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Speaker 1: What's up, faithful, Welcome to the forty nine Ers. You've

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Speaker 1: got Mail Podcasts presented by Delta Dental. I'm Lindsay Plaris,

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Speaker 1: and we've got a very special guest in studio today,

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Speaker 1: three times Super Bowl champ Hall of Fame quarterback. The

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Speaker 1: list could go on. Broadcaster, mister Steve Young, Welcome to

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Speaker 1: the show.

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Speaker 2: Good to be here.

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Speaker 1: So, Steve, you are a part You were a part

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Speaker 1: of three Super Bowl teams, a bunch of great games,

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Speaker 1: and now you've remained a Bay Area resident and you

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Speaker 1: get to watch this twenty twenty three to forty nine

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Speaker 1: Ers team clinch the number one seed in the NFC

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Speaker 1: for the tenth time in franchise history.

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Speaker 3: How much fun are you having watching this team?

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Speaker 4: It's the fun is in the memories, like, oh, I

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Speaker 4: remember when it felt like that, I remember that moment

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Speaker 4: when we clinched, or I remember when we got the

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Speaker 4: bye week, I remember when you know, it was those

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Speaker 4: kinds of things because they're familiar and uh and the

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Speaker 4: joy watching you know, Debo and Trent and the Gang,

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Speaker 4: George watch the Cardinals come and beat the Eagles and

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Speaker 4: right in front of it, like that reminds me of

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Speaker 4: those moments, and so I love it for these guys,

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Speaker 4: and I also love it that it reminds me of

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Speaker 4: such kind of cool memories for myself.

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Speaker 1: Have there been any standout games this season that have

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Speaker 1: really brought you back to one of your playing day seasons?

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 4: I think when they went to Philadelphia, because when we

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Speaker 4: had played Dallas in the regular season, because we knew,

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Speaker 4: we thought that you'd end up seeing each other in

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Speaker 4: this in the championship game. They had seen Philadelphia in

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Speaker 4: the championship game. So those games are the markers for

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Speaker 4: how the season's going, everyone's watching, and so I'm familiar

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Speaker 4: with those kinds of games, you know, the big Monday

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Speaker 2: The ones against the Ravens on Christmas.

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Speaker 4: Like, there's these moments that Candlestick used to I used

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Speaker 4: to think that that old stadium, it would it would move,

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Speaker 4: you know, it would people were in there, and it

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Speaker 4: because I don't have I don't know how stable it

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Speaker 4: really was, but it was like there was an emotion

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Speaker 4: and there was always these big games and they felt

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Speaker 4: know each other, they sat next to each other through generation,

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Speaker 4: and it's like, I'm starting to feel that here, which

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Speaker 4: is super cool.

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Speaker 1: We hear a lot of this current team, and really

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Speaker 1: every team talk about this one and o season and

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Speaker 1: that every game matters. But is it when you look

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Speaker 1: back on your career that you look at those games

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Speaker 1: that some of them were a little bit bigger than others.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. I think that we were in a situation.

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Speaker 4: I started in eighty seven and we were in the

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Speaker 4: number one seed for eight of nine years. So like

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Speaker 4: it became you know, the team that this is the

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Speaker 4: doing every year, and so the big games were everywhere

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Speaker 2: You know, this is never.

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Speaker 4: And so I think that's how I bet you the

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Speaker 4: guys that played this season, I think they look back

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Speaker 4: on the year, what was the big games?

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Speaker 4: Like, Man, every game felt like, you know, everyone's super

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Speaker 4: Bowl against the big team, And so I think that

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Speaker 4: that's who the forty nine ers are today and that's

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Speaker 4: Is that like we were everyone's super Bowl and we're

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Speaker 4: And I think that's what I'm very familiar with this

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Speaker 1: That number one seed became very familiar for the teams

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Speaker 1: that you were a part of, but it is in

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Speaker 1: How rare is it to clinch that number one seed

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Speaker 1: in week seventeen, have Week eighteen be low stakes, and

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Speaker 2: It's happened, we have I don't. I felt like it

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Speaker 2: happened every year, but I know that it didn't. But

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Speaker 4: And it was always a complex situation because as football players,

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Speaker 4: getting a break mentally, if not physically for sure, but

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Speaker 4: a double edged sword because in some ways football is

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Speaker 4: you're not you know, up to the kind of that

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Speaker 4: So and you get that from just having it come

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Speaker 4: we clinched early. And I remember one year the Giants

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Speaker 4: And that was the famous Phil Simms when he said.

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Speaker 2: The forty nine ers laid down like dogs, and like

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Speaker 2: Ronnie Lott remembered that and went after him the next year.

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Speaker 4: But those are the situations that you love to be

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Speaker 4: and you love to be able to decide for yourself.

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Speaker 4: You've earned the right to decide for your self what

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Speaker 2: And that's a fun spot to be.

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Speaker 1: In the quarterback position obviously probably the toughest position in football.

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Speaker 1: In order to stay mentally sharp, how do you do

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Speaker 2: There's real discipline to it.

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Speaker 4: You you have to be willing to sacrifice kind of

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Speaker 2: Week, and that discipline is hard.

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Speaker 4: You know, Like human beings, we love a break, like hey,

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Speaker 4: you want to play great football every week. There's a

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Speaker 4: discipline to how you get the game plan on Tuesday,

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Speaker 4: late as Tuesday night, you start memorizing it. Wednesday goes

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Speaker 4: data of the game plan every week, the motion, the blitz,

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Speaker 4: the tendencies, then you're you're not going to play as well.

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Speaker 4: And I don't care how good you really think you are.

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Speaker 4: Owning the data every week is the secret. Anyone who's

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Speaker 4: history knows that that's that's the secret. I watched Joe

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Speaker 4: WALTSH would come in and he's doing the installations on

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Speaker 4: Wednesday morning and we just got in the books just

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Speaker 2: I'm like, yeah, the just got the book and uh.

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Speaker 2: It's like, how does he do that?

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Speaker 4: He goes I fax it to him Tuesday night and

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Speaker 4: And that became, you know, watching Joe prepare and the

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Speaker 4: what I learned to do the same. Like that was

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Speaker 4: the secret power in quarterbacking. And the guys that are

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Speaker 4: And that's most great players that I've known through the

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Speaker 4: And those are the guys that are the guys that

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Speaker 2: Pro Bowls and Super Bowls. That's just that's just the truth.

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Speaker 4: And I tell Lizzie, I tell other players other young quarterbacks,

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Speaker 4: do it, And I'd say that most don't listen because

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Speaker 4: it's hard, especially when you're one of the great athletes

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Speaker 4: And so I was like, no, you got to do it.

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Speaker 1: And for the rest of the players on the team,

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Speaker 1: just the forty nine ers injury list is so long

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Speaker 2: Everyone's beat down.

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Speaker 4: But I think not just physically again, I tell you

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Speaker 2: Times that's more important to take the rest, especially for

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Speaker 4: But if I said, if you're hurt and you need

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Speaker 4: Nothing beats you can be take six weeks off to

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Speaker 4: But if you're healthy, man, I want to play a

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Speaker 1: So the Rams are taking a very similar approach to

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Speaker 4: Yeah, And I think that you have two of the

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Speaker 3: Off a vanilla game plan, doesn't It.

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Speaker 4: Just feels like when they get together, there's I've watched

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Speaker 4: I think it's probably the antithesis of that. I think

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Speaker 2: I don't necessarily need to worry about, you know, the

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Speaker 4: Twice like I just so, I suspect both of them

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Speaker 3: That's where I was going.

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Speaker 1: How do you toe the line between testing some new

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Speaker 4: The truth of the matter is, I see Kyle and

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Speaker 4: I his dad was the same way. They build off

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Speaker 1: That's not the forty nine Ers, No, not with Kyle

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Speaker 2: That they're very deserving because.

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Speaker 5: Because and then to have him think about it, just

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Speaker 4: I owe him for putting up with me all those years,

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Speaker 4: and and just how much he supported me. I needed it,

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Speaker 4: and so I owe him a great debt. Harris Barton

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Speaker 4: was of my teammate and friend I lived with for

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Speaker 4: many years. And Ronnie Lott, I mean, he's the guy

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Speaker 4: when I first joined the team. You're talking about, Joe Montana,

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Speaker 4: Ronnie Lot, Roger Craig, Jerry Rice like this, this is

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Speaker 4: a pretty good crew. And now I will tell you

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Speaker 4: Jerry Rice and I have done a lot of philanthropy

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Speaker 4: work since we retired, and we're better friends than we've

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Speaker 4: ever been even today.

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Speaker 2: So it's really it's super cool.

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Speaker 4: Jerry and I really built a really cool friendship.

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Speaker 3: You should probably join him on the field. Pregame the.

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Speaker 4: Big helmet would my neck can't support it, you know,

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Speaker 4: And then when he goes running down the it runs

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Speaker 4: the hundred, I'm afraid I'd beat him, and I.

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Speaker 2: Don't want to happen. I don't want I mean, that

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Speaker 2: would be that would just be not right.

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Speaker 3: What's your forty time.

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Speaker 2: Now, I don't know. We'd have to go. Let's go

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Speaker 2: test it out. I could still, I can still run something.

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Speaker 2: I don't know.

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Speaker 3: I like that. We I mean, I think now we

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Speaker 3: need a Jerry Rice Steve Young.

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Speaker 2: Guarantee it will not happen.

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Speaker 1: All right. So Matt Sanchez wants to know if you

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Speaker 1: could take one talent from your generation and add them

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Speaker 1: to one of your Super Bowl winning teams, who would

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Speaker 1: it be outside your team?

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Speaker 2: Wait, so ask me again, talent.

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Speaker 1: From outside of your team during your generation a player,

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Speaker 1: and then add it to one of the super Bowl

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Speaker 1: winning teams you were.

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Speaker 3: A part of.

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Speaker 4: You know, I did ESPN work for a lot of

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Speaker 4: years with Randy Moss, and I got to know him

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Speaker 4: really well and always appreciate his athleticism and his uniqueness,

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Speaker 4: and then getting to know him and really kind of

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Speaker 4: building a friendship.

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Speaker 2: He's a guy that would have really flourished.

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Speaker 4: Well, there's a lot of guys that we flourished here,

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Speaker 4: but he had unique talents that you know, between John

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Speaker 4: Taylor and Jerry Rice, if you had a Randy Massa,

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Speaker 4: you have to you have to out loss.

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Speaker 3: This one's from Nana.

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Speaker 1: When you look back on your career, is there a

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Speaker 1: favorite play that stands out above the rest?

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Speaker 2: You know, the run against the Minnesota is always embarrassing

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Speaker 2: a little bit. It was like, oh my gosh, stop,

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Speaker 2: like do the job, don't run around like a mad mass.

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Speaker 3: This is just the tumbling into the end zone.

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Speaker 2: So I don't, I don't.

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Speaker 4: I'm not going to choose that one, even though it's

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Speaker 4: probably the most famous. I think I think the throat

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Speaker 4: to Tarrell uh with the against the Packers and the playoffs,

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Speaker 4: just because of the dramatic moment and then how hard

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Speaker 4: the moment was like to actually throw it into the

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Speaker 4: end zone when it's the last play of the game,

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Speaker 4: you have no chance and you know the odds are

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Speaker 4: like zero, and to pull off something that actually was

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Speaker 4: not a miracle. It wasn't like a you know, a

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Speaker 4: ball that was up in the air and bat it

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Speaker 4: around like it was a real play that worked, U

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Speaker 4: and I love that, you know, the play in the

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Speaker 4: huddle actually worked to win the game.

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Speaker 2: So that was cool.

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Speaker 1: Last one, this one's from Danielle. If you could hand

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Speaker 1: off one piece of advice to this twenty twenty three

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Speaker 1: team as they get ready for the playoffs, what would

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Speaker 1: it be.

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Speaker 4: I think what we've already talked about is whatever the

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Speaker 4: rigor of your preparation that's gotten you here these weeks off,

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Speaker 4: go through it, even though you know you're not going

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Speaker 4: to play. Do not rest the mental game so that

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Speaker 4: you can be sharp when because the first divisional game,

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Speaker 4: and if you've, if you've kind of been mentally quiet

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Speaker 4: for a couple of weeks and then all of a sudden,

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Speaker 4: something happens, you get punched in the face. Now you're

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Speaker 4: down in their division game. You're like, what's happening, and

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Speaker 4: you're just emotionally not ready. It happened to us, you guts,

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Speaker 4: the Minnesota Vikings when we were the number one seed.

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Speaker 4: They came into town and Anthony Carter went crazy and

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Speaker 4: we just weren't. We didn't respond. And I think that's

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Speaker 4: the number one thing you got to avoid, is that

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Speaker 4: divisional game. All of a sudden, this is not being

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Speaker 4: ready to play. Just make sure emotionally, and I'm sure

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Speaker 4: they will to make every kind of preparation wise.

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Speaker 1: Words from one of the greats, Well, thank you so

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Speaker 1: much for your time.

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Speaker 2: Thank you very much, nice to be with you.

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