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Speaker 1: The Around the NFL Podcast is working for the weekend.

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Speaker 1: You know, we are welcome to a Christmas Eve edition

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Speaker 1: of the Around the NFL Podcast, scattered across the south Land.

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Speaker 1: I'm Dan Hansas, Mark Sessler, Greg Rosenthal. Yes, it was

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Speaker 1: the night before Christmas and all through the house. I

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Speaker 1: wish I prepared a line here that would have rhymed

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Speaker 1: and it would have been cool, but I didn't. All

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Speaker 1: I can tell he is Daddy's got a lot of

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Speaker 1: work to do upstairs. Santa's coming, But the NFL sleeps

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Speaker 1: for no one and nothing, including baby Jesus. And so

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Speaker 1: here we are to give you a recap of everything

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Speaker 1: that happened on the Saturday of week six. This is

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Speaker 1: what we went with grave there. It's called holiday beats. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: This I don't know. I was looking for something a

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Speaker 1: little more traditional. This is a Christmas and Hollis knockoff.

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Speaker 1: This is like the in Sync Christmas album. This is

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Speaker 1: pretty traditional. Here I can go with this anyway. Let's

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Speaker 1: let's talk you guys as you enjoy the football. Alybreody.

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Speaker 1: Working from home today is where the big holiday approaches.

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Speaker 1: I loved it. I think you know it's it got

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Speaker 1: tiresome working from home during Corona obviously, and it's nice

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Speaker 1: would normally. It was fantastic. And I'll tell you something else.

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Speaker 1: You can feel, um that a big chunk of these

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Speaker 1: teams are reaching the end. There's a very distinct feel

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Speaker 1: to me, for like Christmas week football is really you're

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Speaker 1: starting to say goodbye to some of these teams and

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Speaker 1: it's about time, and others are rising up and I

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Speaker 1: enjoy them too. And you don't have to talk about

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Speaker 1: the Titans like that. Mark, Come on, that is rude, Eve,

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Speaker 1: says the guy in the Jets sweater. Mark is not wrong.

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Speaker 1: So Jets are alive. Jets are alive. And yeah, I

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Speaker 1: mean it's it's a big night. Who knows if Santa

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Speaker 1: is gonna come. I was when I was at your

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Speaker 1: house Dan last week. I liked how you wielded Santa's

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Speaker 1: until you could weaponize Santa and have the children's behavior

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Speaker 1: molded as a result. I mean, my boys want Nintendo Switch,

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Speaker 1: you know what, they're probably getting Intendo Switch in reality,

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Speaker 1: In fact, I know they are. It's in the house.

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Speaker 1: I hope they don't listen to this on YouTube. But however, uh,

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Speaker 1: if they were too, I don't know, burned down the

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Speaker 1: that's the goal with Santa as a parent, I see

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Speaker 1: what you're doing, and I think it's very effective, but

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Speaker 1: to tournament sort of a menacing, uh deal breaker eyes.

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Speaker 1: Maybe it's a it's a new way too, it's a

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Speaker 1: new approach. Hey, listen, you take care of business in

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Speaker 1: your homemark. I'll take care of mine. In my house.

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Speaker 1: let's get into the games. We're gonna do ten games today.

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Speaker 1: We're gonna leave the Sunday night game or the Saturday

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Speaker 1: and it's annoying, the Saturday night Christmas Eve game. We're

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Speaker 1: so stay tuned for that. Right now, We're gonna hit

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Speaker 1: all the early and late afternoon games starting with the

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Speaker 1: game of the week. And dare I say, in the

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Speaker 1: running for game of the year, let's head to Jerro

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Speaker 1: World where the Dallas Cowboys look to keep their NFC

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Speaker 1: min shoe back for man rosh here they come. He

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Speaker 1: And I endorse it. Because the Dallas Cowboys fell behind

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Speaker 1: it was Parsons who helped force a fumble earlier in

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Speaker 1: I thought it was interesting the quarterbacks in this game.

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Speaker 1: Dac deserved it. It just shows you though defenses are

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Speaker 1: I mean, they weren't perfect, but they were operating. I

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Speaker 1: He still they still give me that feeling of a

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Speaker 1: some of the mental mistakes and some of the play

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Speaker 1: do the right things to win big games against top teams.

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Speaker 1: the mix here and we wait to see where Jalen

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Speaker 1: Hurts is physically and how the Eagles proceed there. But

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Speaker 1: Should we keep moving? Boys? I mean it is Christmas Eve.

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Speaker 1: great block by Christian McCaffrey. It's like their stops turn

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Speaker 1: into points and like they had the same thing. I

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Speaker 1: thought the fourth and one stop of Heineke when it

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Speaker 1: was fourteen to seven, and then bangs. Seconds later, it's

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Speaker 1: seven because Purty Is you know, overcomes the interception completely,

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Speaker 1: data wipes that from his memory and Mine mills with

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Speaker 1: George Kittle, which he did for the rest of the game.

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Speaker 1: Then they've got a strip, sack and interception. They just

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Speaker 1: like to your point where it was just downhill. They

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Speaker 1: never stopped. And Washington is a very compromised team. They

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Speaker 1: kind of remind me of the Giants in the sense

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Speaker 1: that little things you like, but if you get caught

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Speaker 1: into the bad game flow and you start to get behind,

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Speaker 1: I don't really trust Washington to work the way out

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Speaker 1: of it. I don't really care if that's Carson Wentz

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Speaker 1: or Taylor Heinecke at quarterback. I kind of hated the UH.

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Speaker 1: I understand everyone's aggressive all the time now, but that

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Speaker 1: decision by Riverboat run uh, fourth and one at his

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Speaker 1: own thirty four. You gotta convert it. If you're gonna,

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Speaker 1: you gotta go. I mean, I you better love your

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Speaker 1: quarterback and trust your offense, because against this team, if

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Speaker 1: you don't get it, guess what, you don't get it.

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Speaker 1: And then two plays later it's one seven, and I know.

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Speaker 1: Then Washington came back and scored again, and you give

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Speaker 1: him credit for that to keep the game interesting, But

452
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Speaker 1: that to me, the game felt over at that point.

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Speaker 1: And a couple of things that jumped out to me Greggy, Um,

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Speaker 1: we haven't taught I feel like we haven't talked about

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Speaker 1: Nick Bosa ton On on the show this year, or

456
00:23:14,960 --> 00:23:19,080
Speaker 1: maybe I'm just forgetting it, but he's been beast this year.

457
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Speaker 1: He definitely deserves serious consideration for Defensive Player of the Year.

458
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Speaker 1: He's up to seventeen and a half sacks now. He

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Speaker 1: had two sacks and a forced fumble in this game.

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Speaker 1: And then the other part of it. Obviously, Carson Wentz

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Speaker 1: replaces Heineke, and Um, I would anticipate Greggy that Carson

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Speaker 1: went stays in the line up now because it just

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Speaker 1: felt like Riverboat had an itchy trigger this whole time

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Speaker 1: with Taylor. Yeah. It's funny because I think Heineke was

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Speaker 1: so lucky all season, playing poorly and getting by and

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Speaker 1: this was the reverse. I thought he played a good

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Speaker 1: first half. You know, they get stuffed on the goal

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Speaker 1: line where Fred Warner makes a great play in the

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Speaker 1: running game or else that Washington could have been up

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Speaker 1: fourteen seven. Heineke made a number of good throws in

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Speaker 1: good decisions, and then two quick turnovers in a row,

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Speaker 1: which one came on the boast of strip Sack, which

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Speaker 1: I don't know if that was really on Heineke, and

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Speaker 1: then an interception, and Wentz came in and played, well,

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Speaker 1: he's in one drive. He had like the most Carson

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Speaker 1: Wentzy stuff happened, making a miraculous play as he's falling

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Speaker 1: to his knees that turns into twenty five yards a

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Speaker 1: total dime for a touchdown. But also had what should

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Speaker 1: have been a turnover by Wentz too, but he got

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Speaker 1: the touchdown, got another good drive after that, and my guests,

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Speaker 1: as you're right, they play the Browns next week. They

482
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Speaker 1: are still in position for the playoffs, but only half

483
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Speaker 1: a game up, so it's it's wide open for that

484
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Speaker 1: seven spot and they have the Browns and the Cowboys

485
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Speaker 1: to finish up. And uh, the one good thing I

486
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Speaker 1: think they get Chase Young back and he made a

487
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Speaker 1: difference in this game. He looked good. He wasn't coming

488
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Speaker 1: off an injury looking bad, so that's one thing to

489
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Speaker 1: be happened. The Mails, who have a star in Johan Dotson,

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Speaker 1: I mean, they really have weapons because if it's him

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Speaker 1: and McLaurin, like, and I the one thing I'd say

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Speaker 1: about Heineck that was different than Wentz when he came

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Speaker 1: in for the first kind of month of Heineke. For

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Speaker 1: all the issues, he had great chemistry with McLaurin, Like,

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Speaker 1: the splits were completely different. And then they've they've just

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Speaker 1: become such a ball possession ground team. That's what they

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Speaker 1: want to be and they couldn't do that today to

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Speaker 1: some degree. But I like, I know we don't care

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Speaker 1: about this, but I would love to know what the

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Speaker 1: majority of the locker room UM thinks about Wentz in

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Speaker 1: there over Heineke. The person I just do. I just

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Speaker 1: have a sense that there's Carson. Wentz seems to have

503
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Speaker 1: struggled to attach himself to a locker room everywhere he's gone.

504
00:25:20,960 --> 00:25:24,240
Speaker 1: Heineke slammed his helmet down when he was taken out

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Speaker 1: of the lineup and was seen arguing with her very

506
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Speaker 1: and just one quick thing, Dan, I think you're right.

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Speaker 1: I think both probably one the defensive player of the

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Speaker 1: year today. Um. Just the way the Cowboys defense has

509
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Speaker 1: fallen apart, in the way Boss is playing. Yeah, I

510
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Speaker 1: think Heinek is a guy that has liked in that

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Speaker 1: locker room, but that the coach doesn't think he's a

512
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Speaker 1: good quarterback. It's it makes sense why they would look

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Speaker 1: to Wentz as a spark here and here is speaking

514
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Speaker 1: of Wentz. What was that thing Colleen did on Tuesday?

515
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Speaker 1: Was she like simmed all of the holiday films or

516
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Speaker 1: she somebody did and she was reading it like like

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Speaker 1: a a a sim watched like a thousand hours of

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Speaker 1: Hallmark Holiday films and created its own script. This, this

519
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Speaker 1: quote from Carson Wentz feels like a sim Like they

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Speaker 1: uploaded every Taylor Heineke pass ever into Wentz and then

521
00:26:10,680 --> 00:26:14,359
Speaker 1: a reporter stuck a recorder in his face. I this

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Speaker 1: is Carson Wentz on Heineke's first half. I thought he

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Speaker 1: played well. I thought he was dealing. I thought Taylor

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Speaker 1: played well. Obviously, the way the game ended was strange.

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Speaker 1: The way ended that's from Nikki Javal. He's so afraid

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Speaker 1: to offend anyone, and I don't I don't blame him.

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Speaker 1: At this point, as we all, let's decarted to really

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Speaker 1: go ahead and start to take command. Not too late, Carson,

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Speaker 1: not too late, and I Greg the calculators. We go

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Speaker 1: to our first break it's Washington needs to win their

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Speaker 1: last two games. The Giants need to lose their last

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Speaker 1: two games. Does that sound about right? Washington's in the

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Speaker 1: playoffs right now, so they're trying to hold off Detroit

534
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Speaker 1: in Seattle and Green Bay and that half a game

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Speaker 1: up going into the final. Man, NFC got real sloppy

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Speaker 1: in the back of that wild card race. Yea, here

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Speaker 1: I am they can. Washington was cooked, but they are

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Speaker 1: very much alive. So Wentz has a big opportunity for

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Speaker 1: some personal redemption. Let's take a break and we will

540
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Speaker 1: roll on. Alright, we're back in case you're just joining us.

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Speaker 1: It's Christmas Eve and we're talking football because we can't

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Speaker 1: get enough. Baby. All right, let's move on. San Francisco

543
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Speaker 1: takes care of business. How about the Cincinnati Bengals who

544
00:27:26,119 --> 00:27:30,200
Speaker 1: are rolling themselves and they have the Patriots up next,

545
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Speaker 1: and what felt like a blowout turned into something entirely different.

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Speaker 1: Mac Jones waiting for the shotgun snap hands it off,

547
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Speaker 1: Stephen said, stacked up calling backward ball, tackle is out

548
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Speaker 1: outing turnovers. He covers turn over that should they well

549
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Speaker 1: the nails bam bam bam. Oh my goodness, Greg, if

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Speaker 1: I didn't hate the Patriots so much, I'd feel bad

551
00:27:59,680 --> 00:28:02,960
Speaker 1: from these less two weeks have been insane. Throw that

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Speaker 1: Vikings game in there too. Oh thanks Dan Horde and

553
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Speaker 1: Dave Lapham with the call. W c k Y. Here's

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Speaker 1: the breakdown here and this is one of my games. Um.

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Speaker 1: The Bengals absolutely dismantle the Patriots in the first half

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Speaker 1: in Foxborough. It is two zero at half. I believe

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Speaker 1: the first downs between the teams. I believe the number

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Speaker 1: was twenty two for Cincinnati and three for New England.

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00:28:31,160 --> 00:28:35,560
Speaker 1: It was that ugly. And then the Patriots do what

560
00:28:35,560 --> 00:28:38,120
Speaker 1: the Patriots do. They pick up a defensive score pick six,

561
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Speaker 1: and all of a sudden, like all right, and they

562
00:28:39,880 --> 00:28:43,200
Speaker 1: missed the extra point. It's six, and then all of

563
00:28:43,280 --> 00:28:48,760
Speaker 1: a sudden, the Cincinnati offense goes totally cold. Um, after

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Speaker 1: Joe Burrow threw three touchdown passes and the Bengals offense

565
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Speaker 1: just did whatever they wanted in bad conditions in New Engham,

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Speaker 1: they go cold. Meanwhile, on third and forever from midfield,

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Speaker 1: Mac Jones throws up a prayer. They get swatted from

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Speaker 1: one hand into Jacoby Myers as for a touchdown, and

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Speaker 1: now they're within uh. Ten points, they kick a field goal,

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Speaker 1: and then all of a sudden they have the ball

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Speaker 1: after a turnover by Jamaar Chase. The Patriots do and

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Speaker 1: they're going down the field, only for Stevenson to fumble

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Speaker 1: the football inside the ten when it looked like the

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Speaker 1: Patriots are gonna have one of the more unlikely um

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Speaker 1: wins of the year after the most unlikely loss. So

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Speaker 1: in the end, it was a crushing um loss for

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Speaker 1: New England. Final score was eighteen, so New England has

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Speaker 1: a chance to really stay in the mix in the

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Speaker 1: a f C playoff race. Instead, they're in a lot

580
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Speaker 1: of trouble now. In Cincinnati's winning streak extends, even though

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Speaker 1: you're not feeling too hot about after you watch the

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Speaker 1: last two quarters, I mean, or or the first two

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Speaker 1: quarters against the Bucks last week where Tampa Bay looked um,

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Speaker 1: you know, playoff ready all of a sudden before falling

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Speaker 1: off a cliff. I think Zach Taylor said it, like

586
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Speaker 1: when you're up to me too, nothing fifteen nothing. You

587
00:30:01,840 --> 00:30:03,720
Speaker 1: gotta find a way to like put these teams away

588
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Speaker 1: if you want to be a super Bowl team, And

589
00:30:05,960 --> 00:30:08,400
Speaker 1: I I kind of they're not a team I worry

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Speaker 1: about slump wise. I think burrows turnovers occasionally like today

591
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Speaker 1: caused a big problem for them, and like, but but

592
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Speaker 1: who do you trust more to work themselves out of it?

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Speaker 1: I mean, they've essentially off New England at this point.

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Speaker 1: I cannot I do find from a New England side

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Speaker 1: that if you look at the way the last minute

596
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Speaker 1: of the last two games finished, or the last ten seconds,

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00:30:29,320 --> 00:30:32,840
Speaker 1: it's mistake prone. Um, it looks disjointed, it's very unbelled

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Speaker 1: checking in and it's an odd, strange end to a

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Speaker 1: season that started this morning with rumors that Bill O'Brien

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Speaker 1: might return as the offensive coordinator next season. The funny

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Speaker 1: thing is, it's like I'm thinking, as a Patriots like,

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00:30:43,920 --> 00:30:46,560
Speaker 1: oh great, I would love a Bill O'Brien at this point.

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00:30:46,880 --> 00:30:49,240
Speaker 1: It's like that would help you. Now. That said, they

604
00:30:49,240 --> 00:30:51,280
Speaker 1: were so close to what would have been like a

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Speaker 1: stirring victory, and I didn't hate their strategy at the end.

606
00:30:55,000 --> 00:30:56,960
Speaker 1: They were trying to make the Bengals burned time out.

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Speaker 1: They were running the ball. Well, it was the only

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Speaker 1: two minutes of the game I watch, I'll admit, is

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Speaker 1: the end. So I got that dagger right right at

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Speaker 1: the end, and that probably should be a forward progress

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Speaker 1: um like blown dead. I think that's that's a pretty

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00:31:09,880 --> 00:31:13,560
Speaker 1: clear call in most situations. Uh. And they answered it

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Speaker 1: after the games, saying they just thought he still had

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Speaker 1: his legs moving. But that's that's not what forward progress

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00:31:19,360 --> 00:31:22,080
Speaker 1: is about. Once you're moving backwards and you're held for

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Speaker 1: like three straight yards, they'll call that. But that's that's

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Speaker 1: been this Patriots season. I think all the good fortune

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Speaker 1: the Patriots have had for twenty years, it's like there,

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Speaker 1: it's cashing in the other way this year. Just pile

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Speaker 1: it up all in one year. Well, if it makes you,

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Speaker 1: I don't want to worry you, Greg, But if that's

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Speaker 1: the theory that's actually taking hold, I think of imagine

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Speaker 1: being a fan of a team of that hates the

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Speaker 1: Patriots and feeling like that happened for twenty straight years,

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00:31:46,840 --> 00:31:51,360
Speaker 1: so maybe it will. Well, here's one thing, um in

626
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Speaker 1: your favor here, the Patriots would have knocked out the

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Speaker 1: Jets with a win. Here if if Stevenson had had

628
00:31:58,320 --> 00:32:01,680
Speaker 1: won that game. But know and it felt in and

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Speaker 1: also not for nothing, but old Zeuser locked up the

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Speaker 1: Bengals and it's twenty two nothing and I'm I'm coast

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Speaker 1: into the finish line and then all of a sudden,

632
00:32:09,240 --> 00:32:13,280
Speaker 1: this game gets totally bizarre and wacky, and uh, it

633
00:32:13,360 --> 00:32:16,640
Speaker 1: did feel like they had the Bengals right where they wanted.

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00:32:17,000 --> 00:32:19,040
Speaker 1: They had them on their heels. They're running the ball

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Speaker 1: really well and Stevenson and it's just a kind of

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00:32:22,160 --> 00:32:26,680
Speaker 1: a snapshot of their season in general. The frustration um

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Speaker 1: of New England to just take do the type of

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Speaker 1: things that we we kind of just expected them to do.

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Speaker 1: But you you saw another uh, defensive score. Like I said,

640
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Speaker 1: Marcus Jones, Um, it was Marcus Jones, right with Marcus

641
00:32:40,760 --> 00:32:44,600
Speaker 1: Jones history. That was a beautiful play by Marcus Jones

642
00:32:44,640 --> 00:32:48,120
Speaker 1: who not only picked it off, he then tight tight

643
00:32:48,200 --> 00:32:51,080
Speaker 1: rope down the sideline for the touch on Kendrick Born

644
00:32:51,160 --> 00:32:54,080
Speaker 1: makes a beautiful catch in this game back Jones didn't

645
00:32:54,080 --> 00:32:56,600
Speaker 1: do a lot here, but he made a few throws,

646
00:32:56,600 --> 00:32:58,600
Speaker 1: so it all it was kind of a rip your

647
00:32:58,600 --> 00:33:02,040
Speaker 1: heart out loss for a New England um and for

648
00:33:02,080 --> 00:33:04,240
Speaker 1: the Bengals. It's one of those things like I don't

649
00:33:04,240 --> 00:33:06,320
Speaker 1: know what happened here, but we did win. Just like

650
00:33:06,400 --> 00:33:08,440
Speaker 1: last week. They don't know what happened in the first

651
00:33:08,440 --> 00:33:11,000
Speaker 1: half either, And Mark, I guess The question is do

652
00:33:11,080 --> 00:33:13,520
Speaker 1: you does that make you nervous that four of their

653
00:33:13,600 --> 00:33:16,920
Speaker 1: last eight quarters have been terrible or does it make

654
00:33:16,960 --> 00:33:19,280
Speaker 1: you feel more confident that you came out of both

655
00:33:19,320 --> 00:33:23,320
Speaker 1: of those games with wins. So it doesn't It doesn't

656
00:33:23,320 --> 00:33:26,200
Speaker 1: concern me. Not that I you know, and brushing it

657
00:33:26,360 --> 00:33:29,120
Speaker 1: rushing and off is nothing. But they're slumps are different

658
00:33:29,120 --> 00:33:31,360
Speaker 1: than other teams slumps. I think the Bills we could say,

659
00:33:31,640 --> 00:33:33,960
Speaker 1: you know, they didn't lose during their slump, and the

660
00:33:33,960 --> 00:33:36,800
Speaker 1: Bengals are finding ways to win these games. To me,

661
00:33:36,920 --> 00:33:38,760
Speaker 1: it's like this is this is part of the roadmap

662
00:33:39,000 --> 00:33:40,560
Speaker 1: that you go through, and I just look at one

663
00:33:40,560 --> 00:33:42,320
Speaker 1: thing about New England, like I feel like there's this

664
00:33:42,400 --> 00:33:44,440
Speaker 1: is a theme this year of a couple of really

665
00:33:44,440 --> 00:33:47,400
Speaker 1: good defenses that got completely hung out to dry by

666
00:33:47,400 --> 00:33:49,160
Speaker 1: their offenses. I think of New England because it's been

667
00:33:49,200 --> 00:33:52,080
Speaker 1: a really well coached defense and been typical for most

668
00:33:52,120 --> 00:33:54,880
Speaker 1: of the season. And like Denver, it's like these defensive

669
00:33:54,880 --> 00:33:57,840
Speaker 1: players the text threads must be absolutely on fire with

670
00:33:57,880 --> 00:34:00,280
Speaker 1: what they're dealing with from the offensive side of the ball.

671
00:34:00,320 --> 00:34:01,960
Speaker 1: I would love to read them. I think they'd be

672
00:34:02,040 --> 00:34:05,560
Speaker 1: very spicy. I would to Marcus Jones quickly is the

673
00:34:05,600 --> 00:34:08,520
Speaker 1: first player, uh or the second player in NFL history

674
00:34:08,520 --> 00:34:12,600
Speaker 1: to have a career forty yard UH catch punt return

675
00:34:12,800 --> 00:34:15,799
Speaker 1: and UH interception return. The only other person in NFL

676
00:34:15,920 --> 00:34:18,759
Speaker 1: history to ever do that is Dion Sanders and Marcus

677
00:34:18,960 --> 00:34:20,759
Speaker 1: Marcus Jones has already done it as a rookie, not

678
00:34:20,840 --> 00:34:23,120
Speaker 1: just you know, this is talking about entire career. He

679
00:34:23,160 --> 00:34:25,480
Speaker 1: had a big catch on on offense too. In your

680
00:34:25,560 --> 00:34:29,960
Speaker 1: lock sound there, dan Um reminds me of when we

681
00:34:30,000 --> 00:34:33,799
Speaker 1: started this lock competition six years ago. I went back

682
00:34:33,800 --> 00:34:37,000
Speaker 1: and listened to the last time we did a Christmas

683
00:34:37,080 --> 00:34:40,920
Speaker 1: Eve show just to see if I get get some

684
00:34:41,560 --> 00:34:44,320
Speaker 1: fun stuff there, and uh, it was the lock competition

685
00:34:44,400 --> 00:34:47,720
Speaker 1: had just started back then in the middle of that season.

686
00:34:47,760 --> 00:34:50,800
Speaker 1: Actually just kind of uh impromptu. Let's let's take a

687
00:34:50,880 --> 00:35:00,440
Speaker 1: listen after Mark Sessler three and oh whoa. We are

688
00:35:00,520 --> 00:35:04,080
Speaker 1: flying with the locks now and the cop we put

689
00:35:04,120 --> 00:35:06,960
Speaker 1: we've put it into the safe. We spin you know

690
00:35:07,080 --> 00:35:09,480
Speaker 1: the wheel thing or like the what is it? It's

691
00:35:09,520 --> 00:35:13,680
Speaker 1: like a circular it's almost like a pirate ship wheel

692
00:35:13,719 --> 00:35:16,520
Speaker 1: almost kind of like a we spin the pirate ship

693
00:35:16,640 --> 00:35:19,279
Speaker 1: wheel lock and then we leave it there and then

694
00:35:19,320 --> 00:35:21,560
Speaker 1: we go get it on on Saturday. Don't need to

695
00:35:21,560 --> 00:35:24,360
Speaker 1: think about it again. I gotta wait till Sunday for

696
00:35:24,400 --> 00:35:26,920
Speaker 1: the Steelers. Bad job. I should have picked the lock

697
00:35:27,000 --> 00:35:31,319
Speaker 1: that was on Saturday. No lollipops today. Anyway, You're no Liberaci,

698
00:35:31,840 --> 00:35:41,359
Speaker 1: but you know we then Liberaci comes up a lot

699
00:35:41,400 --> 00:35:44,680
Speaker 1: on the show. Um, and great to hear Chris of course,

700
00:35:44,840 --> 00:35:47,680
Speaker 1: and Greggy to think, just think of all the joy

701
00:35:48,680 --> 00:35:51,680
Speaker 1: and like the Grinch coming down from the mountain trying

702
00:35:51,680 --> 00:35:55,359
Speaker 1: to kill the lock segment. Shame on you. That's part

703
00:35:55,360 --> 00:35:58,399
Speaker 1: to the fun. I just like we were still talking showmanship.

704
00:36:03,760 --> 00:36:06,440
Speaker 1: He called me the strong and silent type, which was

705
00:36:06,680 --> 00:36:08,839
Speaker 1: a running joke and the whole thing it was. It

706
00:36:08,880 --> 00:36:11,400
Speaker 1: was nice to hear his voice. I remember we were

707
00:36:11,440 --> 00:36:15,319
Speaker 1: in the studio that night. Yes, always good to hear Chris,

708
00:36:15,440 --> 00:36:18,759
Speaker 1: especially on Christmas Eve. Lay All Collins, by the way,

709
00:36:18,800 --> 00:36:21,160
Speaker 1: went out with a knee injury. Keep an eye on that.

710
00:36:21,280 --> 00:36:25,399
Speaker 1: Their offensive line really crumbled Cincinnati after that. Okay, let's

711
00:36:25,440 --> 00:36:28,719
Speaker 1: move now to Soldier Field where the Bills, you know,

712
00:36:28,840 --> 00:36:31,960
Speaker 1: they know the Cincinnati's breathing right down their neck as

713
00:36:32,000 --> 00:36:33,719
Speaker 1: they try to lock up home field Avenge in the

714
00:36:33,760 --> 00:36:36,080
Speaker 1: a f C time to take care of business against

715
00:36:36,080 --> 00:36:39,920
Speaker 1: the Bears. Josh takes gonna keep it and try to

716
00:36:39,960 --> 00:36:42,279
Speaker 1: run on himself round the right side. Josh ticks to

717
00:36:42,320 --> 00:36:46,080
Speaker 1: the interne easy and touch down Buffalo. Josh Allen runs

718
00:36:46,120 --> 00:36:53,000
Speaker 1: it in from three artown touchdown, Puffalo. Bill. The Bills

719
00:36:53,040 --> 00:36:56,400
Speaker 1: did get it done, maybe not as easy as they expected,

720
00:36:56,800 --> 00:37:00,640
Speaker 1: at least early on, but in the end, Devin Singletary

721
00:37:00,800 --> 00:37:03,719
Speaker 1: James Cook both had long TVs in the third quarter,

722
00:37:03,800 --> 00:37:06,719
Speaker 1: Alan scored as you heard, and Buffalo coasted to a

723
00:37:08,040 --> 00:37:12,000
Speaker 1: win in one of the coldest games ever played in Chicago. Yeah,

724
00:37:12,000 --> 00:37:14,080
Speaker 1: I should mention that as a t Mark Sessler here

725
00:37:14,400 --> 00:37:19,440
Speaker 1: all across the country just hideous weather. Um and luckily

726
00:37:20,280 --> 00:37:24,440
Speaker 1: we're not traveling this week. But um, these games, some

727
00:37:24,600 --> 00:37:27,600
Speaker 1: of these games really were impacted by the weather. One

728
00:37:27,680 --> 00:37:30,120
Speaker 1: of the games, Tennessee and Houston even had to be

729
00:37:30,200 --> 00:37:32,880
Speaker 1: pushed back an hour because of a power grid situation.

730
00:37:33,680 --> 00:37:37,239
Speaker 1: Unbelievable anyway, get into it. Mark had the Bills win

731
00:37:37,320 --> 00:37:39,920
Speaker 1: this game. I think the weather had a real effect

732
00:37:39,960 --> 00:37:41,439
Speaker 1: on this, as it did on a lot of these games.

733
00:37:41,480 --> 00:37:45,000
Speaker 1: You mentioned that they just weren't really the same operation

734
00:37:45,120 --> 00:37:47,560
Speaker 1: through the air. It wasn't it wasn't like completely visible

735
00:37:47,600 --> 00:37:49,719
Speaker 1: to the eye that they couldn't move the ball Josh

736
00:37:49,760 --> 00:37:51,560
Speaker 1: Allen through the air, But like we're really what stood

737
00:37:51,600 --> 00:37:54,320
Speaker 1: out to me today was because we've, you know, mid season,

738
00:37:54,360 --> 00:37:56,480
Speaker 1: we're kind of questioning the balance of the offense, like

739
00:37:56,760 --> 00:37:58,480
Speaker 1: if they needed to, could they really run the ball

740
00:37:58,520 --> 00:38:01,280
Speaker 1: in a situation and do it without a major issues?

741
00:38:01,400 --> 00:38:02,879
Speaker 1: And today was the day where I mean think we've

742
00:38:02,920 --> 00:38:06,120
Speaker 1: seen that bubble up, especially Alan against the Dolphins. I

743
00:38:06,200 --> 00:38:08,319
Speaker 1: thought had a big day at another forty one yards

744
00:38:08,360 --> 00:38:10,919
Speaker 1: and that touchdown we just heard today, So that's part

745
00:38:10,960 --> 00:38:13,120
Speaker 1: of their offense right now, especially in weather like this.

746
00:38:13,560 --> 00:38:16,120
Speaker 1: But it was Devin Singletary you mentioned a hundred and

747
00:38:16,200 --> 00:38:20,319
Speaker 1: six yards. James Cook had two hundred and fifty four

748
00:38:20,400 --> 00:38:23,200
Speaker 1: yards at eight point two yards per carry off thirty

749
00:38:23,280 --> 00:38:25,520
Speaker 1: one of toats. And what I loved about it was

750
00:38:25,600 --> 00:38:27,840
Speaker 1: the two touchdowns you mentioned, was like they were just

751
00:38:27,960 --> 00:38:31,239
Speaker 1: really looking for an explosive spark, and back to back

752
00:38:31,360 --> 00:38:34,800
Speaker 1: drives you get Cook and Singletary blasting for long touchdowns

753
00:38:34,840 --> 00:38:37,239
Speaker 1: and it really just put it away on the flip side.

754
00:38:37,280 --> 00:38:39,360
Speaker 1: The reason I thought, you know, we've seen these bears

755
00:38:39,440 --> 00:38:41,840
Speaker 1: hanging these games and it's always been about justin fields.

756
00:38:42,040 --> 00:38:44,400
Speaker 1: They had a good plan for fields, Um they were

757
00:38:44,480 --> 00:38:46,480
Speaker 1: dealing with and they have they have nothing in their

758
00:38:46,520 --> 00:38:48,960
Speaker 1: offense from through the air, and so it's him or nothing.

759
00:38:49,200 --> 00:38:51,000
Speaker 1: And he had when the Bills at one point we're

760
00:38:51,080 --> 00:38:53,040
Speaker 1: up twenty one nothing at a hundred and eighty one yards,

761
00:38:53,400 --> 00:38:56,000
Speaker 1: Fields had seven and he finished on the ground with

762
00:38:56,120 --> 00:38:58,279
Speaker 1: eleven yards off seven carry. So if you're gonna take

763
00:38:58,360 --> 00:39:02,240
Speaker 1: that element out of Chicago attack, um, see you later, Bears.

764
00:39:02,600 --> 00:39:04,719
Speaker 1: Bears still got a chance for the number one pick.

765
00:39:05,360 --> 00:39:08,680
Speaker 1: By the way, they're only half a game behind the

766
00:39:09,840 --> 00:39:12,520
Speaker 1: last two months, right, they they're close every week. And

767
00:39:12,600 --> 00:39:15,239
Speaker 1: then look, the Bills clinched their third straight a f

768
00:39:15,320 --> 00:39:18,160
Speaker 1: C East today. That's impressive with two weeks to go.

769
00:39:18,320 --> 00:39:20,200
Speaker 1: In this division that we were saying looked like the

770
00:39:20,239 --> 00:39:22,840
Speaker 1: best division in football, they end up being the class

771
00:39:22,880 --> 00:39:25,800
Speaker 1: of it by far. Always say how hard it is

772
00:39:25,880 --> 00:39:28,480
Speaker 1: to like be the best team year after year, and

773
00:39:28,840 --> 00:39:30,560
Speaker 1: we look up and here it is. It's the Bills

774
00:39:30,960 --> 00:39:33,239
Speaker 1: in the chiefs again. And you nailed it, Mark. I mean,

775
00:39:34,200 --> 00:39:36,839
Speaker 1: being able to run to win is really important for them.

776
00:39:36,960 --> 00:39:40,080
Speaker 1: And it wasn't like those running backs loaded up on

777
00:39:40,200 --> 00:39:43,000
Speaker 1: like fifty carries. It was twelve for one oh six eleven.

778
00:39:43,760 --> 00:39:47,600
Speaker 1: That's a really good sign for them. That is for

779
00:39:47,840 --> 00:39:52,200
Speaker 1: Chicago fan base that no, they're going to watch a loss.

780
00:39:52,880 --> 00:39:54,279
Speaker 1: And I don't know how many people. I'm sure there

781
00:39:54,320 --> 00:39:56,960
Speaker 1: were a lot of empty seats there. But the temperature

782
00:39:57,040 --> 00:40:00,839
Speaker 1: kickoff was nine degrees with a minus twelve win chill,

783
00:40:01,160 --> 00:40:03,520
Speaker 1: only three degrees warmer than the record low for a

784
00:40:03,600 --> 00:40:06,719
Speaker 1: Bears home game. And it's their coldest road game for

785
00:40:06,840 --> 00:40:10,480
Speaker 1: Buffalo by temperature since at least nineteen sixty seven. I mean,

786
00:40:10,760 --> 00:40:13,160
Speaker 1: what causes people to go to these games? I I

787
00:40:13,840 --> 00:40:17,000
Speaker 1: respect it, but it does strike me as a whiff

788
00:40:17,040 --> 00:40:20,520
Speaker 1: of madness. There were empty seats. There were a ton

789
00:40:20,680 --> 00:40:24,640
Speaker 1: of empty seats in Foxboro, in Cleveland, and I assume

790
00:40:24,680 --> 00:40:26,560
Speaker 1: in this one mark but I didn't really check out

791
00:40:26,640 --> 00:40:29,760
Speaker 1: this one. I didn't track the seats scenario um that closely,

792
00:40:29,880 --> 00:40:31,440
Speaker 1: to be honest, But I will say that one time,

793
00:40:32,320 --> 00:40:34,279
Speaker 1: what happens, Well, there's a lot going on. Like at

794
00:40:34,320 --> 00:40:37,400
Speaker 1: the one time, I do recall getting um like tangible.

795
00:40:37,440 --> 00:40:39,560
Speaker 1: I went in snow. It was like deathly frost bite,

796
00:40:39,600 --> 00:40:41,360
Speaker 1: but I couldn't feel my toes even like in the

797
00:40:41,440 --> 00:40:43,279
Speaker 1: middle of the night. Was the first game I ever

798
00:40:43,360 --> 00:40:45,680
Speaker 1: went to was a week fifteen Chiefs Giants game in

799
00:40:45,760 --> 00:40:48,319
Speaker 1: East Rutherford, New Jersey, and it was like this kind

800
00:40:48,360 --> 00:40:50,080
Speaker 1: of temperature and it was like what I had the

801
00:40:50,120 --> 00:40:52,000
Speaker 1: same question as you, then, what am I doing here?

802
00:40:52,640 --> 00:40:56,120
Speaker 1: There is as anyone that grew up in the Northeast knows,

803
00:40:56,280 --> 00:40:59,120
Speaker 1: if you go to a game at Giant Stadium in

804
00:40:59,239 --> 00:41:01,400
Speaker 1: the eighties and and d s into the two thousands,

805
00:41:02,280 --> 00:41:05,080
Speaker 1: and it is a late kickoff, four PM kickoff and

806
00:41:05,160 --> 00:41:07,120
Speaker 1: you are on the side of the stadium that is

807
00:41:07,200 --> 00:41:12,240
Speaker 1: in the shade, you are going to suffer for many hours.

808
00:41:13,040 --> 00:41:14,520
Speaker 1: And I'm sure you were on the wrong side of

809
00:41:14,560 --> 00:41:16,799
Speaker 1: the stadium on that day. My friend, Well, I'm a child,

810
00:41:16,880 --> 00:41:18,680
Speaker 1: I'm not. You know, you can't like have whiskey and

811
00:41:18,800 --> 00:41:20,440
Speaker 1: do things that would warm up the body. You're just

812
00:41:20,480 --> 00:41:23,359
Speaker 1: sort of left out to dry, right exactly, all right.

813
00:41:23,640 --> 00:41:27,200
Speaker 1: Let's move to Charlotte, where the team of at L

814
00:41:27,320 --> 00:41:30,000
Speaker 1: look to keep things rolling against the Panthers fighting for

815
00:41:30,080 --> 00:41:34,279
Speaker 1: their playoff lives in the saggy NFC South. This one

816
00:41:34,560 --> 00:41:38,120
Speaker 1: did not go to plan. Trips left the snap stream

817
00:41:38,160 --> 00:41:41,279
Speaker 1: pass back to DJ. He's got the five reaching two

818
00:41:41,320 --> 00:41:43,319
Speaker 1: of the end zone ball comes out at the end,

819
00:41:43,640 --> 00:41:49,719
Speaker 1: touchdown Carolina d J. Moore and the Panthers lead at

820
00:41:49,880 --> 00:41:54,000
Speaker 1: thirty to seven. We're about twenty four minutes and twelve

821
00:41:54,120 --> 00:41:57,680
Speaker 1: seconds away from a game against Tampa next week with

822
00:41:57,840 --> 00:42:01,759
Speaker 1: first place in the division on the law. Wa what

823
00:42:02,760 --> 00:42:08,279
Speaker 1: good call do we have? A? Greg Rosa? What why

824
00:42:11,320 --> 00:42:15,400
Speaker 1: do you? J? Moore? With the score there? But this

825
00:42:15,560 --> 00:42:20,840
Speaker 1: was about the running game for the Panthers. Dante Foreman

826
00:42:20,960 --> 00:42:23,200
Speaker 1: ran for a career high one hundred sixty five yards

827
00:42:23,239 --> 00:42:25,600
Speaker 1: and a touchdown. The Panthers had a franchise record three

828
00:42:26,000 --> 00:42:29,200
Speaker 1: twenty yards on the ground and they defeat the team

829
00:42:29,320 --> 00:42:36,160
Speaker 1: around the NFL. Greg, how do you give up three

830
00:42:36,600 --> 00:42:40,839
Speaker 1: twenty yards on the ground in this spot? It felt

831
00:42:40,880 --> 00:42:43,560
Speaker 1: like more the sad the sad a t N music

832
00:42:43,680 --> 00:42:47,080
Speaker 1: team of a ten music is back. M h. It

833
00:42:47,160 --> 00:42:52,360
Speaker 1: felt like a moral victory. What what what? What? It

834
00:42:52,520 --> 00:42:55,080
Speaker 1: was to forty At halftime? I got the Google what's

835
00:42:55,120 --> 00:42:57,120
Speaker 1: the all time record for rushing yards in a game?

836
00:42:57,160 --> 00:42:59,080
Speaker 1: I mean they were on no, they had they were

837
00:42:59,080 --> 00:43:02,000
Speaker 1: on pace for it at that point. So never good, yeah,

838
00:43:02,280 --> 00:43:04,920
Speaker 1: never good. I mean five place seventy eight yards on

839
00:43:05,000 --> 00:43:07,000
Speaker 1: the first drive and they were all runs The first

840
00:43:07,040 --> 00:43:09,080
Speaker 1: play of the game was a thirty five yard run

841
00:43:09,239 --> 00:43:13,360
Speaker 1: and they were just huge holes for Donte Foreman and

842
00:43:13,640 --> 00:43:16,600
Speaker 1: Chewba Harbard to run through and bad tackling in the

843
00:43:16,719 --> 00:43:19,120
Speaker 1: secondary by the lines. And it started that way, and

844
00:43:19,200 --> 00:43:21,880
Speaker 1: you just that that happened sometimes and you figure like, oh,

845
00:43:21,960 --> 00:43:24,640
Speaker 1: this is gonna get under control, and it it never

846
00:43:24,840 --> 00:43:28,120
Speaker 1: really got under control. The Panthers set a franchise record

847
00:43:28,719 --> 00:43:31,400
Speaker 1: with that rushing total, but they also set up franchise

848
00:43:31,440 --> 00:43:33,360
Speaker 1: record just for yardage. I mean, they've been around a

849
00:43:33,400 --> 00:43:36,680
Speaker 1: while now. Five and seventy yards is a lot. And

850
00:43:36,800 --> 00:43:38,880
Speaker 1: Sam Donald, when he had to make a play in

851
00:43:38,920 --> 00:43:42,279
Speaker 1: this game, made a lot of high level throws. They

852
00:43:43,160 --> 00:43:47,360
Speaker 1: just destroyed this team, the Lions defense, at least not offensively,

853
00:43:47,440 --> 00:43:49,960
Speaker 1: but it was crazy. The Panthers had seven runs to

854
00:43:50,000 --> 00:43:52,440
Speaker 1: your point crag of twenty yards or more. And the

855
00:43:52,560 --> 00:43:55,920
Speaker 1: Lions had been very stout against the run defensively in

856
00:43:56,040 --> 00:43:58,759
Speaker 1: recent weeks. They had been averaging uh just eighty four

857
00:43:58,840 --> 00:44:02,239
Speaker 1: yards rushing per game in the last five weeks. UH

858
00:44:02,320 --> 00:44:05,040
Speaker 1: and then Foreman and Hubbard both go over the century

859
00:44:05,080 --> 00:44:09,279
Speaker 1: mark in the first half, so halfa is the first

860
00:44:09,320 --> 00:44:12,719
Speaker 1: time that had happened in any game since uh d'angelo's

861
00:44:13,280 --> 00:44:17,279
Speaker 1: Williams and Jonathan Stewart's Insane. Yeah, and Mark, I guess

862
00:44:17,360 --> 00:44:19,680
Speaker 1: this is we'll see, We'll see what this means for Detroit.

863
00:44:19,840 --> 00:44:21,800
Speaker 1: Is this another game? By the way, a temperature is

864
00:44:21,840 --> 00:44:25,200
Speaker 1: twenty degrees to kick off wind chill of nine. Maybe

865
00:44:25,280 --> 00:44:27,920
Speaker 1: this is a dome team that that just bid it.

866
00:44:28,040 --> 00:44:29,840
Speaker 1: But we'll see if they bounce back from this. This

867
00:44:29,880 --> 00:44:32,240
Speaker 1: seems like a pretty humbling loss. Well, I think golf

868
00:44:32,320 --> 00:44:36,200
Speaker 1: splits on you know, at home versus um, not only

869
00:44:36,320 --> 00:44:38,839
Speaker 1: on the road, but like when he's been outdoors are

870
00:44:38,960 --> 00:44:42,800
Speaker 1: unbelievably varied, Like he's not the same person in this

871
00:44:42,960 --> 00:44:46,359
Speaker 1: outdoor weather. And so I did score awesome in this game.

872
00:44:46,920 --> 00:44:49,759
Speaker 1: I'm coming into this, coming into this game like he's

873
00:44:49,840 --> 00:44:53,640
Speaker 1: like literally of his production has been like an indoor weather.

874
00:44:53,840 --> 00:44:55,800
Speaker 1: And so I mean I think that helps them the

875
00:44:55,840 --> 00:44:58,320
Speaker 1: way they're built to. I mean, to me, it's like

876
00:44:58,600 --> 00:45:01,719
Speaker 1: I don't sure the Lions, they've been so improved, but

877
00:45:01,880 --> 00:45:03,400
Speaker 1: like they were kind of do I thought for a

878
00:45:03,480 --> 00:45:05,239
Speaker 1: step back at some point. I mean, I'm just some

879
00:45:05,400 --> 00:45:08,399
Speaker 1: surprised by Carolina being able to dominate this way. They've

880
00:45:08,400 --> 00:45:10,960
Speaker 1: been really hot and cold because they had sixty four

881
00:45:11,000 --> 00:45:12,840
Speaker 1: yards rushing against the Bengals. It's like, all right, well

882
00:45:12,880 --> 00:45:14,719
Speaker 1: that plans out the window. Then the next week they

883
00:45:14,760 --> 00:45:17,000
Speaker 1: put up two hundred and forty against the Falcons on

884
00:45:17,040 --> 00:45:20,000
Speaker 1: the ground, then thirty six against the Ravens, then a

885
00:45:20,120 --> 00:45:22,760
Speaker 1: hundred and eighty five against the good Broncos team, then today,

886
00:45:22,800 --> 00:45:25,840
Speaker 1: So it's like, when it works, they're essentially unstoppable. But

887
00:45:25,880 --> 00:45:28,680
Speaker 1: then the next week they completely as the beds. So

888
00:45:28,840 --> 00:45:30,160
Speaker 1: I'm not you know, It's like, I don't know who

889
00:45:30,239 --> 00:45:32,479
Speaker 1: to trust in any of these situations. Right, They're gonna

890
00:45:32,600 --> 00:45:35,400
Speaker 1: play the Bucks no matter what happens on Christmas, and

891
00:45:35,640 --> 00:45:39,280
Speaker 1: they are in a winning in situation. If Carolina beats

892
00:45:39,440 --> 00:45:42,080
Speaker 1: Tampa next week, they are in first place and then

893
00:45:42,120 --> 00:45:44,880
Speaker 1: they could clinch the division. I think Dartle makes a

894
00:45:45,000 --> 00:45:47,919
Speaker 1: huge difference away he's playing. He's played the cleanest month

895
00:45:48,360 --> 00:45:51,719
Speaker 1: I think of his career. Maybe he had some more

896
00:45:51,800 --> 00:45:54,879
Speaker 1: spectacular moments with the Jets, but he's just made good

897
00:45:54,920 --> 00:45:58,600
Speaker 1: decisions and he wasn't like the headline here today. But

898
00:45:58,680 --> 00:46:00,560
Speaker 1: there were a couple of spots in game where they

899
00:46:00,600 --> 00:46:02,879
Speaker 1: needed a throw and he made some really high level

900
00:46:02,960 --> 00:46:06,239
Speaker 1: throws and and they needed to keep scoring because the

901
00:46:06,360 --> 00:46:09,640
Speaker 1: Lions offensively, we're fine in this game, Golf, I thought

902
00:46:09,680 --> 00:46:13,800
Speaker 1: actually played pretty well overall. They were stopped inside the

903
00:46:13,880 --> 00:46:16,960
Speaker 1: ten yard line twice, once on downs with I think

904
00:46:17,000 --> 00:46:19,520
Speaker 1: it was a batted pass and once they fumbled a

905
00:46:19,560 --> 00:46:21,880
Speaker 1: snap on a first down. You know, they put up

906
00:46:21,920 --> 00:46:24,279
Speaker 1: three d an eight yards in twenty three points, like

907
00:46:24,880 --> 00:46:27,200
Speaker 1: it was really their defense had had no hope in

908
00:46:27,239 --> 00:46:30,600
Speaker 1: this game. I'm happy for Sam Donald who just getting

909
00:46:30,640 --> 00:46:33,960
Speaker 1: and then a shot at this NFL thing after a

910
00:46:34,040 --> 00:46:37,279
Speaker 1: horrendous start to his career. And we are it is

911
00:46:37,400 --> 00:46:42,919
Speaker 1: within the realm of reality here that Sam Donald starts

912
00:46:42,960 --> 00:46:45,840
Speaker 1: a home playoff game. Uh, this, this could happen. Tampa

913
00:46:45,880 --> 00:46:47,960
Speaker 1: Bay is not a team to trust. Keep an eye

914
00:46:48,000 --> 00:46:49,560
Speaker 1: on this because the Panthers now and I know that

915
00:46:49,680 --> 00:46:51,920
Speaker 1: it was a disappointing loss last week but against Pittsburgh,

916
00:46:52,080 --> 00:46:55,520
Speaker 1: but to bounce back like this, uh, that is pretty impressive.

917
00:46:55,560 --> 00:46:58,080
Speaker 1: They had five yards in this game, the most ever

918
00:46:58,200 --> 00:47:01,600
Speaker 1: on the coldest day that the history of that stadium.

919
00:47:01,960 --> 00:47:05,279
Speaker 1: I really hope that Steve Wilkes gets a legitimate, real

920
00:47:05,480 --> 00:47:07,800
Speaker 1: chance to continue as coach because I think this is

921
00:47:08,200 --> 00:47:10,640
Speaker 1: one of the better interim runs there's been. Yeah, you

922
00:47:10,680 --> 00:47:13,120
Speaker 1: wonder if they like lost two straight weather it would happen.

923
00:47:13,200 --> 00:47:15,479
Speaker 1: But today it felt like, Man, I think he's gonna

924
00:47:15,600 --> 00:47:18,680
Speaker 1: keep wind up, keeping this job. I did notice Dan Campbell,

925
00:47:18,760 --> 00:47:20,880
Speaker 1: like I thought he blinked at one point there was

926
00:47:21,120 --> 00:47:24,440
Speaker 1: a fourth and one at his own thirty six, and

927
00:47:24,480 --> 00:47:26,000
Speaker 1: they had been moving the ball well and that was

928
00:47:26,080 --> 00:47:28,640
Speaker 1: a play that they've gone for in most situations all year,

929
00:47:28,760 --> 00:47:31,160
Speaker 1: right before halftime, and he decides to pun it away

930
00:47:31,160 --> 00:47:33,160
Speaker 1: and his lousy defense ends up giving up points in

931
00:47:33,239 --> 00:47:36,520
Speaker 1: that situation. Anyway, you didn't see the aggressive call from

932
00:47:36,600 --> 00:47:38,520
Speaker 1: Dan Campbell on and a day they needed to, but

933
00:47:38,560 --> 00:47:40,640
Speaker 1: it wouldn't have mattered. I just and and by the way,

934
00:47:40,680 --> 00:47:43,120
Speaker 1: I do see that golf had a major box score today.

935
00:47:43,120 --> 00:47:45,759
Speaker 1: I was more mentioning that like coming into this game

936
00:47:46,200 --> 00:47:48,720
Speaker 1: it did. It was one question about the Lions because

937
00:47:49,120 --> 00:47:51,800
Speaker 1: they've been so explosive at home that like, can you

938
00:47:51,960 --> 00:47:54,880
Speaker 1: go win on the road in a big spot? You know, well,

939
00:47:54,920 --> 00:47:56,880
Speaker 1: their home next week against the Bears, and then they

940
00:47:56,960 --> 00:47:59,440
Speaker 1: might be on the road week eighteen. That could be

941
00:47:59,520 --> 00:48:02,760
Speaker 1: the Sunday night game in a cold weather situation against

942
00:48:02,840 --> 00:48:05,120
Speaker 1: Green Bay. All is not lost for team over around

943
00:48:05,160 --> 00:48:07,360
Speaker 1: the NFL. They had been on a run here. But

944
00:48:07,440 --> 00:48:09,680
Speaker 1: if you win these last two games, you're probably in

945
00:48:09,719 --> 00:48:12,799
Speaker 1: the playoffs. Yes, just that we're gonna stay positive here.

946
00:48:13,440 --> 00:48:16,640
Speaker 1: I don't like giving up ground yards in a game.

947
00:48:16,920 --> 00:48:19,160
Speaker 1: It makes me nervous that they have been exposed in

948
00:48:19,239 --> 00:48:22,319
Speaker 1: a profound way. But we're not gonna happen again. They're

949
00:48:22,320 --> 00:48:25,000
Speaker 1: not going to do that again, not exactly at least. Right.

950
00:48:25,840 --> 00:48:27,880
Speaker 1: All right, let's take a break and we'll row through

951
00:48:28,040 --> 00:48:32,359
Speaker 1: the rest of the games. All right, there is welcome back.

952
00:48:32,719 --> 00:48:35,960
Speaker 1: We have a three team race top the a f

953
00:48:36,120 --> 00:48:39,200
Speaker 1: C trying to get that number one see the all

954
00:48:39,280 --> 00:48:44,880
Speaker 1: important buy and home field advantage throughout the a f

955
00:48:44,960 --> 00:48:48,160
Speaker 1: C playoffs. We know the Bills one, knew the Bengals one.

956
00:48:48,600 --> 00:48:51,680
Speaker 1: How about the Chiefs? Did they keep pace against the Seahawks?

957
00:48:52,160 --> 00:48:58,080
Speaker 1: Kelsey three stands to the left or keeps the ball

958
00:48:58,120 --> 00:49:00,320
Speaker 1: in his right hand, trying to stay alive, eyes for

959
00:49:00,400 --> 00:49:03,600
Speaker 1: the firefront pylon. Did he get it? Did he get it?

960
00:49:04,640 --> 00:49:08,920
Speaker 1: Are they gonna give it to a touchdown? Chance city?

961
00:49:09,239 --> 00:49:13,200
Speaker 1: All precincts, final reporting, And they give it to Mahomes

962
00:49:13,360 --> 00:49:16,640
Speaker 1: on another rushing touchdown, the twelfth of his career. And

963
00:49:16,719 --> 00:49:21,600
Speaker 1: the Chase have broken it open at twenty three to three. Whoa,

964
00:49:23,560 --> 00:49:26,200
Speaker 1: he said, it was just the twelfth rushing touchdown mahomes career.

965
00:49:26,239 --> 00:49:28,640
Speaker 1: That can't be right, Is that right? It feels like

966
00:49:28,719 --> 00:49:33,800
Speaker 1: they all were to win the game though. Patrick Mahomes

967
00:49:34,120 --> 00:49:36,520
Speaker 1: with Jalen Hurts out with an injury, has a chance here,

968
00:49:37,160 --> 00:49:40,880
Speaker 1: uh to really put the m v P race in

969
00:49:41,120 --> 00:49:43,399
Speaker 1: his favor. And he got it done today, throwing two

970
00:49:43,440 --> 00:49:47,880
Speaker 1: touchdown passes from no interceptions, adding that rushing score that

971
00:49:48,120 --> 00:49:51,000
Speaker 1: you heard, and the Chiefs do take care of business

972
00:49:51,080 --> 00:49:52,919
Speaker 1: and moved to twelve and three with a twenty four

973
00:49:53,280 --> 00:49:56,440
Speaker 1: to ten win over the fading Seahawks. That was Mitch

974
00:49:56,520 --> 00:50:00,840
Speaker 1: Holtess of course, uh for w d a f and

975
00:50:01,320 --> 00:50:05,279
Speaker 1: Greggy yes another is this another case just kind of

976
00:50:05,360 --> 00:50:07,360
Speaker 1: grinding their way through these things? But what did you

977
00:50:07,400 --> 00:50:10,120
Speaker 1: take out of this game that their defense needed to

978
00:50:10,160 --> 00:50:12,360
Speaker 1: step up? I really wanted their defense to show me

979
00:50:12,400 --> 00:50:14,480
Speaker 1: a little something more and they did for the most part.

980
00:50:14,560 --> 00:50:18,320
Speaker 1: It was a lot of stopping the Seahawks on fourth

981
00:50:18,400 --> 00:50:22,719
Speaker 1: downs like in their territory. Because Seattle could not finish drives.

982
00:50:22,719 --> 00:50:26,319
Speaker 1: They turned it over on downs three times and Gino

983
00:50:26,440 --> 00:50:28,960
Speaker 1: through a red zone interceptions. Those four times, they were

984
00:50:29,040 --> 00:50:32,520
Speaker 1: inside the forty with zero points to speak of. But

985
00:50:32,640 --> 00:50:35,040
Speaker 1: Chris Jones was dominant. I think he's second in the

986
00:50:35,120 --> 00:50:37,920
Speaker 1: league in terms of interior pass rushers and pressures. He

987
00:50:37,960 --> 00:50:41,960
Speaker 1: had four quarterback hits. Lagarius Snead was really good against

988
00:50:42,000 --> 00:50:44,680
Speaker 1: DK Metcalf when he was lined up against him, and

989
00:50:44,760 --> 00:50:46,960
Speaker 1: the defense kind of just did what they needed to

990
00:50:47,040 --> 00:50:49,399
Speaker 1: do and waited for the offense to put him away.

991
00:50:49,480 --> 00:50:51,560
Speaker 1: They're gonna get the one seat here if they can

992
00:50:51,640 --> 00:50:54,440
Speaker 1: just win a couple of division games against Denver in Vegas.

993
00:50:54,480 --> 00:50:56,840
Speaker 1: I think that's huge because in the a f C

994
00:50:57,080 --> 00:51:00,879
Speaker 1: in theory, Buffalo Cincinnati, like, you don't to play two

995
00:51:00,960 --> 00:51:02,759
Speaker 1: of those teams. You would only have to play one

996
00:51:02,840 --> 00:51:04,520
Speaker 1: of those teams if you can get the one seed.

997
00:51:05,320 --> 00:51:08,319
Speaker 1: I mean, was this another um miniature. I don't want

998
00:51:08,360 --> 00:51:11,120
Speaker 1: to over emphasize it, but but maybe come down to

999
00:51:11,200 --> 00:51:13,279
Speaker 1: earth or step back for General Smith, because what I

1000
00:51:13,400 --> 00:51:17,160
Speaker 1: kept seeing early on was that on key uh fourth

1001
00:51:17,200 --> 00:51:19,239
Speaker 1: down plays he was throwing short of the sticks that

1002
00:51:19,280 --> 00:51:21,640
Speaker 1: created two turnovers on downs, and they I think they

1003
00:51:22,160 --> 00:51:25,840
Speaker 1: had three or four of those situations in Kansas City territory,

1004
00:51:25,920 --> 00:51:28,839
Speaker 1: where you know, I know they're compromised. Like Kenneth Walker looked.

1005
00:51:29,120 --> 00:51:30,719
Speaker 1: It seemed like you had a better game today, but

1006
00:51:30,880 --> 00:51:33,280
Speaker 1: you don't have Tyler Lockett and it's just like they're

1007
00:51:33,440 --> 00:51:35,720
Speaker 1: not able to This isn't the same environment that Gino

1008
00:51:35,760 --> 00:51:37,360
Speaker 1: Smith was sort of thriving in a month and a

1009
00:51:37,400 --> 00:51:39,480
Speaker 1: half ago, two months ago. No, this was one of

1010
00:51:39,520 --> 00:51:43,040
Speaker 1: the coldest days in Kansas City. Um, in Arrowhead history too,

1011
00:51:43,080 --> 00:51:45,680
Speaker 1: which is maybe why mahomes numbers were pretty low and

1012
00:51:45,920 --> 00:51:48,200
Speaker 1: in the eight struggled at some points. But yeah, they

1013
00:51:48,400 --> 00:51:50,720
Speaker 1: they're not protecting him. I think Charles crossed. Their tackle

1014
00:51:50,800 --> 00:51:53,759
Speaker 1: went out of this game, the Seahawks tackle and Gino

1015
00:51:53,880 --> 00:51:56,719
Speaker 1: was getting hit, Gino was missing lock it and you're right,

1016
00:51:56,800 --> 00:51:59,279
Speaker 1: they kept throwing it like eight yards on fourth and

1017
00:51:59,400 --> 00:52:01,640
Speaker 1: nine and it was killer. Greg Let me get the

1018
00:52:02,080 --> 00:52:05,960
Speaker 1: calculator out, help us out, um, because obviously I'm confused

1019
00:52:05,960 --> 00:52:08,200
Speaker 1: about it. So the Giants are in great position even

1020
00:52:08,239 --> 00:52:10,879
Speaker 1: with the low Still, what is what does the rest

1021
00:52:10,960 --> 00:52:14,400
Speaker 1: of this NFC Wild Card field look like right now? Well,

1022
00:52:14,400 --> 00:52:17,759
Speaker 1: it's pretty simple. With the Commanders lead, their only half

1023
00:52:17,800 --> 00:52:21,480
Speaker 1: a game up on Detroit in Seattle. Seattle's got the

1024
00:52:21,520 --> 00:52:23,800
Speaker 1: tiebreaker there, but that that's all they gotta do is

1025
00:52:23,880 --> 00:52:28,719
Speaker 1: make up one game in two weeks Commanders Lions, Seahawks,

1026
00:52:28,840 --> 00:52:31,120
Speaker 1: maybe the Packers in that next Well there's also the

1027
00:52:31,239 --> 00:52:33,560
Speaker 1: fact that if there's if those two get Seattle in

1028
00:52:33,600 --> 00:52:36,759
Speaker 1: Detroit get tangled that insane game from earlier in the

1029
00:52:36,840 --> 00:52:40,600
Speaker 1: year that Seattle won, they win the head to head

1030
00:52:40,640 --> 00:52:45,160
Speaker 1: over Detroit too. Um. If you want a real positive

1031
00:52:45,200 --> 00:52:47,480
Speaker 1: sign for the Chiefs, that's the first time in ten games,

1032
00:52:48,280 --> 00:52:50,600
Speaker 1: uh this season that the Chiefs did not commit a turnover.

1033
00:52:50,680 --> 00:52:52,000
Speaker 1: That's kind of been a little bit of an issue

1034
00:52:52,040 --> 00:52:55,720
Speaker 1: for him this year. So cleaner football, Harrison Butker cleaned

1035
00:52:55,760 --> 00:52:58,680
Speaker 1: things up. He's been off this season. So we'll see

1036
00:52:58,840 --> 00:53:01,399
Speaker 1: where they're at as we finish out the regular season.

1037
00:53:01,440 --> 00:53:05,160
Speaker 1: And by the way, Andy Reid um on Christmas Eve

1038
00:53:05,800 --> 00:53:09,480
Speaker 1: was given a gift by his team in the locker room.

1039
00:53:10,000 --> 00:53:15,640
Speaker 1: Uh listening, thank you, hey, you all get a gift

1040
00:53:15,719 --> 00:53:20,719
Speaker 1: as great as this. Cheeseburger is a paradise. So the

1041
00:53:20,800 --> 00:53:23,200
Speaker 1: game a wrapped gift and it was a cheeseburger in

1042
00:53:23,280 --> 00:53:26,839
Speaker 1: the box. Uh and uh because he's like cheeseburgers, because

1043
00:53:26,840 --> 00:53:29,480
Speaker 1: he's Andy Reid. Do you what percentage of the locker room, Mark,

1044
00:53:29,520 --> 00:53:32,920
Speaker 1: do you think got the Cheeseburgers and Paradise callback to

1045
00:53:33,040 --> 00:53:37,040
Speaker 1: Jimmy Buffett like ninety seven? I think it still gets

1046
00:53:37,120 --> 00:53:40,480
Speaker 1: played pretty widely at you know, pubs and things like that.

1047
00:53:40,600 --> 00:53:42,240
Speaker 1: I think you could still have heard it in college

1048
00:53:42,280 --> 00:53:46,080
Speaker 1: and various um, you know pubs and taverns maybe, But

1049
00:53:46,200 --> 00:53:48,720
Speaker 1: I'm with you that it's it's an Andy Reid reference.

1050
00:53:48,760 --> 00:53:51,279
Speaker 1: It's dated. Andy Reid was probably talking about it, you know,

1051
00:53:51,440 --> 00:53:54,399
Speaker 1: thirty years ago, so uh, yeah, you're aging yourself something.

1052
00:53:54,520 --> 00:53:57,080
Speaker 1: One little takeaway was if you go back earlier in

1053
00:53:57,160 --> 00:53:58,960
Speaker 1: that interview, when they gave him the box, they wrapped

1054
00:53:59,000 --> 00:54:01,840
Speaker 1: it and everything. He shook it violently and so I

1055
00:54:01,960 --> 00:54:03,680
Speaker 1: was like, we knew it was a cheeseburger. I'm like,

1056
00:54:03,680 --> 00:54:05,400
Speaker 1: that thing is going to be an absolute tatters when

1057
00:54:05,440 --> 00:54:09,640
Speaker 1: he ultimately opens the the packaging and it was completely fine.

1058
00:54:09,719 --> 00:54:12,560
Speaker 1: So it's like someone must have speared it um from

1059
00:54:12,600 --> 00:54:15,480
Speaker 1: head to toe so that it wouldn't get you know, ramshackled.

1060
00:54:15,560 --> 00:54:19,160
Speaker 1: It was a class experience scenario. That's a good giving.

1061
00:54:19,400 --> 00:54:22,840
Speaker 1: Great work. Great work by Javis Kelsey there spearing the burger.

1062
00:54:23,280 --> 00:54:25,920
Speaker 1: Great work by Mark noticing that and then commenting on

1063
00:54:26,000 --> 00:54:31,239
Speaker 1: the podcast. Well, let's move to Baltimore, where it was

1064
00:54:31,320 --> 00:54:34,520
Speaker 1: also very cold. Man, it's nice living in southern California.

1065
00:54:34,640 --> 00:54:38,560
Speaker 1: Sometimes it's seventy three degrees today in Colborn, No Joe

1066
00:54:38,880 --> 00:54:41,520
Speaker 1: watched the games outside hotly off of the shotgun in

1067
00:54:41,560 --> 00:54:43,680
Speaker 1: the empty backfield, lobs in the back of the end

1068
00:54:43,800 --> 00:54:48,240
Speaker 1: zone looking for DeMarcus Robinson. He makes the catch, touch

1069
00:54:48,480 --> 00:54:53,600
Speaker 1: down Ravens and the red zone drought is over. A

1070
00:54:53,800 --> 00:54:57,600
Speaker 1: terrific touchpath from Tyler Huntley to DeMarcus Robinson and a

1071
00:54:57,719 --> 00:55:02,520
Speaker 1: back side of the end zone. This crowd is happy

1072
00:55:02,760 --> 00:55:06,000
Speaker 1: for the first time this afternoon. Hey, it hasn't been

1073
00:55:06,080 --> 00:55:10,359
Speaker 1: easy for the Baltimore Ravens on offense for a while now.

1074
00:55:10,800 --> 00:55:13,600
Speaker 1: Uh and it wasn't easy again, but they did get

1075
00:55:13,680 --> 00:55:16,520
Speaker 1: it done. Jerry Sandusky with the call w b a

1076
00:55:16,800 --> 00:55:21,520
Speaker 1: l Tyler Huntley through first half touchdown pass too to

1077
00:55:21,640 --> 00:55:25,800
Speaker 1: Marcus Robinson. The Ravens defense did their job, kept the

1078
00:55:25,920 --> 00:55:28,479
Speaker 1: Falcons and Desmond Ritter out of the end zone. Final

1079
00:55:28,560 --> 00:55:32,840
Speaker 1: score seventeen to nine, ten wins mark for the Ravens.

1080
00:55:32,840 --> 00:55:36,160
Speaker 1: They're going to the dance and m another game without

1081
00:55:36,239 --> 00:55:38,640
Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson, but they want two of the three without him. Now,

1082
00:55:39,520 --> 00:55:40,960
Speaker 1: I mean this would be another team i'd point to

1083
00:55:41,040 --> 00:55:44,360
Speaker 1: where the defense could quiet be like, excuse me, um attack,

1084
00:55:44,560 --> 00:55:48,000
Speaker 1: please start to operate on in somewhat functional level. I

1085
00:55:48,040 --> 00:55:50,400
Speaker 1: mean they're just getting by. Like before that to Marcus

1086
00:55:50,520 --> 00:55:53,640
Speaker 1: Robinson touchdown, they ran the ball eleven times. They really

1087
00:55:53,680 --> 00:55:55,640
Speaker 1: are very one dimensional. We I think we know that

1088
00:55:55,719 --> 00:55:58,440
Speaker 1: about them. Outside of Mark Andrews, you're getting like guys

1089
00:55:58,520 --> 00:56:01,160
Speaker 1: with fourteen yards on the entire day. They just don't

1090
00:56:01,200 --> 00:56:03,560
Speaker 1: have anything there right now with Duverney also out in

1091
00:56:03,640 --> 00:56:06,360
Speaker 1: Rachad Bateman. But it was their defense. Their defense is

1092
00:56:06,400 --> 00:56:08,920
Speaker 1: marvelous and it kind of makes you think, like you

1093
00:56:09,760 --> 00:56:11,719
Speaker 1: if they if they're gonna win an ugly clayoff game,

1094
00:56:11,880 --> 00:56:15,320
Speaker 1: you could do it with this defensive thing. Alright. I

1095
00:56:15,480 --> 00:56:17,560
Speaker 1: wish I had not used that word, but like they

1096
00:56:18,120 --> 00:56:21,719
Speaker 1: basically clipped. They clipped the Falcon. This looked like also,

1097
00:56:21,719 --> 00:56:24,280
Speaker 1: I feel like nine pc of Falcons games are exactly

1098
00:56:24,320 --> 00:56:26,439
Speaker 1: the same um in the sense that they just don't

1099
00:56:26,520 --> 00:56:29,040
Speaker 1: quite get it done. On offense. They had four drives

1100
00:56:29,520 --> 00:56:32,560
Speaker 1: inside the Baltimore twenty that resulted in three field goals

1101
00:56:33,000 --> 00:56:35,160
Speaker 1: and a loss on downs and and you know it

1102
00:56:35,320 --> 00:56:38,399
Speaker 1: was just little moments where Tyler Algio, we know he's

1103
00:56:38,440 --> 00:56:40,800
Speaker 1: been great, he's my guy, but he was stuffed on

1104
00:56:40,960 --> 00:56:44,400
Speaker 1: fourth and goal was six minutes to go, yes, and

1105
00:56:44,719 --> 00:56:47,160
Speaker 1: like he just um that. That to me felt like

1106
00:56:47,200 --> 00:56:48,880
Speaker 1: the game was over. I mean there was a they

1107
00:56:48,920 --> 00:56:51,839
Speaker 1: have even got the ball back again and they were down,

1108
00:56:51,960 --> 00:56:56,000
Speaker 1: you know, seventeen seven or seventeen to six. And Desmond Ritter,

1109
00:56:56,239 --> 00:56:59,759
Speaker 1: you know, second game, got his handoff messed up in

1110
00:57:00,040 --> 00:57:02,479
Speaker 1: kind of clipped Algiers. He was running on a fourth,

1111
00:57:02,560 --> 00:57:05,000
Speaker 1: second and goal situation that just led to another field.

1112
00:57:05,000 --> 00:57:07,759
Speaker 1: They just could not punch in touchdowns against a very

1113
00:57:07,800 --> 00:57:10,799
Speaker 1: good Ravens defense. While the Ravens offense they can run

1114
00:57:10,880 --> 00:57:13,160
Speaker 1: the ball and do very little else. And so this

1115
00:57:13,360 --> 00:57:15,600
Speaker 1: game felt exactly what you thought it would be in

1116
00:57:15,640 --> 00:57:18,640
Speaker 1: this in this weather. I mean, they're in the playoffs.

1117
00:57:18,720 --> 00:57:21,560
Speaker 1: This was a huge win for them, especially they were

1118
00:57:21,760 --> 00:57:24,360
Speaker 1: very vulnerable Greggy. If they would have lost this game,

1119
00:57:24,640 --> 00:57:27,240
Speaker 1: things would have getten very walky. So good for them,

1120
00:57:27,280 --> 00:57:30,600
Speaker 1: and they turn uninspiring playoff entry right now though, I mean,

1121
00:57:30,680 --> 00:57:34,080
Speaker 1: I I hear you, but to me, you throw Lamar

1122
00:57:34,160 --> 00:57:36,160
Speaker 1: back in there, and it's a different world. I know,

1123
00:57:36,240 --> 00:57:38,120
Speaker 1: their offense had struggled with him. But I just mean

1124
00:57:38,200 --> 00:57:41,480
Speaker 1: in a playoff situation. Let's say right now, the playoff

1125
00:57:41,560 --> 00:57:46,560
Speaker 1: matchup would be them, uh spoiler alert at Jacksonville at

1126
00:57:46,600 --> 00:57:48,360
Speaker 1: the a f C South Champion. And if you're the

1127
00:57:48,440 --> 00:57:50,320
Speaker 1: you're the Ravens, You're like, okay, we can party with that.

1128
00:57:50,440 --> 00:57:52,320
Speaker 1: But you're right there there, feel like they're back in.

1129
00:57:53,680 --> 00:57:57,480
Speaker 1: Here's here. Out of their last six games, here are

1130
00:57:57,600 --> 00:58:03,360
Speaker 1: five of the scores thirteen three, ten nine, sixteen four three, thirteen,

1131
00:58:03,880 --> 00:58:08,320
Speaker 1: seventeen nine. But these are just like these are boring.

1132
00:58:08,400 --> 00:58:13,640
Speaker 1: Next sixteen four that can't be right, sixteen fourteen, sixteen fourteen, Yeah,

1133
00:58:13,640 --> 00:58:19,120
Speaker 1: against the Steelers four would have been fun. Sammy Watkins

1134
00:58:19,200 --> 00:58:21,400
Speaker 1: had a forty yard catch in this. I'll, i'll, I

1135
00:58:21,560 --> 00:58:25,360
Speaker 1: think I was killing them on Thursday show. So the

1136
00:58:25,400 --> 00:58:28,840
Speaker 1: whole marvelous things. Sometimes, if you like the Ravens, Stephen

1137
00:58:28,880 --> 00:58:31,040
Speaker 1: gets gets a pass and we forget about some of

1138
00:58:31,080 --> 00:58:34,440
Speaker 1: those marvelous meltdowns they've had this season. I'd like to

1139
00:58:34,480 --> 00:58:36,920
Speaker 1: see them in a big spot down the stretch and

1140
00:58:37,040 --> 00:58:39,120
Speaker 1: maybe in January playoff where they need to get a

1141
00:58:39,160 --> 00:58:41,360
Speaker 1: stop and get it done. But in general, they have

1142
00:58:41,880 --> 00:58:44,040
Speaker 1: if this defense hasn't been as good as it's been

1143
00:58:44,080 --> 00:58:45,880
Speaker 1: for most of the season. Their five and tenants at

1144
00:58:45,920 --> 00:58:48,600
Speaker 1: a tenant five, that's how kind of off this offense

1145
00:58:48,640 --> 00:58:50,680
Speaker 1: has been for much of the year. So what they've

1146
00:58:50,720 --> 00:58:55,360
Speaker 1: given up over twenty points once since early November, and

1147
00:58:55,400 --> 00:58:57,200
Speaker 1: even going back then it was just low twenties. I

1148
00:58:57,280 --> 00:59:00,520
Speaker 1: think that Roe Kwan Smith is another trade like t J. Hawkins,

1149
00:59:00,560 --> 00:59:02,160
Speaker 1: and some of these teams have made good trades like

1150
00:59:02,520 --> 00:59:06,680
Speaker 1: Roquan Smith was a transformative addition for them. All right.

1151
00:59:06,800 --> 00:59:09,840
Speaker 1: And by the way, bye bye Falcons. Holy God, you

1152
00:59:09,920 --> 00:59:13,240
Speaker 1: are eliminated. And I am so happy because for two

1153
00:59:13,360 --> 00:59:16,040
Speaker 1: years straight you've been an annoying, boring team that just

1154
00:59:16,200 --> 00:59:17,920
Speaker 1: gets in the way. And now we don't have to

1155
00:59:17,960 --> 00:59:20,440
Speaker 1: think about you anymore. Go figure out who your quarterback

1156
00:59:20,640 --> 00:59:23,600
Speaker 1: is and all that other good stuff. We'll see in September.

1157
00:59:24,800 --> 00:59:29,880
Speaker 1: Let's move on whatever. Sometimes sometimes you just gotta say

1158
00:59:29,920 --> 00:59:33,400
Speaker 1: goodbye to a team, you know what I'm saying, Mark Sessler. Sometimes,

1159
00:59:33,560 --> 00:59:36,600
Speaker 1: just like later I do, I think we've run out

1160
00:59:36,640 --> 00:59:40,200
Speaker 1: of um enthusiasm for that operation. It's just getting out

1161
00:59:40,200 --> 00:59:47,200
Speaker 1: of some of these NFC South teams. By Cleveland, Let's

1162
00:59:47,280 --> 00:59:49,680
Speaker 1: keep doing it, all right, Cleveland let's go, let's go.

1163
00:59:49,840 --> 00:59:55,440
Speaker 1: It's Christmas Eve four to throw Saints Rush three. Watson standing,

1164
00:59:56,320 --> 01:00:00,959
Speaker 1: He'll pull it down, He'll run and that is gonna

1165
01:00:01,040 --> 01:00:05,400
Speaker 1: be it called. Granderson wraps him up at the twenty

1166
01:00:05,480 --> 01:00:10,080
Speaker 1: five yard line for the sack, says Defense answer the call.

1167
01:00:11,080 --> 01:00:16,840
Speaker 1: Merry Christmas. I love that Ranking and Bass Rudolph Special.

1168
01:00:16,920 --> 01:00:22,080
Speaker 1: Obviously it's iconic, but I've watched every year for forty

1169
01:00:22,160 --> 01:00:24,800
Speaker 1: years or whatever. I don't know if it's just the

1170
01:00:24,920 --> 01:00:27,960
Speaker 1: changing times, but it's it's getting more and more cruel

1171
01:00:28,080 --> 01:00:32,760
Speaker 1: to Rudolf. Everyone treats Rudolph like a pos in that special,

1172
01:00:33,960 --> 01:00:39,360
Speaker 1: including Santa himself. Well, it's it's unfair because I mean,

1173
01:00:39,560 --> 01:00:43,680
Speaker 1: in general, Rudolph has a pretty heroic resume of saving

1174
01:00:43,840 --> 01:00:46,080
Speaker 1: the holiday once or twice, So I don't know why

1175
01:00:46,160 --> 01:00:49,280
Speaker 1: you need to be dumping on him. I think it's jealousy. Jealousy,

1176
01:00:49,320 --> 01:00:52,360
Speaker 1: I think. And there's an arc obviously to Rudolph. Pays

1177
01:00:52,640 --> 01:00:54,480
Speaker 1: pays off for him in the in the special itself,

1178
01:00:54,520 --> 01:00:55,640
Speaker 1: but I think some people have the look in the

1179
01:00:55,680 --> 01:01:02,200
Speaker 1: mirror um after that adventure. Um, all right, so my

1180
01:01:02,400 --> 01:01:06,240
Speaker 1: cost w W. L Al Mukamara taysom Hill bolts score

1181
01:01:06,760 --> 01:01:11,320
Speaker 1: and the Saints um make a stop late to get

1182
01:01:11,360 --> 01:01:15,400
Speaker 1: a seventeen ten win over the Browns, and just like

1183
01:01:15,840 --> 01:01:20,880
Speaker 1: the Falcons later Brownies Leygown, they're also eliminated from contention.

1184
01:01:20,960 --> 01:01:23,160
Speaker 1: Mark a game that they had a lead here, didn't

1185
01:01:23,240 --> 01:01:26,200
Speaker 1: they They had a tend nothing lead. And we're talking

1186
01:01:26,240 --> 01:01:30,360
Speaker 1: about the third coldest game in the history of Cleveland football,

1187
01:01:30,720 --> 01:01:33,520
Speaker 1: and you're playing a team from New Orleans that operates

1188
01:01:33,560 --> 01:01:36,320
Speaker 1: inside a dome and who was tougher down the stretch

1189
01:01:36,680 --> 01:01:38,840
Speaker 1: the Saints were. I mean in the Saints defense, it's

1190
01:01:38,880 --> 01:01:41,280
Speaker 1: been really hot and cold. So I look at this

1191
01:01:41,440 --> 01:01:43,400
Speaker 1: and I think this is one where you know, this

1192
01:01:43,560 --> 01:01:49,000
Speaker 1: assumption that Kevin Stefanski um escapes unhindered from this year's disaster.

1193
01:01:49,480 --> 01:01:53,080
Speaker 1: I repointed to possessions, the final two possessions for Cleveland.

1194
01:01:53,400 --> 01:01:55,800
Speaker 1: That it's seventeen ten in the fourth quarter, with about

1195
01:01:55,840 --> 01:01:59,000
Speaker 1: six minutes left, and they have Watson throw the ball

1196
01:01:59,480 --> 01:02:02,720
Speaker 1: on essentially second in two and third and two, and

1197
01:02:02,800 --> 01:02:06,439
Speaker 1: they're both in completions from Watson, just another up show

1198
01:02:06,520 --> 01:02:10,080
Speaker 1: of disjointed nous inside the attack. They get the ball again,

1199
01:02:11,040 --> 01:02:12,880
Speaker 1: al Right, it is second and ten and third and

1200
01:02:12,960 --> 01:02:15,120
Speaker 1: ten from the New Orleans fifteen. And then this time

1201
01:02:15,480 --> 01:02:19,960
Speaker 1: Watson hits Donovan People's Jones catchuble ball, David da Joko

1202
01:02:20,080 --> 01:02:23,200
Speaker 1: catchuble ball. Both are dropped. This is happening to Cleveland

1203
01:02:23,240 --> 01:02:25,560
Speaker 1: kind of week after week. And on fourth and ten,

1204
01:02:26,280 --> 01:02:29,400
Speaker 1: completely out of his head, Watson is tossed to the ground.

1205
01:02:29,760 --> 01:02:32,440
Speaker 1: The game is over. He had sixty two yards passing

1206
01:02:32,480 --> 01:02:34,360
Speaker 1: in the first half. If I'm not mistaken, you of

1207
01:02:34,400 --> 01:02:38,040
Speaker 1: the worst passerrating of his entire career in this game. Uh,

1208
01:02:38,200 --> 01:02:40,360
Speaker 1: it's like he also does a couple of things where

1209
01:02:40,360 --> 01:02:42,200
Speaker 1: you like, I can see the old Shawn Watson just

1210
01:02:42,320 --> 01:02:44,400
Speaker 1: for a minute or two here. But this game is

1211
01:02:44,440 --> 01:02:46,720
Speaker 1: all about the fact that the Saints decided, they even

1212
01:02:46,760 --> 01:02:48,520
Speaker 1: reported this before the game. I don't know why this

1213
01:02:48,600 --> 01:02:50,680
Speaker 1: would get to the press, but that this was going

1214
01:02:50,760 --> 01:02:53,320
Speaker 1: to be a Taysom Hill game. They're just gonna lean

1215
01:02:53,360 --> 01:02:55,680
Speaker 1: on him big time. And that's sort of exactly what happened.

1216
01:02:55,680 --> 01:02:57,480
Speaker 1: I think it's like eight of their yards in the

1217
01:02:57,520 --> 01:02:59,640
Speaker 1: first half somewhere around there. And it was not a

1218
01:02:59,680 --> 01:03:03,440
Speaker 1: spl s in this situation by the Saints offense on

1219
01:03:03,480 --> 01:03:05,040
Speaker 1: any level, but they got enough done. And then and

1220
01:03:05,120 --> 01:03:07,840
Speaker 1: you're playing a Brown's offense that looks way worse than

1221
01:03:07,880 --> 01:03:10,600
Speaker 1: it did a month ago. Hundred and ten yards from

1222
01:03:10,600 --> 01:03:13,240
Speaker 1: scrimmage from Camara. Camarra has had a couple of manly

1223
01:03:13,320 --> 01:03:16,760
Speaker 1: games here in a in a day where the Saints

1224
01:03:16,800 --> 01:03:19,640
Speaker 1: only had to forty four. This was the coldest game

1225
01:03:19,680 --> 01:03:23,160
Speaker 1: in Saints history, uh, which isn't a huge surprise. And

1226
01:03:23,280 --> 01:03:26,480
Speaker 1: of all the cold games here this week, this was

1227
01:03:26,600 --> 01:03:30,080
Speaker 1: the coldest. So the passing game numbers, uh, they're not

1228
01:03:30,240 --> 01:03:34,800
Speaker 1: surprisingly low. But this game, which I watched the end of,

1229
01:03:34,840 --> 01:03:36,360
Speaker 1: there was no one in the crowd Dan. I mean,

1230
01:03:36,360 --> 01:03:38,040
Speaker 1: I don't blame I don't blame him, but it was

1231
01:03:38,160 --> 01:03:40,920
Speaker 1: so called that there had to have been less than

1232
01:03:41,840 --> 01:03:44,320
Speaker 1: five thousand fans there, I would guess by the end

1233
01:03:44,360 --> 01:03:46,280
Speaker 1: of that. But I want to know about those five thousand,

1234
01:03:47,680 --> 01:03:50,520
Speaker 1: right there are all of them going to be literally frozen.

1235
01:03:51,480 --> 01:03:53,040
Speaker 1: I mean, how do you not how do you not

1236
01:03:53,360 --> 01:03:55,720
Speaker 1: take the names and numbers of every fan that went

1237
01:03:55,760 --> 01:03:59,000
Speaker 1: to this game and send them a Rolex or something,

1238
01:03:59,080 --> 01:04:02,080
Speaker 1: because they are the die hard of the die hard.

1239
01:04:02,120 --> 01:04:04,880
Speaker 1: If you're one of those fans that are listening to

1240
01:04:05,000 --> 01:04:08,080
Speaker 1: this game, wherever you were in these sub zero temperatures,

1241
01:04:08,320 --> 01:04:10,320
Speaker 1: I have so much respect for you, but I'm also

1242
01:04:10,840 --> 01:04:15,200
Speaker 1: wondering what's going on in the bigger picture of your life.

1243
01:04:16,280 --> 01:04:18,560
Speaker 1: Saints are still alive for for one more week. They

1244
01:04:18,640 --> 01:04:20,800
Speaker 1: got some bad luck when the Eagles lost that game.

1245
01:04:21,280 --> 01:04:23,880
Speaker 1: That means the Eagles will be playing next week. Their

1246
01:04:23,920 --> 01:04:27,080
Speaker 1: starters and and have a lot to play for, assuming

1247
01:04:27,280 --> 01:04:29,880
Speaker 1: against the Saints, and they could knock out the Saints then.

1248
01:04:29,960 --> 01:04:33,880
Speaker 1: But the Saints uh stay alive for one more week.

1249
01:04:33,960 --> 01:04:35,400
Speaker 1: And it was sorry not to think about how they

1250
01:04:35,440 --> 01:04:37,800
Speaker 1: had swung and miss for Deshaun Watson. They really thought

1251
01:04:37,840 --> 01:04:39,760
Speaker 1: they had Watson and they didn't get them and then

1252
01:04:39,760 --> 01:04:43,560
Speaker 1: they end up ending in season. Right, And yes, if

1253
01:04:43,600 --> 01:04:48,600
Speaker 1: the Bucks lose tomorrow, they're playing tomorrow, right, Yes, they're

1254
01:04:48,640 --> 01:04:51,920
Speaker 1: playing the Arizona Cardinals in primetime tomorrow. Three way tie

1255
01:04:51,960 --> 01:04:57,040
Speaker 1: at six and nine. Nice, let's move, it's Christmas Eve.

1256
01:04:57,200 --> 01:05:00,400
Speaker 1: Let's move, let's move, let's move. Let's move up next,

1257
01:05:01,720 --> 01:05:04,520
Speaker 1: A blast, blast, We got one more? Is this it?

1258
01:05:04,760 --> 01:05:06,680
Speaker 1: Let's go to Nashville where it was cold as hell

1259
01:05:06,720 --> 01:05:10,440
Speaker 1: there to two o'clock start. What Davis gets the snap

1260
01:05:10,880 --> 01:05:14,080
Speaker 1: looking stepping to his left, Nills throwing to the end zone,

1261
01:05:14,200 --> 01:05:19,800
Speaker 1: caught by Brandad Cooks. Touchdown, Houston. Flag is down, but

1262
01:05:19,920 --> 01:05:22,920
Speaker 1: the Texans take the lead and this should stand as

1263
01:05:22,920 --> 01:05:26,480
Speaker 1: a touchdown. Their hands to the phase defense number two

1264
01:05:27,080 --> 01:05:29,080
Speaker 1: that could at least the time was all the players

1265
01:05:29,240 --> 01:05:34,680
Speaker 1: touchdown and the Texans have the lead nineteen fourteen to

1266
01:05:35,000 --> 01:05:36,640
Speaker 1: fifty two to go on the fourth and they're gonna

1267
01:05:36,640 --> 01:05:39,400
Speaker 1: go for two right here. That is a man that

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01:05:39,480 --> 01:05:41,840
Speaker 1: I don't think we've heard this year, Mark vandermere K.

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Speaker 1: I l t maybe once we heard him. Yeah, we

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Speaker 1: heard him once and now twice, you know, justin um

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Speaker 1: and good for the Texans. But let's get the sad

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Speaker 1: hard knocks music on because let's because you just gotta

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Speaker 1: be by the Texans at home. Which said was going

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Speaker 1: to happen on our preview show, I said, we all said,

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Speaker 1: we all said it. It felt like it could happen,

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01:06:05,480 --> 01:06:08,040
Speaker 1: and it did. Davis Mills through a six yard touchdown

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Speaker 1: past the Brandon Cooks Yes, with two fifty two to play,

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01:06:12,240 --> 01:06:14,960
Speaker 1: the Texans snap a nine game losing streak by beating

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Speaker 1: the Titans NTO. As I said, this game was delayed

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Speaker 1: because of power grid issues connected to this vicious cold

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01:06:24,400 --> 01:06:27,840
Speaker 1: snap across the country really in many parts except for here,

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01:06:27,880 --> 01:06:33,280
Speaker 1: where it was seventy three and Sonny Um, but grave digger,

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01:06:34,080 --> 01:06:36,760
Speaker 1: you got one in a touch from Henry. But that's

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01:06:36,760 --> 01:06:40,280
Speaker 1: a little misleading to Well, it's interesting. This is the

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Speaker 1: third straight game that Henry has gone over a hundred

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Speaker 1: yards and the Titans have failed to score more than

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Speaker 1: twenty points. They I guess they got to twenty one

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01:06:47,120 --> 01:06:50,720
Speaker 1: barely on a garbage time touchdown. Um. But yeah, you usually,

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01:06:50,760 --> 01:06:52,640
Speaker 1: you know, common knowledge would say if the Titans can

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01:06:52,720 --> 01:06:54,920
Speaker 1: run the ball, well, if Henry successful, then their offense

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01:06:55,000 --> 01:06:57,280
Speaker 1: is successful. But it just hasn't been the case. They

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01:06:57,400 --> 01:07:01,440
Speaker 1: cannot drop back to pass without giving up just crazy

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01:07:01,560 --> 01:07:04,720
Speaker 1: numbers of sacks and with Malik Willis under center. Plus

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Speaker 1: the Titans are one of the most injured teams. Honestly, like,

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Speaker 1: good for Houston. I'm glad they gotta win. I'm happy

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Speaker 1: for Lovey Smith. This Titan season feels like a lost

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Speaker 1: season with all the injuries that have happened. And I'm

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Speaker 1: not even like super upset because I kind of accepted

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Speaker 1: it a couple of weeks ago. Yikes, Well, you're gonna

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01:07:19,600 --> 01:07:21,480
Speaker 1: have to watch them play the Jaguars in Week eight

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Speaker 1: teen with a division online, So I don't care how

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Speaker 1: much you've accepted it. That's gonna be a big spot

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01:07:26,720 --> 01:07:29,280
Speaker 1: for a playoff spot no matter what happens next week,

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01:07:29,320 --> 01:07:33,040
Speaker 1: in week seventeen, with Malik Willis starting, and you know,

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01:07:33,240 --> 01:07:35,760
Speaker 1: if we're trying to evaluate, is Milik Willis a franchise

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01:07:35,840 --> 01:07:38,720
Speaker 1: quarterback or whatever. He's now started three games. He's appeared

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01:07:38,760 --> 01:07:42,240
Speaker 1: in seven games total. He's thirty one for sixty one

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01:07:42,280 --> 01:07:44,680
Speaker 1: on the season, which is fifty point eight percent for

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01:07:44,800 --> 01:07:47,200
Speaker 1: just two hundred and seventy six yards. That's four point

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01:07:47,280 --> 01:07:51,920
Speaker 1: five yards per attempt, zero touchdown passes, three interceptions, and

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01:07:52,080 --> 01:07:53,760
Speaker 1: the one thing that we thought he could do really

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01:07:53,800 --> 01:07:56,400
Speaker 1: well no matter what, run the ball, he only has.

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01:07:56,480 --> 01:07:58,080
Speaker 1: I mean, he has twenty seven carries for only a

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Speaker 1: hundred and twenty three yards and he scored us for

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01:08:00,280 --> 01:08:03,680
Speaker 1: touchdown today. He honestly hasn't looked like that great of

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01:08:03,720 --> 01:08:06,920
Speaker 1: a runner outside of that nice touchdown run today. And

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01:08:07,640 --> 01:08:09,160
Speaker 1: you know, he looked pretty good as a runner in

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01:08:09,160 --> 01:08:11,600
Speaker 1: the preseason, but he hasn't shown it in the NFL.

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01:08:11,640 --> 01:08:13,720
Speaker 1: And I know his supporting cast is so banged up,

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01:08:13,760 --> 01:08:15,760
Speaker 1: and his like best receiver as a rookie in trailing

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01:08:15,840 --> 01:08:19,000
Speaker 1: Burke's and he was down three starting offensive linemen today.

1322
01:08:19,640 --> 01:08:21,880
Speaker 1: But I don't know. He doesn't really like the guy,

1323
01:08:22,560 --> 01:08:26,240
Speaker 1: absolutely brutal. I I can't, I can't believe it happened.

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Speaker 1: But as you pointed out when we were texting back

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01:08:29,400 --> 01:08:31,960
Speaker 1: and forth justin earlier today, you know, in addition to

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01:08:33,040 --> 01:08:35,479
Speaker 1: a lot of band losses, these injuries and the roster

1327
01:08:35,640 --> 01:08:37,280
Speaker 1: wasn't deep enough to handle it this year, and they

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01:08:37,360 --> 01:08:39,160
Speaker 1: just have went into a tail spin. And what I

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01:08:39,240 --> 01:08:41,240
Speaker 1: was saying about Henry, yes, he didn't have the two

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01:08:41,439 --> 01:08:43,960
Speaker 1: dred yard game like he always has against Houston. He

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01:08:44,000 --> 01:08:46,720
Speaker 1: had one twenty six, but outside the forty eight yard

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01:08:46,800 --> 01:08:48,599
Speaker 1: touchdown run, he was held to three and a half

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01:08:48,680 --> 01:08:52,200
Speaker 1: yards per carry. So the running game was on balance. Uh,

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01:08:52,320 --> 01:08:54,719
Speaker 1: not great. The passing game is horrendous, and they didn't

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01:08:54,720 --> 01:08:57,800
Speaker 1: get enough stops on defense. Good for Levy Smith, like

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01:08:57,880 --> 01:09:01,759
Speaker 1: you said, they have played the Howboys, Chiefs and Titans

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01:09:02,600 --> 01:09:05,120
Speaker 1: down to the wire. Here they now they get another win.

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01:09:05,840 --> 01:09:08,120
Speaker 1: Lovey can make a case here if they finished strong

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01:09:08,240 --> 01:09:10,160
Speaker 1: like I got. These guys playing hard. Now give me

1340
01:09:10,240 --> 01:09:12,559
Speaker 1: some better players, give me another year. We shall see.

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01:09:12,880 --> 01:09:15,120
Speaker 1: They've been a well coached team for like a month

1342
01:09:15,160 --> 01:09:17,800
Speaker 1: plus and and frankly, like I I've been on Mike

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01:09:17,880 --> 01:09:20,400
Speaker 1: Rebel all year, longest coach of the year. Not the

1344
01:09:20,479 --> 01:09:22,479
Speaker 1: case now, I like, justin, I don't know if this

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01:09:22,640 --> 01:09:24,400
Speaker 1: is like my thing is when I'm watching Tennessee in

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01:09:24,439 --> 01:09:27,240
Speaker 1: the way that Houston just ripped down the field on

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01:09:27,320 --> 01:09:29,439
Speaker 1: that five play touchdown drive to take the lead. I

1348
01:09:29,479 --> 01:09:31,120
Speaker 1: know they didn't get the two point conversion. It's like,

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01:09:31,680 --> 01:09:33,640
Speaker 1: I know they're banged up. All sorts of teams are

1350
01:09:33,640 --> 01:09:36,200
Speaker 1: banged up. It's been worse for Tennessee. But I don't

1351
01:09:36,240 --> 01:09:38,600
Speaker 1: see a team that like has the same identity they

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01:09:38,680 --> 01:09:42,200
Speaker 1: had six weeks ago. And I don't know, um if

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01:09:42,240 --> 01:09:45,120
Speaker 1: it's ever coming back because the general manager that crafted

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01:09:45,160 --> 01:09:48,679
Speaker 1: that that was his entire vision has essentially been told,

1355
01:09:48,720 --> 01:09:50,640
Speaker 1: we don't want your vision. You're out of here. You

1356
01:09:50,720 --> 01:09:52,920
Speaker 1: have no idea what's gonna happen with Ryan Tannehill. The

1357
01:09:52,960 --> 01:09:55,759
Speaker 1: team could look completely different. They need to restock on offense,

1358
01:09:55,840 --> 01:09:58,280
Speaker 1: like this could be a completely different looking offense than

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01:09:58,320 --> 01:09:59,720
Speaker 1: the one that we've been used to for three or

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01:09:59,760 --> 01:10:02,599
Speaker 1: four years. I hope, so it needs to be. At

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01:10:02,640 --> 01:10:05,519
Speaker 1: this point, this version of the Titans has run its course.

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01:10:05,600 --> 01:10:08,120
Speaker 1: Henry is only going to be another year older next year.

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01:10:08,439 --> 01:10:10,960
Speaker 1: Tannehill has no guaranteed money on his contract next year,

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Speaker 1: and the Texans get a win and maintain the top

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01:10:13,920 --> 01:10:15,559
Speaker 1: pick in the draft, which is kind of nice for them.

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Speaker 1: I guess here's the good news. Justin. It's Christmas. That's Christmas.

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Speaker 1: That's the queue for the Christmas music. Um, we're going

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01:10:23,360 --> 01:10:26,280
Speaker 1: to sign off. Now. We have one more game that's

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01:10:26,320 --> 01:10:30,479
Speaker 1: being played tonight, Las Vegas at Pittsburgh. Um, Mark, you

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01:10:30,560 --> 01:10:33,880
Speaker 1: locked up the Steelers. Yes, Greg did not come clean

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Speaker 1: with us or the audience that he had locked up

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Speaker 1: the team of a T and it took the loss.

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01:10:37,520 --> 01:10:42,799
Speaker 1: So I mean did not come to graver I forgot.

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01:10:43,400 --> 01:10:45,519
Speaker 1: I mean I didn't believe. I believe you hit it

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01:10:45,640 --> 01:10:49,960
Speaker 1: from the audience. That's the host job. Well I did.

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01:10:50,040 --> 01:10:53,080
Speaker 1: I brought it like Woodward and Bernstein. I had to

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01:10:53,280 --> 01:10:55,679
Speaker 1: bring it up from deep with It was my gift.

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01:10:55,760 --> 01:10:58,760
Speaker 1: It was my gift to you to justin to Mark,

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01:10:59,240 --> 01:11:03,719
Speaker 1: let everyone back into the competition. You just paralleled yourself

1380
01:11:03,800 --> 01:11:06,519
Speaker 1: to the two men that broke Watergate. Essentially, I don't

1381
01:11:06,560 --> 01:11:09,439
Speaker 1: get the I don't I compared myself to Santa, one

1382
01:11:09,479 --> 01:11:11,840
Speaker 1: of the great men out there. Well, you both have issues.

1383
01:11:12,200 --> 01:11:16,639
Speaker 1: I have to say this, Um, everyone, it really doesn't

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01:11:16,640 --> 01:11:21,479
Speaker 1: matter what you celebrate. Have a great holiday, um, have

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01:11:21,600 --> 01:11:29,080
Speaker 1: a great weekend. Um, Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukah. One are

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01:11:29,120 --> 01:11:32,000
Speaker 1: the holidays we've got going on, all of them. Celebrate

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01:11:32,080 --> 01:11:35,080
Speaker 1: it with your families. Thank you everybody for listening. We'll

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01:11:35,120 --> 01:11:39,160
Speaker 1: be back on Monday with two shows, a recap of

1389
01:11:39,240 --> 01:11:41,720
Speaker 1: the remaining games ahead of Monday Night Football and then

1390
01:11:41,760 --> 01:11:45,960
Speaker 1: Greg's m n F recap with a great Jordan Rodrick. Wow,

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Speaker 1: that's a big Monday. Thank you everybody for listening, and

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Speaker 1: you boys have a merry Christmas. Merry Christmas. To Merry

1393
01:11:54,240 --> 01:11:58,439
Speaker 1: Christmas to both and to all listen. Justin Graver, I

1394
01:11:58,520 --> 01:12:02,840
Speaker 1: love everybody. Happy Exsimus war is over. Heed the call.

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01:12:08,000 --> 01:12:12,439
Speaker 1: Now that's it. Now, it's now it's time to begin Christmas.

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Speaker 1: Were allowed to use this music? I don't know, probably not.

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Speaker 1: Don't tell any shadowy league figures, uh Sydney. That is

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Speaker 1: it for the Christmas Eve edition of the Around the

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01:12:22,320 --> 01:12:25,960
Speaker 1: NFL Podcast. Thank you to everyone who if you're watching

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01:12:26,000 --> 01:12:30,360
Speaker 1: on periscope, that's a good job by you. Hap hoday

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Speaker 1: across the globe. Yes, so thank you very much for listening.

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Speaker 1: Happy holidays, Merry Christmas, Greg, Happy Hanaka and uh we

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Speaker 1: will see you on Tuesday. Until then, the Stand Hanson

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Speaker 1: signing off for a quiet storm, The Mailman, the Boss,

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Speaker 1: and new money behind the glass.