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Speaker 2: I'll tell you what. I'm always a little conflicted here.

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Speaker 2: I mean not in my regular life. I like you.

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Speaker 2: I think Kyle believed that honesty is always the best policy.

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Speaker 2: It's one of the first things that our parents tell us,

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Speaker 2: get it, we're turned off by it. I'll tell you

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Speaker 2: team is on fire and nobody can figure out why,

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Speaker 2: and some of the hottest teams in the NFL took

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Speaker 2: a step back today. We've got a lot to get to,

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Speaker 3: Man? I'm doing great, Mark. How are you?

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Speaker 2: I'm doing fantastic. Man. It's another good day Week ten

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Speaker 2: in the National Football League, and yet another reminder that

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Speaker 2: and I feel like this probably should be the name

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Speaker 2: of our show. Everything we thought we knew dot dot

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Speaker 2: to this hour of Sunday and everything we thought we

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Speaker 2: knew kind of goes the other direction that top level

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Speaker 2: of the AFC today. Now the Chiefs didn't play, the

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Speaker 2: Buffalo Bills don't play until tomorrow night. The Miami Dolphins

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Speaker 2: are off. But we talked about the depth that that

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Speaker 2: conference throws at you, and huge step back today the

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Speaker 2: Ravens coughed one up the Cincinnati Bengals, coming off of

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Speaker 2: their performances recently, suddenly let one slip away at home,

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Speaker 2: a game that you wouldn't see them winning or I'm sorry,

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Speaker 2: I wouldn't see them losing. And then also a team

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Speaker 2: that I've really been touting all year long, as like,

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Speaker 2: do not forget about this team. And while I understand

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Speaker 2: the forty nine ers at Jacksonville, both teams coming off

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Speaker 2: of bye today. So I think what we thought we knew,

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Speaker 2: we thought we knew that the AFC at the top

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and I think certainly a lot of those teams

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Speaker 3: may have taken a step backwards at the top of

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Speaker 3: the AFC. But one of the things that we thought

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Speaker 3: we knew that was confirmed today is the depth in

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Speaker 3: the AFC. And you look at a lot of those games,

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Speaker 3: whether it be the Browns beating the Ravens, coming back

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Speaker 3: down fourteen points to win that one. You know, you

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Speaker 3: talk about the Bengals losing today, well, you know, certainly

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Speaker 3: they had a chance to win it at the end,

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Speaker 3: but again CJ. Stroud gets the ball in two minutes

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Speaker 3: another game winning drive. It's like the Texans, you know,

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Speaker 3: they're back over five hundred. It's like there's just so

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Speaker 3: many good football teams in the AFC, you know, really,

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Speaker 2: Ten teams right now have a record of five hundred

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Speaker 2: we're all done later on tonight at eight o'clock Pacific

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Speaker 2: eleven Eastern. Maybe the game won't quite be over. But

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Speaker 2: you get what I'm saying they're either going to join

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Speaker 2: the other way. But ten teams potentially with a winning

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Speaker 2: I tell you what. That game also, really I think

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Speaker 2: it's the NFL. People lose games, but they've not had

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Speaker 3: today's game against the Jaguars was not as much Holy Cow.

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Speaker 3: So I think you got to give Kevin O'Connell credit

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Speaker 7: We had five walk off game winning field goals today,

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Speaker 7: three of them coming in the late afternoon window of

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Speaker 7: the Lions getting a forty one yard field goal from

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Speaker 7: Riley Patterson at the buzzer to edge the Chargers forty

437
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Speaker 7: one to thirty eight. Kyler Murray coming back onto the

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Speaker 7: field his season debut as the Cardinals beat the Falcons

439
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Speaker 7: twenty five to twenty three. Matt Prater with a chip

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Speaker 7: shot field goal as time expired. He al said Jason Myers.

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Speaker 7: For the Seahawks, he hit a walkoff field goal, and

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Speaker 7: Seattle gets by the Commanders twenty nine to twenty six. Earlier,

443
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Speaker 7: of course, he had the Texans upsetting the Bengal in Cincinnati.

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Speaker 7: Matt Amandola, who is just elevated into the active roster

445
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Speaker 7: earlier this week. A few days ago, he hits the

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Speaker 7: game winning field goal for Houston thirty to twenty seven,

447
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Speaker 7: and then Dustin Hopkins for the Browns as they trailed

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Speaker 7: for fifty nine minutes in twenty seconds, but ultimately get

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Speaker 7: the win against the Ravens on a forty one yard

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Speaker 7: field goal thirty three to thirty one. Other finals, Cowboys

451
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Speaker 7: blew out the Giants forty nine to seventeen. Dak Press

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Speaker 7: got four hundred and four yards and four touchdowns. Forty

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Speaker 7: nine Ers with a big bounce back game, snapping their

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Speaker 7: three game losing streak all over the Jaguars thirty four

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Speaker 7: to three. Brock Perty two hundred and ninety six yards

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Speaker 7: three touchdowns. Steelers held off the Packers twenty three to nineteen.

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Speaker 7: As you guys just talked about, Vinkings winning their fifth

458
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Speaker 7: straight twenty seven to nineteen over the Saints, New Orleans.

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Speaker 7: Quarterback Derek Carr left with a concussion and a shoulder

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Speaker 7: injury and did not return. Fortunately for the Saints, they

461
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Speaker 7: do have their bye week coming up for a chance

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Speaker 7: for Car to get healthy before their next game. Then

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Speaker 7: you had the Buccaneers over the Titans twenty to sixteen.

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Speaker 7: Tennessee has now dropped four or five and the Colts

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Speaker 7: are even at five hundred now five and five on

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Speaker 7: the season, winning that ugly game in Frankfort against the Patriots.

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Speaker 6: Ten to six. And one note in college football.

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Speaker 7: Earlier on Sunday, Texas A and M fired football coach

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Speaker 7: Jimbo Fisher.

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Speaker 6: Mark Collm back to you guys.

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Speaker 2: Okay, thanks very much, Nick. Appreciate that we are live

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Speaker 2: in the Tirack dot Com studios. Kyle, I bet you

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Speaker 2: saw this. You saw the parting gifts that Jimbo Fisher

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Speaker 2: will be getting. Did you know you see that?

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Speaker 3: I saw all seventy six and a half million of them? What?

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Speaker 2: What on earth are we doing? I mean, I'm glad

477
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Speaker 2: at least this comes in a day and age where

478
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Speaker 2: the top level college football players are allowed to go

479
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Speaker 2: shoot a commercial, Like, at least we've got that. But

480
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Speaker 2: I mean every single thing, and look, I'm not gonna

481
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Speaker 2: be saying anything you haven't heard people complain about before,

482
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Speaker 2: but every single thing that the NC Double A has

483
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Speaker 2: tried to present itself as for the years and years

484
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Speaker 2: that have gone by, especially every time it talks about

485
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Speaker 2: player payment, talks about studying and all the things that

486
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Speaker 2: we need these players to do, these student athletes. Whenever

487
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Speaker 2: the NC DOUBLEA gets high and mighty, something like this happens,

488
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Speaker 2: and it's just like, what a joke? What what a

489
00:27:28,840 --> 00:27:35,399
Speaker 2: complete joke to essentially cry poor when somehow something like

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Speaker 2: this adds up for somebody's bottom line.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I again, like it's it's somebody's bottom line. Certainly

492
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Speaker 3: you would think there's that strong pool of money coming

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Speaker 3: in from the Texas A and M alumni that would

494
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Speaker 3: probably cover most of this. But again, I think you

495
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Speaker 3: hit the nail on the head when you said, you know,

496
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Speaker 3: every single time the NC DOUBLEA wants to kind kind

497
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Speaker 3: of praise you know, holier than now and higher, high

498
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Speaker 3: and mighty, you see something like this, and it's just

499
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Speaker 3: it's hard to believe. You know, you're gonna give somebody,

500
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Speaker 3: like I said, seventy six and a half million or

501
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Speaker 3: whatever the exact number is, to not coach to just yeah,

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Speaker 3: to go away, and yeah, it's pretty incredible.

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Speaker 2: Seventy I can't get over it. I'm sorry, Wait a minute,

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Speaker 2: seventy six and a half million. And and someone sat

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Speaker 2: in a room over the last couple of weeks and

506
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Speaker 2: when you know, what would be best for our program

507
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Speaker 2: financially is to go higher someone else and pay them

508
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Speaker 2: like that that actually added up in the back room

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Speaker 2: of a school.

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Speaker 3: Well, and if you're if you're the coach, not Jimbo,

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Speaker 3: but if you're the new coach and you're coming in

512
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Speaker 3: there and you're saying, hold on, wait a second, you're

513
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Speaker 3: you're paying the guy seventy six and a half million

514
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Speaker 3: not to be here. What are you gonna pay me?

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Speaker 3: You know, I'm not coming in for a couple million bucks. Like,

516
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Speaker 3: if you're gonna pay the guy not to be here,

517
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Speaker 3: whatever that ends up being a year, certainly you're gonna

518
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Speaker 3: have to pay me close to that, if not more.

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Speaker 2: No doubt, no doubt, that's what it's gonna have to be.

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Speaker 2: It's an unbelievable story. And so there it is. There

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Speaker 2: it is yet again, especially the schools in I don't

522
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Speaker 2: want to just say that area of the country, but

523
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Speaker 2: that that level of the sport, the money is just

524
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Speaker 2: it's unbelievable and it's driving everything. I do want to

525
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Speaker 2: ask you about something that's being driven, but this is

526
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Speaker 2: much more off the radar. I sent you this tweet

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Speaker 2: a couple of days ago, and I added a little

528
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Speaker 2: laughing an LOL emoji because you and I have had

529
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Speaker 2: many conversations about it that I felt like this one

530
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Speaker 2: was cut straight from like someone's pr machine. So we're

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Speaker 2: talking about the Vikings. We're talking about what you would

532
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Speaker 2: do if you were Justin Jefferson. And with each win

533
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Speaker 2: that the Vikings get and you got a quarterback who

534
00:30:21,480 --> 00:30:24,760
Speaker 2: threw for two sixty eight, it's not like they're inept

535
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Speaker 2: in the passing game. Here's here lies Justin Jefferson, who

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Speaker 2: if the Vikings were still one and four, you could

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Speaker 2: be like, well, why would I come back for this?

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Speaker 2: There's there's nothing to come back for. I'm just gonna

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Speaker 2: risk injury. I need that new contract. Well, I keep

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Speaker 2: wondering with each win how much the pressure builds on

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Speaker 2: Justin to get back on the field and help the

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Speaker 2: Vikings in a playoff run. Three days ago, Adam Schefter

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Speaker 2: and I'll read it word for word, He tweeted. Vikings

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Speaker 2: wide receiver Justin Jefferson, who has missed the past four

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Speaker 2: games due to a hamstring injury, said he can't yet

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Speaker 2: put a date on when he might return. He said

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Speaker 2: he wants to be one hundred percent before he returns,

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Speaker 2: but also still calls himself day to day. If there's

549
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Speaker 2: nothing going on there, then my name's not Mark. Like

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Speaker 2: that's he's healthy, Kyle. I'm not here to talk about

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Speaker 2: other people's injuries, but this guy would be playing right

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Speaker 2: now if he had signed a contract in the offseason.

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Speaker 3: Yeah. And I also think the more that they continue

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Speaker 3: to win football games, I said this last week, and

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Speaker 3: I think it remains true. Most people would assume, Okay, now,

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Speaker 3: that's turning the pressure up on JJ to get back

557
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Speaker 3: out there, and I honestly think it's the opposite. I

558
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Speaker 3: think it's putting more and more pressure on the organization

559
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Speaker 3: to get the deal done and get him back out there.

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Speaker 3: Because again that tweet, it lays it all out there.

561
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Speaker 3: It says nothing about the contract, but it says everything

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Speaker 3: about the contract totally. And I think it's exactly like

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Speaker 3: you put it, where he wants to be one hundred

564
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Speaker 3: percent healthy, but he's day to day. What that means

565
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Speaker 3: is he's healthy enough to play, but will not play

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Speaker 3: until you give him the contract that he rightfully deserves. Now,

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Speaker 3: are you know? Is this something that in if you're

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Speaker 3: the Minnesota Vikings, you're like, hey, look we we have

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Speaker 3: I think it's twenty one days on the windows, so

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Speaker 3: technically he has two more weeks on the IR window

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Speaker 3: to return. We mentioned the Minnesota Vikings schedule. They've won

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Speaker 3: five straight, all five without him, and then your next

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Speaker 3: two games are the Denver Broncos and the Chicago Bears.

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Speaker 3: Then you have your bye week. Is this something where

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Speaker 3: you know, maybe they're like, look, let's get to the

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Speaker 3: bye week and we will get this done. Maybe I

577
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Speaker 3: was in Minnesota in twenty twelve when the same situation,

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Speaker 3: happy with Percy Harvin Percy wanted a new contract. Percy

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Speaker 3: was arguably the MVP of the league through eight games.

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Speaker 3: Now think back to twenty twelve, the MVP of the

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Speaker 3: league ended up being on our team in Adrian Peterson,

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Speaker 3: if it wasn't for kind of the drama that went

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Speaker 3: down with Percy halfway through the year where they told him, hey,

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Speaker 3: well this was going into that season, Hey we'll get

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Speaker 3: a deal done. We'll get a deal done. No deal

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Speaker 3: gets done over the summer. Then it's hey, we'll get

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Speaker 3: it done during training camp. Then it was hey, we

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Speaker 3: have our bye after week eight, like, we'll get it

589
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Speaker 3: done by week get it done by the bye week.

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Speaker 3: And ultimately that bye week came and went and nothing

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Speaker 3: ever got done, and Percy never played another game for

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Speaker 3: the Minnesota Vikings. He got traded to Seattle that following

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Speaker 3: off season. And to me, I'm not saying that that

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Speaker 3: means that this is going to play out the same way.

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Speaker 3: But as I look at the schedule, I look at

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Speaker 3: the situation the team's in, and I look at his

597
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Speaker 3: window to return, it almost lines up perfectly to say, look,

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Speaker 3: you want to be one hundred percent healthy, get a

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Speaker 3: hundred percent healthy, Let's get this deal done over the

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Speaker 3: next three weeks, and we need you for the stretch

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Speaker 3: run to see how far we can get in this

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Speaker 3: NFC playoff picture.

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Speaker 2: I think what you're saying makes a whole lot of sense.

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Speaker 2: I do have one more question, though, which is whether

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Speaker 2: or not the Vikings actually even wanted it to play

606
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Speaker 2: out this way. There's other quarterback drama building that maybe

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Speaker 2: you're not even noticing, especially as draft position moves each

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Speaker 2: week right now, So we'll talk about all of that

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Speaker 2: coming up next. That's Kyle Rudolph on Mark wa. This

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Speaker 2: is Fox Sports Radio All with Kyle Rudolph, Mark Willard Tyre,

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Speaker 2: RAQ dot Com Studios, cruising through our first hour together

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Speaker 2: here after or as we wrap up Week ten National

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Speaker 2: Football League one more to go tomorrow Jets and Raiders

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Speaker 2: playing right now. I'll ask you this, Kyle, I mean,

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Speaker 2: what do you think this is such a fascinating business

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Speaker 2: of sports situation with the Minnesota Vikings. They've got a

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Speaker 2: very highly paid quarterback who's aging, They've got the best

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Speaker 2: receiver in the game, and everybody is doing a new deal,

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Speaker 2: and they started the year without deals for either of them.

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Speaker 2: And to act like those situations aren't tied together, I

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Speaker 2: think is a mistake, like they clearly are. If you're

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Speaker 2: gonna move away from Kirk and you're gonna do a rebuild,

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Speaker 2: does Justin even want that? So I wonder what you

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Speaker 2: think was the Vikings end game here like when they

625
00:36:08,360 --> 00:36:12,319
Speaker 2: started this year, And I wonder behind closed doors how

626
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Speaker 2: competitive they thought they'd be. Sure if Kirk had played

627
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Speaker 2: a full season, could they be a playoff team? Could

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Speaker 2: they be in this whole thing? Yeah? Realistically, are they

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Speaker 2: hanging with the Niners in the Eagles? I doubt it

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Speaker 2: the same way that realistically they couldn't really get through

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Speaker 2: the playoffs like that last year. But what do you

632
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Speaker 2: think they wanted here? Like, I'm still trying to figure

633
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Speaker 2: out why Justin wasn't signed before the year started.

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Speaker 3: Well again, I'm I'm not in these negotiations. I don't

635
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Speaker 3: know if it's simply something as unrealistic as maybe he

636
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Speaker 3: wants forty million dollars a year. You know, maybe he's

637
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Speaker 3: just the point where, look, you can't watch TV without

638
00:37:02,920 --> 00:37:08,920
Speaker 3: seeing Justin Jefferson in a commercial somewhere. So Justin Jefferson

639
00:37:09,000 --> 00:37:13,080
Speaker 3: is making a lot of money off the field. Most times,

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Speaker 3: guys that haven't signed a second contract, you know, you

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Speaker 3: put thirty million dollars a year in front of them,

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Speaker 3: they're taking that yesterday. They they they're not waiting to

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Speaker 3: go sign. Oh well, I wanted to get to thirty

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Speaker 3: five because right now the highest is thirty or thirty

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Speaker 3: two and a half. So not being in the negotiations,

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Speaker 3: I don't know if it's just simply that, hey, he

647
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Speaker 3: wants to be paid so much more than the where

648
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Speaker 3: Tybree Kill is right now that we just can't do it.

649
00:37:46,320 --> 00:37:49,320
Speaker 3: There are certainly other ways that, you know, the Minnesota

650
00:37:49,360 --> 00:37:56,000
Speaker 3: Vikings from a negotiations standpoint, can can make it enticing

651
00:37:56,239 --> 00:38:01,280
Speaker 3: and appealing for Justin to want to sign. I ultimately

652
00:38:01,320 --> 00:38:04,960
Speaker 3: think there's nothing. There's nothing that gets it done that

653
00:38:05,120 --> 00:38:08,680
Speaker 3: isn't making him the highest paid wide receiver in the game.

654
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Speaker 3: And I think too when you look at just the team,

655
00:38:15,120 --> 00:38:17,960
Speaker 3: I go back to Week two and so, what what

656
00:38:18,120 --> 00:38:19,320
Speaker 3: is this team?

657
00:38:19,760 --> 00:38:20,400
Speaker 2: What are they?

658
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Speaker 3: What do they want to do? Well? They, I know

659
00:38:22,880 --> 00:38:26,040
Speaker 3: the owners, they want to win a championship. Do you

660
00:38:26,160 --> 00:38:29,720
Speaker 3: believe with the roster you have right now, Kirk Cousins

661
00:38:29,760 --> 00:38:33,560
Speaker 3: at quarterback, Justin Jefferson at wide receiver, and the talent

662
00:38:33,680 --> 00:38:38,920
Speaker 3: around them, that this is a super Bowl caliber roster?

663
00:38:41,000 --> 00:38:44,759
Speaker 3: Maybe you could debate it. I would say no, And

664
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Speaker 3: so what do you do? And and realistically it's like

665
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Speaker 3: If Kirk would have played the whole season, there's no

666
00:38:53,000 --> 00:38:55,239
Speaker 3: way they would have been able to afford to bring

667
00:38:55,280 --> 00:38:57,680
Speaker 3: both of them back. He would have priced himself out

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00:38:57,719 --> 00:38:59,600
Speaker 3: completely because he was going to continue to put up

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Speaker 3: massive numbers. Would they have won as many games? I

670
00:39:02,719 --> 00:39:07,239
Speaker 3: don't know. It's up for debate, but it's like, it's

671
00:39:07,280 --> 00:39:09,879
Speaker 3: interesting that, you know, they certainly have decisions to make,

672
00:39:09,960 --> 00:39:13,399
Speaker 3: and what happens if Josh Dobbs goes and wins eight

673
00:39:13,440 --> 00:39:15,839
Speaker 3: out of the last ten games for you and you're

674
00:39:16,000 --> 00:39:18,799
Speaker 3: you know, you're the five seed in the playoffs, So

675
00:39:18,920 --> 00:39:21,520
Speaker 3: certainly interesting times there. And I think first and foremost

676
00:39:21,600 --> 00:39:26,759
Speaker 3: it starts with making sure Justin Jefferson is under contract

677
00:39:27,160 --> 00:39:30,240
Speaker 3: long term. It doesn't matter what else is in the picture.

678
00:39:30,480 --> 00:39:31,600
Speaker 3: That has to happen.

679
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm with you. And the winning streak idea is

680
00:39:38,480 --> 00:39:42,160
Speaker 2: kind of fun. And maybe the winning streak that they've

681
00:39:42,200 --> 00:39:46,160
Speaker 2: already had is already too much. In other words, if

682
00:39:46,160 --> 00:39:48,640
Speaker 2: you're not gonna win a championship, well then you want

683
00:39:48,680 --> 00:39:52,560
Speaker 2: a good draft pick. And the Vikings are probably headed

684
00:39:52,960 --> 00:39:56,359
Speaker 2: Let's be honest. For the worst case scenario, they're gonna

685
00:39:56,360 --> 00:39:59,279
Speaker 2: win enough games to be in the twenties but they're

686
00:39:59,280 --> 00:40:01,400
Speaker 2: not gonna win enough games to win a championship.

687
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Speaker 3: Absolutely, and again that's exactly what I said week two.

688
00:40:06,480 --> 00:40:08,440
Speaker 3: It's going to be a team that gets in the

689
00:40:08,480 --> 00:40:12,560
Speaker 3: playoffs ultimately exits the playoffs in the first round. You

690
00:40:12,640 --> 00:40:15,160
Speaker 3: don't have a high draft pick and you didn't accomplish

691
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Speaker 3: the ultimate goal.

692
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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's it's crazy, man. Now, there are some other

693
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Speaker 2: teams out there that are also somewhat involved in the

694
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Speaker 2: quarterback drama. Eyes on the Draft will tell you who

695
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Speaker 2: we're talking about coming up next on Fox Sports Radio.

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Speaker 2: Well from a man who made his living not just

701
00:40:45,840 --> 00:40:51,000
Speaker 2: by blocking, but receiving the ball from quarterbacks, it's always

702
00:40:51,080 --> 00:40:56,200
Speaker 2: about the quarterback. They absolutely, they always have our attention.

703
00:40:56,880 --> 00:40:59,279
Speaker 2: And this year in the draft, heck out in the

704
00:40:59,320 --> 00:41:01,920
Speaker 2: conference here on the West Coast, the Pac twelve alone,

705
00:41:02,680 --> 00:41:04,880
Speaker 2: you could fill up the top ten in the draft

706
00:41:04,920 --> 00:41:08,360
Speaker 2: with an amazing quarterbacks on their way into the league.

707
00:41:08,440 --> 00:41:13,319
Speaker 2: And Kyle sometimes it's clear cut. In other words, you

708
00:41:13,360 --> 00:41:16,120
Speaker 2: could be a team like the Carolina Panthers, you just

709
00:41:16,239 --> 00:41:19,040
Speaker 2: drafted a QB and you don't even have your pick.

710
00:41:19,600 --> 00:41:22,840
Speaker 2: And then other times it can be clear cut, like

711
00:41:23,160 --> 00:41:26,719
Speaker 2: the New England Patriots. You're two and eight, you need

712
00:41:26,760 --> 00:41:32,200
Speaker 2: a quarterback. But then I'm fascinated by the teams in

713
00:41:32,280 --> 00:41:36,520
Speaker 2: the middle. You're gonna be up there, but what would

714
00:41:36,560 --> 00:41:41,839
Speaker 2: you do? So, Hey Chicago Bears, I'm talking to you,

715
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Speaker 2: And Hey Arizona Cardinals, I'm talking to you, and Kyle

716
00:41:50,160 --> 00:41:55,480
Speaker 2: helped me. New York Giants, I can't even talk to you, right.

717
00:41:57,200 --> 00:41:59,560
Speaker 3: I mean, I'll start with the New York Giants. I

718
00:41:59,560 --> 00:42:03,360
Speaker 3: think the New New York Giants right now as they stand,

719
00:42:04,520 --> 00:42:08,560
Speaker 3: in my opinion, they they want the highest pick possible

720
00:42:08,680 --> 00:42:11,960
Speaker 3: to get Marvin Harrison Junior. I think they're in a

721
00:42:12,040 --> 00:42:15,520
Speaker 3: sweepstakes where it's like, how do we get Marvin Harrison Junior.

722
00:42:16,719 --> 00:42:20,280
Speaker 3: They have not had an elite playmaking wide receiver there,

723
00:42:21,239 --> 00:42:23,920
Speaker 3: certainly as Daniel Jones has been the starting quarterback. But

724
00:42:24,160 --> 00:42:26,839
Speaker 3: since Odell left, it's been a long time since there's

725
00:42:26,880 --> 00:42:30,279
Speaker 3: been a true number one wide receiver in New York.

726
00:42:30,600 --> 00:42:33,120
Speaker 3: So I think the New York Giants, you know, they

727
00:42:33,200 --> 00:42:35,560
Speaker 3: want to do everything they can to make sure somebody

728
00:42:35,600 --> 00:42:39,440
Speaker 3: does not take Marvin Harrison Junior before they can. When

729
00:42:39,480 --> 00:42:42,280
Speaker 3: you talk about the Arizona Cardinals, we saw Kyler Murray

730
00:42:42,320 --> 00:42:45,280
Speaker 3: for the first time today coming back off the ACL injury.

731
00:42:45,840 --> 00:42:48,799
Speaker 3: He certainly looked a lot like the Kyler Murray that

732
00:42:48,880 --> 00:42:51,920
Speaker 3: we got to know over the beginning of his career,

733
00:42:52,760 --> 00:42:56,720
Speaker 3: running around making all kinds of plays with his legs. Certainly,

734
00:42:56,760 --> 00:42:59,800
Speaker 3: it's gonna be interesting down the stretch with with Kyler

735
00:43:00,239 --> 00:43:03,480
Speaker 3: almost as if he's playing to make sure that they

736
00:43:03,520 --> 00:43:06,400
Speaker 3: don't have an opportunity to draft one of these quarterbacks

737
00:43:06,440 --> 00:43:11,000
Speaker 3: high in the draft. You know you mentioned the Chicago Bears.

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Speaker 3: I just I can't fathom how they're not taking a

739
00:43:17,040 --> 00:43:20,680
Speaker 3: quarterback with Carolina's pick, which as of right now is

740
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Speaker 3: the number one pick, and then they also have their pick,

741
00:43:23,960 --> 00:43:26,400
Speaker 3: which most likely is going to be in the top five.

742
00:43:26,920 --> 00:43:29,399
Speaker 3: So you have two picks in the top five. One

743
00:43:29,440 --> 00:43:32,080
Speaker 3: you get your quarterback of the future, and then you

744
00:43:32,080 --> 00:43:33,719
Speaker 3: could do whatever you want. At the other one, you

745
00:43:33,760 --> 00:43:37,520
Speaker 3: could take the best available player, whether that be an

746
00:43:37,640 --> 00:43:41,520
Speaker 3: edge rusher that you desperately need, or you know, a

747
00:43:41,560 --> 00:43:46,720
Speaker 3: playmaker for that rookie quarterback. So I think in my opinion.

748
00:43:46,760 --> 00:43:49,880
Speaker 3: It's pretty cut and dry. Who needs a quarterback and

749
00:43:49,960 --> 00:43:52,920
Speaker 3: who doesn't as of right now, and how those things

750
00:43:52,920 --> 00:43:54,440
Speaker 3: will shake out.

751
00:43:55,239 --> 00:43:58,879
Speaker 2: We can eliminate the Giants just because of finances, right,

752
00:43:59,440 --> 00:44:02,600
Speaker 2: I mean, they're in a spot with Daniel Jones where

753
00:44:02,320 --> 00:44:05,879
Speaker 2: they're in a spot and I'm not even saying he's

754
00:44:05,920 --> 00:44:09,600
Speaker 2: necessarily done anything this year to lose the job. Shortly

755
00:44:09,640 --> 00:44:12,400
Speaker 2: after signing that big contract. He wasn't good, but he

756
00:44:12,440 --> 00:44:15,160
Speaker 2: didn't really have the opportunity to be good, and I

757
00:44:15,520 --> 00:44:18,239
Speaker 2: think that's part of what you're talking about. Major injuries

758
00:44:18,719 --> 00:44:23,040
Speaker 2: on their offensive line, not a lot of weapons, and

759
00:44:23,080 --> 00:44:28,959
Speaker 2: then injuries for himself have basically moved that conversation into

760
00:44:28,960 --> 00:44:31,799
Speaker 2: a new direction. When it's week ten and you have

761
00:44:31,840 --> 00:44:34,160
Speaker 2: a quarterback who's living at home with his parents, you

762
00:44:34,200 --> 00:44:38,160
Speaker 2: know it's not a good year. So that's right, that's

763
00:44:38,239 --> 00:44:40,640
Speaker 2: sort of where that whole thing ended up. But okay,

764
00:44:40,800 --> 00:44:43,160
Speaker 2: so you talked me off of that one. Daniel's the guy.

765
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Speaker 2: Let's go to Arizona for a second, because this situation

766
00:44:47,800 --> 00:44:53,680
Speaker 2: to me is fascinating. You can say, hey, Kyler Murray,

767
00:44:54,080 --> 00:44:58,200
Speaker 2: you looked pretty good today and you have the contract

768
00:44:58,280 --> 00:45:04,400
Speaker 2: that suggests you're but then again, the Cardinals keep telling

769
00:45:04,440 --> 00:45:08,799
Speaker 2: me with their actions that they're not really in love

770
00:45:08,840 --> 00:45:13,600
Speaker 2: with Kyler Murray, starting with the whole contract language leak

771
00:45:14,280 --> 00:45:18,319
Speaker 2: thing that happened last year and even the way he's

772
00:45:18,360 --> 00:45:22,120
Speaker 2: been welcomed back into the fold this year. You could say, hey,

773
00:45:22,160 --> 00:45:25,319
Speaker 2: trading Josh Dobbs was the sign that they're all in

774
00:45:25,400 --> 00:45:30,439
Speaker 2: on Kyler. Maybe, But I almost was waiting a little

775
00:45:30,440 --> 00:45:33,480
Speaker 2: bit for a Justin Jefferson situation. I didn't know if

776
00:45:33,560 --> 00:45:36,080
Speaker 2: Kyler was even gonna play this year because I don't

777
00:45:36,120 --> 00:45:38,920
Speaker 2: know if the Cardinals want to win games, and today

778
00:45:38,920 --> 00:45:40,680
Speaker 2: they did no.

779
00:45:40,840 --> 00:45:46,200
Speaker 3: And I think unfortunately, you talk about the contract situation,

780
00:45:47,040 --> 00:45:50,720
Speaker 3: and I think that's what has the Arizona Cardinals married

781
00:45:50,760 --> 00:45:53,440
Speaker 3: to Kyler Murray. I don't think they're getting out of

782
00:45:53,480 --> 00:45:56,520
Speaker 3: this one. I think their draft pick is more appealing

783
00:45:56,600 --> 00:45:59,680
Speaker 3: to people than Kyler Murray. And you know, I think

784
00:45:59,719 --> 00:46:05,840
Speaker 3: there's other teams that maybe are sitting in the back

785
00:46:05,880 --> 00:46:08,879
Speaker 3: half of the top ten that you know, Okay, Arizona's

786
00:46:08,920 --> 00:46:12,439
Speaker 3: at two. We know a quarterback's going at one. We're

787
00:46:12,440 --> 00:46:15,239
Speaker 3: not sure what's happening at three. If we want to

788
00:46:15,280 --> 00:46:18,960
Speaker 3: go get the second quarterback in the draft, we need

789
00:46:18,960 --> 00:46:21,600
Speaker 3: to get up to that pick. I think that their

790
00:46:21,719 --> 00:46:25,400
Speaker 3: high draft pick is more valuable in terms of trade

791
00:46:26,080 --> 00:46:28,920
Speaker 3: Kyler Murray. I just think, especially the way we talk

792
00:46:28,960 --> 00:46:32,880
Speaker 3: about rosters being built, and when you have a quarterback

793
00:46:32,920 --> 00:46:36,800
Speaker 3: making over forty five million dollars a year like Kyler Murray,

794
00:46:36,920 --> 00:46:40,920
Speaker 3: is it just handcuffs you from a personnel standpoint in

795
00:46:41,000 --> 00:46:44,480
Speaker 3: terms of putting other players around him. So again, I think,

796
00:46:44,760 --> 00:46:47,880
Speaker 3: you know, it's Kyler's opportunity to be there in Arizona

797
00:46:47,920 --> 00:46:50,319
Speaker 3: and prove to them that, look, you guys pay me

798
00:46:50,360 --> 00:46:54,320
Speaker 3: this contract, this is who I am as a player,

799
00:46:54,440 --> 00:46:57,320
Speaker 3: this is what I'm gonna do, this is what I

800
00:46:57,440 --> 00:47:01,120
Speaker 3: bring to the team. And he can show that over

801
00:47:01,160 --> 00:47:03,960
Speaker 3: the last month and a half of the season. And

802
00:47:04,000 --> 00:47:06,319
Speaker 3: then again, I think if they do have a high

803
00:47:06,400 --> 00:47:09,080
Speaker 3: draft pick, certainly the draft picks a whole lot more

804
00:47:09,160 --> 00:47:12,600
Speaker 3: valuable than Kyler Murray in terms of trade value.

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810
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Speaker 2: peeled for this, Kyle, because there are these teams out

811
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Speaker 2: there that I feel like they can do this and

812
00:47:39,800 --> 00:47:43,439
Speaker 2: lay in the weeds. The draft picks this year are

813
00:47:44,000 --> 00:47:47,680
Speaker 2: even maybe a little bit more valuable then draft picks

814
00:47:47,760 --> 00:47:51,600
Speaker 2: normally are, even if you don't want a quarterback. Because

815
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Speaker 2: I'm not saying I think Caleb Williams and Michael Pennix

816
00:47:55,320 --> 00:47:57,759
Speaker 2: Junior are all gonna be amazing. I do think they're

817
00:47:57,800 --> 00:48:00,560
Speaker 2: gonna be pretty good. But I'm not a scout, get that.

818
00:48:01,080 --> 00:48:05,120
Speaker 2: I'm just saying that when there are players like that

819
00:48:05,600 --> 00:48:10,560
Speaker 2: on the board, guys who teams think can change the

820
00:48:10,840 --> 00:48:16,840
Speaker 2: entire value of a franchise and the outlook potentially for

821
00:48:16,960 --> 00:48:22,200
Speaker 2: a decade, that's a that's a more valuable pick. And

822
00:48:22,280 --> 00:48:25,759
Speaker 2: so I haven't really seen it yet. I have to

823
00:48:25,800 --> 00:48:29,480
Speaker 2: admit I'm like waiting to see it. I'm predicting I'll

824
00:48:29,520 --> 00:48:32,080
Speaker 2: see it and then I don't see it. That's what

825
00:48:32,200 --> 00:48:35,480
Speaker 2: happened with Arizona today. But I got like, this is

826
00:48:35,520 --> 00:48:40,320
Speaker 2: a classic. Somebody should be tanking. Somebody should be tanking

827
00:48:40,360 --> 00:48:42,680
Speaker 2: for these guys. I'm not sure yet who it is.

828
00:48:43,000 --> 00:48:44,799
Speaker 2: The Vikings were going to do it. Then they won

829
00:48:44,840 --> 00:48:47,200
Speaker 2: five in a row the Cardinals were gonna do it.

830
00:48:47,480 --> 00:48:51,160
Speaker 2: Then Kyler Murray played. Did the Rams sign Carson Wentz

831
00:48:51,200 --> 00:48:54,000
Speaker 2: because they would like to do it? Has Bill Belichick

832
00:48:54,040 --> 00:48:57,440
Speaker 2: been doing it all along? Someone should be tanking and

833
00:48:57,480 --> 00:48:59,080
Speaker 2: I haven't figured out who yet.

834
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Speaker 3: No, And I think it's just hard. You know, we've

835
00:49:02,280 --> 00:49:06,200
Speaker 3: talked about this in uh, just the the nature of

836
00:49:06,239 --> 00:49:09,960
Speaker 3: football and the fact that you have, you know, coaches

837
00:49:10,040 --> 00:49:13,120
Speaker 3: and players with their jobs on the line. It's one

838
00:49:13,160 --> 00:49:18,600
Speaker 3: thing in basketball where there's all these guaranteed contracts and like, look,

839
00:49:18,640 --> 00:49:21,680
Speaker 3: if they're telling you, hey, we need to tank here,

840
00:49:21,840 --> 00:49:23,880
Speaker 3: you know you're gonna trust the process, We're gonna get

841
00:49:24,000 --> 00:49:27,319
Speaker 3: draft picks, you could buy into that. It's gonna be

842
00:49:27,360 --> 00:49:29,040
Speaker 3: really hard to get somebody to buy into that in

843
00:49:29,080 --> 00:49:32,680
Speaker 3: the football locker room. But you know, you mentioned it.

844
00:49:32,760 --> 00:49:36,840
Speaker 3: These quarterbacks not only bring value because of the level

845
00:49:36,920 --> 00:49:40,880
Speaker 3: of talent, but again, I can't harp on enough how

846
00:49:41,719 --> 00:49:46,080
Speaker 3: much flexibility it gives you as a general manager to

847
00:49:46,200 --> 00:49:49,520
Speaker 3: put talent around them and build a roster around this

848
00:49:49,640 --> 00:49:52,800
Speaker 3: young talent with a guy that you're going to have

849
00:49:52,880 --> 00:49:57,440
Speaker 3: under contract for thirty million dollars over the next four years.

850
00:49:58,760 --> 00:50:02,120
Speaker 3: The alternative to get a good quarterback is twenty million

851
00:50:02,160 --> 00:50:05,759
Speaker 3: dollars more than that a year, So you know, you

852
00:50:05,880 --> 00:50:08,320
Speaker 3: see it out there in the Bay Area with San Francisco.

853
00:50:08,400 --> 00:50:10,919
Speaker 3: We talk about brock Perdy's situation all the time. He's

854
00:50:10,920 --> 00:50:14,560
Speaker 3: making eight hundred thousand dollars this year. That allows them

855
00:50:14,600 --> 00:50:20,360
Speaker 3: to have just talent galore across, you know, every other position.

856
00:50:20,520 --> 00:50:25,400
Speaker 3: So if the talent of the quarterback isn't enough to

857
00:50:25,520 --> 00:50:27,200
Speaker 3: make you want to get up there to take one

858
00:50:27,200 --> 00:50:31,000
Speaker 3: of them, setting your roster up for the next five

859
00:50:31,080 --> 00:50:33,080
Speaker 3: years should be the other part that makes you want

860
00:50:33,120 --> 00:50:34,880
Speaker 3: to get up there to get one of those quarterbacks.

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00:50:35,880 --> 00:50:37,719
Speaker 2: I want to ask you about that since you brought

862
00:50:37,719 --> 00:50:39,520
Speaker 2: it up, and we'll do that coming up a little bit.

863
00:50:39,600 --> 00:50:43,360
Speaker 2: You probably would not or maybe you would believe some

864
00:50:43,440 --> 00:50:46,600
Speaker 2: of the things that have been said this week coming

865
00:50:46,640 --> 00:50:48,719
Speaker 2: out of a bye Like going into a bye week

866
00:50:48,760 --> 00:50:51,799
Speaker 2: on a three game losing streak. I don't recommend that

867
00:50:51,960 --> 00:50:56,240
Speaker 2: for any city, because my god, it is two weeks

868
00:50:56,719 --> 00:51:02,520
Speaker 2: of completely freaking out, and the opinions that get generated

869
00:51:03,360 --> 00:51:06,880
Speaker 2: is just like it's like going on a bender, like

870
00:51:07,000 --> 00:51:10,400
Speaker 2: how long can we can we go without sleep? And

871
00:51:10,480 --> 00:51:13,279
Speaker 2: after three days the things that you say, you're like

872
00:51:13,800 --> 00:51:16,839
Speaker 2: my man, you're not making any sense anymore. And that's

873
00:51:16,920 --> 00:51:19,640
Speaker 2: kind of what just happened to the forty nine or

874
00:51:19,719 --> 00:51:23,400
Speaker 2: fan base. Two weeks of sitting there trying to unpack

875
00:51:23,760 --> 00:51:27,960
Speaker 2: a three game losing streak, and yes, it landed all

876
00:51:28,000 --> 00:51:31,240
Speaker 2: the way at I don't know about our quarterback position,

877
00:51:32,040 --> 00:51:35,000
Speaker 2: very very odd behavior. I want to ask you about that,

878
00:51:35,760 --> 00:51:39,680
Speaker 2: Jim Harbaugh as well. That situation with Michigan will get

879
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Speaker 2: Progressive dot Com. That's Kyle Rudolph. I'm Mark Willard. It's

884
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Speaker 2: Week ten in the NFL, and this is Fox Sports Radio. Alright.

885
00:52:01,480 --> 00:52:07,800
Speaker 2: We live in the Tyrak dot Com studios with Kyle Rudolph.

886
00:52:07,800 --> 00:52:12,000
Speaker 2: I'm Mark Willard. So I don't know if you'll believe this.

887
00:52:12,120 --> 00:52:19,040
Speaker 2: Maybe you will believe this, but brock Perty's job status

888
00:52:19,640 --> 00:52:25,080
Speaker 2: on some level actually has become a thing, not a

889
00:52:25,120 --> 00:52:31,560
Speaker 2: big thing, but even I mean even during even during

890
00:52:31,600 --> 00:52:34,080
Speaker 2: one of our commercial breaks about a half hour ago.

891
00:52:34,719 --> 00:52:38,080
Speaker 2: I hear the conversation that took place over the last

892
00:52:38,080 --> 00:52:41,920
Speaker 2: week with Chris Brusard and Rob Parker, and It's like, Okay,

893
00:52:41,600 --> 00:52:47,960
Speaker 2: how many more bad games before we start talking about

894
00:52:48,440 --> 00:52:52,640
Speaker 2: Sam Darnold? How many more bad games before we discuss

895
00:52:53,480 --> 00:52:58,120
Speaker 2: the future of the quarterback position in San Francisco? And

896
00:52:58,200 --> 00:53:02,279
Speaker 2: I'm thinking to myself, for get anybody's fandom, forget what

897
00:53:02,320 --> 00:53:06,080
Speaker 2: you think about a certain player. I'm a huge fan

898
00:53:06,120 --> 00:53:09,440
Speaker 2: of Brock Party. I think he's a really good young player.

899
00:53:09,920 --> 00:53:13,120
Speaker 2: So maybe I'm not the right guy to even have

900
00:53:13,239 --> 00:53:17,719
Speaker 2: this conversation. I don't want to bias to overwhelm. Just

901
00:53:17,760 --> 00:53:21,399
Speaker 2: look at it from a business standpoint, because of what

902
00:53:21,440 --> 00:53:25,680
Speaker 2: you just said ten minutes ago. Do you understand what

903
00:53:25,760 --> 00:53:29,280
Speaker 2: would have to take place? Forget the rest of this year, Kyle,

904
00:53:29,800 --> 00:53:32,760
Speaker 2: I'm not talking about next week. I'm not talking about December.

905
00:53:33,280 --> 00:53:37,120
Speaker 2: I'm talking about September of next year to understand what

906
00:53:37,120 --> 00:53:40,200
Speaker 2: would have to happen for the forty nine ers to

907
00:53:40,360 --> 00:53:45,279
Speaker 2: not want Brock Party to be their starting quarterback next year.

908
00:53:46,800 --> 00:53:51,239
Speaker 2: Do you understand the cataclysmic disaster that would have to

909
00:53:51,280 --> 00:53:54,399
Speaker 2: take place for them to decide? You know what we

910
00:53:54,480 --> 00:54:00,560
Speaker 2: think Brock is so bad that we would rather have

911
00:54:00,640 --> 00:54:06,360
Speaker 2: a different quarterback than him. Plus, we'd also rather not

912
00:54:06,520 --> 00:54:11,279
Speaker 2: have Brandon aiyuk team, we'd rather not even discuss the

913
00:54:11,360 --> 00:54:17,160
Speaker 2: idea of keeping Chase Young. And we probably need to

914
00:54:17,200 --> 00:54:19,960
Speaker 2: make some sort of a high price cut. I don't

915
00:54:20,000 --> 00:54:24,200
Speaker 2: know if it's Trent Williams or Kyle Uschek or I'm

916
00:54:24,200 --> 00:54:28,560
Speaker 2: not sure, but let's gather a collection of really good

917
00:54:28,560 --> 00:54:33,360
Speaker 2: football players and send them all out the door because

918
00:54:33,400 --> 00:54:38,120
Speaker 2: we hate brock Purty that much. That's what would have

919
00:54:38,239 --> 00:54:40,680
Speaker 2: to happen forget this year, for him to not be

920
00:54:40,760 --> 00:54:42,200
Speaker 2: the QB next year.

921
00:54:44,000 --> 00:54:47,200
Speaker 3: No, that's exactly it. If we've talked about the way

922
00:54:47,239 --> 00:54:50,239
Speaker 3: this forty nine Ers roster is built, and they ultimately

923
00:54:50,320 --> 00:54:53,680
Speaker 3: made that decision when they moved on from Jimmy Garoppolo,

924
00:54:53,719 --> 00:54:59,160
Speaker 3: they said, look, we'd rather pay a quarterback a lot

925
00:54:59,239 --> 00:55:03,799
Speaker 3: less money. That's why they drafted Trey Lance. Again, was

926
00:55:03,840 --> 00:55:07,080
Speaker 3: it the upside that they saw in Trey Lance, the

927
00:55:07,160 --> 00:55:10,680
Speaker 3: value that they saw in Trey Lance? I don't know.

928
00:55:11,320 --> 00:55:13,680
Speaker 3: I'm not John Lynch, I'm not in their draft meetings,

929
00:55:14,280 --> 00:55:17,640
Speaker 3: but I do know this that when you jump up

930
00:55:17,640 --> 00:55:20,200
Speaker 3: there in the top three and you take a quarterback.

931
00:55:20,600 --> 00:55:24,680
Speaker 3: It allows you to have one thing for certain, over

932
00:55:24,719 --> 00:55:29,280
Speaker 3: the next four years. Because it's a four year contract,

933
00:55:29,880 --> 00:55:34,200
Speaker 3: you have endless resources and an abundance of money to

934
00:55:34,280 --> 00:55:38,719
Speaker 3: put talent around that quarterback. If you are going to

935
00:55:39,440 --> 00:55:42,640
Speaker 3: acquire a veteran quarterback and that's how you're going to

936
00:55:42,680 --> 00:55:46,839
Speaker 3: fill the position, well that's going to cost you. And

937
00:55:47,640 --> 00:55:50,600
Speaker 3: if you're the San Francisco forty nine ers, you mentioned

938
00:55:50,640 --> 00:55:54,760
Speaker 3: the list of high paid current players on the roster

939
00:55:55,760 --> 00:55:58,080
Speaker 3: that maybe one of them would have to go or

940
00:55:58,160 --> 00:56:03,839
Speaker 3: you start walking around talking about pay cuts. Also, Chase Young,

941
00:56:04,040 --> 00:56:05,600
Speaker 3: you just trade it for him. You brought him in

942
00:56:05,600 --> 00:56:09,000
Speaker 3: the building. He's not under contract after this year. You know,

943
00:56:09,239 --> 00:56:11,120
Speaker 3: what do you do with him? Is that somebody that

944
00:56:11,120 --> 00:56:14,560
Speaker 3: you're trying to keep long term. You have a lot

945
00:56:14,600 --> 00:56:18,600
Speaker 3: more flexibility and freedom when brock Perty's your quarterback Week

946
00:56:18,640 --> 00:56:22,560
Speaker 3: one him next year than you do if you're playing

947
00:56:22,640 --> 00:56:27,320
Speaker 3: with even a middle of the road veteran quarterback.

948
00:56:30,239 --> 00:56:33,880
Speaker 2: And then that actually leaves out the other part of

949
00:56:33,920 --> 00:56:39,120
Speaker 2: the conversation, which is, my god, are we are we

950
00:56:39,360 --> 00:56:44,560
Speaker 2: overdoing what happened the last three weeks or what? Like?

951
00:56:44,760 --> 00:56:48,000
Speaker 2: I I just I don't understand if if that was

952
00:56:48,040 --> 00:56:53,239
Speaker 2: sort of the thought process that a couple of interceptions

953
00:56:53,280 --> 00:56:55,839
Speaker 2: in the fourth quarter followed by a couple of interceptions

954
00:56:55,840 --> 00:56:57,960
Speaker 2: in the fourth quarter, nobody's gonna say that those are

955
00:56:58,000 --> 00:57:00,560
Speaker 2: good things. Like he wasn't as good a player the

956
00:57:00,600 --> 00:57:03,480
Speaker 2: last three weeks as he was the five weeks prior

957
00:57:03,520 --> 00:57:07,680
Speaker 2: to that. But if it was that tenuous, right, if

958
00:57:07,680 --> 00:57:10,640
Speaker 2: it was that flimsy, I don't know why we had

959
00:57:10,680 --> 00:57:14,160
Speaker 2: this as a super Bowl favorite to begin with. You

960
00:57:14,200 --> 00:57:20,760
Speaker 2: don't go from super Bowl favorite to a quarterback controversy

961
00:57:21,520 --> 00:57:25,560
Speaker 2: in a span of fifteen days. I just, I like,

962
00:57:25,600 --> 00:57:29,760
Speaker 2: I don't even understand that that sort of thought process

963
00:57:30,400 --> 00:57:33,440
Speaker 2: with regard to what we've seen. We're still talking about

964
00:57:33,440 --> 00:57:39,520
Speaker 2: the second rated quarterback in the National Football League. But somehow,

965
00:57:40,000 --> 00:57:42,360
Speaker 2: and I know we know the story where he was

966
00:57:42,440 --> 00:57:46,720
Speaker 2: drafted and just whatever Kyle Shanahan's offense, all the talent

967
00:57:46,800 --> 00:57:50,840
Speaker 2: around him, I get it. But for some reason, we've

968
00:57:50,960 --> 00:57:54,080
Speaker 2: ended up in a spot where we're going to continue

969
00:57:54,800 --> 00:57:59,920
Speaker 2: this week to week narrative as opposed to what I

970
00:58:00,160 --> 00:58:03,360
Speaker 2: think is already the case, which is that brock Perty's

971
00:58:03,440 --> 00:58:08,240
Speaker 2: leash is incredibly long. It's incredibly long, Like we're not

972
00:58:08,400 --> 00:58:13,280
Speaker 2: we're not we're not talking about or thinking about benching

973
00:58:13,360 --> 00:58:15,200
Speaker 2: this guy anytime soon.

974
00:58:16,320 --> 00:58:20,080
Speaker 3: No, And I think again it goes back to what

975
00:58:20,280 --> 00:58:24,240
Speaker 3: we've seen as a whole, you know, the body of

976
00:58:24,320 --> 00:58:28,640
Speaker 3: work since he became the starting quarterback last year against

977
00:58:28,680 --> 00:58:33,240
Speaker 3: the Tampa Bay Buccaneers to now. But then also again

978
00:58:33,360 --> 00:58:39,320
Speaker 3: looking forward, are you going to go find a better

979
00:58:39,480 --> 00:58:43,680
Speaker 3: quarterback for less than one point one million dollars over

980
00:58:43,720 --> 00:58:46,160
Speaker 3: the next two years. He makes nine eighty five next

981
00:58:46,240 --> 00:58:49,320
Speaker 3: year and one point one in twenty five. So if

982
00:58:49,320 --> 00:58:55,720
Speaker 3: you're the San Francisco forty nine ers, you have probably

983
00:58:57,040 --> 00:58:59,959
Speaker 3: ninety nine and a half percent of your salary cap

984
00:59:00,120 --> 00:59:02,520
Speaker 3: available for the rest of your roster. Assuming that the

985
00:59:02,560 --> 00:59:05,520
Speaker 3: salary cap stays over two hundred million dollars like it

986
00:59:05,600 --> 00:59:08,760
Speaker 3: will the next two years. You're paying your starting quarterback

987
00:59:09,080 --> 00:59:12,480
Speaker 3: nine eighty five and one point one. That allows you

988
00:59:12,560 --> 00:59:15,440
Speaker 3: to have so much talent around him, and you know

989
00:59:15,520 --> 00:59:18,920
Speaker 3: that when is brock Purty successful, we just saw it

990
00:59:19,040 --> 00:59:21,920
Speaker 3: over the last three weeks. Why did he struggle? He

991
00:59:22,000 --> 00:59:24,520
Speaker 3: struggled because he didn't have the talent around him. Now,

992
00:59:24,560 --> 00:59:27,040
Speaker 3: people could say all the time, well, that's why he's good,

993
00:59:27,080 --> 00:59:29,200
Speaker 3: because he has all that talent. It's like, well, is

994
00:59:29,240 --> 00:59:31,520
Speaker 3: that why he's good or he knows how to use

995
00:59:31,560 --> 00:59:34,400
Speaker 3: the talent? You know, you can't clearly all that talent

996
00:59:34,520 --> 00:59:37,600
Speaker 3: didn't work for Trey Lance. So let's let's give the

997
00:59:37,680 --> 00:59:41,600
Speaker 3: kids some credit. And I say all of that to

998
00:59:42,000 --> 00:59:45,640
Speaker 3: come back to the point and propose the real issue,

999
00:59:45,680 --> 00:59:48,840
Speaker 3: which again we've talked about this at some point over

1000
00:59:48,920 --> 00:59:52,520
Speaker 3: our show the last ten weeks, that in San Francisco

1001
00:59:52,600 --> 00:59:57,400
Speaker 3: hopes they have this problem. It's in the twenty twenty

1002
00:59:57,480 --> 01:00:01,560
Speaker 3: six off season when Brock Party has hopefully won you

1003
01:00:01,640 --> 01:00:05,840
Speaker 3: a championship and has played well, then what do you do?

1004
01:00:06,800 --> 01:00:08,880
Speaker 3: Are are you We're so far down the road, But

1005
01:00:08,920 --> 01:00:11,440
Speaker 3: it's that's the question in my mind that should be asked,

1006
01:00:11,520 --> 01:00:13,800
Speaker 3: is how are they prepared? You know, is this something

1007
01:00:13,840 --> 01:00:16,920
Speaker 3: that maybe after twenty twenty four you try to get

1008
01:00:16,920 --> 01:00:20,200
Speaker 3: it done early because who knows what quarterbacks are going

1009
01:00:20,280 --> 01:00:22,160
Speaker 3: to be making in twenty twenty six.

1010
01:00:22,680 --> 01:00:25,960
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's a great point because we sit here now

1011
01:00:26,000 --> 01:00:27,760
Speaker 2: and a lot of people don't even know this, but

1012
01:00:28,560 --> 01:00:35,040
Speaker 2: collective Bargaining Agreement states and is such Rock Party can't

1013
01:00:35,160 --> 01:00:40,000
Speaker 2: even ask for a contract extension until after next season.

1014
01:00:40,400 --> 01:00:42,400
Speaker 2: He can't even ask for one after that they're not

1015
01:00:42,440 --> 01:00:46,200
Speaker 2: even allowed to negotiate a new contract for him after

1016
01:00:46,240 --> 01:00:49,440
Speaker 2: this season. So you're gonna get all kinds of data.

1017
01:00:49,800 --> 01:00:52,880
Speaker 2: You're gonna get how does this season go, You're gonna

1018
01:00:52,880 --> 01:00:55,840
Speaker 2: get how does next season go? And then you get

1019
01:00:55,880 --> 01:00:59,160
Speaker 2: to sit there and look at the lay of the land,

1020
01:00:59,520 --> 01:01:02,720
Speaker 2: look at the the financial landscape of your team and

1021
01:01:02,840 --> 01:01:07,280
Speaker 2: what it costs on the quarterbacking side of it, and

1022
01:01:07,320 --> 01:01:11,240
Speaker 2: then decide what you want to do. And by then, man,

1023
01:01:11,360 --> 01:01:14,200
Speaker 2: I think you know, McCaffrey is gonna be about thirty,

1024
01:01:14,240 --> 01:01:17,720
Speaker 2: Trent Williams might be retired, the Niners will probably have

1025
01:01:17,800 --> 01:01:21,360
Speaker 2: figured out some new things in their receiver room. That's

1026
01:01:21,400 --> 01:01:24,120
Speaker 2: going to be about the end of Deebo's new contract,

1027
01:01:24,320 --> 01:01:26,480
Speaker 2: or it'll be in a spot where they could move

1028
01:01:26,520 --> 01:01:29,120
Speaker 2: on from it if they wanted, Like then they can

1029
01:01:29,200 --> 01:01:32,960
Speaker 2: reboot everything if they have to or if they want to.

1030
01:01:33,080 --> 01:01:36,400
Speaker 2: But it's not something they can even think about until

1031
01:01:36,440 --> 01:01:40,160
Speaker 2: after next season. And I'm very confident Kyle that they won't.

1032
01:01:40,960 --> 01:01:44,160
Speaker 3: No, and they and they shouldn't. And it's it's funny

1033
01:01:44,160 --> 01:01:49,160
Speaker 3: because the only reason that that is the case is

1034
01:01:49,200 --> 01:01:54,000
Speaker 3: because rock Perty was mister irrelevant. If he was not

1035
01:01:54,120 --> 01:01:57,600
Speaker 3: taken with the last pick in the draft. If he

1036
01:01:57,600 --> 01:02:01,720
Speaker 3: would have been the first drafted free agent, phone call

1037
01:02:01,760 --> 01:02:04,600
Speaker 3: the forty nine ers mate and said, hey, I know

1038
01:02:04,680 --> 01:02:06,680
Speaker 3: you know, we didn't draft you, but we love to

1039
01:02:06,680 --> 01:02:08,880
Speaker 3: have you come out here, and they signed him as

1040
01:02:08,880 --> 01:02:12,320
Speaker 3: an undrafted free agent. He could then go to them

1041
01:02:12,440 --> 01:02:16,400
Speaker 3: after this offseason and get a contract, but because he

1042
01:02:16,560 --> 01:02:19,800
Speaker 3: was drafted, he has to play three years before he

1043
01:02:19,800 --> 01:02:23,360
Speaker 3: can get a second contract. So the forty nine ers

1044
01:02:23,360 --> 01:02:25,400
Speaker 3: have him this year and next year before they can

1045
01:02:25,440 --> 01:02:28,240
Speaker 3: even do anything. Both of those years he makes less

1046
01:02:28,280 --> 01:02:31,120
Speaker 3: than a million dollars a year. It gives them so

1047
01:02:31,280 --> 01:02:35,360
Speaker 3: much flexibility to put the talent around him that we

1048
01:02:35,440 --> 01:02:39,560
Speaker 3: saw today. They beat a really really good football team

1049
01:02:39,760 --> 01:02:44,960
Speaker 3: handedly today and it's like they yeah, yeah, so again.

1050
01:02:45,120 --> 01:02:47,479
Speaker 3: And that's that to me. That's why when you say

1051
01:02:48,680 --> 01:02:51,760
Speaker 3: who do you like when they're playing their best football,

1052
01:02:52,080 --> 01:02:54,360
Speaker 3: it's the San Francisco forty nine ers, because they can

1053
01:02:54,440 --> 01:02:57,480
Speaker 3: just beat you so many ways on both sides of

1054
01:02:57,480 --> 01:02:57,800
Speaker 3: the ball.

1055
01:02:58,760 --> 01:03:01,840
Speaker 2: I hear you. Yeah. The idea moving on from brock

1056
01:03:01,880 --> 01:03:06,320
Speaker 2: Perty is essentially a whole van full of players. If

1057
01:03:06,320 --> 01:03:09,680
Speaker 2: you're suggesting that the Niners go in a different direction,

1058
01:03:09,880 --> 01:03:13,200
Speaker 2: So do not expect that they will. We'd love to

1059
01:03:13,240 --> 01:03:17,480
Speaker 2: hear what you think before we continue with anything NFL related,

1060
01:03:17,880 --> 01:03:20,760
Speaker 2: or heck, maybe it is NFL related. We'd love to

1061
01:03:20,760 --> 01:03:23,440
Speaker 2: hear what you think about the Jim Harbaugh situation and

1062
01:03:23,480 --> 01:03:26,080
Speaker 2: how it played out over the weekend. We'll do that

1063
01:03:26,160 --> 01:03:28,600
Speaker 2: in a little bit, but right now, let's get Nick

1064
01:03:28,640 --> 01:03:31,640
Speaker 2: Cope in here, find out what's trending out and about

1065
01:03:31,680 --> 01:03:32,800
Speaker 2: Hey Nick, Oh.

1066
01:03:32,680 --> 01:03:33,640
Speaker 6: What's going on? Guys?

1067
01:03:33,720 --> 01:03:37,040
Speaker 7: Keeping track on Sunday night football in Las Vegas. It's

1068
01:03:37,200 --> 01:03:40,120
Speaker 7: pretty much gone as expected all field goals so far,

1069
01:03:40,280 --> 01:03:42,920
Speaker 7: Jets leading the Raiders nine to three, getting late in

1070
01:03:42,920 --> 01:03:45,920
Speaker 7: the second quarter, but the Raiders are starting to put

1071
01:03:45,920 --> 01:03:46,800
Speaker 7: a drive together.

1072
01:03:46,800 --> 01:03:47,919
Speaker 6: They just took a big sack.

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Speaker 7: They got second in eighteen from the plus thirty four

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Speaker 7: yard line. Really the best bit of offense we've seen

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Speaker 7: from the Raiders. During the broadcast, NBC sideline reporter Melissa

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Speaker 7: Stark said that Aaron Rodgers told her his goal is

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01:04:01,080 --> 01:04:05,840
Speaker 7: to return in mid December, so take that as you may.

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Speaker 7: Finals in the NFL today, the Lions edging the Chargers

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01:04:09,440 --> 01:04:12,480
Speaker 7: forty one to thirty eight. The teams combined for about

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Speaker 7: nine hundred and fifty yards. Detroit second in the NFC

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Speaker 7: at seven to two. Seahawks beat the Commanders twenty nine

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Speaker 7: to twenty six on a walkoff field goal forty nine,

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Speaker 7: Ers snapping their three game losing streak with that big

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Speaker 7: win over the Jaguars. San Francisco and Seattle remain tied

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Speaker 7: to top the NFC West. Texans had perhaps the upset

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Speaker 7: of the day, taking on the Red Hop Bengals. They

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Speaker 7: get a field goal as time expired in Cincinnati, thirty

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Speaker 7: to twenty seven. In the final, teams have matching five

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Speaker 7: to four records. Browns trailed for nearly the entire game,

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Speaker 7: had to erase a fourteen point fourth quarter deficit, but

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Speaker 7: they get a walkoff field goal to beat the Ravens

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01:04:48,200 --> 01:04:51,440
Speaker 7: thirty three to thirty one. Steelers held off the Packers

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01:04:51,480 --> 01:04:54,520
Speaker 7: twenty three to nineteen. All four teams in the AFC

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Speaker 7: North are separated by just one game in the lost column.

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Speaker 7: Vikings won their fifth in a row twenty seven to

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Speaker 7: nineteen over the Saints. Cowboys blew out the Giants forty

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Speaker 7: nine to seventeen. Cardinals got a walk off field goals

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Speaker 7: to beat the Falcons twenty five twenty three. As Kyler

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Speaker 7: Murray returned for Arizona.

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Speaker 6: Atlanta.

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01:05:10,760 --> 01:05:13,520
Speaker 7: Quarterback Taylor Heineke left the game with a hamstring injury

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Speaker 7: and Desmond Ritter came in played well, gave the Falcons

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01:05:17,160 --> 01:05:19,600
Speaker 7: a chance to win, and after the game, coach Arthur

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01:05:19,640 --> 01:05:22,440
Speaker 7: Smith suggested they will have a decision to make about

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01:05:22,480 --> 01:05:26,160
Speaker 7: who will be their starting quarterback moving forward. Buccaneers over

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01:05:26,200 --> 01:05:27,600
Speaker 7: the Titans twenty to six.

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01:05:28,040 --> 01:05:28,520
Speaker 6: Colts.

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Speaker 7: They win that ugly game in Germany against the Patriots

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01:05:31,360 --> 01:05:34,320
Speaker 7: ten to six. Indy at five and five and one.

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Speaker 7: Quick note in the NBA, Tyrese Maxi scored fifty tonight

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01:05:37,680 --> 01:05:40,200
Speaker 7: for the seventy six ers. They beat the Pacers one

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Speaker 7: thirty seven to one twenty six. Philly is now eight

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Speaker 7: to one on the season. Mark Kyle, back to you guys.

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Speaker 2: All right, great, Steph Nick, we'll talk to you again

1115
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Speaker 2: in an hour. We are live in the tie rack

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Speaker 2: dot Com studios. Hey, before we get to harball real quick,

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Speaker 2: what do you think is realistic here? And what actors

1118
01:06:00,560 --> 01:06:03,880
Speaker 2: are in play? The idea of Aaron Rodgers returning. What

1119
01:06:04,520 --> 01:06:05,640
Speaker 2: do you think we're gonna see here?

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Speaker 3: I think we're gonna see a guy who you know

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01:06:11,600 --> 01:06:15,680
Speaker 3: we talked about that three week practice window with Justin Jefferson.

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01:06:15,920 --> 01:06:18,920
Speaker 3: You know that that's ultimately what Aaron is facing. You know,

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01:06:18,960 --> 01:06:21,200
Speaker 3: when he decides that, hey, I feel good enough to

1124
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Speaker 3: give this a shot, he gets three weeks to come

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01:06:24,160 --> 01:06:27,640
Speaker 3: back and practice and and then ultimately decide, Okay, I

1126
01:06:27,680 --> 01:06:29,960
Speaker 3: felt good enough at practice over the course of the

1127
01:06:30,120 --> 01:06:32,920
Speaker 3: that period of time to give it a go. And

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Speaker 3: I've said this all along. There are certain people, certain

1129
01:06:37,920 --> 01:06:41,560
Speaker 3: guys in our league that you just never bet against them.

1130
01:06:41,720 --> 01:06:44,320
Speaker 3: You just never count them out. You know. They they

1131
01:06:44,520 --> 01:06:51,959
Speaker 3: use the doubt and disbelief almost as motivation to prove

1132
01:06:52,040 --> 01:06:55,320
Speaker 3: you wrong. And and I feel like that's where Aaron is.

1133
01:06:55,360 --> 01:06:58,000
Speaker 3: And you know, we went through their schedule a couple

1134
01:06:58,000 --> 01:07:01,560
Speaker 3: of weeks ago and looked at, you know, potentially where

1135
01:07:01,600 --> 01:07:04,400
Speaker 3: they could be around Christmas time. And you know, to

1136
01:07:04,480 --> 01:07:08,360
Speaker 3: me personally, that's kind of where I see this starting

1137
01:07:08,440 --> 01:07:11,640
Speaker 3: to become a realistic possibility.

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Speaker 2: I tell you what I does the does the record

1139
01:07:19,520 --> 01:07:22,640
Speaker 2: affect it like it? Do you think that that's going

1140
01:07:22,680 --> 01:07:25,520
Speaker 2: on as well? Like you said the Justin Jefferson situation,

1141
01:07:25,680 --> 01:07:29,000
Speaker 2: for a while, I'm looking at this going. Man, It's

1142
01:07:29,040 --> 01:07:32,040
Speaker 2: like with each win, this puts pressure here, It puts

1143
01:07:32,040 --> 01:07:35,200
Speaker 2: pressure over there. The Jets are up by six points

1144
01:07:35,280 --> 01:07:38,280
Speaker 2: right now, they win this and they've they've they've got

1145
01:07:38,800 --> 01:07:43,080
Speaker 2: a winning record. Is Aaron only coming back if the

1146
01:07:43,160 --> 01:07:46,960
Speaker 2: Jets can sort of smell a playoff run?

1147
01:07:47,840 --> 01:07:53,000
Speaker 3: And I think had things gone poorly for the Jets

1148
01:07:53,280 --> 01:07:57,880
Speaker 3: following Week one when Aaron got injured, Quite honestly, I

1149
01:07:57,920 --> 01:08:01,680
Speaker 3: don't even think that these would be conversations we're having

1150
01:08:01,960 --> 01:08:05,840
Speaker 3: or stories that we're listening to or reading. It just

1151
01:08:05,920 --> 01:08:09,280
Speaker 3: simply would not make sense for Aaron to come back

1152
01:08:09,360 --> 01:08:12,800
Speaker 3: to a team that's mathematically eliminated from the playoffs. So

1153
01:08:13,440 --> 01:08:15,680
Speaker 3: you know, certainly that that plays into it as well,

1154
01:08:15,720 --> 01:08:18,320
Speaker 3: with his his three week window that he would have

1155
01:08:18,400 --> 01:08:22,360
Speaker 3: coming off of IRU, it allows him time to not

1156
01:08:22,439 --> 01:08:26,160
Speaker 3: only see how he feels physically out at practice moving around,

1157
01:08:26,760 --> 01:08:30,720
Speaker 3: but also you know, are we within striking distance? You know?

1158
01:08:30,800 --> 01:08:34,760
Speaker 3: Can I come back and ultimately give this team a

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01:08:34,840 --> 01:08:39,200
Speaker 3: shot at just having a chance. All they need is

1160
01:08:39,360 --> 01:08:42,559
Speaker 3: to get in. And it's like this roster we've talked

1161
01:08:42,560 --> 01:08:45,920
Speaker 3: about it, it's built for a Super Bowl championship. It's

1162
01:08:45,960 --> 01:08:50,280
Speaker 3: got talent all over the place. And oh, by the way,

1163
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Speaker 3: their last game of the year is against the Patriots,

1164
01:08:54,439 --> 01:08:59,880
Speaker 3: so It's like if they're at a point where jen

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01:09:00,080 --> 01:09:04,479
Speaker 3: Uuary seventh, it's when and we're in you're playing the

1166
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Speaker 3: New England Patriots and you know who knows will be

1167
01:09:07,400 --> 01:09:08,679
Speaker 3: their quarterback at that time?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, might be able to win that with with just

1169
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Speaker 2: about anybody, and who knows where the Patriots quarterback will

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Speaker 2: be at that point. Okay, I've been real curious to

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01:09:20,040 --> 01:09:22,760
Speaker 2: get everybody's sort of response on this. Everywhere I went

1172
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Speaker 2: this weekend, people wanted to know, like, what do you

1173
01:09:25,920 --> 01:09:31,360
Speaker 2: think about the hardball situation as far as being pulled

1174
01:09:31,400 --> 01:09:33,840
Speaker 2: off of the sideline and then getting the victory? And

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Speaker 2: you got an assistant coach who was i mean driven

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Speaker 2: to an incredibly emotional response. Led to some very interesting

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Speaker 2: live television with all kinds of words they're not allowed

1178
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Speaker 2: to use. So that was a ton of fun. But

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Speaker 2: but what do you think? First off, what do you

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Speaker 2: think with the way that college football has handled this

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Speaker 2: whole thing.

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Speaker 3: I think it's the way college football ultimately handles everything poorly.

1183
01:10:01,760 --> 01:10:06,800
Speaker 3: It's you know again, it's we we talk about the NCAA,

1184
01:10:06,960 --> 01:10:09,400
Speaker 3: and you know, as soon as they think they're high

1185
01:10:09,439 --> 01:10:13,759
Speaker 3: and mighty, we have stuff like head coaches making seventy

1186
01:10:13,760 --> 01:10:16,200
Speaker 3: six point eight million dollars, not to coach, and just

1187
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Speaker 3: the whole way that they've handled this. It's it's, you know,

1188
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Speaker 3: if you feel like there is something there that has

1189
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Speaker 3: created a competitive advantage, either handle it or say you're

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Speaker 3: going to handle it after the season. You know, either

1191
01:10:34,080 --> 01:10:36,240
Speaker 3: do it or say we're going to come back to

1192
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Speaker 3: it after the season. The whole you know, waiting till

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Speaker 3: Saturday afternoon to ultimately make a decision and pull Harball

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Speaker 3: off the sidelines, and like just either do it or

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Speaker 3: don't you know, And again, I don't know enough about

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Speaker 3: the situation. I haven't done my research or my homework

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Speaker 3: enough to to to speak one way or the other.

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Speaker 3: But ultimately it's like, again we talk about the NCUBA,

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Speaker 3: and who who do we talk about that it is about?

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Speaker 3: When we talk about the NCUBA, it's about the student athletes. Well,

1201
01:11:12,840 --> 01:11:16,720
Speaker 3: let's make sure we're not punishing the student athletes for

1202
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Speaker 3: something that they may have had nothing to do with.

1203
01:11:20,000 --> 01:11:24,439
Speaker 3: So again it's like either figure it out and make

1204
01:11:24,479 --> 01:11:30,200
Speaker 3: a decision and have evidence that supports your decision, or say, look,

1205
01:11:30,280 --> 01:11:33,360
Speaker 3: there's just too much to unpack here. We will visit

1206
01:11:33,400 --> 01:11:36,520
Speaker 3: this after the season. And do a thorough investigation.

1207
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Speaker 2: I think that that's calm. I think that that's reasoned.

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Speaker 2: I think that that all makes sense. However, I also

1209
01:11:44,640 --> 01:11:49,120
Speaker 2: think Michigan acted the victim in a way that maybe

1210
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Speaker 2: they shouldn't have a little more on this coming up

1211
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Speaker 2: next with Kyle Rudolph. I'm Mark Willard and this is

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Speaker 2: Fox Sports Radio. All right. We're in the tie rag

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Speaker 2: dot Com studios. Mark it than Kyle Rudolf with you

1214
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Speaker 2: on a Sunday night. Glad you're with us here week

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Speaker 2: ten in the National Football League Center Focus. But we've

1216
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Speaker 2: been working through the Jim Harbaugh situation as well. Kyle,

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Speaker 2: I wonder what your what your thoughts are? This is

1218
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Speaker 2: kind of broad question, but like emotion in sports, it

1219
01:12:19,400 --> 01:12:22,840
Speaker 2: it's a great thing. But the famous line from Leaving

1220
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Speaker 2: their Own that everybody likes to use, there's no crying

1221
01:12:26,200 --> 01:12:29,960
Speaker 2: in baseball. You know, Caleb Williams is uh Is crying

1222
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Speaker 2: in the stands with his mom a couple of weeks ago.

1223
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Speaker 2: There's no crying in football. There's no crying in this that.

1224
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Speaker 2: I think there's crying everywhere personally, but that's just a movie.

1225
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Speaker 2: What what are your thoughts on that sort of public

1226
01:12:44,120 --> 01:12:47,919
Speaker 2: emotional response to sports in general.

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Speaker 3: I mean, I think there's there's a time and a

1228
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Speaker 3: place for it. I don't know that either of the

1229
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Speaker 3: examples that you just mentioned would warrant being the time

1230
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Speaker 3: or place for it. And it's just you know, again,

1231
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Speaker 3: you you mentioned Michigan kind of playing the victim card,

1232
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Speaker 3: and I could have been Michigan's head coach on Saturday

1233
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Speaker 3: and we would have beat Penn State. Penn State sticks everybody.

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Speaker 3: You know, It's like there's two good teams in the

1235
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Speaker 3: Big Ten and there's everyone else. So you know, I

1236
01:13:23,680 --> 01:13:26,479
Speaker 3: get it. That's a coach that you know, goes to

1237
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Speaker 3: work every single day. You know, they put the hours in,

1238
01:13:30,880 --> 01:13:33,680
Speaker 3: they put the time in. You know, you're trying to

1239
01:13:33,720 --> 01:13:35,920
Speaker 3: prepare your players to go out and win a football game.

1240
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Speaker 3: But you know, ultimately you just beat a very average

1241
01:13:38,960 --> 01:13:43,200
Speaker 3: football team. You know, it is what it is. It

1242
01:13:43,200 --> 01:13:44,880
Speaker 3: would be one thing if that was Ohio State on

1243
01:13:44,920 --> 01:13:49,080
Speaker 3: the other sideline and this happened that week. So I

1244
01:13:49,120 --> 01:13:50,800
Speaker 3: think that again, I think there's a time and a

1245
01:13:50,840 --> 01:13:57,120
Speaker 3: place for it. Certainly after losing with the USC that's

1246
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Speaker 3: our third loss or fourth loss.

1247
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Speaker 2: I've lost track. Yeah me too, Yeah, I think at

1248
01:14:03,520 --> 01:14:05,720
Speaker 2: the time at the time it was their third.

1249
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Speaker 3: Yes, sure, correct, yes, yes, I don't know. I mean,

1250
01:14:11,920 --> 01:14:15,519
Speaker 3: what's gonna happen next year? Like, is that why you've

1251
01:14:15,600 --> 01:14:18,040
Speaker 3: picked a list of five teams that you're willing to

1252
01:14:18,040 --> 01:14:20,280
Speaker 3: play for? Because you know, if if you go play

1253
01:14:20,320 --> 01:14:22,160
Speaker 3: on the worst team in the NFL, you you might

1254
01:14:22,200 --> 01:14:26,559
Speaker 3: have three losses by October first. You know, it's like

1255
01:14:27,320 --> 01:14:32,320
Speaker 3: there's gonna be a lot more trying times and adversity

1256
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Speaker 3: throughout your course, throughout your career as a quarterback. And

1257
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Speaker 3: if you're crying after a loss in college and to me,

1258
01:14:43,000 --> 01:14:46,680
Speaker 3: I don't I don't buy the you know, emotionally invested,

1259
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Speaker 3: poured my heart out, you know, like, no, I'm not

1260
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Speaker 3: buying that interesting.

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Speaker 2: I mean, I was thinking, maybe we don't know what

1262
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Speaker 2: he said to his mom. Maybe it's like, mom, Belichick

1263
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Speaker 2: looks really mean, and I might I might end up there. Now.

1264
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Speaker 2: I don't know what he was saying to her, but

1265
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Speaker 2: I'll circle back to that. Sharon Moore, the interim coach

1266
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Speaker 2: from Michigan. Look, we all are cut from a different cloth.

1267
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Speaker 2: Many of us have emotions on our sleeve. Some people

1268
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Speaker 2: don't even cry at funerals and so I like, not

1269
01:15:19,439 --> 01:15:22,960
Speaker 2: here to talk about like when emotion is supposed to

1270
01:15:22,960 --> 01:15:25,480
Speaker 2: come up, because it's often totally out of our control.

1271
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Speaker 2: But this one just felt weird to me, and it

1272
01:15:30,880 --> 01:15:38,439
Speaker 2: didn't feel clean to see Michigan sort of have, at

1273
01:15:38,520 --> 01:15:42,360
Speaker 2: least the face of their program for the day say

1274
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Speaker 2: what he said. It wasn't so much the tears, it

1275
01:15:46,000 --> 01:15:49,800
Speaker 2: was what he said. We can all sit here, and

1276
01:15:50,160 --> 01:15:52,360
Speaker 2: maybe not all of us, but I think most of

1277
01:15:52,439 --> 01:15:56,240
Speaker 2: us can agree. It was a very clunky way that

1278
01:15:56,280 --> 01:16:00,439
Speaker 2: this was handled by the powers that be. But at

1279
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Speaker 2: the same time, I'm certainly not here to be like

1280
01:16:04,479 --> 01:16:09,720
Speaker 2: and Jim Harbaugh is the victim. Oh my gosh, I

1281
01:16:09,760 --> 01:16:15,200
Speaker 2: can't believe that this has been done to Michigan. Wow,

1282
01:16:15,680 --> 01:16:19,080
Speaker 2: they become the sympathetic figure of college football. Get out

1283
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Speaker 2: of here, Get out of here with that, Like, no,

1284
01:16:22,360 --> 01:16:26,160
Speaker 2: we don't know what happened, but we're pretty sure something, did,

1285
01:16:26,680 --> 01:16:29,519
Speaker 2: you know what I mean? Like if the TCU coaches

1286
01:16:29,600 --> 01:16:33,320
Speaker 2: put dummy plays out there last year and you suddenly

1287
01:16:33,560 --> 01:16:36,880
Speaker 2: literally could not one play go your way, well there's

1288
01:16:36,920 --> 01:16:42,840
Speaker 2: probably something to it. So I like, yes, due process, Yes,

1289
01:16:43,280 --> 01:16:46,439
Speaker 2: let's figure it all out before you really move forward.

1290
01:16:46,960 --> 01:16:51,920
Speaker 2: But Michigan the victim. I'm sorry, I just I couldn't

1291
01:16:51,920 --> 01:16:54,120
Speaker 2: wrap my head around that one.

1292
01:16:54,280 --> 01:16:56,840
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm not buying that either. And you know, again

1293
01:16:56,920 --> 01:17:01,720
Speaker 3: I just go back to, you know, as members of

1294
01:17:01,760 --> 01:17:06,040
Speaker 3: the media, it's our job to throughout the course of

1295
01:17:06,080 --> 01:17:11,800
Speaker 3: the week make that game bigger than it is. It's

1296
01:17:12,120 --> 01:17:17,360
Speaker 3: Fox's job. They have big noon Saturday there, like, right,

1297
01:17:17,520 --> 01:17:20,599
Speaker 3: we want to make this seam you know, a huge deal.

1298
01:17:20,680 --> 01:17:25,840
Speaker 3: A top ten matchup Penn State Michigan. Again, Penn State,

1299
01:17:26,000 --> 01:17:29,960
Speaker 3: their offense thinks it didn't matter who the head coach

1300
01:17:30,160 --> 01:17:33,479
Speaker 3: was on that team, Michigan was gonna win that game.

1301
01:17:33,800 --> 01:17:38,719
Speaker 3: And they're you know, gearing up for the rivalry game,

1302
01:17:38,880 --> 01:17:42,639
Speaker 3: the last game of the season against Ohio State. So again,

1303
01:17:42,720 --> 01:17:47,280
Speaker 3: that's where in my opinion, whether it's you know, Michigan

1304
01:17:47,560 --> 01:17:55,160
Speaker 3: and their challenges or mindset internally playing the victim card

1305
01:17:55,439 --> 01:17:59,680
Speaker 3: or using it as motivation, whatever you do, do it,

1306
01:18:00,640 --> 01:18:03,240
Speaker 3: go for it. And certainly if I was in that

1307
01:18:03,280 --> 01:18:06,400
Speaker 3: locker room, I would use it as motivation as well.

1308
01:18:07,600 --> 01:18:10,760
Speaker 3: On the flip side from the Big ten, I felt

1309
01:18:10,840 --> 01:18:14,280
Speaker 3: like it was one of these things where they just well,

1310
01:18:14,320 --> 01:18:16,639
Speaker 3: we had to do something, you know, we were getting

1311
01:18:16,640 --> 01:18:21,200
Speaker 3: pressure from everyone, but yet we didn't really want to

1312
01:18:21,280 --> 01:18:26,360
Speaker 3: do anything. And that's where they settled as, Okay, perfect,

1313
01:18:26,400 --> 01:18:30,960
Speaker 3: we're gonna make it seem like we're taking action, but

1314
01:18:31,120 --> 01:18:33,479
Speaker 3: we're really not taking too much of action.

1315
01:18:34,320 --> 01:18:38,719
Speaker 2: Well, you can always tell whenever a piece of news

1316
01:18:38,760 --> 01:18:42,599
Speaker 2: sort of filters out and then whoever is in charge

1317
01:18:42,760 --> 01:18:45,240
Speaker 2: just lets it kind of sit there for a beat.

1318
01:18:46,000 --> 01:18:49,519
Speaker 2: Let's sit there day, two days, three days. And what

1319
01:18:49,560 --> 01:18:53,080
Speaker 2: they're doing is I think it's like they're dipping their

1320
01:18:53,080 --> 01:18:55,920
Speaker 2: toe in the water. Let's get the public's sort of

1321
01:18:56,000 --> 01:18:59,360
Speaker 2: thought on this. How much heat is there? How much anger?

1322
01:19:00,120 --> 01:19:04,280
Speaker 2: This one? It didn't really quiet down, it didn't really

1323
01:19:04,280 --> 01:19:07,080
Speaker 2: go away. You had other coaches start to talk about it,

1324
01:19:07,560 --> 01:19:10,920
Speaker 2: and it kept sort of feeling like, Okay, what are

1325
01:19:10,960 --> 01:19:12,760
Speaker 2: you gonna do? What are you gonna do? So I

1326
01:19:12,800 --> 01:19:15,920
Speaker 2: think that speaks to what you're talking about. This wasn't

1327
01:19:15,920 --> 01:19:18,920
Speaker 2: the right thing. It was just something, and that's what

1328
01:19:18,960 --> 01:19:20,200
Speaker 2: they felt like they needed to do.

1329
01:19:22,360 --> 01:19:23,320
Speaker 3: I couldn't agree more.

1330
01:19:25,560 --> 01:19:29,479
Speaker 2: All right, I tell you what, Mark Willard, Kyle Rudolph,

1331
01:19:29,880 --> 01:19:33,040
Speaker 2: and I'm looking at the standings in the NFL right now,

1332
01:19:33,040 --> 01:19:36,840
Speaker 2: they've reached the half in the Sunday Night Football game,

1333
01:19:37,520 --> 01:19:39,800
Speaker 2: and when you look at it right now, I've always

1334
01:19:39,840 --> 01:19:42,799
Speaker 2: said this in the off season in the NFL, we

1335
01:19:42,800 --> 01:19:45,920
Speaker 2: we all have our division by division predictions and I

1336
01:19:45,920 --> 01:19:47,800
Speaker 2: always look at them in August and I go, well,

1337
01:19:47,800 --> 01:19:50,320
Speaker 2: one thing, I know for sure it's not going to

1338
01:19:50,360 --> 01:19:56,000
Speaker 2: look like that, because we're never always right. This year,

1339
01:19:56,640 --> 01:20:01,200
Speaker 2: the way it's stacking out Bills and Dolphins and Ravens

1340
01:20:01,240 --> 01:20:04,439
Speaker 2: and Jags and Chiefs and Eagles and Lions and Saints

1341
01:20:04,439 --> 01:20:09,240
Speaker 2: and Niners, it's like, oh my goodness, that's exactly what

1342
01:20:09,680 --> 01:20:13,160
Speaker 2: we thought it was gonna look like. So the party

1343
01:20:13,240 --> 01:20:17,320
Speaker 2: crashers or the potential ones is where we'll go. Coming

1344
01:20:17,439 --> 01:20:19,759
Speaker 2: up next on Fox Sports Radio.

1345
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Speaker 2: There are usually some surprises in the NFL, and there

1350
01:20:34,960 --> 01:20:38,040
Speaker 2: may be this year as well. However, most of the

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01:20:38,080 --> 01:20:42,320
Speaker 2: divisions are going, I don't know, pretty much exactly like

1352
01:20:42,760 --> 01:20:45,920
Speaker 2: we thought they were going to go. We'll talk about

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01:21:04,040 --> 01:21:07,160
Speaker 2: don't want this to turn you into an interview, but

1359
01:21:07,200 --> 01:21:09,840
Speaker 2: I got questions. I got questions, and I wonder how

1360
01:21:09,880 --> 01:21:12,400
Speaker 2: you would answer them, Kyle, And then we can kind

1361
01:21:12,400 --> 01:21:14,160
Speaker 2: of bat it around a little bit. But let me

1362
01:21:14,439 --> 01:21:16,280
Speaker 2: let me throw a few of them out there. Let

1363
01:21:16,280 --> 01:21:20,240
Speaker 2: me start with this one. After the forty nine ers

1364
01:21:20,520 --> 01:21:24,280
Speaker 2: dismantled the Jacksonville Jaguars, and I thought it was an

1365
01:21:24,280 --> 01:21:29,479
Speaker 2: incredibly pivotal game for the forty nine ers. Well, you

1366
01:21:29,640 --> 01:21:31,880
Speaker 2: fancy yourself as maybe one of the best teams in

1367
01:21:31,920 --> 01:21:34,040
Speaker 2: the league. You've pointed at them twice so far on

1368
01:21:34,120 --> 01:21:37,400
Speaker 2: this show as saying, when at their best, that's the

1369
01:21:37,439 --> 01:21:40,040
Speaker 2: best team in football. But they were staring down the

1370
01:21:40,080 --> 01:21:43,920
Speaker 2: barrel of going over a month without a win if

1371
01:21:43,920 --> 01:21:46,840
Speaker 2: they lose this football game. And I just thought there

1372
01:21:46,960 --> 01:21:51,080
Speaker 2: was going to get to a new level of impatience

1373
01:21:51,600 --> 01:21:54,040
Speaker 2: if the forty nine ers had lost this game. Conversely,

1374
01:21:54,080 --> 01:21:57,960
Speaker 2: if they win it, especially convincingly, I think it sort

1375
01:21:57,960 --> 01:22:00,840
Speaker 2: of feels like, okay, all is forgiven and all is

1376
01:22:00,880 --> 01:22:04,000
Speaker 2: forgotten with what happened on the three game losing streak,

1377
01:22:04,080 --> 01:22:06,880
Speaker 2: and that's what happened. So that's the Niners. But let

1378
01:22:06,880 --> 01:22:10,519
Speaker 2: me ask you one of my burning questions, and it's

1379
01:22:10,560 --> 01:22:15,679
Speaker 2: on the Jaguars side here, how good is Trevor Lawrence?

1380
01:22:16,800 --> 01:22:17,800
Speaker 2: How would you answer that?

1381
01:22:20,400 --> 01:22:25,920
Speaker 3: I think he's really good. I think really good quarterbacks

1382
01:22:25,960 --> 01:22:32,080
Speaker 3: can look very pedestrian when they face a defensive performance

1383
01:22:32,080 --> 01:22:35,320
Speaker 3: in a rush like he faced today. I've said that

1384
01:22:35,439 --> 01:22:38,080
Speaker 3: multiple times. You know, the easiest way to make a

1385
01:22:38,120 --> 01:22:41,520
Speaker 3: great quarterback look very average is by making him uncomfortable

1386
01:22:41,560 --> 01:22:46,000
Speaker 3: and putting pressure on him. It again, like when if

1387
01:22:46,080 --> 01:22:48,200
Speaker 3: I was a GM and I was building a team,

1388
01:22:48,360 --> 01:22:51,080
Speaker 3: it's gonna start with the four guys that rushed the

1389
01:22:51,120 --> 01:22:56,840
Speaker 3: passer because it's such a equalizer and it can just

1390
01:22:57,680 --> 01:23:03,240
Speaker 3: make their best player very very average. And you know,

1391
01:23:04,120 --> 01:23:07,920
Speaker 3: Trevor Lawrence, in my opinion, you know, he's up there,

1392
01:23:08,200 --> 01:23:13,280
Speaker 3: you know, certainly in my opinion, definitely the top third

1393
01:23:13,320 --> 01:23:16,440
Speaker 3: of quarterbacks in the NFL. He's a guy that has

1394
01:23:16,720 --> 01:23:21,879
Speaker 3: all the intangibles, talent, makes all the throws, the demeanor

1395
01:23:21,920 --> 01:23:25,360
Speaker 3: of a franchise quarterback. So I don't think today is

1396
01:23:25,360 --> 01:23:29,160
Speaker 3: indicative at all of who Trevor Lawrence is and certainly

1397
01:23:29,200 --> 01:23:31,400
Speaker 3: the play that he's had up to this point this year.

1398
01:23:32,120 --> 01:23:36,160
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't ask because of today's output. I'm with you.

1399
01:23:36,720 --> 01:23:40,720
Speaker 2: He was under intense pressure the entire day, and the

1400
01:23:40,840 --> 01:23:44,080
Speaker 2: Niner pass rush suddenly looked like the Niner pass rush

1401
01:23:44,360 --> 01:23:47,960
Speaker 2: was supposed to look. But I did see this tonight

1402
01:23:48,439 --> 01:23:53,840
Speaker 2: from Richard Sherman, and he wrote, So when I make

1403
01:23:53,880 --> 01:23:58,479
Speaker 2: an assessment that Trevor Lawrence hasn't been the generational talent

1404
01:23:58,640 --> 01:24:02,200
Speaker 2: he was billed to be coming out of Clemson, Jags

1405
01:24:02,240 --> 01:24:06,240
Speaker 2: fans are up in arms. The tape doesn't lie. The

1406
01:24:06,320 --> 01:24:09,960
Speaker 2: team is won because the defense has gotten turnovers. At

1407
01:24:09,960 --> 01:24:13,760
Speaker 2: this point, Trevor Lawrence has more turnovers than TDS on

1408
01:24:13,840 --> 01:24:17,519
Speaker 2: the season, despite that his team has been winning. He

1409
01:24:17,560 --> 01:24:21,240
Speaker 2: has all the talent in the world. However, that has

1410
01:24:21,400 --> 01:24:28,680
Speaker 2: not been showcased consistently. How would you respond to Sherm.

1411
01:24:29,600 --> 01:24:35,080
Speaker 3: I mean, certainly you can point to inconsistency, but I

1412
01:24:35,120 --> 01:24:38,280
Speaker 3: don't think that doesn't mean he's not, like I said,

1413
01:24:38,360 --> 01:24:41,360
Speaker 3: one of the you know, top third definitely a franchise quarterback.

1414
01:24:42,400 --> 01:24:44,719
Speaker 3: You know this is a guy in his third year.

1415
01:24:45,760 --> 01:24:49,360
Speaker 3: Are you know our young quarterbacks not allowed to be inconsistent.

1416
01:24:49,800 --> 01:24:51,920
Speaker 3: I think there were times, you know, I remember thinking

1417
01:24:52,000 --> 01:24:55,439
Speaker 3: back to a guy like Andrew Luck. You know, you

1418
01:24:55,640 --> 01:24:59,840
Speaker 3: show flashes of brilliance and athleticism and then you know,

1419
01:25:00,040 --> 01:25:02,680
Speaker 3: maybe not so much. And it's like, ultimately, over the

1420
01:25:02,720 --> 01:25:06,519
Speaker 3: course of Andrews seven or eight years, he got better

1421
01:25:06,520 --> 01:25:09,519
Speaker 3: and better and better. Toos like, there's the generational talent

1422
01:25:09,680 --> 01:25:13,360
Speaker 3: that we thought we drafted out of Stanford, And I

1423
01:25:13,400 --> 01:25:19,960
Speaker 3: think that's you know, let's not take credit away from

1424
01:25:20,080 --> 01:25:23,600
Speaker 3: Trevor and you know, certainly he put himself in the

1425
01:25:23,640 --> 01:25:26,599
Speaker 3: hole last year in the playoff game, but he also

1426
01:25:26,640 --> 01:25:29,240
Speaker 3: came back in the second half and erased a twenty

1427
01:25:29,280 --> 01:25:31,880
Speaker 3: seven point deficit and won a playoff game for the

1428
01:25:31,960 --> 01:25:36,960
Speaker 3: Jacksonville Jaguars team that really back to back number one

1429
01:25:37,000 --> 01:25:41,920
Speaker 3: overall picks before that, so not just him as the

1430
01:25:42,000 --> 01:25:44,240
Speaker 3: number one pick, but they also had the number one

1431
01:25:44,240 --> 01:25:49,400
Speaker 3: pick again. So I think it's it's certainly fair criticism

1432
01:25:49,560 --> 01:25:52,200
Speaker 3: to say that, you know, I haven't seen the consistency

1433
01:25:52,320 --> 01:25:56,760
Speaker 3: out of him, but I think the generational talent you

1434
01:25:56,880 --> 01:25:57,720
Speaker 3: definitely see it.

1435
01:25:59,400 --> 01:26:02,719
Speaker 2: You mentioned his playoff come from behind win over the Chargers.

1436
01:26:02,760 --> 01:26:07,599
Speaker 2: My next question is about them. Why can't their defense

1437
01:26:07,640 --> 01:26:10,080
Speaker 2: stop anybody?

1438
01:26:11,439 --> 01:26:15,240
Speaker 3: That's a great question. Certainly you look at the roster,

1439
01:26:16,439 --> 01:26:18,519
Speaker 3: the talent that they have on that side of the ball.

1440
01:26:18,560 --> 01:26:20,679
Speaker 3: To to I just talked about it. If I'm building

1441
01:26:20,720 --> 01:26:25,160
Speaker 3: a team, it's starting with try rush. You have Joey

1442
01:26:25,200 --> 01:26:28,680
Speaker 3: Bosa and Khalil Mack getting after the quarterback. You have

1443
01:26:28,880 --> 01:26:31,720
Speaker 3: two of the best in the game getting after the quarterback.

1444
01:26:32,439 --> 01:26:36,720
Speaker 3: You've got two really good linebackers, and Kenneth Murray and

1445
01:26:36,880 --> 01:26:42,080
Speaker 3: Eric Kendricks, Derwin James consistently touted as one of the

1446
01:26:42,120 --> 01:26:47,400
Speaker 3: best safeties in football, Sante Samuel Junior, really good young,

1447
01:26:47,439 --> 01:26:52,040
Speaker 3: aggressive cornerback. All the pieces are there, and ultimately, you know,

1448
01:26:52,320 --> 01:26:58,280
Speaker 3: at times I feel like defenses who play on the

1449
01:26:58,320 --> 01:27:01,640
Speaker 3: other side of the ball of an offense that typically

1450
01:27:01,720 --> 01:27:04,240
Speaker 3: throws it as much as the Chargers do, can be

1451
01:27:04,280 --> 01:27:09,760
Speaker 3: put in bad situations at times. But you know, I

1452
01:27:09,760 --> 01:27:11,400
Speaker 3: don't know if that's the case here. You know, they

1453
01:27:11,520 --> 01:27:14,720
Speaker 3: just simply could not stop the Detroit Lions today. They

1454
01:27:14,720 --> 01:27:20,839
Speaker 3: were just up and down the field almost at will.

1455
01:27:19,360 --> 01:27:22,320
Speaker 2: Completely at will. Yes, And so got to the point

1456
01:27:22,320 --> 01:27:23,960
Speaker 2: where was one of those games where it was probably

1457
01:27:24,000 --> 01:27:26,439
Speaker 2: going to be whoever had the ball last. But if

1458
01:27:26,439 --> 01:27:29,720
Speaker 2: you watched that game, it was very clear that it

1459
01:27:29,760 --> 01:27:33,599
Speaker 2: was like the Chargers. Herbert did a great job of

1460
01:27:33,760 --> 01:27:38,479
Speaker 2: grinding away and keeping up with what the Lions were doing,

1461
01:27:39,160 --> 01:27:40,880
Speaker 2: but then the Lions would get the ball and just

1462
01:27:40,920 --> 01:27:43,360
Speaker 2: go right down the other end. I mean, it was

1463
01:27:43,479 --> 01:27:46,960
Speaker 2: just easy their play calling. They were in their bag.

1464
01:27:47,840 --> 01:27:52,400
Speaker 2: Jamiir Gibbs and David Montgomery look like a fire and

1465
01:27:52,479 --> 01:27:55,800
Speaker 2: ice combo in the making that can really do some

1466
01:27:55,920 --> 01:28:01,080
Speaker 2: interesting things. And in fact, maybe maybe that leads to

1467
01:28:01,560 --> 01:28:06,000
Speaker 2: the next question, which is who are the Lions? And

1468
01:28:06,040 --> 01:28:08,760
Speaker 2: I mean that in a more in depth way. I

1469
01:28:09,160 --> 01:28:11,000
Speaker 2: think they're going to be the winner of that division.

1470
01:28:11,040 --> 01:28:14,280
Speaker 2: I think they're gonna host a playoff game, maybe more.

1471
01:28:15,280 --> 01:28:20,880
Speaker 2: But they still don't get mentioned with Niners, Eagles, Cowboys.

1472
01:28:20,960 --> 01:28:25,040
Speaker 2: Should they? You know?

1473
01:28:25,080 --> 01:28:28,479
Speaker 3: I think we prior to them going to Baltimore and

1474
01:28:28,640 --> 01:28:30,479
Speaker 3: you know, getting their little slap on the wrists and

1475
01:28:30,520 --> 01:28:34,240
Speaker 3: going back to Detroit, we we started talking about this

1476
01:28:34,360 --> 01:28:39,200
Speaker 3: Lions team as a team that belongs in that conversation,

1477
01:28:39,920 --> 01:28:45,960
Speaker 3: especially in especially in the NFC conference that we've talked about.

1478
01:28:46,760 --> 01:28:50,879
Speaker 3: Certainly it's it's top heavy. You have Eagles and Niners

1479
01:28:50,920 --> 01:28:54,720
Speaker 3: at the top, and then you know, really not a

1480
01:28:54,760 --> 01:28:57,920
Speaker 3: whole lot else, and then in the AFC you have

1481
01:28:58,000 --> 01:29:03,600
Speaker 3: this incredibly de conference. So I personally, I believe the

1482
01:29:03,640 --> 01:29:06,880
Speaker 3: Eagles are Excuse me, I believe the Lions deserve to

1483
01:29:06,960 --> 01:29:10,880
Speaker 3: be mentioned with the Eagles and the Niners as well.

1484
01:29:11,360 --> 01:29:14,479
Speaker 3: We've talked about the body of work since about this

1485
01:29:14,600 --> 01:29:18,400
Speaker 3: time last year. They went on the run the back

1486
01:29:18,439 --> 01:29:20,160
Speaker 3: half of last year. I think I heard on the

1487
01:29:20,200 --> 01:29:24,479
Speaker 3: broadcast today they're fourteen and four in their last eighteen games.

1488
01:29:25,280 --> 01:29:32,639
Speaker 3: So it's a Detroit Lions team that is well rounded balance,

1489
01:29:34,160 --> 01:29:37,479
Speaker 3: they're playing better defense than they did last year and

1490
01:29:37,600 --> 01:29:41,720
Speaker 3: early in the year, and an offense that's led by

1491
01:29:41,720 --> 01:29:44,519
Speaker 3: a quarterback, in my opinion, who just really has never

1492
01:29:44,560 --> 01:29:47,639
Speaker 3: gotten enough credit. It was always we wanted to blame

1493
01:29:47,680 --> 01:29:51,240
Speaker 3: the Rams struggles on him. Then he almost got shipped

1494
01:29:51,240 --> 01:29:54,400
Speaker 3: off to Detroit to be forgotten about as his former

1495
01:29:54,439 --> 01:29:57,080
Speaker 3: team wins the Super Bowl the first year without him.

1496
01:29:57,520 --> 01:29:59,639
Speaker 3: Yet he's kind of just kept his head down, kept

1497
01:29:59,680 --> 01:30:02,880
Speaker 3: his mouth shut, and he goes out weekend and week

1498
01:30:02,960 --> 01:30:05,080
Speaker 3: out and wins football games.

1499
01:30:05,520 --> 01:30:08,200
Speaker 2: All right. Next question, now, the Texans going to the playoffs.

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01:30:10,200 --> 01:30:13,360
Speaker 3: I was just looking at that and you look at

1501
01:30:13,400 --> 01:30:17,320
Speaker 3: this AFC I talked about how deep the AFC is,

1502
01:30:17,400 --> 01:30:21,200
Speaker 3: and with the Colts winning today, you also have the

1503
01:30:21,240 --> 01:30:24,280
Speaker 3: Colts at five and five. So there's a chance that

1504
01:30:24,400 --> 01:30:29,719
Speaker 3: if the Jets win today, we have eleven teams five

1505
01:30:29,800 --> 01:30:32,960
Speaker 3: hundred or better. And then the other side of it

1506
01:30:33,000 --> 01:30:37,880
Speaker 3: is we will have eleven teams five hundred or better

1507
01:30:37,920 --> 01:30:41,240
Speaker 3: because if the Jets don't win tonight, the Raiders have

1508
01:30:41,280 --> 01:30:44,920
Speaker 3: to win Red five and five. So you're gonna have

1509
01:30:45,160 --> 01:30:49,120
Speaker 3: eleven teams halfway through November that are five hundred or

1510
01:30:49,320 --> 01:30:52,760
Speaker 3: better out of the sixteen teams in the conference. So

1511
01:30:53,640 --> 01:30:57,559
Speaker 3: extremely deep conference. And right there smack dab in the

1512
01:30:57,560 --> 01:31:01,280
Speaker 3: middle of it is this Houston Texans team that's five

1513
01:31:01,320 --> 01:31:06,839
Speaker 3: and four. You look at some of their upcoming games

1514
01:31:07,000 --> 01:31:10,360
Speaker 3: and who they have coming up and on the schedule.

1515
01:31:10,680 --> 01:31:14,360
Speaker 3: They've already played Jacksonville once, they already won in Jacksonville.

1516
01:31:14,400 --> 01:31:17,679
Speaker 3: So Jacksonville's the first place in the AFC South at

1517
01:31:17,920 --> 01:31:21,280
Speaker 3: six and three. They're sitting there right behind them five

1518
01:31:21,320 --> 01:31:24,160
Speaker 3: and four. They got the Cardinals at home this week,

1519
01:31:24,320 --> 01:31:27,920
Speaker 3: then they get the Jaguars again at home, then the Broncos.

1520
01:31:28,560 --> 01:31:30,920
Speaker 3: It's like we could be looking at a team here

1521
01:31:31,040 --> 01:31:36,679
Speaker 3: that really. You know, we talked about the AFC playoff

1522
01:31:36,720 --> 01:31:39,320
Speaker 3: picture last week with the Bengals and the Bills playing

1523
01:31:39,400 --> 01:31:42,400
Speaker 3: on Sunday Night football, and how that was kind of

1524
01:31:42,439 --> 01:31:46,080
Speaker 3: shaping up, and we almost just you know, anointed the

1525
01:31:46,120 --> 01:31:50,599
Speaker 3: Bengals as if they were gonna be the Bengals of old.

1526
01:31:51,000 --> 01:31:53,679
Speaker 3: And I'm not worried about the Bengals, and I quite

1527
01:31:53,720 --> 01:31:56,759
Speaker 3: honestly don't think the Bengals care if they're a wild

1528
01:31:56,840 --> 01:32:00,439
Speaker 3: card team or not. They almost play better in bigger,

1529
01:32:00,880 --> 01:32:05,000
Speaker 3: more challenging games than they do in these one o'clock

1530
01:32:05,120 --> 01:32:11,040
Speaker 3: kickoffs against the Houston Texans. So yeah, I would not

1531
01:32:11,200 --> 01:32:13,240
Speaker 3: be surprised if we look up in the middle of

1532
01:32:13,320 --> 01:32:16,599
Speaker 3: December and you see the Houston Texans right there at

1533
01:32:16,600 --> 01:32:17,759
Speaker 3: the six or seven spot.

1534
01:32:18,479 --> 01:32:20,720
Speaker 2: I got one more for you, and it's with a

1535
01:32:20,760 --> 01:32:25,720
Speaker 2: team that did not even play football today. The Philadelphia

1536
01:32:25,720 --> 01:32:29,000
Speaker 2: Eagles have the best record in football. They are eight

1537
01:32:29,080 --> 01:32:32,120
Speaker 2: and one. We have talked a lot though about the

1538
01:32:32,200 --> 01:32:35,519
Speaker 2: gauntlet they must run. They've sort of tiptoed into it,

1539
01:32:35,920 --> 01:32:39,320
Speaker 2: and they've done rather well with it their last three

1540
01:32:39,400 --> 01:32:43,280
Speaker 2: games Miami, at Washington and home to Dallas. It's nothing

1541
01:32:43,320 --> 01:32:45,559
Speaker 2: easy in there. They won all three and they're eight

1542
01:32:45,600 --> 01:32:49,519
Speaker 2: and one. But here we go starting next Monday night,

1543
01:32:50,560 --> 01:32:55,519
Speaker 2: Kansas City, then Buffalo, then the forty nine Ers, and

1544
01:32:55,560 --> 01:33:01,240
Speaker 2: then at Dallas. In those four games, what's the Eagles record.

1545
01:33:06,960 --> 01:33:12,600
Speaker 3: M I'm gonna say two and two. I think I

1546
01:33:12,640 --> 01:33:16,200
Speaker 3: think they get two and two, which when we went

1547
01:33:16,280 --> 01:33:21,679
Speaker 3: back and talked about that seven game stretch coming out

1548
01:33:21,720 --> 01:33:25,720
Speaker 3: of the Jets loss, we said, hey, if they're if

1549
01:33:25,760 --> 01:33:28,280
Speaker 3: they're five and three over the next eight games, they're

1550
01:33:28,560 --> 01:33:32,280
Speaker 3: they're happy. If they're six and two, they're really happy.

1551
01:33:33,000 --> 01:33:35,000
Speaker 3: And if they go two and two over the next

1552
01:33:35,040 --> 01:33:37,679
Speaker 3: four they will made it through that gauntlet at six

1553
01:33:37,760 --> 01:33:39,120
Speaker 3: and two, which is pretty good.

1554
01:33:39,200 --> 01:33:44,120
Speaker 2: Two yeah, yeah, exactly. Well, and that that includes at Seattle,

1555
01:33:45,200 --> 01:33:48,320
Speaker 2: the game after the Dallas game. It's at Kansas City,

1556
01:33:48,360 --> 01:33:52,280
Speaker 2: home to Buffalo, home to San Francisco, at Dallas, at Seattle.

1557
01:33:52,600 --> 01:33:56,599
Speaker 2: Do you care to throw in which ones are the losses?

1558
01:33:58,160 --> 01:34:00,880
Speaker 3: If I'm gonna pick two of those as losses, I'm

1559
01:34:01,000 --> 01:34:05,160
Speaker 3: saying Chiefs and Niners.

1560
01:34:05,520 --> 01:34:08,240
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's what I thought you'd say. Yeah, out Arrowhead

1561
01:34:08,280 --> 01:34:11,920
Speaker 2: next Monday. Oh man, that's the task.

1562
01:34:12,320 --> 01:34:15,240
Speaker 3: Yeah, you got the Chiefs coming off of a bye

1563
01:34:15,840 --> 01:34:18,320
Speaker 3: I remember at one point, and it was kind of

1564
01:34:18,880 --> 01:34:23,840
Speaker 3: Andy Reid's end of his Eagles days into his Chiefs days.

1565
01:34:23,840 --> 01:34:27,160
Speaker 3: There was like a a ten or eleven year stretch

1566
01:34:27,160 --> 01:34:29,640
Speaker 3: where Andy Reid didn't lose after a bye, Like just

1567
01:34:29,680 --> 01:34:33,120
Speaker 3: one of those crazy outlying stats that I've thought about.

1568
01:34:33,200 --> 01:34:39,440
Speaker 3: But also, you know, just Arrowhead Monday night Super Bowl rematch,

1569
01:34:41,080 --> 01:34:43,240
Speaker 3: I'm gonna give the advantage to the Chiefs there. I

1570
01:34:43,280 --> 01:34:47,880
Speaker 3: think they beat the Bills at home, which, again, like

1571
01:34:47,960 --> 01:34:51,800
Speaker 3: you were talking about the AFC playoff picture, as of

1572
01:34:51,920 --> 01:34:54,400
Speaker 3: right now, the Bills are on the outside looking in,

1573
01:34:54,920 --> 01:34:58,040
Speaker 3: not by one spot, but by two spots, yep.

1574
01:34:58,120 --> 01:34:59,439
Speaker 2: And you you.

1575
01:34:59,320 --> 01:35:02,599
Speaker 3: Talk about strength of schedule down the stretch. I think

1576
01:35:02,640 --> 01:35:07,040
Speaker 3: that's another reason why the Houston Texans, in my mind,

1577
01:35:07,080 --> 01:35:09,719
Speaker 3: will be right there in the thick of it. They're

1578
01:35:10,120 --> 01:35:12,839
Speaker 3: you know, the Bills are playing the number one schedule

1579
01:35:12,960 --> 01:35:16,040
Speaker 3: from the AFC East as the division winner from last year.

1580
01:35:16,080 --> 01:35:18,719
Speaker 3: They have the toughest schedule in that division. They also

1581
01:35:18,840 --> 01:35:21,639
Speaker 3: have to play all of the other AFC East teams,

1582
01:35:22,840 --> 01:35:29,479
Speaker 3: the Cincinnati Bengals, the Pittsburgh Steelers, the Cleveland Browns, they

1583
01:35:29,479 --> 01:35:31,280
Speaker 3: all have to play each other. They're all in the

1584
01:35:31,320 --> 01:35:34,640
Speaker 3: same division. And then you just kind of have the

1585
01:35:34,680 --> 01:35:36,960
Speaker 3: Houston Texans there. They got, like I said, they got

1586
01:35:37,000 --> 01:35:39,960
Speaker 3: to play Jacksonville in two weeks, but then they're playing

1587
01:35:40,000 --> 01:35:44,559
Speaker 3: the rest of their AFC South opponents and the last

1588
01:35:44,560 --> 01:35:48,360
Speaker 3: place schedule because they came in last place in the

1589
01:35:48,360 --> 01:35:51,439
Speaker 3: AFC South. So strength of schedule down the stretch certainly

1590
01:35:51,439 --> 01:35:54,160
Speaker 3: would play a huge part in that AFC playoff picture.

1591
01:35:54,640 --> 01:35:57,479
Speaker 2: No doubt. And they took on Jacksonville already once this

1592
01:35:57,560 --> 01:36:02,520
Speaker 2: year in Jacksonville and theely crushed him by three touchdowns.

1593
01:36:02,560 --> 01:36:06,760
Speaker 2: So Mark Willard, Kyle Rudolph, who else could crash the

1594
01:36:06,800 --> 01:36:09,000
Speaker 2: party and who's supposed to be the party that may

1595
01:36:09,080 --> 01:36:11,800
Speaker 2: end up going home. We'll talk more about that coming

1596
01:36:11,880 --> 01:36:16,280
Speaker 2: up next on Fox Sports Radio. All right, tyre Rech

1597
01:36:16,400 --> 01:36:21,920
Speaker 2: dot com Studios with Kyle Rudolph. I'm Mark Willard, working

1598
01:36:21,960 --> 01:36:26,599
Speaker 2: through the entire NFL slate. What we thought we knew

1599
01:36:26,840 --> 01:36:31,439
Speaker 2: dot dot dot It changes every single week. And you

1600
01:36:31,520 --> 01:36:35,000
Speaker 2: were talking about it a second ago that AFC North, Like,

1601
01:36:35,280 --> 01:36:39,000
Speaker 2: tell me right now, who's absolutely one percent? We were

1602
01:36:39,040 --> 01:36:42,760
Speaker 2: just talking about the Texans their schedule. You're right, it

1603
01:36:43,120 --> 01:36:46,320
Speaker 2: sets up they may actually crash this party. We talked

1604
01:36:46,320 --> 01:36:50,240
Speaker 2: earlier about the Vikings, who's absolutely supposed to go, who

1605
01:36:50,320 --> 01:36:54,640
Speaker 2: might not like I was very surprised to see what

1606
01:36:54,720 --> 01:36:59,360
Speaker 2: I saw today from the Cincinnati Bengals. I mean, you

1607
01:36:59,439 --> 01:37:02,479
Speaker 2: think about what we just watched the Bengals do. It

1608
01:37:02,600 --> 01:37:05,560
Speaker 2: was one thing to win on October eighth at Arizona.

1609
01:37:06,160 --> 01:37:09,120
Speaker 2: Arizona gives up a lot of wins, but then as

1610
01:37:09,200 --> 01:37:12,480
Speaker 2: Joe Burrow gets healthy, it's a win over the Seahawks,

1611
01:37:12,600 --> 01:37:15,599
Speaker 2: a bye, a win over the forty nine ers, and

1612
01:37:15,640 --> 01:37:18,080
Speaker 2: a win over the Bills. There get to five and

1613
01:37:18,120 --> 01:37:22,200
Speaker 2: three and you're thinking, Okay, it's time to boogie. And

1614
01:37:22,400 --> 01:37:26,240
Speaker 2: today was one hell of a setback. Not because like

1615
01:37:26,600 --> 01:37:30,439
Speaker 2: they're not gonna be back and good next week, but

1616
01:37:31,160 --> 01:37:35,880
Speaker 2: because math like five and four in this AFC, in

1617
01:37:35,920 --> 01:37:41,960
Speaker 2: that division and at Baltimore on Thursday night, like this

1618
01:37:42,080 --> 01:37:46,799
Speaker 2: could turn around and go back south in a real hurry.

1619
01:37:46,920 --> 01:37:49,200
Speaker 2: I was shocked to see some of the throws I

1620
01:37:49,200 --> 01:37:50,439
Speaker 2: saw from Joe Burrow today.

1621
01:37:51,520 --> 01:37:53,759
Speaker 3: Yeah, I feel like as good as Joe Burrow looked

1622
01:37:53,840 --> 01:37:57,160
Speaker 3: in San Francisco and then against the Bills on Sunday night,

1623
01:37:59,080 --> 01:38:03,519
Speaker 3: good news for Beles fans. Joe Burrow still looked healthy.

1624
01:38:04,040 --> 01:38:06,799
Speaker 3: He could still move around he could still extend plays.

1625
01:38:07,520 --> 01:38:10,679
Speaker 3: I just thought Joe's decision making wasn't as good today

1626
01:38:10,720 --> 01:38:13,760
Speaker 3: as it had been the last couple weeks. Again, I'm

1627
01:38:13,760 --> 01:38:15,920
Speaker 3: not worried about the Cincinnati Bengals. All they got to

1628
01:38:15,960 --> 01:38:18,439
Speaker 3: do is get in the dance. As long as they

1629
01:38:18,479 --> 01:38:21,200
Speaker 3: get in, they'll be just fine with wherever they have

1630
01:38:21,280 --> 01:38:23,559
Speaker 3: to go, whoever they have to play. They play bigger

1631
01:38:23,600 --> 01:38:27,080
Speaker 3: in those games than they do against the Houston Texans

1632
01:38:27,080 --> 01:38:30,160
Speaker 3: at one o'clock after three big games in a row.

1633
01:38:30,320 --> 01:38:35,799
Speaker 3: So again I fully anticipate them bouncing back. The best

1634
01:38:35,840 --> 01:38:39,479
Speaker 3: way to get a bad loss behind you is to

1635
01:38:39,560 --> 01:38:42,200
Speaker 3: play against a division rival on Thursday night when you

1636
01:38:42,240 --> 01:38:44,880
Speaker 3: can't think about it for long. They're already on to

1637
01:38:45,000 --> 01:38:47,960
Speaker 3: the Baltimore Ravens getting ready for the game in Baltimore

1638
01:38:48,000 --> 01:38:51,920
Speaker 3: on Thursday night. When I look at the AFC picture,

1639
01:38:52,439 --> 01:38:56,200
Speaker 3: you know right now looking at the top, you know

1640
01:38:56,240 --> 01:38:58,920
Speaker 3: we talked about there's gonna be eleven teams after this

1641
01:38:59,000 --> 01:39:04,960
Speaker 3: game tonight. That are and above Yep, Pittsburgh Steelers at

1642
01:39:05,000 --> 01:39:08,720
Speaker 3: six and three. I don't love them. They you know,

1643
01:39:08,760 --> 01:39:11,480
Speaker 3: they beat a bad Green Bay team at home today.

1644
01:39:13,240 --> 01:39:18,120
Speaker 3: You know it's interesting they got They'll go next week

1645
01:39:18,240 --> 01:39:23,439
Speaker 3: to the Browns, then to the Bengals, but really they

1646
01:39:23,479 --> 01:39:25,519
Speaker 3: got like two tough ones in a row, and then

1647
01:39:25,560 --> 01:39:31,920
Speaker 3: it's Cardinals, Patriots, Colts, Bengals, Seahawks, Ravens. So I think

1648
01:39:32,000 --> 01:39:35,760
Speaker 3: ultimately the the Steelers will win the games that they're

1649
01:39:35,760 --> 01:39:38,200
Speaker 3: supposed to win, but I think they have too many

1650
01:39:38,240 --> 01:39:43,560
Speaker 3: tough games. For instance, at Cleveland, at Cincinnati, at Seattle,

1651
01:39:43,680 --> 01:39:48,200
Speaker 3: at Baltimore. They have all three of their division games

1652
01:39:48,240 --> 01:39:51,479
Speaker 3: on the road the back half of the year, and

1653
01:39:51,520 --> 01:39:55,320
Speaker 3: then you throw in at Seattle as well. So if

1654
01:39:55,320 --> 01:39:58,840
Speaker 3: I'm looking at that AFC picture right now, I'm saying

1655
01:39:58,880 --> 01:40:01,120
Speaker 3: Pittsburgh is the team at six and three that I

1656
01:40:01,160 --> 01:40:03,240
Speaker 3: don't think is there when it's all said and done.

1657
01:40:05,080 --> 01:40:09,920
Speaker 3: I think Cleveland, with their defense, it gives them a chance.

1658
01:40:11,280 --> 01:40:14,000
Speaker 3: DeShawn just doesn't look healthy when I watch him throw

1659
01:40:14,040 --> 01:40:16,519
Speaker 3: the football. It doesn't look like Deshaun Watson that I've

1660
01:40:16,560 --> 01:40:18,839
Speaker 3: watched throwing the football for over a decade.

1661
01:40:19,320 --> 01:40:20,200
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, it.

1662
01:40:20,360 --> 01:40:24,160
Speaker 3: Just it doesn't look comfortable. Now, DeShawn had a gutsy

1663
01:40:24,240 --> 01:40:27,479
Speaker 3: performance with a comeback win today. He got you know,

1664
01:40:27,560 --> 01:40:30,439
Speaker 3: got his ankle rolled up on, but finished the game,

1665
01:40:30,520 --> 01:40:32,760
Speaker 3: had a big scramble late in the game to get

1666
01:40:32,800 --> 01:40:37,400
Speaker 3: him in field goal range. So I think Cleveland. I

1667
01:40:37,439 --> 01:40:40,160
Speaker 3: think Kevin Stefanski is one of the best coaches in football.

1668
01:40:40,280 --> 01:40:43,200
Speaker 3: He just finds a way to win games. Doesn't matter

1669
01:40:43,200 --> 01:40:45,800
Speaker 3: who the quarterback is or how the quarterback plays. He

1670
01:40:46,200 --> 01:40:49,320
Speaker 3: seems to just make sure that that quarterback's in good situations.

1671
01:40:49,360 --> 01:40:52,360
Speaker 3: And then Jim Schwartz has that defense play at a

1672
01:40:52,360 --> 01:40:53,840
Speaker 3: at a high, high level.

1673
01:40:54,200 --> 01:40:57,479
Speaker 2: Well, I'm not gonna disagree with anything you're saying. They

1674
01:40:57,520 --> 01:41:00,160
Speaker 2: have the defense in order to do this. All though

1675
01:41:00,160 --> 01:41:02,720
Speaker 2: they gave up thirty one points today, I'm mindful of

1676
01:41:02,760 --> 01:41:06,679
Speaker 2: that Colts game that they won a handful of weeks ago,

1677
01:41:07,160 --> 01:41:09,720
Speaker 2: where they gave up a bucket of points thirty eight

1678
01:41:09,760 --> 01:41:13,600
Speaker 2: to be exact. The Cleveland Browns, I think are this

1679
01:41:13,760 --> 01:41:18,599
Speaker 2: year's Minnesota Vikings. In other words, they're a team that

1680
01:41:18,640 --> 01:41:23,040
Speaker 2: has had with a six and three record. Again, I'm

1681
01:41:23,040 --> 01:41:25,280
Speaker 2: gonna find a way to say this without sounding like

1682
01:41:25,320 --> 01:41:27,600
Speaker 2: I'm taking everything away from them. I don't want to

1683
01:41:27,640 --> 01:41:31,000
Speaker 2: do that. But like man, there have been a few

1684
01:41:31,120 --> 01:41:35,360
Speaker 2: things the coin has bounced their way a few times.

1685
01:41:35,439 --> 01:41:38,880
Speaker 2: The Niners missing the last second field goal was one

1686
01:41:38,920 --> 01:41:42,040
Speaker 2: of them. Go back to opening week and they draw

1687
01:41:42,120 --> 01:41:46,120
Speaker 2: Cincinnati at home, when the Bengals and Joe Burrow and

1688
01:41:46,200 --> 01:41:51,280
Speaker 2: everybody just just flat out wasn't right. And then you

1689
01:41:51,400 --> 01:41:54,679
Speaker 2: get a game like today, the one in Indianapolis, where

1690
01:41:54,720 --> 01:41:58,520
Speaker 2: things are going haywire back and forth, and you somehow

1691
01:41:58,640 --> 01:42:01,559
Speaker 2: erase deficits and pull out a one or a two

1692
01:42:01,600 --> 01:42:05,080
Speaker 2: point victory at the end. All of those things count,

1693
01:42:05,200 --> 01:42:08,080
Speaker 2: But what they are actually doing is they're putting a

1694
01:42:08,120 --> 01:42:11,640
Speaker 2: band aid on what you just said. I think that

1695
01:42:11,720 --> 01:42:17,320
Speaker 2: there is a total sort of brewing situation there that's

1696
01:42:17,400 --> 01:42:21,160
Speaker 2: being covered up by a few wins that have gone

1697
01:42:21,200 --> 01:42:24,360
Speaker 2: their way, which is that that massive contract for Deshaun

1698
01:42:24,400 --> 01:42:29,160
Speaker 2: Watson is really gonna bite him. You're right, he's not healthy.

1699
01:42:29,600 --> 01:42:33,120
Speaker 2: He's usually not playing well when they're scoring thirty three.

1700
01:42:33,160 --> 01:42:36,559
Speaker 2: It's not because he looks like he used to and

1701
01:42:36,600 --> 01:42:38,720
Speaker 2: he's throwing the ball all over the yard. It's not

1702
01:42:38,840 --> 01:42:41,280
Speaker 2: that way at all. They had to bring PJ. Walker

1703
01:42:41,320 --> 01:42:45,120
Speaker 2: in today to throw the hail Mary before half, and

1704
01:42:45,160 --> 01:42:47,800
Speaker 2: it wasn't his ankle. That tells me his shoulders still

1705
01:42:47,840 --> 01:42:53,200
Speaker 2: not right. So the defense and a few games that

1706
01:42:53,240 --> 01:42:56,840
Speaker 2: have landed their way have kind of calmed the talk

1707
01:42:57,439 --> 01:43:00,200
Speaker 2: but over the long term, I just think there's there's

1708
01:43:00,200 --> 01:43:04,000
Speaker 2: no way to keep that at Bay forever. That Deshaun

1709
01:43:04,040 --> 01:43:07,880
Speaker 2: Watson conversation Kyle is coming in my opinion.

1710
01:43:08,160 --> 01:43:11,320
Speaker 3: Yeah, And you know, I would argue that the difference

1711
01:43:11,360 --> 01:43:17,120
Speaker 3: between this year is Cleveland Browns and last year's Minnesota Vikings.

1712
01:43:18,160 --> 01:43:23,080
Speaker 3: That Minnesota Vikings had a record breaking bad defense. They

1713
01:43:23,160 --> 01:43:27,880
Speaker 3: were absolutely terrible on defense last year. And yes they

1714
01:43:27,920 --> 01:43:29,960
Speaker 3: won a lot of close games, but as you know,

1715
01:43:30,640 --> 01:43:35,880
Speaker 3: when you're playing football in January, a good defense is

1716
01:43:35,920 --> 01:43:38,839
Speaker 3: gonna win you more games than a high powered offense

1717
01:43:38,920 --> 01:43:42,800
Speaker 3: with the thirty second ranked defense. And I'm not saying

1718
01:43:42,840 --> 01:43:46,960
Speaker 3: that the Browns don't have an issue and Deshaun Watson,

1719
01:43:47,000 --> 01:43:49,720
Speaker 3: but you know, I also said, you can tell when

1720
01:43:49,720 --> 01:43:52,479
Speaker 3: he's throwing the football that his shoulders bothering him and

1721
01:43:52,520 --> 01:43:54,760
Speaker 3: he's not throwing the football like I've seen him throw

1722
01:43:54,800 --> 01:43:56,960
Speaker 3: the football since I started watching him when he was

1723
01:43:56,960 --> 01:44:01,400
Speaker 3: at Clemson. So you know, who knows. None of us

1724
01:44:01,439 --> 01:44:04,600
Speaker 3: really know how bad Deshaun Watson's shoulders hurt. But I

1725
01:44:04,680 --> 01:44:08,400
Speaker 3: do believe that this Browns team will be a tough

1726
01:44:08,400 --> 01:44:12,680
Speaker 3: out come January and they ultimately will will be one

1727
01:44:12,720 --> 01:44:15,960
Speaker 3: of the seven teams in the AFC. You know, again,

1728
01:44:16,040 --> 01:44:19,880
Speaker 3: we can look at their schedule down the stretch, Steelers

1729
01:44:19,880 --> 01:44:26,360
Speaker 3: at home, Broncos, Rams, Bears, you know, a lot of

1730
01:44:26,360 --> 01:44:29,360
Speaker 3: winnable games there, and then you have you know, at

1731
01:44:29,439 --> 01:44:31,559
Speaker 3: Houston will be a big one. At Cincinnati will be

1732
01:44:31,560 --> 01:44:35,519
Speaker 3: a big one. Certainly they'll they'll host the Jaguars at home.

1733
01:44:35,560 --> 01:44:37,320
Speaker 3: That you know, So they have they have like three

1734
01:44:37,400 --> 01:44:40,320
Speaker 3: or four big AFC playoff picture games and then they

1735
01:44:40,320 --> 01:44:45,160
Speaker 3: have three or four very winnable games to make sure

1736
01:44:45,200 --> 01:44:46,880
Speaker 3: that they stay right there in the hunt in the

1737
01:44:47,040 --> 01:44:48,520
Speaker 3: in the AFC, North.

1738
01:44:49,320 --> 01:44:52,759
Speaker 2: Mark Willard, Kyle Rudolph not done yet. Coming down the stretch.

1739
01:44:52,840 --> 01:44:56,000
Speaker 2: Second half Sunday Night Football. Let's also get Nick Cope

1740
01:44:56,000 --> 01:44:59,120
Speaker 2: in here, get y'all updated on that game and more.

1741
01:44:59,200 --> 01:45:00,599
Speaker 2: Hey Nick, what's going on?

1742
01:45:00,720 --> 01:45:01,000
Speaker 1: Guys?

1743
01:45:01,040 --> 01:45:01,240
Speaker 2: Yeah?

1744
01:45:01,360 --> 01:45:03,080
Speaker 6: Quick note here on Cleveland.

1745
01:45:03,160 --> 01:45:06,200
Speaker 7: They did it without both their starting tackles from the

1746
01:45:06,240 --> 01:45:09,120
Speaker 7: start of the game. Corner Denzel Ward left with a

1747
01:45:09,200 --> 01:45:12,400
Speaker 7: neck injury. Despite all that, down fourteen in the fourth quarter,

1748
01:45:12,760 --> 01:45:15,640
Speaker 7: Browns get the win over the Ravens thirty three to

1749
01:45:15,720 --> 01:45:16,320
Speaker 7: thirty one.

1750
01:45:16,360 --> 01:45:17,320
Speaker 6: Sunday Night Football.

1751
01:45:17,520 --> 01:45:20,479
Speaker 7: Late in the third quarter, the Raiders have added a

1752
01:45:20,479 --> 01:45:23,080
Speaker 7: field goal moments ago a forty yard field goal from

1753
01:45:23,520 --> 01:45:26,760
Speaker 7: Daniel Carlson, So hopefully you like the kicking game. It

1754
01:45:26,840 --> 01:45:30,080
Speaker 7: is nine to nine in Las Vegas with two thirty

1755
01:45:30,080 --> 01:45:33,040
Speaker 7: six to play in the third finals.

1756
01:45:33,040 --> 01:45:35,200
Speaker 6: From earlier today, you had the.

1757
01:45:35,200 --> 01:45:38,760
Speaker 7: Lions and the Chargers combining for about nine hundred and

1758
01:45:38,800 --> 01:45:41,840
Speaker 7: fifty yards. Detroit gets the win forty one to thirty eight.

1759
01:45:42,160 --> 01:45:44,760
Speaker 7: Seahawks get a wankoff field goal to beat the Commanders

1760
01:45:44,800 --> 01:45:48,320
Speaker 7: twenty nine to twenty six. Texans getting the upset against

1761
01:45:48,320 --> 01:45:51,400
Speaker 7: the Bengals in Cincinnati. Another wankoff field goal there, thirty

1762
01:45:51,439 --> 01:45:52,519
Speaker 7: to twenty seven.

1763
01:45:52,760 --> 01:45:53,240
Speaker 6: Forty nine.

1764
01:45:53,320 --> 01:45:55,839
Speaker 7: Ers snap in their three game losing streak, a pounding

1765
01:45:55,880 --> 01:45:59,200
Speaker 7: of the Jaguars thirty four to three. Steelers held off

1766
01:45:59,240 --> 01:46:02,519
Speaker 7: the Packers three to nineteen, all four teams in the

1767
01:46:02,560 --> 01:46:06,839
Speaker 7: AFC North separated by just one game in the lost column.

1768
01:46:07,000 --> 01:46:09,040
Speaker 7: Vikings won their fifth in a row twenty seven to

1769
01:46:09,120 --> 01:46:12,200
Speaker 7: nineteen over the Saints. Cowboys blew out the Giants forty

1770
01:46:12,320 --> 01:46:16,759
Speaker 7: nine to seventeen. Dallas outgained New York by four hundred

1771
01:46:17,040 --> 01:46:19,280
Speaker 7: sixty eight yards in the game that is the most

1772
01:46:19,560 --> 01:46:23,640
Speaker 7: in an NFL game in forty four years. Cardinals got

1773
01:46:23,680 --> 01:46:26,080
Speaker 7: a walkoff field goal to beat the Falcons twenty five

1774
01:46:26,080 --> 01:46:28,960
Speaker 7: to twenty three as Kyler Murray made his season debut

1775
01:46:29,360 --> 01:46:32,960
Speaker 7: Buccaneers over the Titans twenty to six, Colts on top

1776
01:46:32,960 --> 01:46:35,839
Speaker 7: of the Patriots ten to six in that game in Germany.

1777
01:46:36,080 --> 01:46:38,120
Speaker 7: And just to circle back, you guys were talking about

1778
01:46:38,160 --> 01:46:40,960
Speaker 7: Jimbo Fischer and his buyout as he got fired by

1779
01:46:40,960 --> 01:46:44,880
Speaker 7: Texas A and M. Their athletic director Ross Bjork's gave

1780
01:46:44,960 --> 01:46:47,839
Speaker 7: the breakdown of where all that money's coming from. Nineteen

1781
01:46:47,920 --> 01:46:50,960
Speaker 7: point four million will come from their donor fund and

1782
01:46:51,000 --> 01:46:54,320
Speaker 7: then they're gonna be paying Fisher seven point three million

1783
01:46:54,439 --> 01:46:56,880
Speaker 7: a year for the next eight years out of their

1784
01:46:56,920 --> 01:47:02,120
Speaker 7: athletic department budget. Grand total, guys, seventy seven point eight

1785
01:47:02,240 --> 01:47:04,040
Speaker 7: million for Jimbo Fisher.

1786
01:47:04,160 --> 01:47:10,920
Speaker 8: Back to you, Oh my goodness, I mean, come on,

1787
01:47:11,600 --> 01:47:14,840
Speaker 8: there's like you can you can lay that out any

1788
01:47:14,840 --> 01:47:15,479
Speaker 8: way you want.

1789
01:47:15,560 --> 01:47:18,040
Speaker 2: There's no way to make it sound good. There's no

1790
01:47:18,120 --> 01:47:19,519
Speaker 2: way to make it sound okay.

1791
01:47:20,040 --> 01:47:25,599
Speaker 3: In my opinion, no, and certainly when again a majority

1792
01:47:25,640 --> 01:47:29,880
Speaker 3: of those dollars are falling on the athletic department paying him.

1793
01:47:29,960 --> 01:47:35,360
Speaker 3: You know, maybe if if there was some extremely wealthy

1794
01:47:35,439 --> 01:47:38,360
Speaker 3: Texas A and m alumni that said, you know what,

1795
01:47:38,400 --> 01:47:40,599
Speaker 3: I just can't take it anymore. Get this guy out

1796
01:47:40,600 --> 01:47:43,759
Speaker 3: of here. I'll make a donation and cover it. But again,

1797
01:47:44,560 --> 01:47:48,360
Speaker 3: seven point six million dollars over the next eight years

1798
01:47:48,400 --> 01:47:50,559
Speaker 3: are coming out of the athletic department for somebody who

1799
01:47:51,439 --> 01:47:53,759
Speaker 3: has zero impact on the program anymore.

1800
01:47:54,800 --> 01:47:57,759
Speaker 2: Uh. We're live in the Tirack dot com studios, Mark Willard,

1801
01:47:57,840 --> 01:48:00,320
Speaker 2: Kyle Rudolph, you said something earlier when you say the

1802
01:48:00,640 --> 01:48:02,920
Speaker 2: you know, college football kind of handled it the same

1803
01:48:02,960 --> 01:48:09,280
Speaker 2: way they handle everything poorly. I mean, college football is

1804
01:48:09,439 --> 01:48:14,080
Speaker 2: just it's like it's the thing that I want to

1805
01:48:14,240 --> 01:48:17,920
Speaker 2: fall in love with, and I can only fall in

1806
01:48:18,160 --> 01:48:20,680
Speaker 2: like with I'll sit around Saturday and watch all the

1807
01:48:20,720 --> 01:48:25,160
Speaker 2: games and uh and and and do work around college football.

1808
01:48:25,240 --> 01:48:28,520
Speaker 2: And and you know, part of it might be my background.

1809
01:48:28,520 --> 01:48:30,840
Speaker 2: I went to cal Poly San Louis Obispo. We didn't

1810
01:48:30,880 --> 01:48:37,160
Speaker 2: have big time college athletics. But there's just something. There's something.

1811
01:48:37,200 --> 01:48:41,720
Speaker 2: And this is another example of it, the way that

1812
01:48:41,800 --> 01:48:46,160
Speaker 2: it's presented, the fact that we still have everybody sitting

1813
01:48:46,320 --> 01:48:49,880
Speaker 2: around in a room to figure out who's going to

1814
01:48:49,960 --> 01:48:54,360
Speaker 2: play in the end. I just have the hardest time

1815
01:48:55,320 --> 01:48:59,400
Speaker 2: feeling good about loving the sport.

1816
01:49:00,800 --> 01:49:04,400
Speaker 3: You know, certainly when they move to the expanded playoff format,

1817
01:49:04,520 --> 01:49:08,160
Speaker 3: it'll it'll help that a little bit because hell getting yeah,

1818
01:49:08,160 --> 01:49:11,000
Speaker 3: you're getting more teams a crack at it, and they're

1819
01:49:11,040 --> 01:49:12,880
Speaker 3: playing more games at the end of the year to

1820
01:49:12,960 --> 01:49:17,400
Speaker 3: ultimately decide. You know, like again this year, I feel

1821
01:49:17,400 --> 01:49:20,160
Speaker 3: like there's way more than four teams in college football

1822
01:49:20,200 --> 01:49:25,320
Speaker 3: that deserve the opportunity to go for it. And it's

1823
01:49:25,360 --> 01:49:31,120
Speaker 3: gonna be interesting when we get to the last weekend

1824
01:49:31,240 --> 01:49:36,080
Speaker 3: of the season and Ohio State and Michigan play each other,

1825
01:49:37,040 --> 01:49:41,120
Speaker 3: and you know, ultimately one of them wins, they go

1826
01:49:41,280 --> 01:49:47,400
Speaker 3: on to the Big Ten Championship game and they play

1827
01:49:47,439 --> 01:49:52,560
Speaker 3: whoever wins the Big Ten West, which is they just

1828
01:49:52,640 --> 01:49:56,360
Speaker 3: let Ohio State and Michigan play twice and if they split,

1829
01:49:56,920 --> 01:50:01,280
Speaker 3: maybe they both can go to the playoff. But when

1830
01:50:01,400 --> 01:50:06,679
Speaker 3: when you look at the college football rankings, you know, Georgia,

1831
01:50:06,720 --> 01:50:15,240
Speaker 3: Ohio State, Michigan, Washington, Florida State, like there's one of

1832
01:50:15,280 --> 01:50:18,880
Speaker 3: those teams theoretically are are going to be on the

1833
01:50:18,920 --> 01:50:21,799
Speaker 3: outside looking in, And you know, you have to believe

1834
01:50:21,800 --> 01:50:24,559
Speaker 3: it's going to be whoever loses the Ohio State Michigan

1835
01:50:24,640 --> 01:50:29,280
Speaker 3: game first because you can't then lose kind of what

1836
01:50:29,360 --> 01:50:32,280
Speaker 3: happened last year where Ohio State lost, they didn't play

1837
01:50:32,320 --> 01:50:34,600
Speaker 3: in the Big Ten Championship game and then they ultimately

1838
01:50:34,680 --> 01:50:37,720
Speaker 3: got in because of the way things shook out. But

1839
01:50:38,640 --> 01:50:42,600
Speaker 3: you know, you have to say that with Georgia, Washington,

1840
01:50:42,680 --> 01:50:47,120
Speaker 3: Florida State, certainly nobody scares you in that and it's like,

1841
01:50:47,320 --> 01:50:50,760
Speaker 3: you know, they deserve to be in there. So you know,

1842
01:50:50,800 --> 01:50:54,280
Speaker 3: Oregon can't jump Washington. And because they're not going to

1843
01:50:54,360 --> 01:50:57,360
Speaker 3: be playing in the in the Pac twelve Championship, Washington's

1844
01:50:57,520 --> 01:51:02,720
Speaker 3: going to represent the North and that. So I yeah,

1845
01:51:02,920 --> 01:51:05,200
Speaker 3: it's it's one of those things. You know, you look

1846
01:51:05,200 --> 01:51:10,280
Speaker 3: at college football and maybe because I played twelve years

1847
01:51:10,280 --> 01:51:12,120
Speaker 3: in the NFL, I feel like I've been so far

1848
01:51:12,240 --> 01:51:15,559
Speaker 3: removed from college football. I got a little bit into

1849
01:51:15,640 --> 01:51:18,000
Speaker 3: it this year, getting back into calling some Big Ten

1850
01:51:18,040 --> 01:51:21,120
Speaker 3: football games, which was fun to be back around college

1851
01:51:21,160 --> 01:51:25,080
Speaker 3: programs and watch the game at college football again. But

1852
01:51:25,600 --> 01:51:29,519
Speaker 3: ultimately it's like, you know, where's college football going? Are

1853
01:51:29,520 --> 01:51:32,400
Speaker 3: we going to have two power conferences in you know,

1854
01:51:32,439 --> 01:51:35,519
Speaker 3: the Big Ten and the SEC next year? If you

1855
01:51:35,560 --> 01:51:40,959
Speaker 3: look at the rankings right now, Florida State and Louisville

1856
01:51:41,280 --> 01:51:45,120
Speaker 3: are the only two out of the top ten that

1857
01:51:45,200 --> 01:51:48,600
Speaker 3: won't be in those two conferences, and it's like you

1858
01:51:48,720 --> 01:51:52,519
Speaker 3: kind of have these two power conferences that you know,

1859
01:51:52,600 --> 01:51:55,320
Speaker 3: like what's everybody else doing? What are they playing for?

1860
01:51:55,640 --> 01:51:58,760
Speaker 3: So it'll be interesting as the playoffs expand and we

1861
01:51:58,840 --> 01:52:00,000
Speaker 3: go through this realignment.

1862
01:52:00,160 --> 01:52:04,280
Speaker 2: Next year they changed that the division set up in

1863
01:52:04,280 --> 01:52:06,799
Speaker 2: the PAC twelve by the way, so Oregon and Washington

1864
01:52:06,920 --> 01:52:09,640
Speaker 2: can indeed and are on track to play in that

1865
01:52:09,800 --> 01:52:12,559
Speaker 2: championship team. Just as a quick side note, yeah, which

1866
01:52:12,600 --> 01:52:17,320
Speaker 2: is really really good, but a different question coming up next.

1867
01:52:17,360 --> 01:52:20,720
Speaker 2: I'm actually gonna have you help me set up my

1868
01:52:20,880 --> 01:52:24,719
Speaker 2: show in San Francisco tomorrow because I need someone who's

1869
01:52:24,760 --> 01:52:28,160
Speaker 2: been inside a football locker room and can tell me

1870
01:52:28,880 --> 01:52:33,320
Speaker 2: what on earth happened? How do you lose three games

1871
01:52:33,360 --> 01:52:37,759
Speaker 2: in a row followed by coming out playing one game

1872
01:52:38,120 --> 01:52:41,240
Speaker 2: and then having someone like you say that's the best

1873
01:52:41,240 --> 01:52:44,080
Speaker 2: team in football. So it's a simple question that we

1874
01:52:44,200 --> 01:52:48,240
Speaker 2: need to work through. What happened over the last month

1875
01:52:48,520 --> 01:52:51,040
Speaker 2: of forty nine or football that's coming up on Fox

1876
01:52:51,040 --> 01:52:55,479
Speaker 2: Sports Radio Byan's going for the win forty one yard

1877
01:52:55,520 --> 01:52:57,639
Speaker 2: field go to tamp Pashpark left side.

1878
01:52:57,840 --> 01:53:00,360
Speaker 6: There it is Fox the whole Patterson kick.

1879
01:53:00,400 --> 01:53:04,720
Speaker 3: It is up and it is good. Hey got it?

1880
01:53:05,880 --> 01:53:08,080
Speaker 2: That's up bit gray for the Lions on the final

1881
01:53:08,120 --> 01:53:10,400
Speaker 2: play of the game, and what a game it was.

1882
01:53:10,880 --> 01:53:12,760
Speaker 2: Back and forth they went, no.

1883
01:53:12,920 --> 01:53:16,880
Speaker 1: Separation between these two and Doni Patterson sends it through

1884
01:53:17,120 --> 01:53:19,600
Speaker 1: to secure up forty one thirty eight bit Greek for

1885
01:53:19,640 --> 01:53:20,120
Speaker 1: the Lions.

1886
01:53:20,439 --> 01:53:24,800
Speaker 2: Yeah, walk off field goal day in the NFL. Five

1887
01:53:24,880 --> 01:53:27,839
Speaker 2: of them to close out games today, an all time record,

1888
01:53:28,439 --> 01:53:31,880
Speaker 2: and that was from ninety seven point one. The ticket

1889
01:53:31,960 --> 01:53:35,800
Speaker 2: the Lions radio network were live inthe Tirack dot com

1890
01:53:35,840 --> 01:53:37,960
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1895
01:53:55,120 --> 01:53:58,360
Speaker 2: at the Las Vegas Raiders. Look at the Las Vegas Raiders.

1896
01:53:58,680 --> 01:54:01,920
Speaker 2: With a nice little second half. However, a nice screen

1897
01:54:01,960 --> 01:54:04,439
Speaker 2: pass to Breise Hall is going to flip the field

1898
01:54:04,439 --> 01:54:07,120
Speaker 2: for the Jets. This one is starting to actually get interesting.

1899
01:54:07,200 --> 01:54:09,920
Speaker 2: And you know what they used the end zones for once,

1900
01:54:10,120 --> 01:54:13,639
Speaker 2: So that was fun. Raiders are up sixteen to nine

1901
01:54:14,560 --> 01:54:19,519
Speaker 2: Jets now early fourth quarter, trying to draw even on

1902
01:54:19,560 --> 01:54:21,640
Speaker 2: that one. So we'll keep you up to date with

1903
01:54:21,720 --> 01:54:23,960
Speaker 2: our time there. But I want you to help me

1904
01:54:24,400 --> 01:54:28,120
Speaker 2: with everything in San Francisco. You've twice today said that

1905
01:54:28,200 --> 01:54:30,800
Speaker 2: at their best, the forty nine ers are the best

1906
01:54:30,840 --> 01:54:33,920
Speaker 2: team in football. I don't think Steve Wilkes on the

1907
01:54:33,960 --> 01:54:39,000
Speaker 2: sideline suddenly made the forty nine ers amazing. I do

1908
01:54:39,040 --> 01:54:42,400
Speaker 2: think they needed some rest. I do think that there

1909
01:54:42,480 --> 01:54:47,240
Speaker 2: were health issues, no doubt about it, And the whole

1910
01:54:47,280 --> 01:54:50,320
Speaker 2: thing would have felt differently if a rookie kicker had

1911
01:54:50,400 --> 01:54:53,960
Speaker 2: just hit a forty yard field goal anyway in Cleveland.

1912
01:54:54,320 --> 01:54:57,680
Speaker 2: So like, I put all of those qualifiers out there.

1913
01:54:57,680 --> 01:55:00,560
Speaker 2: But at the same time, how does the best team

1914
01:55:00,600 --> 01:55:05,240
Speaker 2: in football go on a three game losing streak like that? Like,

1915
01:55:05,360 --> 01:55:08,160
Speaker 2: in your opinion, what happened?

1916
01:55:11,160 --> 01:55:13,520
Speaker 3: I think we talked about it a little bit and

1917
01:55:16,000 --> 01:55:18,800
Speaker 3: when the first game happened. When when they lost to

1918
01:55:18,840 --> 01:55:23,520
Speaker 3: the Cleveland Browns in Cleveland and Debo got hurt, Christian

1919
01:55:23,560 --> 01:55:29,120
Speaker 3: got banged up, Trent Williams was hurt. You know it

1920
01:55:29,200 --> 01:55:32,280
Speaker 3: was we were debating what do you do with Christian

1921
01:55:32,360 --> 01:55:37,880
Speaker 3: McCaffrey going into that Monday night game that was the

1922
01:55:38,000 --> 01:55:41,880
Speaker 3: day after our show the next week, and I said, look,

1923
01:55:41,880 --> 01:55:45,960
Speaker 3: if there's any question on his health, I'm not letting

1924
01:55:46,000 --> 01:55:48,040
Speaker 3: him play. I don't care if he wants to play

1925
01:55:48,120 --> 01:55:51,280
Speaker 3: if he's you know, the touchdown record that he had

1926
01:55:51,320 --> 01:55:58,160
Speaker 3: going that ended today. Because when this team is healthy,

1927
01:56:00,080 --> 01:56:02,200
Speaker 3: they are the best team in the NFL. And I

1928
01:56:02,240 --> 01:56:04,440
Speaker 3: think that's you know, you say, well, no one on

1929
01:56:04,520 --> 01:56:07,240
Speaker 3: defense was really hurt. And I go back to another

1930
01:56:07,280 --> 01:56:09,840
Speaker 3: point that I made when we were talking about Steve

1931
01:56:09,880 --> 01:56:13,920
Speaker 3: Wilks a couple of weeks ago, was it's all intertwined

1932
01:56:13,960 --> 01:56:16,800
Speaker 3: and they feed off each other. And you could tell

1933
01:56:17,560 --> 01:56:21,520
Speaker 3: the energy that that team had today with Deebo and

1934
01:56:21,640 --> 01:56:24,920
Speaker 3: Trent Williams walking out of the locker room like they

1935
01:56:24,960 --> 01:56:28,960
Speaker 3: always do, setting the tone for that football team. It's

1936
01:56:29,000 --> 01:56:33,040
Speaker 3: not just the offense, it's the defense too, and the

1937
01:56:33,080 --> 01:56:38,640
Speaker 3: defense feeds off of a lead that the offense, with

1938
01:56:38,880 --> 01:56:42,280
Speaker 3: all of the talent and skill players that they had

1939
01:56:42,480 --> 01:56:47,440
Speaker 3: back completely healthy today, allows them to do on defense.

1940
01:56:47,480 --> 01:56:50,720
Speaker 3: And then I've talked about the additions that they've made

1941
01:56:50,720 --> 01:56:53,400
Speaker 3: to the front and Randy Gregory and Chase Young and

1942
01:56:54,000 --> 01:56:56,840
Speaker 3: just the ability to get after the quarterback and how

1943
01:56:57,240 --> 01:56:59,920
Speaker 3: you know, at that point, it really doesn't matter what

1944
01:57:00,200 --> 01:57:04,920
Speaker 3: coverage Steve Wilks is calling, because the ball's got to

1945
01:57:04,920 --> 01:57:06,920
Speaker 3: come out. The quarterback has to get rid of it

1946
01:57:07,000 --> 01:57:08,680
Speaker 3: or he's gonna get sacked when you have guys like

1947
01:57:08,720 --> 01:57:11,960
Speaker 3: that rushing the passer. So for me, I think you

1948
01:57:11,960 --> 01:57:15,400
Speaker 3: can describe it in one word, and it's health. They

1949
01:57:15,440 --> 01:57:20,280
Speaker 3: got healthy, they rested up, the quarterback cleared his mind

1950
01:57:20,320 --> 01:57:23,960
Speaker 3: on the tractor back in Iowa, and they went to

1951
01:57:24,080 --> 01:57:25,640
Speaker 3: Jacksonville and got a big win.

1952
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Speaker 2: You opened my eyes to something, though, and I'll share

1953
01:57:30,160 --> 01:57:32,320
Speaker 2: with you. We had Kurt Warner on the show this

1954
01:57:32,360 --> 01:57:34,720
Speaker 2: week and he said the exact same thing that you did,

1955
01:57:34,760 --> 01:57:37,000
Speaker 2: which is that this offense is not built to come

1956
01:57:37,000 --> 01:57:40,720
Speaker 2: from behind. This offense is not built to just drop

1957
01:57:40,840 --> 01:57:45,080
Speaker 2: back and stand there and throw the football all over

1958
01:57:45,120 --> 01:57:49,640
Speaker 2: the yard. Allah what we've seen Tom Brady and Patrick

1959
01:57:49,720 --> 01:57:52,760
Speaker 2: Mahomes and people like that do in the past. And

1960
01:57:52,800 --> 01:57:56,080
Speaker 2: it's not to compare Rock Party to those quarterbacks. That's

1961
01:57:56,080 --> 01:57:58,080
Speaker 2: not what I'm trying to do at all. But if

1962
01:57:58,080 --> 01:58:01,880
Speaker 2: this is the super Bowl favorite or the team that

1963
01:58:02,000 --> 01:58:06,040
Speaker 2: feels like a really big flaw to me, where it

1964
01:58:06,120 --> 01:58:10,600
Speaker 2: puts an importance on that first quarter that like I

1965
01:58:10,600 --> 01:58:14,360
Speaker 2: would almost be uncomfortable with, and in fact, a few

1966
01:58:14,400 --> 01:58:16,840
Speaker 2: of those games that they lost, like that's kind of

1967
01:58:16,840 --> 01:58:19,880
Speaker 2: what happened. They started moving right down the field and

1968
01:58:19,920 --> 01:58:23,680
Speaker 2: then they'd have somebody fumble in the red zone, and

1969
01:58:23,720 --> 01:58:26,400
Speaker 2: then the other team scores first, and all of a sudden,

1970
01:58:26,600 --> 01:58:30,840
Speaker 2: it changes the entire game plan. Like, is that like

1971
01:58:30,920 --> 01:58:34,760
Speaker 2: an okay flaw to have if that's your main flaw

1972
01:58:34,880 --> 01:58:36,080
Speaker 2: as a team.

1973
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Speaker 3: I think it is, because again, we're not talking about

1974
01:58:39,200 --> 01:58:42,840
Speaker 3: just playing from behind here. We're talking about once you're

1975
01:58:42,920 --> 01:58:47,800
Speaker 3: down multiple scores and you have to change the mentality

1976
01:58:48,000 --> 01:58:50,640
Speaker 3: on offense as a play color. You know, at some

1977
01:58:50,800 --> 01:58:55,000
Speaker 3: point you can't just continue to run the football and

1978
01:58:55,040 --> 01:58:59,120
Speaker 3: do all of the things that Kyle Shanahan does off

1979
01:58:59,160 --> 01:59:02,480
Speaker 3: of the run, because at that point, when you're down

1980
01:59:02,680 --> 01:59:07,080
Speaker 3: multiple scores, it turns into a drop back pass game.

1981
01:59:07,280 --> 01:59:09,480
Speaker 3: And you know, I think that's one of the other

1982
01:59:09,480 --> 01:59:12,280
Speaker 3: things when you look at brock Perdy and the turnovers

1983
01:59:12,320 --> 01:59:15,440
Speaker 3: and you know, when did they happen? You know, late

1984
01:59:15,480 --> 01:59:17,640
Speaker 3: in the fourth quarter when you're down and you're trying

1985
01:59:17,680 --> 01:59:22,520
Speaker 3: to force the football, So you know, I think we

1986
01:59:22,840 --> 01:59:25,360
Speaker 3: saw it when they made the Super Bowl run in

1987
01:59:25,400 --> 01:59:31,400
Speaker 3: twenty nineteen. It's it's not a big deal if that's

1988
01:59:31,440 --> 01:59:33,760
Speaker 3: your only flaw, that you don't play well when you're

1989
01:59:33,760 --> 01:59:37,560
Speaker 3: down multiple scores. You know they're not built to get down.

1990
01:59:37,760 --> 01:59:41,440
Speaker 3: So no, it's definitely not something that I would worry about.

1991
01:59:41,480 --> 01:59:43,320
Speaker 3: I just think it's something that you have to point

1992
01:59:43,320 --> 01:59:47,000
Speaker 3: out when you watch this team play and understand why

1993
01:59:47,000 --> 01:59:48,440
Speaker 3: they do things the way they do them.

1994
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Speaker 2: Great stuff, my man. Always fun to talk out football

1995
01:59:52,560 --> 01:59:55,080
Speaker 2: with you on a Sunday night, and I am already

1996
01:59:55,080 --> 01:59:56,840
Speaker 2: looking forward to doing it again next week.

1997
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Speaker 3: Looking forward to it too, Mark.

1998
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Speaker 2: Yep, there it is for Kyle Rudolph. I'm Mark Willard.

1999
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Speaker 2: Week ten. Action in the NFL continues Plank and span.

2000
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Speaker 2: You're gonna continue and take you the rest of the

2001
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Speaker 2: evening on Fox Sports Radio.