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see what is on your mind. Each

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of the top three and thirteen of
the top twenty five and the world golf

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rankings are here just outside Grand Rapids
at the Meyer Classic, the tenth annual

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at b Livefield Country Club. It
is an awesome event. It is round

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one today. It's also Round one
of the US Open, by the way,

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at Pinehurst. Here. This is
a track that well, it's incredibly

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inviting. You'd love to play it, and it's it's supposed to be a

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great weekend. It might be a
little bit of rain later on this afternoon,

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but this is an event that is
worth three million dollars. It's a

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par of seventy two, six five
and fifty six yards of challenging but fair

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golf. Now I would tell you
this. You heard Julie Inkster with Bill

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Simonson on The Huge Show yesterday afternoon
when they were asking about what it takes

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to win here they go low.
Here the average or you know, the

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winner of this event has been twenty
one under par or better in five of

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the last six years. So you're
going to see the world's best take dead

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aim and know they're going to have
to shoot low. Like some courses you

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just survive, you know what I
mean? That might be the case of

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Pinehurst. I don't know for the
US Open, where you're just gonna have

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to go, oh man, pars
a good score today here. One of

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the many reasons players love this place
is because they also they understand that they

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got a chance to use every club
in their bag and they can go right

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at the pins. This is exactly
what golfers love to do. They love

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to be able to rack up big
scores and you're going to see that here

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today. It's phenomenal. And you
know what, here's the other thing.

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This is another thing you can love
about this event. It's not expensive.

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You want to take the family to
a really good sporting event where you see

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good people who love their sport and
do what's right, you know, especially

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for kids. Ten bucks, that's
it. Ten bucks. So how do

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you beat that? You can't.
One hundred and forty four of the best

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in the world will be pared down
after thy six to sixty five. Phenomenal

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stuff. All right, let's get
the football. Okay. There are certain

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players who have to step forward,
who have to elevate their game. I

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hate one of those cliches is you
got to step up. We hear that

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all the time, right, I
get it. I've used it too.

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I just try not to use it
too much. Elevate your game, take

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it to another level in order for
your team to be successful. Cody Benjamin,

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who writes for cbssports dot Com,
came out with an article on the

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under the radar player who could be
a star for each NFC team. Who

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is the under the radar player for
you? For the Detroit Lions, here's

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who he says will be the under
the radar player to be a star for

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Detroit. Now. The easy name
to bring up is Terry on Arnold.

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He was first round pick for the
line has a little surprised that he quote

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unquote slid to Detroit in the first
round, but the lines will be better

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for it because he's a hell of
a player. Enus Rekestraw is who he

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writes will be the under the radar
player to become a star. Now,

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star is you know? To me, a star would be a Pro Bowl

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player and I don't. I'm not
sure. I haven't seen Nu Rakestraw play

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yet, at least not at the
professional level. To say he's going to

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be a star might be a How
about how about this, He's going to

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be a key contributor and a better
player than where he was drafted. Okay,

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so that might be a better way
of describing it. For this article,

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he writes, Rakestraw's tenacious physicality could
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a Dan Campbell contender, especially depending
on Carlton Davis's availability at cornerback. Who

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would be the guy you would because
I have a different name for you,

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Okay. For me, it's Josh
Pascal. It doesn't have to be a

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rookie by the way. Okay,
we've already gone through that before on Exis

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and Bros. For me, it's
Josh Pascal. Here's a guy who played

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twelve games last year, started four, but did not have a great year.

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Had one sack, had twenty five
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It was okay. As a third
round pick out of Kentucky, I

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thought he was going to provide more
overall and what he's done. Injuries have

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gotten in the way. When Josh
Pascal is healthy, I'm not saying he

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can beat the Aiden Hutchinson on the
opposite side of the lone. He is

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a versatile guy, and I know
I've been complaining at times about the Tiger.

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There is word or use of versatility. You know, I mean enough

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is enough when it comes to you
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I'd like everyday players. I would
like two guys. I would like two

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bookends at the NFL level too,
for the Lions or whatever your favorite team

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may be. Two bookends that are
going to get after you. That would

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be ideal on every play. Although
with defensive linemen you have to rotate him,

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so I get all that. Josh
Pascal is probably not that guy for

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Aiden Hutchinson opposite Aiden Hutchinson, but
he is a guy who I think can

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be a difference maker for the Lions
because of his ability to play inside and

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outside and when healthy, I think
he can be an absolute beast. He

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won't get double teamed, but if
he showcases the skill that he had at

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Kentucky and the reason the Lions took
him in the third round, then the

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Lions part of their issue, which
was getting to the quarterback outside of Aiden

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Hutchinson, part of that issue I
think will be solved. He is one

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of those guys that the expectation was
there to be that kind of player but

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has not materialized. And at sixty
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He's fast enough to be a defensive
end and on certain plays not a lot,

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because it's it's a lot to absorb
a three hundred and ten pound guard

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coming at you from a defensive tackle
standpoint. But he can play a rep

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or two inside and I think that's
important too. So for me it would

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be Josh Pasco. Who would it
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position or improve their game and who
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This is very subjective, so I
tread lightly when it comes to this topic.

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But where do you think Jared Goff
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be on the rise or do you
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according to some members of the national
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Eighteen after the hour. Welcome back.

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We're at Flyfield Country Club in Grand
Rapids for the tenth annual Meyer Classic eighteen

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holes of challenging golf seventy two holes
this weekend of pure Heaven. Folks will

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be out here in full force,
no doubt, for some of the best

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golfers in the world. One hundred
and forty four LPGA pros are here,

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and after thirty six holes they will
cut it down to the low sixty five

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who will be here. Kids seventeen
and under come in for free. Military

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personnel come in for free. The
general admission is only ten dollars, and

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you have some of the greatest players
who play this game. Eighteen winners on

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the LPGA Tour since twenty twenty three, they are here, five winners to

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the Meyer LPGA Classic. They are
here. Each of the top three thirteen

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to the top twenty five in the
world are here in Grand Rapids. If

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you can come check it out,
because it is worth it, There's no

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doubt about it. Ben, I
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six eight three eight forty eight forty
three. Ben fire away. Yeah,

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it says I would love to see
Derek Barnes take that next level after a

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big interception versus Tampa Bay and the
playoffs layoffs A good one. When is

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the last time this franchise has had
a stud linebacker backer? Okay, good

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question. Well, they've had plenty. We know that. I'm not going

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to go back to Joe Schmid,
Chris Pielman. Obviously Stephen Boyd was a

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stud linebacker. Yeah, I would
I would rather see Jack Campbell step forward,

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being that he was a high draft
pick. But Derek Ryns is a

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really good answer. I don't think
there's a wrong answer, do you No.

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I mean, I'm with you.
Linebacker's vital Alex Angeloni. I mean,

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he's you know, he's a decent
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depth, especially at that position.
But what Barnes does and what he can

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do is give you things that you
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to see him get to the quarterback
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me, whether it be from the
outside or inside. And I've said this

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probably agnaws him, but I'm going
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it's really important. I think Detroit's
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pressure through the middle. You want
to pressure quarterbacks in their face. That's

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where they're most uncomfortable. Derek Barnes
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But I love that answer to our
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know. I mean the question is
basically, hey, listen, who do

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you want to see elevate their game
that's going to help this team? And

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or who could be a possible surprise
borderline star inness rakestraw is what was written

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in this article. I would like
Josh Pascal Derek Barnes as an answer is

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a really good one too. Another
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Ben fire Away, Yeah, yeah, I guess teams have figured out Reese's

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pitching. He's not been fooling batters, like yeah, I'm not going to

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go so far as to say that
they're figuring him out, but yeah,

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look, last three starts not like
his first three starts. I get there's

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a certain concern. The pitch mix
is there, The pitch ability absolutely is

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there. I love his arsenal quote
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he's getting swing and missus as he
missing bats. The hard contact rate as

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of late is a little concerning.
But it just goes to show you,

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and I've said this before, there
are I suppose every team is like this,

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but certain teams. The margin for
error is a lot greater for certain

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teams than it is for the Tigers. A lot of things. I guess

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what I'm saying is a lot of
things have to go right for this team

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to be successful. And when you're
not perfect, Okay, nothing's perfect,

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but when you have to play that
mistake free you know, two more errors

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yesterday cost him. They had a
couple of errors the other day. So

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you got two errors, you got
a pitcher who couldn't find it, and

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you've got a lackluster offense with men
in scoring position. You had twelve hits,

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but only two came with runners in
scoring position. And I can go

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back to the power all I want, although Riley Green continues to impress.

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Another home run yesterday, Matt Veerling
with a home run, and he got

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off to a really good start.
But when you have that margin for error,

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then I'm not saying you got to
play perfect baseball, but you gotta

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be careful, a lot more careful
than other teams hard to overcome a lot

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of that stuff. And that's what's
happening. That's what's happening with the Tigers

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right now. As Mark Canna said, you know, we're not playing very

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good baseball. That's pretty obvious.
But what's more concerning is the fact that

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they're not playing very good baseball in
any facet. The offense is still struggling,

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the defense is lackluster, even from
guys who you expect to throwing error

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from Kelly is one thing. Cole
Keith I told you this. I think

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he's going to be a good hitter. I'm not totally worried about him.

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I think there's too many people who
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not necessarily fair. He's a guy
who forget about the contract. I know

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how people feel about the contract.
You know, it's funny if the Tigers

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don't sign some of their young players, people get upset. Why don't you

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do what Atlanta does. Do what
they did with Austin Riley, Do what

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they did with Ozzie Albi's do what
they did with Ronald Acunya Jr. Yeah,

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I get it a little different situation
for Atlanta. So they do it

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with Cole Keith, and like,
what are you doing it for a guy

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who hasn't played one game in the
major leagues. They truly believe in this

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kid. I believe he's going to
be a good hitter. And I don't

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use my set of eyes to come
to that conclusion. I believe what a

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lot of the scouts have said within
that organization and what guys who've seen a

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lot of baseball, like Jim Leland
has said. Jim Leland truly believes in

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guys like Cole Keith and Spencer Torklesen
and Torkelsen said some interesting things yesterday that

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I want to get into at seven
thirty five. But I think it's we

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know that he's not a great defense. It's a player. So how do

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you overcome poor defense. Well,
you've got to make the You don't have

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to make the spectacular play, but
you have to make the routine play.

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And he knows he's up there to
hit. He's got to HiT's as simple

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as that. So make the routine
play and hit. And I'm not asking

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you to hit home runs right now. I think the home run power will

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come for col Keith. What I
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hard contact and get on base.
And I don't think that's too much

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to ask for. The learning curve
is there for him. We know that

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it's it's a steep learning curve going
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major leagues at that young age.
Remember this guy, this kid was drafted

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out of high school. So it's
not that I'm giving him a free pass,

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but I understand what it's going to
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he needs to go and what the
Tigers have to do. In the meantime,

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the Tigers need to be surrounding him
with play who can do all the

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things that he's struggling with right now. Eventually he'll find it. He will,

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I'm confident in that. But you've
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do what he can't right now.
And I don't think they have that,

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and I don't think they've had it
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So we can look at, Oh, they're not playing good baseball,

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and they're not. But what they're
not doing is anything. Well, if

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you're going to have success at the
major League baseball level, then you better

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do something exceptionally well, right,
you can make up for some of the

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other stuff. Now, we use
the example of the great teams probably too

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often. I'll be guilty of that. I bring up Baltimore, I bring

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up Philadelphia, I bring up the
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It's probably not always fair. What
does Kansas City do well, let's bring

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it back to where Detroit spends and
who's in Detroit's division. What does Kansas

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City do real well? They feel
the ball, they steal base, they

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have an identity. What's the Tiger's
identity. If I asked you what their

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identity is, what would you say? They're in lies part of the issue.

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You can't give it to me because
I don't think they have one.

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Seven thirty five, we will talk
about what Spencer Torklins had to say down

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in Toledo. It goes back to
something similar to what I mentioned regarding the

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LPGA and the Meyer Classic that we're
at right now and Julie Inkster's comments to

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Bill Simonson and the huge show yesterday. It has to do with the mental

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side of sports and the mental side
of baseball. We'll get to that when

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So started in round one here at
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Aanniel Meyer Classic. They are just
getting underway. A lot of golfers still

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on the range, a lot of
golfers still on the putting surface. I

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knew that it was supposed to have
a chance at some rain later today,

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but it is kind of I mean, these clouds moved in quickly and there

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is some threatening weather in the area
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and let's hope it gives these players
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smacking around this beautiful course. It
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course, and they're going to go
low today or all weekend. I should

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say, as I mentioned earlier,
five or less six years, it's taken

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at least twenty one under par to
win this event. So we talked to

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a couple of golfers on Exus and
Bros. Yesterday And asked them what they

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like about it, and they said, you know, you can go for

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it. Watching a lot of these
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surface close to the whole. First
of the First of all, their their

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hands amaze me, the touch that
they have. I you know, I've

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got hands like alignment for crying out
loud around the around the green. These

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folks they are just they just curl
it up there. It's just a it's

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a beautiful thing to watch. If
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area, this is a great event. It really is, and it's for

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here later on today as well.
All Right, I want to get to

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this quarterbacks. You know, we
all know how important the position is,

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right and we probably we'll probably make
too much of it. We give them

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way too much credit when they win, I'm generalizing now, and probably way

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too much blame when they lose.
Now we've heard that before, but it

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really is true. The thing about
quarterbacking is we don't always know, Like

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when we see a quarterback miss on
something, throw an interception, unless it's

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blatant, it's hard for us to
truly understand slash recognize whose fault it was.

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I mean, we rely on the
TV analyst or the radio analyst to

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try and help us a little bit. But while we're watching, if we're

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in attendance or we're just watching on
TV, when we see it happen,

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we think, oh no, come
on, man, you can't make that

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pack. It might not be his
fault. It might be the receiver's fault.

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You just don't know. But we
do know that is. I think

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it's fair to say it's the most
important position in sports. That and Goaltending.

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With that said, and knowing that
Jared Goff received that huge contract,

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the largest alliance history, I wondered
where he would rank. When I read

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an article on quarterback poised to improve
or regress in twenty twenty four, and

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before I read this article, and
before you start to try and gauge which

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quarterbacks, because I'm sure if you're
driving around, if you're listening right now,

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you're thinking to yourself, Okay,
who would I say is going to

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regress or who would I say is
going to improve? And where do I

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think Jared Goff may be. I'm
sure those are all the things running through

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your mind, just like it did
for me when I first saw these headlines.

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I do believe because of certain players
and they're built up credibility for greatness.

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We're not going to, for example, Patrick Mahomes, you're not going

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to suggest that he's going to regress. He was just the reason they won

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another championship, especially knowing full well
that they don't necessarily have the offensive weapons

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that he's had in the past.
Right, we think he did more with

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less this year because they only had
eleven wins. We think they did more

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with less because he no longer had
a weapon like Tyreek Hill for example.

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And I think Patrick Mahomes is the
best in the business. But we do

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have to understand that Patrick Patrick Mahomes
made plenty of mistakes this year. That

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included plenty of interceptions. And that's
why I bring up the interceptions that we

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don't know always know it's the quarterback's
fault. Look, twenty seven touchdowns.

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Hats off to you man, Not
that that led the league by any stretch,

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but he had fewer touchdown passes than, for example, Josh Allen or

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to a tongue of ala, if
that's what it's about for you, you

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know, maybe you're looking at different
things, maybe different statistics matter more to

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you. But he had fourteen picks, which is, you know, fourth

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most in the league. I'm not
saying he's Sam Howell, but it's not

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like he didn't struggle at times.
But you're not going to because of his

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reputation and because of his accomplishments,
You sure as how are not going to

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suggest that Patrick Mahomes is going to
take a step backward. Right, Okay,

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So who are the guys you think
might elevate their game and who are

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the guys who might regress a little
bit. Here's what they suggest in this

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in this article. Most likely to
improve, they said, Patrick Mahomes,

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which is kind of funny because MVP
a couple of years ago right led the

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league in touchdown passes. A couple
of years ago, forty one led the

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league in yards as well. They
thought he regressed a little bit, barely

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over four thousand yards. Again,
there are so many factors involving quarterbacks that

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it's almost unfair to sit there and
say that he regressed. He won a

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world championship. He did it by
going on the road, and he did

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it against the best defense in football. Should be something said for that.

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Huh, they think he will progress
improve. Okay, another guy they think

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is going to improve Jordan Love.
Now this makes sense because after all,

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we didn't really have much of a
barometer on Jordan Love. We saw him

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take over a Green Bay team that
well, quite honestly doesn't have much at

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all, didn't think that they would
win much at all. And look at

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what he did. He went out
there and he threw thirty two touchdown passes

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and he made Green Bay fans almost
forget Aaron Rodgers. The thirty two tds

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second most in the NFL only Dak
Prescott through more. And considering he doesn't

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have a ton of weapons around him. I used weapons with air quotes.

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I mean, does he have a
number one? He actually was. He

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actually came out and said that it's
okay not to have a number one.

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It's less pressure. You could start
spreading the football around a little bit more,

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which I found pretty interesting because he
said this right as you and I

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were talking about some of the best
wide receivero wide receiver combinations in the sport.

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Remember we had that conversation yesterday.
They expect him to improve. CJ.

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Stroud was the runaway rookie of the
year and for good reason. Phenomenal

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player, phenomenal season. I should
say twenty three tds only five picks,

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led the league in that category.
Touchdown to interception ratio, led the league

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in yards per game at two hundred
and seventy four yards per game. The

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only other two quarterbacks to do those
put up those types of numbers in rank

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where they did in a regular season
where Joe Montana who won the MVP in

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nineteen eighty nine, and Tom Brady
who won the MVP in two thousand and

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seven. That tells you the kind
of company that CJ. Strod was keeping

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from a year ago. So they
expect him, which I think is pretty

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lofty. They expect him to improve
on those numbers. Now he does get

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Stefan Diggs, he has more weapons. Maybe that's what they're figuring. This

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is going to help them. Jalen
Hurts, they expect to improve as well.

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Bryce Young, they expect to improve. You can't I'm not gonna say

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you can't get much worse, but
you talk about a struggle for Bryce Young

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again, look at what he has
around him. Understand that the others they

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expect to improve to a tongue of
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Okay, here are the quarterbacks they
believe are most likely to regress take

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that step backwards, and I think
you can figure out some of them.

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One is Brock Purdy. There's just
not many people who believe in him for

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some reason or another. Is it
because he's mister irrelevant? I think it.

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I find this interesting in sports,
and maybe I'm overreacting here. Feel

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free to tell me that I am. When a guy is mister irrelevant and

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has success the first year, we
sit there and go, oh man,

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what a great story. I love
the story of Brock Purty. I love

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the perseverance. I love that he
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Then when he does it a little
bit more people are looking to tear

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him down. Eh, how good
can he really be? He was mister

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irrelevant, he came from Iowa State, he overcame some odds, But really

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does he belong in the same conversation
as Patrick Mahomes and Lamar Jackson and Josh

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Allen and Joe Burrow and Justin Herbert
and guys like that. We immediately start

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to question why we gave him as
much credence in the first place. Have

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you ever found that it seems like
it? In other words, we're just

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not sold on him for some reason
or another. Here's a guy who set

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the NFL single season record for passing
yards per attempt. Remember how everybody last

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year said he's a dunk guy.
You know, he would just dunk off

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to guys underneath, throwing underneath routes. He set a record last year for

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yards per attempt among quarterbacks with at
least three hundred and fifty attempts. That's

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how wrong their narrative was around brock
Purty. So many people didn't want to

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give him credit because they didn't feel
like he could or would throw downfield.

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They felt like all he did was
check down. They couldn't be more wrong.

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He also led the league in passer
rating. But the word is from

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national writers now that is not sustainable
in twenty twenty four. Why sure,

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he's got Christian McCaffrey, he's got
Deebo Samuel, he's got George Kill,

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he got Brandon Ayuk. That's all
great stuff, it really is. That's

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what good teams. Dare I say
great teams have to have. Don't look

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at Kansas City from a year ago
and think that's the norm. It's not.

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The norm is having more than one
good player. See in basketball,

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when you have three four good players
and you win a championship, people say

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that's what you need. Look at
Dallas right now, Doncic and Irving are

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carrying them. People are wondering,
where's the other guy. You need a

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third guy. Boston has that and
then some so they give him a ton

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of credit. Right Absolutely, Why
in football do we take away from certain

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quarterbacks because they have weapons around them. Another guy they expect to regress is

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Jared Goff. Again, people just
don't believe, even though he took a

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team to a super Bowl, even
though he just won the division first time

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for the Lions, even though he
made it to the NFC Championship game and

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they had a big lead and they
arguably were the better team than San Francisco,

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people just don't want to believe.
Here's what they write about Jared Goff.

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He threw four for four thousand yards
and over twenty five touchdowns thirty for

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the second season in a row,
so he's done it in back to back

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years, but there's still no belief
something Matthew Stafford did five times in twelve

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seasons with the Lions, but never
in consecutive seasons. Like golf, the

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Lions rewarded him with a five year, two hundred and twelve million dollar extension,

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making him the second highest paid player
in the entire NFL on an average

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year basis at fifty three million.
Don't know what that has to do with

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whether or not you believe he will
progress or digress, but it's factual.

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Detroit's entire offensive corps remains intact in
twenty twenty four, but the Lions failed

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to add significant wide receiver talent opposite
Aman Ross Saint Brown in the offseason.

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Second team All Pro tight end Sam
Laporta makes for a strong second option,

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and they do have Jamison Williams entering
year three, but the failure to find

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a reliable number three in a tough
NFC North that includes a rising young Green

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Bay Packer squad and a revitalized Chicago
Bears group could lead to a golf regression.

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So because the other teams are a
little bit better. You're gonna hold

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that against him. That seems odd
to me, like you don't want to

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believe in him. You're just not
seeing it. Okay. I don't know

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what a guy has to do to
prove it to you. The horn just

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sounded here at Field Country Club,
which means they're asking golfers to come off

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the course, which means the weather
is going to spoil at least the start

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of round one. That's unfortunate.
I knew he was supposed to rain a

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little bit later on, but I
didn't think you would hear that horn so

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early here on a Thursday morning for
round one. So the thunders are coming

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and the dark clouds are hanging over
us as well, so a lot of

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golfers heading back into the clubhouse.
I will keep you updated here from the

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Blackfield Country Club for round one or
the tenth annual Meyer Classic. Interesting about

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what's taking place here anyway, Regarding
the Jared Goff news, I think it's

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I think it's Look, maybe you
don't believe it because he's not so fluid.

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Maybe you don't think he's got that
great versatility that some of the more

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athletic quarterbacks have. In other words, he's not as pretty when he drops

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back to pass. His arm action
isn't Dan Marino. He's not Bernie Kosar

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either, and Bernie Kosar is pretty
successful with the Cleveland Browns, wasn't he.

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I think Jared Goff's a good quarterback. I think he's a very good

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quarterback. I got no problem with
him under center for the Lions. The

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problem I have is that he seems
to and I suppose this could be you

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can make this case for anybody who
hasn't won a Super Bowl, but he

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seems to have to prove himself before
the season every single year. It's not

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that you know, he's proven himself
during the season. Every quarterback has to

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do that, every athlete has to
do that. But for him to have

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to prove himself before the season,
after putting up the season that he did

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a year ago, is a little
disappointing and surprising that people just are not

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buying end the lines have bought in, Otherwise they wouldn't have rewarded them with

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the contract that they did. Let's
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