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Speaker 1: Please if you're listening to Fox Sports Radio Radio, if

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Speaker 1: you ask me, it's kind of fitting that the.

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Speaker 2: Ugliest division in football comes down to the last day

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Speaker 2: of the season in the ugliest possible weather. We are

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Speaker 2: watching an absolute you know what storm come through Tampa

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Speaker 2: and right now as we sit the Buccaneers are sitting

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Speaker 2: here with the six point halftime lead. Now, I will

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Speaker 2: remind everybody that if the Buccaneers win, the AFC South

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Speaker 2: is not finalized, there will still be a tiebreaker tomorrow

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Speaker 2: between the Falcons and the Saints. But if the Panthers

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Speaker 2: want to just make this easy, all they gotta do

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Speaker 2: is come out and win this game. And it seems

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Speaker 2: fitting to me. Usually I want football when it comes

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Speaker 2: down to the last moment to be the best of

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Speaker 2: both teams. I want it to be the best of

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Speaker 2: the Panthers. This is the best of the Buccaneers, with

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Speaker 2: absolutely no variables that make it less than the best.

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Speaker 3: But Buck, it feels fitting.

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Speaker 2: Bucking fits on Fox Sports Radio, Buck Rising Jason Fitz

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Speaker 2: that we are watching the ugliest of all divisions come

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Speaker 2: down to the ugg least of all football games.

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Speaker 3: Which division did you say was up for grabs?

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Speaker 2: The NFC South, Did I say the AFC South.

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Speaker 3: It's sure one could hit it.

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Speaker 4: Hardly blame you for assigning the hideousness of the football

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Speaker 4: that we have witnessed in the NFC South to the

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Speaker 4: AFC South, which is perpetually played hideous football as I

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Speaker 4: here to cover the Tits and the Jags, which promises

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Speaker 4: to be a different kind of ugly.

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Speaker 3: But yes, this is This is not.

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Speaker 4: A great situation for either of these teams to have

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Speaker 4: to be gutting it out in the elements. But what

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Speaker 4: more could you possibly want, FITZI, I love a rain

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Speaker 4: game Tampa is the brave Bucks fans who have seen

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Speaker 4: their team go from one of the hottest in the

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Speaker 4: NFL this season to pedestrian is pretty kind turnovers on

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Speaker 4: both sides with the ball. I'm surprised they're putting the

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Speaker 4: ball in the air as much as they have been

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Speaker 4: willing to throughout the course of this game. And it

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Speaker 4: looks like the rain is at least as they show

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Speaker 4: the stadium at halftime on the ESPN broadcast, it looks

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Speaker 4: like the rain is a little less. You can at

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Speaker 4: least the visibility appears to be better, so we'll see

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Speaker 4: if that has any impact on how well these two

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Speaker 4: teams can play in the second half. But as they

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Speaker 4: just show, Baker has nine interceptions in his last eight games.

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Speaker 4: Neither of these teams are overwhelmingly are, at least tonight

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Speaker 4: having success running the ball, and that's the thing that

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Speaker 4: we thought was going to be the Panther's superpower on offense.

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Speaker 4: Maybe not superpower, but one of the things that they're

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Speaker 4: better at. The rain continues to come down. Poor Peter

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Speaker 4: Schriker clearly unprepared for the elements, it seems, but it's

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Speaker 4: going to be pretty gross. Tampa Bay only allowing four

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Speaker 4: rushing yards in the first half of the game, so

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Speaker 4: Todd Bowles probably pretty pleased with that particular situation. But again,

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Speaker 4: the Bucks need this, I mean, they both need to

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Speaker 4: be able to get into the playoffs. The Bucks need

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Speaker 4: this and then some and then some. Basically, they no

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Speaker 4: longer control their own destiny. But right now, as they

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Speaker 4: lead thirteen to seven, with the second half getting ready

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Speaker 2: It's amazing how two teams come into the same game

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Speaker 2: with the same destiny possibly on the line, and it

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Speaker 2: feels so different for the two of them because Carolina

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Speaker 2: is so far ahead of where most people thought Carolina

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Speaker 2: would be. And look, I can't figure Carolina out if

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Speaker 2: they lose the division this year, if they lose this

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Speaker 2: game and then they lose the tiebreaker. Let's not get

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Speaker 2: it twisted. Getting swept by the Saints probably had something

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Speaker 2: that has been up and down at times. But the

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Speaker 2: fact that Carolina a team that you know, many people

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Speaker 2: were ready to give up on bryshung permanently.

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Speaker 3: Coming into this season.

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Speaker 2: Many people were wondering if Dave Canalis would be yet

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Speaker 2: another fired coach in a long line of fired coaches.

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Speaker 2: A lot of us just sat there and said, Okay,

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Speaker 2: even when the Panthers have been good, it feels like

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Speaker 2: they're still slightly irrelevant because they're the Panthers and they're

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Speaker 2: trendy pick coming into the season for some to win

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Speaker 2: the Super Bowl. They're taking on a Tampa Bay team

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Speaker 2: that started this season to your point, and now they've

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Speaker 2: just fallen apart. Now, part of that's injury. They've been

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Speaker 2: decimated everywhere. But even the fallout from this is so different.

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Speaker 2: If the Panthers lose this game, their fan base is

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Speaker 3: We almost got them. We're on the right track, right.

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Speaker 2: Coaches can tell the players look at this, we almost

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Speaker 3: We're on the right track.

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Speaker 2: And then you turn around to the Buccaneers side they

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Speaker 2: lose this, there are people out there that want Todd

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Speaker 2: like the way that this season is gone. Even though

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Speaker 2: these two teams are in the same game with the

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Speaker 2: same possible outlook out on the line. Man, the fallout

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Speaker 2: from a loss is wildly different for each of these franchises.

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Speaker 4: Well, and it's one of those things where the Bucks

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Speaker 4: have I mean, the Bucks have dominated this division.

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Speaker 3: And I know you can and.

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Speaker 4: Talk about the merits or lack thereof that winning this

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Speaker 4: division actually has, but still, like Todd Bowles and Baker

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Speaker 4: or five years at this point in time, I don't

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Speaker 4: think Todd Bowles since he's been the coach of the

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Speaker 4: Bucks has ever lost the division, So you know, maybe

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Speaker 4: it's it's I don't want to compare it to Mike

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Speaker 4: But just in terms of Bucks, Vans tired of hitting

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Speaker 4: they should be able to go farther in the postseason

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Speaker 4: than just winning their crappy division. Whereas for the Panthers,

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Speaker 4: to your point this, I mean, wasn't this supposed to

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Speaker 4: be a rebuilding year? Like if you told me that

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Speaker 4: the Panthers finished eight and nine or nine and eight,

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Speaker 4: however this is going to end up as they sit

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Speaker 4: have said, yeah, that's probably as good a situation as

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Speaker 4: didn't know about Bryce Young at this point. And I

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Speaker 4: still don't think we definitively know about Bryce Young. I

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Speaker 4: don't know that Carolina, we do know.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I think it's a tough sell. He's not that much.

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Speaker 4: Different of a player than the guy that got benched

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Speaker 4: of his career. Ted McMillan has clearly made a difference

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Speaker 4: that offensive line playing up to expectation, whereas in his

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Speaker 4: rookie year they were a nightmare, has significantly made a difference.

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Speaker 4: But again, is there already such an obvious ceiling for

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Speaker 4: a former number one overall pick here? And it's one

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Speaker 4: of those things where I don't know who who I

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Speaker 4: know about this defense. I don't know about the future

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Speaker 4: of Todd Bowles. I'm not really sure that either of

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Speaker 4: these teams have a very clear and obvious path forward

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Speaker 4: for their fan basis. Look around and be like, yeah,

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Speaker 4: this feels like we are on the correct track, even

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Speaker 4: though Panthers fans, to your point, would probably I think,

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Speaker 4: and most people associated with the organization, I think would

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Speaker 4: probably consider this season to be an overachievement.

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Speaker 2: If I had to bet my house, or we'll bet

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Speaker 2: your house, because that's a little more uncomfortable for everybody.

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Speaker 2: I bet your house, then we have to show up

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Speaker 2: know that I bet your house, You're gonna be mad

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Speaker 2: at me. It's gonna be a whole thing. So if

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Speaker 2: I had to bet your house, because I'm not bet mine,

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Speaker 2: on which one of these two teams would be better

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Speaker 2: for the next three years cumulative record, if I had

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Speaker 2: to make that bet, I would probably take Tampa Bay

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Speaker 2: because I can at least walk myself to the how

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Speaker 2: we got here with this under performance of the Buccaneers

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Speaker 3: And to your.

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Speaker 2: Point, as much as everybody, not everybody, there's a group

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Speaker 2: of people right now screaming about Todd Bowles. Tom Bowles

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Speaker 2: has always won the division and might still in a

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Speaker 2: year where people are trying to fire him, might still

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Speaker 2: win the division. This is the strange trajectory.

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Speaker 3: For every fan base. This is what happens. Right.

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Speaker 2: Your team suck and your team is terrible. They're in

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Speaker 2: you want everybody fired. Then your team starts to climb

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Speaker 2: out of that sea suck and they get into the

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Speaker 2: you know, the level of mediocrity, like they're living in

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Speaker 2: mediocrity village, right, So they get there and for a

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Speaker 2: few years they're like, yeah, we're winning eight nine games,

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Speaker 2: and then that happens for a few years, and all

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Speaker 2: of a sudden, as well, we need a playoff win.

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Speaker 2: Then you get a playoff win, and you're like, oh,

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Speaker 2: this is all a waste if we're not winning the

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Speaker 2: super Bowl. Rip it apart, You rip it apart, and

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Speaker 2: all of a sudden, you're right back to square one.

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Speaker 2: It is very rare for teams that are stuck in

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Speaker 2: suddenly gets fixed. So I know this is kind of

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Speaker 2: where we are as a society, and you and I

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Speaker 2: society where football fandom, sports fandom means if we didn't

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Speaker 2: get the result we expected this year, fire everybody. And

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Speaker 2: I don't know how you sustain that. It just feels

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Speaker 2: like that's for a lot of teams, for a lot

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Speaker 2: we're talking about the Buccaneers, right Like, there are a

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Speaker 2: ton of Bills fans out there that are looking around

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Speaker 2: saying fire and fire and fire. I'm like, there's only

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Speaker 2: team that won the Super Bowl was the Eagles, who

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Speaker 2: a year before that wanted to fire their coach. So like,

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Speaker 2: this is just the annual Todd Bowles is the annual

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Speaker 2: just trajectory of every fan base. Now, if you don't

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Speaker 2: like the result, your immediate thought isn't all right, how

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Speaker 2: do we get this better next year? It's everybody in

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Speaker 2: the room must suck at their job, and we got

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Speaker 2: to fire them all their bombs.

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Speaker 4: I'm gonna say something that is probably not gonna endear

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Speaker 4: me to the audience. Okay, I don't care what football

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Speaker 4: fans think about their football teams. Like I just don't care.

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Speaker 4: I don't care at all about the online online dialogue.

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Speaker 4: I don't care about message boards. I don't care about,

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Speaker 4: you know, the the constant griping and moaning about various

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Speaker 4: coaching decisions. I don't care what you think about your

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Speaker 4: play caller, because nobody seems to like their play caller

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Speaker 4: unless you're a team that likes their play caller and

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Speaker 4: is getting ready to hire have that play caller hired

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Speaker 4: away by a team who needs a new head coach,

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Speaker 4: and that play caller is looking more and more like

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Speaker 4: a viable candidate.

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Speaker 3: Those are the only people that really like.

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Speaker 2: Let's get in the other game, because tonight we have

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Speaker 2: We have the forty nine ers and we have the Seahawks.

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Speaker 2: doesn't love that? All Right, So we have the matchup

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Speaker 2: the two games you needed him to play the best

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Speaker 2: in last year. You made that into a massive statement

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Speaker 2: about what he's capable of moving forward. He has a

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Speaker 2: chance to disprove that narrative.

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Speaker 3: Right now well.

441
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Speaker 4: And the idea that I mean he has to do it,

442
00:20:18,200 --> 00:20:20,000
Speaker 4: I don't think he has to do it right.

443
00:20:20,040 --> 00:20:21,919
Speaker 3: He just has to not screw it up.

444
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Speaker 4: In this particular situation because defensively, the Seahawks have the

445
00:20:27,840 --> 00:20:31,679
Speaker 4: better of the two units at every level, right I

446
00:20:31,720 --> 00:20:35,439
Speaker 4: mean San Francisco dealing with injuries. It's a tribute to

447
00:20:35,480 --> 00:20:38,280
Speaker 4: them that they're here in the first place. But they're

448
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Speaker 4: not you know, they are not the same. I would say,

449
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Speaker 4: I think San Francisco obviously has an incredible offense right

450
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Speaker 4: now that they've been playing at a very very high level,

451
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Speaker 4: and they've been feasting on bad opponents, and that's fine.

452
00:20:50,640 --> 00:20:52,840
Speaker 4: You play the competition that's in front of you, and

453
00:20:52,880 --> 00:20:55,280
Speaker 4: all they've done is beat them down. So I have

454
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Speaker 4: no nothing bad to say or no way to discredit,

455
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Speaker 4: nor would I try what San Francisco has done to

456
00:21:02,560 --> 00:21:05,760
Speaker 4: get to this point. But Seattle is the better football team, right.

457
00:21:05,800 --> 00:21:08,840
Speaker 4: Seattle's defense is the cheat code here, and so Sam

458
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Speaker 4: Donald in a running game and a great defense and

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Speaker 4: JSN it really is just kind of like, all right,

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Speaker 4: can you just try and not do too much and

461
00:21:18,000 --> 00:21:20,359
Speaker 4: make a couple of plays when we need you to most,

462
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Speaker 4: and we'll try and keep you upright as best as

463
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Speaker 4: humanly possible, but just don't put the ball in harm's way.

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Speaker 4: I think this is not Sam Donald, just Sam Darnald

465
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Speaker 4: just has to be Sam Darnald. Like, it doesn't have

466
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Speaker 4: to be anything more or less than that. It doesn't

467
00:21:35,880 --> 00:21:37,919
Speaker 4: have to be a career defining moment, it doesn't have

468
00:21:38,000 --> 00:21:40,680
Speaker 4: to be some kind of breakout performance. It just has

469
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Speaker 4: to be okay, just be fine and we'll do our

470
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Speaker 4: jobs around you. And I think that's the winning formula

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Speaker 4: for Seattle. I think that's why they're here. I think

472
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Speaker 4: that's why they have thirteen wins on the season. They

473
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Speaker 4: just do enough to do their jobs around the quarterback.

474
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Speaker 4: And the quarterback is not you know, he's not putting

475
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Speaker 4: them in in disadvantageous positions because he's not having to

476
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Speaker 4: press in a lot of these situation. Now, if you've

477
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Speaker 4: got Sam Donald the press, you probably win the game.

478
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Speaker 4: And at that point it becomes an indictment of Sam Darnald.

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Speaker 4: But that's not what he's done all season long. He

480
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Speaker 4: hasn't had to seattle set him up for success well.

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Speaker 2: And to that end, what you're basically saying is Sam

482
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Speaker 2: Donald needs to be a game manager, which, as we've

483
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Speaker 2: talked about before, is not a bad word.

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Speaker 3: It's not a bad frame remotely.

485
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Speaker 2: I mean, it's to me, all right, we just need

486
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Speaker 2: to make sure that we maximize O. Look, if your

487
00:22:25,840 --> 00:22:28,240
Speaker 2: argument is well, when there's pressure in his face and

488
00:22:28,280 --> 00:22:30,520
Speaker 2: when they start getting up the middle and it's a

489
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Speaker 2: big game and he's playing the best defenses, he doesn't

490
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Speaker 2: play as well. We're describing almost every quarterback, even Tom

491
00:22:36,359 --> 00:22:39,240
Speaker 2: Brady struggled at times. God forbid anyone say anything negative

492
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Speaker 2: about terrific Tom. Even Tom Brady struggled sometimes when there

493
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Speaker 2: was junk at his feet. Like every quarterback takes some

494
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Speaker 2: sort of a step back. So yeah, certainly Sam Donald

495
00:22:49,080 --> 00:22:50,920
Speaker 2: hasn't played well enough in some of these key moments.

496
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Speaker 2: I'm old enough to remember when people said Peyton Manning

497
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Speaker 2: couldn't win a Super Bowl because he didn't know how

498
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Speaker 2: to win a big game. I'm old enough to remember

499
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Speaker 2: when people said Peyton Manning wasn't even worth the first

500
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Speaker 2: overall pick. This was a real conversation because he couldn't

501
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Speaker 2: beat Florida when he was at Tennessee.

502
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Speaker 3: Like, that's the real thing people were trying to say.

503
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Speaker 2: So every single time that somebody comes in and says, well,

504
00:23:11,119 --> 00:23:14,280
Speaker 2: he can't win a big one, how many real opportunities.

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Speaker 2: So we're going to make a sweeping generalization about a

506
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Speaker 2: player's ability to play under pressure.

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Speaker 3: Based on one or two games.

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Speaker 2: Oh okay, to me, it bothers me just as much

509
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Speaker 2: as was when we see, well that guy can't play

510
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Speaker 2: in the cold. Okay, in his entire career, he's played

511
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Speaker 2: three games in the cold and they haven't gone well. Like, okay,

512
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Speaker 2: there's so much extra context to this. So yeah, if

513
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Speaker 2: Sam Donald goes out and he loses Seattle the game,

514
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Speaker 2: then he deserves all the carnage that will come from that.

515
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Speaker 2: If he comes out and Seattle wins that game, whether

516
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Speaker 2: it's because of him or not. If he comes out

517
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Speaker 2: and Seattle wins that game at some point at least

518
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Speaker 2: if you're everybody else, every single team that chose not

519
00:23:52,040 --> 00:23:54,399
Speaker 2: to sign Sam Donald and the Vikings that chose to

520
00:23:54,480 --> 00:23:56,280
Speaker 2: let him walk out the door, you got to look

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Speaker 2: around and say, even if he's just a game manager,

522
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Speaker 2: why are my coaches not good enough to let him

523
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Speaker 2: manage the game the way that will help him win

524
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Speaker 2: football games. That's the question I can't get an answer to.

525
00:24:06,280 --> 00:24:08,040
Speaker 2: We'll get you an update on this game, Martin Weiss.

526
00:24:08,240 --> 00:24:10,800
Speaker 2: Get us caught up. What's going on across the scoreboard?

527
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Speaker 2: Right now, my friend.

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Speaker 3: Right now?

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Speaker 6: A lot of rain. It's been coming down in Tampa.

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Speaker 6: It's been nasty low. It looks like it's coming up

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Speaker 6: a bit. There you go. That is a live sound

532
00:24:23,160 --> 00:24:25,679
Speaker 6: from Raymond James Stadium in Tampa. Has Tampa rushes for

533
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Speaker 6: a first down one five on the ground for the

534
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Speaker 6: Buccaneers with just over under two minutes left in the

535
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Speaker 6: third quarters, thirteen to ten, Tampa in the lead. This

536
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Speaker 6: has been slow going for Carolina on the offensive side

537
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Speaker 6: of the ball. One hundred and seventeen yards passing for

538
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Speaker 6: Bryce Young, nineteen yards rushing Shuba Hubbard and Rico o'dowdle

539
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Speaker 6: with ten apiece Bryce Young has minus one to round

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Speaker 6: up that nineteen yards, and they do, but Carolina still

541
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Speaker 6: trailing by only a touchdown. The only time that they've

542
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Speaker 6: scored Baker Mayfield through an interception, which pretty much set

543
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Speaker 6: Bryce Young on up for a You know, he was

544
00:25:02,560 --> 00:25:06,920
Speaker 6: a thirteen yard touchdown pass to Tommy Tremble. They were

545
00:25:07,000 --> 00:25:09,679
Speaker 6: right in the red zones. Baker avoids or attempts to

546
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Speaker 6: avoid a sack. Looks like he's going to the complete pass,

547
00:25:13,880 --> 00:25:16,679
Speaker 6: hit it defender right in the back. If Mike Jackson

548
00:25:16,680 --> 00:25:18,800
Speaker 6: had turned around, I would have been or yeah, Scott

549
00:25:18,800 --> 00:25:21,040
Speaker 6: had turned around, they've been a different play. Later tonight,

550
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Speaker 6: we'll see the San Francisco forty nine Ers and the

551
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Speaker 6: Seattle Seahawks playing for the one seed in the NFC.

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Speaker 3: Loser to that game will be a wild card.

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Speaker 6: Sean McVay plans to play his starters against the Cardinals

554
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Speaker 6: regardings regardless of the seeding. That know, both of those

555
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Speaker 6: NFC West, the loser of tonight and the Rams will

556
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Speaker 6: be wild card teams in the NFC playoffs. TJ Wide

557
00:25:42,880 --> 00:25:46,000
Speaker 6: has no limitations, expected to play Sunday Night against the Ravens,

558
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Speaker 6: and Josh Allen a limited participant on Friday. He's expected

559
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Speaker 6: to play that the second longest active star streak alive

560
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Speaker 6: in the NFL, well technically the second active longest. He's

561
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Speaker 6: got one twenty one going right now, the longest Philip

562
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Speaker 6: Rivers with two forty three, so he might have the

563
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Speaker 6: first longest to Philip Rivers. The side he's going to

564
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Speaker 6: go back to retirement Fellas back to you.

565
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Speaker 2: He's buck rising on Jason fitzbuck and fits hanging out

566
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Speaker 2: with you on Fox Sports Radio. I'm not one to

567
00:26:14,040 --> 00:26:15,920
Speaker 2: ever really care about the refs one where the other

568
00:26:16,040 --> 00:26:19,040
Speaker 2: I don't. I've lived through some weird calls. Carolina has

569
00:26:19,040 --> 00:26:20,719
Speaker 2: now been screwed on back to back drives.

570
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Speaker 3: There was a.

571
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Speaker 2: Pass interference call on the deep ball down field that

572
00:26:24,359 --> 00:26:27,480
Speaker 2: their feet clearly got tangled up, and I don't know

573
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Speaker 2: how you could possibly call pass interference. And they called

574
00:26:30,160 --> 00:26:32,920
Speaker 2: an offensive pass interference on some battling at the line

575
00:26:32,920 --> 00:26:35,399
Speaker 2: of scribbage that got ted McMillan open on what was

576
00:26:35,400 --> 00:26:36,480
Speaker 2: a long completion.

577
00:26:36,840 --> 00:26:38,119
Speaker 3: They called OPI on that.

578
00:26:38,280 --> 00:26:41,240
Speaker 2: So two pass interference calls go the wrong way for

579
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Speaker 2: the Panthers as they trail in this game thirteen to seven. Bucket,

580
00:26:44,640 --> 00:26:47,520
Speaker 2: the other big game that we got Sunday night football

581
00:26:48,320 --> 00:26:50,720
Speaker 2: is just two trash teams competing for a shot to

582
00:26:50,720 --> 00:26:52,399
Speaker 2: get into the playoffs. I love how they bracket it.

583
00:26:52,480 --> 00:26:54,680
Speaker 2: They give us two trash teams to start the weekend,

584
00:26:54,840 --> 00:26:57,800
Speaker 2: two trash teams to finish the weekend. We get Steelers

585
00:26:57,800 --> 00:27:01,639
Speaker 2: taking on the Ravens, and I just don't know what

586
00:27:01,800 --> 00:27:07,040
Speaker 2: to make, Like what truly solves everything? Because if you're

587
00:27:07,040 --> 00:27:10,240
Speaker 2: a Ravens fan and you make the playoffs, but she

588
00:27:10,240 --> 00:27:11,760
Speaker 2: gets your ass kicked in the first round, was it

589
00:27:11,800 --> 00:27:12,119
Speaker 2: worth it?

590
00:27:12,680 --> 00:27:13,119
Speaker 3: I don't know.

591
00:27:13,400 --> 00:27:15,520
Speaker 2: If you're a Steelers fan and you make the playoffs

592
00:27:15,560 --> 00:27:16,920
Speaker 2: and you get your ass kicked in the first round,

593
00:27:16,960 --> 00:27:19,320
Speaker 2: I know the answer to that, right, Like Pittsburgh fans

594
00:27:19,320 --> 00:27:21,840
Speaker 2: are going to lose their minds if they don't make

595
00:27:21,880 --> 00:27:24,960
Speaker 2: the playoffs, Steelers fans are gonna lose their minds equally

596
00:27:25,280 --> 00:27:27,960
Speaker 2: if they make the playoffs and they simply lose in

597
00:27:28,000 --> 00:27:30,159
Speaker 2: the first round of this thing. So it just it

598
00:27:30,200 --> 00:27:33,000
Speaker 2: almost feels like delaying the inevitable out of this Sunday

599
00:27:33,040 --> 00:27:33,720
Speaker 2: night football game.

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Speaker 3: I know it's a rivalry game.

601
00:27:35,200 --> 00:27:37,280
Speaker 2: Lamar is going to play all of this great conversation

602
00:27:37,359 --> 00:27:39,560
Speaker 2: around what it means for both sides, but I don't

603
00:27:39,600 --> 00:27:42,640
Speaker 2: know that it actually like they say, winning cures everything

604
00:27:42,920 --> 00:27:45,440
Speaker 2: this Sunday night, I don't know that winning cures anything

605
00:27:45,480 --> 00:27:46,320
Speaker 2: for these two teams.

606
00:27:46,880 --> 00:27:48,280
Speaker 3: Disagree, disagree.

607
00:27:48,320 --> 00:27:50,399
Speaker 4: I think it depends very much on if the Ravens

608
00:27:50,400 --> 00:27:52,840
Speaker 4: are to win, how do they win and is it

609
00:27:52,920 --> 00:27:55,280
Speaker 4: something that can be sustainable through the postseason, because if

610
00:27:55,320 --> 00:27:57,160
Speaker 4: they all of a sudden, all of a sudden decide,

611
00:27:57,280 --> 00:27:59,720
Speaker 4: aren't enough of this crap, like enough of us getting

612
00:27:59,760 --> 00:28:02,560
Speaker 4: toute with it, enough of us not giving Derek Henry

613
00:28:02,600 --> 00:28:05,159
Speaker 4: sufficient carriers in the fourth quarter, Let's just go out

614
00:28:05,200 --> 00:28:07,679
Speaker 4: there and kick somebody's ass because we're the Baltimore Ravens

615
00:28:07,680 --> 00:28:10,440
Speaker 4: and we play tough, hard nose, physical football. If the

616
00:28:10,560 --> 00:28:12,520
Speaker 4: Ravens come out and look, they don't have to be

617
00:28:12,600 --> 00:28:14,879
Speaker 4: the explosive offense that was number one and Dvoa in

618
00:28:14,920 --> 00:28:18,280
Speaker 4: efficiency last year. That made us all think and convince

619
00:28:18,359 --> 00:28:20,920
Speaker 4: us that they were going to be the Super Bowl

620
00:28:20,960 --> 00:28:23,520
Speaker 4: champion this year because they were the odds on favorite

621
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Speaker 4: for the Super Bowl and as Super Bowl not just participants,

622
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Speaker 4: but to win the Super Bowl in twenty twenty. I

623
00:28:29,480 --> 00:28:32,600
Speaker 4: guess six technically, but at the end of the twenty

624
00:28:32,600 --> 00:28:35,679
Speaker 4: twenty five season. So if they turn it on and

625
00:28:35,720 --> 00:28:38,120
Speaker 4: they play a brand of football tonight that makes you

626
00:28:38,200 --> 00:28:41,760
Speaker 4: feel like, Okay, they can do that against anybody in

627
00:28:41,840 --> 00:28:46,800
Speaker 4: the AFC, then yeah, I would say winning cures everything

628
00:28:46,880 --> 00:28:49,520
Speaker 4: in that particular situation if you decide to actually stick

629
00:28:49,560 --> 00:28:52,440
Speaker 4: with the plan. The Steelers, I feel like, are way

630
00:28:52,440 --> 00:28:55,480
Speaker 4: more fraud because it's not just a and I'm not

631
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Speaker 4: saying that the Ravens don't have more issues than the indecision,

632
00:29:00,040 --> 00:29:01,920
Speaker 4: and we'll call it of the coaching staff or at

633
00:29:02,000 --> 00:29:04,560
Speaker 4: least the way that the coaching staff has handled the offense,

634
00:29:04,560 --> 00:29:08,600
Speaker 4: because the defense has just been objectively pedestrian this year.

635
00:29:08,600 --> 00:29:10,239
Speaker 4: I don't want to say they've been bad. They've had

636
00:29:10,280 --> 00:29:11,760
Speaker 4: moments where they're good. I don't want to say they've

637
00:29:11,760 --> 00:29:14,440
Speaker 4: been good because they've had moments when they're awful. At

638
00:29:14,440 --> 00:29:17,280
Speaker 4: the start of the season, Pittsburgh, for what you're paying

639
00:29:17,280 --> 00:29:20,840
Speaker 4: on defense, juice not worth. The squeeze passing game without

640
00:29:20,880 --> 00:29:24,200
Speaker 4: DK Metcalf just non existent, and that was a huge

641
00:29:24,240 --> 00:29:26,720
Speaker 4: part of why the Steelers were able to have success

642
00:29:26,760 --> 00:29:30,000
Speaker 4: in the first time that these two teams played this season.

643
00:29:30,120 --> 00:29:32,720
Speaker 4: Aaron Rodgers on the road is a wild card. It

644
00:29:32,880 --> 00:29:34,880
Speaker 4: used to sound like a threat. Now it sounds like

645
00:29:34,960 --> 00:29:36,960
Speaker 4: a delightful thing that you would love to see your

646
00:29:36,960 --> 00:29:40,200
Speaker 4: team hosting or getting to go on the road to

647
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Speaker 4: Pittsburgh if they're able to win this. The only reason

648
00:29:43,680 --> 00:29:45,600
Speaker 4: that you would be concerned about that at all right

649
00:29:45,640 --> 00:29:48,280
Speaker 4: now is the weather depending on which team you are,

650
00:29:48,680 --> 00:29:50,680
Speaker 4: and who would end up having to go to Pittsburgh

651
00:29:50,680 --> 00:29:53,040
Speaker 4: if they were to win this game and have a

652
00:29:53,080 --> 00:29:56,200
Speaker 4: home field game during the wild card weekend. But I

653
00:29:56,240 --> 00:29:58,479
Speaker 4: think it's very different for both of these teams.

654
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Speaker 2: I think part of this, you know, when you look

655
00:30:01,680 --> 00:30:06,400
Speaker 2: at it, the I'll stay consistent. Right for me, I

656
00:30:06,440 --> 00:30:08,440
Speaker 2: can take hope when I can figure out the why.

657
00:30:09,000 --> 00:30:12,840
Speaker 2: So why are the Steelers this bad this year? I mean,

658
00:30:12,920 --> 00:30:15,800
Speaker 2: they're devoid of the right talent and the right places

659
00:30:15,840 --> 00:30:17,800
Speaker 2: all over the place. I don't think they have any

660
00:30:17,880 --> 00:30:20,280
Speaker 2: long term solutions on the offensive side of the ball.

661
00:30:21,080 --> 00:30:22,800
Speaker 2: I'm not sure they have any of the right coaches

662
00:30:22,800 --> 00:30:25,880
Speaker 2: in place for that either. I don't think that systematically

663
00:30:25,880 --> 00:30:28,240
Speaker 2: they do much of anything that it just scares everybody.

664
00:30:28,440 --> 00:30:30,400
Speaker 2: I don't think there's an easy fix to the Steelers.

665
00:30:30,440 --> 00:30:31,920
Speaker 2: The Steelers kind of are who they are, and that

666
00:30:32,000 --> 00:30:34,040
Speaker 2: so they're going to be every year the Ravens. I

667
00:30:34,040 --> 00:30:36,440
Speaker 2: can turn around and say, Okay, the Ravens have talent.

668
00:30:36,600 --> 00:30:38,800
Speaker 2: We know that the Ravens have a talented roster. I

669
00:30:38,840 --> 00:30:41,120
Speaker 2: think that this offseason it's probably pretty fair that they're

670
00:30:41,120 --> 00:30:43,200
Speaker 2: going to make a defensive coordinator change, or at least

671
00:30:43,200 --> 00:30:45,360
Speaker 2: look at it. They were very beat up on both

672
00:30:45,360 --> 00:30:46,680
Speaker 2: sides of the ball, and they never got a lot

673
00:30:46,680 --> 00:30:49,600
Speaker 2: of offensive continuity. So I didn't love the job that

674
00:30:49,600 --> 00:30:52,160
Speaker 2: Todd Mencott Munkin did as an offensive coordinator this year,

675
00:30:52,200 --> 00:30:55,160
Speaker 2: particularly looking at the fact that, to your point, all

676
00:30:55,200 --> 00:30:56,800
Speaker 2: of the rest of us are looking at it and saying,

677
00:30:56,840 --> 00:30:58,720
Speaker 2: why don't you give the ball to Derek Henry More?

678
00:30:58,800 --> 00:30:59,920
Speaker 3: Everybody but Todd Munkin.

679
00:31:00,120 --> 00:31:02,920
Speaker 2: So I can figure out how when it comes to

680
00:31:03,280 --> 00:31:06,360
Speaker 2: if I had to make a PowerPoint presentation today on

681
00:31:06,400 --> 00:31:08,560
Speaker 2: how to fix the Ravens, I can at least figure

682
00:31:08,560 --> 00:31:10,280
Speaker 2: out what my slides are going to be about. And

683
00:31:10,320 --> 00:31:13,080
Speaker 2: they're much easier to sort of figure out to me

684
00:31:13,440 --> 00:31:16,600
Speaker 2: than the Steelers. To your point, I don't feel great

685
00:31:16,600 --> 00:31:18,680
Speaker 2: like look the winner of this game. If the playoffs

686
00:31:18,720 --> 00:31:21,720
Speaker 2: were to start with the seeding as it sits right now,

687
00:31:21,760 --> 00:31:24,040
Speaker 2: it could change but as it sits right now, the

688
00:31:24,080 --> 00:31:26,400
Speaker 2: winner of this game on Sunday Night is going to

689
00:31:26,480 --> 00:31:30,160
Speaker 2: take the Houston Texans on you can give you can

690
00:31:30,160 --> 00:31:33,120
Speaker 2: give Derrick Henry the ball forty five times. Houston is

691
00:31:33,160 --> 00:31:35,560
Speaker 2: going to absolutely sandwich you and destroy you.

692
00:31:35,520 --> 00:31:36,120
Speaker 3: When you do that.

693
00:31:36,280 --> 00:31:38,440
Speaker 2: So I think the matchup is a nightmare. I don't

694
00:31:38,480 --> 00:31:39,880
Speaker 2: think either of these teams is going to win a

695
00:31:40,280 --> 00:31:42,840
Speaker 2: playoff game. I think, frankly, both of them are more

696
00:31:42,920 --> 00:31:44,480
Speaker 2: likely to get blown out in the first round of

697
00:31:44,480 --> 00:31:47,440
Speaker 2: the playoffs than they are to actually win a playoff game.

698
00:31:47,800 --> 00:31:50,840
Speaker 2: Not being said, I also don't think again, I'll go

699
00:31:50,880 --> 00:31:52,960
Speaker 2: back to what we said earlier about the way fan

700
00:31:53,000 --> 00:31:55,800
Speaker 2: bases feel about coaches and Todd Bowles. To me, the

701
00:31:55,840 --> 00:31:57,920
Speaker 2: answer that doesn't mean you throw everything away and say

702
00:31:57,920 --> 00:32:00,920
Speaker 2: this all just sucks, We're screwed. This whole team is

703
00:32:00,960 --> 00:32:02,920
Speaker 2: just awful, burn out to the ground. To me, it

704
00:32:02,960 --> 00:32:04,920
Speaker 2: more means you look at it and say, Okay, what

705
00:32:05,480 --> 00:32:07,200
Speaker 2: do we need to do. We need to sit down

706
00:32:07,200 --> 00:32:09,280
Speaker 2: with coach Harball, we need to sit down with coach Tomlin,

707
00:32:09,480 --> 00:32:12,440
Speaker 2: and we need to get really set answers on how's

708
00:32:12,480 --> 00:32:12,800
Speaker 2: it going.

709
00:32:12,720 --> 00:32:13,200
Speaker 3: To be different?

710
00:32:13,280 --> 00:32:15,680
Speaker 2: Like, what are we going to do to change this process.

711
00:32:15,840 --> 00:32:18,640
Speaker 2: There isn't much that the Steelers can do to change

712
00:32:18,640 --> 00:32:20,880
Speaker 2: the process until they can get younger at the quarterback

713
00:32:20,920 --> 00:32:23,120
Speaker 2: position and fix a lot of things that they have

714
00:32:23,160 --> 00:32:26,280
Speaker 2: across their offense. Their defense, to your point, widely paid

715
00:32:26,320 --> 00:32:28,720
Speaker 2: and underperformed, So there aren't a.

716
00:32:28,640 --> 00:32:30,200
Speaker 3: Lot of easy solutions to that.

717
00:32:30,480 --> 00:32:32,880
Speaker 2: If I'm sitting down with the Ravens and Harball, his

718
00:32:32,960 --> 00:32:34,880
Speaker 2: answers are pretty clear on what needs to be done

719
00:32:34,960 --> 00:32:37,160
Speaker 2: to fix this thing. So I don't think you throw

720
00:32:37,160 --> 00:32:39,640
Speaker 2: the baby out with the bathwater in Baltimore. I'm not

721
00:32:39,680 --> 00:32:41,959
Speaker 2: sure they'll be as patient or can be as patient

722
00:32:42,240 --> 00:32:43,480
Speaker 2: when it comes to the Steelers.

723
00:32:45,040 --> 00:32:48,760
Speaker 4: We just got the inactives for Seahawks Niners and Trent

724
00:32:48,800 --> 00:32:52,320
Speaker 4: Williams is officially out, as as Ricky Pearsall, so the

725
00:32:52,400 --> 00:32:57,560
Speaker 4: shorthanded Niners, their run of shorthandedness continues. I would pick

726
00:32:57,600 --> 00:33:00,640
Speaker 4: the Seahawks based on the Trent Williams news alone.

727
00:33:01,160 --> 00:33:03,640
Speaker 2: Does that make Mike McDonald the coach of the year

728
00:33:04,240 --> 00:33:06,160
Speaker 2: Like we keep talking about Shanahan as coach of the

729
00:33:06,240 --> 00:33:07,960
Speaker 2: year if he wins this game and has the number

730
00:33:07,960 --> 00:33:10,920
Speaker 2: one seed, But Mike McDonald out here, not just being

731
00:33:10,960 --> 00:33:13,440
Speaker 2: in the Dubie Brothers, also giving us the number one

732
00:33:13,440 --> 00:33:15,560
Speaker 2: seed in the NFC with a defense that we all

733
00:33:15,560 --> 00:33:18,360
Speaker 2: say is an absolute nightmare, a defense that is so

734
00:33:18,400 --> 00:33:20,680
Speaker 2: good that him leaving Baltimore is part of the reason

735
00:33:20,880 --> 00:33:22,280
Speaker 2: that the Ravens defense has.

736
00:33:22,160 --> 00:33:23,000
Speaker 3: Never been the same.

737
00:33:23,160 --> 00:33:27,440
Speaker 2: Like, I'm over here, who Michael McDonald coach of the year?

738
00:33:27,480 --> 00:33:31,000
Speaker 3: Come on, why don't we talk about that next? We'll

739
00:33:31,040 --> 00:33:31,640
Speaker 3: figure that out.

740
00:33:31,640 --> 00:33:33,000
Speaker 2: Next, we'll figure out who the coach of the year

741
00:33:33,040 --> 00:33:33,320
Speaker 2: should be.

742
00:33:33,360 --> 00:33:34,040
Speaker 3: He's Buck Rising.

743
00:33:34,200 --> 00:33:37,400
Speaker 2: I'm Jason fitz bucking Fits on Fox Sports Radio.

744
00:33:40,400 --> 00:33:43,080
Speaker 3: You're listening to Fox Sports Radio Radio.

745
00:33:45,960 --> 00:33:48,320
Speaker 2: This was really just my way of making sure America

746
00:33:48,360 --> 00:33:52,680
Speaker 2: finds out that your cat is gonna be honest.

747
00:33:54,560 --> 00:33:57,440
Speaker 3: You lobbing it, that'd be like, it's a slur. No, because.

748
00:33:59,040 --> 00:34:01,280
Speaker 4: Because I value my time, because I don't want to

749
00:34:01,320 --> 00:34:03,400
Speaker 4: take a dumb animal out in the elements to.

750
00:34:03,360 --> 00:34:05,200
Speaker 3: Watch it eat its own poop. Of course, I'm a

751
00:34:05,240 --> 00:34:09,000
Speaker 3: cap you scoop poop, You scoop poop. No, the dog

752
00:34:09,120 --> 00:34:10,640
Speaker 3: is too bit No, I don't scoop it.

753
00:34:10,680 --> 00:34:14,359
Speaker 4: I have one of these fantastic liter robots that does

754
00:34:14,520 --> 00:34:15,120
Speaker 4: job for me.

755
00:34:15,320 --> 00:34:23,600
Speaker 3: Again, my god, I stand by that.

756
00:34:23,680 --> 00:34:25,680
Speaker 2: He is Boogie but he's Buck Rising, and I'm Jason

757
00:34:25,680 --> 00:34:28,239
Speaker 2: Fitz's bucket fits on Fox Sports Radio. At least he

758
00:34:28,280 --> 00:34:29,960
Speaker 2: came to work with closing today.

759
00:34:30,000 --> 00:34:32,240
Speaker 3: If you've been following us on Fox Sports Radio.

760
00:34:32,040 --> 00:34:35,400
Speaker 2: All week, let's see Tuesday night was the debut of

761
00:34:35,440 --> 00:34:38,680
Speaker 2: the Terry cloth Robe that started to mail it in

762
00:34:38,840 --> 00:34:41,080
Speaker 2: from Buck Rising. They continued all the way to Two

763
00:34:41,080 --> 00:34:42,640
Speaker 2: Pros and a Cup of Jail, where it was just

764
00:34:42,760 --> 00:34:46,279
Speaker 2: the Terry cloth robe, full the dude, a full big

765
00:34:46,360 --> 00:34:49,480
Speaker 2: lebowski from Buck Rising. But today he's actually worn clothes

766
00:34:49,480 --> 00:34:51,960
Speaker 2: to work. So I feel like that's that's progress in

767
00:34:52,000 --> 00:34:53,640
Speaker 2: and of itself. Buck, I'm very proud of you.

768
00:34:54,960 --> 00:34:57,279
Speaker 3: If you let me do radio from home, I'm not

769
00:34:57,400 --> 00:35:00,680
Speaker 3: going to wear clothes. That's just the rules. Okay, Like

770
00:35:00,760 --> 00:35:01,960
Speaker 3: that's just the rules. Now.

771
00:35:02,080 --> 00:35:04,600
Speaker 4: Today I had to fly to Jacksonville. I had to

772
00:35:04,920 --> 00:35:07,759
Speaker 4: well got to because the lovely people at iHeart Jacksonville

773
00:35:07,800 --> 00:35:12,040
Speaker 4: were able to accommodate my schedule and our show here

774
00:35:12,120 --> 00:35:14,279
Speaker 4: to let me do the show from Jacksonville, where I

775
00:35:14,360 --> 00:35:18,200
Speaker 4: am to cover the season finale between the Tennessee Titans

776
00:35:18,840 --> 00:35:23,200
Speaker 4: and Jacksonville tomorrow at EverBank Field or EverBank Stadium, whatever

777
00:35:23,200 --> 00:35:26,239
Speaker 4: the hell it's called at this point in time. So yeah,

778
00:35:26,400 --> 00:35:29,120
Speaker 4: if I am to be out in public, then yeah,

779
00:35:29,120 --> 00:35:31,000
Speaker 4: I will dress appropriately. But if you're gonna let me

780
00:35:31,040 --> 00:35:33,720
Speaker 4: sit in my office and do it at five am

781
00:35:34,400 --> 00:35:37,759
Speaker 4: to fill in for the guys on two Pros, then yeah,

782
00:35:37,880 --> 00:35:38,640
Speaker 4: it's a bathrobe.

783
00:35:38,760 --> 00:35:40,600
Speaker 3: Nothing else. I don't make the rules.

784
00:35:40,960 --> 00:35:43,520
Speaker 2: Okay, just a lot of chest hair, a lot of

785
00:35:43,600 --> 00:35:44,239
Speaker 2: chat like an.

786
00:35:44,160 --> 00:35:46,560
Speaker 3: Uncomfortable what did you think was gonna happen?

787
00:35:46,800 --> 00:35:49,000
Speaker 2: I mean, it's just a it's just a lot like

788
00:35:49,200 --> 00:35:51,360
Speaker 2: I mean.

789
00:35:50,360 --> 00:35:52,480
Speaker 3: You know, have you ever seen forty year old version?

790
00:35:52,520 --> 00:35:54,680
Speaker 2: Like maybe we just Kelly clarkson that. Maybe we just

791
00:35:55,000 --> 00:35:56,600
Speaker 2: go in and just Kelly clarkson it.

792
00:35:57,440 --> 00:35:59,160
Speaker 3: Uh, didn't I lose a bit?

793
00:35:59,200 --> 00:36:02,120
Speaker 4: Were you still working locally in Nashville when I lost

794
00:36:02,160 --> 00:36:03,640
Speaker 4: that bet where I had to wax my legs?

795
00:36:04,600 --> 00:36:04,799
Speaker 1: Oh?

796
00:36:04,840 --> 00:36:06,840
Speaker 2: I do vaguely remember that? And did you did you

797
00:36:06,880 --> 00:36:07,560
Speaker 2: wax the legs?

798
00:36:07,760 --> 00:36:11,640
Speaker 3: I did? Well, I waxed oleg How was that? I didn't?

799
00:36:11,760 --> 00:36:13,960
Speaker 4: It was awful, it was it was unpleasant. I feel

800
00:36:14,000 --> 00:36:15,520
Speaker 4: like I would not enjoy doing that too.

801
00:36:15,520 --> 00:36:19,360
Speaker 2: My chest I'm thinking about, isn't getting leaser hair removal

802
00:36:19,400 --> 00:36:19,879
Speaker 2: on my legs?

803
00:36:19,920 --> 00:36:22,000
Speaker 3: Because I want to start getting tattoos down my legs.

804
00:36:22,440 --> 00:36:24,479
Speaker 2: And so the fun fact is I shaved my arms

805
00:36:24,480 --> 00:36:26,359
Speaker 2: every day, and so, you know, because if you shave

806
00:36:26,360 --> 00:36:28,200
Speaker 2: your arms and flop a little low low on them,

807
00:36:28,640 --> 00:36:31,120
Speaker 2: the tattoos look much better. And it's funny how many

808
00:36:31,200 --> 00:36:33,400
Speaker 2: times people are like what and then they try it

809
00:36:33,440 --> 00:36:34,120
Speaker 2: and they realize that.

810
00:36:34,200 --> 00:36:36,919
Speaker 3: Yeah. The reason that you know, when I walk around,

811
00:36:36,960 --> 00:36:38,480
Speaker 3: people are like, oh my god, are your tattoos now?

812
00:36:38,520 --> 00:36:40,160
Speaker 3: They're no, they're over a decade old.

813
00:36:40,160 --> 00:36:42,839
Speaker 2: But if you shave your arms and flop a little

814
00:36:42,880 --> 00:36:45,160
Speaker 2: lo low on them, all of a sudden, you are

815
00:36:45,239 --> 00:36:46,520
Speaker 2: silky smooth, and that works.

816
00:36:46,719 --> 00:36:47,640
Speaker 3: I don't do that in the.

817
00:36:47,600 --> 00:36:50,080
Speaker 7: Shower, Like, where do you shave your arms?

818
00:36:50,360 --> 00:36:51,480
Speaker 3: I shave my arms in the shower.

819
00:36:51,520 --> 00:36:53,759
Speaker 2: Yeah, Like I shaved my arms every barely, Like I

820
00:36:53,760 --> 00:36:55,640
Speaker 2: don't need to shave my face more than you know,

821
00:36:55,719 --> 00:36:58,080
Speaker 2: twice a week. I barely grow facial hair. But I

822
00:36:58,080 --> 00:37:01,120
Speaker 2: shaved my arms every day. Yeah, just and then boom,

823
00:37:01,239 --> 00:37:03,239
Speaker 2: arms are shaved. In fact, for a long time, when

824
00:37:03,239 --> 00:37:06,080
Speaker 2: I only had one arm tattooed, I shaved one arm

825
00:37:06,120 --> 00:37:08,320
Speaker 2: and not the other, which you would think is weird,

826
00:37:08,520 --> 00:37:11,200
Speaker 2: But nobody would ever notice that until I point out, Oh, Yeah, no,

827
00:37:11,239 --> 00:37:12,920
Speaker 2: I shaved their arm and like, oh my god, one

828
00:37:12,960 --> 00:37:15,359
Speaker 2: arm has hair on it. One doesn't see I shave

829
00:37:15,400 --> 00:37:17,040
Speaker 2: my arms in the shower. I don't want to shave

830
00:37:17,040 --> 00:37:19,120
Speaker 2: my legs though, Like that's a lot of extra work

831
00:37:19,200 --> 00:37:21,399
Speaker 2: every day. So I think I'm gonna get laser hair

832
00:37:21,400 --> 00:37:22,160
Speaker 2: removal first.

833
00:37:23,320 --> 00:37:26,000
Speaker 4: I just have a visual now Ian of him in

834
00:37:26,040 --> 00:37:29,480
Speaker 4: the shower or you know, putting one leg daintily up

835
00:37:29,520 --> 00:37:32,400
Speaker 4: on the side of his bathtub as he shaves his legs.

836
00:37:32,840 --> 00:37:35,319
Speaker 4: Where is my little pony tattoo that he's thinking about

837
00:37:35,360 --> 00:37:36,520
Speaker 4: getting on his left quad?

838
00:37:38,040 --> 00:37:39,200
Speaker 7: Yeah, just putting it up on.

839
00:37:40,760 --> 00:37:43,080
Speaker 2: I'm not very flexible though, so there'd be a grunt

840
00:37:43,160 --> 00:37:45,160
Speaker 2: as I like flop the leg up on the on

841
00:37:45,239 --> 00:37:49,440
Speaker 2: the soap shelf. There definitely being sounds as you age.

842
00:37:49,480 --> 00:37:52,200
Speaker 4: This sounds like a situation where we're going to have

843
00:37:52,239 --> 00:37:54,040
Speaker 4: to send you medical help at a certain point in time.

844
00:37:54,040 --> 00:37:55,000
Speaker 3: You're going to go to put a.

845
00:37:55,000 --> 00:37:57,520
Speaker 4: Leg up, shave your legs as you get older with

846
00:37:57,560 --> 00:37:59,760
Speaker 4: these tattoos, and you're gonna eat it and then somebody's

847
00:37:59,760 --> 00:38:02,360
Speaker 4: gonna have to come rescue naked and shaved in the

848
00:38:02,440 --> 00:38:04,880
Speaker 4: shower because you're old and you fall in and I

849
00:38:04,880 --> 00:38:05,680
Speaker 4: can't get up.

850
00:38:05,880 --> 00:38:08,800
Speaker 2: Life right again. Laser hair removal.

851
00:38:08,960 --> 00:38:09,680
Speaker 3: This is why.

852
00:38:09,760 --> 00:38:11,799
Speaker 2: All right, so the laser hair removal, I don't have

853
00:38:11,840 --> 00:38:13,600
Speaker 2: the problem. And then to your point, when I get

854
00:38:13,600 --> 00:38:15,840
Speaker 2: my little pony and transformers put on my leg, it

855
00:38:15,880 --> 00:38:18,160
Speaker 2: looks perfect. I'm not kidding, my little pony, don't at me.

856
00:38:18,400 --> 00:38:20,240
Speaker 2: I'm not gonna do that. But I do want to continue.

857
00:38:20,320 --> 00:38:22,080
Speaker 2: I want to continue the ink all the way down.

858
00:38:22,280 --> 00:38:23,799
Speaker 2: I just don't want to do my ribs in my

859
00:38:23,840 --> 00:38:26,520
Speaker 2: stomach because then if I ever decide to just let

860
00:38:26,520 --> 00:38:28,239
Speaker 2: myself go and get fat, I don't want I don't

861
00:38:28,239 --> 00:38:29,960
Speaker 2: want to have to show people the tattoo as it

862
00:38:30,000 --> 00:38:31,839
Speaker 2: goes down and then be like, by the way, this

863
00:38:31,920 --> 00:38:34,640
Speaker 2: is this is my my fat tattoo. I know my

864
00:38:35,040 --> 00:38:38,200
Speaker 2: fat too in that in that you fat too, My

865
00:38:38,280 --> 00:38:39,880
Speaker 2: fat too, That's what That's what happens.

866
00:38:39,880 --> 00:38:42,120
Speaker 7: Like fat tat, you're fat too, which is better?

867
00:38:42,560 --> 00:38:45,080
Speaker 2: Oh, fat tat is pretty good too. I'm just like,

868
00:38:45,280 --> 00:38:48,160
Speaker 2: this is what happens if you're in particularly good shape

869
00:38:48,239 --> 00:38:51,640
Speaker 2: when you get a tattoo on your like ribs or

870
00:38:51,680 --> 00:38:53,400
Speaker 2: your stomach, and then all of a sudden, a few

871
00:38:53,480 --> 00:38:56,560
Speaker 2: years later, you know, maybe maybe McDonald's just won the

872
00:38:56,560 --> 00:38:58,200
Speaker 2: war for a few years, and all of a sudden,

873
00:38:58,600 --> 00:39:00,680
Speaker 2: now that you know that, that sweet look an Optimus

874
00:39:00,760 --> 00:39:01,160
Speaker 2: Prime is.

875
00:39:01,160 --> 00:39:02,919
Speaker 3: Now ooh to miss Prime.

876
00:39:03,040 --> 00:39:05,680
Speaker 2: Like, that's a different that's a much different it's much

877
00:39:05,760 --> 00:39:06,279
Speaker 2: different vibe.

878
00:39:06,320 --> 00:39:07,560
Speaker 3: And look, I'm just.

879
00:39:07,480 --> 00:39:09,680
Speaker 2: Trying to make Buck picture as much of me naked

880
00:39:09,719 --> 00:39:13,520
Speaker 2: right now as he possibly can. You're welcome America. By

881
00:39:13,520 --> 00:39:16,160
Speaker 2: the way, it's sixteen to seven now the Buccaneers have.

882
00:39:16,160 --> 00:39:17,600
Speaker 3: The lead and the ball.

883
00:39:18,120 --> 00:39:20,600
Speaker 2: The Panthers look like maybe we're trying to execute a

884
00:39:20,600 --> 00:39:24,000
Speaker 2: flea flicker. I don't know about Rico Dowdell, who already,

885
00:39:24,040 --> 00:39:26,239
Speaker 2: by the way, gained these seven yards needed to get

886
00:39:26,280 --> 00:39:27,879
Speaker 2: a one million dollar bonus today.

887
00:39:27,880 --> 00:39:28,680
Speaker 3: Happy Week eighteen.

888
00:39:28,719 --> 00:39:31,560
Speaker 2: To him, it was flipping the ball back to Bryce showing,

889
00:39:31,600 --> 00:39:35,040
Speaker 2: but the ball didn't get there. Tampa has and Tampa

890
00:39:35,080 --> 00:39:37,239
Speaker 2: has recovered it. They're now driving with about seven and

891
00:39:37,280 --> 00:39:39,319
Speaker 2: a half to go, and it should be noted they're

892
00:39:39,400 --> 00:39:41,840
Speaker 2: up by two scores, so Buck, we could end up

893
00:39:41,840 --> 00:39:44,120
Speaker 2: with this nightmare scenario where we're all going to be

894
00:39:44,160 --> 00:39:48,759
Speaker 2: watching the Falcons versus the Saints, and an eight to

895
00:39:48,880 --> 00:39:50,760
Speaker 2: nine team is going to go into the playoffs.

896
00:39:50,800 --> 00:39:53,960
Speaker 3: Some of the NFC South oh gross. Yeah, but the

897
00:39:54,040 --> 00:39:55,719
Speaker 3: NFC South is good for that. We were supposed to

898
00:39:55,719 --> 00:39:56,400
Speaker 3: talk about Coach of.

899
00:39:56,400 --> 00:39:58,160
Speaker 4: The Year here and why Mike McDonald was going to

900
00:39:58,160 --> 00:40:00,719
Speaker 4: win it or why he should in it if he

901
00:40:00,840 --> 00:40:04,120
Speaker 4: is able to win over the way, Yes, you got

902
00:40:04,200 --> 00:40:06,640
Speaker 4: very distracted because you're self involved, and we started talking

903
00:40:06,680 --> 00:40:08,880
Speaker 4: about you, and so everything else fell by the wayside.

904
00:40:09,000 --> 00:40:12,160
Speaker 4: I understand the behavior of somebody who is an extreme narcissist,

905
00:40:12,560 --> 00:40:17,280
Speaker 4: but I will not be watching the Falcons and the Saints.

906
00:40:17,280 --> 00:40:18,880
Speaker 4: I'll just I'll get the update on my phone. I

907
00:40:18,920 --> 00:40:21,239
Speaker 4: don't want to put myself so that to watch you.

908
00:40:21,280 --> 00:40:22,640
Speaker 3: We're going to give him the Coach of the year.

909
00:40:22,640 --> 00:40:24,640
Speaker 3: Who's your coach of the year. We can't less than

910
00:40:24,680 --> 00:40:24,959
Speaker 3: a minute?

911
00:40:25,000 --> 00:40:28,280
Speaker 4: Da go ahead, Noahan, If he wins it, it's McDonald.

912
00:40:28,360 --> 00:40:30,239
Speaker 4: If he wins it, I think it's pretty cut and

913
00:40:30,320 --> 00:40:33,200
Speaker 4: dry there. I mean, at least that's where my vote

914
00:40:33,200 --> 00:40:35,840
Speaker 4: would go. Mike Rabel's going to win it either way,

915
00:40:35,960 --> 00:40:38,040
Speaker 4: it seems. As long as the Patriots.

916
00:40:37,920 --> 00:40:43,480
Speaker 3: Don't collapse tomorrow, Patriots play the Dolphins and the season Dolphins. Yeah, Patriots, as.

917
00:40:43,360 --> 00:40:45,680
Speaker 4: Long as the Patriots don't look like, you know, complete

918
00:40:45,760 --> 00:40:48,760
Speaker 4: total frauds. In Week eighteen against the Dolphins. Mike Vrabel's

919
00:40:48,800 --> 00:40:50,319
Speaker 4: the coach of the Year. So I think both of

920
00:40:50,360 --> 00:40:54,040
Speaker 4: these coaches are you know, they're not competing for that prize,

921
00:40:54,040 --> 00:40:55,280
Speaker 4: but you understand.

922
00:40:55,280 --> 00:40:57,520
Speaker 2: Yeah, we need a new award because it's not just

923
00:40:57,520 --> 00:40:59,400
Speaker 2: supposed to be with the team that sucks that suddenly

924
00:40:59,400 --> 00:41:03,920
Speaker 2: doesn't more coming at you, bucking Fits on Fox Sports Radio.

925
00:41:04,160 --> 00:41:08,120
Speaker 2: You're listening to Fox Sports Radio Radio with games going

926
00:41:08,160 --> 00:41:10,879
Speaker 2: on right now and all eyes on what it means

927
00:41:10,880 --> 00:41:12,799
Speaker 2: for the playoffs. There are a bunch of teams that

928
00:41:12,840 --> 00:41:16,200
Speaker 2: have already started to put all eyes towards next season,

929
00:41:16,480 --> 00:41:19,360
Speaker 2: and according to one NFL insider, it looks like change

930
00:41:19,640 --> 00:41:22,000
Speaker 2: is already coming for the Las Vegas Raiders.

931
00:41:22,000 --> 00:41:22,640
Speaker 3: He's Buck Rising.

932
00:41:22,680 --> 00:41:26,560
Speaker 2: I'm Jason fitzbuckham Fits on Fox Sports Radio. Look over

933
00:41:26,600 --> 00:41:28,319
Speaker 2: the course of the next couple of days, plenty of

934
00:41:28,320 --> 00:41:30,760
Speaker 2: people are gonna come out and they're gonna lose their jobs.

935
00:41:30,840 --> 00:41:33,319
Speaker 2: I want to be clear that nobody on this show

936
00:41:33,520 --> 00:41:35,440
Speaker 2: or any show, is ever rooting for any of these

937
00:41:35,480 --> 00:41:37,160
Speaker 2: guys to lose their jobs. And I also want to

938
00:41:37,200 --> 00:41:40,000
Speaker 2: be clear that anytime a coach change is made, it's

939
00:41:40,040 --> 00:41:43,160
Speaker 2: not just about the head coach. It's about everybody else

940
00:41:43,200 --> 00:41:45,480
Speaker 2: that works under that head coach. It's about people you've

941
00:41:45,480 --> 00:41:49,279
Speaker 2: never heard of. Sometimes it's about administrative assistance. Sometimes it's

942
00:41:49,280 --> 00:41:51,759
Speaker 2: about training people. All of these things people that are

943
00:41:51,760 --> 00:41:54,239
Speaker 2: not making millions of dollars. So I just want to

944
00:41:54,239 --> 00:41:57,040
Speaker 2: point out that there's a very human element to any firing,

945
00:41:57,200 --> 00:41:59,080
Speaker 2: so I proceed with caution with.

946
00:41:59,080 --> 00:41:59,400
Speaker 3: All of it.

947
00:41:59,520 --> 00:42:03,759
Speaker 2: However, Jordan and Schultz, who obviously very known NFL insider,

948
00:42:04,040 --> 00:42:06,480
Speaker 2: has just tweeted out in the last minute that the

949
00:42:06,560 --> 00:42:09,359
Speaker 2: expectation is that head coach Pete Carroll will be one

950
00:42:09,520 --> 00:42:12,439
Speaker 2: and done in Las Vegas, whether that ends up being

951
00:42:12,480 --> 00:42:15,920
Speaker 2: a firing or a retirement, the Raiders coaching search is

952
00:42:15,960 --> 00:42:19,239
Speaker 2: expected to cast a wide net with Tom Brady involved.

953
00:42:19,280 --> 00:42:21,520
Speaker 2: And look, Buck, this does not surprise me at all.

954
00:42:21,960 --> 00:42:25,279
Speaker 2: I absolutely expected this. In fact, I'll be honest, I

955
00:42:25,280 --> 00:42:27,520
Speaker 2: think I was the first person nationally to call for

956
00:42:27,560 --> 00:42:30,520
Speaker 2: this on Yahoo on my show. I was the first person.

957
00:42:30,400 --> 00:42:32,800
Speaker 3: Who explained months ago why this had to happen.

958
00:42:32,920 --> 00:42:36,080
Speaker 2: This is all about the timing the Raiders believed coming

959
00:42:36,080 --> 00:42:37,880
Speaker 2: into this season, and I think this is interesting. I

960
00:42:37,880 --> 00:42:40,520
Speaker 2: talked to Raheem Moster, who plays for the team after

961
00:42:40,600 --> 00:42:43,120
Speaker 2: week one, and we had an interview with him, and

962
00:42:43,400 --> 00:42:45,359
Speaker 2: as we were talking about it, Raheem told me, I've

963
00:42:45,400 --> 00:42:48,000
Speaker 2: never played for a team that thought they could rebuild

964
00:42:48,040 --> 00:42:50,400
Speaker 2: and win at the same time. But the Raiders believe

965
00:42:50,440 --> 00:42:52,440
Speaker 2: they can do that. This is going to be interesting

966
00:42:52,480 --> 00:42:55,279
Speaker 2: to watch. Well, they were wrong. They couldn't win and

967
00:42:55,320 --> 00:42:57,160
Speaker 2: rebuild it at the same time. And now I think,

968
00:42:57,200 --> 00:43:00,200
Speaker 2: for the first time in many, many, many years, the

969
00:43:00,320 --> 00:43:03,680
Speaker 2: organization is not trying to pretend that there're anything other

970
00:43:03,719 --> 00:43:07,080
Speaker 2: than rebuilding. So if you are rebuilding and tomorrow if

971
00:43:07,120 --> 00:43:09,400
Speaker 2: the Raiders lose, that is one of several scenarios, but

972
00:43:09,440 --> 00:43:12,040
Speaker 2: the easiest scenario. They will end up with the first

973
00:43:12,080 --> 00:43:14,520
Speaker 2: overall pick in the draft. The minute you know you're

974
00:43:14,560 --> 00:43:16,799
Speaker 2: so bad you have the number one pick, Well, now

975
00:43:16,840 --> 00:43:18,400
Speaker 2: you got to think about time, right, you got to

976
00:43:18,400 --> 00:43:19,480
Speaker 2: think about time frame, and you.

977
00:43:19,400 --> 00:43:21,680
Speaker 3: Got to think about how you're going to rebuild this thing.

978
00:43:21,719 --> 00:43:23,719
Speaker 2: And a rebuild form the number one overall pick, to

979
00:43:23,800 --> 00:43:26,640
Speaker 2: me is a three four five year process. And if

980
00:43:26,680 --> 00:43:30,439
Speaker 2: you're starting a three year process to rebuilding, I don't

981
00:43:30,440 --> 00:43:32,239
Speaker 2: see anyway Pete Carroll was ever going to be able

982
00:43:32,239 --> 00:43:34,279
Speaker 2: to stick around for that, even if he'd done a

983
00:43:34,320 --> 00:43:37,440
Speaker 2: great job. On top of that, it's been an abject disaster.

984
00:43:37,520 --> 00:43:40,440
Speaker 2: So I think this is actually a brilliant move by

985
00:43:40,480 --> 00:43:42,880
Speaker 2: an organization to just stand up. Even though the Raiders

986
00:43:42,880 --> 00:43:45,919
Speaker 2: are going to be paying fifty million dollars next year

987
00:43:46,160 --> 00:43:49,080
Speaker 2: to coaches that no longer work for the team, Who

988
00:43:49,160 --> 00:43:51,680
Speaker 2: cares that's Mark Davis's money. I don't care if I'm

989
00:43:51,680 --> 00:43:54,280
Speaker 2: the Raiders. I only care about one thing. Every single

990
00:43:54,280 --> 00:43:57,600
Speaker 2: person in this organization, from the janitor to the head coach,

991
00:43:57,800 --> 00:44:00,520
Speaker 2: speak the language of whoever that number one pick is.

992
00:44:00,640 --> 00:44:02,919
Speaker 2: Because I want to make sure, unlike the team you cover,

993
00:44:03,000 --> 00:44:05,640
Speaker 2: with the Titans and cam Ward, then I'm not setting

994
00:44:05,680 --> 00:44:07,960
Speaker 2: my quarterback back from day one. I want to make

995
00:44:07,960 --> 00:44:11,120
Speaker 2: sure everybody in the building is squarely on the same schedule,

996
00:44:11,400 --> 00:44:15,000
Speaker 2: timeframe and analysis of making sure that my quarterback can

997
00:44:15,040 --> 00:44:16,839
Speaker 2: be successful with the number one overall pick.

998
00:44:18,120 --> 00:44:20,120
Speaker 4: Yeah, to your point, I mean that's exactly what the

999
00:44:20,120 --> 00:44:22,480
Speaker 4: Titans should have done before they drafted cam Ward. They

1000
00:44:22,520 --> 00:44:24,640
Speaker 4: decided they were going to keep Brian Callahan, They fired

1001
00:44:24,719 --> 00:44:27,960
Speaker 4: Ran Carthon, they hired Mike Borganzi. Brian Callahan didn't make it.

1002
00:44:28,480 --> 00:44:31,239
Speaker 4: He made it six games into the season before they

1003
00:44:31,280 --> 00:44:33,480
Speaker 4: fired him, which as we've talked about before, meant you

1004
00:44:33,480 --> 00:44:35,759
Speaker 4: were really not that in on him to begin with,

1005
00:44:35,920 --> 00:44:38,480
Speaker 4: and instead you just decided to saddle cam Ward with

1006
00:44:38,520 --> 00:44:42,960
Speaker 4: that nonsense and have additional adversity that he was going

1007
00:44:43,000 --> 00:44:45,560
Speaker 4: to have to go through in his rookie season. Oh

1008
00:44:45,600 --> 00:44:47,560
Speaker 4: by the way, I don't know if you saw this yesterday,

1009
00:44:47,600 --> 00:44:50,839
Speaker 4: but the Titans again for like the seventeenth time since

1010
00:44:50,880 --> 00:44:55,200
Speaker 4: twenty eighteen, have restructured their front office organization, which makes

1011
00:44:55,200 --> 00:44:57,239
Speaker 4: me want to pull my hair out, but I think

1012
00:44:57,600 --> 00:45:01,719
Speaker 4: at least this time around a decision. The decision that

1013
00:45:01,760 --> 00:45:03,759
Speaker 4: they made was the one that is in the best

1014
00:45:03,760 --> 00:45:07,480
Speaker 4: interest of everybody. Now to the Raiders, they would be

1015
00:45:08,120 --> 00:45:11,520
Speaker 4: with players currently under contract next year, the sixth youngest

1016
00:45:11,560 --> 00:45:15,359
Speaker 4: team in football. They would have the most projected cap

1017
00:45:15,400 --> 00:45:17,600
Speaker 4: space according to SPA Track, And again we don't know

1018
00:45:18,239 --> 00:45:21,400
Speaker 4: exactly all the different things that will happen over the

1019
00:45:21,480 --> 00:45:23,439
Speaker 4: course of the next couple of months that will see

1020
00:45:23,440 --> 00:45:26,759
Speaker 4: the cap space between for example, Vegas and Tennessee, who

1021
00:45:26,800 --> 00:45:29,239
Speaker 4: also has a ton of cap space fluctuate. But they

1022
00:45:29,280 --> 00:45:32,960
Speaker 4: have as much cap space available as anybody next year.

1023
00:45:33,000 --> 00:45:34,879
Speaker 4: They will be eating a fair amount of dead cat

1024
00:45:34,960 --> 00:45:36,880
Speaker 4: next year, but that's just something that they've already had

1025
00:45:36,920 --> 00:45:39,040
Speaker 4: on the books, and they'll have to work their way through.

1026
00:45:39,080 --> 00:45:41,200
Speaker 3: The Max Crosby element of this.

1027
00:45:41,280 --> 00:45:44,080
Speaker 4: Is interesting to see whether he is somebody who's going

1028
00:45:44,120 --> 00:45:45,759
Speaker 4: to want to continue to play for the Raiders or

1029
00:45:45,800 --> 00:45:49,160
Speaker 4: if moving on from Pete Carroll, which hasn't officially happened

1030
00:45:49,239 --> 00:45:50,920
Speaker 4: yet as we sit here, but it sounds like that's

1031
00:45:50,960 --> 00:45:53,680
Speaker 4: the direction that we're heading in. And you've been hinting

1032
00:45:53,760 --> 00:45:55,759
Speaker 4: at that, not even hinting at that, saying that you

1033
00:45:55,840 --> 00:45:57,680
Speaker 4: believe that is the thing that was going to happen

1034
00:45:57,719 --> 00:46:00,560
Speaker 4: for I think weeks at this point in time. So

1035
00:46:00,680 --> 00:46:04,759
Speaker 4: cap Space likely the number one overall pick and the

1036
00:46:05,160 --> 00:46:08,680
Speaker 4: sixth youngest roster in football, with a general manager in

1037
00:46:08,760 --> 00:46:11,560
Speaker 4: John spy Tech from Tampa Bay by way of Tampa Bay,

1038
00:46:12,080 --> 00:46:15,239
Speaker 4: who is going to now have a situation where he

1039
00:46:15,239 --> 00:46:17,000
Speaker 4: doesn't have to sit around and wait for a coach

1040
00:46:17,000 --> 00:46:19,600
Speaker 4: in waiting. Pete Carroll was there. I'm sure Pete Carroll

1041
00:46:19,640 --> 00:46:21,359
Speaker 4: did the job to the best of his abilities. It

1042
00:46:21,400 --> 00:46:24,759
Speaker 4: fell apart, it was nonsense, and now John spy Tech

1043
00:46:24,800 --> 00:46:27,080
Speaker 4: will have the ability to get his top pick and

1044
00:46:27,239 --> 00:46:29,880
Speaker 4: coach on the same page at the same time and

1045
00:46:30,000 --> 00:46:32,319
Speaker 4: have the best possible situation moving forward.

1046
00:46:32,400 --> 00:46:33,440
Speaker 3: Will that fix everything?

1047
00:46:33,520 --> 00:46:36,600
Speaker 4: Obviously we can't predict that, but it is it is

1048
00:46:36,800 --> 00:46:39,160
Speaker 4: I think in the best interest of the Raiders right now,

1049
00:46:39,160 --> 00:46:41,480
Speaker 4: and it's you know, it's nothing but respect for Pete Carroll.

1050
00:46:41,520 --> 00:46:43,200
Speaker 3: It just they tried something.

1051
00:46:43,719 --> 00:46:48,000
Speaker 4: It felt like in theory it should have worked far

1052
00:46:48,080 --> 00:46:50,760
Speaker 4: better than it did, from Chip Kelly to Tom Brady

1053
00:46:50,800 --> 00:46:53,480
Speaker 4: and the whole nine yards, and it just it never

1054
00:46:53,560 --> 00:46:55,799
Speaker 4: went the way that it went. And it's it's one

1055
00:46:55,840 --> 00:46:58,239
Speaker 4: of those things, though, Fitzie, Like, I'm going to ask

1056
00:46:58,239 --> 00:46:59,600
Speaker 4: you this because you're a Raiders fan, and then I

1057
00:46:59,600 --> 00:47:01,120
Speaker 4: want to ask you a question about something else that

1058
00:47:01,160 --> 00:47:02,960
Speaker 4: Jordan Schultz put out there about a half hour ago

1059
00:47:02,960 --> 00:47:05,040
Speaker 4: that I missed and is almost as interesting as the

1060
00:47:05,040 --> 00:47:09,120
Speaker 4: Pete Carroll stuff. They drafted Ashton Genty in the first

1061
00:47:09,200 --> 00:47:11,720
Speaker 4: round this year. Do you think that was a mistake?

1062
00:47:13,960 --> 00:47:16,919
Speaker 2: Looking at the result as it sits right now, it's

1063
00:47:17,000 --> 00:47:19,920
Speaker 2: really easy for me to say yes. When they drafted him,

1064
00:47:20,080 --> 00:47:21,360
Speaker 2: I did not have a problem with it.

1065
00:47:22,200 --> 00:47:24,120
Speaker 3: Why do you think now it was a mistake.

1066
00:47:27,239 --> 00:47:29,920
Speaker 2: Going into this season, I thought their offensive line was

1067
00:47:29,960 --> 00:47:32,560
Speaker 2: going to be a lot better than it was. Really

1068
00:47:32,680 --> 00:47:34,920
Speaker 2: I believed, and this is in the weeds. But so

1069
00:47:34,960 --> 00:47:37,560
Speaker 2: I won't bother everybody with names. I will tell you this.

1070
00:47:37,640 --> 00:47:39,480
Speaker 2: I believe that they're left tackle, their left guard, and

1071
00:47:39,520 --> 00:47:41,400
Speaker 2: their center were all going to be pretty good players,

1072
00:47:41,400 --> 00:47:43,560
Speaker 2: which left the light right side of the line susceptible.

1073
00:47:43,560 --> 00:47:45,640
Speaker 2: But hey can figure it out. So give me a

1074
00:47:45,680 --> 00:47:48,400
Speaker 2: running back that can help behind what is maybe a

1075
00:47:48,440 --> 00:47:50,759
Speaker 2: little bit subpar offensive line and make it work.

1076
00:47:50,840 --> 00:47:51,600
Speaker 3: That's what I loved.

1077
00:47:52,080 --> 00:47:54,239
Speaker 2: The left tackle went down with injury, the left guard

1078
00:47:54,320 --> 00:47:56,360
Speaker 2: turned out to be terrible, the team never liked the

1079
00:47:56,400 --> 00:47:57,879
Speaker 2: center that I thought was going to be the center

1080
00:47:57,880 --> 00:47:59,880
Speaker 2: who has moved to guard, and everything got terrible. So

1081
00:48:00,200 --> 00:48:04,320
Speaker 2: it ended up being as one NFL media person that

1082
00:48:04,640 --> 00:48:07,000
Speaker 2: actually called a game on a broadcast. A former offensive

1083
00:48:07,040 --> 00:48:10,200
Speaker 2: lineman told me it was the worst this offensive line

1084
00:48:10,200 --> 00:48:10,400
Speaker 2: for the.

1085
00:48:10,400 --> 00:48:11,799
Speaker 3: Raiders this year was the.

1086
00:48:11,680 --> 00:48:15,080
Speaker 2: Worst professional football offensive line he'd ever seen in this life.

1087
00:48:15,560 --> 00:48:18,600
Speaker 2: So I think knowing that and then understanding that you

1088
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Speaker 2: just burned a year with a rookie running back, you

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00:48:21,719 --> 00:48:24,680
Speaker 2: burned a year that for absolutely nothing, it makes it

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00:48:24,719 --> 00:48:28,560
Speaker 2: really difficult to just justify there's no one player that

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00:48:28,600 --> 00:48:30,319
Speaker 2: was going to be selected there was going to fix

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00:48:30,360 --> 00:48:30,960
Speaker 2: their problem.

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Speaker 3: But man, it's rich for a running back. I see that.

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00:48:34,280 --> 00:48:36,400
Speaker 2: I understand that, but that was my logic when the

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00:48:36,480 --> 00:48:37,279
Speaker 2: selection was made.

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00:48:38,239 --> 00:48:40,000
Speaker 4: See to me, it's not rich for a running back

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00:48:40,000 --> 00:48:42,520
Speaker 4: if your team is better equipped to handle the running

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00:48:42,520 --> 00:48:45,279
Speaker 4: back situation, like if you are close enough to put

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00:48:45,320 --> 00:48:48,480
Speaker 4: a player like that on your roster, then that makes sense.

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Speaker 3: Right.

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00:48:48,880 --> 00:48:50,879
Speaker 4: And to your point, they clearly thought their offensive line

1102
00:48:50,920 --> 00:48:52,279
Speaker 4: situation was going to be better than it was. I

1103
00:48:52,320 --> 00:48:54,319
Speaker 4: don't think anybody thought that they would be as bad.

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00:48:54,400 --> 00:48:57,239
Speaker 4: I mean, they are just they are border line, you know,

1105
00:48:57,520 --> 00:49:01,160
Speaker 4: UFL quality offensive line, and that even might kind to

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00:49:01,200 --> 00:49:03,160
Speaker 4: them at this point in time. So it's like, because

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Speaker 4: I thought people started to make it a conversation about

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00:49:05,800 --> 00:49:08,560
Speaker 4: positional value, and I just think that that's like that

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00:49:08,680 --> 00:49:13,360
Speaker 4: ignores individual team's circumstances. Where it makes sense for the

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Speaker 4: Falcons to take Bjohn Robinson when they did, and it

1111
00:49:16,239 --> 00:49:18,920
Speaker 4: doesn't make sense for the Raiders to take Ashton Genty

1112
00:49:19,040 --> 00:49:19,680
Speaker 4: when they did.

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00:49:19,719 --> 00:49:21,840
Speaker 3: Those are two very specific.

1114
00:49:21,400 --> 00:49:25,399
Speaker 4: Situations as far as your roster construction goes. So we'll

1115
00:49:25,400 --> 00:49:28,200
Speaker 4: see what well we assume that this is going to

1116
00:49:28,239 --> 00:49:30,760
Speaker 4: be the case, though the Raiders have not made anything official.

1117
00:49:31,280 --> 00:49:32,840
Speaker 3: I would be surprised.

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00:49:32,320 --> 00:49:34,600
Speaker 4: If they like outright fired him, right like Pete Carroll

1119
00:49:34,680 --> 00:49:36,160
Speaker 4: is going to get the opportunity to be like, yeah,

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Speaker 4: I'm just I'm going to move on right.

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00:49:38,480 --> 00:49:42,520
Speaker 2: Well, I mean, they would prefer did he retire. If

1122
00:49:42,560 --> 00:49:44,600
Speaker 2: he retires, they don't know him the rest of the money.

1123
00:49:45,000 --> 00:49:47,440
Speaker 2: If he gets fired, they owe him the rest of money.

1124
00:49:47,680 --> 00:49:49,359
Speaker 2: So I'm sure what they're trying to do right now

1125
00:49:49,440 --> 00:49:52,040
Speaker 2: is figure outcause for anyone that doesn't know, coaching contracts

1126
00:49:52,080 --> 00:49:55,480
Speaker 2: fully guaranteed. So you know, I'm sure what Mark Davis

1127
00:49:55,520 --> 00:49:57,120
Speaker 2: is trying to do right now, much like they did

1128
00:49:57,120 --> 00:50:01,279
Speaker 2: when John Gruden stepped down, is negotiate a settle where hey,

1129
00:50:01,320 --> 00:50:03,200
Speaker 2: he can walk on his terms however they want to

1130
00:50:03,280 --> 00:50:05,400
Speaker 2: term it, but they'll come up with a dollar amount

1131
00:50:05,440 --> 00:50:06,440
Speaker 2: that gets him to walk.

1132
00:50:06,239 --> 00:50:08,640
Speaker 3: Away, hopefully if he retires.

1133
00:50:08,640 --> 00:50:11,640
Speaker 2: I would think that they're buying that retirement to some level.

1134
00:50:12,480 --> 00:50:15,240
Speaker 4: So how about this thirty minutes ago from Jordan Schultz

1135
00:50:15,360 --> 00:50:19,000
Speaker 4: since we're on the subject of coaches sources, The league

1136
00:50:19,040 --> 00:50:22,360
Speaker 4: wide expectation is that the Browns are likely to make changes,

1137
00:50:22,640 --> 00:50:25,359
Speaker 4: and two time NFL Coach of the Year Kevin Stefanski

1138
00:50:25,440 --> 00:50:27,759
Speaker 4: is believed to be on the hottest seat in the organization.

1139
00:50:28,400 --> 00:50:31,360
Speaker 4: Sources believe he's either getting let go or could be

1140
00:50:31,400 --> 00:50:34,920
Speaker 4: a trade candidate, though the latter is considered unlikely.

1141
00:50:35,040 --> 00:50:35,759
Speaker 3: What do you make of that?

1142
00:50:37,400 --> 00:50:41,080
Speaker 2: Well, so here's the thing that doesn't no discredit to Jordan.

1143
00:50:41,239 --> 00:50:43,319
Speaker 2: I've worked with Jordan a bunch, and Jordan's very good.

1144
00:50:43,560 --> 00:50:45,480
Speaker 2: That doesn't match some of the things that I was

1145
00:50:45,520 --> 00:50:49,719
Speaker 2: told by other insiders as recent as a couple of

1146
00:50:49,719 --> 00:50:53,120
Speaker 2: months ago about sort of Cleveland and their expectations. So

1147
00:50:53,200 --> 00:50:56,680
Speaker 2: Brown's organ from what I've been told repeatedly by insiders

1148
00:50:56,680 --> 00:51:00,040
Speaker 2: that are plugged in, the Browns organization, expected that this

1149
00:51:00,239 --> 00:51:02,520
Speaker 2: was going to be a very hard year and they

1150
00:51:02,560 --> 00:51:06,520
Speaker 2: expected to see growth from their young players. So even

1151
00:51:06,560 --> 00:51:09,799
Speaker 2: though the Browns have sucked, what hasn't sucked for them

1152
00:51:10,120 --> 00:51:12,200
Speaker 2: the youth, right, the youth movement for the Browns has

1153
00:51:12,280 --> 00:51:15,480
Speaker 2: looked good. So that's why Andrew Berry their GMS certainly

1154
00:51:15,520 --> 00:51:17,640
Speaker 2: would I would think would be safe. He's coming off

1155
00:51:17,640 --> 00:51:19,880
Speaker 2: of a home run draft class. Not sure what to

1156
00:51:19,920 --> 00:51:21,920
Speaker 2: make of Shador. We talk too much about Shador. The

1157
00:51:21,920 --> 00:51:25,319
Speaker 2: rest of that draft class looks really good. So Stefanski

1158
00:51:25,760 --> 00:51:28,960
Speaker 2: coach is a monster one hundred percent. So then you've

1159
00:51:28,960 --> 00:51:31,920
Speaker 2: got Stefanski that has been a part of the development

1160
00:51:31,960 --> 00:51:34,120
Speaker 2: of a young core of talent. I would still I

1161
00:51:34,520 --> 00:51:38,000
Speaker 2: hear it, and I think even the way Jordan worded that,

1162
00:51:38,120 --> 00:51:41,080
Speaker 2: I parse every word of an insider report right. So

1163
00:51:41,239 --> 00:51:45,160
Speaker 2: the expectations around the league are that Kevin Stefanski. So

1164
00:51:45,880 --> 00:51:48,120
Speaker 2: people think Kevin Stefanski is going to be like, well,

1165
00:51:48,160 --> 00:51:49,879
Speaker 2: but do we really like we're not getting any sort

1166
00:51:49,920 --> 00:51:53,640
Speaker 2: of a read from from Cleveland themselves, because that's an

1167
00:51:53,680 --> 00:51:57,160
Speaker 2: expectation around the league. As think about that compared to

1168
00:51:57,200 --> 00:51:59,759
Speaker 2: his report on the Raiders, where it's the expectation is

1169
00:51:59,800 --> 00:52:01,959
Speaker 2: that the Raiders will be one and done with Pete

1170
00:52:01,960 --> 00:52:05,160
Speaker 2: Carroll in Las Vegas. That's a much different report. So

1171
00:52:05,200 --> 00:52:06,840
Speaker 2: I think what he's telling you is people around the

1172
00:52:06,880 --> 00:52:08,439
Speaker 2: league thinks, to fancy is gonna be going.

1173
00:52:09,560 --> 00:52:11,320
Speaker 3: Man, I can't read the hasm's mind.

1174
00:52:11,160 --> 00:52:13,160
Speaker 2: But I would be pretty surprised that would be a

1175
00:52:13,239 --> 00:52:15,440
Speaker 2: change from the things that I heard from insiders that

1176
00:52:15,480 --> 00:52:17,759
Speaker 2: were plugged in as recently as late November.

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Speaker 4: I you know, again, I wouldn't pretend to know all

1178
00:52:22,520 --> 00:52:24,440
Speaker 4: the ins and outs of the Cleveland situation other than

1179
00:52:24,440 --> 00:52:26,440
Speaker 4: I did a game at Cleveland earlier in the year,

1180
00:52:26,480 --> 00:52:29,560
Speaker 4: and Kevin Stefanski did some of the most confusing things

1181
00:52:29,640 --> 00:52:32,319
Speaker 4: in game of a coach I've seen all year long,

1182
00:52:32,360 --> 00:52:34,279
Speaker 4: as far as the two point conversion plays and when

1183
00:52:34,280 --> 00:52:36,840
Speaker 4: he chose to take shoud Or Sanders off the field

1184
00:52:36,880 --> 00:52:38,200
Speaker 4: in the middle of shoud Or.

1185
00:52:38,239 --> 00:52:38,960
Speaker 3: Sanders' best game.

1186
00:52:39,000 --> 00:52:40,440
Speaker 4: So I don't want to say, you know, just because

1187
00:52:40,440 --> 00:52:43,759
Speaker 4: I saw that one sample size, like, yeah, I can't imagine.

1188
00:52:43,440 --> 00:52:45,640
Speaker 3: A situation in which they would want to keep that guy.

1189
00:52:45,719 --> 00:52:48,320
Speaker 4: Though that was a pretty that was a pretty difficult

1190
00:52:48,320 --> 00:52:50,680
Speaker 4: thing for me to process in real time. And having

1191
00:52:50,719 --> 00:52:55,040
Speaker 4: watched the Tennessee Titans every game the year, as is

1192
00:52:55,200 --> 00:52:59,360
Speaker 4: my day to day responsibilities, it's I believe I've become

1193
00:52:59,480 --> 00:53:02,160
Speaker 4: an expert in the in the world of poor coaching

1194
00:53:02,239 --> 00:53:05,800
Speaker 4: decisions and mismanagement. So if Stefanski has been doing stuff

1195
00:53:05,840 --> 00:53:07,719
Speaker 4: like that all season long, I would.

1196
00:53:07,480 --> 00:53:09,560
Speaker 3: Completely understand if they moved on from that person.

1197
00:53:09,600 --> 00:53:12,480
Speaker 4: But again, I have just the prisoner prisoner of the

1198
00:53:12,480 --> 00:53:16,520
Speaker 4: moment uh situation which the Titans went to Cleveland beat

1199
00:53:16,520 --> 00:53:19,000
Speaker 4: the Browns even though Shador had a good game, and

1200
00:53:19,040 --> 00:53:21,120
Speaker 4: looking at Stefanski like that game was there for you

1201
00:53:21,200 --> 00:53:24,080
Speaker 4: to win, and you kind of just blew it bud, but.

1202
00:53:24,080 --> 00:53:25,680
Speaker 2: He is also a two time Coach of the Year,

1203
00:53:25,960 --> 00:53:28,560
Speaker 2: So I don't know what Here's what I do know.

1204
00:53:29,000 --> 00:53:31,880
Speaker 2: People around the league definitely respect the hell out of

1205
00:53:31,920 --> 00:53:35,200
Speaker 2: Kevin Stefanski, Right That is that that is a how

1206
00:53:35,200 --> 00:53:36,680
Speaker 2: are you want to parse it out? It is a

1207
00:53:36,719 --> 00:53:40,040
Speaker 2: fact that smart minds across the NFL seem to respect.

1208
00:53:40,160 --> 00:53:43,120
Speaker 2: Like if Stefanski is actually a free agent, if he

1209
00:53:43,160 --> 00:53:46,479
Speaker 2: gets fired, it's gonna take He's gonna have his pick.

1210
00:53:46,680 --> 00:53:49,480
Speaker 2: He's gonna have his pick of several good jobs across

1211
00:53:49,480 --> 00:53:52,279
Speaker 2: the league. The interesting thing about that pick is so

1212
00:53:52,400 --> 00:53:53,960
Speaker 2: much of it. And this is what you and I

1213
00:53:54,000 --> 00:53:56,319
Speaker 2: are going to hammer home. Talked about this, talk about

1214
00:53:56,320 --> 00:53:59,560
Speaker 2: this constantly with coaching churches. Actually, we'll do it next.

1215
00:53:59,680 --> 00:54:02,640
Speaker 2: There is one thing that matters more than you could

1216
00:54:02,719 --> 00:54:06,640
Speaker 2: possibly realize for every single team that needs a head coach.

1217
00:54:06,680 --> 00:54:09,319
Speaker 2: There is one thing that can get you eliminated from

1218
00:54:09,400 --> 00:54:11,640
Speaker 2: even being on their radar. We'll tell you what it

1219
00:54:11,719 --> 00:54:14,439
Speaker 2: is next. He's buck Rising on Jason fitz bucking fits

1220
00:54:14,480 --> 00:54:21,320
Speaker 2: on Fox Sports Radio. I find myself eating a portion

1221
00:54:21,440 --> 00:54:24,040
Speaker 2: controlled number of frozen grapes at the end of the night,

1222
00:54:24,239 --> 00:54:26,359
Speaker 2: and I feel so fancy, because my whole life growing

1223
00:54:26,440 --> 00:54:28,359
Speaker 2: up is like, oh, the concept of frozen.

1224
00:54:28,040 --> 00:54:30,040
Speaker 3: Grapes, but also they're really delicious.

1225
00:54:30,160 --> 00:54:33,680
Speaker 2: So where are you, as the elitist on frozen grapes

1226
00:54:33,719 --> 00:54:34,640
Speaker 2: as a sweet treat.

1227
00:54:34,800 --> 00:54:36,920
Speaker 4: It sounds like something you would give a toddler that

1228
00:54:37,360 --> 00:54:40,759
Speaker 4: does that does not sound like that to shut up

1229
00:54:40,840 --> 00:54:43,000
Speaker 4: a screaming baby up, you'd be like, all right, I'll

1230
00:54:43,000 --> 00:54:44,080
Speaker 4: give him some frozen grapes.

1231
00:54:44,080 --> 00:54:44,880
Speaker 3: Maybe he's teething.

1232
00:54:45,960 --> 00:54:49,160
Speaker 2: Loyalty Back in the day got like like the women

1233
00:54:49,200 --> 00:54:51,839
Speaker 2: would feed the royalty the frozen grapes while they fan

1234
00:54:52,000 --> 00:54:53,400
Speaker 2: them with the big banana leza.

1235
00:54:53,840 --> 00:54:54,759
Speaker 3: No no, no, no no.

1236
00:54:54,800 --> 00:54:56,800
Speaker 4: When you tell me frozen grapes, I think something to

1237
00:54:56,920 --> 00:54:59,279
Speaker 4: come in a wholesale bag that you're just pulling out

1238
00:54:59,280 --> 00:55:01,560
Speaker 4: of a pulling out the freezer at night and shoveling

1239
00:55:01,600 --> 00:55:03,080
Speaker 4: a couple in your face and then calling it.

1240
00:55:03,200 --> 00:55:10,280
Speaker 2: Today, I saw on Instagram reel of champagne so grapes

1241
00:55:10,320 --> 00:55:13,080
Speaker 2: that were then covered in sugar and put in the

1242
00:55:13,120 --> 00:55:16,239
Speaker 2: freezer to freeze them as candied alcoholic grapes. Who that

1243
00:55:16,320 --> 00:55:18,800
Speaker 2: might be more of his? I mean, now we're getting

1244
00:55:19,040 --> 00:55:21,960
Speaker 2: just boozy enough for buck rising. It's fucking fits on

1245
00:55:22,000 --> 00:55:22,960
Speaker 2: Fox Sports Radio.

1246
00:55:23,760 --> 00:55:24,880
Speaker 3: I feel like that's good stuff.

1247
00:55:25,040 --> 00:55:26,719
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1256
00:55:49,040 --> 00:55:51,560
Speaker 2: the ball is down on the ground. Tampa Bay is

1257
00:55:51,800 --> 00:55:55,319
Speaker 2: just one, sixteen to fourteen. So congratulations America. You now

1258
00:55:55,360 --> 00:55:58,440
Speaker 2: have to watch the Falcons and the Saints next week tomorrow,

1259
00:55:58,480 --> 00:56:00,120
Speaker 2: I should say, to find out who's gonna win the

1260
00:56:00,200 --> 00:56:03,439
Speaker 2: NFC South. If the Falcons win, it creates a three

1261
00:56:03,440 --> 00:56:06,439
Speaker 2: way tie. In that three way tie, the tiebreaker goes

1262
00:56:06,440 --> 00:56:09,080
Speaker 2: to the Panthers, So the Panthers at eight and nine

1263
00:56:09,400 --> 00:56:12,000
Speaker 2: will go to the playoffs if the Falcons win. If

1264
00:56:12,000 --> 00:56:14,879
Speaker 2: the Falcons lose, then the Buccaneers at eight and nine

1265
00:56:15,200 --> 00:56:17,879
Speaker 2: go to the playoffs. Either way, the eight and nine

1266
00:56:17,880 --> 00:56:21,640
Speaker 2: winner of the NFC South is headed to the playoffs. Also,

1267
00:56:21,920 --> 00:56:24,640
Speaker 2: we got a report a little earlier that we told

1268
00:56:24,680 --> 00:56:26,239
Speaker 2: you about the broke at the top of the hour

1269
00:56:26,280 --> 00:56:29,880
Speaker 2: from Jordan Schultz, NFL Insider about the Raiders looking like

1270
00:56:29,920 --> 00:56:32,000
Speaker 2: they're going to be moving on according to his report

1271
00:56:32,040 --> 00:56:34,600
Speaker 2: from Pete Carroll at the end of the season, which

1272
00:56:34,600 --> 00:56:36,760
Speaker 2: got us to a little bit of the conversation about

1273
00:56:37,160 --> 00:56:39,880
Speaker 2: coaching and the one thing that I don't think fans

1274
00:56:40,239 --> 00:56:42,640
Speaker 2: put enough weight into buck when it comes to their

1275
00:56:42,680 --> 00:56:44,719
Speaker 2: favorite team needing a new head coach. And this is

1276
00:56:44,800 --> 00:56:48,440
Speaker 2: just such a simple part of the equation. If your

1277
00:56:48,640 --> 00:56:52,880
Speaker 2: team has a quarterback or a clear path to a quarterback,

1278
00:56:53,160 --> 00:56:55,800
Speaker 2: you are a desirable job. If your favorite team does not,

1279
00:56:56,560 --> 00:56:59,600
Speaker 2: you want not go back to Ben Johnson, who two

1280
00:56:59,680 --> 00:57:02,759
Speaker 2: years ago even flew to Washington and they thought they

1281
00:57:02,800 --> 00:57:04,400
Speaker 2: had him hired, and he's like, now I'm gonna give

1282
00:57:04,440 --> 00:57:05,920
Speaker 2: it another year in Detroit.

1283
00:57:05,960 --> 00:57:06,759
Speaker 3: I'm not gonna go there.

1284
00:57:06,760 --> 00:57:09,640
Speaker 2: Well, there wasn't a clear path to necessarily knowing exactly

1285
00:57:09,680 --> 00:57:12,360
Speaker 2: what their quarterback situation would look like. Even with the

1286
00:57:12,440 --> 00:57:15,200
Speaker 2: high draft pick, you didn't know exactly who.

1287
00:57:15,080 --> 00:57:15,680
Speaker 3: Was gonna be there.

1288
00:57:15,719 --> 00:57:17,960
Speaker 2: What it was gonna look like, no clear path. Then

1289
00:57:18,040 --> 00:57:21,320
Speaker 2: the following off season, everybody thought they were getting Ben Johnson.

1290
00:57:21,360 --> 00:57:23,439
Speaker 2: What do you know, when the dust settles, he goes

1291
00:57:23,480 --> 00:57:26,360
Speaker 2: to the former number one pick in Caleb Williams. He

1292
00:57:26,400 --> 00:57:29,160
Speaker 2: goes to the place that had a clear quarterback answer

1293
00:57:29,280 --> 00:57:32,240
Speaker 2: to the question. So when you start looking around saying

1294
00:57:32,400 --> 00:57:34,720
Speaker 2: who's gonna go where and what candidate do we need?

1295
00:57:34,800 --> 00:57:36,800
Speaker 2: I think one thing you have to acknowledge part of

1296
00:57:36,840 --> 00:57:39,280
Speaker 2: the reason I do believe that the number one overall

1297
00:57:39,320 --> 00:57:43,520
Speaker 2: pick for the my beloved Raiders is so important. Look,

1298
00:57:43,640 --> 00:57:46,040
Speaker 2: there might be multiple quarterbacks. We'll see Dante Moore might

1299
00:57:46,040 --> 00:57:48,080
Speaker 2: come out. But if you go to a head coach

1300
00:57:48,640 --> 00:57:50,760
Speaker 2: now with the second overall pick, you're saying, hey, we

1301
00:57:50,840 --> 00:57:52,520
Speaker 2: might have a way to get to a guy you like.

1302
00:57:52,600 --> 00:57:53,080
Speaker 3: We might not.

1303
00:57:53,560 --> 00:57:55,760
Speaker 2: If you have the first overall pick, now you have

1304
00:57:55,760 --> 00:57:57,920
Speaker 2: one hundred and ten million dollars in salary cap space,

1305
00:57:58,080 --> 00:58:00,280
Speaker 2: and you have a clear path to what what ever

1306
00:58:00,360 --> 00:58:02,200
Speaker 2: quarterback that coach prefers.

1307
00:58:02,280 --> 00:58:02,440
Speaker 3: Now.

1308
00:58:02,480 --> 00:58:04,800
Speaker 2: That could be Dante more could be Fernando Mendoz. I

1309
00:58:04,800 --> 00:58:07,240
Speaker 2: don't know right now, but at least answers a clear path.

1310
00:58:07,400 --> 00:58:10,320
Speaker 2: I think teams, fans will get a better sense of

1311
00:58:10,360 --> 00:58:13,240
Speaker 2: how desirable their job is simply by looking at the

1312
00:58:13,280 --> 00:58:16,200
Speaker 2: one position that matters the most and saying, do we

1313
00:58:16,320 --> 00:58:20,040
Speaker 2: have a quarterback that coaches want to stick their entire

1314
00:58:20,160 --> 00:58:20,720
Speaker 2: career on.

1315
00:58:22,400 --> 00:58:25,680
Speaker 3: Oh, I just went through this. I mean with the Titans.

1316
00:58:25,760 --> 00:58:28,880
Speaker 4: They had the number one overall pick last year, and

1317
00:58:29,120 --> 00:58:33,160
Speaker 4: their organization has been a disaster. They have been self

1318
00:58:33,560 --> 00:58:37,680
Speaker 4: sabotaging at every turn, really until it feels like the

1319
00:58:37,800 --> 00:58:40,240
Speaker 4: last calendar year, and even then like it felt like

1320
00:58:40,320 --> 00:58:42,360
Speaker 4: they had just made a mess of things with the

1321
00:58:42,400 --> 00:58:45,880
Speaker 4: Callahan scenario that I described earlier in the show if

1322
00:58:45,920 --> 00:58:47,480
Speaker 4: you were listening, But what did they have? They had

1323
00:58:47,480 --> 00:58:49,800
Speaker 4: the number one overall pick, and so they went into

1324
00:58:49,800 --> 00:58:52,960
Speaker 4: the general manager process with Brian Callahan as the coach

1325
00:58:53,080 --> 00:58:55,960
Speaker 4: in place, no quarterback in place, but that number one

1326
00:58:56,000 --> 00:58:59,000
Speaker 4: overall pick, and they were able to land the person

1327
00:58:59,040 --> 00:59:01,800
Speaker 4: who is regard or at least last year, was regarded

1328
00:59:01,840 --> 00:59:06,560
Speaker 4: as the most viable or best possible general manager candidate,

1329
00:59:06,600 --> 00:59:09,120
Speaker 4: despite their organization being wrought with dysfunction.

1330
00:59:09,240 --> 00:59:11,520
Speaker 3: And make no mistake like a lot of the people.

1331
00:59:11,280 --> 00:59:13,480
Speaker 4: That were responsible for the dysfunction are still at the

1332
00:59:13,480 --> 00:59:16,280
Speaker 4: Tennessee Titans. But if you finally get an adult in

1333
00:59:16,280 --> 00:59:18,720
Speaker 4: the room and give him real football power and say okay,

1334
00:59:18,760 --> 00:59:20,640
Speaker 4: go do your job and we just won't mess with you.

1335
00:59:21,080 --> 00:59:25,840
Speaker 3: Then yeah, things can change for the correct, for the good.

1336
00:59:26,040 --> 00:59:29,600
Speaker 4: So they hired Mike Borganzi as the general manager, and

1337
00:59:29,680 --> 00:59:32,000
Speaker 4: they went through the Brian Callahan thing, and they ended

1338
00:59:32,080 --> 00:59:34,320
Speaker 4: up having to fire Brian Callahan, which again I think

1339
00:59:34,360 --> 00:59:38,600
Speaker 4: set cam Ward back unnecessarily. That wasn't Mike Borganzi's decision.

1340
00:59:39,120 --> 00:59:41,280
Speaker 4: Now they have cam Ward in place, and they have

1341
00:59:41,360 --> 00:59:43,560
Speaker 4: the cap space, and they have Mike Borganzi who apparently

1342
00:59:43,600 --> 00:59:45,960
Speaker 4: is going to lead their coaching search after a statement

1343
00:59:46,000 --> 00:59:48,960
Speaker 4: from the owner for like the seventeenth thousandth time yesterday

1344
00:59:49,720 --> 00:59:53,720
Speaker 4: about a reorganizing of the power structure for the Tennessee Titans.

1345
00:59:53,760 --> 00:59:56,120
Speaker 4: But again, this one's for good because they finally let

1346
00:59:56,120 --> 00:59:58,880
Speaker 4: somebody with a football background actually make the football decisions,

1347
00:59:59,120 --> 01:00:00,920
Speaker 4: which is something that they hit straight from in the.

1348
01:00:00,960 --> 01:00:01,800
Speaker 3: Last couple of years.

1349
01:00:02,000 --> 01:00:08,200
Speaker 4: So your assets make you a viable an attractive job, right,

1350
01:00:09,000 --> 01:00:11,520
Speaker 4: just like anything else. I think that a lot of

1351
01:00:11,560 --> 01:00:13,959
Speaker 4: times people get caught up in the idea of because

1352
01:00:14,000 --> 01:00:17,240
Speaker 4: I think fans will talk themselves into Fitzie depending on

1353
01:00:17,560 --> 01:00:20,360
Speaker 4: how down bad their organization is and how much they

1354
01:00:20,360 --> 01:00:24,720
Speaker 4: decide that they're tired of the media criticizing that specific job.

1355
01:00:24,760 --> 01:00:26,360
Speaker 3: Because I do go through this a lot.

1356
01:00:26,200 --> 01:00:28,280
Speaker 4: With Titans fans, given that that's the team that I cover,

1357
01:00:30,160 --> 01:00:32,560
Speaker 4: I get a lot of feedback to the effect of, well,

1358
01:00:32,560 --> 01:00:34,439
Speaker 4: it's one of thirty two, somebody.

1359
01:00:34,160 --> 01:00:35,760
Speaker 3: Will want it, and I hate that.

1360
01:00:36,040 --> 01:00:38,680
Speaker 4: I hate that logic more than anything because I don't

1361
01:00:38,720 --> 01:00:41,800
Speaker 4: want somebody who just wants it because it's one of

1362
01:00:41,840 --> 01:00:45,000
Speaker 4: thirty two, like it's just their first opportunity, so let

1363
01:00:45,000 --> 01:00:47,440
Speaker 4: me take the job. I want somebody who's going to

1364
01:00:47,440 --> 01:00:50,440
Speaker 4: be like Ben Johnson or Mike McCarthy when he took

1365
01:00:50,480 --> 01:00:52,320
Speaker 4: a year off and kind of got to be a

1366
01:00:52,320 --> 01:00:55,880
Speaker 4: bit more selective about his opportunities. I want somebody who's

1367
01:00:55,880 --> 01:00:58,160
Speaker 4: actually going to consider the merits of the place and say, no,

1368
01:00:58,280 --> 01:01:00,920
Speaker 4: that's what makes sense for me, and if it's not

1369
01:01:01,080 --> 01:01:03,960
Speaker 4: in the right place, then like Ben Johnson with Tennessee,

1370
01:01:04,600 --> 01:01:07,280
Speaker 4: decline the interview, go back to Detroit and pick something

1371
01:01:07,280 --> 01:01:08,120
Speaker 4: that's more viable.

1372
01:01:08,160 --> 01:01:10,080
Speaker 3: I want that kind of a candidate.

1373
01:01:10,360 --> 01:01:13,480
Speaker 4: If I'm the Raiders or the Giants or the Titans,

1374
01:01:13,480 --> 01:01:16,280
Speaker 4: we'll see what happens in Cleveland at this point in time,

1375
01:01:16,320 --> 01:01:18,280
Speaker 4: I don't want somebody that just wants it because it's

1376
01:01:18,280 --> 01:01:20,720
Speaker 4: one of thirty two. I've never understood why fans use

1377
01:01:20,760 --> 01:01:21,760
Speaker 4: that as a justification.

1378
01:01:22,360 --> 01:01:25,880
Speaker 2: If your argument is we're one of thirty two, I

1379
01:01:25,920 --> 01:01:27,960
Speaker 2: want you to understand, you're going to get a one

1380
01:01:27,960 --> 01:01:31,320
Speaker 2: of thirty two candidate. Like, there's a difference between I

1381
01:01:31,400 --> 01:01:33,480
Speaker 2: have choices in a holy cow.

1382
01:01:33,520 --> 01:01:34,200
Speaker 3: They're calling me.

1383
01:01:34,680 --> 01:01:37,680
Speaker 2: Like, there's a big difference in what you're looking at.

1384
01:01:37,720 --> 01:01:40,040
Speaker 2: So if the argument is, well, there's only thirty two

1385
01:01:40,120 --> 01:01:42,800
Speaker 2: of them, you're gonna get somebody that's looking around saying, man,

1386
01:01:42,800 --> 01:01:44,840
Speaker 2: there's only thirty two of these jobs, and this one's

1387
01:01:44,880 --> 01:01:46,800
Speaker 2: open and could be a good opportunity.

1388
01:01:46,800 --> 01:01:48,960
Speaker 3: I'm gonna go ahead and take it. That might work,

1389
01:01:49,240 --> 01:01:50,120
Speaker 3: I might work for you.

1390
01:01:50,320 --> 01:01:53,320
Speaker 2: But that's a far different cry than again using the

1391
01:01:53,360 --> 01:01:55,040
Speaker 2: hottest of hottest candidates.

1392
01:01:55,040 --> 01:01:56,680
Speaker 3: Over the last several years. Ben Johnson was.

1393
01:01:56,640 --> 01:01:59,840
Speaker 2: So clearly for two years the hot candidate everybody wanted,

1394
01:02:00,280 --> 01:02:03,800
Speaker 2: which allowed him to be wildly selective right Like it

1395
01:02:04,440 --> 01:02:08,360
Speaker 2: allowed him to decide not on one of thirty two,

1396
01:02:08,400 --> 01:02:10,680
Speaker 2: but on is this where I can go and I

1397
01:02:10,680 --> 01:02:12,880
Speaker 2: can have tremendous success. Look at some of the names

1398
01:02:12,880 --> 01:02:14,720
Speaker 2: that are out there right now that every fan base

1399
01:02:14,800 --> 01:02:17,640
Speaker 2: is going to talk about in this cycle. Whether that is,

1400
01:02:17,760 --> 01:02:20,720
Speaker 2: if you know, if Stefanski is fired from Cleveland, he'll

1401
01:02:20,720 --> 01:02:23,280
Speaker 2: be on this list, Robert sala is on this list.

1402
01:02:24,120 --> 01:02:26,880
Speaker 2: You can go through the list and look at guys

1403
01:02:26,880 --> 01:02:30,400
Speaker 2: that have been coaches before McCarthy. Right, ask yourself this,

1404
01:02:30,840 --> 01:02:34,439
Speaker 2: If you're Robert sala that only shot so far has

1405
01:02:34,440 --> 01:02:37,640
Speaker 2: come in an organization that was dysfunctional with no quarterback,

1406
01:02:38,120 --> 01:02:41,640
Speaker 2: why in the hell would you take any job that

1407
01:02:41,760 --> 01:02:45,520
Speaker 2: doesn't have a quarterback you adore, I mean you love.

1408
01:02:45,640 --> 01:02:47,320
Speaker 2: You got to be able to look that quarterback in

1409
01:02:47,320 --> 01:02:49,280
Speaker 2: the eye and say, you know what, I'm never getting

1410
01:02:49,320 --> 01:02:51,600
Speaker 2: a third shot at this, so I'm going to bank

1411
01:02:51,680 --> 01:02:55,080
Speaker 2: my entire future living on you being able to win

1412
01:02:55,120 --> 01:02:58,520
Speaker 2: me football games. Like That's what I think people forget

1413
01:02:58,520 --> 01:03:01,400
Speaker 2: in this process. Like if you all or Mike McCarthy

1414
01:03:01,640 --> 01:03:04,320
Speaker 2: that has worked with at this point, Aaron Rodgers and

1415
01:03:04,400 --> 01:03:08,280
Speaker 2: Dak Prescott, what's your level of interest in taking a

1416
01:03:08,360 --> 01:03:10,680
Speaker 2: job that has a quarterback you don't like or no

1417
01:03:10,800 --> 01:03:13,440
Speaker 2: clear path to a quarterback? The answer to that is none, Right,

1418
01:03:13,520 --> 01:03:17,800
Speaker 2: So that's why it becomes so important Look, the Giants

1419
01:03:17,920 --> 01:03:20,840
Speaker 2: job is open. The Giants job is in part going

1420
01:03:20,880 --> 01:03:24,760
Speaker 2: to be defined by who's excited by working with Jackson Dart.

1421
01:03:24,920 --> 01:03:25,520
Speaker 3: That's real.

1422
01:03:25,800 --> 01:03:28,080
Speaker 2: So they're gonna have to that will either eliminate or

1423
01:03:28,120 --> 01:03:30,360
Speaker 2: add candidates one way or the other. And that's why

1424
01:03:31,040 --> 01:03:33,480
Speaker 2: it's more than just any one portion of this, it's

1425
01:03:33,520 --> 01:03:35,480
Speaker 2: all of it put together. Martin Wise, get us caught up.

1426
01:03:35,480 --> 01:03:38,040
Speaker 2: We need a scoreboard update what's going on across the

1427
01:03:38,120 --> 01:03:39,240
Speaker 2: landscape and the universe.

1428
01:03:39,360 --> 01:03:43,760
Speaker 6: Right now, my friend, Well, right now, we have to

1429
01:03:43,760 --> 01:03:45,840
Speaker 6: wait till tomorrow because we have to know if the

1430
01:03:45,880 --> 01:03:49,720
Speaker 6: Falcons are gonna lose or tie the Saints, to find

1431
01:03:49,760 --> 01:03:51,800
Speaker 6: out if Tampa can get in or not. They did

1432
01:03:51,880 --> 01:03:55,080
Speaker 6: everything that they could today. Baker Mayfield is saying he

1433
01:03:55,200 --> 01:03:57,600
Speaker 6: is a New Orleans Saints fan. Tomorrow I'll be watching

1434
01:03:57,600 --> 01:04:01,120
Speaker 6: the game from his couch because the Buccaneers able to

1435
01:04:01,160 --> 01:04:05,640
Speaker 6: be victorious today sixteen to fourteen against the Panthers, Panthers

1436
01:04:05,640 --> 01:04:08,280
Speaker 6: scoring a late touchdown in the fourth quarter, but not

1437
01:04:08,320 --> 01:04:10,640
Speaker 6: able to go ahead and pull that win out from behind.

1438
01:04:10,720 --> 01:04:13,320
Speaker 6: Tampa got out to our early lead ten to nothing.

1439
01:04:13,640 --> 01:04:16,760
Speaker 6: Baker threw an interception and late in the first half

1440
01:04:16,840 --> 01:04:19,640
Speaker 6: that led to a Carolina touchdown and was really most

1441
01:04:19,640 --> 01:04:22,240
Speaker 6: of what Carolina could do offensively all day. They did

1442
01:04:22,280 --> 01:04:24,720
Speaker 6: have a drive in the fourth quarter where they try

1443
01:04:24,800 --> 01:04:25,439
Speaker 6: to trick play.

1444
01:04:25,560 --> 01:04:28,200
Speaker 3: Rico o'dowdo took a handoff, pitched it back to.

1445
01:04:28,160 --> 01:04:35,360
Speaker 6: Bryce Young Fubo Lavonte David recovered that fumble and helped

1446
01:04:35,400 --> 01:04:38,800
Speaker 6: Tampa secure the win. TJ Wide has no limitations. He's

1447
01:04:38,800 --> 01:04:41,880
Speaker 6: expected to play Sunday night against the Ravens. Josh Allen

1448
01:04:41,920 --> 01:04:45,440
Speaker 6: a limited participant Friday. He's expected to play. He missed

1449
01:04:45,680 --> 01:04:48,600
Speaker 6: two practices this week. He's still expected to start, like

1450
01:04:48,640 --> 01:04:52,840
Speaker 6: I just said, to get his second longest active star streak.

1451
01:04:52,600 --> 01:04:54,120
Speaker 3: Alive, thing continuing.

1452
01:04:54,160 --> 01:04:56,280
Speaker 6: He's got one hundred and twenty one right now, looking

1453
01:04:56,320 --> 01:04:59,959
Speaker 6: to make one twenty two tomorrow. The first longest act

1454
01:05:00,160 --> 01:05:02,880
Speaker 6: streak is Philip Rivers. He's got two hundred and forty three.

1455
01:05:03,360 --> 01:05:05,560
Speaker 6: So Philip retires and Josh to go back to that

1456
01:05:05,680 --> 01:05:08,520
Speaker 6: number one spot, But right now Phillips got it. The

1457
01:05:08,560 --> 01:05:10,800
Speaker 6: Seahawks and the forty nine ers are about to kick

1458
01:05:10,840 --> 01:05:13,760
Speaker 6: off here in about twenty minutes, those two teams vying

1459
01:05:13,840 --> 01:05:16,360
Speaker 6: for the one seed in the NFC. This will be

1460
01:05:16,400 --> 01:05:19,320
Speaker 6: the first regular season finale in league history with both

1461
01:05:19,360 --> 01:05:22,360
Speaker 6: teams on winning streaks of at least six games. The

1462
01:05:22,400 --> 01:05:25,280
Speaker 6: loser of this will be a wild card and also

1463
01:05:25,360 --> 01:05:28,160
Speaker 6: the Rams will says Seahawks win tonight, the Rams be

1464
01:05:28,200 --> 01:05:31,280
Speaker 6: the five seed and if the Rams, if the Rams

1465
01:05:31,320 --> 01:05:35,120
Speaker 6: beat the Cardinals on Sunday, if the forty nine Ers win,

1466
01:05:35,440 --> 01:05:38,280
Speaker 6: the Rams will be the sixth seed. Either way, expect

1467
01:05:38,440 --> 01:05:40,800
Speaker 6: Sean mcvagh to play his starters. He said he's not

1468
01:05:40,800 --> 01:05:42,640
Speaker 6: happy with the way the guys are closing out the year,

1469
01:05:42,720 --> 01:05:45,880
Speaker 6: so they'll be playing no matter what the seeding will be.

1470
01:05:46,120 --> 01:05:46,960
Speaker 3: Fellas Back to.

1471
01:05:46,920 --> 01:05:50,760
Speaker 2: You, he's Buck Rising Up Jason Fitzbucking Fits hanging out

1472
01:05:50,760 --> 01:05:52,520
Speaker 2: with you on Fox Sports Radio. If you missed any

1473
01:05:52,560 --> 01:05:54,920
Speaker 2: of today's show, shame on. You got to catch the pod.

1474
01:05:55,160 --> 01:05:57,960
Speaker 2: Just search Fox Sports Radio wherever you get your podcast.

1475
01:05:58,000 --> 01:06:00,520
Speaker 2: Right after the show today's pod gets posted. Be sure

1476
01:06:00,520 --> 01:06:02,120
Speaker 2: to follow the pod Rted five Stars.

1477
01:06:02,160 --> 01:06:03,560
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1478
01:06:04,000 --> 01:06:07,320
Speaker 2: Just search Fox Sports Radio wherever you get your podcast.

1479
01:06:07,600 --> 01:06:10,640
Speaker 2: You'll find today's full show posted right after we get

1480
01:06:10,680 --> 01:06:12,439
Speaker 2: off the air. Buck, can I give you the most

1481
01:06:12,480 --> 01:06:17,080
Speaker 2: amazing stat in the history of stats that absolutely.

1482
01:06:16,520 --> 01:06:20,680
Speaker 3: Blew my mind? Today? Hmmm, you may, but only because

1483
01:06:20,680 --> 01:06:22,800
Speaker 3: you're asked. Laughs. I thank you.

1484
01:06:22,880 --> 01:06:27,160
Speaker 2: More people watched the Pop Tarts Bowl than the NBA

1485
01:06:27,280 --> 01:06:30,280
Speaker 2: Conference Final. Can I tell you this? More people watched

1486
01:06:30,320 --> 01:06:33,000
Speaker 2: the Pop Tart Bowl than the blowout games in the

1487
01:06:33,000 --> 01:06:38,280
Speaker 2: first round of the CFP. Eight point seven million people

1488
01:06:39,200 --> 01:06:42,000
Speaker 2: watched the Pop Tart Bowl. Can we officially put to

1489
01:06:42,040 --> 01:06:47,280
Speaker 2: bed any argument, discussion, any yelling that bowl season is dead?

1490
01:06:47,520 --> 01:06:48,760
Speaker 2: Can we officially put that?

1491
01:06:49,200 --> 01:06:51,320
Speaker 3: Put that to rest? Oh don't know, can we?

1492
01:06:51,520 --> 01:06:56,760
Speaker 4: You're you're the one out here spewing this propaganda.

1493
01:06:55,320 --> 01:06:57,120
Speaker 2: And it didn't captivate me. I didn't say it needed

1494
01:06:57,120 --> 01:06:57,680
Speaker 2: to go away.

1495
01:06:58,360 --> 01:06:59,920
Speaker 3: No, No, it's fine, a pair.

1496
01:07:00,240 --> 01:07:02,480
Speaker 4: It was enough to captivate eight point seven million people,

1497
01:07:03,080 --> 01:07:04,160
Speaker 4: not captivating to you.

1498
01:07:04,840 --> 01:07:07,320
Speaker 3: Wait, you're too good for the Pop Tart Bowl.

1499
01:07:07,360 --> 01:07:11,800
Speaker 4: You're too good for the live sacrificing of an edible mascot.

1500
01:07:12,440 --> 01:07:16,320
Speaker 4: You're you're too good for the nonsense that byu uh

1501
01:07:16,360 --> 01:07:17,560
Speaker 4: and uh and yea?

1502
01:07:17,600 --> 01:07:19,960
Speaker 3: Who they played? Who they play? Who they played? Georgia Town?

1503
01:07:20,160 --> 01:07:21,120
Speaker 3: You had to look it up.

1504
01:07:21,320 --> 01:07:23,360
Speaker 2: You you had to see that was my follow up question,

1505
01:07:23,480 --> 01:07:24,800
Speaker 2: Who actually played in this thing?

1506
01:07:24,800 --> 01:07:25,439
Speaker 3: Like we can agree?

1507
01:07:25,480 --> 01:07:27,280
Speaker 2: The Duke's Mail Bowl, the pop Tart Bowl and the

1508
01:07:27,360 --> 01:07:29,840
Speaker 2: Cheesey Bowl are the three that everybody watches. We don't

1509
01:07:29,840 --> 01:07:31,640
Speaker 2: watch it for the team I got. Nobody knows who

1510
01:07:31,640 --> 01:07:33,480
Speaker 2: played in the pop Dart Bowl. They only know the people.

1511
01:07:33,600 --> 01:07:35,320
Speaker 3: No no, no, no, no no, no pop Tart.

1512
01:07:35,920 --> 01:07:38,680
Speaker 4: Ironically enough, though, the pop Tart Bowl ends up being

1513
01:07:38,680 --> 01:07:40,440
Speaker 4: a pretty good game. What twenty five to twenty one

1514
01:07:40,520 --> 01:07:42,920
Speaker 4: BYU this year, forty two to forty one.

1515
01:07:42,960 --> 01:07:44,720
Speaker 3: I was straight over Miami last year.

1516
01:07:44,760 --> 01:07:47,640
Speaker 4: So the pop Tart Bowl has has had some pretty

1517
01:07:47,640 --> 01:07:50,840
Speaker 4: good matchups or at least some pretty good uh drama

1518
01:07:50,960 --> 01:07:54,200
Speaker 4: in them beyond the eating of the sacrificial pop tart.

1519
01:07:54,280 --> 01:07:55,280
Speaker 3: And this year there were.

1520
01:07:55,080 --> 01:07:57,200
Speaker 4: Like six different pop Tart mascots. They all had their

1521
01:07:57,240 --> 01:07:59,760
Speaker 4: own entrances. It was delightful. No, this is a This

1522
01:07:59,880 --> 01:08:04,040
Speaker 4: is such an achievement for marketing, such an achievement for

1523
01:08:04,160 --> 01:08:07,680
Speaker 4: a department of the Pop Tarts Corporation that has to

1524
01:08:07,720 --> 01:08:09,520
Speaker 4: be looking around and being like, how the hell are

1525
01:08:09,560 --> 01:08:12,240
Speaker 4: we gonna one up this thing each and every year?

1526
01:08:12,280 --> 01:08:14,320
Speaker 4: And to their credit, they have found ways each and

1527
01:08:14,400 --> 01:08:16,880
Speaker 4: every year to make the pop Tart Bowl more and

1528
01:08:16,920 --> 01:08:19,200
Speaker 4: more ridiculous. But this is what you have to do, right,

1529
01:08:19,240 --> 01:08:21,960
Speaker 4: This is the eye candy. It's no longer enough to

1530
01:08:22,040 --> 01:08:24,320
Speaker 4: just play the games. I think a lot of situations

1531
01:08:24,320 --> 01:08:26,479
Speaker 4: and listen, the ball games are gonna rate fine, Like people,

1532
01:08:26,920 --> 01:08:28,800
Speaker 4: even if it's just college football the on in the

1533
01:08:28,800 --> 01:08:30,960
Speaker 4: background while you work or do the dishes, or fold

1534
01:08:30,960 --> 01:08:32,800
Speaker 4: your laundry, or sit in an airport bar, or whatever

1535
01:08:32,840 --> 01:08:37,360
Speaker 4: the case may be. Like, football will always rate reasonably well.

1536
01:08:38,040 --> 01:08:41,080
Speaker 4: That the pop tart bawl outdrew. You said, the NBA Finals,

1537
01:08:41,960 --> 01:08:45,680
Speaker 4: Conference Finals, Conference finals? Okay, So who was in the

1538
01:08:45,680 --> 01:08:51,400
Speaker 4: conference finals you had? You had the Pacers, and who

1539
01:08:51,479 --> 01:08:52,320
Speaker 4: played the Pacers.

1540
01:08:52,080 --> 01:08:54,479
Speaker 3: In these Celtics. I don't remember. I don't remember. It's

1541
01:08:54,680 --> 01:08:56,639
Speaker 3: like we consume so many sports. I don't remember.

1542
01:08:56,680 --> 01:09:01,080
Speaker 4: Now that's going that's reasonable because I'm thinking about under Pacers. Obviously,

1543
01:09:01,120 --> 01:09:03,719
Speaker 4: on the opposite side, I'm blanking on who they beat

1544
01:09:04,400 --> 01:09:06,840
Speaker 4: those two teams to beat to it, or did beat

1545
01:09:06,880 --> 01:09:11,120
Speaker 4: to advance to the NBA Finals last year. Perhaps I'm

1546
01:09:11,160 --> 01:09:13,000
Speaker 4: buying you enough time to look that up for us.

1547
01:09:13,360 --> 01:09:14,720
Speaker 3: I'm trying to look it up here. I'm trying to

1548
01:09:14,720 --> 01:09:18,360
Speaker 3: look it up. Football is always going to rate.

1549
01:09:19,439 --> 01:09:24,040
Speaker 2: I'm a city Minnesota, Indiana took down the Knicks. Yeah,

1550
01:09:24,080 --> 01:09:26,040
Speaker 2: How do I forget that Indiana took down the Knicks.

1551
01:09:26,040 --> 01:09:29,599
Speaker 2: We had the Knicks. The Pomptar Bowl just outed the

1552
01:09:29,720 --> 01:09:33,599
Speaker 2: Knicks in the conference. I mean, come on, like, that's wild.

1553
01:09:33,840 --> 01:09:35,559
Speaker 2: I'm not even saying that, like I'm saying this with

1554
01:09:35,680 --> 01:09:38,200
Speaker 2: joy and jubilation on my face because I'm a troll.

1555
01:09:38,439 --> 01:09:40,959
Speaker 2: But that's just amazing to outdraw the Ficks.

1556
01:09:41,120 --> 01:09:42,160
Speaker 3: But why is it wild?

1557
01:09:42,360 --> 01:09:44,560
Speaker 4: At every turn, the vast majority of the country is

1558
01:09:44,560 --> 01:09:47,799
Speaker 4: telling you they don't watch the NBA, So like, what, what,

1559
01:09:47,800 --> 01:09:49,519
Speaker 4: what do the Knicks mean outside of New York?

1560
01:09:50,320 --> 01:09:53,200
Speaker 2: It's wild to me because if anybody could get ratings,

1561
01:09:53,200 --> 01:09:55,519
Speaker 2: it would be the Knicks, a big, big team. But

1562
01:09:55,560 --> 01:09:57,280
Speaker 2: then the other side of it is it's wild to

1563
01:09:57,320 --> 01:09:59,840
Speaker 2: me because I keep hearing and this is where there's

1564
01:09:59,880 --> 01:10:03,479
Speaker 2: a disconnect. You've smartly said we all got to stop

1565
01:10:03,520 --> 01:10:05,840
Speaker 2: listening to anything that's said on social media because it's

1566
01:10:05,880 --> 01:10:08,559
Speaker 2: not real. But there's such a disconnect right now. I

1567
01:10:08,640 --> 01:10:12,439
Speaker 2: hear college football people, even Nick Siteman, coming out talking about, well,

1568
01:10:12,560 --> 01:10:14,920
Speaker 2: you know, the more we expand the playoff, the more

1569
01:10:14,920 --> 01:10:16,920
Speaker 2: it lessens the bowl games, and the more it's gonna

1570
01:10:17,160 --> 01:10:19,479
Speaker 2: negate the point of all of these other things.

1571
01:10:19,400 --> 01:10:20,280
Speaker 3: That's just not true.

1572
01:10:20,720 --> 01:10:23,080
Speaker 2: I mean, the more college football we get, the more

1573
01:10:23,120 --> 01:10:26,200
Speaker 2: college football we watch. So every time there's a conversation

1574
01:10:26,240 --> 01:10:29,960
Speaker 2: about college football expansion and somebody tells me, oh, like,

1575
01:10:30,040 --> 01:10:32,320
Speaker 2: they can't expand the college so they're ruining the game.

1576
01:10:32,720 --> 01:10:35,599
Speaker 2: Eight point seven million people watch the Pop Tart Bowl.

1577
01:10:35,800 --> 01:10:37,160
Speaker 3: They're not ruining anything.

1578
01:10:37,280 --> 01:10:40,280
Speaker 2: So like there's a disconnect between the handbringing people that

1579
01:10:40,400 --> 01:10:43,160
Speaker 2: yell about everything that's happening in college football and the

1580
01:10:43,200 --> 01:10:46,919
Speaker 2: reality of the numbers to me, And that's wildly interesting.

1581
01:10:46,960 --> 01:10:49,320
Speaker 2: It's interesting to me that a game that most of

1582
01:10:49,400 --> 01:10:52,280
Speaker 2: us don't even remember already who played in got eight

1583
01:10:52,280 --> 01:10:55,000
Speaker 2: point seven million views simply because there's edible mascots.

1584
01:10:56,520 --> 01:10:58,800
Speaker 4: I mean, sometimes that's all it takes. Fitzing, I'm all

1585
01:10:58,800 --> 01:11:00,880
Speaker 4: about the eye candy. You would you accuse me of

1586
01:11:01,000 --> 01:11:04,439
Speaker 4: yesterday some kind of like shiny bicycle or something like that,

1587
01:11:04,560 --> 01:11:08,040
Speaker 4: just in terms of how I get distracted, squirrel type

1588
01:11:08,040 --> 01:11:11,240
Speaker 4: of situation. Yeah, Listen, I need more than just sports

1589
01:11:11,360 --> 01:11:14,599
Speaker 4: like you're appealing. You're appealing to different demographics too when

1590
01:11:14,640 --> 01:11:17,439
Speaker 4: you do this right, because you have to find some

1591
01:11:17,560 --> 01:11:19,879
Speaker 4: kind of jazz hands to go along with your football

1592
01:11:19,920 --> 01:11:22,639
Speaker 4: to get people I mean, and this is a larger

1593
01:11:22,680 --> 01:11:26,000
Speaker 4: issue that we don't necessarily have to get into now,

1594
01:11:26,360 --> 01:11:29,840
Speaker 4: but you're dealing with a generational disconnect where younger people

1595
01:11:29,880 --> 01:11:33,840
Speaker 4: just aren't consuming sports like live sports in the way

1596
01:11:34,040 --> 01:11:38,160
Speaker 4: that you, or as a different generation, or me, as

1597
01:11:38,160 --> 01:11:42,080
Speaker 4: a different generation across the board do And how much

1598
01:11:42,080 --> 01:11:44,439
Speaker 4: of our lives are free time? And not just because

1599
01:11:44,479 --> 01:11:46,840
Speaker 4: you and I work in this industry, but how many

1600
01:11:46,880 --> 01:11:50,519
Speaker 4: people just genuinely spend their time watching sports on television

1601
01:11:50,520 --> 01:11:54,320
Speaker 4: as opposed to consuming it via social media. The Pop

1602
01:11:54,360 --> 01:11:57,880
Speaker 4: Tarts Bowl is a social media extravaganza, right, and it's

1603
01:11:57,920 --> 01:11:59,920
Speaker 4: going to draw I think there is going to be

1604
01:12:00,240 --> 01:12:01,960
Speaker 4: level of residual event to be like, what the hell

1605
01:12:02,080 --> 01:12:05,960
Speaker 4: is going on between BYU and Georgia Tech. Why do

1606
01:12:06,040 --> 01:12:08,920
Speaker 4: I see all of these live pop Tart mascots all

1607
01:12:08,960 --> 01:12:11,120
Speaker 4: over the place? Should I turn on my television watch this?

1608
01:12:11,200 --> 01:12:13,400
Speaker 4: Oh my god, they're eating a mascot live on TV.

1609
01:12:13,920 --> 01:12:14,160
Speaker 3: Yeah.

1610
01:12:14,200 --> 01:12:15,920
Speaker 4: I think there is something to that. I think the

1611
01:12:15,960 --> 01:12:18,000
Speaker 4: Pop Tarts Bowl has hit on something very safe. I

1612
01:12:18,000 --> 01:12:20,200
Speaker 4: don't think that this is going to happen across the board.

1613
01:12:20,439 --> 01:12:22,240
Speaker 4: I don't think the Duke's Mayo Bowl is gonna outdraw

1614
01:12:22,280 --> 01:12:24,320
Speaker 4: the Knicks in the conference finals. I think the pop

1615
01:12:24,360 --> 01:12:27,280
Speaker 4: Tarts has done something very very specific here to the

1616
01:12:27,320 --> 01:12:30,439
Speaker 4: point where we're spending what fifteen minutes of national radio

1617
01:12:30,760 --> 01:12:32,800
Speaker 4: on a game that was played two weeks ago. I

1618
01:12:32,800 --> 01:12:35,120
Speaker 4: guess it wasn't two weeks ago. It was about a

1619
01:12:35,160 --> 01:12:38,479
Speaker 4: week ago at this point in time. But a game

1620
01:12:38,640 --> 01:12:41,080
Speaker 4: between two teams that didn't make the college football Playoff

1621
01:12:41,080 --> 01:12:44,880
Speaker 4: in a largely meaningless bowl game, We're spending ten to

1622
01:12:44,880 --> 01:12:47,240
Speaker 4: fifteen minutes on national radio talking about it a week

1623
01:12:47,280 --> 01:12:49,719
Speaker 4: after the fact because it is such a spectacular event.

1624
01:12:49,760 --> 01:12:51,719
Speaker 4: They've done their job well.

1625
01:12:51,760 --> 01:12:54,479
Speaker 2: And we got a tweet from Preler Forever who says,

1626
01:12:54,479 --> 01:12:58,000
Speaker 2: what are the ratings for the other non CFO bole games. Honestly,

1627
01:12:58,080 --> 01:13:00,800
Speaker 2: the answer to that up thirteen percent year over year.

1628
01:13:01,120 --> 01:13:05,040
Speaker 2: ESPNPR put this out. Bowl games are up thirteen percent

1629
01:13:05,160 --> 01:13:08,280
Speaker 2: year over year, So you know the fact. The fact

1630
01:13:08,320 --> 01:13:10,880
Speaker 2: of the matter is people are watching it. I mean,

1631
01:13:11,080 --> 01:13:13,720
Speaker 2: there's just no two ways to dissect this. Every time

1632
01:13:13,760 --> 01:13:15,880
Speaker 2: somebody wants to make an excuse for well, it doesn't

1633
01:13:15,880 --> 01:13:18,759
Speaker 2: really mean this or that it does. I'm not somebody

1634
01:13:18,760 --> 01:13:20,840
Speaker 2: that believes the NBA, by the way, is in trouble

1635
01:13:20,920 --> 01:13:23,479
Speaker 2: or dying. And I've said many times I worked on

1636
01:13:23,520 --> 01:13:27,040
Speaker 2: platforms at ESPN that specialize like Sports Center on Snapchat,

1637
01:13:27,040 --> 01:13:31,080
Speaker 2: places like that. Consumption of NBA highlights and social media

1638
01:13:31,400 --> 01:13:34,360
Speaker 2: is at an all time high. So look, look no

1639
01:13:34,439 --> 01:13:39,599
Speaker 2: further than participation in youth basketball is rising astronomically year

1640
01:13:39,640 --> 01:13:42,479
Speaker 2: over year every single year. More kids are not flocking

1641
01:13:42,520 --> 01:13:45,799
Speaker 2: to basketball because they aren't watching the NBA. They're flocking

1642
01:13:45,800 --> 01:13:49,640
Speaker 2: to basketball because they're watching NBA highlights in quick patterns

1643
01:13:49,640 --> 01:13:51,559
Speaker 2: that last two to three seconds. When we did Sports

1644
01:13:51,600 --> 01:13:54,679
Speaker 2: Center on snap the rule was you had three seconds

1645
01:13:54,720 --> 01:13:57,839
Speaker 2: to gain or lose a viewer. That is how modern

1646
01:13:57,880 --> 01:14:01,240
Speaker 2: society consumes the NBA. So I don't think the NBA

1647
01:14:01,320 --> 01:14:03,839
Speaker 2: is dead at all. I just think it's being consumed

1648
01:14:03,880 --> 01:14:06,479
Speaker 2: in a different way. With bowl game ratings being up

1649
01:14:06,560 --> 01:14:08,920
Speaker 2: thirteen percent and the Pop Tart Bowl coming out here

1650
01:14:08,920 --> 01:14:12,080
Speaker 2: and outdrawing the NBA Conference Finals. My point is not

1651
01:14:12,120 --> 01:14:14,639
Speaker 2: that anything else is broken. My point is that anybody

1652
01:14:14,640 --> 01:14:17,760
Speaker 2: that tells you college football is dying or struggling or

1653
01:14:18,000 --> 01:14:19,600
Speaker 2: not going to be able to keep this up, or

1654
01:14:19,840 --> 01:14:22,400
Speaker 2: there's problems with the game long term, all of these

1655
01:14:22,439 --> 01:14:25,479
Speaker 2: fear mongering hand ringing. People that are my peers that

1656
01:14:25,520 --> 01:14:29,320
Speaker 2: cover college football for a living are wrong at someday,

1657
01:14:29,600 --> 01:14:31,040
Speaker 2: at some point, we all have to look at the

1658
01:14:31,120 --> 01:14:33,679
Speaker 2: data even when it doesn't make sense, and the data

1659
01:14:33,720 --> 01:14:36,920
Speaker 2: is very clear. We love college football more than ever.

1660
01:14:37,000 --> 01:14:39,599
Speaker 2: We love this version of college football more than ever,

1661
01:14:39,760 --> 01:14:42,160
Speaker 2: and everybody that's telling you we don't is just old

1662
01:14:42,200 --> 01:14:45,040
Speaker 2: man screaming on their lawn at the sky for absolutely nothing.

1663
01:14:45,160 --> 01:14:46,920
Speaker 2: We'll keep breaking it down, but we got to get

1664
01:14:46,920 --> 01:14:49,200
Speaker 2: to the single greatest game show in the history of

1665
01:14:49,240 --> 01:14:52,679
Speaker 2: sports talk radio. It's time for wood You rather coming

1666
01:14:52,760 --> 01:14:53,280
Speaker 2: up next.

1667
01:14:53,080 --> 01:14:59,280
Speaker 3: To bucking Fits. I'll be honest, I think fireworks kind

1668
01:14:59,320 --> 01:15:03,040
Speaker 3: of overrated. I'll be honest, Like it's really the sweaty crowds.

1669
01:15:03,080 --> 01:15:05,120
Speaker 2: Like there's just a lot of buck sweat throughout the

1670
01:15:05,120 --> 01:15:07,920
Speaker 2: course of this, Like especially down in the South where everybody's.

1671
01:15:07,560 --> 01:15:10,080
Speaker 3: It's just hot and humid and like in fat and

1672
01:15:10,720 --> 01:15:12,479
Speaker 3: just yeah, there's a lot of that. Are you are

1673
01:15:12,520 --> 01:15:15,440
Speaker 3: you a pro? He fireworks? Kind of? I hate fireworks.

1674
01:15:15,520 --> 01:15:17,280
Speaker 3: I think they're a giant pain in the ass.

1675
01:15:17,400 --> 01:15:20,040
Speaker 4: I think that there is not a more overrated way

1676
01:15:20,080 --> 01:15:25,160
Speaker 4: of celebrating in this world than the shooting off of fireworks.

1677
01:15:25,280 --> 01:15:27,840
Speaker 3: Bro It takes me two hours.

1678
01:15:27,479 --> 01:15:29,639
Speaker 4: To get in a situation for me to properly see

1679
01:15:29,680 --> 01:15:31,439
Speaker 4: the fireworks, and it is such a pain in the

1680
01:15:31,479 --> 01:15:35,040
Speaker 4: ass for like seven minutes of actual payoff.

1681
01:15:38,880 --> 01:15:43,080
Speaker 2: God, he's so angry. He's an angry sell pull buck Rising,

1682
01:15:43,160 --> 01:15:45,600
Speaker 2: Jason Fitz Bucket fits.

1683
01:15:45,439 --> 01:15:47,880
Speaker 3: It's something langry, That's all I'm saying, Bucket Fits.

1684
01:15:47,920 --> 01:15:52,120
Speaker 2: On Fox Sports Radio, you can tweet us at buck Rising,

1685
01:15:52,320 --> 01:15:53,240
Speaker 2: at Jason Fits.

1686
01:15:53,240 --> 01:15:57,440
Speaker 4: What what I'm just I don't I'm not angry, Okay,

1687
01:15:57,920 --> 01:15:59,360
Speaker 4: I've just got a tone problem.

1688
01:15:59,400 --> 01:16:03,080
Speaker 3: There's a different we have resting tone voice all right.

1689
01:16:03,520 --> 01:16:06,680
Speaker 2: By the way, we have Seattle San Francisco kick it

1690
01:16:06,720 --> 01:16:09,920
Speaker 2: off in a few minutes. If San Francisco wins, then

1691
01:16:09,960 --> 01:16:12,400
Speaker 2: they will get the one seed. Seattle gets the five seed.

1692
01:16:12,520 --> 01:16:14,280
Speaker 2: The Rams are the six seed that would all be

1693
01:16:14,360 --> 01:16:17,559
Speaker 2: locked in. If Seattle wins, Seattle gets the one seed

1694
01:16:17,600 --> 01:16:19,920
Speaker 2: and then all of a sudden, the Rams and San

1695
01:16:19,920 --> 01:16:23,240
Speaker 2: Francisco a lot of variables depending on what happens with

1696
01:16:23,320 --> 01:16:26,360
Speaker 2: the Rams game tomorrow. So a lot of variables left

1697
01:16:26,400 --> 01:16:29,040
Speaker 2: to happen tonight. But as we do every single day

1698
01:16:29,080 --> 01:16:30,840
Speaker 2: on this show. By the way, if you just hung

1699
01:16:30,880 --> 01:16:32,479
Speaker 2: out with us every Saturday six to eight pm.

1700
01:16:32,520 --> 01:16:33,719
Speaker 3: Bucking fits. We're always here.

1701
01:16:34,080 --> 01:16:35,920
Speaker 2: It is time for the single greatest game show in

1702
01:16:35,960 --> 01:16:37,479
Speaker 2: the history of sports Socock Radio book.

1703
01:16:37,520 --> 01:16:46,200
Speaker 3: Are you ready for Wood? Would you rather I feel

1704
01:16:46,280 --> 01:16:49,519
Speaker 3: like we got that one. It's easy, guys, don't hard.

1705
01:16:50,560 --> 01:16:56,080
Speaker 3: Would you rather Bucket? Touch or fix it? All right?

1706
01:16:56,320 --> 01:16:58,360
Speaker 7: How do you think you how do you think you

1707
01:16:58,400 --> 01:16:58,920
Speaker 7: did on that?

1708
01:16:59,360 --> 01:17:00,360
Speaker 3: I great?

1709
01:17:00,960 --> 01:17:04,720
Speaker 8: No, it didn't come out very very well on on

1710
01:17:05,760 --> 01:17:07,800
Speaker 8: they saw I.

1711
01:17:07,760 --> 01:17:09,200
Speaker 3: Kind of gather. I kind of gathered.

1712
01:17:09,840 --> 01:17:12,280
Speaker 2: Buck, though, it gets a little sensitive with this this

1713
01:17:12,640 --> 01:17:13,519
Speaker 2: negative feedback here.

1714
01:17:13,600 --> 01:17:15,360
Speaker 3: Yeah, it was great. It was great.

1715
01:17:16,080 --> 01:17:16,880
Speaker 2: Compliment sandwich.

1716
01:17:17,080 --> 01:17:19,360
Speaker 3: Next time, maybe be like batronize me.

1717
01:17:19,600 --> 01:17:23,640
Speaker 2: Okay, I mean, but Buck, we'll give him a like,

1718
01:17:23,680 --> 01:17:26,280
Speaker 2: hey man, your beard looks great, little little little out

1719
01:17:26,320 --> 01:17:26,840
Speaker 2: of sinc on that.

1720
01:17:26,880 --> 01:17:29,000
Speaker 3: And by the way, have you lost weight? See how

1721
01:17:29,000 --> 01:17:30,560
Speaker 3: that goes? Now? Buck's happy?

1722
01:17:30,520 --> 01:17:33,479
Speaker 8: Yeah, it's like a what's it called an insult sandwich

1723
01:17:33,560 --> 01:17:35,799
Speaker 8: or a compliment complement sandwich?

1724
01:17:35,800 --> 01:17:38,920
Speaker 3: That's sandwich. I'm not happy with either of you. Spind

1725
01:17:38,920 --> 01:17:39,240
Speaker 3: the whe.

1726
01:17:47,120 --> 01:17:49,640
Speaker 8: Okay, kind of a deep one to start things out here.

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01:17:49,680 --> 01:17:52,360
Speaker 8: Would you rather go through life unable to answer any

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01:17:52,439 --> 01:17:54,840
Speaker 8: questions or unable to ask any questions.

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01:17:55,360 --> 01:17:58,680
Speaker 2: No, unable to answer, definitely unable to answer because I

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01:17:58,760 --> 01:18:01,200
Speaker 2: have a follow up question to almost everything in life.

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01:18:01,080 --> 01:18:04,120
Speaker 3: To a flaw, but what about? But what about?

1732
01:18:04,160 --> 01:18:06,920
Speaker 2: Like I hate myself sometimes for that. I got to

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01:18:06,920 --> 01:18:10,000
Speaker 2: be able to ask questions. Plus, I like going in

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01:18:10,040 --> 01:18:11,720
Speaker 2: when I have no skin in the game at all

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01:18:11,960 --> 01:18:14,800
Speaker 2: and just asking the question that I know will absolutely

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01:18:14,880 --> 01:18:17,120
Speaker 2: irritate the entire room and then walking out of it.

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01:18:17,200 --> 01:18:19,559
Speaker 2: So I need that superpower to be able to just

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01:18:19,600 --> 01:18:22,759
Speaker 2: destroy a party by coming in and saying one political

1739
01:18:22,800 --> 01:18:24,720
Speaker 2: thing and then leaving. So I need to be able

1740
01:18:24,760 --> 01:18:25,439
Speaker 2: to ask questions.

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01:18:25,439 --> 01:18:31,000
Speaker 4: Buck, I don't want to I don't want to answer questions.

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01:18:31,120 --> 01:18:33,599
Speaker 7: I figured out a response.

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01:18:34,120 --> 01:18:35,840
Speaker 4: I just want to be able to do what I

1744
01:18:35,880 --> 01:18:39,040
Speaker 4: want to do and not have to have any accountability

1745
01:18:39,400 --> 01:18:41,360
Speaker 4: and not have to answer to anybody about it. I mean,

1746
01:18:41,400 --> 01:18:43,200
Speaker 4: I do that anyway, but like I would like to

1747
01:18:43,200 --> 01:18:46,720
Speaker 4: be able to do that without any kind of any

1748
01:18:46,800 --> 01:18:48,040
Speaker 4: kind of repercussions.

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01:18:48,040 --> 01:18:51,200
Speaker 7: Shall we say, okay, all right, let's spind it.

1750
01:18:57,800 --> 01:18:58,080
Speaker 3: Okay.

1751
01:18:58,120 --> 01:19:01,360
Speaker 8: Would you rather have to dump on every life ambition

1752
01:19:01,520 --> 01:19:04,400
Speaker 8: anybody ever shares they have with you, or have to

1753
01:19:04,439 --> 01:19:06,840
Speaker 8: offer candy to a kid whenever you drive your car.

1754
01:19:07,560 --> 01:19:11,479
Speaker 2: Oh God, with offering candy to a kid?

1755
01:19:11,520 --> 01:19:12,360
Speaker 3: Why is that a bad thing?

1756
01:19:12,439 --> 01:19:14,280
Speaker 7: Nothing? You should go do it right after that?

1757
01:19:14,520 --> 01:19:15,240
Speaker 3: I think you should.

1758
01:19:15,280 --> 01:19:18,800
Speaker 4: You should drive around the neighborhoods of Connecticut if you're

1759
01:19:18,840 --> 01:19:20,880
Speaker 4: not snowed in, and I think you should just honk

1760
01:19:20,960 --> 01:19:23,080
Speaker 4: your horn and be like, hey, small children, I have

1761
01:19:23,160 --> 01:19:25,040
Speaker 4: candy for you in my car. Let's go on a

1762
01:19:25,040 --> 01:19:28,400
Speaker 4: magical ride. Okay, I acknowledge that.

1763
01:19:28,520 --> 01:19:31,600
Speaker 2: I if I walk on to a like a car dealership,

1764
01:19:31,760 --> 01:19:33,720
Speaker 2: I'm not even allowed to ask how much the white

1765
01:19:33,800 --> 01:19:36,160
Speaker 2: van is. I understand certain things. So no, I'm not

1766
01:19:36,160 --> 01:19:38,040
Speaker 2: going to do that. Okay, go ahead, Buck, I what

1767
01:19:38,080 --> 01:19:41,120
Speaker 2: would you rather do? I?

1768
01:19:41,160 --> 01:19:42,080
Speaker 3: What was the first option?

1769
01:19:42,160 --> 01:19:42,840
Speaker 7: Would you rather have?

1770
01:19:42,880 --> 01:19:46,080
Speaker 8: To dump on every life ambition anybody ever shares they

1771
01:19:46,120 --> 01:19:47,240
Speaker 8: have with you?

1772
01:19:48,600 --> 01:19:50,519
Speaker 3: I mean kind of yeah, I think we both do this.

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01:19:51,040 --> 01:19:53,040
Speaker 4: You seem to have found my sweet spot where a

1774
01:19:53,040 --> 01:19:55,920
Speaker 4: lot of these behaviors I they're already in my already

1775
01:19:55,920 --> 01:19:56,639
Speaker 4: in my repertoire.

1776
01:19:56,720 --> 01:19:57,120
Speaker 7: That's true.

1777
01:19:57,200 --> 01:20:01,240
Speaker 8: Yeah, just I'd love to be a huge producer someday,

1778
01:20:01,360 --> 01:20:03,120
Speaker 8: never happening, never happening.

1779
01:20:02,960 --> 01:20:05,320
Speaker 3: Never happen. Yeah, that's great.

1780
01:20:05,520 --> 01:20:07,280
Speaker 2: But let me explain to you how the minutia of

1781
01:20:07,320 --> 01:20:09,559
Speaker 2: the business works. Yeah, no, I hate myself, but that

1782
01:20:09,560 --> 01:20:10,479
Speaker 2: that's who I already am.

1783
01:20:10,600 --> 01:20:13,120
Speaker 4: Let me explain to you how the minutia of the

1784
01:20:13,160 --> 01:20:14,040
Speaker 4: business works.

1785
01:20:14,160 --> 01:20:16,439
Speaker 3: Oh, you're welcome. God, I hate myself. Like I said,

1786
01:20:16,479 --> 01:20:17,760
Speaker 3: now give us another one. What have we got?

1787
01:20:24,040 --> 01:20:24,280
Speaker 7: Okay?

1788
01:20:24,320 --> 01:20:26,280
Speaker 8: I think this one's actually a repeat, but it was

1789
01:20:26,280 --> 01:20:27,640
Speaker 8: a It was a good one when we did it,

1790
01:20:27,680 --> 01:20:29,960
Speaker 8: like probably months and months and months ago. So would

1791
01:20:30,000 --> 01:20:32,000
Speaker 8: you rather have to fight a chicken every time you

1792
01:20:32,120 --> 01:20:34,840
Speaker 8: enter your car or have to fight in a orangutang

1793
01:20:34,960 --> 01:20:36,760
Speaker 8: once a year, but you get a sword to fight

1794
01:20:36,800 --> 01:20:37,480
Speaker 8: the orangutang.

1795
01:20:38,400 --> 01:20:38,880
Speaker 3: I want a.

1796
01:20:38,840 --> 01:20:42,200
Speaker 2: Sword against the orangutang, right, Like there's a chicken in

1797
01:20:42,200 --> 01:20:44,880
Speaker 2: the car. That thing's gonna scratch you and like claw

1798
01:20:44,960 --> 01:20:47,040
Speaker 2: you to death. Rangutang at least, I said. Look, I

1799
01:20:47,040 --> 01:20:48,800
Speaker 2: don't say it much of a chance, but I can

1800
01:20:48,840 --> 01:20:50,280
Speaker 2: only imagine I hit him with the sword and he

1801
01:20:50,280 --> 01:20:52,000
Speaker 2: grabs the sword and takes it turns in on me

1802
01:20:52,120 --> 01:20:53,439
Speaker 2: like that new like primate movie.

1803
01:20:53,479 --> 01:20:54,400
Speaker 3: What do you got on?

1804
01:20:54,920 --> 01:20:58,920
Speaker 4: By the way, guys, go full Indiana start snapping chicken necks.

1805
01:20:58,920 --> 01:21:02,080
Speaker 3: I got this. The chicken stands no chance.

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01:21:01,960 --> 01:21:03,360
Speaker 7: Every time you get in the car like.

1807
01:21:03,360 --> 01:21:05,040
Speaker 8: Imagine just a tough day at work and you know

1808
01:21:05,120 --> 01:21:06,600
Speaker 8: you have to fight that chicken when you get in

1809
01:21:06,600 --> 01:21:06,880
Speaker 8: the car.

1810
01:21:07,400 --> 01:21:08,040
Speaker 3: I feel like this.

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01:21:09,680 --> 01:21:12,240
Speaker 2: Stick around. More Fox Sports Radio coming. We'll be back

1812
01:21:12,240 --> 01:21:14,400
Speaker 2: with you next Saturday. Thanks for listening to Buck Rising

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