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

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Speaker 2: That is right. It's a playoff edition of Fox Football

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Speaker 2: Saturday with Kevin Figures and Adam Auslin. Hit us up

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Speaker 2: on x A K fig one and at follow Adam

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Speaker 2: A thank you guys for joining us yet again. Adam Auslin,

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Speaker 2: we have.

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Speaker 3: One of those good shows for you guys tonight, a

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Speaker 3: playoff edition of fn A on Fox Football Saturday. Coming

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Speaker 3: up a little bit later, we'll preview the NFL first

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Speaker 3: round wild card games. Will also have a special guest on,

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Speaker 3: Jacob Robinson from The Athletic also like a cryptocurrency guy,

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Speaker 3: don't cheap so well.

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Speaker 2: Oh so you must have booked this one, Adam. This

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Speaker 2: is right up your alley.

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Speaker 3: Plots Twist it was you, it was me. I knew

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Speaker 3: it was you.

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Speaker 4: Uh.

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Speaker 3: And we'll also have Stranger than Fiction coming up later

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Speaker 3: in this hour plus, we'll tell you about our favorite

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Speaker 3: job openings or the best job openings from worse to first.

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Speaker 3: I think we're gonna do that.

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Speaker 5: Uch.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, we'll do worse to first and talk about all

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Speaker 2: the NFL job openings that are currently eight and could

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Speaker 2: potentially be more after this weekend. Potentially we'll see exactly

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Speaker 2: what happens with his wildcard round. You're out, let's not

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Speaker 2: necessarily believe that just because these teams make the postseason

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Speaker 2: that they are setting stone going into next year. There

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Speaker 2: is still much to be determined when it comes to

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Speaker 2: this NFL off season, Adam.

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Speaker 3: No one is safe, including a certain coach who lost

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Speaker 3: big in a college football game tonight. I would say,

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Speaker 3: that's wrong.

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Speaker 2: Really we're going here. You're one of those.

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Speaker 3: I'm upset you. Hey, you don't know what it's like

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Speaker 3: wearing this Oregon Ducks hat tonight.

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Speaker 2: Well, first of all, First of all, I've.

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Speaker 3: Never looked like a bigger fool, and that's saying something.

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Speaker 2: For the second week in a row. I'm gonna say

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Speaker 2: I'm not and I told you so, guy. But did

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Speaker 2: I tell you last week?

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Speaker 3: I didn't disagree with you? What am I supposed to do?

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Speaker 2: That's all right?

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Speaker 3: Happy my heart?

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Speaker 2: I said, Indiana ain't losing another game this season by

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Speaker 2: another I mean a game now fifteen to o is

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Speaker 2: Steve de Seger just told you on the top of

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Speaker 2: the hour update and they are absolutely mowing down people.

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Speaker 2: It was insane. They collapsed on Oregon from the jump,

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Speaker 2: literally the first snap of the game with the pick

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Speaker 2: six against Dante more unbelievable.

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Speaker 3: Honestly, I wasn't that concerned at that point. I'll be

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Speaker 3: honest with you.

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Speaker 2: Well, you know, they come back and the very next

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Speaker 2: drive he drives down and ties the score at seven

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Speaker 2: to seven. You're like, hey, all right, he got the

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Speaker 2: jitters out and we're good to go here.

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Speaker 3: You know what I texted my fellow Ducks fan, a

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Speaker 3: real one is I didn't even go there, nor did

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Speaker 3: I ever live there. I visited there once, but because

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Speaker 3: my Biola university obviously didn't have a football team, I

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Speaker 3: could be a free agent and the Ducks are my team.

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Speaker 3: I told him after that, Hey, we're looking good. Actually

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Speaker 3: it's tied up. You faced that adversity. You're never going

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Speaker 3: to be scared the rest of the game. The worst

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Speaker 3: thing happened, and you march right back down there and.

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Speaker 2: Tied it up at seven. All everything that would happened.

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Speaker 3: Everything's fine, everything's ever be fine.

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Speaker 5: If everything's perfectly all right, now, we're fine.

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Speaker 3: We're all fine here now, thank you? How are you?

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Speaker 3: I'll tell you what happened. The dog from duck Hunt

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Speaker 3: just started lating its ass off at me.

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Speaker 2: What I think is his name?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, did He's doing a dock on him next.

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Speaker 2: You know, reminded me, you know that, so you have

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Speaker 2: to get punt. They get the punt, they stop Indiana,

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Speaker 2: they punt the ball back to Oregon and they're backed

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Speaker 2: up on their own end. And then now I was

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Speaker 2: in attendance at the Rose Bowl for the very first

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Speaker 2: CFP game between a Florida State and your Oregon Ducks.

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Speaker 2: By the way, this was the Heisman show down between

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Speaker 2: Marcus Mariota and Jameis Winston.

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Speaker 3: Those were the days, Kevin.

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Speaker 2: And there was a play in that game where Jameis

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Speaker 2: mid air as if he was carrying a pie that

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Speaker 2: slipped out of his hands. This is the old Kalmbi

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Speaker 2: Brown trying to throw a cake at somebody and his

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Speaker 2: hands were so small and his grip was so terrible

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Speaker 2: not to his credit, the ball didn't slip out of

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Speaker 2: his hands. It was just an unfortunate situation where he

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Speaker 2: cocked his arm back and happened hit the running back

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Speaker 2: on the shoulder pad and the ball popped out Kevin.

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Speaker 3: Kevin, Yes, Unford situation, Well, that was historically unfortunate. I

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Speaker 3: don't think I've ever seen that in the game of

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Speaker 3: football at any level. I know they're down their running back,

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Speaker 3: Oregan's lucka They're always missing guys. It happens every single time.

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Speaker 3: It happened in twenty fourteen, it happened in twenty eleven

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Speaker 3: versus Auburn. Every time they get into these big games.

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Speaker 3: They are missing some of their big names out there,

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Speaker 3: and maybe that explains some of it. They weren't on

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Speaker 3: the same page. But I don't think I've ever seen

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Speaker 3: a quarterback drop back and have like his own tuck

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Speaker 3: that situation where he hit him in the head while

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Speaker 3: he's getting ready to pass. I've never seen that before.

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Speaker 2: We'll give all the credit in the world to Indiana,

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Speaker 2: but when you see plays like that happen in just

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Speaker 2: little bit of a team of destiny to a certain degree.

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Speaker 2: When you start having plays like that go your way.

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Speaker 3: You could still lose with a little bit of grace

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Speaker 3: out there and not get destroyed like that, just lose

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Speaker 3: by ten like you did at Austin. Now, this was

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Speaker 3: basically a road game for Oregon, and I'm fine with that.

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Speaker 3: Dan Lanning was fine with that. He said it should be.

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Speaker 1: It was.

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Speaker 3: You could tell there was like it was one hundred

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Speaker 3: to one. Every one hundred Indiana fans, there was one

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Speaker 2: But in that look, that place certainly didn't end the game.

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Speaker 2: I think at that point in time when Indiana scored

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Speaker 2: have made it seventeen to seven or something like that,

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Speaker 2: So it wasn't insurmountable, but it certainly put them in

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Speaker 2: an unfavorable position. But Oregon just got run over, got

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Speaker 2: held up pretty well at home earlier this season, the

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Speaker 2: offensive and defensive lines fairly comparable. That was not the

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Speaker 2: case on Friday night at all. Indiana dominated both fans

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Speaker 2: pretty much from start to finish, and maybe the second half.

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Speaker 2: You know, I kind of look at it as the

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Speaker 2: was already in doubt at that point in time, so whatever.

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Speaker 3: Things, Oregon became James Madison.

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Speaker 2: In the basically That's essentially what happened.

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Speaker 3: We were James Madison when compared to Indiana. That's how

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Speaker 3: bad it was out there, just trying to get some

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Speaker 3: And honestly, I know it's hyperbolic to talk about Dan Lanning.

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Speaker 3: He gets fired, he'll get a job anywhere else. I

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Speaker 3: don't want him to get fired, of course, but I

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Speaker 3: am starting to wonder with these trends of getting smoked

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Speaker 3: in big games. They took out Texas Tech. That was

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Speaker 3: a great win. They handled their business, they shut them out.

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Speaker 3: But you look back to the halftime score last year

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Speaker 2: Thirty four to eight. I believe it was Yeah, you.

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Speaker 3: Know what, this score was thirty five to seven and

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Speaker 3: a half. It was two points worse.

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Speaker 2: Well, look, I certainly understand why you'd be upset. And

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Speaker 2: he's been there for what four years now, I believe

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Speaker 2: it's been he's been the head coach at Oregon four

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Speaker 2: losses that he's had, so he's lost to Indiana twice.

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Speaker 2: Who's gonna play for the national championship. He lost to

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Speaker 2: Ohio State last year. Also beat Ohio State last year.

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Speaker 2: By the way, now granted he lost to Ohio State

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Speaker 2: when it mattered in the playoff. Last season they won

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Speaker 2: the National championship. Lost to Washington twice. Last year he

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Speaker 2: National Championship. And I guess the mulligans if you want

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Speaker 2: to give it to him. He lost to Oregon State

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Speaker 2: one season, so he's looting. Now, maybe you can use

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Speaker 2: to the big stage, the most important games, he always

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Speaker 2: comes up short. Does he not get any credit for

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Speaker 2: actually getting to that point?

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Speaker 3: Was this coming up short or was this coming up long?

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Speaker 3: As in the distance between your score and Indiana score

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Speaker 3: there was one hundred yards between you, Like they weren't

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Speaker 3: now when they are as talented even with their injuries

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Speaker 3: that is adjusting to losing the first game and making

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Speaker 3: sure they don't make the same mistakes again. Instead Orgon

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Speaker 3: mistakes were amplified in this game compared to what we

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Speaker 2: Well, I guess my question to you would be, if

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Speaker 2: you're going to fire Dan Lanning, I doing it. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: so who are you replacing him with?

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Speaker 2: I just wasn't get Nick Saban out of retirement, and

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Speaker 2: I don't think he's With all due respect to to Oregon,

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Speaker 2: I know they got a lot of money up there

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Speaker 2: with Phil Knight. I don't think that's happening. So what

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Speaker 2: direction are you going?

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Speaker 3: We're going up. We're going up, but we may lose

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Speaker 3: Dante more did he Did he make an announcement afterwards?

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Speaker 2: I don't know.

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Speaker 3: I didn't hear anything about that.

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Speaker 2: Is he had said the draft, he says he's not sure.

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Speaker 2: He has not made a decision yet.

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Speaker 3: How much money can they pay him an nil to

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Speaker 3: keep him there another season?

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Speaker 2: So here's the interesting thing, Adham, So the way that

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Speaker 2: the slotting works with salaries with quarterbacks, just in general,

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Speaker 2: the slotting with the NFL draft, I think the only

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Speaker 2: the guaranteed amount of money he can make just next year,

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Speaker 2: so not over the length of a contract, is about

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Speaker 2: the same amount of money that he can make it

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Speaker 2: organ if not slightly less. So he potentially could stay

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Speaker 3: That can be dangerous, though. Petros would say, but trying

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Speaker 3: to bite a real show. Now this was pre nil,

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Speaker 3: this is fifteen years ago. But he would say, this

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Speaker 3: is your occupation. If they're willing to pay you for it,

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Speaker 3: now you should go. You should go get paid to

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Speaker 3: do what you're planning on doing the rest of your life.

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Speaker 3: Someone is willing to pay you that money, and the

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Speaker 3: amount of money in the first round for the top

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Speaker 4: I just.

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Speaker 3: I would love for him to come back and redeem himself.

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Speaker 3: I don't know if that's likely, but you can make

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Speaker 2: it's different. Now. I can still make money next year

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Speaker 3: And there's also the insurance money in case they get injured.

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Speaker 2: Where we go again, and the problem is it transcends regimes.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and so they've had it's been a tough luck

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Speaker 2: we've seen this happen before. This was Clemson Donnal Sweeney

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Speaker 2: They're not doing anything that's illegal. They're doing everything that's

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Speaker 3: I told something about cops, but yeah, I know what

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Speaker 3: you know what compounds this. Mario Cristoball's in the championship

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, where was he the head coach previously?

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Speaker 3: I think if I look over my Ducktails episodes, yeah,

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Speaker 2: Well, I just want to say a little bit of

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Speaker 2: And you know the dominance that I look. I know

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Speaker 2: and he's right, Ashley, But we have to talk about

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Speaker 2: You talk about on precedent. This is the losing his

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Speaker 3: Did you hear Signetti postgame point out how it took

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Speaker 3: little Cinderella run. They won't be back. They took that

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Speaker 3: that's unfair. We don't know how we get through in

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Yeah, that's just how he's wired, you know, he

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Speaker 2: But if that's how the guy is wired and has

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Speaker 3: I think it's working.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, my man. In two playoff games, thirty one of

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Speaker 3: Yeah, you know why he hasn't had to throw much

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Speaker 3: I said immediately after that game, that was the best

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Speaker 3: Like it is an absolute nightmare. The faces he makes,

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Speaker 3: But the way he's talking right now post games, saying

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Speaker 2: You know that I don't but and Mark, I know

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Speaker 2: Like his whole Mont mantra of we play one play

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Speaker 3: They're perfecting process and it's leading to these results. Like

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Speaker 3: right now, and they're a buzzsaw. And if they go

438
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Speaker 3: on to smoke Miami by three touchdowns, then yeah, you

439
00:19:20,840 --> 00:19:23,040
Speaker 3: can feel a little bit better organ and not as

440
00:19:23,040 --> 00:19:25,880
Speaker 3: embarrassed as you do right now because you just ran

441
00:19:25,920 --> 00:19:28,160
Speaker 3: into the best team, just like last season. And maybe

442
00:19:28,160 --> 00:19:31,360
Speaker 3: that's all it is, but in the moment, it's painful.

443
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Speaker 3: It brings up a lot of bad memories. I'm thinking

444
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Speaker 3: about Garrett Punch to start off that season. I'm thinking

445
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Speaker 3: about when they lost to Auburn with Justin Herbert to

446
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Speaker 3: start off that season. A lot of these big losses

447
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Speaker 3: is not just to end the season. It's just disappointment

448
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Speaker 3: in big games overall for Oregon. So close but yet

449
00:19:48,440 --> 00:19:49,600
Speaker 3: so far is what it feels like.

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Speaker 2: Well, Indiana has a chance to win their first national

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Speaker 3: Kevin Up and Stranger than Fiction. Wild animals running amok Okay,

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Speaker 3: not that wild, but they're taking over our grocery stores.

483
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Speaker 3: Now we'll explain a little bit later. But Kevin, somebody

484
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Speaker 3: was unexpectedly fired.

485
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Speaker 2: Not to me, was it unexpected?

486
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Speaker 4: Though?

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Speaker 2: I don't know Kevin. Well, look so it was speculated

488
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Speaker 2: by a lot of people. I will say it took

489
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Speaker 2: a few people by surprise. So we're talking about John

490
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Speaker 2: Harball obviously, and we even talked about this a little

491
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Speaker 2: bit last weekend the AFC North Championship game between the

492
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Speaker 2: Steelers and the Ravens, and whoever lost that game, whether

493
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Speaker 2: or not they will be in danger of losing their job.

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Speaker 2: I think a lot of people thought that it could

495
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Speaker 2: happen with either of those guys. I think most people

496
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Speaker 2: felt that it wouldn't happen, So I guess there's at

497
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Speaker 2: least a little bit of shock there.

498
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Speaker 3: Well, when I brought it up after let me check

499
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Speaker 3: Week one when they lost to the Bills.

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Speaker 2: Which that game, yeah.

501
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Speaker 3: Never early, never wrong, just early.

502
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Speaker 2: One of us has made a gross era.

503
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Speaker 3: And I brought it up again the first game between

504
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Speaker 3: the Steelers and Ravens this season. I fully believed and

505
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Speaker 3: maybe I had the pulse of Ravens fans too much,

506
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Speaker 3: Raven Ryan, Raider, Ryan, Raven Ryan. But I had seen

507
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Speaker 3: the outrage about John Harbaugh all season long, and it

508
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Speaker 3: started in week one, which means they were already upset

509
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Speaker 3: with him going back years. This was a long time

510
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Speaker 3: coming and I don't want to say it was fair

511
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Speaker 3: or it was justified or whatever. I just understood why

512
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Speaker 3: it was done. And Lamar Jackson when he got up

513
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Speaker 3: post and this is no shade towards him, I would

514
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Speaker 3: have said the same thing probably, But postgame they asked

515
00:23:06,200 --> 00:23:11,240
Speaker 3: him about the future of him with the franchise and

516
00:23:11,280 --> 00:23:15,080
Speaker 3: a contract extension and then John Harbaugh, and he completely

517
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Speaker 3: deflected and said I'm still thinking about the game we

518
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Speaker 3: just got done, okay.

519
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Speaker 2: Which I think is commonplace, by the way, for a

520
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Speaker 2: lot of guys in situations like that.

521
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Speaker 3: It's fine, it's a tactic, or it could be sincere.

522
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Speaker 3: But either way, there was a moment, really his last

523
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Speaker 3: shot with the media to throw his confidence behind John Harbaugh,

524
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Speaker 3: his validation and say hey, this is my coach, this

525
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Speaker 3: is who I want here. And that didn't happen. I'm

526
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Speaker 3: not saying he needed to do that or he should

527
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Speaker 3: have done that. I'm just saying when that didn't happen,

528
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Speaker 3: I did raise an eyebrow and go, okay, I think

529
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Speaker 3: it's definitely on the table. Then for John Harbor to be.

530
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Speaker 2: Like oh, certainly didn't help with the rumors that were

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Speaker 2: floating around that John Harball was fed up with Lamar

532
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Speaker 2: Jackson and he was late to meetings or something like that,

533
00:24:01,440 --> 00:24:03,600
Speaker 2: and that there was an impasse between the two of them.

534
00:24:03,720 --> 00:24:06,320
Speaker 2: And then Todd Monkin, the offensive coordinator, came out and

535
00:24:06,320 --> 00:24:08,520
Speaker 2: even said that the communication between him and Lamar could

536
00:24:08,520 --> 00:24:10,840
Speaker 2: have been better, that their relationship was good, but it

537
00:24:10,840 --> 00:24:13,320
Speaker 2: could have always been better and there are some disconnects there,

538
00:24:13,320 --> 00:24:15,919
Speaker 2: and he took a lot of responsibility for Lamar not

539
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Speaker 2: performing as well as he could have performed this year.

540
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Speaker 2: I think a lot of that has to do with

541
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Speaker 2: Lamar Jackson just being banged up literally from head to

542
00:24:22,200 --> 00:24:26,159
Speaker 2: toe Steve McNair esque almost this past season. So I

543
00:24:26,200 --> 00:24:27,879
Speaker 2: guess a lot of blame to go around. But when

544
00:24:27,920 --> 00:24:30,440
Speaker 2: it comes to John Harball just in general, and Jacob

545
00:24:30,520 --> 00:24:32,720
Speaker 2: Robinson from the Athletic is going to join us next hour.

546
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Speaker 2: He did a really good piece talking about kind of

547
00:24:35,600 --> 00:24:38,879
Speaker 2: like the three chapters of John Harball's Baltimore tenure and

548
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Speaker 2: it's really interesting. So he went fifty four and twenty

549
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Speaker 2: six from twenty eighteen to twenty twelve, so that's when

550
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Speaker 2: he first got there, twenty and eight to twenty twelve.

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Speaker 2: Excuse me, Yeah, one at least one playoff game every year,

552
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Speaker 2: and of course twenty twelve was when they defeated his

553
00:24:52,800 --> 00:24:55,320
Speaker 2: brother in the San Francisco forty nine ers in that

554
00:24:55,560 --> 00:24:57,920
Speaker 2: controversial Super Bowl with the electricity going out.

555
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Speaker 3: In that whole situation, I'll Beyonce shut play down. I mean,

556
00:25:01,480 --> 00:25:05,360
Speaker 3: how it goes. She's overpowered and the places couldn't handle her.

557
00:25:05,680 --> 00:25:09,000
Speaker 2: So after that, from twenty thirteen to twenty seventeen, they

558
00:25:09,040 --> 00:25:12,640
Speaker 2: were five hundred and actually a lot of people don't

559
00:25:12,680 --> 00:25:14,720
Speaker 2: remember this after the twenties, and I certainly don't, I'll

560
00:25:14,720 --> 00:25:17,520
Speaker 2: be honest with you. After the twenty seventeen season, Steve Bushatti,

561
00:25:17,560 --> 00:25:19,880
Speaker 2: the owner, came out publicly and said that he considered

562
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Speaker 2: firing him after the season ended, but had a discussion

563
00:25:23,400 --> 00:25:25,760
Speaker 2: with him cooler heals prevailed to a certain degree and

564
00:25:25,800 --> 00:25:28,960
Speaker 2: decided to stick with him. Twenty eighteen, they draft Lamar

565
00:25:29,080 --> 00:25:30,560
Speaker 2: Jackson in the back end of the first round of

566
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Speaker 2: the draft, and they ended up going eighty six and

567
00:25:33,040 --> 00:25:36,359
Speaker 2: forty seven, third best record in the league over that

568
00:25:36,440 --> 00:25:40,000
Speaker 2: span from twenty eighteen to this past season. But they

569
00:25:40,040 --> 00:25:41,960
Speaker 2: were knocking on the door so many times but never

570
00:25:42,000 --> 00:25:45,080
Speaker 2: were able to break through. And then over this past season.

571
00:25:45,080 --> 00:25:47,320
Speaker 2: It just ended up being too much for me.

572
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Speaker 3: He's a hard guy to judge because you bring up

573
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Speaker 3: the quarterback play there, and when he had his quarterback

574
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Speaker 3: he was good. Now, that's how it is for most

575
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Speaker 3: NFL coaches. But there was that middle ground where Joe

576
00:26:01,240 --> 00:26:04,120
Speaker 3: Flacco was still there and he went forty and forty

577
00:26:04,320 --> 00:26:09,720
Speaker 3: correct that five hundred record over numerous years. My thing is,

578
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Speaker 3: I still remember how they won that Super Bowl in

579
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Speaker 3: twenty twelve. They won that Super Bowl by getting by

580
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Speaker 3: the Denver Broncos because Raheem Morris blew a coverage where

581
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Speaker 3: he let.

582
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Speaker 2: That's Raheem Moore, the safety, not more. Raheiem Morris doesn't

583
00:26:26,920 --> 00:26:28,560
Speaker 2: need to catch straights. He already lost his job.

584
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Speaker 3: We'll get to him in a little bit. My got

585
00:26:30,520 --> 00:26:34,280
Speaker 3: Raheem Moore out of UCLA got beat down the field

586
00:26:34,320 --> 00:26:38,600
Speaker 3: by Jacoby Ford Rip and it was the cardinal sin

587
00:26:38,680 --> 00:26:41,000
Speaker 3: of a safety. You have to be the last line

588
00:26:41,000 --> 00:26:43,760
Speaker 3: of defense. You can't let anyone go by you. And

589
00:26:44,440 --> 00:26:46,480
Speaker 3: it's as bad of a defensive play as you will

590
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Speaker 3: ever see. With thirty seconds left in the game. That's

591
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Speaker 3: how they ended up getting to the Super Bowl, which then,

592
00:26:52,440 --> 00:26:55,679
Speaker 3: as you point out, they're down in and somehow the

593
00:26:55,760 --> 00:26:59,879
Speaker 3: momentum flips after the power goes out and there's extend

594
00:27:00,040 --> 00:27:05,360
Speaker 3: did intermission going on? It was fluky, It was Joe Fluco.

595
00:27:05,600 --> 00:27:08,560
Speaker 3: It was the best he had ever played compared to

596
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Speaker 3: the rest of his career.

597
00:27:09,960 --> 00:27:12,040
Speaker 2: Wait, and I do like eleven touchdowns and no picks

598
00:27:12,040 --> 00:27:13,600
Speaker 2: in that Super Bowl run or something like that.

599
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Speaker 3: How much credit am I supposed to give John Harbaugh

600
00:27:16,560 --> 00:27:19,159
Speaker 3: for that? I don't know. Well, because he doesn't call

601
00:27:19,240 --> 00:27:21,879
Speaker 3: plays on offense, he doesn't call plays on defense. He

602
00:27:22,000 --> 00:27:25,760
Speaker 3: was a special teams guru that they hired. I'm not

603
00:27:25,800 --> 00:27:30,040
Speaker 3: saying he's a bad coach, but I completely understand why

604
00:27:30,080 --> 00:27:32,360
Speaker 3: you want to move on after this season, or even

605
00:27:32,400 --> 00:27:33,919
Speaker 3: if they want to after last season.

606
00:27:34,200 --> 00:27:37,120
Speaker 2: Yeah. Well, the question is, and look, even after twenty seventeen,

607
00:27:37,160 --> 00:27:38,920
Speaker 2: when you had that lean run, It's like, how much

608
00:27:39,000 --> 00:27:41,280
Speaker 2: does whether you want to call it flukey, whether you

609
00:27:41,400 --> 00:27:44,200
Speaker 2: earned it, whatever you want to call it, how much

610
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Speaker 2: leeway or lee? How long of at least do you

611
00:27:46,520 --> 00:27:48,680
Speaker 2: get if you win a Super Bowl as a head coach?

612
00:27:48,720 --> 00:27:50,880
Speaker 2: How much should you get? Now if you look back

613
00:27:50,920 --> 00:27:53,480
Speaker 2: over history and his recent history, just thinking about you know,

614
00:27:53,520 --> 00:27:56,720
Speaker 2: Mike McCarthy got eight additional years after he won that

615
00:27:56,760 --> 00:27:58,119
Speaker 2: Super Bowl with the Green Bay Packers.

616
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Speaker 3: That bought him a lot of time.

617
00:27:59,480 --> 00:28:02,640
Speaker 2: Yeah, Pete Carroll after winning a super Bowl and then

618
00:28:02,680 --> 00:28:06,040
Speaker 2: losing a Super Bowl had I believe seven additional actually

619
00:28:06,119 --> 00:28:09,359
Speaker 2: nine additional seasons after that. So it kind of gets

620
00:28:09,400 --> 00:28:11,880
Speaker 2: you a little bit of a longer leash. And look,

621
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Speaker 2: I think I understand it because there's a sentimental aspect

622
00:28:14,960 --> 00:28:17,840
Speaker 2: to it too. Like winning super Bowls, winning championships at

623
00:28:17,840 --> 00:28:21,240
Speaker 2: any level is hard. It's extremely difficult to do. So

624
00:28:21,320 --> 00:28:23,360
Speaker 2: if you're able to finally break through and do it,

625
00:28:23,800 --> 00:28:26,040
Speaker 2: I can understand if your ownership, if you're a general

626
00:28:26,080 --> 00:28:28,960
Speaker 2: manager convincing yourself, this guy was able to get the

627
00:28:29,000 --> 00:28:31,720
Speaker 2: formula together once, why can't he do it again. Let's

628
00:28:31,720 --> 00:28:34,159
Speaker 2: give him every opportunity to be able to do that.

629
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Speaker 2: The question is how many opportunities? Is too many opportunities?

630
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Speaker 2: And maybe it's just unique to every single situation.

631
00:28:41,000 --> 00:28:43,560
Speaker 3: This one is especially unique because you have a twenty

632
00:28:43,640 --> 00:28:46,600
Speaker 3: nine year old quarterback who's due for a contract extension,

633
00:28:46,640 --> 00:28:50,560
Speaker 3: who has won multiple MVPs with different offensive coordinators, and

634
00:28:50,640 --> 00:28:52,600
Speaker 3: if there is a rift or skiz them behind the

635
00:28:52,640 --> 00:28:55,640
Speaker 3: scene between them two. And it's a decision between Lamar

636
00:28:55,760 --> 00:28:59,160
Speaker 3: Jackson and a sixty three year old head coach and

637
00:28:59,280 --> 00:29:02,160
Speaker 3: John Harbor that had been there for seventeen eighteen years.

638
00:29:02,480 --> 00:29:06,040
Speaker 3: That's not much of a decision. That's easy. Like the

639
00:29:06,120 --> 00:29:09,720
Speaker 3: majority of their success, when things are going well, it

640
00:29:09,840 --> 00:29:14,920
Speaker 3: is Lamar again. John Harbrough's not calling plays on either side.

641
00:29:15,360 --> 00:29:18,880
Speaker 3: How many great motivational speeches has he given that have

642
00:29:18,920 --> 00:29:20,880
Speaker 3: gotten them over the hump. When they got over the hump,

643
00:29:21,200 --> 00:29:25,600
Speaker 3: it was Joe Flacco going super nova, That's what it was.

644
00:29:25,680 --> 00:29:28,320
Speaker 3: It was also, oh, by the way, somebody had some

645
00:29:28,400 --> 00:29:32,880
Speaker 3: deer antler spray in Ray Lewis and we forget about

646
00:29:32,880 --> 00:29:37,880
Speaker 3: that too. That was very unique. That was an absolute outlier.

647
00:29:38,360 --> 00:29:41,400
Speaker 3: And since then they've come up short a ton. And

648
00:29:41,640 --> 00:29:44,440
Speaker 3: what I pointed out early in the season, and what

649
00:29:44,800 --> 00:29:48,280
Speaker 3: has been following this story ever since, was how many

650
00:29:48,360 --> 00:29:50,720
Speaker 3: close games they have lost over the last five or

651
00:29:50,760 --> 00:29:55,360
Speaker 3: six years. Nobody has blown more leads than John Harbaugh's Ravens.

652
00:29:55,520 --> 00:29:58,760
Speaker 3: It's not close. That's what happened against the Bills. It

653
00:29:58,840 --> 00:30:01,640
Speaker 3: continued to happen against Patriots late in the season, against

654
00:30:01,720 --> 00:30:05,600
Speaker 3: Drake May. This is a through line in the last

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Speaker 3: five to six years in his tenure. And when you

656
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Speaker 3: underperform and you keep losing close games, I completely get

657
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Speaker 3: why they would want to move on, especially if your

658
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Speaker 3: quarterback isn't throwing his weight behind this guy or his

659
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Speaker 3: photo confidence and support behind him.

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Speaker 6: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Well, I also don't want to necessarily like hold it

662
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Speaker 2: against him that he's not calling plays, because there's more

663
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Speaker 2: value to a head coach than being able to do

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Speaker 2: the x's and o's and calling. Several successful head coaches

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Speaker 2: throughout the years Bill Belichick did didn't call plays in

666
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Speaker 2: New England. A couple of times he did, but generally speaking,

667
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Speaker 2: he had coordinators and he you know, did the mental

668
00:30:42,040 --> 00:30:43,720
Speaker 2: part of the game and managing the clock and all

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Speaker 2: that stuff. So there's more value there. But to your point, you.

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Speaker 3: Tell me how good John Harbaugh manages the clock because

671
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Speaker 3: about that.

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Speaker 2: Well not well, so, to be honest with you, especially

673
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Speaker 2: if you're talking about losing close games those things on

674
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Speaker 2: the margin. That's something. By the way, if I mentioned

675
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Speaker 2: Bill Belichick, at least when the Patriots are in there,

676
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Speaker 2: was masterful at absolutely masterful at being able to.

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Speaker 3: Do And I get and you brought this up, and

678
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Speaker 3: you're right if you fire a guy and he has

679
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Speaker 3: a job the next day. It's that type of candidate.

680
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Speaker 3: You may want to have some pause and consider that.

681
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Speaker 3: But I thought back to Doc Rivers being fired by

682
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Speaker 3: the Clippers two weeks after they lost in the Bubble

683
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Speaker 3: and blew a three to one lead to the Denver

684
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Speaker 3: Nuggets back in twenty twenty, and Doc Rivers ended up

685
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Speaker 3: getting a job right after that with Philadelphia with the

686
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Speaker 3: seventy six ers. Did that mean the Clippers made the

687
00:31:35,720 --> 00:31:37,920
Speaker 3: wrong move or a team makes the wrong move just

688
00:31:37,960 --> 00:31:40,520
Speaker 3: because that coach has a job waiting for them because

689
00:31:41,000 --> 00:31:43,840
Speaker 3: their scene is that good and they have that much

690
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Speaker 3: credibility because of what they've done in the past. No, Sometimes,

691
00:31:48,800 --> 00:31:52,360
Speaker 3: like things run in cycle, it gets stale and you

692
00:31:52,520 --> 00:31:53,400
Speaker 3: just have to move on.

693
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Speaker 2: A parting of ways is not always looked. I think

694
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Speaker 2: the Philadelphia Eagles in the long run, it was probably

695
00:31:58,840 --> 00:32:00,920
Speaker 2: better for them and better for Andy Reid that they

696
00:32:00,960 --> 00:32:03,320
Speaker 2: parted ways, even though it was controversial at the time,

697
00:32:03,320 --> 00:32:05,440
Speaker 2: and he had such a great run of success. Look

698
00:32:05,440 --> 00:32:07,320
Speaker 2: at what he's doing in Kansas City. And the Eagles

699
00:32:07,360 --> 00:32:09,600
Speaker 2: certainly made it to a couple of more Super Bowls,

700
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Speaker 2: one two of them with two different head coaches since

701
00:32:11,960 --> 00:32:14,840
Speaker 2: Andy Reid has left. Bill Walsh had a great quote

702
00:32:14,840 --> 00:32:16,640
Speaker 2: back in the day. He says, after ten or eleven

703
00:32:16,720 --> 00:32:18,760
Speaker 2: years as a head coach, it's time for time for

704
00:32:18,800 --> 00:32:21,240
Speaker 2: you to move on. Your message starts getting stale in

705
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Speaker 2: the locker room, and you know, look at guys like Tomlin,

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00:32:23,640 --> 00:32:26,400
Speaker 2: look at guys like Harball, whether the message gets stale,

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Speaker 2: whether they just need a kick in the pants and

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Speaker 2: they get too comfortable, whatever it is. I do think

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Speaker 2: oftentimes a parting of ways can be beneficial for both.

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Speaker 2: I think John Harball can get a new job somewhere else,

711
00:32:36,680 --> 00:32:41,000
Speaker 2: whether it's Miami or elsewhere, and thrive and get rejuvenated

712
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Speaker 2: and maybe rethink some of the things he's done the

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00:32:42,680 --> 00:32:45,360
Speaker 2: past twelve thirteen years as a head coach and actually

714
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Speaker 2: be better for it. And I think Baltimore in turn

715
00:32:47,560 --> 00:32:48,800
Speaker 2: can also be better for it.

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Speaker 3: And I don't want to make it seem like everybody

717
00:32:52,400 --> 00:32:55,000
Speaker 3: else is blameless and this is all on John Harbaugh.

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00:32:57,200 --> 00:33:00,640
Speaker 3: Lamar Jackson deserves a lot of blame. Last five to

719
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Speaker 3: six years.

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Speaker 2: Well playoff Lamar, especially as he.

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Speaker 3: Is available or not. It has been up and down,

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Speaker 3: and John Harball didn't drop that pass like Mark Andrews

723
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Speaker 3: did last season. That's not on him. So I don't

724
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Speaker 3: mean to turn this into you know, just piling on

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Speaker 3: with John Harball with one person. But again, if you're

726
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Speaker 3: making a decision between him and Lamar Jackson, that's not

727
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Speaker 3: much of a decision right now.

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Speaker 2: It's always going to be the star player over the coach,

729
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Speaker 2: almost always. Now, I did see this earlier, and this

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Speaker 2: is a report from ESPN Cleveland. It hasn't been confirmed

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Speaker 2: of what John Harball is potentially looking for in his

732
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Speaker 2: next job. He wants twenty million dollars per year, which

733
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Speaker 2: is insane, which makes it which just based on that

734
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Speaker 2: just seems pretty ridiculous. So I don't know how reputable

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Speaker 2: this is, but twenty million dollars per year total authority

736
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Speaker 2: over the roster, that's not totally you know, out of

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Speaker 2: the realm of possibility. A lot of head coaches want

738
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Speaker 2: to have final say over the fifty three men roster. Yea.

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Speaker 2: And he would like to select his own general manager. Now,

740
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Speaker 2: John Harbor was in Baltimore for a long period of time,

741
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Speaker 2: one of the best front offices I think in all

742
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Speaker 2: of sports.

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00:34:05,480 --> 00:34:06,160
Speaker 3: Yeah, we were.

744
00:34:06,040 --> 00:34:08,440
Speaker 2: Talking about Ozzie Newsom who stepped down as a GM

745
00:34:08,480 --> 00:34:10,000
Speaker 2: a few years ago, but it's still in there as

746
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Speaker 2: kind of a voice to Eric Acosta, their general manager.

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Speaker 2: He's always worked under them, John Harpball's never had personnel

748
00:34:16,640 --> 00:34:19,440
Speaker 2: decisions decisions under his under his wing. So now all

749
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Speaker 2: of a sudden, you want to be the head coach.

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Speaker 2: You want to be the highest has paid head coach

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Speaker 2: in the entire league, and you want personnel decisions, which

752
00:34:25,800 --> 00:34:28,200
Speaker 2: is something you have never had. And we just spent

753
00:34:28,239 --> 00:34:31,040
Speaker 2: the last ten minutes talking about your shortcomings. I don't

754
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Speaker 2: know if that's something I'm willing to give you.

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Speaker 3: I don't know if I am, but some team will.

756
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Speaker 3: I think all it takes is one Andy Reid makes

757
00:34:38,440 --> 00:34:40,799
Speaker 3: twenty million or somewhere close or something like that, so

758
00:34:40,880 --> 00:34:44,279
Speaker 3: he wants top of the line money, his money. Hell,

759
00:34:44,520 --> 00:34:48,919
Speaker 3: Jacksonville basically blew out their GM last season to bring

760
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Speaker 3: in their new head coach, even though it was a

761
00:34:51,680 --> 00:34:55,080
Speaker 3: first time head coach. He made demands like that. You

762
00:34:55,160 --> 00:34:57,680
Speaker 3: might as well make these demands and then see what

763
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Speaker 3: they counter with. Yeah, that's your start point and fault

764
00:35:01,480 --> 00:35:03,440
Speaker 3: him at all. Both sides give a little bit and

765
00:35:03,480 --> 00:35:07,280
Speaker 3: you make the deal happen. But he is by far

766
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Speaker 3: at least the biggest name on the market in this

767
00:35:10,320 --> 00:35:13,719
Speaker 3: coaching cycle. So he's in a position of power right now.

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Speaker 2: No doubt, no doubt. He look if he wants If

769
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Speaker 2: he wants a job this coaching cycle, which is brother

770
00:35:17,800 --> 00:35:20,759
Speaker 2: Jim says, he most definitely does, He's gonna get one.

771
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Speaker 2: And if that means that a open coaching position, they

772
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Speaker 2: need to blow out their general manager to bring him into.

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Speaker 2: I think several of these situations would absolutely do that

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Speaker 2: for him.

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Speaker 3: All right, coming up, we'll talk about more of the

776
00:35:31,640 --> 00:35:34,720
Speaker 3: coaching openings and what we think are the best destinations

777
00:35:34,719 --> 00:35:37,040
Speaker 3: and what we think of the worst are. But coming

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Speaker 3: up next Stranger than fiction. Uh, it's a bit of

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Speaker 3: a Noah's arctail. I'm Ada mosled He's Kevin figures, this

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Speaker 3: is FNA.

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

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00:35:56,360 --> 00:35:59,759
Speaker 2: I see you guys to drop by FNA Cotton at

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Speaker 2: the welcome back to the Fox Sports Radio studios. Kevin

784
00:36:02,920 --> 00:36:06,320
Speaker 2: figures Adam Austin with you guys here on Fox Football Saturday.

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00:36:06,400 --> 00:36:08,920
Speaker 2: Coming up next hour, we will rank the NFL head

786
00:36:09,000 --> 00:36:12,680
Speaker 2: coaching openings from worse to first. But right now, Adam,

787
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Speaker 2: let's get to it a fast.

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Speaker 7: From customer defending critcision after her McDonald's ran out of

789
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Speaker 7: the McNuggets.

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Speaker 6: He can't give a drunk man riding a horse at

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Speaker 6: Ewis he got Unlike cars, words don't have motors.

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Speaker 2: They have a mind in their own. Twenty four year.

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Speaker 3: Old man occus they're throwing an alligator through a drive

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Speaker 3: through window.

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Speaker 2: Are Stangel.

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Speaker 3: So I grew up in northern California, so I was

797
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Speaker 3: familiar with animals, livestock and pets alike. I grew up

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Speaker 3: on what you may call a gentleman's farm where I

799
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Speaker 3: want to drink a lot of gentlemen's jack.

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Speaker 2: I need no I thought it was like the sheep

801
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Speaker 2: like to get on the pole? Am I doing? Just

802
00:37:00,239 --> 00:37:01,880
Speaker 2: started doing some tricks or something like, I don't know

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Speaker 2: what you mean. That's a new one for me. I

804
00:37:06,600 --> 00:37:07,840
Speaker 2: don't know what. I don't know what you guys do

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00:37:07,920 --> 00:37:08,920
Speaker 2: up there in North cal Adam.

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Speaker 3: So, you know, we had a real Noah's Arc situation

807
00:37:13,320 --> 00:37:16,960
Speaker 3: going on where the Osland's back in the Camelot days,

808
00:37:17,000 --> 00:37:21,280
Speaker 3: we had two horses, two dogs, two cats, two goats,

809
00:37:21,840 --> 00:37:25,319
Speaker 3: and two fish. Sometimes they died a lot, but we

810
00:37:25,360 --> 00:37:27,279
Speaker 3: did have a lot of rabbits. I don't know if

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Speaker 3: there was an even number there, because they breed like rabbits,

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00:37:30,600 --> 00:37:34,160
Speaker 3: and my sister she used to show the rabbits where.

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00:37:34,200 --> 00:37:36,279
Speaker 3: You know, you'd get the blue ribbon if you had

814
00:37:36,280 --> 00:37:39,520
Speaker 3: a hot rabbit like Lola Bunny. Hello, what have we

815
00:37:39,680 --> 00:37:40,760
Speaker 3: here again?

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Speaker 2: I don't know what the hell you guys are doing

817
00:37:42,239 --> 00:37:45,000
Speaker 2: up there a North cal On. Your ranches got hot rabbits,

818
00:37:45,040 --> 00:37:46,960
Speaker 2: You got stripping sheep. I don't know what's going on.

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Speaker 3: You get the shears out. The one thing we didn't have, though,

820
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Speaker 3: was cows or sheep, who you'd also see at four

821
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Speaker 3: h or a state fair, or at a grocery store

822
00:38:02,040 --> 00:38:09,240
Speaker 3: in Germany where just earlier today a flock of fifty

823
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Speaker 3: sheep escape from their shepherd or sheep dog. That's a

824
00:38:14,000 --> 00:38:18,759
Speaker 3: bad sheep dog and entered a supermarket. We got some

825
00:38:18,800 --> 00:38:21,560
Speaker 3: fresh lamb chops and goat's milk on special.

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Speaker 2: Here on Nile five, I guess bo peoples asleep at

827
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Speaker 2: the switch home that's going on.

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Speaker 3: It was that Penny supermarket in Bergsen, Lower Franknia. It's

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Speaker 3: German Central Germany is where this supermarket was, Penny Supermarket.

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Speaker 3: There's even video of them scurrying in to the Penny

831
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Speaker 3: supermarket all these sheep, And really the issue isn't so

832
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Speaker 3: much they're eating all the produce.

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Speaker 2: That would be my first thing.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, well maybe they did some of that, because then

835
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Speaker 3: eventually they just start crapping everywhere.

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Speaker 5: There.

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Speaker 2: That's the next one.

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Speaker 3: This is not the petting zoo you want to be at.

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00:39:05,200 --> 00:39:08,120
Speaker 3: Those sheep were pooping. I would make the sheep herder

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Speaker 3: clean that stuff up if it was my store. Yeah,

841
00:39:11,120 --> 00:39:14,400
Speaker 3: this is his fault. Like those may look like pellets,

842
00:39:14,440 --> 00:39:17,880
Speaker 3: but do not mistake them for candy. So the shepherd's

843
00:39:17,960 --> 00:39:22,880
Speaker 3: name is Niatur Mickler. He said the sheep had broken

844
00:39:22,920 --> 00:39:26,360
Speaker 3: away from the larger flock, and Mickler said the sheep

845
00:39:26,520 --> 00:39:29,840
Speaker 3: had apparently been distracted by acorns on the ground in

846
00:39:29,880 --> 00:39:32,600
Speaker 3: front of the store's parking lot, and then they went

847
00:39:32,640 --> 00:39:36,879
Speaker 3: inside in search of more snacks. But in the end

848
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Speaker 3: they returned safely to the flock.

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Speaker 2: Oh thank goodness. But what about all the crap.

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Speaker 3: If I'm the store owner, I'm dropping a few flocks,

851
00:39:46,080 --> 00:39:49,000
Speaker 3: if you know what I mean, Like, I gotta I

852
00:39:49,080 --> 00:39:50,040
Speaker 3: need some new clothes.

853
00:39:50,320 --> 00:39:53,240
Speaker 2: That's going on over here, because what's the barter system

854
00:39:53,239 --> 00:39:54,799
Speaker 2: look like? Here playing what are we doing?

855
00:39:54,880 --> 00:39:57,600
Speaker 3: I don't care about the insurance covering for all of this.

856
00:39:57,719 --> 00:40:01,240
Speaker 3: Who's cleaning this s up? If you thought that raccoon

857
00:40:01,239 --> 00:40:04,480
Speaker 3: that broke into the liquor store a month ago made

858
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Speaker 3: a mess, you should check out the video of the

859
00:40:06,719 --> 00:40:10,359
Speaker 3: fifty sheep going through the liquor aisle, just knocking down

860
00:40:10,400 --> 00:40:13,320
Speaker 3: all that booze, like bowling a china shop. How about

861
00:40:13,360 --> 00:40:15,840
Speaker 3: fifty sheep in a supermarket.

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00:40:16,080 --> 00:40:18,040
Speaker 2: This guy's trying to blame the supermarket, Well, they had

863
00:40:18,040 --> 00:40:20,840
Speaker 2: acorns out front. Really, how about you control your freaking

864
00:40:20,920 --> 00:40:23,160
Speaker 2: flock tells wrong? What kind of shepherd are you?

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Speaker 3: This was absolute wreckage. You look at the place, it's

866
00:40:27,760 --> 00:40:32,320
Speaker 3: zombie apocalypse with how the supermarket ends up looking after

867
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Speaker 3: the sheep got done with it, like you thought you

868
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Speaker 3: just bought some zombies here in that type of thing.

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Speaker 3: World War Z's going on, walking dead and you find

870
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Speaker 3: this dilapidated supermarket. That's that's how they left it.

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Speaker 2: That's ridiculous, absolutely ridiculous.

872
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Speaker 3: That's Germany for you.

873
00:40:50,080 --> 00:40:51,080
Speaker 2: That's what the Germans do.

874
00:40:51,400 --> 00:40:53,200
Speaker 3: That there's sheep running up what happened to a hot

875
00:40:53,239 --> 00:40:54,160
Speaker 3: wire fence man?

876
00:40:54,480 --> 00:41:06,160
Speaker 2: There's a little cruel theresrt con tinues next. That's right,

877
00:41:06,200 --> 00:41:09,239
Speaker 2: hour two of Fox Football Saturday with fn A. I

878
00:41:09,280 --> 00:41:11,400
Speaker 2: am Kevin figures here Adam also Lyne hit us up

879
00:41:11,400 --> 00:41:14,880
Speaker 2: on x at kfig one and at follow Adam A

880
00:41:15,080 --> 00:41:17,759
Speaker 2: coming up in about twenty minutes or so, will be

881
00:41:17,840 --> 00:41:21,480
Speaker 2: joined by Jacob Robinson covers the NFL for The Athletic

882
00:41:21,520 --> 00:41:24,440
Speaker 2: will dive into some of these NFL coaching openings as

883
00:41:24,440 --> 00:41:28,479
Speaker 2: well as a pretty big NFL Wildcard weekend that kicks

884
00:41:28,520 --> 00:41:31,920
Speaker 2: off this afternoon in Carolina, which I'm sure Adam is

885
00:41:32,040 --> 00:41:33,360
Speaker 2: very very excited about.

886
00:41:33,800 --> 00:41:37,880
Speaker 3: No, I'm not. When a team that is on the

887
00:41:38,040 --> 00:41:41,719
Speaker 3: road in the first round that is supposed to be

888
00:41:41,800 --> 00:41:44,640
Speaker 3: a five seed is playing a four seed who has

889
00:41:44,680 --> 00:41:48,399
Speaker 3: home field advantage, and yet the team with home field

890
00:41:48,440 --> 00:41:53,480
Speaker 3: advantage they're ten point dogs. That tells you the system

891
00:41:53,560 --> 00:41:54,359
Speaker 3: is broken.

892
00:41:55,440 --> 00:41:57,840
Speaker 2: An indictment on the NFL playoff format.

893
00:41:58,080 --> 00:42:01,120
Speaker 3: It's ridiculous, and I'm a panther, and it's a joke.

894
00:42:02,400 --> 00:42:05,840
Speaker 3: It's not funny. They shouldn't be in the playoffs. I

895
00:42:05,880 --> 00:42:08,440
Speaker 3: don't need this false hope. I don't need them pretending

896
00:42:08,760 --> 00:42:11,120
Speaker 3: that Brian Young is a good quarterback because they went

897
00:42:11,200 --> 00:42:14,280
Speaker 3: eight to nine and somehow made it. It's only delaying

898
00:42:14,320 --> 00:42:14,960
Speaker 3: the inevitable.

899
00:42:15,239 --> 00:42:17,560
Speaker 2: At the very least, if you're gonna make the playoffs,

900
00:42:17,800 --> 00:42:19,560
Speaker 2: this game should be in LA. It should not be

901
00:42:19,600 --> 00:42:22,560
Speaker 2: in Carolina. Give the team that the best record at

902
00:42:22,560 --> 00:42:25,000
Speaker 2: the home field. I don't think that's too much to ask.

903
00:42:24,840 --> 00:42:26,440
Speaker 3: In I could go to the game out here. Actually,

904
00:42:26,480 --> 00:42:28,840
Speaker 3: that's pretty sweet. I've never seen a Panthers game in person.

905
00:42:28,920 --> 00:42:31,000
Speaker 2: Yeah, you could be disappointed in person, to be perfect,

906
00:42:32,440 --> 00:42:35,840
Speaker 2: all right, Speaking of people disappointed, well, some head coaches

907
00:42:35,880 --> 00:42:37,799
Speaker 2: were this week you're out.

908
00:42:38,280 --> 00:42:41,120
Speaker 3: They were let go. In fact, at one point, what

909
00:42:41,200 --> 00:42:44,040
Speaker 3: was interesting was, what do we have seven open jobs now?

910
00:42:44,120 --> 00:42:46,400
Speaker 2: Kevin Well, it is now eight that the Miami Dolphins

911
00:42:46,400 --> 00:42:48,520
Speaker 2: have thrown their hat into the ring as of Tuesday

912
00:42:48,520 --> 00:42:49,800
Speaker 2: afternoon with Mike McDaniel.

913
00:42:49,840 --> 00:42:54,120
Speaker 3: Okay, wait a second. At one point there were six openings,

914
00:42:54,680 --> 00:42:59,520
Speaker 3: but seven teams called about John Harbas supposedly. I think

915
00:42:59,520 --> 00:43:00,960
Speaker 3: that was an chefter report.

916
00:43:01,000 --> 00:43:01,960
Speaker 2: That was a chefter report.

917
00:43:02,000 --> 00:43:04,120
Speaker 3: Yeah, well, I wonder who that other team was. Maybe

918
00:43:04,120 --> 00:43:07,279
Speaker 3: it was the Miami Dolphins now let go of their

919
00:43:07,280 --> 00:43:10,320
Speaker 3: head coach. I don't know, just reading tea leaves.

920
00:43:10,120 --> 00:43:12,279
Speaker 2: Here, just just guessing, you know, you never know.

921
00:43:12,640 --> 00:43:15,640
Speaker 3: Charlie Dannett with the whiteboard and the FBI, you know,

922
00:43:15,880 --> 00:43:19,080
Speaker 3: string and the tax and all that. All right, So

923
00:43:19,160 --> 00:43:22,759
Speaker 3: we're gonna talk about the NFL coaching changes going on,

924
00:43:22,920 --> 00:43:25,960
Speaker 3: from worst to first best jobs that have opened up

925
00:43:25,960 --> 00:43:27,080
Speaker 3: this week, that's right.

926
00:43:27,600 --> 00:43:29,960
Speaker 2: I will start with what I feel like is the

927
00:43:30,000 --> 00:43:32,759
Speaker 2: worst job that is available right now, and that is

928
00:43:32,800 --> 00:43:36,040
Speaker 2: the Arizona Cardinals. Oh yeah, I like Trey McBride, I

929
00:43:36,120 --> 00:43:39,239
Speaker 2: like Michael Wilson. And that's kind of it, to be

930
00:43:39,239 --> 00:43:41,759
Speaker 2: honest with you. It's gonna be make or break here

931
00:43:41,840 --> 00:43:44,040
Speaker 2: soon for the next couple of seasons here with Marvin Harrison.

932
00:43:44,080 --> 00:43:46,759
Speaker 2: Guy can't stay healthy, guys dropping passes left and right.

933
00:43:47,239 --> 00:43:49,879
Speaker 2: But the defense took a humongous step back this year

934
00:43:49,920 --> 00:43:52,720
Speaker 2: after last year under Jonathan Gannon, who was a defensive

935
00:43:52,760 --> 00:43:54,799
Speaker 2: coordinator for the Philadelphia Eagles when they went to the

936
00:43:54,800 --> 00:43:57,879
Speaker 2: Super Bowl. And they've really fallen off. They really fell

937
00:43:57,880 --> 00:44:00,680
Speaker 2: off big time of this past season. And Kylin Murray

938
00:44:00,680 --> 00:44:03,600
Speaker 2: counting for almost forty million dollars against the cap next year,

939
00:44:03,960 --> 00:44:06,120
Speaker 2: regardless of whether he's on the roster or not. Now,

940
00:44:06,160 --> 00:44:09,000
Speaker 2: if he's on the roster after March first, an additional

941
00:44:09,040 --> 00:44:11,040
Speaker 2: twenty million dollars is going to count against the cap,

942
00:44:11,120 --> 00:44:13,520
Speaker 2: so they're probably gonna end up cutting him loose and

943
00:44:13,680 --> 00:44:16,799
Speaker 2: just eating forty million dollars against their salary cap next year.

944
00:44:17,200 --> 00:44:19,400
Speaker 2: And this is hard because what do you do at

945
00:44:19,400 --> 00:44:21,920
Speaker 2: the quarterback position. They might be forced to just have

946
00:44:21,960 --> 00:44:24,640
Speaker 2: to ride out Jacobe Brissett as a bridge guy until

947
00:44:24,640 --> 00:44:26,399
Speaker 2: they figure this thing out and get their books right

948
00:44:26,440 --> 00:44:28,560
Speaker 2: for the for the next season. Yeah, I don't think

949
00:44:28,560 --> 00:44:30,359
Speaker 2: that the I don't think that the pastors are very

950
00:44:30,400 --> 00:44:32,919
Speaker 2: green right now for the Arizona Cardinals looking forward.

951
00:44:32,880 --> 00:44:36,480
Speaker 3: All right, I think the worst destination is in Miami

952
00:44:36,560 --> 00:44:41,080
Speaker 3: with the Dolphins because similar reasons. They have a bad roster.

953
00:44:41,320 --> 00:44:45,680
Speaker 3: There's holes everywhere right now. They could cut Toua and

954
00:44:45,719 --> 00:44:48,560
Speaker 3: they would still have ninety nine million dollars of dead

955
00:44:48,640 --> 00:44:54,800
Speaker 3: cap money. They already have taken on the fifth most

956
00:44:54,920 --> 00:44:57,480
Speaker 3: dead money in the NFL for next season at thirty

957
00:44:57,520 --> 00:45:00,160
Speaker 3: five million. Nope, just add another one hundred million or

958
00:45:00,239 --> 00:45:02,720
Speaker 3: ninety nine million onto that. If you want to cut

959
00:45:02,960 --> 00:45:06,400
Speaker 3: to a, turn the ball over whatever tongue of I Loa,

960
00:45:06,600 --> 00:45:09,879
Speaker 3: whatever they want to call him. Honestly, I'm a Mike

961
00:45:10,000 --> 00:45:14,319
Speaker 3: McDaniel believer. You know this, If he couldn't get more

962
00:45:14,320 --> 00:45:17,520
Speaker 3: out of Tua then he did, and he was pretty

963
00:45:17,520 --> 00:45:19,160
Speaker 3: good the first couple of seasons with him.

964
00:45:19,280 --> 00:45:21,640
Speaker 2: Got some decent production out of him when he was healthy.

965
00:45:21,760 --> 00:45:25,359
Speaker 3: Very good at getting that contract. But I really do

966
00:45:25,440 --> 00:45:28,520
Speaker 3: believe McDaniels is an offensive wizard that just needs his

967
00:45:28,640 --> 00:45:32,000
Speaker 3: wand his quarterback that will throw it accurately and show

968
00:45:32,080 --> 00:45:36,400
Speaker 3: up late in games. Tua looks damage damage goods. Probably

969
00:45:36,440 --> 00:45:39,680
Speaker 3: shouldn't be playing football anymore. Honestly, his concussions scare me.

970
00:45:40,360 --> 00:45:43,640
Speaker 3: And uh, I don't know. Now they have a guy

971
00:45:44,520 --> 00:45:50,640
Speaker 3: who has CTE maybe and one who's in charge of

972
00:45:50,880 --> 00:45:55,520
Speaker 3: hiring who's a former quarterback that could possibly have some CTE,

973
00:45:55,680 --> 00:45:58,360
Speaker 3: and Troy Aikman, I don't know about the decision making

974
00:45:58,440 --> 00:46:00,000
Speaker 3: going on in Miami.

975
00:46:00,000 --> 00:46:02,480
Speaker 2: Tell me right now or Toy is just he was

976
00:46:02,520 --> 00:46:04,840
Speaker 2: consulting in the GM, which they've now hired. In the

977
00:46:04,840 --> 00:46:07,480
Speaker 2: head coaching situation, he's not necessarily in charge, I don't think.

978
00:46:07,560 --> 00:46:11,920
Speaker 3: Look, the Dolphins to me have been dead since nineteen

979
00:46:12,000 --> 00:46:14,960
Speaker 3: ninety nine. And you know what game did that to him, right,

980
00:46:16,160 --> 00:46:21,000
Speaker 3: sixty two to seven. Well, the Jaguars ended Marino's career

981
00:46:21,640 --> 00:46:25,279
Speaker 3: beating him sixty two to seven in the playoffs. No

982
00:46:25,400 --> 00:46:28,360
Speaker 3: legend has ever gone out that sad losing by fifty

983
00:46:28,360 --> 00:46:32,240
Speaker 3: five points. Honestly, the Ducks lost tonight is respectable compared

984
00:46:32,280 --> 00:46:37,200
Speaker 3: to that. If Lway rode off into the sunset, Marino

985
00:46:37,280 --> 00:46:39,560
Speaker 3: got shot into the sun, never to be seen again

986
00:46:39,920 --> 00:46:43,359
Speaker 3: until he had that thing with the internet ces. But yeah,

987
00:46:43,400 --> 00:46:46,759
Speaker 3: I just I don't love this job right now. They

988
00:46:46,880 --> 00:46:50,520
Speaker 3: hired the GM today, but who's going to be the coach?

989
00:46:50,600 --> 00:46:53,480
Speaker 3: Did they really fire Mike McDaniel for John Harbaugh? I

990
00:46:53,480 --> 00:46:55,839
Speaker 3: think they did for the possibility of him. Are they

991
00:46:55,840 --> 00:46:57,000
Speaker 3: going to be able to get him though?

992
00:46:57,000 --> 00:46:59,360
Speaker 2: As a question, that's the hard part, but they you

993
00:46:59,440 --> 00:47:02,520
Speaker 2: have to. You can't really start doing back channeling negotiations.

994
00:47:02,560 --> 00:47:04,880
Speaker 2: I guess she can. But the league is really, really,

995
00:47:05,040 --> 00:47:06,960
Speaker 2: really want to clamp down on tampering when it comes

996
00:47:06,960 --> 00:47:08,480
Speaker 2: to a situation like that. So if you're going to

997
00:47:08,560 --> 00:47:10,719
Speaker 2: inquire about a head coach, you better make sure that

998
00:47:10,760 --> 00:47:12,960
Speaker 2: your head coaching position is open. I do have the

999
00:47:13,000 --> 00:47:15,920
Speaker 2: Dolphins as number seven, so the second worst, so I'm

1000
00:47:15,960 --> 00:47:17,680
Speaker 2: kind of right in line with you. I don't need

1001
00:47:17,760 --> 00:47:19,960
Speaker 2: to expand on everything you expanded on. It's similar to

1002
00:47:20,000 --> 00:47:23,480
Speaker 2: Arizona the quarterback situation is a mess. The contract situation

1003
00:47:23,520 --> 00:47:26,640
Speaker 2: for the quarterback is a total mess. Waddle is good,

1004
00:47:26,719 --> 00:47:28,719
Speaker 2: so is Devont Devant a chance? So you have some

1005
00:47:28,760 --> 00:47:31,040
Speaker 2: weapons offensively, Tyree Kill is on the decline at this

1006
00:47:31,120 --> 00:47:33,279
Speaker 2: point in time. He's on his last legs and making

1007
00:47:33,280 --> 00:47:34,919
Speaker 2: a lot of money. So what's going to happen there?

1008
00:47:35,080 --> 00:47:36,360
Speaker 3: He may never be the same.

1009
00:47:36,760 --> 00:47:38,799
Speaker 2: He might not. You know, a player like that ends

1010
00:47:38,840 --> 00:47:40,680
Speaker 2: up losing half a step sometimes that's all it needs

1011
00:47:40,680 --> 00:47:42,920
Speaker 2: for him to lose his effectiveness. So I am not

1012
00:47:43,120 --> 00:47:45,319
Speaker 2: very optimistic about that Dolphin job. By this well, that

1013
00:47:45,440 --> 00:47:46,920
Speaker 2: is the second worst job for me.

1014
00:47:47,080 --> 00:47:49,480
Speaker 3: So we just flip flop then, because I have the

1015
00:47:49,560 --> 00:47:53,480
Speaker 3: second worst job as the Arizona Cardinals yep, who are

1016
00:47:53,640 --> 00:47:57,120
Speaker 3: like the forgotten redheaded stepchild of the NFL. They're pretty

1017
00:47:57,160 --> 00:48:00,560
Speaker 3: much irrelevant. Every five years they pop up and have

1018
00:48:00,600 --> 00:48:03,200
Speaker 3: a decent season, and Kurt Warner got them to the

1019
00:48:03,239 --> 00:48:05,440
Speaker 3: super Bowl and Bruce Arians did some good things.

1020
00:48:05,760 --> 00:48:08,000
Speaker 2: Of course, Carson Palmer to the NFC Title Game.

1021
00:48:08,040 --> 00:48:11,399
Speaker 3: Yeah, lost to my Panthers there, But outside of that,

1022
00:48:11,840 --> 00:48:16,520
Speaker 3: the Kyler Murray stuff, I would be concerned. And I

1023
00:48:16,560 --> 00:48:19,520
Speaker 3: thought it was interesting that he said, uh after Jonathan

1024
00:48:19,560 --> 00:48:24,240
Speaker 3: Gannon was fired, You're out. On social media, Kyler Murray

1025
00:48:24,239 --> 00:48:28,839
Speaker 3: posted this quote, My guy genuinely loved going to war

1026
00:48:28,880 --> 00:48:31,400
Speaker 3: with you. I appreciate who you are as a man

1027
00:48:31,480 --> 00:48:35,880
Speaker 3: and a coach signed warpath. Is he talking about like

1028
00:48:36,120 --> 00:48:38,440
Speaker 3: doing a Call of Duty campaign with him? Because they

1029
00:48:38,480 --> 00:48:41,320
Speaker 3: both love video games? I know Kyler Murray does like this.

1030
00:48:41,920 --> 00:48:45,200
Speaker 3: Is that the war he's talking about? Because they lost

1031
00:48:45,239 --> 00:48:47,640
Speaker 3: fourteen in the last fifteen games this season and Kyler

1032
00:48:47,680 --> 00:48:48,600
Speaker 3: Murray didn't play much.

1033
00:48:48,719 --> 00:48:50,640
Speaker 2: Yah, you lost all the battles and all the wars. Well,

1034
00:48:50,640 --> 00:48:52,400
Speaker 2: what they're gonna be put out the pasture together, it

1035
00:48:52,400 --> 00:48:54,040
Speaker 2: looks like at this point in time, So yeah, we

1036
00:48:54,040 --> 00:48:55,200
Speaker 2: basically flip flopped here.

1037
00:48:55,440 --> 00:48:57,680
Speaker 3: Is it the same reason they were doing some tanking

1038
00:48:57,760 --> 00:49:00,520
Speaker 3: and there's some tanks in war? Like? Is that what

1039
00:49:00,560 --> 00:49:03,960
Speaker 3: he's talking about there? But yeah, I feel bad for

1040
00:49:04,040 --> 00:49:08,440
Speaker 3: Arizona Cardinals fans. They got Trey McBride. James Connor had

1041
00:49:08,440 --> 00:49:10,279
Speaker 3: that bad injury, so I don't know if he's going

1042
00:49:10,360 --> 00:49:12,680
Speaker 3: to be the same at running back coming back next season.

1043
00:49:12,920 --> 00:49:13,480
Speaker 2: Probably not.

1044
00:49:13,680 --> 00:49:16,600
Speaker 3: And you mentioned Marvin Harrison's junior who has not panned

1045
00:49:16,600 --> 00:49:18,640
Speaker 3: out the way we thought coming out of Ohio State.

1046
00:49:19,280 --> 00:49:20,440
Speaker 3: All right, what do you got next?

1047
00:49:20,680 --> 00:49:23,560
Speaker 2: Next on the list is the Las Vegas Raiders, And honestly,

1048
00:49:23,600 --> 00:49:26,000
Speaker 2: the instability in their front office had me flirting with

1049
00:49:26,080 --> 00:49:29,200
Speaker 2: putting them down in an additional position, Kevin, But it

1050
00:49:29,400 --> 00:49:32,879
Speaker 2: seems it still seems like they have it figured out,

1051
00:49:33,200 --> 00:49:35,200
Speaker 2: Tom Brady. It sounds like it's going to be heavily

1052
00:49:35,239 --> 00:49:38,440
Speaker 2: involved in the major decisions like hiring the head coach

1053
00:49:39,160 --> 00:49:41,759
Speaker 2: and maybe even having some input on the number one

1054
00:49:41,760 --> 00:49:45,319
Speaker 2: overall draft pick. But John Spytek, the general manager, is

1055
00:49:45,360 --> 00:49:46,960
Speaker 2: going to be there to be in charge of the

1056
00:49:47,040 --> 00:49:49,200
Speaker 2: day to day, and that is not necessarily outside of

1057
00:49:49,239 --> 00:49:52,720
Speaker 2: the power structure of many franchises. Your president of football

1058
00:49:52,760 --> 00:49:56,360
Speaker 2: operations will interject themselves from major decisions, but your general

1059
00:49:56,360 --> 00:49:58,480
Speaker 2: manager pretty much handles the day to day, the draft,

1060
00:49:58,520 --> 00:50:00,960
Speaker 2: the roster decisions, and things of that nature. So that's

1061
00:50:01,000 --> 00:50:04,080
Speaker 2: not necessarily out of the realm of possibility. So you

1062
00:50:04,120 --> 00:50:06,400
Speaker 2: do have the top overall draft pick, maybe you use

1063
00:50:06,480 --> 00:50:08,959
Speaker 2: that on Fernanda Mendozo or Dante More. Maybe you trade

1064
00:50:08,960 --> 00:50:10,759
Speaker 2: back and get more assets, which is probably what I

1065
00:50:10,760 --> 00:50:13,560
Speaker 2: would do, to be honest with you. Brock Bauers, asking

1066
00:50:13,600 --> 00:50:16,920
Speaker 2: Gentz foundational pieces you need o line help and receiver

1067
00:50:17,040 --> 00:50:21,839
Speaker 2: help desperately, especially on that offensive line defense decent, not great.

1068
00:50:22,000 --> 00:50:23,839
Speaker 2: Matt Crowsby would love for him to stay, but if

1069
00:50:23,840 --> 00:50:25,799
Speaker 2: he asks for a trade, you trade him. You probably

1070
00:50:25,800 --> 00:50:27,600
Speaker 2: get it at first round pick and a couple of others,

1071
00:50:27,800 --> 00:50:30,959
Speaker 2: and you start your rebuild. So I do think Mark

1072
00:50:31,040 --> 00:50:34,200
Speaker 2: Davis is willing to step back from the football standpoint,

1073
00:50:34,239 --> 00:50:36,400
Speaker 2: let Tom Brady and John Spytech handle that. And I

1074
00:50:36,400 --> 00:50:39,680
Speaker 2: think that's a deviation from previous years with the Raiders.

1075
00:50:39,800 --> 00:50:41,960
Speaker 2: So from that standpoint, they're looking up but still not

1076
00:50:42,000 --> 00:50:44,040
Speaker 2: a great job. But considering that you can come in

1077
00:50:44,320 --> 00:50:46,239
Speaker 2: from the ground floor and kind of rebuild this thing

1078
00:50:46,320 --> 00:50:48,000
Speaker 2: up from the ground up, I think is a good

1079
00:50:48,000 --> 00:50:49,279
Speaker 2: thing if you're a head coach. So I'm going to

1080
00:50:49,320 --> 00:50:52,960
Speaker 2: put that as the third worst head coaching opening.

1081
00:50:52,680 --> 00:50:56,040
Speaker 3: All right, third worst for me? Are there any good ones?

1082
00:50:56,080 --> 00:50:59,160
Speaker 3: Are they just going to be like less worse as

1083
00:50:59,160 --> 00:50:59,880
Speaker 3: we go along.

1084
00:51:00,040 --> 00:51:02,080
Speaker 2: I would say that there top it for a reason, right,

1085
00:51:02,120 --> 00:51:04,080
Speaker 2: I would say that my top three. I think the

1086
00:51:04,160 --> 00:51:07,520
Speaker 2: top three are I think considered solid jobs.

1087
00:51:07,600 --> 00:51:10,640
Speaker 3: Okay, I may have the Raiders slightly higher. I'm going

1088
00:51:10,640 --> 00:51:13,560
Speaker 3: to the Browns next. Who, as you mentioned a few

1089
00:51:13,560 --> 00:51:17,680
Speaker 3: weeks ago. Probably should hang on to Kevin Stefanski, like,

1090
00:51:17,760 --> 00:51:21,200
Speaker 3: but they don't make smart moves there. Remember when he

1091
00:51:21,280 --> 00:51:23,239
Speaker 3: and Baker got them to the playoffs.

1092
00:51:23,480 --> 00:51:25,200
Speaker 2: No, they didn't win a playoff game or anything.

1093
00:51:25,239 --> 00:51:27,759
Speaker 3: Oh, they only beat their biggest rival on the Steelers

1094
00:51:27,760 --> 00:51:30,600
Speaker 3: in that wild card game like four or five years ago.

1095
00:51:31,120 --> 00:51:33,480
Speaker 3: Baker seems to still be pretty good out there. I

1096
00:51:33,520 --> 00:51:35,480
Speaker 3: know he was hurt and they had a down season,

1097
00:51:35,800 --> 00:51:38,359
Speaker 3: got his coach fired, but he was hurt before that.

1098
00:51:38,400 --> 00:51:39,759
Speaker 3: They were on the upswing and he was in the

1099
00:51:39,840 --> 00:51:43,359
Speaker 3: MVP conversation earlier this year. But how both of them

1100
00:51:43,400 --> 00:51:46,960
Speaker 3: are gone now with Stefanski out too from Cleveland, Like

1101
00:51:47,080 --> 00:51:50,759
Speaker 3: it is just it's bad. And Stefanski, I don't know.

1102
00:51:50,960 --> 00:51:54,000
Speaker 3: He's got a regal beard. He's got those piercing eyes,

1103
00:51:54,120 --> 00:51:57,480
Speaker 3: like he's pretty good looking, Like, how could the Browns

1104
00:51:57,520 --> 00:51:59,479
Speaker 3: not see it? And they showed him the door.

1105
00:52:00,320 --> 00:52:01,799
Speaker 2: Is too sexy to be a free agent, that's what

1106
00:52:01,800 --> 00:52:02,520
Speaker 2: you're saying right now.

1107
00:52:02,560 --> 00:52:06,800
Speaker 3: Too sexy for the Browns. I'm not convinced. Obviously, Shader

1108
00:52:06,880 --> 00:52:09,480
Speaker 3: Sanders is the solution at quarterback. No one should be.

1109
00:52:09,520 --> 00:52:12,960
Speaker 3: They've gone through forty two different quarterbacks since nineteen ninety nine.

1110
00:52:13,280 --> 00:52:16,799
Speaker 3: But if you come into that situation, it's likely going

1111
00:52:16,840 --> 00:52:19,080
Speaker 3: to be a circus to start with. And it's not

1112
00:52:19,160 --> 00:52:25,319
Speaker 3: Schaduer's fault. Get the fans, the media, skip Bayless, all

1113
00:52:25,400 --> 00:52:29,200
Speaker 3: the intrigue going on. There's unwarranted attention because of his

1114
00:52:29,320 --> 00:52:31,959
Speaker 3: last name, and if the name doesn't match the game,

1115
00:52:32,000 --> 00:52:36,640
Speaker 3: you got problems. And the GM there made the worst

1116
00:52:36,719 --> 00:52:39,960
Speaker 3: move ever in Cleveland Brown's history, which is saying something

1117
00:52:40,000 --> 00:52:42,839
Speaker 3: and he's still there. That would be Andrew Berry, who

1118
00:52:42,960 --> 00:52:46,800
Speaker 3: traded for Deshaun Watson, who's got a contract that's fully

1119
00:52:46,840 --> 00:52:49,520
Speaker 3: guaranteed for two hundred and thirty million dollars.

1120
00:52:50,920 --> 00:52:53,680
Speaker 2: Now, I won't say in his defense, it sounds like

1121
00:52:53,719 --> 00:52:56,080
Speaker 2: that was a Jimmy Haslam call from ownership and not

1122
00:52:56,120 --> 00:52:59,080
Speaker 2: necessarily Andrew Berry. Now how much of a hand Andrew

1123
00:52:59,080 --> 00:53:00,960
Speaker 2: had in that, who knows, But that you make a

1124
00:53:00,960 --> 00:53:03,719
Speaker 2: decision like that and all that guaranteed money, most of

1125
00:53:03,760 --> 00:53:05,480
Speaker 2: that comes from ownership more than the GM.

1126
00:53:05,640 --> 00:53:10,759
Speaker 3: Well, after retearing his achilles that he tore before, it

1127
00:53:10,920 --> 00:53:13,920
Speaker 3: sounds like he's gonna be good for training camp. Correct,

1128
00:53:14,040 --> 00:53:16,720
Speaker 3: he will, So are they gonna have a competition between

1129
00:53:16,800 --> 00:53:20,600
Speaker 3: him and Shador Sanders? For QB one, like, is there

1130
00:53:20,640 --> 00:53:24,680
Speaker 3: really a happy ending here? Okay, it's too easy. There

1131
00:53:24,719 --> 00:53:25,400
Speaker 3: never has been a.

1132
00:53:25,360 --> 00:53:27,399
Speaker 2: Happy ending in lower for you there.

1133
00:53:28,840 --> 00:53:33,440
Speaker 3: I just that sounds like a mess for especially a

1134
00:53:33,520 --> 00:53:35,359
Speaker 3: first time head coach, if they go with a guy

1135
00:53:35,440 --> 00:53:38,479
Speaker 3: there to have that QB competition going on between those

1136
00:53:38,520 --> 00:53:41,520
Speaker 3: two guys in that situation, I don't know. I got

1137
00:53:41,560 --> 00:53:43,000
Speaker 3: that as the third worst job.

1138
00:53:43,440 --> 00:53:45,200
Speaker 2: Yeah, the only reason I had so I do have

1139
00:53:45,200 --> 00:53:46,919
Speaker 2: that coming up next, So that's to have mine one

1140
00:53:46,960 --> 00:53:48,920
Speaker 2: spot higher than yours with him, And that's the only

1141
00:53:48,960 --> 00:53:51,760
Speaker 2: reason is because they do have really prime defensive talent,

1142
00:53:52,080 --> 00:53:54,799
Speaker 2: great defensive talent on that roster. Quin Shawn Judskin's far

1143
00:53:54,840 --> 00:53:56,400
Speaker 2: from a boy scout. I'm not the biggest fan of

1144
00:53:56,440 --> 00:53:59,640
Speaker 2: his personally, but he's a great talented, foundational type of

1145
00:53:59,680 --> 00:54:02,560
Speaker 2: running HEROLD fan and his talented at tight end. So

1146
00:54:02,640 --> 00:54:04,760
Speaker 2: you can use some improvements from a skilled position standpoint

1147
00:54:04,800 --> 00:54:06,920
Speaker 2: at receiver and on the offensive line. But you're right,

1148
00:54:06,920 --> 00:54:09,680
Speaker 2: the quarterback position is a mess. Deshaun Watson's not going

1149
00:54:09,719 --> 00:54:12,680
Speaker 2: anywhere mainly because of his contract situation, so as of now,

1150
00:54:12,719 --> 00:54:14,719
Speaker 2: it is going to be a competition between he and

1151
00:54:14,760 --> 00:54:17,719
Speaker 2: Shador Sanders. And do you consider using a draft pick,

1152
00:54:17,760 --> 00:54:20,040
Speaker 2: a high draft pick on a quarterback two or does

1153
00:54:20,080 --> 00:54:21,799
Speaker 2: that just muddy the water is even more for you.

1154
00:54:22,160 --> 00:54:24,960
Speaker 2: So it's a really confounding situation to put themselves in.

1155
00:54:25,280 --> 00:54:27,560
Speaker 2: But they do have a really good defense. If they're

1156
00:54:27,640 --> 00:54:31,759
Speaker 2: halfway decent offensively, they have a chance to compete pretty soon,

1157
00:54:31,840 --> 00:54:33,880
Speaker 2: which is why I have the job breaked a little

1158
00:54:33,880 --> 00:54:35,360
Speaker 2: bit about a spot higher.

1159
00:54:35,160 --> 00:54:35,480
Speaker 6: Than you do.

1160
00:54:35,680 --> 00:54:36,480
Speaker 3: So what's it?

1161
00:54:36,560 --> 00:54:36,719
Speaker 1: Is it?

1162
00:54:36,800 --> 00:54:37,720
Speaker 3: Fifth worst job?

1163
00:54:37,840 --> 00:54:38,160
Speaker 2: Next?

1164
00:54:38,320 --> 00:54:38,640
Speaker 3: Okay?

1165
00:54:38,640 --> 00:54:39,040
Speaker 2: Correct?

1166
00:54:39,320 --> 00:54:42,520
Speaker 3: I got the Tennessee Titans here. Cam Ward did play

1167
00:54:42,560 --> 00:54:45,200
Speaker 3: better in the second half of the season, and he

1168
00:54:45,239 --> 00:54:48,279
Speaker 3: doesn't have a lot to work with at quarterback with

1169
00:54:48,400 --> 00:54:52,360
Speaker 3: his weapons out there. Now, this guy was also honest

1170
00:54:52,480 --> 00:54:56,360
Speaker 3: enough to call his team ass earlier in the year after.

1171
00:54:56,280 --> 00:54:57,880
Speaker 2: He said three or something list it.

1172
00:54:57,920 --> 00:54:59,759
Speaker 3: Remember preseason he goes, we're going to be a top

1173
00:54:59,760 --> 00:55:04,759
Speaker 3: ten offense. Three weeks later, where asked he's got some

1174
00:55:04,840 --> 00:55:08,399
Speaker 3: of that Anthony Edwards honest yed swag to him. Does

1175
00:55:08,440 --> 00:55:11,040
Speaker 3: he have the talent? We'll see. But I don't mind

1176
00:55:11,080 --> 00:55:14,320
Speaker 3: the job because you are going in with your eyes open.

1177
00:55:14,440 --> 00:55:17,440
Speaker 3: You can watch a full season's worth of film on

1178
00:55:17,600 --> 00:55:20,080
Speaker 3: cam Ward. I think he played every game. You get

1179
00:55:20,160 --> 00:55:23,560
Speaker 3: to see his strengths, his weaknesses. You can call him

1180
00:55:23,560 --> 00:55:27,000
Speaker 3: a foundational piece. There's no surprises there. You don't have

1181
00:55:27,040 --> 00:55:29,040
Speaker 3: to take a quarterback with the fourth pick in the drafts.

1182
00:55:29,080 --> 00:55:31,960
Speaker 3: You can go somewhere else with that. The problem is,

1183
00:55:32,200 --> 00:55:35,240
Speaker 3: and I can't believe I'm saying this, the AFC South

1184
00:55:35,640 --> 00:55:38,960
Speaker 3: got a lot better. Yes, Jacksonville and Houston are both

1185
00:55:39,000 --> 00:55:42,720
Speaker 3: in the playoffs. If Indy didn't lose Indiana Daniel Jones,

1186
00:55:42,760 --> 00:55:46,080
Speaker 3: they're likely in. This is the first time, maybe since

1187
00:55:46,120 --> 00:55:48,640
Speaker 3: the realignment in two thousand and two, the AFC South

1188
00:55:48,680 --> 00:55:50,239
Speaker 3: has ever looked this formittable.

1189
00:55:51,040 --> 00:55:51,840
Speaker 2: So question.

1190
00:55:52,440 --> 00:55:54,840
Speaker 3: That takes away some of the allure of the job.

1191
00:55:55,040 --> 00:55:57,239
Speaker 3: You used to get three or four wins there in

1192
00:55:57,320 --> 00:56:00,680
Speaker 3: the division alone. No longer. Now you're the team that

1193
00:56:00,680 --> 00:56:03,240
Speaker 3: they're looking their chops against to get three or four wins,

1194
00:56:03,400 --> 00:56:06,080
Speaker 3: to get two wins at least that season against you.

1195
00:56:06,320 --> 00:56:08,600
Speaker 3: The other problem is you're always going to be compared

1196
00:56:08,719 --> 00:56:12,640
Speaker 3: unfairly or not to Mike Rabel who's in New England.

1197
00:56:12,320 --> 00:56:15,160
Speaker 2: And by the way, which is ridiculous.

1198
00:56:15,280 --> 00:56:17,600
Speaker 3: Right, So that's fifth worst for me.

1199
00:56:17,719 --> 00:56:20,600
Speaker 2: Yeah, So that is so again one spot higher than you.

1200
00:56:20,680 --> 00:56:22,840
Speaker 2: That's fourth worst for me. For many of the same reasons.

1201
00:56:22,840 --> 00:56:25,759
Speaker 2: I think cam Ward showed enough raw talent to show

1202
00:56:25,800 --> 00:56:28,080
Speaker 2: that he can be a franchise quarterback. He just didn't

1203
00:56:28,120 --> 00:56:30,279
Speaker 2: have time. It was running for his life, didn't have

1204
00:56:30,280 --> 00:56:33,000
Speaker 2: time to throw, and didn't have quality weapons to throw to.

1205
00:56:33,160 --> 00:56:35,400
Speaker 2: His best weapon was Calvin Ridley, and he missed the

1206
00:56:35,400 --> 00:56:37,080
Speaker 2: majority of the season with the injuries, and when he

1207
00:56:37,120 --> 00:56:39,080
Speaker 2: didn't he was dropping past his left and right too.

1208
00:56:39,400 --> 00:56:41,120
Speaker 2: You can see that cam Ward can be a quality

1209
00:56:41,239 --> 00:56:44,120
Speaker 2: NFL quarterback if he has the support around him. Justin

1210
00:56:44,120 --> 00:56:47,240
Speaker 2: Simmons is a good quality defensive lineman. He's a building

1211
00:56:47,239 --> 00:56:49,600
Speaker 2: block on the defense that you have. But to your point,

1212
00:56:49,600 --> 00:56:51,040
Speaker 2: and this is something that I thought about too, the

1213
00:56:51,080 --> 00:56:53,560
Speaker 2: division is just not going to be easy. That's really

1214
00:56:53,600 --> 00:56:56,799
Speaker 2: really hard to vision to crack through. Their offensive line

1215
00:56:56,880 --> 00:56:59,000
Speaker 2: actually got better as the season went along, so maybe

1216
00:56:59,040 --> 00:57:00,800
Speaker 2: you don't need as much help there as you thought,

1217
00:57:01,120 --> 00:57:04,120
Speaker 2: and that that's a huge plus in their favor. So

1218
00:57:04,160 --> 00:57:05,759
Speaker 2: I have that as the fourth best because you have

1219
00:57:05,800 --> 00:57:08,080
Speaker 2: the quarterback in place, because you're only a couple of

1220
00:57:08,320 --> 00:57:11,000
Speaker 2: pieces away from being competitive. But to your point, what

1221
00:57:11,040 --> 00:57:13,080
Speaker 2: does competitive mean when you're in a division that's as

1222
00:57:13,080 --> 00:57:14,640
Speaker 2: good as the AFC South moving forward.

1223
00:57:14,680 --> 00:57:16,560
Speaker 3: All right, I like it. We'll finish this off at

1224
00:57:16,560 --> 00:57:19,120
Speaker 3: the end of the hour, might bleed into the next hour.

1225
00:57:19,440 --> 00:57:22,080
Speaker 3: We're replacing the NFL six pack with something else that

1226
00:57:22,200 --> 00:57:25,560
Speaker 3: is going to turn into at least an hour of

1227
00:57:25,680 --> 00:57:29,160
Speaker 3: content here with the coaching carousel. But speaking of Jacob

1228
00:57:29,240 --> 00:57:33,520
Speaker 3: Robinson will give us his intel, his insight. He does

1229
00:57:33,560 --> 00:57:35,920
Speaker 3: it for the athletic We'll ask him some of these

1230
00:57:35,960 --> 00:57:39,200
Speaker 3: same questions going on with the openings in the NFL

1231
00:57:39,280 --> 00:57:41,520
Speaker 3: that's coming up next. We got an interview for you

1232
00:57:41,640 --> 00:57:46,000
Speaker 3: here on FNA on FOC you're listening to Fox Sports Radio.

1233
00:57:46,280 --> 00:57:49,720
Speaker 8: Radio, We're gonna have a little Q and a.

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00:57:49,560 --> 00:57:50,880
Speaker 2: FNA Cotton.

1235
00:57:52,000 --> 00:57:54,240
Speaker 3: Welcome back in. It's f and A on FSR. I'm

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00:57:54,240 --> 00:57:57,440
Speaker 3: Adame Oslin, He's Kevin Figures. With the iHeartRadio app, you

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00:57:57,440 --> 00:57:59,720
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00:57:59,720 --> 00:58:01,880
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00:58:02,000 --> 00:58:05,280
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00:58:05,400 --> 00:58:07,960
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00:58:08,040 --> 00:58:10,600
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00:58:10,680 --> 00:58:13,360
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00:58:13,400 --> 00:58:15,800
Speaker 3: the iHeart app, so it will always pop up at

1244
00:58:15,800 --> 00:58:17,000
Speaker 3: the top of your screen.

1245
00:58:17,600 --> 00:58:19,560
Speaker 2: Coming up in about twenty minutes, we will dive back

1246
00:58:19,600 --> 00:58:23,040
Speaker 2: into our NFL head coaching rankings from worst to best,

1247
00:58:23,040 --> 00:58:26,200
Speaker 2: the coaching openings in the NFL, and speaking of which

1248
00:58:26,240 --> 00:58:29,800
Speaker 2: we will discuss that among other things, including Wildcart weekend

1249
00:58:29,920 --> 00:58:32,640
Speaker 2: with our very next guest, Adam is Maiden Voyage here

1250
00:58:32,680 --> 00:58:34,800
Speaker 2: on FNA on FSR to talk some NFL with us.

1251
00:58:34,840 --> 00:58:37,400
Speaker 2: Let's go Alan Dragan did.

1252
00:58:38,360 --> 00:58:41,520
Speaker 3: Thank you, Gutty well. Our next guest is a lawyer,

1253
00:58:41,560 --> 00:58:43,400
Speaker 3: so you know he's precise with his words and his

1254
00:58:43,520 --> 00:58:44,520
Speaker 3: pen is sharper.

1255
00:58:44,520 --> 00:58:44,959
Speaker 2: At least.

1256
00:58:44,960 --> 00:58:47,680
Speaker 3: His dexterity is when he strikes the keyboard as he

1257
00:58:47,720 --> 00:58:51,480
Speaker 3: puts together the world's largest NFL newsletter for the Athletic.

1258
00:58:51,640 --> 00:58:53,919
Speaker 3: You can also check out his commentary with the ever

1259
00:58:54,040 --> 00:58:57,680
Speaker 3: changing cryptocurrency market Laws on the Law of Code podcast

1260
00:58:57,880 --> 00:59:01,640
Speaker 3: It's Jacob Robinson. Take Jacob Ladder to Football Heaven by

1261
00:59:01,680 --> 00:59:04,440
Speaker 3: reading his latest on the Athletic and follow him at

1262
00:59:04,520 --> 00:59:07,360
Speaker 3: Jacob Robinson j d on X Jacob, thanks for coming

1263
00:59:07,400 --> 00:59:08,760
Speaker 3: on f and A here on FSR.

1264
00:59:09,000 --> 00:59:11,120
Speaker 7: Kevin, that was the best intro I've ever gotten, so

1265
00:59:11,160 --> 00:59:12,320
Speaker 7: I'm doing really well after that.

1266
00:59:12,400 --> 00:59:13,200
Speaker 6: Thanks for having me.

1267
00:59:14,120 --> 00:59:16,800
Speaker 2: I appreciate Defreie Adam that wex poetic with that intro.

1268
00:59:16,840 --> 00:59:18,440
Speaker 2: I'm not gonna steal the shine from Adam on that

1269
00:59:18,480 --> 00:59:20,080
Speaker 2: one there, Jacob, but I appreciate it.

1270
00:59:20,200 --> 00:59:23,000
Speaker 3: Jacob. I'm gonna keep going with something here. What happens

1271
00:59:23,000 --> 00:59:25,720
Speaker 3: first Bitcoin goes back to one hundred k or John

1272
00:59:25,760 --> 00:59:26,959
Speaker 3: Harbaugh finds a new job.

1273
00:59:27,320 --> 00:59:29,160
Speaker 7: Oh, that's a great question, man, I haven't got a

1274
00:59:29,240 --> 00:59:33,080
Speaker 7: question like that as we're prepping for wild Card weekend.

1275
00:59:32,880 --> 00:59:37,040
Speaker 7: I'd say John Harbaugh get the job. It seems like

1276
00:59:37,400 --> 00:59:40,840
Speaker 7: the Dolphins are interested. The Giants are very interested. A

1277
00:59:40,880 --> 00:59:42,840
Speaker 7: lot of people see them as the front runners, and

1278
00:59:42,880 --> 00:59:44,640
Speaker 7: it's hard not to be interested if you're a team

1279
00:59:44,680 --> 00:59:47,200
Speaker 7: that's looking for someone who can set a culture. He

1280
00:59:47,280 --> 00:59:50,920
Speaker 7: had eighteen seasons in Baltimore, only three of them ended

1281
00:59:50,960 --> 00:59:52,800
Speaker 7: with the Ravens having a losing record.

1282
00:59:52,800 --> 00:59:55,080
Speaker 6: Obviously, they won that Super Bowl back in twenty twelve,

1283
00:59:55,200 --> 00:59:57,200
Speaker 6: so he's got the track record of success.

1284
00:59:57,240 --> 00:59:59,600
Speaker 7: That's for bitcoin. I mean, it has the track record too,

1285
00:59:59,600 --> 01:00:01,720
Speaker 7: and I think long term it'll stay well above that.

1286
01:00:01,840 --> 01:00:04,000
Speaker 7: But in the short term, it's so hard to say.

1287
01:00:04,000 --> 01:00:05,800
Speaker 7: With the volatility in the market right now.

1288
01:00:06,160 --> 01:00:08,840
Speaker 3: All right, speaking of there was some volatility with the

1289
01:00:08,880 --> 01:00:11,880
Speaker 3: Baltimore Ravens. With the way John Harbaugh was let go,

1290
01:00:11,960 --> 01:00:14,560
Speaker 3: it's surprised some people, but was he going to be

1291
01:00:14,600 --> 01:00:17,360
Speaker 3: gone regardless of that Steelers game and the Tyler Loop

1292
01:00:17,480 --> 01:00:20,400
Speaker 3: miss kick? Was the decision already made? Unless you know

1293
01:00:20,440 --> 01:00:22,120
Speaker 3: they made a run to the super Bowl or something.

1294
01:00:22,880 --> 01:00:26,360
Speaker 6: It's hard to say. I thought that it might have been,

1295
01:00:26,360 --> 01:00:30,280
Speaker 6: but based on everything that happened surrounding his firing, I

1296
01:00:30,320 --> 01:00:30,880
Speaker 6: don't think so.

1297
01:00:31,080 --> 01:00:32,080
Speaker 7: And let me tell you why.

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01:00:32,440 --> 01:00:35,520
Speaker 6: When Harball was fired, my colleague Jeff who covers the

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Speaker 6: Ravens for us at the Athletic he put out that

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Speaker 6: John Harbaugh actually didn't even get a chance to tell

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Speaker 6: his staff that he was leaving, that he was exiting,

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Speaker 6: and he had been fired after the news came out,

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Speaker 6: And so you'd have to think that given the run

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Speaker 6: and the amount of time that he's spent there, they

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Speaker 6: would have given him more of a heads up if

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Speaker 6: that was the plan. I've also heard is that Todd Monkin,

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Speaker 6: the offensive coordinator, there was a big sticking point and

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Speaker 6: apparently that he and Lamar Jackson hadn't always gotten along

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Speaker 6: throughout the year. In Howbart was a good intermediary between

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Speaker 6: the two of them there, So you have to think

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Speaker 6: that it really caught him off guard, which would mean

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Speaker 6: that it was probably a decision by the owner after

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Speaker 6: that loss.

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Speaker 2: Jacob, how about his counterpart in that de facto AFC

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Speaker 2: North Championship game, Mike Tomlin. They obviously win the game,

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Speaker 2: they go to the postseason, but if they end up

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Speaker 2: losing in the wildcard round, do you think it's feasible?

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Speaker 2: And I know the Steelers have not hired or fired

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Speaker 2: a head coach in a thousand years, do you think

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Speaker 2: it's feasible that if they lose that game, especially in

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Speaker 2: embarrassing fashion, that it's possible that Mike Tomlin could be

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Speaker 2: out too, whether on his own volition or whether the

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Speaker 2: Steelers actually decide to let him go.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, it seems like anything's possible. This year.

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Speaker 6: We have twenty five percent of the NFL firing their

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Speaker 6: coaches in twenty twenty five and the start of twenty

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Speaker 6: twenty six. So certainly wouldn't rule out the possibility. I

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Speaker 6: didn't think Hardball's job was in danger if they lost

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Speaker 6: that game, but we saw what happened there and Tomlin,

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Speaker 6: you know the Mike Tomlin special. I like the joke

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Speaker 6: is a ten and seven record in a first round

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Speaker 6: playoff exit that happens again this season, they wouldn't have

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Speaker 6: won in a playoff game for I believe it's almost

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Speaker 6: it's approaching ten years and that is tough for US

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Speaker 6: Steelers fan base to stomach. It's tough for Steelers ownership

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Speaker 6: to stomach. And yeah, it's definitely a possibility that Pittsburgh

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Speaker 6: considers moving on. They have a good chance to reset

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Speaker 6: this year. Aaron Rodgers might be moving on after this season.

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Speaker 6: They could use their first round pick on a quarterback

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Speaker 6: and really try to get the future franchise passer there,

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Speaker 6: but it's hard to say for sure.

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Speaker 2: Jacob Robinson from the Athletic joining us here on FNA

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Speaker 2: on FSR Fox Football Saturday. You know you brought up

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Speaker 2: the Dolphins a second ago and the firing ring of

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Speaker 2: Mike McDaniel doesn't surprise a lot of people, but I

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Speaker 2: think the timing of it might. I guess my question

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Speaker 2: to you is, if John Harball was still the head

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Speaker 2: coach of the Ravens, do you believe that Mike McDaniel

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Speaker 2: would still be the head coach of the Miami Dolphins.

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Speaker 2: And you know what, I mean when I.

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Speaker 6: Say that, Yeah, it's definitely a lot more than a coincidence.

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Speaker 6: Stephen Ross, the Dolphins owner, is a huge Michigan donor

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01:02:57,000 --> 01:02:59,560
Speaker 6: and an alum. And John Harbaugh is a Michigan man

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Speaker 6: as well well, so you have to think that there's

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Speaker 6: a connection there, and he's definitely interested. We saw he

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01:03:04,840 --> 01:03:08,080
Speaker 6: got fined for campering with Sean Payton a few years back,

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Speaker 6: and certainly would be interested in getting a coach of

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Speaker 6: that caliber in Harbaugh who has such a track record

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Speaker 6: of success. We also saw the Dolphins bring in a

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Speaker 6: GM today. They hired a G bring in the GM.

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Speaker 6: They hired a GM who has ties to the Packers,

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Speaker 6: which makes me think that potentially Jeff Halfley could be

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Speaker 6: a candidate the defensive coordinator in Green Bay currently or

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Speaker 6: Mike McCarthy, the former Packers head coach who spent a

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Speaker 6: few years in Dallas when he won Bold games for

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Speaker 6: three years in a row, but didn't end on such

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Speaker 6: a great note.

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Speaker 3: Jacob Robinson is our guest here on f Anda on

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Speaker 3: Fox Sports Radio from the Athletic Jacob, I know you

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Speaker 3: read about this recently, but if you take out the

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Speaker 3: Ravens job, because that seems too easy. How would you

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Speaker 3: rank some of these coaching jobs that are available for

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Speaker 3: maybe best to worse. We were talking about it last segment.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, it's a really good question. I had a lot

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Speaker 6: of fun working on an article to answer this question

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Speaker 6: because it wasn't sure where i'd rank a team like

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Speaker 6: the Falcons. They've got a really talented team. They have

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Speaker 6: the best record, or at least had the best record

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Speaker 6: of the six teams that were looking for a coach.

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Speaker 6: But I put them fifth, and I'll go in order,

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Speaker 6: so I'd start with the Browns as being the least

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Speaker 6: attractive opening. Their catch is a bit of a mess

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Speaker 6: thanks to the Dishaun Watson contract. They have a general

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01:04:20,160 --> 01:04:23,959
Speaker 6: manager who has somehow been spared for playing a role

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Speaker 6: in that, largely thanks to a promising draft in twenty

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Speaker 6: twenty five. But they're going to be looking for their

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Speaker 6: forty third starting quarterback since nineteen ninety nine, and there

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Speaker 6: really isn't an obvious answer based on where they're picking

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Speaker 6: at number six in the first round of this draft.

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Speaker 6: They may be trade up for Alabama's Ty Simpson late

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Speaker 6: in the first round, but there's a lot of question

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Speaker 6: marks there in Cleveland. Then I deal with the Falcons.

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Speaker 6: You know, yes, they have plenty of talent, and they

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Speaker 6: fired their general manager, so whatever coach comes in is

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Speaker 6: going to be a line there. But what do you

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Speaker 6: have with Michael Pennock Junior. He's a twenty six year

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Speaker 6: old quarterback who's had five season ending injuries in eight

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Speaker 6: years the football. It's really hard to bet your career

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Speaker 6: if you're a coach on a quarterback like that. You're

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Speaker 6: also going to be restricted by the prior regime. They

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Speaker 6: don't have their first round pick in twenty twenty six,

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Speaker 6: and their cash space is a little bit tricky, although

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Speaker 6: cutting the Kirk Cousins could help there, and then go

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Speaker 6: with the Cardinals. You know, this team is a lot

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Speaker 6: more competitive than it's three and fourteenth record. They lost

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Speaker 6: a lot of one score games to teams like the

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Speaker 6: forty nine Ers, Seahawks, and Packers, all playoff caliber teams.

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Speaker 6: But they also have that question at quarterback. Who are

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Speaker 6: you going to get if you move on from Kyler Murray?

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Speaker 6: It's really hard to say.

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Speaker 8: Right now.

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Speaker 6: The best free agent might be Malik Willis, the Packers

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Speaker 6: backup that's not too inspiring, So that's our big question.

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Speaker 6: Mark Farren and That's why I have them behind the Raiders.

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Speaker 6: They've got the number one pick, likely going to Land,

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Speaker 6: Indiana's Fernando Mendoza or perhaps Oregon's Dante More. We saw

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Speaker 6: what Mike Vrabel was able to do in New England

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Speaker 6: with one hundred million dollars in cap space, which is

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Speaker 6: about what the Raiders have in the highly drafted quarterback,

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Speaker 6: so I think there is a lot of hope. The

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Speaker 6: downside for Las Vegas is there in the AFC WES,

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Speaker 6: so that means Patrick Mahomes justin Herbert and bo Nix

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Speaker 6: twice per year each, and you've got the Titans. I

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Speaker 6: would say the Titans are the second best coach opening

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Speaker 6: in the NFL right now. Cam Ward looked like a

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Speaker 6: franchise quarterback. They've got a ton of cap space and

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Speaker 6: the fixes are pretty obvious. Get some better receivers and

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Speaker 6: improve the pass rush and you can really make a

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Speaker 6: big step up from there. Number one team, I'd say

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Speaker 6: the most attractive opening is the New York Giants. This

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01:06:30,600 --> 01:06:34,160
Speaker 6: definitely hinges on whether you believe in Jackson Dart or not,

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Speaker 6: and I know a lot of people in the scouting

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Speaker 6: community don't. But with dark Cam Scattabow and elite neighbors

1434
01:06:39,480 --> 01:06:43,200
Speaker 6: and a dual Carter all on rookie contracts who pair

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Speaker 6: with an offensive line that has been above average when

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Speaker 6: left tackle Andrew Thomas is healthy. The Giants have a

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Speaker 6: really attractive young nucleus that a coach could come in

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Speaker 6: and build on. The big asterisk player is going to

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Speaker 6: be Joe Shane, the general manager. He's got a twenty two,

1440
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Speaker 6: forty five and one record in his seasons in New

1441
01:07:01,840 --> 01:07:04,360
Speaker 6: York and it's really hard to see why they've kept

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01:07:04,400 --> 01:07:06,440
Speaker 6: him around for another year. But we could see a

1443
01:07:06,440 --> 01:07:09,160
Speaker 6: coach pull off what Liam Cohen did last year when

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01:07:09,160 --> 01:07:11,640
Speaker 6: he refused to join the Jaguars, it seemed at least

1445
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Speaker 6: until they moved on from their general manager. So this

1446
01:07:14,240 --> 01:07:17,200
Speaker 6: really can be an attractive opening if they're able to

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Speaker 6: do something about the GM.

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Speaker 2: Jake leb Let's move off of the coaching conversation and

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Speaker 2: talk about the MVP race. It seems like it's been

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Speaker 2: back and forth between Matthew Stafford and Drake May for

1451
01:07:27,240 --> 01:07:28,800
Speaker 2: the last I don't know a couple of months, and

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Speaker 2: it seemed as if that Matthew Stafford was running away

1453
01:07:30,880 --> 01:07:32,760
Speaker 2: with it before the Rams had a little bit of

1454
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Speaker 2: a tail spin the last month or so of the season.

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Speaker 2: How do you see this MVP race going right now?

1456
01:07:37,800 --> 01:07:40,680
Speaker 2: With Matthew Stafford at last check has now jumped back

1457
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Speaker 2: over Drake May as the favorite to win the award.

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Speaker 2: From your eyes, who do you think one will be

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Speaker 2: the MVP? And then who do you think should be

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Speaker 2: the MVP?

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Speaker 6: Well, if Matthew Staffords the better favorite, I think it

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Speaker 6: shows that a lot of people are tied to the

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Speaker 6: narrative of the Veterriand he's never made an All Pro team,

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Speaker 6: I think, and it is all the seasons, which is incredible.

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Speaker 6: But he led the league in past he led the

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Speaker 6: league in touchdowns. He really had an MVP worthy season.

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Speaker 6: The problem is I got a quarterback in Drake May

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Speaker 6: was twenty three years old, led the league in completion percentage,

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Speaker 6: passer rating m QBR, who didn't have the three interception

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Speaker 6: game that Matthew Stafford had against the Falcons in Week seventeen,

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Speaker 6: And to me, that was a big blemish, Like Drake

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Speaker 6: May didn't have any blemishes on his resume this year.

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Speaker 6: And guess who Drake May's throwing the ball to Stefan Diggs, Hunter,

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Speaker 6: Henry Kayshawn Boody. He's not throwing to Kouka Nakua, who

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Speaker 6: in my opinion, is the offensive player of the Year

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Speaker 6: this year. He's not throwing to Devonte Adams, potentually a

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Speaker 6: future Hall of Famer. So it's a huge difference in

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Speaker 6: terms of the caliber of Drake May's surrounding cast compared

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01:08:41,560 --> 01:08:44,559
Speaker 6: to what you've got with Matthew Stafford in LA And

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Speaker 6: that's why I'd give the nod to Drake May.

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Speaker 2: Now, the defficult advocate are the people who advocate for

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Speaker 2: the Rams and Matthew Stafford in this situation is the

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Speaker 2: fact that the Patriots, at the easiest schedule in the

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Speaker 2: NFL for anybody, didn't face high competition, while the Rams

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Speaker 2: faced one of the toughest. I think he had the

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Speaker 2: second or third toughest schedule in the entire league. What

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Speaker 2: do you say to that argument?

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Speaker 6: True, It's true, And the Patriots didn't just have the

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Speaker 6: easiest schedule this year. I went back and looked at

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Speaker 6: every season since the year two thousand. The Patriots had

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Speaker 6: the second easiest schedule out of every team to play

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Speaker 6: in every season. So this was a historically easy schedule

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Speaker 6: for the Patriots. But I don't think we should let

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01:09:24,080 --> 01:09:26,599
Speaker 6: that discount what Drake made did this year, just like

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01:09:26,920 --> 01:09:30,439
Speaker 6: we didn't let an easy schedule discount what the nineteen

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01:09:30,479 --> 01:09:34,080
Speaker 6: ninety nine Saint Louis Rams did the greatest show on turf.

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Speaker 6: Yet a lot of people don't realize they had one

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Speaker 6: of the easiest schedules in league history that year too.

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Speaker 6: And if we go back and say that all you

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Speaker 6: know that team wasn't as good because their schedule was easy,

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01:09:44,520 --> 01:09:46,559
Speaker 6: you sound a little silly. And I don't think that

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01:09:46,600 --> 01:09:48,800
Speaker 6: people want to be in that position now, Like, yes,

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01:09:49,320 --> 01:09:51,519
Speaker 6: the Patriots did have an easy schedule, but they still

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01:09:51,520 --> 01:09:54,640
Speaker 6: played good defenses. They played defenses like the Browns, they

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01:09:54,640 --> 01:09:57,080
Speaker 6: played defenses like the Ravens, and Drake and Ay was

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Speaker 6: excellent in all those games. So I think it's looking

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01:09:59,840 --> 01:10:02,080
Speaker 6: a little too high level to discount what he did

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Speaker 6: as a quarterback just by looking at the schedule.

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Speaker 3: Jago, give me your most intriguing matchup this weekend here

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01:10:08,240 --> 01:10:10,840
Speaker 3: in the opening round of the playoffs. What game could

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01:10:10,840 --> 01:10:13,439
Speaker 3: turn into a classic, something you're paying attention to more

1512
01:10:13,520 --> 01:10:14,080
Speaker 3: than others.

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01:10:14,720 --> 01:10:16,559
Speaker 6: I'd have to go to the AFC on this one,

1514
01:10:16,600 --> 01:10:18,920
Speaker 6: Guys and I'm so excited to watch this game. I

1515
01:10:18,920 --> 01:10:20,240
Speaker 6: don't know about you, but to me, this is my

1516
01:10:20,320 --> 01:10:22,880
Speaker 6: favorite weekend of football because you have so many games

1517
01:10:22,920 --> 01:10:26,240
Speaker 6: being play by all great teams, and the Bills Jags

1518
01:10:26,560 --> 01:10:29,160
Speaker 6: stands above them all to me, because this is a

1519
01:10:29,200 --> 01:10:32,120
Speaker 6: game that could decide the AFC. I don't think anyone

1520
01:10:32,120 --> 01:10:36,120
Speaker 6: would be surprised if we see Jacksonville or Buffalo atop

1521
01:10:36,160 --> 01:10:38,960
Speaker 6: the NFC by the end of these playoffs, because the

1522
01:10:39,000 --> 01:10:42,080
Speaker 6: Bills are a fantastic team led by arguably it's not

1523
01:10:42,200 --> 01:10:45,679
Speaker 6: the best quarterback that's just in the playoffs in Josh Allen.

1524
01:10:45,960 --> 01:10:48,800
Speaker 6: They led the league in rushing yards and rushing touchdowns.

1525
01:10:48,840 --> 01:10:51,800
Speaker 6: But they're playing the Jacksonville Jaguars team that led the

1526
01:10:51,880 --> 01:10:55,479
Speaker 6: league in rushing yards against. No team allowed less rushing

1527
01:10:55,520 --> 01:10:58,400
Speaker 6: yards than the Jaguars, who quietly had the number one

1528
01:10:58,479 --> 01:11:01,479
Speaker 6: rushing defense in the NIELL this year. So it's going

1529
01:11:01,560 --> 01:11:04,000
Speaker 6: to be a big test for James Cooking the Bills.

1530
01:11:04,160 --> 01:11:06,080
Speaker 6: I think the way that they can win this one though,

1531
01:11:06,080 --> 01:11:08,000
Speaker 6: was by running the ball inside. If you look at

1532
01:11:08,120 --> 01:11:11,240
Speaker 6: the Jaguars EPA, which just measures how well they've done

1533
01:11:11,320 --> 01:11:15,000
Speaker 6: compared to expectation, they're about middle of the pack when

1534
01:11:15,000 --> 01:11:17,880
Speaker 6: it comes to defense on inside runs, and if Buffalo's

1535
01:11:17,920 --> 01:11:20,280
Speaker 6: able to hammer that, then I think they could win

1536
01:11:20,320 --> 01:11:23,880
Speaker 6: their first playoff game since nineteen ninety three. But it

1537
01:11:23,920 --> 01:11:27,360
Speaker 6: won't be eating Jacksonville hasn't lost in two months, though.

1538
01:11:27,439 --> 01:11:29,439
Speaker 6: I think it comes down to do you take Josh

1539
01:11:29,520 --> 01:11:31,640
Speaker 6: Allen over Trevor Lawrence, and I think any of us

1540
01:11:31,720 --> 01:11:34,960
Speaker 6: would seven days a week and twice on Sundays.

1541
01:11:35,280 --> 01:11:36,840
Speaker 2: Yeah, Jacob, before we let you run, I was going

1542
01:11:36,920 --> 01:11:38,080
Speaker 2: to let you run on that well, but since you

1543
01:11:38,160 --> 01:11:40,519
Speaker 2: brought up the Bills and the Jaguars, it's been a

1544
01:11:40,600 --> 01:11:43,240
Speaker 2: topic of conversation for a lot of these shows, including

1545
01:11:43,280 --> 01:11:45,519
Speaker 2: Hours about the Buffalo Bills and whether or not the

1546
01:11:45,560 --> 01:11:47,800
Speaker 2: window is starting to close on them, or whether or

1547
01:11:47,800 --> 01:11:50,280
Speaker 2: not this is their best opportunity to actually make some

1548
01:11:50,360 --> 01:11:52,559
Speaker 2: hay in the postseason, because you don't have Lamar Jackson,

1549
01:11:52,600 --> 01:11:55,639
Speaker 2: you don't have Joe Burrow, you don't have Patrick Mahomes. Granted,

1550
01:11:55,680 --> 01:11:57,720
Speaker 2: this is not the best Buffalo team that we have

1551
01:11:57,760 --> 01:12:01,240
Speaker 2: seen over the past five years with Josh and Sean McDermott.

1552
01:12:01,439 --> 01:12:03,519
Speaker 2: If they don't let's say they be Jacksonville. But if

1553
01:12:03,520 --> 01:12:05,000
Speaker 2: they don't make it to the ANCI title game and

1554
01:12:05,040 --> 01:12:06,920
Speaker 2: make a run to the Super Bowl. Do you think

1555
01:12:06,960 --> 01:12:09,280
Speaker 2: it's possible that we can see yet another name added

1556
01:12:09,280 --> 01:12:11,799
Speaker 2: to the list of coaching positions and that Sean McDermott

1557
01:12:11,800 --> 01:12:12,679
Speaker 2: could be out as well.

1558
01:12:13,240 --> 01:12:14,120
Speaker 7: I really do, guys.

1559
01:12:14,160 --> 01:12:16,559
Speaker 6: And can you imagine a world where the Steelers lose

1560
01:12:16,680 --> 01:12:19,920
Speaker 6: and the Bills lose this week and we might see

1561
01:12:20,120 --> 01:12:24,559
Speaker 6: Mike com and Sean McDermott available in the head coaching market.

1562
01:12:24,800 --> 01:12:27,800
Speaker 6: It could really change up the league and Buffalo will

1563
01:12:27,840 --> 01:12:30,400
Speaker 6: probably start to feel pressure to do something. But I

1564
01:12:30,439 --> 01:12:32,280
Speaker 6: hope they don't get rid of their coach. I think

1565
01:12:32,439 --> 01:12:35,120
Speaker 6: what they should look at more so is the general manager.

1566
01:12:35,400 --> 01:12:38,960
Speaker 6: Brandon Bean has done some great jobs bringing in talent,

1567
01:12:39,000 --> 01:12:41,519
Speaker 6: but he's really struggled to bringing a receiver. And the

1568
01:12:41,600 --> 01:12:43,720
Speaker 6: Jaguar is a good example of what happens when you

1569
01:12:43,720 --> 01:12:46,120
Speaker 6: can bring on someone like Jakobe Myers. Do they traded

1570
01:12:46,160 --> 01:12:48,839
Speaker 6: a fourth and a sixth round pick for and suddenly

1571
01:12:48,880 --> 01:12:51,280
Speaker 6: reignited this offense and turn them into the one of

1572
01:12:51,320 --> 01:12:53,960
Speaker 6: the best offenses in the league. Why couldn't Buffalo do

1573
01:12:54,040 --> 01:12:56,120
Speaker 6: that for Josh Allen? And I don't think that starts

1574
01:12:56,120 --> 01:12:58,120
Speaker 6: with the coach. I think you should be looking more

1575
01:12:58,160 --> 01:13:01,880
Speaker 6: at the general manager to bring in like Jacobe Myers

1576
01:13:01,920 --> 01:13:04,360
Speaker 6: for a quarterback like Josha On when you have such

1577
01:13:04,400 --> 01:13:07,160
Speaker 6: a limited window, especially in a year like this where

1578
01:13:07,160 --> 01:13:08,960
Speaker 6: it seemed like and we knew early on right the

1579
01:13:09,040 --> 01:13:11,760
Speaker 6: Ravens were struggling, Joe Burrow was hurt, and the Chiefs

1580
01:13:11,800 --> 01:13:14,160
Speaker 6: were struggling as well. There's really no excuses for not

1581
01:13:14,280 --> 01:13:16,439
Speaker 6: adding for that receiver room in the year like this.

1582
01:13:17,040 --> 01:13:19,400
Speaker 3: He may have the same haircut as Pitbull, but this

1583
01:13:19,439 --> 01:13:23,040
Speaker 3: is the real mister worldwide. He has the world's largest

1584
01:13:23,200 --> 01:13:26,880
Speaker 3: NFL newsletter. It is Jacob Robinson. Follow him for the

1585
01:13:26,920 --> 01:13:30,400
Speaker 3: Athletic at Jacob Robinson, j D. Jacob, thanks for doing

1586
01:13:30,479 --> 01:13:31,800
Speaker 3: this yere on Fox Sports Radio.

1587
01:13:32,000 --> 01:13:33,840
Speaker 6: It was so much fun. Guys, thanks for having me.

1588
01:13:34,200 --> 01:13:37,880
Speaker 3: Hey, that's our guy now, Jacob Robinson. And I do

1589
01:13:37,960 --> 01:13:41,320
Speaker 3: think he should use Jacob's ladder as like one of

1590
01:13:41,360 --> 01:13:43,840
Speaker 3: his weekly ride ups, like you know, when he does

1591
01:13:43,880 --> 01:13:47,240
Speaker 3: his rankings or tierless call it Jacob's ladder. I think

1592
01:13:47,240 --> 01:13:47,800
Speaker 3: that'd be cool.

1593
01:13:47,880 --> 01:13:50,280
Speaker 2: I feel like it's probably been suggested before. He probably

1594
01:13:50,280 --> 01:13:52,479
Speaker 2: felt like it might be too much, too easy, too

1595
01:13:52,520 --> 01:13:54,240
Speaker 2: much of a low hanging fruit situation for him. So

1596
01:13:54,280 --> 01:13:55,800
Speaker 2: we probably left that one a lot two on the

1597
01:13:55,840 --> 01:13:56,920
Speaker 2: nose a little bit.

1598
01:13:57,600 --> 01:14:00,400
Speaker 3: I thought it was a good suggestion. Whatever, dude, that's okay,

1599
01:14:00,400 --> 01:14:01,080
Speaker 3: it's quite right.

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01:14:01,760 --> 01:14:02,320
Speaker 2: Works for me.

1601
01:14:02,560 --> 01:14:04,320
Speaker 3: Jacob's a hater, huh, don't.

1602
01:14:06,200 --> 01:14:07,960
Speaker 2: Kind of like when people make fake Newton jokes with

1603
01:14:08,000 --> 01:14:09,599
Speaker 2: me and my last names, like, yeah, I haven't heard

1604
01:14:09,600 --> 01:14:10,120
Speaker 2: that one before.

1605
01:14:10,160 --> 01:14:13,400
Speaker 3: Well that is stupid, okay, And Brian Seeman doing that

1606
01:14:13,439 --> 01:14:17,200
Speaker 3: to you all the time, saying, go figures he's better

1607
01:14:17,240 --> 01:14:19,040
Speaker 3: than that, all right. This is the king of the

1608
01:14:19,280 --> 01:14:22,280
Speaker 3: a mere coffee puns. Even though he's no longer with

1609
01:14:22,320 --> 01:14:23,920
Speaker 3: the Clippers. He had a good one the other night.

1610
01:14:25,040 --> 01:14:30,120
Speaker 3: So Janick Conan Niederhauser is a Clippers rookie backup center

1611
01:14:30,400 --> 01:14:33,120
Speaker 3: who's like twenty two or twenty three out of Penn State.

1612
01:14:33,880 --> 01:14:38,759
Speaker 3: And Yanick had a big throwdown. You know what, Brian said,

1613
01:14:39,560 --> 01:14:44,320
Speaker 3: Yanick boom, Yanick boom boom.

1614
01:14:44,560 --> 01:14:49,639
Speaker 2: Time to break. Come on, Brian, come on, we got.

1615
01:14:49,560 --> 01:14:51,800
Speaker 3: A new Street Better movie coming out this year.

1616
01:14:52,040 --> 01:14:55,040
Speaker 2: I get it, I know, I understand. Brian's really good well,

1617
01:14:55,160 --> 01:14:57,400
Speaker 2: and Brian's Seman, the TV voice of the La Clippers.

1618
01:14:57,400 --> 01:14:59,880
Speaker 2: Of course, he picked up a big victory on Friday nights.

1619
01:15:00,000 --> 01:15:01,000
Speaker 2: Congratulations at them.

1620
01:15:01,000 --> 01:15:03,880
Speaker 3: That's right. Hey, don't overlook the Brooklyn Nets. They've had

1621
01:15:04,080 --> 01:15:06,719
Speaker 3: one of the best defenses in the league last month. Okay,

1622
01:15:06,760 --> 01:15:09,400
Speaker 3: that was a good win. Now they got Detroit tomorrow.

1623
01:15:09,439 --> 01:15:10,720
Speaker 3: I'm a little bit concerned about that.

1624
01:15:10,880 --> 01:15:11,280
Speaker 2: Oh are you?

1625
01:15:11,680 --> 01:15:14,719
Speaker 3: These coaches should be concerned about some of these jobs

1626
01:15:14,760 --> 01:15:17,360
Speaker 3: that we're talking about. When we return, we'll get to

1627
01:15:17,439 --> 01:15:21,920
Speaker 3: our fourth best job available in the NFL. He's Kevin Figures.

1628
01:15:21,920 --> 01:15:24,240
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1632
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1634
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1635
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1636
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1640
01:15:56,960 --> 01:16:00,320
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1641
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1642
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1643
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1644
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1645
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1646
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1647
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1648
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Speaker 3: and the iHeartRadio app. All Right, Kevin, Yeah, where were.

1649
01:16:23,320 --> 01:16:27,040
Speaker 2: We dive back into the head coaching rankings of all

1650
01:16:27,200 --> 01:16:30,880
Speaker 2: the eight at least currently eight open head coaching jobs

1651
01:16:30,920 --> 01:16:33,040
Speaker 2: in the National Football League. We were raking them from

1652
01:16:33,120 --> 01:16:36,200
Speaker 2: worst to first. So I last checked in with the

1653
01:16:36,200 --> 01:16:39,320
Speaker 2: Tennessee Titans at number four. So, Adam, what is your

1654
01:16:39,479 --> 01:16:42,320
Speaker 2: firth fourth worst job? Opening? All Right?

1655
01:16:42,640 --> 01:16:45,559
Speaker 3: Atlanta is the fourth worst or best job for me,

1656
01:16:46,280 --> 01:16:48,200
Speaker 3: even though they were eight and nine just like the

1657
01:16:48,200 --> 01:16:51,080
Speaker 3: Panthers and Bucks, and we're a few tie breakers away

1658
01:16:51,240 --> 01:16:54,840
Speaker 3: from winning the Southeast that the NFC South Division has

1659
01:16:54,880 --> 01:16:58,720
Speaker 3: ever been. I still don't like their quarterback situation. They

1660
01:16:58,800 --> 01:17:01,479
Speaker 3: also don't have a first round pick this year because

1661
01:17:01,520 --> 01:17:04,439
Speaker 3: they traded it to the Rams to get James Pierce,

1662
01:17:04,479 --> 01:17:06,880
Speaker 3: who did have a really strong second half of the

1663
01:17:06,920 --> 01:17:10,280
Speaker 3: season for them on defense. But you're getting a new

1664
01:17:10,360 --> 01:17:14,719
Speaker 3: GM paired with this new coach as Arthur Blank wanted

1665
01:17:14,720 --> 01:17:18,200
Speaker 3: a blank slate to start over. Didn't just fire Raheem Morris.

1666
01:17:18,240 --> 01:17:19,240
Speaker 3: They blew everybody out.

1667
01:17:19,360 --> 01:17:19,840
Speaker 8: You're out.

1668
01:17:20,400 --> 01:17:24,439
Speaker 3: You'll be their fourth coach in seven years. Though not great.

1669
01:17:24,960 --> 01:17:27,519
Speaker 3: Arthur Blank's got some of the Jerry Jones syndrome. He's

1670
01:17:27,560 --> 01:17:31,800
Speaker 3: growing more and more impatient as he ages. So back

1671
01:17:31,840 --> 01:17:35,559
Speaker 3: to back eight and nine years. Had Morris relieved of

1672
01:17:35,640 --> 01:17:39,120
Speaker 3: his duties, that's like the new seven to nine BS

1673
01:17:39,160 --> 01:17:41,479
Speaker 3: that Jeff Fisher would talk about on Hard Knocks eight

1674
01:17:41,479 --> 01:17:45,360
Speaker 3: and nine. Michael Pennix is coming off in ACL now.

1675
01:17:45,640 --> 01:17:47,000
Speaker 2: His eighth one or something like that.

1676
01:17:47,160 --> 01:17:51,599
Speaker 3: Yeah, he's gonna have microfracture or something. You do have.

1677
01:17:52,160 --> 01:17:54,439
Speaker 3: I think the best running back in the NFL with

1678
01:17:54,520 --> 01:17:57,760
Speaker 3: Bjhon Robinson though, and if you get a quarterback, the

1679
01:17:57,800 --> 01:18:02,679
Speaker 3: other pieces are in place, Drake In, Darnell Moody, Kyle Pitts.

1680
01:18:03,160 --> 01:18:05,760
Speaker 3: You get the right guy under center, and you're in

1681
01:18:05,840 --> 01:18:08,080
Speaker 3: the center of the NFC. I don't know about the top,

1682
01:18:08,120 --> 01:18:10,280
Speaker 3: but you're in the mix. You're on the bubble. You

1683
01:18:10,280 --> 01:18:13,200
Speaker 3: can easily make the playoffs. In the NFC South, of course,

1684
01:18:13,320 --> 01:18:17,480
Speaker 3: So the defense is solid everything else but the quarterback.

1685
01:18:17,960 --> 01:18:21,000
Speaker 3: But that is a big void, and that's what I'd

1686
01:18:21,000 --> 01:18:23,200
Speaker 3: be worried about. That's why I have a fourth best job.

1687
01:18:23,400 --> 01:18:25,679
Speaker 2: Okay, makes sense to me. So now we are within

1688
01:18:25,800 --> 01:18:28,880
Speaker 2: the top three, the top three available head coaching positions

1689
01:18:28,960 --> 01:18:32,040
Speaker 2: and the National Football League Number three for me the

1690
01:18:32,080 --> 01:18:34,280
Speaker 2: New York Giants, and that is because you have the

1691
01:18:34,360 --> 01:18:37,200
Speaker 2: quarterback in place. I know we talked about this last week.

1692
01:18:37,240 --> 01:18:39,559
Speaker 2: I think I brought it up in our six pack

1693
01:18:39,600 --> 01:18:41,920
Speaker 2: whether or not the Giants might look at taking a

1694
01:18:42,000 --> 01:18:44,040
Speaker 2: quarterback in the top of the draft at some point

1695
01:18:44,080 --> 01:18:46,599
Speaker 2: in time. I do think at this point, with Joe

1696
01:18:46,600 --> 01:18:49,320
Speaker 2: Shane staying as a general manager, they're going to hire

1697
01:18:49,320 --> 01:18:51,960
Speaker 2: a head coach with the understanding you're being brought in

1698
01:18:52,040 --> 01:18:53,840
Speaker 2: and you are going to coach Jackson Dart to be

1699
01:18:53,880 --> 01:18:56,000
Speaker 2: the future of this franchise. That is what you were

1700
01:18:56,040 --> 01:18:58,000
Speaker 2: at tasked with. This is speaking of Jeff Fisher. This

1701
01:18:58,040 --> 01:19:01,600
Speaker 2: is the Rams all over again. Jeff Fisher. They go

1702
01:19:01,640 --> 01:19:03,840
Speaker 2: out for a coach and say, Jared Golf is going

1703
01:19:03,880 --> 01:19:05,720
Speaker 2: to be our guy, can you coach him? They find

1704
01:19:05,720 --> 01:19:08,000
Speaker 2: Sean McVay and at least for a little while. They

1705
01:19:08,040 --> 01:19:09,920
Speaker 2: had a lot of success. So yeah, he was able

1706
01:19:09,960 --> 01:19:11,120
Speaker 2: to be able to do it. I think this is

1707
01:19:11,160 --> 01:19:14,439
Speaker 2: the exact same situation with Jackson Dart and the Giants.

1708
01:19:14,560 --> 01:19:16,920
Speaker 2: They have weapons, they'll have the league neighbors back healthy.

1709
01:19:17,120 --> 01:19:20,160
Speaker 2: Wandell Robinson had a phenomenal season this year. You have

1710
01:19:20,240 --> 01:19:23,640
Speaker 2: good defensive players, Brian Burns a dual carter if he

1711
01:19:23,640 --> 01:19:26,400
Speaker 2: can get you know, get his head on straight, Kevon Thibodeau.

1712
01:19:26,600 --> 01:19:28,559
Speaker 2: So they have some talent out there. It's some stability

1713
01:19:28,600 --> 01:19:30,479
Speaker 2: at general manager, whether it's good or not. It is

1714
01:19:30,520 --> 01:19:33,080
Speaker 2: stability with Joe Shane. So I do think that's the

1715
01:19:33,120 --> 01:19:35,599
Speaker 2: third best job because you have the quarterback situation figured out.

1716
01:19:35,600 --> 01:19:37,400
Speaker 2: As long as he can stay healthy with the New

1717
01:19:37,479 --> 01:19:38,960
Speaker 2: York Giants, I agree with you.

1718
01:19:39,120 --> 01:19:41,360
Speaker 3: I have this as number three, even though I'm kind

1719
01:19:41,439 --> 01:19:44,040
Speaker 3: of a non believer in Jackson Dart. He's got too

1720
01:19:44,120 --> 01:19:47,000
Speaker 3: much of that male boozmos wanted in him, Like he

1721
01:19:47,080 --> 01:19:49,759
Speaker 3: looks like Jamie Kennedy are more like him than eminem

1722
01:19:49,840 --> 01:19:53,479
Speaker 3: though to me, like remember the Jamie Kennedy experience where

1723
01:19:53,520 --> 01:19:56,840
Speaker 3: some are being xed. That's happening in New York. Some

1724
01:19:56,920 --> 01:20:00,960
Speaker 3: are being fooled by Jackson Dart. The Jackson Dart experience

1725
01:20:01,560 --> 01:20:04,639
Speaker 3: might be short lived, just like Jamie Kennedy's show Okay

1726
01:20:04,800 --> 01:20:07,759
Speaker 3: got three seasons, but Dart might only get three years

1727
01:20:07,840 --> 01:20:11,320
Speaker 3: in the league if he keeps taking these Bobby Bouchet

1728
01:20:11,479 --> 01:20:15,799
Speaker 3: water boylike hits five times a game. Charles Bronson's ghost

1729
01:20:15,880 --> 01:20:19,000
Speaker 3: is looking for him because Dart has a death wish.

1730
01:20:19,320 --> 01:20:22,800
Speaker 3: It's crazy. He's not Ben Roethlisberger. He can't sustain all

1731
01:20:22,840 --> 01:20:26,520
Speaker 3: these hits. He's not that big. He needs to relax.

1732
01:20:27,160 --> 01:20:30,479
Speaker 3: Like a dart. A dart is thin and frail, even

1733
01:20:30,479 --> 01:20:33,479
Speaker 3: though it's got a hard tip like the helmet in

1734
01:20:33,479 --> 01:20:36,960
Speaker 3: this case, I guess. But beneath that it's dainty, so

1735
01:20:37,240 --> 01:20:40,080
Speaker 3: you gotta be careful there. They do have some weapons,

1736
01:20:40,160 --> 01:20:43,000
Speaker 3: though Malik Neighbors could come back strong. He's young. Off

1737
01:20:43,000 --> 01:20:46,000
Speaker 3: the ACL. I do worry about Camp Scataboo though that

1738
01:20:46,160 --> 01:20:49,519
Speaker 3: was a serious injury, like a dislocation of his ankle.

1739
01:20:49,920 --> 01:20:52,080
Speaker 3: I don't know if he'll ever be the same. But

1740
01:20:52,160 --> 01:20:55,760
Speaker 3: the NFC East is not that loaded, like you could

1741
01:20:55,760 --> 01:20:59,240
Speaker 3: be top two in there pretty easily. I think since

1742
01:20:59,280 --> 01:21:03,080
Speaker 3: twenty eleven they have not won the NFC East. Correct

1743
01:21:03,120 --> 01:21:07,559
Speaker 3: once and just have two playoff appearances. So they've cycled

1744
01:21:07,600 --> 01:21:11,200
Speaker 3: through four coaches in their last ten years. You mentioned

1745
01:21:11,200 --> 01:21:13,160
Speaker 3: they still have the same GM there, which is a

1746
01:21:13,200 --> 01:21:16,599
Speaker 3: little bit odd with how much failure we have seen

1747
01:21:16,680 --> 01:21:19,320
Speaker 3: in New York. But we'll get to our top two

1748
01:21:19,400 --> 01:21:23,639
Speaker 3: picks coming up next here on FNA on Fox Sports Radio.

1749
01:21:24,920 --> 01:21:28,679
Speaker 2: Yes, final hour of FNA on FSR. Here on Fox

1750
01:21:28,680 --> 01:21:30,880
Speaker 2: Football Saturday. Kevin figures you can hit me up on

1751
01:21:31,120 --> 01:21:34,600
Speaker 2: X at kfig one Adam at follow Adam A is

1752
01:21:34,640 --> 01:21:37,040
Speaker 2: where you can find him on X Adam still in

1753
01:21:37,080 --> 01:21:39,960
Speaker 2: disbelief listening to Steve di Seger's update as to what

1754
01:21:40,080 --> 01:21:45,559
Speaker 2: happened on Friday night. The Hoosiers went duck hunting, and

1755
01:21:46,040 --> 01:21:47,400
Speaker 2: I'll say that they got a massive haul.

1756
01:21:48,000 --> 01:21:51,639
Speaker 3: I don't know, because I think in duck hunt they

1757
01:21:51,720 --> 01:21:54,479
Speaker 3: just keep getting faster and like you can go to

1758
01:21:54,920 --> 01:21:59,320
Speaker 3: ninety nine levels, most people can't get past ten. Kurt

1759
01:21:59,360 --> 01:22:03,040
Speaker 3: Signetti has conquered duck hunt. That's what we saw.

1760
01:22:03,360 --> 01:22:05,960
Speaker 2: It's like Mario where you have that giant like bullet

1761
01:22:06,000 --> 01:22:07,720
Speaker 2: that goes across, so you have the small bullets and

1762
01:22:07,720 --> 01:22:09,519
Speaker 2: you have the ginormous one that you have to avoid

1763
01:22:09,560 --> 01:22:11,920
Speaker 2: that crosses the entire screen. Oh you can have all

1764
01:22:11,960 --> 01:22:14,120
Speaker 2: your million ducks on the screen and then the one

1765
01:22:14,200 --> 01:22:17,160
Speaker 2: giant Mario bullet just kills all of them. At That's

1766
01:22:17,200 --> 01:22:20,160
Speaker 2: basically what happened on Friday night at the Peach Boot.

1767
01:22:20,920 --> 01:22:24,360
Speaker 3: I've been looking on Twitter and people are very much

1768
01:22:24,439 --> 01:22:27,720
Speaker 3: upset with Dan Lanning. They are putting him, Kevin some

1769
01:22:28,680 --> 01:22:30,800
Speaker 3: on fraud Watch. I'm not doing all that.

1770
01:22:30,880 --> 01:22:31,200
Speaker 2: Watch.

1771
01:22:31,360 --> 01:22:34,639
Speaker 3: Fraud Watch is in effect on Dan Lanning. You better

1772
01:22:34,680 --> 01:22:35,560
Speaker 3: watch himself.

1773
01:22:36,240 --> 01:22:37,680
Speaker 2: That's completely ridiculous.

1774
01:22:38,240 --> 01:22:42,080
Speaker 3: The reactionarys. It's reflexive. They just lost by thirty and

1775
01:22:42,120 --> 01:22:45,799
Speaker 3: it wasn't even that close. It was not even that close.

1776
01:22:46,680 --> 01:22:50,000
Speaker 3: But I digress. Let's get back before we get to

1777
01:22:50,040 --> 01:22:52,800
Speaker 3: who has the most pressure to win in the postseason?

1778
01:22:52,880 --> 01:22:55,719
Speaker 3: And actually we should throw out the number for this, Kevin.

1779
01:22:56,120 --> 01:23:00,599
Speaker 3: This is a great topic, Okay, eight seven seven fox,

1780
01:23:00,680 --> 01:23:03,919
Speaker 3: Who has the most pressure to win in the NFL

1781
01:23:04,439 --> 01:23:05,440
Speaker 3: in this postseason?

1782
01:23:06,360 --> 01:23:07,519
Speaker 8: I guess it's a good subject.

1783
01:23:07,800 --> 01:23:09,040
Speaker 3: Or you can get to me at Foul out of

1784
01:23:09,080 --> 01:23:12,559
Speaker 3: May at Kfig one for Kevin. We got a lot

1785
01:23:12,560 --> 01:23:14,880
Speaker 3: of thoughts on this, but we still have two more

1786
01:23:15,000 --> 01:23:18,800
Speaker 3: teams or two more destinations that we believe are the

1787
01:23:18,880 --> 01:23:22,920
Speaker 3: best coaching destinations left on the board during this NFL

1788
01:23:23,000 --> 01:23:25,960
Speaker 3: coaching carousel going on, Kevin, you got number two for me.

1789
01:23:26,200 --> 01:23:29,360
Speaker 2: Number two for me is the Atlanta Falcons. They get

1790
01:23:29,400 --> 01:23:32,400
Speaker 2: the edge over the Giants because the coaching GM kind

1791
01:23:32,439 --> 01:23:34,200
Speaker 2: of has a chance to put their own stamp on

1792
01:23:34,240 --> 01:23:37,760
Speaker 2: a roster that's already I think pretty solid. You brought

1793
01:23:37,760 --> 01:23:40,880
Speaker 2: this up last segment. You have Bjon Robinson, likely the

1794
01:23:40,880 --> 01:23:43,759
Speaker 2: best running back in the NFL, Drake London. Kyle Pitts

1795
01:23:43,800 --> 01:23:46,840
Speaker 2: broke out this year, had his best most productive season

1796
01:23:46,960 --> 01:23:50,080
Speaker 2: since his rookie year. You didn't have your best offensive

1797
01:23:50,080 --> 01:23:53,320
Speaker 2: lineman last year. Kaylen McGarry got injured in training camp.

1798
01:23:53,400 --> 01:23:56,040
Speaker 2: He's gonna be back, and a talented young defense you

1799
01:23:56,080 --> 01:23:58,320
Speaker 2: mentioned James Pierce. Yes, they're not going to have their

1800
01:23:58,320 --> 01:24:00,559
Speaker 2: first round pick this year. That's going to be thirteen overall,

1801
01:24:00,560 --> 01:24:02,400
Speaker 2: But I don't know. Ten and a half Sacks had

1802
01:24:02,479 --> 01:24:05,040
Speaker 2: the best pressure rate of any rookie defensive end or

1803
01:24:05,160 --> 01:24:08,640
Speaker 2: pass rusher in the entire league. I mean sounds like

1804
01:24:08,680 --> 01:24:10,200
Speaker 2: the value of a thirteenth pick to me, and they

1805
01:24:10,200 --> 01:24:12,880
Speaker 2: got him at number twenty six last year. So I mean, yeah,

1806
01:24:12,920 --> 01:24:14,280
Speaker 2: you love to have the pick, but you love to

1807
01:24:14,280 --> 01:24:17,120
Speaker 2: have the production more than anything else. So the ownership

1808
01:24:17,200 --> 01:24:19,240
Speaker 2: is a little bit of an issue because to your point,

1809
01:24:19,360 --> 01:24:21,519
Speaker 2: Arthur Blank has been a little bit reactionary. You know,

1810
01:24:21,600 --> 01:24:24,479
Speaker 2: Mike Smith was there for what ten thirteen years something

1811
01:24:24,520 --> 01:24:26,400
Speaker 2: like that. Mike Smith was there for quite a long time,

1812
01:24:26,640 --> 01:24:28,680
Speaker 2: and the last three coaches that they've had have not

1813
01:24:28,840 --> 01:24:31,200
Speaker 2: had long runaway at all. So he again getting a

1814
01:24:31,240 --> 01:24:34,040
Speaker 2: little bit impatient here, but you know, blowing out the

1815
01:24:34,160 --> 01:24:36,400
Speaker 2: entire front office, getting a new GM who will be

1816
01:24:36,400 --> 01:24:39,120
Speaker 2: able to hire as head coach. Maybe that's John Harball.

1817
01:24:39,240 --> 01:24:41,439
Speaker 2: If the demands are true and he wants to be

1818
01:24:41,479 --> 01:24:44,040
Speaker 2: able to have a roster that can compete somewhat right

1819
01:24:44,080 --> 01:24:46,280
Speaker 2: away and be able to put his own place in

1820
01:24:46,479 --> 01:24:48,880
Speaker 2: his own general manager in place. This seems to be

1821
01:24:49,000 --> 01:24:50,639
Speaker 2: kind of the perfect fit for him. So I think

1822
01:24:50,680 --> 01:24:53,759
Speaker 2: Atlanta at eight and nine you mentioned not the toughest division,

1823
01:24:53,880 --> 01:24:55,800
Speaker 2: with a lot of talent in your back pocket, I

1824
01:24:55,840 --> 01:24:57,760
Speaker 2: think that is the second best job available.

1825
01:24:57,920 --> 01:25:01,000
Speaker 3: Do you like that we get a proxy war between

1826
01:25:01,160 --> 01:25:04,920
Speaker 3: the Bucks and the Panthers being represented last week by

1827
01:25:05,080 --> 01:25:08,120
Speaker 3: the Falcons and the Saints. The Falcons were basically the Panthers.

1828
01:25:08,479 --> 01:25:11,680
Speaker 3: The Saints were the Bucks. You saw the Baker Mayfield

1829
01:25:12,080 --> 01:25:14,639
Speaker 3: video of him watching the end of that game knowing

1830
01:25:14,680 --> 01:25:18,840
Speaker 3: his playoff live was at stake like that was incredible

1831
01:25:18,920 --> 01:25:22,360
Speaker 3: high drama for such a poor division. Okay, my number

1832
01:25:22,400 --> 01:25:26,880
Speaker 3: two best destination. This may come as a shock.

1833
01:25:27,520 --> 01:25:28,519
Speaker 2: The Raider suck.

1834
01:25:29,320 --> 01:25:33,880
Speaker 3: Here's here's the thing. The Raiders have the number one

1835
01:25:33,960 --> 01:25:37,920
Speaker 3: pick in the draft. They have Fernando Mendoza. They're getting them,

1836
01:25:38,160 --> 01:25:40,400
Speaker 3: and I like them. Kevin he won't have any of

1837
01:25:40,400 --> 01:25:44,000
Speaker 3: those issues with temptations in the City of Sin. He'll

1838
01:25:44,040 --> 01:25:47,240
Speaker 3: keep his nose clean. He'll be focused on football and

1839
01:25:47,320 --> 01:25:52,160
Speaker 3: God and family. You need the least raider Ish type

1840
01:25:52,240 --> 01:25:55,240
Speaker 3: of player ever to be the quarterback there to bring

1841
01:25:55,280 --> 01:25:59,480
Speaker 3: them back to greatness. Derek Carr had some of this Mendoza.

1842
01:25:59,600 --> 01:26:01,280
Speaker 3: He's gonna to get them the rest of the way.

1843
01:26:01,280 --> 01:26:04,000
Speaker 2: There you God's ears.

1844
01:26:04,120 --> 01:26:07,720
Speaker 3: They got the Goat and Tom Brady. And think about this.

1845
01:26:07,880 --> 01:26:10,879
Speaker 3: Once they get competitive enough and the margins are slimmer

1846
01:26:10,920 --> 01:26:14,400
Speaker 3: between you and your opponent, that's when the cheating starts.

1847
01:26:14,479 --> 01:26:18,439
Speaker 3: Because if you did it now, they still lose. But

1848
01:26:18,680 --> 01:26:21,400
Speaker 3: if you wait till the margins are slimmer and you

1849
01:26:21,439 --> 01:26:24,160
Speaker 3: get that little edge with Tom Brady, in there that

1850
01:26:24,320 --> 01:26:26,760
Speaker 3: small advantage that will be very meaningful.

1851
01:26:27,240 --> 01:26:28,840
Speaker 2: I mean, like the Flaton footballs or what.

1852
01:26:28,960 --> 01:26:33,759
Speaker 3: Sure spygate whatever. I think the Raiders have a bright future. Actually,

1853
01:26:33,920 --> 01:26:36,920
Speaker 3: Kansas City's coming back to the pack a little bit. Sure,

1854
01:26:36,960 --> 01:26:39,479
Speaker 3: they could be replaced by Denver now being dominant. Who

1855
01:26:39,520 --> 01:26:42,200
Speaker 3: knows what's gonna happen in the AFC West. It's a monster.

1856
01:26:42,760 --> 01:26:46,519
Speaker 3: But if you end up getting the right coach there

1857
01:26:47,160 --> 01:26:49,880
Speaker 3: and they have some time to grow with that quarterback

1858
01:26:50,000 --> 01:26:53,599
Speaker 3: because they're going to be attached to Fernando Mendoza, that's

1859
01:26:53,680 --> 01:26:56,080
Speaker 3: also a good spot for you to land because you

1860
01:26:56,160 --> 01:26:58,519
Speaker 3: may get a little bit longer of a leash. We

1861
01:26:58,560 --> 01:27:01,680
Speaker 3: can't fire this guy. That's Mendoza's guy. We got to

1862
01:27:01,720 --> 01:27:04,720
Speaker 3: keep the head coach and the star quarterback together. It's

1863
01:27:04,720 --> 01:27:08,000
Speaker 3: a packaged deal, and you do have rock Bers and

1864
01:27:08,120 --> 01:27:11,880
Speaker 3: Gente and Max Crosby as a talent or as trade bait.

1865
01:27:12,400 --> 01:27:14,639
Speaker 3: I don't know. I kind of like what the Raiders

1866
01:27:14,680 --> 01:27:18,400
Speaker 3: got cooking. I said, I might even think about bringing

1867
01:27:18,439 --> 01:27:20,599
Speaker 3: back Pete Carroll because I think a lot of things

1868
01:27:20,680 --> 01:27:23,719
Speaker 3: just win against them this season out of the ordinary

1869
01:27:24,320 --> 01:27:28,040
Speaker 3: that probably could turn around pretty quickly next year. So

1870
01:27:28,400 --> 01:27:30,200
Speaker 3: I don't see that as a bad spot, and that's

1871
01:27:30,200 --> 01:27:31,719
Speaker 3: why I have it as my number two spot.

1872
01:27:32,040 --> 01:27:34,960
Speaker 2: Okay, Look, I certainly understand your sentiment when it comes

1873
01:27:35,000 --> 01:27:36,519
Speaker 2: to that. I still think it's a little bit of

1874
01:27:36,560 --> 01:27:38,439
Speaker 2: a tough road to hope for them, especially in that

1875
01:27:38,520 --> 01:27:40,760
Speaker 2: division with the other three teams that have to go

1876
01:27:40,840 --> 01:27:43,439
Speaker 2: up against. That's going to be a really, really difficult

1877
01:27:43,439 --> 01:27:45,160
Speaker 2: proposition before I get to my number one. And by

1878
01:27:45,200 --> 01:27:47,080
Speaker 2: the way, our number one is the same, and I

1879
01:27:47,080 --> 01:27:49,920
Speaker 2: think it's everybody's number one is Baltimore Ravens. But how

1880
01:27:49,920 --> 01:27:52,719
Speaker 2: about this if you're the Raiders and it's been thrown

1881
01:27:52,760 --> 01:27:54,600
Speaker 2: out there, but and I don't think it'll happen, But

1882
01:27:55,439 --> 01:27:59,080
Speaker 2: do you give a Godfather offer to curse Signetti and

1883
01:27:59,120 --> 01:28:00,839
Speaker 2: say you can be the head coach of the Raiders

1884
01:28:01,000 --> 01:28:02,760
Speaker 2: and you can have for Nana Mendoza and the two

1885
01:28:02,800 --> 01:28:05,439
Speaker 2: of you can come together. It's the old Cliff Kingsbury

1886
01:28:05,479 --> 01:28:08,479
Speaker 2: Kyler Murray package deal. I guess obviously you're hoping that

1887
01:28:08,479 --> 01:28:10,280
Speaker 2: it will work out much better than that situation.

1888
01:28:10,360 --> 01:28:10,559
Speaker 6: Did.

1889
01:28:10,680 --> 01:28:13,200
Speaker 3: I thought it was gonna happen with Andrew Luck and

1890
01:28:13,320 --> 01:28:16,679
Speaker 3: Jim Harbaugh going to the Carolina Panthers back in the day.

1891
01:28:16,760 --> 01:28:19,360
Speaker 3: That was my dream, but luck didn't end up coming

1892
01:28:19,400 --> 01:28:20,120
Speaker 3: out right away.

1893
01:28:20,200 --> 01:28:21,840
Speaker 2: There's an example of a guy that stayed in school

1894
01:28:21,880 --> 01:28:22,679
Speaker 2: for an additional year.

1895
01:28:22,800 --> 01:28:26,000
Speaker 3: Yeah, it still was fine for him, although he ends

1896
01:28:26,040 --> 01:28:30,559
Speaker 3: up going to a worse organization in some ways with

1897
01:28:30,640 --> 01:28:33,720
Speaker 3: the way they built their roster, at least with Indianapolis

1898
01:28:33,760 --> 01:28:36,360
Speaker 3: and the way they constructed things. I think the Panthers

1899
01:28:36,360 --> 01:28:38,320
Speaker 3: would have been a better spot for him because cam

1900
01:28:38,360 --> 01:28:40,880
Speaker 3: Newton eventually ended up getting to the Super Bowl. They

1901
01:28:40,920 --> 01:28:45,280
Speaker 3: actually had a decent infrastructure there. Who would you want

1902
01:28:45,680 --> 01:28:48,080
Speaker 3: as your head coach with the Raiders, Kevin, if you

1903
01:28:48,120 --> 01:28:50,599
Speaker 3: had your choice quiz hotshot, Well.

1904
01:28:50,439 --> 01:28:53,479
Speaker 2: If they're gonna in effect end up drafting for Nanda Mendoza,

1905
01:28:53,520 --> 01:28:55,640
Speaker 2: which it's most likely they're going to, although there's a

1906
01:28:55,640 --> 01:28:57,439
Speaker 2: lot of people out there who still like Dante more

1907
01:28:57,479 --> 01:28:59,280
Speaker 2: if he comes out, even despite the fact of what

1908
01:28:59,320 --> 01:29:01,200
Speaker 2: happened on the fueld on Friday night. Just from a

1909
01:29:01,280 --> 01:29:02,640
Speaker 2: pure evaluation.

1910
01:29:02,160 --> 01:29:06,040
Speaker 3: Standpoint, at the first blind quarterback take it and that's crazy.

1911
01:29:06,680 --> 01:29:08,760
Speaker 2: I wouldn't mind. Kevin Stefanski. I think if you're gonna

1912
01:29:08,840 --> 01:29:11,120
Speaker 2: draft Fernanda Mendoza, you need to get an offensive minded

1913
01:29:11,160 --> 01:29:12,960
Speaker 2: head coach because we see this all the time. You

1914
01:29:13,040 --> 01:29:15,160
Speaker 2: draft a quarterback if you have a defensive minded head coach,

1915
01:29:15,200 --> 01:29:17,839
Speaker 2: and if the offense starts to flourish, your offensive coordinator

1916
01:29:17,880 --> 01:29:19,720
Speaker 2: ended up beginning poach two years later and you have

1917
01:29:19,760 --> 01:29:22,200
Speaker 2: to replace him, and that becomes really difficult to do.

1918
01:29:22,520 --> 01:29:24,800
Speaker 2: So I actually wouldn't mind. I think I said this

1919
01:29:24,880 --> 01:29:26,679
Speaker 2: last week as a matter of fact, I wouldn't mind

1920
01:29:26,880 --> 01:29:30,000
Speaker 2: bringing in Kevin Stefanski from Cleveland. I think I think

1921
01:29:30,040 --> 01:29:31,800
Speaker 2: he's an excellent quarterback coach. I think he had a

1922
01:29:31,800 --> 01:29:34,479
Speaker 2: lot of things working against him in Cleveland. So he's

1923
01:29:34,479 --> 01:29:35,960
Speaker 2: the guy that I will be encouraged by if they

1924
01:29:36,000 --> 01:29:37,479
Speaker 2: wanted to, if they wanted to make that higher.

1925
01:29:37,520 --> 01:29:40,760
Speaker 3: Okay, so anti climactic. Obviously, the best landing spot for

1926
01:29:40,920 --> 01:29:43,960
Speaker 3: any perspective head coach would be in Baltimore because you

1927
01:29:44,000 --> 01:29:47,160
Speaker 3: have the quarterback in place and a roster that vastly

1928
01:29:47,320 --> 01:29:50,439
Speaker 3: underachieved this season. You also have the running back in place.

1929
01:29:50,920 --> 01:29:53,400
Speaker 3: You could end up winning the Super Bowl next year

1930
01:29:53,720 --> 01:29:55,920
Speaker 3: your first year. Is the head coach you could John

1931
01:29:56,000 --> 01:29:56,960
Speaker 3: Gruden this thing.

1932
01:29:57,200 --> 01:29:59,519
Speaker 2: You could now, I will say there's more pressure on

1933
01:29:59,560 --> 01:30:02,640
Speaker 2: you for that reason too, so your leash might not

1934
01:30:02,720 --> 01:30:04,479
Speaker 2: be as long you might only get a couple of

1935
01:30:04,479 --> 01:30:06,200
Speaker 2: bites of the apple, a couple of one, two, three

1936
01:30:06,280 --> 01:30:08,639
Speaker 2: years at this because you have a stable front office,

1937
01:30:08,640 --> 01:30:10,439
Speaker 2: because you have so much talent on both sides of

1938
01:30:10,479 --> 01:30:13,320
Speaker 2: the ball, their best defensive player or best defensive lineman

1939
01:30:13,360 --> 01:30:15,160
Speaker 2: at the very least, just a Mattic Bik we back

1940
01:30:15,200 --> 01:30:18,000
Speaker 2: healthy next season. So if you don't produce, if you

1941
01:30:18,040 --> 01:30:21,120
Speaker 2: come in and you produce eight to nine covering around

1942
01:30:21,120 --> 01:30:23,920
Speaker 2: five hundred something like that, you could have a pretty

1943
01:30:24,000 --> 01:30:26,680
Speaker 2: quick exit. So I think that's the only fear with

1944
01:30:26,760 --> 01:30:29,000
Speaker 2: a job like this. The expectation is going to be

1945
01:30:29,080 --> 01:30:29,920
Speaker 2: high from day one.

1946
01:30:30,080 --> 01:30:34,000
Speaker 3: There's always a downside to it. Also, too much as given,

1947
01:30:34,080 --> 01:30:37,120
Speaker 3: much as expected. There in Baltimore, we got a phone

1948
01:30:37,120 --> 01:30:42,320
Speaker 3: call here Kevin coming in from Vegas. It's Kyle in Vegas. Kyle,

1949
01:30:42,600 --> 01:30:44,840
Speaker 3: you're on f and he on FSR. What's up?

1950
01:30:45,800 --> 01:30:46,280
Speaker 9: What's up?

1951
01:30:46,320 --> 01:30:46,639
Speaker 8: Guys?

1952
01:30:46,680 --> 01:30:50,759
Speaker 9: So listen really quick. That was a good topic right there.

1953
01:30:52,040 --> 01:30:54,280
Speaker 9: The person who has the most pressure of the team

1954
01:30:54,320 --> 01:30:56,800
Speaker 9: that has the most pressure this playoff season is the

1955
01:30:56,800 --> 01:31:02,600
Speaker 9: buftball fields. You have none of the top regular AFC

1956
01:31:02,640 --> 01:31:05,759
Speaker 9: teams that were getting in your way these past few seasons.

1957
01:31:06,080 --> 01:31:08,200
Speaker 9: You have none of that in front of you. The

1958
01:31:08,280 --> 01:31:11,599
Speaker 9: obstacle should be a lot easier if they don't wait

1959
01:31:12,120 --> 01:31:14,400
Speaker 9: or at least get to the Super Bowl. Doug McDermott

1960
01:31:14,479 --> 01:31:19,080
Speaker 9: is out of there, Josh Allen, that MVP year looks faudulent.

1961
01:31:19,680 --> 01:31:23,040
Speaker 9: I'll tell you the team that has zero pressure for

1962
01:31:23,200 --> 01:31:27,600
Speaker 9: this season's playoffs or zero expectations. The Chicago Bears, my

1963
01:31:27,680 --> 01:31:32,200
Speaker 9: home town team, my favorite, zero pressure, zero expectations. Just

1964
01:31:32,280 --> 01:31:34,760
Speaker 9: to be twelve and five at the end of the

1965
01:31:34,840 --> 01:31:39,200
Speaker 9: year is amazing. I'm sorry, Yeah, twelve and five at

1966
01:31:39,240 --> 01:31:42,519
Speaker 9: the end of the year is amazing. Completely turn around

1967
01:31:42,520 --> 01:31:45,240
Speaker 9: by being jockson the team looks good. But Doug McDermott

1968
01:31:45,280 --> 01:31:47,920
Speaker 9: and Josh Allen, I'm sorry, they're the next duel that's

1969
01:31:47,920 --> 01:31:50,240
Speaker 9: probably gonna be separated or divorced.

1970
01:31:51,520 --> 01:31:54,719
Speaker 3: Wait, Dougie mcbucket's is gonna get fired? What he doesn't

1971
01:31:54,720 --> 01:31:57,360
Speaker 3: assume McDermott Sean.

1972
01:31:57,160 --> 01:31:59,519
Speaker 2: McDermott, I was the Sean McDermot with the Buffalo Bills.

1973
01:31:59,520 --> 01:32:01,559
Speaker 2: I will say to go backwards on his call about

1974
01:32:01,560 --> 01:32:03,479
Speaker 2: the Chicago Bears, I would agree with that. I think

1975
01:32:03,479 --> 01:32:06,040
Speaker 2: they are probably a year ahead of schedule for a

1976
01:32:06,040 --> 01:32:08,240
Speaker 2: lot of people, and nobody expected them to be in

1977
01:32:08,280 --> 01:32:11,320
Speaker 2: this position where they're the two seed, they win their division,

1978
01:32:11,560 --> 01:32:14,640
Speaker 2: hosting a playoff game against their biggest rival. It's all

1979
01:32:14,720 --> 01:32:16,639
Speaker 2: house money for the Bears at this point in time. Now,

1980
01:32:16,720 --> 01:32:19,439
Speaker 2: you obviously would not want to lose forty five to

1981
01:32:19,479 --> 01:32:20,439
Speaker 2: six or something like that.

1982
01:32:20,439 --> 01:32:22,680
Speaker 3: That would be terrible, especially to the pers.

1983
01:32:22,439 --> 01:32:25,559
Speaker 2: Yeah, but I mean you don't want no, even if

1984
01:32:25,600 --> 01:32:29,280
Speaker 2: that were to happen. Everything's looking up for the Chicago Bears.

1985
01:32:29,320 --> 01:32:32,360
Speaker 2: They're played with house money this year, so good on them.

1986
01:32:32,439 --> 01:32:34,719
Speaker 2: Had a great year with Ben Johnson and the sky's

1987
01:32:34,720 --> 01:32:37,400
Speaker 2: the limit. But obviously, similar to how we all thought

1988
01:32:37,400 --> 01:32:40,360
Speaker 2: that the easiest or the best coaching job is the

1989
01:32:40,360 --> 01:32:43,360
Speaker 2: Baltimore Ravens, I think the most pressure from an obvious

1990
01:32:43,400 --> 01:32:45,640
Speaker 2: standpoint is the Buffalo Bills for all the reasons that

1991
01:32:45,720 --> 01:32:48,799
Speaker 2: Kyle mentioned with the caveat, and we discussed this earlier

1992
01:32:49,200 --> 01:32:50,680
Speaker 2: in the show. We talked about this, I think maybe

1993
01:32:50,720 --> 01:32:53,120
Speaker 2: a few weeks ago when people were talking about Buffalo

1994
01:32:53,200 --> 01:32:55,360
Speaker 2: being under pressure to win this year. This is like

1995
01:32:55,360 --> 01:32:57,560
Speaker 2: one of their worst teams that they've had in this

1996
01:32:57,640 --> 01:33:00,400
Speaker 2: Sean McDermott, Josh Allen era. The defense has been banged

1997
01:33:00,479 --> 01:33:02,320
Speaker 2: up and not very good they don't have a lot

1998
01:33:02,400 --> 01:33:05,720
Speaker 2: of weapons offensively, which really limits their effectiveness and what

1999
01:33:05,760 --> 01:33:08,000
Speaker 2: they can do. As great as Josh Allen is, he's

2000
01:33:08,040 --> 01:33:09,800
Speaker 2: only as good as the weapons that he can pass

2001
01:33:09,840 --> 01:33:11,639
Speaker 2: the ball to when he just doesn't have many of them.

2002
01:33:11,800 --> 01:33:14,800
Speaker 3: If you took any of the Buffalo Bills teams that

2003
01:33:15,000 --> 01:33:17,840
Speaker 3: ended up losing in the playoffs to the Kansas City

2004
01:33:17,920 --> 01:33:21,519
Speaker 3: Chiefs every year, those teams would get to the super

2005
01:33:21,560 --> 01:33:25,559
Speaker 3: Bowl this year out of the AFCI, but they get there. Yeah, yeah,

2006
01:33:25,880 --> 01:33:28,640
Speaker 3: I think those teams are much more talented. They were

2007
01:33:28,720 --> 01:33:33,280
Speaker 3: knocking on the door now going to Jacksonville. They played

2008
01:33:33,320 --> 01:33:36,320
Speaker 3: each other in ninety seven I think it was, Oh,

2009
01:33:36,360 --> 01:33:38,760
Speaker 3: they played each other in a miserable playoff game with

2010
01:33:38,880 --> 01:33:42,240
Speaker 3: Tyrod Taylor. Was it where it was like seven to six,

2011
01:33:42,880 --> 01:33:46,560
Speaker 3: that Josh Allen game? Maybe in I don't know, twenty seventeen,

2012
01:33:46,640 --> 01:33:49,439
Speaker 3: twenty eighteen to two. They do have some playoff history,

2013
01:33:49,760 --> 01:33:52,120
Speaker 3: and Jacksonville is surprised the hell out of me. All

2014
01:33:52,120 --> 01:33:56,520
Speaker 3: season long, I doubted them. Maybe they wear teal.

2015
01:33:57,080 --> 01:33:57,800
Speaker 2: Is what it is.

2016
01:33:59,520 --> 01:34:03,840
Speaker 3: Trevor Lawrence is completely inconsistent and unreliable. But I have

2017
01:34:03,920 --> 01:34:05,400
Speaker 3: my doubts. But they're winning the last.

2018
01:34:05,280 --> 01:34:07,320
Speaker 2: Couple of months. Man, he's been spectacular.

2019
01:34:07,479 --> 01:34:11,360
Speaker 3: No, he's been good. They're head coach. I think the

2020
01:34:11,479 --> 01:34:17,960
Speaker 3: NFL is leaning more towards these offensive masterminds and these

2021
01:34:18,040 --> 01:34:22,559
Speaker 3: guys that either called plays recently or still calling plays

2022
01:34:22,680 --> 01:34:25,200
Speaker 3: as the head coach. You look at it, Kevin, I

2023
01:34:25,240 --> 01:34:29,360
Speaker 3: think the youngest or the oldest head coach in the

2024
01:34:29,360 --> 01:34:36,240
Speaker 3: playoffs this weekend is Matt Lafleur at forty six. I

2025
01:34:36,320 --> 01:34:39,040
Speaker 3: believe he is the oldest head coach. So guys are

2026
01:34:39,080 --> 01:34:43,280
Speaker 3: getting younger. There is something to this. So I wouldn't

2027
01:34:43,320 --> 01:34:46,800
Speaker 3: be shocked if the Buffalo Bills lose that game. Yeah,

2028
01:34:46,840 --> 01:34:49,600
Speaker 3: Sean McDermott is definitely in trouble. He is definitely on

2029
01:34:49,640 --> 01:34:51,400
Speaker 3: the hot seat right now with the Buffalo Bills.

2030
01:34:51,720 --> 01:34:53,920
Speaker 2: Yeah, and we can argue whether it's fair or not.

2031
01:34:54,000 --> 01:34:56,599
Speaker 2: I think it's probably is to a degree. You've been

2032
01:34:56,600 --> 01:34:57,840
Speaker 2: at the Helm as long as you have been. The

2033
01:34:57,880 --> 01:35:01,679
Speaker 2: expectations have been so high, and you know, we talked

2034
01:35:01,680 --> 01:35:03,800
Speaker 2: about this with Jacob Robinson last hour. He says, you

2035
01:35:03,800 --> 01:35:05,560
Speaker 2: know what, maybe a lot of it falls at the

2036
01:35:05,600 --> 01:35:07,880
Speaker 2: feet of the general manager, not necessarily the head coach.

2037
01:35:08,360 --> 01:35:10,320
Speaker 2: Sean McDermott is one of the very few in the

2038
01:35:10,360 --> 01:35:15,000
Speaker 2: league where he supersedes the GM. Sean McDermott hired Brandon Bean.

2039
01:35:15,360 --> 01:35:18,160
Speaker 2: He's in one of those situations. So Sean McDermott would

2040
01:35:18,160 --> 01:35:19,760
Speaker 2: have the power to be able to get rid of

2041
01:35:19,800 --> 01:35:21,639
Speaker 2: Brandon Bean if you wanted to. And the buck stops

2042
01:35:21,640 --> 01:35:23,400
Speaker 2: with Sean, so he's kind of the head of the

2043
01:35:23,520 --> 01:35:25,800
Speaker 2: entire department there. So I don't know if getting rid

2044
01:35:25,840 --> 01:35:28,799
Speaker 2: of Brandon Bean would really do a whole lot outside

2045
01:35:28,800 --> 01:35:31,120
Speaker 2: of just you know, having some you know, lip service

2046
01:35:31,200 --> 01:35:33,960
Speaker 2: or whatever to the fan base. So it's unfortunate to

2047
01:35:33,960 --> 01:35:36,400
Speaker 2: a certain degree because they just have this working against

2048
01:35:36,439 --> 01:35:37,800
Speaker 2: him this year. But it's kind of put up or

2049
01:35:37,800 --> 01:35:39,920
Speaker 2: shut up for the Buffalo Bills this season. And I'll

2050
01:35:39,960 --> 01:35:42,439
Speaker 2: be honest with you, I don't see it happening. I

2051
01:35:42,520 --> 01:35:44,200
Speaker 2: really don't. I don't know if they make it out

2052
01:35:44,200 --> 01:35:45,760
Speaker 2: of Jacksonville. I don't be honest with you. The way

2053
01:35:45,760 --> 01:35:47,040
Speaker 2: these two teams have been playing.

2054
01:35:47,640 --> 01:35:52,040
Speaker 3: Josh Allen has also had some real low moments in

2055
01:35:52,080 --> 01:35:56,400
Speaker 3: the playoffs before. He hasn't always been spectacular or held

2056
01:35:56,479 --> 01:35:59,599
Speaker 3: up his and the bargain. I wouldn't be surprised if

2057
01:35:59,600 --> 01:36:01,759
Speaker 3: there's just too much on his plate with this particular

2058
01:36:01,840 --> 01:36:04,680
Speaker 3: Buffalo Bill's team, and he's not able to be superman

2059
01:36:04,760 --> 01:36:07,880
Speaker 3: and carry them to a victory in Jacksonville. The defense

2060
01:36:07,920 --> 01:36:10,360
Speaker 3: has been playing good there too. They're just solid all round.

2061
01:36:10,439 --> 01:36:11,720
Speaker 3: They don't make a lot of mistakes.

2062
01:36:13,080 --> 01:36:14,880
Speaker 2: It's really hard too, because you know they left the

2063
01:36:14,960 --> 01:36:17,120
Speaker 2: league in rushing, which we were talking about Josh Allen

2064
01:36:17,200 --> 01:36:19,439
Speaker 2: so much. James Cook was the league's leading rusher. By

2065
01:36:19,520 --> 01:36:22,720
Speaker 2: the way, Yeah, it's gonna be tough slating against Jacksonville. Well,

2066
01:36:22,760 --> 01:36:24,479
Speaker 2: I think is one of the best defenses against the

2067
01:36:24,520 --> 01:36:27,040
Speaker 2: run and has been all season long. So I can

2068
01:36:27,080 --> 01:36:29,080
Speaker 2: I expect James Cook to run for one hundred and

2069
01:36:29,120 --> 01:36:31,599
Speaker 2: forty five yards against Jacksonville If they're gonna be able

2070
01:36:31,640 --> 01:36:34,040
Speaker 2: to win this game, Josh Allen is gonna have to

2071
01:36:34,080 --> 01:36:34,960
Speaker 2: throw in the cape at some.

2072
01:36:34,920 --> 01:36:37,880
Speaker 3: Point eight seven, seven ninety nine on Fox. If you

2073
01:36:37,920 --> 01:36:39,680
Speaker 3: want to tell us who has the most pressure to

2074
01:36:39,720 --> 01:36:42,880
Speaker 3: win in the postseason, who could be on the hot seat,

2075
01:36:42,920 --> 01:36:47,040
Speaker 3: whether it's a coach or player. Here for fact, do

2076
01:36:47,080 --> 01:36:50,880
Speaker 3: you remember who Sean McDermott was the defensive coordinator for

2077
01:36:51,400 --> 01:36:54,880
Speaker 3: back in the day in Philadelphia Eagles. Okay, I was

2078
01:36:54,920 --> 01:36:58,000
Speaker 3: thinking maybe not that far. The Carolina panthersh oh okay,

2079
01:36:58,040 --> 01:37:00,639
Speaker 3: right before he got the job with Buffalo correct and

2080
01:37:00,960 --> 01:37:04,559
Speaker 3: Panthers fans were upset with that later on because they

2081
01:37:04,600 --> 01:37:08,280
Speaker 3: saw him have more success than the Panthers did. So

2082
01:37:08,720 --> 01:37:11,639
Speaker 3: let me talk about the Panthers and speak about who's

2083
01:37:11,640 --> 01:37:15,080
Speaker 3: on the hot seat there. It's Bryce Young, It's been

2084
01:37:15,200 --> 01:37:18,479
Speaker 3: Bryce Young, it will remain Bryce Young, as I think

2085
01:37:18,520 --> 01:37:20,719
Speaker 3: some people are calling in here eight seven, seven ninety

2086
01:37:20,800 --> 01:37:25,880
Speaker 3: nine on Fox. Bryce Young is lucky to have a

2087
01:37:25,920 --> 01:37:29,800
Speaker 3: playoff game, is luckier to be hosting a playoff game

2088
01:37:30,680 --> 01:37:33,280
Speaker 3: because they are backing into this now. I will say,

2089
01:37:33,280 --> 01:37:37,200
Speaker 3: in his defense and the Panthers defense, they got screwed

2090
01:37:37,800 --> 01:37:42,080
Speaker 3: multiple times in that game against the Bucks. That was

2091
01:37:42,160 --> 01:37:45,439
Speaker 3: if the Panthers won it, they automatically were in. Instead,

2092
01:37:45,439 --> 01:37:48,759
Speaker 3: they lost. They needed the Falcons help beating the Saints

2093
01:37:48,760 --> 01:37:51,320
Speaker 3: for them to get in at eight to nine. But

2094
01:37:51,640 --> 01:37:54,240
Speaker 3: I will say they got screwed a little bit, and

2095
01:37:54,360 --> 01:37:56,840
Speaker 3: that actually brought me closer to them seeing my team

2096
01:37:56,880 --> 01:38:00,120
Speaker 3: get screwed in games, Kevin, that reminds me of the

2097
01:38:00,160 --> 01:38:01,880
Speaker 3: type of fan I used to be. When I see

2098
01:38:01,920 --> 01:38:04,479
Speaker 3: some bs out there, it's like, oh, oh, they're trying

2099
01:38:04,520 --> 01:38:06,439
Speaker 3: to screw us over now. Oh it's two thousand and

2100
01:38:06,479 --> 01:38:09,439
Speaker 3: two Kings Lakers here, what's going on? I don't like this?

2101
01:38:09,560 --> 01:38:12,400
Speaker 3: And then I start getting worked up. Actually felt like

2102
01:38:12,400 --> 01:38:14,280
Speaker 3: a real Panther fan for a bit. They were my

2103
01:38:14,400 --> 01:38:16,479
Speaker 3: Panthers once again. That was supposed to a fake one

2104
01:38:16,520 --> 01:38:18,320
Speaker 3: what you are most of the time. Well, that's fair,

2105
01:38:18,680 --> 01:38:23,280
Speaker 3: but this is a fake quarterback. This is a guy

2106
01:38:23,280 --> 01:38:26,680
Speaker 3: who looks more like a kicker or a punter or

2107
01:38:26,760 --> 01:38:32,160
Speaker 3: a slot receiver in Bryce Young and I have real

2108
01:38:32,200 --> 01:38:35,240
Speaker 3: issues with him and have had them all season long.

2109
01:38:35,360 --> 01:38:39,559
Speaker 3: Season long. They have gotten by with some meguiver like

2110
01:38:40,160 --> 01:38:44,559
Speaker 3: just manufacturing wins out of nowhere, like against the La

2111
01:38:44,720 --> 01:38:47,599
Speaker 3: Rams that victory they got against them, who they will

2112
01:38:47,600 --> 01:38:51,799
Speaker 3: see a little bit later. Today he threw two long

2113
01:38:52,040 --> 01:38:56,559
Speaker 3: fourth down touchdowns like he had never done before.

2114
01:38:56,600 --> 01:38:58,519
Speaker 2: It's called the clutch, Gen, Adam, what are you talking about?

2115
01:38:58,520 --> 01:39:00,800
Speaker 3: In clutch? Gene? My ass at the clutch team, they

2116
01:39:00,800 --> 01:39:04,920
Speaker 3: wouldn't be eight to nine clutch. They better pop the clutch.

2117
01:39:05,080 --> 01:39:08,400
Speaker 3: They better get that offense and that car moving, because

2118
01:39:08,600 --> 01:39:12,200
Speaker 3: they didn't look great once again in primetime against the Bucks,

2119
01:39:12,280 --> 01:39:14,760
Speaker 3: even with those bad calls that went against them, they

2120
01:39:14,800 --> 01:39:16,840
Speaker 3: still look like the moment was too big.

2121
01:39:16,960 --> 01:39:19,680
Speaker 2: I would say, yeah, and I know we have to

2122
01:39:19,680 --> 01:39:21,240
Speaker 2: break here and we'll get your calls on the other

2123
01:39:21,280 --> 01:39:23,719
Speaker 2: side eight seven seven ninety nine on Fox. It's not fair.

2124
01:39:24,000 --> 01:39:26,240
Speaker 2: But from another coaching standpoint, one guy that I do

2125
01:39:26,280 --> 01:39:28,840
Speaker 2: think there's some pressure on is Matt Lafleur, the guy

2126
01:39:28,880 --> 01:39:31,080
Speaker 2: you just talked about. You know, green Bay dealt with

2127
01:39:31,120 --> 01:39:33,600
Speaker 2: so many injuries to keyp players. I would think he

2128
01:39:33,600 --> 01:39:35,960
Speaker 2: would get a mulligain with Micaeh Parsons being out here,

2129
01:39:36,000 --> 01:39:38,000
Speaker 2: but we'll see. I don't think he should be fired

2130
01:39:38,040 --> 01:39:40,720
Speaker 2: if they lose to their biggest rival in a playoff game,

2131
01:39:40,760 --> 01:39:43,200
Speaker 2: but the highest spectations they've had the last couple of years.

2132
01:39:43,439 --> 01:39:46,559
Speaker 2: If they lose, especially in poor fashion against the Chicago Bears,

2133
01:39:46,640 --> 01:39:49,599
Speaker 2: who they swept in the regular season however barely, I

2134
01:39:49,680 --> 01:39:52,120
Speaker 2: do think there's been noise about whether or not mattin

2135
01:39:52,120 --> 01:39:54,200
Speaker 2: For should remain as the head coach of the Green

2136
01:39:54,240 --> 01:39:54,719
Speaker 2: Bay Packers.

2137
01:39:54,760 --> 01:39:56,799
Speaker 3: I still got problems with him and his play calling

2138
01:39:56,800 --> 01:39:59,519
Speaker 3: in the NFC Championship game when he had Aaron Rodgers

2139
01:39:59,560 --> 01:40:02,639
Speaker 3: against Radi and the Buccaneers. They shouldn't have lost that game,

2140
01:40:02,720 --> 01:40:03,800
Speaker 3: So I'm with you there.

2141
01:40:04,120 --> 01:40:05,680
Speaker 2: Well, he keeps his hair nice and tight, so I'll

2142
01:40:05,680 --> 01:40:08,840
Speaker 2: give him credit for that. Just a fresh class I

2143
01:40:08,840 --> 01:40:09,479
Speaker 2: can respect it.

2144
01:40:09,600 --> 01:40:13,200
Speaker 3: The most pressure to win in the post season eight

2145
01:40:13,320 --> 01:40:17,000
Speaker 3: seven seven ninety nine on Fox, He's Kevin figures, I'm

2146
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Speaker 2: Kevin Yes coming up and about twenty minutes or so

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Speaker 2: our official picks and predictions for Wildcard weekend in the NFL.

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Speaker 2: We will let you guys know exactly how tou on

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Speaker 2: too off ended for us this season?

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Speaker 3: Whatever dide? Okay, So that gives you a little bit

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Speaker 3: of a a segment solo, I'm out.

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Speaker 2: That happened, You're out. But right now we want to

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Speaker 2: hear from you guys eight seven, seven ninety nine on Fox.

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Speaker 2: Who has the most pressure to win in this postseason?

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Speaker 2: It could be a player, it could be a coach.

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Speaker 2: You let us know, call in and let us know

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Speaker 2: here on FSR, who do you have, Adam.

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Speaker 3: Kevin, you know who's up late tonight? Manuel and Guardina's

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Speaker 3: Oh come on, man well five seventy listener, Man, Well,

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Speaker 3: it's up.

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Speaker 4: Tafani is your boy? Man Well from Gardina, I'm with

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Speaker 4: Teffanie once again. My boys Adam and my boy Captain

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Speaker 4: Fick seven d Captain Thick. Okay, so I heard what

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Speaker 4: you guys were saying about Carolina. And by the way, Man,

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Speaker 4: I actually know David Kanal is great guy. Carson high

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Speaker 4: Grad a lum, great family and a great coach. And

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Speaker 4: I do somewhat agree with the Bryce Young take. But

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Speaker 4: I think to be honest has to be Buffalo bro.

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Speaker 4: I mean, Josh Allen and Ms Dermott. They don't got

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Speaker 4: no KC in their way. They don't got no Baltimore

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Speaker 4: in their way. And although Jacksonville looks formidable, I mean,

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Speaker 4: when you got the pedigree that Allen has and the

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Speaker 4: playoff experience that they've had, Man, it's all or nothing

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Speaker 4: this year, man, and if they don't get it done,

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Speaker 4: you know there's gonna be some major reworking. So I

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Speaker 4: think that you have to say it's Buffalo man.

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Speaker 3: I think that's fair.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, man, And thank you for the call, Brother, appreciated

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Speaker 2: and for the support through the years, Brother, much appreciate it. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: it is. And the hard part is it's just a

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Speaker 2: really tough matchup for Buffalo too. Jacksonville again, like we mentioned,

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Speaker 2: team at stopping the run against the number one rush

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Speaker 2: offense in the NFL. Josh Allen is gonna have to

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Speaker 2: make plays for them to be able to win this game.

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Speaker 2: It's gonna fall on his arm, and I just don't

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Speaker 2: know if he has a record of weapons to be

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Speaker 2: able to do it.

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Speaker 3: Liam Cohen, the other Cohen brother, is a hell of

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Speaker 3: a coach and he's done a great job with them

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Speaker 3: this season. I think they have had the best turnaround

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Speaker 3: ever from year to year wins to losses. I think

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Speaker 3: they won four games last season where they win thirteen

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Speaker 3: this year. Something like that. It's been a remarkable turnaround,

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Speaker 3: But I do want to give myself a little correction

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Speaker 3: some retractions here, but.

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Speaker 2: Trying to bite a real show.

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Speaker 3: So I mentioned how they had that game with Tyrod Taylor. Well,

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Speaker 3: he was playing for Buffalo. This was before Josh Allen's time,

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Speaker 3: so I can't really blame him. It was twenty seventeen,

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Speaker 3: twenty eighteen, and they lost to Jacksonville. Buffalo is zero

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Speaker 3: to two against Jacksonville in the playoffs going back to portals.

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Speaker 2: Was it not if it was twenty eighteen, if I

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Speaker 2: remember correct, it.

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Speaker 3: Was quite possibly the worst play off game of all time, Kevin.

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Speaker 3: I think it ended ten to seven. Nobody threw for

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Speaker 3: one hundred yards.

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Speaker 6: In the game.

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Speaker 3: It was miserable. But Jacksonville has a history beating them

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Speaker 3: in the playoffs, going back to Mark Brunell back in

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Speaker 3: ninety six in the second year for the franchise they

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Speaker 3: took out. I want to say that was a Doug

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Speaker 3: Flutie led Buffalo Bill's team, or no Joe Kelly went

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Speaker 3: or excuse me, Jim Kelly went out with an injury

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Speaker 3: early on. So there is a little bit of bad

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Speaker 3: blood and history there, and I don't want to say

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Speaker 3: that any of that stuff has an effect on guys

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Speaker 3: on the field. Now it's a totally different roster, but

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Speaker 3: there's still I like the history element to it. Sure,

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Speaker 3: we got another phone call here, James calling from Tacoma

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Speaker 3: or from his Toyota, Tacoma James, what's up?

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Speaker 8: Yes, So Sam Donald has the most pressure of this year,

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Speaker 8: even though the number one seed at fourteen wins. Donald

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Speaker 8: has twenty eight turners including twenty interceptions. Combined to the

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Speaker 8: fact that last year Donald stuck it up against the

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Speaker 8: Lions and the playoff team against the Rams when we

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Speaker 8: used to Vikings, I think Donald's by far the most pressure.

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Speaker 2: That's an excellent call and a good one. I don't

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Speaker 2: know if I consider too heavily, to be honest with you, Yes,

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Speaker 2: sim Donald. We talked about this a little bit last week,

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Speaker 2: you know, and the play in situation that Seattle is

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Speaker 2: in going up against San Francisco, and he was good.

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Speaker 2: I don't know if he was spectacular, but did enough

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Speaker 2: to be able to get them to lead them to

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Speaker 2: a win. But yeah, there's definitely a lot of pressure

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Speaker 2: on him with the number one seed in Seattle to

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Speaker 2: see if he can actually shake off of those playoff demons.

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Speaker 3: We talked about this early in the season with just

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Speaker 3: how good and how complete Seattle looked except for one thing.

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Speaker 3: Can their quarterback do it in the playoffs? Yep, rubbers

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01:45:42,840 --> 01:45:46,080
Speaker 3: about to meet road. That is happening now and with

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Speaker 3: them being the number one seed. Yeah, puts a ton

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Speaker 3: of pressure on Sam Donald to have to perform out

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Speaker 3: there because we just saw what happened last year as

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Speaker 3: he mentioned, against the Rams in the opening round and

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Speaker 3: then losing that game because they didn't get the number

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Speaker 3: one seed, losing to the Detroit Lions last game of

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Speaker 3: the regular season, So that is big. He's got some

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Speaker 3: demons and ghosts that he is admitted to in the

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Speaker 3: past that he was seeing out there after his days

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Speaker 3: with the New York Jets. He's been rehabilitated, but they

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Speaker 3: could still be there in the playoffs.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. Look, and he has a lot of things going

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Speaker 2: for him, you know, being at home. Obviously, you have

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Speaker 2: the bye week at home. That's one of the best

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Speaker 2: home field advantages in the NFL. Is up there in

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Speaker 2: Seattle in the Pacific Northwest. That's a place where a

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Speaker 2: lot of nobody wants to go to play a role

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Speaker 2: playoff game. So he has that working in his favorite

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Speaker 2: We know they can run the ball, they have a

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Speaker 2: great defense, doesn't have a great battery of weapons to

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Speaker 2: throw too out of JSN, but obviously has worked for

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Speaker 2: him to this point. So there's very few excuses as

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Speaker 2: to why Sam Darnold can at least lead Seattle to

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Speaker 2: a victory and a berth in the NFC Championship Game.

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Speaker 2: That think bare minimum, that's what the expectation should be.

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Speaker 3: If he performs to his capabilities, they are good enough

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Speaker 3: to win the Super Bowl.

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Speaker 2: I'd agree with that.

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Speaker 3: That's how impressive they've been so far this season. But

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Speaker 3: it just comes down to Sam Darnel and your quarterback,

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Speaker 3: and so much being on them changes the equation, of course.

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Speaker 3: But yeah, I like that one. I do want to

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Speaker 3: bring up a guy that you alluded to a little

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Speaker 3: bit earlier, I think where there could be more job openings.

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Speaker 3: Mike Tomlin. Yes, Mike Tomlin is still on the hot seat,

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Speaker 3: just getting in and winning the AFC North because the

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Speaker 3: Ravens kicker missed and that graphic going around, yeah the goalposts,

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Speaker 3: Yeah he misses. It's John Harbaugh being fired. He makes it.

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Speaker 3: It's Mike Tomlin being fired. That's accurate. Probably, I think

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Speaker 3: Mike Tomlin likely is let go because if they get

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Speaker 3: run by the Texans at home in another playoff game

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Speaker 3: where he hasn't won a game since twenty seventeen.

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Speaker 2: Yep, we're almost a decade now.

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Speaker 3: You can have all those winning seasons you want. If

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Speaker 3: you're not, you know, having those spillover into playoff success,

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01:47:54,520 --> 01:47:57,280
Speaker 3: that still puts a ton of pressure on you. I

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Speaker 3: think Mike Tomlin has a lot on the line in

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Speaker 3: this game, I would agree.

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Speaker 2: And as patient as the Rooney family has been with

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Speaker 2: the Steeler organization, we all know the stat they haven't

2304
01:48:06,880 --> 01:48:08,920
Speaker 2: fired a head coach in fifty years or whatever it's

2305
01:48:08,960 --> 01:48:12,000
Speaker 2: been from Noel to Kauur to now Tomlin. At a

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Speaker 2: certain point, you know you've just stagnated. You know, you

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Speaker 2: are mister eight and nine or however many not eight

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Speaker 2: nine to nine and eight. I guess he's not had

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Speaker 2: a losing season and his tenure. That's great to a

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Speaker 2: certain degree, and that's great for a mediocre franchise. This

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Speaker 2: is one of the historic franchises in the entire league.

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01:48:27,200 --> 01:48:29,960
Speaker 2: It is competing for championships or bust, and it has

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01:48:29,960 --> 01:48:32,240
Speaker 2: been busted for the better part of a decade. So

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Speaker 2: if they lose this game to Houston, which I'm not

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01:48:34,720 --> 01:48:36,400
Speaker 2: going to bury the lead, I expect him to be

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01:48:36,439 --> 01:48:38,639
Speaker 2: honest with you if they lose it, especially if they

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Speaker 2: lose it badly. I think we could see president broken,

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Speaker 2: and we would absolutely see Mike Tomlin be out there

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Speaker 2: on the street. And by the way, if he is

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Speaker 2: on the street, he might vault right ahead of John

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Speaker 2: Harball to be honest with you. Or they could be

2322
01:48:50,200 --> 01:48:52,559
Speaker 2: neck and neck for guys who are vying for positions.

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Speaker 2: Or there was the Mike Fourier report from earlier this

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Speaker 2: week that he already has TV jobs lined up in

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Speaker 2: case he's not coaching next year, and he can either

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01:48:59,439 --> 01:49:01,719
Speaker 2: step away on his own or if he gets fired,

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01:49:01,720 --> 01:49:03,080
Speaker 2: he can choose to do that himself too.

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Speaker 1: I'm on TV.

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Speaker 3: You know who else has a lot of pressure on them.

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Speaker 3: I just realized, or just remembered, after what he's done

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01:49:11,120 --> 01:49:14,120
Speaker 3: in two playoff games. I know he's banged up. I

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Speaker 3: know his team's banged up. Justin Herbert has pressure on him.

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Speaker 3: He has to. I know they're taking on the number

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01:49:22,760 --> 01:49:25,880
Speaker 3: two seed in the Patriots, But if he gets out

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Speaker 3: played by Drake May in his first playoff game with

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Speaker 3: how Justin Herbert has performed so poorly. It's just two games,

2337
01:49:33,600 --> 01:49:36,799
Speaker 3: but they were epic collapses. You talk about the twenty

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Speaker 3: seven point loss that they had the lead they lost

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Speaker 3: to Jacksonville a couple of years ago, and.

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Speaker 2: I'm terrible last year in Houston.

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Speaker 3: And that was a game they were favored in. That

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01:49:46,560 --> 01:49:49,120
Speaker 3: was the one you were supposed to win, and that

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01:49:49,200 --> 01:49:52,760
Speaker 3: may have cemented a narrative with him that he's not

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01:49:52,840 --> 01:49:55,280
Speaker 3: a big game guy. He's got to buck that tread now.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, the hard part is if people who want to

2346
01:49:58,080 --> 01:50:00,720
Speaker 2: be apologist or make excuses for him charges is the

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01:50:00,720 --> 01:50:03,160
Speaker 2: offensive line is banged up. You know, they have some

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01:50:03,240 --> 01:50:05,960
Speaker 2: things working against them offensively, He's doing a lot on

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Speaker 2: his own. But even with that, you're eleven and five.

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Speaker 2: You found a way to make it through the regular

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01:50:10,400 --> 01:50:12,840
Speaker 2: season and can pick up some big victories against some

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01:50:12,920 --> 01:50:15,240
Speaker 2: good teams along the way. So people are not and

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Speaker 2: you have an excellent defense. Jesse Minzer is one of

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01:50:17,520 --> 01:50:20,400
Speaker 2: the top offensive or i should say defensive coordinators in

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01:50:20,439 --> 01:50:23,599
Speaker 2: the league. Gonna have some interviews for head coaching positions,

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Speaker 2: So defensively, you know you have that in your back pocket.

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01:50:27,000 --> 01:50:29,679
Speaker 2: So yeah, I do think depending. I think how they

2358
01:50:29,720 --> 01:50:33,599
Speaker 2: lose really will determine what the narrative will be against

2359
01:50:33,640 --> 01:50:35,640
Speaker 2: Justin Herbert. Because if Justin Herbert actually plays well in

2360
01:50:35,680 --> 01:50:38,040
Speaker 2: a loss, then obviously it's one of those you can't

2361
01:50:38,040 --> 01:50:39,960
Speaker 2: really hold it against them. It's a team game situation.

2362
01:50:40,040 --> 01:50:42,160
Speaker 2: But if he comes out and throws, you know, for

2363
01:50:42,240 --> 01:50:44,639
Speaker 2: one hundred and seventy yards and throws for one touchdown

2364
01:50:44,680 --> 01:50:47,479
Speaker 2: to two interceptions or something, yeah, the narrative is gonna

2365
01:50:47,479 --> 01:50:50,479
Speaker 2: continue to follow him and as I playoff as a

2366
01:50:50,520 --> 01:50:52,599
Speaker 2: playoff bust basically, for lack of a better.

2367
01:50:52,479 --> 01:50:55,000
Speaker 3: Term, if he doesn't perform well, he might as well

2368
01:50:55,120 --> 01:50:58,880
Speaker 3: dye his hair orange because I'm gonna be calling him

2369
01:50:58,880 --> 01:51:01,720
Speaker 3: Andy Dalton going to start looking like that for him,

2370
01:51:01,760 --> 01:51:04,840
Speaker 3: and I love Justin Herbert. Of course he's a duck,

2371
01:51:06,720 --> 01:51:08,880
Speaker 3: you know what. That put even more pressure on him.

2372
01:51:08,920 --> 01:51:11,439
Speaker 3: His ducks just went out so poorly. He can't do

2373
01:51:11,520 --> 01:51:12,759
Speaker 3: the same thing on Sunday.

2374
01:51:12,960 --> 01:51:14,640
Speaker 2: That's really fun that you brought up the ginger thing

2375
01:51:14,640 --> 01:51:18,080
Speaker 2: because on Twitter earlier this week and I saw Marshawn

2376
01:51:18,160 --> 01:51:20,880
Speaker 2: Lynch retweeted of something from the Seattle Seahawks where they

2377
01:51:20,920 --> 01:51:23,160
Speaker 2: had a picture of like all the key figures in

2378
01:51:23,200 --> 01:51:26,160
Speaker 2: the team photo, and he says, oh, Ginger cuskin ball

2379
01:51:26,400 --> 01:51:28,000
Speaker 2: he's talking about Sam Donald.

2380
01:51:29,840 --> 01:51:31,200
Speaker 3: Is Sam Donald Ginger?

2381
01:51:31,360 --> 01:51:33,800
Speaker 2: I don't think so, but I mean the picture it

2382
01:51:33,840 --> 01:51:36,559
Speaker 2: does look like he's a redhead, so it's like light

2383
01:51:36,720 --> 01:51:42,599
Speaker 2: brown Ginger. Cuse my new favorite nickname right there, even

2384
01:51:42,600 --> 01:51:44,040
Speaker 2: if he's not a redhead. Screw it.

2385
01:51:44,080 --> 01:51:47,560
Speaker 3: That's about as good as Eddie Lacey saying China Food,

2386
01:51:48,160 --> 01:51:52,280
Speaker 3: which was an all timer. There's one other team we

2387
01:51:52,360 --> 01:51:55,599
Speaker 3: got to talk about that I think has significant pressure

2388
01:51:56,200 --> 01:51:59,720
Speaker 3: because they're defending champs and they're supposed to put it

2389
01:51:59,720 --> 01:52:02,760
Speaker 3: together now, and it looks like they had righted the

2390
01:52:02,800 --> 01:52:05,360
Speaker 3: ship to some extent the last month of the season,

2391
01:52:05,400 --> 01:52:08,880
Speaker 3: the Philadelphia Eagles. They're taking on a Niners team that

2392
01:52:09,040 --> 01:52:12,920
Speaker 3: is completely depleted. Our producer Brandon has talked about it

2393
01:52:13,000 --> 01:52:16,320
Speaker 3: and how bad their defense is. Rock Party's been holding

2394
01:52:16,360 --> 01:52:18,400
Speaker 3: up his end of the bargain. He's been great since

2395
01:52:18,439 --> 01:52:20,840
Speaker 3: he came back. This is probably the best he's ever

2396
01:52:20,880 --> 01:52:24,160
Speaker 3: played given the lack of weapons around him. But they

2397
01:52:24,200 --> 01:52:27,800
Speaker 3: still lose that game for the number one seed, and

2398
01:52:27,840 --> 01:52:29,400
Speaker 3: that puts you in a spot where you got to

2399
01:52:29,439 --> 01:52:35,080
Speaker 3: go to Philadelphia. The Eagles should win this game. Honestly,

2400
01:52:35,760 --> 01:52:38,880
Speaker 3: if they're anything close to the team they were last year.

2401
01:52:38,880 --> 01:52:40,240
Speaker 3: They're six point favorites.

2402
01:52:40,479 --> 01:52:42,719
Speaker 2: Yeah, which I mean if you look at the season

2403
01:52:42,720 --> 01:52:45,000
Speaker 2: and amalgam for the Philadelphia Eagles, they are not the

2404
01:52:45,040 --> 01:52:47,320
Speaker 2: same team that they were last season. I know they've

2405
01:52:47,320 --> 01:52:50,560
Speaker 2: played better down the stretch. They also hadn't played anybody

2406
01:52:50,800 --> 01:52:52,599
Speaker 2: of note down the stretch either, and that's a big

2407
01:52:52,600 --> 01:52:54,080
Speaker 2: part and album look made. You can look at it

2408
01:52:54,080 --> 01:52:57,400
Speaker 2: as all right, we know we had some cupcakes, got

2409
01:52:57,400 --> 01:52:59,680
Speaker 2: of confidence, boost are playing a little bit better, and

2410
01:52:59,720 --> 01:53:02,120
Speaker 2: we have someonemn I'm going into the postseason. I guess

2411
01:53:02,160 --> 01:53:04,240
Speaker 2: you can try to look at it that way. I

2412
01:53:04,280 --> 01:53:05,880
Speaker 2: look at it as you just won the Super Bowl.

2413
01:53:05,880 --> 01:53:08,320
Speaker 2: We talk about how much leash leeway do you get

2414
01:53:08,600 --> 01:53:11,479
Speaker 2: after winning a championship, And I know the Eagles are different.

2415
01:53:11,600 --> 01:53:13,840
Speaker 2: You know, you win a champion. Look after they went

2416
01:53:13,880 --> 01:53:15,559
Speaker 2: to the Super Bowl a few years ago, Nick Sirianni

2417
01:53:15,600 --> 01:53:17,519
Speaker 2: in It's what second season, they wanted to get to

2418
01:53:17,560 --> 01:53:20,360
Speaker 2: get rid of them because they had a halfway down year.

2419
01:53:20,479 --> 01:53:23,479
Speaker 3: That's the real Philly special. Just firing people left or right.

2420
01:53:23,560 --> 01:53:25,360
Speaker 3: Get yeah at your head, coach.

2421
01:53:25,320 --> 01:53:27,479
Speaker 2: That's tough sledding in that city. And I think even

2422
01:53:27,479 --> 01:53:29,160
Speaker 2: if they were to lose to the to the forty

2423
01:53:29,280 --> 01:53:31,960
Speaker 2: nine ers here in the first round, there's pressure, and

2424
01:53:32,000 --> 01:53:34,600
Speaker 2: there's gonna be some pressure on Nick Sirianni unfairly so,

2425
01:53:34,760 --> 01:53:36,800
Speaker 2: but generally speaking, I don't think there should be. You

2426
01:53:36,800 --> 01:53:38,719
Speaker 2: should be able to get yourself a one year mulligan.

2427
01:53:38,920 --> 01:53:40,559
Speaker 2: I don't know what the issue was for them this

2428
01:53:40,640 --> 01:53:42,360
Speaker 2: year and why things weren't able to be put together,

2429
01:53:42,880 --> 01:53:44,200
Speaker 2: but they do need to be able to figure out

2430
01:53:44,240 --> 01:53:45,880
Speaker 2: in the off season. And I will say that tells you.

2431
01:53:45,960 --> 01:53:47,920
Speaker 2: It's a testament to how good they are that we

2432
01:53:47,920 --> 01:53:49,880
Speaker 2: can talk about the amount of issues that they had

2433
01:53:50,120 --> 01:53:51,760
Speaker 2: and still look up and see that they won their

2434
01:53:51,800 --> 01:53:54,519
Speaker 2: division and had they actually played their guys and tried

2435
01:53:54,560 --> 01:53:56,760
Speaker 2: a little bit, probably would have been the two seeds

2436
01:53:56,800 --> 01:53:57,360
Speaker 2: in the NFC.

2437
01:53:57,479 --> 01:54:00,400
Speaker 3: Well, and quickly here the storyline has been and just

2438
01:54:00,439 --> 01:54:03,280
Speaker 3: wait till the postseason to judge this team, because they

2439
01:54:03,360 --> 01:54:05,760
Speaker 3: might be able to flip the switch and run the

2440
01:54:05,800 --> 01:54:08,400
Speaker 3: table and get out of the NFC even while having

2441
01:54:08,439 --> 01:54:11,120
Speaker 3: a down regular season with all these issues going on

2442
01:54:11,160 --> 01:54:14,400
Speaker 3: in the infighting. Now is the moment of truth. Now

2443
01:54:14,520 --> 01:54:16,680
Speaker 3: is their time to prove it. I do think there

2444
01:54:16,760 --> 01:54:20,760
Speaker 3: is significant pressure on Philadelphia, even though yes, I don't

2445
01:54:20,760 --> 01:54:23,120
Speaker 3: think anyone should be fired. It might be more of

2446
01:54:23,160 --> 01:54:26,920
Speaker 3: like a roster overhaul if they lose. I think maybe

2447
01:54:26,920 --> 01:54:29,519
Speaker 3: they changed the way they play a little bit out

2448
01:54:29,560 --> 01:54:32,800
Speaker 3: there because they haven't ran the ball successfully for the

2449
01:54:32,800 --> 01:54:35,480
Speaker 3: most part this season. They just haven't looked like that

2450
01:54:35,640 --> 01:54:39,560
Speaker 3: dominant run team matched with the defense. But as you mentioned,

2451
01:54:39,560 --> 01:54:43,360
Speaker 3: they've done it recently, just not against great competition. This

2452
01:54:43,400 --> 01:54:44,200
Speaker 3: is the test for them.

2453
01:54:44,360 --> 01:54:46,840
Speaker 2: Yeah, probably a change of offensive coordating more than anything

2454
01:54:46,840 --> 01:54:49,200
Speaker 2: else from a personnel standpoint, not much as we have

2455
01:54:49,320 --> 01:54:51,880
Speaker 2: changed off defensively. You're fine, Fangio's got that team ball

2456
01:54:51,920 --> 01:54:54,840
Speaker 2: and they're playing fantastic right now. The offense is the

2457
01:54:54,880 --> 01:54:57,760
Speaker 2: major issue, and AJ Brown's complaining, although he's quieted it

2458
01:54:57,800 --> 01:54:59,640
Speaker 2: down over the last couple of months.

2459
01:54:59,640 --> 01:55:02,240
Speaker 3: Here, let's say he only gets three catches in this

2460
01:55:02,400 --> 01:55:05,120
Speaker 3: ballgame and they lose. What do you think is gonna happen?

2461
01:55:05,480 --> 01:55:07,280
Speaker 2: I feel like he's complained at times this year when

2462
01:55:07,280 --> 01:55:08,560
Speaker 2: they've won games.

2463
01:55:09,560 --> 01:55:11,640
Speaker 3: You know who used to do that, which didn't get

2464
01:55:11,720 --> 01:55:14,200
Speaker 3: much talk because we didn't have social media back in

2465
01:55:14,200 --> 01:55:18,080
Speaker 3: the day. Jerry Rice Jerry Ice complained when they won

2466
01:55:18,560 --> 01:55:19,720
Speaker 3: and he didn't get the ball up.

2467
01:55:19,800 --> 01:55:21,840
Speaker 2: Now, we'll say it was exceedingly rare that the forty

2468
01:55:21,920 --> 01:55:24,800
Speaker 2: nine ers won games or lost games and Jerry Rice

2469
01:55:24,800 --> 01:55:25,480
Speaker 2: didn't do much.

2470
01:55:25,600 --> 01:55:27,400
Speaker 3: So true, he did it. I think he did it

2471
01:55:27,640 --> 01:55:29,120
Speaker 3: before with the Raiders as well.

2472
01:55:29,280 --> 01:55:31,600
Speaker 2: But he did. Yeah, he absolutely did.

2473
01:55:31,680 --> 01:55:33,720
Speaker 3: People forget about stick them with him. They just don't

2474
01:55:33,760 --> 01:55:38,320
Speaker 3: even care. Nothing sticks. He's Tef Lawn. I just coming

2475
01:55:38,440 --> 01:55:41,760
Speaker 3: up next final segment, we'll get to our playoff picks.

2476
01:55:41,800 --> 01:55:42,760
Speaker 3: It is f and A.

2477
01:55:42,960 --> 01:55:45,840
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Speaker 3: Mark one last time, two on two on Well the

2492
01:56:34,800 --> 01:56:36,480
Speaker 3: results are in, Kevin.

2493
01:56:36,200 --> 01:56:39,000
Speaker 2: Yes, what is the final regular season tally for two

2494
01:56:39,080 --> 01:56:40,080
Speaker 2: on two off?

2495
01:56:40,560 --> 01:56:44,960
Speaker 3: It took a lot of calculation, took an advocates, It

2496
01:56:45,040 --> 01:56:47,240
Speaker 3: took everything out of me a t I eighty three

2497
01:56:47,520 --> 01:56:48,360
Speaker 3: to figure this out.

2498
01:56:48,400 --> 01:56:49,960
Speaker 2: It's just math, it's arithmetic.

2499
01:56:50,320 --> 01:56:51,240
Speaker 1: Oh, you can count.

2500
01:56:51,440 --> 01:56:52,040
Speaker 2: Good for you.

2501
01:56:53,000 --> 01:56:54,640
Speaker 3: So I went three and one last week.

2502
01:56:54,880 --> 01:56:58,240
Speaker 2: Congratulations, I was great a few but no, I did

2503
01:56:58,240 --> 01:56:59,160
Speaker 2: not do well last week.

2504
01:56:59,320 --> 01:57:00,200
Speaker 3: You went two and two.

2505
01:57:00,400 --> 01:57:03,360
Speaker 2: Maeah, I don't like it. It's not winning. That's seven

2506
01:57:03,400 --> 01:57:05,720
Speaker 2: to nine Jeff Fisher type stuff. That's Mike Tomlin over

2507
01:57:05,720 --> 01:57:07,760
Speaker 2: the past fifteen years type stuff. I don't want that.

2508
01:57:08,760 --> 01:57:08,920
Speaker 5: Well.

2509
01:57:08,920 --> 01:57:15,959
Speaker 3: On the season, I finished a respectable, honorable, and faithful

2510
01:57:16,080 --> 01:57:19,160
Speaker 3: five hundred at thirty six and thirty six.

2511
01:57:19,360 --> 01:57:20,760
Speaker 2: There you go. You know what, you were good enough

2512
01:57:20,800 --> 01:57:23,280
Speaker 2: to win the NFC South Adam which oh your favorite

2513
01:57:23,280 --> 01:57:24,560
Speaker 2: team did so there you.

2514
01:57:24,520 --> 01:57:32,000
Speaker 3: Go, double f you Kevin ended up thirty seven and

2515
01:57:32,240 --> 01:57:36,520
Speaker 3: thirty three on the year. You win. Joel Klatt thirty

2516
01:57:36,600 --> 01:57:40,800
Speaker 3: six and forty. Kevin takes first place. I take second,

2517
01:57:40,880 --> 01:57:44,920
Speaker 3: Joel Klatt, last place, Scott van Pelt, I think in fourth.

2518
01:57:45,160 --> 01:57:46,800
Speaker 2: Okay, see there you go. Yeah last.

2519
01:57:47,040 --> 01:57:51,400
Speaker 3: I'll be honest, you beat most everybody this year. From

2520
01:57:51,400 --> 01:57:53,920
Speaker 3: what I've seen, this was a tough year in the

2521
01:57:54,040 --> 01:58:00,440
Speaker 3: NFL to be able to prognosticate with spreads. And you

2522
01:58:00,520 --> 01:58:04,880
Speaker 3: went four games over five hundred. You deserve to have

2523
01:58:06,080 --> 01:58:07,400
Speaker 3: your jingle played.

2524
01:58:07,760 --> 01:58:21,280
Speaker 2: I'll take it. Wait, that's not It only made some

2525
01:58:21,320 --> 01:58:23,080
Speaker 2: real money off of those picks. And then we'll be talking.

2526
01:58:24,000 --> 01:58:27,240
Speaker 3: I thought about betting your picks after a while, honestly

2527
01:58:27,320 --> 01:58:31,120
Speaker 3: betting against mine and betting on Kevin's. All right, where

2528
01:58:31,160 --> 01:58:34,440
Speaker 3: are we going with our predictions now? In the playoffs here,

2529
01:58:34,920 --> 01:58:37,400
Speaker 3: because this is when it really counts. We gotta, you know,

2530
01:58:37,520 --> 01:58:38,600
Speaker 3: clean the slate.

2531
01:58:38,480 --> 01:58:42,280
Speaker 2: Yes, clean slate, clear the deck. We'll do every single

2532
01:58:42,320 --> 01:58:44,200
Speaker 2: playoff game, and I'll you know what, I'll leave it

2533
01:58:44,280 --> 01:58:46,680
Speaker 2: up to you, Adham. Wait, we can do it against

2534
01:58:46,720 --> 01:58:48,440
Speaker 2: the spread, or we can just do straight up at

2535
01:58:48,440 --> 01:58:53,320
Speaker 2: the head playoffs? Uh, for this weekend, just in general,

2536
01:58:53,360 --> 01:58:54,680
Speaker 2: for the postseason.

2537
01:58:54,400 --> 01:58:57,200
Speaker 3: In general, for the well, we don't have like the

2538
01:58:57,320 --> 01:58:59,840
Speaker 3: upcoming spread, so I guess if we're looking that far out,

2539
01:59:00,240 --> 01:59:02,640
Speaker 3: just our predictions on how the playoffs are going to

2540
01:59:02,680 --> 01:59:03,360
Speaker 3: go in the NFL.

2541
01:59:03,840 --> 01:59:06,320
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, as far as this weekend for Wildcard weekend,

2542
01:59:07,480 --> 01:59:09,680
Speaker 2: I guess how are we thinking? This is this weekend's

2543
01:59:09,720 --> 01:59:11,720
Speaker 2: gonna go. We're going to start with your Rams and

2544
01:59:11,760 --> 01:59:14,520
Speaker 2: the Panthers. Well, the Panthers are ten and a half

2545
01:59:14,600 --> 01:59:17,200
Speaker 2: point dogs at home, as we talked about earlier.

2546
01:59:17,240 --> 01:59:20,120
Speaker 3: Did you watch the Ducks game today? That's about how

2547
01:59:20,120 --> 01:59:21,680
Speaker 3: this weekend's gonna go for Carolina.

2548
01:59:21,800 --> 01:59:25,280
Speaker 2: Okay, So Adam likes the Rams plus minus ten and

2549
01:59:25,360 --> 01:59:27,200
Speaker 2: a half apparently to cover the spread.

2550
01:59:26,960 --> 01:59:29,280
Speaker 3: There ten and a half, that should be one hundred

2551
01:59:29,320 --> 01:59:33,760
Speaker 3: and a half. They are going to dismantle the Panthers

2552
01:59:33,800 --> 01:59:36,280
Speaker 3: in this game. You give Sean McVay this time to

2553
01:59:36,400 --> 01:59:39,440
Speaker 3: prepare for a team the second time around. I have

2554
01:59:39,520 --> 01:59:41,600
Speaker 3: no faith in Carolina in this game.

2555
01:59:41,680 --> 01:59:43,640
Speaker 2: I'll agree with you one hundred percent. That's a large

2556
01:59:43,720 --> 01:59:45,600
Speaker 2: number to lay in a playoff game, but I agree

2557
01:59:45,640 --> 01:59:48,160
Speaker 2: the revenge factor. DeVante Adams is now back healthy for

2558
01:59:48,160 --> 01:59:49,919
Speaker 2: the Rams, so a is Quentin Lake for the secondary

2559
01:59:49,960 --> 01:59:52,880
Speaker 2: SA I'll go there. The other game on Saturday Saturday

2560
01:59:52,960 --> 01:59:55,360
Speaker 2: night coming up tonight at eight pm Eastern Time, the

2561
01:59:55,400 --> 01:59:58,120
Speaker 2: Packers on the road, taking on the Chicago Bears. The

2562
01:59:58,160 --> 02:00:00,320
Speaker 2: Bears are one and a half point under dog. How

2563
02:00:00,320 --> 02:00:01,160
Speaker 2: do you see this one? At him?

2564
02:00:02,560 --> 02:00:04,960
Speaker 3: Give me the pack I guarantee it plus one and

2565
02:00:05,040 --> 02:00:06,800
Speaker 3: a half. Yep, they can lose by one.

2566
02:00:06,920 --> 02:00:08,960
Speaker 2: Well, yeah, the Packers are actually one and half point favorites.

2567
02:00:09,000 --> 02:00:10,280
Speaker 2: So I said the Bears are plus one and a half.

2568
02:00:10,440 --> 02:00:11,960
Speaker 2: The Packers are one and a half point favorite.

2569
02:00:12,000 --> 02:00:12,760
Speaker 3: I'm a dumbass.

2570
02:00:12,800 --> 02:00:14,000
Speaker 2: Then I'm a dumb ass.

2571
02:00:14,040 --> 02:00:14,800
Speaker 3: Give me the Bears.

2572
02:00:15,560 --> 02:00:18,280
Speaker 2: Same Actually I like Chicago Bears. They forced turnovers, the

2573
02:00:18,280 --> 02:00:22,040
Speaker 2: Packers very inconsistent offensively, so I actually like Chicago to

2574
02:00:22,120 --> 02:00:24,680
Speaker 2: win that one. All right. Coming up on Sunday, the

2575
02:00:24,720 --> 02:00:28,040
Speaker 2: Bills are minus one, so I'm essentially a pick them.

2576
02:00:28,080 --> 02:00:30,920
Speaker 2: The Bill's a one point favorite over the Jacksonville Jaguars.

2577
02:00:31,880 --> 02:00:33,720
Speaker 2: Make it or breaking game for Sean McDermott.

2578
02:00:33,720 --> 02:00:38,760
Speaker 3: Potentially, I keep going against Jacksonville when they burn me,

2579
02:00:38,880 --> 02:00:41,160
Speaker 3: but I'm gonna do it again. I'm gonna do it again.

2580
02:00:41,440 --> 02:00:42,440
Speaker 3: I'm gonna be Buffalo.

2581
02:00:42,640 --> 02:00:45,080
Speaker 2: I'm taking the Jaguars, all right. I think the right

2582
02:00:45,200 --> 02:00:47,360
Speaker 2: be out in Buffalo. How about the forty nine Ers

2583
02:00:47,400 --> 02:00:49,640
Speaker 2: on the road taking on the Philadelphia Eagles. Philly is

2584
02:00:49,680 --> 02:00:50,760
Speaker 2: six point favorite. Adham.

2585
02:00:50,880 --> 02:00:53,480
Speaker 3: I just talked about Philadelphia a lot. I think they're

2586
02:00:53,480 --> 02:00:55,720
Speaker 3: gonna show up in this game. I have not given

2587
02:00:55,840 --> 02:00:57,880
Speaker 3: up on them, I said a month ago. I still

2588
02:00:57,960 --> 02:01:00,240
Speaker 3: think they could make a run. I still think you

2589
02:01:00,280 --> 02:01:02,240
Speaker 3: gotta go through the champs and they could pull this

2590
02:01:02,360 --> 02:01:05,720
Speaker 3: thing together just in time. I got Philadelphia cover, all right.

2591
02:01:05,840 --> 02:01:07,480
Speaker 2: I like Philadelphia to win, but I think the forty

2592
02:01:07,560 --> 02:01:10,040
Speaker 2: nine Ers cover the six point spread. In New England,

2593
02:01:10,120 --> 02:01:12,240
Speaker 2: the Chargers three and a half point underdogs on the

2594
02:01:12,320 --> 02:01:13,520
Speaker 2: road against the Patriots.

2595
02:01:13,960 --> 02:01:19,240
Speaker 3: All right, Sorry, don't trust the Chargers, especially in big games.

2596
02:01:19,480 --> 02:01:20,480
Speaker 3: I got the Patriots.

2597
02:01:20,720 --> 02:01:22,320
Speaker 2: I'm taking the Chargers. I think they pull off the

2598
02:01:22,400 --> 02:01:25,200
Speaker 2: road victory. In the last Wildcard weekend game, the Texans

2599
02:01:25,480 --> 02:01:29,120
Speaker 2: on the road taking on the Pittsburgh Steelers. Steelers plus three.

2600
02:01:30,400 --> 02:01:36,160
Speaker 3: Mike Tomlin gets his first playoff win. Ooh since twenty seventeen.

2601
02:01:36,600 --> 02:01:40,480
Speaker 2: Absolutely not happening, but Houston Texans dominate. Mike Tomlin is

2602
02:01:40,520 --> 02:01:43,320
Speaker 2: going to be on the street when the weekend is over.

2603
02:01:43,680 --> 02:01:46,440
Speaker 2: He and John Harbaugh will be half some greener pastors

2604
02:01:46,440 --> 02:01:47,520
Speaker 2: coming up next SEASONA