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Speaker 2: This actually happened yesterday.

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Speaker 1: We have a microphone here in our Sherman Oaks studios

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Speaker 1: that is hanging on by a thread and told you

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Speaker 1: not to move it yesterday before. I didn't touch it.

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Speaker 3: Will see this. It's just the power of his voice

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Speaker 3: that moves that much.

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Speaker 1: It does. Rich has been on remote of me where

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Speaker 1: we've literally been blasted off the right been. There's like

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Speaker 1: five other mics in there, and you insist on using

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Speaker 1: that mic.

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Speaker 2: Because this is my mic.

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Speaker 1: Okay, so my advice is if I'm gonna use this mic,

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Speaker 1: which I always do, so I have a clear view

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Speaker 1: of Moncey, and I have a clear view of Bow,

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Speaker 1: and I have a clear view of Chris, and I

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Speaker 1: can hear Rich. I'm gonna continue to be on this mic.

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Speaker 1: I don't want to be over there where I can't

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Speaker 1: see everybody.

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Speaker 3: So there you go.

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Speaker 1: So my recommendation is, somebody please reattach this microphone. All right,

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Speaker 1: let's put that aside because we have a huge Sunday

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Speaker 1: in the NFL.

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Speaker 2: We are two hours away from kickoff.

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Speaker 1: And what will be a frigid arena there in Philadelphia.

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Speaker 1: The Rams will take on the Eagles, and as cold

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Speaker 1: as that game is, it'll be nothing compared to the

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Speaker 1: game later on tonight when the Buffalo Bills hosting the

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Speaker 1: Baltimore Ravens. So again, a couple hours away from kickoff

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Speaker 1: of that Rams Eagles game, Rich, which gives us plenty

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Speaker 1: of time to talk about what happened yesterday in the

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Speaker 1: National Football again. You know, for Chris to be here today,

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Speaker 1: I give him a lot of credit. A devastating loss

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Speaker 1: for the Detroit Lions yesterday. Coming off the buy. You

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Speaker 1: think about a team that has waited since nineteen fifty

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Speaker 1: seven to play for an NFL championship. All signs were

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Speaker 1: they were on their way to this year's Super Bowl.

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Speaker 1: They had the home field, they had a blowout victory

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Speaker 1: over the Vikings to secure that number one seed a

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Speaker 1: couple of weeks ago.

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Speaker 2: And the problem with yesterday's game was very simple.

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Speaker 1: You talk about stats, right and the Lions, which they

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Speaker 1: averaged what thirty three points a game? They scored thirty one.

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Speaker 1: But here's the two stats that are just mind blowing

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Speaker 1: turnovers Lions five, commanders zero, sacks, Commanders eight, Lions zero.

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Speaker 1: So when you have those kind of numbers, even with

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Speaker 1: the home field advantage, even with your offense for much

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Speaker 1: by a young quarterback by the name of Jaden Daniels.

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Speaker 4: So Jaden Daniels, when he was coming out of LSU

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Speaker 4: as the Heisman winner, I think the.

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Speaker 3: Lack of celebration for what he was able.

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Speaker 4: To accomplish during his collegiate career was muffled by the

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Speaker 4: attention I'll put it that Kayleb Williams was getting and

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Speaker 4: Kayleb Williams is a very talented quarterback, there's no question

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Speaker 3: But this happens.

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Speaker 4: This happens because somebody is getting the majority of the

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Speaker 4: spotlight and the attention. Many don't really follow the real story,

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Speaker 4: which is Jaden Daniels was the most ready NFL prospect

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Speaker 3: And I was saying it. Now.

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Speaker 4: Don't get me wrong, I'm not trying to you know, hey,

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Speaker 4: I told you so. I knew this was gonna happen.

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Speaker 4: I did not expect Jaden Daniels to be appearing in

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Speaker 4: an NFC championship game or a waiting for his opponent

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Speaker 4: in an NFC championship game. I did not see that coming.

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Speaker 4: But did I see him among the rookies that were taken,

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Speaker 4: And it's because when you look back at back at

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Speaker 4: his college film, all of the breadcrumbs were there. This

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Speaker 3: While keeping his eyes downfield. We saw it at LSU.

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Speaker 4: This guy throws a beautiful deep ball even when under pressure.

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Speaker 4: We saw it at LSU. This guy has incredible versatility

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Speaker 4: forcing defenders closer to the line of scrimmage if you're

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Speaker 4: in man, or excuse me, if you're in zone. All

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Speaker 4: He pops the ball over the top to a tight

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Speaker 4: it against LSU okay Or while he was at LSU.

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Speaker 4: I understand he was playing against inferior collegiate opponents at

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Speaker 4: that time, but we saw all these gifts on display.

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Speaker 3: He never panicked. This guy was sensational.

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Speaker 4: He won the Best Football Player in the Country award,

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Speaker 4: and all of the attention was on Kayleb Williams, the

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Speaker 4: presumed first overall draft pick. I said it a couple

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Speaker 4: of times, and I was wrong about this. I said

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Speaker 4: he might go number one. It might be a smoke

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Speaker 4: screen because he's the more ready or college prospect.

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Speaker 3: He ends up going too to the Commanders. He ends

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Speaker 4: He almost seemed like the bride's maid to this wedding

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Speaker 4: because the Commanders really wanted Ben Johnson. Gus got the

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Speaker 4: said no to it, basically, and the Commanders all the

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Speaker 4: while had this burgeoning offensive roster, not much to speak of. Defensively,

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Speaker 4: they don't stop the run. They had a lot of

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Speaker 4: to advance. I'm really impressed with Jaden Daniels. I'm really

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Speaker 4: impressed with this whole franchise. They've undergone a complete facelift,

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Speaker 4: and here they are playing in an NFC championship game.

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Speaker 1: They are indeed, and it was and Dan Campbell, the

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Speaker 3: We did not.

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Speaker 1: They outplayed us and again eight sacks, the zero, five

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Speaker 1: about the best division in the NFL this year, the

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Speaker 1: all three of their playoff games, Packers, Vikings, and Lions

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Speaker 1: I mean, this is one of the great division years

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Speaker 1: let's talk about the Lions for a second here. You know,

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Speaker 1: in the aftermath of the vikings horrific loss to the Rams,

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Speaker 1: all of a sudden, there's all this you know, question

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Speaker 1: Mark about Sam Donald, like, you know, yeah, And remember

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Speaker 1: hold it together. And he was holding it together until

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Speaker 1: the last two games. He was now all of a sudden,

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Speaker 1: I have a question about Jared Goff. So Jared Goff,

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Speaker 1: this was the biggest game of his career, that's right,

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Speaker 1: And the pick six was ugly. I mean, he he he.

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Speaker 3: So we've been.

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Speaker 1: Saying that, you know, in the in the be anyone,

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Speaker 1: the trade was made where the Rams had to give

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Speaker 2: Of a placeholder in Detroit.

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Speaker 1: They weren't convinced obviously golf was gonna be the long term,

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Speaker 1: the NFC Championship game. This year they get to the

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Speaker 1: He was outplayed badly by a rookie quarterback. So now

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Speaker 1: as you look forward for the Lions, who thought last

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Speaker 1: there questions now moving forward whether or not Jared Goff

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Speaker 3: Here's what I'll say.

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Speaker 4: I think that Jared Goff is a fine quarterback for

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Speaker 4: the system he plays in. I think that Jared Goff

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Speaker 4: is is replaceable in that system. Now, I'm not saying

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Speaker 4: But then you have this whole pile of quarterbacks that

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Speaker 3: You know, that's when you.

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Speaker 4: Get into the the Trevor Lawrences, the Justin Herbert's, the CJ. Strouds,

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Speaker 4: long list of, you know, quarterbacks who they're not going

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Speaker 4: somewhere beneath them, you get into these quarterbacks are competent,

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Speaker 4: but they're not going to get you into the playoffs.

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Speaker 4: Names now like Aaron Rodgers. Unfortunately for the Jets, Kirk Cousins.

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Speaker 4: thing with I'm not saying Jared Goff's bad, but I'm

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Speaker 4: saying that what Jared Goff does is replaceable, Like you

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Speaker 4: above replacement, and it really just puts an assessment a

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Speaker 4: number on how invaluable a player is to his franchise. Well,

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Speaker 4: I think Jared Goff has a pretty good war, but

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Speaker 4: it's not better than say, fifteen other quarterbacks.

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Speaker 3: Like you could replace.

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Speaker 4: Jared Goff with about maybe I'm over exaggerating with fifteen,

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Speaker 4: but with about twelve quarterbacks in this league starting quarterbacks,

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Speaker 1: Here we are live from the Tairaq dot com studios.

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Speaker 1: All right, so we were talking a little bit about

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Speaker 1: quarterbacks and came in today Bo, who is decked out.

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Speaker 2: In his Eagles gear.

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Speaker 1: He's a little torn rich, I have to say, because

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Speaker 1: as you know, mid season he became a huge Rams fan.

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Speaker 2: So and he admitted, well, you're admitting.

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Speaker 3: This is not me.

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Speaker 1: Beagles lose, You're not going to.

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Speaker 3: Be all that.

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Speaker 6: I said, La strong, baby, la strong.

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Speaker 1: So al right, So but he threw something at me,

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Speaker 1: and it's it's a very interesting question. So as we

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Speaker 1: sit here right now, yes, at the end of this

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty four season. I think the top four quarterbacks,

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Speaker 1: there's no real argument. Do you have Patrick Mahomes at

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Speaker 3: They're all kind of bunched up in the number two.

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Speaker 2: Right, exactly number five, Jaden Daniels.

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Speaker 1: Is it too soon to say Jade and Daniels over

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Speaker 1: Jalen Hurts or Jaden Daniels over Matthew Stafford? Is it

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Speaker 1: too early to say Jaden Daniels now sits number five

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Speaker 1: amongst current NFL quarterbacks?

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Speaker 6: See? What was that first name he threw out there?

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Speaker 6: I just want to make sure I heard that correctly.

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Speaker 1: Patrick Mahomes, did you say Jalen Hurts?

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Speaker 3: Jalen Hurts.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, you don't have to do.

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Speaker 1: That, Okay, I'm just sawing that.

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Speaker 5: Well.

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Speaker 1: Jalen Hurts was the toast of the NFL two years

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Speaker 1: ago when he out played Ma Holmes in the Super Bowl,

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Speaker 1: and unfortunate FuMB will cost the Eagles the Super Bowl.

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Speaker 2: But I'm asking you, Rich, is.

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Speaker 1: Jaden Daniels firmly in the number five slot?

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Speaker 4: I'm going to ask you a question, and then with

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Speaker 4: that question, your answer is going to give you my answer.

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Speaker 3: Okay, okay. Does Matt Ryan deserve to be in the

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Speaker 3: Hall of Fame.

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Speaker 2: In my opinion?

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Speaker 3: No?

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Speaker 4: Okay, And I figured you were going to answer that

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Speaker 4: question that way. Does Philip Rivers deserve to be in

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Speaker 4: the Hall.

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Speaker 2: Of Fame in my opinion?

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Speaker 1: No?

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Speaker 3: Okay, Jalen Hurts.

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Speaker 4: And the reason why I picked those two quarterbacks, and

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Speaker 4: the reason why I'm talking about Hall of Fame is

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Speaker 4: because you're talking about a scale of quarterback greatness with

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Speaker 4: some of these current day quarterbacks. And the reason why

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Speaker 4: I chose those names is because you could argue there

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Speaker 4: were playoff appearances, sure, but what those two quarterbacks careers

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Speaker 4: they had a chance to win it all and they

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Speaker 4: couldn't do it. Now, wins and losses, in my opinion,

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Speaker 4: isn't a quarterback stat. We shouldn't really hang all of

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Speaker 4: a part of the conversation.

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Speaker 3: When we're talking about greatness.

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Speaker 4: The reason why Tom Brady is the greatest quarterback of

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Speaker 4: all time has a lot to do with how much

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Speaker 4: he won during his time as New England's starting quarterback

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Speaker 4: question you just asked me. One season does not make

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Speaker 4: a great quarterback Jalen Hurts. When we really close our

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Speaker 4: eyes and think about Jalen Hurts, he had that incredible

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Speaker 4: back to the playoffs. Dot dot dot. We'll see what

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Speaker 4: happens this season. I'm I mean when we're talking about

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Speaker 4: who he can get his team to the playoffs. Then

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Speaker 4: there's the dot dot dot, But what does he do

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Speaker 3: I mean c J. Stroud.

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Speaker 4: I remember last year, Steve, after the season he has,

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Speaker 4: and I said, could we wait for year two? So

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Speaker 4: I think you have my answer. Jayden Daniels, like I said,

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Speaker 4: I'm a big fan. I was a big fan of

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Speaker 3: But could we wait till what we see? What he

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Speaker 4: Stroud year two a lot different than year one. Let's

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Speaker 1: All right, Well, I think that's fair, and obviously we'll

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Speaker 1: see next week. I mean, if if he can win

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Speaker 1: super Bowl, and dare I say, win the super Bowl?

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Speaker 1: Can you imagine if he got to the super Bowl

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Speaker 1: and beat Patrick Mahomes. All right, I'm getting ahead of

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Speaker 1: I'm getting ahead myself. Then we might re readdress that question.

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Speaker 1: All right, I want to get to the Chiefs now. Yes,

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Speaker 1: So what we saw yesterday is what we've seen all

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Speaker 1: season along from the Chiefs. That is correct, It's exactly

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Speaker 1: This Chiefs team has been consistently whatever you saw yesterday

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Speaker 1: some bad penalties. They also had some controversial penalties. Could

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Speaker 1: the penalty was thrown, which, by the way, was part

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Speaker 1: that game for the Chiefs. That aside, let's talk about

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Speaker 1: why the Chiefs are who they are and Travis Kelcey.

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Speaker 1: So here's Travis Kelcey sleep walking through the entire season.

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Speaker 1: We are kidding about the fact that he really has

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Speaker 1: to be jealous of the freedom that his brother Jason has.

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Speaker 1: Jason Kelcey is making zillions, literally doing commercials all over

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Speaker 1: Why am I still out here? You know, these meaningless

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Speaker 1: But once the spotlight is on, Travis Kelcey shows you

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Speaker 1: He didn't deserve the Pro Bowl based on what he

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Speaker 1: he averaged what like eight yards at catch. I mean,

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Speaker 1: of a sudden, seven catches over one hundred yards. Can

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Speaker 1: I ask you this though, and this.

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Speaker 2: This drives me nuts.

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Speaker 1: So three years ago I took my boys to the

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Speaker 1: I'm watching him then like they got Derwin James singled coverage.

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Speaker 1: I'm like, it's not working. Okay, he is wide open

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Speaker 1: on every play. Do something different. And remember Tyreek Hill

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Speaker 1: now defenses can zero in on Travis Kelsey, check them

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Speaker 1: out out, yeah, double them up, do something so and

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Speaker 1: yet teams can't do this. I'm watching this game yesterday

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Speaker 1: when he caught that touchdown pass.

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Speaker 2: As Mahomes is going down.

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Speaker 1: He is literally wide open in the middle of the

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Speaker 1: end and I'm thinking of myself, how do you not

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Speaker 4: I want you to think about a chess board. This

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Speaker 4: will answer this question.

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Speaker 3: I promise.

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Speaker 4: Think about a chessboard and then understand that you have

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Speaker 4: you have all the pieces in their places, and you're

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Speaker 4: allowed to move the chess pieces only certain ways.

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Speaker 3: Like the pawns.

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Speaker 4: On your opening move they can jump two spots from

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Speaker 4: that then forward, it's only one each time. You know

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Speaker 4: the nights, they can go two forward, one to the side.

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Speaker 4: You know the rules, right, everybody knows the rules of

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Speaker 4: chess by and large. But if you don't know chess,

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Speaker 4: I just want you to understand that all the pieces,

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Speaker 4: all the different pieces, all can move only the way

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Speaker 4: they're supposed to. They're not allowed to break those rules.

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Speaker 4: Travis Kelcey breaks all the rules. In fact, Travis Kelcey

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Speaker 4: that is the confines of the playing field. And there

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Speaker 4: are times where wait, you can't do that. You can't

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Speaker 4: Well you can when you've played together and as well

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Speaker 4: together as long as Travis Kelcey and Mahomes have, and

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Speaker 4: So Andy Reid saw this special talent in Travis kelce

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Speaker 4: He obviously admired the special talent of Patrick Mahomes otherwise

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Speaker 4: to answer your question, Steve, you're expecting offensive players to

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Speaker 4: do certain things within the confines of the game rules

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Speaker 4: Travis Kelce will put himself in a part of the

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Speaker 3: You'll say, why weren't they covering him? Well, here's the problem.

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Speaker 4: When Mahomes is trying to escape the pocket and your

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Speaker 4: Travis Kelce is behind those defenders or a side those

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Speaker 4: that wide open. And they've been doing it for years

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Speaker 4: to the frustration and chagrin of these defensive coordinator Steve

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Speaker 4: It's it's backyard football. And I know that sounds like

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Speaker 4: such a slander to what they're doing, because they've made

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Speaker 4: beautiful play after beautiful play. But truly, he has given

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Speaker 3: He's sometimes unguardable.

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Speaker 1: Well, it's remarkable and not remarkable at the same time,

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Speaker 1: for all the reasons you gave.

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Speaker 2: I mean again, Travis Kelcey, what can you say?

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Speaker 1: He has more career postseason receptions than any player in

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Speaker 1: Madzie and I doing our picks. She's firmly in control.

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Speaker 1: But I did get one point back yesterday. Rich Are

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Speaker 1: you ready for this? Yeah, So we make what we

443
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Speaker 1: call our predictions on the games during the postseason in

444
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Speaker 1: a desperate attempt for me to get back into this.

445
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Speaker 1: We're going against the point spreads, yeah, and then over unders.

446
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Speaker 1: As you know, it's sort of a catch twenty two.

447
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Speaker 1: If you get it right, you get a point, but

448
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Speaker 1: if you get it wrong, you lose a point. But

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Speaker 1: we also may what we call bold predictions. It's got

450
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Speaker 1: to be something like everyone agrees, Okay, that's a bold prediction.

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Speaker 1: And my bold prediction on this Lions game yesterday against

452
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Speaker 1: the Commanders was that Jared Goff would have more interceptions

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Speaker 1: than touchdown passes.

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Speaker 3: Wow.

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Speaker 1: And that one bold prediction came, I still have a

456
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Speaker 1: it's like climbing Mount Everest, and I picked up one point.

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Speaker 7: And just in case you're wondering, Rich, why this is

458
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Speaker 7: so complicated, it's all because of your buddy.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. Just so you know, poor producer Patrick. As you know,

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Speaker 1: I am a numbers guy, so numbers.

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Speaker 3: Are easy for me.

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Speaker 1: Patrick readily admits that just adding numbers is a challenge

463
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Speaker 1: for him and that I've complicated this to such a degree.

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Speaker 2: Well, really, Montsi's keeping track.

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Speaker 8: Every track now. Once we realized that, I was like,

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Speaker 8: I'll keep track.

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Speaker 7: But yes, you had that nice bold Uh, definitely.

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Speaker 8: I don't think either of us expected the Commanders to win.

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Speaker 1: I know you need them to cover. You know, the

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Speaker 1: only reason I picked the Commanders is because you picked

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Speaker 1: the Lions. I didn't feel good about the Commanders, but

472
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Speaker 1: I'm like, you know, I'll go for it, but then

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Speaker 1: I want with the under raz.

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Speaker 3: I think that was over a time I halftime.

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Speaker 8: It was almost I think forty.

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Speaker 1: Two points in the second quarter alone, most ever in

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Speaker 1: a playoff.

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Speaker 8: Yeah, I know, it's pretty crazy.

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Speaker 7: I felt pretty comfortable with taking the over at that

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Speaker 7: point at the half, but it was it was an

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Speaker 7: insane game. Yeah, So the Divisional Round continues soon in

482
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Speaker 7: about ninety minutes.

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Speaker 8: Eagles and Rams.

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Speaker 7: It's I just read that they think there's going to

485
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Speaker 7: be about seven inches of snow that drops throughout the

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Speaker 7: course of the game.

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Speaker 1: Yes, it is going to snow throughout this there's that

488
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Speaker 1: winter weather warning now in Philadelphia, so they're expecting snow

489
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Speaker 1: throughout the entire game.

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Speaker 8: That's going to be a rough and fun game to watch.

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Speaker 7: The winner is going to face Washington in the NFC

492
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Speaker 7: Championship Game, and then after around six thirty Eastern, it's

493
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Speaker 7: when the Bills are going to be hosting the Ravens

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Speaker 7: in the AFC Divisional Round. As expected, Baltimore is probably

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Speaker 7: not going to have wide receivers A Flowers available. The

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Speaker 7: winner is going to face the Chiefs in the AFC

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Speaker 7: Championship game after they took down Houston yesterday twenty three

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Speaker 7: to fourteen. A big topic of conversation has been the

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Speaker 7: referee and the officials and whatnot with that game. So

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Speaker 7: on Twitter, Jalen Watson, who was a cornerback for the Chiefs,

501
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Speaker 7: tweeted about fourteen hours ago, I miss when grown men

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Speaker 7: took their losses like a man.

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Speaker 8: A new day in.

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Speaker 1: Age, though, Well, see the Chiefs are now the victims

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Speaker 1: as the Patriots are. For years, it had become literally

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Speaker 1: the most hated team in the NFL. I don't know,

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Speaker 1: you're a diear Chiefs fan. I get it, diear, but

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Speaker 1: I mean, but she's not. And yet she likes the

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Speaker 1: Chiefe I don't dislike them. It's like she's like, how

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Speaker 1: could you dislike Travis Kelsey or Patrick Maholmes, Andy Reid?

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Speaker 3: How would you like dislike them?

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Speaker 8: How do you hate Andy Reid?

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Speaker 7: He just wants to have a cheeseburger, Like I don't understand.

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Speaker 3: I think he is the most likable, really is.

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Speaker 8: The most likable.

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Speaker 7: I agree, and like when people are like I hate

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Speaker 7: Travis Kelsey, I'm like.

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Speaker 3: Okay, I know.

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Speaker 1: But then they'll watch that one penalty called. Were you saying,

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Speaker 1: all right, are you just going to hand right the

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Speaker 1: Lombardi Trophy to the Chiefs?

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Speaker 7: I agree there were some very bad calls, but they

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Speaker 7: also didn't stop the I mean, Houston could have scored

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Speaker 7: a little bit more like.

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Speaker 8: Those calls were bad.

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Speaker 7: But you know, I'm not disagreeing that the refereeing is

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Speaker 7: very questionable when it comes to the Chiefs.

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Speaker 8: I don't disagree with that.

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Speaker 7: We do have one college men's basketball game going on

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Speaker 7: right now, Number nineteen Illinois, Number twelve Michigan State. They're

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Speaker 7: actually tied out fifty four with about eleven minutes to

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Speaker 7: go in the game.

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Speaker 8: And lastly, here the rich get richer.

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Speaker 7: The Los Angeles Dodgers encloser Tanner Sky an agreement on

535
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Speaker 7: a four year, seventy two million dollar contract. The report

536
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Speaker 7: is is, when this is made official, the Dodgers luxury

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Speaker 7: tax payroll for twenty twenty five will exceed three hundred

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Speaker 7: and seventy five million. It's about seventy million more than

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Speaker 7: the next highest team, which is Philadelphia.

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Speaker 1: Well, there's a team that has also entered into that.

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Speaker 1: Everybody hates the Dodgers. I mean there are social media's boy,

542
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Speaker 1: like the Dodgers are ruining major League Baseball.

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Speaker 3: Yes, and it.

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Speaker 1: Really all stems from Shoho Tani essentially deferring his entire contract.

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Speaker 7: Which players can opt to do that on other teams.

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Speaker 7: It's not like it's only the Dodgers.

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Speaker 1: It's just what it's given the Dodgers license to literally

548
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Speaker 1: sign everything.

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Speaker 8: It's true, life is unfair, ain't it that?

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Speaker 1: If again, if you're a Dodger fan, you're like, yeah, yeah, in.

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Speaker 6: The world's smallest violin right now?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, for real, for real exactly, So all right, mon,

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Speaker 1: it's a great stuff.

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Speaker 2: And again, we are a little.

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Speaker 1: Less than an hour and a half away from kickoff

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Speaker 1: of that Rams Eagles game, and yes, it will be

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Speaker 1: snowing throughout that entire game. So getting back to Patrick Mahomes,

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Speaker 1: Yeah again, and I've said this before, as you know,

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Speaker 1: I made the argument that when we talk about franchise

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Speaker 1: quarterbacks currently in the NFL, there's one. There's one. I mean,

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Speaker 1: as great as Josh Allen and Lamar Jackson and Joe

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Speaker 1: Burrell r. You have one franchise quarterback. Because my bar

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Speaker 1: is like Tom Brady level. But this is this is

564
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Speaker 1: a but this is a guy now who is sixteen

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Speaker 1: and three in the postseason, sixteen and three. This is

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Speaker 1: a team that has now gone to seven consecutive AFC

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Speaker 1: Championship games with this guy at quarterback. Okay, so when

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Speaker 1: you look at his resume, it dwarfs everybody else.

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Speaker 3: I agree with that.

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Speaker 1: Dwarfs it, just like Tom Brady's resume dwarfed everybody else.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 4: But back then, Steve, this is my problem. So we've

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Speaker 4: worked together for a very long time. While Tom Brady

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Speaker 4: was still playing in the NFL, you never used to

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Speaker 4: say there's only one franchise quarterback. You used to admit

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Speaker 4: that there were others, that there were other quarterbacks that

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Speaker 4: you could build a franchise around, or maybe your criteria hold.

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Speaker 1: On, hold on, because there was that ten year gap.

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Speaker 1: Remember Brady had a ten year gap from whining his

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Speaker 1: third Super Bowl to win he is fourth Super Bowl.

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Speaker 1: I remember, Yeah, you were some people blame you for

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Speaker 1: that gap, but anyway, you know, I'll take you a

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Speaker 1: little bit there.

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Speaker 2: You were there for three of those ten years.

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Speaker 1: But anyway, yeah, yeah, but there is no gap right

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Speaker 1: now with Mahomes. I mean, he came out of the

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Speaker 1: box and in seven years as a starting quarterback. He

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Speaker 1: has had his team in the ASC Championship game seven

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Speaker 1: out of seven, so he hasn't had that gap yet

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Speaker 1: the way Brady had.

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Speaker 4: I'm going to give you my franchise quarterback criteria, and

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Speaker 4: then I want you to give yours, because there's a

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Speaker 4: lot of people who are wringing their hands because they're

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Speaker 4: listening to us in cities where they truly feel like

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Speaker 4: they have their franchise quarterback and they're eager for them

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Speaker 4: to build around them.

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Speaker 3: So here's my criteria.

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Speaker 4: My criteria, and this obviously broadens the scope to many

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Speaker 4: more quarterbacks than just one. Is a quarterback who who

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Speaker 4: can win games where everything is going wrong, but he

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Speaker 4: can make it right right your defense didn't show up

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00:30:08,320 --> 00:30:11,640
Speaker 4: that day, maybe your running back has fumbled the ball twice.

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Speaker 4: You know the team needs you to do something special,

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Speaker 4: and you deliver, and not just once in a while,

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Speaker 4: but on a consistent basis. When things are going wrong,

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Speaker 4: the team can watch a star at quarterback pull them

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Speaker 4: through it. Okay, So that's one criteria. Another criteria is durability.

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Speaker 4: You gotta be durable if you want to be a

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Speaker 4: franchise quarterback. I'm sorry if you've been hurt all the time.

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Speaker 4: Can your team really build around a guy who's not there?

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Speaker 4: The answer is no. So that's the reason why it's

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Speaker 4: really high on my list. So durability is important. Playmaking

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Speaker 4: ability has to be in the.

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Speaker 3: Very good to great category.

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Speaker 4: Your ability to throw the ball down the field or

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Speaker 4: stress the line of scrimmage with your legs has to

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Speaker 4: be there. One or both of those things would be nice,

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Speaker 4: but has to be there. And then let's put into

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Speaker 4: more of a meta view. You have to be the

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Speaker 4: type of player that a team can truly consider a

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Speaker 4: cornerstone and build around you. They're not building around your limitations.

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Speaker 4: They're feeding the positive aspects of your game. They're not

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Speaker 4: trying to hide the things you're bad at. They're actually

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Speaker 4: trying to accentuate the positive parts of your game. That's

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Speaker 4: a franchise quarterback, and I could give you probably.

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Speaker 3: Ten of them.

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Speaker 4: I could feel pretty secure giving you about ten names.

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Speaker 4: Maybe something less than that, maybe it's eight in the NFL. Now,

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Speaker 4: what's your criteria?

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Speaker 1: Okay, So again, when we talk about Patrick Mahomes before

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Speaker 1: last season, there was a little asterisk do next to

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Speaker 1: his success in the postseason. That was the Chiefs had

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Speaker 1: never had a road playoff game against super.

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Speaker 2: Bowls or neutral sites. That changed last year.

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Speaker 1: You know who he beat on the road last year,

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Speaker 1: Josh Allen and the Bills, and then Lamar Jackson the

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Speaker 1: Ravens in their home field. Right that, to me, this

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Speaker 1: is where he separated. So when you talk about what

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Speaker 1: we all agree are like the tie for second between

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Speaker 1: josh Al, Lamar Jackson, and Joe Burrow, the only guy

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Speaker 1: that has to win over Patrick Mahomes in the postseason

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00:32:14,680 --> 00:32:17,880
Speaker 1: is Joe Burrow in that inexplicable second half collapse by.

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Speaker 2: The Chiefs in the ANFC Championship game.

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Speaker 1: So I cannot put any of those guys in the conversation.

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Speaker 2: When I say the name Patrick Mahomes.

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Speaker 3: I understand that.

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Speaker 1: If I label him the franchise quarterback with the idea

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Speaker 1: that the goal of every franchise is to win championships,

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Speaker 1: I cannot put those other three guys in the same category.

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Speaker 4: But come on, Steve, all right, and I'm really speaking

651
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Speaker 4: for people who are shouting at the radio at this point.

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Speaker 4: You're telling me that the only quarterback in the NFL

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Speaker 4: who you could see winning a Super Bowl, winning a

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Speaker 4: championship is Patrick Mahomes.

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Speaker 1: Right until somebody CRUs me. Otherwise, there's only let's think

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Speaker 1: about it. He's lost three playoff games, two to Tom Brady,

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Speaker 1: one once he in New England, went in Tampa, and

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Speaker 1: then to Joe Burrow. Okay, So if I'm saying, all right,

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Speaker 1: here are the franchise quarterback, I cannot put any current

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Speaker 1: quarterback in the same category as Patrick Mahomes.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Period. Well it's not a knock. I'm not saying they

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Speaker 1: are great quarterbacks. Lamark Jackson's gonna win a third MVP award,

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Speaker 1: Josh Allen I would take these and Joe Burrow. I

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Speaker 1: love Joe Burrow. I picked him to be the league's

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Speaker 1: MVP before the season, and had his team and made

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Speaker 1: the playoffs, he probably would have been. But that's we're talking.

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Speaker 1: When I established that there is a franchise quarterback and

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Speaker 1: it's Patrick Mahomes, I'm sorry nobody else is in the conversation.

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Speaker 3: All right, Well, here's.

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Speaker 4: What I'll say, and I apologize for the beeping. I'm

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Speaker 4: in a room with a stopwatch and I will find it.

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Speaker 4: But here's what I will say about what everything you

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Speaker 4: just said. Tom Brady, albeit retired, I mean obviously was

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Speaker 4: a franchise quarterback.

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Speaker 3: Yes, yes, okay, okay.

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Speaker 4: Matthew Stafford in the interim, in the time of Mahomes

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Speaker 4: has won a championship.

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Speaker 3: Is he a franchise quarterback?

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Speaker 4: No?

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Speaker 3: See, But so that's.

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Speaker 1: Where is Russell Wilson. Russell Wilson won a Super Bowl.

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Speaker 3: Well, well, and that's kind of my point.

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Speaker 4: If the criteria is having a quarterback talented enough to

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Speaker 4: win a Super Bowl championship, and there have been other

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Speaker 4: quarterbacks who have won, not only won super Bowl championships,

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Speaker 4: but also have won consistently over the course of their

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Speaker 4: career and have given their teams many, many bites at

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Speaker 4: that apple, so to speak, right getting to the postseason,

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Speaker 4: giving your team an opportunity to get there again. And

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Speaker 4: I'm not saying all of them play great in those

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Speaker 4: postseason runs or every single one of those postseason runs,

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Speaker 4: but I'm just saying.

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Speaker 3: Gave their team shot.

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Speaker 4: They are eliminated from your criteria because their names are

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Speaker 4: not Patrick Mahomes.

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Speaker 3: It just doesn't make that much sense.

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Speaker 1: They're outstanding quarterbacks, they're great quarterbacks, but in my definition

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Speaker 1: of franchise, there is one right now, and his name

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Speaker 1: is Patrick Mahomes. All right, on the other side, we

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Speaker 1: continue on in the conversation. We're going to start getting

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Speaker 1: ready for the games coming up today, starting with the

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Speaker 1: Rams and the Eagles, and some very eerie similarities that

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Speaker 1: could favor the team from LA. We'll explain. This is

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Speaker 1: Red Zone Radio, hight rolling along getting ready for the

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Speaker 1: two big games in the NFL, and then feel for

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Speaker 1: the final four will be set next Sunday. Of course,

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Speaker 1: rich you and I will be here as we get

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Speaker 1: ready for the AFC and NFC championship games. Where and when,

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Speaker 1: well we're not quite sure. Well we know, we know this.

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Speaker 1: We know the AFC Championship game will be in Kansas City,

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Speaker 1: but as far as the NFC Championship still to be decided.

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Speaker 1: And if you're a Rams fan, I'd be feeling pretty

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Speaker 1: good right now. And I'll explain why. Three years ago

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Speaker 1: when won the Super Bowl. By the way, it's like

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Speaker 1: a trivia question, what's the last team not coached by Andreury,

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Speaker 1: not quarterback by Patrick Mahomes to win the Super Bowl?

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Speaker 1: That would be the Los Angeles Rams. That year, the

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Speaker 1: Rams were the four seed. This is the twenty twenty

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Speaker 1: one season. The lowest seed was the Well, the forty

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Speaker 1: nine Ers that year won on the road and beat

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Speaker 1: the Dallas Cowboys. That was an upset. And then what

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Speaker 1: happened was, after getting a home win as the four seed,

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Speaker 1: the Rams go on the road against the two seed

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Speaker 1: the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and Tom Brady and get the win.

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Speaker 1: And then the number one seed, the Packers, inexplicably at home,

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Speaker 1: lose to Jimmy Garoppolo in the forty nine ers. So

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Speaker 1: the next thing you know, the Rams as a four

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Speaker 1: seed were hosting the NFC Championship game against the forty

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Speaker 1: nine ers won that won the Super Bowl. Well, the

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Speaker 1: very same scenario could play out this year. If the

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Speaker 1: Rams win today in Philadelphia knocking out the two seed

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Speaker 1: on the road, the one seed is bye bye. And yes,

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Speaker 1: the Rams would be hosting the Washing Commanders next week

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Speaker 1: if they win today in the NFC Championship game. And

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Speaker 1: oh that's right, the same suspects are there, Sean McVay

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Speaker 1: and Matthew Stafford.

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Speaker 2: It's hard to predict.

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Speaker 1: A game under extreme weather conditions, and by all accounts,

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Speaker 1: that's exactly what's happening in Philadelphia today.

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Speaker 2: And I've asked you this many times.

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Speaker 1: Rich you know, in terms of extreme weather, whether it's

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Speaker 1: extreme cold, extreme heat, extreme rain, extreme wind, extreme snow.

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Speaker 1: You say, well, snow is the least offensive. But do

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Speaker 1: you see what I'm talking about? On top of the

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Speaker 1: fact that obviously Los Angeles, with these horrific wildfires, has

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Speaker 1: been very much in the spotlight, and the Rams after

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Speaker 1: their devastation of the Vikings last week nine sacks in

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Speaker 1: the game, it readily admitted after the game they were

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Speaker 1: inspired in a certain representation of the city of Los

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Speaker 1: Angeles with these catastrophes happening in the city. Could it

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Speaker 1: be that the Rams, who pretty much entered the playoffs

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Speaker 1: as an afterthought, could indeed be a team of destiny.

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Speaker 4: I wouldn't doubt it. I wouldn't put it past them.

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Speaker 4: I really wouldn't. Because here, here's the truth, and we're

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Speaker 4: getting way ahead of ourselves because they have to win

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Speaker 4: three games to win a championship. Here, here's the thing

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Speaker 4: about momentum. When something catches fire and I'm not using

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Speaker 4: this because of the recent events here, but we know

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Speaker 4: how it works.

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Speaker 3: It spreads quick and it captivates.

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Speaker 4: And when you're talking about emotion, especially like that, that

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Speaker 4: really is what we're seeing with the Rams, they've sort

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Speaker 4: of taken a recent tragedy that has had a great

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Speaker 4: effect on not only the players but also coaches staff.

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Speaker 3: Of the Rams, people who live in that air.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, obviously, and it feels like they've used that more

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Speaker 4: as fuel to motivate them than as an excuse. Having

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Speaker 4: their home field advantage shifted to Arizona didn't slow them

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Speaker 4: down at all. So I think the Rams, outside of

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Speaker 4: the Commanders, who happen to be waiting for them if

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Speaker 4: they win today, are the most dangerous team left in

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Speaker 4: the playoff field. It's kind of a coin flip between

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Speaker 4: them and the Commanders because it's hard to stop a

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Speaker 4: motivated team like that, and the Commanders, they've they've proven

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Speaker 4: that they are something to be messed with.

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Speaker 3: So look out for the NFC side of this bracket.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, and let's keep in mind, of course,

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Speaker 1: and we'll have much more on this as the show progresses,

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Speaker 1: as we get closer to the kickoff of that game.

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Speaker 1: These two teams met during the regular season, they did,

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Speaker 1: and it wasn't even close.

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Speaker 3: No, it was not. I mean, the.

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Speaker 1: Eagles absolutely obliterated the Rams in that game, ran all

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Speaker 1: over them, and the question is where running is going

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Speaker 1: to be at a premium with bad weather? Can the

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Speaker 1: Rams find a way to stop that Eagles running attack?

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Speaker 1: All right, you got much more on that, and of

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Speaker 1: course the big game coming up later between the Bills

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Speaker 1: and Ravens. This is Red Zone Radio. One hour away

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Speaker 1: from kickoff of that game between the Rams and Eagles.

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Speaker 1: Later the Ravens and the Bills, and by days in

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Speaker 1: the four teams heading to the conference championship games will

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Speaker 1: be set.

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Speaker 1: John Paul Morosi makes his return to the show. We'll

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Speaker 1: talk to JP about well, we really haven't talked to

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Speaker 1: him rich since the playoffs began in Major League Baseball

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Speaker 1: as we got into the NFL season, So we'll talk

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Speaker 1: about obviously how the Dodgers got back on top of

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Speaker 1: the baseball world and how it looks like they're hell

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Speaker 1: been on staying there for a long time with all

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Speaker 1: their off season activities. And the next Tuesday coming up here,

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Speaker 1: just in two days, the Baseball Hall of Fame Class

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Speaker 1: of twenty twenty five will be announced, so we'll talk

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Speaker 1: about a lot of that coming up with John Paul Morosi.

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Speaker 4: I'm excited to talk to John Paul because obviously we've

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Speaker 4: had a couple of major signings so far this offseason,

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Speaker 4: as we are approaching a month away from pitchers and

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Speaker 4: catchers in most cities, it's really an exciting time to

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Speaker 4: be a baseball fan in certain cities, Yes, And all

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Speaker 4: of a sudden, it's becoming, at least this offseason, ever

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Speaker 4: more obvious that if you are a fan of certain franchises,

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Speaker 4: you're really excited for the future prospects, and if you're

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Speaker 4: a fan of other franchises, you know, it almost feels

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Speaker 4: hopeless in some way. And I want to ask him

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Speaker 4: about how baseball fixes that, whether just the mere appearances,

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Speaker 4: you know, I mean, because that's just the way I feel.

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Speaker 4: Maybe not everybody feels that way, and maybe it's not

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Speaker 4: even true. Maybe some of these teams that we're not

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Speaker 4: going to see coming have a major impact on the postseason.

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Speaker 4: But what the Dodgers are doing, what the Philadelphia Phillies

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Speaker 4: are doing, I mean, I congratulate them for their success

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Speaker 4: and for their commitment to winning, and all the money

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Speaker 4: that they're pouring into their franchise is not every fan

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Speaker 4: base gets to enjoy that though.

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Speaker 2: No it doesn't.

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Speaker 1: And that's again when we talk about the strength of

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Speaker 1: the National Football League almost a forgotten name now it

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Speaker 1: should not be, because no single individual had a greater

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Speaker 1: impact on the NFL than Pete Roselle. So Pete Roselle,

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Speaker 1: of course with the commissioner of the NFL for many

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Speaker 1: many years, but where his greatest impact was as he

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Speaker 1: was out of he was like a tenth choice when

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Speaker 1: Burt Bell, who had been a long time commissioner of

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Speaker 1: the NFL, had passed away, and I expectedly they need

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Speaker 1: a replacement. Welling Temera, who was the owner of the

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Speaker 1: Giants at the time, was trumpeting a young guy named

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Speaker 1: Pete rosel He was a former PR guy turned general

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Speaker 1: manager of the Rams. But he knew marketing and he

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Speaker 1: also understood the strength of equalizing the playing field as

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Speaker 1: much as possible, and he was the one that established

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Speaker 1: an equal distribution of the network television funds for the NFL,

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Speaker 1: and that has changed. That was a game changer. It

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Speaker 1: allowed the Green Bays of the world to compete with

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Speaker 1: the New Yorks of the world. See that's that, and

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Speaker 1: that's why that kind of combetitive balance financially has enabled

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Speaker 1: franchises like the Commanders in a single season going from

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Speaker 1: four wins to twelve wins and now a ticket to

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Speaker 1: the NFC Championship Game with a rookie quarterback.

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Speaker 4: Like like the Chargers, right, who you know they let's

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Speaker 4: put it this way, and I understand, like maybe they

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Speaker 4: didn't make enormous improvements their football team, but Lad McConkey

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Speaker 4: was taken in the second round.

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Speaker 3: If Lad McConkey doesn't come to the.

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Speaker 4: Chargers, they have a completely different season because he ended

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Speaker 4: up smashing rookie records for receiving. Like it's one of

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Speaker 4: those It's one of those things where the great lie

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Speaker 4: that's told to young athletes is this is a true meritocracy.

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Speaker 3: It's not not.

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Speaker 4: Once you leave high school and sometimes in high school,

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Speaker 4: by the way, but once you leave high school and

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Speaker 4: you go to college, all of a sudden, money starts

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Speaker 4: moving decisions, and then when you get to the NFL,

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Speaker 4: nobody's hiding it. And really in college nobody's hiding it either.

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Speaker 4: But when you get to the NFL, money's the objected. However,

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Speaker 4: they've created the best mouse trap to ensnare the most

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Speaker 4: amount of fans because they've created what I would argue

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Speaker 4: is the fairest product city to city, franchise to franchise

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Speaker 4: because of the salary cap and also the salary basement,

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00:44:54,280 --> 00:44:58,560
Speaker 4: payers are getting played paid handsomely, and you are having

878
00:44:58,640 --> 00:45:02,319
Speaker 4: great parody across league because there are restrictions on how

879
00:45:02,400 --> 00:45:05,759
Speaker 4: much some of these franchises can spend. And I think that, well,

880
00:45:06,080 --> 00:45:08,640
Speaker 4: I hate that players are limited in how much they

881
00:45:08,640 --> 00:45:10,279
Speaker 4: can make, and I could go on to die drive

882
00:45:10,480 --> 00:45:13,040
Speaker 4: for hours and hours about that. I do think it

883
00:45:13,080 --> 00:45:15,240
Speaker 4: makes for a better sports product.

884
00:45:15,280 --> 00:45:18,480
Speaker 1: All Right, they're showing some of the scene in Philadelphia

885
00:45:18,520 --> 00:45:23,000
Speaker 1: right now. They've shown scenes with snow falling, snow not falling.

886
00:45:23,120 --> 00:45:25,000
Speaker 1: I guess they're going back and forth right now. The

887
00:45:25,080 --> 00:45:27,920
Speaker 1: expectation is there's going to be a lot of snow

888
00:45:28,080 --> 00:45:30,719
Speaker 1: all right. Here is the stat that the Rams are

889
00:45:30,719 --> 00:45:32,360
Speaker 1: going to have to fix if they're going to have

890
00:45:32,400 --> 00:45:34,040
Speaker 1: a chance to win in Philadelphia.

891
00:45:34,080 --> 00:45:34,839
Speaker 3: Today's here.

892
00:45:35,000 --> 00:45:39,440
Speaker 1: So these two teams played earlier this year at Sofi Stadium.

893
00:45:39,760 --> 00:45:44,680
Speaker 1: Saquon Barkley twenty six carries two hundred fifty five yards.

894
00:45:46,360 --> 00:45:49,520
Speaker 1: Remember that was the game that suddenly catapulted him into

895
00:45:49,520 --> 00:45:53,160
Speaker 1: the conversation to possibly break Eric Dickerson single season rushing

896
00:45:53,200 --> 00:46:01,040
Speaker 1: record MVP twenty six carries two hundred and fifty five yards.

897
00:46:03,960 --> 00:46:06,560
Speaker 1: And I remember listening to that game thinking, I mean,

898
00:46:06,800 --> 00:46:09,360
Speaker 1: if they won, he could break that record. Remember, Adrian

899
00:46:09,400 --> 00:46:11,440
Speaker 1: Peterson holds the single game record of two hundred and

900
00:46:11,480 --> 00:46:14,320
Speaker 1: ninety six yards. No NFL running backs ever top three hundred.

901
00:46:14,320 --> 00:46:15,800
Speaker 1: You felt like Barkley could have done.

902
00:46:15,680 --> 00:46:16,840
Speaker 3: At that day.

903
00:46:17,080 --> 00:46:20,719
Speaker 1: So if you're the Rams, because I was doing television

904
00:46:20,760 --> 00:46:24,239
Speaker 1: over the weekend and we were getting some soundbites from

905
00:46:24,280 --> 00:46:28,800
Speaker 1: Sean McVay obviously addressing the game earlier that the Eagles

906
00:46:28,800 --> 00:46:32,799
Speaker 1: won easily thirty seven to twenty at so Far and

907
00:46:32,840 --> 00:46:36,680
Speaker 1: he says, our defense is much different than it was then.

908
00:46:38,160 --> 00:46:44,000
Speaker 1: Still Jalen Hurts at quarterback. You know you got aj Brown,

909
00:46:44,280 --> 00:46:47,720
Speaker 1: I mean they got weapons. You know in the passing

910
00:46:47,760 --> 00:46:51,680
Speaker 1: game with the Eagles, do you go all out and

911
00:46:51,880 --> 00:46:56,000
Speaker 1: just stack the box in an effort to slow down Barkley.

912
00:46:56,800 --> 00:47:01,160
Speaker 1: How do you exactly try to reverse what happen when

913
00:47:01,160 --> 00:47:02,919
Speaker 1: these two teams met earlier this year?

914
00:47:04,120 --> 00:47:10,359
Speaker 4: Who So, when I was in New England, we had

915
00:47:10,400 --> 00:47:15,240
Speaker 4: a mission every game, and Bill Belichick made no qualms

916
00:47:15,239 --> 00:47:19,440
Speaker 4: about what a team did exceedingly well. He concentrated less

917
00:47:19,920 --> 00:47:23,080
Speaker 4: on what we did well, and he focused on what

918
00:47:23,440 --> 00:47:26,840
Speaker 4: our opponent was doing well. And I'm gonna speak for

919
00:47:27,320 --> 00:47:31,480
Speaker 4: both teams here because obviously both teams should be doing

920
00:47:31,520 --> 00:47:34,560
Speaker 4: a little bit of this. But when you are looking

921
00:47:35,080 --> 00:47:38,400
Speaker 4: at the Philadelphia Eagles, what is your biggest problem?

922
00:47:38,800 --> 00:47:43,160
Speaker 3: I mean, what is your biggest threat offense? Defense? Who

923
00:47:43,320 --> 00:47:45,440
Speaker 3: is the problem? It's Sae Kwon Barkery.

924
00:47:46,200 --> 00:47:51,319
Speaker 4: So circle his number and find a way so that

925
00:47:51,480 --> 00:47:53,879
Speaker 4: the Eagles, if they win this game, they do it,

926
00:47:54,360 --> 00:47:58,319
Speaker 4: they do it without him, Like limit his impact the

927
00:47:58,480 --> 00:48:01,960
Speaker 4: thing they want to get to the limit his impact.

928
00:48:02,400 --> 00:48:05,640
Speaker 4: Tie their hand behind their back and say, okay, now

929
00:48:05,680 --> 00:48:10,120
Speaker 4: beat us, Can you still can Jalen Hurts generate enough

930
00:48:10,400 --> 00:48:13,880
Speaker 4: you know downfield targets? Can you know, can can you

931
00:48:14,040 --> 00:48:17,360
Speaker 4: loosen our defense? Because our goal is to stop Saquon Barkley.

932
00:48:17,440 --> 00:48:20,560
Speaker 4: But look, we're realists. If you start throwing shots over

933
00:48:20,560 --> 00:48:23,160
Speaker 4: our head to DeVante Smith or aj Brown, or you

934
00:48:23,160 --> 00:48:25,200
Speaker 4: connect with Goddard a couple of times in the deep

935
00:48:25,200 --> 00:48:27,160
Speaker 4: middle of the field, like, yeah, maybe we're gonna have

936
00:48:27,160 --> 00:48:30,880
Speaker 4: to make adjustments. But if you can't do that, we

937
00:48:30,920 --> 00:48:34,440
Speaker 4: are going to smother the hell out of Saquon Barkley.

938
00:48:34,560 --> 00:48:36,879
Speaker 4: We're gonna throw a wet blanket over your plan. We're

939
00:48:36,880 --> 00:48:39,560
Speaker 4: gonna ruin your birthday party. You gotta find a way

940
00:48:39,600 --> 00:48:42,560
Speaker 4: to adjust to that, and if you can't, we will

941
00:48:42,680 --> 00:48:45,960
Speaker 4: choke you to death. That's the plan against the Eagles.

942
00:48:46,000 --> 00:48:48,919
Speaker 4: If you're smart. I think Sean McVay is a smart guy.

943
00:48:49,200 --> 00:48:52,240
Speaker 4: I think that defense has been playing better defense lately.

944
00:48:52,480 --> 00:48:55,600
Speaker 4: Now put the show on the other foot. What do

945
00:48:55,680 --> 00:48:56,440
Speaker 4: the Rams want to do?

946
00:48:57,080 --> 00:48:57,239
Speaker 3: Well?

947
00:48:57,280 --> 00:49:00,440
Speaker 4: The Rams, they they want to get the ball in

948
00:49:00,440 --> 00:49:03,320
Speaker 4: the hands of Cooper Cup and Pooka Nakua.

949
00:49:03,560 --> 00:49:04,799
Speaker 3: There's no question about it.

950
00:49:05,160 --> 00:49:08,040
Speaker 4: So I'm not saying you have to sacrifice the line

951
00:49:08,040 --> 00:49:10,759
Speaker 4: of scrimmage, but you better make sure those guys are

952
00:49:10,800 --> 00:49:13,000
Speaker 4: well covered. So whether you've got to commit an extra

953
00:49:13,040 --> 00:49:15,239
Speaker 4: body to Cooper on certain routes or extra body to.

954
00:49:15,160 --> 00:49:16,480
Speaker 3: Pookin a coup on certain routes.

955
00:49:16,880 --> 00:49:20,239
Speaker 4: You You basically, what you allow the Rams to do

956
00:49:20,760 --> 00:49:22,800
Speaker 4: is win between the twenties.

957
00:49:23,000 --> 00:49:24,760
Speaker 3: Hey, we're gonna give you the middle of the field.

958
00:49:24,920 --> 00:49:25,879
Speaker 3: That's fine, but.

959
00:49:25,880 --> 00:49:28,280
Speaker 4: We're gonna make it really hard on you to score

960
00:49:28,680 --> 00:49:29,840
Speaker 4: on us in the red area.

961
00:49:30,280 --> 00:49:32,920
Speaker 3: So try to throw the Cooper cup. I dare you.

962
00:49:33,120 --> 00:49:35,440
Speaker 4: In fact, our bed is you're gonna throw to him,

963
00:49:35,440 --> 00:49:37,400
Speaker 4: it's gonna fall in complete, or we're gonna intercept it

964
00:49:37,560 --> 00:49:41,200
Speaker 4: because we've been practicing that all week long. Okay, if

965
00:49:41,320 --> 00:49:43,399
Speaker 4: if you try to throw the Pookinakua, we're gonna cover

966
00:49:43,480 --> 00:49:45,640
Speaker 4: him up too. So you're either gonna have to find

967
00:49:45,640 --> 00:49:48,600
Speaker 4: a way to run it in every single time, or

968
00:49:48,640 --> 00:49:51,360
Speaker 4: you're gonna be settling for three points. And now again,

969
00:49:51,600 --> 00:49:53,239
Speaker 4: if they find a way to run it in every

970
00:49:53,280 --> 00:49:55,759
Speaker 4: single time, then the Eagles have to make an adjustment.

971
00:49:56,000 --> 00:49:58,720
Speaker 4: But you have to force a team to play left handed.

972
00:49:59,120 --> 00:50:01,560
Speaker 4: That is the only you can win against special players.

973
00:50:01,640 --> 00:50:04,240
Speaker 1: You know, it's interesting you mentioned about Nakoua and Kupp

974
00:50:04,520 --> 00:50:07,480
Speaker 1: in that earlier game, and again a very one sided

975
00:50:07,520 --> 00:50:11,000
Speaker 1: Eagles victory. Poka Nakua nine catches one hundred and seventy

976
00:50:11,080 --> 00:50:14,960
Speaker 1: to one hundred and seventeen yards Cooper Cup at eight catches,

977
00:50:15,200 --> 00:50:18,000
Speaker 1: they're sixty sixty yards, not a lot of yards, and

978
00:50:18,040 --> 00:50:20,960
Speaker 1: did score a touchdown. So both teams were able to

979
00:50:20,960 --> 00:50:23,120
Speaker 1: get the ball in the hands of the people they wanted.

980
00:50:23,520 --> 00:50:25,279
Speaker 2: It's just that the Eagles did it better.

981
00:50:25,360 --> 00:50:28,080
Speaker 1: And by the way, Stafford was sacked five times in

982
00:50:28,080 --> 00:50:31,480
Speaker 1: that game for forty five yards and losses. That's a lot.

983
00:50:31,520 --> 00:50:34,600
Speaker 1: That's nine yards of sack. That's too many. So any

984
00:50:34,680 --> 00:50:37,160
Speaker 1: numbers remotely like that and it's going to be a

985
00:50:37,200 --> 00:50:38,520
Speaker 1: tough day for the Rams.

986
00:50:38,520 --> 00:50:40,200
Speaker 2: All right, we'll have much more on that game.

987
00:50:40,440 --> 00:50:43,640
Speaker 1: Obviously, we'll get into our preview of the huge matchup

988
00:50:43,680 --> 00:50:46,000
Speaker 1: between the Ravens and Bills. But on the other side,

989
00:50:46,040 --> 00:50:47,959
Speaker 1: we're just gonna switch gears for a moment and catch

990
00:50:48,000 --> 00:50:51,200
Speaker 1: up with our dear friend. He is our MLB insider

991
00:50:51,239 --> 00:50:54,239
Speaker 1: here at Fox Sports Radio, the great John Paul Morosi.

992
00:50:54,400 --> 00:50:56,000
Speaker 1: This is Red Zone Radio.

993
00:50:56,200 --> 00:50:56,560
Speaker 3: All right.

994
00:50:56,600 --> 00:51:03,520
Speaker 1: We are now forty minutes away kick Rams Eagles, and

995
00:51:03,600 --> 00:51:07,760
Speaker 1: it is expected to snow a lot in Philadelphia today

996
00:51:07,880 --> 00:51:11,480
Speaker 1: for that matchup, and as far as tonight's game is

997
00:51:11,520 --> 00:51:16,920
Speaker 1: concerned between the Bills and the Ravens, temperature expected at.

998
00:51:16,960 --> 00:51:18,200
Speaker 2: Eleven degrees.

999
00:51:19,760 --> 00:51:22,000
Speaker 1: And it's only going to get colder after that, so

1000
00:51:22,000 --> 00:51:24,520
Speaker 1: we'll get much more into the NFL football. But joining

1001
00:51:24,560 --> 00:51:27,960
Speaker 1: us right now is one of the very special people

1002
00:51:28,560 --> 00:51:31,560
Speaker 1: in our world and the world many out there. He

1003
00:51:31,719 --> 00:51:33,719
Speaker 1: is just the elite, the best of the best at

1004
00:51:33,760 --> 00:51:37,040
Speaker 1: what he does. Of course, with the MLB network, he

1005
00:51:37,120 --> 00:51:40,479
Speaker 1: knows the National Hockey League like no other. But here

1006
00:51:40,520 --> 00:51:43,120
Speaker 1: we just call him our Fox Sports Radio MLB insider,

1007
00:51:43,160 --> 00:51:47,160
Speaker 1: Our dear friend John Pabarosi JP is join us right now, JP.

1008
00:51:47,520 --> 00:51:50,560
Speaker 1: Long time note talk, Happy New Year. How are you

1009
00:51:50,640 --> 00:51:51,960
Speaker 1: today too?

1010
00:51:52,040 --> 00:51:52,200
Speaker 3: Well?

1011
00:51:52,280 --> 00:51:55,400
Speaker 9: My friends, send our best wishes here from Michigan to

1012
00:51:55,440 --> 00:51:58,799
Speaker 9: all of you, especially those of you in California right now.

1013
00:51:58,880 --> 00:52:02,960
Speaker 9: And yeah, I did hear some reports that there was

1014
00:52:03,120 --> 00:52:07,080
Speaker 9: an NFL game here in Michigan last night. I wasn't

1015
00:52:07,080 --> 00:52:09,200
Speaker 9: sure if that actually happened or not. I'm kind of

1016
00:52:09,200 --> 00:52:12,040
Speaker 9: moving past that if there was a game here in Detroit,

1017
00:52:12,200 --> 00:52:15,319
Speaker 9: But as far as I know, the only games here

1018
00:52:15,360 --> 00:52:18,680
Speaker 9: these days are are hockey and basketball. The Pistons are

1019
00:52:18,719 --> 00:52:22,000
Speaker 9: playing better, the Wings are playing better since the coaching change.

1020
00:52:22,200 --> 00:52:24,520
Speaker 9: The Tigers are trying to build on their playoff appearance

1021
00:52:24,600 --> 00:52:27,320
Speaker 9: last year. And I just I missed whatever might have

1022
00:52:27,360 --> 00:52:28,799
Speaker 9: happened with the Lions the last couple of days.

1023
00:52:28,840 --> 00:52:29,879
Speaker 2: Yeah, very difficult day.

1024
00:52:29,880 --> 00:52:30,280
Speaker 3: Indeed.

1025
00:52:31,640 --> 00:52:34,600
Speaker 1: Know this, though, your Michigan team did beat a team

1026
00:52:34,600 --> 00:52:37,359
Speaker 1: that is expected to win a national championship tomorrow, So

1027
00:52:37,680 --> 00:52:38,360
Speaker 1: we'll get into.

1028
00:52:38,280 --> 00:52:39,239
Speaker 2: That a little bit later on.

1029
00:52:39,680 --> 00:52:41,680
Speaker 1: I know Rich has got a lot of questions about

1030
00:52:41,680 --> 00:52:43,440
Speaker 1: the state of the game in baseball, but you know

1031
00:52:43,560 --> 00:52:46,480
Speaker 1: me and my Hall of Fame obsession, all right, So

1032
00:52:46,520 --> 00:52:48,439
Speaker 1: I'm going to get this out. I got one now

1033
00:52:48,480 --> 00:52:50,399
Speaker 1: and I'll have one later Rich for.

1034
00:52:53,440 --> 00:52:53,719
Speaker 3: All right.

1035
00:52:53,800 --> 00:52:56,440
Speaker 1: So, the announcement for the Baseball Hall of Fame classes

1036
00:52:56,480 --> 00:52:59,560
Speaker 1: coming up on Tuesday in a couple of days, and

1037
00:52:59,640 --> 00:53:02,760
Speaker 1: it is expected that CC Sabbathia will be a first

1038
00:53:02,800 --> 00:53:06,440
Speaker 1: ballot Hall of Famer, which is interesting to me because

1039
00:53:06,520 --> 00:53:10,719
Speaker 1: his career is almost identical to Andy Pettitt's. Their war

1040
00:53:10,960 --> 00:53:15,239
Speaker 1: is almost identical, their wins are almost identical, and if

1041
00:53:15,280 --> 00:53:18,359
Speaker 1: you look at their postseason pitching numbers, Anti Pettit has

1042
00:53:18,360 --> 00:53:22,160
Speaker 1: a slight edge in terms of wins and er, and

1043
00:53:22,239 --> 00:53:25,960
Speaker 1: yet Anti Pettitt hasn't gotten any traction at all in

1044
00:53:26,040 --> 00:53:28,640
Speaker 1: terms of the Hall of Fame. So how is it

1045
00:53:28,719 --> 00:53:31,960
Speaker 1: that the baseball writers believe that Sabathia is a first

1046
00:53:32,040 --> 00:53:35,880
Speaker 1: ballot Hall of Famer like usually reserved for the Randy

1047
00:53:36,000 --> 00:53:39,000
Speaker 1: Johnson's of the world or the Greg Maddoxes of the world,

1048
00:53:39,440 --> 00:53:41,680
Speaker 1: or looking into the future where the Max Scherz or

1049
00:53:42,040 --> 00:53:45,720
Speaker 1: Justin Berlin or Clayton Kershaw. That Sabbathia is a first

1050
00:53:45,760 --> 00:53:49,040
Speaker 1: ballot guy and anti pettit gets no attention at all.

1051
00:53:50,280 --> 00:53:53,120
Speaker 9: It's a fair question, I think in the case of Sabbathia,

1052
00:53:53,880 --> 00:53:57,279
Speaker 9: if you look at his strikeout numbers and what he

1053
00:53:57,320 --> 00:54:01,120
Speaker 9: was able to achieve in terms of reaching milestones in

1054
00:54:01,160 --> 00:54:05,440
Speaker 9: that regard when you surpass three thousand strikeouts, that is

1055
00:54:06,000 --> 00:54:10,680
Speaker 9: a massive number in the modern game, and certainly look

1056
00:54:10,719 --> 00:54:13,840
Speaker 9: at his ability to go more than thirty five hundred innings.

1057
00:54:14,480 --> 00:54:16,719
Speaker 9: I do think that is a piece of it. I

1058
00:54:16,760 --> 00:54:20,600
Speaker 9: also think from Petitt standpoint, of course, the acknowledgement that

1059
00:54:20,680 --> 00:54:22,719
Speaker 9: happened a long time ago, back in two thousand and

1060
00:54:22,760 --> 00:54:26,960
Speaker 9: seven about using HGH to recover from an elbow injury.

1061
00:54:26,960 --> 00:54:30,440
Speaker 9: I think that's for some people. While there was no suspension,

1062
00:54:30,840 --> 00:54:33,560
Speaker 9: I think that does enter the mind of some voters.

1063
00:54:33,760 --> 00:54:37,040
Speaker 9: For me, it's not reason enough to keep him out

1064
00:54:37,080 --> 00:54:40,200
Speaker 9: because there was no suspension there and that's always been

1065
00:54:40,200 --> 00:54:43,200
Speaker 9: my standard. If there's a suspension, as is the case

1066
00:54:43,280 --> 00:54:46,960
Speaker 9: with a rod MANI Ramirez, then I do not vote

1067
00:54:46,960 --> 00:54:50,320
Speaker 9: for the player, but absence that I do I always

1068
00:54:50,360 --> 00:54:52,680
Speaker 9: voted for Bonds for example, and Clements for that matter,

1069
00:54:53,000 --> 00:54:55,719
Speaker 9: So I don't have any issue with that in terms

1070
00:54:55,760 --> 00:54:58,000
Speaker 9: of keeping him out of the Hall of Fame. But

1071
00:54:58,200 --> 00:55:01,200
Speaker 9: it's a fair distinction to draw and the way in

1072
00:55:01,239 --> 00:55:05,120
Speaker 9: which though I think with CC's case historically significant career

1073
00:55:05,440 --> 00:55:08,920
Speaker 9: in time with Cleveland, Milwaukee, with the Yankees, helping him

1074
00:55:08,920 --> 00:55:12,920
Speaker 9: win the World Series in nine and honestly it's interesting

1075
00:55:13,440 --> 00:55:18,680
Speaker 9: not that this should have an impact on checking the

1076
00:55:18,719 --> 00:55:21,160
Speaker 9: box next to a player, but CC has had a

1077
00:55:21,239 --> 00:55:25,879
Speaker 9: very impactful post career in baseball. And for as much

1078
00:55:25,880 --> 00:55:29,000
Speaker 9: as there have been questions and people have said over

1079
00:55:29,040 --> 00:55:32,080
Speaker 9: the years that they would use the character clause as

1080
00:55:32,120 --> 00:55:34,080
Speaker 9: an occasion to keep someone out of the Hall of Fame,

1081
00:55:34,120 --> 00:55:38,520
Speaker 9: I think in CC's case it fairly utilizes the reason

1082
00:55:38,600 --> 00:55:41,240
Speaker 9: that to put him in. And because of how important

1083
00:55:41,280 --> 00:55:44,080
Speaker 9: his voice is in the game. He's in the commissioner's office,

1084
00:55:44,680 --> 00:55:46,799
Speaker 9: he's around the sport a lot, and I think that

1085
00:55:47,280 --> 00:55:51,200
Speaker 9: his contributions to the sport since he has been finished

1086
00:55:51,239 --> 00:55:55,120
Speaker 9: as a player. I think actually add an augment his

1087
00:55:55,239 --> 00:55:57,560
Speaker 9: playing resume in the minds of some voters.

1088
00:55:58,080 --> 00:56:01,520
Speaker 4: Hey, JP wrote, Sasaki, if I were going to give

1089
00:56:01,520 --> 00:56:04,920
Speaker 4: you three paragraphs and ask you to use two of

1090
00:56:04,960 --> 00:56:08,239
Speaker 4: them to describe who he is, why he is important

1091
00:56:08,280 --> 00:56:13,520
Speaker 4: to baseball, why the Dodgers won this, and and and

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00:56:13,560 --> 00:56:16,760
Speaker 4: then maybe the last paragraph to talk about his expectations.

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00:56:17,880 --> 00:56:20,359
Speaker 4: Fill in, fill in that that worksheet and have it

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00:56:20,719 --> 00:56:22,840
Speaker 4: back to do it about two minutes.

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Speaker 9: Go wow, okay so Roki Sasaki and I appreciate it,

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00:56:27,880 --> 00:56:30,399
Speaker 9: of course, for those bringing everybody up.

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00:56:30,360 --> 00:56:30,919
Speaker 3: To speed here.

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00:56:31,000 --> 00:56:35,759
Speaker 9: He is a Los Angeles Dodger, now joining Yoshinobu Yamamoto

1099
00:56:35,920 --> 00:56:40,359
Speaker 9: and the Great show Aotani among the Dodgers Japanese superstars.

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00:56:40,800 --> 00:56:44,600
Speaker 9: Kasaki is a younger player than the other two. He

1101
00:56:44,760 --> 00:56:48,040
Speaker 9: still has some polish to do in terms of his

1102
00:56:48,080 --> 00:56:52,480
Speaker 9: repertoire and his command and pitch making and start to start. However,

1103
00:56:52,719 --> 00:56:56,120
Speaker 9: the arm strength and the stuff are undeniable, and people

1104
00:56:56,160 --> 00:56:58,080
Speaker 9: in the game have been talking about his arrival for

1105
00:56:58,120 --> 00:57:01,640
Speaker 9: a long time. He came over earlier than expected because

1106
00:57:01,960 --> 00:57:04,560
Speaker 9: he wants to one day be considered the best ever

1107
00:57:04,680 --> 00:57:07,200
Speaker 9: pitcher to come from Japan and pitch in Major League Baseball,

1108
00:57:07,640 --> 00:57:11,680
Speaker 9: and after surveying the landscape rich he decided that the

1109
00:57:11,760 --> 00:57:14,000
Speaker 9: Dodgers would be the best place for him to go

1110
00:57:14,160 --> 00:57:17,840
Speaker 9: because they've had such great success in integrating players from

1111
00:57:17,960 --> 00:57:21,920
Speaker 9: Japan into Major League Baseball, and so it's interesting Sosaki

1112
00:57:22,080 --> 00:57:27,840
Speaker 9: is on some level a more reserved personality than Yamamoto,

1113
00:57:28,400 --> 00:57:33,840
Speaker 9: and somewhat paradoxically, because of that, the best place for

1114
00:57:33,880 --> 00:57:35,919
Speaker 9: him to go may well have been in the Los

1115
00:57:35,960 --> 00:57:39,960
Speaker 9: Angeles Dodgers because he's not He's not only is he

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00:57:40,000 --> 00:57:43,080
Speaker 9: not the biggest star in his team, he's probably not

1117
00:57:43,120 --> 00:57:46,520
Speaker 9: even the biggest number one or number two Japanese star

1118
00:57:46,640 --> 00:57:48,840
Speaker 9: on his own team. He's probably number three right now.

1119
00:57:49,160 --> 00:57:51,880
Speaker 9: And oh, by the way, you got Freeman and Bets

1120
00:57:51,960 --> 00:57:57,479
Speaker 9: and so in LA he is a star. With other

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00:57:57,560 --> 00:58:01,360
Speaker 9: teams he might have been these of the pitching staff,

1122
00:58:01,480 --> 00:58:03,160
Speaker 9: and I think that comfort level was one of the

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00:58:03,200 --> 00:58:05,840
Speaker 9: main reasons why he opted to sign with the Los

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00:58:05,840 --> 00:58:08,320
Speaker 9: Angeles Dodgers, and certainly a lot of people around in

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00:58:08,360 --> 00:58:11,760
Speaker 9: the industry, whether it's the signing of Sasaki the more

1126
00:58:11,760 --> 00:58:15,320
Speaker 9: recent signing as well of Tanner Scott for the Dodgers,

1127
00:58:15,640 --> 00:58:19,360
Speaker 9: they their limit on the ability to sign players seemingly

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00:58:19,440 --> 00:58:22,160
Speaker 9: knows no end, and I do think that it's causing

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00:58:22,480 --> 00:58:26,200
Speaker 9: some level of consternation, certainly for Blue Jays fans, for

1130
00:58:26,360 --> 00:58:29,960
Speaker 9: Padres fans, for Giants fans, and a great many other

1131
00:58:29,960 --> 00:58:31,320
Speaker 9: fans around Major League Baseball.

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00:58:31,680 --> 00:58:34,760
Speaker 1: All Right, I know that Dodger fans that are listening

1133
00:58:34,800 --> 00:58:38,640
Speaker 1: to this question will say boohoo, but a lot of

1134
00:58:38,680 --> 00:58:42,560
Speaker 1: people are getting a little upset at just how the

1135
00:58:42,640 --> 00:58:46,000
Speaker 1: Dodgers are now spending money with a luxury tax payroll

1136
00:58:46,040 --> 00:58:50,280
Speaker 1: now approaching four hundred million dollars and no end in sight.

1137
00:58:51,320 --> 00:58:55,560
Speaker 1: Is this good for the hole that one team like

1138
00:58:55,640 --> 00:58:57,560
Speaker 1: the Dodgers. I mean, the Phillies are up there, the

1139
00:58:57,640 --> 00:59:00,520
Speaker 1: Yankees are up there, but the Dodgers are at a

1140
00:59:00,560 --> 00:59:03,560
Speaker 1: different level right now than we've ever seen. Is this

1141
00:59:03,760 --> 00:59:06,040
Speaker 1: good for the whole of Major League Baseball?

1142
00:59:07,320 --> 00:59:11,440
Speaker 9: No, no, it's not. And we can talk about different

1143
00:59:11,440 --> 00:59:16,440
Speaker 9: ways that, whether it's MLB's perspective or the union's perspective,

1144
00:59:16,560 --> 00:59:19,600
Speaker 9: could address this in the next CBA. Do you have

1145
00:59:19,680 --> 00:59:22,520
Speaker 9: to have a salary floor and a salary cap? Do

1146
00:59:22,560 --> 00:59:24,200
Speaker 9: you have to make it a hard cap where there

1147
00:59:24,240 --> 00:59:26,800
Speaker 9: have to be a period of time where there's more

1148
00:59:26,840 --> 00:59:30,120
Speaker 9: of a gradual transition to a hard cap. Whatever it

1149
00:59:30,160 --> 00:59:33,720
Speaker 9: may be. The simple answer, which is the one that

1150
00:59:33,760 --> 00:59:37,320
Speaker 9: I gave you, is no, it's not good. The Dodgers

1151
00:59:37,360 --> 00:59:40,880
Speaker 9: are on some level. Let's think about this.

1152
00:59:41,040 --> 00:59:42,120
Speaker 3: If you go back.

1153
00:59:42,600 --> 00:59:47,600
Speaker 9: Twelve thirteen years when they were going through the bankruptcy

1154
00:59:47,680 --> 00:59:50,920
Speaker 9: proceeding the divorce of the the courts and everything else

1155
00:59:50,920 --> 00:59:53,920
Speaker 9: that was happening there, that was a difficult time and

1156
00:59:54,360 --> 00:59:57,680
Speaker 9: there were people very concerned about where the Dodgers were going.

1157
00:59:58,280 --> 01:00:01,760
Speaker 9: But now, of course it's quite the opposite, and we're

1158
01:00:01,760 --> 01:00:05,920
Speaker 9: seeing the full might of this particular team, and the

1159
01:00:05,960 --> 01:00:09,040
Speaker 9: way that the World Series went, even against the Yankees,

1160
01:00:09,080 --> 01:00:13,040
Speaker 9: that they won that series in five games, and even

1161
01:00:13,280 --> 01:00:17,080
Speaker 9: with those two financial behemoths there, it did have the

1162
01:00:17,080 --> 01:00:19,280
Speaker 9: feel of the hals versus have nots kind of a

1163
01:00:19,320 --> 01:00:23,360
Speaker 9: World Series. Now. I would also point out we have

1164
01:00:23,440 --> 01:00:27,520
Speaker 9: gone a quarter century without repeat champions in Major League Baseball,

1165
01:00:28,120 --> 01:00:31,240
Speaker 9: and the Dodgers were one game away in the first

1166
01:00:31,320 --> 01:00:34,720
Speaker 9: round from getting knocked out by the Padres in four games.

1167
01:00:35,160 --> 01:00:38,200
Speaker 9: So it's I often have a little bit of a

1168
01:00:38,240 --> 01:00:41,200
Speaker 9: cautionary tale there to say, yeah, by the end, they

1169
01:00:41,240 --> 01:00:44,400
Speaker 9: appeared to be an inevitable and dominant World Series champion,

1170
01:00:44,640 --> 01:00:47,840
Speaker 9: but that wasn't always the case, and they've now had

1171
01:00:47,840 --> 01:00:52,240
Speaker 9: to basically sign two rotations worth of pitchers. And we'll

1172
01:00:52,240 --> 01:00:55,160
Speaker 9: see how this experiment goes with are they all gonna pitch?

1173
01:00:55,160 --> 01:00:56,960
Speaker 9: We're erely all going to pitch. There's a lot of

1174
01:00:57,280 --> 01:00:59,920
Speaker 9: very valid questions, but the issue that you're getting at

1175
01:01:00,160 --> 01:01:03,480
Speaker 9: the correct one, which is, look at the Dodgers relative

1176
01:01:03,520 --> 01:01:07,520
Speaker 9: to what the even the padres. Their lack of spending

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01:01:07,600 --> 01:01:11,160
Speaker 9: this winner amid some ownership turmoil is a concern. The

1178
01:01:11,240 --> 01:01:14,600
Speaker 9: lack of spending for teams like the Pirates. The Tigers

1179
01:01:14,600 --> 01:01:16,520
Speaker 9: made the postseason and really haven't had much of a

1180
01:01:16,640 --> 01:01:21,200
Speaker 9: very impactful offseason. So it clearly is not the best

1181
01:01:21,480 --> 01:01:24,360
Speaker 9: from from the standpoint of competitive balance, and it's going

1182
01:01:24,400 --> 01:01:26,520
Speaker 9: to be up to MLB in the Union to find

1183
01:01:26,880 --> 01:01:30,160
Speaker 9: the best workable solution that results in a in a

1184
01:01:30,280 --> 01:01:34,880
Speaker 9: product that is more universally exciting. Because I'll say that

1185
01:01:34,920 --> 01:01:36,960
Speaker 9: I'll make it a very quick point as we're moving

1186
01:01:37,000 --> 01:01:41,280
Speaker 9: towards a time where MLB may want to ventralize some

1187
01:01:41,360 --> 01:01:45,240
Speaker 9: of the broadcasting under the MLB umbrella and whatever that

1188
01:01:45,280 --> 01:01:48,760
Speaker 9: looks like direct to consumer. If if all of your

1189
01:01:48,800 --> 01:01:52,640
Speaker 9: compelling stars are on one team. Good for business, you

1190
01:01:52,680 --> 01:01:55,400
Speaker 9: need you need compelling stars on all the teams to

1191
01:01:55,480 --> 01:01:59,440
Speaker 9: make it a universally good product. And that has to

1192
01:01:59,480 --> 01:02:03,520
Speaker 9: be addressed by ownership by MLB and yes, the Union

1193
01:02:03,800 --> 01:02:04,800
Speaker 9: in the next several years.

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01:02:04,880 --> 01:02:06,040
Speaker 3: Yeah, there's no doubt about it.

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01:02:06,160 --> 01:02:10,600
Speaker 4: JP, you know, I mean quickly, I would ask you

1196
01:02:10,720 --> 01:02:14,680
Speaker 4: to maybe assess the biggest problems in Major League Baseball

1197
01:02:14,680 --> 01:02:18,360
Speaker 4: because you just spend some time here talking about the

1198
01:02:18,400 --> 01:02:20,880
Speaker 4: disparity of spending between teams.

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Speaker 3: But also we know of the urgency.

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01:02:23,240 --> 01:02:25,560
Speaker 4: Problem, you know, the fact that there's one hundred and

1201
01:02:25,560 --> 01:02:28,680
Speaker 4: sixty two games and it dilutes the regular season. We

1202
01:02:28,760 --> 01:02:31,720
Speaker 4: know of the pace of play problem, you know, which

1203
01:02:31,920 --> 01:02:34,840
Speaker 4: you know the league has taken efforts to you know,

1204
01:02:34,920 --> 01:02:37,480
Speaker 4: with the pitch clock and with the runner on second

1205
01:02:37,480 --> 01:02:40,720
Speaker 4: to start extras in the regular season. They've tried to

1206
01:02:40,800 --> 01:02:44,040
Speaker 4: address those things. What would you say, though, is the

1207
01:02:44,080 --> 01:02:47,920
Speaker 4: most urgent problem. Is it the disparity of spending or

1208
01:02:48,160 --> 01:02:49,280
Speaker 4: or is it something else?

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01:02:50,600 --> 01:02:53,880
Speaker 9: I think they're tied together, Rich, I would say it's

1210
01:02:53,960 --> 01:02:58,480
Speaker 9: the accessibility of the product. And then and then the

1211
01:02:58,800 --> 01:03:02,680
Speaker 9: spending disparity are linked by the way because you've got teams,

1212
01:03:03,040 --> 01:03:07,160
Speaker 9: and let's let's be clear about this. Look at the

1213
01:03:07,240 --> 01:03:10,640
Speaker 9: teams that have been have Look at the teams. Let's

1214
01:03:10,680 --> 01:03:13,480
Speaker 9: say that we're involved in the Soto sweep stakes, Okay,

1215
01:03:14,120 --> 01:03:20,120
Speaker 9: Dodgers to an extent, Yankees, Mets, Blue Jays. They were

1216
01:03:20,120 --> 01:03:22,400
Speaker 9: basically the four big ones who were left at the end.

1217
01:03:22,960 --> 01:03:23,680
Speaker 4: And let's think.

1218
01:03:23,520 --> 01:03:25,760
Speaker 9: About what they all have in common. They all own

1219
01:03:25,960 --> 01:03:30,320
Speaker 9: their own television networks, Okay, and so they are the

1220
01:03:30,400 --> 01:03:33,920
Speaker 9: teams that have the wherewithal to do this. They have

1221
01:03:34,000 --> 01:03:38,440
Speaker 9: been largely able to They've been able to avoid a

1222
01:03:38,440 --> 01:03:42,280
Speaker 9: lot of the drama around who's going to broadcast our games?

1223
01:03:42,400 --> 01:03:44,840
Speaker 9: How are they going to be available direct to consumer?

1224
01:03:44,880 --> 01:03:48,360
Speaker 9: What's going on? They are able to avoid that, and

1225
01:03:48,440 --> 01:03:51,120
Speaker 9: I think that having that certainty of what their future

1226
01:03:51,160 --> 01:03:54,400
Speaker 9: looks like has been immeasurably important in their ability to

1227
01:03:54,480 --> 01:03:57,760
Speaker 9: court and ultimately sign free agents like the Mets did

1228
01:03:57,760 --> 01:04:03,480
Speaker 9: with Soto. Now think that the TV piece is inextricably

1229
01:04:03,600 --> 01:04:07,840
Speaker 9: linked to the ability to compete and sign. And we

1230
01:04:07,880 --> 01:04:10,680
Speaker 9: all know this. Whether you're thinking about buying a house,

1231
01:04:10,800 --> 01:04:12,320
Speaker 9: or thinking about taking on.

1232
01:04:12,280 --> 01:04:14,400
Speaker 3: A new job, or or moving whatever.

1233
01:04:14,160 --> 01:04:18,480
Speaker 9: It is, uncertainty makes you reluctant to invest. And when

1234
01:04:18,480 --> 01:04:21,640
Speaker 9: you've got a lot of teams that are not sure

1235
01:04:21,680 --> 01:04:24,720
Speaker 9: what their media revenues look like five ten years down

1236
01:04:24,760 --> 01:04:27,440
Speaker 9: the line, it makes it really hard for them to say, Okay, well,

1237
01:04:27,560 --> 01:04:30,360
Speaker 9: soda will give you three quarters of a billion dollars

1238
01:04:30,760 --> 01:04:32,480
Speaker 9: when you don't know what your future looks like. And

1239
01:04:32,520 --> 01:04:35,440
Speaker 9: I think that's precisely where a lot of teams and

1240
01:04:35,480 --> 01:04:37,680
Speaker 9: where too many teams find themselves today.

1241
01:04:37,720 --> 01:04:39,640
Speaker 1: All Right, I have to get in this final question

1242
01:04:40,040 --> 01:04:42,520
Speaker 1: again with the Hall of Fame vote. So you've talked

1243
01:04:42,600 --> 01:04:44,960
Speaker 1: openly very much that you cannot vote for the Alex

1244
01:04:45,040 --> 01:04:47,920
Speaker 1: Rodriguez and Manny Ramirez. Is anyone that got busted with

1245
01:04:47,960 --> 01:04:50,400
Speaker 1: pds or cheaters, they will not get in on the

1246
01:04:50,400 --> 01:04:53,800
Speaker 1: Hall of Fame on your ballot. And yet Carlos Beltron

1247
01:04:54,080 --> 01:04:56,959
Speaker 1: is close. It might be this year and maybe next year,

1248
01:04:57,280 --> 01:05:00,000
Speaker 1: a guy that helped engineer one of the most scandalous

1249
01:05:00,200 --> 01:05:03,840
Speaker 1: cheating episodes and the history of Major League Baseball in

1250
01:05:03,880 --> 01:05:06,520
Speaker 1: his final season as a member of the Houston Astros.

1251
01:05:07,040 --> 01:05:10,080
Speaker 1: So what is the difference in your opinion of Beltron

1252
01:05:10,680 --> 01:05:14,240
Speaker 1: engineering a cheating scandal that resulted in a World Series

1253
01:05:14,320 --> 01:05:17,360
Speaker 1: victory for the astros as opposed to those players that

1254
01:05:17,520 --> 01:05:18,320
Speaker 1: use peds.

1255
01:05:19,000 --> 01:05:22,840
Speaker 9: Yeah, it's a fair question. I think that that altering

1256
01:05:23,440 --> 01:05:28,840
Speaker 9: and stealing signals is obviously a concern. It is illegal

1257
01:05:28,920 --> 01:05:32,120
Speaker 9: by the rules of the game. In my mind, it

1258
01:05:32,160 --> 01:05:35,919
Speaker 9: is not It is not as egregious as altering your

1259
01:05:35,960 --> 01:05:40,440
Speaker 9: body and altering your own physical competitive advantage. That that,

1260
01:05:40,600 --> 01:05:44,160
Speaker 9: to me is a different level the ped use and

1261
01:05:44,200 --> 01:05:46,720
Speaker 9: the ped suspension. I would point out that Beltron was

1262
01:05:46,760 --> 01:05:50,680
Speaker 9: not suspended himself, and you have to weigh out that

1263
01:05:51,280 --> 01:05:55,919
Speaker 9: transgression in the context of his overall career and say

1264
01:05:56,280 --> 01:06:01,200
Speaker 9: should we should we hold that up as a disqualifying

1265
01:06:01,920 --> 01:06:05,080
Speaker 9: situation that happened in the last year of his career

1266
01:06:05,880 --> 01:06:08,720
Speaker 9: when he was a role player effectively on that team.

1267
01:06:09,440 --> 01:06:12,800
Speaker 9: That transgression has already cost him a managerial job with

1268
01:06:12,840 --> 01:06:15,120
Speaker 9: the New York Mets, so he's already I think, paid

1269
01:06:15,160 --> 01:06:19,040
Speaker 9: a fairly significant penalty for that. And also you're talking

1270
01:06:19,040 --> 01:06:22,360
Speaker 9: about someone who's been a Roberto Clemente Award winner, who

1271
01:06:22,400 --> 01:06:25,200
Speaker 9: has opened to school in Puerto Rico and educated a

1272
01:06:25,200 --> 01:06:28,080
Speaker 9: bunch of kids there. So how do I balance all that?

1273
01:06:28,120 --> 01:06:30,360
Speaker 9: Do I say that because of one mistake in the

1274
01:06:30,400 --> 01:06:32,680
Speaker 9: final year of his career, and obviously it was a

1275
01:06:32,680 --> 01:06:34,680
Speaker 9: continuing mistake. It wasn't like a one off thing. It

1276
01:06:34,720 --> 01:06:37,880
Speaker 9: was to your point, it was a well fought out,

1277
01:06:38,640 --> 01:06:41,600
Speaker 9: engineered scheme. It was a big deal. It was a

1278
01:06:41,600 --> 01:06:44,720
Speaker 9: big problem. But do I consider that after he's now

1279
01:06:44,760 --> 01:06:47,080
Speaker 9: had to wait for multiple years in the ballot, costo

1280
01:06:47,160 --> 01:06:49,760
Speaker 9: a managerial job with the Mets. I think he has

1281
01:06:50,360 --> 01:06:53,160
Speaker 9: for me served enough of a punishment, especially in light

1282
01:06:53,200 --> 01:06:54,680
Speaker 9: of the fact that he was never suspended in the

1283
01:06:54,720 --> 01:06:55,200
Speaker 9: first place.

1284
01:06:55,360 --> 01:06:58,640
Speaker 1: There it is the great John Palmer us a JP.

1285
01:06:59,120 --> 01:07:01,160
Speaker 1: We could go all day, obviously, but it's great to

1286
01:07:01,160 --> 01:07:02,160
Speaker 1: have you back on board.

1287
01:07:02,200 --> 01:07:03,200
Speaker 2: We have plenty of talk.

1288
01:07:03,120 --> 01:07:05,720
Speaker 1: About it's going to be a busy offseason in MLB,

1289
01:07:06,240 --> 01:07:09,080
Speaker 1: And indeed, if Ohio State beats Notre Dame tomorrow, you

1290
01:07:09,120 --> 01:07:12,240
Speaker 1: can always say, yeah, guess what, we beat the national

1291
01:07:12,320 --> 01:07:14,200
Speaker 1: champions Yeah, it's.

1292
01:07:14,080 --> 01:07:17,040
Speaker 9: A great point, and I'm expecting that. You know, Monday,

1293
01:07:17,080 --> 01:07:20,240
Speaker 9: we've got OSU and ND and then maybe Tuesday we

1294
01:07:20,280 --> 01:07:23,680
Speaker 9: have the real national championship between Northern Illinois and Michigan.

1295
01:07:24,080 --> 01:07:25,840
Speaker 5: Right, I mean Northern Illinois.

1296
01:07:26,160 --> 01:07:28,280
Speaker 9: Notre Dame in Michigan beat Ohio State. So I think

1297
01:07:28,280 --> 01:07:31,240
Speaker 9: that basically that should be the the Uber Championship is

1298
01:07:31,280 --> 01:07:32,720
Speaker 9: Michigan versus North Illinois.

1299
01:07:32,880 --> 01:07:36,280
Speaker 1: There it is from the mouth of the great one himself,

1300
01:07:36,280 --> 01:07:38,720
Speaker 1: the Great John Palmer ROSSI JP all the best and

1301
01:07:38,760 --> 01:07:39,880
Speaker 1: we'll talk to you down the road.

1302
01:07:40,480 --> 01:07:41,680
Speaker 9: Sounds great, happening to you my friends.

1303
01:07:41,720 --> 01:07:44,280
Speaker 1: All about thanks having to here, John Palm Morosi. All right,

1304
01:07:44,320 --> 01:07:47,480
Speaker 1: let's find out what is a trending right now? As

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Speaker 1: we we did a little bonus time with JP.

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Speaker 2: It's been a long time since we had to catch

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Speaker 2: up with here.

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Speaker 1: You see, all Hall of Fame questions, I tell my

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Speaker 1: questions are legit.

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Speaker 3: I mean, Steve, nobody would doubt that for me.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, no, no, no, Carlos Beltron had a Hall of Fame career,

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Speaker 1: but it should be on his plaque. You know, helped

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Speaker 1: engineer the biggest cheating scandal that resulted in the Astros

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Speaker 1: and him right when he had World Series.

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Speaker 8: Yeah, I mean why not. I would be for it

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Speaker 8: if we put that just as a disclaimer.

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Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, just the bottom.

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Speaker 3: Right now, I mean, how much room is on the.

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Speaker 1: Plaque, Yeah, quite a bit. If you see these plaques,

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Speaker 1: there's a lot of right.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: It used to be like like on Babe Ruths basically

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Speaker 1: said it was you know, sault of the swat. He

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Speaker 1: hit a lot of home runs. Now all of a

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Speaker 1: sudden they have like, you know, details and everything else.

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Speaker 7: Guys, Well, we're about twenty five, yeah, or so minutes

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Speaker 7: away from kickoff.

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Speaker 8: That's right. Eagles hosting the Rams.

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Speaker 7: Winner is going to face Washington and the NFC championship

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Speaker 7: game after they took down the number one seed, the

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Speaker 7: Lions yesterday forty five to thirty one. Then the other

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Speaker 7: division a round later today six thirty Eastern Bills hosting

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Speaker 7: the Ravens. Still we're not expected to see ze flowers

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Speaker 7: for Baltimore later today.

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Speaker 8: The winner is going to face the Chiefs and the

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Speaker 8: AFC Championship.

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Speaker 7: Came after they took down Houston yesterday twenty three to fourteen.

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Speaker 8: We got some college hoops going on.

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Speaker 7: Number twenty Michigan with the early lead over Northwestern twenty

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Speaker 7: to eighteen, seven minutes to go in the first half,

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Speaker 7: but number twelve Michigan State stays undefeated in their conference,

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Speaker 7: extend their winning streak to eleven after just beating Illinois,

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Speaker 7: Number nineteen Illinois eighty to seventy eight. I'm gonna give

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Speaker 7: you some women's College hoops right now, because USC held

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Speaker 7: on to defeat Indiana seventy three sixty six Juju Watkins

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Speaker 7: twenty two points and six rebounds.

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Speaker 8: And then Yukon right now is crushing Seaton Hall.

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Speaker 7: Last I checked, it was eighty four twenty six after

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Speaker 7: three quarters. But Paige Beckers has eighteen points. She has

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Speaker 7: reached two thousand points in one hundred and two games,

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Speaker 7: surpassing Maya Moore as the fastest Yukon player to reach

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Speaker 7: two thousand points in program history.

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Speaker 8: So you go, Page Beckers.

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01:09:48,280 --> 01:09:51,720
Speaker 7: At the Tennis Australian Open, Novak Djokvich won his fourth

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Speaker 7: round match in straight sets. He set it to the

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Speaker 7: quarterfinals where he's gonna face Carlos Algraz once again.

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Speaker 8: But he did not do his postgame in interview.

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Speaker 7: Because the official broadcast of the broadcaster of the tournament,

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Speaker 7: Channel nine, one of their employees, Tony Jones, was doing

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Speaker 7: an on air appearance and he called Djokovic overrated and

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Speaker 7: it has been oh please, I'm sorry twins four yes,

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Speaker 7: time Grand Slam champion, and so Djokovic did not do

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Speaker 7: the interview after and he didn't specify his name, but

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Speaker 7: he was like, I'm gonna let you guys handle this,

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Speaker 7: but I'm not doing the interview crazy.

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Speaker 1: I mean, they just like saying, you know, Michael Jordan overrate.

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Speaker 1: I mean, come on, there are certain people that have

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Speaker 1: set the bar so high exactly, but even if you

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01:10:39,960 --> 01:10:42,519
Speaker 1: don't like them on a personal level, you have to

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Speaker 1: acknowledge what they've done exactly.

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Speaker 8: I'm with you.

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Speaker 7: I couldn't believe that, and I was like, yeah, I

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Speaker 7: wouldn't talk to them either.

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Speaker 1: Back to you guys, all right, MONSI thank you very much.

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Speaker 1: Once again, we are live from the tire rack dot

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Speaker 1: com studios as we get ready for this game coming

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Speaker 1: up between the Ego and the Rams. So as we're

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Speaker 1: looking at this game coming up here, rich and I'm

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Speaker 1: really looking forward to this. The weather again could be

1380
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Speaker 1: a factor in terms of the snow. You know, we

1381
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Speaker 1: talk about obviously Sae Kwon Barklay what he did earlier

1382
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Speaker 1: this year against the Rams at so far two hundred

1383
01:11:20,520 --> 01:11:25,559
Speaker 1: and fifty five yards rushing. You know, MVP mentioned type

1384
01:11:25,600 --> 01:11:28,160
Speaker 1: of season that he had. By the way, looking back,

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01:11:29,240 --> 01:11:32,840
Speaker 1: did the Eagles do the right thing by sitting him

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01:11:32,840 --> 01:11:34,840
Speaker 1: out that last game against the Giants. We've had a

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Speaker 1: few weeks now to think about that, but with the

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01:11:38,240 --> 01:11:43,080
Speaker 1: Lions suddenly eliminated, now the path to the Super Bowl

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Speaker 1: goes through Philadelphia on the NFC side. So, when it's

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Speaker 1: all said and done, do you think if the Eagles

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01:11:50,920 --> 01:11:54,120
Speaker 1: win today and again, we'll be able to host the

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01:11:54,200 --> 01:11:57,480
Speaker 1: NFC Championship game against the division rival, the Commanders?

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Speaker 2: Is this looking like maybe?

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Speaker 1: Uh? And and by the way, you made a clear

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Speaker 1: you didn't think this was Siriani's decision. You thought this

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01:12:05,640 --> 01:12:08,400
Speaker 1: was Barkley's decision. But was the right decision made?

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Speaker 3: Okay?

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Speaker 4: So I do I still feel firmly that if Saquon

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Speaker 4: Barkley wanted to play that game, he would have been

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Speaker 4: given that opportunity. I think it was more of a

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01:12:19,360 --> 01:12:24,400
Speaker 4: conversation than it was a decision by Siriani. I also

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01:12:24,479 --> 01:12:29,120
Speaker 4: think the reason why Siriani messaged it as his idea

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01:12:29,160 --> 01:12:33,799
Speaker 4: was because that takes some of the questioning off of Saquon. So, Saquon,

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Speaker 4: why don't you want to go for the record, So Saquon,

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Speaker 4: what are you worried about getting hurt?

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01:12:38,479 --> 01:12:38,960
Speaker 3: So Saquon?

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Speaker 4: So Saquon, Now all of a sudden, it's like, hey,

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Speaker 4: direct your you know, I mean, if he gets tired

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Speaker 4: of answering questions.

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Speaker 3: Direct your questions to the guy who made the decision.

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Speaker 4: You know, my head coach, uh decided that I wasn't

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Speaker 4: going to play, and he felt that was what was

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Speaker 4: best for the team, and I agreed with him, and

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Speaker 4: so we're moving on. And and so I think that

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Speaker 4: this was all designed to take the pressure off of

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Speaker 4: Saquon having to answer questions. But if he wanted to play,

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01:13:04,720 --> 01:13:06,960
Speaker 4: he would have been able to play. Here's the thing

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01:13:07,000 --> 01:13:11,840
Speaker 4: about it selfishly, independently from anything that was gonna.

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Speaker 3: Happen with the Eagles.

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Speaker 4: And I said this to you a couple weeks back, Steve,

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Speaker 4: I think that Sakuon will regret this decision at some

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Speaker 4: point in his life. I really do, unless this team

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Speaker 4: goes on to win a Super Bowl, and even then

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Speaker 4: he may still regret.

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Speaker 3: The decision for the rest of his life.

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Speaker 4: But I will say this, if the Eagles accomplish what

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Speaker 4: they couldn't a few years back against the Chiefs, if

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Speaker 4: Saquon Barkley is the obvious reason, the obvious ad in

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Speaker 4: the offseason and then did this incredible, incredibly selfless thing

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Speaker 4: in his best season as an NFL football player, and

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Speaker 4: then helps them win a Super Bowl this season.

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Speaker 3: He is an automatic Hall of Famer.

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Speaker 4: He I mean, like first ballot, hands down, no questions asked,

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Speaker 4: Hall of Famer, because that level of sacrifice, personal sacrifice

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Speaker 4: for team success is what will stir voters to put

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Speaker 4: him in the hollowd Halls in Kent.

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Speaker 3: All right.

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Speaker 1: On the other side, we're gonna give you some other

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01:14:15,720 --> 01:14:18,200
Speaker 1: notes about this game coming up between.

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Speaker 2: The Eagles and the Rams.

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Speaker 1: For all the information you need, you know where to

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Speaker 1: be because you're already listening. This is Red Zone Radio,

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01:14:27,040 --> 01:14:30,120
Speaker 1: all right, continue our countdown here to kick off between

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Speaker 1: the Eagles and the Rams.

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Speaker 2: Red Zone Radio. We're live from the Tairak.

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Speaker 1: Dot Com studios. By the way, the Rams twenty second

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01:14:40,520 --> 01:14:45,439
Speaker 1: in the league in rushing defense. Bad weather for Saquon

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01:14:45,600 --> 01:14:48,800
Speaker 1: Barklat It's a big yawn where he plays college ball,

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01:14:49,000 --> 01:14:51,280
Speaker 1: penn State right down the road. So I mean I.

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Speaker 4: Also also born and raised in Pennsylvania exactly. I mean

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01:14:55,479 --> 01:14:57,720
Speaker 4: this the cold affects certain players. I wouldn't be worried

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01:14:57,720 --> 01:14:58,759
Speaker 4: about Saquon Barkley.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, And honestly, I don't think it's going to have

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01:15:00,920 --> 01:15:02,720
Speaker 1: the great effect on the Rams as well.

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01:15:03,040 --> 01:15:05,719
Speaker 2: I don't think weather is going to be the deciding factor.

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01:15:05,800 --> 01:15:07,960
Speaker 1: I mean to me again, the deciding factor is the

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01:15:08,000 --> 01:15:10,640
Speaker 1: Rams have got to find a way where Barclay not

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01:15:10,680 --> 01:15:12,640
Speaker 1: only had two hundred and fifty five yards rushing the

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01:15:12,720 --> 01:15:16,360
Speaker 1: last time, he had over three hundred total yards from

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Speaker 1: scrimmage as a short list. By the way, I think

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Speaker 1: a dozen players have ever done that in the history

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01:15:21,720 --> 01:15:24,360
Speaker 1: of the NFL. So if they don't find some way

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01:15:24,400 --> 01:15:27,760
Speaker 1: to neutralize them, it's over them. The Rams are going

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01:15:27,840 --> 01:15:29,360
Speaker 1: to be going home and the Eagles are going to

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01:15:29,400 --> 01:15:32,120
Speaker 1: be hosting the Commanders in the NFC Championship Game. I

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Speaker 1: want to get Chris and bow here as we get

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Speaker 1: ready for kickoff. Right now, they're showing the teams behind

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Speaker 1: the scenes. Start with you, Chris. I know it's been

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01:15:41,520 --> 01:15:44,880
Speaker 1: a very different day for you. We certainly were all

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Speaker 1: expecting that the Lions were going to be hosting the

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Speaker 1: NFC Championship game. Bad day at the office, to say

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Speaker 1: the least. You know, five turnovers, eight sacks to zero

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01:15:54,640 --> 01:15:57,400
Speaker 1: and zero and that was that. But what are your

1474
01:15:57,400 --> 01:15:59,960
Speaker 1: thoughts on this game right now? Getting ready to kickoff

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01:16:00,120 --> 01:16:02,240
Speaker 1: or by the way, it's not snowing in the moment

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01:16:02,800 --> 01:16:06,479
Speaker 1: at least, what I'm seeing, but it will be snowing

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Speaker 1: in Philadelphia. Your thoughts her Eagles, Rams.

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Speaker 10: So I think so, first off, it is nice to

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01:16:13,240 --> 01:16:15,120
Speaker 10: get back to a very familiar spot for me, which

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Speaker 10: is just paying attention to the rest of the NFL

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01:16:17,479 --> 01:16:19,400
Speaker 10: playoffs with not having to worry about a team, which

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Speaker 10: is very familiar for me. Yes, but looking at this,

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01:16:24,560 --> 01:16:27,400
Speaker 10: I know it's going into hostile territory, but I still

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01:16:28,040 --> 01:16:31,519
Speaker 10: maybe it's the spirit of the moment, Maybe it's Los

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01:16:31,600 --> 01:16:35,800
Speaker 10: Angeles and everything, Maybe it's Puka Nakua and like how

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01:16:35,840 --> 01:16:38,439
Speaker 10: this offense has been rolling a little bit, or maybe

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Speaker 10: it's Matt Stafford who's always played up to these moments

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01:16:41,120 --> 01:16:44,280
Speaker 10: very well. I just I feel like, and maybe it's

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Speaker 10: just Jared Verse in parts of this defense, but I

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Speaker 10: really just kind of feel myself leaning Rams in this game,

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01:16:51,000 --> 01:16:53,240
Speaker 10: how they handled the Vikings, how they're coming in here

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Speaker 10: with a lot of just energy on their side. I

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Speaker 10: am going to go with Los Angeles.

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Speaker 1: Wow, going with the Rams, and again at least Matthew

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01:17:00,720 --> 01:17:03,080
Speaker 1: Stafford making it clear that I still think he's got

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01:17:03,240 --> 01:17:06,320
Speaker 1: something to say about being the best quarterback in the NFC.

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Speaker 10: Where we're christening Jaden Daniels right now, and I think

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01:17:09,040 --> 01:17:12,000
Speaker 10: that's right. But I think Stafford is still he's still

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Speaker 10: the king to get knocked off.

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Speaker 1: Well, if he were to run the table and get

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01:17:15,600 --> 01:17:18,439
Speaker 1: the Rams a second Super Bowl, even I would have

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01:17:18,479 --> 01:17:21,440
Speaker 1: to admit that he would be Hall of Fame guarantee.

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01:17:21,560 --> 01:17:24,360
Speaker 1: All right, Bo, you are decked out in your Eagles

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01:17:24,439 --> 01:17:28,120
Speaker 1: gear right now again the Eagles blowing out the Rams

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01:17:28,160 --> 01:17:31,760
Speaker 1: as they did earlier this year at Sofi Stadium. Is

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01:17:31,800 --> 01:17:35,000
Speaker 1: it going to be similar in Philadelphia? Worse close? How

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01:17:35,040 --> 01:17:35,519
Speaker 1: do you see it?

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Speaker 6: I mean, the playoffs are always tougher than regular season,

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01:17:39,439 --> 01:17:41,800
Speaker 6: so you throw that out. I don't know if it

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01:17:41,840 --> 01:17:43,960
Speaker 6: was you Rich that mentioned yesterday, maybe it was Jared

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01:17:44,160 --> 01:17:48,599
Speaker 6: or Brian. But as good as the Rams front four

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01:17:48,680 --> 01:17:51,000
Speaker 6: is on defense and as young as they are, the

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01:17:51,040 --> 01:17:54,280
Speaker 6: Eagles offensive line is littered with Pro Bowlers and all pros. Like,

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Speaker 6: it's just a severe mismatch there. And if it's snowing,

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01:17:58,000 --> 01:18:02,000
Speaker 6: you're gonna get a heavy dose of Saquon Bark. So

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Speaker 6: I don't really know how the Rams can hold up

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Speaker 6: against that. They are more than welcome to reprove me wrong,

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Speaker 6: but it just does not feel like it's it's the

1519
01:18:10,040 --> 01:18:10,599
Speaker 6: Rams day.

1520
01:18:10,520 --> 01:18:13,800
Speaker 4: To day, I would say this game goes this way.

1521
01:18:15,080 --> 01:18:18,200
Speaker 4: Whoever has the early lead has the best chance to

1522
01:18:18,240 --> 01:18:22,320
Speaker 4: win this game, because I think if it's the Philadelphia Eagles,

1523
01:18:22,360 --> 01:18:25,320
Speaker 4: they can impose their will all game long and play

1524
01:18:25,360 --> 01:18:28,000
Speaker 4: bullyball just like they want to. Yeah, they want to

1525
01:18:28,040 --> 01:18:30,559
Speaker 4: feature Saquon Barkley in the run game. They want to.

1526
01:18:31,520 --> 01:18:34,680
Speaker 4: They want to, obviously. I mean if they if he

1527
01:18:34,760 --> 01:18:37,000
Speaker 4: carries it twenty seven times, they win this football game.

1528
01:18:37,040 --> 01:18:39,240
Speaker 4: If he carries it thirty times, there's no debt they're going.

1529
01:18:39,240 --> 01:18:39,840
Speaker 3: To crush them.

1530
01:18:40,160 --> 01:18:42,080
Speaker 4: They want to just hand the ball to him, their

1531
01:18:42,080 --> 01:18:45,519
Speaker 4: bell cow, over and over and over again. But if

1532
01:18:45,560 --> 01:18:47,599
Speaker 4: the Rams get out to an early lead, what does

1533
01:18:47,640 --> 01:18:55,320
Speaker 4: that do? Almost exactly, it starts to put pressure on Philadelphia, Like, hey, yeah,

1534
01:18:55,400 --> 01:18:58,400
Speaker 4: we could handle as Saquon, but all of a sudden,

1535
01:18:58,720 --> 01:19:03,000
Speaker 4: like we may need to start pumping the ball downfield

1536
01:19:03,040 --> 01:19:05,840
Speaker 4: and getting some chunk plays here, especially if the Rams

1537
01:19:05,840 --> 01:19:07,000
Speaker 4: are gonna score quickly.

1538
01:19:07,400 --> 01:19:10,880
Speaker 3: You know, so I think that to me. Look, I'm

1539
01:19:10,960 --> 01:19:12,080
Speaker 3: leaning Rams as well.

1540
01:19:12,640 --> 01:19:15,720
Speaker 4: I agree with what Boja said about the mismatchup front

1541
01:19:15,760 --> 01:19:18,599
Speaker 4: on the offensive line for the Philadelphia Eagles against an

1542
01:19:18,720 --> 01:19:25,160
Speaker 4: undersized and very inexperienced Rams defensive front. But I'm leaning

1543
01:19:25,240 --> 01:19:29,280
Speaker 4: Rams because my trust is that Sean mcvay's opening script

1544
01:19:29,760 --> 01:19:32,240
Speaker 4: will allow them to get on the board early and

1545
01:19:32,280 --> 01:19:36,360
Speaker 4: potentially often, and that's going to put the Philadelphia Eagles

1546
01:19:36,360 --> 01:19:36,840
Speaker 4: in a bind.

1547
01:19:37,000 --> 01:19:40,040
Speaker 1: Yeah, if the Eagles do have to pass. Remember last

1548
01:19:40,040 --> 01:19:43,000
Speaker 1: week with the nine sacks against Sam Darnald. By the way,

1549
01:19:43,040 --> 01:19:46,600
Speaker 1: five of those nine sacks that I saw, rich, I

1550
01:19:46,640 --> 01:19:50,640
Speaker 1: thought they were free sacks. Yeah, where Darnald just froze

1551
01:19:50,840 --> 01:19:52,880
Speaker 1: instead of getting rid of the ball. So it's not

1552
01:19:52,960 --> 01:19:56,120
Speaker 1: all on that offensive line. But the Rams set a

1553
01:19:56,160 --> 01:19:59,479
Speaker 1: record playoff record. At least eight players had it credit

1554
01:19:59,479 --> 01:20:03,200
Speaker 1: for least off a sack. So you wondered, how's life

1555
01:20:03,240 --> 01:20:06,160
Speaker 1: after Aaron Donald, Well, they found a way to still

1556
01:20:06,200 --> 01:20:09,000
Speaker 1: make it effective. I'm getting ready for what this is

1557
01:20:09,040 --> 01:20:11,000
Speaker 1: going to be. Is going to be the Eagles, It's

1558
01:20:11,000 --> 01:20:12,479
Speaker 1: going to be the Rams. We got it all cover

1559
01:20:12,640 --> 01:20:16,000
Speaker 1: for you right here. This is Red Zone Radio getting

1560
01:20:16,160 --> 01:20:22,280
Speaker 1: ready for two more divisional playoff games on this NFL Sunday.

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1567
01:20:40,360 --> 01:20:43,160
Speaker 1: now between the Rams and the Eagles. Right now, the

1568
01:20:43,200 --> 01:20:48,679
Speaker 1: weather conditions are this cloudy, no snow yet. Snow they

1569
01:20:48,720 --> 01:20:51,200
Speaker 1: say is on the way. Once it starts, it will

1570
01:20:51,240 --> 01:20:54,880
Speaker 1: not stop. Temperatures in the low thirties feels like the

1571
01:20:54,920 --> 01:20:58,599
Speaker 1: mid twenties. Wind is not a major factor, so at

1572
01:20:58,720 --> 01:21:01,639
Speaker 1: least for now, Rich as we get this game started

1573
01:21:01,760 --> 01:21:06,559
Speaker 1: and there is no snow, you get a sense that

1574
01:21:06,600 --> 01:21:11,000
Speaker 1: the Rams they have to get out quickly here, yes,

1575
01:21:11,439 --> 01:21:14,559
Speaker 1: they you know, and they need to take advantage of

1576
01:21:15,120 --> 01:21:19,080
Speaker 1: their greatest strength, which is Matthew Stafford throwing to Puka

1577
01:21:19,120 --> 01:21:24,839
Speaker 1: Nakua and Cooper Cup. Because once the snow starts falling,

1578
01:21:25,000 --> 01:21:27,680
Speaker 1: then you know, it could change the whole dynamic of

1579
01:21:27,720 --> 01:21:31,680
Speaker 1: how this game is played. So it just seems imperative

1580
01:21:32,280 --> 01:21:34,240
Speaker 1: that the Rams. I don't know yet who's going to

1581
01:21:34,280 --> 01:21:36,240
Speaker 1: get the ball first, but if it if it is

1582
01:21:36,280 --> 01:21:38,879
Speaker 1: the Rams, or even if it's the Eagles, but whenever

1583
01:21:38,880 --> 01:21:42,240
Speaker 1: the Rams have the ball before the snow starts falling.

1584
01:21:42,920 --> 01:21:46,000
Speaker 1: They got to take advantage, and and and and look,

1585
01:21:46,360 --> 01:21:48,120
Speaker 1: you're a seven and a half point dog on the road.

1586
01:21:48,479 --> 01:21:51,960
Speaker 1: Everyone's expecting Eagles to win this game. They blew you

1587
01:21:52,040 --> 01:21:55,120
Speaker 1: out on your home field. It's I hate to say

1588
01:21:55,160 --> 01:21:57,400
Speaker 1: have nothing to lose, because that's not true. I mean,

1589
01:21:57,439 --> 01:21:59,600
Speaker 1: you have the same stake in this game that the

1590
01:21:59,640 --> 01:22:03,000
Speaker 1: Eagles do. But I'm willing to take some shots early

1591
01:22:03,040 --> 01:22:05,400
Speaker 1: in this game. If i'm the Rams, I agree.

1592
01:22:05,479 --> 01:22:08,680
Speaker 4: And I think Sean McVay, who's inarguably one of the

1593
01:22:08,680 --> 01:22:11,519
Speaker 4: greatest coaches in the game right now, absolutely and an

1594
01:22:11,560 --> 01:22:14,840
Speaker 4: offensive minded coach, has sat down in the lab with

1595
01:22:14,920 --> 01:22:17,320
Speaker 4: his other coaches, the other voices in the room, and

1596
01:22:17,439 --> 01:22:21,080
Speaker 4: his quarterback Matthew Stafford, who's been here, done it before,

1597
01:22:21,680 --> 01:22:23,639
Speaker 4: and they're going to come up with the best opening

1598
01:22:23,760 --> 01:22:26,639
Speaker 4: twenty plays or so that they could put together.

1599
01:22:26,840 --> 01:22:29,840
Speaker 2: By the way, the Eagles are receiving the opening kickoff.

1600
01:22:29,640 --> 01:22:32,519
Speaker 4: And it's going to be interesting to see what they do.

1601
01:22:32,760 --> 01:22:33,000
Speaker 3: Now.

1602
01:22:33,040 --> 01:22:36,040
Speaker 4: Conversely, I think the Eagles their goal is going to

1603
01:22:36,080 --> 01:22:39,320
Speaker 4: be defeated to Saquon Barkley, you know, left right and

1604
01:22:39,400 --> 01:22:41,919
Speaker 4: up the middle as early and as often as possible.

1605
01:22:42,400 --> 01:22:45,120
Speaker 4: But if the Rams find a way to slow the

1606
01:22:45,200 --> 01:22:47,880
Speaker 4: rush if they commit bodies to line of scrimmage, if

1607
01:22:47,880 --> 01:22:50,920
Speaker 4: they forced Jalen Hurts to throw the football, and they

1608
01:22:50,960 --> 01:22:55,160
Speaker 4: can get you know, some sort of early exit from

1609
01:22:55,160 --> 01:23:00,200
Speaker 4: this drive. Forbidding the Eagles to score points, exactly.

1610
01:22:59,640 --> 01:23:01,360
Speaker 3: What you said is going to happen.

1611
01:23:01,600 --> 01:23:03,920
Speaker 4: You're gonna have the Rams aiming to get a chunk

1612
01:23:03,960 --> 01:23:07,559
Speaker 4: play or two on their opening drive, get highlighting the

1613
01:23:07,560 --> 01:23:10,240
Speaker 4: pass game, and get into the end zone as quickly

1614
01:23:10,280 --> 01:23:12,840
Speaker 4: as possible, because if you can play with an early lead,

1615
01:23:13,280 --> 01:23:15,040
Speaker 4: takes the fans out of the game a little bit.

1616
01:23:15,280 --> 01:23:18,120
Speaker 4: We know Philadelphia fans, they will boo their own team

1617
01:23:18,600 --> 01:23:20,840
Speaker 4: if they're struggling enough, and it doesn't matter if it's

1618
01:23:20,840 --> 01:23:21,800
Speaker 4: the postseason or not.

1619
01:23:22,439 --> 01:23:23,880
Speaker 3: And then also get.

1620
01:23:23,840 --> 01:23:27,720
Speaker 4: Jalen Hurts in this Philadelphia Eagles offense chasing points. It

1621
01:23:27,840 --> 01:23:31,080
Speaker 4: is paramount that you have them throwing the football instead

1622
01:23:31,120 --> 01:23:32,559
Speaker 4: of handing it off to Saquon Barkley.

1623
01:23:32,640 --> 01:23:34,400
Speaker 1: Well, I think a smart play by the Eagles to

1624
01:23:34,439 --> 01:23:38,280
Speaker 1: start this gameplay action, so right, you know you're Jalen Hurts,

1625
01:23:38,320 --> 01:23:42,920
Speaker 1: you go back fake the handoff to Saquon, roll out,

1626
01:23:43,000 --> 01:23:44,719
Speaker 1: and they get a first down on the first play

1627
01:23:44,760 --> 01:23:50,040
Speaker 1: by the way opening kickoff return, the returner slipped.

1628
01:23:50,880 --> 01:23:51,719
Speaker 2: I don't know what the.

1629
01:23:51,640 --> 01:23:54,080
Speaker 1: Condition of the field is, but he seemed to point

1630
01:23:54,120 --> 01:23:56,519
Speaker 1: to the field. He tried to make a plant, you know,

1631
01:23:56,600 --> 01:23:59,240
Speaker 1: on his return to make a move, and his feet

1632
01:23:59,280 --> 01:24:01,760
Speaker 1: just went out from under him. So not quite sure

1633
01:24:01,840 --> 01:24:04,759
Speaker 1: what the condition of the field is in Philadelphia right now.

1634
01:24:05,080 --> 01:24:07,200
Speaker 1: So the Eagles have the ball at their own forty

1635
01:24:07,280 --> 01:24:09,599
Speaker 1: yard line on this opening drive and they have come

1636
01:24:09,640 --> 01:24:13,080
Speaker 1: out passing the football, and I think this is a

1637
01:24:13,120 --> 01:24:14,639
Speaker 1: smart play by the Eagles.

1638
01:24:15,800 --> 01:24:17,280
Speaker 2: Yes, you have Saquon Barkley.

1639
01:24:17,360 --> 01:24:19,839
Speaker 1: Yes he had a career day against the Rams earlier

1640
01:24:19,880 --> 01:24:23,240
Speaker 1: this year, but this is a quarterback that led you

1641
01:24:23,320 --> 01:24:25,400
Speaker 1: to the Super Bowl two years ago. This is a

1642
01:24:25,479 --> 01:24:28,639
Speaker 1: quarterback that was the talk of the football world after

1643
01:24:28,720 --> 01:24:31,920
Speaker 1: that Super Bowl two years ago. They need to get

1644
01:24:32,120 --> 01:24:35,120
Speaker 1: more out of Jalen Hurts if they're going to reach

1645
01:24:35,200 --> 01:24:39,719
Speaker 1: their ultimate destination, which is hoisting the Lombardi Trophy. They're

1646
01:24:39,760 --> 01:24:42,000
Speaker 1: just not going to be able to do with Saquon Barkley.

1647
01:24:42,439 --> 01:24:44,920
Speaker 1: Jalen Hurts is going to have to play at that

1648
01:24:45,200 --> 01:24:47,040
Speaker 1: level that we saw two years ago.

1649
01:24:47,200 --> 01:24:49,799
Speaker 4: They just connected with Goddard and that was a planned

1650
01:24:49,880 --> 01:24:53,400
Speaker 4: roll out bootleg pass to Goddard. They've just connected with Smith.

1651
01:24:53,920 --> 01:24:56,040
Speaker 4: I'm guessing they're going to be looking for aj Brown

1652
01:24:56,080 --> 01:24:59,479
Speaker 4: on this next play. They handed off to Saquon. So look,

1653
01:24:59,520 --> 01:25:03,360
Speaker 4: this is my point. Get all of your stars involved quickly.

1654
01:25:03,360 --> 01:25:05,519
Speaker 4: If you're the Eagles, right, you want to get Smith

1655
01:25:05,560 --> 01:25:07,639
Speaker 4: a touch, You want to get Goddard to touch, get

1656
01:25:07,680 --> 01:25:10,240
Speaker 4: Saqua involved. Like I said, I think they're going to

1657
01:25:10,320 --> 01:25:12,639
Speaker 4: dial up Brown here early in this drive.

1658
01:25:12,960 --> 01:25:14,200
Speaker 3: Get touches to everybody.

1659
01:25:14,439 --> 01:25:17,400
Speaker 4: Tom Brady actually mentioned this on one of his broadcasts,

1660
01:25:17,439 --> 01:25:20,799
Speaker 4: one of his Fox broadcasts this season. He said, getting

1661
01:25:20,840 --> 01:25:23,600
Speaker 4: guys involved early keeps them engaged.

1662
01:25:23,840 --> 01:25:26,280
Speaker 3: So even though you have a hammer running.

1663
01:25:26,000 --> 01:25:29,000
Speaker 4: Back like Sakwon Barkley who's having the season of his life,

1664
01:25:29,479 --> 01:25:33,000
Speaker 4: you can't abandon the passing game completely. So sprinkle in

1665
01:25:33,040 --> 01:25:35,960
Speaker 4: those play actions. Maybe a couple of quick passes close

1666
01:25:36,000 --> 01:25:38,400
Speaker 4: to line of scrimmage. Yeah, you may want to feature

1667
01:25:38,439 --> 01:25:40,559
Speaker 4: the run, but it's important to make sure you get

1668
01:25:40,560 --> 01:25:42,559
Speaker 4: the ball into your playmaker's hands.

1669
01:25:42,760 --> 01:25:44,680
Speaker 3: Because it is a cold day. You want to keep

1670
01:25:44,720 --> 01:25:45,160
Speaker 3: them warm.

1671
01:25:45,200 --> 01:25:47,120
Speaker 4: You want to keep them active and involved, and if

1672
01:25:47,160 --> 01:25:49,280
Speaker 4: you need them later on, you want to make sure

1673
01:25:49,320 --> 01:25:51,080
Speaker 4: their hands are warmed up.

1674
01:25:51,320 --> 01:25:54,639
Speaker 1: By the way, Just for our listeners out there, Rich

1675
01:25:54,640 --> 01:25:57,800
Speaker 1: and I are at different locations today and what I'm

1676
01:25:57,840 --> 01:25:59,880
Speaker 1: watching is well ahead of what you're watching.

1677
01:26:02,120 --> 01:26:02,840
Speaker 2: So don't be.

1678
01:26:02,840 --> 01:26:05,639
Speaker 1: Alarmed if I say something and you're looking up saying

1679
01:26:06,000 --> 01:26:08,600
Speaker 1: how do you know? That? I can already tell you

1680
01:26:08,600 --> 01:26:11,280
Speaker 1: in advance. But right now everything is clicking for the Eagles.

1681
01:26:11,280 --> 01:26:13,559
Speaker 1: They've got the ball down to the forty four yard line,

1682
01:26:13,760 --> 01:26:16,120
Speaker 1: short passes. Tae Kwon has run the ball a couple

1683
01:26:16,120 --> 01:26:18,800
Speaker 1: of times. Now, Jalen Hurts takes off on a big

1684
01:26:18,880 --> 01:26:21,080
Speaker 1: run and he is all the way down the field.

1685
01:26:21,080 --> 01:26:24,759
Speaker 1: Effect he is in the end zone. Jalen Hurts scorts

1686
01:26:24,800 --> 01:26:26,519
Speaker 1: and this is amazing. I was listening to the guys

1687
01:26:26,560 --> 01:26:31,439
Speaker 1: this morning talking about Jalen Hurts and who was I

1688
01:26:31,439 --> 01:26:33,880
Speaker 1: think it was Jeff Schwartz and he was predicting who

1689
01:26:33,880 --> 01:26:35,920
Speaker 1: would score the first touchdown of the game, and he

1690
01:26:36,040 --> 01:26:38,920
Speaker 1: was talking about Jalen Hurts on a push play, like

1691
01:26:38,960 --> 01:26:41,799
Speaker 1: you know, one of their notorious goal line push plays.

1692
01:26:42,080 --> 01:26:45,040
Speaker 1: But Jalen Hurts takes off and he goes all the

1693
01:26:45,080 --> 01:26:49,600
Speaker 1: way in the end zone after breaking one tackle. Nobody

1694
01:26:49,840 --> 01:26:53,200
Speaker 1: touched him, and just like that, the Eagles six nothing lead.

1695
01:26:53,600 --> 01:26:54,639
Speaker 3: Yeah, listen.

1696
01:26:55,040 --> 01:26:58,440
Speaker 4: That is that's what's special about having a mobile quarterback

1697
01:26:58,760 --> 01:27:02,280
Speaker 4: who's strong, who can and withstand these types of planned

1698
01:27:02,360 --> 01:27:05,960
Speaker 4: QB running plays, and also think about the benefit of

1699
01:27:06,120 --> 01:27:08,400
Speaker 4: having your quarterback carry the football.

1700
01:27:08,680 --> 01:27:13,360
Speaker 1: So you have, oh what you got missed extra points? Wow,

1701
01:27:13,479 --> 01:27:15,679
Speaker 1: forty four yard touchdown run by the Hurts, but yes,

1702
01:27:15,720 --> 01:27:16,519
Speaker 1: miss extra point.

1703
01:27:16,720 --> 01:27:20,760
Speaker 4: So you have the left guard and left tackle pull

1704
01:27:20,800 --> 01:27:23,839
Speaker 4: around the formation, so you're adding two blockers front side.

1705
01:27:24,160 --> 01:27:27,479
Speaker 4: You fake it to Saquan that freezes the backside of

1706
01:27:27,520 --> 01:27:30,960
Speaker 4: the defense, and you have Jalen Hurts split the front,

1707
01:27:31,080 --> 01:27:34,120
Speaker 4: the front side tackle and the tight end, and you

1708
01:27:34,200 --> 01:27:37,639
Speaker 4: have a convoy of big body blockers leading the way

1709
01:27:37,720 --> 01:27:41,200
Speaker 4: for you. There's nobody left because again, when the QB's

1710
01:27:41,280 --> 01:27:44,599
Speaker 4: the ball carrier and you can freeze the backside support

1711
01:27:44,640 --> 01:27:47,960
Speaker 4: with Saquon on the fake, give all of a sudden,

1712
01:27:48,360 --> 01:27:52,040
Speaker 4: nobody's home. So it's either going to take an excellent

1713
01:27:52,040 --> 01:27:54,639
Speaker 4: play by a defender to defeat a block front side

1714
01:27:54,680 --> 01:27:57,960
Speaker 4: and fall into a tackle, or somebody to miss their

1715
01:27:58,000 --> 01:28:01,280
Speaker 4: block for there to be a free defender front Otherwise

1716
01:28:01,520 --> 01:28:04,559
Speaker 4: it's a touchdown every time. So the Rams, look, they

1717
01:28:04,560 --> 01:28:06,679
Speaker 4: have a lot to think about after that drive.

1718
01:28:06,880 --> 01:28:08,559
Speaker 2: Absolutely. In fact, here's the thing.

1719
01:28:08,640 --> 01:28:12,920
Speaker 1: Sakwon Barkley two carries five yards, Okay, we neutralized him.

1720
01:28:13,240 --> 01:28:16,240
Speaker 1: Jalen Hurts three for three passing twenty five yards, and

1721
01:28:16,280 --> 01:28:19,040
Speaker 1: then he runs forty four yards for a touchdown. So

1722
01:28:19,640 --> 01:28:21,320
Speaker 1: just talked about it at the end of the beginning

1723
01:28:21,360 --> 01:28:23,240
Speaker 1: of the game. Again, if the Eagles are going to

1724
01:28:23,320 --> 01:28:25,000
Speaker 1: get to where they want to be, and that's the

1725
01:28:25,040 --> 01:28:28,400
Speaker 1: top of the NFL and Super Bowl champions, they're going

1726
01:28:28,479 --> 01:28:30,960
Speaker 1: to have to get more out of Jalen Hurts. He's

1727
01:28:31,000 --> 01:28:33,120
Speaker 1: going to have to resemble the quarterback we saw two

1728
01:28:33,160 --> 01:28:35,880
Speaker 1: years ago, and at least on that opening drive, that's

1729
01:28:35,920 --> 01:28:39,799
Speaker 1: exactly the Jalen Hurts we saw. So six nothing Eagles

1730
01:28:39,840 --> 01:28:42,439
Speaker 1: after the miss extra point, Now the Rams are going

1731
01:28:42,520 --> 01:28:45,280
Speaker 1: to get it, and I'm very anxious. We again talking

1732
01:28:45,320 --> 01:28:48,840
Speaker 1: about what the Rams game plan is. Let's remember they

1733
01:28:48,880 --> 01:28:51,960
Speaker 1: also have an elite running back in Kiraen Williams. I mean,

1734
01:28:52,080 --> 01:28:55,360
Speaker 1: last year was a breakout season from Kyra Williams. This

1735
01:28:55,400 --> 01:29:01,720
Speaker 1: guy's a touchdown machine and he has been extremely important

1736
01:29:02,120 --> 01:29:05,120
Speaker 1: and the revival of the Rams offense over the last

1737
01:29:05,920 --> 01:29:09,679
Speaker 1: couple of years. And so I had made a bold prediction,

1738
01:29:10,000 --> 01:29:11,800
Speaker 1: you know, I told her about the bold prediction I

1739
01:29:11,840 --> 01:29:15,280
Speaker 1: had with Jared Goff. My bold prediction in this game

1740
01:29:15,520 --> 01:29:19,880
Speaker 1: was that Kyraen Williams would have at least twenty more

1741
01:29:19,960 --> 01:29:25,200
Speaker 1: yards rushing in this game than Saquon Barkley. Well, I mean,

1742
01:29:25,200 --> 01:29:27,440
Speaker 1: that's a way over the top prediction, obviously.

1743
01:29:27,720 --> 01:29:29,760
Speaker 4: The only way I see that happening, by the way,

1744
01:29:30,280 --> 01:29:33,200
Speaker 4: is if the Rams get to a point where they're

1745
01:29:33,240 --> 01:29:38,280
Speaker 4: comfortable slowing this game down, playing keep away, running the football.

1746
01:29:38,840 --> 01:29:42,240
Speaker 4: This early lead for the Eagles, I mean, it makes

1747
01:29:42,280 --> 01:29:46,560
Speaker 4: me very reticent that your bold prediction will work out,

1748
01:29:46,800 --> 01:29:51,280
Speaker 4: because it's gonna take whatever team has the lead, has

1749
01:29:51,320 --> 01:29:55,280
Speaker 4: the ability to start slowing the game clockdown, has has

1750
01:29:55,360 --> 01:29:59,840
Speaker 4: the ability or i should say, the advantage of points

1751
01:29:59,840 --> 01:30:03,479
Speaker 4: on the board to say, okay, we can control this

1752
01:30:03,600 --> 01:30:06,080
Speaker 4: game a little bit at the line of scrimmage. So

1753
01:30:07,520 --> 01:30:10,000
Speaker 4: in order for your bold prediction to come true, you

1754
01:30:10,080 --> 01:30:13,120
Speaker 4: better hope that Stafford Heaves won to Cooper Cup on

1755
01:30:13,280 --> 01:30:15,639
Speaker 4: play two and they get into the into the zone,

1756
01:30:15,720 --> 01:30:18,360
Speaker 4: because it's it's gonna be it's gonna be a little

1757
01:30:18,360 --> 01:30:20,679
Speaker 4: bit of chasing points here for Sean mcvahin company.

1758
01:30:20,680 --> 01:30:21,840
Speaker 2: All Right, So the Eagles.

1759
01:30:21,560 --> 01:30:23,920
Speaker 1: Score on their opening drive on a forty four yard

1760
01:30:24,000 --> 01:30:27,320
Speaker 1: touchdown run by Jalen Hurts. Extra point is miss six

1761
01:30:27,439 --> 01:30:30,640
Speaker 1: nothing Eagles. We'll see what the Rams do coming up

1762
01:30:30,680 --> 01:30:33,200
Speaker 1: on the other side. We got everything covered that you

1763
01:30:33,360 --> 01:30:36,640
Speaker 1: need right here on Red Zone Radio all right, once

1764
01:30:36,680 --> 01:30:39,880
Speaker 1: again broadcasting live from the ti iraq dot com studios.

1765
01:30:39,920 --> 01:30:42,679
Speaker 1: So after the Eagles scored on their opening drive, missed

1766
01:30:42,680 --> 01:30:45,439
Speaker 1: extra points, six nothing Eagles, the Rams are marching down

1767
01:30:45,439 --> 01:30:49,840
Speaker 1: the field. Key play here, Rich was a pass originally

1768
01:30:50,560 --> 01:30:54,200
Speaker 1: incomplete on the field to Tyler Higbee the big tight end.

1769
01:30:54,200 --> 01:30:57,520
Speaker 2: Of course, his daughter's babysitted by my daughter.

1770
01:30:57,320 --> 01:31:01,320
Speaker 1: So he's supposed to to our family. But the replay

1771
01:31:01,360 --> 01:31:03,920
Speaker 1: clearly showed he caught the ball. They did reverse the call.

1772
01:31:04,040 --> 01:31:07,360
Speaker 1: Then Kyron Williams rattled off a twenty yard run, so

1773
01:31:07,439 --> 01:31:10,280
Speaker 1: my play on that might be playing in. And then

1774
01:31:10,320 --> 01:31:12,799
Speaker 1: they found Pooka Nakua for a play. So right now,

1775
01:31:13,520 --> 01:31:16,080
Speaker 1: the Rams are looking pretty good on this opening drive,

1776
01:31:16,120 --> 01:31:18,680
Speaker 1: and much like we saw with the Eagles mixing it

1777
01:31:18,720 --> 01:31:20,920
Speaker 1: up nice. I think both these teams are feeling anxious

1778
01:31:20,920 --> 01:31:24,040
Speaker 1: because the snow's up falling right now that you can

1779
01:31:24,040 --> 01:31:27,080
Speaker 1: really pull out your full repertoire. Both these teams have

1780
01:31:27,160 --> 01:31:30,519
Speaker 1: effective running games, effective passing games, and we're seated on

1781
01:31:30,560 --> 01:31:31,720
Speaker 1: full display right now.

1782
01:31:31,840 --> 01:31:34,479
Speaker 4: Yeah, and a really nice job by Matthew Stafford on

1783
01:31:34,520 --> 01:31:36,240
Speaker 4: that pass to Puka nakoua.

1784
01:31:35,920 --> 01:31:37,960
Speaker 3: Earlier in the drive over the middle.

1785
01:31:38,160 --> 01:31:41,240
Speaker 4: Looking off the zone defenders, so he could throw that

1786
01:31:41,479 --> 01:31:45,160
Speaker 4: low and on the money over the middle on the.

1787
01:31:45,120 --> 01:31:48,040
Speaker 3: Deep drag route. Really beautifully done by Stafford.

1788
01:31:48,080 --> 01:31:50,799
Speaker 1: All right, so they have a third down play right

1789
01:31:50,840 --> 01:31:56,120
Speaker 1: now for the Rams. They're inside the twenty laid. They're

1790
01:31:56,120 --> 01:31:59,720
Speaker 1: obviously in field goal position. But when you get down

1791
01:31:59,760 --> 01:32:02,519
Speaker 1: at the point, they're at the fifteen yard line right now,

1792
01:32:02,560 --> 01:32:06,800
Speaker 1: they're facing a third and six, and it would be

1793
01:32:06,840 --> 01:32:09,400
Speaker 1: disappointing if you're the Rams if you can't get the

1794
01:32:09,439 --> 01:32:12,880
Speaker 1: ball into the end zone. Stafford's got running room up

1795
01:32:12,920 --> 01:32:15,240
Speaker 1: the middle and he is going to get to the

1796
01:32:15,320 --> 01:32:16,200
Speaker 1: first down.

1797
01:32:16,439 --> 01:32:16,719
Speaker 9: Wow.

1798
01:32:17,200 --> 01:32:21,320
Speaker 1: Yeah, big run by Matthew Stafford, inching across the first

1799
01:32:21,360 --> 01:32:24,240
Speaker 1: down marker. So the Rams will have a first down

1800
01:32:24,760 --> 01:32:26,639
Speaker 1: close to the eight yard line.

1801
01:32:26,720 --> 01:32:29,320
Speaker 3: Yeah, first and goal, So here go the Rams.

1802
01:32:30,160 --> 01:32:32,840
Speaker 4: A really nice job of the Eagles defense, by the way,

1803
01:32:32,880 --> 01:32:36,160
Speaker 4: with their picket line defense or picket fence defense. What

1804
01:32:36,280 --> 01:32:40,320
Speaker 4: happens on these crucial third downs or when you're getting

1805
01:32:40,320 --> 01:32:41,120
Speaker 4: near the goal line.

1806
01:32:41,240 --> 01:32:42,880
Speaker 2: Hold on, hold on, just an update.

1807
01:32:42,960 --> 01:32:45,720
Speaker 1: They're saying that his knee was down before, so they're

1808
01:32:45,760 --> 01:32:48,360
Speaker 1: gonna go for it on fourth and one we go,

1809
01:32:48,479 --> 01:32:49,320
Speaker 1: they run the ball.

1810
01:32:49,120 --> 01:32:51,080
Speaker 2: To Kien Williams against the first down, go ahead.

1811
01:32:51,439 --> 01:32:54,840
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's you line up all your defenders where you

1812
01:32:54,880 --> 01:32:57,439
Speaker 4: need to stop, and so the Eagles did that. But yeah,

1813
01:32:57,520 --> 01:33:01,360
Speaker 4: Stafford's knee was down just a half yard and Kiren

1814
01:33:01,520 --> 01:33:02,759
Speaker 4: was able to punch it forward.

1815
01:33:03,040 --> 01:33:05,160
Speaker 1: Yeah, so now they have a first and goal at

1816
01:33:05,200 --> 01:33:08,040
Speaker 1: the five yard line. You know, we were talking to

1817
01:33:08,280 --> 01:33:10,479
Speaker 1: the overrunner in this game was what forty two and

1818
01:33:10,479 --> 01:33:14,320
Speaker 1: a half a really low number, and you're thinking out

1819
01:33:14,360 --> 01:33:17,280
Speaker 1: with the weather and everything else. But at least on

1820
01:33:17,320 --> 01:33:20,519
Speaker 1: these opening drives, both teams are moving the ball very

1821
01:33:20,840 --> 01:33:24,120
Speaker 1: very effectively, doing what they want to do, both with.

1822
01:33:24,120 --> 01:33:25,880
Speaker 2: Their passing game and the running game.

1823
01:33:25,960 --> 01:33:27,880
Speaker 1: So we'll see how this plays out, but early on

1824
01:33:28,400 --> 01:33:31,880
Speaker 1: offenses in control and Kyraen Williams, who was certainly had

1825
01:33:31,920 --> 01:33:33,120
Speaker 1: a nose for the end zone.

1826
01:33:33,400 --> 01:33:34,240
Speaker 2: What a revelation.

1827
01:33:34,439 --> 01:33:37,360
Speaker 1: Right his rookie season he was basically hurt and then

1828
01:33:37,520 --> 01:33:40,200
Speaker 1: last year, out of nowhere, he becomes a Pro Bowl

1829
01:33:40,280 --> 01:33:43,439
Speaker 1: running back actually led the NFL last year in rushing

1830
01:33:43,560 --> 01:33:48,280
Speaker 1: yards per game and had an equally great season this year. So,

1831
01:33:48,840 --> 01:33:51,640
Speaker 1: you know, when we talk about Sean McVay and his offense,

1832
01:33:51,680 --> 01:33:53,880
Speaker 1: and we saw it in the heyday when they had

1833
01:33:53,920 --> 01:33:58,320
Speaker 1: Todd Gurley operating with Jared Goff, he gotta have both.

1834
01:33:58,520 --> 01:34:02,599
Speaker 1: And when Todd Gurley got hurt, suddenly that ram offense

1835
01:34:02,720 --> 01:34:03,640
Speaker 1: went sideways.

1836
01:34:03,760 --> 01:34:06,120
Speaker 2: They just you gotta have a running game.

1837
01:34:06,160 --> 01:34:08,880
Speaker 1: It's gonna be interesting with the upcoming draft if there's

1838
01:34:08,920 --> 01:34:11,360
Speaker 1: a more of a premium on some of these elite

1839
01:34:11,439 --> 01:34:13,439
Speaker 1: running backs than we've see in recent years.

1840
01:34:13,800 --> 01:34:16,040
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's h's it's pretty impressive.

1841
01:34:16,040 --> 01:34:18,240
Speaker 4: And also, Dereck Henry, I believe, was the running back

1842
01:34:18,240 --> 01:34:21,439
Speaker 4: who admitted that there is a text chain amongst some

1843
01:34:21,520 --> 01:34:25,200
Speaker 4: of the the NFL's top running backs and they've kept

1844
01:34:25,280 --> 01:34:28,240
Speaker 4: in touch all season long, and they've talked about how

1845
01:34:28,280 --> 01:34:32,800
Speaker 4: to continue increasing the value of the position. Well, the

1846
01:34:32,840 --> 01:34:35,439
Speaker 4: reality of the situation is the way you increase the

1847
01:34:35,520 --> 01:34:40,479
Speaker 4: value of the running back position is make it undeniable

1848
01:34:40,640 --> 01:34:42,439
Speaker 4: that every team needs one of these.

1849
01:34:42,280 --> 01:34:43,879
Speaker 3: Guys, one of these top dogs.

1850
01:34:44,280 --> 01:34:47,400
Speaker 4: And so yeah, I mean, if Dereck Henry represents the

1851
01:34:47,439 --> 01:34:52,200
Speaker 4: AFC side on in the Super Bowl. And if Saquon

1852
01:34:52,280 --> 01:34:55,760
Speaker 4: Barkley represents the the NFC side of the Super Bowl,

1853
01:34:55,840 --> 01:34:58,320
Speaker 4: I think that statement's made, don't you think, Steve?

1854
01:34:58,600 --> 01:34:59,439
Speaker 2: I agree with you.

1855
01:34:59,520 --> 01:35:02,479
Speaker 1: And now they have a touchdown Rams and it is

1856
01:35:02,560 --> 01:35:03,439
Speaker 1: Tyler Higby.

1857
01:35:04,479 --> 01:35:07,599
Speaker 2: Tyler, I remember he'd be.

1858
01:35:07,680 --> 01:35:11,120
Speaker 1: Last a week, had five catches really early on. They

1859
01:35:11,120 --> 01:35:14,680
Speaker 1: had a chest injury, and they thought he might have

1860
01:35:14,800 --> 01:35:17,920
Speaker 1: had some kind of broken ribs. But no, and here

1861
01:35:18,040 --> 01:35:22,080
Speaker 1: Tyler Higbe catches one into the end zone. I look,

1862
01:35:22,160 --> 01:35:24,599
Speaker 1: I'm near and dear to the Higbee family. His wife

1863
01:35:24,680 --> 01:35:26,800
Speaker 1: was at our house just the other day. So this

1864
01:35:26,840 --> 01:35:29,639
Speaker 1: is this is really he's a super guy. He's a veteran.

1865
01:35:29,920 --> 01:35:33,040
Speaker 1: Came back from that oh whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.

1866
01:35:33,280 --> 01:35:34,280
Speaker 3: I don't know his knees.

1867
01:35:34,840 --> 01:35:35,559
Speaker 1: They were down.

1868
01:35:35,840 --> 01:35:36,360
Speaker 3: Here we go.

1869
01:35:36,640 --> 01:35:37,439
Speaker 2: Are they challenging?

1870
01:35:37,840 --> 01:35:40,120
Speaker 3: I think the ball broke the plane. Now over the plane.

1871
01:35:40,240 --> 01:35:42,720
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, so they are not challenging. The rams are

1872
01:35:42,720 --> 01:35:46,920
Speaker 1: on for the extra point. So two extra point is good.

1873
01:35:46,960 --> 01:35:48,599
Speaker 1: So seven six rams.

1874
01:35:48,760 --> 01:35:52,000
Speaker 3: So so Tyler Higbee, he was to the bunch side.

1875
01:35:52,040 --> 01:35:54,760
Speaker 4: They had a three by one formation. They send him

1876
01:35:54,760 --> 01:35:57,559
Speaker 4: in motion and now they have twins, right, so they

1877
01:35:57,560 --> 01:36:00,639
Speaker 4: have two receivers to the right, two receivers to the left.

1878
01:36:00,880 --> 01:36:04,000
Speaker 4: Higbee is the slot receiver. They sent him out on

1879
01:36:04,040 --> 01:36:07,559
Speaker 4: a whip route, which basically it means he was looking

1880
01:36:07,600 --> 01:36:09,680
Speaker 4: like he was going to run to the front pylon

1881
01:36:09,760 --> 01:36:12,879
Speaker 4: to the left, and instead he broke off that route.

1882
01:36:12,920 --> 01:36:14,040
Speaker 3: He cut inside.

1883
01:36:14,240 --> 01:36:17,920
Speaker 4: He boxed out Gardner Johnson, the corner who was covering him.

1884
01:36:18,120 --> 01:36:19,360
Speaker 3: A mismatch against a.

1885
01:36:19,280 --> 01:36:22,120
Speaker 4: Big body receiver like Higbee, and he was able to

1886
01:36:22,640 --> 01:36:25,240
Speaker 4: impose his will and cross the plane for the first

1887
01:36:25,280 --> 01:36:26,280
Speaker 4: score for the Rams.

1888
01:36:26,720 --> 01:36:30,479
Speaker 3: That is the type of stuff that Sean McVay loves.

1889
01:36:30,800 --> 01:36:34,759
Speaker 4: Where can we find the mismatches at the goal line? Okay,

1890
01:36:34,760 --> 01:36:37,599
Speaker 4: how can we get Higbee on a little guy? Well,

1891
01:36:37,640 --> 01:36:39,920
Speaker 4: you put him in motion, you put him in the slot,

1892
01:36:40,120 --> 01:36:42,760
Speaker 4: you have him work against the corner, and you do

1893
01:36:42,920 --> 01:36:45,080
Speaker 4: something where he's catching the ball close to the middle

1894
01:36:45,080 --> 01:36:48,920
Speaker 4: of the field. Beautiful execution by Higbee, great play calling

1895
01:36:49,120 --> 01:36:49,920
Speaker 4: by Sean McVay.

1896
01:36:50,080 --> 01:36:51,679
Speaker 2: It's an amazing story for Higbee.

1897
01:36:51,680 --> 01:36:54,160
Speaker 1: We saw last year what happened against Detroit where his

1898
01:36:54,280 --> 01:36:59,280
Speaker 1: knee got destroyed, I mean absolutely exploded, and I saw

1899
01:36:59,320 --> 01:37:02,519
Speaker 1: the rehabit guy and just you know, especially a veteran

1900
01:37:02,560 --> 01:37:05,080
Speaker 1: player ru for a guy like that, But you're thinking

1901
01:37:05,080 --> 01:37:07,120
Speaker 1: he's a veteran, he's played ten years. You know his

1902
01:37:07,200 --> 01:37:11,080
Speaker 1: time is coming, gone, right, they're gonna move on. And

1903
01:37:11,120 --> 01:37:13,280
Speaker 1: he rehabbed it, and he came on late in the year.

1904
01:37:13,520 --> 01:37:15,479
Speaker 1: And to see him getting the end zone in a

1905
01:37:15,520 --> 01:37:18,760
Speaker 1: playoff game, big game like this against the Eagles is great.

1906
01:37:18,960 --> 01:37:21,759
Speaker 1: Here here's something I'm sure Sean McVay is excited about.

1907
01:37:21,760 --> 01:37:26,040
Speaker 1: Sixty seven yard drive, thirty three yards, passing, thirty four yards, rushing,

1908
01:37:27,120 --> 01:37:29,839
Speaker 1: absolute balance, perfect absolute balance.

1909
01:37:30,080 --> 01:37:32,840
Speaker 4: And by the way, Stafford, how about that decision making

1910
01:37:32,880 --> 01:37:35,479
Speaker 4: on the third and six right he's got he sees

1911
01:37:35,520 --> 01:37:38,200
Speaker 4: the pick offense defense I was talking about of the

1912
01:37:38,240 --> 01:37:39,320
Speaker 4: Philadelphia Eagles.

1913
01:37:39,960 --> 01:37:41,600
Speaker 3: They've got zone coverage.

1914
01:37:41,960 --> 01:37:45,200
Speaker 4: Everybody at the sticks are covered up, and instead of

1915
01:37:45,479 --> 01:37:48,120
Speaker 4: thinking twice about it, and he's not the most mobile

1916
01:37:48,120 --> 01:37:52,000
Speaker 4: guy anymore, Matthew Stafford takes up lunches, takes off lunches

1917
01:37:52,040 --> 01:37:54,800
Speaker 4: forward and he's short of the first down marker. But

1918
01:37:54,880 --> 01:37:58,600
Speaker 4: still it sets up your offense to have kyn Williams

1919
01:37:58,640 --> 01:38:01,920
Speaker 4: punch it through. Either you convert there or you give

1920
01:38:01,960 --> 01:38:04,959
Speaker 4: the Philadelphia the Eagles the ball back in the shadows

1921
01:38:04,960 --> 01:38:07,040
Speaker 4: of their own goal post, So a good decision on

1922
01:38:07,160 --> 01:38:08,240
Speaker 4: fourth down going for it.

1923
01:38:08,640 --> 01:38:11,479
Speaker 3: I love that drive from the Rams. I love the

1924
01:38:11,560 --> 01:38:13,080
Speaker 3: drive we just watched from the Eagles.

1925
01:38:13,120 --> 01:38:16,360
Speaker 4: I think both of these starting scripts have been really effective.

1926
01:38:16,439 --> 01:38:20,280
Speaker 1: All right, So now the Rams saw the Eagles. Obviously

1927
01:38:20,320 --> 01:38:23,599
Speaker 1: they were very conscious of Barkley as well. They should

1928
01:38:23,680 --> 01:38:25,920
Speaker 1: be after for two hundred and fifty five yards against

1929
01:38:25,920 --> 01:38:28,840
Speaker 1: them last time. Yeah, and Jalen Hurts killed them on

1930
01:38:28,920 --> 01:38:32,200
Speaker 1: that opening drive through the air and of course more

1931
01:38:32,240 --> 01:38:36,360
Speaker 1: importantly on that forty four yard touchdown run. So I mean,

1932
01:38:36,720 --> 01:38:39,800
Speaker 1: how many what adjustments can you make early in a game?

1933
01:38:40,120 --> 01:38:41,960
Speaker 1: Or can you? I mean we always saw, we always

1934
01:38:41,960 --> 01:38:45,920
Speaker 1: hear about halftime adjustments. What's reality as far as in

1935
01:38:46,080 --> 01:38:49,640
Speaker 1: game adjustments in terms of what your game plan is,

1936
01:38:49,720 --> 01:38:51,360
Speaker 1: either offensively or defensively.

1937
01:38:51,640 --> 01:38:55,599
Speaker 4: I'm glad you asked, because the deal is this, that's

1938
01:38:55,640 --> 01:38:58,640
Speaker 4: their opening script, right, So now you're not going to

1939
01:38:58,760 --> 01:39:02,320
Speaker 4: fool the Rams. You're not gonna catch them again running

1940
01:39:02,400 --> 01:39:04,639
Speaker 4: Jalen Hurts on a playing QB run because you did

1941
01:39:04,720 --> 01:39:07,200
Speaker 4: on your opening drive, So you know that this is

1942
01:39:07,240 --> 01:39:09,000
Speaker 4: gonna be something they're going to get back to in

1943
01:39:09,080 --> 01:39:12,920
Speaker 4: this game. So now you have defenders who are looking

1944
01:39:12,960 --> 01:39:15,160
Speaker 4: out for that, right. So that's one adjustment you make

1945
01:39:15,200 --> 01:39:17,360
Speaker 4: you make on the sideline when you're talking to your

1946
01:39:17,360 --> 01:39:19,479
Speaker 4: team and you're showing them the picture, it's like, hey,

1947
01:39:19,600 --> 01:39:23,160
Speaker 4: out of this formation instead of the normal play action

1948
01:39:23,600 --> 01:39:27,120
Speaker 4: or instead of it being sickwa. We cannot over commit backside.

1949
01:39:27,200 --> 01:39:29,240
Speaker 4: We're gonna have to keep our eyes on Jailen Hurts

1950
01:39:29,240 --> 01:39:33,040
Speaker 4: front front side. So follow your pollers, right, you know,

1951
01:39:33,120 --> 01:39:35,759
Speaker 4: don't get frozen by the action in the backfield. Follow

1952
01:39:35,760 --> 01:39:38,280
Speaker 4: your keys. If you're a linebacker, the pollers will take

1953
01:39:38,320 --> 01:39:41,000
Speaker 4: you to the play almost one hundred percent of the time.

1954
01:39:41,080 --> 01:39:44,840
Speaker 1: All right. So they've run Barkley short gain about three

1955
01:39:44,960 --> 01:39:49,519
Speaker 1: yards there. Uh, and so this is look, we're gonna

1956
01:39:49,520 --> 01:39:52,240
Speaker 1: see plenty of Barkley. And yeah, you know where Barkley

1957
01:39:52,280 --> 01:39:54,599
Speaker 1: is going to be most devastating is that the Eagles

1958
01:39:54,600 --> 01:39:56,640
Speaker 1: can take any lead in the second I remember in

1959
01:39:56,720 --> 01:39:59,880
Speaker 1: the game early against the Rams in the second halfy

1960
01:40:00,080 --> 01:40:03,040
Speaker 1: a seventy yard touchdown run and a seventy two yard touchdown.

1961
01:40:03,240 --> 01:40:04,040
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's correct.

1962
01:40:04,080 --> 01:40:07,240
Speaker 1: The only question remaining in this game right now is

1963
01:40:07,240 --> 01:40:09,880
Speaker 1: both teams are doing pretty much what they won offensively,

1964
01:40:09,960 --> 01:40:11,760
Speaker 1: and there's a drop pass that's not going to help

1965
01:40:11,800 --> 01:40:12,880
Speaker 1: the Eagles cause.

1966
01:40:13,479 --> 01:40:13,639
Speaker 3: But.

1967
01:40:15,840 --> 01:40:18,080
Speaker 2: Is the snow again?

1968
01:40:18,120 --> 01:40:21,479
Speaker 1: The weather was report was we were going to see snow,

1969
01:40:21,960 --> 01:40:24,120
Speaker 1: and we're going to see snow throughout the game. Well

1970
01:40:24,200 --> 01:40:27,040
Speaker 1: right now there is no snow and we got five

1971
01:40:27,120 --> 01:40:29,840
Speaker 1: minutes left in the first quarter. So is this going

1972
01:40:29,880 --> 01:40:33,679
Speaker 1: to be a second half situation? That's interesting because imagine

1973
01:40:33,720 --> 01:40:36,240
Speaker 1: if you go to halftime like what snow? There had

1974
01:40:36,360 --> 01:40:38,599
Speaker 1: many snow. Then you come out of the locker rooms,

1975
01:40:38,840 --> 01:40:41,720
Speaker 1: Oh here comes and you sort of made some adjustments,

1976
01:40:41,720 --> 01:40:43,920
Speaker 1: and now you have to think about, wait, is that

1977
01:40:44,000 --> 01:40:46,519
Speaker 1: going to work now that the weather has turned on us.

1978
01:40:46,560 --> 01:40:48,839
Speaker 1: So these are all things that will have to be answered.

1979
01:40:48,840 --> 01:40:53,800
Speaker 1: The Rams that's sacked Jalen Hurts. So this RAMS team

1980
01:40:53,840 --> 01:40:58,680
Speaker 1: that recorded nine sacks last week against the Vikings have

1981
01:40:58,840 --> 01:41:04,200
Speaker 1: stopped the Eagles three and out as Jalen Hurts gets sacked.

1982
01:41:04,000 --> 01:41:06,000
Speaker 4: And it was it was a coverage sack. Yeah, it

1983
01:41:06,040 --> 01:41:08,519
Speaker 4: was that ball needs to come out. And here's what happened.

1984
01:41:08,560 --> 01:41:12,000
Speaker 4: So you had the Rams looking like they were gonna

1985
01:41:12,000 --> 01:41:15,320
Speaker 4: bring a six man pressure and then they bailed and

1986
01:41:15,360 --> 01:41:20,719
Speaker 4: they rushed five. Now the rusher who was over their

1987
01:41:20,800 --> 01:41:24,240
Speaker 4: left tackle, my lotta you're gonna see that he gets beat,

1988
01:41:24,280 --> 01:41:28,160
Speaker 4: but he gets beat late, right yea. Originally it looked

1989
01:41:28,200 --> 01:41:30,439
Speaker 4: like he was getting beat off the snap, and then

1990
01:41:30,439 --> 01:41:33,160
Speaker 4: there was too much push on the center Jurgens who

1991
01:41:33,200 --> 01:41:37,120
Speaker 4: did not hold up against the blitzing linebacker linebacker the

1992
01:41:37,160 --> 01:41:40,439
Speaker 4: defensive lineman rather who did come. So it's one of

1993
01:41:40,439 --> 01:41:44,040
Speaker 4: those situations where Jalen Hurts didn't have a pocket to step.

1994
01:41:43,840 --> 01:41:46,840
Speaker 3: Up into and you got beat late off the edge.

1995
01:41:46,920 --> 01:41:50,880
Speaker 1: That's disastrous, all right, So the Rams will take over.

1996
01:41:51,040 --> 01:41:53,760
Speaker 1: Actually a decent punt return. So the Rams take over

1997
01:41:53,880 --> 01:41:56,280
Speaker 1: leading the Eagles seven to six. Let's find out what

1998
01:41:56,400 --> 01:42:01,360
Speaker 1: is trending right now. So Monts, my bold prediction in

1999
01:42:01,400 --> 01:42:03,599
Speaker 1: this game was that Kyra and Williams have at least

2000
01:42:03,640 --> 01:42:07,120
Speaker 1: twenty more yards rushing than say, Kwon Barkley. And right

2001
01:42:07,160 --> 01:42:10,160
Speaker 1: now he has twenty nine yards in Barkley as nine.

2002
01:42:10,560 --> 01:42:12,320
Speaker 1: So my mask says that's twenty yards.

2003
01:42:12,720 --> 01:42:14,639
Speaker 7: There's literally five minutes to go on the first quarter.

2004
01:42:14,680 --> 01:42:16,720
Speaker 8: Steve, I know, like I just I just want to

2005
01:42:16,720 --> 01:42:18,200
Speaker 8: point that out before you start.

2006
01:42:18,320 --> 01:42:20,559
Speaker 1: You know, it's not like I've ever gotten ahead of

2007
01:42:20,560 --> 01:42:21,480
Speaker 1: my sell.

2008
01:42:21,600 --> 01:42:23,920
Speaker 4: Not what I mean, Monty, in our entire time working

2009
01:42:23,920 --> 01:42:27,680
Speaker 4: with Steve, do you know him to over exaggerate, over embellish,

2010
01:42:27,960 --> 01:42:28,439
Speaker 4: or get.

2011
01:42:28,320 --> 01:42:29,040
Speaker 3: Too far ahead of it.

2012
01:42:29,160 --> 01:42:29,960
Speaker 8: Oh, just a smitch.

2013
01:42:31,439 --> 01:42:33,599
Speaker 3: It's like we're talking about two different people. Of course

2014
01:42:33,640 --> 01:42:34,040
Speaker 3: he does.

2015
01:42:34,120 --> 01:42:36,240
Speaker 2: You guys don't know me very well.

2016
01:42:36,920 --> 01:42:39,080
Speaker 1: You actually know me better than I know myself.

2017
01:42:39,280 --> 01:42:42,080
Speaker 8: Yes, that was your bold prediction. Let's chat again in

2018
01:42:42,120 --> 01:42:43,719
Speaker 8: about an hour and see where.

2019
01:42:43,560 --> 01:42:47,479
Speaker 1: We're did I preface by saying, and that's the way

2020
01:42:47,479 --> 01:42:49,519
Speaker 1: it would be with five minutes to go in the

2021
01:42:49,680 --> 01:42:53,000
Speaker 1: first quarter, say.

2022
01:42:51,080 --> 01:42:54,280
Speaker 8: That it would have been extra bold right there.

2023
01:42:54,960 --> 01:42:55,200
Speaker 3: Yeah.

2024
01:42:55,240 --> 01:42:57,880
Speaker 7: So the Eagles are losing by one point because they

2025
01:42:57,960 --> 01:43:00,800
Speaker 7: missed the extra point on their opening which was a

2026
01:43:00,920 --> 01:43:04,559
Speaker 7: Jalen Hurts forty four yard run that ended in a touchdown.

2027
01:43:04,600 --> 01:43:06,519
Speaker 7: He was also three for three in that opening drive

2028
01:43:06,560 --> 01:43:07,960
Speaker 7: for twenty five yards in the air.

2029
01:43:08,360 --> 01:43:09,400
Speaker 8: They missed the extra point.

2030
01:43:09,400 --> 01:43:12,200
Speaker 7: Then the Rams responded on their opening drive, Matthew Stafford

2031
01:43:12,200 --> 01:43:14,800
Speaker 7: connecting with Tyler Higbee for a touchdown. So LA is

2032
01:43:14,840 --> 01:43:16,519
Speaker 7: up seven to six, five minutes to go on the

2033
01:43:16,520 --> 01:43:19,280
Speaker 7: first Ley has the ball, and they just sat on

2034
01:43:19,320 --> 01:43:22,960
Speaker 7: the broadcast that when Matthew Stafford came off the field,

2035
01:43:23,000 --> 01:43:25,280
Speaker 7: he was grimacing, and when he sat down they went

2036
01:43:25,320 --> 01:43:27,759
Speaker 7: to talk to him and they handed him a heating

2037
01:43:27,840 --> 01:43:29,320
Speaker 7: pad to put on his ribs.

2038
01:43:29,880 --> 01:43:33,960
Speaker 1: Yeah, that was apparently when he ran for that first down.

2039
01:43:34,120 --> 01:43:36,559
Speaker 1: Now they show a hit that he may have taken,

2040
01:43:36,680 --> 01:43:37,400
Speaker 1: so so.

2041
01:43:37,400 --> 01:43:41,920
Speaker 8: He Yeah, he was giving a heat path a little bit,

2042
01:43:42,040 --> 01:43:43,400
Speaker 8: so something to keep an eye on.

2043
01:43:43,439 --> 01:43:43,600
Speaker 3: You know.

2044
01:43:43,640 --> 01:43:45,200
Speaker 7: If I'm the Eagles and I know we hurt him

2045
01:43:45,240 --> 01:43:46,640
Speaker 7: a little bit, I'm gonna try and hurt him a

2046
01:43:46,680 --> 01:43:47,200
Speaker 7: little bit more.

2047
01:43:47,280 --> 01:43:48,040
Speaker 8: That's all I'm saying.

2048
01:43:48,640 --> 01:43:51,200
Speaker 7: We still have another Divisional round game in the NFL

2049
01:43:51,280 --> 01:43:54,360
Speaker 7: later today Bills and Ravens. That kickoff is at six

2050
01:43:54,520 --> 01:43:56,360
Speaker 7: thirty Eastern and the winner is going to face the

2051
01:43:56,400 --> 01:43:59,360
Speaker 7: Chiefs and the AFC Championship game for that one. In baseball,

2052
01:43:59,360 --> 01:44:01,640
Speaker 7: closer Tenner Scott and the Dodgers are in agreement on

2053
01:44:01,680 --> 01:44:04,160
Speaker 7: a four year, seventy two million dollar contract.

2054
01:44:04,240 --> 01:44:06,200
Speaker 8: Yes, the rich get richer. In the NBA.

2055
01:44:06,320 --> 01:44:09,639
Speaker 7: The first game underway, Spurs have the early lead against

2056
01:44:09,680 --> 01:44:12,400
Speaker 7: the Heat. Twenty to twelve is the score late in

2057
01:44:12,479 --> 01:44:16,200
Speaker 7: the first quarter. In men's college hoops, Northwestern up on

2058
01:44:16,280 --> 01:44:19,720
Speaker 7: Number twenty Michigan forty eight to forty seven. Halfway through

2059
01:44:19,760 --> 01:44:21,760
Speaker 7: the second half, and with five minutes to go in

2060
01:44:21,800 --> 01:44:25,320
Speaker 7: the first half, Number eighteen Memphis is beating Charlotte thirty

2061
01:44:25,360 --> 01:44:29,200
Speaker 7: three to sixteen. Number twelve Michigan State stayed undefeated in

2062
01:44:29,240 --> 01:44:32,599
Speaker 7: their conference, extending their winning streak to eleven after defeating

2063
01:44:32,680 --> 01:44:36,320
Speaker 7: Number nineteen Illinois eighty to seventy eight, and on the ice,

2064
01:44:36,360 --> 01:44:39,320
Speaker 7: the Senators have edged the Devils two to one.

2065
01:44:39,360 --> 01:44:42,639
Speaker 1: Back to you guys, all right, Monci, thank you very

2066
01:44:42,760 --> 01:44:44,240
Speaker 1: very much, Red Zone Radio.

2067
01:44:45,920 --> 01:44:46,920
Speaker 2: Well, I'll tell you what.

2068
01:44:47,479 --> 01:44:50,080
Speaker 1: Early in this game, there's no doubt that Matthew Stafford

2069
01:44:50,120 --> 01:44:53,120
Speaker 1: has fallen in love with Tyler Higbee. He just keeps

2070
01:44:53,120 --> 01:44:55,960
Speaker 1: throwing him the ball. He's a tall tight end, he's

2071
01:44:56,000 --> 01:45:00,120
Speaker 1: a veteran tight end, and he's a mismatch. Yeah, And

2072
01:45:00,640 --> 01:45:03,080
Speaker 1: the Rams and a smart quarterback that are in quarterback

2073
01:45:03,120 --> 01:45:06,560
Speaker 1: like Matthew Stafford are going to take advantage unless the

2074
01:45:06,600 --> 01:45:07,920
Speaker 1: Eagles have a different play.

2075
01:45:07,960 --> 01:45:08,639
Speaker 2: One guy that has.

2076
01:45:08,680 --> 01:45:11,360
Speaker 1: Yet to catch a pass for the Rams is Cooper

2077
01:45:11,400 --> 01:45:14,720
Speaker 1: Cup and I would imagine, in fact, he has yet

2078
01:45:14,760 --> 01:45:17,960
Speaker 1: to be even targeted in this game, So you know,

2079
01:45:18,360 --> 01:45:21,640
Speaker 1: it's sort of nice to you know, know that. Oh yeah,

2080
01:45:21,720 --> 01:45:24,920
Speaker 1: by the way, I haven't forgotten he's here, a guy

2081
01:45:24,960 --> 01:45:28,439
Speaker 1: that won the Triple Crown three years ago in terms

2082
01:45:28,439 --> 01:45:28,920
Speaker 1: of receiving.

2083
01:45:28,920 --> 01:45:31,360
Speaker 2: In fact, one of the greatest receiving years of all time.

2084
01:45:31,479 --> 01:45:35,120
Speaker 1: Offensive Player of the Year Super Bowl MVP Cooper Cup

2085
01:45:35,160 --> 01:45:39,080
Speaker 1: had the dream season three years ago as the Rams

2086
01:45:39,160 --> 01:45:42,320
Speaker 1: ended up as Super Bowl champions. So right now they

2087
01:45:42,320 --> 01:45:45,120
Speaker 1: have a third and three, they are at their own

2088
01:45:45,600 --> 01:45:50,439
Speaker 1: forty one yard line, and really it's imperative for the Eagles,

2089
01:45:50,439 --> 01:45:53,280
Speaker 1: who had five sacks of Stafford last game, and they

2090
01:45:53,479 --> 01:45:56,240
Speaker 1: just sacked Stafford on third down. So I was just

2091
01:45:56,280 --> 01:45:58,519
Speaker 1: thinking about, well, that earlier game this year, we talked

2092
01:45:58,520 --> 01:46:02,680
Speaker 1: about Saquon and his big day, but equally big was

2093
01:46:02,720 --> 01:46:05,880
Speaker 1: the fact that the Eagles sacked Stafford five times for

2094
01:46:05,880 --> 01:46:07,640
Speaker 1: forty five yards and losses.

2095
01:46:08,080 --> 01:46:09,719
Speaker 2: And there's their first sack of the game.

2096
01:46:09,880 --> 01:46:12,639
Speaker 4: Yeah, and the Eagles they did it rushing only four

2097
01:46:12,840 --> 01:46:15,919
Speaker 4: So that does not bode well for the Rams upfront

2098
01:46:15,920 --> 01:46:19,560
Speaker 4: against his defensive line. You look a Jalen Carter, a

2099
01:46:19,640 --> 01:46:22,439
Speaker 4: guy who they were excited about out of Georgia, a

2100
01:46:22,479 --> 01:46:24,840
Speaker 4: big threat rushing over anybody.

2101
01:46:25,360 --> 01:46:28,439
Speaker 3: But it was just a simple et, which means.

2102
01:46:28,240 --> 01:46:31,320
Speaker 4: Your end comes crashing down on the guard and he

2103
01:46:31,360 --> 01:46:32,560
Speaker 4: did so successfully.

2104
01:46:32,600 --> 01:46:34,439
Speaker 3: And Jalen Carter is one of.

2105
01:46:34,360 --> 01:46:37,160
Speaker 4: These big men who can move so he looped around

2106
01:46:37,520 --> 01:46:40,760
Speaker 4: got to Stafford. It was within two seconds of the

2107
01:46:40,800 --> 01:46:45,240
Speaker 4: ball being snapped, So that was a perfectly executed defensive

2108
01:46:45,240 --> 01:46:46,679
Speaker 4: line stunt for the sack.

2109
01:46:46,840 --> 01:46:49,000
Speaker 1: I want to bring Bo in here for a second.

2110
01:46:49,120 --> 01:46:52,960
Speaker 1: He of course an interested party, his longtime allegiance to

2111
01:46:53,000 --> 01:46:56,759
Speaker 1: the Eagles and at times sudden allegiance to the Rams.

2112
01:46:57,600 --> 01:46:59,680
Speaker 1: What are you seeing so far? He's surprises for you

2113
01:46:59,760 --> 01:47:00,720
Speaker 1: so far were in this game both.

2114
01:47:00,760 --> 01:47:02,840
Speaker 6: I was gonna mention while you guys were talking. I

2115
01:47:02,880 --> 01:47:04,439
Speaker 6: don't know if he's on the broadcast, but Quiny and

2116
01:47:04,439 --> 01:47:06,080
Speaker 6: Mitchell is questionable return.

2117
01:47:05,920 --> 01:47:07,960
Speaker 3: For the Oh yeah, he heard his shoulder, Yeah, which.

2118
01:47:07,840 --> 01:47:09,240
Speaker 6: Is going to open up the passing game for the

2119
01:47:09,320 --> 01:47:12,040
Speaker 6: Rams if he cannot come back into the game.

2120
01:47:12,120 --> 01:47:15,439
Speaker 1: So yeah, So it's gonna be interesting here.

2121
01:47:15,800 --> 01:47:16,040
Speaker 3: You know.

2122
01:47:16,080 --> 01:47:17,040
Speaker 2: The weather's on the way.

2123
01:47:17,880 --> 01:47:20,040
Speaker 1: I feel like for both these scenes there's a sense

2124
01:47:20,040 --> 01:47:22,280
Speaker 1: of urgency, like, let's get our points now.

2125
01:47:22,439 --> 01:47:24,200
Speaker 6: If I'm the Rams, I'm doing everything I can to

2126
01:47:24,280 --> 01:47:25,960
Speaker 6: go up like a score or two before the weather.

2127
01:47:26,160 --> 01:47:26,920
Speaker 6: Yes kicks in.

2128
01:47:27,200 --> 01:47:29,720
Speaker 3: Yes, the winter is coming.

2129
01:47:29,400 --> 01:47:32,080
Speaker 1: In hinter is coming. A winter warning, by the way,

2130
01:47:32,200 --> 01:47:36,879
Speaker 1: so bad on the East coast. Tomorrow's inauguration day, President

2131
01:47:36,880 --> 01:47:41,479
Speaker 1: Trump will have his inauguration indoors. Not unprecedented. By the way.

2132
01:47:41,880 --> 01:47:45,960
Speaker 1: President Reagan's second inauguration was indoors with a horrific winter

2133
01:47:46,080 --> 01:47:47,920
Speaker 1: storm back in nineteen eighty five.

2134
01:47:48,120 --> 01:47:48,479
Speaker 3: Wow.

2135
01:47:48,560 --> 01:47:51,240
Speaker 1: So yeah, the inauguration, they're going to go deep here

2136
01:47:51,320 --> 01:47:55,240
Speaker 1: the eagles and it is oh wow, what happened there?

2137
01:47:55,800 --> 01:47:58,000
Speaker 10: That's gonna I don't know why they threw a flag.

2138
01:47:58,240 --> 01:48:00,479
Speaker 10: I'm gonna imagine that's a DEPI flag uless there's a

2139
01:48:00,479 --> 01:48:03,920
Speaker 10: push off. I missed what happened there because the hit

2140
01:48:04,120 --> 01:48:07,040
Speaker 10: was after he tried to make Smith went up for

2141
01:48:07,120 --> 01:48:10,120
Speaker 10: the catch and did not catch it. I think they're

2142
01:48:10,120 --> 01:48:13,839
Speaker 10: calling a personal bowel against the RUFUS.

2143
01:48:13,960 --> 01:48:16,640
Speaker 4: Yeah, they're they're gonna say that Witherspoon he put a

2144
01:48:16,840 --> 01:48:19,240
Speaker 4: shoulder into the helmet and he.

2145
01:48:20,920 --> 01:48:26,400
Speaker 3: Yeah, whether Witherspoon, it's into his helmet.

2146
01:48:26,600 --> 01:48:29,320
Speaker 4: Witherspoon actually he signaled, He's like, hey, I hit it

2147
01:48:29,400 --> 01:48:31,519
Speaker 4: with my shoulder. It's like yeah, but here's the deal.

2148
01:48:31,760 --> 01:48:33,720
Speaker 4: You get hit with a forum, you could hit with

2149
01:48:33,760 --> 01:48:35,920
Speaker 4: your shoulder. You get hit with your helmet. If you're

2150
01:48:36,000 --> 01:48:40,439
Speaker 4: aiming for defenseless targets helmet. Yeah, it's going to be

2151
01:48:40,479 --> 01:48:42,160
Speaker 4: targeting every time. Our personal fact.

2152
01:48:42,240 --> 01:48:45,160
Speaker 1: Boy, things have changed. Where's the Jack Tatums of the world? Man?

2153
01:48:45,160 --> 01:48:47,240
Speaker 1: When they used to dismantle those receivers.

2154
01:48:47,400 --> 01:48:48,320
Speaker 3: And here's the thing.

2155
01:48:48,240 --> 01:48:51,280
Speaker 4: Like this is this used to be part of Randy

2156
01:48:51,320 --> 01:48:55,559
Speaker 4: Moss's career, of some of the great old time receivers careers,

2157
01:48:55,600 --> 01:48:58,320
Speaker 4: which is when you when you run down the middle

2158
01:48:58,320 --> 01:49:00,840
Speaker 4: of the field, it might be Rodney Harrison waiting to

2159
01:49:00,880 --> 01:49:02,479
Speaker 4: take your head off. It might be one of it

2160
01:49:02,560 --> 01:49:05,640
Speaker 4: might be you know, back in the day with the Eagles, Dawkins.

2161
01:49:05,880 --> 01:49:09,160
Speaker 4: You know what I mean, Brian Dawkins, you were you

2162
01:49:09,200 --> 01:49:12,120
Speaker 4: were risking health going over the middle of the field.

2163
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Speaker 4: But those days are gone.

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01:49:13,400 --> 01:49:13,719
Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: You know, the legendary Lynn Swan, Hall of Famer, Super

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01:49:18,640 --> 01:49:21,200
Speaker 1: Bowl MVP of the great Steeler teams back in the seventies.

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01:49:21,200 --> 01:49:23,479
Speaker 1: He had a shortened career and some people say, well,

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01:49:23,479 --> 01:49:23,880
Speaker 1: how's he.

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01:49:23,840 --> 01:49:24,439
Speaker 2: In the Hall of Fame?

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01:49:24,479 --> 01:49:26,439
Speaker 1: He only caught some three hundred something past this And

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01:49:26,439 --> 01:49:29,640
Speaker 1: I'm always saying, first of all, he was dominant, Okay.

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01:49:29,880 --> 01:49:32,280
Speaker 1: The second is the reason his career was so short

2173
01:49:32,680 --> 01:49:35,120
Speaker 1: is that that guy suffered more concussions I think than

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01:49:35,160 --> 01:49:38,040
Speaker 1: any receiver. I mean, he was targeted so many times

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01:49:38,640 --> 01:49:42,200
Speaker 1: it's amazing. He even got nine years in the NFL,

2176
01:49:42,360 --> 01:49:45,320
Speaker 1: so much different game, and I have no problem with

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01:49:45,360 --> 01:49:48,080
Speaker 1: that and the protection of the players. So the Eagles

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01:49:48,160 --> 01:49:51,280
Speaker 1: right now have a second and ten after that fifteen

2179
01:49:51,360 --> 01:49:54,599
Speaker 1: yard personal foul penalty against the Rams, still in their

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01:49:54,640 --> 01:49:55,640
Speaker 1: own territory.

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01:49:56,360 --> 01:49:57,160
Speaker 2: But it's interesting.

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01:49:57,200 --> 01:50:00,479
Speaker 1: The Eagles are definitely looking to throw the ball and

2183
01:50:00,520 --> 01:50:03,719
Speaker 1: they should. In fact, Hurts is gonna throw the ball again,

2184
01:50:04,439 --> 01:50:08,000
Speaker 1: a short pass right there, so it's not just Saquon Barkley.

2185
01:50:08,080 --> 01:50:11,479
Speaker 1: Right now, Barkley has three carries for nine yards.

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01:50:11,600 --> 01:50:14,320
Speaker 4: Yeah, the game plan is, hey, we're gonna spread this

2187
01:50:14,360 --> 01:50:17,960
Speaker 4: football around in the first half, and they've targeted now

2188
01:50:18,080 --> 01:50:20,519
Speaker 4: Goddard a good amount toward the you know, close to

2189
01:50:20,520 --> 01:50:21,960
Speaker 4: the line of scrimmage. Uh.

2190
01:50:22,040 --> 01:50:23,479
Speaker 3: They obviously have handed the.

2191
01:50:23,479 --> 01:50:25,880
Speaker 4: Ball off to Saquon Barkley, but the QB run is

2192
01:50:25,920 --> 01:50:27,679
Speaker 4: going to be a part of the game. They're taking

2193
01:50:27,720 --> 01:50:30,840
Speaker 4: this inexperienced rim defense and they're saying, hey, look, we're

2194
01:50:30,840 --> 01:50:32,880
Speaker 4: not gonna be one trick ponies. If you came into

2195
01:50:32,920 --> 01:50:36,040
Speaker 4: the game thinking you were just gonna shut down Saquon Barkley,

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01:50:36,160 --> 01:50:37,560
Speaker 4: you got another thing coming.

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01:50:37,360 --> 01:50:37,760
Speaker 2: All right.

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01:50:37,800 --> 01:50:40,760
Speaker 1: The snow is beginning to fall, and now Barkley has

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01:50:40,760 --> 01:50:48,160
Speaker 1: brought a one off goodbye, wow, see you lateron Barkley touchdown.

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01:50:48,240 --> 01:50:52,160
Speaker 1: I mean he was not touched on that play, Sakuon

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01:50:52,280 --> 01:50:53,960
Speaker 1: Barkley Brettel's off.

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01:50:54,000 --> 01:50:55,439
Speaker 2: How far was that run there?

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01:50:55,520 --> 01:50:58,680
Speaker 6: That was seventy yards?

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01:50:59,120 --> 01:51:03,000
Speaker 1: That was sixty two yard touchdown run by Barkley. So

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01:51:03,320 --> 01:51:05,200
Speaker 1: again the first time he played the Rams, he had

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01:51:05,240 --> 01:51:08,960
Speaker 1: touchdown runs of seventy and seventy two sixty two yard

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01:51:09,040 --> 01:51:12,280
Speaker 1: touchdown run. So the two touchdowns for the Eagles Jalen

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01:51:12,360 --> 01:51:16,719
Speaker 1: Hurts forty four yard touchdown. Round. Now Saquon Barkley sixty

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01:51:16,800 --> 01:51:20,320
Speaker 1: two yard touchdown run. He was not touched.

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01:51:20,400 --> 01:51:23,760
Speaker 6: Yeah, that photo of Jared Versus trailing Saquon as he

2211
01:51:23,800 --> 01:51:25,240
Speaker 6: goes into the zone is going to do numbers in

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01:51:25,240 --> 01:51:26,600
Speaker 6: Philadelphia this week. We'll play you that.

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01:51:26,720 --> 01:51:28,960
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, this time the extra point is good. So

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01:51:29,000 --> 01:51:31,519
Speaker 1: the Eagles lead the Rams by a score of thirteen

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01:51:31,560 --> 01:51:34,519
Speaker 1: to seven. But it's just it's amazing sometimes when you

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01:51:34,600 --> 01:51:37,880
Speaker 1: see a play break like that. Yeah, especially when you

2217
01:51:37,960 --> 01:51:41,320
Speaker 1: have a feature back like Saquon Barkley. How it is

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01:51:41,360 --> 01:51:45,320
Speaker 1: that a handoff literally goes untouched. Sixty two yards were touchdown?

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01:51:45,360 --> 01:51:47,360
Speaker 4: Well, and here's the way they did it. So the

2220
01:51:47,400 --> 01:51:50,639
Speaker 4: Eagles are in a three by one formation. The one

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01:51:50,880 --> 01:51:53,240
Speaker 4: to the right side was Goddard, who was on the

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01:51:53,280 --> 01:51:56,439
Speaker 4: line of scrimmage in a three point stance as the.

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01:51:56,400 --> 01:51:59,040
Speaker 3: Tight end, and they got exactly what they wanted.

2224
01:51:59,320 --> 01:52:02,040
Speaker 4: So with the the Eagles, we're hoping for is to

2225
01:52:02,080 --> 01:52:05,720
Speaker 4: get four defenders for their four offensive blockers to the

2226
01:52:05,800 --> 01:52:09,120
Speaker 4: right side. This is the simplest play in football right now.

2227
01:52:09,160 --> 01:52:10,759
Speaker 4: It's called the inside zone.

2228
01:52:10,920 --> 01:52:11,720
Speaker 3: So you have got heard.

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01:52:11,840 --> 01:52:14,040
Speaker 4: He kicks out that man on line of scrimmage and

2230
01:52:14,080 --> 01:52:17,439
Speaker 4: then from right tackle to center, they just gather bodies

2231
01:52:17,479 --> 01:52:21,200
Speaker 4: as they're going into their zone blocking responsibilities and the rams.

2232
01:52:21,240 --> 01:52:22,959
Speaker 3: The only person left home.

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01:52:23,080 --> 01:52:26,479
Speaker 4: Was a deep safety whose heels were at fifteen yards

2234
01:52:26,520 --> 01:52:29,080
Speaker 4: beyond the line of scrimmage because this was a short

2235
01:52:29,120 --> 01:52:32,280
Speaker 4: yardage play and Saquon Barkley just burned by him. He

2236
01:52:32,400 --> 01:52:35,080
Speaker 4: literally waved to him on his way into the end zone.

2237
01:52:35,200 --> 01:52:40,000
Speaker 4: To peydrt Man, that was a beautifully executed, very simple

2238
01:52:40,080 --> 01:52:42,360
Speaker 4: run play. But when you have a special running back,

2239
01:52:42,360 --> 01:52:44,679
Speaker 4: those simple run plays can turn into home run balls.

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Speaker 1: Well, the Eagles had over three hundred yards rushing in

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01:52:47,160 --> 01:52:50,240
Speaker 1: that first encounter with the Rams. The Rams right now

2242
01:52:50,240 --> 01:52:54,400
Speaker 1: are holding the Eagles to just nineteen point two yards

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01:52:54,400 --> 01:52:57,479
Speaker 1: of carry. So the Eagles have been held to just

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01:52:57,880 --> 01:53:00,439
Speaker 1: nineteen point two yards per carry.

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01:53:01,120 --> 01:53:02,120
Speaker 3: Yikesikes.

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01:53:02,200 --> 01:53:04,519
Speaker 1: The Rams are gonna have to figure out something quick

2247
01:53:04,600 --> 01:53:06,759
Speaker 1: or this game could get away from them. We'll continue

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01:53:06,760 --> 01:53:09,840
Speaker 1: on with our coverage here this game obviously, so get

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01:53:09,880 --> 01:53:12,920
Speaker 1: you ready for well, the game that everyone's been talking about,

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Speaker 1: the Bills and the Ravens. This is red Zone Radio

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Speaker 1: all right, rolling along here on this huge NFL Sunday

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01:53:21,800 --> 01:53:24,360
Speaker 1: Red Zone Radio. We're live from the tire rack dot

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01:53:24,400 --> 01:53:25,480
Speaker 1: com studios.

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01:53:25,880 --> 01:53:27,160
Speaker 2: It is definitely snowing now.

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01:53:27,240 --> 01:53:30,000
Speaker 1: So the snow has started, and they said once it starts,

2256
01:53:30,120 --> 01:53:33,840
Speaker 1: it will not stop. The Rams answered back a big

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01:53:33,960 --> 01:53:37,519
Speaker 1: forty eight yard pass to DeMarcus Robinson. By the way,

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01:53:37,560 --> 01:53:41,639
Speaker 1: my daughter Paris also baby sits his daughter. I will

2259
01:53:41,640 --> 01:53:44,519
Speaker 1: say this, Rich, you know, you and I we we

2260
01:53:44,520 --> 01:53:46,480
Speaker 1: we work to provide for our families.

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01:53:46,640 --> 01:53:47,320
Speaker 3: Yeah, no doubt.

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01:53:47,680 --> 01:53:51,439
Speaker 1: But you want a good racket, and that's baby sitting

2263
01:53:51,439 --> 01:53:55,679
Speaker 1: for NFL players kids. Holy mackerel, I'm telling you you're

2264
01:53:55,720 --> 01:53:58,439
Speaker 1: talking about the tips are okay? I mean, you know

2265
01:53:58,520 --> 01:54:02,200
Speaker 1: word spreads. He's he's really good and this everything else.

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01:54:02,479 --> 01:54:05,439
Speaker 1: It's quite a deal for him. Kyrienn Williams. Now has

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01:54:05,800 --> 01:54:09,680
Speaker 1: taken the ball down about the twenty yard line for

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01:54:09,760 --> 01:54:12,240
Speaker 1: the Rams. So the Rams are answering right back. It

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01:54:12,320 --> 01:54:15,040
Speaker 1: is definitely snowing. You get a sense. Now, look at

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01:54:15,080 --> 01:54:18,840
Speaker 1: that snow. It is now coming down as promised, and

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01:54:18,960 --> 01:54:21,719
Speaker 1: they had warned that once the snow starts, it will

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01:54:21,760 --> 01:54:25,599
Speaker 1: not stop. It will continue on for the balance of

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01:54:25,680 --> 01:54:28,280
Speaker 1: this game. But that was a huge pass play to

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01:54:28,360 --> 01:54:31,720
Speaker 1: DeMarcus Robinson. Great call right for the Rams. You're like,

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01:54:31,800 --> 01:54:34,680
Speaker 1: oh man, she just shock Barkley runs sixty two yards

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01:54:34,680 --> 01:54:38,480
Speaker 1: for a touchdown. First play, let's go deep and DeMarcus

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01:54:38,560 --> 01:54:41,960
Speaker 1: Robinson under duress made a phenomenal catch.

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01:54:42,040 --> 01:54:45,120
Speaker 3: Well, he won at the high point of the football.

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01:54:45,280 --> 01:54:47,640
Speaker 3: That was an underthrown ball from Stafford.

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01:54:47,680 --> 01:54:51,120
Speaker 4: He made an amazing adjustment on it and he basically

2281
01:54:51,200 --> 01:54:54,480
Speaker 4: stole an interception and turned it into a reception for

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01:54:54,520 --> 01:54:55,880
Speaker 4: the Rams on the deep shot.

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01:54:56,360 --> 01:54:58,840
Speaker 1: All right, Cooper cup just caught his first pass of

2284
01:54:58,880 --> 01:55:01,440
Speaker 1: the game. So the Rams down around the ten yard

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01:55:01,480 --> 01:55:05,000
Speaker 1: line and the snow is now coming down.

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01:55:05,200 --> 01:55:07,720
Speaker 3: All right. It's the perfect temperature for snow.

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01:55:07,800 --> 01:55:11,520
Speaker 4: It's thirty three degrees outside it's just got I mean, it's.

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01:55:11,320 --> 01:55:13,040
Speaker 2: Gotta be thirty two to freeze.

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01:55:13,120 --> 01:55:15,040
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's gonna it's gonna stick.

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01:55:15,360 --> 01:55:18,320
Speaker 4: It's going to it's going to I mean, this is

2291
01:55:18,400 --> 01:55:21,320
Speaker 4: going to look like a snow game by the third

2292
01:55:21,720 --> 01:55:23,440
Speaker 4: by the start of the third quarter, it's going to

2293
01:55:23,480 --> 01:55:24,080
Speaker 4: be covered.

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01:55:24,200 --> 01:55:26,720
Speaker 1: Yes, all right, So officially the Rams now have a

2295
01:55:26,760 --> 01:55:29,400
Speaker 1: third and two at the twelve yard line. They're gonna

2296
01:55:29,480 --> 01:55:32,720
Speaker 1: run the ball and Kyra Williams has stopped Yep, okay,

2297
01:55:32,800 --> 01:55:35,760
Speaker 1: he gets stopped on that play. So what do you

2298
01:55:35,840 --> 01:55:40,000
Speaker 1: do here, Rich, I mean, fourth down in two? Do

2299
01:55:40,120 --> 01:55:42,640
Speaker 1: you just take the points make it a three point game?

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01:55:42,760 --> 01:55:45,040
Speaker 1: Or do you try to go for the first down here?

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01:55:45,120 --> 01:55:47,560
Speaker 1: I think the offense is coming out. They're gonna go

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01:55:47,560 --> 01:55:50,320
Speaker 1: for the field goal attempt here, Yeah, which I think

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01:55:50,400 --> 01:55:51,160
Speaker 1: is the smart play.

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01:55:51,280 --> 01:55:54,120
Speaker 3: Take the points on the road lost the rule of heaven.

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01:55:54,520 --> 01:55:57,640
Speaker 6: Yeah, I don't know. I disagree with this entirely. I

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01:55:57,680 --> 01:55:58,960
Speaker 6: go for it, I mean.

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01:55:58,880 --> 01:56:02,000
Speaker 11: On the road in philadelp Well, I understand what they're saying,

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01:56:02,040 --> 01:56:04,840
Speaker 11: but it just seems like, yeah, you just get a

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01:56:04,920 --> 01:56:07,760
Speaker 11: sense that scoring is going to be at a premium

2310
01:56:08,080 --> 01:56:11,400
Speaker 11: and now it's just going to come down to mistakes,

2311
01:56:11,440 --> 01:56:13,560
Speaker 11: the field goal attempt is good.

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01:56:14,160 --> 01:56:16,280
Speaker 1: So now the Eagles lead the Rams bay a score

2313
01:56:16,320 --> 01:56:19,879
Speaker 1: of thirteen to ten. So one weather suddenly becomes a factor.

2314
01:56:20,200 --> 01:56:23,800
Speaker 1: Is you know when you make mistakes, you know, it's

2315
01:56:23,840 --> 01:56:27,880
Speaker 1: not just about making big plays, it's.

2316
01:56:27,040 --> 01:56:28,800
Speaker 2: Like avoiding big mistakes.

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01:56:28,920 --> 01:56:32,440
Speaker 4: Yeah, here's the reason why I support the decision, and listen.

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01:56:32,480 --> 01:56:37,680
Speaker 4: I am completely willing to have the debate and maybe

2319
01:56:37,680 --> 01:56:41,200
Speaker 4: even be commenced otherwise. But you just watched Saquon Barkley

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01:56:41,280 --> 01:56:45,920
Speaker 4: rackoff of sixty sixty plus yard touchdown rush. You drove

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01:56:46,000 --> 01:56:49,640
Speaker 4: the field after really winning on a ball that was

2322
01:56:49,640 --> 01:56:53,520
Speaker 4: supposed to be intercepted just three plays ago, and you're

2323
01:56:53,560 --> 01:56:56,680
Speaker 4: facing a long two like that's a fourth and a

2324
01:56:56,800 --> 01:57:01,240
Speaker 4: long two yards. So if you get stuffed, you ignite

2325
01:57:01,360 --> 01:57:04,880
Speaker 4: the fans, and then the Eagles come onto the field

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01:57:05,240 --> 01:57:10,360
Speaker 4: filled with momentum. I'm just take the points in that situation.

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01:57:10,440 --> 01:57:12,720
Speaker 4: I know it sounds like the cowards way out, but

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01:57:12,760 --> 01:57:15,800
Speaker 4: the snow has started to fall. That changes the dynamic

2329
01:57:15,960 --> 01:57:17,760
Speaker 4: a little bit because all of a sudden the weather

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01:57:17,800 --> 01:57:20,360
Speaker 4: has shown up. I don't mind the three points, I

2331
01:57:20,360 --> 01:57:21,480
Speaker 4: don't mind the field goal there.

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01:57:21,560 --> 01:57:24,080
Speaker 1: Well, the problem for the Rams now moving forward is

2333
01:57:25,560 --> 01:57:28,440
Speaker 1: forty four yard touchdown run by Jalen Hurds where he

2334
01:57:28,520 --> 01:57:31,840
Speaker 1: was barely touched. Yeah, and a sixty two yard touch

2335
01:57:31,880 --> 01:57:34,720
Speaker 1: around by Saquon Barkley when he wasn't touched.

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01:57:34,840 --> 01:57:36,480
Speaker 2: I mean, you can't have any more of those.

2337
01:57:36,800 --> 01:57:40,839
Speaker 1: Yeah, hey, you know you take those two plays away,

2338
01:57:41,160 --> 01:57:44,640
Speaker 1: it's you know, that's easy. But outside of those plays,

2339
01:57:44,640 --> 01:57:47,160
Speaker 1: they have thirty one total yards. They haven't really had

2340
01:57:47,240 --> 01:57:51,160
Speaker 1: much else except two home run balls hit. So the

2341
01:57:51,200 --> 01:57:54,840
Speaker 1: long ball's killing the Rams right now. And you got

2342
01:57:54,880 --> 01:57:58,480
Speaker 1: he can't have that happen. And especially what's crazy is

2343
01:57:58,520 --> 01:58:00,760
Speaker 1: that Barkley did this a couple of times against them.

2344
01:58:00,800 --> 01:58:01,400
Speaker 3: The first time.

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01:58:01,480 --> 01:58:03,800
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, seventy yard touch and run, seventy two

2346
01:58:03,920 --> 01:58:07,960
Speaker 1: yard touchdown run. I don't know, Rich, I mean, you

2347
01:58:08,040 --> 01:58:10,920
Speaker 1: can't allow those kind of plays to happen. You gotta

2348
01:58:11,320 --> 01:58:14,000
Speaker 1: you gotta let you gotta make the Eagles earn it.

2349
01:58:14,240 --> 01:58:16,960
Speaker 1: If they got to grind it out, fine, give them credit,

2350
01:58:17,000 --> 01:58:20,640
Speaker 1: but just getting you know, long touchdown runs like that, No,

2351
01:58:21,320 --> 01:58:22,720
Speaker 1: that's gotta stop now.

2352
01:58:22,920 --> 01:58:25,960
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, like you said, without those those two runs,

2353
01:58:26,760 --> 01:58:28,480
Speaker 4: the Eagles have thirty three yards and.

2354
01:58:28,440 --> 01:58:29,480
Speaker 3: No touchdowns either.

2355
01:58:29,560 --> 01:58:33,040
Speaker 4: You know, it's like it's that's that's the name of

2356
01:58:33,080 --> 01:58:37,240
Speaker 4: this game so far, is the Eagles exploiting a RAMS

2357
01:58:37,320 --> 01:58:42,480
Speaker 4: defense that is over committing. They're over committing to Saquon Well,

2358
01:58:42,680 --> 01:58:45,440
Speaker 4: not Saquon Barkley necessarily, but in the Jalen Hurts run

2359
01:58:45,480 --> 01:58:49,720
Speaker 4: they did. Saquon Barkley completely froze the backside of that defense,

2360
01:58:49,800 --> 01:58:52,920
Speaker 4: even though there were two offensive linemen pulling front side.

2361
01:58:53,240 --> 01:58:55,680
Speaker 4: And then on the second play they over committed to

2362
01:58:55,720 --> 01:58:57,920
Speaker 4: the line of scrimmage. They had a lot of bodies

2363
01:58:57,960 --> 01:59:00,920
Speaker 4: at the line of scrimmage, but they were all able

2364
01:59:00,960 --> 01:59:04,520
Speaker 4: to be blocked because the Eagles have the numbers, and

2365
01:59:04,560 --> 01:59:08,120
Speaker 4: so you just leave a deep safety behind the line

2366
01:59:08,120 --> 01:59:12,040
Speaker 4: of scrimmage to handle anything that breaks through on a

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01:59:12,080 --> 01:59:13,000
Speaker 4: short yard it's play.

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01:59:13,000 --> 01:59:13,640
Speaker 3: I'm sorry.

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01:59:14,040 --> 01:59:16,720
Speaker 4: That's just not going to be good enough to stop

2370
01:59:16,760 --> 01:59:20,720
Speaker 4: a guy like Sakwan Barkley. So the Eagles defensively, from

2371
01:59:20,760 --> 01:59:22,600
Speaker 4: a scheme standpoint, need to adjust.

2372
01:59:22,760 --> 01:59:29,800
Speaker 1: Yeah, big kickoff return for the Eagles, some really sloppy.

2373
01:59:28,560 --> 01:59:29,960
Speaker 3: RAM forty four yard line.

2374
01:59:30,040 --> 01:59:33,600
Speaker 1: That was some really awful tackling by their special teams

2375
01:59:33,600 --> 01:59:38,600
Speaker 1: to allow them get at least ten to twelve more yards.

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01:59:38,680 --> 01:59:42,320
Speaker 1: It is definitely snowing now, folks, the field is turning away.

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Speaker 1: They're showing highlights from Barkley's big runs against the Rams

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01:59:46,480 --> 01:59:50,120
Speaker 1: at are very dry Sofi Stadium earlier this year, but

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Speaker 1: that is not the case. It's a white out situation

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01:59:52,800 --> 01:59:56,440
Speaker 1: right now in Philadelphia. So again, we've got a lot

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01:59:56,480 --> 01:59:59,640
Speaker 1: of time left here in the first half and the

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Speaker 1: Eagle are going to see what they do on this drive. Again,

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Speaker 1: two big plays have been it for the Eagles. The

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Speaker 1: rest of it has been pretty pedestrian, and now they

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Speaker 1: give the ball to Barkley barely gets a yard.

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Speaker 2: We're gonna have much.

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Speaker 1: More on this game, and yes we are gonna preview

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Speaker 1: the game coming up the game. We all anticipate it's

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Speaker 1: going to be a classic Bills and Ravens. This doesn't

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Speaker 1: get any better if you're an NFL fan. It's a

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Speaker 1: playoff day. Two tremendous games going on, Eagles, Rams later

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Speaker 3: All right.

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Speaker 1: So the Eagles have the ball. We're moving along quite easily.

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Speaker 1: Suddenly as the snow falls, they were handing the ball

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02:00:50,720 --> 02:00:53,440
Speaker 1: off to Berkley, and then all of a sudden, Jalen

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02:00:53,520 --> 02:00:58,400
Speaker 1: Hurts misfires, he throws a sideline pass badly overthrows, and

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02:00:58,440 --> 02:01:02,400
Speaker 1: then another coverage sat as the Rams get their second

2404
02:01:02,440 --> 02:01:04,920
Speaker 1: sack of the game. That's two sacks for eighteen yards

2405
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Speaker 1: and losses. These quarterbacks taking these huge losses. What happened

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02:01:09,160 --> 02:01:13,640
Speaker 1: with these quarterbacks understanding you can't take huge losses. I mean,

2407
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Speaker 1: you got to be able to get rid of the ball.

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Speaker 1: Throw the ball away, but Jalen Hurts eats it again.

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02:01:19,240 --> 02:01:21,280
Speaker 1: So the Eagles have punted back to the Rams, who

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Speaker 1: will start deep in their own territory.

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Speaker 4: Well, look, I mean the reality of that stunt was

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02:01:28,640 --> 02:01:32,440
Speaker 4: it happened fast. The quickest point, or I should say

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Speaker 4: the quickest route from one point to another is a

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02:01:34,800 --> 02:01:39,360
Speaker 4: straight line. And that's basically exactly what Eagles defensive end

2415
02:01:39,400 --> 02:01:42,160
Speaker 4: or I should say Rams defensive end Jared Vers did

2416
02:01:42,720 --> 02:01:46,680
Speaker 4: he set up the left or the right tackle slammed

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02:01:46,680 --> 02:01:50,000
Speaker 4: into the right guard with a looping defensive tackle around him,

2418
02:01:50,480 --> 02:01:54,600
Speaker 4: so that took the tackles attention away and he was.

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02:01:54,560 --> 02:01:56,200
Speaker 3: Able to get straight to the quarterback.

2420
02:01:56,480 --> 02:01:59,840
Speaker 4: When it happens that quickly, you almost can't blame the

2421
02:02:00,040 --> 02:02:02,640
Speaker 4: quarterback because the only thing he should do is take

2422
02:02:02,680 --> 02:02:05,960
Speaker 4: the sack or try to escape where he can where

2423
02:02:06,000 --> 02:02:08,480
Speaker 4: safety is. Otherwise he could throw a pick and it

2424
02:02:08,520 --> 02:02:09,600
Speaker 4: could be costly.

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Speaker 2: All right.

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02:02:09,600 --> 02:02:12,320
Speaker 1: So the Rams did a little trickery there resulted in

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Speaker 1: a pass play to Tyler Higbee, who fumbled the ball.

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02:02:17,800 --> 02:02:21,160
Speaker 2: And I think the fumble was legit because as.

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02:02:21,040 --> 02:02:22,920
Speaker 1: He was going down, he was on top of an

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02:02:22,920 --> 02:02:26,360
Speaker 1: Eagles player's body, so I don't think that his knee

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02:02:26,400 --> 02:02:31,160
Speaker 1: had hit and but the Rams did recover and no,

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02:02:31,320 --> 02:02:35,560
Speaker 1: he was not on the ground that is that was a.

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02:02:35,760 --> 02:02:40,240
Speaker 4: Yeah, So so fumble. It was a flee flicker te

2434
02:02:40,440 --> 02:02:41,880
Speaker 4: screen is what we're looking at.

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Speaker 2: Here, right work beautifully.

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02:02:43,400 --> 02:02:46,120
Speaker 4: Kyron Williams gets the ball. It looks like it's going

2437
02:02:46,200 --> 02:02:48,040
Speaker 4: to be a straight up handoff and then all of

2438
02:02:48,080 --> 02:02:51,720
Speaker 4: a sudden, he turns around, tosses it back to Stafford,

2439
02:02:51,760 --> 02:02:54,280
Speaker 4: who finds Higbee out to the right side, and he's

2440
02:02:54,280 --> 02:02:57,200
Speaker 4: got a blocker in front of him. Now, you're absolutely right,

2441
02:02:57,280 --> 02:02:59,600
Speaker 4: because he was still on top of a.

2442
02:02:59,560 --> 02:03:00,360
Speaker 3: Defense under.

2443
02:03:02,720 --> 02:03:06,360
Speaker 4: That was absolutely a fumble and the Rams are very

2444
02:03:06,480 --> 02:03:09,320
Speaker 4: lucky that one of their players dove on the ball.

2445
02:03:09,600 --> 02:03:11,160
Speaker 3: That's a heads up play because.

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02:03:10,960 --> 02:03:14,000
Speaker 4: Otherwise that could have been an absolute disaster for the

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02:03:14,080 --> 02:03:17,160
Speaker 4: Rams to trail by three with six point forty remaining

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02:03:17,160 --> 02:03:18,400
Speaker 4: in the second quarter.

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02:03:18,480 --> 02:03:20,320
Speaker 1: Yeah, and the play right after that was a near

2450
02:03:20,400 --> 02:03:25,320
Speaker 1: interception that was passed, that was thrown behind DeMarcus Robinson incomplete.

2451
02:03:26,160 --> 02:03:29,400
Speaker 2: The snow now is well whiting out the field.

2452
02:03:29,880 --> 02:03:34,200
Speaker 1: It is, as advertised, a steady stream of snow right now,

2453
02:03:34,280 --> 02:03:37,280
Speaker 1: and they say this will be continuing through the end

2454
02:03:37,320 --> 02:03:39,080
Speaker 1: of the game. So by the time we get to

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02:03:39,880 --> 02:03:41,840
Speaker 1: halftime right now, we got six and a half minutes

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02:03:41,880 --> 02:03:44,840
Speaker 1: to go in the first half. I would imagine when

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02:03:44,880 --> 02:03:47,440
Speaker 1: the teams come out for the second half, it's just

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02:03:47,480 --> 02:03:49,200
Speaker 1: going to be a blanket of snow out there.

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02:03:49,400 --> 02:03:52,120
Speaker 4: So and by the way, DeMarcus Robinson, to your point

2460
02:03:52,160 --> 02:03:55,360
Speaker 4: where Stafford almost threw that interception because it was underthrown.

2461
02:03:55,880 --> 02:03:58,000
Speaker 4: The only reason why he wasn't coming out of the

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02:03:58,040 --> 02:04:01,240
Speaker 4: break faster was because you almost slipped.

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02:04:00,880 --> 02:04:02,160
Speaker 3: At the top of his route.

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02:04:02,480 --> 02:04:04,040
Speaker 4: It looked like he was going to run the post

2465
02:04:04,080 --> 02:04:06,000
Speaker 4: and then he broke it off and he ran the corner,

2466
02:04:06,360 --> 02:04:08,600
Speaker 4: you know, So it was you know, it was that

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02:04:08,760 --> 02:04:10,720
Speaker 4: was the route concept he was supposed to run. But

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02:04:11,080 --> 02:04:13,200
Speaker 4: I mean, the field conditions are slippery out there.

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02:04:13,280 --> 02:04:15,480
Speaker 1: Yeah, right now, the Rams on a third down kiro

2470
02:04:15,560 --> 02:04:18,520
Speaker 1: Wims got blown up for a loss, so the Rams

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02:04:18,520 --> 02:04:19,560
Speaker 1: are now gonna have to punt.

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02:04:19,640 --> 02:04:22,720
Speaker 2: So again, going back to the Rams decision.

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02:04:22,280 --> 02:04:25,160
Speaker 1: To go for the field goal earlier instead of going

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02:04:25,200 --> 02:04:27,200
Speaker 1: for it on fourth and two, I'm with you, Rich,

2475
02:04:27,320 --> 02:04:30,919
Speaker 1: I mean, it is going to be tough sledding literally

2476
02:04:32,040 --> 02:04:34,960
Speaker 1: the rest of the way for these teams and their offenses.

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02:04:36,080 --> 02:04:37,880
Speaker 2: My concern with Jalen.

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02:04:37,640 --> 02:04:42,720
Speaker 1: Hurts is he and I Bo, I'm gonna have to

2479
02:04:42,840 --> 02:04:46,240
Speaker 1: defer to you on this and the oh wow wow Yeah,

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02:04:46,520 --> 02:04:50,560
Speaker 1: a fumble on the punt recovered by the Eagles, so

2481
02:04:51,240 --> 02:04:54,840
Speaker 1: it's getting a little treacherous. But how's Jalen Hurts throwing

2482
02:04:54,840 --> 02:04:56,200
Speaker 1: the ball under these conditions?

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02:04:56,240 --> 02:04:58,080
Speaker 6: That ball has to feel like a rock at this point,

2484
02:04:58,080 --> 02:04:58,520
Speaker 6: doesn't it.

2485
02:04:58,800 --> 02:04:59,800
Speaker 3: Yeah, Yeah, like.

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02:05:00,080 --> 02:05:02,480
Speaker 1: When when it gets cold, that slippery rock and that's

2487
02:05:02,520 --> 02:05:02,960
Speaker 1: not good.

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02:05:03,120 --> 02:05:06,760
Speaker 4: Yeah, from the perspective of a you know, a former center.

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02:05:06,920 --> 02:05:09,920
Speaker 4: When it's a cold game and you're trying to you know,

2490
02:05:10,120 --> 02:05:11,720
Speaker 4: like wrap your hand around the ball and get the

2491
02:05:11,760 --> 02:05:16,040
Speaker 4: normal traction or friction between your fingertips and the football,

2492
02:05:16,600 --> 02:05:20,360
Speaker 4: it's really difficult because the cold weather it stiffens up

2493
02:05:20,400 --> 02:05:24,520
Speaker 4: the leather. It makes it so that whatever gloves you're wearing,

2494
02:05:24,680 --> 02:05:27,840
Speaker 4: or if you're bare handed, you're not getting the same

2495
02:05:27,920 --> 02:05:31,720
Speaker 4: tactile field feel. Also, when when you're talking about sub

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02:05:31,800 --> 02:05:35,120
Speaker 4: zero temperatures, which which there were sub zero temperatures that

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02:05:35,240 --> 02:05:37,320
Speaker 4: kick off and they've come up a little bit as

2498
02:05:37,320 --> 02:05:40,520
Speaker 4: the snow has come down, you you lose feeling to

2499
02:05:40,560 --> 02:05:43,240
Speaker 4: your fingertips, you know, so you don't have as good a.

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02:05:43,200 --> 02:05:45,120
Speaker 3: Control over the football as you would normally.

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02:05:45,240 --> 02:05:47,880
Speaker 1: By the way, I'm going to make it emission, so

2502
02:05:48,600 --> 02:05:50,960
Speaker 1: you know, forty years ago I was working for the Raiders,

2503
02:05:51,080 --> 02:05:56,920
Speaker 1: and when you have an official NFL football in your hands, yeah,

2504
02:05:56,920 --> 02:05:59,680
Speaker 1: there are very few better feelings. I mean, the grip

2505
02:05:59,760 --> 02:06:02,560
Speaker 1: on that ball is insane. I mean you you you

2506
02:06:03,000 --> 02:06:04,800
Speaker 1: say you've had well, I've had, I've carried I had.

2507
02:06:05,200 --> 02:06:07,600
Speaker 1: You haven't had an NFL football. I mean, these are

2508
02:06:08,160 --> 02:06:11,760
Speaker 1: this is different level football, and I have to admit, right,

2509
02:06:11,800 --> 02:06:15,320
Speaker 1: now I would take a football home. You know, this

2510
02:06:15,400 --> 02:06:17,280
Speaker 1: is still when I was in my twenties and my

2511
02:06:17,360 --> 02:06:19,840
Speaker 1: buddies and I we would go because I just love

2512
02:06:19,920 --> 02:06:21,000
Speaker 1: throwing a football like that.

2513
02:06:21,280 --> 02:06:21,520
Speaker 3: Yeah.

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02:06:21,640 --> 02:06:23,400
Speaker 1: I have decent sized hands, so I got you know,

2515
02:06:23,440 --> 02:06:26,720
Speaker 1: I could really get a grip and just absolutely zip

2516
02:06:26,800 --> 02:06:28,920
Speaker 1: that ball and then my friends you want to catch it?

2517
02:06:29,000 --> 02:06:31,120
Speaker 1: Ah man, I mean the failing of the ball. But

2518
02:06:31,200 --> 02:06:36,200
Speaker 1: like you said, that whole dynamic changes with weather conditions.

2519
02:06:36,480 --> 02:06:40,400
Speaker 1: And you know, we talk about playing in snow, maybe

2520
02:06:40,440 --> 02:06:42,720
Speaker 1: not as difficult as a driving rainstorm.

2521
02:06:42,760 --> 02:06:42,920
Speaker 3: You know.

2522
02:06:42,960 --> 02:06:45,720
Speaker 1: The worst obviously is a wind, you know, when you're

2523
02:06:45,760 --> 02:06:49,640
Speaker 1: trying to you know, throw the football around. But slippery

2524
02:06:49,720 --> 02:06:53,520
Speaker 1: is slippery. That's and we've already in just in the

2525
02:06:53,560 --> 02:06:55,160
Speaker 1: last minute, right, we've seen a fumble.

2526
02:06:55,240 --> 02:06:56,560
Speaker 2: We've seen a couple of fumbles.

2527
02:06:57,080 --> 02:07:00,839
Speaker 3: Uh so fun and it was yeah by the Eagles.

2528
02:07:01,000 --> 02:07:03,800
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'll say this, Steve, like, so that's all the

2529
02:07:03,840 --> 02:07:07,840
Speaker 4: physical issues with just the ball alone, and then you

2530
02:07:07,960 --> 02:07:10,840
Speaker 4: broad in the aperture to include all the receivers who

2531
02:07:10,880 --> 02:07:12,680
Speaker 4: are trying to run their routes. And like I mentioned,

2532
02:07:12,680 --> 02:07:15,880
Speaker 4: on the DeMarcus Robinson route, he had to take like

2533
02:07:16,000 --> 02:07:19,440
Speaker 4: probably six more steps than he normally would, and they

2534
02:07:19,440 --> 02:07:23,000
Speaker 4: were longer plotting strides coming out of his break then

2535
02:07:23,040 --> 02:07:25,440
Speaker 4: he would typically. You know, you break down quick, you

2536
02:07:25,520 --> 02:07:27,680
Speaker 4: get out of that break in your route, and you

2537
02:07:28,160 --> 02:07:31,000
Speaker 4: provide a target for your quarterback. So the timing's off

2538
02:07:31,000 --> 02:07:33,560
Speaker 4: in the pass game, you know, unless you're running stop routes.

2539
02:07:33,600 --> 02:07:35,560
Speaker 4: But then you got to trust the guy is going

2540
02:07:35,640 --> 02:07:37,440
Speaker 4: to be able to stop at the top of his route,

2541
02:07:37,480 --> 02:07:40,520
Speaker 4: turn around, and if and if he falls down, you're

2542
02:07:40,520 --> 02:07:43,080
Speaker 4: throwing it to a defender most likely. So there's got

2543
02:07:43,120 --> 02:07:46,320
Speaker 4: to be that trust there. The conditions can have an effect.

2544
02:07:46,320 --> 02:07:49,960
Speaker 4: Now again, if it's extreme heat or extreme cold, if

2545
02:07:50,040 --> 02:07:53,440
Speaker 4: it's rain or wind, all of those are worse than snow.

2546
02:07:53,760 --> 02:07:56,520
Speaker 4: But snow still has a factor on the outcome of

2547
02:07:56,560 --> 02:07:59,360
Speaker 4: a game. And so this game in the second quarter,

2548
02:07:59,840 --> 02:08:01,600
Speaker 4: just the way it's being played is going to be

2549
02:08:01,760 --> 02:08:04,160
Speaker 4: vastly different than the game that we played in the

2550
02:08:04,160 --> 02:08:04,720
Speaker 4: first quarter.

2551
02:08:04,720 --> 02:08:08,640
Speaker 1: All right, So the Eagles after the punt start inside

2552
02:08:08,680 --> 02:08:11,120
Speaker 1: their own ten yard line and the first play is

2553
02:08:11,280 --> 02:08:14,920
Speaker 1: just a very short run up the middle by Saquon Barclay.

2554
02:08:14,960 --> 02:08:17,280
Speaker 1: I mean, if you're the Eagles right now, Rich, what

2555
02:08:17,400 --> 02:08:20,000
Speaker 1: are you taking some chances? You're gonna. I mean the

2556
02:08:20,080 --> 02:08:22,480
Speaker 1: Rams came out and threw that big ball to help

2557
02:08:22,520 --> 02:08:25,520
Speaker 1: set up that field goal to DeMarcus Robinson. Are you

2558
02:08:25,600 --> 02:08:28,960
Speaker 1: gonna take some chances? You got premiere receivers. What are

2559
02:08:28,960 --> 02:08:31,040
Speaker 1: you gonna do here? You got second and long and

2560
02:08:31,080 --> 02:08:32,520
Speaker 1: you're deep in your own territory.

2561
02:08:32,760 --> 02:08:35,120
Speaker 4: I listen, deep in your own territory. Yeah, but you

2562
02:08:35,200 --> 02:08:37,960
Speaker 4: still have the lead, and it's it's not a commanding lead,

2563
02:08:38,520 --> 02:08:41,720
Speaker 4: but but I would say get some passes out to

2564
02:08:41,760 --> 02:08:44,680
Speaker 4: the sideline, closer to the line of scrimmage because you're

2565
02:08:44,720 --> 02:08:47,240
Speaker 4: dealing with the Rams pass rush that has gotten to

2566
02:08:47,280 --> 02:08:51,360
Speaker 4: your quarterback twice in consecutive drives and has ruined the party.

2567
02:08:51,760 --> 02:08:54,800
Speaker 4: Ah man, the Eagles. I mean this is you can't

2568
02:08:54,840 --> 02:08:56,440
Speaker 4: have these unforced.

2569
02:08:55,920 --> 02:08:56,600
Speaker 3: Down my line.

2570
02:08:56,600 --> 02:08:59,440
Speaker 1: I got called for a Illiga procedure call there, So

2571
02:09:00,160 --> 02:09:02,960
Speaker 1: in back second and thirteen, dangerous time for the Eagles

2572
02:09:02,960 --> 02:09:05,560
Speaker 1: here because if you don't get a first down here,

2573
02:09:05,680 --> 02:09:07,720
Speaker 1: now you're punning out of your own end zone.

2574
02:09:07,920 --> 02:09:10,160
Speaker 4: And that's also a problem because you got to remember

2575
02:09:10,520 --> 02:09:13,720
Speaker 4: the kicking game is influenced by the cold football and

2576
02:09:13,760 --> 02:09:16,360
Speaker 4: the ball handling too, and when you're when you're when

2577
02:09:16,400 --> 02:09:19,800
Speaker 4: you're punning near your own goal line. You get into

2578
02:09:19,880 --> 02:09:21,520
Speaker 4: some real dangerous.

2579
02:09:21,080 --> 02:09:22,080
Speaker 3: Situations, all right.

2580
02:09:22,160 --> 02:09:25,560
Speaker 1: So on second down, Barkley carried the ball for barely

2581
02:09:25,600 --> 02:09:28,280
Speaker 1: a yard and he's pointing at the sidelines.

2582
02:09:29,280 --> 02:09:30,640
Speaker 2: Was he limping a little bit on that?

2583
02:09:31,280 --> 02:09:34,120
Speaker 3: You know what he may have been Let's see where now.

2584
02:09:34,040 --> 02:09:36,560
Speaker 1: No, he just seemed to be favoring the right leg

2585
02:09:36,920 --> 02:09:38,280
Speaker 1: just a little bit.

2586
02:09:38,680 --> 02:09:41,000
Speaker 4: It looked like, now, I don't know, maybe that could

2587
02:09:41,040 --> 02:09:43,120
Speaker 4: be his normal gait or maybe he was.

2588
02:09:43,320 --> 02:09:45,520
Speaker 1: Well, now you got third and fourteen from your own

2589
02:09:45,560 --> 02:09:48,080
Speaker 1: five yard line, So this is this is where things

2590
02:09:48,120 --> 02:09:51,200
Speaker 1: can get very very tricky. So third and fourteen from

2591
02:09:51,240 --> 02:09:52,200
Speaker 1: your own five.

2592
02:09:52,200 --> 02:09:54,120
Speaker 4: You gotta get off that. You have to move the

2593
02:09:54,120 --> 02:09:56,640
Speaker 4: football because you can't be punning from the endline. You

2594
02:09:56,640 --> 02:09:59,000
Speaker 4: get into the safety conversation.

2595
02:09:59,720 --> 02:10:02,000
Speaker 1: Yeah, this is a little screenplay and that's going to

2596
02:10:02,040 --> 02:10:02,840
Speaker 1: get a first down.

2597
02:10:03,080 --> 02:10:04,360
Speaker 2: Unbelievable.

2598
02:10:04,440 --> 02:10:07,440
Speaker 1: So the Rams backed up and they get the ball

2599
02:10:07,480 --> 02:10:11,480
Speaker 1: out to Saquon Barkley and on a little screenplay on

2600
02:10:11,840 --> 02:10:14,320
Speaker 1: third and fourteen, he gets the first down.

2601
02:10:14,440 --> 02:10:16,480
Speaker 4: Let me tell you why this was such a brilliant

2602
02:10:16,480 --> 02:10:19,840
Speaker 4: play called by the Eagles. Okay, so it worked, obviously,

2603
02:10:19,960 --> 02:10:22,520
Speaker 4: that makes you like it a lot more But here's

2604
02:10:22,520 --> 02:10:24,800
Speaker 4: the other reason. So what are you in danger of

2605
02:10:25,000 --> 02:10:27,560
Speaker 4: in the end zone? If a hold is called on

2606
02:10:27,600 --> 02:10:29,680
Speaker 4: your offensive lineman, it.

2607
02:10:29,560 --> 02:10:30,440
Speaker 3: Can be a safety.

2608
02:10:30,760 --> 02:10:32,920
Speaker 4: So what do you do you're near your own end zone?

2609
02:10:33,120 --> 02:10:35,800
Speaker 4: Run a screen pass because the offensive linement don't have.

2610
02:10:35,720 --> 02:10:37,280
Speaker 3: To block for very long.

2611
02:10:37,400 --> 02:10:39,480
Speaker 4: They give them an initial punch at the line of

2612
02:10:39,520 --> 02:10:42,480
Speaker 4: scrimmage and then welcome the rush. Then Jalen Hurts, all

2613
02:10:42,520 --> 02:10:44,480
Speaker 4: he has to do is connect with Saquon over the

2614
02:10:44,480 --> 02:10:46,680
Speaker 4: top of that rush, and you have got her.

2615
02:10:46,640 --> 02:10:49,040
Speaker 3: Leading the way from beautiful play design.

2616
02:10:49,120 --> 02:10:49,440
Speaker 2: All right.

2617
02:10:49,520 --> 02:10:53,280
Speaker 1: So the Eagles now picked up another first down, I believe,

2618
02:10:53,440 --> 02:10:56,480
Speaker 1: and we got two forty three to go. The clock

2619
02:10:56,560 --> 02:10:59,520
Speaker 1: is running right now. Both teams have their full allotment

2620
02:10:59,520 --> 02:11:01,880
Speaker 1: of three timeouts. Romani in this first half of the

2621
02:11:01,880 --> 02:11:05,800
Speaker 1: Eagles would love to get themselves into scoring position and

2622
02:11:05,920 --> 02:11:07,760
Speaker 1: add to this three point lead.

2623
02:11:07,840 --> 02:11:09,720
Speaker 2: But short passes.

2624
02:11:09,320 --> 02:11:12,560
Speaker 1: Right now, last couple of plays have worked beautifully for

2625
02:11:12,600 --> 02:11:13,160
Speaker 1: the Eagles.

2626
02:11:13,240 --> 02:11:16,040
Speaker 4: Stevens, That's exactly what I said when we started this drive.

2627
02:11:16,080 --> 02:11:18,480
Speaker 3: I said the Eagles have to keep the ball close to.

2628
02:11:18,480 --> 02:11:20,760
Speaker 4: The line of scrimmage. The rush is getting home and

2629
02:11:20,760 --> 02:11:22,960
Speaker 4: they're doing a perfect job of it. The screen pass

2630
02:11:23,040 --> 02:11:25,920
Speaker 4: to Barkley the little flare route to game. Well there,

2631
02:11:26,480 --> 02:11:28,400
Speaker 4: just keep the ball close to the line of scrimmage in

2632
02:11:28,440 --> 02:11:31,440
Speaker 4: the pass game, limit the rush, and get the Rams

2633
02:11:31,440 --> 02:11:34,560
Speaker 4: a little bit worried. It was a nice run play

2634
02:11:34,600 --> 02:11:36,280
Speaker 4: by game Will too. I'll tell you what as a

2635
02:11:36,320 --> 02:11:40,160
Speaker 4: secondary punch to Barkley. He's impressed me all season long.

2636
02:11:40,360 --> 02:11:43,600
Speaker 1: Well again, it just seems like the Rams are allowing

2637
02:11:43,640 --> 02:11:46,160
Speaker 1: them to get yardage here.

2638
02:11:46,240 --> 02:11:48,680
Speaker 2: I the Rams seem to.

2639
02:11:48,640 --> 02:11:51,360
Speaker 1: Have lost a little bit of their aggression. Will continue

2640
02:11:51,400 --> 02:11:53,920
Speaker 1: on coverage of this game. We've had to the two

2641
02:11:53,960 --> 02:11:56,920
Speaker 1: minute warning. Eagles up thirteen to ten over the Rams.

2642
02:11:57,000 --> 02:11:59,320
Speaker 1: Also get you caught up on the big matchup later

2643
02:11:59,320 --> 02:12:02,200
Speaker 1: between the Bill and Ravens. This is Red Zone Radio

2644
02:12:02,560 --> 02:12:05,720
Speaker 1: all right. Once again we are broadcasting from the ti

2645
02:12:05,880 --> 02:12:09,640
Speaker 1: raq dot Com studios. Time out on the field right now.

2646
02:12:09,640 --> 02:12:12,240
Speaker 1: We got thirty seconds to go in the first half.

2647
02:12:12,280 --> 02:12:17,080
Speaker 1: Eagles leading the Rams thirteen to ten. It's been a

2648
02:12:17,240 --> 02:12:20,320
Speaker 1: grind of a drive for the Eagles to get into

2649
02:12:20,400 --> 02:12:24,960
Speaker 1: Rams territory. Remember this drive started inside their own ten

2650
02:12:25,120 --> 02:12:28,000
Speaker 1: yard line. They're now at the thirty two yard line

2651
02:12:28,000 --> 02:12:30,880
Speaker 1: of the Rams, where a second and eight the snow

2652
02:12:30,960 --> 02:12:34,800
Speaker 1: continues to fall and right now, that looks like we

2653
02:12:34,880 --> 02:12:35,200
Speaker 1: got a.

2654
02:12:35,200 --> 02:12:36,120
Speaker 2: Sack a fumble.

2655
02:12:36,600 --> 02:12:39,120
Speaker 1: There's a fumble on the field and it is recovered

2656
02:12:39,120 --> 02:12:42,880
Speaker 1: by the Eagles, but a huge loss on second and eight.

2657
02:12:43,040 --> 02:12:45,960
Speaker 1: So Jalen Hurts gets stripped of the ball on the sack,

2658
02:12:46,280 --> 02:12:48,240
Speaker 1: recovered by the Eagles, and all of a sudden they're

2659
02:12:48,240 --> 02:12:49,120
Speaker 1: out of field goal range.

2660
02:12:49,200 --> 02:12:52,120
Speaker 3: Yeah. I hate that the Eagles keep doing this. I

2661
02:12:52,160 --> 02:12:52,600
Speaker 3: hate it.

2662
02:12:53,000 --> 02:12:56,160
Speaker 4: I think the script. Stick to the script that's working.

2663
02:12:56,560 --> 02:12:59,840
Speaker 4: The screen game, the short pass game, the run game

2664
02:13:00,320 --> 02:13:03,280
Speaker 4: is effective with both Saquon and Jalen Hurts. Get the

2665
02:13:03,320 --> 02:13:06,000
Speaker 4: ball into Gamewell's hands close to line of scrimmage, get

2666
02:13:06,040 --> 02:13:09,200
Speaker 4: the ball into in the passing game, into Saquon's hands

2667
02:13:09,240 --> 02:13:12,240
Speaker 4: at the line of scrimmage, or Goddard, let's stop like

2668
02:13:12,560 --> 02:13:17,200
Speaker 4: running these twins formations in deep routes. First and foremost,

2669
02:13:17,440 --> 02:13:20,000
Speaker 4: your offensive line is struggling to block the pass rush

2670
02:13:20,040 --> 02:13:21,880
Speaker 4: of the rams. So Jalen Hurts is sacked for a

2671
02:13:21,920 --> 02:13:24,720
Speaker 4: third time, and this time they almost coughed up the football.

2672
02:13:25,040 --> 02:13:28,280
Speaker 4: And secondarily, aj Brown just missed on the deep shot.

2673
02:13:28,960 --> 02:13:30,920
Speaker 4: I mean, these receivers are having a hard time hold

2674
02:13:30,960 --> 02:13:34,320
Speaker 4: onto football and so his Hurts, so stick to the

2675
02:13:34,400 --> 02:13:38,080
Speaker 4: short game. I don't understand what Nick Sirianni's doing. I

2676
02:13:38,120 --> 02:13:40,760
Speaker 4: think it's going to ruin this this game for them

2677
02:13:41,000 --> 02:13:43,280
Speaker 4: that they're currently leading right now.

2678
02:13:43,360 --> 02:13:48,600
Speaker 1: Al right, so there's three seconds left and that's third

2679
02:13:48,640 --> 02:13:51,120
Speaker 1: and twenty one. So they let the clock running down

2680
02:13:51,160 --> 02:13:53,880
Speaker 1: to three seconds for a hail Mary's what they're gonna do.

2681
02:13:54,560 --> 02:13:57,839
Speaker 1: So the fumble took them out of field goal range,

2682
02:13:58,240 --> 02:14:00,400
Speaker 1: So now on third and twenty one, they're going to

2683
02:14:00,480 --> 02:14:01,520
Speaker 1: run a hail mary play.

2684
02:14:01,560 --> 02:14:02,640
Speaker 2: You mentioned a J. Brown.

2685
02:14:02,920 --> 02:14:05,520
Speaker 1: He had what looked like a potential touchdown, but he

2686
02:14:05,600 --> 02:14:08,080
Speaker 1: lost control of the ball and by the time he

2687
02:14:08,120 --> 02:14:09,920
Speaker 1: got control of the ball, he was out of bounce.

2688
02:14:10,240 --> 02:14:11,760
Speaker 2: So that was the end of that play.

2689
02:14:12,080 --> 02:14:15,600
Speaker 1: So the Eagles interesting allow the clock to run down

2690
02:14:15,720 --> 02:14:22,320
Speaker 1: to set up a hail mary is basically what they're

2691
02:14:22,360 --> 02:14:23,120
Speaker 1: doing right now.

2692
02:14:23,320 --> 02:14:25,920
Speaker 6: You asked me earlier how I felt about Jaellen Hurts

2693
02:14:25,920 --> 02:14:28,080
Speaker 6: having to throw the ball in this game. I don't

2694
02:14:28,080 --> 02:14:29,720
Speaker 6: feel good about Jalen Hurts throwing the ball when the

2695
02:14:29,760 --> 02:14:30,560
Speaker 6: weather's perfect.

2696
02:14:30,720 --> 02:14:33,600
Speaker 1: I know you well, we'll see what they do on

2697
02:14:33,640 --> 02:14:37,560
Speaker 1: this hail mary play. It is the snow is coming down.

2698
02:14:37,720 --> 02:14:40,800
Speaker 1: I mean, when they get out for that second half. Man,

2699
02:14:41,360 --> 02:14:45,960
Speaker 1: that field is going to be absolutely blanketed with snow,

2700
02:14:46,000 --> 02:14:48,680
Speaker 1: all right, So we'll have one more play here and

2701
02:14:48,720 --> 02:14:51,040
Speaker 1: then we get to halftime. We're going to start digging

2702
02:14:51,080 --> 02:14:54,000
Speaker 1: in on that matchup between the Bills and the Ravens.

2703
02:14:54,000 --> 02:14:57,000
Speaker 1: So here we go. One more play here in the

2704
02:14:57,040 --> 02:15:01,640
Speaker 1: first half, and again under the these conditions, anything could happen.

2705
02:15:01,760 --> 02:15:02,360
Speaker 3: I'm anything.

2706
02:15:02,480 --> 02:15:05,120
Speaker 1: It's equally slippery for a defender as it is for

2707
02:15:05,160 --> 02:15:05,720
Speaker 1: a receiver.

2708
02:15:05,960 --> 02:15:08,440
Speaker 3: So I get it, I get it. I understand.

2709
02:15:08,520 --> 02:15:12,480
Speaker 4: Everybody gets a little greedy, and everybody wants a situation

2710
02:15:12,600 --> 02:15:14,840
Speaker 4: where they take a chunk out of the defense and

2711
02:15:14,880 --> 02:15:15,560
Speaker 4: maybe put.

2712
02:15:15,360 --> 02:15:18,560
Speaker 2: The Well, there's no Hail Mary because he got sacked again.

2713
02:15:18,520 --> 02:15:21,839
Speaker 4: So they cannot hold up against this Rams rush.

2714
02:15:21,880 --> 02:15:24,840
Speaker 1: So that is halftime. Jalen hurds four sacks, forty one

2715
02:15:24,920 --> 02:15:27,560
Speaker 1: yards and losses on those four seat sacks. Yeah, listen,

2716
02:15:27,680 --> 02:15:30,440
Speaker 1: that's a net twenty five yards passing a halftime for

2717
02:15:30,480 --> 02:15:30,960
Speaker 1: the Eagles.

2718
02:15:31,080 --> 02:15:32,880
Speaker 3: And by the way, Jalen Hurts did the right thing,

2719
02:15:33,120 --> 02:15:34,800
Speaker 3: you know what I mean. Don't try to.

2720
02:15:34,760 --> 02:15:37,360
Speaker 4: Heave it downfield or play hero ball here. The half

2721
02:15:37,440 --> 02:15:40,320
Speaker 4: is about to tick off the clock, you know, you're

2722
02:15:40,400 --> 02:15:42,240
Speaker 4: leading by three, so take the sack.

2723
02:15:42,320 --> 02:15:42,800
Speaker 3: I get it.

2724
02:15:43,240 --> 02:15:46,240
Speaker 4: But this offensive line is struggling up front to block

2725
02:15:46,280 --> 02:15:48,600
Speaker 4: the Rams for longer than a couple of seconds. Right,

2726
02:15:48,640 --> 02:15:52,080
Speaker 4: They're having a very effective pass rush up front. The

2727
02:15:52,680 --> 02:15:55,240
Speaker 4: downfield pass game is not working. You just tried to

2728
02:15:55,240 --> 02:15:58,280
Speaker 4: connect with aj Brown, as you perfectly stated, Steve, it

2729
02:15:58,320 --> 02:16:01,040
Speaker 4: took him so long to collect that football, even though

2730
02:16:01,040 --> 02:16:03,840
Speaker 4: it was almost all the way down to the one

2731
02:16:03,920 --> 02:16:04,560
Speaker 4: yard line.

2732
02:16:04,840 --> 02:16:05,400
Speaker 3: He couldn't.

2733
02:16:05,520 --> 02:16:08,320
Speaker 4: And so you waste it down throwing deep down the field.

2734
02:16:08,400 --> 02:16:11,240
Speaker 4: It's it's not worth it, especially when the run game

2735
02:16:11,360 --> 02:16:13,920
Speaker 4: and the short pass game has been so effective for

2736
02:16:14,000 --> 02:16:15,160
Speaker 4: the Eagles all game long.

2737
02:16:15,280 --> 02:16:17,920
Speaker 1: Well, Chris was one of those defenders of the idea

2738
02:16:17,960 --> 02:16:20,040
Speaker 1: of the Rams taking that field goal, and he said,

2739
02:16:20,240 --> 02:16:22,640
Speaker 1: it's gonna be a while before we see anymore scoring

2740
02:16:22,720 --> 02:16:23,360
Speaker 1: in this game.

2741
02:16:23,440 --> 02:16:24,960
Speaker 2: And we haven't seen any.

2742
02:16:24,800 --> 02:16:27,040
Speaker 1: Scoring Chris in this game since then.

2743
02:16:27,200 --> 02:16:27,400
Speaker 9: Yeah.

2744
02:16:27,720 --> 02:16:30,120
Speaker 10: Yeah, points and by the way it's coming down, points

2745
02:16:30,120 --> 02:16:31,840
Speaker 10: are gonna be a premium. I think of the second

2746
02:16:31,840 --> 02:16:34,360
Speaker 10: half is it always feels like when we get one

2747
02:16:34,360 --> 02:16:36,800
Speaker 10: of these games where we think like it might be

2748
02:16:36,800 --> 02:16:39,640
Speaker 10: a foot race, sometimes it just turns into this kind of.

2749
02:16:39,720 --> 02:16:43,320
Speaker 1: But but here Here's the thing, and I've heard many

2750
02:16:43,360 --> 02:16:48,039
Speaker 1: players talk about this, these conditions favor offense in this sense,

2751
02:16:48,760 --> 02:16:50,959
Speaker 1: is that they know where they're going. In other words,

2752
02:16:51,040 --> 02:16:53,360
Speaker 1: you know, the receiver knows where he's going. You got,

2753
02:16:53,520 --> 02:16:56,000
Speaker 1: you know, a defense backing up and reacting to it.

2754
02:16:56,280 --> 02:16:59,879
Speaker 1: One misstep and a guy could be off to the race.

2755
02:17:00,280 --> 02:17:03,080
Speaker 10: Yeah, it does feel like, you know, especially I think

2756
02:17:03,120 --> 02:17:05,280
Speaker 10: we saw it in the what was it the Cleveland

2757
02:17:05,320 --> 02:17:07,840
Speaker 10: Steelers game earlier this year, a little bit of slip

2758
02:17:07,840 --> 02:17:10,720
Speaker 10: and slide from the defenders. You kind of get this,

2759
02:17:10,879 --> 02:17:13,000
Speaker 10: and I believe there was quite a bit of you know,

2760
02:17:13,440 --> 02:17:15,879
Speaker 10: it's it turns into turnover city. But also at the

2761
02:17:15,879 --> 02:17:19,279
Speaker 10: same time, scoring opportunities just open up across the field.

2762
02:17:19,680 --> 02:17:22,600
Speaker 1: Halftime stats Matthew Stafford ten to fifteen, hundred and twenty

2763
02:17:22,680 --> 02:17:25,440
Speaker 1: six yards and a score, no picks, Very steady numbers there.

2764
02:17:25,440 --> 02:17:28,840
Speaker 1: He was stacked once Jalen Hurts nine to twelve, not bad,

2765
02:17:28,920 --> 02:17:32,000
Speaker 1: but just sixty six yards and again four sacks, forty

2766
02:17:32,000 --> 02:17:34,959
Speaker 1: one yards and losses. But how about this Eagles one

2767
02:17:35,160 --> 02:17:38,720
Speaker 1: hundred and seventy one yards rushing at halftime, Well, one

2768
02:17:38,760 --> 02:17:41,959
Speaker 1: hundred and seventy one yards rush yet halftime that's my pay.

2769
02:17:41,959 --> 02:17:45,400
Speaker 1: Eleven carries ninety four yards. Jalen hurts five carries sixty seven.

2770
02:17:45,680 --> 02:17:46,360
Speaker 3: That's my point.

2771
02:17:46,600 --> 02:17:49,680
Speaker 4: And that's the whole story here, Steve, is the fact

2772
02:17:49,760 --> 02:17:53,000
Speaker 4: that I don't know if it's Nick Sirianni is so

2773
02:17:53,200 --> 02:17:58,560
Speaker 4: worried about maybe the NFC Championship game against the Commanders

2774
02:17:58,760 --> 02:18:01,440
Speaker 4: that he needs to make sure that he's keeping his

2775
02:18:01,560 --> 02:18:02,720
Speaker 4: receivers engaged.

2776
02:18:03,400 --> 02:18:06,560
Speaker 3: I mean, like, why not do what works. One of

2777
02:18:06,600 --> 02:18:09,640
Speaker 3: my favorite things about playing in New England was some

2778
02:18:09,760 --> 02:18:10,560
Speaker 3: games Tom.

2779
02:18:10,400 --> 02:18:13,200
Speaker 4: Brady would throw the football fifty times and sometimes he

2780
02:18:13,240 --> 02:18:16,879
Speaker 4: would throw it twenty and guess what, we won a

2781
02:18:16,879 --> 02:18:20,360
Speaker 4: lot of football games. It's because whatever the game ask

2782
02:18:20,520 --> 02:18:23,119
Speaker 4: you for. If it was a weather game, we're gonna

2783
02:18:23,120 --> 02:18:24,520
Speaker 4: throw the ball close line of scrimmage.

2784
02:18:24,520 --> 02:18:25,240
Speaker 3: We're gonna run the game.

2785
02:18:25,240 --> 02:18:27,920
Speaker 4: We're gonna we're gonna major in the screen game and

2786
02:18:28,000 --> 02:18:31,039
Speaker 4: the draw game. You know, those delayed handoffs because if

2787
02:18:31,040 --> 02:18:33,760
Speaker 4: the pass rush is invited upfield, you can sneak some

2788
02:18:33,840 --> 02:18:37,840
Speaker 4: rushes underneath. All those things work in weather, all these

2789
02:18:37,959 --> 02:18:41,720
Speaker 4: deep passes, especially with Jared Verse backing the ball to

2790
02:18:41,800 --> 02:18:44,280
Speaker 4: talk that he did this week, having a field day

2791
02:18:44,280 --> 02:18:47,920
Speaker 4: in the backfield against your offensive line, What are you doing?

2792
02:18:48,040 --> 02:18:51,600
Speaker 4: It's like Nick Sirianni isn't watching the same game the rest.

2793
02:18:51,440 --> 02:18:52,279
Speaker 3: Of us are watching.

2794
02:18:53,080 --> 02:18:56,000
Speaker 4: Give the ball to Saquon Barkley. He almost broke the

2795
02:18:56,080 --> 02:18:58,879
Speaker 4: single season rushing record. Throw it out to him in

2796
02:18:58,920 --> 02:19:02,200
Speaker 4: the flats. Let Al Hurts run the football. What are

2797
02:19:02,240 --> 02:19:04,800
Speaker 4: we doing? If I walked into the locker room as

2798
02:19:04,800 --> 02:19:07,879
Speaker 4: an offensive line with the offensive lineman with the Eagles,

2799
02:19:08,080 --> 02:19:11,480
Speaker 4: I would give my offensive coordinator an earful I would say,

2800
02:19:11,560 --> 02:19:14,800
Speaker 4: what are we doing? We're throwing the football like it's

2801
02:19:14,800 --> 02:19:18,600
Speaker 4: early September in Miami. Could we please play football the

2802
02:19:18,640 --> 02:19:22,000
Speaker 4: way the weather is dictating it. This is a ridiculous

2803
02:19:22,320 --> 02:19:24,040
Speaker 4: game plan for Philadelphia.

2804
02:19:24,080 --> 02:19:25,200
Speaker 2: You mentioned Jared Verse.

2805
02:19:25,280 --> 02:19:28,480
Speaker 1: What a rookie season, right, made the Pro Bowl as

2806
02:19:28,520 --> 02:19:31,800
Speaker 1: a rookie, which is very rare. Two sacks by the way,

2807
02:19:31,840 --> 02:19:33,760
Speaker 1: in the first half for him out of Florida State.

2808
02:19:33,920 --> 02:19:37,400
Speaker 1: Began his college career at Albany. That's where he started

2809
02:19:37,440 --> 02:19:39,960
Speaker 1: his college career, and it up at Florida State and

2810
02:19:39,959 --> 02:19:44,520
Speaker 1: now first unbelievable. All right, let's start on this game

2811
02:19:44,560 --> 02:19:47,560
Speaker 1: coming up here between the Bills and the Ravens, much

2812
02:19:47,720 --> 02:19:50,080
Speaker 1: like this game between the Eagles and the Rams. This

2813
02:19:50,160 --> 02:19:53,520
Speaker 1: is a rematch, and just like the game earlier between

2814
02:19:53,560 --> 02:19:56,280
Speaker 1: the Rams and the Eagles that was one sided, it

2815
02:19:56,360 --> 02:19:59,120
Speaker 1: was even more one sided the match up between the

2816
02:19:59,200 --> 02:20:01,520
Speaker 1: Ravens and Bills. Remember this was when the Ravens start

2817
02:20:01,560 --> 02:20:03,680
Speaker 1: off with a couple of unlikely losses.

2818
02:20:03,720 --> 02:20:04,840
Speaker 2: They were stumbling around.

2819
02:20:05,240 --> 02:20:07,400
Speaker 1: They had a home game against the Bills, who were

2820
02:20:07,400 --> 02:20:12,600
Speaker 1: looking like dynamite early, and the Bills got annihilated thirty

2821
02:20:12,920 --> 02:20:15,960
Speaker 1: five to ten in a game where Derek Henry had

2822
02:20:15,959 --> 02:20:17,959
Speaker 1: one hundred and ninety nine yards. Remember we were like, wow,

2823
02:20:18,000 --> 02:20:21,600
Speaker 1: Derek Henry's back. He had an eighty seven yard touchdown

2824
02:20:21,680 --> 02:20:24,400
Speaker 1: run that It's a long time ago, but it was

2825
02:20:24,520 --> 02:20:25,240
Speaker 1: this season.

2826
02:20:25,400 --> 02:20:26,920
Speaker 2: It was I think a lot of people are just

2827
02:20:27,040 --> 02:20:27,920
Speaker 2: curious rich.

2828
02:20:28,400 --> 02:20:31,320
Speaker 1: You know, when you get lose to a team, okay,

2829
02:20:31,760 --> 02:20:34,920
Speaker 1: but when you get annihilated, especially when you think you're

2830
02:20:34,959 --> 02:20:37,520
Speaker 1: pretty good. I'm sure the Bills go into that game like,

2831
02:20:37,520 --> 02:20:39,720
Speaker 1: all right, Ravens are struggling a little bit, we're playing

2832
02:20:39,760 --> 02:20:41,959
Speaker 1: some good football, and then you get.

2833
02:20:41,920 --> 02:20:44,400
Speaker 2: Blown out psychologically.

2834
02:20:44,640 --> 02:20:47,040
Speaker 1: Is that something that can stay with you all these

2835
02:20:47,080 --> 02:20:49,640
Speaker 1: months later or is that long forgotten?

2836
02:20:51,400 --> 02:20:52,279
Speaker 3: It's long forgotten.

2837
02:20:52,320 --> 02:20:57,560
Speaker 4: And here's why, even though you're going to watch plays

2838
02:20:57,640 --> 02:21:01,080
Speaker 4: from that game because from a personnel stand point, you know,

2839
02:21:01,120 --> 02:21:03,959
Speaker 4: you want to view you know, how you played against

2840
02:21:04,000 --> 02:21:08,400
Speaker 4: their exact players. From the standpoint of scheme, you know,

2841
02:21:08,480 --> 02:21:12,400
Speaker 4: sometimes there's carryover from earlier in the season all throughout

2842
02:21:12,400 --> 02:21:12,920
Speaker 4: the season.

2843
02:21:13,400 --> 02:21:15,400
Speaker 3: But Steve, you know this as well as I do.

2844
02:21:15,720 --> 02:21:18,920
Speaker 4: So much changes in just a month in the NFL,

2845
02:21:19,440 --> 02:21:22,520
Speaker 4: let alone months. You know, you have injuries, you have

2846
02:21:22,640 --> 02:21:26,480
Speaker 4: evolutions of playbooks, you have plays that have sort of

2847
02:21:26,560 --> 02:21:29,080
Speaker 4: just been scrap heaped, you have other plays that have

2848
02:21:29,160 --> 02:21:32,680
Speaker 4: been added to the game plan. The the nothing is

2849
02:21:32,680 --> 02:21:36,320
Speaker 4: stagnant in the NFL, So you can only think about

2850
02:21:36,320 --> 02:21:39,320
Speaker 4: what's happened in the past so much because it doesn't

2851
02:21:39,320 --> 02:21:41,640
Speaker 4: really help inform you. And by the way that that

2852
02:21:41,720 --> 02:21:44,760
Speaker 4: pendulum swings both ways, same thing for the Ravens. You

2853
02:21:44,760 --> 02:21:46,480
Speaker 4: know you're gonna turn on that game film of the

2854
02:21:46,480 --> 02:21:48,879
Speaker 4: Buffalo Building you say, oh, wow, we're world beaters.

2855
02:21:49,000 --> 02:21:51,320
Speaker 3: We beat the Bills by But yeah, it doesn't matter

2856
02:21:51,400 --> 02:21:53,560
Speaker 3: right now. So so you you glean.

2857
02:21:53,440 --> 02:21:56,240
Speaker 4: What you can from the film in terms of personnel

2858
02:21:56,440 --> 02:22:01,880
Speaker 4: and matchups. If there's any holdover play the gameplay that

2859
02:22:01,959 --> 02:22:04,959
Speaker 4: you can you can sort of latch onto tenancies things

2860
02:22:05,000 --> 02:22:07,560
Speaker 4: like that. Sure you can look at that, but in

2861
02:22:07,640 --> 02:22:09,920
Speaker 4: terms of the score of that game, all that's been

2862
02:22:09,959 --> 02:22:13,480
Speaker 4: deleted because the postseason is a brand new season and

2863
02:22:13,520 --> 02:22:14,720
Speaker 4: that was so many months ago.

2864
02:22:14,959 --> 02:22:18,520
Speaker 1: All right, let's find out what is trending right now.

2865
02:22:19,080 --> 02:22:21,720
Speaker 1: All right, So my bull prediction is the loser. Okay,

2866
02:22:21,760 --> 02:22:23,920
Speaker 1: that's that's hello, Kyroon Williams.

2867
02:22:24,080 --> 02:22:24,800
Speaker 8: Second half the.

2868
02:22:24,879 --> 02:22:26,880
Speaker 1: Kira Williams runs for one hundred and fifty yards in

2869
02:22:26,920 --> 02:22:28,600
Speaker 1: the second half of is you never know.

2870
02:22:28,840 --> 02:22:29,440
Speaker 3: You never know.

2871
02:22:29,959 --> 02:22:32,240
Speaker 8: I'm going to break off a tackle and then run.

2872
02:22:32,440 --> 02:22:35,360
Speaker 1: I know my prognostication skills are weak, but I'm gonna

2873
02:22:35,360 --> 02:22:37,320
Speaker 1: predict he doesn't have one hundred si years.

2874
02:22:37,400 --> 02:22:40,760
Speaker 8: Yeah, no's that's probably a safe bet. But it's all right,

2875
02:22:40,840 --> 02:22:43,320
Speaker 8: it's all good. We'll see what happens in the second half.

2876
02:22:43,360 --> 02:22:46,560
Speaker 8: Now that it is snowing in Philadelphia, Eagles are on

2877
02:22:46,640 --> 02:22:49,439
Speaker 8: top thirteen to ten. Jalen Hurts.

2878
02:22:49,480 --> 02:22:52,080
Speaker 7: He has five carries and sixty seven yards and a

2879
02:22:52,120 --> 02:22:54,400
Speaker 7: touchdown on the ground. He's nine of twelve for sixty

2880
02:22:54,400 --> 02:22:57,640
Speaker 7: six yards in the air. Saquon Barkley, though eleven carries

2881
02:22:57,720 --> 02:23:00,680
Speaker 7: ninety four yards and a touchdown on the laid Matthew

2882
02:23:00,680 --> 02:23:03,400
Speaker 7: Stafford in the air ten of fifteen, one hundred and

2883
02:23:03,400 --> 02:23:06,600
Speaker 7: twenty six cards and a touchdown Kyron Williams nine carries

2884
02:23:06,640 --> 02:23:08,400
Speaker 7: for forty six yards.

2885
02:23:08,560 --> 02:23:09,320
Speaker 8: Still to come.

2886
02:23:09,360 --> 02:23:11,880
Speaker 7: You guys have trying to break it down the Eagles,

2887
02:23:11,920 --> 02:23:13,720
Speaker 7: excuse me, the Ravens and the Bills. Kick off is

2888
02:23:13,720 --> 02:23:17,400
Speaker 7: at six thirty Eastern time. There is a video of

2889
02:23:17,480 --> 02:23:21,600
Speaker 7: Zay Flowers circulating that he's running, but he's running straight,

2890
02:23:21,879 --> 02:23:24,000
Speaker 7: no like lateral, no pushing off, none of that.

2891
02:23:23,959 --> 02:23:26,560
Speaker 8: So we'll see. It's not expected that he's gonna play.

2892
02:23:26,600 --> 02:23:28,920
Speaker 7: But there is a video of video circulating that Zay

2893
02:23:28,959 --> 02:23:31,560
Speaker 7: Flowers is out there running and warming up in the

2894
02:23:31,680 --> 02:23:33,760
Speaker 7: NBA one game going on the heat or on top

2895
02:23:33,760 --> 02:23:36,200
Speaker 7: of the Spurs sixty four to fifty two, halfway through

2896
02:23:36,240 --> 02:23:39,600
Speaker 7: the third quarter. In the men's college hoops in overtime,

2897
02:23:39,680 --> 02:23:43,240
Speaker 7: Number twenty Michigan beating Northwestern seventy six to seventy three

2898
02:23:43,520 --> 02:23:46,480
Speaker 7: with about sixteen seconds to go. Northwestern has the ball,

2899
02:23:46,879 --> 02:23:49,320
Speaker 7: so we'll see how this one ends. Number eighteen Memphis

2900
02:23:49,400 --> 02:23:52,160
Speaker 7: is beating Charlotte fifty nine to forty three with about

2901
02:23:52,160 --> 02:23:54,000
Speaker 7: ten minutes to go in the second half. And number

2902
02:23:54,000 --> 02:23:56,879
Speaker 7: twelve Michigan State has extended their winning streak to eleven

2903
02:23:57,200 --> 02:24:00,560
Speaker 7: after beating number nineteen Illinois eighty to seven D eight

2904
02:24:00,879 --> 02:24:04,320
Speaker 7: and Yes, the Australian Open continues Novak Djokovic when it's

2905
02:24:04,320 --> 02:24:05,520
Speaker 7: fourth round match in straight sets.

2906
02:24:05,520 --> 02:24:07,640
Speaker 8: He is headed to the quarterfinals where he will face

2907
02:24:07,720 --> 02:24:08,960
Speaker 8: Carlos al Karaz.

2908
02:24:09,240 --> 02:24:09,360
Speaker 9: Oh.

2909
02:24:09,520 --> 02:24:11,520
Speaker 7: Last thing here that I'll tell you just something they

2910
02:24:11,600 --> 02:24:14,520
Speaker 7: said on the broadcast with Sakon Barkley. They had to

2911
02:24:14,720 --> 02:24:18,160
Speaker 7: wrap his left wrist, so he came out of the game.

2912
02:24:18,560 --> 02:24:20,879
Speaker 8: Had they tackled him. He was holding his hand.

2913
02:24:20,920 --> 02:24:23,039
Speaker 7: They took off his glove, they wrapped it all up

2914
02:24:23,120 --> 02:24:25,560
Speaker 7: and put his glove back on on his left wrist.

2915
02:24:25,879 --> 02:24:27,160
Speaker 8: It's just something to keep an eye on.

2916
02:24:27,320 --> 02:24:30,480
Speaker 1: Yeah, well he seems pretty indestructible to me.

2917
02:24:30,680 --> 02:24:32,840
Speaker 8: Oh yeah, wellh Gary's.

2918
02:24:32,560 --> 02:24:35,560
Speaker 1: Ninety four yards by the way, moncie, I'm gonna ask

2919
02:24:35,640 --> 02:24:38,640
Speaker 1: everybody this. So I'm watching the broadcast here they're showing

2920
02:24:38,879 --> 02:24:41,879
Speaker 1: Tony Dungee and Jason Garrett on the sideline talking and

2921
02:24:41,959 --> 02:24:45,039
Speaker 1: Dungee has headgear of when it's that cold, and I'm

2922
02:24:45,080 --> 02:24:47,680
Speaker 1: watching Jason Garretty as nothing covering his ears.

2923
02:24:47,760 --> 02:24:48,240
Speaker 11: Yeah.

2924
02:24:48,280 --> 02:24:50,600
Speaker 1: I don't know about you, but when I'm in really

2925
02:24:50,640 --> 02:24:54,520
Speaker 1: cold weather, My ears go quick the first thing, like,

2926
02:24:54,680 --> 02:24:55,880
Speaker 1: it gets painful.

2927
02:24:56,040 --> 02:24:56,960
Speaker 2: Yeah, painful.

2928
02:24:57,400 --> 02:25:02,400
Speaker 1: And I'm literally in pain watching Jason Garrett with his

2929
02:25:02,680 --> 02:25:05,760
Speaker 1: ears exposed in that cold weather in Philadelphia.

2930
02:25:05,920 --> 02:25:07,920
Speaker 8: Yeah, but you know, he's probably like power through. Probably

2931
02:25:07,920 --> 02:25:10,280
Speaker 8: he probably can't feel him anymore. There probably feels like

2932
02:25:10,560 --> 02:25:13,360
Speaker 8: just yes, they start aching, I know aching.

2933
02:25:13,560 --> 02:25:15,880
Speaker 7: I mean Sean McVay looked like he was just wearing

2934
02:25:16,160 --> 02:25:18,440
Speaker 7: a light little jacket, I know, And I was like,

2935
02:25:18,520 --> 02:25:21,160
Speaker 7: he has to have like electric heaters under that jacket.

2936
02:25:21,440 --> 02:25:23,200
Speaker 8: It looked like just like a zip up. I was like,

2937
02:25:23,760 --> 02:25:25,000
Speaker 8: how are you not freezing?

2938
02:25:25,160 --> 02:25:27,880
Speaker 1: I don't know, Rich, did your ears get cold? I

2939
02:25:27,879 --> 02:25:31,320
Speaker 1: don't know why my ears are so sensitive, but when

2940
02:25:31,360 --> 02:25:34,279
Speaker 1: my ears get exposed to really cold weather, it doesn't

2941
02:25:34,280 --> 02:25:37,119
Speaker 1: take it a lot for them to not like pain,

2942
02:25:37,320 --> 02:25:38,320
Speaker 1: like they're hur team.

2943
02:25:38,640 --> 02:25:40,680
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I'll say this.

2944
02:25:41,000 --> 02:25:46,000
Speaker 4: My ears in snow games cold games were literally the

2945
02:25:46,080 --> 02:25:49,000
Speaker 4: last thing I was thinking about. I was, you know

2946
02:25:49,080 --> 02:25:51,480
Speaker 4: what it was for offensive linemen. I'm sure every old

2947
02:25:51,480 --> 02:25:54,160
Speaker 4: lineman will be nodding in agreement to this statement. It's

2948
02:25:54,200 --> 02:25:57,400
Speaker 4: your fingertips. It doesn't matter if you're wearing gloves, it

2949
02:25:57,440 --> 02:25:59,920
Speaker 4: doesn't matter if you're not. It doesn't matter what you

2950
02:26:00,120 --> 02:26:04,279
Speaker 4: do on the sideline. Your fingers feel like shattering glass.

2951
02:26:04,440 --> 02:26:07,240
Speaker 4: Every time you lunch and you hit a face mask,

2952
02:26:07,280 --> 02:26:09,959
Speaker 4: a freezing gold face mask, or the side of someone's

2953
02:26:09,959 --> 02:26:12,280
Speaker 4: helmet or the chest place so the plate of their

2954
02:26:12,280 --> 02:26:15,840
Speaker 4: shoulder pads. It feels like your fingers are breaking every

2955
02:26:15,920 --> 02:26:18,440
Speaker 4: time you make contact with hard plastic or.

2956
02:26:18,400 --> 02:26:21,279
Speaker 1: How long does it? I mean when when you finish

2957
02:26:21,360 --> 02:26:23,400
Speaker 1: a game like this, I mean I want to tie.

2958
02:26:23,480 --> 02:26:26,160
Speaker 2: Like really cold weather, and obviously tonight.

2959
02:26:25,920 --> 02:26:28,400
Speaker 1: Is really gonna be cold. Yeah, I mean we're talking

2960
02:26:28,560 --> 02:26:34,160
Speaker 1: sub ten degree weather at Orchard Park. Do you go

2961
02:26:34,200 --> 02:26:36,880
Speaker 1: in a hot shower after the gate? How does that work?

2962
02:26:36,959 --> 02:26:40,320
Speaker 4: Well, you get in a hot shower immediately, and your

2963
02:26:40,760 --> 02:26:42,879
Speaker 4: body will light on fire.

2964
02:26:43,040 --> 02:26:45,280
Speaker 2: I was gonna say, right, So think of.

2965
02:26:45,240 --> 02:26:45,760
Speaker 3: It this way.

2966
02:26:45,840 --> 02:26:49,880
Speaker 4: Like imagine if you took your hand for three hours

2967
02:26:50,080 --> 02:26:53,440
Speaker 4: and you left it in an ice bath, right, Okay,

2968
02:26:53,520 --> 02:26:56,120
Speaker 4: and then the first thing you did is you turned

2969
02:26:56,160 --> 02:26:58,400
Speaker 4: on like one hundred and two degree one hundred and

2970
02:26:58,440 --> 02:27:01,680
Speaker 4: four degree shower and you put that hand in that shower.

2971
02:27:01,720 --> 02:27:04,720
Speaker 4: All of those nerves would be so deadened and numb

2972
02:27:05,400 --> 02:27:09,400
Speaker 4: as they wake up, it feels like a million needles

2973
02:27:09,480 --> 02:27:12,039
Speaker 4: poking at them. It's not good for you. So what

2974
02:27:12,120 --> 02:27:17,000
Speaker 4: you do This sounds counterintuitive, but after a game like that,

2975
02:27:17,120 --> 02:27:20,160
Speaker 4: like in Orchard Park later on tonight between Baltimore and Buffalo,

2976
02:27:20,680 --> 02:27:22,400
Speaker 4: you go into the shower and you turn it on

2977
02:27:22,520 --> 02:27:25,840
Speaker 4: cold because even though the water temp is going to

2978
02:27:25,920 --> 02:27:30,320
Speaker 4: be like, I don't know, say forty five to fifty degrees,

2979
02:27:30,520 --> 02:27:33,320
Speaker 4: it'll be tap cold, it's still going to be so

2980
02:27:33,520 --> 02:27:36,760
Speaker 4: much warmer than the temperature you're coming out of that

2981
02:27:36,879 --> 02:27:38,959
Speaker 4: it's going to feel like you're in a warm shower.

2982
02:27:39,240 --> 02:27:41,440
Speaker 3: And then you gradually, I'm not even.

2983
02:27:41,320 --> 02:27:44,800
Speaker 4: Kidding, this is whateverthing makes sense, You gradually increase the

2984
02:27:44,800 --> 02:27:47,000
Speaker 4: temperature of the shower until your.

2985
02:27:46,879 --> 02:27:52,040
Speaker 3: Nerves stop barking. But it takes you hours to feel

2986
02:27:52,040 --> 02:27:52,760
Speaker 3: better after that.

2987
02:27:52,879 --> 02:27:55,480
Speaker 1: Hey, don't forget after Our shower podcast is going episode.

2988
02:27:55,480 --> 02:27:57,680
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2989
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2990
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2992
02:28:06,080 --> 02:28:07,240
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2993
02:28:07,320 --> 02:28:08,720
Speaker 2: Right after we get off the air.

2994
02:28:08,879 --> 02:28:11,080
Speaker 1: We were talking about Derreck Henry going off for one

2995
02:28:11,120 --> 02:28:14,800
Speaker 1: hundred and ninety nine yards against the Bills earlier this year.

2996
02:28:14,959 --> 02:28:18,480
Speaker 1: Here's an interesting set about Derrick Henry. So he's had

2997
02:28:18,560 --> 02:28:21,440
Speaker 1: eight playoff games in his career, and he's had at

2998
02:28:21,520 --> 02:28:25,200
Speaker 1: least one hundred and fifty yards rushing in four of

2999
02:28:25,280 --> 02:28:29,320
Speaker 1: those eight games, one fifty. In fact, the only other

3000
02:28:29,400 --> 02:28:32,000
Speaker 1: running back who's ever had four to one hundred and

3001
02:28:32,080 --> 02:28:38,480
Speaker 1: fifty yard postseason rushing days is Terrell Davis, Which is

3002
02:28:38,520 --> 02:28:41,720
Speaker 1: why Terrell Davis, in a very shortened career, was able

3003
02:28:41,760 --> 02:28:44,760
Speaker 1: to still, i think rightfully so earn his place in

3004
02:28:44,800 --> 02:28:49,879
Speaker 1: the Pro Football Hall of Fame in Canton. So, you know,

3005
02:28:50,160 --> 02:28:52,080
Speaker 1: we look when we look at this game between the

3006
02:28:52,160 --> 02:28:54,800
Speaker 1: Ravens and Bills, and by the way, both these teams

3007
02:28:54,840 --> 02:28:58,280
Speaker 1: have just had so many bitter disappointments. Remember both these

3008
02:28:58,320 --> 02:29:02,560
Speaker 1: teams had home games against Mahomes and the Chiefs and

3009
02:29:02,600 --> 02:29:06,200
Speaker 1: they both lost, and it was like that was their year, right,

3010
02:29:06,240 --> 02:29:07,880
Speaker 1: the Chiefs are going to have to hit the road,

3011
02:29:08,520 --> 02:29:11,240
Speaker 1: and they go to Buffalo and they win. They go

3012
02:29:11,280 --> 02:29:13,680
Speaker 1: to Baltimore and what you and I agree was one

3013
02:29:13,680 --> 02:29:16,600
Speaker 1: of the worst offensive game plans for a team in

3014
02:29:16,800 --> 02:29:19,640
Speaker 1: NFL playoff history. I don't know what the Ravens were thinking,

3015
02:29:20,200 --> 02:29:22,959
Speaker 1: you know, having Lamar Jackson in a one score game,

3016
02:29:23,000 --> 02:29:25,000
Speaker 1: throw with the ball what forty times? It was crazy.

3017
02:29:25,000 --> 02:29:26,440
Speaker 1: He didn't make any sense at all.

3018
02:29:28,040 --> 02:29:28,840
Speaker 3: But you know.

3019
02:29:30,680 --> 02:29:35,480
Speaker 1: There's a feeling by many as the Chiefs now will

3020
02:29:35,520 --> 02:29:37,800
Speaker 1: sit at home waiting for the winner of this game,

3021
02:29:38,680 --> 02:29:43,680
Speaker 1: that not only the battle between these two really good

3022
02:29:43,680 --> 02:29:46,680
Speaker 1: football teams is going to be fierce enough, but then

3023
02:29:46,760 --> 02:29:49,080
Speaker 1: you add the weather elements of what they're going to

3024
02:29:49,160 --> 02:29:54,160
Speaker 1: have to battle through. Whichever team survives this game, what

3025
02:29:54,280 --> 02:29:57,160
Speaker 1: kind of condition are they going to be in when

3026
02:29:57,160 --> 02:29:58,680
Speaker 1: they head to Kansas City next week?

3027
02:30:00,240 --> 02:30:06,240
Speaker 4: Man, I'll say this, whoever survives this game is going

3028
02:30:06,280 --> 02:30:08,200
Speaker 4: to be war beaten.

3029
02:30:08,480 --> 02:30:09,879
Speaker 3: Oh there's no question.

3030
02:30:10,360 --> 02:30:13,000
Speaker 4: I mean, you're you're going to You're going to have

3031
02:30:13,120 --> 02:30:14,280
Speaker 4: to survive this game.

3032
02:30:14,680 --> 02:30:15,760
Speaker 3: I mean that's the truth.

3033
02:30:16,480 --> 02:30:20,600
Speaker 4: So whatever version of the Baltimore Ravens or the Buffalo

3034
02:30:20,640 --> 02:30:23,520
Speaker 4: Bills the Chiefs are getting to see at home in

3035
02:30:23,640 --> 02:30:27,920
Speaker 4: Kansas City for the AFC Championship game is probably going

3036
02:30:28,000 --> 02:30:30,840
Speaker 4: to be one that's that's been through an emotional victory

3037
02:30:31,360 --> 02:30:35,119
Speaker 4: and extreme temperatures and all the things that we've already

3038
02:30:35,200 --> 02:30:39,000
Speaker 4: talked about about that. So it's look, the Chiefs are

3039
02:30:39,000 --> 02:30:41,400
Speaker 4: in a favorable position again, I.

3040
02:30:41,360 --> 02:30:42,160
Speaker 3: Mean they hardly are.

3041
02:30:42,200 --> 02:30:44,640
Speaker 1: Steve, you really are, I mean, because like I said,

3042
02:30:44,680 --> 02:30:48,160
Speaker 1: like you say, I one hundred percent agree. Whoever survives

3043
02:30:48,160 --> 02:30:51,360
Speaker 1: this game between the Ravens and Bills tona evil, I mean,

3044
02:30:51,560 --> 02:30:53,920
Speaker 1: is going to be messed up, all right. Second half

3045
02:30:53,959 --> 02:30:57,360
Speaker 1: is underway. Rams try a deep ball to Cooper Cup

3046
02:30:57,360 --> 02:31:01,000
Speaker 1: on the sidelines and it wasn't even close. That was

3047
02:31:01,959 --> 02:31:04,160
Speaker 1: not a close call. So the Rams try to come

3048
02:31:04,160 --> 02:31:05,800
Speaker 1: out throwing the ball. Let's see what they try to

3049
02:31:05,840 --> 02:31:07,680
Speaker 1: do now. They hand the ball off to Kyra Williams

3050
02:31:07,720 --> 02:31:10,240
Speaker 1: gets very little up the middle. By the way, that

3051
02:31:10,280 --> 02:31:14,280
Speaker 1: game later on between the Ravens and Bills, with such

3052
02:31:14,320 --> 02:31:18,640
Speaker 1: severe weather conditions could come down to a kicking game.

3053
02:31:19,040 --> 02:31:21,879
Speaker 1: And the bad news is, you know Tyler Bass and

3054
02:31:21,920 --> 02:31:24,440
Speaker 1: obviously Justin Tucker, who's one of the greatest kickers in

3055
02:31:24,480 --> 02:31:26,520
Speaker 1: the history of the NFL, NEI that one of them

3056
02:31:26,560 --> 02:31:27,280
Speaker 1: had a good year.

3057
02:31:28,160 --> 02:31:28,480
Speaker 3: Tucker.

3058
02:31:28,640 --> 02:31:32,600
Speaker 1: Tucker really struggled and Bass miss five extra points this year.

3059
02:31:33,480 --> 02:31:37,840
Speaker 1: When so when you have two struggling kickers and then

3060
02:31:37,879 --> 02:31:41,760
Speaker 1: you tack on really bad weather conditions and then it

3061
02:31:41,840 --> 02:31:44,640
Speaker 1: comes down to decision time late in the game, you

3062
02:31:44,720 --> 02:31:46,320
Speaker 1: go for the field goal. Here, what are we're going

3063
02:31:46,400 --> 02:31:48,880
Speaker 1: to do that could be a big play in this game.

3064
02:31:48,879 --> 02:31:51,000
Speaker 1: All right, third down for the Rams and it's going

3065
02:31:51,080 --> 02:31:53,960
Speaker 1: to come up short of the first down. So Rams

3066
02:31:54,000 --> 02:31:56,280
Speaker 1: opening drive of the second half and they are going

3067
02:31:56,320 --> 02:31:58,520
Speaker 1: to have to punt the ball away. And you just

3068
02:31:58,600 --> 02:32:00,520
Speaker 1: get a sense with the rest of this game between

3069
02:32:00,520 --> 02:32:04,920
Speaker 1: the Rams and the Eagles, rich again avoid the big mistake.

3070
02:32:05,240 --> 02:32:09,040
Speaker 4: Yeah, And to be perfectly honest with you, I'm I'm

3071
02:32:09,120 --> 02:32:13,400
Speaker 4: liking the way the Eagles are playing defense. They're giving

3072
02:32:13,440 --> 02:32:16,520
Speaker 4: the Rams enough room in the in the past game,

3073
02:32:17,040 --> 02:32:19,400
Speaker 4: you know, to They're keeping everything in front of them.

3074
02:32:19,879 --> 02:32:23,640
Speaker 4: And the only thing I would clean up is, look, yeah,

3075
02:32:23,680 --> 02:32:26,360
Speaker 4: two home run shots that you gave up to Saquon

3076
02:32:26,440 --> 02:32:30,160
Speaker 4: Barkley and to Jalen Hurts. You cannot over commit now

3077
02:32:30,320 --> 02:32:32,560
Speaker 4: too many bodies to line of scrimmage because if you

3078
02:32:32,600 --> 02:32:35,360
Speaker 4: do that and you get sucked up close within that

3079
02:32:35,440 --> 02:32:38,640
Speaker 4: five yard box, all takes is one broken tackle and

3080
02:32:38,800 --> 02:32:40,760
Speaker 4: either one of those two players can beat.

3081
02:32:40,560 --> 02:32:41,800
Speaker 3: You, especially Saquon.

3082
02:32:42,200 --> 02:32:44,320
Speaker 4: So you got to play the line of scrimmage a

3083
02:32:44,360 --> 02:32:47,080
Speaker 4: little bit more honest than they've been. But I like,

3084
02:32:47,280 --> 02:32:51,160
Speaker 4: I like overall the way excuse me, yeah, the way

3085
02:32:51,200 --> 02:32:55,160
Speaker 4: the the the Eagles are playing defense against the Rams.

3086
02:32:55,160 --> 02:32:57,240
Speaker 4: They're keeping Cup and Puka Nuku in front of them.

3087
02:32:57,240 --> 02:32:59,800
Speaker 4: I got confused. They're talking about the Eagles offense, but

3088
02:32:59,840 --> 02:33:04,360
Speaker 4: I like that. And then conversely, outside of the big plays,

3089
02:33:04,959 --> 02:33:07,120
Speaker 4: I just explained it though. I like what the Rams

3090
02:33:07,120 --> 02:33:10,000
Speaker 4: are doing. They just have to be more buttoned up.

3091
02:33:10,320 --> 02:33:12,480
Speaker 4: When Hurtz has the football in his hand and it's

3092
02:33:12,480 --> 02:33:16,120
Speaker 4: a playing qb run or Sakwan Barkley has an opportunity

3093
02:33:16,160 --> 02:33:18,520
Speaker 4: to break one tackle, because he'll break one tackle and.

3094
02:33:18,480 --> 02:33:19,959
Speaker 3: Make you pay all the way downfield.

3095
02:33:20,080 --> 02:33:22,959
Speaker 1: Yeah, right now in a three point game, do not

3096
02:33:23,000 --> 02:33:24,600
Speaker 1: take any unnecessary chances.

3097
02:33:24,959 --> 02:33:26,800
Speaker 3: Just don't do that.

3098
02:33:27,400 --> 02:33:29,760
Speaker 1: There's plenty of time as we just start the second half.

3099
02:33:29,800 --> 02:33:31,800
Speaker 1: So the Eagles get the ball back inside their own

3100
02:33:31,800 --> 02:33:35,360
Speaker 1: twenty yard line, and we're going to see very slow

3101
02:33:35,440 --> 02:33:38,959
Speaker 1: progressing offenses from this point on. I will continue on

3102
02:33:39,120 --> 02:33:42,000
Speaker 1: with our coverage of this Rams Eagles game and our

3103
02:33:42,080 --> 02:33:45,119
Speaker 1: predictions for the game coming up between the Ravens and Bills.

3104
02:33:45,160 --> 02:33:48,400
Speaker 1: This is Red Zone Radio all right, once again coming

3105
02:33:48,440 --> 02:33:51,320
Speaker 1: down the stretch here on our version of Red Zone

3106
02:33:51,440 --> 02:33:54,360
Speaker 1: Radio live from the tyrag doc on Studios. So the

3107
02:33:54,480 --> 02:33:58,560
Speaker 1: Rams interesting dynamic to open this second half they're just

3108
02:33:58,560 --> 02:34:01,280
Speaker 1: throwing the ball down the field, and they had an

3109
02:34:01,280 --> 02:34:04,440
Speaker 1: incomplete pass to Pooka Akua, but just completed a big

3110
02:34:04,480 --> 02:34:06,280
Speaker 1: pass to Cooper cop Well.

3111
02:34:06,320 --> 02:34:10,439
Speaker 4: What they're doing is they're trying to exploit the obvious

3112
02:34:10,520 --> 02:34:14,400
Speaker 4: hole in the Eagles defense. With Kenny Mitchell out, all

3113
02:34:14,400 --> 02:34:17,120
Speaker 4: of a sudden, you have the defensive Rookie of the

3114
02:34:17,200 --> 02:34:19,960
Speaker 4: Year candidate that's helped anchor the back half of this

3115
02:34:20,080 --> 02:34:22,280
Speaker 4: defense off the field with a shoulder in.

3116
02:34:22,440 --> 02:34:25,160
Speaker 1: Oh Kyron Williams has just broken a big one. He's

3117
02:34:25,160 --> 02:34:29,240
Speaker 1: inside the ten yard line. Kyron Williams breaks one off

3118
02:34:29,280 --> 02:34:32,000
Speaker 1: for the Rams. They're inside the ten and so.

3119
02:34:32,720 --> 02:34:35,040
Speaker 4: And by the way, this was so well blocked up

3120
02:34:35,040 --> 02:34:38,520
Speaker 4: front by the Rams. You had bodies on bodies, Kyron

3121
02:34:38,560 --> 02:34:43,760
Speaker 4: Williams just following blockers as I mean, the Rams offensive line,

3122
02:34:43,879 --> 02:34:45,959
Speaker 4: their tight ends and even a couple of their receivers

3123
02:34:46,400 --> 02:34:49,640
Speaker 4: just had the Eagles on skis right there. This is

3124
02:34:49,720 --> 02:34:52,120
Speaker 4: what you should do. If you are going to pump

3125
02:34:52,120 --> 02:34:55,800
Speaker 4: one downfield, then get started on running the football right

3126
02:34:55,840 --> 02:34:58,400
Speaker 4: at the heart of the defense because it's going to

3127
02:34:58,480 --> 02:34:59,800
Speaker 4: loosen up the line of scrimmage.

3128
02:34:59,800 --> 02:35:02,480
Speaker 3: So I like the idea of it.

3129
02:35:02,560 --> 02:35:04,920
Speaker 2: Oh No, fumble by the Rams.

3130
02:35:05,160 --> 02:35:05,520
Speaker 3: Wow.

3131
02:35:06,000 --> 02:35:08,760
Speaker 1: Geez, So it was gonna be a great handoff that

3132
02:35:08,879 --> 02:35:12,520
Speaker 1: Kyron Williams and the ball never even got in his hands. Look,

3133
02:35:12,560 --> 02:35:15,760
Speaker 1: and he fumbled the ball for a big loss there.

3134
02:35:16,080 --> 02:35:20,039
Speaker 4: Wow, I'll tell you Karen Williams and Matthew Stafford, the

3135
02:35:20,040 --> 02:35:22,920
Speaker 4: biggest problem there was at Wow, the.

3136
02:35:22,879 --> 02:35:24,199
Speaker 2: Ball slipped out of his hands.

3137
02:35:24,280 --> 02:35:27,600
Speaker 1: It looked like it slipped out of Stafford's hands as

3138
02:35:27,640 --> 02:35:29,879
Speaker 1: he was looking at it slipped out of his hand.

3139
02:35:30,040 --> 02:35:33,640
Speaker 3: Yep, yep. The biggest problem is right there.

3140
02:35:33,879 --> 02:35:36,840
Speaker 1: You see it just squirt it out of his hands

3141
02:35:36,879 --> 02:35:38,280
Speaker 1: before he actually made the handoff.

3142
02:35:38,400 --> 02:35:38,879
Speaker 3: You got it.

3143
02:35:38,959 --> 02:35:41,040
Speaker 4: You got to carry out the the You have to

3144
02:35:41,240 --> 02:35:44,640
Speaker 4: finish the handoff before you try to carry out the fake, right.

3145
02:35:44,720 --> 02:35:46,200
Speaker 4: You know, this is one of the things they say

3146
02:35:46,240 --> 02:35:48,119
Speaker 4: you can't do too much. You got to you gotta

3147
02:35:48,200 --> 02:35:50,039
Speaker 4: keep the main thing, the main thing. The main thing

3148
02:35:50,120 --> 02:35:51,720
Speaker 4: is handing that football.

3149
02:35:51,240 --> 02:35:52,200
Speaker 3: Off all right.

3150
02:35:52,240 --> 02:35:54,039
Speaker 1: By the way, you want to thank Monsi for all

3151
02:35:54,040 --> 02:35:58,640
Speaker 1: her help today, bo Chris unbelieable are supporting crew. As

3152
02:35:58,680 --> 02:36:01,280
Speaker 1: you know, is Apps the best. There's the reason the

3153
02:36:01,320 --> 02:36:02,760
Speaker 1: show is as good as it is.

3154
02:36:03,200 --> 02:36:04,439
Speaker 3: Yeah, there's no doubt.

3155
02:36:05,760 --> 02:36:08,400
Speaker 1: It ain't us, No, no, no, no, it's in spite of us,

3156
02:36:08,600 --> 02:36:10,720
Speaker 1: is how we like to say that. All right, third

3157
02:36:10,760 --> 02:36:12,560
Speaker 1: and goal for the Rams right now, But what an

3158
02:36:12,600 --> 02:36:15,680
Speaker 1: impressive opening drive for the Rams in the second half,

3159
02:36:16,280 --> 02:36:18,600
Speaker 1: trailing thirteen to ten. They've been able to get the

3160
02:36:18,600 --> 02:36:21,240
Speaker 1: ball down the field obviously and very much in field

3161
02:36:21,240 --> 02:36:24,160
Speaker 1: goal position. But right now a third and goal from

3162
02:36:24,160 --> 02:36:28,080
Speaker 1: their thirteen from the thirteen yard line, and you just

3163
02:36:28,120 --> 02:36:32,000
Speaker 1: don't want any kind of mistake here, Stafford rolling, he's

3164
02:36:32,040 --> 02:36:35,480
Speaker 1: trying to find an opening. He gets sacked, So that's

3165
02:36:35,520 --> 02:36:38,280
Speaker 1: better than trying to force a play. Take the three points,

3166
02:36:38,320 --> 02:36:41,800
Speaker 1: tie this game up. Of course, kicks in this weather

3167
02:36:41,879 --> 02:36:44,480
Speaker 1: are anything but a sure thing. First of all, you

3168
02:36:44,520 --> 02:36:47,280
Speaker 1: have to snap the ball, as you said, as a center,

3169
02:36:47,600 --> 02:36:50,640
Speaker 1: just gripping the ball can be a challenge under these conditions.

3170
02:36:51,000 --> 02:36:53,240
Speaker 1: And then the holder's got to have a clean hold,

3171
02:36:53,959 --> 02:36:56,160
Speaker 1: and then your plant foot's got a hold.

3172
02:36:56,600 --> 02:36:57,760
Speaker 2: There's a lot that goes.

3173
02:36:57,560 --> 02:37:01,160
Speaker 1: Into any kind of kickah under slippery conditions.

3174
02:37:01,480 --> 02:37:05,200
Speaker 4: You gotta credit your offense on two big plays, the

3175
02:37:05,280 --> 02:37:08,119
Speaker 4: pass the thirty yard ball to Cooper Cup and then

3176
02:37:08,200 --> 02:37:11,120
Speaker 4: Kyraen Williams, and really credit to the offensive line for

3177
02:37:11,160 --> 02:37:12,879
Speaker 4: getting bodies on bodies and.

3178
02:37:12,800 --> 02:37:14,440
Speaker 3: Getting you inside the twenty yard line.

3179
02:37:14,480 --> 02:37:16,640
Speaker 2: The kick is good, so we have a tie game.

3180
02:37:17,040 --> 02:37:17,720
Speaker 3: Yep, yep, yep.

3181
02:37:17,760 --> 02:37:19,960
Speaker 4: It sets yet for that, and in a game where

3182
02:37:19,959 --> 02:37:22,680
Speaker 4: all of a sudden points are going to be few

3183
02:37:22,680 --> 02:37:25,640
Speaker 4: and far between and hard to come up with, that's

3184
02:37:25,680 --> 02:37:26,879
Speaker 4: exactly what you hope for.

3185
02:37:27,360 --> 02:37:29,520
Speaker 1: All right. So yeah, it was a thirty yard pass

3186
02:37:29,560 --> 02:37:31,920
Speaker 1: play and then a thirty yard run. Those two plays

3187
02:37:31,920 --> 02:37:34,600
Speaker 1: where all the Rams needed to get into a field

3188
02:37:34,600 --> 02:37:36,959
Speaker 1: goal position. So we got seven thirty seven to go

3189
02:37:37,120 --> 02:37:40,280
Speaker 1: in the third quarter. Eagles and Rams are tied, all right,

3190
02:37:40,320 --> 02:37:43,080
Speaker 1: So let's talk about the game coming up between the

3191
02:37:43,160 --> 02:37:47,240
Speaker 1: Ravens and the Bills again. The temperature will get into

3192
02:37:47,360 --> 02:37:51,480
Speaker 1: single digits as that game progresses. It is going to

3193
02:37:51,520 --> 02:37:54,320
Speaker 1: be cold. I mean, the difference from what we see

3194
02:37:54,320 --> 02:37:59,039
Speaker 1: in temperature wise in this game in Philadelphia, there's a

3195
02:37:59,040 --> 02:38:01,280
Speaker 1: big difference between thirty degrees and.

3196
02:38:01,280 --> 02:38:03,400
Speaker 3: Ten Oh my gosh, is there every I mean?

3197
02:38:03,440 --> 02:38:05,680
Speaker 1: I mean, and so ten degrees suddenly makes it a

3198
02:38:05,720 --> 02:38:07,959
Speaker 1: different game. How do you see this, rich, how do

3199
02:38:08,000 --> 02:38:09,920
Speaker 1: you see it breaking down? Give us a score?

3200
02:38:10,160 --> 02:38:10,360
Speaker 3: Well?

3201
02:38:10,400 --> 02:38:14,959
Speaker 4: So, so people will often say like, well, how cold

3202
02:38:15,000 --> 02:38:15,440
Speaker 4: is cold?

3203
02:38:15,480 --> 02:38:15,760
Speaker 3: I mean?

3204
02:38:15,800 --> 02:38:18,600
Speaker 4: How different is it playing in you know, twenty degree

3205
02:38:18,640 --> 02:38:22,320
Speaker 4: weather versus you know, ten degree weather. I always say this,

3206
02:38:22,520 --> 02:38:25,520
Speaker 4: I say, get in the hottest possible hot tub you

3207
02:38:25,560 --> 02:38:27,720
Speaker 4: could possibly get into. Right, I don't know what your

3208
02:38:27,720 --> 02:38:30,640
Speaker 4: temperature threshold is. Let's say it's one hundred and four degrees,

3209
02:38:30,680 --> 02:38:33,080
Speaker 4: one hundred five degrees, then crank it up to one

3210
02:38:33,160 --> 02:38:36,320
Speaker 4: hundred and seven, crank it up to crank it up

3211
02:38:36,320 --> 02:38:38,359
Speaker 4: to one hundred and twenty. Tell me if you're comfortable

3212
02:38:38,400 --> 02:38:42,680
Speaker 4: in that hot tub. I mean a harsh fever is

3213
02:38:43,080 --> 02:38:45,720
Speaker 4: one to oh three. Yeah, you know that's only five

3214
02:38:45,800 --> 02:38:48,280
Speaker 4: degrees hotter than your body temperature.

3215
02:38:47,840 --> 02:38:49,760
Speaker 3: Normally, is right? You know what I mean?

3216
02:38:49,800 --> 02:38:54,000
Speaker 4: Like like, we worry about degrees because every degree matters.

3217
02:38:54,560 --> 02:38:56,480
Speaker 3: So that's what I employ you.

3218
02:38:56,480 --> 02:39:00,000
Speaker 4: To realize how cold that is for three hours of exposure.

3219
02:39:00,040 --> 02:39:02,120
Speaker 4: And that's if the game doesn't go to overtime. To

3220
02:39:02,160 --> 02:39:04,600
Speaker 4: answer your question, though, Steve, how I see this one

3221
02:39:04,680 --> 02:39:08,320
Speaker 4: working out? I bounce back and forth, and I'm sure

3222
02:39:08,360 --> 02:39:13,119
Speaker 4: you have to. Buffalo's hosting Baltimore. I feel like Lamar

3223
02:39:13,480 --> 02:39:16,160
Speaker 4: is going to make that one or two mistakes that

3224
02:39:16,240 --> 02:39:20,119
Speaker 4: have been trademark in his postseason career, and we're going

3225
02:39:20,160 --> 02:39:23,320
Speaker 4: to watch him win his third straight MVP. But we're

3226
02:39:23,360 --> 02:39:25,879
Speaker 4: gonna say to ourselves, but he can't seem to keep

3227
02:39:25,879 --> 02:39:27,240
Speaker 4: it all together in the postseason.

3228
02:39:27,240 --> 02:39:28,400
Speaker 3: That's the way I see this going.

3229
02:39:28,680 --> 02:39:32,520
Speaker 1: Buffalo has not lost a home game this year, and

3230
02:39:32,600 --> 02:39:34,640
Speaker 1: they're a slight underdog in this game.

3231
02:39:34,800 --> 02:39:35,080
Speaker 3: Yep.

3232
02:39:35,480 --> 02:39:38,080
Speaker 1: Yeah, think about that. They're eight and zero at home,

3233
02:39:38,560 --> 02:39:41,080
Speaker 1: and yet they're like a one point dog at home.

3234
02:39:41,240 --> 02:39:42,120
Speaker 3: That's insulted, and.

3235
02:39:42,120 --> 02:39:44,800
Speaker 1: It's like, I'm sorry, why are they a one point

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Speaker 1: dog at home when they have a loss at home

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Speaker 1: the entire year? And I do think that earlier blowout

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Speaker 1: loss at Baltimore is going to play into this, So

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Speaker 1: I agree with you. In my picks against Monci, I

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Speaker 1: actually have the Ravens, but that's because she picked the Bills,

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Speaker 1: so I had to take the Ravens. But in my

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Speaker 1: own pick right here, I'm just trying to get the

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Speaker 1: visual who's walking off a winner and I see the

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Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills, and I think it's gonna be a touchdown game,

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Speaker 1: low scoring, maybe seventeen ten, something along those lines, But

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Speaker 1: I say the Bills as well, don't go anywhere. Much

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