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Speaker 2: December fourteenth. I'm Jimi here and all there is Kyle Brandt,

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Speaker 2: there is Jason McCarty and Ryan Leef.

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Speaker 3: Welcome, yo.

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Speaker 1: I we're feeling We're feeling good. You're always very busy.

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Speaker 1: You got all cont you got, you got a call

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Speaker 1: talk to other people that what is on your desk?

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Speaker 4: We got we got uh, you know, we got a

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Speaker 4: call our charts for the game. I'm calling the Ravens

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Speaker 4: Jacksonday night.

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Speaker 5: So studying, you're studying.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I work really hard to try to do this

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Speaker 5: Plan and listener's gonna be appreciate it.

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Speaker 2: And if it happens to help you with your banter

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Speaker 2: during Good Morning Football, then.

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Speaker 3: So yes, yes, yes, time for the lead.

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Speaker 2: Well, I have a lot to look forward to. Jason

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Speaker 2: mccordy and I actually will not be here tomorrow. We

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Speaker 2: are both on the slate of games that are coming

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Speaker 2: up on Saturday, two different games for US. Jason will

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Speaker 2: be in Cincinnati for Vikings Bengals. That's the first game

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Speaker 2: of the day of a Saturday showdown Steelers Colts. I

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Speaker 2: get to be gifted the indoor game in Indianapolis. And

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Speaker 2: then later on it's the Kevin Harlan Trent Green Melanie

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Speaker 2: Collins Special between Broncos and Lions. That's prime time only

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Speaker 2: on NFL Network and streaming on NFL.

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Speaker 5: Yes, there's playoff implications all over the.

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Speaker 2: Place for that game, but let's start on the AFC

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Speaker 2: side of things. The six seeded Steelers play the seven

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Speaker 2: seeded Colts right now. Plus Broncos and Bengals are both

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Speaker 2: seven and six on opposite sides of the conference.

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Speaker 5: So that's just on Saturday.

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Speaker 2: But on Sunday night, we've got a one seed, as

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Speaker 2: Ryan just mentioned, holding on the radio for it, Raven's

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Speaker 2: team taking on a four seed Jaguars, massive match up

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Speaker 2: at the top of the conference. Ravens head coach John

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Speaker 2: Harbaugh was asked yesterday, what do you see on tape

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Speaker 2: from Trevor Lawrence.

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Speaker 7: I see a really good quarterback. You know, I mean

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Speaker 7: it's a big broad question.

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Speaker 3: Ryan.

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Speaker 7: You know, you kind of opened a lot of doors

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Speaker 7: for me there. You know, what do you think of

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Speaker 7: Trevor Lawrence? I think he's really good. You know, he's big,

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Speaker 7: you can throw really good, you can run really good.

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Speaker 7: What else can I say? The guy's one of the

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Speaker 7: best quarterbacks in football. So that's what I see on tape.

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Speaker 2: Heaven forbid, We asked the head coach of a team,

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Speaker 2: a defensive minded coach, if you will, what do you

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Speaker 2: thinks of the quarterback that he's going to face? Harball

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Speaker 2: will appreciate your response and your tape study and what

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Speaker 2: you share. Despite all of that, the four seed Jaguars

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Speaker 2: are coming off a loss, so really a shocking one

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Speaker 2: on Monday Night football, and so are the two seed

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Speaker 2: Dolphins and the three seed Chiefs. What would a win

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Speaker 2: for the Ravens definitively in the AFC look like Jason

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Speaker 2: not only need for the Jags, but really for Baltimore

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Speaker 8: As soon as you mentioned the Ravens, you always think

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Speaker 8: the slime on Tyland Wallace, who won the Nickelodeon Valuable

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Speaker 8: I think about Lamar Jackson, we're getting the best version

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Speaker 8: do and how he's played this year. Enter Todd Monkin

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Speaker 8: not only running around making plays. It was a play

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Speaker 8: The defensive linemen on the sideline are in shock for

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Speaker 6: He's just like he's cold.

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Speaker 8: Did you see the How hell did he get that

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Speaker 8: So a win like this for Lamar Jackson, the conversation

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Speaker 8: Lamar Jackson not only running the ball like we saw

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Speaker 8: And I think on top of that, a big win

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Speaker 8: the Jags, in the forty nine Ers, Dolphins, and Steelers.

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Speaker 6: So it's to the point right now for them.

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Speaker 8: Any win in an inch closer to getting that number

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Speaker 8: that game on Monday night, is huge. But I think

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Speaker 8: it means a lot for Lamar Jackson as the MVP

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Speaker 8: odds and we started talking about these quarterbacks of Hall,

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Speaker 4: Yeah. For me, this game had such much much more context.

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Speaker 4: Two weeks ago, the Jags were playing against Cincinnati that

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Speaker 4: At that point, said they get beat by the Bengals

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Speaker 4: it didn't surprise me too much they got beat. It's

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Speaker 4: The Texans also creeping in the mix for the division.

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Speaker 4: So the Jags need to win this football game. It's

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Speaker 4: very important. But the chances with Baltimore coming to town this

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Speaker 4: the playoff situation for the Ravens. They have to go

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Speaker 3: But what is important is.

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Speaker 4: Two weeks from now, when Miami comes to town, that's

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Speaker 4: and it will decide whether or not you're going to

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Speaker 4: you're gonna go. Everybody else is gonna have to go through.

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Speaker 4: Baltimore doesn't look like it's gonna be the invitational of

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Speaker 1: The Kansas City Chiefs, it might be they may still

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Speaker 1: I thinks Jacksonville fight and claw and stay alive, Baltimore

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Speaker 1: message right now. As we get around towards Chris, I

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Speaker 1: don't know you. At my house, we got a tree up.

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Speaker 1: There's some presence underneath like I want, oh yeah, oh

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Speaker 1: yeah already, not like the Santa Claus president, but like

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Speaker 1: you know, Grandma, yeah yeah, I want the big presence underneath.

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Speaker 1: Now here's why I look at this. I like a

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Speaker 1: we have one in the NFC, like San Francisco looks amazing.

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Speaker 1: Who is it in the AFC? Is it Baltimore? Like

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Speaker 1: they look the part. I would love to get this

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Speaker 1: see two big one seeds in each conference and start

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Speaker 1: getting excited to open up presents. I think you're on

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Speaker 1: at Ryan. I think you need to send that message

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Speaker 1: about if you're gonna win the AFC, the Arrowhead things over,

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Speaker 1: you're coming through Baltimore. Baltimore, let's just like run down

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Speaker 1: some of the things they've done in their home stadium

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Speaker 1: this year. You like this Houston team, right, they've been

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Speaker 1: pretty cool. Well, they lost by sixteen at Baltimore. Detroit,

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Speaker 1: they're going to the playoffs. They lost by thirty two

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Speaker 1: at Baltimore. Seattle's always tough. They lost by thirty four

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Speaker 1: at Baltimore. You don't want to go there. You don't

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Speaker 1: all that, and the Lamar thing, the purple jerseys, it's terrifying.

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Speaker 1: I want to I would like to see a message

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Speaker 1: return to beat the Rams who travel all the way

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Speaker 1: across the country. Don't let me wrong, it was great.

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Speaker 1: What about just the wallaping this week Jacksonville, all due respect,

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Speaker 1: I'd like to see Baltimore flex a little bit and

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Speaker 1: be like start getting excited for us versus the Niner.

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Speaker 1: Not next week. I'm talking about in February.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I will add to this too.

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Speaker 4: I do think when you looked around the league and

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Speaker 4: you looked at the Miami loss, Yeah, and you looked

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Speaker 6: Just all of them were in the fourth quarter.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, this was the difference. It took a special team's play,

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Speaker 4: but that's team concept, right, a full team effort. They

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Speaker 4: They found a way to win a game they probably

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Speaker 2: The issue with the Ravens early in the season September

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Speaker 2: They start out hot and they couldn't finish. Their defense

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Speaker 2: held teams early in the season to three and ten

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Speaker 2: That's a beautiful thing because if your offense is so so,

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Speaker 2: you have Lamar Jackson at quarterback, you had a new

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Speaker 2: offensive coordinator coming into this season, everyone was trying that

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Speaker 2: not surprised that it took this much time. In fact,

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Speaker 2: I'd be more fearful if I was the rest of

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Speaker 2: the AFC because now things have started to click and

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Speaker 2: it's not going the opposite way if you were the

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Speaker 2: Baltimore Ravens. I think this is the juggernaut that is

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Speaker 2: going to come into the one seed.

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Speaker 1: I just don't see who else it could be. I

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Speaker 1: don't who else do we? Like, look at the division leaders.

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Speaker 1: Kansas City got all kinds of problems right now. Ye, Jacksonville,

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Speaker 1: they're just not Miami. We wanted it, but like their

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Speaker 1: best players hurt and they just had a les loss

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Speaker 1: to the Titans. Like who else fits the part of

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Speaker 1: the AFC version of the Niners?

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Speaker 9: Yeah?

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Speaker 4: He's incredibly good. And you don't watch your star quarterback

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Speaker 3: That's an unbelievable thing.

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Speaker 1: I'm a Gardner Minshew fan too. I've always said that

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Speaker 1: But if he gets the teams to the playoffs. That's

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Speaker 3: Right, Let's give Mack.

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Speaker 2: I'm a sucker for a good rookie quarterback story. I

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Speaker 9: there because you know he's not looking to go down

433
00:18:00,028 --> 00:18:01,908
Speaker 9: or go out of bounds, and you know those types

434
00:18:01,948 --> 00:18:11,388
Speaker 9: of things, but very impactful footballa.

435
00:18:07,908 --> 00:18:09,388
Speaker 2: Do you think it is a good thing to say

436
00:18:09,388 --> 00:18:11,988
Speaker 2: his temperament is similar Josh Allen and Brett Favre.

437
00:18:11,988 --> 00:18:12,908
Speaker 5: I wonder how he would take that.

438
00:18:12,988 --> 00:18:16,788
Speaker 2: MacArthur obviously not taking Josh Allen and the Bills lightly

439
00:18:16,988 --> 00:18:20,428
Speaker 2: from a talent standpoint. Massive matchups in the NFC for

440
00:18:20,508 --> 00:18:23,388
Speaker 2: the top teams this weekend Cowboys Bills, Broncos Lions to review.

441
00:18:23,468 --> 00:18:26,188
Speaker 2: Dallas has struggled on the road, though Detroit has lost two.

442
00:18:26,068 --> 00:18:26,948
Speaker 5: Of their last three.

443
00:18:27,428 --> 00:18:30,388
Speaker 2: Who would need the bigger statement win? Would it be

444
00:18:30,468 --> 00:18:32,588
Speaker 2: the Cowboys or the Lions?

445
00:18:32,668 --> 00:18:35,828
Speaker 8: Jason, Like, you talk about a statement, a statement win,

446
00:18:35,908 --> 00:18:37,348
Speaker 8: and I look at the Lions and I feel like

447
00:18:37,388 --> 00:18:40,148
Speaker 8: their statement would be like we're here to stay, We're

448
00:18:40,188 --> 00:18:43,148
Speaker 8: not going anywhere. And you think about, like in a marriage,

449
00:18:43,188 --> 00:18:45,388
Speaker 8: you go through a part where like you're struggling and

450
00:18:45,428 --> 00:18:46,748
Speaker 8: things just haven't been right.

451
00:18:46,868 --> 00:18:48,468
Speaker 6: That was the Lions for so long.

452
00:18:48,548 --> 00:18:51,308
Speaker 8: Whatever they could do, you're finding different ways bringing in

453
00:18:51,348 --> 00:18:53,548
Speaker 8: different people a marriage. You're trying to go out on

454
00:18:53,628 --> 00:18:55,508
Speaker 8: date nights, you're trying to separate from the kids. Well,

455
00:18:55,548 --> 00:18:58,548
Speaker 8: for whatever reason, a conversation to spark the energy is

456
00:18:58,708 --> 00:19:00,188
Speaker 8: just not there. You say, you know what, we're going

457
00:19:00,268 --> 00:19:02,748
Speaker 8: to go to counseling. The lines they bring in Dan Campbell,

458
00:19:02,828 --> 00:19:05,148
Speaker 8: Jared Goff, gets theirs.

459
00:19:04,628 --> 00:19:05,268
Speaker 6: To look up.

460
00:19:05,308 --> 00:19:07,548
Speaker 8: You're going home at now you have a conversation before

461
00:19:07,548 --> 00:19:09,548
Speaker 8: you lay down and you go to sleep. You're really

462
00:19:09,628 --> 00:19:12,468
Speaker 8: starting to connect and feel good about where you are.

463
00:19:12,548 --> 00:19:14,428
Speaker 6: You look at each other and you say, I think

464
00:19:14,468 --> 00:19:16,388
Speaker 6: we're in it for the law haul. We're going to

465
00:19:16,468 --> 00:19:16,868
Speaker 6: be good.

466
00:19:17,228 --> 00:19:19,708
Speaker 8: So you just kind of back down with the counseling

467
00:19:19,908 --> 00:19:21,388
Speaker 8: and next thing you know, you hit a little bit

468
00:19:21,388 --> 00:19:23,668
Speaker 8: of a lull for the Lions. You're not playing your

469
00:19:23,708 --> 00:19:27,948
Speaker 8: best football as of late, and you need something something

470
00:19:27,988 --> 00:19:30,268
Speaker 8: to say, you know what, this is a statement and

471
00:19:30,308 --> 00:19:33,388
Speaker 8: we're going to figure out a way to make this work.

472
00:19:33,588 --> 00:19:36,028
Speaker 8: We're not going anywhere. And I feel like that's the

473
00:19:36,068 --> 00:19:39,028
Speaker 8: Detroit Lions right now. They need this win this week

474
00:19:39,068 --> 00:19:40,828
Speaker 8: and to say, you know what, we were that hot

475
00:19:40,828 --> 00:19:44,148
Speaker 8: team that everybody was talking about in September and October. Yeah,

476
00:19:44,188 --> 00:19:45,668
Speaker 8: we had the loss to the Ravens when we were

477
00:19:45,668 --> 00:19:47,868
Speaker 8: bouncing back, and then as of late, they're giving up

478
00:19:47,868 --> 00:19:49,668
Speaker 8: a ton of points on the defensive side of the ball,

479
00:19:49,748 --> 00:19:50,908
Speaker 8: Jared Goff is turning the.

480
00:19:50,868 --> 00:19:51,988
Speaker 6: Ball over to me.

481
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Speaker 8: They get a win, and they play some of their

482
00:19:53,708 --> 00:19:55,868
Speaker 8: best football this week and against a red hot Denver

483
00:19:55,908 --> 00:19:58,268
Speaker 8: Broncos team. Now you're starting to say, you know what,

484
00:19:58,348 --> 00:20:00,548
Speaker 8: this Lion's football team. This is a team that we

485
00:20:00,588 --> 00:20:01,868
Speaker 8: came in and we say, you know what, we have

486
00:20:01,948 --> 00:20:05,348
Speaker 8: high expectations for them beyond just making the playoffs, and

487
00:20:05,388 --> 00:20:07,308
Speaker 8: you start to feel that way about him. It hasn't

488
00:20:07,308 --> 00:20:09,428
Speaker 8: been that way as of late. I think I'll win

489
00:20:09,508 --> 00:20:10,988
Speaker 8: this week and it'll be a statement to say, hey,

490
00:20:11,068 --> 00:20:13,228
Speaker 8: you know what, we're here for the long haul, baby.

491
00:20:13,108 --> 00:20:14,348
Speaker 5: Any that spark.

492
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Speaker 2: Can they even walk into that holiday party holding hands?

493
00:20:16,708 --> 00:20:17,308
Speaker 6: That passionate?

494
00:20:17,348 --> 00:20:17,508
Speaker 3: Right?

495
00:20:18,428 --> 00:20:21,348
Speaker 4: I gotta I gotta tell you, Jay Man, I lost

496
00:20:21,428 --> 00:20:23,468
Speaker 4: all track of time there for a minute because you really,

497
00:20:23,548 --> 00:20:25,508
Speaker 4: you really like got me invested. I'm trying to think

498
00:20:25,508 --> 00:20:28,708
Speaker 4: about what ways I need to invest in my relationship.

499
00:20:28,268 --> 00:20:30,468
Speaker 5: When I get hold Yeah, you know, redress.

500
00:20:30,548 --> 00:20:32,828
Speaker 3: I appreciate that. It's a proactive thing. People.

501
00:20:32,908 --> 00:20:34,748
Speaker 4: It doesn't mean you have the problem. Sometimes it's just

502
00:20:34,788 --> 00:20:38,548
Speaker 4: about being proactive, very very important to yeah about me,

503
00:20:38,588 --> 00:20:39,388
Speaker 4: It's the Cowboys.

504
00:20:39,748 --> 00:20:40,908
Speaker 3: This is the game.

505
00:20:41,108 --> 00:20:44,828
Speaker 4: Never heard that every single year where the Cowboys go

506
00:20:44,868 --> 00:20:47,948
Speaker 4: on the road late in the year to someplace that

507
00:20:48,028 --> 00:20:50,628
Speaker 4: could be kind of cold and outside and they lose

508
00:20:50,668 --> 00:20:55,028
Speaker 4: this football game. But usually the ones that they do win.

509
00:20:55,108 --> 00:20:56,788
Speaker 4: I think there's been four of them over the last

510
00:20:56,868 --> 00:20:59,828
Speaker 4: few years where they have one. It's been against backup quarterbacks,

511
00:20:59,828 --> 00:21:02,788
Speaker 4: and it's been against teams with losing records. The Buffalo

512
00:21:02,868 --> 00:21:05,548
Speaker 4: Bills don't have a backup quarterback. All right, this team

513
00:21:05,588 --> 00:21:07,988
Speaker 4: now has a winning record. You have Tony Romo telling

514
00:21:08,028 --> 00:21:10,108
Speaker 4: everybody in the world that can hear it that this

515
00:21:10,188 --> 00:21:13,348
Speaker 4: is gonna be the most dangerous team that's possibly that

516
00:21:13,388 --> 00:21:14,388
Speaker 4: could get into the playoffs.

517
00:21:14,388 --> 00:21:14,708
Speaker 3: All right.

518
00:21:15,108 --> 00:21:17,268
Speaker 4: So for me, I want to see them go on

519
00:21:17,308 --> 00:21:20,148
Speaker 4: the road. I want to see them essentially maybe knock

520
00:21:20,228 --> 00:21:22,028
Speaker 4: the Bills out of the playoffs. That's what I would

521
00:21:22,028 --> 00:21:23,468
Speaker 4: want to see. That's why I think this would be

522
00:21:23,468 --> 00:21:26,388
Speaker 4: a bigger win for the Dallas Cowboys. For them to lose,

523
00:21:26,388 --> 00:21:28,908
Speaker 4: it would just be like, h okay, yeah, this is

524
00:21:29,668 --> 00:21:31,708
Speaker 4: what we know about the Dallas Cowboys. To your point

525
00:21:31,748 --> 00:21:35,868
Speaker 4: with the Lions, for me, great, you win, but you're

526
00:21:35,908 --> 00:21:38,508
Speaker 4: the gap between the third team and the fourth team

527
00:21:38,508 --> 00:21:40,588
Speaker 4: in the NFC, I think is so big that it

528
00:21:40,708 --> 00:21:42,908
Speaker 4: really doesn't matter. At this point. In my eyes, they're

529
00:21:42,948 --> 00:21:44,788
Speaker 4: going to scratch and cloud that. A bigger win would

530
00:21:44,788 --> 00:21:47,308
Speaker 4: be for the Dallas Cowboys to go to Orchard Park

531
00:21:47,348 --> 00:21:47,868
Speaker 4: and get it done.

532
00:21:48,548 --> 00:21:50,788
Speaker 6: So hard for the Cowboys they beat the Eagles. It's

533
00:21:50,828 --> 00:21:52,348
Speaker 6: always something that want something more.

534
00:21:52,468 --> 00:21:53,948
Speaker 3: It needs something more from the Cowboys.

535
00:21:53,988 --> 00:21:56,788
Speaker 1: You need a Divisional round playoff win, and that's all

536
00:21:56,828 --> 00:21:59,708
Speaker 1: I care about. They do that. They're golden. I don't

537
00:21:59,708 --> 00:22:01,188
Speaker 1: care what happens to the title game. I don't care.

538
00:22:01,188 --> 00:22:02,548
Speaker 1: I don't care if they get to the soup. You

539
00:22:02,668 --> 00:22:05,188
Speaker 1: have to get to a title game. All this stuff

540
00:22:05,268 --> 00:22:08,468
Speaker 1: that beet the Bills great. We already know the Cowboys

541
00:22:08,508 --> 00:22:11,028
Speaker 1: are good. One of these losses by either Dallas or

542
00:22:11,068 --> 00:22:13,228
Speaker 1: Detroit would be your back to the shallow end, like

543
00:22:13,268 --> 00:22:15,228
Speaker 1: you're not as good as we thought they were. But

544
00:22:15,348 --> 00:22:17,548
Speaker 1: it would be much bigger for Detroit. Let me tell

545
00:22:17,548 --> 00:22:20,268
Speaker 1: you something about Detroit. They're playing a home Okay, the

546
00:22:20,348 --> 00:22:23,028
Speaker 1: last time they played in front of these lovely Lions fans,

547
00:22:23,268 --> 00:22:26,308
Speaker 1: it was Thanksgiving. We know what happened. It was a big,

548
00:22:26,348 --> 00:22:29,988
Speaker 1: big come down and they lose to Jordan love the package,

549
00:22:30,068 --> 00:22:32,348
Speaker 1: just rough. So then you go and now you've lost

550
00:22:32,348 --> 00:22:34,588
Speaker 1: to the Bears and they're coming home, and it's like,

551
00:22:34,748 --> 00:22:35,268
Speaker 1: who are we?

552
00:22:35,388 --> 00:22:35,908
Speaker 3: What are we?

553
00:22:36,068 --> 00:22:39,028
Speaker 1: I know our record is good, but who cares like that?

554
00:22:39,148 --> 00:22:41,788
Speaker 1: We want a home playoff game? I never saw one.

555
00:22:41,828 --> 00:22:44,668
Speaker 1: My kids have never seen one. If then you lose

556
00:22:44,748 --> 00:22:47,588
Speaker 1: to Denver also at home, then it's like we're spiral

557
00:22:47,628 --> 00:22:49,348
Speaker 1: and I think this is a very important game. I

558
00:22:49,388 --> 00:22:51,988
Speaker 1: think it's a very important game for Dan Campbell, Jared

559
00:22:52,028 --> 00:22:55,148
Speaker 1: Goff as usually during his career, he's under siege and

560
00:22:55,348 --> 00:22:58,268
Speaker 1: they don't have it. You're throwing too many interceptions. Also,

561
00:22:58,708 --> 00:23:00,348
Speaker 1: if you go and you do the thing that we've

562
00:23:00,348 --> 00:23:01,988
Speaker 1: been seeing them do for most of this year, which

563
00:23:02,028 --> 00:23:06,068
Speaker 1: is innovative offense, fire fireworks, it's explosive plays, and you

564
00:23:06,148 --> 00:23:08,708
Speaker 1: really roll over on Denver, then it's like, oh, we

565
00:23:08,708 --> 00:23:10,988
Speaker 1: can just take a breath. I got Lions fans. I'm

566
00:23:10,988 --> 00:23:12,708
Speaker 1: not even gonna say their name on the air. The

567
00:23:12,748 --> 00:23:15,588
Speaker 1: stuff that they text me about this nine and four team.

568
00:23:15,868 --> 00:23:20,268
Speaker 1: They're miserable, miserable, and they're the Lions and they're nine

569
00:23:20,348 --> 00:23:23,748
Speaker 1: and four and they're inconsolably depressed about the state of

570
00:23:23,788 --> 00:23:26,428
Speaker 1: things that scarts issue, and you can't get rid of

571
00:23:26,468 --> 00:23:28,708
Speaker 1: that unless you get to the playoffs. You're doing the

572
00:23:28,708 --> 00:23:31,548
Speaker 1: home playoff games. This is a big, big deal because

573
00:23:31,588 --> 00:23:34,188
Speaker 1: they got four games left. It's all there that all

574
00:23:34,228 --> 00:23:37,068
Speaker 1: the things that Dan Campbell promised and pledged when you

575
00:23:37,108 --> 00:23:40,908
Speaker 1: showed up. Grab it. Just you can smell it. Just

576
00:23:41,068 --> 00:23:43,108
Speaker 1: grab it. Just win a few of these games. You're

577
00:23:43,108 --> 00:23:44,708
Speaker 1: gonna have a home playoff game and it's gonna be

578
00:23:44,708 --> 00:23:47,348
Speaker 1: Detroit Christmas big come down. If they lose to Denver,

579
00:23:47,428 --> 00:23:50,268
Speaker 1: big comedown, then it's like then you imagine the text messages.

580
00:23:50,308 --> 00:23:53,068
Speaker 1: Hell no, I think Detroit will be ready. I like

581
00:23:53,148 --> 00:23:55,268
Speaker 1: them in this game, be tough. If they lost this.

582
00:23:55,228 --> 00:23:57,548
Speaker 6: Well, if they lose and Minnesota on they said to

583
00:23:57,548 --> 00:23:58,788
Speaker 6: play it twice.

584
00:23:58,988 --> 00:23:59,828
Speaker 5: That's what I'm saying.

585
00:24:00,788 --> 00:24:05,068
Speaker 2: This could be a magical weekend for Minnesota if this

586
00:24:05,148 --> 00:24:07,788
Speaker 2: transpires this way. And by that I mean the Minnesota

587
00:24:07,828 --> 00:24:10,188
Speaker 2: Vikings go to Cincinnati and they beat the Bengals, the

588
00:24:10,268 --> 00:24:12,748
Speaker 2: Lions hosts the Broncos and they lose all of a sudden,

589
00:24:12,748 --> 00:24:14,428
Speaker 2: you have a flip flop, and those two teams haven't

590
00:24:14,468 --> 00:24:16,748
Speaker 2: even played each other yet. And if that thing happens,

591
00:24:16,788 --> 00:24:20,508
Speaker 2: it means the Vikings defense continues to be electric, the

592
00:24:20,508 --> 00:24:22,348
Speaker 2: way they shut out a team last week late in

593
00:24:22,388 --> 00:24:25,628
Speaker 2: the season, and that means the Lions offense still has

594
00:24:25,668 --> 00:24:28,028
Speaker 2: not clicked. They play each other next week, these two

595
00:24:28,028 --> 00:24:30,148
Speaker 2: teams do. Then they take a break, and then they

596
00:24:30,148 --> 00:24:32,988
Speaker 2: play each other again. And if either one of those teams,

597
00:24:33,028 --> 00:24:35,108
Speaker 2: if either one of those games slip through, the Lions

598
00:24:35,228 --> 00:24:38,308
Speaker 2: grass the Cowboys if they lose, if there's a flip

599
00:24:38,308 --> 00:24:39,028
Speaker 2: flop in the East.

600
00:24:39,028 --> 00:24:41,228
Speaker 5: And we get that, but I've had your kool aid now.

601
00:24:41,268 --> 00:24:41,708
Speaker 5: I get it.

602
00:24:41,788 --> 00:24:43,868
Speaker 2: Like the Cowboys, they need to win in the playoffs,

603
00:24:43,908 --> 00:24:45,428
Speaker 2: and that's about as much as we're going to care

604
00:24:45,428 --> 00:24:45,988
Speaker 2: about it the time.

605
00:24:46,228 --> 00:24:48,428
Speaker 4: But I also think I also think for them playing

606
00:24:48,468 --> 00:24:49,868
Speaker 4: at home is a big deal this year, the way

607
00:24:49,868 --> 00:24:52,828
Speaker 4: they've played at home, no the Cowboys, for them to have,

608
00:24:53,108 --> 00:24:55,588
Speaker 4: for them to have home field advantage, I mean, would

609
00:24:55,588 --> 00:24:57,428
Speaker 4: be huge. They most likely won't get because they lost

610
00:24:57,428 --> 00:24:59,268
Speaker 4: the tie record to San Francisco and the Ravens can

611
00:24:59,308 --> 00:25:01,588
Speaker 4: do something next week, but that's a big deal for them.

612
00:25:02,028 --> 00:25:02,868
Speaker 5: I think it's Lions.

613
00:25:02,908 --> 00:25:04,668
Speaker 1: I do well the fact that you're bringing up and

614
00:25:04,708 --> 00:25:06,508
Speaker 1: there's other people bring up this Vikings thing. If you're

615
00:25:06,548 --> 00:25:08,668
Speaker 1: the Lions or Lines fans. You're telling me that they

616
00:25:08,668 --> 00:25:10,908
Speaker 1: should be afraid. Who is at Nick Mullins now? Like

617
00:25:11,188 --> 00:25:13,028
Speaker 1: I know their defense is good. You got to be

618
00:25:13,068 --> 00:25:15,068
Speaker 1: able to handle the Nick Mullins vikings. They're on their

619
00:25:15,068 --> 00:25:17,628
Speaker 1: twenty seventh quarterback. That is so insulting you that I

620
00:25:17,628 --> 00:25:20,588
Speaker 1: don't know that the Nick Mullins experience may knock you

621
00:25:20,628 --> 00:25:22,468
Speaker 1: out of the NFC North No, no, no, no, no, you

622
00:25:22,588 --> 00:25:24,628
Speaker 1: got your guy. He's been to the Super Bowl. You

623
00:25:24,668 --> 00:25:26,948
Speaker 1: got Campbell. Like the hell with how good their defense

624
00:25:27,028 --> 00:25:29,668
Speaker 1: is playing, they're on quarterback Z right now. You should

625
00:25:29,668 --> 00:25:30,388
Speaker 1: be able to handle that.

626
00:25:30,548 --> 00:25:31,028
Speaker 5: It's valid.

627
00:25:31,508 --> 00:25:34,428
Speaker 2: But if you don't come on exactly of the text,

628
00:25:34,588 --> 00:25:35,348
Speaker 2: then it's tendon hooker.

629
00:25:35,428 --> 00:25:37,148
Speaker 4: I want to see your text that after the Green

630
00:25:37,188 --> 00:25:39,268
Speaker 4: Bay and Minnesota not to say his.

631
00:25:39,308 --> 00:25:41,868
Speaker 1: Name, and it's like the first quarter, we're done. This

632
00:25:42,028 --> 00:25:45,308
Speaker 1: season's ruined. Geez, guys, taking nine and four, you're gonna

633
00:25:45,308 --> 00:25:47,428
Speaker 1: be all right, Mike, all right, all right.

634
00:25:47,508 --> 00:25:50,188
Speaker 2: So since taking down the Eagles on Sunday Night, there's

635
00:25:50,228 --> 00:25:53,708
Speaker 2: been a lot of heat in the Dak Prescott for

636
00:25:53,868 --> 00:25:59,068
Speaker 2: MVP campaign. If the Cowboys keep stacking wins despite how

637
00:25:59,148 --> 00:26:00,668
Speaker 2: DAK performs in those wins.

638
00:26:00,668 --> 00:26:01,468
Speaker 5: A win is a win.

639
00:26:01,588 --> 00:26:04,388
Speaker 2: Does Dak bring home the Mvpgason, Oh, of course.

640
00:26:04,948 --> 00:26:08,068
Speaker 8: I think we talked about brock Purty on the other side,

641
00:26:08,068 --> 00:26:10,148
Speaker 8: and what we hold against brock Purty is are the

642
00:26:10,188 --> 00:26:12,388
Speaker 8: forty nine ers are winning? But are they winning because

643
00:26:12,468 --> 00:26:15,188
Speaker 8: of brock Purty. I don't think Dak Prescott or any

644
00:26:15,308 --> 00:26:18,068
Speaker 8: player that has that luxury. Just all my team's winning

645
00:26:18,268 --> 00:26:20,668
Speaker 8: and because I'm the quarterback, I'm going to be the MVP.

646
00:26:20,988 --> 00:26:23,068
Speaker 8: The reason that Dak's name is being brought up so

647
00:26:23,148 --> 00:26:25,708
Speaker 8: much when it comes to the MVP is because he's

648
00:26:25,788 --> 00:26:28,988
Speaker 8: leading this Cowboys team the way he's playing since they

649
00:26:29,068 --> 00:26:31,428
Speaker 8: lost that game to the forty nine Ers. The reason

650
00:26:31,428 --> 00:26:33,628
Speaker 8: they've been winning games is because his ability to get

651
00:26:33,628 --> 00:26:36,308
Speaker 8: the ball down the field, his connection with CDE l Ambley.

652
00:26:36,388 --> 00:26:39,028
Speaker 8: We've seen him rush for touchdowns in games as well.

653
00:26:39,188 --> 00:26:41,708
Speaker 8: So he's been the reason and the catalyst behind this

654
00:26:41,868 --> 00:26:44,068
Speaker 8: offense of what they've been able to do. So I

655
00:26:44,068 --> 00:26:46,548
Speaker 8: think the season comes to an end if we're still

656
00:26:46,548 --> 00:26:48,628
Speaker 8: talking about Dak Prescott is the number one option to

657
00:26:48,668 --> 00:26:52,028
Speaker 8: win this MVP is going to be because he's absolutely balling,

658
00:26:52,188 --> 00:26:54,388
Speaker 8: because he's going on the road line to a Buffalo

659
00:26:54,428 --> 00:26:56,668
Speaker 8: team outside of a dome, not playing at home and

660
00:26:56,748 --> 00:26:57,988
Speaker 8: winning a game and throwing the.

661
00:26:57,948 --> 00:27:00,668
Speaker 1: Ball a lover. Dak also has a really good story.

662
00:27:00,748 --> 00:27:03,548
Speaker 1: He has the strewery of no Cowboys quarterback has ever

663
00:27:03,588 --> 00:27:06,348
Speaker 1: won MVP. He's the Walter Payton Man of the Year.

664
00:27:06,508 --> 00:27:09,948
Speaker 1: He's beloved. He's a good guy like that. Stuff really plays.

665
00:27:10,148 --> 00:27:12,308
Speaker 1: And I would hate to see any sort of prejudice

666
00:27:12,308 --> 00:27:14,908
Speaker 1: against Brock Party because his story is not good enough,

667
00:27:15,068 --> 00:27:17,108
Speaker 1: or one of these things about well he's young, he'll

668
00:27:17,108 --> 00:27:19,908
Speaker 1: have his time, right, you're the quarterback guy. I am

669
00:27:19,948 --> 00:27:23,108
Speaker 1: getting so annoyed with all these game manager takes about

670
00:27:23,148 --> 00:27:25,348
Speaker 1: Brock Purty. Look, I know you watched one game all

671
00:27:25,468 --> 00:27:26,828
Speaker 1: year of the Niners, and he threw a lot of

672
00:27:26,868 --> 00:27:30,028
Speaker 1: screens during that game. But they have played thirteen of them.

673
00:27:30,268 --> 00:27:32,148
Speaker 1: I can bring up a two hour demo reel of

674
00:27:32,228 --> 00:27:35,588
Speaker 1: him not managing the game, but annihilating the defense in

675
00:27:35,628 --> 00:27:38,508
Speaker 1: the same way that Jimmy Garoppolo never could. That Trey Lance,

676
00:27:38,548 --> 00:27:40,588
Speaker 1: an incredible athlete, wasn't able to do. Like we could

677
00:27:40,628 --> 00:27:43,628
Speaker 1: go down the list. I hate the prejudice against Brock Party.

678
00:27:43,788 --> 00:27:45,548
Speaker 1: I'm gonna call my shot at Ganleef and then to

679
00:27:45,588 --> 00:27:47,868
Speaker 1: get in here. I think this year we're gonna somehow

680
00:27:47,948 --> 00:27:50,028
Speaker 1: land on co MVPs, and it's been a long time

681
00:27:50,068 --> 00:27:52,428
Speaker 1: since we have. But it would not surprise me at

682
00:27:52,468 --> 00:27:55,068
Speaker 1: all if it was Brock Purty and Dak Prescott, both

683
00:27:55,068 --> 00:27:56,428
Speaker 1: who have been great and both who have been led

684
00:27:56,468 --> 00:27:58,188
Speaker 1: from the front forty nine or and a cowboy.

685
00:27:57,988 --> 00:28:01,948
Speaker 4: It'd be awesome this get in there, this conversation around

686
00:28:03,148 --> 00:28:06,428
Speaker 4: Dak Prescott, if they just were to win games. When

687
00:28:06,548 --> 00:28:09,868
Speaker 4: Dak Prescott wins games and does well, he still takes

688
00:28:10,148 --> 00:28:12,748
Speaker 4: shots from everybody that he isn't good enough. So for

689
00:28:12,828 --> 00:28:15,268
Speaker 4: him to just to win a game and not perform

690
00:28:15,308 --> 00:28:17,268
Speaker 4: with the statistics is going to win him the MVP.

691
00:28:17,348 --> 00:28:19,908
Speaker 4: I don't think that's the case at all. You look

692
00:28:19,948 --> 00:28:23,508
Speaker 4: at the statistics between Purty and Dak Prescott, they're pretty identical.

693
00:28:24,028 --> 00:28:26,828
Speaker 4: They're both ten and three, they're both around seventy percent

694
00:28:26,948 --> 00:28:29,308
Speaker 4: two hundred and seventy yards passing twenty eight touchdowns of

695
00:28:29,348 --> 00:28:31,868
Speaker 4: twenty five times stowns six and sevens. You know the

696
00:28:31,868 --> 00:28:33,988
Speaker 4: passer ratings written. I mean, they've had incredible years and

697
00:28:33,988 --> 00:28:36,628
Speaker 4: there's a reason why they're two best teams in the NFC.

698
00:28:36,908 --> 00:28:38,668
Speaker 4: The head to head for me, is a big deal.

699
00:28:38,748 --> 00:28:41,788
Speaker 4: You know, of college football. I clearly doesn't care about

700
00:28:41,828 --> 00:28:44,268
Speaker 4: head to head matchup, but the NFL does. And Brock

701
00:28:44,308 --> 00:28:47,388
Speaker 4: Perty and this forty nine Ers team dominated Dak Prescott

702
00:28:47,388 --> 00:28:49,108
Speaker 4: and the Cowboys early year. Now the Cowboys have been

703
00:28:49,148 --> 00:28:52,068
Speaker 4: different since then. I wouldn't mind it. I don't like

704
00:28:52,308 --> 00:28:55,428
Speaker 4: Cohen anything. The MVP for me is, you know, it

705
00:28:55,508 --> 00:28:56,868
Speaker 4: is what it is a lot of times it doesn't

706
00:28:56,868 --> 00:29:00,548
Speaker 4: produce necessarily the Super Bowl champion unless you're Patrick Mahomes.

707
00:29:01,188 --> 00:29:03,468
Speaker 4: This for me, has brought Perty's award to lose. It

708
00:29:03,588 --> 00:29:06,348
Speaker 4: simply is I'm with you on the game manager aspect

709
00:29:06,348 --> 00:29:08,228
Speaker 4: of things. I don't buy into it at all. You

710
00:29:08,268 --> 00:29:10,068
Speaker 4: look back at the great forty nine Ers teams. You

711
00:29:10,068 --> 00:29:12,468
Speaker 4: look at the great Steelers teams with Terry Bradshaw, you

712
00:29:12,508 --> 00:29:15,348
Speaker 4: have lynz One, Hall of Famer, Frank o'harris, hall of famer,

713
00:29:15,548 --> 00:29:18,068
Speaker 4: John Stalworth, all those guys. You don't think those are

714
00:29:18,108 --> 00:29:20,228
Speaker 4: the guys in San Francisco. They can be great, and

715
00:29:20,268 --> 00:29:22,468
Speaker 4: the reason they can be greatest because the quarterback is

716
00:29:22,508 --> 00:29:25,028
Speaker 4: facilitating all that. Joe Montana had it too, all right,

717
00:29:25,108 --> 00:29:28,828
Speaker 4: Jerry Rice, John Taylor, Brent Jones, Roger Craig. Christian McCaffrey

718
00:29:29,148 --> 00:29:32,428
Speaker 4: is the twenty twenty three version of Roger Craig. Okay,

719
00:29:32,508 --> 00:29:35,668
Speaker 4: so this is not new news. This is not something

720
00:29:35,708 --> 00:29:37,868
Speaker 4: new that you're making up out there that like, oh,

721
00:29:37,988 --> 00:29:39,668
Speaker 4: all of a sudden, brock Perty's got all this talent

722
00:29:39,708 --> 00:29:42,228
Speaker 4: and when he didn't have talent, Deebo Samuel and Trent Williams,

723
00:29:42,268 --> 00:29:42,668
Speaker 4: he was bad.

724
00:29:42,708 --> 00:29:44,388
Speaker 3: Well, he's also concussed Tom and try to go out

725
00:29:44,388 --> 00:29:44,868
Speaker 3: there and play.

726
00:29:44,948 --> 00:29:48,028
Speaker 4: But all he does is throw screen passes touchdowns and

727
00:29:48,068 --> 00:29:51,828
Speaker 4: win football games. Hand him his flowers, which comes in

728
00:29:51,828 --> 00:29:54,868
Speaker 4: in the vested je of a MVP trols awesome, like

729
00:29:54,948 --> 00:29:55,868
Speaker 4: you Ausll's good.

730
00:29:55,948 --> 00:29:57,428
Speaker 2: I'm just going to throw one other ten and three

731
00:29:57,468 --> 00:29:59,348
Speaker 2: quarterback in Lamar Jackson, and I think he should be

732
00:29:59,468 --> 00:30:01,828
Speaker 2: definitely on that full screen as well. The stats aren't

733
00:30:01,868 --> 00:30:04,228
Speaker 2: quite there, but value is always the word we put

734
00:30:04,228 --> 00:30:06,668
Speaker 2: o that and that position and that story being a

735
00:30:06,708 --> 00:30:09,668
Speaker 2: two time winner, I think is a very curious one.

736
00:30:09,708 --> 00:30:11,108
Speaker 5: And everything he went through last.

737
00:30:10,948 --> 00:30:12,188
Speaker 1: Offseason, he'd have to come run in.

738
00:30:12,468 --> 00:30:14,628
Speaker 4: Well, I tell you right now, they go beat the Jags,

739
00:30:15,148 --> 00:30:19,388
Speaker 4: they go to San Francisco against and then the Dolphins

740
00:30:19,388 --> 00:30:21,348
Speaker 4: come to town and all of a sudden, they're sitting

741
00:30:21,348 --> 00:30:23,908
Speaker 4: there at thirteen and three.

742
00:30:23,788 --> 00:30:24,708
Speaker 6: Going, no doubt about it.

743
00:30:24,708 --> 00:30:26,548
Speaker 4: If Pittsburgh come to town, we're going to embarrass you

744
00:30:26,588 --> 00:30:27,988
Speaker 4: and kick you out of the playoffs and then take

745
00:30:28,028 --> 00:30:28,868
Speaker 4: over the number one seat.

746
00:30:33,228 --> 00:30:36,388
Speaker 11: I can blend in pretty well. I don't stand out

747
00:30:36,428 --> 00:30:39,148
Speaker 11: a ton. It's probably part of why it took me

748
00:30:39,148 --> 00:30:40,148
Speaker 11: so long to get on a field.

749
00:30:41,548 --> 00:30:43,908
Speaker 10: Is your family going to run it back in the Boroughs?

750
00:30:45,468 --> 00:30:46,148
Speaker 6: We'll see.

751
00:30:46,348 --> 00:30:48,948
Speaker 11: I don't know, you see if they're staying levelhead, if

752
00:30:48,948 --> 00:30:50,508
Speaker 11: they're getting a little too cocky, might just put him

753
00:30:50,548 --> 00:30:51,508
Speaker 11: back out in the cold.

754
00:30:54,588 --> 00:30:57,708
Speaker 5: Keeping everybody in the place all right. Time for buying

755
00:30:58,468 --> 00:30:59,068
Speaker 5: or a lion.

756
00:30:59,308 --> 00:31:01,548
Speaker 2: We're going to start with the Bengals back of quarterback, naturally,

757
00:31:01,628 --> 00:31:04,028
Speaker 2: Jake Browning, who will be looking for his third straight

758
00:31:04,108 --> 00:31:06,628
Speaker 2: when this Saturday, and this comes against a very good

759
00:31:06,748 --> 00:31:07,908
Speaker 2: Vikings defense in.

760
00:31:07,868 --> 00:31:10,068
Speaker 5: The year of the backup quarterback? Are you buying or

761
00:31:10,108 --> 00:31:11,348
Speaker 5: am I lying? When I say this?

762
00:31:11,508 --> 00:31:14,148
Speaker 2: Jake Browning is the quarterback who has impressed the most

763
00:31:14,188 --> 00:31:14,748
Speaker 2: so far.

764
00:31:14,948 --> 00:31:17,908
Speaker 8: Jason absolutely love Jake brown He's been so fun to

765
00:31:17,948 --> 00:31:20,468
Speaker 8: watch his family all this and that. But I am

766
00:31:20,548 --> 00:31:23,788
Speaker 8: going and lying because here's a guy that's thirty eight

767
00:31:23,868 --> 00:31:26,628
Speaker 8: years old and Joe Flacco that entered the game, and

768
00:31:26,908 --> 00:31:28,548
Speaker 8: we're saying like, Joe Flacco came.

769
00:31:28,468 --> 00:31:29,188
Speaker 6: Straight off to couch.

770
00:31:29,268 --> 00:31:29,668
Speaker 3: No, he didn't.

771
00:31:29,708 --> 00:31:31,828
Speaker 8: He's a family man. He came straight out of car line.

772
00:31:31,948 --> 00:31:33,628
Speaker 8: He was at you sports on him.

773
00:31:35,148 --> 00:31:35,548
Speaker 3: At all.

774
00:31:35,588 --> 00:31:37,508
Speaker 8: He had his honeydue list when he woke up on

775
00:31:37,548 --> 00:31:39,188
Speaker 8: a Monday that his wife want him to do all.

776
00:31:39,428 --> 00:31:42,988
Speaker 8: He came straight from that onto the football field, into

777
00:31:43,028 --> 00:31:46,388
Speaker 8: the locker room and it's been absolutely balling. I'm thirty

778
00:31:46,468 --> 00:31:48,188
Speaker 8: six years old. They asked me to go out there

779
00:31:48,228 --> 00:31:50,108
Speaker 8: and play in the football game. Right now there is

780
00:31:50,228 --> 00:31:51,908
Speaker 8: I don't care how much money they want to play me,

781
00:31:51,948 --> 00:31:53,548
Speaker 8: how much fun is going to be. There's no way

782
00:31:53,588 --> 00:31:56,108
Speaker 8: in hell I'm getting out there and competing. Joe Flacco

783
00:31:56,228 --> 00:31:57,108
Speaker 8: is thirty eight and he.

784
00:31:57,108 --> 00:31:57,588
Speaker 6: Is doing it.

785
00:31:57,628 --> 00:31:59,708
Speaker 8: He's doing at a high level, and he has the

786
00:31:59,748 --> 00:32:01,948
Speaker 8: belief of the guys around him in the locker room.

787
00:32:01,988 --> 00:32:05,468
Speaker 8: So I'm gonna lying on this one because Joe, if.

788
00:32:05,308 --> 00:32:07,228
Speaker 1: He was on the couch, he wouldn't be playing. It

789
00:32:07,268 --> 00:32:09,468
Speaker 1: wouldn't still be on the couch. The fact that he

790
00:32:09,548 --> 00:32:10,028
Speaker 1: was doing all.

791
00:32:09,948 --> 00:32:14,948
Speaker 8: That other stuff is the reason working right.

792
00:32:15,068 --> 00:32:17,868
Speaker 4: Yeah, I can attest to that. I've been the honeydew

793
00:32:17,868 --> 00:32:19,948
Speaker 4: list in the you know, tasks around the house. The

794
00:32:20,028 --> 00:32:22,908
Speaker 4: last two weeks have been Yeah, I might be able

795
00:32:22,948 --> 00:32:24,828
Speaker 4: to play right now. I might be able to be

796
00:32:24,868 --> 00:32:26,468
Speaker 4: able to play like Joe Placco, But I mean I

797
00:32:26,468 --> 00:32:30,148
Speaker 4: can play. Maybe. I love Jake Browning and you guys

798
00:32:30,148 --> 00:32:32,628
Speaker 4: know I do. I think he's been spectacular. I love

799
00:32:32,668 --> 00:32:36,548
Speaker 4: his mindset. Uh you know it's it's but the Tommy

800
00:32:36,588 --> 00:32:42,708
Speaker 4: DeVito story is something. Okay, just just look at the

801
00:32:42,748 --> 00:32:45,988
Speaker 4: stats between the starting quarterback Daniel Jones and what Tommy

802
00:32:46,028 --> 00:32:48,588
Speaker 4: de Vito has done in his replacement after the injury.

803
00:32:48,628 --> 00:32:52,508
Speaker 4: I mean, it's been nowhere close in terms of wins,

804
00:32:52,868 --> 00:32:55,828
Speaker 4: in terms of touchdowns, the interceptions, all of it. He's

805
00:32:55,868 --> 00:32:57,708
Speaker 4: gone out and done everything. I remember when he went

806
00:32:57,708 --> 00:32:59,268
Speaker 4: into the game. I think it was against the Jets.

807
00:32:59,308 --> 00:33:01,868
Speaker 4: If you recall, they wouldn't even they wouldn't even offer

808
00:33:01,908 --> 00:33:04,588
Speaker 4: him an opportunity to throw the football. And what Brian

809
00:33:04,628 --> 00:33:06,908
Speaker 4: Dabele and the offense has been able to do. This

810
00:33:06,988 --> 00:33:09,948
Speaker 4: win over the Green Bay Packers on Monday Night was

811
00:33:10,028 --> 00:33:12,308
Speaker 4: huge because Green Bay had a real chance with the

812
00:33:12,308 --> 00:33:14,628
Speaker 4: way the Lions were going to all of a sudden

813
00:33:14,628 --> 00:33:18,388
Speaker 4: being the conversation for the NFC North title, and now

814
00:33:18,828 --> 00:33:20,028
Speaker 4: with that loss and.

815
00:33:19,988 --> 00:33:21,268
Speaker 3: What Tommy DeVito has been able to do.

816
00:33:21,308 --> 00:33:23,948
Speaker 4: I mean, he's really no matter what, the story's gonna

817
00:33:23,948 --> 00:33:25,668
Speaker 4: be a great one to be able to tell for

818
00:33:25,748 --> 00:33:27,748
Speaker 4: years and years and years. The family and everything like that,

819
00:33:27,788 --> 00:33:32,828
Speaker 4: but he's really playing professional football well right now as

820
00:33:32,828 --> 00:33:33,708
Speaker 4: a backup quarterback.

821
00:33:34,388 --> 00:33:36,708
Speaker 1: I gotta go Browning. I know it hasn't been as

822
00:33:36,788 --> 00:33:41,308
Speaker 1: much as as someone like Gardner. I just he's been

823
00:33:41,468 --> 00:33:44,668
Speaker 1: so good and so impressive, and we just showed him

824
00:33:44,868 --> 00:33:46,548
Speaker 1: at the press conference and like now he's got that

825
00:33:46,588 --> 00:33:50,188
Speaker 1: thing where he's like settling in comfortable, like this is

826
00:33:50,188 --> 00:33:52,988
Speaker 1: I'm gonna hold court. I'm gonna make jokes about the family.

827
00:33:53,028 --> 00:33:56,348
Speaker 1: I don't know why, for some reason, every time I

828
00:33:56,468 --> 00:33:59,468
Speaker 1: started talking about Jake Browning, we get that same shot

829
00:33:59,548 --> 00:34:01,108
Speaker 1: of his family up in the suite, and I don't

830
00:34:01,148 --> 00:34:04,028
Speaker 1: know why keep it on the field. Why do you

831
00:34:04,068 --> 00:34:07,588
Speaker 1: always show that? Get out of the slow motion? Hold on, Jay,

832
00:34:07,588 --> 00:34:09,908
Speaker 1: hold on, don't do that. S gratuitous. I'm trying to

833
00:34:09,908 --> 00:34:11,388
Speaker 1: stick to the football. Why would you do that?

834
00:34:11,468 --> 00:34:13,508
Speaker 2: Yes, Jamie, Oh, I think the brunette in the shot

835
00:34:13,548 --> 00:34:15,708
Speaker 2: is Joe Burrows's girlfriend.

836
00:34:15,708 --> 00:34:17,268
Speaker 1: I don't notice the hair color anything I'm trying to

837
00:34:17,268 --> 00:34:18,428
Speaker 1: talk about. I don't know even do.

838
00:34:18,348 --> 00:34:20,148
Speaker 3: You think do you think Joe Joe charged him for

839
00:34:20,228 --> 00:34:20,908
Speaker 3: the seats?

840
00:34:21,468 --> 00:34:23,988
Speaker 6: No? Yeah, maybe not for the first one's free?

841
00:34:24,068 --> 00:34:25,068
Speaker 3: Yeah, first straight.

842
00:34:25,148 --> 00:34:28,268
Speaker 6: Now just experience. Now, you know, it's like, no more of.

843
00:34:28,188 --> 00:34:29,748
Speaker 1: That clip, guys, Let's just keep it on the field.

844
00:34:29,788 --> 00:34:31,108
Speaker 5: You're buying into the story.

845
00:34:31,708 --> 00:34:33,188
Speaker 1: I like the football. That's what I'm here to talk

846
00:34:33,308 --> 00:34:34,748
Speaker 1: called Good Morning Football is and the the show.

847
00:34:34,788 --> 00:34:38,308
Speaker 2: So it's holding my answer for a little Easton Stick experience.

848
00:34:38,388 --> 00:34:41,428
Speaker 2: This week, Chargers, we'll see how Euston Stick firs all right.

849
00:34:41,468 --> 00:34:44,108
Speaker 2: From one AFC North team to another. The Steelers are

850
00:34:44,108 --> 00:34:47,508
Speaker 2: holding on by a string in the AFC playoff race.

851
00:34:47,708 --> 00:34:50,388
Speaker 2: They're currently the sixth seed, and there is a lot

852
00:34:50,588 --> 00:34:54,108
Speaker 2: of seven and six teams biting at their ankles lining

853
00:34:54,148 --> 00:34:54,348
Speaker 2: up to.

854
00:34:54,348 --> 00:34:55,588
Speaker 5: See if the Steelers will slip up.

855
00:34:55,668 --> 00:34:58,188
Speaker 2: Of the six teams playing in the Saturday triple header,

856
00:34:58,228 --> 00:35:00,668
Speaker 2: the Steelers need to win the most. Jason, is this

857
00:35:00,708 --> 00:35:02,228
Speaker 2: something you're buying into or am I lying?

858
00:35:02,588 --> 00:35:05,228
Speaker 6: I'm going lying, Yes, I'm gonna lie.

859
00:35:05,268 --> 00:35:07,748
Speaker 8: I know they've lost those two games to the Patriots

860
00:35:07,788 --> 00:35:09,708
Speaker 8: and to the Cardinals, and it's rough for them right now.

861
00:35:09,988 --> 00:35:12,468
Speaker 8: Steelers are in the playoffs right now, though, they're still

862
00:35:12,548 --> 00:35:15,108
Speaker 8: in that picture and they're slotted there. I'm looking at

863
00:35:15,108 --> 00:35:17,588
Speaker 8: the Bengals. They're in the temp spot. There's nine teams

864
00:35:17,588 --> 00:35:20,508
Speaker 8: ahead of them when you talk about the AFC playoff picture,

865
00:35:20,508 --> 00:35:22,628
Speaker 8: and for them, that's the goal. And we talked about

866
00:35:22,628 --> 00:35:24,788
Speaker 8: how well Jake brown has been playing the last two weeks.

867
00:35:24,988 --> 00:35:27,588
Speaker 8: You got to continue to win every single game from

868
00:35:27,628 --> 00:35:29,908
Speaker 8: this point on to get into the playoffs if you're

869
00:35:29,948 --> 00:35:32,548
Speaker 8: the Cincinnati Bengals, so you want to continue that street

870
00:35:32,628 --> 00:35:34,948
Speaker 8: Browning playing well and getting those ws so that at

871
00:35:34,948 --> 00:35:36,948
Speaker 8: the end of the season you're still standing there. For

872
00:35:36,948 --> 00:35:38,868
Speaker 8: the Steelers, yes, they have to start winning, but as

873
00:35:38,908 --> 00:35:40,988
Speaker 8: of today, right now, they're still in the playoffs. I

874
00:35:40,988 --> 00:35:42,708
Speaker 8: think that is a difference when you talk about them

875
00:35:42,708 --> 00:35:43,828
Speaker 8: in the Bengals all right.

876
00:35:46,668 --> 00:35:47,748
Speaker 3: I'm lying on this one.

877
00:35:47,788 --> 00:35:49,708
Speaker 4: I don't think it's the I don't think it's the

878
00:35:49,988 --> 00:35:52,868
Speaker 4: Steelers at all. I think the Steelers have showcased that

879
00:35:52,988 --> 00:35:55,588
Speaker 4: even if they get into the playoffs, which is a

880
00:35:55,588 --> 00:35:58,828
Speaker 4: real possibility with Mike Tomlin in the near five hundred,

881
00:35:59,708 --> 00:36:03,388
Speaker 4: you know, lining they're flirting with every single year, they're

882
00:36:03,428 --> 00:36:05,108
Speaker 4: not going to do anything in the playoffs.

883
00:36:06,268 --> 00:36:08,148
Speaker 3: Who needs to win and who.

884
00:36:07,988 --> 00:36:11,228
Speaker 4: Needs to showcase everything for everybody out there is the

885
00:36:11,228 --> 00:36:14,428
Speaker 4: Detroit Lions. They have to win a game. Their ga

886
00:36:14,468 --> 00:36:16,508
Speaker 4: have to scratch and claw for everything. They have not

887
00:36:16,628 --> 00:36:19,348
Speaker 4: been in this situation before, and so they have to

888
00:36:19,348 --> 00:36:22,108
Speaker 4: be the Denver Broncos team that's on the rise, and

889
00:36:22,148 --> 00:36:24,348
Speaker 4: they have to be able to set themselves up for

890
00:36:24,668 --> 00:36:27,668
Speaker 4: a possibility what the NFC playoffs can bring, because right

891
00:36:27,708 --> 00:36:31,908
Speaker 4: now there's the three teams and the gap between three

892
00:36:32,068 --> 00:36:35,388
Speaker 4: and four in the NFC is gnormous, and the Lions

893
00:36:35,388 --> 00:36:37,708
Speaker 4: are sitting there and they have to shorten that gap somehow,

894
00:36:37,788 --> 00:36:40,268
Speaker 4: and so I think this weekend is imperative that they

895
00:36:40,268 --> 00:36:42,268
Speaker 4: go out find a way to win. Jared Goff to

896
00:36:42,308 --> 00:36:44,748
Speaker 4: have an offensive performance in the defense, to shore up

897
00:36:44,788 --> 00:36:47,988
Speaker 4: everything that we saw earlier in the year from the Lions.

898
00:36:48,108 --> 00:36:51,348
Speaker 1: The Dan Campbell Sean Payton relationship is real and is meaningful.

899
00:36:51,548 --> 00:36:54,228
Speaker 1: I went back and watched Campbell's introductory press conference. We

900
00:36:54,268 --> 00:36:56,508
Speaker 1: were all freaking out of by Biden Yeka. He mentioned

901
00:36:56,548 --> 00:36:59,308
Speaker 1: Sean Payton about eight times. He keeps coming up. He's

902
00:36:59,308 --> 00:37:00,508
Speaker 1: like this is why I'm here, and this is what

903
00:37:00,548 --> 00:37:02,948
Speaker 1: he taught me is very very meaningful stuff. But I

904
00:37:02,988 --> 00:37:06,468
Speaker 1: am definitely buying this. What was Mike Tomlin saying last week,

905
00:37:06,548 --> 00:37:08,508
Speaker 1: it's who we are, it's what we do. Okay, Mike,

906
00:37:08,628 --> 00:37:11,068
Speaker 1: that's I respect it, and you're right, and it is

907
00:37:11,068 --> 00:37:13,468
Speaker 1: what you do. You lost it home to the Cardinals

908
00:37:13,508 --> 00:37:15,788
Speaker 1: and the Bailey Zappies, Dude, like that, that's not what

909
00:37:15,828 --> 00:37:18,228
Speaker 1: you do. Now you're on Saturday and you're going against

910
00:37:18,228 --> 00:37:20,388
Speaker 1: the Colts team that's pretty fearless, playing at home in

911
00:37:20,428 --> 00:37:22,348
Speaker 1: the Dome, and they'll just chuck it around. Do you

912
00:37:22,388 --> 00:37:25,908
Speaker 1: realize that? Like there's heat on Tomlin this last couple

913
00:37:25,948 --> 00:37:27,548
Speaker 1: of weeks. Like if you listen to real Steelers fans,

914
00:37:27,548 --> 00:37:29,188
Speaker 1: they're getting sick of it and they're tired of it.

915
00:37:29,228 --> 00:37:31,268
Speaker 1: And that press conference after that I don't think helped.

916
00:37:31,748 --> 00:37:33,548
Speaker 1: He's Mike Tomlin. You can say whatever he wants, and

917
00:37:33,588 --> 00:37:35,028
Speaker 1: when he says it to who we are, they usually

918
00:37:35,068 --> 00:37:37,068
Speaker 1: find out follow up with a win. You can't lose

919
00:37:37,108 --> 00:37:39,268
Speaker 1: three in a row to the Cardinals, Colts, and Patriots

920
00:37:39,308 --> 00:37:41,188
Speaker 1: in the playoff stretch. It's not Steeler football. I think

921
00:37:41,188 --> 00:37:42,788
Speaker 1: it's definitely Pittsburgh.

922
00:37:42,348 --> 00:37:43,268
Speaker 5: I totally agree with you.

923
00:37:43,308 --> 00:37:45,868
Speaker 2: I was on a Pittsburgh podcast where the Pittsburgh Gazette

924
00:37:45,908 --> 00:37:46,628
Speaker 2: this week, and.

925
00:37:46,548 --> 00:37:47,908
Speaker 5: It was a curious conversation.

926
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Speaker 2: There is major agitation in the city of Pittsburgh about

927
00:37:51,068 --> 00:37:53,828
Speaker 2: the Steelers and just how just being a winning team

928
00:37:53,868 --> 00:37:56,268
Speaker 2: in a season is no longer what they accept and

929
00:37:56,548 --> 00:37:58,908
Speaker 2: here the Super Bowls, and I made the point that

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00:37:59,068 --> 00:38:01,788
Speaker 2: I think the second you let a coordinator go, no

931
00:38:01,828 --> 00:38:04,188
Speaker 2: matter what it is, the head coach shoulders a lot

932
00:38:04,588 --> 00:38:07,588
Speaker 2: responsibility for the rest of the season, good, bad or ugly.

933
00:38:07,828 --> 00:38:09,868
Speaker 2: And I think that's what's happening to Tomlin is the

934
00:38:09,908 --> 00:38:13,148
Speaker 2: second you listen to the firemat Canada Chance and you

935
00:38:13,228 --> 00:38:15,588
Speaker 2: name two different people your play caller and your whatnot,

936
00:38:16,028 --> 00:38:18,628
Speaker 2: then it becomes you made a decision here and you're

937
00:38:18,628 --> 00:38:19,668
Speaker 2: gonna take ownership of it.

938
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Speaker 5: So I go with the Steelers too.

939
00:38:21,228 --> 00:38:23,028
Speaker 2: I'm very curious about the mood and attitude of this

940
00:38:23,068 --> 00:38:24,748
Speaker 2: team in Indianapolis this weekend.