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Speaker 1: Welcome back to another edition of the Around the NFL Podcast.

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Speaker 1: My name is Dan Hansis. I'm joined in a room

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Speaker 1: filled with heroes, Mark Sessler, Chris Westling and Greg Rosehal

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Speaker 1: What is up? Boys? Hey? Dan? I love it Behind

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Speaker 1: the glass a little heat, Cam Molina filling it in,

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Speaker 1: the notorious m filling in for Rika Montosi. What's her name? Tampos?

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Speaker 1: Excuse me? That the old right fielder for the Dodgers.

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Speaker 1: It's been gone for like seventy hours and we've forgotten

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Speaker 1: her name? Is that? How this word? And immediately Cam

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Speaker 1: He's like, guys, like, there's no December folder for like

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Speaker 1: set up. Power move. Yeah, all right, well Cam, welcome

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Speaker 1: everybody listening. It is late Sunday night, Week sixteen. Another

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Speaker 1: action packed week in the NFL. Some good games on Saturday,

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Speaker 1: some great games on Sunday, and we're gonna get to

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Speaker 1: all of them because we are Greg Now inside of

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Speaker 1: two weeks. It's a we're completest. You gotta do every game.

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Speaker 1: We're inside of two weeks before the premiere of The

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Speaker 1: Masked Singer Only on Fire. All this just to lead

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Speaker 1: up to that. The games do feel bigger this time

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Speaker 1: we're gonna dig into all the games. West. Any thoughts

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Speaker 1: Let's start with a game that ranks up there. Some

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Speaker 1: go to the super Dome. Roll Hasburger takes the snap,

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Speaker 1: Unbelievable play. Zach Street w w L with the call

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Speaker 1: With the victory, the Saints moved to thirteen and two.

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Speaker 1: through for a franchise record four seventy one and four touchdowns. West,

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Speaker 1: into pick stick for Telvin and Jack. Tim Mill has

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Speaker 1: extended the lead a hard rock stadium. Kay mean, didn't

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Speaker 1: listen at theirs. They showed it. He's got a little

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Speaker 1: bit of the tampos seed edge to him. She's rubbed

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Speaker 1: off on him all the minute. You're a little spicy,

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Speaker 1: aren't you, kid? She's mean to me sometimes. Blake Bortles

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Speaker 1: came off the bench late in the third quarter, and

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Speaker 1: what did he do? He lifted the Jaguars, sparking the

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Speaker 1: offense as the Jags eliminate the Dolphins from the mix. Goodbye,

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Speaker 1: seventeen to seven win for the Jaguars, and do Doug Morone,

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Speaker 1: who looks like he will be keeping his job after all.

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Speaker 1: Good for Doug. Sorry miniche Nick Shook now joins us.

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Speaker 1: Merry Christmas to you, Nick, What did you do to

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Speaker 1: Eally to get this game? This is a running thing. Hey,

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Speaker 1: it's the holiday season, Chuck, but it's also Bordles season,

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Speaker 1: s z N. That's what the kids do. Well, I

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Speaker 1: mean it's it is the holidays, right, Yeah. And Merry

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Speaker 1: Chris is to you as well. Thank you for saying

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Speaker 1: that this is a Jazz Aguars team that today came

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Speaker 1: into this game and played defense pretty well and then

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Speaker 1: also decided to play a juggling act of sorts with

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Speaker 1: its quarterback because Cody Kessler got hurt. Blake Bortles came

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Speaker 1: in and said, according to a reporter from ESPN's tweet,

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Speaker 1: he entered the huddle and said, let's go boys. I'm

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Speaker 1: back and I love it. Saddle up, Blake, Blake Bortles

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Speaker 1: telling his own redemption tale on this field today. Didn't

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Speaker 1: do much statistically, but didn't screw up like he had

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Speaker 1: in the many times before, and that was enough for

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Speaker 1: the Jaguars, who gotta go ahead field goal late and

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Speaker 1: then got a defensive score which really put this game

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Speaker 1: on ice. And another game that makes you wonder what's

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Speaker 1: gonna happen in January in Miami. Well, there's whispers we

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Speaker 1: know that it's basketball will be dark. Some baseball there

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Speaker 1: are some whispers that Adam Gaze, who I presumed would

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Speaker 1: have stuck around, that it maybe that's not totally the case,

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Speaker 1: that might blow it up. No meanrold is reporting that

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Speaker 1: Mike Tannenbaum is in more trouble than any one else.

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Speaker 1: And this is Yeah, these are two teams where and

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Speaker 1: I know our guy Ian Rap report reported Doug Marons

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Speaker 1: expected to stay. But this is the time of year

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Speaker 1: to reports. You never know, like there are a lot

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Speaker 1: of X factors that could change that. And I feel

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Speaker 1: like Miami, anything could happen there. And the one thing

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Speaker 1: I think Stephen Ross, their their owner, has consistently made

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Speaker 1: a mistake is that he makes changes piecemeal. Okay, let's

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Speaker 1: get at the GM, but keep the coach. Then let's

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Speaker 1: get a new top guy in tannin Baum, but don't

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Speaker 1: but keep the GM. None, Let's get rid of that GM,

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Speaker 1: bringing another, bringing the code and it's like, no, do

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Speaker 1: it all at once if you're gonna do The Dolphins

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Speaker 1: are seven and eight, so the best they can do

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Speaker 1: is finish five hundred, which on Thursday we talked about

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Speaker 1: how they have been the definitive five hundred franchise in

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Speaker 1: football for years now. They missed the playoffs for the

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Speaker 1: fifteenth time in seventeen years. They'll finish a five hundred

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Speaker 1: or worse for the ninth time in the past ten seasons.

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Speaker 1: Um so they have their own problems. The Jags five

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Speaker 1: and ten uh in a lost season. Let us move on.

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Speaker 1: Play fake by Ryan. He's gonna take the deep shot

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Speaker 1: and wide openers Ridley thirty Calvin fifteen readebeat at the

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Speaker 1: five touchdown in Atlanta. One swing in seventy five yards

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Speaker 1: Matt Ryan to the rookie Calvin Ridley West Durham love

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Speaker 1: that perfect voice for the Atlanta Falcons. Matt Ryan through

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Speaker 1: for two thirty nine and three scores, including that long

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Speaker 1: strike to Calvin Ridley. Remember him does the Atlanta Falcons

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Speaker 1: cruise over the rival Carolina Panthers At seven straight losses

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Speaker 1: for Carolina, which did not get a spark in the

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Speaker 1: first career start from Taylor, Heineke shook, what should we

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Speaker 1: take out of a battle of two disappointing alce Rans.

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Speaker 1: You deserve better than these games, Nick shot. It's gonna

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Speaker 1: keep you on for another game. Just it's like, hey,

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Speaker 1: we've got a dot of a game. Pretty early in

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Speaker 1: the show. It must be Nick Shook that Hey, it's

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Speaker 1: the cross I bear h Taylor Honekey got hurt early

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Speaker 1: and he had been off to a semi decent start

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Speaker 1: and it kind of plagued him from there. This was

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Speaker 1: a tie game at halftime and then became a runaway

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Speaker 1: because the Falcons scored in the first play of the

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Speaker 1: third quarter on a long bomb to Calvin Ridley, and

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Speaker 1: then they scored again on another long past Muhammed Sanu,

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Speaker 1: and in between the Panthers turned the ball over a

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Speaker 1: few times. And you know, this is basically what you get.

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Speaker 1: I mean, this Panther season. If you told me this

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Speaker 1: is how this was gonna go, you know, eight seven,

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Speaker 1: eight weeks ago, I just said, you're crazy. And they

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Speaker 1: look like a completely different team. And it started with

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Speaker 1: Cam Newton and now it seems like it's just spreading

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Speaker 1: from there. Whereas the Falcons, you can see why some people,

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Speaker 1: myself included, had them going much deeper into this season

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Speaker 1: than they did. And and you weren't alone, maybe winning

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Speaker 1: the NFC, but because of injuries and in a slow start,

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Speaker 1: you know, they caught They got a little hot in

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Speaker 1: the middle of the season before we going on this

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Speaker 1: slide again, and uh, you know, it's a nice little

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Speaker 1: turn around for them two weeks in around. Yeah, I

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Speaker 1: think it's a little reductive to to just say Cam

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Speaker 1: Newton got hurt and that explains everything. But obviously it

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Speaker 1: was the biggest thing bad years. Yea, there was no

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Speaker 1: one on the team. Christian McCaffrey had an amazing season

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Speaker 1: was obviously, but there was no one that could was

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Speaker 1: gonna lift lift this team up once Cam started to

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Speaker 1: falter um. And that's to me the story of this Panthers.

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Speaker 1: Which one of these two rosters would you want going forward?

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Speaker 1: The Falcons, no doubt. I think the Panthers show how

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Speaker 1: hard it is to build a well rounded roster with

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Speaker 1: thirty two teams in a salary cap. They were missing

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Speaker 1: skill position talent on offense for so long. So now

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Speaker 1: that go out and get that, and they're young there

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Speaker 1: and that's promising. Their defensive front seven grew old, and

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Speaker 1: their offensive line needs help. So that's what they're gonna

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Speaker 1: have to do in the off season. And they dealt

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Speaker 1: with some injuries the offensive line as well, but they

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Speaker 1: had no depth to begin with. Socaffrey had another hundred

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Speaker 1: and seventy eight yards yards from scrimmage. Today he's knocking

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Speaker 1: on the door a two thousand and has an outside

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Speaker 1: shot to lead the league in that over a hundred catches,

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Speaker 1: now past his own dad, whose career high was a

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Speaker 1: hundred one catches on the two thousand one. That's due

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Speaker 1: to Father's Day. Destroy them, I went, they outshine them

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Speaker 1: in similar careers. Often that's what you want though, right, Yeah?

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Speaker 1: Want that? Yeah, yeah, every generation stop and also daughters

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Speaker 1: do that to father's as well. I'm not saying that

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Speaker 1: only sons do just so that I don't you know,

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Speaker 1: that should be the He also passed another dad, uh

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Speaker 1: most receptions in a season by a Panther's player at

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Speaker 1: any position, passing Steve Smith Sr. Nick, when do you

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Speaker 1: think you're going to become a dad? When you think

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Speaker 1: you're not not for a while, you are dating a

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Speaker 1: wonderful woman that used to be on our softball team

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Speaker 1: when she was a reserve. Is that how's that going?

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Speaker 1: Is that heading towards anything substantial? It's fantastic. And you

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Speaker 1: guys have been together a while, almost two years in February.

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Speaker 1: How old are you now? Nick? Guess you look like six.

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Speaker 1: Are you getting some questions from family members on both

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Speaker 1: sides when you're gonna kind of seal the deal here? Well, Mark,

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Speaker 1: there's a reason I lived two thousand, five hundred miles

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Speaker 1: away from home. You're in the prime of your career.

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Speaker 1: That range. Come on, you know the saying yeah, I

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Speaker 1: understand cutting around, David. Let me tell you that's not

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Speaker 1: I hope she's not listening to this. Okay, let's move on.

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Speaker 1: Stick around, Nick, you deserve better than those two games.

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Speaker 1: Grady takes the staff of the play because right firing

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Speaker 1: down a little twitch quote over defenders, spread it in

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Speaker 1: the end zone on the dove touchdown, Patriots man, he

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Speaker 1: played at a whistle. What a fighter, what a call?

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Speaker 1: Great play designed. You get Dorset in motion, you fake

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Speaker 1: the screen to him, you get an element on a slant.

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Speaker 1: He knows he's not down. He stays up on the defender.

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Speaker 1: That's a touchdown, baby. This voice will be quiet soon enough.

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Speaker 1: Bob soci and Human Power raid bottle, Scott zolact easy

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Speaker 1: with the call. Julian Edelman stayed on his feet and

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Speaker 1: found the end zone. Tom Brady's a lone touchdown past

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Speaker 1: and twelve win over the Buffalo Bills. The wind gives

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Speaker 1: the Pats their tenth straight af c's titled can you

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Speaker 1: imagine an NFL record? Greg? Lots and doom, lots of

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Speaker 1: doom and glue around Patriot Way this week, But your

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Speaker 1: rag tag bunch of underdogs have possession of the number

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Speaker 1: two seed with one week to play. I do, and

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Speaker 1: yet I think there's gonna be a spoiled sky is

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Speaker 1: falling field in New England, and in some ways because

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Speaker 1: it was maybe the worst game of the year from

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Speaker 1: Tom Brady and Rob Gronkowski. But I'm gonna put that

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Speaker 1: to the side from now because when the Patriots have

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Speaker 1: looked at their best this year, it has been running

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Speaker 1: the ball. They look like the Ravens in this game.

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Speaker 1: They had ten straight runs. At one point they had

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Speaker 1: third and four. They're running the ball. They end up

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Speaker 1: with two d and seventy three yards on the ground,

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Speaker 1: forty seven rushes. You can do that against Buffalo, but

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Speaker 1: it was still impressive to see that interior blocking going

626
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Speaker 1: like it was early in the season. Cordurel Patterson and

627
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Speaker 1: Sony Michelle especially ran well, but White and burkehead it's

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Speaker 1: a really good backfield, and it makes sense to build

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Speaker 1: your offense around it. Right now, the key is can

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Speaker 1: you do this? I mean, Buffalo's had a pretty solid

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Speaker 1: defense for the most real the most part of the season.

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Speaker 1: They're missing Matt Milano. Can you do this in a

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Speaker 1: playoff setting? I mean, you're if right now, you're a

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Speaker 1: two seed and that is huge for them, A deeply

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Speaker 1: a flawed team who is undefeated at home. Sure in

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Speaker 1: a one game setting, can you cook up a good

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Speaker 1: running game? You're gonna need more than a hundred and

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Speaker 1: seventeen yards from the passing game? Is that what the

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Speaker 1: Patriots are now? That they have to build around their

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Speaker 1: running game and hide their quarterback? Is that what we're

641
00:32:18,960 --> 00:32:20,640
Speaker 1: talking about here? I mean, I don't think they need

642
00:32:20,720 --> 00:32:23,040
Speaker 1: to hide it each and every week, but they and

643
00:32:23,040 --> 00:32:25,080
Speaker 1: I don't think they do either. But is that is

644
00:32:25,320 --> 00:32:27,080
Speaker 1: I didn't see any of this game, but I saw

645
00:32:27,160 --> 00:32:29,200
Speaker 1: tweets that this was a terrible Tim Brady game. They

646
00:32:29,240 --> 00:32:32,600
Speaker 1: need to hide there. He was as antsy in terms

647
00:32:32,640 --> 00:32:35,479
Speaker 1: of people around him as he's been, and Gronk did

648
00:32:35,560 --> 00:32:38,320
Speaker 1: not look good and they couldn't get anything going running

649
00:32:38,360 --> 00:32:40,120
Speaker 1: the ball. But I mean passing up. But I've talked

650
00:32:40,120 --> 00:32:42,080
Speaker 1: about it a lot this year that that's been their identity.

651
00:32:42,120 --> 00:32:43,680
Speaker 1: When they've been at their best, it's been one of

652
00:32:43,720 --> 00:32:46,880
Speaker 1: the better running Patriots team. Like a Ravens Patriots game

653
00:32:47,240 --> 00:32:49,120
Speaker 1: is the game that I've always dreamt of that could

654
00:32:49,160 --> 00:32:51,600
Speaker 1: be over in about an hour and thirty five minutes.

655
00:32:52,080 --> 00:32:54,000
Speaker 1: I mean that that game already happened. It was two

656
00:32:54,040 --> 00:32:57,400
Speaker 1: thousand nine. That was the last time, uh, they did

657
00:32:57,520 --> 00:32:59,800
Speaker 1: not get a playoff by in the rate, and that

658
00:33:00,080 --> 00:33:03,120
Speaker 1: was the first time people started writing is the Patriots

659
00:33:03,240 --> 00:33:06,480
Speaker 1: dynasty over? And it was strong, Well, this is different

660
00:33:06,560 --> 00:33:13,640
Speaker 1: than then yes out years old that said, like I

661
00:33:14,040 --> 00:33:16,480
Speaker 1: wanna as a fan enjoy it that you want a

662
00:33:16,560 --> 00:33:20,000
Speaker 1: division title? That like do you one ten straight? Yeah?

663
00:33:20,000 --> 00:33:21,960
Speaker 1: I think it's cool. What does it mean to because

664
00:33:21,960 --> 00:33:24,840
Speaker 1: there's certain levels of enjoyment, like what is surging through

665
00:33:24,880 --> 00:33:27,400
Speaker 1: your body right now? Is it like ultra excitement where

666
00:33:27,400 --> 00:33:32,480
Speaker 1: you It's more just that I think I have so

667
00:33:32,640 --> 00:33:35,240
Speaker 1: much appreciation or respect the fact that they've won fifteen

668
00:33:35,280 --> 00:33:39,200
Speaker 1: straight division titles with Brady in the mix. The the

669
00:33:39,360 --> 00:33:41,920
Speaker 1: consistency and we've talked about on the show has never

670
00:33:42,040 --> 00:33:45,040
Speaker 1: been approached in NFL history period. And so if this

671
00:33:45,200 --> 00:33:47,400
Speaker 1: is their decline that now you're you're winning ten or

672
00:33:47,440 --> 00:33:49,880
Speaker 1: eleven games and you win a division title, there's still

673
00:33:49,920 --> 00:33:52,960
Speaker 1: something special. I'll never take anything away from the Paths

674
00:33:53,040 --> 00:33:54,920
Speaker 1: when you talk about what they've been able to string together.

675
00:33:54,960 --> 00:33:57,240
Speaker 1: But it was a perfect storm in terms of they've

676
00:33:57,240 --> 00:34:00,680
Speaker 1: been in a d bag division this entire time. They

677
00:34:00,720 --> 00:34:04,600
Speaker 1: definitely would have done this if they had branchises around

678
00:34:04,680 --> 00:34:06,400
Speaker 1: them in the division. But I'm not I'm not saying

679
00:34:06,480 --> 00:34:08,360
Speaker 1: to take it away. I'm just saying that's something to

680
00:34:08,440 --> 00:34:10,880
Speaker 1: keep in mind how this happened, because it's it's almost

681
00:34:10,880 --> 00:34:13,719
Speaker 1: impossible to imagine that a team could win fifteen in

682
00:34:13,760 --> 00:34:16,239
Speaker 1: a row essentially with Tom Brady on the field. They've

683
00:34:16,320 --> 00:34:19,399
Speaker 1: won sixteen division titles with Brady, which is as much

684
00:34:20,040 --> 00:34:22,759
Speaker 1: as Joe Montana with the forty Niners and Peyton Manning

685
00:34:22,800 --> 00:34:25,399
Speaker 1: with the Colts combined. I think next week into Jets

686
00:34:25,440 --> 00:34:30,000
Speaker 1: importance for Brady to get some something going because Edelman

687
00:34:30,280 --> 00:34:34,960
Speaker 1: is not right. Gronk is really not right, and so Brady,

688
00:34:35,040 --> 00:34:37,239
Speaker 1: Josh Gordon Brady is not right. But I think he

689
00:34:37,320 --> 00:34:39,839
Speaker 1: has a better chance to rebound than those two because

690
00:34:39,880 --> 00:34:43,640
Speaker 1: that Edelman just looks slow and he's dropping passes and gronk.

691
00:34:43,880 --> 00:34:46,120
Speaker 1: I mean this was if if last week was the

692
00:34:46,120 --> 00:34:48,400
Speaker 1: worst ground game ever, like this one was worse. He

693
00:34:48,480 --> 00:34:50,840
Speaker 1: had he had three targets, no catches. In one of

694
00:34:50,920 --> 00:34:53,080
Speaker 1: the boom sent his way bounced off his hands for

695
00:34:53,120 --> 00:34:56,040
Speaker 1: an interception. When when you talk about the supposed decline

696
00:34:56,120 --> 00:34:57,960
Speaker 1: or maybe what people think might be the beginning of

697
00:34:58,000 --> 00:35:00,200
Speaker 1: the decline of this franchise, you sound like idea in

698
00:35:00,239 --> 00:35:02,359
Speaker 1: the last year being a Cavs fan when I knew

699
00:35:02,400 --> 00:35:05,200
Speaker 1: le Bron was leaving. Here's the thing, though, I really

700
00:35:05,880 --> 00:35:07,759
Speaker 1: I think they still have the best coach in a

701
00:35:07,840 --> 00:35:10,520
Speaker 1: given situation and a great staff with mc daniels. And

702
00:35:10,680 --> 00:35:12,960
Speaker 1: is Tom Brady worse now than he was in two

703
00:35:13,000 --> 00:35:14,680
Speaker 1: thousand one or two thousand three when they won the

704
00:35:14,680 --> 00:35:16,080
Speaker 1: Super Bowl? I don't think he is. So can they

705
00:35:16,120 --> 00:35:18,400
Speaker 1: come up with one game game plans? I don't know.

706
00:35:18,440 --> 00:35:21,239
Speaker 1: I'll give him a shot. He's worse against pressure right now, Yep,

707
00:35:21,680 --> 00:35:23,919
Speaker 1: he's you know. I can't blame him for that though.

708
00:35:24,680 --> 00:35:28,040
Speaker 1: The offensive line just has helped. This is a perfect setup.

709
00:35:28,160 --> 00:35:30,839
Speaker 1: Josh Allen look looks so bad when you when John

710
00:35:30,960 --> 00:35:32,360
Speaker 1: Josh Allen can't run the ball. He's one of the

711
00:35:32,360 --> 00:35:35,680
Speaker 1: worst quarterbacks there are. Offensive lines protect him much worse

712
00:35:35,719 --> 00:35:37,560
Speaker 1: than the Patriots offense. No, without a doubt, But I

713
00:35:37,600 --> 00:35:39,400
Speaker 1: think over the course of a year, you know what

714
00:35:39,440 --> 00:35:41,359
Speaker 1: pressure does to Tom Brady, and you're starting to see

715
00:35:41,360 --> 00:35:42,880
Speaker 1: it in the way that he handles the pocket. Now,

716
00:35:43,040 --> 00:35:45,720
Speaker 1: I'd be and I don't say this to like pile

717
00:35:45,840 --> 00:35:48,200
Speaker 1: on Bills fans who might have the same feeling. I'd

718
00:35:48,200 --> 00:35:51,200
Speaker 1: be a little nervous about Josh Allen one. This feels

719
00:35:51,280 --> 00:35:55,799
Speaker 1: different than uh, Mitch Robiskie year one or Jard Goff

720
00:35:55,880 --> 00:35:58,839
Speaker 1: yeer one. It just seems like the accuracy issues, it's

721
00:35:58,840 --> 00:36:00,960
Speaker 1: a different shot, more missed than either of those guys

722
00:36:01,000 --> 00:36:03,520
Speaker 1: showed him in your one as a as a quarterback,

723
00:36:03,640 --> 00:36:06,319
Speaker 1: as way more than I think you forget how bad

724
00:36:06,400 --> 00:36:11,200
Speaker 1: Jared Goff was. He's a different type of player where

725
00:36:11,480 --> 00:36:15,120
Speaker 1: he makes you cringe at just the unforced errors, where

726
00:36:15,160 --> 00:36:17,120
Speaker 1: the accuracy you wonder if that's going to go away

727
00:36:17,239 --> 00:36:19,080
Speaker 1: or not. But I agree with West that he's shown

728
00:36:19,200 --> 00:36:21,560
Speaker 1: enough that you can hope for a second year leave.

729
00:36:21,600 --> 00:36:24,240
Speaker 1: But I just took a really nice little three minute

730
00:36:24,360 --> 00:36:26,279
Speaker 1: mental break there and just sort of sat back and

731
00:36:26,960 --> 00:36:29,560
Speaker 1: enjoy the room. How to go for you. I feel refreshed,

732
00:36:30,600 --> 00:36:33,279
Speaker 1: Nick Shook, thank you so much. Actually, before I go,

733
00:36:33,360 --> 00:36:36,120
Speaker 1: I need to tell you all one an out. Oh

734
00:36:36,400 --> 00:36:39,719
Speaker 1: he did lock it up. That was right, nicely. Look

735
00:36:39,760 --> 00:36:41,719
Speaker 1: at that Shook. He made sure to say it. Yeah,

736
00:36:41,800 --> 00:36:45,320
Speaker 1: he was west. Do you have an encounter to that. No,

737
00:36:45,520 --> 00:36:47,600
Speaker 1: that's good job by you. It was a lock off

738
00:36:47,800 --> 00:36:54,440
Speaker 1: with Shook, of course taking the who was Eagles. Congratulations Nick,

739
00:36:54,520 --> 00:36:56,400
Speaker 1: thank you an early Christmas gift for you and the

740
00:36:56,520 --> 00:37:00,400
Speaker 1: entire Shook family. Yes, happy holidays. Happy holidays to you, buddy.

741
00:37:00,760 --> 00:37:05,719
Speaker 1: Let us move up. Takes the stamp. Blake's coming. Johnson fired,

742
00:37:05,800 --> 00:37:12,640
Speaker 1: cat Field accepted, cabin fired, cabin fired, cabin fired, Cavi fired,

743
00:37:13,040 --> 00:37:19,800
Speaker 1: It's intercepted. It's Titan ball, the blitz, the blitz, it came, Jotson,

744
00:37:19,960 --> 00:37:26,960
Speaker 1: Prue and the defens top CRUI Titans Radio one of

745
00:37:27,000 --> 00:37:30,239
Speaker 1: my favorite in the game. Well you Titans Tytoons fans

746
00:37:30,280 --> 00:37:33,960
Speaker 1: all angry at me. I like your my Keith playing

747
00:37:34,000 --> 00:37:37,280
Speaker 1: gap playing Gabbert, or as Mark calls him, kid gorgeous,

748
00:37:37,800 --> 00:37:41,279
Speaker 1: has the tightest one step away from the playoffs. The

749
00:37:41,360 --> 00:37:46,560
Speaker 1: backup QB through a touchdown, passed him. Mccoyle, Nicole, Michael

750
00:37:47,440 --> 00:37:52,400
Speaker 1: Michael m y capital O l E. That got me.

751
00:37:52,800 --> 00:37:55,719
Speaker 1: I mean you could hear it. Michael Pruett. With four

752
00:37:55,840 --> 00:37:58,560
Speaker 1: thirty to play, Tennessee's d closed the game out with

753
00:37:58,640 --> 00:38:02,160
Speaker 1: two picks and Steen win over the Redskins. That's four

754
00:38:02,200 --> 00:38:05,319
Speaker 1: straight wins for the Tytoons, who have a loser goes

755
00:38:05,400 --> 00:38:08,319
Speaker 1: home game coming up next week against the Cults. In fact,

756
00:38:08,400 --> 00:38:13,239
Speaker 1: it has already been flexed into Sunday Night Football Week seventeen. Uh.

757
00:38:13,440 --> 00:38:15,360
Speaker 1: There you go, and it's the right move. It's the

758
00:38:15,440 --> 00:38:18,600
Speaker 1: only move. Mark what happened to Marcus Mariana in this game.

759
00:38:20,520 --> 00:38:23,680
Speaker 1: Mariota left the game with a shoulder stinger never returned

760
00:38:25,600 --> 00:38:31,000
Speaker 1: uoked like ultimo injury, and that's what he had earlier

761
00:38:31,040 --> 00:38:33,080
Speaker 1: in the year. So it might be some chicanery and

762
00:38:33,160 --> 00:38:37,200
Speaker 1: credit to both of these teams for producing uh a

763
00:38:37,320 --> 00:38:43,000
Speaker 1: somewhat interesting, engaging game that featured Josh Johnson verse. Blame Gabbert. I.

764
00:38:43,200 --> 00:38:45,560
Speaker 1: I kept wanting it was at my house, thinking there

765
00:38:45,600 --> 00:38:47,840
Speaker 1: are things I could do around my house, um a

766
00:38:47,920 --> 00:38:49,879
Speaker 1: lot of them, or I could just go do something

767
00:38:49,960 --> 00:38:52,920
Speaker 1: of of a leisurely nature anywhere in the town. And

768
00:38:53,000 --> 00:38:55,280
Speaker 1: I kept it kept pulling me back, and I couldn't

769
00:38:55,360 --> 00:38:57,800
Speaker 1: quite turn it off. So uh not. That's not my

770
00:38:58,000 --> 00:39:00,200
Speaker 1: entire review of this game, but I found that the

771
00:39:00,239 --> 00:39:03,000
Speaker 1: Titans did what they had to do and it wasn't

772
00:39:03,000 --> 00:39:05,719
Speaker 1: another one of these like Derrick Henry totally explodes, but

773
00:39:05,880 --> 00:39:08,759
Speaker 1: they controlled their side of the ball. And then the

774
00:39:08,840 --> 00:39:12,319
Speaker 1: two Josh Johnson interceptions to close the game were an

775
00:39:12,320 --> 00:39:15,320
Speaker 1: absolute killer for a Redskins team that whose season is

776
00:39:15,920 --> 00:39:17,520
Speaker 1: you could put as it should be. I mean, if

777
00:39:17,560 --> 00:39:20,279
Speaker 1: you're if you're a believer in the playoffs, putting the

778
00:39:20,360 --> 00:39:22,200
Speaker 1: best teams in there. We got rid of the Dolphins

779
00:39:22,760 --> 00:39:24,799
Speaker 1: and the Redskins. They I'll give him credit though they

780
00:39:24,880 --> 00:39:26,680
Speaker 1: won last week and nobody thought they were gonna win

781
00:39:26,800 --> 00:39:29,480
Speaker 1: last week, and they really hung in this game on

782
00:39:29,600 --> 00:39:36,799
Speaker 1: the road with their lead in the fourth quarter. He looks, yeah,

783
00:39:36,880 --> 00:39:38,600
Speaker 1: he is, he is West. I know you said a

784
00:39:38,640 --> 00:39:40,600
Speaker 1: few weeks back that maybe it looks slow this game.

785
00:39:40,680 --> 00:39:42,359
Speaker 1: He looks like you found the fountain of you think health.

786
00:39:42,480 --> 00:39:44,799
Speaker 1: This was his best game since October, and I think

787
00:39:45,640 --> 00:39:48,400
Speaker 1: he wasn't explosive latterly for a while. He was playing

788
00:39:48,440 --> 00:39:51,320
Speaker 1: through injuries but also playing behind third stringers on the

789
00:39:51,360 --> 00:39:54,040
Speaker 1: offensive line and playing with third and fourth string quarterbacks,

790
00:39:54,120 --> 00:39:56,719
Speaker 1: the defense doesn't respect he needs room to run, and

791
00:39:56,800 --> 00:39:58,839
Speaker 1: he had he hadn't had room to run until this game.

792
00:39:59,320 --> 00:40:02,279
Speaker 1: If you're the same Diego Fleet and you used your

793
00:40:02,400 --> 00:40:04,640
Speaker 1: first pick on a quarterback to secure the rights of

794
00:40:04,719 --> 00:40:06,600
Speaker 1: Josh Johnson, are you now worried that he's just gonna

795
00:40:07,080 --> 00:40:09,480
Speaker 1: get signed to some sort of you know, offseason option

796
00:40:09,560 --> 00:40:11,080
Speaker 1: deal where you're not gonna get him at all. Believe

797
00:40:11,200 --> 00:40:12,719
Speaker 1: just so you know that he was on the roster

798
00:40:12,840 --> 00:40:16,080
Speaker 1: and they used they for they passed on their first

799
00:40:16,440 --> 00:40:20,319
Speaker 1: round pick to protect Josh Johnson, the hometown kid. If

800
00:40:20,480 --> 00:40:22,120
Speaker 1: he's still going to play for your team, he's too

801
00:40:22,360 --> 00:40:24,880
Speaker 1: that this is sort of a little bit too much

802
00:40:24,920 --> 00:40:27,400
Speaker 1: of a negative occurrence for them. If guys like Cody

803
00:40:27,520 --> 00:40:31,040
Speaker 1: Kessler regarded as number two's Josh Johnson should have a job,

804
00:40:31,920 --> 00:40:35,439
Speaker 1: they Gabbett deserves some credit. When they needed fourth quarter

805
00:40:35,560 --> 00:40:38,560
Speaker 1: points to win this game, and he made about three

806
00:40:38,680 --> 00:40:40,600
Speaker 1: or four like they asked him to make about four

807
00:40:40,680 --> 00:40:42,959
Speaker 1: or five throws, and he made two or three really

808
00:40:43,040 --> 00:40:45,640
Speaker 1: nice throws, and they scored on back to back drives

809
00:40:45,640 --> 00:40:47,839
Speaker 1: when they absolutely needed a touchdown, they just went down

810
00:40:47,880 --> 00:40:49,640
Speaker 1: the field and they scored a touchdown. I think it's

811
00:40:49,680 --> 00:40:51,600
Speaker 1: fair to give him credit and still say if he

812
00:40:51,680 --> 00:40:54,000
Speaker 1: has to start in the season finale, and if they're

813
00:40:54,000 --> 00:40:56,719
Speaker 1: playing without Darrell Casey who injured his knee and the

814
00:40:56,800 --> 00:40:59,680
Speaker 1: early word is it looks like a multiweek injury, that

815
00:40:59,760 --> 00:41:02,600
Speaker 1: they're in big trouble. The win was Tennessee's first and

816
00:41:02,760 --> 00:41:05,160
Speaker 1: seven career games that Mariota has left with an injury.

817
00:41:05,200 --> 00:41:06,960
Speaker 1: By the way, Mariot is still in his rookie contract.

818
00:41:07,160 --> 00:41:11,480
Speaker 1: He's left seven games injured. Uh so is one of

819
00:41:11,520 --> 00:41:15,359
Speaker 1: the serious question markets with that quarterback? Any other thoughts,

820
00:41:15,480 --> 00:41:18,320
Speaker 1: I would just say it's Mariota on the ground. Is

821
00:41:18,400 --> 00:41:21,680
Speaker 1: a is a dangerous operator in this offense when he's on.

822
00:41:21,840 --> 00:41:24,080
Speaker 1: But I did not see a big drop off from

823
00:41:24,239 --> 00:41:27,319
Speaker 1: from Mariota to Blake to blame gabag not in this game. Now.

824
00:41:27,680 --> 00:41:30,840
Speaker 1: I think the problem with Mariota right now the ceiling

825
00:41:30,960 --> 00:41:33,600
Speaker 1: is lower than I expected. You know what I mean,

826
00:41:33,719 --> 00:41:38,240
Speaker 1: Like when you when Mariota has a good game, it's

827
00:41:38,640 --> 00:41:40,840
Speaker 1: it's like the ceilings a little lower or they're not

828
00:41:40,960 --> 00:41:43,600
Speaker 1: even trying to be too advanced as an offense right now.

829
00:41:43,680 --> 00:41:46,880
Speaker 1: So a lower ceiling and then the injury problems is

830
00:41:46,880 --> 00:41:49,160
Speaker 1: a bad Comba. Well, I think, yeah, where I look

831
00:41:49,200 --> 00:41:52,000
Speaker 1: at it is. We we know after three or four

832
00:41:52,040 --> 00:41:53,960
Speaker 1: years in the league that he has defined weaknesses. He

833
00:41:54,040 --> 00:41:57,240
Speaker 1: doesn't throw outside the numbers and downfield. Well, he doesn't

834
00:41:57,400 --> 00:42:01,160
Speaker 1: anticipate the rush or see spatial awareness, and he gets injured.

835
00:42:01,280 --> 00:42:04,240
Speaker 1: But he does a lot of things. Well, hey, Tytoons fans,

836
00:42:04,800 --> 00:42:07,560
Speaker 1: you go win in their building, right next time in

837
00:42:07,600 --> 00:42:10,800
Speaker 1: their building. They have never beaten Andrew Luck. Win in

838
00:42:10,840 --> 00:42:13,520
Speaker 1: your building. Beat Andrew Luck for the first time. Maybe

839
00:42:13,560 --> 00:42:16,960
Speaker 1: you're down some key players. I'll get rid of Tytoons.

840
00:42:17,080 --> 00:42:20,000
Speaker 1: I won't say it again. You're putting it on the line.

841
00:42:20,120 --> 00:42:22,040
Speaker 1: Win a ball game in a big spot. And I

842
00:42:22,160 --> 00:42:24,359
Speaker 1: remember this next you know, October when they were won

843
00:42:24,440 --> 00:42:29,560
Speaker 1: ut Absolutely, I'm a man suddenly that game is so

844
00:42:29,719 --> 00:42:36,719
Speaker 1: much big. That's pull or shut up. But he's got

845
00:42:36,800 --> 00:42:39,160
Speaker 1: a shotgun staff. It's low Andrew Luck. Pomps. He throws

846
00:42:39,200 --> 00:42:43,680
Speaker 1: over the left side. It's cuts down Chester Rogers touchdown

847
00:42:43,800 --> 00:42:47,360
Speaker 1: Pults in the game is tied twenty seven to twenty

848
00:42:47,440 --> 00:42:51,520
Speaker 1: seven hundred a minute to go, Marry Christmas, Chester Rogers.

849
00:42:53,080 --> 00:42:56,400
Speaker 1: Matt Taylor Cults Radio Network with the call uh Andrew

850
00:42:56,480 --> 00:42:58,440
Speaker 1: Luck hooked up with Chester Rogers on a one yard

851
00:42:58,480 --> 00:43:01,600
Speaker 1: touchdown pass with fifty five cans left out of vinit.

852
00:43:01,680 --> 00:43:04,560
Speaker 1: Terry hit the extra point and the Colts defense held

853
00:43:04,640 --> 00:43:08,480
Speaker 1: with an interception in the final minute seven win over

854
00:43:08,520 --> 00:43:11,680
Speaker 1: the Giants. That touchdown past the Taylor and the ensuing

855
00:43:11,800 --> 00:43:14,960
Speaker 1: extra point was the only first and only lead the

856
00:43:15,080 --> 00:43:18,319
Speaker 1: Colts had in the game. Lux's latest comeback magic save

857
00:43:18,400 --> 00:43:20,719
Speaker 1: the culture elimination sets him up for that win and

858
00:43:20,800 --> 00:43:23,600
Speaker 1: in matchup against the Titans West, who do you mote?

859
00:43:24,320 --> 00:43:27,279
Speaker 1: Gave Indie all it could handle, But this Colts team

860
00:43:27,520 --> 00:43:30,360
Speaker 1: finds a way. I think when you talk about the

861
00:43:30,440 --> 00:43:34,200
Speaker 1: best of the best quarterbacks, it's like talking about basketball players.

862
00:43:34,760 --> 00:43:37,480
Speaker 1: Do they make their teammates better? And this has been

863
00:43:37,520 --> 00:43:40,640
Speaker 1: the year where I think Andrew Luck has proved conclusively

864
00:43:41,360 --> 00:43:45,320
Speaker 1: he makes these clowns better clouds clowns. For most of

865
00:43:45,320 --> 00:43:47,080
Speaker 1: the year, he's been throwing to Zach Pascal and mo

866
00:43:47,239 --> 00:43:51,080
Speaker 1: Ali Cox. He made Eric Ebron the franchise leader in touchdowns,

867
00:43:51,120 --> 00:43:54,399
Speaker 1: Andrea Nman. Somebody, no family members of those players listen

868
00:43:54,440 --> 00:43:57,200
Speaker 1: to the show. He's throwing dontrelle Inman open with back

869
00:43:57,239 --> 00:44:00,320
Speaker 1: shoulder passes thirty yards downfield. Nobody else wants to Contrell

870
00:44:00,400 --> 00:44:03,879
Speaker 1: intimate on their team. He makes Chester Rogers a guy

871
00:44:03,920 --> 00:44:06,719
Speaker 1: who's a special teamer and turns him into a chain

872
00:44:06,800 --> 00:44:09,560
Speaker 1: moving possession receiver with the game on the line. He's

873
00:44:09,600 --> 00:44:11,920
Speaker 1: doing it without Ryan Kelly and Mark Lewinski, two of

874
00:44:12,000 --> 00:44:15,200
Speaker 1: us starting offensive lineman. And he is the rising tide

875
00:44:15,239 --> 00:44:17,520
Speaker 1: that lifts all boats. And Indien Frank Rank I think

876
00:44:17,680 --> 00:44:20,600
Speaker 1: is one B. I mean, they're they're a tandem and

877
00:44:20,840 --> 00:44:23,279
Speaker 1: if they make it to the playoffs, he might just

878
00:44:23,440 --> 00:44:25,920
Speaker 1: be coach of the year. Luck is comeback player of

879
00:44:25,960 --> 00:44:28,000
Speaker 1: the year. And the Cults have gone from one in

880
00:44:28,160 --> 00:44:32,799
Speaker 1: five to nine and six in these eight wins um

881
00:44:33,680 --> 00:44:35,719
Speaker 1: over that stretch. How many times have we seen this

882
00:44:35,800 --> 00:44:38,440
Speaker 1: where they fall behind? Uh a lot of times in

883
00:44:38,440 --> 00:44:40,600
Speaker 1: their building. It seems they're so hard to close out

884
00:44:41,880 --> 00:44:43,520
Speaker 1: at that I was gonna call the r C a dome,

885
00:44:43,600 --> 00:44:45,719
Speaker 1: but it's Lucas Lucas Oil Stadium where they have they

886
00:44:45,800 --> 00:44:49,160
Speaker 1: have all those ridiculous banners hiding flying high mark. But

887
00:44:49,280 --> 00:44:51,319
Speaker 1: they are a hard team to close out. And Luck

888
00:44:51,440 --> 00:44:53,640
Speaker 1: is one of those guys, those magic guys that when

889
00:44:53,719 --> 00:44:55,920
Speaker 1: he has the ball, you kind of assume something good

890
00:44:56,000 --> 00:44:57,560
Speaker 1: is gonna happen for the home team. He's got a

891
00:44:57,719 --> 00:45:01,000
Speaker 1: fourth quarter comeback in a quarter of his career and

892
00:45:01,120 --> 00:45:03,640
Speaker 1: this This game also featured one of the west moments

893
00:45:03,719 --> 00:45:06,480
Speaker 1: of the year, where when Eli Manning had the ball

894
00:45:06,520 --> 00:45:08,800
Speaker 1: in his hands second later to try to seal this,

895
00:45:09,560 --> 00:45:11,920
Speaker 1: like we thought, you know, can can Eli Manning do it? Weston,

896
00:45:12,040 --> 00:45:14,800
Speaker 1: He's got one more interception in him, Like half a

897
00:45:14,840 --> 00:45:18,560
Speaker 1: second later, he throws an interception as the snap was happening.

898
00:45:18,600 --> 00:45:20,319
Speaker 1: He's like, I think Eli has gotta pick it him.

899
00:45:20,440 --> 00:45:23,440
Speaker 1: That was amazing on a day in which the Giants

900
00:45:23,560 --> 00:45:27,160
Speaker 1: play calling had the Colts defense off balance for fifty

901
00:45:27,239 --> 00:45:29,959
Speaker 1: nine minutes. I mean, there were a lot of times

902
00:45:30,000 --> 00:45:32,440
Speaker 1: where the Colts defense needed to stop and couldn't get it.

903
00:45:32,800 --> 00:45:35,719
Speaker 1: Eli Pray played pretty well before that throw, and this

904
00:45:35,920 --> 00:45:37,799
Speaker 1: was a defense that had led the league in points

905
00:45:37,840 --> 00:45:40,719
Speaker 1: since Week seven points allowed. It's the opposite are one

906
00:45:40,760 --> 00:45:42,440
Speaker 1: of the best five and ten teams I can remember,

907
00:45:42,800 --> 00:45:44,840
Speaker 1: you know, I guess so, But it is the opposite

908
00:45:44,880 --> 00:45:49,960
Speaker 1: of Frank Reich. Pat Schermer used to me, the opposite

909
00:45:52,520 --> 00:45:55,440
Speaker 1: someone come and sell to me what he's what he thinks.

910
00:45:55,800 --> 00:45:58,399
Speaker 1: James playing hard down the stretch. It's a limited team

911
00:45:58,440 --> 00:46:00,480
Speaker 1: with not a ton of talent. I think they're the

912
00:46:00,560 --> 00:46:03,840
Speaker 1: most talented five team, five win team i've seen. You

913
00:46:03,920 --> 00:46:06,719
Speaker 1: got to pick a side on that one. You got

914
00:46:06,800 --> 00:46:08,400
Speaker 1: to pick a side on that because sometimes you say

915
00:46:08,440 --> 00:46:10,480
Speaker 1: they stink. Sometimes they do stink. They don't play to

916
00:46:10,520 --> 00:46:12,600
Speaker 1: their talent level, and a big part of it as

917
00:46:12,640 --> 00:46:15,759
Speaker 1: the quarterback. And that's also not that not a huge

918
00:46:15,800 --> 00:46:19,560
Speaker 1: compliment towards Schermer. No, I agree. I don't think pet

919
00:46:19,640 --> 00:46:21,960
Speaker 1: Sheremer's a good head. I think I think maybe Mark

920
00:46:22,040 --> 00:46:23,799
Speaker 1: you have a little bit of a Shermer issue because

921
00:46:23,800 --> 00:46:26,480
Speaker 1: of his Brown's days. No, I don't do, but I

922
00:46:26,520 --> 00:46:28,600
Speaker 1: guess it's because I remember those games and I'm seeing

923
00:46:28,600 --> 00:46:32,000
Speaker 1: a lot of the similar stuff we've seen, like reasons

924
00:46:32,040 --> 00:46:33,840
Speaker 1: to believe in him as an offensive coordinator. But I

925
00:46:33,840 --> 00:46:36,719
Speaker 1: don't ever seen a head coach like He doesn't strike

926
00:46:36,800 --> 00:46:38,600
Speaker 1: me as a great head coach. Agree to disagree. I

927
00:46:38,680 --> 00:46:40,440
Speaker 1: just don't think he's the problem there. I think they

928
00:46:40,520 --> 00:46:42,759
Speaker 1: have issues, and I think they still need to find

929
00:46:43,239 --> 00:46:46,560
Speaker 1: a quarterback obviously, and I joke around about Elile lot,

930
00:46:46,600 --> 00:46:48,440
Speaker 1: but they need to figure out what they're gonna do

931
00:46:48,480 --> 00:46:50,359
Speaker 1: with that position. Are they going to really bring him

932
00:46:50,400 --> 00:46:53,400
Speaker 1: back next year. I think they might win just in

933
00:46:53,560 --> 00:46:56,480
Speaker 1: draft someone. Yeah, I would think that they're gonna He's

934
00:46:56,480 --> 00:46:58,360
Speaker 1: gonna go into the He's gonna be like I wouldn't

935
00:46:58,680 --> 00:47:04,480
Speaker 1: quarterback go at Joe Flacca. Let us move Jo fly.

936
00:47:07,040 --> 00:47:09,719
Speaker 1: Final play of the first half Detroit Rush's three and

937
00:47:09,760 --> 00:47:13,080
Speaker 1: a half is Jared Davis Eyeball's Cousins who fires into

938
00:47:13,160 --> 00:47:15,920
Speaker 1: the end zone to the right side and it's good

939
00:47:16,560 --> 00:47:24,560
Speaker 1: touch down, don't catch Kyle Rudolph and the Vikings amazingly

940
00:47:24,719 --> 00:47:28,799
Speaker 1: have taken the lead in the shadow of halftime. It's

941
00:47:28,840 --> 00:47:34,800
Speaker 1: a forty four yard miraculous connection from Cousins to Kyle Rudolph.

942
00:47:36,640 --> 00:47:40,120
Speaker 1: Did they say miraculous, I mean you can use the word,

943
00:47:41,080 --> 00:47:44,360
Speaker 1: but was it a miracle? No, it was with the

944
00:47:44,440 --> 00:47:48,040
Speaker 1: miracle stuff Kirk Cousins through a forty four yard hail

945
00:47:48,080 --> 00:47:51,000
Speaker 1: Mary to Kyle rudolphs time expired in the first half.

946
00:47:51,360 --> 00:47:54,840
Speaker 1: The Minnesota Vikings go ahead on that play, they stay ahead.

947
00:47:54,960 --> 00:47:58,560
Speaker 1: They beat the Lions se to nine, and the Bikes

948
00:47:58,560 --> 00:48:01,400
Speaker 1: are very close to the playoffs as ll now. Winning

949
00:48:01,760 --> 00:48:03,759
Speaker 1: in next week against the Bears and they can still

950
00:48:03,880 --> 00:48:06,680
Speaker 1: qualify for the playoffs even if they lose if they

951
00:48:06,760 --> 00:48:09,400
Speaker 1: get some help. Mark, what did you see from the

952
00:48:09,480 --> 00:48:13,040
Speaker 1: Vikings today? Also not a miracle the way they opened

953
00:48:13,080 --> 00:48:16,680
Speaker 1: this game four straight punts, They had five total yards

954
00:48:16,719 --> 00:48:19,520
Speaker 1: on their first four drives. They really did not even

955
00:48:19,600 --> 00:48:21,680
Speaker 1: I believe they didn't get a first down until about

956
00:48:21,760 --> 00:48:24,840
Speaker 1: four minutes left in the half. Then what happened was

957
00:48:25,000 --> 00:48:27,800
Speaker 1: the touchdown drive. Then what happened minutes later was the

958
00:48:27,840 --> 00:48:31,320
Speaker 1: Hail Mary. And if you're up fourteen to nine or

959
00:48:31,400 --> 00:48:33,800
Speaker 1: so on the Lions, you've got it because the Lions

960
00:48:33,840 --> 00:48:36,319
Speaker 1: are a team built to score about nine points per

961
00:48:36,400 --> 00:48:38,440
Speaker 1: game and assume that they can hang on, which they

962
00:48:38,560 --> 00:48:41,560
Speaker 1: rarely do. And you gotta feel for matth Matthew Stafford

963
00:48:41,600 --> 00:48:43,920
Speaker 1: in this offense. But the Vikings they got out of

964
00:48:43,960 --> 00:48:45,840
Speaker 1: their early funk and they in the second half to

965
00:48:45,880 --> 00:48:47,399
Speaker 1: look a little bit like the team they were last

966
00:48:47,440 --> 00:48:50,200
Speaker 1: week against the Dolphins. I still do not trust them

967
00:48:50,680 --> 00:48:53,400
Speaker 1: to do anything then probably lose a playoff game if

968
00:48:53,400 --> 00:48:56,600
Speaker 1: they sneak in. But they were okay. They handled their

969
00:48:56,640 --> 00:48:59,279
Speaker 1: business on the road here. Last week's game was much

970
00:48:59,360 --> 00:49:02,959
Speaker 1: more impressive on the ground. I still think Dalvin Cook

971
00:49:03,040 --> 00:49:06,160
Speaker 1: is running about as well as any running back in

972
00:49:06,239 --> 00:49:07,840
Speaker 1: the league right now. I mean maybe not right at

973
00:49:07,880 --> 00:49:09,839
Speaker 1: the top level, but right below that, so the more

974
00:49:09,960 --> 00:49:12,439
Speaker 1: you can accentuate him in the in in a game

975
00:49:12,480 --> 00:49:14,319
Speaker 1: where there was at one point I think the total

976
00:49:14,400 --> 00:49:17,279
Speaker 1: yards was a hundred and seventy two four That that's

977
00:49:17,360 --> 00:49:20,120
Speaker 1: the point I mentioned that. I mean, that's like, yeah,

978
00:49:20,200 --> 00:49:22,040
Speaker 1: that's a gut check for a team that it's a

979
00:49:22,120 --> 00:49:25,239
Speaker 1: road division game. You took care of it. Now, Now

980
00:49:25,360 --> 00:49:27,320
Speaker 1: can they beat the Bears to make the playoffs? That

981
00:49:27,520 --> 00:49:29,680
Speaker 1: that's more interesting. Well, there are a much better team

982
00:49:29,719 --> 00:49:32,440
Speaker 1: in their home, doome. I think in to me, they

983
00:49:32,480 --> 00:49:35,279
Speaker 1: should be favored over the Bears, who probably will have

984
00:49:35,400 --> 00:49:37,759
Speaker 1: one eye on the score board during this game. Yeah,

985
00:49:37,800 --> 00:49:40,520
Speaker 1: the Bears will have something to play for because the

986
00:49:40,960 --> 00:49:45,040
Speaker 1: Rams theoretically could give up that by and that's that's important.

987
00:49:45,600 --> 00:49:49,040
Speaker 1: But like the odds are against it. The Rams losing

988
00:49:49,239 --> 00:49:53,000
Speaker 1: to the forty niners, alme and the Lions finished, we

989
00:49:53,160 --> 00:49:55,920
Speaker 1: will lock that up. Pick up a game. Well, somebody

990
00:49:56,040 --> 00:49:58,719
Speaker 1: locked this game. I locked up the bikes. You have

991
00:49:58,800 --> 00:50:00,959
Speaker 1: a problem. I think you need to purchase a mirror.

992
00:50:01,200 --> 00:50:02,640
Speaker 1: I left in it and I liked what I saw.

993
00:50:02,920 --> 00:50:08,080
Speaker 1: Really not a ghost to be found. Um, who's gonna say, oh,

994
00:50:08,360 --> 00:50:12,040
Speaker 1: Matt Stafford is going to be thirty one in February,

995
00:50:12,800 --> 00:50:15,960
Speaker 1: and I think we all agree we like Matt Stafford.

996
00:50:16,080 --> 00:50:17,799
Speaker 1: We think he's a guy that could you could build

997
00:50:17,800 --> 00:50:21,040
Speaker 1: a playoff team around clock's ticking in Detroit and they

998
00:50:21,120 --> 00:50:23,640
Speaker 1: got a lot of work to do. I don't know

999
00:50:23,680 --> 00:50:25,440
Speaker 1: what to make of this season. If I'm Alliance fan,

1000
00:50:25,480 --> 00:50:27,319
Speaker 1: I don't see a lot of progress in any area.

1001
00:50:27,400 --> 00:50:31,000
Speaker 1: The offense has taken aid step back, and they're hard

1002
00:50:31,080 --> 00:50:33,799
Speaker 1: to watch. They're a tough team to watch. It's it's

1003
00:50:33,840 --> 00:50:36,040
Speaker 1: funny because we kind of see we kind of see

1004
00:50:36,080 --> 00:50:39,799
Speaker 1: the Vikings right now is we haven't been impressed all year,

1005
00:50:40,080 --> 00:50:42,239
Speaker 1: and yet who's gonna get that six spot? It's either

1006
00:50:42,280 --> 00:50:44,359
Speaker 1: going to be the Vikings or the Eagles, the two

1007
00:50:44,440 --> 00:50:47,279
Speaker 1: best teams in the NFC last year, who at the

1008
00:50:47,440 --> 00:50:50,040
Speaker 1: very end of the season are probably feeling and especially

1009
00:50:50,120 --> 00:50:53,840
Speaker 1: Minnesota like, hey, we've got a team, We've got the

1010
00:50:53,880 --> 00:50:56,319
Speaker 1: players that we had a year ago. Like they are

1011
00:50:56,360 --> 00:50:58,239
Speaker 1: a pretty dangerous six seed if they can get in,

1012
00:50:58,320 --> 00:51:00,320
Speaker 1: because that means they'll probably have beaten the bear. The

1013
00:51:00,480 --> 00:51:03,759
Speaker 1: Vikings trying to get into the playoffs. The Cowboys are

1014
00:51:03,920 --> 00:51:09,839
Speaker 1: in too big, D large D back to thrall light

1015
00:51:09,960 --> 00:51:14,279
Speaker 1: pressure to big city to state what covers up the

1016
00:51:16,160 --> 00:51:23,319
Speaker 1: state He's running Smith's day. Smith comes the first top

1017
00:51:23,400 --> 00:51:29,479
Speaker 1: All to return the ball touchdown this year, the lone

1018
00:51:29,520 --> 00:51:33,520
Speaker 1: Star State Brad Sham the Sham God Cowboys Radio Network

1019
00:51:33,560 --> 00:51:36,239
Speaker 1: with the call, Jalen Smith returned to bumble sixty nine

1020
00:51:36,320 --> 00:51:39,800
Speaker 1: yards for a touchdown. Nice and Dak Prescott accounted for

1021
00:51:39,840 --> 00:51:44,200
Speaker 1: two scores of the Cowboys clinched the NFC East win

1022
00:51:44,360 --> 00:51:47,839
Speaker 1: over the Bucks. That's now two playoff trips in three

1023
00:51:47,920 --> 00:51:51,400
Speaker 1: years for Prescott and Zeke Elliott since they answered the

1024
00:51:51,480 --> 00:51:54,920
Speaker 1: league greg the Cowboys, they took care of their damn business.

1025
00:51:55,640 --> 00:51:58,160
Speaker 1: They did. It was kind of a classic. Like to me,

1026
00:51:58,320 --> 00:52:01,920
Speaker 1: this was Dirk Cutters, you know, tenure in a nutshell,

1027
00:52:02,920 --> 00:52:08,719
Speaker 1: get twenty seven first downs the sixteen for the Cowboys. Uh,

1028
00:52:09,520 --> 00:52:13,719
Speaker 1: have your offense give up fourteen points essentially, and the Cowboys,

1029
00:52:13,800 --> 00:52:17,200
Speaker 1: who didn't need to do much basically scored two touchdowns

1030
00:52:17,239 --> 00:52:19,480
Speaker 1: with their defense, ran the ball and just kind of

1031
00:52:19,640 --> 00:52:23,120
Speaker 1: let the Bucks blow this game. But you have to

1032
00:52:23,160 --> 00:52:26,000
Speaker 1: give credit to the Cowboys defense who even if they're

1033
00:52:26,000 --> 00:52:29,200
Speaker 1: giving up yards, they have guys like Jalen Smith, like

1034
00:52:29,440 --> 00:52:32,760
Speaker 1: Randy Gregory, who's definitely coming on strong to make big plays,

1035
00:52:32,800 --> 00:52:35,279
Speaker 1: and that was enough in this one. There was a

1036
00:52:35,360 --> 00:52:38,759
Speaker 1: report for me and Rappiport that Dirk Cutter might keep

1037
00:52:38,800 --> 00:52:41,680
Speaker 1: his job. Don't necessarily believe that you didn't get fired.

1038
00:52:41,760 --> 00:52:43,840
Speaker 1: But a lot happens what they do these last two games.

1039
00:52:44,480 --> 00:52:46,640
Speaker 1: And I didn't see this game, but this can't bode

1040
00:52:46,680 --> 00:52:48,640
Speaker 1: well for it can't. It's the exact same thing you've

1041
00:52:48,760 --> 00:52:51,839
Speaker 1: you've ever seen where the Bucks are inside the five.

1042
00:52:52,000 --> 00:52:54,279
Speaker 1: It's like they did. They did all the Bucks moves.

1043
00:52:54,360 --> 00:52:56,080
Speaker 1: They got on the goal line and had a delay

1044
00:52:56,120 --> 00:52:58,760
Speaker 1: of game on the one and then didn't score inside

1045
00:52:58,840 --> 00:53:01,239
Speaker 1: the five. You know they did. They did everything. There

1046
00:53:01,320 --> 00:53:04,520
Speaker 1: was a crazy stat. Six of the highest Bucks uh

1047
00:53:04,800 --> 00:53:07,640
Speaker 1: games in franchise history in terms of first downs have

1048
00:53:07,800 --> 00:53:11,040
Speaker 1: come this season with this Bucks team. Six of their

1049
00:53:11,160 --> 00:53:13,319
Speaker 1: their best ten games ever in terms of first down.

1050
00:53:13,680 --> 00:53:16,680
Speaker 1: Their record in those games are one in five, so

1051
00:53:17,239 --> 00:53:19,759
Speaker 1: so the best offensive games in terms of moving the

1052
00:53:19,800 --> 00:53:23,360
Speaker 1: ball in in franchise history. Dirk Cutter and and Jamis

1053
00:53:23,400 --> 00:53:25,520
Speaker 1: Winston certainly is a big part of this find way

1054
00:53:25,560 --> 00:53:28,080
Speaker 1: to lose. So they're talented and they called good plays,

1055
00:53:28,160 --> 00:53:30,480
Speaker 1: but they're not smart at executing them well. They've also

1056
00:53:30,560 --> 00:53:33,880
Speaker 1: been attached to other than the last three or four weeks,

1057
00:53:33,920 --> 00:53:36,560
Speaker 1: a terrible defense that gives up yardage in points like

1058
00:53:36,600 --> 00:53:39,880
Speaker 1: a waterfall, and a quarterback that costs them two or

1059
00:53:40,280 --> 00:53:43,480
Speaker 1: two terrible turnovers a game sometimes. And I do apologize

1060
00:53:43,480 --> 00:53:45,000
Speaker 1: to the Cowboys fans because I mean, this is a

1061
00:53:45,040 --> 00:53:47,120
Speaker 1: big deal. You know, we're talking about the Bucks here,

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Speaker 1: and I know it wasn't a pretty game that the

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Speaker 1: Cowboys had two and thirty yards, but there this is

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00:53:51,160 --> 00:53:53,640
Speaker 1: an exciting team if you're a Cowboys fan. Jalen Smith

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00:53:53,760 --> 00:53:57,200
Speaker 1: late in Vanderesh had monster games, both of them. Uh,

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00:53:57,520 --> 00:54:00,160
Speaker 1: Lawrence and Gregory at a great game in Prescott's date

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Speaker 1: out of the way. This might have been Gregory. What

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Speaker 1: what are you laughing at? West? I mean, I agree

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00:54:04,360 --> 00:54:06,480
Speaker 1: that this is a pretty exciting Cowboys team. It's one

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Speaker 1: of the most fun Cowboys I remember. But I think

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00:54:09,239 --> 00:54:11,200
Speaker 1: Cowboys fans will be all right if they don't get

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00:54:11,239 --> 00:54:14,440
Speaker 1: all the attention for one week. Did we mention, by

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Speaker 1: the way, that Shaun Lee was a healthy scratch? No,

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00:54:16,880 --> 00:54:20,479
Speaker 1: which really feels like there were several different reports about

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00:54:20,560 --> 00:54:23,320
Speaker 1: this one that he wanted Layton Vanderest to play, and

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00:54:23,480 --> 00:54:26,640
Speaker 1: two that the Cowboys wanted to ensure Shaun Lee would

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00:54:26,640 --> 00:54:29,680
Speaker 1: be healthy for the playoffs. The second feels like spin

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00:54:29,880 --> 00:54:32,719
Speaker 1: but except I mean, he played fifteen snaps last week,

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Speaker 1: So that's kind of a weird spot to be in

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00:54:34,760 --> 00:54:38,120
Speaker 1: if you're him. So I don't know, I don't know

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00:54:38,239 --> 00:54:41,400
Speaker 1: where he has a place on on this team. I

1082
00:54:41,480 --> 00:54:44,279
Speaker 1: got the sense he was being selfless and said, hey,

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00:54:44,400 --> 00:54:47,480
Speaker 1: I'm not quite why don't we let Layton Vanderesh play?

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00:54:47,640 --> 00:54:50,520
Speaker 1: And I know, with the way the NFL works, every

1085
00:54:50,640 --> 00:54:54,440
Speaker 1: roster spot is so important on game day, But wouldn't

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00:54:54,440 --> 00:54:56,919
Speaker 1: it be good to have Shaun Lee active in case

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00:54:57,200 --> 00:55:01,279
Speaker 1: Layton vander couldn't they say having him just because he's

1088
00:55:01,320 --> 00:55:04,000
Speaker 1: not gonna be like you want your backup linebackers to

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00:55:04,080 --> 00:55:05,960
Speaker 1: be special teamers. And if I don't know what the

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00:55:06,040 --> 00:55:10,040
Speaker 1: rest of their injury situation is, but that's why interesting.

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Speaker 1: It is interesting. But Cowboys Division champs, I mean, he's

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Speaker 1: done after this year. There's no chance Shahn Lee's on

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Speaker 1: this team next year unless he's willing to take dramatic

1094
00:55:18,640 --> 00:55:20,360
Speaker 1: pay cut. And even then I think they might just

1095
00:55:20,600 --> 00:55:25,440
Speaker 1: say things by I like taking dramatic pay cuts? Is

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00:55:25,520 --> 00:55:33,360
Speaker 1: that that's weird. Do you know what dramatic pay cuts are? No,

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00:55:33,520 --> 00:55:35,160
Speaker 1: but that probably won't play well on the home front.

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Speaker 1: What I just said, Let's move on first down and

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Speaker 1: ten from the five. He gives to Anderson the Branks

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Speaker 1: to tackle and fifty less sideline goes out of bounds

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Speaker 1: with a stiff arm to finish the run on Trey

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Speaker 1: Boston have a day. C J. Anderson without Girley, He's

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Speaker 1: getting all he wants. And then West's neighbor j be

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Speaker 1: along with the call kspn uh. C J. Anderson, playing

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Speaker 1: five days after he was signed to the Rams, went

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Speaker 1: off for a jaunty buck sixty seven and the Rams,

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00:56:10,400 --> 00:56:14,239
Speaker 1: after two ugly losses, beat the Cardinals thirty one nine.

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00:56:14,320 --> 00:56:17,399
Speaker 1: It was easy Mark. The Rams opted to give Tied

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Speaker 1: Gurley the day off. The rest is ailing me A

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00:56:19,840 --> 00:56:22,839
Speaker 1: wise decision, yeah, and they didn't give him the day off.

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00:56:22,880 --> 00:56:25,160
Speaker 1: Then decided to play around the running back position and

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00:56:25,320 --> 00:56:28,000
Speaker 1: have Jared Goff throw the ball forty five times. Jared

1113
00:56:28,040 --> 00:56:30,120
Speaker 1: Goff has been in a funk. He had a terrible

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00:56:30,200 --> 00:56:33,480
Speaker 1: fumble early that kept Arizona around in this game. But

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00:56:33,600 --> 00:56:36,319
Speaker 1: it was c J. Anderson and it wasn't just him

1116
00:56:36,400 --> 00:56:38,759
Speaker 1: they had three or four backs average more than eight

1117
00:56:38,840 --> 00:56:40,719
Speaker 1: yards to carry, but Anderson led the way as one

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00:56:40,760 --> 00:56:43,400
Speaker 1: of the best midweek signings we've seen all year by

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00:56:43,480 --> 00:56:45,680
Speaker 1: any team. And they talked about the fact that Sean

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Speaker 1: McVeigh felt that C. J. Anderson picked up the offense

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Speaker 1: quickly and if they trusted him and altered what they

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00:56:51,040 --> 00:56:52,600
Speaker 1: did with their game plan to give him as much

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Speaker 1: of a helping as they could going in, which is

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Speaker 1: what it worked out about as well as it possibly

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Speaker 1: could have when you need to give Girley some rest.

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Speaker 1: And this game for me, the Cardinals, we just talked

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00:57:03,239 --> 00:57:06,640
Speaker 1: about every Lions game ever, every Bucks game ever. This

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00:57:06,760 --> 00:57:08,520
Speaker 1: was every Cardinals game ever where you get a nice

1129
00:57:08,960 --> 00:57:11,160
Speaker 1: early drive by the Cardinals that make you think they

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00:57:11,239 --> 00:57:13,400
Speaker 1: might be able to make the thing competitive. By the thing,

1131
00:57:13,520 --> 00:57:16,080
Speaker 1: by the time your three quarters in the wheels have

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00:57:16,200 --> 00:57:18,439
Speaker 1: completely fallen off in the vehicle was in the middle

1133
00:57:18,480 --> 00:57:20,800
Speaker 1: of the sea, and I you know, they're gonna lose

1134
00:57:20,840 --> 00:57:23,200
Speaker 1: their coach. They're gonna start over. There's reports that Steve

1135
00:57:23,240 --> 00:57:25,880
Speaker 1: Wilkes is out, and he should be. I mean, I know,

1136
00:57:25,960 --> 00:57:28,480
Speaker 1: if nothing personal, but this has been one of the

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00:57:28,720 --> 00:57:32,400
Speaker 1: more unwatchable teams in many years. They are a team

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00:57:32,480 --> 00:57:34,800
Speaker 1: that tried to take the players they had and squeeze

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00:57:34,840 --> 00:57:37,440
Speaker 1: them in to the philosophies and schemes that the coaches

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Speaker 1: had versus the other way around, which is what every

1141
00:57:39,600 --> 00:57:41,360
Speaker 1: other good team in the league is doing. And the

1142
00:57:41,480 --> 00:57:43,400
Speaker 1: Rams are the out of their funk. Hard to tell

1143
00:57:43,440 --> 00:57:46,600
Speaker 1: against Arizona, but they did get I thought that Jeff

1144
00:57:46,800 --> 00:57:50,120
Speaker 1: Jared Goff played a really nice three quarters after he

1145
00:57:50,200 --> 00:57:53,480
Speaker 1: had that initial turnover. On one hand, it's dreadfully unfair

1146
00:57:53,600 --> 00:57:57,120
Speaker 1: too um fire a head coach in his first year

1147
00:57:57,560 --> 00:57:59,720
Speaker 1: when he's taking over a bad team. We all knew

1148
00:57:59,720 --> 00:58:01,560
Speaker 1: it was a bad team when he took the job.

1149
00:58:01,640 --> 00:58:03,960
Speaker 1: But for the reasons you said, Mark, and that seems

1150
00:58:03,960 --> 00:58:06,480
Speaker 1: to be the popular talking points as to why it's

1151
00:58:06,520 --> 00:58:08,320
Speaker 1: not working there That he that's what I like to

1152
00:58:08,360 --> 00:58:10,680
Speaker 1: cling to the popular talking point. He hasn't pushed the

1153
00:58:10,760 --> 00:58:13,280
Speaker 1: right buttons or or matched his players with the scheme

1154
00:58:13,320 --> 00:58:15,880
Speaker 1: the right way. I guess it makes sense if you

1155
00:58:16,000 --> 00:58:18,440
Speaker 1: internally don't feel this is the right guy, you cut

1156
00:58:18,480 --> 00:58:22,320
Speaker 1: your losses in The defense also got significantly worse from

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00:58:22,360 --> 00:58:24,960
Speaker 1: what it was over the last three years. The personnel

1158
00:58:25,040 --> 00:58:26,919
Speaker 1: is not quite as good as they were at their peak,

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00:58:26,960 --> 00:58:28,680
Speaker 1: but he's a defensive coach and they got worse. I

1160
00:58:28,720 --> 00:58:31,160
Speaker 1: think it's a big game for the Rams. I really

1161
00:58:31,240 --> 00:58:33,440
Speaker 1: do to get thirty three first downs four hundred and

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00:58:33,480 --> 00:58:36,200
Speaker 1: sixty yards and to get right again offensively. I thought

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00:58:36,240 --> 00:58:38,360
Speaker 1: Golf made a number of really good throws, and that's

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00:58:38,360 --> 00:58:41,000
Speaker 1: why I always pushed back against It's like, oh, well

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00:58:41,040 --> 00:58:43,680
Speaker 1: it came against the Cardinals. Well, Golf had three or

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00:58:43,760 --> 00:58:46,959
Speaker 1: four plays in this game where he was absolutely under

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00:58:47,000 --> 00:58:49,840
Speaker 1: duress and he threw dimes into small windows. So it

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00:58:49,920 --> 00:58:52,200
Speaker 1: doesn't It's like, does he's going up against NFL players

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00:58:52,360 --> 00:58:54,440
Speaker 1: and those are positive place for him to build on

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00:58:54,640 --> 00:58:57,960
Speaker 1: after he had really been slink football. I know, but

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Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, that's what I'm saying. That's what I'm saying.

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00:59:00,080 --> 00:59:02,480
Speaker 1: I think they missed. They miss Cooper Cup though. There's

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00:59:02,520 --> 00:59:04,760
Speaker 1: just something that's not the same with this offense. It

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00:59:04,840 --> 00:59:07,320
Speaker 1: has not been in a while. Three more sex for

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Speaker 1: Aaron Donald, who I believe set the record for most

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Speaker 1: by an interior lineman, and nineteen right nineteen and a half.

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Speaker 1: Check out NFL dot com slash west Lean for top

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Speaker 1: ten defensive Player of the Year candidates. Aaron Donald, of course,

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Speaker 1: number one, but there's some surprises on the list. Check

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Speaker 1: it out. This kept the Bears off their back too.

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00:59:26,800 --> 00:59:29,520
Speaker 1: I mean, you had you couldn't fumble here. If you

1182
00:59:29,680 --> 00:59:32,760
Speaker 1: throw make big passes in the National Football League, the

1183
00:59:32,840 --> 00:59:34,760
Speaker 1: highest level of the game, I don't care who the

1184
00:59:34,800 --> 00:59:36,919
Speaker 1: opponent is. You've done a nice job. Those other guys

1185
00:59:37,000 --> 00:59:40,600
Speaker 1: get paid too. Hey, they're trying to feed the families too.

1186
00:59:42,000 --> 00:59:45,200
Speaker 1: Let's move on. I mean there's some Mullins Mullins pressure.

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00:59:45,280 --> 00:59:47,000
Speaker 1: Mullings gets out. He's right. Could he run for it?

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00:59:47,040 --> 00:59:49,280
Speaker 1: He couldn't run for but he's gonna throw deep and

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00:59:49,360 --> 00:59:51,440
Speaker 1: he's gonna throw it out of bounce bullets, gonna run

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Speaker 1: for the first down. I think he could have run four.

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00:59:58,240 --> 01:00:00,080
Speaker 1: I think it could have run for it, guys, and

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01:00:00,640 --> 01:00:04,200
Speaker 1: he Dan Robinson k n b R. He nailed it.

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01:00:04,600 --> 01:00:07,120
Speaker 1: Nick Folins Nick Nick Mollins had his first killer brain

1194
01:00:07,200 --> 01:00:09,720
Speaker 1: cramp in the NFL, passing up an easy first down

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Speaker 1: run and exchange for a desperation fourth down heave. It

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01:00:13,240 --> 01:00:15,640
Speaker 1: allowed the Bears to escape with a fourteen nine win

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01:00:16,240 --> 01:00:19,680
Speaker 1: over the Niners. Mitch Robinski through one touchdown pass, Jordan

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Speaker 1: Howard ran for a score, and the Bears still have

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Speaker 1: a chance for a postseason by with a win and

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Speaker 1: some health make Sunday West. How did Chicago's offense look

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01:00:28,240 --> 01:00:30,160
Speaker 1: to her? They were a little hit or miss. I

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01:00:30,200 --> 01:00:33,040
Speaker 1: think Nick Mitch Drabinski only had like four in completions

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01:00:33,080 --> 01:00:36,320
Speaker 1: the whole game. Um, he had a couple of brainless plays,

1204
01:00:36,520 --> 01:00:39,400
Speaker 1: but then he also had some plays in key situations

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01:00:39,440 --> 01:00:40,880
Speaker 1: where he kept the play a line and hit some

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01:00:40,960 --> 01:00:44,160
Speaker 1: big throws or ran for the first down himself. Altogether,

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Speaker 1: I thought an encouraging game for Mr Robiskie and and

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Speaker 1: also a game where it just struck me, like how

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01:00:50,960 --> 01:00:53,960
Speaker 1: much the NFL has changed in terms of what is

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01:00:54,040 --> 01:00:56,160
Speaker 1: possible in terms of going for it on fourth down.

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Speaker 1: It was fourth and in about a foot from the

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Speaker 1: bears own thirty five yard line with five minutes to go,

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Speaker 1: and so if they didn't pick it up, they're up

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Speaker 1: by five points at the time. The forty Niners get

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Speaker 1: the ball in scoring position and they just go for it,

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Speaker 1: and that's like a normal thing right now. That's very

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01:01:12,680 --> 01:01:16,200
Speaker 1: similar situation to when Bill Belichick went for against the

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Speaker 1: Colts that that caused like a national controversy. And now

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01:01:19,960 --> 01:01:21,600
Speaker 1: it's like Matt Maggy's like of course, we're gonna go

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Speaker 1: for it and fourth and inches, and they converted, and

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Speaker 1: that was at least part of the reason they ended

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Speaker 1: up winning the game. I locked that up. You're hot.

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01:01:30,120 --> 01:01:33,160
Speaker 1: Wait what's going on here? Don't don't ask? Is this

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Speaker 1: like when the substitute teacher takes over and everybody acts up?

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Speaker 1: They were. They were less of a favorite than every

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Speaker 1: other lock of this thing. They were only three and

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Speaker 1: a half point favorites. Because this is I mean struggling

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Speaker 1: right now, I'm gonna ask our listeners to pitch in

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Speaker 1: on this one. I am I hitting out by thinking

1230
01:01:49,680 --> 01:01:52,360
Speaker 1: it's weird to lock up the Bears against the five.

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Speaker 1: This is why I don't worry about the mirror. You

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Speaker 1: just if it's seven points are under, I take it

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01:01:57,080 --> 01:01:59,400
Speaker 1: like that was a three and a half four point spread.

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Speaker 1: Their Nighters had played well lately, and actually, I honestly

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Speaker 1: think the Bears are a little lucky to win this game.

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Speaker 1: The forty Niners lost Brent sellec or Garrett Selleck and

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Speaker 1: Matt Brita in this game on a team that's already

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Speaker 1: like so shorthanded. And when you watch this game, did

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01:02:15,880 --> 01:02:18,000
Speaker 1: these teams look uneven? It kind of looked like two

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01:02:18,040 --> 01:02:20,480
Speaker 1: pretty even team. That blows my mind. One team has

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01:02:20,520 --> 01:02:22,280
Speaker 1: a chance to get a by the other team might

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01:02:22,360 --> 01:02:24,840
Speaker 1: get the first pick in the draft, and we're taking

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Speaker 1: them in a lock. Okay, all right, changing the game

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01:02:28,360 --> 01:02:30,800
Speaker 1: up on me here at the end, I'm gonna start

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01:02:30,880 --> 01:02:34,600
Speaker 1: locking up. No, I mean, just like that doesn't pass

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Speaker 1: the mirror test. I mean they were much less of

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Speaker 1: a favorite than any then a lot. I'm just gonna suggest,

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Speaker 1: as you did, that a couple of people in this

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Speaker 1: room need to purchase new mirrors. They appeared to be broken, shattered, unworkable.

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Speaker 1: I think we all need second place for the first

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Speaker 1: time this season. Oh, this has nothing to do with me.

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Speaker 1: I'm not picking well. I haven't picked well in a while.

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Speaker 1: Candid co dot com slash around And before we get

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Speaker 1: to the next game, thank you, Mark. I want to

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01:04:09,760 --> 01:04:13,000
Speaker 1: point out that the Chicago Bears the team around the NFL.

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01:04:14,240 --> 01:04:18,080
Speaker 1: They can finish with twelve wins, Greg, which would be

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01:04:18,080 --> 01:04:20,320
Speaker 1: an all time team of a t N records for

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01:04:20,400 --> 01:04:25,280
Speaker 1: passing the shoot thousand seventeen l A rams who How

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01:04:25,320 --> 01:04:27,840
Speaker 1: do you like that You're not getting that knowledge anywhere else? No,

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01:04:28,480 --> 01:04:31,560
Speaker 1: I want to know who's keeping these records? So well, well,

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01:04:31,640 --> 01:04:34,360
Speaker 1: it's a record. Didn't the Cardinals also have eleven wins

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01:04:34,400 --> 01:04:36,560
Speaker 1: the year we picked him? Maybe I feel like they might.

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01:04:37,680 --> 01:04:39,880
Speaker 1: They probably do. What about the Panthers in two thousand?

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01:04:41,600 --> 01:04:44,680
Speaker 1: Check in with NFL research downstairs, they gave me that information.

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Speaker 1: Way to go Bears. No they didn't. Let's move on.

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01:04:51,960 --> 01:04:54,920
Speaker 1: Joker's got it. He's at the parting twenty five fifty.

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01:04:55,160 --> 01:04:58,440
Speaker 1: He's at the forty five parting twenty five party, twenty

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01:04:58,520 --> 01:05:12,400
Speaker 1: five twenty Tegard Jim Donovan with the call, Baker Mayfield,

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01:05:12,400 --> 01:05:15,360
Speaker 1: the David and Juco and Joku that clinched it for

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01:05:15,480 --> 01:05:18,440
Speaker 1: the Bears. Browns excuse me who jumped out to a

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01:05:18,880 --> 01:05:20,600
Speaker 1: big lead in this game and then held off the

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01:05:20,640 --> 01:05:24,280
Speaker 1: Bengals final score six to eighteen. The Browns oh and

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01:05:24,400 --> 01:05:27,120
Speaker 1: sixteen a year ago are now seven seven and one,

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01:05:27,280 --> 01:05:30,880
Speaker 1: mark another positive day in a season full of promise.

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01:05:31,920 --> 01:05:34,520
Speaker 1: It is the first time the Browns have swept a

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01:05:34,600 --> 01:05:37,480
Speaker 1: division opponent since two thousand and seven, in the first

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01:05:37,520 --> 01:05:40,680
Speaker 1: time they've done so against the Bengals since two thousand

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01:05:40,800 --> 01:05:43,880
Speaker 1: and two. And I have to say that outside of

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01:05:44,520 --> 01:05:46,840
Speaker 1: you know, they whipped the Bengals last time they played them.

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01:05:46,960 --> 01:05:49,360
Speaker 1: But something about this game to me, especially on the

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01:05:49,440 --> 01:05:51,960
Speaker 1: defensive side of the ball, felt like one of the

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01:05:52,040 --> 01:05:54,520
Speaker 1: most dominant Brown's wins I had watched in a long

1303
01:05:55,000 --> 01:05:58,520
Speaker 1: long time. And you talked about Andrew Luck making the

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01:05:58,560 --> 01:06:01,320
Speaker 1: players around and better. We're seene that with Baker Mayfield,

1305
01:06:01,360 --> 01:06:04,240
Speaker 1: because suddenly Brashad Perriman is a thing. This is the

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01:06:04,320 --> 01:06:06,280
Speaker 1: third or fourth game where he's made a big play

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01:06:06,720 --> 01:06:09,360
Speaker 1: and the play calling has just been superb from week

1308
01:06:09,400 --> 01:06:12,600
Speaker 1: to week. Nick Chubb just puts this team on his back.

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01:06:12,720 --> 01:06:16,240
Speaker 1: From a from a rushing perspective, the defense made big plays.

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01:06:16,320 --> 01:06:18,600
Speaker 1: They're playing a banged up Bengals team. I'm not saying

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01:06:18,640 --> 01:06:21,040
Speaker 1: it's the you know, shocking the world type victory, but

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01:06:21,200 --> 01:06:23,440
Speaker 1: they were well coached for the most part. And on

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01:06:23,560 --> 01:06:28,400
Speaker 1: that final completion to the Joku, now you can say this,

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01:06:28,720 --> 01:06:30,120
Speaker 1: this is something you do or you don't want out

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01:06:30,160 --> 01:06:32,240
Speaker 1: of your quarterback. I think the Browns will take it

1316
01:06:32,320 --> 01:06:35,880
Speaker 1: a hundred times over. Baker Mayfield race down the field

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01:06:35,920 --> 01:06:38,400
Speaker 1: and caught eyes with Hugh Jackson on the Bengals sideline

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01:06:38,840 --> 01:06:41,840
Speaker 1: and basically just didn't It wasn't any gestures, just eyes

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01:06:42,120 --> 01:06:45,040
Speaker 1: and then he spun around on his access and job backwards,

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01:06:45,280 --> 01:06:48,280
Speaker 1: continuing to lock eyes with Hugh Jackson as the game

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01:06:48,400 --> 01:06:51,120
Speaker 1: ticked away. And it's the quarterback that Cleveland needs. It

1322
01:06:51,240 --> 01:06:53,280
Speaker 1: might not be the one that another team needs, but

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01:06:53,400 --> 01:06:56,280
Speaker 1: he fits perfectly with this Browns team. They have attitude,

1324
01:06:56,320 --> 01:06:58,760
Speaker 1: and they stuck it to Cincinnati today. One of the

1325
01:06:58,840 --> 01:07:01,640
Speaker 1: most disorganized teams I have seen in a long time.

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01:07:01,680 --> 01:07:03,360
Speaker 1: I know not how you how you can make any

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01:07:03,480 --> 01:07:06,360
Speaker 1: argument for Marvin Lewis to come back and coach this team.

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01:07:06,720 --> 01:07:08,960
Speaker 1: This was a disastrous game by the Bengals. Man, I

1329
01:07:09,000 --> 01:07:11,560
Speaker 1: don't know, an idiot, I don't know if any team

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01:07:11,720 --> 01:07:15,080
Speaker 1: would pass on having a talent like Baker Mayfield. I

1331
01:07:15,440 --> 01:07:19,640
Speaker 1: the question I had we talked about We talked about it,

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Speaker 1: uh downstairs, was it seems like and I think Mayfield

1333
01:07:24,120 --> 01:07:26,760
Speaker 1: loves he loves the cameras on him and he enjoys this,

1334
01:07:27,080 --> 01:07:29,720
Speaker 1: this type of part of the sport and the competitive

1335
01:07:29,800 --> 01:07:32,200
Speaker 1: nature of it all. Why he's almost like going out

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01:07:32,240 --> 01:07:35,120
Speaker 1: of his way to stick it in Hugh's face. And

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01:07:35,440 --> 01:07:37,960
Speaker 1: it seems maybe it's more than just the decision to

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01:07:38,080 --> 01:07:40,640
Speaker 1: go to the Bengals. Maybe um, there was maybe more

1339
01:07:40,720 --> 01:07:43,240
Speaker 1: bad blood behind the scenes earlier in the season that

1340
01:07:43,280 --> 01:07:45,680
Speaker 1: we were not aware of, because he really seems to

1341
01:07:45,760 --> 01:07:48,360
Speaker 1: have enjoyed this whole turn of events with Hugh getting

1342
01:07:48,680 --> 01:07:50,160
Speaker 1: piled on in us and so well, you know what,

1343
01:07:50,240 --> 01:07:52,560
Speaker 1: he enjoys his winning, which they never did with Hugh

1344
01:07:52,720 --> 01:07:55,520
Speaker 1: Jackson because of Hugh Jackson, and so I think it's

1345
01:07:55,560 --> 01:07:58,640
Speaker 1: just something he loves that winning moment so much. He's gonna,

1346
01:07:59,000 --> 01:08:01,560
Speaker 1: he's gonna do it. Want that attitude from my quarterback.

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01:08:01,960 --> 01:08:03,880
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, this is football, you know, this isn't a

1348
01:08:03,920 --> 01:08:07,760
Speaker 1: sewing circle. If if the Browns go to Baltimore next

1349
01:08:07,800 --> 01:08:12,280
Speaker 1: week and win that game, I think they're gonna keep

1350
01:08:12,320 --> 01:08:15,920
Speaker 1: Greg Williams and Freddie Kitchens. I mean, well, I almost

1351
01:08:16,000 --> 01:08:19,400
Speaker 1: can't imagine them. It's it's weird, but I almost can't

1352
01:08:19,400 --> 01:08:22,559
Speaker 1: imagine them not keeping Williams and Kitchens if they end

1353
01:08:22,600 --> 01:08:24,680
Speaker 1: the season on a four game winning streak, including a

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01:08:24,760 --> 01:08:27,320
Speaker 1: win in Baltimore, which would be their most impressive win yet.

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01:08:27,360 --> 01:08:28,880
Speaker 1: I think one thing is that all these teams that

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01:08:28,920 --> 01:08:31,880
Speaker 1: are sticking with these coaches that seem like they should

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01:08:31,920 --> 01:08:33,920
Speaker 1: be let go, is it does It does seem like

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01:08:34,040 --> 01:08:37,320
Speaker 1: there aren't four or five like lock and load candidates

1359
01:08:37,360 --> 01:08:40,400
Speaker 1: out there right now. Um I, Freddie Kitchens, you cannot

1360
01:08:40,439 --> 01:08:42,000
Speaker 1: let go of I don't know how you figure that out.

1361
01:08:42,400 --> 01:08:44,280
Speaker 1: The Greg Williams thing. He's done a much better job

1362
01:08:44,360 --> 01:08:48,040
Speaker 1: than Hugh Jackson, I realized personality wise, he's not Sky.

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01:08:48,200 --> 01:08:51,080
Speaker 1: But you can't make the next coach higher, Freddy, I know.

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01:08:51,520 --> 01:08:53,840
Speaker 1: You open it up then it's just you have to

1365
01:08:53,880 --> 01:08:56,720
Speaker 1: be ready to lose them fits Bruce Arians. That would

1366
01:08:56,760 --> 01:08:58,439
Speaker 1: be your ready. Kitchens has already worked on that. That

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01:08:58,479 --> 01:09:00,560
Speaker 1: would be your one one option. Back to when we

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01:09:00,640 --> 01:09:05,240
Speaker 1: did our emergency podcast when the Browns fired, uh, their

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01:09:05,280 --> 01:09:09,120
Speaker 1: offense coordinator and Hugh Jackson, and what what the general

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01:09:09,200 --> 01:09:11,960
Speaker 1: thought process around Greg Williams was at that moment, and

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01:09:12,040 --> 01:09:14,840
Speaker 1: now where we are now that he could potentially keep

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01:09:14,880 --> 01:09:18,600
Speaker 1: the job is an incredible thought. Uh And and you

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01:09:18,640 --> 01:09:20,599
Speaker 1: can make a case for it, you really can, because

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01:09:20,640 --> 01:09:23,439
Speaker 1: they they're playing so well down the stretch and this

1375
01:09:23,560 --> 01:09:26,280
Speaker 1: ANFC North isn't over because the Browns are playing too

1376
01:09:26,360 --> 01:09:29,400
Speaker 1: well to dismiss them in any game. And as great

1377
01:09:29,439 --> 01:09:31,960
Speaker 1: as the Ravens are, they invite close games with the

1378
01:09:32,040 --> 01:09:35,640
Speaker 1: style of play, and what a win what I don't know,

1379
01:09:35,920 --> 01:09:38,200
Speaker 1: you know a little bit of a revenge on Baltimore.

1380
01:09:38,280 --> 01:09:41,240
Speaker 1: The only you know downside if the Browns did win

1381
01:09:41,320 --> 01:09:43,280
Speaker 1: that game is you know, you're just letting the Steelers

1382
01:09:43,320 --> 01:09:45,599
Speaker 1: get in the playoffs. So is that really that extciting.

1383
01:09:46,120 --> 01:09:48,640
Speaker 1: Let's the Steelers blow another game that Jay's shown that

1384
01:09:48,680 --> 01:09:52,040
Speaker 1: would be compensity to do this year. Uh. Let's move

1385
01:09:52,080 --> 01:09:56,240
Speaker 1: on Rogers and the shotgun. Williams to his life. Hears

1386
01:09:56,280 --> 01:10:05,960
Speaker 1: the snap Rogers clean pocket throw a dagger than Pete Morris,

1387
01:10:06,080 --> 01:10:09,120
Speaker 1: Clayborne to the park card to the young zone of

1388
01:10:09,160 --> 01:10:12,799
Speaker 1: the Packers of Water. Wayne Larvey with the call Packers

1389
01:10:12,920 --> 01:10:15,639
Speaker 1: Radio Network, Aaron Rodgers through a sixteen yard touchdown past

1390
01:10:15,680 --> 01:10:19,800
Speaker 1: the Davante Adams in overtime, Green Bay one the toss

1391
01:10:19,840 --> 01:10:22,280
Speaker 1: and never gave the ball up. The Packers beat the

1392
01:10:22,360 --> 01:10:25,760
Speaker 1: Jets forty four to thirty eight at the meadow Lands. Uh.

1393
01:10:26,160 --> 01:10:29,519
Speaker 1: This was a classic Jets loss under the Todd Bowls

1394
01:10:29,640 --> 01:10:32,439
Speaker 1: that we've seen over and over again, where they're competitive,

1395
01:10:32,479 --> 01:10:34,560
Speaker 1: they have a lead in the fourth quarter and the

1396
01:10:34,640 --> 01:10:37,800
Speaker 1: defense Todd Bowls is a defensive guy wilts. Uh. They

1397
01:10:37,880 --> 01:10:40,800
Speaker 1: blow fifteen point fourth quarter lead here again here, So

1398
01:10:40,920 --> 01:10:43,640
Speaker 1: Todd Bowles, who was gonna get fired and justifiably, so

1399
01:10:44,400 --> 01:10:48,400
Speaker 1: Um watches his defense crumble again, and I would imagine

1400
01:10:48,439 --> 01:10:51,960
Speaker 1: Packers fans who have been frustrated with Aaron Rodgers this season,

1401
01:10:52,040 --> 01:10:54,479
Speaker 1: and there is a there is a vocal contingent of

1402
01:10:54,520 --> 01:10:57,519
Speaker 1: Packers fans that believe that Aaron Rodgers has not been

1403
01:10:57,840 --> 01:11:01,479
Speaker 1: criticized enough for what's gone wrong last two years, well

1404
01:11:01,800 --> 01:11:04,320
Speaker 1: especially this year. Uh. This was one of those vintage

1405
01:11:04,400 --> 01:11:06,560
Speaker 1: Rogers games where he kind of did it all and

1406
01:11:07,000 --> 01:11:11,080
Speaker 1: Um was frankly unstoppable down the stretch and the Jets

1407
01:11:11,400 --> 01:11:14,439
Speaker 1: are by no means a defense to be fearful of,

1408
01:11:14,600 --> 01:11:17,000
Speaker 1: but he he just sliced the Jets up time and

1409
01:11:17,080 --> 01:11:20,720
Speaker 1: time again. So Aaron Rodgers, playing out the string, throws

1410
01:11:20,760 --> 01:11:24,160
Speaker 1: her four two yards two touchdowns, ran for two scores.

1411
01:11:24,920 --> 01:11:27,320
Speaker 1: But I would be remiss not to mention the other

1412
01:11:27,439 --> 01:11:30,639
Speaker 1: quarterback in this game, Sam Donald, who is really coming

1413
01:11:30,680 --> 01:11:33,240
Speaker 1: on strong at the end of the season. Another great

1414
01:11:33,320 --> 01:11:36,880
Speaker 1: game uh for Donald, who threw three touchdowns, didn't turn

1415
01:11:36,960 --> 01:11:39,479
Speaker 1: the ball over through for a career high three hundred

1416
01:11:39,600 --> 01:11:42,599
Speaker 1: forty one yards. Uh and with a little better play

1417
01:11:42,680 --> 01:11:44,879
Speaker 1: calling in the fourth quarter, I think he probably closes

1418
01:11:44,960 --> 01:11:47,760
Speaker 1: this game out. But Jeremy Bates and Tide Bowls got

1419
01:11:47,840 --> 01:11:51,200
Speaker 1: tight and made the wrong decisions and the Packers steal

1420
01:11:51,320 --> 01:11:54,160
Speaker 1: the game in the end. But Greg, in a way,

1421
01:11:55,040 --> 01:11:56,680
Speaker 1: if your Jets fan, you're getting what you want at

1422
01:11:56,680 --> 01:11:58,240
Speaker 1: the end of the season here, which is a ton

1423
01:11:58,320 --> 01:12:01,200
Speaker 1: of optimism around the quarterback and the idea that you

1424
01:12:01,280 --> 01:12:03,960
Speaker 1: finally have found someone to build around. And I absolutely

1425
01:12:04,000 --> 01:12:06,240
Speaker 1: feel that to be the case. And you're not hurting

1426
01:12:06,280 --> 01:12:09,840
Speaker 1: your draft stock. I know you very into this game

1427
01:12:09,880 --> 01:12:13,800
Speaker 1: and and disappointed understandably when they blew it. But it's

1428
01:12:13,840 --> 01:12:16,479
Speaker 1: all about Donald and the fact that he's stacking these

1429
01:12:16,520 --> 01:12:19,560
Speaker 1: games one after another where he keeps looking better. Is

1430
01:12:20,320 --> 01:12:23,040
Speaker 1: is perfect. I mean, you couldn't draw it up any

1431
01:12:23,160 --> 01:12:26,840
Speaker 1: better for a little Jets offseason. I think what frustrates

1432
01:12:26,880 --> 01:12:28,799
Speaker 1: me the problem is you only have one other offensive

1433
01:12:28,880 --> 01:12:33,080
Speaker 1: player that I literally Robby Anderson is the only other

1434
01:12:33,200 --> 01:12:36,479
Speaker 1: offensive player including just about most of them that I

1435
01:12:36,560 --> 01:12:38,960
Speaker 1: care about Herndon moving forward, and so you got a

1436
01:12:39,000 --> 01:12:41,160
Speaker 1: waste to go. But you have a quarterback and yeah,

1437
01:12:41,200 --> 01:12:43,760
Speaker 1: and then Elijah McGuire showing something since he came back,

1438
01:12:43,880 --> 01:12:45,599
Speaker 1: and I still like a new note although he's had

1439
01:12:45,600 --> 01:12:48,320
Speaker 1: an off year. Free agent, Yeah, he's a free agent.

1440
01:12:48,400 --> 01:12:50,400
Speaker 1: I think there's a they have a lot of work

1441
01:12:50,479 --> 01:12:53,400
Speaker 1: to do. But I think my disappointment stems from watching

1442
01:12:53,520 --> 01:12:56,559
Speaker 1: four years now Todd Bowles and him making the same

1443
01:12:56,640 --> 01:13:00,320
Speaker 1: mistakes over and over again, and that gets frustrating us. Actually,

1444
01:13:00,360 --> 01:13:02,680
Speaker 1: in all these fourth quarter class, if you're Mike mccagnet,

1445
01:13:02,880 --> 01:13:05,640
Speaker 1: the players you initially drafted are close to or if not,

1446
01:13:05,840 --> 01:13:07,760
Speaker 1: on their way out, and they've already passed through their

1447
01:13:07,880 --> 01:13:12,519
Speaker 1: rookie contracts and there's no progress. Well, what's the argument

1448
01:13:12,560 --> 01:13:16,320
Speaker 1: for him returning? Argument? They gave up? They gave a

1449
01:13:16,400 --> 01:13:20,680
Speaker 1: five yards to the Packers today And there was one

1450
01:13:20,720 --> 01:13:22,680
Speaker 1: plays saw someone tweet out about. It was like, look

1451
01:13:22,720 --> 01:13:25,200
Speaker 1: at who Roger's skill position talent is on this you

1452
01:13:25,280 --> 01:13:28,959
Speaker 1: know in this play it was st Brown, Valdis Scantling, Kumero,

1453
01:13:29,560 --> 01:13:33,600
Speaker 1: Danny Vitel, and Jamal Williams. That was who's surrounding him. No,

1454
01:13:33,800 --> 01:13:36,320
Speaker 1: the Jets. The defense isn't good. And one guy I

1455
01:13:36,320 --> 01:13:37,880
Speaker 1: want to point out before we get out and get

1456
01:13:37,880 --> 01:13:40,719
Speaker 1: out of here and get to Sunday Night football, Tremaine Johnson,

1457
01:13:40,840 --> 01:13:43,200
Speaker 1: who signed a seventy million dollar contract one of the

1458
01:13:43,280 --> 01:13:46,680
Speaker 1: highest paid defenders in the league. Another terrible game got

1459
01:13:46,800 --> 01:13:49,759
Speaker 1: called on a p I call. The Jets had sixteen

1460
01:13:49,800 --> 01:13:52,320
Speaker 1: penalties in this game, which is inexcusable in another product

1461
01:13:52,360 --> 01:13:55,439
Speaker 1: of bad coaching, because it's a lack of discipline. Tremaine Johnson,

1462
01:13:55,520 --> 01:13:58,080
Speaker 1: after having another poor game, walks out of the locker

1463
01:13:58,160 --> 01:14:01,040
Speaker 1: room without speaking to reporters when you I'm that contract.

1464
01:14:01,720 --> 01:14:03,560
Speaker 1: Part of the deal is you need to be in

1465
01:14:03,600 --> 01:14:06,240
Speaker 1: the locker room and face the music. I don't know

1466
01:14:06,280 --> 01:14:09,280
Speaker 1: if you figured him, but I owe you an apology. Dude.

1467
01:14:09,439 --> 01:14:11,920
Speaker 1: Why is that why? I was chicken counting before they

1468
01:14:11,960 --> 01:14:16,479
Speaker 1: were hatched on our sandwich. I laughed at you when

1469
01:14:16,520 --> 01:14:19,160
Speaker 1: you mentioned that Sam Donald has a shot to win

1470
01:14:19,280 --> 01:14:21,439
Speaker 1: December Rookie of the Month. And I think he does

1471
01:14:21,520 --> 01:14:23,360
Speaker 1: have a shot. I think he has a very good

1472
01:14:23,360 --> 01:14:26,240
Speaker 1: shot if he closes out on the road against against

1473
01:14:26,280 --> 01:14:29,160
Speaker 1: the Pats with a chance to keep Hatriots out of

1474
01:14:29,200 --> 01:14:31,760
Speaker 1: the You gotta sing for you for the Jets and

1475
01:14:31,800 --> 01:14:35,000
Speaker 1: Browns fans. He probably has to knock Baker Mayfield you

1476
01:14:35,080 --> 01:14:37,440
Speaker 1: know out of that race too, that it's our quarterbacks

1477
01:14:37,479 --> 01:14:39,320
Speaker 1: for the first time in our lifetime going back and forth.

1478
01:14:39,439 --> 01:14:41,280
Speaker 1: Now there's there's juice in that game. And I know

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Speaker 1: Jets fans well enough to know that, you know, that

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01:14:44,000 --> 01:14:49,200
Speaker 1: would make their season. We were dropping five spots. Of course,

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Speaker 1: Brady's you gotta you gotta lose. What five spots in

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01:14:53,960 --> 01:14:56,400
Speaker 1: the draft is way more valuable than that. No, not

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01:14:56,600 --> 01:14:59,559
Speaker 1: knocking Brady out in the final regular season games, knocking

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01:14:59,640 --> 01:15:06,080
Speaker 1: him out of the season, it would. Yeah, there's you

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01:15:06,120 --> 01:15:08,040
Speaker 1: can look at us a no lose situation. How about that?

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Speaker 1: All right on to Sunday Night football. Russell's gotta scramble,

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01:15:11,640 --> 01:15:13,759
Speaker 1: He's try to go over the top. He's got Baldwin.

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01:15:13,920 --> 01:15:16,960
Speaker 1: They make it up, good one again, good night to catch,

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01:15:17,439 --> 01:15:20,760
Speaker 1: and he's down that They go on twenty nine yard

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01:15:20,880 --> 01:15:24,960
Speaker 1: completion and Kansas City just has no answer for the

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01:15:25,120 --> 01:15:30,439
Speaker 1: Seahawk receivers in Mandaman coverage. Doug Baldwin, Holy ba, can

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01:15:30,479 --> 01:15:34,040
Speaker 1: you believe he came back on the field. Doug Baldwin

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01:15:34,160 --> 01:15:38,120
Speaker 1: with a beautiful catch near the goal line set up

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01:15:38,240 --> 01:15:42,720
Speaker 1: the game icing one yard plunge from Chris Carson and

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01:15:42,800 --> 01:15:48,040
Speaker 1: the Seattle Seahawks beat the Kansas City Chiefs. Final score

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01:15:48,160 --> 01:15:53,400
Speaker 1: thirty eight thirty one from Seattle, and the Seattle Seahawks

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01:15:53,400 --> 01:15:57,080
Speaker 1: are going back to the playoffs. Uh. They proved to

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01:15:57,439 --> 01:15:59,760
Speaker 1: nine and six with the win, and they do it

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01:15:59,840 --> 01:16:03,400
Speaker 1: in impressive fashion with Chris westling by beating the Chiefs,

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01:16:03,680 --> 01:16:07,920
Speaker 1: outscoring the Chiefs more big plays than the Chiefs. The

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01:16:08,000 --> 01:16:10,600
Speaker 1: Seattle Sea X once again show that they are a

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01:16:10,720 --> 01:16:14,080
Speaker 1: dangerous team in the NFC. Yeah, Eric Weddle said after

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01:16:14,160 --> 01:16:16,439
Speaker 1: the Ravens victory Saturday night, I know for a fact

1504
01:16:16,520 --> 01:16:18,920
Speaker 1: that nobody wants to see House in the playoffs. You

1505
01:16:19,000 --> 01:16:21,040
Speaker 1: have to imagine that goes just as much for the

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01:16:21,200 --> 01:16:24,640
Speaker 1: NFC and the Seahawks. Two different styles of play, and

1507
01:16:24,720 --> 01:16:27,000
Speaker 1: the Seahawks have a much better quarterback than the Ravens do,

1508
01:16:27,120 --> 01:16:29,760
Speaker 1: so that to me they have to be even scarier. Well,

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01:16:29,800 --> 01:16:32,519
Speaker 1: they'll be on the road almost certain, or very good

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01:16:32,600 --> 01:16:35,920
Speaker 1: chance it'll be in Dallas. But this game was a

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01:16:36,000 --> 01:16:39,360
Speaker 1: reminder how great Russell will. It's not like we need

1512
01:16:39,439 --> 01:16:41,680
Speaker 1: a reminder, but just how great he can be in

1513
01:16:41,840 --> 01:16:48,439
Speaker 1: Kudos to Brian Schottenheimer for not not playing to his type,

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01:16:48,680 --> 01:16:51,599
Speaker 1: which even Seahawks fans this season have complained about about

1515
01:16:51,640 --> 01:16:54,720
Speaker 1: run run past. How about throwing the ball deep with

1516
01:16:54,840 --> 01:16:59,120
Speaker 1: a rainmaker on second and twelve with three minutes left

1517
01:16:59,160 --> 01:17:01,760
Speaker 1: in this game that set up the Baldwin catch that

1518
01:17:01,840 --> 01:17:04,760
Speaker 1: also was on a second down. The Seahawks played to win.

1519
01:17:04,880 --> 01:17:07,160
Speaker 1: They did not play conservative at all. They knew the

1520
01:17:07,200 --> 01:17:10,480
Speaker 1: opponent they were facing. UH, and it was impressive offensively.

1521
01:17:10,520 --> 01:17:13,960
Speaker 1: If that Rams Chiefs game was the standard bearer of

1522
01:17:14,080 --> 01:17:18,960
Speaker 1: primetime explosiveness, this game had just as many incredibly beautiful throws.

1523
01:17:19,280 --> 01:17:21,840
Speaker 1: Russell Wilson making something out of Ed Dixon, who we

1524
01:17:21,960 --> 01:17:23,840
Speaker 1: used to make fun of when he was labeled as

1525
01:17:23,880 --> 01:17:25,880
Speaker 1: a move tight end by I think the Panthers or

1526
01:17:25,920 --> 01:17:28,599
Speaker 1: someone years ago. He's making plays, but it's Doug Baldwin,

1527
01:17:28,880 --> 01:17:31,840
Speaker 1: it's Tyler Lockett. And I'll tell you once again, Pete

1528
01:17:31,920 --> 01:17:34,080
Speaker 1: Carroll has my vote for Coach of the Year because

1529
01:17:34,200 --> 01:17:35,960
Speaker 1: what he's done with this team and what he's more

1530
01:17:36,000 --> 01:17:38,160
Speaker 1: of them into. They would go into Dallas and they

1531
01:17:38,160 --> 01:17:41,599
Speaker 1: would knock Dallas out. They are now nine and six,

1532
01:17:41,640 --> 01:17:43,920
Speaker 1: as they said they started oh and two. They lose

1533
01:17:44,000 --> 01:17:46,800
Speaker 1: Earl Thomas to a season ending injury. They're written up

1534
01:17:46,840 --> 01:17:51,680
Speaker 1: by everyone, including myself, UH and thousands of others in

1535
01:17:51,760 --> 01:17:56,599
Speaker 1: the football gag. Greg greg was on the Seahawks bus

1536
01:17:56,720 --> 01:18:01,680
Speaker 1: to some degree, was Greg alive? Always correct? In this case? Greg,

1537
01:18:04,080 --> 01:18:06,760
Speaker 1: you were the one that believed in them, though you

1538
01:18:06,840 --> 01:18:09,920
Speaker 1: know it's the one thing I got I got right

1539
01:18:09,960 --> 01:18:13,040
Speaker 1: before this season. But the Seahawks showed I think in

1540
01:18:13,120 --> 01:18:16,200
Speaker 1: this I mean this game, kind of the kind of

1541
01:18:16,280 --> 01:18:19,160
Speaker 1: problems that Chiefs have, especially without Kendall Fuller, because the

1542
01:18:19,200 --> 01:18:21,840
Speaker 1: Pastors was getting to Wilson, they couldn't get him down.

1543
01:18:22,040 --> 01:18:25,080
Speaker 1: They can't tackle. I mean, you mentioned Ed Dixon. That

1544
01:18:25,200 --> 01:18:26,800
Speaker 1: to me was a turning point. They had a third

1545
01:18:26,840 --> 01:18:29,599
Speaker 1: and fifteen play to Ed Dixon. You're missing Ed Dixon

1546
01:18:29,640 --> 01:18:32,680
Speaker 1: in the open field. You got you know, new cornerbacks

1547
01:18:32,760 --> 01:18:35,000
Speaker 1: coming in for them that are just flying by him.

1548
01:18:35,000 --> 01:18:37,000
Speaker 1: And some of these were just great plays by Baldwin,

1549
01:18:37,280 --> 01:18:40,000
Speaker 1: but there was shoddy tackling. And the Chiefs have a

1550
01:18:40,080 --> 01:18:42,519
Speaker 1: lot of short drives on offense and a lot of

1551
01:18:42,560 --> 01:18:45,400
Speaker 1: miss tackles on defense. It's a bad combo. And Patrick Mahomes.

1552
01:18:45,479 --> 01:18:48,160
Speaker 1: The numbers look great, as they always do with Mahomes,

1553
01:18:48,920 --> 01:18:50,800
Speaker 1: but in the first half he left some plays on

1554
01:18:50,800 --> 01:18:54,839
Speaker 1: the field. I'm thinking specifically of a wide open Travis Kelsey.

1555
01:18:55,520 --> 01:18:57,720
Speaker 1: Is this a different game if he connects with that

1556
01:18:58,000 --> 01:19:00,400
Speaker 1: on that throw? Well, by the score, yeah it was.

1557
01:19:00,520 --> 01:19:03,559
Speaker 1: But in general, Mahomes didn't heat up until the second half,

1558
01:19:03,920 --> 01:19:06,200
Speaker 1: and Russell Wilson was just the more consistent quarterback in

1559
01:19:06,240 --> 01:19:08,800
Speaker 1: this game. I think some Chiefs fans are starting to

1560
01:19:08,880 --> 01:19:12,120
Speaker 1: doubt their own team. This team has some chinks in

1561
01:19:12,160 --> 01:19:15,560
Speaker 1: the armor. They can't stop the run, their secondary is horrendous.

1562
01:19:16,080 --> 01:19:18,519
Speaker 1: They're not protecting Mahomes as well as they did earlier

1563
01:19:18,560 --> 01:19:21,000
Speaker 1: in the year. And they've shown that they want to

1564
01:19:21,040 --> 01:19:24,160
Speaker 1: outscore everyone, but they can't out score the good teams.

1565
01:19:24,560 --> 01:19:26,599
Speaker 1: They lost to the Patriots, they lost to the Rams,

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01:19:26,640 --> 01:19:29,200
Speaker 1: they lost the Charges, and they lost the Seahawks. All

1567
01:19:29,280 --> 01:19:31,439
Speaker 1: those teams are getting thirty points. Well, they're not the

1568
01:19:31,520 --> 01:19:34,679
Speaker 1: same team away from Arrowhead. I mean, I mean that's

1569
01:19:34,720 --> 01:19:37,559
Speaker 1: true of most teams. But they've for the most part,

1570
01:19:37,920 --> 01:19:40,280
Speaker 1: not played their best on the road, including after the bye,

1571
01:19:40,280 --> 01:19:42,800
Speaker 1: struggling with with the Raiders. I mean, how can you

1572
01:19:42,920 --> 01:19:45,439
Speaker 1: if you're a Chiefs fan who's has the most haunted

1573
01:19:45,600 --> 01:19:49,120
Speaker 1: playoff run of just about anyone in the last twenty years,

1574
01:19:49,280 --> 01:19:50,880
Speaker 1: how can you not be a little freaked out when

1575
01:19:50,920 --> 01:19:53,840
Speaker 1: you're two and three in your last you know, five games,

1576
01:19:54,160 --> 01:19:55,720
Speaker 1: and they were they were nine and one, and it

1577
01:19:55,920 --> 01:19:58,240
Speaker 1: and it magnifies that Chargers lost from last night and

1578
01:19:58,280 --> 01:19:59,800
Speaker 1: that was not a close game. So there's not a

1579
01:19:59,840 --> 01:20:02,559
Speaker 1: lot of wiggle room for Charges fans to rethink about

1580
01:20:02,600 --> 01:20:05,320
Speaker 1: that contest. But had they ever pulled that out? Because

1581
01:20:05,360 --> 01:20:07,400
Speaker 1: they both have cupcakes. It's the Broncos in the in

1582
01:20:07,439 --> 01:20:10,720
Speaker 1: the Raiders respectively. Next week that Chiefs have the edge,

1583
01:20:10,800 --> 01:20:13,760
Speaker 1: right the Chiefs. The Chiefs have to win to get

1584
01:20:13,800 --> 01:20:17,200
Speaker 1: the home field advantage. Technically, the Patriots are still alive

1585
01:20:17,320 --> 01:20:21,120
Speaker 1: for home field because the Chiefs in theory, and Chargers

1586
01:20:21,200 --> 01:20:24,280
Speaker 1: could both lose and then the Patriots could slide in there.

1587
01:20:24,640 --> 01:20:28,040
Speaker 1: But that seems it's I can't believe a world where

1588
01:20:28,080 --> 01:20:30,240
Speaker 1: the Raiders go on the road on a short week

1589
01:20:30,320 --> 01:20:33,000
Speaker 1: and win in week seventeen. What happens when the Patriots

1590
01:20:33,040 --> 01:20:35,000
Speaker 1: lose to the Jets? How far to the Patriots fault

1591
01:20:36,120 --> 01:20:40,200
Speaker 1: depends on the old jagspends on the old Jags? Wow?

1592
01:20:40,520 --> 01:20:43,639
Speaker 1: Very interesting? Uh yeah, I would under I get why

1593
01:20:44,080 --> 01:20:46,320
Speaker 1: Chiefs fans would be a little bit nervous. You you

1594
01:20:46,400 --> 01:20:48,599
Speaker 1: worry about some of these teams, you know, the idea

1595
01:20:48,600 --> 01:20:51,920
Speaker 1: of peaking, uh during the wrong time of the season,

1596
01:20:52,000 --> 01:20:54,439
Speaker 1: and who can really get it going. The Chiefs now

1597
01:20:54,560 --> 01:20:56,639
Speaker 1: they feel like they can be top, but they still

1598
01:20:56,720 --> 01:21:00,400
Speaker 1: as things stand, are the first seed. In the a

1599
01:21:00,479 --> 01:21:02,599
Speaker 1: f C, and you like their chances in their building

1600
01:21:02,640 --> 01:21:04,800
Speaker 1: in a big game, even if they're not invincible, but

1601
01:21:04,880 --> 01:21:06,680
Speaker 1: nobody is in the league. The biggest issue for me

1602
01:21:06,800 --> 01:21:09,360
Speaker 1: is that the that what would be cupcakes in the

1603
01:21:09,439 --> 01:21:11,080
Speaker 1: fifth and six seeds in other years in the a

1604
01:21:11,160 --> 01:21:13,760
Speaker 1: f C are absolutely not. If it winds up being

1605
01:21:13,880 --> 01:21:16,720
Speaker 1: something like the Cults and the Ravens, both of those

1606
01:21:16,720 --> 01:21:18,640
Speaker 1: teams would scare me if I'm the Chiefs. We just

1607
01:21:18,680 --> 01:21:20,840
Speaker 1: saw that game a few weeks ago and the Ravens

1608
01:21:20,880 --> 01:21:24,080
Speaker 1: almost one definite. Well, the Ravens now can't be a

1609
01:21:24,160 --> 01:21:27,360
Speaker 1: wild card, right because either the Titans or the Cults

1610
01:21:27,360 --> 01:21:29,200
Speaker 1: are gonna win, and so it's it's a f C

1611
01:21:29,400 --> 01:21:32,720
Speaker 1: North or bust for the Ravens and the Steelers. One

1612
01:21:32,760 --> 01:21:34,880
Speaker 1: of those teams is gonna be the four seed. But

1613
01:21:35,000 --> 01:21:38,120
Speaker 1: it is amazing how all these teams, and I even

1614
01:21:38,200 --> 01:21:41,040
Speaker 1: throw the Saints in there. It's like the top ten,

1615
01:21:41,400 --> 01:21:43,880
Speaker 1: even almost twelve teams in the league. Whoever's gonna make

1616
01:21:43,920 --> 01:21:46,519
Speaker 1: the playoffs, They're just not. There's just not a huge

1617
01:21:46,600 --> 01:21:48,880
Speaker 1: gap between any of them in a given week. It's

1618
01:21:48,960 --> 01:21:50,920
Speaker 1: just it's just the reality. It's gonna be a lot

1619
01:21:50,960 --> 01:21:54,160
Speaker 1: of fun is playoffs the best time of year. Absolutely.

1620
01:21:54,200 --> 01:21:57,760
Speaker 1: All right, that's it for our week sixteen recap, and

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01:21:57,920 --> 01:22:01,000
Speaker 1: of course, uh in two days it will be Christmas,

1622
01:22:01,080 --> 01:22:04,880
Speaker 1: so uh for those that celebrate the holiday, and uh,

1623
01:22:05,840 --> 01:22:09,400
Speaker 1: happy Merry Christmas to you and um to all your families,

1624
01:22:09,400 --> 01:22:12,920
Speaker 1: and thank you for listening to our show. It's a

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01:22:13,000 --> 01:22:15,560
Speaker 1: gift that you are. Your gift to us is just

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01:22:15,720 --> 01:22:18,400
Speaker 1: listening to our podcasts. That's a good That's all we

1627
01:22:18,560 --> 01:22:20,080
Speaker 1: could ask. That's a good way to say it. And

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01:22:20,160 --> 01:22:23,040
Speaker 1: our gift to you is you can listen to our

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01:22:23,080 --> 01:22:28,920
Speaker 1: podcast yes, I mean on Christmas all week. Just go

1630
01:22:29,120 --> 01:22:32,640
Speaker 1: back and kind of you know, write reviews, crank up

1631
01:22:32,680 --> 01:22:36,240
Speaker 1: those downloads, spend the time off by upping our numbers

1632
01:22:37,400 --> 01:22:39,960
Speaker 1: and mark, how about a little secret Santa here? This

1633
01:22:40,120 --> 01:22:42,840
Speaker 1: is for you. Thank Baker Mayfield, Thank you, and I

1634
01:22:42,880 --> 01:22:47,839
Speaker 1: will give you a gift right back, Donald Comma, Sam Sar.

1635
01:22:49,200 --> 01:22:53,080
Speaker 1: What does Greg? Greg gets fifteen years of Patriots ugly

1636
01:22:53,160 --> 01:22:55,840
Speaker 1: football that will take him deep into his fifties month before.

1637
01:22:56,360 --> 01:22:59,439
Speaker 1: I mean, I timed it up right, West, I got

1638
01:22:59,479 --> 01:23:01,880
Speaker 1: the football ring in my pride, West gets the Bengals back,

1639
01:23:01,920 --> 01:23:03,960
Speaker 1: I get the Brian Hoyer experience. Next year. I was

1640
01:23:04,000 --> 01:23:08,000
Speaker 1: gonna say West gets a child in seventeen months. I'll

1641
01:23:08,040 --> 01:23:14,360
Speaker 1: take it. Healthy, chot it, beautiful bouncing boy named Cletus,

1642
01:23:15,920 --> 01:23:20,080
Speaker 1: not named Cletus or Barnaby. Uh, Cam, good job behind

1643
01:23:20,120 --> 01:23:23,920
Speaker 1: the glass filling in for Ricky Hollywood. Kindly, don't take her.

1644
01:23:24,520 --> 01:23:26,880
Speaker 1: You gotta push back on her. I know she thinks

1645
01:23:26,960 --> 01:23:31,000
Speaker 1: she could boss you around, but push back or Dan,

1646
01:23:31,120 --> 01:23:33,519
Speaker 1: who keeps adding, you know, editing elements for you to

1647
01:23:33,560 --> 01:23:36,240
Speaker 1: deal with coming out of this. She's mean when she's sober,

1648
01:23:36,360 --> 01:23:40,439
Speaker 1: so I can't do too much in the workspace. Great work, buddy,

1649
01:23:40,520 --> 01:23:42,840
Speaker 1: and thank you Christmas to you. Thank you you guys too.

1650
01:23:43,280 --> 01:23:45,680
Speaker 1: Thanks Kim. Alright, this is it. That's it, just Dan

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01:23:45,760 --> 01:23:48,280
Speaker 1: handsOn signing off for a quiet storm, the mail Man,

1652
01:23:48,840 --> 01:23:56,439
Speaker 1: the old boss, Cammlina behind the glass until when. Oh,

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01:23:56,479 --> 01:24:00,360
Speaker 1: we have a different schedule until Thursday, Thursday, Thursday, next

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01:24:00,400 --> 01:24:03,400
Speaker 1: time you'll hear from us. Also, our Twitter show is

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Speaker 1: Thursday until then. M