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

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Speaker 2: Oh, good morning, Welcome in, Happy Thursday, Happy New Year,

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Speaker 2: twenty twenty six.

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Speaker 1: Let's get after it. I'll tell you what Jeff.

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Speaker 2: Twenty twenty five ended in maybe the best way possible

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Speaker 2: for myself. Not only was I right about Ohio State

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Speaker 2: being ripe for the picking and losing out right, I'll

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Speaker 2: tell you what I Finally, Jeff, I don't know how

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Speaker 2: I can accurately describe this. And we'll get to your

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Speaker 2: ducks here momentarily take it on Texas Tech. But I

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Speaker 2: can't describe to you how it has hurt my soul

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Speaker 2: year in and year out to lose the annual Mario

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Speaker 2: Kart showdown to my nephew Mini Matt. Every single year

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Speaker 2: he beats me. He'll maybe he'll win. Seventeen to fifteen,

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Speaker 2: we do thirty two races.

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Speaker 3: Old school.

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Speaker 2: Let's get out and we document it. We film it,

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Speaker 2: We do a whole thing.

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Speaker 4: Man.

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Speaker 2: We take a picture, we put all the bells and

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Speaker 2: whist those, the graphic on it, and there it goes.

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Speaker 2: That's another year in the books. I have won this

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Speaker 2: thing once, right, it goes all the way back to

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Speaker 2: like nine. We've done it every year. I've won it once.

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Speaker 2: It was a decade ago, in twenty fifteen. And you

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Speaker 2: know what happened yesterday, Jeff, I want to yet, finally,

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Speaker 2: victory is mine. I tasted the sweet nectar of wins

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Speaker 2: here and I got it done and it was sweet.

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Speaker 4: Man.

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Speaker 1: I just want to tell you where were yet? Oh

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Speaker 1: it was at least I.

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Speaker 2: Would say at least plus two I would say plus

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Speaker 2: two fifteen.

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Speaker 3: So we're like in Miami territory here, yeah.

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Speaker 2: Right around there, yep, yeah, yeah, that's where I was.

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Speaker 2: And I just I showed the physicality just like you

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Speaker 2: know the O line, the D line, like you know.

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Speaker 1: Baine Junior and Messidor. That was me.

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Speaker 2: I showed real physicality during the Mario Kart showdown yesterday

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Speaker 2: and I got it done. Man, it was fantastic. You

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Speaker 2: would have saluted me like great driving. Note I think

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Speaker 2: you would have said that great driving. No is what

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Speaker 2: you would have said.

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Speaker 3: I probably would have said that, you know me very well,

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Speaker 3: that's right. My uh. We got my son a PS

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Speaker 3: five for Hanukkah, and my wife went with him to

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Speaker 3: like gameshop to buy games and there was a Mortal Kombat,

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Speaker 3: like old school Mortal Kombat and she convinced my son

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Speaker 3: to get it, and he's like, what's in Mortal Kombat? Mom?

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Speaker 3: Like why would I get this? And he's had the

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Speaker 3: most fun playing it.

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Speaker 1: Oh, nice, Okay.

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Speaker 3: We've been playing with him. So I beat him the

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Speaker 3: first time we played, and I was like, bro, what

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Speaker 3: are you doing? Like you're He's like, Dad, I'm like

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Speaker 3: trying to like press this button. Like, dude, just start

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Speaker 3: spamming buttons, bro, like just start just start mashing the keypad, like.

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Speaker 1: Just starting yeah, And he's.

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Speaker 3: Like really, I'm like, yes, just start hitting buttons. Who

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Speaker 3: cares what moves they do, Just start start mashing stuff.

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Speaker 3: He's like really, Dad, I'm like yes. And then he

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Speaker 3: started mashing up and beat me immediate like just like

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Speaker 3: I'm like, what are you like, stop being so perfrading.

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Speaker 3: He's like, Dad, I'm trying to block and I'm setting

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Speaker 3: out my move of no, don't do any of that.

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Speaker 3: Just start pressing buttons. And finally he started pressing buttons

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Speaker 3: because his mom smoked him, Like Meredith came out just

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Speaker 3: like beat them multiple times, just fifteen times in a row,

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Speaker 3: like buddy, great, Like Buddy, you have to start just

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Speaker 3: hitting buttons stop because my son's very analytical and very.

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Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, yeah, I'm trying to go with this this

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Speaker 2: complex combo and I'm a little slow with it, so

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Speaker 2: it's not doing it. And you're like, bro, just just

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Speaker 2: mash him, man.

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Speaker 3: Just start hitting buttons. So he started hitting buttons and

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Speaker 3: he's been so much better. So the joy of playing

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Speaker 3: some of these old school video games is a lot

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Speaker 3: of fun. I play them a couple of times. And

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Speaker 3: we obviously we don't have Mario Kart. They'll probably have

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Speaker 3: it for PS five.

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Speaker 1: Right, I don't know, they might.

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Speaker 3: They might have to switch. I mean, he's got a switch,

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Speaker 3: and we can get it for his switch. I would imagine.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it should be there too. I love the old

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Speaker 1: school version. Man, the old school. That's what we've done.

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Speaker 3: Would you play on sixty four?

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Speaker 1: Uh no, it's just a wi It's just like the.

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Speaker 3: Wheel. Okay, yeah, yeah, we used to have a WEE.

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Speaker 3: I don't know if we still do. Uh if not,

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Speaker 3: I mean it's gotta be. My house is eight years old.

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Speaker 3: It's got nine years it's gotta be nine years old.

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Speaker 3: If we have a Wii and then we got we

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Speaker 3: would have got it when we built the house. I

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Speaker 3: mean we might still have it in the playroom. That'd

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Speaker 3: be pretty funny. Fucking find it for us.

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Speaker 1: You should dust it off, man, get after it.

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Speaker 3: It's making me want one again.

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Speaker 1: We yes, I used to play we bowling. That was fun.

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Speaker 1: WE bowling was good.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and always throw the controller at the TV because

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Speaker 3: I used to put the thing on my wrist.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, you gotta strap in, man, you never know. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: that's right, that's right. Playing baseball sucked.

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Speaker 3: I'd get so mad because it would never get out

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Speaker 3: of the park.

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Speaker 1: I gotta flick the wrist. Yeah, I got it.

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Speaker 2: A real fast story. I gotta tell you. I have

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Speaker 2: to tell you. It's based on that reminded me. So

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Speaker 2: we're playing we tennis back in the day and it's

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Speaker 2: my younger nephew, Tie and he's a young kid, I

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Speaker 2: don't know, like three, maybe he was tiny, you know,

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Speaker 1: He's teaching me.

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Speaker 2: It's like, you got to flick the wrist and it

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Speaker 2: hits the ball really fast, right, And I'm like okay,

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Speaker 2: And I'm like all right. So I'm standing there and

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Speaker 2: I flick my wrist and I hear this like smack, and.

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Speaker 1: I'm like what in the world.

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Speaker 2: Like I look down and Tide's grabbing his head looking

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Speaker 2: at me like, ah, like you just hit me in

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Speaker 2: the back of the head. And it's one of those

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Speaker 2: things where it's like if you tell a kid or

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Speaker 2: say like, oh, buddy, are you okay, they freak out.

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Speaker 1: Man, they think they're gonna die.

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Speaker 2: They're like, I don't think I'm okay, And I'm just like, oh,

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Speaker 2: you're fine, and he was like, I guess I'm fine.

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Speaker 2: Like it just he just went with it, like I'm like, yeah,

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Speaker 2: you're fine. I think may in my old concussion maybe,

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Speaker 2: but you're fine. You're fine, and crazy cry it all.

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Speaker 3: It's great. It is crazy. How often if you just

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Speaker 1: Like okay, yeah, They're like I guess I'm good here.

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Speaker 1: Whatever they react how you react, that's right, Yeah, totally.

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Speaker 3: My wife will sometimes be like you to show more compassion.

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Speaker 1: I'm like, no, not really, it's all mental right, Like.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, we're preparing for sports, okay, meritith, that's right what

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Speaker 3: we're doing around. Yeah, we're hard we're hardcore. We're prepared.

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Speaker 3: Everything's fine. Like my favorite two is like Emmy got

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Speaker 3: year when I was out of town and my wife

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Speaker 3: would be at the games. She's not sports person at all,

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Speaker 3: like zero sports. She woun't play sports, like no idea.

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Speaker 3: She would text me like, and you got hit by

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Speaker 3: the ball. I'm saying something to the coach. I'm like, no,

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Speaker 3: you're not. Yeah, she's fine. I promise you. It sounded bad.

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Speaker 3: I promise you, she's gonna be okay, she's gonna be fine. No,

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Speaker 3: young at the coach, please of the other team. I

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Speaker 3: don't need that in my life. Please, don't you do it.

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Speaker 2: Anyways, by the way she did, she still like I

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Speaker 2: still thought it called for it. Yeah, yeah, you'll have

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Speaker 2: that sometimes I just yeah, yeah, the coach, I get it. Hey,

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Speaker 2: let's shift it to your ducks over here. So Oregon

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Speaker 2: taking on Texas Tech. It's a great, great matchup. I

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Speaker 2: can't wait for the battle in the trenches, like we

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Speaker 2: had that on full display last night with Ohio State

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Speaker 1: That was beautiful.

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Speaker 2: If you're into the battle in the trenches, Oregon's running game,

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Speaker 2: Texas Tech's D line, their front seven, it is gonna

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Speaker 4: Man.

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Speaker 1: But I'm curious what you think about the points spread

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Speaker 1: in this game, right, Jeff.

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Speaker 2: So it's ticked up a little bit. Oregon now favored

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Speaker 2: by two and a half. The total is ticked down,

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Speaker 2: stick down a couple of points down to fifty and

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Speaker 2: a half. Now, like, what do you think of the

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Speaker 2: movement with either of those?

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Speaker 3: So it's interesting based off of yesterday, because yesterday Miami

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Speaker 1: Like big time, big time.

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Speaker 3: Yeah right, yeah, nine and a half down to I

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Speaker 3: think like seven.

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Speaker 1: It was at least seven and a half. I don't

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Speaker 3: Yeah, but yeah, I'm curious to see where where the

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Speaker 3: motion comes in today. Vegas has been an organ this week.

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Speaker 3: They've been the Sharps have been an organ this week.

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Speaker 3: I don't know if that matters to anybody, but just

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Speaker 3: that's that's what it is really on the money line,

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Speaker 3: to be honest with the Organ money. Look, well, obviously

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Speaker 3: went to orgon. I'm wearing my Organ sweatshirt, I Organ

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Speaker 3: duck mug right now, drinking my coffee out.

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Speaker 1: Of you wearing duck socks.

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Speaker 3: I mean, no duck socks, but I probably I probably should. No,

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Speaker 3: here's the deal. So last night, and again I don't

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Speaker 3: want to use last night to reinforce a lot of

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Speaker 3: what I sort of have thought about this game. But uh,

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Speaker 3: Oregon has talked extensively this season about what happened in

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Speaker 3: the playoff last year to Ohio States and how this

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Speaker 3: season was about preparing to play in this game today,

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Speaker 3: Like that's what the whole season was about. And you

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Speaker 3: listen the players talk, you listen to the coaches talk.

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Speaker 3: Of course, winning games the market season mattered to them,

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Speaker 3: but the goal was to get here in a different

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Speaker 3: place than they were last year. Last year they were

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Speaker 3: beat up. If you listen to players talking, they practiced

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Speaker 3: too hard, they were beat up. They just kind of

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Speaker 3: weren't ready for the moment. And this year they've been

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Speaker 3: preparing to play in this game all season, and that

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Speaker 3: I think really matters. Texas Tech has not been here before,

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Speaker 3: and there is a it's a natural it's a natural

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Speaker 3: human emotion. I think Orgon felt this last year to

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Speaker 3: be very happy to be there. Now, you still play hard,

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Speaker 3: you still prepare hard. We're like Ohio State last year

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Speaker 3: was sort of like on a mission to win a championship,

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Speaker 3: you know, And I think that does matter in a

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Speaker 3: game like this, right when it's a close game, but

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Speaker 3: one team has been there before the other team hasn't.

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Speaker 3: And we talked about Ohio State and and and their schedule.

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Speaker 3: I mean Texas Tech has played Nope, I mean yeah, okay,

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Speaker 3: b YU, but by us is not. They lose to

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Speaker 3: every playoff team right like they just would every every

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Speaker 3: power for a playoff team. Utah great season, can't pass

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Speaker 3: the football. They're not the same team as Oregon. And

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Speaker 3: I just think that those two things way heavy on

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Speaker 1: Absolutely will try today.

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Speaker 3: That's what kind of gets me geeked about what Orgon

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Speaker 1: How about this, What would you say to this, Jeff.

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Speaker 2: If if you were to say, hey, Oregon does this

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Speaker 1: What would it be for each team?

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Speaker 3: If we don't turn the ball over, we're going to win?

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Speaker 1: Okay, I I could you know.

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Speaker 3: There's an organ account that does like a ton of

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Speaker 3: it makes sense they did something where like if Texas

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Speaker 3: I wasn't prepared for this, but it is important. Texas

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Speaker 3: sixty yards or more okay, yep. On a short field

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Speaker 3: they have had score touched on fifty percent of the time. Wow,

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Speaker 3: they have had They've had twenty nine percent touchdown rate,

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Speaker 3: So that that's turnovers, right, that's the forced ton of turnovers.

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Speaker 3: And so if we don't turn the ball over, we're

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Speaker 1: How about the other way, how about Tech?

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Speaker 3: I think if if so, Oregon has lost seven games

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Speaker 3: in Dan Lanning, all seven have one thing in common.

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Speaker 3: The opponents scored at least thirty points all seven losses.

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Speaker 3: It's kind of crazy, right, Oregon is forty zero or

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Speaker 3: Dan Lanning. When the opponent scores less than thirty points.

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Speaker 1: It's pretty good. So it's undefeated, right there.

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Speaker 3: I think we're seven and seven when scoring more when

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Speaker 3: a ton of racers of the game. Of course, Oregon

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Speaker 3: Now, if the opponent scores more than thirty points, I think

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Speaker 3: like it's so to me, that's so if Tech's got

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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, it's deeper than that. I get it.

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Speaker 3: you right now, it's gonna happen. Org's gonna sit the

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Speaker 1: There you go.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, you gotta you gotta be like Carson Beck

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Speaker 2: You got to execute all the way downfield, like like

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I hear he.

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Speaker 3: I I you know, like organist struggle and most teams

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Speaker 3: I think a couple of things. I think all those

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Speaker 1: So wow, look at you.

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Speaker 3: I can sort of ignore my emotions to kick off.

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Speaker 1: Okay, but the nerves just hit you all at once.

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Speaker 1: That's what's gonna happen.

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Speaker 3: It's not gonna be good. But again, I feel good.

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Speaker 3: I feel good. It's the probably the best I can

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Speaker 2: It is Fox Sports Radio. He's Jeff Schwartz. I'm Brian, though,

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Speaker 2: worn for two pros and a cup of Joe. A

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Speaker 2: hotly debated topic is who's this year's MVP. The most

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Speaker 1: Buy you some. Let's go all right, We've.

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Speaker 2: Got the NFL on the brain as well, Jeff. We're

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Speaker 2: all geeked for the college football playoff games today. We've

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Speaker 2: got three of them, nice little triple header today, and

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Speaker 2: we will get to Bama getting smacked around like the

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Speaker 2: fools gold frauds that they are. We'll get to that

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Speaker 2: here momentarily, but let's focus on the NFL for a bit,

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Speaker 2: shall we. We've got Week eighteen. Now, this is not

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Speaker 2: one of the huge Week eighteen headlines, but just for

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Speaker 2: a minute, I think it's an interesting story. So the

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Speaker 2: Cowboys they released Trayvon Diggs.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, right, it wasn't that long ago.

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Speaker 2: Trayvon Diggs having pick six after pick six and right

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Speaker 2: like he made a name for himself.

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Speaker 1: He had a big impact.

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Speaker 2: And now he was claimed off of waivers by the Packers,

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Speaker 2: and so the question is he's got the name, does

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Speaker 2: he still have that game?

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Speaker 3: Right? Like?

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Speaker 2: Is this a remember when the Packers let Jayir Alexander

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Speaker 2: go and he went to the Ravens and there was

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Speaker 2: a lot of buzz like, oh, alrighty he linked up

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Speaker 2: with his former college teammate Lamar Jackson. He's still got

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Speaker 2: some game. He's been banged up like crazy, He's made

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Speaker 2: no impact whatsoever. So do you think Diggs, even though

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Speaker 2: he's got the name, does he have the game? Does

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Speaker 2: he make an impact for the Packers down the stretch year?

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Speaker 3: If he was that good, the Cowboys would have kept them, right,

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Speaker 3: I mean this is a premium position. Yeah, and you're

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Speaker 3: just not letting these guys go if they're still good. Right,

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Speaker 3: You're not again, it's a premium position. You just signed

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Speaker 3: too long term contract. It would seem foolish to think

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Speaker 3: that he has enough skills to help a team in

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Speaker 3: the playoffs right now. Look, there are defensive pass rusher essentially,

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Speaker 3: right defensive end, cornerback, wide receiver. I mean, you're just

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Speaker 3: not letting these guys go if they're that good. You know,

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Speaker 3: it's it's funny because you know when the Pacers so

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Speaker 3: many years let guys go to early and everyone was

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Speaker 3: always questioned, like, how how can they do that? And

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Speaker 3: they go to the next team they're not very good

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Speaker 3: like that that that is what the Cowboys are basically saying,

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Speaker 3: he's not good enough anymore, because don't he'd be a

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Speaker 3: piece you want to build around next season, right, You're

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Speaker 3: just you're the They could even wait to the head

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Speaker 3: the rhythm now. They couldn't wait till March now, So no,

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Speaker 3: I mean, the Packers have whole slew issues. They can't

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Speaker 3: rush the passer. That doesn't change with digs in the.

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Speaker 2: Lineup, right, and think about that too. They know he

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Speaker 2: can go anywhere. And of course he went to the Packers,

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Speaker 2: the team that you know, the Packers traded for Micah Parsons.

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Speaker 2: And I don't think the Cowboys would be like, yeah,

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Speaker 2: maybe he'll resurface with the Packers.

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Speaker 1: It's all good.

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Speaker 2: Like if to your point at all, right, if he

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Speaker 2: was an impact player, if they thought he was still

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Speaker 2: a difference maker, there's no way they would part with

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Speaker 2: him and to like outright release him, right, They they

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Speaker 2: put him on waivers. So yeah, that's that's you could

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Speaker 2: argue this, Hey, it changes scenery. Maybe this is motivating,

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Speaker 2: Maybe this is a you know, the boost that he needed.

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Speaker 2: Anything's possible here, but it's unlikely. I think of it

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Speaker 2: back to I mean, this was a much older player

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Speaker 2: at the time.

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Speaker 1: But you know, these people were.

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Speaker 2: Like, oh my gosh, McNabb was trade to a team

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Speaker 2: in the division, and it's like, yeah, the Eagles traded

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Speaker 2: him to the Redskins at the time because they didn't

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Speaker 2: think he could play anymore.

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Speaker 1: They would never have done that if they thought he

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Speaker 1: could play.

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Speaker 3: Correct correct, right, Like, I mean, the Cowboys knew this,

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Speaker 3: knowing that he could go and sign with Philly, like

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Speaker 3: they didn't care, Like they just don't they care because

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Speaker 3: they knew he wasn't good enough to play anymore the

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Speaker 3: level that he was being paid, and so they said

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Speaker 3: audio which again, I mean that that happened is rare.

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Speaker 3: It happens this time of year. But maybe there was

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Speaker 3: some locker room issues and some cultural fit issues and

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Speaker 3: they just thought better to do this now the way

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Speaker 3: to the offseason, which is certainly a fair thing for

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Speaker 3: the Cowboys to do. As crazy as Jerry Jones is

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Speaker 3: they actually draft really well. Yeah, if Jerry Jones just

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Speaker 3: like let the people that he pays do their job,

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Speaker 3: the Cowboys would win more playoff comes and being the posies.

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Speaker 3: More of the problem is Jerry sabotages all this at

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Speaker 3: all times. I mean, there's talk now that he will

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Speaker 3: not negotiate with with George Pikett's potentially because we'll get

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Speaker 3: a the same agent that Dak has is the agent

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Speaker 3: for Pikets. And I mean, I don't know if you're

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Speaker 3: signing if you re signed Pickets. Anyways, I'm kind of

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Speaker 3: firmly against paying two wide receivers.

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Speaker 1: It works so well for the Bengals though, Jeff, you know, like,

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Speaker 1: I mean.

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Speaker 3: Look, who's it worked well for the Eagles, I guess,

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Speaker 3: but this year it hasn't. Right, the Dolphins paid Waddle

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Speaker 3: and two. How's that working out for them? Yeah, it

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Speaker 3: doesn't like you need to spend your money elsewhere, right

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Speaker 3: in a hard cap league, you can be with the cap, absolutely,

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Speaker 3: but paying two of those guys just does not make

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Speaker 3: sense to me. And so I think that we're at

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Speaker 3: that point with the Cowboys where you choose between the

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Speaker 3: lamb and pickuts, and maybe you choose maybe you end

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Speaker 3: up choosing uh Pickens over Lamb, but I wouldn't. I mean, Pittsburgh,

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Speaker 3: who has dealt with wide receiver headaches for years, said yeah,

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Speaker 3: we're dealt with Pickens, and he knew it was a

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Speaker 3: contract season. I could see him just started being on

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Speaker 3: his best behavior right now, and as soon as he

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Speaker 3: gets paid, we get back to the worst of Pickings.

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Speaker 2: By the way, what a weird season for Pickens because

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Speaker 2: throughout most of the season he is outstanding and then

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Speaker 2: down there when this is like final impression territory, right.

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Speaker 2: It was what against the Vikings, wasn't it where Ceedee

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Speaker 2: Lamb gets banged up? And I don't know what it

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Speaker 2: was with Pickens, Like he's stuck in second gear the

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Speaker 2: whole game.

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Speaker 1: He's not given full effort. It's like, what is what's

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Speaker 1: going on right now? How does that happen? No, it

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Speaker 1: was against the Lions.

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Speaker 2: Because it was against the Lions, Ceedee Lamb got banged up.

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Speaker 2: I'm in ross Saint Brown was banged up that game,

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Speaker 2: full effort, like fifth gear.

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Speaker 1: The whole game.

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Speaker 2: And then you had George Pickens who's like in second,

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Speaker 2: third gear the whole game. It's like bro you're the guy,

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Speaker 2: You're the main guy. And he was just like, eh,

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Speaker 2: I'm just gonna kind of go half motion.

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Speaker 1: That was unbelievable.

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Speaker 2: I don't know how that happens, especially when you're in

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Speaker 2: line for a huge payday.

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Speaker 1: What is going on right there?

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Speaker 3: I think that has been him for a lot of

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Speaker 3: his career, just was sort of unnoticed because in Dallas,

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Speaker 3: I just say, because of Lamb. And when you have

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Speaker 3: so many eyeballs to Lamb allows to the work one

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Speaker 3: on one he knows is getting the ball. When he's

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Speaker 3: being double team now and more eyeballs to him, maybe

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Speaker 3: there's not as much effort, which isn't which is sort

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Speaker 3: of a divot on him, right that you have to have,

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Speaker 3: you know, you know, we see wide received all the

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Speaker 3: time that are being double team still continue to give

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Speaker 3: the same effort, and he just hasn't done that. And

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Speaker 3: again that's a problem for him in Pittsburgh too, But

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Speaker 3: you know, no one really pay attention to as much

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Speaker 3: because it was Pittsburgh. Now it's in Dallas, and people

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Speaker 3: are paying attention a little bit more to his effort levels.

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Speaker 1: That's all right, no doubt.

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Speaker 2: Okay, So we said this last Sunday, like we do

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Speaker 2: countdown to kickoff each Sunday here on Fox Sports Radio.

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Speaker 1: It's me, It's the Schwartz Syndicate.

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Speaker 2: It's our guy, Bill Krackenberger, professional sports handicapper. But you

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Speaker 2: said something last Sunday, Jeff, where you're like, I hope

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Speaker 2: that the Niners beat the Bears on Sunday Night football,

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Speaker 2: and it sets up this week eighteen for the division

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Speaker 2: for the one seed scenario Seahawks Niners, And you're like,

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Speaker 2: I can't wait to fade Darnold now that this is

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Speaker 2: the matchup. Do you still feel this way? Are you

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Speaker 2: still rolling with San Francisco and fading Donald?

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Speaker 3: I am, but their defense is so bad.

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Speaker 1: It's so bad.

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Speaker 3: It is not a wager that I have made yet.

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Speaker 3: And I also swore of NFL side for the most

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Speaker 3: part of that. I just their defense. It's not in

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Speaker 3: their fault. They lost Bosa and Williams and Warner. It's

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Speaker 3: hard when you lose all your guys, right, so it's

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Speaker 3: not really anyone's fault, per se. But they can't stop

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Speaker 3: a nosebleed man. And you know this is it for

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Speaker 3: Darnald If Donald can't play well in the situation, with

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Speaker 3: this defense the way it is right now, like there's

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Speaker 3: no hope for him. But look, here's the thing. He's

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Speaker 3: played the Rams twice this year through six interceptions, right

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Speaker 3: he last year Week eighteen, need to win the game

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Speaker 3: played terribly, playoff game played terribly. And so it's a

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Speaker 3: fit of Sam Darnold, man, and it's a fatas Sam Darnald.

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Speaker 3: Also a hat tip to Kyle Shanahan, who's done an

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Speaker 3: incredible job this season and his team is prepared, they're

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Speaker 3: ready to play Brock perty. Look we got guys, you

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Speaker 3: have to get over the rock party draft pick like.

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Speaker 3: It's not he he's he's bawling man like he might

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Speaker 3: have not have the physical gifts of Josh Allen or

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Speaker 3: Joe Burrow or Patrick Mahomes. But dude is playing incredibly

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Speaker 3: well on this offense. He's a very good football player.

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Speaker 3: He's doing everything ask him. He's made a Super Bowl,

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Speaker 3: by the way, like he's done, he's done at a

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Speaker 3: high level. He's playing really really well right now. And

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Speaker 3: Niners offense is Shanahan. It's it's doing an incredible, incredible

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Speaker 3: job right now. Coach of the year market right, Shanahan

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Speaker 3: and Mike Rabel. We have to stop awarding giving these

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Speaker 3: awards out based on the final two weeks of the season.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. Sure. For example, Stafford things.

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Speaker 3: Right, if there's three awards that are coming down to

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Speaker 3: this weekend, it's Coach of the Year between Rabel and Shanahan,

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Speaker 3: It's Offensive Rookie of the Year between McMillan and Shock essentially,

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Speaker 3: uh huh. And then it's MVP Stafford and Drake May

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Speaker 3: And for I thought, the award is most valuable right

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Speaker 3: or Coach of the year for the season, not MVP

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Speaker 3: of December.

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Speaker 1: Right, that's right? Yeah, not Stafford, a Player of the

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Speaker 1: month award, not the MVP.

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Speaker 3: Yeah sure, I almost would you crack brude Matt Stafford

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Speaker 3: two games ago through four hundred and fifty yards on

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Speaker 3: the road at Seattle, Yeah, one about half against the Rams.

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Speaker 3: He's no longer the MVP. What are we doing?

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Speaker 1: Listen?

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Speaker 2: Man, there was a great I'm gonna try to find

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Speaker 2: it real fast. You probably saw this as well, but

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Speaker 2: Dan Orlovsky put out a tweet that was amazing about

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Speaker 2: this Stafford thing and the competition, and I got a

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Speaker 2: lot of notes here, Holy cow gosh, and uh we

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Speaker 2: got to get to your boy, Chip Kelly at Northwestern.

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Speaker 1: What my Okay, that's that's a little different, but uh,

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Speaker 1: here we go. Here it is.

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Speaker 2: This is the tweet from Dan Olafski. Okay, So touchdown

655
00:31:05,080 --> 00:31:09,480
Speaker 2: passes against teams with eleven plus wins this season, all right?

656
00:31:10,040 --> 00:31:13,560
Speaker 2: Like the quality of competition these opponents have won at

657
00:31:13,640 --> 00:31:14,800
Speaker 2: least eleven games.

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Speaker 1: All right.

659
00:31:15,560 --> 00:31:20,600
Speaker 2: Stafford has thrown twenty touchdown passes against eleven plus win

660
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Speaker 2: teams this season. That's the most in NFL history. Drake

661
00:31:24,520 --> 00:31:28,560
Speaker 2: May has thrown zero, not a one, and he did

662
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Speaker 2: a good job. He was like, not a knock on

663
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Speaker 2: Drake May. Just context of competition, right, this is just context.

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Speaker 1: Is not hatred.

665
00:31:36,560 --> 00:31:39,400
Speaker 2: This is not Oh, Drake May has been fantastic. He's

666
00:31:39,440 --> 00:31:41,720
Speaker 2: not saying that, but he's like, in terms of the

667
00:31:41,840 --> 00:31:45,680
Speaker 2: quality of competition and who's done what against who, Like,

668
00:31:46,040 --> 00:31:49,320
Speaker 2: Stafford has had more opportunities against eleven win teams. But

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Speaker 2: you're throwing the most touchdown passes in NFL history and

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Speaker 2: we're just gonna cancel him moucuse he had a horrible

671
00:31:56,480 --> 00:31:58,880
Speaker 2: game against the Falcons and everybody watched it. It's in

672
00:31:59,320 --> 00:32:02,160
Speaker 2: Monday night foot ball, prime time, standalone game like it's

673
00:32:02,160 --> 00:32:03,120
Speaker 2: just an overreaction.

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Speaker 1: It is.

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Speaker 3: Drake May got up to minus five hundred for the MVP. Wow,

676
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Speaker 3: it's come back down a little bit to like in

677
00:32:12,600 --> 00:32:17,080
Speaker 3: the two hundred range. But I am probably gonna take

678
00:32:17,120 --> 00:32:19,080
Speaker 3: some Stafford body this way. I don't know how you don't.

679
00:32:19,000 --> 00:32:21,120
Speaker 2: Like I just that's the only bet you can make.

680
00:32:21,200 --> 00:32:23,640
Speaker 2: You can't price with Drake at this point.

681
00:32:23,720 --> 00:32:27,000
Speaker 3: No, And it's just it's just again like I I

682
00:32:27,920 --> 00:32:30,560
Speaker 3: you just should do these awards are not best Player

683
00:32:30,600 --> 00:32:33,000
Speaker 3: in December, it's not. And mass Effort to me, has

684
00:32:33,120 --> 00:32:36,280
Speaker 3: been the MVP this season. He's an incredible jog. You

685
00:32:36,280 --> 00:32:37,760
Speaker 3: remember he like they was talking about him not even

686
00:32:37,800 --> 00:32:39,240
Speaker 3: playing this season because it's backwards.

687
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Speaker 1: That's that's why we were kind of fading. The rams

688
00:32:41,920 --> 00:32:43,560
Speaker 1: were like the off seat.

689
00:32:43,760 --> 00:32:46,360
Speaker 2: It was the it was training camp and McVeigh would

690
00:32:46,360 --> 00:32:49,600
Speaker 2: come out and be like, hey, guys, he was on

691
00:32:49,760 --> 00:32:52,880
Speaker 2: schedule to practice this week. It's not gonna be this week.

692
00:32:53,840 --> 00:32:56,320
Speaker 2: It might not be next week either. Where there's like

693
00:32:56,760 --> 00:32:59,960
Speaker 2: this doesn't sound good at all. And he's been phenomenal

694
00:33:00,160 --> 00:33:03,440
Speaker 2: old this season except for against the Falcons.

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Speaker 3: But just a half right, Like I know, is that horrible?

696
00:33:06,520 --> 00:33:09,080
Speaker 3: Like yeah, I know, this doesn't This isn't maybe the

697
00:33:09,120 --> 00:33:11,720
Speaker 3: best way to frame it, but like, there was a

698
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Speaker 3: long pass to Puka in a qua that would have

699
00:33:14,600 --> 00:33:16,800
Speaker 3: put the Rams in the red zone down fourteen nothing

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00:33:16,880 --> 00:33:19,000
Speaker 3: I think it was, and he got they got called

701
00:33:19,040 --> 00:33:23,440
Speaker 3: for legal formation and it was it was like that

702
00:33:23,520 --> 00:33:25,120
Speaker 3: play would have made such a big difference in the game.

703
00:33:25,160 --> 00:33:26,640
Speaker 3: Of course, every there's a ton of plays that make

704
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Speaker 3: a difference, but the point is like that, like those,

705
00:33:29,880 --> 00:33:31,520
Speaker 3: there's a couple of plays here and there, the Mattern

706
00:33:31,640 --> 00:33:33,360
Speaker 3: games and like that would have changed the perception of

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Speaker 3: of Matt Stafford immensely in this.

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Speaker 1: Absolutely it would have.

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Speaker 2: And you know, the near catch at the very end

710
00:33:38,840 --> 00:33:41,959
Speaker 2: of the game, like Puka looked like he one handed

711
00:33:42,240 --> 00:33:46,240
Speaker 2: a brilliant throw, looked like an insane catch, and the

712
00:33:46,280 --> 00:33:48,880
Speaker 2: ball just came out. It came loose, just for a

713
00:33:48,920 --> 00:33:51,640
Speaker 2: millisecond when his feet weren't down. That that's that's not

714
00:33:51,760 --> 00:33:53,680
Speaker 2: a catch. That is not And it looked like they're

715
00:33:53,720 --> 00:33:55,080
Speaker 2: going to be in field goal range.

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Speaker 1: But man, that was why people arguing.

717
00:33:57,680 --> 00:33:59,440
Speaker 3: I fell asleep, I woke up in the morning and

718
00:33:59,480 --> 00:34:01,120
Speaker 3: saw people are uing that it was a catch.

719
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Speaker 1: They're stupid people.

720
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Speaker 3: Catch.

721
00:34:04,160 --> 00:34:04,840
Speaker 1: It's not a catch.

722
00:34:05,720 --> 00:34:07,160
Speaker 3: Lost the ball. I don't, I don't.

723
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Speaker 1: And they're like, I don't even know what it catches.

724
00:34:10,320 --> 00:34:12,080
Speaker 1: If that's not a catch, I don't even know what

725
00:34:12,120 --> 00:34:14,920
Speaker 1: I'm doing watching. It's like you don't understand the rules, man,

726
00:34:14,920 --> 00:34:15,839
Speaker 1: I don't know what to tell you.

727
00:34:15,880 --> 00:34:18,239
Speaker 3: Like it feels like there's other battles to pick, not

728
00:34:18,400 --> 00:34:20,120
Speaker 3: that's not the play to pick your battle.

729
00:34:19,920 --> 00:34:23,200
Speaker 2: Right, It's like the argument was, but it looks so

730
00:34:23,440 --> 00:34:26,279
Speaker 2: cool it should be a catch. It's like, dude, it's

731
00:34:26,440 --> 00:34:28,719
Speaker 2: not a catch. Sorry, Like you got to have a

732
00:34:28,760 --> 00:34:29,799
Speaker 2: better argument than that.

733
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Speaker 3: I don't know what people have, right, Like, just keep

734
00:34:33,040 --> 00:34:34,560
Speaker 3: keep the cool catch like that.

735
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Speaker 1: Yeah, it looked too cool. It's such a shame.

736
00:34:37,160 --> 00:34:39,600
Speaker 2: It's like, yeah it is, but it's not a catch.

737
00:34:39,680 --> 00:34:43,000
Speaker 2: So they ruled it correctly, Like shut up, like go

738
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Speaker 2: somewhere else.

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Speaker 1: You're not making any sense right now. It's such a

740
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Speaker 1: bad argument, man, that was really bad.

741
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Speaker 3: All right?

742
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Speaker 2: Coming up next, he's Jeff Schwartz, I'm Brian. Now we

743
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Speaker 2: have got more NFL to discuss before we get right

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00:34:56,160 --> 00:35:00,600
Speaker 2: back to the College Football Playoff Week eighteen Playoff implay cations.

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Speaker 2: What is your headlining act that's one thing we got

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Speaker 2: to dissect. Because my good friend Jeff Schwartz, he was

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Speaker 2: filling in doing another show. I was talking to my radio.

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Speaker 2: I disagreed with his conversation. So I was talking to

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Speaker 2: my radio and I thought it was great. But a

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Speaker 2: great job by him and his partner. We'll bring that

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Speaker 2: up coming up right around the corner. Keep it locked

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Speaker 2: right here. We're in for two pros and a cup

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Speaker 2: not by a darn site. Jeff Schwartz here, So Week

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Speaker 2: eighteen here's the thing. Every now and then we're wrong

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Speaker 2: about things. Jeff, You're just wrong about this, Okay. I

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Speaker 2: gotta bring something to your attention. The headlining game of

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Speaker 2: Week eighteen, like the Crescendo game. This is what closes

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Speaker 2: out Week eighteen with a bang Sunday Night football. It

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Speaker 2: is forty nine Ers hosting Seattle. That is the Crescendo game.

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Speaker 2: It is not Mid Baltimore against Mid Pittsburgh and the

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Speaker 2: AFC North.

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Speaker 1: I don't care. I don't care as much about that game.

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00:36:41,920 --> 00:36:44,440
Speaker 2: You're like, oh, they're definitely gonna put you know, raven

776
00:36:44,480 --> 00:36:46,920
Speaker 2: Steelers on Sunday Night Football, that you have to put

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00:36:46,960 --> 00:36:47,239
Speaker 2: it there.

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00:36:47,239 --> 00:36:51,040
Speaker 3: It's like, no, because the NFL always chooses the winning

779
00:36:51,080 --> 00:36:51,680
Speaker 3: get in game.

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Speaker 2: That's why I get that they do that. Or they're

781
00:36:54,400 --> 00:36:56,800
Speaker 2: making mistakes over here is what they're doing. Like that's

782
00:36:56,840 --> 00:36:59,440
Speaker 2: it's a much better game. It's a much better matchup.

783
00:36:59,640 --> 00:37:02,720
Speaker 2: These both San Francisco and Seattle have a much better

784
00:37:02,920 --> 00:37:06,080
Speaker 2: chance of having a deep run in the playoffs. Like

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00:37:06,440 --> 00:37:10,120
Speaker 2: they're both super Bowl contenders, Like the Ravens and Steelers

786
00:37:10,120 --> 00:37:13,759
Speaker 2: aren't even stiff sniffing super Bowl contention, Like why are

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00:37:13,760 --> 00:37:16,480
Speaker 2: we making that the headlining game. I think it's just silly.

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00:37:16,520 --> 00:37:18,640
Speaker 2: It should be it should be the battle for the

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Speaker 2: one seed. I think that means way more than the

790
00:37:21,000 --> 00:37:24,520
Speaker 2: battle for who makes it through this god awful division.

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Speaker 2: Like I know they have more history Ravens Steelers, but

792
00:37:27,760 --> 00:37:30,720
Speaker 2: right here, right now, no, they're mid they are average

793
00:37:30,760 --> 00:37:33,720
Speaker 2: teams at best. Don't want them to close out Week eighteen,

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00:37:33,760 --> 00:37:35,040
Speaker 2: don't want Oh sorry.

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Speaker 3: They're terrible. But the the enjoyment I'm gonna have of

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00:37:41,719 --> 00:37:44,720
Speaker 3: just like this game is gonna be as gross as possible.

797
00:37:45,560 --> 00:37:49,920
Speaker 3: Surprise Pittsburgh wins like people are and this is like

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00:37:49,920 --> 00:37:52,040
Speaker 3: a Mike Tomlin special, right with the whole time where

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Speaker 3: like the best time to bet against Mike Tomlin was last.

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Speaker 1: Week, right, that's right, that's right, and I did it.

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Speaker 3: I took, I took the Browns. The best time I

802
00:37:59,040 --> 00:38:01,200
Speaker 3: bet on them is in the this situation.

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Speaker 1: That's exactly right.

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00:38:02,120 --> 00:38:05,960
Speaker 3: Yeah, And so I'm looking forward to seeing how this

805
00:38:06,120 --> 00:38:08,640
Speaker 3: game goes. Look, La Marshall, he's gonna play, which thing.

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00:38:08,920 --> 00:38:11,399
Speaker 3: If he didn't play in this game, oh my gosh,

807
00:38:11,400 --> 00:38:12,960
Speaker 3: it would have been bad.

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00:38:13,200 --> 00:38:16,359
Speaker 2: I still I like, listen if he goes out there

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Speaker 2: and plays and the Ravens win, and especially if he

810
00:38:18,800 --> 00:38:22,440
Speaker 2: does anything, if he's productive at all, everybody will have amnesia.

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Speaker 2: No one will remember that he, you know, woossed out

812
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Speaker 2: that last week. I listen, man, he's got a bruise,

813
00:38:29,200 --> 00:38:31,560
Speaker 2: he has a back bruce, he's got an aUI is

814
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Speaker 2: what he has.

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Speaker 1: Like, suck it up, man.

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Speaker 2: How many quarterbacks in the NFL would have not only

817
00:38:36,760 --> 00:38:39,560
Speaker 2: been out there last week against the Packers, they wouldn't

818
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Speaker 2: have missed the second half against the Patriots.

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Speaker 1: It's a bruise, I get it.

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Speaker 2: It doesn't feel good, there's some discomfort, might affect your

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Speaker 2: your quality of play.

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Speaker 1: I get it.

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Speaker 2: But it's football, man. You gotta suck it up. And

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Speaker 2: it's weird like he's sucked up numerous injuries this year.

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Speaker 2: He's had, you know, a hammy, a knee, a toe

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Speaker 2: and ankle. Like he's had a lot of stuff he's

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Speaker 2: been gutting through. I just I don't understand why this

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Speaker 2: one has been like way more severe than the other ones.

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Speaker 2: It's a bruise, man, Like we've got we've got d J.

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Speaker 1: Watt.

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Speaker 2: He's tried to get out there with a partially collapsed

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Speaker 2: lung like that.

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Speaker 1: This guy was practicing last week.

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Speaker 2: Lamar is not even practicing, so he's got he has

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Speaker 2: no choice.

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Speaker 1: He's got to get out there. Man has to.

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Speaker 3: When I bring up to people that are sort of saying, well,

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Speaker 3: Lamar has you know, he shouldn't play you way too?

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Speaker 3: Is healthy? I say, would Patrick Mahoons have played absolutely?

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Speaker 3: Say I'm like, well, I mean, what shouldn't you expect

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Speaker 3: Lamar to play like he should? Yeah? And so I'm

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Speaker 3: again I think he looks like he's playing this weekend.

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Speaker 3: The gambling number suggests that right there being a three

844
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Speaker 3: point road favorites. But he has not played well now,

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Speaker 3: he's not played up to his standard because he's been hurt,

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Speaker 3: and so the numbers are really down. And again I

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Speaker 3: I I think it's an indictment that people even suggest

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Speaker 3: in Tyler Howley should play on Lamar even if Lamar

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Speaker 3: is not healthy. But the offense, if the offense is

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Speaker 3: so predicated on his ability to run, that's not a

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Speaker 3: great right like this is not And it seemed like

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Speaker 3: last week they were successful because Hunley ran the football,

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Speaker 3: which again I don't want my office he built around

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Speaker 3: a quarterback being able to run the ball like I

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Speaker 3: want my office to have that option, of course, but

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Speaker 3: to be built around the idea that we have to

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Speaker 3: complete passes in a normal offense like to win, right,

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Speaker 3: And so I'm curious to see obviously how this ends

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Speaker 3: up going if he does play. But I think Pittsburgh's

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Speaker 3: love to win this game. I don't think we should

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Speaker 3: discount them.

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Speaker 2: No, I think they are that. I think they're more

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Speaker 2: than live to win it. Yeah, what do you think

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Speaker 2: about the outside the box idea? My thought is with

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Speaker 2: a should they if Lamar can play, should they still

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Speaker 2: start huntly? Like they ran it like crazy against the Packers.

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Speaker 2: It's like they can run it like crazy it Just

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Speaker 2: give it to Derrick Henry even if Lamar is in there.

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Speaker 2: Just give it to Derrick Henry. You don't have to

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Speaker 2: sit Lamar to do that. We get to the CFP

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Speaker 2: coming up next