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Speaker 1: It's time for our weekly conversation with college football analyst

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Speaker 1: Petros Papa nakas.

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Speaker 2: How are you man?

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Speaker 3: You're ready for Sunday Rams Seahawks Part three. Here we go,

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Speaker 3: La versus Seattle, Softy versus Petros. Let's get it on.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, the Rams don't like me. Kelly Stafford has

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Speaker 2: attacked me a couple times on Twitter, and Jason Whitworth's

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Speaker 2: wife has gone after me a few times over the years.

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Speaker 3: What is Kelly Stafford's problem with you?

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Speaker 2: I think because I called him Matt Stafford instead of Matthews,

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Speaker 2: you got mad? Come on something like that. Yeah, No,

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Speaker 2: she was very fiery, So I'm not really a member

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Speaker 2: of the Ramilly It's not that I'm rooting against him.

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Speaker 2: I'm rooting for Sam Darnold. And I'm sorry about Charbonay,

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Speaker 2: just to show you that I have a heart and

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Speaker 2: I know what's going on with your football team. But

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Speaker 2: beyond that, I don't really think of it as Petros

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Speaker 2: versus SOFTI like two Monday night football helmets balking each

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Speaker 2: other and exploding.

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Speaker 3: Well, I'm trying to get myself even more fired up

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Speaker 3: for this game. So if I need to think of

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Speaker 3: it as Petros versus Softy, La versus Seattle, That's what

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Speaker 3: I'm gonna do. Damn it, but it does. It doesn't

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Speaker 3: sound like I don't know, man, you tell me. I mean,

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Speaker 3: I know that Charger fans maybe are not as into

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Speaker 3: them as RAM fans are into the Rams. But how

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Speaker 3: how big a deal is this in La? I mean

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Speaker 3: compared to like the Dodgers World Series run, Lakers NBA Finals?

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Speaker 3: Are people losing their collective minds down there the way

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Speaker 2: No, No, Kyle Tucker signing with the Dodgers and having

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Speaker 2: his press conference today, it's probably a bigger story social

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Speaker 2: media wise, and overall. Wow, But the fan bases then

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Speaker 2: than the Rams. Not to say, look, the Rams have

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Speaker 2: a healthy ish fan base for being new to LA

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Speaker 2: because they left and remember they left in the eighties

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Speaker 2: when they went down to Anaheim, not the nineties when

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Speaker 2: they went to Saint Louis. A lot of people were

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Speaker 2: What I will say is to your question or the

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Speaker 2: way it was framed, the Rams have a modest fan

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Speaker 2: base in town, and it's twenty times better than the Chargers.

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Speaker 2: Were bigger than the Chargers. But they're obviously quite good,

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Speaker 2: and they've been great all year, and they're really really

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Speaker 2: well coached. And there's that one thing that they do

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Speaker 2: that they did with Todd really and they're able to

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Speaker 2: out of that. For whatever reason, they have such a

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Speaker 2: great and they run an inside zone too, but that

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Speaker 2: outside zone is the basis I know. Matt Stafford throws

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Speaker 2: no look passes, and Kuka Nakou is a great player,

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Speaker 2: but that zone is the basis to what they do

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Speaker 2: you see them get away from it or have gotten

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Speaker 2: mcveigh's made some bone head decisions which he has admitted

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Speaker 2: that they were stupid. But I think that's kind of

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Speaker 2: what happens when you have a play call and head coach,

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Speaker 2: and he can get a little cute with stuff trying

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Speaker 2: to score as opposed to a head coach saying just

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Speaker 2: run the freaking ball. But I like the Seahawks. I

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Speaker 2: love Sam Darnold having success. I want to see him

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Speaker 2: play in the Super Bowl. I think that would be

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Speaker 2: awesome and great for everybody to Seattle to get the

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Speaker 2: whole Pete Carroll era over with as far as memories

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Speaker 2: not rooting for the Rams at all, and I don't

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Speaker 2: care at all, and most people in LA don't care either.

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Speaker 3: Good I hope the Rams feel the exact same way

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Speaker 3: where they come to town on Sunday afternoon. But Petros

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Speaker 3: is with us and dude you mentioned McVeigh there, right,

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Speaker 3: So I love this coaching matchup just from like a

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Speaker 3: hardcore slabeign all over yourself, staying up all hours of

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Speaker 3: the night perusing the internet looking for stacks this coaching

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Speaker 3: matchup of McVeigh versus McDonald, because you've said before you

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Speaker 3: don't like the idea of an offensive minded coach play

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Speaker 3: caller in college football. It doesn't work. Last guy to

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Speaker 3: what a title I think was what Jimbo with A

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Speaker 3: and M back in the day, right, But it works

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Speaker 3: in the NFL. So I'm curious why it works in

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Speaker 3: the NFL. And I'm curious from a football hardcore dork perspective,

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Speaker 3: who would you rather have in this game? The genius

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Speaker 2: Well give him that mcveaz won a Super Bowl and

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Speaker 2: has figured out how to get out of his own

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Speaker 2: I would say he's the more proven entity. Yeah right,

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Speaker 2: And they have the more they have, the more proven

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Speaker 2: quarterback and head coach, So you'd have to say that

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Speaker 2: the Rams have the advantage. I don't really know. It's

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Speaker 2: the NFL. All of these games are fly by the

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Speaker 2: seed of the pan by the skinnier teeth type of games.

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Speaker 2: So I don't really know how it's going to go.

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Speaker 2: But I'm totally rooting for the Seahawks. I don't care.

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Speaker 3: I love it, Ram, I love it well, Sam Darnold,

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Speaker 3: you mentioned him. You've known him, I think since his

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Speaker 3: high school days. Right, Definitely USC downs for sure, and

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Speaker 3: there's the biggest game of his life. I mean, you know,

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Speaker 3: we'd been talking about this all months that there's just

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Speaker 3: Sunday against the Rams. So I mean, tell us about him.

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Speaker 3: You you probably know I'm a little bit better than

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Speaker 3: I do from his days as a trojan man. How

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Speaker 3: do you how do you think he's approaching Sunday's game?

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Speaker 2: Well, do you know about his famous grandfather?

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Speaker 3: Remind me, wasn't he in the movies or something?

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Speaker 2: His grandfather was a famous Orange County, Southern California athlete

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Speaker 2: and was the Marlborough Man.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, that's right, that's right.

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Speaker 2: And his name is dick Hammer. It was You're wrong,

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Speaker 2: He's dick Hammer's grandson. Okay, his mom is dick Hammer's daughter. Okay,

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Speaker 2: his father and mother I believe have a volleyball background, okay,

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Speaker 3: So dick Hammer's grandson help him on Sunday.

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Speaker 2: Well, dick Hammer is obviously an animal. He he's the

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Speaker 2: freaking Barbero man, and he played at ben Clementy High School,

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Speaker 2: which is the last town in Orange County before Camp

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Speaker 2: Camp Pendleton is San Diego, so it's it's the last

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Speaker 2: town in Orange County. San clement is a very insulated town.

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Speaker 2: Their football team's motto is one Town, one Team, and

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Speaker 2: Darnald is a blockheaded white young man from that background.

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Speaker 2: Sant Clementy is immortalized in the great movie Brick. Okay,

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Speaker 2: that's about It's all about sant Clementy High School, but

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Speaker 2: it's set like a noir movie. It's very cool with

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Speaker 2: Joseph Gordon Levitt. I suggest everybody watch it to get

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Speaker 2: to the Sam Darnold better. But when he came to

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Speaker 2: at Sea, he was just dazzling and practice, doing crazy stuff,

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Speaker 3: Are you waiting right? Are you waiting for me to

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Speaker 3: confirm that? Yes, well, Minnesota start with the Jets. Hey,

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Speaker 3: the Jets, the forty Minnesota, Carolina, Seattle. I believe those

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Speaker 2: Yeah. I mean that's pretty crazy. So I'm rooting for him.

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Speaker 2: I hope he does a great job. Now, football is

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Speaker 2: very circumstantial, and Josh Allen is getting h lamb basted

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Speaker 2: and his coach got fired because of a controversial call.

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Speaker 2: it's uh, it's it's gonna be a nutcutter, I'm sure, softy,

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Speaker 2: So hang on to your ball.

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Speaker 3: Sack no big time on Sunday. But he's got the

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Speaker 3: oblique thing he's dealing with. You may have heard about that.

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Speaker 3: You know, he's not McDonald came out today and said

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Speaker 3: he's not gonna make every throw in practice. They're gonna

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Speaker 3: So I don't know, if you're a Seahawks fan, which

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Speaker 3: sounds like for this game you are because you don't

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Speaker 3: obleaque Gate for slinging Sammy dick Hammer's grandson.

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Speaker 2: I say, I say, shoot him out, Yeah, shoot me

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Speaker 2: up man? Yeah, No, I mean I'm not. I mean, look,

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Speaker 2: you're either playing really well and you have a great

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Speaker 2: end up losing, or you're playing terribly and you blow

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Speaker 2: it for your team. Like, I don't think he's gonna

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Speaker 2: be I don't think he's gonna go out there at Lana. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: but I have no idea what's gonna happen, Softy. So

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Speaker 2: you asking me, he's not going to bring you any

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Speaker 2: closer to the day.

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Speaker 3: All right, Well then we'll just skip all those questions.

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Speaker 2: You want to see the movie, Brient, I do, now

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Speaker 2: that I've talked about, I.

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Speaker 3: Do, and I and I knew that the marlbor Man

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Speaker 3: was his grandfather. I had forgotten about that. I knew

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Speaker 3: his granddad was some famous guy. For whatever reason, I

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Speaker 3: thought he was an actor, but it turns out he

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Speaker 3: was a commercial guy. But I I do want to

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Speaker 3: get your thoughts before we get out of here. How

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Speaker 3: about Indiana. Man, Holy cow, Kurt Signetti. Let me let

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Speaker 3: me guess you don't give a damn about that either.

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Speaker 2: Right, No, I do care about that. I loved I

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Speaker 2: loved every minute of it. I love what it'd be.

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Speaker 2: And it did in an era of college football where

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Speaker 2: almost every conversation starts negatively and have terrible this is

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Speaker 2: Yeah? I think maybe you could probably have said that

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Speaker 2: what is it? Right? And I mean they look stupid.

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Speaker 3: All right, Well, before you go, who do you like

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Speaker 2: Stay it again. Yeah, I like the Seahawks, and I

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Speaker 3: All right, Yeah, good to know, good to know? All right, Well,

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Speaker 2: Well, thank you, Softy, I appreciate it, and they have

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Speaker 3: Did like how Sam doing?

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Speaker 2: And what's the plan this week? Is he gonna have

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Speaker 4: Yes, Sam continues to get better. You know, he's not

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Speaker 3: But he won't be like throwing.

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Speaker 3: Now, all right, So the question is how concerned are

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Speaker 5: I think they were just flying on this weird tangent schefter.

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Speaker 5: Can we agree that Drew Lock and the Seahawks would

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Speaker 3: I'm going back though, to that second and twenty after

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Speaker 3: to play. The concern is, like we said yesterday, Dick,

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Speaker 3: when you know what hits the fan when the fourth

432
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Speaker 3: quarter starts, God forbid, if overtime starts like it did

433
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Speaker 3: in the last game they played, Are these guys going

434
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Speaker 3: to have as much gas left in their tank, as

435
00:23:51,520 --> 00:23:53,800
Speaker 3: many bullets left in the gun as they would have

436
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Speaker 3: had if they were not nursing these injuries.

437
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Speaker 5: Yeah, I feel obviously excellent of Charles Cross is playing

438
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Speaker 5: left tackle. I still feel good to very good if

439
00:24:01,840 --> 00:24:03,439
Speaker 5: Josh Jones is playing left tackle.

440
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Speaker 3: So just give me.

441
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Speaker 5: One of those guys at near one hundred percent and

442
00:24:07,800 --> 00:24:09,000
Speaker 5: I feel good about the protection.

443
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Speaker 3: Yeah, but you feel better across of course then you do,

444
00:24:11,080 --> 00:24:12,879
Speaker 3: Josh Jones. I mean there's a reason why the Hawks

445
00:24:12,920 --> 00:24:14,880
Speaker 3: just gave the guy like a gajillion dollars a week

446
00:24:14,960 --> 00:24:17,879
Speaker 3: in a brand new contract. But how about Sean McVay

447
00:24:18,880 --> 00:24:21,159
Speaker 3: just start with him or a reporter from LA. Reporter

448
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Speaker 3: from LA. Sean McVay, Rams head coach, this is from

449
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Speaker 3: this morning? Is that correct, Yesson? I believe yesterday? Okay,

450
00:24:28,280 --> 00:24:31,239
Speaker 3: talking about their situation down there. Let's hear from the

451
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Speaker 3: enemy Sean McVay, who's going to be forty years old

452
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Speaker 3: on Saturday. I'd be a great birthday present to give

453
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Speaker 3: him a big old fat loss on Sunday for his

454
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Speaker 3: fortieth birthday. Here's the coach of the Rams.

455
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Speaker 6: You're gonna go up against the Seahawks for a third

456
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Speaker 6: time this season, first time you've gone against the opponent

457
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Speaker 6: three times in one year, just a scariously. What you

458
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Speaker 6: think about the dynamic sort of the chess match of

459
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Speaker 6: a matchup where you guys know a team so well

460
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Speaker 6: but they also know you so well. And what that's

461
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Speaker 6: like to prepare for that?

462
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Speaker 7: Yeah, I think you got to just you know, you

463
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Speaker 7: take into a ca the previous two times. You know,

464
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Speaker 7: we've been in similar situations. When you look back to

465
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Speaker 7: the COVID year we played Seattle three times, uh, playing

466
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Speaker 7: them in the Wildcard round and then our our Super

467
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Speaker 7: Bowl year, we ended up playing the Niners for the

468
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Speaker 7: third time in the NFC Championship, both of which we

469
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Speaker 7: had games laid against them. The line the Niners game

470
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Speaker 7: was the last game of the year, and then the

471
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Speaker 7: Seattle one in the COVID year was I believe the

472
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Speaker 7: second to last game of the year. So it is

473
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Speaker 7: an added layer, you know, but it's really just a familiarity.

474
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Speaker 7: Let's put together the best plans that we can for

475
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Speaker 7: our guys, and let's understand, you know, what type of

476
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Speaker 7: execution and what type of uh, you know, competitive stamina

477
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Speaker 7: it's gonna take for us to go get the job

478
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Speaker 7: done against you know, as complete a football team as

479
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Speaker 7: there is in this league and as hot of a

480
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Speaker 7: football team as there is in this league.

481
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Speaker 8: You've had a lot of success at Newmanfield. I was

482
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Speaker 8: up there last week and it rivaled the Beast Quake

483
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Speaker 8: game in terms of the loudness of the stadium. How

484
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Speaker 8: do you prepare your guys for that and are you

485
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Speaker 8: looking forward to what the sign guy that's going to

486
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Speaker 8: have for you there in the end zone?

487
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Speaker 7: You take the field Yeah, he's always got some good

488
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Speaker 7: ones for me. So yes, I enjoy you know, the

489
00:26:10,560 --> 00:26:13,200
Speaker 7: back and forth banter. It's all in good fun. Were

490
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Speaker 7: you at the Thursday night game Eric, that we played.

491
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Speaker 2: No, I wasn't there for the Thursday game.

492
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Speaker 7: I'd be interested at place was rocking when we were

493
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Speaker 7: there on that Thursday night. So hey, it's gonna be

494
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Speaker 7: a hell of an atmosphere and environment.

495
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Speaker 3: We're excited about it.

496
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Speaker 7: Those are the moments that you feel the most alive

497
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Speaker 7: as a competitor, and we got to go handle it

498
00:26:33,000 --> 00:26:36,480
Speaker 7: against a freaking damn good football team. But wouldn't expect

499
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Speaker 7: anything less in the NFC Championship if you expect to

500
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Speaker 7: advance to a super Bowl.

501
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Speaker 3: So he's coached in fifteen playoff games, eight of them

502
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Speaker 3: have come on the road. He's five and three in

503
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Speaker 3: those eight road playoff games. By the way, the guy

504
00:26:47,000 --> 00:26:48,959
Speaker 3: that he's talking about is Rob Lawson, who sits right

505
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Speaker 3: above the tunnel. He's the guy that had the JaMarcus

506
00:26:52,280 --> 00:26:55,200
Speaker 3: Russell Gino Smith sign that freaked everybody out, which I

507
00:26:55,240 --> 00:26:57,480
Speaker 3: thought was all in good fun. But whatever. So I'm

508
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Speaker 3: glad that McVeigh has that approach like he's it's just

509
00:27:00,320 --> 00:27:04,040
Speaker 3: all for fun. Nobody's losing their mind over something like that,

510
00:27:04,119 --> 00:27:06,879
Speaker 3: for God's sakes. But I wonder, Dick, how much the

511
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Speaker 3: coaching aspect is gonna matter. I mean, if we can

512
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Speaker 3: get to a point where we basically agree that you

513
00:27:13,480 --> 00:27:16,520
Speaker 3: got two teams that are evenly matched. Maybe the Hawks

514
00:27:16,560 --> 00:27:19,040
Speaker 3: have a slight advantage because of their defense, but they're

515
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Speaker 3: evenly matched in a lot of categories, then does coaching matter?

516
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Speaker 3: Does Sean mcvay's experience, does the fact that this is

517
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Speaker 3: a sixteenth playoff game versus McDonald's second playoff game? How

518
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Speaker 3: much does that tangibly matter when the game is kicked

519
00:27:32,960 --> 00:27:34,800
Speaker 3: off on Sunday. I think it matters.

520
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Speaker 5: I mean, you know, I still remember the tweets we

521
00:27:37,480 --> 00:27:39,920
Speaker 5: sent out during that last game in the third quarter.

522
00:27:40,000 --> 00:27:43,160
Speaker 5: We were like, Sean McVay is kicking Mike McDonald's ass,

523
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Speaker 5: like straight out of Remember the Titans.

524
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Speaker 2: Man.

525
00:27:44,840 --> 00:27:47,360
Speaker 3: Absolutely, I mean, coach coach.

526
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Speaker 5: Yost, you know he's kicking my ass over there.

527
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Speaker 3: Come help me, right, I mean exactly.

528
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Speaker 5: I'm glad to McVeigh though, did clarify the situation because

529
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Speaker 5: they report the first asked him, he said, you want

530
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Speaker 5: asking him about facing the team for the third Its

531
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Speaker 5: the first time you've done that before. And I was

532
00:28:04,720 --> 00:28:07,080
Speaker 5: sitting there thinking, like, wait a second, Sean McVay has

533
00:28:07,200 --> 00:28:08,840
Speaker 5: never faced the division.

534
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Speaker 3: Rival in the planks and play an NFC championship game.

535
00:28:12,320 --> 00:28:15,200
Speaker 3: He played, so glad he clarified that situation. Well, I

536
00:28:15,240 --> 00:28:17,359
Speaker 3: think people kind of tend to forget about the twenty

537
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Speaker 3: twenty game because there's nobody there, right, It is kind

538
00:28:20,359 --> 00:28:24,040
Speaker 3: of a forgetful, especially from our perspective because we freaking lost.

539
00:28:24,520 --> 00:28:27,000
Speaker 3: We lost a game with cardboard cutouts in the stands

540
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Speaker 3: to a guy named John Frickin' Wofford. I mean, there's

541
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Speaker 3: a lot like I actually had forgotten about that game

542
00:28:31,800 --> 00:28:34,480
Speaker 3: because I don't I wasn't there, right, I mean, I

543
00:28:34,520 --> 00:28:37,199
Speaker 3: obviously there's playoff games on the road, but I don't know.

544
00:28:37,280 --> 00:28:39,960
Speaker 3: It's just something Jackson, maybe ask your wife. I don't

545
00:28:39,960 --> 00:28:42,680
Speaker 3: know what it is about the mental you know, voodoo

546
00:28:42,720 --> 00:28:44,760
Speaker 3: that they they put on you when you're watching a

547
00:28:44,800 --> 00:28:47,280
Speaker 3: game with nobody in the stands. It's like it never

548
00:28:47,320 --> 00:28:48,840
Speaker 3: really happened. I think weird.

549
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Speaker 9: Well, I think that was the whole thing with twenty

550
00:28:50,640 --> 00:28:53,400
Speaker 9: twenty is we all forget everything we went through that

551
00:28:53,560 --> 00:28:55,280
Speaker 9: year and it's it's it's fun to me. I mean,

552
00:28:55,320 --> 00:28:57,640
Speaker 9: we've rise and I've talked about this and how it

553
00:28:57,800 --> 00:29:01,240
Speaker 9: kind of crosses sports to all of life. We generally

554
00:29:01,640 --> 00:29:04,280
Speaker 9: block out and forget all the crap that we went

555
00:29:04,360 --> 00:29:07,520
Speaker 9: through on a daily basis, but yet it really does

556
00:29:07,680 --> 00:29:10,120
Speaker 9: change the way we live to this day in lots

557
00:29:10,160 --> 00:29:13,400
Speaker 9: of little different ways. But to this, see, yeah, tell

558
00:29:13,400 --> 00:29:16,520
Speaker 9: me one thing that happened in that COVID year other

559
00:29:16,600 --> 00:29:18,440
Speaker 9: than that Rams game, since we're talking about it, I

560
00:29:18,640 --> 00:29:19,120
Speaker 9: don't tell me.

561
00:29:19,200 --> 00:29:21,320
Speaker 3: I remember a lot. I think the Hawks got off

562
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Speaker 3: to a really good start that year. You're twelve and four.

563
00:29:24,440 --> 00:29:26,280
Speaker 3: I remember twelve and four. I think they were six

564
00:29:26,360 --> 00:29:27,479
Speaker 3: and two at one point.

565
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Speaker 2: Is that correct?

566
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Speaker 3: But that's the thing.

567
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Speaker 9: To the extent we can pretty much point out other seasons,

568
00:29:32,000 --> 00:29:34,800
Speaker 9: and the three of us can rattle off memories right

569
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Speaker 9: that we we block out our and I wonder if

570
00:29:36,720 --> 00:29:39,080
Speaker 9: SUK fans too the same way, block out a lot

571
00:29:39,120 --> 00:29:42,080
Speaker 9: of memories from that year just because we weren't there.

572
00:29:42,120 --> 00:29:44,480
Speaker 3: It didn't happen, and we know them for that.

573
00:29:44,600 --> 00:29:47,440
Speaker 5: And that's the one time the Hawks have lost at

574
00:29:47,480 --> 00:29:50,320
Speaker 5: home in the playoffs in a long long time. I mean,

575
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Speaker 5: they are thirteen and three at home all time in

576
00:29:53,840 --> 00:29:57,520
Speaker 5: the playoffs because the twelve, the twelves just show out

577
00:29:57,560 --> 00:29:58,160
Speaker 5: in the playoffs.

578
00:29:58,200 --> 00:29:58,520
Speaker 8: They've won.

579
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Speaker 3: This is not a jinx, this is fact.

580
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Speaker 5: They've won eleven games in a row with fans in

581
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Speaker 5: the playoffs at home.

582
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Speaker 3: Do you think how many more years do you think

583
00:30:07,200 --> 00:30:10,040
Speaker 3: you and I have left to live on the air

584
00:30:13,600 --> 00:30:17,840
Speaker 3: that was good to live. I hope I have. I

585
00:30:17,840 --> 00:30:20,560
Speaker 3: hope I have forty forty, so you make early nineties.

586
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Speaker 3: Do you think in those forty years the Hawks will

587
00:30:22,720 --> 00:30:24,040
Speaker 3: be a number one seed again?

588
00:30:24,120 --> 00:30:24,320
Speaker 2: Yes?

589
00:30:24,640 --> 00:30:27,360
Speaker 3: And do you think they'll make the super Bowl every

590
00:30:27,440 --> 00:30:30,960
Speaker 3: time they're a number one seed? If it happens four

591
00:30:31,000 --> 00:30:34,360
Speaker 3: more times, no, Okay, if it happens once more than probably.

592
00:30:34,400 --> 00:30:36,440
Speaker 3: My point is is that eventually the Hawks are going

593
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Speaker 3: to have the number one seed and that's going to

594
00:30:38,440 --> 00:30:41,760
Speaker 3: make it. It's just at some point in time that

595
00:30:41,880 --> 00:30:44,320
Speaker 3: gravy train's going to come to an end, but.

596
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Speaker 5: It'll probably and it might be in a situation like

597
00:30:46,840 --> 00:30:50,440
Speaker 5: this where they're facing a five seed, that is, or

598
00:30:50,640 --> 00:30:51,920
Speaker 5: they five or sick five.

599
00:30:52,360 --> 00:30:55,000
Speaker 3: Seed, not a typical five. Are not a typical five

600
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Speaker 3: at all, but the Seahawks now are.

601
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Speaker 5: While we maybe didn't think a month and a half

602
00:31:00,840 --> 00:31:03,600
Speaker 5: ago the Seahawks were a legit one seed.

603
00:31:04,280 --> 00:31:06,760
Speaker 3: They're a legit one seed now, yeah, But you know

604
00:31:06,760 --> 00:31:09,600
Speaker 3: who else could have been a legit number one? The Rams.

605
00:31:09,840 --> 00:31:12,120
Speaker 3: They got the second best difference on the NFL, dude,

606
00:31:12,320 --> 00:31:14,520
Speaker 3: behind the Hawks. Hawks are plus one ninety one the

607
00:31:14,600 --> 00:31:17,120
Speaker 3: Rams or plus one seventy two. And I will also

608
00:31:17,160 --> 00:31:19,080
Speaker 3: say this about the Rams. If I were doing Scott

609
00:31:19,120 --> 00:31:21,240
Speaker 3: Kaplin's job, who's gonna join us tomorrow? By the way,

610
00:31:21,440 --> 00:31:23,239
Speaker 3: I'd be saying, hey, man, my team is way more

611
00:31:23,280 --> 00:31:26,440
Speaker 3: battle tested recently than your team is. Because our team

612
00:31:26,480 --> 00:31:28,720
Speaker 3: had to go into Carolina and get a win against

613
00:31:28,720 --> 00:31:31,280
Speaker 3: a gritty team, going to Chicago where it was snowing,

614
00:31:31,320 --> 00:31:34,360
Speaker 3: the weather stunk, it was ten degrees against a freaking

615
00:31:34,480 --> 00:31:37,840
Speaker 3: dynamite magician and Caleb Williams and a loud crowd pull

616
00:31:37,880 --> 00:31:40,800
Speaker 3: out a win there, and gritty, gutty Chicago. You guys

617
00:31:40,800 --> 00:31:43,360
Speaker 3: have been just coasting for the last three weeks. So

618
00:31:43,480 --> 00:31:45,680
Speaker 3: this becomes a four quarter game, which I think it

619
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Speaker 3: will be. How much does that benefit the Rams on Sunday?

620
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Speaker 3: Can we just play this? Or how many no? Can

621
00:31:51,760 --> 00:31:54,440
Speaker 3: we play this thing? I am so tired already of

622
00:31:54,520 --> 00:31:56,800
Speaker 3: talking about it. Man, he's gonna say this tomorrow and Friday.

623
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Speaker 3: I am everybody use the same analysis tomorrow Friday, because

624
00:32:00,920 --> 00:32:04,120
Speaker 3: I'm just done forget, Like, gee, what does this mean? Gee?

625
00:32:04,120 --> 00:32:04,920
Speaker 3: What does that mean?

626
00:32:05,040 --> 00:32:05,240
Speaker 2: Gee?

627
00:32:05,320 --> 00:32:06,040
Speaker 3: What does this mean?

628
00:32:06,120 --> 00:32:06,320
Speaker 6: Gee?

629
00:32:06,360 --> 00:32:06,560
Speaker 2: What?

630
00:32:06,560 --> 00:32:07,160
Speaker 3: What the hell?

631
00:32:07,280 --> 00:32:08,200
Speaker 2: Man? Enough for? I think?

632
00:32:08,280 --> 00:32:10,960
Speaker 5: I think if you asked a one hundred coaches, which

633
00:32:10,960 --> 00:32:13,360
Speaker 5: would they take, battle tested or rested?

634
00:32:13,440 --> 00:32:17,080
Speaker 3: I think they'd take rested. Well, good question for Mike

635
00:32:17,080 --> 00:32:19,680
Speaker 3: Homberan tomorrow, ask him how much that really matters? On

636
00:32:19,720 --> 00:32:22,080
Speaker 3: game day, we're gonna break. We'll do some texts next,

637
00:32:22,080 --> 00:32:24,880
Speaker 3: and then Kevin Harlan's calling the game for Westwood One.

638
00:32:25,120 --> 00:32:27,040
Speaker 3: He will join us at five on ninety three three

639
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Speaker 3: KJRFM