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

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Speaker 1: finally settled on another round of the College Football Playoff,

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Speaker 1: and there's all this controversy. Everybody wants to yell about

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Speaker 1: targeting in the Arizona State Texas game. Everybody wants to

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Speaker 1: saying this was the game, the controversy, the epic drama

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Speaker 1: that the College Football Playoff needed, not just for this

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Speaker 1: year but moving forward. And it had to be this game.

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Speaker 1: It had to be Arizona State Texas that gave us

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Speaker 1: this controversy because for all of the things that we

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Speaker 1: have expected and we have seen blowout after blowout after blowout,

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Speaker 1: what we needed was one of the teams that supposedly

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Speaker 1: didn't belong to fight with one of the teams that do.

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Speaker 1: We needed one of the new brands to take on

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Speaker 1: one of the old. We needed some level of controversy

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Speaker 1: to remind us that we're one year in and maybe

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Speaker 1: will join us in just a second, and y'all, like

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Speaker 1: everybody wants to scream about targeting, I'll start here. I

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Speaker 1: don't believe it was targeting, and that makes me a weani.

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Speaker 1: I know, like I'm the one that pulled out the

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Speaker 1: rules and read every single page of it, and everybody

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Speaker 1: that tells you it's decisive, I would just ask you

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Speaker 1: to listen to other people. Nothing about it was decisive.

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Speaker 1: They didn't call the penalty. In the moment they reviewed it,

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Speaker 1: they still didn't call it. I don't believe the revs

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Speaker 1: were biased. I don't believe that everybody was intentionally out

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Speaker 1: to advance Texas. I don't believe any of that. But

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Speaker 1: what I do believe is that at some point in

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Speaker 1: the college football playoffs we had to get drama, and

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Speaker 1: we couldn't get drama from one of the epic matchups

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Speaker 1: we expected. If we got Ohio State Oregon drama, nobody

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Speaker 1: would have cared. It would have been a great game,

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Speaker 1: but it wouldn't be a lasting impression. The fact that

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Speaker 1: we got drama in Arizona State and Texas, the fact

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Speaker 1: that it went to two overtimes, the fact that all

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Speaker 1: of it piled up together in that matchup at least

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Speaker 1: finally shuts everybody up about who doesn't doesn't belong in

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Speaker 1: the dang thing. Anthony Garcatto, my friend I was watching

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Speaker 1: that game, think of, this is what the College Football

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Speaker 1: Playoff needs in this matchup, because at least finally we're

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Speaker 1: getting what we've had all year, which is a little

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Speaker 1: bit of chaos, a little bit of wildness, and then

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Speaker 1: finally a team that some didn't think even belonged competing

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Speaker 1: with the team that nobody questioned.

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Speaker 2: Now, you're spot on. You needed that game to be close.

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Speaker 2: You needed that game to have that kind of drama.

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Speaker 2: If that game was a blowout after Penn State Boise,

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Speaker 2: which was wound up being closer than than it could

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Speaker 2: have been because it was already started out to be

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Speaker 3: Jety heated it up a little bit.

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Speaker 2: But I'm with you, like the fact that that game

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Speaker 2: and Scataboo was what he was they everybody needed it

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Speaker 2: because I'm like, you, listen, the only thing I think

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Speaker 2: they need to fix and they'll do it, and they

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Speaker 2: know it is the seating right and how the buys

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Speaker 3: Other than that, it's great.

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Speaker 2: And I thought that game being a great game helped

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Speaker 2: Oh okay, steaks, aid steaks, blow afts, blowoffs, and the

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Speaker 3: And I'm with you.

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Speaker 1: So I may have had my mind changed about one thing,

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Speaker 1: But there's one thing that's stuck in my head all right,

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Speaker 1: because I believe we would have had I believe we

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Speaker 1: would have had better playoff games if we had Boise State,

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Speaker 1: But the one thing I don't know is would the

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Speaker 1: So I just keep thinking about that portion of it

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Speaker 1: a playoff game at Texas like these big environments, right,

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Speaker 1: Like if it had been SMU at Boise State, with

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Speaker 1: wondering if college football will fix that.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: But here's the thing though, does that really matter? It's

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Speaker 2: the playoffs, right, you have the playoffs. There's always a

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Speaker 3: But it's not like that in the NFL, Right.

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Speaker 1: I agree, But we also saw the first weekend in

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Speaker 1: the TV ratings, Right, like I do think that understanding.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I mean I don't think that's fair. Well, yes,

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Speaker 2: I mean, I mean college football's being in the NBA.

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Speaker 1: Do we believe that when you have brands like Texas

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Speaker 1: do we actually believe that there would have been that

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Speaker 1: not on every TV like it just isn't, you know.

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Speaker 2: I'm in Philadelphia. It's the same thing here. It's not

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Speaker 1: I guess that's why I wonder. You know, yeah, the

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Speaker 1: don't know how many people will actually watch that. Maybe

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Speaker 1: just don't know how many. It feels like because.

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Speaker 3: You're watching it and it got.

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Speaker 1: The playoffs for the for the for the masses, not

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Speaker 3: Yeah, but dude, again, I think.

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Speaker 2: I don't think you can control that, if this makes sense, Like,

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Speaker 2: I don't think that you can, Like, you can't control matchups.

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Speaker 2: Matchups are matchups, especially now as we wander into this

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Speaker 2: don't know the SEC coming back or all those schools

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Speaker 3: So I don't know.

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Speaker 2: I mean, it's hard to say to talk about brands

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Speaker 2: and acting like that, well, the big brands will be there,

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Speaker 2: because who knows how it's going to play out, especially

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Speaker 1: Very fair. I think when you ensure that the top

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Speaker 1: But but maybe right and you know, certainly, I think

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Speaker 1: Football Playoff is I just don't I don't know that

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Speaker 1: we have to panic like anything is broken, even though

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Speaker 1: we've had bad matchups. You do, you make such a

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Speaker 1: strong point that I think we need to continually remind

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Speaker 1: everybody that some years there's just going to be blowouts.

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Speaker 1: I'm not a believer that this one year tells us

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Speaker 1: a lot for the rest of time, Like the SEC

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Speaker 1: There were a few.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't think they're dead. I mean, I think

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Speaker 1: I agree with that. Yeah, but we were so close

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Speaker 1: why I look at it. It's like, Okay, Georgia didn't

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Speaker 1: the biggest thing when I look at this playoff is

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Speaker 1: that like, let's not panic, let's not let's see how

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Speaker 3: You know, I got to answer your question. Let's go,

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Speaker 3: what are you worried about? Like? What? What? What? What?

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Speaker 2: I'm confused about the one thing? Well, like, what what

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Speaker 2: do you the alternative? We know that the playoffs are

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Speaker 2: a huge success for the sport. I mean, it's just

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Speaker 2: college football, not the NFL. Right, the NFL is always

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Speaker 2: going to be king, so leave that alone. I think

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Speaker 2: college football could be too in this world. Right, So

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Speaker 2: I don't know, I think that's good enough. Like it

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Speaker 2: doesn't matter to me if the NFL college football, who cares?

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Speaker 3: Like it's the NFL we love, Right.

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Speaker 1: You ask me what I'm worried about. I'm not worried

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Speaker 1: about anything. If they keep it the exact same from

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Speaker 1: not worried, Like that's that's part of why I'm looking

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Speaker 1: huge wholesale change to any of this. Like I think,

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Speaker 1: I think it's worked perfectly. We've had some blowout games.

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Speaker 1: I'm not worried about that. Like that happens in the

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Speaker 1: NCUBA Anament tournament. That's gonna happen every year, like exactly,

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Speaker 1: Like it's perfect. Like what I would do is again

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Speaker 1: fix the seeds like they're going to do. I don't

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Speaker 1: like it, it's I expanded and be done forget about

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Speaker 1: this incremental thing.

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Speaker 2: And in five years we're gonna wind up. Pick the number,

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Speaker 2: stick with it and let's go. That's all. It's it's awesome.

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Speaker 2: It's freaking fitzy. I freaking love it. I love it.

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Speaker 2: I get Notre Dame Penn State, all right, in my world,

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Speaker 2: that's a monster, dude, Like that's that's a huge, huge game.

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Speaker 2: Those two brands are the brands of my childhood. Like

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Speaker 2: that's a huge deal. I'm so excited. I have to

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Speaker 2: enjoy every second. The only thing that I'm I'm just

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Speaker 2: That's only make it thick off because at that point,

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Speaker 2: who's learning from their dorm virtually? Like I mean, it's

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Speaker 2: Watching watching the may Own ball last night.

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Speaker 1: Heck yeah, Like we're watching meaningful playoff games while we

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Speaker 1: But it's you know, it's like law and Order onto

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Speaker 2: Better than football, man, There's nothing better than it, nothing better.

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Speaker 3: Tell me why I like that me?

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Speaker 3: Just this. He's not good. He's not.

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Speaker 1: I frankly was surprised that Arch didn't come into the

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Speaker 3: That, and I'll tell you. Listen.

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Speaker 2: I know they need to I've seen the stats, and

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Speaker 2: I also hated to play call like you, you show

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Speaker 2: even if you're Texas. You gotta be able to throw

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Speaker 1: Oh my god.

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Speaker 2: I gotta put the game in yours hands. But that's

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Speaker 1: Disagree, and no one what you're saying here is is

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Speaker 3: Us play in the same way, I'd say.

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Speaker 1: Gonnap them. If that happens, I mean.

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Speaker 1: Talking playoffs, playoffs, fly owls.

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Speaker 2: The two things in our lifetime that are most overused

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Speaker 1: Talk of practice. I don't disagree with that they're the

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Speaker 3: For some reason.

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Speaker 2: Everybody's brain is programmed in Minnesota says playoffs to say

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Speaker 2: I think it's our brains that are just programmed to

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Speaker 2: do that. Yeah, dude, I don't freaking these these games

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Speaker 2: have been awesome. Man. Let's let's dispatch of any kind

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Speaker 2: of nonsense about Carson Beck or whatever. Notre Dame's beaten

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Speaker 2: That's it, I mean, you know, I mean.

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Speaker 1: I mean, look look at that game. Look at the

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Speaker 1: had Marcus Freeman out coach Kirby Smart. Can't believe I

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Speaker 1: That was so beautifully coached. And I talked to a

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Speaker 1: to execute it with as much time was left on

434
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Speaker 1: the clock. I mean, that shows that they have repped

435
00:22:00,720 --> 00:22:02,919
Speaker 1: that a lot to be ready for it. And then

436
00:22:02,960 --> 00:22:05,600
Speaker 1: Georgia did with Georgia's doesn't mental errors this year for

437
00:22:05,680 --> 00:22:08,639
Speaker 1: an incredibly talented Georgia team, but a wide open drop

438
00:22:08,880 --> 00:22:11,119
Speaker 1: late in the game that absolutely changes the way that

439
00:22:11,160 --> 00:22:13,560
Speaker 1: game's going like, which, by the way, is the theme

440
00:22:13,600 --> 00:22:16,080
Speaker 1: of Georgia this year. Nobody dropped more footballs in all

441
00:22:16,119 --> 00:22:18,280
Speaker 1: of college football than Georgia.

442
00:22:18,480 --> 00:22:20,080
Speaker 2: That was it.

443
00:22:19,320 --> 00:22:19,879
Speaker 1: That was it.

444
00:22:20,640 --> 00:22:25,400
Speaker 2: That's why Georgia wasn't winning any game because quite frankly,

445
00:22:26,119 --> 00:22:28,560
Speaker 2: it played out kind of how you and I felt.

446
00:22:28,560 --> 00:22:32,959
Speaker 2: Where listen, the gunner could get the ball down the field,

447
00:22:33,520 --> 00:22:35,680
Speaker 2: all right, I know it was like, well he does

448
00:22:35,760 --> 00:22:36,879
Speaker 2: have the arm that backed up.

449
00:22:37,080 --> 00:22:38,399
Speaker 3: Ah, all right.

450
00:22:38,280 --> 00:22:41,560
Speaker 2: Well listen, he's more mobile and he was able to

451
00:22:41,600 --> 00:22:44,119
Speaker 2: get in the space to throw it. Those bulls were

452
00:22:44,200 --> 00:22:49,399
Speaker 2: on the money, all right. They would kill Georgia. Is

453
00:22:49,440 --> 00:22:54,880
Speaker 2: would kill them all all year, which is no Bowers right,

454
00:22:55,119 --> 00:22:59,240
Speaker 2: no mcconkeye. Those play it killed them not having those

455
00:22:59,240 --> 00:23:03,360
Speaker 2: players on the outside. And it showed up again because

456
00:23:03,400 --> 00:23:06,080
Speaker 2: a couple of plays that could have been made changed

457
00:23:06,080 --> 00:23:09,280
Speaker 2: the whole game. And I thought they were way too

458
00:23:09,320 --> 00:23:10,560
Speaker 2: conservative the whole game.

459
00:23:11,160 --> 00:23:17,240
Speaker 1: Yes, it felt like right, especially the way that defense

460
00:23:17,240 --> 00:23:19,199
Speaker 1: plays and gunner, by the way, I thought, played well

461
00:23:19,320 --> 00:23:23,119
Speaker 1: enough to win. He played well enough to win. And also,

462
00:23:23,400 --> 00:23:25,560
Speaker 1: what's a theme that we've now we can now say

463
00:23:25,640 --> 00:23:28,280
Speaker 1: definitively in the college football playoffs, if you lose the

464
00:23:28,280 --> 00:23:30,800
Speaker 1: battle on special teams, you're gonna lose the football game.

465
00:23:30,880 --> 00:23:34,080
Speaker 1: Like the number of turn off kicks, kickoff returns, like

466
00:23:34,160 --> 00:23:37,000
Speaker 1: it's just it's just so simple to see it as

467
00:23:37,040 --> 00:23:40,880
Speaker 1: it's happening. And look, I think Notre Dame's offense, Frankly,

468
00:23:40,960 --> 00:23:44,320
Speaker 1: Riley Leonard didn't do much throwing the football, but my god,

469
00:23:44,840 --> 00:23:46,920
Speaker 1: he became a Notre Dame legend that went in the minute.

470
00:23:46,960 --> 00:23:49,199
Speaker 1: He went airborne on that third and six to convert

471
00:23:49,200 --> 00:23:51,520
Speaker 1: it late in the game and just became sort of

472
00:23:51,720 --> 00:23:55,240
Speaker 1: an iconic picture of what college football is. And man,

473
00:23:55,320 --> 00:23:58,760
Speaker 1: I just I look at all that, and it's to me,

474
00:23:59,680 --> 00:24:02,159
Speaker 1: it's just just proof that again we talked about the

475
00:24:02,160 --> 00:24:04,800
Speaker 1: margins being so thin in these playoff games, especially the

476
00:24:04,840 --> 00:24:07,080
Speaker 1: next couple we're gonna get. You got to be able

477
00:24:07,080 --> 00:24:08,280
Speaker 1: to stop the run, you got to be able to

478
00:24:08,359 --> 00:24:10,160
Speaker 1: run the football, and you're gonna have to be able

479
00:24:10,280 --> 00:24:12,439
Speaker 1: to do your best to not become one dimensional. So

480
00:24:12,960 --> 00:24:14,840
Speaker 1: you know what quarterbacks, And that's why I think part

481
00:24:14,840 --> 00:24:17,000
Speaker 1: of the reason I'm so enamored with the way Ohio

482
00:24:17,000 --> 00:24:19,520
Speaker 1: State's played the last couple of games. Is because well,

483
00:24:19,560 --> 00:24:21,639
Speaker 1: Howard has suddenly shown up to this level. We know

484
00:24:21,680 --> 00:24:23,479
Speaker 1: they can run the football, but now all of a sudden,

485
00:24:23,680 --> 00:24:25,880
Speaker 1: they're throwing to their weapons the way we wanted them

486
00:24:25,920 --> 00:24:29,159
Speaker 1: to all stink in year long, right, Like I look

487
00:24:29,200 --> 00:24:31,159
Speaker 1: across the board and some of this, Like you know

488
00:24:31,359 --> 00:24:34,240
Speaker 1: Notre Dame has some issues scoring points, but boy, that

489
00:24:34,359 --> 00:24:36,239
Speaker 1: didn't come up at all in that Georgia game. They

490
00:24:36,320 --> 00:24:38,680
Speaker 1: just were they were ready to handle tempo and ready

491
00:24:38,680 --> 00:24:39,440
Speaker 1: to control the game.

492
00:24:40,320 --> 00:24:44,919
Speaker 2: Yeah, totally, I mean, yeah, completely completely.

493
00:24:45,720 --> 00:24:46,960
Speaker 3: You know it was interesting.

494
00:24:47,880 --> 00:24:52,280
Speaker 2: I thought Georgia Notre Dame was we talked about you

495
00:24:52,359 --> 00:24:54,440
Speaker 2: wanted to be a rock fight, right, we get it

496
00:24:55,359 --> 00:24:58,560
Speaker 2: and run off the bat Like I understand that. You

497
00:24:58,560 --> 00:25:02,320
Speaker 2: know all you got the kid, blah blah blah. You

498
00:25:02,440 --> 00:25:03,679
Speaker 2: had to open it up early.

499
00:25:03,760 --> 00:25:03,960
Speaker 1: Man.

500
00:25:04,359 --> 00:25:07,679
Speaker 2: You again, when you talk about stack in a box,

501
00:25:07,760 --> 00:25:11,560
Speaker 2: you just can't run against some of those fronts, Like

502
00:25:11,600 --> 00:25:13,960
Speaker 2: you're gonna have to do things like move the pocket.

503
00:25:14,320 --> 00:25:14,480
Speaker 3: Right.

504
00:25:14,560 --> 00:25:19,919
Speaker 2: I know you're a line average, what three sixty across

505
00:25:19,960 --> 00:25:22,280
Speaker 2: the board, three fifty across the board an average?

506
00:25:22,960 --> 00:25:23,560
Speaker 3: Huge?

507
00:25:24,119 --> 00:25:26,840
Speaker 2: But I got news for you had weaknesses on the edge.

508
00:25:27,480 --> 00:25:30,480
Speaker 2: You got to figure out ways to buy him a

509
00:25:30,520 --> 00:25:33,200
Speaker 2: little time to be able to run those routes down

510
00:25:33,240 --> 00:25:36,320
Speaker 2: the field to open things up, and then of.

511
00:25:36,240 --> 00:25:37,800
Speaker 3: Course you gotta catch them.

512
00:25:38,119 --> 00:25:41,560
Speaker 1: But you also had so long to get ready for that.

513
00:25:42,080 --> 00:25:44,040
Speaker 1: Even if you didn't know you were facing notre name,

514
00:25:44,520 --> 00:25:46,320
Speaker 1: you knew that you were gonna have to throughout the

515
00:25:46,320 --> 00:25:48,639
Speaker 1: course of the college football playoff face a bunch of

516
00:25:48,640 --> 00:25:52,240
Speaker 1: defensive fronts they can get after it. So moving the

517
00:25:52,280 --> 00:25:55,560
Speaker 1: pocket is something that I just expected to see a

518
00:25:55,680 --> 00:25:59,159
Speaker 1: lot more of. Honestly, I just expected to see them

519
00:25:59,240 --> 00:26:02,359
Speaker 1: shifting everything left right to give them to Ohio State's

520
00:26:02,400 --> 00:26:04,560
Speaker 1: done a beautiful job of that. Frankly, Ohio State's moving

521
00:26:04,600 --> 00:26:06,840
Speaker 1: the pocket more right now than they do. Oh my god,

522
00:26:08,160 --> 00:26:11,240
Speaker 1: we're watching Chip Kelly suddenly, you know, open up this

523
00:26:11,359 --> 00:26:13,840
Speaker 1: offense and you know it's they're doing a great job

524
00:26:13,880 --> 00:26:18,239
Speaker 1: of rollouts of half rollouts where they're moving everything too.

525
00:26:18,440 --> 00:26:21,840
Speaker 1: Is just watching that is like, Okay, I understand what

526
00:26:21,880 --> 00:26:24,280
Speaker 1: they what they implemented for the playoffs, and it is

527
00:26:24,359 --> 00:26:27,760
Speaker 1: really hard to stop. I didn't watch Georgia and think, ah,

528
00:26:27,840 --> 00:26:29,840
Speaker 1: here's the wrinkle they spent the last month working on.

529
00:26:30,000 --> 00:26:32,680
Speaker 1: You know, I just here, here's the here's the moment

530
00:26:32,720 --> 00:26:34,679
Speaker 1: we say, oh, okay, I see what they're you know,

531
00:26:35,119 --> 00:26:37,680
Speaker 1: now an opponent, be damned. I see what they've done

532
00:26:37,760 --> 00:26:39,399
Speaker 1: to make the best of what they have. There was

533
00:26:39,440 --> 00:26:41,440
Speaker 1: no moment where I just sat there and thought, ah,

534
00:26:41,560 --> 00:26:44,120
Speaker 1: Georgia is really pushing to the end, to the brink

535
00:26:44,160 --> 00:26:46,440
Speaker 1: of what Notre Dame can handle. From a coaching standpoint,

536
00:26:46,480 --> 00:26:49,680
Speaker 1: it's just again, freeman out, coach smart. That's just that's

537
00:26:49,720 --> 00:26:50,120
Speaker 1: just real.

538
00:26:51,240 --> 00:26:52,560
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's spot on.

539
00:26:53,560 --> 00:26:56,520
Speaker 2: And the other thing, too, is like, and I think

540
00:26:56,600 --> 00:26:58,880
Speaker 2: what these coaches are learning, And you saw it from

541
00:26:58,960 --> 00:27:07,720
Speaker 2: Chip Kelly. He was so ridiculously conservative against Michigan, which

542
00:27:07,760 --> 00:27:12,040
Speaker 2: I still don't even understand that game plan either, Like

543
00:27:12,080 --> 00:27:16,040
Speaker 2: that game plan still made no sense against Michigan. You

544
00:27:16,119 --> 00:27:18,679
Speaker 2: got to realize, like you have to you have to

545
00:27:18,760 --> 00:27:22,879
Speaker 2: be able to throw to get to loosen up these defenses.

546
00:27:24,480 --> 00:27:26,680
Speaker 2: You know, stack in the box is a real thing.

547
00:27:27,440 --> 00:27:31,320
Speaker 2: And so they learned their lesson off of Michigan. And

548
00:27:31,800 --> 00:27:37,480
Speaker 2: you saw the creativity in allowing to get Will Howard

549
00:27:37,520 --> 00:27:40,520
Speaker 2: time like they have. Those receivers are ridiculous. I mean,

550
00:27:40,760 --> 00:27:45,359
Speaker 2: you know, come on, they're unbelievable. But you got to

551
00:27:45,400 --> 00:27:48,160
Speaker 2: give Will Howard time to get the ball down the field.

552
00:27:48,880 --> 00:27:52,399
Speaker 2: And I think that's what you're saying, that's what you saw,

553
00:27:53,280 --> 00:27:55,400
Speaker 2: you know, and that was just a I.

554
00:27:55,320 --> 00:27:57,680
Speaker 3: Mean, they just swarmed They swarmed them.

555
00:27:57,760 --> 00:28:00,879
Speaker 2: I mean, my god, they were on stoppable for that

556
00:28:01,080 --> 00:28:07,240
Speaker 2: entire first half. I'm curious, if you know whoever it is, like,

557
00:28:07,400 --> 00:28:10,040
Speaker 2: if I look at Texas and I go, can out,

558
00:28:10,119 --> 00:28:13,800
Speaker 2: could my front somehow quiet them down a little bit?

559
00:28:15,320 --> 00:28:19,880
Speaker 1: Yeah? That's It's funny because so much domination. I feel

560
00:28:19,920 --> 00:28:21,880
Speaker 1: like we've spent a lot of time talking all year

561
00:28:21,880 --> 00:28:24,520
Speaker 1: about offensive lines and the fact that there just aren't

562
00:28:24,520 --> 00:28:27,199
Speaker 1: a lot of great ones. There are defensive lines in

563
00:28:27,200 --> 00:28:30,960
Speaker 1: this playoff that that are just wreckers. They're just game wreckers,

564
00:28:31,280 --> 00:28:35,520
Speaker 1: you know. And that's where it gets really interesting moving forward,

565
00:28:35,560 --> 00:28:38,320
Speaker 1: because I think you've got such a you know, the

566
00:28:38,360 --> 00:28:41,040
Speaker 1: Penn State Notre Dame game is going to be just

567
00:28:41,560 --> 00:28:45,880
Speaker 1: punch after punch after punch for two teams that absolutely

568
00:28:45,960 --> 00:28:49,200
Speaker 1: are comfortable letting their defenses carry the entire process. So

569
00:28:49,440 --> 00:28:51,720
Speaker 1: it really becomes which team can get a couple of

570
00:28:51,760 --> 00:28:55,720
Speaker 1: explosive plays. I believe that Drew Aller is more capable

571
00:28:55,720 --> 00:28:58,000
Speaker 1: of getting exposive plays in Riley Leonard. But I'm not

572
00:28:58,040 --> 00:29:00,880
Speaker 1: sure that as you've mentioned all year, so right, Penn

573
00:29:00,960 --> 00:29:03,480
Speaker 1: State has one weapon, and I don't know that they

574
00:29:03,480 --> 00:29:06,280
Speaker 1: have enough to really open up. You know, a thirty

575
00:29:06,360 --> 00:29:09,160
Speaker 1: forty point game against this Notre Dame defense, So that

576
00:29:09,200 --> 00:29:12,400
Speaker 1: game is interesting. But the Ohio State thing, if you're

577
00:29:12,480 --> 00:29:15,360
Speaker 1: Texas man, you got to figure out how to get

578
00:29:15,400 --> 00:29:17,320
Speaker 1: after Will Howard. You got to figure out how to

579
00:29:17,320 --> 00:29:19,840
Speaker 1: get your defensive line better win against an offensive line

580
00:29:19,880 --> 00:29:22,640
Speaker 1: that has been suspect. Otherwise you're gonna get just just

581
00:29:22,640 --> 00:29:23,600
Speaker 1: get run out of the thing.

582
00:29:24,320 --> 00:29:26,720
Speaker 2: Is the only gives me, let me ask you a question.

583
00:29:26,760 --> 00:29:31,480
Speaker 2: The only thing that gives me a little Texas optimism

584
00:29:32,720 --> 00:29:37,560
Speaker 2: is the fact that they could get home off their front.

585
00:29:38,520 --> 00:29:40,200
Speaker 2: Because you're gonna need all the help they need in

586
00:29:40,680 --> 00:29:43,960
Speaker 2: the back end. So the fact that they can get

587
00:29:43,960 --> 00:29:47,360
Speaker 2: home gives them a fighter's chance. You're to play a

588
00:29:47,400 --> 00:29:49,200
Speaker 2: lot of nickel, though you have to play a lot

589
00:29:49,240 --> 00:29:50,000
Speaker 2: of nickel and dime.

590
00:29:50,240 --> 00:29:52,680
Speaker 1: Yeah, you're you're a thousand percent right. It gives them

591
00:29:53,200 --> 00:29:55,640
Speaker 1: a fighter chance. You're still gonna have to put It

592
00:29:55,680 --> 00:29:58,480
Speaker 1: feels like you're gonna have to put up upper twenties

593
00:29:58,640 --> 00:30:01,320
Speaker 1: to win, even if you even if you throttle down

594
00:30:01,320 --> 00:30:03,520
Speaker 1: this offense, you're gonna have to put up upper twenties

595
00:30:03,800 --> 00:30:06,200
Speaker 1: right now. I have such trust issues with Quinny rs.

596
00:30:06,520 --> 00:30:07,640
Speaker 1: It isn't even real, like I.

597
00:30:08,240 --> 00:30:11,000
Speaker 3: Believe from a defensive standpoint, Yeah, yeah.

598
00:30:10,760 --> 00:30:14,200
Speaker 1: So from a defensive standpoint, I do believe, you know. Okay,

599
00:30:14,240 --> 00:30:16,520
Speaker 1: So we think about this, all hands on deck. You're

600
00:30:16,520 --> 00:30:18,280
Speaker 1: going to try and do everything you can to stop

601
00:30:18,520 --> 00:30:20,760
Speaker 1: the wide receiver weapons right now that you got a

602
00:30:20,760 --> 00:30:23,160
Speaker 1: couple of guys, I mean, this Ohio State team, I

603
00:30:23,160 --> 00:30:25,000
Speaker 1: think we're going to look back at the wide receiver

604
00:30:25,080 --> 00:30:26,840
Speaker 1: room in five years, kind of like we do with

605
00:30:26,880 --> 00:30:29,479
Speaker 1: that LSU room at one point, with the Justin Jefferson room,

606
00:30:29,720 --> 00:30:32,400
Speaker 1: the NFL talent all over the place. I don't want

607
00:30:32,400 --> 00:30:34,880
Speaker 1: to sleep on the fact that if they put everything

608
00:30:34,920 --> 00:30:36,840
Speaker 1: they have to try and to slow those weapons down

609
00:30:36,880 --> 00:30:40,160
Speaker 1: and the offensive line plays well, then Ohio State's gonna

610
00:30:40,280 --> 00:30:42,120
Speaker 1: I mean, they have a two headed monster running back

611
00:30:42,160 --> 00:30:45,600
Speaker 1: that's absolutely great. The liability this year for Ohio State

612
00:30:45,600 --> 00:30:48,400
Speaker 1: when they've had it, is that Will Howard has thrown

613
00:30:48,440 --> 00:30:51,160
Speaker 1: some stupid picks and the offensive line hasn't held up

614
00:30:51,160 --> 00:30:54,160
Speaker 1: well enough. So you're right, if Texas can force Will

615
00:30:54,160 --> 00:30:56,880
Speaker 1: Howard into mistakes. That's still the Will Howard we saw

616
00:30:56,920 --> 00:30:59,280
Speaker 1: earlier this year. But my god, that's not the Will

617
00:30:59,320 --> 00:31:00,640
Speaker 1: Howard we've seen the last two games.

618
00:31:00,760 --> 00:31:02,360
Speaker 2: No, I love I love that kid.

619
00:31:02,400 --> 00:31:05,480
Speaker 3: He's a great kid. I mean I do, I feel

620
00:31:05,520 --> 00:31:06,160
Speaker 3: you on him.

621
00:31:06,440 --> 00:31:08,520
Speaker 1: And I thought the Tennessee game would be close. I

622
00:31:08,520 --> 00:31:11,080
Speaker 1: thought that the Oregon game would be close. In Oiso

623
00:31:11,080 --> 00:31:13,280
Speaker 1: State proved that both of those were just going to

624
00:31:13,360 --> 00:31:16,120
Speaker 1: be butt whoopins. I think it's that's one of the

625
00:31:16,120 --> 00:31:18,040
Speaker 1: most that is the most stunning thing in the college

626
00:31:18,040 --> 00:31:21,720
Speaker 1: football playoff we've seen is how great Ohio State has been.

627
00:31:22,760 --> 00:31:27,360
Speaker 2: Yes, yeah, yeah, they'd been I mean while, I mean

628
00:31:27,360 --> 00:31:30,440
Speaker 2: they just look stunningly good, you know, like for that,

629
00:31:30,800 --> 00:31:31,920
Speaker 2: I mean, Oregon's a good team.

630
00:31:31,920 --> 00:31:33,720
Speaker 3: I don't care anybody says Oregon's a good team.

631
00:31:33,760 --> 00:31:37,840
Speaker 2: And they just now we wondered about their defense, so

632
00:31:38,720 --> 00:31:42,600
Speaker 2: you know, they went at it Ohio State. It was

633
00:31:42,680 --> 00:31:46,000
Speaker 2: great game plan. You just overwhelmed them and then you

634
00:31:46,280 --> 00:31:50,040
Speaker 2: force the pressure on the offense to convert and become

635
00:31:50,040 --> 00:31:52,840
Speaker 2: a shootout. And then once you get stops, you know,

636
00:31:52,960 --> 00:31:55,520
Speaker 2: you kill them. And that's kind of what happened because

637
00:31:55,520 --> 00:31:57,760
Speaker 2: they still have faith, Like I still look at the

638
00:31:57,760 --> 00:32:00,000
Speaker 2: Ohio State defense and I think it's good, but I don't.

639
00:32:00,360 --> 00:32:03,480
Speaker 3: I think the Oregon offense can play better.

640
00:32:05,120 --> 00:32:09,440
Speaker 1: I agree, No, I agree with that. I think we're

641
00:32:09,440 --> 00:32:11,440
Speaker 1: gonna be spending a long time trying to figure out

642
00:32:11,480 --> 00:32:14,800
Speaker 1: what wrong, what went wrong with that Oregon team in

643
00:32:14,840 --> 00:32:18,960
Speaker 1: that game. That's just I'm still a little bit shell

644
00:32:18,960 --> 00:32:23,040
Speaker 1: shocked to see how irrelevant that offense was to see.

645
00:32:23,160 --> 00:32:25,640
Speaker 1: And it's a game, you know, the cliche game of inches,

646
00:32:25,720 --> 00:32:27,880
Speaker 1: but my god, I think the first drive was a

647
00:32:27,880 --> 00:32:30,280
Speaker 1: fourth and one and the second drive was a fourth

648
00:32:30,320 --> 00:32:32,840
Speaker 1: and two, Like they kept getting right on the edge

649
00:32:32,840 --> 00:32:35,000
Speaker 1: of converting, and it couldn't they couldn't stay on the field.

650
00:32:35,040 --> 00:32:36,960
Speaker 1: And I just I looked at that and thought, man,

651
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Speaker 1: it's amazing right now because that Ohio State offense was

652
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Speaker 1: so hot. It's amazing how one yard was the difference

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Speaker 1: between all right, this is a game versus all of

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Speaker 1: a sudden, this thing was twenty one nothing. It's I

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Speaker 1: think a total of three yards created a twenty one

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Speaker 1: nothing definicit. That that, yeah, that's wild to me.

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Speaker 2: It's true, all right, we think quick too. Come right back,

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Speaker 2: fellas talk with college football playoffs, did the NFL coming

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Speaker 2: up as well. Obviously, it's football Heaven always with the fellas.

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Speaker 2: Jason Fitz Anthony Gargano hanging out Fox Sports Radio Fellas

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Speaker 2: from the ti raq dot Com studios, Jason Fitz, Anthony

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Speaker 2: Gargano Notre Dame Penn State.

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Speaker 6: Man.

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Speaker 3: That in my world, right, that's my childhood.

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Speaker 2: Saturday mornings, everybody Actually Sunday mornings, everybody watched the Notre

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Speaker 2: Dame recap at nine am before the NFL pregame shows

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Speaker 2: and then the Joe Paterno Show used to play every

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Speaker 2: Saturday morning before ped State. Like that was by a

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Speaker 2: child with these two teams. In my whole world, you

670
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Speaker 2: had Pen State people or Notre Dame people, and that

671
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Speaker 2: was it in my logistics. And go ahead, buddy, no,

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Speaker 2: gohad no, that's it. I was about to finish up. Now,

673
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Speaker 2: you're right, this is it. It was ped State and

674
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Speaker 2: the Golden Dollmers man, Like, that's what. That's those two

675
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Speaker 2: iconic uniforms. Like, I'm so geeked over this match up.

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Speaker 2: I gotta tell you, I'm so I'm so excited for it.

677
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Speaker 1: Well, oh I was. I was laughing because somebody was

678
00:34:14,000 --> 00:34:18,280
Speaker 1: referencing the other day that an old episode, an old cartoon,

679
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Speaker 1: I don't remember which one, but a cartoon from the nineties.

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Speaker 1: In the middle, like as they were walking around, it

681
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Speaker 1: was like, oh, check this out, there's a Notre Dame

682
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Speaker 1: Penn State game. I guess it's been all over social media.

683
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Speaker 1: And they're like, how do they know that Notre Dame

684
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Speaker 1: would play Penn State? And I had to remind the

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Speaker 1: person that was younger. Hey, Like, in the nineties, Notre

686
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Speaker 1: Dame Penn State, like this would have made a lot

687
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Speaker 1: of sense, Like you were talking about the two of

688
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Speaker 1: the biggest brands at all of sport at that point,

689
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Speaker 1: you know what I mean. So like it was funny

690
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Speaker 1: to me that it got referenced in somebody too young

691
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Speaker 1: to understand that. I think for a lot of us

692
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Speaker 1: when you grew up, especially when you grew up before

693
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Speaker 1: college football was where what it is now, where every

694
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Speaker 1: game was attainable, I mean, it was so hard to

695
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Speaker 1: there were so few programs that had truly national proffle

696
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Speaker 1: file that everything stopped for Saturdays, and like, I mean,

697
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Speaker 1: my god, Like I remember distinctly when I was in

698
00:35:06,239 --> 00:35:08,919
Speaker 1: high school people wearing Penn State jerseys everywhere, not because

699
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Speaker 1: they were really Penn State fans, but because Penn State

700
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Speaker 1: was just like the thing in college football at that point.

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Speaker 1: So you know, it's this is the beauty of the

702
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Speaker 1: College Football Playoff is that we got expansion, We got

703
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Speaker 1: all sorts of different teams in it, we got different

704
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Speaker 1: matchups than we expected, we got a different final four

705
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Speaker 1: than the A fourteen playoff would have given us. But

706
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Speaker 1: also we got four massive brands in college football. It's

707
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Speaker 1: not huge, like just the opportunity to see Texas take

708
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Speaker 1: on Ohio State and then to see Penn State take

709
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Speaker 1: on Notre Dame. Now are you at all concerned? I

710
00:35:41,200 --> 00:35:43,640
Speaker 1: know the SEC came out and asked for the calendar

711
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Speaker 1: to be changed, a significant additional rest for Penn State

712
00:35:48,160 --> 00:35:51,279
Speaker 1: at this point, an additional almost forty eight hours of

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Speaker 1: rest for Penn State to get ready for this football game.

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Speaker 1: Does that play into your mind on the way this

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Speaker 1: game plays.

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Speaker 3: Out a little bit? Yeah?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think that it's not fair. Yeah, I mean,

718
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Speaker 2: listen to God forbid what happened in New Orleans. So

719
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Speaker 2: that piece of it, but they do, they do need

720
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Speaker 2: to fix that part of it. I know you don't

721
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Speaker 2: want to go ahead to head with NFL so like,

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Speaker 2: I understand that. I almost think you need to push

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Speaker 2: him back and do uh, you know the Monday, the

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Speaker 2: Monday thing, Monday Tuesday, you know, and not the Thursday Friday.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I think pushing it back would have made a

726
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Speaker 1: ton of sense. I also do understand that it's a

727
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Speaker 1: logistical nightmare for everybody involved. Like I totally get that,

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Speaker 1: that yeah in.

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Speaker 2: The butt like so I because you're trying to incorporate

730
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Speaker 2: the bulls right, Like, so you're trying to incorporate that,

731
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Speaker 2: And I understand that. So it is tough, but you

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Speaker 2: got there's got to be equity and rest.

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Speaker 1: Uh.

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Speaker 3: You can't have guy teams on short weeks.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, especially for a matchup R. Look, I know that

736
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Speaker 1: as we rep as many times Notre Dame handled Georgia.

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Speaker 1: But that's a lot of size, a lot of like,

738
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Speaker 1: there's just a lot to that for your body. So

739
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Speaker 1: having a couple of days less rest. That's part of

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Speaker 1: why they pushed for that game to be at four

741
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Speaker 1: pm Eastern and not seven pm Eastern. I learned was

742
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Speaker 1: because coaches. If the game had been at seven pm Eastern,

743
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Speaker 1: the coaches were concerned that they wouldn't get back back

744
00:37:23,160 --> 00:37:26,320
Speaker 1: home from that game, Notre Dame wouldn't until Friday morning

745
00:37:26,400 --> 00:37:29,040
Speaker 1: instead of Thursday night. By moving into four, they were

746
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Speaker 1: able to leased to give everybody back in time to

747
00:37:31,000 --> 00:37:33,359
Speaker 1: sleep in their own bed on Thursday night. And this

748
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Speaker 1: is less about game planning. I think that you know

749
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Speaker 1: the there's a nominal advantage in that because frankly, their

750
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Speaker 1: advanced scouts were already getting ready for the possibilities. I

751
00:37:42,520 --> 00:37:44,959
Speaker 1: get that, But this is a lot about just the.

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Speaker 2: US install rest. There's a lot, there's a lot of

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Speaker 2: moving parts. You're to play a semifinal game. Like the

754
00:37:52,080 --> 00:37:57,160
Speaker 2: semifinal game, that's where you have to have maximum rest, right,

755
00:37:57,280 --> 00:37:59,839
Speaker 2: Like that's why they had to play them. I don't

756
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Speaker 2: know why I thought you had to play them on

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Speaker 2: a Monday Tuesday instead of a Thursday Friday.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, Frankly, I think Monday Tuesday would be cooler in

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Speaker 1: general than Thursday Friday. I'm just that guy. Like, but

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Speaker 1: again I understand.

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Speaker 2: That, And then you could have moved the championship game

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Speaker 2: and played that on a Wednesday, Like if you're afraid

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Speaker 2: of becaught, Like if you go if you played Monday Tuesday,

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Speaker 2: you don't you want to make sure that you have

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Speaker 2: at least more than a week rest, right, so then

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Speaker 2: you play the championship game on the following Wednesday.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. I also hear that there's no way they want

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Speaker 1: to start changing, like the logistics of all the people

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Speaker 1: that have to be in all of these places too,

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Speaker 1: you know, and the tickets and everything get very difficult too.

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Speaker 1: I understand all of it. But if the actual outcome

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Speaker 1: is the actual goal is to get the most accurate

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Speaker 1: game possible, the very least they could have they could

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Speaker 1: have flopped the two games.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, I like, you're not gonna do it now.

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Speaker 2: I'm talking about next year when you well know, yeah,

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Speaker 2: when you plan it out, and you got to plan

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Speaker 2: it out so you have you know, everybody's got at

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Speaker 2: least a week, all right, you gotta buffer, you know,

780
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Speaker 2: you gotta give a little time to get to the semifinals.

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Speaker 3: I think, you know, for those games of.

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Speaker 2: That magnitude where the fellas hanging out right here Fox

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Speaker 2: I gotta get this off my chicks. I gotta get

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Speaker 2: your opinion. I don't understand it. Uh well, I understand

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Speaker 2: the debate. It's a great debate, it's a natural debate.

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Speaker 2: It's got all the stuff. But in truth of the matter,

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Speaker 2: there really is no debate. If you're a coach, you

796
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Speaker 2: cannot play say Kwon Barkley, just for the record, you

797
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Speaker 2: just can't do it.

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Speaker 3: You can't. I know.

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Speaker 2: It's tantalizingly he's tantalizingly close. He's one hundred and one

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Speaker 2: yards short. And you know you're going up against the

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Speaker 2: giants team, the whole league, the whole thing. YadA, YadA, YadA.

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Speaker 2: You can't play them. You forget about the risk of injury.

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Speaker 2: You just gotta they've been I havn't had to buy

804
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Speaker 2: since week five. You gotta rest the rest that group,

805
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Speaker 2: that includes the old line, that includes everybody like you

806
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Speaker 2: can't go out and just go play for the record

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Speaker 2: when this team needs of rest.

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Speaker 1: What you just said about the offensive line is the

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Speaker 1: most important part of this conversation that I think hasn't

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Speaker 1: gotten enough Jews, because look, this is just about Saquon.

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Speaker 1: They're not gonna put Saquan out there to run for

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Speaker 1: the record against a bunch of backups. They're not gonna

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Speaker 1: with a bunch of backups, I should say, on the

814
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Speaker 1: offensive line, which means now, you're putting your line out there,

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Speaker 1: which means now and we've all seen the splits on,

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Speaker 1: for example, the record with him without Lane Johnson, right like,

817
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Speaker 1: so all of a sudden, you're putting everybody at risk

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Speaker 1: to get the record. Now, I realize the record is tantalizing.

819
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Speaker 1: I realize why it's important to everybody that watches. I

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Speaker 1: understand all of that, and I don't think this is

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Speaker 1: as simple as I saw a first take among other

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Speaker 1: shows yesterday basically saying, well, you better win a super

823
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Speaker 1: Bowl because if you don't, this is all for nothing. No,

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Speaker 1: all you can do in life is give your team

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Speaker 1: the best shot that it can possibly have.

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Speaker 2: That's nonsense, Like you better win a super Bowl is

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Speaker 2: ridiculously stupid and short sighted one hundred percent.

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Speaker 1: All you can do is say, what gives us the

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Speaker 1: best chance in winning the super Bowl, and the best

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Speaker 1: chance in winning the super Bowl is having guys healthy

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Speaker 1: and giving the guys, especially because you're not getting a buye,

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Speaker 1: giving the guys the chance to get a bye and

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Speaker 1: essentially get their bodies ready for what is going to

834
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Speaker 1: be a long playoff. So, you know, I think, knowing

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Speaker 1: that you don't control the variables here, that there are

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Speaker 1: a lot of different things that can go a lot

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Speaker 1: of different ways, all you can do is make the

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Speaker 1: best decision with the information you have, and right now,

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Speaker 1: the best decision with the information they have is certainly

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Speaker 1: to sit as many starters as humanly possible, which unfortunately

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Speaker 1: includes Saquon and means he won't get the record.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, you know, and the only thing I

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Speaker 2: didn't get either was I know people love putting the asterisks.

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Speaker 2: Why the game? There was like sixteen games, seventeen games,

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Speaker 2: you know, Jay did fourteen games. Every wanted to argue

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Speaker 2: and oh my god, it's ridiculous. First of all, Shikuan's done,

847
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Speaker 2: let's carry, So you know.

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Speaker 1: It's all that matters exactly.

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Speaker 2: It's like, well, the game is game mattered. I mean,

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Speaker 2: come on, I mean, you know this is the whole

851
00:42:56,560 --> 00:43:01,359
Speaker 2: thing's ridiculous. But the bottom line is is you cannot

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Speaker 2: risk your team. You can't risk not when they need health,

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00:43:06,920 --> 00:43:10,120
Speaker 2: that need rest more than just I mean, obviously the

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Speaker 2: injuries is the obvious, right, but forget the injury, it's

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Speaker 2: rest fresh legs when you've been going at it since

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Speaker 2: you know, when the Phillies were still playing. The team

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Speaker 2: needs a rest, they do. I mean, I don't even

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Speaker 2: see how that's a debate.

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Speaker 1: The other the other part of it, too is look,

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Speaker 1: we are all going to presume, because they are the

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Speaker 1: Eagles and because they are really good, we are going

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Speaker 1: to presume that they get a great playoff time slot

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Speaker 1: because we all know that the way the playoffs tap

864
00:43:44,840 --> 00:43:45,880
Speaker 1: timeslots usually.

865
00:43:45,680 --> 00:43:47,120
Speaker 3: Got the Eagles Packers.

866
00:43:47,160 --> 00:43:50,400
Speaker 2: I presume if Washington beat Dallas that that's that that

867
00:43:50,440 --> 00:43:51,960
Speaker 2: would be the pre eminent matchup.

868
00:43:53,719 --> 00:43:56,160
Speaker 1: So it is going to get the best time slot.

869
00:43:56,239 --> 00:43:59,239
Speaker 1: I don't question that at all. That being said, you

870
00:43:59,360 --> 00:44:02,719
Speaker 1: cannot guarant that it wouldn't get like again, I don't

871
00:44:02,719 --> 00:44:05,200
Speaker 1: think this would happen, but you can't guarantee that it

872
00:44:05,239 --> 00:44:08,360
Speaker 1: wouldn't get the Saturday not the noon game. That's always

873
00:44:08,400 --> 00:44:10,560
Speaker 1: going to be you know, the Texans and somebody. But

874
00:44:10,920 --> 00:44:13,680
Speaker 1: you can't guarantee that it doesn't get the second Saturday game.

875
00:44:13,840 --> 00:44:15,919
Speaker 1: You don't think that would ever happen. But by god,

876
00:44:16,000 --> 00:44:18,399
Speaker 1: if the league did that, now you're on a short

877
00:44:18,480 --> 00:44:21,440
Speaker 1: week arrest after you've had no buy and you're starting

878
00:44:21,480 --> 00:44:24,239
Speaker 1: the entire playoff. I just there are so many variables

879
00:44:24,640 --> 00:44:26,560
Speaker 1: that you have to consider if you're a coach, and

880
00:44:26,640 --> 00:44:28,719
Speaker 1: this is where you know, you got to trust the

881
00:44:28,840 --> 00:44:31,759
Speaker 1: organization or do what's best for the organization, right. And

882
00:44:31,880 --> 00:44:36,120
Speaker 1: that's and Saquon also even in his response, Yeah, and

883
00:44:36,200 --> 00:44:38,920
Speaker 1: he made it clear that you know, he didn't want

884
00:44:38,960 --> 00:44:40,799
Speaker 1: it Sunday, then he woke up Monday and he did

885
00:44:40,880 --> 00:44:43,880
Speaker 1: want it. I think that's an honest, real moment from him.

886
00:44:44,160 --> 00:44:47,360
Speaker 1: But Saquon is the type of teammate that understands what

887
00:44:47,440 --> 00:44:50,040
Speaker 1: they're actually going for. Like, listen to his entire answer

888
00:44:50,120 --> 00:44:52,800
Speaker 1: and you'll hear that this is not Saquon's not pounding

889
00:44:52,880 --> 00:44:55,479
Speaker 1: the table saying you guys are screwing me out of something.

890
00:44:55,560 --> 00:44:58,120
Speaker 1: Saquon is saying like, yeah, I get that the record's there,

891
00:44:58,160 --> 00:44:59,960
Speaker 1: but I also get where coach is coming from, which

892
00:45:00,480 --> 00:45:02,600
Speaker 1: I think probably be a pretty human response.

893
00:45:02,760 --> 00:45:07,759
Speaker 2: Yeah, I love Barkley Buckley. It's all class. He's he's

894
00:45:07,960 --> 00:45:12,000
Speaker 2: one of the great most elite athletes I've ever covered.

895
00:45:12,040 --> 00:45:14,719
Speaker 3: He's he's incredible. I love that dude.

896
00:45:14,760 --> 00:45:17,800
Speaker 2: I love his honesty, I love his how real he is,

897
00:45:17,880 --> 00:45:22,480
Speaker 2: I love professionalism. There there is nothing but greatness from

898
00:45:22,680 --> 00:45:24,719
Speaker 2: sa Quon's, nothing but greatness from him.

899
00:45:25,160 --> 00:45:28,640
Speaker 1: And you see where he didn't even know that the

900
00:45:28,920 --> 00:45:31,800
Speaker 1: division champions got hats and T shirts. I don't know

901
00:45:31,840 --> 00:45:33,000
Speaker 1: if you saw this, but like.

902
00:45:33,440 --> 00:45:36,240
Speaker 2: I just think that's so criminal that he's been stuck

903
00:45:36,280 --> 00:45:39,120
Speaker 2: with that horrible franchise for so long.

904
00:45:40,000 --> 00:45:43,040
Speaker 1: Yeah, to think that, like he's getting handed to Hattie,

905
00:45:43,280 --> 00:45:49,759
Speaker 1: what's this for for the championship? The championship congratulations? I

906
00:45:49,960 --> 00:45:53,800
Speaker 1: just I think at this point we just have become

907
00:45:54,000 --> 00:45:58,160
Speaker 1: so yell about everything and get so outraged about everything

908
00:45:58,520 --> 00:46:00,800
Speaker 1: without ever just a side. I need some level of

909
00:46:00,920 --> 00:46:04,440
Speaker 1: context to it and just saying, hey, this this is

910
00:46:04,520 --> 00:46:06,279
Speaker 1: the way it's gonna go and it's really not that

911
00:46:06,360 --> 00:46:08,640
Speaker 1: big a deal. And that's honestly how I feel about this.

912
00:46:08,880 --> 00:46:12,520
Speaker 1: Like history will remember a two thousand yard season. No,

913
00:46:12,680 --> 00:46:14,560
Speaker 1: his name will not be in the halls of Canton,

914
00:46:14,640 --> 00:46:17,960
Speaker 1: but at this point, well.

915
00:46:17,800 --> 00:46:19,160
Speaker 3: They will be another reason.

916
00:46:19,520 --> 00:46:22,239
Speaker 1: But you know, right right, right right, Yeah, so that's

917
00:46:22,280 --> 00:46:24,480
Speaker 1: a that's a fair point. So yeah, I just I

918
00:46:24,560 --> 00:46:27,480
Speaker 1: think we all make this a big deal. Everybody wants

919
00:46:27,520 --> 00:46:29,239
Speaker 1: to make everything a big deal, and to me, this

920
00:46:29,400 --> 00:46:31,920
Speaker 1: is just like, hey, what makes the most sense. Apply

921
00:46:32,040 --> 00:46:33,680
Speaker 1: common sense to it, and you can kind of see

922
00:46:33,719 --> 00:46:34,400
Speaker 1: how it should go.

923
00:46:34,760 --> 00:46:38,120
Speaker 2: Exactly exactly common sense.

924
00:46:38,320 --> 00:46:39,080
Speaker 3: That's exactly it.

925
00:46:40,360 --> 00:46:44,759
Speaker 2: As far as the uh, the elite matchups, like the

926
00:46:44,880 --> 00:46:50,440
Speaker 2: teams you got, whoever loses Minnesota Detroit will be a

927
00:46:50,760 --> 00:46:53,279
Speaker 2: or be a great matchup will be you know, a

928
00:46:53,360 --> 00:46:58,040
Speaker 2: sexy team. You have the Eagles, Packers, if assuming Washington

929
00:46:58,080 --> 00:47:01,680
Speaker 2: beats Dallas, and then you know the Bills are the

930
00:47:01,800 --> 00:47:04,719
Speaker 2: Bills are as sexy as you get, like embarking on

931
00:47:04,840 --> 00:47:09,560
Speaker 2: this run. Yeah, right, Like it's it's shaped up like

932
00:47:09,640 --> 00:47:11,960
Speaker 2: Baltimore is really good and if you get if you've

933
00:47:11,960 --> 00:47:15,440
Speaker 2: got the hardballs again, that's always great, and Baltimore's really good.

934
00:47:15,520 --> 00:47:18,920
Speaker 2: But if anybody's going to dethrone the Chiefs, it's going

935
00:47:18,960 --> 00:47:19,520
Speaker 2: to be Buffalo.

936
00:47:19,800 --> 00:47:20,360
Speaker 3: Do you agree?

937
00:47:21,120 --> 00:47:24,080
Speaker 1: Yeah, one hundred percent with that, and you know, again,

938
00:47:24,160 --> 00:47:26,240
Speaker 1: I will just remind everybody I was I was taping

939
00:47:26,360 --> 00:47:28,480
Speaker 1: yesterday Inside Coverage, just one of the shows I do

940
00:47:28,600 --> 00:47:31,120
Speaker 1: for Yahoo. I was taping it yesterday and we were

941
00:47:31,120 --> 00:47:35,319
Speaker 1: having a conversation about the Chiefs and just flippantly came up,

942
00:47:35,440 --> 00:47:37,319
Speaker 1: you know, with my Homes not making the Pro Bowl,

943
00:47:37,400 --> 00:47:40,320
Speaker 1: those whole conversation of you know, how we value people

944
00:47:40,480 --> 00:47:43,560
Speaker 1: and how we value coaches, and it was just funny

945
00:47:43,840 --> 00:47:46,000
Speaker 1: the number of times that my one of my co

946
00:47:46,120 --> 00:47:48,319
Speaker 1: hosts said, you know, just remind you the Chiefs are

947
00:47:48,360 --> 00:47:52,279
Speaker 1: fifteen and one and just just just sit back for

948
00:47:52,360 --> 00:47:56,120
Speaker 1: a second and think about how we have spent so

949
00:47:56,280 --> 00:47:59,799
Speaker 1: much of the last year just destroying everything that's wrong

950
00:47:59,840 --> 00:48:03,120
Speaker 1: with the Chiefs and they're fifteen to one. Like, it's

951
00:48:03,480 --> 00:48:05,399
Speaker 1: to your point, I think the Bills have the best shot.

952
00:48:05,480 --> 00:48:07,560
Speaker 1: I think the Ravens on their best day could take

953
00:48:07,560 --> 00:48:11,120
Speaker 1: them down. There are teams out there that I look

954
00:48:11,120 --> 00:48:13,680
Speaker 1: at it and say, okay, and certainly, you know, to

955
00:48:13,800 --> 00:48:15,799
Speaker 1: the point of one of my co hosts, like, there

956
00:48:15,840 --> 00:48:18,239
Speaker 1: are quarterbacks that have played at an MVP level, But

957
00:48:18,719 --> 00:48:21,400
Speaker 1: you just look at what Mahomes and Andy and that

958
00:48:21,560 --> 00:48:23,799
Speaker 1: team have done this year. All they do is win

959
00:48:23,880 --> 00:48:27,960
Speaker 1: football games. It's really at this point, I cannot believe

960
00:48:28,200 --> 00:48:30,440
Speaker 1: that I would ever say this, and Greater Nation will

961
00:48:30,480 --> 00:48:32,960
Speaker 1: kill me for but at this point I actually look

962
00:48:33,040 --> 00:48:35,560
Speaker 1: around it. I almost feel bad for where the Chiefs are,

963
00:48:35,960 --> 00:48:37,800
Speaker 1: for the way that they're talked about every week. It's like,

964
00:48:38,080 --> 00:48:40,800
Speaker 1: I get we're fatigued by it, but like, I'm just

965
00:48:40,920 --> 00:48:45,120
Speaker 1: such an I am natured to appreciate greatness, even when

966
00:48:45,200 --> 00:48:47,880
Speaker 1: it's from a team that a franchise that I admittedly

967
00:48:48,200 --> 00:48:50,360
Speaker 1: will never root four. I can't. I can't do that.

968
00:48:50,760 --> 00:48:52,520
Speaker 1: I still can step back and be like, man, this

969
00:48:52,719 --> 00:48:55,080
Speaker 1: is this is an eraror Like right now, if I

970
00:48:55,120 --> 00:48:57,040
Speaker 1: had to bet my house, I'm not betting my house

971
00:48:57,080 --> 00:48:59,640
Speaker 1: against my homes to three p I'm just not doing it.

972
00:49:00,360 --> 00:49:02,480
Speaker 1: I think Buffalo could take him down, and boy, we

973
00:49:02,520 --> 00:49:05,719
Speaker 1: could end up with a Lion's Bills super Bowl or

974
00:49:06,040 --> 00:49:09,840
Speaker 1: the Vikings Bills like lovable losers super Bowl would be amazing.

975
00:49:10,280 --> 00:49:12,280
Speaker 1: But man, I'm just not at my house on anybody

976
00:49:12,320 --> 00:49:13,160
Speaker 1: other than Kansas City.

977
00:49:13,600 --> 00:49:18,320
Speaker 2: No, no, dude, now, you're exactly it. That's you know,

978
00:49:18,480 --> 00:49:20,839
Speaker 2: they're the best team. They've always been the best team.

979
00:49:21,080 --> 00:49:23,879
Speaker 2: They're they're on both sides of the ball, I mean

980
00:49:24,480 --> 00:49:27,919
Speaker 2: the close if you look at the at full team,

981
00:49:28,400 --> 00:49:31,479
Speaker 2: they have a terrific defense. They're well coached on both

982
00:49:31,520 --> 00:49:34,600
Speaker 2: sides of the ball. You got Mahomes. The issue that

983
00:49:34,880 --> 00:49:39,000
Speaker 2: everybody faces with Kansas City now is now with Hopkins

984
00:49:39,239 --> 00:49:44,319
Speaker 2: and Hollywood Brown back, they're way nastier than they were

985
00:49:44,360 --> 00:49:48,520
Speaker 2: to start the season. Right, Like, Remember, there was no Hopkins,

986
00:49:48,560 --> 00:49:53,120
Speaker 2: there was no Hollywood Brown. And of course, when Hopkins

987
00:49:53,200 --> 00:49:56,640
Speaker 2: gets hurt, when Hollywood Brown gets hurt, you know I

988
00:49:56,760 --> 00:49:58,680
Speaker 2: was there. You go right like you all you had

989
00:49:58,800 --> 00:50:02,439
Speaker 2: was worthy. You get Hopkins a deadline, he goes down.

990
00:50:02,920 --> 00:50:04,960
Speaker 2: Now all of a sudden, you got the three them,

991
00:50:05,760 --> 00:50:09,400
Speaker 2: So you have three stud receivers. You had no Pacheco.

992
00:50:09,560 --> 00:50:12,840
Speaker 2: He's back, right, Kareemont's always been a guy you count on.

993
00:50:13,440 --> 00:50:18,440
Speaker 2: You got Kelsey. And by pushing Joe Tooney out to tackle,

994
00:50:19,719 --> 00:50:24,200
Speaker 2: that changes their on line. Their on line issues have

995
00:50:24,400 --> 00:50:28,560
Speaker 2: suddenly evaporated. By pushing Joe Tuoney out to tackle.

996
00:50:29,040 --> 00:50:32,560
Speaker 1: Yeah, which looks like an absolutely brilliant move. And what

997
00:50:32,640 --> 00:50:35,239
Speaker 1: do you know, You've got great coaches finding a way

998
00:50:35,280 --> 00:50:37,080
Speaker 1: to make the most of the ingredients they have in

999
00:50:37,080 --> 00:50:41,840
Speaker 1: their chop basket. So it's it's funny to me because

1000
00:50:43,040 --> 00:50:46,000
Speaker 1: I always this my overseting. I love coaching, you know,

1001
00:50:46,280 --> 00:50:48,839
Speaker 1: I just I just want I want a head coach.

1002
00:50:49,040 --> 00:50:51,400
Speaker 1: I want an offensive coordinator. I want a defensive coordator.

1003
00:50:51,400 --> 00:50:53,239
Speaker 1: They can all do one thing. I want them to

1004
00:50:53,280 --> 00:50:56,359
Speaker 1: open the basket of ingredients like I. You know, I'll

1005
00:50:56,600 --> 00:50:59,520
Speaker 1: shout out to my buddy Scott Conant, right, like Scott Conant,

1006
00:51:00,320 --> 00:51:04,319
Speaker 1: chef food TV personality. I believe that if Scott came

1007
00:51:04,360 --> 00:51:06,680
Speaker 1: over to my house today and I just threw him

1008
00:51:06,680 --> 00:51:09,840
Speaker 1: a basket of ingredients included like spam, peanut butter, and

1009
00:51:09,920 --> 00:51:11,759
Speaker 1: fresh herbs, before you know it now or later, I'm

1010
00:51:11,760 --> 00:51:14,040
Speaker 1: eating a Michelin starred meal, right, because like that's what

1011
00:51:14,160 --> 00:51:17,040
Speaker 1: a great chef can do. I want coaches that are

1012
00:51:17,080 --> 00:51:19,320
Speaker 1: great chefs. They open up the basket of ingredients and

1013
00:51:19,360 --> 00:51:22,719
Speaker 1: they're like, you know what, maybe my offensive line this

1014
00:51:22,840 --> 00:51:25,640
Speaker 1: year is spam. But I got this quarterback over here

1015
00:51:25,680 --> 00:51:27,560
Speaker 1: that's a really good ingredient. And I got these things

1016
00:51:27,600 --> 00:51:29,919
Speaker 1: over here that are really bad ingredients that I'm gonna

1017
00:51:30,000 --> 00:51:32,359
Speaker 1: hide those bad ingredients. I'm gonna make you the mother

1018
00:51:32,480 --> 00:51:35,520
Speaker 1: of all dishes. Andy Reid is a Michelin Star chef.

1019
00:51:35,719 --> 00:51:38,480
Speaker 1: Right like Spags is a Michelin Star chef. You just

1020
00:51:38,520 --> 00:51:40,279
Speaker 1: start looking at the guys that can open up the

1021
00:51:40,320 --> 00:51:43,719
Speaker 1: basket of ingredients and make something chicken salad out of chicken.

1022
00:51:43,800 --> 00:51:44,200
Speaker 4: You know what.

1023
00:51:44,719 --> 00:51:48,520
Speaker 1: That's exactly what Andy Reid and the entire staff of

1024
00:51:48,600 --> 00:51:51,040
Speaker 1: the Chiefs does year in and year out. And that's

1025
00:51:51,120 --> 00:51:53,759
Speaker 1: part of why I just tip of the cap. If

1026
00:51:53,800 --> 00:51:55,960
Speaker 1: you can't tip of the cap at this point to

1027
00:51:56,080 --> 00:51:58,520
Speaker 1: who the Chiefs are, then you're just you're losing out

1028
00:51:58,560 --> 00:51:59,840
Speaker 1: on an air of football greatness.

1029
00:52:00,400 --> 00:52:03,359
Speaker 2: I agree, now you're spot on, and then the other

1030
00:52:03,480 --> 00:52:06,920
Speaker 2: great Like see Baltimore is so offensive heavy. Now, I

1031
00:52:07,120 --> 00:52:10,640
Speaker 2: do like how they've been against the run. Obviously, the

1032
00:52:10,760 --> 00:52:13,520
Speaker 2: Ravens is tough to run on, and the defense played

1033
00:52:13,600 --> 00:52:14,720
Speaker 2: much better down the stretch.

1034
00:52:15,280 --> 00:52:16,160
Speaker 3: Yeah, but if you're.

1035
00:52:16,000 --> 00:52:19,080
Speaker 2: Talking about complete team, I still go back to Buffalo.

1036
00:52:19,960 --> 00:52:23,120
Speaker 2: Buffalo to me, is still that the complete team because

1037
00:52:23,480 --> 00:52:28,319
Speaker 2: they're gonna get they'll be healthy defensively, and I'll give

1038
00:52:28,400 --> 00:52:30,680
Speaker 2: them a nod defensively over Baltimore.

1039
00:52:32,239 --> 00:52:35,200
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, I'm still concerned about the back end

1040
00:52:35,239 --> 00:52:40,040
Speaker 1: of that Baltimore defense. But like I said, on Baltimore's

1041
00:52:40,120 --> 00:52:41,919
Speaker 1: best day. The other part of this is we've talked

1042
00:52:41,920 --> 00:52:44,080
Speaker 1: about this so much. Todd Monk and the offensive coordinator

1043
00:52:44,120 --> 00:52:46,520
Speaker 1: for the Ravens, I think sometimes in the middle of

1044
00:52:46,560 --> 00:52:49,239
Speaker 1: the games just sort of loses flow, like you just

1045
00:52:49,640 --> 00:52:51,719
Speaker 1: you feel like, what was that drive? You know what

1046
00:52:51,800 --> 00:52:55,320
Speaker 1: I mean? And certainly when you have Derrick Henry, I

1047
00:52:55,360 --> 00:52:58,000
Speaker 1: would love to see them just come in and keep

1048
00:52:58,040 --> 00:53:01,320
Speaker 1: thinks simple. In the playoffs, we'll see if that actually happens.

1049
00:53:01,360 --> 00:53:03,880
Speaker 1: But the best of certainly the best of the Ravens

1050
00:53:03,880 --> 00:53:05,600
Speaker 1: I think can beat the best of anybody.

1051
00:53:06,160 --> 00:53:10,120
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, no, I listen, these playoffs are going to

1052
00:53:10,200 --> 00:53:13,879
Speaker 2: be the ridiculous. They're going to be incredible, they really,

1053
00:53:14,680 --> 00:53:17,560
Speaker 2: I mean, they're gonna be a lot of fun. Now,

1054
00:53:17,600 --> 00:53:20,120
Speaker 2: you gotta get through week sixteen weeks whoever it is

1055
00:53:20,239 --> 00:53:22,760
Speaker 2: week week seventeen, eighteen.

1056
00:53:22,840 --> 00:53:27,399
Speaker 1: Seventeen, It used to be I've always the weeks. Yeah yeah,

1057
00:53:27,440 --> 00:53:31,080
Speaker 1: week eighteen? Yeah, Well, where are you on? Are you buying?

1058
00:53:32,400 --> 00:53:34,120
Speaker 1: I've had a couple of people, Now tell me this

1059
00:53:34,520 --> 00:53:38,239
Speaker 1: single greatest regular season matchup of all time. I mean,

1060
00:53:38,680 --> 00:53:42,200
Speaker 1: you've got the Vikings and the Lions, and you're gonna

1061
00:53:42,200 --> 00:53:44,280
Speaker 1: have a wild card team with fourteen.

1062
00:53:45,120 --> 00:53:49,000
Speaker 2: I gotta tell you, I say, yes, yeah, I think

1063
00:53:49,040 --> 00:53:54,680
Speaker 2: it is. I say, like, I've enjoyed what What was

1064
00:53:55,320 --> 00:54:00,920
Speaker 2: number one to me prior to this was Manning Brady, right,

1065
00:54:01,000 --> 00:54:05,320
Speaker 2: because every time Manny Brick Colts Patriots was always for

1066
00:54:05,440 --> 00:54:09,000
Speaker 2: the one seed for the AFC, and it was epic.

1067
00:54:09,160 --> 00:54:09,319
Speaker 1: Right.

1068
00:54:09,440 --> 00:54:12,279
Speaker 2: It was no matter where the game was played, they

1069
00:54:12,320 --> 00:54:15,080
Speaker 2: always played during the regular season and it was always

1070
00:54:16,200 --> 00:54:19,160
Speaker 2: that you know, epic game that led into who's going

1071
00:54:19,239 --> 00:54:25,000
Speaker 2: to be the one seed? This is better these Lions, dude,

1072
00:54:25,600 --> 00:54:35,600
Speaker 2: I gotta tell you, Campbell is it's probably I hate

1073
00:54:35,680 --> 00:54:38,839
Speaker 2: some of the things he does, but I somehow love

1074
00:54:38,960 --> 00:54:42,120
Speaker 2: him for it. If that, I'm so torn when it

1075
00:54:42,200 --> 00:54:45,680
Speaker 2: comes to it because the way he coaches sometimes I

1076
00:54:45,840 --> 00:54:50,719
Speaker 2: just don't understand, like he completely sells out to his offense,

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00:54:50,920 --> 00:54:54,840
Speaker 2: like it's fourth and goal at the four of the

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00:54:55,000 --> 00:54:58,560
Speaker 2: five and he just goes for it. It's every time

1079
00:54:58,880 --> 00:55:00,800
Speaker 2: it's not even you know it is what it is.

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00:55:01,680 --> 00:55:06,400
Speaker 2: He's wild, man. That team is wild. It's a wild team.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, but it's just you're right, it's it's watching Gunslinger

1082
00:55:12,080 --> 00:55:14,480
Speaker 1: Like he's like the you know, the far of the

1083
00:55:14,560 --> 00:55:17,480
Speaker 1: quarterback of head coaches, right, just the Gunslinger mentality of

1084
00:55:17,520 --> 00:55:20,960
Speaker 1: it is this, I feel terrible for this Lions franchise

1085
00:55:21,000 --> 00:55:23,920
Speaker 1: because they're so decimated with injuries. I don't know who's

1086
00:55:23,920 --> 00:55:26,080
Speaker 1: gonna stop Justin Jefferson, I don't know who's.

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00:55:25,880 --> 00:55:27,400
Speaker 3: Go dude, I was thinking the same thing.

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00:55:27,440 --> 00:55:30,440
Speaker 2: I don't know how many and then Minnesota, Like this

1089
00:55:30,680 --> 00:55:35,080
Speaker 2: matchup is the two greatest offenses that we've seen in

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00:55:35,080 --> 00:55:37,640
Speaker 2: a long time. But like the Lions are the best offense,

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00:55:37,719 --> 00:55:41,600
Speaker 2: like I've seen as great as the cheese worret times,

1092
00:55:42,440 --> 00:55:45,759
Speaker 2: like pick your offenses, like the Gradiyt Show on Turf.

1093
00:55:46,640 --> 00:55:51,000
Speaker 2: This Lion's offense is ridiculous. I put this line's offense

1094
00:55:51,600 --> 00:55:56,359
Speaker 2: up with any offense I've seen, right or wrong? Right?

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00:55:57,520 --> 00:55:58,320
Speaker 3: Is that hyperbole?

1096
00:55:58,840 --> 00:56:02,399
Speaker 1: Is that by one hundred percent right? And the hard

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00:56:02,440 --> 00:56:05,400
Speaker 1: part on all of it is, even with that, the

1098
00:56:05,520 --> 00:56:08,440
Speaker 1: offensive line is so sticking good, the weapons are so

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00:56:08,600 --> 00:56:11,959
Speaker 1: sticking good. Jared Goff has played so incredibly well. Even

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00:56:12,080 --> 00:56:14,560
Speaker 1: without Montgomery, this offense still is.

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00:56:14,920 --> 00:56:16,799
Speaker 3: I thought it would hurt. I thought Montgomery with him

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00:56:16,840 --> 00:56:17,279
Speaker 3: a little bit.

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00:56:17,360 --> 00:56:21,000
Speaker 2: I thought, you know, because he's he's a tenderizer, right,

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00:56:21,200 --> 00:56:24,080
Speaker 2: and you know, pound pound path and you hit it

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00:56:24,160 --> 00:56:28,560
Speaker 2: with Gibbs. It really hasn't infected them. Now, I'm with

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00:56:28,760 --> 00:56:31,480
Speaker 2: you when it comes to Minnesota. I just don't know

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00:56:31,560 --> 00:56:34,480
Speaker 2: how they're gonna stop Minnesota because that's another team with

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00:56:34,680 --> 00:56:39,239
Speaker 2: ridiculous weapons, right because you got you got Jefferson, you

1109
00:56:39,360 --> 00:56:44,560
Speaker 2: got Addison, who is every bit of a co number

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00:56:44,600 --> 00:56:45,200
Speaker 2: one receiver.

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Speaker 3: Yep, nail are is terrific.

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00:56:48,600 --> 00:56:53,680
Speaker 2: I love Hockinson, right, Aaron Jones, I mean that's that's

1113
00:56:53,840 --> 00:56:58,040
Speaker 2: freaking scary. With the way I agree with you, the

1114
00:56:58,080 --> 00:57:00,879
Speaker 2: way the lines are set up, I don't know how

1115
00:57:00,920 --> 00:57:03,799
Speaker 2: you I don't know how you stop them. You're about

1116
00:57:03,800 --> 00:57:07,120
Speaker 2: to completely sell out. Blitz you're gonna do. You're gonna

1117
00:57:07,120 --> 00:57:10,879
Speaker 2: have to do some funky things defensively to sell out

1118
00:57:11,200 --> 00:57:12,200
Speaker 2: to get stops.

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00:57:13,600 --> 00:57:16,840
Speaker 1: You're gonna have to make Sam Darnold incredibly uncomfortable. And

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Speaker 1: I will say this, brother, when's the last time, like,

1121
00:57:20,720 --> 00:57:23,360
Speaker 1: let's presume we're both right in Minnesota wins this game.

1122
00:57:24,720 --> 00:57:28,200
Speaker 1: What when's the last time you remember a fifteen and

1123
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Speaker 1: two number one overall seed that has been as slept

1124
00:57:33,760 --> 00:57:37,200
Speaker 1: on as the Vikings, Like nobody, nobody sits here week

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00:57:37,240 --> 00:57:38,760
Speaker 1: in and week out for the last two months saying

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00:57:38,800 --> 00:57:41,840
Speaker 1: oh Viking super Bowl Viking Super Bowl, Viking super Bowl.

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00:57:41,920 --> 00:57:44,160
Speaker 1: We we've spent so much of the year, rightfully so,

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00:57:44,320 --> 00:57:46,720
Speaker 1: talking about the Lions and Eagles and saying, man, we

1129
00:57:46,840 --> 00:57:48,680
Speaker 1: might want to include Minnesota in that. And now you

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00:57:48,800 --> 00:57:51,720
Speaker 1: blink and all of a sudden, one of the best

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00:57:51,800 --> 00:57:54,920
Speaker 1: coaches defenses in the NFL, one of the best coached

1132
00:57:55,040 --> 00:57:57,400
Speaker 1: offenses in the NFL, with weapons that can beat you

1133
00:57:57,480 --> 00:57:59,920
Speaker 1: from anywhere, with a quarterback that's hot, hot, hot, hot hot, like,

1134
00:58:00,360 --> 00:58:03,880
Speaker 1: the Vikings are an incredibly viable Super Bowl team And

1135
00:58:03,920 --> 00:58:04,640
Speaker 1: I just feel.

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00:58:05,640 --> 00:58:06,440
Speaker 3: The radar too.

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00:58:06,880 --> 00:58:11,200
Speaker 2: No, you're right, dude, let's say, quick, quick, teal, We'll

1138
00:58:11,240 --> 00:58:13,600
Speaker 2: come right back. We'll get on the Vikings because they

1139
00:58:13,720 --> 00:58:17,800
Speaker 2: deserve a segment the way they're playing. Uh with the fellas,

1140
00:58:18,040 --> 00:58:20,960
Speaker 2: Jason Fitz, Anthony Gargant, I'll hang it out right here.

1141
00:58:21,160 --> 00:58:22,360
Speaker 3: Fox Sports Radio.

1142
00:58:22,760 --> 00:58:25,640
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1143
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00:58:29,200 --> 00:58:33,240
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1145
00:58:33,400 --> 00:58:34,040
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Speaker 3: I guess we're not. I guess we're done with the

1147
00:58:36,720 --> 00:58:37,720
Speaker 3: holiday music right.

1148
00:58:39,080 --> 00:58:40,880
Speaker 1: Yeah, now, we got the fields going, so I'll just

1149
00:58:41,040 --> 00:58:44,120
Speaker 1: all the good good, you know, good money. Mark seems

1150
00:58:44,120 --> 00:58:45,840
Speaker 1: to be on a good like he's in a happy vibe,

1151
00:58:45,960 --> 00:58:49,040
Speaker 1: like he's got like a little bit of a I

1152
00:58:49,080 --> 00:58:49,760
Speaker 1: don't know that guy.

1153
00:58:49,800 --> 00:58:52,760
Speaker 2: I will say this fat guy for sports are also

1154
00:58:52,960 --> 00:58:56,120
Speaker 2: I would be like in a severe depression, you know

1155
00:58:56,240 --> 00:58:57,040
Speaker 2: that nod.

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00:58:57,040 --> 00:58:59,680
Speaker 7: And good fellas when they're in the backyard having sausage

1157
00:58:59,720 --> 00:59:02,919
Speaker 7: and power Yes, and Paully gives the nod to the guy.

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00:59:03,080 --> 00:59:05,959
Speaker 7: Now the guy gives the nod. I got the good nod,

1159
00:59:06,080 --> 00:59:07,480
Speaker 7: so I knew I was safe today.

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Speaker 2: God she not.

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Speaker 3: She nodded you.

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00:59:11,280 --> 00:59:16,800
Speaker 2: M Yeah, the boss, the boss noded you after the

1163
00:59:16,840 --> 00:59:18,400
Speaker 2: whole beef that happened last week.

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00:59:18,800 --> 00:59:20,640
Speaker 1: I mean we had beef. I got the good nod.

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00:59:21,560 --> 00:59:23,560
Speaker 3: Yeah, she gave you a good nod. She gave you that.

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00:59:23,640 --> 00:59:25,880
Speaker 1: That's an important you know, like that's an important moment

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00:59:25,920 --> 00:59:28,640
Speaker 1: for the fellas. Like you got to understand when you're

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00:59:28,640 --> 00:59:31,240
Speaker 1: a fellow that some days that something there's gonna be

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00:59:31,320 --> 00:59:33,320
Speaker 1: days that you know, you and the you and the

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00:59:33,360 --> 00:59:35,720
Speaker 1: crew have maybe you don't see the things the same way,

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00:59:35,760 --> 00:59:37,560
Speaker 1: and then you come back together a couple of days later,

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00:59:37,600 --> 00:59:39,000
Speaker 1: you get the nod and you're like, yeah, we're good.

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Speaker 1: We're gonna just keep moving about the cabin.

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00:59:41,040 --> 00:59:43,000
Speaker 2: We're good over holiday music?

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Speaker 7: Are we serious? I knew I was safe.

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Speaker 1: I mean that's it doesn't matter what it's over. It

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Speaker 1: doesn't matter what it's over.

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Speaker 2: Okay, I speak guys. You know there was a beef

1179
00:59:53,720 --> 00:59:57,640
Speaker 2: last week. Let's not gloss over it. Yeah, I mean

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00:59:57,680 --> 00:59:58,280
Speaker 2: it was a beef.

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Speaker 1: Everything's fine.

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00:59:59,480 --> 01:00:02,680
Speaker 7: Why are we bringing up all this is something about relationships, right,

1183
01:00:02,720 --> 01:00:05,200
Speaker 7: You're not supposed to bring up old things. Leave it

1184
01:00:05,360 --> 01:00:06,200
Speaker 7: in the past.

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01:00:06,640 --> 01:00:07,680
Speaker 1: We've all grown.

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01:00:08,320 --> 01:00:11,280
Speaker 7: It is a new year, y'all. A new year, and

1187
01:00:11,400 --> 01:00:12,280
Speaker 7: then we move on.

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01:00:12,520 --> 01:00:13,560
Speaker 1: It is a new year.

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Speaker 7: Let's talk about the Vikings Skull.

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Speaker 3: Wait we are, we're going to talk about.

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01:00:21,160 --> 01:00:23,040
Speaker 1: I'm gonna get something off my chest real quick. About

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01:00:23,040 --> 01:00:26,240
Speaker 1: New Year's for people. Okay, if somebody in your life

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01:00:26,280 --> 01:00:30,000
Speaker 1: has a New Year's resolution, instead of asking them condescendingly

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01:00:30,160 --> 01:00:31,800
Speaker 1: how long they're going to make it till they break it,

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01:00:32,200 --> 01:00:35,000
Speaker 1: why don't you support them? I just like, if you're

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01:00:35,080 --> 01:00:36,920
Speaker 1: that person that goes to the gym every day and

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01:00:37,000 --> 01:00:39,040
Speaker 1: you walk into the gym and your gym's packed today,

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Speaker 1: instead of rolling your eyes and making it a big

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Speaker 1: deal for people that are probably way outside their comfort zone,

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01:00:44,160 --> 01:00:46,240
Speaker 1: being inside that gym, Why don't you walk up to

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01:00:46,360 --> 01:00:49,080
Speaker 1: somebody and help them. Like the toughest part for me

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01:00:49,200 --> 01:00:51,880
Speaker 1: when I started my gym journey was walking in because

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01:00:51,920 --> 01:00:53,960
Speaker 1: I felt like an idiot when I did it. And

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Speaker 1: I just I've seen over the last couple of days

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01:00:56,800 --> 01:00:58,800
Speaker 1: the number of people that are just griping. Oh no,

1206
01:00:59,040 --> 01:01:01,880
Speaker 1: the machines were open, like people feel that energy. Like,

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Speaker 1: I just don't understand why is this society We're sitting

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01:01:05,040 --> 01:01:08,640
Speaker 1: here begging, like if your friends doing dry January, instead

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01:01:08,640 --> 01:01:10,720
Speaker 1: of sitting here and like making fun of them for it,

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01:01:10,920 --> 01:01:12,960
Speaker 1: or you know, asking him, you know, if they if

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01:01:13,000 --> 01:01:15,760
Speaker 1: they failed, why don't you google a mocktail and like

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Speaker 1: offer to make it with them. I just like we

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01:01:18,640 --> 01:01:21,320
Speaker 1: could be so supportive as a society in January, trying

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01:01:21,360 --> 01:01:24,280
Speaker 1: to help each other be the best versions of each other,

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01:01:24,640 --> 01:01:28,560
Speaker 1: and instead everybody just waits to laugh at people for failure.

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Speaker 1: I just don't understand it. Never under I'm not a

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01:01:30,800 --> 01:01:33,320
Speaker 1: resolution guy. To me, I'm a big like you want

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01:01:33,360 --> 01:01:35,120
Speaker 1: to do it, don't wait till Monday. Right. If you

1219
01:01:35,160 --> 01:01:37,280
Speaker 1: want to do something in your life, go do it today, right.

1220
01:01:37,320 --> 01:01:39,560
Speaker 1: If you want to change something, change it today, Wake

1221
01:01:39,680 --> 01:01:42,240
Speaker 1: up with a new day. Change that put your name

1222
01:01:42,280 --> 01:01:44,400
Speaker 1: on today, make today the best day it could possibly be.

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Speaker 1: But we use a society, it could be so much

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01:01:46,680 --> 01:01:49,400
Speaker 1: more supportive of each other when we are actually trying

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01:01:49,440 --> 01:01:52,280
Speaker 1: to make positive change, whatever that looks like. Like, you know,

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01:01:52,480 --> 01:01:54,520
Speaker 1: if somebody in your life has started a weird diet

1227
01:01:54,600 --> 01:01:57,360
Speaker 1: instead of like, instead of you know, making fun of

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01:01:57,440 --> 01:01:58,760
Speaker 1: them for it and making them feel weird for it,

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Speaker 1: help them, like join them, if somebody in your life's

1230
01:02:01,080 --> 01:02:03,520
Speaker 1: giving up drinks, and join them. Like I'm just I

1231
01:02:03,640 --> 01:02:05,439
Speaker 1: just wish we would take the beginning of the year

1232
01:02:05,840 --> 01:02:08,160
Speaker 1: to help people reset instead of waiting for people to

1233
01:02:08,200 --> 01:02:09,160
Speaker 1: fail in their resetts.

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Speaker 3: I think that's lovely. I think that's a great sentiment problem.

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01:02:13,840 --> 01:02:15,520
Speaker 1: I do soapbox now I know.

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01:02:15,640 --> 01:02:22,000
Speaker 2: I think it's beautiful. Beautiful. Uh wow, let's poignant. All right,

1237
01:02:22,160 --> 01:02:27,760
Speaker 2: let's uh, let's talk about the Vikings. There's nothing better

1238
01:02:27,800 --> 01:02:32,240
Speaker 2: than that horn. Although the horn will be in Detroit

1239
01:02:33,200 --> 01:02:36,360
Speaker 2: on Sunday. This is gonna be an epic game. But

1240
01:02:36,440 --> 01:02:39,320
Speaker 2: let's talk about Minnesota. Since we've been talking about the

1241
01:02:39,440 --> 01:02:42,920
Speaker 2: Lions all year, we've been talking about Kansas City, right,

1242
01:02:43,120 --> 01:02:47,120
Speaker 2: talking about Buffalo. Everybody's had their shot, but the Vikings

1243
01:02:47,760 --> 01:02:52,720
Speaker 2: because of Sam Darnold. I think everybody's been at arm's

1244
01:02:52,840 --> 01:02:56,440
Speaker 2: length with Minnesota and at ball hole. You turn around

1245
01:02:56,560 --> 01:03:00,720
Speaker 2: and their offense has been ridiculously potent all year long.

1246
01:03:00,880 --> 01:03:04,600
Speaker 2: Donald has really come into his own. I mean he's

1247
01:03:05,640 --> 01:03:09,240
Speaker 2: he's gotten rid of the bad turnovers, He's played the

1248
01:03:09,320 --> 01:03:12,800
Speaker 2: position very very well. He's well coached, got a great

1249
01:03:13,040 --> 01:03:15,160
Speaker 2: offensive coach, great mind.

1250
01:03:15,760 --> 01:03:19,840
Speaker 3: Their defense is sick. Brian Flores should be a head coach.

1251
01:03:21,440 --> 01:03:23,920
Speaker 2: And you look at that that defense, how good it

1252
01:03:24,080 --> 01:03:29,080
Speaker 2: is the front, I mean doubt that Harrison Smith in

1253
01:03:29,160 --> 01:03:33,720
Speaker 2: the back. Like, they're just a really solid veteran defense.

1254
01:03:34,120 --> 01:03:37,520
Speaker 2: It's a really good football team. And you know what,

1255
01:03:38,360 --> 01:03:41,480
Speaker 2: You're right, they're a contender. They're legiti, The're every bit

1256
01:03:41,560 --> 01:03:45,120
Speaker 2: as contender as the Lions and the Eagles.

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Speaker 1: I'm with you, Sam Donald. This year, for anyone that

1258
01:03:49,960 --> 01:03:52,600
Speaker 1: hasn't been paying attention, is done for forty one yards,

1259
01:03:52,640 --> 01:03:57,080
Speaker 1: thirty five touchdowns and twelve interceptions. I mean, that's just

1260
01:03:57,880 --> 01:04:00,160
Speaker 1: you start thinking about. He's completed sixty three percent of

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01:04:00,200 --> 01:04:04,040
Speaker 1: his pastes. Sam Donald today is not who Sam Donald was. Right,

1262
01:04:04,160 --> 01:04:07,080
Speaker 1: and Sam Donald certainly was drafted where he was because

1263
01:04:07,120 --> 01:04:09,320
Speaker 1: people believed he could be this version of him. He

1264
01:04:09,480 --> 01:04:13,000
Speaker 1: never has been consistently in the pros, and now he is.

1265
01:04:13,200 --> 01:04:16,160
Speaker 1: And you're so right. I think the reason we're not

1266
01:04:16,240 --> 01:04:18,760
Speaker 1: buying in on it is because people, you know, they

1267
01:04:18,840 --> 01:04:21,240
Speaker 1: watch it. It's a red zone world. People barely consume

1268
01:04:21,280 --> 01:04:23,680
Speaker 1: the Vikings because they're just watching our red zone and

1269
01:04:23,760 --> 01:04:26,200
Speaker 1: so you see throw after throw. But you're sitting there thinking, yeah,

1270
01:04:26,240 --> 01:04:28,520
Speaker 1: but he's got Justin Jefferson and Jordan Addison and all.

1271
01:04:28,520 --> 01:04:30,960
Speaker 1: They said, yeah, that's very true. But he has those

1272
01:04:31,000 --> 01:04:33,040
Speaker 1: weapons that will have those weapons through the playoffs. So

1273
01:04:33,480 --> 01:04:36,360
Speaker 1: now you've got a defense that we've talked about multiple times.

1274
01:04:36,480 --> 01:04:38,920
Speaker 1: Is coach so well that it just confuses the hell

1275
01:04:38,960 --> 01:04:41,320
Speaker 1: out of opposing quarterbacks. We've seen that throughout the course

1276
01:04:41,360 --> 01:04:43,640
Speaker 1: of the year. You've got an offense that has two

1277
01:04:43,640 --> 01:04:46,000
Speaker 1: of the best weapons. You know, we as much as

1278
01:04:46,040 --> 01:04:48,600
Speaker 1: we sit here and talk about t and Jamar, we

1279
01:04:48,680 --> 01:04:51,240
Speaker 1: should be having the exact same conversation, if not better,

1280
01:04:52,120 --> 01:04:55,120
Speaker 1: with Justin and Jordan at this point. And so if

1281
01:04:55,200 --> 01:04:57,600
Speaker 1: you're the Vikings, you've got some of the best weapons

1282
01:04:57,640 --> 01:05:00,680
Speaker 1: in the league. You've got a quarterback that looks like

1283
01:05:00,800 --> 01:05:04,080
Speaker 1: I mean, I just want to remind everybody, Sam Donald's

1284
01:05:04,120 --> 01:05:07,440
Speaker 1: twenty seven. He's not thirty two, thirty three. He feels

1285
01:05:07,440 --> 01:05:09,640
Speaker 1: like he's been in the league forever. He's twenty seven.

1286
01:05:10,440 --> 01:05:12,840
Speaker 1: I believe that the Vikings going to franchise their quarterback.

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Speaker 1: I'm not one hundred percent sure he's not going to

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Speaker 1: get a big deal at some point from Minnesota, like

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Speaker 1: they found their quarterback. No matter what we think Sam

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Speaker 1: Donald was coming into the season. You know, I'll go

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01:05:23,520 --> 01:05:26,160
Speaker 1: back to my Raiders fandom. Nobody was really excited about

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01:05:26,200 --> 01:05:29,000
Speaker 1: rich Gannon when he was acquired by John Gruden. Turned

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Speaker 1: out that that changed an entire generation of Raiders football.

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01:05:31,760 --> 01:05:35,160
Speaker 1: Like Sam Donald feels like he's changing. And people certainly

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01:05:35,200 --> 01:05:38,400
Speaker 1: weren't clawing over themselves for Jared Goff when he got

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Speaker 1: to the Lions, right, there were so many questions about that,

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Speaker 1: and what do you know, Jared Goff has turned out

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01:05:43,240 --> 01:05:45,080
Speaker 1: to be pretty spectacular for the Lions.

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Speaker 3: Right.

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Speaker 1: So I just think we need to recalibrate on Sam Donald.

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Speaker 1: And once you do that, once you take away the

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01:05:51,520 --> 01:05:53,479
Speaker 1: name on the jersey and you just say, hey, forty

1303
01:05:53,480 --> 01:05:56,520
Speaker 1: one hundred yards, thirty five touchdowns, twelve bicks. Now, if

1304
01:05:56,560 --> 01:05:58,440
Speaker 1: we just named him that long name on the back

1305
01:05:58,480 --> 01:06:00,640
Speaker 1: of the jersey. But if we named it that man,

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01:06:00,680 --> 01:06:02,600
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, we're seeing the Vikings differently. They

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01:06:02,640 --> 01:06:04,360
Speaker 1: are a Super Bowl favorite. At this point, they were

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Speaker 1: one of the four or five teams in the league

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Speaker 1: that are legitimately capable of winning it.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I know, he's listen. You know, I think

1311
01:06:15,360 --> 01:06:17,440
Speaker 2: we've talked about this before. He made this point. But

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01:06:18,480 --> 01:06:20,800
Speaker 2: you know, when Darnold's at the post a child for it,

1313
01:06:21,600 --> 01:06:24,960
Speaker 2: you got to go to a place that's got good coaching,

1314
01:06:25,040 --> 01:06:32,000
Speaker 2: good stability, a good offensive mind and understanding it's scheme right,

1315
01:06:32,600 --> 01:06:36,000
Speaker 2: having a guy that can work, you know, that can

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01:06:36,080 --> 01:06:38,480
Speaker 2: work with your young quarterback and build your guy.

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01:06:39,400 --> 01:06:40,320
Speaker 3: Jets were a mess.

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01:06:41,080 --> 01:06:44,760
Speaker 2: He goes to Carolina during the entire COVID mess like

1319
01:06:44,880 --> 01:06:48,280
Speaker 2: he couldn't there was never any way to kind of

1320
01:06:48,320 --> 01:06:52,280
Speaker 2: get that thing on their track right, And then you know,

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01:06:52,400 --> 01:06:55,000
Speaker 2: all of a sudden, he finds himself in San Francisco

1322
01:06:55,160 --> 01:06:58,960
Speaker 2: able to learn and sit back with Shanahan and then

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01:06:59,240 --> 01:06:59,880
Speaker 2: he's rehab.

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01:07:00,280 --> 01:07:02,480
Speaker 3: He's here, he's thrust.

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01:07:02,200 --> 01:07:05,400
Speaker 2: In the action. And look, I mean with that coaching

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01:07:05,440 --> 01:07:08,720
Speaker 2: staff and that talent. Let me, let's face it, you

1327
01:07:08,840 --> 01:07:11,360
Speaker 2: need to have the talent around you. And he's made

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01:07:11,440 --> 01:07:14,959
Speaker 2: some great throws, Like if you watched him last week,

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01:07:16,040 --> 01:07:19,760
Speaker 2: you know those windows he's threading the football.

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Speaker 1: I don't when you start talking about the teams that

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01:07:26,880 --> 01:07:29,560
Speaker 1: are capable of winning a Super Bowl and you start

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Speaker 1: thinking about the quarterbacks specifically and asked, have you seen

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01:07:33,080 --> 01:07:35,840
Speaker 1: enough from that guy to say, yeah, that guy, you know,

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Speaker 1: that guy can take Yeah, Sam Donald is at one

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01:07:38,800 --> 01:07:41,160
Speaker 1: hundred percent. He had what two and a half games

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Speaker 1: in the middle of the year that it felt like

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01:07:43,920 --> 01:07:45,880
Speaker 1: he'd gone off the rails a little bit, and all

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Speaker 1: of a sudden it was like, well, this is back

1339
01:07:47,480 --> 01:07:49,440
Speaker 1: to the Sam Donald of bold. And we say that

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01:07:49,960 --> 01:07:53,320
Speaker 1: without acknowledging that we've also seen golf throw what five

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01:07:53,360 --> 01:07:56,400
Speaker 1: picks in the game. My god, So you see sometimes

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01:07:56,520 --> 01:07:59,520
Speaker 1: quarterbacks having off day. That's not who Sam Donald is anymore.

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Speaker 1: And I love your on tight window throws because certainly

1344
01:08:03,360 --> 01:08:06,640
Speaker 1: this isn't just about Justin Jefferson and Jordan Addison. This

1345
01:08:06,840 --> 01:08:10,440
Speaker 1: is what we do so often when we simplify, well, okay,

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Speaker 1: the Vikings had quarterbacks last year, they couldn't get as

1347
01:08:13,280 --> 01:08:16,400
Speaker 1: much out of them. Just this is a coach quarterback

1348
01:08:16,479 --> 01:08:19,400
Speaker 1: combination that has clicked. And when you have that, it's

1349
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Speaker 1: just one of the most special things you see in football.

1350
01:08:21,760 --> 01:08:23,680
Speaker 1: When you see a coach in a quarterback get on

1351
01:08:23,760 --> 01:08:26,040
Speaker 1: the same page on how things are going to be executed,

1352
01:08:26,520 --> 01:08:29,960
Speaker 1: it becomes this unstoppable force. And that's that's why I

1353
01:08:30,080 --> 01:08:32,360
Speaker 1: give their coaching staff so much credit. That's why I

1354
01:08:32,439 --> 01:08:34,240
Speaker 1: give Darnold a lot of the credit in this too,

1355
01:08:34,680 --> 01:08:36,920
Speaker 1: And it's why if you're just looking at Okay, if

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01:08:36,960 --> 01:08:39,080
Speaker 1: the Vikings got to run to win a game, they can.

1357
01:08:39,360 --> 01:08:40,960
Speaker 1: If the Vikings got to throw to win a game,

1358
01:08:41,160 --> 01:08:43,080
Speaker 1: they can. If the Vikings got to clamp down and

1359
01:08:43,120 --> 01:08:44,800
Speaker 1: get a bunch of stops on the defensive side of

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01:08:44,840 --> 01:08:47,679
Speaker 1: the ball to win, they can. Like they are capable

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01:08:47,760 --> 01:08:49,720
Speaker 1: of zigging and zagging to any sort of a win

1362
01:08:49,840 --> 01:08:52,080
Speaker 1: right now, and that coming in and they're also playing

1363
01:08:52,120 --> 01:08:55,479
Speaker 1: incredibly hot football. So part of the reasons I like

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Speaker 1: them against the Lions is just I don't understand how

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01:08:58,160 --> 01:09:01,280
Speaker 1: the Lions will slow down that offense enough. And we

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01:09:01,439 --> 01:09:05,000
Speaker 1: have seen the Vikings defense confuse a lot of good quarterbacks.

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01:09:05,040 --> 01:09:07,120
Speaker 1: I think the Lions is gonna be stressed to try

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01:09:07,120 --> 01:09:08,400
Speaker 1: and score a lot of points. And when you do

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01:09:08,520 --> 01:09:11,040
Speaker 1: that against this defense, you make some mistakes and that

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01:09:11,200 --> 01:09:13,519
Speaker 1: those mistakes could turn this thing, turn this thing on

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Speaker 1: its head.

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Speaker 2: Well, remind you of the Buffalo game, right, because yeah,

1373
01:09:16,840 --> 01:09:20,200
Speaker 2: you know, Buffalo's defense can get you a couple stops,

1374
01:09:20,400 --> 01:09:22,799
Speaker 2: and I think Minnesota's defense can get you a couple stops.

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01:09:23,640 --> 01:09:26,120
Speaker 2: That's the challenge against Detroit is that you're gonna have

1376
01:09:26,160 --> 01:09:29,880
Speaker 2: to be perfect because look at Minnesota. Green Bay's front

1377
01:09:30,040 --> 01:09:33,080
Speaker 2: is very good. I think they're susceptible on the back end.

1378
01:09:33,680 --> 01:09:37,080
Speaker 2: But like that win last week was really impressive for

1379
01:09:37,160 --> 01:09:41,280
Speaker 2: a couple of reasons. One, like, I know green Bay

1380
01:09:41,320 --> 01:09:44,560
Speaker 2: cup was back in the game, but Donald gives you

1381
01:09:44,720 --> 01:09:46,720
Speaker 2: three to seventy seven. He made the one Bay for

1382
01:09:46,760 --> 01:09:49,840
Speaker 2: out of one pick. But look at his balld distribution.

1383
01:09:51,000 --> 01:09:55,640
Speaker 2: Eight to Jefferson for ninety two, five to Nailer for

1384
01:09:55,800 --> 01:10:00,880
Speaker 2: eighty one, six to Addison for sixty nine, five to

1385
01:10:01,040 --> 01:10:04,840
Speaker 2: Hockinson for sixty eight, four to Jones out of the

1386
01:10:04,880 --> 01:10:08,280
Speaker 2: backfield for thirty. Does it get better than that? Does

1387
01:10:08,360 --> 01:10:11,599
Speaker 2: it get better than spread the ball around to those weapons?

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01:10:12,520 --> 01:10:15,639
Speaker 1: Spreading the ball around when you got Jordan Jefferson, justin

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01:10:15,720 --> 01:10:18,720
Speaker 1: Jordan Jefferson, I just combined them when you got Justin Jefferson, Like,

1390
01:10:19,000 --> 01:10:21,519
Speaker 1: spreading the ball around when you have Jefferson is a

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01:10:22,720 --> 01:10:26,160
Speaker 1: wild accomplishment for a quarterback because it's certainly easy for

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01:10:26,240 --> 01:10:28,040
Speaker 1: a quarterback to step back and say, Okay, I got

1393
01:10:28,120 --> 01:10:30,000
Speaker 1: to get double j the ball. It's just gonna work

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01:10:30,040 --> 01:10:32,000
Speaker 1: that way, you know what I mean. So spreading the

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01:10:32,040 --> 01:10:35,519
Speaker 1: ball around like that, a selfless offense like that, Oh,

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01:10:35,960 --> 01:10:38,840
Speaker 1: that's so tough to That's just how do you defend that?

1397
01:10:39,600 --> 01:10:42,439
Speaker 1: How do you slow that down? Especially when you're shorthanded

1398
01:10:42,520 --> 01:10:45,240
Speaker 1: on the defensive side of the ball. I think right

1399
01:10:45,280 --> 01:10:48,479
Speaker 1: now that Minnesota, that Minnesota offense is going to be

1400
01:10:48,520 --> 01:10:51,920
Speaker 1: able to stress any defense they play. So, you know, frankly,

1401
01:10:52,439 --> 01:10:54,759
Speaker 1: I feel like Philly is healthy enough on the defensive

1402
01:10:54,800 --> 01:10:56,120
Speaker 1: side of the ball to give them some problems. I

1403
01:10:56,160 --> 01:10:57,920
Speaker 1: don't think that the lines are.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, that would be interesting.

1405
01:11:02,600 --> 01:11:06,360
Speaker 2: That's a that's gonna be a great matchup whoever plays

1406
01:11:06,520 --> 01:11:10,000
Speaker 2: the Eagles in the Dome if it gets in the

1407
01:11:10,080 --> 01:11:14,720
Speaker 2: championship game. Let me ask you a question, So what

1408
01:11:14,960 --> 01:11:18,200
Speaker 2: has to happen in the NFC. There's a couple of

1409
01:11:18,240 --> 01:11:20,800
Speaker 2: things that are up in for grabs. One Green Bay

1410
01:11:22,040 --> 01:11:25,320
Speaker 2: seed is up when Washington seeds are up up for grabs, right,

1411
01:11:26,160 --> 01:11:31,840
Speaker 2: so Washington goes to Dallas. If Washington wins, they go

1412
01:11:32,040 --> 01:11:35,400
Speaker 2: and play the Rams.

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Speaker 3: I believe, right, it's it's the Rams are yeah.

1414
01:11:39,160 --> 01:11:41,360
Speaker 1: Right now, right now, the Washington is a sixth seed,

1415
01:11:41,400 --> 01:11:43,040
Speaker 1: they take on the Rams a three seed.

1416
01:11:43,439 --> 01:11:47,439
Speaker 2: And and then the and then green Bay would play

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01:11:47,479 --> 01:11:53,080
Speaker 2: the Eagles. I listen, I think the Eagles will win.

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01:11:53,600 --> 01:11:55,160
Speaker 2: But I think that's a tough game.

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01:11:56,760 --> 01:11:59,519
Speaker 1: I wouldn't I wouldn't want to take on the Packers. Yeah,

1420
01:11:59,880 --> 01:12:02,439
Speaker 1: I mean we always say this, so we want to

1421
01:12:02,479 --> 01:12:05,080
Speaker 1: take out Look, the Packers are tough out. Let's say

1422
01:12:05,080 --> 01:12:07,599
Speaker 1: it that way. The Packers are incredibly tough out at

1423
01:12:07,600 --> 01:12:12,880
Speaker 1: this point. So especially you know that that team again

1424
01:12:13,040 --> 01:12:16,280
Speaker 1: well coached and much more talent. It's funny because if

1425
01:12:16,320 --> 01:12:19,680
Speaker 1: we're just looking on paper, green Bay better than Washington. Right,

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01:12:19,800 --> 01:12:20,920
Speaker 1: So green Bay is a better.

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Speaker 3: Right I think? And that listen, I get it, people.

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01:12:24,640 --> 01:12:27,439
Speaker 2: I love jayde Daniels and he played that was a

1429
01:12:27,520 --> 01:12:30,800
Speaker 2: great game against Atlanta and it was fun and him

1430
01:12:30,880 --> 01:12:34,400
Speaker 2: and Panics slinging the ball was great. Green Bay, make

1431
01:12:34,479 --> 01:12:37,840
Speaker 2: no mistake, is better than Washington. And I because I

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01:12:37,920 --> 01:12:40,000
Speaker 2: think there's some people in my neck of the woods

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01:12:41,040 --> 01:12:44,200
Speaker 2: that fear washing more and I don't understand that.

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01:12:45,280 --> 01:12:47,840
Speaker 3: For some reason, people don't like Jordan Love.

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01:12:50,560 --> 01:12:53,400
Speaker 1: And look, I came into the season saying I'd like

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01:12:53,479 --> 01:12:55,280
Speaker 1: to see more, and I think he's shown everything you

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01:12:55,320 --> 01:12:57,320
Speaker 1: could possibly want to see, you know. I mean that's

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01:12:57,800 --> 01:13:01,120
Speaker 1: I don't think. My whole take coming into the year

1439
01:13:01,400 --> 01:13:05,240
Speaker 1: was that we were looking at him based on half

1440
01:13:05,320 --> 01:13:08,120
Speaker 1: of a season last year, and before I was willing

1441
01:13:08,160 --> 01:13:10,160
Speaker 1: to turn around and say, oh my god, I wanted

1442
01:13:10,240 --> 01:13:12,400
Speaker 1: to see more than more than just half of a

1443
01:13:12,479 --> 01:13:14,760
Speaker 1: year to do that. And I think it's pretty fair

1444
01:13:14,800 --> 01:13:16,639
Speaker 1: to say at this point he's delivered on that again.

1445
01:13:17,280 --> 01:13:19,720
Speaker 1: Sixty three percent completion, thirty three hundred yards. I know,

1446
01:13:19,800 --> 01:13:23,120
Speaker 1: stats kind of numb everybody, but these are good. They're

1447
01:13:23,160 --> 01:13:26,040
Speaker 1: good and efficient. Twenty five touchdowns, eleven picks, right, So

1448
01:13:26,680 --> 01:13:30,120
Speaker 1: you know Jordan has played well. I think at times,

1449
01:13:30,760 --> 01:13:32,559
Speaker 1: does he put the ball at risk a little bit? Yeah,

1450
01:13:32,600 --> 01:13:36,080
Speaker 1: but look, Jordan Love is executing also one of the

1451
01:13:36,160 --> 01:13:39,160
Speaker 1: better coached offenses in the NFL too. So you've got

1452
01:13:39,320 --> 01:13:42,599
Speaker 1: a coach that I believe in, You've got a quarterback

1453
01:13:42,680 --> 01:13:44,439
Speaker 1: that I think is very good you've got a running back.

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01:13:44,479 --> 01:13:48,000
Speaker 1: That's great there. Yeah, I wouldn't want to take on.

1455
01:13:48,840 --> 01:13:52,640
Speaker 1: Even people in the Washington organization have openly admitted that

1456
01:13:53,240 --> 01:13:56,160
Speaker 1: the team is farther along than they ever expected because

1457
01:13:56,240 --> 01:13:57,200
Speaker 1: Jayden Daniels is just that.

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01:13:57,320 --> 01:14:01,160
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Speaker 2: very much all that. So we're talking about the landscape

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01:15:11,400 --> 01:15:16,760
Speaker 2: of the NFC and then fascinating landscape man, because you

1481
01:15:16,880 --> 01:15:20,200
Speaker 2: got a couple of you know, obviously, whoever wins Sunday

1482
01:15:20,280 --> 01:15:24,200
Speaker 2: Night in the epic matchup, how's that thing not going

1483
01:15:24,280 --> 01:15:24,439
Speaker 2: to be?

1484
01:15:26,000 --> 01:15:28,200
Speaker 3: I don't know. It played in the thirties.

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01:15:28,400 --> 01:15:32,680
Speaker 1: Each team, Oh, it's gotta be right, it's gotta be.

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01:15:33,360 --> 01:15:36,120
Speaker 2: I mean, I'm always leered and every time you go

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01:15:36,280 --> 01:15:39,800
Speaker 2: that's a stone over somehow and I'm there. But with

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01:15:39,960 --> 01:15:42,560
Speaker 2: these two teams, I don't see how that's possible.

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01:15:44,520 --> 01:15:48,000
Speaker 1: Yeah, I would be pretty surprised if if it isn't

1490
01:15:48,080 --> 01:15:50,600
Speaker 1: that sort of a game. And you know, kudos to

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01:15:51,000 --> 01:15:52,840
Speaker 1: the NFL. I say this every year when we get

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01:15:52,840 --> 01:15:56,320
Speaker 1: to Week eighteen. The smartest thing that the NFL has

1493
01:15:56,400 --> 01:15:58,720
Speaker 1: done in a long time to me is making sure

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01:15:58,760 --> 01:16:01,439
Speaker 1: that they're all divisional games on the last week in

1495
01:16:01,560 --> 01:16:05,040
Speaker 1: the season, because we are more likely to get this

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01:16:05,200 --> 01:16:07,160
Speaker 1: sort of a matchup. So the fact that we've actually

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01:16:07,280 --> 01:16:10,439
Speaker 1: got this matchup in this game is partially because of

1498
01:16:10,479 --> 01:16:12,240
Speaker 1: the league. I want to give them a credit for

1499
01:16:12,320 --> 01:16:14,799
Speaker 1: doing that. But I just keep watching this San Francisco

1500
01:16:14,920 --> 01:16:17,160
Speaker 1: or San Francisco, the Lions team and what they needed

1501
01:16:17,160 --> 01:16:20,240
Speaker 1: against San Francisco and sitting here saying, Man, I don't

1502
01:16:20,240 --> 01:16:23,160
Speaker 1: think that's particularly good or healthy forty nine ers team

1503
01:16:23,160 --> 01:16:26,040
Speaker 1: they faced last week, And that not good or healthy

1504
01:16:26,080 --> 01:16:28,240
Speaker 1: forty nine ers team was able to sort of run

1505
01:16:28,320 --> 01:16:30,920
Speaker 1: up and down the field. I mean, Minnesota's going to

1506
01:16:30,960 --> 01:16:34,360
Speaker 1: do Oh this kid like deep thirties, deep thirties on

1507
01:16:34,439 --> 01:16:34,720
Speaker 1: this one.

1508
01:16:34,960 --> 01:16:39,560
Speaker 2: Maybe get fifty tight. The total is fifty six and

1509
01:16:39,600 --> 01:16:39,960
Speaker 2: a half.

1510
01:16:41,439 --> 01:16:43,400
Speaker 1: I'm himmering the over. We'll see what the brain thinks,

1511
01:16:43,439 --> 01:16:44,439
Speaker 1: but I'm numbering the over.

1512
01:16:44,600 --> 01:16:47,280
Speaker 2: The only thing that could stop the over is if

1513
01:16:47,360 --> 01:16:49,479
Speaker 2: you get a couple of fourth down a goal stops

1514
01:16:49,800 --> 01:16:50,280
Speaker 2: right where you have.

1515
01:16:50,439 --> 01:16:51,280
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, that's good call.

1516
01:16:51,520 --> 01:16:54,880
Speaker 2: Wait the Lions, because the Lions can can eat up clock.

1517
01:16:55,000 --> 01:16:58,800
Speaker 2: Like if I'm the Lions, I'm eating up clock right

1518
01:16:58,880 --> 01:17:01,439
Speaker 2: because I don't want to keep my defense off the field,

1519
01:17:02,400 --> 01:17:05,680
Speaker 2: and I think their only recipe to win is to

1520
01:17:05,760 --> 01:17:07,559
Speaker 2: keep Minnesota's offense off the field.

1521
01:17:08,960 --> 01:17:12,640
Speaker 1: Yeah, I just wonder, you know, I hear that. Just

1522
01:17:12,760 --> 01:17:14,560
Speaker 1: I would feel way more comfortable with that if I

1523
01:17:14,560 --> 01:17:18,439
Speaker 1: had David Montgomery back there too, you know. Agreed, Yeah,

1524
01:17:19,560 --> 01:17:21,160
Speaker 1: this just feels like it's going to be mad and

1525
01:17:21,240 --> 01:17:23,000
Speaker 1: it's video game football and it's best.

1526
01:17:24,320 --> 01:17:24,519
Speaker 3: Yeah.

1527
01:17:24,600 --> 01:17:28,080
Speaker 2: No, well, you're right though, this whole weekend, the way

1528
01:17:28,160 --> 01:17:32,960
Speaker 2: they scheduled the games, they've highlighted the ones that matter.

1529
01:17:33,880 --> 01:17:37,920
Speaker 2: You know, it starts with today. You know the fact

1530
01:17:37,960 --> 01:17:44,000
Speaker 2: that you're going to get you know, Pittsburgh Cincinnati tonight

1531
01:17:44,320 --> 01:17:46,960
Speaker 2: is great, right because both the teams are gonna need

1532
01:17:47,040 --> 01:17:50,400
Speaker 2: to play, you know, so you'll need to I.

1533
01:17:50,400 --> 01:17:53,000
Speaker 1: Mean, there's a lot of bad Like again, keeping the

1534
01:17:53,040 --> 01:17:56,160
Speaker 1: divisional portion of this also protects you from bad football games,

1535
01:17:56,200 --> 01:17:59,920
Speaker 1: you know, like Brown's Ravens. The Ravens are a twenty

1536
01:18:00,120 --> 01:18:02,880
Speaker 1: point favorite for anyone that hasn't seen I mean, be

1537
01:18:03,000 --> 01:18:04,800
Speaker 1: if the Browns winning be the biggest upset in the

1538
01:18:04,920 --> 01:18:09,120
Speaker 1: NFL in a generation. They're twenty twenty points, But it's

1539
01:18:09,120 --> 01:18:11,280
Speaker 1: still Brown's raven Twenty's the NFL.

1540
01:18:11,960 --> 01:18:15,400
Speaker 2: Like, Like, I get you know why they would be

1541
01:18:15,479 --> 01:18:18,160
Speaker 2: that high a favorite, but twenty points in the NFL

1542
01:18:18,320 --> 01:18:18,880
Speaker 2: is a lot.

1543
01:18:20,560 --> 01:18:23,479
Speaker 1: Yeah, I gotta wonder how safe Stefanski is. I think

1544
01:18:23,560 --> 01:18:25,160
Speaker 1: he's safe, but man, I don't know when you're a

1545
01:18:25,160 --> 01:18:26,480
Speaker 1: twenty point underdog.

1546
01:18:26,160 --> 01:18:30,120
Speaker 3: Who well, I mean you got DTR. DTR is not good.

1547
01:18:31,960 --> 01:18:32,719
Speaker 1: Shocking news.

1548
01:18:33,360 --> 01:18:35,920
Speaker 3: I mean, I mean that's you know, what are you

1549
01:18:35,960 --> 01:18:39,200
Speaker 3: supposed to do? Right? Like, what are you supposed to do?

1550
01:18:39,320 --> 01:18:43,280
Speaker 2: That's the problem if you're Stefanski, I mean you, I

1551
01:18:43,360 --> 01:18:46,160
Speaker 2: mean that poor guy has been up against it. We'll

1552
01:18:46,200 --> 01:18:48,639
Speaker 2: go through some of the coaches in the black. Monday's

1553
01:18:48,680 --> 01:18:52,400
Speaker 2: coming up anyway, so we'll dive into that. Fellas on Fox.

1554
01:18:56,720 --> 01:19:00,760
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1555
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Speaker 2: We talked a ton of college football playoffs. We'll get

1562
01:19:28,960 --> 01:19:31,519
Speaker 2: back into that. Because of the great matchups that we have,

1563
01:19:31,720 --> 01:19:34,519
Speaker 2: Notre Dame, Penn State, Texas, Ohio State.

1564
01:19:34,560 --> 01:19:36,320
Speaker 3: I mean, you can't beat that final four.

1565
01:19:37,400 --> 01:19:39,120
Speaker 2: I don't know if you can beat Ohio State, but

1566
01:19:39,439 --> 01:19:43,400
Speaker 2: you can't beat the final four, and the matchups are sensational.

1567
01:19:43,920 --> 01:19:47,639
Speaker 2: This is Week eighteen in the NFL, so we look

1568
01:19:47,720 --> 01:19:52,400
Speaker 2: forward to kind of where it's all headed. And then

1569
01:19:52,479 --> 01:19:58,639
Speaker 2: of course Monday is Black Monday in the league where

1570
01:19:58,760 --> 01:20:03,680
Speaker 2: the coaches, it's all the firings. It's already started a

1571
01:20:03,760 --> 01:20:08,760
Speaker 2: lot of stuff going on. Fitzy, let's kind of go

1572
01:20:08,920 --> 01:20:11,799
Speaker 2: through some of this stuff. Will start with the Raiders

1573
01:20:12,600 --> 01:20:16,240
Speaker 2: and our guy, Antonio Pierce, who I love, man, I do.

1574
01:20:17,080 --> 01:20:20,280
Speaker 2: I don't know if he's gonna survive, but you know

1575
01:20:20,680 --> 01:20:25,360
Speaker 2: it's shade because you got no talent, you got no quarterback.

1576
01:20:26,120 --> 01:20:28,200
Speaker 3: You know, I don't know where everybody expected.

1577
01:20:29,680 --> 01:20:32,160
Speaker 1: Yeah, I agree with you with everything you just said,

1578
01:20:32,240 --> 01:20:34,839
Speaker 1: but I don't think he survives. I think Tom Brady

1579
01:20:35,520 --> 01:20:37,520
Speaker 1: is going to get a huge stay in this offseason.

1580
01:20:38,040 --> 01:20:40,240
Speaker 1: Mark Davis is gonna let Tom rely weigh in on

1581
01:20:40,360 --> 01:20:43,840
Speaker 1: what happens. And with that being said, that's part of

1582
01:20:43,880 --> 01:20:47,080
Speaker 1: the reason why people connected the dots so often with

1583
01:20:47,200 --> 01:20:50,320
Speaker 1: Mike Rabel being the next head coach. Kudos to the Jets,

1584
01:20:50,439 --> 01:20:53,080
Speaker 1: by the way, we don't give the Jets cut kudos

1585
01:20:53,120 --> 01:20:55,800
Speaker 1: for much. But this was Rabel was released from his

1586
01:20:56,000 --> 01:21:00,320
Speaker 1: contract as a defensive consultant for the Browns, would made

1587
01:21:00,400 --> 01:21:03,280
Speaker 1: him eligible to be interviewed, and the minute that happened,

1588
01:21:03,280 --> 01:21:05,280
Speaker 1: the Jets lined it up like they got him first in,

1589
01:21:05,360 --> 01:21:07,800
Speaker 1: they brought him into the facility. I keep saying this,

1590
01:21:07,960 --> 01:21:10,760
Speaker 1: but if that's their guy, they put together the full

1591
01:21:10,800 --> 01:21:12,760
Speaker 1: court press to make sure that that's known right out

1592
01:21:12,800 --> 01:21:15,000
Speaker 1: of the gates. I mean, Chicago had the opportunity to

1593
01:21:15,080 --> 01:21:17,960
Speaker 1: do the same thing and didn't. And according to multiple people,

1594
01:21:18,000 --> 01:21:21,840
Speaker 1: including Charles Robinson at Yahoo Sports, Chicago's very interested and Vrabel.

1595
01:21:21,880 --> 01:21:24,840
Speaker 1: So I love the Jets being aggressive here, but the

1596
01:21:25,160 --> 01:21:27,719
Speaker 1: Raabel to the Raiders rumors are going to continue until

1597
01:21:27,760 --> 01:21:30,160
Speaker 1: he signed somewhere else. I think, so, you know, I

1598
01:21:30,560 --> 01:21:32,479
Speaker 1: think it depends on who the next coach is. I

1599
01:21:32,520 --> 01:21:35,400
Speaker 1: don't think they would just replace Antonio Pierce without an

1600
01:21:35,439 --> 01:21:37,639
Speaker 1: idea of who they were putting in that spot. Rooney

1601
01:21:37,680 --> 01:21:41,880
Speaker 1: will be damned, but I think that ultimately it's going

1602
01:21:41,960 --> 01:21:45,360
Speaker 1: to be hard for Antonio Pierce to survive this. I

1603
01:21:45,439 --> 01:21:47,320
Speaker 1: think they'll they'll have a new coach yet again.

1604
01:21:48,040 --> 01:21:50,000
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean that's what it feels like. I mean,

1605
01:21:50,240 --> 01:21:51,599
Speaker 3: it completely feels that way.

1606
01:21:52,439 --> 01:21:55,120
Speaker 2: I don't know how you kind of you kind of

1607
01:21:55,200 --> 01:21:59,560
Speaker 2: don't do it only because Brady the new direction. And

1608
01:21:59,720 --> 01:22:03,080
Speaker 2: I love Antonio Peers. I love that dude, and I

1609
01:22:03,240 --> 01:22:06,200
Speaker 2: do think he could be a successful ad coach. I

1610
01:22:06,280 --> 01:22:08,679
Speaker 2: don't know that he was always the right thing, even

1611
01:22:08,720 --> 01:22:12,680
Speaker 2: though he loved the Raiders and the whole thing, the

1612
01:22:12,840 --> 01:22:16,920
Speaker 2: Vegas thing, I don't know. I well, Bretty coming aboard,

1613
01:22:17,560 --> 01:22:20,800
Speaker 2: it was a bad time for him too, you know.

1614
01:22:20,960 --> 01:22:24,040
Speaker 1: I think I think part of this too, for guys

1615
01:22:24,520 --> 01:22:28,759
Speaker 1: like Antonio appears coming in, you better nail your coaching hires.

1616
01:22:29,120 --> 01:22:31,280
Speaker 1: And the fact that he didn't even make it through

1617
01:22:31,360 --> 01:22:36,240
Speaker 1: one year without firing the offensive coordinator and the quarterbacks coach,

1618
01:22:36,400 --> 01:22:39,479
Speaker 1: like that just speaks to you know. According to all

1619
01:22:39,520 --> 01:22:42,040
Speaker 1: the reports, the Raiders were trying to hire Cliff Kingsbury,

1620
01:22:42,400 --> 01:22:44,840
Speaker 1: they weren't comfortable giving him what he wanted contractually, but

1621
01:22:44,960 --> 01:22:47,080
Speaker 1: however they ended up with Luke Getzy. They ended up

1622
01:22:47,120 --> 01:22:49,760
Speaker 1: with Luke Getzy, And I don't know for if you're

1623
01:22:49,840 --> 01:22:52,960
Speaker 1: a CEO type coach, you better be able to get

1624
01:22:53,000 --> 01:22:55,599
Speaker 1: those those hires right out of the games, and he didn't.

1625
01:22:56,479 --> 01:22:59,080
Speaker 2: Now it killed them. The Kingsbury think killed them. I

1626
01:22:59,240 --> 01:23:02,840
Speaker 2: still don't even know how. You know, Again, Kingsbury has

1627
01:23:02,920 --> 01:23:04,120
Speaker 2: to be a head coach somewhere.

1628
01:23:04,360 --> 01:23:04,799
Speaker 3: I mean.

1629
01:23:06,680 --> 01:23:09,240
Speaker 1: I would think, so you want to talk about rehabbing

1630
01:23:09,280 --> 01:23:11,479
Speaker 1: your image, I mean going in and doing what he

1631
01:23:11,560 --> 01:23:15,960
Speaker 1: did with Jayden Daniels, especially if I mean if Cliff

1632
01:23:16,040 --> 01:23:19,120
Speaker 1: Kingsbury's in love with one of these quarterbacks coming out, boy,

1633
01:23:19,280 --> 01:23:22,280
Speaker 1: that's that's what you want, right You want from day one.

1634
01:23:22,360 --> 01:23:24,800
Speaker 1: You want Cliff coming in and understanding, Hey, I want

1635
01:23:24,880 --> 01:23:27,560
Speaker 1: cam Ward as my starter and let's go. You know,

1636
01:23:27,880 --> 01:23:30,360
Speaker 1: I want Shoe or Sanders as my starter and let's go.

1637
01:23:30,920 --> 01:23:32,920
Speaker 1: So if he's in love with the quarterback you have

1638
01:23:33,040 --> 01:23:34,880
Speaker 1: or the quarterback coming out, I don't see how you

1639
01:23:34,920 --> 01:23:37,400
Speaker 1: wouldn't take Cliff Kingsbury as a head coach right now.

1640
01:23:38,320 --> 01:23:41,080
Speaker 3: Well, if I'm Chicago, he's the guy to go after.

1641
01:23:42,840 --> 01:23:45,040
Speaker 1: I mean, my god, they had the chance to hire

1642
01:23:45,120 --> 01:23:47,680
Speaker 1: him last year as an offensive coordinator and they didn't know.

1643
01:23:47,920 --> 01:23:50,960
Speaker 2: I never understood it, and I don't know, and I

1644
01:23:50,960 --> 01:23:53,640
Speaker 2: don't know. I never understood it then and now I

1645
01:23:53,680 --> 01:23:58,400
Speaker 2: don't same thing. Like he's the guy you want. Yeah,

1646
01:23:58,760 --> 01:24:02,040
Speaker 2: look what head with Jaye Daniels. Let him go to

1647
01:24:02,120 --> 01:24:03,920
Speaker 2: work with Caleb Willis. I don't know if he wants

1648
01:24:03,960 --> 01:24:08,040
Speaker 2: that gig, but you know, I mean, my first call

1649
01:24:08,040 --> 01:24:09,200
Speaker 2: if I'm the Bears.

1650
01:24:09,520 --> 01:24:10,040
Speaker 3: Would be there.

1651
01:24:10,320 --> 01:24:13,719
Speaker 2: I don't understand, I don't understand why last year happened,

1652
01:24:14,280 --> 01:24:17,439
Speaker 2: but I would not let another year pass without making

1653
01:24:17,520 --> 01:24:18,439
Speaker 2: him my first choice.

1654
01:24:19,360 --> 01:24:20,439
Speaker 3: Do you no one who I have?

1655
01:24:21,680 --> 01:24:24,640
Speaker 1: Do you think there's any any chance when we talk

1656
01:24:24,680 --> 01:24:29,080
Speaker 1: about these different coaches hear me out on this. Okay,

1657
01:24:29,640 --> 01:24:33,479
Speaker 1: so let's say, as we mentioned the injuries to the

1658
01:24:33,560 --> 01:24:36,640
Speaker 1: defensive side of the ball, just make the Lions. They

1659
01:24:36,680 --> 01:24:38,559
Speaker 1: don't get it done. This shit. They don't as magical

1660
01:24:38,600 --> 01:24:42,120
Speaker 1: as there be, don't, Right? And then Ben looks around

1661
01:24:42,200 --> 01:24:43,920
Speaker 1: like this is the same person that turned down the

1662
01:24:43,960 --> 01:24:46,920
Speaker 1: commander's job because he wasn't comfortable with the structure of

1663
01:24:47,040 --> 01:24:51,360
Speaker 1: everybody around him. He's, from what I've been told multiple times,

1664
01:24:51,400 --> 01:24:54,400
Speaker 1: he's the type of person that wants a real understanding

1665
01:24:54,439 --> 01:24:57,080
Speaker 1: of exactly everything that's around him. He wants to control

1666
01:24:57,120 --> 01:24:59,400
Speaker 1: the controllables. Like it's not like he's asking for control,

1667
01:24:59,439 --> 01:25:01,920
Speaker 1: but he wants to be comfortable with the situation. And

1668
01:25:02,160 --> 01:25:04,800
Speaker 1: he's according to a couple of people that I've talked to,

1669
01:25:04,920 --> 01:25:07,000
Speaker 1: he's kind of an awkward kind of like Adam Gase

1670
01:25:07,080 --> 01:25:09,240
Speaker 1: was an awkward dude. Like, yeah, he's got sort of

1671
01:25:09,280 --> 01:25:13,479
Speaker 1: that awkward element to him. So you look around, everybody

1672
01:25:13,520 --> 01:25:15,439
Speaker 1: says he's gone. But I look at it and say, well,

1673
01:25:15,439 --> 01:25:17,880
Speaker 1: if he came back because the opportunity wasn't perfect and

1674
01:25:17,960 --> 01:25:20,000
Speaker 1: he wants to try and win a Super Bowl, that

1675
01:25:20,200 --> 01:25:22,840
Speaker 1: narrative could be the exact same this offseason.

1676
01:25:23,040 --> 01:25:28,840
Speaker 2: I'm just saying, yeah, you know when he told Washington

1677
01:25:29,840 --> 01:25:33,120
Speaker 2: to turn the jet around, that spoke volumes to me.

1678
01:25:33,920 --> 01:25:37,360
Speaker 2: Think about it, right, dude, Like you got a new

1679
01:25:37,439 --> 01:25:40,519
Speaker 2: owner who's got a lot of money, who's going to

1680
01:25:40,720 --> 01:25:44,680
Speaker 2: rehab that whole thing, who's going to be who's going

1681
01:25:44,720 --> 01:25:47,680
Speaker 2: to go build a new stadium? Right, who's going to

1682
01:25:47,760 --> 01:25:50,000
Speaker 2: do everything? He's gonna he's going to turn around that

1683
01:25:50,040 --> 01:25:52,559
Speaker 2: whole thing. Why wouldn't you want to be the coach

1684
01:25:53,200 --> 01:25:56,960
Speaker 2: of that team? And if you don't want to be

1685
01:25:57,040 --> 01:26:00,280
Speaker 2: the coach of that team right where you're you're going

1686
01:26:00,360 --> 01:26:03,599
Speaker 2: to have Daniels, you were going to have a quarterback,

1687
01:26:04,800 --> 01:26:06,960
Speaker 2: then why do you want to go to Chicago or

1688
01:26:07,000 --> 01:26:07,639
Speaker 2: why do you want.

1689
01:26:07,479 --> 01:26:10,240
Speaker 3: To go anywhere else? Jacksonville?

1690
01:26:10,520 --> 01:26:13,519
Speaker 2: Like you, what are you looking to do. Like, to me,

1691
01:26:14,360 --> 01:26:17,320
Speaker 2: that was the perfect situation for Ben Johnson last year.

1692
01:26:19,040 --> 01:26:22,439
Speaker 1: Yeah, I totally agree with that. Totally agree with that.

1693
01:26:22,520 --> 01:26:26,759
Speaker 1: Now you you mentioned Jacksonville. What of our Yahoo writers

1694
01:26:26,880 --> 01:26:31,360
Speaker 1: Jory Epstein pointed out this week on our show that

1695
01:26:32,360 --> 01:26:36,080
Speaker 1: Jacksonville aligns with some of the things amazingly that Vrabel

1696
01:26:36,520 --> 01:26:40,000
Speaker 1: really likes him wants like he wants to be somewhere

1697
01:26:40,000 --> 01:26:43,920
Speaker 1: where he has sort of overall I don't want to

1698
01:26:43,960 --> 01:26:46,600
Speaker 1: say say, but he has more control over what the

1699
01:26:46,680 --> 01:26:49,360
Speaker 1: culture is. He wants to be somewhere that you know,

1700
01:26:49,520 --> 01:26:51,479
Speaker 1: he's come from somewhere in Tennessee where he was a

1701
01:26:51,520 --> 01:26:54,600
Speaker 1: little autonomous, like they didn't spend that there isn't the

1702
01:26:54,640 --> 01:26:56,560
Speaker 1: same level of focus. I think it's rare that a

1703
01:26:56,640 --> 01:26:59,639
Speaker 1: coach leaves a team and we immediately blame the team,

1704
01:26:59,720 --> 01:27:01,960
Speaker 1: not the coach, right like Rabel came out of that

1705
01:27:02,120 --> 01:27:05,599
Speaker 1: divorce really unscathed. With the Titans, we'll talk about an

1706
01:27:05,600 --> 01:27:07,479
Speaker 1: ownership that's hands off, that will let him do what

1707
01:27:07,520 --> 01:27:09,960
Speaker 1: he wants where he kind of lives outside the bubble,

1708
01:27:10,000 --> 01:27:11,640
Speaker 1: where he doesn't have the same level of focus and

1709
01:27:11,760 --> 01:27:14,439
Speaker 1: he has a quarterback. Because if you believe in Trevor Lawrence.

1710
01:27:14,800 --> 01:27:16,360
Speaker 1: He would have a better quarterback than a lot of

1711
01:27:16,439 --> 01:27:20,560
Speaker 1: these openings. She she pretty solidly made a point for

1712
01:27:20,680 --> 01:27:24,880
Speaker 1: Vrabel to head to jackson Jacksonville, of all places, which

1713
01:27:24,960 --> 01:27:26,080
Speaker 1: to me is a little stunny.

1714
01:27:27,000 --> 01:27:28,200
Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't think he's going there.

1715
01:27:29,200 --> 01:27:32,960
Speaker 2: I've been shocked. I'll be shocked if he goes there.

1716
01:27:33,800 --> 01:27:36,680
Speaker 2: It's not it's just not high profile enough for him.

1717
01:27:36,760 --> 01:27:39,640
Speaker 2: Like I get it, Like you know, he's gonna have

1718
01:27:39,680 --> 01:27:42,280
Speaker 2: his pick. He go to Chicago, he go to Vegas.

1719
01:27:43,280 --> 01:27:45,519
Speaker 2: He probably could go to New York and New York

1720
01:27:45,560 --> 01:27:48,760
Speaker 2: as we know, Like, why wouldn't you go to any

1721
01:27:48,760 --> 01:27:49,840
Speaker 2: of those places first?

1722
01:27:50,800 --> 01:27:54,040
Speaker 1: I do think it's interesting, but like you just go, all.

1723
01:27:54,040 --> 01:27:58,120
Speaker 2: Right, here's the deal. I won five years I want.

1724
01:27:58,200 --> 01:28:01,160
Speaker 2: He's going to get control I wanted for once and

1725
01:28:01,280 --> 01:28:04,360
Speaker 2: for all. We're fixing this thing, those short term fixes.

1726
01:28:04,920 --> 01:28:08,000
Speaker 2: We're going to dive deep into way and redo this

1727
01:28:08,200 --> 01:28:09,120
Speaker 2: whole franchise.

1728
01:28:09,800 --> 01:28:13,479
Speaker 1: I agree with everything you just said. What gets really

1729
01:28:13,640 --> 01:28:16,040
Speaker 1: interesting with the Rabel thing to me is what if

1730
01:28:16,080 --> 01:28:20,160
Speaker 1: you were Chicago, for example, and you know, according to reports,

1731
01:28:20,240 --> 01:28:22,800
Speaker 1: they really love Rabel. That's true, but they also want

1732
01:28:22,840 --> 01:28:25,360
Speaker 1: to talk to Ben Johnson. What do you do if

1733
01:28:25,400 --> 01:28:28,360
Speaker 1: the Lions are going on a long run, and Mike

1734
01:28:28,479 --> 01:28:30,560
Speaker 1: Rabel is getting a lot of calls right now. I

1735
01:28:30,600 --> 01:28:33,320
Speaker 1: think this is interesting from the Jets by applying the

1736
01:28:33,360 --> 01:28:35,400
Speaker 1: full court press right out of the gates. If your

1737
01:28:35,439 --> 01:28:37,439
Speaker 1: goal was to talk to Rabel and to talk to

1738
01:28:37,520 --> 01:28:40,040
Speaker 1: Ben Johnson to figure out what you prefer, you're not

1739
01:28:40,080 --> 01:28:42,599
Speaker 1: going to have that luxury. And you may not want

1740
01:28:42,640 --> 01:28:45,519
Speaker 1: to stick around and wait for Ben Johnson because what

1741
01:28:45,680 --> 01:28:47,640
Speaker 1: if he turns the Jets around then too? You know,

1742
01:28:47,720 --> 01:28:49,479
Speaker 1: it turns the Jet around then you know what I mean? Like,

1743
01:28:49,760 --> 01:28:52,840
Speaker 1: what if Ben Johnson turns around afterwards after meeting with

1744
01:28:52,880 --> 01:28:55,400
Speaker 1: everybody in Chicago it says, I'm just not comfortable with it,

1745
01:28:55,720 --> 01:28:57,960
Speaker 1: and then they passed on Rabel because they were waiting

1746
01:28:58,040 --> 01:29:01,360
Speaker 1: on Ben Johnson. The timing becomes really interesting when you

1747
01:29:01,880 --> 01:29:04,639
Speaker 1: can't really know what you've got with that coach until

1748
01:29:05,160 --> 01:29:06,280
Speaker 1: so I have a crew joke.

1749
01:29:09,400 --> 01:29:12,760
Speaker 3: It's a crew joke. A Rabel in the hand is

1750
01:29:12,840 --> 01:29:14,240
Speaker 3: better than a Johnson and the.

1751
01:29:18,920 --> 01:29:21,280
Speaker 1: Oh god, I'm stealing that from now on. That is

1752
01:29:21,320 --> 01:29:24,320
Speaker 1: a Rabel in the hand is better than Yep, yep,

1753
01:29:24,400 --> 01:29:26,040
Speaker 1: there we go. We're just gonna stop it right there.

1754
01:29:26,120 --> 01:29:30,240
Speaker 1: That is a great. Yep, you should get that. You

1755
01:29:30,280 --> 01:29:32,679
Speaker 1: should get that printed on T shirts for whoever hires.

1756
01:29:32,720 --> 01:29:34,840
Speaker 1: It's going to be a mogul out of that. We'll

1757
01:29:34,880 --> 01:29:37,479
Speaker 1: sell them outside the practice facility at the training camp.

1758
01:29:37,560 --> 01:29:37,880
Speaker 1: There we go.

1759
01:29:41,360 --> 01:29:44,720
Speaker 2: That is well done by tweet it now put our

1760
01:29:44,800 --> 01:29:51,080
Speaker 2: stamp on it is spectacular work. But you know again,

1761
01:29:51,400 --> 01:29:55,120
Speaker 2: I mean when you're thinking about it, right, like, and

1762
01:29:55,200 --> 01:30:01,080
Speaker 2: here's the other thing. At certain point, if you're like

1763
01:30:01,240 --> 01:30:05,080
Speaker 2: if first of all, if I'm the Jets, I'm all in.

1764
01:30:05,560 --> 01:30:10,560
Speaker 2: And if I'm the Bears, I'm Leary Ben Johnson, I

1765
01:30:10,880 --> 01:30:13,840
Speaker 2: hear the same thing everybody knows about Ben and about

1766
01:30:14,000 --> 01:30:17,480
Speaker 2: his awkwardness. Maybe Ben's just an oc.

1767
01:30:18,720 --> 01:30:18,920
Speaker 3: Yep.

1768
01:30:20,280 --> 01:30:23,720
Speaker 1: I mean, everybody's annointing him as a savior, and I

1769
01:30:23,880 --> 01:30:27,120
Speaker 1: just think that's a little bit to me, that's just

1770
01:30:27,439 --> 01:30:32,280
Speaker 1: a little presumptive. You know, there's there's just so to me,

1771
01:30:32,479 --> 01:30:35,720
Speaker 1: there's so many elements of this of don't know. And

1772
01:30:36,360 --> 01:30:39,280
Speaker 1: that's why I always like some level of a guy

1773
01:30:39,320 --> 01:30:42,040
Speaker 1: that's been there and had success, like Rabel. I think

1774
01:30:42,240 --> 01:30:44,120
Speaker 1: in Tennessee, if you look back at that that chapter

1775
01:30:44,280 --> 01:30:47,120
Speaker 1: had success, right, There's not no other way to say

1776
01:30:47,160 --> 01:30:50,760
Speaker 1: that to me. Having somebody that's been in the seat

1777
01:30:50,840 --> 01:30:52,880
Speaker 1: and has seen success, and now give him the one thing.

1778
01:30:52,920 --> 01:30:55,479
Speaker 1: If I'm Rabel, though, I want a quarterback. In Tennessee,

1779
01:30:55,520 --> 01:30:58,080
Speaker 1: he never really had a quarterback. Tannehill was the best

1780
01:30:58,160 --> 01:31:01,599
Speaker 1: quarterback he had. I don't if I'm if I'm able,

1781
01:31:01,680 --> 01:31:03,960
Speaker 1: either want a quarterback or a clear path to a quarterback.

1782
01:31:04,000 --> 01:31:05,640
Speaker 1: And I'm not taking a job that doesn't have that

1783
01:31:05,720 --> 01:31:07,320
Speaker 1: because I don't want to have to do the heavy

1784
01:31:07,360 --> 01:31:09,600
Speaker 1: lifting all over again. I'm trying to figure out how

1785
01:31:09,600 --> 01:31:11,240
Speaker 1: to win games when I'm not as good at that

1786
01:31:11,320 --> 01:31:12,599
Speaker 1: position as other teams.

1787
01:31:13,200 --> 01:31:15,880
Speaker 3: Yeah, I hear you, man, I.

1788
01:31:17,840 --> 01:31:18,120
Speaker 1: Hear you.

1789
01:31:18,320 --> 01:31:20,840
Speaker 2: I look around and I go, all right, you know

1790
01:31:20,880 --> 01:31:23,760
Speaker 2: what's fascinating is all right coaches like, let's look at

1791
01:31:23,840 --> 01:31:27,479
Speaker 2: openings now. Jeremy Fowler of ESPN, who I like and

1792
01:31:27,560 --> 01:31:31,160
Speaker 2: I think does a great job, reported this, and I

1793
01:31:31,760 --> 01:31:36,439
Speaker 2: just I would be shocked. But he reports that if

1794
01:31:36,960 --> 01:31:41,519
Speaker 2: Syriannity doesn't get out of the second round, his job's

1795
01:31:41,560 --> 01:31:42,200
Speaker 2: in jeopardy.

1796
01:31:42,760 --> 01:31:45,080
Speaker 1: That just doesn't make any sense to me. I agree,

1797
01:31:46,479 --> 01:31:51,800
Speaker 1: I don't I want it. Jeremy's does great work, and

1798
01:31:51,880 --> 01:31:54,680
Speaker 1: he doesn't put stuff out that isn't sourced. I just

1799
01:31:55,040 --> 01:31:59,679
Speaker 1: I can't understand it. I tell me right now, watching

1800
01:31:59,800 --> 01:32:02,320
Speaker 1: the Eagles, what has been the What's what's been the fail?

1801
01:32:02,680 --> 01:32:04,840
Speaker 1: Because there hasn't been one like what is the fail

1802
01:32:04,880 --> 01:32:07,720
Speaker 1: of the Eagles this year? There just isn't one. And

1803
01:32:08,000 --> 01:32:11,360
Speaker 1: by the way, the NFC is stacked like this whole

1804
01:32:11,680 --> 01:32:13,599
Speaker 1: did they get out of the first round of the playoffs?

1805
01:32:13,640 --> 01:32:15,360
Speaker 1: Did they get out of the second round of the playoffs?

1806
01:32:15,920 --> 01:32:18,439
Speaker 1: Just eliminates any context of who they played and how

1807
01:32:18,479 --> 01:32:22,400
Speaker 1: they played. It Just that doesn't make common sense to me,

1808
01:32:22,520 --> 01:32:25,840
Speaker 1: and I want to believe that the Eagles is an

1809
01:32:25,920 --> 01:32:30,479
Speaker 1: organization have enough common sense to apply context to whatever

1810
01:32:30,560 --> 01:32:32,400
Speaker 1: happens in the playoffs. If this team doesn't win the

1811
01:32:32,439 --> 01:32:34,320
Speaker 1: Super Bowl, it doesn't mean the whole season was a fail.

1812
01:32:34,680 --> 01:32:36,640
Speaker 1: If this team goes out in the first round and

1813
01:32:36,840 --> 01:32:39,760
Speaker 1: just gets blown out by fifty in a game where

1814
01:32:39,760 --> 01:32:42,839
Speaker 1: they look uninspired and awful, that's a much different conversation

1815
01:32:43,000 --> 01:32:46,679
Speaker 1: than if they lose a you know, a rain drenched

1816
01:32:47,160 --> 01:32:50,519
Speaker 1: game that just is one of those weird football games.

1817
01:32:50,560 --> 01:32:53,120
Speaker 1: That's why these reports just baffle me sometimes.

1818
01:32:53,960 --> 01:32:57,040
Speaker 2: Dude, I don't even understand it. I just a'll get it.

1819
01:32:58,840 --> 01:33:01,439
Speaker 2: I don't, I don't I don't understand it. I really don't.

1820
01:33:01,960 --> 01:33:04,000
Speaker 2: I just I don't know what.

1821
01:33:04,320 --> 01:33:04,640
Speaker 1: Like what.

1822
01:33:05,800 --> 01:33:10,000
Speaker 2: He's answered every test, and he's had a lot. First

1823
01:33:10,000 --> 01:33:11,560
Speaker 2: of all, he came off a year in which he

1824
01:33:11,600 --> 01:33:14,280
Speaker 2: had that bad slide. They were ten in one and

1825
01:33:14,400 --> 01:33:17,200
Speaker 2: had a huge slide. All right, get beat up in

1826
01:33:17,240 --> 01:33:22,200
Speaker 2: the playoffs. Okay, it's a tumultuous offseason. He's got Belichick

1827
01:33:22,240 --> 01:33:26,840
Speaker 2: in NFL Films, which is like twenty eight minutes from

1828
01:33:26,960 --> 01:33:30,920
Speaker 2: Novacare Complex in South Philly. Belichick's there. The whole people

1829
01:33:30,920 --> 01:33:33,160
Speaker 2: are talking about him. For the first five weeks of

1830
01:33:33,200 --> 01:33:36,599
Speaker 2: the season, he's half melting down, shaves his head, looks

1831
01:33:36,680 --> 01:33:44,880
Speaker 2: like Travis Bickle, right, and he gets everything right, like

1832
01:33:45,040 --> 01:33:45,840
Speaker 2: he's buttoned up.

1833
01:33:45,920 --> 01:33:48,960
Speaker 3: His defense is really good. Now. Yeah, he's got great coordinators.

1834
01:33:49,880 --> 01:33:51,959
Speaker 2: Vick Fango has done a great job of the defense,

1835
01:33:52,560 --> 01:33:56,120
Speaker 2: and Kellamore's gone a great job the offense. Nick Sirian,

1836
01:33:56,240 --> 01:33:59,280
Speaker 2: he's done a great job. He's coached that thing really well.

1837
01:33:59,360 --> 01:34:03,200
Speaker 2: He's handled himself. Yeah, these moments, he's emotional. So what

1838
01:34:04,160 --> 01:34:07,880
Speaker 2: the guy wins the guy? I mean, his first year

1839
01:34:08,000 --> 01:34:10,280
Speaker 2: he makes the playoffs. His second year he makes the

1840
01:34:10,360 --> 01:34:13,120
Speaker 2: play he makes a super Bowl. His third year, he's

1841
01:34:13,160 --> 01:34:16,960
Speaker 2: ten and one. His fourth year, he's fourteen to three,

1842
01:34:17,200 --> 01:34:21,519
Speaker 2: probably like, what are you kidding me? And you're gonna

1843
01:34:21,960 --> 01:34:23,560
Speaker 2: guy like, I don't get it.

1844
01:34:24,560 --> 01:34:28,200
Speaker 1: Firing a coach that goes fourteen and three is just asinine.

1845
01:34:28,520 --> 01:34:33,240
Speaker 1: I'm sorry. It's just absolutely what we pay for when

1846
01:34:33,360 --> 01:34:36,479
Speaker 1: we know hire people in these situations. Not that we

1847
01:34:36,640 --> 01:34:38,160
Speaker 1: I'm not in an NFL little bit, but I say

1848
01:34:38,200 --> 01:34:41,640
Speaker 1: this to you all the time. Proximity, Like, it's about proximity.

1849
01:34:41,760 --> 01:34:44,240
Speaker 1: Are we in the range to win a championship? Because

1850
01:34:44,560 --> 01:34:48,160
Speaker 1: the variables, the luck, the context, as I said earlier,

1851
01:34:48,200 --> 01:34:51,560
Speaker 1: the little moments that may not make any sense, a

1852
01:34:51,640 --> 01:34:53,840
Speaker 1: bad play here or there was, somebody wakes up and

1853
01:34:53,880 --> 01:34:56,040
Speaker 1: as the stomach bug, I don't know. There are so

1854
01:34:56,160 --> 01:34:59,080
Speaker 1: many variables to actually winning a Super Bowl. There's so

1855
01:34:59,200 --> 01:35:02,320
Speaker 1: much luck in winning a Super Bowl. Things have to

1856
01:35:02,400 --> 01:35:04,120
Speaker 1: break the right way. So what do you pay for

1857
01:35:04,240 --> 01:35:06,360
Speaker 1: when you sign a quarterback or you hire a coach,

1858
01:35:06,479 --> 01:35:09,240
Speaker 1: or you have your team put together. What you're trying

1859
01:35:09,280 --> 01:35:11,840
Speaker 1: to put together is proximity. Are you in the range

1860
01:35:11,960 --> 01:35:13,479
Speaker 1: of being able to win a Super Bowl? And there

1861
01:35:13,479 --> 01:35:15,280
Speaker 1: are very few teams that year in and year out,

1862
01:35:15,360 --> 01:35:18,040
Speaker 1: can say we are in super Bowl range. If you

1863
01:35:18,120 --> 01:35:20,360
Speaker 1: are in that, you don't make change just for the

1864
01:35:20,400 --> 01:35:23,759
Speaker 1: sake of change, right, Like, if you're in the range

1865
01:35:23,800 --> 01:35:26,000
Speaker 1: to win a super Bowl, I don't think you make

1866
01:35:26,120 --> 01:35:28,679
Speaker 1: change in that situation. Fourteen and three and you fire

1867
01:35:28,720 --> 01:35:32,080
Speaker 1: your coach, good luck. I just that to me would

1868
01:35:32,080 --> 01:35:32,679
Speaker 1: make no sense.

1869
01:35:33,479 --> 01:35:35,320
Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't know.

1870
01:35:35,600 --> 01:35:38,559
Speaker 2: And I had somebody tell me that Dave his job

1871
01:35:38,800 --> 01:35:42,960
Speaker 2: wasn't completely safe, and I don't know. I just I

1872
01:35:43,000 --> 01:35:46,840
Speaker 2: don't believe. I don't make sense. None of it makes sense.

1873
01:35:47,360 --> 01:35:51,200
Speaker 2: It just does it, I you know, And again, who's

1874
01:35:51,240 --> 01:35:51,639
Speaker 2: out there?

1875
01:35:53,200 --> 01:35:55,880
Speaker 1: Yeah, it would take him thirty seconds to get another job,

1876
01:35:55,960 --> 01:35:57,320
Speaker 1: My god, thirty.

1877
01:35:58,040 --> 01:36:02,280
Speaker 2: Like if you're the Eagles, God forbid, green Bay comes

1878
01:36:02,360 --> 01:36:08,000
Speaker 2: in and upset you, you're gonna fire Syrianne and bring

1879
01:36:08,080 --> 01:36:08,519
Speaker 2: in who.

1880
01:36:11,520 --> 01:36:13,479
Speaker 1: Same thing I would say the Steelers fans that are like, well,

1881
01:36:13,479 --> 01:36:17,520
Speaker 1: get rid of Tomlin. It's just mediocrity. We're accepting mediocrity

1882
01:36:17,560 --> 01:36:20,559
Speaker 1: every single year. It's like, okay, well, you know, maybe

1883
01:36:20,600 --> 01:36:22,519
Speaker 1: maybe you feel that way. Like if the Steelers lose

1884
01:36:22,560 --> 01:36:25,200
Speaker 1: in the first round of the playoffs, is Tomlin's job

1885
01:36:25,320 --> 01:36:27,639
Speaker 1: going to be in jeopardy? God no? Right, Like God

1886
01:36:27,720 --> 01:36:30,559
Speaker 1: no stable organizations don't fire coaches just for the hell

1887
01:36:30,600 --> 01:36:30,760
Speaker 1: of it.

1888
01:36:31,520 --> 01:36:34,759
Speaker 2: You need a quarterback. The Steelers just need a quarterback.

1889
01:36:35,760 --> 01:36:39,840
Speaker 1: Yeah, and it's all stable organizations. Don't fire a coach,

1890
01:36:40,160 --> 01:36:43,040
Speaker 1: just fire coach, and the Eagles are a stable organization

1891
01:36:43,160 --> 01:36:45,880
Speaker 1: at this point. I just don't see it.

1892
01:36:46,400 --> 01:36:49,800
Speaker 3: I'm with you, man, I'm completely with you. I just

1893
01:36:49,960 --> 01:36:53,599
Speaker 3: I don't. I don't say it. I know people are

1894
01:36:53,680 --> 01:36:56,400
Speaker 3: talking about it. I don't. I don't get it. You know,

1895
01:36:58,479 --> 01:37:00,599
Speaker 3: you know to me, that's kind of what it is now.

1896
01:37:02,400 --> 01:37:06,920
Speaker 2: It is interesting to think, if you're Indianapolis, do you

1897
01:37:07,000 --> 01:37:09,439
Speaker 2: get rid of stiking his knees on the hot seat?

1898
01:37:09,600 --> 01:37:12,719
Speaker 3: I am another one that I stay with stiking.

1899
01:37:13,080 --> 01:37:13,400
Speaker 2: I don't.

1900
01:37:13,520 --> 01:37:14,679
Speaker 3: I don't fire Stiking.

1901
01:37:15,920 --> 01:37:19,120
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think right now too, if you believe in

1902
01:37:19,200 --> 01:37:22,320
Speaker 1: Anthony Richardson at all, you got to ask yourself too,

1903
01:37:22,360 --> 01:37:24,000
Speaker 1: do we want to put we want to put another

1904
01:37:24,080 --> 01:37:25,840
Speaker 1: voice there? Do we think another coach is suddenly going

1905
01:37:25,880 --> 01:37:28,160
Speaker 1: to get more out of him? Yeah? If I'm Indy,

1906
01:37:28,360 --> 01:37:31,280
Speaker 1: I'm hopeful that development happens, and development means bringing the

1907
01:37:31,280 --> 01:37:34,920
Speaker 1: two of them back together. I'm not sure Stychen is safe,

1908
01:37:35,040 --> 01:37:38,920
Speaker 1: but man, I would be cautious to press the reset button.

1909
01:37:39,000 --> 01:37:41,479
Speaker 1: Unless I'm pressing the reset button all the way. If

1910
01:37:41,520 --> 01:37:44,439
Speaker 1: I'm indye pressing the reset button, that means everybody Ballard

1911
01:37:45,120 --> 01:37:48,479
Speaker 1: Anthony Richardson stik in if they're all gone. Okay, I

1912
01:37:48,600 --> 01:37:51,000
Speaker 1: understand that. If I'm just changing one piece of it,

1913
01:37:51,120 --> 01:37:52,640
Speaker 1: I just that makes no sense to the same thing

1914
01:37:52,640 --> 01:37:55,400
Speaker 1: I'd say, Like in Tennessee, I've seen some reports that,

1915
01:37:55,920 --> 01:37:58,640
Speaker 1: you know, some of the front office could be let go,

1916
01:37:58,760 --> 01:38:01,240
Speaker 1: and some people are speculating about that. Like to me,

1917
01:38:01,600 --> 01:38:04,960
Speaker 1: if you are a terrible football team that is underperformed expectation,

1918
01:38:05,400 --> 01:38:08,040
Speaker 1: then you don't get rid of one portion of this.

1919
01:38:08,280 --> 01:38:11,000
Speaker 1: Like if you're bad and you can see why you're bad,

1920
01:38:11,040 --> 01:38:13,400
Speaker 1: then get just press reset all the way down the

1921
01:38:13,640 --> 01:38:14,799
Speaker 1: top to bottom. Press reset.

1922
01:38:16,040 --> 01:38:18,920
Speaker 2: Yeah, I gotta tell you. I mean, I'm looking around

1923
01:38:19,200 --> 01:38:23,120
Speaker 2: and there's only a handful of guys that I really love.

1924
01:38:24,520 --> 01:38:27,960
Speaker 2: Like I'm a Kingsbury fan, I'm a Florist fan. I

1925
01:38:28,320 --> 01:38:33,040
Speaker 2: think he would be really good left, which interests me.

1926
01:38:34,000 --> 01:38:36,920
Speaker 2: I mean obviously Ben Johnson, but again we've been through

1927
01:38:36,960 --> 01:38:39,200
Speaker 2: that and we love for Abel. So but if you

1928
01:38:39,280 --> 01:38:43,240
Speaker 2: look around, is there a ton of guys out there

1929
01:38:43,320 --> 01:38:46,600
Speaker 2: that you go, Okay, well, this guy I'm Dynasty. I

1930
01:38:46,760 --> 01:38:49,320
Speaker 2: tell you about Spags all the time. I don't know

1931
01:38:49,360 --> 01:38:52,639
Speaker 2: if he's going to get another luck. He should. I mean,

1932
01:38:52,680 --> 01:38:56,360
Speaker 2: that's a guy that you know again needs to have

1933
01:38:56,520 --> 01:38:59,920
Speaker 2: another chance. I've chronicled his first one in Saint lou

1934
01:39:00,160 --> 01:39:04,519
Speaker 2: was one franchise with one foot out the door going

1935
01:39:04,600 --> 01:39:07,800
Speaker 2: to LA. I don't understand why that guy gets no

1936
01:39:08,200 --> 01:39:11,800
Speaker 2: looks when he has to get at He would be

1937
01:39:11,960 --> 01:39:15,800
Speaker 2: such a good guy for a team, But you know, again.

1938
01:39:16,040 --> 01:39:19,240
Speaker 1: Isn't wouldn't he be this this off season's Dan Quinn

1939
01:39:19,400 --> 01:39:22,519
Speaker 1: in that sense, like a guy getting another shot at

1940
01:39:22,600 --> 01:39:26,080
Speaker 1: it that you know has been obviously and you look

1941
01:39:26,080 --> 01:39:27,880
Speaker 1: at the way things have gone for Quinn, It's been

1942
01:39:28,000 --> 01:39:30,680
Speaker 1: pretty seamless. I keep telling you too, like if I'm

1943
01:39:30,680 --> 01:39:33,320
Speaker 1: a team looking for a coach. Part of the reason

1944
01:39:33,360 --> 01:39:35,960
Speaker 1: I love hiring Spags is because it immediately makes the

1945
01:39:36,080 --> 01:39:39,160
Speaker 1: Chiefs less. I just tell us, like, you can't can't

1946
01:39:39,200 --> 01:39:43,080
Speaker 1: tell me that losing him wouldn't impact the Chiefs defense overall,

1947
01:39:43,240 --> 01:39:45,720
Speaker 1: Like that's not plug and play coordinator work that we're

1948
01:39:45,720 --> 01:39:48,759
Speaker 1: getting there, So you know, I'm I'm with you on Spags.

1949
01:39:49,400 --> 01:39:51,479
Speaker 1: Frankly is a Raiders fan. I'd love to see Spags

1950
01:39:51,560 --> 01:39:55,800
Speaker 1: go just make late he's here. So you know, I'm

1951
01:39:55,880 --> 01:39:58,200
Speaker 1: I'm a little surprised that there hasn't been a call

1952
01:39:58,280 --> 01:40:00,519
Speaker 1: of that, and and then the others like, look, I

1953
01:40:00,800 --> 01:40:03,879
Speaker 1: don't think necessarily Flores is gonna get a look this offseason,

1954
01:40:03,920 --> 01:40:06,040
Speaker 1: even though I think you should. You know, my god,

1955
01:40:06,120 --> 01:40:08,240
Speaker 1: we're at a spot where I'm seeing the NFL network

1956
01:40:08,280 --> 01:40:11,320
Speaker 1: people talk about, you know, John Gruden's gonna be in

1957
01:40:11,880 --> 01:40:15,040
Speaker 1: on people's minds this offseason. Like that speaks to your

1958
01:40:15,080 --> 01:40:17,519
Speaker 1: point that there just isn't a clear There aren't a

1959
01:40:17,600 --> 01:40:19,519
Speaker 1: lot of clear candidates of oh my god, this is

1960
01:40:19,600 --> 01:40:20,280
Speaker 1: the guy this year.

1961
01:40:21,280 --> 01:40:23,920
Speaker 2: Yeah, all right, fellas, with a quick break, we'll come

1962
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1963
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1964
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1976
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Speaker 2: over the place today, obviously talking a lot about the

1977
01:41:19,160 --> 01:41:22,760
Speaker 2: coaches of the NFL get died into Week sixteen, some

1978
01:41:22,840 --> 01:41:24,160
Speaker 2: of the playoffs scenarios.

1979
01:41:24,960 --> 01:41:27,240
Speaker 3: This is a This is an interesting year for.

1980
01:41:28,800 --> 01:41:29,280
Speaker 5: The UH.

1981
01:41:30,800 --> 01:41:35,320
Speaker 2: The Justice fans, like the fans for the great teams,

1982
01:41:35,400 --> 01:41:39,400
Speaker 2: like I think back to Lions, like part of me

1983
01:41:39,560 --> 01:41:43,920
Speaker 2: is worried for them about Sunday Night because you know,

1984
01:41:44,000 --> 01:41:49,800
Speaker 2: I think we both agree Minnesota is probably should win

1985
01:41:49,920 --> 01:41:55,800
Speaker 2: that game, like I would like to see as a

1986
01:41:56,160 --> 01:41:59,320
Speaker 2: football fan. Now, I'm an Eagles fan, right, so I

1987
01:41:59,520 --> 01:42:05,320
Speaker 2: obviously my team to win. But Justice says Bills and Lions,

1988
01:42:06,400 --> 01:42:07,559
Speaker 2: and then somebody will win.

1989
01:42:09,960 --> 01:42:12,720
Speaker 1: I'll give you Vikings and Lions also though, right, I

1990
01:42:12,800 --> 01:42:16,720
Speaker 1: mean Vikings and Lions. Vikings and Bills. Also, Yeah, you

1991
01:42:16,840 --> 01:42:19,559
Speaker 1: know the lovable losers of Super Bowls. I think those Yeah,

1992
01:42:19,680 --> 01:42:24,840
Speaker 1: those are You're right? Certainly there are you right? And

1993
01:42:25,000 --> 01:42:27,599
Speaker 1: it is yeah, I mean.

1994
01:42:28,200 --> 01:42:33,559
Speaker 2: Far remember when Far went to Minnesota. Oh my god, dude,

1995
01:42:34,680 --> 01:42:38,320
Speaker 2: why does he throw that ball? It's I still can't believe.

1996
01:42:40,040 --> 01:42:42,160
Speaker 2: I mean, I mean, all right, you missed a field goal,

1997
01:42:42,360 --> 01:42:46,120
Speaker 2: a chip shot that was bad, right, Randall had that

1998
01:42:46,280 --> 01:42:50,439
Speaker 2: year fifteen and one, right, Randy Moss, they were amazing

1999
01:42:51,080 --> 01:42:53,720
Speaker 2: and you're losing a chip shot field goal, But the

2000
01:42:53,920 --> 01:42:57,800
Speaker 2: far worse was far throwing that ball?

2001
01:42:58,160 --> 01:42:59,320
Speaker 1: Like what was he doing?

2002
01:43:00,160 --> 01:43:00,200
Speaker 6: You?

2003
01:43:00,840 --> 01:43:05,840
Speaker 1: You think about heartbreak for different teams and opportunity lost

2004
01:43:05,880 --> 01:43:09,000
Speaker 1: for different teams, you know, and just the fact that

2005
01:43:09,520 --> 01:43:12,559
Speaker 1: even before all of that, like if you're if you're

2006
01:43:12,560 --> 01:43:15,200
Speaker 1: a Vikings fan, that's you know, been a Vikings fan

2007
01:43:15,280 --> 01:43:17,639
Speaker 1: for a long time, you remember losing four different Super

2008
01:43:17,680 --> 01:43:22,200
Speaker 1: Bowls too, right, So just the the pain that calms

2009
01:43:22,240 --> 01:43:24,920
Speaker 1: for certain fan bases. This feels like a you know,

2010
01:43:25,240 --> 01:43:27,479
Speaker 1: you call it a Justice year. I would say you, like, yeah,

2011
01:43:27,600 --> 01:43:32,120
Speaker 1: redemption year for so many there are great opportunities for

2012
01:43:32,280 --> 01:43:35,000
Speaker 1: us to have these incredible stories, Like I think that's

2013
01:43:35,040 --> 01:43:37,439
Speaker 1: why so many people are actually rooting for the Bills

2014
01:43:37,520 --> 01:43:40,680
Speaker 1: this year. It just feels like the Bills, like between the.

2015
01:43:42,320 --> 01:43:45,519
Speaker 2: I do I got this fall spot for There's something

2016
01:43:45,560 --> 01:43:48,519
Speaker 2: about that. There's that first of all, you love that team,

2017
01:43:49,479 --> 01:43:51,920
Speaker 2: I love that town. I don't know, there's just something

2018
01:43:51,960 --> 01:43:52,679
Speaker 2: about that town.

2019
01:43:53,640 --> 01:43:54,479
Speaker 1: Bise Mafia too.

2020
01:43:54,560 --> 01:43:59,400
Speaker 3: Got I love bil Mafia. I love I do to

2021
01:43:59,520 --> 01:44:03,760
Speaker 3: me the like they're just such you know.

2022
01:44:04,200 --> 01:44:06,720
Speaker 2: I mean, let's face it, well, any time you got

2023
01:44:06,840 --> 01:44:10,320
Speaker 2: to deal with lake effects now for five months out

2024
01:44:10,360 --> 01:44:14,400
Speaker 2: of the year, I mean, you know that's cruel and

2025
01:44:14,520 --> 01:44:15,479
Speaker 2: unusual punishment.

2026
01:44:17,080 --> 01:44:22,000
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's the the love of some of these teams

2027
01:44:22,040 --> 01:44:24,800
Speaker 1: and what they've been through can become such a great

2028
01:44:24,920 --> 01:44:27,799
Speaker 1: story throughout the course of this. But I think also

2029
01:44:28,000 --> 01:44:32,200
Speaker 1: when you look at these playoffs, nothing feels sure this year,

2030
01:44:32,320 --> 01:44:34,920
Speaker 1: and that's really it's interesting to me. And part of

2031
01:44:34,960 --> 01:44:36,640
Speaker 1: that is the fact that, as we said earlier, it

2032
01:44:36,680 --> 01:44:38,800
Speaker 1: feels like everybody's looking for a reason to doubt the

2033
01:44:38,880 --> 01:44:42,679
Speaker 1: fifteen and one Chiefs. But I mean, right now, coming

2034
01:44:42,720 --> 01:44:44,960
Speaker 1: into the playoffs, usually at this point it feels like

2035
01:44:45,040 --> 01:44:47,040
Speaker 1: it's so clear cut on who the best teams are,

2036
01:44:47,479 --> 01:44:49,320
Speaker 1: and right now, I don't feel like anything is clear

2037
01:44:49,360 --> 01:44:52,760
Speaker 1: cut with these playoffs. It honestly feels to me I

2038
01:44:52,760 --> 01:44:56,679
Speaker 1: wouldn't be surprised to see, you know, obviously the Chiefs,

2039
01:44:56,760 --> 01:44:59,519
Speaker 1: but also the Bills are also the Ravens, Like there

2040
01:44:59,520 --> 01:45:02,120
Speaker 1: are several teams in each of these conferences that I

2041
01:45:02,240 --> 01:45:04,799
Speaker 1: just wouldn't be stunned to see them representing their conference

2042
01:45:04,880 --> 01:45:06,560
Speaker 1: in the Super Bowl, and I don't always feel like

2043
01:45:06,600 --> 01:45:09,840
Speaker 1: that every year. So like in the NFC, it is

2044
01:45:09,960 --> 01:45:11,799
Speaker 1: pretty wild to me that you could have the Eagles

2045
01:45:11,880 --> 01:45:13,960
Speaker 1: the Lines of the Vikings, and all three of them

2046
01:45:14,080 --> 01:45:16,880
Speaker 1: are incredible football teams. It's not like it's ay, well,

2047
01:45:16,920 --> 01:45:19,080
Speaker 1: we're stuck with this team like there are. There are

2048
01:45:19,160 --> 01:45:23,439
Speaker 1: three very viable Super Bowl teams out of the NFC

2049
01:45:23,640 --> 01:45:25,960
Speaker 1: that in any given year would be a wild favorite.

2050
01:45:27,240 --> 01:45:30,559
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah, you're right.

2051
01:45:31,760 --> 01:45:34,240
Speaker 2: Uh look, can we switch gears for a second and

2052
01:45:34,320 --> 01:45:37,080
Speaker 2: go back to college Flubyes? All right, because I want

2053
01:45:37,120 --> 01:45:38,679
Speaker 2: to do I want to go through all the games

2054
01:45:38,760 --> 01:45:42,719
Speaker 2: tomorrow in the NFL, but I want to dive into

2055
01:45:43,800 --> 01:45:47,320
Speaker 2: what we see in these matchups because just an early look,

2056
01:45:47,320 --> 01:45:51,920
Speaker 2: because I'm enamored with Penn State Notre Dame. All right,

2057
01:45:52,160 --> 01:45:57,240
Speaker 2: that's Thursday Night, Friday's Ohio State Texas. Right now, Notre

2058
01:45:57,320 --> 01:45:59,880
Speaker 2: Dame is a point and a half favorite against Pan

2059
01:46:00,160 --> 01:46:06,040
Speaker 2: State and Ohio State is only six against Texas.

2060
01:46:08,280 --> 01:46:10,800
Speaker 3: All right, let's go, Let's go Notre Dame Penn State.

2061
01:46:11,880 --> 01:46:22,280
Speaker 2: So obviously the games about can Aler beat Notre Dame Secondary? Right,

2062
01:46:22,439 --> 01:46:26,599
Speaker 2: Like can which offense do you trust more against their defense?

2063
01:46:26,800 --> 01:46:32,160
Speaker 2: You know, do you trust Aller or do you like

2064
01:46:33,200 --> 01:46:38,280
Speaker 2: or do you trust can Notre Dames offense generate enough

2065
01:46:39,080 --> 01:46:41,720
Speaker 2: to win the game, Like, that's to me, it's to

2066
01:46:41,800 --> 01:46:43,040
Speaker 2: tell those two quarterbacks.

2067
01:46:44,400 --> 01:46:50,200
Speaker 1: Yeah, and you know, look, Riley Leonard obviously didn't play

2068
01:46:50,280 --> 01:46:54,960
Speaker 1: well play particularly didn't throw the ball. Well I'm trying

2069
01:46:55,000 --> 01:46:56,960
Speaker 1: to find a nice way to say that, but uh,

2070
01:46:57,520 --> 01:47:00,720
Speaker 1: you know, I think honestly had a day to forget

2071
01:47:00,760 --> 01:47:02,639
Speaker 1: throwing the football, but made the plays he needed to play,

2072
01:47:02,720 --> 01:47:04,679
Speaker 1: run in the football and that helped him here. Drew

2073
01:47:04,760 --> 01:47:08,760
Speaker 1: Aller is a better thrower obviously than Riley's gonna be

2074
01:47:08,800 --> 01:47:11,040
Speaker 1: able to do a lot better out of that. The

2075
01:47:11,479 --> 01:47:14,639
Speaker 1: thing is, they gotta shut down warns all Notre Dame

2076
01:47:14,680 --> 01:47:17,439
Speaker 1: has to do, and I think they can both of

2077
01:47:17,640 --> 01:47:19,920
Speaker 1: Like this feels like a hammer the under sort of game, right,

2078
01:47:20,040 --> 01:47:22,439
Speaker 1: Like it's so now all of a sudden, three or

2079
01:47:22,479 --> 01:47:25,160
Speaker 1: four big plays make a huge difference. Yes, I trust

2080
01:47:25,680 --> 01:47:28,400
Speaker 1: substantially more Like it's not even close. I trust Drew

2081
01:47:28,400 --> 01:47:30,120
Speaker 1: Aller to be able to make those few plays throw

2082
01:47:30,160 --> 01:47:32,519
Speaker 1: in the football more than I do Riley Leonard. At

2083
01:47:32,560 --> 01:47:35,639
Speaker 1: this point Riley's gonna keep Drives alive with some huge

2084
01:47:35,760 --> 01:47:37,320
Speaker 1: runs and that's gonna be a great part of it.

2085
01:47:37,439 --> 01:47:41,160
Speaker 1: But man, yeah, I have a hard time finding points

2086
01:47:41,200 --> 01:47:42,280
Speaker 1: for Notre Dame in this game.

2087
01:47:43,600 --> 01:47:47,360
Speaker 2: I mean, man, it's going to be uh, it's going

2088
01:47:47,400 --> 01:47:50,880
Speaker 2: to be a great game, dude. I'm really looking forward

2089
01:47:50,920 --> 01:47:52,960
Speaker 2: to that game because I'm trying to figure it out.

2090
01:47:53,360 --> 01:47:57,120
Speaker 2: I'm trying to figure it out. A Leonard has to

2091
01:47:57,200 --> 01:48:00,640
Speaker 2: make play. The Penn States front is very good, but

2092
01:48:00,760 --> 01:48:02,840
Speaker 2: he's gonna have to make some plays down the field.

2093
01:48:03,520 --> 01:48:08,800
Speaker 2: He played so he threw the ball so poorly, but

2094
01:48:08,960 --> 01:48:10,960
Speaker 2: I do think that was part of the game one.

2095
01:48:11,640 --> 01:48:13,960
Speaker 2: Hed they have to open it up against Penn State.

2096
01:48:14,160 --> 01:48:16,639
Speaker 1: Yeah, and that's gonna be easier to do. Let's see

2097
01:48:16,640 --> 01:48:19,200
Speaker 1: what the health of Abdul Carter looks like too, because

2098
01:48:19,240 --> 01:48:22,080
Speaker 1: he missed the second half of that game. You know,

2099
01:48:22,760 --> 01:48:26,960
Speaker 1: obviously right now they it's a left arm shoulder, I guess.

2100
01:48:27,200 --> 01:48:29,400
Speaker 1: And I've been looking everywhere to see if there's any

2101
01:48:29,479 --> 01:48:33,240
Speaker 1: real updates, but not much. And you know, James Franklin

2102
01:48:33,600 --> 01:48:36,000
Speaker 1: made it sound like he's gonna try and play, but

2103
01:48:36,200 --> 01:48:38,120
Speaker 1: is he one hundred percent of himself? I mean, Abdul

2104
01:48:38,160 --> 01:48:40,760
Speaker 1: Carter is a big difference in this game, especially because

2105
01:48:40,800 --> 01:48:43,000
Speaker 1: Riley Leonard can't beat you with your feet, so you're

2106
01:48:43,040 --> 01:48:45,599
Speaker 1: gonna need somebody just to disrupt him and get him

2107
01:48:45,600 --> 01:48:47,599
Speaker 1: off for them and also be able to bring him down.

2108
01:48:47,720 --> 01:48:51,160
Speaker 1: So no, if no Abdul Carter becomes a little easier

2109
01:48:51,200 --> 01:48:53,559
Speaker 1: for them to be able to make some plays. But man,

2110
01:48:53,640 --> 01:48:55,360
Speaker 1: I just I don't see it to you like to

2111
01:48:55,400 --> 01:48:57,640
Speaker 1: you for Notre Dame, They're gonna have to run the

2112
01:48:57,680 --> 01:48:59,559
Speaker 1: ball over and over and over and over and over again.

2113
01:49:00,320 --> 01:49:03,080
Speaker 1: With Riley and their their backs. They're gonna have to

2114
01:49:03,160 --> 01:49:04,960
Speaker 1: run the ball and then they're gonna have to hope

2115
01:49:05,000 --> 01:49:08,200
Speaker 1: that they can make what fifteen twenty plays that they're

2116
01:49:08,240 --> 01:49:10,320
Speaker 1: gonna need to be able to make that are solid,

2117
01:49:10,800 --> 01:49:13,800
Speaker 1: important completions in this game. I have a hard time

2118
01:49:13,840 --> 01:49:14,719
Speaker 1: seeing that from Riley.

2119
01:49:15,640 --> 01:49:17,360
Speaker 3: So you he says like Penn State.

2120
01:49:17,800 --> 01:49:19,439
Speaker 1: I like Penn State. Yeah, I like Penn State in

2121
01:49:19,479 --> 01:49:22,200
Speaker 1: this game. I can't believe I'm saying that. My my

2122
01:49:22,439 --> 01:49:26,080
Speaker 1: At the beginning of the playoffs, I predicted Oregon versus

2123
01:49:26,360 --> 01:49:29,360
Speaker 1: Notre Dame from a championship, so I'd like to be right.

2124
01:49:29,640 --> 01:49:31,960
Speaker 1: So Notre Dame winning would be nice, But I just

2125
01:49:32,800 --> 01:49:36,080
Speaker 1: it's pretty stuck in my head how poorly they threw

2126
01:49:36,120 --> 01:49:39,519
Speaker 1: the ball against Georgia. I think that's a pause for concern.

2127
01:49:40,240 --> 01:49:40,439
Speaker 4: Yeah.

2128
01:49:40,880 --> 01:49:43,000
Speaker 3: Yeah, they're gonna have to He's gonna have to throw

2129
01:49:43,040 --> 01:49:43,760
Speaker 3: the ball down the field.

2130
01:49:43,840 --> 01:49:44,800
Speaker 2: He has to open it up.

2131
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Speaker 3: There's no other way.

2132
01:49:46,320 --> 01:49:48,040
Speaker 2: But I you know what, Like, it's not like I

2133
01:49:48,080 --> 01:49:49,639
Speaker 2: haven't seen Leonard play well.

2134
01:49:51,600 --> 01:49:54,080
Speaker 1: You're one hundred percent right. He's definitely played well.

2135
01:49:54,240 --> 01:49:57,519
Speaker 2: And I love Aler's arm, but you know, he's also

2136
01:49:57,600 --> 01:50:01,080
Speaker 2: another one that's gotta that's that's not consistent, and they

2137
01:50:01,120 --> 01:50:04,200
Speaker 2: don't have We've already talked about your best players a

2138
01:50:04,280 --> 01:50:05,840
Speaker 2: tight end. It's not like you got a lot of

2139
01:50:05,840 --> 01:50:06,920
Speaker 2: players on the outside.

2140
01:50:07,400 --> 01:50:11,200
Speaker 1: Yeah, and that that that's what really concerns me. I mean, honestly,

2141
01:50:11,280 --> 01:50:14,760
Speaker 1: the fact that so you're telling me that Notre Dame

2142
01:50:14,840 --> 01:50:17,679
Speaker 1: only really has to focus on taking one thing away. Man,

2143
01:50:18,400 --> 01:50:20,400
Speaker 1: I just it just feels like there's going to be

2144
01:50:20,439 --> 01:50:22,400
Speaker 1: an ugly game, and in a good way if you

2145
01:50:22,439 --> 01:50:23,880
Speaker 1: love defense, but an ugly game.

2146
01:50:25,320 --> 01:50:31,080
Speaker 2: Rock fight, rock fight, You're not wrong. Now, the other

2147
01:50:31,120 --> 01:50:32,640
Speaker 2: one is not a rock fight. The other one is

2148
01:50:32,960 --> 01:50:36,360
Speaker 2: going to be the other one's fascinating. Is there any

2149
01:50:36,439 --> 01:50:39,080
Speaker 2: way Texas keeps US game close?

2150
01:50:41,680 --> 01:50:44,000
Speaker 1: The only way that Texas keeps this game close is

2151
01:50:44,040 --> 01:50:47,360
Speaker 1: if suddenly Will Howard throws a couple of picks and man,

2152
01:50:47,720 --> 01:50:52,280
Speaker 1: that Texas defense is really really good. They are really good,

2153
01:50:53,080 --> 01:50:58,040
Speaker 1: But my god, they're No. I don't think so. I'm

2154
01:50:58,400 --> 01:51:02,320
Speaker 1: I'm stunned by how efficient that offense has become for

2155
01:51:03,280 --> 01:51:06,920
Speaker 1: Ohio State. I'm stunned by how easy they make explosive plays.

2156
01:51:06,960 --> 01:51:10,160
Speaker 1: Look right now, I think Texas can slow them down.

2157
01:51:10,240 --> 01:51:12,360
Speaker 1: I just don't think Texas. So I don't think that's

2158
01:51:12,400 --> 01:51:15,200
Speaker 1: gonna be a great game. I can't believe I'm saying that.

2159
01:51:15,400 --> 01:51:16,720
Speaker 1: I don't think it's gonna be a great game.

2160
01:51:17,840 --> 01:51:22,160
Speaker 2: Well, I keep going back to it. They're gonna he's

2161
01:51:22,200 --> 01:51:25,360
Speaker 2: going to have to throw the football. It's going to

2162
01:51:25,439 --> 01:51:27,840
Speaker 2: be back to you, or it's because it's not like

2163
01:51:27,960 --> 01:51:32,200
Speaker 2: he's gonna flip the arch right. And I know we've

2164
01:51:32,320 --> 01:51:34,880
Speaker 2: talked about this before and about how they have to

2165
01:51:35,040 --> 01:51:38,000
Speaker 2: establish a run game, but I don't see how Ohio

2166
01:51:38,080 --> 01:51:42,160
Speaker 2: State doesn't just stack the box and say, go ahead,

2167
01:51:42,680 --> 01:51:45,639
Speaker 2: beat me down the field. And the only way you're

2168
01:51:45,640 --> 01:51:49,360
Speaker 2: gonna loosen up that defense is if you make plays

2169
01:51:49,439 --> 01:51:52,320
Speaker 2: down the field and they have the ability to do it.

2170
01:51:52,520 --> 01:51:54,639
Speaker 2: It's not like they don't have the ability to make

2171
01:51:54,720 --> 01:51:57,479
Speaker 2: plays down the field. They have great outside weapons.

2172
01:51:58,040 --> 01:52:02,120
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's just you. I don't trust quarterback. It's just

2173
01:52:02,280 --> 01:52:02,960
Speaker 1: it's that simple.

2174
01:52:03,280 --> 01:52:06,160
Speaker 2: I know, I know, well, I feel the same way.

2175
01:52:06,520 --> 01:52:09,240
Speaker 2: I'd love to see it. I would love to see

2176
01:52:09,360 --> 01:52:11,400
Speaker 2: Arch get the call. I'd love to see it. It

2177
01:52:11,439 --> 01:52:14,080
Speaker 2: would be the ultimate shakeup. Could you have bad d

2178
01:52:14,760 --> 01:52:15,240
Speaker 2: that coach?

2179
01:52:15,840 --> 01:52:17,439
Speaker 1: Be a courageous move from coach.

2180
01:52:17,640 --> 01:52:20,160
Speaker 2: I just don't think yours has that right now can

2181
01:52:20,240 --> 01:52:22,559
Speaker 2: win this game and the whole games in his hands.

2182
01:52:22,960 --> 01:52:26,200
Speaker 2: I'm fascinated by it. I I I think I would put.

2183
01:52:26,280 --> 01:52:28,120
Speaker 2: I would go Arch and go let's go out kid,

2184
01:52:28,400 --> 01:52:33,200
Speaker 2: Let's roll hook him. Fellas right here, Fox Sports Radio.

2185
01:52:33,960 --> 01:52:40,519
Speaker 2: Fellas from the tai iraq dot com Studios, Jason Fitz,

2186
01:52:40,560 --> 01:52:46,920
Speaker 2: Anthony Gargano. I got one NBA thing. Oh, if you're

2187
01:52:47,040 --> 01:52:51,439
Speaker 2: Jimmy Butler, do you ever get tired of being the

2188
01:52:51,560 --> 01:52:53,960
Speaker 2: biggest a hole in the entire sport?

2189
01:52:57,520 --> 01:53:00,840
Speaker 1: I think I think you just you have your role

2190
01:53:00,920 --> 01:53:03,040
Speaker 1: and you look at it and you call yourself the

2191
01:53:03,160 --> 01:53:05,639
Speaker 1: villain like they're making me out to be the villain

2192
01:53:05,760 --> 01:53:09,479
Speaker 1: rather than the actually you know, accepting your own responsibility in.

2193
01:53:09,479 --> 01:53:14,000
Speaker 2: That Yeah, I mean, I mean not an offense, dude,

2194
01:53:15,600 --> 01:53:17,519
Speaker 2: Like how many times? How many times you're going to

2195
01:53:17,600 --> 01:53:22,240
Speaker 2: force your way out of places? I mean really it's that,

2196
01:53:22,840 --> 01:53:26,920
Speaker 2: And again we wonder why the sport is on a

2197
01:53:27,040 --> 01:53:35,320
Speaker 2: downturn because you got players that are just unlikable, Like

2198
01:53:35,400 --> 01:53:37,920
Speaker 2: how many times you're gonna have guys just force their

2199
01:53:37,960 --> 01:53:42,120
Speaker 2: way out? Like there there's no rules, Like the player

2200
01:53:42,960 --> 01:53:45,200
Speaker 2: can do whatever they want as long as they power.

2201
01:53:47,840 --> 01:53:50,600
Speaker 1: The hard part about it is like it's also with

2202
01:53:51,080 --> 01:53:53,400
Speaker 1: a team that's not very good, but an organization that

2203
01:53:53,479 --> 01:53:55,000
Speaker 1: gets a lot of the benefit of the doubt in

2204
01:53:55,040 --> 01:53:55,599
Speaker 1: these situations.

2205
01:53:56,080 --> 01:53:56,640
Speaker 3: I'm giving that.

2206
01:53:56,720 --> 01:53:59,320
Speaker 2: I'm giving Riley and Sposure the benefit of that.

2207
01:53:59,360 --> 01:54:01,720
Speaker 1: All the time they've earned it.

2208
01:54:02,680 --> 01:54:03,519
Speaker 3: That's the bottom line.

2209
01:54:04,240 --> 01:54:07,240
Speaker 2: Who are you want to take Jimmy side when Jimmy

2210
01:54:07,439 --> 01:54:09,559
Speaker 2: already forced his way out of three other places?

2211
01:54:12,439 --> 01:54:15,080
Speaker 1: God, that's crazy, Like when you think of it that way,

2212
01:54:15,760 --> 01:54:18,200
Speaker 1: and you're right, it is. These are the moments that

2213
01:54:18,960 --> 01:54:22,400
Speaker 1: when you become a sport that only markets your players

2214
01:54:22,400 --> 01:54:26,439
Speaker 1: as individuals, when you have individuals like this, it gets difficult.

2215
01:54:26,720 --> 01:54:28,160
Speaker 1: I mean it's just it's hard to root for.

2216
01:54:28,160 --> 01:54:30,760
Speaker 2: It because it's like, all right, I'm not happy trade me.

2217
01:54:31,439 --> 01:54:34,040
Speaker 2: Oh we're not trading yet. Oh okay, well then I'm out,

2218
01:54:36,680 --> 01:54:37,240
Speaker 2: Like what's that.

2219
01:54:39,000 --> 01:54:39,600
Speaker 1: This hole?

2220
01:54:39,800 --> 01:54:43,720
Speaker 2: I'm holding you hostage until you move me where I

2221
01:54:43,840 --> 01:54:49,760
Speaker 2: want to go. Selective free agency when you're not a

2222
01:54:49,880 --> 01:54:53,680
Speaker 2: free agent. I mean, you can't have a sport run

2223
01:54:53,880 --> 01:54:54,040
Speaker 2: like that.

2224
01:54:56,600 --> 01:54:59,000
Speaker 1: And unfortunately, I don't know how you put the toothpaste

2225
01:54:59,000 --> 01:55:00,920
Speaker 1: back in the tube. Like the damage has already done.

2226
01:55:00,960 --> 01:55:03,440
Speaker 1: It's become this, you know, so how do you how

2227
01:55:03,480 --> 01:55:04,160
Speaker 1: do you fix that?

2228
01:55:04,360 --> 01:55:07,600
Speaker 3: You know? It's a shame because I'd love his game.

2229
01:55:08,080 --> 01:55:12,160
Speaker 2: He's a great player, right, but he's a reprehensible dude.

2230
01:55:12,640 --> 01:55:15,120
Speaker 2: I mean it's just for the sake of being that way.

2231
01:55:15,640 --> 01:55:18,360
Speaker 2: Like he was in Philadelphia and I heard all the

2232
01:55:18,440 --> 01:55:21,600
Speaker 2: horror stories and listen, I think the Sixers missed him.

2233
01:55:22,360 --> 01:55:24,280
Speaker 2: They might have won it if he was playing, because

2234
01:55:24,400 --> 01:55:28,120
Speaker 2: Jimmy was a guy that you know, could deliver down

2235
01:55:28,160 --> 01:55:31,480
Speaker 2: the stretch where it had big stones, the whole thing.

2236
01:55:32,320 --> 01:55:35,200
Speaker 2: But my god, was he difficult to deal with and

2237
01:55:35,600 --> 01:55:38,280
Speaker 2: shame because he don't have to be that way.

2238
01:55:39,480 --> 01:55:44,680
Speaker 1: It's it's tough. It's just impossible because when a player

2239
01:55:44,720 --> 01:55:46,000
Speaker 1: comes out and says, well, I want to find my

2240
01:55:46,080 --> 01:55:47,440
Speaker 1: joy back, I want to I want to find a

2241
01:55:47,520 --> 01:55:49,760
Speaker 1: way to make it fun. They in that process they

2242
01:55:49,840 --> 01:55:52,040
Speaker 1: become like it's almost like they're trying to be the

2243
01:55:52,120 --> 01:55:56,080
Speaker 1: victim here and exactly the team isn't particularly good. But

2244
01:55:56,960 --> 01:55:58,720
Speaker 1: you know, and I'm never a fan of the will

2245
01:55:58,760 --> 01:56:00,480
Speaker 1: you make a bunch of money go play? Okay, Life's

2246
01:56:00,520 --> 01:56:03,520
Speaker 1: never that simple. I realize life isn't that simple. There

2247
01:56:03,560 --> 01:56:05,240
Speaker 1: has to be a better way to handle these things though.

2248
01:56:05,320 --> 01:56:07,240
Speaker 1: There just has to be. There has to be a

2249
01:56:07,320 --> 01:56:10,000
Speaker 1: better way, you know, for Jimmy Butler to get what

2250
01:56:10,160 --> 01:56:13,000
Speaker 1: he wants out of this situation. I don't know it just.

2251
01:56:14,880 --> 01:56:17,960
Speaker 2: Right, Like if you're a veteran, I understand you don't

2252
01:56:17,960 --> 01:56:22,280
Speaker 2: want to be on a team that's languishing and doesn't

2253
01:56:22,360 --> 01:56:26,480
Speaker 2: have a trajectory to compete. Like I got it, you

2254
01:56:26,560 --> 01:56:30,480
Speaker 2: got so many years left. But unfortunately you just can't

2255
01:56:30,600 --> 01:56:35,840
Speaker 2: roll right, Like you just can't. You just can't get

2256
01:56:35,960 --> 01:56:38,440
Speaker 2: up in the league. Like you can request the trade,

2257
01:56:39,440 --> 01:56:43,240
Speaker 2: but like it's not up to it's it's like not

2258
01:56:43,680 --> 01:56:47,120
Speaker 2: the huge duty to do its best for Jimmy Butler

2259
01:56:47,240 --> 01:56:48,840
Speaker 2: towards in the twilight of his career.

2260
01:56:50,800 --> 01:56:53,640
Speaker 1: Well, and this is where I've said for years, I

2261
01:56:53,720 --> 01:56:55,840
Speaker 1: think where they went wrong is once players got this

2262
01:56:56,040 --> 01:56:59,160
Speaker 1: level of power. And I'm all in for players having power.

2263
01:56:59,200 --> 01:57:01,440
Speaker 1: I love it. Once you get this level of power,

2264
01:57:01,800 --> 01:57:04,600
Speaker 1: it makes roster construction impossible. You never know when somebody's

2265
01:57:04,720 --> 01:57:05,960
Speaker 1: just going to turn around and be like, I don't

2266
01:57:05,960 --> 01:57:08,640
Speaker 1: want to be here anymore. It really jams the team.

2267
01:57:08,760 --> 01:57:11,480
Speaker 1: At some point You've got to figure out a way

2268
01:57:11,640 --> 01:57:14,480
Speaker 1: to balance it. Like it's like it went too far

2269
01:57:14,600 --> 01:57:17,560
Speaker 1: towards empowerment to the player away from the team, and

2270
01:57:17,600 --> 01:57:19,560
Speaker 1: then it makes it impossible for teams to actually, I

2271
01:57:19,560 --> 01:57:21,480
Speaker 1: don't know, build for the future. If a player just

2272
01:57:21,520 --> 01:57:21,960
Speaker 1: comes in and.

2273
01:57:22,280 --> 01:57:25,440
Speaker 2: Right and have a team, and if you have a

2274
01:57:25,560 --> 01:57:29,720
Speaker 2: league with no structure of teams, what you got you

2275
01:57:29,800 --> 01:57:30,760
Speaker 2: got pickup games.

2276
01:57:31,840 --> 01:57:32,560
Speaker 3: I mean that's what it is.

2277
01:57:32,640 --> 01:57:35,080
Speaker 1: No easy solution too, You're right, no easy solution.

2278
01:57:35,240 --> 01:57:39,400
Speaker 2: That's why that's why the NFL model works. Where you know,

2279
01:57:40,480 --> 01:57:44,960
Speaker 2: it's about the team, it's about the sport. Listen, respect

2280
01:57:45,000 --> 01:57:49,720
Speaker 2: the player and the players should get his but ultimately

2281
01:57:49,880 --> 01:57:52,800
Speaker 2: it has to be about the team because the team

2282
01:57:52,840 --> 01:57:57,640
Speaker 2: will always be there, you know, you need structure. Where

2283
01:57:57,640 --> 01:58:01,200
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Speaker 2: All right, A couple things we're gonna go through rapidly.

2300
01:58:59,800 --> 01:59:03,560
Speaker 2: The final weekend on the NFL kind of state of

2301
01:59:03,640 --> 01:59:07,880
Speaker 2: the teams, who's playing, who games matter? We kind of

2302
01:59:07,960 --> 01:59:13,000
Speaker 2: know there's really one game that is compelling and it's

2303
01:59:13,160 --> 01:59:17,200
Speaker 2: for the one seed. And we'll begin there because that

2304
01:59:17,480 --> 01:59:23,880
Speaker 2: is Lions and Vikings tomorrow night. It's got all, it's

2305
01:59:23,960 --> 01:59:30,400
Speaker 2: got everything. But can the Lions play enough defense to

2306
01:59:30,520 --> 01:59:31,280
Speaker 2: get stops?

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01:59:31,360 --> 01:59:34,160
Speaker 3: FITZI I don't think so.

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01:59:34,760 --> 01:59:39,080
Speaker 1: I don't think so. But certainly I think they go

2309
01:59:39,160 --> 01:59:41,520
Speaker 1: into this game full throttle knowing that. So it's gonna

2310
01:59:41,520 --> 01:59:46,280
Speaker 1: be a reckless offensive matchup, which is it's video game football, right.

2311
01:59:46,680 --> 01:59:48,600
Speaker 1: I love every ounce of what we're gonna see. I

2312
01:59:48,680 --> 01:59:51,440
Speaker 1: would love their ability to just control this thing and

2313
01:59:51,520 --> 01:59:53,720
Speaker 1: grind it down if they had David Montgomery. Without that,

2314
01:59:53,800 --> 01:59:55,800
Speaker 1: I don't think they can. So this feels to me

2315
01:59:55,920 --> 01:59:58,480
Speaker 1: like just a shootout for the ages that we will

2316
01:59:58,520 --> 01:59:59,320
Speaker 1: love every second of.

2317
02:00:00,280 --> 02:00:03,720
Speaker 2: Lies. Your favorite lies. Your a three point favorite in

2318
02:00:03,760 --> 02:00:05,200
Speaker 2: the game. It's going to be great.

2319
02:00:05,360 --> 02:00:07,680
Speaker 1: That surprised, that surprised. It surprises me that they're a

2320
02:00:07,720 --> 02:00:08,560
Speaker 1: three point favorite.

2321
02:00:08,600 --> 02:00:10,920
Speaker 2: But yeah, I mean I think it's you know, that's

2322
02:00:10,960 --> 02:00:14,800
Speaker 2: the home field thing and gets Ford Field and you

2323
02:00:14,880 --> 02:00:17,560
Speaker 2: know kind of what it is. You get three points

2324
02:00:17,600 --> 02:00:18,960
Speaker 2: for your home field.

2325
02:00:19,240 --> 02:00:20,040
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's fair.

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02:00:20,480 --> 02:00:22,360
Speaker 3: You know it's going to be a great game. It

2327
02:00:22,480 --> 02:00:22,880
Speaker 3: really is.

2328
02:00:23,280 --> 02:00:27,880
Speaker 2: Uh, today we got football today. We got a huge line.

2329
02:00:28,000 --> 02:00:31,280
Speaker 2: The Braven's in the Browns and Baltimore is a twenty

2330
02:00:31,640 --> 02:00:32,640
Speaker 2: point favorite.

2331
02:00:33,200 --> 02:00:34,520
Speaker 3: Baltimore is still playing for.

2332
02:00:34,600 --> 02:00:39,680
Speaker 2: Some seeding twenty point Yeah, twenty points, buddy, I mean

2333
02:00:39,880 --> 02:00:41,160
Speaker 2: total forty one and a half.

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02:00:41,480 --> 02:00:42,640
Speaker 3: And they're twenty point.

2335
02:00:42,520 --> 02:00:45,000
Speaker 1: Favorite for a team that we came into this year

2336
02:00:45,520 --> 02:00:47,600
Speaker 1: against a team that we came into this year saying,

2337
02:00:47,680 --> 02:00:49,360
Speaker 1: you know, the quarterbacks a problem with the rest of

2338
02:00:49,400 --> 02:00:51,160
Speaker 1: that roster still has a lot of talent on it.

2339
02:00:51,280 --> 02:00:53,320
Speaker 1: This season has just gone off the rails.

2340
02:00:53,400 --> 02:00:56,160
Speaker 2: For my god, like you had a couple of moments

2341
02:00:56,240 --> 02:01:00,400
Speaker 2: remember with Jamis in a couple of interesting games they played,

2342
02:01:01,400 --> 02:01:05,600
Speaker 2: but ultimately three and thirteen. Wow.

2343
02:01:07,360 --> 02:01:08,520
Speaker 3: No one expected.

2344
02:01:10,760 --> 02:01:16,320
Speaker 1: The falloff on This has just been catastrophic for the Browns.

2345
02:01:16,360 --> 02:01:19,200
Speaker 1: And we talked earlier about fan bases that just you

2346
02:01:19,360 --> 02:01:21,480
Speaker 1: hate it for, and frankly, I think there were a

2347
02:01:21,520 --> 02:01:22,920
Speaker 1: lot of Browns fans. I know there were a lot

2348
02:01:22,960 --> 02:01:24,800
Speaker 1: of Browns fans because I certainly heard from them at

2349
02:01:24,800 --> 02:01:27,280
Speaker 1: the time that never wanted to Shaun in the first

2350
02:01:27,320 --> 02:01:29,600
Speaker 1: place and felt like they were stuck rooting for a

2351
02:01:29,680 --> 02:01:33,000
Speaker 1: team that they've loved their whole lives, but a quarterback

2352
02:01:33,080 --> 02:01:35,880
Speaker 1: situation that was less than ideal. And now it's just

2353
02:01:36,000 --> 02:01:38,760
Speaker 1: all become worst case scenario in this process. I just

2354
02:01:39,240 --> 02:01:42,640
Speaker 1: there's no easy solution. I really feel bad, genuinely feel

2355
02:01:42,680 --> 02:01:44,440
Speaker 1: bad right now for Browns.

2356
02:01:44,160 --> 02:01:49,920
Speaker 2: Fans, Bengals and Steelers.

2357
02:01:51,200 --> 02:01:52,440
Speaker 3: Bengals need some help.

2358
02:01:52,680 --> 02:01:55,920
Speaker 2: You gotta win, all right, first and foremost, you gotta win,

2359
02:01:56,000 --> 02:01:59,400
Speaker 2: Steelers playing for some seeding, but the Bengels are gonna

2360
02:01:59,400 --> 02:02:04,520
Speaker 2: need some help. And I mean, is there any one

2361
02:02:04,600 --> 02:02:08,600
Speaker 2: I know? People get tired for some reason. Joe Burrow

2362
02:02:08,760 --> 02:02:11,960
Speaker 2: is polarizing, and I don't know why that is, but

2363
02:02:12,400 --> 02:02:15,880
Speaker 2: he's a polarizing figure when you just go, damn. It's

2364
02:02:15,920 --> 02:02:18,680
Speaker 2: a shame for Joe because he's so great and he

2365
02:02:18,800 --> 02:02:22,880
Speaker 2: deserves better, but he does. Like you watch him last week,

2366
02:02:23,040 --> 02:02:26,800
Speaker 2: he did everything in his power to win that game.

2367
02:02:28,880 --> 02:02:33,920
Speaker 1: So, I mean, multiple people have said it's an MVP

2368
02:02:34,080 --> 02:02:36,640
Speaker 1: caliber season. He's having it, not wrong, I mean.

2369
02:02:36,640 --> 02:02:38,560
Speaker 3: But god forbid you bring that up. People go, oh

2370
02:02:38,600 --> 02:02:40,080
Speaker 3: my god, I MVP for what?

2371
02:02:40,800 --> 02:02:41,240
Speaker 2: Eight eight?

2372
02:02:43,280 --> 02:02:45,760
Speaker 1: Which is just the time that I can yell and scream.

2373
02:02:45,840 --> 02:02:48,960
Speaker 1: Yet again, quarterback wins, wins and losses are not a

2374
02:02:49,080 --> 02:02:51,880
Speaker 1: quarterback stat. It's just what else do you want Joe

2375
02:02:51,960 --> 02:02:55,360
Speaker 1: to do? It's just wild to me. I think the

2376
02:02:55,400 --> 02:02:58,920
Speaker 1: Bengals win this football game. The Bengals offense clicking on

2377
02:02:59,000 --> 02:03:02,200
Speaker 1: so many cylinders, and we all know that their defense

2378
02:03:02,360 --> 02:03:06,280
Speaker 1: is just a liability. Zach Taylor, their head coach, should

2379
02:03:06,280 --> 02:03:08,520
Speaker 1: have to answer some serious questions about why they've never

2380
02:03:08,600 --> 02:03:11,480
Speaker 1: made a change the defensive coordinator. And they've got to

2381
02:03:11,480 --> 02:03:13,920
Speaker 1: figure the defensive side of the ball out long term.

2382
02:03:14,000 --> 02:03:16,840
Speaker 1: But for this game, do you really believe that Pittsburgh's

2383
02:03:16,880 --> 02:03:18,880
Speaker 1: going to be able to stress that defense? I don't.

2384
02:03:19,080 --> 02:03:22,280
Speaker 1: So I think Cincinnati wins this game. Unfortunately, I don't

2385
02:03:22,280 --> 02:03:23,760
Speaker 1: think they get the help that they're going to need

2386
02:03:23,840 --> 02:03:25,400
Speaker 1: to get themselves in the playoffs from that.

2387
02:03:26,640 --> 02:03:28,320
Speaker 2: Yeah, well it's a lot of help, is what they

2388
02:03:28,440 --> 02:03:31,600
Speaker 2: need to I mean, it's a lot has to happen.

2389
02:03:32,440 --> 02:03:33,560
Speaker 3: I tend to agree with you.

2390
02:03:35,160 --> 02:03:37,960
Speaker 2: And then we wake up for tomorrow and here's tomorrow's

2391
02:03:38,040 --> 02:03:41,040
Speaker 2: big slate, Tennessee and Houston.

2392
02:03:42,280 --> 02:03:47,600
Speaker 3: Doesn't really matter. Texas are in. Is it the funny?

2393
02:03:47,800 --> 02:03:51,880
Speaker 2: They'll get the four point thirty slot on Saturday, which

2394
02:03:51,960 --> 02:03:55,600
Speaker 2: is always the least sexy spot of the Wildcard games.

2395
02:03:57,960 --> 02:04:00,640
Speaker 1: It's a tradition like no other that they're going to

2396
02:04:00,680 --> 02:04:03,160
Speaker 1: get that. You're one thousand percent right, So you can

2397
02:04:03,240 --> 02:04:04,720
Speaker 1: just sort of pencil it in and if you look

2398
02:04:04,720 --> 02:04:07,680
Speaker 1: at the playoff standings right now, Houston's the four seed

2399
02:04:08,360 --> 02:04:10,760
Speaker 1: as we stand right now, Pittsburgh's the five seeds. So

2400
02:04:10,960 --> 02:04:14,320
Speaker 1: just start preparing yourself for the early game next Saturday

2401
02:04:14,880 --> 02:04:17,000
Speaker 1: is going to be, you know, Pittsburgh at Houston. It

2402
02:04:17,120 --> 02:04:18,520
Speaker 1: just feels like that's the way it always goes.

2403
02:04:19,440 --> 02:04:22,440
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, Pittsburgh at Houston. You could say you can

2404
02:04:22,520 --> 02:04:26,480
Speaker 2: smell it, You're right, you're spot on, man, you could

2405
02:04:26,520 --> 02:04:32,080
Speaker 2: totally your your spot on with it. Uh, all right,

2406
02:04:32,880 --> 02:04:40,640
Speaker 2: at Carolina Atlanta. So Atlanta still in the hunt. Tampa

2407
02:04:40,720 --> 02:04:43,520
Speaker 2: is better, Tampa deserves it, and Tampa is gonna beat

2408
02:04:43,560 --> 02:04:46,040
Speaker 2: in New Orleans. So they got talent.

2409
02:04:47,080 --> 02:04:50,200
Speaker 1: Tampa's is a better football team. Right Like we talk

2410
02:04:50,240 --> 02:04:52,680
Speaker 1: about how we're you know, the things being said about

2411
02:04:52,680 --> 02:04:57,200
Speaker 1: Burrow right now, like Baker Mayfield not for nothing, like yeah,

2412
02:04:57,280 --> 02:05:00,520
Speaker 1: Sam Darnold, Baker Mayfield, Like we're seeing this reason Baker

2413
02:05:00,600 --> 02:05:04,240
Speaker 1: Mayfield is legitimately at this point a great starting quarterback

2414
02:05:04,280 --> 02:05:07,400
Speaker 1: in the NFL. He's not. We're gonna choose the whole

2415
02:05:07,400 --> 02:05:10,120
Speaker 1: conversation on Baker like this is no longer a fun

2416
02:05:10,200 --> 02:05:13,120
Speaker 1: story or Baker the personality or Baker the you know

2417
02:05:13,400 --> 02:05:18,160
Speaker 1: the funny guy or like Baker Mayfield's legit just play

2418
02:05:18,240 --> 02:05:20,720
Speaker 1: this tail off this year again for Tampa Bay.

2419
02:05:22,440 --> 02:05:27,080
Speaker 2: Dude, he's turned out to be. It's amazing. You look

2420
02:05:27,160 --> 02:05:31,920
Speaker 2: at the rehabit of these quarterbacks. The Arnold Baker, I mean,

2421
02:05:32,080 --> 02:05:35,560
Speaker 2: Baker looks great, looks legitimate, looks great.

2422
02:05:37,880 --> 02:05:42,160
Speaker 1: Unbelievably this year thirty nine touchdowns, fifteen picks. I looked

2423
02:05:42,160 --> 02:05:45,160
Speaker 1: it up, completing seventy two percent of his passes forty

2424
02:05:45,200 --> 02:05:48,560
Speaker 1: two hundred yards. Like with a game to go, b

2425
02:05:48,920 --> 02:05:52,000
Speaker 1: Baker Mayfield has lived up to the superstar hype. Took

2426
02:05:52,000 --> 02:05:54,080
Speaker 1: a second to get there and put I mean he's

2427
02:05:54,120 --> 02:05:57,080
Speaker 1: gonna get another guy, Liam Cohanes, the offensive coordinator there

2428
02:05:57,120 --> 02:05:58,920
Speaker 1: now for the Buccaneers. He's probably gonna be a head

2429
02:05:58,960 --> 02:06:03,840
Speaker 1: coaching candidate. Yet again, Baker's getting guys jobs. He's elevating coaches. Oh,

2430
02:06:04,080 --> 02:06:04,720
Speaker 1: this is crazy.

2431
02:06:05,560 --> 02:06:08,480
Speaker 2: He is he he looks great, he looks I mean

2432
02:06:08,480 --> 02:06:10,800
Speaker 2: he looked. I mean that offense, I mean Mike Evans

2433
02:06:10,880 --> 02:06:13,840
Speaker 2: is ridiculous, right, but look what he did, Like Kate

2434
02:06:13,920 --> 02:06:17,280
Speaker 2: Otton got hurt and Paying dorm comes in and he's

2435
02:06:17,760 --> 02:06:20,240
Speaker 2: at tight end and he threw him a touch.

2436
02:06:20,320 --> 02:06:21,760
Speaker 3: He throws him touchdown passes.

2437
02:06:21,920 --> 02:06:26,360
Speaker 1: Yeah, Evans would be much talked about contract incentives. So

2438
02:06:26,600 --> 02:06:28,960
Speaker 1: if he uh, if he catches what about eighty five

2439
02:06:29,040 --> 02:06:32,120
Speaker 1: yards with the passes today, he gets a three million

2440
02:06:32,160 --> 02:06:37,000
Speaker 1: dollar incentive. Baker Mayfield's even reference that. Plus if somehow

2441
02:06:37,080 --> 02:06:40,040
Speaker 1: Evans gets two touchdowns, he gets another almost seven hundred

2442
02:06:40,080 --> 02:06:42,880
Speaker 1: thousand dollars in incentives. So come on, Mike, a line

2443
02:06:42,920 --> 02:06:46,960
Speaker 1: for the bucks. Yep, Evans he deserves it.

2444
02:06:48,680 --> 02:06:52,000
Speaker 2: Mike deserves it, right Like, that's a guy that I

2445
02:06:52,080 --> 02:06:53,960
Speaker 2: would a roof for his bonus all day long.

2446
02:06:54,040 --> 02:06:56,600
Speaker 3: He deserves it. He always lays out on the field.

2447
02:06:57,480 --> 02:07:00,160
Speaker 1: That's why I would be a terrible NFL owner gm as.

2448
02:07:00,160 --> 02:07:01,280
Speaker 1: I'd look at a guy and be like, you know what,

2449
02:07:01,320 --> 02:07:02,960
Speaker 1: you played your tail off this year? Get it or not?

2450
02:07:03,000 --> 02:07:04,040
Speaker 1: Which is giving you the money?

2451
02:07:04,240 --> 02:07:05,520
Speaker 3: Yeah, to do it?

2452
02:07:05,560 --> 02:07:06,920
Speaker 1: But I'm like, it's giving you the cash.

2453
02:07:08,680 --> 02:07:12,080
Speaker 3: Bill's New England tomorrow. It's just a it's.

2454
02:07:13,880 --> 02:07:18,120
Speaker 2: Arrest and everybody gets gets going in a week from

2455
02:07:18,840 --> 02:07:22,080
Speaker 2: you know, next week for the playoffs, the Bills.

2456
02:07:21,920 --> 02:07:23,560
Speaker 1: Could afford to put something good out.

2457
02:07:23,800 --> 02:07:26,840
Speaker 3: I mean, I know it's my first series, so just

2458
02:07:26,920 --> 02:07:30,600
Speaker 3: to keep the streak alive, you know, but I do.

2459
02:07:30,680 --> 02:07:33,800
Speaker 1: Think there's a little bit. They haven't really passed the

2460
02:07:33,880 --> 02:07:36,120
Speaker 1: eye test the last few weeks, so I think going

2461
02:07:36,160 --> 02:07:38,080
Speaker 1: into the playoffs with a little bit of momentum would

2462
02:07:38,080 --> 02:07:38,640
Speaker 1: be a nice thing.

2463
02:07:40,600 --> 02:07:44,640
Speaker 3: Really you don't think so, no, I think.

2464
02:07:45,120 --> 02:07:46,960
Speaker 1: I mean, look at the last couple of kids.

2465
02:07:47,360 --> 02:07:49,600
Speaker 2: They won't they put up a forty burger last week

2466
02:07:49,840 --> 02:07:52,960
Speaker 2: when that sticky Jets team, I.

2467
02:07:53,000 --> 02:07:55,560
Speaker 1: Mean, yes, but that game in the first half was like, man,

2468
02:07:55,600 --> 02:07:58,200
Speaker 1: why are they hanging around? Like, yes, the second half

2469
02:07:58,240 --> 02:07:59,680
Speaker 1: that thing got out of control, but in the first

2470
02:07:59,680 --> 02:08:02,760
Speaker 1: half was certainly why are they hanging around? And then

2471
02:08:02,800 --> 02:08:04,920
Speaker 1: before that it was the Patriots game that was a

2472
02:08:04,960 --> 02:08:09,640
Speaker 1: close one. I just think, you know, they had the

2473
02:08:10,040 --> 02:08:13,080
Speaker 1: weird defensive effort against the Rams, they win the shootout

2474
02:08:13,120 --> 02:08:15,560
Speaker 1: against the Lions, that you know, I think obviously you

2475
02:08:15,680 --> 02:08:18,480
Speaker 1: take a lot from them, But then they looked against

2476
02:08:18,480 --> 02:08:20,520
Speaker 1: the Patriots, and they looked met for a half against

2477
02:08:20,560 --> 02:08:22,040
Speaker 1: the Jets, and just really, you know.

2478
02:08:22,640 --> 02:08:24,040
Speaker 3: I hear you, I don't. I don't know.

2479
02:08:24,080 --> 02:08:27,680
Speaker 2: I mean, I just played, I played. Yeah, I play

2480
02:08:28,520 --> 02:08:31,400
Speaker 2: the series and then be done with it. And I'm

2481
02:08:31,440 --> 02:08:33,600
Speaker 2: not worried. I mean, I I can't, I can't. I

2482
02:08:33,680 --> 02:08:37,120
Speaker 2: need them to have rest You're another team. They've been

2483
02:08:37,160 --> 02:08:42,480
Speaker 2: at it. I need them to rest up. Jacksonville Indianapolis?

2484
02:08:45,040 --> 02:08:45,400
Speaker 3: All right?

2485
02:08:46,320 --> 02:08:51,480
Speaker 2: Which code survives if either of them do? Peterson v Stiking,

2486
02:08:52,920 --> 02:08:53,640
Speaker 2: I'm starting.

2487
02:08:53,400 --> 02:08:56,640
Speaker 1: To lean towards her. Both gone, I'm genuinely starting to

2488
02:08:56,680 --> 02:08:58,920
Speaker 1: lean to I mean, Peterson's gone. So the question is

2489
02:08:58,960 --> 02:09:01,320
Speaker 1: what do you do with Stikeen? And I said it earlier,

2490
02:09:01,360 --> 02:09:03,920
Speaker 1: I wouldn't change Stikeen unless I was changing everything. But

2491
02:09:04,520 --> 02:09:06,480
Speaker 1: I'm not sure that Jim Mersey isn't going to look

2492
02:09:06,520 --> 02:09:09,080
Speaker 1: around and decided it is time to change everything. This

2493
02:09:09,800 --> 02:09:12,200
Speaker 1: Colt Steam. I mean, it did not go the way

2494
02:09:12,240 --> 02:09:15,080
Speaker 1: that anybody expected this year, and it looks a heck

2495
02:09:15,120 --> 02:09:17,080
Speaker 1: a lot closer like they don't have a quarterback in

2496
02:09:17,120 --> 02:09:19,240
Speaker 1: the building than they do. I mean, this is sort

2497
02:09:19,280 --> 02:09:21,880
Speaker 1: of this is the nightmare scenario that comes when you

2498
02:09:22,000 --> 02:09:24,600
Speaker 1: overdraft a quarterback and you're taking a big risk. But

2499
02:09:24,680 --> 02:09:26,400
Speaker 1: you got to understand when you take the big risk

2500
02:09:26,520 --> 02:09:28,360
Speaker 1: that at some point you left cupa in on it

2501
02:09:28,400 --> 02:09:29,400
Speaker 1: if it doesn't go well.

2502
02:09:29,800 --> 02:09:33,880
Speaker 2: Dude, exactly, And that's why I go. Can I fault

2503
02:09:33,960 --> 02:09:34,840
Speaker 2: Stiking for that?

2504
02:09:37,320 --> 02:09:40,040
Speaker 1: That's a really good that's a really good question. Because

2505
02:09:40,480 --> 02:09:44,000
Speaker 1: is it Stikeen's fault that Anthony Richardson hasn't really developed

2506
02:09:44,360 --> 02:09:46,720
Speaker 1: as much? Or is it Anthony Richardson's fault. That's a

2507
02:09:47,400 --> 02:09:49,840
Speaker 1: that we can't know. I don't know, not being in

2508
02:09:49,880 --> 02:09:50,240
Speaker 1: the building.

2509
02:09:50,280 --> 02:09:52,040
Speaker 2: We just I mean last year there were moments where

2510
02:09:52,080 --> 02:09:56,000
Speaker 2: everybody was glowing all over them. They were all styking,

2511
02:09:56,320 --> 02:09:58,240
Speaker 2: what a higher stik in.

2512
02:10:00,040 --> 02:10:03,480
Speaker 1: You got the Styka Stikeen, Stiker got Dyking got the

2513
02:10:03,600 --> 02:10:07,000
Speaker 1: most out of Gardner Minshew for sure. I mean Gardner

2514
02:10:07,040 --> 02:10:09,680
Speaker 1: Minshew and got paid by the Raiders in part because

2515
02:10:09,720 --> 02:10:12,080
Speaker 1: he looked pretty good against with the Colts at times,

2516
02:10:12,200 --> 02:10:15,240
Speaker 1: and then it turned into that. So yeah, I mean,

2517
02:10:15,840 --> 02:10:18,720
Speaker 1: you're right. It's amazing how quickly the shine changes on

2518
02:10:18,800 --> 02:10:19,240
Speaker 1: some of these.

2519
02:10:20,800 --> 02:10:29,560
Speaker 2: Uh, Washington, Dallas, all right, Washington and Dallas. There's really

2520
02:10:29,720 --> 02:10:34,480
Speaker 2: nothing for Dallas to play for. Washington is playing for

2521
02:10:35,040 --> 02:10:39,000
Speaker 2: the Ramp to play the Rams instead of Philadelphia, and

2522
02:10:39,160 --> 02:10:42,800
Speaker 2: I gotta believe they're gonna go all at tomorrow beat

2523
02:10:43,120 --> 02:10:43,720
Speaker 2: beat Dallas.

2524
02:10:45,560 --> 02:10:48,680
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, I think this is it is interesting.

2525
02:10:49,440 --> 02:10:52,680
Speaker 1: Does Dallas come out fired up to try and do

2526
02:10:52,880 --> 02:10:56,040
Speaker 1: something here? Are they playing for McCarthy's job. We start

2527
02:10:56,080 --> 02:10:59,160
Speaker 1: to see all these reports now, and clearly they're coming

2528
02:10:59,240 --> 02:11:03,000
Speaker 1: from McCarthy camp that you know, he is interested in

2529
02:11:03,160 --> 02:11:06,240
Speaker 1: other jobs if he doesn't come back to the Cowboys.

2530
02:11:06,320 --> 02:11:08,320
Speaker 1: So you know, what does this look like. Is this

2531
02:11:08,640 --> 02:11:12,120
Speaker 1: a last hurrah of an effort to try and maintain,

2532
02:11:12,800 --> 02:11:15,240
Speaker 1: you know, McCarthy in the status quo or do they

2533
02:11:15,360 --> 02:11:17,560
Speaker 1: just mail it in and just kind of accept change there.

2534
02:11:17,600 --> 02:11:19,080
Speaker 1: I don't know that's interesting to me now.

2535
02:11:19,160 --> 02:11:21,920
Speaker 2: But let me ask you a question, because I thought

2536
02:11:22,440 --> 02:11:24,960
Speaker 2: up going into last week and the last week they

2537
02:11:25,000 --> 02:11:27,720
Speaker 2: get murdered by the Eagles, right, but prior to that,

2538
02:11:28,280 --> 02:11:30,800
Speaker 2: they played five games and I thought they played tough.

2539
02:11:31,320 --> 02:11:34,800
Speaker 2: I mean, I already thought like that McCarthy had solidified

2540
02:11:34,840 --> 02:11:38,280
Speaker 2: his job, that they didn't quit when they when cde

2541
02:11:38,440 --> 02:11:41,920
Speaker 2: Land played Dya had some rhythm all, you know, offensively,

2542
02:11:42,000 --> 02:11:45,840
Speaker 2: they looked, you know, not bad, and you know, you

2543
02:11:45,960 --> 02:11:48,760
Speaker 2: go you go back and get a couple more weapons

2544
02:11:48,880 --> 02:11:51,240
Speaker 2: and get DAK and go back at it.

2545
02:11:51,360 --> 02:11:52,560
Speaker 3: That's kind of what I thought.

2546
02:11:53,080 --> 02:11:56,240
Speaker 1: I actually agree with that. I think that he's done enough.

2547
02:11:57,120 --> 02:12:01,360
Speaker 1: And Jerry, as we've talked about multiple times, Jerry Jones

2548
02:12:01,440 --> 02:12:04,680
Speaker 1: is not the impulsive owner he gets sort of labeled

2549
02:12:04,680 --> 02:12:06,760
Speaker 1: as so often. I think he's very calculated and what

2550
02:12:06,880 --> 02:12:10,280
Speaker 1: he does. My bigger question is what does McCarthy want

2551
02:12:10,320 --> 02:12:12,440
Speaker 1: to come back? Is there a part of McCarthy that

2552
02:12:12,800 --> 02:12:15,040
Speaker 1: you know doesn't want to deal with it, although you

2553
02:12:15,120 --> 02:12:17,520
Speaker 1: know a couple of the insiders I've talked to have

2554
02:12:17,600 --> 02:12:19,520
Speaker 1: made it clear that McCarthy doesn't really mind any of

2555
02:12:19,600 --> 02:12:22,040
Speaker 1: that stuff. Like where does Mike want to be next?

2556
02:12:22,480 --> 02:12:24,080
Speaker 1: Does he want to retire? Does he want to keep

2557
02:12:24,120 --> 02:12:26,160
Speaker 1: doing this? Does he want to do this with the Cowboys?

2558
02:12:26,200 --> 02:12:28,840
Speaker 1: I think those are all interesting angles this. I don't

2559
02:12:28,920 --> 02:12:31,680
Speaker 1: necessarily think it's a given that the Cowboys are going

2560
02:12:31,720 --> 02:12:32,000
Speaker 1: to move on.

2561
02:12:32,480 --> 02:12:37,800
Speaker 2: Uh, Eagles and Giants? Where did giants do? Obviously the

2562
02:12:37,840 --> 02:12:40,200
Speaker 2: Eagles have won, they don't need the game, so all

2563
02:12:40,240 --> 02:12:43,640
Speaker 2: their resting. We talked about Barkley and resting him. But

2564
02:12:43,720 --> 02:12:45,839
Speaker 2: what do the Giants do with Dable?

2565
02:12:46,160 --> 02:12:48,920
Speaker 1: Well, Shane is gone. We know that right like you

2566
02:12:49,560 --> 02:12:52,120
Speaker 1: you committed the ultimates and we all watched Hard Knocks

2567
02:12:52,120 --> 02:12:54,640
Speaker 1: where he was told. You know how uncomfortable the owner

2568
02:12:54,760 --> 02:12:56,800
Speaker 1: was with letting sak one out the door. So Joe Shaye,

2569
02:12:56,840 --> 02:12:59,480
Speaker 1: the GM is gone. So then the question is when.

2570
02:12:59,360 --> 02:12:59,720
Speaker 2: You do this?

2571
02:13:00,200 --> 02:13:03,600
Speaker 1: And this is where I will plant this flag repeatedly

2572
02:13:03,760 --> 02:13:05,920
Speaker 1: for the rest of the off season. When you bring

2573
02:13:06,040 --> 02:13:09,000
Speaker 1: in a new GM, I think at that point you

2574
02:13:09,080 --> 02:13:10,480
Speaker 1: have to bring in a new coach too, and you

2575
02:13:10,560 --> 02:13:12,960
Speaker 1: have to do the full reset, because otherwise the GM

2576
02:13:13,040 --> 02:13:14,640
Speaker 1: turns around and says, what wasn't my guy and you

2577
02:13:14,720 --> 02:13:17,760
Speaker 1: end up with this blame plat passing situation that doesn't

2578
02:13:17,800 --> 02:13:20,800
Speaker 1: make any sense to me. To me, blow the whole

2579
02:13:20,840 --> 02:13:24,000
Speaker 1: thing up, and you're gonna get everybody new in. Just

2580
02:13:24,040 --> 02:13:27,440
Speaker 1: start the whole process over and get accountability from day

2581
02:13:27,520 --> 02:13:30,480
Speaker 1: one where everybody's on the same page together, which means

2582
02:13:30,600 --> 02:13:34,880
Speaker 1: new GM, new coach, new quarterback. That's all that all

2583
02:13:34,960 --> 02:13:37,680
Speaker 1: happens at once. If you do it in stages, you

2584
02:13:37,840 --> 02:13:41,600
Speaker 1: just delay the inevitable cough of Chicago Bears. So to me,

2585
02:13:41,800 --> 02:13:44,440
Speaker 1: that's why I'm right now, I'm who's the guy?

2586
02:13:44,680 --> 02:13:44,800
Speaker 3: Right?

2587
02:13:44,880 --> 02:13:46,880
Speaker 2: Like you're going to tell you both New York teams

2588
02:13:46,960 --> 02:13:51,000
Speaker 2: need a coach. Who's the guy for the Giants?

2589
02:13:51,680 --> 02:13:53,080
Speaker 1: I mean, I think you're trying to make a big

2590
02:13:53,160 --> 02:13:55,480
Speaker 1: sweeping higher and get you you get you, Ben Johnson.

2591
02:13:55,560 --> 02:13:56,920
Speaker 1: I think that's what you're trying to do.

2592
02:13:57,840 --> 02:13:59,640
Speaker 3: Is that what you did with Dable.

2593
02:14:00,200 --> 02:14:03,600
Speaker 2: Yeah, Dabel was the hot coordinator coming out of Buffalo.

2594
02:14:04,160 --> 02:14:06,920
Speaker 2: They went all in on them. I still don't know

2595
02:14:07,120 --> 02:14:11,000
Speaker 2: about Dable as a coach, because you got saddled with

2596
02:14:11,120 --> 02:14:14,400
Speaker 2: Daniel Jones and a bad situation, and.

2597
02:14:14,480 --> 02:14:16,200
Speaker 1: He got enough out of Daniel Jones that he got

2598
02:14:16,240 --> 02:14:19,360
Speaker 1: paid for a second too. Like that's you know, they

2599
02:14:19,440 --> 02:14:23,480
Speaker 1: got a playoff win out of Daniel Jones. So it's

2600
02:14:24,520 --> 02:14:26,600
Speaker 1: I don't know, man, I just I don't have the

2601
02:14:26,640 --> 02:14:29,800
Speaker 1: answer on who the better person is. Certainly the Giants

2602
02:14:30,000 --> 02:14:34,240
Speaker 1: rumored to be in the Verbel consideration also, But if

2603
02:14:34,280 --> 02:14:36,520
Speaker 1: I'm the Giants, what I don't want to do is

2604
02:14:36,960 --> 02:14:39,240
Speaker 1: a new GM and then Dable sticks around with a

2605
02:14:39,280 --> 02:14:41,360
Speaker 1: new quarterback, but then it doesn't work out. So then

2606
02:14:41,400 --> 02:14:43,640
Speaker 1: then they fired the coach and all of a sudden,

2607
02:14:43,720 --> 02:14:46,920
Speaker 1: the quarterback that you has got a different coach and

2608
02:14:47,000 --> 02:14:48,800
Speaker 1: a different system in his ear in year two. This

2609
02:14:48,960 --> 02:14:51,160
Speaker 1: is all the stuff that really bothered me about the

2610
02:14:51,200 --> 02:14:53,040
Speaker 1: Bears approach. I don't think it's a lot different for

2611
02:14:53,120 --> 02:14:55,560
Speaker 1: the Giants, So I don't have the answer on necessarily

2612
02:14:55,600 --> 02:14:57,800
Speaker 1: who's a sure thing better higher, But I don't want

2613
02:14:57,800 --> 02:14:59,520
Speaker 1: to start a revolving door, and I don't think there's

2614
02:14:59,520 --> 02:15:01,240
Speaker 1: any situa was there back.

2615
02:15:01,800 --> 02:15:05,120
Speaker 2: I know, and and and that's a that's a real issue.

2616
02:15:05,280 --> 02:15:07,600
Speaker 2: It's a real issue of kind of what you do.

2617
02:15:07,920 --> 02:15:11,840
Speaker 2: And I think you're right now this talk about Sirianny again,

2618
02:15:11,920 --> 02:15:16,000
Speaker 2: Jeremy Fowler, case you missed it, said that he needs

2619
02:15:16,120 --> 02:15:18,480
Speaker 2: to get out of the second round to keep it,

2620
02:15:19,000 --> 02:15:20,640
Speaker 2: to make sure his job is safe.

2621
02:15:21,280 --> 02:15:23,840
Speaker 3: I find that to be crazy. I do.

2622
02:15:24,040 --> 02:15:27,600
Speaker 2: I find it to be actually ridiculous. And again, Jeremy

2623
02:15:27,640 --> 02:15:30,880
Speaker 2: Foller does a great job. But I'm I don't know.

2624
02:15:32,480 --> 02:15:36,040
Speaker 2: We've talked about the dearth of really really strong candidates.

2625
02:15:37,560 --> 02:15:37,920
Speaker 3: I don't know.

2626
02:15:38,240 --> 02:15:42,919
Speaker 2: I mean, why Syrianny's done nothing but put out fires

2627
02:15:43,720 --> 02:15:48,440
Speaker 2: and be a and win double digits again, like, look

2628
02:15:48,480 --> 02:15:51,000
Speaker 2: at the look at every year he's win. He wins

2629
02:15:51,040 --> 02:15:54,680
Speaker 2: double digits. I grant you, Howie Roseman is the best

2630
02:15:54,760 --> 02:15:58,200
Speaker 2: GM in football, all right, I think, But my god,

2631
02:15:59,120 --> 02:16:01,440
Speaker 2: Syrianny is not exactly a pastor on the boss.

2632
02:16:02,200 --> 02:16:05,680
Speaker 1: Yeah, I Syrianna has shown enough for us to have

2633
02:16:05,760 --> 02:16:08,360
Speaker 1: proof of concept that he can coach. Like you said earlier,

2634
02:16:08,400 --> 02:16:10,040
Speaker 1: I don't know what dable is. I think that's why

2635
02:16:10,080 --> 02:16:13,480
Speaker 1: it's such a different conversation. We know sirianic kick coach look,

2636
02:16:13,680 --> 02:16:16,960
Speaker 1: he might have his personality differences with Jalen Hurts. They

2637
02:16:17,040 --> 02:16:19,400
Speaker 1: might have communication issues. Not every coach is a great

2638
02:16:19,440 --> 02:16:22,000
Speaker 1: communicator in that sense. Might have things he wants to

2639
02:16:22,080 --> 02:16:24,560
Speaker 1: work on. But is that a reason to fire somebody,

2640
02:16:24,760 --> 02:16:27,840
Speaker 1: especially when you're in this Super Bowl window? I would

2641
02:16:27,840 --> 02:16:29,280
Speaker 1: have a hard time seeing it. I would have a

2642
02:16:29,440 --> 02:16:30,360
Speaker 1: very hard time seeing it.

2643
02:16:30,680 --> 02:16:33,039
Speaker 2: I know, all right, were gonna take quick time out

2644
02:16:33,360 --> 02:16:35,720
Speaker 2: the brain's coming up. We'll take a look at the

2645
02:16:35,879 --> 02:16:40,400
Speaker 2: football weekend and looking ahead to the College Final four.

2646
02:16:40,720 --> 02:16:43,440
Speaker 2: We'll look at the playoffs and everything from a betting standpoint.

2647
02:16:43,520 --> 02:16:46,360
Speaker 2: Coming up next, Where the Fella is hanging out with

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02:16:46,480 --> 02:16:50,160
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2649
02:16:51,080 --> 02:16:53,960
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2650
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2653
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2654
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2658
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2659
02:17:36,160 --> 02:17:40,200
Speaker 2: Now joining us are betting analysts. Here, of course, is

2660
02:17:40,240 --> 02:17:43,880
Speaker 2: the great Brain Brad Feinberg.

2661
02:17:44,000 --> 02:17:46,800
Speaker 1: Good morning Brain, Morning Brain.

2662
02:17:47,120 --> 02:17:47,560
Speaker 3: Where is he?

2663
02:17:48,000 --> 02:17:53,560
Speaker 2: Where's the brain? He's evaporated? We lost him? All right, Well,

2664
02:17:54,080 --> 02:17:56,520
Speaker 2: if you get us back, get him back by Bray.

2665
02:17:56,600 --> 02:17:59,400
Speaker 2: We appreciate it. The brain evaporating.

2666
02:18:00,080 --> 02:18:00,840
Speaker 1: We go through.

2667
02:18:01,040 --> 02:18:04,960
Speaker 2: I'm curious to see you know today we've got weird lines.

2668
02:18:05,120 --> 02:18:10,480
Speaker 2: This last week is a really it's like almost trying

2669
02:18:10,480 --> 02:18:15,080
Speaker 2: to handicap the Bowl games. FITZI, who's in the portal?

2670
02:18:15,200 --> 02:18:18,160
Speaker 2: Who's not playing? It is kind of crazy.

2671
02:18:19,120 --> 02:18:19,640
Speaker 3: Right here we go.

2672
02:18:19,760 --> 02:18:21,640
Speaker 1: We got the yah, I think we got them.

2673
02:18:21,920 --> 02:18:22,480
Speaker 3: Yeah, we got it.

2674
02:18:23,600 --> 02:18:26,840
Speaker 1: Good morning brain, How are you my friends here?

2675
02:18:27,200 --> 02:18:31,360
Speaker 2: Funny Happy New Year, Happy New Year. A couple of things.

2676
02:18:31,959 --> 02:18:35,200
Speaker 2: We got a lot to cover football wise, But first,

2677
02:18:35,920 --> 02:18:40,120
Speaker 2: how do you handicap this week eighteen? And like you

2678
02:18:40,240 --> 02:18:45,400
Speaker 2: look today in Baltimore is a twenty point favorite Funny

2679
02:18:45,800 --> 02:18:46,280
Speaker 2: over Cleave.

2680
02:18:46,400 --> 02:18:50,680
Speaker 6: Yeah, well, listen with the week eighteen stuff at It

2681
02:18:50,840 --> 02:18:54,680
Speaker 6: reminds me so so much of what happens like with

2682
02:18:54,800 --> 02:18:59,160
Speaker 6: the preseason, where there's an opportunity. Okay, there's an opportunity,

2683
02:18:59,200 --> 02:19:02,600
Speaker 6: but you have to that this stuff immediately. I'm talking

2684
02:19:02,800 --> 02:19:06,560
Speaker 6: like right on that Sunday last Sunday. When these lines

2685
02:19:06,600 --> 02:19:08,200
Speaker 6: are coming out, you have to be right to pounds.

2686
02:19:09,000 --> 02:19:12,039
Speaker 6: For example, I got Seattle getting two and a half

2687
02:19:12,080 --> 02:19:14,680
Speaker 6: against the Rams. That line's now laying six and a

2688
02:19:14,680 --> 02:19:17,879
Speaker 6: halfty cause why did I get that Rams clinched the division.

2689
02:19:18,320 --> 02:19:22,200
Speaker 6: Mcday's history is he hits everyone in those situations. So

2690
02:19:22,440 --> 02:19:25,200
Speaker 6: you can be ahead of that this. You know, my

2691
02:19:25,320 --> 02:19:28,240
Speaker 6: spoke to you Anthony last early in the week, we're

2692
02:19:28,280 --> 02:19:31,600
Speaker 6: talking about the Washington how Washington was now the number sixty.

2693
02:19:32,080 --> 02:19:34,920
Speaker 6: I was like hotly smokes that this is a huge

2694
02:19:34,920 --> 02:19:36,520
Speaker 6: game for them. They don't want to play the Eagles,

2695
02:19:36,879 --> 02:19:39,000
Speaker 6: So I made three against them against Dallas, that line

2696
02:19:39,000 --> 02:19:41,760
Speaker 6: since going up to six and a half. You have

2697
02:19:41,920 --> 02:19:46,480
Speaker 6: to just be in front of what is eventually going

2698
02:19:46,520 --> 02:19:49,240
Speaker 6: to San Francisco is another situation. Buck Purdy saw him

2699
02:19:49,440 --> 02:19:52,640
Speaker 6: injured and that Monday night game boom. But you know,

2700
02:19:52,800 --> 02:19:54,880
Speaker 6: go against them knowing there's a good chance thing it

2701
02:19:55,000 --> 02:19:57,840
Speaker 6: is his elbow. Maybe he's not going to play but

2702
02:19:57,920 --> 02:19:59,959
Speaker 6: a lot of the other ones are just it's tough

2703
02:20:00,080 --> 02:20:01,640
Speaker 6: to know with the motivation. But I will tell you

2704
02:20:01,680 --> 02:20:04,760
Speaker 6: that it's interesting stack guys. When the team the court

2705
02:20:04,879 --> 02:20:08,040
Speaker 6: quote has to win the cover the game. This is

2706
02:20:08,080 --> 02:20:10,520
Speaker 6: document over thirty years. The team the court unquote has

2707
02:20:10,600 --> 02:20:14,000
Speaker 6: no motivation covers the game at almost a two out

2708
02:20:14,040 --> 02:20:18,240
Speaker 6: of three clip. Why because the line gets over exaggerated

2709
02:20:18,240 --> 02:20:20,400
Speaker 6: because everyone thinks, oh, this one team needs to in

2710
02:20:20,520 --> 02:20:22,560
Speaker 6: the other team don't need to win. But it gets

2711
02:20:22,879 --> 02:20:26,199
Speaker 6: over put into the line. So I would caution people

2712
02:20:26,240 --> 02:20:27,920
Speaker 6: when you say a team just half pay. For example,

2713
02:20:27,959 --> 02:20:30,720
Speaker 6: Baltimore has to win the game. That may means nothing

2714
02:20:30,879 --> 02:20:34,640
Speaker 6: for Cleveland. Well, you know, laying twenty points. It's obviously

2715
02:20:34,720 --> 02:20:35,800
Speaker 6: being baked into the line.

2716
02:20:37,240 --> 02:20:40,600
Speaker 1: Yeah. That being said, how much do you factor in

2717
02:20:40,760 --> 02:20:43,800
Speaker 1: the conversation about incentives and contracts going into the last

2718
02:20:43,800 --> 02:20:44,440
Speaker 1: week of the season.

2719
02:20:44,520 --> 02:20:48,880
Speaker 6: Oh, for sure, listen prop wise, absolutely, But unfortunately, the

2720
02:20:48,959 --> 02:20:52,840
Speaker 6: sportsbooks definitely have gotten better and understanding that. It used

2721
02:20:52,879 --> 02:20:54,520
Speaker 6: to be almost like you know, kid being in a

2722
02:20:54,560 --> 02:20:57,640
Speaker 6: candy store and being unlimited to fay. Now though, the

2723
02:20:57,720 --> 02:21:01,959
Speaker 6: sportsbooks really have wised up. See like players like Mike

2724
02:21:02,040 --> 02:21:04,080
Speaker 6: Evans is obviously one of the guys wh've mailed up,

2725
02:21:04,360 --> 02:21:06,680
Speaker 6: he gets ninety five yards. To believe it is he gets,

2726
02:21:06,720 --> 02:21:09,240
Speaker 6: you know, is a thousand yard season and he get

2727
02:21:09,280 --> 02:21:12,400
Speaker 6: the big bonus. But the sportsbooks are juicing these numbers

2728
02:21:12,720 --> 02:21:15,320
Speaker 6: where if you want to take those overs, you know

2729
02:21:15,920 --> 02:21:18,080
Speaker 6: you're gonna have to really pay for it. It's it's

2730
02:21:18,120 --> 02:21:20,360
Speaker 6: really taxed in. But I obviously look at it very

2731
02:21:20,480 --> 02:21:22,959
Speaker 6: much and if you can hopefully get more obscure players,

2732
02:21:23,680 --> 02:21:25,800
Speaker 6: it works a loisia. But now with the Internet everyone

2733
02:21:25,920 --> 02:21:28,080
Speaker 6: knows everything, it's getting harder to find those values.

2734
02:21:28,160 --> 02:21:29,640
Speaker 1: To be honest, who do you.

2735
02:21:29,680 --> 02:21:32,800
Speaker 2: Have who I know, Mike Evans, we talked about Mike Evans,

2736
02:21:33,240 --> 02:21:33,880
Speaker 2: anybody else?

2737
02:21:34,480 --> 02:21:38,720
Speaker 6: Gino Smith. Gino Smith has like the biggest uh, Like

2738
02:21:39,040 --> 02:21:41,080
Speaker 6: he has to just throw for like one hundred and

2739
02:21:41,240 --> 02:21:42,640
Speaker 6: I think it is like one hundred and sixty yards.

2740
02:21:42,640 --> 02:21:45,160
Speaker 6: He gets like a four million dollar a four million

2741
02:21:45,240 --> 02:21:48,680
Speaker 6: dollar bonus. So he is like the most the gain

2742
02:21:48,920 --> 02:21:51,520
Speaker 6: of anyone, uh that you know. But but to me,

2743
02:21:52,840 --> 02:21:56,400
Speaker 6: it's again a lot of the value has really been

2744
02:21:56,440 --> 02:21:59,760
Speaker 6: taken out of it because of uh it's just the

2745
02:22:00,360 --> 02:22:02,720
Speaker 6: they juiced it up so much. If a Karon Barkley

2746
02:22:02,720 --> 02:22:04,080
Speaker 6: had played this week. I would have loved to have

2747
02:22:04,160 --> 02:22:06,280
Speaker 6: seen the guys. What they would have made is over under,

2748
02:22:06,480 --> 02:22:08,280
Speaker 6: because they would have made it, I'm sure exactly what

2749
02:22:08,600 --> 02:22:10,840
Speaker 6: you know, they'd like four yards over what he needs

2750
02:22:10,879 --> 02:22:13,320
Speaker 6: to get for the record, and I think they would

2751
02:22:13,360 --> 02:22:15,840
Speaker 6: have juiced it like minus like three hundred, you know,

2752
02:22:16,360 --> 02:22:18,560
Speaker 6: because who's going to take the under?

2753
02:22:18,760 --> 02:22:21,240
Speaker 1: So then, are there any bets that you're you're looking

2754
02:22:21,280 --> 02:22:23,400
Speaker 1: at now for the playoffs that makes sense yet? Or

2755
02:22:23,440 --> 02:22:25,560
Speaker 1: do you wait until everything's set? Well?

2756
02:22:25,760 --> 02:22:28,400
Speaker 6: Well, well right now, you know, Look, you can't bet

2757
02:22:28,480 --> 02:22:31,280
Speaker 6: anything for the matchups you know haven't been set yet,

2758
02:22:31,360 --> 02:22:33,880
Speaker 6: so you can't. You know, there are hypothetical matchups, so

2759
02:22:33,920 --> 02:22:36,440
Speaker 6: they actually do I did see, like I blew a

2760
02:22:36,520 --> 02:22:38,840
Speaker 6: standal came out with like hypothetical minds. You can see

2761
02:22:38,920 --> 02:22:41,600
Speaker 6: what the stuff is. But those they cancel, those bets

2762
02:22:41,640 --> 02:22:43,880
Speaker 6: that they have them in thick games doesn't actually happen.

2763
02:22:45,000 --> 02:22:47,960
Speaker 6: But no, I mean I really haven't unloaded on that yet.

2764
02:22:48,120 --> 02:22:50,040
Speaker 6: But you know, i'm more or less so you know

2765
02:22:50,120 --> 02:22:52,120
Speaker 6: what I think each number should be, and when the

2766
02:22:52,200 --> 02:22:54,680
Speaker 6: games come, you know, I'll be ready to do it

2767
02:22:54,720 --> 02:22:56,480
Speaker 6: if I think there's a you know, anything off the

2768
02:22:56,560 --> 02:22:58,800
Speaker 6: three for example by any games we laying three, it's

2769
02:22:58,840 --> 02:23:00,480
Speaker 6: he there're two and a half or three, and you

2770
02:23:00,560 --> 02:23:03,400
Speaker 6: know I'll that side depending on which way the game goes.

2771
02:23:04,560 --> 02:23:07,560
Speaker 3: Any thoughts on Bengels Steelers to that, Yeah, I do.

2772
02:23:07,720 --> 02:23:08,160
Speaker 1: I look.

2773
02:23:08,240 --> 02:23:11,600
Speaker 6: I like Pittsburgh here, I do. Pittsburgh will be playing

2774
02:23:11,600 --> 02:23:15,480
Speaker 6: their players. I don't quite get this line. Again. Cincinnati

2775
02:23:15,560 --> 02:23:17,720
Speaker 6: to me is a team that I guess because they're

2776
02:23:18,400 --> 02:23:20,720
Speaker 6: you know, it's like the comfort food because those are

2777
02:23:20,800 --> 02:23:23,680
Speaker 6: three hundred fifty yards every game, everyone wants to take them.

2778
02:23:23,920 --> 02:23:26,440
Speaker 6: Rooting for Pittsburgh is fun unquote not fine. You have

2779
02:23:26,600 --> 02:23:29,240
Speaker 6: the three yards and the cloud of dust kind of offense.

2780
02:23:29,879 --> 02:23:30,039
Speaker 3: Yeah.

2781
02:23:30,160 --> 02:23:32,920
Speaker 6: Really, you're being objective about it. Again, the game's in Pittsburgh.

2782
02:23:33,080 --> 02:23:37,560
Speaker 6: They're basically saying here that Cincinnati is, you know, legitimately

2783
02:23:37,959 --> 02:23:40,400
Speaker 6: three plus points better on a neutral field. I don't

2784
02:23:40,440 --> 02:23:42,880
Speaker 6: see that. I don't see that at all. I think

2785
02:23:43,120 --> 02:23:45,800
Speaker 6: this line should be flipped the lines two and a half.

2786
02:23:45,959 --> 02:23:47,600
Speaker 6: I think Pittsburgh should be laying two and a half.

2787
02:23:47,760 --> 02:23:49,520
Speaker 6: This is the most off of any game and the

2788
02:23:49,600 --> 02:23:52,880
Speaker 6: powerities for me this week by far, I like Pittsburgh.

2789
02:23:52,879 --> 02:23:54,440
Speaker 6: I think Pittsburgh will win. I don't get the line.

2790
02:23:54,600 --> 02:23:56,440
Speaker 1: What about We talked a lot about the matchup of

2791
02:23:56,480 --> 02:23:58,480
Speaker 1: the weekend. What do you see for the Vikings lines

2792
02:23:58,560 --> 02:23:59,320
Speaker 1: matchup well?

2793
02:24:00,080 --> 02:24:05,039
Speaker 6: And this is a game guys that to me, listen Detroit,

2794
02:24:05,200 --> 02:24:06,959
Speaker 6: I give them a ton of credit losing all these

2795
02:24:07,040 --> 02:24:11,119
Speaker 6: defensive players and they're still continuing to win. But here's

2796
02:24:11,160 --> 02:24:13,640
Speaker 6: the thing. I mean, it's like, when you're losing this

2797
02:24:13,760 --> 02:24:16,240
Speaker 6: many defensive players, it's the line's three point, you think,

2798
02:24:16,240 --> 02:24:18,600
Speaker 6: get three points. Though I don't understand why this line

2799
02:24:19,000 --> 02:24:21,440
Speaker 6: is that high. I think this is a stone cold

2800
02:24:21,560 --> 02:24:24,160
Speaker 6: fifty to fifty dealers to this kind of game. I

2801
02:24:24,240 --> 02:24:26,240
Speaker 6: know it's a high total game where points don't matter

2802
02:24:26,320 --> 02:24:28,600
Speaker 6: as much in terms of an underdog, usually like getting

2803
02:24:28,640 --> 02:24:30,680
Speaker 6: points more in a lower total game because each point

2804
02:24:30,920 --> 02:24:34,200
Speaker 6: has more values or rarety points to be scored. Game

2805
02:24:34,320 --> 02:24:36,320
Speaker 6: like this is going to be a ton of points scored,

2806
02:24:36,440 --> 02:24:38,440
Speaker 6: or the points to point of theoretically don't mean as much.

2807
02:24:38,480 --> 02:24:40,840
Speaker 6: But to me, I bet the Vikings plus three. Guys,

2808
02:24:41,400 --> 02:24:44,320
Speaker 6: I'm very comfortable in my power rank. I think this

2809
02:24:44,440 --> 02:24:46,000
Speaker 6: game is I think the Vikings are the better team

2810
02:24:46,080 --> 02:24:47,879
Speaker 6: right now. You want to give me three points, I'm

2811
02:24:47,879 --> 02:24:49,920
Speaker 6: going to take it. Ton of respect for the Troy's offense.

2812
02:24:49,959 --> 02:24:51,960
Speaker 6: So best offense may, after all, in my opinion, buy

2813
02:24:52,000 --> 02:24:52,600
Speaker 6: a wide margin.

2814
02:24:53,280 --> 02:24:59,879
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, all right, let's go college Prava. So let's

2815
02:25:00,160 --> 02:25:03,360
Speaker 2: art off Notre Dame ped State. Hi, you eighty cabinets.

2816
02:25:03,400 --> 02:25:06,720
Speaker 6: Well, buddy, you know it's interesting when I when I

2817
02:25:06,760 --> 02:25:10,680
Speaker 6: looked at this game at me, I actually made this

2818
02:25:10,879 --> 02:25:13,560
Speaker 6: game in my power ratings dead even. I just got

2819
02:25:13,600 --> 02:25:15,000
Speaker 6: team deady. But I said to me, I thought, you

2820
02:25:15,080 --> 02:25:17,760
Speaker 6: know what, Yeah, I did trust Freeman more than I

2821
02:25:17,879 --> 02:25:21,000
Speaker 6: truck Franklin. So I do Notre Dame about one to

2822
02:25:21,160 --> 02:25:22,520
Speaker 6: one and a half point, and I think it's up

2823
02:25:22,520 --> 02:25:25,120
Speaker 6: to two now driving right now, but I think it's

2824
02:25:25,200 --> 02:25:27,640
Speaker 6: up to two. Look, this should be a close game.

2825
02:25:27,800 --> 02:25:30,200
Speaker 6: This should be a good game. Both teams, to me,

2826
02:25:30,280 --> 02:25:33,480
Speaker 6: were pretty fortunate that Georgia. I'm not gonna say Nourame

2827
02:25:33,560 --> 02:25:35,400
Speaker 6: got lucky to win. That would be disingenuous. But the

2828
02:25:35,440 --> 02:25:38,320
Speaker 6: game against Georgia just just things. Again, Look, when the

2829
02:25:38,400 --> 02:25:40,400
Speaker 6: game sometimes things just have to go your way. Kick

2830
02:25:40,440 --> 02:25:43,760
Speaker 6: off return for a touchdown, Georgia going in for a touchdown, fumbles,

2831
02:25:45,080 --> 02:25:47,400
Speaker 6: you know, then thirty seconds to go and a half

2832
02:25:47,560 --> 02:25:49,600
Speaker 6: instead of take me just ending the half, they fumbled

2833
02:25:49,680 --> 02:25:53,680
Speaker 6: least their touchdowns. A lot of things went Pence not sorry,

2834
02:25:54,280 --> 02:25:56,440
Speaker 6: Notre Dame's way, the fifteen yard Tennelly on the kid

2835
02:25:56,560 --> 02:25:59,360
Speaker 6: for tripping the referee's one of the things went Notre

2836
02:25:59,440 --> 02:26:01,840
Speaker 6: Dame's way. I actually still think Georgia is the better team.

2837
02:26:01,840 --> 02:26:04,360
Speaker 6: I thought george actually should have won that game, the

2838
02:26:04,440 --> 02:26:06,720
Speaker 6: Boise State Penn State game. I know it's crazy to

2839
02:26:06,760 --> 02:26:09,160
Speaker 6: say for a team that wins by seventeen, I thought,

2840
02:26:09,360 --> 02:26:12,000
Speaker 6: if you look better on that game too, So I don't.

2841
02:26:12,160 --> 02:26:16,240
Speaker 6: I I'm feel like both these teams are just a

2842
02:26:16,280 --> 02:26:18,160
Speaker 6: little bit fortunate in terms of what the final score

2843
02:26:18,280 --> 02:26:20,360
Speaker 6: was actually how good they look. I think it's gonna

2844
02:26:20,360 --> 02:26:22,200
Speaker 6: be a really good game. I do think slightest the

2845
02:26:22,240 --> 02:26:22,959
Speaker 6: slight wings that.

2846
02:26:24,959 --> 02:26:27,560
Speaker 1: Does the extra time off impact to you and all

2847
02:26:27,600 --> 02:26:30,320
Speaker 1: the Notre Dames extra days, I.

2848
02:26:30,320 --> 02:26:34,560
Speaker 6: Don't think it does. Yeah, yeah, I don't think listen. Obviously,

2849
02:26:34,760 --> 02:26:37,959
Speaker 6: yeah theoretically it could. But I think just the fact

2850
02:26:38,000 --> 02:26:41,200
Speaker 6: that just that what I'm saying, like that the adrenaline

2851
02:26:41,280 --> 02:26:42,920
Speaker 6: these teams are going to be playing. These are young,

2852
02:26:43,360 --> 02:26:45,879
Speaker 6: you know, college gids, I don't think Again, maybe I'm

2853
02:26:45,920 --> 02:26:48,080
Speaker 6: not giving that enough fame. I thought about it but

2854
02:26:48,200 --> 02:26:50,760
Speaker 6: I don't. I'm personally not factoring that in. I think

2855
02:26:50,800 --> 02:26:52,240
Speaker 6: that they should be fine.

2856
02:26:53,200 --> 02:26:55,959
Speaker 3: It's interesting to me it's the quarterback who could make

2857
02:26:56,120 --> 02:26:56,959
Speaker 3: more plays down.

2858
02:26:56,840 --> 02:26:58,840
Speaker 1: The field one percent?

2859
02:26:59,120 --> 02:27:00,720
Speaker 6: Yeah yeah, well yeah, well well here look when I

2860
02:27:00,800 --> 02:27:02,920
Speaker 6: actually Notre Dame and then Leonard to me, look the

2861
02:27:02,959 --> 02:27:04,440
Speaker 6: thing with the problem with Notre Dame, Isa, and then

2862
02:27:04,480 --> 02:27:06,480
Speaker 6: you mentioned it before, like and I know by the

2863
02:27:06,480 --> 02:27:09,320
Speaker 6: way everyone was listening and they gave out in his

2864
02:27:09,400 --> 02:27:12,240
Speaker 6: other show, like he talked about Notre Dame like thirty

2865
02:27:12,280 --> 02:27:14,840
Speaker 6: to one was the best value tech in college football,

2866
02:27:14,920 --> 02:27:16,959
Speaker 6: and he said that to like, you know, many many

2867
02:27:17,080 --> 02:27:19,440
Speaker 6: moves ago, which was a great call because right now,

2868
02:27:19,440 --> 02:27:21,000
Speaker 6: if you're a thirty to one tipon on them, you'd

2869
02:27:21,040 --> 02:27:23,480
Speaker 6: beat Gotch. Would you be happy? But when I watched him,

2870
02:27:23,520 --> 02:27:26,000
Speaker 6: it's like, outside of Leonard making plays with his feet,

2871
02:27:26,240 --> 02:27:28,360
Speaker 6: I see a really team. It's tough for them to

2872
02:27:28,879 --> 02:27:30,640
Speaker 6: move the ball. Now, Penn State clearly will have it

2873
02:27:30,800 --> 02:27:33,080
Speaker 6: easier moving the ball. But I do like Notre Dame's

2874
02:27:33,120 --> 02:27:34,840
Speaker 6: defense better. As I said, I mean, it's gonna be

2875
02:27:35,160 --> 02:27:38,200
Speaker 6: a close game. The other game, guy, that's the interesting

2876
02:27:38,240 --> 02:27:41,119
Speaker 6: one that made this line was played. If this game

2877
02:27:41,240 --> 02:27:44,000
Speaker 6: was played two weeks ago after the Michigan game. Okay,

2878
02:27:44,040 --> 02:27:47,199
Speaker 6: after Michigan Ohio State, Yeah, no, no, I think Texas

2879
02:27:47,240 --> 02:27:51,560
Speaker 6: would be laying like one. Okay, now there's been a

2880
02:27:51,680 --> 02:27:54,960
Speaker 6: seven point adjustment because of the recency bias. Now you

2881
02:27:55,040 --> 02:27:57,720
Speaker 6: may say it's merited, and it certainly could be. Texas

2882
02:27:57,760 --> 02:28:01,119
Speaker 6: got out traded by ASU, I mean completely up late,

2883
02:28:01,480 --> 02:28:04,280
Speaker 6: and they got very lucky to win. And then you

2884
02:28:04,360 --> 02:28:07,160
Speaker 6: have Ohio State who's just absolutely been the best team

2885
02:28:07,200 --> 02:28:09,400
Speaker 6: in the in the tournament so far by wide margins.

2886
02:28:09,800 --> 02:28:12,800
Speaker 6: The game is being played in the console high lean

2887
02:28:12,879 --> 02:28:15,200
Speaker 6: here Texas. I wish Texas switched their quarterback.

2888
02:28:15,680 --> 02:28:19,720
Speaker 2: Uh hid it earlier. I said it earlier.

2889
02:28:19,920 --> 02:28:23,840
Speaker 6: You gotta go arch it's it's it's gonna he's.

2890
02:28:25,560 --> 02:28:28,920
Speaker 2: He is hatful And the only way to beat Ohio

2891
02:28:29,120 --> 02:28:33,280
Speaker 2: State you're they're going to stack the box and try

2892
02:28:33,360 --> 02:28:37,000
Speaker 2: to take away to run, and you gotta be able

2893
02:28:37,080 --> 02:28:42,400
Speaker 2: to go down the field. Texas got great receivers.

2894
02:28:42,440 --> 02:28:45,240
Speaker 6: And Texas has the blueprint to beat this team. They

2895
02:28:45,400 --> 02:28:47,760
Speaker 6: just it's like it's thrustering. You have something in your worksheester,

2896
02:28:47,840 --> 02:28:49,560
Speaker 6: you're not going to use it. They're not going to

2897
02:28:49,680 --> 02:28:52,119
Speaker 6: use it. And it's It's just it's one of those things.

2898
02:28:52,200 --> 02:28:52,360
Speaker 1: Again.

2899
02:28:52,400 --> 02:28:54,160
Speaker 6: I always say in life, you choose to be consistent,

2900
02:28:54,320 --> 02:28:56,640
Speaker 6: you choose to be right. Tour Keysing is choose to

2901
02:28:56,680 --> 02:28:57,320
Speaker 6: be consistent.

2902
02:28:59,000 --> 02:29:03,240
Speaker 2: I know, I I saying the same thing. It was

2903
02:29:03,560 --> 02:29:06,360
Speaker 2: manding that you didn't use arts and.

2904
02:29:06,560 --> 02:29:12,600
Speaker 6: All he got man viewers and the overtime made that

2905
02:29:12,680 --> 02:29:14,840
Speaker 6: big fourth and thirteen throw in the overtime throw. But

2906
02:29:14,920 --> 02:29:18,240
Speaker 6: it's interesting, that's just like basically erased a poor perform

2907
02:29:18,440 --> 02:29:21,240
Speaker 6: He's just not that good. It's like Youers and Death

2908
02:29:21,280 --> 02:29:23,160
Speaker 6: to me were the two players this year in college

2909
02:29:23,200 --> 02:29:26,760
Speaker 6: football who's rating I downgraded the most where I thought

2910
02:29:26,879 --> 02:29:29,160
Speaker 6: going into the year, these were, you know, potentially a

2911
02:29:29,320 --> 02:29:33,120
Speaker 6: least agreement. Both both quarterbacks to me were negatives and

2912
02:29:33,480 --> 02:29:36,879
Speaker 6: and to me watching Youers, it's like he's just he's

2913
02:29:36,920 --> 02:29:39,320
Speaker 6: going to beat their downside. And I know, again now

2914
02:29:39,400 --> 02:29:43,160
Speaker 6: that being said, anthy, I still I still actually do

2915
02:29:43,320 --> 02:29:46,640
Speaker 6: lean towards the Texas side, and it I'm just going

2916
02:29:46,720 --> 02:29:49,080
Speaker 6: by the body of work, and maybe it's a mistake,

2917
02:29:49,160 --> 02:29:51,440
Speaker 6: but I'm going by the thirteen or fourteen games forever

2918
02:29:51,520 --> 02:29:53,640
Speaker 6: fourteen games because it's been of what these teams is

2919
02:29:53,640 --> 02:29:54,960
Speaker 6: done versus the last so if you go by the

2920
02:29:55,000 --> 02:29:56,840
Speaker 6: last two you say the line is too short, you

2921
02:29:56,959 --> 02:29:58,800
Speaker 6: look at the entire season, you're like, how the line

2922
02:29:58,879 --> 02:30:03,160
Speaker 6: is high? So I still just don't trust any of

2923
02:30:03,160 --> 02:30:05,120
Speaker 6: these teams enough. I'm still gonna say I don't think

2924
02:30:05,160 --> 02:30:08,360
Speaker 6: Ohio State's quite this dominant. I think Texas' defense can

2925
02:30:08,440 --> 02:30:12,120
Speaker 6: have some success unlike Oregon. I lean here Texas to

2926
02:30:12,160 --> 02:30:14,720
Speaker 6: keep dipty and closed. But unfortunately, I think Ohio State's

2927
02:30:14,720 --> 02:30:15,280
Speaker 6: probably gonna win.

2928
02:30:16,560 --> 02:30:18,240
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I listen.

2929
02:30:18,320 --> 02:30:19,040
Speaker 2: I feel you on that.

2930
02:30:19,560 --> 02:30:21,920
Speaker 3: Any other plays you like over the weekend.

2931
02:30:22,879 --> 02:30:25,680
Speaker 6: Well'll give you a couple in the Association Night Anthony

2932
02:30:26,080 --> 02:30:28,320
Speaker 6: in the NBA, which I think have some problems, which

2933
02:30:28,320 --> 02:30:31,080
Speaker 6: I think have some merit to them. Kate Tunning half

2934
02:30:31,120 --> 02:30:33,280
Speaker 6: over four and a half rebounds, averaging six and a

2935
02:30:33,280 --> 02:30:36,320
Speaker 6: half rebounds Anthony, he's twenty five and five to the over.

2936
02:30:36,800 --> 02:30:38,760
Speaker 6: Why are they making that four and a half Not

2937
02:30:38,920 --> 02:30:40,600
Speaker 6: for me to figure out, just for me to bet it.

2938
02:30:40,879 --> 02:30:43,280
Speaker 6: So Kate killing him over four and a half three months.

2939
02:30:43,360 --> 02:30:47,360
Speaker 6: It's super strong that jaf Yes under three and a

2940
02:30:47,400 --> 02:30:49,920
Speaker 6: half rebounds, twenty six and eight. He does a lot

2941
02:30:49,959 --> 02:30:53,320
Speaker 6: of things well. Jalen Brunson rebounding isn't one of them?

2942
02:30:53,879 --> 02:30:56,120
Speaker 6: And Damian Liward over twenty and a half reebounds, Anthony's

2943
02:30:56,120 --> 02:30:58,240
Speaker 6: averaging four and a half. He's twenty one and five

2944
02:30:58,520 --> 02:31:01,080
Speaker 6: to that over and today Jalen Warren, I like, by

2945
02:31:01,120 --> 02:31:04,240
Speaker 6: the way, over thirty nine and a half rushing yards,

2946
02:31:04,400 --> 02:31:05,879
Speaker 6: he's eight and two or last can of be over.

2947
02:31:06,080 --> 02:31:08,680
Speaker 6: I think Tomlin's finally seen the light at him.

2948
02:31:09,120 --> 02:31:10,040
Speaker 3: Yeah, I like that.

2949
02:31:10,200 --> 02:31:13,040
Speaker 2: That's a great play. Yeah, I love Warren. That's a

2950
02:31:13,040 --> 02:31:16,240
Speaker 2: great prop, great prop. All right, my brother, listen, here's

2951
02:31:16,240 --> 02:31:20,040
Speaker 2: to a prosperous twenty twenty five man. Thanks buddy, always

2952
02:31:20,520 --> 02:31:22,840
Speaker 2: you guys, Happy New York pal. There he is the

2953
02:31:22,959 --> 02:31:27,080
Speaker 2: brain checking in as always. Fellas will come back. We'll

2954
02:31:27,360 --> 02:31:30,720
Speaker 2: wrap it up next fellas Jason Fitz Anthony Gargt on

2955
02:31:30,800 --> 02:31:31,920
Speaker 2: Fox Sports Radio.

2956
02:31:33,000 --> 02:31:35,000
Speaker 1: Not gonna lie. Feels good that Frank back, you know,

2957
02:31:36,760 --> 02:31:40,400
Speaker 1: it just feels it feels good that Frank singing sing

2958
02:31:40,480 --> 02:31:45,000
Speaker 1: this is the dog, will feed him things. Things are right,

2959
02:31:45,080 --> 02:31:48,000
Speaker 1: you know the New Year's we're about to be You

2960
02:31:48,320 --> 02:31:50,360
Speaker 1: and I are both up in New England. It's about

2961
02:31:50,360 --> 02:31:53,400
Speaker 1: to be slammed with what snow and cold for the

2962
02:31:53,480 --> 02:31:54,000
Speaker 1: next week?

2963
02:31:54,520 --> 02:31:58,720
Speaker 2: Oh god, yeah, warm? I know I could, I could

2964
02:31:58,720 --> 02:32:00,680
Speaker 2: I bitch you moan for a second by away uh

2965
02:32:01,160 --> 02:32:05,720
Speaker 2: as always. I want to thank our fine production team,

2966
02:32:07,080 --> 02:32:12,320
Speaker 2: Bree our producer's got a big date tonight, and Mighty

2967
02:32:12,480 --> 02:32:18,080
Speaker 2: Mark our man, Mighty Mark Ramsey, our sound engineer. Good

2968
02:32:18,160 --> 02:32:21,640
Speaker 2: luck to like Brie. Thank you so much, really appreciate.

2969
02:32:21,200 --> 02:32:26,279
Speaker 3: That You've better be on his best behavior.

2970
02:32:27,400 --> 02:32:30,959
Speaker 7: Yes right, I'm going to come on the air next

2971
02:32:30,959 --> 02:32:31,880
Speaker 7: week and just rip them.

2972
02:32:32,400 --> 02:32:32,840
Speaker 3: That's all.

2973
02:32:33,320 --> 02:32:35,040
Speaker 1: What if? What if? What if bre wants like a

2974
02:32:35,120 --> 02:32:36,240
Speaker 1: bad boy though? Like what if.

2975
02:32:37,720 --> 02:32:38,720
Speaker 2: I really don't?

2976
02:32:38,920 --> 02:32:39,680
Speaker 7: I really don't.

2977
02:32:39,720 --> 02:32:45,040
Speaker 2: They're exhausting, They're emotionally draining. They just they make you

2978
02:32:45,280 --> 02:32:48,000
Speaker 2: like scratch your head, like what where did I go wrong?

2979
02:32:48,440 --> 02:32:50,600
Speaker 2: Like you know, I don't. I don't.

2980
02:32:50,760 --> 02:32:52,400
Speaker 7: We don't want a Carlo for Bree.

2981
02:32:53,600 --> 02:32:54,680
Speaker 2: We don't want to Carlow.

2982
02:32:57,280 --> 02:32:57,880
Speaker 3: That's great.

2983
02:32:59,040 --> 02:33:02,920
Speaker 2: Yeah, we're The holidays are over, which bums me out.

2984
02:33:04,320 --> 02:33:08,040
Speaker 2: The regular seasons are over, which bums me out. And

2985
02:33:08,160 --> 02:33:11,360
Speaker 2: then I got basketball practice right into the show today,

2986
02:33:12,400 --> 02:33:18,039
Speaker 2: and then tomorrow morning at eight am starts our baseball workouts.

2987
02:33:19,480 --> 02:33:21,800
Speaker 1: Good lord, good lord.

2988
02:33:22,440 --> 02:33:25,840
Speaker 2: My only daily sleep is Sunday morning, and I'm like

2989
02:33:27,200 --> 02:33:30,760
Speaker 2: eight am. That's when we're doing our baseball workouts. Oh god,

2990
02:33:32,560 --> 02:33:37,640
Speaker 2: nothing like at eight am January, freezing cold, snell on

2991
02:33:37,720 --> 02:33:40,760
Speaker 2: the ground and it's time for baseball.

2992
02:33:40,920 --> 02:33:41,240
Speaker 3: Baby.

2993
02:33:43,840 --> 02:33:45,640
Speaker 1: That feels a little early. I'm not gonna lie, my friend.

2994
02:33:45,680 --> 02:33:47,320
Speaker 1: It feels a little early in the morning and a

2995
02:33:47,360 --> 02:33:50,000
Speaker 1: little early in the year for baseball practice. And I

2996
02:33:50,160 --> 02:33:53,120
Speaker 1: just I respect it though, you know, year round game. Now,

2997
02:33:53,480 --> 02:33:55,400
Speaker 1: you gotta put the work in year round, gotta do

2998
02:33:55,480 --> 02:33:57,400
Speaker 1: the things when nobody's watching. I get all that stuff,

2999
02:33:57,440 --> 02:34:00,480
Speaker 1: but I feel I feel for you, feel for you.

3000
02:34:01,160 --> 02:34:04,320
Speaker 3: Yeah it's rough, dude, it's this one's rough.

3001
02:34:04,480 --> 02:34:07,680
Speaker 2: This one tomorrow is gonna be I can handle basketball

3002
02:34:07,760 --> 02:34:10,720
Speaker 2: practice now. I'm up, all right, you know, ready to go.

3003
02:34:11,879 --> 02:34:14,800
Speaker 2: We had a little tune up this week, so we're good.

3004
02:34:15,320 --> 02:34:19,120
Speaker 2: We got a game Tuesday night, our first game, so

3005
02:34:19,400 --> 02:34:21,960
Speaker 2: you know, we're ready. I got to put in a

3006
02:34:22,000 --> 02:34:26,800
Speaker 2: press break today at practice and we'll be fine. But man,

3007
02:34:26,879 --> 02:34:31,720
Speaker 2: tomorrow morning, baseball practice is gonna be tough. Not ain't

3008
02:34:31,720 --> 02:34:34,160
Speaker 2: even know if my arm could work at eight o'clock.

3009
02:34:33,800 --> 02:34:34,280
Speaker 3: In the morning.

3010
02:34:35,080 --> 02:34:37,520
Speaker 1: To throw, you have to, you have to throw in

3011
02:34:37,600 --> 02:34:38,440
Speaker 1: the practice.

3012
02:34:39,120 --> 02:34:43,320
Speaker 3: Yeah we'll throw good. Yeah, we'll throw BP to the kids.

3013
02:34:43,600 --> 02:34:48,560
Speaker 1: Yeah good. Lord like now I've got this image of

3014
02:34:49,000 --> 02:34:52,640
Speaker 1: Gargano with a coffee, like a hot steep coffee in

3015
02:34:52,680 --> 02:34:55,360
Speaker 1: one hand and just just flinging the ball with the.

3016
02:34:55,400 --> 02:35:01,240
Speaker 2: Other, not even behind my yes, yes, yes, right, the

3017
02:35:01,320 --> 02:35:05,320
Speaker 2: heavy shield. Right, I'll be like, just that's That's exactly

3018
02:35:05,400 --> 02:35:09,600
Speaker 2: what I'll do. Hey, you know, listen, I love it,

3019
02:35:09,720 --> 02:35:12,520
Speaker 2: so I can't I can't complain. But eight a m

3020
02:35:12,680 --> 02:35:18,320
Speaker 2: Is rough on Sunday morning, you know, yeah, played.

3021
02:35:18,120 --> 02:35:20,920
Speaker 1: Because You're right you mentioned at the beginning, and I'm

3022
02:35:20,959 --> 02:35:23,560
Speaker 1: watching the highlights on the TV in the background of

3023
02:35:24,040 --> 02:35:26,320
Speaker 1: the playoff game, and it just reminds me how close

3024
02:35:26,440 --> 02:35:29,680
Speaker 1: we are to the end. I know, close we are

3025
02:35:29,680 --> 02:35:31,520
Speaker 1: to the end of the NFL, Like this is the

3026
02:35:31,600 --> 02:35:35,080
Speaker 1: last Sunday and this is you know, I like the

3027
02:35:35,200 --> 02:35:38,040
Speaker 1: sentiment of so many fans people ask, well, am I

3028
02:35:38,080 --> 02:35:39,680
Speaker 1: going to watch the Raiders game tomorrow? Of course I'm

3029
02:35:39,680 --> 02:35:42,520
Speaker 1: going to watch the Raiders games. Yes, you know, because frankly,

3030
02:35:42,720 --> 02:35:44,360
Speaker 1: it's the last time I'm going to get to see

3031
02:35:44,360 --> 02:35:47,000
Speaker 1: the Raiders play a game that actually counts for the

3032
02:35:47,120 --> 02:35:52,080
Speaker 1: standings until September. It's just it's such a long time,

3033
02:35:52,720 --> 02:35:54,880
Speaker 1: you know, And I understand the Super Bowl extends the

3034
02:35:54,959 --> 02:35:57,199
Speaker 1: NFL season and we love the draft and free agency

3035
02:35:57,280 --> 02:36:01,240
Speaker 1: and all of these talks, but realist glee for you know,

3036
02:36:01,520 --> 02:36:04,760
Speaker 1: for two thirds of fans out there, today is the

3037
02:36:04,879 --> 02:36:07,080
Speaker 1: last or this weekend is the last weekend that you'll

3038
02:36:07,120 --> 02:36:11,039
Speaker 1: see a game that counts to the standings for nine months.

3039
02:36:11,560 --> 02:36:14,560
Speaker 1: That's crazy. It's just crazy to have that long of

3040
02:36:14,640 --> 02:36:17,920
Speaker 1: a gap, eight months, you know, it's like to wait

3041
02:36:18,120 --> 02:36:21,360
Speaker 1: that long to get excited about another game that counts.

3042
02:36:21,400 --> 02:36:23,000
Speaker 1: Like it's just that's only it is.

3043
02:36:23,160 --> 02:36:26,520
Speaker 2: And if dude, that's my only regret about football is

3044
02:36:26,560 --> 02:36:27,280
Speaker 2: how quick it is.

3045
02:36:29,959 --> 02:36:33,119
Speaker 1: Just it's all the more reason that when people sit

3046
02:36:33,160 --> 02:36:35,680
Speaker 1: there and say, God, you better want the Raiders to lose. Nah,

3047
02:36:35,879 --> 02:36:38,080
Speaker 1: like you wait too long to see a game that matters.

3048
02:36:38,080 --> 02:36:39,640
Speaker 1: I don't care about the draft pick right now. I

3049
02:36:39,800 --> 02:36:41,840
Speaker 1: just want to see my favorite football team win. That

3050
02:36:41,879 --> 02:36:44,080
Speaker 1: makes it brings me joy to see my favorite football

3051
02:36:44,080 --> 02:36:45,680
Speaker 1: team win over simplification.

3052
02:36:46,480 --> 02:36:51,960
Speaker 3: Yeah man, yeah, I dude, I get you. I get you.

3053
02:36:52,280 --> 02:36:54,120
Speaker 3: Are you getting belted with stell? We're supposed to get

3054
02:36:54,200 --> 02:36:56,800
Speaker 3: like six inches on Monday? Yeah?

3055
02:36:56,800 --> 02:36:59,080
Speaker 1: I heard we're gonna get killed with it. I'm the worst.

3056
02:36:59,160 --> 02:37:01,360
Speaker 1: Like I never watch the local news to know that,

3057
02:37:01,440 --> 02:37:02,720
Speaker 1: and then I wake up and I'm like, oh man,

3058
02:37:02,760 --> 02:37:04,840
Speaker 1: where snowed in? Like I don't know why I became

3059
02:37:04,879 --> 02:37:07,520
Speaker 1: gomer piled there, but like I have no idea. I

3060
02:37:08,000 --> 02:37:09,840
Speaker 1: don't follow. I don't follow it close enough.

3061
02:37:11,240 --> 02:37:16,840
Speaker 3: That's do. Have a great week, everybody, We love you.

3062
02:37:17,160 --> 02:37:18,119
Speaker 3: See you next Saturday.