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Speaker 2: of week. My name is Bernie Frattle. We are coming

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Speaker 2: was one in what has transpired to be one of

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Speaker 2: the more unusual NFL coaching carousels over the last eighteen

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Speaker 2: days that I can remember. My opinion, it's about to

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Speaker 2: come to a close. Who will the Saints hire? What

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Speaker 2: happened to the allegedly highly attractive and sought after Mike McCarthy.

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Speaker 2: Will the Saints grab him? Well, apparently there are seven

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Speaker 2: potential candidates. The Saints are talking to Darren Rizzy Meh,

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Speaker 2: Dolphins defensive coordinator Anthony Weaver, Bill's offensive coordinator Joe Brady,

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Speaker 2: the New York Giants offensive coordinator Mike Kafka. I guess

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Speaker 2: he interviewed with him. On the ninth, Kellen Moore is

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Speaker 2: in the mix. And then there's Mike McCarthy, potentially Cliff Kingsbury.

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Speaker 2: Watch you just throw a darted aboard. What the hell?

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Speaker 2: But in what has been a week of what I

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Speaker 2: consider to be pretty salacious headlines in the world of sports,

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Speaker 2: most topical and to jump out at me and both

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Speaker 2: jumped in front of us Friday, and before I get

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Speaker 2: to it, you know, what do you look for in

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Speaker 2: an NFL coach? Well, what do you look for in

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Speaker 2: any coach? Nick Sabe and I think defined it best,

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Speaker 2: and I think he might know a thing or two

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Speaker 2: about this. He explained that there are four criteria he

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Speaker 2: looks for when you hire a coach. One what kind

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Speaker 2: of character do you have? Two? What kind of knowledge

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Speaker 2: do you have? Three? Do you have the ability to

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Speaker 2: apply that knowledge and teach the players? That's critical? And

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Speaker 2: for what kind of relationships can you develop with players?

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Speaker 2: And in today's world and in today's world of college

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Speaker 2: I actually think the Raiders hit a grand slam with

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Speaker 2: Pete Carroll. Hiring Pete Carroll means Las Vegas went from

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Speaker 2: elevating one of the league's least experienced coaches. And I

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Speaker 2: had nothing against Antonio Pierce given the hand he was dealt.

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Speaker 2: I thought he did the best he could. But now

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Speaker 2: they're bringing the exact opposite. I know critics will say

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Speaker 2: Pierce had never been more than a linebackers coach at

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Speaker 2: the NFL level, and it was only a college assistant

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Speaker 2: for four seasons at Arizona State before it being elevated

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Speaker 2: from interim to full time coach. Well, they gave it

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Speaker 2: a shot. They were four and thirteen and Pierce was

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Speaker 2: sent packing. But who would have won with those quarterbacks

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Speaker 2: and that roster. You want to have Andy Reid, you

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Speaker 2: want to bring back Vince Lombardi. All right, let's not

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Speaker 2: waste our time with rubinations. The world is a vexing

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Speaker 2: enough place without hypotheticals. But Pete Carroll, on the other hand,

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Speaker 2: brings his solid eighteen years of NFL coaching experience. He

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Speaker 2: filled in the gaps between Sunday and nine years guiding

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Speaker 2: USC has eleven playoff wins, seven pack ten titles, five

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Speaker 2: appearances in NCAA championship. That's called producing results, and there

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Speaker 2: is logic to hiring Pete Carroll just not just because

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Speaker 2: of his accomplishments, but what he'll bring. Look, you have

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Speaker 2: to give Pete Carroll a hell of a lot of credit.

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Speaker 2: And what he did, Yeah, he built them into a

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Speaker 2: powerhouse bit of a throwback. His defenses were you know,

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Speaker 2: crazy good, swarming, active bad intentions. His offenses did lead

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Speaker 2: pundits will say, why did you pass? Why do you

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Speaker 2: handed it to Marshawn Lynch. You'll never live that down.

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Speaker 2: But if you give him a mobile quarterback, a power run,

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Speaker 2: has proven he can win. Now, if that sounds for Mayor,

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Speaker 2: there's a team in the tournament right now doing that

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Speaker 2: called the Philadelphia Eagles. Their offenses built around Saquon Barkley,

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Speaker 2: they have a pretty good defense. Carrol's approach can work.

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Speaker 2: Making it work in Vegas, however, we have no idea.

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Speaker 2: But in terms of the higher itself, he knows what

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Speaker 2: a flyer in a Russell Wilson? And I'm serious about that. Okay,

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Speaker 2: five million dollars in estimated salary cap space. That's not bad.

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Speaker 2: Max Crossby, Malcolm Koons. So you have some pieces, but

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Speaker 2: you have a coach. You have a legitimate coach. Now

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Speaker 2: full well, it's just simply wasn't going to happen, and

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Speaker 2: it would have been. It would have been a spectacular

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Speaker 2: it would have been fun. But hello, Brian Schottenheimer. After

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Speaker 2: them Moore, well he's working, but hiring Schottenheimer to be

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Speaker 2: the head coach of the Cowboys, it's just I'm sorry.

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Speaker 2: It's a head scratcher. I think it's a significant letdown

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Speaker 2: much in disarray the Cowboys truly are from top to bottom. Now,

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Speaker 2: Schottenheimer's career is about a scatter shot as he gets.

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Speaker 2: He's been an offensive coordinator for fourteen teams. He's never

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Speaker 2: in the same category as Ben Johnson or a Liam Cohen, who,

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Speaker 2: this heading into week two when Tampa Bay went in

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Speaker 2: and took a part Detroit. Liam Cohen is an offensive genius.

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Speaker 2: He is with his rough trees and what he did

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Speaker 2: He's been with other good staffs. But here's what Brian

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Speaker 2: Schottenheimer gets. An overpaid quarterback who can't win. Des Brian

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Speaker 2: who's already pissed off. He thinks Deon Sanders got screwed.

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Speaker 2: Michaeh Parsons, who gives weird speeches. I don't care what

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Speaker 2: what Mike McCarthy did. What a dumpster fire this is.

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Speaker 2: Plus they're in a deep salary cap hole. Anybody taking

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Speaker 2: you can't somehow get Dak Prescott and Ceedee Lamb to

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Speaker 2: actually produce real results on the offense, it's going to

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Speaker 2: be a long year. But the truth of the matter

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Speaker 2: Mike McCarthy. He's the devil you know, versus the devil

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Speaker 2: Those two jump all right, and let's talk about Ben

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Speaker 2: Johnson for just a minute. It's been a long time

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Speaker 2: since the Bears hired someone who's actually very coveted for

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Speaker 2: his ability to plan offenses took the Lions to higher heights,

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Speaker 2: uncanny ability to showcase talent and devising a run game

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Speaker 2: with this one to two punch of Jamier Gims and

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Speaker 2: And the truth of the matter is the Bears need

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Speaker 2: someone supremely creative. All right now, Look this is going

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Speaker 2: to be a challenge, and save this on tape right now.

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Speaker 2: Ben Johnson's offense fits a quarterback who understands the importance

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Speaker 2: of pre snap reads in pre snap plays. Ben Johnson's

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Speaker 2: offense is not improvisational. It's not someone who thrives when

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Speaker 2: And Dj Moore is not exactly the greatest rot runner.

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Speaker 2: This is not playground football, don't get it twisted. I

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Speaker 2: But you better pause for just a second throughout the

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Speaker 2: week and I'll get to some of the other coaching

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Speaker 2: new higher thoughts. Certainly with the more obvious ones. The

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Speaker 2: Mike Variables, the Aaron Glimms of Liam Cohens, who I

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Speaker 2: There's so much to chop up in the news this week. Nobody,

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Speaker 2: nobody better to bring in than our guy, Jason Hrshorn.

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Speaker 2: He's been on my show many times, and I want

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Speaker 2: to talk a little bit about this coaching care of sail.

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Speaker 2: There's an odd backstory as to what happened in Tampa

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Speaker 2: and everything else happening in the NFL. As we headed

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Speaker 2: are three games left in the season. We'll do our

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Speaker 2: best to enjoy it. But right now, for me, the

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Speaker 2: headlines are being made off the field in the coaching carousel.

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Speaker 2: I'm Bernie Fraddlewick Kemedy Line from the Las Vegas Fox

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Speaker 2: Coming your line from the Tarrat dot com studios here

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Speaker 2: one of my favorites. He's been on the show many times.

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Speaker 2: You've heard him. You follow him on Twitter at buy

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Speaker 2: Underscore g Jason Hershorn, Award winning NFL college football writer,

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Speaker 2: Packers newsletter. Jason, it's been a minute, but I'm so

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Speaker 2: glad to get you back tonight. How you've been.

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Speaker 3: Been a little busy with some of these coaching hires,

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Speaker 2: You're earning your money because when we went to bed

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Speaker 3: The NFL, and you do not know if that opportunity

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Speaker 2: I think it's an excellent hire. Are Let's move on

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Speaker 2: I'd love to hear your thoughts on that hire. But also,

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Speaker 3: Start with the Pete Carroll part of this.

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Speaker 3: Who on a certain level, is a very understandable choice

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Speaker 3: So it is a bit trade from that regard, because

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Speaker 2: Move on to the Cowboys. Obviously, the Dion Sanders thing

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Speaker 2: here and is it going to work in your in

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Speaker 2: your belief Well.

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Speaker 3: A lot of people are confused by this hire from

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Speaker 3: a football perspective. I understand why they feel that way. Sure,

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Speaker 3: when you look at when you look at what the

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Speaker 3: Dallas Cowboys have prioritized over the past half decade plus.

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Speaker 3: It actually makes a lot of sense. And I'm not

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Speaker 3: defending the tire by saying this, but the Dallas Cowboys

436
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Speaker 3: have basically been the Cincinnati Bengals with better pr in

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Speaker 3: terms of the money they spend. They are not spending

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Speaker 3: a lot in terms of their football operations relative to

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Speaker 3: what people think. This is a team that has spent

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Speaker 3: extremely little on free agency, not just in the past

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Speaker 3: few years, but for a while. This is a team

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Speaker 3: that frankly does not want to pay a lot of

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Speaker 3: money through its coaching staff. You know, you go back

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Speaker 3: to the twenty twenty four season. It's not just that

445
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Speaker 3: Micha McCarthy was going into the final year of his contract,

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Speaker 3: a thing that basically doesn't happen anywhere in the NFL

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Speaker 3: with head coach other than Dallas, but every coach on

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Speaker 3: that staff was in a contract year. Very peculiar in

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Speaker 3: the NFL. That's because Jerry Jones does not like to

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Speaker 3: pay money to coaches who are not currently working for him.

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Speaker 3: So that brings us to Brian Schohanheimer. This is someone

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Speaker 3: who not only did not have any other head coach

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Speaker 3: interviews with other teams to cycle he's got interviewed for

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Speaker 3: an NFL head coaching position. I believe over the past decades.

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Speaker 3: This is a guy who at one point years and

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Speaker 3: years ago was considered enough in commer We're talking about

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Speaker 3: in his late thirties, early forties. This is again over

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Speaker 3: a decade ago, especially when he was with the Jets.

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Speaker 3: There was interest there, but that really dissipated. This is

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Speaker 3: not someone who has been in those conversations for a

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Speaker 3: long time, which means he does not have a lot

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Speaker 3: of leverage when it comes to that contract negotiation. That's

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Speaker 3: something that was going to be very appealing to Jerry Jones.

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Speaker 3: Now Jerry does, like Brian Schottheimer, don't think this is

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Speaker 3: purely a cost saving measure, but it's important to keep

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Speaker 3: in mind again this is not a coaching candidate that

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Speaker 3: has had interest from other NFL teams at that level

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Speaker 3: anytime anytime recently. And it is also worth pointing out

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Speaker 3: that they essentially let Mike McCarthy go for among other reasons,

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Speaker 3: they weren't satisfied with the way that the offense looked

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Speaker 3: when Dak Prescott was unavailable. Well, Brian Schottenheimer was the

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Speaker 3: offensive course seator for those teams, and somehow that did

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Speaker 3: not apply to him in Jerry's mind. So I am

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Speaker 3: curious to see how the staff comes together. We've already

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Speaker 3: seen reporting that Matty's proposed to the former Bears head coach,

476
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Speaker 3: is going to be the defensive coordinator, but com curious.

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Speaker 3: I am curious to see what those other offensive assistant

478
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Speaker 3: hires look like, because if this is just you know,

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Speaker 3: the Mike McCarthy staff with a different defensive coordinator and

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Speaker 3: Shotenheimer moving from the OC position to the head coaching position,

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Speaker 3: I don't know that Cowboys fans are gonna have a

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Speaker 3: lot of reason to be excited. Again, we never know

483
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Speaker 3: how hires are going to work out. Sometimes the most

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Speaker 3: anonymous guy ends up being a great hire, and you know,

485
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Speaker 3: the guy who is champion as being the best hires

486
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Speaker 3: of not being close to that. But this may be

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Speaker 3: a situation where everybody looks us and says, why are

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Speaker 3: you proceeding this way? And they end up being proven.

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Speaker 2: Right well, and of course to your point, which is

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Speaker 2: spot on, a year ago now, no one was dancing

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Speaker 2: in the aisles about dan Quinn and look where he's at.

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Speaker 2: So on the other hand. If Brian Schottenheimer is in

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Speaker 2: the NFC Championship game next year, I get your affairs norder,

494
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Speaker 2: I think would be the end of the world. I

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Speaker 2: don't see it. But last thing, Jason great Stuff is

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Speaker 2: always We've mentioned Mike McCarthy's name three times. Three teams

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Speaker 2: have passed on him that were allegedly rumored to be interested,

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Speaker 2: which leaves the Saints. So simply put, do the Saints

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Speaker 2: hire Mike McCarthy, Well.

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Speaker 3: I think it is still possible. If they do, I

501
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Speaker 3: get the feeling they're going to go younger. And Joe Brady,

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Speaker 3: the offensive coordinator for the Bills, is someone with ties

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Speaker 3: to the Saints organization. Remember, before he was with the Bills,

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Speaker 3: before he was with the Panthers, before he was the

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Speaker 3: hot shot play caller at LSU, he was an assistant

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Speaker 3: on Sean Payton's staff in New Orleans, and that is

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Speaker 3: a big part of the reason that he appeals to

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Speaker 3: them now. It's also the work he's done with the Bills.

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Speaker 3: That offense has been one of the better units in

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Speaker 3: the league, justs by not having elite pass catchers, although

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Speaker 3: he does have obviously and early quarterback in Josh Allen

512
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Speaker 3: Joe Brady deserves some credit for that, but I think again,

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Speaker 3: it comes down to familiarity. This is a Saints organization.

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Speaker 3: It prizes itself on being able to stick with its guys.

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Speaker 3: They've had Mickey Loomis at the top of that organization

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Speaker 3: for seemingly longer than either one of us have been alive.

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Speaker 3: They like to stick with the people that they know.

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Speaker 3: Joe Brady is someone they know now. Granted, they also

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Speaker 3: know Mike McCarthy. He was the offhensive coordinator for that

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Speaker 3: team back in the late nineties early two thousands, but

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Speaker 3: Brady has been there more recently. He has had high

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Speaker 3: level success in his current role, and he's someone who

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Speaker 3: I think it's going to be easier to sell. He's

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Speaker 3: a younger coach. He is someone who comes from that

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Speaker 3: offensive play caller background. You can find those things. You

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Speaker 3: look at the way that the Saints have functioned over

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Speaker 3: the past twenty years. I think that is the way

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Speaker 3: they ultimately go, even though I'm not totally ruling out

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Speaker 3: Mike McCarthy for some of those reasons. But we'll have

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Speaker 3: to see. It's the last job. There's not a rush anymore.

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Speaker 3: They don't have to make a decision tomorrow because there

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Speaker 3: is no longer competition. Anyone who's still out there is

533
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Speaker 3: basically in a bi level biledal monopoly with the Saints.

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Speaker 3: So maybe we find out the higher on Saturday, maybe

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Speaker 3: we don't find it out until next week. But either way,

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Speaker 3: I feel like it's Brady and McCarthy are the clear options,

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Speaker 3: with Brady having a bit of an edge there.

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Speaker 2: It's excellent stuff. And by the way, Brady can't complete

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Speaker 2: his second interview until the AFC Championships games had played Sunday.

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Speaker 2: But he's Jason Hrshorn, NFL writer, many years of experience,

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Speaker 2: always does a great job. Jason, thanks so much, Really

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Speaker 2: appreciate you, buddy.

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Speaker 6: All right, take care of Bernie.

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Speaker 2: Jason Hirshorn again. Follow him on Twitter at Let's see

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Speaker 2: bit of a smortgage sport tonight of issues I look

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Speaker 2: forward to people hearing on and I'm going to list

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Speaker 2: about four of them. And what I'd like you to

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Speaker 2: do is just pick the top two that you're strongest about,

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Speaker 2: or if you can squeeze it in a third or whatever.

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Speaker 2: I want to make sure I get all the callers in,

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Speaker 2: but I really want to hear what you got to say,

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Speaker 2: because the first one is really started to take on

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Speaker 2: the life of its own. The Chiefs are obviously trying

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Speaker 2: to repeat not everybody's happy about that. This is what

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Speaker 2: I love. The opposite of love is not hated, its indifference.

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Speaker 2: Plenty of Chiefs hate going around now they're getting a

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Speaker 2: little tired of it, right, Not me. I think it's good.

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Speaker 2: But here's the angle the refs the Chiefs. Is there

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Speaker 2: some preferential treatment? Is that happening? See now, Patrick Mahomes

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Speaker 2: isn't buying the idea that the Kansas City Chiefs receive

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Speaker 2: special treatment from the NFL referees in the postseason. But

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Speaker 2: there's some data that you can't ignore. Now. You could

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Speaker 2: call the Chiefs win over the Texans last week, which

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Speaker 2: was twenty three to fourteen controversial if you were rooting

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Speaker 2: against the Chiefs. They were. You know, the Chiefs were

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Speaker 2: the beneficiary of a questionable roughing the passer penalty in

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Speaker 2: a very suspect laidhead penalty. But Patrick Mahomes, and by

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Speaker 2: the way, you should know this by now, stars get

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Speaker 2: calls in all sports. He's a three times Super Bowl champion.

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Speaker 2: But he believes Patrick Mahomes says, I'm just I'm treated different.

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00:32:13,520 --> 00:32:16,280
Speaker 2: I'm treated fairly, just like every other player and every

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Speaker 2: other team in the league. So Mahomes isn't buying it.

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Speaker 2: But again I mentioned that there were some interesting stats

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Speaker 2: since the twenty twenty one postseason. The Chiefs, well, you

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Speaker 2: could argue they have been getting preferential treatment by officiating crews.

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Speaker 2: The thing is they're good enough to take advantage of it.

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Speaker 2: You give that same preferential treatment of the Raiders and

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Speaker 2: they're not still winning the Super Bowl. But here's the

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Speaker 2: deity you need to hear. Since the twenty twenty one postseason,

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Speaker 2: the Chiefs have accumulated only thirty six team penalties total

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Speaker 2: in every postseason game in the last four years. Their

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Speaker 2: opponents almost double that amount sixty six. The Chiefs I've

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Speaker 2: only had three hundred and nineteen penalty yards or their

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Speaker 2: opponents have had just under six hundred. The Chiefs have

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Speaker 2: had more penalties than their opponents only one time. In

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Speaker 2: the last ten postseason games, they've had more penalty yards.

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Speaker 2: Don't know? Check that the Chiefs have had more penalties

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Speaker 2: than their opponents zero times in the last ten postseason

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Speaker 2: games since twenty twenty one. The Chiefs have had more

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Speaker 2: penalty yards only one time in their last ten games.

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Speaker 2: So is there a merit to this? Think about it.

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Speaker 2: Are the Chiefs avoiding penalties and also drawing them on

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Speaker 2: their opponents because they're simply a sound, well coached team

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Speaker 2: or something else to play here? Now, during the regular season,

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Speaker 2: this happens too. Out of sixty eight regular season games

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Speaker 2: since twenty twenty one, it's closer to fifty to fifty. Okay,

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Speaker 2: the Chiefs had penalty yards, but something changes the playoffs.

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Speaker 2: They had less penalty yards ninety one percent of the

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Speaker 2: time and less penalties you know, zero zero. So the

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Speaker 2: truth of the matter is, and in those playoff games

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Speaker 2: the Chiefs have gone ten and one. That's thirty more

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Speaker 2: penalties and nearly two hundred and fifty more penalty yards

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Speaker 2: as compared to what they've been flagged for And I

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Speaker 2: could go into some minutia and some detail, but you

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Speaker 2: get the picture. You see where I'm going with this. Okay,

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Speaker 2: So the first topic tonight are the Chiefs in fact

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Speaker 2: getting preferential treatment from the referees. Secondly, I could not

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Speaker 2: resist this one, you know, I said, tongue in cheek

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Speaker 2: or maybe not so much. Last November when Lebron and

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Speaker 2: Bronnie had the most you know, heartwarming event in the

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Speaker 2: history of the NBA as the first father son player

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Speaker 2: to appear in court, well, guess what the Theroni Bronnie

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Speaker 2: Lebron James tandem was. He ended a pretty special invitation

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Speaker 2: the All Star Games coming up here in February, and

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Speaker 2: it was confirmed that Lebron and his son Brownie on

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Speaker 2: Thursday would be invited to become the first father son

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Speaker 2: duel to participate and want to aspect of All Star Weekend,

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Speaker 2: but they declined. Now, Chris Haynes reported the league asked

644
00:35:24,080 --> 00:35:27,520
Speaker 2: Lebron and his son to participate in the skills Challenge. Now,

645
00:35:27,560 --> 00:35:30,080
Speaker 2: remember when I saw a tongue in cheeks, said last November,

646
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Speaker 2: why don't we do this? Since you're all trying to

647
00:35:32,400 --> 00:35:35,680
Speaker 2: tell me Lebron's an NBA player or Lebroni's an NBA player,

648
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Speaker 2: and by the way, let's not separate the human being

649
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Speaker 2: from the player. He's a solid dude, man, respectful, checks

650
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Speaker 2: every box. Just not an NBA player, but he gets

651
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Speaker 2: to play in the NBA. Okay, fine, how about if

652
00:35:49,160 --> 00:35:51,799
Speaker 2: he had a skills competition versus Caitlin Clark that would

653
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Speaker 2: sell a few tickets on the All Star weekend. Obviously they

654
00:35:54,400 --> 00:35:57,600
Speaker 2: were going to do that, but Bronni and Lebron were

655
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Speaker 2: invited by the league to become the first father son

656
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Speaker 2: to participate in the Skills Challenge? All right, and Brownie

657
00:36:05,560 --> 00:36:07,520
Speaker 2: was even invited to be part of the G League

658
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Speaker 2: Rising Stars team and All Star Weekend, but decline that

659
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Speaker 2: as well. Now I have my reasons why I think

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Speaker 2: Bronnie and Lebron declined the Skills Challenge at the All

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Speaker 2: Star Game weekend. But you don't want to hear it

662
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Speaker 2: because I'll come off like a cynical guy. I'm not

663
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Speaker 2: a cynical guy. So topical one, chiefs refs are they

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Speaker 2: getting preferential treatment? Topic number two? Why would Lebron and

665
00:36:31,320 --> 00:36:36,560
Speaker 2: Brownie turned on an invite to be of course, have

666
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Speaker 2: an opportunity to participate in the Skills Challenge at the

667
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Speaker 2: NBA All Star Game. I cannot ignore this because I

668
00:36:45,600 --> 00:36:50,000
Speaker 2: talked about it for too long. Lamar's playoff struggles I

669
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Speaker 2: called hi miss d October. I got no beef with Lamar,

670
00:36:53,960 --> 00:36:56,759
Speaker 2: but they lost again in eight postseason games. He's three

671
00:36:56,760 --> 00:37:01,239
Speaker 2: and five eleven turnovers to deadly turnover last Sunday that

672
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Speaker 2: turned into seven points and that was the margin of

673
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Speaker 2: the game. I don't deny that he puts up numbers.

674
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Speaker 2: I had been defending Lamar Jackson since he was at Louisville.

675
00:37:12,000 --> 00:37:14,480
Speaker 2: I think he's a good pocket passer. I think he's

676
00:37:14,520 --> 00:37:20,400
Speaker 2: an excellent NFL quarterback. He does everything but win in

677
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Speaker 2: January when it matters. I told you I was on

678
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Speaker 2: a panel and down de Markles with crack Man and

679
00:37:26,320 --> 00:37:29,600
Speaker 2: Jim Feif four weeks ago. I called him mister October,

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Speaker 2: and I'm sticking to it. Lamar again. You tell me

681
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Speaker 2: why am I being too harsh on him? Finally, the

682
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Speaker 2: Pete Carrolls were the Raiders. What grade do you give

683
00:37:39,480 --> 00:37:43,560
Speaker 2: that coaching hire? You think it'll work, So you're probably

684
00:37:43,560 --> 00:37:45,040
Speaker 2: not going to have time to get to all four

685
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Speaker 2: of these, Nor do you have time or probably the

686
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Speaker 2: strong opinion and all four, but I bet you got

687
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Speaker 2: him at least two of them chiefs refs. You know

688
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Speaker 2: I'm going with this. I just gave him some data.

689
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Speaker 2: Are the Chiefs getting preferential treatment from the refs in

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Speaker 2: the playoffs? The data might bear that out, since twenty

691
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Speaker 2: twenty one and ten playoff games where at no time

692
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Speaker 2: do the Chiefs have more penalties called, and only one

693
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Speaker 2: of those games do the Chiefs have more penalty yards

694
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Speaker 2: or ten and one of those games. By the way,

695
00:38:16,120 --> 00:38:20,719
Speaker 2: Lebron and Bronni they turned on an invitation to go

696
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Speaker 2: to the NBA All Star Game as part of the

697
00:38:23,080 --> 00:38:26,359
Speaker 2: skills Challenge. Why do you think they turned that down?

698
00:38:26,400 --> 00:38:30,680
Speaker 2: Would you've liked to see that? Lamar Jackson yep? Not again?

699
00:38:30,960 --> 00:38:35,719
Speaker 2: Deja vu all over again. In eight postseason games three

700
00:38:35,760 --> 00:38:39,160
Speaker 2: and five, record eleven turnovers. He's still a three time MVP.

701
00:38:39,880 --> 00:38:42,880
Speaker 2: He's a very good passer, but you know, by the

702
00:38:42,880 --> 00:38:47,560
Speaker 2: way his passing numbers in the postseason are definitely down

703
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Speaker 2: over the regular season. That's topic number three, and then

704
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Speaker 2: topic number four. Pete Carroll to the Raiders, will it work?

705
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Speaker 2: Will it work? You know what to do? Eight seven,

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Speaker 2: seven nine nine six six three six nine. Line them up.

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Speaker 2: You've been fantastic callers. I'm looking forward what you got

708
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Speaker 2: to say. None of these are earth shattering topics, but

709
00:39:12,239 --> 00:39:14,440
Speaker 2: they do raise an eyebrow for a lot of folks,

710
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Speaker 2: and I really want to hear your opinions. Chiefs, Refs,

711
00:39:17,800 --> 00:39:20,920
Speaker 2: Lebron Brownie, Lamar Jackson, Pete Carroll, you know what to do.

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Speaker 2: Eight seven seven nine nine six six three six nine. Yes,

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Speaker 2: it's time for the midnight hour. Keep it locked. You're

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Speaker 2: listening to the Bernie Frattle Show on Fox Sports Radio.

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Speaker 1: Don't listening to Fox Sports Radio Radio.

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Speaker 2: That's right, you heard the man. The Bernie Frattle Show

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Speaker 2: keeps rolling right along. My name is Bernie Frattle. We're

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Speaker 2: couty live from the tyrack dot com studios here in

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Speaker 2: chiefs in the refs your treatment, Lebron Brownie, why would

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Speaker 2: they turn down the invite? Lamar again told you, Oh yeah,

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Speaker 2: Pete Carroll, is it going to work? Do you like it?

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Speaker 2: It's time. It's a midnight hour. We're gonna get to

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Speaker 2: all of you tonight eight seven, seven, nine nine, six

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Speaker 2: six three sixty nine. Please be patient. They're lining up

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Speaker 2: looking forward to hearing what you folks got to say.

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Speaker 2: We start with Jim in Massachusetts. Jim, you know what

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Speaker 2: to do.

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Speaker 7: Hey, let me tell you, Bernie. First of all, Larissa

733
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Speaker 7: taking care of Kansas City because that's what the league wants.

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Speaker 7: And the last game I watched, it's not so much

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Speaker 7: you telling that all they were the most penalized and

736
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Speaker 7: everything like that. It's when the chief the call that

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Speaker 7: change the tempo in the complex city of the game.

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Speaker 7: The Chiefs got the big call. So I think the

739
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Speaker 7: league and the rest of looking out for Kansas City.

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Speaker 7: Lamar's Lamar, you know, taking for what it's worth.

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Speaker 8: You know, I like the guy.

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Speaker 7: He may not rank with the highest quot back unless

743
00:41:00,680 --> 00:41:03,399
Speaker 7: he wins the big ones, but uh, you know I'd

744
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Speaker 7: want him on my team. Bronni and Lebron you've got

745
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Speaker 7: to be kidding me. Just just go away, you know,

746
00:41:10,760 --> 00:41:13,000
Speaker 7: don't go away, man, Just go away.

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Speaker 2: First of all, both your excellent points one and two.

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Speaker 2: I agree with what everything he said. Uh, but let's

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Speaker 2: talk about Lebron BRONI for just a half a second here.

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Speaker 2: Why do you think they turned down the invitation to

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Speaker 2: participate in the skills challenge because.

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Speaker 7: Of embarrassed himself. Damn gonna show that he never should

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Speaker 7: have been on the floor with the big boys in

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Speaker 7: the first place. That's why they turned it down. I mean,

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Speaker 7: after all the scuttle but from before when he was

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Speaker 7: out there, he just he's just he just doesn't have it,

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00:41:44,080 --> 00:41:46,920
Speaker 7: you know, and and they can't get over that. So

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Speaker 7: they that's why they turned it down. They didn't want

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Speaker 7: to embarrass themselves. And GARYL I think that's the that's

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Speaker 7: the first smart.

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Speaker 5: Move that the ownership of the Raiders have made.

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Speaker 7: Is bringing him in because they'll give him instant stability

763
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Speaker 7: and you know, like like old L Davies, just say,

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Speaker 7: just win, baby, that's all it matters. Just win.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, he'll establish a culture. Jim, mean, you just said

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Speaker 2: a great tone for tonight's show. Appreciate you as always

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00:42:13,560 --> 00:42:15,239
Speaker 2: that my folks. I know the rest of the cars

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Speaker 2: would be great too, but that is like leading off

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Speaker 2: for the a Ricky Henderson Grand slam eighty one times.

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Speaker 9: He did.

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Speaker 2: Just curt let off for the home run. Stephen Kansas

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Speaker 2: City always looked forward to what you got to say.

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Speaker 2: You got the floor.

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Speaker 10: Good morning from cams City. Listen all this stuff about

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Speaker 10: Patrick Mahomes, give me a break. You know he's he's

776
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Speaker 10: sitting there. Tom Brady was on Colin Cowherd accusing of

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Speaker 10: him de accelerating that it's bad for the game. That's

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Speaker 10: it's not fair. All these guys know that Mahomes will

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Speaker 10: do something that Tom Brady, a documented cheater, could never do.

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Speaker 10: That's win three in a row. He basically becomes the

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Speaker 10: greatest of all time. And now they're all trying to

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Speaker 10: nitpick Troy Aikman, same thing, another failure that couldn't do

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Speaker 10: the three peet. I have no problems with with criticizing

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Speaker 10: the referees, but Patrick Mahomes is in bounds.

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Speaker 8: If you don't like the rules, change the rules.

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Speaker 10: I'm sorry. Tom Brady is just a sore loser.

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Speaker 6: At this.

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Speaker 10: I mean, he's ruining his legacy by criticizing the future

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Speaker 10: greatest of all time Patrick Mahomes. And and and it's

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Speaker 10: and that's.

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Speaker 3: The way it is.

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Speaker 10: I mean, I I hate to see all these old

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Speaker 10: guys just becoming that guy. Don't get off my yard.

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Speaker 10: You just get used to it. That Patrick Mahomes is

795
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Speaker 10: your new daddy, and you know and and.

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Speaker 7: Everything will be much better for you.

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Speaker 2: Guys said there from your perspective, that's incorrect. Frankly, look

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Speaker 2: at this. Look look and I know you're rooting for

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Speaker 2: the Chiefs and that's fine. And that What I like

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Speaker 2: is is that we're gonna have disagreements here tonight. Other

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Speaker 2: callers will disagree. And that's what makes this segment good

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Speaker 2: because the most boring topics when everybody agrees. I would

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Speaker 2: say this, whether or not Holmes is getting preferential treatment,

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Speaker 2: and stars do in every sport in the NBA, Pitchers

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Speaker 2: in baseball, bulk or whatever the case may be, hitters,

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Speaker 2: strike zones different. If you're a star, you're gonna get

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Speaker 2: preferential treatment. I got no problem. What pisses people off,

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Speaker 2: not me, because I love excellence, is the Chiefs are

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Speaker 2: good enough to take advantage of it. Okay, that's the thing.

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Speaker 2: They're not about the three P because of the referees.

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Speaker 2: But this is what people do in our society. So anyway,

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Speaker 2: any thoughts on the other topics.

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Speaker 10: Steve, Yeah, you're exactly correct that I don't remember Michael

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Speaker 10: Jordan getting treated like this. Patrick Mahomes is a nice guy.

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Speaker 10: He's not He's not looking to take on anyone. You guys,

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Speaker 10: just this is to the NFL. NFL stabs, the fans

817
00:45:07,640 --> 00:45:11,319
Speaker 10: just relaxed. Let these games play out. I love Little

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00:45:11,400 --> 00:45:16,160
Speaker 10: Brownie and and and Big Brownie. They finally realized that

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Speaker 10: that what they did was wrong and and they're they're

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00:45:18,920 --> 00:45:23,080
Speaker 10: back off. I like Pete Carroll. He'll he'll be he'll

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Speaker 10: be a good addition to the Raiders. They'll lose a

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Speaker 10: bunch of games. But this even makes the Chiefs greater

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Speaker 10: because you have the three greatest coaches in one division

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Speaker 10: and we're still winning championships. I mean, Harbaugh and uh

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Speaker 10: and Pete Carroll and the coach for the oh magnificent

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Speaker 10: all magnificent coaches. And it just adds Andy Reid may

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Speaker 10: be the greatest of all time. I mean, we may

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Speaker 10: be seeing another that's that's kind of an underrated take

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Speaker 10: that I'll go go with a wild card take and

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Speaker 10: say Andy Reid is making a series he has running

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Speaker 10: one of the greatest coaches of all time.

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Speaker 8: And you Homer.

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Speaker 11: I'm not trying to be a homer there either.

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Speaker 2: It's all good man. You're allowed to be a Thanks

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Speaker 2: you for checking in, Poppy, San Diego. It's been a minute, Poppy.

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Speaker 6: How are you hey?

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Speaker 8: Good Bernie, he has been a minute. And I always

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Speaker 8: hear your show.

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Speaker 12: And as you remember, Bernie last time when I called

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Speaker 12: and I gave you guys a winner, and.

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Speaker 13: I told you with Jalen Daniels the Washington Commander's rookie

842
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Speaker 13: against the Falcons and we made that blinklink.

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Speaker 12: But talking about this, Bernie, about this game, I.

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Speaker 13: Really love this game out the Buffalo Bill and the

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Speaker 13: Chiefs and are saying, hey, are they gonna get calls?

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Speaker 8: Yes, conspiracy theory.

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Speaker 12: You just said it, Bernie. They always get the calls

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Speaker 12: and favor and stuff like that.

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Speaker 8: But I know we had the one Chief fan calling.

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Speaker 12: But I also who's gonna be your daddy?

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Speaker 13: I'm sorry to give you guys a thank Josh Alan.

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Speaker 9: For me is the MVP of the year.

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Speaker 12: He's beat the Kansas City Chiefs one and I really

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Speaker 12: loved the lineup plus two and a half. The weather's

855
00:46:59,280 --> 00:47:02,400
Speaker 12: going to be around thirty degrees on kickoff, it's going

856
00:47:02,480 --> 00:47:04,799
Speaker 12: to be winning maybe three miles per hour and it's

857
00:47:04,800 --> 00:47:09,320
Speaker 12: going to increase. But this Bill Tomkia team will take

858
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Speaker 12: advantage of the Kansas City Chiefs and Patrick Mahomes that

859
00:47:12,800 --> 00:47:15,480
Speaker 12: he's magic and that Patrick Mahomes is a party animal

860
00:47:15,480 --> 00:47:20,120
Speaker 12: when he's with Travis Kelsey and you know Taylor Swift.

861
00:47:20,360 --> 00:47:20,919
Speaker 14: Get that right.

862
00:47:20,960 --> 00:47:26,920
Speaker 2: So you you're on record, Poppies, you're taking the Buffalo Bills. Yes,

863
00:47:26,920 --> 00:47:28,480
Speaker 2: plus two and a half. You'll be able to call

864
00:47:28,600 --> 00:47:31,200
Speaker 2: back next Friday night and we'll see if you're you're right.

865
00:47:31,920 --> 00:47:34,399
Speaker 12: And Bernie and I really love him.

866
00:47:34,400 --> 00:47:37,120
Speaker 13: They're the number one team and to be on to

867
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Speaker 13: be the top, Bernie, you have to knock down the

868
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Speaker 13: best of the consider Chiefs and going on the on

869
00:47:41,320 --> 00:47:43,560
Speaker 13: the basketball, Lebron James and Bronnie, I love it.

870
00:47:43,880 --> 00:47:47,240
Speaker 12: I can't wait with Medina Magic, says tomorrow, Medina Magic

871
00:47:47,280 --> 00:47:49,799
Speaker 12: on this. But I'll tell you what I think the

872
00:47:49,880 --> 00:47:52,840
Speaker 12: thing is. Lebron James told us on Hey, Bronnie, you

873
00:47:52,880 --> 00:47:56,760
Speaker 12: can't be there. You're going to ruin my repetition everything.

874
00:47:57,160 --> 00:47:58,120
Speaker 8: I got you a job.

875
00:47:58,640 --> 00:48:00,640
Speaker 12: We can't have this, just like.

876
00:48:03,440 --> 00:48:06,520
Speaker 2: I gotta get Poppy. Enjoy your weekend, man, I gotta

877
00:48:06,520 --> 00:48:12,720
Speaker 2: get to these other callers, but you sometimes the two thirds.

878
00:48:12,719 --> 00:48:12,959
Speaker 6: Man.

879
00:48:13,960 --> 00:48:16,680
Speaker 2: Look, kid, I got you on the floor in the NBA.

880
00:48:16,760 --> 00:48:19,799
Speaker 2: We did this manufactured historical moment that no one gives

881
00:48:19,840 --> 00:48:23,080
Speaker 2: a flying horses but dued about. But it's about to

882
00:48:23,080 --> 00:48:25,000
Speaker 2: get real. Man, not on a wait. We we can't

883
00:48:25,000 --> 00:48:29,319
Speaker 2: have this. We just can't have this, tutor. All right,

884
00:48:29,400 --> 00:48:32,560
Speaker 2: ladies and gentlemen, please stay seated for the entire performance.

885
00:48:33,680 --> 00:48:36,480
Speaker 2: Wake the kids, Alert the neighbors, Grandpa, put on pants. Yes,

886
00:48:36,920 --> 00:48:41,600
Speaker 2: it is time for the comedic stylings of Manuel in gardena.

887
00:48:42,440 --> 00:48:46,880
Speaker 4: You Manuel, you don't know much about a science book,

888
00:48:47,440 --> 00:48:51,759
Speaker 4: don't know much about the French too, But I just

889
00:48:52,000 --> 00:48:54,600
Speaker 4: want to Seelebray.

890
00:48:54,000 --> 00:48:58,640
Speaker 2: Because a little mash up there that's.

891
00:48:57,120 --> 00:48:58,760
Speaker 12: At midnight hour.

892
00:48:59,360 --> 00:49:03,080
Speaker 4: And what topics you've given us, Bernie, like the true

893
00:49:03,120 --> 00:49:07,040
Speaker 4: professional U area, I'm gonna hit them all too. Actually,

894
00:49:07,080 --> 00:49:08,760
Speaker 4: I agree with Poppy on one.

895
00:49:08,640 --> 00:49:13,040
Speaker 8: Thing, the brownie thing. He nailed it all right, so

896
00:49:13,160 --> 00:49:13,640
Speaker 8: I don't.

897
00:49:13,480 --> 00:49:15,799
Speaker 4: Need gloss over that too much. I'm glad that I

898
00:49:15,840 --> 00:49:19,800
Speaker 4: got my money. I'm the Chiefs. I'm with you, Excellence,

899
00:49:19,840 --> 00:49:22,960
Speaker 4: reign supreme. You know they can call it a rep show.

900
00:49:23,000 --> 00:49:25,000
Speaker 4: They can call it what they want, but at the

901
00:49:25,080 --> 00:49:27,840
Speaker 4: end of the day, Riot draws up the place to

902
00:49:27,960 --> 00:49:32,799
Speaker 4: profession and freaking Mahomes and Kelsey and Opkins and all

903
00:49:32,840 --> 00:49:36,920
Speaker 4: those guys always execute. And as a Raider fan, I

904
00:49:37,080 --> 00:49:40,680
Speaker 4: hate that. But you know what, I love excellence. Like

905
00:49:40,719 --> 00:49:43,839
Speaker 4: I said, man, I'll watch a dynasty, you know what

906
00:49:43,840 --> 00:49:45,480
Speaker 4: I mean. I want to see the best of the

907
00:49:45,600 --> 00:49:49,239
Speaker 4: best in any sport I'm watching. And as far as one,

908
00:49:49,360 --> 00:49:55,719
Speaker 4: Peter Carroll hydro gum hide anything that can be chewed,

909
00:49:56,160 --> 00:50:01,359
Speaker 4: because this guy is like a human garbage disposal when

910
00:50:01,360 --> 00:50:05,360
Speaker 4: it comes to his mouth. But he's a football genius.

911
00:50:05,440 --> 00:50:08,440
Speaker 4: And I've always liked Pete Carroll, man. You know, he

912
00:50:08,520 --> 00:50:12,279
Speaker 4: handles his business to Bernie. He was a godsend to

913
00:50:12,440 --> 00:50:14,799
Speaker 4: USC when he came, and I think he's gonna do

914
00:50:14,840 --> 00:50:17,920
Speaker 4: the same with the Silver and Black. Because somebody was

915
00:50:17,960 --> 00:50:20,520
Speaker 4: saying earlier it made a good point, man, one of

916
00:50:20,520 --> 00:50:23,239
Speaker 4: these NFL guys was saying that when you bring up

917
00:50:23,239 --> 00:50:26,640
Speaker 4: Pete Carroll, he's going to change everything. But the good

918
00:50:26,640 --> 00:50:32,479
Speaker 4: thing is he leaves teams that can also resonate without him,

919
00:50:32,840 --> 00:50:35,319
Speaker 4: you know what I mean. He was the man who

920
00:50:35,360 --> 00:50:39,319
Speaker 4: brought in David Tanalis twenty years ago into the coaching game.

921
00:50:39,440 --> 00:50:41,640
Speaker 4: That's right, this guy's got an eye for talent.

922
00:50:41,920 --> 00:50:45,320
Speaker 11: Yes, yep, yep.

923
00:50:45,400 --> 00:50:48,720
Speaker 4: So, hey man, I love it. Keep up the good work, Bernie.

924
00:50:49,000 --> 00:50:53,400
Speaker 4: And hey man, I'll be listening tomorrow. And I listened religiously.

925
00:50:53,480 --> 00:50:54,000
Speaker 1: You know that.

926
00:50:54,360 --> 00:50:57,280
Speaker 2: All right? Thanks, appreciate it. Appreciate you man. Well, Gary

927
00:50:57,280 --> 00:50:58,600
Speaker 2: in California, you're up next.

928
00:50:58,600 --> 00:51:02,720
Speaker 11: Welcome in, Bernie, great smarts board.

929
00:51:02,760 --> 00:51:04,560
Speaker 6: I love, I love a great buffet.

930
00:51:04,800 --> 00:51:08,160
Speaker 11: So but following Manuel and Poppy, that's a little difficult.

931
00:51:08,200 --> 00:51:09,280
Speaker 6: But anyway, here goes.

932
00:51:09,880 --> 00:51:12,759
Speaker 11: I'm a forty nine er fan. And we'll just dial

933
00:51:12,840 --> 00:51:15,799
Speaker 11: back to the Super Bowl previous to the last one,

934
00:51:15,840 --> 00:51:19,680
Speaker 11: and for the last super Bowl. And you could say that,

935
00:51:20,320 --> 00:51:21,480
Speaker 11: you know, Mahomes.

936
00:51:21,080 --> 00:51:22,760
Speaker 6: Gets the calls. He's good, like you say.

937
00:51:22,880 --> 00:51:25,960
Speaker 11: Good enough to take advantage of it. But if you

938
00:51:26,000 --> 00:51:30,719
Speaker 11: watch that game, mister Vinovich called only two holding penalties

939
00:51:30,760 --> 00:51:34,480
Speaker 11: the whole game, and both are on the Niners, and

940
00:51:34,800 --> 00:51:37,759
Speaker 11: Nick Bosa was being held. You can watch the game

941
00:51:37,840 --> 00:51:40,600
Speaker 11: back and look at it and you can see that

942
00:51:40,680 --> 00:51:43,399
Speaker 11: he was held the entire game. Not one call. One

943
00:51:43,440 --> 00:51:46,319
Speaker 11: holding call could have flipped that game, among nine or

944
00:51:46,360 --> 00:51:50,120
Speaker 11: ten other things. So, but props to Mahomes and company.

945
00:51:50,120 --> 00:51:52,400
Speaker 11: They're good enough to, like you said, to take advantage

946
00:51:52,440 --> 00:51:55,439
Speaker 11: of it, and they have owned the Niners, and that's

947
00:51:55,520 --> 00:52:02,480
Speaker 11: just unfortunate as a Niner fan. Then Lebron and Brownie

948
00:52:02,520 --> 00:52:06,000
Speaker 11: turning down an invitation, we'll talk about that. Yeah, that's

949
00:52:07,040 --> 00:52:08,880
Speaker 11: what can I say. I think Popping nailed it.

950
00:52:08,960 --> 00:52:09,160
Speaker 6: Man.

951
00:52:09,200 --> 00:52:11,360
Speaker 11: You know you don't want to, you don't want to

952
00:52:11,400 --> 00:52:16,840
Speaker 11: show him up so anyway, but lamar man, you know

953
00:52:16,880 --> 00:52:23,120
Speaker 11: about turnovers, Bernie Killer, Yeah, it's just the league is

954
00:52:23,160 --> 00:52:26,200
Speaker 11: so even Bernie, that turnovers make the difference.

955
00:52:26,239 --> 00:52:27,080
Speaker 8: And you can go up.

956
00:52:26,960 --> 00:52:30,480
Speaker 11: And down every game, playoffs and everything else, turnovers will

957
00:52:30,520 --> 00:52:34,759
Speaker 11: make the difference. And as a longtime Raider fan love

958
00:52:34,880 --> 00:52:37,920
Speaker 11: Pete Carroll, I got one suggesting for him though, with

959
00:52:37,960 --> 00:52:40,560
Speaker 11: that offense, you better bring in Ethan Hunt or.

960
00:52:40,640 --> 00:52:41,200
Speaker 2: Be the OC.

961
00:52:41,680 --> 00:52:43,239
Speaker 6: Thanks Bernie, all.

962
00:52:43,200 --> 00:52:45,880
Speaker 2: Right, appreciate you checking in. We're off to a rousing

963
00:52:45,920 --> 00:52:49,840
Speaker 2: star Trevor and Oregon, Curtin California, Colin, Vegas. Don't go anywhere.

964
00:52:50,840 --> 00:52:53,560
Speaker 2: We're gonna get to all of you. Eight seven, seven, nine, nine,

965
00:52:53,680 --> 00:52:56,520
Speaker 2: six six three sixty nine Chiefs and the refs. They're

966
00:52:56,520 --> 00:52:59,680
Speaker 2: get in preferential treatment. Lebron and Brownie. Why would you

967
00:52:59,680 --> 00:53:02,000
Speaker 2: turn on an invitation to the All Star Game to

968
00:53:02,040 --> 00:53:07,200
Speaker 2: participate in skills challenge? Lamar Jackson not again, Mister October,

969
00:53:07,239 --> 00:53:09,840
Speaker 2: I love you, but you're killing me, killing me Smalls

970
00:53:10,320 --> 00:53:13,520
Speaker 2: and Pete Carroll. Yeah, he's going to establish the culture.

971
00:53:13,520 --> 00:53:16,520
Speaker 2: That's what I think. What do you think the Midnight

972
00:53:16,560 --> 00:53:19,439
Speaker 2: Hour will continue? I'm Bernie Friderworck coming to your line

973
00:53:19,440 --> 00:53:23,120
Speaker 2: from the Las Vegas Fox Sports Radio tyrerac dot com studios.

974
00:53:23,120 --> 00:53:25,080
Speaker 2: Don't go away, You're listening to the Bernie Frattle Show.

975
00:53:25,360 --> 00:53:26,520
Speaker 2: I'm Fox Sports Radio.

976
00:53:27,040 --> 00:53:29,960
Speaker 1: Fox Sports Radio has the best sports talk lineup in

977
00:53:30,000 --> 00:53:33,360
Speaker 1: the nation. Catch all of our shows at foxsports Radio

978
00:53:33,480 --> 00:53:37,600
Speaker 1: dot com and within the iHeartRadio app. Search FSR to

979
00:53:37,680 --> 00:53:38,360
Speaker 1: listen live.

980
00:53:39,920 --> 00:53:43,080
Speaker 2: All Right, the Midnight Hour is rolling along. Everybody's done

981
00:53:43,120 --> 00:53:46,080
Speaker 2: a great job so far. We've had a lot of callers.

982
00:53:46,120 --> 00:53:50,040
Speaker 2: We're gonna get to a lot more. You know the topics, yep?

983
00:53:50,280 --> 00:53:53,520
Speaker 2: Are the chiefs getting preferential treatment from the refs? Some

984
00:53:53,560 --> 00:53:57,920
Speaker 2: people think they are. How about that Lebron Broni turning

985
00:53:57,960 --> 00:54:02,000
Speaker 2: down the invite to participate in the All Star Game

986
00:54:03,680 --> 00:54:08,720
Speaker 2: skills contest? Lamar Jackson not again? And Pete Carroll thoughts

987
00:54:08,760 --> 00:54:11,759
Speaker 2: on the higher Let's go to Oregon. You see him

988
00:54:11,800 --> 00:54:14,399
Speaker 2: on Twitter as spox Weed. He also goes by Trevor. Hey,

989
00:54:14,400 --> 00:54:15,520
Speaker 2: welcome in, buddy. How are you.

990
00:54:16,600 --> 00:54:18,879
Speaker 9: I'm just doing really well. Bernie, how are you doing?

991
00:54:18,960 --> 00:54:21,120
Speaker 9: Long time no talk to for a bit.

992
00:54:21,200 --> 00:54:23,200
Speaker 2: That's right, man, you took a little time off from

993
00:54:23,200 --> 00:54:24,719
Speaker 2: the midnight hour, but you're back. What do you got

994
00:54:24,760 --> 00:54:25,360
Speaker 2: for us tonight?

995
00:54:25,480 --> 00:54:27,839
Speaker 9: Well, I have been listening, but I wanted to make

996
00:54:27,840 --> 00:54:30,400
Speaker 9: sure I had something to say. But you know, not

997
00:54:30,520 --> 00:54:34,040
Speaker 9: just waste your audience's time. And you know, I have

998
00:54:34,480 --> 00:54:38,200
Speaker 9: a number of original takes which you could just follow

999
00:54:38,239 --> 00:54:40,560
Speaker 9: what everybody else says. But I have a different take

1000
00:54:40,600 --> 00:54:43,240
Speaker 9: on a few things. And by the way, I'm drinking

1001
00:54:43,280 --> 00:54:50,520
Speaker 9: a delicious updrift IPA in case anybody cares. Okay, fair enough, however,

1002
00:54:50,800 --> 00:54:54,520
Speaker 9: so let's start with Let's start with Kansas City. Now

1003
00:54:54,840 --> 00:54:58,359
Speaker 9: everybody is getting on their case, but let me ask you.

1004
00:54:58,400 --> 00:55:00,560
Speaker 9: What color does Kansas City the wear?

1005
00:55:01,560 --> 00:55:01,880
Speaker 2: Red?

1006
00:55:02,760 --> 00:55:06,239
Speaker 9: Okay? What color does buffalo bills wear?

1007
00:55:07,520 --> 00:55:09,719
Speaker 2: Well, we're blue and red and white.

1008
00:55:09,840 --> 00:55:13,359
Speaker 9: Okay, So it's it's the Trump effect. We're gonna get

1009
00:55:13,480 --> 00:55:18,360
Speaker 9: calls for the chiefs because we're all going in on

1010
00:55:18,560 --> 00:55:23,080
Speaker 9: the new wave of you know, this has been.

1011
00:55:23,000 --> 00:55:25,520
Speaker 2: Going on since twenty twenty one.

1012
00:55:25,560 --> 00:55:29,359
Speaker 9: Well, I know everybody knows he's making a comeback. So

1013
00:55:29,640 --> 00:55:31,640
Speaker 9: you know, we're just the NFL is just getting ready

1014
00:55:32,400 --> 00:55:35,080
Speaker 9: and uh, you know, we're we're just making that happen.

1015
00:55:35,680 --> 00:55:38,160
Speaker 9: And so if the Chiefs get the calls, you know,

1016
00:55:38,239 --> 00:55:39,600
Speaker 9: it's it's it's Trump's fault.

1017
00:55:40,640 --> 00:55:44,080
Speaker 2: Okay, all right, I want to hear what you got

1018
00:55:44,200 --> 00:55:46,400
Speaker 2: to say about Brownie and why do you think they

1019
00:55:46,520 --> 00:55:48,280
Speaker 2: turned down such a plumb invitation?

1020
00:55:49,320 --> 00:55:52,800
Speaker 9: Okay, Well, the reason is is that Lebron is old

1021
00:55:53,440 --> 00:55:58,960
Speaker 9: and he cannot stand Brownie upstaging him in the skills competition.

1022
00:55:59,400 --> 00:56:01,359
Speaker 11: That's what problem for the old man.

1023
00:56:01,840 --> 00:56:04,520
Speaker 2: And Lebron says he can play five to seven more

1024
00:56:04,600 --> 00:56:06,680
Speaker 2: years and Brownie can't throw a pee in the ocean.

1025
00:56:06,960 --> 00:56:08,799
Speaker 2: How would Brownie up stage him?

1026
00:56:09,160 --> 00:56:11,799
Speaker 8: Yeah, it's well, it's it's it's just one of those

1027
00:56:11,800 --> 00:56:12,480
Speaker 8: secrets that.

1028
00:56:12,520 --> 00:56:14,880
Speaker 9: Lebron has and he doesn't want to be out shown,

1029
00:56:15,080 --> 00:56:17,799
Speaker 9: you know, by by his kid. And that's part of why,

1030
00:56:18,160 --> 00:56:20,560
Speaker 9: like Bonnie has been kind of playing average and stuff.

1031
00:56:20,880 --> 00:56:22,640
Speaker 9: These are all original takes by that.

1032
00:56:23,800 --> 00:56:24,799
Speaker 2: You're not kidding here, you go.

1033
00:56:24,840 --> 00:56:28,120
Speaker 9: God big helps with my tongue firmly in my cheek.

1034
00:56:28,160 --> 00:56:32,760
Speaker 2: By the way, of course, he's sandbagging sometimes. Uh, sometimes

1035
00:56:32,800 --> 00:56:35,719
Speaker 2: irony and sarcasm doesn't always come through. But you're you're

1036
00:56:35,760 --> 00:56:37,520
Speaker 2: doing pretty good, all right, keep going. I gotta want

1037
00:56:37,520 --> 00:56:38,600
Speaker 2: to get to the other calls, but I want to

1038
00:56:38,600 --> 00:56:40,040
Speaker 2: finish it up. What you what else you got?

1039
00:56:40,440 --> 00:56:40,759
Speaker 9: You bet?

1040
00:56:40,840 --> 00:56:41,000
Speaker 6: Sir?

1041
00:56:41,239 --> 00:56:44,200
Speaker 9: On a serious note, Pete Carroll. I love Pete Carroll.

1042
00:56:44,640 --> 00:56:48,600
Speaker 9: He's the Mathusela of coaching. And I didn't know that

1043
00:56:48,640 --> 00:56:51,239
Speaker 9: he'd be ever ever be biblical, but but there we are.

1044
00:56:52,880 --> 00:56:54,240
Speaker 9: He will change the culture.

1045
00:56:54,600 --> 00:56:55,920
Speaker 2: Yes, he will stable.

1046
00:56:56,120 --> 00:56:59,279
Speaker 9: He will stabilize the Raiders. I don't think he's going

1047
00:56:59,360 --> 00:57:03,000
Speaker 9: to have enough time. How do we define success for

1048
00:57:03,080 --> 00:57:07,200
Speaker 9: Pete Carroll. He's got to get a quarterback. He's he's

1049
00:57:07,200 --> 00:57:10,600
Speaker 9: got to deal with the owner. He's he's got himself

1050
00:57:10,640 --> 00:57:14,000
Speaker 9: a mess, and he's he's got to he's got to

1051
00:57:14,000 --> 00:57:16,360
Speaker 9: figure out how he's going to get the pieces in place.

1052
00:57:17,360 --> 00:57:21,360
Speaker 9: And if we have a definition of success, that is, hey,

1053
00:57:21,400 --> 00:57:23,800
Speaker 9: he's turned things around, but he hasn't gotten him up

1054
00:57:23,800 --> 00:57:26,800
Speaker 9: to there. I can I can see that. I know

1055
00:57:26,840 --> 00:57:29,480
Speaker 9: that people you'll love playing for him. I know that

1056
00:57:29,600 --> 00:57:33,400
Speaker 9: his people at USC and people over the league has

1057
00:57:33,960 --> 00:57:36,000
Speaker 9: you know, loved playing for Pete and I think he

1058
00:57:36,040 --> 00:57:39,480
Speaker 9: can make a real positive difference there. But I'm not

1059
00:57:39,520 --> 00:57:41,760
Speaker 9: sure how much time he's going to have to do it.

1060
00:57:41,960 --> 00:57:43,760
Speaker 2: Well, I think I think Tom Brady's going to give

1061
00:57:43,800 --> 00:57:45,680
Speaker 2: him the full three years they have to And uh,

1062
00:57:45,960 --> 00:57:50,720
Speaker 2: thanks a lot, Spock, good good stuff, buddy. Look, he's

1063
00:57:50,760 --> 00:57:52,840
Speaker 2: going to assemble his staff. They have ninety five million

1064
00:57:52,880 --> 00:57:55,600
Speaker 2: dollars in cap space. Let's see how they draft. They

1065
00:57:55,600 --> 00:57:58,320
Speaker 2: got the sixth draft and they got a backfilling a roster.

1066
00:57:58,800 --> 00:58:01,520
Speaker 2: But he's going to bring to Bill and establish a culture.

1067
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Speaker 2: Kurt in California, welcome back.

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Speaker 5: In How are you, hey Bert. It's always a pleasure

1069
00:58:06,560 --> 00:58:07,200
Speaker 5: to talk to you.

1070
00:58:07,920 --> 00:58:08,720
Speaker 8: Thanks, Carol.

1071
00:58:09,560 --> 00:58:12,920
Speaker 5: Yeah, I think it's a great hire, and for no

1072
00:58:13,040 --> 00:58:18,120
Speaker 5: other reason that he's probably one of the great halftime

1073
00:58:18,200 --> 00:58:19,400
Speaker 5: adjusting coaches.

1074
00:58:21,320 --> 00:58:23,760
Speaker 2: Well, he's seventy games over five hundred in his career.

1075
00:58:23,840 --> 00:58:25,840
Speaker 2: I mean he's won a lot of games. Yeah you did.

1076
00:58:26,480 --> 00:58:27,360
Speaker 2: That's a good point.

1077
00:58:27,560 --> 00:58:31,280
Speaker 5: And I really do think that they may go after

1078
00:58:31,400 --> 00:58:32,080
Speaker 5: Sam Donald.

1079
00:58:32,560 --> 00:58:37,960
Speaker 2: I'm wondering, Yes, Sam Donald, kirk Cousins, Russell Wilson, I

1080
00:58:38,000 --> 00:58:41,080
Speaker 2: won't even dismiss Aaron Rodgers. You got to have a

1081
00:58:41,080 --> 00:58:42,840
Speaker 2: bridge quarterback this year in my opinion.

1082
00:58:43,000 --> 00:58:44,640
Speaker 8: Fair did you know that?

1083
00:58:44,720 --> 00:58:45,040
Speaker 2: Yes?

1084
00:58:45,320 --> 00:58:47,800
Speaker 5: Did you know that? Sam Donald is only the twelfth

1085
00:58:47,880 --> 00:58:53,600
Speaker 5: quarterback in NFL history to win fourteen games in one season, and.

1086
00:58:53,720 --> 00:58:56,000
Speaker 6: Six of those quarterbacks.

1087
00:58:55,840 --> 00:58:59,240
Speaker 5: Are Hall of famers, so he can't play. And as

1088
00:58:59,240 --> 00:59:02,800
Speaker 5: for Holmes Spurn personally, I would really like to see

1089
00:59:03,840 --> 00:59:09,800
Speaker 5: Kansas City play Philadelphia. And here's why. That Philadelphia game

1090
00:59:09,920 --> 00:59:13,800
Speaker 5: when they lost by a field goal in that Super

1091
00:59:13,800 --> 00:59:18,440
Speaker 5: Bowl that they played Kansas City, that last pass interference

1092
00:59:19,360 --> 00:59:24,000
Speaker 5: Plexico Burris even said it that that ball was unketchable

1093
00:59:25,360 --> 00:59:28,000
Speaker 5: and they ended up getting a first down kicking the

1094
00:59:28,040 --> 00:59:31,240
Speaker 5: field goal and they won the game and the line

1095
00:59:31,400 --> 00:59:34,600
Speaker 5: was two and a half. The other thing I just

1096
00:59:34,640 --> 00:59:37,920
Speaker 5: wanted to make mention of real quick this week. Here's

1097
00:59:37,960 --> 00:59:40,720
Speaker 5: the wager that I would like to get on if

1098
00:59:40,760 --> 00:59:43,680
Speaker 5: I did that, if Kansas City goes down to one

1099
00:59:43,720 --> 00:59:46,720
Speaker 5: and a half, I would tease them up to four

1100
00:59:46,720 --> 00:59:50,200
Speaker 5: and a half, and I'd combine it with Philadelphia teasing

1101
00:59:50,240 --> 00:59:52,360
Speaker 5: them down to a half a point. What do you

1102
00:59:52,400 --> 00:59:53,600
Speaker 5: think about that, Well.

1103
00:59:53,600 --> 00:59:56,480
Speaker 2: Teasers are six or seven points, so to me, the

1104
00:59:57,000 --> 00:59:59,680
Speaker 2: most logical teaser. There's no teaser you can really pair

1105
00:59:59,720 --> 01:00:02,320
Speaker 2: with Ladelphia. You got you want to cross through three

1106
01:00:02,360 --> 01:00:05,000
Speaker 2: and seven? I think, what I what a lot of

1107
01:00:05,040 --> 01:00:07,240
Speaker 2: sharp guys I know here in Vegas, and I'm with it.

1108
01:00:08,080 --> 01:00:10,240
Speaker 2: Thanks a lot for the call, Kurd, Appreciate you, buddy.

1109
01:00:11,120 --> 01:00:14,000
Speaker 2: Is a money line parlay between Philly to win, which

1110
01:00:14,040 --> 01:00:15,920
Speaker 2: I believe they will. They're not going to turn the

1111
01:00:15,920 --> 01:00:18,320
Speaker 2: ball over five times like Detroit did last week. I

1112
01:00:18,320 --> 01:00:21,280
Speaker 2: love everything Washington's done, but it ends here. The thirtieth

1113
01:00:21,360 --> 01:00:23,320
Speaker 2: ranked run defense is going to catch up to them.

1114
01:00:23,440 --> 01:00:27,000
Speaker 2: I'm sorry, it just is and I for now I

1115
01:00:27,000 --> 01:00:30,240
Speaker 2: gotta stick with Kansas City. Buffalo's beating them three out

1116
01:00:30,240 --> 01:00:32,240
Speaker 2: of four in the regular season, Kansas City's won all

1117
01:00:32,240 --> 01:00:35,240
Speaker 2: three in the postseason. There's magic and narrowhead and and

1118
01:00:35,400 --> 01:00:37,560
Speaker 2: why get in front of that? Those are my thoughts,

1119
01:00:37,640 --> 01:00:41,040
Speaker 2: Kurt Kyle from right here in Vegas. Welcome in, buddy.

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Speaker 8: What's up? You need to be on the air like

1121
01:00:45,960 --> 01:00:48,640
Speaker 8: every day of the week, man, because I've been burning

1122
01:00:49,160 --> 01:00:54,720
Speaker 8: literally no pun intended for this very moment, this very moment.

1123
01:00:54,960 --> 01:00:57,640
Speaker 8: But let's start off with with the biggest elephant in

1124
01:00:57,680 --> 01:01:01,280
Speaker 8: the room. You know, call me and say, hey, Johnson, congratulations,

1125
01:01:01,280 --> 01:01:03,560
Speaker 8: you can have this time out back. All right, So

1126
01:01:03,920 --> 01:01:08,560
Speaker 8: we're happy, we're excited for Ben Johnson, Bear Johnson, however

1127
01:01:08,600 --> 01:01:11,760
Speaker 8: you want to call them, bear down Chicago. We adn't

1128
01:01:11,840 --> 01:01:14,840
Speaker 8: get it too over the edge. But we're nice and

1129
01:01:14,880 --> 01:01:18,320
Speaker 8: comfortable this season coming up, all right. That's the first thing.

1130
01:01:18,680 --> 01:01:22,760
Speaker 8: Second thing is, hey, listen, when you got venmo payments

1131
01:01:22,760 --> 01:01:25,760
Speaker 8: coming in and the rest is looking the other way,

1132
01:01:26,360 --> 01:01:30,200
Speaker 8: that's one thing. But hear me out though, Patrick Mahlmes

1133
01:01:29,720 --> 01:01:33,400
Speaker 8: I've seen this and and and a video breakdown the

1134
01:01:33,400 --> 01:01:36,880
Speaker 8: other day. Patrick Mahomes deliberately steps in front of the

1135
01:01:36,960 --> 01:01:41,600
Speaker 8: ref and the back judge to block their viewpoint so

1136
01:01:41,720 --> 01:01:46,080
Speaker 8: they cannot see what the defender is actually doing. I've

1137
01:01:46,080 --> 01:01:48,760
Speaker 8: seen this on a number of plays where he knows

1138
01:01:48,840 --> 01:01:51,240
Speaker 8: exactly where the ref and the back judge are at

1139
01:01:51,560 --> 01:01:54,000
Speaker 8: to step into a line of sight. So when he

1140
01:01:54,040 --> 01:01:56,760
Speaker 8: goes to get hit in a certain way, he can

1141
01:01:56,800 --> 01:02:02,720
Speaker 8: either flop it like Jane, you know, he can sell

1142
01:02:02,800 --> 01:02:05,560
Speaker 8: the play just a little bit longer to make it

1143
01:02:05,600 --> 01:02:09,560
Speaker 8: seem more manipulated on the defensive end. Okay, that's the

1144
01:02:09,600 --> 01:02:13,440
Speaker 8: first thing. And as far as the la Who family,

1145
01:02:13,760 --> 01:02:16,640
Speaker 8: we don't care. Okay, I'm gonna I'm gonna use the

1146
01:02:16,640 --> 01:02:17,280
Speaker 8: words of Stephen N.

1147
01:02:17,400 --> 01:02:17,640
Speaker 6: Smith.

1148
01:02:17,760 --> 01:02:21,320
Speaker 8: We don't care. That's just it. Nobody cares. Dude, get

1149
01:02:21,360 --> 01:02:25,160
Speaker 8: your time to shine your glory, to say everything's done

1150
01:02:25,160 --> 01:02:27,640
Speaker 8: and over with. We're done with you, dude. Just just

1151
01:02:28,080 --> 01:02:30,480
Speaker 8: oh man, take a seat somewhere. You almost as you're

1152
01:02:30,520 --> 01:02:32,360
Speaker 8: as old as I am, just a little bit older,

1153
01:02:32,640 --> 01:02:35,040
Speaker 8: but you know it. Take a seat somewhere, bro, have

1154
01:02:35,120 --> 01:02:39,640
Speaker 8: a seat. Pete Carroll, congratulations, you got a job. Hopefully

1155
01:02:39,640 --> 01:02:42,160
Speaker 8: we keep this one this time around and nothing crazy

1156
01:02:42,200 --> 01:02:44,720
Speaker 8: comes about. Keep it, keep every man in check, keep

1157
01:02:44,760 --> 01:02:47,400
Speaker 8: every man inlive, and you'll be doing just fine.

1158
01:02:47,440 --> 01:02:48,080
Speaker 6: Here in Vegas.

1159
01:02:48,120 --> 01:02:50,080
Speaker 8: We have no problem with welcome you to the city.

1160
01:02:50,120 --> 01:02:52,800
Speaker 8: We love you here. We'll accept you here your family.

1161
01:02:53,160 --> 01:02:53,880
Speaker 8: But I'm not.

1162
01:02:53,880 --> 01:02:54,360
Speaker 6: Rooting for you.

1163
01:02:54,440 --> 01:02:55,200
Speaker 8: I'm rooting against you.

1164
01:02:55,280 --> 01:02:55,480
Speaker 7: Brother.

1165
01:02:55,640 --> 01:02:59,560
Speaker 8: I hope that the Raiders lose every season. I don't care. Hey,

1166
01:03:00,640 --> 01:03:03,160
Speaker 8: And and just to go back full circle, my dude,

1167
01:03:03,880 --> 01:03:09,600
Speaker 8: h Lamar Jackson is not Hayden Manning whatsoever. I wish

1168
01:03:09,640 --> 01:03:11,200
Speaker 8: people would stop saying that he's.

1169
01:03:11,000 --> 01:03:12,200
Speaker 12: More like Joe el embiid.

1170
01:03:12,440 --> 01:03:14,680
Speaker 8: You can win an MVPs, but what have you done

1171
01:03:14,680 --> 01:03:17,080
Speaker 8: in the playoffs. Actually, that's that's it.

1172
01:03:17,320 --> 01:03:19,160
Speaker 2: Hang right there, Carle. You covered a lot of really

1173
01:03:19,200 --> 01:03:21,680
Speaker 2: good ground. And I like the way zigzag. I want

1174
01:03:21,720 --> 01:03:24,880
Speaker 2: to go back to the Mahomes thing because I look

1175
01:03:24,880 --> 01:03:27,680
Speaker 2: at it this way. It doesn't matter whether you get

1176
01:03:27,720 --> 01:03:30,560
Speaker 2: preferential treatment or even the data can easter if you're

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01:03:30,600 --> 01:03:33,000
Speaker 2: not good enough to take advantage of it. And you

1178
01:03:33,680 --> 01:03:37,040
Speaker 2: don't you don't have the savvy, the experience, the physical ability,

1179
01:03:37,080 --> 01:03:39,920
Speaker 2: the mental fortitude to take advantage of it. What does

1180
01:03:39,920 --> 01:03:42,200
Speaker 2: it matter? So I I walk on to what the

1181
01:03:42,240 --> 01:03:43,400
Speaker 2: chief here? You got the last.

1182
01:03:43,200 --> 01:03:46,760
Speaker 8: Word, So so I'll give you that. I'll give you that.

1183
01:03:47,120 --> 01:03:50,080
Speaker 8: And it is the exact point of what I was saying.

1184
01:03:50,240 --> 01:03:52,840
Speaker 8: He takes full advantage of it if you consent.

1185
01:03:53,000 --> 01:03:53,960
Speaker 4: Look look at.

1186
01:03:53,800 --> 01:03:56,000
Speaker 8: Look at James Harden when he did one year in

1187
01:03:56,040 --> 01:03:59,720
Speaker 8: the NBA. He literally settled settle many calls that they

1188
01:04:00,160 --> 01:04:03,600
Speaker 8: him up with a rule banning him from settling calls.

1189
01:04:03,880 --> 01:04:06,240
Speaker 8: So he can't get that treatment no more. If you

1190
01:04:06,360 --> 01:04:10,200
Speaker 8: want that type of treatment, you have to exploit the rules.

1191
01:04:10,320 --> 01:04:13,640
Speaker 8: He's exploiting the rules, he's exploiting the vision of the rest,

1192
01:04:13,880 --> 01:04:18,400
Speaker 8: He's exploiting every little detail that in the great area

1193
01:04:18,600 --> 01:04:21,080
Speaker 8: is there, But I do think some rule changes are

1194
01:04:21,080 --> 01:04:23,760
Speaker 8: coming that if you are a running quarterback and you

1195
01:04:23,800 --> 01:04:26,760
Speaker 8: give yourself up, you should be able to take a

1196
01:04:26,920 --> 01:04:29,760
Speaker 8: hit just like every other man on that field. That's

1197
01:04:29,800 --> 01:04:32,480
Speaker 8: just plain and simple. If Lamar Jackson's able to take it,

1198
01:04:32,560 --> 01:04:34,720
Speaker 8: Josh Allen's able to take it, you should be able

1199
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Speaker 8: to take it to him.

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01:04:35,440 --> 01:04:35,600
Speaker 3: Man.

1201
01:04:36,240 --> 01:04:39,360
Speaker 8: No hip drop backling, But I mean a good play

1202
01:04:39,440 --> 01:04:41,160
Speaker 8: on to the stomach of every now and then.

1203
01:04:41,840 --> 01:04:46,040
Speaker 2: Rob on top of you, you know, thank you brother,

1204
01:04:47,160 --> 01:04:49,640
Speaker 2: all right, buddy, good stuff, coleing Jury your weekend. Man,

1205
01:04:50,480 --> 01:04:53,520
Speaker 2: hold it down. Bill, Jacksonville is up next. Welcome in, Bill,

1206
01:04:53,560 --> 01:04:53,960
Speaker 2: How are you.

1207
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Speaker 6: How you're doing Bernie?

1208
01:04:56,120 --> 01:04:57,200
Speaker 2: Thank you? Good good.

1209
01:04:58,040 --> 01:04:59,920
Speaker 6: The main thing I want to see in these playoffs

1210
01:05:00,160 --> 01:05:04,280
Speaker 6: is Kansas City scoring one big play after another. Touchdown

1211
01:05:04,320 --> 01:05:08,360
Speaker 6: at Kelsey, touchdown at Kelsey, just five or six times

1212
01:05:08,360 --> 01:05:11,200
Speaker 6: the huge plays. For one reason, I want to see

1213
01:05:11,240 --> 01:05:14,880
Speaker 6: Caitton Clark and Taylor Swift hugging each other again. That

1214
01:05:15,080 --> 01:05:18,560
Speaker 6: was the most sensual thing I've seen in years. That

1215
01:05:18,720 --> 01:05:22,400
Speaker 6: saves me about one hundred dollars on my viagua. Unbelievable,

1216
01:05:22,800 --> 01:05:26,360
Speaker 6: those two hugging each other. It's fantastic. And that's what

1217
01:05:26,440 --> 01:05:27,440
Speaker 6: we're trying to figure.

1218
01:05:27,160 --> 01:05:29,760
Speaker 2: Out the connection there. How to hell did Caitlin Clark

1219
01:05:29,760 --> 01:05:31,840
Speaker 2: work are wing into the Kansas City chief And by

1220
01:05:31,880 --> 01:05:36,800
Speaker 2: the way, somebody out there in the ether reported one

1221
01:05:36,800 --> 01:05:38,640
Speaker 2: of the reasons that people are getting so sick of

1222
01:05:38,640 --> 01:05:42,240
Speaker 2: the Chiefs is because Travis Kelsey's overexposed. And now when

1223
01:05:42,280 --> 01:05:44,920
Speaker 2: you see Jason Kelcey on every other commercial and I

1224
01:05:44,920 --> 01:05:46,840
Speaker 2: he's got his own show on Friday Night, you don't

1225
01:05:46,840 --> 01:05:49,240
Speaker 2: think of the Eagles. You think of Kelsey and the Chiefs.

1226
01:05:49,640 --> 01:05:53,360
Speaker 2: So you're kind of underscoring a reason there, Bill, why

1227
01:05:53,440 --> 01:05:55,560
Speaker 2: I think people are hating on the Chiefs. But I

1228
01:05:56,360 --> 01:05:58,240
Speaker 2: want to kind of stick to topic here, big fellow,

1229
01:05:58,280 --> 01:06:00,680
Speaker 2: do you think they're getting preferential even with the risk?

1230
01:06:00,760 --> 01:06:02,560
Speaker 6: Want to see him hugging each other? Hugging?

1231
01:06:02,680 --> 01:06:06,280
Speaker 2: All right, man, appreciate you, Bill, rest easy down. Aaron

1232
01:06:06,360 --> 01:06:12,360
Speaker 2: Jacksonville uh Brock in Alberta, Canada. I believe you've called

1233
01:06:12,400 --> 01:06:12,760
Speaker 2: us before.

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01:06:12,840 --> 01:06:15,240
Speaker 8: Welcome back in, Hey, Bernie.

1235
01:06:15,280 --> 01:06:16,200
Speaker 3: How's it goal, my brother?

1236
01:06:16,760 --> 01:06:19,040
Speaker 2: Well, thank you, hey man.

1237
01:06:20,000 --> 01:06:23,000
Speaker 15: About the Kansas City Chiefs, you know, you know, I

1238
01:06:23,040 --> 01:06:25,800
Speaker 15: think when we see winning happening, and the Chiefs have

1239
01:06:26,040 --> 01:06:29,040
Speaker 15: now won three Super Bowls correct, and Patrick Mahomes right.

1240
01:06:29,320 --> 01:06:31,760
Speaker 2: Yes they have. They've won three of the last five.

1241
01:06:32,240 --> 01:06:34,920
Speaker 15: Yes, they've won three of the last five Super Bowls.

1242
01:06:34,960 --> 01:06:37,560
Speaker 15: And so I think when we see winners like them,

1243
01:06:37,600 --> 01:06:40,280
Speaker 15: we get tired of it. And I think, uh, you know,

1244
01:06:40,840 --> 01:06:43,480
Speaker 15: as great as Mahomes is, you know now that he's

1245
01:06:43,520 --> 01:06:45,400
Speaker 15: denied the flopping thing, I mean, how many times have

1246
01:06:45,440 --> 01:06:47,800
Speaker 15: we seen Lebron James do this in the NBA playoffs?

1247
01:06:47,800 --> 01:06:51,680
Speaker 2: And people are not one hundred and sixty exactly.

1248
01:06:51,760 --> 01:06:52,040
Speaker 6: Yeah.

1249
01:06:52,080 --> 01:06:54,320
Speaker 15: So, and another topic I was going to bring up was,

1250
01:06:54,640 --> 01:06:57,520
Speaker 15: you know you made you made the four midnight hour

1251
01:06:57,600 --> 01:06:58,360
Speaker 15: topics correct?

1252
01:06:58,720 --> 01:07:01,320
Speaker 2: And I you can add one. We call it the rant.

1253
01:07:01,360 --> 01:07:02,560
Speaker 2: You got something you want to ran on?

1254
01:07:03,800 --> 01:07:04,000
Speaker 6: Yeah?

1255
01:07:04,040 --> 01:07:06,080
Speaker 15: What the one thing I was gonna say. So, I

1256
01:07:06,120 --> 01:07:09,720
Speaker 15: was watching ESPN First Take the other day with mad

1257
01:07:09,720 --> 01:07:11,560
Speaker 15: Dog Christopher, mad Dog Russo.

1258
01:07:11,320 --> 01:07:11,720
Speaker 6: Stephen A.

1259
01:07:11,800 --> 01:07:15,360
Speaker 15: Smith, and Shannon Sharp, and they're debating a topic between

1260
01:07:16,160 --> 01:07:20,160
Speaker 15: the run between Lebron James's run of eight straight NBA

1261
01:07:20,240 --> 01:07:24,080
Speaker 15: Finals from twenty eleven to twenty eighteen and Patrick mahomes

1262
01:07:24,200 --> 01:07:28,640
Speaker 15: Is seven straight AFC Championship games from twenty eighteen to

1263
01:07:28,680 --> 01:07:31,560
Speaker 15: twenty twenty four, and only weigh in which run do

1264
01:07:31,640 --> 01:07:33,800
Speaker 15: you Which eight year run do you believe with more

1265
01:07:33,800 --> 01:07:35,600
Speaker 15: impresss between those two Lebron.

1266
01:07:35,360 --> 01:07:37,880
Speaker 2: I go with Mahomes. And it's a simple reason. The

1267
01:07:37,960 --> 01:07:43,479
Speaker 2: playoffs tournament is single elimination, whereas those are seven game

1268
01:07:43,600 --> 01:07:48,560
Speaker 2: series that you know, and that is a phenomenal accomplishment

1269
01:07:48,560 --> 01:07:51,360
Speaker 2: by Lebron taking Meathey away. But if I'm forced to

1270
01:07:51,360 --> 01:07:56,280
Speaker 2: pick between the two, Brock, I'm going with Mahomes because

1271
01:07:56,280 --> 01:07:58,880
Speaker 2: it's single elimination. Man, you could lose. It could come

1272
01:07:58,920 --> 01:08:01,320
Speaker 2: down to a kick, you could miss it wide right,

1273
01:08:01,560 --> 01:08:02,720
Speaker 2: and it's over folly.

1274
01:08:03,360 --> 01:08:05,479
Speaker 3: That's simple, fair enough.

1275
01:08:05,520 --> 01:08:08,080
Speaker 15: The one thing I would say that I give Lebron

1276
01:08:08,120 --> 01:08:10,280
Speaker 15: the edge, and I heard and Shannon Sharp did too,

1277
01:08:10,320 --> 01:08:13,000
Speaker 15: And this is my reasoning would be because Lebron did

1278
01:08:13,000 --> 01:08:15,640
Speaker 15: it in two different locations. He goes to Miami, he

1279
01:08:15,640 --> 01:08:18,040
Speaker 15: goes to fourth straight finals during the final four straight years,

1280
01:08:18,040 --> 01:08:20,080
Speaker 15: he comes back to Cleveland. You know, he went back

1281
01:08:20,120 --> 01:08:22,080
Speaker 15: to back championships. He comes back to Cleveland, they're in

1282
01:08:22,080 --> 01:08:23,919
Speaker 15: the finals, and now four years he gets another championship.

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01:08:24,080 --> 01:08:26,040
Speaker 15: And me and you both know, had Kevin Durant not

1284
01:08:26,160 --> 01:08:28,599
Speaker 15: joined the Golden State Warriors in twenty seventeen, I think

1285
01:08:28,680 --> 01:08:30,879
Speaker 15: Lebron's sitting on three more titles, won't you agree?

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01:08:31,080 --> 01:08:34,040
Speaker 2: I don't know. I don't know. In mind, Lebron left

1287
01:08:34,080 --> 01:08:36,200
Speaker 2: Cleveland to go to an All Star team in Miami.

1288
01:08:36,479 --> 01:08:39,400
Speaker 2: I know Magic didn't do that, Bird didn't do that,

1289
01:08:39,479 --> 01:08:41,680
Speaker 2: Jordan didn't do that. Lebron did that. This is a

1290
01:08:41,720 --> 01:08:42,400
Speaker 2: good discussion.

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01:08:42,479 --> 01:08:46,120
Speaker 15: But everywhere Lebron is gone, he's won fair.

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01:08:46,600 --> 01:08:51,280
Speaker 2: I grant you that. I will absolutely grant you that. Yeah,

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01:08:51,600 --> 01:08:53,120
Speaker 2: all right, but then why did him and le BRONI

1294
01:08:53,200 --> 01:08:55,520
Speaker 2: turn down the invite to the skills competition?

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01:08:56,160 --> 01:08:56,680
Speaker 8: Oh?

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01:08:57,200 --> 01:08:59,960
Speaker 5: Man, I I the reason why.

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01:09:00,040 --> 01:09:02,120
Speaker 15: I think they turned it down. Honestly, I never I

1298
01:09:02,160 --> 01:09:04,120
Speaker 15: didn't hear that until tonight. So I had really no

1299
01:09:04,240 --> 01:09:07,320
Speaker 15: idea about this until just now. But I would say,

1300
01:09:07,680 --> 01:09:09,639
Speaker 15: you know, probably just because they go all the way

1301
01:09:09,680 --> 01:09:12,680
Speaker 15: at the beginning of the season and now they're probably like,

1302
01:09:13,200 --> 01:09:14,840
Speaker 15: it's not so bright anymore.

1303
01:09:15,120 --> 01:09:18,639
Speaker 2: This guy never turns down the spotlight. He's never gonna retire.

1304
01:09:19,280 --> 01:09:22,080
Speaker 2: He I mean, he's got the Bobby Knight syndrome. I'm

1305
01:09:22,080 --> 01:09:25,720
Speaker 2: talking about Lebron. Now. He knows damn well that if

1306
01:09:25,720 --> 01:09:29,280
Speaker 2: he quits someday, I'm telling you, he's gonna miss the spotlight.

1307
01:09:29,320 --> 01:09:30,840
Speaker 2: I hell of a lot more in the spotlight. It's

1308
01:09:30,840 --> 01:09:35,160
Speaker 2: gonna miss him. I'll give him his accolades, and he's

1309
01:09:35,200 --> 01:09:38,280
Speaker 2: won championships and he's broken every scoring record he's been

1310
01:09:38,320 --> 01:09:40,559
Speaker 2: in the league thirty seven years. I've had it with

1311
01:09:40,600 --> 01:09:43,760
Speaker 2: the guy. But here's a chance. You wanted the spotlight

1312
01:09:43,800 --> 01:09:47,480
Speaker 2: with your son in this manufactured event back in November,

1313
01:09:47,760 --> 01:09:49,559
Speaker 2: and now you're gonna have it again. But you're turning

1314
01:09:49,560 --> 01:09:51,559
Speaker 2: it down. And I know why, but you know I

1315
01:09:51,560 --> 01:09:53,559
Speaker 2: don't want to. You got the last word. Go ahead,

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01:09:53,560 --> 01:09:55,920
Speaker 2: Brock what okay? What?

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01:09:57,200 --> 01:09:57,400
Speaker 6: Why?

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01:09:57,600 --> 01:10:00,639
Speaker 15: Reason why they probably turned it down?

1319
01:10:00,960 --> 01:10:04,320
Speaker 8: You know what I think it really is is because you.

1320
01:10:04,280 --> 01:10:07,000
Speaker 15: Know what happened in the twenty twelve All Far Game.

1321
01:10:07,360 --> 01:10:10,719
Speaker 15: Lebron kicked out the ball into the corner of Carmelo

1322
01:10:10,840 --> 01:10:14,320
Speaker 15: Anthony because Kobe was guarding him, he had the pressure

1323
01:10:14,360 --> 01:10:16,200
Speaker 15: on him, and I think that's why he doesn't want

1324
01:10:16,280 --> 01:10:17,599
Speaker 15: him in the fun to get embarrassed at the All

1325
01:10:17,600 --> 01:10:17,960
Speaker 15: Star Game.

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01:10:18,000 --> 01:10:20,719
Speaker 2: That's what I there, you go, it's exactly the reason.

1327
01:10:20,760 --> 01:10:23,000
Speaker 2: What do you think about I think you're one thousand

1328
01:10:23,080 --> 01:10:26,799
Speaker 2: percent correct. Sometimes it's an inconvenient truth, isn't it. Lebron?

1329
01:10:26,960 --> 01:10:30,280
Speaker 2: Deep down nose. Damn well it. Sam's not an NBA player,

1330
01:10:30,680 --> 01:10:33,200
Speaker 2: But listen, there's an unwritten rule when you play in

1331
01:10:33,200 --> 01:10:35,160
Speaker 2: the league thirty seven years and you made the rate

1332
01:10:35,560 --> 01:10:38,640
Speaker 2: the Lakers a bazillion dollars and got them a championship

1333
01:10:38,640 --> 01:10:41,920
Speaker 2: even though it was in the bubble. You have some

1334
01:10:42,080 --> 01:10:46,360
Speaker 2: political capital, and I got no problem with him exercising

1335
01:10:46,400 --> 01:10:50,919
Speaker 2: his power. People with power in this country typically exercise it.

1336
01:10:50,920 --> 01:10:54,000
Speaker 2: It's their right. Lebron earned that right to call in

1337
01:10:54,040 --> 01:10:56,120
Speaker 2: a chip, and I think the Lakers are happy to

1338
01:10:56,160 --> 01:10:58,880
Speaker 2: do it. But let's make no mistake. It was manufactured.

1339
01:10:59,080 --> 01:11:04,559
Speaker 2: This was not King and Ken Griffy Sr. Fernando here

1340
01:11:04,680 --> 01:11:07,679
Speaker 2: in Las Vegas. You are up next. What's happened in Fernando?

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01:11:08,479 --> 01:11:10,760
Speaker 14: Hey, what's going on? Bernie? I think the Lions just

1342
01:11:10,800 --> 01:11:13,200
Speaker 14: gave another touchdown right now?

1343
01:11:13,640 --> 01:11:15,880
Speaker 2: Well, they had to. You know what I gotta tell you.

1344
01:11:17,080 --> 01:11:20,040
Speaker 2: I'm gonna get hang on the line. Its lips and

1345
01:11:20,800 --> 01:11:24,479
Speaker 2: facts is facts, right, facts as facts. But I will

1346
01:11:24,520 --> 01:11:28,000
Speaker 2: tell you this that the Lions lost one hundred and

1347
01:11:28,000 --> 01:11:32,200
Speaker 2: fifty eight man games this year in the NFL to

1348
01:11:32,240 --> 01:11:35,759
Speaker 2: their injuries, and the only other teams that lost almost

1349
01:11:35,760 --> 01:11:40,280
Speaker 2: that many were the Raiders, the Saints, the Panthers, teams

1350
01:11:40,280 --> 01:11:43,160
Speaker 2: that didn't even come close. So you're not wrong. Go ahead, buddy,

1351
01:11:43,280 --> 01:11:44,880
Speaker 2: we're going off top of let's sear what you got

1352
01:11:44,880 --> 01:11:45,880
Speaker 2: to say about the other stuff.

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01:11:46,320 --> 01:11:50,880
Speaker 14: Okay, yeah, Casey Chiefs. Yeah, they do get some calls.

1354
01:11:50,600 --> 01:11:51,320
Speaker 8: During the games.

1355
01:11:51,640 --> 01:11:55,600
Speaker 3: I agree with that. And then with with Lebonn and Bonnie,

1356
01:11:55,920 --> 01:11:56,760
Speaker 3: I think they want to.

1357
01:11:57,160 --> 01:12:00,920
Speaker 14: Avoid the media questions. They'll be bombard the questions left

1358
01:12:00,960 --> 01:12:04,720
Speaker 14: and the right. And now the AFC West is now

1359
01:12:04,840 --> 01:12:09,840
Speaker 14: the Senior Citizens of Coaches Division. You got Pete Carroll

1360
01:12:09,920 --> 01:12:14,160
Speaker 14: seventy three and you Reid seventy. Harbor's with Harbor sixty

1361
01:12:14,240 --> 01:12:17,120
Speaker 14: seven and Sean pagne Any.

1362
01:12:16,960 --> 01:12:19,920
Speaker 2: Reid's actually sixty six. But to your points taken. But

1363
01:12:20,360 --> 01:12:22,479
Speaker 2: Pete Carroll won a Super Bowl, been to two of

1364
01:12:22,520 --> 01:12:26,120
Speaker 2: Mandy Reid won three Super Bowls. Harbaugh ironically the only

1365
01:12:26,160 --> 01:12:28,240
Speaker 2: coach in the division never won a Super Bowl. Sean

1366
01:12:28,280 --> 01:12:30,760
Speaker 2: Payton won one. So there's a lot of good accolades there,

1367
01:12:30,800 --> 01:12:31,480
Speaker 2: my friend.

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01:12:31,760 --> 01:12:34,400
Speaker 14: Yeah, there is, and you know, you know, we have

1369
01:12:34,479 --> 01:12:36,960
Speaker 14: the experience of everything. But with Carol, it's not going

1370
01:12:37,040 --> 01:12:40,479
Speaker 14: to work. They'll win five games, they'll win six games

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01:12:40,520 --> 01:12:42,680
Speaker 14: the second year, the third game. The third season, they'll

1372
01:12:42,680 --> 01:12:45,320
Speaker 14: win seven. They won't make the playoffs. They won't even

1373
01:12:45,400 --> 01:12:46,920
Speaker 14: sniff the playoffs at all.

1374
01:12:47,760 --> 01:12:51,360
Speaker 2: Anyway, Well, that's entirely possible, Fernando, because right now is

1375
01:12:51,400 --> 01:12:54,680
Speaker 2: the roster is constructed, it ain't great, is it? And

1376
01:12:54,720 --> 01:12:57,280
Speaker 2: they need a quarterback, don't they. You haven't answered whether

1377
01:12:57,360 --> 01:12:59,360
Speaker 2: or not you thought the Chiefs are getting referential treatment.

1378
01:13:00,120 --> 01:13:03,400
Speaker 14: Oh, yes they do. And the Faders will never win

1379
01:13:03,439 --> 01:13:04,000
Speaker 14: the Super Bowl?

1380
01:13:07,720 --> 01:13:09,719
Speaker 2: All right? Good stuff. Man. By the way, the Lions

1381
01:13:09,800 --> 01:13:11,400
Speaker 2: just came up a field goal what we were talking to,

1382
01:13:11,560 --> 01:13:14,599
Speaker 2: so there, so there's that. All right, good stuff, Fernando

1383
01:13:14,680 --> 01:13:18,240
Speaker 2: eight seven seven in nine nine six six three sixty nine.

1384
01:13:18,240 --> 01:13:20,160
Speaker 2: We're not done with him in at alert. We still

1385
01:13:20,160 --> 01:13:21,400
Speaker 2: want to hear from more of you. The color has

1386
01:13:21,439 --> 01:13:25,400
Speaker 2: been fantastic, but we want to hear from more of you. Okay.

1387
01:13:26,280 --> 01:13:31,960
Speaker 2: Are the Chiefs getting preferential treatment with the refs? Holmes

1388
01:13:32,000 --> 01:13:34,040
Speaker 2: doesn't think so. But there's some date out there that

1389
01:13:34,160 --> 01:13:38,000
Speaker 2: might suggest that. Why did Bronni and Lebron turn down

1390
01:13:38,040 --> 01:13:43,839
Speaker 2: an opportunity to participate in the skills competition at the

1391
01:13:43,920 --> 01:13:47,439
Speaker 2: NBA All Star Game? Will Pete Carroll work and look,

1392
01:13:47,560 --> 01:13:50,200
Speaker 2: I think the world of Lamar Jackson. He just doesn't win.

1393
01:13:50,600 --> 01:13:53,040
Speaker 2: In the January he did it again, and I have

1394
01:13:53,080 --> 01:13:55,360
Speaker 2: my theories. Well maybe I'll get to that in just

1395
01:13:55,400 --> 01:13:58,479
Speaker 2: a minute. And by the way, not for nothing, I

1396
01:13:58,520 --> 01:14:02,679
Speaker 2: want to clean something up ever so quickly. Our earlier guest,

1397
01:14:02,760 --> 01:14:05,880
Speaker 2: Jason Herscharm, we talked about the coaching tree, and you know,

1398
01:14:05,960 --> 01:14:08,960
Speaker 2: Mike McCarthy's down to one team. Everybody thought he was

1399
01:14:09,000 --> 01:14:14,280
Speaker 2: so sought after, not so much. You know, the Bears passed,

1400
01:14:14,560 --> 01:14:18,960
Speaker 2: they went ahead and grabbed Ben Johnson, obviously, the Jets passed,

1401
01:14:18,960 --> 01:14:22,719
Speaker 2: They grabbed Darren Glenn Jacksonville passed, they got Liam Cohen.

1402
01:14:23,000 --> 01:14:26,880
Speaker 2: That leaves the Saints. Now if the Bills win, it

1403
01:14:26,960 --> 01:14:31,559
Speaker 2: complicates things because Joe Brady cannot complete a second interview.

1404
01:14:31,680 --> 01:14:34,959
Speaker 2: He's the offensive coordinator for the Bills until the conclusion

1405
01:14:35,000 --> 01:14:38,599
Speaker 2: of the AFC Championship Game, which wud be played Sunday night. Okay,

1406
01:14:39,640 --> 01:14:43,280
Speaker 2: but if I got to tell you, the more you

1407
01:14:43,320 --> 01:14:49,280
Speaker 2: think about it, if if the Saints were to hire

1408
01:14:49,360 --> 01:14:52,720
Speaker 2: Joe Brady and he had a virtual interview on that

1409
01:14:52,880 --> 01:14:55,960
Speaker 2: January seventeenth, he has a lot of times in the

1410
01:14:56,000 --> 01:15:00,160
Speaker 2: state of Louisiana. He started his NFL career. There is

1411
01:15:00,200 --> 01:15:03,479
Speaker 2: an insistent back in twenty seventeen. Then he went to

1412
01:15:03,640 --> 01:15:07,679
Speaker 2: LSU as our passing game coordinator during that national championship season.

1413
01:15:07,720 --> 01:15:10,320
Speaker 2: He's thirty five years old and the Bills had the

1414
01:15:10,400 --> 01:15:12,800
Speaker 2: number two scoring offense this year, averaging twenty nine and

1415
01:15:12,840 --> 01:15:15,680
Speaker 2: a half points per game. And you told us they

1416
01:15:15,680 --> 01:15:18,160
Speaker 2: wouldn't be as good without Stefan Diggs. Not so much.

1417
01:15:18,400 --> 01:15:21,519
Speaker 2: Coming up, we continue with the Midnight Hour eight seven

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Speaker 2: seven nine ninety six six three six nine. I'm Bernie

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Speaker 2: fradderwer Comany line from Las Vegas, Fox Sports Radio Tireck

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Speaker 2: dot com studios. Keep it locked. You're listening to the

1421
01:15:29,800 --> 01:15:32,800
Speaker 2: Bernie Fradle Show on Fox Sports Radio. I'll wrap it

1422
01:15:32,920 --> 01:15:34,640
Speaker 2: up by the midnight hour. Last chance to get in

1423
01:15:34,680 --> 01:15:38,000
Speaker 2: eight seven seven nine nine six six three six ' nine.

1424
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1431
01:16:02,280 --> 01:16:04,240
Speaker 2: might tick off a few Chiefs fans, but I want

1432
01:16:04,240 --> 01:16:07,080
Speaker 2: to maintain my objectivity here. For the record, I respect

1433
01:16:07,120 --> 01:16:09,280
Speaker 2: the hell out of what the Chiefs are doing. People

1434
01:16:09,280 --> 01:16:12,120
Speaker 2: complain about the refs. It's the old poker joke, right,

1435
01:16:12,200 --> 01:16:16,479
Speaker 2: Losers tell jokes, or you know, winners tell jokes. Losers

1436
01:16:16,520 --> 01:16:19,120
Speaker 2: say shut up and deal. Well, look, the bottom line

1437
01:16:19,160 --> 01:16:22,080
Speaker 2: is this. The Chiefs win. That rankles some people. They

1438
01:16:22,080 --> 01:16:25,640
Speaker 2: continue to win. We've got a bonus whoever comes out

1439
01:16:25,680 --> 01:16:28,320
Speaker 2: of the AFC this year. The Bills might get their

1440
01:16:28,320 --> 01:16:30,760
Speaker 2: first ever Super Bowl, which would be fabulous. The Chiefs

1441
01:16:30,840 --> 01:16:33,320
Speaker 2: might three peak, which is also fabulous. Either way. To

1442
01:16:33,439 --> 01:16:35,719
Speaker 2: see it, we're getting history. But I want to delve

1443
01:16:35,760 --> 01:16:38,880
Speaker 2: back in ever so quickly to some additional data here

1444
01:16:39,320 --> 01:16:43,360
Speaker 2: that implies the Chiefs may be getting some preferential treatment.

1445
01:16:43,400 --> 01:16:46,200
Speaker 2: I already talked about the postseason and then the ten

1446
01:16:46,200 --> 01:16:50,200
Speaker 2: to eleven postseason games. How the Chiefs. You know, in

1447
01:16:50,360 --> 01:16:54,519
Speaker 2: those postseason games, zero games they had more penalties. Of

1448
01:16:54,560 --> 01:16:58,200
Speaker 2: those eleven games, only one game they had more penalty yardage.

1449
01:16:58,240 --> 01:17:01,320
Speaker 2: That's it. So here's here. This is sort of an

1450
01:17:01,360 --> 01:17:06,519
Speaker 2: angle you cannot deny the Chiefs are well coached, they're out,

1451
01:17:06,560 --> 01:17:10,960
Speaker 2: they're an outstanding group. And credit Warren Sharp for some

1452
01:17:11,000 --> 01:17:16,519
Speaker 2: of this research here. But if this was not preferential treatment,

1453
01:17:16,560 --> 01:17:19,320
Speaker 2: then why doesn't happen during the regular season. See? Because

1454
01:17:19,360 --> 01:17:22,160
Speaker 2: during their regular season and since twenty twenty one, which

1455
01:17:22,240 --> 01:17:25,080
Speaker 2: is the period we're talking about, there have been sixty

1456
01:17:25,120 --> 01:17:28,519
Speaker 2: six games, and in thirty seven percent of those games,

1457
01:17:28,520 --> 01:17:30,920
Speaker 2: thirty nine percent of those games, the Chiefs had less

1458
01:17:30,920 --> 01:17:34,640
Speaker 2: penalty yardage. But in the playoffs ninety one percent of

1459
01:17:34,680 --> 01:17:37,599
Speaker 2: the time they have less penalty yardage. In the regular season,

1460
01:17:38,000 --> 01:17:41,600
Speaker 2: out of sixty one games, the Chiefs had fewer penalties

1461
01:17:41,640 --> 01:17:44,559
Speaker 2: only fifty three percent of the time. They had fewer

1462
01:17:44,600 --> 01:17:47,599
Speaker 2: penalties in the playoffs ninety one percent of the time.

1463
01:17:47,640 --> 01:17:49,599
Speaker 2: I oh, by the way, the Chiefs ten and one

1464
01:17:49,640 --> 01:17:52,400
Speaker 2: of those playoff games, including the two Super Bowl wins,

1465
01:17:52,760 --> 01:17:57,280
Speaker 2: and they're on their way to potential three p In total,

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01:17:57,320 --> 01:18:00,160
Speaker 2: the Chiefs thirty six penalties, and those eleven games, their

1467
01:18:00,160 --> 01:18:04,280
Speaker 2: opponents have sixty six. That's thirty more penalties, two hundred

1468
01:18:04,280 --> 01:18:07,479
Speaker 2: and twenty five more penalty yards. You can't deny that.

1469
01:18:07,560 --> 01:18:11,040
Speaker 2: And by the way, most of these penalties are judgment calls,

1470
01:18:11,760 --> 01:18:14,479
Speaker 2: not like things like delay a game or out of

1471
01:18:14,560 --> 01:18:17,960
Speaker 2: bounds or off sides that are obvious. We're talking about

1472
01:18:18,040 --> 01:18:24,360
Speaker 2: defensive pass interference penalties, roughing the passer penalties, unnecessary roughness penalties.

1473
01:18:24,840 --> 01:18:28,080
Speaker 2: Only one of those called in eleven games on the

1474
01:18:28,160 --> 01:18:31,240
Speaker 2: chief four of their opponents. Only one roughing the pastor

1475
01:18:31,320 --> 01:18:35,000
Speaker 2: called on the Chiefs seven on their opponents. Only three

1476
01:18:35,200 --> 01:18:40,280
Speaker 2: defensive pass interference plays called on the Chiefs, eleven defensive

1477
01:18:40,280 --> 01:18:44,960
Speaker 2: passing interference plays called on their opponents. So when you

1478
01:18:45,000 --> 01:18:49,400
Speaker 2: look at a penalty advantage, yes, I realized it's eleven games,

1479
01:18:49,680 --> 01:18:52,920
Speaker 2: but it's a distinct difference between the postseason and the

1480
01:18:52,960 --> 01:18:56,360
Speaker 2: regular season. Again, am I making excuses? No, I'm not

1481
01:18:56,720 --> 01:19:00,120
Speaker 2: give the Chiefs top credit. Coming up, we analyze what

1482
01:19:00,160 --> 01:19:02,960
Speaker 2: happened last week and looking ahead to this Sunday. It's

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Speaker 2: the Bernie Fraddle Show Fox Sports Radio. You don't listening

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Speaker 2: know Saturday football for the first time since August, but

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01:20:04,400 --> 01:20:07,439
Speaker 2: we have a hell of a doozy doubleheader Sunday. And

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01:20:07,479 --> 01:20:10,240
Speaker 2: as we get into the Saturday version of The Bernie

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Speaker 2: Frauder Show, I'll dive more into those specific matchups. Spoiler alert. Okay,

1504
01:20:17,280 --> 01:20:19,400
Speaker 2: I believe both the eg I believe both home teams

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01:20:19,400 --> 01:20:23,360
Speaker 2: will prevail. Hold that fot. But one of the things

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01:20:23,400 --> 01:20:26,840
Speaker 2: I like to do, if you've heard my shows over

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01:20:26,880 --> 01:20:30,040
Speaker 2: the course of the football season, is before we look

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01:20:30,080 --> 01:20:34,559
Speaker 2: ahead to these matchups, I like to look back ever

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01:20:34,640 --> 01:20:38,559
Speaker 2: so quickly to sort of Highlight and Nanitate, the key

1510
01:20:38,600 --> 01:20:42,400
Speaker 2: takeaways and the analysis from the divisional round, which is

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01:20:42,479 --> 01:20:44,719
Speaker 2: very impactful. So I want to start with the Chiefs

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01:20:45,120 --> 01:20:49,040
Speaker 2: who beat the Texans twenty three to fourteen, and hum,

1513
01:20:49,240 --> 01:20:52,120
Speaker 2: nothing new to see here. The Chiefs are still inevitable.

1514
01:20:52,800 --> 01:20:57,280
Speaker 2: They just simply are. They're home. It's January. You really

1515
01:20:57,280 --> 01:20:59,000
Speaker 2: better bring your a game if you want to have

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01:20:59,080 --> 01:21:03,000
Speaker 2: a chance. Now, I give the Texans credit. They're gritty,

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01:21:03,040 --> 01:21:06,000
Speaker 2: they're gutty. They made a game of it. They tried

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01:21:06,040 --> 01:21:08,840
Speaker 2: their best to make it look like they could potentially

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01:21:08,880 --> 01:21:12,240
Speaker 2: be an upset until late in the fourth quarter. Se Yes'

1520
01:21:12,320 --> 01:21:14,479
Speaker 2: never enough. In Kansas City, you got to play all

1521
01:21:14,479 --> 01:21:18,839
Speaker 2: fourth quarters, all four quarters because that's where the Chiefs live. Man,

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01:21:19,000 --> 01:21:23,639
Speaker 2: That's what their DNA is. That's what the Chiefs do now.

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01:21:24,280 --> 01:21:28,880
Speaker 2: The great Nolan Ryan, the legend Nolan Ryan, once said

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01:21:28,880 --> 01:21:32,800
Speaker 2: the mark of a great pitcher was that you can

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01:21:32,840 --> 01:21:34,880
Speaker 2: beat teams even if you don't have your best stuff

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01:21:34,880 --> 01:21:36,840
Speaker 2: that day. The Chiefs didn't have their best stuff that day.

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01:21:37,360 --> 01:21:41,080
Speaker 2: You cannot say they were particularly great on either side

1528
01:21:41,080 --> 01:21:43,800
Speaker 2: of the ball. There's still the two downed defending champs,

1529
01:21:43,840 --> 01:21:47,320
Speaker 2: but last weekend they were not great on either side

1530
01:21:47,320 --> 01:21:49,960
Speaker 2: of the ball, but, as is often the case with

1531
01:21:50,000 --> 01:21:54,360
Speaker 2: the Kansas City Chiefs, didn't matter. Houston became the first

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01:21:54,600 --> 01:21:59,680
Speaker 2: team in playoff history to lose despite out gaining their

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01:21:59,720 --> 01:22:03,040
Speaker 2: appon by more than one hundred yards and they didn't

1534
01:22:03,080 --> 01:22:07,360
Speaker 2: commit a turnover. Did you hear that? The Houston Texans,

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01:22:07,800 --> 01:22:12,000
Speaker 2: without their top two receivers and a broken down offensive

1536
01:22:12,040 --> 01:22:16,400
Speaker 2: line outgained the Chiefs by one hundred yards last Saturday

1537
01:22:16,439 --> 01:22:18,920
Speaker 2: and didn't commit a turnover. And for some reason, their

1538
01:22:19,720 --> 01:22:23,439
Speaker 2: offensive coordinator Bobby Slowick, who was considered hot property, wasn't

1539
01:22:23,479 --> 01:22:25,880
Speaker 2: quite Ben Johnson last year or two years ago, but

1540
01:22:25,960 --> 01:22:27,639
Speaker 2: he was mentioned in that ILK All of a sudden,

1541
01:22:27,640 --> 01:22:29,720
Speaker 2: he's out of a job now. I don't know why

1542
01:22:29,800 --> 01:22:33,000
Speaker 2: Dimiko Ryans fired him. I'm looking to look. I'm curious.

1543
01:22:33,600 --> 01:22:36,200
Speaker 2: I'm gonna say it one more time. And Bobby Slowank's

1544
01:22:36,240 --> 01:22:39,439
Speaker 2: final game without their top two receivers, they outgamed the

1545
01:22:39,520 --> 01:22:41,639
Speaker 2: Chiefs by more than a hundred yards, didn't commit a turnover.

1546
01:22:41,720 --> 01:22:46,240
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, and Kansas City won. Kansas City will need

1547
01:22:46,479 --> 01:22:50,599
Speaker 2: a much better effort against Buffalo Sunday three thirty Pacific,

1548
01:22:50,680 --> 01:22:53,360
Speaker 2: six thirty Eastern if they want to advance to the

1549
01:22:53,360 --> 01:22:57,519
Speaker 2: Super Bowl based on what you can observe. As Yogi

1550
01:22:57,520 --> 01:22:59,200
Speaker 2: bearer would see, you can observe a lot by watching

1551
01:22:59,240 --> 01:23:03,040
Speaker 2: and trust mis tell me a lot. If this were

1552
01:23:03,479 --> 01:23:06,799
Speaker 2: a market line, the Chiefs would probably be an underdog,

1553
01:23:07,240 --> 01:23:09,800
Speaker 2: all right, But you can't give the Chiefs points at

1554
01:23:09,800 --> 01:23:13,519
Speaker 2: home for crying out loud in the FC Championship game.

1555
01:23:13,560 --> 01:23:19,200
Speaker 2: And they've been this this is where they live. Okay. Oh,

1556
01:23:19,280 --> 01:23:21,479
Speaker 2: by the way I make him, it sound like the

1557
01:23:21,560 --> 01:23:25,680
Speaker 2: Chiefs got some major problem. I wouldn't say that. Guess what.

1558
01:23:25,760 --> 01:23:29,920
Speaker 2: Guess who's back? Forget calling him Travis Kelcey, call him

1559
01:23:29,920 --> 01:23:34,600
Speaker 2: playoff Kelsey. They've been waiting for this. I kind of

1560
01:23:34,720 --> 01:23:36,840
Speaker 2: since this was coming. He was by this time playing

1561
01:23:36,880 --> 01:23:39,200
Speaker 2: with his food. He didn't have a bad year, but

1562
01:23:39,240 --> 01:23:41,320
Speaker 2: he didn't have a huge year. But they know, listen,

1563
01:23:41,320 --> 01:23:43,080
Speaker 2: when you play that many games the last couple of

1564
01:23:43,120 --> 01:23:45,400
Speaker 2: years and the pressure of the Chiefs have had, they

1565
01:23:45,439 --> 01:23:48,800
Speaker 2: got people rooting against him. Even Dimiko ryans. He implied,

1566
01:23:50,240 --> 01:23:52,559
Speaker 2: come on, let's be that the refs were against him.

1567
01:23:52,560 --> 01:23:56,120
Speaker 2: The old world's against the play. Everybody translation that we

1568
01:23:56,120 --> 01:23:59,280
Speaker 2: had to go against the refs. Well, there may there

1569
01:23:59,320 --> 01:24:02,479
Speaker 2: may be some data there. That suggests that you got

1570
01:24:02,479 --> 01:24:04,160
Speaker 2: a couple of calls you didn't like, But that's not

1571
01:24:04,200 --> 01:24:06,680
Speaker 2: why he lost the game. Didn't help, I get it.

1572
01:24:07,040 --> 01:24:09,840
Speaker 2: How about Travis kelce One of the biggest factors in

1573
01:24:09,880 --> 01:24:13,640
Speaker 2: the Chiefs consistency over the last several years is that

1574
01:24:13,680 --> 01:24:16,280
Speaker 2: when he gets to the playoffs, he takes his game

1575
01:24:16,320 --> 01:24:20,960
Speaker 2: to another level. Second straight year in which Travis kelcey, oh,

1576
01:24:21,000 --> 01:24:24,439
Speaker 2: by the way, he'll be a Hall of Famer. You

1577
01:24:24,439 --> 01:24:27,280
Speaker 2: know you can market a spot right now. I'm talking

1578
01:24:27,280 --> 01:24:30,880
Speaker 2: about the second straight regular season in which pundits came

1579
01:24:30,920 --> 01:24:34,719
Speaker 2: out right and left saying he's finally slowing down. Age

1580
01:24:34,760 --> 01:24:38,200
Speaker 2: is finally catching up with him. Yet Kelsey finished the

1581
01:24:38,200 --> 01:24:41,519
Speaker 2: regular season, yes, with a career low eight hundred and

1582
01:24:41,560 --> 01:24:44,240
Speaker 2: twenty three yards and only three touchdowns, even though he

1583
01:24:44,360 --> 01:24:47,800
Speaker 2: was targeted more than anybody on the team one hundred

1584
01:24:47,800 --> 01:24:51,200
Speaker 2: and thirty three targets. However, this is what you call

1585
01:24:51,400 --> 01:24:55,519
Speaker 2: veteran savvy. Yes, you can say he coasted a little

1586
01:24:55,520 --> 01:24:59,040
Speaker 2: through the regular season by his time, saved his energy

1587
01:24:59,080 --> 01:25:01,840
Speaker 2: so we'd have a full ten when the games matter most.

1588
01:25:02,040 --> 01:25:05,800
Speaker 2: And guess what he did a crucial forty nine yard

1589
01:25:05,880 --> 01:25:08,960
Speaker 2: catch and run. He broke multiple tackles, happened to be

1590
01:25:09,000 --> 01:25:11,799
Speaker 2: the longest play of the season and the longest reception

1591
01:25:11,880 --> 01:25:16,679
Speaker 2: of his playoff career. Now, not for nothing, Kelsey also

1592
01:25:16,760 --> 01:25:20,599
Speaker 2: had his ninth one hundred yard postseason game, which breaks

1593
01:25:20,600 --> 01:25:22,200
Speaker 2: a tie with the guy who may have heard of,

1594
01:25:22,560 --> 01:25:25,360
Speaker 2: Jerry Rice, for the most in the NFL history. And

1595
01:25:25,400 --> 01:25:28,000
Speaker 2: he's not far off his records for yards and touchdowns either.

1596
01:25:29,080 --> 01:25:32,240
Speaker 2: Let's also give you some credit to the Houston Texas.

1597
01:25:32,760 --> 01:25:35,639
Speaker 2: They're getting close. They've done a hell of a job

1598
01:25:35,640 --> 01:25:39,240
Speaker 2: the last two years. Where are all the people that

1599
01:25:39,280 --> 01:25:41,720
Speaker 2: were saying, Demiico Ryans was sent there to be a

1600
01:25:41,760 --> 01:25:44,080
Speaker 2: sack official lamb and it was a crappy job. They're

1601
01:25:44,080 --> 01:25:46,200
Speaker 2: only thirty two jobs. They're all goods. What you make

1602
01:25:46,200 --> 01:25:50,559
Speaker 2: of it. Demiko Ryans phenomenal job. C J. Stroud phenomenal job.

1603
01:25:51,240 --> 01:25:56,200
Speaker 2: And much like the Chiefs, the Texans did fall well

1604
01:25:56,240 --> 01:26:00,200
Speaker 2: short of their expectations in the regular season, and then

1605
01:26:00,200 --> 01:26:03,360
Speaker 2: they blew out the Chargers in the wildcard round and

1606
01:26:03,400 --> 01:26:06,080
Speaker 2: they truly hung tough against the Chiefs on the road,

1607
01:26:06,439 --> 01:26:08,519
Speaker 2: made it a fistfight in a phone booth. And it

1608
01:26:08,520 --> 01:26:13,240
Speaker 2: should be a reminder Houston fans the future is very bright.

1609
01:26:13,560 --> 01:26:16,600
Speaker 2: I believe it is. In the offseason, you got to

1610
01:26:16,640 --> 01:26:20,040
Speaker 2: focus on a couple of shortcomings, like your interior offensive

1611
01:26:20,080 --> 01:26:23,479
Speaker 2: line and receiver that will go a long way in

1612
01:26:23,560 --> 01:26:27,640
Speaker 2: helping C. J. Stroud back on the superstar path he

1613
01:26:27,720 --> 01:26:30,720
Speaker 2: had shown as a rookie, had had, you know, a

1614
01:26:30,840 --> 01:26:33,760
Speaker 2: bit of a regression as a sophomore. But that you're

1615
01:26:33,800 --> 01:26:36,320
Speaker 2: splitting here is that you're picking out the ward on

1616
01:26:36,360 --> 01:26:40,040
Speaker 2: Lincoln's nose when you talk about that. Okay, but they'll

1617
01:26:40,080 --> 01:26:42,679
Speaker 2: bounce back. And it's a group that complemented the defense

1618
01:26:42,720 --> 01:26:45,679
Speaker 2: and finished top five unit in EPA. And the truth

1619
01:26:45,680 --> 01:26:49,720
Speaker 2: of the matter is Houston with a few additions, they're

1620
01:26:49,760 --> 01:26:51,080
Speaker 2: going to compete with the best of the best. The

1621
01:26:51,120 --> 01:26:54,679
Speaker 2: AFC is absolutely loaded. You know that the Bengals didn't

1622
01:26:54,680 --> 01:26:57,040
Speaker 2: make the playoffs. You know they're going to be back,

1623
01:26:57,960 --> 01:26:59,439
Speaker 2: and all the other teams that I'm not going to

1624
01:26:59,439 --> 01:27:02,240
Speaker 2: do a roll call, So give the Texans credit. They're

1625
01:27:02,240 --> 01:27:05,800
Speaker 2: getting close again. The Bobby Slowk firing is a head

1626
01:27:05,840 --> 01:27:08,120
Speaker 2: scatcher to me. But I'm not inside the four walls.

1627
01:27:08,120 --> 01:27:10,120
Speaker 2: I don't know what's going on there. I don't know

1628
01:27:10,200 --> 01:27:13,000
Speaker 2: what's going on. Final score Chiefs twenty three Texans fourteen.

1629
01:27:13,080 --> 01:27:16,240
Speaker 2: The Chiefs advance, the Texans go home. The other game

1630
01:27:16,280 --> 01:27:19,000
Speaker 2: that'll be talked about, honestly for years, it just simply

1631
01:27:19,040 --> 01:27:21,880
Speaker 2: will be because we don't know where this is gonna

1632
01:27:21,920 --> 01:27:24,960
Speaker 2: end up. And Saturday, I'm going to share with you

1633
01:27:25,600 --> 01:27:30,280
Speaker 2: statistically the incredible long shots for the Commanders just to

1634
01:27:30,320 --> 01:27:33,000
Speaker 2: get this far. This is the biggest long shot since

1635
01:27:33,000 --> 01:27:35,400
Speaker 2: the ninety nine Rams. Now they won the Super Bowl,

1636
01:27:35,840 --> 01:27:38,120
Speaker 2: they were two hundred and fifty to one. The Commandos

1637
01:27:38,160 --> 01:27:39,439
Speaker 2: are one hundred and fifty to one. But you get

1638
01:27:39,439 --> 01:27:42,960
Speaker 2: a rookie quarterback. The last rookie quarterback to go on

1639
01:27:43,000 --> 01:27:45,760
Speaker 2: the road and win a championship game, or check that,

1640
01:27:45,880 --> 01:27:49,080
Speaker 2: to win a playoff game was Mark Sanchez with the Jets,

1641
01:27:49,120 --> 01:27:51,679
Speaker 2: but that was a defensive oriented team. Sanchez did his part,

1642
01:27:51,680 --> 01:27:55,000
Speaker 2: but he's not dealing with Daniel Jene Daniels is doing this.

1643
01:27:56,000 --> 01:27:58,400
Speaker 2: In terms of being a franchise at before and thirteen

1644
01:27:58,520 --> 01:28:00,960
Speaker 2: last year, no one was ra about the dan Quinn

1645
01:28:01,040 --> 01:28:04,839
Speaker 2: higher although always thought he was a solid football man.

1646
01:28:05,120 --> 01:28:07,680
Speaker 2: Somehow he orchestrated a twenty eight to three lead over

1647
01:28:07,720 --> 01:28:09,719
Speaker 2: Tom Brady in the Super Bowl. You know what happened next?

1648
01:28:10,360 --> 01:28:12,160
Speaker 2: They seem to lay more of that on Kyle Shanning

1649
01:28:12,200 --> 01:28:15,120
Speaker 2: and the dan Quinn. Dan Quinn also spent some time

1650
01:28:15,160 --> 01:28:17,320
Speaker 2: in Dallas. You think Dallas is kicking themselves. Maybe they

1651
01:28:17,320 --> 01:28:19,000
Speaker 2: should have gone to dan Quinn this year and said,

1652
01:28:19,400 --> 01:28:21,760
Speaker 2: you don't bringing Mike McCarthy back story for a different day.

1653
01:28:22,000 --> 01:28:25,280
Speaker 2: Commander's forty five Lions thirty one. You didn't see it coming?

1654
01:28:25,600 --> 01:28:30,080
Speaker 2: Need did I an all time turnaround? Second straight road

1655
01:28:30,439 --> 01:28:35,120
Speaker 2: playoff victory? Hope springs it. Turning to all you other

1656
01:28:35,800 --> 01:28:38,720
Speaker 2: sad sack organizations across the NFL that are crying in

1657
01:28:38,720 --> 01:28:42,080
Speaker 2: your beard. Just you remember, only a year ago the

1658
01:28:42,120 --> 01:28:44,880
Speaker 2: Commanders were four and thirteen and they got the number

1659
01:28:44,880 --> 01:28:48,520
Speaker 2: two pick in the draft. Whould they get Jayden Daniels.

1660
01:28:48,720 --> 01:28:55,439
Speaker 2: He's undoubtedly, undoubtedly been the catalyst, the complete driving force

1661
01:28:55,560 --> 01:28:59,840
Speaker 2: behind this incredibly historic one year turnaround. But he's not

1662
01:28:59,880 --> 01:29:03,400
Speaker 2: the only factor. Okay, By the way they stun the Labs,

1663
01:29:03,960 --> 01:29:06,599
Speaker 2: kick their butt, they earn the spot in the NFC

1664
01:29:06,720 --> 01:29:09,880
Speaker 2: title game. It's the culmination of a culture change. We

1665
01:29:09,920 --> 01:29:13,120
Speaker 2: heard that earlier with Pete Carroll right new ownership and

1666
01:29:13,240 --> 01:29:17,200
Speaker 2: hiring dan Quinn. Let's see other candidates with past head

1667
01:29:17,240 --> 01:29:20,080
Speaker 2: coaching experience, they tend to get overlooked in favor of

1668
01:29:20,120 --> 01:29:23,639
Speaker 2: hot shot coordinators and the flavor of the month. Dan

1669
01:29:23,760 --> 01:29:26,240
Speaker 2: Quinn is turning out to be an excellent example of

1670
01:29:26,280 --> 01:29:32,240
Speaker 2: how veteran presence can completely rebuild a culture and stabilize

1671
01:29:32,280 --> 01:29:35,559
Speaker 2: a team from the top down because you are leveraging

1672
01:29:35,600 --> 01:29:40,360
Speaker 2: your experience, You're not just bringing your knowledge. Remember those

1673
01:29:40,400 --> 01:29:43,519
Speaker 2: four characteristics that Nick Daban talked about, what kind of

1674
01:29:43,600 --> 01:29:46,160
Speaker 2: character do you have? What kind of knowledge do you have?

1675
01:29:46,479 --> 01:29:48,720
Speaker 2: Do you have the ability to apply that knowledge and

1676
01:29:48,760 --> 01:29:52,280
Speaker 2: teach the players? What kind of relationships can you form

1677
01:29:52,680 --> 01:29:56,639
Speaker 2: with the players? Well, the results are going to answer

1678
01:29:56,640 --> 01:30:00,640
Speaker 2: that question, and dan Quinn is an excellent example of

1679
01:30:00,760 --> 01:30:06,920
Speaker 2: how experience and a veteran presence and knowledge can translate

1680
01:30:07,040 --> 01:30:11,000
Speaker 2: into far more success than they ever could have hadmanaged.

1681
01:30:12,600 --> 01:30:15,840
Speaker 2: You know, people like to make fun of Cliff Kingsbury.

1682
01:30:17,400 --> 01:30:21,360
Speaker 2: Cliff Kingsbury has now earned his way into another shot

1683
01:30:21,400 --> 01:30:24,879
Speaker 2: as a head coach. He passed on this hiring cycle.

1684
01:30:25,360 --> 01:30:29,800
Speaker 2: But if the Commandos, no matter what happens in Philadelphia

1685
01:30:29,840 --> 01:30:33,200
Speaker 2: on Sunday, and I don't think they're beating Philadelphia. Remember

1686
01:30:33,240 --> 01:30:35,800
Speaker 2: the Lions turned the ball over five times. I don't

1687
01:30:35,800 --> 01:30:39,320
Speaker 2: think the Commandos would be the beneficiary of five turnovers.

1688
01:30:39,439 --> 01:30:47,200
Speaker 2: I just don't. Okay, we've got a situation where the

1689
01:30:47,200 --> 01:30:49,200
Speaker 2: Commanders are also thirty against the run and they're going

1690
01:30:49,280 --> 01:30:51,200
Speaker 2: up against Saquon Barkley. They're not going to be able

1691
01:30:51,200 --> 01:30:55,080
Speaker 2: to give up those seventy nine yard runs. But here's

1692
01:30:55,120 --> 01:30:56,880
Speaker 2: the only way, and I said this setting in the

1693
01:30:56,920 --> 01:31:00,640
Speaker 2: Lions game, They'll have to win a shootout. It's not impossible.

1694
01:31:00,680 --> 01:31:05,400
Speaker 2: Although Phillis defense much better situation than the Lions. Cliff

1695
01:31:05,479 --> 01:31:07,920
Speaker 2: Kingsbury next year, I believe will be at the top

1696
01:31:07,960 --> 01:31:10,760
Speaker 2: of interview lists because only two of six teams with

1697
01:31:10,840 --> 01:31:13,240
Speaker 2: vacancies even wanted to talk to him this year. But

1698
01:31:13,360 --> 01:31:17,559
Speaker 2: the Commander's offense completely outclassed Alliance and the most shocking

1699
01:31:17,600 --> 01:31:21,080
Speaker 2: result of the entire season again forty five thirty one.

1700
01:31:21,600 --> 01:31:25,240
Speaker 2: I know people. Some people will give Cliff Kingsbury his

1701
01:31:25,400 --> 01:31:29,160
Speaker 2: due is a bright offensive mind. Some don't because his

1702
01:31:29,200 --> 01:31:34,160
Speaker 2: failure to adjust during his time in Arizona is caused

1703
01:31:34,160 --> 01:31:37,040
Speaker 2: this sort of albatross to be around his neck, whereas

1704
01:31:37,280 --> 01:31:39,360
Speaker 2: his offenses tend to fall off at the end of

1705
01:31:39,360 --> 01:31:42,479
Speaker 2: the season. What didn't happen this year? Did it? It

1706
01:31:42,520 --> 01:31:45,479
Speaker 2: didn't happen this year. He's only getting better against top

1707
01:31:45,520 --> 01:31:48,080
Speaker 2: competition in the playoffs, and maybe you can put those

1708
01:31:48,080 --> 01:31:51,360
Speaker 2: concerns the rest. So one of the takeaways next year,

1709
01:31:52,680 --> 01:31:54,519
Speaker 2: the Commanders aren't fluke. I think they're gonna be good

1710
01:31:54,520 --> 01:31:56,280
Speaker 2: again next year, no matter where they end up this year.

1711
01:31:56,880 --> 01:31:59,000
Speaker 2: And I think you're going to see Kingsbury get a

1712
01:31:59,000 --> 01:32:03,639
Speaker 2: few more head coaching queries. Finally, the takeaway from that game.

1713
01:32:03,720 --> 01:32:08,080
Speaker 2: Dan Campbell was emotional, justifiably at the podium after last

1714
01:32:08,120 --> 01:32:10,960
Speaker 2: year when they lost to the forty nine ers, revealing

1715
01:32:11,240 --> 01:32:13,320
Speaker 2: to the players, hey, this may be your only shot,

1716
01:32:14,160 --> 01:32:17,679
Speaker 2: which is not untrue. You insert your own Dan Marino

1717
01:32:17,800 --> 01:32:22,400
Speaker 2: joke here. The Lions, the way they dominated during the

1718
01:32:22,439 --> 01:32:29,559
Speaker 2: regular season, I don't want to see was hyperbole because

1719
01:32:29,560 --> 01:32:32,439
Speaker 2: it wasn't. Next year, Detroit is going to be a

1720
01:32:32,479 --> 01:32:37,000
Speaker 2: contender again. I know they lost both their coordinators, but

1721
01:32:37,400 --> 01:32:43,040
Speaker 2: they're bringing back a cadre of studs and they'll draft again.

1722
01:32:43,120 --> 01:32:43,280
Speaker 9: Well.

1723
01:32:43,320 --> 01:32:47,320
Speaker 2: Brad Holmes has proven he can do it. They had

1724
01:32:47,360 --> 01:32:51,160
Speaker 2: eleven players this year on ir that at one point

1725
01:32:51,200 --> 01:32:53,160
Speaker 2: started on the defense. They lost one hundred and fifty

1726
01:32:53,160 --> 01:32:55,400
Speaker 2: eight man games. The only other teams to do that

1727
01:32:55,439 --> 01:32:57,320
Speaker 2: in the NFL were teams like the Saints and the

1728
01:32:57,400 --> 01:33:02,040
Speaker 2: Raiders and the Panthers and Lions were you know, fifteen

1729
01:33:02,120 --> 01:33:05,280
Speaker 2: to two hit all the pieces they needed, but the

1730
01:33:05,320 --> 01:33:08,200
Speaker 2: injuries were their downfall. That's just a fact. They'll keep

1731
01:33:08,200 --> 01:33:11,360
Speaker 2: their roster together at least one more year. That will

1732
01:33:11,360 --> 01:33:13,760
Speaker 2: get a little bit more difficult year after year. And

1733
01:33:13,840 --> 01:33:16,439
Speaker 2: we get it. They're starting the offseason needing to replace

1734
01:33:16,479 --> 01:33:20,120
Speaker 2: the league's two best coordinators. And you could argue that

1735
01:33:20,160 --> 01:33:24,680
Speaker 2: could be a factor. However, you know, because it was

1736
01:33:24,720 --> 01:33:27,920
Speaker 2: with the Eagles last year when they lost Jonathan Gannon

1737
01:33:28,560 --> 01:33:33,839
Speaker 2: and Shane Steiking. But they're back where they belong and

1738
01:33:33,840 --> 01:33:36,839
Speaker 2: and so you know, this is the National Football League,

1739
01:33:36,960 --> 01:33:38,960
Speaker 2: all right. Coming up, I'm gonna give you my takeaways

1740
01:33:38,960 --> 01:33:42,320
Speaker 2: from the Eagles Rams and the Bill's Ravens and how

1741
01:33:42,360 --> 01:33:45,200
Speaker 2: that might factor as we look ahead to what's going

1742
01:33:45,280 --> 01:33:47,800
Speaker 2: to be one hell of a doubleheader on Sunday in

1743
01:33:47,840 --> 01:33:52,160
Speaker 2: the NFC and AFC Championship games. I'm Bernie fraddlew coming

1744
01:33:52,160 --> 01:33:54,280
Speaker 2: toy line from the Las Vegas Fox Sports Radio TIREC

1745
01:33:54,320 --> 01:33:56,880
Speaker 2: dot Com studios. Keep it locked. You're listening to the

1746
01:33:56,920 --> 01:33:57,679
Speaker 2: Bernie Fratter.

1747
01:33:57,520 --> 01:34:01,240
Speaker 1: Show on Fox Sports Radio Sports Radio has the best

1748
01:34:01,280 --> 01:34:04,120
Speaker 1: sports talk lineup in the nation. Catch all of our

1749
01:34:04,120 --> 01:34:08,599
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1750
01:34:08,640 --> 01:34:10,800
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1751
01:34:11,240 --> 01:34:13,960
Speaker 2: All right back at the Bernie Frattle Show, Fox Sports Radio.

1752
01:34:14,000 --> 01:34:16,200
Speaker 2: Coming to live from the Tarak dot Com studios here

1753
01:34:16,960 --> 01:34:21,200
Speaker 2: in Las Vegas. We continue with key takeaways at analysis

1754
01:34:21,240 --> 01:34:25,800
Speaker 2: from the divisional games last weekend, perhaps some tidbits that

1755
01:34:25,880 --> 01:34:30,040
Speaker 2: we can ascertain as we look ahead to Sunday's doubleheader

1756
01:34:30,880 --> 01:34:37,200
Speaker 2: Eagles and Commandos noon Pacific, three o'clock Eastern on Sunday.

1757
01:34:37,960 --> 01:34:40,400
Speaker 2: Eagles coming off their twenty eight twenty two victory over

1758
01:34:40,439 --> 01:34:44,479
Speaker 2: the Rams, and now Jalen Hurts they say will be

1759
01:34:45,680 --> 01:34:49,120
Speaker 2: wearing a brace, but according to people who seen him

1760
01:34:49,120 --> 01:34:54,360
Speaker 2: at practice, he moved basically relatively unabated and seemed comfortable,

1761
01:34:55,160 --> 01:34:58,439
Speaker 2: So it's doubtful that he's hobbled by the knee injury

1762
01:34:58,439 --> 01:35:01,559
Speaker 2: that he sustained and messed Sunday's win. He did miss

1763
01:35:01,560 --> 01:35:05,200
Speaker 2: any snaps, so those availabilities obviously there. We don't know

1764
01:35:05,200 --> 01:35:06,960
Speaker 2: if there will be any limitations to keep them in

1765
01:35:06,960 --> 01:35:09,320
Speaker 2: the pocket. We don't know that we have to watch,

1766
01:35:09,960 --> 01:35:12,719
Speaker 2: but according to people who have observed him. It should

1767
01:35:12,720 --> 01:35:18,120
Speaker 2: be okay, and we'll just have to see when the

1768
01:35:18,120 --> 01:35:22,679
Speaker 2: game starts. Right, the Commando's defense is thirtieth against the run,

1769
01:35:22,720 --> 01:35:25,280
Speaker 2: all right. That's and I don't know, maybe you just

1770
01:35:25,280 --> 01:35:27,439
Speaker 2: give the ball to Saquon Barkley to call it a day.

1771
01:35:27,560 --> 01:35:29,840
Speaker 2: All right. He had two hundred and five yards against

1772
01:35:29,840 --> 01:35:32,200
Speaker 2: the Rams. What's he gonna do against the Commandos. I

1773
01:35:32,240 --> 01:35:34,800
Speaker 2: don't know. We're gonna have to watch and see. There's

1774
01:35:34,800 --> 01:35:39,640
Speaker 2: something about this Eagles team though. They're like a throwback

1775
01:35:40,760 --> 01:35:44,840
Speaker 2: into a parlay that has always worked since the beginning

1776
01:35:44,840 --> 01:35:48,280
Speaker 2: of time in football. If you have an elite run

1777
01:35:48,360 --> 01:35:53,160
Speaker 2: game complimented by announcedaying any defense, you're gonna be in

1778
01:35:53,200 --> 01:35:54,559
Speaker 2: every game as long as you don't turn it over

1779
01:35:54,600 --> 01:35:58,280
Speaker 2: five times, they have a real chance to win the

1780
01:35:58,320 --> 01:36:02,000
Speaker 2: whole thing. Had a real chance to win the whole thing.

1781
01:36:02,840 --> 01:36:07,599
Speaker 2: And what's interesting is even if they don't. People talk

1782
01:36:07,640 --> 01:36:10,479
Speaker 2: about super Bowl windows, are they closing? Is it over? People?

1783
01:36:10,479 --> 01:36:13,240
Speaker 2: You know, everybody wants to be Gene Dixon and predict

1784
01:36:13,240 --> 01:36:18,639
Speaker 2: the future. The Eagles super Bowl window is far from closed. Far.

1785
01:36:20,040 --> 01:36:22,920
Speaker 2: You know, they just got a couple of first round

1786
01:36:22,920 --> 01:36:27,200
Speaker 2: picks out of Georgia. The year before last, Jalen Carter,

1787
01:36:27,439 --> 01:36:32,839
Speaker 2: Nolan Smith, instant impact. They wreaked havoc against the Rams,

1788
01:36:33,720 --> 01:36:36,439
Speaker 2: and you know they're they're at one point people joked

1789
01:36:36,439 --> 01:36:38,840
Speaker 2: about them being a Georgia defense. Well maybe they are,

1790
01:36:38,880 --> 01:36:41,760
Speaker 2: and that's when Georgia was really Georgia. Look what those

1791
01:36:41,760 --> 01:36:45,960
Speaker 2: two did against the Rams. Two forced from both three sacks,

1792
01:36:48,720 --> 01:36:50,639
Speaker 2: you know, and when you add in Quinny and Mitchell

1793
01:36:50,640 --> 01:36:55,360
Speaker 2: and Cooper to Gene, these are young pups incredibly, you know,

1794
01:36:56,520 --> 01:37:00,360
Speaker 2: high level play at cornerback as rookies, and so all

1795
01:37:00,360 --> 01:37:02,479
Speaker 2: of a sudden, the Eagles you look around and they're

1796
01:37:02,479 --> 01:37:05,320
Speaker 2: flushed with blue chip talent and it's young talent at

1797
01:37:05,360 --> 01:37:08,960
Speaker 2: the most important positions. Once again, Hollie Roseman does it.

1798
01:37:09,800 --> 01:37:13,920
Speaker 2: The guy has produced magic. The future is very bright

1799
01:37:13,920 --> 01:37:18,240
Speaker 2: for the Eagles, hopefully Jalen Hurts is one hundred percent

1800
01:37:18,240 --> 01:37:22,040
Speaker 2: for Sunday, just quickly. On the Rams. I'm not so

1801
01:37:22,200 --> 01:37:25,280
Speaker 2: sure about their future. You have to give Sean mcvagh

1802
01:37:25,280 --> 01:37:29,960
Speaker 2: and Less Snead top credit for what they've done. They've

1803
01:37:30,040 --> 01:37:33,880
Speaker 2: built the roster, they make the most out of their

1804
01:37:33,960 --> 01:37:38,960
Speaker 2: draft capital. They've augmented their defense very impressively. They missed

1805
01:37:38,960 --> 01:37:41,920
Speaker 2: Aaron Donald this year, but they've laid the foundation to

1806
01:37:41,960 --> 01:37:44,040
Speaker 2: be a team that's always going to be hanging around.

1807
01:37:44,080 --> 01:37:47,320
Speaker 2: He even started one and four, got to the playoffs again, right,

1808
01:37:47,840 --> 01:37:51,720
Speaker 2: But they're gonna have some questions Cooper cup Why were

1809
01:37:51,760 --> 01:37:55,240
Speaker 2: they rubored to be trading him mid season? Why? I

1810
01:37:55,280 --> 01:37:57,160
Speaker 2: know their season looked like I could go off a cliff.

1811
01:37:57,200 --> 01:38:00,960
Speaker 2: But he's thirty one years old and that's why his

1812
01:38:01,080 --> 01:38:05,080
Speaker 2: diminished volume is showing you that he's maybe playing the

1813
01:38:05,120 --> 01:38:10,400
Speaker 2: back nine. And then there's Matt Stafford. Stafford's gonna come back. Yeah,

1814
01:38:10,560 --> 01:38:12,840
Speaker 2: you can think about it all you want. You're being

1815
01:38:12,880 --> 01:38:15,439
Speaker 2: paid a zillion dollars, You're thirty seven years old. And

1816
01:38:15,479 --> 01:38:18,240
Speaker 2: you know what. You've heard me pick on Stafford a

1817
01:38:18,240 --> 01:38:21,519
Speaker 2: lot over the years because he was owing seven in

1818
01:38:21,520 --> 01:38:24,640
Speaker 2: playoff games or playoff implication games in Detroit and when

1819
01:38:24,720 --> 01:38:26,760
Speaker 2: it mattered most, he did not do well. And I'm sorry,

1820
01:38:26,760 --> 01:38:29,080
Speaker 2: I'm sticking to that, but you will never hear me

1821
01:38:29,200 --> 01:38:35,240
Speaker 2: question his toughness. Stafford's toughness parks lots back injuries, knee injuries, neck.

1822
01:38:35,640 --> 01:38:39,080
Speaker 2: He is a tough guy who has answered the bell

1823
01:38:40,000 --> 01:38:42,679
Speaker 2: and I know he'll make the occasional throw and nobody

1824
01:38:42,680 --> 01:38:46,040
Speaker 2: go look at that. He'll make the occasional dumb play too.

1825
01:38:46,560 --> 01:38:50,040
Speaker 2: Could he retire? He could. I don't think there's any

1826
01:38:50,120 --> 01:38:52,519
Speaker 2: chance he'll retire, but the Rams might want to think

1827
01:38:52,560 --> 01:38:54,400
Speaker 2: ahead and be in the market for a young quarterback

1828
01:38:54,439 --> 01:38:57,400
Speaker 2: to plan for the future. Just saying do they have

1829
01:38:57,439 --> 01:39:01,120
Speaker 2: a succession plan? That Snead McVeigh tandem is as sharp

1830
01:39:01,160 --> 01:39:05,160
Speaker 2: as it gets. But let's face it, they're nowhere near

1831
01:39:05,200 --> 01:39:06,760
Speaker 2: where they want to be or need to be if

1832
01:39:06,800 --> 01:39:08,080
Speaker 2: they want to be in the short list of a

1833
01:39:08,080 --> 01:39:11,519
Speaker 2: team that can truly win the Super Bowl. Finally, in

1834
01:39:11,560 --> 01:39:15,400
Speaker 2: what turned out to be a really entertaining game last

1835
01:39:15,600 --> 01:39:18,679
Speaker 2: Sunday where the Bills and Ravens, the Bills prevailed twenty

1836
01:39:18,680 --> 01:39:21,240
Speaker 2: seven to twenty five, and much like the Chiefs do

1837
01:39:21,320 --> 01:39:24,840
Speaker 2: at Arrowhead at home in January, the Bills simply found

1838
01:39:24,840 --> 01:39:28,519
Speaker 2: a way. Some teams know how to win. The Bills

1839
01:39:28,520 --> 01:39:33,040
Speaker 2: are becoming that team, and very similarly to what I

1840
01:39:33,080 --> 01:39:36,760
Speaker 2: said about the Chiefs. It wasn't the prettiest effort against Baltimore.

1841
01:39:37,040 --> 01:39:42,160
Speaker 2: The stat sheet is anything but outstanding. And look, maybe

1842
01:39:42,160 --> 01:39:44,240
Speaker 2: the Bills got a little conservative in the second half

1843
01:39:44,240 --> 01:39:47,120
Speaker 2: that allowed their Ravens to hang around longer than they

1844
01:39:47,120 --> 01:39:49,400
Speaker 2: should have. None of that matters in the playoffs. The

1845
01:39:49,439 --> 01:39:52,000
Speaker 2: Bills are going back to the FC title game. They

1846
01:39:52,040 --> 01:39:54,360
Speaker 2: frustrated one of the best teams in football to no win.

1847
01:39:54,439 --> 01:39:57,600
Speaker 2: Most notably, the Bill's run game found a way to

1848
01:39:57,600 --> 01:40:01,760
Speaker 2: move the ball with consistency against the Ravens defense that

1849
01:40:01,840 --> 01:40:04,120
Speaker 2: it only allowed about three and a half yards per carry,

1850
01:40:04,200 --> 01:40:06,800
Speaker 2: best in the NFL. So the defense did its part

1851
01:40:06,840 --> 01:40:09,960
Speaker 2: with three crucial turnovers. Josh Allen once again kept the

1852
01:40:09,960 --> 01:40:13,479
Speaker 2: ball out of harm's way. Buffalo's ability to do so

1853
01:40:13,560 --> 01:40:18,040
Speaker 2: consistently make timely plays in the game when it matters.

1854
01:40:18,800 --> 01:40:21,640
Speaker 2: Now that this Bill's team resembles the Chiefs more than

1855
01:40:21,680 --> 01:40:24,479
Speaker 2: any Bills team in the past, We'll see what happens

1856
01:40:24,479 --> 01:40:27,559
Speaker 2: on Sunday. Once again. You heard me say it earlier.

1857
01:40:28,000 --> 01:40:30,760
Speaker 2: Deja vu all over again, Yogi for the Ravens. The

1858
01:40:30,840 --> 01:40:34,320
Speaker 2: Ravens cannot get over the hump. You shove them down

1859
01:40:34,360 --> 01:40:36,400
Speaker 2: our throat in October. They're the scariest team. There was

1860
01:40:36,400 --> 01:40:38,280
Speaker 2: still a five lost team, and I get it, they

1861
01:40:38,280 --> 01:40:40,880
Speaker 2: were damn good. But when it matters most, and he

1862
01:40:41,000 --> 01:40:42,400
Speaker 2: gets hot and it's hard to breathe, what are they

1863
01:40:42,479 --> 01:40:46,640
Speaker 2: doing in January. They're watching him TV. The sheer difficulty

1864
01:40:46,640 --> 01:40:51,160
Speaker 2: of making a playoff run is difficult for any NFL franchise.

1865
01:40:51,520 --> 01:40:55,240
Speaker 2: But when you got probably a four time MVP in Lamar,

1866
01:40:55,439 --> 01:40:57,720
Speaker 2: and you had Derrick Henry and a scary defense at

1867
01:40:57,800 --> 01:41:02,320
Speaker 2: least on paper, you can't find a way to win. Well,

1868
01:41:02,439 --> 01:41:04,120
Speaker 2: not when you cough up three tone over was on

1869
01:41:04,120 --> 01:41:07,200
Speaker 2: Sunday night in Buffalo after having only eleven all season.

1870
01:41:07,479 --> 01:41:10,960
Speaker 2: That's the ultimate letdown. So Robert griff had wanted everybody

1871
01:41:11,000 --> 01:41:13,719
Speaker 2: to beat up justin Herbert what he's saying about Lamar Jackson.

1872
01:41:13,840 --> 01:41:15,839
Speaker 2: And by the way, for the record, I like Lamar Jackson.

1873
01:41:16,080 --> 01:41:17,600
Speaker 2: I've defended him. I don't know why he doesn't win it.

1874
01:41:17,880 --> 01:41:20,200
Speaker 2: He just it's not in his DNA to win in January.

1875
01:41:20,600 --> 01:41:24,240
Speaker 2: He checks every box, every box. He's a leader. He's

1876
01:41:24,280 --> 01:41:26,439
Speaker 2: a better pocket passer that people give it give him

1877
01:41:26,439 --> 01:41:30,000
Speaker 2: credit for. And I know you're gonna say, all right, yes,

1878
01:41:30,479 --> 01:41:31,840
Speaker 2: he had a hell of a fourth quarter of the

1879
01:41:31,920 --> 01:41:36,120
Speaker 2: late surge put Baltimore in position to force overtime only

1880
01:41:36,160 --> 01:41:39,840
Speaker 2: for a wide open You know Mark Andrews And there's

1881
01:41:39,880 --> 01:41:42,400
Speaker 2: a famous NFL films I sent this to Jeremy shabb

1882
01:41:42,720 --> 01:41:46,519
Speaker 2: the old Washington Redskins back in the day Jackie Smith's

1883
01:41:46,520 --> 01:41:48,599
Speaker 2: sliding along the end zone. If you remember this tweet

1884
01:41:48,640 --> 01:41:51,720
Speaker 2: at Us dropped a pass wide open and the announcer said,

1885
01:41:51,840 --> 01:41:54,559
Speaker 2: he's got to be the sickest man in America. Poor

1886
01:41:54,600 --> 01:41:57,120
Speaker 2: Mark Andrews. I don't think he dropped the pass all year.

1887
01:41:58,360 --> 01:42:01,800
Speaker 2: He dropped the pass for the game time two point conversion.

1888
01:42:02,680 --> 01:42:04,400
Speaker 2: And I get it. The Raves will be right back

1889
01:42:04,479 --> 01:42:05,960
Speaker 2: next year, and you know, we get you know it'd

1890
01:42:06,000 --> 01:42:08,680
Speaker 2: be another productive offseason. They're positive, they're well run. They

1891
01:42:08,800 --> 01:42:11,200
Speaker 2: check every box except whenning. And you're gonna try to

1892
01:42:11,240 --> 01:42:12,680
Speaker 2: convince us how good they are, but they're gonna have

1893
01:42:12,720 --> 01:42:14,720
Speaker 2: to win in January to convince me. And I ain't

1894
01:42:14,720 --> 01:42:17,680
Speaker 2: seen it. And by the way, you can give him

1895
01:42:17,680 --> 01:42:19,959
Speaker 2: all the credit you want for that fourth quarter comeback,

1896
01:42:20,600 --> 01:42:23,919
Speaker 2: but it was the self inflicted wounds and the turnovers

1897
01:42:23,960 --> 01:42:25,840
Speaker 2: by Lamar Jackson. They put them in the hole in

1898
01:42:25,880 --> 01:42:31,760
Speaker 2: the first place. One last thing, and I will not

1899
01:42:31,840 --> 01:42:35,559
Speaker 2: hear me bash Mark Andrews. He's a un being and

1900
01:42:35,720 --> 01:42:38,080
Speaker 2: very classy move by the way of Bill's Bafia. I

1901
01:42:38,080 --> 01:42:42,400
Speaker 2: don't know if you know this. Mark Andrews was diagnosed

1902
01:42:42,400 --> 01:42:45,160
Speaker 2: with type one diabetes when he was nine years old,

1903
01:42:45,720 --> 01:42:47,719
Speaker 2: and he's part of a charity, part of an organization

1904
01:42:47,760 --> 01:42:50,080
Speaker 2: that raises money for that malady, and I believe the

1905
01:42:50,120 --> 01:42:54,080
Speaker 2: Bill's mafia in sympathy and support for that organization. It's

1906
01:42:54,120 --> 01:42:59,040
Speaker 2: very classy move. Has raised like thirty eight thousand dollars

1907
01:42:59,040 --> 01:43:03,040
Speaker 2: for that charity. That could give Andrews a little lyft.

1908
01:43:03,080 --> 01:43:05,800
Speaker 2: I understand he's gotten hate male death threats. This is

1909
01:43:05,840 --> 01:43:09,120
Speaker 2: just ridiculous, Okay, But Andrews drop on that game tying

1910
01:43:09,160 --> 01:43:12,320
Speaker 2: two point conversion in the final minute was just simply

1911
01:43:12,320 --> 01:43:17,080
Speaker 2: another mistake and basically a disastrous outing. By the way,

1912
01:43:17,120 --> 01:43:19,000
Speaker 2: he had a bad drop on the third drive of

1913
01:43:19,040 --> 01:43:22,160
Speaker 2: the game that proceeded to Lamar Jackson fumble that put

1914
01:43:22,160 --> 01:43:23,960
Speaker 2: the Bills in position to take their first lead of

1915
01:43:23,960 --> 01:43:26,479
Speaker 2: the night. Andrews also had a fumble of his own

1916
01:43:26,520 --> 01:43:29,040
Speaker 2: early in the fourth quarter, getting the ball punched out

1917
01:43:29,080 --> 01:43:31,800
Speaker 2: after a big catch in Buffalo territory that would have

1918
01:43:31,840 --> 01:43:35,080
Speaker 2: been perhaps to go ahead drive. That pair of drops

1919
01:43:35,080 --> 01:43:38,840
Speaker 2: equals as toll from the entire season, and it was untimely.

1920
01:43:39,360 --> 01:43:41,719
Speaker 2: It was a shame one of the most reliable players

1921
01:43:41,720 --> 01:43:44,559
Speaker 2: in the team. Struggling in a big moment. That just

1922
01:43:44,600 --> 01:43:50,520
Speaker 2: seems to be what the Baltimore ravens lament will be

1923
01:43:50,560 --> 01:43:56,120
Speaker 2: for yet another season coming up. The college football season

1924
01:43:56,280 --> 01:44:02,000
Speaker 2: is in the books. I loves the playoff. It was long,

1925
01:44:02,160 --> 01:44:05,120
Speaker 2: it was a full month. The ratings were slightly down

1926
01:44:05,120 --> 01:44:08,960
Speaker 2: on the championship game. And do I think there'll be

1927
01:44:09,080 --> 01:44:12,759
Speaker 2: changes to next year's format? No, I don't. People want changes.

1928
01:44:13,080 --> 01:44:15,040
Speaker 2: People saying changes are coming, you don't know what you're

1929
01:44:15,040 --> 01:44:18,559
Speaker 2: talking about. There's eleven people on this committee and unless

1930
01:44:18,560 --> 01:44:20,840
Speaker 2: they vote unanimously the first two years, there will be

1931
01:44:20,840 --> 01:44:23,040
Speaker 2: no changes. But let me tell you if I had

1932
01:44:23,080 --> 01:44:25,280
Speaker 2: a wish list these there are not complaints, they're just

1933
01:44:25,360 --> 01:44:28,799
Speaker 2: wish lists on the changes I would like to see.

1934
01:44:30,040 --> 01:44:36,519
Speaker 2: Next year, when you have a situation by another twelve

1935
01:44:36,520 --> 01:44:40,200
Speaker 2: team playoff, I'll tell you the changes i'd like to see.

1936
01:44:40,600 --> 01:44:45,000
Speaker 2: Whether they happen, I'm doubtful, at least for next year,

1937
01:44:45,040 --> 01:44:47,400
Speaker 2: maybe twenty twenty seven, but not for next year. I'm

1938
01:44:47,400 --> 01:44:49,160
Speaker 2: Bernie Fradder. Were coming to you line from Las Vegas,

1939
01:44:49,200 --> 01:44:51,880
Speaker 2: Foxforts Radio, Tirect dot Com Studios. Keep it locked. You're

1940
01:44:51,880 --> 01:44:53,920
Speaker 2: listening to the Bernie Fraddle Show on Fox Sports Radio.

1941
01:44:54,680 --> 01:44:58,200
Speaker 2: We're back on the Bernie Fraddle Show Fox Sports Radio.

1942
01:44:58,280 --> 01:45:02,000
Speaker 2: Come you laugh at the tarreck dot com student. I

1943
01:45:02,040 --> 01:45:04,519
Speaker 2: want to give my two cents on why I think

1944
01:45:05,080 --> 01:45:08,400
Speaker 2: the college football playoff could use a tweak. These are

1945
01:45:08,439 --> 01:45:11,439
Speaker 2: just my thoughts. First of all, let's start with the seedings,

1946
01:45:11,720 --> 01:45:17,599
Speaker 2: the seating corrections. I realize automatic bids are fine if

1947
01:45:17,600 --> 01:45:19,479
Speaker 2: you win your conference. I got no problem with an

1948
01:45:19,479 --> 01:45:22,719
Speaker 2: automatic bid, but you have the top four seeds locked

1949
01:45:22,720 --> 01:45:26,559
Speaker 2: in as conference championship winners. That has been proven now

1950
01:45:26,680 --> 01:45:29,400
Speaker 2: to be a complete fagazy. All right, with all due respect,

1951
01:45:30,280 --> 01:45:33,479
Speaker 2: no statistic would suggest that the Mountain West champion Boise

1952
01:45:33,479 --> 01:45:36,360
Speaker 2: State Broncos, as much as I respect them, as solid

1953
01:45:36,400 --> 01:45:39,200
Speaker 2: a program as they are, had a fantastic season under

1954
01:45:39,240 --> 01:45:42,120
Speaker 2: Spencer Danielson, they were more deserving of the number three

1955
01:45:42,160 --> 01:45:46,479
Speaker 2: seed in his playoff than say Notre Dame or Ohio State. Okay,

1956
01:45:46,920 --> 01:45:49,840
Speaker 2: the Broncos didn't play a similar schedule, they didn't have

1957
01:45:49,840 --> 01:45:52,599
Speaker 2: the quality wins the Fighting Irish had or the Buckeyes had.

1958
01:45:52,960 --> 01:45:54,880
Speaker 2: And the selection committee, if you're going to send twelve

1959
01:45:54,880 --> 01:45:57,479
Speaker 2: teams to the playoff after auto bids, give them an

1960
01:45:57,479 --> 01:46:02,439
Speaker 2: auto bid, but don't give them an auto buy. Secondly,

1961
01:46:03,200 --> 01:46:05,360
Speaker 2: I think you do have to start to reward the

1962
01:46:05,439 --> 01:46:10,000
Speaker 2: toughest schedules, all right. First reported by Yahoo Sports, there

1963
01:46:10,040 --> 01:46:12,519
Speaker 2: is a potential idea of an out of a fourteen

1964
01:46:12,600 --> 01:46:19,560
Speaker 2: team playoff floating out there that includes four automatic qualifiers

1965
01:46:19,560 --> 01:46:23,280
Speaker 2: from both the Big Ten and the SEC, the college

1966
01:46:23,320 --> 01:46:27,800
Speaker 2: football's two leagues which dominated drink the schedule period. The

1967
01:46:27,840 --> 01:46:30,479
Speaker 2: a SEC and the Big twelve would be guaranteed two

1968
01:46:30,479 --> 01:46:33,360
Speaker 2: but total bids, along with one group of five champion

1969
01:46:33,439 --> 01:46:35,479
Speaker 2: and a single at large, assuming it would be notre

1970
01:46:35,560 --> 01:46:38,400
Speaker 2: dame if the fighting I was finished inside the top fourteen.

1971
01:46:39,520 --> 01:46:43,519
Speaker 2: So with strengthening the playoff by adding more SEC and

1972
01:46:43,560 --> 01:46:45,880
Speaker 2: Big Ten teams, improve the product and less than the

1973
01:46:45,960 --> 01:46:48,920
Speaker 2: number of lopsided results. I don't know, you have lopside

1974
01:46:48,920 --> 01:46:52,479
Speaker 2: of results in the NFL. Don't worry about lopsid of results.

1975
01:46:52,560 --> 01:46:54,920
Speaker 2: The idea is not to create perfections, to create a

1976
01:46:54,960 --> 01:46:58,840
Speaker 2: path to get teams to the playoff that haven't been

1977
01:46:58,880 --> 01:47:03,880
Speaker 2: there before. All right. The other thing I'd like to

1978
01:47:03,920 --> 01:47:08,400
Speaker 2: see is more home games. I think it was really

1979
01:47:08,560 --> 01:47:12,320
Speaker 2: cool to see these on campus matchups and these on

1980
01:47:12,400 --> 01:47:17,640
Speaker 2: campus home crowds and fewer bull sites. All right, You

1981
01:47:17,680 --> 01:47:22,320
Speaker 2: want to give Boise State an automatic bid for winning

1982
01:47:22,360 --> 01:47:24,519
Speaker 2: the Mountain West, Fine, give him a home game two,

1983
01:47:24,920 --> 01:47:27,439
Speaker 2: but don't give him a bye. I don't like that

1984
01:47:27,840 --> 01:47:30,880
Speaker 2: unless you know, let's they beat a couple, let's say

1985
01:47:30,880 --> 01:47:33,800
Speaker 2: have a different schedule. You get my point. I know

1986
01:47:33,880 --> 01:47:36,479
Speaker 2: this is only a four game sample size, but when

1987
01:47:36,520 --> 01:47:39,000
Speaker 2: you added the four first round games in the playoff structure,

1988
01:47:39,280 --> 01:47:41,519
Speaker 2: it was a home run. It was a home run

1989
01:47:41,800 --> 01:47:43,880
Speaker 2: for the fans, it was a home run for TV.

1990
01:47:44,000 --> 01:47:46,160
Speaker 2: It was a home run for people who showed up

1991
01:47:46,200 --> 01:47:49,320
Speaker 2: in attendance. And for each school, each matchup provided a

1992
01:47:49,320 --> 01:47:54,240
Speaker 2: big game. There was certainly championship, a championship like atmosphere

1993
01:47:54,720 --> 01:47:56,880
Speaker 2: for the higher seeds. And it's a reward for a

1994
01:47:56,920 --> 01:48:01,160
Speaker 2: stellar season. And by the way, all home teams one convincingly.

1995
01:48:01,680 --> 01:48:05,280
Speaker 2: By the way, each game is now crystallized when you

1996
01:48:05,720 --> 01:48:10,799
Speaker 2: tell the story of that program and their history forever,

1997
01:48:11,120 --> 01:48:14,679
Speaker 2: that's part of their history. So I think it's great

1998
01:48:15,600 --> 01:48:18,559
Speaker 2: more home games, less neutral sites. Now as you get

1999
01:48:18,760 --> 01:48:22,719
Speaker 2: deeper into the tournament semi finals, et cetera, quarterfinals, fine,

2000
01:48:23,160 --> 01:48:26,679
Speaker 2: but let's have more home games. You could easily have

2001
01:48:26,800 --> 01:48:30,240
Speaker 2: the group of New Year's six Bowl games that host

2002
01:48:30,320 --> 01:48:34,639
Speaker 2: the playoff quarterfinals and semi finals in rotation, and they're

2003
01:48:34,720 --> 01:48:37,439
Speaker 2: under contract through you know, for just the next year,

2004
01:48:37,640 --> 01:48:41,240
Speaker 2: but not after. So for those folks who want to

2005
01:48:41,240 --> 01:48:45,200
Speaker 2: always complain about bull season holding very little meaning for

2006
01:48:45,320 --> 01:48:48,000
Speaker 2: those outside the playoff, a win win would be bringing

2007
01:48:48,080 --> 01:48:50,760
Speaker 2: a few of these back to non playoff games in

2008
01:48:50,800 --> 01:48:53,799
Speaker 2: a return provide more home games for the higher seeds.

2009
01:48:53,880 --> 01:48:56,639
Speaker 2: All right, there's a problem with adding another home game

2010
01:48:56,680 --> 01:48:59,400
Speaker 2: for the first round. I get it. More on that

2011
01:49:00,040 --> 01:49:04,080
Speaker 2: down the road, because there's convolution. I don't know what

2012
01:49:04,120 --> 01:49:07,759
Speaker 2: you'd do with the conference championship dilemma. Okay, Lane Kiffin's

2013
01:49:07,800 --> 01:49:10,759
Speaker 2: been very outspoken. He doesn't see the point of conference

2014
01:49:10,800 --> 01:49:13,360
Speaker 2: championship games when your team is competing for a playoff.

2015
01:49:13,400 --> 01:49:17,040
Speaker 2: Perth and James Franklin City wants uniformity across this board,

2016
01:49:17,120 --> 01:49:20,320
Speaker 2: saying everybody should play a conference championship game or nobody

2017
01:49:20,320 --> 01:49:23,479
Speaker 2: should play a conference championship game. The question is what

2018
01:49:23,520 --> 01:49:26,920
Speaker 2: do you do with that revenue they would wave goodbye to.

2019
01:49:27,080 --> 01:49:32,000
Speaker 2: Don't expect that anytime soon. All right, Look, we get it.

2020
01:49:32,120 --> 01:49:35,000
Speaker 2: The teams in the twelve team tournament are not always

2021
01:49:35,080 --> 01:49:38,400
Speaker 2: going to be who you want or your opinion is

2022
01:49:38,439 --> 01:49:41,519
Speaker 2: the best teams in the sport. In fact, the five

2023
01:49:41,640 --> 01:49:45,120
Speaker 2: auto qualifiers who won their league titles lost their first

2024
01:49:45,120 --> 01:49:48,439
Speaker 2: playoff game. Then Ohio State, who would have even qualified

2025
01:49:48,520 --> 01:49:51,320
Speaker 2: under the last year's four team made for TV Invitational

2026
01:49:51,360 --> 01:49:53,960
Speaker 2: tournament and was a number six seed, got hot in

2027
01:49:54,000 --> 01:49:57,840
Speaker 2: the postseason after cranking out Tennessee and Notre Dame, who

2028
01:49:57,920 --> 01:50:01,479
Speaker 2: remains an independent, got the number seven. Then they beat Indiana,

2029
01:50:01,520 --> 01:50:04,719
Speaker 2: Georgia and Penn State. So this playoff is an idea

2030
01:50:05,160 --> 01:50:09,240
Speaker 2: whose time has come. Let's face it coming up. We're

2031
01:50:09,240 --> 01:50:12,080
Speaker 2: going to wrap up the show and I want to

2032
01:50:12,120 --> 01:50:16,680
Speaker 2: revisit the Bill's Mafia had a very classy move for

2033
01:50:16,840 --> 01:50:21,879
Speaker 2: Mark Andrews. This really deserves mentioning a second time. Football

2034
01:50:21,920 --> 01:50:24,599
Speaker 2: fans be sure to tune into Fox Sports Radio every

2035
01:50:24,760 --> 01:50:28,040
Speaker 2: Saturday morning, beginning at nine am Eastern six am Pacific

2036
01:50:28,080 --> 01:50:30,960
Speaker 2: for Countdown to Kickoff, presented by Bet MGM, Brian no

2037
01:50:31,120 --> 01:50:33,560
Speaker 2: rich Oron Berger betting analyst Jared Smith. There have you

2038
01:50:33,640 --> 01:50:37,120
Speaker 2: covered three hours before college kickoff? Every Saturday morning, listen

2039
01:50:37,160 --> 01:50:39,880
Speaker 2: to Countown to Kickoff, presented by BETTMGM right here on

2040
01:50:39,960 --> 01:50:44,679
Speaker 2: Fox Sports Radio and the iHeartRadio app on Bernie Fraddlewick

2041
01:50:44,680 --> 01:50:46,880
Speaker 2: coming to line from Las Vegas, Fox Sports Radio, TIREC

2042
01:50:46,920 --> 01:50:49,640
Speaker 2: dot Com Studios. Keep it locked. You're listening to the

2043
01:50:49,720 --> 01:50:53,720
Speaker 2: Bernie Frattle Show on Fox Sports Radio. And on that note,

2044
01:50:53,800 --> 01:50:57,680
Speaker 2: we are going to keep the show rolling. Let me

2045
01:50:57,800 --> 01:51:01,400
Speaker 2: dive back into this Bill's mind and what they did

2046
01:51:01,920 --> 01:51:07,439
Speaker 2: for the Ravens Mark Andrews. All right, everybody saw the

2047
01:51:07,800 --> 01:51:10,960
Speaker 2: drop pass. The guy says he's gutted. He's had a

2048
01:51:11,000 --> 01:51:15,960
Speaker 2: sensational year. It's been a very rough, very rough, you

2049
01:51:16,000 --> 01:51:19,280
Speaker 2: know what, five days now for Mark Andrews. The last

2050
01:51:19,280 --> 01:51:23,400
Speaker 2: few days, it's been one of those situations where it's

2051
01:51:23,479 --> 01:51:25,280
Speaker 2: just something that I don't think the poor guy'll ever

2052
01:51:25,320 --> 01:51:28,080
Speaker 2: live down. People won't let him live it down. And

2053
01:51:28,479 --> 01:51:31,040
Speaker 2: it's one of those situations where you know, they may

2054
01:51:31,240 --> 01:51:34,200
Speaker 2: say he even though that game, even though that drop

2055
01:51:34,320 --> 01:51:39,400
Speaker 2: pass only would have tied the game, And I truly

2056
01:51:39,479 --> 01:51:43,640
Speaker 2: believe that some of the earlier peccadillo's that happened in

2057
01:51:43,680 --> 01:51:48,559
Speaker 2: the game were as a result of Baltimore's own self

2058
01:51:48,560 --> 01:51:52,519
Speaker 2: inflicted wounds. Well, the bottom line is this, people are

2059
01:51:52,520 --> 01:51:56,559
Speaker 2: gonna remember most what they saw last. They're gonna remember

2060
01:51:56,600 --> 01:51:59,720
Speaker 2: most what they saw last. So give it up to

2061
01:51:59,840 --> 01:52:04,360
Speaker 2: the Bill's Mafia. They're doing what they can to make

2062
01:52:04,479 --> 01:52:07,519
Speaker 2: Mark Andrews what's gonna be. I think a very bleak

2063
01:52:07,600 --> 01:52:14,800
Speaker 2: offseason feel a little bit brighter. So look, some people

2064
01:52:14,880 --> 01:52:19,320
Speaker 2: are calling his drop pass at the end of the

2065
01:52:19,320 --> 01:52:22,280
Speaker 2: game Sunday as his entry into the Hall of Infamy.

2066
01:52:22,960 --> 01:52:25,439
Speaker 2: All right, that would have potentially tied the game. We

2067
01:52:25,520 --> 01:52:28,479
Speaker 2: would have tied the game the two point conversion. We

2068
01:52:28,520 --> 01:52:32,519
Speaker 2: don't know what would have happened from that point. And listen,

2069
01:52:32,560 --> 01:52:34,920
Speaker 2: if you didn't see what happened after that point, this

2070
01:52:35,040 --> 01:52:37,400
Speaker 2: poor son of a gun got terrible meme treatment on

2071
01:52:38,400 --> 01:52:43,839
Speaker 2: Twitter and everywhere. They were just creaming the guy. They showed,

2072
01:52:43,880 --> 01:52:46,120
Speaker 2: you know, Aaron Judge dropping his fly ball in the

2073
01:52:46,120 --> 01:52:50,160
Speaker 2: World Series. They showed some memes. They showed some footage

2074
01:52:50,160 --> 01:52:53,720
Speaker 2: from the the show The Office, right. Last year it

2075
01:52:53,760 --> 01:52:56,719
Speaker 2: was Dave Flowers fumble. This year it's Mark Andrews fumble.

2076
01:52:56,960 --> 01:53:00,840
Speaker 2: The Ravens always beat themselves. I'm sick, you know, and

2077
01:53:01,960 --> 01:53:04,679
Speaker 2: theyven took the time to bash him for some earlier

2078
01:53:05,160 --> 01:53:07,080
Speaker 2: miscues in the night. And this is a guy that

2079
01:53:07,120 --> 01:53:09,960
Speaker 2: had a great year. He for the game, he had

2080
01:53:10,040 --> 01:53:12,599
Speaker 2: five catches sixty one yards. But that's what they're going

2081
01:53:13,520 --> 01:53:16,920
Speaker 2: to remember, all right, But the Bill's Mafia has chosen

2082
01:53:17,040 --> 01:53:19,640
Speaker 2: to do something very classy. They said, we're not going

2083
01:53:19,720 --> 01:53:23,200
Speaker 2: to Pylon. As a matter of fact, the Bill's Mafia

2084
01:53:23,280 --> 01:53:27,840
Speaker 2: banded together to donate through a charity that Mark Andrews

2085
01:53:28,000 --> 01:53:32,920
Speaker 2: is involved in. Mark Andrews was diagnosed with type one

2086
01:53:32,960 --> 01:53:34,800
Speaker 2: diabetes when he was nine years old, and he's an

2087
01:53:34,840 --> 01:53:39,519
Speaker 2: avid supporter of this charity. It's called the Breakthrough T

2088
01:53:39,600 --> 01:53:45,759
Speaker 2: one D Charity, which aims to combat type one diabetes. Now, quote,

2089
01:53:45,800 --> 01:53:48,639
Speaker 2: here's a quote. As many of you know, Ravens tight

2090
01:53:48,760 --> 01:53:51,240
Speaker 2: End wasn't able to catch a game tying two point

2091
01:53:51,280 --> 01:53:54,280
Speaker 2: conversion and then upset Ravens fans. That was from a

2092
01:53:54,320 --> 01:53:58,479
Speaker 2: Bill Mafia's fan quote on the go funbe post it

2093
01:53:58,560 --> 01:54:00,800
Speaker 2: read it said, quote on top of the that the

2094
01:54:00,840 --> 01:54:04,360
Speaker 2: tight End has been receiving death threats and nasty comments

2095
01:54:04,400 --> 01:54:09,639
Speaker 2: after his blank performance last night. We want Bill's Mafia

2096
01:54:09,680 --> 01:54:14,400
Speaker 2: to donate to Mark's charity for juvenile to beat diabetes.

2097
01:54:14,800 --> 01:54:18,559
Speaker 2: Let's reach a goal of at least five thousand dollars,

2098
01:54:19,240 --> 01:54:22,639
Speaker 2: of which that caught the attention of the Baltimore Ravens,

2099
01:54:23,240 --> 01:54:27,400
Speaker 2: who tweeted out shout out to Bill's Mafia for showing

2100
01:54:27,439 --> 01:54:30,680
Speaker 2: support to our guy, Mark Andrews and donating to the

2101
01:54:31,040 --> 01:54:36,240
Speaker 2: at Breakthrough t one TD on Twitter organization which works

2102
01:54:36,280 --> 01:54:38,440
Speaker 2: towards carrying and improving the lives of those dealing with

2103
01:54:38,480 --> 01:54:44,200
Speaker 2: type one diabetes, supports Mark's charity. As of the writing,

2104
01:54:44,480 --> 01:54:48,520
Speaker 2: this was just two days ago, the Bill's fundraiser had

2105
01:54:48,600 --> 01:54:55,000
Speaker 2: donated thirty eight thousand dollars, which far exceeded far exceeded

2106
01:54:55,640 --> 01:54:57,400
Speaker 2: of their goal of five thousand. Now, this is not

2107
01:54:57,520 --> 01:55:01,360
Speaker 2: the first time to Bill's Mafia stepped up big for

2108
01:55:01,440 --> 01:55:05,080
Speaker 2: an opplosing player's favorite charity. Remember a few years back,

2109
01:55:05,120 --> 01:55:09,760
Speaker 2: the fan base did something similar for the aforementioned Mark

2110
01:55:10,520 --> 01:55:14,280
Speaker 2: Lamar Jackson. This is back in twenty twenty one when

2111
01:55:14,280 --> 01:55:17,320
Speaker 2: the Bill's Mafia decided they would also raise money for

2112
01:55:17,400 --> 01:55:24,120
Speaker 2: Lamar Jackson's favorite charity. The Bills beat the Ravens seventeen

2113
01:55:24,160 --> 01:55:26,800
Speaker 2: to third, three of them that year, and they launched

2114
01:55:26,800 --> 01:55:31,040
Speaker 2: a campaign on social media. The charity was called Blessings

2115
01:55:31,040 --> 01:55:34,600
Speaker 2: in a Backpack and it provides free food for children

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Speaker 2: to eat on the weekends and then three days. Somehow,

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Speaker 2: the Bill's Mafia helped manage raise four hundred and fifty

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Speaker 2: thousand dollars on Lamar Jackson's behalf. Jackson then issued a

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Speaker 2: statement through the Blessings in a Backpack on Twitter site,

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Speaker 2: thanking Bill's Mafia. Said quote, Now, this is back on

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Speaker 2: January twentieth of twenty twenty one. We're excited to share

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Speaker 2: this quote from Lamar Jackson to Bill's Mafia. Since Saturday's

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Speaker 2: game between the Buffalo Bills and Ravens, four hundred and

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Speaker 2: forty eight thousand, five hundred donating the Blessings in a

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Speaker 2: Backpack by this is staggering. Sixteen four hundred and fifty

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Speaker 2: fans chose to jump in that they say will create

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Speaker 2: one hundred and twelve thousand hunger free weekends. All right.

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Speaker 2: Lamar Jackson went on to say, your acts of kindness

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Speaker 2: and generosity have not gone unnoticed. It is greatly appreciated.

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Speaker 2: Give it up to Bill's Mafia two times now in

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Speaker 2: five years, first Lamar Jackson and now Mark Andrews. Now.

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Speaker 2: The Bill's Mafia is very well known for their Tailgate antics,

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Speaker 2: their wild tail Gate annex. And again that wasn't even

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Speaker 2: the first time they went into a fundraising effort. They

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Speaker 2: did the same earlier that same year. In twenty twenty

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Speaker 2: one to honor Josh Allen's late grandmother, and Josh Allen

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Speaker 2: was at a loss for words. Remember they also help

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Speaker 2: donate to Andy Dalton's charity after Dalton helped Buffalo get

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Speaker 2: into the postseason a few years ago. So look, Bill's

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Speaker 2: mafia is more than about jumping through flaming tables, and

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Speaker 2: people are very grateful for that. And by the way,

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Speaker 2: if you get a chance, watch the Four Falls of Buffalo.

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Speaker 2: It's the best esp in thirty that they ever have produced.

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Speaker 2: And it's hard to root against this team. If Buffalo

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Speaker 2: wins Sunday, I think it'll be phenomenal to get to

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Speaker 2: that Super Bowl. But gosh, if they lose that fifth one,

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Speaker 2: here comes Joe Public again. By the way, one last thing,

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Speaker 2: you know, Andy Dalton help the Buffalo Bills get to

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Speaker 2: the postseason, if you recall back in twenty eighteen by

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Speaker 2: beating the Baltimore Ravens. And on Monday, Dalton took to

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Speaker 2: Twitter to think all the Bill fans the Monday after

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Speaker 2: the game who donated to his charitable foundation. So look,

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Speaker 2: the Bills, their fans have a reputation for doing some

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Speaker 2: moutlandish things, but you gotta respect them, man, and they're

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Speaker 2: gesture in the humanity. They got a body of work. Now.

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Speaker 2: Now let's see if the Bills what they can do,

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Speaker 2: what they can do on this weekend. It's gonna be

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Speaker 2: a hell of a doubleheader. There's just no two ways

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Speaker 2: about it. I do think the Chiefs prevail until someone

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Speaker 2: goes in there and beats them in January to get

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Speaker 2: the Super Bowl like Cincinnati did a few years ago.

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Speaker 2: Gonna be a tough nut. And I think Philadelphia will

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Speaker 2: beat Washington, no disrespect to Washington. I think they're gonna

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Speaker 2: meet their maker. I just simply believe that's what's going

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Speaker 2: to happen. That thirtieth ranked run defense is gonna show up.

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Speaker 2: And I don't think Philly's gonna turn the ball over

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Speaker 2: five times, simple as that it's gonna do. For the

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Speaker 2: Bernie Frattle Show back on these airwaves Saturday night at

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Speaker 2: eleven PM. Keep it locked up. Next The Fellas, Fox

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