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Speaker 1: You're listening to Fox Sports where.

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Speaker 2: You go Welcome to Fox Football Saturday.

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Speaker 3: I'm Alex Curry along with Nikki k.

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Speaker 2: Thank you for spending your Saturday afternoon with us, and yeah,

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Speaker 2: happy New Year to everyone. But I got a bone

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Speaker 2: to pick right here, right off the top of the

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Speaker 2: show with love Nikki Ko, hold on, because I gotta

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Speaker 2: know we're gonna We're gonna ask America here, how long

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Speaker 2: is it appropriate to wish someone a happy New Year?

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Speaker 3: I give it one week, Max, right.

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Speaker 4: I am even more.

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Speaker 3: I walked in goes mid February.

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Speaker 4: Mid February. Listen.

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Speaker 3: No, I use it as a CD.

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Speaker 4: I use it as a crush.

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Speaker 5: In interactions with people to last me throughout the first month.

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Speaker 3: And a half.

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Speaker 4: January better January.

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Speaker 5: I'm looking for something I'll give you start off with,

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Speaker 5: especially only if it's.

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Speaker 4: Someone I haven't seen yet in the ten days maybe.

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Speaker 3: Ten No, no, no, I keep retracting. I'm like after that.

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Speaker 4: It's I'm also the type of person.

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Speaker 5: That, like, let's say we're at the super Bowl, I

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Speaker 5: walk around and go happy super Bowl?

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Speaker 3: Get no, same?

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Speaker 5: Right?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, but I feel that way about the New Year.

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Speaker 2: So basically all of January is the new year? Yes, absolutely,

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Speaker 2: I don't know.

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Speaker 3: I don't have.

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Speaker 4: Time to begin speaking of beginnings.

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Speaker 2: Yeah right, gosh, you guys, we have such an epic

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Speaker 2: day today and show lined up for you a couple

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Speaker 2: NFL games with a lot on the line, Panthers and

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Speaker 2: Bucks kicking off in about thirty minutes. Are watching Sarah

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Speaker 2: Walsh live at the game. Looks like it's raining. She's

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Speaker 2: got a big.

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Speaker 4: Umbrella in southern California.

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Speaker 2: I know, NICKI walks in the door today like, no umbrella,

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Speaker 2: no hood, just huge smile walking into the office in

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Speaker 2: the rain in a motorcycle jacket. So it was like

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Speaker 2: very fitting.

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Speaker 4: I And I hope my dad's not listening at this point.

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Speaker 4: I do not. I don't think I own an umbrella.

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Speaker 3: What I have one in the car in the dog

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Speaker 3: basket in my back.

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Speaker 4: She is ready.

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Speaker 2: I am like I was always like Mamma Curry before

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Speaker 2: I was even a mom. I am like over prepared

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Speaker 2: for every situation.

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Speaker 4: Oh, I'm like Dan in the rain.

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Speaker 2: I know I'm the one like here, Nikki, come here,

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Speaker 2: let me put you under my coat, bring you in.

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Speaker 3: But dude, these games today.

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Speaker 2: A lot on the line, Bucks and Pans there's the

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Speaker 2: NFC South on the line. Panthers win and their NFC

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Speaker 2: South champs for the first time since twenty fifteen. Bucks

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Speaker 2: need a little more help because they need Atlanta to

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Speaker 2: lose against the Saints to claim.

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Speaker 3: The division in a playoff spot. And then we got

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Speaker 3: Seahawks and forty nine Ers.

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Speaker 4: I am so fired enough for that game.

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Speaker 2: Winner of that game wins the NFC West, the one

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Speaker 2: seed in the NFC, and then they get a bye week.

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Speaker 4: And also the implications for the other teams it has.

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Speaker 5: In the racy right exactly, and like who's going to

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Speaker 5: be facing the Eagles? Yeah, and then you know, the

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Speaker 5: forty nine ers are hoping that either the Eagles or

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Speaker 5: the Rams will eliminate one or the other, right, so

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Speaker 5: that the path becomes a lot clear.

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Speaker 3: NFC West was the best division, Yes, in the NFL

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Speaker 3: this year.

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Speaker 5: I do have to say big picture conversation here. First

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Speaker 5: of all, I woke up this morning light was like,

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Speaker 5: how did we get here? Week eighteen? But at the

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Speaker 5: same time, the season has seemed so long, you people,

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Speaker 5: Yeah here am I We've lived so many lives. Yeah,

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Speaker 5: because of all the injuries, of all the ups and

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Speaker 5: the downs and the times we've said this team doesn't

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Speaker 5: have a chance, and then here we are. I canceled

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Speaker 5: the Baltimore Ravens like weeks ago, Yeah, and here they are.

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Speaker 3: Well, I mean, Lamar was dealing with a lot of injuries.

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Speaker 2: It felt like all of it, like like every part

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Speaker 2: like slowly worked its injury down as leg Well.

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Speaker 4: That's what I mean by this.

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Speaker 5: I feel like this season, in particular in the NFL,

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Speaker 5: has had so many chapters.

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Speaker 2: Well, it is the weirdest, I think, the weirdest season

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Speaker 2: we have seen in a long time. The beginning of

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Speaker 2: the season, if you said every team that was winning

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Speaker 2: the division in the playoffs right now and the teams

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Speaker 2: that weren't, you'd be like, you're lying.

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Speaker 4: Chiefs aren't making the playoffs.

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Speaker 3: That's no, no, no.

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Speaker 4: Are you pro parity or pro dynasty?

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Speaker 3: I like a little bit of both.

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Speaker 2: Like I don't hate a dynasty because I love watching ralists.

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Speaker 3: And really being able to witness it, Like it is.

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Speaker 2: Rare that you get to live through such incredible dynasties,

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Speaker 2: and we did.

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Speaker 3: We got the we got the Patriots dynasty.

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Speaker 2: We got like a little, you know, a handful of

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Speaker 2: the Chiefs dynasty. We're going to talk about that little later,

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Speaker 2: but they're definitely that's on the way out. We're slowly

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Speaker 2: watching a Dodgers dynasty begin, like.

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Speaker 4: We've witnessed the I think of the Warriors Warriors.

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Speaker 2: Dynasty, right, Chef's kiss, Like that was beautiful. It's always

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Speaker 2: sad to see it like fade out. This is the

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Speaker 2: hard part where it's.

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Speaker 5: Like, right, but then, and I don't like it when

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Speaker 5: it's so many consecutive years of inevitability, right, like.

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Speaker 3: Ten plus years. Yes, yes, but I do domination.

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Speaker 5: I do.

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Speaker 4: I have to say that I've enjoyed the parody this season.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's funny though, because like obviously we work in

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Speaker 2: TV and the broadcast, and sometimes the parody is a

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Speaker 2: little tough for ratings and a little tough for sponsorships

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Speaker 2: and a little tough for the TV side of things.

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Speaker 3: But again, like.

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Speaker 5: Also for scheduling your personal life. You're like, do I

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Speaker 5: know I'm working in January?

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Speaker 6: Am I gonna go?

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Speaker 3: Nobody knows.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm excited because we got a lot of like

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Speaker 2: there's like a few games this weekend that really like

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Speaker 2: is gonna determine the rest of the season, and Steelers

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Speaker 2: is one of them.

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Speaker 3: We got Steelers team.

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Speaker 2: Reporter Brook Pryor who will be at that game, Raven

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Speaker 2: Steelers with like, win and you're in, you win the division,

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Speaker 2: who you're in the playoffs?

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Speaker 3: Losing, you're going home. She's joining us.

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Speaker 2: At the bottom of the hour, we have Broncos team

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Speaker 2: reporter Lise Hernandez An Hour two producer both US Today

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Speaker 2: Basically, tell us if you like us or not, you

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Speaker 2: please face right there in that moment, I was just

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Speaker 2: pointing at Nikki like She's like, what, let's still.

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Speaker 4: Working out our synergy?

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Speaker 3: What are we doing?

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Speaker 2: We are back, Okay, We're We're gonna kick things off

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Speaker 2: today with a fun little game call overreaction or facts.

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Speaker 2: I'm basically gonna give a statement and each of us

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Speaker 2: will say if we think it's an overreaction or not.

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Speaker 2: All right, and we're gonna get started in this AFC

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Speaker 2: North Showdown, the biggest game of the weekend.

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Speaker 3: The winner go home like.

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Speaker 2: There is just it's crazy with both of these teams

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Speaker 2: right now, Ravens and Steelers. Let's start with this first,

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Speaker 2: this statement, Lamar Jackson and John Harbaugh are playing for

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Speaker 2: their jobs.

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Speaker 3: I'll go first. All right, facts, this is not an overreaction.

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Speaker 2: I there's a lot to unpack here, but I think

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Speaker 2: the biggest thing is what Since Lamar became a starter

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Speaker 2: in twenty eighteen, he's won two MVPs, He's only three

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Speaker 2: and five in the playoffs. He's never made it to

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Speaker 2: a Super Bowl, He's only been to the AFC Championship

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Speaker 2: Game once in twenty twenty three. Any loss, and these

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Speaker 2: are Lamar's prime years and if you miss the playoffs,

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Speaker 2: I don't know how ownership doesn't question.

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Speaker 4: Is this the right combination? Yeah?

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Speaker 3: Fit for Lamar and Harbaugh.

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Speaker 2: And I mean, obviously they're both still under contract, so

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Speaker 2: it's a little more complicated than just we're done. But

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Speaker 2: the reason I don't think it's an overreaction for Lamar

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Speaker 2: playing for his job, you have to remember, Lamar Jackson

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Speaker 2: doesn't have an agent, right, Okay, so he did his

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Speaker 2: own contract negotiations his last contract, and Lamar's cap hit

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Speaker 2: for next year jumps to seventy four point five million dollars,

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Speaker 2: meaning they will need to restructure his contract and extend

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Speaker 2: him to get his cap hit down. So again, I

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Speaker 2: think a lot of negotiating power is going to ride

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Speaker 2: on this performance and how he does.

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Speaker 3: And it's been an off year for Lamar.

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Speaker 2: He missed four games this season with hamstring injury back

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Speaker 2: what was it like, contusion, stiffness.

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Speaker 5: But.

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Speaker 2: This was the first week in two months that he

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Speaker 2: practiced every single day. I think there's a lot on

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Speaker 2: the line for both these guys.

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Speaker 5: All Right, I'm going to counter you, and I'm going

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Speaker 5: to say it's an overreaction of a statement, because here's why.

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Speaker 5: When you think of a championship franchise, you think of

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Speaker 5: the Baltimore Ravens, and that's widely regarded throughout the NFL.

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Speaker 3: But they don't have the playoff experience.

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Speaker 5: But they are the class when it comes to an

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Speaker 5: operating organization, and that tells me that they do not

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Speaker 5: overreact when things get a little wobbly.

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Speaker 4: You don't bail.

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Speaker 5: I'm looking at you Minnesota Vikings with Sam Bradford, but

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Speaker 5: I mean Sam Jarnld.

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Speaker 4: Sorry, but I'm.

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Speaker 5: Saying that basically when it comes to this sign of

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Speaker 5: things not going groovy, right because Lamar this has been

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Speaker 5: the most difficult season of Lamar Jackson's eight year career.

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Speaker 5: Tom Monkin said, it's the closest team he's been to

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Speaker 5: playing healthy in a couple of months.

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Speaker 4: And I think because.

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Speaker 5: It's been a rye in a season where his health

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Speaker 5: has not been intact, they're going to give it. This

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Speaker 5: season is going to be kind of the Okay, the

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Speaker 5: seat is warming up, the seat is getting hotter, and

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Speaker 5: whether it's for Harbaugh or Jackson, I think this is

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Speaker 5: not the end all, be all ejection boost.

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Speaker 2: But then you have to ask yourself, like since twenty eighteen, right, SOS,

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Speaker 2: He's become a starter in the league. He has been

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Speaker 2: one of the greatest regular season players, but we have

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Speaker 2: not seen that translate into the postseason. He is only

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Speaker 2: three to five in the playoffs. He has never made

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Speaker 2: it to a Super Bowl as a two time MVP,

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Speaker 2: and as you mentioned, one of the top regarded teams

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Speaker 2: in the league. How do you not question that, especially

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Speaker 2: because they're going to have to restructure his contract coming up.

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Speaker 5: But then there's the hypothetical if they beat the Steelers,

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Speaker 3: He talked about it this week.

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Speaker 4: He could, yes, he could allude to it.

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Speaker 5: He could allude to retirement, or he might as well

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Speaker 3: Yeah, Okay, let's stay with the Steelers here.

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Speaker 2: If the Steelers lose, Mike Tomlin is done in Pittsburgh.

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Speaker 3: The Steelers don't move off coaches.

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Speaker 2: Since nineteen sixty nine, the Steelers have only had three coaches,

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Speaker 3: We've disagreed on what every I like it.

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Speaker 5: I think he's his leash has reached its fullest length

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Speaker 2: Like or does he come back and kind of work

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Speaker 3: Oh?

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Speaker 4: I think he has a future with another team.

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Speaker 3: Maybe you take a year off, right, you take a

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Speaker 4: No, you say it done in Pittsburgh.

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Speaker 4: I'll get you.

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Speaker 5: And it's easy to say things I know, and I

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Speaker 3: Well, it's gonna come up to him, right.

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Speaker 2: I again like this, like I said, Steelers have only

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Speaker 5: Well, they're both teams. I mean Harbaugh's longevity, yeah, Baltimore.

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Speaker 2: This is the first time that they don't have his

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Speaker 3: You have an opportunity to get there.

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Speaker 5: But Lamar Jackson's injuries are out of his control.

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Speaker 2: But it's not just this year, It's not just this year,

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Speaker 2: is this our guy? I think that that is like

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Speaker 3: Be on the most.

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Speaker 4: There's been chattering, real live chatter.

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Speaker 2: I don't agree with that. With athletes. I think you

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Speaker 4: Bet on yourself. Yeah, you gotta.

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Speaker 3: Separate betting on yourself.

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Speaker 2: No, then it becomes awkward, right because it's personal, and

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Speaker 2: You to try to get money down to then you

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Speaker 3: Like that's just how it works.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, it's not pretty.

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Speaker 5: No, I think that that adds another layer of a

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Speaker 2: HI means four games we're gonna have to agree to

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Speaker 3: We're going to take a quick you're.

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Speaker 4: Injured, sorry, injured for the most of it.

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Speaker 2: When we come back, it's time for the college football

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Speaker 4: I'm heard up from this boat. Oh we've got the

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Speaker 2: Okay, guys, we got to talk about the college football playoffs,

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Speaker 2: because wow, we're gonna start with that. Uh, Miami Ohio

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Speaker 2: best game of the weekend, but the weirdest ending I

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Speaker 2: have ever seen. They rolled out the stage too soon twice,

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Speaker 2: they dumped the gatorade and competti too soon, they had

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Speaker 2: to clear the field twice. But it was the best game,

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Speaker 2: and I just love the story around almost Miss winning.

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Speaker 5: And Golden's crew and just rallying. What are your thoughts

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Speaker 5: on the whole Lane Kiffin saga?

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Speaker 3: Right now, dude, it's wild.

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Speaker 2: Also, LSU is paying Lane Kiffin so much money a

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Speaker 2: part of his bonus to get him to come to LSU.

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Speaker 2: They basically offered him two hundred and fifty thousand dollars

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Speaker 2: every game that Ole Miss wins in the playoffs, So he.

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Speaker 4: Is they've won two playoffs, five hundred thousand.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, he's already gotten five hundred thousand dollars. It's just,

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Speaker 2: it's just it's hard. I don't like it. It has

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Speaker 2: a lot to do with the transfer portal. I think

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Speaker 2: it's too soon. Everything needs to be after the college

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Speaker 2: football playoff time done to be recalibrating.

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Speaker 8: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Just, I mean so much of this whole system needs

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Speaker 2: to be kind of rethought and figured out.

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Speaker 5: But well, and I thought it was interesting, I mean

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Speaker 5: not interesting. It's very Lane Kiffin of him. I think

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Speaker 5: there he wanted to return to ole Miss to cheer

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Speaker 5: on the team and support his players. And I don't

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Speaker 5: think anybody on campus really wanted him.

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Speaker 3: You're gone, You're gone, right, And then he.

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Speaker 5: Was seen at a woman's basketball game holding Kim Molki's hand.

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Speaker 5: It's just it was weird attention mongering.

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Speaker 3: No, it's weird.

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Speaker 2: But the other price, the weird fact though, is that

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Speaker 2: Lane Kiffin is taking a lot of the coaching staff

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Speaker 2: with him to LSU. So like there's rumors they might

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Speaker 2: not finish out this season right with the coaching staff

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Speaker 2: that they have now, they might have to take some

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Speaker 2: of the coaches before if they win this next game

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Speaker 2: and they make it to the College Football.

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Speaker 5: Or is there any just that they decide to stay

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Speaker 5: or is it all written in stone now that they

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Speaker 5: are going to I don't know.

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Speaker 3: I don't know.

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Speaker 2: So we got Miami and ole Miss on Thursday in

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Speaker 2: the Fiesta Bowl.

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Speaker 3: Who you take in? Oh, I'm gonna take Miami.

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Speaker 5: It's all about Okay, then I'm taking Old Miss. I

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Speaker 5: think nothing better would be than to see Lane Kiff

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Speaker 5: and leave.

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Speaker 4: Ole Miss and to watch Ole Miss advanced to I mean,

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Speaker 4: like we did it without you, buddy? Yeah, exactly? Who

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Speaker 4: are you?

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Speaker 6: Sir?

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Speaker 4: Bye?

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Speaker 2: Okay, So let's move on to Oregon Texas Tech. This

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Speaker 2: was an ugly beat down. Oregon defeated Texas Tech twenty

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Speaker 2: three nothing in the Orange Bowl, the first UH game

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Speaker 2: shut out for Oregon since nineteen seventeen, and I was

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Speaker 2: a Rose Bowl.

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Speaker 4: And this far for a large part of the game,

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Speaker 4: was six nothing.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, no, it just like you know, it was just like, eh,

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Speaker 2: Organ's ever won a national title, so like they're kind

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Speaker 2: of on the up and up, but they're going to

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Speaker 2: face now Indiana Indiana. Also, it was just like that

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Speaker 2: was a brutal Rose Bowl game, Indiana defeating Alabama thirty

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Speaker 2: eight three.

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Speaker 5: He loved it for the sideline shots of Kurt Signetti

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Speaker 5: just staring down Bama.

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Speaker 2: Well, it's just funny because like Indiana is basically the

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Speaker 2: new Alabama and their head coach came from the Nick

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Speaker 2: Saban coaching tree. But another fun fact, all four head

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Speaker 2: coaches in the semi finals all came from the Nick

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Speaker 2: Saban coaching tree.

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Speaker 5: Well, I want to give some love to Kurt Signetti,

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Speaker 5: and I think what he you know, coming from James Madison, which,

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Speaker 5: by the way, UCLA is hoping to strike.

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Speaker 4: Gold with hiring Bob Chesney.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, you know, the same method, right, but talk about

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Speaker 5: a cold, sure builder. He comes in and in two

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Speaker 5: seasons turns this program around. It's interesting because you talk

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Speaker 5: about a program like Indiana.

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Speaker 3: Who's never won a national title.

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Speaker 5: And it's like, can you call them underdogs? Technically not,

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Speaker 5: They've got the money and the resources. But they are

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Speaker 5: a rags to riches story arc in terms of being

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Speaker 5: nobody ever talked about Indiana football and now here they

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Speaker 5: are talked about their basketball right exactly, and in two

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Speaker 5: short years, this man has.

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Speaker 3: I really helped them out right exactly.

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Speaker 5: See, that's that's the thing where I'm like, can you

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Speaker 5: call them like, you know, the impoverished and you know

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Speaker 5: where the.

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Speaker 2: But they got money, right and we're seeing that. You

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Speaker 2: can tell what schools have money since the en nil

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Speaker 2: got put into effect.

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Speaker 5: But what I really loved too about what we saw

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Speaker 5: them play. You know how this team played is is

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Speaker 5: the effort they gave through all four quarters, no matter

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Speaker 5: how much they were dominating.

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Speaker 2: Every single sport in game should be that way. Yes,

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Speaker 2: it never let up. I was never like even in

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Speaker 2: soccer they're like, oh, you're up by like seven, you

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Speaker 2: should stop, but absolutely not.

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Speaker 3: You score that goal. You were in front of the net,

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Speaker 3: you score that goal.

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Speaker 4: Fernando Mendoza's postgame.

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Speaker 3: Oh my god, he's so excited, he's joy.

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Speaker 5: He is like a kid in a candy shop trying

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Speaker 5: to describe how he just had a sour belt for

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Speaker 5: the first time or something like.

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Speaker 4: It's it was Oh my gosh.

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Speaker 3: It was so cute.

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Speaker 2: We're gonna get to him a little later too, but

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Speaker 2: right now, let's check in with Martin Wise and see

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Speaker 2: what's trending.

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Speaker 9: We have an injury on the first play of the

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Speaker 9: Buccaneers Panthers game. No, yeah, somebody's getting helped off off

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Speaker 9: the kickoff return. Buccaneers are getting the ball to start

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Speaker 9: the game. They'll need to win today to have a

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Speaker 9: chance to make the postseason. They'll also need the Falcons

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Speaker 9: to lose or tie Sunday against the Saints now Carolina,

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Speaker 9: all they need to do is win or tie today

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Speaker 9: to make the postseason. The winner of the NFC North

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Speaker 9: will be, you know, potentially decided today. JJ Watt no limitations,

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Speaker 9: expected to play Sunday night against the Race evens Sean

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Speaker 9: McVay plans to play his starters against the Cardinals regardless

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Speaker 9: of seeding implications. Josh Allen was a limited participant in

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Speaker 9: Friday's practice. He's expected to play. Allen's still going to

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Speaker 9: start the game. He's got the second longest active streak

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Speaker 9: season an active starts streak alive. He won twenty one,

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Speaker 9: but he'll sit for the most of this game. To

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Speaker 9: get ready for the postseason. Also, he misspracticed two days

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Speaker 9: this week with a dealing with that foot injury that

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Speaker 9: was hindering him last week. So he'll start Philip Rivers

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Speaker 9: Actually as the most consecutive active starts. It's way far

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Speaker 9: away from what Josh's got. Won twenty one for Josh

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Speaker 9: A thrank Houston beat Cincinnati sixty seven to sixty in

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Speaker 9: men's college basketball BYU with the win over Kansas State,

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Speaker 9: Vanderbilt b South Carolina SMU with the ninety seven to

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Speaker 9: eighty three upset over twelfth right North Carolina UCF with

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Speaker 9: an eighty one to seventy five upset over seventeenth rank Kansas.

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Speaker 9: Peterson for Kansas for twenty six point six rebounds. People

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Speaker 9: really excited about him. Georgia and Auburn in overtime twenty

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Speaker 9: third ranked Georgia Day one o four to one hundred win.

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Speaker 4: Over the Tigers.

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Speaker 9: Texas Tech, Virginia and Alabama also all on Kentucky nine

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Speaker 9: and five, losing their first conference game in the SEC.

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Speaker 4: Ladies.

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Speaker 2: Back to you, Thank you, Martin. You're listening to Fox

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Speaker 2: Football Saturday. I'm Alex Curry here with Nikki k Thank

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Speaker 2: you for spending your Saturday afternoon with us.

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Speaker 3: It is time for our first guest.

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Speaker 2: She is going to be at the Game of the

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Speaker 2: Week ESPN Steelers reporter Brook Pryor.

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Speaker 3: Thank you for joining the show.

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Speaker 8: Thanks for having me. I'm much warmer currently than I

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Speaker 8: will be tomorrow night, so I'm happy that I'll be

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Speaker 8: in the press box for most of that one. But bo,

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Speaker 8: I wish I want Nikki's from the stadium.

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Speaker 3: I wish you could see Nikki's face right now.

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Speaker 2: For the fact, you guys, these guys kind of came

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Speaker 2: up in sports together in.

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Speaker 5: OKC, Oklahoma City. Brook an award winning writer for the

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Speaker 5: Oklahoma and I was shooting my own stand ups for

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Speaker 5: her channel horror.

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Speaker 3: Look at you, Yeah, look at you.

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Speaker 5: Now.

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Speaker 8: We've both got to different coasts, but we met in

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Speaker 8: the middle.

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Speaker 3: For I love this.

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Speaker 4: That's your dang share girl.

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Speaker 5: Oh great to hear your boys out. We just are

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Speaker 5: crushing it. Love seeing you on ESPN always.

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Speaker 3: Brook.

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Speaker 2: You guys have literally I think Game of the Week

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Speaker 2: it's when when in you're in, you win the division, lose,

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Speaker 2: you go home. There is so much on the line

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Speaker 2: for these two teams. What's the vibe around the team

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Speaker 2: heading into the game tomorrow.

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Speaker 8: You know, it's so funny because this week I wasn't

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Speaker 8: quite sure how the team was going to respond after

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Speaker 8: losing in Cleveland, because that's a crushing lot. I mean,

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Speaker 8: you have the chance to clinch the AFC North and

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Speaker 8: take this week easy rust up before the playoffs, and

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Speaker 8: then you lose in a pretty demoralizing way. But they've

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Speaker 8: been really loose all week in I think a productive way.

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Speaker 8: I mean, I watched them kind of. They have a

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Speaker 8: mini basketball hoop in the locker room. Looks like it

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Speaker 8: was a Christmas gift of some kind, but guys were

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Speaker 8: taking free throw shots on it and playing around, and

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Speaker 8: they've just been I think, really energized by the charge

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Speaker 8: of trying to beat the Ravens in a winner, go

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Speaker 8: home type of game. Reminds me a lot of a

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Speaker 8: college format. And yes, I know in the NFL playoffs

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Speaker 8: are also win or go home, but it just feels like,

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Speaker 8: because they're playing the Ravens, which is their biggest rival,

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Speaker 8: in a game with the highest stakes, that this is

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Speaker 8: the kind of thing that this team relishes, that Mike

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Speaker 8: Tomlin relishes. They've been playing videos all week of them

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Speaker 8: making big plays against the Ravens in the past, trying

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Speaker 8: to help with this visualization. So I think mentally they

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Speaker 8: are headed in the right direction for a game of

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Speaker 8: this magnitude.

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Speaker 5: Okay, Brooke and you talk about the immedia implications, right,

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Speaker 5: but let's look at you know, let's do a little

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Speaker 5: future casting here.

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Speaker 4: Let's say the Dealers lose.

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Speaker 5: Have you gotten any indication of what this could mean

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Speaker 5: for Tomlin's future in Pittsburgh Aaron Rodgers.

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Speaker 4: I mean, what can you glean from the mind of

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Speaker 4: Aaron Rodgers?

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Speaker 5: I guess even when you look down that road, I

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Speaker 5: know that's probably a very impossible crystal ball to look into,

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Speaker 5: But what have you picked up?

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Speaker 1: Right?

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Speaker 8: Aaron Rodgers mind is a very interesting place that no

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Speaker 8: one can glean anything from unless I guess you go

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Speaker 8: into darkness retreat with him, or like an hyahuasca hut.

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Speaker 8: But I will say that it does feel like, honestly,

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Speaker 8: for both teams, there's huge future implications, right because there's

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Speaker 8: questions about John Harbaugh's future and Lamar Jackson's future in Baltimore,

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Speaker 8: and a lot the same can be said in Pittsburgh

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Speaker 8: for different reasons. I mean, it does feel like there

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Speaker 8: could be seismic changes in the organization. If the Steelers

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Speaker 8: lose this game, I don't think that means the Steelers

669
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Speaker 8: would fire Mike Tomlin. That does not seem to be

670
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Speaker 8: the mo of Art Rooney the second. It hasn't been

671
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Speaker 8: there a very patient organization. He has two years left

672
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Speaker 8: on the contract, including that club option year. The decision

673
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Speaker 8: for that to be picked up has to come on

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Speaker 8: March first. I believe of this year. But you know,

675
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Speaker 8: I could see a world where Mike Tomlin says, you

676
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Speaker 8: know what I've done all I can do here, I'm

677
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Speaker 8: going to walk away. It would be unprecedented and pretty

678
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Speaker 8: insane for the longest tenured head coach to just walk

679
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Speaker 8: away from an organization. Or he has had so much success,

680
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Speaker 8: but the problem is it's been largely regular season success.

681
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Speaker 8: You haven't won a playoff game in the last eight seasons,

682
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Speaker 8: are going on a nine season playoff win drought that

683
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Speaker 8: at some point you feel like you've stalled out. It

684
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Speaker 8: would be very unlike Mike Tomlin to admit defeat or

685
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Speaker 8: to admit like all I don't really can do here,

686
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Speaker 8: because he is not wired that way. But it does

687
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Speaker 8: kind of feel like we are very much in a

688
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Speaker 8: wait and see mode in the next you know, twenty

689
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Speaker 8: four to forty eight hours could be very transformational in

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Speaker 8: the future of this franchise.

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Speaker 2: It's crazy because, I mean we started off the show

692
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Speaker 2: saying that I think this like, whoever wins this game,

693
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Speaker 2: it kind of saves the career of the quarterback and

694
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Speaker 2: head coach, and whoever loses, there's so much on the line.

695
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Speaker 2: But with someone like Aaron Rodgers, who's one of the

696
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Speaker 2: great veterans still in this game, he has so much experience.

697
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Speaker 4: What kind of.

698
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Speaker 3: Leader has he been this week? Has he been vocal?

699
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Speaker 2: Has he been kind of getting the guys ready for

700
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Speaker 2: such a big game like this?

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Speaker 8: Yeah, very much so. I mean this is the kind

702
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Speaker 8: of week why you bring in Aaron Rodgers because he

703
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Speaker 8: has this experience, and you know, for all of the

704
00:31:11,080 --> 00:31:14,640
Speaker 8: weird intangibles around him and the stories in his past

705
00:31:14,720 --> 00:31:17,120
Speaker 8: history of butting heads with guys in the locker room,

706
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Speaker 8: having disagreements with receivers, things like that, He's been a

707
00:31:20,160 --> 00:31:23,080
Speaker 8: really great presence in Pittsburgh all season. He holds his

708
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Speaker 8: receivers to a really high standard, but he also has

709
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Speaker 8: done a good job of walking that line and being

710
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Speaker 8: one of the guys as well as a leader in

711
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Speaker 8: the locker room. He has a very I think, calming presence.

712
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Speaker 8: And you know, we all know when he was with

713
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Speaker 8: the Packers he did the relax thing. He's had that

714
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Speaker 8: vibe a.

715
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Speaker 4: Little bit literally relaxed right, right.

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Speaker 8: But he knows when it's time to use that and

717
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Speaker 8: when this team needs to hear it and when they

718
00:31:49,200 --> 00:31:50,440
Speaker 8: don't need to hear it. And I think he's got

719
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Speaker 8: a good pulse on the group in that way. But

720
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Speaker 8: I think that you know, the line to me that

721
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Speaker 8: sticks out to him, that sticked out to me that

722
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Speaker 8: he said this week was that he doesn't have a

723
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Speaker 8: lot of stinkers back to back over the course of

724
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Speaker 8: his career, because he played back so terribly in Cleveland.

725
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Speaker 8: I love it, right, no back to back stinkers. He's like.

726
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Speaker 8: Somebody asks like, why do you think that's not going

727
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Speaker 8: to happen this week? He's like, well, if you look

728
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Speaker 8: over the course of my career, I don't have a

729
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Speaker 8: lot of back to back stinkers. So and he hasn't

730
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Speaker 8: done that this season either, And so I think that

731
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Speaker 8: he has confidence in himself, obviously, And this is a

732
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Speaker 8: week where you're really thankful to have that kind of

733
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Speaker 8: leader and guy with that level of confidence.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, Brook, We're watching Bucks Panthers right now, keeping an

735
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Speaker 5: eye on it, and I'm watching Baker b Baker right

736
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Speaker 5: and I just want to I want to hear a

737
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Speaker 5: funny anecdote you recall from covering him on his Heisman campaign.

738
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Speaker 5: I mean, that man was just a walking story everywhere

739
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Speaker 5: he went.

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Speaker 8: Oh my gosh, he really was. It's funny because I'm

741
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Speaker 8: also watching Baker b Baker right now and I got

742
00:32:50,120 --> 00:32:51,920
Speaker 8: to see him. Catch up with him earlier this year

743
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Speaker 8: when the Bucks had their joint practice in Pittsburgh during

744
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Speaker 8: training camp. But one of my favorite moments covering him

745
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Speaker 8: during his Heisman run up to it, he won the

746
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Speaker 8: walk On Award and I went to Fayetteville where they

747
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Speaker 8: were presenting him with the award and he had completely

748
00:33:10,960 --> 00:33:14,160
Speaker 8: lost his voice. Oh my, and he was just drinking

749
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Speaker 8: hot water with lemon and honey. And his mom told

750
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Speaker 8: me that he had had so much hot water with

751
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Speaker 8: women that he had actually gotten sick that morning. And

752
00:33:24,960 --> 00:33:27,000
Speaker 8: she was like, I got to figure something else out,

753
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Speaker 8: Like we are getting him sick by trying to get

754
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Speaker 8: his voice back in that is now counterproductive man.

755
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Speaker 4: Can't help himself.

756
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Speaker 2: No, Okay, real quick, before you go broke one more

757
00:33:36,560 --> 00:33:38,440
Speaker 2: back to the game. Unfortunately, the team's going to be

758
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Speaker 2: without DK. How has that affected them this week?

759
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Speaker 8: Well, you know, I think that it was a huge

760
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Speaker 8: loss against the Browns because they needed that big body,

761
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Speaker 8: wide receiver, someone you know that has I think just

762
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Speaker 8: a bigger presence on the field than Marques Valdez Scantling

763
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Speaker 8: as an Adam Seelen. The good news for this team though,

764
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Speaker 8: going against the Ravens, even though the last time they played,

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Speaker 8: I mean, DK Metcalf had a career gam er at

766
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Speaker 8: least a Pittsburgh career game one hundred and forty eight

767
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Speaker 8: receiving yards. But against the Browns, Kenneth Gainwell was not

768
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Speaker 8: really an option in the passing game because he was

769
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Speaker 8: being used to chip Miles Garrett so often. The Ravens

770
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Speaker 8: don't have that kind.

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Speaker 4: Of pass rush.

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Speaker 8: I think that they'll be able to get the ball

773
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Speaker 8: to Kenneth Gainwell more in the passing game and be

774
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Speaker 8: able to use him as kind of that multi dimensional

775
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Speaker 8: weapon on the ground through the air, and I think

776
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Speaker 8: that that should help out a little bit more. Okay,

777
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Speaker 8: I also think another big loss. Not having Darnell Washington

778
00:34:32,040 --> 00:34:34,640
Speaker 8: huge target has been good for a couple catches a

779
00:34:34,680 --> 00:34:37,240
Speaker 8: game big in the tush push. We've got some wrinkles

780
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Speaker 8: to account for that absence. But I would also look

781
00:34:39,520 --> 00:34:41,319
Speaker 8: for Pat fire Mouth to have a bigger role in

782
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Speaker 8: the receiving game. With Darnell Washington out.

783
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Speaker 2: Well, at least some good news you guys are getting TJ.

784
00:34:45,400 --> 00:34:50,479
Speaker 2: Watt back, So yeah, finds in the silver lining Brook.

785
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Speaker 3: Thank you so much for coming on. Have so much

786
00:34:52,360 --> 00:34:53,200
Speaker 3: fun at the game tomorrow.

787
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Speaker 4: No back to back, stinkers, Nope, no back.

788
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Speaker 3: Guys, all right when we come back.

789
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Speaker 2: You guys, the dues and the don'ts in sports. You're

790
00:35:01,560 --> 00:35:05,400
Speaker 2: listening to Fox Sports Radio. You're listening to Fox Football Saturday.

791
00:35:05,440 --> 00:35:07,120
Speaker 2: I'm Alex Curry here with Little Nikky Ky. We are

792
00:35:07,120 --> 00:35:10,040
Speaker 2: broadcasting live from Los Angeles. Thank you for spending your

793
00:35:10,040 --> 00:35:12,560
Speaker 2: Saturday afternoon with us. We just have We just have

794
00:35:12,680 --> 00:35:17,080
Speaker 2: the best dance breakingsh Sometimes you just gotta like unplug

795
00:35:17,440 --> 00:35:20,799
Speaker 2: and just go ham During commercial were quite literally unplugged

796
00:35:20,800 --> 00:35:21,400
Speaker 2: our headphones.

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Speaker 4: Yes, a dance break.

798
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Speaker 3: It was beautiful. And then I was like, oh my god,

799
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Speaker 3: how long has it been? Are we live yet. Are

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Speaker 3: we back? No, We're okay, We're articularly fine. You guys,

801
00:35:29,880 --> 00:35:31,520
Speaker 3: this was so much fun. And you know what time

802
00:35:31,560 --> 00:35:31,839
Speaker 3: it is.

803
00:35:32,800 --> 00:35:34,960
Speaker 2: It is time for the dues and the don'ts in

804
00:35:35,000 --> 00:35:36,759
Speaker 2: sports high.

805
00:35:37,960 --> 00:35:40,799
Speaker 1: I love that putting a spotlight on the don't.

806
00:35:40,800 --> 00:35:44,640
Speaker 3: The subject brings me no joy. That's insane.

807
00:35:44,840 --> 00:35:47,720
Speaker 1: Next time for the dues and the dot in sports.

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00:35:47,760 --> 00:35:50,359
Speaker 4: Who is that in the clip that says don't do that?

809
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Speaker 3: I don't know.

810
00:35:53,640 --> 00:35:57,480
Speaker 2: Oh, okay, god, it don't do that.

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Speaker 3: Ok that makes sense. Yeah, I was like trying to think.

812
00:36:00,200 --> 00:36:03,320
Speaker 3: I was like, I don't know the voice about's Karmen

813
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Speaker 3: and me.

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Speaker 5: My friend's dad is Christian Koye, the Nigerian Nightmare. Yeah,

815
00:36:07,440 --> 00:36:10,640
Speaker 5: and when one night when you know, we had just

816
00:36:10,680 --> 00:36:12,880
Speaker 5: graduated college and he took us out and he had

817
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Speaker 5: had a.

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Speaker 4: Couple of tequila sodas.

819
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Speaker 3: Love that for him.

820
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Speaker 5: In his thick Nigerian accent, he was trying to do

821
00:36:17,480 --> 00:36:20,080
Speaker 5: valley girl impressions and how we would talk and he

822
00:36:20,200 --> 00:36:24,680
Speaker 5: literally would go, don't do that. And so I'm always.

823
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Speaker 2: Like kind of somehow fine, like make the.

824
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Speaker 3: Show Christian anyway. Sorry, I love love that.

825
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Speaker 2: Okay, I'm going to start with a do, and it's

826
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Speaker 2: for Shoho Tani Do keep making commercials.

827
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Speaker 3: His most recent.

828
00:36:39,320 --> 00:36:42,480
Speaker 2: One dropped a few days ago, and his Otani holding

829
00:36:42,960 --> 00:36:46,279
Speaker 2: a giant stuffed Teddy Bear at like, oh my God,

830
00:36:46,320 --> 00:36:49,440
Speaker 2: like you no like stop light in the snow, waving

831
00:36:49,560 --> 00:36:52,799
Speaker 2: at little kids and playing Peekapoo, fine teddy Bear.

832
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Speaker 3: I have no idea what they're selling, but I'll take ten.

833
00:36:55,760 --> 00:36:59,959
Speaker 4: He's got to be like the most likable superstar ever.

834
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Speaker 2: Oh, they did an awesome PR campaign for him. Yeah,

835
00:37:04,040 --> 00:37:07,480
Speaker 2: everything so like the wife has a baby girl decoy

836
00:37:07,640 --> 00:37:09,880
Speaker 2: is his whole personality, which I'm here for, and like,

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Speaker 2: Japan is still on my bucket list. I haven't been,

838
00:37:12,640 --> 00:37:15,320
Speaker 2: but everyone who's been there his whole hat and is

839
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Speaker 2: everywhere no matter.

840
00:37:16,280 --> 00:37:19,200
Speaker 3: Where you look, he's his face is Japan.

841
00:37:19,320 --> 00:37:21,840
Speaker 5: I went, but it was before he burst out onto

842
00:37:21,880 --> 00:37:24,480
Speaker 5: the scene, so I couldn't attest to that.

843
00:37:24,600 --> 00:37:24,839
Speaker 4: Yeah.

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00:37:24,880 --> 00:37:28,400
Speaker 2: So, my my babysitter, dog Walker h is Japanese and

845
00:37:28,440 --> 00:37:31,279
Speaker 2: she went back for a family trip during the world

846
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Speaker 2: How she got like little Jackxi these little like show

847
00:37:35,520 --> 00:37:38,960
Speaker 2: Hey Dodger like socks. But she's like it's like a

848
00:37:39,000 --> 00:37:42,359
Speaker 2: religious experience over there watching show Hadda Dodgers like, they

849
00:37:42,360 --> 00:37:44,960
Speaker 2: don't even go to a commercial break. When they're in

850
00:37:45,000 --> 00:37:49,360
Speaker 2: commercial break, they just show O Tani sitting in the dugout.

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Speaker 5: And people to stand to watch him take the Yeah,

852
00:37:53,080 --> 00:37:54,920
Speaker 5: it is a it is a religious experience.

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Speaker 3: It's insane.

854
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Speaker 5: Okay, I've got to do Okay, do invest in old

855
00:38:00,440 --> 00:38:04,000
Speaker 5: school coaching, culture builders. I'm talking about Ben Johnson, I'm

856
00:38:04,000 --> 00:38:08,239
Speaker 5: talking about Kurt Signetti. The ascendants these two guys have

857
00:38:08,360 --> 00:38:12,200
Speaker 5: had and they're winning ways and the joy the teams

858
00:38:12,280 --> 00:38:16,600
Speaker 5: I know they're coaching. There's something about it that makes

859
00:38:16,640 --> 00:38:19,000
Speaker 5: me like them. Even though I've never rooted for the

860
00:38:19,080 --> 00:38:21,920
Speaker 5: Chicago Bears for the Indiana Hoosiers.

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00:38:21,680 --> 00:38:22,279
Speaker 3: It doesn't matter.

862
00:38:22,440 --> 00:38:26,319
Speaker 2: I'm a person fan, player fan, coach fan. Like again,

863
00:38:26,400 --> 00:38:29,520
Speaker 2: we didn't grow up with an NFL team in LA,

864
00:38:29,719 --> 00:38:32,000
Speaker 2: so it was like I became like player fans and

865
00:38:32,040 --> 00:38:34,279
Speaker 2: coach fans. So like, I love that I root for

866
00:38:34,320 --> 00:38:36,320
Speaker 2: other people on other teams.

867
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Speaker 3: Come at me.

868
00:38:37,400 --> 00:38:39,080
Speaker 4: I don't give me the story always.

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Speaker 3: I love it.

870
00:38:39,640 --> 00:38:45,120
Speaker 2: I love a feel good story. Okay, do keep balling out.

871
00:38:45,200 --> 00:38:48,640
Speaker 2: Lebron the Goat turned forty one this week and some

872
00:38:48,680 --> 00:38:51,439
Speaker 2: of his league stats don't even feel real.

873
00:38:51,800 --> 00:38:53,239
Speaker 3: I'm just going to read a couple of these.

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00:38:53,520 --> 00:38:58,240
Speaker 2: Okay, he's played against thirty five percent of NBA players.

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Speaker 4: That is insane.

876
00:39:00,080 --> 00:39:03,360
Speaker 2: Ever, he's played in twelve point eight percent of all

877
00:39:03,600 --> 00:39:08,080
Speaker 2: NBA finals series in history. He has scored forty plus

878
00:39:08,120 --> 00:39:11,200
Speaker 2: against every NBA team. He's the only player to score

879
00:39:11,280 --> 00:39:13,759
Speaker 2: forty plus points as a teenager and a forty year old.

880
00:39:14,160 --> 00:39:18,000
Speaker 2: He has more playoff wins than twenty one NBA franchises.

881
00:39:19,120 --> 00:39:21,440
Speaker 2: And he's inducted into the Hall of Fame before retiring

882
00:39:21,600 --> 00:39:24,120
Speaker 2: as a member time. Who Yeah, as a member of

883
00:39:24,160 --> 00:39:26,719
Speaker 2: the two thousand and eight Olympic gold medal redeemed team. Like,

884
00:39:26,760 --> 00:39:28,200
Speaker 2: he's already a Hall of Fame, already still played.

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00:39:28,320 --> 00:39:30,640
Speaker 4: I has got stat you said first? One more time?

886
00:39:31,000 --> 00:39:32,360
Speaker 4: Lebron James has played.

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Speaker 2: Played against thirty five percent of NBA players all NBA

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Speaker 2: players ever.

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Speaker 5: One third, one third of NBA players in history he's

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Speaker 5: played again, has based them?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, don't call him father time and don't that's INtime

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Speaker 4: I gotta do.

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Speaker 5: It's another NBA related what do support your coaches family?

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Speaker 3: Okay?

895
00:39:52,760 --> 00:39:56,680
Speaker 5: The Oklahoma City thunder All rolled out to their coaches

896
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Speaker 5: daughter's middle school volleyball championship game. The visuals of like

897
00:40:01,320 --> 00:40:05,799
Speaker 5: oh hey, yies, Alexander, Jalen Williams, Chad Hoolgren rolling through

898
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Speaker 5: this gym.

899
00:40:06,560 --> 00:40:09,600
Speaker 4: Vibe like teenage teeny bopper girls.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, just like, oh my god, how cool is that?

901
00:40:13,000 --> 00:40:14,719
Speaker 2: I love that so much. I'm gonna get one more

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Speaker 2: in real quick. Do pay respects to the refs.

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Speaker 3: I don't know if you saw one of my all

904
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Speaker 3: time fased, Will.

905
00:40:19,200 --> 00:40:21,880
Speaker 2: Ferrell at the Kings game I call his season seats

906
00:40:21,960 --> 00:40:24,839
Speaker 2: against the glass, dressed as a ref, talking to our

907
00:40:24,840 --> 00:40:27,960
Speaker 2: girl Carlin Babe, saying that he trained those refs out there.

908
00:40:28,040 --> 00:40:30,560
Speaker 2: He was commenting on what they were doing. Like, I

909
00:40:30,640 --> 00:40:31,640
Speaker 2: love that man so much.

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00:40:31,719 --> 00:40:33,440
Speaker 4: Was he dressed as a reff? Or was he a ref?

911
00:40:34,200 --> 00:40:35,439
Speaker 3: I'm jo he is a ruff.

912
00:40:35,560 --> 00:40:36,200
Speaker 4: He is a ref.

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Speaker 3: He is Will Ferrell. Don't go anywhere.

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Speaker 2: We got New Year's resolutions. We go back to listening

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Speaker 2: to Fox Sports Radio. Welcome back to our two of

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Speaker 2: Fox Football Saturday. I'm Alex Curry here with Nikki k

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Speaker 5: the air. Hey, Alex, is is it too redundant to say?

933
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Speaker 4: Happy New Year?

934
00:41:30,680 --> 00:41:31,600
Speaker 3: Are you bringing it back?

935
00:41:31,680 --> 00:41:31,919
Speaker 4: Yeah?

936
00:41:32,120 --> 00:41:34,400
Speaker 3: We're done. You were done.

937
00:41:34,640 --> 00:41:36,759
Speaker 2: We are not doing this. I will ask America and

938
00:41:36,800 --> 00:41:39,680
Speaker 2: put this out there. I say you can't go over

939
00:41:39,680 --> 00:41:41,520
Speaker 2: ten days, two weeks, Matt, two weeks.

940
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Speaker 5: Nice, see go as long as your heart desires wild

941
00:41:46,000 --> 00:41:46,839
Speaker 5: that February.

942
00:41:47,000 --> 00:41:48,880
Speaker 3: Fuck you're wild for that statement.

943
00:41:49,800 --> 00:41:53,120
Speaker 2: Okay, So, as we mentioned bucks up on the Panthers

944
00:41:53,160 --> 00:41:55,480
Speaker 2: right now, then we have Seahawks at forty nine ers.

945
00:41:55,360 --> 00:41:56,920
Speaker 3: I so far later tonight.

946
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Speaker 2: The winner of this game will clinch the NFC West,

947
00:41:59,160 --> 00:42:01,000
Speaker 2: take the number one see in the NFC, and a

948
00:42:01,040 --> 00:42:04,560
Speaker 2: bye next week, so it was they're like, this is

949
00:42:04,640 --> 00:42:05,800
Speaker 2: a big game.

950
00:42:05,840 --> 00:42:07,680
Speaker 3: I don't know if it's as.

951
00:42:07,480 --> 00:42:11,080
Speaker 2: Big as a Steelers Ravens. We talked to Brooke Pryor,

952
00:42:11,160 --> 00:42:14,520
Speaker 2: who is the Steelers reporter last hour, because that's a

953
00:42:14,560 --> 00:42:16,560
Speaker 2: win you're in, lose, you go home.

954
00:42:16,719 --> 00:42:18,160
Speaker 3: At least both these teams.

955
00:42:17,840 --> 00:42:23,120
Speaker 5: Are yeah, yea and implications beyond just this postseason.

956
00:42:22,600 --> 00:42:25,120
Speaker 2: But I think those are the two big games of

957
00:42:25,200 --> 00:42:28,200
Speaker 2: the weekend. We got Broncos team reporter Lisa Hernandez in

958
00:42:28,239 --> 00:42:31,120
Speaker 2: about thirty minutes. We played a fun game in the

959
00:42:31,120 --> 00:42:34,239
Speaker 2: first hour called overreaction or facts, and we kind of

960
00:42:34,239 --> 00:42:37,640
Speaker 2: focused on that Ravens Steelers game. But now we're gonna

961
00:42:37,680 --> 00:42:41,800
Speaker 2: head to the NFC West. We're gonna continue playing this game.

962
00:42:42,040 --> 00:42:44,920
Speaker 2: I'm basically gonna give a statement. We're gonna say if

963
00:42:44,960 --> 00:42:48,200
Speaker 2: it's an overreaction or if it's not, if it's facts,

964
00:42:48,239 --> 00:42:50,200
Speaker 2: and we're gonna move to the NFC West because this

965
00:42:50,360 --> 00:42:53,279
Speaker 2: was hands down the best division this year.

966
00:42:53,440 --> 00:42:55,200
Speaker 3: Three playoffs team, three playoff teams.

967
00:42:55,440 --> 00:42:58,400
Speaker 2: Okay, like, yes, we got Seahawks and forty nine Ers

968
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Speaker 2: playing for the division and the one seed, but you

969
00:43:01,120 --> 00:43:03,720
Speaker 2: also got the Rams in there, and so basically, whatever

970
00:43:03,760 --> 00:43:08,719
Speaker 2: happens tonight and tomorrow will determine where everybody lands. So

971
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Speaker 2: here is my first statement. Brock Party and Sam Darnold

972
00:43:13,640 --> 00:43:15,200
Speaker 2: are top ten quarterbacks.

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Speaker 3: I'm gonna say facts. This is not an overreaction.

974
00:43:19,160 --> 00:43:22,680
Speaker 2: I have been preaching you guys from the mountaintops since

975
00:43:22,719 --> 00:43:26,880
Speaker 2: Brock Purty, mister Irrelevant made his debut in the NFL.

976
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Speaker 2: Put some respect on Brock Perty's name before the season started.

977
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Speaker 3: I said he deserved to be a top ten.

978
00:43:32,600 --> 00:43:35,400
Speaker 2: Quarterback because the first three seasons, I don't know if

979
00:43:35,400 --> 00:43:37,600
Speaker 2: you remember, brought his team as what he think he

980
00:43:37,600 --> 00:43:40,160
Speaker 2: was like the thirst string quarterback to the NFC Championship Game,

981
00:43:40,280 --> 00:43:41,720
Speaker 2: then brought his team to the Super Bowl.

982
00:43:41,560 --> 00:43:44,120
Speaker 3: The next year. Last season was a wash because there were.

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00:43:44,000 --> 00:43:47,319
Speaker 2: So many injuries, and then now this season, for the

984
00:43:47,360 --> 00:43:50,200
Speaker 2: first time in his career, I think the entire sports

985
00:43:50,239 --> 00:43:53,719
Speaker 2: world saw his talent and his potential and jumped on

986
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Speaker 2: the Purty fan wagon. Last week when he had a

987
00:43:57,600 --> 00:44:00,200
Speaker 2: game with three hundred and three passing yards, three passing touchdowns,

988
00:44:00,200 --> 00:44:03,080
Speaker 2: two rushing touchdowns, and a one eighteen point six passer rating.

989
00:44:05,239 --> 00:44:06,360
Speaker 3: He's got what it takes.

990
00:44:06,400 --> 00:44:09,160
Speaker 2: He is seven and one this year with all the injuries,

991
00:44:09,320 --> 00:44:12,839
Speaker 2: including himself. The forty nine Ers have dealt with. He's

992
00:44:12,840 --> 00:44:14,319
Speaker 2: put this team on his back when he's in and

993
00:44:14,320 --> 00:44:15,160
Speaker 2: he's done a great job.

994
00:44:15,360 --> 00:44:19,040
Speaker 5: Okay, I'm going to say starting with brock Purty facts,

995
00:44:19,040 --> 00:44:21,880
Speaker 5: but like underrated. Actually, I'm I've got him as a

996
00:44:21,880 --> 00:44:22,880
Speaker 5: top five quarterback.

997
00:44:22,960 --> 00:44:23,440
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's all.

998
00:44:23,480 --> 00:44:27,000
Speaker 4: I bought him up there with May Stafford Allen in Love, yeah, Purdy,

999
00:44:27,239 --> 00:44:27,799
Speaker 4: yeah right.

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Speaker 5: And I think what you're what you were saying Alex too,

1001
00:44:30,760 --> 00:44:34,960
Speaker 5: is that everyone doubting whether mister Irrelevant actually you know,

1002
00:44:35,120 --> 00:44:37,439
Speaker 5: whether it was him or the Shanahan system was, whether

1003
00:44:37,520 --> 00:44:39,640
Speaker 5: he was a system quarterback so to speak, and the

1004
00:44:39,680 --> 00:44:41,640
Speaker 5: product of all the weapons around him. Right when you're

1005
00:44:41,640 --> 00:44:44,880
Speaker 5: playing with Christian McCaffrey, how could the offense not be rolling?

1006
00:44:45,360 --> 00:44:49,000
Speaker 5: But he has been electric. The forty nine ers are

1007
00:44:49,000 --> 00:44:52,080
Speaker 5: on their six game winning streak and have that twelve

1008
00:44:52,200 --> 00:44:54,359
Speaker 5: and four record because of him, and I think it's

1009
00:44:54,520 --> 00:44:56,680
Speaker 5: very clear for the first time in his career that

1010
00:44:56,800 --> 00:44:58,680
Speaker 5: it is being carried.

1011
00:44:58,560 --> 00:45:01,880
Speaker 2: No one, Yeah, no, I can, and I have it

1012
00:45:01,920 --> 00:45:03,680
Speaker 2: more now. Mister Sam Darnold, there were a lot of

1013
00:45:03,719 --> 00:45:05,560
Speaker 2: questions heading into the season. Could he be the same

1014
00:45:05,640 --> 00:45:08,840
Speaker 2: quarterback without Kevin O'Connell and Justin Jefferson, And the answer

1015
00:45:08,880 --> 00:45:11,520
Speaker 2: is yes, he's top ten and passing hours, passing, touchdown

1016
00:45:11,520 --> 00:45:15,000
Speaker 2: passer rating. This is his fifth stop you guys, in

1017
00:45:15,040 --> 00:45:17,440
Speaker 2: his career, and he is the winningest quarterback in the

1018
00:45:17,560 --> 00:45:19,360
Speaker 2: league the last two seasons, the only quarterback to have

1019
00:45:19,400 --> 00:45:22,760
Speaker 2: back to back thirteen plus win seasons on two different teams.

1020
00:45:22,800 --> 00:45:26,239
Speaker 2: So yeah, I would say this season, Sam Donald's the

1021
00:45:26,239 --> 00:45:27,640
Speaker 2: top ten quarterback exactly.

1022
00:45:27,680 --> 00:45:30,600
Speaker 5: And when you combine it with I mean, there are

1023
00:45:30,640 --> 00:45:34,040
Speaker 5: the questions about his consistency and his turnovers, but look

1024
00:45:34,080 --> 00:45:36,200
Speaker 5: what he did in Minnesota last year, and the Vikings

1025
00:45:36,200 --> 00:45:38,640
Speaker 5: didn't have what it took to bet on him to

1026
00:45:38,680 --> 00:45:39,279
Speaker 5: franchise in.

1027
00:45:39,680 --> 00:45:42,080
Speaker 4: He goes to Seattle and here he is again.

1028
00:45:42,160 --> 00:45:45,040
Speaker 5: And what I'm most impressed by him is how his

1029
00:45:45,120 --> 00:45:49,680
Speaker 5: confidence has continue to grow despite all odds. Yeah, from

1030
00:45:49,680 --> 00:45:52,839
Speaker 5: being drafted by the Jets. I know, it's the debacle

1031
00:45:53,080 --> 00:45:54,000
Speaker 5: he went through there.

1032
00:45:54,440 --> 00:45:56,840
Speaker 3: I mean, that's a so yeah dumpster.

1033
00:45:57,719 --> 00:46:01,760
Speaker 4: I say, facts Arnold top ten quarterback this season.

1034
00:46:01,920 --> 00:46:02,560
Speaker 3: Yeah, love that.

1035
00:46:02,640 --> 00:46:10,160
Speaker 2: Okay, the Rams super Bowl hopes are in trouble. This

1036
00:46:10,200 --> 00:46:12,160
Speaker 2: one pains me, but I don't think it's an overreaction.

1037
00:46:13,000 --> 00:46:14,080
Speaker 4: We are all aligned.

1038
00:46:14,239 --> 00:46:18,640
Speaker 2: Ifc takes it's tough their last Like their last two

1039
00:46:18,920 --> 00:46:24,040
Speaker 2: games losses, they were tough and it's at the worst

1040
00:46:24,120 --> 00:46:27,359
Speaker 2: part of the season to lose two games in a row.

1041
00:46:27,360 --> 00:46:29,839
Speaker 2: They're now playing for the fifth or sixth seed. They

1042
00:46:29,840 --> 00:46:32,840
Speaker 2: do not control their own destiny. They will be on

1043
00:46:32,880 --> 00:46:34,799
Speaker 2: the road for wild card weekend. So if the forty

1044
00:46:34,880 --> 00:46:37,239
Speaker 2: nine ers win tomorrow, Rams lock the sixth seed and

1045
00:46:37,280 --> 00:46:38,240
Speaker 2: they would play either.

1046
00:46:38,040 --> 00:46:39,000
Speaker 3: Of the Bears of the Eagles.

1047
00:46:39,400 --> 00:46:42,360
Speaker 2: But if the Seahawks win tomorrow, the Rams would face

1048
00:46:42,400 --> 00:46:44,560
Speaker 2: a five seed and would play the NFC South champ.

1049
00:46:44,560 --> 00:46:47,280
Speaker 3: The Panthers are bucks that are playing right now.

1050
00:46:48,080 --> 00:46:50,600
Speaker 2: But the biggest breakdown the last two games is just

1051
00:46:50,680 --> 00:46:53,239
Speaker 2: like special teams in defense, like.

1052
00:46:53,200 --> 00:46:55,560
Speaker 3: They blew it against the Seahawks. They blew a thirty

1053
00:46:55,600 --> 00:46:56,760
Speaker 3: to fourteen lead in the fourth.

1054
00:46:56,680 --> 00:47:00,040
Speaker 5: Quarter well, and then Stafford's interceptions last game two and

1055
00:47:00,440 --> 00:47:03,080
Speaker 5: on both sides of the ball. What I think when

1056
00:47:03,120 --> 00:47:05,640
Speaker 5: you have that statement in and of itself, the Rams

1057
00:47:05,680 --> 00:47:08,600
Speaker 5: super Bowl hopes are in trouble. I think largely because

1058
00:47:08,680 --> 00:47:11,480
Speaker 5: how flat they came out against Atlanta, and it.

1059
00:47:11,560 --> 00:47:13,680
Speaker 3: Was they score in the first half.

1060
00:47:13,920 --> 00:47:16,520
Speaker 5: They played with no sense of urgency, and I think

1061
00:47:16,840 --> 00:47:19,360
Speaker 5: you know there. I think we will see the starters

1062
00:47:19,400 --> 00:47:22,200
Speaker 5: play regardless of the outcome tonight. I think we will

1063
00:47:22,200 --> 00:47:23,880
Speaker 5: see them take the field against the Cardinals.

1064
00:47:23,960 --> 00:47:26,600
Speaker 2: I don't think we'll see like DeVante Adams is still

1065
00:47:26,640 --> 00:47:29,520
Speaker 2: listed as questions the answering injury. He'll probably sit this

1066
00:47:29,560 --> 00:47:31,600
Speaker 2: one out so he's ready for the playoffs. So there's

1067
00:47:31,600 --> 00:47:33,960
Speaker 2: been more pressure on Puka.

1068
00:47:34,360 --> 00:47:37,240
Speaker 5: So it's just but it And there was the thought of, Okay,

1069
00:47:37,320 --> 00:47:40,279
Speaker 5: let's say I think I forget if the forty nine

1070
00:47:40,400 --> 00:47:42,960
Speaker 5: Ers win, the Rams are automatically the sixth seed, right,

1071
00:47:43,280 --> 00:47:45,120
Speaker 5: and then that would the.

1072
00:47:45,120 --> 00:47:47,279
Speaker 2: Rams are locked into the sixth still they play Bears

1073
00:47:47,360 --> 00:47:47,760
Speaker 2: or Eagles.

1074
00:47:47,840 --> 00:47:51,000
Speaker 5: Yeah, So then there's some thought that or no, because

1075
00:47:51,000 --> 00:47:53,520
Speaker 5: if Seattle wins, the Rams could jump to the.

1076
00:47:53,600 --> 00:47:57,279
Speaker 2: Ram to win to get the five seed. Yes, and

1077
00:47:57,320 --> 00:47:59,520
Speaker 2: then they would play the NFC South chamce so.

1078
00:47:59,520 --> 00:48:02,399
Speaker 5: And I think there was some thought that maybe if

1079
00:48:02,520 --> 00:48:04,799
Speaker 5: they were automatically going to be the succeed because of

1080
00:48:04,800 --> 00:48:07,319
Speaker 5: a San Francisco win, that Sean McVay might not play

1081
00:48:07,320 --> 00:48:09,680
Speaker 5: his starters because that's what he's done in pre season games.

1082
00:48:09,840 --> 00:48:11,200
Speaker 3: I'd be mad at it.

1083
00:48:11,280 --> 00:48:14,120
Speaker 5: But I think regardless with the the what they the

1084
00:48:14,200 --> 00:48:16,520
Speaker 5: bad taste in their mouths from the last and with

1085
00:48:16,560 --> 00:48:19,080
Speaker 5: a win or yeah, come out with like some positive

1086
00:48:19,480 --> 00:48:20,640
Speaker 5: the sequences, you know.

1087
00:48:20,840 --> 00:48:23,200
Speaker 4: Yeah. So anyways, I do.

1088
00:48:23,320 --> 00:48:25,480
Speaker 5: I do think they're not as those super Bowl hopes

1089
00:48:25,520 --> 00:48:27,239
Speaker 5: are not as strong as we all believe.

1090
00:48:27,280 --> 00:48:30,280
Speaker 3: What I'm saying not an overreaction. They might be in trouble.

1091
00:48:30,360 --> 00:48:34,560
Speaker 2: Okay, Now we're gonna celebrate the new year with some

1092
00:48:34,719 --> 00:48:38,080
Speaker 2: New Year's resolutions that we have for players or teams.

1093
00:48:38,160 --> 00:48:41,880
Speaker 2: Nikki and I came up with a few each for

1094
00:48:41,960 --> 00:48:46,120
Speaker 2: different players and coaches. I'm going to start with the Lions.

1095
00:48:47,760 --> 00:48:50,680
Speaker 2: The Lions need to be honest with themselves this year.

1096
00:48:51,400 --> 00:48:52,719
Speaker 2: There was a lot of concern at the start of

1097
00:48:52,719 --> 00:48:55,760
Speaker 2: the season because they lost their offensive coordinator and defensive coordinator.

1098
00:48:55,760 --> 00:48:57,400
Speaker 2: And they claim they're going to be just fine, and

1099
00:48:57,440 --> 00:48:59,920
Speaker 2: they started okay, they lost the season opener than one

1100
00:49:00,120 --> 00:49:02,480
Speaker 2: or straight. But you gotta look in the mirror. When

1101
00:49:02,520 --> 00:49:04,399
Speaker 2: you're eight and eight, you're out of the playoffs, you're

1102
00:49:04,440 --> 00:49:07,480
Speaker 2: on a three game losing streak. And this is coming

1103
00:49:07,560 --> 00:49:11,000
Speaker 2: off the last few seasons of them being Super Bowl

1104
00:49:11,040 --> 00:49:14,080
Speaker 2: favorites or in the top two or top three super

1105
00:49:14,080 --> 00:49:16,520
Speaker 2: Bowl favorites. And the thing you really need to be

1106
00:49:16,560 --> 00:49:20,040
Speaker 2: honest about is you need a new offensive coordinator. Ben

1107
00:49:20,160 --> 00:49:22,600
Speaker 2: Johnson was the reason this Lion's offense was so great

1108
00:49:22,600 --> 00:49:24,640
Speaker 2: the last few seasons, and also the reason now that

1109
00:49:24,680 --> 00:49:28,200
Speaker 2: the Bears have turned their franchise around in one year

1110
00:49:28,640 --> 00:49:31,840
Speaker 2: and they are playing each other tomorrow and for the

1111
00:49:31,880 --> 00:49:35,520
Speaker 2: first time in a while, the Bears under Ben Johnson

1112
00:49:36,000 --> 00:49:38,720
Speaker 2: have something to play for and the Lions don't.

1113
00:49:40,840 --> 00:49:44,560
Speaker 5: All right, my New Year's resolution is for your Los

1114
00:49:44,600 --> 00:49:50,680
Speaker 5: Angeles Chargers, invest in an offensive line for crying out loud.

1115
00:49:50,840 --> 00:49:53,600
Speaker 4: I am sick and tired, and you know who else

1116
00:49:53,680 --> 00:49:55,560
Speaker 4: is sick and tired? Justin Herbert.

1117
00:49:55,680 --> 00:49:59,319
Speaker 5: Yeah, that man is weathering protect that storm.

1118
00:49:59,600 --> 00:50:02,440
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, he is. He is the lightning through the storm.

1119
00:50:02,520 --> 00:50:06,279
Speaker 5: Right. But because he's been absolutely electric this Wow, I'm

1120
00:50:06,320 --> 00:50:10,640
Speaker 5: really extriting to No, he's been absolutely he's been sensational.

1121
00:50:10,680 --> 00:50:14,920
Speaker 5: And you know, Harbaugh last week was telling us in

1122
00:50:14,960 --> 00:50:17,320
Speaker 5: the media room, he was like, you know, that man

1123
00:50:17,440 --> 00:50:21,360
Speaker 5: is like immortal, like just using all these insane hyperbole

1124
00:50:21,600 --> 00:50:24,040
Speaker 5: to talk about Justin, But it almost felt like he

1125
00:50:24,080 --> 00:50:26,080
Speaker 5: was talking about a man who had passed, like he

1126
00:50:26,160 --> 00:50:27,320
Speaker 5: was giving these eulogy.

1127
00:50:27,440 --> 00:50:28,120
Speaker 4: You know, He's like.

1128
00:50:28,360 --> 00:50:29,080
Speaker 3: There's his speech.

1129
00:50:29,200 --> 00:50:32,080
Speaker 2: Yeah, he's so off the rails and wild and beautiful

1130
00:50:32,200 --> 00:50:33,560
Speaker 2: in so many crazy ways.

1131
00:50:33,680 --> 00:50:37,960
Speaker 5: Like, but bottom line is is just give Herbert a pocket,

1132
00:50:38,000 --> 00:50:40,920
Speaker 5: give him some time, giving me some space, anything, Please

1133
00:50:40,920 --> 00:50:41,640
Speaker 5: give me a protection?

1134
00:50:41,840 --> 00:50:44,799
Speaker 3: Yeah, give him some protection. All right.

1135
00:50:46,320 --> 00:50:50,560
Speaker 2: I have a new Year's resolution for Sam Donald. Keep

1136
00:50:50,719 --> 00:50:54,680
Speaker 2: your zen and continue to block out the noise. First,

1137
00:50:54,719 --> 00:50:58,240
Speaker 2: let me apologize because I was one of the doubters.

1138
00:50:58,520 --> 00:51:02,160
Speaker 2: Could he be that same quarterback without the Kevin O'Connell system,

1139
00:51:02,680 --> 00:51:05,360
Speaker 2: And was that just a lucky year with the Vikings?

1140
00:51:05,400 --> 00:51:07,120
Speaker 2: And it was also lucky because he was the backup

1141
00:51:07,120 --> 00:51:09,880
Speaker 2: to JJ McCarthy before he got hurt. But the last

1142
00:51:09,880 --> 00:51:15,080
Speaker 2: two seasons, Sam Darnald is the winningest quarterback and the

1143
00:51:15,120 --> 00:51:17,839
Speaker 2: only quarterback to have back to back thirteen plus win

1144
00:51:17,880 --> 00:51:20,719
Speaker 2: seasons on two different teams. And they are playing tonight

1145
00:51:21,280 --> 00:51:25,680
Speaker 2: for the NFC West. They last won that in twenty twenty.

1146
00:51:25,719 --> 00:51:28,840
Speaker 2: And he just keeps proving everyone wrong these last two years.

1147
00:51:28,840 --> 00:51:32,160
Speaker 2: So keep it rolling, keep blocking out the noise, and

1148
00:51:32,280 --> 00:51:34,279
Speaker 2: keep doing you, Sam Darnald. But I also have like

1149
00:51:34,320 --> 00:51:36,480
Speaker 2: a fun fact here, okay, and this could also be

1150
00:51:36,600 --> 00:51:41,799
Speaker 2: like the craziest coincidence ever. Two thousand and five, a

1151
00:51:41,840 --> 00:51:44,719
Speaker 2: new pope was elected, the Seahawks win thirteen games in

1152
00:51:44,760 --> 00:51:47,840
Speaker 2: advance to the Super Bowl. Twenty thirteen, a new pope

1153
00:51:47,880 --> 00:51:50,880
Speaker 2: is elected, the Seahawks win thirteen games in advance to

1154
00:51:50,920 --> 00:51:54,080
Speaker 2: the Super Bowl and win. Twenty twenty five, a new

1155
00:51:54,120 --> 00:51:57,400
Speaker 2: pope is elected and the Seahawks win thirteen games.

1156
00:51:58,160 --> 00:52:01,759
Speaker 3: And so you got the Hope's luck on your side, Seahawks.

1157
00:52:02,080 --> 00:52:03,040
Speaker 3: Let's see what goes down.

1158
00:52:03,080 --> 00:52:05,640
Speaker 4: You don't think Chicago might have the pope's luck?

1159
00:52:06,800 --> 00:52:07,640
Speaker 3: Facts are facts?

1160
00:52:07,880 --> 00:52:10,160
Speaker 4: I don't know that's are facts here.

1161
00:52:10,360 --> 00:52:14,439
Speaker 5: We might be we might be in for something real

1162
00:52:14,520 --> 00:52:16,520
Speaker 5: interesting the Pope.

1163
00:52:16,600 --> 00:52:17,160
Speaker 3: We'll see.

1164
00:52:17,760 --> 00:52:19,880
Speaker 4: You know, the Pope hails from Chicago. Oh we know that.

1165
00:52:20,440 --> 00:52:20,840
Speaker 3: Oh I know.

1166
00:52:21,640 --> 00:52:25,360
Speaker 2: But it's the Seahawks who have these crazy but.

1167
00:52:25,200 --> 00:52:27,319
Speaker 4: What bears every single time.

1168
00:52:27,840 --> 00:52:32,880
Speaker 5: Ben Johnson, Caleb Williams, just saying okay, just saying we go.

1169
00:52:32,960 --> 00:52:34,280
Speaker 4: We're at an interesting influx.

1170
00:52:34,320 --> 00:52:34,720
Speaker 3: Okay.

1171
00:52:35,760 --> 00:52:40,000
Speaker 5: Max Crosby, this one's for you, Okay, this new year,

1172
00:52:40,160 --> 00:52:42,200
Speaker 5: I need you to know your worth.

1173
00:52:42,840 --> 00:52:44,359
Speaker 4: Get out while you still can't.

1174
00:52:45,040 --> 00:52:47,680
Speaker 5: You are too good for whatever is going on in

1175
00:52:47,760 --> 00:52:51,640
Speaker 5: Las Vegas. You know, Pete Carroll came in, Tom Brady

1176
00:52:52,360 --> 00:52:55,480
Speaker 5: whatever he's he's working on with the Raiders. That's that's

1177
00:52:55,560 --> 00:52:58,279
Speaker 5: time to be told. But Max, you've done, You've done

1178
00:52:58,320 --> 00:53:00,960
Speaker 5: your duty. It's time for you to go play for

1179
00:53:01,080 --> 00:53:04,440
Speaker 5: a franchise and for a team that values you as

1180
00:53:04,480 --> 00:53:06,799
Speaker 5: much as you value taking the field, because that's one

1181
00:53:06,840 --> 00:53:09,400
Speaker 5: credit this man has always had, no matter how dire

1182
00:53:09,600 --> 00:53:11,000
Speaker 5: of a situation the Raiders are in.

1183
00:53:11,120 --> 00:53:12,480
Speaker 4: Yeah, he's always playing.

1184
00:53:12,719 --> 00:53:13,000
Speaker 1: I know.

1185
00:53:13,120 --> 00:53:16,760
Speaker 2: It's just tough because coming into the season it felt

1186
00:53:16,760 --> 00:53:17,520
Speaker 2: like they were.

1187
00:53:17,320 --> 00:53:19,640
Speaker 3: Doing everything they needed to do to be good. They

1188
00:53:19,760 --> 00:53:20,520
Speaker 3: hired Pete Carroll.

1189
00:53:20,560 --> 00:53:22,280
Speaker 2: He's probably going to be a one and done situation,

1190
00:53:22,680 --> 00:53:24,920
Speaker 2: which is also tough to see him end his career

1191
00:53:25,000 --> 00:53:28,280
Speaker 2: that way. You signed a quarterback, you have Tom Brady

1192
00:53:28,360 --> 00:53:29,680
Speaker 2: helping as the partial owner.

1193
00:53:30,320 --> 00:53:32,759
Speaker 4: Oh, this is a resolution. This isn't a debate. I know,

1194
00:53:32,920 --> 00:53:33,160
Speaker 4: I know.

1195
00:53:33,360 --> 00:53:33,560
Speaker 1: I know.

1196
00:53:33,600 --> 00:53:34,640
Speaker 3: I'm just saying it's tough.

1197
00:53:35,239 --> 00:53:38,279
Speaker 2: It's tough because like he probably thought, like we can

1198
00:53:38,320 --> 00:53:39,560
Speaker 2: finally do so That's.

1199
00:53:39,480 --> 00:53:40,640
Speaker 4: Why I'm saying this is there.

1200
00:53:40,840 --> 00:53:44,520
Speaker 5: You know you're worth and you know whatever is in

1201
00:53:44,600 --> 00:53:48,200
Speaker 5: Las Vegas. Yeah, girl, leave that relationship.

1202
00:53:49,160 --> 00:53:55,600
Speaker 2: It is time to move. Yeah, girl, girl, all right, cowboys,

1203
00:53:55,600 --> 00:53:59,239
Speaker 2: this is for you. Don't be afraid to ask for help.

1204
00:54:00,320 --> 00:54:03,760
Speaker 2: They need to hire a real GM. Now this won't

1205
00:54:03,760 --> 00:54:06,600
Speaker 2: happen because Jerry Jones is the owner of the team

1206
00:54:06,600 --> 00:54:08,160
Speaker 2: and also the GM.

1207
00:54:08,239 --> 00:54:10,520
Speaker 3: But that's a dream big for Cowboy fans.

1208
00:54:10,600 --> 00:54:13,200
Speaker 2: I think a more realistic, I guess, kind of like

1209
00:54:13,360 --> 00:54:17,440
Speaker 2: sidebar resolution would be they need to win the draft.

1210
00:54:17,640 --> 00:54:21,800
Speaker 2: Have the draft of your life. Cowboys. They've missed the

1211
00:54:21,800 --> 00:54:24,400
Speaker 2: playoffs two years in a row now. Their last playoff

1212
00:54:24,400 --> 00:54:26,719
Speaker 2: game was getting blown out at home against Jordan Love

1213
00:54:26,760 --> 00:54:28,920
Speaker 2: and the Packers in his first season as a starter.

1214
00:54:29,719 --> 00:54:32,399
Speaker 2: And when you look at what they have this year

1215
00:54:32,400 --> 00:54:36,000
Speaker 2: for the draft, because Jerry Jones isn't really one to trade.

1216
00:54:36,040 --> 00:54:38,920
Speaker 2: When he did, he traded away, trading away Micaeh Parsons.

1217
00:54:38,960 --> 00:54:41,640
Speaker 2: Now they have two first round picks, four Parsons, but

1218
00:54:41,640 --> 00:54:44,239
Speaker 2: they also have two this year because they have one

1219
00:54:44,280 --> 00:54:46,160
Speaker 2: from Green Bay for the trade. Then they have their

1220
00:54:46,200 --> 00:54:50,160
Speaker 2: first round pick. They released Trayvon Diggs. He got picked

1221
00:54:50,200 --> 00:54:52,920
Speaker 2: up by the Packers. Packers just taken all the Cowboys,

1222
00:54:53,360 --> 00:54:56,359
Speaker 2: all the Cowboys big names. But you still have another

1223
00:54:56,400 --> 00:55:01,279
Speaker 2: three years on Dack's contract. And the Cowboys need to

1224
00:55:01,360 --> 00:55:03,560
Speaker 2: beef up their defense. They need a quarterback, they needed

1225
00:55:03,640 --> 00:55:05,760
Speaker 2: ed rusher, they need a linebacker. They need a safety.

1226
00:55:06,040 --> 00:55:09,600
Speaker 2: But Jerry loves the flashy offensive picks and he also,

1227
00:55:09,680 --> 00:55:11,240
Speaker 2: like I mentioned, doesn't usually do big trades.

1228
00:55:11,360 --> 00:55:14,759
Speaker 3: So I you need to do something, you need to

1229
00:55:14,760 --> 00:55:15,120
Speaker 3: mix it.

1230
00:55:15,120 --> 00:55:18,120
Speaker 4: Up, change it up. Well, I'm going to.

1231
00:55:19,600 --> 00:55:22,880
Speaker 5: Assign this next resolution to someone who needs to continue

1232
00:55:22,880 --> 00:55:26,440
Speaker 5: doing whatever they were doing last year, and that's Matthew Stafford. Listen,

1233
00:55:26,960 --> 00:55:29,080
Speaker 5: I always tell myself I need to stretch every day.

1234
00:55:29,560 --> 00:55:30,160
Speaker 4: Do I do it?

1235
00:55:30,840 --> 00:55:30,920
Speaker 8: No?

1236
00:55:32,080 --> 00:55:34,960
Speaker 5: But you know what, when I saw Matthew Stafford laying

1237
00:55:35,000 --> 00:55:37,200
Speaker 5: on a glass table at the beginning of this season,

1238
00:55:37,280 --> 00:55:38,799
Speaker 5: I was worried for that man's back.

1239
00:55:39,480 --> 00:55:41,520
Speaker 4: But did he prove us all wrong?

1240
00:55:42,200 --> 00:55:45,319
Speaker 5: Absolutely, at thirty seven years old, having the career of

1241
00:55:45,360 --> 00:55:48,120
Speaker 5: his or having the season of his career with the

1242
00:55:48,160 --> 00:55:50,080
Speaker 5: exception of last game. I know it was old, flubbed,

1243
00:55:50,080 --> 00:55:54,440
Speaker 5: but an MVP worthy campaign nonetheless, And Matthew, I want

1244
00:55:54,480 --> 00:55:57,600
Speaker 5: to see that continue when you're thirty eight. Yeah, just

1245
00:55:57,680 --> 00:55:58,400
Speaker 5: keep it here in LA.

1246
00:55:58,520 --> 00:56:01,040
Speaker 2: It's just brutal that that last game probably cost him

1247
00:56:01,040 --> 00:56:01,560
Speaker 2: the NBA.

1248
00:56:01,480 --> 00:56:03,319
Speaker 4: Right, and that it's going I mean Drake Mayson five

1249
00:56:03,400 --> 00:56:04,160
Speaker 4: years ahead of him.

1250
00:56:04,239 --> 00:56:06,640
Speaker 2: Yeah, No, that's sense I'd probably cost him. Okay, I'm

1251
00:56:06,640 --> 00:56:09,319
Speaker 2: gonna wrap things up with Philip Rivers.

1252
00:56:09,480 --> 00:56:13,080
Speaker 4: Speaking of another oldie. Please stay retired. This is a

1253
00:56:13,080 --> 00:56:15,719
Speaker 4: fun actually, please but I was.

1254
00:56:15,719 --> 00:56:17,560
Speaker 2: Scared for you in your safety every time you were

1255
00:56:17,560 --> 00:56:19,680
Speaker 2: on the field, and that was just uncomfortable to watch.

1256
00:56:19,719 --> 00:56:21,640
Speaker 2: Go take care of your ten kids. Now that you

1257
00:56:21,680 --> 00:56:25,399
Speaker 2: have the NFL health insurance for another five years worth it.

1258
00:56:25,560 --> 00:56:27,319
Speaker 2: You did a good job. We'll see you make a

1259
00:56:27,360 --> 00:56:29,520
Speaker 2: run for the Hall of Fame again in another five years.

1260
00:56:30,080 --> 00:56:33,839
Speaker 5: Wild absolutely gave us something to talk about. Yeah, it's

1261
00:56:33,880 --> 00:56:35,400
Speaker 5: a little bit of nostalgia.

1262
00:56:35,719 --> 00:56:38,680
Speaker 4: Yeah, would on my card.

1263
00:56:39,320 --> 00:56:41,839
Speaker 3: No, I don't think it was on anyone's being go card.

1264
00:56:41,840 --> 00:56:43,400
Speaker 2: All right, guys, we're gonna take a quick break here,

1265
00:56:43,440 --> 00:56:47,200
Speaker 2: but when we come back, will tomorrow be Travis Kelsey's last.

1266
00:56:46,920 --> 00:56:49,319
Speaker 3: Game in the NFL. You're listening to Fox Sports Radio.

1267
00:56:49,480 --> 00:56:52,040
Speaker 2: Welcome back to Fox Football Saturday. I'm Alex Curry here

1268
00:56:52,080 --> 00:56:54,200
Speaker 2: with little Nikki k. Thank you for spending your Saturday

1269
00:56:54,239 --> 00:56:57,600
Speaker 2: afternoon with us, and we've got a fun football Saturday.

1270
00:56:57,640 --> 00:57:00,680
Speaker 2: We got ourselves a game. Panthers finally on the board

1271
00:57:01,360 --> 00:57:04,120
Speaker 2: against the Bucks. I think it's what Bucks ten to seven,

1272
00:57:04,520 --> 00:57:07,879
Speaker 2: pouring pouring like this is a slip and slide game

1273
00:57:08,280 --> 00:57:08,960
Speaker 2: and apps.

1274
00:57:09,120 --> 00:57:11,680
Speaker 4: This game is gonna be yeah in the walkiest of ways.

1275
00:57:11,760 --> 00:57:14,480
Speaker 2: Yeah ten seven And it is just like the camera

1276
00:57:14,600 --> 00:57:17,640
Speaker 2: angles are kind of like there's like rain drops everywhere.

1277
00:57:18,160 --> 00:57:20,480
Speaker 3: Fun. Now, these are my favorite soccer games to play.

1278
00:57:20,320 --> 00:57:23,240
Speaker 5: Absolutely if you don't have mud all over your shorts

1279
00:57:23,240 --> 00:57:23,640
Speaker 5: somewhar are you?

1280
00:57:23,640 --> 00:57:24,240
Speaker 3: What are you doing?

1281
00:57:25,000 --> 00:57:27,600
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1282
00:57:27,640 --> 00:57:29,640
Speaker 5: wherever you happen to be. Catch us into all of

1283
00:57:29,680 --> 00:57:32,160
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1284
00:57:32,200 --> 00:57:35,280
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1285
00:57:35,320 --> 00:57:38,080
Speaker 5: Sports Radio in the app to stream us live all day,

1286
00:57:38,160 --> 00:57:41,040
Speaker 5: every day, and be sure to select Fox Sports Radio

1287
00:57:41,120 --> 00:57:43,240
Speaker 5: is one of your presets in the iHeart app, so

1288
00:57:43,280 --> 00:57:45,840
Speaker 5: it'll always pop up right at the top of your screen.

1289
00:57:46,440 --> 00:57:52,200
Speaker 3: Let's go, all right, we're gonna talk the little Cheeps.

1290
00:57:52,200 --> 00:57:56,080
Speaker 2: We haven't talked a lot about them recently obviously because.

1291
00:57:57,840 --> 00:57:58,960
Speaker 3: Not very good.

1292
00:57:59,600 --> 00:58:02,880
Speaker 2: I might be safe to say the Chiefs are headed

1293
00:58:02,960 --> 00:58:05,800
Speaker 2: for a little bit of a rebuild, which is tough

1294
00:58:05,840 --> 00:58:10,200
Speaker 2: to think about, or a rebuild when you have one

1295
00:58:10,240 --> 00:58:13,480
Speaker 2: of the greatest quarterbacks in the game and Patrick Mahomes.

1296
00:58:13,480 --> 00:58:16,240
Speaker 2: But like there's a lot of questions here Travis Kelce,

1297
00:58:16,960 --> 00:58:20,520
Speaker 2: is this going to be his last NFL game on

1298
00:58:20,680 --> 00:58:24,880
Speaker 2: Sunday against the Raiders in Vegas. The dynasty, this current

1299
00:58:24,960 --> 00:58:28,400
Speaker 2: dynasty is at its end, Like we can all, I

1300
00:58:28,440 --> 00:58:33,360
Speaker 2: think finally agree on that. Like there's this current one

1301
00:58:33,640 --> 00:58:37,439
Speaker 2: with the Travis and the Patrick Mahomes. And it's tough

1302
00:58:37,520 --> 00:58:41,840
Speaker 2: because Mahomes and Kelsey's postseason numbers are legendary, like one

1303
00:58:41,920 --> 00:58:44,840
Speaker 2: hundred and forty nine completions, one thousand and seven one

1304
00:58:44,920 --> 00:58:48,000
Speaker 2: hundred and forty yards, eighteen touchdowns, all NFL records for

1305
00:58:48,040 --> 00:58:50,280
Speaker 2: a quarterback target combination.

1306
00:58:50,640 --> 00:58:53,200
Speaker 3: But he's coming off like last.

1307
00:58:52,880 --> 00:58:56,000
Speaker 2: Season I think was his worst statistical season for Travis Kelce,

1308
00:58:56,480 --> 00:58:58,960
Speaker 2: and this year he talked about how much time and

1309
00:58:59,040 --> 00:59:00,479
Speaker 2: effort that he put in.

1310
00:59:01,760 --> 00:59:04,200
Speaker 3: To get back to the Travis Kelce of the past

1311
00:59:04,200 --> 00:59:05,720
Speaker 3: that we know, and.

1312
00:59:07,200 --> 00:59:10,480
Speaker 2: It just father time with him, I think is catching

1313
00:59:10,560 --> 00:59:13,840
Speaker 2: up and it's tough, and I don't know, we don't know.

1314
00:59:13,880 --> 00:59:15,960
Speaker 2: This is all speculation. Is this going to be Travis

1315
00:59:16,000 --> 00:59:17,760
Speaker 2: Kelsey's last game? I Mean, the thing is is like

1316
00:59:19,120 --> 00:59:22,320
Speaker 2: he has a lot of positive things happening outside of

1317
00:59:22,360 --> 00:59:25,040
Speaker 2: the game now, but we know just because of also

1318
00:59:25,160 --> 00:59:26,960
Speaker 2: on his podcast and he talks about it a lot,

1319
00:59:27,000 --> 00:59:31,240
Speaker 2: how much he loves playing the game. I just can

1320
00:59:31,360 --> 00:59:35,280
Speaker 2: he give what the team needs and deserves from.

1321
00:59:35,200 --> 00:59:37,200
Speaker 3: That position anymore? I don't know.

1322
00:59:37,360 --> 00:59:40,840
Speaker 5: I don't think so, right, And I'm of the belief

1323
00:59:41,000 --> 00:59:44,800
Speaker 5: that if he walks away this year, we could see

1324
00:59:44,840 --> 00:59:49,000
Speaker 5: a gronk like return from him in.

1325
00:59:47,960 --> 00:59:50,440
Speaker 4: The future, right where it's taking.

1326
00:59:50,200 --> 00:59:52,960
Speaker 5: Time away a year and he'll yeah, yeah, give him

1327
00:59:53,000 --> 00:59:55,400
Speaker 5: a year, he'll train whatever.

1328
00:59:55,560 --> 00:59:57,640
Speaker 4: I don't know it your two years.

1329
00:59:57,720 --> 00:59:59,960
Speaker 5: Obviously he's getting up there in age, but I think

1330
01:00:00,080 --> 01:00:02,680
Speaker 5: we've seen athletes do crazier thing things.

1331
01:00:02,680 --> 01:00:04,400
Speaker 4: I' lla Philip Rivers. I know he's not.

1332
01:00:04,920 --> 01:00:07,240
Speaker 5: He's not out there in the you know, in the

1333
01:00:07,440 --> 01:00:09,400
Speaker 5: muck like like Travis's.

1334
01:00:09,440 --> 01:00:13,440
Speaker 4: I know, I know. But I think the cool thing.

1335
01:00:13,280 --> 01:00:16,400
Speaker 5: Is is that in this day and age, like literally anything,

1336
01:00:16,840 --> 01:00:20,480
Speaker 5: don't write anything out. So I don't think this is

1337
01:00:20,520 --> 01:00:22,400
Speaker 5: the last game we'll see Travis Kelsey play.

1338
01:00:22,480 --> 01:00:23,360
Speaker 4: That's where I'm standing.

1339
01:00:23,440 --> 01:00:27,040
Speaker 5: And maybe it's retirement a quote unquote retirement this year

1340
01:00:27,080 --> 01:00:30,080
Speaker 5: and he comes back. I don't know, but I'm saying

1341
01:00:30,080 --> 01:00:33,120
Speaker 5: something's in my gut is telling me no, especially with

1342
01:00:33,160 --> 01:00:35,560
Speaker 5: the way the note this season ended. And I might

1343
01:00:35,600 --> 01:00:37,880
Speaker 5: disagree with you. I don't know if it's a rebuild

1344
01:00:37,920 --> 01:00:40,680
Speaker 5: for the Chiefs. I think it's a retool. My dad

1345
01:00:40,720 --> 01:00:43,280
Speaker 5: always taught me that that vernacular when it was like,

1346
01:00:43,720 --> 01:00:46,560
Speaker 5: you know, the Los Angeles Lakers losing Shack and you

1347
01:00:46,600 --> 01:00:49,160
Speaker 5: know it was Kobe and he was in some mucky

1348
01:00:49,240 --> 01:00:52,240
Speaker 5: years and yeah, that was that was a different situation.

1349
01:00:52,400 --> 01:00:54,560
Speaker 2: Hard to say rebuild when you have one greatest in

1350
01:00:54,600 --> 01:00:56,880
Speaker 2: the game on your team and there's weapons around him.

1351
01:00:56,880 --> 01:00:58,280
Speaker 4: But they need you know what they need.

1352
01:00:58,600 --> 01:01:01,200
Speaker 5: They need a thousand yard rusher. They also need a

1353
01:01:01,240 --> 01:01:04,040
Speaker 5: receiver who can have a thousand yards. Because Isaiah Pacheco,

1354
01:01:04,360 --> 01:01:07,040
Speaker 5: I think had just over four hundred rushing yards this season.

1355
01:01:07,480 --> 01:01:10,920
Speaker 5: He was not the running back cut it, yeah he needed.

1356
01:01:11,120 --> 01:01:12,880
Speaker 5: He was not the running back they needed him to be.

1357
01:01:13,320 --> 01:01:15,680
Speaker 5: So the Chiefs run office needs to go out and

1358
01:01:15,760 --> 01:01:21,640
Speaker 5: truly find those special, special skill players on off.

1359
01:01:21,440 --> 01:01:23,280
Speaker 2: I just think also the weird thing that they decided

1360
01:01:23,320 --> 01:01:25,360
Speaker 2: to announce towards the end of the season that kind

1361
01:01:25,360 --> 01:01:27,440
Speaker 2: of rubbed me the wrong way, and I've been saying

1362
01:01:27,520 --> 01:01:30,560
Speaker 2: it rubbed Chiefs fans the wrong way. Did they announced

1363
01:01:30,560 --> 01:01:33,200
Speaker 2: that they're moving out of Kansas City to build a

1364
01:01:33,240 --> 01:01:36,040
Speaker 2: new stadium and training facility in the state of Kansas,

1365
01:01:36,600 --> 01:01:38,920
Speaker 2: which you know, it might not be a big deal

1366
01:01:38,960 --> 01:01:41,560
Speaker 2: to the average fan, but it's a different state. Even

1367
01:01:41,600 --> 01:01:44,440
Speaker 2: though it's like within the Kansas City lines, it's it's

1368
01:01:44,480 --> 01:01:47,760
Speaker 2: a different state, and so hardcore Kansas City fans like

1369
01:01:47,800 --> 01:01:49,680
Speaker 2: your team is moving to the other side of the border.

1370
01:01:49,800 --> 01:01:52,920
Speaker 3: Like like it's just that.

1371
01:01:53,080 --> 01:01:56,600
Speaker 2: Was a weird time and place and everything, which is

1372
01:01:56,640 --> 01:01:59,400
Speaker 2: the way that season was going. Like I was watching

1373
01:01:59,520 --> 01:02:04,160
Speaker 2: fans throw Chiefs gear away. I just it just this

1374
01:02:04,240 --> 01:02:06,200
Speaker 2: year was weird for them, and.

1375
01:02:06,200 --> 01:02:09,560
Speaker 5: Normally, normally they're a feel good yeah team story.

1376
01:02:09,840 --> 01:02:12,400
Speaker 2: Yeah, there wasn't a lot of positives and things to

1377
01:02:12,440 --> 01:02:16,360
Speaker 2: look forward to, which is why I'm leaning more towards

1378
01:02:16,480 --> 01:02:19,960
Speaker 2: this might be it for Travis Kelsey and the Chiefs.

1379
01:02:20,160 --> 01:02:22,720
Speaker 5: I'm not I'm a I'm a literally I did not

1380
01:02:22,840 --> 01:02:25,080
Speaker 5: believe the Chiefs were out of the playoffs until they

1381
01:02:25,080 --> 01:02:28,880
Speaker 5: were mathematically well until Patrick Mahomes, you know, and then

1382
01:02:29,080 --> 01:02:32,240
Speaker 5: mathematically eliminated. I forget what one happened first this season,

1383
01:02:32,320 --> 01:02:35,360
Speaker 5: but brutal game. Yeah, same there we go.

1384
01:02:35,400 --> 01:02:37,240
Speaker 3: Same game. All right. Now, let's check out with Martin

1385
01:02:37,240 --> 01:02:38,240
Speaker 3: Wise and see what's trending.

1386
01:02:41,840 --> 01:02:45,720
Speaker 9: It's a torrental rainstorm in Tampa. Right now, it's sloppy.

1387
01:02:45,800 --> 01:02:48,440
Speaker 9: Bakers dropped the ball a few times. You're throwing an interception.

1388
01:02:48,520 --> 01:02:51,560
Speaker 9: Nobody can really get anything going. The interception that Baker

1389
01:02:51,600 --> 01:02:54,160
Speaker 9: through really got Carolina back in this game. It was

1390
01:02:54,240 --> 01:02:57,840
Speaker 9: ten nothing for the Buccaneers in the first quarter. Baker

1391
01:02:57,880 --> 01:03:01,160
Speaker 9: through that interception that gave Carolina the in the red zone.

1392
01:03:01,320 --> 01:03:04,440
Speaker 9: Bryce Young throwing a touchdown pass to Tommy Tremble. Just

1393
01:03:04,440 --> 01:03:06,080
Speaker 9: to give you an idea of what's going on here,

1394
01:03:06,120 --> 01:03:09,560
Speaker 9: Carolina's got forty six yards of total offense with just

1395
01:03:09,640 --> 01:03:12,760
Speaker 9: under five minutes left in the first half. Tampa's got

1396
01:03:12,800 --> 01:03:16,120
Speaker 9: a one hundred yards passing and sixty nine on the ground.

1397
01:03:16,120 --> 01:03:18,439
Speaker 9: Bucky River has been slow sledding for him though ted

1398
01:03:18,520 --> 01:03:21,200
Speaker 9: Carrey's twenty nine yards. Baker's got three for twenty eight.

1399
01:03:21,240 --> 01:03:24,080
Speaker 9: He's also a rushed for a first down again, touchdown

1400
01:03:24,120 --> 01:03:26,600
Speaker 9: pass for him, and an interception that touchdown to Cade

1401
01:03:26,640 --> 01:03:31,000
Speaker 9: Otten Later today, I'm sorry. This game is for playoff

1402
01:03:31,040 --> 01:03:34,560
Speaker 9: seeding North Carolina. Carolina is to clinch the playoff the

1403
01:03:34,680 --> 01:03:37,720
Speaker 9: NFC South with a win or a tie in this game.

1404
01:03:37,760 --> 01:03:41,280
Speaker 9: The Bucks can clinch a playoff the NFC South with

1405
01:03:41,360 --> 01:03:43,480
Speaker 9: a win or tie, but we need the Falcons to

1406
01:03:43,560 --> 01:03:46,880
Speaker 9: lose your tie Sunday against the Saints. Elsewhere in the league,

1407
01:03:46,920 --> 01:03:50,160
Speaker 9: JJ Watt no limitations. He's expected to play Sunday night

1408
01:03:50,200 --> 01:03:52,920
Speaker 9: against the Ravens. Sean McVay plans to play a starters

1409
01:03:52,920 --> 01:03:56,560
Speaker 9: against the Cardinals regardless of whatever the seeding implications could be,

1410
01:03:56,560 --> 01:03:59,440
Speaker 9: because the one seed will be decided in the NFC

1411
01:03:59,480 --> 01:04:02,800
Speaker 9: between the Seattle Seahawks and the San Francisco forty nine Ers.

1412
01:04:03,000 --> 01:04:05,160
Speaker 9: The loser of that game will be a wild card,

1413
01:04:05,200 --> 01:04:07,680
Speaker 9: so Sean McVay could know where they'll be, but he

1414
01:04:07,720 --> 01:04:10,440
Speaker 9: plans to play his guys anyway. Another guy planning to

1415
01:04:10,520 --> 01:04:14,680
Speaker 9: play anyways, Josh Allen, limited participant in Friday's practice, missed

1416
01:04:14,720 --> 01:04:18,200
Speaker 9: Wednesdays and Thursdays. He's going to start Week eighteen to

1417
01:04:18,320 --> 01:04:22,160
Speaker 9: keep the second longest active starts streak alive one hundred

1418
01:04:22,160 --> 01:04:25,240
Speaker 9: and twenty one, but it'll likely sit, have you know

1419
01:04:25,280 --> 01:04:27,720
Speaker 9: as the game progresses wrestling that foot injury.

1420
01:04:28,000 --> 01:04:30,280
Speaker 4: Philip Rivers has the longest active.

1421
01:04:30,080 --> 01:04:32,440
Speaker 9: Start streak at two hundred and forty three, which I

1422
01:04:32,480 --> 01:04:37,320
Speaker 9: suppose was what two hundred and thirty nine before a

1423
01:04:37,360 --> 01:04:38,160
Speaker 9: couple of weeks ago.

1424
01:04:38,640 --> 01:04:40,200
Speaker 3: Ladies pector, thank you Martin.

1425
01:04:40,240 --> 01:04:43,120
Speaker 2: You're listening to Fox Football Saturday. I'm Alice Carey along

1426
01:04:43,200 --> 01:04:46,080
Speaker 2: with NICKI K. Thank you for spending your Saturday afternoon

1427
01:04:46,200 --> 01:04:49,960
Speaker 2: with us. It is time for our next guest, Brogos

1428
01:04:50,000 --> 01:04:51,240
Speaker 2: team reporter Lisa Hernandez.

1429
01:04:51,240 --> 01:04:52,120
Speaker 3: Thanks for joining the show.

1430
01:04:52,800 --> 01:04:55,160
Speaker 6: I appreiance. We say you guys, having me excited to

1431
01:04:55,160 --> 01:04:56,320
Speaker 6: be on and Happy New.

1432
01:04:56,320 --> 01:04:59,320
Speaker 3: Year, Happy New Year, It's still okay to say it.

1433
01:04:59,400 --> 01:05:02,640
Speaker 2: All right, Broncos control their own destiny and can clinch

1434
01:05:03,120 --> 01:05:06,120
Speaker 2: the one scene the first round by home field advantage

1435
01:05:06,480 --> 01:05:09,080
Speaker 2: in the AFC with a win over the Chargers Sunday,

1436
01:05:09,080 --> 01:05:12,800
Speaker 2: and this is a no justin Herbert Chargers. How important

1437
01:05:12,840 --> 01:05:15,040
Speaker 2: is it for this team and what has been the

1438
01:05:15,080 --> 01:05:17,840
Speaker 2: talks in order to secure that top spot.

1439
01:05:18,080 --> 01:05:19,840
Speaker 6: I mean you just said it right there, right it's

1440
01:05:19,840 --> 01:05:22,920
Speaker 6: home soil, that advantage up until Super Bowl sixty that

1441
01:05:22,960 --> 01:05:25,800
Speaker 6: first round by week is huge. I mean head coach Chanteyne,

1442
01:05:25,800 --> 01:05:28,520
Speaker 6: I've talked about playing at home with Broncos are seven

1443
01:05:28,600 --> 01:05:30,800
Speaker 6: and one this season and how difficult it is to

1444
01:05:30,920 --> 01:05:33,800
Speaker 6: win those road games during the playoffs and so by

1445
01:05:33,800 --> 01:05:36,480
Speaker 6: wins the number ones in AFC, you eliminate one game

1446
01:05:36,800 --> 01:05:38,960
Speaker 6: where you could lose, where one team just has a

1447
01:05:38,960 --> 01:05:40,920
Speaker 6: better day. We've seen how the wild card games have

1448
01:05:41,000 --> 01:05:43,680
Speaker 6: played out, and that's why it's called the Wildcard round

1449
01:05:43,720 --> 01:05:46,520
Speaker 6: because we've seen crazy finishes and so you take that

1450
01:05:46,640 --> 01:05:49,200
Speaker 6: out of the equation, you're able to rest some guys,

1451
01:05:49,520 --> 01:05:52,240
Speaker 6: get some key guys back, and so I think it's

1452
01:05:52,360 --> 01:05:54,960
Speaker 6: more more than that. And I talked to Defensive Stack

1453
01:05:55,000 --> 01:05:57,080
Speaker 6: with DJ Jones about it and he was like a

1454
01:05:57,240 --> 01:05:59,919
Speaker 6: huge I mean, it's the easiest pass to the Super Bowl.

1455
01:06:00,040 --> 01:06:02,280
Speaker 6: You have to win two home games to get to

1456
01:06:02,320 --> 01:06:04,840
Speaker 6: the Big Dance, and that's exactly what this Broncos team

1457
01:06:04,880 --> 01:06:06,600
Speaker 6: wants to do. I mean, they've been the number one

1458
01:06:06,600 --> 01:06:09,560
Speaker 6: seed eight times in franchise history. They last did it

1459
01:06:09,600 --> 01:06:12,360
Speaker 6: in twenty fifteen, and the Broncos have made the Super

1460
01:06:12,400 --> 01:06:15,160
Speaker 6: Bowl in six of the previous eight seasons where they

1461
01:06:15,160 --> 01:06:17,240
Speaker 6: are the number one seed. So this is a big

1462
01:06:17,280 --> 01:06:19,080
Speaker 6: deal and I think the best way to do it

1463
01:06:19,120 --> 01:06:21,400
Speaker 6: is continue to have the focus that they've had all

1464
01:06:21,480 --> 01:06:24,760
Speaker 6: season long. It's all about the next game. Yes, we

1465
01:06:24,760 --> 01:06:26,600
Speaker 6: can talk about the number one seed and all these

1466
01:06:26,640 --> 01:06:28,720
Speaker 6: staffs and things like that, for this team, they are

1467
01:06:28,880 --> 01:06:32,040
Speaker 6: laser focused the next team is the most important game

1468
01:06:32,120 --> 01:06:34,880
Speaker 6: because it's the next game, and it's as simple as that.

1469
01:06:35,040 --> 01:06:38,600
Speaker 6: And so I think having Clinton Division in Week seventeen

1470
01:06:38,640 --> 01:06:40,640
Speaker 6: with the win on the road and the Chargers losing

1471
01:06:40,840 --> 01:06:42,480
Speaker 6: on the road is raw. I mean at home with

1472
01:06:42,800 --> 01:06:46,160
Speaker 6: the Texans, I think they're now focused, like now we

1473
01:06:46,240 --> 01:06:48,840
Speaker 6: have to defeat the Chargers, get that win at our belt,

1474
01:06:48,880 --> 01:06:50,720
Speaker 6: and then everything else will play out the way it

1475
01:06:50,720 --> 01:06:51,000
Speaker 6: needs to.

1476
01:06:51,880 --> 01:06:53,040
Speaker 4: Absolutely, and a Lisa.

1477
01:06:53,320 --> 01:06:56,000
Speaker 5: I mean, when you look at the position the Broncos

1478
01:06:56,000 --> 01:06:59,640
Speaker 5: are in and what they accomplished as a unit this year,

1479
01:07:00,800 --> 01:07:03,440
Speaker 5: I'm so interested when talking to Beat reporters, you know,

1480
01:07:04,520 --> 01:07:09,439
Speaker 5: like embedded in these successful teams, Why do you think,

1481
01:07:09,480 --> 01:07:12,440
Speaker 5: what's your case for Sean Payton as a coach of

1482
01:07:12,480 --> 01:07:14,320
Speaker 5: the Year, Because you know, everyone's talking.

1483
01:07:14,200 --> 01:07:17,480
Speaker 4: About Kyle Shanahan, Ben Johnson, you know, even Vrabel. But

1484
01:07:17,760 --> 01:07:21,600
Speaker 4: I mean the same argument could be made for Peyton No.

1485
01:07:21,800 --> 01:07:24,600
Speaker 6: One hundred. I mean, if I had the vote to

1486
01:07:24,640 --> 01:07:27,080
Speaker 6: do that, I would definitely go to head coach Champagne

1487
01:07:27,120 --> 01:07:30,040
Speaker 6: because the way that these players talk about him is

1488
01:07:30,520 --> 01:07:34,280
Speaker 6: it's so inspiring. Because I mean Nick Bonito mentioned it,

1489
01:07:34,400 --> 01:07:36,640
Speaker 6: I guess, and we spoke to the media he was

1490
01:07:36,720 --> 01:07:38,880
Speaker 6: asked like, what does it mean to have opportunity to

1491
01:07:38,960 --> 01:07:41,520
Speaker 6: win the number one seat on Sunday and he just said, like,

1492
01:07:41,520 --> 01:07:43,120
Speaker 6: you know, it shows the hard work that we've put

1493
01:07:43,160 --> 01:07:47,520
Speaker 6: in to just continue to grow. And he credited Champaign

1494
01:07:47,600 --> 01:07:50,520
Speaker 6: with the fact that since you've gotten here, every year

1495
01:07:50,560 --> 01:07:53,280
Speaker 6: has been better. His first year is barely missing the playoffs,

1496
01:07:53,280 --> 01:07:56,200
Speaker 6: the last year making it, and now having even higher

1497
01:07:56,240 --> 01:07:59,720
Speaker 6: goals this year. Titan Adam Tautman also mentioned it's a

1498
01:07:59,760 --> 01:08:01,720
Speaker 6: comin to say he brings to this team. I mean

1499
01:08:02,400 --> 01:08:04,480
Speaker 6: during training camp, he was talking to Kay Adams and

1500
01:08:04,520 --> 01:08:06,480
Speaker 6: mentioned about going to the Super Bowl and he has

1501
01:08:06,480 --> 01:08:08,360
Speaker 6: the content to go into the super Bowl, and Adam

1502
01:08:08,400 --> 01:08:12,000
Speaker 6: Taumon said, this is head coach Sean Payton. He's not

1503
01:08:12,080 --> 01:08:14,320
Speaker 6: going to say that just for fun. You know, He's

1504
01:08:14,360 --> 01:08:17,559
Speaker 6: gonna say that because he needs it. And that change

1505
01:08:17,560 --> 01:08:21,120
Speaker 6: in culture, the players they have brought in. I think

1506
01:08:21,120 --> 01:08:23,320
Speaker 6: it's huge. The draft classes that him and George Payn

1507
01:08:23,320 --> 01:08:26,200
Speaker 6: have put together and have continued to build together. R. J.

1508
01:08:26,320 --> 01:08:28,559
Speaker 6: Harvey was a huge one from this last draft class.

1509
01:08:28,600 --> 01:08:29,120
Speaker 1: They loved his.

1510
01:08:29,120 --> 01:08:32,000
Speaker 6: Vision and next thing you know, he leaves Denver with

1511
01:08:32,040 --> 01:08:34,960
Speaker 6: cold Scrimmagh TVs and the most among rookies. I mean,

1512
01:08:34,960 --> 01:08:37,120
Speaker 6: the way that they've been able to just close tovate

1513
01:08:37,160 --> 01:08:40,439
Speaker 6: talent here sign those guys in the late rounds, make them,

1514
01:08:40,520 --> 01:08:42,360
Speaker 6: you know, as far as that they are right now.

1515
01:08:42,479 --> 01:08:46,639
Speaker 6: It's a testament to the longevity that Champagne can have

1516
01:08:47,240 --> 01:08:48,800
Speaker 6: with his team and what he's been able to do

1517
01:08:48,840 --> 01:08:49,360
Speaker 6: here so far.

1518
01:08:49,520 --> 01:08:51,840
Speaker 2: And let's talk about what he's done with bon next,

1519
01:08:51,840 --> 01:08:53,840
Speaker 2: because he's really come into his own in a second

1520
01:08:53,840 --> 01:08:56,200
Speaker 2: season as a bro. What kind of leader has he

1521
01:08:56,400 --> 01:08:58,480
Speaker 2: grown into on this team?

1522
01:08:59,160 --> 01:09:01,680
Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean, Bonix is one of those guys that

1523
01:09:02,360 --> 01:09:04,320
Speaker 6: he's just he's just the guy you want in any

1524
01:09:04,360 --> 01:09:06,960
Speaker 6: kind of crisis, right and then the seventh game winning

1525
01:09:07,000 --> 01:09:10,280
Speaker 6: drives in the fourth quarter overtime this season is one thing.

1526
01:09:10,400 --> 01:09:12,280
Speaker 6: But the way that the guys just trust him and

1527
01:09:12,320 --> 01:09:15,120
Speaker 6: they have since his rookie season. I mean, he's calm

1528
01:09:15,240 --> 01:09:18,240
Speaker 6: under pressure, he embraced his challenges. He blocks out the

1529
01:09:18,520 --> 01:09:20,920
Speaker 6: outside noise. I mean when he was going into the

1530
01:09:20,960 --> 01:09:23,840
Speaker 6: matchup versus the Packers and everyone was talking about love

1531
01:09:23,960 --> 01:09:26,479
Speaker 6: numbers and his pastor and things like that, he just

1532
01:09:26,560 --> 01:09:28,240
Speaker 6: with a smile was like, well, my mom thinks will

1533
01:09:28,280 --> 01:09:30,200
Speaker 6: win and that's all that matters. I mean the way

1534
01:09:30,240 --> 01:09:33,439
Speaker 6: that he's able to just, you know, talk to the media,

1535
01:09:33,640 --> 01:09:35,960
Speaker 6: be transparent, be honest, and then go out there and

1536
01:09:35,960 --> 01:09:39,920
Speaker 6: win football games. That's what you expect from your franchise guy.

1537
01:09:40,000 --> 01:09:43,560
Speaker 6: And I think what this ownership group saw in Bonis

1538
01:09:43,600 --> 01:09:46,280
Speaker 6: is exactly what he is producing on the field. I mean,

1539
01:09:46,320 --> 01:09:49,080
Speaker 6: with a win this week, he'll ky Russell Wilson of

1540
01:09:49,160 --> 01:09:51,759
Speaker 6: the most wins by starting quarterback in their first two seasons.

1541
01:09:51,800 --> 01:09:54,760
Speaker 6: He got fifty four career passing TV's third most by

1542
01:09:54,760 --> 01:09:57,040
Speaker 6: a player in their first two seasons in NFL history,

1543
01:09:57,080 --> 01:10:00,000
Speaker 6: only Justin Herbert and Hall of Famer Den Marino have more.

1544
01:10:00,240 --> 01:10:03,240
Speaker 6: So it's very interesting when I hear, you know, outside

1545
01:10:03,200 --> 01:10:06,040
Speaker 6: of media talk about Bonnicks, and it is different, right.

1546
01:10:06,080 --> 01:10:08,960
Speaker 6: I Mean, we're in Denver, the Bosses have not had

1547
01:10:09,000 --> 01:10:11,879
Speaker 6: as many primetime games as other teams, so the national

1548
01:10:12,200 --> 01:10:15,040
Speaker 6: media is our national audience. We've seeing this team as

1549
01:10:15,120 --> 01:10:17,479
Speaker 6: much as as you just mentioned as I am seeing

1550
01:10:17,520 --> 01:10:21,120
Speaker 6: him every day. But I mean he just commands respect.

1551
01:10:21,160 --> 01:10:23,080
Speaker 6: And I think with all the team captains you have,

1552
01:10:23,320 --> 01:10:26,040
Speaker 6: they all bring something different to the table, and Bonis

1553
01:10:26,040 --> 01:10:28,200
Speaker 6: has come into this locker room, they know he's the guy,

1554
01:10:28,280 --> 01:10:30,800
Speaker 6: and they know that in any situation, you know they're

1555
01:10:30,800 --> 01:10:31,880
Speaker 6: going to be able to come up with a win.

1556
01:10:32,120 --> 01:10:34,639
Speaker 2: Now, the Broncos also have had one of the best

1557
01:10:34,720 --> 01:10:37,759
Speaker 2: defenses all season, ranking in the top five and points

1558
01:10:37,760 --> 01:10:40,120
Speaker 2: allowed in yards allowed for game. What makes this unit

1559
01:10:40,280 --> 01:10:41,000
Speaker 2: so dangerous?

1560
01:10:41,479 --> 01:10:43,800
Speaker 6: Oh? Man, if I just if they could be one

1561
01:10:43,880 --> 01:10:46,240
Speaker 6: log name. It's like Nick many those back Allen Johnathan Cooper.

1562
01:10:48,720 --> 01:10:51,880
Speaker 6: This log name is the reason why this defense is

1563
01:10:51,920 --> 01:10:54,479
Speaker 6: so good. I mean, Van Stu also has just done

1564
01:10:54,479 --> 01:10:58,160
Speaker 6: an incredible job with again building guys, letting them play free.

1565
01:10:58,200 --> 01:11:00,400
Speaker 6: I think that's the biggest thing I've caught from you know,

1566
01:11:00,479 --> 01:11:02,519
Speaker 6: just listening to the guys talk and then talking amongst

1567
01:11:02,520 --> 01:11:05,160
Speaker 6: each other is vance Joseph's is less than play as

1568
01:11:05,160 --> 01:11:07,600
Speaker 6: themselves and when they're able to play for you have

1569
01:11:07,640 --> 01:11:09,920
Speaker 6: a little more fun. And that's why they lead the

1570
01:11:10,040 --> 01:11:12,120
Speaker 6: NFL in fact, and back to back years they read

1571
01:11:12,160 --> 01:11:14,280
Speaker 6: it sixty three. They broke franchise record there and now

1572
01:11:14,280 --> 01:11:16,080
Speaker 6: they have sixty four this year. And the way that

1573
01:11:16,160 --> 01:11:19,040
Speaker 6: Nick Benido has really risen second time as a pro

1574
01:11:19,120 --> 01:11:22,320
Speaker 6: bowler this year, he's just been a wrecking ball when

1575
01:11:22,360 --> 01:11:24,639
Speaker 6: it comes to quarterbacks, Zach Allen two with forty five

1576
01:11:24,720 --> 01:11:28,719
Speaker 6: to beat his. I mean they're just able to really

1577
01:11:29,200 --> 01:11:31,800
Speaker 6: suffocate quarterbacks where they can't get anything going. I mean

1578
01:11:31,840 --> 01:11:34,200
Speaker 6: they're allowing a lot. It's less than twenty points per

1579
01:11:34,200 --> 01:11:37,280
Speaker 6: game this year, which is fourth best mark in the NFL.

1580
01:11:37,360 --> 01:11:39,800
Speaker 6: But I think the beauty of this defense is that

1581
01:11:40,280 --> 01:11:42,320
Speaker 6: you can't just point to one guy. I mean, when

1582
01:11:42,320 --> 01:11:45,000
Speaker 6: I was looking at the stats per sex, you have

1583
01:11:45,400 --> 01:11:48,639
Speaker 6: multiple guys with more than two sacks, like every gay

1584
01:11:48,720 --> 01:11:52,000
Speaker 6: this even basically has one. And so whether it's you know,

1585
01:11:52,080 --> 01:11:56,160
Speaker 6: Riley Moss who came in for a sack, you have Tontolahsonga,

1586
01:11:56,240 --> 01:11:58,280
Speaker 6: you have Jonah Ellis, you have Justice or not. These

1587
01:11:58,280 --> 01:12:00,880
Speaker 6: are like the guys that are behind that defensive front

1588
01:12:01,160 --> 01:12:03,080
Speaker 6: dust the team to come in and make plays. It's

1589
01:12:03,080 --> 01:12:05,240
Speaker 6: like you don't even know who to prepare for because

1590
01:12:05,320 --> 01:12:07,160
Speaker 6: everyone is going to come at you. And I think

1591
01:12:07,520 --> 01:12:09,320
Speaker 6: when you have the reign becomes the put of the

1592
01:12:09,400 --> 01:12:12,120
Speaker 6: year as well on your team. It's really hard to

1593
01:12:12,160 --> 01:12:13,120
Speaker 6: go against the defense.

1594
01:12:13,400 --> 01:12:16,000
Speaker 5: No, and Alissa, you just mentioned that named Nick Benito,

1595
01:12:16,200 --> 01:12:18,280
Speaker 5: and and I just saw he won you know, a

1596
01:12:18,320 --> 01:12:21,120
Speaker 5: couple of team awards, the Good Guy Award and the

1597
01:12:21,160 --> 01:12:25,120
Speaker 5: Team MVP Award. I guess what's special about his character?

1598
01:12:25,200 --> 01:12:26,480
Speaker 4: What stands out?

1599
01:12:27,200 --> 01:12:30,280
Speaker 6: He's so humble as many guys, but really all the

1600
01:12:30,280 --> 01:12:31,400
Speaker 6: guys on this team are.

1601
01:12:31,560 --> 01:12:32,200
Speaker 5: And it was the thing.

1602
01:12:32,400 --> 01:12:34,599
Speaker 6: He joked about it when he got the award he won.

1603
01:12:34,640 --> 01:12:37,360
Speaker 6: The Darren Williams Good Guy Awards, was the Damarius Thomas

1604
01:12:37,520 --> 01:12:41,080
Speaker 6: Team MVP Award. He won both of them, and he

1605
01:12:41,240 --> 01:12:43,880
Speaker 6: mentioned that he saw guys win these awards last year.

1606
01:12:43,960 --> 01:12:46,200
Speaker 6: His good friend and teammate Jonathan Cooper won the Big

1607
01:12:46,240 --> 01:12:48,599
Speaker 6: Guy Award last year, and he said that he learned.

1608
01:12:48,640 --> 01:12:50,840
Speaker 6: He learned how to deal with the media. Talk to

1609
01:12:50,840 --> 01:12:52,880
Speaker 6: the media, really kind of get your point across on

1610
01:12:52,960 --> 01:12:55,880
Speaker 6: your tour. You're talking about your team. And that humbleness

1611
01:12:55,920 --> 01:12:57,720
Speaker 6: really kind of came through this year and with him

1612
01:12:57,720 --> 01:12:59,920
Speaker 6: having the year that he's had, he's the go to guy,

1613
01:13:00,080 --> 01:13:02,680
Speaker 6: right all the media swarmed him. He's never back in

1614
01:13:02,720 --> 01:13:04,439
Speaker 6: the way. He's always there with a small in his face.

1615
01:13:04,760 --> 01:13:06,920
Speaker 6: Give me a second, I'll be right back. Sureleott's do this.

1616
01:13:07,040 --> 01:13:09,920
Speaker 6: You know, he always makes time. And that's what makes

1617
01:13:09,960 --> 01:13:11,960
Speaker 6: you the all around kind of player when you have

1618
01:13:12,080 --> 01:13:14,840
Speaker 6: guys that pastor ten to learn from. Bohnig you know,

1619
01:13:14,920 --> 01:13:17,800
Speaker 6: Johndon Cooper, Zach gall and Michael Glinchy. These veterans have

1620
01:13:17,840 --> 01:13:20,280
Speaker 6: come in and shown you that, yes, you have to

1621
01:13:20,320 --> 01:13:22,320
Speaker 6: be a good you know on the field, but that

1622
01:13:22,400 --> 01:13:24,280
Speaker 6: off the field stuff matters as well. And so he's

1623
01:13:24,280 --> 01:13:26,559
Speaker 6: really embraced that this year, and so I'm really happy

1624
01:13:26,560 --> 01:13:28,560
Speaker 6: that he was able to win those two awards. We

1625
01:13:28,640 --> 01:13:30,960
Speaker 6: closely on our social He has a big small his faithfold,

1626
01:13:30,960 --> 01:13:32,280
Speaker 6: and the awards it was really.

1627
01:13:32,160 --> 01:13:34,200
Speaker 3: Fun to see all right at before we let you go.

1628
01:13:35,120 --> 01:13:37,160
Speaker 2: I think the biggest hurdle for every team in the

1629
01:13:37,200 --> 01:13:39,280
Speaker 2: AFC has always been the chief So with them out

1630
01:13:39,320 --> 01:13:42,800
Speaker 2: of the postseason this year, has that been talked about

1631
01:13:42,840 --> 01:13:46,640
Speaker 2: within the clubhouse or has it just been all focus

1632
01:13:46,720 --> 01:13:50,240
Speaker 2: on what we do winning this game against the Chargers

1633
01:13:50,479 --> 01:13:52,559
Speaker 2: and securing that number one seed.

1634
01:13:53,720 --> 01:13:56,080
Speaker 6: It's all focused. I mean, there's been a lot of

1635
01:13:56,080 --> 01:13:59,719
Speaker 6: celebrations this season in general, honoring through Bowl fifty teams

1636
01:14:00,000 --> 01:14:02,040
Speaker 6: and all of my weekend and dunding the Murray promise

1637
01:14:02,160 --> 01:14:05,080
Speaker 6: is the ring of fame. This season itself has been special,

1638
01:14:05,520 --> 01:14:08,400
Speaker 6: but along the way, the message has been the same,

1639
01:14:08,600 --> 01:14:11,400
Speaker 6: one game at a time. And I said it earlier, No,

1640
01:14:11,479 --> 01:14:13,240
Speaker 6: guys always say it's the next game because the more

1641
01:14:13,320 --> 01:14:16,880
Speaker 6: the most important game. You know, they obviously won the

1642
01:14:16,920 --> 01:14:20,240
Speaker 6: AFC West, but it wasn't really a conversation after that

1643
01:14:20,360 --> 01:14:22,639
Speaker 6: week seventeen, you know, had coach Champagne had a pressor

1644
01:14:22,680 --> 01:14:24,160
Speaker 6: and he's like, no, we really didn't talk about it.

1645
01:14:24,160 --> 01:14:26,000
Speaker 6: We put the shirts in the hats and the guys

1646
01:14:26,000 --> 01:14:27,160
Speaker 6: walkers and that was it.

1647
01:14:27,280 --> 01:14:27,439
Speaker 1: You know.

1648
01:14:28,160 --> 01:14:30,760
Speaker 6: Now we have bigger goals to focus on, and that's

1649
01:14:30,760 --> 01:14:33,719
Speaker 6: getting that number one seed. I mean, you know, Champagne

1650
01:14:34,080 --> 01:14:36,880
Speaker 6: laid out the blueprint in three simple goals. First ball

1651
01:14:36,960 --> 01:14:39,320
Speaker 6: is in the division. Goals was getting the best seed,

1652
01:14:39,320 --> 01:14:41,880
Speaker 6: and goal three is winning the super Bowl. That's it.

1653
01:14:42,040 --> 01:14:43,920
Speaker 6: One of those goals has been accomplished, and the Broncos

1654
01:14:43,960 --> 01:14:46,120
Speaker 6: can accomplish the second one with a win on Sunday

1655
01:14:46,160 --> 01:14:47,639
Speaker 6: to secare that number one seed in AFC.

1656
01:14:49,120 --> 01:14:50,600
Speaker 2: It's going to be fun day tomorrow, Lisa, thank you

1657
01:14:50,640 --> 01:14:52,640
Speaker 2: so much for coming on. Have so much fun of

1658
01:14:52,680 --> 01:14:53,000
Speaker 2: the game.

1659
01:14:53,640 --> 01:14:56,960
Speaker 6: I appreciate you guys. And yeah, hopefully I don't have

1660
01:14:56,960 --> 01:14:58,040
Speaker 6: have the weekend off next week.

1661
01:14:58,240 --> 01:15:00,680
Speaker 2: Yeah, we'll see. All right, we're one more break here

1662
01:15:00,760 --> 01:15:03,360
Speaker 2: when we come back. We are making our NFL game

1663
01:15:03,400 --> 01:15:05,920
Speaker 2: picks you're listening to Fox Sports Radio. Welcome back to

1664
01:15:05,960 --> 01:15:08,880
Speaker 2: Fox Football Saturday. I'm Alex Curry here with Nikki k

1665
01:15:10,000 --> 01:15:13,360
Speaker 2: and it has been a fun football Saturday. I mean

1666
01:15:13,400 --> 01:15:16,479
Speaker 2: it is a full like I think the rain kind

1667
01:15:16,479 --> 01:15:18,920
Speaker 2: of let up a little bit in Tampa Bay for

1668
01:15:19,120 --> 01:15:23,160
Speaker 2: Panthers at the Bucks right now. But it is it's

1669
01:15:23,160 --> 01:15:27,439
Speaker 2: been a sloppy, sloppy game. We've seen some drop balls.

1670
01:15:27,520 --> 01:15:30,080
Speaker 2: It's just wild. It's like a slip and slide style

1671
01:15:30,120 --> 01:15:32,320
Speaker 2: of game. Oh no, it's still raining. They just came

1672
01:15:32,360 --> 01:15:35,000
Speaker 2: back onto the game and you can't even see through

1673
01:15:35,560 --> 01:15:37,479
Speaker 2: the flying Everyone of those are called the cameras that

1674
01:15:37,520 --> 01:15:38,960
Speaker 2: go like all the way across the fields.

1675
01:15:39,360 --> 01:15:39,799
Speaker 4: Oh.

1676
01:15:39,920 --> 01:15:42,200
Speaker 5: I just call them the ziplines because they remind me

1677
01:15:42,200 --> 01:15:44,480
Speaker 5: of zip Line.

1678
01:15:44,640 --> 01:15:47,000
Speaker 3: Here we go. I love it.

1679
01:15:47,080 --> 01:15:49,880
Speaker 2: Okay, So we have a couple NFL games today. So

1680
01:15:50,080 --> 01:15:53,960
Speaker 2: now we are going to get to our NFL picks. Producer, Bo,

1681
01:15:54,080 --> 01:15:54,920
Speaker 2: you want to lead us through.

1682
01:15:56,320 --> 01:15:59,839
Speaker 10: Yeah, we're gonna start here. Okay, maybe when this music gets.

1683
01:15:59,680 --> 01:16:01,080
Speaker 3: Gone there it is.

1684
01:16:01,200 --> 01:16:05,360
Speaker 10: Yeah, we're gonna start tonight. The Seattle Seahawks had to

1685
01:16:05,520 --> 01:16:07,320
Speaker 10: Santa Player to take on the forty nine Ers. The

1686
01:16:07,360 --> 01:16:10,240
Speaker 10: Seahawks the two and a half point road favorite in

1687
01:16:10,240 --> 01:16:10,759
Speaker 10: this one.

1688
01:16:10,920 --> 01:16:11,439
Speaker 2: Woo hoo.

1689
01:16:11,600 --> 01:16:13,240
Speaker 3: And remember there's a lot on the line here.

1690
01:16:13,280 --> 01:16:17,200
Speaker 2: Whoever wins wins the NFC West, they take the one

1691
01:16:17,240 --> 01:16:21,320
Speaker 2: seed in the NFC they get the bye next week. Now,

1692
01:16:21,360 --> 01:16:25,880
Speaker 2: I was raven about Sam Darnold All Show, All Show.

1693
01:16:25,880 --> 01:16:28,120
Speaker 3: I mean, he has been are you sting on business

1694
01:16:28,200 --> 01:16:28,920
Speaker 3: right now? I am.

1695
01:16:29,000 --> 01:16:33,200
Speaker 2: He has been the winningest quarterback the last two seasons.

1696
01:16:33,600 --> 01:16:37,160
Speaker 2: I shared that crazy coincidence pope.

1697
01:16:38,280 --> 01:16:39,599
Speaker 3: Situation that every time.

1698
01:16:39,400 --> 01:16:41,160
Speaker 2: A new pope has been elected, the Seahawks have won

1699
01:16:41,200 --> 01:16:43,880
Speaker 2: thirteen games, have made it to the Super Bowl.

1700
01:16:43,320 --> 01:16:45,080
Speaker 4: The papal alignments.

1701
01:16:45,240 --> 01:16:47,600
Speaker 3: Forty nine Ers are dealing with some injuries.

1702
01:16:47,760 --> 01:16:52,160
Speaker 2: George Kittle Trent Williams are questionable. I'm gonna go with

1703
01:16:52,320 --> 01:16:55,120
Speaker 2: the Seahawks taking this one on the road.

1704
01:16:55,240 --> 01:16:57,479
Speaker 5: Okay, I'm going with my gut, and my gut is

1705
01:16:57,560 --> 01:17:00,800
Speaker 5: timy that Trent Williams is gonna play. I don't have

1706
01:17:00,800 --> 01:17:03,360
Speaker 5: any intel. I'm just thinking he's going to play. Because

1707
01:17:03,400 --> 01:17:05,599
Speaker 5: guess what's on the line for the forty nine ers.

1708
01:17:05,800 --> 01:17:08,280
Speaker 5: It's not just the one seed in the NFC West,

1709
01:17:08,640 --> 01:17:12,080
Speaker 5: it's home advantage to the super Bowl. Yeah, the road

1710
01:17:12,080 --> 01:17:14,639
Speaker 5: through the Super Bowl runs through Santa Clara.

1711
01:17:14,800 --> 01:17:17,080
Speaker 4: Yeah, and I think with the way the.

1712
01:17:17,040 --> 01:17:20,439
Speaker 5: Brock Party came out against Chicago's Super Bowl is in yes,

1713
01:17:20,840 --> 01:17:24,400
Speaker 5: their city, literally it quite literally went through.

1714
01:17:24,320 --> 01:17:27,880
Speaker 4: And never in Santa Clara. And you talked about Darnold. Well,

1715
01:17:27,920 --> 01:17:30,000
Speaker 4: I'm going to praise Party. I know you praised perty Er.

1716
01:17:30,200 --> 01:17:32,799
Speaker 5: Pretty too, but listen, what do you showed against Chicago

1717
01:17:32,840 --> 01:17:34,040
Speaker 5: and that offensive shootout?

1718
01:17:34,080 --> 01:17:35,960
Speaker 4: Yeah, not so pretty on the defensive end.

1719
01:17:36,400 --> 01:17:39,519
Speaker 5: But I think that with everything that's on the line,

1720
01:17:39,680 --> 01:17:43,800
Speaker 5: with how Party has been playing, I think San Francisco's

1721
01:17:43,840 --> 01:17:45,559
Speaker 5: going to take this and they based off and we

1722
01:17:45,600 --> 01:17:46,080
Speaker 5: have won.

1723
01:17:46,080 --> 01:17:46,800
Speaker 4: So long ago.

1724
01:17:47,160 --> 01:17:49,200
Speaker 3: Yeah, tonight, I'm so excited.

1725
01:17:49,439 --> 01:17:50,920
Speaker 10: I mean, if the forty nine ers win today, they

1726
01:17:50,960 --> 01:17:51,320
Speaker 10: don't have to.

1727
01:17:51,360 --> 01:17:53,120
Speaker 3: Leave, they don't have lead to that year.

1728
01:17:53,200 --> 01:17:57,240
Speaker 4: Yeah, they lead, yes, wild unless they're going to Cabo right.

1729
01:17:57,680 --> 01:17:57,880
Speaker 5: Yeah.

1730
01:17:58,040 --> 01:17:58,200
Speaker 3: Yeah.

1731
01:18:00,120 --> 01:18:03,080
Speaker 10: The Green Bay Packers had to Minnesota to take on

1732
01:18:03,120 --> 01:18:06,000
Speaker 10: the Vikings and JJ McCarthy's please don't move on for

1733
01:18:06,120 --> 01:18:09,400
Speaker 10: me game. The Vikings a eight and a half point

1734
01:18:09,479 --> 01:18:10,320
Speaker 10: favorite in this one.

1735
01:18:10,400 --> 01:18:12,719
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean the Packers are locked into their seventh seed.

1736
01:18:13,000 --> 01:18:16,759
Speaker 2: They're resting Jordan Love, who announced they're having a baby.

1737
01:18:16,800 --> 01:18:20,599
Speaker 2: So congrats to baby them him and his wife JJ

1738
01:18:20,680 --> 01:18:22,920
Speaker 2: and JJ are healthy and starting. I think the Vikings

1739
01:18:23,280 --> 01:18:26,519
Speaker 2: take this one for pride at home exactly.

1740
01:18:26,640 --> 01:18:29,240
Speaker 5: Let's get a little bit of positivity for nine and

1741
01:18:29,320 --> 01:18:31,320
Speaker 5: hit the trajectory of his career.

1742
01:18:31,479 --> 01:18:31,840
Speaker 4: I think.

1743
01:18:32,280 --> 01:18:35,479
Speaker 5: I think when the oddsmakers know something, they know something.

1744
01:18:35,520 --> 01:18:37,639
Speaker 5: And Vikings being eight and a half point.

1745
01:18:37,439 --> 01:18:39,680
Speaker 2: Favorites, oh yeah, I mean there is Packers on have

1746
01:18:39,720 --> 01:18:42,160
Speaker 2: Jordan Love right, Yeah, they're sitting them.

1747
01:18:42,200 --> 01:18:44,519
Speaker 4: So no, no, no, I know, I know, but even

1748
01:18:44,680 --> 01:18:46,200
Speaker 4: you never know, you never know.

1749
01:18:46,280 --> 01:18:49,519
Speaker 3: But I say division games are never like it should be. Yeah,

1750
01:18:49,560 --> 01:18:51,360
Speaker 3: it's like something could go wrong.

1751
01:18:52,160 --> 01:18:55,000
Speaker 10: The Detroit Lions had to Chicago to take on the Bears,

1752
01:18:55,040 --> 01:18:57,479
Speaker 10: who I think can still be the two seed or

1753
01:18:57,520 --> 01:18:58,400
Speaker 10: as low as they three.

1754
01:18:58,439 --> 01:18:59,439
Speaker 3: They're playing for the two seeds.

1755
01:18:59,520 --> 01:19:01,519
Speaker 10: Yeah, so they a three point favorite here.

1756
01:19:01,760 --> 01:19:02,760
Speaker 3: Yeah, so kind of low.

1757
01:19:02,840 --> 01:19:05,920
Speaker 2: Now, this is a Ben Johnson game, right, Bears are playing.

1758
01:19:05,640 --> 01:19:07,639
Speaker 3: For the two seed. If they win the two seed, if.

1759
01:19:07,520 --> 01:19:10,040
Speaker 2: They lose, the Eagles win and then they're the three seed.

1760
01:19:10,400 --> 01:19:13,479
Speaker 2: They already won the NFC North. But this is going

1761
01:19:13,560 --> 01:19:17,400
Speaker 2: to be an emotional and chippy Division game. It's the

1762
01:19:17,400 --> 01:19:19,479
Speaker 2: first time in a while that the Bears are playing

1763
01:19:19,479 --> 01:19:21,160
Speaker 2: for something and the Lions are out.

1764
01:19:21,880 --> 01:19:23,200
Speaker 3: I'm gonna take the Bears.

1765
01:19:23,479 --> 01:19:26,400
Speaker 5: I don't mean to just be and I am following you.

1766
01:19:26,479 --> 01:19:28,559
Speaker 5: So that's that's kind of part for the course here.

1767
01:19:28,560 --> 01:19:31,479
Speaker 5: But yes, I've got Bears too, because I think I

1768
01:19:31,520 --> 01:19:34,519
Speaker 5: think the way Ben Johnson has this offense rolling in

1769
01:19:34,520 --> 01:19:38,320
Speaker 5: the way we've seen this Lions offense sputtering with the

1770
01:19:38,360 --> 01:19:42,000
Speaker 5: Bears fighting, you know, continuing to fight there, I'm going

1771
01:19:42,040 --> 01:19:43,040
Speaker 5: Ben Johnson booth.

1772
01:19:43,439 --> 01:19:45,360
Speaker 10: All right. The Chargers head to Denver to take on

1773
01:19:45,400 --> 01:19:47,360
Speaker 10: the Broncos, who are a twelve and a half point

1774
01:19:47,400 --> 01:19:47,600
Speaker 10: for you.

1775
01:19:47,880 --> 01:19:50,679
Speaker 2: Yeah, now that just because Chargers are resting justin Herbert,

1776
01:19:51,080 --> 01:19:53,120
Speaker 2: which is why they're such big babes. But Broncos are

1777
01:19:53,120 --> 01:19:55,599
Speaker 2: playing for seeding. If they win, they are the one

1778
01:19:55,640 --> 01:19:59,280
Speaker 2: seed in the AFC. They've already won the AFC WES,

1779
01:19:59,479 --> 01:20:02,800
Speaker 2: so they're playing for the bye next week in homefield advantage.

1780
01:20:03,320 --> 01:20:04,240
Speaker 3: The Broncos have to win this.

1781
01:20:04,360 --> 01:20:06,679
Speaker 5: Broncos have to win this one, kind of like they're

1782
01:20:06,680 --> 01:20:10,080
Speaker 5: fighting for everything. Chargers are kind of, you know, calling

1783
01:20:10,120 --> 01:20:12,400
Speaker 5: a little reset after their debacle last week.

1784
01:20:12,479 --> 01:20:16,800
Speaker 10: Yeah, all right, Ravens minus three and a half the Steelers.

1785
01:20:16,040 --> 01:20:18,920
Speaker 2: The biggest game of the weekend. It's when you're in lose,

1786
01:20:18,960 --> 01:20:22,519
Speaker 2: go home. I'm picking whoever you don't okay, okay that

1787
01:20:22,600 --> 01:20:23,679
Speaker 2: I'm gonna take the Ravens.

1788
01:20:23,680 --> 01:20:24,679
Speaker 4: I can go to Steelers.

1789
01:20:24,680 --> 01:20:27,720
Speaker 2: Aaron Rodgers all the Way is playing for a lot here,

1790
01:20:28,120 --> 01:20:31,799
Speaker 2: Tomlin say Tom Rogers back uniform.

1791
01:20:31,920 --> 01:20:33,040
Speaker 3: I can't wait for that game tomorrow.

1792
01:20:33,080 --> 01:20:35,120
Speaker 2: Thank you guys so much for spending your Saturday afternoon

1793
01:20:35,160 --> 01:20:35,519
Speaker 2: with us.

1794
01:20:35,680 --> 01:20:38,040
Speaker 3: We'll see you next week, same time, same place,