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Speaker 3: Here we go. Monday Night football has been a thriller

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Speaker 3: in the second half. It least they'll miss the field

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Speaker 3: goal twenty five seconds left in the game. Zane Gonzalez,

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Speaker 3: who is nine of fourteen in his career on game

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Speaker 3: changing field goals, will have a fifty one yard attempt

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Speaker 3: to give Atlanta a twenty seven to twenty four lead.

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Speaker 3: He had a field goal block and he missed, and

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Speaker 3: he made a fifty six yard earlier. This is the

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Speaker 3: magnification of the Arnie span your curse, d FC dead

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Speaker 3: freaking center twenty seven twenty four. Atlanta has the lead

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Speaker 3: with just seconds left. Why did you trust the same Gonzalez, Arnie?

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Speaker 4: I don't I figure they were gonna screw this up

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Speaker 4: and it was gonna hit like the post and do

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Speaker 4: the doinker or something like that. Twenty one seconds left,

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Speaker 4: you have to call for a fair catch, get the

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Speaker 4: ball at the twenty five yard line. Uh, try to

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Speaker 4: get it to the fifty and then try to get

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Speaker 4: it to the forty and kick a long field goal

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Speaker 4: or something to that effect.

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Speaker 3: You got time, but you don't have any timeouts left.

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Speaker 4: That's a problem.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, exactly. And I mean again, you don't need a touchdown,

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Speaker 3: so you don't need to hail Mary here. Just put

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Speaker 3: yourself in field goal range. And if there's one thing

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Speaker 3: we've seen this season with the kickers in this lead,

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Speaker 3: get around that midfield range. You're like, okay, maybe we

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Speaker 3: got a shot here. They just flashed the stat that

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Speaker 3: Matthew Stafford has fifty game winning drives in the fourth

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Speaker 3: quarter or overtime, which is the most by any active quarterback.

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Speaker 3: Now you're saying you'd fair catch here. You don't want

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Speaker 3: to try to bust something in a kick return.

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Speaker 4: I don't think I can because that's gonna chew up clock.

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Speaker 4: I'd rather get the ball. Where is it the thirty

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Speaker 4: five yard lines that worre gonna go ahead and get

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Speaker 4: the ball without any time being wasted. I'd rather go

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Speaker 4: ahead and do something like that.

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Speaker 3: Well, if you fair catch it, you get it. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: here you go, fair catch it. He downed it in

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Speaker 3: the end zone. So yeah, thirty five yard line. So

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Speaker 3: here we go.

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Speaker 4: One range, habitation, field goal range.

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Speaker 3: You know what's that?

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Speaker 4: Thirty yards to get you in the field goal range.

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Speaker 3: Right, but you don't have any timeouts left? I mean right,

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Speaker 3: if you're the Falcons, you're not letting anyman get near

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Speaker 3: the sidelines.

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Speaker 4: No, but you could complete it down the middle and

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Speaker 4: spike it and get up there and still spike it up.

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Speaker 4: Plenty of time to do that, I think.

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Speaker 3: I don't. I mean, who do you have Carl Lewis

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Speaker 3: running this show? I mean, I'm sorry, I said thirty

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Speaker 3: five thirty Yeah, thirty five yard line is where he is.

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Speaker 3: I don't. I don't know if you have enough time

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Speaker 3: to get a second playoff to get in field goal range.

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Speaker 3: You're gonna need three plays to get in field goal range.

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Speaker 3: But let's see stat Oh they're going deep and they've

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Speaker 3: got a man wide open and he missed him. Oh

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Speaker 3: my goodness. Somehow Smith broke wide open, would have been

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Speaker 3: able to make the catch, and probably what get out

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Speaker 3: of bounds and he missed him. Oh my goodness. And

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Speaker 3: I don't know, this was obviously a coverage bust on

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Speaker 3: the Falcons. Holy smokes, Arnie. He was wide open at

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Speaker 3: the thirty yard line, right.

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Speaker 4: Oh yet I was gonna say they didn't even need

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Speaker 4: that many yards, but you're right. He was wide open

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Speaker 4: and Stafford just holding on to his heldle like, oh,

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Speaker 4: I wish I had that one back. Unbelievable.

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Speaker 3: I mean, if you're the Falcons, now, you gotta be

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Speaker 3: in in fact in lam of calls a time out

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Speaker 4: Yeah, they're screw that up.

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Speaker 3: Man, we got a Atlanta calls it time out. It's like, listen,

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Speaker 4: He was wide open.

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Speaker 3: Oh my goodness. That's and I don't know if Stafford

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Speaker 4: Yeah, he wasn't to get toward the out of bounds.

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Speaker 3: Or if it was just a bad throw. I think

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Speaker 3: Safford's kind of putting that on himself. He didn't like

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Speaker 3: point at him or anything, but oh my gosh, what

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Speaker 3: a break. Well, there's a reason why the Falcons are

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Speaker 3: sitting here at six and nine heading into this game.

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Speaker 3: There's a reason why they're up twenty one to zip

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Speaker 3: and find themselves in a dog fight. They're not necessarily

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Speaker 3: a good football team, but in fairness, they've had some

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Speaker 4: Didn't win the division this year. I thought this was

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Speaker 4: they got their quarterback, this is all gonna happen for them,

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Speaker 4: and it never materialized. From the get go.

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Speaker 3: Stafford just had another pass. Now there's nine seconds left

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Speaker 3: in the game that looked like it hit his receiver

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Speaker 3: right in the hands. Now, that probably would have ended

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Speaker 3: the game. Watching the replay now at well, oh my gosh,

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Speaker 3: it did He should have caught that. He was hand

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Speaker 3: fighting with the dB it hit off his right hand.

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Speaker 4: Jeez, Yeah, that would have ended the game though.

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Speaker 3: But you're right that he would have caught it, and

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Speaker 3: they wouldn't have had any time to get down there

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Speaker 3: and spike the football. So what are you hail marrying

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Speaker 3: it here, Troy?

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Speaker 4: They played this whole thing wrong. Like I said, you

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Speaker 4: could have gotten ten to fifteen yards, got yourself in midfield,

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Speaker 4: gotten another ten to fifteen yards down to the thirty

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Speaker 4: five to forty and then kicked the long field.

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Speaker 3: How are you talking about? They played it wrong. They

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Speaker 3: had a wide receiver running wide open at the thirty

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Speaker 4: Yeah, they missed him. It didn't do him any good.

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Speaker 4: Now they got to throw up to hell Mary and

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Speaker 4: see if they they.

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Speaker 3: Should have thrown a shorter pass so you can get

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Speaker 3: up there and spike it. They had the dude running

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Speaker 3: wide open. What do you mean they played it all wrong?

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Speaker 4: Played it wrong, Chris plighted it all wrong.

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Speaker 3: I mean, that's easy to say. But they had a

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Speaker 3: dude running wide ass open and completely missed him. Well,

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Speaker 3: let's stay with this for at least the final ten

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Speaker 3: seconds and what is the Monday Night Football finale? No

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Speaker 3: Monday Night Football game next week, but ESPN does have

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Speaker 3: one of the wild card games. This I guess technically

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Speaker 3: doesn't have to be the last play of the game.

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Speaker 3: There's still ten seconds left, but you would imagine that

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Speaker 3: you're gonna throw a hail Mary here that's gonna eat

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Speaker 3: up a majority of the clock. Y of course, right, yeah, exactly.

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Speaker 3: It looks like they're throwing the same exact play and

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Speaker 3: Nikua caught it with five seconds left. Are you kidding me?

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Speaker 3: They're in field goal range. Oh my goodness, what a

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Speaker 3: catch by Pooka Nakua along the sidelines and the Rams

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Speaker 3: were watching the replay. Now Nikua goes up, has it

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Speaker 3: with both hands. Oh my gosh, he one handed it

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Speaker 3: and got both feet in. You have got to be.

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Speaker 4: Slow moving clock. Oh my goodness.

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Speaker 3: He caught it with one hand down the sideline toe

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Speaker 3: drag swag and they're in field goal range at the

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Speaker 3: thirty yard line and it was contested. Arnie, that's one

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Speaker 3: of the best catches I've ever seen.

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Speaker 4: I'm looking at it now, that's incredible. How does he

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Speaker 4: have possession of that with one It was just his

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Speaker 4: hand with one hand like that, and that's incredible.

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Speaker 3: Now the sager's got an angle on this burst. You've

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Speaker 3: got eyes. You got tie eyes on this too. Did

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Speaker 3: that ball? Did you guys see the ball moving his

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Speaker 3: hand at all?

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Speaker 5: There may be slight movement at the end and going

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Speaker 5: to the ground, But I agree that's one of the

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Speaker 5: greatest catches I've seen. And consider the moment the context

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Speaker 5: of this. Yes, his arm was being pulled by the defender,

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Speaker 5: so the ball momentarily came loose in the air.

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Speaker 3: I don't think that's gonna be a cat.

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Speaker 4: They're gonna take.

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Speaker 3: The ball.

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Speaker 4: That's a complete yeah.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, And Nikoua just saw it. The ball just got

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Speaker 3: stripped as he was going. He still caught it, he

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Speaker 3: still secured it, but it just came out of his

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Speaker 3: hand as he was coming down, because oh my goodness,

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Speaker 3: that's a both feet are in, he's got the ball,

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Speaker 3: and then as he's going to the ground, it just

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Speaker 3: pops out and he resecures it against his body. Oh,

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Speaker 3: they're gonna say it stands as called.

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Speaker 5: It was called incomplete.

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Speaker 3: Oh it was called bad. My bad, my bad. They

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Speaker 3: called it incomplete. Okay, I was like, whoa they called

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Speaker 3: it complete pass?

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Speaker 5: So five seconds left, one play left, rams down by three.

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Speaker 4: Well, that last play took like four seconds, right or

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Speaker 4: five seconds. They could try to do it one more

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Speaker 5: They're gonna have to throw it sixty five yards for

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Speaker 5: a winning touchdown on the final play because no more

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Speaker 5: time for a field goal and it's a fourth down

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Speaker 5: pass coming up.

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Speaker 3: I didn't realize they called that incomplete. On the field,

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Speaker 3: they're trying to get a reset of the play clock.

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Speaker 3: Looks like they're gonna get it.

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Speaker 5: That is he's there was an obvious mispass interference before

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Speaker 5: on the long pass to at Will, his arm was

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Speaker 5: being pulled quite clearly by the defender.

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Speaker 3: Lanta's gonna Lanta the third time hooked ladder. Watch up

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Speaker 3: for the hooked ladder.

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Speaker 5: Baby, it's a later when you throw it sideways.

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Speaker 4: I'll teach you the language later on.

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Speaker 3: Thanks, Thanks, Arnie. We need to get learned up on

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Speaker 3: this from I'm sorry man. The fact that Nikua still

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Speaker 3: came down with that ball, yeah, we feed in unbelievable

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Speaker 3: and the slightest bobble was the difference in this football game.

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Speaker 3: And by the way, kudos to the officials that that

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Speaker 3: called it an incomplete pass on the field, because I

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Speaker 3: thought they called it a catch. That was un freaking believable.

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Speaker 3: This game has had more twists and turns in the

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Speaker 3: final three and a half minutes and I've ever seen

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Speaker 3: what's Rahie Morris his mind about. Right now, they're backing

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Speaker 3: everyone up all right, so the Rams will have it

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Speaker 3: on their own thirty five yard line. Now, I would

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Speaker 3: assume this will be the last play of the game.

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Speaker 3: Is fourth down and ten twenty seven to twenty four Falcons,

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Speaker 3: They're going to try the old hooking ladder quark incomplete ball.

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Speaker 4: Told you that's what they were gonna do.

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Speaker 5: No, that was that just a sideline pattern? If that's

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Speaker 5: what they were doing, throw it shorter.

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Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, rahem Morris will go over and shake hands.

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Speaker 3: And the Rams in the playoffs clinched. But a tough

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Speaker 3: one tonight.

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Speaker 5: Wow, what the Rams could be as low as a

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Speaker 5: sixth seed a team that was nearly the one seed.

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Speaker 4: About a week ago.

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Speaker 3: Arnie sent me a tweet from Joe Buck. Joe Buck

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Speaker 3: had a note a sheet.

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Speaker 4: Of I thought of you when I saw that today.

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Speaker 3: I don't think I've The only thing that confused me

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Speaker 3: when we come back with Arnie Spaniel. I'm Chris Plank

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Speaker 3: Staying or Gone, which we'll dive into, but the end

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Speaker 3: but they did invest in him to be their guy.

439
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Speaker 3: There's there's no way he's going to be back there

440
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Speaker 3: next year, right.

441
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Speaker 4: I know a story about him going into the No,

442
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Speaker 4: that wasn't him, about him going to the front office somewhere.

443
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Speaker 3: You think you're thinking of Matt Ryan, Oh.

444
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Speaker 4: Matt right, Okay, there you go. I get to get

445
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Speaker 4: my washed up white quarterbacks mixed up. Sorry about that.

446
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Speaker 3: You're also falling for a fake tweet on Derek Carr too, Chris's.

447
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Speaker 4: That's not a real tweet. Oh my goodness. I was like, oh,

448
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Speaker 4: I can't wait to get to this one. Oh my goodness.

449
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Speaker 3: Chris Olave did not pull back his retirement papers when

450
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Speaker 3: he found out Derek Carr was retiring. I mean, he's

451
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Speaker 3: telling me he's gonna stick around for Spencer Rattler in

452
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Speaker 3: a third round pick out of Louisville.

453
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Speaker 4: I saw that. I go, I gotta get this to

454
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Speaker 4: plank right away.

455
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Speaker 5: Man.

456
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Speaker 3: That's Saints fans, who Saints fans who are now gosh? Man,

457
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Speaker 3: you guys are you guys are gosh? I hate to

458
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Speaker 3: use this analogy, but you're like that late night female

459
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Speaker 3: or male at the end of the bar that believes

460
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Speaker 3: we're gonna give you a call. You know, it's not

461
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Speaker 3: happening with your quarterback position. Have fun with Tyler Shuck

462
00:22:54,080 --> 00:22:56,600
Speaker 3: and this is awesome, But I mean, the dude, basically

463
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Speaker 3: outside of Sunday, he's putting up the same numbers as

464
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Speaker 3: Spencer Rattler did. You're just playing crappy teams Kirk Cousins.

465
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Speaker 3: As it stands right now, Arnie is heading into the

466
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Speaker 3: third year of a four year deal that pays him

467
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Speaker 3: one hundred and eighty million dollars. Now again, me, I

468
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Speaker 3: sometimes get confused by the SPO track numbers because it

469
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Speaker 3: does say that there is a potential out in twenty

470
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Speaker 3: twenty six. But as far as what they have right now,

471
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Speaker 3: he will account for thirty five million dollars of dead

472
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Speaker 3: cap money ve on from him. Yeah, and it's a

473
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Speaker 3: fifty seven million dollar cap hit if he's still around,

474
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Speaker 3: In fact, fifty seven point five Mel.

475
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Speaker 4: He would have to kill Goodbye to you at this point.

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Speaker 3: Eighteen percent of the Falcons cap for next year.

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Speaker 4: No way, right, No, I can't bring him back. Got

478
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Speaker 4: that type of money, and no, not at all. What

479
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Speaker 4: are you insane? I'm gonna have to go in a

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Speaker 4: different direction.

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Speaker 3: Thank you. You're gonna have to eat that too. No

482
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Speaker 3: one's gonna be out there to get him. I know

483
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Speaker 3: that we're looking at a league that's gonna watch Kenny

484
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Speaker 3: Pickett starred against I don't even know the dude's name.

485
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Speaker 3: For the Kansas City Chiefs. It's going to start on Sunday.

486
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Speaker 3: You've also got Josh Johnson who's starting games right now.

487
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Speaker 3: I get it that we're very much in a lean

488
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Speaker 3: time when it comes to backup quarterbacks, But I mean,

489
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Speaker 3: this has got to be it for Kirk Cousins, right.

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Speaker 4: I would think so that type of money. If I'm Cousins,

491
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Speaker 4: I don't think I want to come back to the

492
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Speaker 4: NFL after I've made all that type of money. I

493
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Speaker 4: didn't think he was making that much one hundred and

494
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Speaker 4: eighty million four years. Oh my goodness, man, geez.

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Speaker 3: His base salary this year was twenty seven point five

496
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Speaker 3: million dollars. He accounted for fourteen percent of the Falcons

497
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Speaker 3: cap and he was going to be the backup quarterback.

498
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Speaker 4: That's just played football instead of basketball in high school.

499
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Speaker 3: That's right. You'd be making millions, right, millions million even

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Speaker 3: still be in the league. Well, our millionaire is Steve Desager,

501
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Speaker 3: who is very busy tonight because there's been a lot

502
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Speaker 3: of breaking news. We're following beyond what happened on Monday

503
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Speaker 3: night football NBA news as well. What's going on, Steve.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, let me preface by saying that Denver lost at

505
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Speaker 5: Miami and the NBA superstar in a left with a

506
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Speaker 5: knee injury. Well, you guys were talking about with the

507
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Speaker 5: NFL playoff formats.

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Speaker 3: If you look at the old.

509
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Speaker 5: NFL films like Bob Greasy's undefeated Dolphins team. Yes, their

510
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Speaker 5: championship game in the AFC is not a home game.

511
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Speaker 5: They had a system back then where they just would

512
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Speaker 5: rotate since it wasn't three rounds of playoffs back then,

513
00:25:22,320 --> 00:25:27,040
Speaker 5: they just said, okay, this year, this division's champion that

514
00:25:27,200 --> 00:25:30,320
Speaker 5: year that division they had decided in advance, And so

515
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Speaker 5: here you wind up with a Dolphins team that's completely

516
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Speaker 5: undefeated and still to get to the Super Bowl, had

517
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Speaker 5: to beat the Steelers at three Rivers Stadium in the

518
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Speaker 5: AFC Championship game. So that's another one of the nineteen

519
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Speaker 5: seventies quirks that Arnie referenced as well, because when there

520
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Speaker 5: were fewer rounds, they also had a thing back then

521
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Speaker 5: you could not even if you were top seed and

522
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Speaker 5: the four seed was in your division, sorry, you're not

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Speaker 5: playing the four See.

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Speaker 4: Was that like the Roy Jirella Pittsburgh Steelers or yeah, yeah,

525
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Speaker 4: Brad Chirella's Gorillas, right, that's what they were.

526
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Speaker 5: Called, or something like that, something like that. We had

527
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Speaker 5: tonight a shockingly great game. Atlanta, which was six and nine,

528
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Speaker 5: beat the LA Rams twenty seven to twenty four on

529
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Speaker 5: a fifty one yard field goal with under thirty seconds left.

530
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Speaker 5: Rams were down twenty one nothing at the half, but

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Speaker 5: tied it up with under three minutes left. Part of

532
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Speaker 5: the comeback was Jared Verse with a seventy six yard

533
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Speaker 5: block return of his That was his block and his

534
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Speaker 5: return of a field goal attempt, and the big man

535
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Speaker 5: reached a top speed of twenty miles an hour on

536
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Speaker 5: the return to the n since they've had next gen

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Speaker 5: stats for this type of thing the past decade. That

538
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Speaker 5: is the fastest speed by any defender that weighs two

539
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Speaker 5: hundred and sixty pounds or more.

540
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Speaker 4: Who's the fastest guy at Fox Sports Radio.

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Speaker 5: Oh well, it's you, of course, and I'll just end

542
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Speaker 5: the conversation. The Rams had not returned a block field

543
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Speaker 5: goal for a touchdown since nineteen eighty six until tonight,

544
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Speaker 5: so it was looking like they were going to be

545
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Speaker 5: able to steal this on because that got him within seven.

546
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Speaker 5: By the way, this season, we can update the stat

547
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Speaker 5: what is the record of a team this NFL season?

548
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Speaker 5: Down by twenty one in the second half?

549
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Speaker 4: Oh, I know this, Owen sixty seven.

550
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Speaker 5: It is Owen sixty eight after tonight because the Rams

551
00:27:16,000 --> 00:27:20,040
Speaker 5: came back to tye but did not win. Bijon Robinson

552
00:27:20,119 --> 00:27:23,639
Speaker 5: had twenty two carries one hundred and ninety five yards rushing,

553
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Speaker 5: and a majority of those rushing yards came after first contact.

554
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Speaker 5: He had a ninety three yard touchdown run before halftime.

555
00:27:32,359 --> 00:27:36,040
Speaker 5: He had a touchdown reception first half as well. Falcons

556
00:27:36,080 --> 00:27:40,960
Speaker 5: win at home. Matthew Stafford two touchdown passes, three interceptions

557
00:27:41,000 --> 00:27:43,159
Speaker 5: in the loss, including what turns out to be a

558
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Speaker 5: very costly pick six in the second quarter. So the

559
00:27:46,760 --> 00:27:50,000
Speaker 5: Rams fall to eleven and five, and as you mentioned earlier,

560
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Speaker 5: it's possible that a six seed Rams plays at three

561
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Speaker 5: seed Philadelphia in the first round of the postseason. The

562
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Speaker 5: Rams still will finish out the schedule comes Sunday, when

563
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Speaker 5: they'll be facing Arizona. By the way, Arizona's three and

564
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Speaker 5: thirteen with eight straight losses. Cardinals coach Jonathan Gannon said

565
00:28:08,640 --> 00:28:14,880
Speaker 5: he expects to retain his job chiefs coaching. He's very confident.

566
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Speaker 5: Andy Reid plans to return next season. He turned sixty

567
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Speaker 5: eight in March. The Chargers will rest quarterback Justin Herbert

568
00:28:21,400 --> 00:28:24,480
Speaker 5: this Sunday at Denver. Noted aame coach Marcus Freeman is

569
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Speaker 5: staying with an enhanced contract. Reportedly, Penn State's new defensive

570
00:28:28,560 --> 00:28:31,760
Speaker 5: coordinator will be dan Ton Lynn from USC. He went

571
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Speaker 5: to Penn State. North Texas star quarterback Drew Mestmaker will

572
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Speaker 5: enter the transfer Portal, which opens this Friday. His head

573
00:28:39,400 --> 00:28:43,280
Speaker 5: coach left for Oklahoma State. Auburn wide receiver Cam Coleman

574
00:28:43,360 --> 00:28:48,040
Speaker 5: will transfer. Clemson fired offensive coordinator Garrett Riley. There was

575
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Speaker 5: a bowl game today. Georgia Southern defeated app State twenty

576
00:28:51,600 --> 00:28:56,640
Speaker 5: nine to ten. Attendance in Birmingham twelve thousand. App State

577
00:28:56,720 --> 00:28:59,800
Speaker 5: went five and eight this year. They lost six of

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Speaker 5: their last seven games. So what are they doing in

579
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Speaker 5: a bowl game?

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Speaker 3: You might say.

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Speaker 4: Nobody else would play exactly.

582
00:29:05,240 --> 00:29:07,960
Speaker 5: Notre Dame Wicher from bowl season after it wasn't picked

583
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Speaker 5: for the playoffs.

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Speaker 3: Iowa State, Kansas.

585
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Speaker 4: Iowa stayed out, like twelve people on the team.

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Speaker 5: They just got new head coaches in those programs.

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00:29:15,000 --> 00:29:15,200
Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 5: The odd thing is both of these teams that played

589
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Speaker 5: today are in the Sun Belt Conference, same division, no less.

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Speaker 3: Oh my god.

591
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Speaker 5: Georgia Southern had already beaten them in November, and now

592
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Speaker 5: in December they beat them again. Twelve thousand people quote

593
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Speaker 5: enjoyed it.

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Speaker 4: In the end, twelve thousand, I'm sure.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 4: Yeah.

597
00:29:33,680 --> 00:29:36,760
Speaker 5: Oklahoma City won again twenty eight and five. The record

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Speaker 5: after beating Atlanta won forty to one, twenty nine thirty

599
00:29:40,560 --> 00:29:44,280
Speaker 5: nine points for Shay Gilgess Alexander One game still going

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Speaker 5: at Portland's second quarter Blazers sixty two forty five over Dallas.

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Speaker 5: No Anthony Davis is not playing again. Aductor Soreness the

602
00:29:52,600 --> 00:29:55,160
Speaker 5: reason New York won at New Orleans one thirty to

603
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Speaker 5: one twenty five despite thirty two points from Zion Williamson.

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Speaker 5: A reminder, as you talked about earlier, University of Miami

605
00:30:01,840 --> 00:30:04,360
Speaker 5: will play number two Ohio State on New Year's Eve,

606
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Speaker 5: that's Wednesday, at the Cotton Bowl quarterfinal. Ohio State head

607
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Speaker 5: coach Ryan Day due to call the offensive plays in

608
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Speaker 5: that playoff opener. Brian Hartline is leaving later for us

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Speaker 5: aspect to you, thanks.

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Speaker 3: The hardline is still going to be there. He's still

611
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Speaker 3: going to coach receivers, but they've taken away the play calling.

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Speaker 3: Responsive is that.

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Speaker 4: The old dolphin you'ldo Ohio State wide receives. Damn he

614
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Speaker 4: gave up on his career early.

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Speaker 3: He's the offensive coordinator for a team that's in the

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Speaker 3: playoffs and just got a head coaches job.

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Speaker 4: Because it seems like he was just playing college just

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Speaker 4: the other day.

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Speaker 3: You know.

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Speaker 5: And as we mentioned, for some of these playoff games,

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Speaker 5: there are good seats still available.

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Speaker 3: Yes, quite a few of them to be exact. Hey,

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Speaker 3: I'm working on different scenarios okay of who is going

624
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Speaker 3: to play when or where in the NFL playoffs. Like

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Speaker 3: I said, I have a good feel on the Bills,

626
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Speaker 3: So I was trying to work through the forty nine

627
00:31:04,640 --> 00:31:11,000
Speaker 3: ers seeding possibilities. Here's what Nick Wagner tweeted moments ago.

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Speaker 3: For the forty nine ers, Obviously, if they beat Seattle,

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Speaker 3: they're the one seed. If San Francisco loses to Seattle,

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Speaker 3: they could still be the five seed if the Rams

631
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Speaker 3: lose to Arizona. But if San Francisco loses to Seattle

632
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Speaker 3: and the Rams beat Arizona, then San fran would be

633
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Speaker 3: the sixth seed. He can get to the playoffs. The

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Speaker 3: Rams have obviously then the benefit of seeing what happens

635
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Speaker 3: in that Seattle San Francisco game on Saturday night before

636
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Speaker 3: deciding if they can rest starters. LA would not be

637
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Speaker 3: able to move to the five seed if San Francisco wins,

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Speaker 3: and they would five seed. Yeah, and the five seed

639
00:31:52,840 --> 00:31:58,200
Speaker 3: would still be in play if they if the Seahawks.

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Speaker 4: Win, everybody wants the five seed play the winner of

641
00:32:01,160 --> 00:32:04,600
Speaker 4: that division with Carolina and at Tampa. So everybody wants

642
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Speaker 4: that five seed, six seed. You have to play Philadelphia

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Speaker 4: in Philadelphia. So that's that's the problem there, you know.

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Speaker 3: I mean, I don't think if you're looking at that

645
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Speaker 3: and you're thinking of the top four, you want to

646
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Speaker 3: play Carolina, of course, I mean, that's that's where you

647
00:32:21,080 --> 00:32:24,320
Speaker 3: want to be. But I mean, do you really want

648
00:32:24,320 --> 00:32:27,400
Speaker 3: to worry too much about trying to manipulate? I mean,

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Speaker 3: I'd much rather see Chicago in the first round than Philadelphia.

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Speaker 3: But I'm not shaking in my boots if I have

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Speaker 3: to go to Philadelphia, Arnie. Their offense is concerning, and

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Speaker 3: I don't know if they're just gonna flip a switch

653
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Speaker 3: and magically get things going.

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Speaker 4: No, I agree with you there, though, I don't want

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Speaker 4: to play Chicago after what I saw last night. That's

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Speaker 4: that's for damn sure. If that Chicago team plays like that,

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Speaker 4: they could find their way into the super Bowl with

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Speaker 4: the with the way their offense looked.

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Speaker 3: Did they win their r last night? What did they

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Speaker 3: win that game last night?

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Speaker 4: No? I think they did lose that game, but they

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Speaker 4: look they'll do it. Everybody, all the Bears fans are

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Speaker 4: happy with the loss. I've never seen that before they lost.

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Speaker 3: I mean it's just they they look like a team

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Speaker 3: that couldn't stop another team to me.

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Speaker 4: So it's something like you're not impressed with what they

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Speaker 4: did yesterday.

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Speaker 3: I mean, there's two sides to the ball. And if

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Speaker 3: you're gonna tell me that you don't want to face Chicago,

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Speaker 3: I understand it, and I get it. I like them

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Speaker 3: a lot. I think they might win their first playoff game.

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Speaker 3: But if you're asking me if I'd rather play a

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Speaker 3: team that doesn't have a defense like Chicago doesn't appear

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Speaker 3: to have, as opposed to a team like the Eagles

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Speaker 3: that can probably shut you down defensively, I take my

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Speaker 3: chances with Chicago. That's like, yeah, well.

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Speaker 4: The Eagles offense, they like you just said, they don't

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Speaker 4: scare me much. Matter of fact, as we brought up yesterday,

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Speaker 4: I mean, they're not even completing passes in the second

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Speaker 4: avenues though won two games by doing that, which is insane.

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Speaker 3: What was the stat do you remember the stat you had?

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Speaker 3: By the way, not to completely shift gears here, but

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Speaker 3: we are doing break What was the stat you had

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Speaker 3: on the Steelers losing games to teams under.

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Speaker 4: Eight games on their five hundred, right thenents they've lost

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Speaker 4: I think it was five games in a row. Oh,

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Speaker 4: the teams that were eight games on their five hundred.

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Speaker 3: That's just terrible.

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Speaker 4: And that's horrible. That's crazy.

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Speaker 3: And it was my second favorite stat behind this one,

691
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Speaker 3: which was this season in the National Football League, there

692
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Speaker 3: have been let to make sure I get my number

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Speaker 3: right on the actual occasions, all right, this season in

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Speaker 3: the NFL, there has been ten occasions where a team

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Speaker 3: did not have ten games where a team had fewer

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Speaker 3: than five passing yards and a half. So just to

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Speaker 3: get there have been ten occasions ten games this year

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Speaker 3: where a team had fewer than five yards passing and

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Speaker 3: a half. The Eagles have three.

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Speaker 4: Of them and won two of them.

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Speaker 3: They've won all three.

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Speaker 4: Oh, they went all three. I thought they won two

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Speaker 4: of them.

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Speaker 3: They won all three of them.

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Speaker 4: Crazy.

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Speaker 3: So again, I guess it's one of those questions, do

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Speaker 3: you worry about playing a defensive oriented team and the

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Speaker 3: defending champs or would you rather see a couple of nubs? Right,

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Speaker 3: Chicago's new in this mindset, Carolina new untested? Hell yeah,

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Speaker 3: give me give me two or four in that instance,

711
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Speaker 3: as opposed to ever having to worry about playing number three.

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Speaker 3: So I don't know how much you want to strategize

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Speaker 3: around that. There's teams like the Chargers on the AFC

714
00:35:20,680 --> 00:35:22,880
Speaker 3: side that are like, we don't care where we end up.

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Speaker 3: We're going to be on the road. We're going to

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Speaker 3: rest our starters. But I think you can be a

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Speaker 3: little bit more strategic in the NFC, right you can.

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Speaker 4: But I can see what the Chargers try to do,

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Speaker 4: especially with the injuries they have, especially at quarterback. It's

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Speaker 4: just too much. You gotta go ahead and rest these guys.

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Speaker 3: Hey, guys, don't forget. We got a college football Playoff

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Speaker 3: Bracket Challenge that is up and available for you to

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Speaker 3: participate in right now. There's eight teams left. The playoffs

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Speaker 3: start on Wednesday, and it is Bracket Challenge time. Compete

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Speaker 3: against your favorite Fox Sports radio hosts and against fellow

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Speaker 3: and open until just before kickoff. It's seven thirty Eastern

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Speaker 3: on New Year's Eve. Again, fill out your bracket at

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Speaker 3: Foxsports Radio dot iHeart dot com for your chance to

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Speaker 3: win one thousand dollars. Tonight, it's Arnie and Planks sitting

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Speaker 3: in on Fox Sports Radio.

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Speaker 2: Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith

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Speaker 2: Show with Mike harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven

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Speaker 2: pm Pacific.

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Speaker 3: All right, welcome back, Arnie and Plank. Care on Fox

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Speaker 3: Sports Radio. Four hours still haul baby? What do you

741
00:36:34,920 --> 00:36:36,840
Speaker 3: call the fourth hour? Here is?

742
00:36:36,880 --> 00:36:39,040
Speaker 4: It's bonus bonus hour?

743
00:36:39,120 --> 00:36:42,680
Speaker 3: Right, we'll have the Sager's Report coming up in our

744
00:36:42,719 --> 00:36:43,279
Speaker 3: third hour.

745
00:36:43,760 --> 00:36:46,120
Speaker 4: We should ask Mike and Jason to give us one

746
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Speaker 4: of their four hours every night for the one Well,

747
00:36:50,360 --> 00:36:52,640
Speaker 4: we could do one hour a day for five days.

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Speaker 3: Well, I mean I think that's a little bit like,

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Speaker 3: I mean, at least have to do two. Don't you

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Speaker 3: to be considered a radio show?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, we could ask him for just one hour. They

752
00:37:01,640 --> 00:37:03,279
Speaker 4: may not want to give up two hours. Who knows.

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Speaker 3: I split it in half, two apiece, make it fair.

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00:37:05,960 --> 00:37:08,120
Speaker 3: We'll do the late too, Aren'tie like staying up late?

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Speaker 3: You're not doing it?

756
00:37:09,120 --> 00:37:11,040
Speaker 4: Maybe an hour and twenty minutes. How about that?

757
00:37:11,120 --> 00:37:12,840
Speaker 3: How's your Arizona Wildcats doing it?

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00:37:12,920 --> 00:37:17,280
Speaker 4: I sure we're kicking butt, is what we're doing. We

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Speaker 4: we beat some slubs South Dakota, Northeast State or something

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Speaker 4: like that, beat them by twenty eight. We didn't even cover.

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Speaker 4: We were a thirty point favorite. And then while I'm

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Speaker 4: filling in on Friday though with VJ. Husky, the we

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Speaker 4: play Arizona, play some maloney team in football. I don't

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Speaker 4: even know who we played. Someone gonna smack around like

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Speaker 4: a redheaded step child, no disrespect to red.

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Speaker 3: Don't think say that anymore?

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Speaker 4: Can you not say that anymore?

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Speaker 3: Is that? Is that?

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Speaker 4: I think that used to be an expression. You know that,

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Speaker 4: don't you?

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Speaker 3: Well? I mean there's a lot of expressions that used

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Speaker 3: to be us that we can't say anymore. Kind of

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Speaker 3: don't want to get canceled. He're right, the one fill

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Speaker 3: and I get you get all of them. I'll get

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Speaker 3: a damn one.

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Speaker 4: We played a s SEMU I guess is the school.

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Speaker 4: I've never heard of them?

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Speaker 3: But we yeah, a team that's been to the playoffs

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Speaker 3: more than Arizona.

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Speaker 4: Haf Wow. Well we'll smack them around pretty bad, so

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Speaker 4: I won't even be a game, be over my halftime.

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Speaker 3: What's the spread?

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Speaker 4: We're a three point favorite?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, see, I'm smacking around. Show me you guys have

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Speaker 3: any opt outs.

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Speaker 4: Or would be like a twenty point favorite? Is what

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Speaker 4: we should be.

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Speaker 3: You should be in charge of spreads. You would be

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Speaker 3: fired so quickly.

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Speaker 4: Not true. I've been pretty good on that. I'm telling you,

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Speaker 4: I think you.

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Speaker 3: Want to make Arizona a twenty point favorite. In every

793
00:38:29,160 --> 00:38:33,360
Speaker 3: game you would be gone. He would not last. You

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Speaker 3: would be out before you even think about it.

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Speaker 4: But at least when I'm filling in, the game will

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Speaker 4: be over at halftime so I can concentrate on the show.

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Speaker 3: Well you hope that's the case. Wait, who is it

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Speaker 3: that you're doing the show with VJ hust Oh you

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Speaker 3: chose VJ over me?

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Speaker 4: I had to, you know, I understand, but it.

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Speaker 3: Is also you don't have to. Well, you never talk,

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00:38:51,960 --> 00:38:54,279
Speaker 3: so you'll be good to go. You'll be set with VJ.

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Speaker 3: Tennis Data asks a question on the X before we

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Speaker 3: dive into Roman numeral number twelve to kick off our

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Speaker 3: number three, which is Arnie's new smash hit Staying or Gone,

806
00:39:06,280 --> 00:39:09,359
Speaker 3: which will debut here on Fox Sports Radio. Tenn's dad

807
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Speaker 3: asks one question, have you seen the pictures of Nicholas

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Speaker 3: Cage as John Madden for the upcoming movie?

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Speaker 4: I just saw the one still shot. Is that the

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Speaker 4: one that he's talking about?

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Speaker 3: Oh, there's a lot of them that are out there yet.

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Speaker 4: Is did he have to gain waiter or is that

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Speaker 4: a suit that he's wearing a fat suit underneath.

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Speaker 3: I would assume it's gotta be a bit of a

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Speaker 3: suit maybe, But I don't know why people are getting

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Speaker 3: so mad. We haven't seen him act, we haven't really

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Speaker 3: seen a trailer for it yet. And what do you

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Speaker 3: expect him to look? Just like John Madden? I mean,

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Speaker 3: it's a movie, it's gonna it's a whatever it's gonna be.

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Speaker 3: I mean, I don't know why anyone we triggered or

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Speaker 3: upset about it. I don't think.

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Speaker 4: I don't think that would have been my first pick.

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Speaker 4: I'm not sure who I would have taken by.

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Speaker 3: John Goodman.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, John Goodman would have been good one. I like that.

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Speaker 4: That would have been a nice p.

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Speaker 3: I have seen them. I don't get too mad about

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Speaker 3: movies or anything like that. It's never really been a

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Speaker 3: big deal in my world. But I would say I'm

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Speaker 3: here for it. I can't wait to watch it. I'm

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Speaker 3: intrigued by it.

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Speaker 4: Really. So you're all in on this, huh yeah?

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Speaker 3: Why not? I mean, we don't get anymore. The sports

834
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Speaker 3: side of things has gone all to documentaries. We don't

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Speaker 3: get a good old fashioned sports movie.

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Speaker 4: I know we're short on time and maybe I missed this.

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Speaker 4: I'm curious to see the financial aspect of the whole

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Speaker 4: Madden game and how much they get. Is it for life,

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Speaker 4: well as children get money, that old thing, you know.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't know if we'll learn that in the movie. No,

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Speaker 3: that's your Netflix documentary that you're gonna get on it

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Speaker 3: at some point. But I'm here for it. I think

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00:40:43,080 --> 00:40:45,520
Speaker 3: it'll be awesome. All right. We got Marcus Freeman news

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Speaker 3: that drop today. We're monitoring the nicolea jokicch injury. Nothing

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Speaker 3: new that has popped so far. And we had a

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Speaker 3: thriller on Monday night football Well halfway home. That's the

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Speaker 3: stinking genius Army Spaniard. I'm Chris Plank. We're sitting in

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Speaker 3: for Jason and Mike on a busy Monday night on

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Speaker 3: Fox Sports Radio