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Speaker 1: The volume What is going on Everybody? John Middlecock three

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Speaker 1: Zone Pouches. What a night in Chicago. Remarkable, incredible, glorious.

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Speaker 1: It's gotta be cool to be a Bears fan because

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Speaker 1: that is doesn't get any better. We will obviously talk

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Speaker 1: about what we just witnessed. I'm recording this late on

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Speaker 1: a Saturday night. Chicago Bear score twenty five points, come

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Speaker 1: storming back to beat the Green Bay Packers in just

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Speaker 1: an epic, epic game Caleb makes, I think the play

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Speaker 1: of his career. Matt Lafleura and the Packers kind of

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Speaker 1: melt down, even as they kind of don't melt down.

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Speaker 1: Just it was crazy. So we will dive deep into

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Speaker 1: that game. There happened to be a game before that

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Speaker 1: which shouldn't have been entertaining, but it kind of was.

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Speaker 1: That the Rams barely beat the Panthers as a massive underdog.

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Speaker 1: Bryce Young made some plays, Matt Stafford made some plays

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Speaker 1: that he didn't make some plays. Rams Special teams is

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Speaker 1: a disaster. So we will talk some We'll just talk

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Speaker 1: football to night. We'll talk those two games, and here's

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Speaker 1: And I guess let's talk some football, But let's start

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Speaker 1: with what we witnessed tonight. My thought all along for

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Speaker 1: this game, before the kickoff and before we saw the

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Speaker 1: context of the actual experience. The Chicago Bears have had

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Speaker 1: a miraculous season. They have pulled games out of crevices

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Speaker 1: of their body that we didn't know exist. It's been

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Speaker 1: fun to watch, and the two previous Packer Bears games

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Speaker 1: have been must see television. Right, I remember the Bears

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Speaker 1: in a loss, I earn more respect from the Bears

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Speaker 1: and that loss to the Packers and Lambeau than a

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Speaker 1: lot of their wins, and then obviously the game that

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Speaker 1: on Saturday Night against Green Bay, which was one of

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Speaker 1: the cooler nights probably in Chicago when it came to

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Speaker 1: football in the last fifteen years. But you're the two seed.

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Speaker 1: You're hosting Green Bay, who's this bitter rival who's kind

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Speaker 1: They've had Far, they've had Rogers, and then they just

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Speaker 1: are beating your brains in. You're down twenty one to three.

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Speaker 1: It feels like forty to nothing. You then kind of

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Speaker 1: come back in the second half, but you look up

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Speaker 1: in the fourth quarter, Jordan Love drives them down the field.

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Speaker 1: You're still down twenty seven to sixteen. There's a fourth

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Speaker 1: looks like Caleb's gonna get sacked, and five minutes later

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Speaker 1: you have thirty one points. They have twenty seven points.

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Speaker 1: And I can't imagine the experience, not just of the

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Speaker 1: city but the paying customer, you know, because this league

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Speaker 1: the league makes all their money. That's what pays for

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Speaker 1: the players, That's what pays for everything. That's what makes

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Speaker 1: But as someone who has been to a lot of

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Speaker 1: NFL games, great ones, bad ones, you never know what

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Speaker 1: these late quarter comebacks there's no disputing as physical skills,

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Speaker 1: and to put Matt Leforre's job status in major questions

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Speaker 1: the analytical guys are all like giving each other reach arounds,

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Speaker 1: So there are elements And this is where I can

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Speaker 1: I don't blame defensive players just in the mode. But yeah,

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Speaker 1: twenty four or forty eight, a couple touchdowns three or

429
00:23:48,520 --> 00:23:51,679
Speaker 1: sixty yards, but the touchdowns down the stretch, just the

430
00:23:51,720 --> 00:23:55,960
Speaker 1: massive plays and that Rome play, I truly believe that's

431
00:23:56,760 --> 00:23:59,000
Speaker 1: that's one of the more miraculous plays you'll ever see

432
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Speaker 1: given on the line. Speaking of what's not miraculous is

433
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Speaker 1: I think it's just hard to shake this. If you're

434
00:24:06,800 --> 00:24:12,080
Speaker 1: Matt it really is. Now your best player comes into

435
00:24:12,080 --> 00:24:15,240
Speaker 1: the game in sweats on crutches, so you had a

436
00:24:15,240 --> 00:24:17,920
Speaker 1: built in excuse. We trade all this for Micah Parsons.

437
00:24:17,960 --> 00:24:21,040
Speaker 1: He tears his knee. You lose your star linebacker in

438
00:24:21,040 --> 00:24:24,040
Speaker 1: the middle of that game, right gets hitting a pile

439
00:24:24,080 --> 00:24:26,399
Speaker 1: in the shin or ankle or whatever. He gets kioed.

440
00:24:26,480 --> 00:24:29,040
Speaker 1: You lose some offensive lineman. I get it. It's football things.

441
00:24:29,280 --> 00:24:31,680
Speaker 1: Things happen, you lose players. The Bears lost guys tonight.

442
00:24:33,080 --> 00:24:35,399
Speaker 1: You're up twenty one to three on the road, getting

443
00:24:35,440 --> 00:24:39,800
Speaker 1: the ball at halftime. You gotta win that game. You

444
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Speaker 1: just do. And you talk about no rhythm to the

445
00:24:42,640 --> 00:24:46,200
Speaker 1: play calling, that's stretching. The second half kind of did

446
00:24:46,240 --> 00:24:49,119
Speaker 1: them in because if they just get a couple field

447
00:24:49,160 --> 00:24:52,199
Speaker 1: goal drives, and obviously their field goal kicker was not

448
00:24:52,320 --> 00:24:54,800
Speaker 1: reliable tonight, so there's no guarantee even if you've got

449
00:24:54,840 --> 00:24:57,840
Speaker 1: a field goal range. He's gonna make the kick, but

450
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Speaker 1: everyone and let's I've watched a lot of his press conferences.

451
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Speaker 1: He feels like an impressive guy, and I followed his

452
00:25:04,880 --> 00:25:06,600
Speaker 1: career since he was a dB coach. When I used

453
00:25:06,600 --> 00:25:10,879
Speaker 1: to go to Niner practice in like twenty fifteen sixteen range.

454
00:25:11,080 --> 00:25:14,000
Speaker 1: He actually worked for Chip Kelly and Kyle Shanahan. I

455
00:25:14,000 --> 00:25:15,920
Speaker 1: didn't even know much about him. I remember asking people.

456
00:25:15,920 --> 00:25:18,600
Speaker 1: They're like, hey, he's pretty impressive. Forty nine er spoke Islum.

457
00:25:18,920 --> 00:25:22,600
Speaker 1: So I've followed Halfley's career ever since then Ohio State,

458
00:25:22,640 --> 00:25:25,600
Speaker 1: Boston College, obviously the last couple years. But it's a

459
00:25:25,680 --> 00:25:28,360
Speaker 1: rough night for those two guys, and one guy wants

460
00:25:28,440 --> 00:25:31,720
Speaker 1: to become a head coach in your season and your

461
00:25:31,760 --> 00:25:35,080
Speaker 1: career is not defined on one half of football. But

462
00:25:35,240 --> 00:25:38,679
Speaker 1: like you gotta find a way. You can't. You just

463
00:25:38,680 --> 00:25:41,480
Speaker 1: can't lose that game. And the laflor time out situation,

464
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Speaker 1: I'm sorry, I just the delay a game situation when

465
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Speaker 1: you're in field goal range, like the points are at

466
00:25:48,880 --> 00:25:51,880
Speaker 1: such a premium there you're up three points to go

467
00:25:52,040 --> 00:25:56,040
Speaker 1: up like a field goal camp beat you is so

468
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Speaker 1: big and honestly, like your wide receivers have got open

469
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Speaker 1: to put yourself into third and long. When you're in

470
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Speaker 1: third and eight or third nine, or third and ten

471
00:26:04,640 --> 00:26:07,800
Speaker 1: or whatever it was, you gotta call the time out there.

472
00:26:08,280 --> 00:26:10,080
Speaker 1: And clearly he was willing to use him because he

473
00:26:10,160 --> 00:26:12,320
Speaker 1: used it on defense a couple of plays later when

474
00:26:12,320 --> 00:26:17,040
Speaker 1: the Bears had the ball. This was a guy that

475
00:26:17,200 --> 00:26:21,280
Speaker 1: came into this season on an established platform by his

476
00:26:21,920 --> 00:26:25,680
Speaker 1: new president who was essentially the owner of like we're evaluating,

477
00:26:26,600 --> 00:26:29,040
Speaker 1: and their record down nine to seven to one, essentially

478
00:26:29,119 --> 00:26:32,440
Speaker 1: nine to eight in one, loose to the Bears twice

479
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Speaker 1: in less than a month, getting knocked out of the playoffs,

480
00:26:36,680 --> 00:26:39,440
Speaker 1: where it felt, I mean I even wrote down they

481
00:26:39,440 --> 00:26:41,919
Speaker 1: are gonna have two wins as a seventh seed in

482
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Speaker 1: the last three years. That's an incredible accomplishment. A couple

483
00:26:46,359 --> 00:26:49,640
Speaker 1: of years ago they went to Dallas ended Mike McCarthy's career.

484
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Speaker 1: This year, it felt like they're gonna go to Chicago

485
00:26:52,520 --> 00:26:57,359
Speaker 1: and ruin their season. After all, the Bears fans are

486
00:26:57,359 --> 00:27:02,280
Speaker 1: wearing cheese graders on their head, feeling themselves like, damn lafleur,

487
00:27:02,400 --> 00:27:05,840
Speaker 1: that's that's a big one. And and listen, I'm not

488
00:27:05,920 --> 00:27:09,639
Speaker 1: saying I'll probably get into Matt Ryan more tomorrow. If

489
00:27:09,720 --> 00:27:14,359
Speaker 1: Lafloor's available, Lafour's Ben Matt Ryan's quarterback coach. I would

490
00:27:14,359 --> 00:27:18,119
Speaker 1: imagine that the Atlanta Falcons would be extremely interested in Lafloor.

491
00:27:19,080 --> 00:27:21,439
Speaker 1: So I'm not acting like Laflour is just gonna go

492
00:27:21,480 --> 00:27:24,159
Speaker 1: to the unemployment line, have to go on food stamps

493
00:27:24,200 --> 00:27:26,520
Speaker 1: and bake for food. Like He'll be fine. He more

494
00:27:26,560 --> 00:27:29,160
Speaker 1: than likely would be one hundred percent immediate head coach.

495
00:27:30,520 --> 00:27:33,640
Speaker 1: But there's not many better jobs in America any industry

496
00:27:33,680 --> 00:27:35,920
Speaker 1: than the Green Bay Packers. About as good as it gets,

497
00:27:37,040 --> 00:27:40,920
Speaker 1: and I think his job status is very in jeopardy

498
00:27:40,920 --> 00:27:43,480
Speaker 1: over the next forty eight hours. It's something to keep

499
00:27:43,480 --> 00:27:46,920
Speaker 1: a close eye on. And I'm recording this at ten

500
00:27:47,240 --> 00:27:51,239
Speaker 1: thirty Arizona time. It would not shock me at all

501
00:27:51,280 --> 00:27:54,720
Speaker 1: if leading into that Jags Bills game schefter and Glazier

502
00:27:54,720 --> 00:27:58,359
Speaker 1: and those guys talk. It's going to be like the

503
00:27:58,400 --> 00:28:00,439
Speaker 1: Packers are going to have a lot of Discsessis over

504
00:28:00,480 --> 00:28:02,720
Speaker 1: the next couple of days and he's gonna talk with them.

505
00:28:02,720 --> 00:28:06,520
Speaker 1: They're gonna talk with him. I personally would keep them,

506
00:28:07,000 --> 00:28:10,399
Speaker 1: But you watch something like this this season, like I

507
00:28:10,600 --> 00:28:14,080
Speaker 1: understand the question marks, I do he's not a dominant

508
00:28:14,160 --> 00:28:16,240
Speaker 1: enough coach that like, oh, you can't get rid of

509
00:28:16,240 --> 00:28:19,480
Speaker 1: this guy. Now, who you replace him with? How do

510
00:28:19,520 --> 00:28:23,639
Speaker 1: you just elevate Halfley? After that twenty five fucking points

511
00:28:23,720 --> 00:28:26,240
Speaker 1: in the fourth quarter, You're just giving it to Halfley.

512
00:28:26,840 --> 00:28:29,719
Speaker 1: So if I'm a Packer fan, I like Jeff Halfley

513
00:28:29,720 --> 00:28:33,320
Speaker 1: a lot. But I don't know. We're kind of in

514
00:28:33,359 --> 00:28:36,600
Speaker 1: a weird spot. And the great unknown is there's not

515
00:28:36,640 --> 00:28:39,800
Speaker 1: an owner. He just does not exist. There's just this

516
00:28:39,960 --> 00:28:43,120
Speaker 1: president who gets to act as the pseudo owner and

517
00:28:43,200 --> 00:28:47,160
Speaker 1: make these decisions. Gudakin's a made guy. He's not going anywhere,

518
00:28:47,200 --> 00:28:50,080
Speaker 1: and who knows, I don't know all the inner dynamics

519
00:28:50,080 --> 00:28:52,280
Speaker 1: of the organization. How much juice he has to fight

520
00:28:52,320 --> 00:28:54,120
Speaker 1: for la floor? Does he have another guy in mind?

521
00:28:54,360 --> 00:28:57,080
Speaker 1: Does he want Halfley more than the floor? But then

522
00:28:57,120 --> 00:28:58,800
Speaker 1: you just put yourself in a position like who's your

523
00:28:58,800 --> 00:29:01,640
Speaker 1: offensive coordinator? There are a lot of question marks for

524
00:29:01,680 --> 00:29:04,960
Speaker 1: the Packers, which you know, forty five minutes ago felt

525
00:29:05,000 --> 00:29:08,760
Speaker 1: like gonna be one of their finest moments in years.

526
00:29:09,520 --> 00:29:12,000
Speaker 1: Ruining the Bear season on the road is a seventh

527
00:29:12,000 --> 00:29:15,520
Speaker 1: seed to now, like, does their coach get fired? Is

528
00:29:15,520 --> 00:29:19,880
Speaker 1: Matt Lafour gonna get fired and after tonight choking a

529
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Speaker 1: game like that, because that's what choking a game like that,

530
00:29:23,840 --> 00:29:25,560
Speaker 1: I get the Bears make a lot of people choke,

531
00:29:25,640 --> 00:29:28,760
Speaker 1: but they were on the choke side. I think these

532
00:29:28,760 --> 00:29:31,120
Speaker 1: people are asking these questions and it's to me the

533
00:29:31,200 --> 00:29:33,960
Speaker 1: number one story to go. And there's still obviously a

534
00:29:33,960 --> 00:29:36,360
Speaker 1: lot of talent on this team moving forward, assuming that

535
00:29:36,400 --> 00:29:39,360
Speaker 1: Micaeh Parks has come back. It's a team that next

536
00:29:39,400 --> 00:29:43,800
Speaker 1: year can be very good. Like they always draft well,

537
00:29:44,200 --> 00:29:46,680
Speaker 1: they were missing their right tackle tonight, they had a

538
00:29:46,680 --> 00:29:49,160
Speaker 1: bunch of offensive line injuries. They have a lot of

539
00:29:49,160 --> 00:29:52,200
Speaker 1: talent on the team, and they easily could be competitive

540
00:29:52,200 --> 00:29:54,960
Speaker 1: for like the number one seed next year. Right. But

541
00:29:56,360 --> 00:29:58,920
Speaker 1: I think these next forty eight, three or four days,

542
00:29:58,960 --> 00:30:01,160
Speaker 1: I guess it could bleed into like Tuesday or Wednesday.

543
00:30:02,120 --> 00:30:03,640
Speaker 1: Is something really to watch when it comes to the

544
00:30:03,640 --> 00:30:09,080
Speaker 1: Green Bay Packers, because that's tough. That's losing. Football games

545
00:30:09,080 --> 00:30:11,440
Speaker 1: are always bad. You only play one game a week.

546
00:30:11,480 --> 00:30:13,960
Speaker 1: This is not basketball, this is not baseball. You don't

547
00:30:14,000 --> 00:30:16,000
Speaker 1: get to just well, it's play again tomorrow. It's not

548
00:30:16,000 --> 00:30:20,400
Speaker 1: the way this works. But playoff losses in this type

549
00:30:20,840 --> 00:30:25,800
Speaker 1: manner just sting as hard as possible. It's just it's

550
00:30:25,800 --> 00:30:29,800
Speaker 1: hard to it's hard to get over this sometimes, and

551
00:30:30,000 --> 00:30:32,520
Speaker 1: people in power sometimes never look at you the same Again,

552
00:30:33,080 --> 00:30:35,680
Speaker 1: a couple of years ago, it's this is an apples

553
00:30:35,720 --> 00:30:38,960
Speaker 1: to apples, But Mike McCarthy, when he blew that game

554
00:30:39,040 --> 00:30:42,560
Speaker 1: against the Green Bay Packers, he was clearly a dead

555
00:30:42,600 --> 00:30:44,920
Speaker 1: man walking. Next year, the season didn't go well, and

556
00:30:44,960 --> 00:30:47,320
Speaker 1: it was a no brainer, but he was. He was

557
00:30:47,400 --> 00:30:49,360
Speaker 1: done that year. Jerry just didn't want to pay him

558
00:30:49,360 --> 00:30:51,600
Speaker 1: to go away, so he rolled him back. But his

559
00:30:51,640 --> 00:30:54,800
Speaker 1: career unofficially ended that night. And you have to wonder

560
00:30:54,840 --> 00:30:59,720
Speaker 1: if tonight officially ended Lafleur, which I like. I said,

561
00:30:59,800 --> 00:31:02,280
Speaker 1: I think Atlanta would hire him yesterday. I think Matt

562
00:31:02,320 --> 00:31:05,440
Speaker 1: Ryan it'd be a go to again. He coached Matt

563
00:31:05,520 --> 00:31:07,800
Speaker 1: Ryan with Kyle Shanahan on the year that he won

564
00:31:07,840 --> 00:31:11,640
Speaker 1: the MVP, so I'm assuming they have a good relationship

565
00:31:12,280 --> 00:31:14,360
Speaker 1: and it would make some sense. A guy with a

566
00:31:14,360 --> 00:31:16,840
Speaker 1: ton of experience, a guy with a ton of playoff experience,

567
00:31:16,920 --> 00:31:19,200
Speaker 1: a guy that you no can coach quarterbacks, So I

568
00:31:19,240 --> 00:31:21,680
Speaker 1: think he would immediately get another job. But this is

569
00:31:21,720 --> 00:31:25,040
Speaker 1: a conversation that has been brewing in Green Bay. You're

570
00:31:25,040 --> 00:31:27,960
Speaker 1: sitting there as a Bears fan, You're going, wait, our

571
00:31:28,040 --> 00:31:30,840
Speaker 1: coach is this guy that everyone loves who thinks the

572
00:31:30,840 --> 00:31:34,760
Speaker 1: star and the Packers have questions about their coach, they

573
00:31:34,840 --> 00:31:36,560
Speaker 1: might fire and have to go on a coaching search.

574
00:31:37,000 --> 00:31:40,240
Speaker 1: What world are we? Is this really what twenty twenty

575
00:31:40,280 --> 00:31:45,600
Speaker 1: six is? And I've never been to Soldier Field, and

576
00:31:45,840 --> 00:31:49,200
Speaker 1: I would guess part of the reason the aspirations to

577
00:31:49,200 --> 00:31:53,840
Speaker 1: get the new stadium is the outdated sweet situation. You

578
00:31:53,920 --> 00:31:56,400
Speaker 1: make so much. These new stadiums come equipped with just

579
00:31:56,400 --> 00:31:59,760
Speaker 1: so many suitees that that's how you print money, right

580
00:32:00,720 --> 00:32:03,520
Speaker 1: any of these you know, the Staple Center changed the

581
00:32:03,560 --> 00:32:05,760
Speaker 1: game with the amount of suites they have. That's where

582
00:32:05,760 --> 00:32:07,720
Speaker 1: you make your big cash. You can sell the suites

583
00:32:08,080 --> 00:32:09,760
Speaker 1: at the price of like I don't even know how

584
00:32:09,800 --> 00:32:13,600
Speaker 1: many normal seats, but it's they go. They're very expensive

585
00:32:13,760 --> 00:32:17,280
Speaker 1: and after a while they start just being free cash

586
00:32:17,280 --> 00:32:20,600
Speaker 1: for the owner. So I understand the aspirations to build

587
00:32:20,640 --> 00:32:23,640
Speaker 1: the more of a modern stadium, but I will say this,

588
00:32:24,680 --> 00:32:28,520
Speaker 1: that stadium at night, with that crowd, you know clearly

589
00:32:28,520 --> 00:32:31,840
Speaker 1: they've renovated the press box over the years. I think

590
00:32:31,840 --> 00:32:34,959
Speaker 1: it looks fantastic like that does not feel like some

591
00:32:35,120 --> 00:32:39,680
Speaker 1: Decrepit doesn't feel like the Oakland Coliseum or Candlestick like

592
00:32:39,680 --> 00:32:43,920
Speaker 1: that place feels badass. And again I'm not speaking from experience.

593
00:32:43,960 --> 00:32:47,480
Speaker 1: I've never been there. Clearly, there are financial reasons to

594
00:32:47,520 --> 00:32:50,400
Speaker 1: one upgrade. I get it, Like who's not in the

595
00:32:50,440 --> 00:32:52,920
Speaker 1: business of trying to make more money or as much

596
00:32:52,920 --> 00:32:55,720
Speaker 1: money as possible? Like I understand it. I'm not one

597
00:32:55,760 --> 00:32:58,600
Speaker 1: of those like you know Big Jay's that just hate

598
00:32:58,600 --> 00:33:00,760
Speaker 1: on people trying to make more money. We celebrate that

599
00:33:00,840 --> 00:33:03,240
Speaker 1: here on this show. But I will say this my

600
00:33:03,320 --> 00:33:06,600
Speaker 1: experience this year of just being a fan of football

601
00:33:07,280 --> 00:33:10,480
Speaker 1: and a lover of great environments at night, It's why

602
00:33:10,480 --> 00:33:13,840
Speaker 1: I gravitate towards these SEC games that the Bears games

603
00:33:13,880 --> 00:33:19,040
Speaker 1: at night are fucking awesome. That was that crowd erupting

604
00:33:19,080 --> 00:33:22,320
Speaker 1: in the fourth quarter. That experience down the stretch doesn't

605
00:33:22,360 --> 00:33:25,400
Speaker 1: get any better in that like that. Chicago has something special.

606
00:33:25,440 --> 00:33:29,120
Speaker 1: Obviously the stadium's downtown. I can't imagine that vibe of

607
00:33:29,200 --> 00:33:32,560
Speaker 1: the people leaving, the excitement, everyone going to different bars,

608
00:33:32,600 --> 00:33:36,080
Speaker 1: freezing their ass off, having cocktails and beers with each other.

609
00:33:37,000 --> 00:33:40,400
Speaker 1: There's something pretty special, you know, in this day and

610
00:33:40,440 --> 00:33:43,360
Speaker 1: age of I try to spend less and less time

611
00:33:43,400 --> 00:33:45,560
Speaker 1: on social media. It's just the same old shit over

612
00:33:45,600 --> 00:33:47,240
Speaker 1: and over. People scream at each other. It's just not

613
00:33:47,280 --> 00:33:49,280
Speaker 1: real life. I go out. In real life, everyone's friendly

614
00:33:49,320 --> 00:33:55,320
Speaker 1: to each other. But there's something so communal and just

615
00:33:55,840 --> 00:34:00,959
Speaker 1: what sports, and specifically football and football towns in people together,

616
00:34:01,440 --> 00:34:04,520
Speaker 1: people that don't know each other, people from different sides

617
00:34:04,560 --> 00:34:08,400
Speaker 1: of town, and everyone pulling in the same direction for

618
00:34:08,480 --> 00:34:12,440
Speaker 1: the same common goal and celebrating it together. It's just

619
00:34:12,480 --> 00:34:14,799
Speaker 1: something we don't get very often, and football brings it.

620
00:34:15,160 --> 00:34:17,040
Speaker 1: I don't think it's shocking white. It's the number one

621
00:34:17,040 --> 00:34:19,279
Speaker 1: sport in America. In that game, the night probably had

622
00:34:19,440 --> 00:34:23,480
Speaker 1: forty million people watching. It's fucking awesome. Congratulate Chicago Bears,

623
00:34:23,840 --> 00:34:26,759
Speaker 1: Caleb Williams and Ben Johnson for moving on. Get to

624
00:34:26,800 --> 00:34:29,640
Speaker 1: host another game, you know, you get to those another game.

625
00:34:30,080 --> 00:34:34,680
Speaker 1: So it's it'll either be It'll either be the Rams

626
00:34:36,600 --> 00:34:39,200
Speaker 1: or the Eagles, I guess right. So if the forty

627
00:34:39,280 --> 00:34:42,680
Speaker 1: nine Ers win, they'd play Seattle, and if the Eagles win,

628
00:34:44,040 --> 00:34:47,799
Speaker 1: the Rams will play The Rams will play Seattle. So

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00:36:47,880 --> 00:36:51,280
Speaker 1: went over to a buddy's house with my wife, Chris

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Speaker 1: and Sarah. We had a little midday Chili just kind

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00:36:56,960 --> 00:36:59,480
Speaker 1: first quarter there and I'm not gonna lie. We both

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00:36:59,480 --> 00:37:02,040
Speaker 1: looked at each other like this, this game is so stupid.

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00:37:02,560 --> 00:37:06,200
Speaker 1: Why are we playing this game? What is going on?

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00:37:06,920 --> 00:37:09,799
Speaker 1: It felt like when it was seventeen to seven and

666
00:37:09,840 --> 00:37:11,959
Speaker 1: the Rams were driving at the end of the first half.

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00:37:12,800 --> 00:37:15,160
Speaker 1: This thing's got like forty to ten written all over it,

668
00:37:16,000 --> 00:37:18,279
Speaker 1: and obviously they go for it on fourth down at

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00:37:18,320 --> 00:37:20,440
Speaker 1: the end of the first half. They don't get it.

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00:37:21,000 --> 00:37:25,719
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00:37:25,719 --> 00:37:28,680
Speaker 1: played out, Stafford was atrocious for most of the game.

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00:37:29,280 --> 00:37:32,120
Speaker 1: And I thought Sean McVay was not good either. You know,

673
00:37:32,600 --> 00:37:36,560
Speaker 1: he gets very east. He's much closer like his style

674
00:37:36,640 --> 00:37:39,120
Speaker 1: of a coach. I've said this forever. He's a pass

675
00:37:39,160 --> 00:37:42,520
Speaker 1: game guy, right. He wants to pass. He wants like

676
00:37:42,560 --> 00:37:45,600
Speaker 1: Ben Johnson, will not love seeing forty eight attempts. That's

677
00:37:45,640 --> 00:37:48,480
Speaker 1: not the way he wants to play football. Right. He

678
00:37:48,840 --> 00:37:51,040
Speaker 1: would much rather have Caleb Bee like in the low

679
00:37:51,080 --> 00:37:54,879
Speaker 1: thirties and they had twenty eight rush attempts. He'd rather

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00:37:54,920 --> 00:37:58,000
Speaker 1: have forty rush attempts. He'd rather flip that number. He'd

681
00:37:58,080 --> 00:38:00,560
Speaker 1: rather have forty eight rush attempts in twenty eight pass attempts.

682
00:38:01,000 --> 00:38:04,000
Speaker 1: Sean mcvay's like Andy Reid. He'd throw it sixty times

683
00:38:04,000 --> 00:38:07,600
Speaker 1: a game if he could. But tonight there were stretches

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00:38:07,600 --> 00:38:09,440
Speaker 1: in that second half after I don't know if it's

685
00:38:09,480 --> 00:38:11,680
Speaker 1: Stafford's finger. I don't know if he just started playing bad,

686
00:38:12,360 --> 00:38:15,560
Speaker 1: but it was not working. And their running game at

687
00:38:15,560 --> 00:38:17,680
Speaker 1: the time, I remember looking the two running backs were

688
00:38:17,719 --> 00:38:20,839
Speaker 1: averaging over five yards of carry. Blake I've loved Blake

689
00:38:20,840 --> 00:38:23,319
Speaker 1: Corms as he was a Michigan. Kyen Williams is one

690
00:38:23,320 --> 00:38:25,320
Speaker 1: of the more steady eddy players when he's not fumbling

691
00:38:25,320 --> 00:38:28,279
Speaker 1: the ball in the league. Just run the ball. You're

692
00:38:28,280 --> 00:38:34,439
Speaker 1: in control of the game. It's it's fourteen I guess

693
00:38:34,440 --> 00:38:36,480
Speaker 1: it was seventeen fourteen at the end of the first half.

694
00:38:36,760 --> 00:38:40,520
Speaker 1: Then they kick a field goal, so it's twenty to fourteen.

695
00:38:40,600 --> 00:38:42,080
Speaker 1: But they get back in the game, so it kind

696
00:38:42,080 --> 00:38:44,920
Speaker 1: of abed in flowed like Carolina would not die. And

697
00:38:44,960 --> 00:38:47,719
Speaker 1: then the ironic part about the Rams is they had

698
00:38:47,800 --> 00:38:51,680
Speaker 1: fired their special teams coach Chase Blackburn, former New York Giant.

699
00:38:51,760 --> 00:38:53,680
Speaker 1: I think he's won like two Super Bowls as a player,

700
00:38:53,840 --> 00:38:57,880
Speaker 1: definitely won one. And you know, anytime a unit sucks,

701
00:38:58,200 --> 00:39:01,319
Speaker 1: head coach loves going. It's all that guy's but like, hey,

702
00:39:01,320 --> 00:39:04,880
Speaker 1: we really appreciate you, wish you and your wife and

703
00:39:04,920 --> 00:39:07,840
Speaker 1: your children best of your future endeavors. Like bullshit, you

704
00:39:07,920 --> 00:39:09,279
Speaker 1: just fucking told the guy to pack up a shit

705
00:39:09,320 --> 00:39:12,879
Speaker 1: and leave that there's nothing more fraudulent in sports when

706
00:39:13,000 --> 00:39:16,400
Speaker 1: they wish them the best mid season with the coordinator,

707
00:39:16,800 --> 00:39:18,480
Speaker 1: it's like you just love me like a week ago,

708
00:39:18,560 --> 00:39:20,360
Speaker 1: and now you're firing me because something screwed up, Like,

709
00:39:20,480 --> 00:39:22,160
Speaker 1: is the owner GM want you to fire me now?

710
00:39:22,200 --> 00:39:24,480
Speaker 1: Their special teams have been bad, but like was it

711
00:39:24,560 --> 00:39:28,560
Speaker 1: the coach or is it the players? Because when they

712
00:39:28,560 --> 00:39:31,280
Speaker 1: got that punt blocked and then all of a sudden

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00:39:31,360 --> 00:39:35,400
Speaker 1: the Panthers score and take the lead thirty one to

714
00:39:35,480 --> 00:39:39,480
Speaker 1: twenty seven, You're like, the Rams are going to lose

715
00:39:39,520 --> 00:39:41,680
Speaker 1: this game on the road to an eight to nine

716
00:39:41,719 --> 00:39:45,279
Speaker 1: Panther team because of their special teams. And I had

717
00:39:45,320 --> 00:39:47,759
Speaker 1: people because during the season like the downfall of this

718
00:39:47,880 --> 00:39:51,399
Speaker 1: Rams team is gonna be their secondary. And the ten

719
00:39:51,520 --> 00:39:54,120
Speaker 1: Rams fans that exist were DM and me like Middlecoff,

720
00:39:54,760 --> 00:39:57,760
Speaker 1: it's not our secondary, it's our special teams. It sucks.

721
00:39:58,480 --> 00:40:01,520
Speaker 1: And on that punt block, ISAIAHS Simmons, who might be

722
00:40:01,600 --> 00:40:04,600
Speaker 1: the best special team or former first round pick like listen,

723
00:40:04,680 --> 00:40:08,560
Speaker 1: not a defensive player, clearly overdrafted, but when you're six

724
00:40:08,600 --> 00:40:11,600
Speaker 1: foot four and the dude on the edge just kind

725
00:40:11,600 --> 00:40:14,640
Speaker 1: of goes like this, he just walked right into the punter.

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00:40:15,000 --> 00:40:17,400
Speaker 1: A lot of times when a punt or a field

727
00:40:17,440 --> 00:40:20,399
Speaker 1: goal gets blocked off the edge, the dude has to

728
00:40:20,440 --> 00:40:23,600
Speaker 1: like come out the blocks like he's Carl Lewis, layout

729
00:40:23,719 --> 00:40:27,319
Speaker 1: like he's Ricky Henderson. You're like, that is peak athleticism

730
00:40:27,400 --> 00:40:31,160
Speaker 1: right there, that explosion out of the blocks, the leap

731
00:40:31,520 --> 00:40:33,440
Speaker 1: like it doesn't get it. It's a great play, right

732
00:40:33,480 --> 00:40:35,160
Speaker 1: when a punt or a field goal is blocked coming

733
00:40:35,160 --> 00:40:38,560
Speaker 1: around the edge. This play, the dude on the Rams

734
00:40:38,880 --> 00:40:42,400
Speaker 1: honestly gave a pat on the ass, like, go get him, Tiger,

735
00:40:42,680 --> 00:40:46,000
Speaker 1: Like that play was an embarrassment they deserve when that

736
00:40:46,040 --> 00:40:48,919
Speaker 1: play happened to lose the game. But then Stafford seven

737
00:40:48,960 --> 00:40:51,719
Speaker 1: plays later leads him on the game winning drive. And

738
00:40:51,760 --> 00:40:55,160
Speaker 1: I think I saw on social media that he said

739
00:40:55,719 --> 00:40:59,000
Speaker 1: told DeVante like let's rip their heart out or some

740
00:40:59,120 --> 00:41:01,640
Speaker 1: cliche comment, and he did it. And he's done a

741
00:41:01,680 --> 00:41:05,240
Speaker 1: lot in his career. And the Rams should beat the Panthers.

742
00:41:05,360 --> 00:41:08,239
Speaker 1: They should never lose to the Panthers. But you watch

743
00:41:08,320 --> 00:41:11,799
Speaker 1: that game thirty four to thirty one, and you go,

744
00:41:12,280 --> 00:41:14,799
Speaker 1: it's hard for me to trust this team. It really is.

745
00:41:14,840 --> 00:41:17,080
Speaker 1: Now we'll have to see, you know, the bearers have

746
00:41:17,239 --> 00:41:20,200
Speaker 1: defensive issues. Want to see the Eagles and the forty

747
00:41:20,280 --> 00:41:23,360
Speaker 1: nine ers tomorrow. You know, Seattle still got Sam Darnold.

748
00:41:23,440 --> 00:41:26,239
Speaker 1: Like all these teams have question marks. It's hard to

749
00:41:26,280 --> 00:41:29,600
Speaker 1: watch the Rams today and go, yeah, team that can

750
00:41:29,640 --> 00:41:33,200
Speaker 1: win the Super Bowl, that team that can win three

751
00:41:33,200 --> 00:41:36,359
Speaker 1: more playoff games. They're just not playing that well that

752
00:41:36,560 --> 00:41:41,320
Speaker 1: they lost to Seattle. Obviously they were getting Their defense

753
00:41:41,400 --> 00:41:43,640
Speaker 1: was getting cooked by Jacoby Brissett for two and a

754
00:41:43,680 --> 00:41:47,440
Speaker 1: half quarters. Cooked, And you're watching today Bryce Young just

755
00:41:47,480 --> 00:41:52,839
Speaker 1: scrambled around making throws to what's his name, I mean

756
00:41:52,880 --> 00:41:56,719
Speaker 1: cocher nine catches, one hundred and thirty four yards. Guy

757
00:41:56,840 --> 00:42:01,360
Speaker 1: was dominating McMillan at five for eighty one one. Mccocher

758
00:42:01,440 --> 00:42:05,040
Speaker 1: had that play that they dialed up for what felt

759
00:42:05,080 --> 00:42:07,400
Speaker 1: like for a second, potentially the game winning touchdown. Was

760
00:42:07,680 --> 00:42:12,319
Speaker 1: beautiful play, beautiful pass. But you go, you have to

761
00:42:12,360 --> 00:42:15,560
Speaker 1: stress this much to beat an eight to nineteen in

762
00:42:15,600 --> 00:42:18,560
Speaker 1: a beautiful day too, Like this is not Soldier Field

763
00:42:18,560 --> 00:42:21,160
Speaker 1: where it's freezing cold. What was it like sixty eight

764
00:42:21,160 --> 00:42:28,279
Speaker 1: degrees there? Gorgeous, It's it was one of those when

765
00:42:28,320 --> 00:42:30,799
Speaker 1: they took the lead and I was thinking, well, if

766
00:42:30,840 --> 00:42:33,920
Speaker 1: the Rams don't drive the field and score. Does McVeigh

767
00:42:33,960 --> 00:42:37,360
Speaker 1: just quit and go to Amazon, you know, Raheem and Tom.

768
00:42:37,400 --> 00:42:39,640
Speaker 1: And if I'm McVeigh, I just get out ahead of it,

769
00:42:39,680 --> 00:42:42,280
Speaker 1: like I just steal their chair. I go, actually, I'm done.

770
00:42:42,719 --> 00:42:44,360
Speaker 1: Like he kind of had this look on his face.

771
00:42:45,400 --> 00:42:48,480
Speaker 1: They're gonna lose this game to the fucking Panthers as

772
00:42:48,480 --> 00:42:51,600
Speaker 1: a ten and a half point favorite special team. When

773
00:42:51,600 --> 00:42:54,320
Speaker 1: your special teams can't be trusted, Listen, I gave the

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00:42:54,360 --> 00:42:57,280
Speaker 1: Bears a lot of credit. I can't take you seriously,

775
00:42:57,320 --> 00:42:59,840
Speaker 1: the Super Bowl contender, whin your defense like that, you

776
00:43:00,080 --> 00:43:02,879
Speaker 1: can only pull so many games, like eventually, you can't

777
00:43:02,920 --> 00:43:05,080
Speaker 1: go down twenty one to three and come back when

778
00:43:05,080 --> 00:43:08,040
Speaker 1: your defense is not trustworthy. It can't happen. When your

779
00:43:08,080 --> 00:43:11,040
Speaker 1: special teams at any moment can just like give up

780
00:43:11,080 --> 00:43:13,319
Speaker 1: a block field goal for a touchdown, can give up

781
00:43:13,320 --> 00:43:15,920
Speaker 1: a block punt at the thirty yard line, can just

782
00:43:16,200 --> 00:43:18,160
Speaker 1: have a disaster happen anymore. I just can't take you

783
00:43:18,160 --> 00:43:22,359
Speaker 1: that seriously. And you know clearly Stafford, who I think

784
00:43:22,440 --> 00:43:25,960
Speaker 1: is numbers twenty four to forty two, three hundred yards,

785
00:43:26,360 --> 00:43:28,440
Speaker 1: I mean not great. I think he started the game

786
00:43:28,520 --> 00:43:30,200
Speaker 1: like eight of eight or nine of nine, and then

787
00:43:30,320 --> 00:43:33,600
Speaker 1: they didn't have a completion for a while. Through a

788
00:43:33,600 --> 00:43:36,560
Speaker 1: couple of touchdowns, Now two of them were Pooka technically

789
00:43:36,600 --> 00:43:38,920
Speaker 1: probably should have been four. They counted one as a run.

790
00:43:39,360 --> 00:43:42,279
Speaker 1: Puka also dropped one. In fairness to Stafford, he would

791
00:43:42,280 --> 00:43:45,759
Speaker 1: have walked right into the end zone. But I don't know,

792
00:43:45,760 --> 00:43:50,360
Speaker 1: I what the hell's the difference? You know, people nitpick

793
00:43:50,400 --> 00:43:52,839
Speaker 1: the Bears, like what's the difference with the Rams because

794
00:43:52,880 --> 00:43:55,239
Speaker 1: their coaches won a Super Bowl? Because their quarterbacks won

795
00:43:55,280 --> 00:43:58,000
Speaker 1: a Super Bowl? Like you watch them play, it's hard

796
00:43:58,000 --> 00:44:01,680
Speaker 1: to have faith in them. There's hard to be trusted. Now,

797
00:44:01,719 --> 00:44:05,000
Speaker 1: Pooka Naku is a dominant force. I think he's I

798
00:44:05,000 --> 00:44:06,680
Speaker 1: feel like he's one of the best players I've ever seen.

799
00:44:07,239 --> 00:44:09,200
Speaker 1: That might be a little over the top, but like

800
00:44:09,200 --> 00:44:11,759
Speaker 1: when you're watching him and he's rolling, you're like, what

801
00:44:12,080 --> 00:44:16,719
Speaker 1: is this? How's the guy's unstoppable? And Devonte coming back

802
00:44:16,760 --> 00:44:21,440
Speaker 1: obviously helps him. Parkers in touchdown catch with Sweet that

803
00:44:22,080 --> 00:44:25,560
Speaker 1: was nice. And I gotta say one area I was wrong.

804
00:44:25,719 --> 00:44:27,719
Speaker 1: I've been hard on this guy. I didn't think he

805
00:44:27,719 --> 00:44:32,360
Speaker 1: could play. And this morning, Chefter I think tweeted or

806
00:44:32,440 --> 00:44:34,200
Speaker 1: might have said on TV, and then he tweeted that

807
00:44:34,920 --> 00:44:37,640
Speaker 1: the expectation is for the Panthers to pick up the

808
00:44:37,680 --> 00:44:42,239
Speaker 1: Bryce Young fifth year option. And I've talked about it.

809
00:44:42,320 --> 00:44:45,480
Speaker 1: I said I would not do that. I think I've

810
00:44:45,480 --> 00:44:48,160
Speaker 1: come around a little bit. I at least can understand it.

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Speaker 1: He's still not my ideal quarterback, a little small for me.

812
00:44:52,400 --> 00:44:57,239
Speaker 1: Clearly not terrible. He's had some moments over the course

813
00:44:57,239 --> 00:45:00,880
Speaker 1: of the last month. Today he was pretty good, made

814
00:45:00,880 --> 00:45:03,680
Speaker 1: some big plays, made some beautiful throws. And at the

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00:45:03,760 --> 00:45:05,040
Speaker 1: end of the day, if you pick up the fifth

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00:45:05,120 --> 00:45:08,120
Speaker 1: year option, and this is according to Google, I'm not

817
00:45:08,120 --> 00:45:10,280
Speaker 1: a cap manager says the number will be around twenty

818
00:45:10,280 --> 00:45:13,680
Speaker 1: six twenty seven million dollars they owe him because on

819
00:45:13,719 --> 00:45:16,120
Speaker 1: these rookie deals, they pay him a ton of upfront money.

820
00:45:16,440 --> 00:45:18,200
Speaker 1: So the cash they pay him next year is like

821
00:45:18,239 --> 00:45:21,359
Speaker 1: five point five million dollars. So basically over the course

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00:45:21,400 --> 00:45:23,600
Speaker 1: of the next two years, it'd be sixteen million dollars

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Speaker 1: a year. Well, you know, Bridge Gardner, Minshew's like a

824
00:45:27,920 --> 00:45:30,399
Speaker 1: ten to fourteen million dollar quarterback, Like that's how much

825
00:45:30,480 --> 00:45:32,880
Speaker 1: kind of those guys cost. So you get this guy

826
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Speaker 1: for two years, keep building up the team and figuring

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00:45:35,920 --> 00:45:39,600
Speaker 1: it out. He's shown enough that's like, what are other options?

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Speaker 1: What are we gonna do? I understand it. And there

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00:45:43,280 --> 00:45:46,040
Speaker 1: are individual plays you watch him, he grows on you.

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00:45:46,120 --> 00:45:48,759
Speaker 1: Now he also makes plays where it's like, ugh, don't

831
00:45:48,760 --> 00:45:50,480
Speaker 1: love that. I mean, there was a throw today early

832
00:45:50,520 --> 00:45:55,040
Speaker 1: in the game, McMillan coming around or coming over across

833
00:45:55,080 --> 00:45:57,880
Speaker 1: the middle that he just hits him in stride. I

834
00:45:57,880 --> 00:46:00,400
Speaker 1: think McMillan walks into the end zone, but for it

835
00:46:00,440 --> 00:46:02,120
Speaker 1: would have been like a forty yard touchdown, like twenty

836
00:46:02,200 --> 00:46:04,840
Speaker 1: yard throw and McMillan would have ran another fifteen twenty yards.

837
00:46:05,320 --> 00:46:08,759
Speaker 1: But he throws like this wobbly duck and you know

838
00:46:08,880 --> 00:46:11,399
Speaker 1: it's not totally his fault. The last play of the game,

839
00:46:11,680 --> 00:46:14,520
Speaker 1: when I think was at Horn Junior from I think

840
00:46:14,520 --> 00:46:17,279
Speaker 1: he played a Colorado last year. Just needs to hit

841
00:46:17,280 --> 00:46:18,920
Speaker 1: the ground. Greg Olsen was like, Bro, you can't try

842
00:46:18,960 --> 00:46:20,800
Speaker 1: to kiss out with your hands. So that's not totally

843
00:46:20,800 --> 00:46:30,480
Speaker 1: his fault. But not the biggest Canalist guy. But Bryce

844
00:46:30,520 --> 00:46:34,080
Speaker 1: has definitely improved. And for sixteen million dollars a year

845
00:46:34,080 --> 00:46:37,440
Speaker 1: for two years, I would not be in favor. There

846
00:46:37,800 --> 00:46:42,000
Speaker 1: can be no discussion about future big contract, even like

847
00:46:42,160 --> 00:46:44,480
Speaker 1: three year one hundred million dollars like none of that,

848
00:46:45,120 --> 00:46:47,960
Speaker 1: But I do understand when you look at the landscape

849
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Speaker 1: and the costs of the league. You know, Daniel Jones

850
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Speaker 1: just went for fifteen million dollars to the culture fourteen

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Speaker 1: million dollars. Getting a guy that you drafted, you clearly

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Speaker 1: like a lot that the team likes. High character guy.

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Speaker 1: He just has the laws. Small, can't really see. Not

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Speaker 1: a great athlete, not a huge arm, so he's got

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Speaker 1: to be on time. When he gets in rhythm, he

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Speaker 1: you know, he kind of becomes a playmaker. But if

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Speaker 1: you get him scrambling and moving like it's not like

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Speaker 1: he's running away from anybody. Take some bad sacks, but

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Speaker 1: a lot of guys at his price point two. So

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Speaker 1: I've come around to at least understand the logic of

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Speaker 1: picking it up and trying to continue to build this

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Speaker 1: team because they do have some building blocks. I mean,

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Speaker 1: their young wide receiver corps is very interesting. There's a

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Speaker 1: couple running backs are pretty good. You know, they have

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Speaker 1: good defensive backs. You know, Horn got hit in the

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Speaker 1: head to day, had to go to the tent. But

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Speaker 1: Mike Johnson was I didn't know that much about that guy.

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Speaker 1: He's guy was making plays all over the place. If

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Speaker 1: they can improve their defensive line, they just got a

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Speaker 1: little foundation there to be a very very competitive team.

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Speaker 1: Their defensive coordinator UC Davis, Guy Avauro, he's pretty good

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Speaker 1: like him. And you know, Dan Morgan's done a good

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Speaker 1: job of just kind of getting this franchise going in

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Speaker 1: the right direction. Now. I like I said, I would

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Speaker 1: not compare Canalis to you know, the top offensive coaches

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Speaker 1: in the league. Going back to last week where he

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Speaker 1: ran a flea flicker in a rainstorm, but it happens.

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Speaker 1: You know, that's I do dumb shit too. I think

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Speaker 1: he'd liked that one back though. That was that was

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Speaker 1: pretty bad, and his justification for it might have been worse.

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Speaker 1: But today they fought, They fought really hard, and they

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Speaker 1: made some big plays when they had to. And the

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Speaker 1: the Rams just I'm telling you, I thought they just

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Speaker 1: looked like shit most of the game. But today's all

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Speaker 1: about the Chicago Bears. And again, we will be live

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Speaker 1: on Netflix Monday eight am Eastern reacting to all the games.

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Speaker 1: Tomorrow I'll be on YouTube with Coward tomorrow afternoon after

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Speaker 1: the forty nine er Eagle game. Have a great Saturday,

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Speaker 1: night and for you, I go Bears fans, Congratulations. That

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Speaker 1: was really really cool. Okay, before we get out of here,

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Speaker 1: let's talk about someone that needs his zone in. I'm

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Speaker 1: a defender of Justin Herbert ever since he ran that

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Speaker 1: ball in and the Rose Bowl, been rooting for the guy.

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Speaker 1: No disputing his talent. This year, what he's done has

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Speaker 1: been remarkable as offensive lineman, injured reserve, torn knees, broken hand.

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Speaker 1: His playoff record is not great. I mean last year

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Speaker 1: was a trocious I mean I think he just threw

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Speaker 1: another interception in that game. It was really bad. And

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Speaker 1: obviously the legendary loss of the Jacksonville Jags. I think

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Speaker 1: on a Saturday night when they just melt it down,

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Speaker 1: you get to go on the road, big underdog against

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Speaker 1: a second year quarterback, kind of with nothing to lose.

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Speaker 1: But I do think Sunday night football a lot of eyeballs.

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Speaker 1: Having a good performance can just go a long way

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Speaker 1: of quieting everybody. You can lose the game, but if

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Speaker 1: you play well, because right now, if you have another

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Speaker 1: one of those games where it does not look good,

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Speaker 1: you throw some picks, it's gonna be hard to dispute.

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Speaker 1: Three playoff games three bad performances. I'm a Herbert guy.

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Speaker 1: I got the Chargers tomorrow, but if they're gonna make

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Speaker 1: a little run here, specifically, just win this game as

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Speaker 1: a road underdog, flying five thousand miles taking on the

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Speaker 1: number two seed. My guy, justin Herbert is gonna have

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Speaker 1: to zone in the volume