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Speaker 1: Me Around the NFL Podcast his home for the holidays,

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Speaker 1: whether we want to be or not. It's the Around

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Speaker 1: the NFL Podcast. I'm Dan Hansas, joined in a virtual

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Speaker 1: room filled with some heroes. Greg Rosenthal, Mark Sessler. It

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Speaker 1: is the day after Christmas. It's something called Boxing Day

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Speaker 1: over Yonder in the UK. So happy holidays to everyone.

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Speaker 1: And how are you boys? As we head into the

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Speaker 1: week sixteen flagship program, whoa do you know what Boxing

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Speaker 1: Day is? No? Alright? So, um, it's basically, you know,

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Speaker 1: charts back to ancient England. Not what ancient, but way

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Speaker 1: back when where like rich people or owners of servants

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Speaker 1: would box up gifts um for their underlings who had nothing,

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Speaker 1: no possessions of their own, so that those people could

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Speaker 1: go back to their you know, I'm assuming small huts

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Speaker 1: in a you know, problematic village with gifts for their

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Speaker 1: own family would be given by the um ruling class

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Speaker 1: to the not ruling class. That's as much as I know. Wow,

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Speaker 1: it sounds like sounds special. Mark, How are you, buddy?

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Speaker 1: What's going on? Because we were, you know, going into

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Speaker 1: Week sixteen, you I felt really good about the Browns

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Speaker 1: Cardinals over the colds. So on Christmas you have a

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Speaker 1: lot tied up into the NFL action and it all

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Speaker 1: went to hell, And of course everyone is wondering the

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Speaker 1: same thing is marking to be okay? How are you

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Speaker 1: right now? I feel like this is now becoming a

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Speaker 1: weekly check in because some things have this kind of

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Speaker 1: snowballed on the on the quiet storm lately. Where you at, Buddy, Well,

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Speaker 1: I'm the underling that got a box um to go

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Speaker 1: give it to my family from some sort of superior

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Speaker 1: comes to football. I'm annoyed, Um. But what's happened um

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Speaker 1: this moment um? In terms of football results, I'm here

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Speaker 1: because it seems to be every time I get uh

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Speaker 1: in embarrassing ways on national television. So I am done

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Speaker 1: with a B and C M. I don't know if

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Speaker 1: it's better or worse that you know, these games happened

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Speaker 1: yesterday on Saturday. We're taping, of course Sunday Night, the

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Speaker 1: flagship show that would have been. That would have been

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Speaker 1: a fiery Sessler um. But I don't know if he

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Speaker 1: we got the better version of Sessler tonight. Do should

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Speaker 1: we just share a few of the Sessler Christmas Night

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Speaker 1: text tweets before we get going. That's fun. It's always

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Speaker 1: fun to check in with dark Sessler. Uh. It starts

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Speaker 1: with dark Xmas descends that was when he believed that

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Speaker 1: the Browns would take out the Packers. A photo of

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Speaker 1: himself from the early nineties or eighties. That's par for

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Speaker 1: the course. Bring this nerded gift, Santa, and then it

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Speaker 1: check makes a critical Baker Mayfield tweet. Uh Sessler quote

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Speaker 1: retweets your qub is a fat ancient Uh, some type

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Speaker 1: not that we don't get into that. But that is

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Speaker 1: an incorrect assumption on your part. But for John Boring,

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Speaker 1: that's a tweet. Christmas is evil, that's a tweet. Everything

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Speaker 1: is boring slash prosaic. Every day is dull, flavorless. What

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Speaker 1: little joy's existed were dreams. Uh. Desire the Cardinals to win?

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Speaker 1: Yet done requesting anything from the biggest season ever. Uh,

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Speaker 1: finally in all caps, and there has not been a

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Speaker 1: That's where he's at. As we begin today's show, Chmas,

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Speaker 1: Merry Christmas to everybody. Let's get into the action starting. Oh,

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Speaker 1: this is not good for Mark either. Let's head to Foxboro.

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Speaker 1: You are loving it. I'm loving it. Challon gonna go shotgun.

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Speaker 1: There they have the tiebreaker, Greg. The Bills waited three

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Speaker 1: They could have played four more quarters, it wouldn't have mattered.

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Speaker 1: It really did. And it ran for sixty four yards too.

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Speaker 1: There were so many ways the Bills won this game.

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Speaker 1: and you know, some stories that are stories early in

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Speaker 1: that they played. The Bills have the Falcons and the

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Speaker 1: imagine the Bills eat losing either one of those games.

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Speaker 1: with a call for Westwood one. On the day that

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Speaker 1: Aaron Rogers pass Brett Farr to become green Bay's all

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Speaker 1: time leader in touchdown passes. It was the Packers defense

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Speaker 1: that saved the day. In the end Russell Douglass with

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Speaker 1: that interception on a Baker Mayfield pass. It was the

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Speaker 1: fourth interception by Mayfield in the Packers to win over

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Speaker 1: the Browns. Cleveland nearly came back from a twelve points

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Speaker 1: second half deficit before the Douglas I n t an,

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Speaker 1: I NT. That probably should have been a defensive holding call,

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00:22:41,920 --> 00:22:44,320
Speaker 1: it should be said, but there was no flag, and

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00:22:44,400 --> 00:22:46,480
Speaker 1: that was the game with forty three seconds to play.

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00:22:46,560 --> 00:22:52,359
Speaker 1: Mark The Packers aren't closing well lately, but they keep winning. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: I mean, I think of the Bears game we watched

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Speaker 1: a couple of weeks ago, where you know, Chicago kept

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Speaker 1: making big plays and hanging around until green Bay broke

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Speaker 1: it open. There's the fact that you know, they nipped

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Speaker 1: Baltimore a week ago, and then this Browns game, and

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Speaker 1: I you know, they're just the Packers are a rugged

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00:23:08,080 --> 00:23:11,360
Speaker 1: team with star players. They're well coached, they know how

447
00:23:11,359 --> 00:23:13,679
Speaker 1: to win these games and and the the opponent did not.

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00:23:14,200 --> 00:23:16,520
Speaker 1: And I mean it's for the Browns. I thought it

449
00:23:16,600 --> 00:23:19,840
Speaker 1: was a killer loss because it's one of those defeats

450
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Speaker 1: where a your season is on the brink um, we

451
00:23:22,800 --> 00:23:25,679
Speaker 1: don't believe in you anymore. You can't close games in

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Speaker 1: real time, But it also leaves you with lingering, poisonous

453
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Speaker 1: thoughts about the future of that team because your quarterback

454
00:23:33,240 --> 00:23:36,800
Speaker 1: big spot after big spot, week after week, month after month.

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Speaker 1: This season is not showing up and is killing them.

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Speaker 1: And I know that that Russell Douglas final pick um

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Speaker 1: was controversial. I thought it was a hold, but I

458
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Speaker 1: don't really even care because the other three interceptions were

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Speaker 1: hideous and and Baker Mayfield is not seeing the field

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Speaker 1: at all. Um. The other thing is, look at you

461
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Speaker 1: have Nick Chubb playing out of his mind. He has

462
00:23:56,520 --> 00:23:59,160
Speaker 1: not looked great against stack boxes a couple of weeks

463
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Speaker 1: in a row. He was on fire yesterday. I think

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Speaker 1: that it raises questions about Kevin Stefanski's play calling in

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Speaker 1: the clutch too. It just left it left me with

466
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Speaker 1: so many bad taste in my mouth about this season,

467
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Speaker 1: this team it's been. You know, I know, it's like, oh,

468
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Speaker 1: you could go be a Jaguars fan. It's much worse,

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Speaker 1: I guess, But there's just we're in these different worlds

470
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Speaker 1: where like the team, the team is so has been

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Speaker 1: has been as frustrating an Okay teen that I can

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Speaker 1: recall Brown's wise in my entire life. I mean, they

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Speaker 1: just they cannot close games. They're gritty enough to hang

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Speaker 1: around and then they break your heart and the Packers

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Speaker 1: do the reverse. I mean, they're just they understand how

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Speaker 1: to manage a regular season. I can't believe they closed

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Speaker 1: the game with five straight Baker throws. Just crazy. It

478
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Speaker 1: was crazy when you know, I picked the Browns to

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Speaker 1: win two. You know, I thought when they got the

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Speaker 1: ball with two or three left, I was like, they're

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Speaker 1: gonna win this game because you don't even need Baker

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Speaker 1: to do anything. They're gonna win this game handing the

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Speaker 1: ball off and maybe throwing a screenplay screen pass. And

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Speaker 1: the only nervous in my mind then was like will

485
00:25:01,640 --> 00:25:04,760
Speaker 1: their kicker maker missed the kick? It's like, I don't know,

486
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Speaker 1: if you know, how close can they get it for him?

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Speaker 1: I just had no question the way their offensive line

488
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Speaker 1: missing again three starters, uh was handling Green Bay. I

489
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Speaker 1: thought they were handed a beautiful gift with Davante Adams,

490
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Speaker 1: the best receiver in the league, dropping a wonderful throw

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Speaker 1: by Rogers or else the Browns maybe aren't in that spot.

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Speaker 1: And I'm like, and and that's how the drive started.

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Speaker 1: You know they run it a couple of times. Baker

494
00:25:28,560 --> 00:25:31,080
Speaker 1: did hit one throw at third and six, but even

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Speaker 1: even one of his throws there was like well behind

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Speaker 1: the receiver. And I just couldn't believe that they ended

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Speaker 1: the game with three straight throws from Baker Mayfield. The

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Speaker 1: way he was playing and the way they were running.

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00:25:41,880 --> 00:25:45,240
Speaker 1: They had plenty of time, they had time outs. Baker

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Speaker 1: was two for nine on throws over ten yards. He

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Speaker 1: was two for nine for twenty one yards and three interceptions,

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Speaker 1: and it's just like he wasn't playing well, like and

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Speaker 1: you didn't need him to play well. It really drove

504
00:25:55,359 --> 00:25:57,680
Speaker 1: me crazy the waste Fansky handled the end of that.

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Speaker 1: It did make me think, you know, you're talking about

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Speaker 1: it right now. I'm thinking about the previous Saturday when

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Speaker 1: Carson went through that terrible interception against the Patriots and

508
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Speaker 1: Frank Reich was like, Okay, I'm taking the ball out

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Speaker 1: of my quarterback's hands. And I think if there's a

510
00:26:14,480 --> 00:26:17,480
Speaker 1: big difference is like I think Stefanski just fully believes

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Speaker 1: in Baker. I think that coaching staff still sees Mayfield

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Speaker 1: as a difference maker, and I just think there's enough

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00:26:24,280 --> 00:26:26,840
Speaker 1: data now where it's like Baker is just a guy.

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Speaker 1: I don't think Baker's a bad quarterback, but he's certainly

515
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Speaker 1: not a great quarterback. And on a day like this,

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Speaker 1: when he already had the three first half interceptions and

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Speaker 1: he threw another one right into the bread basket of

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Speaker 1: a Packers defender that was dropped, it was just like

519
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Speaker 1: if there was ever a day like you guys just saying,

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Speaker 1: just feed it to Chub, who's just running through arm

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Speaker 1: tackles all game. Matt Lafleur said after the game it

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Speaker 1: was their worst tackling game of the year. They were

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Speaker 1: ready to go down. So that is, yeah, that's that's

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Speaker 1: a frustration. But I mean, ultimately it does make you

525
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Speaker 1: think that the Browns have two division games here to

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Speaker 1: clean things up and maybe the playoff spot. And even

527
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Speaker 1: though it seems unlikely, what is the future with Baker Mayfield? Like,

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Speaker 1: are these games changing perhaps the perception of where he's at.

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Speaker 1: We'll have time to talk about that, but it's hard

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Speaker 1: not to think about it. After it's a referendum season.

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Speaker 1: I think it's totally I think everything is totally changed,

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Speaker 1: and and you can talk about his shoulder, the health,

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Speaker 1: his overall health, but I mean some of this just

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00:27:20,440 --> 00:27:23,359
Speaker 1: goes beyond. Kurt Warner made a really good point, you know,

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Speaker 1: just pointing out sort of how he wasn't opening up

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Speaker 1: his shoulder when he was thrown to his left, and

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Speaker 1: that's what a great like analysis can do. They showed

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Speaker 1: it and you could see it, like his his left

539
00:27:34,560 --> 00:27:37,720
Speaker 1: shoulder was just totally dead and so his feet facing

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00:27:37,720 --> 00:27:39,760
Speaker 1: one way, his arms throwing the other. And that that

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00:27:39,880 --> 00:27:42,520
Speaker 1: was like one of his misthrow So that that did

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Speaker 1: get me thinking, like it is a factor for him

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Speaker 1: throwing the left, but a lot of it's just like

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00:27:46,800 --> 00:27:52,760
Speaker 1: bad decision. That's right, don't tell me about the shoulder.

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Speaker 1: If you keep I was thinking, they win that game

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00:27:55,160 --> 00:27:57,400
Speaker 1: with Nick Mullins that game was there, win that game

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Speaker 1: with Nick Mullins playing the way he did last year

548
00:27:59,359 --> 00:28:01,720
Speaker 1: last week, it's just like he cost them the game

549
00:28:02,160 --> 00:28:05,280
Speaker 1: and if he's not physically there. Jones also like make

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00:28:05,359 --> 00:28:08,879
Speaker 1: up play people's Jones. I mean there's it's like I

551
00:28:08,880 --> 00:28:10,679
Speaker 1: don't like it on Twitter where it's like no, it

552
00:28:10,800 --> 00:28:12,880
Speaker 1: was that call's fault, or no it's Baker's fault. It's

553
00:28:12,920 --> 00:28:15,399
Speaker 1: like it can be it could be everyone's fault. That said,

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00:28:15,480 --> 00:28:18,280
Speaker 1: all right, here's the scenario, Mark, Uh, they play Monday

555
00:28:18,359 --> 00:28:23,480
Speaker 1: night football next week. Okay, next week. It's not not complicated,

556
00:28:23,520 --> 00:28:26,320
Speaker 1: but it's not it's not not complicated. I'm just saying, Okay,

557
00:28:26,359 --> 00:28:28,920
Speaker 1: next Sunday, the Bengals can go win the division if

558
00:28:28,920 --> 00:28:31,399
Speaker 1: they beat the Chiefs. But if the Chiefs win that game,

559
00:28:31,760 --> 00:28:34,160
Speaker 1: and if the Rams beat the Ravens on Sunday too

560
00:28:34,320 --> 00:28:39,000
Speaker 1: likely results, then the Browns play the Steelers Monday Night

561
00:28:39,040 --> 00:28:42,400
Speaker 1: with a chance to force a winning in game. Browns

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00:28:42,440 --> 00:28:46,360
Speaker 1: beat the Steelers, then it's winning in Bengals Browns a

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00:28:46,520 --> 00:28:49,040
Speaker 1: f C North title game. You would assume they would

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00:28:49,040 --> 00:28:51,720
Speaker 1: make that the Sunday night football game in week eighteen.

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Speaker 1: That is all very realistic. I think the hardest part

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Speaker 1: is the Browns winning two games. What about the Marks Hart,

567
00:28:57,920 --> 00:29:00,640
Speaker 1: Are we worried about Marx hard if two more prime

568
00:29:00,640 --> 00:29:03,320
Speaker 1: time games with that much at stake, potentially, I don't

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00:29:03,320 --> 00:29:05,120
Speaker 1: know if we need that. We want to keep Mark

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Speaker 1: around for the long haul. Here, I get what's happening

571
00:29:07,640 --> 00:29:10,959
Speaker 1: with the NFL. It's like your team is is raging

572
00:29:11,080 --> 00:29:14,160
Speaker 1: junk in late December, but hey, you're still around and

573
00:29:14,200 --> 00:29:17,240
Speaker 1: you still have a mathematical chance. I don't care. You've

574
00:29:17,480 --> 00:29:20,240
Speaker 1: you've earned nothing. Go if you go do it, I'll

575
00:29:20,280 --> 00:29:22,760
Speaker 1: hang around. But it's like there's nothing that I see

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Speaker 1: visually that tells me they're a playoff team on any

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Speaker 1: level right now. And I'm not going to get all

578
00:29:27,160 --> 00:29:29,680
Speaker 1: jazzed up about it. All right, the Packers moved to

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Speaker 1: twelve and three. They are in command um of that

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00:29:33,640 --> 00:29:35,640
Speaker 1: number one seed in the by that comes with it.

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Speaker 1: And oh yes, they're also undefeated at home. Even if

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00:29:39,000 --> 00:29:41,160
Speaker 1: that looked like it was in doubt there, but the

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00:29:41,200 --> 00:29:43,240
Speaker 1: defense stepped up. All right, We're gonna take a break,

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Speaker 1: then get Nick Shook on the line up. Next, Barad

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00:29:48,400 --> 00:29:53,560
Speaker 1: of the gun catches the Hopkins snap fires down pretty

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00:29:53,600 --> 00:29:56,920
Speaker 1: down the middle of the field of ten. Yeah, who

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00:29:57,800 --> 00:30:05,080
Speaker 1: result in the end zone touchdown sixty eight yards. Borrow

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Speaker 1: to boy, Welcome back, Dan Horde, Dave Lapham, go nuts

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Speaker 1: in the Cincinnati Bengals UH play by playbox w c

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Speaker 1: k Y. What's it called? Joe Burrow is a bad man,

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Speaker 1: the baddest man. The second of your QB set a

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Speaker 1: franchise record with five hundred twenty five yards passing, and

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00:30:26,520 --> 00:30:30,880
Speaker 1: the Bengals rolled to win over the COVID and injury

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00:30:30,920 --> 00:30:35,000
Speaker 1: decimated Ravens. We now welcome and Nick shook the pipe.

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Speaker 1: Hey pipe, we are all witnesses. Yeah you're telling me.

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Speaker 1: Let this real quick like that. Uh, we are all witnesses.

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Speaker 1: You know. I was making this argument the day. I

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Speaker 1: don't remember to who it was, but I'm thinking. I'm saying,

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Speaker 1: you know, Joe Burrow, I think is a few more

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Speaker 1: steps away from entering like borderline elite category in this league.

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Speaker 1: But just from what I've seen this year, this was

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Speaker 1: like the culmination of that and not getting in the

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00:31:04,120 --> 00:31:06,640
Speaker 1: Pro Bowl and everything else, and the Ravens not having

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00:31:06,680 --> 00:31:09,920
Speaker 1: anybody except warm bodies and their secondary left. It all

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00:31:09,960 --> 00:31:13,080
Speaker 1: came together and he just lit them up all afternoon.

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Speaker 1: Teamed up with this, you know, two young targets and

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Speaker 1: Tee Higgins and Jamaar Chase. It was a dominant performance

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00:31:19,280 --> 00:31:20,640
Speaker 1: from them, you know. I mean, we know what the

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00:31:20,720 --> 00:31:23,080
Speaker 1: Ravens are trotting out offensively, but with Hay, with the

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Speaker 1: vegas of the ball, they were lighting it up. And

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00:31:24,640 --> 00:31:28,239
Speaker 1: they look pretty strong right now. Joe Burrow set the

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Speaker 1: all time record for a number of yards against a

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Speaker 1: particular team in a season. I love that stat he

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00:31:33,600 --> 00:31:36,720
Speaker 1: had nine and forty one yards against the Ravens this year.

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Speaker 1: They put up a forty burger on him twice. The

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00:31:39,960 --> 00:31:42,400
Speaker 1: Westling Brothers locked it up early in the week. In

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00:31:42,440 --> 00:31:46,480
Speaker 1: their defense, they didn't know it. Jeff Johnson starting, uh,

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Speaker 1: I don't know this. This is seismic stuff when you

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Speaker 1: have a when you have a quarterback like Burrow, everything changes.

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Speaker 1: He's absolutely I don't know what elite means or like

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Speaker 1: like where that line is, but a season, I think

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Speaker 1: he's been a top five quarterback. I would have him

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Speaker 1: fifth right now. You know, he's somewhere between four and seven,

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00:32:07,240 --> 00:32:09,080
Speaker 1: depending on how you like it. And that is an

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00:32:09,080 --> 00:32:13,880
Speaker 1: incredible realization for a second year quarterback who's who's just

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00:32:14,040 --> 00:32:17,840
Speaker 1: so in control of every situation he's in. That's what

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Speaker 1: impresses me the most. I do think that um A d.

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Speaker 1: D pointed something out interesting about this that the way

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Speaker 1: that they destroyed Pittsburgh a couple of weeks back that

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00:32:26,400 --> 00:32:29,520
Speaker 1: got on my radar big time, basically using the run

631
00:32:29,560 --> 00:32:32,880
Speaker 1: to destroy the Steelers. But two times against the Ravens,

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Speaker 1: it's been these massive plays through the air. I mean,

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Speaker 1: these are division opponents that have dominated Cincinnati forever. I

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00:32:38,680 --> 00:32:40,760
Speaker 1: think it's fair that we have to note that the

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Speaker 1: Ravens were down to like one of their top eight cornerbacks,

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Speaker 1: and not that the Cincinnati wouldn't have just flat out

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00:32:46,160 --> 00:32:48,400
Speaker 1: one this thing anyways, because I look back at the

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00:32:48,400 --> 00:32:50,680
Speaker 1: the matchup is not good for Baltimore. But this is

639
00:32:50,720 --> 00:32:54,280
Speaker 1: one of those losses or you know, showdowns in general,

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Speaker 1: where we kind of forget, you know, weeks from now

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Speaker 1: what Baltimore has has been dealing with and was dealing

642
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Speaker 1: with in this game, I mean, just not functional in

643
00:33:01,360 --> 00:33:03,680
Speaker 1: a secondary. Let me to just to back up what

644
00:33:03,720 --> 00:33:06,800
Speaker 1: you're saying, they're settler the the Ravens. The walls fell

645
00:33:06,880 --> 00:33:08,600
Speaker 1: in on the Ravens in this game. And this has

646
00:33:08,640 --> 00:33:11,640
Speaker 1: been something that's been happening for the past month as

647
00:33:11,680 --> 00:33:14,680
Speaker 1: I think a lot of factors have led to where

648
00:33:14,680 --> 00:33:18,120
Speaker 1: they're at now, which is they are below average NFL

649
00:33:18,160 --> 00:33:20,120
Speaker 1: team at this point. You're seeing it with the results.

650
00:33:20,720 --> 00:33:23,880
Speaker 1: They went into this game shook with thirty three players

651
00:33:24,040 --> 00:33:27,640
Speaker 1: eiven either on I R or the COVID nineteen restricted lists.

652
00:33:28,000 --> 00:33:32,960
Speaker 1: Thirty three players. I mean, no team, I don't care

653
00:33:32,960 --> 00:33:34,960
Speaker 1: who it is, will survive that. And we were trying

654
00:33:34,960 --> 00:33:37,560
Speaker 1: to talk ourselves into the Ravens like, well, they've always

655
00:33:37,560 --> 00:33:39,080
Speaker 1: had history on their side with these a f C.

656
00:33:39,280 --> 00:33:42,080
Speaker 1: North have nots. And and Tyler Huntley he's been there

657
00:33:42,280 --> 00:33:44,600
Speaker 1: two point conversion away and all the same people were

658
00:33:44,640 --> 00:33:46,840
Speaker 1: gone last week from beating the Packers. So that that's

659
00:33:46,840 --> 00:33:49,680
Speaker 1: why Tyler Huntley was shaping up as a guy could

660
00:33:49,720 --> 00:33:51,760
Speaker 1: step in and handle things. And then he gets covided

661
00:33:51,760 --> 00:33:54,480
Speaker 1: out of the scenario. And it's just like sometimes it's

662
00:33:54,520 --> 00:33:56,760
Speaker 1: just not your year. And yes, while you have to

663
00:33:56,800 --> 00:33:59,720
Speaker 1: temper that when you factor in the dominance of the Bengals,

664
00:34:00,040 --> 00:34:01,880
Speaker 1: that's a part of this story that the Ravens. It's

665
00:34:01,880 --> 00:34:04,320
Speaker 1: almost unprecedented what's happened to them this year. Yeah, and

666
00:34:04,320 --> 00:34:05,560
Speaker 1: you have to give them credit for the fight that

667
00:34:05,600 --> 00:34:07,440
Speaker 1: they've had. I mean, they were fighting throughout this game,

668
00:34:07,440 --> 00:34:09,160
Speaker 1: and they had it at a ten point game just

669
00:34:09,280 --> 00:34:11,120
Speaker 1: before half of in the Bengalis scored one more time

670
00:34:11,120 --> 00:34:13,960
Speaker 1: to extend their lead. They battled, and they've been battling

671
00:34:14,000 --> 00:34:16,319
Speaker 1: through all of this all season, and like mars or,

672
00:34:16,360 --> 00:34:19,040
Speaker 1: like Greg said, you know they nearly beat the Packers.

673
00:34:19,080 --> 00:34:21,400
Speaker 1: It's just how many losses can you take? I think

674
00:34:21,400 --> 00:34:24,040
Speaker 1: I wrote the what we learned for this I think

675
00:34:24,040 --> 00:34:26,480
Speaker 1: we're below critical mass for them, Like I just think

676
00:34:26,480 --> 00:34:29,279
Speaker 1: that they've suffered so many losses that this was the one,

677
00:34:29,400 --> 00:34:32,600
Speaker 1: like this was the week where it was you know,

678
00:34:32,640 --> 00:34:35,160
Speaker 1: they they have a clear path to the wild Card

679
00:34:35,200 --> 00:34:37,120
Speaker 1: if they went to and know, but that would include

680
00:34:37,160 --> 00:34:39,200
Speaker 1: beating the Rams much less you know, the Steelers and

681
00:34:39,239 --> 00:34:41,640
Speaker 1: week team, and it's just hard for them to imagine

682
00:34:41,640 --> 00:34:43,680
Speaker 1: them beating a team like this. But still, like those

683
00:34:43,680 --> 00:34:46,520
Speaker 1: plays Higgins is making, It's like, you can it doesn't matter.

684
00:34:46,680 --> 00:34:50,360
Speaker 1: I know, he's taller than whoever they're putting in for Baltimore.

685
00:34:50,440 --> 00:34:54,480
Speaker 1: It's like te Higgins is a great NFL receiver, and

686
00:34:54,600 --> 00:34:57,400
Speaker 1: Mixing is a great running back, and Chase is a

687
00:34:57,440 --> 00:35:01,080
Speaker 1: great receiver, and it's like these player are great. So

688
00:35:01,200 --> 00:35:03,440
Speaker 1: I just think it's almost like the rest of the

689
00:35:03,480 --> 00:35:05,279
Speaker 1: coaches and everything else, they just got to not get

690
00:35:05,280 --> 00:35:08,120
Speaker 1: in the way. Here's here's how you get to five

691
00:35:08,560 --> 00:35:11,720
Speaker 1: twenty five yards receiving. By the way, Tee Higgins twelve

692
00:35:11,760 --> 00:35:16,520
Speaker 1: for one ninety four two touchdowns on thirteen targets. Remember

693
00:35:16,560 --> 00:35:20,360
Speaker 1: when he was quiet earlier this season six or seven games,

694
00:35:20,880 --> 00:35:23,520
Speaker 1: who just got picked for the Pro Bowl? Seven for one,

695
00:35:24,040 --> 00:35:26,920
Speaker 1: five on ten targets, Tyler Boyd three for eighty five

696
00:35:26,960 --> 00:35:29,920
Speaker 1: and a touch on five targets, Joe Mixon six for

697
00:35:30,160 --> 00:35:33,360
Speaker 1: seventy and a touch on six targets. C J. Was

698
00:35:33,760 --> 00:35:37,120
Speaker 1: Usama five for thirty six, Drew Sample two for nine,

699
00:35:37,160 --> 00:35:39,520
Speaker 1: some R. J. P Rhyn two for six, who added

700
00:35:39,600 --> 00:35:43,560
Speaker 1: up thirty seven receptions five twenty five yards, fourteen yards

701
00:35:43,640 --> 00:35:46,920
Speaker 1: per catch, four touchdowns and it all came from Joe Burrow.

702
00:35:47,080 --> 00:35:48,680
Speaker 1: Who I'm with you, shook. I think when I have

703
00:35:48,719 --> 00:35:52,640
Speaker 1: to do my Superstar Club column later this spring, uh,

704
00:35:52,680 --> 00:35:54,759
Speaker 1: it's time to put Joe in there because he's just

705
00:35:54,760 --> 00:35:57,319
Speaker 1: shown it all year long. Yeah. I thought the whole

706
00:35:57,680 --> 00:35:59,279
Speaker 1: he's not making the Pro Bowl because he leads the

707
00:35:59,320 --> 00:36:02,480
Speaker 1: league interceptions and his thing was kind of unfair. And

708
00:36:02,480 --> 00:36:04,160
Speaker 1: I'm gonna take this moment right here to stump for

709
00:36:04,200 --> 00:36:06,200
Speaker 1: this because this is you know, we have a billion

710
00:36:06,400 --> 00:36:10,640
Speaker 1: advanced metrics now right, Well, let's introduce earned an unearned

711
00:36:10,719 --> 00:36:14,759
Speaker 1: interceptions because good amount of Joe Burrow's interceptions have not

712
00:36:14,840 --> 00:36:16,800
Speaker 1: been earned. Baseball has it with pictures, why can't we

713
00:36:16,840 --> 00:36:19,400
Speaker 1: do with quarterbacks. I think if you took that into account,

714
00:36:19,640 --> 00:36:21,480
Speaker 1: his Pro Bowl case becomes a lot stronger he's going

715
00:36:21,560 --> 00:36:24,359
Speaker 1: to be there before. Plus it was Lamar who just

716
00:36:24,680 --> 00:36:27,200
Speaker 1: didn't deserve it over him, and my homes didn't either.

717
00:36:27,239 --> 00:36:29,440
Speaker 1: If you had but mahomes, at least you can make

718
00:36:29,480 --> 00:36:32,360
Speaker 1: the case it's absurd. We don't have that metric, that statistic.

719
00:36:32,400 --> 00:36:35,640
Speaker 1: At this point, it's your You've got the platform, it's

720
00:36:35,640 --> 00:36:38,600
Speaker 1: a fifteen billion dollar company company. You've got some juice

721
00:36:38,719 --> 00:36:43,120
Speaker 1: right now here? Are the next gen stats guy? Just

722
00:36:43,200 --> 00:36:45,720
Speaker 1: start saying that as if it is an official stat

723
00:36:45,880 --> 00:36:49,040
Speaker 1: and is and you need like visual judgment. You can't

724
00:36:49,040 --> 00:36:51,080
Speaker 1: just use tracking data for it. You need to be like, oh,

725
00:36:51,160 --> 00:36:53,880
Speaker 1: Jamar Chase dropped that pass into an interception, which he

726
00:36:53,920 --> 00:36:56,480
Speaker 1: did this year once. Well, Chris Collinsworth has made a

727
00:36:56,520 --> 00:36:59,320
Speaker 1: billion dollars of PFF and that's just watching the stats

728
00:36:59,360 --> 00:37:01,800
Speaker 1: and putting numbers. Do it. Hey, before we move on,

729
00:37:01,800 --> 00:37:03,680
Speaker 1: one of the things that we like about Joe Burrow

730
00:37:04,080 --> 00:37:06,680
Speaker 1: is that he's got a little like pissing vinegar to him.

731
00:37:06,680 --> 00:37:09,000
Speaker 1: He's got a little moxy to him, and uh, he

732
00:37:09,040 --> 00:37:13,000
Speaker 1: didn't take too calmly to wink Martindale, the defense coordinator

733
00:37:13,000 --> 00:37:15,880
Speaker 1: of the Ravens. Uh kind of you know, having a

734
00:37:15,880 --> 00:37:18,720
Speaker 1: little fun at his expense, saying let's not put a

735
00:37:18,760 --> 00:37:21,759
Speaker 1: gold jacket on Joe Burrow just yet. Leading into this game,

736
00:37:21,880 --> 00:37:26,080
Speaker 1: well after five, he was asked about that. I didn't

737
00:37:26,080 --> 00:37:29,680
Speaker 1: think it was a necessary comment. I wouldn't say I

738
00:37:29,719 --> 00:37:31,319
Speaker 1: was offended by it. I mean, I'm in year two.

739
00:37:31,360 --> 00:37:33,560
Speaker 1: Who knows what's going to happen down the road. I

740
00:37:33,640 --> 00:37:41,080
Speaker 1: didn't think it was a necessary comment on your Maybe

741
00:37:42,840 --> 00:37:45,200
Speaker 1: he's wearing a Santa hat while saying all this, and

742
00:37:45,320 --> 00:37:48,040
Speaker 1: they were throwing in the fourth quarter as he was

743
00:37:48,160 --> 00:37:51,360
Speaker 1: howling up those yards. A very very fun team to watch.

744
00:37:51,400 --> 00:37:54,319
Speaker 1: Good for the Westling brothers. I wish Chris Westling was here,

745
00:37:55,040 --> 00:37:57,799
Speaker 1: obviously for so many reasons, but to just hear his

746
00:37:57,880 --> 00:38:00,520
Speaker 1: thoughts on these bangles and where they're at right now. Maybe,

747
00:38:00,920 --> 00:38:02,759
Speaker 1: just maybe we could have gotten him back to the

748
00:38:02,800 --> 00:38:07,680
Speaker 1: Bengals with this team. In this quarterback Fate said otherwise,

749
00:38:07,719 --> 00:38:10,200
Speaker 1: all right, we got one more game with Shookie. Uh,

750
00:38:10,360 --> 00:38:15,239
Speaker 1: let's head to Philly back again, Ghost Glenn and the

751
00:38:15,320 --> 00:38:19,960
Speaker 1: passes unaccepted running down this timeline, Alex Singleton and he

752
00:38:20,160 --> 00:38:25,879
Speaker 1: is and for a second NFL coach found Meryl Reese

753
00:38:25,880 --> 00:38:28,040
Speaker 1: with a called w I p Jalen Hurts do a

754
00:38:28,080 --> 00:38:31,200
Speaker 1: five yard touchout de Lane Johnson and linebacker Alex Singleton

755
00:38:31,480 --> 00:38:34,920
Speaker 1: returned an interception for a touchdown. The Eagles continue their

756
00:38:34,960 --> 00:38:37,080
Speaker 1: pushed for the playoffs with a thirty four ten win

757
00:38:37,239 --> 00:38:44,160
Speaker 1: over the moribund New York Giants Shookie. Like last Tuesday,

758
00:38:44,200 --> 00:38:46,360
Speaker 1: the Eagles got out of the gate slow, but turned

759
00:38:46,360 --> 00:38:49,640
Speaker 1: it on against an inferior division opponent. Yeah, probably could

760
00:38:49,640 --> 00:38:50,719
Speaker 1: have had a lot more points in this game if

761
00:38:50,719 --> 00:38:52,400
Speaker 1: they would have stopped shooting themselves in the foot in

762
00:38:52,400 --> 00:38:55,480
Speaker 1: the first half, which if they hope to sneak into

763
00:38:55,520 --> 00:38:57,480
Speaker 1: the playoffs, you know, went out sneaking to the playoffs.

764
00:38:57,480 --> 00:38:59,000
Speaker 1: They're gonna they're gonna have to clean that up. But

765
00:38:59,760 --> 00:39:01,640
Speaker 1: say and half, they turned it on and even after

766
00:39:01,680 --> 00:39:03,600
Speaker 1: losing Miles Sanders, they still found a way to rush

767
00:39:03,640 --> 00:39:06,040
Speaker 1: for hundred thirty plus. I mean, this is the league's

768
00:39:06,040 --> 00:39:08,000
Speaker 1: best rushing team in terms of total yards and and

769
00:39:08,000 --> 00:39:09,840
Speaker 1: they found a way to do it again. They're fun

770
00:39:09,960 --> 00:39:11,839
Speaker 1: and there there are fun to watch just because they

771
00:39:11,880 --> 00:39:13,960
Speaker 1: got these young guys running around. Jalen Hurst is a

772
00:39:13,960 --> 00:39:16,759
Speaker 1: fun quarterback to watch. I love the report that he's

773
00:39:16,800 --> 00:39:19,120
Speaker 1: developing with Davante Smith. And he's not the only guy

774
00:39:19,160 --> 00:39:21,759
Speaker 1: in that receiving corps. Jalen Rayor is kind of a

775
00:39:21,760 --> 00:39:23,480
Speaker 1: fun punt returner to watch. I mean, it's it's a

776
00:39:23,560 --> 00:39:27,200
Speaker 1: it's an enjoyable team to watch him against a Giant

777
00:39:29,360 --> 00:39:31,720
Speaker 1: well and as a receiver, but you know, uh and

778
00:39:31,719 --> 00:39:33,920
Speaker 1: and and it's against the Giants team that you know

779
00:39:34,480 --> 00:39:36,840
Speaker 1: Joe Judge can tell you during the week all he

780
00:39:36,920 --> 00:39:40,160
Speaker 1: wants the changes. Has it's happened. We've turned the corner

781
00:39:40,160 --> 00:39:43,279
Speaker 1: and we're gonna show it. Well, they're so far from

782
00:39:43,280 --> 00:39:44,560
Speaker 1: showing it right now. And I know they had to

783
00:39:44,560 --> 00:39:46,560
Speaker 1: play Jake From and they From was so bad they

784
00:39:46,560 --> 00:39:49,160
Speaker 1: went to Mike Glennon in the second half. Um, oh

785
00:39:49,200 --> 00:39:51,200
Speaker 1: my god. Really just can't wait to get to the

786
00:39:52,040 --> 00:39:54,360
Speaker 1: for performance reasons, they went away from the rookie and

787
00:39:54,360 --> 00:39:56,759
Speaker 1: a game that meant nothing. Don't you just gotta look

788
00:39:56,760 --> 00:39:58,719
Speaker 1: at it for better word? Please explain to me how

789
00:39:59,120 --> 00:40:02,640
Speaker 1: Jake From's like twenty dropbacks for twenty five yards looked

790
00:40:02,760 --> 00:40:06,200
Speaker 1: just with your eyes. One of the next gent stats

791
00:40:06,200 --> 00:40:10,239
Speaker 1: we pulled it was Jake From. It was one for

792
00:40:10,400 --> 00:40:13,960
Speaker 1: five and I came over the exact scenario for negative

793
00:40:13,960 --> 00:40:16,920
Speaker 1: two yards. That's the kind of offensive six or seventeen

794
00:40:16,960 --> 00:40:18,879
Speaker 1: for twenty five yards is something you need one two

795
00:40:18,880 --> 00:40:21,279
Speaker 1: often that doesn't even count. And then you threw a

796
00:40:21,320 --> 00:40:24,560
Speaker 1: pick to start the third quarter that set the Eagles

797
00:40:24,600 --> 00:40:26,400
Speaker 1: up for their first touchdown in the day, and from

798
00:40:26,440 --> 00:40:28,680
Speaker 1: there they were rolling and from was done for the

799
00:40:28,760 --> 00:40:31,319
Speaker 1: day and Joe Judge had had enough. I mean, it's

800
00:40:31,360 --> 00:40:34,080
Speaker 1: just too very uneven. Dan. I know that you like,

801
00:40:34,160 --> 00:40:37,520
Speaker 1: look at the Dolphins worst the first type scenario, not

802
00:40:37,640 --> 00:40:40,600
Speaker 1: first place, but they're surging back after a terrible start.

803
00:40:41,360 --> 00:40:43,640
Speaker 1: The Eagles were two and five, they're now eight and seven.

804
00:40:44,160 --> 00:40:46,680
Speaker 1: I find it easier to believe in this team than Miami,

805
00:40:47,239 --> 00:40:49,000
Speaker 1: just because they seemed like if they got into the

806
00:40:49,000 --> 00:40:51,320
Speaker 1: wild card and they were headed there at this point,

807
00:40:51,680 --> 00:40:54,680
Speaker 1: you know, barring a collapse, they're just dangerous. They've never

808
00:40:54,680 --> 00:40:57,240
Speaker 1: had a rushing attack franchise. Why this is a historical

809
00:40:57,239 --> 00:41:00,440
Speaker 1: franchise since nineteen They need to clean up the penalties

810
00:41:00,440 --> 00:41:02,600
Speaker 1: a little bit, seems to linger and a lot of

811
00:41:02,600 --> 00:41:05,040
Speaker 1: these games for them, but they're just explosive. Their first

812
00:41:05,080 --> 00:41:07,400
Speaker 1: half they were suppressed and that it totally went wild

813
00:41:07,680 --> 00:41:11,080
Speaker 1: in the third and fourth quarter. We talked about it

814
00:41:11,120 --> 00:41:13,880
Speaker 1: on the Friday TV Show, and she should everyone should

815
00:41:13,920 --> 00:41:16,759
Speaker 1: check out at airs on Saturday on NFL Network around

816
00:41:16,760 --> 00:41:19,960
Speaker 1: the NFL broadcast that, Yeah, that Philly is great upfront

817
00:41:20,239 --> 00:41:22,719
Speaker 1: and they got off. They have a quarterback who can

818
00:41:22,760 --> 00:41:25,680
Speaker 1: make plays with his legs. I guess it comes down to, like,

819
00:41:25,719 --> 00:41:28,520
Speaker 1: can he make enough throws? Uh and shook. I'm curious

820
00:41:28,560 --> 00:41:31,160
Speaker 1: where you're at on his development as a passer so far,

821
00:41:31,200 --> 00:41:33,640
Speaker 1: because they absolutely agree with you, Mark, if they get

822
00:41:33,680 --> 00:41:36,279
Speaker 1: into the dance, they profile as a team that could

823
00:41:36,280 --> 00:41:39,239
Speaker 1: pick off a favorite. He he looks like a second

824
00:41:39,280 --> 00:41:41,600
Speaker 1: year quarterback at times. I mean there's you know, a

825
00:41:41,600 --> 00:41:44,279
Speaker 1: goal to go, third goal to go situation where you know,

826
00:41:44,280 --> 00:41:45,880
Speaker 1: if he waits a beat longer, he might find a

827
00:41:45,880 --> 00:41:47,440
Speaker 1: guy open the end zone where he targets a guy

828
00:41:47,440 --> 00:41:49,440
Speaker 1: because he's right crossing right in front of him, you know,

829
00:41:49,480 --> 00:41:51,560
Speaker 1: three or four yards short of the sticks. There's those

830
00:41:51,560 --> 00:41:53,440
Speaker 1: are the situations where you you know, he could make

831
00:41:53,440 --> 00:41:55,400
Speaker 1: a better reader a better throw. But the talent is

832
00:41:55,440 --> 00:41:58,640
Speaker 1: there and when it shines, it it really shines. I mean,

833
00:41:58,680 --> 00:42:00,360
Speaker 1: and like I said, that rapport with vant A Smith,

834
00:42:00,360 --> 00:42:02,719
Speaker 1: they've they teamed out. They had a great connection where

835
00:42:03,040 --> 00:42:06,000
Speaker 1: Davante Smith made a and maybe he caught it maybe

836
00:42:06,000 --> 00:42:07,840
Speaker 1: he didn't. It was overturned in the review, and then

837
00:42:07,880 --> 00:42:10,279
Speaker 1: the review was reviewed and they overturned it back to

838
00:42:10,320 --> 00:42:12,799
Speaker 1: a touchdown. It's kind of it was kind of strange. Yeah,

839
00:42:13,120 --> 00:42:15,640
Speaker 1: uh a nice toe tap catch, a well placed pass.

840
00:42:15,760 --> 00:42:18,000
Speaker 1: I mean there's there's glimpses and um, I think with

841
00:42:18,040 --> 00:42:20,040
Speaker 1: more time, he's just gonna continue turning forward. Not to

842
00:42:20,040 --> 00:42:21,719
Speaker 1: mention the fact that you know they can run with

843
00:42:21,800 --> 00:42:23,680
Speaker 1: him as well, and they've used that to their advantage.

844
00:42:23,719 --> 00:42:25,920
Speaker 1: They've benefited from a soft schedule. But what are you

845
00:42:25,920 --> 00:42:29,040
Speaker 1: gonna do? N SHOOKI we we appreciate you stepping in

846
00:42:29,040 --> 00:42:31,840
Speaker 1: into a spot that no one else wanted to take. Frankly,

847
00:42:32,239 --> 00:42:34,960
Speaker 1: you were the Giants Eagles beat writer over the last

848
00:42:35,200 --> 00:42:38,200
Speaker 1: uh four weeks. You handled both of those games, and

849
00:42:38,239 --> 00:42:42,360
Speaker 1: you handled them beautifully. Unbelievable. Yeah, you know, one was

850
00:42:42,360 --> 00:42:44,640
Speaker 1: a low scoring affair, one not so much. I'll tell

851
00:42:44,640 --> 00:42:46,480
Speaker 1: you what, this blowout made it a lot easier to

852
00:42:46,520 --> 00:42:49,480
Speaker 1: write today. It was an easier pipe. What's going on

853
00:42:49,600 --> 00:42:53,560
Speaker 1: with your personal life? You? Uh, I know you're close

854
00:42:53,640 --> 00:42:57,080
Speaker 1: to perhaps some an engagement ring scenario. Oh yeah, well,

855
00:42:57,120 --> 00:42:59,040
Speaker 1: you know, let's just say the gears are turning the

856
00:42:59,120 --> 00:43:02,399
Speaker 1: process has been gun and hopefully we didn't just ruin

857
00:43:02,440 --> 00:43:04,919
Speaker 1: the surprise. Does she listen? Is she in the room?

858
00:43:05,360 --> 00:43:07,000
Speaker 1: You have an ear in her ear piece in right,

859
00:43:07,080 --> 00:43:09,640
Speaker 1: she's I mean when you buy that engagement ring, I

860
00:43:09,680 --> 00:43:12,799
Speaker 1: don't know what the percentage number is one, but it's

861
00:43:12,800 --> 00:43:17,640
Speaker 1: meant to be what like your salary or something. It

862
00:43:17,800 --> 00:43:19,680
Speaker 1: was like what was the old saying two months salary

863
00:43:19,760 --> 00:43:21,960
Speaker 1: or something like that. It's not that, but it'll do.

864
00:43:21,960 --> 00:43:23,440
Speaker 1: You should What you should take is and this will

865
00:43:23,440 --> 00:43:25,680
Speaker 1: save you a lot of money is because you are

866
00:43:25,760 --> 00:43:27,879
Speaker 1: the pipe. You just take a lead pipe and then

867
00:43:27,920 --> 00:43:30,120
Speaker 1: you get a saw and you just kind of crudely

868
00:43:30,200 --> 00:43:33,040
Speaker 1: saw at the very top of the pipe, fashioned as

869
00:43:33,040 --> 00:43:35,360
Speaker 1: a ring, and then just sand it down a little bit.

870
00:43:35,400 --> 00:43:36,759
Speaker 1: You don't wan any jack of engines. And then to

871
00:43:36,840 --> 00:43:40,320
Speaker 1: slip that on miss pipe. You know, I could add

872
00:43:40,880 --> 00:43:43,880
Speaker 1: to this, you know, tie in our our journey together

873
00:43:44,040 --> 00:43:47,040
Speaker 1: and get it from like some old Cleveland pipe that

874
00:43:47,120 --> 00:43:51,560
Speaker 1: was years. She's a gym rat too, So you guys

875
00:43:51,560 --> 00:43:53,920
Speaker 1: should just get like married in a gym or something like,

876
00:43:54,160 --> 00:43:57,560
Speaker 1: you know, to have like a whole you know, workout theme.

877
00:43:58,000 --> 00:44:00,800
Speaker 1: Everybody shows up in. I think Dan is giving you

878
00:44:01,040 --> 00:44:04,040
Speaker 1: terrible advice, do not follow that. That's not taking you anywhere.

879
00:44:06,480 --> 00:44:08,399
Speaker 1: So you're telling me that party favors that are packs

880
00:44:08,400 --> 00:44:15,080
Speaker 1: of Way protein, not not theod No matter what. To

881
00:44:15,200 --> 00:44:18,120
Speaker 1: Mark's point, uh, stick with the whole lead pipe ring,

882
00:44:18,760 --> 00:44:21,160
Speaker 1: but have a real ring on backup. If she says no,

883
00:44:21,280 --> 00:44:23,239
Speaker 1: it gets offended by the lead pipe ring. You know

884
00:44:23,360 --> 00:44:26,080
Speaker 1: she wasn't the girl in the first place. If she's like, oh, pipe,

885
00:44:26,080 --> 00:44:28,400
Speaker 1: I'll go anywhere with you and wear anything, then he say,

886
00:44:28,440 --> 00:44:30,799
Speaker 1: all right, baby, flick off the lead pipe ring, give

887
00:44:30,800 --> 00:44:34,960
Speaker 1: her the rock, and we're bait and switch. Okay, alright, alright,

888
00:44:35,000 --> 00:44:37,480
Speaker 1: well we're taking We got notes here. These aren't notes

889
00:44:37,480 --> 00:44:40,480
Speaker 1: about that, but we could write these notes down. All right, Chuckie,

890
00:44:40,520 --> 00:44:43,600
Speaker 1: thank you for your work all season long, and we'll

891
00:44:43,600 --> 00:44:46,760
Speaker 1: see you next Sunday. All right, guys, thanks man Chook

892
00:44:47,000 --> 00:44:51,400
Speaker 1: is good dude. All right, let's move back into the

893
00:44:51,440 --> 00:44:55,359
Speaker 1: action of Sunday. Let's send to Minneapolis. Here's Pal at

894
00:44:55,360 --> 00:44:56,799
Speaker 1: the other end of the field coming up to take

895
00:44:56,800 --> 00:44:58,799
Speaker 1: it out. The forty stumbles through us. Right, he's got

896
00:44:58,800 --> 00:45:01,040
Speaker 1: mid field in the block. He's about the forty Minnesota

897
00:45:01,160 --> 00:45:07,200
Speaker 1: down the right sideline. Twenty ten five puts down a

898
00:45:07,280 --> 00:45:10,799
Speaker 1: brand and Powell goes somersaulting into the end zone with

899
00:45:10,960 --> 00:45:17,240
Speaker 1: a punt return for a touchdown. JB. Long, my buddy,

900
00:45:17,280 --> 00:45:19,360
Speaker 1: it feels like so long ago that we were in

901
00:45:19,400 --> 00:45:26,680
Speaker 1: the park watching that yacht rock cover band just shred,

902
00:45:27,680 --> 00:45:30,040
Speaker 1: and one day we will again the next season. Every

903
00:45:30,120 --> 00:45:32,440
Speaker 1: season I have a hang out with JB. Long and

904
00:45:32,480 --> 00:45:35,239
Speaker 1: his family. Spring is right around the corner, and I'll

905
00:45:35,280 --> 00:45:38,720
Speaker 1: leave it at that. Brandon Powell returned to punt sixty

906
00:45:38,760 --> 00:45:41,360
Speaker 1: one yards for a touchdown in the third quarter, a

907
00:45:41,480 --> 00:45:43,800
Speaker 1: huge play for the Rams on their way to a

908
00:45:43,840 --> 00:45:48,000
Speaker 1: thirty to twenty three win over the Vikings. As we

909
00:45:48,080 --> 00:45:53,320
Speaker 1: said earlier, the win um gives rent the Ramsey advantage

910
00:45:53,360 --> 00:45:55,920
Speaker 1: of one game lead in the NFC West over the Cardinals.

911
00:45:55,920 --> 00:45:58,320
Speaker 1: That also allowed the Cardinals to clinch a playoff spot

912
00:45:59,000 --> 00:46:03,240
Speaker 1: and uh, interesting game here. Here's the thing. The Vikings,

913
00:46:03,239 --> 00:46:06,400
Speaker 1: who were a flawed but interesting team for so long

914
00:46:07,400 --> 00:46:10,719
Speaker 1: that kind of got thrown out here because this in

915
00:46:10,760 --> 00:46:14,480
Speaker 1: this game, they were just the inferior team. The Rams

916
00:46:14,760 --> 00:46:16,840
Speaker 1: are playing at a very high level right now, and

917
00:46:16,880 --> 00:46:19,319
Speaker 1: even a game where Matthew Stafford did not play well

918
00:46:19,360 --> 00:46:21,200
Speaker 1: and he had too many throws that were just throwing

919
00:46:21,239 --> 00:46:23,759
Speaker 1: them up for grabs and and allowed the Vikings to

920
00:46:23,800 --> 00:46:26,800
Speaker 1: hang around. You kind of felt Los Angeles in control

921
00:46:26,800 --> 00:46:29,239
Speaker 1: of this entire game, and I think that says a

922
00:46:29,280 --> 00:46:32,800
Speaker 1: lot about where Los Angeles has come from after their

923
00:46:33,080 --> 00:46:36,600
Speaker 1: slumber last month. They are now playing very, very good

924
00:46:36,600 --> 00:46:39,160
Speaker 1: football at the end of December, and as a result

925
00:46:39,200 --> 00:46:42,280
Speaker 1: of Vikings look like they are going home after Week eight. Team.

926
00:46:42,920 --> 00:46:45,040
Speaker 1: I love this so much for the Rams. That you

927
00:46:45,080 --> 00:46:47,399
Speaker 1: get a bad Stafford game that you know a couple

928
00:46:47,440 --> 00:46:50,759
Speaker 1: of weeks past, like bad Stafford games mental loss. Uh,

929
00:46:50,920 --> 00:46:54,959
Speaker 1: they found a way to win with him really subpar play,

930
00:46:55,040 --> 00:46:58,200
Speaker 1: and I mean I know they lost Darrell Henderson, Ernest

931
00:46:58,280 --> 00:47:00,719
Speaker 1: Jones went out, they were already hit with COVID, they

932
00:47:00,719 --> 00:47:02,879
Speaker 1: didn't have left tackle Andrew Whitworth. I mean, it says

933
00:47:02,920 --> 00:47:05,440
Speaker 1: a lot about them to overcome all that because the

934
00:47:05,520 --> 00:47:08,239
Speaker 1: Vikings are still a quality team in this world we

935
00:47:08,280 --> 00:47:11,120
Speaker 1: live in right now. And I mean justin Jefferson being

936
00:47:11,160 --> 00:47:14,080
Speaker 1: held to what like forty yards by Jalen Ramsey, Aaron

937
00:47:14,120 --> 00:47:16,600
Speaker 1: Donald looking like he should be Defensive Player of the Year.

938
00:47:16,840 --> 00:47:20,160
Speaker 1: They have stars, and their stars are playing well and

939
00:47:20,160 --> 00:47:23,040
Speaker 1: and those guys you don't know are stepping up like

940
00:47:23,040 --> 00:47:26,360
Speaker 1: like a Powell, I mean like a Sony Michelle. I'm

941
00:47:26,480 --> 00:47:28,680
Speaker 1: kind of amazed that Sony Michelle is getting twenty seven

942
00:47:28,680 --> 00:47:31,200
Speaker 1: carries and Darryll Henderson is getting one because Henderson just

943
00:47:31,239 --> 00:47:33,400
Speaker 1: so much more explosive. But I think it speaks to

944
00:47:34,760 --> 00:47:38,000
Speaker 1: what Sean McVeigh wants, which is if we block four,

945
00:47:38,200 --> 00:47:41,600
Speaker 1: get four, and if Michelle, who's running really hard, can

946
00:47:41,600 --> 00:47:44,319
Speaker 1: get six, great, But Henderson, who's more of the home

947
00:47:44,440 --> 00:47:46,879
Speaker 1: run hitters on the bench right now, it's really changed

948
00:47:46,920 --> 00:47:50,560
Speaker 1: their offense. They've they've run it quite well and no one,

949
00:47:50,640 --> 00:47:52,719
Speaker 1: no teams had a better month than the Rams. I

950
00:47:52,719 --> 00:47:55,000
Speaker 1: mean they've they've caught three games on the Cardinals in

951
00:47:55,040 --> 00:47:58,960
Speaker 1: three weeks. You know, they came into that game it

952
00:47:59,000 --> 00:48:01,680
Speaker 1: was only twelve days went or was it thirteen fourteen

953
00:48:01,719 --> 00:48:05,760
Speaker 1: days ago against the Cardinals, down a couple of games

954
00:48:05,760 --> 00:48:08,919
Speaker 1: in that division. Now they're up a game with two

955
00:48:08,960 --> 00:48:12,240
Speaker 1: to play that you know, it's just switched so fast.

956
00:48:12,280 --> 00:48:14,200
Speaker 1: For them to get to eleven and four and feel

957
00:48:14,200 --> 00:48:18,040
Speaker 1: like they're hitting the playoffs and totally in stride is awesome,

958
00:48:18,080 --> 00:48:19,720
Speaker 1: And they still have a chance for the one seed.

959
00:48:19,800 --> 00:48:22,799
Speaker 1: They wouldn't need a little help but it's possible. Uh,

960
00:48:22,840 --> 00:48:26,560
Speaker 1: the Vikings didn't get a touchdown pass from Kirk Cousins

961
00:48:27,120 --> 00:48:31,400
Speaker 1: until to play, and it cut the lead to then

962
00:48:31,440 --> 00:48:33,400
Speaker 1: they needed their defense to make a stop and it couldn't.

963
00:48:33,960 --> 00:48:36,200
Speaker 1: They gave up a field goal and the game was over.

964
00:48:36,280 --> 00:48:39,359
Speaker 1: That was that, And that touchdown drive at midway through

965
00:48:39,360 --> 00:48:41,759
Speaker 1: the fourth quarter was the only one of Minnesota's first

966
00:48:41,800 --> 00:48:44,799
Speaker 1: nine possessions that went for longer than fifteen yards. So

967
00:48:44,880 --> 00:48:48,880
Speaker 1: this was, like, you know, we talked about it on Thursday,

968
00:48:48,960 --> 00:48:52,280
Speaker 1: Kirk Cousins. These don't always have to be Kirk Cousins

969
00:48:52,280 --> 00:48:54,239
Speaker 1: referendum games. And I don't think they lost this game

970
00:48:54,280 --> 00:48:57,040
Speaker 1: because of Kirk Cousins, because the past protection wasn't great.

971
00:48:57,080 --> 00:48:59,440
Speaker 1: There was no Dalvin Cook, Adam Theeland was clearly not

972
00:48:59,520 --> 00:49:03,080
Speaker 1: one or seven on that ankle um. So it was

973
00:49:03,160 --> 00:49:05,319
Speaker 1: just the offense just kind of stuck in mudd a

974
00:49:05,320 --> 00:49:09,240
Speaker 1: little bit here. Uh. Sometimes, like we were saying earlier,

975
00:49:09,280 --> 00:49:10,799
Speaker 1: it doesn't have to all be on one player or

976
00:49:10,840 --> 00:49:12,319
Speaker 1: one coach. You could just look at the team and

977
00:49:12,360 --> 00:49:15,520
Speaker 1: be like, the Minnesota Vikings did not step up in

978
00:49:15,520 --> 00:49:17,920
Speaker 1: a game they absolutely needed at home, and they're seven

979
00:49:17,920 --> 00:49:22,080
Speaker 1: and eight and probably heading home as a result. So yes,

980
00:49:22,480 --> 00:49:24,800
Speaker 1: Justin Jefferson got his one hundred yards, but it wasn't

981
00:49:24,840 --> 00:49:28,839
Speaker 1: a real Jefferson uh dominant performance. In fact, I know, Greg,

982
00:49:28,880 --> 00:49:33,520
Speaker 1: you were singing Jalen Ramsey's praises for his performance the

983
00:49:33,520 --> 00:49:36,719
Speaker 1: previous week against DK Metcalf and the Seahawks. He was

984
00:49:36,800 --> 00:49:40,799
Speaker 1: so so good and because the matchup was so great, uh,

985
00:49:40,840 --> 00:49:43,480
Speaker 1: maybe the best matchup you'll see all season, Jalen Ramsey

986
00:49:43,480 --> 00:49:46,560
Speaker 1: against Justin Jefferson. There was a lot of ISO replays

987
00:49:47,160 --> 00:49:49,399
Speaker 1: of the game and I'm sure the all twenty two

988
00:49:49,400 --> 00:49:51,839
Speaker 1: tape heads are gonna dissect dissected over the next couple

989
00:49:51,920 --> 00:49:53,200
Speaker 1: days and have a lot of fune with it. And

990
00:49:53,239 --> 00:49:56,520
Speaker 1: what you're gonna see is Jalen Ramsey not fighting for anything,

991
00:49:56,880 --> 00:50:00,320
Speaker 1: steffor step every bit the athlete Justin Jeffery sin is.

992
00:50:00,360 --> 00:50:02,760
Speaker 1: And it's just a reminder in another game where Aaron

993
00:50:02,800 --> 00:50:06,319
Speaker 1: Donald was constantly in the backfield causing havoc that when

994
00:50:06,360 --> 00:50:09,560
Speaker 1: you have these two superstars, these two Hall of famers,

995
00:50:09,760 --> 00:50:12,319
Speaker 1: in the primes of their career, uh yeah, that makes

996
00:50:12,400 --> 00:50:14,640
Speaker 1: up for a lot of mistakes your quarterback can make,

997
00:50:14,960 --> 00:50:17,759
Speaker 1: and they're allowing them to travel a little bit more

998
00:50:17,800 --> 00:50:19,520
Speaker 1: the last two weeks. Now, maybe maybe that was because

999
00:50:19,560 --> 00:50:23,520
Speaker 1: the opponents because of the unique skills of Metcafe and Jefferson,

1000
00:50:23,920 --> 00:50:26,080
Speaker 1: but he had been kind of staying in the slot,

1001
00:50:26,120 --> 00:50:28,600
Speaker 1: not playing as much outside traveling with the best receivers,

1002
00:50:28,600 --> 00:50:31,640
Speaker 1: and so that maybe that's changing with the playoffs coming

1003
00:50:31,719 --> 00:50:33,879
Speaker 1: up that the Vikings do, and they've gotten a little

1004
00:50:33,880 --> 00:50:36,880
Speaker 1: boring the last couple of weeks. It's disappointing. I wanted

1005
00:50:36,880 --> 00:50:38,360
Speaker 1: this team to be fun through the end. They do

1006
00:50:38,400 --> 00:50:40,160
Speaker 1: have the Packers next week. They do have a chance

1007
00:50:40,200 --> 00:50:45,000
Speaker 1: to set a record though dan Um uh the lowest

1008
00:50:45,520 --> 00:50:50,799
Speaker 1: margin over like a full season that any team ever played. UH.

1009
00:50:51,120 --> 00:50:53,080
Speaker 1: Next Gen Sets sent that out. I think it's like

1010
00:50:53,160 --> 00:50:55,640
Speaker 1: five point five is the average margin right now and

1011
00:50:55,719 --> 00:50:57,960
Speaker 1: in any of their games, and so that that's something

1012
00:50:58,000 --> 00:51:00,359
Speaker 1: to keep an eye there. You go, Yeah, I'm with you, though.

1013
00:51:00,400 --> 00:51:03,680
Speaker 1: There is a kind of magical aspect, even if sometimes

1014
00:51:03,719 --> 00:51:07,160
Speaker 1: it was black magic or the Viking season. Really since

1015
00:51:07,200 --> 00:51:10,160
Speaker 1: that Thursday night Pittsburgh in the second half, it's just

1016
00:51:10,239 --> 00:51:13,840
Speaker 1: been more like they're not very good on offense, and

1017
00:51:13,880 --> 00:51:16,640
Speaker 1: as a result, the defense isn't able to pick up

1018
00:51:16,640 --> 00:51:18,680
Speaker 1: the slack. It's just kind of the the fairy tale

1019
00:51:18,760 --> 00:51:20,840
Speaker 1: is over. If if, if there was one in the

1020
00:51:20,880 --> 00:51:24,719
Speaker 1: first place, all right, let us take a break and

1021
00:51:24,760 --> 00:51:31,800
Speaker 1: then we will hit more NFL action, kill me William

1022
00:51:32,200 --> 00:51:34,080
Speaker 1: and they fake it to sling it cut by Pringle

1023
00:51:34,200 --> 00:51:40,120
Speaker 1: off the hid dark backing side touchdown Chess City Byron

1024
00:51:40,239 --> 00:51:45,080
Speaker 1: Pringle with an outstanding catch and run, dusting two Steelers

1025
00:51:45,440 --> 00:51:49,240
Speaker 1: and into the sweiten Actor and the chiefly twenty nine

1026
00:51:49,320 --> 00:51:53,960
Speaker 1: to nothing. M interesting little trend here. The superpowers are

1027
00:51:53,960 --> 00:51:56,440
Speaker 1: starting to get right. We see the rams over in

1028
00:51:56,480 --> 00:51:59,080
Speaker 1: the NFC what they did today? How about the Kansas

1029
00:51:59,080 --> 00:52:01,799
Speaker 1: City Smitch holt Is with the call there for w

1030
00:52:01,960 --> 00:52:05,839
Speaker 1: d a F. Patrick Mahomes through yards and three touch

1031
00:52:06,120 --> 00:52:09,560
Speaker 1: touchdowns Byron Pringle caught two of those touchdown passes. The

1032
00:52:09,600 --> 00:52:16,040
Speaker 1: Chiefs roll the Steelers, clinching their sixth consecutive a f

1033
00:52:16,160 --> 00:52:20,600
Speaker 1: C West title. Think about that six consecutive a f

1034
00:52:20,719 --> 00:52:24,680
Speaker 1: C West titles mark. The game also allows the Chiefs

1035
00:52:24,680 --> 00:52:26,560
Speaker 1: to stay a game ahead of the Tennessee Titans for

1036
00:52:26,600 --> 00:52:29,080
Speaker 1: first place in the a f C. Eight straight wins

1037
00:52:29,080 --> 00:52:34,360
Speaker 1: now and they look the part. I mean, whatever concerns

1038
00:52:34,400 --> 00:52:37,160
Speaker 1: we had about Kansas City a month ago, um, just

1039
00:52:37,200 --> 00:52:39,319
Speaker 1: do not look relevant to me at this point. I mean,

1040
00:52:39,320 --> 00:52:42,640
Speaker 1: you don't have Travis Kelsey in this game, Tyreek Hill,

1041
00:52:42,840 --> 00:52:44,960
Speaker 1: you thought, well, look, everything will go his way. He

1042
00:52:44,960 --> 00:52:47,720
Speaker 1: had two catches for like nineteen yards. It was Byron

1043
00:52:47,760 --> 00:52:50,040
Speaker 1: Pringle playing one of the best games he's had in

1044
00:52:50,080 --> 00:52:52,680
Speaker 1: his entire career. Guys like Derek Moore who had a

1045
00:52:52,760 --> 00:52:56,360
Speaker 1: huge fifty yard catch in this game. Nicole Hardman made plays,

1046
00:52:56,440 --> 00:52:59,200
Speaker 1: Darryl Williams, Blake Bell, I mean, just like everyone else

1047
00:52:59,200 --> 00:53:02,480
Speaker 1: stepped up. Holmes had hit nine different targets in the

1048
00:53:02,480 --> 00:53:04,959
Speaker 1: first half. I think the other side of the story though,

1049
00:53:05,400 --> 00:53:07,759
Speaker 1: is that their offense is heating up and their run

1050
00:53:07,800 --> 00:53:10,560
Speaker 1: game is as well. They did lose Clyde Edwards Hilaire

1051
00:53:10,880 --> 00:53:14,279
Speaker 1: to a collarbone injury that looks pretty serious. Um, they

1052
00:53:14,320 --> 00:53:16,239
Speaker 1: lost the Honey Badger as well. I don't know what

1053
00:53:16,280 --> 00:53:18,719
Speaker 1: will happen with him. Was a quad injury. But you

1054
00:53:18,760 --> 00:53:21,800
Speaker 1: are playing a Steeler's offense that we understood that issues

1055
00:53:21,840 --> 00:53:24,879
Speaker 1: and just was completely and totally broken down in this game.

1056
00:53:24,920 --> 00:53:26,839
Speaker 1: I mean, they had like a hundred yards at half,

1057
00:53:27,239 --> 00:53:30,200
Speaker 1: ten minutes of possession and the second half was just

1058
00:53:30,239 --> 00:53:32,799
Speaker 1: garbage time. And it's just like Kansas City you know,

1059
00:53:32,840 --> 00:53:35,879
Speaker 1: with they had did another kicker either, and they brought

1060
00:53:35,880 --> 00:53:37,600
Speaker 1: this guy and he keeps sitting kicks too, So it's

1061
00:53:37,640 --> 00:53:41,759
Speaker 1: like Kansas City just looks to me, legit, they're heating up. Um.

1062
00:53:41,800 --> 00:53:44,200
Speaker 1: They found a way to win today in a different

1063
00:53:44,239 --> 00:53:45,799
Speaker 1: type of game. That kind of just shows you that

1064
00:53:45,840 --> 00:53:48,200
Speaker 1: Andy Reid. You know, they talked about Andy Reid during

1065
00:53:48,200 --> 00:53:50,160
Speaker 1: the week, talking to the announcing crew, to Romo and

1066
00:53:50,239 --> 00:53:52,680
Speaker 1: Nan saying, I don't really care who's in there, like

1067
00:53:52,680 --> 00:53:54,479
Speaker 1: we're going to find a way and that that's nice

1068
00:53:54,480 --> 00:53:56,759
Speaker 1: to say, a lot of teams will say that same thing.

1069
00:53:56,960 --> 00:53:59,160
Speaker 1: But they did today and it showed they flex their muscles,

1070
00:53:59,200 --> 00:54:01,879
Speaker 1: that showed their power. And the Steelers, who we've kind of,

1071
00:54:01,960 --> 00:54:04,560
Speaker 1: you know, viewed as sort of this walking zombie, I

1072
00:54:04,560 --> 00:54:06,960
Speaker 1: think the head has been chopped off at this point.

1073
00:54:07,600 --> 00:54:09,400
Speaker 1: I'm not saying that they couldn't go win, and I

1074
00:54:09,440 --> 00:54:11,839
Speaker 1: think they're gonna go eight eight and one, but they

1075
00:54:11,840 --> 00:54:14,120
Speaker 1: are a fraud when it comes to being a playoff team.

1076
00:54:14,160 --> 00:54:17,120
Speaker 1: Big Ben had no answers today and it just they were,

1077
00:54:17,200 --> 00:54:19,799
Speaker 1: you know, they're imbalanced, they've got line issues, and what

1078
00:54:19,880 --> 00:54:21,640
Speaker 1: we've not believed in all year reared its head in

1079
00:54:21,680 --> 00:54:24,600
Speaker 1: the worst possible time for Pittsburgh. I'm just gonna say it.

1080
00:54:24,680 --> 00:54:29,240
Speaker 1: They're the worst seven, seven and one team in NFL history.

1081
00:54:29,280 --> 00:54:32,240
Speaker 1: How did this team? How did this team win seven games?

1082
00:54:32,480 --> 00:54:34,640
Speaker 1: It's well because of what you and I have said before, though,

1083
00:54:34,680 --> 00:54:36,920
Speaker 1: like they find ways to suddenly get against you for

1084
00:54:36,960 --> 00:54:38,319
Speaker 1: a quarter and on a half in there in it.

1085
00:54:38,400 --> 00:54:39,759
Speaker 1: You know, right, on one hand, I want to give

1086
00:54:39,800 --> 00:54:42,480
Speaker 1: Tomlin credit because like they've won seven games. On the

1087
00:54:42,520 --> 00:54:44,520
Speaker 1: other hand, you know it is his defense, and I

1088
00:54:44,560 --> 00:54:47,239
Speaker 1: know they've had a ton of injuries, but they're they're rund.

1089
00:54:47,400 --> 00:54:49,959
Speaker 1: They're a soft team whatever. You remember everyone was calling

1090
00:54:49,960 --> 00:54:52,080
Speaker 1: the Bills soft because like they gave up a couple

1091
00:54:52,080 --> 00:54:54,239
Speaker 1: of big runs against the Patriots in a game they

1092
00:54:54,280 --> 00:54:57,240
Speaker 1: allowed less than fifty yards. I mean, the Steelers defense

1093
00:54:57,320 --> 00:54:59,600
Speaker 1: is soft. They are the definition of soft. Like at

1094
00:54:59,719 --> 00:55:02,440
Speaker 1: point in this game, the Chiefs ran like nine straight plays.

1095
00:55:03,000 --> 00:55:07,279
Speaker 1: The Chiefs rookie offensive linemen and the way they constructed

1096
00:55:07,280 --> 00:55:09,719
Speaker 1: that offensive line in general, to me is one of

1097
00:55:09,760 --> 00:55:12,520
Speaker 1: the bigger, like long term stories in the a f

1098
00:55:12,640 --> 00:55:16,280
Speaker 1: C this year. They hit home runs with Tray Smith

1099
00:55:16,840 --> 00:55:19,480
Speaker 1: and Creed Humphrey and that's who they're running behind on

1100
00:55:19,560 --> 00:55:21,560
Speaker 1: all these short yardage places and those are rookies. Those

1101
00:55:21,560 --> 00:55:23,520
Speaker 1: guys are gonna be there. Tuny is gonna be there

1102
00:55:23,560 --> 00:55:26,319
Speaker 1: for a while. They should probably resign Orlando Brown. They

1103
00:55:26,320 --> 00:55:29,560
Speaker 1: really did fix that in one fell swoop. They're they're

1104
00:55:29,560 --> 00:55:31,839
Speaker 1: hesitant to run. I know this game wasn't about the run,

1105
00:55:31,920 --> 00:55:34,440
Speaker 1: but it's just to me, it's like, who who are

1106
00:55:34,480 --> 00:55:36,839
Speaker 1: the Steelers If you can't stop the run, especially when

1107
00:55:36,840 --> 00:55:40,560
Speaker 1: you're playing the Chiefs. Yeah, I would. I think you're

1108
00:55:40,600 --> 00:55:42,920
Speaker 1: probably more right, like I think maybe the head was

1109
00:55:42,960 --> 00:55:45,920
Speaker 1: finally taken off the zombie. But it is the a

1110
00:55:46,000 --> 00:55:48,879
Speaker 1: f C. North and we'll have to see they got

1111
00:55:48,920 --> 00:55:51,640
Speaker 1: that tie in the mix. And Cincinnati has shown us

1112
00:55:51,640 --> 00:55:53,839
Speaker 1: before that they could look like world beaters one week

1113
00:55:53,920 --> 00:55:58,239
Speaker 1: and and stumble the next. But probably and and beyond that,

1114
00:55:58,400 --> 00:56:00,680
Speaker 1: we all know where this Pittsburgh team is, which is

1115
00:56:01,160 --> 00:56:03,680
Speaker 1: they just they just exist. They're not They're nothing to

1116
00:56:03,680 --> 00:56:06,160
Speaker 1: get excited about. And the Chiefs, I think of the

1117
00:56:06,200 --> 00:56:10,680
Speaker 1: big story here because if Patrick Mahomes is able to

1118
00:56:10,880 --> 00:56:13,839
Speaker 1: keep rolling with Kelsey out of the lineup, um, what's

1119
00:56:13,840 --> 00:56:19,040
Speaker 1: going to happen now as the season goes on? So yeah, oh,

1120
00:56:19,080 --> 00:56:21,040
Speaker 1: by the way, you skip around to the playoffs at

1121
00:56:21,080 --> 00:56:23,280
Speaker 1: this point, you know, if they can, if they can

1122
00:56:24,000 --> 00:56:26,440
Speaker 1: hold serve here at the next two It's great that

1123
00:56:26,480 --> 00:56:28,799
Speaker 1: she's had never won back to back division titles before

1124
00:56:28,840 --> 00:56:32,120
Speaker 1: Andy Reid, and now they won sixth straight. That that

1125
00:56:32,120 --> 00:56:34,399
Speaker 1: says a lot about Andy Reid. What little note about

1126
00:56:34,400 --> 00:56:36,960
Speaker 1: the Steelers real quick, sorry, but they have trailed by

1127
00:56:36,960 --> 00:56:39,600
Speaker 1: seventeen plus points in the fourth before the fourth quarter

1128
00:56:39,760 --> 00:56:42,480
Speaker 1: nine times in their last nineteen games. That happened to

1129
00:56:42,520 --> 00:56:46,920
Speaker 1: Big Ben nine times in his first and forty three starts.

1130
00:56:46,960 --> 00:56:49,680
Speaker 1: I mean, they are just a broken down snaro. I'm

1131
00:56:49,719 --> 00:56:52,200
Speaker 1: not declaring that they're not gonna win another game to going.

1132
00:56:52,280 --> 00:56:55,240
Speaker 1: They do play the Browns next week, So I'm saying nothing.

1133
00:56:55,280 --> 00:56:57,080
Speaker 1: I'm not. It's just not something I'm not doing this again.

1134
00:56:57,120 --> 00:56:58,960
Speaker 1: I'm just saying they're an eight eight and one team.

1135
00:56:59,000 --> 00:57:00,840
Speaker 1: We're going to get that. You know, I've been wondering

1136
00:57:00,880 --> 00:57:02,759
Speaker 1: why Mark has been hitting this eight eight and one

1137
00:57:02,800 --> 00:57:05,560
Speaker 1: thing so hard, and then, like as it always does,

1138
00:57:05,600 --> 00:57:07,800
Speaker 1: it kind of connects to something else that I didn't

1139
00:57:07,800 --> 00:57:10,439
Speaker 1: realize that that was one of the sandwich props. Nick

1140
00:57:10,480 --> 00:57:13,040
Speaker 1: four Tier of Go Get My Lunch gave us an

1141
00:57:13,120 --> 00:57:16,200
Speaker 1: updated rundown of all the sandwich props, so that that

1142
00:57:16,240 --> 00:57:18,280
Speaker 1: adds a little bit of I honestly had no I

1143
00:57:18,760 --> 00:57:20,919
Speaker 1: had no memory that I had made a sandwich prop

1144
00:57:21,000 --> 00:57:23,880
Speaker 1: off of that. I don't believe you. I believe me.

1145
00:57:24,080 --> 00:57:28,120
Speaker 1: I I it's totally slit my mind. I've been consistently

1146
00:57:28,160 --> 00:57:32,040
Speaker 1: fascinated with the idea of it happening. Got it all right,

1147
00:57:32,160 --> 00:57:36,120
Speaker 1: let's move and check it. I don't know what do

1148
00:57:36,120 --> 00:57:37,760
Speaker 1: you want me to say? I don't believe you. The

1149
00:57:37,800 --> 00:57:41,200
Speaker 1: Tampa Bay Buccaneers looking to get back on track after

1150
00:57:41,640 --> 00:57:45,320
Speaker 1: last Sunday Night's embarrassing loss. Good thing the Panthers were

1151
00:57:45,320 --> 00:57:48,120
Speaker 1: on the slate. Buccaneers neither touchdown to finish this deal.

1152
00:57:48,120 --> 00:57:51,280
Speaker 1: Don't we we lead? Two six snap to Brady inside

1153
00:57:51,320 --> 00:57:54,400
Speaker 1: hand off road. You'll running lamp tough stop Tampa Bay.

1154
00:57:54,560 --> 00:57:59,800
Speaker 1: Nobody laid a hand on him, been duck her off

1155
00:58:00,040 --> 00:58:02,240
Speaker 1: the call. W F you As Tom Brady through for

1156
00:58:02,280 --> 00:58:05,280
Speaker 1: two thirty two and a touchdown. Antonio Brown made a

1157
00:58:05,320 --> 00:58:08,640
Speaker 1: successful return to the lineup as the Bucks routed the

1158
00:58:08,640 --> 00:58:14,160
Speaker 1: Panthers thirty two six. This surprised me. The Bucks their

1159
00:58:14,160 --> 00:58:17,440
Speaker 1: first NFC South title since two thousand seven. They won

1160
00:58:17,440 --> 00:58:19,280
Speaker 1: the Super Bowl last year as a wild card team

1161
00:58:19,280 --> 00:58:23,520
Speaker 1: and had not one a division title before that and

1162
00:58:23,680 --> 00:58:26,160
Speaker 1: h since two thousand seven. Anyway, Mark nice to take

1163
00:58:26,160 --> 00:58:28,120
Speaker 1: care of business. Win for the Bucks who follow up

1164
00:58:28,160 --> 00:58:31,880
Speaker 1: that loss against the Saints with a T shirt and

1165
00:58:32,040 --> 00:58:34,840
Speaker 1: cap win. Yeah, it kind of reminds me of the

1166
00:58:34,840 --> 00:58:37,080
Speaker 1: game we just talked about, because we know that, you know,

1167
00:58:37,120 --> 00:58:40,360
Speaker 1: the Bucks are without Mike Evans, without Chris Godwin, without

1168
00:58:40,400 --> 00:58:43,120
Speaker 1: Lenny for Nett, with you, without even Brashad Pereman, who

1169
00:58:43,120 --> 00:58:45,360
Speaker 1: offered a deep threat for them, and it led to

1170
00:58:45,400 --> 00:58:48,560
Speaker 1: Antonio Brown arriving at just the right time for them.

1171
00:58:48,560 --> 00:58:51,360
Speaker 1: Whether you like his personality or not, Tom Brady likes

1172
00:58:51,400 --> 00:58:54,480
Speaker 1: what he's doing on the field, that likes the Antonio

1173
00:58:54,560 --> 00:58:56,640
Speaker 1: Brown like. Who's in the big fan club at this

1174
00:58:56,760 --> 00:58:58,680
Speaker 1: I don't know every single person who listens to this,

1175
00:58:58,720 --> 00:59:00,880
Speaker 1: so I'm just putting that out there is a probable

1176
00:59:01,000 --> 00:59:04,640
Speaker 1: scenario that most do not. But targeted fifteen times, caught

1177
00:59:04,680 --> 00:59:06,600
Speaker 1: ten of them a hundred and one yards. They were

1178
00:59:06,600 --> 00:59:10,240
Speaker 1: a little discombibulated early, but you could feel Brady and

1179
00:59:10,240 --> 00:59:11,960
Speaker 1: the you know, the cast of characters that came in

1180
00:59:12,000 --> 00:59:14,480
Speaker 1: there getting a little more comfortable. Cyril Grayson had a

1181
00:59:14,520 --> 00:59:17,160
Speaker 1: sixty two yard catch. At one point, he Shaan Vaughan,

1182
00:59:17,200 --> 00:59:19,200
Speaker 1: who has been in the doghouse um had a fifty

1183
00:59:19,240 --> 00:59:21,840
Speaker 1: five yard run for a for a touchdown. I mean,

1184
00:59:21,920 --> 00:59:24,000
Speaker 1: little guys that just have not been a big part

1185
00:59:24,000 --> 00:59:26,560
Speaker 1: of the story stepped up. But why it reminds me

1186
00:59:26,640 --> 00:59:29,720
Speaker 1: also of the game we just talked about Kansas City Pittsburgh.

1187
00:59:30,080 --> 00:59:33,480
Speaker 1: Was that you had the Panthers who are driving me

1188
00:59:33,560 --> 00:59:36,840
Speaker 1: nuts with this situation. This. I lost my patients watching this.

1189
00:59:37,280 --> 00:59:40,720
Speaker 1: It was this dueling piano player scenario where Cam Newton

1190
00:59:40,800 --> 00:59:43,160
Speaker 1: came in and let a field goal drive. Then he

1191
00:59:43,160 --> 00:59:45,320
Speaker 1: throws a pick on the next drive. So incomes Sam

1192
00:59:45,400 --> 00:59:47,880
Speaker 1: Donald who made one big play, but in general was

1193
00:59:47,920 --> 00:59:50,480
Speaker 1: just back and forth between these two guys. Um, it

1194
00:59:50,560 --> 00:59:52,920
Speaker 1: totally bizarre plan that did not look like anything an

1195
00:59:53,000 --> 00:59:56,240
Speaker 1: NFL team should be doing. I understand what Matt Rule

1196
00:59:56,320 --> 00:59:58,240
Speaker 1: said about it after that, it's just like, you know,

1197
00:59:58,280 --> 01:00:01,280
Speaker 1: he wasn't thrilled with it either. But um, they let's

1198
01:00:01,280 --> 01:00:05,120
Speaker 1: hear from that rule, uh, Cessler, Because I know we've

1199
01:00:05,160 --> 01:00:07,840
Speaker 1: been told the reports that Matt Matt Rule's job is safe.

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01:00:07,920 --> 01:00:09,800
Speaker 1: I am not buying it, and I don't imagine a

1201
01:00:09,880 --> 01:00:15,040
Speaker 1: quote like this, getting run helps, but I believe it's

1202
01:00:15,040 --> 01:00:17,240
Speaker 1: one thousand percent working. I just know no one can

1203
01:00:17,280 --> 01:00:19,720
Speaker 1: see it. And I apologize. I tell our team all

1204
01:00:19,720 --> 01:00:23,400
Speaker 1: the time. It took jay Z, like seven years. It

1205
01:00:23,440 --> 01:00:25,080
Speaker 1: took him seven years. He had to start his own

1206
01:00:25,640 --> 01:00:28,480
Speaker 1: agency to to become famous, to become an overnight sensation,

1207
01:00:28,560 --> 01:00:33,280
Speaker 1: Like it takes time. And he says it, and see,

1208
01:00:33,400 --> 01:00:35,640
Speaker 1: and we've we've spoken with him. Seems like a really

1209
01:00:35,760 --> 01:00:39,400
Speaker 1: nice guy, good dude. But I don't know, man, this

1210
01:00:39,400 --> 01:00:41,880
Speaker 1: this that thing I saw when I saw rap sheets

1211
01:00:42,360 --> 01:00:45,760
Speaker 1: report this morning that Sam Donald was gonna play and

1212
01:00:45,800 --> 01:00:47,960
Speaker 1: come in after a couple of series, and it's like

1213
01:00:48,000 --> 01:00:50,280
Speaker 1: everything he does with this quarterback position is weird. Just

1214
01:00:50,320 --> 01:00:52,320
Speaker 1: start Sam Donald, Like, what are we even doing in

1215
01:00:52,360 --> 01:00:55,200
Speaker 1: the first place here? Having Camp start the game and

1216
01:00:55,200 --> 01:00:58,720
Speaker 1: then lifting him after the second possession ends at an interception.

1217
01:00:58,760 --> 01:01:01,520
Speaker 1: It's like, all right, what are we doing here? I

1218
01:01:01,520 --> 01:01:03,760
Speaker 1: just don't understand the game plan at Charlotte. Maybe it

1219
01:01:03,840 --> 01:01:06,880
Speaker 1: was like give Cam one last start in Carolina. I

1220
01:01:06,920 --> 01:01:09,520
Speaker 1: don't know. Yeah, it's because I think Donald will probably

1221
01:01:09,560 --> 01:01:12,480
Speaker 1: start the next couple of weeks, which makes some sense.

1222
01:01:12,600 --> 01:01:15,160
Speaker 1: By by the way, not that not that it really matters,

1223
01:01:15,160 --> 01:01:18,160
Speaker 1: like the Panthers fans booing him. He's talking all about

1224
01:01:18,200 --> 01:01:21,880
Speaker 1: the process. The jay Z thing felt like, uh, you know,

1225
01:01:21,920 --> 01:01:25,280
Speaker 1: how how you know that, Steve BISHEMI mean, like, how

1226
01:01:25,280 --> 01:01:27,240
Speaker 1: are you doing their kids? Like what? First of all,

1227
01:01:27,280 --> 01:01:29,720
Speaker 1: like reasonable doubt, like jay Z's first record is like

1228
01:01:29,760 --> 01:01:32,320
Speaker 1: one of the great first records ever. So that part

1229
01:01:32,360 --> 01:01:35,240
Speaker 1: didn't even makes sense to me. I I don't know

1230
01:01:35,880 --> 01:01:38,480
Speaker 1: him talking about the process. It sounded like he was

1231
01:01:38,520 --> 01:01:41,760
Speaker 1: making a case for his job. I think entirely. I

1232
01:01:41,760 --> 01:01:44,920
Speaker 1: think entirely because I mean, you know, there was a

1233
01:01:44,920 --> 01:01:47,720
Speaker 1: lot of hope around Matt Rule and then the wheels

1234
01:01:47,720 --> 01:01:49,920
Speaker 1: have come off in a in a fierce way and

1235
01:01:50,120 --> 01:01:52,600
Speaker 1: chanted fire Rule during the game. That it kind of

1236
01:01:52,640 --> 01:01:54,840
Speaker 1: made me think of, like, I know that I've been

1237
01:01:54,880 --> 01:01:58,000
Speaker 1: tough on Teddy Bridgewater, largely because like Greg pumps him

1238
01:01:58,080 --> 01:02:00,360
Speaker 1: up as like someone that came down from the Evans.

1239
01:02:00,360 --> 01:02:02,800
Speaker 1: But when you think about Teddy Bridgewater mentioning that this

1240
01:02:02,880 --> 01:02:06,320
Speaker 1: offense was disorganized a year ago, well a year later, um,

1241
01:02:06,360 --> 01:02:09,160
Speaker 1: it is extremely disorganized and they fired the offensive coordinator

1242
01:02:09,200 --> 01:02:11,919
Speaker 1: that Teddy was critiquing. So it's like you go back

1243
01:02:11,960 --> 01:02:14,480
Speaker 1: through the roots of what's happening here, and it's not

1244
01:02:14,560 --> 01:02:16,560
Speaker 1: been a great plan and it's not working. It doesn't

1245
01:02:16,600 --> 01:02:23,200
Speaker 1: visually look pleasing. Uh and uh, let's just uh one thing,

1246
01:02:23,240 --> 01:02:26,160
Speaker 1: Greg clearing up the meme that you were referencing that

1247
01:02:26,240 --> 01:02:30,440
Speaker 1: Steve Bushmi saying how do you do fellow kids? I mean,

1248
01:02:30,480 --> 01:02:33,720
Speaker 1: I sounded like Steve bushemy. There After the game, Antonio

1249
01:02:33,760 --> 01:02:36,160
Speaker 1: Brown also got very snippy with a reporter who dared

1250
01:02:36,240 --> 01:02:39,880
Speaker 1: to ask him, um about all the nonsense that surrounds

1251
01:02:39,960 --> 01:02:42,240
Speaker 1: him as a person, not a player, as a person.

1252
01:02:42,840 --> 01:02:46,280
Speaker 1: Uh and uh shut down a reporter who was their

1253
01:02:46,320 --> 01:02:49,920
Speaker 1: first chance to have a conversation with Brown about his

1254
01:02:50,040 --> 01:02:53,560
Speaker 1: suspension tied to the fake vaccine card. Uh. And he

1255
01:02:53,640 --> 01:02:56,000
Speaker 1: was kind of a jerk about it. So, I mean,

1256
01:02:56,040 --> 01:02:59,800
Speaker 1: this is Antonio Brown is a jerk, but he's productive

1257
01:03:00,240 --> 01:03:02,640
Speaker 1: and he was again today and he's an important part

1258
01:03:02,920 --> 01:03:05,360
Speaker 1: of their offense, whether we like it or not. Because

1259
01:03:05,760 --> 01:03:08,880
Speaker 1: with um, Mike Evans ailing, with Chris Godwin out of

1260
01:03:08,880 --> 01:03:12,520
Speaker 1: the picture, with Lenny Furnett out, Tom Brady needs and

1261
01:03:12,600 --> 01:03:14,600
Speaker 1: Antonio Brown and he was there for him. So that's

1262
01:03:14,680 --> 01:03:17,280
Speaker 1: that's a big development for them on the Super Bowl.

1263
01:03:17,280 --> 01:03:20,120
Speaker 1: Teams have tons of jerks on them. I mean, this

1264
01:03:20,240 --> 01:03:22,080
Speaker 1: is just that no one's if they win the Super Bowl,

1265
01:03:22,160 --> 01:03:24,280
Speaker 1: no one's gonna care that Antonio Brown was on this

1266
01:03:24,320 --> 01:03:27,400
Speaker 1: team at all. No one will all right, let's now

1267
01:03:27,520 --> 01:03:31,000
Speaker 1: move to Houston. Upset alert or is it? I mean?

1268
01:03:31,000 --> 01:03:33,000
Speaker 1: With COVID, it's hard to really make sense of any

1269
01:03:33,040 --> 01:03:35,080
Speaker 1: of this. But a team that was expected to win

1270
01:03:35,320 --> 01:03:39,000
Speaker 1: did not. This game was played in Texas. Bills quick

1271
01:03:39,040 --> 01:03:46,600
Speaker 1: pass up a Bud add song the Dagger touchdown Poston.

1272
01:03:47,400 --> 01:03:54,680
Speaker 1: My goodness, they're gonna do it. I love it. Oh yeah, Ricky,

1273
01:03:54,720 --> 01:04:00,200
Speaker 1: good job. Give the Texans the bongos they deserve it from.

1274
01:04:00,360 --> 01:04:05,720
Speaker 1: Come Come, Come, Come Come, Mark vandermere K, I lt

1275
01:04:06,120 --> 01:04:08,480
Speaker 1: with it called. Davis Mills and Nico Collins connected on

1276
01:04:08,520 --> 01:04:12,880
Speaker 1: the clinching touchdown rex Burke. Rex Burke had ran for

1277
01:04:12,880 --> 01:04:15,600
Speaker 1: a career hight hundred forty nine yards and two touchdowns

1278
01:04:15,640 --> 01:04:18,560
Speaker 1: in The Texans took advantage of three turnovers to beat

1279
01:04:18,600 --> 01:04:23,400
Speaker 1: the Charges nine. This game featured two teams are missing

1280
01:04:23,440 --> 01:04:28,560
Speaker 1: more than a dozen players each because of COVID nineteen protocols.

1281
01:04:28,920 --> 01:04:32,240
Speaker 1: Greggy David Culley has these Texans fighting hard to the

1282
01:04:32,360 --> 01:04:36,640
Speaker 1: end and playing aggressive on offense. I said it a

1283
01:04:36,640 --> 01:04:39,240
Speaker 1: week ago with how they closed out that Jaguars game.

1284
01:04:39,280 --> 01:04:42,520
Speaker 1: I was even more struck in this game that with

1285
01:04:42,760 --> 01:04:45,960
Speaker 1: a small lead of one score lead in the red

1286
01:04:46,080 --> 01:04:48,960
Speaker 1: zone with under four minutes to go, instead of trying

1287
01:04:49,000 --> 01:04:51,600
Speaker 1: to bleed clock on first down, they got Davis Mills

1288
01:04:51,600 --> 01:04:54,360
Speaker 1: throwing slants. Because he's shown he's pretty good at throwing slants.

1289
01:04:54,440 --> 01:04:58,040
Speaker 1: Davis Mills is playing good controlled football. This was one

1290
01:04:58,080 --> 01:05:01,520
Speaker 1: of his best games because as it didn't have the

1291
01:05:02,240 --> 01:05:05,439
Speaker 1: kind of mental mistake rookie mistake that he's usually has

1292
01:05:05,480 --> 01:05:08,920
Speaker 1: even in his good games. He had to baller throws

1293
01:05:09,080 --> 01:05:12,320
Speaker 1: in the first half, and it really felt like in

1294
01:05:12,360 --> 01:05:16,600
Speaker 1: another world, like this was like a quarterback shootout between

1295
01:05:17,280 --> 01:05:19,600
Speaker 1: him and Herbert. There were very few stops in this game.

1296
01:05:19,680 --> 01:05:23,600
Speaker 1: You at Herbert's line and you think, like Herbert struggled.

1297
01:05:23,800 --> 01:05:25,840
Speaker 1: They only got stopped. You know, they didn't punt the

1298
01:05:25,880 --> 01:05:28,439
Speaker 1: whole game. The Chargers, you know, they fumbled it once

1299
01:05:28,560 --> 01:05:31,080
Speaker 1: and Herbert got picked off once where he got a

1300
01:05:31,080 --> 01:05:33,360
Speaker 1: little too aggressive. It was just they couldn't keep up

1301
01:05:33,360 --> 01:05:36,880
Speaker 1: with Davis Mills in the Texans. I don't know, I mean,

1302
01:05:37,240 --> 01:05:39,240
Speaker 1: I look back on I mean, do we not like

1303
01:05:39,280 --> 01:05:42,080
Speaker 1: this some of these COVID situations, It's like, okay, cool,

1304
01:05:42,200 --> 01:05:45,000
Speaker 1: Like I'm glad for Davis Mills, but no Austin Ekeler,

1305
01:05:45,400 --> 01:05:48,880
Speaker 1: no Mike Williams, Corey Lindsley's out. I mean, these things matter,

1306
01:05:48,920 --> 01:05:51,680
Speaker 1: and I mean it's bo so Is out. Jones was out.

1307
01:05:51,720 --> 01:05:54,960
Speaker 1: They were missing fourteen players or thirteen places. But guess

1308
01:05:55,000 --> 01:05:58,880
Speaker 1: what the Texans were missing eighteen so including like Brandon Cook.

1309
01:05:59,000 --> 01:06:00,800
Speaker 1: So it's just like it's crazy easy. They were missing

1310
01:06:00,840 --> 01:06:03,680
Speaker 1: over thirty total players in this game. You're right, it's

1311
01:06:03,720 --> 01:06:05,920
Speaker 1: hard to know what to know. It was the first

1312
01:06:05,920 --> 01:06:08,440
Speaker 1: press conference where, you know, reporters coming out of it

1313
01:06:08,520 --> 01:06:10,520
Speaker 1: said that Brandon Staley, who has been one of the

1314
01:06:10,560 --> 01:06:14,040
Speaker 1: best young coaches in front of the mic around UH,

1315
01:06:14,360 --> 01:06:16,040
Speaker 1: had a bit of a thousand yards stair. That it

1316
01:06:16,120 --> 01:06:17,480
Speaker 1: just I think it took a lot out of them,

1317
01:06:17,520 --> 01:06:20,720
Speaker 1: And I understand that it's frustrating if you're a Chargers fan,

1318
01:06:20,760 --> 01:06:22,920
Speaker 1: because yes, you could point to the COVID issues, but yes,

1319
01:06:22,960 --> 01:06:24,800
Speaker 1: both teams had to deal with it. At the end

1320
01:06:24,840 --> 01:06:27,560
Speaker 1: of the day, with two games remaining in the regular season,

1321
01:06:27,600 --> 01:06:29,680
Speaker 1: the Chargers are kind of right back where they always

1322
01:06:29,680 --> 01:06:31,400
Speaker 1: seem to be. There at eight and seven, and the

1323
01:06:31,480 --> 01:06:33,720
Speaker 1: season go one way or another. And they've let a

1324
01:06:33,720 --> 01:06:36,200
Speaker 1: lot of winnable games get away. And I wouldn't say

1325
01:06:36,200 --> 01:06:38,680
Speaker 1: they're they're chargering in the same way we know them

1326
01:06:38,680 --> 01:06:41,320
Speaker 1: to charger in the past. But uh, to not be

1327
01:06:41,400 --> 01:06:44,280
Speaker 1: able to close out the Chiefs at home on Thursday night,

1328
01:06:44,280 --> 01:06:46,320
Speaker 1: which could be turned out to be a turning point

1329
01:06:46,360 --> 01:06:48,720
Speaker 1: in their season, and then to fole that up with

1330
01:06:48,800 --> 01:06:51,720
Speaker 1: a road game against Houston where you just get out played,

1331
01:06:51,920 --> 01:06:54,360
Speaker 1: you just get beat use, your defense gets beat up

1332
01:06:54,400 --> 01:06:57,800
Speaker 1: on by Davis Mills. And here we are now they're

1333
01:06:57,840 --> 01:06:59,360
Speaker 1: nine and eight. We'll see if they what they have

1334
01:06:59,760 --> 01:07:02,040
Speaker 1: and if we talked Brandon Staley very good on Mike,

1335
01:07:02,320 --> 01:07:04,280
Speaker 1: we'll see we'll learn a lot about him as a coach.

1336
01:07:04,280 --> 01:07:06,840
Speaker 1: We're gonna learn a lot about Justin Herbert. How does

1337
01:07:06,880 --> 01:07:09,560
Speaker 1: this season end for the Chargers? We got that they

1338
01:07:09,560 --> 01:07:14,640
Speaker 1: got the Broncos and Raiders next, so division opponents winnable games,

1339
01:07:14,800 --> 01:07:17,840
Speaker 1: you probably have to win them both. Uh. It was

1340
01:07:17,920 --> 01:07:21,360
Speaker 1: interesting seek that old story, the old friend the Chargers

1341
01:07:21,440 --> 01:07:25,240
Speaker 1: run defense get lit up for a hundred and eighty

1342
01:07:25,320 --> 01:07:30,000
Speaker 1: nine yards by Rex Burkhead and Royce Freeman. Royce Freeman

1343
01:07:30,080 --> 01:07:33,520
Speaker 1: is not even like like the best random freeman picked

1344
01:07:33,560 --> 01:07:35,560
Speaker 1: up off the street. That's running the ball like that's

1345
01:07:35,600 --> 01:07:39,840
Speaker 1: DeVante like like. It was crazy to see them going

1346
01:07:39,880 --> 01:07:41,480
Speaker 1: up and down the field running the ball with those

1347
01:07:41,480 --> 01:07:43,800
Speaker 1: two guys. Hard to believe. All right, let's take a

1348
01:07:43,920 --> 01:07:47,040
Speaker 1: break and then check in on the a f C.

1349
01:07:47,200 --> 01:07:52,280
Speaker 1: West Car's gonna throw it. Snaps it off White open

1350
01:07:52,360 --> 01:07:55,560
Speaker 1: first down the row, deep in the territory. He's at

1351
01:07:55,560 --> 01:08:01,080
Speaker 1: the Broncos thirty five yards yard. Wantta go? They crossed

1352
01:08:01,120 --> 01:08:05,920
Speaker 1: everybody up. Raiders are headed for their eight win. Brent Musburger,

1353
01:08:05,960 --> 01:08:09,640
Speaker 1: of course, with the call for k r l V

1354
01:08:09,920 --> 01:08:12,800
Speaker 1: on third and two from their own thirty six yard line,

1355
01:08:13,120 --> 01:08:15,480
Speaker 1: nursing a four point lead late in the fourth quarter,

1356
01:08:15,800 --> 01:08:19,439
Speaker 1: Derek Carr didn't do what was expected, which would have

1357
01:08:19,439 --> 01:08:22,800
Speaker 1: been handing the ball off to Josh Jacobs, who had

1358
01:08:23,240 --> 01:08:25,519
Speaker 1: done damage all game. Instead, he dropped back to pass,

1359
01:08:25,640 --> 01:08:27,840
Speaker 1: dropped a tear drop into the hands of Foster Moreau,

1360
01:08:27,840 --> 01:08:30,519
Speaker 1: who's twenty eight yard pickup allowed the Raiders to run

1361
01:08:30,520 --> 01:08:34,800
Speaker 1: out the clock on that win. And after the play,

1362
01:08:34,800 --> 01:08:37,959
Speaker 1: as he was jogging down field, he animate and inanimate

1363
01:08:38,000 --> 01:08:41,040
Speaker 1: way pointed at the Raiders sideline. During the celebration, potentially

1364
01:08:41,120 --> 01:08:43,719
Speaker 1: not to Greg Olsen. I don't know. Maybe Greg Olson's upstairs,

1365
01:08:43,760 --> 01:08:46,240
Speaker 1: the offensive coordinator, I don't know, but he was. He

1366
01:08:46,360 --> 01:08:49,200
Speaker 1: was happy that they gave the ball to him and

1367
01:08:49,320 --> 01:08:52,360
Speaker 1: said win the game, and he did so. Here the

1368
01:08:52,439 --> 01:08:57,040
Speaker 1: Raiders again, I was dismissing of them after the Browns win.

1369
01:08:57,680 --> 01:09:01,240
Speaker 1: Everyone was, it seemed like, but the Eights now find

1370
01:09:01,240 --> 01:09:03,880
Speaker 1: a way to beat a Broncos team that's not very good.

1371
01:09:03,880 --> 01:09:06,519
Speaker 1: But it's still a good win, uh, for a team

1372
01:09:06,560 --> 01:09:09,800
Speaker 1: that are not collapsing in December like in past years.

1373
01:09:09,840 --> 01:09:11,640
Speaker 1: In fact that these two wins, they are right in

1374
01:09:11,680 --> 01:09:13,680
Speaker 1: the mix, still in the a f C. What was

1375
01:09:13,720 --> 01:09:18,080
Speaker 1: going on with Denver's ground game, which has been spicy?

1376
01:09:18,400 --> 01:09:22,519
Speaker 1: Um at moments. I love Javonte Williams, but they had

1377
01:09:22,520 --> 01:09:25,519
Speaker 1: what fifteen yards on the ground. I mean, this is

1378
01:09:25,560 --> 01:09:29,479
Speaker 1: not a two backs at eight yards total on fourteen carry.

1379
01:09:29,800 --> 01:09:32,960
Speaker 1: Here's the thing I want to Derek Carr had a

1380
01:09:33,000 --> 01:09:36,080
Speaker 1: miserable interception right before the half on a screen pass

1381
01:09:36,520 --> 01:09:39,040
Speaker 1: pass where Bradley Chubb jumped up, grabbed it, took it

1382
01:09:39,080 --> 01:09:41,960
Speaker 1: to the goal line. They went in a play later. Um,

1383
01:09:42,280 --> 01:09:44,000
Speaker 1: and that was such a big play in this game.

1384
01:09:44,040 --> 01:09:46,679
Speaker 1: Because it wasn't high scoring and it just kept things close.

1385
01:09:46,760 --> 01:09:49,880
Speaker 1: But the Raiders dominated, Uh this game. The Broncos could

1386
01:09:49,880 --> 01:09:53,920
Speaker 1: not get anything going on the ground through the air. Uh.

1387
01:09:53,960 --> 01:09:57,519
Speaker 1: And that's what you're seeing in that game. The Vegas defense,

1388
01:09:57,520 --> 01:10:00,639
Speaker 1: which has not always been a big time unit's stepped

1389
01:10:00,680 --> 01:10:02,960
Speaker 1: up here. Of course it's Drew lock that's prominently involved.

1390
01:10:03,000 --> 01:10:05,760
Speaker 1: And always have to factor these things in. Who's the

1391
01:10:05,800 --> 01:10:08,960
Speaker 1: quarterback playing? Teddy Bridgewater stuffered that scary head injury. He

1392
01:10:09,040 --> 01:10:12,120
Speaker 1: was held out as a precaution, locked in and too much.

1393
01:10:12,160 --> 01:10:14,000
Speaker 1: But yeah, when the running game wasn't there to pick

1394
01:10:14,080 --> 01:10:16,880
Speaker 1: up the load. Uh, that was it. Uh for a

1395
01:10:16,920 --> 01:10:19,000
Speaker 1: team that didn't really even have the ball that much.

1396
01:10:19,360 --> 01:10:22,960
Speaker 1: If you look at the breakdown of the game. Uh,

1397
01:10:23,040 --> 01:10:25,000
Speaker 1: they only had eight first downs the whole game. They

1398
01:10:25,040 --> 01:10:28,080
Speaker 1: only ran forty total plays a hundred and fifty eight yards.

1399
01:10:28,080 --> 01:10:31,479
Speaker 1: So the offensive the Raiders still not very good. Darren

1400
01:10:31,520 --> 01:10:34,519
Speaker 1: Waller out of the lineup, but the defense took care

1401
01:10:34,560 --> 01:10:36,920
Speaker 1: of an inferior unit. I guess you could say, Greg,

1402
01:10:36,960 --> 01:10:38,639
Speaker 1: because I know you'd like to get your little Teddy

1403
01:10:38,640 --> 01:10:41,920
Speaker 1: Bridgewater celebrations in where you can This might be a

1404
01:10:41,920 --> 01:10:44,920
Speaker 1: different outcome with a more proficient guy at the controls

1405
01:10:44,920 --> 01:10:46,720
Speaker 1: of the offense. I mean, they w probably have had

1406
01:10:46,760 --> 01:10:48,400
Speaker 1: more than Yeah, they probably would have had more than

1407
01:10:48,880 --> 01:10:52,080
Speaker 1: eight first downs, although three drives I gotta say ended

1408
01:10:52,120 --> 01:10:55,599
Speaker 1: on plays. Receivers could have made drops for Drew Lock.

1409
01:10:55,800 --> 01:10:57,639
Speaker 1: You know, I did watch this one trying to knock

1410
01:10:57,640 --> 01:11:01,280
Speaker 1: it out early, and they were just bad all Judy

1411
01:11:01,320 --> 01:11:03,479
Speaker 1: had a really bad drop. I think that had one.

1412
01:11:03,520 --> 01:11:07,040
Speaker 1: And it's tough to give Alberto a drop on that

1413
01:11:07,160 --> 01:11:09,479
Speaker 1: last drive where where the Broncos still had a chance

1414
01:11:09,520 --> 01:11:11,559
Speaker 1: to go win the game, but he had a chance

1415
01:11:11,600 --> 01:11:13,639
Speaker 1: to make a play that would have put them deep

1416
01:11:13,640 --> 01:11:16,320
Speaker 1: into field goal range and they didn't make the play.

1417
01:11:16,400 --> 01:11:20,160
Speaker 1: It's pretty You've got to be pretty bad too win

1418
01:11:20,200 --> 01:11:23,000
Speaker 1: the turnover battle three to nothing and lose the game

1419
01:11:23,120 --> 01:11:25,920
Speaker 1: to the Raiders. I mean two of the Broncos your

1420
01:11:25,960 --> 01:11:28,760
Speaker 1: ten of the Broncos points, as you mentioned, came on

1421
01:11:28,840 --> 01:11:33,479
Speaker 1: drives totally in five yards, so it's like they basically

1422
01:11:33,520 --> 01:11:35,920
Speaker 1: didn't move the ball the whole game. That's pretty rough.

1423
01:11:35,960 --> 01:11:38,200
Speaker 1: And you write the Raiders are eight and seven, so

1424
01:11:38,240 --> 01:11:40,680
Speaker 1: they're tied with the Chargers and the Ravens as we

1425
01:11:41,400 --> 01:11:45,240
Speaker 1: speak now for that last spot, technically the Ravens have

1426
01:11:45,320 --> 01:11:47,680
Speaker 1: the tiebreaker. Now it doesn't really matter, but those three

1427
01:11:47,720 --> 01:11:49,439
Speaker 1: are all at eight and seven, and the Dolphins can

1428
01:11:49,560 --> 01:11:52,000
Speaker 1: join them on Monday. I do wonder if we find

1429
01:11:52,000 --> 01:11:54,040
Speaker 1: out that Derek Carr is more banged up. I know

1430
01:11:54,080 --> 01:11:56,080
Speaker 1: he finished the game, but he looked like he had

1431
01:11:56,120 --> 01:11:59,800
Speaker 1: separated shoulder at one point. He's he's a tough dude, man.

1432
01:12:00,040 --> 01:12:02,040
Speaker 1: He went to the blue tent. He went to the

1433
01:12:02,080 --> 01:12:05,160
Speaker 1: blue tent to the point where the uh ANOUTCI team

1434
01:12:05,160 --> 01:12:07,599
Speaker 1: confidently said a new quarterback was coming into the game.

1435
01:12:07,640 --> 01:12:09,160
Speaker 1: And then you came back from break and there's Derek

1436
01:12:09,200 --> 01:12:11,840
Speaker 1: Carr on the huddle. So unless you break his leg

1437
01:12:12,240 --> 01:12:16,280
Speaker 1: or yeah, break his leg, basically he's playing uh football

1438
01:12:16,320 --> 01:12:18,880
Speaker 1: for your team, which also should be considered when you

1439
01:12:18,920 --> 01:12:21,759
Speaker 1: talk about Derek Carr, the quarterback who's not a great quarterback,

1440
01:12:22,320 --> 01:12:24,479
Speaker 1: but he's not as bad as the people who want

1441
01:12:24,520 --> 01:12:27,040
Speaker 1: to tell you. Also he's good. He's a good quarterback.

1442
01:12:27,560 --> 01:12:29,639
Speaker 1: Is that good enough for you? It should be. If

1443
01:12:29,680 --> 01:12:31,920
Speaker 1: you have a good quarterback, you're surrounded with a really

1444
01:12:31,960 --> 01:12:35,920
Speaker 1: good team, you can go places in our league. I

1445
01:12:35,960 --> 01:12:37,320
Speaker 1: don't think he'll be there a year from now, but

1446
01:12:37,360 --> 01:12:41,080
Speaker 1: I agree with you really, no, I do. He's very

1447
01:12:41,160 --> 01:12:43,559
Speaker 1: cheap under I don't think. I don't think it's because

1448
01:12:43,880 --> 01:12:46,880
Speaker 1: um they wouldn't want him. I think that we're going

1449
01:12:46,960 --> 01:12:49,320
Speaker 1: to get him. We're gonna get another scenario where he's

1450
01:12:49,320 --> 01:12:53,200
Speaker 1: gonna want out because he's not into rebuilding with that

1451
01:12:53,280 --> 01:12:57,719
Speaker 1: clubs interesting that John Gurdon Fever dream game. He loves,

1452
01:12:57,840 --> 01:12:59,719
Speaker 1: he loves games like this. I wonder if he's watching

1453
01:12:59,760 --> 01:13:02,920
Speaker 1: some I imagine he is, But who knows. All Right,

1454
01:13:03,000 --> 01:13:06,200
Speaker 1: So from one h a f C contender or a

1455
01:13:06,240 --> 01:13:09,280
Speaker 1: wild card contender that we don't really believe in necessarily

1456
01:13:09,680 --> 01:13:13,120
Speaker 1: to another in the NFC, Let's go to Atlanta. Preg

1457
01:13:13,120 --> 01:13:16,200
Speaker 1: Reynolds out of the backfield. Here's boil throwing it accepted.

1458
01:13:17,320 --> 01:13:21,320
Speaker 1: Lokan is gonna win at court. Atlanta shortened to the

1459
01:13:21,360 --> 01:13:23,840
Speaker 1: Sweet West Durham w z g C with the Gulf

1460
01:13:23,840 --> 01:13:28,240
Speaker 1: could call Matt Ryan through a tiebreaking twelve yard touchdown

1461
01:13:28,280 --> 01:13:30,519
Speaker 1: past the Hayden Hurst early in the fourth quarter, and

1462
01:13:30,560 --> 01:13:34,800
Speaker 1: the Falcons got that late interception from Foyer Aluicon to

1463
01:13:34,880 --> 01:13:40,240
Speaker 1: beat the Lions, preserving their playoffs hopes. Slim as they

1464
01:13:40,280 --> 01:13:43,400
Speaker 1: may be, Atlanta improved the seven and two in one

1465
01:13:43,439 --> 01:13:48,160
Speaker 1: possession games, including four wins by no more than four points.

1466
01:13:48,240 --> 01:13:53,479
Speaker 1: Mark to quote Adam F. Dirret's the Falcons are hanging

1467
01:13:53,520 --> 01:13:58,840
Speaker 1: around this town on the corner. They are they are,

1468
01:13:59,160 --> 01:14:01,760
Speaker 1: and the Lions mean conversely or one six and one

1469
01:14:01,800 --> 01:14:07,160
Speaker 1: and one score games. It feels like they're okay, Uh,

1470
01:14:07,560 --> 01:14:11,519
Speaker 1: go ahead. I don't know where to go from after that,

1471
01:14:11,600 --> 01:14:14,240
Speaker 1: Dan like I we can go into accounting crowls discussion

1472
01:14:14,240 --> 01:14:16,479
Speaker 1: if you'd like instead. I mean, this game felt What

1473
01:14:16,520 --> 01:14:18,479
Speaker 1: are you holding over your shoulder? You look like John

1474
01:14:18,560 --> 01:14:21,800
Speaker 1: Snow right now? What you've been wrapping, even wrapping that

1475
01:14:22,000 --> 01:14:24,559
Speaker 1: sweater around your neck. At various points in the show,

1476
01:14:25,200 --> 01:14:27,559
Speaker 1: it's there is a window, and I understand that I'm

1477
01:14:27,600 --> 01:14:29,960
Speaker 1: in Los Angeles, so there's no complaints, but it's freezing

1478
01:14:30,000 --> 01:14:32,000
Speaker 1: into you want to pull over in your head and

1479
01:14:32,040 --> 01:14:34,639
Speaker 1: just really snug up here. For the balance of the show,

1480
01:14:35,000 --> 01:14:37,040
Speaker 1: we could stop down to say it. I mean, I

1481
01:14:37,080 --> 01:14:38,800
Speaker 1: want to be taken like in a van to like

1482
01:14:38,880 --> 01:14:40,840
Speaker 1: the middle of the country and just dropped into the night.

1483
01:14:40,880 --> 01:14:42,920
Speaker 1: At this point, I want I were doing the best

1484
01:14:42,960 --> 01:14:45,080
Speaker 1: we can hear. But if you'd like to hear about

1485
01:14:45,080 --> 01:14:47,280
Speaker 1: the game, I'm happy to tell you you've been tracking

1486
01:14:47,320 --> 01:14:48,960
Speaker 1: this thing on his shoulder the whole show, and it's

1487
01:14:48,960 --> 01:14:51,840
Speaker 1: been sweaters. Yeah, well it's a sub part. When he

1488
01:14:51,880 --> 01:14:55,720
Speaker 1: was getting annoyed at me talking about Belichick talk earlier,

1489
01:14:55,880 --> 01:14:58,120
Speaker 1: he was actually like wrapping it around his neck in

1490
01:14:58,160 --> 01:14:59,599
Speaker 1: a way that it looked like it might cut off

1491
01:14:59,640 --> 01:15:02,719
Speaker 1: circuit lation because I was like, I hate when people

1492
01:15:02,800 --> 01:15:07,880
Speaker 1: do this thing where they eighties bad guy the like,

1493
01:15:07,920 --> 01:15:09,559
Speaker 1: I hate that stuff. So I was just putting it

1494
01:15:09,600 --> 01:15:13,519
Speaker 1: over one shoulder to warm that region. You were like

1495
01:15:13,560 --> 01:15:15,920
Speaker 1: wrapping it around the neck many times, and I saw

1496
01:15:15,920 --> 01:15:18,280
Speaker 1: a vain popping now or something. It's almost like he

1497
01:15:18,320 --> 01:15:20,360
Speaker 1: was pantomiming what he wanted to do to you. At

1498
01:15:20,400 --> 01:15:25,000
Speaker 1: that exact moment, I was feeling better about it. You

1499
01:15:25,080 --> 01:15:28,960
Speaker 1: must have enjoyed this game. It was over. I must

1500
01:15:29,000 --> 01:15:32,280
Speaker 1: not have en it was over. I looked up. It

1501
01:15:32,400 --> 01:15:35,639
Speaker 1: was pm here on the West Coast, in the game

1502
01:15:35,720 --> 01:15:38,679
Speaker 1: had ended. That has to be the quickest NFL game

1503
01:15:38,760 --> 01:15:41,400
Speaker 1: in this entire season. I think one of the reasons

1504
01:15:41,479 --> 01:15:44,439
Speaker 1: that happened was that the Lions, and this is so

1505
01:15:44,479 --> 01:15:48,040
Speaker 1: true to their nature, kept going forward on fourth down

1506
01:15:48,640 --> 01:15:51,040
Speaker 1: over and over and they and they kept succeeding and

1507
01:15:51,160 --> 01:15:54,800
Speaker 1: keeping drives alive. It moved at a quick pace on

1508
01:15:54,920 --> 01:15:57,040
Speaker 1: They didn't get the dominant ground game that they've gotten

1509
01:15:57,040 --> 01:15:59,760
Speaker 1: in other weeks, but there is something and I know

1510
01:15:59,760 --> 01:16:01,719
Speaker 1: it was Tim Boyle, and there's not much that this

1511
01:16:01,800 --> 01:16:04,800
Speaker 1: team has gone at this point, but Tim Boyle played well.

1512
01:16:04,840 --> 01:16:08,719
Speaker 1: And I'm on Ross st Browns in a touchdown again,

1513
01:16:08,840 --> 01:16:11,080
Speaker 1: like that's my takeaways that you've got a wide receiver

1514
01:16:11,160 --> 01:16:12,960
Speaker 1: to build around here. He's been really good. And if

1515
01:16:12,960 --> 01:16:16,080
Speaker 1: you're the if this is your fantasy team related Dan,

1516
01:16:16,160 --> 01:16:18,680
Speaker 1: but Kyle Pitts made two or three plays in this

1517
01:16:18,720 --> 01:16:21,720
Speaker 1: game that we already know he's amazing. But he had

1518
01:16:21,760 --> 01:16:23,800
Speaker 1: a breakout game that helped set up points for them

1519
01:16:23,840 --> 01:16:25,240
Speaker 1: over and over and did a couple of things that

1520
01:16:25,360 --> 01:16:28,640
Speaker 1: just visually were magnetic. It was still looked like a

1521
01:16:28,640 --> 01:16:31,160
Speaker 1: lot of other Falcons games where it's like the defense

1522
01:16:31,439 --> 01:16:33,919
Speaker 1: gets tricked here and there. It wasn't a terrible performance,

1523
01:16:33,920 --> 01:16:36,840
Speaker 1: but Matt Ryan has zero protection. He's getting hammered left

1524
01:16:36,840 --> 01:16:39,160
Speaker 1: and right, but does just enough Matt Ryan things to

1525
01:16:39,240 --> 01:16:41,320
Speaker 1: keep it alive. And it came down to the end

1526
01:16:41,479 --> 01:16:45,000
Speaker 1: and I did enjoy to some degree because of the pace,

1527
01:16:45,080 --> 01:16:47,320
Speaker 1: but it wouldn't be the football game I'd sign up

1528
01:16:47,320 --> 01:16:50,360
Speaker 1: to like um watch you know seven thousand times on

1529
01:16:50,400 --> 01:16:54,599
Speaker 1: a VCR tape in the early eighties, go ahead to ahead.

1530
01:16:55,680 --> 01:16:57,200
Speaker 1: I was just saying, I know you were pumping that

1531
01:16:57,280 --> 01:17:01,439
Speaker 1: fist um when the Lions kicked that field goal under

1532
01:17:01,479 --> 01:17:04,519
Speaker 1: four minutes to go to make it only a four

1533
01:17:04,560 --> 01:17:07,760
Speaker 1: point game and get it raining inside that Georgia though,

1534
01:17:07,840 --> 01:17:12,040
Speaker 1: we got another fix for the Rainmaker. The Browns came

1535
01:17:12,120 --> 01:17:15,919
Speaker 1: through on Saturday night. The Lions come through on Sunday

1536
01:17:15,960 --> 01:17:18,000
Speaker 1: two and oh up to five and oh, I think

1537
01:17:18,080 --> 01:17:20,840
Speaker 1: I've ended the Rainmaker after going five and oh right,

1538
01:17:21,200 --> 01:17:24,640
Speaker 1: this is the this is the tremendous disconnect. You screaming

1539
01:17:24,680 --> 01:17:28,600
Speaker 1: into a microphone that the Browns came through the Rainmaker.

1540
01:17:28,600 --> 01:17:31,840
Speaker 1: About the result, I saw some people tweeting at us,

1541
01:17:31,840 --> 01:17:34,840
Speaker 1: saying they made some Christmas things, which this is what

1542
01:17:34,880 --> 01:17:36,720
Speaker 1: I'm telling you. And this is why you have to

1543
01:17:36,760 --> 01:17:39,600
Speaker 1: have an altruistic viewpoint on this. Great can't be just

1544
01:17:39,680 --> 01:17:42,240
Speaker 1: about you. I want to retire five and oh no,

1545
01:17:42,640 --> 01:17:45,439
Speaker 1: you have paid for Christmas. You're paying for braces, you're

1546
01:17:45,479 --> 01:17:48,880
Speaker 1: paying for car payments, you're paying for prep school, you're

1547
01:17:48,920 --> 01:17:51,760
Speaker 1: paying for plumbing issues. You're playing for the new roof.

1548
01:17:51,800 --> 01:17:54,800
Speaker 1: This is your chance to give back to the community

1549
01:17:55,120 --> 01:17:58,200
Speaker 1: of fans that have given so much to you. Greg. Well,

1550
01:17:58,240 --> 01:18:00,360
Speaker 1: they gotta need a new roof with all this rain

1551
01:18:00,439 --> 01:18:03,880
Speaker 1: coming down. Nice, I love it, Greg. That's awesome, good, good,

1552
01:18:03,880 --> 01:18:05,920
Speaker 1: come back. And I'm on fire with you right now.

1553
01:18:06,120 --> 01:18:08,080
Speaker 1: And now I'll have to do something I didn't want

1554
01:18:08,080 --> 01:18:09,719
Speaker 1: to do because I didn't even want to give them

1555
01:18:10,640 --> 01:18:14,080
Speaker 1: the respect of checking the NFC playoff picture. But you

1556
01:18:14,120 --> 01:18:16,840
Speaker 1: know what, Falcons, You've won enough close games where I

1557
01:18:16,920 --> 01:18:19,160
Speaker 1: don't recognize you as a true player in this thing.

1558
01:18:19,200 --> 01:18:21,040
Speaker 1: But you are in the mix. So where are you.

1559
01:18:21,040 --> 01:18:23,439
Speaker 1: You're seven and eight, your third in the NFC South.

1560
01:18:23,680 --> 01:18:28,400
Speaker 1: You're in tenth place with a schedule favorable because you

1561
01:18:28,439 --> 01:18:31,479
Speaker 1: have the Lions up next. Okay, there you go. That's

1562
01:18:31,520 --> 01:18:33,160
Speaker 1: my check in on the Falcons. Well then all the

1563
01:18:33,200 --> 01:18:38,320
Speaker 1: Lions up next, but they games against the lines. Oh sorry,

1564
01:18:38,400 --> 01:18:41,360
Speaker 1: that's that's on NFL dot com. Who should be updating

1565
01:18:41,360 --> 01:18:45,920
Speaker 1: there next? And Bills in the Super Bowl. So NFL

1566
01:18:46,000 --> 01:18:49,000
Speaker 1: dot com, how could we be uh putting up a

1567
01:18:49,000 --> 01:18:53,400
Speaker 1: playoff picture on our website that's not updated by Sunday night?

1568
01:18:53,680 --> 01:18:57,200
Speaker 1: What are we doing? I'll say no more I'll say

1569
01:18:57,240 --> 01:18:59,479
Speaker 1: no more. You just hung out the old zeus are

1570
01:18:59,520 --> 01:19:02,400
Speaker 1: to dry In the middle of the Round the NFL podcast,

1571
01:19:02,439 --> 01:19:05,880
Speaker 1: the award winning Around the NFL Podcast, I went to

1572
01:19:06,200 --> 01:19:09,840
Speaker 1: our website and you hug me out to dry well.

1573
01:19:09,840 --> 01:19:12,320
Speaker 1: I think you appropriately took your employer and threw them

1574
01:19:12,360 --> 01:19:17,320
Speaker 1: under a moving bus. So you knows you it was

1575
01:19:17,360 --> 01:19:19,120
Speaker 1: deserved and you did it. You know what I did

1576
01:19:19,240 --> 01:19:22,640
Speaker 1: that get dot com. I peeled my body off the

1577
01:19:22,680 --> 01:19:25,320
Speaker 1: pavement after they got me backed over with the bus

1578
01:19:25,479 --> 01:19:29,600
Speaker 1: and I chased them down like the Steelers zombie, and

1579
01:19:29,640 --> 01:19:32,760
Speaker 1: I grabbed whoever is running NFL dot com and I

1580
01:19:32,840 --> 01:19:34,760
Speaker 1: threw that son of the under the bus and then

1581
01:19:34,800 --> 01:19:37,200
Speaker 1: he got rolled over by the same bus. Could be

1582
01:19:37,240 --> 01:19:41,360
Speaker 1: a she, but that's fair. But are you are you

1583
01:19:41,600 --> 01:19:44,720
Speaker 1: recap the Lions Falcons? I mean you could have could

1584
01:19:44,720 --> 01:19:47,439
Speaker 1: have adjusted there? Are you annoyed Dan that I pointed

1585
01:19:47,479 --> 01:19:50,000
Speaker 1: out the air verbally? Should I have just let it slide?

1586
01:19:50,000 --> 01:19:53,080
Speaker 1: Because you know, I think it's important. I think it's important.

1587
01:19:53,120 --> 01:19:55,160
Speaker 1: They're only one back. I mean, that's a fact. There's

1588
01:19:55,160 --> 01:19:57,360
Speaker 1: two weeks left in the season and the Falcons are

1589
01:19:57,439 --> 01:20:00,760
Speaker 1: one game back. That's those are just the facts. They're

1590
01:20:00,760 --> 01:20:03,400
Speaker 1: hanging around this town on the corner. Let's move to

1591
01:20:03,520 --> 01:20:06,240
Speaker 1: the metal ends here they come. Wilson alludes the rush.

1592
01:20:06,240 --> 01:20:08,599
Speaker 1: He's gonna take off. He's got plenty of running room,

1593
01:20:08,640 --> 01:20:11,840
Speaker 1: and he's gonna stamper for a big game. Thirty still

1594
01:20:11,880 --> 01:20:13,599
Speaker 1: in bounds at the twenty, makes a miss of the ten.

1595
01:20:13,840 --> 01:20:18,920
Speaker 1: He could go. Wilson dives touchdown, touchdown, New York Jets.

1596
01:20:19,000 --> 01:20:24,360
Speaker 1: Zack Wilson on a fifty five yards stamper, breaking tackles,

1597
01:20:24,360 --> 01:20:27,439
Speaker 1: staying in bounds and just like that, the j E

1598
01:20:27,600 --> 01:20:30,240
Speaker 1: t s are on the board. It's six more New

1599
01:20:30,320 --> 01:20:37,240
Speaker 1: York m the boy, the boy made a play all

1600
01:20:37,320 --> 01:20:40,320
Speaker 1: hell the boy Bob was shusing with the call for

1601
01:20:40,520 --> 01:20:44,080
Speaker 1: w E p N. Zack Wilson did something no other

1602
01:20:44,160 --> 01:20:49,040
Speaker 1: Jet quarterback had ever done. He ran a touchdown fifty

1603
01:20:49,080 --> 01:20:54,560
Speaker 1: five yards on the ground, going around, going around Jacksonville defenders.

1604
01:20:54,920 --> 01:20:57,000
Speaker 1: One defender thought he was going out of bounds, and

1605
01:20:57,000 --> 01:20:59,879
Speaker 1: he said, whoops, see you later, and as a state inbounds,

1606
01:20:59,880 --> 01:21:02,000
Speaker 1: towed to the sideline, did down the south line and

1607
01:21:02,000 --> 01:21:04,960
Speaker 1: into the end zone. It did remind me and many

1608
01:21:05,000 --> 01:21:07,440
Speaker 1: other Jets fans that are feeling a lot of trepidation

1609
01:21:07,520 --> 01:21:11,600
Speaker 1: about this latest um Jets quarterback who is supposed to

1610
01:21:11,600 --> 01:21:15,000
Speaker 1: be the future. There is a lot of athleticism and

1611
01:21:15,080 --> 01:21:18,480
Speaker 1: a lot to like about him as a physical prospect.

1612
01:21:18,560 --> 01:21:20,879
Speaker 1: He throws the hell out of the ball. He really

1613
01:21:20,920 --> 01:21:23,320
Speaker 1: moves well in the pocket. If there's been a lot

1614
01:21:23,320 --> 01:21:25,960
Speaker 1: of negatives, but we've seen week after week how well

1615
01:21:26,000 --> 01:21:29,439
Speaker 1: he evades pressure, is able to reset. Uh. He's not

1616
01:21:29,520 --> 01:21:31,800
Speaker 1: making plays once he resets his feet, but he's putting

1617
01:21:31,840 --> 01:21:33,639
Speaker 1: himself in a position to do that and maybe one

1618
01:21:33,720 --> 01:21:36,000
Speaker 1: day he will. So that's optimism. I'll give you a

1619
01:21:36,000 --> 01:21:38,680
Speaker 1: little optimism there as a Jets fan. Uh. And they

1620
01:21:38,720 --> 01:21:41,840
Speaker 1: got a defensive goal line stand at the end after

1621
01:21:41,880 --> 01:21:44,640
Speaker 1: Trevor Lawrence used his legs to set up the Jaguars

1622
01:21:45,439 --> 01:21:48,400
Speaker 1: um at the goal line, but the Jags, in their

1623
01:21:48,520 --> 01:21:51,800
Speaker 1: Jaguar ways did not get up to the line with

1624
01:21:52,280 --> 01:21:54,400
Speaker 1: with everyone known what to do, the whole play was

1625
01:21:54,439 --> 01:21:58,040
Speaker 1: out of whack, leading to an incomplete pass uh, ceiling

1626
01:21:58,080 --> 01:22:04,960
Speaker 1: a win for the Jets. UM. I saw Brian Costello.

1627
01:22:05,320 --> 01:22:07,840
Speaker 1: I like Brian Costello. He's he's been a long time

1628
01:22:08,479 --> 01:22:10,519
Speaker 1: beat writer of the New York Post. But he had

1629
01:22:10,560 --> 01:22:16,960
Speaker 1: one of those sardonic, kind of pessimistic tweets like enjoy

1630
01:22:17,080 --> 01:22:20,479
Speaker 1: the wind now lamented, come the draft or whatever, and

1631
01:22:20,520 --> 01:22:22,919
Speaker 1: I'm just like, I don't want to hear it anymore.

1632
01:22:23,080 --> 01:22:25,519
Speaker 1: I want I know that this hurts the Jets in

1633
01:22:25,560 --> 01:22:28,799
Speaker 1: their draft positioning. Uh. And I would have been okay

1634
01:22:28,800 --> 01:22:30,479
Speaker 1: if they would have lost this game, but I don't.

1635
01:22:30,640 --> 01:22:33,840
Speaker 1: We don't need beat reporters, cynical beat reporters telling the

1636
01:22:33,840 --> 01:22:36,479
Speaker 1: fans that they shouldn't be rooting for it. In fact,

1637
01:22:36,720 --> 01:22:40,920
Speaker 1: I want to play something for you guys. My brother

1638
01:22:41,000 --> 01:22:43,599
Speaker 1: Kevin Danger Hans is his home for the holidays. Uh.

1639
01:22:43,720 --> 01:22:46,479
Speaker 1: Watched the game with Keith Hansas, and my dad's a

1640
01:22:46,479 --> 01:22:50,920
Speaker 1: big proponent of I watched the Jets hoping to see

1641
01:22:50,960 --> 01:22:54,679
Speaker 1: a win. My dad is not about tanking. He want

1642
01:22:54,680 --> 01:22:57,599
Speaker 1: he his joy comes from the Jets winning. It doesn't

1643
01:22:57,640 --> 01:23:00,000
Speaker 1: matter what the situation is in the season. My brother

1644
01:23:00,000 --> 01:23:01,479
Speaker 1: there was nice in us to get us some real

1645
01:23:01,560 --> 01:23:05,720
Speaker 1: content here and got hidden recording of Keith. On the

1646
01:23:05,760 --> 01:23:09,640
Speaker 1: play before the big stop at the goal line, a

1647
01:23:09,760 --> 01:23:12,519
Speaker 1: pass was thrown by Trevor Lawrence right into the hands

1648
01:23:12,520 --> 01:23:15,040
Speaker 1: of C. J. Mosley, went through his hands and for

1649
01:23:15,240 --> 01:23:17,719
Speaker 1: a complete pass for Jacksonville at the one yard line.

1650
01:23:18,120 --> 01:23:20,880
Speaker 1: And this was Keith's reaction to a near interception by

1651
01:23:20,920 --> 01:23:25,640
Speaker 1: Moseley that turned into a completion for the Jaguars. I

1652
01:23:25,680 --> 01:23:29,200
Speaker 1: don't went right through his hands. It went through front

1653
01:23:29,240 --> 01:23:40,679
Speaker 1: the seventh hands stream. I can't believe that it didn't

1654
01:23:40,720 --> 01:23:49,200
Speaker 1: catch it. Oh my god. Oh man, that's a fan.

1655
01:23:49,760 --> 01:23:52,160
Speaker 1: My dad's a real one. And you know what, he

1656
01:23:52,240 --> 01:23:56,680
Speaker 1: was rewarded with a stop and a win. Draft positioning

1657
01:23:56,920 --> 01:24:01,240
Speaker 1: be damned. But also like, like, if you can get

1658
01:24:01,280 --> 01:24:03,599
Speaker 1: some sparks out of Zach Wilson, you're going into next

1659
01:24:03,640 --> 01:24:06,439
Speaker 1: year with this with him as your quarterback. Barring like

1660
01:24:06,600 --> 01:24:09,080
Speaker 1: stuff that becomes more common in these days, like the

1661
01:24:09,160 --> 01:24:11,920
Speaker 1: Kyler Murray move. But I would just say that probably

1662
01:24:11,960 --> 01:24:13,680
Speaker 1: they are like I don't need them to have the

1663
01:24:13,760 --> 01:24:16,160
Speaker 1: number one pick and like get some momentum. And I

1664
01:24:16,200 --> 01:24:18,280
Speaker 1: know your head coach wasn't even coaching this game. And

1665
01:24:18,640 --> 01:24:21,320
Speaker 1: you know Ron Middleton, you know, former NFL tight end

1666
01:24:21,760 --> 01:24:24,080
Speaker 1: is one of like eighteen guys to win games without

1667
01:24:24,120 --> 01:24:26,160
Speaker 1: the head coach and there but I am with your

1668
01:24:26,240 --> 01:24:28,360
Speaker 1: dad a little bit of optimism to close what to

1669
01:24:28,439 --> 01:24:31,880
Speaker 1: close what's been a ghastly campaign. Otherwise, yes, and they

1670
01:24:31,880 --> 01:24:37,880
Speaker 1: were the Jets are missing their head coach, it's a

1671
01:24:37,960 --> 01:24:40,040
Speaker 1: nice win. I don't care who's a game, right, I

1672
01:24:40,040 --> 01:24:42,960
Speaker 1: I agree, but it was a really disappointing final sequence.

1673
01:24:42,960 --> 01:24:45,320
Speaker 1: I mean, admittedly this is the only sequence I watched

1674
01:24:45,479 --> 01:24:49,400
Speaker 1: this play this game, but make a play, Trevor Lawrence.

1675
01:24:49,439 --> 01:24:51,599
Speaker 1: I mean, you get you get into that position, first

1676
01:24:51,600 --> 01:24:54,360
Speaker 1: of all, And I know Jaguars fans have been talking

1677
01:24:54,360 --> 01:24:57,080
Speaker 1: about this, there's some disagreement. It's like he had one

1678
01:24:57,160 --> 01:25:00,879
Speaker 1: cornerback to to beat to maybe go score a touchdown.

1679
01:25:00,920 --> 01:25:02,640
Speaker 1: I know he was thinking about stopping the clock and

1680
01:25:02,720 --> 01:25:06,880
Speaker 1: staying in bounds, but it's like, you are a great runner,

1681
01:25:08,200 --> 01:25:10,160
Speaker 1: go make a guy miss and if you get tackled.

1682
01:25:10,360 --> 01:25:12,960
Speaker 1: He still had time that was not that big a concern.

1683
01:25:13,000 --> 01:25:14,519
Speaker 1: And then to back that up with and I think

1684
01:25:14,560 --> 01:25:17,080
Speaker 1: they had an incompletion on first down. You should you

1685
01:25:17,680 --> 01:25:19,320
Speaker 1: should have thrown up what would have been a game.

1686
01:25:19,360 --> 01:25:22,920
Speaker 1: Then interception to Mosley. Then they spike it. I don't

1687
01:25:22,920 --> 01:25:25,080
Speaker 1: know if that's his decision or the coach, but they

1688
01:25:25,080 --> 01:25:27,679
Speaker 1: were so discombbuland they spike it with plenty of time

1689
01:25:27,760 --> 01:25:29,920
Speaker 1: left on third down. That was crazy. And then they

1690
01:25:29,960 --> 01:25:31,599
Speaker 1: can't get set up for fourth that it's not all

1691
01:25:31,640 --> 01:25:34,479
Speaker 1: on Lawrence, but he did make some bad plays there,

1692
01:25:34,520 --> 01:25:37,040
Speaker 1: and they he definitely was not comm under press. It

1693
01:25:37,120 --> 01:25:39,360
Speaker 1: was one of those plays where, even if you're not

1694
01:25:39,400 --> 01:25:43,720
Speaker 1: someone that understands the nuances of pre snap alignments and

1695
01:25:43,760 --> 01:25:45,800
Speaker 1: what's allowed to happen and what's not, I count myself

1696
01:25:45,840 --> 01:25:47,840
Speaker 1: as one of those people you knew, oh, this is

1697
01:25:47,840 --> 01:25:50,320
Speaker 1: gonna be a penalty because there's guys moving all over

1698
01:25:50,360 --> 01:25:53,080
Speaker 1: the place in front of Lawrence, and and the play

1699
01:25:53,120 --> 01:25:56,320
Speaker 1: by play guys didn't make the call, which in retrospect,

1700
01:25:56,520 --> 01:26:00,640
Speaker 1: I mean hindsight, but Trevor Lawrence probably was better off

1701
01:26:00,680 --> 01:26:02,679
Speaker 1: taking a delay of game. It was so out of whack.

1702
01:26:02,720 --> 01:26:05,080
Speaker 1: It was the last play a game. The clock was stopped,

1703
01:26:05,360 --> 01:26:07,200
Speaker 1: and then you could have your fourth and goal from

1704
01:26:07,240 --> 01:26:09,439
Speaker 1: the six yard line, maybe even a little bit more

1705
01:26:09,479 --> 01:26:11,400
Speaker 1: space to work with and try to win the game.

1706
01:26:11,680 --> 01:26:15,519
Speaker 1: So yeah, and a season filled with disappointment for first

1707
01:26:15,600 --> 01:26:18,240
Speaker 1: round pick quarterbacks. I agree with you. I thought that

1708
01:26:18,600 --> 01:26:20,320
Speaker 1: Lawrence did a lot of good things in this game.

1709
01:26:20,360 --> 01:26:22,800
Speaker 1: I thought he probably outplayed Zack Wilson in a lot

1710
01:26:22,800 --> 01:26:26,200
Speaker 1: of ways. But Zack Wilson made I had two touchdowns,

1711
01:26:26,240 --> 01:26:28,720
Speaker 1: not no turnovers, and Lawrence wasn't able to make the

1712
01:26:28,760 --> 01:26:31,280
Speaker 1: big play, and it hasn't happened enough this year, like

1713
01:26:31,400 --> 01:26:35,760
Speaker 1: Lawrence making the big play. One little mini wasn't ready

1714
01:26:35,800 --> 01:26:38,120
Speaker 1: for that moment. And that's fine, he's a rookie. But

1715
01:26:38,200 --> 01:26:41,639
Speaker 1: some rookies are already a little more under control of

1716
01:26:41,800 --> 01:26:44,599
Speaker 1: what to do, and that's been put in a terrible situation.

1717
01:26:44,600 --> 01:26:46,839
Speaker 1: But I mean looking to the future of Trevor Lawrence,

1718
01:26:46,880 --> 01:26:49,760
Speaker 1: like the it was rap sheet that reported that it's

1719
01:26:49,800 --> 01:26:53,080
Speaker 1: Byron Leftwich, Jim called Well and Doug Peterson who were

1720
01:26:53,080 --> 01:26:56,360
Speaker 1: on the early radar as head coaching candidates for the

1721
01:26:56,439 --> 01:27:00,680
Speaker 1: Jacksonville Jaguarso, man, they have to get this higher right

1722
01:27:00,920 --> 01:27:03,800
Speaker 1: and somebody with experience that you know is going to

1723
01:27:03,840 --> 01:27:05,639
Speaker 1: be able to run a ship in a professional way

1724
01:27:05,720 --> 01:27:08,680
Speaker 1: that makes sense. Um, and all those names kind of

1725
01:27:09,240 --> 01:27:12,160
Speaker 1: check those boxes. So we shall see what happens with

1726
01:27:12,160 --> 01:27:13,880
Speaker 1: the Jags, but we won't learn about that for a

1727
01:27:13,880 --> 01:27:16,960
Speaker 1: couple more weeks. Uh, Let's take a break and then

1728
01:27:17,000 --> 01:27:21,640
Speaker 1: finish off the week. Sixteen Sunday Bears are going for

1729
01:27:21,760 --> 01:27:25,479
Speaker 1: the win. Here Foles gone, lifts his right leg, moves

1730
01:27:25,520 --> 01:27:28,120
Speaker 1: to his right, checking it, throw it back of the

1731
01:27:28,240 --> 01:27:31,240
Speaker 1: end zone. Catch made, and he couldn't hang on, they're

1732
01:27:31,280 --> 01:27:34,599
Speaker 1: gonna say it's good for the two pointer Tamere Bird

1733
01:27:34,720 --> 01:27:37,120
Speaker 1: back of the end zone. It is good and the

1734
01:27:37,160 --> 01:27:42,639
Speaker 1: Bears have the lead here in Seattle. Thank you Bears.

1735
01:27:42,680 --> 01:27:45,519
Speaker 1: By the way, as a Jets fan, uh Jeff Joniac

1736
01:27:45,600 --> 01:27:49,000
Speaker 1: with a called w BBM, Bears don't care. Nick Foles

1737
01:27:49,000 --> 01:27:51,040
Speaker 1: through a late touchdown passing with the chance to tie

1738
01:27:51,080 --> 01:27:53,400
Speaker 1: the game, Matt Nagy said, effant, let's go for the

1739
01:27:53,400 --> 01:27:57,000
Speaker 1: two point good version converted successfully thanks to a beautiful,

1740
01:27:57,240 --> 01:28:01,160
Speaker 1: beautiful catch by wide receiver Demire Bird. Chicago followed with

1741
01:28:01,200 --> 01:28:05,040
Speaker 1: a stop on defense and the Bears steal over the

1742
01:28:05,080 --> 01:28:09,759
Speaker 1: Seahawks in snowy Seattle. Greg, that was unbelievable, that sequence,

1743
01:28:09,800 --> 01:28:12,559
Speaker 1: the Jimmy Graham touchdown and then what a play by

1744
01:28:12,560 --> 01:28:15,000
Speaker 1: Bird though that it was such a great ending for

1745
01:28:15,040 --> 01:28:17,920
Speaker 1: this game. I mean, of course, the game wasn't too exciting.

1746
01:28:17,920 --> 01:28:20,800
Speaker 1: It was a snow game, but Nick Foles had one

1747
01:28:20,840 --> 01:28:24,360
Speaker 1: of the more exciting game winning touchdown drives of the

1748
01:28:24,520 --> 01:28:27,080
Speaker 1: entire season. He gets the ball back after the Seahawks

1749
01:28:27,200 --> 01:28:29,200
Speaker 1: totally blow the game should have been over. They had

1750
01:28:29,200 --> 01:28:33,040
Speaker 1: a second down with three minutes left at the bears

1751
01:28:33,080 --> 01:28:35,920
Speaker 1: twenty eight yard line, Russell Wilson takes a terrible sack

1752
01:28:36,000 --> 01:28:38,400
Speaker 1: that Carol gets on him about after the game they

1753
01:28:38,439 --> 01:28:41,360
Speaker 1: missed the field goal, and then Folds goes right down

1754
01:28:41,400 --> 01:28:43,799
Speaker 1: the field like a thirty yard play on the first

1755
01:28:44,040 --> 01:28:47,280
Speaker 1: um snap where he gets hit. And then you mentioned

1756
01:28:47,280 --> 01:28:50,040
Speaker 1: it that Graham catch was like, I don't know, I know,

1757
01:28:50,160 --> 01:28:52,479
Speaker 1: Jimmy Graham's not very good anymore, but it got me thinking, like,

1758
01:28:52,520 --> 01:28:54,920
Speaker 1: could Jimmy Graham just catch those jump balls till he

1759
01:28:54,960 --> 01:28:57,240
Speaker 1: was like forty seven, Like that's the only thing he

1760
01:28:57,360 --> 01:28:59,800
Speaker 1: can do? It so great at it. It It was a

1761
01:29:00,000 --> 01:29:02,680
Speaker 1: it didn't long too. Yeah, it's like a Knicks fan like.

1762
01:29:02,760 --> 01:29:04,960
Speaker 1: It reminds me of late period Patrick Ewing where he

1763
01:29:05,080 --> 01:29:07,920
Speaker 1: lost a lot of his athleticism, but sometime against like

1764
01:29:07,960 --> 01:29:09,920
Speaker 1: an inferior opponent, you could just pour it to him

1765
01:29:09,960 --> 01:29:11,800
Speaker 1: in the paint and he could do an old move

1766
01:29:11,880 --> 01:29:14,240
Speaker 1: to get a get a bucket, like he's that's what

1767
01:29:14,320 --> 01:29:16,960
Speaker 1: Jimmy Graham is like thirty four year old Patrick Ewing.

1768
01:29:17,280 --> 01:29:19,439
Speaker 1: I mean yeah, and fall falls turned back the clock.

1769
01:29:19,520 --> 01:29:22,439
Speaker 1: I thought had a solid game overall, and then the

1770
01:29:22,520 --> 01:29:25,080
Speaker 1: catch that Demere Bird made. I don't blame the play

1771
01:29:25,080 --> 01:29:26,720
Speaker 1: by play guy for thinking he was gonna go out

1772
01:29:26,720 --> 01:29:29,840
Speaker 1: of bounds because there was no way he should have.

1773
01:29:30,000 --> 01:29:32,360
Speaker 1: He somehow reached it out, reached out, caught it with

1774
01:29:32,439 --> 01:29:34,880
Speaker 1: one hand in total traffic. Looked like he was gonna

1775
01:29:34,920 --> 01:29:38,320
Speaker 1: get pushed out, got his shifted down and demere Bird

1776
01:29:38,400 --> 01:29:40,120
Speaker 1: is a hero. It made one of the places was

1777
01:29:40,320 --> 01:29:43,960
Speaker 1: a sick catch to not only to survive the initial

1778
01:29:44,320 --> 01:29:46,840
Speaker 1: throw in coverage, to come down, stay in bounds and

1779
01:29:46,880 --> 01:29:49,400
Speaker 1: then hold onto it with one hand. One of the

1780
01:29:49,400 --> 01:29:51,800
Speaker 1: catches of the year. Yeah, in inclement weather, and it

1781
01:29:51,920 --> 01:29:54,519
Speaker 1: kind of it completely masked what I thought was an

1782
01:29:54,520 --> 01:29:58,960
Speaker 1: incredible performance Seahawks wise from Carlos Dunlap, who was all

1783
01:29:59,000 --> 01:30:01,200
Speaker 1: over the place for shot Penny. And you know after

1784
01:30:01,240 --> 01:30:04,200
Speaker 1: the game, listening to Pete Carroll, he just seemed um

1785
01:30:04,920 --> 01:30:09,440
Speaker 1: a little more listless and willing to accept total responsibility

1786
01:30:09,479 --> 01:30:11,800
Speaker 1: and couldn't believe they lost. I couldn't believe they lost

1787
01:30:11,840 --> 01:30:14,719
Speaker 1: this game either, but that they they play to keep

1788
01:30:14,720 --> 01:30:17,800
Speaker 1: games close with their style and and uh yeah, when

1789
01:30:17,800 --> 01:30:21,880
Speaker 1: you face face b d n Old Nick Foles, he

1790
01:30:22,000 --> 01:30:24,599
Speaker 1: still got that b D n energy. Sometimes he can

1791
01:30:24,600 --> 01:30:28,200
Speaker 1: get it done. I want to make a prediction that

1792
01:30:28,280 --> 01:30:31,280
Speaker 1: this is the week we've been kind of we've been

1793
01:30:31,479 --> 01:30:34,360
Speaker 1: waiting for it. This is the week where we get

1794
01:30:34,640 --> 01:30:38,360
Speaker 1: the Capital T Capital S story, the story from someone

1795
01:30:39,080 --> 01:30:42,760
Speaker 1: a leak out of Seattle, either about Pete Carroll or

1796
01:30:42,760 --> 01:30:45,840
Speaker 1: about Russell Wilson. It's gonna heat up coming off an

1797
01:30:45,880 --> 01:30:52,240
Speaker 1: ugly loss like this. All right, let's the time is

1798
01:30:52,320 --> 01:30:56,439
Speaker 1: ripe for us to move on to Sunday Night Football.

1799
01:31:00,840 --> 01:31:06,360
Speaker 1: MP backfield foreman rush and that is intercepted. It's the

1800
01:31:06,439 --> 01:31:10,920
Speaker 1: Marcus Lawrence down the sideline. He goes and look at

1801
01:31:10,960 --> 01:31:14,880
Speaker 1: that into the end zone. Boy, I tell you, if

1802
01:31:14,880 --> 01:31:18,240
Speaker 1: it's not Diggs, it's not Parson's, it's not Gregory. Don't

1803
01:31:18,280 --> 01:31:23,759
Speaker 1: forget about that guy, well said by the legend himself,

1804
01:31:23,800 --> 01:31:28,840
Speaker 1: Al Michael's friend BC, the Cowboys author to masterpiece on

1805
01:31:28,880 --> 01:31:32,360
Speaker 1: Sunday Night Football. Yes, the opponent wasn't great, but it

1806
01:31:32,479 --> 01:31:35,360
Speaker 1: was a display of might that should make them a

1807
01:31:35,400 --> 01:31:38,800
Speaker 1: figure of intimidation. In the NFC final score fifties six

1808
01:31:38,880 --> 01:31:43,000
Speaker 1: to fourteen, Cowboys over Washington. And you heard al they're

1809
01:31:43,520 --> 01:31:46,000
Speaker 1: piping up the defense and all the playmakers and Clark,

1810
01:31:46,160 --> 01:31:49,320
Speaker 1: including Demrcus Lawrence, which is absolutely true. But then you

1811
01:31:49,320 --> 01:31:51,760
Speaker 1: have to look at the other side and an offense

1812
01:31:52,479 --> 01:31:55,519
Speaker 1: that piled up for Dak Prescott touchdown passes in the

1813
01:31:55,600 --> 01:31:59,800
Speaker 1: first half alone in building a forty two seven halftime lead,

1814
01:32:00,360 --> 01:32:02,479
Speaker 1: and Mark, that is just like what you're talking about

1815
01:32:02,479 --> 01:32:04,719
Speaker 1: with the Cowboys, Like when they are in full flight,

1816
01:32:05,280 --> 01:32:08,960
Speaker 1: they look as impressive as any team in football. Yeah,

1817
01:32:09,000 --> 01:32:11,120
Speaker 1: you know, they are becoming a light in the NFC.

1818
01:32:11,200 --> 01:32:14,639
Speaker 1: And I I just was thinking towards the second half

1819
01:32:14,640 --> 01:32:17,000
Speaker 1: of this game when, like you know, the actual minute

1820
01:32:17,000 --> 01:32:19,439
Speaker 1: by minute details started to fade away into the larger

1821
01:32:19,479 --> 01:32:23,640
Speaker 1: picture that if you track like Super Bowl appearing in

1822
01:32:23,680 --> 01:32:26,880
Speaker 1: Super Bowl winning teams, they typically have a couple of

1823
01:32:26,880 --> 01:32:29,519
Speaker 1: wins like this. Um, I know it's just a post

1824
01:32:29,600 --> 01:32:31,519
Speaker 1: Thanksgiving its only time, but it's like late in the

1825
01:32:31,560 --> 01:32:34,519
Speaker 1: season where they assure you that they are dominant. And

1826
01:32:34,920 --> 01:32:38,679
Speaker 1: we have been dogging Dallas with a series of questions

1827
01:32:38,720 --> 01:32:42,040
Speaker 1: about their offense, sputtering to some degree, not quite reaching

1828
01:32:42,120 --> 01:32:44,800
Speaker 1: its potential, not as many questions about the defense, and

1829
01:32:44,880 --> 01:32:48,080
Speaker 1: quite the opposite. Tonight, you saw everything come together, and

1830
01:32:48,080 --> 01:32:50,920
Speaker 1: I think for me, it starts with the totally pristine

1831
01:32:51,280 --> 01:32:54,959
Speaker 1: performance of Dak Prescott. He looked healthy, he looked perfect,

1832
01:32:55,160 --> 01:32:57,640
Speaker 1: He used all his weapons. Amari Cooper has nothing to

1833
01:32:57,680 --> 01:33:00,360
Speaker 1: complain about this week, two reporters. It's has kind of

1834
01:33:00,400 --> 01:33:03,040
Speaker 1: showed you like there are a couple of teams hanging

1835
01:33:03,080 --> 01:33:05,840
Speaker 1: out there going sideways and in the wrong direction. We've

1836
01:33:05,840 --> 01:33:08,599
Speaker 1: talked about a bunch of them. Tonight, Dallas suddenly looks

1837
01:33:08,600 --> 01:33:12,160
Speaker 1: completely different to me. Maybe with the way one is

1838
01:33:12,520 --> 01:33:15,400
Speaker 1: none of this will linger and carry on. But I

1839
01:33:15,479 --> 01:33:18,360
Speaker 1: kind of see that differently because they have they're one

1840
01:33:18,360 --> 01:33:20,759
Speaker 1: of the rare teams with the defense that can stomp

1841
01:33:20,800 --> 01:33:23,160
Speaker 1: you out. And when the offense plays this way, they

1842
01:33:23,160 --> 01:33:25,519
Speaker 1: are what they were tonight, totally unstoppable. I don't care

1843
01:33:25,520 --> 01:33:27,960
Speaker 1: if it was Washington or anyone else. Right, Dabban dak

1844
01:33:28,040 --> 01:33:32,720
Speaker 1: was unconscious at one point. He was two thirty. And

1845
01:33:33,120 --> 01:33:35,680
Speaker 1: those throws weren't all easy. I mean that the touchdowns

1846
01:33:35,680 --> 01:33:38,400
Speaker 1: were like the guys are wide open. But he had

1847
01:33:38,680 --> 01:33:41,960
Speaker 1: one throw full sprint to the left on the money,

1848
01:33:42,000 --> 01:33:44,280
Speaker 1: the type of athletic throw that he hasn't made a

1849
01:33:44,280 --> 01:33:47,600
Speaker 1: ton this year since the injury. Another couple on the

1850
01:33:47,720 --> 01:33:51,160
Speaker 1: run to the right, so good, and then when they

1851
01:33:51,240 --> 01:33:54,720
Speaker 1: line up on third downs, it seems like they're kind

1852
01:33:54,720 --> 01:33:58,839
Speaker 1: of going with Gregory and then on the outside Parsons

1853
01:33:58,880 --> 01:34:02,160
Speaker 1: on the other side, and then Tank Lawrence and Gallimore

1854
01:34:02,200 --> 01:34:05,160
Speaker 1: inside like good luck, one of those dudes is just

1855
01:34:05,200 --> 01:34:07,640
Speaker 1: going to have some matchup where he recks shop and

1856
01:34:07,680 --> 01:34:11,439
Speaker 1: they did, and Digs is covering McLaurin. It's fun to see.

1857
01:34:11,680 --> 01:34:14,760
Speaker 1: And they've had this kind of cape cupcake schedule here

1858
01:34:14,800 --> 01:34:17,160
Speaker 1: for a while. That ends like they got the Cardinals

1859
01:34:17,200 --> 01:34:19,360
Speaker 1: next week. They got the Eagles in Week eight, team

1860
01:34:19,400 --> 01:34:21,600
Speaker 1: which probably will matter because they might be going for

1861
01:34:21,640 --> 01:34:23,760
Speaker 1: that one seed and then they'll have a playoff game

1862
01:34:23,880 --> 01:34:27,400
Speaker 1: and they they're fascinating, these five teams that have all

1863
01:34:27,439 --> 01:34:30,240
Speaker 1: made the NFC playoffs, you know, just to kind of

1864
01:34:30,280 --> 01:34:33,000
Speaker 1: recap the day, you know, we knew the Packers were in,

1865
01:34:33,000 --> 01:34:36,479
Speaker 1: but the Cardinals, Rams, the Cowboys, and the Bucks are

1866
01:34:36,479 --> 01:34:38,720
Speaker 1: all in now. All five of those teams are are

1867
01:34:38,720 --> 01:34:41,519
Speaker 1: pretty fascinating teams. And the Cowboys have the star power

1868
01:34:41,560 --> 01:34:44,800
Speaker 1: to match any of them. Even their special teams got

1869
01:34:44,800 --> 01:34:46,400
Speaker 1: in the mix of the second half of the punt

1870
01:34:46,400 --> 01:34:52,640
Speaker 1: block um for a touchdown, so um Bones Fossil he

1871
01:34:52,720 --> 01:34:54,679
Speaker 1: gets into the mix as well, And Yeah, I think

1872
01:34:55,040 --> 01:34:57,760
Speaker 1: I agree. The defense they've been doing, they've been on

1873
01:34:57,800 --> 01:35:01,719
Speaker 1: a massive heater. Uh had that streak of the last

1874
01:35:01,760 --> 01:35:06,240
Speaker 1: three weeks before Sunday Night where they had the four turnovers. This,

1875
01:35:06,560 --> 01:35:09,839
Speaker 1: of course another affair filled with interceptions and big plays,

1876
01:35:10,479 --> 01:35:13,400
Speaker 1: but I think that Dak Prescott performance is the one

1877
01:35:13,439 --> 01:35:16,280
Speaker 1: that really does stand out because if if he does

1878
01:35:16,320 --> 01:35:18,000
Speaker 1: get back to the guy in the first four or

1879
01:35:18,040 --> 01:35:21,840
Speaker 1: five weeks, and he combined it with this uber talented,

1880
01:35:22,280 --> 01:35:26,880
Speaker 1: playmaking minded defense, and it's a really well coached team.

1881
01:35:26,920 --> 01:35:29,320
Speaker 1: I mean, I know Mike McCarthy has gotten some slings

1882
01:35:29,360 --> 01:35:31,559
Speaker 1: and arrows on the show and and it's been deserved

1883
01:35:31,560 --> 01:35:33,400
Speaker 1: it in a lot of ways, but I mean he

1884
01:35:33,479 --> 01:35:39,040
Speaker 1: leads a really sound coaching staff. They have an offensive philosophy. Obviously,

1885
01:35:39,200 --> 01:35:41,840
Speaker 1: the defense has really come to life under Dan Quinn,

1886
01:35:41,960 --> 01:35:44,000
Speaker 1: and McCarthy is a good guy to kind of be

1887
01:35:44,120 --> 01:35:47,679
Speaker 1: overlooking if they just seem really uh set up well

1888
01:35:48,040 --> 01:35:49,760
Speaker 1: for a playoff front. Now we've said that about the

1889
01:35:49,800 --> 01:35:52,400
Speaker 1: Cowboys before, and there's a reason why they've gone a

1890
01:35:52,479 --> 01:35:55,760
Speaker 1: quarter century without a Super Bowl birth. But this version

1891
01:35:55,800 --> 01:35:57,760
Speaker 1: of the Cowboys can beat anybody in the league. It's

1892
01:35:57,760 --> 01:36:01,120
Speaker 1: not just that Washington is totally cooked and Washington is cook.

1893
01:36:01,160 --> 01:36:03,599
Speaker 1: Taylor Heineke did not want to be on that field.

1894
01:36:03,600 --> 01:36:05,800
Speaker 1: Neither would I have if I'm telling reporters that I

1895
01:36:05,840 --> 01:36:09,679
Speaker 1: couldn't even take the laundry basket, uh down the steps,

1896
01:36:10,000 --> 01:36:12,120
Speaker 1: and then I'm in an NFL game against all these

1897
01:36:12,160 --> 01:36:15,519
Speaker 1: superstar defensive players. Uh no, wonder he had that look

1898
01:36:15,560 --> 01:36:17,920
Speaker 1: in his eye by the third quarter. And I'm glad

1899
01:36:17,920 --> 01:36:19,360
Speaker 1: that we're not making a big deal out of it.

1900
01:36:19,400 --> 01:36:23,000
Speaker 1: But the Durron Payne Jonathan Allen thing, um, I just

1901
01:36:23,080 --> 01:36:25,439
Speaker 1: found interesting. But I don't think it's that uncommon, and

1902
01:36:25,520 --> 01:36:27,519
Speaker 1: like I guess, just seeing football players, I think it's

1903
01:36:27,760 --> 01:36:30,920
Speaker 1: I think it's pretty uncommon too for a guy to

1904
01:36:30,920 --> 01:36:33,439
Speaker 1: to try to punch Colin's Earth was saying he's literally

1905
01:36:33,479 --> 01:36:36,040
Speaker 1: never seen that in a football game. Well, there's people tweeting,

1906
01:36:36,320 --> 01:36:38,920
Speaker 1: people tweeting that it's they've seen it too many times.

1907
01:36:38,960 --> 01:36:41,280
Speaker 1: I mean, it's not happening every week, but it's anything

1908
01:36:41,360 --> 01:36:44,559
Speaker 1: like arguing and yelling. But like if he knows more

1909
01:36:44,600 --> 01:36:47,200
Speaker 1: than any of us. And Ron Rivera at halftime seemed

1910
01:36:47,240 --> 01:36:48,920
Speaker 1: to not make too much of it. I mean, it's

1911
01:36:48,960 --> 01:36:53,160
Speaker 1: a passionate game and a guy's obviously getting embarrassed. I mean, Washington,

1912
01:36:53,479 --> 01:36:55,160
Speaker 1: we don't need to dwell on them too long, but

1913
01:36:55,800 --> 01:36:57,639
Speaker 1: to go from where their season was a few weeks

1914
01:36:57,640 --> 01:37:00,680
Speaker 1: ago to just being completely taken out by COVID to

1915
01:37:00,920 --> 01:37:04,280
Speaker 1: this primetime performance. Um, they will have plenty of time

1916
01:37:04,320 --> 01:37:06,000
Speaker 1: to talk about their future, but you would think it

1917
01:37:06,120 --> 01:37:08,599
Speaker 1: near the top of the list is quarterback. Not that

1918
01:37:08,640 --> 01:37:11,280
Speaker 1: this was a Heinek loss, but they're just not competitive

1919
01:37:11,320 --> 01:37:13,760
Speaker 1: against the big time contender and they need to start

1920
01:37:13,800 --> 01:37:16,680
Speaker 1: trying to get there. I think they're broken down. I

1921
01:37:16,680 --> 01:37:18,680
Speaker 1: mean these teams at this point like they went through

1922
01:37:18,720 --> 01:37:22,120
Speaker 1: a they went through the COVID ringer. Yeah, Heineke I

1923
01:37:22,120 --> 01:37:24,280
Speaker 1: think has shown a lot of this season, but not

1924
01:37:24,400 --> 01:37:27,360
Speaker 1: enough to be a starter. And you know, Ron Rivera like,

1925
01:37:27,520 --> 01:37:29,479
Speaker 1: you've got a team where you just you met the

1926
01:37:29,479 --> 01:37:32,639
Speaker 1: Cowboys at the peak of their powers at the wrong time.

1927
01:37:33,120 --> 01:37:37,200
Speaker 1: And I like, honestly, uh, you know, Arizona's fade may

1928
01:37:37,200 --> 01:37:39,200
Speaker 1: not be over. I don't like their chances at all

1929
01:37:39,200 --> 01:37:41,320
Speaker 1: against this Cowboys team. If they show up looking like

1930
01:37:41,360 --> 01:37:43,200
Speaker 1: they did tonight, I don't think anyone in the NFC

1931
01:37:43,280 --> 01:37:45,760
Speaker 1: can bet them. It's a good call about you know,

1932
01:37:45,840 --> 01:37:48,040
Speaker 1: how Washington's broken down, because I think that's gonna be

1933
01:37:48,040 --> 01:37:51,080
Speaker 1: a major So we kind of spin forward, like above

1934
01:37:51,120 --> 01:37:56,599
Speaker 1: the treetops here COVID his broken down rosters. Obviously he's

1935
01:37:56,600 --> 01:37:58,360
Speaker 1: taking a ton of guys out of the mix, but

1936
01:37:58,439 --> 01:38:01,320
Speaker 1: it's putting other players in a situation where that you know,

1937
01:38:01,400 --> 01:38:03,000
Speaker 1: there's a lot of snaps being played, a god of

1938
01:38:03,040 --> 01:38:05,559
Speaker 1: guys that have to play through injury because rosters are short.

1939
01:38:06,080 --> 01:38:11,960
Speaker 1: And how these teams navigate this completely unprecedented situation is

1940
01:38:12,000 --> 01:38:14,400
Speaker 1: a huge subplot and I don't know what it is.

1941
01:38:14,439 --> 01:38:16,200
Speaker 1: And I know I remember Mark, we talked about it.

1942
01:38:16,200 --> 01:38:19,679
Speaker 1: You did some data digging on it. The numbers are similar,

1943
01:38:19,800 --> 01:38:22,800
Speaker 1: but this feels a lot different than last year. Well,

1944
01:38:22,800 --> 01:38:25,559
Speaker 1: there are bad's backloaded. You know, the numbers of players

1945
01:38:25,640 --> 01:38:28,640
Speaker 1: that got COVID in the last week where it was

1946
01:38:29,080 --> 01:38:31,920
Speaker 1: extraordinary and was even higher than the week before. Like

1947
01:38:32,000 --> 01:38:35,040
Speaker 1: it's it's all coming now and it's not slowing down,

1948
01:38:35,120 --> 01:38:37,679
Speaker 1: and it doesn't stop the injuries either, Like Washington lost

1949
01:38:37,720 --> 01:38:40,679
Speaker 1: three defensive starters to injury last week, so that showed

1950
01:38:40,760 --> 01:38:43,479
Speaker 1: up I think again. So it's like it's tough. This

1951
01:38:43,600 --> 01:38:45,280
Speaker 1: happens at the end of every season, but now we

1952
01:38:45,360 --> 01:38:47,479
Speaker 1: got an extra week. There there are a handful of

1953
01:38:47,520 --> 01:38:49,960
Speaker 1: teams that are just trying to trying to get and

1954
01:38:50,000 --> 01:38:52,559
Speaker 1: that sweet that sweet couldn't have been more ancient twenty

1955
01:38:52,560 --> 01:38:55,040
Speaker 1: four hours after I put it out because of the explosion.

1956
01:38:55,080 --> 01:38:56,760
Speaker 1: But I think there's something to be looked at that

1957
01:38:56,800 --> 01:38:59,040
Speaker 1: when players come back from COVID, there seems to be

1958
01:38:59,600 --> 01:39:02,800
Speaker 1: um a week or two dragon their play. And so

1959
01:39:02,880 --> 01:39:05,400
Speaker 1: when you have these teams that had nineteen guys out like,

1960
01:39:05,439 --> 01:39:08,080
Speaker 1: they don't come back at maximum force. So it's just

1961
01:39:08,240 --> 01:39:10,519
Speaker 1: it's a it's a long season. Some of these teams

1962
01:39:10,520 --> 01:39:14,880
Speaker 1: are drifting away into the mist. It's the biggest season ever. Know,

1963
01:39:15,000 --> 01:39:18,759
Speaker 1: that's their terminology for it, markt quote right before we started,

1964
01:39:18,760 --> 01:39:20,840
Speaker 1: I feel close to the edge, so we're gonna get

1965
01:39:20,880 --> 01:39:22,839
Speaker 1: out of it. Has been a bit of a rugged

1966
01:39:23,160 --> 01:39:27,360
Speaker 1: um it is. Did you guys have a nice Christmas?

1967
01:39:27,400 --> 01:39:29,080
Speaker 1: We didn't even you know, hit that at the top,

1968
01:39:29,160 --> 01:39:31,160
Speaker 1: you guess, No, I did not. I think I made

1969
01:39:31,200 --> 01:39:35,680
Speaker 1: that before that. I count the Christmas before that. I

1970
01:39:35,720 --> 01:39:40,240
Speaker 1: will tell you this, I love Christmas. I love Christmas

1971
01:39:40,320 --> 01:39:43,719
Speaker 1: before I had kids. Now it's even more special. Uh

1972
01:39:44,040 --> 01:39:46,960
Speaker 1: now that that I do have kids, and my wife

1973
01:39:46,960 --> 01:39:50,920
Speaker 1: and I are very lucky. But uh, it is a

1974
01:39:50,960 --> 01:39:54,439
Speaker 1: lot um in the middle of this NFL season, especially

1975
01:39:54,439 --> 01:39:56,560
Speaker 1: when it's the day after Christmas. This is one of

1976
01:39:56,640 --> 01:40:00,040
Speaker 1: those days where you just we're champions, were grinders and

1977
01:40:00,080 --> 01:40:03,720
Speaker 1: we're getting through this is this is a tough day

1978
01:40:03,760 --> 01:40:06,040
Speaker 1: on the calendar. I think we did it, though we

1979
01:40:06,080 --> 01:40:09,320
Speaker 1: did it, and before we go, I also want to

1980
01:40:09,360 --> 01:40:14,479
Speaker 1: just send a very belated congratulations to our old producer

1981
01:40:14,600 --> 01:40:17,400
Speaker 1: law said we we haven't given her a shout out

1982
01:40:17,400 --> 01:40:20,439
Speaker 1: on the podcast, and she she got married and before

1983
01:40:20,439 --> 01:40:22,800
Speaker 1: she married her Disney prince, so you know, all the

1984
01:40:22,840 --> 01:40:25,200
Speaker 1: listeners that made it this deep, you know, just like

1985
01:40:25,320 --> 01:40:29,559
Speaker 1: firebomb her mentions with congratulations. Totally confused because she got

1986
01:40:29,560 --> 01:40:31,960
Speaker 1: married like a month ago at this point, but she

1987
01:40:32,040 --> 01:40:35,160
Speaker 1: took amazing pictures and it'sid and she deserves it all.

1988
01:40:35,760 --> 01:40:38,040
Speaker 1: And by the way, she's a she's a delightful presence

1989
01:40:38,040 --> 01:40:41,000
Speaker 1: and she married um like a bona fide hunk. So

1990
01:40:41,120 --> 01:40:44,559
Speaker 1: I I from just from an overall objective standpoint, I

1991
01:40:44,680 --> 01:40:47,280
Speaker 1: feel that Dan, I'm correct and say that to say that, yeah,

1992
01:40:47,320 --> 01:40:51,480
Speaker 1: I would say he's he's a hottie. And she looks exactly.

1993
01:40:51,479 --> 01:40:55,120
Speaker 1: I think she always aspired to be a Disney princess

1994
01:40:55,240 --> 01:40:57,280
Speaker 1: and she looks like one and she seems like one.

1995
01:40:57,320 --> 01:41:00,720
Speaker 1: And what a producer as well else, So like one

1996
01:41:00,760 --> 01:41:04,840
Speaker 1: of those like triple threats. Don't you agree, Ricky? I

1997
01:41:04,880 --> 01:41:08,040
Speaker 1: do actually, And I was the one that texted Sydney

1998
01:41:08,080 --> 01:41:11,120
Speaker 1: in our group saying congratulations before any of you, and

1999
01:41:11,160 --> 01:41:14,320
Speaker 1: I told you about her wedding and sent her the pictures.

2000
01:41:14,920 --> 01:41:17,640
Speaker 1: So don't make it out. Don't make it out like

2001
01:41:17,680 --> 01:41:20,479
Speaker 1: I'm sitting here like Matt. I was the one that

2002
01:41:20,680 --> 01:41:24,799
Speaker 1: sent the screenshots and was like, you looked amazing, so Sydney.

2003
01:41:24,880 --> 01:41:27,120
Speaker 1: So the fact that in your left hand right now

2004
01:41:27,200 --> 01:41:30,360
Speaker 1: you have a Sydney voodoo doll and you're sticking pins

2005
01:41:30,360 --> 01:41:32,880
Speaker 1: in it. That's not like in a wedding dress. Yeah no, no, no,

2006
01:41:33,000 --> 01:41:37,000
Speaker 1: that that just has to look alike separate. Sayah right right, Sydney,

2007
01:41:37,040 --> 01:41:39,680
Speaker 1: We love you. Congratulations and the best of luck to

2008
01:41:39,760 --> 01:41:44,320
Speaker 1: everything to come because yes, now married and hopefully kids

2009
01:41:44,360 --> 01:41:47,879
Speaker 1: on the way. That that really does make the holidays special.

2010
01:41:48,560 --> 01:41:51,559
Speaker 1: I loved it was your Christmas good, Greg, Oh yeah

2011
01:41:51,560 --> 01:41:54,639
Speaker 1: it was great. Yeah you're right, kid, kids, kids make

2012
01:41:54,680 --> 01:41:59,240
Speaker 1: it um the big gifts. The boy got a skateboard

2013
01:41:59,600 --> 01:42:02,000
Speaker 1: trained set. I mean it was all it was fun.

2014
01:42:02,120 --> 01:42:04,760
Speaker 1: It was a lot of fun. It really is like,

2015
01:42:04,840 --> 01:42:07,040
Speaker 1: you know, their best day of the year or it's

2016
01:42:07,120 --> 01:42:10,080
Speaker 1: up there. You know, you hope it like reaches like

2017
01:42:10,120 --> 01:42:12,280
Speaker 1: their expectations than it does, and you feel like you

2018
01:42:12,320 --> 01:42:14,400
Speaker 1: want the children have to work hard screw it up

2019
01:42:14,439 --> 01:42:17,120
Speaker 1: to so right, that's true. It's like the worst day

2020
01:42:17,120 --> 01:42:19,360
Speaker 1: of the year, kid's best day of the year. No, no, no,

2021
01:42:19,439 --> 01:42:21,519
Speaker 1: Like like you asked me, I didn't think. We think

2022
01:42:21,600 --> 01:42:23,320
Speaker 1: overall it was I would call it a mixed bag

2023
01:42:23,360 --> 01:42:26,080
Speaker 1: of a day. But the better part um with the

2024
01:42:26,240 --> 01:42:29,479
Speaker 1: children was was fantastic. It was tough. You know, we're

2025
01:42:29,479 --> 01:42:32,679
Speaker 1: watching those games on Saturday and it was like, shoot,

2026
01:42:32,720 --> 01:42:34,840
Speaker 1: this is what we were worried about with that, with

2027
01:42:34,920 --> 01:42:37,000
Speaker 1: how that Saturday is gonna play out. But you you've

2028
01:42:37,040 --> 01:42:38,880
Speaker 1: came through it all right again, Mark, you've been such

2029
01:42:38,880 --> 01:42:43,000
Speaker 1: a pro during this take slump, I have to say,

2030
01:42:44,240 --> 01:42:46,400
Speaker 1: I gotta figure out something to put it down the resume.

2031
01:42:46,520 --> 01:42:49,200
Speaker 1: It's like, well, we'll make wrong takes, will continue to

2032
01:42:49,200 --> 01:42:51,519
Speaker 1: show up and punch the clock and do the things.

2033
01:42:51,600 --> 01:42:54,320
Speaker 1: So alright, good stuff. We'll be back on Tuesday, the

2034
01:42:54,360 --> 01:42:57,360
Speaker 1: return of Connie Fox. She'll be sitting on the show

2035
01:42:57,400 --> 01:43:01,240
Speaker 1: on Tuesday, so make sure you check that out. Thank

2036
01:43:01,240 --> 01:43:04,520
Speaker 1: you for everybody for to listen for listening. Merry Christmas,

2037
01:43:05,720 --> 01:43:09,519
Speaker 1: Happy Boxing Day, and New Year's Eve coming up right

2038
01:43:09,560 --> 01:43:12,360
Speaker 1: around the corner. Still the holiday season, get loose everybody,

2039
01:43:12,479 --> 01:43:15,519
Speaker 1: all right until then Tuesday, that is, Keep the car

2040
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Speaker 1: m three