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This is the downbeat on ninety seven
to one, the freak. How many

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hot birthdays you shared? Dingo?
Uh not many? I know. Jason

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Kidd is one and and Kyrie you
get Jay, you got Jay Kid and

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Kai. I let you meant like
sexy women birthdays sexy men. Yeah,

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I'm all about you liked me a
thick bitch. That's this big Maverick's birthday

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Modern MAVs March twenty third, It
was Danny's birthday. Kind of snuck it

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by us, but Kyrie and Kyrie
turned what thirty two? Mm hmm,

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Jason Kidd fifty one. He also
showed the same birthday with Blair singer Damon

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Albarn Oh there you go, and
Aisha Curry Great Day and Williams racing driver

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Alex Albam and celebrity blogger Perez Hilton. I knew that you didn't know that.

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It's a pretty big one. Yeah, it's not a very popular day

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for birthdays, and actor Randall park
Yep and wrapper Kwondo Rondo Great. Also

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on Danny's birthday March twenty third,
the Hunger Games came out on that day.

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We've already moved to this day in
history pretty woman. Those are pretty

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big flicks. Yeah, pretty big
stuff. Man. Yeah you Kyrie's birthday.

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That's a great one. Yeah.
You know what, I don't think

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I was aware of that until he
got here. You know, you shouldn't

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have been. I wouldn't it until
I read an article from Stein. Dude,

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what the mats are kind of awesome? This is this is all good.

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They played a night by the Way
eight. Is this a sport report?

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Yeah? Is it? Yeah?
Are we just talking? Let's just

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talk? Okay, let's just talk. I read an article by Stein called

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Creative Ways to Dismantle a radio studio. Okay, you know what. It

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was one bloomberable witness just spabs out
moment of weakness. I think in studio

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we're having fun. My interview with
Rick Carlisle spazzing out in the studio no

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more cats. Hates these cats and
now they're farting, farting cats. My

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interview with Carlisle crickets. I want
to read that pamphlet and it's on a

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substack, substack available now. Farting
cats. My interview with Rick carlysle For

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those of you don't know that don't
know, we planted uh fart machines and

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cat mewing machines that oh we forgot
to take out. And Mark Stein showed

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up to do his interview with Rick
Carlyle on a Saturday morning and they were

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still going off, so he turned
our studio upside down. I'll say it

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wasn't just us that the midday show
had some I mean I didn't buy a

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cat sounder, Steve. I think
on that one overdoing it. Imagine the

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pan when you're about to be on
the phone with the curmudgeon Rick Carlisle,

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worried that he's going to overhearre is
that a cat back there? Where is

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that cat? We start? So
Stein wrote that at the twenty fifth birthday

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party for Luca was in Toronto because
they were on the road, that Kyrie

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was the last Maverick there to close
it down with Luca. As I said

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earlier this week, the Mavericks held
an optional practice for their low minute players.

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You'r Dwight Pals of the world,
you're aj Lawson's of the world to

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get in some extra work, and
that morning, it was a morning after

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a road win in San Antonio.
Both Kyrie and Luca unexpectedly attended the session

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and played in the pickup games,
which everyone was like, we're expecting to

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see you. That's what you guys
doing here the stars? You think all

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the low minute guys were like,
Jesus, all you do you guys?

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You know you're good. All you
just dribble. We need the practice,

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We get it. You're the leader. You don't have to show up to

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this thing to help. No,
Luca, we know, we understand.

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You're dedicated to basket. Gave me
the ball immediately. It's just do as

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I do. Time for shot.
He's gripping at him. Another bounce,

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hook shot. Do this easy?
Done? All right, thanks Luca.

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Good practice, guys. He's looking
around screens. These are terrible. She's

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about his back. This says,
there's uh. I'm just reading Smith from

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from Stein's article. There was a
couple of things that happened. I said.

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There's some leeway from the MAVs side
in return to enhance Kyrie's comfort level.

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We go back to media day and
then again in Spain when Mavericks players

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gathered for a team picture. There
was no pushback when Kyrie wore a shirt

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from his personal collection to pay homage
to his native American heritage rather than a

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Mavericks branded top. I saw the
picture. It's the whole team wearing mav

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stuff and he's got a shirt,
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One source said, no one cares, which is how you should be

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about that. It doesn't matter.
It's a picture, said one front office

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executive from a Western Conference rival team. Kyrie, to me, doesn't get

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enough credit for how he's taken a
back seat to Luca to make this work.

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Stein goes on Maverick's assistant coach,
God Sham. God is a lifelong

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family friend who knew Kyrie's father,
Drederick Irving, before Kyrie was even born.

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Drederick a cool name, Drederick Irving, so he knew him before Kyr's

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even born. And he's the one
who goes with it. Works out with

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Kyrie for his pregame workout three hours
before tip off, and we talked about

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the Ramadan thing with God. Cham
got too. Mark Keith Morris, who

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has only played one hundred and sixty
eight minutes this season, is one of

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Irving's most trusted peers in the league. One NBA source said, everywhere he

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turns, Kyrie sees people who like
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Among those people is Jason Kidd.
And I actually went and found this steinkind

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typed it out BYuT and found it. This is from Steins Show on Saturday

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at noon here with Mad's assistant coach, Jared Dudley and talking about why the

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basic question why has Kyrie been so
comfortable? What's one of the reasons I

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think he? Number one is Jason
Kidd. People don't understand how many people

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many people do. I mean,
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I mean superstar players in this league
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Jason Kidd. He's he's considered a
cool players coach to have that respect level.

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Kitty has that for mint players,
especially superstar. Now, on one

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hand, you're an assistant coach and
Jason Kidd's the head coach. You're probably

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not gonna just say bad things about
Jason Kidd. But that is interesting and

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for any questions we might have about
Jason Kidd, and we've had many,

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and mause Fence have had many,
and the bottom line that Luca and Kyrie

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are both happy and that kind of
all that really matters. And we can

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question strategy things and the moment all
we want, but it doesn't matter if

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we're at at the place we were
lash. I think it's just really funny

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that, you know, all of
the firestorm and controversy wondering if Kid needs

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to be fired at the end of
the year. Oh wow, you get

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some complimentary personnel in here and and
figure out and and and make some trades

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to get some bigs kicking and dunk
Kid looks great now. Kids, it

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has a little bit more to do
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on the bench. Yeah, it's
not excellent. Exce's, no's it's it's

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dunk three. President Joe's. I
don't know what the quote is. The

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lob goblins is what the colin Okay
Gafford and uh no, it's all I

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saw it on the MAVs Reddit thing. It's kind of going around to looking

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because Bennet Skinn that we're discussing we
need nicknames for these guys because you can't

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use twin towers clearly, Well,
the Spurs did for years. Well yeah,

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that was probably before nine to eleven. It was so it's like,

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okay, let's switch and was like, well, we don't have two buildings

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standing up next to each other that
would make sense. But the lob Goblins.

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I mean, look, I've heard
worse kind of stupid, and I

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like that. I've heard worse the
lob goblins. It's sucking there, like

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the sobgoblins are crying all the time, Like the lob goblins works? That

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works? How fine? Or the
knob Goblins. You don't want that?

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What if you were two of them? What if your name was Bob Goblin.

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That's a fake show. That sounds
like one of the gambling guys out

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here on weekends on the station.
That was the word of God that was

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abandoned Dallas for a long time.
But bob Goblin was it? Are you

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in it? I was not in
bob Goblin the awesome though. Did you

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think that was gonna be your big
break? This is the one, I'm

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sure of it. The bass player
moved to Atlanta. I've got a chance

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my big try out for the Bob
guy this afternoon. A guy talking gambling,

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placing bets that we can't do legally
in the state on our weekend programming

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yesterday. Uh And it was the
Peterson Experience And I was like, what

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in the world that's the name of
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with Scott Peterson. No, no, anybody listen to that. I didn't

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do that. But I did do
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from jail. He's got a com
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my experience every segment with the tease
and then I didn't do it. Just

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to be overly clear. That's his
signature catchphrase at the end of every show

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is Matage twenty seven and fifteen,
Quick, Kyrie and Luca. Okay,

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I think it's it is what you're
talking about. It's a give and take.

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The price you pay from getting rid
of Rick Carlisle is you're giving up

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some x's and o's. But what
you're getting with Jason Kidd is a relatable

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coach who played in the league recently
who the players can go on YouTube if

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they don't respect him already and know
that this is one of the most unique

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players in NBA history, one of
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the what you get, and that
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Luca and a melting pot that Kyrie
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team with. And few coaches that
possess both those attributes so when they're losing

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and there's not wizardly inbound plays like
Rick Carlisle would always give you, damn

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it, that sucks. When Luca
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going to volunteer voluntary practices and generally
loving life, that's what you get

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for the small, small fee of
we don't have a perfectly designed inbound play,

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and kids just all enough to where
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what Dudley was saying there, like
these guys do respect him. Whereas for

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Steve Nash was coaching Durant, Kyrie, James Harden and they all asked for

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trades out of there. Yeah,
because Snash is probably a little too close

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to them, But that respect is
he's just old enough to where it's like

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we watched you play growing up.
I don't know how much of that matters

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whatever. Mavericks were fifteen and five
and Kyrie's last twenty, with Luca fifteen

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and five last twenty, both playing
five and one. While during this Ramadan

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span also flirting with a fifty to
forty ninety season, He's forty nine percent

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shooting from the field forty point five
percent from three ninety one percent from the

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free throw line. And the one
loss during Ramadan was a lukeless game.

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Yeah, Oklahoma City again. Yeah, crazy boy, he is messing with

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the fifty to forty ninety club.
Yeah, and that nuts. There's not

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many in it. And Dirk is
won. Dirk couldn't he? Good lord?

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Really? Oh shoot, maybe he
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close. No, forgot that shot
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he didn't. Kyrie already has one
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fifty forty ninety. And oh yeah, Dirk did make it. Oh six

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oh seven, he made it in
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five zero two, so he barely
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he made it was point nine to
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you're gonna make any of those by
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I mean it's Larry Bird and Reggie
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by the way, fifty forty ninety. That's insane. Duranced a couple

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of times, but there's just not
many that do it. That's cool.

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Well that's three, uh do it
now? When you shoot as many threes

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as you do. Yeah, it's
incredible. They had three nights off,

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which is good. They're kind of
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uh, they have jazz tonight.
You're on the freaking eight Preham at seven

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thirty. Then they've got The King's
Tomorrow night, which is a late start.

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So come out and see uh Stepbrothers
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Cedars and go watch the mask.
I do like the fact that they're playing

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the same team back to back with
three days off in between, because you

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always hear in the NBA that it's
really difficult to beat the same team twice

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on a back to back with one
day off. Yeah, I think this

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kind of creates enough buffer, you
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it's not It's almost like it's not
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much time off and you can kind
of go into tonight fresh and cleanse the

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palette from kicking their ass, you
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them to win. I think tomorrow
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that's all tonight, let's see.
Uh, let's go to the Cowboys real

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quick. John Fossil Bones, who
to me is just so manic, and

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I feel like he's always had too
much say on the sidelines. I feel

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like he has too much ability to
call fake punt whenever he wants. I

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don't know if that's true. Just
take it. It feel like but her.

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He's also a camera magnet too,
right, But it's not his fault.

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Just think of your special teams coach, right, yeah, snap it

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and boot It is no fun boring. I can do stuff too. I

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want to put in all these fakes. I mean, they're just hey there

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if you need him, coach,
Like, imagine if you're a tenured special

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teams coach, the uh kind of
crap you just kinda yell out loud,

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like yeah, we got an option
here, coach. I mean, you're

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trying to get your intentionally be overheard, right, You're wicked fakes to get

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used which might not get used once
to all year, you know, because

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you know you have multiple fakes for
field goals. Extra crab, he's using

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his creative energy for a bigger cause
now. Because Fossil was saying outside of

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the Ritz Carlton ballroom with a pencil
behind his ear, because he's at the

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league meetings and he was presenting a
new kickoff proposal to all thirty two owners

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that they're going to vote on today. Really, all right, I need

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twenty four votes to pass it.
Here you got details on that. Yes,

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I do no chance at this passing
Before you even say it. The

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proposal watermelon kicks to increase, to
increase kickoff reterms returns and reduce it injuries.

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We're gonna set the football on fire. So basically, you're gonna eliminate

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the running start of the kickoff team, all right, but you're also going

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to incentivize kickers to drop kicks into
a quote landing zone. The landing zone

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will be from the goal line to
the twenty so any kick that drops in

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the landing zone must be returned.
If it bounces into the end zone from

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the landing zone, it must be
returned or downed. Because the enzone you

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can collect it and down it.
And any kick that falls short of the

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landing zone will be treated like it
out of bounds kickoff and placed on the

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forty like a legal procedure. So
if you don't get to short, whatuld

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you say? Repeat that lessons if
it's short of the l z okay,

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if it's short of the twenty.
Yeah, you get it at the forty,

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yeah, immediately, Yeah, it's
a fair catch. If the ball

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lands short of the forty, yeah, or short of the twenty, short

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of the twenty, then the ball
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it out a bound. Okay,
any kick that lands in the end zoner

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goes out of the back of the
end zone. It's a touchback. But

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instead of the ball being at the
twenty five like the touchback is now,

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the ball would go to the thirty. Yeah, this ain't gonna pass number

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one. It's too many things.
It's a lot of things. And if

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there's three option, three or four
things, three options on the spot of

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the ball, that does sound confusing. But gold being more returns, I

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thought we didn't want returns. Well, exactly, they don't want returns because

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they're not he's trying to bring the
return back. Okay, they're not going

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to go there. And this is
why there's a chance to palnce. Sounds

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like self interest to me, so
he can get his cool return. No

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way, this is hey, and
if this passes, we're ready for this,

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trust me. I thought out his
notebook with his pencil behind his ear.

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I thought that too because of how
I think about him. But it

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is interesting the leagu's a little concerned
about scoring twenty twenty forty nine points again

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and then it's dipped since then,
let's see it went to forty five to

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forty three. Scoring has been dropping
and owners want more scoring. And he's

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like, well, here's how,
here's how scoring will go up. Let's

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get back returns. In twenty ten, there were four hundred touchbacks. Last

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year there were two thousand touchbacks.
And he's right, but because with the

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safety stuff, they eliminated the kickoff. Yeah, you keeps trying to bring

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it back. Do you care about
this? I absolutely do, because the

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kickoff is a cool play. When
they house a kickoff, it is one

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of the most exciting plays in football
if you have a good return. Though

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I don't know, because Brandon Aubrey
got touched, you set the record for

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most touchbacks in NFL history, right, yeah, Wait, why can't kickers

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hit a landing zone though they should
in the current city of the NFL,

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Like, I don't know why the
play happens. Essentially, it's a big,

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big play that nothing ever happens on. That's the point. That's like

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the whole point of this. But
I think some teams boring trying to not

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kick touchbacks to trying to land it
at the five or inside the five,

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because generally you're gonna stop them before
they get to the twenty five, right,

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but then you're eliminated the running start. So that's gonna oh in this

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case. Yeah, but I think
last year a lot of teams were smart

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trying to kick it a little short
of the line. You're probably gonna mathematically

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tackle him into five. Yeah.
So Jerry loves it. So there's one

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of it now, you just need
twenty three more votes. He said that

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the one guy who is questioning him
a lot the whole time during the meeting,

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just grilling him, was Raven's head
coach John Harbaugh, who famously was

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a special teams coach. I forget
that gets who he's like asking all these

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like corny blocking questions and stuff.
He's just shut Just pass it. Just

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pass my new rule, man,
so I can have some say I actually

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think they should pass it. I
think otherwise there's no point in having a

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kickoff. Just take the ball to
twenty five, like you change. This

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could bring that back if your team
sucks and you can't cover a kickoff,

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it sucks for you. But have
a good team that can cover kickoffs,

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he said, uh. He The
one weird point about all this was that

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he said that the special teams players
are having wear and tear from all the

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running they do with no payoff.
I was like, what, Yeah,

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it feels like they have more wear
and tear of crashing into people. But

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I don't know, they don't have
to do the gratuitous run all the way,

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sprint through the end zone move that
they do to run to get the

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crowd hut whatever they run through.
But they just start doing this to the

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crowd every time. It is.
It is weird that we don't have these

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the weapon kick returner really anymore.
I mean, I guess we still kind

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of do. But remember what Dante
Hall back in the day, or Devin

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Hester or hell Dion, when you
were scared to don't give this person the

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ball in the open field, bad
things happen, and now you can essentially

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prevent it, at least not kickoffs, maybe not in punts. But I

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don't know, it doesn't seem like
we have that. I mean, Devin

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Hester made a career basically of housing
it. I mean concussions are gonna happen

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either way. So let's let's just
go ahead. If you're getting rid of

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the running start, let's bring back
that play. Oh care? Okay,

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they have our vote. Could create
a create a new slew of jobs for

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you know, kickoff and punt return
special. Yes, yeah, Bill bates

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Man. Maybe job creation is is
Bones's goal. Yes, it was always

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mine. Well, you're a lot
of jobs. As soon as that pitch

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