Dramatic reading of another great Philly sports article -- 12/4/23

Sean Brace does a dramatic reading of the latest Philly sports article that's got everybody up in arms going, "WHO WANTED THIS!?"

Episode Transcript

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Monday Night Football Jags Bengals going downeight fifteen pm would be a good game
except for Cincinnati rolling out. JakeBrowning, Yeah, not much there,
Jags minus ten. John Jansen thumbsup, thumbs down. I don't really

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got much of this game. Imean, he should be Jacksonville lane to
ten, but their offensive times justdoesn't. It doesn't do it for me.
The under has been the play quitefrequently on Monday Night Football, especially
in all primetime games this season.I would definitely take that into account here,
so tends a mighty number to cover. He isn't that bad. Has

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thrown a touchdown or two, Ibelieve in a few games that he's appeared
in this season. So I don'tknow. I'm with you on this one.
I could find other areas, maybea prop bet or two to find.
Yeah, and maybe you know,they found some things that worked.
I know they moved around Calvin Ridleylot differently and that opened things up.
But if they don't do that againand open things up, I mean,
it's just stagged an offense again gettingreally good quarterback play, and they have

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a lot of great talent. It'sjust that they never feel like they know
how to use any of it.And finally it felt like that last week
they did, so maybe they changedsomething and it worked, but I don't
feel like finding that out with mybank account. No. Yeah, just
enjoyed the game. Actually, NBAin Season tournament coming up five point thirty
Sean Bernard Picks and Roll. Wehit on both games, four games going

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off in the end season, rowingtwo tonight. Get you caught up on
some Sixers conversation as well. That'scoming your way at five thirty. But
folks, it is now time fordramatic rating and Philly sports. Oh yeah,
it was the harp or something wedidn't you. Well, that's that's
when we go back in time.Oh okay, that's when we go back.
I thought it was just our introto the dramatic role. We'll have

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to work on. It's a workshop, all right. We're just continuing to
move and get better every day.That's what we try and do. Why
did you go straight into coach speaks? So here's what we got one minute
at a time on this program.This fires me out more than a lot
of things because the fallback that Ifeel we have run into any time,

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like let's just say a sports gamblingangle love it where I love the people
are like, oh yeah, wehad that in the discord where you know,
they were one hundred different ways discussedin the one game, but like,
oh yeah, we talked about that. You know, give us credit.
We talked about that. I don'tknow, some weird thing, but
that bothers me. But something thathas bothered me for quite some time in
the journalism world is when you havecalmness that come out and say that they

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don't write the headline, they don'twrite the tweet that puts it out and
it's one hundred percent factual. I'vejust had enough of that. Where we're
in twenty twenty three, and ifyou're going to put out something that you
claim to be worth our time toread, aupt provocative, a thought provoking
piece, whatever it may be,I highly doubt that these calmnists sit at

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home and say, you know what, let me just fire off seven hundred
and fifty words, boom, sendit in and that's it. No.
I hope that they do a littlebit more and care about the stuff that
they're putting out there on the PhiladelphiaInquire of all places that you know,
asking them to do a little bitfrom a headline, standpoint or a tweet
isn't next level, isn't earth shattering. I don't think it's going to remove

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jobs, but you know what itdoes. It removes that damn band aid
or that damn you know backup spotwhere they can say, oh, well,
this is I didn't write that tweet. I didn't write that headline.
This wasn't me. I wrote thepiece. But you know, and that's
what we're dealing with here now.I maybe there should be more. I
mean, I would say, becauseusually you know, I'm not I did

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some journalism in school. I feellike I know some things. The two
most important things to me were alwaysthe headline of the lead. Correct,
Those are always the most important things. Tweet now is number three? Especially,
it's the three things you first seein any any article for the most
part is again social media wherever thatmay be. That, then the headline,
and then leave yep. And ifnone of those things grab you or
they give you a different uh viewof what the article is actually about,

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then something's wrong. And especially whenit's behind a paywall right that too,
you know, and it's just likethis is the world were I don't know
if seals can't avoid any of that. But that's part of the process.
To me. Now, that's like, that's part of the most important thing,
that what happens when an article getsposted out. So this happened last
week. This wasn't put out overthe weekend. This was last week.
We talked about it last week onthe air. I tweeted on it,

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I think Wednesday or Thursday, ifI'm not mistaken, or I said brock
Perty would be a god in Philadelphiaand I just laughed at that. So
Sielsky, who's been a calmnist inthis city forever. I think he did
some time up in New York andcame back to Philly and uh, you
know it sound like time years alot of calmness in this city. Loves

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himself some himself, all right,Uh you got Marcus the calmnist. He
loves himself. Of course. Selsky, I think subscribes to that theory.
And rightfully so right, I mean, you're one of the very few people
that have made it this far abe continuing the right for I think an
outlet that's one of the better onesacross the country. So you should think

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highly of your work. But youknow, there are times where you're wrong,
and I think Sielski is one hundredpercent wrong in this one, because
he knew when he was writing thisseven hundred and fifty word post that in
the back of his mind people wereabsolutely going to say, dude, are
you kidding me? Jalen Hurst versusRock Purty. Oh gee, one's a

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black quarterback and the other ones arewhite, and it's like a white guy.
And in his mind, because crossingBroad is a fantastic piece up.
Nice work by Kevin Kincaid to getMike Sielski's take on the whole hoopla that
has followed his post on the Inquiry. Oh, by the way, Jake
Tapper from CNN put a tweet outabout it, so I mean this,

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this went all over the place.Anyways. Allowed me, though, to
read this article because we got somefeedback from that Elliott Shore Parks dramatic reading
that we had last week, andthey said, dude, that was great.
I'd love to hear the article fromyour standpoint. And this is even
better because it's half the size ofthat Elliott swore Parks article, which is
great. All right, So thePhiladelphia Inquired This was published in December to

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second. Today is the fourth fourth. Was it Friday that this was put
out? Then? I don't knowall right time it reads as follows of
the pull my tweet up then sowe can get it. This has been
quite the run up to the latestbiggest of big games for the Eagles,
to their matchup Sunday against the fortynine Ers. It's more than ten and

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one versus eight and three. It'san outcome that likely have home field advantage
in this year's playoffs at stake.It's a rematch of last season's NFC championship
game. It's the Niners whining inthe aftermath of the Eagles victory. It's
a Son Reddick answering back with smacktalk. It's Deebo Samuel calling James Bradbury
trash. It's so much that it'seasy to forget about the quarterbacks, which

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is difficult to do in this leagueand especially in this game, because Jalen
Hurts might just be the NFL's mostvaluable player in his counterpart might just be
the NFL's best story. This iswhere it gets good. Those are my
words nice. The Hurts is admiredand beloved here, but Brock Purdy would

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be a god in Philadelphia, Agod. No no, no, no,
no. I just mean like thistime, you're giving it more.
No, you're giving it more ofa nice read. That's what. No.
I'm just saying the last one hedidn't give this much effort into it.
I like this one. You're doinggreat. I'm just more giving you

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praise. I think you're doing areally good job. He followed up with
a god. No excavation point,maybe I added in there. The last
player picked in the twenty twenty twodraft, leading the league in completion percentage,
in yards per attempt, throwing nineteentouchdown passes and just six interceptions wouldn't
matter. If Purdy's excellence were aproduct of Nick Sirianni and Brian Johnson's system

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of plane calling, as is oftenthe accusation against him and in mini regards
to reality and Kyle Shanahan's officers oroffenses. Was perfect for you today,
John it would not matter, saysSielski Brock. Purdy would be the latest
and maybe the most lovable underdog inthe city that goes god Ga for any
athlete who might be come of adversityto overcome, and now here he is

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standing with Samuel and Christian McCaffrey andGeorge Kittle standing between the Eagles in a
number one seed in the conference.He's a winner and it just continues to
win, Sirianni said, I thinkyou saw that all last year and also
what he's doing this year. Ithink he's got good athleticism. I think
he knows where to go with thefootball in a timely fashion. I think
he's accurate going there. Those arethe things you want in a quarterback.

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So hats off to him and Kyleand their staff for putting him in good
positions and continuing to develop. Thisguy couldn't agree more. John Jansen Sielski
follows listed now at six foot oneand two hundred and twenty pounds. Party
put up excellent numbers over his fouryears at Iowa State. Eighty one touchdowns,
thirty three nine t's and a sixtyseven point seven completion percentage. Pretty

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good, but he was deemed neithertall enough nor sturdy enough to withstand the
physical punishment that an NFL quarterback mighttake. That evaluation Chess might have been
on the money, given that Reddickknocked him out of the NFC title game
with the UCL tearing hit. Whathas he done since the forty nine Ers
made him mister revel irrelevant in Apriltwenty twenty two, taking him on that

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drafts third day in his seventh roundwith the two sixty second overall pick.
Well, it's simple. He hasgiven them cover for their other mistakes and
misevaluations of the quarterback position for aguru who supposedly runs a quarterback friendly plug
and playoff, and Shanahan has surehad a tough time finding a starter with

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any staying power. The Niners reacheda Super Bowl in twenty nineteen, twenty
twenty, NFC Championship game in twentytwenty one, twenty two in spite of
the rat Jimmy Garoppolo as much asthey did because of him, and they're
gambled to trade up to the numberthree pick in the twenty twenty one draft
to get Trey Lance would be oneof the worst player personnel blunders in league
history. Of purty hadn't turned outto be such a pleasant surprise. Stories

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like him and Tom Brady, guyswho are drafted low rish and go out
to perform. All guys like meand want ri chance. All guys like
me and him want ri chance,said Tanner McKee, who is a rookie
and the Eagles third quarterback is inexactly the same situation that party was in
last season before Lance and Garoppolo werelost to Andrey. It's the Tom Brady

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mentality of once you get that chance, you're never going to look back.
Well, brock Purty hasn't not sofar. This might be his hardest,
sternest test yet. The defending conferencechampions in their home stadium, a club
that seems at its best against themost challenging of opponents and the most challenging
of situations. Great quarterback question mark, We'll see great story question mark,

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No doubt. The ultimate underdog goesagainst the town and team that live for
that label. Doesn't mean the Eaglesare going to lose to him Sunday,
just means it would be as thickas irony gets if they did. How
about that? It is now timefor dramatic reading and Philly sports. Thank

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you, thank you, Yeah,there you go again. I'm honestly,
I just got it's such a inconsequentialnow it's I don't know. I don't
want to be too critical because I'mnot as good I think Mike Sielsky's really
good, So, like I wouldlike to start out with that. I
do think he's great. I lovesome of the stuff. This one I

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just don't. I don't get theappeal of it. He's like part of
what he does and very good at, which I think he does, is
find the story. Finding the storyis the hardest thing to do as a
journalist, and then also and reportingon it, writing it, whatever the
case may be. To me,that's obviously a big part of it.
But finding the story what's interesting.None of this to me is interesting even

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one bit. I don't know what'ssupposed to be interesting about it. He
just said it's the best story inthe NFL. Brock Party, mister irrelevant
being successful, Like we're last year, Yes, last year was I was
gonna say last year, more ofthat last year, but this year,
but this year it's it's still thegreatest story. Is come on leading the

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charge, MVP. We we livein such a world where it's been two
years, it's been like, Imean two seasons now where this guy has
been the majority of this starting quarterbackfor the San Francisco forty nine ers.
It's it's just not the biggest storyin the NFL anymore. It's just not
the biggest story of the NFL.CJ. Stroud. So this is the
issue that I A. You tellme just Shroud. Shroud's got more coverage

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this season than Brock Party. CJ. Stroud has been talked about way
more than Brock Party. Doesn't matterthat he's a number two overall pick.
It's that he's not or yes,he just show was what was he taking
two? He's right, yeah,but it's not It's not that he was
taking too. It doesn't really matter. It's just that we have If this
guy looks like one of the bestquarterbacks for a franchise that has never been
that good, we always gonna beabout the underdog here, Like are we

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still? Because I know things havechanged in this city, right, we
used to be like this cold callousfan base, we hate you, you
know we they are young, Andnow didn't we show like we're kind of
evolving, changing a little bit moresensitive, right with the Phillies and and
of course Trey Turner and then nowthis not No, I don't want the
mister. I don't want Brock.Yeah, I think the under the Jalen

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hurts. I want to you know, and I know he wasn't a top
five pick. I want a guythat I know is good enough to compete
with the best of the best,regardless of the system that he's in.
Yeah, I mean the underdog labeled. I mean these still. I mean
Eagles fans wanted to do it whenthey were underdogs in this game, when
they were three point dogs, andI get it, But I didn't really
get too much the team itself though. It's full of blue chip prospects who

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were five star recruits in college whoended up being really good athletes and great
in the top schools in the countrylike Alabama and Georgia, and even with
guys like AJ Brown, a J. Brown with the old miss like you
see the other receivers that A J. Brown was with, A J.
Brown, a DK Metcalf alongside ofhim, with Elijah Moore, you know,
and and Van Jefferson who was endedup being an NFL wide receiver.

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No, it's just I don't know, like I get this. This town
does love an underdog, but thisteam doesn't get the underdog labeled. All
all towns do love an underdog.That's every single city but number two.
Yeah, because the backup quarterbacks alwaysthe most you know, popular guy in
the roster, no matter the city. But like I said it, like
enough is enough with that nonsense.But that's fine if you wanted to find

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that story and it was Brock Purdyand you wanted to bring that to the
table, okay. But at thesame time, when you start talking about
him and we would love him asa god, but maybe we don't love
jill and Hurts as a god.Like that's how I took it. I
took it as like we don't loveJillen Hurts as much as if Brock Purty
was this guy, which I justdon't agree with, right. That's one.
Two is like, don't you haveto if you're a calmnist and you're

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putting this together and you're talking abouta black quarterback versus a guy that if
we would have drafted, he wouldbe a god his words, not mine.
And you know, look, hecould choose to say that he wished
you didn't use God, but youdid. And that's a big damn deal.
We're talking about this white quarterback.And again I'm not one inserting race
into this, but you know it'sgoing to come back. It's going to

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be and and and credit to KevinKaka because he said question to Mike Sielsky.
Now he had one on one withhim this morning. I believe he
said, you know why, youknow why people are sensitive to the black
quarterback and white quarterback thing. Sielskysays, Oh, absolutely, And I'm
well aware of it too. Believeme. I've been around long enough to
have seen the idiots who thought thatA. J. Feeley was better quarterback
than Dom McNabb. I've seen TJ. McConnell become the second coming of Magic

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Johnson. I am well aware ofthat, though I didn't mention it in
the column of course furs, itwas on my mind when I was writing
the Calm. That's where I havethe issue. You knew what you were
doing. You knew that this wouldabsolutely stoke those fires. Right. I
don't think I'm unfair by saying that. And therefore he's doing it for the

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clicks and to get the stirring ofthe pot and to be look at me,
look at me, look at me. When it's like, dude,
like give me something more, right, Like I don't need this surface level
post on the Inquirer with a headlineof oh well, if we drafted brock
Party, we'd be a god inhis city. No, he would it.
Well, I mean that's the otherthing I have I have to say

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issue with. But I understand whythe quote they took is the quote that
they put on Twitter. It's theit's the most grabbing quote of life.
Absolutely, they didn't do anything wrong. No, it's the most grabbing the
All the other parts are just somequotes. You know, a recount of
things that have happened in his career, and you know why he's an underdog
at this point, even though lookSan Francisco. The problem is for the

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whole underdog stories. I get thehem be the ultimate underdog. San Francisco
has been to Super Bowls in likeNFC championship games a million times, and
it's just like plug and play.Any quarterback you wont Jimmy Garoppolo, whoever
it is, doesn't matter. They'regetting to an NFC championship. So like
it's I get he brock Party isthe underdog, but it's just it doesn't
it waters it down a little bitwhen you realize, oh, yeah,

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he's still in San Francisco and they'rethe best team of football and have been
one of the best teams in theNFC for years now, and like nothing's
really changed out of ten times,will take jail On Hurts over brock Party.
I'm pretty sure that ninety of theI mean in his own division,
where would you put him in termsof quarterbacks that you would take and you
would start a team with Stafford.I would take Stafford over Party. I

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take Kyleer Murray over Party, andI think you would even And there's a
damn good argument. No, youwere getting close. Do you see the
way Tino played against Dallas? Istill even the thing is even the thing
is I'm I okay, I understandthat. I understand. I know be
most because I stood up for Jimmyg more than anybody. And I think

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has to be a lesson because ugmoved on from San Francisco anything. So
like it's not to say brock Purty'sbad, It's just we know that there
is there is a an inflation ofhis actual value and how good he is
because of the system. He said, again, not to say he's bad,
but let's be honest, it's it'san inflation of it and not I
mean Patrick Mahomes, Kansas City isalways at the top because Patrick Mahomes.

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Yes, Tyreek Hill was great,but even when he took Tyreek Hill away,
it was still great. It's notto say that Joe Burrow his value
is less because his wide receivers aregood, but he in his own play
elevates them to such a high level, you know, and and just I
don't think brock Purty elevates them.Brock Purty, just and Gerald Dry plays
within the system very well, andhe does it very well, very well,
but that is an over inflation.It's one of Kyle Shanahan's, by

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the way, biggest problem is Kyleshanan has that he would rather and works
better with quarterbacks like Kirk Cousins,like Matt Ryan, and like Brock Purty
and Jimmy Garoppolo because they just workwith an assistant him well. But it
doesn't allow for a quarterback to beabove that. And that sometimes becomes a
problem because Jimmy Garoppolo when he's notwhen he has to do something more,

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couldn't do it. And I'm I'mproud, this is me projecting, and
why I don't get so excited abouta brock pretty game like that, And
it's like, Okay, he workedwithin the system great, and everybody else
around him was just so much better. It's just that when he will get
caught upon and it will happen inclose games to do something extra, to
do something outside of the system,to do something above the system, can

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he actually make that play and doit consistently. I know Jalen Hurts can
do it. I've watched him doit. I know Patrick Mahomes can do
it. I know Joe Burrow cando it. I know Lamar Jackson can
do it. I know all theseother great quarterbacks. But you know who
can Prescott? Fine? Fine,I think I've seen better part of that
with Dak Prescott. I've seen himdo more. But you're right though,

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he is zac. Dak Prescott ispart of that ye group a little bit.
I think he's rising above it morethis season than he has previously.
But yeah, Dok Prescott. Ifyou want to say Dak Prescott's a Kirk
cousin and a Matt Ryan type,I get it completely understand. But that's
like, that's the that's what I'mseeing Brock Purty as and so I don't
know, I didn't know why Ineeded to make it. It's all good,

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all I do know, is thisfinal thoughts? Again, I don't
find anything that remotely interesting about brockPerty. Yeah, and I thought the
article was last year. Yes,last year. Back to the article.
I'm with you, back to thearticle. So we could have put a
bow on this one and get itmoving on. It was, it was
whatever. It was a very blasepost, which I expect better and more

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to be honest, and he hasno better absolute. I get it,
I understand, I get it,but I'm just giving him my two cents
here. He knew what he wasdoing. He put that out there,
seven hundred and fifty words. Theheadline is what the headline is. And
I've had enough about people crying becausethere's plenty of this in the crossing broad
post from Sealsky to Kevin about howhe didn't choose the tweet or the headline,

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and I just I'm tired of that. It's twenty and twenty three of
hearing that since mid two thousands,I've I've been hearing all, I don't
do the headline. I don't dothat, and it's just a cop out.
I would like people to read morethan the headline. But if the
headline is, and you should doit right. The headline has to be
better, whatever the case may be. The headline has to represent better of

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what you were putting in the articleexactly. And I don't I don't know
if that is his fault, butit should be. Again, the first
thing you're going to see is thetweet. The second thing you're going to
see is the headline, and thethird thing you're going to see is the
lead. And so like the ifnone of those three things grab you,
nobody's gonna read the article anyway.Yeah, well, I don't think a
lot of people are reading his well, but that's the entry to that articles.

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It was something that and again Idon't blame the social media person.
It's the most grabbing part of thatentire art. That line right there.
I'm well aware of it, tobelieve me, I've been around long enough
to see the idiots thought aj Peelywas a better quarterback than Domin. Now,
well, guess what those idiots thatyou're referencing, Well, you just
took a big old hunk of meatand through it right. I hit the

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mic, said that right into themiddle of them all. Feast Brock Party
is a god back. After this