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What up? Good morning to you. Happy Friday. Doug Gottlieb.

And Bucky Brooks in for Dan and the Dan Nets.

It is a football Friday. Many parts of the country.

High school football kicking off. Bucky coaches a high school football team. He's got his first game night. Where's your first game or night? First game is at Arlita. So in Van Nuys, we get to go and play a day game, 3.30. So you can imagine LA Heat and what that's going to feel like. Wait, wait. So Arl lead is the name of the school? Our lead is the name of the school.

And your school you coach at?

Granada Hills Charter.

Okay, so you go to coach your Granada Hills Charter. Charter means you guys can go and recruit and go out and go. Oh, we can't do that. No, we can't do that. You and out and got dudes. Whoever we coach up whoever shows.

3.30 in the afternoon in Van Nuys, that sounds hot. That sounds dusty.

It is very dusty.

And that sounds like a traffic, an absolute nightmare getting home afterwards. Other than that, high school football, huh? Let's get after it. Why are they playing the afternoon? They don't have lights. The neighborhood won't allow them to put the lights up, so they have to play in the middle of the day. It's hot. Grass is long. I mean, it's everything. All right. Well, I mean, but there's nothing like high school football. There's just nothing, absolutely nothing like it. All right, Puckie. So there's a bunch of things to get to in the National Football League as we've had some of these dual scrimmages. We've had a lot, we've had a couple of injuries.

We've had some, but the most interesting thing is yesterday we found out early afternoon,

East Coast time, midday, West Coast time that Deshaun Watson suspended 11 games and fined $5 million.

Now, there's another layer to that in that Deshaun is not going to play the remainder of the preseason,

meaning he only played one preseason game. You happen to call that preseason game.

We'll get into all the suspension stuff in a second, but guys been away from football for over a year. It's a completely different system, one that's built on running the football.

How do you look? I mean, he didn't look good. He didn't look good, but I'm not saying he didn't look good because of his skills and his talent. I'm going to say that the person that ran out the tunnel wearing number four for the Cleveland Browns looked like they had to weight of the world on his shoulders. I felt like there were a couple different factors that may have clouded his play or impacted his play.

One, whenever you sign the kind of deal that he signs when you're the highest paid, there's a natural inclination to want to prove to the world that you're worth the money.

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