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Speaker 2: I just want to start it off. This has been

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Speaker 2: a first for us this season, and so I'm thankful

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Speaker 2: for you and Kyle. We were both off on Christmas

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Speaker 2: Eve last week. I hope you had an unbelievable holiday

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Speaker 2: with you and yours, your family, your kids, and a

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Speaker 2: happy New Year.

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Speaker 3: To you brother.

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Speaker 1: Likewise, Yeah, definitely a great holiday over here. Kids really

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Speaker 1: enjoyed Christmas in our house. Having seven, seven, five and

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Speaker 1: two year olds Christmas is huge, obviously. Santa Claus is

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Speaker 1: big in our house. So it was a good and

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Speaker 1: happy holidays and happy New Year to you as well.

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Speaker 2: And I say that to everybody listening, except for the

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Speaker 2: NFL refs. That's it. Happy New Year to everybody except

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Speaker 2: for referees. I'm kidding a little bit. Obviously, it's a

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Speaker 2: tough job, and obviously I don't mean this about all

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Speaker 2: of them, but it's now being acknowledged Kyle, that the

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Speaker 2: NFL has a quote officiating problem. It does seem like

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Speaker 2: it's becoming a bigger issue. And I acknowledge that some

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Speaker 2: of these things are really out of the hands of

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Speaker 2: human beings, right like there's going to be human error.

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Speaker 2: The more technology we have, the more cameras, the more video,

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Speaker 2: the more information we have, the harder it is on

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Speaker 2: these men and women. And so this is not to

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Speaker 2: you know, ostracize or bring them down, but I think

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Speaker 2: of any workplace where there are a group of employees

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Speaker 2: certain employees they don't have to follow them. That is

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Speaker 2: a recipe for disaster. It's a recipe for all kinds

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Speaker 2: of animosity. And that's my only issue here in looking

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Speaker 2: at what happened with the Lions and Cowboys last night.

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Speaker 2: The crew mess this up. There's no two ways about it,

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Speaker 2: no if sands or butts. I don't care what they

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Speaker 2: say they heard or what they think happened. They messed

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Speaker 2: shouldn't have won. The Lion are dealing with that. It'll

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Speaker 2: affect playoff seating. It's all over the place, the trickle

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Speaker 2: down effect of what happened yesterday. And Kyle, what I

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Speaker 2: think really bothers people is that there is this invisible

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Speaker 2: and the players and coaches are the ones worried about

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Speaker 2: getting fined for speaking the truth, and the referees barely

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, I think we might be on this

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Speaker 1: I have zero interest rooting interest in either the Dallas

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Speaker 1: Also on the other side in Dallas, like you know,

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Speaker 1: how the game should have been decided, not decided by

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Speaker 1: Nobody probably heard it when he announced it over the

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Speaker 1: clear gadget play. I guarantee you all week they practiced. Hey,

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Speaker 1: Here's the problem. NFL officials are not full time NFL employees.

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Speaker 1: But one other thing that they do have to do

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Speaker 1: number sixty eight did not. Therefore there was an infraction

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Speaker 1: And part of me thought, like every NFL head coach

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Speaker 1: They own it? And Brad Allen doubled down on the

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Speaker 1: just spoke to the media and they both said completely

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Speaker 1: in this case, I give officials the benefit of the

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Speaker 1: doubt when it's the speed of the game and the

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty three for four more hours on the East Coast,

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Speaker 1: but you know it's our game. The players are big

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Speaker 1: and fast, and it's a physical game, and there are

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Speaker 1: bang bang plays. Is that human error doesn't allow you

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Speaker 1: it's like, that's why I feel bad for officials, because

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Speaker 1: they can. This had absolutely nothing to do with the

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Speaker 1: speed of the game. This was purely Brad Allen's laziness

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Speaker 1: And I'm gonna go what step Further, So, now we're

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Speaker 1: not just talking about the Lions playoffs here. Now we're

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Speaker 1: line bet. Again, two point conversion completed, the game was

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Speaker 1: not over. Dallas still had three timeouts and twenty something seconds.

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Speaker 1: Understand that, but certainly there was a lot more than

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Speaker 1: just the chance at the one seed for the Detroit

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Speaker 1: Lions taken away by Brad Allen's lack of focus in

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Speaker 1: this critical situation. Also the millions of dollars that were

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Speaker 1: So you know, for me, those are the big the

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Speaker 1: And you know, again, we get the stories today the

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Speaker 1: crew got downgraded for their performance. Yes, okay, great, they

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Speaker 1: got downgraded. If I see Brad Allen officiating a playoff game,

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Speaker 1: we have a problem. You know. It's like, yeah, he

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Speaker 1: gets downgraded for one game. But what if you know,

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Speaker 1: and we know this crew has been bad in the past,

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Speaker 1: but the crew doesn't matter. So whoever the back judge

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Speaker 1: was that blew the DPI call in Green Bay, he

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Speaker 1: got downgraded for that call. You know again, these are

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Speaker 1: not their body of work throughout seventeen games. But we

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Speaker 1: you know again, I cannot see Brad Allen officiating a

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I am with you across the board. And there's

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Speaker 2: a lot, there's a lot to go through. You're right,

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Speaker 2: We're going to spend a little time on this because

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Speaker 2: there's the question of what to do, not just in

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Speaker 2: a small sample of Brad Allen, but the larger issue

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Speaker 2: of something like this and the doubling down, I think

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Speaker 2: is what gets everybody. Because there's a name I want

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Speaker 2: bring about memories for a lot of people in how

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Speaker 2: Brad Allen could have handled this and why it would

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Speaker 2: be a completely different story today. How'd he done that?

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Speaker 2: Mark Wheeler and Kyle Rudolph. We're also ringing in the

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Speaker 2: end of Sunday Night Football. There'll be another next week.

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Speaker 2: you handle it? We'll get to all of that, But Kyle,

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Speaker 2: I bet you remember this name. I don't even know

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Speaker 2: Okay, Jim Joyce is the umpire famously, and this affected

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Speaker 2: We all mess up, especially in a physical situation. Now,

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Speaker 2: It was not an error of Brad Allen's eyes. Maybe

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Speaker 3: He was in complete tears.

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Speaker 2: He was in shambles and forever he has felt horrible

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Speaker 3: As a human being. It's so easy. I had this.

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Speaker 1: And you can again you when I explained the conception

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Speaker 2: So so what do we do about it? Let's hop

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Speaker 3: And you're like, what happened today?

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Speaker 2: I got the perfect thing for you is name Steve

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Speaker 2: de Seger, and let's find out what's trending and get

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Speaker 6: To you as well.

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Speaker 7: Hello guys, and by the way, what you're talking about

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Speaker 7: last night's controversy you could have massive implications for the

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Speaker 7: Again, everybody still has one more game to play next weekend.

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Speaker 7: But if that's the case, then ladies and gentlemen, we

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Speaker 7: Last night, we talked, of course, about referee Brad Allen,

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Speaker 7: You had a Packers pass interference this year late that

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Speaker 7: playoff spot in the AFC the seven seed next weekend.

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Speaker 7: If there's a Pittsburgh win and a Buffalo loss, Steelers

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Speaker 7: get the seven seed next weekend. If there's a Pittsburgh

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Speaker 7: win and a Jacksonville loss, Steelers get the seven seed.

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Speaker 7: And you mentioned, we'll find out perhaps tonight the entire

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Speaker 7: schedule for next weekend. There's due to be a couple

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Speaker 7: of Saturday games. We'll find out if indeed, next Sunday

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Speaker 7: night it's Buffalo at Miami, it should be the winner

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Speaker 7: takes the AFC East from that matchup. My goodness, did

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Speaker 7: Miami lose badly at Baltimore today? Fifty six nineteen Ravens,

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Speaker 7: who clinched the one seed in the AFC and a

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Speaker 7: first round by and now Cleveland is locked into the

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Speaker 7: number five seed. Denver beat the Chargers or what's left

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Speaker 7: of them.

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Speaker 6: Sixteen to nine.

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Speaker 7: The Broncos are officially eliminated, though San Francisco clinched the

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Speaker 7: one seed in the NFC and a first round by

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Speaker 7: twenty seven to ten. Niners won at Washington. Running back

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Speaker 7: Christian McCaffrey left with a calf injury. Maybe a strain,

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Speaker 7: says his coach. As for the Arizona win, it was

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Speaker 7: at Philadelphia thirty five thirty one James Conner one hundred

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Speaker 7: and twenty eight yards rushing and a touchdown. The Philadelphia

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Speaker 7: Eagles could be down to the five seed very realistically

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Speaker 7: the way things have been playing out, and of course

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Speaker 7: division winners get one of the top four seeds. We repeat,

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Speaker 7: it could be Dallas over Detroit for the two seed

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Speaker 7: because of what happened last night. What about Tampa Bay's division, Well,

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Speaker 7: the Bucks lost at home to New Orleans twenty three

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Speaker 7: to thirteen, but the Bucks will still win that division

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Speaker 7: with a victory next week at Carolina. Yeah, Carolina, the

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Speaker 7: team that should have the number one overall pick, but

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Speaker 7: they don't own it. They're two and fourteen. They got

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Speaker 7: shut out at Jacksonville twenty six. Nothing today but that result.

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Speaker 7: Clinch is the number one overall draft pick for Chicago

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Speaker 7: in April, So anyway, Bucks could be the four seed,

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Speaker 7: maybe hosting the Eagles first round of the playoffs. By

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Speaker 7: the way, at Tampa Bay loss next weekend would mean

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Speaker 7: that the Atlanta at New Orleans winner would take the division.

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Speaker 7: Buffalo held on to a win over New England twenty

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Speaker 7: seven to twenty one, victories for Houston and Chicago for

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Speaker 7: Indianapolis and the Rams who beat the Giants twenty six

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Speaker 7: twenty five. College Football's national semifinals are tomorrow in the NBA.

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Speaker 7: Atlanta got forty points from Trey Young and thirteen assists

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Speaker 7: in a win at Washington one thirty to one, twenty six.

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Speaker 7: And it's Pelicans over the Lakers mid third quarter eighty

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Speaker 7: six seventy four. College hoops Stanford upset number four Arizona

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Speaker 7: one hundred to eighty two.

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Speaker 2: Back to you, all right, Steve, great stuff, real thorough

482
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Speaker 2: there with everything that's that's going on, the matchups that

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Speaker 2: are on the table, and you mentioned this a few

484
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Speaker 2: weeks ago, as we're with you here in the tire

485
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Speaker 2: RAQ dot Com Studios, Mark Willard and Kyle Rudolph that

486
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Speaker 2: idea of Stafford going home in Round one of the playoffs.

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Speaker 2: Steve mentions it's possible. I'd argue it's actually probable. I

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Speaker 2: know the Rams will need to go win at San

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Speaker 2: Francisco in a game that they technically don't need, but

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Speaker 2: the forty nine ers, you would think, are going to

491
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Speaker 2: be resting just about everybody. We'll get to that, like

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Speaker 2: how they should play it and all of that stuff

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Speaker 2: coming up, But that's probably what this is gonna mean.

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Speaker 2: That loss on Saturday night, I think probably means Detroit

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Speaker 2: is going to have to play the Rams. And while

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Speaker 2: that's wonderful for US viewers and the storylines and whatnot,

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Speaker 2: that's way different than having to take on the Vikings

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Speaker 2: or the Packers or the Seahawks or something like that.

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Speaker 2: Quite frankly, this changed history in all all kinds of

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Speaker 2: negative ways.

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Speaker 1: And and honestly, if if you're the Rams, yes you

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Speaker 1: clinched your your playoff spot today with the win in

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Speaker 1: New York, but your seed is not locked in. You

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Speaker 1: can fall to the seventh seed if you if you

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Speaker 1: don't win next week, and that means you go to

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Speaker 1: Dallas where they've won fifteen straight. Like, you don't want

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Speaker 1: to go to Dallas, you want to go to Detroit.

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Speaker 1: And so I would assume that Sean McVay and the

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Speaker 1: Rams will go up and you know, play a team

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Speaker 1: in San Francisco who should one hundred percent treated as

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Speaker 1: a bye week. And you know, we were in this

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Speaker 1: situation when I was in Minnesota in twenty nineteen, and

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Speaker 1: you know, we made as many starters as we possibly

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Speaker 1: could inactive for the game, and then you know the

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Speaker 1: guys who were dressed that didn't play. You know, starters

516
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Speaker 1: dressed and didn't play, and some starters dressed started and

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Speaker 1: then got their start streak or incentive or whatever they

518
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Speaker 1: had to start that game. You know, guys that had

519
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Speaker 1: contractual stuff in the last week of the year, first

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Speaker 1: play of the game and stand on the sidelines and

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Speaker 1: it turned into a preseason game. That's what I fully

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Speaker 1: expect from a lot of these teams where their seed

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Speaker 1: can't change, you know, particularly in a case like San Francisco,

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Speaker 1: where we've talked about it since the Cleveland loss. You know,

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Speaker 1: the only thing in my opinion that can derail this

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Speaker 1: for the forty nine ers is health, and yeah, Christian

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Speaker 1: McCaffrey gets a little banged up. Guess what, you've got

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Speaker 1: two weeks until your next game, and guess what, you

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Speaker 1: don't play that week, you get another week. You have

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Speaker 1: three weeks until your game. So you know, I think

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Speaker 1: the the Niners will have an opportunity to really get healthy.

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Speaker 1: And all they got to do is win two games

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Speaker 1: in San Francisco and you're headed to Vegas, So you know,

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Speaker 1: do I do? I think they may play a little

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Speaker 1: bit early in the game because they do have the

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Speaker 1: bye week the following week as well, possibly, but you

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Speaker 1: would you would just be sick if you're John Lynch

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Speaker 1: and Kyle Shanahan and you know, uh McCaffrey or Debo

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Speaker 1: or Trent Williams. You know, somebody falls on Trent Williams

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Speaker 1: around the pile. You know, just absolutely sick to your

541
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Speaker 1: stomach playing those guys in a game that you already

542
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Speaker 1: have the first round by locked up. And I'd say

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Speaker 1: the same thing for Baltimore and the AFC. But going

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Speaker 1: back to the Rams, they need to go get a

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Speaker 1: win in San Francisco so they can go to Detroit

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Speaker 1: and not to Dallas.

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Speaker 2: Before we get too deep into all those matchups and whatnot.

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Speaker 2: I still want to throw that question at you with

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Speaker 2: regard to the officiating situation, which is what what what

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Speaker 2: do we do? Like the larger question, what do we

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Speaker 2: do about the growing issue the officials are becoming? So

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Speaker 2: we'll do that next and don't forget that. Shortly after

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Speaker 2: to now much more coming up alongside Kyle Rudolph on

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Speaker 2: Mark Willard on Fox Sports Radio. All Right, Happy New Year, everybody.

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Speaker 2: We're live in the tirag dot com studios with Kyle Rudolph,

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Speaker 2: Mark Willard. So much to get to with all of

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Speaker 2: the matchups and the seating and everything is starting to

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Speaker 2: come into focus here as we wrap up Week seventeen

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Speaker 2: in the NFL wrap up twenty twenty three at the

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Speaker 2: same time, but not quite done yet with the conversation

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Speaker 2: we've been having about last night, which was the Lions

571
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Speaker 2: and Cowboys, not only the way it was officiated, the

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Speaker 2: way it finished, the way the officials in the league

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Speaker 2: handled it after the fact. Kyle, kind of a large,

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Speaker 2: broad question, But I wonder how you'd answer it. What

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Speaker 2: do we do about this?

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Speaker 3: What? What can we do about this? Well?

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Speaker 1: I think more has to be done than you know,

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Speaker 1: what just came out today. You know, the crew was downgraded.

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Speaker 1: What does that mean they? You know, okay, so they

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Speaker 1: got a bad report card, Like, give me a break.

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Speaker 1: You know, I understand that there are bonuses by officiating

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Speaker 1: playoff games, and you know, it's a hefty amount of

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Speaker 1: money that these guys get, and the reward to by

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Speaker 1: being graded out highly during the season is that you

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Speaker 1: ultimately get to be an individual who can call a

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Speaker 1: playoff game. And it just it doesn't make sense to

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Speaker 1: me that the repercussion for what happened last night is

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Speaker 1: as simple as a downgrade. And again I don't know,

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Speaker 1: these grades aren't public. We have no idea who the

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Speaker 1: highest graded officials are in the NFL right now, who

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Speaker 1: are going to ultimately have the playoffs Like I said,

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Speaker 1: there there's seventeen other games that you know, judging by

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Speaker 1: Brad Allen's history, we probably can assume that he hasn't

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Speaker 1: been highly graded on all of them. But it's like,

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Speaker 1: if that were the case, and you know, he completely

596
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Speaker 1: blows this game, he could still be officiating a playoff game,

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Speaker 1: even though his crew has been consistently in the forefront

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Speaker 1: of controversy for calls that they either made or did

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Speaker 1: not make, and so this whole like downgrade thing just

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Speaker 1: it's always upset me because that's kind of always been

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Speaker 1: their slap on the wrist. You know, Do I think

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Speaker 1: officials talking to the media will make a difference. No,

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Speaker 1: you know, clearly we saw it last night, like whether

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Speaker 1: Brad Allen was doing a press conference like Dan Campbell

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Speaker 1: had to after the game, or Brad Allen did the

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Speaker 1: Pool report and simply said what he said and doubled

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Speaker 1: down on his mistake. So like, again, I think talking

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Speaker 1: to the media would really make a difference. No, I've

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Speaker 1: kind of always had this this crazy idea. You know,

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Speaker 1: the the NFL as a whole always talks about you know,

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Speaker 1: life after football for players, and we have all of

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Speaker 1: these different like boot camps that are made available for us,

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Speaker 1: whether you're you know, a rookie coming in doing to

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Speaker 1: the you know, rookie success meetings, whether you're you know,

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Speaker 1: a first year guy or a fifteen year guy. You know,

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Speaker 1: you can go to a broadcast boot camp and you know,

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Speaker 1: get experience in a studio or in a booth. You know,

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Speaker 1: we have business boot camps where you can go and

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Speaker 1: you know, study at you know, Michigan and IU and

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Speaker 1: all these other places, and they prepare us for life

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Speaker 1: after football and all these different areas of life. Why

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Speaker 1: do we not have something for former players to get

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Speaker 1: into officiating. No one knows the game better than the

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Speaker 1: guys that play it, and you know, you have a

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Speaker 1: bunch of these. Everybody sees the statistics of you know,

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Speaker 1: length of NFL career and quite honestly, you know, success

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Speaker 1: post football. So why not create something amongst the NFL

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Speaker 1: where it's like, hey, look, you know you played in

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Speaker 1: the league. You know the game as well as anyone.

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Speaker 1: Why don't you give officiating a try. Oh, by the way,

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Speaker 1: we'll probably pay you more than any job you can

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Speaker 1: go get right now, because you know, a most of

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Speaker 1: you guys don't have any other work experience. It's not

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Speaker 1: like you had a job while you were in college

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Speaker 1: or you were working part time in the offseason during

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Speaker 1: your one or two years that you were in the NFL,

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Speaker 1: So you have no work experience. And yet, like I said,

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Speaker 1: these officials get paid really, really well. So if you're

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Speaker 1: some of these guys in the league who you know,

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00:37:20,840 --> 00:37:23,200
Speaker 1: maybe football doesn't work out for you as a player,

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Speaker 1: but you have an opportunity to officiate, you know't why

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Speaker 1: wouldn't they give it a shot? And now you have

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Speaker 1: a bunch of younger individuals who know the game of football.

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Speaker 1: They've been around the game of football. I guarantee you

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Speaker 1: if someone that understood what Detroit was doing last night

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Speaker 1: during that play, as Dan Campbell explained it to Brad

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Speaker 1: Allen prior to the game, like he said he did,

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Speaker 1: that doesn't get missed because every current player or former

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Speaker 1: player that was watching it, just like Ryan Clark afterwards,

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Speaker 1: and the way that you explain it and see it,

651
00:37:59,440 --> 00:38:04,480
Speaker 1: everyone knows the deception that Detroit was trying to create

652
00:38:04,560 --> 00:38:08,560
Speaker 1: and exactly why they did everything. So again, I don't

653
00:38:08,560 --> 00:38:12,919
Speaker 1: know what the immediate fixes for you know, current officials

654
00:38:13,120 --> 00:38:16,920
Speaker 1: and you know, accountability but I would love to see

655
00:38:16,920 --> 00:38:19,800
Speaker 1: something like that added to all the different post football

656
00:38:19,840 --> 00:38:21,720
Speaker 1: opportunities that we have as players.

657
00:38:23,000 --> 00:38:26,400
Speaker 2: I think it's a fascinating idea, a really good idea.

658
00:38:26,480 --> 00:38:28,960
Speaker 2: I also think this, and this is not to again

659
00:38:29,080 --> 00:38:32,480
Speaker 2: I'm not trying to sell anybody out here, but sports

660
00:38:32,480 --> 00:38:37,560
Speaker 2: fans are trained that this entertainment entity, this game that

661
00:38:37,600 --> 00:38:43,680
Speaker 2: we all watch, sort of comes with this dynamic where

662
00:38:44,239 --> 00:38:46,440
Speaker 2: we get to watch what you're doing, we get to

663
00:38:46,520 --> 00:38:49,200
Speaker 2: know what your salaries are, and if we don't like

664
00:38:49,320 --> 00:38:52,839
Speaker 2: what we're seeing in terms of performance and salary, if

665
00:38:52,880 --> 00:38:55,880
Speaker 2: that doesn't all mask, we've got opinions about it. Now,

666
00:38:56,080 --> 00:39:00,520
Speaker 2: maybe we shouldn't, maybe we should. We do. And what's

667
00:39:00,560 --> 00:39:04,080
Speaker 2: hard for me is where do the officials or umpires

668
00:39:04,400 --> 00:39:07,359
Speaker 2: fit into all that? And again I'm not trying to

669
00:39:07,440 --> 00:39:10,960
Speaker 2: like take people's jobs from them, but I just get

670
00:39:11,160 --> 00:39:14,440
Speaker 2: in situations like this, I think fans Kyle get really

671
00:39:14,480 --> 00:39:20,520
Speaker 2: offended by this cocoon, this cocoon that surrounds referees and

672
00:39:20,600 --> 00:39:23,000
Speaker 2: officials to the point where it's like we can't have

673
00:39:23,080 --> 00:39:26,359
Speaker 2: an opinion, we're not allowed to speak freely about it,

674
00:39:26,640 --> 00:39:31,000
Speaker 2: we have no access to them. It's completely against everything

675
00:39:31,040 --> 00:39:34,239
Speaker 2: that we do in the rest of the professional sports process.

676
00:39:35,040 --> 00:39:36,839
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know one of the things, Like I said,

677
00:39:36,840 --> 00:39:40,319
Speaker 1: I was standing up last night watching all the press conferences,

678
00:39:40,360 --> 00:39:44,319
Speaker 1: and you know, Jared Goff admirably stood at the mic

679
00:39:44,400 --> 00:39:47,040
Speaker 1: and said, look, it's totally more than just that play.

680
00:39:47,160 --> 00:39:48,919
Speaker 1: You know, we had other opportunities. I should have thrown

681
00:39:48,920 --> 00:39:51,080
Speaker 1: a pick on the drive before the two minute drive

682
00:39:51,120 --> 00:39:53,960
Speaker 1: and yahda YadA. All that stuff is one hundred percent true.

683
00:39:53,960 --> 00:39:56,360
Speaker 1: And like I said, I'm very admirable of him to

684
00:39:56,520 --> 00:39:59,440
Speaker 1: take that stance. But then he goes, I may get

685
00:39:59,520 --> 00:40:04,560
Speaker 1: fine for this, but Decker reported and Skipper did not, like,

686
00:40:04,880 --> 00:40:08,000
Speaker 1: why do you have to preface telling the truth with

687
00:40:08,560 --> 00:40:10,680
Speaker 1: I may get fined for this? And again, that was

688
00:40:10,760 --> 00:40:12,480
Speaker 1: just add it to the list of things that drove

689
00:40:12,520 --> 00:40:14,000
Speaker 1: me crazy last night after the game.

690
00:40:14,400 --> 00:40:16,799
Speaker 2: I'm glad you brought that up. Jared was fantastic in

691
00:40:16,880 --> 00:40:19,000
Speaker 2: that conference last night, no doubt about it.

692
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Speaker 4: All.

693
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Speaker 2: Right, How this affects Detroit and the rest of these teams,

694
00:40:22,160 --> 00:40:24,880
Speaker 2: the seedings, the matchups, We'll get to all of that

695
00:40:25,239 --> 00:40:27,920
Speaker 2: coming up next. Mark will and Kyle Rudolph Fox Sports Radio.

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Speaker 4: Fox Sports Radio has the best sports talk lineup in

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Speaker 2: Yeah, we're having a good time. And where Kyle is,

701
00:40:42,120 --> 00:40:44,840
Speaker 2: there's three hours left this year. I got six hours

702
00:40:44,920 --> 00:40:48,080
Speaker 2: left where I am. Wherever you are, Happy New Year,

703
00:40:48,440 --> 00:40:51,080
Speaker 2: Thanks for being with us as we ring it in.

704
00:40:51,280 --> 00:40:54,200
Speaker 2: And maybe it's been a minute, and maybe it's just me, Kyle,

705
00:40:54,360 --> 00:40:59,480
Speaker 2: but it's been. It's been difficult the last few years

706
00:40:59,760 --> 00:41:02,400
Speaker 2: to get to tonight and go that was a pretty

707
00:41:02,400 --> 00:41:07,320
Speaker 2: good year. We certainly didn't feel that way in twenty twenty.

708
00:41:07,680 --> 00:41:10,000
Speaker 2: We certainly didn't feel that way in twenty twenty one.

709
00:41:10,560 --> 00:41:14,280
Speaker 2: Last year felt a little fuzzier. Maybe it's just because

710
00:41:14,320 --> 00:41:17,040
Speaker 2: for comparison's sake, we're looking at the last few. But

711
00:41:17,480 --> 00:41:19,640
Speaker 2: I sit here tonight and go, okay.

712
00:41:19,440 --> 00:41:21,120
Speaker 3: All right, we're getting better.

713
00:41:21,320 --> 00:41:24,560
Speaker 2: That was you know, we still got our issues. But

714
00:41:25,520 --> 00:41:29,439
Speaker 2: twenty twenty three, when compared to the last three before it, Hey,

715
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Speaker 2: nice job, good job twenty twenty three.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, as they say, we're trending. We're trending, so big,

717
00:41:36,120 --> 00:41:40,960
Speaker 1: big things coming in twenty twenty four, let's hope so man.

718
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Speaker 2: way tire buying should be maybe not the sexiest conversation ever,

723
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Speaker 2: but I know there's a handful of NFL cities out

724
00:42:00,200 --> 00:42:03,240
Speaker 2: there thinking about this right now, and I certainly wonder

725
00:42:03,280 --> 00:42:07,799
Speaker 2: what your perspective and experience is on this. So you

726
00:42:07,800 --> 00:42:12,279
Speaker 2: know forty nine ers in Ravens as the number one examples.

727
00:42:13,200 --> 00:42:17,719
Speaker 2: You look at Christian McCaffrey massaging his calf on the sideline.

728
00:42:18,640 --> 00:42:23,120
Speaker 2: You know that Trent Williams had issues a week ago.

729
00:42:23,320 --> 00:42:26,000
Speaker 2: You know that brock Parties had a couple of stingers

730
00:42:26,560 --> 00:42:30,319
Speaker 2: the last few weeks, and we could go on Eric

731
00:42:30,440 --> 00:42:33,760
Speaker 2: Armstead's foot injury. Now the Ravens have had a handful

732
00:42:33,800 --> 00:42:38,520
Speaker 2: of injuries or unfortunately those guys Mark Andrews, Keith Mitchell, No,

733
00:42:38,800 --> 00:42:42,640
Speaker 2: they're not coming back anytime soon. But for both of

734
00:42:42,680 --> 00:42:44,920
Speaker 2: these teams, you look at it and you go, wow,

735
00:42:44,960 --> 00:42:49,280
Speaker 2: two full weekends off, that is just what the doctor ordered.

736
00:42:49,719 --> 00:42:53,600
Speaker 2: It's true, that's what the doctor ordered, but is it

737
00:42:53,680 --> 00:42:58,640
Speaker 2: what your football productivity ordered? The idea of sitting out

738
00:42:59,160 --> 00:43:03,880
Speaker 2: to con sayative weeks and then being asked to bang

739
00:43:04,360 --> 00:43:08,880
Speaker 2: turn it on potentially three weeks from today and play

740
00:43:08,880 --> 00:43:13,920
Speaker 2: a battle tested playoff team in your building feels dangerous.

741
00:43:14,200 --> 00:43:15,160
Speaker 3: How would you play it.

742
00:43:16,760 --> 00:43:20,520
Speaker 1: For me? Personally? I mean, I think the way that

743
00:43:20,600 --> 00:43:24,320
Speaker 1: you have to approach it is, you know, this week,

744
00:43:24,440 --> 00:43:27,160
Speaker 1: you know we're heading into the game, whether you're Baltimore

745
00:43:27,200 --> 00:43:29,120
Speaker 1: or San fram both of the teams that will have

746
00:43:29,200 --> 00:43:33,799
Speaker 1: the bye week coming next week, regardless, treat it like

747
00:43:34,560 --> 00:43:37,360
Speaker 1: a normal week. You know, go through the week. Guys

748
00:43:37,400 --> 00:43:40,480
Speaker 1: that are banged up, you're getting your treatment. You know,

749
00:43:40,520 --> 00:43:44,359
Speaker 1: if you can practice practice. If we're gonna go walk

750
00:43:44,400 --> 00:43:47,040
Speaker 1: through on Wednesday, we walk through on Wednesday, then we

751
00:43:47,120 --> 00:43:51,320
Speaker 1: go fast on Thursday and Friday. You know, most teams

752
00:43:51,400 --> 00:43:53,399
Speaker 1: are not going to put the pads on at all

753
00:43:53,480 --> 00:44:00,759
Speaker 1: this week anyways. So I'm treating Monday through Saturday as

754
00:44:00,800 --> 00:44:04,080
Speaker 1: if you know, this is a game that we need

755
00:44:04,120 --> 00:44:08,600
Speaker 1: to go play and win. And then on Sunday Eve

756
00:44:08,640 --> 00:44:10,520
Speaker 1: the same thing. Even if you want your starters to

757
00:44:10,600 --> 00:44:13,279
Speaker 1: go through warm ups and you know, be dressed out,

758
00:44:13,360 --> 00:44:17,000
Speaker 1: so it's not a full week off, you're just not

759
00:44:17,200 --> 00:44:22,120
Speaker 1: playing game reps. On Sunday. These guys just went at

760
00:44:22,160 --> 00:44:25,480
Speaker 1: it for seventeen weeks. Like having the game off of

761
00:44:25,600 --> 00:44:29,120
Speaker 1: week eighteen and then going into a bye week is

762
00:44:29,160 --> 00:44:32,600
Speaker 1: not going to affect you know, any of these guys

763
00:44:32,680 --> 00:44:36,759
Speaker 1: productivity coming back out of it the following week. Now,

764
00:44:36,800 --> 00:44:41,520
Speaker 1: do I think there are certain guys that you can say, hey, look,

765
00:44:41,920 --> 00:44:46,960
Speaker 1: Christian Calf's banged up. Your get treatment for the next

766
00:44:47,080 --> 00:44:50,080
Speaker 1: week and a half, and then you know, let's fire

767
00:44:50,160 --> 00:44:52,000
Speaker 1: this thing up and get ready to go. You know,

768
00:44:52,000 --> 00:44:54,920
Speaker 1: I need you at your best for two weeks in

769
00:44:55,080 --> 00:44:57,760
Speaker 1: mid January, so we get a chance to go play

770
00:44:57,800 --> 00:45:01,280
Speaker 1: in Vegas in February. You know that there are certain

771
00:45:01,360 --> 00:45:05,000
Speaker 1: guys that you can task with that and they know

772
00:45:05,160 --> 00:45:08,320
Speaker 1: exactly how to approach every single day and be locked

773
00:45:08,320 --> 00:45:12,320
Speaker 1: in and not lose focus. So in the divisional round,

774
00:45:12,440 --> 00:45:19,640
Speaker 1: you have a red hot Cleveland Browns team or a

775
00:45:20,160 --> 00:45:24,080
Speaker 1: Los Angeles Rams team that would go to San Francisco

776
00:45:24,320 --> 00:45:27,400
Speaker 1: if they wanted detroud. You know, like that's your worst nightmare.

777
00:45:27,440 --> 00:45:31,359
Speaker 1: You you play a team who you know is hot

778
00:45:31,400 --> 00:45:33,440
Speaker 1: and they just want a road playoff game, and now

779
00:45:33,440 --> 00:45:37,239
Speaker 1: they're coming to you after a couple weeks off. But

780
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Speaker 1: you know, I am a again. I had success with

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00:45:41,360 --> 00:45:44,080
Speaker 1: it when we did it in Minnesota. So like, I'm

782
00:45:44,320 --> 00:45:50,600
Speaker 1: very Cleveland Browns. You're the five seed. Guess what, it's

783
00:45:50,640 --> 00:45:54,160
Speaker 1: a bye week. My guys are not practicing this week.

784
00:45:54,760 --> 00:45:56,839
Speaker 1: If they want to get a workout in tomorrow, they

785
00:45:56,880 --> 00:45:59,240
Speaker 1: can get a workout in tomorrow. They can do something,

786
00:45:59,600 --> 00:46:02,360
Speaker 1: you know, maybe get a run in on Tuesday or Wednesday,

787
00:46:02,400 --> 00:46:05,480
Speaker 1: and then look, it's a bye week, you're gonna we're

788
00:46:05,520 --> 00:46:09,120
Speaker 1: gonna be fresh when we go play the AFC South

789
00:46:09,280 --> 00:46:12,839
Speaker 1: champ on the road. And you know, as it looks

790
00:46:12,920 --> 00:46:16,759
Speaker 1: right now, like I don't know if Jacksonville, Houston or

791
00:46:16,760 --> 00:46:20,799
Speaker 1: Indy wants to see Cleveland come to town come the

792
00:46:20,840 --> 00:46:23,920
Speaker 1: third week of January, because you know, that's a team

793
00:46:24,000 --> 00:46:28,640
Speaker 1: that has a really good defense, a coach that knows

794
00:46:28,680 --> 00:46:31,680
Speaker 1: how to coach quarterbacks like anyone I've ever been around

795
00:46:31,760 --> 00:46:34,399
Speaker 1: and get the most out of them, and a team

796
00:46:34,440 --> 00:46:37,080
Speaker 1: that'll be all those old guys there, they'll be rested

797
00:46:37,120 --> 00:46:37,879
Speaker 1: and ready to go.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, the Browns thing is fascinating.

799
00:46:40,800 --> 00:46:43,040
Speaker 2: And I do want to ask you about Flaco because

800
00:46:43,480 --> 00:46:45,479
Speaker 2: I don't know where the heck that's all coming from,

801
00:46:45,480 --> 00:46:47,160
Speaker 2: and I don't know that I've ever watched a team

802
00:46:47,920 --> 00:46:51,040
Speaker 2: hop on into double digit victories and have everything all

803
00:46:51,120 --> 00:46:53,239
Speaker 2: clinched up before you even get to the final week

804
00:46:53,239 --> 00:46:57,719
Speaker 2: of the season. And they used four quarterbacks four They

805
00:46:57,840 --> 00:47:00,959
Speaker 2: used four of them this year, right like the forty

806
00:47:01,040 --> 00:47:03,880
Speaker 2: nine ers ended up doing that for about ten minutes

807
00:47:03,960 --> 00:47:07,000
Speaker 2: last year by using Josh Johnson. And it was this

808
00:47:07,200 --> 00:47:11,160
Speaker 2: memorable year that was talked a whole lot. Cleveland deserves

809
00:47:11,200 --> 00:47:13,319
Speaker 2: a lot of credit. I think Stefanski may end up

810
00:47:13,360 --> 00:47:15,440
Speaker 2: winning Coach of the Year because of all of that.

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Speaker 3: So we can get into it.

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Speaker 2: What specifically about the quarterbacks though, Kyle. If I'm Kyle

813
00:47:22,239 --> 00:47:25,400
Speaker 2: Shanahan or John Harbaugh and I'm looking at brock Perty

814
00:47:25,480 --> 00:47:27,920
Speaker 2: or Lamar Jackson, who I do think are going to

815
00:47:28,000 --> 00:47:30,719
Speaker 2: finish one and two in the MVP race. Lamar's gonna

816
00:47:30,719 --> 00:47:33,200
Speaker 2: win it. I think he sewed it up not only

817
00:47:33,280 --> 00:47:36,480
Speaker 2: Christmas Night, but five touchdown throws today. And we can

818
00:47:36,480 --> 00:47:42,520
Speaker 2: get to that subject matter as well. But these two guys, Ugh,

819
00:47:43,760 --> 00:47:45,719
Speaker 2: I do feel like I want to put him out.

820
00:47:45,760 --> 00:47:48,600
Speaker 2: Like you said, it's like a preseason game. Is it

821
00:47:48,920 --> 00:47:51,800
Speaker 2: play him for a series, play him for a quarter?

822
00:47:52,920 --> 00:47:57,000
Speaker 2: I like that timing feels like something.

823
00:47:56,640 --> 00:47:59,480
Speaker 3: That you want to keep out there. You're right, kysh.

824
00:47:59,560 --> 00:48:03,120
Speaker 2: You would be opened up to such criticism if somebody

825
00:48:03,160 --> 00:48:06,920
Speaker 2: got hit and it went the wrong way. But it

826
00:48:07,320 --> 00:48:10,799
Speaker 2: feels like those guys should maybe go play for a

827
00:48:10,880 --> 00:48:15,720
Speaker 2: series or two before wrapping up the regular season next weekend.

828
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Speaker 2: What do you think.

829
00:48:18,360 --> 00:48:21,360
Speaker 1: Can you win the Super Bowl without them with nope?

830
00:48:22,040 --> 00:48:24,560
Speaker 1: If the answer is no, why put them in harm's

831
00:48:24,600 --> 00:48:29,560
Speaker 1: way again? These guys are the best of the best,

832
00:48:29,640 --> 00:48:31,320
Speaker 1: Like they're you know, you just said it. They're gonna

833
00:48:31,320 --> 00:48:34,319
Speaker 1: probably be one and two in the MVP race by

834
00:48:34,400 --> 00:48:37,200
Speaker 1: them going through a week of preparation as if they're

835
00:48:37,239 --> 00:48:41,400
Speaker 1: going to play and then ultimately not like what's a

836
00:48:41,440 --> 00:48:43,759
Speaker 1: series or a quarter going to do for these guys, Like,

837
00:48:44,160 --> 00:48:47,920
Speaker 1: you know, at this point in the season, like I

838
00:48:48,000 --> 00:48:51,400
Speaker 1: do think taking an entire week off and giving it

839
00:48:51,480 --> 00:48:53,799
Speaker 1: the Cleveland Browns approach, where like, hey, this is a

840
00:48:53,840 --> 00:48:57,359
Speaker 1: bye week, Like you guys get you know, get out

841
00:48:57,400 --> 00:48:59,359
Speaker 1: of here if you want, Like I don't even care,

842
00:48:59,560 --> 00:49:01,560
Speaker 1: treat it like bye week, Like ultimately you have to

843
00:49:01,560 --> 00:49:03,200
Speaker 1: come to the game, we have to dress you know,

844
00:49:03,320 --> 00:49:06,799
Speaker 1: forty eight guys or whatever it is. But you know,

845
00:49:07,120 --> 00:49:10,280
Speaker 1: mentally physically check out like we I want you guys

846
00:49:10,320 --> 00:49:12,719
Speaker 1: ready to go next week when when, like I said,

847
00:49:12,719 --> 00:49:14,640
Speaker 1: we go on the road and play whoever we're playing

848
00:49:14,640 --> 00:49:18,520
Speaker 1: from the AFC South in this case, you know they ultimately,

849
00:49:18,760 --> 00:49:21,120
Speaker 1: I say, they Baltimore and San Francisco get to do

850
00:49:21,239 --> 00:49:25,520
Speaker 1: that next week where you know, next week this time

851
00:49:25,680 --> 00:49:29,560
Speaker 1: they will all be you know, rock Pertio probably be

852
00:49:29,600 --> 00:49:32,360
Speaker 1: on the tractor again, you know, back in Iowa. It's like,

853
00:49:32,600 --> 00:49:35,080
Speaker 1: you know, it is a real bye week for them,

854
00:49:35,320 --> 00:49:40,040
Speaker 1: So I just I don't think that them going out there.

855
00:49:40,200 --> 00:49:43,400
Speaker 1: You know, Lamar Jackson plays a series next week against

856
00:49:43,440 --> 00:49:47,239
Speaker 1: the Pittsburgh Steelers. You can't. You're not going to win

857
00:49:47,239 --> 00:49:49,319
Speaker 1: the super Bowl without him, And why would you put

858
00:49:49,400 --> 00:49:51,919
Speaker 1: him in harm's way for a series because you're worried

859
00:49:51,920 --> 00:49:54,480
Speaker 1: about that's going to prevent him from them being rusty

860
00:49:55,920 --> 00:49:58,600
Speaker 1: in the divisional round. You know, it's like, uh, you know,

861
00:49:58,640 --> 00:50:01,080
Speaker 1: these are the best of the best. These are professionals.

862
00:50:01,120 --> 00:50:05,040
Speaker 1: They know how to prepare. You're not the timing is

863
00:50:05,080 --> 00:50:10,040
Speaker 1: not going to be lost in ten days. You know. Ultimately,

864
00:50:10,280 --> 00:50:12,719
Speaker 1: these guys, you get it. We all come back off

865
00:50:12,760 --> 00:50:15,239
Speaker 1: Thursday night games. And there were plenty of teams this

866
00:50:15,320 --> 00:50:18,680
Speaker 1: year that had Thursday Monday night games. So you know,

867
00:50:18,760 --> 00:50:21,719
Speaker 1: that's almost two full weeks right there where you're not

868
00:50:21,800 --> 00:50:25,040
Speaker 1: playing a game. So I'm just I'm all in on

869
00:50:25,480 --> 00:50:27,840
Speaker 1: the time off and the bye week, and I'm not

870
00:50:27,960 --> 00:50:33,279
Speaker 1: putting my MVP caliber player in harm's way in a

871
00:50:33,320 --> 00:50:36,719
Speaker 1: meaningless game because I'm worried about rust coming out of it.

872
00:50:38,360 --> 00:50:42,040
Speaker 2: I know that you're right, but I also it's like

873
00:50:42,680 --> 00:50:45,480
Speaker 2: it's one of those things I know that the coach like,

874
00:50:45,560 --> 00:50:48,760
Speaker 2: what you would gain by that is so much less

875
00:50:48,840 --> 00:50:52,160
Speaker 2: than as you're saying, what you would potentially lose, you

876
00:50:52,200 --> 00:50:54,000
Speaker 2: know what I mean, if they were to get hurt,

877
00:50:54,080 --> 00:50:57,280
Speaker 2: this would be one of the most epically horrible coaching

878
00:50:57,320 --> 00:51:00,719
Speaker 2: decisions ever. But I also feel like we've you know,

879
00:51:00,760 --> 00:51:07,040
Speaker 2: we've had these conversations for years where teams sit for

880
00:51:07,160 --> 00:51:10,280
Speaker 2: a couple of weeks and then they hop out and

881
00:51:10,440 --> 00:51:14,319
Speaker 2: they look just a little rusty or you know, in

882
00:51:14,400 --> 00:51:17,759
Speaker 2: this feeling out period and man against a good team

883
00:51:17,840 --> 00:51:20,439
Speaker 2: something that's all it takes. You have a bad first

884
00:51:20,520 --> 00:51:24,560
Speaker 2: quarter and gosh, like specific to the forty nine ers.

885
00:51:24,680 --> 00:51:27,760
Speaker 8: Say, we've talked about that with the year, and good lord,

886
00:51:27,800 --> 00:51:31,239
Speaker 8: if they fall behind, Kyle, they're not built for that,

887
00:51:31,840 --> 00:51:34,080
Speaker 8: and so it's like, you don't just need to be ready,

888
00:51:34,120 --> 00:51:35,440
Speaker 8: you need to be banged.

889
00:51:35,520 --> 00:51:37,680
Speaker 2: You need to be ready. You need to be ready

890
00:51:37,680 --> 00:51:41,880
Speaker 2: to play in that first quarter on like January twentieth.

891
00:51:42,280 --> 00:51:45,600
Speaker 2: I mean that's three weeks away. And so you know,

892
00:51:46,560 --> 00:51:49,880
Speaker 2: I get it, you know more about the process certainly

893
00:51:49,920 --> 00:51:53,600
Speaker 2: than I do of their bodies and the flow and everything.

894
00:51:53,680 --> 00:51:56,800
Speaker 2: But god, that feels like a long time away.

895
00:51:57,600 --> 00:52:02,280
Speaker 1: Yeah, And to me, like I envision Trent and Debo

896
00:52:02,600 --> 00:52:06,120
Speaker 1: walking out of the tunnel at Levi's with their boom

897
00:52:06,160 --> 00:52:09,880
Speaker 1: box and you know, like you know, and I picture

898
00:52:10,160 --> 00:52:13,680
Speaker 1: you know, the strength coach or whoever's there, Like, I

899
00:52:13,719 --> 00:52:15,600
Speaker 1: promise you these guys are going to be ready to

900
00:52:15,640 --> 00:52:19,920
Speaker 1: play on January twentieth or whatever the date is, the

901
00:52:20,000 --> 00:52:22,359
Speaker 1: Saturday or Sunday of the division around that they would

902
00:52:22,400 --> 00:52:28,040
Speaker 1: play if they're coming off just you know, thirteen days

903
00:52:28,080 --> 00:52:31,680
Speaker 1: of rest. I guarantee it, they're going to be chopping

904
00:52:31,719 --> 00:52:33,720
Speaker 1: at the bit to get out there and go play,

905
00:52:33,800 --> 00:52:36,840
Speaker 1: knowing that we need to win two games at home

906
00:52:37,360 --> 00:52:42,279
Speaker 1: and we're one away from a championship. And again, you

907
00:52:42,440 --> 00:52:45,120
Speaker 1: like every team is different. You know, you have a

908
00:52:45,160 --> 00:52:51,080
Speaker 1: team that has veteran players that understand that, Okay, we're

909
00:52:51,560 --> 00:52:56,120
Speaker 1: we're physically going to give ourselves the best chance to

910
00:52:56,160 --> 00:52:58,560
Speaker 1: make this run, but that doesn't mean mentally we can

911
00:52:58,640 --> 00:53:01,200
Speaker 1: check out right now. We're going to go through this

912
00:53:01,239 --> 00:53:04,239
Speaker 1: week and prepare as if we're playing. And when you

913
00:53:04,360 --> 00:53:08,560
Speaker 1: have the veteran leadership that they have in San Francisco's

914
00:53:08,600 --> 00:53:11,359
Speaker 1: locker room, I'm even more comfortable with it because I

915
00:53:11,440 --> 00:53:14,040
Speaker 1: know when it's time for that ball to kick off

916
00:53:14,080 --> 00:53:16,680
Speaker 1: in the division round, my guys are going to be

917
00:53:16,719 --> 00:53:19,280
Speaker 1: ready to go, and we're going to start fast because

918
00:53:19,320 --> 00:53:21,880
Speaker 1: they just can't wait to go play. They wish they

919
00:53:21,880 --> 00:53:25,759
Speaker 1: could have played the week before. And that's more of

920
00:53:25,800 --> 00:53:28,000
Speaker 1: the feeling that I get from a team like that,

921
00:53:28,120 --> 00:53:29,839
Speaker 1: a team that's been there before, a team that knows

922
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Speaker 1: what it takes.

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Speaker 2: Mark Willard coming up next. As as we mentioned, Lamar

929
00:53:49,680 --> 00:53:53,359
Speaker 2: Jackson's going to win the MVP. It's pretty much been

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Speaker 2: card limitations apply. Okay, let's talk about this. Lamar Jackson's

941
00:54:34,680 --> 00:54:37,480
Speaker 2: gonna win the MVP, and I have no issue with that.

942
00:54:38,800 --> 00:54:43,439
Speaker 2: He was amazing on Christmas, he was dominant today. He's

943
00:54:43,480 --> 00:54:46,160
Speaker 2: a fantastic quarterback. I bet there are a few general

944
00:54:46,200 --> 00:54:50,000
Speaker 2: managers out there kicking themselves for not acquiring him when

945
00:54:50,040 --> 00:54:52,680
Speaker 2: they had the opportunity to do so when he requested

946
00:54:52,680 --> 00:54:56,920
Speaker 2: a trade in the off season. Plus, we know that

947
00:54:56,960 --> 00:55:00,600
Speaker 2: whenever there are candidates who go head to head late

948
00:55:00,719 --> 00:55:06,879
Speaker 2: in a season, whoever wins that essentially eliminates the other

949
00:55:07,000 --> 00:55:11,320
Speaker 2: player a la the Heisman, Bo Nicks, Michael Pennix, Junior

950
00:55:12,000 --> 00:55:17,360
Speaker 2: Pac twelve Championship game. So I totally get it. However,

951
00:55:17,719 --> 00:55:20,960
Speaker 2: I wonder if there's a little bit of give up

952
00:55:21,960 --> 00:55:25,280
Speaker 2: in the way that we do this. In other words,

953
00:55:25,760 --> 00:55:29,239
Speaker 2: we've all just sort of accepted the idea that if

954
00:55:29,239 --> 00:55:32,279
Speaker 2: there's a head to head matchup, it means more. If

955
00:55:32,320 --> 00:55:36,400
Speaker 2: it's late in the season, it means more. We've accepted

956
00:55:36,440 --> 00:55:39,960
Speaker 2: that it's just the rules, and then I thought to myself,

957
00:55:40,239 --> 00:55:42,560
Speaker 2: but is it they're not written rules.

958
00:55:42,880 --> 00:55:43,640
Speaker 3: I don't know if.

959
00:55:43,560 --> 00:55:48,239
Speaker 2: It's supposed to be that way. Lamar's an incredibly worthy candidate,

960
00:55:48,680 --> 00:55:50,759
Speaker 2: and if you look at the last three weeks of

961
00:55:50,800 --> 00:55:55,400
Speaker 2: the NFL, there's zero question that he's the MVP. But

962
00:55:55,440 --> 00:55:59,080
Speaker 2: if you look at the last seventeen, I'm sorry, Kyleie's not,

963
00:55:59,800 --> 00:56:03,480
Speaker 2: He's not. He's not, and the numbers will bear it out.

964
00:56:03,840 --> 00:56:09,640
Speaker 2: There's a stat called EPA expected points added, essentially what

965
00:56:10,440 --> 00:56:16,319
Speaker 2: each individual does to add to his team's performance. Well,

966
00:56:16,400 --> 00:56:19,120
Speaker 2: la Mars is through the roof the last three weeks,

967
00:56:19,640 --> 00:56:22,839
Speaker 2: but if you shoot back prior to that, weeks one

968
00:56:22,920 --> 00:56:28,920
Speaker 2: through fourteen, he's way behind Brock Purty. He's also behind

969
00:56:29,080 --> 00:56:33,799
Speaker 2: Doc Prescott and Josh Allen and Jalen Hurts and Patrick Mahomes.

970
00:56:34,320 --> 00:56:37,880
Speaker 2: So are we putting a little bit too much on

971
00:56:38,040 --> 00:56:40,439
Speaker 2: singular performances late in the year.

972
00:56:42,400 --> 00:56:46,240
Speaker 1: I think, particularly this year more so than ever, because

973
00:56:46,280 --> 00:56:52,319
Speaker 1: this year we don't have a runaway MVP. You know,

974
00:56:52,360 --> 00:56:56,680
Speaker 1: we don't have a guy who's just been dominant, you know,

975
00:56:56,920 --> 00:57:00,880
Speaker 1: polesetter early in the season, you know, sell throughout the

976
00:57:00,920 --> 00:57:04,240
Speaker 1: middle part of the year, and then close with performances

977
00:57:04,320 --> 00:57:07,759
Speaker 1: like Lamar has had the last few weeks. So you know,

978
00:57:07,840 --> 00:57:09,839
Speaker 1: for us, I sat on here and I'm like, this

979
00:57:09,920 --> 00:57:12,480
Speaker 1: is the year that you know, finally it may be

980
00:57:12,760 --> 00:57:15,120
Speaker 1: a non quarterback. You know, can it be Christian in

981
00:57:15,160 --> 00:57:18,360
Speaker 1: San Francisco? Can it be Tyreek in Miami? You know,

982
00:57:18,520 --> 00:57:22,320
Speaker 1: certainly if one of those guys would have run away

983
00:57:22,320 --> 00:57:26,640
Speaker 1: with it down the stretch, you know, I completely believe

984
00:57:26,760 --> 00:57:28,480
Speaker 1: that this was the year to give it to one

985
00:57:28,520 --> 00:57:31,520
Speaker 1: of those two guys. So I think it's more so

986
00:57:32,040 --> 00:57:35,880
Speaker 1: this year than any other because there there isn't the

987
00:57:36,240 --> 00:57:42,360
Speaker 1: runaway guy. And then you look at Lamar's performances, you know,

988
00:57:42,440 --> 00:57:47,480
Speaker 1: not just the last couple weeks, but specifically who they

989
00:57:47,520 --> 00:57:52,280
Speaker 1: were against. You know, he's playing against other you know,

990
00:57:52,520 --> 00:57:56,680
Speaker 1: super Bowl contenders and the Niners playoff teams and the

991
00:57:56,760 --> 00:58:03,560
Speaker 1: Dolphins and just dismaying I'm putting up crazy numbers. And

992
00:58:03,840 --> 00:58:07,320
Speaker 1: not only did he do that late in the year,

993
00:58:08,240 --> 00:58:12,840
Speaker 1: it's even more so in the spotlight when it's on primetime.

994
00:58:13,360 --> 00:58:18,960
Speaker 1: So when you're on Monday night football on Christmas Night

995
00:58:19,080 --> 00:58:24,880
Speaker 1: and everyone's watching, it's almost like the scale is completely

996
00:58:25,000 --> 00:58:28,800
Speaker 1: shifted because you know, now, whoever goes out and has

997
00:58:28,880 --> 00:58:34,160
Speaker 1: that performance, all of the MVP voters are watching. Had

998
00:58:34,160 --> 00:58:37,360
Speaker 1: that game been a four to twenty five game on

999
00:58:37,400 --> 00:58:41,720
Speaker 1: the East Coast, yeah, MVP voters may have tuned in

1000
00:58:41,760 --> 00:58:43,400
Speaker 1: because it was going to be a great game, but

1001
00:58:43,920 --> 00:58:46,800
Speaker 1: most likely they probably would have just checked the statuet

1002
00:58:46,840 --> 00:58:49,040
Speaker 1: if they weren't watching, or you know, if they were

1003
00:58:49,120 --> 00:58:53,479
Speaker 1: doing something else on Christmas Day afternoon. But the fact

1004
00:58:53,560 --> 00:58:56,520
Speaker 1: that the game was in primetime, when everyone was sitting

1005
00:58:56,520 --> 00:59:01,160
Speaker 1: at home watching for Lamar to do what he's done

1006
00:59:01,240 --> 00:59:03,840
Speaker 1: the last couple of weeks, you know, I agree, I

1007
00:59:03,880 --> 00:59:07,640
Speaker 1: think he solidified himself as the MVP. Is it fair

1008
00:59:07,720 --> 00:59:10,040
Speaker 1: that it's really been because of his performance the last

1009
00:59:10,120 --> 00:59:16,320
Speaker 1: couple weeks. No, but he was in the category of

1010
00:59:16,520 --> 00:59:19,120
Speaker 1: the guys that we were saying had a chance to

1011
00:59:19,160 --> 00:59:21,280
Speaker 1: win it, and it was like he kind of grabbed

1012
00:59:21,320 --> 00:59:23,200
Speaker 1: it and ran away with it at the end. So

1013
00:59:24,040 --> 00:59:27,120
Speaker 1: I agree, I'm comfortable that he will be the MVP,

1014
00:59:28,240 --> 00:59:30,880
Speaker 1: But I feel like it's impossible to look at it

1015
00:59:30,880 --> 00:59:33,760
Speaker 1: and say, Okay, over the course of an eighteen week season,

1016
00:59:34,080 --> 00:59:36,200
Speaker 1: you know, he was the best player. He was just

1017
00:59:36,360 --> 00:59:38,840
Speaker 1: one of the guys in that group that ultimately ran

1018
00:59:38,920 --> 00:59:39,240
Speaker 1: with it.

1019
00:59:39,760 --> 00:59:42,200
Speaker 2: Yeah, and again, I'm with you, and so there's no

1020
00:59:42,320 --> 00:59:45,720
Speaker 2: issue with it. It's kind of it's the way it is.

1021
00:59:46,120 --> 00:59:48,320
Speaker 2: But I'll tell you the words that you just threw

1022
00:59:48,360 --> 00:59:52,520
Speaker 2: out that start to bring about emotions for a West

1023
00:59:52,560 --> 00:59:55,440
Speaker 2: Coast sports fan, and this is kind of what I'm

1024
00:59:55,480 --> 00:59:58,160
Speaker 2: getting at. Forget the MVP debate for a minute and

1025
00:59:58,280 --> 01:00:02,160
Speaker 2: just put it through this lens, the idea that things

1026
01:00:02,280 --> 01:00:08,040
Speaker 2: happen quote when everyone's watching. Like some people listening to

1027
01:00:08,120 --> 01:00:11,040
Speaker 2: us may not understand this dynamic depending on where you

1028
01:00:11,080 --> 01:00:13,800
Speaker 2: grew up, where you live, and where you watch sports.

1029
01:00:14,280 --> 01:00:18,000
Speaker 2: But for West Coast sports fans, they talk about this

1030
01:00:18,200 --> 01:00:20,800
Speaker 2: all the time, and it's called the East Coast bias,

1031
01:00:21,200 --> 01:00:25,240
Speaker 2: and it shows itself in all kinds of forms for

1032
01:00:25,440 --> 01:00:28,360
Speaker 2: years when we grew up watching Sports Center, if the

1033
01:00:28,400 --> 01:00:31,440
Speaker 2: red Sox played the Yankees. It was the first highlight,

1034
01:00:31,680 --> 01:00:34,080
Speaker 2: the second highlight, and then after you showed a couple

1035
01:00:34,120 --> 01:00:37,120
Speaker 2: other highlights, we go back and watch some more about

1036
01:00:37,160 --> 01:00:40,440
Speaker 2: the Yankees and Red Sox And why was that happening. Well,

1037
01:00:40,480 --> 01:00:43,440
Speaker 2: because the editors who are in the back rooms at

1038
01:00:43,760 --> 01:00:47,840
Speaker 2: ESPN grew up there and they're in this bubble thinking

1039
01:00:47,880 --> 01:00:50,600
Speaker 2: that it's the only thing that exists. And there are

1040
01:00:50,640 --> 01:00:54,160
Speaker 2: examples throughout history in all of the sports where it

1041
01:00:54,280 --> 01:00:57,840
Speaker 2: kind of triggers a West Coast sports fan look back

1042
01:00:57,880 --> 01:01:01,080
Speaker 2: on it, go back to when Christian McCay had his

1043
01:01:01,120 --> 01:01:02,400
Speaker 2: final year at Stanford.

1044
01:01:02,840 --> 01:01:04,560
Speaker 3: Look at everything.

1045
01:01:04,080 --> 01:01:07,040
Speaker 2: Now and explain to me how he didn't win the Heisman.

1046
01:01:07,360 --> 01:01:11,800
Speaker 2: You can't, You flat out can't. But we can because

1047
01:01:11,840 --> 01:01:14,320
Speaker 2: so much of what he did happened at seven point

1048
01:01:14,360 --> 01:01:18,920
Speaker 2: thirty Pacific on a Saturday night, and y'all didn't see it.

1049
01:01:19,320 --> 01:01:20,080
Speaker 3: So I get it.

1050
01:01:20,360 --> 01:01:23,640
Speaker 2: And so that's a big part of the issue that

1051
01:01:23,760 --> 01:01:26,840
Speaker 2: I just wish in today's day and age, when we

1052
01:01:26,920 --> 01:01:31,040
Speaker 2: see everything, everything's on demand, everything's on the internet, We've

1053
01:01:31,080 --> 01:01:34,000
Speaker 2: got access to everything all of the time. I wish

1054
01:01:34,080 --> 01:01:37,800
Speaker 2: we could move past the Hey, it happened when we

1055
01:01:37,800 --> 01:01:40,720
Speaker 2: were all watching, therefore it's worth more.

1056
01:01:42,400 --> 01:01:45,240
Speaker 1: Yeah, but I think pac twelve after dark and NFL

1057
01:01:45,240 --> 01:01:49,320
Speaker 1: football are different, Like no one's playing seven o'clock Pacific

1058
01:01:49,440 --> 01:01:54,440
Speaker 1: games in the NFL where no one's watching. I'm just

1059
01:01:54,520 --> 01:01:57,640
Speaker 1: more referring to when you have a head to head

1060
01:01:57,720 --> 01:02:01,680
Speaker 1: battle late in the season in prime time, that game

1061
01:02:01,720 --> 01:02:07,280
Speaker 1: itself is going to be magnified exponentially, right, wrong or indifferent,

1062
01:02:07,480 --> 01:02:12,560
Speaker 1: because again it was it was pegged all week long

1063
01:02:12,800 --> 01:02:17,160
Speaker 1: Super Bowl preview, you know, kind of not just lamar

1064
01:02:17,720 --> 01:02:20,760
Speaker 1: In Brock but also Christian as well. It's like, hey, look,

1065
01:02:20,800 --> 01:02:23,960
Speaker 1: we have pretty much the three MVP front runners here

1066
01:02:24,480 --> 01:02:27,680
Speaker 1: playing in one game. We all get to watch. You know,

1067
01:02:27,760 --> 01:02:32,760
Speaker 1: the stage is set, and you know, ultimately one team

1068
01:02:32,800 --> 01:02:35,280
Speaker 1: played better than the other, and you know, one quarterback

1069
01:02:35,320 --> 01:02:38,600
Speaker 1: played better than the other. And then he even built

1070
01:02:38,640 --> 01:02:41,760
Speaker 1: on it this week with a monster performance against another

1071
01:02:42,000 --> 01:02:46,560
Speaker 1: you know, playoff caliber team. So I completely get it,

1072
01:02:46,640 --> 01:02:50,040
Speaker 1: you know, particularly in the Heisman Trophy stuff. I remember

1073
01:02:50,080 --> 01:02:54,080
Speaker 1: Toby Gerhart going back to another Stanford Cardinal. You know,

1074
01:02:54,120 --> 01:02:56,240
Speaker 1: Toby was a guy that I played with in Minnesota,

1075
01:02:56,280 --> 01:02:59,320
Speaker 1: and I think they beat us like thirty eight, thirty

1076
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Speaker 1: five and Palo Alto My sophomore year, and you know,

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Speaker 1: Toby ran for seven million yards and even threw a

1078
01:03:06,760 --> 01:03:10,400
Speaker 1: touchdown pass against US and it was just but you know,

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01:03:10,480 --> 01:03:13,120
Speaker 1: Toby came in second for the Heisman that year, and

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Speaker 1: you know, he really never had a chance to win

1081
01:03:15,480 --> 01:03:17,840
Speaker 1: it because he was playing on the West Coast and

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01:03:18,360 --> 01:03:21,160
Speaker 1: most of his games came on at ten pm Eastern time,

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01:03:21,240 --> 01:03:24,600
Speaker 1: when two thirds of the country wasn't watching anymore.

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01:03:25,480 --> 01:03:28,160
Speaker 2: Speaking of things that happened late at night on the

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Speaker 2: West Coast, Steve de Seger, Yeah, that's that's when he

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01:03:31,840 --> 01:03:34,080
Speaker 2: does a lot of his very very best work.

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01:03:34,400 --> 01:03:36,920
Speaker 3: And here he is once again with what's trended.

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01:03:37,520 --> 01:03:38,000
Speaker 6: Looked it up.

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01:03:38,040 --> 01:03:40,960
Speaker 7: Toby Gerhard twenty nine carries two hundred and five yards

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Speaker 7: rushing against Notre Day late in the two thousand and

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Speaker 7: nine season, and.

1092
01:03:44,200 --> 01:03:46,200
Speaker 1: Three Key threw a touchdown pass two.

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01:03:47,240 --> 01:03:48,600
Speaker 6: Three on the ground as well.

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01:03:48,640 --> 01:03:52,840
Speaker 7: And looking up the Heisman voting, Christian McCaffrey had two

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01:03:53,000 --> 01:03:57,120
Speaker 7: great seasons at Stanford. Derrick Henry also had two thousand

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Speaker 7: yards rushing that year. Derrick Henry beat out Christian mcarejaffrey

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Speaker 7: for the twenty fifteen Heisman. It was about three hundred

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Speaker 7: and eighty votes to two ninety and then the next year,

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Speaker 7: Christi McCaffrey still had sixteen hundred yards rushing. He finished

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Speaker 7: ninth in the Heisman voting. It was Lamar Jackson beating

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Speaker 7: Deshaun Watson there. Speaking of San Francisco, the Niners not

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Speaker 7: only clinched the one seed, but they get that first

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01:04:21,200 --> 01:04:23,840
Speaker 7: round by these days, of course, there is only one

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Speaker 7: by per conference. San Francisco has home field advantage throughout

1105
01:04:28,240 --> 01:04:32,160
Speaker 7: the NFC playoffs after winning at Washington twenty seven to ten.

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01:04:32,800 --> 01:04:35,560
Speaker 7: Not only is brock perty over four thousand yards passing

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01:04:35,600 --> 01:04:39,240
Speaker 7: this year, the Niners have four guys over one thousand

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Speaker 7: yards from scrimmage. That's only happened with three other teams

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Speaker 7: in NFL history where you have a four thousand yard

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Speaker 7: passer and four other players with the thousand yards Deebo,

1111
01:04:49,760 --> 01:04:52,680
Speaker 7: Samuel Brandon, Aiyuk who had a good game today, George Kittle,

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Speaker 7: Christian McCaffrey at two thousand yards from scrimmage this NFL season,

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Speaker 7: and nobody's had the breakdown of running back and two

1114
01:05:01,080 --> 01:05:04,000
Speaker 7: wide receivers and your tight end with a thousand.

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01:05:03,680 --> 01:05:05,320
Speaker 6: Yards all in the same season.

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Speaker 7: And by the way, ap in the Bay Area points

1117
01:05:07,720 --> 01:05:10,400
Speaker 7: out that since we know kind of how the NFL

1118
01:05:10,720 --> 01:05:14,840
Speaker 7: configures the matchups for the schedule for the following season,

1119
01:05:15,040 --> 01:05:17,800
Speaker 7: they can already say that the Niners next year will

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Speaker 7: be hosting the Kansas City Chiefs in a game, and

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Speaker 7: the Niners next year will be hosting whoever wins the

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01:05:23,080 --> 01:05:26,600
Speaker 7: NFC East, like the Dallas Cowboys. What we don't know

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Speaker 7: is who's playing when next weekend to end this NFL season.

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Speaker 7: We assume it'll be announced tonight, and we assume the

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Speaker 7: finale on Sunday Night Football next weekend will be Buffalo

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Speaker 7: at Miami, because after Buffalo's home win against New England

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Speaker 7: twenty seven to twenty one next week, that Buffalo at

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Speaker 7: Miami winner takes the AFC East. Miami got clobbered at

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Speaker 7: Baltimore today fifty six to nineteen. The Ravens clinched the

1130
01:05:53,240 --> 01:05:55,840
Speaker 7: one seed in the AFC and the first round by

1131
01:05:56,720 --> 01:05:59,320
Speaker 7: Denver beat the Chargers sixteen to nine, but the Broncos

1132
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Speaker 7: are eliminated. Cincinnati is out after blowing the lead at

1133
01:06:03,280 --> 01:06:07,000
Speaker 7: Kansas City Chiefs twenty five seventeen the final. The Chiefs

1134
01:06:07,040 --> 01:06:10,400
Speaker 7: clinched the AFC West title for an eighth straight year.

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Speaker 7: The Pittsburgh Steelers have a chance at the final playoff

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Speaker 7: spot in the AFC. Pittsburgh won at Seattle today thirty

1137
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Speaker 7: to twenty three. Najee Harris two touchdown runs one hundred

1138
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Speaker 7: and twenty two yards. The Seahawks loss clinched a playoff

1139
01:06:23,320 --> 01:06:27,120
Speaker 7: spot for the Rams. Pittsburgh is nine and seven, one

1140
01:06:27,160 --> 01:06:30,600
Speaker 7: game to go next weekend. If there's a Pittsburgh win

1141
01:06:30,800 --> 01:06:34,360
Speaker 7: and a Buffalo loss, Steelers get the seven seed, or

1142
01:06:34,440 --> 01:06:38,240
Speaker 7: if there's a Pittsburgh win and a Jacksonville loss, Steelers

1143
01:06:38,320 --> 01:06:41,360
Speaker 7: get the seven seed. Also in the NFL, on the

1144
01:06:41,360 --> 01:06:45,200
Speaker 7: schedule today, Arizona was a winner at slumping Philadelphia thirty

1145
01:06:45,240 --> 01:06:48,439
Speaker 7: five thirty one, and Eagles wide receiver DeVante Smith left

1146
01:06:48,440 --> 01:06:51,280
Speaker 7: the stadium on crutches. New Orleans won at Tampa Bay

1147
01:06:51,320 --> 01:06:54,400
Speaker 7: twenty three to thirteen. Saints running back Alvin Kamara left

1148
01:06:54,400 --> 01:06:58,200
Speaker 7: with a springed ankle. Jacksonville and Houston with wins, Chicago

1149
01:06:58,320 --> 01:07:00,960
Speaker 7: and Indie with victories. The Rams win was twenty six

1150
01:07:01,080 --> 01:07:03,560
Speaker 7: twenty five at the Giants is New York with veteran

1151
01:07:03,640 --> 01:07:06,760
Speaker 7: kicker Mason Crosby missed a fifty four yard field goal

1152
01:07:06,800 --> 01:07:11,400
Speaker 7: attempt in the final minute. College Football's National semifinals are tomorrow,

1153
01:07:11,520 --> 01:07:14,560
Speaker 7: then the National title game as a week later January eighth,

1154
01:07:14,640 --> 01:07:17,880
Speaker 7: in Houston. In the NBA, the Boston Celtics have won

1155
01:07:17,960 --> 01:07:20,160
Speaker 7: their six game in a row one thirty four one

1156
01:07:20,240 --> 01:07:24,080
Speaker 7: oh one at San Antonio Spurs record five and twenty seven,

1157
01:07:24,400 --> 01:07:26,880
Speaker 7: and the Lakers lost again. New Orleans beat him one

1158
01:07:26,920 --> 01:07:30,320
Speaker 7: twenty nine to one oh nine. Lakers record seventeen and

1159
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Speaker 7: seventeen and upset. In college hoops, Stanford beat number four

1160
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Speaker 7: Arizona one hundred to eighty two. As for the NFL

1161
01:07:37,560 --> 01:07:40,360
Speaker 7: game going on right now, two minute warning, Green Bay

1162
01:07:40,440 --> 01:07:44,040
Speaker 7: leading at Minnesota seventeen to three, each team seven and

1163
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Speaker 7: eight this season. Jordan Love with a touchdown pass and

1164
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Speaker 7: a touchdown run.

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Speaker 2: Back to you, all right, Steve, great stop and thank

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Speaker 2: you for the McCaffrey info. Yeah, it wasn't as last

1167
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Speaker 2: year there, It was the second to last year. You're right,

1168
01:07:57,480 --> 01:08:01,360
Speaker 2: And Derrick Henry while deserve, I think you throw in

1169
01:08:01,400 --> 01:08:04,640
Speaker 2: some of the passing stats that McCaffrey had to me.

1170
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Speaker 2: He clearly should have won the thing, but always debatable,

1171
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Speaker 2: no doubt, especially when it comes to college football. We're

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Speaker 2: live in the tyrack dot com Studios, Mark Willard, Kyle Rudolph, Hey,

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Speaker 2: I want to get to a division you know very

1174
01:08:18,360 --> 01:08:21,960
Speaker 2: very well and the quarterbacks within it, and we're watching

1175
01:08:22,000 --> 01:08:24,479
Speaker 2: two of the teams play from that division right now

1176
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Speaker 2: in the NFC North. But let's do that in a

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Speaker 2: few Let's spend a minute or two on the Buffalo Bills.

1178
01:08:30,800 --> 01:08:34,320
Speaker 2: Remember this team when they were six and six, I

1179
01:08:34,400 --> 01:08:37,240
Speaker 2: mean six and six, and you were like, it's just

1180
01:08:37,320 --> 01:08:42,400
Speaker 2: been in a comedy of errors, slash the unbelievable in

1181
01:08:42,439 --> 01:08:45,960
Speaker 2: the way that they've finished games, leading to a position

1182
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Speaker 2: where it looked like they may well be down and out,

1183
01:08:49,680 --> 01:08:53,759
Speaker 2: and here they are, albeit on the road next week,

1184
01:08:54,280 --> 01:08:55,760
Speaker 2: but favored.

1185
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Speaker 3: To still go win the division.

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Speaker 2: It's been an unbelievable year for them, no matter how

1187
01:09:01,560 --> 01:09:03,599
Speaker 2: it ends out in yes, if they do lose that game,

1188
01:09:03,640 --> 01:09:05,839
Speaker 2: they still could end up out of the playoffs entirely.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, they can go from potentially the two seed all

1190
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Speaker 1: the way to watching wild Card round at home not participating,

1191
01:09:16,200 --> 01:09:18,799
Speaker 1: which is crazy when you think back to where Buffalo

1192
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Speaker 1: was five weeks ago, sitting at six and six. But

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Speaker 1: you know, over the course of the last month, you know,

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Speaker 1: we've been saying this is a team that has all

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Speaker 1: the pieces and one of the most talented quarterbacks in football,

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Speaker 1: and you know, as soon as they can get away

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Speaker 1: from live by Josh, Die by Josh, and you know

1198
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Speaker 1: these crazy plays that he has to make and you know,

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Speaker 1: does that ultimately lead to turnovers and you know, potentially

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Speaker 1: putting his health at risk with some of the crazy

1201
01:09:49,240 --> 01:09:52,160
Speaker 1: things he does in the run game to really just

1202
01:09:52,200 --> 01:09:55,800
Speaker 1: getting back to playing solid defense like that we were

1203
01:09:55,800 --> 01:09:58,680
Speaker 1: accustomed to seeing from this Buffalo Bills team over the

1204
01:09:58,800 --> 01:10:03,040
Speaker 1: last few years. And Sean McDermott got to Buffalo, you know,

1205
01:10:03,439 --> 01:10:07,479
Speaker 1: establishing a run game. Uh, the emergence of James Cook

1206
01:10:07,520 --> 01:10:11,120
Speaker 1: as somebody that you know, when you play this Buffalo

1207
01:10:11,160 --> 01:10:13,840
Speaker 1: Bills team late in the year and possibly in the playoffs,

1208
01:10:15,360 --> 01:10:17,080
Speaker 1: you're gonna have to deal with it, and you're gonna

1209
01:10:17,080 --> 01:10:19,320
Speaker 1: have to deal with it for four quarters. They're not

1210
01:10:19,400 --> 01:10:20,960
Speaker 1: just gonna let you off the hook and throw the

1211
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Speaker 1: ball around the yard like they used to. Certainly, the

1212
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Speaker 1: the Miami injuries today are intriguing for that matchup, and

1213
01:10:29,439 --> 01:10:31,320
Speaker 1: you know, it doesn't seem like they're gonna be at

1214
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Speaker 1: full strength next week, which again we talk about a

1215
01:10:34,960 --> 01:10:38,760
Speaker 1: Miami team all year long and Yeah, they beat Dallas

1216
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Speaker 1: last week on Christmas Eve, but outside of that, every

1217
01:10:42,520 --> 01:10:45,240
Speaker 1: big game that they've played in has been you know,

1218
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Speaker 1: borderline embarrassing for them. They they're not just losing those games,

1219
01:10:49,760 --> 01:10:52,800
Speaker 1: you know, they're getting drubbed and usually run out of

1220
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Speaker 1: the stadium. So it'll be a big one in Miami

1221
01:10:56,320 --> 01:10:58,840
Speaker 1: next week, and it's it's really crazy to think about

1222
01:10:59,520 --> 01:11:03,759
Speaker 1: UT potentially looking at the Miami Dolphins as a sixth

1223
01:11:03,800 --> 01:11:08,920
Speaker 1: seed when you know, as of today they were, you know,

1224
01:11:09,280 --> 01:11:14,439
Speaker 1: competing for potentially the one seed in home field advantage.

1225
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Speaker 2: And certainly the two if not, that is what it

1226
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Speaker 2: was looking like. But now with the loss today, and

1227
01:11:20,479 --> 01:11:23,000
Speaker 2: you're right, the bigger deal the injuries they were already

1228
01:11:23,000 --> 01:11:26,559
Speaker 2: without Raheem Mostert and Jalen Waddle and Tyreek Hill is

1229
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Speaker 2: clearly not one hundred percent now adding the Howard injury and.

1230
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Speaker 3: Bradley Chubb as well.

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Speaker 2: You look at the AFC, and I know we're focused

1232
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Speaker 2: on Baltimore, but if you sort of play the game,

1233
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Speaker 2: if not Baltimore, then who gosh, your hard press right

1234
01:11:42,600 --> 01:11:47,280
Speaker 2: now to not say Buffalo is probably the next choice

1235
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Speaker 2: as far as believability to come out of the AFC, don't.

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Speaker 1: You think, Yeah, Baltimore Buffalo and I'm going I like

1237
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Speaker 1: Cleveland again. I talked about Kevin Stefanski. You mentioned coach

1238
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Speaker 1: of the Year. I think he's pretty much run away

1239
01:12:02,000 --> 01:12:04,360
Speaker 1: with it at this point. I think there were a

1240
01:12:04,360 --> 01:12:07,680
Speaker 1: few other names that we could toss around early in December,

1241
01:12:07,720 --> 01:12:11,280
Speaker 1: and I think at this point in the season it's

1242
01:12:11,360 --> 01:12:15,040
Speaker 1: a done deal. Kevin Stefanski is the coach of the year,

1243
01:12:15,840 --> 01:12:19,880
Speaker 1: winning eleven games, you know, locking up their their their

1244
01:12:19,920 --> 01:12:23,320
Speaker 1: playoffs spot well in advance of the last week of

1245
01:12:23,360 --> 01:12:27,200
Speaker 1: the season with four quarterbacks, and he's not just you know,

1246
01:12:27,360 --> 01:12:31,840
Speaker 1: winning living on the best defense in football this year.

1247
01:12:32,040 --> 01:12:36,639
Speaker 1: Like their offense is playing almost I'm not gonna say almost.

1248
01:12:36,640 --> 01:12:38,680
Speaker 1: They're playing better than they did when they had their

1249
01:12:38,720 --> 01:12:41,599
Speaker 1: two hundred and thirty million dollar quarterback out there, doubt.

1250
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Speaker 1: You know, Kevin is a guy that I've known really

1251
01:12:44,439 --> 01:12:46,519
Speaker 1: well for a long time. I spent nine years with

1252
01:12:46,600 --> 01:12:49,000
Speaker 1: him in Minnesota, and he's just a guy that gets

1253
01:12:49,080 --> 01:12:52,919
Speaker 1: the most out of his players. And it doesn't surprise

1254
01:12:53,040 --> 01:12:55,599
Speaker 1: me that he able to take Joe Flacco from the

1255
01:12:55,640 --> 01:12:59,560
Speaker 1: couch to you know, even money for comeback Player of

1256
01:12:59,600 --> 01:13:02,880
Speaker 1: the Year right now and it's you know, it's a

1257
01:13:02,920 --> 01:13:09,439
Speaker 1: system that's very quarterback friendly, a system that it's crazy

1258
01:13:09,760 --> 01:13:12,120
Speaker 1: you think about. You know, for me, I go back

1259
01:13:12,160 --> 01:13:15,559
Speaker 1: to twenty seventeen. You know, we go to the NFC

1260
01:13:15,640 --> 01:13:19,120
Speaker 1: Championship game with case Keenum, you know, a backup quarterback

1261
01:13:19,160 --> 01:13:22,839
Speaker 1: that you know, ultimately when your starter goes down, people

1262
01:13:22,880 --> 01:13:26,240
Speaker 1: don't don't think you're going to be able to go

1263
01:13:26,320 --> 01:13:28,880
Speaker 1: that far in the playoffs. Just the quarterback play usually

1264
01:13:28,960 --> 01:13:31,680
Speaker 1: drops off so far once you go from you know,

1265
01:13:31,800 --> 01:13:35,280
Speaker 1: your guy, your starter from week one to either number two,

1266
01:13:35,840 --> 01:13:38,680
Speaker 1: he's all the way down at number four. And you

1267
01:13:38,680 --> 01:13:41,280
Speaker 1: know I said it before that Cleveland Browns team is

1268
01:13:41,280 --> 01:13:47,080
Speaker 1: a team that if I'm Kansas City, Jacksonville, Houston, Indy,

1269
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Speaker 1: whoever ends up in that three four spot, I don't

1270
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Speaker 1: want to I don't want to see Cleveland. I don't

1271
01:13:54,479 --> 01:13:58,960
Speaker 1: want them coming to my stadium wild card round or

1272
01:13:59,000 --> 01:14:02,479
Speaker 1: divisional round. You know, say they have a quarterback with

1273
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Speaker 1: a you know, playoff pedigree, a guy who's won a

1274
01:14:05,160 --> 01:14:08,439
Speaker 1: Super Bowl. You know he did it the hard way

1275
01:14:08,479 --> 01:14:11,360
Speaker 1: in Baltimore. You know, they won four games that year,

1276
01:14:11,840 --> 01:14:15,639
Speaker 1: and you know that experience will will go a long

1277
01:14:15,680 --> 01:14:17,160
Speaker 1: way in the playoffs.

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01:14:18,120 --> 01:14:24,760
Speaker 2: Absolutely well said, Okay, four teams, four quarterback situations. One

1279
01:14:24,760 --> 01:14:28,160
Speaker 2: team's got their guy, another one thinks they might have

1280
01:14:28,320 --> 01:14:32,800
Speaker 2: found their guy. A third ones fans are asking for

1281
01:14:32,880 --> 01:14:36,640
Speaker 2: them to keep their guy, yet they can have whoever

1282
01:14:36,720 --> 01:14:39,920
Speaker 2: they want. And then there's another team that's completely at

1283
01:14:40,000 --> 01:14:43,439
Speaker 2: ground zero. Let's visit the NFC North next, Mark Willard,

1284
01:14:43,520 --> 01:14:48,720
Speaker 2: Kyle Rudolph, Fox Sports Radio, all right with Live inthetireg

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Speaker 2: dot Com Studios halftime in Minnesota, Packers all over the

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Speaker 2: Vikings buy three touchdowns right now, Kyle, and maybe a

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Speaker 2: good time to speak you the situation at quarterback throughout

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Speaker 2: the entire division. Let me start here. Do the Packers

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Speaker 2: have their guy?

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Speaker 1: I believe so, and I think they do as well.

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Speaker 2: You know.

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Speaker 1: Again, and when I think about NFL franchises and do

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Speaker 1: they have their guy or not, it's always what's the alternative?

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Speaker 1: If you are the Green Bay Packers and you don't

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Speaker 1: believe Jordan Love is your guy, what's the alternative? And

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Speaker 1: is that better than Jordan Love? And I think the

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Speaker 1: answer is no. You know, just look across the league.

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Speaker 1: You know, they're a team that is up big right

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Speaker 1: now in Minnesota. All they gotta do is you know,

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01:15:51,560 --> 01:15:53,519
Speaker 1: they got thirty minutes left in Minnesota and then they

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Speaker 1: got to beat the Bears at home next weekend. They're

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Speaker 1: a playoff team, so you're certainly not drafting your guy

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01:15:58,760 --> 01:16:02,759
Speaker 1: next year. So yeah, I would say that I believe

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Speaker 1: that the Packers have their guy.

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Speaker 2: It's interesting, still inconsistent, but still a young player who

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01:16:09,920 --> 01:16:13,600
Speaker 2: shows flashes. I'm with you, especially when you look at

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Speaker 2: it from that standpoint. What's the alternative? I don't think

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Speaker 2: you're going to do anything better next year if you're

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Speaker 2: the Packers than Jordan Love. But it's such a fascinating

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Speaker 2: division because the Lions are really good. And while we

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Speaker 2: may get to a time just like the Rams did

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Speaker 2: when they're like, huh, do we want something a little

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Speaker 2: bit more dynamic at quarterback?

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Speaker 3: Maybe?

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Speaker 2: But this is pretty good right now and Jared Goff

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Speaker 2: is doing his thing, and so they're the only team

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Speaker 2: that's defined. Maybe the Packers are next. And then comes

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Speaker 2: two teams that are in a complete state of at

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Speaker 2: least potential confusion. Let's start with the Bears, who I

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Speaker 2: think are the most interesting. One field's left soldier field

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01:17:01,760 --> 01:17:07,280
Speaker 2: today being rained on by chance of we want fields

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Speaker 2: by the crowd, of course, prisoners of the moment, that

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Speaker 2: goes back, that goes forth. But Justin Fields is still

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Speaker 2: three years in an incredibly intriguing prospect who shows flashes

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01:17:21,120 --> 01:17:26,200
Speaker 2: of being not only good enough but being fantastic, is

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01:17:26,640 --> 01:17:29,120
Speaker 2: now starting to be surrounded by a little bit of

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Speaker 2: a talent, and that makes it intriguing for sure. For

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Speaker 2: the Chicago Bears. The issue is is Fields is not

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01:17:38,680 --> 01:17:42,000
Speaker 2: just being compared with like you would say, Jordan Love, Well,

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Speaker 2: what's the alternative if we're picking it like I don't

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01:17:45,120 --> 01:17:52,440
Speaker 2: know nineteenth? Fields is well, the alternative is anyone you want?

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Speaker 2: Do you want Caleb Williams or anyone else for that matter.

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Speaker 2: Because the Bears have the Panthers pick, so they've got

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Speaker 2: number one overall, they've got another one that's going to

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Speaker 2: be not too far down the road. They can do

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Speaker 2: whatever they want. What would you do?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's interesting because when when you look at again

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Speaker 1: the alternative, certainly before the year, if you would have

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Speaker 1: told the Chicago Bears, like you have the first overall

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Speaker 1: pick the Caroline it's going to be the Carolina Panthers pick,

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Speaker 1: not even your pick. I think it would have been

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Speaker 1: we're taking Kayleb Williams. But then you know, we've talked

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Speaker 1: about Kayleb Williams throughout this show and the red flags

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01:18:39,840 --> 01:18:42,080
Speaker 1: that have arose throughout the course of the year that

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Speaker 1: makes you think, oh, I don't know if this guy's

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Speaker 1: going to be much better. You know, we could potentially

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Speaker 1: waste the number one overall pick when you know, we

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Speaker 1: we have a guy that we believe we could surround

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Speaker 1: with talent, and you know, there's a generational talent at

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Speaker 1: the wide receiver position. Is there an opportunity as the

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Speaker 1: GM to you know, maybe move back to another team

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01:19:03,520 --> 01:19:05,760
Speaker 1: that is dying to get up to one to take

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Speaker 1: a quarterback that they believe is their guy. You know,

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Speaker 1: is there a way that you can leverage even more

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Speaker 1: picks without going back too far and still getting a

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Speaker 1: guy like Marvin Harrison Junior out of Ohio State. You know,

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Speaker 1: there's all kinds of options, and I think when you

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Speaker 1: when you look at Justin Fields, you got to look

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Speaker 1: at the money. You know, he's a guy that has

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Speaker 1: a six million dollar cap hit next year, fifth year

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Speaker 1: option in twenty twenty five, around twenty million dollars. Most

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Speaker 1: likely that's completely guaranteed. They have to decide that after

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Speaker 1: this year, which I think will know the decision. You know,

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01:19:43,880 --> 01:19:46,719
Speaker 1: are are you going to pay him twenty six million

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Speaker 1: over the next two years and and potentially risk that

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Speaker 1: or move on trade him and take your guy at

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Speaker 1: number one.

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Speaker 2: That's that's the most sort of fascinating situation. Maybe the

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Speaker 2: the worst situation is your ex team, the Minnesota Vikings.

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Speaker 2: Let's get to that coming up next as we continue.

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Speaker 2: Happy New Year to y'all. That's Kyle Rudolph, I'm Mark Willard.

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Speaker 2: to say about the Dolphins and the Cowboys. I want

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Speaker 2: to focus in on them in just a little bit.

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Speaker 2: But we're not done with our NFC North conversation, and

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Speaker 2: it's a conversation about this particular team that you and

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01:21:03,320 --> 01:21:06,799
Speaker 2: I have had a lot throughout the year, from wondering

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01:21:06,840 --> 01:21:11,680
Speaker 2: about Justin Jefferson's contract, Kirk Cousins situation followed by his

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Speaker 2: injury and what to do next. I am endlessly interested

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Speaker 2: to see what the Vikings do because all year long,

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Speaker 2: seemingly they've been winning football games sort of at their

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Speaker 2: own peril. It's like you've got a superstar wide receiver,

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Speaker 2: yet you have not locked him up. You've got complete

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Speaker 2: and total I don't know if disarray is the right word,

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Speaker 2: but you have no clarity at the quarterback position. Everyone

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Speaker 2: that you've sort of dabbled with in Kirk cousins absence

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Speaker 2: has been underwhelming. At least Cousins is up in the

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Speaker 2: rafters without his shirt tonight. Throw that in just for fun.

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Speaker 2: And at the end of it all, the Vikings are

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Speaker 2: still competing for a playoff spot that I don't know

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Speaker 2: if they want, because they've got to figure this out

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Speaker 2: next year, and every win sort of does not help them.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I've certainly said this throughout the course of the year.

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Speaker 1: It's just an organization that's been living in no man's land.

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Speaker 3: You know.

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Speaker 1: Last year they win eleven one score games, they win

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Speaker 1: the NFC North and ultimately get bounced in the first

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Speaker 1: round of the playoffs. Obviously, it's an organization that I

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Speaker 1: know very well, and it starts from the top. You know,

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Speaker 1: the wil family are some of the greatest owners in sports,

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Speaker 1: and all they care about is winning a championship. They

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Speaker 1: don't care about NFC North championships and early playoff round wins.

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Speaker 1: They're doing this and they're in this for one reason

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Speaker 1: and one reason only, and that's to bring the first

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Speaker 1: Super Bowl to the state of Minnesota. And it's like,

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Speaker 1: if that's your ultimate goal, you know, at what point

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Speaker 1: do you do you hit reset? And when I look

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Speaker 1: at this team and their roster for next year in

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Speaker 1: terms of guys that are under contract, when I look

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01:23:09,520 --> 01:23:14,080
Speaker 1: at the cap space, I mean, look at next year's cap.

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Speaker 1: You have on voided contracts alone, almost twenty percent of

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Speaker 1: the cap is gone in dead money to guys like

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Speaker 1: Kirk Cousins and Daniel Hunter, who aren't even under contract.

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Speaker 1: But yet you have twenty eight and a half million

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Speaker 1: in dead cap to Kirk Cousins. You have almost fifteen

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01:23:37,040 --> 01:23:42,800
Speaker 1: million in dead cap to Daniel Hunter. Again, that's guys,

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Speaker 1: you know, almost just over forty two million dollars in

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01:23:47,840 --> 01:23:51,080
Speaker 1: dead cap to guys that they're not even on your roster.

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Speaker 1: You have to then pay them. And again, Daniel Hunter

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Speaker 1: is having a Pro Bowl caliber year. I know he's

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Speaker 1: in the top three, maybe top five in sacks. A

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Speaker 1: guy who's going to demand a large contract in free

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Speaker 1: agency next year. You've talked about the quarterback position. You know,

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Speaker 1: if if I'm Kirk Cousins, you know, are you gonna

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Speaker 1: look around at other teams? You know, you would think

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Speaker 1: when I look across the NFL, you know, certainly the

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Speaker 1: two spots that always get brought up are La and

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Speaker 1: San Francisco. And you know he's not going to either

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Speaker 1: of those places, but those are the two head coaches

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Speaker 1: that he's been linked to. It seems like since he

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Speaker 1: came to Minnesota back in the day. Yeah, it's like

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Speaker 1: you always hear about McVeigh wanting to get them to

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Speaker 1: La or Kyle wanting and wanting to get him to

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Speaker 1: to San Francisco when they were kind of trying to

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Speaker 1: find their guy over the last few years. Ultimately, neither

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Speaker 1: one of those places are realistic possibilities. So you look

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Speaker 1: across the rest of the NFL and and again I

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Speaker 1: play the the question of if not men Minnesota, what's

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Speaker 1: the alternative? And you know, really there's only one place

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Speaker 1: that I can could see would be appealing to him,

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Speaker 1: and that's maybe Atlanta, a place that has a lot

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Speaker 1: of talent around the quarterback, a place that has a

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Speaker 1: pretty good defense. They just haven't gotten any good quarterback play.

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Speaker 1: But it's like knowing Kirk as well as I know him,

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Speaker 1: he wants to be in Minnesota. So the guy that's

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01:25:28,560 --> 01:25:32,080
Speaker 1: made more money than he could ever spend, is he

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Speaker 1: a guy that signs a discounted contract and maybe for

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Speaker 1: the first time in his career, he plays on a

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Speaker 1: contract where he actually has to earn his money, a

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Speaker 1: contract that has a little more incentives in it based

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Speaker 1: on playoff wins and not just guaranteed money for you know,

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01:25:52,120 --> 01:25:55,519
Speaker 1: not making the playoffs or early playoff exits. Because of

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Speaker 1: his age and coming off the injury that he's coming

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Speaker 1: off of so you know, certainly for Minnesota, I ultimately

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Speaker 1: believe Kirk Cousins will be the quarterback in Minnesota next year.

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Speaker 1: I do think it will be a you know, two

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Speaker 1: maybe three year contract that is around the value of

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Speaker 1: you know, guys like Geno Smith, Ryan Tannehill, Jimmy Garoppolo,

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Speaker 1: you know that twenty five to thirty million dollar range,

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Speaker 1: which again that seems outrageous, like we're gonna pay a

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Speaker 1: thirty six year old quarterback coming off an achilles injury

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Speaker 1: thirty million dollars. Yeah, probably because again, you know what's

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Speaker 1: your alternative. You can't draft one because you're gonna be

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Speaker 1: picking at probably around eighteen. You know, you've won too

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01:26:48,120 --> 01:26:50,360
Speaker 1: many games this year to have a shot at one

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Speaker 1: of the top couple guys in the draft. And you know,

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Speaker 1: it's an organization that's extremely prideful. You know that they're

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01:26:56,920 --> 01:27:00,479
Speaker 1: they're not gonna just hit the the full re boot,

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01:27:00,680 --> 01:27:03,800
Speaker 1: and you know they're going to try to again put

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01:27:03,840 --> 01:27:07,160
Speaker 1: talent around him. You got to lock up the wide receiver.

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Speaker 1: That's going to be a big one. You know, he's

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Speaker 1: playing on his fifth year option next year at nineteen million,

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Speaker 1: and I'd be very surprised if he plays a down

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Speaker 1: on that contract. So it'll certainly be interesting with you know,

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Speaker 1: the cap situation, the age of the quarterback, the injury

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Speaker 1: of the quarterback, and really just the rest of the

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Speaker 1: roster as a whole.

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Speaker 2: I mean, you mentioned that, you know, twenty five million

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Speaker 2: dollar price or something like that, and you think, wait

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01:27:34,640 --> 01:27:37,040
Speaker 2: a minute, gosh, why would they do that for an

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01:27:37,040 --> 01:27:39,800
Speaker 2: aging quarterback coming off of a major injury. And then

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Speaker 2: you sort of have to NBA afi your thought process,

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Speaker 2: which is twenty five million dollars is half price for

1497
01:27:46,080 --> 01:27:50,200
Speaker 2: a quarterback. I know it sounds crazy, but that's what

1498
01:27:50,280 --> 01:27:53,320
Speaker 2: it is. Like. You know, if Burrow and Herbert and

1499
01:27:53,960 --> 01:27:56,240
Speaker 2: I mean, if that's going to be fifty three, fifty four,

1500
01:27:56,360 --> 01:27:59,519
Speaker 2: fifty five million dollars, it's only going to go up. Well,

1501
01:27:59,600 --> 01:28:03,040
Speaker 2: then Kyle, you're right, twenty five million dollars for quarterback

1502
01:28:03,080 --> 01:28:03,920
Speaker 2: not that big of a deal.

1503
01:28:04,360 --> 01:28:07,080
Speaker 1: Yeah, I wouldn't be surprised if if Dak is a

1504
01:28:08,040 --> 01:28:12,240
Speaker 1: fifty five to sixty million dollars quarterback next year when

1505
01:28:12,280 --> 01:28:15,200
Speaker 1: we're having this conversation. You know, it's just that's that's

1506
01:28:15,240 --> 01:28:19,360
Speaker 1: where things are going. And you know, I do believe

1507
01:28:19,400 --> 01:28:21,719
Speaker 1: at the end of the day with you know, Kirk

1508
01:28:21,840 --> 01:28:26,280
Speaker 1: and his relationship with Kevin O'Connell and his relationship with

1509
01:28:26,439 --> 01:28:30,400
Speaker 1: Justin Jefferson, the amount of money that he's made this

1510
01:28:30,479 --> 01:28:33,679
Speaker 1: point to this point in his career. You know, again,

1511
01:28:34,520 --> 01:28:37,280
Speaker 1: maybe the Atlanta thing is is a little appealing because

1512
01:28:37,280 --> 01:28:43,400
Speaker 1: that is, in my opinion, a roster that's significantly better

1513
01:28:43,479 --> 01:28:46,840
Speaker 1: to win right now than this current Vikings team with

1514
01:28:47,200 --> 01:28:49,840
Speaker 1: the cap situation that they'll be facing next year and

1515
01:28:49,960 --> 01:28:53,600
Speaker 1: just really the lack of talent around those you know,

1516
01:28:53,720 --> 01:28:56,759
Speaker 1: few key guys. And you know we mentioned the wide receiver.

1517
01:28:56,960 --> 01:28:58,600
Speaker 1: Who knows if the tight end's going to play it

1518
01:28:58,640 --> 01:29:02,960
Speaker 1: all next year? He just did mcl on Christmas Eve,

1519
01:29:03,080 --> 01:29:06,360
Speaker 1: so you know, who knows when he'll be back. So

1520
01:29:06,439 --> 01:29:08,880
Speaker 1: you know, it'd be interesting. I certainly would expect Kirk

1521
01:29:08,960 --> 01:29:11,439
Speaker 1: to you know, test the market and see what the

1522
01:29:11,439 --> 01:29:14,320
Speaker 1: other options are. But I would be very surprised if

1523
01:29:14,360 --> 01:29:16,160
Speaker 1: he's not the quarterback in Minnesota next year.

1524
01:29:16,320 --> 01:29:19,080
Speaker 2: Yeah. I like that you keep bringing up Atlanta. That's

1525
01:29:19,080 --> 01:29:20,960
Speaker 2: a team to watch in terms of what they're gonna do.

1526
01:29:21,040 --> 01:29:24,040
Speaker 2: I was listening to our colleague Jonas Knox earlier this

1527
01:29:24,080 --> 01:29:27,840
Speaker 2: weekend talk about how Justin fields would be amazing there

1528
01:29:28,000 --> 01:29:30,519
Speaker 2: if the Bears did choose to go in a different direction,

1529
01:29:30,640 --> 01:29:33,880
Speaker 2: if the Bears choose to use their draft capital to

1530
01:29:34,000 --> 01:29:36,160
Speaker 2: kind of turn things over to a Caleb Williams or

1531
01:29:36,200 --> 01:29:39,960
Speaker 2: something like that. You think of Justin's history in the

1532
01:29:40,000 --> 01:29:42,760
Speaker 2: State of Georgia. You think of the fast track and

1533
01:29:42,880 --> 01:29:46,599
Speaker 2: your point, which is a good one, which is gosh,

1534
01:29:46,640 --> 01:29:48,720
Speaker 2: for years he's been there with the Bears where they're

1535
01:29:48,760 --> 01:29:51,280
Speaker 2: going like, can you get this guy a receiver? Can

1536
01:29:51,320 --> 01:29:53,720
Speaker 2: you get them a weapon? You go to Atlanta where

1537
01:29:53,720 --> 01:29:55,960
Speaker 2: there's already a Drake London and a Kyle Pitts and

1538
01:29:55,960 --> 01:29:58,599
Speaker 2: now a Bejon Robinson. With the rest of that game

1539
01:29:58,640 --> 01:30:01,800
Speaker 2: and whatnot. It is a team that I don't know

1540
01:30:01,840 --> 01:30:04,280
Speaker 2: if it's as easy to say they're a quarterback away,

1541
01:30:04,840 --> 01:30:07,640
Speaker 2: but especially in that division, they might They might be

1542
01:30:07,800 --> 01:30:08,840
Speaker 2: just a quarterback away.

1543
01:30:09,560 --> 01:30:11,960
Speaker 1: Yeah, well they talk about the division. It reminds me

1544
01:30:12,520 --> 01:30:17,320
Speaker 1: back in twenty twenty when Brady ultimately chose the Bucks,

1545
01:30:17,360 --> 01:30:19,559
Speaker 1: Like you looked at the Bucks roster and you have

1546
01:30:20,280 --> 01:30:23,200
Speaker 1: a Mike Evans and a Chris Godwin, and you have

1547
01:30:24,240 --> 01:30:28,120
Speaker 1: Levonte David and Devin White and Shaquille Barrett. You know

1548
01:30:28,160 --> 01:30:32,480
Speaker 1: you've got pieces on both sides of the ball, and ultimately,

1549
01:30:32,520 --> 01:30:34,720
Speaker 1: you you know, you bring in a quarterback and then

1550
01:30:35,040 --> 01:30:37,479
Speaker 1: you know, it makes the guys on your skill players

1551
01:30:37,479 --> 01:30:40,439
Speaker 1: on offense or all of a sudden, Now we're not

1552
01:30:40,520 --> 01:30:43,679
Speaker 1: talking about Kyle Pitts underachieving. We're talking about Kyle Pitts

1553
01:30:43,680 --> 01:30:45,519
Speaker 1: being one of the most dynamic tight ends in the game,

1554
01:30:45,600 --> 01:30:47,360
Speaker 1: like we all thought he would be when he came

1555
01:30:47,360 --> 01:30:50,479
Speaker 1: out of Florida. We're not talking about Drake Lennon being

1556
01:30:50,520 --> 01:30:52,880
Speaker 1: a guy who really is just a red zone target.

1557
01:30:53,000 --> 01:30:55,880
Speaker 1: Throws throws fifty to fifty balls to him. Now all

1558
01:30:55,880 --> 01:30:58,760
Speaker 1: of a sudden, he's a dynamic wide receiver. So yeah,

1559
01:30:58,760 --> 01:31:02,080
Speaker 1: Atlanta certainly would be one that's very intriguing to me

1560
01:31:02,320 --> 01:31:06,360
Speaker 1: as you know, potentially being just a quarterback away from

1561
01:31:06,640 --> 01:31:09,720
Speaker 1: you know, certainly being the favorite in a division that's

1562
01:31:09,760 --> 01:31:13,439
Speaker 1: not very good. But the other thing in Atlanta is,

1563
01:31:13,520 --> 01:31:17,040
Speaker 1: you know, we we haven't talked about coaches. You know,

1564
01:31:17,200 --> 01:31:20,280
Speaker 1: who knows what's gonna happen in that division. There's already

1565
01:31:20,400 --> 01:31:24,120
Speaker 1: one that's gone in that division in Carolina. You know

1566
01:31:24,160 --> 01:31:26,640
Speaker 1: it'll be interesting. You know, the Bucks dropped once to

1567
01:31:26,680 --> 01:31:30,479
Speaker 1: day against the Saints. You know, what happens next week.

1568
01:31:30,600 --> 01:31:33,799
Speaker 1: Certainly you wouldn't expect them to go to Carolina and lose,

1569
01:31:34,760 --> 01:31:37,439
Speaker 1: But you know, ultimately, what did the Bucks decide to

1570
01:31:37,479 --> 01:31:40,000
Speaker 1: do at the head coach What did the Saints decide

1571
01:31:40,040 --> 01:31:42,120
Speaker 1: to do at the head coaching position? And then Atlanta

1572
01:31:42,240 --> 01:31:44,640
Speaker 1: is the last team in that division, so certainly a

1573
01:31:44,680 --> 01:31:48,280
Speaker 1: division that has a ton of question marks, not only

1574
01:31:48,360 --> 01:31:51,920
Speaker 1: at the quarterback position, but the head coach position, and

1575
01:31:52,000 --> 01:31:55,080
Speaker 1: you know, ultimately those seem to be tied together at times.

1576
01:31:55,280 --> 01:31:57,840
Speaker 2: And appropriately, what did the Vikings do? Right in the

1577
01:31:57,840 --> 01:32:02,839
Speaker 2: middle of that conversation? They change their quarterback. Nick Mullins

1578
01:32:03,000 --> 01:32:05,920
Speaker 2: is in for the second half of this football game,

1579
01:32:05,920 --> 01:32:08,200
Speaker 2: and lo and behold to open up the half. They're

1580
01:32:08,439 --> 01:32:11,240
Speaker 2: march right down the field and they're inside the ten

1581
01:32:11,320 --> 01:32:13,880
Speaker 2: yard line right now. We'll keep you posted to see

1582
01:32:13,880 --> 01:32:15,839
Speaker 2: if they can make a game of this. They're trailing

1583
01:32:15,920 --> 01:32:21,160
Speaker 2: by twenty at home against the Packers at this point.

1584
01:32:21,200 --> 01:32:25,000
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1588
01:32:36,040 --> 01:32:39,559
Speaker 2: coming up next the Cowboys, the Dolphins, and the City

1589
01:32:39,600 --> 01:32:42,599
Speaker 2: of Vegas. But not in the way that you're thinking,

1590
01:32:43,560 --> 01:32:48,519
Speaker 2: Kyle Rudolph Mark Willard, this is Fox Sports Radio. Happy

1591
01:32:48,560 --> 01:32:51,920
Speaker 2: New Year, Yo, we're livingthti RAG dot Com Studios. I

1592
01:32:51,960 --> 01:32:54,920
Speaker 2: hope you got your glittery stuff on tonight wherever you're going?

1593
01:32:57,439 --> 01:32:59,080
Speaker 3: You doing anything after the show?

1594
01:32:59,240 --> 01:33:01,160
Speaker 2: Kyle, what are you all You're gonna have an hour left,

1595
01:33:01,160 --> 01:33:03,200
Speaker 2: and you got forty seven young kids at the house,

1596
01:33:03,240 --> 01:33:04,360
Speaker 2: so I imagine you're just.

1597
01:33:04,400 --> 01:33:08,719
Speaker 1: Chilling, right chilling. Everybody's already in bed here, the kids

1598
01:33:08,760 --> 01:33:13,200
Speaker 1: have been down for a while, so we'll see. I mean,

1599
01:33:13,280 --> 01:33:17,000
Speaker 1: we have an hour following the show. Doesn't look like

1600
01:33:17,040 --> 01:33:19,519
Speaker 1: there's gonna be much of a finish to watch in

1601
01:33:19,600 --> 01:33:23,360
Speaker 1: this Sunday night football game, so who knows. I'll probably

1602
01:33:23,400 --> 01:33:26,320
Speaker 1: be asleep before the ball drops.

1603
01:33:26,920 --> 01:33:28,920
Speaker 2: It's funny what happens to New Year's Eve when you

1604
01:33:28,960 --> 01:33:34,440
Speaker 2: have kids, isn't it. It's like eat, a complete evaporation

1605
01:33:34,600 --> 01:33:38,840
Speaker 2: of a holiday. It's just like, well, now we get

1606
01:33:38,880 --> 01:33:41,519
Speaker 2: apple cider and we get like this is what we

1607
01:33:41,600 --> 01:33:44,559
Speaker 2: do on the West Coast, we ring in East Coast

1608
01:33:44,600 --> 01:33:45,440
Speaker 2: New Year's.

1609
01:33:45,200 --> 01:33:47,160
Speaker 1: I was gonna say, you guys get the benefit of

1610
01:33:47,360 --> 01:33:50,000
Speaker 1: doing it at nine pm. We used to do it

1611
01:33:50,040 --> 01:33:52,200
Speaker 1: at eleven in the Central time Zone when we were

1612
01:33:52,200 --> 01:33:54,479
Speaker 1: in Minnesota, and that was even like, all right, I

1613
01:33:54,479 --> 01:33:57,160
Speaker 1: can make it to eleven, I'm not making it to midnight.

1614
01:33:58,760 --> 01:34:03,240
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's just it is a cost benefit analysis, and.

1615
01:34:04,760 --> 01:34:05,559
Speaker 3: We just passed.

1616
01:34:05,640 --> 01:34:08,840
Speaker 2: We pass on New Year's Eve. But anyway, that's why

1617
01:34:08,840 --> 01:34:10,800
Speaker 2: you and I are like, sure, we'll do a show

1618
01:34:10,840 --> 01:34:12,559
Speaker 2: on New Year's Eve, no problem of.

1619
01:34:14,200 --> 01:34:15,960
Speaker 3: What else would we be doing.

1620
01:34:16,080 --> 01:34:19,880
Speaker 2: But but anyway, speaking of our former selves, who at

1621
01:34:19,880 --> 01:34:22,960
Speaker 2: this time we would be out, we would be out

1622
01:34:23,000 --> 01:34:26,280
Speaker 2: partying and doing things that people do in Las Vegas.

1623
01:34:26,360 --> 01:34:30,040
Speaker 2: And this year Las Vegas, at least from a football perspective,

1624
01:34:30,439 --> 01:34:32,360
Speaker 2: that's a different kind of party. This year it's the

1625
01:34:32,360 --> 01:34:35,040
Speaker 2: super Bowl. It's where everyone's trying to get to. And

1626
01:34:35,080 --> 01:34:37,640
Speaker 2: it's funny because when you look at the Dolphins and

1627
01:34:37,680 --> 01:34:40,760
Speaker 2: the Cowboys, I think of Vegas, but I don't mean

1628
01:34:40,760 --> 01:34:42,800
Speaker 2: that in terms of the Super Bowl. I think of

1629
01:34:42,920 --> 01:34:46,040
Speaker 2: both of them sort of like a trip to Vegas,

1630
01:34:46,600 --> 01:34:49,280
Speaker 2: like on the way in on a Friday. It is

1631
01:34:49,479 --> 01:34:55,000
Speaker 2: just it's glitz, it's glamor. It's all kinds of flash

1632
01:34:55,040 --> 01:34:59,280
Speaker 2: and speed and excitement, and you're on your way in

1633
01:34:59,680 --> 01:35:03,360
Speaker 2: and and optimism is through the roof. You can't wait

1634
01:35:03,760 --> 01:35:06,680
Speaker 2: to see what this weekend is going to have for you.

1635
01:35:07,160 --> 01:35:08,560
Speaker 2: And then at some point.

1636
01:35:09,439 --> 01:35:10,439
Speaker 3: The weekend ends.

1637
01:35:11,040 --> 01:35:15,800
Speaker 2: And if you've ever been on a flight home from

1638
01:35:15,840 --> 01:35:19,360
Speaker 2: Las Vegas, Nevada on a Sunday, you know that it

1639
01:35:19,479 --> 01:35:23,040
Speaker 2: is library quiet every single time. And that's not to

1640
01:35:23,040 --> 01:35:25,880
Speaker 2: say that the weekend hasn't gone well, maybe it has,

1641
01:35:26,479 --> 01:35:30,160
Speaker 2: but that feeling on the way home is just it's

1642
01:35:30,200 --> 01:35:36,040
Speaker 2: a mixture of exhaustion, maybe a little queasy, maybe a

1643
01:35:36,040 --> 01:35:38,759
Speaker 2: little the check on yourself, like what am I doing

1644
01:35:38,800 --> 01:35:39,639
Speaker 2: with my life?

1645
01:35:40,120 --> 01:35:41,360
Speaker 3: I feel that way.

1646
01:35:41,160 --> 01:35:44,439
Speaker 2: Every time these two teams play a good team, it's

1647
01:35:44,479 --> 01:35:47,400
Speaker 2: like on the way in, we're really excited, and then

1648
01:35:47,439 --> 01:35:50,040
Speaker 2: on the way out we're like, what are we really

1649
01:35:50,120 --> 01:35:53,880
Speaker 2: doing here? And so these two teams I loved when

1650
01:35:53,880 --> 01:35:57,200
Speaker 2: they played each other. It was perfect, it was close,

1651
01:35:57,680 --> 01:36:00,559
Speaker 2: It came down to the end, and neither the glitzy,

1652
01:36:00,640 --> 01:36:03,719
Speaker 2: glamorous team made it to twenty three points.

1653
01:36:04,280 --> 01:36:06,599
Speaker 3: That defines these two teams.

1654
01:36:06,640 --> 01:36:11,719
Speaker 2: They're perfect for each other, they're both just not quite

1655
01:36:11,800 --> 01:36:15,280
Speaker 2: good enough. And whether it's the injuries the Dolphins are

1656
01:36:15,320 --> 01:36:19,240
Speaker 2: facing or whatever it is the Cowboys may have in

1657
01:36:19,280 --> 01:36:22,360
Speaker 2: front of them with the bugaboo of the forty nine ers,

1658
01:36:22,439 --> 01:36:25,800
Speaker 2: or if they'll even get to that game. I just

1659
01:36:25,920 --> 01:36:29,000
Speaker 2: I wonder, I wonder what these two teams are are

1660
01:36:29,040 --> 01:36:32,720
Speaker 2: going to be left feeling at the end of all this.

1661
01:36:32,880 --> 01:36:35,760
Speaker 2: Because they're fun and they're flashy, but I don't think

1662
01:36:35,760 --> 01:36:36,479
Speaker 2: they're good enough.

1663
01:36:37,479 --> 01:36:41,679
Speaker 1: Yeah, it'll certainly be interesting with everything that played out

1664
01:36:41,800 --> 01:36:45,560
Speaker 1: last night, And you know, I think it's very apropos

1665
01:36:45,680 --> 01:36:48,120
Speaker 1: that here we are back talking about the results of

1666
01:36:48,160 --> 01:36:50,599
Speaker 1: the game last night, and really, you know what that

1667
01:36:50,840 --> 01:36:54,879
Speaker 1: does for a Dallas Cowboys team, who when they're playing

1668
01:36:55,040 --> 01:36:59,320
Speaker 1: at home and at and T Stadium, they're a completely

1669
01:36:59,320 --> 01:37:03,000
Speaker 1: different football team than if they were the five seed

1670
01:37:03,479 --> 01:37:05,680
Speaker 1: and had to go on the road. Yeah, albeit it

1671
01:37:05,680 --> 01:37:08,080
Speaker 1: would probably be coming here to Tampa Bay like they

1672
01:37:08,120 --> 01:37:10,960
Speaker 1: did last year, But then where are they going after that?

1673
01:37:11,280 --> 01:37:14,120
Speaker 1: They're going right to Santa Clair to play the Niners.

1674
01:37:14,160 --> 01:37:17,000
Speaker 1: And you know, it almost would have been a carbon

1675
01:37:17,080 --> 01:37:19,280
Speaker 1: copy of the way the playoffs played out for them

1676
01:37:19,320 --> 01:37:22,680
Speaker 1: last year, in my opinion, And yet here we are.

1677
01:37:22,760 --> 01:37:26,760
Speaker 1: Now you get the Cowboys at the two spot and

1678
01:37:26,880 --> 01:37:31,800
Speaker 1: their two one two home games away from you know,

1679
01:37:31,800 --> 01:37:35,000
Speaker 1: and really one one big game away from a trip

1680
01:37:35,600 --> 01:37:38,200
Speaker 1: what you would assume to Santa Clair to play the

1681
01:37:38,280 --> 01:37:42,080
Speaker 1: Niners unless they were to stumble in their divisional round game.

1682
01:37:42,120 --> 01:37:46,400
Speaker 1: And it's like, I just again, like this, this is

1683
01:37:46,439 --> 01:37:48,720
Speaker 1: a Dallas team when they if they're playing like last night,

1684
01:37:48,800 --> 01:37:51,439
Speaker 1: they're playing a good football team at home. You know

1685
01:37:51,560 --> 01:37:56,719
Speaker 1: it wasn't their typical like light up the scoreboard, although

1686
01:37:56,840 --> 01:38:00,120
Speaker 1: DAK and CD lit up the stat sheet. You know,

1687
01:38:00,160 --> 01:38:02,680
Speaker 1: they didn't score a ton of points like they had,

1688
01:38:02,840 --> 01:38:05,960
Speaker 1: averaging like thirty eight or something at home, like just

1689
01:38:06,040 --> 01:38:11,000
Speaker 1: insane numbers at home. And so you know, for me,

1690
01:38:11,280 --> 01:38:15,519
Speaker 1: more so like like Dallas in the playoffs, people have

1691
01:38:15,560 --> 01:38:18,000
Speaker 1: to go there and you know they've won fifteen straight there.

1692
01:38:18,040 --> 01:38:20,840
Speaker 1: You can't argue with that. Then you know, clearly over

1693
01:38:20,880 --> 01:38:25,479
Speaker 1: those fifteen games they've beaten good football teams. The other

1694
01:38:25,560 --> 01:38:27,320
Speaker 1: side of it, on the AFC side, when we're talking

1695
01:38:27,320 --> 01:38:30,360
Speaker 1: about the Miami Dolphins, we talked about their health earlier

1696
01:38:30,400 --> 01:38:33,200
Speaker 1: with Xavian Howard leaving with the foot injury, Bradley Chubb

1697
01:38:33,560 --> 01:38:36,880
Speaker 1: carted off with a non contact knee injury. That's never good,

1698
01:38:37,400 --> 01:38:39,679
Speaker 1: and even the quarterback like you know to it. Yeah,

1699
01:38:39,680 --> 01:38:42,800
Speaker 1: he said, my shoulders sore, but it's still a left shore.

1700
01:38:42,800 --> 01:38:46,639
Speaker 1: It's just throwing shoulder. So you are now a team

1701
01:38:46,720 --> 01:38:50,479
Speaker 1: that has to beat a Buffalo Bills team that's not

1702
01:38:50,560 --> 01:38:53,680
Speaker 1: just playing for the division. They can't afford to like

1703
01:38:54,000 --> 01:38:56,720
Speaker 1: wait and see what happens if they lose. You know,

1704
01:38:56,760 --> 01:38:59,720
Speaker 1: if I'm Buffalo, I'm Next week is a playoff game

1705
01:38:59,760 --> 01:39:05,080
Speaker 1: in Miami, not just a AFC East Championship game. It's

1706
01:39:05,160 --> 01:39:08,240
Speaker 1: either win or go home in my opinion. So you're

1707
01:39:08,280 --> 01:39:11,720
Speaker 1: going to be playing a desperate Bills team that's been

1708
01:39:11,880 --> 01:39:16,040
Speaker 1: red hot the last month or so. Otherwise you're ultimately

1709
01:39:16,080 --> 01:39:18,200
Speaker 1: going to end up probably going to Kansas City, and

1710
01:39:18,240 --> 01:39:21,400
Speaker 1: you are a team that we've already talked about. If

1711
01:39:21,439 --> 01:39:24,040
Speaker 1: you have to go place against a good football team

1712
01:39:24,320 --> 01:39:28,400
Speaker 1: in a cold weather environment, it's probably not going to

1713
01:39:28,439 --> 01:39:31,160
Speaker 1: be a recipe for your success. And we're going to

1714
01:39:31,240 --> 01:39:33,959
Speaker 1: have another early out by the Miami Dolphins.

1715
01:39:35,280 --> 01:39:37,719
Speaker 2: You may be right, although it's funny where my mind

1716
01:39:37,760 --> 01:39:40,800
Speaker 2: went when you started to bring that out, Because the

1717
01:39:40,880 --> 01:39:43,840
Speaker 2: Chiefs can win games like today all they want, and

1718
01:39:43,960 --> 01:39:48,120
Speaker 2: I still I've walked away from ten straight Chiefs games

1719
01:39:48,680 --> 01:39:52,479
Speaker 2: with the same exact thought in my mind, what's wrong

1720
01:39:52,560 --> 01:39:57,040
Speaker 2: with them? Like they're ten and six. I get it,

1721
01:39:57,280 --> 01:40:01,000
Speaker 2: we're comparing them unfairly to who they been the last

1722
01:40:01,040 --> 01:40:05,280
Speaker 2: four years. But I can't put my finger on what happened.

1723
01:40:05,320 --> 01:40:08,519
Speaker 2: I know there's the receivers, right, they're not as dynamic.

1724
01:40:08,600 --> 01:40:09,120
Speaker 3: I get it.

1725
01:40:09,439 --> 01:40:13,759
Speaker 2: But even today, sleepy performance that they finally get through

1726
01:40:14,600 --> 01:40:20,839
Speaker 2: going up against a woefully banged up Cincinnati Bengal squad

1727
01:40:20,880 --> 01:40:23,320
Speaker 2: that did not include Joe Burrow and most of t

1728
01:40:23,520 --> 01:40:28,439
Speaker 2: Higgins in this football game, But just watching them play

1729
01:40:28,680 --> 01:40:32,960
Speaker 2: and the connection between Mahomes and and Travis Kelcey is

1730
01:40:33,479 --> 01:40:36,200
Speaker 2: it's just not there. Like, I don't force, I don't

1731
01:40:36,240 --> 01:40:38,400
Speaker 2: know what to expect from the Chiefs when we get

1732
01:40:38,439 --> 01:40:39,240
Speaker 2: to the playoffs.

1733
01:40:39,479 --> 01:40:42,040
Speaker 1: It's forced. It's it's hard to watch because this is

1734
01:40:42,080 --> 01:40:45,920
Speaker 1: a team that has made offensive football look effortless over

1735
01:40:46,200 --> 01:40:49,080
Speaker 1: over the last five years. And when I think about

1736
01:40:49,120 --> 01:40:52,160
Speaker 1: the Kansas City Chiefs and you know how they made

1737
01:40:52,280 --> 01:40:57,760
Speaker 1: off the offense looks so effortless. It's explosive plays down

1738
01:40:57,760 --> 01:41:01,880
Speaker 1: the field, you know, just speed vertical that if you

1739
01:41:02,160 --> 01:41:07,280
Speaker 1: don't put the umbrella over the defense and keep everything

1740
01:41:07,320 --> 01:41:11,240
Speaker 1: in front of you, they're scoring from anywhere on the field,

1741
01:41:11,840 --> 01:41:16,040
Speaker 1: and they don't have that right now. Today there was

1742
01:41:16,080 --> 01:41:19,960
Speaker 1: a couple plays, you know, they hit Rashid Rice and

1743
01:41:20,160 --> 01:41:24,240
Speaker 1: Justin Watkins on a couple of plays downfield, but that

1744
01:41:24,320 --> 01:41:29,160
Speaker 1: hasn't consistently been there, which then trickles down to Travis Kelce.

1745
01:41:29,760 --> 01:41:33,559
Speaker 1: And you know, Travis is arguably the best that's ever

1746
01:41:33,560 --> 01:41:38,320
Speaker 1: played the position. But what Travis needs around him to

1747
01:41:38,360 --> 01:41:41,160
Speaker 1: have success. Travis is one of the smartest players I've

1748
01:41:41,200 --> 01:41:45,000
Speaker 1: ever watched, ever studied, ever been around. He has such

1749
01:41:45,120 --> 01:41:49,479
Speaker 1: a good feel for coverage and leverage and how to

1750
01:41:49,520 --> 01:41:53,320
Speaker 1: get open and how to work a defender. But in

1751
01:41:53,400 --> 01:41:58,200
Speaker 1: order to do that, he needs time and space. Space

1752
01:41:58,280 --> 01:42:02,639
Speaker 1: comes from the speed around him, your Tyreek Hills, your

1753
01:42:03,040 --> 01:42:06,920
Speaker 1: you know, just track star receivers that they've had there

1754
01:42:06,960 --> 01:42:10,439
Speaker 1: in the past. That again, when you're a corner or

1755
01:42:10,479 --> 01:42:14,439
Speaker 1: a safety, you're scared to death on every play because

1756
01:42:14,439 --> 01:42:17,439
Speaker 1: you're afraid it's going to be a touchdown. That creates

1757
01:42:17,800 --> 01:42:20,320
Speaker 1: space for Travis to do his thing in the middle

1758
01:42:20,320 --> 01:42:22,720
Speaker 1: of the field that we've seen him do over the

1759
01:42:22,800 --> 01:42:25,639
Speaker 1: last five years. The other part of it is timing,

1760
01:42:26,160 --> 01:42:31,160
Speaker 1: And you know, for me, I think, you know, this

1761
01:42:31,240 --> 01:42:34,759
Speaker 1: is an offensive line that just has not been very good,

1762
01:42:34,880 --> 01:42:38,800
Speaker 1: particularly at the tackle position. You know, Donovan Smith's been

1763
01:42:38,840 --> 01:42:41,200
Speaker 1: out the last couple of weeks. Donovan was a you know,

1764
01:42:41,720 --> 01:42:44,479
Speaker 1: a pretty solid left tackle guy that I played with

1765
01:42:44,560 --> 01:42:48,120
Speaker 1: down here in Tampa last year. You know that you

1766
01:42:48,160 --> 01:42:51,799
Speaker 1: watched that game last week against the Raiders, and Patrick

1767
01:42:51,840 --> 01:42:54,720
Speaker 1: had no time. You know, they couldn't couldn't block anybody,

1768
01:42:54,840 --> 01:42:58,599
Speaker 1: couldn't couldn't give him time. So the second part of

1769
01:42:58,640 --> 01:43:02,879
Speaker 1: what makes Travis so special and so hard to defend

1770
01:43:03,040 --> 01:43:08,080
Speaker 1: is the off schedule plays when Patrick has time to

1771
01:43:08,240 --> 01:43:12,000
Speaker 1: either you know, stay in the pocket or extend plays

1772
01:43:13,160 --> 01:43:17,320
Speaker 1: that gives time to Travis to to play that backyard

1773
01:43:17,320 --> 01:43:19,640
Speaker 1: ball that him and him and Patrick have such a

1774
01:43:19,640 --> 01:43:23,400
Speaker 1: good rapport with. Neither of those are happening right now.

1775
01:43:23,640 --> 01:43:25,519
Speaker 1: You go back and watch the last couple of games,

1776
01:43:26,400 --> 01:43:29,320
Speaker 1: you know, about half of Travis's targets are quick screens,

1777
01:43:29,360 --> 01:43:31,920
Speaker 1: like wide receiver screens, where they're just like, yep, we

1778
01:43:32,000 --> 01:43:33,960
Speaker 1: have to get this guy the ball. We have to

1779
01:43:33,960 --> 01:43:36,680
Speaker 1: get him as catches, so we're just gonna chuck him

1780
01:43:36,680 --> 01:43:40,360
Speaker 1: at a receiver screen Like they're not the explosive, dynamic

1781
01:43:40,439 --> 01:43:44,439
Speaker 1: plays that were accustomed to seeing from Pat and Travis

1782
01:43:44,960 --> 01:43:48,160
Speaker 1: uh and that's why, so you say, what's wrong with

1783
01:43:48,240 --> 01:43:50,840
Speaker 1: this Chiefs offense? In my opinion, it's it's the lack

1784
01:43:50,920 --> 01:43:54,360
Speaker 1: of explosive players on the outside. Yeah, certainly that the

1785
01:43:54,439 --> 01:43:57,439
Speaker 1: receiver is just simply catching the football. We had another

1786
01:43:57,479 --> 01:44:00,479
Speaker 1: one today, you know, Valdez Scanling dropped a down He

1787
01:44:00,520 --> 01:44:03,479
Speaker 1: probably would have walked in for a touchdown on just

1788
01:44:03,560 --> 01:44:05,600
Speaker 1: wide open on a crossing route. Yeah, the ball was

1789
01:44:05,600 --> 01:44:08,280
Speaker 1: a little behind him. You got to catch it. But

1790
01:44:08,400 --> 01:44:12,640
Speaker 1: I think it's more so the the vertical explosiveness that

1791
01:44:12,760 --> 01:44:16,360
Speaker 1: opens everything else up for a guy like Travis Kelce

1792
01:44:16,560 --> 01:44:21,320
Speaker 1: underneath to do his thing. And then the second being timing.

1793
01:44:21,840 --> 01:44:24,080
Speaker 1: They haven't been able to protect Patrick And you know,

1794
01:44:24,280 --> 01:44:27,240
Speaker 1: I don't know what you know when Donovan will probably

1795
01:44:27,240 --> 01:44:30,839
Speaker 1: be back, if he'll be back, but that'll be a huge,

1796
01:44:31,160 --> 01:44:33,320
Speaker 1: huge ad for them to get him back on the

1797
01:44:33,400 --> 01:44:35,800
Speaker 1: left side, at least protecting Patrick a little more than

1798
01:44:35,800 --> 01:44:37,040
Speaker 1: they're being protected right now.

1799
01:44:37,640 --> 01:44:42,920
Speaker 2: If only Mahomes had explosive teammates like we do, like

1800
01:44:43,080 --> 01:44:47,479
Speaker 2: Steve de Seger to come in and make us look

1801
01:44:47,520 --> 01:44:49,439
Speaker 2: good well when we need it.

1802
01:44:49,760 --> 01:44:52,840
Speaker 7: Hi, Steve, speaking of looking good, that does not apply

1803
01:44:53,000 --> 01:44:55,840
Speaker 7: to the Minnesota offense tonight. They've just ended the third

1804
01:44:55,920 --> 01:44:59,480
Speaker 7: quarter green Bay thirty to three over the Vikings. Minnesota

1805
01:44:59,520 --> 01:45:03,240
Speaker 7: with nine drives eight first downs so far. We are

1806
01:45:03,320 --> 01:45:06,519
Speaker 7: expecting in the next hour roughly for the NFL to

1807
01:45:06,560 --> 01:45:09,599
Speaker 7: announce next weekend schedule. It will be the final weekend

1808
01:45:09,600 --> 01:45:12,880
Speaker 7: of the regular season. We assume the Bills at Dolphins

1809
01:45:12,920 --> 01:45:15,280
Speaker 7: game will be the Sunday night game to end the

1810
01:45:15,320 --> 01:45:19,960
Speaker 7: schedule next weekend. Buffalo won its home game today twenty

1811
01:45:20,000 --> 01:45:22,360
Speaker 7: seven to twenty one over New England, so next week

1812
01:45:22,640 --> 01:45:24,400
Speaker 7: the Buffalo at Miami winner.

1813
01:45:24,160 --> 01:45:25,679
Speaker 6: Takes the AFC East.

1814
01:45:25,960 --> 01:45:28,160
Speaker 7: A note about Green Bay, which is about ready to

1815
01:45:28,200 --> 01:45:31,639
Speaker 7: go to eight and eight. Jaden Reid had two touchdown

1816
01:45:31,680 --> 01:45:33,880
Speaker 7: catches in the first half. He has left due to

1817
01:45:33,920 --> 01:45:37,639
Speaker 7: his chest injury. Jordan Love now three total touchdown passes

1818
01:45:37,720 --> 01:45:40,040
Speaker 7: plus a touchdown run. This is a battle of seven

1819
01:45:40,120 --> 01:45:44,000
Speaker 7: eight teams, but seven and eight teams, he says. But

1820
01:45:44,240 --> 01:45:47,960
Speaker 7: the Vikings will have lost five of six after tonight.

1821
01:45:48,000 --> 01:45:51,960
Speaker 7: Pittsburgh won at Seattle thirty to twenty three. Najee Harris

1822
01:45:51,960 --> 01:45:55,600
Speaker 7: two touchdown runs, George Pickens seven catches, one hundred and

1823
01:45:55,600 --> 01:45:59,439
Speaker 7: thirty one yards. The Seahawks defeat clinches a playoff spot

1824
01:45:59,640 --> 01:46:03,000
Speaker 7: for the who won twenty six twenty five at the Giants.

1825
01:46:03,400 --> 01:46:06,639
Speaker 7: Giants with veteran Mason Crosby missed a fifty four yard

1826
01:46:06,680 --> 01:46:09,479
Speaker 7: field goal attempt in the final minute. Crosby also missed

1827
01:46:09,479 --> 01:46:12,280
Speaker 7: a pat today and the Giants missed a two point

1828
01:46:12,320 --> 01:46:14,920
Speaker 7: pass with about three and a half minutes left. Lost

1829
01:46:14,920 --> 01:46:19,200
Speaker 7: by one. Victories for Chicago and Indianapolis wins for Jacksonville

1830
01:46:19,240 --> 01:46:21,960
Speaker 7: and Houston. By the way, that Jacksonville win was twenty

1831
01:46:21,960 --> 01:46:25,160
Speaker 7: six nothing over Carolina, so the Panthers two and fourteen.

1832
01:46:25,240 --> 01:46:28,880
Speaker 7: Now that clinches the number one overall draft pick for Chicago.

1833
01:46:29,000 --> 01:46:32,240
Speaker 7: In April, Kansas City came back to beat Cincinnati twenty

1834
01:46:32,280 --> 01:46:35,400
Speaker 7: five to seventeen. The Bengals are eliminated Jake Browning with

1835
01:46:35,479 --> 01:46:38,800
Speaker 7: sacked six times. The Chiefs have clinched the AFC West

1836
01:46:38,800 --> 01:46:42,080
Speaker 7: title for an eighth straight year and Kansas City is

1837
01:46:42,200 --> 01:46:46,080
Speaker 7: locked into the number three seed in the AFC. Cleveland

1838
01:46:46,120 --> 01:46:48,760
Speaker 7: is now locked into the number five seed with the

1839
01:46:48,880 --> 01:46:52,040
Speaker 7: Ravens number one. The Baltimore Ravens get the first round

1840
01:46:52,040 --> 01:46:55,559
Speaker 7: by in the AFC after winning at home fifty six

1841
01:46:55,760 --> 01:47:00,760
Speaker 7: nineteen over Miami. Lamar Jackson five touchdown passes. Denver beat

1842
01:47:00,800 --> 01:47:03,960
Speaker 7: the Chargers sixteen to nine, but the Broncos are mathematically

1843
01:47:04,000 --> 01:47:08,679
Speaker 7: eliminated top seed in the NFC already before next weekend.

1844
01:47:09,080 --> 01:47:11,760
Speaker 7: The forty nine Ers they won at Washington. It was

1845
01:47:11,800 --> 01:47:14,040
Speaker 7: ten ten late first half, twenty seven to ten. The

1846
01:47:14,080 --> 01:47:17,360
Speaker 7: final running back Christian McCaffrey left with a calf injury.

1847
01:47:17,400 --> 01:47:20,679
Speaker 7: It's called a strain, he says, it's minor. Philadelphia lost

1848
01:47:20,680 --> 01:47:23,920
Speaker 7: at home, blowing a lead to Arizona thirty five thirty one.

1849
01:47:24,280 --> 01:47:27,080
Speaker 7: The Eagles have dropped four of their last five after

1850
01:47:27,120 --> 01:47:29,680
Speaker 7: a ten to one start this year. New Orleans won

1851
01:47:29,680 --> 01:47:32,320
Speaker 7: at Tampa Bay twenty three to thirteen. Saints running back

1852
01:47:32,360 --> 01:47:35,000
Speaker 7: Alvin Kamara left with a sprained ankle, but the Bucks

1853
01:47:35,000 --> 01:47:37,240
Speaker 7: will still win that division with a victory next week

1854
01:47:37,280 --> 01:47:40,840
Speaker 7: at Carolina. As for the Jacksonville win, I mentioned they

1855
01:47:40,840 --> 01:47:44,000
Speaker 7: shut out Carolina. The Jags end a four game losing streak,

1856
01:47:44,040 --> 01:47:47,000
Speaker 7: and they got the victory without quarterback Trevor Lawrence. He

1857
01:47:47,080 --> 01:47:49,920
Speaker 7: was out due to the sprain right shoulder. College football's

1858
01:47:50,000 --> 01:47:54,280
Speaker 7: national semifinals are tomorrow. Today was the baseball Riders deadline

1859
01:47:54,280 --> 01:47:56,720
Speaker 7: to smit their Hall of Fame ballots. The ballot this

1860
01:47:56,800 --> 01:48:00,200
Speaker 7: year included Adrian Beltrey. In the NBA. Everything's five I know.

1861
01:48:00,240 --> 01:48:03,280
Speaker 7: Boston won at six in a row, one thirty four

1862
01:48:03,360 --> 01:48:06,000
Speaker 7: to one oh one at San Antonio. The Spurs record

1863
01:48:06,040 --> 01:48:10,040
Speaker 7: five and twenty seven. Washington lost at home to Atlanta

1864
01:48:10,120 --> 01:48:13,000
Speaker 7: one thirty to one twenty six despite thirty eight points

1865
01:48:13,000 --> 01:48:16,240
Speaker 7: from the Wizards Kyle Kuzma. Washington is six and twenty

1866
01:48:16,280 --> 01:48:20,120
Speaker 7: six victories for Oklahoma City and New Orleans, wins for

1867
01:48:20,200 --> 01:48:23,559
Speaker 7: Phoenix and Sacramento, and an upset. In college hoops, Stanford

1868
01:48:23,560 --> 01:48:27,160
Speaker 7: beat number four Arizona one hundred to eighty two, NHL

1869
01:48:27,200 --> 01:48:30,679
Speaker 7: wins for Boston and Winnipeg. In fact, late NHL games

1870
01:48:30,760 --> 01:48:34,080
Speaker 7: just gone final Dallas eight one over Chicago.

1871
01:48:34,120 --> 01:48:37,840
Speaker 2: Back to you, Steve, great stuff, Happy new year, my friend,

1872
01:48:37,920 --> 01:48:42,920
Speaker 2: great job. As always, Yes, indeed live ty rack dot

1873
01:48:42,920 --> 01:48:46,439
Speaker 2: com studios. And remember shortly after the show, podcast is

1874
01:48:46,479 --> 01:48:48,200
Speaker 2: going to go up. If you missed any of the show,

1875
01:48:48,680 --> 01:48:50,960
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1876
01:48:51,040 --> 01:48:53,240
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1877
01:48:53,320 --> 01:48:57,200
Speaker 2: rate review the podcast, and again it's just a search

1878
01:48:57,320 --> 01:49:00,000
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1879
01:49:00,040 --> 01:49:03,320
Speaker 2: see this show posted right after we get off of

1880
01:49:03,360 --> 01:49:06,479
Speaker 2: the air along with Kyle Rudolph, it's Mark Willard Hey,

1881
01:49:06,479 --> 01:49:10,240
Speaker 2: before we do hop out of here, what's up with

1882
01:49:11,040 --> 01:49:15,920
Speaker 2: this this story surrounding David Tepper, the owner of the

1883
01:49:15,960 --> 01:49:19,080
Speaker 2: Carolina Panthers, throwing a drink at.

1884
01:49:18,960 --> 01:49:21,679
Speaker 3: A Jags fan today, It's just amazing.

1885
01:49:21,800 --> 01:49:25,240
Speaker 2: Owners are so easy for us to dislike because of

1886
01:49:25,920 --> 01:49:28,479
Speaker 2: of sort of the setup of the whole thing, right,

1887
01:49:28,560 --> 01:49:32,479
Speaker 2: the fat cat situation. I understand that that you know,

1888
01:49:32,680 --> 01:49:35,800
Speaker 2: some of them are self made, some of them just

1889
01:49:36,280 --> 01:49:41,599
Speaker 2: have family money. But it's it's such an interesting sort

1890
01:49:41,600 --> 01:49:46,080
Speaker 2: of dynamic between fans and owners. You have to have

1891
01:49:46,240 --> 01:49:49,559
Speaker 2: a good one for your favorite team, but a good

1892
01:49:49,600 --> 01:49:55,040
Speaker 2: one often means someone who's activated by the process of

1893
01:49:55,120 --> 01:49:58,240
Speaker 2: winning without really getting involved in it on the day

1894
01:49:58,280 --> 01:50:01,920
Speaker 2: to day. And so when you have behavior like we've seen,

1895
01:50:02,080 --> 01:50:07,640
Speaker 2: at least reportedly from Temper, really sort of getting involved

1896
01:50:07,640 --> 01:50:12,120
Speaker 2: and ripping the legs out from underneath Reich earlier as

1897
01:50:12,160 --> 01:50:16,479
Speaker 2: his head coach, backstabbing behind the scenes, getting involved in

1898
01:50:16,520 --> 01:50:20,200
Speaker 2: who shouldn't shouldn't be drafted. I understand that Bryce love

1899
01:50:20,280 --> 01:50:23,760
Speaker 2: over a CJ. Stroud may have been a mistake, but

1900
01:50:23,760 --> 01:50:27,519
Speaker 2: but to behave the way every single thing we've heard

1901
01:50:27,520 --> 01:50:31,320
Speaker 2: about him behind the scenes and bring simple stuff like this,

1902
01:50:31,760 --> 01:50:34,599
Speaker 2: To not have gratitude for your situation to the point

1903
01:50:34,720 --> 01:50:36,800
Speaker 2: where you would do something like this in the middle

1904
01:50:36,840 --> 01:50:38,880
Speaker 2: of a football game when you have the worst team

1905
01:50:38,880 --> 01:50:39,639
Speaker 2: in the NFL.

1906
01:50:40,000 --> 01:50:41,519
Speaker 3: It's just mind blowing to me.

1907
01:50:42,680 --> 01:50:45,640
Speaker 2: And and you know, I I scratched my head and

1908
01:50:46,160 --> 01:50:51,160
Speaker 2: and wonder what that sort of player dynamic is like

1909
01:50:51,360 --> 01:50:54,719
Speaker 2: with with with with those owners knowing that they're their bosses.

1910
01:50:55,360 --> 01:50:58,120
Speaker 2: But my gosh, just I don't know, stuff like this

1911
01:50:58,280 --> 01:51:00,080
Speaker 2: kind of made me feel sick today.

1912
01:51:00,840 --> 01:51:01,000
Speaker 3: Now.

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01:51:01,040 --> 01:51:03,280
Speaker 1: It's certainly not a good look for the Shield. And

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01:51:03,320 --> 01:51:07,840
Speaker 1: you know, for us as players, it's constantly pounded into

1915
01:51:07,880 --> 01:51:11,880
Speaker 1: our heads how much we represent the Shield with our actions,

1916
01:51:12,200 --> 01:51:16,280
Speaker 1: you know, on the field, around the field, off the field,

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Speaker 1: and you know, our owners should be held at the

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Speaker 1: highest of highs in terms of representing the Shield. And uh,

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Speaker 1: you know, I'm a firm believer, and you know, the

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Speaker 1: saying kind of you know, where there's smoke, there's fire,

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Speaker 1: and there's just a lot of smoke coming from this

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Speaker 1: guy and a lot of different situations and I'm very

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Speaker 1: curious to see, you know, certainly it's the video we've

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Speaker 1: all seen today of him throwing the drink on the

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Speaker 1: fans in Jacksonville. You know what Roger ultimately decides, as

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Speaker 1: you know, kind of the the repercussions for that. You know, again,

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Speaker 1: we have NFL players that are just playing hard on

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Speaker 1: the field and ultimately getting slapped on the wrists with

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Speaker 1: thirty forty fifty thousand dollars fines, which is you know,

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Speaker 1: like an entire game check for some of these young players.

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Speaker 1: You know, so you know, what what kind of repercussions

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Speaker 1: will an owner face for some actions like that that?

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Speaker 1: You know, Quite honestly, in my opinion, the only thing

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Speaker 1: I can equate it to is, you know, a conduct

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Speaker 1: detrimental type situation for a player where it's just it's

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Speaker 1: just such a bad look for the league and for

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Speaker 1: the shield, you know, particularly in an opposing team stadium. Look,

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Speaker 1: you know, I've played in every opposing team stadium across

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Speaker 1: the NFL, and do all of them give you the

1940
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Speaker 1: warmest welcomes and you know cheer you on to No,

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Speaker 1: they don't like that's sports. And if you ultimately get

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Speaker 1: pushed across the line to where you're throwing a drink

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Speaker 1: on an opposing teams fan as a billionaire owner in sports,

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Speaker 1: like it's just ridiculous, and it's it's such a bad

1945
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Speaker 1: look and it's it's it's a huge black guy for

1946
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Speaker 1: the NFL, particularly for one of the newest owners in

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Speaker 1: the NFL where you know, ultimately someone that sees it

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Speaker 1: from afar. You know, these guys are supposed to be vetted,

1949
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Speaker 1: you know, to like the highest standard before they're even

1950
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Speaker 1: allowed to put a bid in for an NFL franchise.

1951
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Speaker 1: You know, that's how much you know they they put

1952
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Speaker 1: the shield on a pedestal, and you know, when you

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Speaker 1: see something like that, it's certainly extremely disappointing for everyone

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Speaker 1: that's associated with the shield.

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Speaker 2: At a Jags Panthers game. That's not what I had

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Speaker 2: on my bingo card for the intensity that would bring

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Speaker 2: an owner to do something like that. But that's what

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Speaker 2: we got, all right. We only have a handful of

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Speaker 2: minutes left for us here. Calendar year twenty twenty three

1960
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Speaker 2: will bring you that coming up next, as we hop

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Speaker 2: through all the playoff teams and the potential playoff teams

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Speaker 2: and take a look at who's got a real shot

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Speaker 2: to win this whole thing. Alongside Kyle Rudolph. I'm Mark Willard.

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Speaker 2: This is Fox Sports Radio.

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Speaker 8: Mar five yards deep fakes the handoff to GUSA Wris

1966
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Speaker 8: lopto and whyde off it?

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Speaker 5: Pat Ricard one hen cat for the fullback.

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Speaker 2: And one hand Sunday continues. Put a Ravens touchdown. That

1969
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Speaker 2: right there is from ninety eight Rock Ravens Radio Network.

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Speaker 2: That is Lamar Jackson's fifth touchdown pass of the day.

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1977
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Speaker 2: incredibly confident that Lamar Jackson from Monday to today totally

1978
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Speaker 2: sealed the MVP. Then again, we know that the Ravens,

1979
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Speaker 2: the forty nine ers, whatever, all the MVP candidates, they

1980
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Speaker 2: would give that back immediately for a chance at a

1981
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Speaker 2: Super Bowl crown. Let's quit those Ravens. How confident are

1982
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Speaker 2: you that that's going to be the AFC representative this year?

1983
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Speaker 1: You know, it certainly looks like it. I mean, they're

1984
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Speaker 1: a team we've talked about the last couple of weeks

1985
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Speaker 1: going against the best the NFL has to offer on

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Speaker 1: the other side in the San Francisco forty nine ers,

1987
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Speaker 1: and then you know, a playoff team in the Miami Dolphins.

1988
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Speaker 1: They're they're tough. You know, it's a team that completely

1989
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Speaker 1: revamped their philosophy on offense, a team that kind of

1990
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Speaker 1: did things a certain way and you know, thought they

1991
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Speaker 1: were maximizing their quarterbacks potential by operating a certain style

1992
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Speaker 1: of football. And you know, ultimately they weren't having success

1993
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Speaker 1: in playoffs doing things that way. And you know, they

1994
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Speaker 1: made the changes that they had to make. They brought

1995
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Speaker 1: in the playmakers on offense on the outside that he

1996
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Speaker 1: hadn't had in the past. Everything was kind of old

1997
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Speaker 1: school football, extra offensive linemen. Their fullback is basically a guard,

1998
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Speaker 1: you know, and they were everything was downhill, physical football.

1999
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Speaker 1: And you know, now you see him, you know, putting

2000
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Speaker 1: up fifty something today and you know, really an offense,

2001
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Speaker 1: it just looks very tough to stop. And on the

2002
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Speaker 1: other side of the ball, you have, you know, again

2003
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Speaker 1: one of the best defenses in football this year. So

2004
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Speaker 1: I think Baltimore certainly will be the hardest out in

2005
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Speaker 1: the AFC. Obviously it goes without saying being the number

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Speaker 1: one seed, but you know it'll be a team that

2007
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Speaker 1: has the opportunity to rest up. And you know, again,

2008
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Speaker 1: I can't emphasize enough when you're that one seed and

2009
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Speaker 1: you know that you have two home you know, when

2010
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Speaker 1: two games at home and you know ultimately you you

2011
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Speaker 1: get a chance out of Super Bowl, expect that Ravens

2012
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Speaker 1: team to be a tough out come next month.

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Speaker 2: Okay, so you love the Ravens, but answer it this way.

2014
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Speaker 2: If you're the Ravens, who's the team you'd really rather

2015
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Speaker 2: not see?

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Speaker 1: Your Super Bowl MVP quarterback from twenty twelve season twenty

2017
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Speaker 1: thirteen Super Bowl Joe Flacco. I think that's a worst

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Speaker 1: that's the worst nightmare for you coming off the bye week.

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Speaker 1: You've got to play the Cleveland Browns in the Divisional

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Speaker 1: round in Baltimore. You know, it's a it's a team

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Speaker 1: that is built for playoff football, a team that's gonna

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Speaker 1: find ways to run the football, that's gonna play really

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Speaker 1: good defense, and you know they're they're a team that's

2024
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Speaker 1: not gonna make Joe drop back and throw it forty times.

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Speaker 1: So you know, certainly that's that's a team. When when

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Speaker 1: I'm the Baltimore Ravens and you look at the potential

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Speaker 1: six other teams in the AFC, that's who I don't

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Speaker 1: want to see.

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Speaker 2: All right, flip it over to the NFC. I know

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Speaker 2: what you've said all year long about the about the

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Speaker 2: forty nine ers. What's what's your confidence level that that's

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Speaker 2: the NFC rep.

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Speaker 1: Again. I think going back to last week when when

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Speaker 1: we had this matchup and we were talking about a

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Speaker 1: potential super Bowl matchup, I mentioned a lot like last

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Speaker 1: year where you know, ultimately the playoffs were you know, chalk,

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Speaker 1: we had the one seed from from both conferences. I certainly,

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Speaker 1: you know, would believe that that's going to be the

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Speaker 1: case again this year. You know, I think the Niners

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Speaker 1: have the opportunity to get healthy over the next two weeks.

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Speaker 1: Like you said, they don't play a game for almost

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Speaker 1: three weeks. That's meaningful, and you know that's a team again.

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Speaker 1: They got to win two games at home. I like

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Speaker 1: their style of play, the the the transition to play

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Speaker 1: off football, their ability to run the ball in all

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Speaker 1: the different ways that they run the ball. So you know,

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Speaker 1: certainly I got the one seeds in both conferences.

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Speaker 2: And if you're the Niners, who do you not want

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Speaker 2: to see?

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Speaker 1: It's your division opponent in the Los Angeles Rams. You know,

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Speaker 1: a team that you've you know, battled and struggled with

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Speaker 1: over the years, a team that is playing good football

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Speaker 1: right now, and a team that has a you know,

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Speaker 1: super Bowl winning culture with Stafford and McVeigh.

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Speaker 2: My man, this has been a really fun season and

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Speaker 2: we're nowhere near done yet, but it's been great. I

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Speaker 2: look forward to more and I want to wish you

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Speaker 2: and yours a very very happy new year.

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Speaker 1: Absolutely Mark, Happy New Year to you and everyone out there.

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Speaker 1: Have a blessed twenty twenty four.

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Speaker 2: There it is, that's twenty twenty three, and from all

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Speaker 2: of us here at Fox Sports Radio to all of

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Speaker 2: you out there, very

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Speaker 3: Happy new year on Fox Sports Radio.