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Speaker 1: Bring on our NFL network insider Ian Rappaport to help

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Speaker 1: Thank you so much for the time.

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Speaker 2: Man. How are you? What's going on? How you guys

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Speaker 2: doing good?

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Speaker 3: Merry Christmas, Happy holidays, Iann, For sure, we appreciate the time.

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Speaker 3: So Ryan and I were just talking about DK Metcalf

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Speaker 3: and what happened yesterday and the and the suspension for

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Speaker 3: two games as best. You know, you've been around the

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Speaker 3: league a long time as a vibe, but it's best.

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Speaker 3: You know why two games not one?

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Speaker 2: Because it was egregious. I mean, yes, he did know

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Speaker 2: the fan and I don't know what the fan yelled him.

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Speaker 2: There's been sort of allegations on either side. We can't

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Speaker 2: do it, and we can't do it. I cannot cannot

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Speaker 2: go into the stands, can interact with the fan. He

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Speaker 2: kind of grabbed him twice, he grabbed him by the shirt,

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Speaker 2: he swiped datam you know, didn't connect really, but you

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Speaker 2: can't do it, and I think you know the league

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Speaker 2: punishment this year has actually been pretty harsh. And remember

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Speaker 2: it started with a full game for spitting uh you know, ejection,

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Speaker 2: then essentially a full game and this sort of continues

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Speaker 2: what is a you know, been a pretty harsh reality

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Speaker 2: for some players. But to me, two games seems very

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Speaker 2: gonna appeal. So we'll see what it ends up being.

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Speaker 2: But pretty serious, you know, yeah, no doubt about it.

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Speaker 1: Another big story today. And of course the Broncos are

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Speaker 1: going to play out Arow Arrowhead on Thursday, but that

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Speaker 1: is going to be moving now to uh the Chiefs

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Speaker 1: are now moving to Kansas. What can you tell us

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Speaker 1: about that story?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I have to say not that this put me

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Speaker 2: by surprise, but like you know, you you hear the

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Speaker 2: different ustring and you guys are you know, you guys

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Speaker 2: are going through kind of a weird part of it

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Speaker 2: with the Broncos because there's no like threats on either side.

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Speaker 2: You know, usually it's like kind of ugly. It's not

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Speaker 2: like that for the Broncos, but this is what stadium

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Speaker 2: Fight's kind of a lank and said, go, okay, I

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Speaker 2: guess they could I guess they could move to campon

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Speaker 2: It's like, oh my god, they're moving to campus. So

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Speaker 2: they're getting a lot of public money. They're getting an

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Speaker 2: indoor stadium, you know, coverage stadium. It's going to be

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Speaker 2: a multi use facility for concerts and all that. And

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Speaker 2: you know, it certainly seems like after you know, years

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Speaker 2: and years of fighting with Missouri, the Missouri has now

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Speaker 2: lost another team. You know, they lost the Rams and

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Speaker 2: they lost the Chiefs, and I you know, it's I'm

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Speaker 2: sure frustrating for everybody there, but you know, unfortunately this

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Speaker 2: is the reality.

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Speaker 3: You know, yesterday with the Broncos excuse me, losing at

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Speaker 3: home to Jacksonville, and the Chargers beating Dallas in Dallas

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Speaker 3: in New England, coming from behind last night and winning

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Speaker 3: a game in Baltimore. The I mean, the Broncos still

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Speaker 3: control their own fate. If they two games, they are

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Speaker 3: the number one seed, they win the AFC West. But

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Speaker 3: as as you look at the AFC right now, I

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Speaker 3: can't think of gosh, I can't think of the last

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Speaker 3: time that I looked at the AFC and said, man,

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Speaker 3: it is so wide open with two regular season games

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Speaker 3: to play.

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Speaker 2: Well, it's interesting because in a weird way, it's like

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Speaker 2: it's kind of top heavy, right because like We're going

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Speaker 2: into the final two weeks and I think we basically

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Speaker 2: know who's in. I mean, is it going to be

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Speaker 2: Steelers or Ravens. We don't know that, but we kind

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Speaker 2: of know everyone else, it feels like. And so it

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Speaker 2: is a really in part because there's a lot of

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Speaker 2: bad teams this year, it is a really high powered field.

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Speaker 2: Like there's no one who's under five hundred. There's no

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Speaker 2: one who you're kind of like, man, I can't be

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Speaker 2: like the seventh seed is the Texans, who like who

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Speaker 2: would want to play them? Right now? Right? You know?

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Speaker 3: I mean my point my point was though, I mean

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Speaker 3: if you if you were to look at the field

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Speaker 3: as we know it and what you said is exactly right,

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Speaker 3: and you said, okay, you know what, you get to

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Speaker 3: pick who comes out of the AFC and represents the

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Speaker 3: conference in the Super Bowl. I mean I would I

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Speaker 3: would say Denver if they get home field advantage, but

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Speaker 3: I think it could be one through seven except Denver.

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Speaker 2: Right, So Denver just got beat by by by another

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Speaker 2: also good team. I mean, who would you like to face? Right?

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Speaker 2: The Chargers have one like what is it like seven

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Speaker 2: like it's and that's it's weird because like I don't

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Speaker 2: know how much drama we're going to get over the

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Speaker 2: next two weeks. But like and it's also weird because

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Speaker 2: there's no Mahomes, there might be no Lamar, Like there's

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Speaker 2: gonna be some teams that were used to seeing that

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Speaker 2: we don't see and so like that's not of weird too,

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Speaker 2: but it's gonna be pretty awesome, you know, like if

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Speaker 2: Denver gets there. And it's crazy the arc of the

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Speaker 2: Bronco season because like obviously, like you know, like we

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Speaker 2: didn't start off thinking like, all right, the Broncos are

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Speaker 2: going to be a competition for the one seed. Like

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Speaker 2: that's not what this year began. Unless you here Sean Payton,

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Speaker 2: he probably believed it. But like it has the potential

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Speaker 2: to be an incredible playoffs and also one where the

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Speaker 2: whole NFL gets introduced to players they really hadn't known beforehand,

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Speaker 2: which is always a very very cool thing.

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Speaker 1: In the collective bargaining agreement with the officials with the

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Speaker 1: refs is expiring coming up here in May, and you

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Speaker 1: had a couple of interesting moments over the weekend. Obviously Thursday, night,

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Speaker 1: you had the two point conversion that ended up getting

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Speaker 1: reviewed was a backward pass, but it was a fumble

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Speaker 1: that was recovered ahead. I don't know, it's weird. And

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Speaker 1: then you had the situation yesterday with Detroit and kind

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Speaker 1: of the weirdness at the end of that game. I

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Speaker 1: don't know how where does the NFL come down on

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Speaker 1: how they're going to move forward here with the refs.

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Speaker 1: Is there going to be more training, Is there going

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Speaker 1: to be some more negotiating on the way this thing is,

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Speaker 1: because right now it seems like every single weekend we

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Speaker 1: have something come up with the rests where there's a

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Speaker 1: big controversy.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, I think that does happen a lot. Now.

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Speaker 2: I'm a little frustrated with the one yesterday with the

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Speaker 2: Lions one because they made all the right calls. That

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Speaker 2: was not the problem. It was a messaging problem, right,

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Speaker 2: Like anyone who lest kids, Right, if you're at home

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Speaker 2: and the school nurse calls you, what's the first thing

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Speaker 2: the school nurse says to you, Everything's fine, but right,

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Speaker 2: that's what they say. They give you the most important

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Speaker 2: part first. And so if you're doing if you're Carl

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Speaker 2: Jefferson you're announcing Lions Steelers. The most important part is

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Speaker 2: the Steelers have won the game. But that's not what

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Speaker 2: he said. He said, all right, the ruining of the

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Speaker 2: field is a touchdown, however, and you're like, wait, what

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Speaker 2: did they wait? So it's like everybody was confused. So

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Speaker 2: like it was really a messaging problem, not a rules problem,

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Speaker 2: because the reality was time ran out and it was

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Speaker 2: a penalty on the offense the end. Right. So, but

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Speaker 2: to answer your question, like, I do think there's gonna

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Speaker 2: be a push from the NFL for year round officials.

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Speaker 2: I do think there's gonna be a push from the

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Speaker 2: NFL for more hands on training and more of a

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Speaker 2: like a a result based situation where you get more

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Speaker 2: better games if you're if you're you know, rated, is better.

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Speaker 2: And I think in the end it's going to benefit

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Speaker 2: all of us, you know, I really do.

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Speaker 1: All right, good stuff as always, Ian, We will check

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Speaker 1: in with you next week, my friend. Thank you, Okay,

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Speaker 1: appreciate it man, Merry Christmas, all right, you and a

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Speaker 1: wrap aport