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Speaker 1: Hello, and welcome to Waken Jake. Happy Martin Luther King

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Speaker 1: Junior Day? Do you say happy? That always gets tricky

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Speaker 1: with the holidays. January twentieth, big day in the States

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Speaker 1: for a lot of reasons. And today on Waken Jake,

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Speaker 1: We're going to talk No, we're going to talk sports

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Speaker 1: because we have to hopefully close the loop on the Dodgers.

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Speaker 1: They signed Tanner Scott, probably the best reliever available after

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Speaker 1: winning the Rokie Sasaki sweepstakes, which we haven't fully touched

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Speaker 1: upon on here. So yeah, I think we might close

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Speaker 1: the loop on that, But who knows who could be

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Speaker 1: next for them because they are on a war path

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Speaker 1: to build an unsoppable team, and we'll talk about if

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Speaker 1: that can even happen. In baseball, Massive football weekend, God,

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Speaker 1: the Kansas City Chiefs take care of their business. They're

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Speaker 1: going to line up with the Buffalo Bills to run

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Speaker 1: that back, which is exciting and I've been stewing on

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Speaker 1: that this morning, along with how about the Washington Commanders

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Speaker 1: changing a franchise with a quarterback and new ownership. Maybe

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Speaker 1: we should talk about ownership more in sports. Brutal for

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Speaker 1: the Lions, brutal for Matthew Stafford and Trevor Ploof who

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Speaker 1: went out there to watch his friend lose to the Eagles,

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Speaker 1: and they had a chance even though they shouldn't have

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Speaker 1: had a chance. We'll talk about all of that in

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Speaker 1: a little bit, but first let's do some baseball as

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Speaker 1: it is. When I say January twentieth, okay, most teams

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Speaker 1: are reporting hitchers are getting there a little early. Players

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Speaker 1: are getting there the seventeenth fourteenth, I think for the Cubbies,

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Speaker 1: still the same names out there. Profar Bregman, Santander, Flaherty

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Speaker 1: hasan Kim eating dog, Pistol, Pete, Alonzo and Pivetta. You know,

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Speaker 1: I still think pitchers should do okay, Like whatever Nick

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Speaker 1: Maybe it won't. We're starting to get to that point.

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Speaker 1: Pete's in the weird spot. I think Santander is gonna

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Speaker 1: get paid, and maybe they're both gonna get paid by

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Speaker 1: the Blue Jays, because that's not where this should start.

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Speaker 1: But it was kind of crazy, kind of tough to

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Speaker 1: see John Hayman being like, right after Sasaki turned down

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Speaker 1: the Blue Jays that they have interest in Pete, they

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Speaker 1: have interested in Santander, which was my original landing spot.

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Speaker 1: So I will be digging up some of the receipts

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Speaker 1: if that happens. But let's not start with them. Let's

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Speaker 1: start with the Dodgers and I we like to peel

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Speaker 1: back the curtain. I think it's been a successful method

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Speaker 1: for us. The Dodgers are big. It's la It's the Dodgers.

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Speaker 1: It's one of the most recognizable brands in baseball. They

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Speaker 1: have Joey Otani. Otani is one of the athletes that

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Speaker 1: actually moves the needle. If we put Otani in a

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Speaker 1: thumbnail or a title, the clicks and reviews go up.

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Speaker 1: It's it's like real, Like I think it's it's actually

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Speaker 1: kind of fun that we can talk about that on

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Speaker 1: our end because I feel like ESPN for years and

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Speaker 1: how we're raised, they were like, you know, we we

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Speaker 1: You know, when first take and everything would be opening

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Speaker 1: now become they talk about the Cowboys quarterback in like July,

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Speaker 1: so they have made their move that way, and I

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Speaker 1: guess for us because we are fans, like fan media

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Speaker 1: is one of the terms we throw around, you know,

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Speaker 1: I I know you don't. There's a lot of other

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Speaker 1: every time, and we're hunting out that click. Unfortunately, the

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Speaker 1: Dodgers recently have kind of taken things into their own hands.

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Speaker 1: I'll start with Sasaki because I guess we haven't done

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Speaker 1: in here, and I'm I was laughing in hindsight because

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Speaker 1: when I was doing Sasaki conversations on here, well a

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Speaker 1: he turned down the Yankees, and I gave a nice

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Speaker 1: that matters to Roki. So yeah, right as posting and

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Speaker 1: I'm in no place to give you or your agent advice.

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Speaker 1: Next time, you can just tell the team you're signing with,

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Speaker 1: the other teams. No, I don't really know what that was.

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Speaker 1: That was. That was okay internet fodder, but that was

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Speaker 1: just it was interesting. Rokie signs with the Dodgers and

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Speaker 1: just tapping into young players and making them successful pitchers.

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Speaker 1: So even before this version of the Dodgers took off,

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Speaker 1: a lot of organizations. The lineup stacked, the team is stacked.

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Speaker 1: and they are. It's an embarrassment of riches, and I

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Speaker 1: think the Rokie one stung a lot of baseball fans

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Speaker 1: for more. For the different reasons for the Okay, hey,

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Speaker 1: What's there's unfortunately twenty five or so teams in the

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Speaker 1: It's just not happening. We don't have that kind of money.

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Speaker 1: conversation is, are the Dodgers like unfair? Are the Dodgers

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Speaker 1: been a lot of conversation over the offseason. I'm interested

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Speaker 1: of like when the Dodgers come to town, are other

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Speaker 1: one of the scary parts of the MLB season grind

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Speaker 1: every baseball team that's ever played has those two things.

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Speaker 1: was the best free agent and he has he always

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Speaker 1: bad has kind of been on a minor decline, where

426
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Speaker 1: with Vladdie it seems like it's coming together. It seems

427
00:27:35,560 --> 00:27:38,960
Speaker 1: like there was a little immaturity on some of those

428
00:27:39,000 --> 00:27:42,399
Speaker 1: early Blue Jay teams that it seems like that's going away.

429
00:27:42,480 --> 00:27:46,240
Speaker 1: And you know, the difference between twenty six and twenty

430
00:27:46,280 --> 00:27:50,840
Speaker 1: two is significant, Like that's you know, I've seen young

431
00:27:50,920 --> 00:27:53,720
Speaker 1: BBD go through that change in our workplace. You know,

432
00:27:54,320 --> 00:27:58,080
Speaker 1: now he's got a beard, so that I think for

433
00:27:58,200 --> 00:28:03,480
Speaker 1: Vladdie it's it's it's repeating last year because he's had

434
00:28:03,520 --> 00:28:07,639
Speaker 1: the good season. If he does that again, he's going

435
00:28:07,720 --> 00:28:11,280
Speaker 1: to have age on his side, and like, you know,

436
00:28:11,520 --> 00:28:14,480
Speaker 1: you can plug him at first base and he's going

437
00:28:14,520 --> 00:28:17,760
Speaker 1: to be there for probably the next decade or so.

438
00:28:18,040 --> 00:28:23,760
Speaker 1: Where for Sodo, you know, depending how you value outfield defense,

439
00:28:24,440 --> 00:28:28,639
Speaker 1: that conversation is going to get interesting that between the

440
00:28:28,720 --> 00:28:31,600
Speaker 1: d H spot or is he willing to move where

441
00:28:31,800 --> 00:28:35,080
Speaker 1: Vladdie Junior You're almost like, yeah, I mean he's going

442
00:28:35,119 --> 00:28:38,160
Speaker 1: to be able to play first base at a similar

443
00:28:38,240 --> 00:28:42,200
Speaker 1: level until he's thirty three, thirty four, where Soto has

444
00:28:42,280 --> 00:28:45,640
Speaker 1: potential to become a very big negative defensively. I mean,

445
00:28:45,720 --> 00:28:50,560
Speaker 1: look at Jin Carlos Stan Anyways, Vladdie's going to go

446
00:28:50,640 --> 00:28:53,480
Speaker 1: chase a big number and who's going to be involved.

447
00:28:53,760 --> 00:28:59,520
Speaker 1: Joe's McFly partially thinks that the Mets dream is to

448
00:28:59,600 --> 00:29:05,080
Speaker 1: go full basically his dream team, it's to sign Vlatty

449
00:29:05,200 --> 00:29:09,320
Speaker 1: next offseason. So it's Lindor Soto and Vlattie. Maybe they will.

450
00:29:09,920 --> 00:29:14,040
Speaker 1: Maybe that is the plan. If I'm the Toronto Blue

451
00:29:14,120 --> 00:29:18,000
Speaker 1: Jays and Vladdie Guerrero Junior will sign anywhere near a

452
00:29:18,040 --> 00:29:20,920
Speaker 1: dotted line, I think you need to get that done.

453
00:29:21,240 --> 00:29:23,920
Speaker 1: And I'm not even saying this offseason because he's gonna

454
00:29:23,960 --> 00:29:26,360
Speaker 1: hit free agency. He's made it this close. He deserves

455
00:29:26,400 --> 00:29:28,480
Speaker 1: to hit free agency and drive up a bidding war

456
00:29:28,560 --> 00:29:33,080
Speaker 1: and get paid. Layers clearly struggle with the Toronto thing.

457
00:29:33,120 --> 00:29:39,080
Speaker 1: Man George Springer signed there because he got an extra year.

458
00:29:39,200 --> 00:29:43,280
Speaker 1: Hinjin Reyu signed there because he got an extra year. Barrio,

459
00:29:43,440 --> 00:29:45,560
Speaker 1: so I think when they traded for him, it was

460
00:29:45,680 --> 00:29:48,360
Speaker 1: kind of like, hey, if you sign this extension or

461
00:29:48,600 --> 00:29:51,640
Speaker 1: we can be in the ballpark here, and he was

462
00:29:51,680 --> 00:29:54,160
Speaker 1: about that. Uh. The only one that makes me laugh

463
00:29:54,480 --> 00:29:57,200
Speaker 1: was Chris Bassett. Chris Bassett was kind of a normal

464
00:29:57,200 --> 00:30:00,680
Speaker 1: free agent, you know, three years a year or whatever,

465
00:30:00,800 --> 00:30:07,520
Speaker 1: like okay, but signing free agents in Toronto hasn't been

466
00:30:07,560 --> 00:30:12,160
Speaker 1: as easy. And that's where I liked Anthony Santander from

467
00:30:12,160 --> 00:30:14,560
Speaker 1: them from the start. And again, this part kind of

468
00:30:14,600 --> 00:30:20,200
Speaker 1: stinks for Toronto, but it's because Santander has a couple flaws. Defensively,

469
00:30:20,280 --> 00:30:24,760
Speaker 1: he doesn't stand out. The on base percentage is in

470
00:30:25,120 --> 00:30:29,120
Speaker 1: kind of a risky spot. But hit forty four homers

471
00:30:30,240 --> 00:30:32,640
Speaker 1: and if you're looking to have a shot this year,

472
00:30:33,440 --> 00:30:35,440
Speaker 1: you know, look at the money that's getting handed out

473
00:30:35,440 --> 00:30:39,720
Speaker 1: around baseball. If Santander if other teams are scared to

474
00:30:39,720 --> 00:30:43,360
Speaker 1: give that fourth year or whatever it is. If the

475
00:30:43,440 --> 00:30:45,959
Speaker 1: Blue Jays are willing and he's willing to sign, you

476
00:30:46,040 --> 00:30:49,080
Speaker 1: have to do that because that would be the switch

477
00:30:49,160 --> 00:30:52,280
Speaker 1: hitter you'd have between Bashett and Vladdie, that could give

478
00:30:52,320 --> 00:30:54,880
Speaker 1: you a top three in a lineup that could move

479
00:30:54,960 --> 00:31:00,960
Speaker 1: things offensively. So for the Toronto Blue Jays, it's really interesting.

480
00:31:02,320 --> 00:31:04,400
Speaker 1: How are they gonna go back to the drawing board

481
00:31:04,440 --> 00:31:08,360
Speaker 1: if they're really struggling to extend and sign guys. Do

482
00:31:08,440 --> 00:31:11,840
Speaker 1: they need to invest even more in their minor leagues?

483
00:31:11,920 --> 00:31:14,160
Speaker 1: Or when guys are coming up on free agency, do

484
00:31:14,240 --> 00:31:18,000
Speaker 1: they almost need a raise, you know, one to two

485
00:31:18,040 --> 00:31:20,560
Speaker 1: years out. Do we have to trade guys to cash

486
00:31:20,560 --> 00:31:24,120
Speaker 1: in on their value now to rebuild it. I don't know.

487
00:31:24,200 --> 00:31:27,280
Speaker 1: Something's a little off. There's another part of me that wonders,

488
00:31:27,320 --> 00:31:31,080
Speaker 1: are they just gonna go ham to finish off this

489
00:31:31,160 --> 00:31:34,680
Speaker 1: free agency? Are they gonna get Santandre? There's Pete rumors

490
00:31:34,840 --> 00:31:37,720
Speaker 1: right after their DH spot is currently listed as Will

491
00:31:37,760 --> 00:31:42,560
Speaker 1: Wagner again. A little bit of that is Hayman, who's

492
00:31:43,840 --> 00:31:46,760
Speaker 1: you know, there's some rumors him in him and Boris

493
00:31:46,840 --> 00:31:52,480
Speaker 1: or in cahoots I'm interested to see if Toronto throws

494
00:31:52,520 --> 00:31:54,600
Speaker 1: the kitchen sink at it or is this gonna be

495
00:31:54,640 --> 00:31:58,960
Speaker 1: a weird We're gonna play some defense and we've got

496
00:31:59,000 --> 00:32:01,840
Speaker 1: some you know, Earn Clement can get you to warn

497
00:32:01,920 --> 00:32:05,600
Speaker 1: a season and what does that do? I don't know.

498
00:32:05,800 --> 00:32:08,200
Speaker 1: I think if you're Toronto and you're trying to woove

499
00:32:08,320 --> 00:32:11,160
Speaker 1: Laddie for the last time, there's a couple moves and

500
00:32:11,200 --> 00:32:14,320
Speaker 1: players out there that you can still do. You can

501
00:32:14,600 --> 00:32:18,480
Speaker 1: have a bad daydream about their rotation and their bullpen.

502
00:32:19,640 --> 00:32:23,280
Speaker 1: And if you added a couple hitters, other guys become

503
00:32:23,320 --> 00:32:27,240
Speaker 1: more valuable, Andres Jmenez's defense who they traded for, he

504
00:32:27,320 --> 00:32:31,800
Speaker 1: becomes more valuable. Alejandro Kirk on both sides of the

505
00:32:31,840 --> 00:32:35,880
Speaker 1: ball can be an asset for them. That let's see

506
00:32:35,880 --> 00:32:38,880
Speaker 1: where Toronto goes the rest of the way, because I

507
00:32:38,960 --> 00:32:41,400
Speaker 1: for a couple of these free agents that they're starting

508
00:32:41,400 --> 00:32:43,880
Speaker 1: to get a little anxious with spring training and everything

509
00:32:43,920 --> 00:32:47,719
Speaker 1: coming up, if they can get the value that they

510
00:32:47,760 --> 00:32:51,440
Speaker 1: were looking for from the Toronto Blue Jays. You know what,

511
00:32:51,600 --> 00:32:54,440
Speaker 1: there's taxes up there that are that are real. You're

512
00:32:54,600 --> 00:32:56,920
Speaker 1: you're not like a citizen, Are you having a kid?

513
00:32:56,960 --> 00:33:00,400
Speaker 1: Are they now Canadian things I haven't had to think about.

514
00:33:01,880 --> 00:33:04,520
Speaker 1: But let's see what goes on. We've got a couple

515
00:33:04,560 --> 00:33:07,920
Speaker 1: more bodies to go. Will there be a secondary trade market?

516
00:33:08,000 --> 00:33:10,400
Speaker 1: Remember everyone kind of thought Dylan Cease was gonna go,

517
00:33:10,480 --> 00:33:13,800
Speaker 1: but we don't. No one knows what's going on with

518
00:33:13,840 --> 00:33:18,840
Speaker 1: that franchise in San Diego currently. Let's see what happens

519
00:33:19,080 --> 00:33:24,760
Speaker 1: the rest of the way until then, a little bit

520
00:33:24,760 --> 00:33:29,760
Speaker 1: of football college National Championship game tonight, just remember that.

521
00:33:30,040 --> 00:33:33,440
Speaker 1: So that's exciting. Notre Dame Ohio State. I'm going to

522
00:33:33,480 --> 00:33:36,680
Speaker 1: start planning my whole day around that. That is huge.

523
00:33:37,240 --> 00:33:40,440
Speaker 1: Get ready for that. Ohio State's supposed to roll big spread.

524
00:33:41,040 --> 00:33:44,880
Speaker 1: It'll be interesting to see what Notre Dame has in

525
00:33:44,960 --> 00:33:48,320
Speaker 1: their back pocket, if anything, or they may not. And

526
00:33:48,400 --> 00:33:51,800
Speaker 1: we may be talking about a somewhat historic Ohio I

527
00:33:51,840 --> 00:33:54,560
Speaker 1: mean definitely a historic Ohio State run. As they went

528
00:33:54,600 --> 00:33:58,880
Speaker 1: from kind of a laughing stock. They never beat Michigan

529
00:33:58,880 --> 00:34:03,040
Speaker 1: in four years? How could this happen? Ryan Day? What

530
00:34:03,120 --> 00:34:05,160
Speaker 1: kind of die is he putting in his beard? How

531
00:34:05,200 --> 00:34:09,080
Speaker 1: do they seemingly lose every big game they need? Here

532
00:34:09,120 --> 00:34:11,560
Speaker 1: they are on one of their most dominant runs that

533
00:34:11,600 --> 00:34:14,359
Speaker 1: We've seen a college football team go on and if

534
00:34:14,360 --> 00:34:18,239
Speaker 1: they can put it together for sixty more minutes against

535
00:34:18,560 --> 00:34:22,200
Speaker 1: a team that they can a team that lost to

536
00:34:22,280 --> 00:34:27,759
Speaker 1: Northern Illinois early on this year, it could be dominant.

537
00:34:27,880 --> 00:34:32,520
Speaker 1: It is fun, you know the storylines that sports can provide,

538
00:34:32,560 --> 00:34:34,960
Speaker 1: and that's part of the reason that you know, media

539
00:34:34,960 --> 00:34:37,360
Speaker 1: and sports almost need to be more hand in hand.

540
00:34:37,680 --> 00:34:42,480
Speaker 1: Like Notre Dame has left an offensive tackle who's starting

541
00:34:42,480 --> 00:34:44,600
Speaker 1: in this game who was out all season, but he

542
00:34:44,640 --> 00:34:46,360
Speaker 1: was supposed to be a stud. So it's like, Okay,

543
00:34:46,440 --> 00:34:48,320
Speaker 1: is that guy going to come in and be dominant

544
00:34:48,400 --> 00:34:51,480
Speaker 1: or is that guy going to come in and get worked?

545
00:34:51,560 --> 00:34:53,360
Speaker 1: Is that guy going to come in get worked and

546
00:34:53,360 --> 00:34:56,480
Speaker 1: then limp off three plays in? Like it's it's the

547
00:34:56,560 --> 00:34:59,440
Speaker 1: crazy part of sports that it could be game changing.

548
00:35:00,239 --> 00:35:04,560
Speaker 1: Could run it behind them every play and then they're dominant.

549
00:35:05,120 --> 00:35:08,759
Speaker 1: I don't know. I I'm rooting for good football if

550
00:35:08,800 --> 00:35:11,560
Speaker 1: I'm if I'm putting cheese on it, it might be

551
00:35:11,680 --> 00:35:15,120
Speaker 1: Ohio State as the spread with a little bit of

552
00:35:15,200 --> 00:35:17,919
Speaker 1: happiness hedge, because Ohio State can get under my skin

553
00:35:18,000 --> 00:35:21,120
Speaker 1: a little bit, but so can like Notre Dame for everyone,

554
00:35:21,200 --> 00:35:23,640
Speaker 1: So this is like the most hated championship game. Ever,

555
00:35:24,080 --> 00:35:27,279
Speaker 1: will Notre Dame be able to pass the ball? Who

556
00:35:27,320 --> 00:35:31,520
Speaker 1: will make the plays? How will college football rear its

557
00:35:31,600 --> 00:35:36,040
Speaker 1: ugly head? Never know about that one. Let's watch that together.

558
00:35:36,080 --> 00:35:39,240
Speaker 1: Maybe we'll talk a little bit on Wednesday. Let's talk

559
00:35:40,200 --> 00:35:44,959
Speaker 1: a little NFL football because this is the best week

560
00:35:45,000 --> 00:35:47,839
Speaker 1: of NFL football of the year. And it started off

561
00:35:47,840 --> 00:35:51,400
Speaker 1: with the Kansas City Chiefs and we had Penticon last week,

562
00:35:52,000 --> 00:35:54,920
Speaker 1: and you know, this is this is the Chiefs. People

563
00:35:55,000 --> 00:35:58,200
Speaker 1: are calling it the you know, the Chief's Invitational Tournament.

564
00:35:59,239 --> 00:36:02,440
Speaker 1: You know, get get your memes ready with Patrick Mahomes

565
00:36:02,480 --> 00:36:07,440
Speaker 1: and the referee doing a jersey swap. You know, a

566
00:36:07,440 --> 00:36:11,840
Speaker 1: couple AI videos that little sultry between Patrick Mahomes and

567
00:36:11,880 --> 00:36:16,959
Speaker 1: the referees, at least I think they're AI. And those

568
00:36:17,000 --> 00:36:19,160
Speaker 1: memes came out after this game because there was a

569
00:36:19,280 --> 00:36:24,440
Speaker 1: couple penalties that you're just like, come on, fellas. With

570
00:36:24,560 --> 00:36:29,640
Speaker 1: that being said, Chiefs come out, they win twenty three

571
00:36:29,719 --> 00:36:33,320
Speaker 1: to fourteen, and it's just a it's a very weird

572
00:36:33,360 --> 00:36:36,000
Speaker 1: exercise with the Kansas City Chiefs, who are now fifteen

573
00:36:36,040 --> 00:36:39,600
Speaker 1: and two, or they were fifteen and two in the

574
00:36:39,600 --> 00:36:42,279
Speaker 1: regular season, fifteen and one in games that the other

575
00:36:42,400 --> 00:36:48,640
Speaker 1: teams were that they were competing in. There's just a

576
00:36:48,719 --> 00:36:51,480
Speaker 1: weird you feel like you have to be perfect against them,

577
00:36:51,520 --> 00:36:56,759
Speaker 1: even though the numbers and statistics don't lose that. And

578
00:36:56,800 --> 00:37:01,680
Speaker 1: like the Chiefs offense hasn't been kind of scary all year,

579
00:37:02,600 --> 00:37:05,680
Speaker 1: but the Texans missed the field goal and that hurt

580
00:37:05,760 --> 00:37:08,960
Speaker 1: them early on. Chiefs get a block on a late

581
00:37:09,000 --> 00:37:11,000
Speaker 1: one even though the game seemed to be already decided

582
00:37:11,040 --> 00:37:15,520
Speaker 1: at that point. Their defense, Chris Jones is one of

583
00:37:15,560 --> 00:37:17,839
Speaker 1: the most dominant players in the NFL, and he went

584
00:37:17,880 --> 00:37:21,160
Speaker 1: from people need to talk about him more to know

585
00:37:21,320 --> 00:37:26,560
Speaker 1: he's dominant and he kind of gets the respect he deserves.

586
00:37:28,160 --> 00:37:31,080
Speaker 1: And Mahomes to Kelsey was working seven for one to

587
00:37:31,200 --> 00:37:35,400
Speaker 1: seventeen man for a touchdown. So to see them have

588
00:37:35,640 --> 00:37:39,360
Speaker 1: that the running game not really there for them and

589
00:37:39,440 --> 00:37:42,600
Speaker 1: this Texans team, you could see their defense coming together

590
00:37:44,160 --> 00:37:47,719
Speaker 1: at the right part of this season, but it wasn't

591
00:37:47,840 --> 00:37:52,960
Speaker 1: enough in Arrowhead, which is a, you know, one of

592
00:37:53,000 --> 00:37:56,280
Speaker 1: the toughest NFL environments, if not the toughest. I feel

593
00:37:56,280 --> 00:37:58,239
Speaker 1: like we've got this weird thing with the Chiefs and

594
00:37:58,280 --> 00:38:01,040
Speaker 1: I was very guilty of it this year that they've

595
00:38:01,080 --> 00:38:06,200
Speaker 1: been so chiefsy, if you will, that we ignore and

596
00:38:06,239 --> 00:38:08,200
Speaker 1: we look at the other teams and what else is

597
00:38:08,200 --> 00:38:10,440
Speaker 1: brewing because we know they're still Mahomes. We know they

598
00:38:10,440 --> 00:38:13,799
Speaker 1: play good defense. Spagnolo is gonna get shout outs during

599
00:38:13,800 --> 00:38:16,080
Speaker 1: the games because some of the blitzes he dials up.

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00:38:16,719 --> 00:38:19,160
Speaker 1: It's like, wait, we read all these stats about WHOA

601
00:38:19,200 --> 00:38:21,839
Speaker 1: this quarterback is so good against the blitz don't blitz them.

602
00:38:22,200 --> 00:38:25,040
Speaker 1: Spagnolo always blitzes, And it seems like it gets home

603
00:38:25,480 --> 00:38:28,680
Speaker 1: enough that has there ever been the Chiefs game that

604
00:38:28,719 --> 00:38:31,560
Speaker 1: it's like, Oh, there goes another guy running free. They blitzed,

605
00:38:32,239 --> 00:38:38,440
Speaker 1: and like it just doesn't happen. Chiefs and Andy Reid

606
00:38:38,480 --> 00:38:41,400
Speaker 1: coming off the long layoff too, people were worried about.

607
00:38:41,440 --> 00:38:44,719
Speaker 1: That doesn't seem to affect them too much. Although we

608
00:38:44,800 --> 00:38:48,640
Speaker 1: get basically the same Chiefs game we get all year.

609
00:38:48,760 --> 00:38:53,600
Speaker 1: Important to some a late safety at the end of

610
00:38:53,600 --> 00:38:59,560
Speaker 1: this one, and yeah, I'm I want to fast forward

611
00:38:59,600 --> 00:39:02,200
Speaker 1: and talk out some Bills. Bill's Chiefs a little bit,

612
00:39:02,200 --> 00:39:03,759
Speaker 1: but I guess I can circle up on that at

613
00:39:03,760 --> 00:39:09,799
Speaker 1: the end. Hey, for Houston, this is what it is.

614
00:39:09,880 --> 00:39:13,160
Speaker 1: I don't know. It's almost like you you took your

615
00:39:13,320 --> 00:39:16,920
Speaker 1: your sophomore stroud year. That felt just everything felt a

616
00:39:16,920 --> 00:39:19,200
Speaker 1: little weird, from the coordinators to some of the play,

617
00:39:19,280 --> 00:39:22,280
Speaker 1: to some real injuries that that changed how this team felt.

618
00:39:23,520 --> 00:39:25,680
Speaker 1: You bring it to the drawing board. Next year, you

619
00:39:25,719 --> 00:39:29,760
Speaker 1: get better. You're still feeling bright about that in Houston,

620
00:39:30,440 --> 00:39:37,440
Speaker 1: speaking of feeling bright. The other game on Saturday, Commanders

621
00:39:37,680 --> 00:39:42,200
Speaker 1: Lions get ready for the shootout. You know, one of

622
00:39:42,200 --> 00:39:46,600
Speaker 1: the higher over unders of the season. Uh, this Lions

623
00:39:46,680 --> 00:39:50,840
Speaker 1: team who won again a pseudo playoff game against the Vikings,

624
00:39:50,840 --> 00:39:55,520
Speaker 1: and they look dominant against them. The Commanders, who Hey,

625
00:39:55,600 --> 00:39:59,440
Speaker 1: I've been driving the Jaden Daniels bus. But I was

626
00:39:59,480 --> 00:40:02,000
Speaker 1: also very much like you can look at a lot

627
00:40:02,040 --> 00:40:06,319
Speaker 1: of things on their schedule and be like, well, you know,

628
00:40:06,440 --> 00:40:09,600
Speaker 1: they escaped with a couple wins against bad teams, and

629
00:40:10,360 --> 00:40:13,040
Speaker 1: their defense had some times this year that were very

630
00:40:13,160 --> 00:40:16,520
Speaker 1: lackluster that it was like, hey, maybe you know, they

631
00:40:16,560 --> 00:40:18,960
Speaker 1: barely survived the Bucks. If the Bucks don't run a

632
00:40:19,080 --> 00:40:23,479
Speaker 1: jet sweep and fumble it, the Buccaneers probably win this game,

633
00:40:23,560 --> 00:40:27,920
Speaker 1: and that's who the Lions would be playing. Unfortunately for

634
00:40:27,960 --> 00:40:36,120
Speaker 1: the Lions. Jaydeon Daniels is that guy Dan Quinn, is

635
00:40:36,160 --> 00:40:40,640
Speaker 1: that guy, I mean dan Quinn man, he is a

636
00:40:40,719 --> 00:40:47,120
Speaker 1: couple horrifying plays away from having a very different NFL resume.

637
00:40:47,840 --> 00:40:52,319
Speaker 1: The Atlanta Falcon Super Bowl game. That again, go look

638
00:40:52,360 --> 00:40:55,319
Speaker 1: at the Atlanta Falcons as a franchise, not one of

639
00:40:55,360 --> 00:40:59,520
Speaker 1: your more successful franchises. He had them there with Matt Ryan,

640
00:41:00,400 --> 00:41:03,239
Speaker 1: and I know that was so weird that, you know,

641
00:41:05,520 --> 00:41:10,400
Speaker 1: dan Quinn was the head coach and Shanahan was the coordinator,

642
00:41:10,920 --> 00:41:13,720
Speaker 1: and Shanahan got a lot of the credit. But also

643
00:41:13,880 --> 00:41:15,480
Speaker 1: if they had just run the ball more in the

644
00:41:15,520 --> 00:41:17,960
Speaker 1: second half, they probably win that Super Bowl. And then

645
00:41:18,000 --> 00:41:20,440
Speaker 1: we're talking about dan Quinn as a Super Bowl winning

646
00:41:21,239 --> 00:41:24,680
Speaker 1: or coach for the Atlanta Falcons, which there's not a

647
00:41:24,680 --> 00:41:28,839
Speaker 1: lot of people you look at and say that. You know,

648
00:41:28,920 --> 00:41:32,400
Speaker 1: he had the Cowboys defense playing at an extremely high level,

649
00:41:32,400 --> 00:41:35,759
Speaker 1: that that went away when dan Quinn left. Dan Quinn

650
00:41:35,760 --> 00:41:38,680
Speaker 1: originally goes back to those Seahawks defenses, the Legion of

651
00:41:38,760 --> 00:41:41,759
Speaker 1: Boom and that kind of thing. Like, dan Quinn has

652
00:41:41,800 --> 00:41:46,719
Speaker 1: an amazing resume as a football coach, and it's all

653
00:41:46,760 --> 00:41:51,520
Speaker 1: come together with this Commander's team, Cliff Kingsbury calling the plays,

654
00:41:51,560 --> 00:41:54,319
Speaker 1: who I think he's an amazing offensive coordinator, not a

655
00:41:54,360 --> 00:41:59,600
Speaker 1: head coach. We'll talk about that another day. And they

656
00:41:59,600 --> 00:42:06,520
Speaker 1: get the turnovers, the pick six golf gets rocked a

657
00:42:06,719 --> 00:42:15,480
Speaker 1: twenty eight point second quarter from the Commanders. That man,

658
00:42:15,640 --> 00:42:19,279
Speaker 1: I feel bad for Lions fans when you so the

659
00:42:19,320 --> 00:42:22,719
Speaker 1: Lions have the breakout season and it's you know, they

660
00:42:22,719 --> 00:42:24,879
Speaker 1: were supposed to be the breakout team and then they

661
00:42:25,000 --> 00:42:28,440
Speaker 1: were and that was awesome, but still nobody had expectations.

662
00:42:28,760 --> 00:42:32,160
Speaker 1: Now the expectations happen and they live up to them.

663
00:42:32,239 --> 00:42:36,360
Speaker 1: They're fifteen and two. The offense is clicking. The defense

664
00:42:36,400 --> 00:42:40,560
Speaker 1: seemed like they survived so many injuries and they were

665
00:42:40,560 --> 00:42:43,360
Speaker 1: getting guys back and healthy that maybe the defense was

666
00:42:43,360 --> 00:42:49,240
Speaker 1: going to bounce back. They did not. Commanders hang forty

667
00:42:49,280 --> 00:42:53,640
Speaker 1: five on them. Again, the little things that are having

668
00:42:53,880 --> 00:42:57,239
Speaker 1: Diami Brown, the wide receiver is breaking out at the

669
00:42:57,320 --> 00:43:03,400
Speaker 1: right time for Washington. Terry McLaurin. Terry McLaurin with a quarterback.

670
00:43:03,400 --> 00:43:05,359
Speaker 1: There's a lot of old tweets out there about that

671
00:43:06,480 --> 00:43:08,600
Speaker 1: he had the one breakoff run where he could not

672
00:43:08,680 --> 00:43:15,680
Speaker 1: be caught. Zach Ertz with another playoff touchdown. Jaden fifty

673
00:43:15,719 --> 00:43:18,640
Speaker 1: one on the ground. Eckler had forty seven runs like

674
00:43:18,719 --> 00:43:22,560
Speaker 1: they ended up running for one eight two passing for

675
00:43:22,640 --> 00:43:26,560
Speaker 1: two ninety nine Lions. It's brutal. I don't know what

676
00:43:26,600 --> 00:43:30,280
Speaker 1: to tell you. It's it's get that defense healthy, add

677
00:43:30,320 --> 00:43:34,880
Speaker 1: to the defense for the next year, and I don't know.

678
00:43:34,920 --> 00:43:39,080
Speaker 1: It's kind of the the beauty of playoff football where

679
00:43:39,080 --> 00:43:42,000
Speaker 1: we had a lot of the dominant teams win this weekend.

680
00:43:42,600 --> 00:43:46,560
Speaker 1: This was unfortunately for the Lions. This one was the

681
00:43:46,600 --> 00:43:54,040
Speaker 1: outlier man. Brutal, brutal feeling for Detroit fans out there

682
00:43:54,200 --> 00:43:56,680
Speaker 1: and they haven't signed anyone in free agency. Alex Cobb

683
00:43:58,800 --> 00:44:04,680
Speaker 1: that leads us to Sunday Eagles Rams Rams kind of

684
00:44:05,680 --> 00:44:10,280
Speaker 1: feeling like the other team rivaling the Commanders, accept different story.

685
00:44:10,280 --> 00:44:13,920
Speaker 1: It's the veteran quarterback, it's the whiz kid head coach,

686
00:44:14,440 --> 00:44:17,839
Speaker 1: and they're going into Philly to face the Eagles in

687
00:44:17,960 --> 00:44:22,239
Speaker 1: the snow. Does it get any prettier? The Eagles dominated

688
00:44:22,280 --> 00:44:25,200
Speaker 1: them last time, but everyone kept seeing the stat this

689
00:44:25,280 --> 00:44:28,440
Speaker 1: week that was running backs that ran for two hundred

690
00:44:28,520 --> 00:44:32,360
Speaker 1: in the regular season facing a team later that year

691
00:44:32,680 --> 00:44:35,680
Speaker 1: and they were all held under like sixty yards that

692
00:44:35,760 --> 00:44:37,440
Speaker 1: I don't know. I think for a lot of us

693
00:44:37,440 --> 00:44:41,280
Speaker 1: that haven't played football on the NFL level, hell college football,

694
00:44:41,640 --> 00:44:46,799
Speaker 1: hell high school football. For myself, it's like, okay, so

695
00:44:47,160 --> 00:44:49,640
Speaker 1: you know football is obviously played with a mean streak,

696
00:44:49,680 --> 00:44:52,799
Speaker 1: and if you have the big bodies, is it. Hey,

697
00:44:52,800 --> 00:44:56,000
Speaker 1: we're not letting this happen and we're coach them up. Hey,

698
00:44:56,040 --> 00:44:59,920
Speaker 1: big boys up front, we gotta be better. Blah blah blah.

699
00:45:00,200 --> 00:45:06,280
Speaker 1: Saquon runs for two bills the Eagles, the Eagles, Eagles

700
00:45:06,280 --> 00:45:08,880
Speaker 1: in this one man, Like, I think that's what i'd say.

701
00:45:09,080 --> 00:45:13,719
Speaker 1: Jalen hurts twenty attempts or less fifteen for twenty one

702
00:45:13,800 --> 00:45:17,120
Speaker 1: hundred and twenty eight yards. Saquon Barkley two to Zho

703
00:45:17,239 --> 00:45:21,080
Speaker 1: five on the ground, Jalen hurts seventy on the ground,

704
00:45:23,080 --> 00:45:28,000
Speaker 1: like that is where their bread gets buttered. And it's

705
00:45:28,080 --> 00:45:30,839
Speaker 1: it's I don't know fully what it was. Was it

706
00:45:31,160 --> 00:45:35,120
Speaker 1: the NFL went to all these spread offenses and everyone

707
00:45:35,200 --> 00:45:39,560
Speaker 1: plays nickel defense, and finally the one team adjusted that

708
00:45:39,600 --> 00:45:42,720
Speaker 1: said we're gonna go big, and we're gonna go massive

709
00:45:42,760 --> 00:45:45,160
Speaker 1: at every position and we're gonna jam it down your throat.

710
00:45:45,160 --> 00:45:47,839
Speaker 1: Because that's feels like what happened. It feels like what

711
00:45:47,880 --> 00:45:51,200
Speaker 1: we want in sports when things swing too far. One

712
00:45:51,239 --> 00:45:53,560
Speaker 1: way that we go the other with them that they

713
00:45:53,600 --> 00:45:56,640
Speaker 1: have the quarterback who squats a billion pounds and they

714
00:45:56,680 --> 00:46:01,040
Speaker 1: can get a touchdown whenever they want, except they didn't.

715
00:46:01,480 --> 00:46:04,880
Speaker 1: They had third and goal from the two yard line.

716
00:46:04,920 --> 00:46:07,600
Speaker 1: The team that can get a free two yards essentially

717
00:46:07,640 --> 00:46:12,440
Speaker 1: whenever they want it. Saquan gets stopped right at the

718
00:46:12,480 --> 00:46:16,000
Speaker 1: goal line, goes to replay review and then they go

719
00:46:16,080 --> 00:46:18,640
Speaker 1: for the tush push false start by Lane Johnson that

720
00:46:18,719 --> 00:46:20,840
Speaker 1: they have to kick a field goal that gives the

721
00:46:20,960 --> 00:46:25,320
Speaker 1: Rams life on this and Stafford deep in his bag

722
00:46:25,440 --> 00:46:29,640
Speaker 1: Man three twenty four, two touchdown, zero interceptions, Puca was

723
00:46:29,680 --> 00:46:35,319
Speaker 1: six for ninety seven, cup Higbee DeMarcus Robinson like there

724
00:46:35,360 --> 00:46:39,000
Speaker 1: was a lot of guys contributing for the Rams. That

725
00:46:39,160 --> 00:46:43,080
Speaker 1: the Rams have the ball and are driving down the

726
00:46:43,120 --> 00:46:47,440
Speaker 1: field with less than two minutes left. What Eagles with

727
00:46:47,680 --> 00:46:51,720
Speaker 1: their classic just moments of what is you doing? Baby?

728
00:46:54,160 --> 00:46:56,680
Speaker 1: They get the stop when they meet it, need it

729
00:46:57,239 --> 00:47:03,560
Speaker 1: a huge, huge Jalen Carter sack after on second and

730
00:47:03,640 --> 00:47:06,160
Speaker 1: twelve from the Philly twenty three, Stafford gets it to

731
00:47:06,239 --> 00:47:12,399
Speaker 1: Nikua for ten yards. Stafford gets sacked, They lose nine

732
00:47:12,480 --> 00:47:15,360
Speaker 1: fourth and eleven, looks for Nikou again, it's out of bounds.

733
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Speaker 1: Eagles win and yeah, it's the most Eagles thing ever.

734
00:47:19,120 --> 00:47:24,399
Speaker 1: I it felt dominant, but they could lose and that's

735
00:47:24,440 --> 00:47:26,960
Speaker 1: how they actually lost to the Washington Commanders a few

736
00:47:27,000 --> 00:47:31,840
Speaker 1: weeks ago. A fun run for the Rams obviously that

737
00:47:32,239 --> 00:47:34,640
Speaker 1: they're not at the point where they want to they

738
00:47:34,680 --> 00:47:39,399
Speaker 1: want to hear that. And the Eagles, I I think

739
00:47:39,440 --> 00:47:42,200
Speaker 1: they're still my super Bowl team. I went into the

740
00:47:42,200 --> 00:47:45,000
Speaker 1: postseason with that and that's it's because it feels like

741
00:47:45,120 --> 00:47:51,360
Speaker 1: they sometimes make these horrible mistakes and they still find

742
00:47:51,400 --> 00:47:54,840
Speaker 1: a way to be fine because they can run it

743
00:47:54,920 --> 00:47:59,759
Speaker 1: for two hundred on any team in the NFL. And

744
00:47:59,840 --> 00:48:02,960
Speaker 1: they did that in the playoffs, letting the Rams know

745
00:48:03,040 --> 00:48:06,320
Speaker 1: it was coming. Jalen Hurts with the big run too early.

746
00:48:06,360 --> 00:48:10,280
Speaker 1: That set the tone. Eagles move on in the snow,

747
00:48:10,680 --> 00:48:15,560
Speaker 1: pretty snow, good football snow. That set up the game

748
00:48:15,600 --> 00:48:22,879
Speaker 1: of the weekend Bills Ravens, I mean, the two MVP quarterbacks.

749
00:48:22,880 --> 00:48:25,600
Speaker 1: We ran through the whole thing. I do think something

750
00:48:25,600 --> 00:48:30,600
Speaker 1: that gets overshadowed throughout all of this was the Ravens

751
00:48:30,600 --> 00:48:33,640
Speaker 1: were favored, which I again, this is Vegas, but it's

752
00:48:33,719 --> 00:48:37,160
Speaker 1: money like it's real and for coaches it's motivation that

753
00:48:37,239 --> 00:48:39,799
Speaker 1: I think they said something because this Bills team has

754
00:48:39,840 --> 00:48:41,880
Speaker 1: been really good for a long time now. It's like

755
00:48:42,320 --> 00:48:45,560
Speaker 1: the first time in it's like twenty home games that

756
00:48:45,600 --> 00:48:48,040
Speaker 1: the Bills haven't been the favorite or something like that.

757
00:48:48,160 --> 00:48:53,880
Speaker 1: So they the Ravens who beat the Bills either. Earlier

758
00:48:53,880 --> 00:48:58,440
Speaker 1: this year, the Bills looked like a motivated bunch, you know,

759
00:48:58,480 --> 00:49:03,120
Speaker 1: a defensive defensive lead heead coach who I've been tough

760
00:49:03,160 --> 00:49:07,280
Speaker 1: on in Buffalo, but you saw it in the defense early,

761
00:49:07,480 --> 00:49:09,440
Speaker 1: like the Ravens were trying to run the ball, and

762
00:49:09,480 --> 00:49:14,880
Speaker 1: Buffalo was coming out firing that We're not going to

763
00:49:15,000 --> 00:49:19,839
Speaker 1: let Derrick, Henry and Lamar just run loose on us,

764
00:49:19,880 --> 00:49:22,240
Speaker 1: Like that's not how this game is going to go. Today.

765
00:49:23,640 --> 00:49:26,719
Speaker 1: Ravens come down the opening drive, they get a touchdown

766
00:49:26,880 --> 00:49:31,440
Speaker 1: and you're like, oh, okay, but hey, maybe a blessing

767
00:49:31,520 --> 00:49:35,560
Speaker 1: from my Denver Broncos they did the same thing, and

768
00:49:35,600 --> 00:49:38,480
Speaker 1: the Bills came back and Boat raced them. The Bills

769
00:49:38,520 --> 00:49:41,479
Speaker 1: came back the rest of that half twenty one to three.

770
00:49:41,920 --> 00:49:45,480
Speaker 1: The rest of the way, Josh Allen looking incredible. James

771
00:49:45,480 --> 00:49:49,879
Speaker 1: Cook has been a clear difference maker for them. They're

772
00:49:49,960 --> 00:49:53,440
Speaker 1: backup running backs Ty Johnson and Ray Davis. You know,

773
00:49:53,520 --> 00:49:56,080
Speaker 1: I was on some James Cook betting props last night

774
00:49:56,960 --> 00:49:59,799
Speaker 1: that Davis and Johnson. I mean, they looked a little better,

775
00:49:59,800 --> 00:50:01,640
Speaker 1: and I don't know if that was element of surprise

776
00:50:01,800 --> 00:50:04,960
Speaker 1: or cooks out so they're not going to them, But

777
00:50:05,080 --> 00:50:07,600
Speaker 1: it kind of goes back to the story. Now for

778
00:50:07,680 --> 00:50:12,080
Speaker 1: this Buffalo Bills team, Shakir is the go to wide

779
00:50:12,120 --> 00:50:14,880
Speaker 1: receiver and man, he's got a little a little wiggle

780
00:50:14,960 --> 00:50:18,040
Speaker 1: to him, as they say in football six for sixty seven.

781
00:50:18,960 --> 00:50:24,480
Speaker 1: But otherwise we're spreading the ball out Shakir Cook, Mac Collins, Kinkaid,

782
00:50:24,600 --> 00:50:30,200
Speaker 1: Samuel Ty Johnson, Kean Coleman, Dawson Knox all with receptions.

783
00:50:30,760 --> 00:50:32,920
Speaker 1: That being said, it wasn't the prettiest game passing through

784
00:50:32,960 --> 00:50:35,160
Speaker 1: the air for Buffalo, and it really didn't need to.

785
00:50:35,800 --> 00:50:38,960
Speaker 1: They were moving the ball enough. That being said, in

786
00:50:39,000 --> 00:50:42,399
Speaker 1: the second half the Baltimore Ravens, they kind of got

787
00:50:42,400 --> 00:50:45,279
Speaker 1: the juice. The offense started clicking more. Derek Henry and

788
00:50:45,480 --> 00:50:50,720
Speaker 1: Justice Hill started getting some more yards. Lamar was finding

789
00:50:50,719 --> 00:50:54,840
Speaker 1: guys two fifty four through the air for him to

790
00:50:54,960 --> 00:50:58,200
Speaker 1: the fact that they needed to drive for a touchdown

791
00:50:58,680 --> 00:51:01,240
Speaker 1: to tie the game, and they did it with ease,

792
00:51:01,320 --> 00:51:04,520
Speaker 1: almost too quick if you're one of the football people

793
00:51:04,560 --> 00:51:09,560
Speaker 1: at home thinking about that. But they needed the two

794
00:51:09,640 --> 00:51:14,600
Speaker 1: point conversion and absolutely brutal. They draw up the right play.

795
00:51:14,640 --> 00:51:16,799
Speaker 1: It's kind of that rollout play that I think a

796
00:51:16,800 --> 00:51:19,040
Speaker 1: lot of football fans have gone familiar with. And is

797
00:51:19,040 --> 00:51:21,280
Speaker 1: it the wide receiver, is it the running back who's

798
00:51:21,280 --> 00:51:24,319
Speaker 1: out there in the flat by the pylon? It's Mark

799
00:51:24,400 --> 00:51:28,360
Speaker 1: Andrews lamar hits him in the belly. It's a little

800
00:51:28,360 --> 00:51:31,320
Speaker 1: bit of a weird play because again, your boot body's

801
00:51:31,360 --> 00:51:34,200
Speaker 1: moving in different directions and you gotta squeeze it and

802
00:51:34,239 --> 00:51:37,319
Speaker 1: still keep your energy going backwards because he's right by

803
00:51:37,400 --> 00:51:42,080
Speaker 1: the goal line. It's no excuse for that, though. Mark

804
00:51:42,120 --> 00:51:46,239
Speaker 1: Andrews drops it. A play that will live in Baltimore

805
00:51:46,239 --> 00:51:50,560
Speaker 1: infamy for years. And that was it, and that was

806
00:51:50,640 --> 00:51:52,880
Speaker 1: all that the Buffalo bill has won twenty seven to

807
00:51:52,920 --> 00:51:59,279
Speaker 1: twenty five. I think the home field thing got overlooked

808
00:51:59,680 --> 00:52:03,600
Speaker 1: just a little bit, that Buffalo especially. I mean, my goodness,

809
00:52:03,680 --> 00:52:06,560
Speaker 1: that that place was going nuts. But couldn't I look

810
00:52:06,600 --> 00:52:09,040
Speaker 1: back in point at those Detroit Lions and say the

811
00:52:09,080 --> 00:52:12,000
Speaker 1: same thing And it wasn't the difference there so good

812
00:52:12,040 --> 00:52:14,319
Speaker 1: on Buffalo. I did have a moment when when they

813
00:52:14,320 --> 00:52:16,160
Speaker 1: were announcing it at the end of the game that

814
00:52:18,040 --> 00:52:20,840
Speaker 1: I think in this era of football, if there's a

815
00:52:20,880 --> 00:52:23,720
Speaker 1: team that deserves another shot at the Kansas City Chiefs,

816
00:52:23,719 --> 00:52:28,600
Speaker 1: it's these Bills. They the famous overtime game that you know,

817
00:52:28,920 --> 00:52:32,000
Speaker 1: just whichever team had the ball was scoring and the

818
00:52:32,080 --> 00:52:36,879
Speaker 1: Chiefs won the toss. Buffalo deserves their hack at them,

819
00:52:36,880 --> 00:52:42,359
Speaker 1: and they're gonna get it in Arrowhead, and I I'm

820
00:52:42,440 --> 00:52:47,040
Speaker 1: questioning things. I sure am, like I believe in the

821
00:52:47,160 --> 00:52:51,880
Speaker 1: Chiefs and the that they win games because that's just

822
00:52:51,880 --> 00:52:53,960
Speaker 1: what they do, because they have a legendary head coach,

823
00:52:54,000 --> 00:52:57,520
Speaker 1: that have a legendary quarterback, legendary tyan, legendary de coordinator,

824
00:52:58,040 --> 00:53:01,480
Speaker 1: legendary d lineman. Like they they are the Chiefs for

825
00:53:01,520 --> 00:53:05,480
Speaker 1: a reason. But God, it still doesn't feel great. And

826
00:53:05,560 --> 00:53:08,160
Speaker 1: yet the Bills kind of do like this feels like

827
00:53:08,200 --> 00:53:11,680
Speaker 1: the best version of the Buffalo Bills that I don't know,

828
00:53:11,760 --> 00:53:14,080
Speaker 1: I guess I fully don't have my head wrapped around it.

829
00:53:14,600 --> 00:53:17,720
Speaker 1: This morning, I was thinking of flipping over to Bills

830
00:53:17,719 --> 00:53:21,120
Speaker 1: from Kansas City because I've thought it's gonna be Kansas

831
00:53:21,120 --> 00:53:23,920
Speaker 1: City and the Eagles for a while. The Bills are

832
00:53:24,120 --> 00:53:29,319
Speaker 1: very much, very much in it and might flip me

833
00:53:29,840 --> 00:53:32,600
Speaker 1: by the time the game comes around, because it if

834
00:53:32,640 --> 00:53:35,600
Speaker 1: you didn't know it was the Chiefs, you'd be saying

835
00:53:35,640 --> 00:53:39,480
Speaker 1: it's the Bills. Problem is it is the Chiefs. And

836
00:53:39,520 --> 00:53:43,400
Speaker 1: then on the NFC side, Eagles Commanders again, these teams

837
00:53:43,440 --> 00:53:48,120
Speaker 1: played a few weeks back and it was very Eagles

838
00:53:48,160 --> 00:53:51,800
Speaker 1: Commanders that the Eagles looked like they were running away

839
00:53:51,800 --> 00:53:54,400
Speaker 1: with it and had the game in the bag. Washington

840
00:53:54,480 --> 00:53:58,560
Speaker 1: scored twenty two in the fourth quarter to win thirty

841
00:53:58,600 --> 00:54:02,000
Speaker 1: six to three, and Jayden put on a show five

842
00:54:02,080 --> 00:54:05,160
Speaker 1: touchdown passes. So that's you know, the funny thing with

843
00:54:05,280 --> 00:54:08,279
Speaker 1: motivation is and this was there was a lot of

844
00:54:08,360 --> 00:54:11,319
Speaker 1: Kenny Pickett in this game for the Eagles. So is

845
00:54:11,360 --> 00:54:15,120
Speaker 1: this going to be this is gonna fuel the Eagles

846
00:54:15,360 --> 00:54:21,040
Speaker 1: to dominate over a lesser, lesser team at home instead

847
00:54:21,040 --> 00:54:23,680
Speaker 1: of on the road, or is this a thing for

848
00:54:23,719 --> 00:54:26,200
Speaker 1: the Commanders where it's like, hey, guys, you can do this.

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Speaker 1: Jaden threw for five touchdowns on them, we can beat

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Speaker 1: this football team and it would be an exciting story

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Speaker 1: of Jaden. I mean, he will become a star of star.

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Speaker 1: If the rookie quarterback can lead a team to the

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Speaker 1: Super Bowl, my goodness. I'm still on the Eagles. They

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Speaker 1: they can hand the ball off every play and win

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Speaker 1: a football game, and that that was thought to be

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Speaker 1: out of this league a long time ago. And yet

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Speaker 1: I think it's in fat more than ever. As you're

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Speaker 1: seeing running the football at all level of football, it's

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Speaker 1: kind of where it starts, and teams have forgotten that

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Speaker 1: and running the football sexy again. So the other thing

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Speaker 1: I wanted to mention the big loser of the weekend,

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Speaker 1: Sam Donald, keeps it rolling. Sam Donald had a little

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Speaker 1: bit of a loophole that was like, you know what, Hey,

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Speaker 1: maybe Sam Donald, he caught the lines at the wrong time.

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Speaker 1: They got ANZELONEI back that home Field's disgusting whatever commanders

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Speaker 1: put up forty five on them. So that's tough for

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Speaker 1: Sam Donald. The other team was the Rams. Okay, maybe

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Speaker 1: the Rams are peaking at the right time. They got

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Speaker 1: this young d line that it's all coming together for them.

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Speaker 1: I don't know, they were fine, but it was more

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Speaker 1: so I was looking for a Sam Donald loophole that

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Speaker 1: maybe he just got screwed to in the year. Still

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Speaker 1: not looking good for Uncle Sam. So great football weekend, Natty.

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Speaker 1: The Natty is get excited for that. And again we

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Speaker 1: still got some baseball moves that's gonna happen. So appreciate

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Speaker 1: uh BBD firing it up on MLK on Monday morning

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Speaker 1: to get this out for the good people and his

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