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Speaker 2: Yeah, and the trophy goes too well, we'll tell you

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Speaker 2: one and only partner of mine, mister Bucky Brooks. Hello, Bucky,

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Speaker 2: how are you?

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Speaker 1: I'm good Andy, what's going on with you?

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Speaker 2: You sound great? You look even better. And I tell

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Speaker 2: you what, it's hard to believe. This is week eighteen.

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Speaker 2: Where has it gone? And I'm a little depressed right

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Speaker 2: now because the end is year. I know, we have

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Speaker 2: the big Super Bowl coming up, the players all again.

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Speaker 2: Look before you know, it's gonna be all over, and

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Speaker 2: I'm a little down. It scares me because football is life.

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Speaker 2: It is you know that it's life.

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Speaker 3: Football is life. I mean that's a lot. It's very dramatic,

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Speaker 3: and it is very dramatic coming from you.

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Speaker 2: Know, well, I don't know that's story from Ted last August.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, but I mean, look, here's the deal. It's amazing

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Speaker 1: how quickly it's gone. And here we are a week eighteen.

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Speaker 3: We got a bunch of winner go home type games,

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Speaker 3: a lot of stuff riding on it.

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Speaker 1: And the thing is, we get to the.

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Speaker 3: End of the season and most teams would like to

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Speaker 3: think that they're going to be depending on their stars,

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Speaker 3: when really a lot of times you're depending on backups

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Speaker 3: and developmental players who've been thrust into prominent roles.

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Speaker 1: Kind of be exciting to see how it all plays out.

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Speaker 2: I'm with you right there now before we roll on,

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Speaker 2: I got a couple of things I want to go

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Speaker 2: off my chest, if I may. I'm talking about sportsmanship,

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Speaker 2: because you played the game, you know what that's like.

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Speaker 2: And I kind of enjoy after like a college basketball game,

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Speaker 2: their teams line up and they go shake hands. I

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Speaker 2: know it sounds corny, but I think that's the way

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Speaker 2: it should be.

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Speaker 4: Now.

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Speaker 2: This week Grambling University, that women's basketball team defeated. I

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Speaker 2: never heard of the school, the College of Biblical Studies.

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Speaker 2: They beat them one fifty nine to eighteen, one fifty

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Speaker 2: nine to eighteen. I'll tell you this, Biblical Studies school,

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Speaker 2: they never had a prayer. I know it's sounds stupid,

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Speaker 2: but it's true. One fifty nine eighteen. Isn't there something

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Speaker 2: that could be done about that? I think it's ridiculous.

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Speaker 2: I mean, if you're the coach, how do you sleep

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Speaker 2: at night knowing what you did by humiliating and mismatching

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Speaker 2: this other team? I mean the Grambling coach, should she

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Speaker 2: be like suspended or find or something. Have you ever

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Speaker 2: been involved in a one sided game like that, being

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Speaker 3: I mean, I mean, obviously I've been on the wrong side.

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Speaker 1: I've been on both sides of blowouts.

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Speaker 3: And I mean, like when you're the team that's winning,

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Speaker 3: you kind of know where their line is, right. You

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Speaker 3: kind of know when the opponent doesn't have anything they

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Speaker 3: they're struggling, and you kind of understand, hey, this game

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Speaker 3: is gonna get out of control, and so sportsmanship does

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Speaker 3: come into play. And what you do is you try

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Speaker 3: to put your backups in. You try to give those

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Speaker 3: maybe toning down some of the play calls. Right now,

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Speaker 3: there's only so much you can do if the team

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Speaker 3: you're not embarrassing the opponent, like you want to beat them.

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Speaker 1: You want to do all those things.

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Speaker 3: You want your guys to get in and you want

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Speaker 1: But you also want to be aware of, you know,

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Speaker 3: And I think obviously just by listening and hearing that

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Speaker 2: I agree with you. I agree with that. Now I

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Speaker 2: year when the season started was hands down, it was

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Speaker 2: DeMar Hamlin and God bless him. I'm so And it

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Speaker 2: thought that when the season started he'd be the comeback

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Speaker 2: Player of the Year, and the fact is that he

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Speaker 2: a new Comeback Player of the Year, and I think

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Speaker 2: that guy is Joe Flacco. What do you think.

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Speaker 1: Look, I think Joe Flacco has a good case for it.

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Speaker 3: Like I mean, no one can ever argue a dispute

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Speaker 3: Tamorrow Hamlin winning Comeback Played the Year because it's miraculous

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Speaker 3: that he's been able to come from near death to

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Speaker 3: If we're talking about on field performance, Joe Flacco certainly

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Speaker 3: has a strong case. He came off the couch, led

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Speaker 3: before him to the playoffs, and he's done it with

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Speaker 3: So if it's not going to like mar Hamlin for

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Speaker 2: All Right, I'm with it. It's gonna be an interesting

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Speaker 2: All right, we'll see. Now, Now, I got a question

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Speaker 2: players in the NFL right now, there's been a big argument,

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Speaker 2: especially in teams that basically are out of the race,

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Speaker 2: like the CINCINNTI Bengals. They're playing the Browns today, and

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Speaker 2: I'm hearing some moron reporter as Zach Taylor, the coach

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Speaker 2: saying to myself, why would you ask that question? What

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Speaker 2: a ridiculous question. My question is this players sitting in

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Speaker 2: the NFL. That's a big deal. People make a big

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Speaker 2: big deal about the load management in the NBA when

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Speaker 2: these guys sit out. I don't get that. It's like, hohut,

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Speaker 2: no big whoop. And I'll tell you what. I remember

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Speaker 2: Commission does nothing about it. So load management in the

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Speaker 2: that's a big deal. You know, people talk about it

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Speaker 2: all the time. I don't get it.

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Speaker 1: Help me, well, no, I mean, look, it's a difficult thing.

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Speaker 3: So the difference in football and basketball is I've seen football,

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Speaker 3: you have limited opportunities. You only have seventeen games, so

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Speaker 3: every game has a significant impact on the way the

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Speaker 1: In basketball you have eighty two games.

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Speaker 3: When you have so many games, like, the significance is

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Speaker 1: The thing that we can't do.

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Speaker 3: And I know, like whether it's football, where there's basketball, Ultimately,

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Speaker 3: the coach's job is to get the team to the championship.

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Speaker 3: And when you're trying to build a championship team, there

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Speaker 3: are many paths that you can take to get there.

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Speaker 3: Some opt for health, knowing that if I get into

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Speaker 3: the postseason tournament, our best shot to win it is

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Speaker 3: to make sure that we have everybody available. If we

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Speaker 3: Even though you don't know when or if someone would

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Speaker 3: think no matter what we feel as fans or those

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Speaker 3: We've seen like last year the Chargers played Mike Williams

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Speaker 3: It hurt them in the postseason not having one of

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Speaker 1: I think coaches under no win situation.

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Speaker 3: So because of that, they got to do us in

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Speaker 2: How do you like that? Okay not now you're clear

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Speaker 2: it up for me. Now let's celebrate right now because

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Speaker 2: to Houston Texans are going to the playoffs. They win

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Speaker 2: last night twenty three to nineteen over the Indianapolis Colts

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Speaker 2: And I tell you what, I never saw the performance

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Speaker 2: I thought that the Indianapolis Colt should be passing the

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Speaker 2: and I could have scored a touchdown to win the game,

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Speaker 3: I think a lot of it has to do it

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Speaker 3: people forget that the Indianapolis Colts were playing with a

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Speaker 3: backup quarterback in Garnmentshew, and theyve did a really good

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Speaker 1: How much they put on Garnmentshew's play.

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Speaker 3: And I think what you saw is in these games

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Speaker 3: they're a handful of plays that the quarterback must make

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Speaker 1: When CJ. Stroud had his opportunity to make plays, he

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Speaker 3: And so even though everyone says, hey, there's no way

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Speaker 3: you can win, you have to be prepared to play

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Speaker 3: a four quarter game and to win the game in

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Speaker 3: the fourth quarter. And that's a lot of pressure when

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Speaker 3: you have big things on the line, whether you go

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Speaker 3: to the postseason or not.

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Speaker 2: And I'll say this, no matter what happens today, and

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Speaker 2: I do believe Tampa Bay's couldna win. There's a lot

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Speaker 2: on the line for them. The story for Tampa Bay

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Speaker 2: this year is Baker Mayfield, one of the better stories

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Speaker 2: in the National Football League this year. And Carolina, and

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Speaker 2: you know this as well as anybody else, they have

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Speaker 2: problem against the running game. So I guess Tampa Bay's

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Speaker 2: gonna run whether Sean White and run hard and run

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Speaker 2: all the way. So that's they're gonna do that today.

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Speaker 2: That's the game plan. I would think, run the football,

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Speaker 2: keep it on the ground, keep that clock going.

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Speaker 1: Well.

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Speaker 3: I mean, they would certainly like to run the game,

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Speaker 3: run the ball. They haven't been an effective run team,

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Speaker 3: but it's one of the things that they need to

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Speaker 3: do to win this game. There has been a bit

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Speaker 3: of a weakness. You saw last week the Jaguars ran

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Speaker 3: successfully against the Panthers. It was tough sledding early. But

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Speaker 3: it's a part of it, and so you've got to

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Speaker 3: be committed to it. So we'll see if the Buccaneers

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Speaker 3: are good enough to do it.

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Speaker 1: If not.

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Speaker 3: A lot of it are here Joe Baker Mayfield and

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Speaker 3: how well he performs, and the thing that he can't

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Speaker 3: do is he can't turn it over. You just can't

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Speaker 3: turn it over in these games because the turnovers have

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Speaker 3: a significant impact, not only on the outcome of games,

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Speaker 3: but the swings, the momentum swings, and the emotional lift

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Speaker 3: that you get from producing a takeaway. You just don't

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Speaker 3: want to give the team the opponent any life.

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Speaker 2: Okay, And there's a little bit of a side story

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Speaker 2: here with the Carolina Panthers. Their owner David Tepper. He

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Speaker 2: probably needs some psychological help. He was fined three hundred

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Speaker 2: thousand dollars for tossing a drink at a Jacksonville fan

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Speaker 2: last week. Were you there at the game, did you

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Speaker 2: see the situation?

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Speaker 1: No?

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Speaker 3: No, no, that was all those way that was above me.

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Speaker 1: I'm on the field, so I couldn't see it.

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Speaker 3: I saw it on social media afterwards, and it looks

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Speaker 3: it's crazy, And I understand your owner, understand you're in

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Speaker 3: opposing territory. It can be hostile. Fans will say anything

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Speaker 3: and everything to you. We had a similar not a

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Speaker 3: similar situation, but when we were in Cleveland, the fans

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Speaker 3: gave our broadcast team the business.

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Speaker 1: It's kind of.

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Speaker 3: Part of what happens on the road. But David Tepper

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Speaker 3: has to be above all that. Like he is one

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Speaker 3: of thirty two, He's viewed as one of the stewards

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Speaker 3: of the game. As an owner, he can't involve himself

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Speaker 3: in that, and he certainly cannot throw a drink on

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Speaker 3: a patron like knowing certain terms is that okay, he

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Speaker 3: will pay his fine, but you would like to think

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Speaker 3: that he would have issued be a more sincere apology

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Speaker 3: for his actions, But he doesn't appear to have you

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Speaker 3: know that that in him, you'll have to apologize and

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Speaker 3: to you know, to want to make amends for it.

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Speaker 2: Right. We tease coming into the segment that he's giving

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Speaker 2: money away. I'm talking about David Tepper now, he says, look,

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Speaker 2: they're looking for another head coach right now. He's looking

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Speaker 2: at offensive coin that have been Johnson from the Lions,

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Speaker 2: and he says he's gonna be him an open check.

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Speaker 2: I mean, this guy must have money just to burn.

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Speaker 2: Really an open check, and Johnson wants fifteen mil will

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Speaker 2: making one of the highest paid coaches in the National

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Speaker 2: Football League.

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Speaker 1: It will.

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Speaker 3: But here's the thing. He can throw as much money

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Speaker 3: as he wants to throw around. If he doesn't get

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Speaker 3: the right infrastructure in place, where they're building the right environment,

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Speaker 3: the right culture, they have a set of expectations and

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Speaker 3: standards for how they want to go about it, it'll

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Speaker 3: be it'll be hard for them to turn it around.

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Speaker 3: And just because you hear a great play caller doesn't

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Speaker 3: mean he's going to be a great head coach. He's

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Speaker 3: been through this a few different times, you know, coaches

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Speaker 3: and those things. He has to make sure he gets

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Speaker 3: the right leader, the right person to get everybody on

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Speaker 3: the same page when it comes to the organization. If not,

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Speaker 3: in a couple of years, he'll be right back at

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Speaker 3: the same doing the same thing.

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Speaker 2: There we go, all right, He's Bucky Brooks, I'm Andy Furman.

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Speaker 2: We are a Fox Football Sunday on Fox Sports Radio.

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Speaker 2: To play or not to play, that's the question, and

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Speaker 2: we'll have the answer after this as coming right up

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Speaker 2: next from the tay Rack dot com studios. But first,

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Speaker 2: Kevin WYREO all your sports.

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Speaker 9: Yeah, we got some injury updates. We were talking about

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Speaker 9: how the Bills need to beat the Dolphins in order

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Speaker 9: to possibly make the playoffs, because if they do not win,

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Speaker 9: and they get a win by Jacksonville today, they can

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Speaker 9: miss the playoffs all together. So a big matchup coming

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Speaker 9: a night between the Bills and Dolphins. But buff we're

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Speaker 9: gonna get some help where he moster Jalen Wonnell not

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Speaker 9: expected to play in Sunday night's game. That's according to

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Speaker 9: NFL Network NFL Network with some other injury updates. Baker

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Speaker 9: Mayfield expected to play today, as a head coach Todd

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Speaker 9: Bull saying that he'll be ready to go on Sunday.

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Speaker 9: Saints ronning back Alvin Kamara, who has done very little

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Speaker 9: this week with an ankle sprain, will be given up

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Speaker 9: to game time to show that he can go. He

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Speaker 9: did very little this week, but they'll hold out hope.

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Speaker 9: According to Rapaport, he also says that tight end Juwan

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Speaker 9: Johnson will play. He is good to go. Chiefs running

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Speaker 9: back Isaiah Pacheco not expected to play today. He'll only

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Speaker 9: be used in an emergency. Kansas City has three other

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Speaker 9: backs up. Jaguars quarterback Trevor Lawrence trending in the right direction.

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Speaker 9: It's more about pain tolerance and it's not certain, but

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Speaker 9: he does have a good chance. Wide receiver Zay Jones

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Speaker 9: should play today. Christian Kirkow, whoever, is less certain ropport,

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Speaker 9: continues saying that Bears running back Khalil Herbert and titand

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Speaker 9: Cole Kament listed as questionable and are expected to play today,

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Speaker 9: and the Falcons quarterback Tyler Taylor heineke he's able to

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Speaker 9: practice every day this week. He is hopeful to be

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Speaker 9: able to go today, but he'll be watched closely in

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Speaker 9: warm ups to make sure he is mobile enough. That's

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Speaker 9: for the first two games of Week eighteen. The Houston

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Speaker 9: Texans go into the playoffs after they beat the Colts

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Speaker 9: twenty three nineteen, So it's the first time they've made

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Speaker 9: the playoffs and the first time they've won ten games.

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Speaker 9: Since twenty nineteen, they only won three games in all

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Speaker 9: of twenty twenty two, and the Steelers, as we mentioned,

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Speaker 9: winners on Saturday. They beat the Ravens seventeen to ten

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Speaker 9: to keep their postseason hopes alive. They get in with

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Speaker 9: either a loss by Jacksonville or a lost by Buffalo today,

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Speaker 9: So the Steelers is going to be watching those games

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Speaker 9: eagerly on TV. And in the NBA, Draymond Green is

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Speaker 9: back as the NBA has lifted his suspension after twelve games.

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Speaker 2: Back to you guys, Thanks keV okay, you're seeing about

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Speaker 2: it now. All right, this is Fox Football Sunday and

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Speaker 2: Fox Sport's ready. And by the way, let's get into

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Speaker 2: your team that Jacksonville Jacks at Tennessee mentioned early on today.

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Speaker 2: As for Tennessee, and I don't understand this. After two years,

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Speaker 2: I asked a question, why haven't they showcased that quarterback

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Speaker 2: by league Willis to other teams? I mean, they can

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Speaker 2: make them available, and they haven't done that. Any reason

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Speaker 2: why Willis is not even playing? I don't get it.

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Speaker 3: Well, I mean they don't think he's good enough obviously,

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Speaker 3: you know, like they had a situation where Will Levis they.

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Speaker 1: Drafted in the second round. He became the starter.

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Speaker 3: Ryan Tannehill was the backup league, Willis was three. They

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Speaker 3: don't necessarily believe that Willis can get it done, or

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Speaker 3: they would have given him more opportunities. I mean, like

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Speaker 3: people kind of tell you what they think about you.

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Speaker 3: The way they make decisions, and the decisions that the

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Speaker 3: Titans have made suggest that they don't believe that he

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Speaker 3: can be a front line starter. And so it's not

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Speaker 3: about showcasing them for other teams. Other teams have to

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Speaker 3: picked up the phone and call. But he hasn't done

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Speaker 3: enough to impress anybody or entice anybody to try and

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Speaker 3: bring him on and acquire him via trade.

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Speaker 2: All right, earlier this year, you're Jacksonville Jacks beat up

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Speaker 2: on Tennessee thirty four to fourteen. I assume the same

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Speaker 2: thing will happen today. Here's the deal in this game, Jacksonville,

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Speaker 2: they win this game, they win the AFC South with

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Speaker 2: the win. No matter who wins any other game today,

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Speaker 2: they win this game.

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Speaker 1: They win.

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Speaker 2: The Jags missed the playoffs with the loss. Easy as

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Speaker 2: that that's basically one of the easy ones. Today. Now

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Speaker 2: we got the Browns of the Bengals. And by the way,

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Speaker 2: this game means nothing. This is one of those games,

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Speaker 2: which is great because there's nothing to even talk about

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Speaker 2: because the game is a nothing game and Cleveland's gonna

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Speaker 2: sit out and they're gonna play there fifth quarterback today

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Speaker 2: and the quarterback for the du joure Cleveland Browns today

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Speaker 2: is Jeff Driskell, who basically played for the Bengals years ago.

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Speaker 2: So Jeff Driskell is the fifth what it back to

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Speaker 2: play today? And to me, I mean with Stefanski, Kevin Stefanski,

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Speaker 2: the coach of the Browns, what he has done, and

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Speaker 2: I know he's got a great defense, but what he

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Speaker 2: has done with this team with four quarterbacks and now

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Speaker 2: a fifth, to win the division and you picked this

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Speaker 2: team to go deep in the playoffs early in the year.

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Speaker 2: He's got to be the coach of the year.

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Speaker 1: Man. Yeah.

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Speaker 3: The coach of the year thing is it's gonna be

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Speaker 3: so hotly contested because a lot of coaches have done

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Speaker 3: a really good job. What Kevin Stefanski has done is

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Speaker 3: what New York Jets fans should have wanted from Robert Sava.

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Speaker 3: You got to coach and when adversity strikes, you got

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Speaker 3: to be able to change, You got to adapt, you

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Speaker 3: got to adjust. And you got to figure out a

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Speaker 3: way to guide your team through the university while maintaining

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Speaker 3: the standards. When are the outside world told Cleveland, hey man,

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Speaker 3: just not your year this year. Nick Chubb gets hurt,

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Speaker 3: you lose some other guys. Deshaun Watson then goes out,

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Speaker 3: hey man, you know what, better luck next year. Y'all

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Speaker 3: come back next year maybe to be fine. He refused

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Speaker 3: to settle for that, And they finally cracked the code

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Speaker 3: on the quarterback by getting Joe Flacco.

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Speaker 1: Joe Flacco newest.

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Speaker 3: System from his time working with Gary Kubiak, and so

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Speaker 3: he was able to kind of like jump start the

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Speaker 3: offense with his knowledge, experience, and expertise. And now this

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Speaker 3: team is rolling and they're one of the more dangerous

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Speaker 3: teams left in the tournament. Yeah, and so you need

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Speaker 3: to watch out for them because even though they are

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Speaker 3: teams in football, namely the Ravens and the forty nine ers.

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Speaker 3: They can win this thing with Joe Flacco as their quarterback.

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Speaker 2: Look, I will tell you this much. I think that

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Speaker 2: the Bengals after Joe Burrow went down, it was devastating.

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Speaker 2: It was almost a disaster. The fact that they came

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Speaker 2: back and they almost had a shot to make the

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Speaker 2: playoffs was a big whoop, big deal. However, you know

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Speaker 2: now people are using that as a crutch, as an excuse,

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Speaker 2: and I'm seeing what happened in Pittsburgh when they went down,

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Speaker 2: they got three quarterbacks they played with this year. You know,

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Speaker 2: they got five quarterbacks in Cleveland. So I don't think

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Speaker 2: that's a legitimate, honest excuse. When you're starting quarterback goes down, yeah,

651
00:31:10,360 --> 00:31:13,120
Speaker 2: it's it's a problem. But you got to adapt to that.

652
00:31:13,400 --> 00:31:16,480
Speaker 2: And some players and some teams don't. And Cincinnati, in

653
00:31:16,480 --> 00:31:19,720
Speaker 2: my mind, didn't, you know, Pittsburgh did. Maybe it's a coaching,

654
00:31:19,760 --> 00:31:21,880
Speaker 2: maybe it's a player. I don't know what it is.

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Speaker 2: But Cleveland and Pittsburgh adapted.

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Speaker 3: I would say that Cincinnati adapted for a while and

657
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Speaker 3: then it just became overwhelming where they just couldn't.

658
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Speaker 1: Uh.

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Speaker 3: You saw the wins that they had, Jake Browning that look,

660
00:31:34,680 --> 00:31:37,200
Speaker 3: they knocked off the Jacks, they went on the road,

661
00:31:37,280 --> 00:31:40,720
Speaker 3: knocked off the Jackson, found a way to get some

662
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Speaker 3: wins and put themselves in a position where they were

663
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Speaker 3: they were close.

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Speaker 1: They just couldn't finish it.

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Speaker 3: And that's look, that's that's common, you know, like there's

666
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Speaker 3: a reason why guys are backups and those things. They

667
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Speaker 3: just couldn't finish it off. But I think the lesson

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Speaker 3: to be learned. Great coaches figured out. Great coaches figure

669
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Speaker 3: out a way to win games with whatever they have,

670
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Speaker 3: and they do whatever they need to do to get dubs.

671
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Speaker 3: And we saw from Pittsburgh, will continue to see it.

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Speaker 2: There you go. Falcons are at the Saints today. Let's

673
00:32:10,400 --> 00:32:12,560
Speaker 2: talk about this one for a second because the NFC

674
00:32:12,720 --> 00:32:16,040
Speaker 2: South is at stake for both teams, with the Buccaneers

675
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Speaker 2: playing at the same time. Now, if the Buccaneers lose,

676
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Speaker 2: the winner of the Saints and Falcons game will clinch

677
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Speaker 2: the NFC South. The Falcons will be eliminated from the

678
00:32:26,480 --> 00:32:29,800
Speaker 2: playoffs if the Bucks win. Now, as for the Saints,

679
00:32:30,000 --> 00:32:33,040
Speaker 2: they can clinch a playoffs spot with a win and

680
00:32:33,120 --> 00:32:37,160
Speaker 2: a Buccaneers win and a Packers loss and a Seahawks loss.

681
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Speaker 2: You get that all down, We're gonna give you a

682
00:32:38,880 --> 00:32:41,320
Speaker 2: quiz at the end of the show. They're eliminated from

683
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Speaker 2: the playoffs with a loss or a Bucks win and

684
00:32:43,920 --> 00:32:46,720
Speaker 2: a Packers win, or a Bucks win and a Seahawks win.

685
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Speaker 2: I have no idea what the hell I just said,

686
00:32:49,280 --> 00:32:51,160
Speaker 2: But you know what, win. All you got to do

687
00:32:51,280 --> 00:32:53,320
Speaker 2: is win. That's what it's all about. And by the way,

688
00:32:53,320 --> 00:32:55,680
Speaker 2: if the Saints do win today, their record will be

689
00:32:55,760 --> 00:32:57,960
Speaker 2: and this is terrible for the Saints twenty five and

690
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Speaker 2: twenty six over the last three years going on with

691
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Speaker 2: the Saints. Is it Sean Payton? Is he the guy?

692
00:33:03,680 --> 00:33:06,040
Speaker 2: Was he the guy when he left they went downhill?

693
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Speaker 2: Or Drew Brees?

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Speaker 3: Perhaps I would say that this is a team that

695
00:33:12,000 --> 00:33:15,320
Speaker 3: has been close, but now the team is older and

696
00:33:15,440 --> 00:33:18,000
Speaker 3: you have an older defense who's played well, but they

697
00:33:18,080 --> 00:33:21,840
Speaker 3: just haven't gotten enough from their offense, whether it's quarterback play,

698
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Speaker 3: whether it's just like faulty execution, because guys have been

699
00:33:24,560 --> 00:33:27,080
Speaker 3: in and out the lineup, they just haven't been good

700
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Speaker 3: enough to get.

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Speaker 1: It done in these moments.

702
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Speaker 3: And look, they'll have a chance if the ball goes

703
00:33:33,760 --> 00:33:35,440
Speaker 3: their way, if they get a few breaks, maybe they

704
00:33:35,480 --> 00:33:38,400
Speaker 3: backdoor into the postseason and we'll see. But I do

705
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Speaker 3: believe it'll be a tricky time for the Saints because

706
00:33:42,480 --> 00:33:44,400
Speaker 3: they got to have that discussion with Dennis Allen, what's

707
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Speaker 3: the direction of the team.

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Speaker 1: How can we fix the offense. We got a lot

709
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Speaker 1: of veteran players.

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Speaker 3: Is it time to kind of reboot it, rebuild it,

711
00:33:52,800 --> 00:33:54,600
Speaker 3: stripping to the studs and see if you can repair

712
00:33:54,640 --> 00:33:58,040
Speaker 3: it or can you just kind of tinker with it again?

713
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Speaker 3: To me, they've been team with this ross for the

714
00:34:01,480 --> 00:34:03,960
Speaker 3: last four or five years. At some point you're gonna

715
00:34:03,920 --> 00:34:06,440
Speaker 3: have to make some hard decisions and see if they

716
00:34:06,480 --> 00:34:07,440
Speaker 3: can build it up better.

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Speaker 2: You know, you talk about the Atlanta Falcons and that

718
00:34:10,920 --> 00:34:14,080
Speaker 2: that yo yo quarterback situation that's a problem. But here's

719
00:34:14,120 --> 00:34:16,279
Speaker 2: a stat that's going to make you nuts. They have

720
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Speaker 2: one player averaging more than four receptions a game. That's

721
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Speaker 2: their wide receiver Drake London, who's averaging like four point

722
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Speaker 2: three receptions a game, which is almost unheard of in

723
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Speaker 2: the National Football League. I mean, it's amazing that they've

724
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Speaker 2: even won seven games, the Falcons.

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Speaker 1: I mean, look, it hasn't been pretty.

726
00:34:37,320 --> 00:34:41,439
Speaker 3: There's a lot of heat on Arthur Smith, but I'll

727
00:34:41,440 --> 00:34:43,560
Speaker 3: say this, Arthur Smith has.

728
00:34:43,400 --> 00:34:45,080
Speaker 1: Never had a quarterback, you know.

729
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Speaker 3: And I don't know what the conversation was like with

730
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Speaker 3: Arthur Smith and Arthur Blank regarding the quarterback position they

731
00:34:51,760 --> 00:34:54,000
Speaker 3: were in under Deshaun Watson Sweet Stakes, but they were

732
00:34:54,000 --> 00:34:58,279
Speaker 3: out under Lamar Jackson opportunity. They elected to continue on

733
00:34:58,440 --> 00:35:02,080
Speaker 3: with Desmond, Britter and Taylor. Neither one of those guys

734
00:35:02,080 --> 00:35:06,880
Speaker 3: are frontline starter material, and so without a frontline starter.

735
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Speaker 1: Then everything else has to be perfect to win.

736
00:35:10,160 --> 00:35:13,000
Speaker 3: So they can blame Arthur Smith, and he could do

737
00:35:13,040 --> 00:35:15,239
Speaker 3: a better job of trying to utilize the personnel, but

738
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Speaker 3: I would say some of that is limited due to

739
00:35:18,760 --> 00:35:23,040
Speaker 3: who he has in place a quarterback. Yeah, it's just

740
00:35:23,040 --> 00:35:25,960
Speaker 3: just a difficult situation. So everyone is responsible that it'll

741
00:35:26,000 --> 00:35:29,279
Speaker 3: be coaches, players, front office people. The roster isn't quite

742
00:35:29,360 --> 00:35:33,320
Speaker 3: good enough, The coaching couldn't adapt to the tough circumstances,

743
00:35:33,800 --> 00:35:37,680
Speaker 3: and then you just didn't make the moves as a

744
00:35:37,719 --> 00:35:43,080
Speaker 3: front office to ensure or provide enough insurance for Arthur

745
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Speaker 3: to be able to navigate through these tough times.

746
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Speaker 2: You're exactly right, all right. He's Bucky Brooks. I'm Andy Furmer.

747
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Speaker 2: We are a Fox Football Summay and Fox Sports Radio.

748
00:35:51,000 --> 00:35:53,520
Speaker 2: By the way, he's got all the answers, so let's

749
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Speaker 2: ask him. Ask Bucky. That's coming up next on Fox

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Speaker 2: within the iHeartRadio app. Search FSR to listen live. Ask

754
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Speaker 2: Bucky coming right up at eleven minutes now before the

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Speaker 2: top of the hour. This is Fox Football Sunday. He

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Speaker 2: is Bucky Brooks. I'm Andy Farmanwell live from the ti

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Speaker 2: raq dot com studios. If you're ready, here we go.

758
00:36:20,640 --> 00:36:24,799
Speaker 2: Is time for Ask Bucky. Okay, Tomorrow is a big

759
00:36:24,880 --> 00:36:26,839
Speaker 2: day in the National Football League. I think they call

760
00:36:26,880 --> 00:36:28,480
Speaker 2: it Black Monday. Is that true?

761
00:36:29,160 --> 00:36:30,480
Speaker 1: Yeah? Black Monday.

762
00:36:30,520 --> 00:36:32,879
Speaker 2: I think they will maybe change that name. But we'll

763
00:36:33,080 --> 00:36:36,000
Speaker 2: we'll talk about that at another time. Now, name three

764
00:36:36,040 --> 00:36:39,640
Speaker 2: coaches that get a copy of the home game tomorrow,

765
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Speaker 2: Bucky Brooks.

766
00:36:41,920 --> 00:36:46,240
Speaker 3: Three coaches who get fired tomorrow. Let's see Ron Rivera

767
00:36:46,280 --> 00:36:52,960
Speaker 3: from Washington. We'll get fired. We don't want to talk

768
00:36:53,000 --> 00:36:54,799
Speaker 3: about the interim status, right, we just want to talk

769
00:36:54,800 --> 00:36:59,759
Speaker 3: about guys who go. I would say Arthur Smith is

770
00:36:59,800 --> 00:37:04,919
Speaker 3: probably let go. That third one is tough Man, because

771
00:37:04,920 --> 00:37:09,600
Speaker 3: it's always a random one. Robert Solah comes back, you know,

772
00:37:10,239 --> 00:37:12,799
Speaker 3: like I know, people are clamming for Bill Belichick, So

773
00:37:13,160 --> 00:37:14,720
Speaker 3: I'll say Bill Belichick goes.

774
00:37:15,280 --> 00:37:16,320
Speaker 1: I don't think so either.

775
00:37:16,400 --> 00:37:18,800
Speaker 2: But I'm trying to think who else may get fired

776
00:37:19,120 --> 00:37:21,360
Speaker 2: if the Bills lose, if they don't make the playoffs.

777
00:37:21,400 --> 00:37:22,040
Speaker 2: What do you think?

778
00:37:23,840 --> 00:37:26,680
Speaker 1: No, I think he's there. I think he's good. I

779
00:37:26,680 --> 00:37:27,319
Speaker 1: think he's good.

780
00:37:27,920 --> 00:37:30,000
Speaker 2: So I'm trying to think of a third.

781
00:37:32,800 --> 00:37:34,759
Speaker 3: Yeah, there a lot of interims that they've already they've

782
00:37:34,800 --> 00:37:37,160
Speaker 3: already got like Vegas and those things. I think Ibra

783
00:37:37,200 --> 00:37:42,759
Speaker 3: Flus has done a good enough job. Yeah, I think

784
00:37:42,840 --> 00:37:45,280
Speaker 3: Arthur Smith is the one.

785
00:37:45,080 --> 00:37:47,800
Speaker 2: Retire You think Pete Carroll retired, man.

786
00:37:48,160 --> 00:37:50,640
Speaker 1: I think he stays. I think he says.

787
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Speaker 3: I think the wild card is like people are hearing

788
00:37:53,239 --> 00:37:54,719
Speaker 3: people talk about Nick Sirianni.

789
00:37:55,120 --> 00:37:57,200
Speaker 1: He can't be fired, right, There's no way to fire

790
00:37:57,239 --> 00:37:57,920
Speaker 1: Nick Sirianni.

791
00:37:58,760 --> 00:38:01,800
Speaker 2: No, all right. I mean we got two in Apostle,

792
00:38:02,320 --> 00:38:04,680
Speaker 2: a boatload of interim, so we'll see what happens there.

793
00:38:05,120 --> 00:38:08,000
Speaker 2: The biggest disappointments in the National Football League this year,

794
00:38:08,040 --> 00:38:10,880
Speaker 2: and you could throw our teams or individuals are both

795
00:38:11,040 --> 00:38:12,240
Speaker 2: biggest disappointments.

796
00:38:15,560 --> 00:38:18,719
Speaker 3: Well, the biggest disappointment right now would be the way

797
00:38:18,760 --> 00:38:22,279
Speaker 3: the Philadelphia Eagles have finished. I think we had high expectations,

798
00:38:22,360 --> 00:38:24,800
Speaker 3: high hopes for them, so the Philadelphia Eagles would be

799
00:38:24,880 --> 00:38:27,600
Speaker 3: my team in the NFC. The New York Jets would

800
00:38:27,640 --> 00:38:30,319
Speaker 3: be the disappointment in the AFC. I know, like a

801
00:38:30,320 --> 00:38:32,120
Speaker 3: lot of it is on Aaron Rodgers, but man, this

802
00:38:32,200 --> 00:38:35,240
Speaker 3: defense was supposed to be so good, right and they faltered.

803
00:38:35,560 --> 00:38:38,200
Speaker 1: So yeah, the New York Chants are a huge disappointment

804
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Speaker 1: to me.

805
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Speaker 2: Any individuals that are disappointing in your mind.

806
00:38:43,640 --> 00:38:46,400
Speaker 3: I would continue to say Deshaun Watson's a disappointment for

807
00:38:46,480 --> 00:38:49,160
Speaker 3: the money that and the stuff that the Cleveland Browns

808
00:38:49,200 --> 00:38:53,360
Speaker 3: are given him. Look the performance than the inability to

809
00:38:53,360 --> 00:38:55,160
Speaker 3: be around. I think they would probably make it like

810
00:38:55,200 --> 00:38:56,080
Speaker 3: a big disappointment.

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Speaker 2: All right, let's turn it around. Make it the biggest

812
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Speaker 2: surprises both teams and indivis in the National Football League.

813
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Speaker 3: Biggest surprises the Cleveland Browns being able to overcome it,

814
00:39:07,160 --> 00:39:09,440
Speaker 3: Joe Flacco coming off the couch and playing as well

815
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Speaker 3: as he played. C J. Stroud being the second quarterback

816
00:39:13,640 --> 00:39:16,719
Speaker 3: who really, man, he was kind of raked over the

817
00:39:16,800 --> 00:39:20,000
Speaker 3: Coles during the pre draft process and he's the best

818
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Speaker 3: one in the class. I never would have thought that

819
00:39:22,080 --> 00:39:23,680
Speaker 3: would have happened.

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Speaker 2: What about Baker Mayfield, C D. Lamb. Surprise.

821
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Speaker 3: Yeah, Baker Mayfield certainly deserves that kind of surprise that

822
00:39:30,640 --> 00:39:32,040
Speaker 3: he's been able to kind of bring it back.

823
00:39:32,080 --> 00:39:35,279
Speaker 1: But the system fits his talents and z D.

824
00:39:35,400 --> 00:39:37,560
Speaker 3: Lamb has always been good, but the fact that now

825
00:39:37,560 --> 00:39:39,440
Speaker 3: we're talking about him as the best receiving in the league,

826
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Speaker 3: that's a little bit of a surprise.

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Speaker 2: Okay, big question for you, Bucky Brooks. This is a toughie,

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Speaker 2: all right. Which is harder bowling a three hundred game

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Speaker 2: or in golf getting a hole in one?

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Speaker 3: I think bowling a three hundred game because like a

831
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Speaker 3: hole in one, like a lucky Bouts could maybe hit

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Speaker 3: it in, but a three hundre game you have to

833
00:40:00,840 --> 00:40:02,880
Speaker 3: be skilled enough to be able to do that. So

834
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Speaker 3: to me, that's the one that I would go for.

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Speaker 2: And the three hundred game, Honestly, it is kind of

836
00:40:08,880 --> 00:40:11,040
Speaker 2: a poor comparison, I think, because you got to do

837
00:40:11,120 --> 00:40:13,239
Speaker 2: it ten times, you got ten frames to do it,

838
00:40:13,320 --> 00:40:16,000
Speaker 2: and you screw up once you finished. We're a homely one.

839
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Speaker 2: You know, you're on one hole, you boom, you hit

840
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Speaker 2: it out there and there's somewhat of its luck, I'm sure,

841
00:40:21,560 --> 00:40:24,880
Speaker 2: but you know, there's really not that much pressure because

842
00:40:24,920 --> 00:40:28,120
Speaker 2: it's one and done, whereas bowling you just continue to

843
00:40:28,160 --> 00:40:31,239
Speaker 2: go on. And so have you ever bowled a three

844
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Speaker 2: hundred game?

845
00:40:32,560 --> 00:40:34,640
Speaker 3: I have not bowled a three hundred game, but I'm

846
00:40:34,680 --> 00:40:36,279
Speaker 3: looking forward to eventually doing it.

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Speaker 2: Here we go, all right, Bucky Brooks got a surprise

848
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Speaker 2: for you, a top five coming up next on Fox.

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Speaker 2: Stick with us, all right. They voted him most inspirational.

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Speaker 2: Why that's coming right up?

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Speaker 4: All right?

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Speaker 2: Good morning everybody. This is Fox Football Sunday on Fox Sports. Ready,

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Speaker 2: You are and this week you had your top five

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Speaker 2: rookie classes of the NFL season. And before we start,

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Speaker 2: I want to mention this. You write for NFL dot

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Speaker 2: makes a lot of sense. And you measured these and

867
00:41:38,400 --> 00:41:42,360
Speaker 2: I want to ask, how did you measure which teams

868
00:41:42,440 --> 00:41:45,320
Speaker 2: had the best returns from the twenty twenty three draft?

869
00:41:46,840 --> 00:41:48,360
Speaker 3: Well, I mean, I think you look at just the

870
00:41:48,400 --> 00:41:52,160
Speaker 3: initial impact, like what was the return on the investment?

871
00:41:52,239 --> 00:41:56,759
Speaker 3: How did the topic performs? Did they make impactful performance

872
00:41:56,800 --> 00:41:59,880
Speaker 3: and production? And I think when you hear the classes,

873
00:42:00,360 --> 00:42:03,759
Speaker 3: it's pretty obvious that their rookies made an impact. And

874
00:42:03,760 --> 00:42:06,000
Speaker 3: it's one of the reasons why each of these teams

875
00:42:06,200 --> 00:42:09,160
Speaker 3: are either in the playoffs or near playoff contention.

876
00:42:09,760 --> 00:42:11,520
Speaker 2: You know that about that And you talk about Dan

877
00:42:11,600 --> 00:42:13,799
Speaker 2: Campbell as a possible coach of the Year with Kevin

878
00:42:13,880 --> 00:42:16,200
Speaker 2: Stefanski one or two or two and one. But I

879
00:42:16,320 --> 00:42:19,680
Speaker 2: tell you what, without Jamar Gibbs and Sam Laporta, I

880
00:42:19,719 --> 00:42:22,480
Speaker 2: don't know where they'd be because those two guys really

881
00:42:22,880 --> 00:42:26,320
Speaker 2: really turned them around on the offensive side of the football.

882
00:42:26,520 --> 00:42:29,000
Speaker 3: Yeah, the Detroit Lions have gotten a lot of playout

883
00:42:29,040 --> 00:42:31,600
Speaker 3: of their rooky class. Everyone would talk offensively about Jamiir

884
00:42:31,640 --> 00:42:35,319
Speaker 3: Gibbs and Sam laporter and they should but being able

885
00:42:35,320 --> 00:42:37,439
Speaker 3: to get contributions on the defense side of the ball,

886
00:42:37,560 --> 00:42:41,320
Speaker 3: Brian Branch being able to make plays right away. Jack

887
00:42:41,360 --> 00:42:44,840
Speaker 3: Campbell their first round pick, linebacker, made plays.

888
00:42:45,120 --> 00:42:49,200
Speaker 1: And so you talk about their four top picks all.

889
00:42:48,960 --> 00:42:51,200
Speaker 3: Made in impact and one of the reasons why the

890
00:42:51,280 --> 00:42:54,000
Speaker 3: Lions are sitting pretty as the NFC North champs.

891
00:42:54,400 --> 00:42:56,160
Speaker 2: No doubt about that you got them as the number

892
00:42:56,200 --> 00:42:58,720
Speaker 2: one pick. As far as the draft results are concerned,

893
00:42:58,719 --> 00:43:02,760
Speaker 2: I will say this. ESPN has this so called draft guru,

894
00:43:03,120 --> 00:43:05,879
Speaker 2: mel Kiper, and I think that he is a decent job.

895
00:43:05,920 --> 00:43:08,239
Speaker 2: Will tell you who basically teams should pick and who

896
00:43:08,280 --> 00:43:10,120
Speaker 2: are they going to pick, and their needs. But I

897
00:43:10,120 --> 00:43:13,640
Speaker 2: think what you've done is very, very useful in the

898
00:43:13,680 --> 00:43:16,520
Speaker 2: sense that, yeah, after the guy has picked, I want

899
00:43:16,560 --> 00:43:18,239
Speaker 2: to see if he was successful as you tell me

900
00:43:18,280 --> 00:43:21,080
Speaker 2: he was, and maybe mel Kiper should do something like

901
00:43:21,160 --> 00:43:23,400
Speaker 2: you did. And I'd like to see mel Kiper do

902
00:43:23,520 --> 00:43:26,319
Speaker 2: something maybe a year or two down the road after

903
00:43:26,360 --> 00:43:28,680
Speaker 2: the draft is over, so that the class of twenty

904
00:43:28,719 --> 00:43:31,719
Speaker 2: twenty three mel Kiper in twenty twenty five telling me

905
00:43:31,800 --> 00:43:34,520
Speaker 2: how those guys did. I mean, you just pick guys

906
00:43:34,960 --> 00:43:37,560
Speaker 2: some of failure, some or not. No one knows, but

907
00:43:37,640 --> 00:43:39,799
Speaker 2: you're telling which teams what the pick, what you did,

908
00:43:39,840 --> 00:43:42,759
Speaker 2: Bucket is a great service to the football fan, It

909
00:43:42,840 --> 00:43:43,319
Speaker 2: really is.

910
00:43:44,719 --> 00:43:47,080
Speaker 1: Yeah, But I think Meil tries to go back sometimes.

911
00:43:47,080 --> 00:43:48,840
Speaker 3: He always talks about like it takes three years to

912
00:43:48,880 --> 00:43:51,200
Speaker 3: determine whether the guy can play or not. He sometimes

913
00:43:51,200 --> 00:43:52,960
Speaker 3: we do his hits and missus guys that he like,

914
00:43:53,040 --> 00:43:57,160
Speaker 3: guys that he didn't sometimes. You know, the toughest thing

915
00:43:57,160 --> 00:44:00,960
Speaker 3: about scouting from the media side is you don't have

916
00:44:01,200 --> 00:44:02,640
Speaker 3: access to all the information.

917
00:44:03,560 --> 00:44:04,600
Speaker 1: So you piece mell them.

918
00:44:04,520 --> 00:44:07,680
Speaker 3: Together and you're not necessarily looking at it just from

919
00:44:07,719 --> 00:44:11,040
Speaker 3: one team's vantage point. Who best fits what we do

920
00:44:11,120 --> 00:44:13,120
Speaker 3: and how we want to get it done. And so

921
00:44:13,520 --> 00:44:17,040
Speaker 3: some of the misfires or the surprises that happened is

922
00:44:17,080 --> 00:44:19,920
Speaker 3: because the team either had or didn't have a.

923
00:44:19,960 --> 00:44:22,640
Speaker 1: Very clear plan for how to use the player that

924
00:44:22,719 --> 00:44:23,360
Speaker 1: they selected.

925
00:44:24,200 --> 00:44:26,440
Speaker 2: Right, Okay, the number two on your list with the

926
00:44:26,480 --> 00:44:30,160
Speaker 2: Houston Texas, no problem right there. CJ. Stroud was the

927
00:44:30,200 --> 00:44:32,040
Speaker 2: guy carried the team on his back. But they got

928
00:44:32,040 --> 00:44:36,200
Speaker 2: thatookie rookie wide receiver tang Dell third round pick. But

929
00:44:36,760 --> 00:44:38,680
Speaker 2: he was a big play kind of guy and really helped.

930
00:44:38,760 --> 00:44:42,160
Speaker 2: I don't know if CJ made him, or basically the

931
00:44:42,239 --> 00:44:45,240
Speaker 2: other way around. I got I think CJ. Stroud really

932
00:44:45,320 --> 00:44:48,200
Speaker 2: helped the development of Tang Dell.

933
00:44:48,360 --> 00:44:48,879
Speaker 1: Yeah, he did.

934
00:44:48,920 --> 00:44:51,080
Speaker 3: But Tank Dell was outstanding during the time that he

935
00:44:51,120 --> 00:44:54,080
Speaker 3: was available. I mean, he was looking like the bell

936
00:44:54,160 --> 00:44:55,880
Speaker 3: of the ball when it came to the Ricky class

937
00:44:55,880 --> 00:44:58,280
Speaker 3: of wide receivers, doing a great job making big plays.

938
00:44:58,719 --> 00:45:00,600
Speaker 1: C J. Stroud certainly helped that. C J.

939
00:45:00,680 --> 00:45:04,800
Speaker 3: Stroud is already in the conversation as an elite quarterback,

940
00:45:04,840 --> 00:45:06,760
Speaker 3: one of the elite quarterbacks in our league.

941
00:45:06,880 --> 00:45:08,920
Speaker 1: And so look, there's a little bit of ying and yang,

942
00:45:09,200 --> 00:45:09,960
Speaker 1: but when you.

943
00:45:09,920 --> 00:45:11,279
Speaker 3: Go back and you look on the other side of

944
00:45:11,280 --> 00:45:13,600
Speaker 3: the ball, Will Anderson, who they traded up to get,

945
00:45:13,880 --> 00:45:14,760
Speaker 3: he has been.

946
00:45:14,640 --> 00:45:15,839
Speaker 1: As good as advertised.

947
00:45:15,880 --> 00:45:18,080
Speaker 3: You know, he was a guy that created pressure off

948
00:45:18,080 --> 00:45:22,240
Speaker 3: the edge, made disruptive plays. There were questions about whether

949
00:45:22,280 --> 00:45:23,799
Speaker 3: he would be able to do the same things that

950
00:45:23,840 --> 00:45:26,560
Speaker 3: he did at Alabama where he silenced all the nay sayers.

951
00:45:26,719 --> 00:45:28,719
Speaker 3: He has been solid and when you look at this

952
00:45:28,880 --> 00:45:32,640
Speaker 3: Texans team, their foundation is in place. They got man,

953
00:45:32,880 --> 00:45:35,760
Speaker 3: a couple of blue chippers from last year's draft class.

954
00:45:35,800 --> 00:45:36,719
Speaker 1: Still to continue to.

955
00:45:36,680 --> 00:45:40,080
Speaker 3: Add on to that and with a team that is

956
00:45:40,120 --> 00:45:43,839
Speaker 3: coming that will come off like a playoff run man.

957
00:45:44,280 --> 00:45:47,200
Speaker 3: To look at the era is pointing up for the

958
00:45:47,239 --> 00:45:48,080
Speaker 3: Houston Texas.

959
00:45:48,280 --> 00:45:50,759
Speaker 2: Okay, number three on Bucket Brooks's list. As far as

960
00:45:50,760 --> 00:45:53,480
Speaker 2: a great rookie class, the Green Bay Packers, and certainly

961
00:45:53,560 --> 00:45:55,919
Speaker 2: Jordan Love had a good year as a first year

962
00:45:56,120 --> 00:45:59,120
Speaker 2: full time starter, but certainly was helped by guys like

963
00:45:59,239 --> 00:46:01,960
Speaker 2: Jayden Reid, a second round pick, the fiftiest pick in

964
00:46:02,040 --> 00:46:02,799
Speaker 2: the draft.

965
00:46:03,719 --> 00:46:06,040
Speaker 3: Yeah, Jayden Reed has been terrific man. Jayden Reen has

966
00:46:06,040 --> 00:46:09,040
Speaker 3: been everything they want. Look, the Packers have not even

967
00:46:09,120 --> 00:46:13,280
Speaker 3: really played with Christian Watson, and Christian Watson was expected

968
00:46:13,280 --> 00:46:15,000
Speaker 3: to be the number one receiver. He was the guy

969
00:46:15,040 --> 00:46:17,560
Speaker 3: taken two years ago in the second round. So Jayden

970
00:46:17,560 --> 00:46:21,040
Speaker 3: Reid steps in and delivers in a big way. And

971
00:46:21,040 --> 00:46:24,280
Speaker 3: the good thing that I like about this Packers' receiver

972
00:46:24,400 --> 00:46:26,799
Speaker 3: corps is they don't have a thousand yard receiver, but

973
00:46:26,920 --> 00:46:31,040
Speaker 3: they have a lot of guys that contributed dot Avin Wis,

974
00:46:31,080 --> 00:46:34,560
Speaker 3: Malik Keith Muskrave and Tuckerkraft it tied end, respectively.

975
00:46:35,080 --> 00:46:37,080
Speaker 1: All of those guys have been able to do it.

976
00:46:37,160 --> 00:46:40,440
Speaker 3: And so it makes you look at the Packers differently,

977
00:46:40,480 --> 00:46:43,120
Speaker 3: particularly the way that it ended with Aaron Rodgers. You

978
00:46:43,160 --> 00:46:47,000
Speaker 3: wonder if Aaron Rodgers' presence was holding back the development

979
00:46:47,040 --> 00:46:48,600
Speaker 3: of a bunch of young playmakers.

980
00:46:48,840 --> 00:46:50,600
Speaker 1: You remove him, You put Jordan Love in.

981
00:46:50,719 --> 00:46:53,280
Speaker 3: Jordan Love having those guys over to the house, developing

982
00:46:53,320 --> 00:46:54,600
Speaker 3: a better chemistry and connection.

983
00:46:55,000 --> 00:46:57,960
Speaker 1: And the Packers have looked. They put themselves in a.

984
00:46:57,920 --> 00:47:00,440
Speaker 3: Situation where if they win, their in and a lot

985
00:47:00,440 --> 00:47:02,440
Speaker 3: of it is due to the contributions of the twenty

986
00:47:02,480 --> 00:47:04,520
Speaker 3: twenty three draft class.

987
00:47:04,280 --> 00:47:06,080
Speaker 2: Okay movie to number four, and I tell you what,

988
00:47:06,719 --> 00:47:08,520
Speaker 2: there could be an argument here that maybe they should

989
00:47:08,560 --> 00:47:10,960
Speaker 2: be higher than number four. The La Rams And again

990
00:47:11,360 --> 00:47:15,040
Speaker 2: I apologize because Sean mcvay's name should be included in

991
00:47:15,080 --> 00:47:17,319
Speaker 2: the possibility to Coach of the year. What he has

992
00:47:17,360 --> 00:47:19,720
Speaker 2: done to turn this team around, especially in the last

993
00:47:19,760 --> 00:47:22,920
Speaker 2: month or so, it's unbelievable. And guys like Pooka Nakoula,

994
00:47:23,200 --> 00:47:26,000
Speaker 2: a fifth round pick on the offensive side of the ball,

995
00:47:26,120 --> 00:47:28,600
Speaker 2: to go alongside of Cooper Cup. This team is coming

996
00:47:28,640 --> 00:47:30,840
Speaker 2: along strong offensively down the stretch.

997
00:47:32,120 --> 00:47:33,560
Speaker 1: Yeah, they're coming on strong. They're playing well.

998
00:47:33,560 --> 00:47:35,880
Speaker 3: They're playing the best football when you want to play it.

999
00:47:36,719 --> 00:47:39,799
Speaker 3: They're young players have really stepped up this is the

1000
00:47:39,840 --> 00:47:42,439
Speaker 3: best job that we've seen from Sean McVay in terms

1001
00:47:42,440 --> 00:47:44,320
Speaker 3: of I'll be honest, I thought this was gonna be

1002
00:47:44,360 --> 00:47:46,719
Speaker 3: his last year. He's gonna check it in, go off

1003
00:47:46,760 --> 00:47:49,200
Speaker 3: and do TV. But he has shown the building to

1004
00:47:49,239 --> 00:47:52,319
Speaker 3: develop young players. Pooka Nakoula has come in and he's

1005
00:47:52,320 --> 00:47:54,640
Speaker 3: the code number one receiver with the Cooper Cup, and

1006
00:47:54,680 --> 00:47:56,400
Speaker 3: I don't think any of us would have imagined a

1007
00:47:56,440 --> 00:47:59,600
Speaker 3: fifth round pick being that. Had a guard Steve Avila

1008
00:47:59,680 --> 00:48:02,960
Speaker 3: come in and have success right away on the offensive line.

1009
00:48:03,000 --> 00:48:05,719
Speaker 1: Then defensively, they've gotten two pass rushers to.

1010
00:48:05,719 --> 00:48:08,760
Speaker 3: Kind of get it done, barring young Kobe Turner, one inside,

1011
00:48:08,760 --> 00:48:12,360
Speaker 3: one outside being able to effectively disrupt the rhythm of

1012
00:48:12,400 --> 00:48:15,400
Speaker 3: the passing game from the opponent. All of those players

1013
00:48:15,440 --> 00:48:18,760
Speaker 3: have contributed to the Rams being in the Mexican included

1014
00:48:18,800 --> 00:48:19,880
Speaker 3: in the playoff field.

1015
00:48:20,040 --> 00:48:22,640
Speaker 2: All right, and the Pittsburgh Steelers number five. This is

1016
00:48:22,640 --> 00:48:24,920
Speaker 2: a tough I mean, honestly for you to pick one

1017
00:48:24,960 --> 00:48:26,480
Speaker 2: to five. I mean you could have just put these

1018
00:48:26,600 --> 00:48:28,640
Speaker 2: names of these teams in a hattant just picked any

1019
00:48:28,680 --> 00:48:30,920
Speaker 2: one of them. Because there's been so many rookies that

1020
00:48:30,960 --> 00:48:32,759
Speaker 2: have made such a difference and they'll talk about the

1021
00:48:32,760 --> 00:48:35,680
Speaker 2: Pittsburgh Steelers right now with their tight end Darnell Washington

1022
00:48:35,680 --> 00:48:38,440
Speaker 2: and of course cornerback Joey Porter Junr. A second round pick,

1023
00:48:38,480 --> 00:48:40,640
Speaker 2: the thirty second pick in the draft. You talk about

1024
00:48:40,680 --> 00:48:44,319
Speaker 2: how tough that defense is on Pittsburgh. Joey Porter Junior

1025
00:48:44,400 --> 00:48:45,600
Speaker 2: is a big reason why.

1026
00:48:46,600 --> 00:48:48,200
Speaker 1: Yeah, Joey Porter Junr. Has been great.

1027
00:48:48,239 --> 00:48:50,399
Speaker 3: And I'll give the Stealers credit because what they did

1028
00:48:50,440 --> 00:48:53,600
Speaker 3: is they took a long, slow approach when it came

1029
00:48:53,640 --> 00:48:55,600
Speaker 3: to putting their rookies on the field.

1030
00:48:55,640 --> 00:48:57,080
Speaker 1: They didn't put him in week one.

1031
00:48:57,160 --> 00:49:00,480
Speaker 3: They waited till about mid season and slowly start dropping

1032
00:49:00,480 --> 00:49:04,680
Speaker 3: those guys in Joey Porter Junior, Broderick Jones, Darnelle Washington,

1033
00:49:04,760 --> 00:49:07,399
Speaker 3: those guys started kind of getting more playing time, and

1034
00:49:07,480 --> 00:49:11,080
Speaker 3: as they earn more playing time, they were rewarded with

1035
00:49:11,200 --> 00:49:17,800
Speaker 3: even more significant roles, starters, Joey Porter Jr. Traveling around

1036
00:49:17,840 --> 00:49:21,080
Speaker 3: with number one receivers and so part of the late

1037
00:49:21,120 --> 00:49:23,719
Speaker 3: season push that the Pittsburgh still has made is not

1038
00:49:23,760 --> 00:49:26,279
Speaker 3: only due to Mike tomlin is great coaching, but the

1039
00:49:26,320 --> 00:49:28,560
Speaker 3: fact that these young guys really developed and they were

1040
00:49:28,560 --> 00:49:31,160
Speaker 3: able to make key contributions at the end of the season.

1041
00:49:31,800 --> 00:49:33,239
Speaker 2: I got to come in and you did one heck

1042
00:49:33,280 --> 00:49:35,240
Speaker 2: of a job. This is not easy to put stuff

1043
00:49:35,280 --> 00:49:37,759
Speaker 2: like that together. And you know, I'm proud to say

1044
00:49:37,800 --> 00:49:40,240
Speaker 2: that that I work with you because you're really great

1045
00:49:40,320 --> 00:49:42,560
Speaker 2: at this. You really are. And I look forward every

1046
00:49:42,560 --> 00:49:45,400
Speaker 2: Friday to go to NFL dot Com scroll downwards as

1047
00:49:45,480 --> 00:49:48,439
Speaker 2: NFL Writers and you see Bucket Brooks his beautiful mug

1048
00:49:48,480 --> 00:49:50,360
Speaker 2: and then you could read what he wrote. So it's great.

1049
00:49:50,840 --> 00:49:52,840
Speaker 2: And does that go on all year long or just

1050
00:49:52,920 --> 00:49:53,960
Speaker 2: during the football season.

1051
00:49:54,800 --> 00:49:56,880
Speaker 3: No, all year long, man, all kinds of stuff. And

1052
00:49:57,280 --> 00:49:59,000
Speaker 3: you know it's not just NFL dot Com. I also

1053
00:49:59,080 --> 00:50:01,200
Speaker 3: do stuff at Fox. You go to Fox Sports Digital

1054
00:50:01,640 --> 00:50:04,920
Speaker 3: on Mondays and Thursdays and I put some stuff up

1055
00:50:04,960 --> 00:50:05,879
Speaker 3: for that as well.

1056
00:50:06,320 --> 00:50:08,719
Speaker 2: Pretty busy guy, there we go. Now back to the

1057
00:50:08,760 --> 00:50:11,480
Speaker 2: grid Ion. The Vikings are playing the Lions. I don't

1058
00:50:11,520 --> 00:50:14,359
Speaker 2: like the fact that two weeks ago they played and

1059
00:50:14,440 --> 00:50:17,000
Speaker 2: look it's the same thing all over again. The Lions

1060
00:50:17,040 --> 00:50:19,080
Speaker 2: beat the Vikings two weeks ago, thirty to twenty four.

1061
00:50:19,239 --> 00:50:21,719
Speaker 2: That game was in Minnesota. And if you're interested, I

1062
00:50:21,800 --> 00:50:23,880
Speaker 2: will tell you the Vikings are still alive in the

1063
00:50:24,000 --> 00:50:27,960
Speaker 2: race for a final playoff spot. But by their skin

1064
00:50:28,080 --> 00:50:31,480
Speaker 2: of their teeth. Really, a Minnesota has to get a

1065
00:50:31,520 --> 00:50:33,640
Speaker 2: win over Detroit today, no doubt about that. But they

1066
00:50:33,640 --> 00:50:35,799
Speaker 2: gotta get a lot of help to get into the playoffs.

1067
00:50:36,000 --> 00:50:38,000
Speaker 2: The Vikings get in with the win, of course, but

1068
00:50:38,040 --> 00:50:40,560
Speaker 2: they get in with the win and a Seahawks loss,

1069
00:50:40,920 --> 00:50:44,120
Speaker 2: a Packers loss and a loss. Get this by either

1070
00:50:44,160 --> 00:50:48,280
Speaker 2: the Saints or Tampa Bay. Now, if the Packers, Buccaneers,

1071
00:50:48,360 --> 00:50:52,200
Speaker 2: Saints or Seahawks win, the Vikings are eliminated. You get

1072
00:50:52,200 --> 00:50:54,839
Speaker 2: that down, all right? We may ask you about that later. Now,

1073
00:50:55,239 --> 00:50:57,160
Speaker 2: the number two seed that's still in play for the

1074
00:50:57,160 --> 00:51:00,640
Speaker 2: Detroit Lions. They're currently the number three seed. The Lions

1075
00:51:00,640 --> 00:51:03,279
Speaker 2: could be the number two seed with a win and

1076
00:51:03,320 --> 00:51:06,440
Speaker 2: a Cowboys loss and an Eagles loss. They had a

1077
00:51:06,520 --> 00:51:09,319
Speaker 2: number three seed with a loss, or if the Cowboys

1078
00:51:09,360 --> 00:51:11,799
Speaker 2: or Eagles win. I can't figure it out. I just

1079
00:51:11,840 --> 00:51:14,239
Speaker 2: watch the games, That's all I do. But I do

1080
00:51:14,320 --> 00:51:17,400
Speaker 2: believe that the Lions probably I'm not going to be

1081
00:51:17,400 --> 00:51:19,399
Speaker 2: that concerned. I don't think for a number two pick,

1082
00:51:19,480 --> 00:51:21,600
Speaker 2: or number two seed or a number three seed, they'd

1083
00:51:21,640 --> 00:51:23,960
Speaker 2: rather rest some of the players. Am I correct on that?

1084
00:51:25,600 --> 00:51:27,839
Speaker 3: Yeah? Look, they want to get that bad taste of out.

1085
00:51:27,880 --> 00:51:35,480
Speaker 3: But you also want to be smart understand than you

1086
00:51:35,760 --> 00:51:38,960
Speaker 3: know preseason, I know what happened. You don't hear me?

1087
00:51:39,640 --> 00:51:40,400
Speaker 1: Yeah, I hear you, hear me?

1088
00:51:40,840 --> 00:51:41,000
Speaker 4: Yeah?

1089
00:51:41,080 --> 00:51:42,239
Speaker 2: Now I do, Yes, I do?

1090
00:51:42,680 --> 00:51:44,120
Speaker 1: Okay, cool, okay.

1091
00:51:44,200 --> 00:51:47,560
Speaker 3: So the difference in the regular season the preseason when

1092
00:51:47,600 --> 00:51:48,640
Speaker 3: it comes to resting guys.

1093
00:51:48,920 --> 00:51:50,520
Speaker 1: In the preseason, when you rest guys.

1094
00:51:50,360 --> 00:51:52,279
Speaker 3: You have four rosters, right, you have ninety guys that

1095
00:51:52,280 --> 00:51:54,480
Speaker 3: are available to you, and the regular season you only

1096
00:51:54,520 --> 00:51:57,520
Speaker 3: have forty seven guys. Forty six guys that dress out

1097
00:51:57,520 --> 00:52:00,720
Speaker 3: on game day, So you only can sit down guys.

1098
00:52:00,880 --> 00:52:02,960
Speaker 3: So no matter what we say, like you can sit

1099
00:52:03,000 --> 00:52:05,359
Speaker 3: some guys down, but the majority of your starters are

1100
00:52:05,360 --> 00:52:07,400
Speaker 3: still going to play. You just don't have enough depth

1101
00:52:07,719 --> 00:52:09,840
Speaker 3: to do it, and so it'll look a little different

1102
00:52:09,880 --> 00:52:13,239
Speaker 3: without maybe some of the stars on the field, But

1103
00:52:13,360 --> 00:52:17,040
Speaker 3: you're still getting the bulk of the team's players, and

1104
00:52:17,080 --> 00:52:19,680
Speaker 3: so you should be able to still win even though

1105
00:52:19,719 --> 00:52:21,520
Speaker 3: you are doing some low manager.

1106
00:52:21,920 --> 00:52:24,520
Speaker 2: Right, And I think that there's a lot of private

1107
00:52:24,560 --> 00:52:26,799
Speaker 2: stake for Detroit. I think Detroit probably will win. I

1108
00:52:26,840 --> 00:52:30,440
Speaker 2: just think Detroit's a better team. So Detroit wins this one,

1109
00:52:30,600 --> 00:52:33,120
Speaker 2: and we'll see what happens in the playoffs. However, now

1110
00:52:33,120 --> 00:52:35,360
Speaker 2: we got the Jets at the Patriots. It's very interesting

1111
00:52:35,640 --> 00:52:38,960
Speaker 2: because basically the game does really matter for playoff situations.

1112
00:52:39,000 --> 00:52:40,960
Speaker 2: Both teams have gone out of the playoffs, but both

1113
00:52:40,960 --> 00:52:42,960
Speaker 2: the Jets and Patriots are eliminated. We know that the

1114
00:52:42,960 --> 00:52:46,840
Speaker 2: Patriots could get the number two pick with a loss

1115
00:52:47,280 --> 00:52:50,120
Speaker 2: and a Commander's win, so we'll see what happens there.

1116
00:52:50,120 --> 00:52:53,200
Speaker 2: But the real big story surrounding this game could this

1117
00:52:53,239 --> 00:52:55,759
Speaker 2: be the swan song for coach Bill Belichick. That's the

1118
00:52:55,840 --> 00:52:58,960
Speaker 2: key right there. And also, the Jets have lost their

1119
00:52:59,040 --> 00:53:02,520
Speaker 2: last fifteen games against the Pages. This game is in

1120
00:53:02,800 --> 00:53:05,000
Speaker 2: New England, I think there'll be a big supporting cast.

1121
00:53:05,320 --> 00:53:07,560
Speaker 2: Fans will be going out in droves. I guess thinking

1122
00:53:07,600 --> 00:53:10,520
Speaker 2: that it could very well be the last game for

1123
00:53:10,600 --> 00:53:12,839
Speaker 2: coach Bill Belichick in New England, which I don't think

1124
00:53:12,880 --> 00:53:14,920
Speaker 2: it will be. I think they'd be crazy to get

1125
00:53:15,000 --> 00:53:17,040
Speaker 2: rid of him, and I think he'd be crazy to leave.

1126
00:53:17,160 --> 00:53:20,200
Speaker 2: They're just a quarterback away.

1127
00:53:20,960 --> 00:53:22,640
Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't think it will be either. I don't

1128
00:53:22,640 --> 00:53:26,520
Speaker 1: think it'd be their last time together.

1129
00:53:26,760 --> 00:53:29,840
Speaker 3: I think Belichick kind of figured out maybe he'll relinquished

1130
00:53:29,840 --> 00:53:33,760
Speaker 3: some of the personnel control. But I do not expect

1131
00:53:33,800 --> 00:53:37,839
Speaker 3: him to just kind of walk away from it. And

1132
00:53:37,960 --> 00:53:41,360
Speaker 3: I can't imagine them dismissing him after all the things

1133
00:53:41,360 --> 00:53:42,319
Speaker 3: that he's done for them.

1134
00:53:43,120 --> 00:53:43,920
Speaker 1: I just can't see it.

1135
00:53:44,200 --> 00:53:46,560
Speaker 2: I'm with you right there, all right. And another interesting

1136
00:53:46,600 --> 00:53:50,239
Speaker 2: thing surrounding this game. Aaron Rodgers obviously first year with

1137
00:53:50,239 --> 00:53:52,680
Speaker 2: the New York Jets and only lasted four plays, but

1138
00:53:52,760 --> 00:53:54,840
Speaker 2: he made an impact. On Friday this week, he was

1139
00:53:54,920 --> 00:53:59,120
Speaker 2: voted by his teammates as a just most inspirational player

1140
00:53:59,719 --> 00:54:02,480
Speaker 2: for the for the season. I don't get it. How

1141
00:54:02,560 --> 00:54:05,200
Speaker 2: is he the most inspirational guy? He wasn't around the

1142
00:54:05,239 --> 00:54:07,759
Speaker 2: team for about three months and he wanted to do

1143
00:54:07,840 --> 00:54:11,880
Speaker 2: his rehab near his home in Malibu, California. Okay, during

1144
00:54:11,920 --> 00:54:14,239
Speaker 2: that time, he attended most of the games, then he

1145
00:54:14,280 --> 00:54:16,720
Speaker 2: flew back back to the West Coast. Then he rejoined

1146
00:54:16,719 --> 00:54:18,720
Speaker 2: the team on a full time basis. I think around

1147
00:54:18,760 --> 00:54:21,799
Speaker 2: Thanksgiving time, when his practice window was open. I don't

1148
00:54:21,800 --> 00:54:24,200
Speaker 2: get it. How is the most inspirational? I tell you

1149
00:54:24,320 --> 00:54:26,239
Speaker 2: right now, if I was a teammate, I wouldn't have

1150
00:54:26,280 --> 00:54:28,959
Speaker 2: voted for him. I think the guy's an egomaniac right now,

1151
00:54:29,000 --> 00:54:30,760
Speaker 2: and I don't like what he did about the Jimmy

1152
00:54:30,800 --> 00:54:33,759
Speaker 2: Kimmel situation with Jeffrey Epstein the other day. I'm not

1153
00:54:33,800 --> 00:54:35,560
Speaker 2: going to go into that, but for him to throw

1154
00:54:35,600 --> 00:54:38,480
Speaker 2: stuff out like that, it's just bad. Made him look

1155
00:54:38,560 --> 00:54:42,239
Speaker 2: really bad. I was a fan as a player, I

1156
00:54:42,320 --> 00:54:45,319
Speaker 2: never really liked him personally. Now he's on my bed

1157
00:54:45,360 --> 00:54:49,399
Speaker 2: list altogether. I mean to win this award Most Inspirational.

1158
00:54:49,600 --> 00:54:50,280
Speaker 4: It's a joke.

1159
00:54:50,640 --> 00:54:52,879
Speaker 2: It's a joke, and you know it and I know it.

1160
00:54:55,280 --> 00:54:55,520
Speaker 1: Yeah.

1161
00:54:55,560 --> 00:54:57,279
Speaker 3: The only thing that we don't know is we don't

1162
00:54:57,280 --> 00:55:00,680
Speaker 3: know what his relationship was like with the team inside

1163
00:55:00,719 --> 00:55:04,040
Speaker 3: the building. You know, there's a lot of things that

1164
00:55:04,080 --> 00:55:06,960
Speaker 3: you have to understand, and when you have these players, right,

1165
00:55:07,200 --> 00:55:10,200
Speaker 3: megastars like that. A lot of the young players in

1166
00:55:10,239 --> 00:55:14,040
Speaker 3: the locker room grew up idolizing Aaron Rodgers. So, whoever

1167
00:55:14,080 --> 00:55:16,520
Speaker 3: your heroes are, imagine having an opportunity to work with

1168
00:55:16,560 --> 00:55:20,120
Speaker 3: your hero, and imagine your hero spending time trying to

1169
00:55:20,200 --> 00:55:24,240
Speaker 3: drop nuggets of wisdom with you on a daily basis,

1170
00:55:24,280 --> 00:55:25,480
Speaker 3: you would feel a different.

1171
00:55:25,280 --> 00:55:26,799
Speaker 1: Kind of way about them.

1172
00:55:26,880 --> 00:55:29,279
Speaker 3: I think for the Jets there's some of that hero

1173
00:55:29,480 --> 00:55:32,400
Speaker 3: worship at play. Aaron Rodgers is a hero to so

1174
00:55:32,440 --> 00:55:34,399
Speaker 3: many of these young guys, they've seen them, they played

1175
00:55:34,440 --> 00:55:35,919
Speaker 3: with them on MADD and he was on the cover

1176
00:55:36,160 --> 00:55:39,920
Speaker 3: all those things. And now to kind of get advice

1177
00:55:40,120 --> 00:55:44,759
Speaker 3: or coaching or instruction from him, it endears him to

1178
00:55:44,840 --> 00:55:48,080
Speaker 3: them in a different way than it would adhere others,

1179
00:55:48,880 --> 00:55:51,120
Speaker 3: and so maybe that's why they find them so inspirational.

1180
00:55:51,360 --> 00:55:53,200
Speaker 2: Would you have voted for him if you played on

1181
00:55:53,480 --> 00:55:54,399
Speaker 2: the Jets.

1182
00:55:56,920 --> 00:55:59,400
Speaker 3: Well, I mean, I don't know what the direct impact

1183
00:55:59,440 --> 00:56:01,600
Speaker 3: would have been like, but look, I would say he's

1184
00:56:01,640 --> 00:56:03,600
Speaker 3: far more engaged with the Jets than he was with

1185
00:56:03,640 --> 00:56:06,160
Speaker 3: the Packers. If he had done some of the things

1186
00:56:06,160 --> 00:56:08,480
Speaker 3: that he did with the Jets receivers with the Packers,

1187
00:56:08,880 --> 00:56:11,640
Speaker 3: the Packers young receivers would have played better. But I

1188
00:56:11,640 --> 00:56:15,719
Speaker 3: can see why he would be voted most Inspirational just

1189
00:56:15,719 --> 00:56:19,200
Speaker 3: based on his impact and how tin toes down he was.

1190
00:56:19,239 --> 00:56:21,920
Speaker 3: He was all in on this experiment, trying to give

1191
00:56:21,920 --> 00:56:23,000
Speaker 3: it his all in those things.

1192
00:56:23,040 --> 00:56:25,080
Speaker 1: So I can understand that I love you Bucket Brooks.

1193
00:56:25,080 --> 00:56:27,960
Speaker 2: Being politically correct not like me. I come in with

1194
00:56:28,000 --> 00:56:29,120
Speaker 2: a dagger, that's.

1195
00:56:28,920 --> 00:56:33,319
Speaker 3: What I do, not being politically correct. I could just

1196
00:56:33,360 --> 00:56:36,359
Speaker 3: see how I can just see how they would how

1197
00:56:36,520 --> 00:56:38,960
Speaker 3: his teammates would adore him based on.

1198
00:56:39,719 --> 00:56:41,680
Speaker 2: Their own I hear what he said. They did the

1199
00:56:42,200 --> 00:56:44,800
Speaker 2: young kids, and they remember him during the glory days,

1200
00:56:45,360 --> 00:56:47,960
Speaker 2: you know. So you know these guys in the lock on,

1201
00:56:48,000 --> 00:56:50,600
Speaker 2: the young kids, they probably ask him for for his jersey.

1202
00:56:50,800 --> 00:56:53,719
Speaker 2: I'm sure they have autographs, pictures with him. I get it.

1203
00:56:53,920 --> 00:56:55,719
Speaker 2: And that's what it's all about. I hear you. There

1204
00:56:55,800 --> 00:56:57,880
Speaker 2: you go, all right, he's Bucky Brooks. Get him on

1205
00:56:57,920 --> 00:57:01,120
Speaker 2: Twitter or ex at Bucket. Brooks had any FSR. Also,

1206
00:57:01,400 --> 00:57:04,640
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Speaker 2: hour we have bottom barrel betting. Our number three has

1217
00:57:36,760 --> 00:57:39,240
Speaker 2: mentioned Mike Harmon the swollen Dome will join us. But

1218
00:57:39,320 --> 00:57:44,080
Speaker 2: right now, is he really an upgrade that's coming up next?

1219
00:57:44,080 --> 00:57:47,000
Speaker 2: Believe it? Then number one that's right around the corner.

1220
00:57:47,080 --> 00:57:50,800
Speaker 2: And this is Fox Football Sunday. He's Bucky Brooks. I'm

1221
00:57:50,880 --> 00:57:54,919
Speaker 2: Andy Furman, and by the way, we are live from

1222
00:57:54,920 --> 00:57:58,600
Speaker 2: the tai Iraq dot com studios. Back to football, Bucky.

1223
00:57:58,720 --> 00:58:04,040
Speaker 2: Back to football. Roncos at Raiders today and obviously there's

1224
00:58:04,040 --> 00:58:06,240
Speaker 2: a game Matten, not really, but I say it does.

1225
00:58:06,600 --> 00:58:08,960
Speaker 2: It does for Antonio Pierce because I think a win

1226
00:58:09,040 --> 00:58:11,640
Speaker 2: today could steal the fact that he'll be the Raiders

1227
00:58:11,760 --> 00:58:14,440
Speaker 2: coach and get that interim tag taking off. Going back

1228
00:58:14,480 --> 00:58:18,320
Speaker 2: to opening day, the Raiders did beat Denver at Denver

1229
00:58:18,480 --> 00:58:22,120
Speaker 2: seventeen sixteen. However, both teams, as you know, are eliminated

1230
00:58:22,120 --> 00:58:25,000
Speaker 2: from the playoffs. But big day for Antonio Pierce. I

1231
00:58:25,000 --> 00:58:26,800
Speaker 2: think he deserves the shot, I really do. I think

1232
00:58:26,800 --> 00:58:27,600
Speaker 2: he's got a good job.

1233
00:58:29,440 --> 00:58:32,000
Speaker 3: Yeah, AP's done a really good job with this team.

1234
00:58:32,640 --> 00:58:34,360
Speaker 3: He needs to finish it off though. He needs to

1235
00:58:34,400 --> 00:58:37,040
Speaker 3: make sure that if this is his closing argument, he

1236
00:58:37,160 --> 00:58:39,200
Speaker 3: leaves no doubt that he's the guy, the right guy

1237
00:58:39,280 --> 00:58:41,880
Speaker 3: for the team. He's done a really good job of

1238
00:58:41,960 --> 00:58:45,160
Speaker 3: I would say organizing and streamline and get everyone on

1239
00:58:45,200 --> 00:58:45,960
Speaker 3: the same page.

1240
00:58:46,640 --> 00:58:50,400
Speaker 1: You hear the players talk in the locker room with

1241
00:58:50,480 --> 00:58:51,400
Speaker 1: the media scrums.

1242
00:58:51,640 --> 00:58:53,640
Speaker 3: They're saying the same things that have been uttered from

1243
00:58:53,680 --> 00:58:56,520
Speaker 3: AP's mouth, and so you know they're all in when

1244
00:58:56,560 --> 00:58:57,280
Speaker 3: it comes to it.

1245
00:58:57,600 --> 00:58:58,680
Speaker 1: But you can be.

1246
00:58:58,680 --> 00:59:00,520
Speaker 3: All in and say all the right thing where they

1247
00:59:00,560 --> 00:59:05,960
Speaker 3: need to see some more continued success and he's giving

1248
00:59:06,000 --> 00:59:08,680
Speaker 3: them a little taste, but he can show more, and

1249
00:59:08,720 --> 00:59:10,280
Speaker 3: if he shows more, then he gets the job.

1250
00:59:10,880 --> 00:59:11,320
Speaker 4: All right.

1251
00:59:11,520 --> 00:59:14,480
Speaker 2: Denver right now is eight and eight, and last week

1252
00:59:14,520 --> 00:59:18,000
Speaker 2: they beat the Charges sixteen to nine with quarterback Jared

1253
00:59:18,000 --> 00:59:21,560
Speaker 2: Stinham and Stidham got his first football win since college,

1254
00:59:21,800 --> 00:59:24,000
Speaker 2: which was five years ago. And I asked, the question

1255
00:59:24,720 --> 00:59:26,920
Speaker 2: is st didn't really an upgrade of a Russell Wilson.

1256
00:59:26,960 --> 00:59:30,960
Speaker 2: They got some real problems internally with Russell Wilson, Babe,

1257
00:59:31,000 --> 00:59:35,520
Speaker 2: basically his play, his personality. I'm moreover maybe his contract,

1258
00:59:35,720 --> 00:59:39,240
Speaker 2: but I don't get why you would sacrifice a possible win.

1259
00:59:39,320 --> 00:59:41,680
Speaker 2: And he did win, which was good for Denver. But

1260
00:59:42,280 --> 00:59:45,000
Speaker 2: I don't see Jared Stidham being better than Russell Wilson.

1261
00:59:46,040 --> 00:59:48,280
Speaker 3: He may not be better than Russell Wilson. But what

1262
00:59:48,320 --> 00:59:52,360
Speaker 3: he is is he Sean Payton's guy. Sean Payton views

1263
00:59:52,440 --> 00:59:54,880
Speaker 3: him as a guy that can run the system the

1264
00:59:54,880 --> 00:59:58,160
Speaker 3: way that he sees fit. And maybe Russell has some

1265
00:59:58,240 --> 01:00:01,360
Speaker 3: limitations on what he could do for Sean Payton in

1266
01:00:01,440 --> 01:00:04,560
Speaker 3: terms of what Sean Payton wanted executed on the field.

1267
01:00:05,200 --> 01:00:07,560
Speaker 3: Only Sean Payton really knows what he wanted from his

1268
01:00:07,680 --> 01:00:10,200
Speaker 3: QB won. But the offense is different than what Drew

1269
01:00:10,240 --> 01:00:15,120
Speaker 3: Rees ran. And look, man, it's when you when you

1270
01:00:15,160 --> 01:00:17,880
Speaker 3: get to these these forests of the season you talk

1271
01:00:17,960 --> 01:00:20,720
Speaker 3: about motivated guys. Jared Siddam is very motivated because he

1272
01:00:20,800 --> 01:00:23,520
Speaker 3: signed a small deal. If he plays well, he's thinking,

1273
01:00:23,520 --> 01:00:29,000
Speaker 3: I should get a bump ament at conversation, should should

1274
01:00:29,080 --> 01:00:31,320
Speaker 3: net out and they should be able to do some things.

1275
01:00:31,320 --> 01:00:33,520
Speaker 3: So now it's a huge game for the Broncos, huge

1276
01:00:33,560 --> 01:00:35,000
Speaker 3: game for Jerris to them.

1277
01:00:34,840 --> 01:00:37,600
Speaker 2: The serious game for Antonio up here. But I still

1278
01:00:37,600 --> 01:00:39,120
Speaker 2: think the Raiders are a better team. I think the

1279
01:00:39,160 --> 01:00:40,800
Speaker 2: Raiders win. It'll be a tight one, but I think

1280
01:00:40,840 --> 01:00:43,120
Speaker 2: the Raiders win this game. Well, we'll see. I don't

1281
01:00:43,120 --> 01:00:44,720
Speaker 2: think it's a big deal. I don't think they got

1282
01:00:44,720 --> 01:00:47,000
Speaker 2: a lot of viewers. And again you got the Bears

1283
01:00:47,000 --> 01:00:49,520
Speaker 2: of the Packers. Okay, does this game matter? Yea? Does

1284
01:00:49,840 --> 01:00:52,560
Speaker 2: this game matters for the Packers at least Packers need

1285
01:00:52,640 --> 01:00:54,919
Speaker 2: to beat the Bears today to get a playoff berth

1286
01:00:55,280 --> 01:00:59,360
Speaker 2: the final birth in the NFC. They can still make

1287
01:00:59,360 --> 01:01:02,120
Speaker 2: the players with the loss, but they need get this

1288
01:01:02,280 --> 01:01:05,880
Speaker 2: a Seahawks loss, a Vikings loss, and a loss by

1289
01:01:05,960 --> 01:01:09,000
Speaker 2: either the Saints or Buccaneers. A little complicated there, but

1290
01:01:09,760 --> 01:01:12,240
Speaker 2: the Packers are still alive. We'll see what happens. Opening Day.

1291
01:01:12,440 --> 01:01:15,480
Speaker 2: The Packers beat the Bears thirty eight twenty in Chicago.

1292
01:01:15,680 --> 01:01:17,960
Speaker 2: But this is a different Bears team. They've won three

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Speaker 2: of the last four. Last week they beat Atlanta thirty

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Speaker 2: seven to seventeen. And the Bears, as you know, on

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Speaker 2: the top pick and the draft and that selection was

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Speaker 2: acquired from Carolina after the Bears set the path. There's

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Speaker 2: the number one pick in the twenty three drafts. So

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Speaker 2: we'll see what happens. But you know what we say,

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Speaker 2: they've won three of the last four. And again i'll

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Speaker 2: tell you who they've beaten, you know, Atlanta, Arizona, and

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Speaker 2: then they beat their well, they did beat Detroit twenty

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Speaker 2: eight thirteen, so we'll see what happened. It'll be a

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Speaker 2: goodie because it means a lot for the Packers today.

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Speaker 2: But they need a lot of help.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: So when I think about this game, I think about

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Speaker 3: the Packers just trying to finish the game off. Last year,

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Speaker 3: they were unable to get it done against his division

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Speaker 3: rival in the Detroit Lions. For whatever reason, Aaron Rodgers

1310
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Speaker 3: came up short. They couldn't get the execution needed to

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Speaker 3: play at a high level. That experience, though, should help

1312
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Speaker 3: them better prepare for Chicago Bears.

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Speaker 1: Jordan loved.

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Speaker 3: He used to just take care of the ball, get

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Speaker 3: it to the playmakers, let them go to work, and

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Speaker 3: then Joe Berry defensive coordinator. Joe Berry needs to put

1317
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Speaker 3: the players in a position to make plays on justin fields.

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01:02:20,600 --> 01:02:23,200
Speaker 3: You have to account for justin fields as a runner

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Speaker 3: and a thrower, and you're at your advantage if you

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01:02:27,600 --> 01:02:29,840
Speaker 3: can take away his running lanes and make him sit

1321
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Speaker 3: in the pocketing deal that chess match between Joe Berry

1322
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Speaker 3: and Matt Leafloor and those guys in terms of like

1323
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Speaker 3: move counter move, counter tactic, that's the one that's going

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Speaker 3: to decide the game. Because the Bears are so good

1325
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Speaker 3: on defense of late that they can give you problems

1326
01:02:50,920 --> 01:02:52,840
Speaker 3: and if you are not able to slow down the

1327
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Speaker 3: running game and justin fields, it's gonna be a long

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01:02:55,400 --> 01:02:56,880
Speaker 3: day for you home war on the road.

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Speaker 2: And here's an interesting stat as far as Green Bay

1330
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Speaker 2: fans are going to neither Brett Favre or Aaron Rodgers

1331
01:03:03,320 --> 01:03:06,320
Speaker 2: threw thirty touchdown passes in their first season as a

1332
01:03:06,360 --> 01:03:10,080
Speaker 2: green Bay quarterback. Jordan Love has Jordan whatever that means,

1333
01:03:10,120 --> 01:03:12,280
Speaker 2: I mean, Jordan Love to me has been a surprise.

1334
01:03:12,640 --> 01:03:17,280
Speaker 2: Thirty touchdowns eleven I m t's sixty three pass a percentage.

1335
01:03:17,400 --> 01:03:21,080
Speaker 2: But again, not not much noise out of the camp

1336
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Speaker 2: of Green Bay as to the future of Jordan Love.

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Speaker 1: Well, they already had had kind of resigned him.

1338
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Speaker 3: I think the noise coming out of their campus they

1339
01:03:31,800 --> 01:03:35,720
Speaker 3: feel good about where he is. He's a seated expectations

1340
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Speaker 3: as a first time starter. They can see the promise

1341
01:03:38,880 --> 01:03:41,400
Speaker 3: that this team has with him on the center. They

1342
01:03:41,440 --> 01:03:43,560
Speaker 3: also can see the connectivity that he has with the

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Speaker 3: young guys.

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Speaker 1: To me, it's a no brainer. He'll get paid when

1345
01:03:46,320 --> 01:03:47,960
Speaker 1: it'signed for him to get paid. They did that.

1346
01:03:49,240 --> 01:03:51,520
Speaker 3: Maya Kupper came up with that that little deal that

1347
01:03:51,560 --> 01:03:53,280
Speaker 3: they wanted to work to make sure that they kept

1348
01:03:53,360 --> 01:03:56,160
Speaker 3: him in place. And so now the tag goes up.

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Speaker 3: Now that we've seen him play, now we can fully

1350
01:04:00,640 --> 01:04:02,640
Speaker 3: invested him. He still has to continue to prove it,

1351
01:04:03,040 --> 01:04:05,080
Speaker 3: but he certainly has set himself up for a major

1352
01:04:05,120 --> 01:04:06,000
Speaker 3: payday down the lot.

1353
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Speaker 2: And who do you like in this one? I like

1354
01:04:07,760 --> 01:04:09,800
Speaker 2: the Packers. I think the game is in Green Bay

1355
01:04:09,840 --> 01:04:11,560
Speaker 2: and it means something for them, although they got to

1356
01:04:11,600 --> 01:04:13,240
Speaker 2: be some scoreboard watching though.

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01:04:14,520 --> 01:04:16,800
Speaker 3: Yeah, they gotta do some scoreboard watching. Look, I'm gonna

1358
01:04:16,800 --> 01:04:18,960
Speaker 3: go with the Packers in this one, but I expect to.

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Speaker 1: See like a.

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Speaker 3: Magnificent performers from Justin Fields as he makes his kind

1361
01:04:24,000 --> 01:04:27,040
Speaker 3: of close an argument to be the starter going forward.

1362
01:04:27,720 --> 01:04:29,480
Speaker 3: This is a great opportunity for him to show and

1363
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Speaker 3: prove to everybody that he can be a franchise quarterback

1364
01:04:32,920 --> 01:04:34,480
Speaker 3: being into Windy City or elsewhere.

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Speaker 2: Right, And the Bears owned that top pick, so basically

1366
01:04:38,560 --> 01:04:42,840
Speaker 2: his future is somewhat of a question with the Chicago Bears.

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01:04:42,840 --> 01:04:44,600
Speaker 2: I mean, do they go with that first pick for

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Speaker 2: a quarterback or they keep Justin. We'll see what happens.

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Speaker 2: I mean, you told me this week's ago, and I mean,

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Speaker 2: I've written it down, but I remember it because the

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Speaker 2: devil you know is better than the devil you don't.

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Speaker 2: You know, he's performed in the National Football League, where

1373
01:04:58,120 --> 01:05:00,880
Speaker 2: a guy coming out of college has not, and the

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01:05:01,360 --> 01:05:05,080
Speaker 2: experience means something. The players know this guy, they're probably

1375
01:05:05,080 --> 01:05:07,480
Speaker 2: better off for Justin Fields and starting from scratch with

1376
01:05:07,600 --> 01:05:09,280
Speaker 2: the guy coming right out of college.

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Speaker 1: That's what I would say. I believe he's I believe

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01:05:13,400 --> 01:05:14,000
Speaker 1: they would be.

1379
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Speaker 3: Better serve to Look, I would say, take him in

1380
01:05:17,200 --> 01:05:20,240
Speaker 3: even if you want to draft a quarterback, draft a quarterback,

1381
01:05:20,720 --> 01:05:22,520
Speaker 3: but like, I don't think it has to be one

1382
01:05:22,720 --> 01:05:25,200
Speaker 3: or the other. You can take him, keep him, let

1383
01:05:25,240 --> 01:05:27,080
Speaker 3: him duke it out, and then move on from him

1384
01:05:27,600 --> 01:05:29,920
Speaker 3: if you deem the other quarterback to be ready. But

1385
01:05:30,040 --> 01:05:33,160
Speaker 3: there's not this pressure to have to all of a

1386
01:05:33,200 --> 01:05:36,680
Speaker 3: sudden release or punt on Justin Fields unless you get

1387
01:05:37,680 --> 01:05:42,040
Speaker 3: a while offer from a team. But yeah, like a

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01:05:42,040 --> 01:05:44,200
Speaker 3: lot of it will come down to how you view

1389
01:05:44,680 --> 01:05:48,080
Speaker 3: Caleb Williams or the quarterbacks in this class versus how

1390
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Speaker 3: you view the long term future with Justin Fields.

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Speaker 2: Here we go. He's Bucket Brooks, I'm Andy Firmer. We

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Speaker 2: are Fox Football Sunday on Fox Bots Radio. Those last

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Speaker 2: six killed him. That's coming up next line for the

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Speaker 2: Tyrock dot Com studios. But first, here's Kevin Wyatt with

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Speaker 2: all your sports all right.

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Speaker 9: Ian Rappaport with a tweet out maybe about a half

1397
01:06:07,520 --> 01:06:09,800
Speaker 9: an hour ago, and this one really isn't a surprise

1398
01:06:09,920 --> 01:06:12,080
Speaker 9: to anyone, but he is saying that the Commanders are

1399
01:06:12,200 --> 01:06:15,720
Speaker 9: expected to move on from head coach Ron Rivera after

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01:06:16,320 --> 01:06:19,640
Speaker 9: the season concludes today. He's expected to be let go

1401
01:06:20,200 --> 01:06:24,680
Speaker 9: on Black Monday. As for injury updates, Tom Pellisero saying

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01:06:24,720 --> 01:06:28,080
Speaker 9: Raheem most Stert and Jalen Waddell not expected to play

1403
01:06:28,120 --> 01:06:31,360
Speaker 9: in the Sunday night game against the Bills. And it's

1404
01:06:31,400 --> 01:06:34,919
Speaker 9: incredibly important for Buffalo because if they win, they win

1405
01:06:34,960 --> 01:06:38,240
Speaker 9: the AFC East. If they lose and the Jackson Field

1406
01:06:38,360 --> 01:06:42,720
Speaker 9: Jaguars lose, they missed the playoffs all together. And the

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Speaker 9: Steelers won, so that eliminated one possibility that they would

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Speaker 9: have been in and had the Steelers lost, but with

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Speaker 9: Pittsburgh winning seventeen ten at Baltimore, that puts a Buffalo

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Speaker 9: in a precarious position and that Steelers win was a

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Speaker 9: costly one. As JJ excuse me TJ. Watt suffering a

1412
01:06:59,640 --> 01:07:03,800
Speaker 9: great three MCL strains, so he's got more tests coming up,

1413
01:07:03,840 --> 01:07:08,160
Speaker 9: but his availability for a possible playoff opener is in doubt.

1414
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Speaker 9: The other game on Saturday saw the Texans make the

1415
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Speaker 9: playoffs for the first time in four years, beating the

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Speaker 9: Colts twenty three to nineteen. Indianapolis eliminated from a playoff contention.

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Speaker 9: We got some other injury notes. Ian Rappaport with a

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Speaker 9: few overnight.

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Speaker 2: Bucks.

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Speaker 9: Quarterback Baker Mayfield will play today. That's according to head

1421
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Speaker 9: coach Todd Bowles. He said that he'll be ready to

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Speaker 9: go on Sunday. Saints ronning back Alvin Kamara will be

1423
01:07:32,160 --> 01:07:34,720
Speaker 9: given up until game time to show that he can go.

1424
01:07:34,800 --> 01:07:37,400
Speaker 9: He's been dealing with an ankle sprain and he has

1425
01:07:37,720 --> 01:07:41,960
Speaker 9: been participating very little this week in practice. Tight End

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01:07:42,040 --> 01:07:45,680
Speaker 9: Juwan Johnson is good to go. Chiefs running back Isaiah

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01:07:45,720 --> 01:07:48,600
Speaker 9: Pacheco not expected to play today. He'll only be used

1428
01:07:49,040 --> 01:07:54,760
Speaker 9: in an absolute emergency. Jaguars quarterback Trevor Lawrence is trending

1429
01:07:54,800 --> 01:07:57,480
Speaker 9: in the right direction and it's more about pain tolerance.

1430
01:07:57,920 --> 01:07:59,800
Speaker 9: It's not certain, but there is a good chance he

1431
01:07:59,840 --> 01:08:04,000
Speaker 9: does play today. Meanwhile, wide receiver Zay Jones should play

1432
01:08:04,080 --> 01:08:06,800
Speaker 9: by Kristin kirk Less certain to make it out on

1433
01:08:06,840 --> 01:08:09,280
Speaker 9: the field. Bear's running back Khalil Herbert and tight end

1434
01:08:09,280 --> 01:08:12,800
Speaker 9: Cole Comet are expected to play today. They're both listed

1435
01:08:12,840 --> 01:08:16,759
Speaker 9: as questionable and Falcons quarterback Taylor Heinike able to practice

1436
01:08:16,760 --> 01:08:18,439
Speaker 9: every day of this week. He is hopeful to be

1437
01:08:18,520 --> 01:08:21,320
Speaker 9: able to play today, but he will be watched closely

1438
01:08:21,360 --> 01:08:24,519
Speaker 9: in warmups to make sure that he's mobile enough with

1439
01:08:24,640 --> 01:08:28,040
Speaker 9: his ankle sprain. And in the NBA, Draymond Green now

1440
01:08:28,080 --> 01:08:31,120
Speaker 9: back from his suspension, the NBA calling it an indefinite one,

1441
01:08:31,120 --> 01:08:34,559
Speaker 9: but ended up lasting twelve games after Green suspended for

1442
01:08:34,640 --> 01:08:37,840
Speaker 9: his on a court altercation. So it remains to be

1443
01:08:37,840 --> 01:08:40,160
Speaker 9: seen when exactly he will be back in game action

1444
01:08:40,320 --> 01:08:43,560
Speaker 9: four the Warriors as he gets acclimated back to you guys.

1445
01:08:43,439 --> 01:08:45,880
Speaker 2: All right, thanks Kevissey in about an hour. Now, here's

1446
01:08:45,920 --> 01:08:47,760
Speaker 2: the one and only bright spot. We'll get to that

1447
01:08:47,800 --> 01:08:49,759
Speaker 2: in just about a minute. He is the Brice Spide

1448
01:08:49,840 --> 01:08:52,080
Speaker 2: right here. He's Bucky Brooks on Andy Fourman. We have

1449
01:08:52,120 --> 01:08:54,639
Speaker 2: Fox Football, son the of Fox Sports Radio. We got

1450
01:08:54,640 --> 01:08:56,559
Speaker 2: bon and Barrow Betty coming up in about eight minutes

1451
01:08:56,600 --> 01:08:59,280
Speaker 2: from now. But the Seahawks are playing at the Cardinals today.

1452
01:08:59,400 --> 01:09:02,519
Speaker 2: Seahawks were twenty to ten winners in Seattle when those

1453
01:09:02,520 --> 01:09:05,840
Speaker 2: teams met earlier this year. And last Sunday, those Cardinals

1454
01:09:05,880 --> 01:09:08,720
Speaker 2: beat Philly, they beat the Eagles. What a game that

1455
01:09:08,880 --> 01:09:11,160
Speaker 2: was thirty five to thirty one and those thirty five

1456
01:09:11,200 --> 01:09:14,200
Speaker 2: points and four hundred and forty nine yards where the

1457
01:09:14,240 --> 01:09:16,559
Speaker 2: season best for the Cardinals. And by the way, there

1458
01:09:16,560 --> 01:09:19,000
Speaker 2: were no punchs in that game. Seattle, by the way,

1459
01:09:19,080 --> 01:09:20,840
Speaker 2: has giving up more than a thousand yards on the

1460
01:09:20,840 --> 01:09:23,559
Speaker 2: ground over the last six weeks. And I said those

1461
01:09:23,600 --> 01:09:26,200
Speaker 2: last six weeks killed them over one thousand yards on

1462
01:09:26,240 --> 01:09:28,320
Speaker 2: the ground over the last six weeks, for of those

1463
01:09:28,360 --> 01:09:31,439
Speaker 2: games were losses. What has gone wrong with the Seattle Seahawks?

1464
01:09:31,479 --> 01:09:37,200
Speaker 3: Bucky Brooks, Look, man, I just think where they are

1465
01:09:38,040 --> 01:09:40,599
Speaker 3: not that anything has gone wrong. I would say Gino

1466
01:09:40,640 --> 01:09:43,360
Speaker 3: Smith is not necessarily played to the level that he

1467
01:09:43,439 --> 01:09:45,240
Speaker 3: played last year, and they needed him to play at

1468
01:09:45,280 --> 01:09:48,080
Speaker 3: that level. Sometimes when they running game wasn't on tracked,

1469
01:09:48,120 --> 01:09:52,680
Speaker 3: and then defensively, they just haven't been consistent enough to

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01:09:52,680 --> 01:09:53,040
Speaker 3: be the.

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Speaker 1: Team that many of us thought that they would be.

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Speaker 3: And when you're inconsistent in those areas that quarterback and

1473
01:09:58,760 --> 01:10:01,720
Speaker 3: on defense is hard. You kind of build like that

1474
01:10:01,720 --> 01:10:03,320
Speaker 3: that championship caliber squad.

1475
01:10:03,920 --> 01:10:06,200
Speaker 2: Okay, and you asked the question the Seahawks that the Carlins.

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01:10:06,280 --> 01:10:08,559
Speaker 2: Does this game matter? Yes, it does, it does, at

1477
01:10:08,640 --> 01:10:11,120
Speaker 2: least for the Seahawks. Seahawks need a win and they

1478
01:10:11,120 --> 01:10:13,880
Speaker 2: need some help to get into the playoffs. But it's

1479
01:10:13,880 --> 01:10:16,200
Speaker 2: a pretty simple formula this time. Okay. I kind of

1480
01:10:16,400 --> 01:10:19,160
Speaker 2: dummied it down for myself because I'm a dummy. Okay,

1481
01:10:19,400 --> 01:10:21,880
Speaker 2: they need a win and they need a Packers loss

1482
01:10:22,080 --> 01:10:25,600
Speaker 2: to make the playoffs. Period. That's it. Seattle is eliminated

1483
01:10:25,720 --> 01:10:28,839
Speaker 2: if they lose or if Green Bay wins. The Packers,

1484
01:10:28,920 --> 01:10:31,360
Speaker 2: Vikings and Saints also will be looking at this game

1485
01:10:31,640 --> 01:10:34,400
Speaker 2: if the Packers lose. So it's quite simple. Seahawks need

1486
01:10:34,439 --> 01:10:37,360
Speaker 2: to win and some help and they need to win

1487
01:10:37,360 --> 01:10:39,640
Speaker 2: in the Packers loss. So we'll see what happens. If

1488
01:10:39,640 --> 01:10:42,479
Speaker 2: the Bears beat the Packers and the Seahawks win, Seahawks

1489
01:10:42,520 --> 01:10:44,720
Speaker 2: are in the playoffs. How do you like that? What

1490
01:10:44,720 --> 01:10:45,280
Speaker 2: do you think?

1491
01:10:45,560 --> 01:10:48,320
Speaker 1: Yeah? I mean I didn't look I like that. I

1492
01:10:48,320 --> 01:10:51,400
Speaker 1: appreciate you kind of breaking that down for me. It's

1493
01:10:51,439 --> 01:10:51,920
Speaker 1: not easy.

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01:10:52,280 --> 01:10:54,280
Speaker 2: I needed a slide rule to get this done. Del

1495
01:10:55,120 --> 01:10:57,320
Speaker 2: I mean it's hard. I thought geometry was hard in

1496
01:10:57,400 --> 01:10:59,840
Speaker 2: tenth grade. This is pretty tough too. Howbout you know?

1497
01:11:00,040 --> 01:11:02,000
Speaker 2: How do the Is it all computerized? I mean, I

1498
01:11:02,000 --> 01:11:04,479
Speaker 2: can't believe there is some guy sitting in a room

1499
01:11:04,520 --> 01:11:07,720
Speaker 2: by himself doing this because it's difficult. It really is difficult.

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Speaker 1: I mean, it certainly is a challenge.

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01:11:10,800 --> 01:11:14,080
Speaker 3: I mean, it's definitely not the easiest thing to be

1502
01:11:14,120 --> 01:11:16,559
Speaker 3: able to do. They just kind of put it together

1503
01:11:16,720 --> 01:11:19,200
Speaker 3: and say, hey, this is what you need. We get

1504
01:11:19,240 --> 01:11:22,960
Speaker 3: this and that we're good. It's a different thing. But

1505
01:11:23,280 --> 01:11:25,120
Speaker 3: somebody said to figure it out because we needed it,

1506
01:11:25,120 --> 01:11:26,439
Speaker 3: because I certainly couldn't do it on all.

1507
01:11:27,560 --> 01:11:30,760
Speaker 2: It's tough, all right. Chiefs at the Chargers today. The

1508
01:11:30,880 --> 01:11:34,360
Speaker 2: Chiefs beat the Bengals last week twenty five to seventeen.

1509
01:11:34,680 --> 01:11:37,680
Speaker 2: The Chiefs, by the way, three and four in their

1510
01:11:37,760 --> 01:11:41,439
Speaker 2: last seven games. Not good the thirty one seventeen over

1511
01:11:41,479 --> 01:11:44,240
Speaker 2: the Charges earlier this year. That game was in Kansas City.

1512
01:11:44,439 --> 01:11:46,679
Speaker 2: But the good news is if you're a Chiefs fan,

1513
01:11:46,920 --> 01:11:49,160
Speaker 2: the string of divisional titles on the head coach Andy

1514
01:11:49,200 --> 01:11:52,040
Speaker 2: Reid has now reached eight second longest story in the

1515
01:11:52,120 --> 01:11:54,680
Speaker 2: NFL history. They are in the Patriots and they did

1516
01:11:54,680 --> 01:11:57,840
Speaker 2: it between two thousand and nine and twenty nineteen, so

1517
01:11:58,040 --> 01:12:03,559
Speaker 2: was he over there? Now? This game matter no, Thank goodness, Chiefs.

1518
01:12:03,560 --> 01:12:06,920
Speaker 2: The charges basically doesn't mean a thing. The Chiefs have

1519
01:12:07,040 --> 01:12:09,880
Speaker 2: locked up the number three seed in the AFC, so

1520
01:12:10,040 --> 01:12:12,960
Speaker 2: Patrick Mahomes and the other starter is probably be resting

1521
01:12:13,120 --> 01:12:15,680
Speaker 2: with the wild card round next week. The Charges are

1522
01:12:15,720 --> 01:12:19,640
Speaker 2: eliminated from the playoffs. Thank goodness, no complications here. This

1523
01:12:19,760 --> 01:12:22,200
Speaker 2: game means nothing, but it does mean something a little

1524
01:12:22,200 --> 01:12:25,080
Speaker 2: bit for the Chiefs because they have been struggling. Three

1525
01:12:25,120 --> 01:12:28,280
Speaker 2: and four in the last seven offensively not good. They've

1526
01:12:28,280 --> 01:12:30,439
Speaker 2: been carried by their defense most of the season.

1527
01:12:32,160 --> 01:12:34,320
Speaker 3: Yeah, they've been caring about the defense. But you know

1528
01:12:34,600 --> 01:12:36,720
Speaker 3: the thing is Pat Mahomes will play this one. This

1529
01:12:36,760 --> 01:12:39,240
Speaker 3: is a Blaine Gabbard game, So you really won't be

1530
01:12:39,240 --> 01:12:42,720
Speaker 3: able to build any chemistry and continuity and some of

1531
01:12:42,720 --> 01:12:46,000
Speaker 3: the things that you wanted to see. It hurts them

1532
01:12:46,160 --> 01:12:49,519
Speaker 3: in that regard, but they're in. You still can develop

1533
01:12:49,600 --> 01:12:51,760
Speaker 3: some of these things in terms of just getting your

1534
01:12:51,760 --> 01:12:55,160
Speaker 3: receivers on the same page, just trying to get them

1535
01:12:55,560 --> 01:12:57,760
Speaker 3: and seeing used to catching the ball. You want to

1536
01:12:57,800 --> 01:13:00,920
Speaker 3: maybe kind of simplify the game plan, ablished a running game,

1537
01:13:01,280 --> 01:13:04,160
Speaker 3: things that will serve you well in the tournament next week.

1538
01:13:04,320 --> 01:13:07,240
Speaker 3: You still can get some of those foundational things accomplished.

1539
01:13:08,080 --> 01:13:10,599
Speaker 2: Well. If there's good news at all for the charges

1540
01:13:10,680 --> 01:13:14,720
Speaker 2: right now, they're Edgewordshire. Khalil Mack. He reached a one

1541
01:13:14,800 --> 01:13:18,160
Speaker 2: hundred career sacks and a new season high with sixteen sacks,

1542
01:13:18,160 --> 01:13:21,280
Speaker 2: so you know there's good news for them. However, he

1543
01:13:21,360 --> 01:13:24,280
Speaker 2: may be gone as far as a cap casualty in

1544
01:13:24,360 --> 01:13:26,920
Speaker 2: twenty twenty four. I can't see him, well, maybe I

1545
01:13:26,960 --> 01:13:28,960
Speaker 2: can see him leaving. I mean Khalil Mack. I mean

1546
01:13:29,439 --> 01:13:31,559
Speaker 2: he's a mainstand I thought he'd be gone earlier this

1547
01:13:31,680 --> 01:13:35,000
Speaker 2: year during the trade situation, but he wasn't. We'll see

1548
01:13:35,000 --> 01:13:36,760
Speaker 2: what happens with Khalil Mack. Keep you wrise on'm that

1549
01:13:37,000 --> 01:13:40,160
Speaker 2: because I think that's a big cog on that ball club.

1550
01:13:41,600 --> 01:13:42,000
Speaker 1: Big Cup.

1551
01:13:42,040 --> 01:13:44,800
Speaker 3: But he's an older player too, now, older player, big

1552
01:13:44,840 --> 01:13:50,200
Speaker 3: cap hit, Khalil Mack, Keenan Allen, all those guys significant

1553
01:13:51,439 --> 01:13:55,720
Speaker 3: salary cap status and so new general manager, new head

1554
01:13:55,760 --> 01:13:58,680
Speaker 3: coach comes in, they may not want to kind of

1555
01:13:58,680 --> 01:14:01,320
Speaker 3: continue to go down that road with so many big

1556
01:14:01,400 --> 01:14:05,080
Speaker 3: money guys on the roster. Darwin James is someone to

1557
01:14:05,080 --> 01:14:08,639
Speaker 3: also watch. He commands a big number. Joey Bosa. So

1558
01:14:08,880 --> 01:14:13,639
Speaker 3: this is one where charging fans. I understand we all

1559
01:14:13,640 --> 01:14:16,200
Speaker 3: had the jerseys or whatever, but you may have to

1560
01:14:16,360 --> 01:14:18,840
Speaker 3: sit on some of those. They may be classics as

1561
01:14:18,920 --> 01:14:21,559
Speaker 3: opposed to active members of the team going forward.

1562
01:14:22,240 --> 01:14:25,559
Speaker 2: You know, it's funny because I hear what you say,

1563
01:14:25,800 --> 01:14:28,439
Speaker 2: and it's so correct when you say you're really nothing

1564
01:14:28,479 --> 01:14:31,360
Speaker 2: but a quarterback. And the New England Patriots, if you

1565
01:14:31,400 --> 01:14:34,240
Speaker 2: look at this scores, they've been a touchdown or less

1566
01:14:34,280 --> 01:14:37,320
Speaker 2: in just about every single game. In their losses. The

1567
01:14:37,400 --> 01:14:40,799
Speaker 2: offense has been terrible. It's non existent. They have a quarterback.

1568
01:14:40,800 --> 01:14:44,080
Speaker 2: This team is in contention. But you look at the Chargers,

1569
01:14:44,280 --> 01:14:48,400
Speaker 2: they have what they consider a franchise quarterback and Justin Herbert. Yeah,

1570
01:14:48,439 --> 01:14:51,200
Speaker 2: I understand they've been depleted with injuries, but they haven't

1571
01:14:51,240 --> 01:14:54,880
Speaker 2: done squad with Justin Herbert. They're five and eleven right now,

1572
01:14:55,320 --> 01:14:58,200
Speaker 2: and it kind of goes against the grain when you say,

1573
01:14:58,200 --> 01:15:00,640
Speaker 2: have a quarterback and you could win. I would tell

1574
01:15:00,640 --> 01:15:03,000
Speaker 2: you this much. If Justin Herbert was coached by Bill

1575
01:15:03,040 --> 01:15:05,240
Speaker 2: Belichick in New England they'd be in the playoffs.

1576
01:15:06,880 --> 01:15:10,080
Speaker 3: They would be because they also build a team differently.

1577
01:15:10,120 --> 01:15:14,320
Speaker 3: They would play complimentary football. They wouldn't utilize the quarterback

1578
01:15:14,320 --> 01:15:16,880
Speaker 3: as kind of like the main function. They would want

1579
01:15:16,920 --> 01:15:19,559
Speaker 3: to use the quarterback as the guy that a he

1580
01:15:19,640 --> 01:15:22,320
Speaker 3: can carry us. But we need a full team effort

1581
01:15:22,439 --> 01:15:24,560
Speaker 3: to be able to win and win consistently, So the

1582
01:15:24,640 --> 01:15:27,320
Speaker 3: running game would be beefed up, the defense would play better,

1583
01:15:27,680 --> 01:15:28,559
Speaker 3: all those things.

1584
01:15:29,520 --> 01:15:31,519
Speaker 1: Justin Herbert is a terrific player.

1585
01:15:32,160 --> 01:15:36,640
Speaker 3: The record probably doesn't reflect his talent and his potential

1586
01:15:37,520 --> 01:15:39,040
Speaker 3: as a playmaker at the position.

1587
01:15:39,400 --> 01:15:42,000
Speaker 1: That's it. They have to get better. He has to

1588
01:15:42,000 --> 01:15:42,400
Speaker 1: get better.

1589
01:15:42,439 --> 01:15:43,720
Speaker 3: He has to find a way to kind of win

1590
01:15:43,760 --> 01:15:46,519
Speaker 3: those games when he's punching above out of his weight class,

1591
01:15:46,920 --> 01:15:49,240
Speaker 3: and then they just have to find it out. But

1592
01:15:49,280 --> 01:15:51,960
Speaker 3: I think for the Chargers, it's not even really a

1593
01:15:51,960 --> 01:15:55,760
Speaker 3: schematic reset. It's just an organizational reset. Are we going

1594
01:15:55,840 --> 01:15:57,720
Speaker 3: to be a tough, physical football team? Are we going

1595
01:15:57,760 --> 01:16:02,839
Speaker 3: to have a kind of like a tough mental approach

1596
01:16:02,880 --> 01:16:05,800
Speaker 3: where we can endure the rough pors of it. So

1597
01:16:06,160 --> 01:16:08,280
Speaker 3: we'll see how this finishes up for the Charges, But

1598
01:16:08,280 --> 01:16:10,639
Speaker 3: there's a lot for them to play for it because

1599
01:16:10,680 --> 01:16:13,160
Speaker 3: this film is going to be watched by whoever comes

1600
01:16:13,160 --> 01:16:14,040
Speaker 3: in as the head coach.

1601
01:16:14,360 --> 01:16:14,760
Speaker 1: There you go.

1602
01:16:14,840 --> 01:16:17,759
Speaker 2: He's Bucky Brooks. I'm Andy Furmer. We are Fox Football

1603
01:16:17,800 --> 01:16:20,679
Speaker 2: Sunday on Fox Sports. Ready at the game that'll break

1604
01:16:20,720 --> 01:16:26,519
Speaker 2: your heart. Bottom barrel betting. It's freaking next bottom barrel betting.

1605
01:16:26,560 --> 01:16:28,479
Speaker 2: Right around the bed is about ten minutes before the

1606
01:16:28,479 --> 01:16:31,120
Speaker 2: top of the hour. This is Fox Football Sunday on

1607
01:16:31,200 --> 01:16:34,000
Speaker 2: Fox Sports Radio. He's Bucky Brooks. I'm Andy Furman, and

1608
01:16:34,040 --> 01:16:36,400
Speaker 2: we're live from the Tiraq dot Com studios. We've got

1609
01:16:36,439 --> 01:16:38,720
Speaker 2: a gate to play, so let's play.

1610
01:16:39,080 --> 01:16:43,320
Speaker 4: It's bottom bounty to sleep.

1611
01:16:43,320 --> 01:16:44,080
Speaker 1: People, get my money.

1612
01:16:44,120 --> 01:16:45,360
Speaker 4: I'll put your brain to sleep.

1613
01:16:45,360 --> 01:16:48,639
Speaker 2: Betting. Yes, and the name from the past. Today's host,

1614
01:16:48,760 --> 01:16:51,160
Speaker 2: the one and only Patri Swaka. How are you ps.

1615
01:16:51,360 --> 01:16:54,799
Speaker 5: I'm doing good, Andy, Bucky. Good to be here, guys.

1616
01:16:55,479 --> 01:16:58,200
Speaker 7: And we have another fun segment of bottom barrel betting

1617
01:16:58,520 --> 01:16:59,200
Speaker 7: Andy Bucky.

1618
01:16:59,240 --> 01:17:01,040
Speaker 5: Based on the last week the winner.

1619
01:17:01,280 --> 01:17:04,519
Speaker 7: I won't get into specifics on numbers, but Bucky Brooks,

1620
01:17:04,600 --> 01:17:08,680
Speaker 7: you are our winner from last week. Congratulations. There we go,

1621
01:17:08,800 --> 01:17:09,679
Speaker 7: There we go, Bucky.

1622
01:17:09,760 --> 01:17:10,160
Speaker 5: Let's go.

1623
01:17:10,320 --> 01:17:14,639
Speaker 7: Well, I let him, I ain't let him. Well, let's

1624
01:17:14,640 --> 01:17:18,040
Speaker 7: start with the new new stuff this week. Boys, let's

1625
01:17:18,040 --> 01:17:20,160
Speaker 7: start us off some easy warm up stuff here. We're

1626
01:17:20,200 --> 01:17:24,639
Speaker 7: going boxing, good old fashioned boxing. We got Luis Roblez

1627
01:17:24,680 --> 01:17:30,559
Speaker 7: Pacheco taking on Tension Nasukawa and it's scheduled for eight rounds. Now,

1628
01:17:30,720 --> 01:17:33,599
Speaker 7: Bucky and Andy, does this game finish in eight?

1629
01:17:33,760 --> 01:17:33,960
Speaker 5: Yes?

1630
01:17:34,040 --> 01:17:34,240
Speaker 4: Or no?

1631
01:17:35,720 --> 01:17:37,920
Speaker 2: He's the chief? Let it go first?

1632
01:17:38,680 --> 01:17:39,880
Speaker 1: Does it finish in eight?

1633
01:17:40,520 --> 01:17:42,080
Speaker 7: As in like is it does a vision eate like

1634
01:17:42,120 --> 01:17:44,760
Speaker 7: a knockout? Or we'll go to the No?

1635
01:17:44,920 --> 01:17:46,519
Speaker 1: Yeah, I can I can go with that. I can go.

1636
01:17:46,600 --> 01:17:48,600
Speaker 1: I can go eight. I can say eight. Eight is

1637
01:17:48,600 --> 01:17:49,320
Speaker 1: the magic number.

1638
01:17:49,600 --> 01:17:52,280
Speaker 2: And I say no, and I say it won't. How's

1639
01:17:52,320 --> 01:17:52,960
Speaker 2: that it won't?

1640
01:17:53,040 --> 01:17:53,519
Speaker 4: All right?

1641
01:17:53,680 --> 01:17:54,000
Speaker 1: All right?

1642
01:17:54,000 --> 01:17:55,679
Speaker 5: We got we got go in the distance and Andy

1643
01:17:55,720 --> 01:17:56,960
Speaker 5: thinks it'll be a knockout.

1644
01:17:57,000 --> 01:18:00,320
Speaker 7: Let's go all right. Number two, we're gonna go away

1645
01:18:00,320 --> 01:18:02,639
Speaker 7: from boxing. We're actually gonna go in the Call Duty

1646
01:18:02,800 --> 01:18:06,559
Speaker 7: Championships and we have the Seattle Surge taking on the

1647
01:18:06,640 --> 01:18:11,840
Speaker 7: Toronto Ultra. Now Toronto is the favorite. Now Andy and

1648
01:18:11,880 --> 01:18:13,960
Speaker 7: Bucky does Seattle upset?

1649
01:18:16,840 --> 01:18:20,080
Speaker 2: I'll take this, you know what? Not only will Seattle upset?

1650
01:18:20,360 --> 01:18:23,160
Speaker 2: If they don't, I'll be upset. How's that? Because I

1651
01:18:23,160 --> 01:18:25,880
Speaker 2: gotta win this freaking game one day. Really no, I

1652
01:18:25,880 --> 01:18:28,519
Speaker 2: think I wanted about a month ago. But Seattle will upset.

1653
01:18:28,640 --> 01:18:30,879
Speaker 2: Just just the wait that Toronto's a little too cocky.

1654
01:18:31,520 --> 01:18:32,880
Speaker 5: All right, we got you there, Bucky.

1655
01:18:33,160 --> 01:18:37,240
Speaker 1: Oh okay, wait little Toronto. Toronto is my spot, me, Drake.

1656
01:18:37,320 --> 01:18:40,200
Speaker 1: We're gonna go for it on the city Toronto.

1657
01:18:40,600 --> 01:18:43,559
Speaker 2: I should have taken Toronto. My wife's Canadian. She'll kill

1658
01:18:43,560 --> 01:18:44,120
Speaker 2: me she finds.

1659
01:18:45,320 --> 01:18:47,439
Speaker 7: All right, we just won't tell. We won't tell your wife.

1660
01:18:47,479 --> 01:18:50,000
Speaker 7: We got we got it. We're all friends here. We'll

1661
01:18:50,080 --> 01:18:54,000
Speaker 7: keep a secret. Number three. We're gonna go do some cricket, guys,

1662
01:18:54,280 --> 01:18:56,840
Speaker 7: and it's in the Big Bash League. We have the

1663
01:18:57,000 --> 01:19:02,519
Speaker 7: Sydney Thunder taking on Perths Scorchers. Both are even. It's

1664
01:19:02,520 --> 01:19:06,000
Speaker 7: an even tossing here. We got who wins straight up?

1665
01:19:06,280 --> 01:19:08,799
Speaker 7: Is going to be the Sydney Thunder or the Perth Scorches.

1666
01:19:08,800 --> 01:19:09,719
Speaker 7: Who do you have as winner?

1667
01:19:10,000 --> 01:19:11,280
Speaker 2: I wonder what game is this second?

1668
01:19:11,320 --> 01:19:12,479
Speaker 5: I forgot cricket.

1669
01:19:12,920 --> 01:19:14,360
Speaker 1: Cricket, of course, cricket.

1670
01:19:14,640 --> 01:19:16,719
Speaker 2: All right, let mister Brooks go first.

1671
01:19:18,160 --> 01:19:22,360
Speaker 1: Uh, let's go with Sydney. That's where Sydney did win.

1672
01:19:22,760 --> 01:19:24,560
Speaker 2: I'm glad you picked Sydney. I'll tell you what was

1673
01:19:24,680 --> 01:19:27,240
Speaker 2: I just like to nickname the Scorches. You know, the Thunder.

1674
01:19:27,320 --> 01:19:29,559
Speaker 2: That's kind of a common name in Oklahoma City, Thunder,

1675
01:19:29,640 --> 01:19:31,559
Speaker 2: It's been around for a long time. But I never

1676
01:19:31,560 --> 01:19:34,120
Speaker 2: heard of a team called the Scorches, the Perth Scorches.

1677
01:19:34,160 --> 01:19:34,720
Speaker 1: I like that.

1678
01:19:35,040 --> 01:19:37,000
Speaker 2: I'm gonna get some some swag from them too.

1679
01:19:37,080 --> 01:19:39,720
Speaker 5: All right, all right, I'll send a word their way

1680
01:19:39,760 --> 01:19:40,200
Speaker 5: on that one.

1681
01:19:40,439 --> 01:19:42,840
Speaker 2: Do do I have a website, chick?

1682
01:19:43,240 --> 01:19:45,080
Speaker 5: You know what. We'll look into that later.

1683
01:19:45,360 --> 01:19:45,639
Speaker 2: Yes.

1684
01:19:45,800 --> 01:19:49,240
Speaker 7: Next one, we got hockey in Canada and actual Canadian league.

1685
01:19:49,240 --> 01:19:52,760
Speaker 7: It's the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League. We've got the

1686
01:19:52,880 --> 01:19:58,799
Speaker 7: Halifax Mooseheads taking on the Charlottetown Islanders. Mooseheads the favorite,

1687
01:19:59,120 --> 01:20:02,320
Speaker 7: but who will be the leader by the time the

1688
01:20:02,360 --> 01:20:05,080
Speaker 7: third period starts? The Islanders or the Mooseheads.

1689
01:20:07,800 --> 01:20:10,519
Speaker 2: I'll go with Charlottetown. Charlottetown do it.

1690
01:20:15,439 --> 01:20:17,560
Speaker 5: They're playing in Halifax.

1691
01:20:18,760 --> 01:20:22,040
Speaker 2: Helifex moves at British Columbia.

1692
01:20:22,640 --> 01:20:23,679
Speaker 5: I think he's British Columbia.

1693
01:20:23,720 --> 01:20:26,400
Speaker 3: Yeah, so so Andy, who'd you take?

1694
01:20:26,520 --> 01:20:26,840
Speaker 1: You take that?

1695
01:20:27,280 --> 01:20:29,840
Speaker 7: I took Charlatan, he took the Islanders. Do you want

1696
01:20:29,840 --> 01:20:32,639
Speaker 7: to take the mooseheads, buck, Okay, give me moods.

1697
01:20:32,680 --> 01:20:36,639
Speaker 4: Let's go mooseheads, all right, all right, swollen dome coming

1698
01:20:36,720 --> 01:20:40,880
Speaker 4: up next. Right here, a Fox finishing one short of

1699
01:20:40,920 --> 01:20:45,000
Speaker 4: the mark. No bonus for you, now, there's no bonuses here.

1700
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Speaker 4: We got paid because we showed up and we turned

1701
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Speaker 4: down the microphones. We yelled big important things here at

1702
01:20:51,000 --> 01:20:54,439
Speaker 4: Fox Sports Radio. Welcome in another hour Fox Football Sunday,

1703
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Speaker 4: should be, Gentlemen. Only fourteen more games left in this

1709
01:21:18,040 --> 01:21:23,559
Speaker 4: glorious twenty twenty three twenty twenty four regular season. And

1710
01:21:23,760 --> 01:21:25,679
Speaker 4: I gotta be honest. I woke up with a really

1711
01:21:25,800 --> 01:21:29,479
Speaker 4: upset stomach. It really was making me ill this morning

1712
01:21:29,520 --> 01:21:33,439
Speaker 4: as I thought about a little hyperventilating, a little dry mouth. Yeah,

1713
01:21:33,479 --> 01:21:36,000
Speaker 4: I mean, I woke up not feeling grand. I'm like, no, no, no,

1714
01:21:36,200 --> 01:21:38,719
Speaker 4: but we got a rally. Show goes on. My guys

1715
01:21:38,760 --> 01:21:41,599
Speaker 4: are waiting. How you doing today? Fellas what's going on?

1716
01:21:41,640 --> 01:21:43,400
Speaker 2: And it's funny you mentioned that. I mentioned that the

1717
01:21:43,439 --> 01:21:45,679
Speaker 2: bucket when we forstro opened up here at six am

1718
01:21:45,720 --> 01:21:48,559
Speaker 2: Eastern time, and I said, I'm a little sick myself.

1719
01:21:48,640 --> 01:21:50,439
Speaker 2: I'll tell you why. You know, I love the game

1720
01:21:50,439 --> 01:21:53,519
Speaker 2: of football number one. But I think football obviously is

1721
01:21:53,560 --> 01:21:56,880
Speaker 2: a perfect match, not only for television but for talk

1722
01:21:56,960 --> 01:22:00,519
Speaker 2: radio because they play once a week basically, sometimes it'll

1723
01:22:00,560 --> 01:22:03,240
Speaker 2: be Monday, Thursday, whatever it may be, but it's once

1724
01:22:03,240 --> 01:22:06,120
Speaker 2: a week. It's a smaller schedule, so every game means

1725
01:22:06,120 --> 01:22:08,720
Speaker 2: so much more. And I think people are into it

1726
01:22:08,720 --> 01:22:10,640
Speaker 2: because to the gambling I expect be it, you know,

1727
01:22:10,720 --> 01:22:14,479
Speaker 2: the gambling situations by your phone, or you know fantasy football,

1728
01:22:14,479 --> 01:22:16,439
Speaker 2: which is gambling as well. So I think there's so

1729
01:22:16,479 --> 01:22:19,200
Speaker 2: many pluses for football and that's why people love it.

1730
01:22:19,320 --> 01:22:21,400
Speaker 2: You know, baseball is certainly too long. You play a

1731
01:22:21,400 --> 01:22:23,719
Speaker 2: game in April, you play the same team again in June,

1732
01:22:23,760 --> 01:22:26,920
Speaker 2: maybe in August, and it doesn't mean much. But every

1733
01:22:27,000 --> 01:22:29,400
Speaker 2: game means so much, So I'm with you. I was

1734
01:22:29,439 --> 01:22:31,680
Speaker 2: a little down too. I'm excited about going into the

1735
01:22:31,720 --> 01:22:34,320
Speaker 2: playoffs and seeing the Super Bowl, But after that, I

1736
01:22:34,320 --> 01:22:35,360
Speaker 2: think there's a big lull.

1737
01:22:37,760 --> 01:22:40,960
Speaker 4: Fucky fu gye. How we feeling today because obviously a

1738
01:22:40,960 --> 01:22:42,280
Speaker 4: lot of Jews for you today.

1739
01:22:44,080 --> 01:22:47,080
Speaker 1: Oh look, man, I feel great. Look. I've always loved

1740
01:22:47,120 --> 01:22:47,639
Speaker 1: these games.

1741
01:22:48,960 --> 01:22:52,439
Speaker 3: These games are exciting because like you win and get in.

1742
01:22:52,520 --> 01:22:54,920
Speaker 3: I love to see how people perform under pressure. And

1743
01:22:54,960 --> 01:22:55,960
Speaker 3: this is how it should be.

1744
01:22:56,120 --> 01:22:58,519
Speaker 1: Like the NFL has gotten exactly what he wanted going

1745
01:22:58,560 --> 01:23:00,479
Speaker 1: into the weekend. I think twenty team games.

1746
01:23:01,040 --> 01:23:05,559
Speaker 3: Had playoff considerations, so there's intrigue. And we got a

1747
01:23:05,640 --> 01:23:07,680
Speaker 3: chance to see two great games last night, even though

1748
01:23:07,720 --> 01:23:12,240
Speaker 3: the weather was a mess. Pittsburgh Baltimore and then Indy

1749
01:23:12,400 --> 01:23:14,360
Speaker 3: and Houston. You couldn't get better than that. So no,

1750
01:23:14,680 --> 01:23:16,880
Speaker 3: I'm excited about this. This is what it's about. And

1751
01:23:16,920 --> 01:23:19,320
Speaker 3: then when you get into the postseason, all bets are

1752
01:23:19,360 --> 01:23:21,519
Speaker 3: off because you really don't know who's going to win.

1753
01:23:21,840 --> 01:23:24,320
Speaker 3: In spite of like, regardless of what we think about

1754
01:23:24,360 --> 01:23:26,880
Speaker 3: the Ravens and the Niners, don't know, man, the tournament

1755
01:23:26,880 --> 01:23:28,280
Speaker 3: field is gonna make it bananas.

1756
01:23:28,400 --> 01:23:28,800
Speaker 1: You know me.

1757
01:23:29,080 --> 01:23:31,759
Speaker 4: I love chaos in between the white lines. The teas

1758
01:23:31,920 --> 01:23:34,720
Speaker 4: before we did the fun and exciting nod to our

1759
01:23:34,800 --> 01:23:38,519
Speaker 4: friends at tire raq one catch short. A lot of

1760
01:23:38,520 --> 01:23:42,479
Speaker 4: people not only looking at sides and totals and everything

1761
01:23:42,479 --> 01:23:45,080
Speaker 4: when it comes to their bets this time of year,

1762
01:23:45,280 --> 01:23:48,680
Speaker 4: but also all of the incentives that get laid out

1763
01:23:48,680 --> 01:23:52,680
Speaker 4: for what players need to do to reach certain milestones. Right,

1764
01:23:52,720 --> 01:23:56,719
Speaker 4: Baker Mayfield today needs fewer than one hundred yards, needs,

1765
01:23:56,920 --> 01:23:58,680
Speaker 4: you know, a couple of touchdown throws, and all of

1766
01:23:58,680 --> 01:24:02,240
Speaker 4: a sudden you're looking at a four thousand thirty touchdown season.

1767
01:24:02,680 --> 01:24:05,840
Speaker 4: Things like that. Dalton Schultz needed six catches to earn

1768
01:24:05,840 --> 01:24:08,639
Speaker 4: an extra two hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Last night

1769
01:24:09,479 --> 01:24:12,280
Speaker 4: he got a playoff berth, but he only got five catches.

1770
01:24:12,280 --> 01:24:17,280
Speaker 4: Fellas Jadevian Clowney very early on right, it was noted

1771
01:24:17,640 --> 01:24:21,559
Speaker 4: half a sack seven hundred and fifty k guys. So

1772
01:24:21,680 --> 01:24:24,360
Speaker 4: what did he do after they converged on the quarterback,

1773
01:24:24,479 --> 01:24:26,960
Speaker 4: He's like, that's mine. I'm celebrating the hell out of

1774
01:24:27,000 --> 01:24:29,320
Speaker 4: this one. You're not gonna screw me out of my

1775
01:24:29,520 --> 01:24:33,880
Speaker 4: half sack. So today there were articles everywhere where the

1776
01:24:33,960 --> 01:24:38,960
Speaker 4: incentives are for different players, you know, to reach different milestones.

1777
01:24:39,120 --> 01:24:42,439
Speaker 4: We got guys trying to creep towards a thousand rushing yards,

1778
01:24:42,640 --> 01:24:46,120
Speaker 4: thousand receiving yards. The number of quarterbacks that are hitting

1779
01:24:46,160 --> 01:24:50,559
Speaker 4: four thousand passing yards really one of those huge kind

1780
01:24:50,600 --> 01:24:55,040
Speaker 4: of things, because last night CJ. Stroud did it, missing

1781
01:24:55,080 --> 01:24:57,960
Speaker 4: a little bit of time, but that strike to Nico

1782
01:24:57,960 --> 01:25:00,280
Speaker 4: Collins that got everybody sitting at the end edge of

1783
01:25:00,280 --> 01:25:03,080
Speaker 4: their seats all week. I heard they don't have any guys,

1784
01:25:03,280 --> 01:25:05,920
Speaker 4: you haven't been watching the Texans. They have two of them.

1785
01:25:06,120 --> 01:25:08,040
Speaker 4: One of them was hurt and the other guy was

1786
01:25:08,040 --> 01:25:11,439
Speaker 4: streaking to daylight. He got it done. But CJ. Stroud

1787
01:25:11,479 --> 01:25:14,519
Speaker 4: gets to four thousand yards. Guys, it's time for, you know,

1788
01:25:14,560 --> 01:25:17,160
Speaker 4: a very quick pop quiz off the top of the show.

1789
01:25:17,160 --> 01:25:20,519
Speaker 4: Here are you ready? You got your brains working?

1790
01:25:19,920 --> 01:25:21,519
Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, all right.

1791
01:25:21,600 --> 01:25:24,760
Speaker 4: He becomes the fifth quarterback in NFL history, the top

1792
01:25:24,800 --> 01:25:28,559
Speaker 4: four thousand yards in his rookie season. Can we get

1793
01:25:28,560 --> 01:25:29,360
Speaker 4: to the other four?

1794
01:25:30,040 --> 01:25:34,880
Speaker 1: Oh my goodness, one of them may surprise number one?

1795
01:25:35,000 --> 01:25:36,759
Speaker 2: Go ahead, little Matthew Stafford.

1796
01:25:36,800 --> 01:25:37,439
Speaker 1: I got Andrew.

1797
01:25:37,520 --> 01:25:44,160
Speaker 3: I got Andrew and Andrew luck yep, come on and

1798
01:25:44,560 --> 01:25:45,400
Speaker 3: give me something.

1799
01:25:45,479 --> 01:25:47,720
Speaker 4: Just figure the game changed a lot, so you know,

1800
01:25:47,960 --> 01:25:50,360
Speaker 4: we don't have to do the deification of Dan Marino,

1801
01:25:50,560 --> 01:25:52,680
Speaker 4: who would have been playing against defenses you know that

1802
01:25:52,720 --> 01:25:55,439
Speaker 4: are ready for a forward pass these days. See what

1803
01:25:55,520 --> 01:25:57,639
Speaker 4: I did there? Oh, look what I did? I went

1804
01:25:57,720 --> 01:26:00,200
Speaker 4: after the is a Dodor guy? All right, what do

1805
01:26:00,200 --> 01:26:01,240
Speaker 4: we got? We got three other guys?

1806
01:26:01,479 --> 01:26:06,000
Speaker 1: Yeah, pick there you go.

1807
01:26:06,040 --> 01:26:08,799
Speaker 4: You got Cam Newton. That was the surprise one. Oh

1808
01:26:09,680 --> 01:26:11,400
Speaker 4: he had a huge year. But the fact that he

1809
01:26:11,479 --> 01:26:14,479
Speaker 4: got to four thousand.

1810
01:26:13,400 --> 01:26:16,439
Speaker 2: I think he just got flip, yeah, four fifty one.

1811
01:26:17,120 --> 01:26:18,479
Speaker 2: You got Andrew Luck right.

1812
01:26:18,439 --> 01:26:19,719
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think Justin Herbert.

1813
01:26:20,000 --> 01:26:24,479
Speaker 4: Justin Herbert is number three and number four. He's on

1814
01:26:24,520 --> 01:26:27,160
Speaker 4: a team today, but he's sitting on the sidelines the

1815
01:26:27,439 --> 01:26:31,519
Speaker 4: team today. Jameis Winston. There you go, so he is

1816
01:26:31,680 --> 01:26:32,800
Speaker 4: not one of these.

1817
01:26:32,880 --> 01:26:35,240
Speaker 2: He just made it to him and Cam Newton about

1818
01:26:35,240 --> 01:26:35,599
Speaker 2: to see.

1819
01:26:35,600 --> 01:26:37,960
Speaker 4: There you go, so you're looking at he becomes the

1820
01:26:37,960 --> 01:26:41,160
Speaker 4: fifth guy CJ. Stroud. And tomorrow we will have the

1821
01:26:41,160 --> 01:26:46,439
Speaker 4: anniversary not only of Elvis's birthday, all right, David Bowie,

1822
01:26:46,479 --> 01:26:48,799
Speaker 4: I mean a lot of big milestones of January. Also

1823
01:26:48,880 --> 01:26:53,160
Speaker 4: the greatest win in Lovey Smith's coaching career because it

1824
01:26:53,240 --> 01:26:56,920
Speaker 4: allowed David Tepper to go draft and overrule everybody to

1825
01:26:56,920 --> 01:26:57,679
Speaker 4: take Bryce Young.

1826
01:26:59,160 --> 01:26:59,559
Speaker 1: I thought that.

1827
01:26:59,600 --> 01:27:05,120
Speaker 3: Was yeah, what what will be what I what I

1828
01:27:05,120 --> 01:27:08,080
Speaker 3: would love to hear is house split. Was that room

1829
01:27:08,200 --> 01:27:10,800
Speaker 3: really on CJ Stroud because everyone is going to say, oh,

1830
01:27:10,840 --> 01:27:14,960
Speaker 3: it was a CJ. But I do wonder. I do

1831
01:27:15,000 --> 01:27:16,880
Speaker 3: wonder because there was a love. Look, man, we can

1832
01:27:16,920 --> 01:27:18,599
Speaker 3: go and look at all the stuff on the internet.

1833
01:27:18,720 --> 01:27:21,720
Speaker 3: Everybody had Bryce Young at the top of the charts,

1834
01:27:22,000 --> 01:27:23,200
Speaker 3: and there was conversation.

1835
01:27:23,840 --> 01:27:25,799
Speaker 1: Remember, like we do this every year.

1836
01:27:25,680 --> 01:27:28,360
Speaker 3: We picked a foil, We picked somebody that we're going

1837
01:27:28,439 --> 01:27:30,480
Speaker 3: to beat up, and he was the sack of potatoes

1838
01:27:30,520 --> 01:27:31,200
Speaker 3: that we beat up.

1839
01:27:31,439 --> 01:27:32,160
Speaker 1: It was Will.

1840
01:27:32,040 --> 01:27:34,559
Speaker 3: Levice over top of him. They talked about Anthony Richison

1841
01:27:34,560 --> 01:27:38,160
Speaker 3: over c J Stroud. A lot of people were not

1842
01:27:38,560 --> 01:27:41,400
Speaker 3: all in on CJ. Stroud and so let's make sure

1843
01:27:41,439 --> 01:27:44,639
Speaker 3: we don't have revisionist history and talk about him being

1844
01:27:44,640 --> 01:27:47,439
Speaker 3: the one how tightly can tested? It was because it

1845
01:27:47,520 --> 01:27:51,080
Speaker 3: wasn't that uh the s two testing people talking about

1846
01:27:51,320 --> 01:27:54,040
Speaker 3: his lack of athleticism and all that other stuff.

1847
01:27:56,360 --> 01:28:01,679
Speaker 2: Yeah, Young, I think out because they staying his hands

1848
01:28:01,680 --> 01:28:03,479
Speaker 2: were too small. Didn't they do that with him with

1849
01:28:03,640 --> 01:28:04,160
Speaker 2: Bryce Young?

1850
01:28:04,240 --> 01:28:06,680
Speaker 4: Now they did that with Jared Goff. He seems to

1851
01:28:06,760 --> 01:28:09,280
Speaker 4: have done. Okay, you're right, it's a big deal with

1852
01:28:09,320 --> 01:28:11,360
Speaker 4: my tag team partner Jason Smith.

1853
01:28:11,800 --> 01:28:14,040
Speaker 2: But let me ask Bucket his question, if I may

1854
01:28:14,240 --> 01:28:16,840
Speaker 2: you talk about these records in the situations. I mean,

1855
01:28:16,960 --> 01:28:19,360
Speaker 2: certainly guys want to get that for bonuses, But even

1856
01:28:19,400 --> 01:28:21,479
Speaker 2: if there's no bonus, like Jamar Chase at the Bengals,

1857
01:28:21,560 --> 01:28:23,799
Speaker 2: he needs four receptions to get one hundred for the season,

1858
01:28:24,160 --> 01:28:29,000
Speaker 2: do they before they publicize do they players know these

1859
01:28:29,040 --> 01:28:30,760
Speaker 2: records they are in reach? Do they know that? Do

1860
01:28:30,880 --> 01:28:34,320
Speaker 2: they talk about that? Buck? Do they?

1861
01:28:35,160 --> 01:28:35,320
Speaker 1: Oh?

1862
01:28:35,520 --> 01:28:37,599
Speaker 4: Absolutely, well, they know they got cash.

1863
01:28:37,680 --> 01:28:40,599
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, if there's no even.

1864
01:28:40,400 --> 01:28:43,360
Speaker 4: If there's no incentive, I think Bucky, right, I mean, guys,

1865
01:28:43,479 --> 01:28:46,160
Speaker 4: guys know what they're getting towards you, Niles Stones, right,

1866
01:28:46,439 --> 01:28:47,880
Speaker 4: even personal best I mean.

1867
01:28:47,920 --> 01:28:51,360
Speaker 3: Guys, look, man, first, guys know how many yards they

1868
01:28:51,360 --> 01:28:54,479
Speaker 3: have in the middle of games for no reason.

1869
01:28:54,560 --> 01:28:56,519
Speaker 4: No, but that's what I've always argued, Right, people go

1870
01:28:56,600 --> 01:29:00,519
Speaker 4: after Lebron James. Everybody knows them.

1871
01:29:01,000 --> 01:29:01,599
Speaker 1: I did.

1872
01:29:02,000 --> 01:29:04,760
Speaker 3: I mean, you have a you have a you have

1873
01:29:04,840 --> 01:29:07,800
Speaker 3: a general idea of what you've done for the day,

1874
01:29:08,280 --> 01:29:11,880
Speaker 3: like like you know, particularly like sacks and all that

1875
01:29:11,960 --> 01:29:13,240
Speaker 3: disease to kind of keep up.

1876
01:29:13,160 --> 01:29:17,000
Speaker 1: With and register those things. So yeah, guys know and

1877
01:29:17,000 --> 01:29:18,440
Speaker 1: then if you had a little change.

1878
01:29:18,200 --> 01:29:21,360
Speaker 3: On top of it where you were, you monetize for

1879
01:29:21,439 --> 01:29:22,320
Speaker 3: some of your efforts.

1880
01:29:22,720 --> 01:29:26,880
Speaker 1: You absolutely know, which is why Jadavian Clowney's reaction was

1881
01:29:27,120 --> 01:29:27,760
Speaker 1: what it was.

1882
01:29:28,120 --> 01:29:31,720
Speaker 3: Immediately after j op and jumping on the pile, he

1883
01:29:31,800 --> 01:29:33,200
Speaker 3: knew exactly that.

1884
01:29:33,400 --> 01:29:35,519
Speaker 1: Yeah, there was a three quarters of a million jump

1885
01:29:35,560 --> 01:29:35,960
Speaker 1: on the pile.

1886
01:29:36,040 --> 01:29:38,080
Speaker 2: But so much for a team game, so much for

1887
01:29:38,120 --> 01:29:38,800
Speaker 2: the team game.

1888
01:29:38,960 --> 01:29:41,599
Speaker 4: Well, it's still team game, right, because you're only getting

1889
01:29:41,560 --> 01:29:44,080
Speaker 4: the stats team for good stuff that you're doing right,

1890
01:29:44,360 --> 01:29:46,680
Speaker 4: You're not. You're not getting it for giving up a

1891
01:29:46,720 --> 01:29:49,920
Speaker 4: twenty yard past. Hey, we gave up another bomb over here.

1892
01:29:50,200 --> 01:29:53,040
Speaker 4: Give me my money. I'm a quarterback that ain't working.

1893
01:29:54,000 --> 01:29:57,760
Speaker 4: Sixty six different quarterbacks will have started a game by

1894
01:29:57,800 --> 01:30:02,360
Speaker 4: the end of today's action. Only time we topped it

1895
01:30:02,439 --> 01:30:05,479
Speaker 4: was last year. We got to sixty eight fellas, and

1896
01:30:05,520 --> 01:30:07,719
Speaker 4: I referenced David Tepper really quick. I know you guys

1897
01:30:07,720 --> 01:30:10,360
Speaker 4: talked about is fine and everything earlier. Now we have

1898
01:30:10,400 --> 01:30:12,800
Speaker 4: a bunch of rumor mills of how many coaches are

1899
01:30:12,800 --> 01:30:16,120
Speaker 4: gonna be out, whether it's Washington, whether Arthur Smith. Right,

1900
01:30:16,160 --> 01:30:19,880
Speaker 4: there's talk that you know, ownership bringing their hands. Whatever

1901
01:30:20,080 --> 01:30:23,160
Speaker 4: we know about the Chargers and the Raiders and maybe

1902
01:30:23,240 --> 01:30:24,800
Speaker 4: the same. I mean, we just keep going on down

1903
01:30:24,840 --> 01:30:26,840
Speaker 4: the line. I made the argument earlier in the week

1904
01:30:26,880 --> 01:30:29,799
Speaker 4: that Carolina is the best head coaching job in football.

1905
01:30:32,760 --> 01:30:34,240
Speaker 4: Here's my logic.

1906
01:30:34,640 --> 01:30:36,760
Speaker 2: Please, I got explained.

1907
01:30:36,880 --> 01:30:40,439
Speaker 4: I got nine months of chaos knowing that I'm going

1908
01:30:40,479 --> 01:30:42,320
Speaker 4: in because, let's face it, like we always get to

1909
01:30:42,320 --> 01:30:45,240
Speaker 4: the who wants that job? Well, it's one to thirty two, right,

1910
01:30:45,400 --> 01:30:47,719
Speaker 4: there's a lot of guys that want that job. Either

1911
01:30:47,760 --> 01:30:50,479
Speaker 4: you've got retread guys that want one last bite at

1912
01:30:50,479 --> 01:30:53,880
Speaker 4: the apple, or you've got the new guys. Now, look

1913
01:30:53,920 --> 01:30:56,120
Speaker 4: this year, do we have a lot of shiny objects

1914
01:30:56,160 --> 01:30:58,639
Speaker 4: out there in terms of coaches that we're waiting on?

1915
01:30:59,240 --> 01:30:59,400
Speaker 7: Right?

1916
01:30:59,439 --> 01:31:03,120
Speaker 4: Everybody's looking over at at Ben Johnson in Detroit. Okay, fine,

1917
01:31:03,720 --> 01:31:08,280
Speaker 4: Jim Harbaugh. Whether Bill Belichick makes a move beyond that?

1918
01:31:09,200 --> 01:31:11,280
Speaker 4: I mean, are we talking up a lot of guys

1919
01:31:11,320 --> 01:31:14,040
Speaker 4: like we have in years past? No, Gerrod Mayo, it's

1920
01:31:14,080 --> 01:31:18,240
Speaker 4: the does he succeed Bill Belichick? Mike Vrabel Tennessee, does

1921
01:31:18,280 --> 01:31:19,960
Speaker 4: he bounce to New England?

1922
01:31:20,320 --> 01:31:20,479
Speaker 1: Right?

1923
01:31:20,560 --> 01:31:23,160
Speaker 4: Maybe he gets fired, maybe he doesn't, all of those things,

1924
01:31:23,360 --> 01:31:25,800
Speaker 4: but otherwise we're looking at guys that are trying to

1925
01:31:25,840 --> 01:31:28,720
Speaker 4: get their first bite at the apple, their first opportunity.

1926
01:31:28,800 --> 01:31:33,080
Speaker 4: They're gonna get a massive payday, generational wealth. Look, it's

1927
01:31:33,080 --> 01:31:34,880
Speaker 4: gonna be a pain in the ass because Tepper's gonna

1928
01:31:34,920 --> 01:31:36,439
Speaker 4: be a lunatic over the.

1929
01:31:36,400 --> 01:31:37,800
Speaker 2: Top of you. Do you want to work for it?

1930
01:31:38,000 --> 01:31:40,000
Speaker 4: But that's the thing I'm gonna say is that I

1931
01:31:40,040 --> 01:31:42,160
Speaker 4: got to put up with it for nine months. Gentlemen,

1932
01:31:42,200 --> 01:31:46,759
Speaker 4: in your lives, jobs, relationships, friendships, whatever, you got nine

1933
01:31:46,760 --> 01:31:48,840
Speaker 4: months that are tough, right, You got a class that

1934
01:31:48,920 --> 01:31:51,879
Speaker 4: you take that's a pain for you for nine months

1935
01:31:52,160 --> 01:31:55,120
Speaker 4: at every level, and you get through it, but you

1936
01:31:55,120 --> 01:31:57,640
Speaker 4: don't get general way generational wealth coming out of that.

1937
01:31:58,000 --> 01:31:59,639
Speaker 4: You get to get up and go to work again.

1938
01:32:00,080 --> 01:32:03,040
Speaker 4: So even if it goes horribly wrong and it's a

1939
01:32:03,160 --> 01:32:06,519
Speaker 4: miserable experience every day and at the end of it

1940
01:32:07,000 --> 01:32:11,000
Speaker 4: you're fired or goat forbid, you actually win. That means

1941
01:32:11,040 --> 01:32:13,479
Speaker 4: Tepper loves you, so you get to stick around and

1942
01:32:13,520 --> 01:32:16,679
Speaker 4: get your two. But say he hates you and fires you.

1943
01:32:16,680 --> 01:32:19,639
Speaker 4: You've learned how to run a team, run a locker room.

1944
01:32:20,000 --> 01:32:23,880
Speaker 4: You've got experience with all of those things operating in chaos,

1945
01:32:24,040 --> 01:32:26,320
Speaker 4: so you're ready to audition You've already got your PowerPoint

1946
01:32:26,360 --> 01:32:29,760
Speaker 4: ready for your next job. You got generational wealth and

1947
01:32:29,800 --> 01:32:32,280
Speaker 4: nobody's gonna hold it against you because this guy's a lunatic.

1948
01:32:32,479 --> 01:32:33,360
Speaker 4: Tell me I'm wrong.

1949
01:32:34,280 --> 01:32:36,080
Speaker 2: Well, you're not wrong, but because I think the fact

1950
01:32:36,080 --> 01:32:37,960
Speaker 2: of the matter is it's supply and demand. There's only

1951
01:32:37,960 --> 01:32:40,719
Speaker 2: thirty two teams. Everybody wants to be a head honcho number.

1952
01:32:40,800 --> 01:32:43,240
Speaker 2: And look, all you gotta do is win, and Temper's

1953
01:32:43,280 --> 01:32:45,679
Speaker 2: happy you lose. You know you're gonna be gone.

1954
01:32:45,720 --> 01:32:48,040
Speaker 4: He's gonna shrinks at you, and you're gonna be gone.

1955
01:32:48,400 --> 01:32:50,639
Speaker 4: They're gonna blame him if it's a one year stint.

1956
01:32:50,800 --> 01:32:54,000
Speaker 4: Everybody else is what went wrong with that guy? Why

1957
01:32:54,080 --> 01:32:56,040
Speaker 4: was it so bad? Why did he get bounced? This

1958
01:32:56,080 --> 01:32:59,800
Speaker 4: guy's like, ah, that's expected. Come on in an interview

1959
01:32:59,840 --> 01:33:00,719
Speaker 4: for you your next job.

1960
01:33:03,520 --> 01:33:06,240
Speaker 1: Yeah, well I can see that.

1961
01:33:06,520 --> 01:33:08,479
Speaker 3: I think you have to have a good therapist on

1962
01:33:08,560 --> 01:33:12,160
Speaker 3: call because that's the mental health. I think your mental

1963
01:33:12,160 --> 01:33:16,240
Speaker 3: health would be severely challenged. Uh in that situation. I

1964
01:33:16,280 --> 01:33:20,280
Speaker 3: think watching him, just at that reaction that he had

1965
01:33:20,439 --> 01:33:22,920
Speaker 3: throwing to drink, you can only imagine what some of

1966
01:33:23,000 --> 01:33:26,000
Speaker 3: those meetings are like when you're having to explain away

1967
01:33:26,120 --> 01:33:30,680
Speaker 3: why you lost a game in the Monday wrap up

1968
01:33:30,680 --> 01:33:31,240
Speaker 3: with the owner.

1969
01:33:31,640 --> 01:33:33,840
Speaker 1: Uh, that could be tough, but you're right.

1970
01:33:33,760 --> 01:33:36,840
Speaker 3: The money significant is guaranteed you get all of it.

1971
01:33:37,160 --> 01:33:40,760
Speaker 3: He is currently paying Matt Rule and Frank Wright he

1972
01:33:40,800 --> 01:33:43,679
Speaker 3: had offsets in the deal. But yeah, if you're Frank right,

1973
01:33:44,080 --> 01:33:45,920
Speaker 3: Frank right, you can go to the local high school

1974
01:33:45,960 --> 01:33:47,400
Speaker 3: and say, you know what, I don't have to deal

1975
01:33:47,400 --> 01:33:48,240
Speaker 3: with this chaos.

1976
01:33:48,439 --> 01:33:50,679
Speaker 1: I get the big check from Temper and I get

1977
01:33:50,680 --> 01:33:52,639
Speaker 1: to do what I love down at the local high school.

1978
01:33:52,760 --> 01:33:55,120
Speaker 4: So yeah, I mean back to back years he walked

1979
01:33:55,120 --> 01:33:59,000
Speaker 4: away with pretty big checks. Still wondering about the her,

1980
01:33:59,280 --> 01:34:01,120
Speaker 4: but Steiken did a pretty good job up until that

1981
01:34:01,160 --> 01:34:05,920
Speaker 4: fourth down call Taylor not running out about it. I mean,

1982
01:34:05,920 --> 01:34:08,519
Speaker 4: there's a bunch of stuff that happened there. But nine

1983
01:34:08,560 --> 01:34:10,920
Speaker 4: carries twenty three yards in that final drive and then

1984
01:34:10,960 --> 01:34:14,559
Speaker 4: not on the field down the stretch on that final

1985
01:34:14,600 --> 01:34:18,000
Speaker 4: play pass was a little off ball you gotta catch.

1986
01:34:18,160 --> 01:34:21,280
Speaker 4: Pittman was out there taking on two defenders to get

1987
01:34:21,320 --> 01:34:25,479
Speaker 4: him his yard plus. But you know what, overall, you

1988
01:34:25,600 --> 01:34:29,400
Speaker 4: overachieved with Stichen and the greatness that is Garner Minshew

1989
01:34:29,520 --> 01:34:32,439
Speaker 4: playing meaningful football in the week eighteen it's one thing

1990
01:34:32,640 --> 01:34:36,759
Speaker 4: every fan base wishes they could do. He's Andy Furman,

1991
01:34:36,800 --> 01:34:39,160
Speaker 4: that's Bucky Brooks. I'm Mike Carmer. We're just getting warmed

1992
01:34:39,200 --> 01:34:42,040
Speaker 4: up here Fox Football Sunday. We got four games to preview,

1993
01:34:42,040 --> 01:34:46,080
Speaker 4: and then, of course the National Title Game is tomorrow night.

1994
01:34:46,280 --> 01:34:49,240
Speaker 4: A lot of rumor, conjecture, speculation on that. We'll touch

1995
01:34:49,280 --> 01:34:51,599
Speaker 4: on that as the hour rolls on. This is Fox

1996
01:34:51,640 --> 01:35:03,479
Speaker 4: Football Sunday on Fox Sports Radio. Good morning. Thanks for

1997
01:35:03,520 --> 01:35:06,719
Speaker 4: hanging out with us a little bit this early hour

1998
01:35:06,840 --> 01:35:11,040
Speaker 4: here Fox Football Sunday, Mike Carmon alongside Andy Furman Bucky Brooks.

1999
01:35:11,040 --> 01:35:14,960
Speaker 4: Find them over on Twitter slash x at Andy Furman,

2000
01:35:15,200 --> 01:35:18,080
Speaker 4: FSR at Bucky Brooks. You can find me over at

2001
01:35:18,080 --> 01:35:21,400
Speaker 4: Swollen Dome. Disagree with the takes, like it, hate it,

2002
01:35:21,520 --> 01:35:24,719
Speaker 4: just don't be indifferent. Evangelize, Tell your friends and family,

2003
01:35:24,800 --> 01:35:28,000
Speaker 4: download the podcasts, and keep us with you three hundred

2004
01:35:28,000 --> 01:35:30,559
Speaker 4: and sixty five days a year, twenty four to seven. Look,

2005
01:35:30,600 --> 01:35:33,280
Speaker 4: that's it. I just don't want you to go nah,

2006
01:35:33,479 --> 01:35:36,720
Speaker 4: moving on. No, we're trying to enrage, engage, entertain, and

2007
01:35:36,760 --> 01:35:39,439
Speaker 4: inform as we go here. That's about as good a

2008
01:35:39,640 --> 01:35:44,280
Speaker 4: WWE promo to the show. As I can do. And gentlemen,

2009
01:35:44,720 --> 01:35:47,400
Speaker 4: we got four games still to preview a little bit.

2010
01:35:47,880 --> 01:35:51,160
Speaker 4: As we look at Week eighteen, a lot of well

2011
01:35:51,200 --> 01:35:54,840
Speaker 4: strange bedfellows. As you get to it when you're starting

2012
01:35:54,840 --> 01:35:57,600
Speaker 4: to pick games, I'll have you note there. According to

2013
01:35:57,640 --> 01:36:03,160
Speaker 4: Ben Fawkes a wk ees you know, like the phoenix

2014
01:36:03,640 --> 01:36:08,719
Speaker 4: in Harry Potter, there are four four entries still remaining

2015
01:36:08,760 --> 01:36:12,360
Speaker 4: in the Circus Survival pool. So pick the winner and

2016
01:36:12,560 --> 01:36:17,360
Speaker 4: is the last four entries splitting nine point two million dollars.

2017
01:36:18,280 --> 01:36:21,599
Speaker 4: Two people have picked the Raiders and two people had

2018
01:36:21,600 --> 01:36:25,000
Speaker 4: picked Andy. The Cincinnati Bengals currently seven and a half

2019
01:36:25,080 --> 01:36:28,720
Speaker 4: point favorites over the Joe Flacco list. Gentlemen, let me

2020
01:36:28,760 --> 01:36:31,320
Speaker 4: just start right there. Joe Flacco got to sit out

2021
01:36:31,320 --> 01:36:35,440
Speaker 4: for his efforts in week eighteen. We talk about luminaries,

2022
01:36:35,479 --> 01:36:37,920
Speaker 4: we talk about greatness, and yes we're talking about Joe

2023
01:36:37,920 --> 01:36:42,439
Speaker 4: Flacco again. Yeah you like that, don't you? Yeah? Yeah,

2024
01:36:42,560 --> 01:36:44,439
Speaker 4: you did that. All right, Let's get to the first

2025
01:36:44,479 --> 01:36:47,920
Speaker 4: of those four games. Rams at forty nine ers forty

2026
01:36:48,000 --> 01:36:51,679
Speaker 4: nine ers four point favorite. It is Sam Darnold going

2027
01:36:51,800 --> 01:36:54,680
Speaker 4: up against Carson Wentz. Carson Wentz will be in the

2028
01:36:54,720 --> 01:36:57,960
Speaker 4: record book after this game. Why Phuka Dakua needs twenty

2029
01:36:58,080 --> 01:37:01,880
Speaker 4: nine yards to set the all time rookie receiving record.

2030
01:37:02,120 --> 01:37:03,880
Speaker 4: Anybody know who the leader is?

2031
01:37:04,720 --> 01:37:07,080
Speaker 1: Wohok nose.

2032
01:37:07,080 --> 01:37:09,320
Speaker 4: We're going all the way in the wayback machine to

2033
01:37:09,439 --> 01:37:12,920
Speaker 4: nineteen sixty by the man man by the name of

2034
01:37:13,000 --> 01:37:18,320
Speaker 4: Bill Groman of your Houston Oilers. And he did it

2035
01:37:18,360 --> 01:37:22,120
Speaker 4: in fourteen games, seventy two catches twelve touchdowns in Akua

2036
01:37:22,200 --> 01:37:24,479
Speaker 4: with that opportunity, and then I would imagine after his

2037
01:37:24,560 --> 01:37:28,120
Speaker 4: twenty nine receiving yards he does the Queen's wave and

2038
01:37:28,200 --> 01:37:30,479
Speaker 4: walks off. So if you're looking for him in your

2039
01:37:30,479 --> 01:37:34,200
Speaker 4: week eighteen daily fantasies or whatever, you really better hope

2040
01:37:34,200 --> 01:37:37,840
Speaker 4: you get a Nico Collins seventy five yard touchdown kind

2041
01:37:37,840 --> 01:37:42,920
Speaker 4: of moment. Otherwise he's in Operation Shutdown. Jordan Mason, Elijah Mitchell.

2042
01:37:43,400 --> 01:37:45,639
Speaker 4: Some of the principles that you'll see for the Rams.

2043
01:37:46,280 --> 01:37:50,120
Speaker 4: You know you're into the playoffs, you're solidified and shut down.

2044
01:37:50,200 --> 01:37:53,360
Speaker 4: For Stafford, it is a very strange year, but San

2045
01:37:53,400 --> 01:37:56,759
Speaker 4: Francisco minus four forty and a half is your total.

2046
01:37:57,280 --> 01:38:00,320
Speaker 4: So watching some paint dry as we go. Andy, we're

2047
01:38:00,320 --> 01:38:02,320
Speaker 4: picking all the games we do all two seventy two.

2048
01:38:02,560 --> 01:38:04,840
Speaker 4: We celebrate them all. Here's the final four.

2049
01:38:05,479 --> 01:38:07,439
Speaker 2: All right, let's talk about this Rams of forty nine ers.

2050
01:38:07,479 --> 01:38:09,200
Speaker 2: The game means nothing. It really doesn't, because the forty

2051
01:38:09,280 --> 01:38:11,160
Speaker 2: nine ers have already locked up the number one seed

2052
01:38:11,200 --> 01:38:13,639
Speaker 2: in the NFC. The Rams that cut the wildcard birth

2053
01:38:13,680 --> 01:38:17,160
Speaker 2: cannot win a division or move up in the wildcard priority.

2054
01:38:17,840 --> 01:38:21,760
Speaker 2: Given the second place NFC finisher, they'll be ranked ahead

2055
01:38:21,760 --> 01:38:24,679
Speaker 2: of them. So it means really nothing except maybe pride.

2056
01:38:24,760 --> 01:38:26,320
Speaker 2: And as well as the Rams have been playing, they're

2057
01:38:26,320 --> 01:38:29,280
Speaker 2: playing great. Offensively, they're going great. They've won six of

2058
01:38:29,360 --> 01:38:31,839
Speaker 2: their last seven ball games as well as they're playing.

2059
01:38:32,360 --> 01:38:35,519
Speaker 2: And look, I understand Christian McCaffrey's not going to play today.

2060
01:38:36,320 --> 01:38:38,720
Speaker 2: It's going to be kind of a lot of secondhand guys.

2061
01:38:38,920 --> 01:38:41,360
Speaker 2: But still, in all, the forty nine ers are simply

2062
01:38:41,400 --> 01:38:43,439
Speaker 2: just a better team, you know. And earlier in the

2063
01:38:43,520 --> 01:38:46,000
Speaker 2: year they beat them something like thirty to twenty three,

2064
01:38:46,080 --> 01:38:48,640
Speaker 2: second game of the year. I still think that the

2065
01:38:48,880 --> 01:38:50,800
Speaker 2: forty nine ers, when there's a pride factor, you want

2066
01:38:50,800 --> 01:38:53,120
Speaker 2: to go with some momentum. Bucket knows that. I mean,

2067
01:38:53,360 --> 01:38:54,839
Speaker 2: you know, you don't want to go into the playoffs

2068
01:38:54,840 --> 01:38:56,960
Speaker 2: with a loss. So I think the momentum fact this

2069
01:38:57,000 --> 01:39:00,479
Speaker 2: team's twelve and four, Rams nine and seven. The forty

2070
01:39:00,560 --> 01:39:04,480
Speaker 2: nine is just think they're just a better team.

2071
01:39:04,640 --> 01:39:07,559
Speaker 3: Yeah, they're a better team and it's personal like anybody

2072
01:39:07,600 --> 01:39:10,120
Speaker 3: who's been around those robbery games. Note that the Niners

2073
01:39:10,120 --> 01:39:13,880
Speaker 3: and Rams do not get along, So yeah, I'll take

2074
01:39:13,920 --> 01:39:17,559
Speaker 3: the Niners in this one, even though neither team is

2075
01:39:17,640 --> 01:39:19,840
Speaker 3: really gonna play all their ones. When we look at

2076
01:39:19,840 --> 01:39:21,760
Speaker 3: the depth of the roster, the Niners have a better roster,

2077
01:39:21,840 --> 01:39:22,960
Speaker 3: so they give them a nine.

2078
01:39:23,000 --> 01:39:25,519
Speaker 4: There you go. You got the five yards in their

2079
01:39:25,600 --> 01:39:29,639
Speaker 4: incentives sweep steaks, five yards for Tyler Higby to get

2080
01:39:29,680 --> 01:39:32,200
Speaker 4: to another one hundred and twenty five thousand dollars. We're

2081
01:39:32,240 --> 01:39:35,400
Speaker 4: all cheering for Tyler Higbey today. We're all Higbee fans.

2082
01:39:35,800 --> 01:39:36,800
Speaker 4: Get your money.

2083
01:39:36,840 --> 01:39:38,800
Speaker 2: Five yards for one hundred and twenty five grand Is

2084
01:39:38,840 --> 01:39:39,400
Speaker 2: that something?

2085
01:39:39,520 --> 01:39:40,240
Speaker 4: How crazy? Right?

2086
01:39:40,320 --> 01:39:42,439
Speaker 2: People can work a whole year, not make that. He's

2087
01:39:42,439 --> 01:39:43,479
Speaker 2: gonna make it a five year ods.

2088
01:39:43,479 --> 01:39:47,160
Speaker 4: Oh, the majority of Americans work all year and don't

2089
01:39:47,200 --> 01:39:47,719
Speaker 4: come close.

2090
01:39:48,160 --> 01:39:48,360
Speaker 1: Right.

2091
01:39:48,920 --> 01:39:52,720
Speaker 4: If I read the economic data correctly.

2092
01:39:52,479 --> 01:39:56,320
Speaker 2: It's better ugh that those that information should stay public,

2093
01:39:56,439 --> 01:40:00,320
Speaker 2: not public, stay internally, because I think that's what's rates

2094
01:40:00,400 --> 01:40:04,280
Speaker 2: fans from players and really causes problems. Yeah, I just

2095
01:40:04,560 --> 01:40:07,160
Speaker 2: I don't think it's good. I don't think there's no upside.

2096
01:40:07,200 --> 01:40:08,000
Speaker 5: What does it do?

2097
01:40:08,360 --> 01:40:11,120
Speaker 2: I mean, for an average Joe who has to put

2098
01:40:11,120 --> 01:40:13,519
Speaker 2: his season tickets on a credit card and he goes

2099
01:40:13,520 --> 01:40:15,600
Speaker 2: in hawk and goes in debt and he hears this,

2100
01:40:15,680 --> 01:40:16,880
Speaker 2: I don't think it does any good.

2101
01:40:18,520 --> 01:40:22,760
Speaker 4: He made a choice with his discretionary income, and you're right, right,

2102
01:40:22,840 --> 01:40:24,519
Speaker 4: I mean, he can do something else. He can buy

2103
01:40:24,520 --> 01:40:28,280
Speaker 4: a nice, big TV and save himself a lot of money. Yeah,

2104
01:40:28,320 --> 01:40:30,680
Speaker 4: because you know what is parking pass might be one

2105
01:40:30,760 --> 01:40:33,280
Speaker 4: hundred and twenty five thousand dollars a year depending on

2106
01:40:33,320 --> 01:40:35,960
Speaker 4: where he's going to get he or she is going

2107
01:40:35,960 --> 01:40:38,439
Speaker 4: to games' let's get that right. We're here in the

2108
01:40:38,479 --> 01:40:41,679
Speaker 4: tyrack dot Com Fox Sports Radio studios before we hit

2109
01:40:41,720 --> 01:40:43,880
Speaker 4: our man Kevin Wyatt with the update. Let's get one

2110
01:40:43,880 --> 01:40:44,479
Speaker 4: more game.

2111
01:40:44,320 --> 01:40:46,120
Speaker 2: In Eagles and Giants.

2112
01:40:46,360 --> 01:40:49,519
Speaker 4: Eagles four and a half point favorites on the road

2113
01:40:49,640 --> 01:40:52,400
Speaker 4: at New York forty two points. Still some things to

2114
01:40:52,400 --> 01:40:55,920
Speaker 4: be played for. They gacked it away, opportunities knock and

2115
01:40:56,479 --> 01:40:58,559
Speaker 4: last week I don't know if you guys caught the

2116
01:40:58,760 --> 01:41:01,680
Speaker 4: shot in the booth when James Connor went into the

2117
01:41:01,800 --> 01:41:07,839
Speaker 4: end zone in the game against You know, for Week seventeen,

2118
01:41:08,080 --> 01:41:09,920
Speaker 4: you've got a lot of angst and a lot of

2119
01:41:09,960 --> 01:41:16,040
Speaker 4: anxiousness in terms of front office guys in last minute

2120
01:41:16,280 --> 01:41:18,880
Speaker 4: kind of circumstance. But for the Eagles, they had a

2121
01:41:18,880 --> 01:41:22,120
Speaker 4: lot of opportunities along the way. But we've seen fractures,

2122
01:41:22,160 --> 01:41:27,000
Speaker 4: We hear all these reports of malcontentedness and disarray. Aj

2123
01:41:27,120 --> 01:41:30,479
Speaker 4: Brown had to go and do a long, long DA

2124
01:41:30,760 --> 01:41:33,320
Speaker 4: Tribe with the media not only about his own role,

2125
01:41:33,640 --> 01:41:37,040
Speaker 4: but where the team feels about Nick Sirianni because locally

2126
01:41:37,160 --> 01:41:40,960
Speaker 4: and a bit nationally, folks starting to turn up the

2127
01:41:41,040 --> 01:41:44,080
Speaker 4: pressure and maybe the burners a little bit. We talked

2128
01:41:44,080 --> 01:41:48,160
Speaker 4: about Stike and leaving, We've talked about changes defensively and

2129
01:41:48,240 --> 01:41:51,280
Speaker 4: what they're doing Patrician All. Now we go into a

2130
01:41:51,280 --> 01:41:54,559
Speaker 4: big spot where the number two seeds still available and

2131
01:41:54,600 --> 01:41:57,799
Speaker 4: certainly the NFC East. What do you say here, Bucky,

2132
01:41:58,320 --> 01:42:01,120
Speaker 4: they just go take care of business, put Dabling Company

2133
01:42:01,160 --> 01:42:04,400
Speaker 4: out of their misery. Or is this one where maybe

2134
01:42:04,479 --> 01:42:07,320
Speaker 4: with Dable Wind and the Giants you get a little

2135
01:42:07,320 --> 01:42:07,960
Speaker 4: bit of juice.

2136
01:42:09,360 --> 01:42:10,120
Speaker 1: You can get juice.

2137
01:42:10,240 --> 01:42:12,439
Speaker 3: You can get juice from the Giants just because final

2138
01:42:12,479 --> 01:42:16,639
Speaker 3: game rivaly game, the Eagles haven't played well. They put

2139
01:42:16,640 --> 01:42:18,640
Speaker 3: bas stuff on tape, so the Giants would like to

2140
01:42:18,680 --> 01:42:21,360
Speaker 3: finish it off with the win. I mean, even though

2141
01:42:21,400 --> 01:42:24,080
Speaker 3: momentum doesn't carry into next year like, it feels a

2142
01:42:24,080 --> 01:42:26,200
Speaker 3: lot better going into the offseason on a win as

2143
01:42:26,240 --> 01:42:28,320
Speaker 3: opposed to a loss. So this would be a tough

2144
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Speaker 3: game for the Eagles. I think it's about trying to

2145
01:42:30,760 --> 01:42:33,000
Speaker 3: find themselves before they head into the tournament.

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01:42:33,040 --> 01:42:34,000
Speaker 1: They need to run the football.

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01:42:34,080 --> 01:42:36,360
Speaker 3: Jenahurerston needs to clean up the issues that he has

2148
01:42:36,400 --> 01:42:37,200
Speaker 3: with the turnovers.

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01:42:37,360 --> 01:42:39,240
Speaker 1: Should be competitive game. I'm gonna go with the Eagles

2150
01:42:39,240 --> 01:42:40,479
Speaker 1: in this, but I think it's gonna be like the

2151
01:42:40,520 --> 01:42:43,080
Speaker 1: rest of the games ug Lee.

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01:42:43,920 --> 01:42:44,760
Speaker 2: Yeah, I tell you what.

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01:42:44,840 --> 01:42:45,000
Speaker 1: Though.

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01:42:45,040 --> 01:42:47,040
Speaker 2: They played about two three weeks ago and the Giants

2155
01:42:47,080 --> 01:42:49,160
Speaker 2: lost thirty three to twenty five. But this game means

2156
01:42:49,160 --> 01:42:51,080
Speaker 2: a lot for the Eagles. Number one in the Less

2157
01:42:51,120 --> 01:42:53,200
Speaker 2: seven games at three and four, which is not good,

2158
01:42:53,439 --> 01:42:55,320
Speaker 2: not good. Fourteen that's picked to win the Super Bowl

2159
01:42:55,439 --> 01:42:57,720
Speaker 2: and the Eagles are currently the number five seed in

2160
01:42:57,720 --> 01:43:01,840
Speaker 2: the NFC. They can clinch the NFC East with a

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01:43:01,880 --> 01:43:05,479
Speaker 2: win today and a Cowboys loss, so there's meeting over there.

2162
01:43:05,479 --> 01:43:07,240
Speaker 2: But you know what I say, the Giants play the

2163
01:43:07,280 --> 01:43:08,080
Speaker 2: spoilers today.

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01:43:08,920 --> 01:43:11,840
Speaker 4: Oh, I dig that. I'm certainly taking them with the

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01:43:12,000 --> 01:43:14,280
Speaker 4: four and a half. I don't know that they win

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01:43:14,360 --> 01:43:16,160
Speaker 4: the game out right, but I dig that. I like

2167
01:43:16,240 --> 01:43:20,040
Speaker 4: the bravade. A lot of games in that low thirties,

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01:43:20,160 --> 01:43:23,479
Speaker 4: mid thirties for totals. This week, guys, the Jets and

2169
01:43:24,280 --> 01:43:28,760
Speaker 4: Patriots over under is twenty nine and a half, the

2170
01:43:28,800 --> 01:43:32,000
Speaker 4: lowest of any game in thirty years, and it should

2171
01:43:32,000 --> 01:43:35,360
Speaker 4: be there you go. So now Bill Belichick and company

2172
01:43:35,360 --> 01:43:40,160
Speaker 4: will run up. They scored twenty nine as their season high.

2173
01:43:40,720 --> 01:43:45,639
Speaker 4: Does he give the Jets a parting gift or does

2174
01:43:45,680 --> 01:43:47,360
Speaker 4: he go to screw the Patriots if he is in

2175
01:43:47,400 --> 01:43:48,320
Speaker 4: fact leaving.

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01:43:48,240 --> 01:43:50,679
Speaker 2: Well, the Jets have fifteen s trading against the Patriots.

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01:43:50,880 --> 01:43:53,519
Speaker 2: I don't see the Patriots losing again. I don't see it.

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01:43:54,439 --> 01:43:57,640
Speaker 4: Yeah, either way, it's a great I'll see Belichick leaving.

2179
01:43:57,040 --> 01:43:58,639
Speaker 4: I don't either.

2180
01:43:59,320 --> 01:44:03,080
Speaker 2: I think it's going. I'm with you that.

2181
01:44:03,080 --> 01:44:04,600
Speaker 4: And it's sticking it to the Jets. You know, we

2182
01:44:04,720 --> 01:44:09,200
Speaker 4: just commemorated the anniversary of him not staying in that

2183
01:44:09,320 --> 01:44:11,040
Speaker 4: job after twenty four hours, and.

2184
01:44:11,040 --> 01:44:13,000
Speaker 2: It'll be very interesting to see that game on TV.

2185
01:44:13,080 --> 01:44:14,960
Speaker 2: I'm sure there'll be a lot of banners don't Go Bill,

2186
01:44:15,240 --> 01:44:17,840
Speaker 2: things like that. Stay Bill, it'll be big. It'll be

2187
01:44:17,840 --> 01:44:18,639
Speaker 2: a big deal today.

2188
01:44:18,680 --> 01:44:20,760
Speaker 4: A lot of talking boys, you know, question about it.

2189
01:44:20,760 --> 01:44:23,000
Speaker 4: We got weather in a lot of these games as well. Sorry,

2190
01:44:23,000 --> 01:44:23,720
Speaker 4: Bucky didn't mean to.

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01:44:25,320 --> 01:44:26,040
Speaker 1: No, you're saying that.

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01:44:26,400 --> 01:44:28,120
Speaker 3: Do you really think they're gonna be don't go Bill?

2193
01:44:28,240 --> 01:44:29,720
Speaker 3: You think it can be some don't go Bill band.

2194
01:44:29,760 --> 01:44:31,880
Speaker 4: There's gotta be a couple of loyalists there.

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01:44:32,840 --> 01:44:35,519
Speaker 2: Of course, what he's done, they'd be crazy to let

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01:44:35,640 --> 01:44:37,000
Speaker 2: him go, what he's accomplished.

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01:44:37,160 --> 01:44:40,040
Speaker 1: I mean, come on, I mean I think that. But

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01:44:40,400 --> 01:44:42,799
Speaker 1: you know, it just seemed like the worm it turned

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01:44:43,200 --> 01:44:44,000
Speaker 1: a little bit updated.

2200
01:44:44,400 --> 01:44:47,439
Speaker 2: Really, I think fans are intelligent. Maybe I'll give them

2201
01:44:47,439 --> 01:44:50,360
Speaker 2: a benefit. They're intelligent enough to know they don't have

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01:44:50,400 --> 01:44:51,040
Speaker 2: a quarterback.

2203
01:44:51,120 --> 01:44:54,479
Speaker 4: Andy, Andy, what did you just do there?

2204
01:44:54,560 --> 01:44:57,200
Speaker 2: You know what the masses are answers? You're right, yeah,

2205
01:44:57,400 --> 01:44:57,840
Speaker 2: there you go.

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01:44:58,040 --> 01:45:00,479
Speaker 4: Put that on a T shirt. That that's my guy

2207
01:45:00,600 --> 01:45:03,640
Speaker 4: and Andy Furman fsr at Bucky Brooks on bike car.

2208
01:45:03,720 --> 01:45:05,800
Speaker 4: But we still got two games left to go here

2209
01:45:05,880 --> 01:45:10,200
Speaker 4: on the slate. Before we talked college football, championship. But first,

2210
01:45:10,520 --> 01:45:13,759
Speaker 4: thanks to Mark and Patrick making us sound so pretty

2211
01:45:13,800 --> 01:45:16,040
Speaker 4: this morning. Now let's turn it over to Kevin Wyrett,

2212
01:45:16,280 --> 01:45:19,160
Speaker 4: who can give us some brilliance in the update with

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01:45:19,320 --> 01:45:20,439
Speaker 4: what's going on in the overnight.

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01:45:20,479 --> 01:45:22,960
Speaker 9: What's going on, Kevin, Yeah, we had some injury updata

2215
01:45:23,160 --> 01:45:26,320
Speaker 9: over night. We did have two games yesterday, the Pittsburgh

2216
01:45:26,360 --> 01:45:29,400
Speaker 9: Steelers beating the Ravens seventeen to ten, so they're still

2217
01:45:29,400 --> 01:45:32,640
Speaker 9: alive in the playoff hunt if the Pittsburgh can get

2218
01:45:32,680 --> 01:45:36,880
Speaker 9: in with a Jacksonville or a Buffalo loss today, and

2219
01:45:37,040 --> 01:45:39,920
Speaker 9: the Texans punching their taking into the postseason with a

2220
01:45:39,960 --> 01:45:42,720
Speaker 9: twenty three to nineteen win against the Colts, so the

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01:45:42,800 --> 01:45:45,240
Speaker 9: Texans in the playoffs on the first time since twenty nineteen.

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01:45:45,800 --> 01:45:50,880
Speaker 9: Indianapolis is eliminated. Now, speaking of Buffalo, they're in a

2223
01:45:50,960 --> 01:45:55,519
Speaker 9: precarious situation right now. If they win, they're champions of

2224
01:45:55,560 --> 01:45:59,920
Speaker 9: the AFC East. If they lose and the Jacksonville jaguar

2225
01:46:00,000 --> 01:46:05,840
Speaker 9: Ours win, they missed the playoffs all together. So it's

2226
01:46:05,840 --> 01:46:08,360
Speaker 9: a big game coming up tonight for the Buffalo Bills.

2227
01:46:08,400 --> 01:46:12,000
Speaker 9: They will have some help, however, Todd Bellisero of NFL Network,

2228
01:46:12,040 --> 01:46:15,960
Speaker 9: saying Raheem Moster Jalen Waddle not expected to play in

2229
01:46:16,360 --> 01:46:20,439
Speaker 9: tonight's game. We got some other injury updates. Ian rappaport

2230
01:46:20,479 --> 01:46:23,280
Speaker 9: with a few updates overnight. He's quoting head coach Todd

2231
01:46:23,320 --> 01:46:26,280
Speaker 9: Bulls of the Buccaneers saying that Baker Mayfield will be

2232
01:46:26,400 --> 01:46:29,759
Speaker 9: ready to go and play today. Saint's running back Alvin

2233
01:46:29,840 --> 01:46:33,120
Speaker 9: Kamara will be given up until game time to show

2234
01:46:33,240 --> 01:46:35,160
Speaker 9: that he can play. He's been dealing with an ankle

2235
01:46:35,360 --> 01:46:38,599
Speaker 9: sprain and has a practiced very little this week. Tight

2236
01:46:38,680 --> 01:46:43,559
Speaker 9: End Juwan Johnson is good to go. Jaguars quarterback Trevor

2237
01:46:43,640 --> 01:46:47,240
Speaker 9: Lawrence trending in the right direction. It's about paynon tolerance

2238
01:46:47,240 --> 01:46:49,800
Speaker 9: at this point and it's not certain that he'll play,

2239
01:46:49,880 --> 01:46:53,800
Speaker 9: but there is a good chance. Meanwhile, Zay Jones should

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01:46:53,840 --> 01:46:58,439
Speaker 9: play today, but Christian kirk Less likely. For the Bears,

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01:46:58,560 --> 01:47:02,040
Speaker 9: Khalil Herbert Cole the listener is questionable, but they are

2242
01:47:02,120 --> 01:47:05,160
Speaker 9: expected to play. According to Ian Rappaporta and Taylor Heineke,

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01:47:05,840 --> 01:47:07,920
Speaker 9: the Falcons quarterback dealing with an ankles spring He was

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01:47:07,960 --> 01:47:10,040
Speaker 9: able to practice every day this week. He is hopeful

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01:47:10,120 --> 01:47:12,360
Speaker 9: he'll be able to go today, but he will be

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01:47:12,560 --> 01:47:15,360
Speaker 9: watched closely in warmups to make sure that he is

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01:47:15,479 --> 01:47:18,920
Speaker 9: mobile and can move around enough. As for the big

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01:47:18,960 --> 01:47:22,400
Speaker 9: news in the NBA yesterday, Draymond Green given an indefinite

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01:47:22,400 --> 01:47:25,479
Speaker 9: suspension that ended up being all the twelve games for

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01:47:25,600 --> 01:47:28,800
Speaker 9: his encore altercation, so he is now clear to play.

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01:47:28,880 --> 01:47:31,840
Speaker 9: He is with the Golden State Warriors in practicing getting

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01:47:31,880 --> 01:47:35,360
Speaker 9: himself ramped up to rejoin the team at some point.

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01:47:35,439 --> 01:47:37,720
Speaker 9: Back to you guys, thanks so much, Kevin, appreciate you

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01:47:37,800 --> 01:47:40,840
Speaker 9: having yourself a good Sunday. Fox Football Sunday Here live

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Speaker 9: from the Tirack dot Com studios Mike Carman alongside Andy

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01:47:44,120 --> 01:47:45,320
Speaker 9: Furman Bucky Brooks.

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Speaker 4: Let's get to our next.

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01:47:46,600 --> 01:47:50,400
Speaker 2: Game, Seahawks at Cardinals.

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01:47:49,920 --> 01:47:53,160
Speaker 4: At Seahawks three point favorites on the road at Arizona.

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01:47:53,479 --> 01:47:59,200
Speaker 4: From the aforementioned incentives, guys, Gino Smith's got two million

2261
01:47:59,360 --> 01:48:02,760
Speaker 4: dollars on the line for making the playoffs. Here, opportunity

2262
01:48:02,840 --> 01:48:06,600
Speaker 4: a little bit convoluted right playoff Berth comes in with

2263
01:48:06,720 --> 01:48:09,000
Speaker 4: a win and a Packers loss or tie or a

2264
01:48:09,040 --> 01:48:12,600
Speaker 4: Seahawks tie, a Packers loss, Buccaneers loss or tie or

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01:48:12,680 --> 01:48:15,880
Speaker 4: Seahawks tie, Packers loss, and Saints loss or tie.

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01:48:15,960 --> 01:48:16,320
Speaker 1: There you go.

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01:48:16,400 --> 01:48:19,080
Speaker 4: It's a mouthful. Bottom line is just go win your

2268
01:48:19,160 --> 01:48:22,720
Speaker 4: damn game and then Sunday. So maybe add an extra

2269
01:48:22,800 --> 01:48:26,439
Speaker 4: prayer to what you're doing as you flow through forty seven?

2270
01:48:26,840 --> 01:48:29,439
Speaker 4: Is your total I'm going I'm saying it right here.

2271
01:48:29,479 --> 01:48:35,160
Speaker 4: I'm taking the Cardinals just right off the jump, Bucky WHOA,

2272
01:48:35,600 --> 01:48:36,640
Speaker 4: All right, how do you like that?

2273
01:48:37,320 --> 01:48:37,559
Speaker 1: Guess?

2274
01:48:37,920 --> 01:48:41,360
Speaker 4: Yeah, Kyler Murray a little bit of sledge hammer, James Connor,

2275
01:48:41,479 --> 01:48:42,840
Speaker 4: Michael Wilson is back.

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01:48:43,400 --> 01:48:46,240
Speaker 1: No. I go with the Cardinals. They have some momentum

2277
01:48:46,280 --> 01:48:47,679
Speaker 1: they're building in the positive direction.

2278
01:48:47,760 --> 01:48:50,280
Speaker 3: I will say this, Jonathanna had surprised me just in

2279
01:48:50,479 --> 01:48:52,960
Speaker 3: terms of getting this team to play hard. I didn't

2280
01:48:53,000 --> 01:48:54,800
Speaker 3: know if he had the right temperament and personality be

2281
01:48:54,880 --> 01:48:56,960
Speaker 3: a head coach, but he got him going the right way.

2282
01:48:57,000 --> 01:48:57,960
Speaker 1: So I go to the Cardinals in.

2283
01:48:57,960 --> 01:49:00,839
Speaker 2: This well, I'm going with history, okay, and the Seahawks

2284
01:49:00,880 --> 01:49:03,280
Speaker 2: beat the Cardinals back in Week seven. The score was

2285
01:49:03,320 --> 01:49:06,120
Speaker 2: twenty to ten and they turned the ball over three times,

2286
01:49:06,240 --> 01:49:09,160
Speaker 2: which is unreal to win a game with three turnovers

2287
01:49:09,240 --> 01:49:10,960
Speaker 2: like that, but look, they got to take care of

2288
01:49:11,000 --> 01:49:13,439
Speaker 2: the football and that's been the winning stat and over

2289
01:49:13,479 --> 01:49:16,040
Speaker 2: the last couple of games. If the Seahawks did have

2290
01:49:16,080 --> 01:49:19,599
Speaker 2: a turnover, they lost six times. So it's really crazy

2291
01:49:19,800 --> 01:49:21,840
Speaker 2: they turned the ball over. They got to not turn

2292
01:49:21,920 --> 01:49:23,840
Speaker 2: the ball over. I don't think they will. I think

2293
01:49:23,880 --> 01:49:24,679
Speaker 2: they win this game.

2294
01:49:24,840 --> 01:49:27,479
Speaker 4: Going back to the fun and excitement that was Josh

2295
01:49:27,640 --> 01:49:31,559
Speaker 4: Dobbs for the Cardinals in that game. Guys, Yeah, he's

2296
01:49:31,600 --> 01:49:33,080
Speaker 4: been out like nineteen since then.

2297
01:49:33,200 --> 01:49:34,160
Speaker 2: He would have had him.

2298
01:49:34,240 --> 01:49:35,200
Speaker 1: Poor Josh jobs.

2299
01:49:35,240 --> 01:49:37,599
Speaker 4: He had a good run and then whatever happened. Look,

2300
01:49:37,640 --> 01:49:40,839
Speaker 4: the highlight of that Vikings Packers game for the Vikings

2301
01:49:40,920 --> 01:49:44,000
Speaker 4: last week was Kirk Cousin, shirtless with a chain on

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01:49:44,640 --> 01:49:47,040
Speaker 4: blowing the show far. I mean that was it. He

2303
01:49:47,200 --> 01:49:49,800
Speaker 4: blew the horn. That was the end of it. Yeah,

2304
01:49:50,000 --> 01:49:51,720
Speaker 4: and then they kicked the game off and that was

2305
01:49:51,760 --> 01:49:54,880
Speaker 4: the end of it. Meanwhile, everybody's looking around for Josh Dobbs.

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01:49:54,920 --> 01:49:58,120
Speaker 4: It'll be Nick Mullins for the Vikings later on today.

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01:49:58,160 --> 01:49:59,800
Speaker 4: All right, last game, we gotta get to this one.

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01:50:00,000 --> 01:50:03,120
Speaker 4: This one is important for all the Marbles, Bill's and Dolphins.

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01:50:03,280 --> 01:50:07,320
Speaker 4: Bills minus three Dolphins. You heard the update from Kevin Wyrett,

2310
01:50:07,360 --> 01:50:12,120
Speaker 4: no Mostert, no waddle. We already know Bradley Chubb lost.

2311
01:50:12,200 --> 01:50:15,400
Speaker 4: That was the big one, right, the George Strait. I'd

2312
01:50:15,520 --> 01:50:18,479
Speaker 4: like to have that one back kind of moment, no

2313
01:50:18,680 --> 01:50:22,240
Speaker 4: question about it. I just saw the crazy stats for

2314
01:50:22,560 --> 01:50:26,519
Speaker 4: Josh Allen in his career against the Dolphins. Here guys

2315
01:50:26,800 --> 01:50:30,599
Speaker 4: ten and two, sixty five percent completion rate, two hundred

2316
01:50:30,600 --> 01:50:33,360
Speaker 4: and eighty passing yards per game, and a thirty four

2317
01:50:33,439 --> 01:50:35,879
Speaker 4: to seven touchdown to interception ratio.

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01:50:36,360 --> 01:50:36,920
Speaker 1: This is one.

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01:50:37,040 --> 01:50:39,639
Speaker 4: I don't know what the truth is with Stefan Diggs,

2320
01:50:40,280 --> 01:50:42,400
Speaker 4: but I'm going to bank on him showing up when

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01:50:42,439 --> 01:50:46,000
Speaker 4: it matters in primetime tonight. Andy Furman, you get the

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01:50:46,040 --> 01:50:46,759
Speaker 4: first say.

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01:50:46,960 --> 01:50:50,040
Speaker 2: You know, I would say this. The Dolphins were embarrassed

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01:50:50,080 --> 01:50:53,160
Speaker 2: last week they lost at Baltimore fifty six nineteen. But

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01:50:53,280 --> 01:50:55,439
Speaker 2: I think that could be an insteaentive the comeback now again,

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01:50:55,840 --> 01:50:57,920
Speaker 2: whatever this means, but the Dolphins are seven and one

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01:50:57,960 --> 01:51:00,240
Speaker 2: at home. I like the Dolphins, but that bank up

2328
01:51:00,280 --> 01:51:03,280
Speaker 2: and that banged up big time, And certainly the game

2329
01:51:03,400 --> 01:51:07,040
Speaker 2: means a lot more to Buffalo than Miami because Buffalo

2330
01:51:07,120 --> 01:51:09,160
Speaker 2: could be on the outside looking in. Sure, the Dolphins

2331
01:51:09,160 --> 01:51:11,320
Speaker 2: already in the playoffs. But I still like the Dolphins.

2332
01:51:11,439 --> 01:51:12,920
Speaker 2: I like the Dolphins in a close game.

2333
01:51:14,880 --> 01:51:17,880
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think this is Bill's game. The Dolphins have

2334
01:51:17,960 --> 01:51:19,960
Speaker 3: beat up, the defense is no longer what it was.

2335
01:51:20,080 --> 01:51:22,760
Speaker 3: They've lost all the pass rushers. Zavian Howard may not play.

2336
01:51:23,120 --> 01:51:25,200
Speaker 3: He nuts him, and they mosted and water are out.

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01:51:26,000 --> 01:51:28,040
Speaker 1: They're just down. Too many people some go to Buffalo

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01:51:28,080 --> 01:51:28,720
Speaker 1: Bills in this one.

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01:51:28,800 --> 01:51:31,639
Speaker 4: There you go. Yeah, it is one of those potential

2340
01:51:31,720 --> 01:51:33,680
Speaker 4: chaos moments. But I got to say this guy. The

2341
01:51:33,760 --> 01:51:36,560
Speaker 4: thing I celebrate about this game most we've got the

2342
01:51:36,600 --> 01:51:38,639
Speaker 4: two starting quarterbacks that we had in Week one.

2343
01:51:39,600 --> 01:51:39,800
Speaker 2: Yeah.

2344
01:51:40,280 --> 01:51:43,920
Speaker 4: Right, it's a very rare commodity in NFL twenty twenty

2345
01:51:43,960 --> 01:51:47,439
Speaker 4: three to twenty four. Like I mentioned, sixty six guys

2346
01:51:47,520 --> 01:51:50,960
Speaker 4: will have started a game this season by time we

2347
01:51:51,120 --> 01:51:54,040
Speaker 4: kick off that final game. So the fact that we've

2348
01:51:54,040 --> 01:51:56,200
Speaker 4: still gotten them upright, and let's face it to a

2349
01:51:56,280 --> 01:51:58,960
Speaker 4: tongue of baaloa, answered a lot of questions because remember

2350
01:51:59,000 --> 01:52:01,280
Speaker 4: that that offensive line has been beaten up. We've had

2351
01:52:01,360 --> 01:52:05,240
Speaker 4: multiple weeks where they've had every member not practicing most

2352
01:52:05,280 --> 01:52:08,800
Speaker 4: of the week, on the injury list, et cetera. And

2353
01:52:09,000 --> 01:52:12,040
Speaker 4: so to still be rolling with you know, and certainly

2354
01:52:12,120 --> 01:52:15,240
Speaker 4: he's taking his share of hits and some scares, but

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01:52:16,120 --> 01:52:18,639
Speaker 4: I'll just celebrate that when we kick it off. When

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01:52:18,680 --> 01:52:21,519
Speaker 4: we're promoting this game, we're still promoting the quarterbacks and

2357
01:52:21,640 --> 01:52:24,519
Speaker 4: not backup cornerbacks and other things to try to sell it.

2358
01:52:25,360 --> 01:52:27,160
Speaker 2: And you know, it's such a copy cat lead because

2359
01:52:27,240 --> 01:52:29,679
Speaker 2: Tua is upright all year long and he's playing today

2360
01:52:30,160 --> 01:52:32,240
Speaker 2: in the offseason, every coach is gonna get that quarter

2361
01:52:32,240 --> 01:52:33,400
Speaker 2: about to take jiu jitsu lesson.

2362
01:52:33,479 --> 01:52:35,120
Speaker 4: Yeah, maybe they'll be next door do it taking some

2363
01:52:35,240 --> 01:52:35,840
Speaker 4: krav maga.

2364
01:52:36,360 --> 01:52:36,760
Speaker 2: There you go.

2365
01:52:38,280 --> 01:52:40,320
Speaker 4: I just wanted to say krav maga because I thought,

2366
01:52:42,080 --> 01:52:44,000
Speaker 4: all right, all of that for us in a shiny,

2367
01:52:44,240 --> 01:52:47,559
Speaker 4: happy new year at Andy Furman FSR, where you find

2368
01:52:47,600 --> 01:52:50,560
Speaker 4: Andy Fine, Bucky at Bucky Brooks find me over at Swollendome.

2369
01:52:50,720 --> 01:52:52,920
Speaker 4: Coming up next, we turn our attention to the college

2370
01:52:53,000 --> 01:52:56,240
Speaker 4: game college football playoffs, because I think it has implications

2371
01:52:56,600 --> 01:53:00,280
Speaker 4: in terms of head coaching futures. How about on both

2372
01:53:00,400 --> 01:53:03,200
Speaker 4: sides of the equation. Maybe I'm getting a little crazy

2373
01:53:03,240 --> 01:53:05,160
Speaker 4: and a little cute. But it's a nice thing to

2374
01:53:05,240 --> 01:53:07,400
Speaker 4: talk about, isn't it. And we'll do that next here

2375
01:53:07,479 --> 01:53:17,080
Speaker 4: on Fox Welcome back in Fox Sports or Radio Fox

2376
01:53:17,120 --> 01:53:21,800
Speaker 4: Football Sunday, Mike Garment alongside Andy Furman, Bucky Brooks find

2377
01:53:21,840 --> 01:53:26,200
Speaker 4: them in the twitterverse at Andy Furman FSR at Bucky Brooks.

2378
01:53:26,720 --> 01:53:29,160
Speaker 4: When we're done here, you can grab the podcast wherever

2379
01:53:29,200 --> 01:53:34,280
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2380
01:53:35,120 --> 01:53:38,320
Speaker 4: and Fox Football Sunday. Download and give it five stars.

2381
01:53:38,360 --> 01:53:42,080
Speaker 4: Evangelized to friends and neighbors. Just because the holiday holiday

2382
01:53:42,160 --> 01:53:45,160
Speaker 4: holiday run is over doesn't mean you can't still give gifts.

2383
01:53:45,800 --> 01:53:48,000
Speaker 4: It's one of the great things in life being able

2384
01:53:48,040 --> 01:53:51,080
Speaker 4: to be generous. Be generous with the audio you're consuming,

2385
01:53:51,160 --> 01:53:55,040
Speaker 4: say I love this or I hate this guy. He

2386
01:53:55,200 --> 01:53:57,439
Speaker 4: just keeps telling me all about the nineteen eighties and

2387
01:53:57,600 --> 01:54:03,200
Speaker 4: World Wrestling Federation. Toe. That's okay, it's all good. We're

2388
01:54:03,200 --> 01:54:05,600
Speaker 4: all here to show love. So do some of that

2389
01:54:06,200 --> 01:54:09,320
Speaker 4: evangelizing the podcast and take us with you wherever you

2390
01:54:09,400 --> 01:54:11,880
Speaker 4: go on the iHeartRadio app as well. All right, one

2391
01:54:11,920 --> 01:54:14,680
Speaker 4: more NFL game. It was my oversight, so let's go

2392
01:54:14,800 --> 01:54:18,320
Speaker 4: back and grab it. Gentlemen. Cowboys at Commanders. How about

2393
01:54:18,360 --> 01:54:21,679
Speaker 4: them cowboys? We had the Jimmy Johnson love Fest last week. Boy,

2394
01:54:21,760 --> 01:54:25,000
Speaker 4: that was fantastic. Cowboys twelve and a half point favorites

2395
01:54:25,640 --> 01:54:27,840
Speaker 4: on the road at Washington forty six and a half.

2396
01:54:28,439 --> 01:54:31,040
Speaker 4: Ron Rivera getting a little nostalgic and going into his

2397
01:54:31,120 --> 01:54:34,760
Speaker 4: final week of his tenure there we are all assuming

2398
01:54:35,120 --> 01:54:38,040
Speaker 4: that he and his staff are moving on after this,

2399
01:54:38,360 --> 01:54:40,720
Speaker 4: saying how much work it had been, and then he

2400
01:54:40,840 --> 01:54:43,240
Speaker 4: finally got to coach the last few weeks of things.

2401
01:54:43,640 --> 01:54:49,840
Speaker 4: So kind of weird splitting the management versus coaching responsibilities.

2402
01:54:50,200 --> 01:54:51,560
Speaker 4: How do you like that, Bucky? That was one of

2403
01:54:51,600 --> 01:54:53,480
Speaker 4: my favorite quotes of the week. We had a lot

2404
01:54:53,520 --> 01:54:55,880
Speaker 4: of them from coaches, from players, a lot of angst,

2405
01:54:56,600 --> 01:54:58,960
Speaker 4: a lot of guys getting into their podcast for him.

2406
01:54:58,960 --> 01:55:01,600
Speaker 4: You heard the promo with Travis Kelsey being mad at

2407
01:55:01,640 --> 01:55:05,840
Speaker 4: everybody about their opinions of players and coaches. But Ron

2408
01:55:05,960 --> 01:55:07,880
Speaker 4: rivera going man. It was good to not be a

2409
01:55:07,960 --> 01:55:10,040
Speaker 4: manager in the last couple of weeks.

2410
01:55:12,520 --> 01:55:15,600
Speaker 1: He said, So, I mean that's part of the job, Ron, Like,

2411
01:55:15,760 --> 01:55:16,920
Speaker 1: that's part of the gig.

2412
01:55:17,200 --> 01:55:20,440
Speaker 3: I'm so frustrated with like the situation in Washington and

2413
01:55:20,600 --> 01:55:23,440
Speaker 3: just what it has become. You talk about one of

2414
01:55:23,520 --> 01:55:28,280
Speaker 3: the longtime like prime blue blood organizations and they just

2415
01:55:28,320 --> 01:55:29,320
Speaker 3: falling on hard times.

2416
01:55:29,360 --> 01:55:31,760
Speaker 1: And he certainly didn't help matters at all.

2417
01:55:31,960 --> 01:55:35,320
Speaker 4: Sam Howell could get to four thousand passing yards today, guys,

2418
01:55:35,360 --> 01:55:38,800
Speaker 4: he needs two hundred and seven. What do you think? Andy?

2419
01:55:39,520 --> 01:55:40,960
Speaker 2: Look, I will tell you this much. What are you

2420
01:55:40,960 --> 01:55:42,680
Speaker 2: gonna know about this game? The Cowboys will win the

2421
01:55:42,760 --> 01:55:44,960
Speaker 2: NFC crown if they win this game. And I will

2422
01:55:45,000 --> 01:55:47,480
Speaker 2: tell you this much earlier this year that Cowboys beat

2423
01:55:47,560 --> 01:55:49,360
Speaker 2: up on them forty five to ten. If they don't

2424
01:55:49,360 --> 01:55:51,920
Speaker 2: beat the Commanders, they don't deserve to beat the NFC champs.

2425
01:55:52,200 --> 01:55:54,960
Speaker 2: They don't. So you could talk about four thousand yards,

2426
01:55:55,160 --> 01:55:57,280
Speaker 2: it doesn't mean anything. The team is four and twelve.

2427
01:55:57,640 --> 01:56:00,200
Speaker 2: I love these stats and these guys like Sam, I'm

2428
01:56:00,200 --> 01:56:01,960
Speaker 2: gonna say, well, I pay for four thousand years, So

2429
01:56:02,120 --> 01:56:05,520
Speaker 2: what your team was four and twelve? What are you

2430
01:56:06,080 --> 01:56:09,000
Speaker 2: so happy about? I mean, stats are great, but that's

2431
01:56:09,040 --> 01:56:11,720
Speaker 2: why I love Lamar Jackson. His stats weren't that great,

2432
01:56:11,960 --> 01:56:14,160
Speaker 2: but he won. That's why he's gonna be the MVP.

2433
01:56:14,400 --> 01:56:17,160
Speaker 2: His stats weren't really that impressive. They're not eye boggling,

2434
01:56:17,400 --> 01:56:19,839
Speaker 2: they're not his His stats were better than twenty nineteen

2435
01:56:20,000 --> 01:56:21,960
Speaker 2: when he won the MVP. But do you know what,

2436
01:56:22,280 --> 01:56:24,080
Speaker 2: they're gonna win and they're gonna went because of him.

2437
01:56:24,200 --> 01:56:27,080
Speaker 4: You know, Sam Howell would become the sixth quarterback to

2438
01:56:27,120 --> 01:56:30,280
Speaker 4: ever hit four thousand yards as a rookie. See what

2439
01:56:30,400 --> 01:56:33,840
Speaker 4: I did there? Full circle If in the hour that's

2440
01:56:33,880 --> 01:56:36,560
Speaker 4: what we do here, we rich tab I do. I

2441
01:56:36,720 --> 01:56:38,800
Speaker 4: only want to curese the guy. Sam Howe is trying

2442
01:56:38,800 --> 01:56:40,560
Speaker 4: to fight for a job for next year, and that's

2443
01:56:40,560 --> 01:56:42,920
Speaker 4: a way to do it. I got to four thousand

2444
01:56:43,000 --> 01:56:43,640
Speaker 4: with this mess.

2445
01:56:44,440 --> 01:56:45,360
Speaker 2: But that is a mess.

2446
01:56:46,160 --> 01:56:48,480
Speaker 4: Maybe Eric the Enemy goes back and coaches the Chiefs

2447
01:56:48,560 --> 01:56:51,000
Speaker 4: receivers up in the playoffs accountable that.

2448
01:56:51,000 --> 01:56:52,560
Speaker 2: Bill Belichick could be out of his mind to go

2449
01:56:52,640 --> 01:56:56,080
Speaker 2: to Washington. The rumors are going out there be crazy. Now.

2450
01:56:56,120 --> 01:56:58,960
Speaker 4: Remember it's not Dan Snyder, so you know it's still

2451
01:56:59,080 --> 01:57:02,240
Speaker 4: and it's not a Temper who was the Tepper before Tepper,

2452
01:57:02,760 --> 01:57:04,080
Speaker 4: But it's still no quarterback.

2453
01:57:04,320 --> 01:57:06,400
Speaker 2: The same situation's got in New England, plus a better

2454
01:57:06,480 --> 01:57:07,400
Speaker 2: defense in New England.

2455
01:57:07,480 --> 01:57:09,720
Speaker 4: Well, Sam Howell's better than anything he's had in New

2456
01:57:09,800 --> 01:57:15,400
Speaker 4: England after Tom Brady. I don't know, I don't know,

2457
01:57:15,440 --> 01:57:16,840
Speaker 4: have to say it all a lot either.

2458
01:57:16,960 --> 01:57:21,880
Speaker 3: Yeah, I know, there's also a conversation about him potentially

2459
01:57:21,920 --> 01:57:22,560
Speaker 3: going to Atlanta.

2460
01:57:22,840 --> 01:57:26,440
Speaker 4: Yeah, Atlanta's I mean allegedly they're also bringing in Justin

2461
01:57:26,480 --> 01:57:29,080
Speaker 4: Field and a lot of other things. All right, let's go.

2462
01:57:29,360 --> 01:57:31,400
Speaker 4: We got a couple of minutes left, guys. National title

2463
01:57:31,480 --> 01:57:35,760
Speaker 4: game is tomorrow night. Jim Harbaugh, Kaylin de Born. I'm

2464
01:57:35,800 --> 01:57:37,800
Speaker 4: looking at Kaylen Deboor and I'm going if they win,

2465
01:57:38,800 --> 01:57:41,480
Speaker 4: Suddenly he become the hot commodity with what that offense

2466
01:57:41,520 --> 01:57:45,480
Speaker 4: has been at Washington. Pennix Junior and those wide receivers.

2467
01:57:45,920 --> 01:57:48,800
Speaker 4: Dylan Johnson expected to go in this one. He got

2468
01:57:49,040 --> 01:57:51,880
Speaker 4: Michigan a four and a half point favorite, the over

2469
01:57:52,040 --> 01:57:56,800
Speaker 4: undersitting at fifty six fifty seven. Last I saw Harbaugh

2470
01:57:57,440 --> 01:58:01,200
Speaker 4: talking about, Hey, we're all trying to rob the same train,

2471
01:58:01,280 --> 01:58:03,960
Speaker 4: one of the greatest analogies I've heard, showing his age,

2472
01:58:04,040 --> 01:58:07,880
Speaker 4: showing his love of classic film, no question about it there.

2473
01:58:08,800 --> 01:58:11,400
Speaker 4: But I'm gonna take Michigan to win the game. That

2474
01:58:11,520 --> 01:58:15,040
Speaker 4: they play bully ball and get after it and frustrate

2475
01:58:15,120 --> 01:58:18,680
Speaker 4: Penix just enough. But I still think he's empire building

2476
01:58:18,760 --> 01:58:21,120
Speaker 4: at Michigan. I don't think he goes to the Chargers

2477
01:58:21,520 --> 01:58:24,520
Speaker 4: or anywhere else. But that's just me. Who you got

2478
01:58:24,520 --> 01:58:26,280
Speaker 4: in the game, Fellas, What do you got, Andy?

2479
01:58:26,960 --> 01:58:29,280
Speaker 2: Well, you know what I like Michigan's I'm a Jim

2480
01:58:29,320 --> 01:58:31,600
Speaker 2: Harbard guy. But you know what I just got there's

2481
01:58:31,640 --> 01:58:34,240
Speaker 2: a respect factor at Washington. You're talking about a conference

2482
01:58:34,280 --> 01:58:37,040
Speaker 2: that basically is disintegrating, okay, and that's the PAC twelve.

2483
01:58:37,560 --> 01:58:40,040
Speaker 2: And look what they did. They beat Southern Calt fifty

2484
01:58:40,080 --> 01:58:42,160
Speaker 2: two forty two, put up twenty two to twenty of

2485
01:58:42,720 --> 01:58:45,920
Speaker 2: Oregon State, and they beat Oregon twice. So a win

2486
01:58:46,040 --> 01:58:48,800
Speaker 2: here gives him a lot more respect. But let's face it,

2487
01:58:49,080 --> 01:58:51,240
Speaker 2: no one on the East Coast stays up late to

2488
01:58:51,320 --> 01:58:54,240
Speaker 2: watch these games on the PAC twelve. So it's good

2489
01:58:54,280 --> 01:58:56,800
Speaker 2: for them, it's good for Washington's good for Michael Pennick's junior.

2490
01:58:57,040 --> 01:58:59,360
Speaker 2: His first piss that Sugar Bowl was a seventy seven

2491
01:58:59,440 --> 01:59:03,080
Speaker 2: yard complete. You know, he's done great. Twenty nine for

2492
01:59:03,160 --> 01:59:06,000
Speaker 2: thirty eight for four to thirty in that game, two touchdowns.

2493
01:59:06,240 --> 01:59:08,520
Speaker 2: But again, it's gonna be the great defense of Michigan

2494
01:59:08,680 --> 01:59:09,920
Speaker 2: that's gonna stop Washington.

2495
01:59:10,080 --> 01:59:12,400
Speaker 4: I got Michigan, you know me. I'm celebrating this big

2496
01:59:12,480 --> 01:59:17,680
Speaker 4: ten championship matchup here. Bucky PAC twelve doesn't exist anymore. Yeah, No,

2497
01:59:17,880 --> 01:59:19,480
Speaker 4: it's a big ten matchup here.

2498
01:59:23,800 --> 01:59:23,880
Speaker 1: Now.

2499
01:59:23,880 --> 01:59:27,040
Speaker 3: It's a Rose Bowl matchup really, and I love it.

2500
01:59:28,040 --> 01:59:30,160
Speaker 3: I'm gonna go with Michigan in this. I think Michigan

2501
01:59:30,280 --> 01:59:32,720
Speaker 3: is just a better team. I love Michael Pennix. I

2502
01:59:32,760 --> 01:59:34,000
Speaker 3: think he certainly has helped himself.

2503
01:59:34,000 --> 01:59:35,920
Speaker 1: I think he served his draft status with the way

2504
01:59:35,960 --> 01:59:36,960
Speaker 1: he's played in the playoff.

2505
01:59:37,160 --> 01:59:39,200
Speaker 3: I think he continue to be great. I just think

2506
01:59:39,360 --> 01:59:42,880
Speaker 3: Michigan has more paths to victory than U. Dub Udub

2507
01:59:43,000 --> 01:59:44,960
Speaker 3: has to make this game a shootout, and I think

2508
01:59:45,040 --> 01:59:47,840
Speaker 3: it's hard to speed a team up when Michigan wants

2509
01:59:47,880 --> 01:59:48,600
Speaker 3: to play slow down.

2510
01:59:48,680 --> 01:59:51,080
Speaker 1: Because of that, Evantagies go to the Wolverine.

2511
01:59:51,080 --> 01:59:52,400
Speaker 4: I would say this, I would have liked to have

2512
01:59:52,400 --> 01:59:55,080
Speaker 4: been in the room as they did special teams review

2513
01:59:55,560 --> 01:59:59,200
Speaker 4: for Michigan this past week, like because everything went right

2514
01:59:59,240 --> 02:00:01,040
Speaker 4: and they were one of the top ten units all

2515
02:00:01,160 --> 02:00:03,800
Speaker 4: season long, and then they almost gave that game away

2516
02:00:03,960 --> 02:00:11,400
Speaker 4: repeatedly to Alabama despite the obvious matchup advantages. Overall, great

2517
02:00:11,480 --> 02:00:14,400
Speaker 4: being with you guys this hour. Week eighteen of the

2518
02:00:14,480 --> 02:00:19,160
Speaker 4: National Football League underway, fourteen games to celebrate, and Andy

2519
02:00:19,240 --> 02:00:23,400
Speaker 4: Furman FSR at Bucky Brooks find me over at Swollen Dome. Andy,

2520
02:00:23,760 --> 02:00:26,440
Speaker 4: enjoy the games, Bucky and I continue with another hour

2521
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Speaker 4: buying should be. Greetings, It's week eighteen of your National

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Speaker 4: Football League season. Most of your fantasy pursuits have finished,

2528
02:00:58,240 --> 02:01:02,160
Speaker 4: at least in the reigns of and realms of fantasy football.

2529
02:01:02,440 --> 02:01:06,680
Speaker 4: Maybe you got some daily fantasy up, some prop bets,

2530
02:01:06,960 --> 02:01:09,879
Speaker 4: all of those fun things. However you're watching, we appreciate

2531
02:01:09,920 --> 02:01:12,720
Speaker 4: you making us part of your early Sunday morning on

2532
02:01:12,840 --> 02:01:15,520
Speaker 4: the highways and byways of life. As we get into

2533
02:01:15,600 --> 02:01:18,680
Speaker 4: the second week of twenty twenty four. Woke up not

2534
02:01:18,760 --> 02:01:21,760
Speaker 4: feeling the greatest here, Bucky Brooks, because you know, one

2535
02:01:21,920 --> 02:01:25,080
Speaker 4: the I mean, I'm not just not feeling well, but

2536
02:01:25,280 --> 02:01:27,960
Speaker 4: to the fact that we only have fourteen more games

2537
02:01:28,080 --> 02:01:30,400
Speaker 4: left in this season before we get to the playoffs,

2538
02:01:30,640 --> 02:01:33,400
Speaker 4: and let's face it, my team's not going And add

2539
02:01:33,480 --> 02:01:36,720
Speaker 4: to that, you know, just the general angst of you know,

2540
02:01:36,800 --> 02:01:40,000
Speaker 4: I've already wasted a week towards resolutions and becoming a

2541
02:01:40,120 --> 02:01:42,320
Speaker 4: brand new me. M.

2542
02:01:43,440 --> 02:01:45,040
Speaker 1: I see that I could see that.

2543
02:01:45,120 --> 02:01:47,800
Speaker 3: I thought maybe you were having, like today's a day

2544
02:01:47,880 --> 02:01:50,240
Speaker 3: of sadness because it could be the last time that

2545
02:01:50,480 --> 02:01:52,400
Speaker 3: Justin Fields is in a Chicago Bear uniform.

2546
02:01:52,480 --> 02:01:54,360
Speaker 4: There is a little bit to that as well.

2547
02:01:55,120 --> 02:01:57,920
Speaker 3: And I know Bears fans have been on this debate,

2548
02:01:58,000 --> 02:02:01,160
Speaker 3: and I feel like the media is enjoy taking Bears

2549
02:02:01,240 --> 02:02:04,000
Speaker 3: fans on this roller coaster ride of will he or

2550
02:02:04,080 --> 02:02:07,200
Speaker 3: won't he be the quarterback going forward? And so for you,

2551
02:02:07,800 --> 02:02:11,400
Speaker 3: it's almost reaching a crescendo because he has an opportunity

2552
02:02:11,520 --> 02:02:14,360
Speaker 3: to go out there and in his farewell song, you know,

2553
02:02:14,920 --> 02:02:17,520
Speaker 3: kind of like put that last thing out there to

2554
02:02:17,680 --> 02:02:20,000
Speaker 3: make his case to continue to remain a part of

2555
02:02:20,040 --> 02:02:25,120
Speaker 3: the franchise. When the tea leaf suggests that somebody else

2556
02:02:25,200 --> 02:02:27,400
Speaker 3: will be QB one for the Bears next season.

2557
02:02:27,160 --> 02:02:29,200
Speaker 4: Well but I mean, you look at it, Bears Packers

2558
02:02:30,000 --> 02:02:32,880
Speaker 4: losing in virtually every time for as long as I

2559
02:02:32,920 --> 02:02:35,960
Speaker 4: can run right, no matter who the quarterback is. Go

2560
02:02:36,080 --> 02:02:39,480
Speaker 4: back to the magic man before you have right farre,

2561
02:02:39,680 --> 02:02:43,600
Speaker 4: go back to Aaron Rodgers' tenure. And now it looks

2562
02:02:43,720 --> 02:02:46,920
Speaker 4: like and I feel like I've been slightly vindicated that

2563
02:02:47,040 --> 02:02:49,760
Speaker 4: Jordan Love has set himself up to be the guy

2564
02:02:49,880 --> 02:02:52,200
Speaker 4: for a long time. You want to talk about incentives,

2565
02:02:52,440 --> 02:02:54,200
Speaker 4: A million and a half here, a million and a

2566
02:02:54,240 --> 02:02:56,640
Speaker 4: half there, different things he's got going the way they

2567
02:02:56,720 --> 02:02:59,680
Speaker 4: structured his deal. But for Justin Fields, he could be

2568
02:02:59,840 --> 02:03:02,040
Speaker 4: a guy that keeps the Packers out of the playoffs.

2569
02:03:02,440 --> 02:03:04,600
Speaker 4: Talked about it this week, saying, yeah, it'll be loud

2570
02:03:04,640 --> 02:03:06,200
Speaker 4: to beb Notoxi, just because what else do they have

2571
02:03:06,320 --> 02:03:09,080
Speaker 4: to do there? Yeah? He went there. They watch a

2572
02:03:09,120 --> 02:03:12,440
Speaker 4: lot of football and they scream, So be endearing himself

2573
02:03:12,560 --> 02:03:15,680
Speaker 4: to the fans there. Last week they got the Snow

2574
02:03:15,840 --> 02:03:18,720
Speaker 4: Bowl and a big, resounding victory against a team that,

2575
02:03:18,880 --> 02:03:22,960
Speaker 4: while imperfect, is still vying for playoff consideration. So that

2576
02:03:23,120 --> 02:03:26,600
Speaker 4: shouldn't be, you know, dismissed categorically. But you know, I

2577
02:03:26,680 --> 02:03:28,680
Speaker 4: get all the stuff in our mentions, and you know,

2578
02:03:28,760 --> 02:03:31,200
Speaker 4: folks saying, well this sounds like harmon doing this that

2579
02:03:31,320 --> 02:03:33,840
Speaker 4: the other, and I appreciate you at Swollen Dome. Bring

2580
02:03:33,920 --> 02:03:36,560
Speaker 4: the love, bring the hate, hates far more fun to read.

2581
02:03:37,120 --> 02:03:41,200
Speaker 4: But folks equating me to something Emmanuel Acho said on

2582
02:03:41,400 --> 02:03:44,320
Speaker 4: FS one this week saying, well, if you trade the

2583
02:03:44,440 --> 02:03:47,840
Speaker 4: pick for more picks, you're probably gonna get all of

2584
02:03:47,880 --> 02:03:52,800
Speaker 4: those wrong, which to me just like, wait, what so

2585
02:03:52,960 --> 02:03:55,200
Speaker 4: you want to keep that one? And if it goes wrong,

2586
02:03:56,160 --> 02:04:01,080
Speaker 4: everything's lost. I'm lost in the logic here. But you

2587
02:04:01,160 --> 02:04:03,720
Speaker 4: know you've got Caleb Williams, You've got Drake May. It's

2588
02:04:03,760 --> 02:04:05,320
Speaker 4: something you and I have talked about a bunch and

2589
02:04:05,400 --> 02:04:07,320
Speaker 4: we will for the next couple of months leading to

2590
02:04:07,440 --> 02:04:11,280
Speaker 4: the draft, trying to decide to valuate where there is

2591
02:04:11,600 --> 02:04:14,200
Speaker 4: a divide versus the devil, you know, the guy that's

2592
02:04:14,240 --> 02:04:17,000
Speaker 4: in the room and what's behind door number two? Right,

2593
02:04:17,080 --> 02:04:19,520
Speaker 4: go full game show if you want to, you know,

2594
02:04:19,640 --> 02:04:22,400
Speaker 4: like you're sick home from school and watching the price

2595
02:04:22,520 --> 02:04:24,960
Speaker 4: is right, Yeah, I'll take what's behind door number two.

2596
02:04:25,160 --> 02:04:28,240
Speaker 4: Let's go, let's go what's in the box, and that's it.

2597
02:04:28,440 --> 02:04:30,600
Speaker 4: Trying to say, all right, we're gonna get it right

2598
02:04:31,200 --> 02:04:34,080
Speaker 4: without a doubt with whoever comes in and replaces him,

2599
02:04:34,520 --> 02:04:37,440
Speaker 4: versus building on the rapport he has with DJ Moore,

2600
02:04:37,720 --> 02:04:40,480
Speaker 4: who called him you know he is him and has

2601
02:04:40,600 --> 02:04:44,120
Speaker 4: been extolling the virtues and praising Justin Fields at every

2602
02:04:44,160 --> 02:04:47,600
Speaker 4: Troublok career highs and all your categories will do that

2603
02:04:47,840 --> 02:04:50,400
Speaker 4: for you. But the idea that you can take the

2604
02:04:50,480 --> 02:04:53,960
Speaker 4: number one and either grab another piece, whether it's another lineman,

2605
02:04:54,320 --> 02:04:57,560
Speaker 4: whether it's a receiver, whether it's a defensive chip, or

2606
02:04:57,680 --> 02:05:01,960
Speaker 4: trade down for a bevy of number ones and other

2607
02:05:02,400 --> 02:05:05,920
Speaker 4: ancillary items to keep building the roster the second half

2608
02:05:06,000 --> 02:05:08,240
Speaker 4: of the season. Mean, it's a tale of two halves

2609
02:05:08,320 --> 02:05:11,640
Speaker 4: for the Bears. Party in every way. I mean, I'm

2610
02:05:11,680 --> 02:05:14,360
Speaker 4: still looking for Alan Williams. That's the only thing that's

2611
02:05:14,440 --> 02:05:15,600
Speaker 4: continuous and this year.

2612
02:05:17,200 --> 02:05:20,560
Speaker 3: Yeah, Now, you know what's remarkable is that the defense

2613
02:05:20,640 --> 02:05:25,480
Speaker 3: responded to Matt Eberflus taken over. And normally you would

2614
02:05:25,520 --> 02:05:27,480
Speaker 3: be against a head coach being the play caller because

2615
02:05:27,480 --> 02:05:28,600
Speaker 3: there's so much to manage.

2616
02:05:29,080 --> 02:05:32,240
Speaker 1: He obviously is a really good defensive coordinator. He is

2617
02:05:32,920 --> 02:05:36,920
Speaker 1: being able to kind of convey his vision or get

2618
02:05:36,960 --> 02:05:40,000
Speaker 1: his vision to the players, and the players have kind

2619
02:05:40,000 --> 02:05:40,760
Speaker 1: of been able to do it.

2620
02:05:40,880 --> 02:05:43,720
Speaker 3: And maybe when he had an intermediary Alan Williams or

2621
02:05:43,760 --> 02:05:48,400
Speaker 3: whoever defensive coordinator was, it was getting lost in translation.

2622
02:05:49,120 --> 02:05:51,240
Speaker 3: This team plays with a lot of energy. The effort

2623
02:05:51,320 --> 02:05:58,240
Speaker 3: is there. You see in the postgame club dub celebrations. Yeah, yeah,

2624
02:05:58,320 --> 02:06:00,160
Speaker 3: did they really feel each other? I think club was

2625
02:06:00,240 --> 02:06:02,400
Speaker 3: something that was started under the great Matt Naggy and

2626
02:06:02,440 --> 02:06:04,560
Speaker 3: they've continued the tradition, so I can appreciate that.

2627
02:06:06,080 --> 02:06:09,320
Speaker 1: And so so all those things are in play.

2628
02:06:10,040 --> 02:06:14,080
Speaker 3: But what I wonder, because Kevin Warren is active I'm

2629
02:06:14,120 --> 02:06:17,320
Speaker 3: sure you follow him on Twitter to Bears do a

2630
02:06:17,400 --> 02:06:18,120
Speaker 3: Day in the life, and.

2631
02:06:18,160 --> 02:06:23,480
Speaker 4: He is very engaged the team, that grandiose celebration of

2632
02:06:23,920 --> 02:06:26,200
Speaker 4: everything Kevin Warren, is he looking to get a statue

2633
02:06:26,280 --> 02:06:28,720
Speaker 4: outside the presidents?

2634
02:06:31,320 --> 02:06:32,920
Speaker 1: Yeah, the President of the Bears.

2635
02:06:33,080 --> 02:06:35,560
Speaker 3: You get Ryan Poles and all that, And I think

2636
02:06:35,600 --> 02:06:39,080
Speaker 3: everyone understands this a monumental decision, but it's one that

2637
02:06:39,200 --> 02:06:41,840
Speaker 3: you want to really take the emotion out of it.

2638
02:06:42,120 --> 02:06:44,400
Speaker 3: And what Ryan Poles and Matt Eberflos have to do

2639
02:06:44,560 --> 02:06:46,600
Speaker 3: is they have to kind of give themselves a week

2640
02:06:46,680 --> 02:06:49,080
Speaker 3: to get away from it and then really evaluate the

2641
02:06:49,120 --> 02:06:51,920
Speaker 3: team and where they are and then try and project

2642
02:06:52,280 --> 02:06:55,640
Speaker 3: how far can they go as presently constructed with Justin

2643
02:06:55,680 --> 02:06:59,360
Speaker 3: Fields at quarterback, and then way the pros and cons

2644
02:06:59,400 --> 02:07:02,640
Speaker 3: are continue down that road with him because eventually, at

2645
02:07:02,680 --> 02:07:05,200
Speaker 3: some point you're gonna have to pay him, And what

2646
02:07:05,440 --> 02:07:06,160
Speaker 3: does that do?

2647
02:07:06,440 --> 02:07:08,480
Speaker 1: Are you paying for good? Are you paying for great?

2648
02:07:09,040 --> 02:07:12,200
Speaker 3: All of those things have to be considerations when they

2649
02:07:12,320 --> 02:07:15,880
Speaker 3: decide whether to use the number one pick on the quarterback.

2650
02:07:15,920 --> 02:07:18,000
Speaker 3: Let's assume the quarterback is the best player in the draft.

2651
02:07:18,640 --> 02:07:19,320
Speaker 1: Do they do that?

2652
02:07:19,720 --> 02:07:21,840
Speaker 3: And then you also have to take all of that

2653
02:07:22,680 --> 02:07:25,360
Speaker 3: and then do the chemistry experiment that is a team

2654
02:07:25,960 --> 02:07:29,200
Speaker 3: and how will a new player at that position fit

2655
02:07:29,280 --> 02:07:32,080
Speaker 3: into the team, while also trying to weigh what can

2656
02:07:32,160 --> 02:07:36,840
Speaker 3: you get in return for Justin Fields. It's a lot, man,

2657
02:07:37,040 --> 02:07:40,680
Speaker 3: And you know what, they cannot be right unless the

2658
02:07:40,760 --> 02:07:43,680
Speaker 3: new quarterback is a star. Because if you stick with

2659
02:07:43,960 --> 02:07:46,680
Speaker 3: Justin Fields and he doesn't become a star and the

2660
02:07:46,800 --> 02:07:49,240
Speaker 3: other guy becomes a star, oh you should have used

2661
02:07:49,240 --> 02:07:51,920
Speaker 3: the first check on somebody else. If you get rid

2662
02:07:51,960 --> 02:07:54,720
Speaker 3: of fields and the first guy flames out, don't know

2663
02:07:54,760 --> 02:07:56,680
Speaker 3: why you moved off of fields. He was such a

2664
02:07:56,720 --> 02:07:59,680
Speaker 3: good player. So this is a look, it's a career

2665
02:08:00,080 --> 02:08:04,520
Speaker 3: finding moment for Ryan Poles, and man, he has to

2666
02:08:04,640 --> 02:08:07,560
Speaker 3: somehow get it right. And I don't know how you

2667
02:08:07,640 --> 02:08:10,800
Speaker 3: get it right in the landscape that we've seen quarterbacks

2668
02:08:11,280 --> 02:08:15,360
Speaker 3: routinely and repeatedly fail when they've come in as so

2669
02:08:15,560 --> 02:08:16,680
Speaker 3: called franchise guys.

2670
02:08:16,800 --> 02:08:18,960
Speaker 4: Well, we've talked about that, you know, just the last

2671
02:08:19,080 --> 02:08:21,520
Speaker 4: couple of years the number of guys brought in to

2672
02:08:21,760 --> 02:08:26,560
Speaker 4: save the day and turned fortunes. They show flashes, but consistency,

2673
02:08:26,680 --> 02:08:29,320
Speaker 4: whether it be Trevor Lawrence, whether it was you know,

2674
02:08:29,440 --> 02:08:32,360
Speaker 4: the rookie mac Jones versus what mac Jones is now

2675
02:08:32,480 --> 02:08:36,480
Speaker 4: fighting for his career against Bailey Zappi and whatever the

2676
02:08:36,560 --> 02:08:39,520
Speaker 4: future is New England and otherwise, and just keep going

2677
02:08:39,600 --> 02:08:41,560
Speaker 4: on down the line. Now, I would ask you this

2678
02:08:41,880 --> 02:08:44,280
Speaker 4: just to pull it out. Phil Schnow was hired as

2679
02:08:44,320 --> 02:08:47,920
Speaker 4: a senior defensive analyst in the in the middle of

2680
02:08:47,960 --> 02:08:50,600
Speaker 4: the year after all the Allen Williams stuff. He had

2681
02:08:50,640 --> 02:08:54,000
Speaker 4: been the DC for Carolina. Was he the informer? Now

2682
02:08:54,080 --> 02:08:56,880
Speaker 4: see what I did there? That's bad moving bad song

2683
02:08:57,000 --> 02:09:00,480
Speaker 4: reference because I can't sing it, but we just have

2684
02:09:00,560 --> 02:09:03,560
Speaker 4: it there. But obviously bringing in Montese Sweat, I mean,

2685
02:09:03,600 --> 02:09:07,080
Speaker 4: that's one thing Poles gets to put in his win column,

2686
02:09:07,120 --> 02:09:11,000
Speaker 4: between DJ Moore and the fleecing of the Carolina Panthers

2687
02:09:11,280 --> 02:09:14,920
Speaker 4: to this one and bringing in montes Weet and of

2688
02:09:14,960 --> 02:09:17,960
Speaker 4: course then getting the deal done as they did, which

2689
02:09:18,160 --> 02:09:20,560
Speaker 4: was for twenty four hours the most talked about thing,

2690
02:09:20,960 --> 02:09:22,880
Speaker 4: certainly in Chicago. It's like, wait, you brought him in

2691
02:09:22,960 --> 02:09:25,600
Speaker 4: without a deal. We're hearing he doesn't have a deal

2692
02:09:25,680 --> 02:09:29,600
Speaker 4: imminently and then they finally get that done. So when

2693
02:09:29,720 --> 02:09:32,800
Speaker 4: you say senior defensive analyst, how much does that inform

2694
02:09:33,280 --> 02:09:37,400
Speaker 4: you know Matt Eberflus's rise in the second half. Does

2695
02:09:37,440 --> 02:09:39,040
Speaker 4: it take some of the pressure off. Is that just

2696
02:09:39,120 --> 02:09:42,400
Speaker 4: another set of eyes with his forty years of experience

2697
02:09:42,760 --> 02:09:45,360
Speaker 4: that maybe he found the glitch in the matrix.

2698
02:09:48,120 --> 02:09:52,200
Speaker 3: I think look at that role, it can be one

2699
02:09:52,240 --> 02:09:56,840
Speaker 3: where maybe he's using Snow as the coordinator doing the

2700
02:09:56,920 --> 02:09:59,800
Speaker 3: week and then he calls the players on game day.

2701
02:10:00,000 --> 02:10:01,200
Speaker 3: When you're the head coach, you have a bunch of

2702
02:10:01,240 --> 02:10:03,200
Speaker 3: responsibilities to come across your desk right.

2703
02:10:04,920 --> 02:10:06,920
Speaker 4: Referred to you last hour with Ron Rivera that he

2704
02:10:06,960 --> 02:10:07,360
Speaker 4: didn't want.

2705
02:10:07,440 --> 02:10:10,080
Speaker 3: Yeah, like you're dealing with a lot of different stuff,

2706
02:10:10,120 --> 02:10:11,560
Speaker 3: and if you're the head coach, you want to make

2707
02:10:11,600 --> 02:10:14,400
Speaker 3: sure you're checking in on the offense, defense, and special teams.

2708
02:10:14,800 --> 02:10:17,880
Speaker 3: So maybe during some of the installed or some of

2709
02:10:17,960 --> 02:10:20,640
Speaker 3: the meetings, maybe he has Phil Snow do some of

2710
02:10:20,680 --> 02:10:22,520
Speaker 3: those things. A Phil, you go put this in and

2711
02:10:22,520 --> 02:10:24,240
Speaker 3: I'm gonna go down to the offensive meeting room. Then

2712
02:10:24,280 --> 02:10:26,880
Speaker 3: I'll come back during the film session or I'm gonna

2713
02:10:26,920 --> 02:10:29,120
Speaker 3: install it, but then you run the tape and then

2714
02:10:29,200 --> 02:10:32,200
Speaker 3: I'll go and do something else. He maybe uses him

2715
02:10:32,280 --> 02:10:34,880
Speaker 3: as a bit of a utility man that allows him

2716
02:10:34,920 --> 02:10:37,240
Speaker 3: to kind of float and do some other things to

2717
02:10:37,280 --> 02:10:40,200
Speaker 3: make sure that the team, the entire team is operating

2718
02:10:40,240 --> 02:10:42,240
Speaker 3: the way that it should. Or it might just be

2719
02:10:42,360 --> 02:10:46,160
Speaker 3: a trusted confidant, you know, someone that you trust that

2720
02:10:46,760 --> 02:10:49,879
Speaker 3: you can bounce some ideas off of and you respect

2721
02:10:49,960 --> 02:10:52,280
Speaker 3: his opinion. He's going to tell you the truth because

2722
02:10:52,320 --> 02:10:55,800
Speaker 3: he doesn't want your job. You all kind of need

2723
02:10:56,000 --> 02:10:59,320
Speaker 3: that truth teller to be able to help you maximize

2724
02:10:59,360 --> 02:11:01,600
Speaker 3: who you are. So maybe that's what it is. But

2725
02:11:01,680 --> 02:11:05,640
Speaker 3: I'm sure the rise that the defense has had at

2726
02:11:05,680 --> 02:11:07,880
Speaker 3: the end of the year, look, Phil Snow certainly has

2727
02:11:07,920 --> 02:11:09,120
Speaker 3: played a part in that in some way.

2728
02:11:09,480 --> 02:11:12,000
Speaker 4: All Right, I'm also going to take the just quick

2729
02:11:12,360 --> 02:11:15,480
Speaker 4: circle back to the whole year in the life, day,

2730
02:11:15,520 --> 02:11:19,560
Speaker 4: in the life everything of Kevin Warren. The timing is,

2731
02:11:20,360 --> 02:11:22,480
Speaker 4: you know you could have done this this offseason, right,

2732
02:11:22,560 --> 02:11:25,200
Speaker 4: I get it? Five and two? Your last seven, couple

2733
02:11:25,280 --> 02:11:28,680
Speaker 4: of the losses were to Detroit and Cleveland, so you

2734
02:11:28,760 --> 02:11:31,280
Speaker 4: know one actually both games you probably should have won.

2735
02:11:31,760 --> 02:11:34,360
Speaker 4: Now does that informed the rest of those games and

2736
02:11:34,560 --> 02:11:37,200
Speaker 4: change the outcomes. Yeah, people just assuming it would have

2737
02:11:37,240 --> 02:11:38,840
Speaker 4: been a seven game winning streak. No, that's not out

2738
02:11:38,840 --> 02:11:41,080
Speaker 4: of the way any of this works. We need to

2739
02:11:41,120 --> 02:11:44,280
Speaker 4: be smarter than that. But certainly, you know the Cleveland game,

2740
02:11:44,360 --> 02:11:46,480
Speaker 4: we know there was a late hit on fields and

2741
02:11:46,560 --> 02:11:49,920
Speaker 4: that's been a constant cry there in Chicago that he

2742
02:11:50,040 --> 02:11:54,280
Speaker 4: hasn't gotten necessarily the calls that a quarterback that's respected would.

2743
02:11:54,440 --> 02:11:56,640
Speaker 4: But just saying, the Kevin Warren pieces that have been

2744
02:11:56,680 --> 02:11:59,600
Speaker 4: out there the last forty eight hours, Bucky, just are

2745
02:11:59,640 --> 02:12:02,600
Speaker 4: a lot like all of the victory laps that the

2746
02:12:02,800 --> 02:12:06,680
Speaker 4: Northwestern leaders took when the team became Bowl eligible, when

2747
02:12:06,720 --> 02:12:10,400
Speaker 4: they said nothing for three months after firing Fitzgerald and

2748
02:12:10,560 --> 02:12:14,680
Speaker 4: went into hiding amidst the scandal, suddenly popping out, Wow,

2749
02:12:14,720 --> 02:12:16,480
Speaker 4: we had a great fall, and look at our team.

2750
02:12:16,800 --> 02:12:18,760
Speaker 4: Look how great they were now in front and center.

2751
02:12:18,960 --> 02:12:22,200
Speaker 4: Same thing with Kevin Warren when things were bad, circling

2752
02:12:22,280 --> 02:12:25,960
Speaker 4: in the background, not saying anything, not getting in front

2753
02:12:25,960 --> 02:12:29,800
Speaker 4: of it. Iberflus left a sweat under the bright lights

2754
02:12:30,200 --> 02:12:32,800
Speaker 4: and put his foot in his mouth at press conferences

2755
02:12:32,880 --> 02:12:34,640
Speaker 4: left and right. Now, all of a sudden five and

2756
02:12:34,720 --> 02:12:38,320
Speaker 4: two last seven, you're talking about advancements and all the

2757
02:12:38,440 --> 02:12:40,720
Speaker 4: stadium stuff. Look, it's a day of the life. Look

2758
02:12:40,720 --> 02:12:43,760
Speaker 4: at these meetings I'm having with big wigs, la la la,

2759
02:12:44,240 --> 02:12:44,920
Speaker 4: and there you have it.

2760
02:12:48,760 --> 02:12:49,200
Speaker 8: You like that.

2761
02:12:49,600 --> 02:12:53,480
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's been Yeah, it's been interesting to watch.

2762
02:12:53,920 --> 02:12:54,080
Speaker 3: You know.

2763
02:12:54,280 --> 02:12:57,720
Speaker 1: It's been really a four ord deal. What I will

2764
02:12:57,800 --> 02:13:02,360
Speaker 1: say about Look, man, there's no manual when you become

2765
02:13:02,400 --> 02:13:03,360
Speaker 1: the head coach, and he.

2766
02:13:03,440 --> 02:13:04,920
Speaker 3: Tried to do it a certain way. He tried to

2767
02:13:04,960 --> 02:13:07,240
Speaker 3: make sure that he was taking care of his people.

2768
02:13:07,840 --> 02:13:13,160
Speaker 3: And look it's changed because now he's been given more

2769
02:13:13,200 --> 02:13:18,520
Speaker 3: responsibility as the headman slash decoordinator and they flourished.

2770
02:13:18,480 --> 02:13:20,600
Speaker 1: In that environment. So heats off to him for being

2771
02:13:20,640 --> 02:13:22,440
Speaker 1: able to get it done. We'll see.

2772
02:13:22,520 --> 02:13:25,120
Speaker 3: He certainly has bought himself another year, but we knew

2773
02:13:25,120 --> 02:13:26,080
Speaker 3: he was gonna get that other year.

2774
02:13:26,160 --> 02:13:26,760
Speaker 4: Yeah, we knew that.

2775
02:13:26,880 --> 02:13:29,640
Speaker 1: We also knew that the Bears were not paying. Now

2776
02:13:29,680 --> 02:13:33,840
Speaker 1: if he hainks someone to not work, so that's gonna happen.

2777
02:13:33,920 --> 02:13:35,640
Speaker 1: But now he gets an opportunity to really do it.

2778
02:13:35,720 --> 02:13:37,840
Speaker 4: So we'll see how it looks at Bucky Brooks where

2779
02:13:37,840 --> 02:13:39,800
Speaker 4: you find him on Twitter, read him, NFL dot com,

2780
02:13:39,880 --> 02:13:41,920
Speaker 4: see m NFL network. Hear him as part of the

2781
02:13:42,000 --> 02:13:45,280
Speaker 4: coverage for the Jacksonville Jaguars as they vibe for the

2782
02:13:45,400 --> 02:13:49,280
Speaker 4: AFC South title and the playoff. Berth will get into

2783
02:13:49,320 --> 02:13:52,200
Speaker 4: that game at so much more Week eighteen, including the

2784
02:13:52,240 --> 02:13:55,280
Speaker 4: two games that we're looking at in the rear view mirror.

2785
02:13:55,960 --> 02:13:59,000
Speaker 4: One coach that took a lot of incoming and his

2786
02:13:59,240 --> 02:14:03,520
Speaker 4: players certainly responded. But did it make the conversation unfair?

2787
02:14:03,880 --> 02:14:09,000
Speaker 4: We'll talk about that next year on Fox. Hey, welcome

2788
02:14:09,040 --> 02:14:13,080
Speaker 4: back in It's Fox Sports Radios, Fox Football Sunday, Mike

2789
02:14:13,120 --> 02:14:16,120
Speaker 4: Carbon alongside Bucky Brooks having a blast with you at

2790
02:14:16,160 --> 02:14:19,960
Speaker 4: Bucky Brooks on Twitter, at Big Play Football, in the

2791
02:14:20,040 --> 02:14:22,960
Speaker 4: Instagram world, find me over at Swallowdome. He's got so

2792
02:14:23,040 --> 02:14:30,200
Speaker 4: many things going mentor, coach, analyst, writer, pundit, and obviously

2793
02:14:30,360 --> 02:14:32,920
Speaker 4: here on Sunday Mornings, chopping it up with us as

2794
02:14:32,960 --> 02:14:35,560
Speaker 4: we get ready for Week eighteen of the National Football

2795
02:14:35,680 --> 02:14:39,680
Speaker 4: League season. All Right, the Steelers win, I mean I

2796
02:14:40,000 --> 02:14:44,040
Speaker 4: certainly wasn't shocked, not just because the Ravens were playing

2797
02:14:44,360 --> 02:14:49,040
Speaker 4: some backups, right. Lamar Jackson looking grossly uncomfortable sitting there

2798
02:14:49,080 --> 02:14:51,880
Speaker 4: in his park in the driving rainstorm, in what was

2799
02:14:51,920 --> 02:14:55,280
Speaker 4: a really sloppy, miserable game. I sweated it out, Bucky,

2800
02:14:55,280 --> 02:14:58,280
Speaker 4: because you know, some one of our guys that follows

2801
02:14:58,360 --> 02:15:02,840
Speaker 4: us for fantasy purposes. Hi Ron asked about the kicker position,

2802
02:15:03,000 --> 02:15:06,680
Speaker 4: Do I overthink it if I bench justin talker, I'm like, nah, Look,

2803
02:15:06,760 --> 02:15:09,040
Speaker 4: even if it goes south, I mean, they'll still drive

2804
02:15:09,080 --> 02:15:11,520
Speaker 4: into field goal range. And then I got a gift

2805
02:15:11,600 --> 02:15:14,200
Speaker 4: with ten seconds left, so I didn't look like a

2806
02:15:14,280 --> 02:15:17,600
Speaker 4: complete moron as they took the three points seventeen to

2807
02:15:17,680 --> 02:15:20,280
Speaker 4: ten to the final. But a lot was made over

2808
02:15:20,320 --> 02:15:23,560
Speaker 4: the last couple of weeks about you know, thought pieces

2809
02:15:23,640 --> 02:15:26,880
Speaker 4: related to Mike Tomlin and there's a promo running for

2810
02:15:26,960 --> 02:15:29,360
Speaker 4: Colin and I think it echoes something you know that

2811
02:15:29,800 --> 02:15:33,280
Speaker 4: I've certainly said, and how I believe in the processes.

2812
02:15:33,880 --> 02:15:36,600
Speaker 4: Let's take it from the Grand Grand Scheme. And we

2813
02:15:36,720 --> 02:15:39,240
Speaker 4: mentioned Lovey Smith last hour, so I'll grab him in

2814
02:15:39,360 --> 02:15:41,960
Speaker 4: again with what he was doing with the Bears. You

2815
02:15:42,040 --> 02:15:44,480
Speaker 4: know where you're at nine wins, your ten wins, but

2816
02:15:44,600 --> 02:15:47,520
Speaker 4: you're not winning late in the season, you're not winning

2817
02:15:47,640 --> 02:15:51,520
Speaker 4: division games, all of those things. So when the Bears

2818
02:15:51,600 --> 02:15:54,960
Speaker 4: parted ways with him, it made sense, right the at

2819
02:15:55,040 --> 02:15:56,960
Speaker 4: least at least to my thinking that you get a

2820
02:15:57,000 --> 02:15:59,600
Speaker 4: couple of years post Super Bowl and you're good but

2821
02:15:59,760 --> 02:16:03,520
Speaker 4: not great, right any that run with Rex Grossman needed

2822
02:16:03,920 --> 02:16:07,800
Speaker 4: Devin Hester's Hall of Fame credentials to be boot bolstered,

2823
02:16:08,040 --> 02:16:10,680
Speaker 4: and the defense to pick up every loose ball and

2824
02:16:10,840 --> 02:16:14,680
Speaker 4: run it back and create crazy opportunities defensive scoring. But

2825
02:16:14,800 --> 02:16:17,800
Speaker 4: for Mike Tomlin and the Steelers were at seventeen years

2826
02:16:17,920 --> 02:16:22,520
Speaker 4: now with no losing seasons, which is remarkable. But the

2827
02:16:22,640 --> 02:16:26,160
Speaker 4: larger thought piece was not necessarily hey we've got a hot,

2828
02:16:26,320 --> 02:16:30,160
Speaker 4: shiny coordinator over here, but the overall thought and with

2829
02:16:30,320 --> 02:16:32,360
Speaker 4: this locker room through the first half of the year,

2830
02:16:33,080 --> 02:16:36,400
Speaker 4: wondering if you know a change you know is the

2831
02:16:36,480 --> 02:16:38,480
Speaker 4: kick in the pants, and we know the organization and

2832
02:16:38,520 --> 02:16:40,960
Speaker 4: obviously you saw what the players did. I want to

2833
02:16:41,000 --> 02:16:43,560
Speaker 4: see what all the deep thought pieces are. With the

2834
02:16:43,959 --> 02:16:47,880
Speaker 4: video that George Pickens put up in that postgame celebration,

2835
02:16:48,240 --> 02:16:50,120
Speaker 4: he had no catches, yet he might have been the

2836
02:16:50,160 --> 02:16:53,880
Speaker 4: happiest guy in the room alongside with this guy Mason Rudolph.

2837
02:16:53,959 --> 02:16:56,640
Speaker 4: So that was that was a fun little extra piece

2838
02:16:56,680 --> 02:16:58,720
Speaker 4: of it. But with the Mike Tomalin thing, I didn't

2839
02:16:58,760 --> 02:17:01,360
Speaker 4: think it was unfair you know, Travis Kelcey and others

2840
02:17:01,440 --> 02:17:03,760
Speaker 4: calling it unfair. It's like nobody's saying he couldn't coach.

2841
02:17:04,000 --> 02:17:07,360
Speaker 4: Just a question of in that time that place, had

2842
02:17:07,440 --> 02:17:09,960
Speaker 4: you peaked, had you hit a ceiling in terms of

2843
02:17:10,120 --> 02:17:11,360
Speaker 4: reaching the ultimate goal.

2844
02:17:15,000 --> 02:17:20,400
Speaker 1: I think what happens is everybody wants everybody views change

2845
02:17:20,760 --> 02:17:21,520
Speaker 1: as the answer.

2846
02:17:22,000 --> 02:17:25,080
Speaker 3: Sure, And I think in the National Football League it's

2847
02:17:25,160 --> 02:17:29,600
Speaker 3: so hard to consistently win at a high level. And

2848
02:17:30,240 --> 02:17:34,480
Speaker 3: I remember thinking back to Chicago and when Chicago let

2849
02:17:34,560 --> 02:17:37,760
Speaker 3: Lovey Smith go, right, And I remember Phil Emory was

2850
02:17:38,120 --> 02:17:41,120
Speaker 3: the general manager. He had just taken over and he

2851
02:17:41,200 --> 02:17:43,320
Speaker 3: wanted more. But this was a team that was coming

2852
02:17:43,360 --> 02:17:45,560
Speaker 3: off a ten and six year. The year before they

2853
02:17:45,600 --> 02:17:47,120
Speaker 3: were eight and eight, but the year before that they

2854
02:17:47,120 --> 02:17:52,840
Speaker 3: were eleven and five, and so they hadn't been like downtrodden.

2855
02:17:53,000 --> 02:17:56,680
Speaker 3: They had never completely fallen off. And I do wonder,

2856
02:17:56,879 --> 02:17:59,640
Speaker 3: like for the Bears, like how long would the Bears

2857
02:17:59,680 --> 02:18:02,439
Speaker 3: have been a to sustain their success on the defense

2858
02:18:02,680 --> 02:18:05,800
Speaker 3: and those things if Lovey Smith was in place, because

2859
02:18:05,879 --> 02:18:08,640
Speaker 3: we've seen the ups and downs of Chicago since he's.

2860
02:18:08,520 --> 02:18:11,760
Speaker 1: Left, and they still have never necessarily reached that peak.

2861
02:18:12,600 --> 02:18:15,520
Speaker 3: With the exception of Matt Naggy's great year to twelve

2862
02:18:15,560 --> 02:18:20,640
Speaker 3: and four year or whatever with Tomlin. I think the

2863
02:18:20,760 --> 02:18:25,640
Speaker 3: discourse around him being gone is because I think everybody

2864
02:18:25,920 --> 02:18:29,240
Speaker 3: just tires of seeing someone in the same place, I

2865
02:18:29,320 --> 02:18:32,920
Speaker 3: think your fan base or whatever. Because when I think

2866
02:18:32,920 --> 02:18:35,360
Speaker 3: about the success and look, he's been the two Super Bowls,

2867
02:18:35,400 --> 02:18:38,280
Speaker 3: he won one. His detractors always pointed, well, that was

2868
02:18:38,320 --> 02:18:41,199
Speaker 3: Bill Coward's team, but Bill Cower only won one super Bowl,

2869
02:18:42,320 --> 02:18:45,240
Speaker 3: only got to two, and so he did that early.

2870
02:18:45,760 --> 02:18:48,600
Speaker 3: And it's almost one of those things that I've had.

2871
02:18:48,760 --> 02:18:51,640
Speaker 3: I've talked to friends about this, right because we're baseball fans, right,

2872
02:18:52,480 --> 02:18:56,440
Speaker 3: would you rather be the Atlanta Braves or the Florida

2873
02:18:56,520 --> 02:18:57,680
Speaker 3: slash Miami mark.

2874
02:18:57,720 --> 02:19:05,080
Speaker 4: Right right now for the last decade too, Yeah, like, yeah.

2875
02:19:04,959 --> 02:19:08,360
Speaker 1: You always win the division, you're always in the tournament,

2876
02:19:09,480 --> 02:19:12,040
Speaker 1: but you might not win it. Or you can be

2877
02:19:12,080 --> 02:19:12,959
Speaker 1: the Miami Marlins.

2878
02:19:13,000 --> 02:19:15,120
Speaker 3: Hey, we don't get there often, but when we do,

2879
02:19:15,280 --> 02:19:18,400
Speaker 3: we win, you know, And so how do you handle

2880
02:19:19,360 --> 02:19:21,240
Speaker 3: how do you handle those things?

2881
02:19:21,320 --> 02:19:23,400
Speaker 1: Which franchise would you rather be tied to?

2882
02:19:23,760 --> 02:19:28,800
Speaker 3: Like the consistent success or Yeah, we're not as consistent,

2883
02:19:28,879 --> 02:19:31,960
Speaker 3: but we're champs and we're a championship program, and I

2884
02:19:32,040 --> 02:19:35,480
Speaker 3: think for Mike Tomlin, he's given them consistent success without

2885
02:19:35,600 --> 02:19:38,360
Speaker 3: being able to push it over the top. But I

2886
02:19:38,400 --> 02:19:41,080
Speaker 3: will say this, and I don't know if it's his

2887
02:19:41,240 --> 02:19:43,760
Speaker 3: fault or whatever, the way that he's been able to

2888
02:19:43,800 --> 02:19:48,720
Speaker 3: win with these flawed rosters, to me is remarkable because

2889
02:19:48,800 --> 02:19:53,720
Speaker 3: this year I think illuminates the difference in coaching. I

2890
02:19:53,760 --> 02:19:58,800
Speaker 3: saw Cleveland lose go four quarterbacks deep and win ten

2891
02:19:58,840 --> 02:20:02,320
Speaker 3: eleven games. I'm looking at Pittsburgh, who still doesn't really

2892
02:20:02,360 --> 02:20:06,119
Speaker 3: have a quarterback win ten games. I look over the Jets,

2893
02:20:06,160 --> 02:20:09,480
Speaker 3: though they lose that quarterback after four plays, and they're like, hey, man,

2894
02:20:09,520 --> 02:20:12,320
Speaker 3: you know what, let's pack eight guys, put all the boxes,

2895
02:20:12,360 --> 02:20:14,600
Speaker 3: and we'll get it ready for twenty twenty four.

2896
02:20:15,360 --> 02:20:18,560
Speaker 4: So look at Minnesota the same thing. Who's behind the

2897
02:20:18,600 --> 02:20:21,480
Speaker 4: door number four? I mean, and still mathematical, Yeah like it.

2898
02:20:23,400 --> 02:20:24,480
Speaker 1: So there are levels to this.

2899
02:20:24,600 --> 02:20:26,760
Speaker 3: So I think some of it is like when Travis

2900
02:20:26,879 --> 02:20:29,320
Speaker 3: Kelsey and those guys maybe stand up for tom. I

2901
02:20:29,360 --> 02:20:31,120
Speaker 3: think it's more of an appreciation for how hard it

2902
02:20:31,240 --> 02:20:32,240
Speaker 3: is to win and to.

2903
02:20:32,280 --> 02:20:33,600
Speaker 1: Win consistently in the league.

2904
02:20:33,920 --> 02:20:35,560
Speaker 3: But I do understand it, and I feel the same

2905
02:20:35,600 --> 02:20:38,600
Speaker 3: way about Belichick, because I'm sitting there looking at Belichick

2906
02:20:38,680 --> 02:20:40,400
Speaker 3: and the Patriots and everyone is ready to run him

2907
02:20:40,400 --> 02:20:44,000
Speaker 3: out of town, and I'm like, guys, have we noticed

2908
02:20:44,040 --> 02:20:48,120
Speaker 3: that they are like nine one score losses that he

2909
02:20:48,280 --> 02:20:51,960
Speaker 3: has and the team that he's playing hasn't scored over

2910
02:20:52,120 --> 02:20:55,240
Speaker 3: like twenty and most of those like, are we sure

2911
02:20:55,280 --> 02:20:57,520
Speaker 3: we want to punt on him and think that we

2912
02:20:57,600 --> 02:21:00,600
Speaker 3: can get better? I don't know, man, coaching, it's hard

2913
02:21:00,640 --> 02:21:03,280
Speaker 3: and understand and understand like you don't want to hold on,

2914
02:21:03,480 --> 02:21:05,879
Speaker 3: But sometimes I just think it takes a lot longer

2915
02:21:06,000 --> 02:21:09,320
Speaker 3: to win than sometimes we give give people credit.

2916
02:21:09,520 --> 02:21:11,800
Speaker 4: I think it goes back to the words you use

2917
02:21:11,920 --> 02:21:15,240
Speaker 4: talking about change and whether you want a small delta

2918
02:21:15,400 --> 02:21:17,520
Speaker 4: or a big delta. When you get to it right,

2919
02:21:17,680 --> 02:21:19,720
Speaker 4: blow it up and see what's behind door number two.

2920
02:21:19,760 --> 02:21:22,520
Speaker 4: It goes back to the justin Fields conversation we were

2921
02:21:22,640 --> 02:21:25,240
Speaker 4: just having there. You've got some modicum of success, you

2922
02:21:25,320 --> 02:21:28,560
Speaker 4: got a team playing well. Now is momentum a real

2923
02:21:28,680 --> 02:21:30,840
Speaker 4: thing of carrying over to a next year? We know

2924
02:21:30,920 --> 02:21:35,720
Speaker 4: how many changes there are year to year, personnel wise, injuries,

2925
02:21:35,800 --> 02:21:39,200
Speaker 4: all those things that happen, and you know things that

2926
02:21:39,520 --> 02:21:42,280
Speaker 4: maybe the ball bounces your way one year versus the next.

2927
02:21:42,520 --> 02:21:45,360
Speaker 4: We've seen the craziness of the Vikings, right the one

2928
02:21:45,520 --> 02:21:48,320
Speaker 4: year where they were losing every one score game. The

2929
02:21:48,400 --> 02:21:50,920
Speaker 4: next year you're winning every one score game. And then

2930
02:21:50,959 --> 02:21:53,640
Speaker 4: you go back and you find some happy medium between

2931
02:21:53,680 --> 02:21:56,520
Speaker 4: the two for both the Steelers and the Patriots with

2932
02:21:56,600 --> 02:21:59,400
Speaker 4: their long term coaches. You said there's a fatigue factor.

2933
02:21:59,480 --> 02:22:01,400
Speaker 4: We get it all all over the place. That's part

2934
02:22:01,480 --> 02:22:04,520
Speaker 4: of the what happens, say for Lebron James, part of

2935
02:22:04,600 --> 02:22:07,680
Speaker 4: the Dodgers, part of like all of these the Warriors,

2936
02:22:08,160 --> 02:22:10,400
Speaker 4: you know, with their winning as they did, so as

2937
02:22:10,440 --> 02:22:13,800
Speaker 4: soon as the door is open to start criticizing, maybe

2938
02:22:13,840 --> 02:22:16,840
Speaker 4: the rhetoric gets a little louder. Both changes, though you

2939
02:22:16,959 --> 02:22:20,840
Speaker 4: have Pittsburgh with a new GM and New England probably

2940
02:22:20,920 --> 02:22:24,879
Speaker 4: in need of one outside of Bill Belichick's Dog, who

2941
02:22:25,040 --> 02:22:28,000
Speaker 4: now is second in the rankings to Herbstreet's Dog by

2942
02:22:28,040 --> 02:22:31,400
Speaker 4: the way, in terms of overall clout in the media.

2943
02:22:31,680 --> 02:22:34,560
Speaker 4: But you know the reality is that you got guys

2944
02:22:34,600 --> 02:22:36,600
Speaker 4: that can still coach it up. It's now just a

2945
02:22:36,720 --> 02:22:40,400
Speaker 4: question of that other part of it right, getting the

2946
02:22:40,560 --> 02:22:43,000
Speaker 4: front office correctly, and they did a great job the

2947
02:22:43,120 --> 02:22:46,320
Speaker 4: off the couch chance going back into the locker room

2948
02:22:46,879 --> 02:22:49,520
Speaker 4: was about as good as it gets. Miles jack who

2949
02:22:49,720 --> 02:22:52,000
Speaker 4: I mean, you know from from his time there in

2950
02:22:52,120 --> 02:22:55,320
Speaker 4: Jacksonville and all of those things that you got a

2951
02:22:55,360 --> 02:22:57,600
Speaker 4: bunch of guys that over the last four or five

2952
02:22:57,680 --> 02:23:01,560
Speaker 4: weeks were odd other rosters or literally sitting on the

2953
02:23:01,600 --> 02:23:04,720
Speaker 4: couch like Joe Flacco waiting an opportunity. And now you're

2954
02:23:04,720 --> 02:23:06,920
Speaker 4: sitting here with an opportunity to make the playoffs. Just

2955
02:23:07,120 --> 02:23:10,400
Speaker 4: an incredible job in that respect, but still you've got

2956
02:23:10,480 --> 02:23:13,160
Speaker 4: to figure out one third of your team, right is

2957
02:23:13,720 --> 02:23:16,280
Speaker 4: can he pick it? Really your guy? Because they're seeming

2958
02:23:16,400 --> 02:23:17,680
Speaker 4: like they're going to lean into him.

2959
02:23:17,800 --> 02:23:21,600
Speaker 3: No, I'm you know, yeah, I'm I'm I'm with that,

2960
02:23:21,920 --> 02:23:25,880
Speaker 3: and I'm in complete agreement with you.

2961
02:23:25,959 --> 02:23:30,439
Speaker 1: They got to fix the offense. I think the thing where.

2962
02:23:31,959 --> 02:23:34,840
Speaker 3: Maybe I admired the job that Kevin Stefanski and Mike

2963
02:23:34,959 --> 02:23:39,800
Speaker 3: Tomlin and even Demico Ryans and Sean McVay and those

2964
02:23:39,879 --> 02:23:42,920
Speaker 3: guys have done, I think I get annoyed because they

2965
02:23:42,959 --> 02:23:45,840
Speaker 3: played the clip of Ron rivera like kind of complaining

2966
02:23:45,879 --> 02:23:48,959
Speaker 3: about what he didn't have. Right sure, And I think

2967
02:23:49,000 --> 02:23:52,160
Speaker 3: your job as to coach is to take whatever you

2968
02:23:52,400 --> 02:23:54,720
Speaker 3: have and kind of try and figure out a way

2969
02:23:54,760 --> 02:23:55,400
Speaker 3: to win with it.

2970
02:23:56,959 --> 02:23:59,080
Speaker 4: You may not have the greatest cut of meat, but

2971
02:23:59,200 --> 02:23:59,959
Speaker 4: you still got to make.

2972
02:24:01,959 --> 02:24:05,199
Speaker 1: Yeah. And so look, man, we don't have a quarterback.

2973
02:24:05,240 --> 02:24:06,720
Speaker 1: What can we do more wildcast stuff?

2974
02:24:06,720 --> 02:24:08,960
Speaker 3: Can we figure out a way to just do it

2975
02:24:09,160 --> 02:24:11,039
Speaker 3: a It means maybe we've got to be better on defense,

2976
02:24:11,080 --> 02:24:14,000
Speaker 3: We've got to do more things on special teams. Like

2977
02:24:14,640 --> 02:24:17,520
Speaker 3: that's what coaching is. Coaching isn't taking a perfect roster.

2978
02:24:18,480 --> 02:24:19,920
Speaker 3: And they mean, like, hey, look at how great a

2979
02:24:20,040 --> 02:24:22,960
Speaker 3: coach I am because I have all the weapons in place.

2980
02:24:23,680 --> 02:24:24,160
Speaker 1: That's not it.

2981
02:24:25,760 --> 02:24:27,879
Speaker 4: He's Bucky Brooks at Bucky Brooks is where you find

2982
02:24:27,920 --> 02:24:31,320
Speaker 4: them on Twitter, READIMENFL dot com. He'll be on the

2983
02:24:31,400 --> 02:24:34,880
Speaker 4: call with the Jaguars later on. They've got Tennessee and

2984
02:24:34,959 --> 02:24:37,080
Speaker 4: what could be Mike Rabel's final game where we talked

2985
02:24:37,080 --> 02:24:40,680
Speaker 4: about long tenured coaches, Let's get into that a little bit,

2986
02:24:40,800 --> 02:24:43,840
Speaker 4: as well as that other AFC South team from last night.

2987
02:24:44,400 --> 02:24:46,920
Speaker 4: And I mean we're already talking top ten rankings when

2988
02:24:46,920 --> 02:24:49,600
Speaker 4: it comes to CJ. Stroud, aren't we. Oh, that's how

2989
02:24:49,680 --> 02:24:52,959
Speaker 4: crazy this NFL world goes. He's Bucky, I'm Mike. We'll

2990
02:24:52,959 --> 02:24:54,920
Speaker 4: do that in a moment. But first let's kick it

2991
02:24:55,000 --> 02:24:58,320
Speaker 4: over to our guy sitting here ready for the season

2992
02:24:58,520 --> 02:25:02,280
Speaker 4: finale of your Los Angeles Chargers. It's our guy, Isaac

2993
02:25:02,320 --> 02:25:06,960
Speaker 4: Lowincron Hilo Hi and the Eastern Stick Blaine Gabbert matchup.

2994
02:25:07,120 --> 02:25:11,200
Speaker 4: Let's go quarterback. I celebrate them all. Fourteen left. By

2995
02:25:11,240 --> 02:25:15,119
Speaker 4: the way, you mentioned Belichick's dog. The name of Belichick's

2996
02:25:15,160 --> 02:25:18,800
Speaker 4: dog is Nike. By the way, is that right? Yes? Well,

2997
02:25:18,840 --> 02:25:21,440
Speaker 4: which is honestly kind of surprising to me. And Nike

2998
02:25:22,120 --> 02:25:26,160
Speaker 4: has its own Instagram h yes. Any great comments from

2999
02:25:26,200 --> 02:25:31,240
Speaker 4: the dog is built behind it. The latest comment is

3000
02:25:31,720 --> 02:25:37,480
Speaker 4: wolf dot dot dot. Wolfwoof hasn't posted for about a

3001
02:25:37,720 --> 02:25:41,840
Speaker 4: year and a half. Unfortunately, too busy evaluating the next

3002
02:25:41,959 --> 02:25:46,240
Speaker 4: draft prospect, it must be. And unfortunately, while everyone around

3003
02:25:46,240 --> 02:25:49,160
Speaker 4: here works hard to get their social media followers, this dog,

3004
02:25:49,440 --> 02:25:54,640
Speaker 4: Nike has nineteen seven hundred followers. So from disappointing news

3005
02:25:54,760 --> 02:25:57,480
Speaker 4: for all of us on social media to disappointing news

3006
02:25:57,560 --> 02:26:00,120
Speaker 4: for one city, and that would be Indianapolis. Because in

3007
02:26:00,120 --> 02:26:03,720
Speaker 4: the NFL on Saturday night, the Houston Texans beat them

3008
02:26:03,879 --> 02:26:06,920
Speaker 4: at Lucas Oil Stadium twenty three to nineteen. So the

3009
02:26:06,959 --> 02:26:09,000
Speaker 4: Texans go to the playoffs. The Colts go home, and

3010
02:26:09,120 --> 02:26:11,920
Speaker 4: here's how the Colts last gasp, but fourth and one

3011
02:26:11,959 --> 02:26:14,720
Speaker 4: at the Houston fifteen sounded with one zho six to

3012
02:26:14,800 --> 02:26:19,360
Speaker 4: play on w FNI fourth down and one Goods in

3013
02:26:19,440 --> 02:26:23,640
Speaker 4: the back left Minshew out of the gun. Colts down

3014
02:26:23,720 --> 02:26:24,920
Speaker 4: by six mins.

3015
02:26:24,920 --> 02:26:26,600
Speaker 5: She's gonna throws.

3016
02:26:26,920 --> 02:26:30,000
Speaker 1: Dropped the ball left late, dropped the ball.

3017
02:26:31,040 --> 02:26:33,760
Speaker 5: He had a first down by dropped the ball in

3018
02:26:33,879 --> 02:26:36,360
Speaker 5: the far flat. He could not bring in the catch.

3019
02:26:37,280 --> 02:26:40,320
Speaker 4: Indianapolis as Jonathan Taylor not on the field for that play,

3020
02:26:40,440 --> 02:26:42,800
Speaker 4: ran for a one hundred and eighty eight yards, including

3021
02:26:42,840 --> 02:26:45,400
Speaker 4: a forty nine yard touchdown run in a losing cause.

3022
02:26:45,480 --> 02:26:48,160
Speaker 4: The Texans can clench the AFC South Championship with the

3023
02:26:48,240 --> 02:26:51,240
Speaker 4: Jacksonville lost today to Tennessee. Earlier Saturday, the Steelers won

3024
02:26:51,280 --> 02:26:54,359
Speaker 4: at Baltimore seventeen to ten. Pittsburgh can make the playoffs

3025
02:26:54,440 --> 02:26:57,240
Speaker 4: with either a Jacksonville lost to Tennessee or a Buffalo

3026
02:26:57,360 --> 02:27:01,199
Speaker 4: lost to Miami. Pass rusher tj Wa had two sacks.

3027
02:27:01,240 --> 02:27:04,359
Speaker 4: He now leads the NFL with nineteen. However, he sprained

3028
02:27:04,400 --> 02:27:06,840
Speaker 4: his left knee on the third quarter and is expected

3029
02:27:06,879 --> 02:27:08,760
Speaker 4: to be out in multiple weeks. In the NBA on

3030
02:27:08,879 --> 02:27:12,000
Speaker 4: Saturday night, the Houston Rockets defeat at the Milwaukee Bucks

3031
02:27:12,080 --> 02:27:14,480
Speaker 4: won twelve to wan a wait despite forty eight points

3032
02:27:14,520 --> 02:27:18,600
Speaker 4: by Giannis Antetokunpo, and the Boston Celtics won at Indiana

3033
02:27:18,760 --> 02:27:20,959
Speaker 4: won eighteen to one on one to break the Pacers

3034
02:27:21,200 --> 02:27:23,760
Speaker 4: six game winning streak. Jason Tatum of the c is

3035
02:27:23,800 --> 02:27:27,320
Speaker 4: thirty eight points and eight three pointers. Mike and Bucky

3036
02:27:27,400 --> 02:27:29,360
Speaker 4: buck to you, I'm listening to that call, and it

3037
02:27:29,480 --> 02:27:33,680
Speaker 4: sounds like that from the great David Lander. Headsid dropped

3038
02:27:33,720 --> 02:27:36,440
Speaker 4: the ball, head sid drop the ball from the league

3039
02:27:36,440 --> 02:27:39,000
Speaker 4: at their own good pause. I'm a nerd. That's what

3040
02:27:39,120 --> 02:27:41,880
Speaker 4: I did at Isaac Lohencron where you find him on Twitter,

3041
02:27:42,480 --> 02:27:45,640
Speaker 4: Find me over at Swollen Dome. All right, let's get

3042
02:27:46,160 --> 02:27:48,360
Speaker 4: coming out of that game, right. Jonathan Taylor on this

3043
02:27:48,480 --> 02:27:51,760
Speaker 4: Island nine carries twenty three yards. He'd had the heel

3044
02:27:51,840 --> 02:27:54,400
Speaker 4: injury that sent him into the locker room and he

3045
02:27:54,560 --> 02:27:57,400
Speaker 4: was doubtful, came back, gutted it out. But you go

3046
02:27:57,600 --> 02:28:01,800
Speaker 4: to a little used rookie on that play, No moss,

3047
02:28:02,080 --> 02:28:06,280
Speaker 4: no tailor throw is off. But the presumption I mean

3048
02:28:06,680 --> 02:28:08,840
Speaker 4: that hits you. You got to catch it and turn

3049
02:28:08,920 --> 02:28:11,760
Speaker 4: up and get your yard. Pittman's out there blocking. You

3050
02:28:11,840 --> 02:28:14,959
Speaker 4: know the call is made. But on the other side, CJ.

3051
02:28:15,120 --> 02:28:18,680
Speaker 4: Stroud from throw number one in a national not that

3052
02:28:18,720 --> 02:28:21,040
Speaker 4: anybody had, you know, if they paid attention to any

3053
02:28:21,120 --> 02:28:24,280
Speaker 4: college football, you've seen him on the national stage quite often.

3054
02:28:24,560 --> 02:28:26,240
Speaker 4: But all of a sudden, you're looking at the NFL

3055
02:28:26,400 --> 02:28:29,480
Speaker 4: quarterback picture, Bucky like, how quickly does he iss sent

3056
02:28:29,560 --> 02:28:32,080
Speaker 4: in to top ten with some of these efforts and

3057
02:28:32,160 --> 02:28:35,080
Speaker 4: what he's done as a rookie this year for Damiko

3058
02:28:35,200 --> 02:28:36,000
Speaker 4: Ryans in company?

3059
02:28:37,400 --> 02:28:40,920
Speaker 1: Real quickly. He gets into that conversation right away.

3060
02:28:41,320 --> 02:28:44,080
Speaker 3: I think it's fairly obvious that he's an elite quarterback

3061
02:28:44,200 --> 02:28:45,560
Speaker 3: when you look at who he's throwing to.

3062
02:28:46,160 --> 02:28:47,840
Speaker 1: And I know right now, people like, what do you mean?

3063
02:28:48,320 --> 02:28:51,960
Speaker 1: Nico Collins is good player, those Shultz, all these guys.

3064
02:28:52,080 --> 02:28:54,440
Speaker 3: But before the season, we were sitting here saying that

3065
02:28:54,560 --> 02:28:56,800
Speaker 3: this was one of the worst teams in football. They

3066
02:28:56,840 --> 02:28:59,120
Speaker 3: didn't have a Rosa deck and compete. He doesn't have

3067
02:28:59,240 --> 02:29:01,800
Speaker 3: enough weapons of around him to elevate the team. And

3068
02:29:01,920 --> 02:29:03,720
Speaker 3: lor and behold, he played, and he.

3069
02:29:03,800 --> 02:29:06,000
Speaker 1: Elevated the team to the point where they're in the postseason.

3070
02:29:06,640 --> 02:29:11,600
Speaker 3: And when you think about however you want to evaluate quarterbacks,

3071
02:29:11,640 --> 02:29:15,240
Speaker 3: we can talk about the numbers or four thousand yard pastor.

3072
02:29:15,200 --> 02:29:16,920
Speaker 1: If we talk about the eyeball test.

3073
02:29:17,080 --> 02:29:19,879
Speaker 3: He plays the game the way that all the traditional

3074
02:29:19,959 --> 02:29:23,520
Speaker 3: quarterbacks want the quarterback position to be played, from the pocket,

3075
02:29:23,560 --> 02:29:27,680
Speaker 3: delivering on time, big time throws, touch timing, anticipation. We

3076
02:29:27,840 --> 02:29:30,400
Speaker 3: see it, we see off platform throws, all of those things.

3077
02:29:30,760 --> 02:29:32,800
Speaker 3: He's not an athlete, so he has to deal from

3078
02:29:32,840 --> 02:29:36,320
Speaker 3: the pocket. He does all of that, like Mike. The

3079
02:29:36,400 --> 02:29:39,440
Speaker 3: scary thing about CJ. Stroud will be if he continues

3080
02:29:39,520 --> 02:29:41,840
Speaker 3: to just kind of put in the work. Imagine when

3081
02:29:41,879 --> 02:29:45,920
Speaker 3: they start putting a level playmakers around him. You know,

3082
02:29:46,360 --> 02:29:48,480
Speaker 3: Nico Collins is great, but imagine if they get another

3083
02:29:48,840 --> 02:29:51,320
Speaker 3: upgrade to go on the other side with taint deal.

3084
02:29:52,560 --> 02:29:55,080
Speaker 3: They beef up the offensive line, they continue to fortify

3085
02:29:55,200 --> 02:29:59,280
Speaker 3: the running back situation. It is easy to envision him

3086
02:29:59,320 --> 02:30:01,840
Speaker 3: being a dude that is always in the conversation, being

3087
02:30:01,920 --> 02:30:03,959
Speaker 3: in the top five. Like you can see it because

3088
02:30:03,959 --> 02:30:06,600
Speaker 3: if you have a rookie year like he had, particularly

3089
02:30:06,680 --> 02:30:09,440
Speaker 3: compared to the rookie years that we've seen from these

3090
02:30:09,600 --> 02:30:13,920
Speaker 3: other quarterbacks of late, remarkable. It's a huge difference between

3091
02:30:14,000 --> 02:30:15,760
Speaker 3: how he's played and how these other guys have played.

3092
02:30:15,920 --> 02:30:19,119
Speaker 4: Forty one hundred passing yards, about a sixty four percent

3093
02:30:19,240 --> 02:30:23,200
Speaker 4: completion rate, twenty three touchdowns, just five interception. I know

3094
02:30:23,280 --> 02:30:25,920
Speaker 4: that was something that Troy Ankman was pointing out on

3095
02:30:26,040 --> 02:30:29,360
Speaker 4: the telecast yesterday as well. You just get into it,

3096
02:30:29,920 --> 02:30:32,720
Speaker 4: Bucky when we watched him coming into the year. And

3097
02:30:33,040 --> 02:30:36,440
Speaker 4: I'll take a small victory lap as you know Nico

3098
02:30:36,560 --> 02:30:38,920
Speaker 4: Collins as at potential, you know, one of our deep

3099
02:30:39,000 --> 02:30:42,280
Speaker 4: sleeper ninja kind of guys. Smith was all over Tank

3100
02:30:42,400 --> 02:30:44,960
Speaker 4: Dell just likes the you know, the twitchy guys on

3101
02:30:45,040 --> 02:30:47,560
Speaker 4: the outside, and we're you know, we're doing it also

3102
02:30:47,640 --> 02:30:50,240
Speaker 4: from the fantasy angle of trying to find value on

3103
02:30:50,400 --> 02:30:52,840
Speaker 4: some of these squads. The thing that impressed me most

3104
02:30:53,400 --> 02:30:55,920
Speaker 4: and look down the stretch. Great when he comes back

3105
02:30:56,040 --> 02:30:58,480
Speaker 4: off injury and certainly what he did last night. First

3106
02:30:58,520 --> 02:31:01,000
Speaker 4: four or five weeks of the season, they didn't know

3107
02:31:01,080 --> 02:31:03,160
Speaker 4: who the five guys were lining up in front of

3108
02:31:03,280 --> 02:31:07,080
Speaker 4: him until game time. Right, you had guys on the IR,

3109
02:31:07,240 --> 02:31:10,240
Speaker 4: you had game time decisions left and right. You mentioned

3110
02:31:10,280 --> 02:31:13,600
Speaker 4: the running back position, and Devin Singletary came up huge

3111
02:31:13,640 --> 02:31:16,320
Speaker 4: for them in spots Damian Pierce was supposed to be

3112
02:31:16,440 --> 02:31:19,800
Speaker 4: the guy. He was pedestrian, so you get the split

3113
02:31:19,920 --> 02:31:22,320
Speaker 4: that they had, and Pierce still shown in spots. Don't

3114
02:31:22,360 --> 02:31:27,200
Speaker 4: get me wrong, but wasn't the round game that you expected.

3115
02:31:27,240 --> 02:31:29,600
Speaker 4: Again owing to the offensive line, and he went those

3116
02:31:29,640 --> 02:31:32,760
Speaker 4: first one hundred and ninety two pass attempts without an interception,

3117
02:31:33,240 --> 02:31:34,960
Speaker 4: like all of that. You go back and watch those

3118
02:31:35,040 --> 02:31:38,680
Speaker 4: early games and it's just watching a guy with great

3119
02:31:38,760 --> 02:31:41,960
Speaker 4: poise and potential because remember he's not a test tagger,

3120
02:31:42,000 --> 02:31:46,440
Speaker 4: he's a football player m owing to one of the

3121
02:31:46,600 --> 02:31:48,080
Speaker 4: great things that he had coming in.

3122
02:31:50,400 --> 02:31:53,200
Speaker 1: Yeah, look, and I feel like that was overblown. And man,

3123
02:31:53,280 --> 02:31:57,120
Speaker 1: you talk about stock plummeting the S two test, and

3124
02:31:57,200 --> 02:32:00,520
Speaker 1: the people that made that that shutin doesn't pole will

3125
02:32:00,959 --> 02:32:02,680
Speaker 1: for them and their evaluation.

3126
02:32:02,800 --> 02:32:04,200
Speaker 3: And even though they came out and tried to talk

3127
02:32:04,240 --> 02:32:07,360
Speaker 3: about like, hey, it tests more things than just that,

3128
02:32:07,560 --> 02:32:10,039
Speaker 3: but yeah, like there is a lot. There's a big

3129
02:32:10,120 --> 02:32:12,800
Speaker 3: campaign that was designed to kind of torpedo his chances

3130
02:32:12,840 --> 02:32:13,840
Speaker 3: of being a good quarterback.

3131
02:32:14,160 --> 02:32:15,760
Speaker 1: He's overcome all those things, and so.

3132
02:32:18,080 --> 02:32:20,959
Speaker 3: It is going to impact the way that we look

3133
02:32:20,959 --> 02:32:23,440
Speaker 3: at quarterbacks, right because you look at the last few years,

3134
02:32:23,840 --> 02:32:26,200
Speaker 3: the guys who were number one haven't done it. It's

3135
02:32:26,240 --> 02:32:31,840
Speaker 3: been someone beneath them that has emerged as the star quarterback.

3136
02:32:32,360 --> 02:32:35,040
Speaker 3: So who in this class is going to be that guy?

3137
02:32:35,400 --> 02:32:38,160
Speaker 3: So while we celebrate Kayler Williams and Drake may or whatever,

3138
02:32:39,040 --> 02:32:40,960
Speaker 3: is Michael Pennant's going to be the guy that somehow

3139
02:32:41,040 --> 02:32:43,840
Speaker 3: becomes a star in the league. Will it be Jaden Daniels,

3140
02:32:44,080 --> 02:32:48,320
Speaker 3: Will it be somebody else that emerges it. Just as

3141
02:32:48,400 --> 02:32:50,400
Speaker 3: much as we think we know when we talk about

3142
02:32:50,400 --> 02:32:52,800
Speaker 3: these guys coming into it, we really have no idea

3143
02:32:52,920 --> 02:32:54,440
Speaker 3: because a lot of it is not only them, but

3144
02:32:54,480 --> 02:32:58,240
Speaker 3: it's the situation that they go into and how the

3145
02:32:58,400 --> 02:32:59,840
Speaker 3: environment allows them to flourish.

3146
02:33:00,600 --> 02:33:03,080
Speaker 4: We're here in the tire Rack dot Com, Fox Sports Radios,

3147
02:33:03,120 --> 02:33:06,280
Speaker 4: Fox Football Sunday Mike Rman with Bucky Brooks countdown to

3148
02:33:06,360 --> 02:33:09,280
Speaker 4: kickoff coming up in twenty minutes from now. But we

3149
02:33:09,400 --> 02:33:12,440
Speaker 4: still have some attention to be paid in that AFC

3150
02:33:12,720 --> 02:33:15,960
Speaker 4: bracket because all the team that you're working with the

3151
02:33:16,080 --> 02:33:19,560
Speaker 4: Jaguars still have something to say about what Houston does

3152
02:33:19,959 --> 02:33:23,360
Speaker 4: in their playoffs future. We'll do that game and a

3153
02:33:23,440 --> 02:33:26,240
Speaker 4: quick whip around in Week eighteen coming up next here

3154
02:33:26,400 --> 02:33:32,200
Speaker 4: on Fox Sports Radio. Always a policy of truth here

3155
02:33:32,680 --> 02:33:36,560
Speaker 4: Fox Sports Radios, Fox Football Sunday. Great work from our

3156
02:33:36,640 --> 02:33:41,680
Speaker 4: technical producer Mark. We got Patrick in for Shade today,

3157
02:33:42,200 --> 02:33:45,160
Speaker 4: little shuffle up and deal, Isaac Lowingcrown on the up

3158
02:33:45,200 --> 02:33:48,040
Speaker 4: and updates. We appreciate them making us sound so pretty

3159
02:33:48,080 --> 02:33:51,080
Speaker 4: this morning. Mike Arman alongside my guy Bucky Brooks, years

3160
02:33:51,120 --> 02:33:54,680
Speaker 4: in the league, analyst over at NFL dot Com, NFL

3161
02:33:54,920 --> 02:33:57,600
Speaker 4: Network for the Jaguars. He's a coach, he's a mentor,

3162
02:33:58,040 --> 02:34:01,200
Speaker 4: he does so many big things, and honored to work

3163
02:34:01,240 --> 02:34:03,400
Speaker 4: with him meats and every Sunday and chat it up

3164
02:34:03,440 --> 02:34:05,879
Speaker 4: as we have for years here on Fox Sports Radio

3165
02:34:06,200 --> 02:34:09,360
Speaker 4: and Bucky. Week eighteen. Some high stakes there for the

3166
02:34:09,480 --> 02:34:13,800
Speaker 4: Jacksonville Jaguars. Suddenly the door open in the division. Houston

3167
02:34:13,840 --> 02:34:17,640
Speaker 4: already has punched their ticket into the playoffs, the tournament

3168
02:34:17,959 --> 02:34:20,120
Speaker 4: as we call it all the time. Four and a

3169
02:34:20,160 --> 02:34:23,760
Speaker 4: half point favorites. Trevor Lawrence. It was like Santa Claus Hey,

3170
02:34:23,800 --> 02:34:26,440
Speaker 4: he got on a plane and we were tracking flights

3171
02:34:26,480 --> 02:34:29,080
Speaker 4: and stuff. Forty one and a half Vrabel perhaps his

3172
02:34:29,200 --> 02:34:34,560
Speaker 4: swan song in Tennessee. So many rumor conjecture, speculation about

3173
02:34:34,920 --> 02:34:38,440
Speaker 4: his relationship with the front office and Tannehill is going

3174
02:34:38,520 --> 02:34:41,160
Speaker 4: to get the start today with Levis being a bit

3175
02:34:41,320 --> 02:34:43,720
Speaker 4: banged up. What are you expecting out of this one

3176
02:34:43,800 --> 02:34:44,640
Speaker 4: from your Jags?

3177
02:34:46,920 --> 02:34:50,959
Speaker 3: Well, it's tough because right now the parachute is gone.

3178
02:34:51,680 --> 02:34:53,600
Speaker 3: You don't have the luxury of a if we don't win,

3179
02:34:53,680 --> 02:34:55,800
Speaker 3: we still can get in. And so it's a playoff game,

3180
02:34:56,200 --> 02:34:58,920
Speaker 3: and with a playoff game comes a different level of pressure.

3181
02:35:00,280 --> 02:35:03,760
Speaker 3: You know, the trick is you're playing against the team

3182
02:35:03,879 --> 02:35:06,280
Speaker 3: that people to talk about, has nothing to lose, and

3183
02:35:06,400 --> 02:35:09,160
Speaker 3: sometimes those are the most dangerous teams to play against.

3184
02:35:09,720 --> 02:35:14,680
Speaker 3: Trick plays a care free spirit. The unpredictability that you

3185
02:35:14,760 --> 02:35:16,360
Speaker 3: can have when you don't have to worry about the

3186
02:35:16,400 --> 02:35:20,359
Speaker 3: consequences of the game makes it difficult when you're the favorite.

3187
02:35:21,400 --> 02:35:25,000
Speaker 3: And as the game goes on, the longer the game

3188
02:35:25,080 --> 02:35:28,760
Speaker 3: stays close, the longer you're either tied or behind, the

3189
02:35:28,879 --> 02:35:32,040
Speaker 3: more the pressure mounts on the favorite team, the team

3190
02:35:32,120 --> 02:35:33,600
Speaker 3: that has everything in front.

3191
02:35:33,360 --> 02:35:34,400
Speaker 1: Of them in the playoffs.

3192
02:35:34,959 --> 02:35:39,000
Speaker 3: So for me, a lot of it is the composure

3193
02:35:39,120 --> 02:35:42,040
Speaker 3: and ploys of the Jaguars in this situation.

3194
02:35:42,600 --> 02:35:43,880
Speaker 1: Last year they had a similar thing.

3195
02:35:43,920 --> 02:35:45,440
Speaker 3: They had to play Tennessee to get in on a

3196
02:35:45,480 --> 02:35:49,240
Speaker 3: Saturday night, Josh Dobs was playing quarterback, and look, man,

3197
02:35:49,320 --> 02:35:50,640
Speaker 3: it was a nail bier.

3198
02:35:51,120 --> 02:35:53,280
Speaker 1: It was a it was a look a.

3199
02:35:53,560 --> 02:35:57,000
Speaker 3: Topsy turvy tummy turner, and they finally were able to

3200
02:35:57,000 --> 02:35:59,440
Speaker 3: get it done. I would anticipate it being very, very

3201
02:35:59,560 --> 02:36:03,680
Speaker 3: similar today. They have to the Jags have to kind

3202
02:36:03,720 --> 02:36:06,720
Speaker 3: of jump on the Titans early. If not, man, it's

3203
02:36:06,720 --> 02:36:09,280
Speaker 3: gonna be a sixty minute affair that's gonna really come

3204
02:36:09,400 --> 02:36:10,879
Speaker 3: test your patience and your pois.

3205
02:36:11,280 --> 02:36:14,320
Speaker 4: Trying to find the specific data point, but I'd read

3206
02:36:14,400 --> 02:36:18,680
Speaker 4: somewhere just talking from and against the spread kind of perspective,

3207
02:36:18,840 --> 02:36:22,040
Speaker 4: one hundred and ten sixty four and two, I believe

3208
02:36:22,160 --> 02:36:26,560
Speaker 4: was the number eliminated teams making noise here down the stretch,

3209
02:36:26,720 --> 02:36:30,360
Speaker 4: So certainly some chaos there. Another game with implications Tampa

3210
02:36:30,440 --> 02:36:34,320
Speaker 4: Bay four point favorites against the Panthers, thirty six and

3211
02:36:34,360 --> 02:36:36,720
Speaker 4: a half the total, but a lot of big things

3212
02:36:36,800 --> 02:36:39,040
Speaker 4: on the line for Baker Mayfield in a huge spot

3213
02:36:39,200 --> 02:36:42,320
Speaker 4: last week. Yeah, the numbers might have looked good cosmetically

3214
02:36:42,640 --> 02:36:45,400
Speaker 4: and for your fantasy pursuits, but that game was a

3215
02:36:45,480 --> 02:36:48,560
Speaker 4: disaster with an opportunity to do great things. And now

3216
02:36:48,680 --> 02:36:52,120
Speaker 4: on the road at Carolina another opportunity potentially just play

3217
02:36:52,200 --> 02:36:54,000
Speaker 4: spoiler here for the Panthers.

3218
02:36:56,480 --> 02:36:59,200
Speaker 3: Yeah, the Panthers were so bad last week. I think

3219
02:36:59,240 --> 02:37:02,160
Speaker 3: you'll see a better is this week. So the Buccaneers

3220
02:37:02,200 --> 02:37:05,720
Speaker 3: will have a tougher time knocking out the Carolina Panthers.

3221
02:37:05,760 --> 02:37:08,320
Speaker 1: I expect the Buccaneers to win. They have a better team,

3222
02:37:08,400 --> 02:37:10,480
Speaker 1: but the Panthers were embarrassed last week.

3223
02:37:10,840 --> 02:37:13,520
Speaker 3: You get shut out in the National Football League, I

3224
02:37:13,600 --> 02:37:16,760
Speaker 3: mean it is one that is calling upon your pride

3225
02:37:16,800 --> 02:37:19,560
Speaker 3: and the way that they played and performed. They have

3226
02:37:19,680 --> 02:37:22,440
Speaker 3: to bounce back better, particularly Bryce Young to young quarterback.

3227
02:37:23,120 --> 02:37:24,640
Speaker 1: This will be a tough game, but.

3228
02:37:24,879 --> 02:37:28,080
Speaker 3: In the end, Mike Evans and Chris Godwin should be

3229
02:37:28,200 --> 02:37:30,280
Speaker 3: too much for the Panthers to deal with.

3230
02:37:30,760 --> 02:37:32,360
Speaker 1: Dad is a deciding factor in this one.

3231
02:37:32,680 --> 02:37:37,279
Speaker 4: Always work with balance and definition as you go. Obviously,

3232
02:37:37,400 --> 02:37:41,080
Speaker 4: the Buffalo Miami game the final game of the night,

3233
02:37:41,520 --> 02:37:44,000
Speaker 4: A lot of a lot of storylines coming out of here,

3234
02:37:44,080 --> 02:37:47,240
Speaker 4: right McDermott. For a while it looked like maybe the

3235
02:37:47,320 --> 02:37:50,360
Speaker 4: seat was getting hotter. We saw these players responded to

3236
02:37:50,560 --> 02:37:54,520
Speaker 4: that report that came out of you know, motivational tactics

3237
02:37:54,600 --> 02:37:58,760
Speaker 4: that were less than a couple of years ago, Josh Allen,

3238
02:37:58,840 --> 02:38:01,560
Speaker 4: a guy who's poll a ride. People either jump on

3239
02:38:01,680 --> 02:38:04,560
Speaker 4: the bandwagon and now you hear some of the whispers

3240
02:38:04,640 --> 02:38:07,600
Speaker 4: of MVP talk and everything else. But they could be

3241
02:38:07,720 --> 02:38:09,959
Speaker 4: the two seed. They can be left on the outside

3242
02:38:10,080 --> 02:38:12,520
Speaker 4: looking in. I know we picked the game a little

3243
02:38:12,560 --> 02:38:15,880
Speaker 4: bit earlier, but how big is this for McDermott and

3244
02:38:15,959 --> 02:38:19,120
Speaker 4: Allen in terms of the continuity of that squad there

3245
02:38:19,160 --> 02:38:19,600
Speaker 4: in Buffalo.

3246
02:38:20,800 --> 02:38:22,520
Speaker 3: I mean it's big because I feel like this is

3247
02:38:22,560 --> 02:38:25,320
Speaker 3: still a team. This is a team that's on the decent,

3248
02:38:25,920 --> 02:38:29,200
Speaker 3: but they're able to kind of get into the postseason

3249
02:38:29,240 --> 02:38:31,080
Speaker 3: because they have a great quarterback and a great coach.

3250
02:38:32,080 --> 02:38:33,760
Speaker 3: It's big for them to continue to get into the

3251
02:38:34,600 --> 02:38:38,000
Speaker 3: tournament because it allows them next year to rebuild the

3252
02:38:38,080 --> 02:38:41,439
Speaker 3: team on the strength of being a contender.

3253
02:38:41,040 --> 02:38:42,680
Speaker 1: Which is always better than being out.

3254
02:38:43,920 --> 02:38:45,959
Speaker 3: But I don't know how far they can go because

3255
02:38:46,840 --> 02:38:49,080
Speaker 3: James Cook has to be a major factor for them

3256
02:38:49,240 --> 02:38:49,920
Speaker 3: in the run game.

3257
02:38:50,000 --> 02:38:52,320
Speaker 1: The defense has played well with sacks and turnovers.

3258
02:38:52,920 --> 02:38:56,520
Speaker 3: They still disjointed offensively, but they got enough weapons and

3259
02:38:56,600 --> 02:39:01,199
Speaker 3: a quarterback that's dangerous enough to get hot. I expect

3260
02:39:01,240 --> 02:39:04,080
Speaker 3: them to run through Miami tonight because of everything that's

3261
02:39:04,120 --> 02:39:06,320
Speaker 3: on the line, and then once you get into the tournament,

3262
02:39:06,480 --> 02:39:07,520
Speaker 3: who knows what can happen.

3263
02:39:08,200 --> 02:39:10,280
Speaker 4: Now as we look at the rest of the slave,

3264
02:39:10,680 --> 02:39:12,840
Speaker 4: there any game that really stands out. I mean, we're

3265
02:39:12,840 --> 02:39:16,000
Speaker 4: still buying for the number two slot in the NFC

3266
02:39:16,440 --> 02:39:20,560
Speaker 4: and the battle for the NFC East. The Eagles are

3267
02:39:20,640 --> 02:39:22,280
Speaker 4: just the most curious thing in the world.

3268
02:39:22,360 --> 02:39:25,720
Speaker 3: To me, Well, yeah, the Eagles are the most curious

3269
02:39:25,800 --> 02:39:28,640
Speaker 3: team because they haven't played well. And we gave them

3270
02:39:28,680 --> 02:39:30,160
Speaker 3: a pass when they were ten and one because we

3271
02:39:30,240 --> 02:39:31,920
Speaker 3: were like, man, this team just finds a way to win.

3272
02:39:32,920 --> 02:39:35,600
Speaker 3: Look at the guts and the toughness and all that

3273
02:39:35,680 --> 02:39:38,560
Speaker 3: other stuff. But now they're bickering. There seems to be

3274
02:39:38,720 --> 02:39:41,680
Speaker 3: in fighting Shane Stike and taking up for players doing

3275
02:39:41,720 --> 02:39:47,240
Speaker 3: their own thing is not a recipe. But I mean,

3276
02:39:47,320 --> 02:39:49,360
Speaker 3: if they win, they get in, they have some success,

3277
02:39:49,480 --> 02:39:53,000
Speaker 3: they have a better matchup if they are playing the Buccaneer,

3278
02:39:53,160 --> 02:39:54,120
Speaker 3: so I don't discount it.

3279
02:39:54,160 --> 02:39:55,880
Speaker 1: But they got to win today to have some momentum.

3280
02:39:56,080 --> 02:39:58,600
Speaker 4: Well, we'll be talking all things playoffs next week. Have

3281
02:39:58,680 --> 02:40:01,680
Speaker 4: a good call today, Bucky. I appreciate you. Week eighteen

3282
02:40:01,920 --> 02:40:04,760
Speaker 4: and countdown to Kickoff coming up on Fox Sports Radio