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Speaker 1: Dot up work dot com suddenly holds steps up what

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Speaker 1: NFL history. Watt has tied Michael Strahands single season record

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Speaker 1: through again. Yes he did, as he has been doing

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Speaker 1: good morning. And obviously, because I was there for that, Mike,

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Speaker 1: everybody else around him. Uh. What's really interesting, though, Mike,

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Speaker 1: comments kept dropping that he hopes the NFL changes what

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Speaker 1: the pomp and circumstance though, will be a little bit

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Speaker 1: different now that they potentially could do it on the

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Speaker 1: back half, But it is NFL explained. NFL records, we

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Speaker 1: are all about those monumental moments for the game, and

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Speaker 1: there were going to be enough records from one to

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Speaker 1: be nothing short of record breaking. But before we get

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Speaker 1: we're going to talk a little bit about this season first.

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Speaker 1: The thing that always will come to my mind a

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Speaker 1: and final forever and ever and ever. So, from September

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Speaker 1: an absurdly high vaccination rate. December was especially brutal, which

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Speaker 1: He also led all receivers with sixteen touchdowns. The dudes

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Speaker 1: wouldn't seem right for those to be broken in seventeen games.

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Speaker 1: Tom Brady is the record breaking machine. So this year,

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Speaker 1: what are the records that Tom Brady broke. He surpassed

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Speaker 1: He also bested Drew Brees for most career completions. At

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Speaker 1: that I think will forever be synonymous with that Chargers team,

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Speaker 1: and hopefully they'll be able to write the ship in

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Speaker 1: the next couple of years, and that Steelers fans will

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Speaker 1: forever be grateful for because remember, the Raiders needed to

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Speaker 1: win that game or the Chargers somebody needed to win.

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Speaker 1: Had there been a tie, the Steelers would no longer

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Speaker 1: be in the playoffs. So there were a lot of

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Speaker 1: fan bases, very very invested in what happened in that game. Oddly,

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Speaker 1: and I Mike Tomlin dozing off at the end of

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Speaker 1: that game, so he claims, so he claims that one.

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Speaker 1: But you know what, Mike, I don't think this is anecdotal.

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Speaker 1: We talked about the Ravens playing so many close games

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Speaker 1: earlier well, Mike, you know what, it's not just anecdotal.

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Speaker 1: We talked about the Ravens playing so many close games.

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Speaker 1: We've talked a lot, at least I have talked a

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Speaker 1: lot about the Steelers kind of engineering game winning drives,

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Speaker 1: specifically Ben Roethlisberger, who, by the way, is second all

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Speaker 1: time in history in terms of engineering game winning drives,

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Speaker 1: second to Tom Brady. But they season, there were actually

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Speaker 1: more games decided by a winning score on the final

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Speaker 1: play of the game than in any other single season

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Speaker 1: in NFL history. Thirty five games, Mike decided on the

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Speaker 1: final play of the game. I mean, that's insane, right,

450
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Speaker 1: There's so many moments just watching at home or at work.

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Speaker 1: I'm going you gotta be kidding me. I mean even

452
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Speaker 1: sometimes thea looked like the game was gonna be over

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Speaker 1: and you just didn't really give the other team a

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Speaker 1: chance to really make that run late, and then they did.

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Speaker 1: All right, Mike, But before we say goodbye to everybody,

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Speaker 1: let's go through some of the really fun records broken

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Speaker 1: in season. Twelve players this year who waited at least

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Speaker 1: three hundred pounds scored a touchdown, and Week sixteen, four

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Speaker 1: of them did it. In one single day. That's the

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Speaker 1: most in NFL history. Never before in NFL history have

461
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Speaker 1: four three hundred plus pounders scored a touchdown on one day.

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Speaker 1: That was Dallas is Terence Steele, the Jets, Connor McDermott,

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Speaker 1: the Eagles, Lane Johnson, and Jacksonville's Will Richardson. Okay, legit,

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Speaker 1: when you said all of those three pound guys, I

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Speaker 1: only knew one, and maybe most fans didn't know any

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Speaker 1: of them, or maybe the die hard ones that were watching,

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Speaker 1: you know what happened to be a Dallas fan or

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Speaker 1: Jets fan or Philly Farner Jack they would have known.

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Speaker 1: But I got to cover Connor McDermott when he was

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Speaker 1: in college at u c l A. I saw it.

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Speaker 1: I went nuts at home because he's like the nicest

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Speaker 1: dude ever. And actually one of our producers is a

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Speaker 1: Jets fan, and just because of that, we just thought

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Speaker 1: we would play the audio board and the fullback is

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Speaker 1: in fake from Wilson. Here they come Rolston to the ends, tuchsdown,

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Speaker 1: Tony mcderbot going there for the Jets. So much fun

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Speaker 1: to see those kind of plays to do right, it

478
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Speaker 1: was awesome. It was awesome. Also awesome to hear my

479
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Speaker 1: college buddy spireaud this on the call on that one

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Speaker 1: um a d D. You know, I actually teased this

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Speaker 1: colleagues and Lewis, I was hosting a radio show with him,

484
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485
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Speaker 1: trivia question, and I was ashamed because I can only

486
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Speaker 1: name two quarterbacks that could have been in the mix.

487
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Speaker 1: So I actually got it right, but that's just by

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Speaker 1: dumb luck. So I threw out this question about Notre

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Speaker 1: Dame quarterbacks and a d D one Ian book started

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Speaker 1: at QB for the Saints a Monday at football in

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Speaker 1: Week sixteen and lost. It was the four consecutive loss

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Speaker 1: for a Notre Dame quarterback in the NFL, which is

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Speaker 1: mind boggling. And here's some of the guys Ian book

494
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Speaker 1: Seawan Kaiser, Jimmy Clawson's one of those guys. Brady Quinn

495
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Speaker 1: the other one. So Red had asked me, He's like,

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Speaker 1: who's the last one to get a win? So I

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Speaker 1: was like, oh, maybe it's Jimmy, maybe it's Brady Quinn.

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Speaker 1: I went with Brady Quinn but it was Brady Quinn

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Speaker 1: and I actually had forgotten that he wore that Kansas

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Speaker 1: City uniform beat Cam Newton's Carolina squad back in twelve.

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00:27:06,026 --> 00:27:10,866
Speaker 1: It is wild. Oh it's my birthday. I remember that,

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Speaker 1: So you remember that exact moment. You're probably on a

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Speaker 1: football field somewhere covering a game on your birthday, knowing you.

504
00:27:16,786 --> 00:27:19,666
Speaker 1: But this is kind of wild. Notre Dame starting quarterbacks

505
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Speaker 1: during that game, losing streak, completion percentage, fifteen touchdown passes.

506
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Speaker 1: Oh dd, this is what's going to get it thirty

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Speaker 1: two picks. Well, here's another little lah fighting Irish nugget.

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Speaker 1: Before Tom Brady, a Michigan man came along, Notre Dame

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Speaker 1: actually had the most Super Bowl wins of any college

510
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Speaker 1: and that's because of Joe Montana and Joe Siseman, who incidentally,

511
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Speaker 1: when he was growing up in South River, New Jersey,

512
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Speaker 1: his name was pronounced Joe Theisman, and it's when he

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Speaker 1: went to Notre Dame and they wanted his name to

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Speaker 1: rhyme with Heisman that it became Oh good, No, I

515
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Speaker 1: didn't know that story. South River, New Jersey is right

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Speaker 1: next to East Brunswick, New Jersey, which is where I

517
00:28:06,306 --> 00:28:08,746
Speaker 1: grew up, so you know, these are things we just learned. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: things that you get on the NFL Explained podcast. That's

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Speaker 1: a bonus nugget for you fans and Cincinnati a DT.

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Speaker 1: They've had some up and down moments over the years.

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Speaker 1: Coming up here on the NFL Explain podcasts, I will

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Speaker 1: the NFL Explained Podcast, Mike Yam and indeed Kinkoboala with you.

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Speaker 1: All right, let's just continue jumping into some of these records.

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Speaker 1: All right, here's another bonus one. And I hate to

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Speaker 1: do this one as having grown up as a Giants

542
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Speaker 1: fan who wants to give roses to the Cowboys, But

543
00:29:38,946 --> 00:29:41,866
Speaker 1: we have to give roses to Dallas quarterback Dak Prescott

544
00:29:41,946 --> 00:29:46,706
Speaker 1: because week sixteen, he threw touchdown passes to a running

545
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Speaker 1: back Ezekiel Elliott, a tight end Dalton Schultz, an offensive

546
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Speaker 1: lineman Terrence Steele, and a wide receiver Amari Cooper. This

547
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Speaker 1: happened one time before, and it was our colleague and friend, who,

548
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Speaker 1: of course has also been one of our podcast guests,

549
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Speaker 1: Kurt Warner, who did it in got it done in

550
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Speaker 1: the playoffs. Speaking of getting get done in the playoffs,

551
00:30:06,786 --> 00:30:09,546
Speaker 1: my guy Rob Gronkowski got to give him some love,

552
00:30:09,626 --> 00:30:12,786
Speaker 1: passing Tony Gonzalez for the most career one hundred yard

553
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Speaker 1: games by a tight end in NFL history thirty two

554
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Speaker 1: of them at DV thirty two. That's just wild to me.

555
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Speaker 1: How about this one. You know who the first quarterback

556
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Speaker 1: is with a rushing touchdown in the first five games

557
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Speaker 1: he played, Uh, I'm back, Cam Newton. Cam Newton rejoined

558
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Speaker 1: the Panthers mid season and in his first five games back,

559
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Speaker 1: each of them featured a rushing touchdown and he was yelling,

560
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Speaker 1: I'm back, I'm back, which was kind of cool, except

561
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Speaker 1: that he went oh and five in those games. We

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Speaker 1: don't have to talk about that. So let's just let's

563
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Speaker 1: just take let's keep this thing positive here longest, all right?

564
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Speaker 1: We had the NFL had it's it's biggest season ever,

565
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Speaker 1: the longest day of football in the last fifty years,

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Speaker 1: from the London kickoff. If you missed our international show,

567
00:30:57,746 --> 00:30:59,466
Speaker 1: you gotta go back and check that one out. But

568
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Speaker 1: the London kickoff to the end of the Sunday night

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Speaker 1: football game fifteen hours and one minute back on October

570
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Speaker 1: t roller coaster of a day. Let me tell you

571
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Speaker 1: you know who else had a roller coaster of a season.

572
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Speaker 1: The Dolphins. They lost seven straight games and they also

573
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Speaker 1: won seven straight games. Talk about streaky. But can we

574
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Speaker 1: go to the guys that I spent a lot of

575
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Speaker 1: time with this year, one of them being rookie running

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Speaker 1: back Naji Harris. He of course was the Steeler's first

577
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Speaker 1: round pick, and I tweeted this the other day, three

578
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Speaker 1: hundred and eighty one touches without a single fumble. I

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Speaker 1: do have to say, Mike that when I tweeted this,

580
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Speaker 1: I said, because I'm sure Naji Harris doesn't believe in jinxes.

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Speaker 1: And then I share that that he is a first

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Speaker 1: rookie in NFL history to have three hundred rushes, to

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Speaker 1: have seventy receptions. He definitely got stronger as the year

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Speaker 1: went on, and every time we tried to talk to

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Speaker 1: him about his body hurting or what was going on,

586
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Speaker 1: he said, I am built for this. I train for this.

587
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Speaker 1: And then, of course, the guy who's most great full

588
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Speaker 1: that he had Nagi Harris on his team is Big

589
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Speaker 1: Ben Roethlisberger, who at some point is going to complete

590
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Speaker 1: his eighteenth season. You know, we said goodbye to him

591
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Speaker 1: in this epic Monday Night against the Browns at Hines

592
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Speaker 1: Field and then what was supposed to be his final

593
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Speaker 1: start in Baltimore, except the Steelers engineer this overtime when

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Speaker 1: over their rival Ravens, and then, as you talked about

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Speaker 1: earlier in the show, the Raiders kicked that game winning

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Speaker 1: field goal. And so now Ben Roethlisberger has at least

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Speaker 1: one more game against Kansas City. Whenever he does hang

598
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Speaker 1: it up, it will be the longest tenure for any

599
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Speaker 1: quarterback in NFL history with just one team. So he

600
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Speaker 1: has been a stealer from day one to whatever the

601
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Speaker 1: final day is now. Kicker Lou Groza did play twenty

602
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Speaker 1: one seasons with just one team, but he's a kicker,

603
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Speaker 1: not a quarterback, So there you go. The distinction there,

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Speaker 1: all right. I'm gonna leave everyone with this one. I

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Speaker 1: know we loved Joe Burrow. I want to give Cincinnati

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Speaker 1: fans even more reason for often miss him. The Bengals

607
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Speaker 1: first team in NFL history to have a four thousand

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Speaker 1: yard passer, a one thousand yard rusher, and two one

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Speaker 1: thousand yard receivers, all twenty five or younger in the

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Speaker 1: same season, Burrow, Mix and Chase Higgins. They got themselves

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Speaker 1: a nice little offensive core, a d D And with that,

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Speaker 1: I think we can kind of drop the mic on

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Speaker 1: the records right for the season for now, But you know,

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Speaker 1: the playoffs are just starting, so we may come back,

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Speaker 1: so we'll do a playoff edition. I'm still looking for

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Speaker 1: that episode on Tom Brady. Fifteen years from now, when

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Speaker 1: you retires me and you another edition. We may be retired.

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Speaker 1: We may be pushed a pastor by then, but not

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Speaker 1: Tom Brady. It's been a hack of a season. I'll

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Speaker 1: tell you this. I certainly appreciated the extra game. I'm

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Speaker 1: all about more football, and we have more football in

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Speaker 1: this playoff weekend. It's an amped up super wild Card weekend.

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Speaker 1: I hope everyone enjoys that weekend of football that a

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Speaker 1: d D made reference to enjoy the postseason. And of course,

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Speaker 1: if you've missed any of our fun episodes of the

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