, the Cowboys play the Packers in I think Week
four with four, so that's gonna be September twenty eight.
Something else to add to the whole the whole scheme
of things there. My thing is green Bay already had
a pretty good front seven. Yeah, they already had a
pretty good front or front seven before they got Parsons.
Now that front seven looks really good. Their their secondary's
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got some some issues. But you know, green Bay, they're
pushing all in. I mean, trading two first rounders. The
Kenny Clark thinks whatever. I mean, he's a really good
nose tackle. Don't gonna be wrong, but it's a nose tackle.
That's a position. It's a little bit valued in the NFL.
Speaker 3 (04:33):
Not Aaron Donald or what was that right, He's more.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
Of a run plugging, traditional old school nose. But he's
a good nose. Don't get me wrong. But to first
rounders suggests you're pushing all in. You think you're in
your window, you think you're going to win. Now that
you don't need those first rounders to reload because you're.
Speaker 3 (04:52):
About to win it all. That's what the Packers are
saying with this.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
Well, I don't know about winning at all, but that's
what you're in it for. Yeah, every team is in
it to win it all, and we know that become
the first five or six games, teams started to realize ah,
that was just a pipe dream. But the Packers, I
still believe they're in that window. We've seen them play
in competitive games with Jorge Love, I know, a guy
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that you're not too fond of, but last year this
team was really competitive. They underwent a lot of injuries.
So if you were to add a guy like Michael
Parson to your pass rush and you mentioned yes Zaiyah
Alexander's now with the Baltimore Ravens, their secondary is somewhat
of a question. But the big neutralizer or something that
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helps when your secondary isn't that great, it's being able
to get after opposing quarterbacks. And I know, and I
told my son to today Jeff Hafley, who I worked
under in San Francisco. I know he was smiling ear
to ear about this edition because he's done a great
job as a defensive coordinator scheming for the Green Bay Packers.
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Now you get a guy like that where you know
they're gonna have to slide protection to Michael Parson. They're
gonna have to commit a running back or a tight
end that they have to chip him. That's one less
guy out in the passing formation, right, one less guy
out there in progressions. So this this is gonna bowl
well for the Green Bay Packers now, I also said
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on on social media today on x I put out
this this meme of the quarterbacks and offensive lineman, and
the NFC is all celebrating now they know that Michael
Parsons no longer.
Speaker 3 (06:34):
Russyn tweeted him, do help moving. I got yea.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
Broye, you don't have they quarterback over.
Speaker 3 (06:41):
The in the NFC.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
He's absolutely loving that. But that's it's what I mean.
It's just it's interesting to me. I think the biggest
beneficiary here is Rashaun Gary, who's the pass rusher on
the other side for Green Bay. He was a seven
and a half sack guy last year, made the Pro Bowl.
Speaker 3 (06:56):
It's is gonna be interesting because.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
You know Michael Parsons, he's gotta stay hell, he had
he missed four games last year, you missed the two
first rounders. Now, if you're green Bay, it's just I mean,
clearly green Bay won this trade.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
Right to me, they did, But Jerry is trying to
say that he did because he's looking at this trade
as a similar to the trade with herschel Walker, where
they traded Minnesota got a boatload of picks, they revamped
that team, and they went on a Super Bowl run.
See that's what he's telling himself. He's justifying this move.
But let's take a look at this. We know that
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a lot of teams value first round picks, but we
also have seen over the years a lot of first
round picks being bus So Gudenkuz is thinking, Okay, well,
we can go and draft some guys, but there's no
guarantee that those guys are gonna give us the same
level of production, because you already have a guy and
Michael Parson in the first three years he's been in
the league double digit sacks.
Speaker 3 (07:52):
That's a given. There's no guarantee that you go out
and draft.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
Some running back, some defensive tackle, some safety, some corner
that's gonna give you that a production right off the bat.
Speaker 1 (08:01):
Yeah, It's just just fascinating. I did not believe Jerry
would deal him.
Speaker 3 (08:06):
I didn't. I gotta take the l there.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
Did not think they'd move, And I thought there was
gonna be like last year with Ceede Lamb.
Speaker 3 (08:11):
Where you run last moment, you run up, Yeah, what
you right?
Speaker 1 (08:13):
You do this, and then you wind up shooting yourself
in the foot and paying more money. And I just
clearly underestimated Jerry Jones' ability to cheer Bob himself.
Speaker 3 (08:27):
He said, I'm just saying with a two piece of
a biscuit.
Speaker 1 (08:30):
I mean, people get that eight mile reference, but I yeah,
I mean, I just didn't think, you know, on a
defense that's frankly bereft of talent outside of Michael Parsons.
They've got a few guys, but that defense is taking
a nose dive since dan Quinn left, and they just
don't they don't.
Speaker 3 (08:49):
They don't get after it the same.
Speaker 1 (08:51):
Parsons really was the engine last year that that kind
of made the thing go.
Speaker 3 (08:54):
And they weren't that good last year.
Speaker 1 (08:55):
Last year they were like the thirty first ranked defense
in the league.
Speaker 3 (08:58):
They went for me to get Parsons.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
Yeah, they went from being a top five defense when
Dan Wimer was running the show all three years to
being the thirty first defense in the league. Right after
he leaves, Matt Abraflu's got his hands full. Now he's
got his work cut out for him. And I think
Matt Evens was a decent defensive coordator. He sucked as
a head coach, but I think he's a decent defensive coordinator.
He's been He's been pretty good at his job as
a DC wherever else he's gone. I mean, and to
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be honest with the Chicago's defense wasn't a problem in Chicago.
Speaker 3 (09:24):
Think about this.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
If you are Brian Steinheimer, this is your first year
as a head coach.
Speaker 3 (09:30):
Is he gonna get David cullyed?
Speaker 2 (09:33):
Wow? That's five for real?
Speaker 1 (09:36):
Because with Parsons, you're like, Okay, Dallas might have something
in a tough division.
Speaker 3 (09:40):
Without Parsons, you're looking at that team like, man, I really.
Speaker 1 (09:42):
Hope that offense is hitting on all cylinders or that
team is trash.
Speaker 3 (09:46):
Listen.
Speaker 2 (09:46):
I know you like to lay down a lot of wagers,
and you know I'm not that type of guy.
Speaker 3 (09:54):
But after this move, I'm like, you know.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
What, putting something on the Washington commanders to win that division.
I might have to look at it, not saying that
I would do it, but I'm just looking at it.
Speaker 3 (10:07):
I'm just eyeing it because the idea.
Speaker 2 (10:10):
Is that you're supposed to keep the guys that you
developed inside your building to make them to make your
team better. Because I'm thinking, like Gary Jones is supposed
to be one of the better businessmen in the NFL
as far as being an owner and in professional sports.
And then you go ahead and make this move when
you should have made this deal with Parsons one two
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years ago.
Speaker 3 (10:33):
That doesn't make sense.
Speaker 1 (10:34):
Why when you've done this before the draft, now you're
going to get two Packers picks instead of a whole
open market. And oh, by the way, you kept him
in conference, yes, in Green May And oh by the way,
those Packers picks are not going to be great picks. Nope,
you're gonna be back of the first round picks because.
Speaker 3 (10:50):
The Packers are going to be a better team. This shit. Yeah,
But but Jerry is saying, though I understand that what
it's about volume. We got volume in return, and we're.
Speaker 2 (11:00):
Gonna we're gonna be able to flip that volume into
quality guys. And if I'm a free agent, a guy
on expiring deal in Dallas. I'm looking to get as
far away from Dallas as possible because if this is
how you do guys who will actually perform, well, you
draft Micah right as the first rounder to come in
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and do these exact things, and he goes ahead and.
Speaker 3 (11:25):
Gets some done and you don't pay him.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
It just reminds me of when you look at the
situation with Nick Benito. Nick Benito right now is saying
thank you Dallas Cowboys, thank you Brian Gutencus, because now
you've given me something to aim for.
Speaker 3 (11:42):
Right. Look at Michaeh's deal. I think Michael deal is
what I think.
Speaker 2 (11:46):
It's one hundred and twenty guaranteed over four years. Right.
So if you if you're Nick Benito, you're like, okay,
well I got a choice if we start talking now
or I wait for a second.
Speaker 3 (11:57):
Let go up.
Speaker 1 (11:58):
This was Nick Benito's plan the whole time his representation,
Wait until Trey Hendrixon and Michael Parsons get their deals done.
Now Hendrickson willound up blowing that a little bit because
he just took the guaranteed money this.
Speaker 3 (12:08):
Year, which you move the average in the top five.
It's not even that's tight.
Speaker 1 (12:11):
I top six money, but Michael Parsons blows it out
of the water. We were expecting forty three to forty
five per he gets forty seven at drags. That average up,
and that means you pay more for Nick Banillo. And now
Nick Bannil is not getting forty million a year, okay,
Like I had people tweeting me about that early. He's
not getting forty million a year. But thirty five is
within striking distance. And I would suggest, based on the
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way the broadcost do business, you're probably looking at somewhere
between twenty eight and thirty three per year for Nick Benito.
Speaker 2 (12:38):
There's a possibility that you get Nick Benito close to
that number by putting in some incentives.
Speaker 3 (12:45):
Yeah right, you just put buzz incentives in.
Speaker 2 (12:47):
If you've received incentives, then now you get the forty mark.
But now no players want guaranteed money, money that I
could bank on. Soon as I put my John Hancock
on a piece of paper, money's at.
Speaker 3 (12:57):
A bank, cut the check.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
Yeah, I just this this deal does help Nick Benito's leverage. Uh,
you know, with all that, and I think Benito, for
his part, just got to go out and make plays
this year. Continue to make plays, and he'll wind up
with a pay day whether it's here or not. And
I think it will be. I do believe they'll. You know,
they put an offer in front of him before. It
was just a lot lower than what it needed to be.
Speaker 3 (13:19):
They opened all right. So I hear that a.
Speaker 2 (13:23):
Lot when it comes to players contract and fans get
upset because it's like, well, and the team would say.
Speaker 3 (13:28):
Well, we offered him a contract, he didn't take it,
so the I did.
Speaker 2 (13:33):
Yes, in fact, yes you did offer a guy a contract,
but you didn't offer him the contract because if you did,
he would have signed it.
Speaker 3 (13:43):
But this is the.
Speaker 2 (13:44):
Language that is projected out and pushed out to the
fan base. So now the fan base turns on the
player and not on the team. Right. So it's like, well,
you want me to be out here playing both injured
and hurt.
Speaker 3 (13:58):
You want me to play at a p level, but
see the fans.
Speaker 1 (14:01):
But the fans do never see that because the way
players brush off injuries publicly even when they're gutting them
out privately. They like players need to be more vocal
about the injuries that they have or find a way
to be more vocal about it because fans.
Speaker 3 (14:14):
Don't see they don't know that.
Speaker 1 (14:15):
Like last year when Masson and certain came back and
Moss was giving up a few plays and he was playing,
he was hurt. Dude was gutting it out and he
was hurt, and the fan base is to all, Moss
is washed now, But in a few games now he's washed.
Speaker 3 (14:26):
Bro, He's hurt.
Speaker 2 (14:28):
See those same individual fans and members of the media
who said that about Riley Moss, you know what, I know,
Riley couldn't do it. So I went after those same people, like,
what the hell are you watching?
Speaker 3 (14:38):
Right?
Speaker 2 (14:39):
Do you know what it's like to be in that
situation to come back from the injury that he had
and go out there and try to play and then
think about the games that you miss and you're not
in peak condition, and now you're trying to go out
there and compete against you know.
Speaker 3 (14:52):
T Higgins, Right.
Speaker 2 (14:54):
And then even with that being said, Rolly Moss was
still in great position.
Speaker 3 (14:58):
He was trying to take plays.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
But Joe Burrow ball placement was as grant. You know,
Pumps's fist in the air was just impeccable.
Speaker 3 (15:06):
It's you know, it's and I would go a step
further with that.
Speaker 1 (15:09):
I would say that anytime you see a notable athlete
who's previously done it before and they're slumping, they're playing
through an undisclosed injury almost without fail, you know, like
there's all in any sport. I would tell you that
if there's if there's an athlete who played at a
very high level and all of a sudden is they're
playing at that level, they are playing with an undisclosed injury. Well,
(15:30):
but as play unting through one, that's that's tougher than
they they let you know.
Speaker 2 (15:34):
Well, yeah, but but for the way the way the
fans now view it, especially with so much money in
sportsbook and fantasy sports, they expect for you to play
through that.
Speaker 3 (15:45):
Listen. I remember playing here.
Speaker 2 (15:47):
We're playing against the Miami Dolphins, and our office wasn't
doing that well and the fans were just kind of
just going ham And then there was a CBS moment
where you know, Jake told the fans we're number one.
Speaker 3 (16:00):
That happened to be captured.
Speaker 2 (16:02):
But then there was a fan behind our defensive bench
who was trying to get the tention of Al Wilson
and he was telling him with some expletives, you know,
turn around because I pay your check. Which when he
said that, Al wasn't the only one that turned around.
It was like fifteen of us at the same time
(16:24):
trying to figure out who the hell this fan was
because Al was was like, well, the last time I checked,
your name isn't mister Bowling, and your name isn't on
the check. And fans feel as though they own you,
their fan base.
Speaker 3 (16:38):
They paid for the tickets, they own you, which is silly.
Speaker 1 (16:41):
You don't in the same sense that you don't own
a Target employee because you shop there, right when.
Speaker 2 (16:46):
People think that you walk here and your job is
to serve me.
Speaker 3 (16:51):
That's what how some people think.
Speaker 1 (16:53):
Well, yeah, I guess some people do think that way,
But I mean buying a ticket to a.
Speaker 3 (16:57):
Game entitles you to watch the game. That's what that
entitles you to see.
Speaker 2 (17:02):
Once again, we see we're getting into a whole different thing.
Like the one thing about football is the fans are
at a little distance from us and basketball, right they're
right there. And fans feels as though if I'm paying
big money to sit on the floor, I can say
whatever I want to say to you.
Speaker 3 (17:20):
You're right to say yeah, I mean you can. That
doesn't mean that you're going to be You don't mean
you're ever gonna be sitting there again. So so what
a player, would he be wrong.
Speaker 2 (17:29):
If fan said little something to him that was a
little derogatory out of pocket?
Speaker 1 (17:35):
Yeah, I mean, if I'm a player, I wouldn't because
that's what they're trying to bait you to do.
Speaker 3 (17:40):
It's just like the people on.
Speaker 1 (17:41):
The internet to do the rage baiting and the trolling
all that, they're just trying to bait you into doing that, right.
Speaker 3 (17:46):
They want they want.
Speaker 1 (17:47):
The reaction, right although these days on Twitter, like that's
the stuff that gets run.
Speaker 3 (17:51):
So that's why I keep tweaking these dudes like.
Speaker 1 (17:54):
The freest it's the freest money I I'll ever have. Yes,
I mean, so rage baiting them back or whatever, But
it's yeah, I don't.
Speaker 3 (18:04):
I mean, you can't.
Speaker 1 (18:07):
You can't get to the point where somebody feels like
there's danger or harm going to come to them.
Speaker 3 (18:13):
But otherwise, yeah, you.
Speaker 1 (18:14):
Say what you want, I guess, but the arena has
the right to tell you can't sit.
Speaker 3 (18:19):
There again anymore exactly.
Speaker 2 (18:20):
But this is where some people cross the line when
it comes to being a fanatic and fandom because you
go back to wagers, how much money has been wager
on these sporting events, and you know it's come to
pass that we have some guys who have tried to
play the books in the line just a little with
(18:41):
some guys, some sports betters, but also at the same time,
because you bet a healthy amount and the team you
bet on, I'm on and you're losing. Don't come after me.
But that's how some fans have become. It's not I
didn't tell you to put fifty grand on the game right.
Speaker 3 (18:58):
To cover the over.
Speaker 1 (18:59):
Well, that's that's your own thing. If you put money
out there like that, that's on you.
Speaker 3 (19:04):
That's not on a player. That's not anything.
Speaker 1 (19:05):
If you put money, that's money, you are okay losing.
Speaker 3 (19:08):
But but now they turn on the player because they say, well, right,
you got that extra yard.
Speaker 1 (19:14):
No, your fall for putting that money out there in
the first place, that's on you.
Speaker 3 (19:17):
I did what I need to do.
Speaker 1 (19:18):
Rocos Country night back after this gambling problem, caller techs
one eight hundred gambler.
Speaker 3 (19:27):
She k Wait comes from the hotline though, and bringing
on a girl, Nikki Edwards talk a little SEU Buffs
taking on the.
Speaker 1 (19:33):
Bad guys Georgia Tech. Nick is shooting me sideye right now?
Is the Georgia Tech a love Nicky?
Speaker 3 (19:39):
How you doing good?
Speaker 4 (19:41):
Are you guys doing doing pretty well?
Speaker 1 (19:43):
The Buffs to nobody surprise announced the quarterback.
Speaker 3 (19:46):
Do we think Juju is gonna get some run though?
This year?
Speaker 5 (19:51):
I think it's really dependent on where Colorado stands in
the game, at least preliminary Maybe if Colorado is in
a good place in the Georgia Tech game, maybe two
score lead, end of third quarter, maybe some fourth quarter
action there.
Speaker 4 (20:05):
But I just.
Speaker 5 (20:06):
Anticipate that they're going to keep running Kyden Salter and
if they feel comfortable enough within the game, we can
see some Juju being incorporated.
Speaker 3 (20:15):
Nicky. What does this mean for CU to be hosting
this game?
Speaker 2 (20:19):
And we go back to that ill fated nineteen ninety
year and to know that Prime coach Prime decided that
he wants to honor that year. Bill McCartney with the
kids wearing those uniforms going out tomorrow against Georgia Tech,
what do you think that's going to mean for the
crowd and for a lot of those students.
Speaker 5 (20:42):
I mean, it's really a full circle moment, right. Bill
McCartney really garnered the tradition and value and success of
what Colorado football was in the nineties, and now getting
this Georgia Tech game, coach Prime is building his own
foundation and his own success at Colorado, and I really
just think it's deserved for Bill McCartney to.
Speaker 4 (21:02):
Be honored in that way.
Speaker 5 (21:03):
I'm glad they're wearing their traditional uniforms and I feel
like fans are really embracing honoring the late and great
Bill McCartney because he deserves to be honored on the
Colorado football field. I'm excited that they get to play
Georgia Tech like they did in the nineties, and yeah,
it's really a full circle moment. I'm excited to see
what the Bus can do tomorrow.
Speaker 3 (21:22):
I'm talking with Nicky Edwards.
Speaker 1 (21:23):
Nicky, you know, the sports books are not really respecting
the cu Bus this year, maybe expecting a bit of
a crash back to Earth as it were low totals there,
low on the win totals there. But is this a
team that it could outpace that? I mean, is this
a team that can go and surprise everybody and take
that next step forward even after losing Travis and Schadour.
Speaker 5 (21:46):
I mean that's a big storyline, right, What can this
team identify as without those two really really talented players.
And I think this season is all about development. They
lost a lot of veterans.
Speaker 4 (21:58):
Like outside of Travis, they.
Speaker 5 (22:01):
Lost a lot of safeties up front, on the defensive line,
these two really powerful linebackers, and just of course Sure
a guy who operated the entire offense this season. We
really want to see what these guys who have been
waiting for the spotlight are ready to do.
Speaker 4 (22:16):
Like an Quin.
Speaker 5 (22:16):
Barnes upfront, I mean, there's new pieces at linebacker. This
is just an incorporation of guys that have been waiting
for their chance, like Arden Walker. He's the defensive end
and he's really stepped into this leadership role. And upfront,
they did lose a lot of firepower like Judose Wonkwo,
Shane Kochs and of course Levin's Bentley and the Kayho Green,
those two linebackers I mentioned. So I'm interested to see
(22:39):
what they look like up front and can this defense
really maintain the same level of intensity they led the
Big twelve in sacks last year?
Speaker 4 (22:48):
Can they uphold up front?
Speaker 5 (22:50):
I think Georgia Tech is going to be a really
good opponent to see.
Speaker 4 (22:52):
Where they're at in that stage.
Speaker 5 (22:54):
Of course, week one, it's like, I mean, I could
see Colorado going eight and four, but it's really going
to be definitive on how Pat Shermer really calls plays
and really steps into this offense.
Speaker 4 (23:06):
Who, of course should or ran the show last year
with four.
Speaker 5 (23:09):
Really talented wide receivers. Now it's a young wide receiver group,
a new quarterback dual threat, which you know is helpful.
But now it's going to be a collaboration between Pat
Shermer and Kane Salter and maybe some Jillian Lewis even
and there's just going to be a lot of nuance
to this team.
Speaker 4 (23:26):
As we know. Ideally I'd say eight and four, but
it is, you know, you never know. In the Big twelve.
Speaker 5 (23:32):
It's really a surprising and dynamic conference.
Speaker 3 (23:36):
Nikki.
Speaker 2 (23:36):
It is interesting because you know, having the Broncos and
the Buffs.
Speaker 3 (23:40):
For me, I seem like every single year for the past.
Speaker 2 (23:43):
Two years has been the same conversation with both teams.
Speaker 3 (23:46):
Inability to run the ball. And we know the.
Speaker 2 (23:48):
Buffs made a lot of changes with the transfer portal,
bringing in some guys and seeding being the I guess
the eldest statesman. On that offensive line, they got some
big bodies. Will this be able to run the ball effectively?
Tomorrow night against Georgia Tech?
Speaker 3 (24:04):
Do you think?
Speaker 5 (24:06):
I think where Georgia Tech lies?
Speaker 4 (24:09):
Last year?
Speaker 5 (24:09):
I mean, they did bring in a new defensive coordinator.
Speaker 4 (24:13):
He was the former.
Speaker 5 (24:14):
Safety coast at the University of Texas, and of course
Texas was the third ranked total defense across college football,
so he played a part in that.
Speaker 4 (24:22):
So this defense is going to look a little new,
and he's kind of We're just kind of.
Speaker 5 (24:27):
Wondering what that may may look like on the field.
Of course, you talk about the offensive line and bringing
Marshall falk in. Those are all pieces in the progress
that they're making.
Speaker 4 (24:39):
What does the product look like on the field, we
don't quite know.
Speaker 5 (24:41):
Yet, But I do know that their offensive line averages
six to five and three hundred and thirty pounds. This
is the biggest offensive line that Colorado that has had
in the coach prime era. So will that size equate
and effectively running the ball?
Speaker 4 (24:57):
Who knows? But I think this I think this will
be good matchup.
Speaker 5 (25:00):
For Colorado because previously at least last year, Georgia Tech
kind of you know, they did all.
Speaker 4 (25:06):
Right running the ball. They were the.
Speaker 5 (25:09):
Thirtieth ranked rushing defense, averaging one hundred and twenty two
point three yards per game on the ground, So there's
a little bit of leeway there. And I think last
year too, they against UNC NC State and Vanderbilt, Georgia
Tech allowed a little bit of leeway with the mulbile quarterbacks.
They at least averaged eighty yards per game and.
Speaker 4 (25:27):
A few touchdowns there. So we'll see what Kane.
Speaker 5 (25:30):
Salter can do as well in the run game. And
I think that's what we're all waiting for. Can this
offense be balanced, and they've been emphasizing it over and
over and over.
Speaker 4 (25:39):
We have to run the ball. So we'll see how
it comes to fruition with.
Speaker 5 (25:42):
This really a large offensive line and a couple of
new guys with the Kalan Taylor from Acarnate Word and
Michael Willachu stepping into a sophomore season and Simeon Price
from Misissippi stand Coast to Carolina. So there's some new
guys that are able to run the ball and we'll
see how it comes to fruition on a field.
Speaker 1 (26:00):
Tell with Nicky Embers, NICKI, who's the player we're going
to be talking about at the end of the season
that we're not talking about right now. Who's that player
that's going to become the star for CU this year
or at least become a fan favorite that we may
not have we not know about at this.
Speaker 4 (26:13):
Point, at least we've been meeting with him a lot
in like the local Boulder media.
Speaker 5 (26:19):
But Dreylon Miller, I cannot speak more highly of him
and what he did last year with the Buffs, like
he was one of the Buffs, like secret weapons in
the slot. He's like Deebo Samuel type of guy where
he's able to work in the backfield.
Speaker 4 (26:33):
He's able to get out in the open, work.
Speaker 5 (26:35):
In space, but also run over guys and.
Speaker 4 (26:37):
Get into the end zone.
Speaker 5 (26:39):
Him and Shador worked so well together. And Dreylon Miller
is just truly such a good playmaker and that was
just his freshman year last year. He's stepping into his
sophomore season and on the field and off the field too.
He truly is like an all around amazing player, performer,
and just he's really grateful for his opportunity to Colorado
and he's making them most of it, So Draymond Miller
(27:02):
on offense, and I think on defense to a lot
of guys that are stepping up. Preston Hodge, I think
he's not getting enough spotlight. He was so important to
Colorado's defense last year playing at the nickel position, and
he was a guy who really led the defense. He
was a good communicator in the secondary, and he's really
(27:23):
what gets the gears turning for defensive coordinator Robert Livingston.
He's such a reliable, veteran.
Speaker 4 (27:30):
Presence, and he got an extra year of.
Speaker 5 (27:32):
Eligibility with the JUCO ruling.
Speaker 4 (27:34):
And I think he's really going to be making the
most of it this season.
Speaker 1 (27:38):
Nicki Edwards, the Buffbeat reporter for Yahoo's Sports. We appreciate
it is always look forward to checking in with you
throughout the season.
Speaker 4 (27:45):
Yes, thank you for having me on.
Speaker 3 (27:47):
Take care. That's Nicky Edwards from Yahoo's Sports, first joining us.
In the last day.
Speaker 1 (27:56):
We're talking little buffs. Didn't really talked much about a
Marian Miller. I called him wider receivers B two K
because I think a Marion's going to headline and if.
Speaker 2 (28:03):
You get that reference, you know what, here's something interesting
about CEU. This is like Nikki said, it is a
new era for coach Prime and Cu. I mean no Shador,
no Travis Hunter, and you're wondering where's the offense gonna
come from. And it was great that he made the
(28:23):
announcement a couple of days ago that Cayden Salter is
going to be the starter. You want to make sure
you go into that Week one game. There's no discussions,
there's if Ann's butts about it.
Speaker 3 (28:34):
That doesn't mean that.
Speaker 2 (28:36):
Cayden Salter will remain the starter, but I think this
is the best thing for the team and the best
thing for Juju. And it's funny you mentioned Amaron Miller
when Travis was here.
Speaker 3 (28:46):
Amaron was one of.
Speaker 2 (28:47):
Those guys who had a couple of big games for
CEU and then he got injured and somehow he folwed
his disappear, filed himself in the doghouse, right, But he's
going to be counted on this year with the Draylon Miller,
another guy who she brought up.
Speaker 3 (29:02):
And it's funny because I don't know if these.
Speaker 2 (29:04):
Guys, these wide receivers are related, but you have.
Speaker 3 (29:09):
Miller, A Marii and Drayland are not related.
Speaker 2 (29:10):
Okay, so you know that Draylon, you have a Marion Miller,
and then you have two other add ons. So guys
who they picked up in transfer a portal Joseph Williams
and a Keen Williams.
Speaker 3 (29:21):
Right, I don't know. I'm sure no.
Speaker 2 (29:24):
Relations, but I found that very unique about the wide
receiver roster.
Speaker 3 (29:28):
And these guys are big, Yeah, these are big.
Speaker 2 (29:31):
The Mary's you know Thomas type wide receivers that see
you now have.
Speaker 1 (29:35):
Yeah, Joseph and Hakim are not related either.
Speaker 6 (29:38):
So that would a big dope if they were somehow,
And we have like a four string quarterback Dominique ponder
in any relation to Christian who knows could be Let's
find out somebody get on that.
Speaker 3 (29:48):
You might have to ponder that question.
Speaker 1 (29:51):
You know, he got upset, he's in the combine or whatever.
And they're like, your last name means ponder. That means
to be unsure of things. And this was the Vikings
that were interviewing that needs to be on sure of things.
How does that relate to you as a person. He's like, well,
I guess it's a good thing. My mother's maiden name
was Championship, and that was what one of the Vikings
over you know that he could he turned it on.
Speaker 3 (30:10):
Wait a minute, see now that's thinking of your feet. Now.
Speaker 2 (30:13):
I don't know if I would have been that witty
to come up with that, or maybe he was thinking
of it anyway. I don't know, but that that's that's
kind of big.
Speaker 1 (30:23):
That's who thinks you would get asked that and then
you know you're a combine interview or whatever, and then
to whip that one back around on him, that's uh, yeah,
I got that story.
Speaker 3 (30:31):
That was one of the stories.
Speaker 5 (30:32):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (30:32):
Somebody that was in the Vikings with the Vikings organization
at the time told me that.
Speaker 3 (30:36):
That story and I was like, oh man, that's that's good.
Speaker 1 (30:38):
That's a good one. I didn't really care for Christian
Pond as a quarterback, but you know that's a that's
a pretty good that's a good comes. It's pretty good
turned around you. You see the Mursidy stuff today, Yeah, man,
we care about that?
Speaker 3 (30:48):
Do we need to know that?
Speaker 4 (30:50):
Well?
Speaker 2 (30:51):
I mean in the realm of sports, yeah, you talk
about it. Here's the owner who passed and everyone was
wondering what were the reasons?
Speaker 3 (30:58):
And then you go back a couple of years ago. Remember,
he was.
Speaker 2 (31:01):
Busted with I think OxyContin and he had like fifty
thousand dollars in cash and he was incoherent, and then
they suspended him from a team that he owns, and
I'm like, well, did that really change his behavior?
Speaker 3 (31:16):
But I tell you what I mean, he became.
Speaker 2 (31:19):
Really outspoken about certain league issues, like the whole Danie
Snyder thing, or they wanted him to keep it under reps.
He just hey, he just came out and said, yeah,
he needs to go. And that's not what the league wanted.
But it's news because it's an owner and you're thinking
about here's a situation that took place with him right
before his passing.
Speaker 3 (31:39):
Right, So it brings a.
Speaker 2 (31:40):
Lot of things in question because when we think about players,
we think about, you know, how the league candles the
aspect of drugs narcotics with players, but we never think
about it. I was addressed with owners because we never
see this type of behavior.
Speaker 1 (31:55):
Yeah, and for those who don't know, there were two
things that came out today, is that the certificate came
out for the sixty five year old Versay, who listed
his cause of death as cardiac arrest due to acute pneumonia,
chronic atrial fibrillation, and cardiac arrhythmia on May twenty first.
But included in this Washington Post report was the Arthsay
had relapsed. He'd been a known addict and he had relapsed,
(32:17):
and that he had been getting prescribed ketamine from his
addiction counsel or doctor. That's for horses, right, yes, and
so that's you know, that's one of those addictions, spareless
specialist Harry Howeutanian, and he was getting drugs from him, apparently,
the reports states, and Haartannium prescribed over two hundred opioid
(32:40):
pills before he overdosed on two separate occasions back in
December of twenty twenty three, once in his home another
rental home in Miami, and before the incident in Florida,
he had allegedly fired a nurse because she attempted to
conceal his pills from him.
Speaker 3 (32:54):
She was worried that he was ingesting them at a
rapid rate. According to the police report, police.
Speaker 1 (33:00):
Expected in January twenty twenty four, he stuffered another overdose,
but Colts and Ersay publicly denied that was the case.
A Colts exect called nine one one that night. They
didn't mention pills or drugs, just that his heart may
be failing. So it's just kind of kind of interesting
how it seems that there was sort of a cover
up with that, and I do we can get into
that a little bit later. I don't know how much
(33:21):
of that is relevant or Germaine to the public and
how much of it isn't, but certainly an interesting discussion.
Speaker 3 (33:25):
We come back, Parker Gabriel, I believe it's going to
join us.
Speaker 1 (33:29):
Am I correct on that grant at seven thirty thirty five.
I'm sorry I was off by a segment Carke gave
with Joe's Bomb of the Art.
Speaker 3 (33:35):
We'll be back after this
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