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You're listening to the down beat on
ninety seven one the Freak. Hey Danny,

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what's coming up in Dingo's Morning News
at seven thirty. We're gonna answer

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so many questions like this one.
Is Sharon Osbourne tired of boning Ozzy?

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You would have to think that she
is, But I can't wait to find

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out the real answer. I have
to know now. I demand that you

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really right now, please just don't
go anywhere. In thirty minutes, I

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will answer that in so many more
questions. You're violating the common radio trick,

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you know, as the tea's there. Mike, Yeah, normally I'm

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be fine with tea's. I sit
back and I wait, I'm excited for

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the Sopranos thing at nine o'clock this
morning, or we take a look back

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here on the twenty fifth anniversary of
its release. You're not real excited about

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Aaron Rodgers Jimmy Kimmel Part three,
No, but less so. But I

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think I think it'll cash in for
you, based off me cutting the audio

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last night in my living room and
my fiance goes, I'm gonna go in

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there and pointed at the other side
of the side. I don't want to

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hear him talk anymore. She hates
Daron Rodgers. So yeah, did Aaron

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Rodgers apologize? Please? That what's
their sports at seventh? Let's god dead?

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Now sports at seven? All right? MAVs lose last night one,

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one three. It was a bad
loss because they were coming off beating the

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one seed the Minnesota Timberwolves on Sunday, and the Grizzlies walked into that game

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with like, no Job Morant,
who's now yesterday, he's out for the

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year. Kind of ended up looking
like it could be a tank year for

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the Grizzlies. Is they're so bad
and the MAVs went out and went full

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dud And I don't even know what
to say. I was watching it and

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never felt like they even had a
chance to come back. There's a couple

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flashes in the beginning of the fourth
quarter when Memphis had I think, I

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think eight turnovers in the first five
minutes of the fourth quarter, like they

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tried, they tried to silver platter
it for the maths where they were just

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down too far because they give up
eighty points in the second and third quarters.

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I think there's a couple things.
So Number one, Derek g Lively

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is the most important player not named
Luca or Kyrie on this team. Okay,

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And I don't know if that's a
hot opinion or not. It's probably

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not. But they need him because
they get exposed when he's not there.

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I mean, they just got demolished
in the inside. The kids said it

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himself, they were too physical for
us. I mean, I don't shoot.

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I mean Luke Kyrie thirty three,
Luca thirty one. Okay, that

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ones are nice point totals. Basically, they didn't shoot well from three fine

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nine to twenty seven. Like that's
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and check the three point percentage,
like, oh, they're a good team

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or not a good team. Oh, they shot good today, they won

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big. They have the biggest discrepancy
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point differential in losses. They're both
about fifteen their average. And honestly,

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I don't we're supposed to have Jason
Kidd on today. It got pushed to

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Friday. Cool. I look forward
to talking to Jason Kidd. I like

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Jason Kidd, Sum's up. Something's
wrong with the inconsistency of this team.

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They didn't care last night and for
a team that's been like one of the

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best defensive teams in the NBA since
Christmas. They can play good defense,

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but some nights they just don't care. I think there are other bad loss

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that jumps out at me is New
Year's Day, which I kind of chalk

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up to might have had a night, you know, I don't know,

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I know, might have had a
night. They were on the road for

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that long stretch and they had a
really bad loss at Utah where they lost

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by thirty something points, and going
teams go to Utah all the time and

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lose, but Utah is not a
great team, and they had smoked there,

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and I went, oh, that's
bad. They had that bad Cleveland

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loss where they gave up a lead, you know late, they had that

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game in hand and lost it.
And you have this. I mean,

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you're twenty two and sixteen, you're
in good shape overall, You're you're fine,

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But that losses like last night can't
happen. But it's happened in the

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West. It always it's happened from
And I don't Jason Kidd might be a

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great coach. All those previous two
stops, I don't know, And I'm

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not putting it all on him.
But there's something about the consistent inconsistency of

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this team. It's been a damn
roller coaster for the last like three years.

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And part of me say it being
that I don't know how good of

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a head coach Jason Kidd really is
because you do have Kyrie and you have

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Luca. I mean, you have
like the best two guards in the not

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in the sport, but the best
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There's other coaches where I'm like,
would they tilt that consistency to a level

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where you don't get blown out out
by the worst offensive team in basketball,

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which is what the Grizzlies are.
And that was before they lose John Morant

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and before Marcus mart gets hurt and
they didn't have Jaron Jackson yesterday. I

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mean, that's the worst offensive team
in the NBA, gutted by injury,

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and you give up one twenty and
you can't stop anything because it looks like

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you don't care. And that's shortly
after some games where you did get hyped

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and play good defense. I mean, isn't that Does the buck not stop

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with a coach to get that performance
level tilted a little toward the yes,

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side, they take nights off,
and since he's been here, it's been

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this wild roller coasters. They're up
huge, and then they end up losing,

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and then they're down huge, and
then they because offensively they can do

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anything. Then they come back and
storm back and win, and we're like

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yay. Part of me thinks,
if you had a really tight head coach,

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you might see a lot more of
those consistent performance nights and less of

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the take a night off like they
defensively did last night. I don't know.

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I think you make it a good
point. I think, okay,

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the nights off that jump out to
me is getting the New Year's Eve game,

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okay, or the New Year's Day
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a dath. I see parts of
the game where they're taking series at a

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time off on both offense and defense. Last night, for the half,

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Luca was gassed and Luca, I'm
not doing the Luca conditioning bit. I'm

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not doing that whole thing. Booz
I was like, you take it,

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Kyrie, Luca's hurting. His squad
is hurt. Yes, you see him

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grimace every freaking game. And I
don't know. I'm not a doctor,

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so I'm not gonna come in and
acthlete. I'm Aaron Rodgers here, know

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what the hell I'm talking about.
But the over usage and wear and tear

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on him has to be real because
he doesn't stop playing. And I know

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I mentioned his offseason playing for Team
Slovenia, which he loves. I mentioned

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that almost every time we talk about
this crap. But dude, I don't

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know. If it's five games,
I don't know if we're just wait till

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the All Star break, I don't
know what happens. I don't think odd

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strain or whatever we're dealing with in
the quad just gets better by every other

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night, going and playing forty minutes. I think Mikey's onto something. I

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think there's a psychological maze to this
team that takes a very steady, mindful

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person to orchestrate it. Because think
of it like this, Luca's not probably

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not even really close to one hundred
percent. You come off of a huge

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win against the top seed in the
West. You've got basically a patsy that

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you should be able to run through
in your sleep. And I think that's

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kind of what their mindset was going
into that game, is like, all

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right, we got an easy one. And what you have is when you

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have Luca and Kyrie on the floor
at the same time and you've got a

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terrible opponent, the rest of the
guys are probably taking the night off too,

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thinking, these guys get their thirty
two each, we're out of here.

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It's almost like, if you're gonna
give Luca a night off, maybe

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last night would have been the night
to do it. It's kind of like

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addition by subtraction, because when you
take away one of those dudes, I

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think it makes the rest of the
team look at themselves and go, WHOA,

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Okay, all right, we got
to step up. You might have

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had a different outcome last night if
you would have just saw exactly that because

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John Morant's out and Desmond Bane is
unstoppable. Yeah, because he had to

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be, and they were the Grizzlies
were they knew they had him. They

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knew they had him be and in
the NBA more than anywhere else, the

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wounded animal theory is so true that
anytime you see a team, oh my

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god, they have no Lebron tonight
or Luca's out, I mean, teams

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step up, they can do it. They were dancing on the bench and

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it's especially teams that have a superstar. We have two of them. And

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if you just sat Luca, I
think the benefits are twofold. You give

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him a night of rest, which
he desperately needs, and it's kind of

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like a wake up call to the
rest of the team. It's like,

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hey, it ain't just the Luca
Kyrie show tonight. Kyrie's gonna need a

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lot of help. He ain't playing
all forty eight. So the rest of

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you clowns, pull it together and
let's beat these knuckleheads. Yes, there

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might be something to us sitting in
chairs and you know, bitching about effort

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levels, because in the NBA,
maybe you can't just pin the throttle down

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and leave it there for an entire
season. You can't. You can't.

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That's why load management's discussed. Load
management is important, and even within a

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game, taking breaks, taking possessions
where you rest a little bit and walk

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up the fle I mean, it
does happen when Luca wants to, and

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he's proven it this year. He
can be a good defender. Maybe not

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all NBA, but he's proud of
it this year. And maybe his injuries

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are hampering his ability to even crank
it up on both ends of the floor.

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He was grabbing his handy the whole
night. Last night, he got

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bashing the knee last night. He
got hit in the head at least twice

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last night. He's on the floor
ten times last night. I mean,

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the dam is a train wreck and
it's not his fault. He was settling

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to on offense and and I think
he was two of eight for three,

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but he was not trying to get
to the bucket, especially early in the

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game. He was settling for threes, which you know, it's fine when

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you're making them right and it's easy
to get didn't do if you made the

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buckets, well, we wouldn't be
talking about it. But you can tell

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when Luca knows, I gotta go
earn it, I gotta go get to

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the paint, and I gotta go
get it. And that takes a little

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more effort, and that takes a
little more strain on your quad and everything

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that he's dealing with. He is
not right, and he's still all world

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and amazing. I worry about that
ended up getting not getting better though the

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playoffs. He was a missed opportunity
last night. I don't think he should

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have played in that game at all. Yeah, maybe so. But also

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you look at the numbers and go
when he is bashed up and on one

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leg, he'll go thirty one,
six and six. He's ridiculous. He's

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ridiculous. Here's Kyrie. Kyrie admits
what you're saying there, Mike Ray,

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Here Kyrie after the game last night. You know, when you're aspiring to

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be at the top of the league
and be respected as well one of the

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best teams in the league, nights
like this matter, and you know you

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don't want to hang your head for
too long. But obviously, playing against

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number one team in the West and
then playing against Memphis Grizzlies, no disrespect

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to who they are. We took
our foot off the gas pedal and they

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took advantage. I mean they hit
us in the mouth in the first quarter.

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Twenty nine points and then thirty nine
in a second. It's pretty much

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the game right there, and then
the rest of it was playing pick catch

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up and doing what we could to
cut into the lead. But there he

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is. I mean, yeah,
he's right. One of your guys just

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said it. Look, Kyrie is
a enigma, shrouded in mystery, but

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he's an amazing player. I think
he's smart as hell. He is smart

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as hell, and I was thinking
too, It's something I didn't know if

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I could ask, kid, But
do you do you have the most guard

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IQ of any team ever assembled when
you have Luca, Kyrie and Jason Kidd.

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Yeah, I mean just that alone, right, Sure, that has

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to be the smartest guards ever working
together on a nightly basis. But whatever

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Kyrie got mad, I don't know
whose to. There was a play where

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he tried to put someone in a
blender and he kind of got blocked,

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but he got fouled, I think
in the late third quarter. And he's

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still smiling, but I could tell
Kyrie was mad, and our little pardon

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me was like, I kind of
want to see pissed Kyrie. Yeah,

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you know, he's so level headed
and yeah, fine, you are who

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you are. And he's smart enough
to know that he is employed very handsomely

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to perform in front of an audience. I mean, he has all those

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thoughts, you know, and you
know this is his job is to show

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up and play the best basketball I
can. He doesn't get mad too often.

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Well, when he first got here, it was understandable that he was

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kind of like on a He's kind
of a reclamation project for himself to kind

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of mind his p's and q's because
of all the negative stuff that had kind

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of gone at him in a lot
of it, you know, self imposed.

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Sure, but that being said,
Okay, dude, you got the

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gig, you're here, take the
gloves off. You know you don't have

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you don't have to be on this
restoring your reputation tour of the NBA.

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Yeah, we love you, we
like you, We like you a lot,

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dude. I watched the game on
NBA TV last night, and it

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was a different perspective than our local
guys, given I much prefer our local

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guys. But they had Brendan Haywood
and Dennis Scott and they talked about Kid

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preaching consistency, but they also talked
about Kyrie and how Kid has had to

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tell him like you don't need to
in any way be deferential to Luca,

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like Luca's getting his like you be
you, and he has, especially since

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he's come back from the December injuries. I mean, the guy looks great

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and he, much like Luca,
can play pretty good. I don't know.

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Plus defense when they want to,
they didn't want to last night,

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and Lively being out as your primary
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that's it. Maybe that's why you
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three. I was looking at MAV's
Moneyball, which is one of the sites

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I always checking. They just have
a great, terrible quote, but I

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was talking about the rebounding and it
said it was to be generous. A

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putrid performance, bereft of all hustler
heart. Yeah, and that's very damning.

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But watching it last night, I
don't disagree. Again, the worst

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offensive team in basketball. I don't
know how much NBA teams are allowed to

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do this. I mean I don't
I watch the MAVs, all right,

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I don't watch closely any other team
or any other teams taking nights off here

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and there. I'm sure, yes, but how I mean, how many

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times are you allowed to do it? But like I started with this,

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the inconsistency is shocking. They have
it's nearly thirty point differential between what their

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average win is by fifteen some odd
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fourteen or fifteen what their average loss
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No, and that's form Batsy stops
with the coach on you being two

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different teams, and I think the
real MAVs could be somewhere on the good

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side of that zero of the number
between those two fifteens. I think if

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they're playing hard, playing well,
and you look at a team like that

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and you're like, okay, fine, but in the playoff series they could

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rip somebody up. Yes, if
their offense is cooking and they all go,

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you know, hell on fire on
defense. But what if you don't

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make the playoffs like last year?
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yeah, like yeah, you'd be, you'd be, you'd be tough

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in a seven game series. But
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season not knowing who's gonna show up
and then just hope that, oh yeah,

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once they get the regular season,
watch this, we're gonna hang it

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on everybody. Usually a conference where
you know, two three losses in a

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row does yeh knock you out?
Two three wins get you up in the

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top three in the conference. So
and maybe a later date and some conversation

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with kid. But Grant Williams,
what the hell he was minus twenty last

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night? He scored zero points.
Granted he played seven minutes, but that

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might be a result of previous performance, but that's true. How are you

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minus twenty in seven minutes? Right
exactly? Like Tim Hardaway was minus twenty

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six, but he played. That's
a good question. How are you minus

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twenty and seven minutes? I mean
I did that in middle school, like

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night in and night out. But
honestly, if you did that right now

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in the NBA, I don't know
how much worse in seven minutes, you'd

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be the minus twenty. God,
dude, they would have had Roddy posting

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up Danny that Roddy's a thick boy. Well they at the Knicks tomorrow night.

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Jalen Brunson back in town. I'm
a couple of quick Cowboys things right

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here. We'll call this a mini
Super Wildcard pump session tomorrow. Get some

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funny audio. So I went back
in the day out to the Packers Cowboys

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playoff history and it's amazing, uh, walking all through it. And so

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the most fun I got some audio
Michael Irvin cursing on National TV in nineteen

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ninety five. I mean, it
is great, fun, cool, and

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that'll be tomorrow. Cowboys. The
number two seed in the playoffs is the

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first time they've been the number two
seed since nineteen ninety four. Now we've

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talked about a little bout how these
games are gonna play out. Are you

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serious? Yeah? Wow, first
time they've been the two since ninety four.

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They were the one. In twenty
sixteen they were the three, and

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twenty fourteen when the that was the
descot at year, they were the five.

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Last year they beat Tampa Bay in
Tampa Bay beat Tom Brady, tom

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Brady's final game. Yeah, and
then you know, lost to San Francisco

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in San fran In twenty twenty one, they were the three, and they

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lost to San Francisco the wild card
round and got upset there and then lost

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the divisional round in twenty eighteen as
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So there's a stat I found that, you know, whatever history didn't mattered

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to the next game is really what
matters. But there's a couple of demons.

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I thought about this, and one
of these guys may not play.

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One of the demons that the Cowboys
have is Christian Watson, who had four

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touchdowns if you remember in their game
last year, if I remember that,

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that was Christian Watson, the breaking
out party, Yes, and then he

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was good for like the rest of
the year. Good for this year and

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then this year again. He has
never He is not taking over games like

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he did last year because he's blown
out his hammy and he is questionable.

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He did not playing a must win
game in a week eighteen. He's questionable,

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doesn't know if he's gonna be there. Aaron Jones is a guy who

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has also torched the Cowboys over the
years. And I found the stat and

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blew my my nuts off. The
minimum's three games. Okay, that's all

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three games. Most rushing yards per
game against the Cowboys all time? Who

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are the three game minimal? Three
game minimum of three games to qualify for

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this stat, the most rushing yards
against the Cowboys franchise all time per game?

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Your average rushing yards per game?
Team are back running back Barry Sanders

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number two, Barry Sanders one nineteen
against the Cowboys. Oh, I love

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this game and I'm blanking, but
I don't want to stop playing just yet.

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Okay, so have a zip of
your drink and let us think,

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Yeah, Barkley, uh No,
They've They've done enough to shut him down

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to get that average. We're still
playing, but I can't. I'm trying

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to think of the Giants running back
back in the day. Rodney Hampton,

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you know, no, Rob Carpenter, Eagles, Eagles, No, it's

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actually gonna be a Bear NFC.
Yeah. Walter Walter Payton, Yeah yeah.

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Number three Walter Paytone hundred and fifteen
yards per game. Number two,

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Barry Sanders hundred nineteen yards per game. Number one Aaron Jones one hundred and

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twenty three yards per game? Is
that right? And been thinking about a

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lot about how the how these teams
are going to structure this. You know,

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the Cowboys get ahead great. Packers
are going to try to turn this

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into a game where each team gets
the ball five times. They're going to

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be balanced. They're playing very well
on offense, despite the fact that they

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only scored seventeen against the Bears.
They had two possessions that ended with three

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possessions that ended prematurely that they should
have put thirty on the Bears. They

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didn't. One thing I think about
this is the Packers are able to run

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the ball. And what's the one
thing we've talked about with the Cowboys a

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lot, Well, I do fear
them getting dashed a little bit now.

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Hankins back, you know, helps
all that stuff. I still think we're

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gonna look at the end of this
game and we're gonna be going, did

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dan Quinn's defense do enough because the
offense could score. I have no qualms

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about that at all. And that's
where we're gonna end up going. I

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hope dan Quinn, who's getting interviews
and all this stuff, you know,

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we're getting an interview request. Is
he going to get enough or are there

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going to be questions about that?
Again? I told you Jordan Love's never

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seeing a pass rush like the Cowboys, but the Packers offensive line has protected

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Jordan Love better than any other quarterback
in the league in terms of time to

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pass. So there's some things there
that kind of make me think this game

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is a it's gonna be a little
closer than maybe what the books have it.

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At seven and a half, I'm
still picking the Cowboys the Cowboys at

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home or a different team too,
And it's kind of hard explained. How

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are they different on the road and
they'mber four and five on the road and

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yeah eight, no at home or
whatever. So third down defense for Dallas

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is the key man, gonna be
huge man, and the Packers are getting

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a lot of third downs because they
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They're gonna try to get you know, be a team that never has a

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third down. How's the Packers sackability? A couple of guys no, I

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mean, oh sack and Jordan Love
Like, how's their protection number one in

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the league? Really? Yeah?
Pass protection? Yes? Wow? So

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now he's taking sacks because, you
know, like rookie taking like it's time

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to throw the ball. They've had
a weirdly good off of a sudden They're

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not a great run blocking offensive line, but they don't always. You know,

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it's like how much are you trying
to run? And things like that.

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Coway's got. This could be tough
to keep them, you know,

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under twenty five twenty six points,
So go score a ton of them.

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I don't know, Mike variable got
fired. Looks like our buddy killer gun

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them yet sting this Morning News.
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