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Speaker 1: So I lead This hour from Seattle started the NFC

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Speaker 1: Championship game, the second of the two games, as the

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Speaker 1: Patriots won the earlier game in a real snooze fest

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Speaker 1: in a snow globe game in the second half of

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Speaker 1: the weather one bad in the first half. Patriots just sucked,

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Speaker 1: but they won and they're in the super Bowl. More

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Speaker 1: on that later, But the NFC Championship. Matthew Stafford looking

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Speaker 1: to lead the Rams to the Super Bowl. Save the

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Speaker 1: American people. If I may watch Sam Darnold and the

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Speaker 1: Seahawks and so those teams who split the regular season matchups,

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Speaker 1: we know the lead into this the final grudge match,

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Speaker 1: and this would decide at all. Were you watching, I'm

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Speaker 1: sure the ratings were amazing. Blizzard, they're all horny. There're

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Speaker 1: the ratings because of the blizzard. Oh, nothing else to do?

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Speaker 1: Watch the game. That's it. So you were not watching,

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Speaker 1: maybe you missed it. Sam Darnall played okay, I had

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Speaker 1: three touchdowns, although one of them shouldn't count because it

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Speaker 1: was just a gift by the Rams. But the Seahawks

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Speaker 1: surviving a very shaky defense, not a championship level defense

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Speaker 1: by Seattle, and somehow they able to get by the Rams,

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Speaker 1: whose special team's blunders cost them a trip to the

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Speaker 1: Super Bowl. Thirty one twenty seven, the final NFC Championship

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Speaker 1: game here. So the Seahawks reached the Super Bowl for

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Speaker 1: the fourth time. I'm in franchise history in the first

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Speaker 1: time the Seahawks were in the Super Bowl. Here, I

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Speaker 1: am fully grown up Seattle. They lost their most recent

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Speaker 1: that game. Do you run or do you pass? Or yeah? Okay, Well, anyway,

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Speaker 1: a good jumping off point. So let us discuss the question.

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Speaker 1: Looking at what just happens NFC Championship game, Seattle gets

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Speaker 1: by LA. Were you impressed with Mike McDaniel's Seahawks or

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Speaker 1: McDonald's Were you impressed with his coaching there? Mister McDonald?

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Speaker 1: So my first thought looking at what transpired in the

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Speaker 1: Look at the pedigree, the heartbeat, the backbone. Scaryat scaryat

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Speaker 1: the Seahawks defense. What I saw was the Rams put

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Speaker 1: God, they suck. They're not that good, the Seattle Seahawks.

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Speaker 1: That is not dominance. That's getting worked over in your

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Speaker 1: own stone. What happened to the twelfth man? Man? Come on, dude,

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Speaker 1: you had the fan, the home field advantage, all that

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Speaker 1: look at the NFC Championship game, Seattle didn't win the game.

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Speaker 1: They were given the game by the Rams. Every man,

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Speaker 1: about it. The way the game played out, The Seahawks

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Speaker 1: defense did not just get pushed around. No, it was rearranged.

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Speaker 1: You know, like you get a new app. You go

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Speaker 1: That's essentially what the Rams did to the Seattle defense

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Speaker 1: They were at loggerheads on the sidelines. And the tipping

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Speaker 1: third quarter, and so Seattle giving up. They punted the

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Speaker 1: couldn't catch a punt the Rams. That's it. Xavier Smith

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Speaker 1: X marks the spot. That's the guy you release. That's

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Speaker 1: The idiot kicker turner muffed it. Turnover puke in my

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Speaker 1: so listen, I hope Mike McDonald, the Seahawks coach there,

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Speaker 1: gave him a game ball and he is eligible for

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Speaker 1: a playoff share super Bowl Playoffs share for Seattle because

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Speaker 1: that is the game changing player of the day. It

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Speaker 1: was not a Seattle Seahawk player that made a great

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Speaker 1: at a time you cannot suck. Wasn't because the fans.

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Speaker 1: It wasn't because he just watched it. Dude, you're a

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Speaker 1: over at Arby's. My god, again, most games, yet again,

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Speaker 1: most games are lost, not one. Both championship games AFC

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Speaker 1: lose this one righting the short bus. The Special Teams

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Speaker 1: edition of the short bus. Now. Meanwhile, as for the

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Speaker 1: Seattle Seahawks and their quarterback play coming into this matchup,

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Speaker 1: and a lot of buzz about Sam Donald, you certainly

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Speaker 1: don't trust them. Why would you trust Sam Donald? Well,

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Speaker 1: this led to some interesting commentary by Mike McDonald, the

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Speaker 1: Seahawks coach there, who said, I guess our editors took

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Speaker 1: the day off on Sunday, but McDonald said, he said

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Speaker 1: that the quarterback, Sam Donald, shut a lot of people up. Oh,

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Speaker 1: apparently we do have it all right. Well here, let's

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Speaker 5: Can't talk about the game without talking about our quarterback.

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Speaker 5: I mean, he just shut a lot of people up tonight.

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Speaker 5: So I'm really happy for him. Three hundred and something yards,

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Speaker 1: The guy barely practiced all week.

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Speaker 1: Just really happy for him.

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Speaker 5: He deserves it. Just just been been a.

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Speaker 1: Give him a purple heart right now, he gets a

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Speaker 1: purple heart. I mean, heroic, a war hero, Sam Donald.

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Speaker 1: My god, where's the statue. Is there a statue? Do

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Speaker 1: we have a statue? Is there no statues? JJ and

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Speaker 1: Ritten going to build the statue?

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Speaker 6: No?

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Speaker 1: My god? All right, so anyway, Mike McDonald, there, McDaniel McDonald, whatever,

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Speaker 1: They're all the same. You don't know who these guys are, right,

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Speaker 1: He's not a star coach anyway, Mike McDonald, the coach

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Speaker 1: Are we buying that? Is anyone buying that? I know

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Speaker 1: there's some fanboys in Seattle and there there's Seahawks merch

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Speaker 1: on and they're all excited. Right, Oh, this is so well, yeah,

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Speaker 1: he shut everyone up. Unfortunately, that's not how this works.

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Speaker 1: That's not how any of this works. No chance. Not

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Speaker 1: Now I understand low information fans. The dumb fan is

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Speaker 1: all horned up and fired up because Sam Donald. Oh

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Speaker 1: look at that, he shut everyone. Not really, not really,

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Speaker 1: This is what I filed into pure coach speak. With

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Speaker 1: Donald's face on both knee pads. The coach of the Seahawks.

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Speaker 1: There slobber chops baby. Now, it is one game. Last

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Speaker 1: I checked, it is only one game that does not

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Speaker 1: One game does not bleach away an entire body of work,

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Speaker 1: a whole resume. It does not have it. Donald earned

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Speaker 1: get criticized because he's not that good. He's not. And

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Speaker 1: we've seen plenty of mediocre quarterbacks get to the Super Bowl.

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Speaker 1: Nick Foles comes to mind, Joe Flacco, Guys that aren't

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Speaker 1: right place at the right time. And now Sam Donald's

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Speaker 1: turn to be in the super Bowl. It doesn't mean

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Speaker 1: all of a sudden it's a good player. He's not.

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Speaker 1: So let's stop that, right Donald. If you look at

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Speaker 1: this unless we have amnijhaw, is it Amnijower? Let me

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Speaker 1: check that. No, it's not Amni Shower, So that's not it.

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Speaker 1: His body of work, Sam Donald, his professional career has

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Speaker 1: been toxic. Toxic. Okay, now everything's forgiven. No, that's not

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Speaker 1: how this works. Elite talent coming out of USC and

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Speaker 1: seeing ghosts with the Jets blaming everyone else. This is

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Speaker 1: what the quarterback apologists do. They blame everyone except the player.

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Speaker 1: It's always someone else's fault. It's never the player's fault.

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Speaker 1: Zero accountability, zero accountability. And he Darnald kept getting shoved

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Speaker 1: around to team, the team, the team because he sucks.

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Speaker 1: That's what happens when you're not living up to it,

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Speaker 1: you move around. And so let's not forget. And you

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Speaker 1: look at the Seattle Seahawks here, and the reason that

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Speaker 1: our lead this hour is from Denver. The AFC side

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Speaker 1: You're welcome now in Denver, Drake May and the Patriots

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Speaker 1: They win a slugfest over the Broncos, where nobody played

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Speaker 1: So they're on to Super Bowl sixty where they will

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Speaker 4: Yeah?

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Speaker 1: The Broncos rolled out here at Stidham on a pass

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Speaker 4: Just felt like, man, we had momentum, momentum, momentum. You

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Speaker 4: Where were we at yard line wise? There? Yeah? I

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Speaker 1: He said momentum. He said momentum. He doesn't believe that

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Speaker 1: because stupid people love momentum. Dumb people love momentum. They

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Speaker 1: It's ridiculous. Sean Payton screwed up. He did the thing

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Speaker 1: It only exists, of course, to help you, help you

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Speaker 1: Sean Payton leaned in to momentum on cross examination. On

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Speaker 1: the Broncos defense was man handling Drake. May. You go

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Speaker 4: No? No?

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Speaker 1: Why would I squeeze the air a little more air

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Speaker 1: out of the Patriots' sideline and give Drake may a

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Speaker 1: tighter spinter? If I'm Sean Payton, why would I do that?

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Speaker 7: No?

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Speaker 1: Instead, Sean Payton trusted his backup suck back quarterback in

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Speaker 1: Jared Stidham like he was prime Drew Brees. Does Sean

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Speaker 1: Payton know that that was not prime Drew Brees? Why

433
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Speaker 1: he does now? And shocker of shocker, Jared Stidham did

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Speaker 1: what Jared Sidam supposed to do. He did a face

435
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Speaker 1: plant right there. The moment was too big. And you

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Speaker 1: toss in the fact that they knew the forecast now

437
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Speaker 1: you didn't changed we did Benny versus the Penny in

438
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Speaker 1: the middle of the week, the forecast was much different,

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Speaker 1: and so we did not know at the time we

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Speaker 1: did that that there would be blizzard like conditions in Denver.

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Speaker 1: We knew there was a big storm coming across the country,

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Speaker 1: but not necessarily for the Bronco game. That changed. The

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Speaker 1: weather pattern changed, So you know that going in and

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Speaker 1: what this means Sean Payton guilty of coaching malpractice in

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Speaker 1: this game for the Broncos fourth down failure. You had

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Speaker 1: the clown car fumble. That's a whole different can of worms.

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Speaker 1: The fumble by Stiadam. Was it a forward pass? Was

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Speaker 1: it not a forward pass? That was the twelve yard line,

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Speaker 1: which gift wrapped things for the Patriots in that case. Now,

450
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Speaker 1: most games are lost, not one. That's always the way

451
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Speaker 1: it is. It is always the way it will be

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Speaker 1: as long as human beings are involved. Most games are lost,

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Speaker 1: they're not won. So there is that in this case, though,

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Speaker 1: it was the pure hubris of Sean Payton. I don't

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Speaker 1: the circus of the officiating is one thing. Did anyone

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Speaker 1: think that Jene Sterotur did a good job on that?

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Speaker 1: By the way, did anyone notice this was like comedy gold.

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Speaker 1: They should do a bit about this. I don't. I

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Speaker 1: don't watch Saturday Night Live anymore. I hadn't been funny

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Speaker 1: in years. But they used to do shows like that

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Speaker 1: and be a great comedy bit. Because the rules analyst

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Speaker 1: Jeane Sterotor, if you were paying attention, so Jeane's Sterotor

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Speaker 1: comes on there, and he changed his mind faster than

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Speaker 1: a politician in an election year. He was like a

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Speaker 1: member of Congress trying to get reelection Jean Sterotor. So

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Speaker 1: initially the call was forward pass on the field, right,

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Speaker 1: So Jean's territor said, well, that was the right call,

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Speaker 1: forward passed on the field. They got it right. No,

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Speaker 1: wait no, no, wait a minute, it was it was backwards. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: Jean's Sterotor flip flopped. He did the old flip flop

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Speaker 1: right there. Amazing flexibility by the rules analysts there, Gene Sterotor.

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Speaker 1: And if you haven't learned by now having watched these

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Speaker 1: rules analysts there, they hate calling out their buddies. Whatever

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Speaker 1: the call is. They agree with the officials. They do

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Speaker 1: not want to go against the officials. It's part of

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Speaker 1: the orthodoxy of the Zebra culture. And so, just for

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Speaker 1: the record, by the way, Sean Payton, momentum did not

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Speaker 1: infect the Broncos in this game. That's not They didn't

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00:27:30,520 --> 00:27:32,840
Speaker 1: lose the game because they lost momentum. They lost the

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Speaker 1: game because you didn't kick the field goal. Oh my god,

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00:27:36,760 --> 00:27:40,480
Speaker 1: the arrogance, the arrogance of Sean Payton. Now, meanwhile, turning

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Speaker 1: the page to the Patriots side of things, a lot

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Speaker 1: of glowing words being said about Drake May and the

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Speaker 1: Patriots as they are in the Super Bowl to take

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Speaker 1: on the Seahawks Super Bowl sixty from Northern California. So

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Speaker 1: the question is, how did you grade Drake May's play

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Speaker 1: as the Patriots have now gone on a Super Bowl run.

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Speaker 1: They've gone on the Super Bowl run. The Patriots are

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Speaker 1: there one win away from getting another Lombardi Trophy, So

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Speaker 1: how did you grade Drake May in this postseason run

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Speaker 1: up until this point for the new and the Patriots.

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Speaker 1: So May has been He's not been the pace card,

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Speaker 1: Like there's this idea he's the quarterback, so he's the engine.

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Speaker 1: He's really not. He's really not the engine for the Patriots.

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Speaker 1: Despite the Patriots' success. If you look at the Malo scorecard,

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Speaker 1: you've got not an a, not a be. I wouldn't

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Speaker 1: even give Drake May a CEE. I wrote down on

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Speaker 1: my scorecard for Drake May and this playoff run for

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Speaker 1: the Patriots, I wrote down A you for unremarkable, capital

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Speaker 1: you unremarkable for Drake May. It's working, which is great.

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Speaker 1: Although they got to get more out of this guy.

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00:28:51,840 --> 00:28:53,200
Speaker 1: They got to get more out of this guy now.

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Speaker 1: Seatles defense fortunately is overrated as we saw the Rams

504
00:28:56,440 --> 00:28:57,960
Speaker 1: lit him up. And so Drake May will be there,

505
00:28:57,960 --> 00:29:01,880
Speaker 1: will be opportunities, assuming he doesn't suffered from tit tuki

506
00:29:02,000 --> 00:29:04,280
Speaker 1: syndrome in the Super Bowl, to make some plays there.

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Speaker 1: He has not been the man to lead the way

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Speaker 1: for the New Inland Patriots, despite what you might have

509
00:29:09,480 --> 00:29:12,360
Speaker 1: heard or read online, it is not the case. So

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00:29:12,400 --> 00:29:16,360
Speaker 1: I wrote again, unremarkable as the grade for Drake May.

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00:29:16,440 --> 00:29:21,400
Speaker 1: The Patriots offense stuck in wet cement and just kind

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Speaker 1: of stuck there against Denver for much of the day.

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Speaker 1: He said, well, the blizzard conditions, That's why it's the weather.

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Speaker 1: Blame it on the weather, and the snow excuse is

515
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Speaker 1: a popular excuse. There's one problem with the snow excuse

516
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Speaker 1: is that the weather was fine in the first half

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Speaker 1: of the game and Drake May was not fine. In

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Speaker 1: the first half, May had a passer rating below sixty

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00:29:44,880 --> 00:29:47,480
Speaker 1: and the Patriots offense only had four first downs in

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Speaker 1: the first half. That was a complete lockdown by the

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Speaker 1: Denver Broncos defensively in the first half of that game.

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00:29:54,120 --> 00:29:56,720
Speaker 1: Patriots had seventy two yards of offense in the first

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Speaker 1: thirty minutes of that game with Drake May. Now May's

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Speaker 1: sign you play was the quarterback keeper. I would argue

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Speaker 1: the twenty eight yard scamper, another way to say the

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Speaker 1: word scramble scamper. But that turn that turned out to

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Speaker 1: be the winning field goal. That's set up what was

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Speaker 1: the winning field goal on that However, you are judged

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Speaker 1: by your full body of work here, and if you

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Speaker 1: look at the overall picture in the playoffs, this continues

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Speaker 1: to trend. Drake May has been a stumblebum for the

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Speaker 1: Patriots and it hasn't mattered. It has not mattered here

533
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Speaker 1: those negative plays, which are normally the telltale sign for quarterbacks.

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Speaker 1: You combine interceptions incompletions, sacks and fumbles, those are bad plays.

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Speaker 1: Drake May is averaging nineteen bad plays per game in

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Speaker 1: this playoff run for the Patriots. Nineteen negative plays per

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Speaker 1: game for Drake May, and they are one win away

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Speaker 1: from winning the Super Bowl thanks to playing what we

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Speaker 1: call the Paris Baguette schedule. A lot of croissants, a

540
00:30:58,240 --> 00:31:00,400
Speaker 1: lot of croissants. And while Drake May does not go

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Speaker 1: against the opposition quarterback, it does help when the opposing

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Speaker 1: quarterback is Justin Herbert or C. J. Stroud or Jared Stidham,

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Speaker 1: and they stink right. The Drake May Patriots have scored

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Speaker 1: only fifty four points in this playoff run. That doesn't

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00:31:16,200 --> 00:31:19,600
Speaker 1: sound like a lot, right, that doesn't sound like that much. Well,

546
00:31:20,000 --> 00:31:23,239
Speaker 1: didn't you know? Fun fact here? How bad is that?

547
00:31:23,360 --> 00:31:26,479
Speaker 1: How bad is that for the Patriots? Maler fun fact?

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Speaker 1: We are told that is the fewest points a team

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Speaker 1: has scored playing three postseason games to make the Super

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00:31:33,720 --> 00:31:39,080
Speaker 1: Bowl since Jimmy Carter was the president back in the

551
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Speaker 1: nineteen seventies. The La Rams made it in I think

552
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Speaker 1: it was nineteen seventy nine, and that's it, so my god.

553
00:31:47,960 --> 00:31:50,640
Speaker 1: It does help also that the opposing quarterbacks are averaging

554
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Speaker 1: twenty over twenty two negative plays, so they've been even

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Speaker 1: worse than Drake May. The collective of CJ. Stroud who

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Speaker 1: had thirty negative plays in that game for the Texan

557
00:32:00,760 --> 00:32:04,720
Speaker 1: thirty thirty negative players, Jared Stidham, and of course Herbert.

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Speaker 1: So that's where we are right now.

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Speaker 2: Now.

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Speaker 1: Final point to the postgame commentary from Patriots defensive tacker

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Speaker 1: tackle Milton Williams. Good old uncle Milt, Milton Williams who

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Speaker 1: said the thing that we knew was going to be

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Speaker 1: said postgame. Milton Williams, defensive tackle for the New Woman

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Speaker 1: Patriots postgame team has wanted advance to the Super Bowl.

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Speaker 1: He said, everybody doubted us. That's what he said. Everybody

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Speaker 1: doubted us. Does that work for you? Does that work

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00:32:36,920 --> 00:32:41,160
Speaker 1: for you? So it is predictable and silly. At the

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Speaker 1: same time, the Patriots did not overcome the odds. In fact,

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Speaker 1: they failed to live up to the standard of the odds.

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Speaker 1: They were given, the new elland Patriots a police escort

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Speaker 1: to the promised land of Super Bowl sixty. And there's

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Speaker 1: no debate over that. This is a generational mister Softy

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Speaker 1: run for the New England Patriots. Congratulations, I'm jealous. I

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00:33:10,000 --> 00:33:14,880
Speaker 1: am absolutely jealous. It's like it's not really a postseason run.

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Speaker 1: It's like a massage at the Foxborough day Spa. The

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Speaker 1: manny and the petty, the bubble bath. Now, what is

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Speaker 1: my evidence? If you look at the receipts and look

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Speaker 1: at the receipts, the easiest schedule in the league this

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Speaker 1: year and the easiest schedule in the generation, plus strength

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Speaker 1: of schedule of the opponent that was during the regular season.

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Speaker 1: This was not a football obstacle. Course, this was a

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Speaker 1: study diet of creampuffs and doughnuts and then threw some

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Speaker 1: mcclair's in there the whole thing. You played a Charger

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Speaker 1: team held together by duck tape and a prayer and

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Speaker 1: Justin Turbert, Justin Herbert there who went out there and

586
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Speaker 1: the moment was too big. He's a coward. He played

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Speaker 1: cowardly football for the Chargers.

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Speaker 4: C J.

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Speaker 1: Stroud hanging out, handing out interception. You get an interception,

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Speaker 1: you get an interception like that famous TV thing back

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Speaker 1: in the day with Oprah. And then the AFC Championship

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Speaker 1: game where Sean Payton decides that his quarterback is good

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Speaker 1: rather than kick a field goal and go up by

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Speaker 1: two scores. And then in the second half the blizzard

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Speaker 1: kicked in. So that's a couple of gifts from the

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Speaker 1: heavens for the Patriots that went their way. New England

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00:34:22,320 --> 00:34:26,279
Speaker 1: is averaging eighteen points per game. The last time a

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Speaker 1: team was this bad was the Rams nineteen seventy nine.

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Speaker 1: La Rams. It's almost fifty years ago. Almost fifty years ago,

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Speaker 1: So enjoy the flight out to the Bay area. There,

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Speaker 1: and I don't want to hear about the doubters. Though

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Speaker 1: you were the biggest favorite, you didn't cover the spread

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Speaker 1: against the backup quarterback in a blizzard and you couldn't

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Speaker 1: cover the spread there, so no style points for the

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Speaker 1: Patriots at all.

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Speaker 2: Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Meller

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Speaker 2: Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.

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Speaker 1: I was already working here. How about he took a

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Speaker 1: third degree?

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Speaker 2: This is one big Ben gets great.

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Speaker 6: I been I know earlier in the show you said

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Speaker 6: you weren't impressed with Sam Darnold and then he hasn't.

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Speaker 1: And I'm not biased at all.

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Speaker 6: No, not at all, but let me ask you, this

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Speaker 6: is Sam Darnald already the best NFL quarterback out of USC.

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Speaker 1: Oh Man, No, I'm not gonna go there. Although there's

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Speaker 1: not much se quarterbacks, it's not a high bar. It's

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Speaker 1: not a high it is not a high bar. Right,

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Speaker 1: Carson Palmer, Matt Lioner, you go down the list. I mean,

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Speaker 1: there's been a handful of play in the NFL. I'm

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Speaker 1: still gonna go no, just because they haven't one until

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Speaker 1: then they win the Super Bowl. We can revisit this,

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Speaker 1: but just making it, I'm gonna go no. Next.

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Speaker 6: All right, So we talked last week about how Brian

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Speaker 6: Dayball is a favorite for the Buffalo Bill's a job

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Speaker 6: It was reported over the weekend that Philip Rivers is

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Speaker 6: interviewing for the head coaching job, Ben, Do you think

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Speaker 6: that's actually something that they would you?

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Speaker 1: I would love it. Last time we saw a high

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Speaker 1: school coach it was Jim Mersay. He's dead now in Indianapolis,

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Speaker 1: but I would love to see an owner be willing

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Speaker 1: to do that. I think it's so hilarious that it's

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Speaker 1: not gonna happen, but I think great. Apparently he's buddies

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Speaker 1: with with Josh Allen. That's why you got Philip Rivers

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Speaker 1: got the interview. It's got to be Brian Dave all

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Speaker 1: though doesn't What are they waiting for? Why have they

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Speaker 1: not named him the coach next?

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Speaker 6: So, the Cowboys blocked the Eagles request to interview offensive

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Speaker 6: coordinator Clayton Adams because apparently they're allowed to.

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Speaker 1: Do this if it's going to be a lateral move, but.

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Speaker 6: Clayton Adams would be calling the plays over there, which

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Speaker 6: he's not doing.

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Speaker 1: Now.

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Speaker 6: Do you think that should they should change that rule

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Speaker 6: or do you like them being able to block that?

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Speaker 4: No?

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Speaker 1: I like that the teams are petty that they block coach.

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Speaker 1: It didn't think Cowboys hire their defensive coordinator. Yes, classic

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Speaker 1: Jerry Jones. Well I'm gonna take this guy. But you

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Speaker 1: can't have this guy. No, I think they should just

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Speaker 1: have this should wait till after the super Bowl and

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Speaker 1: name these coaches? Though, how do we do coop? How

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Speaker 1: do we do pass us? That is a way put

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Speaker 1: on the game. Oh my god, I wanted to get.

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Speaker 2: Fox Sports Radio has the best sports talk lineup in

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Speaker 2: dot com and within the iHeartRadio app search FSR to

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Speaker 2: listen live. Hey you sports figure guy or girl?

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Speaker 1: Who here were you talking to?

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Speaker 8: Son?

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Speaker 1: Here some interesting advice. Hold that thought. No one's paid

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Speaker 1: attention to me for ten whole seconds and if you

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Speaker 1: don't like it, and away we go. It's the insta

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Speaker 1: advice line onscreened radio. And who needs our advice? Well,

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Speaker 1: rather obviously punt returner for the La Rams. He got

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Speaker 1: him Xavier Smith. You have no idea who that is,

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Speaker 1: but he gave Seattle a trip to the Super Bowl.

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Speaker 1: You're welcome, Seattle. So advice to Rams punt returner Xavier Smith,

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Speaker 1: who muffed a kick giving the ball to Seattle. Deepen

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Speaker 1: Rams territory setting up? Or what turned out to be

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Speaker 1: the difference in the game again. Advice to Xavier Smith

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Speaker 1: eight seven seven ninety nine on Fox is the number.

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Speaker 1: Line one. You're on the air. Hello, Line one, I.

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Speaker 2: Believe you have a sponsorship that can help this guy out.

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Speaker 1: Ben All right, that's right, dudewipes, I think. Hello, Yes,

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Speaker 1: you're on caller to your advice to Xavier Smith. Caller too. Hello,

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Speaker 1: Caller two's not paying attention. We're going to call he three. Hello,

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Speaker 1: caller three, you're on the air. Hello, Flucky, Bucky Bucky?

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Speaker 1: Is that the real one? I'm not sure. Eight seven

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Speaker 1: seven ninety nine. On Fox, we're getting unsolicited advice from

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Speaker 1: the Matlin Militia for Xavier Smith, the Ram kick returner

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Speaker 1: who muffed the kick in the NFC Championship game, costing

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Speaker 1: the Rams a chance to win it. Hello, you're on

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Speaker 1: the air. Caller you're line four.

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Speaker 2: Hello, the fix was in the Ram got hoes?

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Speaker 1: That's right, ferg dog, damn right, good job by you.

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Speaker 1: Line five, you're on the Airline five.

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Speaker 2: Hello, join the league.

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Speaker 1: Put the plumb buckets easy for you to say. Line six,

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Speaker 1: you're on the airline Hello, good more.

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Speaker 2: In time, I thought sixty was a New fifty Lorena.

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Speaker 1: There you go. Yeah, the rain. You've upset a lot

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Speaker 1: of people by your ageism. You're anti old people. You

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Speaker 1: don't help it. I want safer roads. Well, you don't

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Speaker 1: think you realized that sixty is not that old. Let's

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Speaker 1: go to a line one. You're on the Airline one. Hello,

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Speaker 1: at least they were there, unlike my jets. But got

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Speaker 1: a murder. Gotta go there, you go, gotta go. But

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Speaker 1: Sam Donald, baby, he's there. Hello. Line two, you're on

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Speaker 1: the air. We're giving advice to Xavier Smith, the Ram

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Speaker 1: kick returner who muffed a punt that would have the

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Speaker 1: Rams if this whole lot of one they were down

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Speaker 1: by four, had the ball offense was cooking. Advice to

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Speaker 1: Davier Smith of the Rams. You're on the air. Hello, caller,

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Speaker 1: he needs to go to the Bucky. Okay, thank you,

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Speaker 1: you're with the show.

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Speaker 6: He'd been.

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Speaker 1: Thank you for that, sir. That was I didn't even

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Speaker 1: say his name, he just started talking. He knew he

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Speaker 1: was on the air. Caller four, you're on the air.

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Speaker 1: Line four. Hello, we're giving advice to Xavier Smith at

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Speaker 1: the ramkick returner, punt returner who muffed the kick. Hello,

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Speaker 1: you're on the airline number four. Go to eat yellow

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Speaker 1: snow eat key line pie instead. That's right, we love

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Speaker 1: when's our key line pie coming to me? Give me here? Tuesday? Tuesday,

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Speaker 1: al I had a couple of days to go. All right, Hello,

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Speaker 1: you're on the air Hello, I want veron? Okay, thank

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Speaker 1: you for that. Line six, you're on the airline six. Hello, Hey, Ben,

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Speaker 1: I want.

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Speaker 2: To know what side bag you where you and Coop?

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Speaker 1: Well, well you're Steele. You just hired Mike McCarthy. You

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Speaker 1: hired Mike McCarthy. Forget me the bag. You got the

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Speaker 1: biggest bag of them all, Mike McCarthy. How dare you?

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Speaker 1: Line one, you're on the airline one?

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Speaker 2: Hello, go to go to lovely California for this?

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Speaker 1: All right? Thank you? Yes, uh, call back at when

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Speaker 1: you're done stuttering. Line two, you're on the air Hello.

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Speaker 8: Blame it on the interpreter.

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Speaker 1: Okay, yes, thank you for that. It's unscreened phone calls.

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Speaker 1: Listen to are live in depth team coverage as we

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Speaker 1: give advice to a guy named Xavier Smith. You don't

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Speaker 1: know who that is, and you won't hear his name

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Speaker 1: again because he won't be in the NFL next year,

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Speaker 1: but he muffed a punt and that was a backbreaking

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Speaker 1: play that handed Seattle the NFC Championship game. Total malfeasance

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Speaker 1: by Xavier Smith. What is your advice? We recommended earlier

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Speaker 1: that he get a job at Arby's because they have

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Speaker 1: the meets and he needs some meet Hello, line number three,

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Speaker 1: you're on the airline three. Hello, he needs.

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Speaker 4: Express Pros, not dude weiss Ben, this band.

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Speaker 1: Needs all right, thank you for the yes as supermarket.

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Speaker 1: Steve up and listening. Line four, you're on the airline four. Hello. Okay,

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Speaker 1: I don't know what that was, but thank you. I

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Speaker 1: don't know a Line five. You're on the airline five

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Speaker 1: unscreened radio. Hello, line five, Hell to the hall day.

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Speaker 1: That's channeling the great spokanegear whoever that was? Line six? Hello,

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Speaker 1: line six, Okay, that guy's three times. That guy's gotten in.

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Speaker 1: What's going on here?

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Speaker 7: Eight?

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Speaker 1: Seven, seven, ninety nine on five is the call in number?

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Speaker 1: The Seahawks and Patriots both entered the season sixty to

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Speaker 1: one odds or worse to win the Super Bowl and

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Speaker 1: to get to the Super Bowl. They're there now. Hello,

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Speaker 1: Line one, you're on the airline one. Touch the ball,

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Speaker 1: touch the ball on a time. Oh, I's see Rickett.

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Speaker 1: That's a tricker ration by Rick and Maryland, those trickeration.

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Speaker 1: Line two, you're on the airline two. Hello, never used

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Speaker 1: crystal before a big football game? Thank you for that?

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Speaker 1: All right? That sounded like our friend from Colorado. Line three,

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Speaker 1: you're on the airline three. Hello. Line three is not

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Speaker 1: paying attention. We'll go to line four. It's the unscreened

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Speaker 1: portion of the show, The Ben Mal Show, the instant

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Speaker 1: advice line. We're giving advice to Xavier Smith on what

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Speaker 1: he can do after costing the Rams a legit chance

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Speaker 1: to win the NFC Championship game. Hello, line four, you're

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Speaker 1: on the airline four.

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Speaker 2: Old Smith, it needed to get some lobster claws so

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Speaker 2: that they can actually hold a football.

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Speaker 1: Okay, all right, then I think I know who that was,

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Speaker 1: Man Weell and Guardina. Hello line number five. Hello line five, Bay, Okay,

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Speaker 1: hang up, sir, stop calling. Line one. You're on the

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Speaker 1: airline one. Hello, go line one? Oh my god, a

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Speaker 1: fourth time? No, no, no, we don't need the six seven?

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Speaker 1: Do one more? Only one more of us? Good. I'll

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Speaker 1: take credit of not to blame a coopleloop. Final call

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Speaker 1: pick the last call Cooble Loop Line four, last call

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Speaker 1: Line four, instant of ice line. You're on the airline

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Speaker 1: fur Go. You got football, yeah, football, gig Gi