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Today you putting down that Cowboys.

Cowboys miss the playoffs.

Jerry Jones passes into the Great Beyond.

I mean, after the news today, that's never happening.

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It started off on a very. Yeah, I started off. The advertisers are like, did they just threaten the life on the start of their podcast? No, we didn't. And we'll do it again. No, I'm just... We didn't do it, guys. That was just a misspeak. We're down a man today at our normal... You know, Katie tweeted me today. Tweeted at you today. He's going at everybody. He's gone after, I think, like four or five locked on hosts so far. Interesting. Yeah. I didn't see it until like midday. Did I realize that, oh, that is a KD tweet? Was it, did you say something positive or negative about him? No, I was on KOC's podcast. I guess somebody aggregated a clip where I was like, you know, Katie's petty about the OKC home game, opening night against the Rockets. And I'm like, that's bad. He tweeted 10 years, about time they do something. So, Yeah, I mean, it is petty.

That's petty. I mean, even if it's sarcastic, it's petty. And I want to say, I don't necessarily think being petty is a bad thing, though, because I consider myself petty. Yeah, we all have a little petty whopping us for sure. Yeah. We're down a man today at our normal Thursday takeoff Thursday. Isaac Harris, food poisoning. Somebody out there didn't like a take and poisoned him, I think, somewhere.

Somewhere out there didn't like a take

and poisoned him, I think, somewhere out there. Today's episode, we're going to get into

which player do the Mavis need to make a leap the most. We'll talk about Derek Lively, Max Christie,

Brandon Williams, maybe Jaden Hardy, maybe OMAX Prosper. I think those are the candidates on there. And then we want to get into some of the players across the league who need to make a leap for their team. But let's start here slightly. Making a leap to me is like something very specific to a young player that we haven't seen in a league very much. It's very rare that a Kyle Lowry happens where it's a player that's been around for a little while and then all of a sudden makes a leap. Like he went from, well, like he was in Memphis for a little while and then he went to Toronto and all of a sudden he takes this huge leap and you're like, wait, how did this, you know, veteran player make this leap where you go from one status of player to another status, like a different level of player. He went from

like bench point guard to starter point guard and I think he was in Houston too. And then he

like took another leap and was like all star point guard. That doesn't happen very late in

somebody's career very often. And so I look at some of the young guys who we've seen a little

bit of and look around. And I think the candidates for the players that could take a leap. Now, it could happen to a PJ Washington, a Daniel Gafford, a, you know, I don't know, like maybe Clay Thompson, but like they've been in the league so long already. We've seen enough tape and film with that. I can actually Marshalls should have my third one there. I'll tell you right now, Clay Toss,

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