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If you're trying to tell me you
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Absolutely you do. Come on cauld
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a Monday through Friday, six until
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Shepherd with you across the great state
of Michigan, the Huge Show later on

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this afternoon, many of these great
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you missed it from yesterday, because
perhaps you were busy, perhaps you were

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playing golf, going for a walk, doing whatever it is. Winners in

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the NBA Boston, the Clippers,
Milwaukee, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma City.

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That game had twenty lead changes.
The Pelicans and the Thunder Thunder won by

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a bucket. They had twenty lead
changes. The other playoff games combined Western

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Conference and Eastern Conference had nineteen incredible
stuff. The finals for the MVP of

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the NBA have been announced. Jokic, Doncic, Alexander, Jay Gilgis Alexander

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and with Yo Kitch. When I
watch that guy play, how do you

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feel about it? You look at
him and you think to yourself, is

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he really all that? But I'll
be damned if that guy doesn't go out

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every single day and get it done. Honestly, it doesn't look pretty.

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It doesn't always look super fluid.
It can't be just because of his size,

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because there's plenty of big guys out
there. But you don't average thirty

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two points, twelve rebounds, seven
assists, and two steals in the postseason,

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but during the regular season, stay
just as consistent. If you're not

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that good, he may look dare
I say, and he averaged twenty six

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and a half points, he averaged
twelve and a half boards, he averaged

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nine assists and one and a half
steals during the regular season. He how

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would you describe him? He kind
of looks stiff, but he is fluid

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in every aspect of the game.
And on top of that, he shoots

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well over fifty eight percent for the
floor anyway, four straight year. He's

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in the MVP conversation on ice Rangers, Jets, Canucks, and Panthers winners.

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Yesterday, in what was I thought
a pretty thrilling day of Stanley Cup

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playoff action, Florida, Tampa watched
a lot of that. Didn't step and

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watch Vancouver and Nashville. All these
games pretty tight, and Kyle Connor,

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who's from the great state of Michigan, had two goals and one assist in

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Winnipeg's win over Colorado. It's really
too bad one of those teams to got

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to lose because those are two really
fun teams to watch. And Winnipeg,

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I believe, is now four and
oh against Colorado, which is a little

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surprise. I mean, to me, is surprising. Colorado's just I think

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they're super talented, a lot of
fun to watch. And the Tigers,

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of course, winners yesterday over Minnesota
six to one. Casey my is pretty

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solid. Little surprised at the walks
from Casey Mice. Now keep in mind,

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it's you know, he's coming back
from surgery, so there are things

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that you know, he's still trying
to get used to a little bit,

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and I greatly respect that. I
think he's a tough, tough dude.

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I think he gets after it.
You know, it's there's so much pressure.

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I was reading an article of the
weekend about the pressures of being the

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number one player picked in the NFL
draft and what it comes with, and

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how guys like the fathers of Joe
Burrow, for example, is one of

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those we're talking to Archie Manning because
Eli Manning and Peyton Manning were first overall

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picks, and to a certain extent, how you handle it, just the

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pressure that comes with it. I
don't think it's any different than the NBA

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draft, NHL draft to a certain
extent, and Major League Baseball draft.

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Now they get a little bit longer
to marinate in the minor leagues, whereas

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in the NFL they want you to
play right away. Fans I'm talking about.

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But when you see Casey Meis who
was drafted first overall by the Tigers,

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as we all know, and it
was I don't care what anybody says,

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it was a slam dunk. Everybody
would have done that. I mean,

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he's second ever, two time All
American at Auburn and consensus All American.

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Threw a no hitter at Auburn in
his final year. In his final

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year at Auburn, he was ten
and five with a two nine to five

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e one hundred and fifty nine strikeouts
in only twelve walks. So there's a

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lot of pressure when you're in the
first overall pick. You're supposed to zip

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through the minor leagues and then start
commanding every pitch at the major league level,

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it just doesn't happen. The goal
he always used to say the goal.

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This was early on, maybe not
even in his major league career.

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He used to say, the goal
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That's impossible to do, especially at
the major league level where they're they've got

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such good eyes for the most part
outside of I know, fill in the

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blank, hove her bias. Okay, hah. The point is, remember,

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like Greg Maddox, as great as
he was, Hilly walked like forty

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six batters a season, pinpoint control
Casey Mace. That's kind of kind of

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his That was always his goal.
But here's a guy who didn't walk many

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obviously in college. So the walk
rate for me a little bit surprising,

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But I'm not going to complain about
it. If he's getting you wins and

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if he's keeping you in ball games, and he did just that yesterday,

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I don't think Minnesota's a that talented
offensively. All you got to do is

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look at the numbers. It's early, but still look at the numbers,

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and you can tell they're still trying
to find their way. I don't care

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who you're beating. All I care
about is if you're beating them. And

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Casey Mice did six innings of scoreless
ball yesterday, wasn't necessarily overpowering. Again,

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I do not care. You want
to pitch to contact to get outs,

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go for it. Saves your arm
a little bit, saves your pitch

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count a little bit. I'm okay
with that. Casey Mice, for me,

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doesn't have to be the second coming
of Roger Clemens or Steve Carlton.

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All he's got to do is keep
his team in games. I'd like to

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see him get seven innings. I'd
love I'd love to see him make thirty

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starts. I'd like him to be
durable and keep his team in games.

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That means your team should be pretty
damned successful. And he's not even top

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of the rotation type of guy yet
because of the injury. Phone numbers are

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eight forty eight forty three. Always
enjoyed the conversation with you. By the

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way, did you see that the
Angels had to place Anthony Rendon on the

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ten day injured list hamstring problem for
him? It is constant with this guy.

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When people look at the biggest mistakes
a franchise could make the worst contracts,

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You've got to look at Anthony Rendon. Don't undersell that with the Angels.

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He started the year going Ohver nineteen. Now he's been good over the

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last couple of weeks, but not
good enough to justify his contract seven years,

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two hundred forty five million dollars.
He's bet in two sixty seven no

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bombs three RBIs. In nineteen games, he's betten two sixty seven no bombs

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three RBIs. They shelled out two
hundred and forty five million dollars over a

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seven year deal, and he has
not played more than fifty eight games in

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a season. Right now, you're
driving, you're shaking your head. I

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am two. The thing about it. In Washington, he was really good.

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That's all. You gotta be careful. His last year in Washington,

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he was an All Star. He
was a Silver Slugger Award winner. He

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finished third in the MVP voting.
It went Cody Bellinger, Christian Yelich than

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Anthony Rendon. Angels. Go out
and say you know what. He finished

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third in the National League MVP voting. We got the MVP because Mike Troutt

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was named MVP that year. How
about this, Let's combine them. Sure,

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dude had one hundred and twenty six
RBIs in twenty nineteen with Washington,

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he had eighty eight doubles in his
last two years with the Nationals. He's

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in the top ten top ten MVP
discussion three different times. In Washington,

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he was saying he hit two ninety
overall three hundred his last three years.

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He goes to LA, he plays
fifty two games, fifty eight games,

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forty seven games, forty three games, and he's played nineteen so far injury

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after injury. You know, the
most home runs he's hit as a member

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of the La Angels in a season
nine? Did I mention it was a

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seven year deal worth two hundred and
forty five million dollars. This is the

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fifth year of the seventy year contract. Foolish spending. Absolutely, could you

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have understood it? Perhaps? I
mean, considering what he had done in

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Washington, he was never really a
big home run hitter, so maybe that's

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not fair. Although he did have
thirty four his last year with the Nationals.

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Perfect timing for Anthony Rendo. Nothing
would have suggested this. Nothing games

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played in Washington, one fifty three, one fifty six, one forty seven,

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one thirty six, one forty six. That's pretty steady, don't you

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think. Thirty eight RBI, thirty
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four doubles, forty four doubles.
Pretty consistent, right? Eighty five RBIs

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one hundred, RBIs ninety two RBIs
one hundred twenty six. Are you pretty

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consistent? Right? Yeah, here's
the thing perhaps that you didn't do enough

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homework on and it might be not
too dissimilar from what the Tigers did with

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Austin Meadows. Do you and this
is a different case with Meadows, by

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the way, But I'm strictly talking
from Rendon's perspective. Does he love the

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game? The answer to that is
no, he does it because he's really

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good at it or was really good
at it. Now, I'm not saying

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just because you love the game,
you're going to be a great player.

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Sure, there's plenty of sports you
and I both love. Doesn't mean we're

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going to be great at it.
But a guy like this, you would

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think would have had the makings you
put him with trout at Otani. You

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talk about Big three, we had
mentioned earlier in the program about Big three

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in the NBA. You would have
guessed that would have been a pretty damn

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good trio. Right. It's amazing
the Meadows situation is a little different.

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You know, Austin Meadows. It's
not that he doesn't love the game,

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because he does, but some of
the struggles he has had mentally is what

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has forced him basically out of baseball. The issue I had, and when

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I used it as a reference point, is because you must do your research.

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Anyone who followed Tampa during his tenure
there, and he was productive.

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I thought it's a great move at
the time, but anyone who followed him

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there knew that he had some issues
in that regard. Don't tell me Tampa

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didn't know. Are they obligated to
divulge that? Absolutely not. You got

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to do your homework, and the
Tigers quite obviously did not do theirs.

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Our phone number is eight six six
eight three, eight forty eight forty three.

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That just struck me when I when
I was reading through some sports articles

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yesterday, I see that Anthony Rendon's
hurt again, and I thought to myself,

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are you kidding me? Not only
has he not been productive, but

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he hasn't been eligible and availability oftentimes. Look, it's it can be a

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skill. You got to be available, You have to You have to take

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care of your body. You got
your body has to be able to respond.

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We look at baseball, we think
throwing, catching, running, and

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hitting and hitting for power, all
those things really important. You know what

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else is really important? Availability.
You can do it all you want,

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you can have all the talent in
the world, but if you're not available,

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what does it matter. Tiger's just
got done playing. A guy who

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fits that mold Byron Buxton's a really
good baseball player, but he's not really

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good. If he's playing twenty eight, eighty seven, thirty nine, sixty

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one, ninety two, eighty five
and twenty games, he's not. You

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got to be available. He gets
hurt a lot. And it's not that

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he's brittle. It's not that he's
a whimp. It's just the way his

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body's made. That's just the way
he goes. When he's really good.

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When he's healthy, he's one of
the best players in baseball. He's a

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Gold Glover in the MVP conversation back
in twenty seventeen. He can steal your

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bases, he can hit for power, he can drive in runs. Dude

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signed a big contract with Minnesota,
big deal, and he's going to be

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It's not It's not a Miguel Carbero
like deal, but he signed a big

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deal where he's he makes over fifteen
million dollars a year, and he does

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that based on what he could do, not based on what he's done.

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If you wanted to sign him for
what he's done, he wouldn't come close

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to that, only because he's not
available. Knee injury here, shoulder injury

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here, hip whatever. Dude's a
hell of an athlete. He was a

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Com. You know, just before
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I don't know if you guys saw
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the year. That in just a
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he only has eleven RBIs the other
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the Yankees, who have recently struggled, they one the other day. But

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I think they're like five and five
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to score runs. He was booed
in New York. His comment afterwards,

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I've heard worse. I'd probably be
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You know, that's tearing a page
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response Aaron Judge handling it better than
I think most people would. I could

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tell you this based on my conversations
with him when he's been in town.

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He's he's a great a guy.
That doesn't matter. You've got to perform,

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and that's what fans expect, especially
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it's it is a Yankees team that
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don't I think smart people going into
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the Yankees on top right now.
It's early number one and number two.

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It's only a half game lead,
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the division. Tigers were a winner
yesterday six to one. They're in Tampa

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tonight for the first of a series
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eight sixty six eight three, eight
forty eight forty three. Anything that's on

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your mind in the world of sports. We welcome the comments and the jumping

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Love to hear your feedback, love
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something that might have caught your eye
in the world of sports, Ben,

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we got some text right, Yeah, that's right. This one comes from

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Freddy. It says my NFL prediction, Denver sits at twelve and needs picks

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bad and that could be a spot
Detroit trades up to and in the last

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two drafts, Homes has either moved
up or moved down to pick twelve and

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landed an Alabama player. Okay,
I know Denver will go with the need

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argument here, Denver needs a queue. I've seen you know, them moving

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up in the past and depending on
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and could they get a bon Nicks
if they moved down. Because ideally,

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if you need a queue, and
we all would all agree, Denver

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needs one. And that's oftentimes where
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you really need a quarterback. Now
I hate reaching for quarterbacks. I think

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if there's anything that can set you
back, that's it. But we would

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all agree that the consensus is there
are four quarterbacks who are game changers,

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borderline borderline, franchise changers. That's
what they hope Caleb Williams, in no

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particular order, Caleb Williams, Jayden
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Personally, I'm not sold slash convinced
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been impressive in their college careers.
Williams has Heisman Trophy winner, Daniels ays

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a Heisman Trophy winner, McCarthy's got
a national championship. May's got great skill.

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It's legitimate about JJ McCarthy that we
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I don't think just because, Look, there are certain programs when you

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watch them at the collegiate level you
feel comfortable with. You like the way

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Nick Saban takes care of his players
and molds them into NFL talent. I

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can understand where Freddie saying, look, he's taking the Alabama guys. Sure,

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but they've taken guys who are from
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I'm not going to read too much
into that, but the moving up

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to twelve is an interesting perspective.
If you moved up to twelve, and

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I think he kind of alluded to
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move up to twelve, who you're
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not taking a guy from Alabama just
for the sake. Could take it because

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he's from Alabama, right, I
assume you mean Terry and Arnold he's the

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best cover corner in the draft.
Or are you thinking you could possibly move

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up to get Dallas Turner. They're
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Arnold and one's an edge rusher Turner. And if you or are you thinking

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you could get Quinnyan Mitchell he's the
corner out of Toledo. Some people feel

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like he's the best corner in the
draft. Phone numbers eight sixty six,

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eight three, eight forty eight forty
three. Ben another text for us,

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Yeah, fire away, Yeah,
we got a text and a caller.

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This one says shep any chance Holmes
looks for looks a trade Hooker. Maybe

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his purpose was to rehab him all
year and try to trade him for more

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than a three to a hungry NFL
team starving for QBS. If you are

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a GM in the second round,
doesn't Hooker look more attractive to trade for

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after a year of being developed.
Just a thought. I personally love Hooker,

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so would prefer him to stay.
If not hurt. He is probably

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a top fifteen pick last year.
That could be if not hurt, Yeah,

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that could at epso could be.
I guess I'd be confused because if

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you did that, you would have
to go right back to drafting another one.

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So I don't know what the purpose
of that would be. At age

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twenty six, you develop him.
You know, guy comes out of Tennessee.

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He actually started his career, I
believe at Virginia Tech SEC Offensive Player

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of the Year, First Team all
SEC gets drafted by the Lions. What

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do you think you could get for
him? Honestly, you have to be

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true to yourself here. He was
a third round pick. Do you think

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him not taking any snaps in a
game? Right? He didn't take any

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snaps in a football game this year. Do you think that's going to actually

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make him more attractive to a team
that they're going to spend more than a

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third round draft pick on him?
No way, no way. You've got

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you've got to established guys go in
places for less than that. So personally,

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I personally I would keep him.
You used a year to develop him.

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I don't want to spend a draft
pick third round, use a year

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to develop a player, put all
that hard work in it, and then

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get rid of him without seeing him
take a snap at all, and then

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have to replace him with who m
hm. That's the big question. If

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not Hooker, what are you going
to do? What are you going to

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do about a backup? And and
knowing you know you don't have I mean,

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Jared Gobb's got another year, but
you gotta you want to re sign

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him, right, Okay, So
if you if all that is true,

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and it is and something hits a
snag there? What do you do about

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a backup? What do you do
about a guy who you're gonna need?

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So, I, personally I would
not do that. I don't think that's

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in the cards. I could be
wrong here, but I don't believe that's

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something that Brad Holmes would consider.
It would have to be a really tasty

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offer, and I just don't see
another team making a big deal out of

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that. Let's say, for sake
of argument, you did that and you

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got back, even which I doubt
you would. You got back a third

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round draft pick. Are you going
to use that draft pick or any other

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draft pick on a quarterback? And
who would that be? Because outside of

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Williams and May and Daniels and McCarthy
and Nix and Michael Pennix, isn't it

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a pretty deep drop off? Let
me ask you this, Outside of those,

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how many did I mention? Eight? Williams, May, Daniels,

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McCarthy, Penix, Nicks six?
Sorry? Who do you think the seventh

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rated quarterback in the draft? Is? Any idea? Michael Pratt? I'll

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wait for a second. Yeah,
there it is. I don't know either

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played at Tulane. Do you feel
comfortable with that now, neither would I.

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Would you feel comfortable with Spencer Rattler
out of South Carolina started his career

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in Oklahoma, Neither would I.
Jordan Travis out of Florida State, who

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was injured, neither would I.
It's a steep drop off, man,

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you're just not doing it. Phone
numbers eight six, eight three, eight

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forty three. So I don't think
that's a I don't think that's a possibility.

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Let's go to the phone lines.
Ben, Who do we got,

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Yeah, we got Scott in gr
wants to talk a little Tigers in the

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draft. Scotty, how are you
man? Thanks for the phone call as

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you were just talking about Strett.
But yeah, there's two things we got

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to remember in the last three years
in Holmes first three years, we had

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a lot more draft capital. We
had a lot more to offer to move

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move around, moved to shake around. I think if hecs something that they

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want in the eighteen sixteen area,
maybe even twenty area, we can give

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up a sixth round or next year
or something like that, or fifth round

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or next year or something like that
the package with it, maybe go do

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it. If they can get the
wide receivers. Look before, but a

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really good point. That's a that's
a really really good point, Scott.

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Yeah, it's a really good point
with you on the on the point that

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you're you're looking for the best available
player. But uh, we're we're we're

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getting to the point now where there
is there is a an argument for need

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and I don't know that there is. I just see and the way that

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Holmes and at least at least the
last year and seems like what they like

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him moving forward, if there's a
plug in need that they need, like

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now, I don't think it's going
to be the draft. I think that

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they I think that they're going to
look for a you know, former all

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pro corner, former lockdown corner,
maybe still kind of a lock corner that

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somebody wants to get away from their
contract. Uh uh you know, during

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training camp time. I think that
that will be I think that'll be something

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that we'll see or before that,
I think that's something that we'll see for

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the corner. But yeah, I
just uh, I'm I'm thinking that.

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Uh. Well, just like you
said, I don't worry about it too

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much now with it now now with
their track record that right now with and

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and Balm and Holmes and Campbell,
you know, and them we trust,

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so I'm just kind of not even
concerned about it. Yeah, I'm with

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you on that. We we haven't
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So look, it's a it's a
great comment at the beginning because this team

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is in such a different situation now
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what we were used to because they're
just not in dire straits. How have

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they built this team into what you
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What's been the philosophy And thanks to
the phone call, Scott, it's great

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to talk with you. The philosophy
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the best players and they find certain
character guys. Now Cam Sutton may have

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blown that that's why they got rid
of him, but yeah, you'll be

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able to find They'll be able to
find a guy that maybe we're not totally

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familiar with to try and make up
whatever they are lacking. I truly believe

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that, and I truly trust that, and yeah, I think I don't

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think the draft. Look, here's
what they've done really really well. They

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have proven and it's an old cliche, but it's so true. There are

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different ways you build champs and ship
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You and I love plug and play
guys out of the draft. You

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and I love the draft and development
mindset because we believe broadbrush here. We

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believe that that's how you sustain success. You draft a young player, you

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develop that young player, you watch
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just about every sport. But there
are also ways to go about it on

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making it super beneficial for your organization. Trades and Holmes has done that,

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free agents and Holmes has done that, and guys who you know other teams

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have discarded for whatever reason. The
best news is when you go to camp

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and you have to cut a good
player, that means you're in a really

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good situation. And the lines have
done that too. We've seen it over

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the last couple of years with this
team. They're getting better at that.

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They're not going to sway from their
philosophy. Why would you expect them to.

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I wouldn't have sway from the philosophy
either, because it's paid off.

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It's been really good. There's no
reason to change. If you're successful in

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your business, whatever it is you
do, and you have a certain routine

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you go about your business every day
the same way because it works for you.

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I'm not saying it's the ride into
work. I'm just saying the way

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you go about it, the way
you handle your clients or patients or whatever

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it is you're doing. Right.
If somebody came in and said I want

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you to do it completely different,
now, that'd be a huge adjustment for

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you, wouldn't it because it's worked
for you before. If you get a

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new boss and he says, I
know it's been good for you, but

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