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Speaker 3: It's fading right, pitch no good and the Rams are

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Speaker 4: Last time obviously it wasn't my best effort.

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Speaker 5: Throw Smith's heels pitch intercepted at the thirty.

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Speaker 4: Five fourteen under the belt, and then trying to turn

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Speaker 4: around and play in a couple of days. It's tough,

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Speaker 4: especially for somebody as old as I am.

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Speaker 1: Ah, there's no weakness. This is as complete of a

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Speaker 4: There is no Well day, got a great opponent that

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Speaker 4: we're playing in a tough environment as well.

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Speaker 1: What's the best? That's the kind of football you want

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Speaker 1: to be playing in December.

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Speaker 2: So much yelling, so much passion, so much competition in

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Speaker 2: the NFC West, and it continues tonight on Indeed, it

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Speaker 2: is the fourth day of the work week, at least

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Speaker 2: for us, it is a Thursday. There is a football game.

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Speaker 2: All of these things are confirmed. And that was just

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Speaker 2: specifically for Kyle Brandt.

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Speaker 5: Okay, Kyle and.

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Speaker 2: Mike, carefula, you were missed at the holiday party last night.

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Speaker 2: I know that being a bicoastal show is a challenge

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Speaker 2: at times, but you two was certainly missed at the

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Speaker 2: NFL holiday party. I know you would have brought the

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Speaker 5: Yeah, oh, don't worry.

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Speaker 1: That was last night.

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Speaker 6: We would have engaged in some shenantigans. Yes, just imagine

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Speaker 6: what we would have done.

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Speaker 1: Yes, wow, thank does anybody not have their job this morning?

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Speaker 1: I'm glad to see you guys both still do We're

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Speaker 1: still here?

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Speaker 2: Oh yes, Quike, we kept a classy all good.

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Speaker 1: We were there for the morale. You got a c

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Speaker 1: and be seen and just show face and be like,

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Speaker 1: you know what.

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Speaker 2: Happy holidays to you and yours. All right, moving on,

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Speaker 2: speaking of I'd like to see that. Say that to

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Speaker 2: Ian Rappaport as well. Rapsheet, Good morning to you. Welcome

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Speaker 2: inside GMFB rap sheet news out of Miami yesterday. I

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Speaker 2: did not was not full of cheer because Mike McDaniel

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Speaker 2: made a decision about the quarterback room moving.

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Speaker 1: Forward, They sure did.

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Speaker 7: I can't believe there was a holiday party last night.

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Speaker 7: I guess my invite got lost on the interweb somewhere.

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Speaker 1: Anyway.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, yeah, all right, let's get to the Miami

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Speaker 7: Dolphins and really what is a franchise changing move, A

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Speaker 7: their starting quarterback for the last several years, so much

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Speaker 7: so they paid him a contract more than fifty.

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Speaker 8: Million dollars per year.

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Speaker 7: He has been benched, and certainly this is a signal

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Speaker 7: from the organization they are moving on from someone who

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Speaker 7: has been their starting quarterback again for the last many

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Speaker 7: many years. A potential moving on from him in the offseason.

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Speaker 7: A lot to get to there, It's going to be expensive.

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Speaker 8: They can do it, cap hits a lot.

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Speaker 7: But what this week is about is not about the

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Speaker 7: fact that Tua tugo I is going to be the

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Speaker 7: third slash emergency quarterback. It's that Quinn yours the seventh

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Speaker 7: the final two games after that, But just focusing on

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Speaker 1: One thing.

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Speaker 7: Mike McDaniels says they wanted someone who could run the

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Speaker 8: They believe they will get that from yours.

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Speaker 7: Actually should be a really exciting game on Sunday. Another

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Speaker 7: exciting game tonight, maybe the best Thursday game.

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Speaker 8: We've seen in a very, very long time.

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Speaker 7: Charles Cross the starting tackle for the Seahawks, really one

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Speaker 7: a hamstring injury minor standing. It's a two to four

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Speaker 8: He is doubtful this game with a hamstring injury.

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Speaker 7: So don't expect him to play tonight, but the hope

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Speaker 2: Make a good point rap sheet. It's like, yeah, why

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Speaker 2: specially guys with that kind of speed and talent, you

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Speaker 2: don't want to mess with the hamstring. Moving forward, we

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Speaker 2: look squarely at ram Seahawks. It kicks off Week sixteen

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Speaker 2: tonight in an epic NFC.

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Speaker 1: West showdown for Prime Video.

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Speaker 2: Matt Safford and Sam Darnold are both in the spotlight tonight. Yesterday,

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Speaker 2: Seahawks head coach Mike McDonald actually talked about the magnitude

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Speaker 2: of this divisional matchup.

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Speaker 3: It's y'all's job to put all the meaning behind it.

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Speaker 1: It's our job to go play great football.

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Speaker 5: It's all good. I get it.

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Speaker 3: It's exciting, but every game's exciting. There's a lot of

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Speaker 3: stuff that happens in the NFL, you know. And my

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Speaker 3: They are ready to go. We trust each other. I

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Speaker 3: You know, let's go, let's go rip it.

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Speaker 2: You know, Mike McDonald, I resent that it's not our

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Speaker 2: job to make it a big deal. You're the one

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Speaker 2: all right, it already is a big deal. The standings

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Speaker 1: This thing was already baked.

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Speaker 2: It in the oven before the media even touched it.

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Speaker 2: It means a lot Ramseyhawks tonight. So what do you

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Speaker 5: Up the oven thing, right, Jamie.

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Speaker 9: There's a star wide receiver that is currently in the

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Speaker 9: And so for me, it's going to be how are

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Speaker 9: it takes me back to Pukaku's very first game in

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Speaker 9: and all Pooka did was have fifteen targets ten catches

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Speaker 9: the Devonte Adams, if you look at how though the

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Speaker 9: him the barf. He's in single coverage. Puka Nicole can

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Speaker 6: Matt Ty, I don't know how many games you end

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Speaker 6: you face the Twelfth Man over the course of your career. Quice,

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Speaker 6: it was hard for twice there you go two times

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Speaker 6: that it was probably hard for you to hear some

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Speaker 6: It has not been so much over the last season plus.

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Speaker 6: Now they're on a roll right now, but they lost

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Speaker 6: some games earlier in the season, and around October, Mike

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Speaker 6: our home field advantage. We want to make this once

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Speaker 6: again a place we gotta win at home.

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Speaker 1: We got to help make that happen.

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Speaker 6: If this isn't the spot for that tonight, for the

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Speaker 6: this is maybe the best late season Thursday game we've

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Speaker 1: I had to go to the bar to go watch

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Speaker 6: It was awesome, unbelievable environment.

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Speaker 1: So this is the tonight, fans, this is the tonight twelves.

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Speaker 1: Raised that flag, hit those bleachers in end zone. Make

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Speaker 1: it as loud as you possibly can.

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Speaker 6: Because Mike McDonald and the Seahawks want to re establish

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Speaker 6: home field advantage here it is got.

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Speaker 1: I am so in lockstep with you. This is Seahawks

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Speaker 1: prom tonight. This is a big deal and I want

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Speaker 1: to watch Amazon and what they do with it. I

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Speaker 1: want the largest company in the world to properly hype

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Speaker 1: one of the best teams in the NFL. You don't

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Speaker 1: want to talk about the Seahawks. I've said it all

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Speaker 1: season long. There's something about them with that logo and

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Speaker 1: that brand that is just doesn't sizzle nationally. I don't care.

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Speaker 1: You have the Rams, we get it. It's Stafford, it's McVeigh,

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Speaker 1: it's the beautiful thing. It's all great. It's the Seahawks

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Speaker 1: night to be at home and to remind the world

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Speaker 1: we exist, and now on that we exist, we're really good.

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Speaker 1: Do you guys know how good this team is? Generally

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Speaker 1: have three losses. Their three losses on the season are

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Speaker 1: by four points, by three, and by two that this

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Speaker 1: team is a breadth away from a fourteen to oh team.

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Speaker 1: They have never lost by more than four points. Additionally,

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Speaker 1: it's okay, Amazon, if you want to leave the camera

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Speaker 1: Mike McDonald on the sideline for I know mcvay's gonna

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Speaker 1: be on a lot. God bless you do it. It's

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Speaker 1: Mike McDonald. Make sure to spell his name right. It's mac.

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Speaker 1: It's not a capital D. This week, Sean mcvay's second

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Speaker 1: baby has gotten more coverage than Mike McDonald's eleventh win.

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Speaker 1: All right, we can cover it. It's okay. Last week,

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Speaker 1: the Seahawks had a home, gritty, tough, gut check win,

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Speaker 1: and all of the talk was on the old fart

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Speaker 1: I just want to see you handle this right, because

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Speaker 1: Tonight should be the night Kyle.

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Speaker 2: It's a good point because you know Amazon, the birthplace

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Speaker 1: Available to them. Of course, of Thompson, the.

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Speaker 1: Richard, this has gonna be the night. If not not,

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Speaker 2: So both of these teams tonight, with a win, they

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Speaker 2: thirteen and fourteen. How much Mantill ask you this not

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Speaker 9: I think if you look at that playoff picture, Jamie, everybody,

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Speaker 5: Here in LA they do say Rams House and all

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Speaker 9: On that list between playing at so Far and playing

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Speaker 6: If you're Sam Darnald and you're just looking at that

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Speaker 1: You get ready for this game.

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Speaker 6: You're looking at it eleven and three and I'm sitting

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Speaker 5: It is possible.

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Speaker 1: He just did this last year.

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Speaker 6: You lost to the Rams fourteen and three last year,

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Speaker 1: We've got to go on the road and we lose,

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Speaker 1: Like this can't happen again.

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Speaker 6: Like that's got to be the prevailing motivational fire stoking

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Speaker 6: I mean, I know he's got that so cal cool

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Speaker 1: So that's what jam right who does. Huge night for

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Speaker 1: because we're saying, well, you don't want to go to

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Speaker 1: you lose tonight. I'm not saying the Seahawks are They're

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Speaker 1: you want to go to Philadelphia? Like that's what tonight is.

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Speaker 1: had to play there for that playoff game. It's big time. Indeed,

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Speaker 1: it is all right, that's my little game, shall we.

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Speaker 2: You might be doing some holiday shopping for your family

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Speaker 2: and you're like, should.

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Speaker 1: But let's apply it to football topics. Shall we.

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Speaker 2: Bears face the Packers again on Saturday night. This time,

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Speaker 10: If I play how I played less you know this this

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Speaker 1: I bet he is.

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Speaker 2: And while Caleb is saying all the right things to

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Speaker 2: this weekend.

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Speaker 1: Are you guys.

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Speaker 2: Buying that the Bears will definitively show up on Saturday

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Speaker 2: Mansai and bring their brand of football?

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Speaker 9: Yes, I am buying that they will show up on

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Speaker 5: Finally felt like they woke.

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Speaker 9: Up in the second half, and if you look at

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Speaker 5: Good at it. So having Caleb be able to throw these.

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Speaker 9: Passes is a cherry on the top. But what makes

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Speaker 6: Yeah, one eight on the ground against the Packers in

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Speaker 6: just it's just so thin between us asking a question

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Speaker 1: Although see that.

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Speaker 6: I forget exactly who that was, but that allowed for

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Speaker 1: So am I buying Yeah, I'm buying it.

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Speaker 6: I'm buying it because they all did and they did

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Speaker 5: They didn't.

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Speaker 6: They hung in there, they battled back, and that last

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Speaker 1: No doubt and there's so many fun dynamics in this

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Speaker 1: Packers own them, I do, and on we'll do something.

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Speaker 1: we still went into your house and beat you. That's

438
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Speaker 1: a tough loss. If they go to Soldier Field the

439
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Speaker 1: Packers and win without Micah, maybe without Watson who crushed

440
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Speaker 1: the Bears in that game, and without all the other players,

441
00:18:41,548 --> 00:18:43,828
Speaker 1: that is a big flex and that is a tough,

442
00:18:43,908 --> 00:18:46,668
Speaker 1: tough loss for Chicago and you go oh and two.

443
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Speaker 1: Then the second layer of this is this is a

444
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Speaker 1: quote unquote dream season for Bears fans. If you finished

445
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Speaker 1: let's just say you finished twelve and five and you're

446
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Speaker 1: zero to two against those guys, is that not a

447
00:18:59,788 --> 00:19:02,988
Speaker 1: gut punch? It sucks, I believe me. I know. If

448
00:19:02,988 --> 00:19:05,668
Speaker 1: you go twelve and five losing the wild card, let's say,

449
00:19:05,668 --> 00:19:08,268
Speaker 1: and like the Packers got you twice, it's sickening really

450
00:19:08,268 --> 00:19:10,628
Speaker 1: because it doesn't feel like the mission was accomplished. And

451
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Speaker 1: if you think you know Ben Johnson, a competitive psychopath

452
00:19:14,308 --> 00:19:16,388
Speaker 1: who really really takes a lot of pride in being

453
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Speaker 1: the Bears coach, this will destroy him if he loses

454
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Speaker 1: this game, Like, it will really rip him apart, because

455
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Speaker 1: that drive by a handshake with Matt Lafleur was a

456
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Speaker 1: I'll see you in two weeks, bleep bleep, like that's

457
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Speaker 1: I got you in two weeks. Ben Johnson, you can't

458
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Speaker 1: show up and say I'm the next best thing and

459
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Speaker 1: I got the Bears going where I want him to go,

460
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Speaker 1: and you lose both times to the Packers. You can't

461
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Speaker 1: do it. It's similar to like we've seen, you know,

462
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Speaker 1: Ohio State Michigan, where Ohio still have this great season

463
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Speaker 1: and lose the Michigan or vice versa, whatever it is,

464
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Speaker 1: it's a big, big, big scar in the season. So

465
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Speaker 1: Ben Johnson, don't say you're the next best thing when

466
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Speaker 1: you lose the Matt Lafluur twice. If that happens. Strangely,

467
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Speaker 1: in the last two weeks, there has become a lot

468
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Speaker 1: of pressure on the upstart Bears to win this game.

469
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Speaker 1: If they lose it on a last second field goal

470
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Speaker 1: or boy whatever, bad even though all the great things

471
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Speaker 1: this season can't go on through the Packers just can't

472
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Speaker 1: do it.

473
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Speaker 9: Okay, but you brought up a dynamic with Michael Parsons

474
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Speaker 9: not being in the game that brought me back to

475
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Speaker 9: a time where we were able to just dictate where

476
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Speaker 9: the quarterback will mic point stuff. And Jeff Hafley, the

477
00:20:21,668 --> 00:20:25,628
Speaker 9: defensive coordinator for the Packers, he is really creative in

478
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Speaker 9: finding ways to dictate where the offense slides their protection.

479
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Speaker 9: We've seen it so many times where they'll line up

480
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Speaker 9: Michael Parsons in different places trying to influence a quarterback

481
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Speaker 9: to say, hey, we're going to slide to Michael Parsons

482
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Speaker 9: and then he drops into coverage. Now that Micah isn't

483
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Speaker 9: in the game, he doesn't have the acepist sleeve, so

484
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Speaker 9: I'm going to be looking into Oh, so, how does

485
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Speaker 9: Jeff Halfley utilize the other guys on his defense? How

486
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Speaker 9: does he utilize guys like Rashaun Gary and Edrin Cooper?

487
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Speaker 9: How does he use them in ways that he didn't

488
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Speaker 9: use them before? Because I think one of the more

489
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Speaker 9: creative things that he would do was he would use

490
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Speaker 9: his d line in that way, especially on third downs,

491
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Speaker 9: and some like Caleb Williams. I think when Myel Parsons,

492
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Speaker 9: we're all sad to see him go. But from a

493
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Speaker 9: schematics standpoint and from a competitive standpoint, like okay, I

494
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Speaker 9: don't have to worry about the mind games that Jeff

495
00:21:13,668 --> 00:21:15,868
Speaker 9: Hafley is going to run against us because I don't

496
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Speaker 9: have to worry about number one being here and not

497
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Speaker 9: being there there. So, KB, you brought up a great

498
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Speaker 9: point as far as the dynamic of Michael Parson's absence

499
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Speaker 9: being in this game couldn't.

500
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Speaker 1: Be a bigger factor, massive factor, because Caleb Williams has

501
00:21:28,388 --> 00:21:30,228
Speaker 1: been the best scrambler in the NFL this year, the

502
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Speaker 1: number one. He's been better than Lamar, better than Alan,

503
00:21:32,508 --> 00:21:34,828
Speaker 1: no matter what you want to say, just evading Sacks,

504
00:21:34,868 --> 00:21:38,028
Speaker 1: doing those blindside spins out of nowhere. He's been fantastic

505
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Speaker 1: as a scrambler. I love for Sean Garrey. He cannot

506
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Speaker 1: run Caleb down. Parsons can run him down. Parsons could

507
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Speaker 1: run anybody down. He is the terminator. He is the

508
00:21:46,988 --> 00:21:50,828
Speaker 1: complete game changer. That's why he's Micah and everybody else's not.

509
00:21:51,268 --> 00:21:53,908
Speaker 1: I love the Packers front. I love Rashaan Gary comes

510
00:21:53,948 --> 00:21:56,348
Speaker 1: on the show all the time. He can't do physically

511
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Speaker 1: what Michael Parsons can do, and we all know that.

512
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Speaker 1: So Parsons was the one who's like, he's the Caleb slayer,

513
00:22:01,468 --> 00:22:03,348
Speaker 1: He's the one who's going to get him. And honestly,

514
00:22:03,388 --> 00:22:05,588
Speaker 1: as a fan like they had such a fun dynamic

515
00:22:05,668 --> 00:22:07,468
Speaker 1: in the last game. There was talk back and forth.

516
00:22:07,508 --> 00:22:10,068
Speaker 1: There was talk after I'm so pissed that Michael Parkson's

517
00:22:10,028 --> 00:22:11,788
Speaker 1: isideen this game Sky. I want to watch him chase

518
00:22:11,828 --> 00:22:15,588
Speaker 1: Caleb all night. But in the football sense, massive, massive deal.

519
00:22:15,628 --> 00:22:17,428
Speaker 1: Those other guys are great and they'll get the job

520
00:22:17,468 --> 00:22:19,908
Speaker 1: done in their own ways. They cannot do to Caleb

521
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Speaker 1: what Micah could. That's a big deal.

522
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Speaker 2: Let me ask you guys this because this is all

523
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Speaker 2: Bears Packers Bears packers, and Saturday Night is going to

524
00:22:25,588 --> 00:22:27,948
Speaker 2: be fantastic. But there is a Lions conversation to be

525
00:22:27,988 --> 00:22:31,988
Speaker 2: had too within this division. Are the Lions entering creeping

526
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Speaker 2: into your thoughts at all? Because they don't loom large

527
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Speaker 2: the same way that they have in the last couple

528
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Speaker 2: of seasons. The way the Lions faltered against the Rams

529
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Speaker 2: last weekend, did it farewell. They are officially lurking.

530
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Speaker 5: They are square at.

531
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Speaker 1: Eight and six.

532
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Speaker 2: If this doesn't go well for them, let's say on

533
00:22:46,788 --> 00:22:50,068
Speaker 2: Christmas Day against the Vikings, this becomes a Detroit issue

534
00:22:50,468 --> 00:22:52,548
Speaker 2: and the Bears Packers are now bubbling to the surface.

535
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Speaker 1: Mantile. Your thoughts on the Lions right.

536
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Speaker 9: Now, Well, I think Dan Campbell summed it up in

537
00:22:56,108 --> 00:22:59,948
Speaker 9: his postgame pressure after the Rams Brams loss, where he said,

538
00:22:59,988 --> 00:23:02,028
Speaker 9: now we know what the top of the NFC looks like.

539
00:23:02,068 --> 00:23:04,908
Speaker 9: That just shows me that Dan Campbell understands that where

540
00:23:04,908 --> 00:23:08,068
Speaker 9: his team is right now, they're not at the upper echelon.

541
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Speaker 9: They're not where they used to be the past two

542
00:23:10,508 --> 00:23:12,948
Speaker 9: three years of being the one or the two seed,

543
00:23:13,228 --> 00:23:15,708
Speaker 9: or being like the Seattle Seahawks the LA rounds were like, man,

544
00:23:15,748 --> 00:23:18,188
Speaker 9: we have only three losses, yet we're the fifth seed.

545
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Speaker 9: That's where the Lions have been. But that's not where

546
00:23:20,908 --> 00:23:22,988
Speaker 9: they are this year. Right now, it's looking like what

547
00:23:23,108 --> 00:23:26,148
Speaker 9: Ben Johnson and the Bears are doing and what the

548
00:23:26,188 --> 00:23:29,548
Speaker 9: packer Matt Laflorina Packers are doing, the Lions are almost

549
00:23:29,548 --> 00:23:31,828
Speaker 9: looking up and like, Okay, that's what that looks like.

550
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Speaker 9: And so I think that's why Jamie. To this point,

551
00:23:33,948 --> 00:23:36,188
Speaker 9: we're looking at these two teams specifically and what they've

552
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Speaker 9: been able to do successfully throughout this year.

553
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Speaker 6: You get to the point of the season where you

554
00:23:39,708 --> 00:23:42,788
Speaker 6: look back and you go week five, October fifth just

555
00:23:42,828 --> 00:23:46,188
Speaker 6: feels like an eternity, hego, feels like a different year

556
00:23:46,348 --> 00:23:48,268
Speaker 6: from where you are right now, not just with football,

557
00:23:48,388 --> 00:23:49,268
Speaker 6: with everything.

558
00:23:48,988 --> 00:23:49,948
Speaker 1: Life, with life.

559
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Speaker 6: I mean, we've had a couple of major holidays since then,

560
00:23:52,668 --> 00:23:54,428
Speaker 6: We've got one more around the corner and one happening

561
00:23:54,508 --> 00:23:58,228
Speaker 6: right now. October fifth is the last time a consecutive

562
00:23:58,268 --> 00:24:03,788
Speaker 6: result happened for the Lions because since then lost when

563
00:24:05,028 --> 00:24:07,268
Speaker 6: this is not the Lions that you expected or have

564
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Speaker 6: experienced the last couple of years.

565
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Speaker 5: That's why I don't have a.

566
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Speaker 6: Great feel for them, because it's like up down, up,

567
00:24:11,028 --> 00:24:11,308
Speaker 6: down up.

568
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Speaker 1: Have you seen the thing with Jamir Gibbs where his

569
00:24:13,628 --> 00:24:18,308
Speaker 1: game lagos three touchdowns zero three zero, haven't no, He

570
00:24:18,348 --> 00:24:20,668
Speaker 1: has this incredible symmetry where he either scores three touchdowns

571
00:24:20,748 --> 00:24:22,748
Speaker 1: or zero, like week after week after week, we.

572
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Speaker 6: Are going to have to do a deep dive into

573
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Speaker 6: the seesaw that has been the Detroit Lions season right now.

574
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Speaker 6: That's kind of but It's actually impressive that they've been

575
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Speaker 6: able to do that because of all the things we

576
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Speaker 6: talked about coming into the season, losing both coordinators in

577
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Speaker 6: at times when it looked so bad.

578
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Speaker 1: I mean, go back to Week one.

579
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Speaker 6: We thought, oh, what is Lion's season is not going

580
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Speaker 6: to be offensively and then Dan Campbell takes over play calling.

581
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Speaker 6: So I'm almost impressed with the up and down, but

582
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Speaker 6: the fact that they've been able to respond to some

583
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Speaker 6: of these loss.

584
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Speaker 1: Yeah, Jamie, I'll give you a bottom line about the Lions.

585
00:24:50,548 --> 00:24:53,068
Speaker 1: What's fascinating about them is we started the conversation with

586
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Speaker 1: the Bears, Mike mentioned it has been a long season.

587
00:24:55,708 --> 00:24:58,828
Speaker 1: The Lions kicked the snot out of the Bears in

588
00:24:58,868 --> 00:25:01,588
Speaker 1: Week two, fifty two to twenty one in the Ben

589
00:25:01,668 --> 00:25:05,468
Speaker 1: Johnson Return to Detroit game. They destroyed them. After the game,

590
00:25:05,548 --> 00:25:09,068
Speaker 1: Ben Johnson is asked just how demoralizing was Oh, not

591
00:25:09,108 --> 00:25:11,348
Speaker 1: to moralizing at all, and he said this quote that

592
00:25:11,388 --> 00:25:13,908
Speaker 1: Bears fans have hung on too, which is, we expect

593
00:25:13,948 --> 00:25:16,868
Speaker 1: our team to play our best football in December. Well

594
00:25:16,868 --> 00:25:19,668
Speaker 1: we're in December right now. It's December eighteenth. They play

595
00:25:20,028 --> 00:25:23,508
Speaker 1: the Lions, Bears last week of the regular season, probably

596
00:25:23,708 --> 00:25:26,268
Speaker 1: maybe both of them fighting for things. That is the

597
00:25:26,348 --> 00:25:29,588
Speaker 1: referendum on the Ben Johnson Lions. You lost fifty two

598
00:25:29,668 --> 00:25:31,988
Speaker 1: to twenty one to year old Buddies Week two. You

599
00:25:32,108 --> 00:25:34,708
Speaker 1: said you'd be better in December. What do you have

600
00:25:34,828 --> 00:25:37,268
Speaker 1: now in Bears Lions too. It's a fascinating one. I

601
00:25:37,268 --> 00:25:39,188
Speaker 1: know it's a couple of weeks away, but that's where

602
00:25:39,228 --> 00:25:41,628
Speaker 1: the Lions link. They got Steelers at home. I think

603
00:25:41,628 --> 00:25:43,348
Speaker 1: that's a good game that to Tray can win that game.

604
00:25:43,428 --> 00:25:46,148
Speaker 1: They're at Minnesota, I don't know what Minnesota's deal is.

605
00:25:46,388 --> 00:25:49,228
Speaker 1: And then last one at Soldier Field, maybe for a

606
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Speaker 1: playoff against the team they destroyed three months ago.

607
00:25:53,828 --> 00:25:55,148
Speaker 5: Yeah, I've seen them all the way through.

608
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Speaker 11: I didn't take my eyes off of it because I

609
00:25:56,988 --> 00:25:59,428
Speaker 11: was like, you're giving me a chance on this and

610
00:25:59,468 --> 00:26:00,428
Speaker 11: I better come down with it.

611
00:26:00,468 --> 00:26:12,908
Speaker 5: And that's what happened. First down, Williams directing traffic. Second

612
00:26:12,948 --> 00:26:13,548
Speaker 5: of the day.

613
00:26:13,828 --> 00:26:15,548
Speaker 12: No DJ made a heck of a play there right

614
00:26:15,588 --> 00:26:17,068
Speaker 12: on the back line as well. That was one of

615
00:26:17,108 --> 00:26:23,628
Speaker 12: those highlight moments there.

616
00:26:25,388 --> 00:26:28,068
Speaker 1: Two touchdowns on that day for number two. It's a

617
00:26:28,108 --> 00:26:30,268
Speaker 1: beautiful time in Chicago right now for football, and we

618
00:26:30,388 --> 00:26:34,028
Speaker 1: have one of the best players and most interesting people

619
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Speaker 1: in the entire NFL. You know him, you love them.

620
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Speaker 1: The wide receiver for Chicago Bears, DJ Moore, what's up baby? Welcome?

621
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Speaker 5: Good morning man.

622
00:26:40,508 --> 00:26:42,388
Speaker 11: Hello, I'm going amazing this morning.

623
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Speaker 5: How are y'all?

624
00:26:44,268 --> 00:26:46,708
Speaker 1: We're doing great, dude? How's life right now?

625
00:26:47,628 --> 00:26:48,548
Speaker 5: Life is amazing.

626
00:26:49,148 --> 00:26:51,868
Speaker 11: I'm on the other side of this a five hundred things,

627
00:26:51,948 --> 00:26:53,788
Speaker 11: so I'm excited.

628
00:26:54,828 --> 00:26:57,068
Speaker 1: I know. And there's so much going on. DJ. We

629
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Speaker 1: have seen you over the years catch a lot of

630
00:26:59,228 --> 00:27:01,788
Speaker 1: passes and a lot of touchdowns. We never seen one

631
00:27:01,868 --> 00:27:03,908
Speaker 1: like that that. We just showed the one from Caleb

632
00:27:03,988 --> 00:27:06,068
Speaker 1: on the side line back at the end zone. It's

633
00:27:06,108 --> 00:27:08,388
Speaker 1: a really breathtaking play and it brought the house down

634
00:27:08,428 --> 00:27:10,708
Speaker 1: in Soldier Field. When that's going on, Do you have

635
00:27:10,748 --> 00:27:13,308
Speaker 1: a sort of like no, Caleb, don't or yes do?

636
00:27:13,548 --> 00:27:15,188
Speaker 1: Like what is going on through your head? Just take

637
00:27:15,228 --> 00:27:16,988
Speaker 1: us through everything, because it's a fascinating play.

638
00:27:18,188 --> 00:27:22,068
Speaker 11: I was on the back side, and once once I

639
00:27:22,148 --> 00:27:24,108
Speaker 11: got over there, I knew I had left the corner.

640
00:27:24,148 --> 00:27:25,948
Speaker 11: I was like, he might throw this, and when he

641
00:27:26,028 --> 00:27:27,708
Speaker 11: threw it, I was like no, no, no no in

642
00:27:27,708 --> 00:27:29,988
Speaker 11: my head. But then I'm like yes, yes, yes, yes,

643
00:27:29,988 --> 00:27:32,348
Speaker 11: because I knew I had the ball when they jumped

644
00:27:32,348 --> 00:27:32,868
Speaker 11: in front of me.

645
00:27:33,548 --> 00:27:36,668
Speaker 2: I was excited, I bet, and you were not the

646
00:27:36,668 --> 00:27:39,868
Speaker 2: only one. Your head coach Ben Johnson was obviously asked

647
00:27:39,908 --> 00:27:42,428
Speaker 2: about the completion after the game and in the press

648
00:27:42,468 --> 00:27:45,508
Speaker 2: conference while he was in awe of it, He's still

649
00:27:45,548 --> 00:27:46,828
Speaker 2: not surprised by it.

650
00:27:46,948 --> 00:27:48,108
Speaker 1: Let's take a listen to coach.

651
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Speaker 12: Real quick, I would say ninety nine percent of quarterbacks,

652
00:27:51,988 --> 00:27:54,548
Speaker 12: you tell him, don't even waste your time looking back

653
00:27:54,588 --> 00:27:56,068
Speaker 12: there and trying to make that throw.

654
00:27:56,188 --> 00:27:57,668
Speaker 5: There's usually bad.

655
00:27:57,428 --> 00:27:59,908
Speaker 12: Things that happen, and yet he's got the ability to

656
00:27:59,948 --> 00:28:02,828
Speaker 12: make that throw. And you know DJ made a heck

657
00:28:02,868 --> 00:28:04,708
Speaker 12: of a play there right on the back line. Well,

658
00:28:04,828 --> 00:28:08,028
Speaker 12: so yeah, that was that was one of those highlight

659
00:28:08,068 --> 00:28:08,828
Speaker 12: moments there.

660
00:28:10,148 --> 00:28:11,068
Speaker 1: So what is it.

661
00:28:10,988 --> 00:28:14,388
Speaker 2: About your connection with Caleb DJ that makes coach so

662
00:28:14,468 --> 00:28:16,908
Speaker 2: confident that, like, you know what, you can look back

663
00:28:16,908 --> 00:28:19,068
Speaker 2: there in the end zone if you got DJ in

664
00:28:19,308 --> 00:28:19,788
Speaker 2: back there.

665
00:28:21,388 --> 00:28:23,388
Speaker 11: I think it just comes down to me in detailed

666
00:28:23,708 --> 00:28:26,748
Speaker 11: throughout the weekend, them building trust with with each of

667
00:28:26,748 --> 00:28:28,988
Speaker 11: the receivers, and then on that play, just having a

668
00:28:28,988 --> 00:28:31,628
Speaker 11: lot of trust to me to just throw it back

669
00:28:31,668 --> 00:28:34,108
Speaker 11: across his body like that In the back of the

670
00:28:34,148 --> 00:28:34,668
Speaker 11: end zone.

671
00:28:34,788 --> 00:28:37,348
Speaker 6: Oh yeah, this team, this Bears team. You guys are

672
00:28:37,388 --> 00:28:39,388
Speaker 6: fun and a lot of harms. Your head coach is fun.

673
00:28:39,588 --> 00:28:42,748
Speaker 6: I mean, take me inside that locker room when he's

674
00:28:42,788 --> 00:28:48,468
Speaker 6: flexing the shirtless and he's talking about.

675
00:28:46,948 --> 00:28:48,788
Speaker 1: Not a lot of rust. You know, you know he does.

676
00:28:49,308 --> 00:28:49,868
Speaker 1: I just hear it.

677
00:28:49,948 --> 00:28:52,108
Speaker 6: Sometimes it just falls from the rafters around here.

678
00:28:54,428 --> 00:28:55,548
Speaker 1: You hear what I'm talking about.

679
00:28:55,548 --> 00:28:59,228
Speaker 6: I mean, this guy was an unbelievable offensive coordinator. Yeah,

680
00:28:59,388 --> 00:29:01,748
Speaker 6: it's translating the head coach with stuff like that.

681
00:29:02,948 --> 00:29:07,188
Speaker 11: Yeah, he just brings it every day he starts it,

682
00:29:07,228 --> 00:29:09,108
Speaker 11: and then it just trickles down to everybody in the

683
00:29:09,108 --> 00:29:10,988
Speaker 11: building and all the way down to us, and we

684
00:29:11,108 --> 00:29:13,068
Speaker 11: just got to reciprocate that energy and go out there

685
00:29:13,108 --> 00:29:14,268
Speaker 11: and do our thing.

686
00:29:15,148 --> 00:29:18,428
Speaker 9: DJ Bro, you seem like a real laid back, chill dude.

687
00:29:18,548 --> 00:29:21,188
Speaker 9: And after your performance, coach gave it the game ball

688
00:29:21,748 --> 00:29:24,428
Speaker 9: and you said after after he presented it to you,

689
00:29:24,508 --> 00:29:26,708
Speaker 9: that I I ain't fall off.

690
00:29:26,908 --> 00:29:28,708
Speaker 5: Tell us what's the meaning behind that?

691
00:29:28,788 --> 00:29:30,588
Speaker 9: And was there a message that you were trying to

692
00:29:30,628 --> 00:29:32,748
Speaker 9: send to your teammates or to the rest of the NFL.

693
00:29:33,828 --> 00:29:35,628
Speaker 11: Now, I wasn't really trying to send a message. It

694
00:29:35,668 --> 00:29:38,828
Speaker 11: was more for me, like just the way the year

695
00:29:38,948 --> 00:29:41,908
Speaker 11: was going and everything, I just needed that confidence just

696
00:29:41,948 --> 00:29:44,868
Speaker 11: to keep going even though we went and you still

697
00:29:44,868 --> 00:29:48,628
Speaker 11: got to have that little competitive edge in yourself that

698
00:29:48,668 --> 00:29:50,268
Speaker 11: you want to be better at each and every week.

699
00:29:50,468 --> 00:29:53,148
Speaker 1: Dude, You've been on such an incredible journey. And I

700
00:29:53,188 --> 00:29:54,948
Speaker 1: want to get into the history of you. When you

701
00:29:54,988 --> 00:29:58,308
Speaker 1: were a senior in high school Emma tap Institute, Charter,

702
00:29:58,988 --> 00:30:02,108
Speaker 1: you were twelve and two. The team three years at

703
00:30:02,108 --> 00:30:05,068
Speaker 1: Maryland did not have a winning record, five years in

704
00:30:05,108 --> 00:30:08,108
Speaker 1: Carolina did not have a winning record, two years prior

705
00:30:08,148 --> 00:30:10,228
Speaker 1: in Chicago did not have a winning record. In other words,

706
00:30:10,228 --> 00:30:12,948
Speaker 1: what I'm saying, DJ, this is your first season with

707
00:30:13,028 --> 00:30:15,268
Speaker 1: a winning record since high school. And I don't bring

708
00:30:15,308 --> 00:30:16,948
Speaker 1: that up to be negative. I know you've been through

709
00:30:16,988 --> 00:30:19,348
Speaker 1: a lot. That's a lot of coaches, a lot of teammates,

710
00:30:19,388 --> 00:30:22,028
Speaker 1: a lot of hustle, a lot of sacrifice. How good

711
00:30:22,028 --> 00:30:23,988
Speaker 1: does it feel to be winning right now?

712
00:30:24,748 --> 00:30:26,588
Speaker 11: I mean it feels amazing. I get to see what

713
00:30:26,628 --> 00:30:32,068
Speaker 11: everybody else get the hype about playing in December and January,

714
00:30:32,148 --> 00:30:35,388
Speaker 11: so I'm looking forward to it. And this year has been fun.

715
00:30:36,228 --> 00:30:39,068
Speaker 11: Outside of the stats and everything just building a bond

716
00:30:39,108 --> 00:30:40,188
Speaker 11: with this team has been fun.

717
00:30:41,108 --> 00:30:41,348
Speaker 1: DJ.

718
00:30:41,468 --> 00:30:42,828
Speaker 2: Is that what you meant at the beginning of this

719
00:30:42,868 --> 00:30:44,828
Speaker 2: interview when you said it's good to be on this

720
00:30:44,908 --> 00:30:47,308
Speaker 2: side of five hundred? Is it linger that much in

721
00:30:47,348 --> 00:30:49,348
Speaker 2: your brain when someone asks you, how are you.

722
00:30:50,628 --> 00:30:52,908
Speaker 5: A little bit because it'd be.

723
00:30:54,948 --> 00:30:57,108
Speaker 11: Now that I'm on the winning side, people are more

724
00:30:57,108 --> 00:31:00,508
Speaker 11: excited that for me that I am and instead of dang,

725
00:31:00,548 --> 00:31:02,588
Speaker 11: why are you not getting the ball, it's more like, Oh,

726
00:31:03,228 --> 00:31:06,508
Speaker 11: he's on a winning team now, So I'm very grateful.

727
00:31:07,148 --> 00:31:09,748
Speaker 2: Well, we're grateful to watch you play, and I know

728
00:31:09,748 --> 00:31:11,708
Speaker 2: there's a lot of people in the Bears community that

729
00:31:11,748 --> 00:31:13,668
Speaker 2: are grateful for you and the human that you are

730
00:31:13,708 --> 00:31:15,828
Speaker 2: because you are a Walter Payton and a ful Man

731
00:31:15,828 --> 00:31:18,868
Speaker 2: of the Year nominee this season, which congratulations for that.

732
00:31:19,468 --> 00:31:22,028
Speaker 2: What's going on with the More to Life Foundation and

733
00:31:22,068 --> 00:31:26,428
Speaker 2: what it has done for the Chicago community, thank you.

734
00:31:26,548 --> 00:31:30,468
Speaker 11: And Mortal Life Foundation has been all over the city

735
00:31:30,468 --> 00:31:34,948
Speaker 11: of Chicago or there's giving back, giving out food, just

736
00:31:35,468 --> 00:31:38,428
Speaker 11: camps and just being in people's lives has just been

737
00:31:38,468 --> 00:31:41,228
Speaker 11: amazing this year and we hope to keep going.

738
00:31:41,908 --> 00:31:44,308
Speaker 6: When you're the Walter Peyton Man of the Year award

739
00:31:44,628 --> 00:31:47,708
Speaker 6: nominee for the Chicago Bears got to mean something differently,

740
00:31:47,868 --> 00:31:50,748
Speaker 6: especially when the award is presented by someone close to

741
00:31:50,868 --> 00:31:54,428
Speaker 6: Walter Payton, his son jareded How special was that? And

742
00:31:54,508 --> 00:31:57,268
Speaker 6: to be a part of this legacy for the Bears, it.

743
00:31:57,268 --> 00:32:00,068
Speaker 11: Was amazing when I seen him come through the back door.

744
00:32:00,148 --> 00:32:03,428
Speaker 11: When they surprised me with my family, I was real surprising.

745
00:32:03,548 --> 00:32:06,708
Speaker 11: I really didn't know going on at the beginning. Then

746
00:32:06,788 --> 00:32:11,228
Speaker 11: I was like, wait, hold on, this is Walter Payton's son, Jared,

747
00:32:11,268 --> 00:32:14,108
Speaker 11: And I'm like, am I getting nominated? And then they

748
00:32:14,268 --> 00:32:17,308
Speaker 11: revealed that I am, and I was a little emotional.

749
00:32:18,228 --> 00:32:19,628
Speaker 5: DJ, I gotta ask you a fun question.

750
00:32:19,668 --> 00:32:21,308
Speaker 9: So I don't know if you knew this, but my

751
00:32:21,388 --> 00:32:23,428
Speaker 9: last year in the NFL was with the Chicago Bears.

752
00:32:23,468 --> 00:32:25,908
Speaker 9: And I know Hollas Hall very very well, and you

753
00:32:26,028 --> 00:32:29,148
Speaker 9: do too. Now, there are three football fields at Hollis Hall.

754
00:32:29,148 --> 00:32:31,948
Speaker 9: There's a practice field that's right outside the building, There's

755
00:32:31,948 --> 00:32:35,108
Speaker 9: a Walter Payton Center, which is the indoor facility, and

756
00:32:35,148 --> 00:32:38,708
Speaker 9: then there's a field that's all oway by the train tracks. Now, DJ,

757
00:32:39,948 --> 00:32:43,508
Speaker 9: does coach Ben Johnson punish the team after a loss

758
00:32:43,508 --> 00:32:45,468
Speaker 9: by going all the way to the train tracks, because

759
00:32:45,508 --> 00:32:48,348
Speaker 9: when Matt Naggi was our coach after a loss, he

760
00:32:48,348 --> 00:32:51,228
Speaker 9: would make us in the middle of December practice on

761
00:32:51,588 --> 00:32:52,868
Speaker 9: the field by the train tracks.

762
00:32:52,988 --> 00:32:53,628
Speaker 5: How is it for.

763
00:32:53,628 --> 00:32:57,948
Speaker 11: You right now? Those fields are snowed over, so we

764
00:32:58,308 --> 00:32:59,188
Speaker 11: haven't been back here.

765
00:32:59,268 --> 00:32:59,988
Speaker 5: We've been on.

766
00:33:00,148 --> 00:33:02,748
Speaker 11: Fields one and two there go, and we used the

767
00:33:02,788 --> 00:33:06,068
Speaker 11: Walter Payton Center just for dudes. But other than that

768
00:33:06,268 --> 00:33:09,028
Speaker 11: we outside in the freezing code with no heaters or nothing.

769
00:33:11,028 --> 00:33:13,588
Speaker 1: Kisyche, you will be Saturday night against the Packers man,

770
00:33:14,028 --> 00:33:16,668
Speaker 1: Just DJ, You've been around this before. You know, the

771
00:33:16,708 --> 00:33:18,908
Speaker 1: game in Green Bay came up short. You were frustrated,

772
00:33:18,908 --> 00:33:20,548
Speaker 1: all you guys where I know you want this badly?

773
00:33:20,788 --> 00:33:23,108
Speaker 1: How's the team feel? How do you feel? It's huge

774
00:33:23,108 --> 00:33:24,188
Speaker 1: matchup on Saturday night?

775
00:33:25,148 --> 00:33:26,708
Speaker 5: Nobody was really talking about the matchup.

776
00:33:26,748 --> 00:33:29,828
Speaker 11: I think everybody understands the assignment at hand, and we just.

777
00:33:29,748 --> 00:33:31,308
Speaker 1: Got to go out there and get get it up

778
00:33:31,388 --> 00:33:35,068
Speaker 1: with it. Let's see number two get his hands on

779
00:33:35,148 --> 00:33:37,188
Speaker 1: that ball. I can't wait to watch this game. But DJ,

780
00:33:37,588 --> 00:33:39,348
Speaker 1: before you go, we have a weird piece of video

781
00:33:39,348 --> 00:33:41,068
Speaker 1: they want to show you and all you like this stuff.

782
00:33:41,388 --> 00:33:43,588
Speaker 1: So a couple of years ago I came to Houase

783
00:33:43,628 --> 00:33:47,588
Speaker 1: Hall and I sit down and Aaron brings you guys over,

784
00:33:47,748 --> 00:33:49,708
Speaker 1: and it was you and it was Justin Fields, who

785
00:33:49,788 --> 00:33:52,188
Speaker 1: I absolutely love. And we got on the topic, the

786
00:33:52,228 --> 00:33:54,948
Speaker 1: three of us, about how Justin had been a pescatarian

787
00:33:54,988 --> 00:33:57,028
Speaker 1: means he just seats fish, and maybe he had now

788
00:33:57,068 --> 00:33:59,588
Speaker 1: expanded to other things. And you guys got on a

789
00:33:59,668 --> 00:34:01,788
Speaker 1: term a couple of years ago that I did not know,

790
00:34:01,908 --> 00:34:04,388
Speaker 1: and you had to teach me. Watch this video because

791
00:34:04,468 --> 00:34:05,868
Speaker 1: this is a weird one. But I always look back

792
00:34:05,908 --> 00:34:09,188
Speaker 1: on the fond lit how's the vegan life?

793
00:34:09,348 --> 00:34:11,068
Speaker 5: You know, I'm off for the vegan life. I'm pescatarian.

794
00:34:11,108 --> 00:34:13,308
Speaker 1: Now, will you join the pescatarian army or you're out

795
00:34:13,308 --> 00:34:13,468
Speaker 1: on that?

796
00:34:13,708 --> 00:34:14,148
Speaker 5: I'm good?

797
00:34:14,788 --> 00:34:16,708
Speaker 11: Yeah, you're going to catch them with the glizzies hot

798
00:34:16,748 --> 00:34:17,708
Speaker 11: dog chicken tenders?

799
00:34:17,948 --> 00:34:21,508
Speaker 1: Is that true? I'm not sure what a glizzy is.

800
00:34:22,268 --> 00:34:27,268
Speaker 1: That's a hot dog. It's the new nicka win all right?

801
00:34:29,788 --> 00:34:32,188
Speaker 1: Was I wrong? Should I have known? Or I just

802
00:34:32,188 --> 00:34:33,148
Speaker 1: don't know what to make of that?

803
00:34:33,548 --> 00:34:36,788
Speaker 11: Now you shouldn't know. We put the guzsie term on you.

804
00:34:36,868 --> 00:34:39,628
Speaker 11: So yeah, that means hot dogs. But I don't eat

805
00:34:39,628 --> 00:34:42,588
Speaker 11: hot dogs. I do eat the chickens. And stuff like that,

806
00:34:42,628 --> 00:34:43,588
Speaker 11: but not the hot dogs.

807
00:34:44,508 --> 00:34:47,148
Speaker 1: All right, So it's interesting because first of all, DJ,

808
00:34:47,188 --> 00:34:49,988
Speaker 1: they're not hot dogs, are glizzies. So glizzies they came

809
00:34:50,068 --> 00:34:53,188
Speaker 1: up again because when coach took his shirt off, he

810
00:34:53,388 --> 00:34:55,708
Speaker 1: said he would do that so that all of Chicago

811
00:34:55,908 --> 00:34:58,988
Speaker 1: could get free glizzies from the Winner Circle downtown. So

812
00:34:59,028 --> 00:35:01,388
Speaker 1: you did not go. This was first of all, DJ,

813
00:35:02,068 --> 00:35:04,388
Speaker 1: take us through this. What was this like for you?

814
00:35:06,268 --> 00:35:08,348
Speaker 11: I think a reporter asked me that I think he

815
00:35:08,468 --> 00:35:10,028
Speaker 11: was ever going to do it. I said, yeah, but

816
00:35:10,068 --> 00:35:12,028
Speaker 11: it has to be like a meaningful game for him

817
00:35:12,028 --> 00:35:12,348
Speaker 11: to do it.

818
00:35:12,388 --> 00:35:13,428
Speaker 1: And then when we did the.

819
00:35:13,428 --> 00:35:14,788
Speaker 5: Yes, he did it.

820
00:35:15,588 --> 00:35:17,588
Speaker 11: And then that wasn't the only thing that happened in

821
00:35:17,628 --> 00:35:21,028
Speaker 11: the locker room. We had somebody uh hole in the

822
00:35:21,068 --> 00:35:24,948
Speaker 11: ceiling and yes, they going to keep that to myself.

823
00:35:28,388 --> 00:35:30,868
Speaker 1: Well, the internet thinks that the puncher's name rhymes with

824
00:35:30,988 --> 00:35:31,908
Speaker 1: Omra Dunda.

825
00:35:34,388 --> 00:35:34,828
Speaker 5: I don't know.

826
00:35:36,988 --> 00:35:41,348
Speaker 1: He doesn't know. That's awesome, DJ, incredible to see you

827
00:35:41,628 --> 00:35:44,548
Speaker 1: genuinely really really happy, impressed and proud with you about

828
00:35:44,548 --> 00:35:47,068
Speaker 1: the Walter Payton nomination. Help you win the thing. You

829
00:35:47,108 --> 00:35:49,868
Speaker 1: will carry that thing with dignity. Great player, great dude,

830
00:35:49,908 --> 00:35:51,468
Speaker 1: And how the hell of a night on Sunday night,

831
00:35:51,468 --> 00:36:01,908
Speaker 1: my mom Saturday night. Yeah, he said, we got to

832
00:36:01,908 --> 00:36:03,508
Speaker 1: put that one on you. It's not your fault.

833
00:36:03,548 --> 00:36:06,268
Speaker 2: I kind of felt the same way, but I like.

834
00:36:06,308 --> 00:36:11,508
Speaker 1: I was like, I've never been stiffer. What's it's a

835
00:36:11,548 --> 00:36:12,228
Speaker 1: hot dog, bro,