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Speaker 2: Is there a close game in the house? Does anybody?

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Speaker 3: A close game anywhere?

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Speaker 2: Three games in two underdogs have won the games. The

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Speaker 2: Hello Kyle Rudolph, what do you think so far?

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Speaker 3: Hi?

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Speaker 4: Mark Willard? Uh yeah, shocked by that? I mean, I

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Speaker 4: honestly it's you say, well, why are you shocked? It's

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Speaker 4: what the Dallas Cowboys have done every year since nineteen

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Speaker 4: ninety five. But you know at the same time. You know,

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Speaker 4: we talked on this show months ago about how important

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Speaker 4: January is for the Dallas Cowboys and Dak Prescott everyone

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Speaker 4: in that organization. You know, we just heard it eight

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Speaker 4: if you would have thought Dallas was gonna be Dallas,

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Speaker 4: maybe it was next week when they you know, played

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Speaker 4: somebody else at home as the two seed, getting two

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Speaker 4: straight home games, not coming out this week where you know,

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Speaker 4: again it's like you heard it all week long. Now,

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Speaker 4: this is a different Dallas team. This is a Dallas

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Speaker 4: team that's you know, finally gonna get over the hump.

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Speaker 4: They're gonna get back to the NFC Championship for the

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Speaker 4: first time since nineteen ninety five. And you know, it's

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Speaker 4: just all around sloppy penalties early in the game, obviously turnovers,

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Speaker 4: Dak's gotta be better with the football, and then it

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Speaker 4: just gets to that point where it's so out of hand.

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Speaker 4: You know, I think Dak through it sixty times. That's

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Speaker 4: not what you're looking for in terms of success. That's

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Speaker 4: not how they They had had success throughout the course

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Speaker 4: of the year. And on the flip side, I think

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Speaker 4: you need to give this Green Bay Packers team talent. Yep,

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Speaker 4: you got. You gotta give them credit, the talent that

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Speaker 4: it's kind of a Packers team that we all rode

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Speaker 4: at Detroit. And those are the scariest teams, you know,

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Speaker 4: to see it here tonight with this La Rams team.

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Speaker 4: You know, they got to play good football late in

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Speaker 4: That's a scary team that comes and plays a division

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Speaker 2: Well, I'm glad you said it that way, because I

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Speaker 2: the sport is, a Celtics, a Lakers. When your team

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Speaker 3: So CJ.

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Speaker 2: Stroud and Jordan Love Boy, we see you, we see you,

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Speaker 2: and we're going to get to you. And if you're

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Speaker 3: You're gonna get all.

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Speaker 2: The credit you deserve because that was one hell of

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Speaker 3: They have found their guy, and.

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Speaker 2: They are the organization that has basically gone my entire

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Speaker 2: From far to Rogers and now it looks like they've

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Speaker 3: And what that owner. I know the way they think.

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Speaker 2: And to come out here and lose on your home

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Speaker 2: Everything I've ever known about the Cowboys organization that that

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, we've talked about the expectations of this

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Speaker 4: So for this Cowboys team to not only come out

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Speaker 3: But I want to point this out.

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Speaker 2: This is a little bit of a different We'll get

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, you talk about those four defenses, those

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Speaker 4: And you know, the over under in times they show

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Speaker 4: And it's like, that's that's what gives this Dallas team

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Speaker 2: There are other burning questions coming out of this game,

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Speaker 2: But before this next one starts, I'd love to get

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Speaker 2: The Rams I think fit into the box you just created.

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Speaker 2: It's a team that's had to be good every week

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Speaker 4: I think the key to this game will be a

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Speaker 3: Feel you, I know what you mean.

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Speaker 2: I also am looking at what we've watched so far

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Speaker 2: But I'm looking for somebody's defense to look good. And

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Speaker 2: Well, Jared Goff might have said the same thing on

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Speaker 4: But we're not putting all the pressure on you. The

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Speaker 4: So the organization has to do something. They have all

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Speaker 2: I think you're right, there's nothing to do right now

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Speaker 2: prepare to move on from Dak Prescott. I'm not saying

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Speaker 2: if next year also doesn't go well.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I would argue, do you have Dak Prescott play

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Speaker 4: out that four year contract at a fifty nine point

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Speaker 4: four million dollar cap pit or do I go back

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Speaker 4: to the point of what do we have to do

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Speaker 4: to help get Dak over the hump? Dak's our guy, Clearly,

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Speaker 4: he's our guy guy. So instead of Dak playing his

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Speaker 4: last year at almost sixty million of a cap hit,

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Speaker 4: that's where the extension comes into play. So you give

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Speaker 4: him the extension, it lowers his cap hit, you go

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Speaker 4: spend that money elsewhere, you know, ultimately, with Dak playing

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Speaker 4: out his track next year in Dallas had a sixty

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Speaker 4: million dollar cap hit, you know, you're handcuffing the roster

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Speaker 4: in the personnel department to not be able to go

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Speaker 4: out and get guys to help you get over the hump.

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Speaker 4: So personally, I think that's what's gonna happen. I think

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Speaker 4: you're gonna see an extension this offseason. You know, he

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Speaker 4: signed a four year extension last time. I certainly don't

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Speaker 4: see it being anything, you know more than that, you know,

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Speaker 4: something in the three to four year range that will

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Speaker 4: lower his cap number this year and give them an

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Speaker 4: opportunity to go out and spend some of that excess

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Speaker 4: salary cap that they'll create and redoing his deal.

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Speaker 2: I'd love to know some of the positional changes or

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Speaker 2: additions that you'd love.

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Speaker 3: To see made around him. We can get to that

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Speaker 3: in a little bit.

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Speaker 2: Rams are on the move, but we'll let all the

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Speaker 2: details go to Steve de Sager, who's gonna jump in

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Speaker 2: here for the first time on our show tonight with

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Speaker 2: what's treading Hey Steve.

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Speaker 8: Hello, gentlemen, we have a matchup of Lions versus Rams

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Speaker 8: in the postseason, and it turns out for the folk

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Speaker 8: at Stats Inc. It's been quite a while since there

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Speaker 8: was a Lions versus Rams matchup. How about nineteen fifty two.

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Speaker 8: It's one of the largest gaps in any of the

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Speaker 8: four major sports.

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Speaker 3: I looked it up.

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Speaker 8: The defending champion Rams lost at Detroit in nineteen fifty two.

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Speaker 8: Here tonight it's Detroit a seven nothing lead over the Rams,

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Speaker 8: about five minutes to go in the first quarter. By

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Speaker 8: the way, mister Bay Area, when the Giants and A's

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Speaker 8: met in the World Series nineteen eighty nine, that was

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Speaker 8: an even longer gap. That had been since nineteen thirteen

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Speaker 8: that they had met in the postseason. And we got

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Speaker 8: the Dodgers Red Sox in a World Series recently that

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Speaker 8: had been over a century since they met in the postseason.

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Speaker 8: What seems like it's been a century is that the

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Speaker 8: Lions could be winning a playoff game this year. This

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Speaker 8: is a very good team twelve and five. If not

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Speaker 8: maybe for a controversial call against Dallas recently, maybe they

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Speaker 8: would have been the two seed. Things would have been

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Speaker 8: a different opponent. But they're up seven to nothing and impressively.

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Speaker 8: So you mentioned their first drive, they went straight down

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Speaker 8: the field against the Ram. Jered go Off the x

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Speaker 8: Ram five for five passing fifty one yards, David Montgomery

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Speaker 8: a one yard touchdown run, six first downs on that

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Speaker 8: opening drive for the home team, and then when Matthew

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Speaker 8: Stafford ex of Detroit took the field, heavy booing in

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Speaker 8: the indoor stadium they have in Detroit there as we

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Speaker 8: mentioned weather and outdoors. Yes, the Monday night games at

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Speaker 8: Tampa Bay Bucks hosting the Eagles, Timpson the sixties in

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Speaker 8: Tampa butt a chance of rain day and night there,

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Speaker 8: and today's Pittsburgh at Buffalo game was postponed to Monday

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Speaker 8: due to the snowstorm in the city. Green Bay dominated

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Speaker 8: at Dallas forty eight to thirty two. Jordan Love with

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Speaker 8: three touchdown passes. Dallas had won sixteen straight at home.

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Speaker 8: Aaron Jones with three touchdown runs, the Chargers are due

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Speaker 8: to talk to Jim Harbaugh about their coaching vacancy. They've

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Speaker 8: already interviewed seven other candidates. Michigan quarterback JJ McCarthy declared

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Speaker 8: for the NFL Draft. The new coach at the University

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Speaker 8: of Washington will be Jed Fish from Arizona, as Caitlin

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Speaker 8: de Boorr left for Alabama. In the NBA wins for

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Speaker 8: Denver and Miami, Draymond Green could return for Golden State tomorrow.

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Speaker 8: In college hoops, number four, Yukon be Georgetown eighty to

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Speaker 8: sixty seven. Maryland was a winner at number ten Illinois

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Speaker 8: seventy six sixty seven. And among the NHL games, Rangers

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Speaker 8: got a two to one victory over Washington under five

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Speaker 8: minutes to go in the first quarter. Rams are gonna

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Speaker 8: be going forward on fourth and goal? Would they possibly?

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Speaker 8: We'll see it's they're in the red zone. It's a

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Speaker 8: fourth and goal at the six, coming up Detroit for

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Speaker 8: the moment, up seven. Nothing against the Rams and guys.

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Speaker 8: One thing to keep in mind about how the Rams

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Speaker 8: season has gone. Their kicking game is atrocious for a

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Speaker 8: playoff team, genuinely bad. They missed the most kicks place

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Speaker 8: kicks of any team in the NFL this year, and

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Speaker 8: they were second worst in punting net average as well.

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Speaker 2: Back to you, all right, great stuff, Steve Tyrek dot

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Speaker 2: Com Studios. It does appear they're going to kick, although, Kyle,

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Speaker 2: it would be the most twenty twenty fourth thing ever for.

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Speaker 3: Somebody from the six yard line in the first quarter

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Speaker 3: to go forward on fourth down.

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Speaker 4: No, Thankfully, they got a Super Bowl winning head coach

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Speaker 4: over that's making some decisions and he's gonna take his

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Speaker 4: three points knowing that this is going to be a battle,

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Speaker 4: hard fought, close game and points are going to be

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Speaker 4: of a premium premium and they are on the board.

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Speaker 2: So it is seven to three Lions after both teams

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Speaker 2: touched the ball one time with just under four and

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Speaker 2: a half to go in the first quarter.

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Speaker 3: So we will fully keep you up to date on that.

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Speaker 2: I did want to get your thoughts though, on something

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Speaker 2: else that Steve mentioned, because I listen, I've never really

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Speaker 2: put my finger on the pulse of how the Detroit

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Speaker 2: fan base felt emotionally about Matthew Stafford. I get that

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Speaker 2: everybody is very emotional tonight. I get that everybody's probably drunk,

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Speaker 2: but loud booze of matt Stafford as he takes the field.

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Speaker 2: What's your thought there?

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Speaker 4: That's sports. You know, think back to the Super Bowl

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Speaker 4: run that they had in twenty twenty one. There was

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Speaker 4: no one rooting for Matthew Stafford and the Los Angeles

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Speaker 4: Rams to win more than that Detroit Lions fan base.

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Speaker 4: And it's a fan base that that's your number one

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Speaker 4: overall pick, twelve years starting quarterback, you know, broke all

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Speaker 4: kinds of franchise records and quite honestly, you know, got

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Speaker 4: you to the playoffs a couple of times, ultimately didn't

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Speaker 4: didn't get the division championship or a playoff win. But

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Speaker 4: at the end of the day, it's a fan base

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Speaker 4: that has nothing but love for Matthew. But Matthew's the

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Speaker 4: bad guy tonight, and they're gonna make sure that he

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Speaker 4: knows he's the bad guy. And after tonight, it's gonna

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Speaker 4: go right back to a fan base that loves and

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Speaker 4: respects Matthew. But it's that's sports, Like he's the other

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Speaker 4: team starting quarterback and we're gonna make sure that he

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Speaker 4: knows that. You know, we're gonna bring it, going to

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Speaker 4: make it as difficult on him as possible, and it's

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Speaker 4: gonna start with lal booz as you run out on

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Speaker 4: the field, so doesn't surprise me. I know there was

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Speaker 4: a lot of talk this week of the Matthew Stafford

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Speaker 4: jersey band and Ford Field and you know, how can

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Speaker 4: you do that? Like he you know, he gave twelve

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Speaker 4: years to the organization. It's it's sports. You know, he's

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Speaker 4: the bad guy. I guarantee you if you know, the

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Speaker 4: next Detroit Lions home game, there will be number nine

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Speaker 4: Matthew Stafford jerseys all over the place. Again, it's you know,

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Speaker 4: it's not one of those things where there was any

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Speaker 4: kind of bad blood when Matthew left and now he's

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Speaker 4: coming back. It's a fan base that still one hundred

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Speaker 4: percent loves Matthew, just not tonight.

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Speaker 2: Well, and I get that if any one of those

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Speaker 2: booing fans ran into him in the parking lot outside,

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Speaker 2: it would be all pictures and autographs and smiles.

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Speaker 3: I I totally get it. You're not wrong. But it's

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Speaker 3: interesting because it's a subject.

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Speaker 2: Matter we dealt with here in the Bay Area quite

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Speaker 2: a bit over the last week or so, because the

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Speaker 2: Warriors had back to back home games where they were

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Speaker 2: absolutely putrid, and I mean putrid, like couldn't stay on

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Speaker 2: the floor putrid. And they got booed, which is an

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Speaker 2: interesting thing when you're talking about a group at its

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Speaker 2: core that's a four time championship team.

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Speaker 3: But what I kept saying is even worse, Like they

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Speaker 3: got booed.

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Speaker 2: But then in the fourth quarter people left, and I'm like,

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Speaker 2: that's way more offensive. You know, there's something respectful hidden

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Speaker 2: inside of a boot.

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Speaker 3: It's emotional.

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Speaker 2: There's recognition there, the indifference of I don't even care

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Speaker 2: to do anything to me, would feel worse if I

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Speaker 2: were in their position.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, and especially that team and that organization, the success

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Speaker 4: that they've had over the last decade and the standard

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Speaker 4: that has been set by that group of guys and

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Speaker 4: that head coach. You know, so certainly you can see

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Speaker 4: the frustration there, and you know, you're right booing is

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Speaker 4: ultimately in you know, emotional response and Ageah. I think

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Speaker 4: it's just the city of Detroit and everyone in that

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Speaker 4: stadium letting matth. You know that. Look, we're gonna be

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Speaker 4: here for the next sixty minutes, and we're gonna be loud,

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Speaker 4: We're gonna make this as difficult as possible on you

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Speaker 4: and after it's over, we're gonna go right back to

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Speaker 4: loving you. But for tonight again your your public enemy

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Speaker 4: number one, and we're gonna make sure that you know it.

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Speaker 2: Rudolph on Mark Willard and indeed coming up next, would

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Speaker 2: love to hear some more of the ideas of exactly

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Speaker 2: what it is the Cowboys need to do around Doc

615
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Speaker 2: to elevate this thing beyond where it is right now,

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Speaker 2: because it's obviously not good enough.

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Speaker 3: What's up Motown?

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Speaker 2: The Lions have had the ball twice and Kyle it's

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Speaker 2: gone well. It has gone very well for that offense.

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Speaker 2: They are doing whatever they want. Jared Golf has all

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Speaker 2: day he has as long as he wants back there

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Speaker 2: he does.

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Speaker 4: And you got to give a lot of credit to

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Speaker 4: Ben Johnson. I you know, you sit around all week

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Speaker 4: and you come up with the plan for the first

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Speaker 4: fifteen plays. And for those that haven't heard of like

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Speaker 4: a first most offensive cordinerators have their their first fifteen.

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Speaker 4: Uh sometimes they just call them openers, maybe at the

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Speaker 4: very minimum ten plays that they want to get to

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Speaker 4: and based down in distances, so you know it doesn't

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Speaker 4: include third down or red zone, any type of situational football.

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Speaker 4: And you know those are plays that usually go through

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Speaker 4: through probably two or three times from Friday Saturday. I

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Speaker 4: guarantee they walked through him this morning at the team hotel.

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Speaker 4: And I mean, he couldn't have dialed up a better

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Speaker 4: opening script here through the first two drives, going right

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Speaker 4: down the field. You said it like a knife through

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Speaker 4: hot butter. Two touchdowns down.

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Speaker 3: Yep, fourteen to three.

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Speaker 2: And this was not in Sean mcvay's script where Matt

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Speaker 2: Stafford would then trip on the turf on the first

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Speaker 2: down play when he gets the ball back. So the

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Speaker 2: rams are immediately going to be looking at second and

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Speaker 2: really really long as he falls down and it's gonna

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Speaker 2: go as a quarterback sack.

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Speaker 4: So even the Detroit turf's getting him right.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Like you see those like exactly, You're like, oh,

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Speaker 2: he tripped over the running back. Then you saw the replay,

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Speaker 2: You're like, no, no, he tripped over the twenty one

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Speaker 2: yard line.

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Speaker 3: That's what he tripped over.

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Speaker 4: A turf monster got him.

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Speaker 2: So third and long coming up with rams and again

660
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Speaker 2: we will keep you up today. There's a lot to

661
00:35:03,360 --> 00:35:06,680
Speaker 2: get you on this and how the whole structure of

662
00:35:06,719 --> 00:35:10,799
Speaker 2: the NFC playoffs will shake out depending on this one

663
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Speaker 2: tonight and obviously what happened earlier with the Packers going

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Speaker 2: into Dallas and blowing out the Cowboys. One of the

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Speaker 2: reasons I love my job, and there are many, is

666
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Speaker 2: that I get the opportunity to actually speak to people

667
00:35:25,600 --> 00:35:29,160
Speaker 2: like you who can leave the emotion out of the

668
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Speaker 2: fan experience. Like, yes, I've been doing sports media for years,

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Speaker 2: but at my core, I'm a fan, and those of

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Speaker 2: us who do this.

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Speaker 3: Like, that's the way we respond.

672
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Speaker 2: We see something and it's immediately the emotional response. So

673
00:35:45,520 --> 00:35:49,759
Speaker 2: I guarantee you at homes in Dallas, Texas and quite

674
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Speaker 2: frankly all over the country tonight, people are talking about

675
00:35:53,320 --> 00:35:56,960
Speaker 2: Dak Prescott's job status and you calmly walk in and go,

676
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Speaker 2: that's not it. Not only is that not that's not

677
00:36:00,880 --> 00:36:04,560
Speaker 2: what they're doing big for all kinds of reasons. Financially

678
00:36:04,640 --> 00:36:08,000
Speaker 2: they can't what would be the next option? None of

679
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Speaker 2: those things exist, So okay, you say, make some more

680
00:36:13,160 --> 00:36:15,720
Speaker 2: tightening of the screws moves around.

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Speaker 3: Uh, Dak Kyle, what are they? You know?

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Speaker 4: I think when when I look at this offense, you know,

683
00:36:22,560 --> 00:36:26,839
Speaker 4: it was an offense that was coordinated by Kellen Moore. Uh,

684
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Speaker 4: you know, kind of as he was under Jason Garrett,

685
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Speaker 4: which is still a very drop back heavy system. You know,

686
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Speaker 4: obviously early in his career they relied a lot on

687
00:36:39,440 --> 00:36:44,640
Speaker 4: three All Pro offense aligneman Zeke Elliott running the football,

688
00:36:45,280 --> 00:36:48,680
Speaker 4: you know, not having the entire game and pressure of

689
00:36:48,719 --> 00:36:51,759
Speaker 4: the game beyond on your quarterback shoulders. And you say, well,

690
00:36:51,800 --> 00:36:54,000
Speaker 4: you know, you we're paying them all this money, Like

691
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Speaker 4: why would we not? Because you know, quite honestly, that's

692
00:36:56,840 --> 00:36:59,480
Speaker 4: not the recipe for success. You know, go back and

693
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Speaker 4: look at the best quarterback that ever played this game,

694
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Speaker 4: and you look at the success that the Patriots had

695
00:37:05,800 --> 00:37:09,640
Speaker 4: on offense and how multi dimensional they could be, and

696
00:37:09,680 --> 00:37:12,839
Speaker 4: how some days they come out and Tom throws it

697
00:37:13,360 --> 00:37:16,520
Speaker 4: twenty four times and they beat you by fourteen. And

698
00:37:16,600 --> 00:37:18,480
Speaker 4: sometimes he comes out and he has to throw it

699
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Speaker 4: fifty two times. The big thing that I would love

700
00:37:22,880 --> 00:37:24,960
Speaker 4: to see just from an offensive side, you know, on

701
00:37:25,239 --> 00:37:28,359
Speaker 4: the defensive side of the ball, I think it's a

702
00:37:28,480 --> 00:37:34,400
Speaker 4: defense that flies around. They don't do a whole lot.

703
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Speaker 4: What they do do they do very well. You know,

704
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Speaker 4: they kind of play to the strength of their defense.

705
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Speaker 4: It's Dan Quinn's mo Let my guys that are better

706
00:37:45,080 --> 00:37:48,640
Speaker 4: than your guys. Just go play fast, get after the quarterback,

707
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Speaker 4: cause turnovers. So on the offensive side of the ball,

708
00:37:52,440 --> 00:37:55,319
Speaker 4: you look at an offense that you'd say, wow. You know,

709
00:37:55,840 --> 00:37:58,440
Speaker 4: they were fifth in the NFL in total offense. You

710
00:37:58,440 --> 00:38:02,520
Speaker 4: know that's not bad. Third in the NFL and pass passing, well,

711
00:38:02,560 --> 00:38:06,000
Speaker 4: that's great. But the big things when you kind of

712
00:38:06,040 --> 00:38:08,359
Speaker 4: peel back the layers and you think, and we all

713
00:38:08,400 --> 00:38:13,239
Speaker 4: watch Dallas all year long, they stuffed the stats, you know,

714
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Speaker 4: scoring They were the number one scoring offense in all

715
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Speaker 4: of football. How do you get better than that? Well,

716
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Speaker 4: instead of scoring forty against the New York Giants twice,

717
00:38:23,960 --> 00:38:26,880
Speaker 4: or you know, beating up on all these teams, you know,

718
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Speaker 4: their point percentage difference was so high because in all

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Speaker 4: the games where they were playing bad teams, they blow

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Speaker 4: them out. Yeah, that's great. You take care of the

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Speaker 4: teams that you're supposed to take care of. But I

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Speaker 4: dive into Look, when you play good teams and you

723
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Speaker 4: play good defenses, you can't just rely on oh, they're

724
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Speaker 4: gonna make mistakes. We'll fly around on defense, we'll turn

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Speaker 4: the football over and you know, we can throw for

726
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Speaker 4: three seventy and score thirty five points like we did

727
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Speaker 4: at home pretty much all year long. You go another

728
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Speaker 4: step further, a team that was really good on third down.

729
00:39:06,719 --> 00:39:10,359
Speaker 4: They were actually second in the NFL on third down,

730
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Speaker 4: which you know, that's a testament to Dak and you

731
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Speaker 4: know his ability to live in a drop back world

732
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Speaker 4: where the defense knows you're passing and yet he can

733
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Speaker 4: deliver the football and convert third down. So to me,

734
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Speaker 4: I think it's the rushing offense. It has to be.

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Speaker 4: I talked about the Shanahan Kubiak system. I played in it.

736
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Speaker 4: It's one I'm a huge fan of. You see the

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Speaker 4: success of it all across the NFL and the pressure

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Speaker 4: that it takes off the quarterback. You know, he goes

739
00:39:41,920 --> 00:39:44,360
Speaker 4: out there and you run for a buck fifty, but

740
00:39:44,400 --> 00:39:46,279
Speaker 4: then all of a sudden, in the at two minute

741
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Speaker 4: the end of the game, you need Dak to go

742
00:39:47,760 --> 00:39:50,800
Speaker 4: be Dak. Let him do it, but you're not putting

743
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Speaker 4: the pressure of him delivering the football sixty times throughout

744
00:39:55,520 --> 00:39:58,080
Speaker 4: the course of the game. So to me, that's that's

745
00:39:58,120 --> 00:40:00,279
Speaker 4: where I feel like this offense needs to go. They

746
00:40:00,280 --> 00:40:02,879
Speaker 4: need to get away from just this pure drop back

747
00:40:03,000 --> 00:40:07,720
Speaker 4: pass game and try to find something like you've seen

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Speaker 4: over the last seven years in San Francisco from a

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Speaker 4: system standpoint.

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Speaker 2: And you think that's more of a systematic thing or

751
00:40:15,480 --> 00:40:17,720
Speaker 2: was Tony Pollard a disappointment.

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00:40:18,400 --> 00:40:21,520
Speaker 4: No, I think it's systematic. I mean, just think about

753
00:40:21,560 --> 00:40:24,239
Speaker 4: Mike McCarthy in all the years he was in Green Bay.

754
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Speaker 4: It was the same thing, like, you know, you had

755
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Speaker 4: a back that would be okay. You know, they kind

756
00:40:30,360 --> 00:40:33,120
Speaker 4: of rode Eddie Lacy for a little while when he

757
00:40:33,160 --> 00:40:36,560
Speaker 4: was doing his thing, and you know, you Aaron Jones

758
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Speaker 4: gets there towards the very end, and you know it

759
00:40:39,280 --> 00:40:44,239
Speaker 4: was basically their their backs were at times just extensions

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Speaker 4: of the run game with Aaron getting the ball out

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Speaker 4: of their hands. And you know, I feel like it's

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Speaker 4: got to be a system where you know, you really

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Speaker 4: rely on run and play action shots down the field,

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Speaker 4: explosive plays on first down because you know you have

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Speaker 4: that action and there's there's big holes in the defense.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely, and a development in the game will tell

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Speaker 2: you about next a star is born.

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Speaker 1: You're listening to Fox Sports Radio.

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Speaker 3: Well, it's appropriate that I'm on ras.

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Speaker 2: Saint Brown just made a very impressive third down catch

771
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Speaker 2: to get into the high red zone and keep moving

772
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Speaker 2: the chains for the Lions, who lead fourteen to ten,

773
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Speaker 2: because i'monra is a guy who if you ask him,

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00:41:30,280 --> 00:41:34,040
Speaker 2: he'll sit there immediately and tell you all about every

775
00:41:34,320 --> 00:41:39,320
Speaker 2: single receiver that was taken ahead of him in the draft.

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Speaker 2: He remembers them all and he was undervalued, there's no

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Speaker 2: doubt because he's one of the best receivers in the game.

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Speaker 2: Someone on the other side of the ball I firmly

779
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Speaker 2: believe is going to be that for.

780
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Speaker 3: A long long time in this league.

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Speaker 2: And he showed you every single thing that you could

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Speaker 2: possibly want to see out of a rookie season. You

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00:41:58,360 --> 00:42:01,120
Speaker 2: could argue it's the greatest rule season that a wide

784
00:42:01,120 --> 00:42:03,920
Speaker 2: receiver has ever had. And the Rams are staying in

785
00:42:03,960 --> 00:42:06,800
Speaker 2: this game because of a third and one long pass

786
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Speaker 2: down the left sideline to Pooka Nakuwa, who.

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Speaker 3: Is just Kyle a route runner, like I mean.

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Speaker 2: No one saw him coming because he didn't have all

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Speaker 2: the measurables at the draft. I wonder what your perspective

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Speaker 2: is on that. You were a second rounder, but you

791
00:42:22,520 --> 00:42:25,000
Speaker 2: were the top tight end in your particular draft. You

792
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Speaker 2: were someone who people to a degree, you know, saw

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Speaker 2: you coming. How does this pooka Nakua? How does this happen?

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Speaker 4: I mean, you got to give this this RAMS scouting

795
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Speaker 4: department general manager. Think about the last two years. The

796
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Speaker 4: year before that, they take Karen Williams in the fifth round.

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Speaker 4: You got two All Pro Pro Bowl players on your

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Speaker 4: offense that were fifth round picks in back to back years.

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Speaker 4: And you know, you said it, he's just he's a

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Speaker 4: route runner. He's a football player. Yeah, he might not

801
00:43:00,520 --> 00:43:03,560
Speaker 4: have ran the fastest forty yard dash, but you know

802
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Speaker 4: he can run routes, he can create separation, we get

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Speaker 4: the ball in his hand. He's tough to tackle. You know,

804
00:43:09,600 --> 00:43:14,040
Speaker 4: he's a physical runner. And you know, the previous year

805
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Speaker 4: before you get Kien Williams out of the fifth round,

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Speaker 4: and I saw Kyroen a lot obviously because he's a

807
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Speaker 4: Notre Dame kid and he was a guy that was

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Speaker 4: just steady. You know, playing at Notre Dame, you're always

809
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Speaker 4: going to play with a great offensive line, and usually

810
00:43:28,200 --> 00:43:30,160
Speaker 4: your offensive line is going to be better than the

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Speaker 4: defensive line that you're playing against, with the exception of

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Speaker 4: a couple games a year when you play your you know,

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Speaker 4: USC's in those type of schools, so pretty much, you

814
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Speaker 4: know you have the upper hand almost every week as

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Speaker 4: a run game goes. But you know, this was a

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Speaker 4: guy that was just solid. And I think one of

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Speaker 4: the things that was so appealing to that scouting department

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Speaker 4: in personnel staff was Kien's ability to catch the football.

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Speaker 4: You know, he caught the ball the backfield a lot

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Speaker 4: at Notre Dame as well. Like I said, you got

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Speaker 4: to give that staff credit and not only finding the guys.

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Speaker 4: I saw a video actually when they when they drafted

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Speaker 4: Puca last year, and you know, Less is sitting there

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Speaker 4: talking to Sean and basically Sean he knew exactly what

825
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Speaker 4: he was gonna do with them before they even drafted

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Speaker 4: the kid. And again it's like this is a fifth

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Speaker 4: rounder pick one hundred something, and he knew exactly what

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Speaker 4: he was gonna do with him and how he was

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Speaker 4: gonna fit into his offense. Uh, and they knew they

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Speaker 4: had a star right away.

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Speaker 2: Okay, situational moment here Detroit fourth and about a yard

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Speaker 2: and a half from the two.

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Speaker 3: What do they do?

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Speaker 4: Know what Dan Campbell is gonna do?

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Speaker 3: Dan Campbell?

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Speaker 2: Dan Campbell is going uh tackle eligible?

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Speaker 3: No, yeah, you knew he is?

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Speaker 4: He tackle eligible?

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Speaker 3: Tackle eligible? He did?

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Speaker 2: And uh yeah, no doubt the Dean's going to go

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Speaker 3: They do go for it. It's a standard drop back.

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Speaker 2: It's a throw into the back of the end zone

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Speaker 2: and a touchdown for the Detroit Lions, extra point pending.

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Speaker 3: They are up twenty to ten.

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Speaker 2: And this game, this so far, this is the game

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Speaker 2: we've been looking for all week in long.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 4: I mean, we're, like I said, starting off at the

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Speaker 4: top that first drive, Sean takes the field goal because

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Speaker 4: again we thought points were going to be at a

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Speaker 4: premium and now here we are. We're going to be

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Speaker 4: in a shootout and it's twenty one to ten here

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Speaker 4: still in the first half, and just an absolute masterpiece

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Speaker 4: so far by Ben Johnson. You know, they dial up

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Speaker 4: a play there. You see pre snap, Sam Laplorida is

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Speaker 4: lined up at the tailback position and David Montgomery was

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Speaker 4: actually split out to the left. They shift into a

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Speaker 4: lunch formation. Jared Goff has exactly what he wants in

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Speaker 4: three on three. Sam Laporta runs a great route against

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Speaker 4: you know, a guy number ninety seven. He's got an

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Speaker 4: outside linebacker covering him, so clearly they brought pressure and

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Speaker 4: you got to give this Detroit Lions offense credit. Just

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Speaker 4: a masterpiece so far.

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Speaker 2: Laporta is fantastic, and I'm surprised he's playing, especially with

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Speaker 2: the way that they talked about his injury last week.

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Speaker 2: I am overwhelmingly impressed that he's even out there, let

872
00:46:31,360 --> 00:46:32,239
Speaker 2: alone looking good.

873
00:46:33,239 --> 00:46:34,680
Speaker 4: It's so good to see him out here. You know,

874
00:46:34,680 --> 00:46:36,959
Speaker 4: he just got that flat route on the first drive,

875
00:46:37,000 --> 00:46:39,360
Speaker 4: and we were talking about Detroit's offense and I almost

876
00:46:39,360 --> 00:46:41,680
Speaker 4: said it then that it's like, it's just good to

877
00:46:41,680 --> 00:46:45,120
Speaker 4: see him out there. That's the thing we talked about

878
00:46:45,160 --> 00:46:47,759
Speaker 4: going into week eighteen. When when you're playing a game

879
00:46:47,800 --> 00:46:50,480
Speaker 4: and you really don't have that much to gain, the

880
00:46:50,520 --> 00:46:52,560
Speaker 4: worst thing that can happen is you lose one of

881
00:46:52,600 --> 00:46:56,000
Speaker 4: your impact players, and we thought that happened to the

882
00:46:56,040 --> 00:46:58,840
Speaker 4: Detroit Lions, and this offense certainly is not the same

883
00:46:59,239 --> 00:47:02,279
Speaker 4: without Sam. So great to see him out there, and

884
00:47:02,520 --> 00:47:04,880
Speaker 4: quite honestly, he looks good. You know, it's not like

885
00:47:04,920 --> 00:47:07,120
Speaker 4: he's out there. Certainly he's got the knee brace on.

886
00:47:07,920 --> 00:47:09,879
Speaker 4: But you can tell when when a guy's out there

887
00:47:09,880 --> 00:47:12,920
Speaker 4: and you know he's really pushing through something. You know,

888
00:47:12,960 --> 00:47:15,840
Speaker 4: maybe he's seventy five percent, eighty percent, but it's the

889
00:47:15,840 --> 00:47:19,360
Speaker 4: playoffs and you're gonna give everything you have, and it

890
00:47:19,400 --> 00:47:21,440
Speaker 4: doesn't look like that's the case, So you got to

891
00:47:21,440 --> 00:47:23,279
Speaker 4: give him credit. I know there was a lot of

892
00:47:23,960 --> 00:47:27,160
Speaker 4: time and effort and energy put into the last seven

893
00:47:27,239 --> 00:47:31,000
Speaker 4: days in the training room, working with the staff at

894
00:47:31,000 --> 00:47:33,319
Speaker 4: home and in the facility to get out there and

895
00:47:33,360 --> 00:47:36,480
Speaker 4: play tonight, and uh that that's really impressive from a

896
00:47:36,560 --> 00:47:38,680
Speaker 4: rookie to see a guy that has that type of

897
00:47:38,719 --> 00:47:40,640
Speaker 4: toughness and grit to get out there and play.

898
00:47:41,040 --> 00:47:42,200
Speaker 3: He looks fantastic.

899
00:47:42,239 --> 00:47:45,480
Speaker 2: And I don't know what the RAMS adjustment on defense

900
00:47:45,760 --> 00:47:48,160
Speaker 2: is I don't know if there's one they can make.

901
00:47:48,200 --> 00:47:51,120
Speaker 2: I don't know if it's a different blitz package that

902
00:47:51,280 --> 00:47:54,080
Speaker 2: they can mix in here. But it's three drives, three

903
00:47:54,160 --> 00:47:57,200
Speaker 2: touchdowns for the Lions. And again going back to what

904
00:47:57,200 --> 00:48:01,040
Speaker 2: we said on that opening drive, if it looks like this,

905
00:48:01,480 --> 00:48:07,320
Speaker 2: you know, golf Stafford, any of the quarterbacks like that, like, okay,

906
00:48:07,360 --> 00:48:10,759
Speaker 2: are they elite? We usually don't have them in those sentences,

907
00:48:11,160 --> 00:48:13,839
Speaker 2: but they sure are if it looks like this. In

908
00:48:13,880 --> 00:48:17,960
Speaker 2: other words, he's got all day. If you do that,

909
00:48:18,200 --> 00:48:19,719
Speaker 2: he's never gonna miss a throw.

910
00:48:19,880 --> 00:48:21,440
Speaker 3: Like. He's that type. They both are.

911
00:48:21,840 --> 00:48:24,040
Speaker 2: They're that type of quarterback that if you don't get

912
00:48:24,080 --> 00:48:26,160
Speaker 2: them off their spot, forget.

913
00:48:25,800 --> 00:48:28,040
Speaker 3: It, they're gonna get a touchdown every single drive.

914
00:48:28,880 --> 00:48:31,319
Speaker 4: Hey, Mark, I got a crazy idea for you. For you,

915
00:48:32,239 --> 00:48:38,360
Speaker 4: if you're a defensive coordinator going into the playoffs, do

916
00:48:38,400 --> 00:48:40,080
Speaker 4: you think you want to spend a little bit more

917
00:48:40,080 --> 00:48:42,520
Speaker 4: time trying to stop the other team's offense instead of

918
00:48:42,560 --> 00:48:47,279
Speaker 4: interviewing for head coaching jobs jobs. We've got two coordinators

919
00:48:47,360 --> 00:48:49,719
Speaker 4: so far that spent all last week. We heard, we

920
00:48:49,760 --> 00:48:52,960
Speaker 4: saw their names, Rahem Morris, dan Quinn, all these that's

921
00:48:52,960 --> 00:48:55,960
Speaker 4: the biggest thing that I dislike about our hiring process

922
00:48:55,960 --> 00:48:58,640
Speaker 4: in football, And you know, these guys are supposed to

923
00:48:58,680 --> 00:49:00,919
Speaker 4: be preparing for a wild card game and you can't

924
00:49:00,920 --> 00:49:02,680
Speaker 4: help it, Like, you know, I get it, most of

925
00:49:02,680 --> 00:49:06,000
Speaker 4: the interviews are virtual, but you know you're not completely

926
00:49:06,040 --> 00:49:09,239
Speaker 4: dedicated to the game plan and the team that you're

927
00:49:09,280 --> 00:49:12,960
Speaker 4: currently coaching for when you're interviewing for other head coaching jobs.

928
00:49:13,520 --> 00:49:15,799
Speaker 4: And you know, we saw it with Dallas and their

929
00:49:15,840 --> 00:49:18,880
Speaker 4: defense earlier today, and now you know you're seeing it

930
00:49:18,880 --> 00:49:20,920
Speaker 4: with the Rams. You know, they they can't stop a

931
00:49:20,960 --> 00:49:22,640
Speaker 4: nosebleed right now in the first half.

932
00:49:23,800 --> 00:49:24,879
Speaker 3: It's an interesting point.

933
00:49:25,719 --> 00:49:28,640
Speaker 2: They were not the only coordinators out there doing that,

934
00:49:28,800 --> 00:49:31,080
Speaker 2: but maybe they were for the game week.

935
00:49:31,120 --> 00:49:31,920
Speaker 3: I mean, Steve.

936
00:49:31,680 --> 00:49:35,239
Speaker 2: Wilkes was talked about a lot as well defensive coordinator

937
00:49:35,560 --> 00:49:37,640
Speaker 2: for the forty nine ers, but it's not game week

938
00:49:37,680 --> 00:49:41,239
Speaker 2: for them, and so I don't know what that'll look

939
00:49:41,280 --> 00:49:42,560
Speaker 2: like next week for him.

940
00:49:43,360 --> 00:49:44,040
Speaker 3: And I get it.

941
00:49:44,080 --> 00:49:47,799
Speaker 2: You're right, like, I'm not here to take away anybody's opportunity.

942
00:49:48,400 --> 00:49:50,719
Speaker 2: If somebody out there wants you, you got to go

943
00:49:50,800 --> 00:49:53,560
Speaker 2: talk to them. But I like what you're saying. There's

944
00:49:53,560 --> 00:49:56,640
Speaker 2: got to be a different way to do this where you.

945
00:49:56,960 --> 00:49:59,400
Speaker 2: I mean, it's playoffs, you gotta Yeah, it happened to

946
00:49:59,480 --> 00:50:02,960
Speaker 2: us twice. Yeah, you got coaches off doing other stuff.

947
00:50:03,000 --> 00:50:05,800
Speaker 2: That's wild to me. If players were doing that, Kyle,

948
00:50:06,239 --> 00:50:09,520
Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, the fans would go crazy. Odell Beckham

949
00:50:09,560 --> 00:50:13,560
Speaker 2: couldn't take a picture game week on a boat without

950
00:50:13,600 --> 00:50:16,720
Speaker 2: it having without it turning into a huge ordeal.

951
00:50:17,600 --> 00:50:21,239
Speaker 4: Yeah, it happened to us twice. In Minnesota twenty seventeen,

952
00:50:22,440 --> 00:50:25,440
Speaker 4: we lost one of my favorite coaches in Pat Shermer.

953
00:50:25,520 --> 00:50:28,000
Speaker 4: He became the head coach of the New York Giants,

954
00:50:28,080 --> 00:50:30,360
Speaker 4: and we couldn't have been happier for him. You know,

955
00:50:30,400 --> 00:50:32,799
Speaker 4: it's like, that's what you want your goal. You know,

956
00:50:32,880 --> 00:50:35,560
Speaker 4: for me as a player, it was always for my

957
00:50:36,360 --> 00:50:38,880
Speaker 4: you know, the if we had an assistant in our room,

958
00:50:39,360 --> 00:50:41,799
Speaker 4: for him to become a position coach, and for our

959
00:50:41,840 --> 00:50:46,000
Speaker 4: position coach, if he had aspirations of becoming a coordinator,

960
00:50:46,400 --> 00:50:49,719
Speaker 4: to become a coordinator, and obviously every coordinator's job is

961
00:50:49,760 --> 00:50:52,520
Speaker 4: to ultimately become a head coach. And you want to

962
00:50:52,560 --> 00:50:56,560
Speaker 4: see your coaches climb the ladder. You want to particularly

963
00:50:56,640 --> 00:51:00,279
Speaker 4: if they have aspirations of calling plays one day and

964
00:51:00,320 --> 00:51:03,120
Speaker 4: then ultimately being a head coach. So you love to

965
00:51:03,160 --> 00:51:05,520
Speaker 4: see it, and that's always your goal as a player.

966
00:51:05,560 --> 00:51:07,600
Speaker 4: You want to go out there and perform. So that way,

967
00:51:07,960 --> 00:51:10,200
Speaker 4: you know when people look at you know, for me,

968
00:51:10,280 --> 00:51:13,040
Speaker 4: it was the Minnesota Vikings offense, the tight end room. Oh,

969
00:51:13,080 --> 00:51:14,839
Speaker 4: that guy's a good football coach, Like you know, look

970
00:51:14,880 --> 00:51:17,200
Speaker 4: at his guys. Look how they play, Look how they're prepared,

971
00:51:17,520 --> 00:51:19,600
Speaker 4: Look at the consistency at which they play at a

972
00:51:19,680 --> 00:51:23,520
Speaker 4: high level. So again that's what we all want. But

973
00:51:23,680 --> 00:51:28,120
Speaker 4: the process of throughout the most important time of the year,

974
00:51:28,640 --> 00:51:31,120
Speaker 4: you take a guy like Pat Srber and you take

975
00:51:31,200 --> 00:51:34,279
Speaker 4: him away from our team, whether it be for a

976
00:51:34,320 --> 00:51:37,359
Speaker 4: half hour hour, whatever that is, and you have these

977
00:51:37,480 --> 00:51:40,040
Speaker 4: meetings with him to become your head coach. You know,

978
00:51:40,160 --> 00:51:42,120
Speaker 4: fast forward two years later, we do it again with

979
00:51:42,239 --> 00:51:46,160
Speaker 4: Kevin Stefanski. Twenty nineteen. We beat the New Orleans Saints

980
00:51:46,160 --> 00:51:48,200
Speaker 4: in New Orleans in the wildcard round. Then we're coming

981
00:51:48,200 --> 00:51:50,040
Speaker 4: out to play your San Francisco forty nine ers in

982
00:51:50,080 --> 00:51:52,360
Speaker 4: the Bay Area, and Kevin already knows he's going to

983
00:51:52,400 --> 00:51:54,759
Speaker 4: be the head coach of the Cleveland Browns. So you know,

984
00:51:54,840 --> 00:51:57,799
Speaker 4: it's like, you know, how can you blame them for

985
00:51:57,920 --> 00:52:01,080
Speaker 4: not being a little distracted when at this point in

986
00:52:01,120 --> 00:52:04,440
Speaker 4: the year, you know, you because I do it. You know,

987
00:52:04,480 --> 00:52:08,239
Speaker 4: I'm doing this thing right now with all of the

988
00:52:08,280 --> 00:52:10,640
Speaker 4: Walter Payton Man of the Year nominees, So you know,

989
00:52:10,719 --> 00:52:13,640
Speaker 4: I'm a former nominee and the award means so much

990
00:52:13,680 --> 00:52:16,600
Speaker 4: to me. We raise money for these guys' charities, and

991
00:52:16,640 --> 00:52:19,400
Speaker 4: it's really hard for me to get to the guys

992
00:52:19,440 --> 00:52:23,399
Speaker 4: who were playing because again, they're so focused on it's

993
00:52:23,440 --> 00:52:26,319
Speaker 4: the playoffs. Like, you know, I get it, you know,

994
00:52:26,400 --> 00:52:28,960
Speaker 4: the off the field stuff is great, and but it's

995
00:52:29,000 --> 00:52:30,759
Speaker 4: like Kyle, you know, like let me get back to

996
00:52:30,760 --> 00:52:33,200
Speaker 4: you in a little bit. You know, it's it's playoff time,

997
00:52:33,320 --> 00:52:36,759
Speaker 4: Like I'm dialed in. And so I think it's just

998
00:52:36,800 --> 00:52:39,160
Speaker 4: something that the NFL has always missed on, you know,

999
00:52:39,400 --> 00:52:41,319
Speaker 4: in terms of the process, Like how can you have

1000
00:52:41,400 --> 00:52:44,239
Speaker 4: these guys interviewing for jobs. You know, you said it.

1001
00:52:44,280 --> 00:52:46,720
Speaker 4: You use the example of Odell and taking a picture

1002
00:52:46,760 --> 00:52:49,960
Speaker 4: on a boat, But like, how about our soon to

1003
00:52:50,000 --> 00:52:53,479
Speaker 4: be unrestricted free agents, Like we're not allowed to start

1004
00:52:53,480 --> 00:52:56,760
Speaker 4: talking to other teams. You know, they can't be negotiating

1005
00:52:56,800 --> 00:52:59,359
Speaker 4: future contracts right now. You can't do it until free

1006
00:52:59,360 --> 00:53:02,400
Speaker 4: agencies start in March, so you know, would we really

1007
00:53:02,440 --> 00:53:05,960
Speaker 4: be losing all that much by making these teams that

1008
00:53:06,000 --> 00:53:09,080
Speaker 4: are ultimately hiring new head coaches wait till the second

1009
00:53:09,120 --> 00:53:12,560
Speaker 4: week of February to start their interviews. Again, if everybody's

1010
00:53:12,600 --> 00:53:15,319
Speaker 4: doing it, it's not a competitive disadvantage, So why not?

1011
00:53:16,120 --> 00:53:18,080
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think it's a great point. Makes all the

1012
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1018
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Speaker 2: in touch with Rams and Lions because this game is

1019
00:53:45,400 --> 00:53:47,879
Speaker 2: crazy and a whole lot of fun. But also coming

1020
00:53:47,960 --> 00:53:52,120
Speaker 2: up next, I'll saw some surprising things from other NFL

1021
00:53:52,200 --> 00:53:56,120
Speaker 2: players about TUA on social media last night.

1022
00:53:56,200 --> 00:53:57,080
Speaker 3: We should address it.

1023
00:53:57,120 --> 00:53:59,640
Speaker 2: We will coming up next with Kyle Rudolph Mark Willard

1024
00:53:59,640 --> 00:54:00,560
Speaker 2: Fox Worts Radio.

1025
00:54:00,719 --> 00:54:03,560
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1026
00:54:03,600 --> 00:54:06,960
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1027
00:54:07,120 --> 00:54:11,200
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1028
00:54:11,320 --> 00:54:12,839
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1029
00:54:12,880 --> 00:54:14,800
Speaker 3: These athetie rag dot com Studios.

1030
00:54:14,800 --> 00:54:17,319
Speaker 2: That's Kyle Rudolph and I am Mark Willard, and we

1031
00:54:17,360 --> 00:54:18,279
Speaker 2: are watching.

1032
00:54:17,960 --> 00:54:18,680
Speaker 3: One right now.

1033
00:54:18,719 --> 00:54:22,600
Speaker 2: The Lions lead the Rams twenty one seventeen, but it

1034
00:54:22,719 --> 00:54:24,560
Speaker 2: sort of feels like who's going to have the ball

1035
00:54:24,680 --> 00:54:28,000
Speaker 2: last type of a night. The Lions are facing a

1036
00:54:28,040 --> 00:54:30,440
Speaker 2: third and long in their own territory right now, and

1037
00:54:30,480 --> 00:54:34,279
Speaker 2: we're tiktoking toward the end of the first half. It's

1038
00:54:34,320 --> 00:54:37,040
Speaker 2: been really fun. We'll see where this one goes. We'll

1039
00:54:37,040 --> 00:54:39,200
Speaker 2: watch it with you the whole way. I want to

1040
00:54:39,200 --> 00:54:42,279
Speaker 2: throw this at you, Kyle and get your reaction. I

1041
00:54:42,400 --> 00:54:46,120
Speaker 2: just happened to notice this one. Willie Snead, who is

1042
00:54:46,160 --> 00:54:50,480
Speaker 2: a longtime NFL receiving but is a not very often

1043
00:54:50,680 --> 00:54:53,640
Speaker 2: used member of the forty nine ers right now. He's

1044
00:54:53,640 --> 00:54:57,080
Speaker 2: been with the Saints Ravens. He's been a few places

1045
00:54:57,120 --> 00:55:01,040
Speaker 2: in the past. Last night, during the Eaves Dolphins game,

1046
00:55:01,120 --> 00:55:04,560
Speaker 2: he tweeted out the Dolphins will be good when Tua

1047
00:55:04,680 --> 00:55:10,840
Speaker 2: stops acting soft a f I got a couple of

1048
00:55:10,920 --> 00:55:15,840
Speaker 2: questions here. First of all, what's your reaction to the point.

1049
00:55:16,160 --> 00:55:19,560
Speaker 2: Second of all, what's your reaction to an active player

1050
00:55:20,280 --> 00:55:22,479
Speaker 2: saying stuff like that on social media in the middle

1051
00:55:22,480 --> 00:55:23,680
Speaker 2: of the playoffs.

1052
00:55:25,200 --> 00:55:30,279
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, Snead was an okay player for for

1053
00:55:30,320 --> 00:55:33,960
Speaker 4: a while in this league, and you know, certainly think

1054
00:55:34,000 --> 00:55:37,520
Speaker 4: about his time in New Orleans. Everybody that played with

1055
00:55:37,600 --> 00:55:41,200
Speaker 4: Drew Brees was productive. So you know, it's like, Okay,

1056
00:55:41,360 --> 00:55:45,480
Speaker 4: you got that. I guess he was okay on Baltimore.

1057
00:55:47,560 --> 00:55:50,279
Speaker 4: You know, it's like, I get it. You know, we've

1058
00:55:50,320 --> 00:55:53,800
Speaker 4: certainly been been critical of of the Dolphins on this show.

1059
00:55:55,080 --> 00:55:58,600
Speaker 4: We've been critical of their ability to beat good teams.

1060
00:56:00,880 --> 00:56:05,719
Speaker 4: I said it the week that Buffalo beat them in

1061
00:56:05,960 --> 00:56:10,600
Speaker 4: Buffalo that look, if they want to ultimately get to

1062
00:56:10,640 --> 00:56:12,160
Speaker 4: where they want to be, they're gonna have to beat

1063
00:56:12,200 --> 00:56:14,960
Speaker 4: good teams because they want to play their playoff game

1064
00:56:15,000 --> 00:56:21,240
Speaker 4: in Miami. And it couldn't have played out any more

1065
00:56:21,600 --> 00:56:24,239
Speaker 4: like I thought it would, where ultimately they had to

1066
00:56:24,280 --> 00:56:26,880
Speaker 4: go play a game now that I think it was

1067
00:56:26,960 --> 00:56:30,480
Speaker 4: going to be negative seven or whatever it was, and

1068
00:56:30,600 --> 00:56:34,400
Speaker 4: I've played in one of those. We lost to the

1069
00:56:34,520 --> 00:56:38,239
Speaker 4: Seattle Seahawks ten to nine. I think it was like

1070
00:56:39,239 --> 00:56:41,960
Speaker 4: a little bit colder than that for us at kickoff,

1071
00:56:43,239 --> 00:56:45,200
Speaker 4: you know, certainly for us. It wasn't a night game.

1072
00:56:45,239 --> 00:56:47,440
Speaker 4: We were actually the noon kickoff, so we got to

1073
00:56:47,480 --> 00:56:49,280
Speaker 4: play while the sun was out and it was still

1074
00:56:49,320 --> 00:56:54,640
Speaker 4: that cold. But it's it's not easy to throw the football.

1075
00:56:55,360 --> 00:56:57,600
Speaker 4: You know. There was really no offense for us the

1076
00:56:57,719 --> 00:57:00,880
Speaker 4: entire game. We kicked three field goals. They were down

1077
00:57:01,680 --> 00:57:05,960
Speaker 4: ten or sorry, they were down nine to three. You know,

1078
00:57:06,120 --> 00:57:10,080
Speaker 4: Hall of Fame running back Adrian Peterson. Adrian fumbled late

1079
00:57:10,120 --> 00:57:12,920
Speaker 4: in the game. They took that fumble turnaround and scored

1080
00:57:13,000 --> 00:57:16,840
Speaker 4: the first and only touchdown of the game to go

1081
00:57:16,920 --> 00:57:18,800
Speaker 4: up ten to nine, and you know, we went down

1082
00:57:18,840 --> 00:57:21,640
Speaker 4: the field. Obviously, people that are familiar with Vikings football,

1083
00:57:21,680 --> 00:57:25,400
Speaker 4: they know how that game ended, and you know, ultimately

1084
00:57:25,440 --> 00:57:28,680
Speaker 4: we came up short. But I think about how hard

1085
00:57:28,800 --> 00:57:34,240
Speaker 4: it was to operate on offense from a passing standpoint

1086
00:57:34,280 --> 00:57:37,120
Speaker 4: in that game. So, you know, for someone to be like, oh,

1087
00:57:37,200 --> 00:57:40,800
Speaker 4: to a soft, you know the elements, you know, I

1088
00:57:40,800 --> 00:57:43,600
Speaker 4: don't necessarily agree with it, nor do I like, you know,

1089
00:57:45,840 --> 00:57:48,080
Speaker 4: he seemed to be toying pretty well. He was an

1090
00:57:48,200 --> 00:57:50,080
Speaker 4: MVP frontrunner for the whole You didn't just all of

1091
00:57:50,080 --> 00:57:51,720
Speaker 4: a sudden become soft because they had to play a

1092
00:57:51,720 --> 00:57:54,280
Speaker 4: playoff game on the road, right, Yeah, you know.

1093
00:57:54,360 --> 00:57:58,000
Speaker 2: Like, yeah, he tried to sort of and not walk

1094
00:57:58,040 --> 00:58:00,440
Speaker 2: it back, but I thought there was more deeds. He

1095
00:58:00,880 --> 00:58:04,160
Speaker 2: tweeted a little bit more later about it and saying

1096
00:58:04,560 --> 00:58:06,960
Speaker 2: he thinks Tua can be good as good as Patrick

1097
00:58:07,000 --> 00:58:10,919
Speaker 2: Mahomes if he'd be willing to take chances. I'm paraphrasing

1098
00:58:10,960 --> 00:58:13,360
Speaker 2: a little bit there, but that's what he said next.

1099
00:58:13,800 --> 00:58:16,400
Speaker 2: And that's an interesting one. I've watched Tua a lot,

1100
00:58:16,480 --> 00:58:19,440
Speaker 2: and I don't know that I've ever sort of gotten

1101
00:58:19,600 --> 00:58:23,040
Speaker 2: that vibe from him, that that he's risk averse.

1102
00:58:23,280 --> 00:58:25,120
Speaker 3: You have you ever gotten that feeling before?

1103
00:58:26,440 --> 00:58:29,000
Speaker 4: No? I mean I feel like two is a guy

1104
00:58:29,000 --> 00:58:30,880
Speaker 4: at times where I'm like, dude, why are you throwing

1105
00:58:30,920 --> 00:58:33,320
Speaker 4: that pass? Like why are you throwing? Like there was

1106
00:58:33,360 --> 00:58:34,920
Speaker 4: no reason to throw that ball in there? And I

1107
00:58:34,920 --> 00:58:37,760
Speaker 4: think of a couple last Sunday night, you know, watching

1108
00:58:37,800 --> 00:58:41,000
Speaker 4: them play against Buffalo on Sunday Night football, and you

1109
00:58:41,000 --> 00:58:43,360
Speaker 4: know there were a couple of throws, certainly the interception

1110
00:58:43,800 --> 00:58:45,919
Speaker 4: to end the game. You know, he forces a ball

1111
00:58:45,960 --> 00:58:50,240
Speaker 4: into Chase Claypool, who you knows been in Miami for

1112
00:58:50,600 --> 00:58:53,280
Speaker 4: a handful of weeks, and you know it's like you

1113
00:58:53,880 --> 00:58:56,640
Speaker 4: don't have your guy out there. So you know, Tyreek

1114
00:58:56,680 --> 00:58:58,560
Speaker 4: got banged up a little bit on the play before,

1115
00:58:58,640 --> 00:59:00,800
Speaker 4: and you know, so he was out that play and

1116
00:59:00,840 --> 00:59:03,640
Speaker 4: you know, ultimately you're gonna fight again. That's I feel

1117
00:59:03,680 --> 00:59:05,840
Speaker 4: like that's somebody who's sitting back there that that isn't

1118
00:59:05,840 --> 00:59:07,720
Speaker 4: soft and he's trying to make a play and he

1119
00:59:07,760 --> 00:59:11,479
Speaker 4: doesn't really care about, you know, the risks that he's

1120
00:59:11,520 --> 00:59:14,400
Speaker 4: making by trying to force it in there. So you

1121
00:59:14,440 --> 00:59:19,160
Speaker 4: know at times, you know, again, certainly when you're playing

1122
00:59:19,200 --> 00:59:23,360
Speaker 4: the quarterback position. Again, everyone's compared to Tom Brady, Patrick Mahomes,

1123
00:59:23,960 --> 00:59:26,640
Speaker 4: Drew Brees rightfully, so like they're some of the best

1124
00:59:26,680 --> 00:59:30,480
Speaker 4: quarterbacks that ever played the game. And I think you

1125
00:59:30,480 --> 00:59:32,440
Speaker 4: can look at every single one of those guys, like

1126
00:59:32,720 --> 00:59:35,720
Speaker 4: there are times where you know, whether it was Tom

1127
00:59:35,800 --> 00:59:38,680
Speaker 4: and the Super Bowls that the Giants were able to

1128
00:59:38,680 --> 00:59:41,280
Speaker 4: get pressure on them and it wasn't edge pressure, it

1129
00:59:41,320 --> 00:59:44,040
Speaker 4: was interior pressure, and all of a sudden, everyone, oh

1130
00:59:44,160 --> 00:59:46,400
Speaker 4: they figured it out. This is how you stop Tom Brady,

1131
00:59:46,440 --> 00:59:48,520
Speaker 4: and then you know, ultimately what he went in won

1132
00:59:49,720 --> 00:59:52,360
Speaker 4: four more Super Bowls after, Like you know what I'm saying,

1133
00:59:52,400 --> 00:59:54,520
Speaker 4: Like these these guys are the best of the best

1134
00:59:54,520 --> 00:59:58,200
Speaker 4: for a reason, and you know, they just because they

1135
00:59:58,240 --> 01:00:01,480
Speaker 4: don't play the style that Patrick plays, where you know,

1136
01:00:01,520 --> 01:00:04,720
Speaker 4: he kind of has that nass screw it mentality like

1137
01:00:04,760 --> 01:00:07,840
Speaker 4: I'm gonna run around, turn it into recess type style

1138
01:00:07,920 --> 01:00:12,760
Speaker 4: of football and you know, ultimately will be Okay. I

1139
01:00:12,760 --> 01:00:16,240
Speaker 4: don't know that that's responsible. And I think, quite honestly,

1140
01:00:16,240 --> 01:00:18,280
Speaker 4: when we could talk about the Chiefs for a second,

1141
01:00:18,800 --> 01:00:22,760
Speaker 4: you know, they I give them credit because throughout the

1142
01:00:22,800 --> 01:00:26,560
Speaker 4: course of the year they were still playing that way

1143
01:00:26,600 --> 01:00:29,320
Speaker 4: and they didn't have the firepower to make up for it.

1144
01:00:29,680 --> 01:00:31,640
Speaker 4: You know, like when I think of the chief struggles

1145
01:00:31,680 --> 01:00:33,240
Speaker 4: throughout the course of the year, you know, I'm sitting

1146
01:00:33,240 --> 01:00:36,160
Speaker 4: here watching week after week and it's like, look, you guys,

1147
01:00:36,200 --> 01:00:40,400
Speaker 4: you can't keep doing the trick plays and the silly

1148
01:00:40,400 --> 01:00:42,680
Speaker 4: stuff that you've done over the course of the last

1149
01:00:43,080 --> 01:00:46,040
Speaker 4: number of years because they can get away with it.

1150
01:00:46,480 --> 01:00:50,040
Speaker 4: The Chiefs. It didn't matter if they were down ten, fourteen, seventeen.

1151
01:00:50,800 --> 01:00:53,240
Speaker 4: They can score points in a hurry. And it's like

1152
01:00:53,280 --> 01:00:56,439
Speaker 4: now this year they they couldn't, but they didn't quit

1153
01:00:56,640 --> 01:00:59,240
Speaker 4: doing those silly things that were they're doing before, and

1154
01:00:59,280 --> 01:01:02,000
Speaker 4: you know, force the ball turning it over and then

1155
01:01:02,040 --> 01:01:04,280
Speaker 4: you watch them play last night, and you know, maybe

1156
01:01:04,280 --> 01:01:06,640
Speaker 4: the weather had something to do with it, but you know,

1157
01:01:06,680 --> 01:01:11,560
Speaker 4: they just played really solid football and ended up looking,

1158
01:01:11,800 --> 01:01:14,880
Speaker 4: you know, really good in cold weather, which I just

1159
01:01:14,920 --> 01:01:18,360
Speaker 4: got done saying that's not easy to do. It is

1160
01:01:18,480 --> 01:01:20,520
Speaker 4: not easy to score as many points as they scored

1161
01:01:20,600 --> 01:01:23,680
Speaker 4: last night and score touchdowns in negative temperatures.

1162
01:01:24,000 --> 01:01:26,920
Speaker 2: Well, I think there's something visually going on here as

1163
01:01:26,960 --> 01:01:28,840
Speaker 2: well when when.

1164
01:01:28,680 --> 01:01:29,720
Speaker 3: People look at to it.

1165
01:01:29,720 --> 01:01:33,960
Speaker 2: That's why it's actually super coincidental, ironic whatever coming from

1166
01:01:33,960 --> 01:01:36,640
Speaker 2: Willie Sneed, who's currently on the forty nine ers, because

1167
01:01:36,640 --> 01:01:41,240
Speaker 2: that offense is basically the little brother of the forty

1168
01:01:41,320 --> 01:01:44,720
Speaker 2: nine ers offense. That's Mike McDaniel's offense, who was Kyle

1169
01:01:44,800 --> 01:01:48,760
Speaker 2: Shanahan's assistant many times over in the NFL. You talked

1170
01:01:48,800 --> 01:01:53,040
Speaker 2: about this earlier that Shanahan Tree right now is crushing

1171
01:01:53,320 --> 01:01:57,120
Speaker 2: any parcels Belichick Tree. You look around the league and

1172
01:01:58,080 --> 01:02:01,680
Speaker 2: there's McDaniel, and to me go, Ryan's now taking over

1173
01:02:02,160 --> 01:02:06,400
Speaker 2: in Houston and Lafleur, who's gonna go play Kyle Shanahan

1174
01:02:06,520 --> 01:02:07,000
Speaker 2: next week?

1175
01:02:07,080 --> 01:02:07,360
Speaker 3: Now?

1176
01:02:08,200 --> 01:02:14,520
Speaker 2: That offense often, to me, it looks like it masquerades

1177
01:02:14,720 --> 01:02:18,520
Speaker 2: as this thing where the quarterback is not doing anything,

1178
01:02:19,080 --> 01:02:21,160
Speaker 2: is not taking any chances, and.

1179
01:02:21,120 --> 01:02:23,400
Speaker 3: It leads to that point that we've heard made so

1180
01:02:23,520 --> 01:02:24,520
Speaker 3: many times.

1181
01:02:24,160 --> 01:02:27,080
Speaker 2: All year long about well, his quarterback's just got a

1182
01:02:27,080 --> 01:02:29,640
Speaker 2: bunch of weapons and he's just distributing the ball, and

1183
01:02:30,160 --> 01:02:33,480
Speaker 2: then there's all this yak like for some reason people

1184
01:02:33,680 --> 01:02:38,840
Speaker 2: want It's like they're asking for everyone to look like Patrick,

1185
01:02:39,160 --> 01:02:42,960
Speaker 2: Josh and Lamar, where you're gonna run around and do

1186
01:02:43,160 --> 01:02:47,040
Speaker 2: crazy stuff and get off schedule and throw behind your

1187
01:02:47,080 --> 01:02:49,000
Speaker 2: back and do it with your legs.

1188
01:02:49,200 --> 01:02:51,560
Speaker 3: And it's like, sure, that's amazing.

1189
01:02:51,720 --> 01:02:54,040
Speaker 2: There's not that many people on the planet and even

1190
01:02:54,040 --> 01:02:56,720
Speaker 2: in history that can do that stuff.

1191
01:02:57,120 --> 01:03:00,320
Speaker 3: And so that doesn't mean if you don't do.

1192
01:03:00,280 --> 01:03:04,360
Speaker 2: That that you're soft or a system QB or a

1193
01:03:04,400 --> 01:03:08,160
Speaker 2: bad QB. There's a lot of different ways to to

1194
01:03:08,200 --> 01:03:10,600
Speaker 2: squeeze the orange. Look at the two guys we're watching

1195
01:03:10,680 --> 01:03:13,960
Speaker 2: right now. Twitter thinks this is a QB clinic. I

1196
01:03:13,960 --> 01:03:16,360
Speaker 2: don't see anybody doing anything off schedule.

1197
01:03:17,480 --> 01:03:19,600
Speaker 4: No, And it's funny that we've kind of made our

1198
01:03:19,640 --> 01:03:23,200
Speaker 4: way back to that system in which I just talked

1199
01:03:23,200 --> 01:03:27,280
Speaker 4: about kind of wanting to make Dak Prescott more boring.

1200
01:03:28,160 --> 01:03:31,200
Speaker 4: You know, like, I don't want Dak dropping back fifty

1201
01:03:31,240 --> 01:03:37,040
Speaker 4: times a game and taking risks in ad libbing extending plays.

1202
01:03:37,080 --> 01:03:41,480
Speaker 4: It's like, I want to make him into this system

1203
01:03:41,560 --> 01:03:46,960
Speaker 4: where his arm, talent and experience can distribute the football

1204
01:03:47,040 --> 01:03:49,680
Speaker 4: to playmakers and you can lean on the run game.

1205
01:03:49,760 --> 01:03:52,520
Speaker 4: And you know, it's like, yeah, I'm telling you to

1206
01:03:52,560 --> 01:03:57,600
Speaker 4: make a potentially sixty million dollars a year quarterback boring,

1207
01:03:58,000 --> 01:04:03,760
Speaker 4: because guess what, boring games and boring has produced some

1208
01:04:03,840 --> 01:04:08,480
Speaker 4: of the most efficient and highest scoring offenses that we've

1209
01:04:08,520 --> 01:04:10,040
Speaker 4: seen in recent history.

1210
01:04:11,400 --> 01:04:15,040
Speaker 2: The Lions were stopped, kicked it down deep into Rams

1211
01:04:15,200 --> 01:04:18,160
Speaker 2: territory where they have the ball in the final minute

1212
01:04:18,200 --> 01:04:20,960
Speaker 2: of the first half, and they do not look interested

1213
01:04:21,480 --> 01:04:22,720
Speaker 2: in doing a whole.

1214
01:04:22,440 --> 01:04:23,040
Speaker 3: Lot with it.

1215
01:04:23,280 --> 01:04:25,240
Speaker 2: They'll get the ball when they come out in the

1216
01:04:25,280 --> 01:04:27,840
Speaker 2: second half. So looks like the Rams are going to

1217
01:04:27,920 --> 01:04:30,919
Speaker 2: run this thing down and maybe just run one more

1218
01:04:30,960 --> 01:04:34,080
Speaker 2: play and then go ahead and take that four point

1219
01:04:34,160 --> 01:04:38,800
Speaker 2: deficit into the locker room at halftime. So coming up next,

1220
01:04:39,040 --> 01:04:42,000
Speaker 2: we'll sort of pull apart the first half as we've

1221
01:04:42,040 --> 01:04:45,880
Speaker 2: seen it and still ahead. What are we really looking

1222
01:04:45,960 --> 01:04:49,240
Speaker 2: at with CJ. Stroud, We got to talk about that

1223
01:04:49,360 --> 01:04:51,560
Speaker 2: with Kyle Rudolph on Mark Willard. But right now let's

1224
01:04:51,560 --> 01:04:54,560
Speaker 2: get our third member in Steve de Seger with what's trending.

1225
01:04:54,600 --> 01:04:57,840
Speaker 8: Hey, Steve, it is halftime at Detroit twenty one seventeen

1226
01:04:57,960 --> 01:05:00,720
Speaker 8: Lions over the Rams. Details in them all. By the way,

1227
01:05:00,800 --> 01:05:02,840
Speaker 8: we know what the Green Bay victory, they'll be at

1228
01:05:02,840 --> 01:05:06,240
Speaker 8: San Francisco in the divisional round. The Bear of Fox

1229
01:05:06,400 --> 01:05:08,840
Speaker 8: is saying that the forty nine Ers open as nine

1230
01:05:08,840 --> 01:05:12,360
Speaker 8: and a half point favorites against the Packers for next weekend.

1231
01:05:12,480 --> 01:05:15,080
Speaker 8: You guys were talking about the cold weather games. That

1232
01:05:15,200 --> 01:05:17,720
Speaker 8: cold weather game last night at Kansas City. This is

1233
01:05:17,760 --> 01:05:20,280
Speaker 8: what struck me from the stat sheet is you know

1234
01:05:20,440 --> 01:05:25,760
Speaker 8: how many touchbacks we have kickoffs these days? Seemingly ninety percent.

1235
01:05:25,800 --> 01:05:27,720
Speaker 8: I know it's not that, it just seems like that.

1236
01:05:28,200 --> 01:05:30,920
Speaker 8: Last night we had nine total kickoffs, only three of

1237
01:05:30,960 --> 01:05:34,720
Speaker 8: them even reached the end zone. Last night in Kansas City.

1238
01:05:35,160 --> 01:05:38,240
Speaker 8: I remember hearing the quote from somebody who had played

1239
01:05:38,240 --> 01:05:41,160
Speaker 8: in that Chargers AFC championship that was so cold at

1240
01:05:41,160 --> 01:05:44,200
Speaker 8: Cincinnati decades ago. They said, kicking that day, it was

1241
01:05:44,280 --> 01:05:47,200
Speaker 8: like trying to kick a rock here. Last night's game

1242
01:05:47,240 --> 01:05:50,480
Speaker 8: at Kansas City was the fifth coldest game in NFL

1243
01:05:50,640 --> 01:05:54,919
Speaker 8: history minus four degrees at kickoff and minus twenty seven

1244
01:05:54,960 --> 01:05:58,760
Speaker 8: degrees Winshield. Remember about fifteen years ago the NFC Title

1245
01:05:58,800 --> 01:06:02,320
Speaker 8: game Giants at green Bay. Somehow Tom Coughlin's face survived.

1246
01:06:02,320 --> 01:06:05,480
Speaker 8: That was minus four degrees at kickoff. And you reference

1247
01:06:05,520 --> 01:06:07,960
Speaker 8: the Vikings and people might be wondering why were they

1248
01:06:08,000 --> 01:06:11,720
Speaker 8: playing outdoors? The new stadium wasn't ready. Remember they had

1249
01:06:11,760 --> 01:06:14,640
Speaker 8: season or two? Was it the outdoors? It was minus

1250
01:06:14,680 --> 01:06:19,040
Speaker 8: six degrees at kickoff for that playoff game against Seattle.

1251
01:06:19,480 --> 01:06:22,240
Speaker 8: The one I reference with Cincinnati hosting the Chargers was

1252
01:06:22,280 --> 01:06:25,280
Speaker 8: the nineteen eighty one AFC Title game it was minus

1253
01:06:25,400 --> 01:06:29,040
Speaker 8: nine at kickoff with a wind chill of minus fifty nine.

1254
01:06:30,000 --> 01:06:34,040
Speaker 8: And the Ice Bowl nineteen sixty seven NFL Championship, green

1255
01:06:34,080 --> 01:06:38,600
Speaker 8: Bay hosting and beating Dallas. That was minus thirteen degrees

1256
01:06:38,680 --> 01:06:42,040
Speaker 8: on the frozen tundra. Today, very cold in Dallas, but

1257
01:06:42,120 --> 01:06:45,440
Speaker 8: indoors Packers were hot, to say the least. They led

1258
01:06:45,520 --> 01:06:48,280
Speaker 8: Dallas twenty seven to nothing late first half forty eight

1259
01:06:48,240 --> 01:06:51,120
Speaker 8: to thirty two to the final, three touchdown passes for

1260
01:06:51,240 --> 01:06:54,480
Speaker 8: Jordan Love three touchdown runs for Aaron Jones, his fourth

1261
01:06:54,520 --> 01:06:58,240
Speaker 8: straight hundred yard game. Green Bay has still never lost

1262
01:06:58,360 --> 01:07:01,840
Speaker 8: in Dallas's stadium and oh including the Super Bowl win

1263
01:07:01,920 --> 01:07:04,960
Speaker 8: there over Pittsburgh at the end of the twenty ten season.

1264
01:07:05,280 --> 01:07:09,080
Speaker 8: Ceedee Lamb wound up being targeted seventeen times. Today. He

1265
01:07:09,160 --> 01:07:11,960
Speaker 8: had nine catches for one hundred and ten yards. The

1266
01:07:12,040 --> 01:07:15,760
Speaker 8: Dallas offense with thirty seven first downs and they got

1267
01:07:15,760 --> 01:07:18,880
Speaker 8: blown out eighty nine plays for the offense over five

1268
01:07:18,960 --> 01:07:23,640
Speaker 8: hundred yards, but Green Bay had seven touchdowns at advances.

1269
01:07:23,680 --> 01:07:23,880
Speaker 3: Again.

1270
01:07:24,000 --> 01:07:27,600
Speaker 8: Next weekend, green Bay at San Francisco. We will have

1271
01:07:27,680 --> 01:07:30,800
Speaker 8: the Detroit winner against the Tampa Bay winner. Next weekend

1272
01:07:30,840 --> 01:07:33,560
Speaker 8: Monday night, it's the Bucks, perhaps in the rain, hosting

1273
01:07:33,640 --> 01:07:36,360
Speaker 8: the slumping Eagles. By the way, there was no Buffalo

1274
01:07:36,480 --> 01:07:38,520
Speaker 8: home game today in case you didn't here. Pittsburgh at

1275
01:07:38,560 --> 01:07:41,400
Speaker 8: Buffalo was postponed to Monday due to the snowstorm in

1276
01:07:41,400 --> 01:07:43,800
Speaker 8: the city. Right now, at Detroit, the Lions with that

1277
01:07:43,880 --> 01:07:47,200
Speaker 8: halftime lead on the Rams twenty one seventeen. The rams

1278
01:07:47,240 --> 01:07:50,400
Speaker 8: two touchdowns came on long passes from Matthew Stafford the

1279
01:07:50,440 --> 01:07:53,680
Speaker 8: ex Lion in the second quarter, fifty yard td passed

1280
01:07:53,680 --> 01:07:56,400
Speaker 8: to Puka Nakua, thirty eight yard touchdown pass to two

1281
01:07:56,440 --> 01:07:59,920
Speaker 8: to two at Well. Former Rams quarterback Jared Goff sixteen

1282
01:08:00,160 --> 01:08:02,440
Speaker 8: of eighteen in the first half one hundred and ninety

1283
01:08:02,440 --> 01:08:05,400
Speaker 8: four yards and a short TD to Sam Laporter, who

1284
01:08:05,400 --> 01:08:08,600
Speaker 8: with the bad knee, is active and playing in this game.

1285
01:08:09,000 --> 01:08:12,400
Speaker 8: In the NBA wins for Miami and Denver College hoops,

1286
01:08:12,440 --> 01:08:15,880
Speaker 8: Maryland won at number ten Illinois New York Rangers beat

1287
01:08:16,000 --> 01:08:18,639
Speaker 8: Washington two to one in the NHL, and the new

1288
01:08:18,680 --> 01:08:22,280
Speaker 8: coach at the University of Washington's football program is Jedfish

1289
01:08:22,360 --> 01:08:25,480
Speaker 8: from the University of Arizona. Kaitlin de Boor left for Alabama.

1290
01:08:25,960 --> 01:08:30,000
Speaker 8: Washington just received a twelve million dollar buyout from Alabama

1291
01:08:30,080 --> 01:08:34,080
Speaker 8: for de Boor, and now Washington gives Arizona a buyout

1292
01:08:34,120 --> 01:08:37,160
Speaker 8: of less than six million to get Fish back to you.

1293
01:08:37,760 --> 01:08:40,639
Speaker 2: Oh, Steve, great stuff. Appreciate it so much. Tie rack

1294
01:08:40,720 --> 01:08:43,439
Speaker 2: dot com Studios. Yeah, Kyle, with what Steve was just

1295
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Speaker 2: talking about, I'd take an entire documentary on Andy Reid's

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01:08:48,120 --> 01:08:49,200
Speaker 2: mustache last night.

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Speaker 3: I don't know about you.

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01:08:50,920 --> 01:08:57,000
Speaker 2: I could watch an absolute Netflix special just on that alone.

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Speaker 3: That was one of the funniest things I've ever seen

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Speaker 3: in a four blow game.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, he referenced the negative six at kickoff, and so

1302
01:09:06,720 --> 01:09:11,200
Speaker 4: we were outside for two years while they rebuilt US

1303
01:09:11,280 --> 01:09:15,080
Speaker 4: Bank Stadium in the same location where the Metrodome was.

1304
01:09:15,400 --> 01:09:18,720
Speaker 4: And over the course of those two years, it was

1305
01:09:18,800 --> 01:09:21,280
Speaker 4: it was funny because you know, really the first year

1306
01:09:21,320 --> 01:09:24,200
Speaker 4: we played in fourteen, and we were okay. In fourteen,

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01:09:24,240 --> 01:09:26,200
Speaker 4: we weren't great. We were still a young team that

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01:09:26,280 --> 01:09:29,519
Speaker 4: was getting better. But then and fifteen, you know, we

1309
01:09:29,600 --> 01:09:33,000
Speaker 4: had guys that were now three, four, five six year

1310
01:09:33,040 --> 01:09:37,080
Speaker 4: guys in the NFL. We had drafted, well, you know,

1311
01:09:37,120 --> 01:09:41,720
Speaker 4: Teddy Bridgewater was no longer a younger player. Teddy I

1312
01:09:41,720 --> 01:09:45,479
Speaker 4: think was in his third year at that time, and like,

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01:09:45,800 --> 01:09:47,720
Speaker 4: we felt like we had a good team and you know,

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01:09:47,760 --> 01:09:50,600
Speaker 4: we kind of created a style of play with I

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01:09:50,600 --> 01:09:53,599
Speaker 4: think Adrian ran for fourteen hundred yards that year led

1316
01:09:53,640 --> 01:09:56,960
Speaker 4: the NFL and rushing, and you know, for us, it

1317
01:09:57,000 --> 01:09:58,880
Speaker 4: was like we knew you were going to have to

1318
01:09:58,960 --> 01:10:02,519
Speaker 4: come to Minnesota and play us either late in the

1319
01:10:02,560 --> 01:10:07,080
Speaker 4: year in December or in January come playoff time. And

1320
01:10:07,240 --> 01:10:13,360
Speaker 4: our style of play dictated that based on knowing that, hey,

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01:10:13,400 --> 01:10:15,800
Speaker 4: you're gonna come play us. And we played the New

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01:10:15,880 --> 01:10:19,840
Speaker 4: York Giants on Sunday Night football and it was probably

1323
01:10:20,160 --> 01:10:24,559
Speaker 4: near the single digits. It really didn't even feel cold

1324
01:10:24,560 --> 01:10:26,120
Speaker 4: for us at the time because we had been so

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01:10:26,320 --> 01:10:29,320
Speaker 4: used to it for playing outside for a year and

1326
01:10:29,400 --> 01:10:32,800
Speaker 4: a few games at that point that was like, Hey, yeah, sure,

1327
01:10:32,800 --> 01:10:35,479
Speaker 4: it's going to be in the low teens or the

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01:10:35,520 --> 01:10:40,320
Speaker 4: single digits. Like that's exactly what we wanted. So I'm

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01:10:40,360 --> 01:10:42,720
Speaker 4: glad that's a distant memory at this point, and we

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01:10:42,800 --> 01:10:47,280
Speaker 4: immediately got back into the new stadium of US Bank Stadium,

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01:10:47,280 --> 01:10:50,680
Speaker 4: and our home field advantage became the noise instead of

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Speaker 4: the temperatures.

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Speaker 3: I don't know how you did it. I really don't.

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01:10:54,640 --> 01:10:56,840
Speaker 2: I went to the Super Bowl, the Nick Foles Super

1335
01:10:56,880 --> 01:11:00,479
Speaker 2: Bowl between the Eagles and the Patriots, and I'm such

1336
01:11:00,479 --> 01:11:04,080
Speaker 2: a whimp. As a lifelong Californian, I went out there

1337
01:11:04,320 --> 01:11:06,920
Speaker 2: and I want to make sure this lands correctly. I

1338
01:11:06,960 --> 01:11:09,160
Speaker 2: think it's a beautiful area of the country, and I

1339
01:11:09,200 --> 01:11:11,519
Speaker 2: think that the people there are some of the nicest

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01:11:11,520 --> 01:11:14,240
Speaker 2: people I've ever met in my entire life. And what

1341
01:11:14,280 --> 01:11:16,040
Speaker 2: I want to say to each one of them is.

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01:11:16,000 --> 01:11:16,960
Speaker 3: Why are you here?

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01:11:17,400 --> 01:11:20,240
Speaker 2: I don't know why there are people here, Like to me,

1344
01:11:21,000 --> 01:11:25,320
Speaker 2: winter in Minnesota, I'm like, that's not livable and I

1345
01:11:25,479 --> 01:11:27,320
Speaker 2: just want to go door to door and be like,

1346
01:11:27,360 --> 01:11:30,400
Speaker 2: do you guys know that there are places where you don't.

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01:11:30,240 --> 01:11:34,680
Speaker 3: Have to do this. This is absolutely not livable. I

1348
01:11:34,680 --> 01:11:36,439
Speaker 3: can't believe you played football in it.

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01:11:36,880 --> 01:11:39,679
Speaker 4: They love it. It's funny because you reference that Super Bowl.

1350
01:11:39,680 --> 01:11:42,760
Speaker 4: In the week of the Super Bowl up until Thursday,

1351
01:11:42,800 --> 01:11:45,120
Speaker 4: it was like a ball me twenty degrees. It was

1352
01:11:45,160 --> 01:11:48,600
Speaker 4: kind of in the twenties each every day, and the

1353
01:11:49,160 --> 01:11:53,120
Speaker 4: hardy Minnesotans were just like, man, this is a bummer,

1354
01:11:53,120 --> 01:11:55,439
Speaker 4: Like everybody's coming with minie apples. Yeah, they're not getting

1355
01:11:55,479 --> 01:11:58,800
Speaker 4: a real Minnesota winter experience. And then I remember Thursday,

1356
01:11:59,200 --> 01:12:03,439
Speaker 4: those temperatures dropped and it was freezing all weekend long.

1357
01:12:04,400 --> 01:12:06,800
Speaker 4: But they do they they embrace it up there. They

1358
01:12:06,880 --> 01:12:10,040
Speaker 4: love it there. I mean it's crazy. You drive around

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01:12:10,080 --> 01:12:12,280
Speaker 4: downtown Minneapolis in the winter, you won't see a soul

1360
01:12:12,360 --> 01:12:14,960
Speaker 4: because they're all up in the skyways. But you know,

1361
01:12:15,000 --> 01:12:17,160
Speaker 4: you go out into the suburbs and you know, you

1362
01:12:17,200 --> 01:12:20,720
Speaker 4: see the trails and the outdoor activities that are going on.

1363
01:12:21,320 --> 01:12:23,360
Speaker 4: It doesn't matter how cold it is. You know they're

1364
01:12:23,400 --> 01:12:29,799
Speaker 4: all out snowmobile and fishing, cross country skiing, snowshoeing, life

1365
01:12:29,840 --> 01:12:32,400
Speaker 4: does not slow down in the bold North.

1366
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Speaker 3: It is an acquired taste and I have yet to

1367
01:12:35,479 --> 01:12:38,800
Speaker 3: acquire it. That's all that I know. But yeah, very

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Speaker 3: very impressive.

1369
01:12:40,400 --> 01:12:43,120
Speaker 2: If you can, if you can withstand all that all right,

1370
01:12:43,479 --> 01:12:46,000
Speaker 2: very impressive, if you can withstand CJ.

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Speaker 3: Stroud coming at you.

1372
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Speaker 2: And if the weekend plays out the way we think

1373
01:12:49,320 --> 01:12:52,200
Speaker 2: it will, that might be what Lamar Jackson and the

1374
01:12:52,280 --> 01:12:55,240
Speaker 2: Ravens have got to deal with coming up next week.

1375
01:12:55,600 --> 01:12:56,840
Speaker 3: What do we think about all that.

1376
01:12:56,880 --> 01:13:00,719
Speaker 2: We'll get to that, and Belichick to Dallas the favorite

1377
01:13:01,120 --> 01:13:03,559
Speaker 2: already says that's the way this could go.

1378
01:13:03,720 --> 01:13:06,320
Speaker 3: Does that make any sense? We'll get to that at the.

1379
01:13:06,280 --> 01:13:08,759
Speaker 2: Top of the hour With Kyle Rudolph on Mark Willard.

1380
01:13:08,760 --> 01:13:09,960
Speaker 2: It's Fox Sports Radio.

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01:13:10,479 --> 01:13:13,360
Speaker 5: Fox Sports Radio has the best sports talk lineup in

1382
01:13:13,400 --> 01:13:16,759
Speaker 5: the nation. Catch all of our shows at Foxsports Radio

1383
01:13:16,920 --> 01:13:21,000
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1384
01:13:21,120 --> 01:13:21,800
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1385
01:13:22,479 --> 01:13:25,080
Speaker 3: Okay, we'll live ty rag dot com Studios.

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01:13:25,080 --> 01:13:28,800
Speaker 2: Here we go, second half and Mark Willard Kyle Rudolph, Kyle,

1387
01:13:28,840 --> 01:13:30,559
Speaker 2: based on what we saw in the first half, what

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01:13:30,560 --> 01:13:32,240
Speaker 2: do you think is about to unfold here?

1389
01:13:33,720 --> 01:13:35,479
Speaker 4: I hope we get more of what we saw in

1390
01:13:35,520 --> 01:13:38,479
Speaker 4: the first half. I mean, it's just really good football

1391
01:13:38,520 --> 01:13:41,640
Speaker 4: from both offenses. Obviously on bias. I'm sure if we

1392
01:13:41,720 --> 01:13:44,680
Speaker 4: had a rusher or a dB on here, they'd be like,

1393
01:13:44,760 --> 01:13:49,160
Speaker 4: we need some stops, you know. But hey, guess what,

1394
01:13:49,200 --> 01:13:51,240
Speaker 4: we got a close game, and that's something that we

1395
01:13:51,320 --> 01:13:54,360
Speaker 4: haven't had to this point throughout the wild card round.

1396
01:13:54,960 --> 01:13:58,360
Speaker 4: And you know, the storylines go on and on and on,

1397
01:13:58,560 --> 01:14:04,120
Speaker 4: so you know, again, it's like oftentimes in sports, we

1398
01:14:04,200 --> 01:14:08,160
Speaker 4: can have such high expectations for games and you can

1399
01:14:08,200 --> 01:14:12,000
Speaker 4: go into a big game with so many storylines and

1400
01:14:12,040 --> 01:14:14,519
Speaker 4: they don't always live up to the hype. And you know,

1401
01:14:14,640 --> 01:14:18,559
Speaker 4: for me, as just a football fan that's watching this

1402
01:14:18,720 --> 01:14:21,960
Speaker 4: game as we talk to the entire country, I hope

1403
01:14:21,960 --> 01:14:23,840
Speaker 4: it continues to live up to the fight because it's

1404
01:14:23,840 --> 01:14:24,960
Speaker 4: been really good so far.

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01:14:25,400 --> 01:14:28,160
Speaker 2: It's a ton of fun, and you hope it stays

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01:14:28,160 --> 01:14:30,920
Speaker 2: close throughout and gets to the end with a little

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01:14:31,000 --> 01:14:33,040
Speaker 2: drama in the fourth quarter, because we have not seen

1408
01:14:33,439 --> 01:14:34,360
Speaker 2: fourth quarter drama.

1409
01:14:34,360 --> 01:14:34,840
Speaker 3: But I'm going to.

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01:14:34,840 --> 01:14:38,160
Speaker 2: Stand on the point that I made about an hour ago.

1411
01:14:38,760 --> 01:14:41,640
Speaker 2: In all of these NFL playoffs, if you want to

1412
01:14:41,680 --> 01:14:43,920
Speaker 2: ask me, who I think's got a legitimate chance to

1413
01:14:43,960 --> 01:14:47,639
Speaker 2: win the Super Bowl. Ask me when I see someone

1414
01:14:47,720 --> 01:14:52,639
Speaker 2: play defense, because I haven't really seen anyone so far

1415
01:14:53,000 --> 01:14:56,880
Speaker 2: all weekend long impressive on defense. And I know there

1416
01:14:56,960 --> 01:14:59,880
Speaker 2: might be fans of the Kansas City Chiefs going, hey, wait.

1417
01:14:59,760 --> 01:15:02,760
Speaker 3: A minut, did you see our game? Well, forgive me

1418
01:15:03,000 --> 01:15:05,519
Speaker 3: if I'm not overwhelmed by what you can do when

1419
01:15:05,520 --> 01:15:08,120
Speaker 3: it's negative ten or whatever it is.

1420
01:15:08,240 --> 01:15:12,040
Speaker 2: Like, if Buffalo ends up in Kansas City next week

1421
01:15:12,479 --> 01:15:15,760
Speaker 2: and the temperature is a little bit more workable, I'll

1422
01:15:15,800 --> 01:15:18,400
Speaker 2: be impressed if you can slow down, Josh Allen. But

1423
01:15:18,760 --> 01:15:22,040
Speaker 2: so far, even with some of the defenses that we

1424
01:15:22,040 --> 01:15:25,519
Speaker 2: were told we're gonna be good Cleveland, Dallas, like, no

1425
01:15:25,560 --> 01:15:28,839
Speaker 2: one is really able to consistently stop anyone.

1426
01:15:29,800 --> 01:15:32,160
Speaker 4: Yeah. Well, and actually Kansas City will have to go

1427
01:15:32,240 --> 01:15:36,720
Speaker 4: to Buffalo Buffalo than you accurate. Yeah, so again though,

1428
01:15:36,720 --> 01:15:40,360
Speaker 4: but we could get either way. It's gonna be inclement weather.

1429
01:15:40,560 --> 01:15:43,840
Speaker 4: And just yeah, you look at so far throughout the

1430
01:15:43,840 --> 01:15:48,360
Speaker 4: course of the games, and you know, Texans put up

1431
01:15:48,439 --> 01:15:51,640
Speaker 4: forty five on what we thought. And you know, I

1432
01:15:51,680 --> 01:15:54,280
Speaker 4: went to bat for the Cleveland Browns defense all year

1433
01:15:54,320 --> 01:15:57,559
Speaker 4: as being the best defense in football, and you mentioned

1434
01:15:57,560 --> 01:16:00,320
Speaker 4: some of their struggles on the road but uh, you know,

1435
01:16:00,960 --> 01:16:04,360
Speaker 4: this team had a super Bowl caliber defense. They gave

1436
01:16:04,439 --> 01:16:08,720
Speaker 4: up forty five Dallas. I went through the defense of

1437
01:16:08,800 --> 01:16:13,240
Speaker 4: statistics with you, one of the top statistical defenses in football.

1438
01:16:13,760 --> 01:16:16,040
Speaker 4: They give up forty eight. You know, we talked about

1439
01:16:16,120 --> 01:16:18,839
Speaker 4: one of those were a pick six and a turnover

1440
01:16:18,880 --> 01:16:21,080
Speaker 4: that's set up a score. But you know, at the

1441
01:16:21,160 --> 01:16:24,880
Speaker 4: end of the day, that's still two forty burgers that

1442
01:16:24,920 --> 01:16:29,400
Speaker 4: are up on the scoreboard in the playoffs. You know, again,

1443
01:16:29,400 --> 01:16:31,080
Speaker 4: we're supposed to have some of the best teams in

1444
01:16:31,120 --> 01:16:34,599
Speaker 4: football and the best defenses in football. So you know, yeah,

1445
01:16:34,800 --> 01:16:37,519
Speaker 4: you got We've talked about Kansas City's defense all year,

1446
01:16:37,560 --> 01:16:40,439
Speaker 4: and you know, we're not used to talking about the

1447
01:16:40,520 --> 01:16:43,320
Speaker 4: Kansas City Chiefs and saying that the defense is a

1448
01:16:43,360 --> 01:16:47,640
Speaker 4: reason for their success, and probably not. Probably to this

1449
01:16:47,760 --> 01:16:51,360
Speaker 4: point this year, the defense has outplayed the offense, and

1450
01:16:52,479 --> 01:16:55,519
Speaker 4: certainly a combination of really good play from their defense

1451
01:16:55,560 --> 01:16:59,759
Speaker 4: and then elements allowed them to hold Miami to seven

1452
01:16:59,760 --> 01:17:00,360
Speaker 4: point points.

1453
01:17:01,240 --> 01:17:03,080
Speaker 2: Rams are going to go three and out on their

1454
01:17:03,160 --> 01:17:07,040
Speaker 2: opening drive here in the second half, So after Detroit

1455
01:17:07,040 --> 01:17:10,080
Speaker 2: stall before the hoff Rams do after and again, it

1456
01:17:10,200 --> 01:17:13,040
Speaker 2: still it still feels like one of those who's got

1457
01:17:13,040 --> 01:17:16,160
Speaker 2: the ball last games, but we'll see what develops next.

1458
01:17:16,240 --> 01:17:18,040
Speaker 3: Is the Rams are kicking it away to the Lions.

1459
01:17:18,080 --> 01:17:22,759
Speaker 2: Lions up for early second half in this one, Mark Willard,

1460
01:17:22,840 --> 01:17:26,719
Speaker 2: Kyle Rudolph, Hey, talk to me about your your current

1461
01:17:26,760 --> 01:17:28,320
Speaker 2: feelings about CJ.

1462
01:17:28,520 --> 01:17:28,960
Speaker 3: Stroud.

1463
01:17:29,640 --> 01:17:32,280
Speaker 2: Obviously they're good. I don't know how anybody could feel

1464
01:17:32,560 --> 01:17:36,200
Speaker 2: anything otherwise. For him to do that, youngest player ever

1465
01:17:36,240 --> 01:17:39,240
Speaker 2: to win a playoff game, for him to look like this,

1466
01:17:39,240 --> 01:17:44,400
Speaker 2: this early, poised, smart, just athletic. I mean all of

1467
01:17:44,439 --> 01:17:48,040
Speaker 2: the things that you'd want. These performances by young quarterbacks

1468
01:17:48,040 --> 01:17:50,200
Speaker 2: that maybe we didn't see coming this weekend.

1469
01:17:50,479 --> 01:17:53,560
Speaker 3: Jordan loves CJ. Stroud have us thinking.

1470
01:17:53,520 --> 01:17:58,719
Speaker 2: Maybe not differently, but the elite quarterback party going forward

1471
01:17:58,760 --> 01:17:59,479
Speaker 2: in the NFL.

1472
01:18:00,000 --> 01:18:03,520
Speaker 3: I have a couple of uninvited guests.

1473
01:18:04,320 --> 01:18:06,200
Speaker 4: A couple of young guests, a couple guests that I

1474
01:18:06,240 --> 01:18:08,800
Speaker 4: have to show their ID when they get to the door. Run,

1475
01:18:09,320 --> 01:18:11,800
Speaker 4: you know. But again, you look at CJ. Strown. He's

1476
01:18:11,800 --> 01:18:14,759
Speaker 4: been a guy since the first month of the season.

1477
01:18:14,880 --> 01:18:17,080
Speaker 4: We talked about this guy coming into the league, like, hey,

1478
01:18:17,080 --> 01:18:21,519
Speaker 4: hold on a second, No one including us, we're talking

1479
01:18:21,600 --> 01:18:24,800
Speaker 4: about the Houston Texans as they drafted two and three

1480
01:18:24,920 --> 01:18:27,680
Speaker 4: overall in the draft last year, and we didn't have

1481
01:18:27,760 --> 01:18:31,080
Speaker 4: any expectations for him. You kind of just assumed that

1482
01:18:31,120 --> 01:18:33,920
Speaker 4: they would be somewhere near the bottom of the AFC

1483
01:18:34,000 --> 01:18:37,400
Speaker 4: South and would probably have a relatively high first round

1484
01:18:37,479 --> 01:18:42,719
Speaker 4: pick again next year. And ultimately this kid from Ohio State,

1485
01:18:42,800 --> 01:18:48,559
Speaker 4: which again I think he had to prove history to be,

1486
01:18:49,240 --> 01:18:53,240
Speaker 4: you know, incorrect with Ohio State quarterbacks and quarterbacks coming

1487
01:18:53,240 --> 01:18:54,840
Speaker 4: out there. Everyone just wanted to say, oh, well, is

1488
01:18:55,439 --> 01:18:58,400
Speaker 4: this another Ohio State quarterback, another quarterback that you know

1489
01:18:58,560 --> 01:19:02,879
Speaker 4: was successful in college and put up incredible numbers in college,

1490
01:19:02,880 --> 01:19:07,519
Speaker 4: but ultimately didn't translate to the next level. Again, no

1491
01:19:07,720 --> 01:19:10,720
Speaker 4: help around him. You know, how was he going to

1492
01:19:10,760 --> 01:19:12,760
Speaker 4: be able to as a rookie quarterback? You know, the

1493
01:19:12,840 --> 01:19:16,600
Speaker 4: rookie quarterbacks that typically had the most success where quarterbacks

1494
01:19:16,640 --> 01:19:21,000
Speaker 4: that are thrown into a San Francisco type situation with

1495
01:19:21,680 --> 01:19:26,559
Speaker 4: five all pro guys around you. So it's been really

1496
01:19:26,560 --> 01:19:29,240
Speaker 4: incredible to watch him all year. A kid that just

1497
01:19:29,360 --> 01:19:34,160
Speaker 4: plays with incredible poise throughout all situations, never gets too high,

1498
01:19:34,280 --> 01:19:37,360
Speaker 4: never gets too low. And again I go back to

1499
01:19:37,560 --> 01:19:41,679
Speaker 4: just boring quarterback play. If you would sixteen to twenty

1500
01:19:41,720 --> 01:19:44,960
Speaker 4: one two seventy five three touchdowns, you know, just through

1501
01:19:45,000 --> 01:19:48,599
Speaker 4: the ball to open guys, distributed the football. They had

1502
01:19:48,600 --> 01:19:51,439
Speaker 4: a bunch of explosive plays on offense yesterday in the

1503
01:19:51,520 --> 01:19:55,960
Speaker 4: run and pass game. Just another masterpiece from Hey, would

1504
01:19:56,000 --> 01:19:59,759
Speaker 4: you imagine that an offensive coordinator out of the Shanahan system.

1505
01:20:00,320 --> 01:20:03,479
Speaker 4: We got a theme here tonight. So it looks like

1506
01:20:03,560 --> 01:20:07,280
Speaker 4: our quarterbacks in that system seem to be doing pretty well.

1507
01:20:07,840 --> 01:20:10,800
Speaker 2: I sure noticed the exact same thing. And then I

1508
01:20:10,800 --> 01:20:14,240
Speaker 2: also noticed what's around CJ real quick, and I'm impressed

1509
01:20:14,240 --> 01:20:17,880
Speaker 2: by that too. The youth, the athleticism, that receiving corps.

1510
01:20:17,920 --> 01:20:21,360
Speaker 2: When Tank Dell returns to the fold to go along

1511
01:20:21,439 --> 01:20:24,680
Speaker 2: with Nico Collins, like it just it looked like a

1512
01:20:24,800 --> 01:20:28,640
Speaker 2: very buttoned up football team before they should be buttoned up.

1513
01:20:28,680 --> 01:20:29,880
Speaker 3: They're too young, they're too.

1514
01:20:29,880 --> 01:20:33,840
Speaker 4: New, I think, you know, honestly, to me, when you

1515
01:20:33,880 --> 01:20:36,320
Speaker 4: bring in a guy like Tamiko Ryans that not only

1516
01:20:36,360 --> 01:20:39,639
Speaker 4: played for that organization but was an extremely successful player,

1517
01:20:39,640 --> 01:20:44,160
Speaker 4: it goes on phenomenal football coach that team and those

1518
01:20:44,240 --> 01:20:49,360
Speaker 4: young players, in my opinion, reflect the personality and demeanor

1519
01:20:49,400 --> 01:20:51,800
Speaker 4: of their head coach. It's just kind of this, this

1520
01:20:52,040 --> 01:20:54,960
Speaker 4: calm confidence, And it's exactly how Demiko played the game

1521
01:20:54,960 --> 01:20:56,400
Speaker 4: when he was a player. I played against him a

1522
01:20:56,400 --> 01:20:58,400
Speaker 4: couple of times, and it's like, you know, he was

1523
01:20:58,479 --> 01:21:01,680
Speaker 4: just one of the best linebackers in football that you know,

1524
01:21:01,720 --> 01:21:03,920
Speaker 4: when you're talking about the best linebackers in football, you

1525
01:21:04,000 --> 01:21:05,680
Speaker 4: might not have brought his name up, but when you

1526
01:21:05,720 --> 01:21:08,040
Speaker 4: turn on the tape, he was the guy that showed

1527
01:21:08,120 --> 01:21:09,200
Speaker 4: up every single time.

1528
01:21:10,640 --> 01:21:13,519
Speaker 2: Will Bill Belichick show up again? That's going to be

1529
01:21:13,560 --> 01:21:17,000
Speaker 2: the question. Is it Dallas, is it somewhere else? Is

1530
01:21:17,040 --> 01:21:19,599
Speaker 2: it the right move? We'll get to that coming up next.

1531
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Speaker 2: buying should be. Kyle, I tell you what social media

1542
01:21:55,960 --> 01:21:58,160
Speaker 2: is all a buzz right now, and you'd expect that

1543
01:21:58,240 --> 01:22:00,360
Speaker 2: in the middle of what's been the best playoff came

1544
01:22:00,400 --> 01:22:01,439
Speaker 2: of the four so far.

1545
01:22:01,880 --> 01:22:03,559
Speaker 3: But it's not just about this game.

1546
01:22:03,640 --> 01:22:07,120
Speaker 2: In fact, there's one thing that's probably being buzzed about

1547
01:22:07,160 --> 01:22:10,599
Speaker 2: even more, and it's the idea of Bill Belichick and

1548
01:22:10,640 --> 01:22:11,880
Speaker 2: the Dallas Cowboys.

1549
01:22:12,000 --> 01:22:12,920
Speaker 3: Are they a match?

1550
01:22:13,240 --> 01:22:15,840
Speaker 2: And I hate when you see stuff like this, and

1551
01:22:15,960 --> 01:22:19,559
Speaker 2: the poor person in place hasn't even been let go yet,

1552
01:22:19,640 --> 01:22:23,120
Speaker 2: and we don't know what's gonna happen with Mike McCarthy.

1553
01:22:23,200 --> 01:22:26,800
Speaker 2: But Bill Belichick is out there, Vrabel is out there,

1554
01:22:26,960 --> 01:22:30,920
Speaker 2: and it is a very very disappointing result what happened

1555
01:22:30,960 --> 01:22:34,240
Speaker 2: earlier today for the Dallas Cowboys. So we'd love to

1556
01:22:34,280 --> 01:22:38,000
Speaker 2: get your thoughts, but let's start with Dak's thoughts. Here's

1557
01:22:38,120 --> 01:22:42,440
Speaker 2: Dak Prescotut with the idea in mind of Mike McCarthy's

1558
01:22:42,479 --> 01:22:44,440
Speaker 2: future with the Dallas Cowboys.

1559
01:22:44,600 --> 01:22:46,280
Speaker 9: As you know, it's one of the speculations about your

1560
01:22:46,320 --> 01:22:47,720
Speaker 9: coach and his status.

1561
01:22:47,880 --> 01:22:50,680
Speaker 8: Good thoughts about Mike and everything he's done this year.

1562
01:22:50,960 --> 01:22:55,240
Speaker 10: Yeah, he's been amazing. I don't know how they can be,

1563
01:22:55,360 --> 01:22:59,400
Speaker 10: but I understand the business. In that case, it should

1564
01:22:59,400 --> 01:23:01,719
Speaker 10: be about me is Well, honestly, I mean that that guy.

1565
01:23:02,000 --> 01:23:04,480
Speaker 10: I've had the season that I've had because of him.

1566
01:23:04,960 --> 01:23:06,920
Speaker 10: This team has had the success that they've had because

1567
01:23:06,960 --> 01:23:10,400
Speaker 10: of him. And I understand it's about winning the super

1568
01:23:10,400 --> 01:23:13,719
Speaker 10: Bowl and that's the standard of the league and damn

1569
01:23:13,720 --> 01:23:14,840
Speaker 10: sure the standard of this place.

1570
01:23:14,880 --> 01:23:16,840
Speaker 4: So I get it.

1571
01:23:16,840 --> 01:23:18,840
Speaker 10: But add me to the list in that case.

1572
01:23:19,800 --> 01:23:24,040
Speaker 2: Okay, So Dak not only backs Mike McCarthy but says

1573
01:23:24,080 --> 01:23:25,840
Speaker 2: if it's him, it should be me too. And I

1574
01:23:25,880 --> 01:23:28,800
Speaker 2: can just feel all the Dallas fans listening to that and.

1575
01:23:28,760 --> 01:23:31,640
Speaker 3: Going, damn right, Sam Wright, it should be.

1576
01:23:32,439 --> 01:23:36,000
Speaker 2: But as you well know, and you've detailed tonight, it's very,

1577
01:23:36,080 --> 01:23:38,799
Speaker 2: very different to move on from a quarterback than.

1578
01:23:38,680 --> 01:23:41,559
Speaker 3: It is a head coach, and Dak Prescott is.

1579
01:23:41,560 --> 01:23:44,720
Speaker 2: Unlikely to be going anywhere, and I don't feel the

1580
01:23:44,760 --> 01:23:48,960
Speaker 2: same for Mike McCarthy. So first, what do you think

1581
01:23:49,240 --> 01:23:50,680
Speaker 2: the Cowboys are going to do?

1582
01:23:51,200 --> 01:23:52,280
Speaker 3: Just with McCarthy.

1583
01:23:52,600 --> 01:23:55,320
Speaker 2: Then we'll get to if they move on what to

1584
01:23:55,400 --> 01:23:57,080
Speaker 2: do next.

1585
01:23:59,400 --> 01:24:03,519
Speaker 4: You know, I guess I would be surprised if they

1586
01:24:03,600 --> 01:24:07,200
Speaker 4: don't make the change, just kind of you know, the

1587
01:24:07,240 --> 01:24:13,240
Speaker 4: the nature of Jerry Jones and the expectations there, and again,

1588
01:24:13,360 --> 01:24:17,519
Speaker 4: like I said this earlier that not necessarily that they

1589
01:24:17,600 --> 01:24:22,320
Speaker 4: lost and and once again did not reach the NFC

1590
01:24:22,439 --> 01:24:25,800
Speaker 4: championship game. You know, last time was nineteen ninety five,

1591
01:24:25,920 --> 01:24:29,880
Speaker 4: and it was the way that they lost, and you know,

1592
01:24:29,880 --> 01:24:33,040
Speaker 4: again it was kind of poetic. And you know, again

1593
01:24:33,120 --> 01:24:36,160
Speaker 4: we always use that term like let the chargers charger. Well,

1594
01:24:36,240 --> 01:24:39,600
Speaker 4: like this was the Cowboys cowboying. You know, they have

1595
01:24:39,680 --> 01:24:43,080
Speaker 4: a great regular season. They they blow out a bunch

1596
01:24:43,080 --> 01:24:46,599
Speaker 4: of bad teams. You know, they won some good games,

1597
01:24:46,640 --> 01:24:50,439
Speaker 4: you know, whether that whether it was them or an

1598
01:24:50,520 --> 01:24:53,360
Speaker 4: officiating blunder at the end. You know, they they beat

1599
01:24:53,439 --> 01:24:57,240
Speaker 4: this Detroit Lions team. That's a good football team. So

1600
01:24:57,320 --> 01:24:59,640
Speaker 4: there are some teams on there that they beat that

1601
01:24:59,680 --> 01:25:01,519
Speaker 4: it's like you tip your cap to him. Those are

1602
01:25:01,560 --> 01:25:05,080
Speaker 4: good wins. But you know, Dak said it in his

1603
01:25:05,240 --> 01:25:09,240
Speaker 4: comments that you know, the standard in Dallas is you know,

1604
01:25:10,360 --> 01:25:13,080
Speaker 4: not necessarily any higher than anywhere else. Everybody comes in

1605
01:25:13,160 --> 01:25:15,640
Speaker 4: saying like we want to win championships, it's more so

1606
01:25:15,800 --> 01:25:20,000
Speaker 4: the patients for reaching that standard. And when you have

1607
01:25:20,120 --> 01:25:23,000
Speaker 4: something happen like it did today the way it did,

1608
01:25:24,120 --> 01:25:27,960
Speaker 4: I ultimately feel like some sort of change will have

1609
01:25:28,000 --> 01:25:30,960
Speaker 4: to be made now is that necessarily Mike McCarthy not

1610
01:25:30,960 --> 01:25:33,519
Speaker 4: being the head football coach. I don't know, but Mike

1611
01:25:33,600 --> 01:25:37,840
Speaker 4: McCarthy did call plays this year, so you know, we'll see.

1612
01:25:38,640 --> 01:25:40,160
Speaker 3: Uh yeah, I'm with you.

1613
01:25:40,680 --> 01:25:44,439
Speaker 2: I'm not even saying what what the Cowboys should do,

1614
01:25:44,640 --> 01:25:48,760
Speaker 2: because quite frankly, this is something that goes all the

1615
01:25:48,800 --> 01:25:52,080
Speaker 2: way around, Like this is not a one person issue

1616
01:25:52,400 --> 01:25:54,760
Speaker 2: with the Cowboys at all. But knowing who they are,

1617
01:25:54,920 --> 01:25:58,200
Speaker 2: my guess is they're going to make that change. But

1618
01:25:58,880 --> 01:26:02,960
Speaker 2: is Bill Belichick the right person to come in if

1619
01:26:03,000 --> 01:26:06,360
Speaker 2: they do make that change? Because I look at this

1620
01:26:06,520 --> 01:26:11,519
Speaker 2: and I listen with all respect to Belichick, and I

1621
01:26:11,560 --> 01:26:14,360
Speaker 2: know a couple of players who have played for him,

1622
01:26:14,800 --> 01:26:18,000
Speaker 2: and they've got a lot of wonderful things to say

1623
01:26:18,560 --> 01:26:20,439
Speaker 2: about what goes on inside.

1624
01:26:20,520 --> 01:26:22,599
Speaker 3: I think Bill Belichick is much.

1625
01:26:22,439 --> 01:26:26,080
Speaker 2: More of a human being than people might realize because

1626
01:26:26,120 --> 01:26:28,680
Speaker 2: of the exterior, because of the way he handles a

1627
01:26:28,680 --> 01:26:32,360
Speaker 2: press conference. All that said, those things are in the past,

1628
01:26:32,880 --> 01:26:38,080
Speaker 2: and whether or not his way works anymore starting with

1629
01:26:38,160 --> 01:26:42,519
Speaker 2: a new program in twenty twenty four, I'd have a

1630
01:26:42,560 --> 01:26:44,920
Speaker 2: lot of hesitation about that. If I were looking for

1631
01:26:44,960 --> 01:26:47,600
Speaker 2: a new coach and looking at him.

1632
01:26:47,880 --> 01:26:53,600
Speaker 4: The biggest thing that I don't see working in Dallas

1633
01:26:54,000 --> 01:26:57,599
Speaker 4: with Coach Belichick and the Cowboys is who gives up

1634
01:26:57,640 --> 01:27:01,840
Speaker 4: the power? Yep, Jerry Joe has run that organization since

1635
01:27:01,880 --> 01:27:05,680
Speaker 4: the day he bought it. Bill Belichick ran the New

1636
01:27:05,680 --> 01:27:08,679
Speaker 4: England Patriots since the day he became the head coach.

1637
01:27:09,040 --> 01:27:12,400
Speaker 4: You have two people that have made every football decision

1638
01:27:13,400 --> 01:27:16,880
Speaker 4: for the last twenty four years for their respective organization.

1639
01:27:17,160 --> 01:27:21,040
Speaker 4: So you know, can it work? You know, I just

1640
01:27:21,080 --> 01:27:25,639
Speaker 4: talked about how do you make things easier on Dak Prescott? Well,

1641
01:27:25,680 --> 01:27:28,080
Speaker 4: you bring in a coach like Bill Belichick, who is

1642
01:27:28,160 --> 01:27:31,519
Speaker 4: one of the best defensive head coaches of all time,

1643
01:27:32,120 --> 01:27:35,920
Speaker 4: makes the other teams play left handed, takes what they

1644
01:27:35,960 --> 01:27:40,559
Speaker 4: do away, makes it really difficult. We know, Okay, yes

1645
01:27:40,600 --> 01:27:44,439
Speaker 4: he had success with Tom Brady, but you know, can

1646
01:27:44,600 --> 01:27:48,840
Speaker 4: Dak Prescott be that guy for him? You know who knows?

1647
01:27:49,520 --> 01:27:53,680
Speaker 4: Certainly it wasn't mac Jones or Bailey's happy, So I

1648
01:27:53,720 --> 01:27:56,519
Speaker 4: wouldn't say that it can't work. And that like his

1649
01:27:56,640 --> 01:27:59,320
Speaker 4: way of doing things. And you know, one of the

1650
01:27:59,360 --> 01:28:01,519
Speaker 4: things that's kind of been an achilles heel for the

1651
01:28:01,600 --> 01:28:05,280
Speaker 4: Dallas Cowboys over the last twenty five years or so

1652
01:28:06,560 --> 01:28:09,639
Speaker 4: is discipline. I talked about some of the penalties early.

1653
01:28:10,479 --> 01:28:12,320
Speaker 4: You know, you bring in a guy like that, well,

1654
01:28:12,439 --> 01:28:15,200
Speaker 4: I can promise you discipline has never been an issue

1655
01:28:15,240 --> 01:28:17,200
Speaker 4: in New England. It's not the way he does things,

1656
01:28:17,200 --> 01:28:20,280
Speaker 4: it's not the way he goes about his business. So

1657
01:28:20,320 --> 01:28:23,280
Speaker 4: who knows, Like, maybe there is a fit there. The

1658
01:28:23,360 --> 01:28:26,720
Speaker 4: big thing for me is the power. Who gives up

1659
01:28:26,760 --> 01:28:29,559
Speaker 4: the power? And you have two guys that I quite

1660
01:28:29,600 --> 01:28:31,640
Speaker 4: honestly I don't see either one of them giving up

1661
01:28:31,640 --> 01:28:32,240
Speaker 4: any power.

1662
01:28:32,720 --> 01:28:36,960
Speaker 3: Well, I think you're spot on in terms of that issue.

1663
01:28:37,800 --> 01:28:40,800
Speaker 2: And man, even if you do, even if you're able

1664
01:28:40,840 --> 01:28:43,680
Speaker 2: to figure that out, Like, I just think there are

1665
01:28:43,720 --> 01:28:48,600
Speaker 2: certain sayings that have been a lot of fun for

1666
01:28:48,760 --> 01:28:54,760
Speaker 2: twenty years because Tom Brady. Because Tom Brady. It's like,

1667
01:28:55,080 --> 01:28:57,720
Speaker 2: I get what players are going to be willing to

1668
01:28:57,760 --> 01:29:01,160
Speaker 2: put up with if they're like, right, but we're going

1669
01:29:01,240 --> 01:29:01,639
Speaker 2: to go to.

1670
01:29:01,600 --> 01:29:02,280
Speaker 3: The super Bowl.

1671
01:29:02,320 --> 01:29:04,920
Speaker 2: Most of the years, they'll put up with a lot,

1672
01:29:05,240 --> 01:29:11,960
Speaker 2: but fun sayings like no days off, I'm sorry, Like

1673
01:29:12,880 --> 01:29:15,559
Speaker 2: that doesn't work with a team that's like and you know,

1674
01:29:15,800 --> 01:29:17,400
Speaker 2: we'll try to make the playoffs.

1675
01:29:17,840 --> 01:29:20,120
Speaker 3: Like I get that the goal is to is to

1676
01:29:20,160 --> 01:29:21,240
Speaker 3: go to the super Bowl.

1677
01:29:21,640 --> 01:29:25,600
Speaker 2: But I got all kinds of questions about power structure,

1678
01:29:26,000 --> 01:29:29,960
Speaker 2: about whether or not these days have gone by in

1679
01:29:30,080 --> 01:29:33,679
Speaker 2: terms of this style. And then there's also just flat

1680
01:29:33,720 --> 01:29:37,400
Speaker 2: out the offensive side of the football. The New England

1681
01:29:37,479 --> 01:29:41,840
Speaker 2: Patriots built something amazing that was lasting, and it had

1682
01:29:41,920 --> 01:29:44,760
Speaker 2: Tom Brady, and then the second that it left, you

1683
01:29:44,960 --> 01:29:47,920
Speaker 2: saw what they could still do. I think Bill Belichick

1684
01:29:48,000 --> 01:29:50,400
Speaker 2: is a wonderful defensive coach. I think he's a great

1685
01:29:50,439 --> 01:29:53,640
Speaker 2: talent evaluator on the defensive side of the football. What

1686
01:29:53,840 --> 01:29:57,120
Speaker 2: we've watched for the last two years in New England

1687
01:29:57,160 --> 01:30:00,759
Speaker 2: on the offensive side is some of the sal stuff

1688
01:30:01,000 --> 01:30:05,920
Speaker 2: I've ever seen in the NFL. No coordinator drafting Mac

1689
01:30:06,040 --> 01:30:11,200
Speaker 2: Jones this year being one of the most inept offenses

1690
01:30:11,520 --> 01:30:14,759
Speaker 2: that you could find in the league. If you bring

1691
01:30:14,920 --> 01:30:19,200
Speaker 2: something like that to Dallas, Texas with one of the

1692
01:30:19,360 --> 01:30:23,640
Speaker 2: label brands of the NFL, I don't know. I just

1693
01:30:23,960 --> 01:30:27,760
Speaker 2: like I get it in terms of name value, I

1694
01:30:27,840 --> 01:30:32,360
Speaker 2: don't know if I get it once you get past that, Yeah.

1695
01:30:32,200 --> 01:30:35,000
Speaker 4: But you could also look at this. What if Bill

1696
01:30:35,000 --> 01:30:38,080
Speaker 4: Belichick comes to Dallas and he brings Josh McDaniels, and

1697
01:30:38,120 --> 01:30:40,960
Speaker 4: you could say, well, you know, Josh McDaniel, Josh McDaniels

1698
01:30:41,000 --> 01:30:43,920
Speaker 4: has been a very successful offensive coordinator in this league

1699
01:30:43,960 --> 01:30:46,640
Speaker 4: for a long time, and mac Jones went to the

1700
01:30:46,680 --> 01:30:50,519
Speaker 4: playoffs and was a pro bowler under Josh McDaniels, and

1701
01:30:50,560 --> 01:30:53,680
Speaker 4: then things went sideways on offense when he left. So

1702
01:30:54,600 --> 01:30:58,360
Speaker 4: I think you can make the argument that it can work,

1703
01:30:58,560 --> 01:31:01,360
Speaker 4: and I honestly, you know what, what's to say that

1704
01:31:02,439 --> 01:31:07,920
Speaker 4: ultimately Bill going to Dallas. You know now you hear,

1705
01:31:08,240 --> 01:31:11,200
Speaker 4: especially the last week, we've heard Tom talk about how

1706
01:31:11,320 --> 01:31:15,040
Speaker 4: Bill made him such a better quarterback because again he's

1707
01:31:15,080 --> 01:31:18,120
Speaker 4: not Bill does not have to coach Tom and develop

1708
01:31:18,240 --> 01:31:21,519
Speaker 4: Tom at the point of his greatness, where now he's

1709
01:31:21,520 --> 01:31:24,920
Speaker 4: coming with Dak. Like he wouldn't be developing Dak into

1710
01:31:24,960 --> 01:31:28,200
Speaker 4: a quarterback. He would be sitting down with Dak on

1711
01:31:28,280 --> 01:31:31,120
Speaker 4: every Tuesday, preparing him for the defense that he's going

1712
01:31:31,200 --> 01:31:33,519
Speaker 4: to go against. And you know, I read a couple

1713
01:31:33,720 --> 01:31:36,679
Speaker 4: articles with Tom talking about how, you know, every week

1714
01:31:36,720 --> 01:31:38,519
Speaker 4: he'd sit down with Bill and he just felt so

1715
01:31:38,640 --> 01:31:42,960
Speaker 4: prepared going into games because he would dissect everything that

1716
01:31:43,000 --> 01:31:45,920
Speaker 4: the defense was going to do to him. And ultimately

1717
01:31:45,960 --> 01:31:49,320
Speaker 4: that's the way games will play out on Sundays. So again,

1718
01:31:49,400 --> 01:31:53,320
Speaker 4: I think in a world where big names and bright

1719
01:31:53,439 --> 01:31:58,640
Speaker 4: lights and the biggest brand of football can work. I

1720
01:31:58,760 --> 01:32:02,080
Speaker 4: don't again to me goes one back to the power

1721
01:32:02,120 --> 01:32:04,719
Speaker 4: and who's going to give up some of that power

1722
01:32:04,800 --> 01:32:08,280
Speaker 4: from from a personnel standpoint, from a decision making standpoint,

1723
01:32:08,720 --> 01:32:13,040
Speaker 4: far beyond just what happens on the field on Sundays.

1724
01:32:13,200 --> 01:32:15,959
Speaker 2: Like is that something that at this age and stage

1725
01:32:16,560 --> 01:32:18,880
Speaker 2: you think Bill might be more willing to do than

1726
01:32:18,920 --> 01:32:21,640
Speaker 2: we think.

1727
01:32:21,040 --> 01:32:25,080
Speaker 4: Or vice versa. You know, at that age and that stake.

1728
01:32:25,200 --> 01:32:28,760
Speaker 4: You know, the Cowboys, you know, had their success in

1729
01:32:28,800 --> 01:32:31,160
Speaker 4: the early nineties, and for Jerry it's been such a

1730
01:32:31,200 --> 01:32:33,720
Speaker 4: long time that you say, okay, well, if I'm going

1731
01:32:33,800 --> 01:32:37,320
Speaker 4: to give up power to anyone in football, maybe it's

1732
01:32:37,360 --> 01:32:40,680
Speaker 4: Bill Belichick or vice versa. To your point, you know,

1733
01:32:40,800 --> 01:32:44,479
Speaker 4: for Bill, he's fourteen wins or fifteen wins away from

1734
01:32:44,520 --> 01:32:48,000
Speaker 4: being the all time you know, number of wins in

1735
01:32:48,120 --> 01:32:51,280
Speaker 4: terms of coaches. Maybe he says, okay, well, I can

1736
01:32:51,320 --> 01:32:54,040
Speaker 4: go down here to Dallas and I'll let Jerry do

1737
01:32:54,160 --> 01:32:57,559
Speaker 4: his thing from a personnel standpoint, and you know, Josh

1738
01:32:57,560 --> 01:33:02,080
Speaker 4: and I will just handle football offense, and we have

1739
01:33:02,280 --> 01:33:06,760
Speaker 4: a super talented roster. So who knows. I definitely think

1740
01:33:06,800 --> 01:33:09,439
Speaker 4: it could work. It would I would love to see

1741
01:33:09,479 --> 01:33:13,280
Speaker 4: it just from a football fan standpoint, But again, if

1742
01:33:14,040 --> 01:33:16,640
Speaker 4: both of them are now, I want to do what

1743
01:33:16,720 --> 01:33:19,240
Speaker 4: I've done my whole career, and right, I want to

1744
01:33:19,240 --> 01:33:20,760
Speaker 4: do what I've done my whole career. I just don't

1745
01:33:20,800 --> 01:33:21,439
Speaker 4: see it working.

1746
01:33:22,240 --> 01:33:25,639
Speaker 2: Rams match the Lions field goal. It's twenty four to twenty.

1747
01:33:25,680 --> 01:33:28,639
Speaker 2: The bigger development, though, is that Matthew Stafford is into

1748
01:33:28,720 --> 01:33:31,960
Speaker 2: the injury tent. He was already dealing with a bloodied

1749
01:33:32,080 --> 01:33:34,160
Speaker 2: throwing hand from hitting it on a helmet in the

1750
01:33:34,200 --> 01:33:36,760
Speaker 2: first half. Took a big hit on that third down

1751
01:33:36,800 --> 01:33:40,560
Speaker 2: play we watched a short time ago and is struggling.

1752
01:33:40,880 --> 01:33:44,559
Speaker 2: We are getting cutaway shots of Carson Wentz. So much

1753
01:33:44,600 --> 01:33:48,760
Speaker 2: more on that coming up, plus Jerry Jones weighs in

1754
01:33:49,360 --> 01:33:52,400
Speaker 2: on the future of his coaching staff. That's coming up

1755
01:33:52,439 --> 01:33:55,280
Speaker 2: next with Kyle Rudolph Mark Willard. It's Fox Sports Radio.

1756
01:33:55,640 --> 01:33:58,519
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1757
01:33:58,560 --> 01:34:01,960
Speaker 5: the nation. Catch all of our shows at Foxsports Radio

1758
01:34:02,080 --> 01:34:06,160
Speaker 5: dot Com and within the iHeartRadio app. Search FSR to

1759
01:34:06,280 --> 01:34:06,960
Speaker 5: listen live.

1760
01:34:07,640 --> 01:34:11,240
Speaker 2: Okay, it's live inthetirack dot com studios.

1761
01:34:11,280 --> 01:34:13,120
Speaker 3: You know what else is live? Is this game?

1762
01:34:13,880 --> 01:34:17,759
Speaker 2: The Rams and the Lions. It's twenty four to twenty Lions.

1763
01:34:17,800 --> 01:34:19,360
Speaker 2: We are in the fourth court of the Rams have

1764
01:34:19,520 --> 01:34:22,679
Speaker 2: the ball pretty well within their own territory, but let's

1765
01:34:22,680 --> 01:34:25,719
Speaker 2: see what they can do. And they've got a couple

1766
01:34:25,760 --> 01:34:30,240
Speaker 2: of very key players who Kyle are out there. But man,

1767
01:34:30,280 --> 01:34:33,800
Speaker 2: they're showing some toughness. Matt Stafford and pukin Akua both

1768
01:34:33,960 --> 01:34:37,479
Speaker 2: just joined one another inside the blue tent and they're

1769
01:34:37,520 --> 01:34:40,400
Speaker 2: out and in the game. But Stafford, who bloody to

1770
01:34:40,479 --> 01:34:43,920
Speaker 2: hand earlier, took a brutal hit on the last drive,

1771
01:34:44,360 --> 01:34:47,200
Speaker 2: got his shoulders stepped on his head, was kind of

1772
01:34:47,200 --> 01:34:50,559
Speaker 2: whacked into another defender, rough hit at a hard time

1773
01:34:50,600 --> 01:34:53,880
Speaker 2: getting up and then bang right back out onto the field.

1774
01:34:55,560 --> 01:34:58,160
Speaker 4: I played against Matthew Stafford for a long time and

1775
01:34:58,479 --> 01:35:02,360
Speaker 4: watched him in the NFC norm and I've never seen

1776
01:35:02,720 --> 01:35:07,040
Speaker 4: a tougher quarterback in person. You know. We had one year.

1777
01:35:07,040 --> 01:35:10,320
Speaker 4: I think we sacked Matthew thirteen or fourteen times, just

1778
01:35:10,560 --> 01:35:15,160
Speaker 4: us from the Vikings, and it was like yet, we'd

1779
01:35:15,160 --> 01:35:17,439
Speaker 4: sack him six or seven times in the game and

1780
01:35:17,760 --> 01:35:19,679
Speaker 4: he'd have the ball in two minute. You're sitting there

1781
01:35:19,720 --> 01:35:22,360
Speaker 4: like this dude just keeps coming. You know like he

1782
01:35:22,479 --> 01:35:26,599
Speaker 4: won't stop. And yeah, we've seen his toughness on display

1783
01:35:26,640 --> 01:35:30,719
Speaker 4: over the years, and you know I talked about it before.

1784
01:35:30,760 --> 01:35:38,080
Speaker 4: Like in sports, we rarely get the hype and expectations

1785
01:35:38,120 --> 01:35:40,080
Speaker 4: met in some of these games. And the last thing

1786
01:35:40,160 --> 01:35:43,920
Speaker 4: that we want to see happen is one or two

1787
01:35:44,000 --> 01:35:47,160
Speaker 4: of the star players get hurt and not be out

1788
01:35:47,160 --> 01:35:50,120
Speaker 4: there for the last thirteen and a half minutes of

1789
01:35:50,160 --> 01:35:53,240
Speaker 4: this game. That's just been incredible so.

1790
01:35:53,320 --> 01:35:59,200
Speaker 2: Far, absolutely interesting, the crowd now becoming a factor, forcing

1791
01:35:59,240 --> 01:36:02,040
Speaker 2: the Rams to take their second time out. They've only

1792
01:36:02,120 --> 01:36:05,599
Speaker 2: got one left and down by four in a close

1793
01:36:05,640 --> 01:36:09,400
Speaker 2: playoff game in the fourth quarter, so file that one

1794
01:36:09,520 --> 01:36:12,080
Speaker 2: into the back of your mind. We of course will

1795
01:36:12,160 --> 01:36:14,559
Speaker 2: keep our eyes on this game and watch it along

1796
01:36:14,600 --> 01:36:17,240
Speaker 2: with you, but also still talking out what happened in

1797
01:36:17,320 --> 01:36:18,160
Speaker 2: Dallas earlier.

1798
01:36:18,200 --> 01:36:20,360
Speaker 3: Today all Packers.

1799
01:36:19,880 --> 01:36:22,760
Speaker 2: They run away by double digits and win this one,

1800
01:36:22,880 --> 01:36:25,519
Speaker 2: leading to all kinds of questions about the future. We

1801
01:36:25,600 --> 01:36:28,400
Speaker 2: let you know what Dak Prescott had to say about

1802
01:36:28,400 --> 01:36:31,639
Speaker 2: the future of his head coach Mike McCarthy. Here's what

1803
01:36:31,800 --> 01:36:35,000
Speaker 2: Jerry Jones had to say about the question.

1804
01:36:35,600 --> 01:36:41,840
Speaker 9: This is one of my most surprises since I've been

1805
01:36:41,880 --> 01:36:46,800
Speaker 9: involved in school period, So this has that degree. I

1806
01:36:46,840 --> 01:36:50,280
Speaker 9: know how disappointed everybody answer you un til'm a coming.

1807
01:36:50,640 --> 01:36:52,320
Speaker 8: In terms of playoff losses, where does this.

1808
01:36:52,280 --> 01:36:52,920
Speaker 3: One rank for you?

1809
01:36:53,960 --> 01:36:58,320
Speaker 9: Well, I don't have really, I can't reach back and

1810
01:36:58,439 --> 01:37:02,960
Speaker 9: look at a playoff loss, but it seems like the

1811
01:37:04,840 --> 01:37:11,240
Speaker 9: most painful because we all had such a great expectation

1812
01:37:11,400 --> 01:37:14,920
Speaker 9: and we had hope for this team, and I thought

1813
01:37:14,920 --> 01:37:17,759
Speaker 9: that we were aligned in a great shape, in great shape,

1814
01:37:19,360 --> 01:37:20,479
Speaker 9: but it didn't happen for.

1815
01:37:20,520 --> 01:37:23,120
Speaker 3: Us, all right, So there it is.

1816
01:37:23,240 --> 01:37:26,879
Speaker 2: He did not say it was time to address anything

1817
01:37:26,960 --> 01:37:31,320
Speaker 2: with regard to personnel, players or coaches and the future,

1818
01:37:31,479 --> 01:37:34,240
Speaker 2: So a somewhat predictable answer.

1819
01:37:33,960 --> 01:37:35,440
Speaker 3: As far as that's concerned.

1820
01:37:35,800 --> 01:37:39,320
Speaker 2: However, you can also draw something from that Kyle when

1821
01:37:39,360 --> 01:37:43,040
Speaker 2: he calls it the most painful loss that they've ever experienced,

1822
01:37:43,560 --> 01:37:45,679
Speaker 2: or right now it's at the top of his list.

1823
01:37:46,360 --> 01:37:48,240
Speaker 2: We know Jerry Jones to be someone who in that

1824
01:37:48,280 --> 01:37:50,960
Speaker 2: situation usually acts correct.

1825
01:37:51,000 --> 01:37:53,320
Speaker 4: And there was also another snippet in there that really

1826
01:37:53,439 --> 01:37:57,759
Speaker 4: jumped out to me that he said when he said

1827
01:37:57,960 --> 01:38:01,439
Speaker 4: I thought we were aligned, you know, kind of like, hey,

1828
01:38:01,439 --> 01:38:04,120
Speaker 4: I thought this team was prepared for this game, and

1829
01:38:04,520 --> 01:38:08,360
Speaker 4: clearly watching this game these guys were not prepared, and

1830
01:38:08,640 --> 01:38:11,800
Speaker 4: ultimately that becomes a reflection of the head coach and

1831
01:38:11,880 --> 01:38:15,000
Speaker 4: the coaching staff. And like you said, when when Jerry

1832
01:38:15,080 --> 01:38:18,879
Speaker 4: Jones feels pain, usually that rolls downhill.

1833
01:38:19,520 --> 01:38:22,679
Speaker 2: Yeah, so it'll be interesting to see where it goes

1834
01:38:22,720 --> 01:38:26,559
Speaker 2: if they do indeed pull the trigger. I love your question.

1835
01:38:26,680 --> 01:38:29,680
Speaker 2: It's almost fun to imagine. How does that meeting go?

1836
01:38:30,560 --> 01:38:34,160
Speaker 2: Bill comes in, you sit down, Jerry's there, Steven his

1837
01:38:34,320 --> 01:38:38,600
Speaker 2: son is there. How does that meeting go? What do

1838
01:38:38,600 --> 01:38:41,280
Speaker 2: you even say? In that situation? Everybody knows each other

1839
01:38:41,360 --> 01:38:46,320
Speaker 2: incredibly well. Everybody's resumes are all totally squared away. So

1840
01:38:47,320 --> 01:38:51,040
Speaker 2: how does a conversation about power between all the people

1841
01:38:51,080 --> 01:38:52,280
Speaker 2: who want all the power?

1842
01:38:52,560 --> 01:38:53,400
Speaker 3: How does that even go?

1843
01:38:54,960 --> 01:38:57,519
Speaker 4: Yeah? I again, like we talked about it, who makes

1844
01:38:57,560 --> 01:39:02,240
Speaker 4: the compromises? Who says? Ultimately, Look, I've owned this team

1845
01:39:02,280 --> 01:39:06,080
Speaker 4: for a long time, We've won super Bowls, and clearly

1846
01:39:06,160 --> 01:39:08,000
Speaker 4: what we've done over the last two and a half

1847
01:39:08,080 --> 01:39:10,680
Speaker 4: decades is not working. So we're willing to change. And

1848
01:39:10,720 --> 01:39:13,439
Speaker 4: if we're willing to change, only one person will change

1849
01:39:13,439 --> 01:39:15,439
Speaker 4: for and it's you. So how do you want to

1850
01:39:15,479 --> 01:39:19,800
Speaker 4: do it? Or vice versa? You're Bill Belichick? You've won

1851
01:39:20,400 --> 01:39:23,400
Speaker 4: six Super Bowls as a head coach too as a coordinator.

1852
01:39:24,200 --> 01:39:29,320
Speaker 4: You are arguably the greatest NFL coach and potentially coach

1853
01:39:29,360 --> 01:39:33,400
Speaker 4: across all sports. Yet how do you want to be remembered.

1854
01:39:33,479 --> 01:39:35,519
Speaker 4: Do you want to be remembered as you couldn't win

1855
01:39:35,600 --> 01:39:38,840
Speaker 4: without Tom Brady or do you want to be remembered

1856
01:39:38,920 --> 01:39:42,280
Speaker 4: as I describe before, one of the greatest coaches of

1857
01:39:42,320 --> 01:39:45,640
Speaker 4: all time. So you say, hey, look, this is a

1858
01:39:45,760 --> 01:39:49,360
Speaker 4: very talented roster. You guys have built it. Continue to

1859
01:39:49,360 --> 01:39:52,960
Speaker 4: build it. I'll go downstairs and I will be a

1860
01:39:53,080 --> 01:39:57,800
Speaker 4: great football coach, and you know we will be tough

1861
01:39:57,960 --> 01:40:01,439
Speaker 4: and smart and discipline and let these guys talents. No

1862
01:40:01,479 --> 01:40:04,040
Speaker 4: one has gotten the most more out of talent than

1863
01:40:04,040 --> 01:40:06,559
Speaker 4: Bill Belichick over the last two decades. Just look at

1864
01:40:06,560 --> 01:40:09,679
Speaker 4: the guys go through there. The wins that he got

1865
01:40:09,960 --> 01:40:14,320
Speaker 4: with players on that side of the ball. We'd see

1866
01:40:14,320 --> 01:40:16,040
Speaker 4: it all the time. You'd have guys have success in

1867
01:40:16,080 --> 01:40:18,400
Speaker 4: New England and they leave and go play defense somewhere

1868
01:40:18,400 --> 01:40:20,519
Speaker 4: else and they're like they're either not used correctly or

1869
01:40:20,560 --> 01:40:24,360
Speaker 4: they're not as productive. So it would certainly be a

1870
01:40:24,640 --> 01:40:28,479
Speaker 4: great conversation. It would be one that would be really

1871
01:40:28,520 --> 01:40:31,000
Speaker 4: intriguing to be a fly on the wall, that's for sure.

1872
01:40:31,560 --> 01:40:34,200
Speaker 2: Rams into the red zone on another big catch from

1873
01:40:34,280 --> 01:40:38,400
Speaker 2: Pooka Nakua, who's clearly kind of overtaken Cooper Cup as

1874
01:40:38,439 --> 01:40:41,760
Speaker 2: the number one option for Matt Stafford and those two

1875
01:40:41,800 --> 01:40:46,160
Speaker 2: guys fresh from the injury tent and into the red zone.

1876
01:40:46,479 --> 01:40:49,000
Speaker 2: Unbelievable the toughness these two are showing tonight.

1877
01:40:49,720 --> 01:40:52,240
Speaker 4: Just an absolute monster. I mean the run after the

1878
01:40:52,280 --> 01:40:55,920
Speaker 4: catch on the screen with Pooka fighting for yards there

1879
01:40:55,960 --> 01:40:58,840
Speaker 4: to get the first down, and you know that coming

1880
01:40:59,320 --> 01:41:02,559
Speaker 4: right out of the injury tent to catch a high

1881
01:41:02,600 --> 01:41:05,920
Speaker 4: ball across the middle where you know you're gonna get hit.

1882
01:41:06,680 --> 01:41:10,320
Speaker 4: Just unbelievable toughness. And again it kind of goes back

1883
01:41:10,360 --> 01:41:14,519
Speaker 4: to you may not be able to quantify intangibles at

1884
01:41:14,560 --> 01:41:20,200
Speaker 4: the Combine outside of measurables forty yard dash testing times.

1885
01:41:21,400 --> 01:41:23,720
Speaker 4: This kind of stuff from Puku Nakua is not going

1886
01:41:23,800 --> 01:41:26,800
Speaker 4: to show up in Indianapolis at the Combine, but it

1887
01:41:26,960 --> 01:41:29,759
Speaker 4: shows up in the fourth quarter of a playoff football game.

1888
01:41:30,960 --> 01:41:31,439
Speaker 3: Interesting.

1889
01:41:31,520 --> 01:41:33,559
Speaker 2: On the first run in the red zone for the Rams,

1890
01:41:33,640 --> 01:41:38,400
Speaker 2: Kyron Williams goes nowhere and then seems to be holding

1891
01:41:38,439 --> 01:41:41,519
Speaker 2: his left arm a little bit and jogs off the

1892
01:41:41,560 --> 01:41:44,600
Speaker 2: field for the second down play, so losing one of

1893
01:41:44,640 --> 01:41:48,200
Speaker 2: their big weapons at least momentarily as they move into

1894
01:41:48,240 --> 01:41:52,360
Speaker 2: a very very key possession here, and it'll set up

1895
01:41:52,720 --> 01:41:55,879
Speaker 2: a third down just outside the ten at the eleven

1896
01:41:55,960 --> 01:41:58,840
Speaker 2: yard line. So we'll see what happens here. This is

1897
01:41:58,920 --> 01:42:02,519
Speaker 2: pivotal as to whether or not the Rams can take

1898
01:42:02,520 --> 01:42:04,760
Speaker 2: the lead or if the Lions can hang on. They're

1899
01:42:04,960 --> 01:42:09,679
Speaker 2: just outside the eight minute mark. With what's coming down

1900
01:42:09,760 --> 01:42:14,320
Speaker 2: the stretch, there's only one game that we know next weekend,

1901
01:42:14,680 --> 01:42:17,000
Speaker 2: and that is that the Packers will visit the forty

1902
01:42:17,080 --> 01:42:20,280
Speaker 2: nine Ers, and that is likely to be a Saturday

1903
01:42:20,360 --> 01:42:25,479
Speaker 2: game because obviously the other game tomorrow is going to

1904
01:42:26,000 --> 01:42:28,600
Speaker 2: you'd figure be a lead to a Sunday game for

1905
01:42:28,640 --> 01:42:31,160
Speaker 2: the winner of that between the Eagles and Bucks, who

1906
01:42:31,240 --> 01:42:33,439
Speaker 2: play the winner of this one that we're looking at

1907
01:42:33,520 --> 01:42:36,320
Speaker 2: right now. But based on the way things are taking shape,

1908
01:42:36,320 --> 01:42:38,599
Speaker 2: I know we all think Buffalo is going to win tomorrow,

1909
01:42:38,600 --> 01:42:41,320
Speaker 2: but got to go do it. We'll see what happens,

1910
01:42:41,360 --> 01:42:44,400
Speaker 2: but so far in this weekend, I'd love to get

1911
01:42:44,400 --> 01:42:48,080
Speaker 2: to this next Forget what we thought we knew, but

1912
01:42:48,400 --> 01:42:51,400
Speaker 2: what do we know now, for instance, what kind of

1913
01:42:51,400 --> 01:42:55,160
Speaker 2: a game could C. J. Stroud give Lamar Jackson if

1914
01:42:55,600 --> 01:42:58,000
Speaker 2: that's the matchup that ends up happening.

1915
01:42:58,360 --> 01:43:00,360
Speaker 3: If we get to see Mahomes.

1916
01:43:00,040 --> 01:43:03,080
Speaker 2: And Allen in the playoffs again, what do we think

1917
01:43:03,600 --> 01:43:06,760
Speaker 2: is Jordan Love presenting a problem for the forty nine ers.

1918
01:43:06,840 --> 01:43:08,600
Speaker 2: We'll get to all of that around the corner, but

1919
01:43:08,680 --> 01:43:10,400
Speaker 2: let's get Steve to say. You're in here first with

1920
01:43:10,479 --> 01:43:14,040
Speaker 2: the latest on everything going on out and about with

1921
01:43:14,080 --> 01:43:14,679
Speaker 2: what's trending.

1922
01:43:14,680 --> 01:43:18,000
Speaker 8: Hay, Steve, Hello, and don't forget today's Pittsburgh at Buffalo

1923
01:43:18,120 --> 01:43:20,439
Speaker 8: game that was postponed to Monday due to the snow

1924
01:43:20,439 --> 01:43:22,640
Speaker 8: storm in the city. We assume that winner will be

1925
01:43:22,680 --> 01:43:26,200
Speaker 8: playing on a Sunday next weekend. Nothing official there, we

1926
01:43:26,280 --> 01:43:28,880
Speaker 8: do know officially straight from the governor in New York.

1927
01:43:28,920 --> 01:43:30,960
Speaker 8: They're not going to postpone in another day. It's a

1928
01:43:31,000 --> 01:43:33,839
Speaker 8: go for Monday. It'll start at four thirty pm Eastern

1929
01:43:33,880 --> 01:43:38,200
Speaker 8: time tomorrow, and the forecast for Buffalo tomorrow nineteen degrees

1930
01:43:38,720 --> 01:43:42,360
Speaker 8: snow mostly before the game. Win they on Monday. If

1931
01:43:42,400 --> 01:43:46,400
Speaker 8: Buffalo wins, it'll be Kansas City at Buffalo the next weekend.

1932
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Speaker 8: As you mentioned in the divisional round in the NFC.

1933
01:43:48,840 --> 01:43:51,840
Speaker 8: We know for a fact next weekend Green Bay at

1934
01:43:51,880 --> 01:43:54,759
Speaker 8: San Francisco. Green Bay, with its win at Dallas today

1935
01:43:54,800 --> 01:43:57,160
Speaker 8: forty eight to thirty two, Well, the Packers tied New

1936
01:43:57,160 --> 01:44:00,759
Speaker 8: England for the most wins in playoff history with thirty seven.

1937
01:44:01,400 --> 01:44:05,040
Speaker 8: They move past the Cowboys who have thirty six. The

1938
01:44:05,120 --> 01:44:08,400
Speaker 8: Steelers have thirty six, and the forty nine Ers have

1939
01:44:08,520 --> 01:44:12,080
Speaker 8: thirty six postseason wins all time. And yes, they're playing

1940
01:44:12,200 --> 01:44:14,920
Speaker 8: head to head with the Packers and a chance to

1941
01:44:15,000 --> 01:44:18,280
Speaker 8: tie them for first on that list next weekend. More

1942
01:44:18,320 --> 01:44:20,360
Speaker 8: details on the Green Bay win in a moment, but

1943
01:44:20,439 --> 01:44:23,000
Speaker 8: they're in an injury time out right now, with about

1944
01:44:23,040 --> 01:44:27,120
Speaker 8: eight minutes to go in regulation at Detroit Lions twenty

1945
01:44:27,160 --> 01:44:30,160
Speaker 8: four to twenty over the Rams linebacker Alex Azeloni with

1946
01:44:30,200 --> 01:44:33,000
Speaker 8: an injury currently. The difference in the game so far

1947
01:44:33,400 --> 01:44:36,160
Speaker 8: on red zone tds, the Lions are three for three.

1948
01:44:36,680 --> 01:44:40,080
Speaker 8: Rams have settled for short field goals twice. They are

1949
01:44:40,120 --> 01:44:42,640
Speaker 8: in the red zone again. If they settle for a

1950
01:44:42,680 --> 01:44:45,360
Speaker 8: short field goal again here, they'll still be trailing. They're

1951
01:44:45,400 --> 01:44:49,360
Speaker 8: down four. Matthew Stafford had two long touchdown passes in

1952
01:44:49,400 --> 01:44:53,200
Speaker 8: the second quarter, one of them fifty yards to Puka Nakua. Nakua.

1953
01:44:53,280 --> 01:44:56,400
Speaker 8: The rookie has been targeted eight times tonight. He has

1954
01:44:56,479 --> 01:44:59,360
Speaker 8: eight receptions for one hundred and forty six yards and

1955
01:44:59,400 --> 01:45:02,960
Speaker 8: a TD. Matthew Stafford over three hundred yards passing in

1956
01:45:03,080 --> 01:45:06,839
Speaker 8: Detroit and two touchdowns. Jared Goff the x RAM twenty

1957
01:45:06,880 --> 01:45:09,400
Speaker 8: of twenty three through the air two hundred and fifty

1958
01:45:09,400 --> 01:45:12,000
Speaker 8: five yards and a short TD in the first half

1959
01:45:12,320 --> 01:45:14,479
Speaker 8: to Sam Laporte of the Star. Tight end of the

1960
01:45:14,520 --> 01:45:18,920
Speaker 8: Lions is active despite the knee injury. Keep in mind history,

1961
01:45:18,960 --> 01:45:23,240
Speaker 8: the Lions last playoff win was nineteen ninety one, and

1962
01:45:23,320 --> 01:45:25,880
Speaker 8: in fact, they have just one playoff victory since the

1963
01:45:25,960 --> 01:45:30,160
Speaker 8: nineteen fifty seven championship. The green Bay Packers won at

1964
01:45:30,240 --> 01:45:33,599
Speaker 8: Dallas easily today forty eight to thirty two. Jordan Love

1965
01:45:33,680 --> 01:45:38,000
Speaker 8: three touchdown passes, Aaron Jones three touchdown runs. Green Bay

1966
01:45:38,080 --> 01:45:41,040
Speaker 8: is still never lost in Dallas's stadium, six to oh

1967
01:45:41,160 --> 01:45:44,400
Speaker 8: all time. Dak Prescott had three touchdown passes, including too

1968
01:45:44,439 --> 01:45:48,599
Speaker 8: late in the game. Prescott was intercepted twice, sacked four times.

1969
01:45:48,960 --> 01:45:52,360
Speaker 8: He wound up forty one for sixty through the air

1970
01:45:52,400 --> 01:45:55,639
Speaker 8: four hundred three yards passing. Prescott on the ground six

1971
01:45:55,720 --> 01:45:59,920
Speaker 8: carries forty five yards. We can update that the Rams

1972
01:46:00,120 --> 01:46:03,320
Speaker 8: have settled for a third short field goal twenty nine

1973
01:46:03,400 --> 01:46:06,320
Speaker 8: yarder from Brett Mahery's also hit from twenty seven and

1974
01:46:06,439 --> 01:46:09,920
Speaker 8: twenty four over three on red zone tds, and they're

1975
01:46:09,960 --> 01:46:12,800
Speaker 8: still losing. It's Detroit twenty four to twenty three over

1976
01:46:12,960 --> 01:46:16,639
Speaker 8: LA eight ten to go in this wild card matchup.

1977
01:46:17,080 --> 01:46:20,360
Speaker 8: In the NBA, a thriller at Milwaukee and overtime win

1978
01:46:20,439 --> 01:46:23,639
Speaker 8: for the Bucks against Sacramento one forty three, one forty two,

1979
01:46:24,160 --> 01:46:27,719
Speaker 8: Damian Lillard with the game winning three pointer at the buzzer.

1980
01:46:28,080 --> 01:46:31,360
Speaker 8: The last game in progress tonight is approaching mid third quarter.

1981
01:46:31,479 --> 01:46:34,439
Speaker 8: Phoenix leads at Portland eighty two to seventy one. If

1982
01:46:34,439 --> 01:46:37,280
Speaker 8: the Blazers lose, they'll be ten and twenty nine on

1983
01:46:37,360 --> 01:46:40,719
Speaker 8: the season. Draymond Green could return for Golden State tomorrow.

1984
01:46:40,760 --> 01:46:43,400
Speaker 8: Philadelphia is Joel Embiid, who's had a bad knee, could

1985
01:46:43,400 --> 01:46:46,599
Speaker 8: return this week. College hoops upset Maryland won at number

1986
01:46:46,600 --> 01:46:51,000
Speaker 8: ten Illinois. NHL Rangers beat Washington two to one. Again,

1987
01:46:51,160 --> 01:46:54,880
Speaker 8: it's about eight minutes left, Detroit leading by a point

1988
01:46:54,920 --> 01:46:55,320
Speaker 8: at home.

1989
01:46:55,360 --> 01:46:57,760
Speaker 2: Back to you, well, Steve, you made a great point

1990
01:46:57,800 --> 01:47:00,960
Speaker 2: earlier in talking about the Rams kicking game, and Brett

1991
01:47:00,960 --> 01:47:03,960
Speaker 2: Maher has missed six field goal attempts and a few

1992
01:47:04,000 --> 01:47:06,040
Speaker 2: extra points so far this year. But yeah, it's a

1993
01:47:06,040 --> 01:47:08,200
Speaker 2: good thing they're settling for short field goals because some

1994
01:47:08,240 --> 01:47:10,240
Speaker 2: of these would not be good from very long but

1995
01:47:10,400 --> 01:47:10,960
Speaker 2: this way.

1996
01:47:10,920 --> 01:47:12,960
Speaker 8: If they have to line up for a long field

1997
01:47:13,000 --> 01:47:15,320
Speaker 8: goal to win at the end. The Rams who have

1998
01:47:15,479 --> 01:47:18,519
Speaker 8: rotated kickers this year from fifty yards and beyond, they're

1999
01:47:18,560 --> 01:47:21,720
Speaker 8: only five of ten. Not good, not.

2000
01:47:21,760 --> 01:47:24,800
Speaker 2: Good, although neither was Michael Badsley and he just nailed one.

2001
01:47:24,880 --> 01:47:28,120
Speaker 2: But yeah, that last twenty nine yard field goal did

2002
01:47:28,160 --> 01:47:31,320
Speaker 2: not inspire a whole lot in the first one. Yeah, yeah,

2003
01:47:31,360 --> 01:47:33,639
Speaker 2: no doubt so eight ten to go in a one

2004
01:47:33,680 --> 01:47:37,439
Speaker 2: point game. Steve, great stuff, and we welcome you back

2005
01:47:37,479 --> 01:47:41,439
Speaker 2: in tyraq dot com studios along with Kyle Rudolph Mark Willard.

2006
01:47:41,760 --> 01:47:44,559
Speaker 2: This is the playoff game that we've been waiting for,

2007
01:47:44,880 --> 01:47:46,880
Speaker 2: and by the way, it's the one.

2008
01:47:46,760 --> 01:47:48,280
Speaker 3: That we expected to be this way.

2009
01:47:48,360 --> 01:47:50,880
Speaker 2: I mean you could sort of smell this one coming

2010
01:47:50,920 --> 01:47:54,880
Speaker 2: two weeks ago. And then some twists and turns in

2011
01:47:54,960 --> 01:47:58,679
Speaker 2: Week eighteen, including the Rams having to rally or people

2012
01:47:58,680 --> 01:48:02,280
Speaker 2: in Rams jerseys against people in forty nine ers jerseys.

2013
01:48:02,479 --> 01:48:05,559
Speaker 2: Let's be honest, but that's what actually and along with

2014
01:48:05,640 --> 01:48:09,640
Speaker 2: the officials call in Dallas created this matchup and so

2015
01:48:10,120 --> 01:48:12,960
Speaker 2: we wanted it, we got it, and it's been everything

2016
01:48:13,000 --> 01:48:13,960
Speaker 2: that we hoped it would be.

2017
01:48:15,000 --> 01:48:17,720
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mentioned it. I don't know what week it was.

2018
01:48:17,800 --> 01:48:19,720
Speaker 4: It was as the Rams were kind of starting to

2019
01:48:19,720 --> 01:48:22,840
Speaker 4: get hot, and I said it on the show. I

2020
01:48:22,880 --> 01:48:25,639
Speaker 4: was like, look how this is going to play out?

2021
01:48:25,760 --> 01:48:28,639
Speaker 4: Like Detroit's going to get their first home game, home

2022
01:48:28,680 --> 01:48:32,200
Speaker 4: playoff game since nineteen ninety four, and their former number

2023
01:48:32,240 --> 01:48:33,960
Speaker 4: one overall pick is going to come back. So we've

2024
01:48:34,000 --> 01:48:36,720
Speaker 4: certainly seen this one coming for a long time. It's

2025
01:48:36,760 --> 01:48:41,599
Speaker 4: living up to the hype. Just you you mentioned it.

2026
01:48:41,880 --> 01:48:45,760
Speaker 4: Those kicks by Brett Maher certainly have not instilled any

2027
01:48:45,840 --> 01:48:48,879
Speaker 4: confidence in me that if you know, they get a stop,

2028
01:48:50,080 --> 01:48:52,320
Speaker 4: have the opportunity to drive down the field and need

2029
01:48:52,320 --> 01:48:56,080
Speaker 4: to kick a game winning field goal. You know, I'd

2030
01:48:56,120 --> 01:48:58,000
Speaker 4: like to think that Sean would probably be in four

2031
01:48:58,040 --> 01:49:01,120
Speaker 4: down territory until it gets into another twenty yard field goal,

2032
01:49:01,160 --> 01:49:03,360
Speaker 4: because I don't know that any of these kicks would

2033
01:49:03,360 --> 01:49:06,280
Speaker 4: have gone in from much further than they have, and

2034
01:49:06,320 --> 01:49:08,839
Speaker 4: he's very lucky that two of them haven't been blocked.

2035
01:49:08,840 --> 01:49:12,479
Speaker 4: I mean they're barely getting over the defensive lineman's outstretched arms.

2036
01:49:13,400 --> 01:49:16,719
Speaker 2: Yeah, no doubt they've been They've been wobbly and ugly,

2037
01:49:16,800 --> 01:49:20,080
Speaker 2: but they've gone through so far. I know the Lions

2038
01:49:20,160 --> 01:49:23,519
Speaker 2: right now certainly have designs on taking the field goal

2039
01:49:23,800 --> 01:49:26,800
Speaker 2: out of play if they can score anything at all

2040
01:49:26,840 --> 01:49:28,880
Speaker 2: on this drive, that's what it would do, even if

2041
01:49:28,880 --> 01:49:31,599
Speaker 2: they just get a field goal. So Lions by one,

2042
01:49:31,880 --> 01:49:34,240
Speaker 2: just over eight to go. Lion's about to take over

2043
01:49:34,360 --> 01:49:36,920
Speaker 2: with the ball. We will keep you very up to date.

2044
01:49:36,960 --> 01:49:39,280
Speaker 2: It's interesting I mentioned the only game that we know

2045
01:49:39,439 --> 01:49:42,120
Speaker 2: next weekend being the forty nine Ers and the Packers.

2046
01:49:42,120 --> 01:49:44,640
Speaker 2: It's the one matchup that, quite frankly, in San Francisco

2047
01:49:44,800 --> 01:49:47,760
Speaker 2: last week, no one really thought of because nobody was

2048
01:49:47,800 --> 01:49:51,040
Speaker 2: expecting the Dallas Cowboys to come out and look like this.

2049
01:49:51,200 --> 01:49:55,240
Speaker 2: The different options on the table were the Rams and

2050
01:49:55,280 --> 01:49:58,439
Speaker 2: the Eagles and the Bucks, and everyone had their opinion

2051
01:49:58,479 --> 01:50:01,640
Speaker 2: about who they wanted to see and the Rams, is

2052
01:50:01,920 --> 01:50:05,879
Speaker 2: you detailed last week, probably the team that would scare

2053
01:50:05,960 --> 01:50:08,840
Speaker 2: you the most if you're the forty nine ers. But

2054
01:50:09,160 --> 01:50:11,760
Speaker 2: let's take a moment to look at Jordan Love and

2055
01:50:11,880 --> 01:50:15,240
Speaker 2: Kyle let me ask you, if you're the forty nine ers,

2056
01:50:15,560 --> 01:50:19,360
Speaker 2: how scared of you are you of one of the

2057
01:50:19,400 --> 01:50:21,440
Speaker 2: hottest qbs in the NFL.

2058
01:50:21,960 --> 01:50:24,439
Speaker 4: One of the hottest qbs, and one of the hottest teams.

2059
01:50:24,439 --> 01:50:27,040
Speaker 4: You know, that's now four straight wins for them, and

2060
01:50:27,080 --> 01:50:31,679
Speaker 4: it's a team that is you know, at times we've

2061
01:50:32,120 --> 01:50:38,360
Speaker 4: questioned different aspects and you know, it's it's a defense

2062
01:50:38,479 --> 01:50:41,640
Speaker 4: that everybody wanted the coordinator fired throughout the course of

2063
01:50:41,640 --> 01:50:44,439
Speaker 4: the year, and you know, they've kind of tightened things

2064
01:50:44,520 --> 01:50:46,360
Speaker 4: up a little bit on the defensive side of the ball.

2065
01:50:46,400 --> 01:50:49,080
Speaker 4: And you know, you mentioned Jordan Love and his ability

2066
01:50:49,120 --> 01:50:52,400
Speaker 4: and you know, being invited to this elite quarterback party

2067
01:50:52,439 --> 01:50:54,760
Speaker 4: a little bit. And you know, I think it's a

2068
01:50:54,800 --> 01:50:58,519
Speaker 4: team that you know, we talked about the scary teams

2069
01:50:58,520 --> 01:51:01,160
Speaker 4: in playoffs, and you know, they might not always be

2070
01:51:01,360 --> 01:51:03,400
Speaker 4: the teams that we deem at the top of the

2071
01:51:03,479 --> 01:51:06,920
Speaker 4: conference throughout the course of the year. It's the teams

2072
01:51:06,960 --> 01:51:10,519
Speaker 4: that get hot in late December and it carries over

2073
01:51:10,560 --> 01:51:14,000
Speaker 4: to January, and you know it's kind of everyone's worried

2074
01:51:14,080 --> 01:51:17,720
Speaker 4: when you're the one seed or you take Week eighteen

2075
01:51:18,040 --> 01:51:21,080
Speaker 4: as an opportunity to rest because you can't advance your

2076
01:51:21,160 --> 01:51:24,800
Speaker 4: seed and you're locked in. Then you play a team

2077
01:51:24,800 --> 01:51:28,479
Speaker 4: the next week that is on a roll, and you

2078
01:51:28,520 --> 01:51:31,720
Speaker 4: know what happens when you know you start off a

2079
01:51:31,760 --> 01:51:35,280
Speaker 4: little rusty, they're coming in, you know, just clicking on

2080
01:51:35,520 --> 01:51:38,559
Speaker 4: all cylinders. All of a sudden, you got, oh, we're

2081
01:51:38,600 --> 01:51:42,000
Speaker 4: the one seed, and now we're we got our hands

2082
01:51:42,000 --> 01:51:44,240
Speaker 4: full with the seventh seed. All of the pressure goes

2083
01:51:44,280 --> 01:51:46,600
Speaker 4: to you. The seventh seed has no pressure, you know,

2084
01:51:46,640 --> 01:51:50,200
Speaker 4: they're just out there playing ball. So it certainly can

2085
01:51:50,320 --> 01:51:52,880
Speaker 4: can be scary when you have a hot seven seed

2086
01:51:52,920 --> 01:51:53,679
Speaker 4: coming into town.

2087
01:51:54,720 --> 01:51:58,760
Speaker 2: Yeah, although I'll say again, just looking at the yardage

2088
01:51:59,360 --> 01:52:02,920
Speaker 2: that that was put up this weekend, two things that

2089
01:52:03,040 --> 01:52:05,800
Speaker 2: sort of pop into my mind about Baltimore and San

2090
01:52:05,840 --> 01:52:10,599
Speaker 2: Francisco sitting there resting, getting healthy. And I'm a believer

2091
01:52:10,720 --> 01:52:14,760
Speaker 2: in both of their defenses, especially at home, not a

2092
01:52:14,840 --> 01:52:17,560
Speaker 2: huge believer in a lot of the other defenses that

2093
01:52:18,160 --> 01:52:21,559
Speaker 2: we're seeing out there. You know, the Packers have been

2094
01:52:21,720 --> 01:52:25,799
Speaker 2: okay defensively, haven't had to go up against any really

2095
01:52:25,800 --> 01:52:29,200
Speaker 2: great quarterbacks of late. They beat Patrick Mahomes back on

2096
01:52:29,320 --> 01:52:31,759
Speaker 2: December third, and then I look.

2097
01:52:31,600 --> 01:52:33,960
Speaker 3: At who they took on. After that, it was.

2098
01:52:33,960 --> 01:52:38,559
Speaker 2: DeVito and Mayfield and Love and then Nick Mullins and

2099
01:52:38,760 --> 01:52:42,880
Speaker 2: Justin Field's in frigid weather. So I do feel like

2100
01:52:44,000 --> 01:52:46,360
Speaker 2: if the forty nine Ers and Ravens can come out

2101
01:52:46,400 --> 01:52:50,479
Speaker 2: and give their normal defensive effort, then you know, you've

2102
01:52:50,520 --> 01:52:53,280
Speaker 2: got to like their chances coming up next week.

2103
01:52:54,400 --> 01:52:57,720
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, you know, we've hit it like we're

2104
01:52:57,760 --> 01:53:02,679
Speaker 4: waiting for a playoff caliber defense to kind of reveal itself.

2105
01:53:02,760 --> 01:53:05,920
Speaker 4: And you know, as we're talking about defense, the Rams

2106
01:53:06,000 --> 01:53:09,000
Speaker 4: make a huge stop and it seems like they've started

2107
01:53:09,000 --> 01:53:11,320
Speaker 4: to kind of figure things out a little bit defensively

2108
01:53:11,400 --> 01:53:14,559
Speaker 4: in the second half. And it's interesting, like throughout the

2109
01:53:14,560 --> 01:53:18,120
Speaker 4: course of my career, you know, I had two defense

2110
01:53:18,160 --> 01:53:20,800
Speaker 4: a head coaches during my time in Minnesota, and we

2111
01:53:20,880 --> 01:53:24,120
Speaker 4: had a particularly throughout Zim's time there, we had a

2112
01:53:24,120 --> 01:53:29,720
Speaker 4: lot of really good defenses, and the best defenses that

2113
01:53:29,760 --> 01:53:33,720
Speaker 4: I played against, you know, maybe not necessarily holding a

2114
01:53:33,800 --> 01:53:36,439
Speaker 4: team to seven points in the playoffs, yeah that's great,

2115
01:53:36,520 --> 01:53:40,599
Speaker 4: but the best defenses I played on were defenses that,

2116
01:53:40,720 --> 01:53:43,000
Speaker 4: no matter what throughout the course of the game, whether

2117
01:53:43,080 --> 01:53:47,280
Speaker 4: it was a ten to seven game or a twenty

2118
01:53:47,320 --> 01:53:50,439
Speaker 4: four to twenty three game, when the games on the

2119
01:53:50,479 --> 01:53:53,799
Speaker 4: line and it matters the most, they get the stop

2120
01:53:53,880 --> 01:53:57,479
Speaker 4: that they need. And you know, you can say for

2121
01:53:57,479 --> 01:54:00,000
Speaker 4: for the Rams, like have they been great on defense

2122
01:54:00,160 --> 01:54:03,479
Speaker 4: up to this point. No, But here now in the

2123
01:54:03,520 --> 01:54:07,680
Speaker 4: fourth quarter, they're buckling down. They've kept Detroit off the

2124
01:54:07,720 --> 01:54:10,120
Speaker 4: scoreboard in the fourth quarter and they're making the stop

2125
01:54:10,160 --> 01:54:14,320
Speaker 4: when they need. That's what a playoff defense does, and

2126
01:54:14,360 --> 01:54:17,200
Speaker 4: that's what a defense that gives their team a chance

2127
01:54:17,240 --> 01:54:21,400
Speaker 4: to win does. And you mentioned the forty nine Ers

2128
01:54:21,439 --> 01:54:23,720
Speaker 4: and the Ravens, two of the best defenses in football.

2129
01:54:24,720 --> 01:54:27,879
Speaker 4: You know, I'm excited to watch them go play against

2130
01:54:28,600 --> 01:54:31,240
Speaker 4: arguably two of the hottest teams. If things work out

2131
01:54:31,240 --> 01:54:34,919
Speaker 4: the way we think they will, you'll have the Houston

2132
01:54:35,000 --> 01:54:38,000
Speaker 4: Texans and CJ. Stroud going up to Baltimore. And then

2133
01:54:38,320 --> 01:54:40,280
Speaker 4: you know, Jordan Love and the Packers. We already know

2134
01:54:40,320 --> 01:54:42,640
Speaker 4: they're headed to the Bay Area. So you know, you

2135
01:54:42,640 --> 01:54:45,360
Speaker 4: have the two young quarterbacks that we talked about on

2136
01:54:45,360 --> 01:54:48,680
Speaker 4: this show and how impressed we've been with their play

2137
01:54:48,760 --> 01:54:52,400
Speaker 4: as of late, and again we talked about it pre

2138
01:54:52,520 --> 01:54:55,800
Speaker 4: show that you know, the decisions that are made in

2139
01:54:55,880 --> 01:55:00,200
Speaker 4: week eighteen and do you rest guys, do you you

2140
01:55:00,200 --> 01:55:02,760
Speaker 4: try to keep your routine, do you keep your rhythm.

2141
01:55:03,840 --> 01:55:07,320
Speaker 4: I've seen both work, I've seen both fail. We briefly

2142
01:55:07,360 --> 01:55:10,360
Speaker 4: talked about the Cleveland Browns they rested every one week eighteen.

2143
01:55:11,480 --> 01:55:14,839
Speaker 4: The Houston Texans they had to win in Week eighteen.

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Speaker 4: They played a win and in game on the road

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Speaker 4: an intense environment, yep, that carried over the Browns a

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Speaker 4: little flat. They didn't play well on defense, they turned

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Speaker 4: the football over. So who knows. It'll be really interesting

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Speaker 4: with two of the best teams in football coming off

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Speaker 4: of buys, going up against two of the best young

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Speaker 4: quarterbacks that are really on a roll right now.

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Speaker 2: No doubt about it. Our Stafford and the Rams on

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Speaker 2: a roll. They gonna start at their own nine yard

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Speaker 2: line now, just down one with plenty of time on

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Speaker 2: the clock. So more coming up as we again do

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Speaker 2: the Rudolph Cast and kind of watch this one along

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Speaker 2: with you right here on Fox Sports Radio.

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Speaker 2: I were live inthe tie rag dot com studios and approaching.

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Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, the NFL didn't get any better than this,

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Speaker 2: that is for sure.

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Speaker 3: The Rams are facing third and long, just on the.

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Speaker 2: Outskirts of field goal range.

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Speaker 3: They were actually stopped.

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Speaker 2: So interesting, Kyle, because it's exactly what you were talking about.

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Speaker 2: The Lions could have declined a penalty which would have

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Speaker 2: set up Brett Maher for about a fifty three yard

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Speaker 2: field goal, try to take the lead with four to

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Speaker 2: twenty to go, but instead they push him back, get

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Speaker 2: him out of field goal range.

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Speaker 3: Who dangerous though, That's gonna give Stafford.

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Speaker 2: The ball one more time to see if you can

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Speaker 2: find Pooka or Cooper.

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Speaker 3: And the gang.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, and I think Dan Campbell knows that if he

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Speaker 4: declines that penalty, it's not Brett Maher running on the

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Speaker 4: field for a fifty yarder. It's the Rams going forward

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Speaker 4: on fourth and four. Maybe if they can touchdown all

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Speaker 4: the way And now you know this pushes you out.

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Speaker 4: You're hoping that it's third and fourteen. The goal here

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Speaker 4: is to make sure that it's further than fourth and

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Speaker 4: four on the next play, which, again it's a tough

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Speaker 4: decision to make, you know, do you want to just

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Speaker 4: line up on fourth and four and try to get

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Speaker 4: a snop or are you going to give Puka Nakua,

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Speaker 4: who's just set another receiving record. Seems like he's got

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Speaker 4: every rookie receiving record imaginable. At this point, you get

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Speaker 4: Matthew Stafford now two chances to pick up fourteen yards.

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Speaker 4: It's it's an interesting decision.

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Speaker 2: Yep, and it's gonna go incomplete. It ended up working

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Speaker 2: out as he went for Nakua, and it is incomplete.

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Speaker 2: Good defense in the secondary by the Lions making that

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Speaker 2: a tough catch he cannot hang on. So fourth and

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Speaker 2: fourteen from the forty four, which kicker are you sending

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Speaker 2: out on the field? Obviously it's too far away for maher,

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Speaker 2: But are you sending your punter out or you're going

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Speaker 2: for this? It looks like they're gonna go ahead and

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Speaker 2: punt this one away.

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Speaker 4: Yeah. You gotta play field position here. Like I said,

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Speaker 4: your defense has played well so far. At fourth and four,

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Speaker 4: I think you roll the dice and go for it.

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Speaker 4: At this point, you got to try to punt it

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Speaker 4: and pin them deep and play field position. You got

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Speaker 4: one time out four minutes, so get a stop and

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Speaker 4: play the field position.

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Speaker 3: Game they get them down there, but not that deep.

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Speaker 2: The Lions get out to the eighteen yard line, Kyle,

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Speaker 2: And now's when something comes into play that I mentioned

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Speaker 2: an hour ago. The Rams have had to use two

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Speaker 2: of their timeouts already, They've only got one left. There

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Speaker 2: is a scenario in play here where the Lions are

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Speaker 2: one first down or two first downs for sure away

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Speaker 2: from being able to run this one out.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, the Rams will have to get a stop relatively quickly.

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Speaker 4: I think it's just just over five or so left.

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Speaker 4: I didn't check the scoreboard before.

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Speaker 2: There were like four. Yeah, it's more it's more like

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Speaker 2: down at about four minutes.

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Speaker 4: Four minutes. You know, you can run off almost forty

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Speaker 4: seconds after every play, so you know they'll they're going

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Speaker 4: to run the football. Rams will call their time out.

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Speaker 4: So then you got forty seconds forty seconds, and you

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Speaker 4: know you said you're one probably two first downs away

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Speaker 4: from victory formation and you know you'll have the two

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Speaker 4: minute warning which will also stop the clock. So depending

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Speaker 4: on when they get those first downs and when Sean

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Speaker 4: decides to use his time out. When the two minute

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Speaker 4: warning comes into play, the Rams are thinking three and

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Speaker 4: out here and let's get our offense back out on

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Speaker 4: the field, and.

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Speaker 2: I'll say this about the NFC structure with Dallas now

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Speaker 2: out of this whole thing. Look, with due respect to

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Speaker 2: the way that Jordan Love is playing, and I would

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Speaker 2: give the Lions a little bit of a shot.

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Speaker 3: I respect the heck out of them.

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Speaker 2: But if I'm the forty nine ers, you've said it,

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Speaker 2: I agree with you. The scary team out there is

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Speaker 2: the Los Angeles Rams. The two teams that play tomorrow

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Speaker 2: night don't scare me one bit. And Dallas is now

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Speaker 2: out of the mix as well. I sort of feel like,

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Speaker 2: if Detroit holds on here and the Niners are blessed

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Speaker 2: with health, boy, I would bet a lot of money

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Speaker 2: that you're gonna see the forty nine ers in Vegas.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, could you think about that? Like, how

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Speaker 4: crazy would that be to see a Niners Detroit Lions

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Speaker 4: NFC championship game? Just thinking about that is crazy, But

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Speaker 4: I mean you think about the styles and how they

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Speaker 4: win football games. It would be an incredible football game,

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Speaker 4: and you know, the next four minutes will probably decide

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Speaker 4: who the Niners are ultimately playing down the road.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely, the Rams being the team that scares you

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Speaker 2: a little bit again. I don't want to look past

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Speaker 2: the Packers with the way Jordan Love is playing, but

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Speaker 2: their assignment next week is a much different animal than

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Speaker 2: what they had today in my opinion.

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Speaker 3: Great stuff, Kyle.

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Speaker 2: This has been a ton of fun and I cannot

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Speaker 2: wait to do it with you again next week as

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Speaker 2: we get to the divisional round.

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Speaker 4: Absolutely, this is gonna be a fun finish. Can't wait

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Speaker 4: to watch the end.

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Speaker 3: Here, no doubt about it.

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Speaker 2: Coming down the stretch, Lions and Rams and a one

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Speaker 2: point game for Kyle Rudolph. I'm Mark Willard to keep

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Speaker 2: it locked right here playing kin Span. You're coming up

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Speaker 2: next on Fox Sports Radio.