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Speaker 1: Greetings, welcome inside final hour tonight the Jason Smith Show

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Speaker 1: with my bas friend Mike Harmon. Yeah, live from the

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Speaker 1: Fox Sports Radio studios. Or we watched Alabama overcome a

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Speaker 1: seventeen point deficit to beat Oklahoma and the college football

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Speaker 1: playoff opener. Look, it was messy. There were tons of

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Speaker 1: drop passes, there were missed field goals, there were head

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Speaker 1: scratching officiating calls, there were head scratching coaching decisions. But

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Speaker 1: it doesn't matter. It was fun. It was it was great, right,

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Speaker 1: like sometimes every game doesn't need to be it's the

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Speaker 1: greatest game ever played. Uh, it was incredibly entertaining, and

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Speaker 1: you know, are you shocked to see a lot of things? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: And that's a good thing. Something that I like being

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Speaker 1: shocked to see things that I wouldn't expect. I mean

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Speaker 1: to drop passes, boy, I didn't expect that.

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Speaker 3: But at one point dude was on his knees and

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Speaker 3: it hit him square in the chest, and yeah, they

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Speaker 3: immediately got a shot of ty Simpson's Like, really.

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Speaker 1: What else do I need to do? Like Alabama had

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Speaker 1: one drive where where that drop passed. That would have

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Speaker 1: been like if and if ty Simpson actually throws it

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Speaker 1: just wing it in short arm it, that's a touchdown.

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Speaker 1: But he had to get down to his knees to

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Speaker 1: catch it. He dropped it. They dropped three passes first

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Speaker 1: hit where ty Simpson got hit helmet to helmet after

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Speaker 1: he threw the ball away and the officials looking right

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Speaker 1: at he goes nope, Nope, everything is fine. It's like,

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Speaker 1: oh my, It's like the football gods and the karma

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Speaker 1: gods are saying, you're not going to take a two

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Speaker 1: touchdown lead in this game. Ah, not happening is not

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Speaker 1: on my watch. But able to overcome the deficit and win.

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Speaker 1: And look, we talked about Kaylin Deboor a few minutes ago,

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Speaker 1: and the big shocker here you get to the end

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Speaker 1: of this game, right, there's a lot of drama to

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Speaker 1: get to. You know, the bad punt effort by Oklahoma.

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Speaker 1: Brent Vettibles is gonna be going over that play for

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Speaker 1: a long time because that's the play that really breathed

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Speaker 1: gave back the momentum. But Tate Sandel, who was the

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Speaker 1: Groza Award winner for the best kicker in the country,

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Speaker 1: field goals of fifty more yards by kicking that fifty

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Speaker 1: Then they rush him out there with a minute eighteen

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Speaker 1: or midfield. We saw all of these things, Mike, and

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Speaker 3: Easy, yeah, I mean we watched twists and turns, calls

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Speaker 4: And I think that's the overarching.

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Speaker 3: Thing, right, seventeen point lead early Alabama races back, but

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Speaker 3: Oklahoma certainly still had their opportunities late. We talk about

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Speaker 3: that the Oklahoma staff had to consider. Materier a lot

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Speaker 3: it was like super tow right, the old I'm gonna

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Speaker 3: The ball's gonna play fly through now, not tonight, And

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Speaker 1: And because there's more at stake than just who moves

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Speaker 5: Right.

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Speaker 1: We got James Madison in Oregon tomorrow. We got too

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Speaker 1: It just does like the tournament, but there's more at

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Speaker 1: Simpson had a great start and then Alabama's offense disappeared.

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Speaker 1: Is it Forrandom Mendoza? He's in pole position right now

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Speaker 1: He's got it all, right, He's absolutely got it all.

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Speaker 1: But you know, loses the big showdown game against Indiana.

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Speaker 1: Still has a really good year. But I think Oregon

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Speaker 1: that game again how that game would go. But More

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Speaker 1: And now he's got the storyline to get there. Because

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Speaker 1: Yeah. I mean, look, the doors open for everybody, right

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Speaker 3: it's been the roller coaster ride. Three touchdowns zero, three

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Speaker 3: touchdowns zero. So Jamiir Gibbs, trying to have a little

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Speaker 3: more consistency from him as a runner has been difficult.

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Speaker 3: And so when we look at it, you know, for

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Speaker 3: the Lions, youared Goff becomes the face of it all.

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Speaker 3: But we've watched them get desperate at times and the

437
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Speaker 3: fourth down magic hasn't been there. Maybe that's run its

438
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Speaker 3: course and Dan Campbell needs to take a long walk

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Speaker 3: on the beach to reevaluate that.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I think they get the win here against Pittsburgh.

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Speaker 3: Wouldn't be surprised to see Rogers and Company put up

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Speaker 3: some numbers, but you know, overall, it's certainly levels of

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Speaker 3: concern in terms of the continuity and consistency that just

444
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Speaker 3: isn't there, and losing coordinators will do that for you. Right,

445
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Speaker 3: It's not always going to be the same messaging. It's

446
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Speaker 3: not always going to be this. Even if a lot

447
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Speaker 3: of the principles are there, something's been lost.

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Speaker 1: And now making things interesting because you know, we want it.

449
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Speaker 1: And it's only destiny for the AFC North to come

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Speaker 1: down to the final week of the season and the

451
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Speaker 1: Steelers and the Ravens when both teams are five hundred.

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Speaker 1: Give me the Ravens over the Patriots this weekend. Baltimore

453
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Speaker 1: is at home, They're in primetime, and Lamar Jackson looks

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Speaker 1: the closest he's been to being back in quite a

455
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Speaker 1: while right now, not like Baltimore's all of a sudden

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Speaker 1: suddenly solved all their problems. But this is one hundred

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Speaker 1: percent a Lamar game, right, This is a Lamar Jackson game.

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Speaker 1: And I'm going to take the downward slope for the

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Speaker 1: Patriots to continue a little bit because they got exposed

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Speaker 1: as bad front runners against Buffalo like that. That's the

461
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Speaker 1: thing about New England this year, it's every game is

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Speaker 1: the same. Look, this is the mark of a great team.

463
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Speaker 1: You get out to you know, you game plan what

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Speaker 1: you want and the game goes according to script. And

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Speaker 1: guess what, hey, it's easy. Rights. Every game is the same.

466
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Speaker 1: They get out to a lead, they hold on to it,

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Speaker 1: maybe it gets close, but they find a way to

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Speaker 1: make a player two. They don't really have to play

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Speaker 1: from behind, they don't really have to play like they're

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Speaker 1: in trouble at any point. And this past week it

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Speaker 1: was a perfect Patriots start. Right they were out and

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Speaker 1: I said to myself, man, the Bills are gonna get

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Speaker 1: waxed by the Patriots again. Except what happened a game

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Speaker 1: the Patriots had the front running, they were golden. They

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Speaker 1: were front of this game by almost three touchdowns, and

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Speaker 1: still the Bills were able to come back and win

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Speaker 1: this game. And the big thing for me with New

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Speaker 1: England is not suddenly they're bad or not, but being

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Speaker 1: exposed as a great front running team. Now you can see, hey,

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Speaker 1: we can come back against them. I don't know that

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Speaker 1: New England when it comes down to it, when they

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Speaker 1: play the best teams across the NFL, I don't know,

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Speaker 1: if they can score as big as they need to

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Speaker 1: with the heavyweights, not like they're not that they have

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Speaker 1: to win a shootout all the time. Like you can't

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Speaker 1: win a thirty eight thirty five game. Okay, there's lots

487
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Speaker 1: of teams they can't win a thirty eight thirty five games.

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Speaker 1: But when points start getting put up and you have

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Speaker 1: to match along the way and keep up with the

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Speaker 1: other team, like, that's the thing that strikes me about

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Speaker 1: in New England? Can they do that? Nat? I don't know,

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Speaker 1: because that last week was a disaster. Like if they

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Speaker 1: if they went out last week and they just lost

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Speaker 1: to the Bills, you'd say, Okay, hey, the Bills are

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Speaker 1: really good. We've had a great run. We'd won a

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Speaker 1: bunch of games in a row. What are we gonna do, right, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: we're at home, but the Bills are good. We won

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Speaker 1: twelve games row. Whatever it was, we hadn't lost. We

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Speaker 1: lost of the Steelers, which I mean, come on, man,

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Speaker 1: you lost of the Steelers and the Raiders.

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Speaker 4: But Steelers are a five hundred team.

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Speaker 1: But the way, but the way they lost that game

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Speaker 1: was really concerning to me. And it's it's not that

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Speaker 1: it's an end of the season swoon. But it's a

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Speaker 1: window into Hey, maybe this is how the Patriots, this

506
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Speaker 1: is their kryptonite, This is how you attack them. And

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Speaker 1: obviously you want to stop them from dictating play early on.

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Speaker 1: You want you want to stop them from being able

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Speaker 1: to front run. But now, hey, if we start scoring points,

510
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Speaker 1: they might not be able to keep all of a

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Speaker 1: sudden suddenly keep up with us in the game. And

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Speaker 1: that's what's gonna get them again, because you're gonna be

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Speaker 1: playing the best teams in the league. Now you know

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Speaker 1: when you get to the end of the season, in

515
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Speaker 1: the playoffs, and the bottom of that drawer is gonna

516
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Speaker 1: come up empty at some point.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, big spot for Baltimore as well. Three point favorites

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Speaker 3: forty eight and a half is your total. We keep

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Speaker 3: an eye on the weather as we get closer to

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Speaker 3: the game time and see how that's affecting things. But

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Speaker 3: Lamar is clearly not right in gutting it out as

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Speaker 3: best he can. The run game hasn't been explosive. Passing

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Speaker 3: game still waiting for a breakthrough right for some of

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Speaker 3: these players. Day Flowers is about as consistent as you've seen. Conversely,

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Speaker 3: you look at New England. They've been living and dying

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Speaker 3: by the big play, right, certainly the explosive runs for Henderson.

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Speaker 3: We've talked and made a lot of it all throughout

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Speaker 3: the year about their strength of schedule. There's no strength

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Speaker 3: to it. So when you actually do get tested in

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Speaker 3: a big spot where all of a sudden you got

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Speaker 3: the elbows flying, and you watch Josh Allen just say

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Speaker 3: all right, I'll put on my cape and let's go.

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Speaker 4: And James Cook with.

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Speaker 3: The explosive plays that he had that you're finding it

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Speaker 3: tough to match up because the passing game, to your

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Speaker 3: point about front running, I think is really where it

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Speaker 3: comes down to. And I take nothing away Drake may

538
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Speaker 3: has made great strides and Varibel's done a hell of

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Speaker 3: a job, but this is a step up in class

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Speaker 3: this week from what you've been seeing. Right, And the

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Speaker 3: last time we watched against the Bills, Okay, they got

542
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Speaker 3: punched and then they continue. It's kind of like watching

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Speaker 3: this Alabama Oklahoma game. All right, Oklahoma was great, and

544
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Speaker 3: then as soon as it neutralized and evened out, they

545
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Speaker 3: just got punched and bludgeoned for the rest of the bout.

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Speaker 3: I think Baltimore in a big spot at home do

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Speaker 3: the same.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, look, they're more desperate, clearly, even though

549
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Speaker 1: the Patriots can now see the Bills in the rear

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Speaker 1: view mirror, you know, after the win last week. But

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Speaker 1: I mean you would think they would have been able

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Speaker 1: to throw the hammer down last week. They're playing home,

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Speaker 1: right like you're a big at home, like news, that's

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Speaker 1: a game you win ten out of ten times. If

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Speaker 1: you're that good, you don't blow that game coming back.

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Speaker 1: And it's not like you watch Josh Allen suddenly go,

557
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Speaker 1: oh my god, Josh Allen, Josh Allen hey through three touchdowns,

558
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Speaker 1: but you know he only threw for one hundred and

559
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Speaker 1: ninety yards, not like he went for three point fifteen

560
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Speaker 1: and he ran for one hundred and twenty. Right, Like,

561
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Speaker 1: this was just a methodical comeback and a losing of

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Speaker 1: the lead in Buffalo in the second half, just flipping

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Speaker 1: a switch. And that's really concerning for the Patriots to me,

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Speaker 1: that they that this is a kind of game they

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Speaker 1: let slip when everything is on the table to winning

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Speaker 1: the AFC East, being in the in control for the

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Speaker 1: for the number one seed all the way through, and

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Speaker 1: to lose that way, not all watses are created equal

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Speaker 1: and that was that was an absolute stunner for me

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Speaker 1: last week, you know when they lost to the Bills, that.

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Speaker 3: I sure remember objects in rear view mirror or closer

572
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Speaker 3: than they appear. And when you've got Josh Allen, did

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Speaker 3: he need to be overall ridiculous number game like Matthew

574
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Speaker 3: Stafford put up yesterday. No, he didn't. You just need

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Speaker 3: to play situational football, take advantage of what was given

576
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Speaker 3: to you. Uh, and your defense actually showed up when

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Speaker 3: it mattered. So uh, they take the the w they're

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Speaker 3: ten and four, I mean they're they're right behind and stalking.

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Speaker 3: So opportunity for Josh Allen in these final couple of

580
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Speaker 3: weeks to go win himself the MVP award, you know,

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Speaker 3: especially after you know the Rams lost yesterday. But for

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Speaker 3: Lamar Jackson and company, you know they're still playing for

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Speaker 3: great shakes. Otherwise they from if our eyes are to

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Speaker 3: be believed, he's a guy that should have been in

585
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Speaker 3: that are we shutting him down?

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Speaker 4: What are we doing?

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Speaker 3: We're contending, but we're not contending. No, he's still battling

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Speaker 3: ohs and the defense has played a little bit better.

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Speaker 4: So big spot for them this week.

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Speaker 1: Time now to find out what's trending in the wide

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Speaker 1: world of sports, from special to livery Steve Desager, He's

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Speaker 1: got everything that's trending right now, Steve o Hey.

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Speaker 7: We'll start with the opener of the college football playoff.

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Speaker 7: It was nine seed Alabama winning at eight seed Oklahoma

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Speaker 7: thirty four twenty four, even though the Sooners led seventeen

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Speaker 7: to nothing early in the second quarter at the time,

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Speaker 7: Bama had no first downs. They had three straight three

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Speaker 7: and outs to open the game, and yet tied it

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Speaker 7: by halftime, took a ten point lead in the third,

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Speaker 7: wound up winning by ten. Alabama goes to the Rose

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Speaker 7: Bowl quarterfinal against number one Indiana. Oklahoma had won at

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Speaker 7: Alabama about a month ago in a close game, including

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Speaker 7: an eighty seven yard pick six. Bama had a touchdown

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Speaker 7: on a pick six tonight late in the first half.

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Speaker 7: The offense for the Tide twelve drives, twelve first downs,

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Speaker 7: but two TV passes for Ty Simpson.

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Speaker 4: And they advanced.

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Speaker 7: There were combined nine sacks in this game, so the

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Speaker 7: two teams combined had eighty three yards rushing on fifty

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Speaker 7: eight carries. Oklahoma is now zero to five all time

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Speaker 7: in playoff games. The three other first round games are

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Speaker 7: on Saturday, including ten seed Miami at Texas A and

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Speaker 7: m Duke quarterback Darien Mensa will return next season. He

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Speaker 7: had transferred there from Tulane this past offseason. Arizona State

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Speaker 7: wide receiver Jordan Tyson declared for the NFL Draft, so

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Speaker 7: he's expected to miss the Sun Bowl against Duke. Purdue

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Speaker 7: re hired defensive coordinator Kevin Kane, who coached at Minnesota

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Speaker 7: this past season in Tampa. Today, NC State won a

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Speaker 7: bowl game against Memphis thirty one to seven. Western Michigan

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Speaker 7: defeated Kennesaw State forty one to six. Arizona Cardinals wide

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Speaker 7: receiver Marvin Harrison Junior says he'll return to play Sunday

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Speaker 7: after a heel injury. Wide receiver Drake London of the

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Speaker 7: Falcons is due back on Sunday at Arizona after missing

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Speaker 7: four games with a knee injury. Wide receiver of the

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Speaker 7: Bengals T Higgins returned to full practice today after a concussion.

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Speaker 7: Raiders quarterback Gino Smith will start Sunday after shoulder and

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Speaker 7: back injuries. New Orleans running back Alvin Kamara is still

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Speaker 7: out this weekend with a sprained mcl. Texan's running back

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Speaker 7: Woody Marks returned to limited practice after his ankle injury.

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Speaker 7: Wide receiver where Rashid Rice of the Chiefs is out

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Speaker 7: this weekend with a concussion, and so is Kansas City's

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Speaker 7: Taekwon Thornton. Pittsburgh linebacker TJ. Watt is out with the

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Speaker 7: lung injury. Wide receiver Garrett Wilson of the Jets will

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Speaker 7: remain on IR so he's out for the season. Rams

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Speaker 7: wide receiver DeVante Adams is likely out next week as

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Speaker 7: well with his bad hamstring. Seattle linebacker Derek Hall was

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Speaker 7: suspended one game for on sportsmanlike conduct.

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Speaker 4: He will appeal.

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Speaker 7: Rams wide receiver Pukinakua was fined twenty five thousand dollars

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Speaker 7: for criticizing the refs. There are two NFL games on

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Speaker 7: Saturday on Fox TV, Philadelphia at Washington, then Green Bay

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Speaker 7: at Chicago. In the NBA's late game, Oklahoma City, which

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Speaker 7: was twenty five and two, lost giving up a late

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Speaker 7: eight ozhero run at Minnesota, Timberwolves take at one twelve

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Speaker 7: one oh seven despite thirty five points from Shay Gilgess.

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Speaker 7: Alexander San Antonio won its fifth straight game. They're up

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Speaker 7: to twenty and seven this year. Spurs wan at Atlanta one,

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Speaker 7: twenty six to ninety eight.

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Speaker 1: Victor Rossis Steve, that is incorrect because I watched the

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Speaker 1: Spurs lose on Tuesday night in a very big game

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Speaker 1: where they most definitively were the losers.

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Speaker 7: No, absolutely did not count.

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Speaker 1: Well. I watched it, though I watched it, and there

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Speaker 1: was a trophy. I think it counted.

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Speaker 4: And a banner was there a banner ben a Dignita College.

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Speaker 1: There was a banner. It's just in storage permanently.

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Speaker 7: New York had a quote six game winning streak going

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Speaker 7: into tonight's home game and lost at home against Philadelphia.

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Speaker 7: Either way, the streak is over one sixteen, one oh seven.

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Speaker 7: Philly got thirty points from Tyrese Maxi. I was gonna

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Speaker 7: mention with the Spurs off the bench these days. Victor

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Speaker 7: wembin Yaba twenty one minutes, twenty six points. Guard Trey

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Speaker 7: Young of the Hawks out for rest. He just returned

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Speaker 7: from injury.

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Speaker 4: Last night.

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Speaker 7: Chicago won at Cleveland despite thirty five from Darius Garland.

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Speaker 7: Boston beat Miami thirty three for Derek White and thirty

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Speaker 7: points for the Celtics, Jalen Brown. College basketball wins for

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Speaker 7: BYU and for Villanova in overtime, NHL wins for Colorado,

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Speaker 7: for Dallas, which won eight three at Anaheim, and Florida

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Speaker 7: in a shootout edge Carolina four to three. The Angels

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Speaker 7: agreed to a settlement with the family of their late pitcher,

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Speaker 7: Tyler Skaggs. After thirty one days in court and in boxing.

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Speaker 7: Tonight a heavyweight fight in Miami, Anthony Joshua doct out

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Speaker 7: Jake Paul in the sixth round.

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Speaker 1: Back to You, Thank you, Steve O. The Jason Smith

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Speaker 1: Show with my best friend Mike Carmon coming up next,

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Speaker 1: we finish with a flourish. We preview the three other

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Speaker 1: biggest games in the NFL, including the Big showdown tomorrow.

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Speaker 1: Is Mike Harmon walking away from the Bears Packers happy

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Speaker 1: and running naked along Miracle Mile?

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Speaker 7: Yeah?

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Speaker 1: Is he really pissed pulling his hair out? We'll tell

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Speaker 1: you next. Jason and Mike Fox Sports Radio, Fox Sports

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Speaker 1: Radio Jason Smith and Mike Carman. Final shot of the

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Speaker 1: year for Mike and I. Mike's got a couple of

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Speaker 1: days next week. Yeah, gonna finish with a flourish here

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Speaker 1: on a positivity Friday, take a look at three of

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Speaker 1: the biggest games this weekend and the National Football League

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Speaker 1: and first off by this time tomorrow, Mike Harmon is

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Speaker 1: a very happy man. I've been your Chicago Bear whisperer

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Speaker 1: all year long. I've told you everything was gonna be fine.

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Speaker 1: They'll win tomorrow against the Packers. They're gonna win the

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Speaker 1: NFC North, They're gonna be the number two overall seed

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Speaker 1: in the playoffs. This is how it's gonna end for

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Speaker 1: the Chicago Bears. It's all lining up right. Last week,

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Speaker 1: big win over Cleveland's defense. The offense not so much,

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Speaker 1: but big win over the defense. And clearly you have

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Speaker 1: seen now and there's been a lot of evidence the

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Speaker 1: last couple of years that the guy that makes the

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Speaker 1: offense go that you have to get the football too.

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Speaker 1: It's not really about Caleb Williams or the running game.

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Speaker 1: The guy that makes this offense go is DJ Moore.

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Speaker 1: When he gets the ball, the offense revs it up.

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Speaker 1: It's that simple. You go two weeks ago, one catch

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Speaker 1: minus four yards. You knew that wasn't gonna be the case.

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Speaker 1: Last week a huge week. Last week, they look great offensively,

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Speaker 1: He's still one of the best receivers in the NFL,

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Speaker 1: and they will have to get on the ball tomorrow

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Speaker 1: because you know, Romadoonday is out, and Luther Burden is out,

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Speaker 1: and Brian Bashnagel is out, Ken Marjoram is out. It's

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Speaker 1: gonna be the DJ Moore and Colson Lovelin show tomorrow.

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Speaker 1: But it doesn't matter. Chicago's better than Green Bay. They

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Speaker 1: should have won two weeks ago. The Packers are still

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Speaker 1: somewhat reeling over the loss of Micah Parsons, and just

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Speaker 1: like Bo Callahan didn't have to worry about Vonte Mack

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Speaker 1: when he was off the field, and draft day a

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Speaker 1: little less to worry about with though Micah Parsons, I'm

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Speaker 1: still bullish on the Packers overall because you can replace

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Speaker 1: a defensive player and still have a really good year

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Speaker 1: and still be really, really good. It's as much as

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Speaker 1: you want to say he's the quarterback of the defense,

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Speaker 1: he's not the quarterback. But tomorrow the Bears are too much.

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Speaker 1: They're the better team. The Bears win and Mike Harmon

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Speaker 1: is running naked along Miracle Mile. You got to listen

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Speaker 1: to the whole show tomorrow night to celebrate the.

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Speaker 3: Bears win, trying to impress some girls in the stands.

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Speaker 3: Can't shoot that. What Dj Moore is interesting is, if

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Speaker 3: I'm not mistaken, this is the first year that'll end

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Speaker 3: with a winning record since high school.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, you can't just say all he does is win,

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Speaker 1: That's not what He's not one of those guys.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, So here we go.

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Speaker 3: Go all the way back through Maryland three and nine,

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Speaker 3: six and seven, four and eight Panthers, seven and nine,

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Speaker 3: five and eleven, five and eleven, five and twelve, seven

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Speaker 3: and ten Bears, seven and ten, five and twelve, now

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Speaker 3: ten and four Bears. Yeah, he's got to be huge tomorrow.

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Speaker 3: And obviously Manungui and swift on the ground with no

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Speaker 3: run stuff for and no Michael Parsons to disrupt things.

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Speaker 3: So with everybody listed as an injury combatant for the Packers,

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Speaker 3: not sure that you get Watson and or Jacob's going

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Speaker 3: that the Bears should be able to hold serve.

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Speaker 4: In front of the raucous home crowd.

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Speaker 1: All the Chargers do is end seasons. They ended the

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Speaker 1: season last week of the Kansity Chiefs. They will end

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Speaker 1: Dallas said, well, Dallas season could end if the Eagles

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Speaker 1: win tomorrow. But you get my point. The Chargers have

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Speaker 1: shown this year, despite the injuries, they can win throwing

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Speaker 1: around or they can win tight physical mail biers. They've

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Speaker 1: done it too many times now to say, well, they

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Speaker 1: can't win like that all the time. No, I think

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Speaker 1: they're showing you the toughness and the grit they can

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Speaker 1: win that way. But against Dallas it's gonna be more

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Speaker 1: old school Chargers with big scores. Lad McConkie will be

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00:37:24,760 --> 00:37:27,320
Speaker 1: back to having a big day. Look, the Cowboys defense

757
00:37:27,440 --> 00:37:29,080
Speaker 1: is back to where it was early in the season,

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Speaker 1: but that I mean they're not stopping anybody. You know,

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Speaker 1: They're allowing tons of points every week. Again, look, we've

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Speaker 1: told you who the Cowboys have been all along this season,

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Speaker 1: right like we've been your Cowboys whisperers. We told the

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Speaker 1: beginning you don't want to get in a shootout with

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Speaker 1: them because their offense is really good. Even Eye underestimated

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Speaker 1: how good the offense was, but boy, it was really good.

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Speaker 1: But right when they got to the point where they

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Speaker 1: were tantalizing us and maybe the NFC East was coming

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Speaker 1: into focus a little bit, it was possibly out there

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Speaker 1: for them. They make the big trade at the deadline

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Speaker 1: for Quinn Williams. No, they showed we're going to cowboy

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Speaker 1: and now they wind up tantalizing you and failing. And

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Speaker 1: that's really what the Cowboys have been. That's we told

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Speaker 1: they be all season long, and that's where they are.

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Speaker 1: Their offense was terrific. They won a lot of games,

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Speaker 1: but when it really came time to we showed me

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Speaker 1: how improved you are win games. Get there, they weren't

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Speaker 1: able to do it. And you're gonna see the Chargers

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Speaker 1: and that defense is going to put out a big effort.

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Speaker 1: I'm a big, big believer that the Chargers defense will

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Speaker 1: do more ill will to the Cowboys offense than vice versa.

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Speaker 1: So give me the Chargers to officially end the Dallas

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Speaker 1: Cowboy again. Cowboys. You could end up the Eagles win,

782
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Speaker 1: but you get what I'm saying that this is gonna

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Speaker 1: be the last week we talked about the Cowboys in

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Speaker 1: the playoffs, and the Chargers will be at the forefront

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Speaker 1: of it.

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Speaker 3: Two and a half point favorite child the Cowboys at home.

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00:38:42,719 --> 00:38:45,719
Speaker 3: Forty nine and a half year total. What was it?

788
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Speaker 3: A an enthusiasm, unknown demand and we're match That's what

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Speaker 3: you get from the love and love affair that Harbaugh

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Speaker 3: has with Justin Herbert. This is one where he gets

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Speaker 3: to put his arm back in full effect. They'll get

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Speaker 3: the run game going against this Dallas defense, no question

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Speaker 3: about it. But this is one where you can get

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Speaker 3: right in Dallas's offense. For all of the plaudits and

795
00:39:06,920 --> 00:39:10,320
Speaker 3: the numbers have been big, Ceedee Lamb and George Pickens

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Speaker 3: can both get got and they get got this week.

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Speaker 1: Jacksonville and Denver, I mean, I raise your hand. You

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Speaker 1: thought this would be the game we're talking about. You know,

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Speaker 1: that's what a big week with such playoff implication, Yet

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Speaker 1: here we are slow your role on Jacksonville and Trevor Lawrence, Right,

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Speaker 1: Trevor Lawrence has been a little bit better the last

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Speaker 1: few weeks, but you cannot judge ultimate success by a

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Speaker 1: game against the Jets. Okay, it's the Jets. They're terrible,

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Speaker 1: and you can point to all the numbers that Trevor

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Speaker 1: Lawrence put up half of them. The last few weeks

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Speaker 1: have been from that game where I don't know that

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Speaker 1: the Jets even practiced because Trevor Lawrence, like, wow, it

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Speaker 1: hasn't been easy since I was Clemson playing Syracuse. You

809
00:39:46,640 --> 00:39:49,200
Speaker 1: know back when I was a freshman in college. So

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00:39:49,280 --> 00:39:51,520
Speaker 1: the reality is here in the form of the Denver defense.

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Speaker 1: They show up big. I told you last week bon

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Speaker 1: Nicks would have his game of the year against the Packers.

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Speaker 1: That's the scariest part of this game because now bo

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Speaker 1: Nicks is back past being the game manager he's been

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Speaker 1: and that was a big, big game from last week.

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Speaker 1: The Broncos keep it going. Not only do they win,

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Speaker 1: they let at the scoreboard. They win big over the Jaguars.

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Speaker 3: Danver three and a half point favorite, forty seven year total.

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Speaker 3: I'm taking the Jaguars balance and definition. Jacoby Myers, thanks

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Speaker 3: for showing up. Here's a giant contract. He and Brian

821
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Speaker 3: Thomas do some wonderful things with etn out of the

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Speaker 3: backfield and a little bit of tooting which gets Trevor

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Speaker 3: Lawrence into the winner circle again.

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Speaker 1: You're just saying that because they beat the Jets bad

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Speaker 1: that don't fall for it, Mike Harmon, don't fall for it.

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Speaker 4: That's a They're a stepping stone.

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Speaker 1: The Jets are a stepping stone for everybody. And happy

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Speaker 1: Holiday is my friend for Mike Jason Coming up next

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Speaker 1: F and A on FSR. This is Fox Sports Radio,