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Speaker 1: We started the show an hour ago. Bears have just

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Speaker 1: had a pick six. Seventeen to six was the score.

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Speaker 1: JJ McCarthy terrible, Caleb Williams is moving the team. Everything

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Speaker 1: was fine. Here we are an hour later, the Vikings

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Speaker 1: have a twenty to seventeen lead and they just blocked

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Speaker 1: a punt and they take over at the Bears twenty

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Speaker 1: nine or they take over at their own thirty one

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Speaker 1: yard line. They got a piece of the punt, got

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Speaker 1: a good role. But now the Vikings have the ball

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Speaker 1: and the lead with seven and a half left to go.

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Speaker 1: They've been running on the Bears for the past few

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Speaker 1: minutes and now another big run by Mason who goes

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Speaker 1: through the line for about twenty yards. It almost feels

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Speaker 1: like Mike that the Bears got that pick six and

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Speaker 1: the game was over, Like we just have to execute

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Speaker 1: the rest of the game. We don't need to go crazy.

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Speaker 1: We just have to, you know, take time off the

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Speaker 1: clock because the Vikings can't do anything right. And as

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Speaker 1: you see, look one thing I've seen in the NFL

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Speaker 1: the Leears. I've been watching it. If you think the

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Speaker 1: game is over and you keep giving that other team

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Speaker 1: that can't do anything chances, eventually they're gonna find something.

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Speaker 1: And they did. They're able to run the football. Mccarsy's

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Speaker 1: thrown a couple he's not still having a great game,

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Speaker 1: but he's thrown a couple of touchdowns. But you could

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Speaker 1: see the confidence and the karma switch in this game.

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Speaker 1: The Vikings have it. The Bears last possession was terrible.

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Speaker 1: Caleb Williams threw a pass after he stepped out of

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Speaker 1: bounds a big third and fourteen. He threw to nobody,

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Speaker 1: an incomplete pass. The Vikings are honking it up on

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Speaker 1: the field everywhere. The Bears are looking at each other

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Speaker 1: saying what the hell happened to us? I mean the

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Speaker 1: body language, it felt like, Oh the Bears seventeen to six,

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Speaker 1: it's over. We've been working them the entire game. But

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Speaker 1: when you can't continue on, when you can't hold onto

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Speaker 1: the football, you can't get down the field, and you

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Speaker 1: keep giving the ball back to the team, Eventually they're

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Speaker 1: gonna have enough possessions to get back in it. And

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Speaker 1: not only the Vikings got back in it, they've taken

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Speaker 3: Yeah, we go back.

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Speaker 4: To the middle of the third quarter where you have

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Speaker 4: the missed field goal on off a six play I'm sorry,

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Speaker 4: eleven play, forty four yard drive, fifty yard knuckleball, and

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Speaker 4: it changed from there now point of clarification, deflected punt. So,

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Speaker 4: fantasy owners, you ain't getting two points. It went past

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Speaker 4: the line of scrimmage. You ain't getting it. Okay, so

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Speaker 4: planned to your commissioner, But you get nothing and they'll

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Speaker 4: have to like it. But all of that to say,

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Speaker 4: I mean, we watched some really bad sequencing by the

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Speaker 4: should have been an easy first down completion. Just one

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Speaker 1: Isn't one mistake after? Isn't that that Leo movie? I

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Speaker 1: keep seeing commercials four, but I don't understand what it's about.

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Speaker 4: So between that and that Channing Tatum movie, I think

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Speaker 1: Just I'm like, okay, So apparently he's some sort of

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Speaker 1: one one failure after another, Okay, that's great. Yes, one battle,

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Speaker 1: I know what's one battle after on? One failure after another.

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Speaker 1: That's kind of seeing what it sounds like.

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Speaker 4: Uh yeah, the Tale of two half's and McCarthy's only

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Speaker 4: had to be great on two or three throws. And

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Speaker 4: now they've got wide open spaces. Aaron Jones with the

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Speaker 4: early catch for the touchdown on that earlier possession this

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Speaker 4: rolls to the right. Boy, he looks like an all

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Speaker 4: Pro quarterback. The last eight or nine minutes of this game.

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Speaker 1: We talked about Kevin O'Connell and how, hey, if McCarthy's

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Speaker 1: But I am gonna I do want to say this

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Speaker 1: is that it was a brilliant decision down seventeen to six. Generally,

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Speaker 1: throw the football. Let's let him keep throwing. That's how

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Speaker 1: we're going to get back in this. But the Vikings

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Speaker 1: do it. There's a lot of time we're shutting the

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Speaker 1: you know, we're slowly siphoning off the faucet for the

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Speaker 3: Let's just keep running.

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Speaker 1: Whether the Bears aren't were ready for it to thought that,

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Speaker 1: you know, they had them off balance, But the fact

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Speaker 1: the Vikings kept running the football and kept trying to

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Speaker 1: build drives that way and then ask McCarthy to make

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Speaker 1: succeeded at Michigan. Hey, we're going everybody else do the

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Speaker 1: heavy lifting. Just make one or two plays in the drive.

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Speaker 1: That's all we need you to do. And that's kind

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Speaker 1: of what happened. That that's a that's a brilliant and

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Speaker 1: Throw the football, Throw the football. No, let's run it.

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Speaker 1: We know we can do it. And that's what's really

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Speaker 1: slow things down and give him better down distance opportunities.

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Speaker 1: We cited all of the third down failures. The average

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Speaker 1: distance on those third down plays was nearly ten yards, right,

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Speaker 1: So you weren't doing anything effectively on the early downs incompletions,

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Speaker 4: Hundred yards of fun average the Bears. For all the

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Speaker 4: success that Williams had, you've had three chunk plays. There

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Speaker 4: down to catch. But other than that, it's the short intermediate,

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Speaker 4: looking a lot like the shot chart of a year ago,

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Speaker 3: That's fine.

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Speaker 4: And once things got a little awry for the Bears

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Speaker 4: go make plays right, that's it right, create space with

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Speaker 4: the run game. You do have a depleted Bear secondary.

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Speaker 4: We knew that coming into the game, and you're starting

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Speaker 4: to see more and more space with the play calls

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Speaker 1: So we'll have more in this game coming up in

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Speaker 1: a few minutes again, twenty to seventeen, the vikings with

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Speaker 1: All of a sudden, he's got a big fantasy game.

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Speaker 4: JJ McCarthy, Yeah, he's like gonna be the number one

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Speaker 4: quarterbacks twenty So I remember Rogers had four bleeping touchdowns

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Speaker 4: twenty six seventeen is the score now, and I can't

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Speaker 1: Like, I mean, this is a fan base now in

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Speaker 1: What just happened to us in the last hour.

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Speaker 4: I'd have my brothers call in from the stadium, but

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Speaker 4: you're gonna have so many ambient f bombs that we

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Speaker 3: Able to play it.

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Speaker 1: I mean it, man, all of a sudden that you

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Speaker 1: talk about a fan base that's ready to just turn

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Speaker 1: but you know, hope is a dangerous thing. We always

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Speaker 1: talk about it, right, it could be the best thing,

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Speaker 1: It could be a dangerous thing. You get up seventeen

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Speaker 1: to six. You heard the roar of the crowd on

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Speaker 4: I mean that's about as loud as Soldier field has

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Speaker 4: been non concert related in a very very long time

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Speaker 4: to where things were going, well, they're moving the football.

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Speaker 3: Was it clean? No, was it great?

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Speaker 4: No, not a lot of chunk yardage, But you're not

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Speaker 4: having the negative plays. You're not having those issues. And

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Speaker 4: then just in a span of twelve fifteen about seventeen

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Speaker 4: inside of three minutes, you got three straight touchdown drives

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Speaker 4: back to halftime, the interview they had with Ben Johnson

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Speaker 4: coming out of the locker room. You had two plays

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Speaker 4: to Nailer that gave them a field goal try six points.

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Speaker 4: And then the second half and it started just as

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Speaker 1: Rolling exit out about a Fresco exit swallow double off.

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Speaker 1: More of this game coming up in a few minutes.

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Speaker 1: So now the Bears trailing by ten with three minutes

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Speaker 1: left to go, The Vikings are going to win this game,

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Speaker 1: and wow is the postgame gonna be fun? But for

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Speaker 1: a little bit on last night's game, right, I mean really.

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Speaker 1: I agree. We may never see a game the rest

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Speaker 1: of this year as good as the Bills come back

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Speaker 3: And it takes nothing away from Josh Allen.

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Speaker 4: We saw some of the you know, little gadgetry that

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Speaker 4: And when they leave the door open, guess what people

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Speaker 4: But still you've got to be able to close things out.

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Speaker 4: For as much as you've got this every superlative we

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Speaker 1: It's like they just don't They just don't have that

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Speaker 4: So you're also staring and you're doing the Spider Man

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Speaker 4: This comes from Fox Sports and at NFL on Fox

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Speaker 1: I mean, it's just an absolute thing that they've never had.

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Speaker 1: Straight ahead, are we breaking down an incredible Bears comeback

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Speaker 1: Wow Man, I mean wow wow Wow.

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Speaker 3: Channeling my owner Seth Rods.

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Speaker 1: The change in the bears fortunes in the last ninety minutes.

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Speaker 1: Not only is it bad enough they're gonna blow this

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Speaker 3: Hmm. You have two choices.

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Speaker 1: run the ball out. That takes seven seconds off the clock.

434
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Speaker 1: So now the change possession stops minute fifty five left

435
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Speaker 1: to go. So now it's a minute fifty five and

436
00:20:24,560 --> 00:20:27,320
Speaker 1: one time out left instead of two oh two with

437
00:20:27,440 --> 00:20:30,160
Speaker 1: the two minute warning and a timeout left?

438
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Speaker 3: Are what's going on in Chicago? Man? As bad as

439
00:20:33,440 --> 00:20:34,200
Speaker 3: this is? Again?

440
00:20:34,240 --> 00:20:36,760
Speaker 1: Now I wonder, I wonder if if being a head

441
00:20:36,760 --> 00:20:38,480
Speaker 1: coach is too much for Ben John because there's certain

442
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Speaker 1: things when I look at coaches and I go, man,

443
00:20:40,520 --> 00:20:42,679
Speaker 1: when you do that, I wonder if you're up for

444
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Speaker 1: being a head coach. And now I wonder, how do

445
00:20:45,440 --> 00:20:46,960
Speaker 1: you think, Yeah, just kick it deep? You think the

446
00:20:47,000 --> 00:20:49,320
Speaker 1: Vikings Kevin O'Connor's know what to Doay, run the ball out.

447
00:20:49,359 --> 00:20:50,600
Speaker 1: We got to get down to the two minute ward.

448
00:20:50,640 --> 00:20:52,359
Speaker 1: This way, we talk about attention to detail. We mentioned

449
00:20:52,400 --> 00:20:55,919
Speaker 1: this a few minutes ago with the Ravens and the

450
00:20:56,040 --> 00:20:57,560
Speaker 1: end of games and how they don't know how to

451
00:20:57,600 --> 00:20:59,800
Speaker 1: handle the ends of these games and being clutches at

452
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Speaker 1: g and being well coached is a way to do it.

453
00:21:02,720 --> 00:21:05,560
Speaker 1: Why watch Andy Reid and Bill Belichick win the end

454
00:21:05,560 --> 00:21:07,800
Speaker 1: of weird games all the time? You know they would

455
00:21:07,800 --> 00:21:09,879
Speaker 1: have ran the ball out, Oh Connells, Yeah, yeah, make sure,

456
00:21:09,960 --> 00:21:11,520
Speaker 1: come on out, run it out, run it out, run

457
00:21:11,520 --> 00:21:13,280
Speaker 1: it out. They run it out, take time off the clock.

458
00:21:13,320 --> 00:21:15,879
Speaker 1: So instead of getting the ball back with a little

459
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Speaker 1: bit over a minute left to go, probably if I'm

460
00:21:18,560 --> 00:21:20,960
Speaker 1: doing my math right now, they're gonna get the ball

461
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Speaker 1: back maybe if they don't get a first down here

462
00:21:23,480 --> 00:21:25,720
Speaker 1: with less than about thirty seconds left to go in

463
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Speaker 1: the game.

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Speaker 4: A lot to be desired here. Richard high Tower, your

465
00:21:29,359 --> 00:21:32,200
Speaker 4: Bear's special teams coordinator. It's making me long for the

466
00:21:32,280 --> 00:21:35,840
Speaker 4: days where I was yelling, where's Alan Williams. Yeah that's right,

467
00:21:35,920 --> 00:21:39,680
Speaker 4: I look that up because this was absolutely unconscionable. Right,

468
00:21:39,760 --> 00:21:43,679
Speaker 4: we talk about just your trending within the game. The

469
00:21:43,800 --> 00:21:47,840
Speaker 4: last three drives for the Vikings, they had averaged ten

470
00:21:47,920 --> 00:21:51,920
Speaker 4: yards per play, all three of those drives ending in touchdowns.

471
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Speaker 4: Here they're able to bleed that extra five seconds off

472
00:21:55,160 --> 00:21:57,600
Speaker 4: the clock, right, it gets passed through.

473
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Speaker 3: The two minute warning.

474
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Speaker 4: You don't have enough leg to get it through or

475
00:22:00,640 --> 00:22:02,639
Speaker 4: you think you're gonna make the big play. This is

476
00:22:02,720 --> 00:22:05,800
Speaker 4: not the eighty five Bears. This is not that Lovey

477
00:22:05,920 --> 00:22:09,840
Speaker 4: Smith Bears team where every bounce went their way. At

478
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Speaker 4: least you don't know that yet to where the football gods.

479
00:22:13,520 --> 00:22:14,240
Speaker 3: Are on your side.

480
00:22:14,240 --> 00:22:17,320
Speaker 4: I know you're celebrating the eighty five Bears championship in

481
00:22:17,400 --> 00:22:20,800
Speaker 4: the pregame, right forty years Man, it goes fast.

482
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Speaker 3: But all of that to say, but come on, how

483
00:22:23,880 --> 00:22:26,080
Speaker 3: held yourself for pimodly? How many more? How many more

484
00:22:26,119 --> 00:22:27,119
Speaker 3: celebrations do you have to he?

485
00:22:27,200 --> 00:22:30,680
Speaker 4: Hey, there's books to be had, man, there's stories you've

486
00:22:30,720 --> 00:22:32,280
Speaker 4: never heard.

487
00:22:31,880 --> 00:22:35,120
Speaker 3: I heard all the stories. Come on, man, there's one more.

488
00:22:36,160 --> 00:22:38,600
Speaker 3: But this is just absurd on a whole other level.

489
00:22:38,760 --> 00:22:40,359
Speaker 3: And I joke with the Seth Rollins.

490
00:22:40,400 --> 00:22:45,360
Speaker 4: Right, he's doing commentary with NFL whatever Bears fan, WWE champion.

491
00:22:45,560 --> 00:22:47,879
Speaker 3: His theme song is burn it Down.

492
00:22:48,080 --> 00:22:51,159
Speaker 4: That's exactly what they're gonna be calling for in Chicago,

493
00:22:51,280 --> 00:22:54,479
Speaker 4: after all of the offseason noise that looked like it

494
00:22:54,600 --> 00:22:57,800
Speaker 4: was quieted with that opening game script and a touchdown

495
00:22:58,000 --> 00:23:00,239
Speaker 4: something they didn't do at all. And you'll hear that

496
00:23:00,320 --> 00:23:03,040
Speaker 4: a million times. Let me be the millionth and first

497
00:23:03,880 --> 00:23:06,320
Speaker 4: that they didn't score a touchdown on an opening possession

498
00:23:06,359 --> 00:23:07,040
Speaker 4: all last year.

499
00:23:07,240 --> 00:23:07,959
Speaker 3: So there it was.

500
00:23:08,040 --> 00:23:11,120
Speaker 4: The Ben Johnson era began with a boom, and now

501
00:23:11,119 --> 00:23:13,080
Speaker 4: it's a dumpster fire floating around the river.

502
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Speaker 1: So I did my math a little bit wrong. The

503
00:23:16,240 --> 00:23:18,159
Speaker 1: math a little bit wrong. The Bears are gonna get

504
00:23:18,200 --> 00:23:20,359
Speaker 1: the ball back, but there's gonna be about well, depending

505
00:23:20,359 --> 00:23:22,520
Speaker 1: on this punt, they'll be about ten seconds. Well, his

506
00:23:22,840 --> 00:23:25,280
Speaker 1: hangtime today has been about five point one seconds. They'll

507
00:23:25,320 --> 00:23:28,639
Speaker 1: be about ten seconds left. Maybe they'll have time for

508
00:23:28,760 --> 00:23:31,440
Speaker 1: one final play or maybe two plays depending if they don't.

509
00:23:32,600 --> 00:23:36,080
Speaker 1: I mean, that's such such an epic fail. First of all,

510
00:23:36,119 --> 00:23:38,160
Speaker 1: I don't understand the lack of an on side kick,

511
00:23:38,440 --> 00:23:40,919
Speaker 1: and say you understand how you make sure they're not

512
00:23:40,960 --> 00:23:43,560
Speaker 1: gonna return this thing. I mean it, man, I mean,

513
00:23:43,840 --> 00:23:47,359
Speaker 1: this is why the Ravens lose games like they did,

514
00:23:47,400 --> 00:23:48,920
Speaker 1: and why the Bills went or well the Bills with

515
00:23:49,000 --> 00:23:50,960
Speaker 1: the beneficial It's why the Ravens lose teams like this,

516
00:23:51,000 --> 00:23:52,879
Speaker 1: and that's why the Bears are the Bears. I mean,

517
00:23:52,920 --> 00:23:55,439
Speaker 1: this is they turned back into the Bears. Man, they

518
00:23:55,520 --> 00:23:57,920
Speaker 1: just went fague. We're gonna mascarade as his other better

519
00:23:57,960 --> 00:24:00,560
Speaker 1: team the first two and a half quarter of this game.

520
00:24:00,560 --> 00:24:02,920
Speaker 1: Then we're gonna completely stop playing because we feel like

521
00:24:02,960 --> 00:24:05,520
Speaker 1: the game's over at seventeen to six. Oh no, no, wait,

522
00:24:05,600 --> 00:24:08,200
Speaker 1: now we're gonna lose. And this this really, I mean

523
00:24:08,600 --> 00:24:11,199
Speaker 1: it's not to say the Bears would have won, right

524
00:24:11,240 --> 00:24:12,120
Speaker 1: because twenty seven.

525
00:24:11,960 --> 00:24:14,320
Speaker 3: Twenty Man, there's nine seconds on the clock. What are

526
00:24:14,359 --> 00:24:14,680
Speaker 3: you doing.

527
00:24:14,760 --> 00:24:16,439
Speaker 1: You have to get down the field and you have

528
00:24:16,480 --> 00:24:18,199
Speaker 1: to find a way. You got to kick the field goal, right,

529
00:24:18,400 --> 00:24:21,200
Speaker 1: You need some time, But you just took your team

530
00:24:21,240 --> 00:24:23,760
Speaker 1: from Hey, maybe we have a chance with you know,

531
00:24:23,880 --> 00:24:26,800
Speaker 1: thirty some odd second forty seconds to we have no

532
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Speaker 1: chance by making that decision that you did, which does

533
00:24:29,960 --> 00:24:32,600
Speaker 1: DJ Moore just got hit by the snap as he

534
00:24:32,680 --> 00:24:35,760
Speaker 1: ran in motion. I I I yeah, this is this

535
00:24:35,840 --> 00:24:38,080
Speaker 1: is just I mean, really, this is if I'm Ben Johnson,

536
00:24:38,080 --> 00:24:39,720
Speaker 1: don't even go to the postgame press conference.

537
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Speaker 3: Don't even go, oh no, he's usually fine, salty. I'll

538
00:24:42,520 --> 00:24:44,720
Speaker 3: take the fine. I'll do this. This is this is

539
00:24:44,720 --> 00:24:46,240
Speaker 3: what time the fine is worth it. Don't go to

540
00:24:46,280 --> 00:24:48,760
Speaker 3: the postgame press. That was embarrassing. I mean really don't

541
00:24:48,800 --> 00:24:50,840
Speaker 3: go there. That was something special right there.

542
00:24:50,840 --> 00:24:53,080
Speaker 4: And you want to go, you know, Benny Hill kind

543
00:24:53,080 --> 00:24:54,800
Speaker 4: of thing, and and add a little yak and e

544
00:24:54,960 --> 00:24:58,120
Speaker 4: sacks to it there in your your postgame highlight reel,

545
00:24:58,680 --> 00:25:00,840
Speaker 4: that's where you have Bears twelve handle these one hundred

546
00:25:00,840 --> 00:25:01,800
Speaker 4: and twenty seven yards.

547
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Speaker 3: I mean, it's such a bad reversal of fortune.

548
00:25:06,280 --> 00:25:09,160
Speaker 1: But I still I can't get over the I can't

549
00:25:09,160 --> 00:25:12,600
Speaker 1: get over the decision on the kickoff because that's a

550
00:25:12,920 --> 00:25:15,760
Speaker 1: you know, anything that's pre snap in the NFL, Like

551
00:25:15,800 --> 00:25:17,960
Speaker 1: you've heard about that now, Right, The big trend the

552
00:25:18,040 --> 00:25:20,720
Speaker 1: last few years is, hey, teams commit penalties, but cut

553
00:25:20,760 --> 00:25:22,600
Speaker 1: down in the pre snap penalties. Right, these these are

554
00:25:22,640 --> 00:25:25,520
Speaker 1: the ones that kill ourselves. And it's the pre snap

555
00:25:25,640 --> 00:25:30,960
Speaker 1: decisions that have just absolutely killed the Bears. And that's

556
00:25:31,000 --> 00:25:34,240
Speaker 1: a pre snap decision that murdered them, right, they just

557
00:25:34,280 --> 00:25:37,080
Speaker 1: had some kind of crazy flea flick or play. It

558
00:25:37,080 --> 00:25:39,960
Speaker 1: gets stopped near midfield. The Vikings win at twenty seven

559
00:25:40,000 --> 00:25:42,879
Speaker 1: to twenty four. I mean, Ben Johnson, don't go to

560
00:25:42,880 --> 00:25:47,080
Speaker 1: the postgame press conference because that decision is something that hey, okay,

561
00:25:47,520 --> 00:25:50,439
Speaker 1: we biff that, and you can't make mistakes like that.

562
00:25:50,520 --> 00:25:52,719
Speaker 1: I mean, it's hard enough to win in the NFL.

563
00:25:52,760 --> 00:25:55,400
Speaker 1: It's certainly harder when your coaching staff just decides, hey,

564
00:25:55,520 --> 00:25:57,639
Speaker 1: we're gonna make you play with not just one arm

565
00:25:57,680 --> 00:25:59,680
Speaker 1: tie behind your back, we're gonna chop off the other arm.

566
00:26:00,000 --> 00:26:01,320
Speaker 1: Now one our time behind your back. Of the other

567
00:26:01,400 --> 00:26:02,959
Speaker 1: arms chopped off, good luck, God luck trying to win

568
00:26:03,000 --> 00:26:03,280
Speaker 1: that way.

569
00:26:03,320 --> 00:26:05,560
Speaker 4: This is the I mean, we've got many of them

570
00:26:05,600 --> 00:26:07,800
Speaker 4: from week one, but let's just take three off the top.

571
00:26:07,880 --> 00:26:10,680
Speaker 4: Go back to the Dallas loss to the Eagles and

572
00:26:10,720 --> 00:26:14,000
Speaker 4: the Cede Lamb drops the Miles Sanders fumble, which really

573
00:26:14,080 --> 00:26:16,639
Speaker 4: didn't get nearly the noise that it should have in

574
00:26:16,680 --> 00:26:17,800
Speaker 4: the process, but that's fine.

575
00:26:17,800 --> 00:26:20,200
Speaker 3: Ceed gets paid more money, so it's on him.

576
00:26:20,480 --> 00:26:24,520
Speaker 4: Your Jets game yesterday, where you've got a lot from

577
00:26:24,600 --> 00:26:27,000
Speaker 4: your offense, but your defense doesn't show, so you end

578
00:26:27,080 --> 00:26:29,000
Speaker 4: up giving up the game to Aaron Rodgers, and you

579
00:26:29,040 --> 00:26:33,800
Speaker 4: have an opportunity here where JJ McCarthy was horrible. The

580
00:26:33,920 --> 00:26:37,520
Speaker 4: offense was nonexistent for the Vikings for two and a

581
00:26:37,560 --> 00:26:40,240
Speaker 4: half quarters, and then they turned the Jets on.

582
00:26:40,960 --> 00:26:41,639
Speaker 3: I see what I did.

583
00:26:42,200 --> 00:26:44,120
Speaker 4: Then all of a sudden, all of a sudden, they're

584
00:26:44,160 --> 00:26:48,240
Speaker 4: reving up and they're unstoppable. Ten yards per play in

585
00:26:48,280 --> 00:26:52,919
Speaker 4: those three touchdown drives, and all of those things that

586
00:26:52,960 --> 00:26:57,479
Speaker 4: you did well early checking down and taking the safe throw,

587
00:26:57,800 --> 00:27:00,440
Speaker 4: which I called out an hour one of like I'd

588
00:27:00,480 --> 00:27:02,359
Speaker 4: like to see a shot down the field a little

589
00:27:02,400 --> 00:27:04,480
Speaker 4: bit more frequently. Well, And then he did in the

590
00:27:04,520 --> 00:27:08,159
Speaker 4: second half with mixed results. A couple of big plays.

591
00:27:08,200 --> 00:27:10,159
Speaker 4: He did have a big completion to Cole Comet on

592
00:27:10,200 --> 00:27:13,199
Speaker 4: a similar route. Comet had to dive and make a

593
00:27:13,200 --> 00:27:15,399
Speaker 4: great catch to do it, but then he missed a

594
00:27:15,760 --> 00:27:18,159
Speaker 4: throw to more in the left corner of the end

595
00:27:18,240 --> 00:27:21,200
Speaker 4: zone on that same drive ends up in a touchdown.

596
00:27:21,240 --> 00:27:23,399
Speaker 4: That's fine, and put your stuff in position. But then

597
00:27:23,440 --> 00:27:27,119
Speaker 4: you've got all these coaching decisions that are made in

598
00:27:27,200 --> 00:27:29,320
Speaker 4: the final minutes of the game that he's going to

599
00:27:29,400 --> 00:27:32,320
Speaker 4: have to try to defend. And you were aggressive early, right,

600
00:27:32,359 --> 00:27:36,000
Speaker 4: didn't take points early on and failed on a fourth down.

601
00:27:36,200 --> 00:27:40,080
Speaker 4: You have the Santos missed fifty yard field goal you're

602
00:27:40,160 --> 00:27:42,720
Speaker 4: leaving points all over the board plus one hundred and

603
00:27:42,760 --> 00:27:43,760
Speaker 4: twenty seven penalty.

604
00:27:43,840 --> 00:27:45,520
Speaker 1: Man, I'll tell you what, I don't feel as bad

605
00:27:45,600 --> 00:27:47,440
Speaker 1: being a Jet fan after watching this. I feel worse

606
00:27:47,480 --> 00:27:50,040
Speaker 1: for you, buddy. I mean, at least my offense played great,

607
00:27:50,160 --> 00:27:53,239
Speaker 1: my defense outside of Sauce Gardner, they were active, they

608
00:27:53,280 --> 00:27:55,399
Speaker 1: swarm in the football. They couldn't finish, and it was

609
00:27:55,440 --> 00:27:58,160
Speaker 1: awful and Aaron Rodgers won and I'm embarrassed. But boy,

610
00:27:58,200 --> 00:28:00,320
Speaker 1: this is I feel worse for you, man, Like you

611
00:28:00,640 --> 00:28:03,439
Speaker 1: definitely had the worst loss of them. Wow, this is

612
00:28:03,560 --> 00:28:07,760
Speaker 1: like Ravens Bill's loss. Because the Ravens, you can say

613
00:28:07,800 --> 00:28:10,240
Speaker 1: they blew the game, but at least at least you know, hey,

614
00:28:10,280 --> 00:28:12,080
Speaker 1: it came down to the very end or the last

615
00:28:12,080 --> 00:28:15,040
Speaker 1: few minutes. They didn't they didn't execute. This was you

616
00:28:15,160 --> 00:28:17,399
Speaker 1: kind of stopped playing when it was seventeen to six

617
00:28:18,040 --> 00:28:20,080
Speaker 1: and you thought, we just have to run the clock

618
00:28:20,119 --> 00:28:22,720
Speaker 1: out now because the Vikings can't do anything. You give

619
00:28:22,840 --> 00:28:26,040
Speaker 1: up the lead and then suddenly everything is going against you,

620
00:28:26,320 --> 00:28:29,080
Speaker 1: and then your coaching staff makes a decision that doesn't

621
00:28:29,080 --> 00:28:31,760
Speaker 1: make any sense on any level of football, and you

622
00:28:31,840 --> 00:28:33,640
Speaker 1: got not only that, now you gonna say you were

623
00:28:33,680 --> 00:28:36,480
Speaker 1: out foxed by the other coach, But I had a feeling, Hey, Vikings,

624
00:28:36,600 --> 00:28:38,880
Speaker 1: run it out anyway, you know, take that, Take that

625
00:28:38,880 --> 00:28:41,560
Speaker 1: time doesn't matter about the fifteen yard line makes no difference.

626
00:28:41,760 --> 00:28:41,920
Speaker 4: Right.

627
00:28:41,960 --> 00:28:43,320
Speaker 3: They know the math a little bit better than I do.

628
00:28:43,360 --> 00:28:45,920
Speaker 1: I thought, Okay, this means the difference from like near

629
00:28:45,920 --> 00:28:48,560
Speaker 1: a minute to maybe thirty seconds up turned out to

630
00:28:48,600 --> 00:28:51,800
Speaker 1: be ten seconds, right. I mean it's I don't understand

631
00:28:51,840 --> 00:28:53,880
Speaker 1: that and it and that's the worst part is that

632
00:28:54,160 --> 00:28:56,840
Speaker 1: it was an unforced mistake. And again it makes me

633
00:28:56,920 --> 00:28:59,480
Speaker 1: wonder does the headcut does the coaching staff have what

634
00:28:59,520 --> 00:29:01,160
Speaker 1: it takes? Is Johnson have what it takes to be

635
00:29:01,160 --> 00:29:03,080
Speaker 1: a head coach in the NFL, because that's a decision

636
00:29:03,080 --> 00:29:05,440
Speaker 1: where I go. Man, I get your learning, but whoa

637
00:29:05,560 --> 00:29:06,040
Speaker 1: that stuff?

638
00:29:06,080 --> 00:29:06,560
Speaker 3: You should know?

639
00:29:06,680 --> 00:29:08,760
Speaker 1: Man, Like, it's not like it's your first day coaching.

640
00:29:08,800 --> 00:29:10,680
Speaker 1: And I think you're a great coach. You've been coaching

641
00:29:10,720 --> 00:29:12,280
Speaker 1: for a while. You know what to do when a

642
00:29:12,320 --> 00:29:14,360
Speaker 1: clock gets out. You know what kind of offense you

643
00:29:14,400 --> 00:29:16,640
Speaker 1: are running in two minutes and how much time can

644
00:29:16,680 --> 00:29:19,160
Speaker 1: come off. I mean, really, you gotta find a way

645
00:29:19,200 --> 00:29:22,040
Speaker 1: to either go for the on side kick and okay,

646
00:29:22,080 --> 00:29:24,280
Speaker 1: if you're gonna kick it off deep any what does

647
00:29:24,320 --> 00:29:26,440
Speaker 1: it matter go or at least say I know I'm

648
00:29:26,520 --> 00:29:28,560
Speaker 1: kicking the ball out of bounds just so I'm gonna

649
00:29:28,560 --> 00:29:29,920
Speaker 1: take the pedal. It doesn't matter if starting at the

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Speaker 1: forty anyway, but at least then I know I can

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Speaker 1: get the football back with some time left, then my

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Speaker 1: team can get down the field.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, comedy of errors all Alonger. We chronicled it all

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Speaker 4: the way with you, because even when it was good,

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Speaker 4: it wasn't great. But then we saw a reversion to

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Speaker 4: some of those bad decisions and these these eber flu

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Speaker 4: somewhere is smiling after this comedy of errors down the stretch.

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Speaker 4: But for all of those that were looking for the

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Speaker 4: worst coming out of the Tyler Doun article and all

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Speaker 4: of those things that swirled in the offen season, you

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Speaker 4: got ammunition because he reverted back to some of those

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Speaker 4: decisions that he made as a rookie, right the intentional grounding,

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Speaker 4: some of the missthrows and the Van Ginkeld side arm

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Speaker 4: ball that could have been a pick six instead of

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Speaker 4: either lobbing it over the top or just recognizing this

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Speaker 4: guy's coming unabated, I can't get the ball out on

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Speaker 4: the screen like all of those things. It just started

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Speaker 4: ticking off one after another and missed opportunities. That is

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Speaker 4: ammunition coming out of this game. So Ben Johnson no

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Speaker 4: longer super genius for a week, although he is still

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Speaker 4: in Detroit right because things went badly there?

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Speaker 3: What is it?

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Speaker 4: It's I think the play callers that aren't Ben Johnson

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Speaker 4: and who is it? McVeigh is like nineteen and one

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Speaker 4: for Jared Goff, so I guess he still wins.

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Speaker 3: It gets a little win over there.

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Speaker 4: But this is a disaster and it's melting down in

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Speaker 4: Chicago right now.

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Speaker 1: Right now, Ben Johnson back to Detroit for David Montgomery,

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Speaker 1: who says no, Who.

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Speaker 3: Says no, Who says no? Right, you get running back

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Speaker 3: back who is still really good. You can give him

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Speaker 3: the ball a lot, right.

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Speaker 1: He's still right, and you give the offense corner back

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Speaker 1: to the Lions who need maybe they need him back

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Speaker 1: after that game won yesterday.

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Speaker 3: Who says no? Can I just say this the thing

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Speaker 3: I come out of here?

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Speaker 4: I'm happiest that they didn't throw or run the ball

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Speaker 4: with an offensive lineman.

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Speaker 3: That's my highlight of the damn game.

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Speaker 1: Hey, hold on to that that's.

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Speaker 2: All I got. Be sure to catch live editions of

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Speaker 2: The Jason Smith Show with Mike harmon weekdays at ten

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Speaker 2: pm Eastern, seven pm Pacific.

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Speaker 1: You know, ty Shirt people are actually sending me videos

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Speaker 1: of this, But here's what I'm getting is on Twitter.

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Speaker 1: Sometimes we go, hey, check this out, and like, it

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Speaker 1: looks like it's video of a Jets play, and then

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Speaker 1: I'll play it and meanwhile, it's a Jets play or something,

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Speaker 1: but it's this song under it soundful like that's my

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Speaker 1: own personal rick role that I'm getting on.

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Speaker 5: Pretty good Boswallers sixty yard in town, snap boot on

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Speaker 5: the way, that tick is up, and that tick is good.

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Speaker 4: The great Christ pause, well drills one from sixty yards out.

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Speaker 4: You realize he's gonna lean fully back into his Steelers

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Speaker 4: fandom this year. Oh it's been dormant for about four years. Yea,

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Speaker 4: Like all of a sudden, they're like, yeah, we're in

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Speaker 4: to Jersey tomorrow.

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Speaker 3: Ty Shirt.

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Speaker 1: On our big board we have in the studio, everybody

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Speaker 1: picks the Super Bowl champion and everything else. MVP make

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Speaker 1: a Big Bowl prediction all of this because it's ty Shirt.

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Speaker 3: I see.

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Speaker 1: You know, I said I'll do your picks with you.

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Speaker 1: Just just I'll write him down for you.

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Speaker 2: Don't lie.

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Speaker 3: I said, who do you like? Super Bowl?

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Speaker 1: He goes forty nine Ers? I said, okay, who do

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Speaker 1: you like? AFC Steelers? I said, okay, who wins a

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Speaker 1: Super Bowl? A Texcher says the Bills. Yes, so he's

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Speaker 1: got forty nine Ers Steelers super Bowl winner Bills.

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Speaker 4: Look, man, you don't know what color the sky is

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Speaker 4: in his world, or how which university is skipping between

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Speaker 4: moment to moment. You'll know, and you might have a

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Speaker 4: peacemaker kind of thing where it comes out the other time.

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Speaker 1: But the other part of it is make your big

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Speaker 1: bull prediction is is Aaron Rodgers leaves the Steelers to

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Speaker 1: the Super Bowl?

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Speaker 3: No good? But you bet the biking good. I want

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Speaker 3: to know, baby, Mike. Think of it as like a

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Speaker 3: ww thing, Right, two wrestlers in the ring. Undertaker from

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Speaker 3: the Bat takes the belt.

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Speaker 4: Somehow, all of a sudden, they don't actually make it

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Speaker 4: to the Super Bowl, so they win the AFC Title Game.

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Speaker 3: But somehow in those two weeks, chaos ensues.

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Speaker 4: Maybe it's a rumble like out of Anchorman, and all

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Speaker 4: of a sudden, the Steelers are back and they're inserted

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Speaker 4: to that Super Bowl game up at Levi's.

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Speaker 1: If the NFL worked that way that well, I'll get

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Speaker 1: you Roger Goodell's phone number.

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Speaker 3: Let you you call him with that. I want to

743
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Speaker 3: talk to him. I got nothing for him.

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Speaker 1: So it's time to have an appreciation moment for a

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Speaker 1: guy we had zero appreciation for the first.

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Speaker 3: Two and a half quarters of this game.

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Speaker 4: And we got a call it like it is as

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Speaker 4: we see it, as a horrible as bad a first

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Speaker 4: two and a half quarters as he had after the

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Speaker 4: pick stick gave the Bears the lead seventeen to six,

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Speaker 4: JJ McCarthy and the Vikings come from behind to win

752
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Speaker 4: this game over the Bears in an absolute debacle.

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Speaker 1: For Chicago, which we'll get into more of that coming

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Speaker 1: up in a few minutes. But McCarthy doesn't have a

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Speaker 1: great game, right, but he does exactly what he was

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Speaker 1: asked to do at Michigan. Run this offense that we're

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Speaker 1: gonna Sledgehimmer down the field and make a plane now

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Speaker 1: and again. Now, it's not a big long term success

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Speaker 1: in the NFL quarterback wise, but it worked tonight because

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Speaker 1: what did they do? They ran the football really well

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Speaker 1: in the second half, right Mason ran the ball well.

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Speaker 1: Jones had a couple of nice runs and that got

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Speaker 1: their legs under them. McCarthy made two nice passes for

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Speaker 1: the touchdowns. He had to scramble for the touchdown. Right fantasy,

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Speaker 1: all of a sudden, he's got a really good game.

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Speaker 1: But it's not like McCarthy single handedly picked up the

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Speaker 1: team and said let's go win this game. They asked

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Speaker 1: him to do exactly what they asked him to do

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Speaker 1: at Michigan, which was run the offense. We're gonna we

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Speaker 1: got running backs, we're gonna give the ball to we

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Speaker 1: have playmakers at wide receiver. Just once in a while,

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Speaker 1: you make a play. And that's what he did in

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Speaker 1: the last quarter and a half. He made a play

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Speaker 1: once in a while. Oh man, there's a good throw

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Speaker 1: from JJ McCarthy silent for a while on this drive there,

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Speaker 1: he is one good throw there, and that was good

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Speaker 1: enough to win this game. So I give him the

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Speaker 1: nod because it must have felt just like it wasn't

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Speaker 1: Michigan where Okay, not gonna ask you to go win

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Speaker 1: a game because we know you're not good enough to

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Speaker 1: do that, but we're gonna ask you to go out

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Speaker 1: and execute the offense and when we need to play, hey,

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Speaker 1: come through with that a little bit.

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Speaker 3: And that's what he did.

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Speaker 4: To them, As you always say, can't fault a good strategy, right,

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Speaker 4: slow it down. That first half and so on was miserable,

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Speaker 4: all right. They couldn't run the ball. Three and outs,

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Speaker 4: the third down conversions, oh for their first eight and

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Speaker 4: just miserable. On the eighth one it was a nice

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Speaker 4: little dump off to Adam Thielend that goes right through

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Speaker 4: his hands. But you know they stayed within themselves. The

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Speaker 4: defense crank things up. Flores in company coming out of

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Speaker 4: the break started to get after it. You had the

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Speaker 4: long field goal, like we were talking with Steve de

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Speaker 4: Seger before fifty nine yards to never assume that it's

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Speaker 4: out of a guy's range at this point. And you

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00:36:04,560 --> 00:36:07,160
Speaker 4: got some signs of life again. First half he had

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Speaker 4: two plays. He had a pass interference call for forty

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Speaker 4: forty yards, which was a bailout of a bad McCarthy

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Speaker 4: pass that was woefully underthrown. And then you had the

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Speaker 4: big pass completion to Nailor to help set up the

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Speaker 4: long attempt. So go into halftime, you slow it down

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Speaker 4: and you're able to take advantage with that two headed

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00:36:26,400 --> 00:36:29,320
Speaker 4: monster out of the backfield. And then Jones has always

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00:36:29,400 --> 00:36:32,759
Speaker 4: been a good receiver and he finds space as well,

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Speaker 4: so for McCarthy when they needed him to make a play.

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Speaker 4: Did I mean the touchdown pass to Jefferson was fantastic

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Speaker 4: over the middle right pass two defenders. He gets his

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Speaker 4: guy involved with two catches on that drive, including the touchdowns.

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Speaker 4: So it's winning football. And I even got an apology,

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Speaker 4: you know, well kind of laughing at me.

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Speaker 3: From our boss. So sorry, it's better for radio Vikings.

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Speaker 1: Fan Scott Shapiro, who Yeah, it's easier to say sorry

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Speaker 1: because the Vikings won.

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Speaker 3: No, it's it. He is having some glug right now.

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Speaker 3: He's hanging out with Ragnar.

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Speaker 4: I still have a couple of bottles stored away from

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Speaker 4: last batch.

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Speaker 1: We ask a really big question about this Bears debacle

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Speaker 1: against the Vikings.

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Speaker 3: Next Fox