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Speaker 1: This is straight Fire with Jason McIntyre.

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Speaker 2: What is up, straight Fire fan, It's me Jason McIntyre.

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Speaker 2: Straight Fire for Monday, November eighteenh Oh, what a weekend

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Speaker 2: in sports we had. It was absolutely glorious, and not

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Speaker 2: just because we cleaned up on the gambling front. Holy hell,

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Speaker 2: College football Saturday seven two and one, NFL three and

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Speaker 2: one in the contest. Basically, couldn't miss it was an

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Speaker 2: awesome weekend in sports. Listen, even NBA was awesome. Hey,

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Speaker 2: I'm not gonna lie watching these Lakers. They're fun. Dalton

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Speaker 2: connect going off. I mean, you got the Calves now

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Speaker 2: at fifteen and oh, by the way, Caves Celtics tomorrow

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Speaker 2: night in Boston, the undefeated fifteen and oh Calves. I

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Speaker 2: know you don't care. It's NBA. Fine, I get it.

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Speaker 2: It's okay. You don't care about college basketball either, Yes,

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Speaker 2: Charlie gambling on college hoops to start the season, just

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Speaker 2: putting some games on ig stories. Not off to a

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Speaker 2: great start, but it's early, still feeling things out. But

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Speaker 2: oh boy, you know why I'm really excited, don't you?

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Speaker 1: Ding dong?

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Speaker 2: The witch is dead. It's over. Chiefs will not go undefeated.

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Speaker 2: They lose to Buffalo thirty to twenty one. Hell of

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Speaker 2: a game, really good football game, and I think the

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Speaker 2: Chiefs got exposed a little bit for what they lack,

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Speaker 2: and that namely is offense. Now we'll get to it

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Speaker 2: in a second. It's just it was not a vintage

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Speaker 2: Mahomes game. We haven't seen a vintage Mahome game this season,

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Speaker 2: and it could because he has no weapons. Now, I

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Speaker 2: do want to remind you, I will preface this. The

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Speaker 2: and without promising rookie wide receiver key On Coleman, who

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Speaker 2: has shown extremely well so far this season. I mean, folks,

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Speaker 2: we are talking about a Buffalo team that was down

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Speaker 2: some dudes and they went to totoe with Casey and

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Speaker 2: pulled away late. Now it was a close game. I'm

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Speaker 2: not saying Casey got blasted or think they did not.

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Speaker 2: But let's focus real quick on the end of the game.

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Speaker 2: And this was a weird Sunday in the NFL where

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Speaker 2: there were so many high leverage situations that coaches either

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Speaker 2: bungled and decided, oh we're gonna kick and we're not

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Speaker 2: gonna get aggressive. I'm namely my Jets. When nobody cares

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Speaker 2: about that because some dopey Jets fans are Look, you're

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Speaker 2: not a real fan. You don't want them to win.

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Speaker 2: And I got a message for you, boneheads. I mean,

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Speaker 2: it's not hard, guys. We'll get to it. And then

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Speaker 2: you had the Niners who cost me enough. I mean, listen,

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Speaker 2: it would have been this would have been my best

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Speaker 2: Sunday gambling if the Niners had simply won the football game.

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Speaker 2: I had them. I'm not kidding in five teasers. I

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Speaker 2: mean that was a killer. And Kyle Shanahan, you're you're

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Speaker 2: a big reason to play. And we'll get to that.

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Speaker 2: But let me break it down for you. So the

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Speaker 2: Bills are clinging to a twenty three to twenty one lead.

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Speaker 2: It's the fourth quarter, which Mahomes owns. I know you

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Speaker 2: got he's the best fourth quarter to quarterback. He's so

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Speaker 2: collets blah blah blah, fourth and two up to with

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Speaker 2: two twenty seven left, here are the decisions that McDermott faced.

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Speaker 2: It's you're at the twenty six yard line. You can

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Speaker 2: kick a field goal, chip shot and go up five.

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Speaker 2: What the hell does that matter? What's going up five

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Speaker 2: You have to right. No decision here. So McDermott dials

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Speaker 2: I want you to just watch the play because what

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Speaker 2: unfolded was just simply amazing. It was one of the

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Speaker 2: best play calls I've seen this season. They did something unique.

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Speaker 2: And it turns out all of it was fake and phony,

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Speaker 2: play of the year in the NFL, and listen, I'm

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Speaker 2: not gonna lie obviously, I'm rooting against the Chiefs here.

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Speaker 2: I had the Bills gave it out that I said

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Speaker 2: now beaten the Chiefs in four straight regular season games,

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Speaker 2: just did not make any sense at all because they

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Speaker 2: But I mean, you know, Josh Allen, folks, he won

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Speaker 2: thirty eight first downs. I mean, it takes the Jets

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Speaker 2: seventy six plays, guys, seventy six Do you understand that?

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Speaker 2: I'll work with Trevor Lawrence. It is interesting because well,

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Speaker 2: The Jags are not. I think they're right now according

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Speaker 2: I know you're saying, Jason, there's no quarterback to Tank four. No, no,

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Speaker 2: He's also had two coaches. You don't off to a

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Speaker 2: it's like it's very basic. Yes, I would rather have

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Speaker 2: That's like, I don't know how people can't see that. Now,

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Speaker 2: you imagine doing that? I saw Jets fans with brown

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Speaker 2: The defense ain't great, and there's a lot of guys

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Speaker 2: a Hall of Fame quarterback and you're gonna kick to

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Speaker 2: go up five and you end up losing like you

423
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Speaker 2: deserve that, Which brings me to Kyle Shanahan and the Niners. Man, Listen,

424
00:22:47,320 --> 00:22:51,160
Speaker 2: super Bowl hangover is real, folks, This ain't no joke

425
00:22:52,960 --> 00:22:56,080
Speaker 2: the Niners. Now, George Kittle did not play, obviously, and

426
00:22:56,080 --> 00:22:59,199
Speaker 2: that really limited the offense. If you watch that game closely,

427
00:22:59,240 --> 00:23:04,399
Speaker 2: and I did, there wasn't much down the field. Kittle

428
00:23:04,560 --> 00:23:08,760
Speaker 2: really opens things up. He's a mismatch for linebackers and safeties,

429
00:23:09,200 --> 00:23:11,359
Speaker 2: and without that, brock Purdy was doing a lot of

430
00:23:11,480 --> 00:23:15,400
Speaker 2: running for his life. Brock Purty didn't have the confidence

431
00:23:15,440 --> 00:23:17,320
Speaker 2: in some of his pass catchers. Now it's not just Kittle,

432
00:23:17,359 --> 00:23:20,080
Speaker 2: it's no Kittle or Ayuk, so they're not fully formed.

433
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Speaker 2: This is not last year's nine er teams. McCaffrey's coming

434
00:23:23,040 --> 00:23:27,800
Speaker 2: off the injury. Brock Purty five scrambles for forty yards

435
00:23:27,840 --> 00:23:29,439
Speaker 2: and if you watch him in the pocket, he is

436
00:23:29,560 --> 00:23:33,600
Speaker 2: just trying to make chicken shit. I'm sorry, make chicken

437
00:23:33,640 --> 00:23:36,320
Speaker 2: salad out of chicken shit. Like that's how bad it was.

438
00:23:37,160 --> 00:23:39,240
Speaker 2: I mean, deepo Samuel, I don't know what happened to

439
00:23:39,280 --> 00:23:43,080
Speaker 2: him yesterday. He did not look fully locked in. Ricky Piersoll,

440
00:23:43,359 --> 00:23:47,240
Speaker 2: who had a touchdown last week two targets. Something was

441
00:23:47,280 --> 00:23:51,960
Speaker 2: going on with the Niners. They were never fully like

442
00:23:52,720 --> 00:23:56,240
Speaker 2: Niners mode. One splash play over twenty yards, that's not

443
00:23:56,359 --> 00:24:01,520
Speaker 2: nine or football. But still they led seven thirteen. Remember

444
00:24:01,560 --> 00:24:03,320
Speaker 2: the Seattle had gone for it on fourth and one.

445
00:24:03,400 --> 00:24:05,440
Speaker 2: Charbonne got stuffed. It was a great play. I'm like,

446
00:24:05,480 --> 00:24:08,119
Speaker 2: oh great, San Francisco's gonna close this out, no problem.

447
00:24:09,320 --> 00:24:12,000
Speaker 2: So San Francisco gets to the Seattle forty two yard

448
00:24:12,000 --> 00:24:14,320
Speaker 2: line and it's fourth and six, two forty five left

449
00:24:14,359 --> 00:24:19,439
Speaker 2: on the clock. Situational football, high leverage moment. Okay, we

450
00:24:19,520 --> 00:24:22,440
Speaker 2: know San Francisco special team stink. We know Moody last

451
00:24:22,440 --> 00:24:26,280
Speaker 2: week missed three kicks. I didn't think Shanahan would make

452
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Speaker 2: his guy attempt a fifty nine yard field goal. Okay,

453
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Speaker 2: I just didn't think that, which leaves two options. You

454
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Speaker 2: want to go for it on fourth and six or

455
00:24:36,760 --> 00:24:41,119
Speaker 2: you wanna punt now. Again, the offense had not been great,

456
00:24:41,840 --> 00:24:44,680
Speaker 2: no Kittle, no ayuk. Jennings had a good game ten

457
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Speaker 2: ten for ninety one. He was a warrior on the

458
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Speaker 2: go ahead drive in the fourth quarter. He had two

459
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Speaker 2: huge catches, like contested, tough stuff, and you're just like,

460
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Speaker 2: all right, you could go for it fourth and six,

461
00:24:58,000 --> 00:25:02,359
Speaker 2: why not? Or you could punt, and Shanahan coaching a

462
00:25:02,400 --> 00:25:05,920
Speaker 2: little scared and conservative, said we're not gonna kick. We're

463
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Speaker 2: gonna We're not gonna kick the field, but we're gonna

464
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Speaker 2: punt now. Compounding matters, they were on their backup punter,

465
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Speaker 2: the starter Wishnowski, I think is his name. He was out,

466
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Speaker 2: so you had to back up punter. Trust in your

467
00:25:16,880 --> 00:25:21,080
Speaker 2: backup punter, folks. He puts it in the end zone,

468
00:25:21,720 --> 00:25:25,600
Speaker 2: netting twenty two yards. On the punt, Seattle gets the

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Speaker 2: ball back, goes right down the field, Gino Smith with

470
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Speaker 2: the game winning touchdown run and the Niners lose. Folks.

471
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Speaker 2: The NFC West is a total train wreck, Arizona six

472
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Speaker 2: and four. All three other teams, Seattle, Rams, and Arizona

473
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Speaker 2: are five and five. So why are the Niners in

474
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Speaker 2: last Well, they split with Seattle, lost to the Rams,

475
00:25:48,760 --> 00:25:51,520
Speaker 2: lost Arizona. It's obviously not over. They could get right

476
00:25:51,560 --> 00:25:54,840
Speaker 2: back in the mix. They've got two huge divisional matchups

477
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Speaker 2: later in the season. They just have to win those,

478
00:25:57,359 --> 00:26:00,399
Speaker 2: you know, And I think they can. I still think

479
00:26:00,440 --> 00:26:02,520
Speaker 2: they're the better team. But I mean, if we're being

480
00:26:02,560 --> 00:26:06,080
Speaker 2: real guys, next week is a huge freaking game for

481
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Speaker 2: the Niners given this situation in the NFC playoff picture.

482
00:26:10,400 --> 00:26:14,679
Speaker 2: So next week the entire NFC West has massive games.

483
00:26:14,800 --> 00:26:19,639
Speaker 2: Philly is at the Rams, Arizona is at Seattle. That

484
00:26:19,800 --> 00:26:21,919
Speaker 2: is a massive showdown. I think I'm gonna be on

485
00:26:21,960 --> 00:26:25,439
Speaker 2: Seattle in that game, but Arizona is rested. I like

486
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Speaker 2: what I'm seeing from Seattle. However, Seattle again coming off

487
00:26:28,520 --> 00:26:31,920
Speaker 2: in a huge emotional game, those can be difficult. Although

488
00:26:32,280 --> 00:26:35,360
Speaker 2: maybe that stuff's overblown. Because I thought that about the Broncos,

489
00:26:35,359 --> 00:26:37,160
Speaker 2: which is why I backed off of them in the contest.

490
00:26:37,200 --> 00:26:40,159
Speaker 2: I did bet them. I thought, oh, emotional game against Casey,

491
00:26:40,400 --> 00:26:44,880
Speaker 2: they bounce back and just destroy pummel Atlanta, so Arizona

492
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Speaker 2: Seattle is a massive one. And then San Fran visits

493
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Speaker 2: Green Bay. The first thing I did was look at

494
00:26:49,040 --> 00:26:51,320
Speaker 2: the weather, and it's going to be in like the thirties.

495
00:26:51,840 --> 00:26:53,760
Speaker 2: Doesn't look like any precipitation, but it's gonna be a

496
00:26:53,760 --> 00:26:56,520
Speaker 2: cold one in Green Bay. And San Fran can't really

497
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Speaker 2: lose that game, mostly because the Vikings keep winning. Okay,

498
00:27:01,240 --> 00:27:04,960
Speaker 2: we know the Lions are going to the playoffs. The

499
00:27:05,000 --> 00:27:10,000
Speaker 2: Eagles keep winning, and it's just it's not a good

500
00:27:10,040 --> 00:27:13,320
Speaker 2: situation for San France Niners to miss the playoffs. Guys,

501
00:27:13,359 --> 00:27:15,080
Speaker 2: it's in play because you know what happens after the

502
00:27:15,119 --> 00:27:18,800
Speaker 2: Packers they go to Buffalo for Sunday night football against

503
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Speaker 2: the Bills. I'm just telling you things are not looking

504
00:27:24,040 --> 00:27:26,520
Speaker 2: good for San France. You can't keep dropping these games.

505
00:27:26,760 --> 00:27:29,879
Speaker 2: And they now do not have the tiebreaker over the

506
00:27:29,960 --> 00:27:33,480
Speaker 2: Vikings because they lost to them earlier this season. And again,

507
00:27:33,920 --> 00:27:36,280
Speaker 2: this is a reeling team and there's no help on

508
00:27:36,320 --> 00:27:38,720
Speaker 2: the way, guys. Ain't nobody showing up. I don't think

509
00:27:38,800 --> 00:27:43,400
Speaker 2: Drake Greenlaw is gonna significantly change things if he's able

510
00:27:43,440 --> 00:27:44,400
Speaker 2: to come back from the Achilles.

511
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Speaker 1: Here.

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Speaker 2: In short, order like, I don't see the help coming

513
00:27:48,840 --> 00:27:52,399
Speaker 2: and whu Funga will show up? But I don't know,

514
00:27:52,440 --> 00:27:55,680
Speaker 2: do you do you really expect him to also change

515
00:27:55,680 --> 00:27:59,480
Speaker 2: things considerably for this team. It's the offense that's a problem.

516
00:27:59,240 --> 00:28:01,919
Speaker 2: And I'm not baing on my guy, you know my

517
00:28:01,960 --> 00:28:04,719
Speaker 2: guy obviously brock Purty. I don't think it's his necessarily

518
00:28:04,720 --> 00:28:07,960
Speaker 2: his fault. When you're down two big time weapons in

519
00:28:08,040 --> 00:28:10,360
Speaker 2: McCaffrey's miss half the season, there is a learning curve

520
00:28:10,400 --> 00:28:12,760
Speaker 2: to get everybody back up to stuff. So tough spot

521
00:28:12,800 --> 00:28:15,360
Speaker 2: for the Niners. They're kind of sort of reeling here,

522
00:28:15,760 --> 00:28:18,000
Speaker 2: and I can see a scenario where they entirely missed

523
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Speaker 2: the playoffs, and then you've got do we pay brock Purty?

524
00:28:20,040 --> 00:28:22,000
Speaker 2: And it's, oh boy, here we go. So the Niners

525
00:28:22,040 --> 00:28:26,720
Speaker 2: to me, outside of the Belichick situation and where he lands,

526
00:28:27,320 --> 00:28:30,560
Speaker 2: and you know, maybe we'll see what happens with the Eagles.

527
00:28:30,560 --> 00:28:34,240
Speaker 2: But it just doesn't look good for the Jets and

528
00:28:34,280 --> 00:28:37,400
Speaker 2: Niners because they're off season hinges on do we want

529
00:28:37,400 --> 00:28:40,160
Speaker 2: Aaron Rogers to come back? And how much exactly do

530
00:28:40,240 --> 00:28:43,000
Speaker 2: we have to pay brock Purty? So those two right now,

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Speaker 2: I mean big swing games for them this past Sunday,

532
00:28:48,080 --> 00:28:50,640
Speaker 2: and neither of them went the way they should have,

533
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Speaker 2: So I don't know. It was a wacky, wacky Sunday.

534
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535
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536
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537
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538
00:29:08,480 --> 00:29:10,840
Speaker 2: And let me quickly touch on Sunday Night Football, which

539
00:29:10,880 --> 00:29:14,640
Speaker 2: was a thriller. It didn't start that way, but Bengals

540
00:29:15,320 --> 00:29:18,680
Speaker 2: down twenty four to six at the break, storm back

541
00:29:18,720 --> 00:29:21,120
Speaker 2: in the second half, tie the game at twenty seven,

542
00:29:21,360 --> 00:29:24,040
Speaker 2: have two chances to win it or take the lead

543
00:29:24,080 --> 00:29:26,360
Speaker 2: with Evan McPherson. He misses two field goals in the

544
00:29:26,360 --> 00:29:29,280
Speaker 2: final like seven minutes. They were both long, but still

545
00:29:29,280 --> 00:29:32,280
Speaker 2: he misses. He used to be automatic. And Chargers come

546
00:29:32,320 --> 00:29:34,840
Speaker 2: down justin Herbert a clutch drive as clutch as you

547
00:29:34,880 --> 00:29:38,360
Speaker 2: will see. Four plays, eighty four yards. JK. Dobbins to

548
00:29:38,400 --> 00:29:42,240
Speaker 2: the house for the touchdown. Awesome game. And I'll just

549
00:29:42,240 --> 00:29:45,600
Speaker 2: say this, watching Burrow makes me know how Dan Marino

550
00:29:45,640 --> 00:29:47,719
Speaker 2: must have felt back in the day. Because Dan Marino

551
00:29:48,040 --> 00:29:51,400
Speaker 2: was an incredible quarterback in the eighties and into the nineties.

552
00:29:51,400 --> 00:29:54,240
Speaker 2: He just could never get back to the Super Bowl

553
00:29:54,440 --> 00:29:57,120
Speaker 2: because the supporting cast was such garbage, whether it was

554
00:29:57,160 --> 00:30:01,200
Speaker 2: the defense, the offensive line, usually the defense. Burrow has

555
00:30:01,240 --> 00:30:05,000
Speaker 2: now lost three games this season where he's had three

556
00:30:05,080 --> 00:30:07,760
Speaker 2: hundred more passing yards, three or more touchdown passes and

557
00:30:07,880 --> 00:30:11,200
Speaker 2: zero interceptions. That's never been done before. No quarterback has

558
00:30:11,240 --> 00:30:14,160
Speaker 2: ever been that good and lost three times. I mean,

559
00:30:14,160 --> 00:30:17,640
Speaker 2: look at the stats in the last two weeks. Seven touchdowns,

560
00:30:17,760 --> 00:30:21,400
Speaker 2: zero interceptions, zero wins, two gut wrenching losses to the

561
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Speaker 2: Ravens and now to the Chargers. I mean, in losses

562
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Speaker 2: this season, Okay, just in the defeats, and there's been

563
00:30:27,920 --> 00:30:30,520
Speaker 2: seven of them. Now he has eighteen touchdowns and two

564
00:30:30,600 --> 00:30:33,120
Speaker 2: interceptions out of the gate. We know they weren't good

565
00:30:33,160 --> 00:30:34,720
Speaker 2: against the Patriots. You could chalk that up. You know,

566
00:30:34,800 --> 00:30:38,080
Speaker 2: Burrow wasn't good. Nobody was good. They should have beat

567
00:30:38,120 --> 00:30:41,640
Speaker 2: the Chiefs. Tough loss to Washington and Jayden Daniels, brutal

568
00:30:41,720 --> 00:30:43,560
Speaker 2: loss to Baltimore where they led by ten twice in

569
00:30:43,600 --> 00:30:45,680
Speaker 2: the second half. The one game where they were really

570
00:30:45,680 --> 00:30:47,640
Speaker 2: outclass was Philly, but that was a lot of the defense.

571
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Speaker 2: This is the point totals that the defense is given

572
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Speaker 2: up in recent weeks thirty four to the Chargers, thirty

573
00:30:54,680 --> 00:30:57,720
Speaker 2: five to the Ravens, twenty four to the Raiders, that

574
00:30:57,800 --> 00:31:01,640
Speaker 2: was a win, thirty seven to Philly and then you

575
00:31:01,720 --> 00:31:03,680
Speaker 2: have to go back a couple forget the Giants and Browns.

576
00:31:03,720 --> 00:31:07,400
Speaker 2: I stink. And then forty one to the Ravens, thirty

577
00:31:07,440 --> 00:31:10,880
Speaker 2: eight to Washington, like they can't stop anybody. They can't.

578
00:31:11,000 --> 00:31:14,080
Speaker 2: The defense is abysmal. I cannot believe they haven't fired

579
00:31:14,120 --> 00:31:17,120
Speaker 2: the defensive coordinator. They got some young guys, they're rotating

580
00:31:17,120 --> 00:31:19,800
Speaker 2: in and out, and Cam Taylor Brick got I mean goodness,

581
00:31:19,840 --> 00:31:22,200
Speaker 2: Gracious Collinsworth was hammering guy. I think he got benched

582
00:31:22,200 --> 00:31:24,120
Speaker 2: at for a point in the second half. They started

583
00:31:24,160 --> 00:31:26,720
Speaker 2: playing young guys, but it was just man, that was

584
00:31:26,760 --> 00:31:30,520
Speaker 2: a tough one for the Bengals. I'm still gonna say,

585
00:31:30,600 --> 00:31:32,400
Speaker 2: you know, if you're a glutton for punishment like me,

586
00:31:32,800 --> 00:31:36,080
Speaker 2: you will probably throw a few bucks on the Bengals

587
00:31:36,080 --> 00:31:39,600
Speaker 2: to win the AFC This week, right at four and seven,

588
00:31:39,600 --> 00:31:40,840
Speaker 2: a lot of people are saying, oh, they're not going

589
00:31:40,880 --> 00:31:44,080
Speaker 2: to the playoffs, don't way, Well, okay, they got Pittsburgh

590
00:31:44,200 --> 00:31:46,440
Speaker 2: this week at home. I'm not of the belief that

591
00:31:46,440 --> 00:31:49,880
Speaker 2: Pittsburgh's amazing. They got a trip to Dallas that's a win,

592
00:31:49,920 --> 00:31:51,400
Speaker 2: a trip to Tennessee that should be a win. So

593
00:31:51,440 --> 00:31:52,880
Speaker 2: they peel off three and another, they're back at seven

594
00:31:52,920 --> 00:31:55,680
Speaker 2: and seven, and then it's Cleveland, Denver, Pittsburgh to finish,

595
00:31:56,000 --> 00:31:57,640
Speaker 2: and I think they're gonna be favored in all three

596
00:31:57,680 --> 00:32:00,880
Speaker 2: of those. Denver's at home, by the way, again, I'm

597
00:32:00,880 --> 00:32:03,840
Speaker 2: not of the I don't think they're done. What's interesting

598
00:32:03,920 --> 00:32:06,920
Speaker 2: is Denver is the team they'll have to pass. And

599
00:32:07,000 --> 00:32:09,200
Speaker 2: I looked at Denver's schedule. If you want to sell

600
00:32:09,240 --> 00:32:13,440
Speaker 2: anybody's stock, it's probably the Broncos. And I like Bonix.

601
00:32:13,480 --> 00:32:15,920
Speaker 2: He's closing in on Jayden Daniels as offensive. We're going

602
00:32:15,960 --> 00:32:18,680
Speaker 2: to your bow next. Another great game. But this is

603
00:32:18,720 --> 00:32:24,040
Speaker 2: who they finished with at Chargers, which you know it's

604
00:32:24,160 --> 00:32:26,640
Speaker 2: a nearly game on Christmas. There'll probably be a lot

605
00:32:26,720 --> 00:32:28,520
Speaker 2: of Bronco fans there. I just I don't think the

606
00:32:28,520 --> 00:32:31,880
Speaker 2: Broncos are that good. And then you've got at Cincinnati

607
00:32:31,960 --> 00:32:34,840
Speaker 2: that's a very tough game, and then you close out

608
00:32:34,920 --> 00:32:37,320
Speaker 2: against the Chiefs at home. We know they played the

609
00:32:37,360 --> 00:32:40,239
Speaker 2: Chiefs tough, and they have recently advanced Joseph's defense has

610
00:32:40,240 --> 00:32:42,960
Speaker 2: been incredible, but the Broncos could easily go zero and

611
00:32:43,000 --> 00:32:44,680
Speaker 2: three in those And oh, by the way, the Chiefs

612
00:32:44,720 --> 00:32:49,200
Speaker 2: will be playing for home field advantage after this loss.

613
00:32:49,480 --> 00:32:52,080
Speaker 2: The Chiefs are certainly not gonna I mean, I don't

614
00:32:52,120 --> 00:32:56,000
Speaker 2: see them laying down their guys in week eighteen. I

615
00:32:56,000 --> 00:32:58,440
Speaker 2: can't imagine that they're going to need to secure home

616
00:32:58,480 --> 00:33:03,000
Speaker 2: field advantage. You get a buy mean, that extra week means, oh, hey,

617
00:33:03,240 --> 00:33:05,240
Speaker 2: maybe there's a world where Recei Wright shows up. I

618
00:33:05,280 --> 00:33:07,719
Speaker 2: know I said that he's got no chance, but I

619
00:33:07,720 --> 00:33:10,960
Speaker 2: don't know. You got an extra bye week. Pacheco should

620
00:33:10,960 --> 00:33:15,760
Speaker 2: be good. The problem is the chief schedule the next

621
00:33:15,760 --> 00:33:19,160
Speaker 2: two weeks is like very easy Carolina Las Vegas. But

622
00:33:19,200 --> 00:33:22,240
Speaker 2: then it's like Chargers at Cleveland could be a dicey

623
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Speaker 2: one Houston, Pittsburgh, Denver. I think the Chiefs probably get

624
00:33:26,120 --> 00:33:28,320
Speaker 2: the number one seed, but it's not a lock. And

625
00:33:28,560 --> 00:33:32,240
Speaker 2: if you're the Chargers, man, you've got to love this team.

626
00:33:32,400 --> 00:33:35,080
Speaker 2: You know, with Brandon Staley, they lose that game eight

627
00:33:35,120 --> 00:33:37,360
Speaker 2: times out of ten, and now you got Jim Harball

628
00:33:37,400 --> 00:33:40,960
Speaker 2: and you're winning that game. And I'm just this hardball team.

629
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Speaker 2: They weren't up twenty four to seven at the half,

630
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Speaker 2: And I'm like, you know, this is a really, really

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Speaker 2: good team. I've been saying all week on the Herd

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Speaker 2: that I think this is the one team that could

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Speaker 2: give the Chiefs a lot of problems simply because their

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Speaker 2: front four is very good. Remember Khalil mac didn't even

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Speaker 2: play last night, right, They still don't have d Shark

636
00:34:00,760 --> 00:34:04,600
Speaker 2: He's he was inactive yesterday. And that defensive line with

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00:34:04,840 --> 00:34:07,320
Speaker 2: Bosa was wreaking. Havoc. The kid, the young kid out

638
00:34:07,320 --> 00:34:09,600
Speaker 2: of UCLA forty five, he was great, But really it

639
00:34:09,640 --> 00:34:12,719
Speaker 2: was about Justin Herbert just dropping dimes. I mean, on

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00:34:12,760 --> 00:34:14,880
Speaker 2: that final drive, you go watch it. Four plays, the

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Speaker 2: two throws to Maconkie the rookie were freaking phenomenal. I mean,

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Speaker 2: come on, and the run game got the Boss Dobbins,

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Speaker 2: it will Disley getting in the mix. I'm just the

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Speaker 2: Chargers are very dangerous and I'm sorry, but I would

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Speaker 2: take Harball over ninety five percent of the coaches in

646
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Speaker 2: the NFL. I mean, what are we looking at, read McVeigh.

647
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Speaker 2: I mean, Shannon Shanahan. Are you definitely taking Shanahan over

648
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Speaker 2: over Harball? Who else is there? Really, I mean not

649
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Speaker 2: Nick Sirianni. No wait, damn Campbell, give me a break.

650
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Speaker 2: Like they've done good things this year. But are you

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Speaker 2: taking him over Harba? I don't think so. And that's

652
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Speaker 2: Jim Harball. John Harbor would be in the mix, Tomlins

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Speaker 2: and the but I'm going Harball. Sorry guys. Anyways, phenomenal

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Speaker 2: showing from the Chargers. I will be at. I think

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Speaker 2: Chargers Ravens next week. Monday Night Football should be a

656
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Speaker 2: good one. Harbaugh versus Harbaugh gonna be a tough ticket

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Speaker 2: at so.

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Speaker 2: Right, let's go to the best bet here for Monday

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Speaker 2: Night football, Texans at Cowboys. Texans are seven point favorites.

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Speaker 2: I have Texans in the contest and I hate these

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Speaker 2: primetime big spreads. There, somebody all something a wacky always happens,

668
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Speaker 2: the dog comes back, flukey turnovers here and there. But

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Speaker 2: I'm just so down on this Cowboys team. I'm sure

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Speaker 2: they won't be as bad as they were the last

671
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Speaker 2: couple weeks, but let's be real, Nico Collins returning for

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00:36:08,960 --> 00:36:12,759
Speaker 2: Houston should be huge. I know everybody's on board. With

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Speaker 2: Dallas is winless at home, They're probably gonna show up

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Speaker 2: here for a night game. Remember Dallas had won sixteen

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Speaker 2: straight games at home before that playoff game to Green Bay,

676
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Speaker 2: and since then they have not been right. It's funny

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Speaker 2: McCarthy was talking to the media about, Hey, this is

678
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Speaker 2: an opportunity, you know, this is an opportunity to build,

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00:36:33,480 --> 00:36:36,120
Speaker 2: and blah blah. And he's like he's given this big

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Speaker 2: speech about why there's hope for the Cowboys, and I

681
00:36:39,520 --> 00:36:41,480
Speaker 2: was like, what's that about. They have no hope. They're

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Speaker 2: not going to the playoffs. It's over. There's no literally

683
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Speaker 2: zero chance with Cooper Rush and Trey Lance or whichever

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Speaker 2: one you want in a quarterback, there's no shot for them.

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Speaker 2: But what there is a chance of is McCarthy coaching again.

686
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Speaker 2: And I wonder if he's putting the vibes out here

687
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Speaker 2: for everybody, saying all the right things so that I

688
00:36:59,640 --> 00:37:02,560
Speaker 2: don't know when an owner or a GM is watching

689
00:37:02,600 --> 00:37:06,719
Speaker 2: and saying, Hm, McCarthy you know, well, listen, he had

690
00:37:06,760 --> 00:37:10,200
Speaker 2: to deal with Jerry Jones and Jerry Jones. You know,

691
00:37:10,880 --> 00:37:13,560
Speaker 2: that's a lot to overcome. And McCarthy's been actually kind

692
00:37:13,560 --> 00:37:17,279
Speaker 2: of good. Eleven wins the last three seasons. Maybe we

693
00:37:17,360 --> 00:37:19,600
Speaker 2: kicked the tires on McCarthy. I mean, I don't think

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Speaker 2: it's out of the possibility that he'll get a look

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Speaker 2: from someone. I don't Obviously this season is not going well,

696
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Speaker 2: but Dak's out with the hamstring and they're not playing

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Speaker 2: well at home. They're just like a slow team. I

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Speaker 2: saw one of the big announcements fro Dallas this week

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Speaker 2: was we go doubtell Is officially now they're they're starting

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Speaker 2: running back. He's the guy. Okay, good luck with that.

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Speaker 2: There's just not a lot of talent on this Dallas team.

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Speaker 2: I mean, okay, ceedee lamb. You know, I don't think

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Speaker 2: Stingley can erase him. I'm not as high on Stingley

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Speaker 2: as Houston guys are. He's been fine. They got you

705
00:37:53,239 --> 00:37:54,759
Speaker 2: got the rookie Lastater on the other I think he's

706
00:37:54,760 --> 00:37:57,719
Speaker 2: a rookie, yeah, the kid Lastater from Georgia. He's very promising.

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Speaker 2: They've got some good players. Defensively, they just haven't always

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Speaker 2: lived up, especially in that second half against the Lions

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Speaker 2: last week, which is brutal. But I expect the offense

710
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Speaker 2: to kick, you know again, Joe Mixon, Mechi's got some wheels,

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00:38:13,560 --> 00:38:17,960
Speaker 2: Tank Dell Dallas has struggled with speed, and there is

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Speaker 2: a world where they get humiliated in this game at

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Speaker 2: home in front of a primetime audience. And I just

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Speaker 2: I don't know if doubt, Like, what's the mindset when

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Speaker 2: you know your seasons over, you're not going to the playoffs.

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Speaker 2: I mean, they haven't been mathematically eliminated. But I talked

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00:38:35,880 --> 00:38:37,759
Speaker 2: about it with like the Jags. You can see those

718
00:38:37,800 --> 00:38:40,360
Speaker 2: guys quitting. The Titans are still fighting hard. They've got

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Speaker 2: a young coach in Callahan. He's not going anywhere. But

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Speaker 2: the Jags coach is a goner. And everybody thinks, even

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Speaker 2: Michael Parsons alluded to it that McCarthy's a goner. So

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Speaker 2: when you know the coach is gone, Look at the Jets,

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Speaker 2: they already fired their coach interim. He ain't the guy.

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Speaker 2: That's when teams start to quit, there's no there's no

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00:39:00,080 --> 00:39:02,600
Speaker 2: leader kind of rallying this team, who's the leader? Tell

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00:39:02,640 --> 00:39:05,839
Speaker 2: me on the Dallas defense that gets everybody all juiced up,

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00:39:06,480 --> 00:39:09,200
Speaker 2: Tell me who is it? Michael Parsons. I don't see that,

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Speaker 2: and that's why I'm on Houston here minus seven. I

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Speaker 2: think it's pretty clear that Houston is the side, and

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Speaker 2: they should be. I'll go thirty to thirty to thirteen

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Speaker 2: Texans role. All right, that's it for Monday. We are

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Speaker 2: back tomorrow. Talk to you then,