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Speaker 1: show on ninety three five and one oh seven five

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Speaker 1: the Fan. Now, I gotta jump in quickly before James

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Speaker 1: Man over bye. Listen to Troy here. So was is

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Speaker 1: this like the grown folks music that you were growing

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Speaker 1: up to? Was this like grandparents' music? Because obviously this

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Speaker 1: is like my high school days hearing that, and this

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I would say this was like my parents type

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Speaker 2: of music. Yeah, And honestly.

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Speaker 3: When only nineteen years older than you, So that makes

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Speaker 3: a lot of sense.

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Speaker 4: There you go.

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Speaker 2: So you can't just put too much, you know, age

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Speaker 2: on yourself. I will say. Going home and hearing some

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Speaker 2: of the music they were playing for Christmas, it's like,

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Speaker 2: I get the inevitable. You don't know nohing about this,

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Speaker 2: you ain't heard this before and all.

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Speaker 1: And you'll say these things in twenty years just so

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Speaker 2: I enjoyed it. It's funny. Going home is like stepping

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Speaker 2: back into the nineties because my mom has probably made

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Speaker 2: all the stuff that we made when we were like

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Speaker 2: seven or eight. Yeah, So I see myself at different

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Speaker 2: points of my life, and I'm just like, so you

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Speaker 2: don't want like the very you know, pristine Christmas tree.

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Speaker 2: She's like, Nope, I want character.

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Speaker 1: I just say, it could also be just going home

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Speaker 1: since I am your one friend here that has actually

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Speaker 1: been to Romeoville. And this is going to sound like

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Speaker 1: a life choice, it's not. This is an actual physical

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Speaker 1: location thing. When I go to Romeoville, the options were

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Speaker 1: you can go to jail or you can go to college.

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Speaker 3: Because they were right next to each other.

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Speaker 1: So Lewis University that has been a long time arrival

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Speaker 1: of Milble Matter, the University of Indianapolis, is located in Romeoville.

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Speaker 1: Which is why when I first met Jay Beebe, he's

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Speaker 1: working for The Times in Northwest Indiana and his Twitter

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Speaker 1: And so if you took the wrong turn off of

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Speaker 1: those are his two options. And Lewis is the Flyers

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Speaker 3: There and it's literally right next to the airport.

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Speaker 1: So I guess there are three options you could and

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Speaker 1: flight risk is two different things in terms of the

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Speaker 2: See Caleb, I made it out, you know, to make

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Speaker 2: man a very tough place to definitely not. But I

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Speaker 2: did want to touch on this. We were talking about

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Speaker 2: play and the biggest game in program history on the first, yes,

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Speaker 2: on the second the transfer portal opens and win or lose.

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Speaker 2: You have to be dialed in on that. And so

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Speaker 2: I was reading throughout the Indie Star and to do

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Speaker 2: to me, Rake to understand that you've put in all

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Speaker 2: get to breathe. We got to breathe a little bit. Obviously,

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Speaker 2: our jobs are not the same as you know, being

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Speaker 3: Neither.

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Speaker 2: No, you're definitely not. But at the same time, there

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Speaker 2: is no rest for the weary.

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Speaker 1: No, there's a better rest once you are either eliminated

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Speaker 1: in the history of the football program, Indiana's dealing from

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Speaker 2: That is true. Yeah, we put in that perspective, and

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Speaker 2: you can sell it. I mean you can literally sell.

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Speaker 3: Literally you can sell we have the best better.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, we have the bet. You're not lying about that

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Speaker 2: we have the best team in the country is one

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Speaker 2: of your selling points, especially if you win that game

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Speaker 1: We can tell you, hey, Mller here and we'll give

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Speaker 4: In draft picks too, like they're gonna.

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Speaker 3: Get so many number one pick in the draft.

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah to My dad's a Raiders fan and now

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Speaker 2: he's all on board the Fernando Mendoza train, and there

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Speaker 2: is nothing I want more than him to avoid the Raiders.

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Speaker 3: Bad because the Jets are the better option.

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Speaker 2: I mean, who are I think it's the Giants right now.

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Speaker 2: They wouldn't draft on.

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Speaker 1: The correct So those are the two teams at the

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Speaker 2: Fernando Mendoza to find some more eligibility somewhere. I'm sure

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Speaker 2: it's out there. We got all kind of loopholes. He

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Speaker 1: That was drafted in the thirty first pick of the

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Speaker 1: this year for college basketball. Yes, there's not loopholes because

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Speaker 1: there's no rules anymore. That rules don't exist. But you

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Speaker 1: He was involved in an NBA trade with Karl Anthony Towns,

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Speaker 1: our our esteemed friend is about fifteen blocks from where

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Speaker 4: I think he played against Wemby in the Summer League.

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Speaker 1: Correct, he has played in the Summer League. But you

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Speaker 1: know how G league guys are getting college eligibility.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, now, oh boy, play them up, James, Yeah, you know,

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Speaker 2: I got yeah, But the hoop dreams aren't dead. I

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Speaker 4: We got some guys playing college basketball and never played

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Speaker 2: Does it be like Lebron going back to Ohio State

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Speaker 1: Not sure if it's James Nasei nase I'm not sure.

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Speaker 1: He was the thirty first pick in the twenty twenty

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Speaker 1: And that's when you started seeing like these late sinees.

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Speaker 2: That is unacceptable, but I guess we have to accept

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Speaker 3: Or you could just not watch. Yeah, that's there's that.

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Speaker 2: Boy, can you mate like that?

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Speaker 1: Which I think is increasingly becoming the case in college

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Speaker 2: That's true. I was gonna say this feels a little

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Speaker 2: can relate to a guy like Tanner Bordolini or Josh

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Speaker 2: Downs who's seventeen eighteen years younger than him. We can

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Speaker 2: have a college roster with a guy who's old enough to,

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Speaker 2: guys who are not old enough to get off their parents' insurance. Boy,

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Speaker 2: that is quite the difference there. See, this is what

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Speaker 2: came across the wire. I will say this Rake. As

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Speaker 2: much as we talked about the offense and Philip Rivers

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Speaker 1: A fantastic And again, you're down by two scores, you're

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Speaker 1: forcing your president. Yeah, Phillips always been kind of an

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Speaker 2: But that isn't the full story of how that game unfolded.

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Speaker 2: The defense was absolutely off.

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Speaker 1: Right Colson Philip Rivers played defensive tackle or middle linebacks.

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Speaker 2: Exactly, and I think that part of it was probably

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Speaker 2: one of the more disappointing. And it's happened on a

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Speaker 2: near annual basis where this team folds in the big

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Speaker 2: you can point to the defense I thought, just falling

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Speaker 2: Jacksonville team that is surging. So as much as I

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Speaker 2: can't he do it? Can he stay off all the time?

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Speaker 2: Can't he get some help?

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Speaker 3: Right?

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Speaker 2: I mean, could you imagine if.

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Speaker 3: He was not the problem? No?

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Speaker 2: No, If he gets off the couch rake and pushes,

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Speaker 2: this team gives him. I thought his best. He deserves

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Speaker 2: the best from the guys who are again fifteen seventeen

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Speaker 1: I thought there were three guys you could point to

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Speaker 1: on Monday night and go that guy played really well.

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Speaker 1: Philip Rivers is obviously one of them. Alec Pierce is

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Speaker 1: one of them. Yeah, Blake Groupie would be the other guy.

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Speaker 1: And there's other individuals that made decent plays catches, etc.

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Speaker 1: Blocked well. And again offensive line was the island of

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Speaker 1: So JB, in your days of covering the Alion, I

441
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Speaker 1: did you have a game at Camp Randall where you

442
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Speaker 1: could enjoy this song?

443
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Speaker 2: I did not have a chance to enjoy this song

444
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Speaker 2: in person. I'm actually jealous of all the college crowds

445
00:21:29,400 --> 00:21:32,040
Speaker 2: that actually had good product out there to make you happy.

446
00:21:32,440 --> 00:21:34,760
Speaker 1: Sadly, this was the best part of Wisconsin Games this

447
00:21:34,800 --> 00:21:38,520
Speaker 1: past year. It was jump around because the band is

448
00:21:38,600 --> 00:21:40,720
Speaker 1: known for they'll keep performing and they call it the

449
00:21:40,760 --> 00:21:43,240
Speaker 1: fifth quarter. I know these things because my wife actually

450
00:21:43,280 --> 00:21:47,000
Speaker 1: has a master's degree from Madison from the University of Wisconsin,

451
00:21:48,119 --> 00:21:50,480
Speaker 1: and so the band has the fifth quarter. My guess

452
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Speaker 1: is most fans didn't stay for the fifth.

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Speaker 3: Quarter this year.

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Speaker 6: Nah.

455
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Speaker 1: I jumped around and they jumped on out the building

456
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Speaker 1: and headed on down to State Street Broughts and swam

457
00:21:58,080 --> 00:21:59,800
Speaker 1: in the lake and with the Union and the Rascal

458
00:22:00,040 --> 00:22:00,840
Speaker 1: the whole nine yards.

459
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Speaker 2: I went to college, visit to Wisconsin Madison, and also Minnesota,

460
00:22:07,119 --> 00:22:09,200
Speaker 2: and it was the dead of winter's on winter break.

461
00:22:09,240 --> 00:22:11,479
Speaker 3: I was gonna say, do you not like warm weather, James?

462
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Speaker 2: And that was rough. I was thinking to myself, like

463
00:22:13,720 --> 00:22:16,080
Speaker 2: they have tunnels in Minnesota. I'm gonna get so cold here.

464
00:22:16,119 --> 00:22:18,960
Speaker 2: You have tunnels you have to walk through. So yeah,

465
00:22:19,000 --> 00:22:22,080
Speaker 2: Illinois went too bad, honestly in my opinion. Champagne Urbana.

466
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Speaker 2: I liked it.

467
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Speaker 1: That Assembly Hall which is now what State Farm Center. Correct, yep,

468
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Speaker 1: I got to do one game in there in my

469
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Speaker 1: days with Iupui of doing the radio. We actually played

470
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Speaker 1: them before finals. It was the one time that we

471
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Speaker 1: did this. We basically turned down having a hotel room

472
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Speaker 1: and drove the cheam straight to the game because we

473
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Speaker 1: knew we were getting a paycheck, a butt whooping and

474
00:22:45,359 --> 00:22:48,280
Speaker 1: going home. George Hill had broken his foot about three

475
00:22:48,320 --> 00:22:51,800
Speaker 1: weeks before this game. Is we ain't winning tonight? Let's

476
00:22:51,840 --> 00:22:54,840
Speaker 1: let's let's get our paycheck, and let's go home. I

477
00:22:54,840 --> 00:22:56,720
Speaker 1: remember driving up to that building and thinking it looked

478
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Speaker 1: like a flying saucer hand landed in a cornfield boy,

479
00:22:59,600 --> 00:23:03,120
Speaker 1: And how I would describe the other assembly hall.

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Speaker 2: Well, I'll tell you what. We'll have Matt Taylor join

481
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Speaker 2: us here in a couple of minutes, give us some

482
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Speaker 2: of his tailor's tidbits here on this Friday. But as

483
00:23:10,520 --> 00:23:12,960
Speaker 2: far as one of the tidbits I'm interested in when

484
00:23:13,000 --> 00:23:16,440
Speaker 2: it comes to this team is as we talked about

485
00:23:16,440 --> 00:23:19,680
Speaker 2: the quarterback, talk about the defense, is there a way

486
00:23:19,840 --> 00:23:24,720
Speaker 2: rake for this team to unlock Jonathan Taylor? Because although

487
00:23:24,760 --> 00:23:27,760
Speaker 2: he's quart a touchdown, that was I believe his fifth

488
00:23:27,800 --> 00:23:30,120
Speaker 2: straight game, and he had coincides with every loss, sure

489
00:23:30,359 --> 00:23:33,440
Speaker 2: of not reaching one hundred yards, and that one might

490
00:23:33,440 --> 00:23:35,080
Speaker 2: have been the toughest to look at it. Lets me

491
00:23:35,119 --> 00:23:37,399
Speaker 2: talk about the passing game looking a little better with

492
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Speaker 2: Philip Rivers. It is stagnant to a degree with j T.

493
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Speaker 2: And I wonder if somebody that has to do with

494
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Speaker 2: having a more immobile quarterback.

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Speaker 1: It is it is twofold. I'm a little quarterback, yes,

496
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Speaker 1: but obviously now you have a defense that is more

497
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Speaker 1: geared up to stop you. And then again, let's acknowledge

498
00:23:55,440 --> 00:24:01,120
Speaker 1: that on Monday night it was Jalen Travis, Quentin Nelson,

499
00:24:01,720 --> 00:24:05,280
Speaker 1: pretty soon it was Danny Pinner, then it was Dalton Tucker,

500
00:24:05,680 --> 00:24:08,840
Speaker 1: and then it was Mattnsolbus and so you have had

501
00:24:08,880 --> 00:24:12,320
Speaker 1: to rotate through and then you lose dr Ogletree during

502
00:24:12,320 --> 00:24:14,399
Speaker 1: the course of that game doing a neck injury as well.

503
00:24:14,840 --> 00:24:17,800
Speaker 1: A lot of the pieces in front of him have changed,

504
00:24:18,359 --> 00:24:22,600
Speaker 1: and so there's not that many holes to find the

505
00:24:22,600 --> 00:24:24,919
Speaker 1: ones that he was getting earlier in the season.

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Speaker 2: Well, one guy who has not changed and is still

507
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Speaker 2: will join us here on Friday mornings is the great

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Speaker 2: Matt Taylor. Matt, how you doing, brother, I'm good.

509
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Speaker 6: Good morning guys.

510
00:24:34,240 --> 00:24:35,119
Speaker 5: Merry Christmas to you.

511
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Speaker 1: How was Christmas in the Taylor household? What did Santa

512
00:24:38,320 --> 00:24:38,960
Speaker 1: bring the kids?

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Speaker 5: The kids, man, they made out like bandits, I tell

514
00:24:42,960 --> 00:24:43,280
Speaker 5: you what.

515
00:24:43,600 --> 00:24:47,240
Speaker 6: Between the grandparents and Santa Claus, they're coming out on top.

516
00:24:47,400 --> 00:24:50,199
Speaker 6: So it's got a lot of got a lot of

517
00:24:50,640 --> 00:24:54,040
Speaker 6: you know, a lot of toys, some games, some board games,

518
00:24:54,080 --> 00:24:59,400
Speaker 6: some video game stuff. God, there's so much. They kind

519
00:24:59,400 --> 00:25:01,520
Speaker 6: of lost count after a while, kind of blurred out

520
00:25:01,520 --> 00:25:03,160
Speaker 6: there for a little bit, but uh.

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Speaker 5: It was. It was a very good day.

522
00:25:04,880 --> 00:25:06,200
Speaker 6: Santa was good to everybody.

523
00:25:06,320 --> 00:25:09,040
Speaker 5: So yeah, they're they're in great shape.

524
00:25:09,040 --> 00:25:11,400
Speaker 6: Hope hope Santa delivers some good stuff to the rakestraw

525
00:25:11,560 --> 00:25:13,480
Speaker 6: playing and same thing with James.

526
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Speaker 5: Hope you guys are doing well today. That's it.

527
00:25:15,320 --> 00:25:17,359
Speaker 2: Later, So did Santa stick around and clean up all

528
00:25:17,359 --> 00:25:20,680
Speaker 2: the wrapping paper and you know, tissue everywhere? Was that

529
00:25:20,760 --> 00:25:22,480
Speaker 2: more of you of your variety?

530
00:25:23,119 --> 00:25:27,080
Speaker 6: No, Santa, bales man, Santa knows the deal. Santa's like

531
00:25:27,119 --> 00:25:29,439
Speaker 6: the Irish goodbye. You know, he just dropped off and

532
00:25:29,480 --> 00:25:31,399
Speaker 6: gets the hell out of dodge and just let you know.

533
00:25:31,480 --> 00:25:34,280
Speaker 5: But that's the thing that Santa does. He gives you guys.

534
00:25:34,040 --> 00:25:36,800
Speaker 6: Plenty of you know, trash bags and you know, plenty

535
00:25:36,800 --> 00:25:40,760
Speaker 6: of garbage binds to clean up the aftermath. But uh no,

536
00:25:40,840 --> 00:25:42,880
Speaker 6: I mean it's a spectacular day. I mean, if that's

537
00:25:42,920 --> 00:25:45,199
Speaker 6: the least we can do, uh, for for all that

538
00:25:45,240 --> 00:25:48,640
Speaker 6: Santa does for us, uh sign me up every year because.

539
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Speaker 1: You because you were such a sports crazed kid, as

540
00:25:51,760 --> 00:25:54,200
Speaker 1: was I'm sure James was the same way. But those

541
00:25:54,320 --> 00:25:56,159
Speaker 1: was to go the announcer route. We're doing play by

542
00:25:56,200 --> 00:25:58,480
Speaker 1: playing our head and frankly out loud, like we're in

543
00:25:58,760 --> 00:26:01,879
Speaker 1: the pickup, you know, play playing you know, basketball in

544
00:26:01,880 --> 00:26:04,399
Speaker 1: the driveway. What was the best sports related gift you

545
00:26:04,480 --> 00:26:05,880
Speaker 1: got when you were a kid, Matt.

546
00:26:06,920 --> 00:26:08,160
Speaker 5: Well, there's a couple of them.

547
00:26:08,160 --> 00:26:11,880
Speaker 6: The just in terms of being an athlete.

548
00:26:12,000 --> 00:26:13,560
Speaker 5: You know, I've got you know, I got.

549
00:26:13,480 --> 00:26:16,760
Speaker 6: A ton of football's a ton of basketballs. But I

550
00:26:16,840 --> 00:26:19,680
Speaker 6: got a you know, a Peyton Manning jersey growing up.

551
00:26:19,840 --> 00:26:22,879
Speaker 6: I got an Edgerant James jersey growing up, Reggie Miller.

552
00:26:23,400 --> 00:26:26,360
Speaker 6: I was really into Jeff Foster because that was kind

553
00:26:26,359 --> 00:26:28,400
Speaker 6: of like the player I was on the basketball floor.

554
00:26:28,480 --> 00:26:30,919
Speaker 6: So I had a Jeff Foster jersey. Uh, you know

555
00:26:30,920 --> 00:26:32,680
Speaker 6: it's been in those glory days.

556
00:26:32,440 --> 00:26:33,120
Speaker 5: Of the Pacers.

557
00:26:33,600 --> 00:26:36,239
Speaker 6: But as a broadcaster, you know, I say this all

558
00:26:36,280 --> 00:26:39,360
Speaker 6: the time, like, you know, I half half joke about this,

559
00:26:39,480 --> 00:26:42,040
Speaker 6: but but it's half truth as well. I mean I

560
00:26:42,119 --> 00:26:43,920
Speaker 6: was that ten year old kid that used to do

561
00:26:44,000 --> 00:26:46,440
Speaker 6: games in my basement, right, I mean it didn't matter

562
00:26:46,440 --> 00:26:50,119
Speaker 6: I turn on hockey games or baseball games or football games. Uh,

563
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Speaker 6: and I would I would do play by play in

564
00:26:51,800 --> 00:26:53,960
Speaker 6: my head. I would, uh you know, bring in a

565
00:26:54,000 --> 00:26:57,080
Speaker 6: transistor radio on a Monday night to finish up listening

566
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Speaker 6: to Monday Night Football with Marv Albert and Boomer Sias

567
00:26:59,880 --> 00:27:03,000
Speaker 6: and like I was that kid. So my kid, my

568
00:27:03,119 --> 00:27:07,199
Speaker 6: parents got me a talkboy. Remember the talk boy, you know,

569
00:27:07,280 --> 00:27:09,080
Speaker 6: like the Home Alone too, Talkboy.

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00:27:09,640 --> 00:27:10,439
Speaker 2: I do remember this.

571
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Speaker 3: I remember the game Boy. I remember the talk Boy. Sorry, yeah, like.

572
00:27:14,800 --> 00:27:15,440
Speaker 5: Home Alone too.

573
00:27:15,520 --> 00:27:18,359
Speaker 6: Kevin McAllister had the talk boy right, like the little

574
00:27:18,520 --> 00:27:21,480
Speaker 6: like recording device that he used it like scheme the

575
00:27:21,520 --> 00:27:23,679
Speaker 6: hotel and to get in free rooms and all that stuff.

576
00:27:24,240 --> 00:27:27,040
Speaker 6: I had a talk boy with the cassette and I

577
00:27:27,080 --> 00:27:30,320
Speaker 6: would do games in my basement on the talkboy. Yeah,

578
00:27:30,480 --> 00:27:33,720
Speaker 6: people should google Talkboy after we're done talking, because that

579
00:27:33,920 --> 00:27:38,080
Speaker 6: was my first uh you know, broadcast outlet to do

580
00:27:38,160 --> 00:27:40,840
Speaker 6: and play by play, and that's what really sort of

581
00:27:42,080 --> 00:27:44,320
Speaker 6: you know, allowed me to catch the bug. Yeah talkboy,

582
00:27:44,440 --> 00:27:47,480
Speaker 6: you know back in nineteen ninety seven, Greg big deal, dude.

583
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Speaker 2: Boy mate. I only know what a talk boy is

584
00:27:49,720 --> 00:27:50,520
Speaker 2: because of that movie.

585
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Speaker 1: So by the way, I just I just realized by

586
00:27:53,600 --> 00:27:55,520
Speaker 1: the way that I was the person running the board

587
00:27:55,520 --> 00:27:58,439
Speaker 1: and pushing the buttons as Matt was listening to games.

588
00:27:58,480 --> 00:28:00,399
Speaker 1: And I'll go in say the frequency on twelve sixty

589
00:28:00,480 --> 00:28:03,919
Speaker 1: WND back then, so as as he was cashing out

590
00:28:03,960 --> 00:28:07,240
Speaker 1: as like a fourth grader, I was actually being paid

591
00:28:07,480 --> 00:28:10,320
Speaker 1: six bucks an hour to make sure the commercials played

592
00:28:10,760 --> 00:28:15,399
Speaker 1: two breaks a quarter courtesy of Westwood One. It's touching

593
00:28:15,440 --> 00:28:17,040
Speaker 1: and I feel old at the exact same time.

594
00:28:17,400 --> 00:28:21,440
Speaker 6: Yeah, the crackle, the crackle of AM radio, and Matt.

595
00:28:21,280 --> 00:28:23,040
Speaker 1: Lived on the south side as far away from the

596
00:28:23,080 --> 00:28:24,560
Speaker 1: signal as you could possibly get to.

597
00:28:26,359 --> 00:28:27,200
Speaker 5: I still came in.

598
00:28:27,480 --> 00:28:29,560
Speaker 6: I guess it was still audible, you know, I still,

599
00:28:29,600 --> 00:28:31,840
Speaker 6: you know, figured out the Buccaneers scored a touchdown in

600
00:28:31,920 --> 00:28:32,520
Speaker 6: the red zone.

601
00:28:33,280 --> 00:28:35,080
Speaker 5: It's like it was perfect.

602
00:28:35,119 --> 00:28:37,359
Speaker 6: I mean, Marv Albert still reading those reads.

603
00:28:37,400 --> 00:28:39,000
Speaker 5: I remember like it's yesterday.

604
00:28:39,040 --> 00:28:45,360
Speaker 6: I mean, this brought to you by Barbersaleric Close shave

605
00:28:45,720 --> 00:28:48,880
Speaker 6: barbersol back to you size right.

606
00:28:48,920 --> 00:28:51,320
Speaker 5: I mean, that's that's what got me hooked. I still

607
00:28:51,360 --> 00:28:52,680
Speaker 5: remember it like it's yesterday.

608
00:28:52,800 --> 00:28:54,120
Speaker 3: Talk boy, indeed, there.

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00:28:53,960 --> 00:28:56,520
Speaker 2: You go, so well, uh, you know, we don't want

610
00:28:56,520 --> 00:28:57,680
Speaker 2: to keep you on the phone too long. When I'll

611
00:28:57,680 --> 00:29:02,640
Speaker 2: get into the real juicy stuff. Let's get Taylor's tidbits, all.

612
00:29:02,600 --> 00:29:05,840
Speaker 6: Right, Let's talk about the matchup Sunday Lucas Oil Stadium,

613
00:29:05,880 --> 00:29:08,160
Speaker 6: one o'clock, you got the eight and seven Colts, eleven

614
00:29:08,200 --> 00:29:12,120
Speaker 6: and four Jaguars, and the Jags are a very complete team.

615
00:29:12,160 --> 00:29:14,560
Speaker 6: They've won six games in a row. They've outscored their

616
00:29:14,560 --> 00:29:18,240
Speaker 6: opponents by one hundred and thirteen points in that span.

617
00:29:18,760 --> 00:29:21,880
Speaker 6: That's an average of over eighteen points per game. Fellas,

618
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Speaker 6: and comparatively, the nearest AFC team, the Texans, they have

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Speaker 6: a point margin of only forty three since Week eleven,

620
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Speaker 6: So that gives you perspective on how dominant the Jaguars

621
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Speaker 6: have been. And they've got a legitimate resume. There's not

622
00:29:37,720 --> 00:29:40,560
Speaker 6: a whole lot of flukiness to what they've done this year.

623
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Speaker 6: They've got six wins on the season against opponents that

624
00:29:43,800 --> 00:29:46,920
Speaker 6: currently hold a winning record. That's tied with the La

625
00:29:47,080 --> 00:29:50,360
Speaker 6: Rams for the most in the NFL. The Jaguars are

626
00:29:50,400 --> 00:29:53,800
Speaker 6: currently five and three against teams that are currently inside

627
00:29:53,840 --> 00:29:56,880
Speaker 6: the playoff pictuer this year, and they are plus ten

628
00:29:57,000 --> 00:30:00,680
Speaker 6: in a turnover margin in those games. That's the best

629
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Speaker 6: in the NFL. All right, So let's talk about their offense.

630
00:30:04,000 --> 00:30:06,760
Speaker 6: It's rowing they're on a six game heater the Jags

631
00:30:06,840 --> 00:30:09,800
Speaker 6: leave the NFL, and offensive points scored per game at

632
00:30:09,880 --> 00:30:12,400
Speaker 6: almost thirty four points per game.

633
00:30:12,600 --> 00:30:13,400
Speaker 5: In that span.

634
00:30:13,920 --> 00:30:17,480
Speaker 6: And this coincides with the Colts defense really reeling a

635
00:30:17,520 --> 00:30:18,320
Speaker 6: little bit, all right.

636
00:30:18,360 --> 00:30:19,600
Speaker 5: They've lost five.

637
00:30:19,400 --> 00:30:22,920
Speaker 6: Games in a row, and in that stretch they ranked

638
00:30:22,920 --> 00:30:28,080
Speaker 6: thirty first in passing defense, thirty first in yards allowed.

639
00:30:28,000 --> 00:30:31,440
Speaker 5: And twenty eighth in points allowed. And the big plays.

640
00:30:31,520 --> 00:30:33,320
Speaker 6: Right, if you boil it all down to, like the

641
00:30:33,360 --> 00:30:36,960
Speaker 6: one thing that's really killing the Colts consistently, it's the

642
00:30:37,000 --> 00:30:40,640
Speaker 6: big plays on through the air, I should say, you know,

643
00:30:40,760 --> 00:30:44,480
Speaker 6: the team's really racking up big chunk yardage through the air.

644
00:30:44,520 --> 00:30:47,640
Speaker 6: Against the Colts on Monday Night Football, the Colts allowed

645
00:30:47,640 --> 00:30:51,280
Speaker 6: the forty nine ers to post eleven plays that covered

646
00:30:51,280 --> 00:30:54,920
Speaker 6: at least fifteen yards. And in the last five games

647
00:30:55,040 --> 00:30:58,280
Speaker 6: during this losing skit for the Colts, they've allowed thirty

648
00:30:58,320 --> 00:31:02,080
Speaker 6: eight completions over fifteen So, you know, we talk about

649
00:31:02,080 --> 00:31:04,040
Speaker 6: the hard truth in terms of where the Colts are

650
00:31:04,040 --> 00:31:07,240
Speaker 6: at right now, the Colts defense is sort of, unfortunately

651
00:31:07,360 --> 00:31:09,800
Speaker 6: right back where it was to end last year, towards

652
00:31:09,840 --> 00:31:13,880
Speaker 6: the bottom of the league in overall defense. All Right,

653
00:31:13,880 --> 00:31:17,600
Speaker 6: Trevor Lawrence, he is on fire. He has produced two

654
00:31:17,720 --> 00:31:22,800
Speaker 6: hundred and twenty five plus passing yards two plus passing touchdowns,

655
00:31:23,200 --> 00:31:27,280
Speaker 6: a one hundred plus passer rating in zero turnovers in

656
00:31:27,320 --> 00:31:30,360
Speaker 6: each of his last four games. That is the longest

657
00:31:30,400 --> 00:31:34,600
Speaker 6: streak in Jaguars franchise history. It's also tied for the

658
00:31:34,640 --> 00:31:38,480
Speaker 6: longest streak in the NFL this year. In his last

659
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Speaker 6: four games, fourteen touchdowns, the most in the NFL. In

660
00:31:41,920 --> 00:31:45,040
Speaker 6: that span, He's got thirty three touchdowns on the year,

661
00:31:45,080 --> 00:31:48,240
Speaker 6: that's third most in the NFL, and he also aims

662
00:31:48,240 --> 00:31:51,600
Speaker 6: for at least two passing touchdowns in his fifth straight

663
00:31:51,680 --> 00:31:55,360
Speaker 6: game against the Indianapolis Colts. And then on the other

664
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Speaker 6: side of the ball, the Jaguars on defense since Week eleven,

665
00:31:59,680 --> 00:32:03,160
Speaker 6: they the NFL in scoring only fifteen points per game.

666
00:32:03,520 --> 00:32:07,000
Speaker 6: They're number one in the NFL and rushing defense eighty

667
00:32:07,120 --> 00:32:10,480
Speaker 6: seven yards allowed on the ground per game, and they

668
00:32:10,520 --> 00:32:13,920
Speaker 6: give it up twenty points or fewer in four straight games.

669
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Speaker 6: That is the longest Jaguars streak since twenty and eighteen.

670
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Speaker 6: And what the Colts have to do is get some

671
00:32:21,400 --> 00:32:24,320
Speaker 6: sort of semblance in the ground game going with Jonathan Taylor.

672
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Speaker 5: Taylor, by the way, the only.

673
00:32:25,960 --> 00:32:29,320
Speaker 6: Player the Jaguars have allowed to rush for seventy plus

674
00:32:29,440 --> 00:32:32,440
Speaker 6: yards in a game this year. And during this five

675
00:32:32,520 --> 00:32:35,560
Speaker 6: game losing skid for the Colts, they rank thirtieth in

676
00:32:35,680 --> 00:32:39,000
Speaker 6: rushing yards, thirtieth in yards per game on the ground

677
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Speaker 6: at just eighty one thirty first, and yards per carry

678
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Speaker 6: at three point five. And they only have eight runs

679
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Speaker 6: over ten yards in that span. That's the second fewest

680
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Speaker 6: in the NFL. And here's a little bit of a

681
00:32:51,680 --> 00:32:54,280
Speaker 6: bonus tidbit that I'll wrap up with. You know, we

682
00:32:54,320 --> 00:32:56,520
Speaker 6: talk all the time, right when the Colts and Jaguars

683
00:32:56,520 --> 00:32:59,200
Speaker 6: get together. What do we always talk about, especially down

684
00:32:59,240 --> 00:33:02,080
Speaker 6: there in North Florida, We always talk about the streak, Right,

685
00:33:02,280 --> 00:33:06,000
Speaker 6: Colts haven't won in Jacksonville in due ball, you know,

686
00:33:06,040 --> 00:33:10,400
Speaker 6: at Everbanks Stadium since the twenty fourteen season. Well, the

687
00:33:10,440 --> 00:33:14,040
Speaker 6: home team in this series has been absolutely dominant.

688
00:33:14,120 --> 00:33:14,720
Speaker 5: Doesn't matter if.

689
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Speaker 6: You're playing at Lucas Oil Stadium or at in Jacksonville.

690
00:33:18,680 --> 00:33:22,160
Speaker 6: Down in North Florida, the home team is nineteen and

691
00:33:22,360 --> 00:33:26,360
Speaker 6: two in the last twenty one games in this series.

692
00:33:26,640 --> 00:33:29,160
Speaker 5: The Colts have won six of the last seven games.

693
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Speaker 6: Against Jacksonville Lucas Oil Stadium and ten of their last

694
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Speaker 6: twelve in Indianapolis. Hopefully that's a good omen for this game.

695
00:33:36,360 --> 00:33:38,800
Speaker 6: With the Colts being the home team, needing to get

696
00:33:38,800 --> 00:33:41,360
Speaker 6: a win, needing to stay alive in the playoffs, and

697
00:33:41,880 --> 00:33:44,160
Speaker 6: we'll see if the Colts get some help on Saturday

698
00:33:44,160 --> 00:33:47,760
Speaker 6: tomorrow with the Texans losing to the Chargers.

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Speaker 1: It's a lot of tidbits. You do a lot of

700
00:33:49,840 --> 00:33:51,440
Speaker 1: work for this segment, Mat, I appreciate that.

701
00:33:53,200 --> 00:33:56,520
Speaker 6: Listen, you're either getting better, you're getting work right, all right,

702
00:33:57,680 --> 00:33:58,720
Speaker 6: that's the deal, baby.

703
00:33:58,800 --> 00:34:01,840
Speaker 1: What has been the favorite part of telling the Philip

704
00:34:01,920 --> 00:34:04,120
Speaker 1: Rivers story for you the last couple of weeks.

705
00:34:05,440 --> 00:34:07,880
Speaker 6: For me, it's just seeing him and getting to know

706
00:34:08,040 --> 00:34:09,040
Speaker 6: him a little bit better and.

707
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Speaker 5: Actually getting to talk to him in person.

708
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Speaker 6: Gray. I mean, the last time he was here was

709
00:34:12,880 --> 00:34:15,680
Speaker 6: in twenty twenty during the COVID restrictions and everything was

710
00:34:15,760 --> 00:34:19,160
Speaker 6: virtual on Zoom or teleconferences and stuff like that. And

711
00:34:19,200 --> 00:34:21,560
Speaker 6: we made it a point on the broadcast on Monday,

712
00:34:21,920 --> 00:34:24,759
Speaker 6: I mean last week, you know, against the forty nine Ers.

713
00:34:24,760 --> 00:34:26,640
Speaker 6: That was his first chance to put on a Colt's

714
00:34:26,719 --> 00:34:30,040
Speaker 6: uniform and play in front of a packed house during COVID.

715
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Speaker 6: The most fans he ever played in front of at

716
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Speaker 6: Lucas Oil Stadium was fourteen thousand.

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Speaker 5: Of course, they were all kind of spread out all over.

718
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Speaker 6: The stadium because of COVID restrictions. But I mean, he

719
00:34:41,280 --> 00:34:46,200
Speaker 6: is it's remarkable how well he played. I mean to me,

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Speaker 6: it's just I mean, you shouldn't be able to do

721
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Speaker 6: what he is doing at age forty four. And I

722
00:34:51,560 --> 00:34:53,760
Speaker 6: get it right, it's only a two game sample size,

723
00:34:53,800 --> 00:34:56,120
Speaker 6: but I mean to throw for you know, almost three

724
00:34:56,160 --> 00:34:58,920
Speaker 6: hundred yards and two touchdowns in front of the whole

725
00:34:58,960 --> 00:35:02,239
Speaker 6: world watching you when you haven't played, you know, in

726
00:35:02,280 --> 00:35:05,080
Speaker 6: four and a half years, it's just remarkable. So I

727
00:35:05,120 --> 00:35:08,360
Speaker 6: mean credit to what the human mind can do and

728
00:35:08,400 --> 00:35:10,360
Speaker 6: what it's capable of, right, I mean, if you stay

729
00:35:10,400 --> 00:35:13,920
Speaker 6: engaged and you study, and you know your stuff, and

730
00:35:13,640 --> 00:35:15,680
Speaker 6: you're on top of your p's and q's from a

731
00:35:15,719 --> 00:35:19,520
Speaker 6: mental side of things, you can be really successful regardless

732
00:35:19,560 --> 00:35:22,120
Speaker 6: of what your physical limitations and what your body tells you.

733
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Speaker 6: So I mean Philip Rivers, I mean not to sound

734
00:35:25,000 --> 00:35:28,279
Speaker 6: too profound, but I mean he's an inspiration and he's

735
00:35:28,320 --> 00:35:30,759
Speaker 6: really given this team a big juice and a lot

736
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Speaker 6: of jolt late in season trying to make the playoffs.

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Speaker 2: Well, last one I got for you, mate? Are you

738
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Speaker 2: someone who is like the players will you be watching

739
00:35:38,800 --> 00:35:42,120
Speaker 2: every second of tomorrow's game between the Chargers and the Texans.

740
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Speaker 6: Absolutely aute. I mean, this is what the NFL wants.

741
00:35:45,880 --> 00:35:50,360
Speaker 6: I mean, parody is absolutely king. You know Roger Goodell

742
00:35:50,719 --> 00:35:53,160
Speaker 6: is he's just foaming at the mouth right now because

743
00:35:53,200 --> 00:35:56,719
Speaker 6: so many teams are still alive and have a chance

744
00:35:56,840 --> 00:35:58,800
Speaker 6: this late in the season, and that's what he wants.

745
00:35:58,840 --> 00:36:03,040
Speaker 6: He wants and engaged as long as possible throughout the

746
00:36:03,080 --> 00:36:06,120
Speaker 6: course of the NFL season. And you know, we talked

747
00:36:06,160 --> 00:36:08,479
Speaker 6: about it again last week. I mean, what's the number.

748
00:36:08,520 --> 00:36:09,840
Speaker 5: I mean, since.

749
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Speaker 6: Nineteen ninety at least four teams make the playoffs every

750
00:36:13,200 --> 00:36:15,600
Speaker 6: year that did in the year before. I mean, every

751
00:36:15,680 --> 00:36:17,880
Speaker 6: year you see a team go from worse to first,

752
00:36:17,960 --> 00:36:21,200
Speaker 6: as is the case potentially depending on what happens these

753
00:36:21,239 --> 00:36:24,760
Speaker 6: last two games with the Jacksonville Jaguars. So yeah, meaningful

754
00:36:24,760 --> 00:36:28,680
Speaker 6: football in late December early January is what everybody wants

755
00:36:28,719 --> 00:36:32,200
Speaker 6: to watch and consume and be a part of. And

756
00:36:32,239 --> 00:36:35,440
Speaker 6: hopefully the Colts get some help. I mean the last

757
00:36:35,560 --> 00:36:37,960
Speaker 6: month and a half really, since that Berlin game and

758
00:36:38,000 --> 00:36:41,919
Speaker 6: the bye, it's like everything the Colts need to go

759
00:36:42,440 --> 00:36:46,640
Speaker 6: right outside of their control has gone wrong. The Jaguars

760
00:36:46,719 --> 00:36:49,799
Speaker 6: keep winning, the Texans keep winning. You know, they don't

761
00:36:49,800 --> 00:36:51,840
Speaker 6: get any help from anybody else when it comes to

762
00:36:51,880 --> 00:36:54,440
Speaker 6: their strength of schedule and AFC record and all of

763
00:36:54,520 --> 00:36:57,480
Speaker 6: that stuff. So maybe tomorrow is the day where they

764
00:36:57,480 --> 00:36:59,839
Speaker 6: finally get a little bit of a break and some help.

765
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Speaker 6: I mean, unfortunately, you've stubbed your toe so much that

766
00:37:04,320 --> 00:37:07,120
Speaker 6: now you're relying all of that. But you know, if

767
00:37:07,120 --> 00:37:09,080
Speaker 6: you don't take care of your own business this week

768
00:37:09,120 --> 00:37:12,279
Speaker 6: on Sunday, even you know, let's say the Texans win,

769
00:37:13,000 --> 00:37:15,040
Speaker 6: or excuse me, the Charges beat the Texans, I should

770
00:37:15,040 --> 00:37:17,520
Speaker 6: say tomorrow, none of that matters. If the Colts don't

771
00:37:17,520 --> 00:37:21,320
Speaker 6: start helping themselves, which they haven't done obviously in the

772
00:37:21,400 --> 00:37:22,320
Speaker 6: last five weeks.

773
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Speaker 2: Well, may tell you we appreciate the time.

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Speaker 6: Brother.

775
00:37:25,280 --> 00:37:27,120
Speaker 2: I will see you over at the facility later today,

776
00:37:27,239 --> 00:37:30,520
Speaker 2: and again, happy belated Merry Christmas.

777
00:37:30,480 --> 00:37:31,080
Speaker 5: You guys too.

778
00:37:31,160 --> 00:37:33,239
Speaker 6: Always good to be with you, Greg, always good to

779
00:37:33,239 --> 00:37:33,880
Speaker 6: hear your voice.

780
00:37:33,880 --> 00:37:36,400
Speaker 5: We'll see you soon and appreciate all you guys do.

781
00:37:36,719 --> 00:37:38,600
Speaker 1: I will see you on Sunday, and to look forward

782
00:37:38,640 --> 00:37:40,319
Speaker 1: to the ballet that Matt and I do. We have

783
00:37:40,360 --> 00:37:43,160
Speaker 1: three and a half minutes to switch chairs after he

784
00:37:43,239 --> 00:37:46,080
Speaker 1: does his first segment of the postgame show, and so

785
00:37:46,320 --> 00:37:49,399
Speaker 1: normally I have a laptop with all the emails because

786
00:37:49,440 --> 00:37:52,400
Speaker 1: people on all this. Matt coordinates everything for the radio network.

787
00:37:52,480 --> 00:37:54,600
Speaker 1: So like all the scripts that I have, Like he

788
00:37:54,719 --> 00:37:57,239
Speaker 1: was referencing the you know, the wonderful folks at Barbasol

789
00:37:57,440 --> 00:37:59,920
Speaker 1: who are also the presenters of the Horizon League men

790
00:38:00,040 --> 00:38:03,640
Speaker 1: Nzeman's Basketball Championships by the way, So finally craft to

791
00:38:03,640 --> 00:38:05,640
Speaker 1: commercial much is like this. I have a script from

792
00:38:05,640 --> 00:38:08,000
Speaker 1: Matt of ones that I get through during my three

793
00:38:08,040 --> 00:38:10,279
Speaker 1: hour tour of the postgame show. So I've got that

794
00:38:10,400 --> 00:38:13,359
Speaker 1: laptop open as then Matt that has to unplug about

795
00:38:13,480 --> 00:38:17,479
Speaker 1: nineteen different gizmos before then he exits to go check

796
00:38:17,520 --> 00:38:20,200
Speaker 1: out there you know, postgame interviews and stuff like that.

797
00:38:20,360 --> 00:38:22,719
Speaker 1: So we get to see each other during practice or

798
00:38:23,000 --> 00:38:25,279
Speaker 1: have email chats, but there's always three and a half

799
00:38:25,280 --> 00:38:27,759
Speaker 1: minutes we're about three feet apart from each other as

800
00:38:27,760 --> 00:38:30,800
Speaker 1: we're trying to extract one and almost like a sports

801
00:38:30,840 --> 00:38:33,399
Speaker 1: car team changing drivers in the middle of a race,

802
00:38:33,520 --> 00:38:35,160
Speaker 1: kind of what we do in the culture cult truth

803
00:38:35,719 --> 00:38:38,279
Speaker 1: were athletes and it was really mad and not me.

804
00:38:38,920 --> 00:38:40,200
Speaker 1: Were is the key thing there?

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00:38:41,120 --> 00:38:43,000
Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean it's like a fire drill, but we've

806
00:38:43,000 --> 00:38:45,200
Speaker 6: gotten pretty good at it. It's like poetry in motion.

807
00:38:45,400 --> 00:38:48,080
Speaker 6: You know, I'm spinning away from contact from you. You're

808
00:38:48,120 --> 00:38:50,880
Speaker 6: sliding into the little crease there, and I'm ripping stuff

809
00:38:50,920 --> 00:38:51,279
Speaker 6: off the.

810
00:38:51,239 --> 00:38:53,120
Speaker 5: Wall trying to get out of your guys' way. And

811
00:38:53,840 --> 00:38:55,480
Speaker 5: it's a beautiful dance that we do.

812
00:38:55,520 --> 00:38:57,319
Speaker 6: But I think we have it down to perfection, and

813
00:38:58,400 --> 00:39:00,839
Speaker 6: I appreciate all of you guys do. The postgame show

814
00:39:00,920 --> 00:39:03,239
Speaker 6: is just absolutely humming, and hopefully the Colts give you

815
00:39:03,280 --> 00:39:05,040
Speaker 6: guys some good content to talk about for two and

816
00:39:05,080 --> 00:39:06,800
Speaker 6: a half hours coming up on Sunday afternoon.

817
00:39:06,920 --> 00:39:08,480
Speaker 3: Yeah, I was pretty spoiled for two months. It'd be

818
00:39:08,520 --> 00:39:09,920
Speaker 3: nice to go back to that again. Matt, I'm not

819
00:39:09,920 --> 00:39:11,319
Speaker 3: gonna lee boy.

820
00:39:11,760 --> 00:39:14,239
Speaker 6: See you buddy, all right, I'll talk to you guys soon.

821
00:39:14,640 --> 00:39:16,600
Speaker 2: We're gonna say everything I wrote for two months with

822
00:39:16,640 --> 00:39:19,720
Speaker 2: the greatest close article ever, and all of a sudden,

823
00:39:19,719 --> 00:39:22,000
Speaker 2: now when I write something it gets garbage. James, what

824
00:39:22,040 --> 00:39:24,200
Speaker 2: are you doing? You're you need to change this franchise.

825
00:39:24,800 --> 00:39:26,279
Speaker 2: That's hard enough questions.

826
00:39:26,520 --> 00:39:30,440
Speaker 1: I've got a tidbit for you. Who is the leading

827
00:39:31,000 --> 00:39:35,000
Speaker 1: total points, leading scoring offense in the AFC.

828
00:39:36,400 --> 00:39:41,279
Speaker 2: Total points, total points AFC AFC Yep, it better not

829
00:39:41,360 --> 00:39:42,760
Speaker 2: be the Jaguars. It can't be the Jaguars.

830
00:39:42,760 --> 00:39:47,480
Speaker 1: If not the Jaguars, the Jaguars are currently tied for third.

831
00:39:48,520 --> 00:39:52,399
Speaker 2: Oh okay, Caleb, you want a wigh in. I bet

832
00:39:52,480 --> 00:39:53,840
Speaker 2: you it's still the Colts.

833
00:39:54,080 --> 00:39:56,400
Speaker 1: It is not the Colts, but Caleb knows the direction

834
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Speaker 1: I'm going with this conversation.

835
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Speaker 2: Boy, I'm trying which you like me to give you.

836
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Speaker 3: The number one answer?

837
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Speaker 5: There?

838
00:40:02,360 --> 00:40:05,960
Speaker 1: Yea the Buffalo Bills. So who would be second? It

839
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Speaker 1: can't be the cat It's still the Indianapolis.

840
00:40:07,960 --> 00:40:08,480
Speaker 2: Wow.

841
00:40:08,600 --> 00:40:09,920
Speaker 3: Four and nineteen points.

842
00:40:10,440 --> 00:40:14,600
Speaker 1: The Colts have scored more points than the Jacksonville Jaguars

843
00:40:15,320 --> 00:40:18,360
Speaker 1: and the Houston Texans, and then Texans went on defense.

844
00:40:18,640 --> 00:40:20,799
Speaker 1: Texans has scored three hundred and forty six points. The

845
00:40:20,840 --> 00:40:23,319
Speaker 1: Texans are not Texans are a race to twenty. They're

846
00:40:23,320 --> 00:40:25,160
Speaker 1: gonna beach twenty three twenty every time they play them.

847
00:40:25,280 --> 00:40:26,720
Speaker 2: Yeah wow boy.

848
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Speaker 1: Colts are the second highest scoring offense in the in

849
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Speaker 1: the AFC and more than likely miss the playoffs. Now

850
00:40:36,840 --> 00:40:41,839
Speaker 1: misery loves company in the NFC because currently the two

851
00:40:41,960 --> 00:40:44,960
Speaker 1: highest scoring offenses are two of the three highest scoring offenses.

852
00:40:45,000 --> 00:40:49,280
Speaker 1: The NFC have already been eliminated cow playoffs. The Cowboys

853
00:40:49,320 --> 00:40:52,560
Speaker 1: are third. The Lions are the highest scoring team in

854
00:40:52,560 --> 00:40:55,600
Speaker 1: the National Football League and will not make the playoffs.

855
00:40:56,880 --> 00:40:58,879
Speaker 2: So I guess if you're looking for a silver lining there,

856
00:40:58,960 --> 00:41:00,920
Speaker 2: it could be worse.

857
00:41:01,360 --> 00:41:03,680
Speaker 1: Know, what this tells you is that you know the

858
00:41:03,800 --> 00:41:07,080
Speaker 1: league is a pendulum in terms of how you know,

859
00:41:07,120 --> 00:41:09,439
Speaker 1: how we go back and forth. It's a passing league,

860
00:41:09,440 --> 00:41:12,600
Speaker 1: it's a high scoring league. The teams that are playing

861
00:41:12,600 --> 00:41:16,360
Speaker 1: defense the ones that are winning. So just just something

862
00:41:16,400 --> 00:41:18,600
Speaker 1: to marinate on, think about.

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00:41:18,920 --> 00:41:21,520
Speaker 2: Well, I'll think about that throughout this check down, Kleb.

864
00:41:21,760 --> 00:41:24,680
Speaker 2: Let's run it down. Let's start where we finished with

865
00:41:24,719 --> 00:41:28,520
Speaker 2: the Colts. The injury report came out yesterday, Rick. It

866
00:41:28,560 --> 00:41:31,480
Speaker 2: wasn't an official practice, but anything that set out to

867
00:41:31,520 --> 00:41:33,040
Speaker 2: you on that note.

868
00:41:32,800 --> 00:41:34,880
Speaker 1: So the two things sauce Gardner was listed as a

869
00:41:34,960 --> 00:41:38,840
Speaker 1: limited participant. Now again when the team hadn't walk through

870
00:41:39,200 --> 00:41:43,239
Speaker 1: not a practice, he was listened as DNP. When the

871
00:41:43,280 --> 00:41:47,160
Speaker 1: team did nothing and did not report, he was listed

872
00:41:47,200 --> 00:41:50,640
Speaker 1: as a limited participant. But it is still in a

873
00:41:50,680 --> 00:41:53,799
Speaker 1: step in a right direction after having a calf injury. Now,

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00:41:54,120 --> 00:41:57,279
Speaker 1: the other notable would be Bernard Rayman, who obviously has

875
00:41:57,280 --> 00:41:59,839
Speaker 1: missed time due to an elbow injury. He was listened

876
00:41:59,840 --> 00:42:05,960
Speaker 1: at limited in a walkthrough on Wednesday, when he wasn't

877
00:42:06,040 --> 00:42:08,880
Speaker 1: even on fifty sixth Street. He was listed as a

878
00:42:09,040 --> 00:42:13,960
Speaker 1: full participant in practice yesterday. But frankly, what matters is

879
00:42:14,000 --> 00:42:16,360
Speaker 1: what JB Will see with his own eyes once he

880
00:42:16,440 --> 00:42:18,879
Speaker 1: leaves the studio here, because the Colts will have an

881
00:42:19,000 --> 00:42:23,080
Speaker 1: actual practice and James will see about fifteen minutes of it,

882
00:42:24,040 --> 00:42:26,280
Speaker 1: and in that fifty minutes he'll be able to determine

883
00:42:26,280 --> 00:42:29,359
Speaker 1: exactly who was able to participate in said practice, which

884
00:42:29,360 --> 00:42:32,400
Speaker 1: means what their status just might be for Sunday afternoon.

885
00:42:32,480 --> 00:42:35,759
Speaker 1: And again, folks, I will point out a player could

886
00:42:35,760 --> 00:42:38,640
Speaker 1: be cleared to go today and if the game tomorrow

887
00:42:38,719 --> 00:42:41,040
Speaker 1: doesn't go the way they want it to, that player

888
00:42:41,080 --> 00:42:42,879
Speaker 1: could be sat out just for the rest of the season.

889
00:42:42,920 --> 00:42:45,080
Speaker 1: I had there's no reason to push the issue, as

890
00:42:45,080 --> 00:42:46,600
Speaker 1: I would believe would be the case with guys like

891
00:42:46,680 --> 00:42:48,040
Speaker 1: Ryman and Gardner both.

892
00:42:48,320 --> 00:42:50,640
Speaker 2: There you go. And then as far as the other

893
00:42:50,920 --> 00:42:55,000
Speaker 2: Christmas Day games from yesterday, the Cowboys knock off the Commanders,

894
00:42:55,320 --> 00:42:57,839
Speaker 2: the Vikings knock off the Lions, and eliminade Detroit from

895
00:42:57,880 --> 00:43:01,160
Speaker 2: playoff contention, and the Broncos beat the Chiefs in what

896
00:43:01,360 --> 00:43:04,560
Speaker 2: could be Travis Kelsey's last game at Aarrowhead.

897
00:43:04,719 --> 00:43:06,840
Speaker 1: And of course that's only the second biggest news of

898
00:43:06,840 --> 00:43:10,600
Speaker 1: the week for the Chiefs. Their new stadium package going

899
00:43:10,680 --> 00:43:14,320
Speaker 1: to Kansas, Kansas, correct, So they are Kansas City. Of

900
00:43:14,360 --> 00:43:15,560
Speaker 1: all the places I go to, I think of a

901
00:43:15,600 --> 00:43:18,880
Speaker 1: pretty good sense of geography and direction. I get turned

902
00:43:18,920 --> 00:43:22,280
Speaker 1: around in downtown KC. Because it's so hilly and because

903
00:43:22,280 --> 00:43:25,480
Speaker 1: the airport is so far away from Kansas City. But yes,

904
00:43:26,360 --> 00:43:29,560
Speaker 1: the stadium is actually in the Missouri half, where the

905
00:43:29,560 --> 00:43:32,000
Speaker 1: city proper is. But if you look like what I

906
00:43:32,000 --> 00:43:35,640
Speaker 1: would think is north, the bluffs are actually west where

907
00:43:35,719 --> 00:43:38,719
Speaker 1: Kansas is. They're going to move out by I would

908
00:43:38,719 --> 00:43:42,640
Speaker 1: assume where the soccer facility and the racetrack are, which

909
00:43:42,640 --> 00:43:45,840
Speaker 1: is in the western suburbs, which is Kansas. And the

910
00:43:45,880 --> 00:43:47,759
Speaker 1: state of Kansas apparently is going to finance Thiss to

911
00:43:47,760 --> 00:43:51,120
Speaker 1: the tune of one point eight billion dollars to have

912
00:43:51,239 --> 00:43:55,640
Speaker 1: a retractable roof slash indoor stadium for the Kansas Chiefs

913
00:43:55,640 --> 00:43:58,680
Speaker 1: that is supposed to be operational by twenty thirty one.

914
00:44:00,000 --> 00:44:03,320
Speaker 2: I means the Gary Barry's will be moving to Northwest

915
00:44:03,360 --> 00:44:07,680
Speaker 2: Indiana air down in the Chicago twenty thirty two.

916
00:44:07,960 --> 00:44:12,120
Speaker 1: Okay, over the toll Road to Victory.

917
00:44:12,360 --> 00:44:15,080
Speaker 2: So that is pretty newsworthy. We'll see how real the

918
00:44:15,120 --> 00:44:15,960
Speaker 2: Bears thing is.

919
00:44:16,040 --> 00:44:19,000
Speaker 1: But every long pass that Caleb Williams not complete to

920
00:44:19,040 --> 00:44:20,880
Speaker 1: be owners the skyway going forward.

921
00:44:21,760 --> 00:44:24,600
Speaker 2: There you go. And then on the NBA side of things,

922
00:44:24,680 --> 00:44:27,560
Speaker 2: last night we had some great action. I'll start with

923
00:44:27,640 --> 00:44:29,719
Speaker 2: the best game of the day, the Nuggets and the

924
00:44:29,719 --> 00:44:32,120
Speaker 2: timber Wolves. They go to overtime and the koli Jokis

925
00:44:32,120 --> 00:44:36,160
Speaker 2: gets the last last over Anthony Edwards. Nikol Jokis finishes

926
00:44:36,160 --> 00:44:41,319
Speaker 2: with fifty six points, sixteen rebounds, fifteen assists, and just

927
00:44:42,160 --> 00:44:44,640
Speaker 2: you run out of words for that guy. Incredible player,

928
00:44:45,000 --> 00:44:47,400
Speaker 2: probably one of the best players ever, not just of

929
00:44:47,440 --> 00:44:49,160
Speaker 2: this era. When it's all said and.

930
00:44:49,120 --> 00:44:51,000
Speaker 3: Done again, I did the math earlier.

931
00:44:51,040 --> 00:44:53,319
Speaker 1: Fifty six points and fifteen assists, and again I don't

932
00:44:53,320 --> 00:44:55,879
Speaker 1: know whether they were just on Tues or assists on three.

933
00:44:55,960 --> 00:44:57,759
Speaker 1: Somebody that was there as an actual beat writer could

934
00:44:57,760 --> 00:44:59,279
Speaker 1: tell you, or go back at a box score and

935
00:44:59,320 --> 00:45:04,359
Speaker 1: look that minimum he contributed to eighty six of their

936
00:45:04,360 --> 00:45:07,440
Speaker 1: one hundred and forty two points in a win for

937
00:45:07,520 --> 00:45:09,400
Speaker 1: a guy that and I mean this as a compliment,

938
00:45:09,560 --> 00:45:14,399
Speaker 1: seemingly does not care like and obviously he tries given

939
00:45:14,440 --> 00:45:16,960
Speaker 1: how he plays, but it's very much looking forward to

940
00:45:17,000 --> 00:45:19,040
Speaker 1: not playing basketball hang with his buddies back in Eastern

941
00:45:19,080 --> 00:45:20,880
Speaker 1: Europe as soon as this whole thing is done.

942
00:45:21,080 --> 00:45:23,200
Speaker 3: So forgot that doesn't give a darn the hell of

943
00:45:23,239 --> 00:45:23,640
Speaker 3: a player.

944
00:45:23,920 --> 00:45:26,640
Speaker 2: Oh absolutely. And so we had the Rockets blow out

945
00:45:26,680 --> 00:45:30,040
Speaker 2: the Lakers. They looked old, and Lebron James he looked

946
00:45:30,080 --> 00:45:33,280
Speaker 2: old as well. The Warriors beat the Mavericks. The Spurs

947
00:45:33,360 --> 00:45:35,480
Speaker 2: not up the Thunder. That was notable because the Thunder

948
00:45:35,520 --> 00:45:38,200
Speaker 2: are the number one seed in the West, but the

949
00:45:38,200 --> 00:45:39,960
Speaker 2: Spurs are the number two seed and they've had their number.

950
00:45:40,000 --> 00:45:42,520
Speaker 2: They've won three straight against them. And in the first

951
00:45:42,520 --> 00:45:44,960
Speaker 2: game of the day was the Knicks beating the Cavaliers.

952
00:45:45,239 --> 00:45:46,480
Speaker 2: My father was pretty happy.

953
00:45:47,040 --> 00:45:49,680
Speaker 1: Guy, if Lebron looks like he is aging, that is

954
00:45:49,760 --> 00:45:53,560
Speaker 1: correct because his next birthday is on Tuesday, so he

955
00:45:53,600 --> 00:45:55,600
Speaker 1: turns another year older on Tuesday.

956
00:45:56,160 --> 00:45:58,200
Speaker 2: I'll tell you what is getting later early for those Lakers.

957
00:45:58,200 --> 00:46:00,279
Speaker 2: But at the same time, I don't think any Paciers

958
00:46:00,280 --> 00:46:03,560
Speaker 2: here for any sympathy towards that that franchise they denied

959
00:46:03,600 --> 00:46:05,520
Speaker 2: them the championship twenty five years ago.

960
00:46:05,680 --> 00:46:07,919
Speaker 3: Do you want you want to know how I know.

961
00:46:07,920 --> 00:46:12,040
Speaker 1: That his birthday is on Tuesday. I share a birthday

962
00:46:12,239 --> 00:46:13,280
Speaker 1: with Lebron James.

963
00:46:13,320 --> 00:46:16,040
Speaker 2: Oh well, no, he shares one with you well and

964
00:46:16,120 --> 00:46:16,800
Speaker 2: Tiger Woods.

965
00:46:16,800 --> 00:46:17,720
Speaker 3: Greg correct.

966
00:46:17,719 --> 00:46:20,000
Speaker 1: And to that point, I think I was born on

967
00:46:20,080 --> 00:46:24,319
Speaker 1: the greatest athletic birthday of all time. The rundown of

968
00:46:24,360 --> 00:46:28,800
Speaker 1: athletes born on that day would be Lebron James, Tiger Woods,

969
00:46:29,160 --> 00:46:30,920
Speaker 1: and Sandy Kofound Boy.

970
00:46:31,160 --> 00:46:33,280
Speaker 3: We're all born on December the thirtieth.

971
00:46:33,360 --> 00:46:36,759
Speaker 1: That no matter what I do in life, I will

972
00:46:36,800 --> 00:46:39,320
Speaker 1: not be able to surpass those people born on December

973
00:46:39,360 --> 00:46:39,880
Speaker 1: the thirtieth.

974
00:46:40,520 --> 00:46:42,400
Speaker 2: I would say, I will put you in that conversation.

975
00:46:42,480 --> 00:46:44,680
Speaker 2: You're on the Hall of Fame board. You're Hall of

976
00:46:44,719 --> 00:46:45,360
Speaker 2: Fame with Jay.

977
00:46:45,280 --> 00:46:46,880
Speaker 3: Sam maybe in the A. J.

978
00:46:47,080 --> 00:46:51,560
Speaker 1: Pierzinski Eliza Deuschkou category also born on December the thirtieth,

979
00:46:51,960 --> 00:46:55,480
Speaker 1: and because of his infractions, maybe I have surpassed Matt

980
00:46:55,560 --> 00:46:58,799
Speaker 1: Lower as both he and Meredith vi Era also a

981
00:46:58,840 --> 00:47:00,000
Speaker 1: part of the December.

982
00:47:00,040 --> 00:47:00,560
Speaker 3: That's crazy.

983
00:47:00,560 --> 00:47:02,920
Speaker 2: Wow, that's a hell of birthday right there.

984
00:47:02,960 --> 00:47:06,600
Speaker 1: Yeah, since since Matt has gone by the wayside in

985
00:47:06,640 --> 00:47:08,920
Speaker 1: Meredith is doing crappy game shows. At this point, I

986
00:47:09,040 --> 00:47:12,320
Speaker 1: might be the top broadcaster born in December the thirtieth currently,

987
00:47:12,680 --> 00:47:16,239
Speaker 1: not historically. Maybe I'm at least inching into that conversation.

988
00:47:16,280 --> 00:47:18,920
Speaker 2: There you go, Rag, I'll put you there, and for those.

989
00:47:18,920 --> 00:47:21,000
Speaker 3: Well by the way, but thank you God blessing.

990
00:47:20,640 --> 00:47:22,399
Speaker 2: Shut you there. We'll take a quick back here. Thank

991
00:47:22,440 --> 00:47:24,520
Speaker 2: you all for listening there after Christmas. We know it

992
00:47:24,600 --> 00:47:26,480
Speaker 2: is family time, but we appreciate you being a part

993
00:47:26,480 --> 00:47:33,440
Speaker 2: of our family as well, just hanging out here on

994
00:47:33,480 --> 00:47:36,520
Speaker 2: this Friday, getting ready for the weekend. Thank you all

995
00:47:36,600 --> 00:47:39,120
Speaker 2: for tuning into the Fan Morning Show. Of course, I'm

996
00:47:39,200 --> 00:47:41,480
Speaker 2: James Boyd. You hear me pretty regularly, but you also here,

997
00:47:41,520 --> 00:47:43,600
Speaker 2: so I think got pretty regularly as well.

998
00:47:43,640 --> 00:47:47,120
Speaker 1: I should the hang around like a house guest.

999
00:47:47,760 --> 00:47:50,759
Speaker 2: Baby, We got the other lazy guys sleeping in and

1000
00:47:50,840 --> 00:47:53,040
Speaker 2: maybe Kevin Bowen's up. I'm joking, by the way, they

1001
00:47:53,080 --> 00:47:55,120
Speaker 2: got kids. I'm sure they're up by now. But we

1002
00:47:55,200 --> 00:47:59,200
Speaker 2: got Caleb Zuber, myself, Greg Regstraw getting this thing done

1003
00:47:59,360 --> 00:48:02,160
Speaker 2: here on this because Mark Dyton is on vacation like

1004
00:48:02,160 --> 00:48:05,560
Speaker 2: he always is, right Jeff Rickard's out, Kevin Bowen's out,

1005
00:48:05,600 --> 00:48:08,200
Speaker 2: but you got us. We make it work. Rake.

1006
00:48:08,880 --> 00:48:11,560
Speaker 1: I've been told that Twitter is blowing up, and by

1007
00:48:11,640 --> 00:48:13,759
Speaker 1: blowing up, I mean one nice gentleman said that we

1008
00:48:13,920 --> 00:48:14,720
Speaker 1: paired well together.

1009
00:48:14,760 --> 00:48:15,120
Speaker 5: There you go.

1010
00:48:15,200 --> 00:48:16,880
Speaker 2: I'll take I'll take that one. You know, I know

1011
00:48:17,000 --> 00:48:17,600
Speaker 2: all the other.

1012
00:48:17,480 --> 00:48:20,520
Speaker 1: Ones could be one thousand percent of our listening audience

1013
00:48:20,560 --> 00:48:21,120
Speaker 1: this morning.

1014
00:48:22,400 --> 00:48:23,480
Speaker 3: Look as the result was a.

1015
00:48:23,440 --> 00:48:26,520
Speaker 1: Pretty quiet place on the way down Meridion, let's say

1016
00:48:26,239 --> 00:48:26,800
Speaker 1: six twenty.

1017
00:48:27,120 --> 00:48:29,239
Speaker 2: Yeah. Man, getting up, I was like, well, I'm used to,

1018
00:48:29,280 --> 00:48:31,040
Speaker 2: you know, the hustling bustle a little bit when we

1019
00:48:31,120 --> 00:48:32,800
Speaker 2: when I turn the corner and get down here to

1020
00:48:32,840 --> 00:48:35,680
Speaker 2: get to the studio, But not today, which I can understand.

1021
00:48:35,640 --> 00:48:37,520
Speaker 2: It's around that time of year. We got to some

1022
00:48:37,600 --> 00:48:38,160
Speaker 2: time with family.

1023
00:48:38,280 --> 00:48:40,640
Speaker 1: So I have I have a caffeine addiction, as you

1024
00:48:40,680 --> 00:48:42,120
Speaker 1: well know. So I started up my day at the

1025
00:48:42,120 --> 00:48:45,239
Speaker 1: fifty sixth Illinois Starbucks. Okay, and you know there are

1026
00:48:45,320 --> 00:48:47,920
Speaker 1: various things I'll do early in the morning, and you

1027
00:48:47,960 --> 00:48:51,239
Speaker 1: know pre select, you know, pre orders, I with my

1028
00:48:51,320 --> 00:48:53,480
Speaker 1: drink is ready when I when I walk in, and

1029
00:48:53,520 --> 00:48:56,319
Speaker 1: I pull up at about six twenty five or so,

1030
00:48:57,000 --> 00:48:58,600
Speaker 1: and I look to the left and the lights around.

1031
00:48:58,640 --> 00:49:00,719
Speaker 1: But there is not a soul that I can see

1032
00:49:00,719 --> 00:49:02,680
Speaker 1: in the restaurant, and that never happens. That place opens

1033
00:49:02,719 --> 00:49:05,840
Speaker 1: like four thirty or five o'clock on most mornings, and

1034
00:49:05,880 --> 00:49:07,840
Speaker 1: I walked in. I go, am I the first person

1035
00:49:07,880 --> 00:49:11,200
Speaker 1: in here today? They go, no, No, you're the second.

1036
00:49:11,640 --> 00:49:14,440
Speaker 1: So yeah, the world is waking up at a slower

1037
00:49:14,480 --> 00:49:17,920
Speaker 1: pace on what is a Friday off for nearly everybody

1038
00:49:17,920 --> 00:49:19,760
Speaker 1: else other than you and me and Caleb.

1039
00:49:20,040 --> 00:49:22,680
Speaker 2: All Right, well, we can't get out of here before

1040
00:49:22,719 --> 00:49:24,560
Speaker 2: we break down our predictions for the coldest game, but

1041
00:49:24,640 --> 00:49:28,200
Speaker 2: also our most exciting game, hardest game to pick, and

1042
00:49:28,280 --> 00:49:31,280
Speaker 2: our easiest game to pick. Caleb, let's lock and load

1043
00:49:31,360 --> 00:49:35,520
Speaker 2: here for the weekend. So I will start with the

1044
00:49:35,680 --> 00:49:40,440
Speaker 2: easiest game to pick, and for me, Caleb, I feel

1045
00:49:40,480 --> 00:49:44,120
Speaker 2: like when it comes to the easiest game, it can't

1046
00:49:44,120 --> 00:49:46,360
Speaker 2: be anything involving the Giants and the Raiders that seems

1047
00:49:46,360 --> 00:49:48,120
Speaker 2: like it's a disaster. I'll get to that game in

1048
00:49:48,120 --> 00:49:51,560
Speaker 2: a minute. But as far as spreads go, I don't

1049
00:49:51,600 --> 00:49:55,359
Speaker 2: necessarily love the Green Bay four and a half over

1050
00:49:55,400 --> 00:49:58,719
Speaker 2: the Ravens, just because I feel like that's going to

1051
00:49:58,760 --> 00:50:00,719
Speaker 2: be a tighter game because you don't know who's going

1052
00:50:00,760 --> 00:50:02,239
Speaker 2: to be the quarterback right now for Green Bay is

1053
00:50:02,280 --> 00:50:03,759
Speaker 2: going to be Jordan Love And even if it is,

1054
00:50:04,120 --> 00:50:05,600
Speaker 2: they've been up and down. So I'll go with that.

1055
00:50:05,640 --> 00:50:08,080
Speaker 2: It's probably my easiest game because I don't trust that spread.

1056
00:50:08,200 --> 00:50:12,320
Speaker 4: James, You're not interested in Raiders Giants, which could determine

1057
00:50:12,360 --> 00:50:15,319
Speaker 4: the number one overall pick in the draft, and where

1058
00:50:15,320 --> 00:50:17,520
Speaker 4: Fernando Mendoza might be playing football?

1059
00:50:17,600 --> 00:50:18,600
Speaker 2: Neck can Okay?

1060
00:50:19,400 --> 00:50:21,600
Speaker 4: For somebody who watched all the NFL games yesterday, I'm

1061
00:50:21,600 --> 00:50:25,320
Speaker 4: surprised that one doesn't intrigue. I think for the easiest

1062
00:50:25,320 --> 00:50:29,840
Speaker 4: game now this it's a three point spread. Pittsburgh's favored

1063
00:50:30,239 --> 00:50:32,840
Speaker 4: at Cleveland. I feel like it's kind of a tricky

1064
00:50:32,840 --> 00:50:36,880
Speaker 4: one because those AFC North games can be challenging. But

1065
00:50:37,120 --> 00:50:39,319
Speaker 4: I just got to believe that the Steelers will be

1066
00:50:39,360 --> 00:50:40,920
Speaker 4: able to win by more than three.

1067
00:50:41,040 --> 00:50:41,320
Speaker 6: Right.

1068
00:50:41,719 --> 00:50:45,040
Speaker 1: Yeah, the answer to your question is the single biggest

1069
00:50:45,120 --> 00:50:48,640
Speaker 1: line of the week, Oh, New England at New York

1070
00:50:49,200 --> 00:50:52,759
Speaker 1: thirteen and a half. New York just got beat by

1071
00:50:52,800 --> 00:50:56,200
Speaker 1: the Saints, who aren't that great. I'm playing a ricket quarterback.

1072
00:50:56,600 --> 00:51:01,759
Speaker 1: The Saints just housed them twenty nine to the Patriots.

1073
00:51:01,760 --> 00:51:04,839
Speaker 1: Have to keep up with the Broncos who won last night.

1074
00:51:05,520 --> 00:51:09,360
Speaker 1: New England will pulverize the Jets. Okay, and the thirteen

1075
00:51:09,400 --> 00:51:10,760
Speaker 1: and a half, all right, it's.

1076
00:51:10,600 --> 00:51:13,319
Speaker 2: Eighty Mitchell's Jets has Jeff Ricker and Ady Mitchell's Jets

1077
00:51:13,400 --> 00:51:16,840
Speaker 2: right there. I'll go with the hardest game next on

1078
00:51:16,880 --> 00:51:19,360
Speaker 2: the schedule to pick. Actually was joking about this a

1079
00:51:19,440 --> 00:51:21,399
Speaker 2: few seconds ago, but the Giants Raiders is a hard

1080
00:51:21,400 --> 00:51:23,680
Speaker 2: game to pick. I mean, the Giants are favored about

1081
00:51:23,680 --> 00:51:25,160
Speaker 2: one and a half, but I have no idea who's

1082
00:51:25,160 --> 00:51:27,120
Speaker 2: gonna win that game because both teams are god awful.

1083
00:51:27,160 --> 00:51:30,680
Speaker 2: But as Caleb alluded to, whoever wins that game will

1084
00:51:30,719 --> 00:51:34,280
Speaker 2: then drop in the Tankathon rankings as far as getting

1085
00:51:34,360 --> 00:51:36,200
Speaker 2: number one pick. So if you're a Giants or a

1086
00:51:36,280 --> 00:51:39,239
Speaker 2: Raiders fan, you probably want that team, your team to

1087
00:51:39,360 --> 00:51:41,879
Speaker 2: lose so they can maintain control of the number one pick,

1088
00:51:41,920 --> 00:51:43,560
Speaker 2: and that will be Frienana Mendozo.

1089
00:51:43,640 --> 00:51:47,080
Speaker 4: It's really fascinating that that game's really happening this second

1090
00:51:47,120 --> 00:51:48,280
Speaker 4: to last week in the season.

1091
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Speaker 2: It's unbelievable.

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Speaker 4: Okay, Seattle favored by seven points at Carolina. You know

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00:51:54,480 --> 00:51:57,400
Speaker 4: that's one of the longest flights. Really Seattle anytime they

1094
00:51:57,400 --> 00:52:00,719
Speaker 4: gotta fly to the East coast. That's interesting one to me.

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00:52:00,880 --> 00:52:03,440
Speaker 4: You never know what type of Panthers team you're gonna get.

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00:52:03,719 --> 00:52:06,359
Speaker 4: I think them being favored by seven is a lot

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00:52:06,440 --> 00:52:09,319
Speaker 4: on the road. It's a one o'clock kick. We'll see

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00:52:09,320 --> 00:52:11,080
Speaker 4: what happens. I think that's the hardest one for me

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Speaker 4: to kind of figure out.

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Speaker 1: Chicago at San Francisco it is a three point spread.

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00:52:16,200 --> 00:52:18,880
Speaker 1: In other words, they're pick them because the Niners is

1102
00:52:18,880 --> 00:52:22,080
Speaker 1: the home team, are getting the extra points. The Niners

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00:52:22,080 --> 00:52:24,839
Speaker 1: coming off a Monday night beat down here in Indianapolis,

1104
00:52:25,239 --> 00:52:28,600
Speaker 1: but again short week, having to fly back across the country,

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00:52:29,000 --> 00:52:31,240
Speaker 1: and the Bears just have a habit of making things

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00:52:31,360 --> 00:52:36,279
Speaker 1: interesting late. They have six wins after trailing with two

1107
00:52:36,320 --> 00:52:40,040
Speaker 1: minutes or less left to go in the game. So

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Speaker 1: I want to watch it. I want to spend no

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00:52:42,640 --> 00:52:45,280
Speaker 1: money on that game. Bears Niners.

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Speaker 2: There you go, so most excited game. We'll close it

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00:52:48,760 --> 00:52:50,880
Speaker 2: out with that. I do think the game I almost

1112
00:52:50,880 --> 00:52:53,040
Speaker 2: excited for is obviously the one I probably have to cover,

1113
00:52:53,120 --> 00:52:55,680
Speaker 2: being the Colts and the Jaguars. But for that to

1114
00:52:55,760 --> 00:53:00,680
Speaker 2: really matter, Chargers Texans. I think both of these are playing

1115
00:53:00,680 --> 00:53:03,400
Speaker 2: great football right now. So from entertainment value, from a

1116
00:53:03,440 --> 00:53:05,280
Speaker 2: stakes value, that's the one I'm picking.

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00:53:08,960 --> 00:53:11,719
Speaker 4: So what we'll be saying all weekend, Yeah, I think

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00:53:11,760 --> 00:53:14,040
Speaker 4: for most entertaining, I'm going to go where Greg just went.

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00:53:14,120 --> 00:53:17,640
Speaker 4: I think the Niners Bears game is interesting and a

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00:53:17,640 --> 00:53:20,880
Speaker 4: little good Sunday night football game there, So I'm excited

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00:53:20,880 --> 00:53:21,319
Speaker 4: for that one.

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00:53:21,400 --> 00:53:25,239
Speaker 1: Houston and the Chargers. Sorry to be repetitive and redundant. No,

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Speaker 1: you're right though, but for our day job to be

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Speaker 1: relevant on Sunday, we are impacted by what will happen

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00:53:31,560 --> 00:53:35,520
Speaker 1: tomorrowfternoon at four thirty. So the obvious choice is Texans

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00:53:35,840 --> 00:53:36,520
Speaker 1: and Chargers.

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00:53:36,760 --> 00:53:39,040
Speaker 2: I will say this, though, there is an Eagles Bills game.

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Speaker 2: I'm my boy, that might be a little nice too.

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00:53:41,040 --> 00:53:42,799
Speaker 1: So you kind of wonder though, along with that the

1130
00:53:42,840 --> 00:53:46,480
Speaker 1: Bears the Niners. Because the NFC playoffs, the seedings aren't

1131
00:53:46,520 --> 00:53:50,799
Speaker 1: set exactly, but the teams other than the Panthers and

1132
00:53:50,920 --> 00:53:54,279
Speaker 1: Buccaneers are set. And by the way, Kepave is at

1133
00:53:54,360 --> 00:53:57,880
Speaker 1: Miami who completely rolled over against the Bengals last week,

1134
00:53:58,320 --> 00:54:00,680
Speaker 1: and Seattle's been great. They're going to Carol Carolina has

1135
00:54:00,680 --> 00:54:03,920
Speaker 1: been a good story. I think what I think they

1136
00:54:03,920 --> 00:54:05,799
Speaker 1: did beat the Rams, right, that's kind of been one

1137
00:54:05,880 --> 00:54:10,200
Speaker 1: quality win. Likely basically, as long as Carolina doesn't win

1138
00:54:10,239 --> 00:54:13,279
Speaker 1: and Tampa Bay loses, then that those two teams play

1139
00:54:13,280 --> 00:54:15,680
Speaker 1: each other next week, and that will be the Sunday

1140
00:54:15,760 --> 00:54:19,520
Speaker 1: Night play your Way in game between those two teams.

1141
00:54:19,560 --> 00:54:22,480
Speaker 1: That'll be the featured game next Sunday Night. So in

1142
00:54:22,560 --> 00:54:25,600
Speaker 1: terms of actual affecting playoff seating, those the two games

1143
00:54:25,640 --> 00:54:28,160
Speaker 1: that have the most relevancy. But James, there is a

1144
00:54:28,280 --> 00:54:31,200
Speaker 1: scenario where we go to week eighteen and we know

1145
00:54:31,360 --> 00:54:34,680
Speaker 1: all fourteen playoff teams, which leads me to go, I'm

1146
00:54:34,760 --> 00:54:38,840
Speaker 1: very curious as to what Sunday Night game NBC would

1147
00:54:38,880 --> 00:54:42,840
Speaker 1: take if that. If that's the case, there is a

1148
00:54:42,880 --> 00:54:46,040
Speaker 1: scenario a handful of years ago they actually passed on

1149
00:54:46,080 --> 00:54:48,400
Speaker 1: a Sunday night football game Boy because it did not

1150
00:54:48,520 --> 00:54:49,880
Speaker 1: have any any relevant matchups.

1151
00:54:49,960 --> 00:54:52,160
Speaker 2: Here's one for the Colts purposes. I'd be curious to know,

1152
00:54:52,320 --> 00:54:55,440
Speaker 2: if they're eliminated before week eighteen, who's starting a quarterback,

1153
00:54:55,840 --> 00:54:57,960
Speaker 2: because at that point you could get held go into

1154
00:54:58,000 --> 00:54:58,799
Speaker 2: the argument.

1155
00:54:58,480 --> 00:55:00,600
Speaker 3: Has to be riding Leonard orient Peter Richards.

1156
00:55:00,719 --> 00:55:02,600
Speaker 2: That's a good art, but I'm not so you say,

1157
00:55:02,640 --> 00:55:04,360
Speaker 2: I know, but I'm not social.

1158
00:55:05,280 --> 00:55:07,120
Speaker 1: There are there are two different questions that we're up

1159
00:55:07,120 --> 00:55:09,600
Speaker 1: against the time wise, what should they do and what

1160
00:55:09,640 --> 00:55:10,719
Speaker 1: are they going to do?

1161
00:55:11,000 --> 00:55:13,000
Speaker 3: And those don't necessarily have the same answer.

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Speaker 2: I tell you what, boy, well it gets interesting for us.

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Speaker 2: I definitely think that this is a scenario where there

1164
00:55:19,200 --> 00:55:21,680
Speaker 2: is a lot of more dominoes to fall, but at

1165
00:55:21,719 --> 00:55:24,279
Speaker 2: the same time, we'll be here to talk about it nonetheless, So.

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Speaker 1: Well you will be I won't be.

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00:55:27,280 --> 00:55:30,040
Speaker 2: You'll be here as well. We will kick you out

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00:55:30,440 --> 00:55:33,120
Speaker 2: janitor or something exactly. So we will tune in with

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Speaker 2: you all Monday. Thanks for listening to us, and as always,

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Speaker 2: enjoy the weekend and be safe my friends.