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Speaker 1: hear from them a little bit later on this morning.

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Speaker 1: We'll settle on a pull question, play of the day,

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Speaker 1: stat of the day, all that forthcoming. The big news

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Speaker 1: or there was big news on Saturday when it came

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Speaker 1: out ESPN, Jeff Darlington and Adam Schefter report that Tom

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Speaker 1: Brady was retiring. And then I was told, well, this

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Speaker 1: didn't come from Tom Brady's side of the equation. This

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Speaker 1: came from somebody, probably in management. Do you have the

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Speaker 1: exact tweet there, Pauling, Yes, This is two thirty in

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Speaker 1: the afternoon Saturday from Adam Schefter and Jeff Darlington. Quote.

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Speaker 1: Tom Brady is retiring from football after twenty two extraordinary seasons.

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Speaker 1: Multiple sources tell Jeff Darlington and me more coming soon,

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Speaker 1: breaking news. Yeah, and Jeff Darlington is really tied into

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Speaker 1: Brady from his Patriot days and you know Chefty breaking

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Speaker 1: the news with Darlington now. It felt like it was

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Speaker 1: happening immediately. And then I was also told Brady would

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Speaker 1: and he did not. He doesn't want this to get out.

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Speaker 1: And that doesn't mean this story is not correct. It's

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Speaker 1: just from what I was told by somebody who knows Tom.

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Speaker 1: You know, this will eventually happen. It's just not happening now.

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Speaker 1: And it felt like Brady is going to have a

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Speaker 1: just semantics here, but you know, his agent Don Yee

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Speaker 1: hasn't happened. The Bucks said no, not yet. Let's bring

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Speaker 1: in Rick Stroud. He covers the Buccaneers for the Tampa

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Speaker 1: Bay Times and a host of Sports Day Tampa Bay podcast.

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Speaker 1: Thanks for joining us. Where do we stand with this story? Well,

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Speaker 1: I mean, if you talk to Jason Light, you talk

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Speaker 1: to Bruce Arians, any of the coaches, you know, they

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Speaker 1: think that it hasn't happened yet. They think it's possible

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Speaker 1: They sort of said, the media jumped the gun a

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Speaker 1: little bit. Eventually, Tom Brady called them, called Jason Light

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Speaker 1: and told him he wasn't close to making a decision yet.

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Speaker 1: But come on, now that we just watched his whole

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Speaker 1: career funeral over the weekend, I don't know if you

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Speaker 1: can come back from that one. I keep watching, you know,

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Speaker 1: highlights of Tom Brady. So I'd like to announce my

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Speaker 1: retirement on the Dan Packard Show as a guest. If

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Speaker 1: it's over, it's this bit obviously a year from now

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Speaker 1: but now, I you know, I expect it happened. But Dan,

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Speaker 1: gonna be something that's that's gonna be Tom Brady esque, right.

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Speaker 1: I mean, this guy is like the Truman Show. Sometimes.

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Speaker 1: giving him false hope. I mean I trust the guy.

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Speaker 1: Look the way this works, Dan, you know this In

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Speaker 1: the media, I broke a story of years ago about

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Speaker 1: he'll coach again at least next year. Rick, great to

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Speaker 1: more drama down there. Do you think that Gronk has

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Speaker 1: joins the military, Ricky, then you could get that insurance exactly. Now.

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Speaker 1: him a lot, that's for sure. Thank you. We appreciate

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Speaker 1: Sports Day Tampa Bay. I think it's inevitable. I think

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Speaker 1: What was the big difference between you know, the Rams

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Speaker 1: winning or the nine ers losing, look no further, DP,

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Speaker 1: and it's gonna be boring because we love talking about Stafford.

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Speaker 1: In the offense, the San Francisco forty nine has had

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Speaker 1: fifty total yards Russia. They don't win like that. Deebo

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Speaker 1: Samuel had seven rushes for forty something yards, Elijah Mitchell

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Speaker 1: had eleven rushes for forty something yards or not even forty,

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Speaker 1: like thirty eight or something like that. I just looked

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Speaker 1: at it, and that is not conducive DP, what I've

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Speaker 1: been saying, bro. And and this is this is where

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Speaker 1: Jimmy Garoppolo comes into the fall, right, because we always

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Speaker 1: we go begging forth. I think Jimmy Garoppolo is a

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Speaker 1: solid to good NFL quarterback. I do. I firmly believe that.

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Speaker 1: But if I'm a defensive guy, if I'm a Raheem Morris,

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Speaker 1: I want Jimmy Garoppolo to win the game. That's how

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Speaker 1: I want to live with the San Francisco forty nine.

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Speaker 1: And let's go through a couple of sequences of events. Right,

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Speaker 1: you you miskittle over the middle, which potentially could have

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Speaker 1: been if not a touchdown. You get three points out

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Speaker 1: of that. Right, that was a huge you miss, I

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Speaker 1: think Brandon, now you backside and Jalen Ramsey drops the interception.

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Speaker 1: You there's all there. I'm going, I'm I got both

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Speaker 1: games in my head. DP. This is my sheet. This

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Speaker 1: is my sheet from the game breakdowns. I'm breaking I'm

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Speaker 1: breaking the games down. But but I think there was

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Speaker 1: another another potential for an interception as well. But what

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Speaker 1: the Rams did from a defensive standpoint was they got

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Speaker 1: this game in Jimmy Garoppolo's hands. And what the Rams

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Speaker 1: were thinking is I got Aaron Donald, I got Vum,

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Speaker 1: I got Lena Floyd, Greg Games, who's been playing phenomena

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Speaker 1: by the way, doesn't get a lot of credit, big

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Speaker 1: defensive tackle, and Ashaan Robinson has been playing well. Those

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Speaker 1: two guys, particularly Ashaan Robinson and Greg Games, helped with

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Speaker 1: the run. They did a phenomenal job defending the run.

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Speaker 1: But DP, this is why you have closers. This is

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Speaker 1: why you go get von Miller. This is why you

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Speaker 1: go get avram if you the Kansas City Chiefs, this

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Speaker 1: is why you sign a Trey Hendrickson in the off season,

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Speaker 1: if you the Cincinnati Bengals, Because playoff games comes down

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Speaker 1: to this, do you have the quarterback that's gonna make

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Speaker 1: the play, or do you have the closers. Think about

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Speaker 1: when Payton won hit Super Bowl in Denver, it was

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Speaker 1: the Marcus Waring von Miller. Those were those were the closers.

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Speaker 1: So the Rams got this game in Jimmy Garoppolo's hands,

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Speaker 1: laid in the game, and they got the best closers

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Speaker 1: in the NFL, or one of the best, if not

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Speaker 1: the best ever, in Aaron Donald. And I'm not just

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Speaker 1: talking about that particular player. I'm talking about a sequence

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Speaker 1: of events that leads up to this game being in

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Speaker 1: Jimmy Garoppolo's hands. Ce Sean McVay felt comfortable with his

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Speaker 1: quarterback and the game being in his hands, laying the game.

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Speaker 1: Kyle Shanahan coaches around that. He tries to coach around that.

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Speaker 1: But when Deebo Samuel doesn't have those big twenty and

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Speaker 1: thirty yard impact plays, he had the one screen that

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Speaker 1: he took to the critter and other than that, that

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Speaker 1: was it. And then Shanahan didn't get the ball in

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Speaker 1: Deebo's hands laid in the game either. There's a lot

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Speaker 1: of blame to go around DP, But if you want

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Speaker 1: to break this game down in a nutshell. Like you

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Speaker 1: just asked me, I said a lot to say this.

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Speaker 1: They gave up fifty yards of Russian and they made

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Speaker 1: Jimmy Garoppolo beat him and he couldn't do it. Now.

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Speaker 1: Jimmy in Week seventeen in the regular season, he made

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Speaker 1: all of the throws in the second half to get

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Speaker 1: that team the league, to get San Francisco the league.

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Speaker 1: And even still with that evidence that Raheem morris head,

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Speaker 1: he still said, let's get this game in Jimmy Garoppolo's hands,

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Speaker 1: and we feel good about our chances. Why are the

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Speaker 1: Rams only three and a half point favorites of the

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Speaker 1: Bengals at home in the Super Bowl? Because Joe Burrow

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Speaker 1: is that dude. Bro, there's no more obviously denying it.

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Speaker 1: But I think when you look at like Cincinnati, even

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Speaker 1: through this run, we are still trying to wrap our

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Speaker 1: head around your offensive line not being elite and you

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Speaker 1: about to play in the Super Bowl. But it speaks

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Speaker 1: to the talent DP and that's what it is. It's

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Speaker 1: the talent man. It's Jamar Chase. When Jamar Chase is

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Speaker 1: being doubled, it's Te Higgins going off for a hundred yards.

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Speaker 1: It's Tyler boy at making plays. When you lead runs,

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Speaker 1: it's Joe Mixon and I'm gonna get an offensive line

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Speaker 1: some credit in that they created pass in order to

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Speaker 1: make I don't think because Cincinnati won and we get blinded.

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Speaker 1: That last drive to get a suit a field goal

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Speaker 1: was elite. That is what we expect from the teams

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Speaker 1: that we've grown accustomed to making those type of drives.

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Speaker 1: In that game, after Petremones turnal in overtime, the Cincinnati

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Speaker 1: Bengals went to a physical run game and they said,

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Speaker 1: Joe Burrow, you gotta lead the way with a few throws,

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Speaker 1: all right. And we looked at this team two weeks ago,

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Speaker 1: get their quarterback got sacked nine times DP and they

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Speaker 1: won the freaking game. Man. So ultimately, what is happening

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Speaker 1: now The Cinnati Bis people are starting to realize that

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Speaker 1: that dude that wears number nine, he can overcome a

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Speaker 1: lot of deficiencies that they have as a football team.

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Speaker 1: And then we have to pick out paus and offensively

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Speaker 1: because if we do double Jamar Chase, we got they

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Speaker 1: got some other guys that can make you paying someone

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Speaker 1: on one situations. And when you found the one on

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Speaker 1: one with Chase later in the game it was a touchdown,

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Speaker 1: so I understand it now. I think this is the

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Speaker 1: toughest matchup for him. Based on what I just said

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Speaker 1: about Aaron Donald Vun Mill and all of those guys,

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Speaker 1: I think this is the toughest matchup. I think if

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Speaker 1: I think if Aaron Donald has Joe Burrow in his

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Speaker 1: grasp like Chris Jones did, and he misses that first tackle,

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Speaker 1: Aaron Donald can run Joe Burrow down and make the

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Speaker 1: second play as far as trying to clip his legs

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Speaker 1: from under them. Those are the game changing tight plays DP,

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Speaker 1: because like we never imagine a blowout in the Super Bowl.

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Speaker 1: We never imagine that a team is gonna come out

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Speaker 1: like Seattle did Denver and that the game just goes

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Speaker 1: like that. And you like, damn man, that was that

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Speaker 1: was very anti cloud magic, you know when we start

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Speaker 1: thinking about But since he just got something until your

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Speaker 1: point what you asked me earlier, that defense amen, like

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Speaker 1: if Eli Apple is not getting exploited in certain situations

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Speaker 1: in coverage and the Woozia is not getting taken advantage of,

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Speaker 1: and they can protect those guys a little bit. Because

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Speaker 1: I think Bates and Bail on the back end as

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Speaker 1: good as safety combo as you can get in the

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Speaker 1: league outside of Parian Hide in Buffalo. That defense up

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Speaker 1: front though, with hendrickson the way Reader has been playing

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Speaker 1: to run Hubbard and what they're able to adjust and

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Speaker 1: Marph into They are big too, DP their physical defensive life.

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Speaker 1: Think about this too. The Cincinnati Bengals don't have those

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Speaker 1: two hundred and forty pound defensive ends. They don't. They

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Speaker 1: got those big, physical guys that can stay on the

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Speaker 1: field one through three downs and they are a lead

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Speaker 1: enough to rush the pass. So so this this is

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Speaker 1: a good football team outside of what we've seen from

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Speaker 1: that offensive line at times. And look, man, like you know,

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Speaker 1: I'm a Louisiana guy, I'm an LSU guy. You could

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Speaker 1: believe it if you want to. But nine just has it,

557
00:31:15,320 --> 00:31:20,080
Speaker 1: just has that special gene that that in those moments,

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Speaker 1: I bet you DP in those damn moments with Joe Burrow,

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Speaker 1: we could check his blood pressure and then or its

560
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Speaker 1: heart rate. It'll be at a resting pace. Who is man, man,

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Speaker 1: could you bench Orlovsky, Mina Kimes and Laura Rutledge all

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Speaker 1: three at the same time? Yeah, no doubt, Yeah, I

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Speaker 1: think all three of them together, maybe three forty. But

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Speaker 1: I can't throw Keyshan in there. You thro geta. I

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00:31:55,520 --> 00:31:58,120
Speaker 1: got put Damien Woodie in there either. I can't do

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Speaker 1: that either. Maybe by yourself, but not not. Yeah, thank you, budd,

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Speaker 1: have a great week, and thanks again for joining us.

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Speaker 1: As always, man, I look forward to talking to you again.

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Speaker 1: your podcasts. Former Raider quarterback Cardinal quarterback Bengal quarterback Carson

587
00:33:18,480 --> 00:33:21,280
Speaker 1: Palmer joining us on the program. Who were you rooting

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Speaker 1: for between Kansas City and the Cincinnati Bengals? Carson? I

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Speaker 1: was rooting for the Bengals. No fan base deserves this

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Speaker 1: Super Bowl berth more than the Cinci Bengals. What were

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Speaker 1: you thinking when it was twenty one to three, I

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Speaker 1: thought there was a shot. Things Things really just obviously

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Speaker 1: went sideways for Kansas City. They went from on offense.

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Speaker 1: Patrick Mahomes took over the first half by just really

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Speaker 1: taking what the defense was given up. And then in

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Speaker 1: the second half, it was weird. He threw that one

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Speaker 1: touchdown the Tyree Hill in the back of the end

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Speaker 1: zone in the red zone where he was kind of

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Speaker 1: running around and moving in the pocket and then roll

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Speaker 1: out to the right, and he loves those kinds of plays,

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Speaker 1: you can tell, and he kept looking for that in

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Speaker 1: the second half, and what got them to that big

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Speaker 1: lead in the first half was just taking what the

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Speaker 1: defense was given them, and he absolutely stopped doing that.

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Speaker 1: He started dropping back in the second half, moving in

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Speaker 1: the pocket, spinning out, rolling left, rolling right, and it

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Speaker 1: just wasn't working because the Bengals defense just sat back

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Speaker 1: and cover two and cover four and played zone and

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Speaker 1: watched everything underneath them and didn't give him any of

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Speaker 1: those big shots down the field. I just don't know

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Speaker 1: why they didn't run the ball. If you're going to

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Speaker 1: get a three man front, you can get to that

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Speaker 1: second level and if you set up screen pass whatever

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Speaker 1: it was. It just felt like maybe ego got the

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Speaker 1: better of them, but it felt like they were trying

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Speaker 1: to do something great instead of just being methodical well,

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Speaker 1: and that's what got them there. McKinnon was unbelievable the

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Speaker 1: last three weeks. I mean that he has been so

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Speaker 1: difficult to tackle. He's been so dynamic and screen game,

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Speaker 1: but really running the ball downhill. With the absence Edwards

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Speaker 1: Hilaire with the ankle injury, McKinnon came in and was unbelievable.

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Speaker 1: Nobody was tackling him in the first tackle, he was

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Speaker 1: breaking tackles, he was explosive, and then they just stopped

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Speaker 1: giving him the ball unfortunately, But would you rather face,

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Speaker 1: you know, pressure or eight guys in the secondary and

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Speaker 1: a three man rush as a quarterback pressure all day.

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Speaker 1: I think every quarterback is more comfortable when you know

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Speaker 1: you've got one on ones outside. It gets really difficult

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Speaker 1: when they do those three man those three man blitzes

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Speaker 1: with a three defensive lineman. Now you've got eight guys

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Speaker 1: dropping in coverage more often not covering three and sometimes

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Speaker 1: four guys. So pressure is always a quarterback. Quarterbacks are

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Speaker 1: always looking for pressure. Joe Burrow does such a good

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Speaker 1: job of diagnosing it, and that's why they're where they are.

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Speaker 1: They are not beating people because their offensive line is better.

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Speaker 1: They are not dominating the line of scrimmage. Joe is

637
00:35:53,480 --> 00:35:57,640
Speaker 1: absolutely dominating the line of scrimmage. He's redirecting pressures. He

638
00:35:57,960 --> 00:36:01,200
Speaker 1: had him in a situation last night where they were

639
00:36:01,200 --> 00:36:03,480
Speaker 1: bringing a will free safety blitz, a blitz that could

640
00:36:03,560 --> 00:36:06,759
Speaker 1: not be picked up. He redirected the offensive line in

641
00:36:07,080 --> 00:36:10,080
Speaker 1: Arrowhead Stadium, which, believe me, is not easy to do.

642
00:36:10,480 --> 00:36:13,920
Speaker 1: And he is winning. He is beating teams himself at

643
00:36:13,920 --> 00:36:15,279
Speaker 1: the line of scrimmage, and I know there's a lot

644
00:36:15,320 --> 00:36:17,160
Speaker 1: of guys around him. And I'm not saying it's all

645
00:36:17,200 --> 00:36:19,520
Speaker 1: on him, but he is absolutely taking that team and

646
00:36:19,520 --> 00:36:21,520
Speaker 1: put him on his shoulders and got into the super Bowl.

647
00:36:21,600 --> 00:36:26,160
Speaker 1: And this doesn't happen to a second year quarterback. You

648
00:36:26,239 --> 00:36:28,120
Speaker 1: just don't see this. I mean you see second in

649
00:36:28,160 --> 00:36:30,480
Speaker 1: year quarterbacks. You think back when I was a young

650
00:36:30,560 --> 00:36:32,759
Speaker 1: QB in the league and Ben Roethlisberger came on the

651
00:36:32,760 --> 00:36:35,640
Speaker 1: scene and won a ton of games. You knows as

652
00:36:35,680 --> 00:36:38,120
Speaker 1: a rookie, but they won those games because that was

653
00:36:38,160 --> 00:36:40,560
Speaker 1: the number one defense in the league. He had Jerome Bettis,

654
00:36:40,560 --> 00:36:43,080
Speaker 1: he had Antoine Randolo, he had Plexico Buris, and you

655
00:36:43,120 --> 00:36:45,640
Speaker 1: can go on and on two Hall of famers at

656
00:36:45,719 --> 00:36:49,200
Speaker 1: offensive line. Joe's not doing that with the same supporting cast.

657
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Speaker 1: He is doing it like a twelve, thirteen, fourteen year vet.

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00:36:52,800 --> 00:36:55,719
Speaker 1: In year two I mentioned this, you know, being from

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00:36:55,719 --> 00:36:58,080
Speaker 1: the Cincinnati area, I just didn't want the Bengals to

660
00:36:58,120 --> 00:37:02,360
Speaker 1: be embarrassed because everybody would say, oh, you're from Cincinnati,

661
00:37:02,440 --> 00:37:05,360
Speaker 1: all the Bungals and you you know this because you

662
00:37:05,440 --> 00:37:07,560
Speaker 1: played there. But when it was twenty one three, that's

663
00:37:07,640 --> 00:37:09,239
Speaker 1: if you would have said, hey, they're gonna lose in

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00:37:09,320 --> 00:37:13,279
Speaker 1: dramatic fashion, heartbreaking fashion, and I would have I would

665
00:37:13,280 --> 00:37:16,000
Speaker 1: have signed up for that. I just didn't want them

666
00:37:16,000 --> 00:37:18,880
Speaker 1: embarrassed because this has been a really great story. And

667
00:37:18,920 --> 00:37:21,320
Speaker 1: they found their guy, and they got their wide receiver,

668
00:37:21,400 --> 00:37:23,359
Speaker 1: and you got a young coach, you got a good

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00:37:23,440 --> 00:37:27,439
Speaker 1: running back and defense to me, won that game with

670
00:37:27,600 --> 00:37:31,640
Speaker 1: you know what they did to Patrick Mahomes. So it's

671
00:37:32,160 --> 00:37:34,080
Speaker 1: they might be the team people are rooting for in

672
00:37:34,120 --> 00:37:36,200
Speaker 1: the Super Bowl. If you don't have a you know,

673
00:37:36,640 --> 00:37:39,560
Speaker 1: if you don't base with the Rams, you're probably rooting

674
00:37:39,640 --> 00:37:43,080
Speaker 1: for the Bengals. Yeah. Who doesn't love the underdog. Who

675
00:37:43,160 --> 00:37:46,960
Speaker 1: doesn't want the second year quarterback, the hometown kid from

676
00:37:46,960 --> 00:37:49,239
Speaker 1: Ohio to win a Super Bowl for the Bengals. I mean,

677
00:37:49,600 --> 00:37:53,000
Speaker 1: they're gonna be the ones that everybody follows LA's you know,

678
00:37:53,040 --> 00:37:56,560
Speaker 1: they transfer, you know, moving from Saint Louis into LAM.

679
00:37:56,920 --> 00:37:58,960
Speaker 1: There's some fans that are split in LA with the

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Speaker 1: Chargers and the old Raiders. Back in the day when

681
00:38:01,080 --> 00:38:05,440
Speaker 1: the Raiders were in LA. All of Ohio outside northeastern

682
00:38:05,480 --> 00:38:08,480
Speaker 1: Ohio where Cleveland is is behind the Bengals, and I

683
00:38:08,520 --> 00:38:12,000
Speaker 1: think the Midwest is too. There was even a bunch

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Speaker 1: of fans in Kansas City at Arrowhead. It was great

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Speaker 1: to see the following. I can't wait to be in

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Speaker 1: LA next week and see all the Bengals fans there

687
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Speaker 1: celebrating and enjoying the week. We're talking to Carson Palmer

688
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Speaker 1: joining us on behalf of our good friends at levels

689
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Speaker 1: like CBD dot com. How would you assess the quarterbacking

690
00:38:28,719 --> 00:38:33,160
Speaker 1: play in the NFC title game? Well, I think everybody

691
00:38:33,239 --> 00:38:37,239
Speaker 1: understands why the Rams got Matthew Stafford, but everybody really

692
00:38:37,320 --> 00:38:40,719
Speaker 1: quickly forgets how well Jared Goff played in twenty and

693
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Speaker 1: eighteen in the NFC Championship in New Orleans and beat

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Speaker 1: the Drew Brees Saints when they were rocking and rolling

695
00:38:47,320 --> 00:38:50,520
Speaker 1: and great on defense. Now Stafford has to prove that

696
00:38:50,600 --> 00:38:53,439
Speaker 1: he's worth his weight for those two first round picks

697
00:38:53,440 --> 00:38:55,160
Speaker 1: and I think a second or third in there too

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Speaker 1: by winning the Super Bowl. I mean, this is such

699
00:38:57,440 --> 00:39:01,520
Speaker 1: a big game for matt This is a career making game. Again.

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Speaker 1: I mean people people dumped on Goff really quickly, but

701
00:39:06,000 --> 00:39:08,279
Speaker 1: goth had a lot of success up until that Super

702
00:39:08,320 --> 00:39:11,759
Speaker 1: Bowl game. Goff played phenomenally in that NFC Championship in

703
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Speaker 1: New Orleans and got that team there, the same thing

704
00:39:14,760 --> 00:39:18,160
Speaker 1: Stafford just did by getting the Rams into his first

705
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Speaker 1: Super Bowl in LA. If he can win this Super Bowl,

706
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Speaker 1: he proves everybody right in the building for the Rams,

707
00:39:23,960 --> 00:39:27,400
Speaker 1: from Snead down to McVeigh to the owner Stan Crunky,

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Speaker 1: that this was the right decision he made. On the

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Speaker 1: other end of things in San Francisco, we got exactly

710
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Speaker 1: what we probably all assumed was going to happen. You know,

711
00:39:36,200 --> 00:39:38,799
Speaker 1: the game was put on the line. When when you

712
00:39:38,840 --> 00:39:40,319
Speaker 1: have that ball in your hands and you have a

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Speaker 1: chance to win at the end of the game and

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Speaker 1: you're Jimmy Garoppolo in that situation, you no longer have

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Speaker 1: the advantage you had most of the game, which was

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Speaker 1: Kyle Shanahan calling the plays, the scripted plays, the plays

717
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Speaker 1: that Kyle can call in from a headset. You get

718
00:39:54,200 --> 00:39:56,239
Speaker 1: in a two minute situation like that, it's on you

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Speaker 1: as a quarterback. And I think we all saw what

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00:39:58,680 --> 00:40:00,920
Speaker 1: we've we expect good to see. We saw it a

721
00:40:00,920 --> 00:40:03,600
Speaker 1: couple of years ago where Jimmy just didn't get it done,

722
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Speaker 1: and that's probably why we're going to see him in

723
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Speaker 1: a different uniform next year and see Trey Lance being

724
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Speaker 1: the starting quarterback of the Niners next year. I just

725
00:40:10,160 --> 00:40:13,080
Speaker 1: didn't understand it. If I'm the Niners, I know the

726
00:40:13,160 --> 00:40:16,640
Speaker 1: Rams want the game in the ball in Jimmy Garoppolo's

727
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Speaker 1: hands at the end of the game. That's what they're

728
00:40:18,960 --> 00:40:22,279
Speaker 1: kind of preparing for. Why not run the ball more?

729
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Speaker 1: Why not? I just didn't understand that the Chiefs not

730
00:40:26,320 --> 00:40:29,360
Speaker 1: doing it and the Niners the Rams run the football.

731
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Speaker 1: I mean that that big offensive line. I just thought

732
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Speaker 1: I got to take the ball out of his hands,

733
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Speaker 1: like I can't have the game on the line with

734
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Speaker 1: him trying to win it for me. Yeah, I mean,

735
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Speaker 1: we all wanted to see that. At the end of

736
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Speaker 1: the day, you got two offensive minded head coaches that

737
00:40:44,640 --> 00:40:47,840
Speaker 1: are both calling those plays, and offensive minded head coaches

738
00:40:47,880 --> 00:40:49,759
Speaker 1: got there by throwing it. They didn't get there by

739
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Speaker 1: running it. That's just a natural. We got to get

740
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Speaker 1: a big chunk. We can't run it for eight We

741
00:40:54,480 --> 00:40:56,760
Speaker 1: need to throw it for twenty five and another twenty

742
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Speaker 1: and another twenty and no doubt I mean, is it's

743
00:41:00,600 --> 00:41:04,360
Speaker 1: an ego thing. I'm sure the Monday morning quarterback and

744
00:41:04,719 --> 00:41:06,640
Speaker 1: all those coaches is going back and gone. Man, I

745
00:41:06,680 --> 00:41:08,279
Speaker 1: should have run it on first and ten here, I

746
00:41:08,320 --> 00:41:10,719
Speaker 1: should have run him on second and long here, But

747
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Speaker 1: I mean, at the end of the day, Um, you're right,

748
00:41:13,760 --> 00:41:15,680
Speaker 1: the ball was in Jimmy's hands, and that's not the

749
00:41:15,719 --> 00:41:17,960
Speaker 1: situation you want to be in if you're the forty Niners.

750
00:41:17,960 --> 00:41:20,400
Speaker 1: That team got there by defense and running the football,

751
00:41:20,840 --> 00:41:22,920
Speaker 1: and when it came down to get into the Super Bowl,

752
00:41:23,120 --> 00:41:24,759
Speaker 1: they had to throw it and that is not their

753
00:41:24,760 --> 00:41:27,800
Speaker 1: forte I know. But I go back to the Super Bowl, Carson,

754
00:41:27,880 --> 00:41:30,680
Speaker 1: when they should have run the ball and they could have.

755
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Speaker 1: I just don't understand that mindset. You know, even when

756
00:41:35,160 --> 00:41:39,000
Speaker 1: you know Shanahan was with the Falcons, they were throwing

757
00:41:39,040 --> 00:41:40,960
Speaker 1: the ball. They didn't need to throw the ball, you

758
00:41:41,000 --> 00:41:44,480
Speaker 1: were in field goal range like these are these are costly,

759
00:41:44,640 --> 00:41:48,560
Speaker 1: costly moments for Shanahan. You know, he's blown double digit

760
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Speaker 1: leads in as Super Bowl as a you know, offensive coordinator,

761
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Speaker 1: as a head coach. With last night, Um, you know,

762
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Speaker 1: that's inexcusable for a guy who's that that's that's sharp

763
00:42:00,239 --> 00:42:03,000
Speaker 1: and you assume that you learn from your past mistakes

764
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Speaker 1: and move forward. And unfortunately, like I said, I mean,

765
00:42:06,520 --> 00:42:09,800
Speaker 1: you got Andy Reid, one of the greatest offensive play callers,

766
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Speaker 1: pass game innovators, Kyle Shanahan one of the greatest young

767
00:42:13,800 --> 00:42:16,360
Speaker 1: offensive coordinators. And he's great in the run game, and

768
00:42:16,360 --> 00:42:19,000
Speaker 1: he's great in the pass game. And you, naturally, as

769
00:42:19,040 --> 00:42:21,960
Speaker 1: a coach let's calling plays, you naturally feel like we

770
00:42:22,080 --> 00:42:24,040
Speaker 1: need more yards than we can get in the run game.

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Speaker 1: It's just not easy to do when you're in that position, obviously, man,

772
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Speaker 1: and I couldn't help but watch when Odell Beckham had

773
00:42:30,480 --> 00:42:34,640
Speaker 1: whatever nine catches, eight catches last night? Why didn't somebody

774
00:42:34,680 --> 00:42:39,200
Speaker 1: else swoop in, like Green Bay? Like what am I

775
00:42:39,280 --> 00:42:42,439
Speaker 1: missing with Odell Beckham? Even the Browns. I know there's

776
00:42:42,480 --> 00:42:46,399
Speaker 1: ego involved in this, but it just you can't help

777
00:42:46,400 --> 00:42:48,719
Speaker 1: but watch that and go. Even though he's had surgeries

778
00:42:48,719 --> 00:42:52,520
Speaker 1: and he's stepped slower or quicker, man, he's still a

779
00:42:52,560 --> 00:42:56,600
Speaker 1: game breaker. He's an impactful player. It's outside noise. It's

780
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Speaker 1: outside noise. It's that media labeling him as a prima donna,

781
00:43:00,160 --> 00:43:03,600
Speaker 1: not a team guy. All the headlines. We you know,

782
00:43:03,640 --> 00:43:07,239
Speaker 1: when times were bad for Odell Beckham. You heard, you know,

783
00:43:07,239 --> 00:43:09,200
Speaker 1: all he cares about as his catches. He doesn't want

784
00:43:09,200 --> 00:43:12,960
Speaker 1: to win. All these teams except for the Rams. Listen

785
00:43:13,040 --> 00:43:14,960
Speaker 1: to the outside noise. The Rams said, you know what

786
00:43:15,000 --> 00:43:17,000
Speaker 1: we need to get him in the building. We've got vets.

787
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Speaker 1: We've got Aaron Donald, one of the best players on defense.

788
00:43:19,800 --> 00:43:22,520
Speaker 1: We've got a young Sean McVeigh that any receiver would

789
00:43:22,560 --> 00:43:25,640
Speaker 1: love to listen to, a VET quarterback, and Stafford Andrew

790
00:43:25,640 --> 00:43:28,960
Speaker 1: Whitworth at left tackle, who's like sixty. They have so

791
00:43:29,040 --> 00:43:32,719
Speaker 1: much leadership. They have so many veterans in the room.

792
00:43:32,800 --> 00:43:35,359
Speaker 1: They said, even if he is, even if all these

793
00:43:35,440 --> 00:43:37,600
Speaker 1: articles are right, and he's a prima donna and he

794
00:43:37,680 --> 00:43:39,719
Speaker 1: cares about himself and doesn't care about the team, we've

795
00:43:39,760 --> 00:43:42,719
Speaker 1: got enough guys to bring him together. Maybe it is that,

796
00:43:43,000 --> 00:43:45,600
Speaker 1: or maybe all these articles are wrong about OBJ and

797
00:43:45,680 --> 00:43:48,160
Speaker 1: he just wants to win. But the Rams figured it out.

798
00:43:48,520 --> 00:43:51,440
Speaker 1: Would you rather have Joe Burrow or Matthew Stafford for

799
00:43:51,480 --> 00:43:55,560
Speaker 1: this one game? Joe Burrow? Would you rather have Cooper

800
00:43:55,600 --> 00:43:59,279
Speaker 1: Cup or Jamar Chase for this one game? I'd rather

801
00:43:59,320 --> 00:44:02,839
Speaker 1: have Cooper Cup because he's been there before. It's still

802
00:44:02,880 --> 00:44:07,480
Speaker 1: amazing to watch, Like, I'm still amazed these defenses. Somehow

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00:44:07,520 --> 00:44:11,759
Speaker 1: forget the Cooper Cup won the Triple Crown of wide receivers.

804
00:44:12,520 --> 00:44:15,560
Speaker 1: Why is that? Well, it's funny too, because you watched

805
00:44:15,600 --> 00:44:19,280
Speaker 1: that first game in the sense the game in Arrowhead

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Speaker 1: with the Chiefs Jamar the time they played just like

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00:44:22,600 --> 00:44:24,880
Speaker 1: a month or you know, six weeks before that in

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Speaker 1: Sense and obviously the Bengals won, Jamar went for a

809
00:44:27,960 --> 00:44:31,880
Speaker 1: quarter thousand yards, and this year, I mean, you think

810
00:44:31,880 --> 00:44:33,799
Speaker 1: about that, he went for two hundred and sixty six

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Speaker 1: yards in one game. They figured out they needed to

812
00:44:36,880 --> 00:44:39,160
Speaker 1: shut him down. But every it was amazing. And what

813
00:44:39,239 --> 00:44:42,160
Speaker 1: was so mature about Joe Burrows plays every time they

814
00:44:42,239 --> 00:44:45,560
Speaker 1: didn't double him, which was very rarely, and he was

815
00:44:45,640 --> 00:44:47,799
Speaker 1: one on one, Joe got on the ball. There was

816
00:44:48,000 --> 00:44:50,759
Speaker 1: very few instances where Jamar was one on one and

817
00:44:50,880 --> 00:44:53,960
Speaker 1: Joe figured it out, diagnosed the defense, found his one

818
00:44:54,000 --> 00:44:56,040
Speaker 1: on one and his best player, and gave him the ball.

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Speaker 1: And you know, he didn't have two hundred and sixty

820
00:44:58,040 --> 00:45:00,920
Speaker 1: six yards, but he still greatly affected that game. And

821
00:45:00,960 --> 00:45:03,400
Speaker 1: they did a ton of stuff. I mean, Zach's scheme

822
00:45:03,480 --> 00:45:05,680
Speaker 1: with him in the backfield and motioning in and out

823
00:45:05,680 --> 00:45:08,200
Speaker 1: of different spots. He was so difficult to figure out

824
00:45:08,200 --> 00:45:10,520
Speaker 1: where Jamar was going to land and end up. But

825
00:45:10,600 --> 00:45:12,520
Speaker 1: the Chiefs did a really good job of finding out

826
00:45:12,560 --> 00:45:14,400
Speaker 1: where that was going to be and doubled them but

827
00:45:14,480 --> 00:45:16,520
Speaker 1: the very few times where he was not doubled, he

828
00:45:16,560 --> 00:45:18,359
Speaker 1: got the ball in his hands and Joe figured it out.

829
00:45:18,560 --> 00:45:22,319
Speaker 1: But I mentioned Cooper Cup. I mean it felt like

830
00:45:22,360 --> 00:45:26,520
Speaker 1: the Niners forgot that he is was an MVP candidate,

831
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Speaker 1: and you did all of these things the regular season. Yeah,

832
00:45:32,440 --> 00:45:35,240
Speaker 1: and again I can point the finger and it's great.

833
00:45:35,239 --> 00:45:37,240
Speaker 1: It was great by Stafford, it was great by Cup.

834
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Speaker 1: But that's a Sean McVeigh, Kevin O'Connell finding a way.

835
00:45:41,160 --> 00:45:43,239
Speaker 1: He was all over the place. Cooper Cup was on

836
00:45:43,280 --> 00:45:45,680
Speaker 1: the outside, he was on the inside, he was motioning,

837
00:45:45,680 --> 00:45:48,640
Speaker 1: he was shifting. You don't when you have a guy

838
00:45:48,680 --> 00:45:50,920
Speaker 1: that's as smart as some of these receivers were seeing

839
00:45:50,920 --> 00:45:53,640
Speaker 1: in Jamar and Cooper Cup. They don't just have to

840
00:45:53,680 --> 00:45:55,279
Speaker 1: line up at X on the left hand side of

841
00:45:55,280 --> 00:45:57,759
Speaker 1: the field anymore. They are so smart. They can motion them,

842
00:45:57,800 --> 00:46:00,080
Speaker 1: they can shift them, they can put them inside and

843
00:46:00,080 --> 00:46:02,000
Speaker 1: put him on a three by one side. You just

844
00:46:02,040 --> 00:46:03,560
Speaker 1: don't know where he's going to be in it. As

845
00:46:03,560 --> 00:46:05,839
Speaker 1: easy as to say is don't let Cooper Cup get

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Speaker 1: Maybe we could go to USC and walk around and

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Speaker 1: maybe we could, you know, throw the football around or

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Speaker 1: something like that. Let's do it. Would you dress like

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Speaker 1: Can I bring that for you? Yes? All right, I'll

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Speaker 1: of Trojan sons that No, I don't want to dress up,

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Speaker 1: just you. All right, Well, we'll see you. We'll see

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